The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-04-29
Wife STABBED
TO DEATH IN
AL|MONY ROW
Chemist, Purdue Graduate,
InfIiCtS Fatal Wounds
With Pocket Knife.
SAW Red SAYS KILLER
Three Transfusions Futile;
Slayer Sits in Car to
Await Arrest.

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came to a tragic end Friday night,
when Dallas H. Dice, 80, Purdue
graduate chemist, fatally stabbed
his estranged wife, Berniece L. Dice,
q, after wrangle over support
money at their home, 1923 North
Harding street.
Then while his wife lay dying in
city hospital, futilely undergoing
three blood tranSfuSions, Dice clam
ly narrated to detectives Morris
Corbin, Stewart Coleman and Fay
Davis the events leading up to a
divorce suit filed by the wife in
circuit court in January.
Dice, who had been residing with
his mother at 1704 East Tenth
street, had gone to the North Hard
ing street home to discuss alimony
payments with his wife and to pay
her $40 obtained as rent for house
they owned jointly.
Stabbed With Pocket Knife
Dice, in his statement to detec-
tives, said his wife first refused to
leave. Then she demanded it, he
said, and he, in turn, refused, say
ing he would give it to his mother.
IF you do, I'll get a court order
to get it from your mother" Dice
quoted his wife as saying.
81 saw red and got my pocket
knife out and stabbed her." Dice's
confession continued.
With several arteries in her neck
severed, Mrs. Dice ran into yard
next door and was picked up by her
sister, Miss Helen Anderson, of 1927
Pruitt street, who had been a wit
ness.
Rushed to Hospital
DR.. Charles Walker, city hospital
inferno, was passing in his car and
he and Miss Anderson took Mrs.
Dice to the hospital. Walker apply
ing thumb pressure to the wounds
in an effort to stem the flow of
blood.
Dice seated himself on the run
nuing board of his car and waited
until he was arrested by Sergeant
Roscoe Wilkerson and Patrolman
Otto Burke.
At city hospital, blood futilely was
given for three transfuSions by Miss
Anderson; another sister, Mrs. Jonas
Frye, 1927 Pruitt street, and neigh
bor Mrs. Martha Shaw, 1916 Koehne
street. Mrs. Dice died at 1870.
The Dice romance began more
than eleven years ago in Lafayette,
wen Dice was a student at Purdue
and Mrs. Dice was attending West
Lafayette high school.
Married in 1922
They were married in 1922, when
Dice was graduated, and came to
Indianapolis in 1925, when he OBJ
tanned a position with an Indian
apolis laboratory as an analytical
chemist.
Dice. in his statement to detec-
tiveS. said his salary was $3.50
month and that he had been pay
ing sos month on court order for
the support of his wife and their
6-year-old daughter, Phyllis Anne.
Today, Phyllis Anne is at the
home of one of her uncles, unaware
that her mother is dead and that
her father is in city prison facing
murder charges.
Her only concern was attention
to her demand: READ me the fun
MES" Her aunts are postponing the
moment when they must tell her
that her mother is dead.
The Dices had separated several
times during the last six years, but
Dice told detectives their married
life before that had been one of
contentment.
Divorce Action by Wife
The divorce action filed by Mrs.
Dice, still pending, charges Dice
often beat her and, on one occasion,
threw knives at her. Action on the
divorce decree had been held up by
an effort TO arrive at property
settlement, Saul Rabb, Mrs. Dice's
attorney, said today.
Mrs. Dice is survived by her ia
Their. Guy Anderson, Lafayette; four
sisters, Miss Helen Anderson, Miss
Ruth Anderson, Mrs. Jonas Frye
and Mrs. Menjamin Frye, all of In
dianapolis; and three brothers, Guy
Jr Glenn and Dale Anderson, La
fayette.
Her mother died six years ago
Local funeral arrangements have
not been made, but services and