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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28

a June wedding was frustrated
by death Monday night when Mil
ford Mcdonald, 27, Of 1912 Conner
avenue, was found in bed at his
home, fatally wounded by a pistol
shot.
Police who investigated say he
committed suicide. An automatic
pistol was found lying near a
pillow on the bed.
His parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph
v. Mcdonald, scout the suicide theory
and believe their son may have been
slain accidentally when he reached
for a kerchief beneath his pillow
and discharged the pistol.
Talked Of Suicide
But Miss Rosemary Morrissey, "a,
of 17O6 Draper avenue, his sweet
heart, said he had been in i'll health
and talked on several occasions Of
ending it all"
Report that a lovers spat caused
Mcdonald to end his life was de-
MED by Miss MorriSsey.
tie meant so much to me. We
meant so much to each other. He
was working overtime as filling sta
ton attendant and had been i'll. He
wasn't in his right mind, or he'd
never have done it," she said.
The couple had planned to be
married in June. They had been
sweethearts for seven years.
Monday, he took Miss Morrissey
to her work.
"He kissed me before he left and
we were to go to his house today
to talk over marriage plans with
his folks. He was to bring me home
from work Monday night she said.
Went to Bed to Rest
Mr.. and Mrs. Mcdonald said their
son returned to their home Monday
afternoon and went to bed to rest.
ABOUT 6 at night heard a pop.
It sounded like coal exploding in
the stove" said Mrs. Mcdonald.
Later. the mother and father en-
tered their sons room and found
him dying from a gunshot wound.
Funeral services are scheduled
for Thursday at the funeral parlors
of Walter T. Blasengyn, 1926
Shelby street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Don't Try This Recipe:
It'll Go Sour on You
ByUnited Press


CHICAGO April 28-There have brew,
s homemade liquor homemade bars and homemade barroon
but left Howard Leman TO introduce the homemade jail
for guests who partake too freely OF the home brew.
And it until now, declared Metzman today
he awaited trial public jail charge Of being disordery
Lzman entertained Monday night Among his guests
Clyde Ses Other guests said secrest became ubant he
about with chair Lietzan stopped him.
Lman carried secst to the basement where he had built
jail Of his odctalcckrg with
an iron bunk and huge paddock The prisoners mouth tapped
70 keep him
Fine, hne approved Charles Whoyt another but
lack policeman
Whoyt called the police remedy the defect
the result that he Letzman all taken legally
maintained lookup
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
LEGS DIAMOND
WEAKER; SEEK
FOES IN GOTHAM
Hunt for ASSaiIantS Turns
to New York; Find Car
and ShotgunS..
BYURtted Press

By URtted Press
ALBANY, N. Y, April 28.-Search
for the assailants OF Jack (Legs)
Diamond turned toward his old
gangland haunts in New York City
today.
Discovery of an abandoned auto
mobile, believed to have been stolen
in New York City, narrowed the
hunt. Two shotguns, found in the
car, recently were discharged, &C
cording to state troopers, who said
the guns were apparently of the
type with which Diamond was
wounded.
Diamond steadily is growing
weaker, according to an early after
noon bulletin issued by DR.. Thomas
NJ. Holmes, his physician. While
he suffered intense pain, despite the
use Of opiates, Diamond adhered to
his first story that he had no idea
who his attackers were.
Believed Gang Victim
The theory that gang rivals, and
not local avengers, shot Diamond,
was given strength by police, who
said they believed Diamond might
have been lured to Aratoga inn,
scene of the shooting, by fake
telephone call.
James Wynne, proprietor Of the
place, said Diamond said he was
waiting for call and paced nerv-
ously up and down the room.
It was when his back was ex-
posed to an open window that the
bullets sprayed out of the darkness.
Whether he survives the deep
wounds inflicted by unknown as
sailants Sunday highland physi-
clans doubt that he will-Dianond's
gang is to be driven from the Cats
kills and deprived of a lucrative
applejack and bootlegging business
there.
Two separate moves were under
way today to GUST the gangsters
from Greene county and to send
Diamond to Jail if he lives to face
the charges against him.
The latest move was inaugurated
by farmers Of this district, who
have organized a vigilante COM
mittee to rid the county of I'M
desirables. The farmers are grinly
determined to remove the Diamond
gang from its stronghold at AGRA
The, gang is driving the tourist
trade from the district and running
their business, they claim.
Governor Takes c4ior
The other move was started by
Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt.
who ordered Attorney General John
j. Bennett Jr. to supersede the
district attorney of Greene county
in all matters concerning Diamond
and his cohorts.
Diamond will go on trial on
+ charges of assault as soon as he
leaves the hospital, Bennett said.
He is at liberty on $4,000 bail on
charges made by Grover Parks, a
farmer.
Parks claims that Diamond and
his gang seized him while he was
delivering a load Of hard cider and
took him to the garage of the Dia--
mond estate. There, he claims, he
was strung up with a rope and hot
brands applied to his bare feet
Witnesses to the midnight shoot
ing have revealed Diamond not as
the fearless hoodlun, ready to shoot
and die at the drop Of a hand
kerchief, but rather as a minor
gangster who writhed and called
out in fear and agony, begging to
be spared, when he was shot down.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
LIFE TERM IS
GIVEN SLAYER
IN MICHIGAN
Police Squad With Machine
Guns Starts Long Ride
to SIBERIA
PRISONER Is JOYFUL
Long Strain of Dodging
Law and Foes Ended for
Arch Criminal.
PRISONER is JOYFUL
BIZ United Press

