The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-25
SAW DEAN At
HOLDUP SCENE.
WITNESS SAYS
Suspect Identified by Taxi
Foreman as Member of
Bandit Gang.
STATE SCORES HEAVILY
Drove Car Wildly Through
Streets, Is Testimony in
Staying Trial.


The state scored heavily today in
its attempt TO send Edward CFOggy)
Dean to the electric chair for the
submachine gun murder of Police
Sergeant Lester Jones during a ga
rage hOldup last year when Dean
was identified definitely as one Of
five fleeing bandits who comman-
deered a taxicab a few minutes
after the crime.
Paul Lutmer. 1904 CarrolltOn ave-
nue., taxi company night foreman.
testified that ne and a driver were
sitting in a cab at Seventeenth
street and CarrOlltOn avenue when
five men. among them Dean carry
ing a pistol. jumped into the cab.
Apparently shaken or frightened.
Mr.. Lutmer testified in a low voice
that he had been forced to sit be-
side Dean as Dean drove the car
wildly through city streets out into
the country. A Submachine gun
was pressed against his shoulders
from the rear seat. the witness said.
The spot where the cab was COM
Wandered was only a few blocks
from where railroad detectives pre-
viouSly had testified they saw five
armed men.
Altered Tags Exhibited
Refore Mr., Iutmer was called to
the stand. altered license plates
found in a car abandoned in the
garage after the hOldup were ident-
fled as those from a car parked in
front of the home of Willie Mason,
Kentucky hOOdlum. three days be-
fore the crime. in which Mason Is
alleged to have participated as an
associate of Dean.
Charles c. Sidell. Clifton CKy0
police chief. and patrolman James
A. Carson. SOuthgate. KY, made the
Identification of the license plates
Both officers were SS-eXamined
severely by Clyde Miller. defense at
torney. who yesterday suffered
major setback when Dean was
identified positively as the killer.
Mrs. Emily B. MoOres. Cleveland,
O.. said that the car found in The
garage had been stolen from her.
she identified the license plates
and said that the figure 81 on the
plates had been altered to an T.
Dean. WHO has appeared non
chalant throughout the trial. looked
sharply at the jury aS the taleSmen
passed the plates around for exam
nation. Mrs. Dean. again dressed
in black. sat near her husband and
took notes on the evidence. hastily
Scribbling on a scratch pad.
Shotguns, Rifles Shown
A grim bit of evidence was pre-
Sented to the jury as Lieutenant
John Sheehan. grizzled veteran Of
twenty-five years with the police
force. identified two army rifles and
Shotguns as those found in the
abandoned car.
when the days session began.
Special Judge Clyde II. Jones or
dered stricken from the records all
evidence given yesterday of the dis
Covery Of a Sawed-off shotgun and
two pistols in the tall grass near
the Dean home. The defense con-
tended that the weapons had no
connection with the crime and that
state had not proved that they were
owned by Dean.
Meanwhile. defense attorneys were
considering an application for au-
thority 10 inspect grand jury min
utes.
Mr.. Miller said he wished to in
quire whether patrOlman Michael
McAllen. who yesterday identified
the defendant. had not testified be-
fore the grand jury.
Patrolman McAllen was uncertain
regarding this point when Mr.. Mil
Ter sought TO force him to admit
that ne had identified another
suspect as Sergeant Jones slayer.
Defense Scores Point
The defense appeared 10 score a
point during the croSS-examination
Of pstrolman McAllen when the pO-
liceman. who described a gun battle
between himself and the machine
gunner he identified as Dean. de-
clared the SLAYER wore a gray over
coat and dark hat
Previous state witnesses had told
the jury that the machine gunner
who stood guard at the garage door
while the other bandits looted the
bus company Office. wore light gray
hat with a black band.
Yesterday afternoon. Sergeant
Charles L Hodges. for twelve years
a member OF the police department
told Of the discovery by him Of a
leather pouch containing $500 Of
the bandit loot. dropped as the rob-
bers fed from the bus garage after
the murder OF the police sergeant
Sergeant Hodges said the wind
shield OF the Ford car. abandoned
IN the bus company garage by the
fleeing bandits. had been struck by
one bullet and the steering wheel
had been partly shot away.