The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-06-05

TXTHEN George NJ. Wells, late
w Of 2724 North Butler avenue
now Of the city-at-large, is told to
move off lot, he moves-ho Sc
n everything, right ou5 in the
street.
In fact, Wells moved so fas.
that he had his house today in the
street before deputy Sheriffs,
called by the landlord, Claude
Richie, 1854 North De aware
street, could prevent tie bulky
Kidnapping.
And while attorneys for the
landlord are busy attempting to
find legal means Of restoring the
house to it's foundation, Wells
and his family are sleeping in
the street. They're not sleeping
there literally, Of course, but in
beds in a house in the middle Of
Butler avenue.
The sole relationship Wells
preserved between the lot upon
which he lived and the house
was to set up q kitchen in a
garage that couldn't be moved
off the premises before the law
arrived.
WTHILE the Wells family SER
w enaded the neighbcrhood
in the middle Of the street today
with strains from their player
piano, attorneys for Richie found
themselves baked when they at
tempted to get Superior Judge
John w. Kern to order Wells to
move back on the lot from which
he took French leave"
There is no case in front of me
at the present time" the judge
ruled, as he advised Wells to get
an attorney if he wanted to fight
being moved back on a lot from
which ne had been evicted.
The homeless house nlix-up all
began several weeks ago, when
Richie obtained Judgment against
Wells for possession of the lots
which Wells had purchased fror
him, but never had paid for.
Hes lived there five year
and never paid cent" Richie
declares.
Wells erected the house and
garage on the lot. Sickness. he
said, prevented him from making
payments. When Judgment was
obtained in Judge Kerl1's court,
he was ordered by the judge:
Move off within thirty days"
UNAWARE Of the law that
" prevents property improve
ments being moved, Wells called
in S. H. McColley of Shelbyville,
to do the moving-house, beds
and piano-to a new lot which he
obtained at Twenty-frst street
and Emerson avenue.
The big move began Thursday
with the aid of rollers and Jacks.
The landlord heard his house had
legs. He called the sheriff's
Office. When deputies arrived,
McColley and Wells had shown
such speed that they had the
house in the street.
'It's in the street now. You'll
have to get a court order to move
it back" the deputies told Ritchie.
Efforts to find no tail-light on
moving truck or some
other violation Of traffic to pre-
vent further advance of the
house in the middle of the street
proved fruitless.
"HAvE you a permit to move
IL the house?" the moving
man was questioned. He prompt
ly displayed certificate from the
county commissioners, emitting
him to two days in which to get
the Wells house to its new home
on Emerson avenue.
And so the house is in the mid
ole of the street in the 200 block
on Butler avenue. A red lantern
on carpenters horse warns mo-
florists to detour.
Wells believes that if he built
the house, it's his house, and that,
as he has it in the street now, he
can keep on moving it. Ritchie
says it's theft"
AS for the neighborhood, they're
still enjoying the player piano
strains from the middle of the
street.