Bv United Press
ST. JOSEPH, Mich, April 28.-
Guarded and protected by eight po-
Hcemen, armed with machine guns
which he once himself had owned,
Fred Burke was taken today from
st. Joseph jail on long auto trip
TO Marquette penitentiary, where he
was sentenced to life imprisonment
for murder
There we're three cars in the
caravan, which left at a. m. to
take to prison the man accused
Of more than twenty Sayings, in
Guiding the massacre of seven
gangsters in Chicago on st. Val
entines day, 1929.
Burke was in the second car with
Sheriff Fred j. Cutler and Under
Sheriff Bryan Wise, to whom he
gave his clothes because he
wouldn't need them any more" a
few hours after he pleaded guilty
to the charge Of killing patrolman
Charles Sicily. 80
Goes to Siberia
In the other cars were two
other st. Joseph officers and four
state policemen, with guns ready
should gangster allies attempt to
free Burke or gangster enemies to
kill him rather than allow him to
find comparative safety within the
walls of bleak Marquette. a sort of
American Siberia where the win
ters are cold and long
Burke was in a happy frame OF
mind as he left on the long trip,
which was not expected to end be-
fore late tonight.
Sheriff Cutler said the long route,
via Grand Rapids, would be fol-
lowed. A suggestion that the cara
van take a shorter route, via Chi
cago, was vetoed promptly.
HE knows too many folks there"
declared Cutler we won't leave
the state with him
Strain Over at Last
The officers admitted that per
haps Burke had reason to be light
hearted. He was, they pointed out,
no longer under the strain of being
the object Of a nationwide man
hunt by police and his enemies. The
life sentences imposed upon him,
they said, did not necessarily mean
he would have to remain in prison
until he died
If his behavior is good, they said,
he could obtain his freedom again
in ten or twelve years under Mlchi-
gan law.
The officers felt positive Burke
had pleaded guilty to the charge not
only because he realized he could
not escape punishment and wanted
any leniency possible, but also be-
cause he preferred being sentenced
here instead of tried inc one of the
other eighteen states where he was
wanted on charges ranging from
burglary to the Staying of seven
men in a bunch. This state has
no capital punishment.
You fellows have been pretty
square" Burke said, griilning, when
he called Sheriff Cutler and lis
deputies to his. cell Monday night
Laid out on his bunk we're all his
fine suits, tailor made and paid for
from the huge, nysteriously ac-
quired roll Of bills which he always
carried during the days when he
was Richard White, real estate
man"
He gave the suits to the officers.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Rain Checks

Several thousand boys who
paraded to Washington park
Saturday, only to find the base
ball game rained out we've given
rain checks today by Norman
Perry, owner Of the Indians.
When night baseball is be-
gun after the Tribe returns
from a long road trip, the boys
will be invited out for a game,
according to DR.. K. B. Mayhall,
a member of the Lions Club
Boys week committee, which
sponsored the parade.
DR.. Mayhall said Perry had
rendered the invitation and it
will be accepted. The date will
be announced later.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
SUSPECTED SLAYER
WILL GO ON TRIAL
Oklahoma City Authorities to Try
Scott for kidnapping.

