The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-01-13
Body Also Fails to Discuss
Police Brutality Charges
at Meeting.

Inc safety DOdTQ LOOdy LOOE no
action and members mentioned only
Slightly the wave Of criminal out
breaks in which bandits guns have
taken the lives Of four men in
thirty days.
Two Of the men we're city agents,
Detective Sergeant Carl w. Heck
man, slain Jan. 3, and Henry Mill
kan, fireman, wounded fatally by a
bandit, last Saturday. Both fire and
police departments are under con-
troll of the safety board.
Neither did the board in open
session, take action on charges of
William Thayer, gunman suspect,
that he was beaten and kicked by
eight police officers in their efforts
to wiring a confession from him last
Wednesday.
Police Clear Cop in Shooting
Charles Myers, board president,
following the meeting, said he had
not received report from Police
Chief Jerry Kinney whether VIII
liam GezaS, patrolman, had been
found inefficient in his pursuit of
the gunman who fatally wounded
Millikan.
Myers also stated he had not re-
ceived a report from DR.. Frank T.
Dowd, police surgeon, as to Thayer's
condition, although the physician
today told The Times in his ex-
animation Of Thayer Monday after
noon he found only lip cut that
must be a week old"
According to reports at head
quarters, preliminary investigation
is said to have absolved Gezas from
accusations in the Millikan shooting.
Seek NIiIlikan Slayer
Only twice today at the board
meeting was the crime situation
mentioned Once members said
they could "use five more men" and
later Kinney said he believed there
were enough bulletproof vests in
the department.
'They are needed only in dealing
with dangerous characters" Kinney
stated.
Lately it appears that all of them
are dangerous" Frank c. Daley in
terposed. who is this man, &C.
zaS?"
"He was transferred from the fire
department several years ago" Kin
ney answered.
State police are seeking Bruce
Scott, 81, of Muncie, escaped con-
vict, as the slayer of Ndillikan, who
died in city hospital Monday. He
was wounded when the bandit he
grappled with on the south side
Saturday fired through his overcoat.
Fireman'S Funeral Thursday
An automobile load of detectives
today went to Stilesville where it
was reported Scott has been seen
twice since his escape from the In
diana state reformatory at Pendle-
ton Jan. with three other TRUSTEES.
Funeral services for Milhkan will
be held at 2 Thursday at the
residence, 525 South Alabama street.
Burial will be in Crown Hill
cemetery.
The board sent Mrs. Hickman
and Mrs. Millikan $3.50, each from
an emergency fund.
Local authorities today reopened
their search for Richard Perkins,
alias Cobb, Negro, wanted for the
Staying of Hickman, after deputy
sheriffs John Brewington and Jack
Leslie, Negroes, who say they know
Perkins, engaged in a running gun
fight with a man believed to be the
slayer suspect early today at Walnut
street and Senate avenue. The Ne
gro escaped after running into an
alley and between several garages.
Deny Brutality Evidence
Thayer is held with George Mears
as alleged gunner who shot and
wounded Owen Tevelin and Ferdi-
nand Finchum, motor patrolman,
Wednesday night at Thirtieth street
and Northwestern avenue.
Thayer Saturday said he was
bruised from an alleged beating in
tlicted on him by police.
Monday forenoon he said the
bruises were disappearing and DR..
Dowd said he found Thayer all
right when examined him Monday
afternoon"