The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1932-11-15
TRIO TO FACE
TRIAL ONLAND
FRAUD CHARGE
Defunct Indiana Estate Co.
Case Up in Federal
Court Thursday.
ATTORNEY is ACCUSED
False Damage Claim Made
Against Government,
Says Complaint.

Trial of William M Dozier, Mel
j. OKeefe and James F. Huteson,
charged with using the mails to
defraud, in connection with opera
tons of the defunct Indiana
Estates Company. will be held
Thursday before a federal court
jury.
The government charges the COM
pany swindled Marion county citi-
zens out of almost 100000 through
sale of lots in Morningside addition,
along KeSSler boulevard.
Trial of Humphrey G. Harrington,
attorney, and Charles E. Martin,
charged with making a fraudulent
damage claim against the govern
ment, was postponed from today
until Monday.
Brothers Before Court
Federal Judge Robert c. Baltzell
today took under Amusement SEN
fencing of three brothers, two OF
whom we're convicted by a jury on
liquor charges and the third plead
ing guilty after presentation Of
evidence in the case.
They were Harvey and Dillon
Fry, convicted, and Elmer Fry, who
pleaded guilty The three live
south of Bloomington.
Several trials were held in federal
court Monday, four persons being
sentenced to prison terms and eight
to Jail terms.
Trial of Claude Bitroff, alleged
purveyor of fine liquors, was con-
tinued until next Monday to permit
the government to locate a material
witness.
100 Pints of Rum Seized
Bitroff was arrested in March,
1881, after deputy sheriffs and fed
eral dry agents raided a Williams
Creek mansion which he had rented
and in which the officers found sew
eral hundred pints of alleged bonded
whisky and ten cases of Canadian
beer.
Bitroff sought to prove the liquor
was in the house when he rented
1T and that he had no knowledge
of it.
out of the frying pan and into
the fire" aptly describes the luck Of
Max Pope, Indianapolis Negro ac-
quilted of liquor charges when it
was found the indictment against
him contained the wrong date. On
orders of Baltzell, Pope was rear
rested and held to the grand Jury
for reindictment.
Sent to ChilIicothe
Elijah A. Bolen, auto race pro-
moter of indianapolis and Clinton.
charged with conspiracy in connec-
ton with transportation of a stolen
automobile from Chicago Heights to
indianapolis, was convicted by
Baltzell mad sentenced to eighteen
months in Chillicothe co. reforma-
tory.
William Harris Stroud, 1920 East
Washington street, and Joe Micelli
CLINTON, who pleaded guilty to the
same charge, we're sentenced to two
years in the reformatory.
Victor Hines, Memphis. now serv.
ing six years sentence at the At
lanta federal penitentiary on q
counterfeiting charge, was given an
additional three years on a similar
cnarge. HINES admitted passing
$40 bills in Anderson, Ind. shortly
before his arrest in Memphis.
Convicted of Transporting
William Duncan, 425 West Merrill
street, was convicted of TRANSPORT
Ing liquor, despite his plea that he
mad another man deliver the LIQUOR
TO a federal dry agent. He was
sentenced to serve twelve months
IN Jail. Raymond Walsh, 713 Chad
WICK street, who admitted making
the actual delivery, was given a
similar sentence.
Cecil C. Mcdaniel, 1884 Spann
avenue, was given ninety DAYS in
Jail, suspended, on a liquor trans
portation charge, -rhen Albert Dale
GillapSy of the same address testi-
ned Mcdaniel did not know the
liquor was in the car Gillapsy was
sentenced to serve ninety days in
Jail.
Marshall A. Hendricks, 1868 West
Thirty-f1rst street, was acquitted of
liquor transportation charges, while
Earl Unversaw, Fairfield, Ind, ar
rested with him, was given six
months in jail in addition to a sus-
pended two years term.
Others sentenced on liquor
charges include:
Bertha L. Pollard. Negro. 3si Blan5srd
street, thirty days: Clarence SchrSye
Negro, 303 Bright street, one dav. scott
Palmer: Anderson, one day: Paul II. Rom
berg. West Newton, Ind. sixty DAYS and