Bruce Scott, alias Charles Stan
ley, wanted here for the murder Of
Henry NIillikan, city fireman, early
this year, is to go on trial in Oak
land City, Okla, Wednesday on a
kidnapping charge.
If Oklahoma authorities give
Scott the death penalty he will not
be returned to Indiana for trial, but
if any other sentence is passed he
will be turned over to Indiana Of
fcers, authorities in Oklahoma have
stated.
He is to be tried for the kidnap-
ing Of Carl Pair, Is, Of Edmond,
Okla. Scott was arrested near East
st. Louis, H., after he had aban-
doned the boy.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Neg-oes Given Farm Terms

Two Negroes received heavy fines
and one a thi-ty-day state farm
sentence on conviction for operat-
ing g blind tiger. They are: Rob
ert Hays, So, Of 523 West Michigan
street, 500 and costs and thirty
days on the state farm, and Ralph
Williams, Il, Of the same address,
sl0o fine and costs. with thirty days
suspended.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28

S e n t e d by the
Christian Endeav-
or Society of the
Zion Evangelical
C hurc h in the
parish hall at 8
Wednesday night.
will be taken by
Miss Lucille We
gehoeft.
Others to take
part: Harold
B r 0 e king, Law
r e n c e Kloepper.
Alvin M u e sin &,
r 0 b ert Roesener
and P aul STRIFE
beck, a n d Misses
Mildred 3ulrnahn-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Band Gives Concert
CHILD, 2, is INJURED
Narrowly Escapes Death in Dash in
Front Of Street Car.

Struck by a street car as he ran
across Montcalrn street at Six
tenth street, Charles Hauck, 2, OF
1902 West Sixteenth street, suffered
head and body injuries today. He
narrowly escaped death, the car
being stopped before the front
trucks passed over the child.
The boy was with his sister Bes-
sic, IS, and she told police he
wrenched from her grasp and ran
in front of the car. The child was
taken to city hospital
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Members From All Parts of
State at Rites Ending
1O-Year Drive.

Rotary's precept-"Service Before
Self"-took on new significance to-
day for Indiana's underprivileged
sick and crippled children.
To Indianapolis from all parts Of
the state came Rotarians to see the
elimination Of ten-year campaign,
in the laying Of a corner stone for
the $250,000 convalescent home at
James Whitcomb Riley hospital this
afternoon.
Paul P. Harris Of Chicago, Rotary's
founder, presided at the corner
stone laying at this afternoon. DR..
William Lowe Bryan, president Of
Indiana university, accepted Ro-
tary's gift on behalf of the state,
and Samuel D. Miller Of the hos
pitfalls executive board, on behalf
Of the hospital.
Rotarians of the. state we're
praised by Chesley r. Perry, secre-
tary of-Rotary international, in the
main address.
olive, Pulsating Example"
"You men of Rotary Of Indiana
have builded a monument not alone
to yourselves, but to the objects Of
Rotary, not an austere slab Of mar
BILE or granite but live, pulSating,
exempliflcation of the Golden Rule
in action" he said. "Your fellow
Rotarians throughout the world are
happy to be associated, even though
indirectly, in this great accomplish
ment."
In accepting the wing for the hos
pital, Miller said: ITO say that those
who have to do directly with this
institution and are engaged in its
benefcent activities appreciate this
gift, is merely another way Of eX-
pressing to you their sincere thanks
for giving them further and en-
larged opportunities to serve the
children Of Indiana"
Band Gives Concert
Prior to the corner stone lay
ing, a band from the Arsenal Tech
nical high school gave a concert.
At a luncheon in the Claypool
at noon Rotarians and their wives
heard DR.. NJ. Ashby Jones, st. Louis.
ct is the right Of child to
grow up in strength of body, stand
upon its own feet and work out its
own social salvation" he said.
Inspection of the hospital with q
tea and informal reception followed
the corner stone laying.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
FINDS SANITY RESTS ON
BRAIN TISSUES DEPTH
Jellies Must Be Exactly in Right
State, Scientists Are Told.
By United Press

By United Press
WASHINGTON, April 28.-Mad-
ness or sanity depends on the state
of the jelIy-like substances that
make up the brain and nerve
tissues.
If they are too thick, irritability
results first, then insanity, then in
sensibility, then death. If they are
too thin, the same fatal cycle takes
its course. with the insensibility
phase left out. Only when the
brain jellies, or colloids, are exactly
in the right state. neither. too thick
nor too thin, are you normal and
sane.
This, in much condensed form, is
the "colloid theory of insanity" adj
vanced by Professor Wilder D. Ban
croft of Cornell university before
the meeting of the National
Academy of Sciences here today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Herrlot Returns as AIavor
81 United Press


LYONS. France, April IS
Edouard HerTtot, former premier Of
France, returned today to the
mayorship Of Lyons, post which
he had held for 8 quarter century
prior TO his resignation last month.
He resigned due TO & political con-
troversy with his supporters. He
was returned to Office by majority
III thirty nine votes.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
is CHARGED
Blackmail Charge Against City Man
to Be Aired in Court.

