The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-08-06
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'FRAMEUP' OF
AGED WOMAN
Attorney Hints Liquor Raid
Staged to DiSCredit
HoIdup Testimony.
JUDGE ORDERS DELAY
Asks Police Squad Head
Why Other Witnesses
Were Not Called.

raid on the chicken dinner estab-
lishment of a 73-year- widow
was limited openly today in the
court of Municipal Judge william
H. Sheaffer.
The raid was arranged to dis
credit the womans testimony
against an alleged bandit, accused
Of robbing her, who has not yet
gone to trial in criminal court, it
was claimed.
Judge Sheaffer, after hearing the
evidence against Mrs. Martha
Glasspol, 7S, of 1906 North Emerson
avenue, on a blind tiger" charge,
continued her case until Aug. ID.
E. L. Dietz, attorney for the de-
PENDANT, told the court that his
client was beaten and robbed on
June 10 by two bandits, one of
whom is alleged to have been Fred
Kirk, 1876 Fletcher avenue, now
held for trial before Criminal Judge
Frank P. Baker.
Admits Warrant Legal
That a party of Kinks friends
brought liquor into Mrs. Glasspors
place, after having arranged with
policemen to make the raid, was
charged by DietZ, who admitted that
the search warrant for the raid was
legal and admitted that liquor was
found.
Sergeant John Eisenhut, who led
the police raiding party, testified to
Selling half glass of beer-analyzed
as containing 1874 per cent alcohol
found on the floor, and a half pint
of alcohol in the pocket of Gilbert
Copenhaver, 1853 English avenue
who was waiting for a chicken
| dinner.
Eddie vesto, 11O8 Fletcher ave-
nue., who was in Copenhaver's party
of four, testified that he had ar
ranged for the party two weeks be-
fore, and had ordered that beer
and alcohol be served. He said that
Mrs. Glasspol had brought four
bottles Of beer and the alcohol to
the party on tray.
Charged Glasses Removed
ct took The alcohol off the tray
and put it in my pocket just be-
fore the police entered" he said.
He also charged that three other
glasses had been removed from the
tray by the aged woman just be-
fore the raid.
Two young girls, pretty and we'll
dressed, who accompanied Copenha-
yer and VeSto to the place, con-
frmed the testimony of the two
men. They are: Miss Gertrude
Beasley, 1884 Fletcher avenue, a
saleslady, and Miss Marjorie House,
1874 English avenue, school teacher.
All but Miss House admitted in
cross-examination that they were
friends of Kirk.
In cross-examining Miss House,
Dietz asked:
isn't it fact that you went
there on a Encouragement with
the officers to be there at a Ger
tain time for them to find liquor
there?"
An objection on this question was
sustained and Miss House was not
required to answer.
Plainly dressed Nervous
Mrs. Glasspol, plainly dressed and
nervcusly grasping the bar before
her, related from the witness stand
that the party obtained no beer
from her, that she sells no liquor,
but that she did bring in glasses
at their request.
She said that the party had en-
tered and asked to be served
chicken dinners.
Six other diners were in another
room at the place at the time of
the raid, she said. None of these
was arrested and police did not call
them into court as witnesses.
Mrs. GlasSpols granddaughter
also testified, telling virtually the
same story as her grandmother.
Sergeant Eisenhut was called
back to the stand and asserted that
he had entered the kitchen of the
place, but had found no evidence of
preparation being made for chicken
/ dinners.
Pleads for Delay
Attorney Dietz, at the close of the
evidence, pleaded for a continuance
Of the case, in order to call in the
other diners at the place as wit
neSSes.
In my opinion" he told Judge
Sheafer, this case is a frameup.
The robbery of Mrs. Glasspol, a.
told by Dietz to the judge, wa:
committed by two men and wom-
an. He named them as Kirk, Ed.
ward Bietz, 702 North Alabama
street, and Larraine Gable, 628 East
Michigan street.
Bietz was sentenced last week bJ
Criminal Judge Baker for a rob-
berry committed on June 8. ten day,
before the robbery Of Mrs. Glass
pol and an employee. In the june
8 holdup, it was charged, Martha
Temple, 140O West New York street
aided Bietz.
Charges Immunity
Both of the women, Dietz alleged
turned states evidence against
Beitz, and obtained immunity from
prosecution.
Kirk obtained a continuance of
his case.
Why were the other people at
Mrs. Glasspols place not brought
into court as witnesses" Judge
Sheaffer asked Sergeant Eisenhut.
I'VE found no liquor in their
possession" Eisenhut replied. 1.-The
four brought here we're where the
liquor was found. That's all"
Sheaffer ordered the six other
prospective witnesses ordered into
court on Aug. IA whens the remaider
Of the case is heard.