The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

WINS IS the hnai story OF series on
twcnty-ons unsolved murders in In
dianapoliS.)
The most recent Of indianapolis
murders in the last decade is that
of Mrs. Mollie Earll, 26, attractive
wife, who was beaten to death by
clubber, April 81.
This murder of six months ago
has not been solved.
The slayer sneaked into her
apartment at 140l Bellefontaine
street, beat her with club and
fied into the night, escaping from
his crime and justice.
Mrs. EARL, clad in nightdreSs and
q lounging robe, was awaiting the
return of her husband Hugh, from
his night work at the postoffice.
Mania Theory Given
When he did return he found his
wife beaten and her life ebbing. He
found signs of a struggle and blood
drenched pillows on the davenport
in the living room.
He found that either by accident
or through some turn of mania of
the clubber his wife's head lay on
a pillow as though it had been
placed there with care.
Mrs. EARL lived but few pre-
cious hours. In those hours she
never regained consciousness but
muttered Negro" John" and
hospital"
Police searched the Negro dis
trict in the vicinity of the EARL
home. An arrest was promised but
1t never was made.
Two Murdered in Month
And her slayer has fed to those
places where at least twenty other
indianapolis murderers in less than
ten years gather with clouded con-
sciences. ,ooo
The month of December, 1880,
marked the horrible deaths OF two
grocers. 40
On Dec. 13, Lewis Davidson, 4l9
Harvard place, left his Standard
Grocery at Twenty fifth and Talbot
streets, carrying the stores money.
At an alley near the store he was
accosted by bandit. What went on
between the bandit and Davidson Is
not known, but apparently he re-
fused to turn over the stores money.
Crawls Half Block
A shot rang out and Davidson
crawled to a porch half a block
away. His murderer escaped as the
sirens of police cars rent the air.
Sixteen days later M F. Bell, 10
year-old grocer, stood in his store
and defed two Negro bandits. He |
died with a gunman's bullet through |
his abdomen.
The Times has related the UNI
solved murders of patrolman Nor
man Schoen and other officers and
one remains.
It is~that of Paul Miller, police
officer who was shot at Twenty |
fifth and Station streets, July IT, /
1923.
He and another officer we're on
the scene to seek two men who were
believed bandits.
AS Miller walked toward them,
their guns barked. He fell, dead |
before the sound of their footsteps !
had faded.
Collector Is Slain
That Paul Pullian, 35, a collector |
for BARS theaters, was slain as a
result of a carefully-laid plot of the
underworld, is taken for granted in
indianapolis.
But the murderers who forced his |
car to the curb and shot him in |
the head Nov. 10, 1928, in the 700 |
block Ft. Wayne avenue, never were |
found or turned over to police.
There are but two more murders
on this list of unsolved crime.
Epraim Watts, a merchant po-
lice officer, was in the Indiana meat !
market, 1920 College avenue, when
a bandit entered and ordered every
one to raise hands to the ceiling,
Feb. %. 1929.
At the command. WaUJS yelleu.
mot me- and reached for his re-
volver.
Hijacking Is Blamed
A shot that whined across the
store struck him before his hand
touched the revolver in his pocket.
He died three days later Two
months later the body of George
Lewis, S18 Union street, was found
crumpled in his parked automobile
near the city hospital.
Police were told that hi-jackers
or bootleggers were responsible.
But in his case, and in those of
the twenty others The Times has
related, no judge ever pronounced
a sentence that would in all, or
part, pay for twenty-one lives taken
by crime.