The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-06-06
Two Girls Also QuiZzed, Tell
Same Story of State
Murder.
By United Press

cell CToots) Long, %, Helmsburg
sought in connection with the kill
ing of a deputy sheriff and the
wounding of policeman Monday
night, was captured today in ar
orchard six miles east of here.
He pretended he was working in
the orchard when Sheriff M. K
Stewart of Brownstown, Deputy
Sheriff William Barkham of Jack
son county and Sergeant John Wiel
of the state police apprehended him
Long offered no resistance.
Long was the second of three
youths who figured in the killing tc
be captured.
Robert Neal, 20, Bloomington, was
taken into custody. at Underwood
late yesterday, where police found
him hiding in strawberry patch
Wedding Date Broken
Neal named Long and Ed Coffin
81, Greenfield, as his accomplices.
Collins sweetheart, Pauline
Meadows, 18, and Meals bride OF
three weeks, Mrs. Marie Marshall
Neal, Is, were arrested today at
Bloomington.
They confirmed Meals confession
saying they had talked with Coffin
yesterday at the Neal home in
Bloomington.
The girls said Coffin admitted fir
ing the shots which killed Deputy
Sheriff Harold Amick of Scott coun-
ty and wounded Patrolman John
Pfaffenberger of Seymour.
Tearfully, the attractive Miss
Meadows related how she and Coffin
were to have been married yester-
day and spend brief honeymoon
at the home of his parents in
Greenfield.
won't Be Taken Alive"
HE came to see Mrs. Neal and
me at IL a. m. yesterday she told
Bloomington police.
HE was nervous and scared, and
said he wouldn't be taken alive.
HE said he was in the back seat
of the car and had two guns"
Neal and Long were in the front
seat, with Neal driving.
ED told us that he fired all the
shots and that after they had run
one police barricade he knocked
out the rear window of the car
and fired at their pursuers.
after their car crashed at IN
derwood, Ed said he killed the
deputy sheriff and that the three
of them separated.
Admits kidnapping Youth
ed told us that he kidnapped
Ralph Shields, 10, Underwood, and
made him drive to Bedford.
From Bedford he came to Bloom
ington and met us at Mrs. Meals
house.
HE arrived about IL a. M and
left at 2:30, not telling us where
he was going. He didn't have any
good clothes, money or a car, but
he said he wouldn't be captured
alive-that he or some one else
would be killed"
Meals 16-year-old bride, a pretty
brunei weighing slightly more than
100 pounds, blamed Coffin for lead
ing her husband astray.
HE persuaded Bob to give up his
job in the creamery at Blooming
ton," she told police.
Left Town on Monday
Monday night, they left Bloom
ington about $3.50 to take Bob's
mother to Helmsburg. They must
have picked up Long there. That
was the last we heard from them
until yesterday, when Bob was ar
rested and Ed came to my house. A."
Meals story was almost identical
with that which Coffin told the
girls.
The young bridegroom said the
trouble started after he, Coffin and
Long obtained gasoline at Seymour
and drove away without paying for
it.
They encountered Pfaffenberger
and Coffin shot him down, Neal
said.
Neal told police that he and Long
were not armed and that Coffin
fired all the shots.
Long was taken to the Lawrence
county Jail at Bedford, the same
place where Neal is confined.