The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-03-04

business connections and of his
family.
FoutS also identified the raincoat
and the blanket found by Otto
Thornberry, 800 West Maryland
street, a restaurant manager, two
days after the races, in an alley IN
the rear of the restaurant.
Fouts testified that he noted
Schroeder's car contained a five
gallon gasoline can.
did Schroeder have anything to
drink" Holmes asked.
If he did, I didn't get any of it,"
Fouts answered. Baker raped for
order as the crowd roared in laugh
ter.
Photo Is Barred
Attempts of the state to intro
duce a photo of the charred torso
at this point were blocked by
Holmes, on an objection that the
picture was taken three weeks after
the crime was discovered.
John H. Thompson, police
sergeant and assistant in the police
Bertillon department, was on the
stand to identify the photo as taken
by him. Prosecutors said attempts
would be renewed to get the picture
before the jury.
Frank Witten, Negro, 1881 Co.
lumbia avenue, porter at the
Meeker, took the stand to identify
Schroeder as having registered at
the hotel about May 25 under the
alias, H. G. Flow. Witten pointed
Schroeder out as the man who
registered under that name.
Bag Is Identified
Witten further identified a Glad
stone bag left by Schroeder in his
flight from Indianapolis.
Witten further told Of an incl
dent at the hotel when a woman
asked to be admitted to Schroeders
room on the third floor.
Witten testified he accompanied
the woman to the room and re-
turned to his desk. Immediately
after, Schroeder returned with the
woman to the clerks desk.
''I told Schroeder he would have
to sign her name ON the register
Witten testified.
"He refused to do It," Witten con-
tinued.
Saw Schroeder at Races
Miss Rosalla Peterson, 1925
Mcpherson street, another states
witness, testified to seeing Schroeder
at the races.
Holmes again was overruled
when he objected to introduction
Of the hotel register sheets in evi-
dence.
Photos of the fame wrecked car
introduced Tuesday were identified
this morning by Ray Myers, pho
tographer for the Indianapolis
News.
Prosecutors Herbert Wilson and
Floyd Mattice also recalled for
testimony Earl Miller, an embalmer,
who removed the body from the car,
and Harvey Shipp, former deputy
sheriff, who investigated the
tragedy.
Sweetheart Not to Appear
Another phase Of Schroeder's ca
reer as a handsome swain with a
dashing swagger and southern
drawl apparently Is quashed In dis
patches from Mobile. Schroeder's
home, that Miss Gertrude Kittrell,
the Alabaman's former sweetheart,
will not testify in the murder trial.
Despite attempts Of states attor-
neys to establish Illicit love as a
motive for the crime they allege,
Miss Kittrell declares she wants
nothing to do with the case"
Authorities declare chat Schroeder
was to vanish from the face Of the
earth" and flee the country with
Miss Kittrell, and fortune in in
surance.
II don't know anything about the
case and I don't want to get mixed
up in Il" she was quoted as saying
Tuesday in Mobile.
Won't Be "Other Woman"
"Schroeder's wife is at the trial,
and if I went there I suppose
would be called the other woman in
his life and have my picture all over
the newspapers. am not going If 1
can help 1t.
IF anybody wants me to verify by
affidavit any statement that I made
in Mobile to investigating officers,
am perfectly willing to do so. But
do not see why they should want
me as a witness when 1 have no
knowledge of the case. one way or
the other I did not even know
that Schroeder had gone to In
diana" she stated.