Blackmail charges against George
r. Taylor, Sc, of GIG Russell ave-
nue., who threatened three promi-
nent indianapolis men in an effort
to extort money from them, will be
heard in municipal court four May
u, Judge Paul C. Wetter said
Monday, continuing the case.
Taylor was arrested after he is
said to have written letters to Al
bert NJ. Rosenthal, 1850 North Me-
ridian street; George J. Marott,
1858 washington boulevard, and
Ralph Spann, 1929 North Meridian
street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
AGED PUBLISHER DEAD
Colonel Robert Ewing, Well
known Democrat, Succumbs.
BIZ United Press

BIZ United Press
NEW ORLEANS, April 2S.-Col-
oneI Robert Ewing, II, veteran
newspaper man and publisher, and
a former Democratic national COM
mitteeman. died at his home here
Monday night after a heart attack.
Colonel Ewing was publisher Of
the New Orleans Daily States, the
Monroe News Star and Morning
World, and the Shreveport Times.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
OLD AGE T0UCHlNESS
NO DIVORCE GROUNDS
Judge Denies Decree to Michigan
Woman, so, Suing Mate. 20.

BIZ United Press
MUSHROOM, Mich, April 28.-
If YOU have reached three score
and ten" and are still married, you
have a right to be cross and unruly
on occasions. SO ruled Circuit
Judge John Vanderwerp in deny
ing lucia Brooks petition for
divorce from her husband Samuel,
20.
The Judge held that the aged
Samuel's disagreeable and unruly
characteristics were eccentricities
of old age and not grounds for
divorce. Mrs. Brooks is 60.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28

Club will have the
atEical e n t e rtain-
ment at their week
ly luncheon at Mu-
rat temple Thurs
day, the committee
in c large a n
uounced today.
Patrol day. will
be celebrated with
the app earance be-
for til e club 0 f
Brooke Johns. pop
ular stage star of
Broa DIV q y, who
Friday opens a
weeks bill as guest
master Of ere
Indiana tfaeater.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
BACK HOME AGAIN

Stolen automobiles recovered by police
belong TO.
street, Buick sedan, found a. Twenry-hfth
street ard College Avenue.
L2wrepce Ssepp. 2442 Hovey street. OAK
land sedan found at TWsnty-seventh
street and I-arlore avenue
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Marines in Nicaragua Drive

By United Press
PUERTO CABEzAs, Nicaragua,
April 28.-The national guard forces,
commanded by United States ma
rines, were pushing an offensive
against msurrectionists today in the
coastal region Of Eastern Nicaragua.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Gone, but Not Forgotten

Automobiles reported to police as stolen
belong to:
J. 3. Letter. Hotel Edwards, Essex
sedan, 555-13o Kentucky, from Capitol
Avenue and Market street.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
Argentina Radicals Win DecisiveIy
By United Press

By United Press
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina, April
GA decisive victory for the rad
ical party in the recent elections
was shown in final returns for the
key province Of Buenos Aires, made
public today.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
City Eulploye Dies

2 4 fhlea ; .yo-sAs
ANDERSON, Ind, April %
Charles Hall, II, city employe, fell
dead while installing meter in z
residence, a victim Of heart disease.
He leaves his widow and two chill
dren.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
TALKS MELLON CUSTER
Texas Congressman Charges Secre-
tary of Treasury Disqualified.

taFy OF ITtasuIy DISquaII4ItU.
By United Press
AUSTIN. Tex, April Wright
Patman of TeXarkana, Tex, con-
gresham, who put over the soldiers
adjusted service compensation set
tlement, despite opposition of Sec
rotary Of the Treasury Andrew
Mellon. now proposes Impeachment
Of Mellon.
He announced here, while on a
visit to the Texas legislature, that
at the opening Of the next con-
gress, he will prefer charges that
Mellon owns business interests that
disqualify him to be secretary OF
the treasury.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
WARNING IRKS FASCISTS
Clash Between Church and Black
Shirts Result of Pope's Edict.
By United Press

By United Press
ROME, April %. Controversy
which has sprung up at various
times between the Catholic church
and the Fascist regime in Italy was
revived with greater intensity today
as a result Of Pope Plus warning
that Fascists who Say they want
to be Cathoics-must be Catholics
not only in name, but in fact"
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
TAKES LEAD IN PLAY
Miss Lucille Wegehoeft Heads Cast
for Church Production.

