The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-08-15
Is DEATHS ARE
VIOLENCE TOLL
ON WEEKEND
Variety of Indiana Acct
dents Swell Total of
Lives Lost.
Bv United Press

violence took a toll OF fifteen lives
in Indiana over the weekend, a
United Press survey revealed to-
day.
Nine Of the deaths resulted from
automobile accidents, one drowning
was reported, a golf caddy was
killed when ~struck by golf ball,
one man committed suicide, one
died OF accidental poisoning, a
woman was killed in a fall from a
balloon, and gas inhaled while
heating water caused death of an
other.
Tragedy climaxed the celebration
Of old settlers day at the Carroll
county fair at Delphi when Mrs.
Edna Higgins, %, of Indianapolis,
parachute jumper, was killed in
an unsuccessful balloon ascension.
Worley NJ. Alenduf, 81, was in
jured fatally at Lafayette when he
drove his auto into the path of
Monon passenger train.
Believing that he was taking
quinine, John Fry, so, a brick
worker, swallowed enough arsenic
to kill 140 persons at Bloomfield.
Doctors told him they were power
less TO help him, and he died Sun
day after making all funeral ar
rangements.
One man was killed and two
others were injured, one seriously,
n rTTni
riding Collided with a truck at a
crossroads near Rushville. Tall corn
obscured the vision T. E. McAllister, |
Sc, Rushville, driver of the car, was
killed almost instantly The Rev.
Francis Schaub pastor of the st. !
Mary's church here, suffered SER
ious injuries.
Autos Take Bill Toll
Mrs. Glenn Smith, 25, Muncie,
was killed instantly when the auto
in which she was riding WITH her
husband, struck culvert near
Muncie. She formerly was physical
education teacher at Orville, o.,
and Auburn, Ind.
Joseph Moore, Is, was killed in
stantly when the auto in which he
was riding collided with a truck
near Aurora. Carl Raster, driver of
the auto, was injured slightly. |
Nineteen persons on the truck were
unhurt.
Death toll of an automobile ac-
cident near Scottsburg Friday
mounted to three with the death of
Hugh S. Ross, so. Indianapolis, and
his daughter, Margaret Jane Ross, 9,
in a hospital here at Louisville, KY, |
Mrs. Ross died shortly after the
crash.
James Osborne, &c, Evansville,
drowned in the Ohio river when the
boat in which he was running a trot
line capsiZed
Portland Caddy Is Killed
Roy Bush. IL, caddy at the Port
land Qnd) Country Club, was killed
when he was struck in the head by
golf ball. Caddying for Donald
w. Armstrong, Lima, o.
Two persons we're victims of vio-
lence in South Bend. D. H. Moss
man died of injuries suffered in an
auto accident. Bruno Dulczak, Sc,
died of gas while heating water for
a bath.
Charles Cutler, Waterman and
father of two east Chicago mill eX-
ecutives, was killed by an auto at a
railroad crossing at Hammond as he
warned another machine of an APP
preaching train. He was struck by
the auto of August Opperman,
Whiting.
Cutler was the father of Perry
Cutler, Republic Steel Company Of
fetal and Leslie Cutler, Indiana
tional Lead Refining Corporation
superintendent.
Injuries suffered in an automobile
collision caused the death of Mrs
Edna Kunz, SO, Middletown, in a
hospital at Terre Haute.
Henry Avery, IS, committed sui
eide by hanging in barn at his
farm home near indianapolis. De-
Spondency over illness caused the
act, his wife said.