The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-12-10
CAPTIVES ADMIT POLICE SHOOTING:
ACCUSED OF ANDERSON MURDER
Paul Pierce, Donald Joseph
Seized by State Police
Near SheIbyviIIe.
TAKEN WITHOUT FIGHT
Both Thugs Wounded in
Apartment Gun Battle
Here Saturday.
(Other Photos on Page 81
BY HEZE CLARK

BY HEZE CLARK
Indiana authorities today
moved to bring to speedy JUS
tice Paul Pierce, 26, and DON
aid Joseph, %, Indianapolis
gunner who admitted short
ly after their capture this
morning that they had shot
and seriously wounded City
Detective Orville Quinnette.
Prosecutor Herbert M. Spencer
announced he will press for an early
trial of the desperadoes on the
Quinnette charges, and Madison
County authorities have indicated
they will seek to try the pair on a
charge of numbering Patrolman
Frank M. Levy, Nov "a, in Ander-
son, Ind.
City Detective Russell Chatham,
who was with Detective Quinnette
Saturday in the North Side apart
ment fight and also was wounded,
but less seriously, def1ed physicians
orders and left his home this morn
ing to come to police station and
identify the men. He then returned
home.
Receive Medical Treatment
Pierce and Joseph were slated at
police headquarters this afternoon
on charges of vagrancy and assault
and battery with intent to kill.
Headlee was charged with vagrancy.
The two wounded ex-convicts
We're taken to City Hospital by
Lieut.. Roy Pope of the ho1.iicide
squad, who said the gunner would
be given medical treatment before
being questioned further.
The pair have denied connection
with the Anderson killing. but it is
known that they had in their pos
session insurance policies that had
been in a car stolen on the night
of the murder by, police believe, the
killers.
The two we're captured this morn
ing by state police as they nursed
their wounds in the home of an
ex-convict friend.
Not shot was fired as nine state
policemen, under command of twb
sergeants, entered the farmhouse
hideout and ordered the wounded
indianapolis thugs TO surrender.
They had been there since S Sun
day afternoon, Silverton (Sylva)
Headlee, AZ, whose home they turned
into a hideout, told state police.
They came there then on foot. he
said. pointed guns at him and said:
We are wounded and you have
got to give us place to stay"
Admit Shooting Officers
Headlee has been charged with
harboring fugitives. His wife and
their 16-year- old daughter were
taken to state police headquarters
in the Statehouse, together with the
fugitives.
Although Joseph, boasting about
his exploits, Dragged that he could
lick Chatham the best day he ever
lived" he was careful in his story
of the Saturday fight to state that
it was Paul who shot Detective
Quinnette"
At 1:55 this morning. on a bunch
of Sergt. Ernest Richardson and
Sergt. Leo Moore, the squad went
to the Headlee home, five miles west
and one mile north of Milroy, near
the southwest corner of Rush Cour
ty and surrounded it.
Then Sergt. Richardson. and Of
ficers Price Cox and William Span
nuth, went to the door and knocked.
The officers had their guns drawn
when the door was opened by Mrs.
Headlee who said:
What do you want?"
Headlee, Wife Warned
Later she said she could not re-
call any of the details of what
happened, she was so frightened at
the guns of the officers.
The officers pushed in and found
themselves in the room with the
two Headlee women. Shortly there
after Headlee appeared at the open
ing of another room into the room
in which the officers were.
Its no use. You might as well
come out. The house is surrounds
ed" Sergt. Richardson said.
Headlee did not answer.
I'VE want those fellows in there
and we want to avoid getting the
women shot," Sergt. Richardson
said. But if they don't come out,
we will Kill them"
1t was arranged then that Head
lee go outdoors and see for him.
self that the house was surrounded.
He did and returned to call out
Pierce and Joseph. They came out,