The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-01-16

of stops the truck made on It's
citing.
He has not, they said, re-
turned to his home at 4418
Manlove-av, and his family
said he never before had
stayed away all night without
first having informed them.
Deputies are seeking young Liese
either as a suspect in the Staying,
which police and deputies believe
was motivated by the robbery of $50
or more from Mr.. Hunt, or as a pos
sible second victim of the holdup.
possibly wounded. possibly dead or
possibly kidnapped.
Young Liese is feet inch tall,
weighs ITO pounds. has red hair.
and was wearing blue work shirt,
suede jacket and light cap.
Deputies said that he had been
making the daily rounds with Mr..
Hunt for the last two months, and
added that they know the two quar-
relied recently with some violence
in a city filling station.
Deputies believe that Mr.. HHnt
may have been shot by his own So
caliber revolver which he is known
to have carried in his truck and
which has not been found in or
near it since the shooting.
MI. Hunt, father of 4-month-old
Lewis Ray and husband of 21-year-
old Frances Hunt, was wantonly
shot at close range. Both the
money satchel he carried and his
pockets had been ransacked when
deput sheriffs arrived at the scene.
The victim was unconscious when
deputy sheriffs arrived and never re-
gained consciousness. He was lying
two feet to the right of the truck.
His money satchel was on the seat
of the truck, opened and empty.
The victim was unconscious and
never regained consciousness. He
was lying two feet to the right of the
truck. His money satchel was on
the seat of the truck, opened and
empty.
Trail Is Followed
The bullet had entered his head
above the right ear and emerged
two inches below the left ear. It.
was not found and there is no
official estimates as to what caliber
it was or from what type gun it
was fired.
The deputies sent the victim to
City Hospital, where he died early
last night.
Search for young Liese began
shortly after the finding of the un-
victim. Deputies inter-
viewed R. F. Cravens, Sc Springf1eld-
I'd, who said Mr. Hunt and his COM
panion had stopped there a short
while before, and made a sale.
Deputies and police reason that
this was the last stop the truck
made before the fatal ending of its
trip. Tracks made by the truck just
before it was stopped are wobbly.
police said, and indicate the driver
was involved in some sort of fight
before the crime was
Police said today that they have
the youth, who had rid
len with Mr.. Hunt for the last two
had quarreled violently with
Mr.. Hunt two days ago at a filling
station in the city.
When she was notified of the
shooting, Mrs. Hunt hurried to CRY
Hospital and, hysterical, spent q
short time at the operating table on
which he lay.
Then she returned to their home,
2949 Cornell-av, to their baby and.
1eartbroken, told neighhors she had
10 hope for the recovery of her huS=
band.
Married Five Years
Il think he'll die" she said, and
hardly had she uttered the words
when she was informed he had. She
collapsed and was placed under care
If a physician.
Mr. and Mrs. Hunt had been mar.
led five years. Recently, after Mr..
Hunt, by dint of hard work, had
developed his sales route to a juSti-
liable profit, Mr.. Hunt had bought
/ new truck. He was independent,
md bought his baked goods from
he Gutzwiller Bakery Co., l242
Madison-av.
He also leaves his grandmother,
.drs. James Staley, Mooresville; Ce-
ii Hunt, a brother, Indianapolis,
md Frances Hunt, a sister, New
.aStle.
In her modest home today, Mrs.
Hunt, her composure recovered, said
he funeral services viii be some
ime Friday in the Friends Church,
dooresville. She and her husband
we're born in Mooresyille and left
here only two years ago TO come
o Indianapolis