The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1930-03-20
Drinking Party of Trio Is
CIimaxed by Tragedy
at Eagle Creek.

Theory that a third person was
killed in an auto accident at Eagle
Creek ana Kentucky avenue
Wednesday night, in which two men
met instant death and a woman was
injured seriously, was abandoned by
police today after they dragged the
creek.
Ponpeii Loftin Garnto, alias Will
liams, %, Of Rushville, Ga, and
Oscar Guy Thompson, %, of 1249
Kentucky avenue, were killed and
Mrs. Ada Davenport, 25, of 2402
West Ray street, was injured when
the car hurtled over a thirty-foot
embankment adjoining the bridge.
The accident occurred after
drinking party.
Woman Taken to Hospital
Mrs. Davenport was taken to city
hospital today after confinement in
Jail Wednesday night on a drunk
charge. She became afflicted with
temporary paralysis while being
questioned by police.
Belief that another woman may
have been on the party resulted
from Mrs. Davenports inability to
tell whether any one entered the
car after she got real drunk"
William Craig, 1922 Silver avenue,
and Vinton Martin, 1850 Kentucky
avenue, told police they knew
Thompson and saw the trio in the
car shortly before the accident
They said Mrs. Davenport was the
only woman.
Garnto was identified at the
Patterson funeral parlors by Fritz
Holtzendroff, 1886 Nordyke avenue,
who said .Garnto went under the
alias of williams in Atlanta and
had arrived here Tuesday. Garnto
was rooming at the Nordyke avenue
address, Holtzendroff told police.
The car overturned in midair and
hung above the creek waters when
steel guy cables across the creek
snatched the auto, catapulting the
men through the shattered top.
Recovered From Creek
Mrs. Davenport was taken from
the car by motorists.
Garnto'S body was recovered from
the creek about forty feet from the
accident scene. ThompSon'S head
nearly was severed from his body.
Mrs. Davenport told police she
knew Thompson and that the men
called for her at the home of her
sister-in-law, Mrs. George Burgess,
where she has been living since
separation from her husband nine
months ago.
Mrs. Davenport said the men OBJ
tanned liquor at booze joint and
they drank and drove for some time.
Thompson was in the rear seat OF
the car with her, she said.
1--WE were driving pretty FAST" she
narrated. IT had been begging to
go home long before the accident
happened. The man who was
driving was drunk-aWfully drunk"
Mrs. Davenport was dressed in a
sleeveless evening dress, sparkling
with brilliantS and wore red slippers.
Driver Intoxicated
The car was owned by Henry
Huepner of Forest Park, ILL.,, and was
turned over to Garnto by Tuepner
in Atlanta, Ca, when the latter be-
came i'll while returning to Chicago
from Florida, his nephew, Charles
Armbrust of Forest Park, Ill, told
police today in long distance phone
conversation. Garnto was due in
Chicago today with the car
The only explanation Mrs. Day.
export could give police of the
tragedy was that they were driving
northeast on the road and Garnto
failed to negotiate the turn which
leads to the Kentucky avenue
bridge.
Police also are checking state
ment Of Mrs. Burgess that one man
and woman were in the closed car
when Mrs. Davenport left her house.
Mrs. Davenport denied another
woman was present.
Thompson's body will be taken to
Greensburg, KY, for burial.
He is survived by his mother, MIS-
Martha Thompson; four sisters, Mrs
Jake Daveport, Miss Cattlet Thomp-
son and Mrs. Audrey As'cury, all OF
Greensburg, and Mrs. Luther Jones
o5o South Pelroort avenue and