The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-08-10
SALE OF GIRL
TO CITY MAN
UNDER PROBE
$1,000 Paid for Rights to
Pretty 17-Year-0Id,
Officials Told.
SEVERAL ARE ARRESTED
Victim, Terrified After At
taCkS, FIeeS to County
Jail.
BHT'mea Speciqi

Br Iimea Spccigi
LEBANON. Ind. Aug. 10.-A
mIddle-aged Indianapolis man was
held here today. accused of kidnap-
ing a 17-year-old girl with the con-
nivance of her grandmother, and
taking her to Kentucky, where she
was assaulted.
He is Roy Thompson. who gave
his indianapolis address as 1914
NOrdyke-av and his alleged victim
for whom he IS said to have paid
$4,000. is Mis- Rosalie Hawkins, high
school freshman.
Also under arrest in the case are
Max Martin 80. who is said to have
rOomed with Thompson in Indian
apolIs; Mrs. Rosie Frazier. 81, the
girls grandmother with whom she
lived near Tcrhune, Ind. and Eddie
Spencer. "a. who was arrested yes
terday in a parking lot near the
Statehouse. indianapolis, by Boone
County authorities.
Girl Flees to Jail
All but Thompson are charged
with contributing to the girls delin-
Quency. The girl herself is a vol
untary prisoner in the Boone County
jail. to which she field in terror last
Sunday
1t was this flight from the home
of her grandmother. which has been
her home since she was eight DAYS
old and her mother died, that
brought the bizarre story to the
attention Of authorities.
Prosecutor Ernest w. Hornaday
says that all the persons under ar
rest left the Frazier home at 100
a. m. Aug. ,. and drove to Louisville
He related that the girl said they
then drove to a tourist camp 30
miles outside Louisville. It was
there. she said. that the attack Oc-
CURED.
Went to Relatives Home
The party returned to the Frazier
residence early on the morning of
Aug. 3. she says She claims that the
assaults of Thompson were repeated
Saturday and she had become so
thoroughly frightened that she left
the home next day and went to the
home Of a relative.
She told this relative. whose name
Prosecutor Hornaday did not recall
about an alleged sale of her person
TO Thompson for the price of $4,000
and the relative called the Boone
County sheriff
Deputy Sheriff Wilbur Small lis
tened to the girls story. When she
had finished she begged to be al
lowed to stay at the jail because
she said she was afraid of Thomp-
son. Deputy Small decided to al
low her to remain and she has been
there ever since.
Denies One Is at Large
Deputy Small conferred with
Prosecutor Hornaday, and they
again questioned the girl Con-
WINGED her story demand action. they
arrested Thompson. Mrs. Frazier and
Martin on Friday in Sheridan. and
Spencer yesterday in indianapolis.
Prosecutor Hornaday denied ru-
mors that another, and most i'm
portant, person in the case is still
at large and sought He said he
knows of no such person, alleged 10
b. the broker" in the case, ana
reported to be also OF indianapolis.
My case is shaping up" Prose
CutOr HOrnaday said" Circuit Court
viii resume sessions Sept Q and
I'll confer with the judge then for
an early arraignment.
There are some angles of the
case we haven't gone into vet. some
mysteries to be cleared up. but We
have the frame work of the case
We are hunting no one
Girl Described as Pretty
judge Of the Boone County Cir
cult Court is John w Hornaday.
brother OF the prosecutor
Miss Hawkins. whose father also
IS dead. Is described by attaches at
the Jail as being pretty and intelh-
gent She will see no one. and Will
answer no questions except for
authorities.
Investigation into the alleged sale
Of the girl is being conducted by
Deputy Small
Indiana Woman Is Missing