The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-03-03
MRS. SCHOEN
TO FIGHT FOR
POLICE Berth
Friends Start Campaign to
Win Reinstatement
for Widow.
REOPEN KILLING PROBE
New CIeWS Intimated in
Hunt for Slayer of
PatrOIman.

Demands r expected to be made
this week IN city and police officials
for reinstatement of Mrs. Ruth E.
Schoen, widow of patrolman Nor
man Schoen, as a clerk in the police
department.
Mrs. Schoen was discharged Tues
day.
Friends of Mrs. Schoen today an
nounced circulation of a petition
among Irvington business men, de-
handing the safety board rename
Mrs. Schoen to her post as police
department file clerk.
Recommendation for dismissal of
Mrs. Schoen vas made by Chief
Mike MorriSSey and was accented
by the safety board. Mayor Regi-
maid H. Sullivan, it is reported, has
been asked to support the move for
reappointment of the patrolman'S
widow.
Reopen Murder Inquiry
1t was reported today that inves-
tigation of Schoen's murder has
been reopened.
Schoen was slain shortly before
midnight March 6, 1928, as he ap-
preached his Irvington avenue
home. He had started toward the
SlayerS' car, parked near his home.
when he was shot in the back.
Schoen was dead when medical aid
reached him.
Supporting two small children,
Mrs. Schoen denied statements
credited to Morrissey that she re-
ceived a police pension and also
government compensation.
"The statement about war COM
pensation is not true" Mrs. Schoen
declared. "All I have in the world
to support myself and two children
is $50 monthly from the police de-
partment.
"The only reason 7 have been
given for my dismissal is the at
tempt of the police department to
reduce operating costs. I have no
plans, except to try to support my
children. I wasn't given sufficient
time before I was dismissed to seek
other employment"
Wide Hunt for SIayers
1t was reported at headquarters
today that a patrolman will perform
Mrs. Schoen'S duties at night. Three
detectives, formerly assigned in the
office, have been placed in the field,
as part of the economy program.
The murderers of Schoen have
been sought in practically every Sec
ton of the state. Their activities,
it is reported, connect with rum
runners, kidnaperS, bank robbers
and influential politicians and ap-
parently prominent business men,
in indianapolis and other large
cities of the state.
According to reports, the gunner
were paid to murder Schoen be-
cause he knew too much"
1t is understood that, shortly be-
fore the Staying, the patrolman had
been beaten in Military park by a
gang, members of which then
warned him to clay off,"
WOrley Offered Reward
The car involved in the Staying
had been seen near Schoen's home
several hours before the murder. 1t
also was reported to have been in
Irvington two days before the STAY
ing.
No trace of the murderers was
found after their car roared east on
Washington street, although Claude
Worley, then chief of police, offered
500 reward for information lead
ing to their capture.
According to information that has
leaked from the underworld since
the Investigation has been reported
as reopened, solution of the Schoen
murder may result in clearing the
murder Of another man and a big
jewel robbery in the last three years.