The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-06-03

. who is %, and lives at 325 S.
age at 1873 S. Illinois-st.
employee, said he recognized
the man as Welshans, who had
worked in a nearby parking
lot, and that the youth strobe
up to him and said:
I've Just killed my wife. I'm GO
ing to steal car and make a get-
away"
With that Clendenen said, Well
shans went to the parking lot, en-
tered a car and sped away He
was wearing a brown suit, Mr. Glen
denen said.
The shooting occurred at about
Tbs. Neighbors heard a shot, they
told deputies, and then heard the
girl scream twice for help.
Neighbors Find Body
Mrs. Floyd Workman, who lives
downstairs on the opposite side Of
the dwelling, ran upstairs to the
residence of Mrs Julietta Eakins,
and Mrs. Eakins and she crawled
! through a rear window into a rear
window Of the Ferguson apartment
They found the girls body on the
| threshold of the front room door.
The girl was clad in pink house
/ dress and was barefoot. Beside her
body was the shell of a .25-caliber
! automatic bullet. In the front door
window was bullet hole.
Deputies reconstructed the crime
from the evidence and concluded
that the victim had shut the front
door in the face of her unwanted
sutton and that he had shot her in
the back through the front door
window. She had walked several
steps, called for help, and dropped
dead The bullet pierced her heart
and lodged in her body.
Automatic Found Missing
Neighbors called Sheriff Otto Ray
and summoned Paul E. Ferguson,
her father, from the Prest-O-Lite
Company, where he had gone to
work.
Mr.. Ferguson arrived about the
same time as the deputies and in
sisted that youth he knew only as
Tommy had done the murder and
1t was with difficulty that neighbors
and the deputies restrained him
from going out to avenge the death
of his daughter.
In this frenzy of reprisal, Mr..
Ferguson discovered % special
automatic was missing from
hiding place in his home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dallas Humphreys.
who live nearby, told deputies they
heard the shot and saw man.
known to them also only as Tom
my" run down the outside stairs
leading to the Ferguson front door.
He disappeared.
Married Four Years Ago
Neighbors told deputies that Mrs.
Hamburg had complained TO them
OF the repeated visits of Tommy"
to her home in the absence of her
father and they said that for the
last two or three weeks he had been
around the neighborhood almost
! constantly.
Although she was married four
years ago to Mr.. Hamburg, the girl
had separated from him six months
afterward and assumed her maiden
name. Her father said she had not
obtained a divorce. Neighbors told
deputies at first that she was di-
vorced.
Three or four months ago. en-
ployes of the garage and filing
station where he went this morning
said Welshans and the girl both had
appeared there and that he had
introduced her as his wife, that she
accepted the introduction, ard that
they said they had been married at
Greenfield, Ind.
Threatened Girl, Father
Employees Of both places identified
picture in possession of the sheriff
taken from Welshans' room as that
OF Welshans.
Furthermore, deputies were told
that the victim and Welshans had,
some time ago, run away together,
and that after her father had sue
ceeded in getting her back TO their
home, Welshans haunted the place,
making threats on the lives Of both.
Mr.. Ferguson said he had reported
these threats TO police.
II was believed by deputies that
Welshon had friends or relatives in
Louisville and that he might drive
to that city. They have asked police
there to watch for him.