Leading role in the comedy, 1.-THE
Whole Towns Talking" to be pre-
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28

Dorothy LANCER, Eileen Piercy, Vir-
ginia Qualter, Eleanor Rathert and
May Louise Roesener.
The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-04-28
CARAVAN CLUB TO MEET
Stage Star to Appear at Luncheon
in the Murat Temple.


Members Of the Murat Caravan
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

and Sarah Seaver who we're Mrs Walkers
bridesmaids, were among those present"
JANE AMELIA BENSON, who married Jona-
- than T. Walker October Is. 1888 was born
in Annapolis, Md, June 3, 1873 and was the
daughter of Cephas w. Benson and Annie
(Havvey) Benson Her father we are told was
at one time principal of the Academy at An
napoliS. and was married twice.
BY his first wife-Annie Harvey Benson
he had seven children: Renaldo Jane Amelia
Lucinda, who married Mr. Scott and had
John B.: Martha married George Dunn: Eliza
beth married Mr. YoSt. and had John and
Mary; Margaret married Richard Mockbee their
grandson being Harry E. Mockbee: Annie mar
daughter Harriet, who married Rev ny Wind
of Baltimore, Md
The children Of Jonathan T. Walker and
Jane Amelia tBenson) Walker were: James t.
Elizabeth j., Martha Ellen, Charles Henry Will
liam, John Newland. Samuel Hamilton Mai.
Walker), George Newton, Oscar Reese Francis
Davis Alice Amelia and Edward Spedden
OF these Martha Ellen, William. Oscar Reese
and Francis Davis died young; James T. mar
ried Marian Cuttings, whose father Benjamin
E. Cuttings, kept a dry goods store on Market
Space a long while ago. His son. Thomas B.
Walker, retired told the writer that he
was in business at Tenth and streets north
west for IS years up to 1907. part of the time
with his father and later alone. For while
his people lived at 4Sl Missouri avenue, when
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

intendent Of police, married February o. 1872
Sally L. Brady, the service being performed at
Benning D. c. Maj. and Mrs. Walker, in 1922,
celebrated the golden anniversary Of their
wedding. and today-though nearing her
seventy eighth year-She is a remarkably well
preserved woman.
The major and his wife have a number Of
children. including Mrs Lucretia w. Hardy of
the public schools, Rosalie W., Arthur B. and
Robert H, associated with their father in bust
ness: Mrs. Florence Walther; Mrs. Janet Smith,
whose husband is an official of the Carnegie
Institution of Washington, and Mrs. Caryl H.
Winter of Washington Grove, Md. There are
also II grandchildren and one great -grandchid.
When Maj Walker was appointed at the head
of the Police Department he was just AZ years
old and q prosperous business man of Wash
ington. Grover Cleveland had been in Office
two years, and a majority of the Board of Com
missioners were Democrats, was Mr.. Walker.
William B. Webb was president of the board.
the other members being Samuel E. Wheatley
and Col William Ludlow. Under Mr. Wheatley
came the Police Department, then in charge Of
Mai. William NICE Dye.
Because of diSsa abstraction, Mai Dyes reSigna-
ton called for. But the major did not feel
that he could be, substantially, summarily dis
missed in this way. and in concluding his reply
to the Commissioner said:
al MAY, in passing say that police authori-
ties are contin uouSly aSSailed by the bad
elements OF society. Where they are not
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-09-13

assaied look for corruption. It seems, then, that
it would be unjust, to my own reputation to the
good name Of the department represent. and
to our anxious friends, were I at this time voun-
tarily to surrender the ONCE have the honor
to hold. There are other considerations affect
ing my ultimate action which it is useless to
go into"
However the Commissioners had determined
upon a change. and AFTER waiting some time for
the majors resignation determined to declare
the Office vacant at IL o'clock July /, 1886, and
at that hour Maj. Dye took off his little gold
police badge and laid it on his desk, and issued
his last order, as follows:
Headquarters, Metropolitan Police, D. c.,
washington, July l. 1886.
General Orders, No. 191. In taking leave Of
the members Of the Police Department with
which 1 have been identified the past few years,