The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-27

ne SAID ner gunman BOY Iflend
In the abrupt and cruel ma
ture of the Staying Of the
patrOlman. state police see
characteristics of Carson. who
is accused of at least four
murders. all committed in the
same fashion.
Capt. Matt Leach of the state po-
lice said he believes it is possible
that Carson has become identified
with gang of ruthless Chicago
hoodlums who are believed to have
been preying on Indiana. Illinois
and Missouri much in the fashion
of the predatory Dillinger gang Of
recent memory.
Patrolman Levy was shot four
times with .45-caliber bullets early
Monday when he apparently went
to make routine investigation of
man and woman who had been
sitting in a parked car for two
hours in the residential section Of
Anderson.
No Provocation for Shooting
There apparently vas no provo
cation for the shooting and police
reason it must have been committed
by some one TO whom arrest would
have been a critical matter.
When Jeanette Henderson, 81,
who gave her address as Chicago.
was found in fainting condition
with bullet wound in her breast
and badly beaten, she told Vim
cennes police that man she would
identify only as Tony had inflicted
the wounds and deserted her be-
cause she had accused him Of the
Anderson Staying.
She said that she had become a
member of the gang and that they
had committed a series of robberies
in Illinois. Missouri. and Indiana in
recent months and had disposed Of
the loot through 4 fence" in Chi
cago.
Stopped Here Friday
The gang. she said, stopped at an
Indianapolis hotel last FRIDAY night,
and that the male members of il
left Saturday night on a trip from
which they did not return until
Monday.
When she saw newspaper ac-
counts of the Anderson Staying. she
said, she asked Tony if he had done
it and he inflicted the wounds that
now are being treated in hospital
there
State police and Madison County
officials were to question the girl
this afternoon. but hospital at
taches say she has discontinued her
informative denunciation of Tony
and has refused. since the pain
lessened, to talk.
No amount OF persuasion would
bring her to name the other men,
bers Of the alleged gang. and she
would not reveal the last name of
Tony.
Leach Suspects Carson
Capt. Leach, however. SAYS he sees
IN the Anderson Staying the hand of
Carson, VINO has been sought for
eight years in connection With the
Staying Of his father IN Union
County, and that he believes it DOS
sible that Carson is one Of the gang.
Capt. Leach said Carson Is alleged
10 have killed his father in 1926 and
to have begun at that time q life OF
crime that has been as mysteriously
elusive as it has been cruel.
Less than q year after killing hjs
father. Capt. Leach SAYS. Carson
went 10 Illinois. stole an auto. drove
it to Kokomo, Ind. and lived there.
While he was there. Capt. Leach
said later information has brought
out. he engaged in an argument
with man named Whalen. and out
Of the argument grew an jnvesti-
CATION which led to Carsons iden-
LITIGATION by police.
Made Mysterious Escape
But ne walked out of surrounded
house and escaped in some mysteri-
Gus fashion. Capt Leach said that
later Carson wrote q letter TO
Whalen and told him he would re-
turn to Kokomo and kill him.
In the letter, which was written
from Missouri city. Ca,son is
alleged TO have described in detail
how he had killed a policeman sum-
marty because he feared the officer
was about 10 arrest him.
Carson returned to Kokomo in
1927 and killed Whalen, il is
charged. In 1927 he wrote a letter
to Spencer Stevens, his brother-in-
law in Liberty, Ind. and demanded
$1,000 as his share of the estate Of
his murdered father. threatening
Stevens with death unless he got II.
He collected il.
In 1925. it is alleged that he drove
up TO the IrVington-av home of Pa
trolman Norman Sheen of the Indi-
annapolis police force and shot him
h.