The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-09-15
POLICE DROP GRILLING OR
MURDERED BOYS MOTHER.
TURN TO OUTSIDE CLEWS
Mrs. Dillon Arraigned in
Court: VagranCy Count
Is Continued.
LIBERTY TO BE SOUGHT
HabeaS Corpus Action to Be
Taken by Lawyer for
Woman.

Homicide squad detectives
today ceased, temporarily,
their questioning of drab,
faded Dimmie Dillon, mother
of the brutally murdered 49,
year-old Donald Dillon, and
turned their efforts toward a
a re-examination of outside
clews in the mystery of Don
AIDS death and to a search
for new hints as to the truth
of how he met his end.
Mrs. Dillon apparently worn by
her 35 years. was arraigned in mu-
nicipal court today with her attor-
ney, Lawrence Shaw, absent from
the proceedings. Vagrancy charges
against her were continued until
Thursday with bond set at $1,000.
Court Action Planned
Meanwhile, Mr.. Shaw told r.
porters he had drawn up petitions
for writs of habeas corpus to gain
her freedom and that of Gilbert
Jacobs, 81, held on the same charge
and in the same bond. He was not
sure when he would present them
in court.
Jacobs has been described va
riously as a boarder at 1871 Shelby
street, where Mrs. Dillon and her
children live, and as the man by
whom she is employed as house
keeper She and the children have
lived with him since her divorce last
year from Shirley c. Dillon, now a
farmland on a farm near REM
ington, Ind
Police have said that Jacobs ara
rested Tuesday night, only few
hours after Donalds mutilated
body had been found in Pleasant
Run creek, and Mrs. Dillon have told
widely varying stories of the time
of Donalds disappearance and of
the disappearance of .22-calibeF
rifle owned by Jacobs.
Arrested After Funeral
Deputy Coroner John E. Wytten~
bach has said that the bullet which
caused Donald's death came either
from a .22-caliber or a .25-caliber
rifle.
Mrs. Dillon was picked up and
taken to headquarters by homicide
detectives shortly after noon yes
terday, less than half an hour after
she had stood sobbing beside fresh
grave in New Grown cemetery as
Donald's body was lowered into the
earth. She was questioned more
than six hours before the vagrancy
charge was placed against her.
The funeral services, which at
tracted 400 persons to the Blasen-
gym funeral home, 1926 Shelby
street, were simple and dramatic
Both Mr.. Dillon, who is believed tA
have supplied police with the in
formation which led to their de-
termination to arrest his wife, and
Mrs. Dillon attended, separated by
only few feet in small room set
aside for relatives and closest
friends.
Neither spoke to the other.
Mrs. Dillon sobbed and moaned
throughout the services, apparently
only semi conscious on a coach at
one side of the room. She still was
in condition of apparent collapse
at the boys grave and was moaning
when she was taken from her homo
to the police squad car.
Meanwhile, two new, and myster-
ious but apparently not too signifl-
cant, developments, had occurred in
the case.
Man to Be Questioned
First was report to police last
night by Miss Alice Joseph, 81, Of
2007 Shelby street, that yesterday
and Thursday, as she passed over
the bridge at Minnesota and Shelby
streets, she had been annoyed by a
man who. on one of the two occa-
sions, attempted to detain her by
Selling her arm.
Second was a report that man
who showed gold badge and de-
scribed himself as a federal officer,
appeared last night at the scene Of
the murder. Witnesses said the
man carried a 45-caliber automatic
and had high-powered rife in the
rear of his automobile.
A check of the license plates on
the mans automobile showed that
they had been issued to an east side
man employed in a west side gaso-
line filing station.
The filling station employee adj
mitted to a Times reporter that he
had visited the scene Of the crime
with girl companion. but denied
vigorously that he had represented
himself as federal agent or that
he had had any arms when he went
there. His badge as an oil company