The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-20
SIugged, Robbed, Taken to
Jail, Victim Sees No
Hope Left.

A few hours after she was ar
rested following brawl and a rob-
berry in her tiny apartment at Tenth
and Delaware streets, Mrs. Evelyn
Langdon. 81, committed suicide by
turning on the gas in a kitchenet
stove.
Clad in gay, red pajamas, the
body was found on davenport by
a ianitor with three notes lying on
a table nearby.
The woman was arrested Thurs
day night with Louise Gardner, 20,
living in an apartment in the same
building, and four men, two OF
whom today are charged with slug
ging her and robbing her of $40.
She had been released on bond
of $500 shortly after her arrest.
Robbery Is Charged
According to police, Mrs. Lang
don, mother of a small son, identl-
fed Vance Boyd, 25, of 124 West
Twelfth street, and Fletcher lyman,
SO, of 736 FIT. Wayne avenue, as the
men who interrupted a drinking
party, smuggling her with the butt OF
a revolver and robbing her OF $40
she carried in her shoe.
Boyd and lyman are held on
charges of robbery, drawing deadly
weapons and vagrancy.
Two men, said to have been in the
apartment with Mrs. Langdon and
Mrs. Gardner, were held on
vagrancy charges. They are Rich
ard Brady, 81, of 1852 North Penn
sylvania street, and Jack Carter, 26,
of 124 West Twelfth street.
Tired of Living
Mrs. Langdon apparently returned
Immediately to the apartment fol-
lowing her release on bond. In one
note, written to Mrs. w. A. Lang
don, 1712 Central avenue, her
mother-in-law as she turned on
the gas, she said:
Dearest Marg: I am just turn
ing on the gas, intending to end
everything. I am so tired of try
ing to live and can't, that I'm Civ
ing up"
after leaving your home last eve
ming I was Slugged, robbed and ar
rested. I think that is the climax.
I am ready to go.
Promise me you will do your best
to explain to Ray for me. I really
am sorry on his and Juniors &C
count.
please don't think too hard of
my life, because I've tried hard. I
just couldn't last. Will you please
care for Junior. Your daughter i'm
law, Evelyn"
Writes to Mother
Junior, the son, is 4. He lives
with Mrs. Langdon's mother, Mrs
Charles E. Hershey, BOT South Gray
street. Mrs. Hershey said this
morning her daughter visited her
and Junior Thursday evening.
In note left for her mother.
Mrs. Langdon said:
81 am sorry I. had to choose this
way of ending my life without say
ing good-by to you once more. But,
dearie. don't worry about me. I will
be happy. VIII you promise to help
look after Junior for me? I know
you viii dear, so please be good
Your loving daughter, Evelyn"
In a third note the woman had
written please notify my mother.
The body was found by Arthur
Carson, Negro janitor, after resi-
dent on the second floor of the
apartment reported smelling gas.
Lieutenant Ed Shubert and Ser
geant Claude Kinder. who investi-
gated, sent the body to the city
morgue.
Records at police headquarters
show that Ray Langdon, "a, the
dead woman's husband, was arrest
ed Oct. 80, 1890, on charges of au-
tomobile banditry and robbery. He
was sentenced in January in Grim
inal court to serve ten years in the
indiana state reformatory.
Langdon and Arthur Luethold, 80,
were convicted of staging several
robberies in and near the city, ac-
cording to detectives. Leuthold also
was given a 10-year sentence.
Mrs. Langdon also had been ar
rested several times, but never was
convicted, records revealed. She and
Mrs. Gardner were arrested on a
statutory charge and vagrancy fol-
lowing the fight and robbery, which,
according to the apartment man
ager, terminated drinking party.
Mrs. Langdon had lived at the
apartment two weeks.