The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-09-09
LONG, BULLET IN ABDOMEN,
FIGHTS FOR LIFE; CONDITION
CRITICAL; ASSASSIN KILLED
Louisiana Kingfsh Undergoes TRANSMISSION
and Operation After Being Shot Down
in Corridor Of Capitol.
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automobile from the Long family
home at Winfield.
Throughout the day. people came
and went at the hospital but high
way police prevented congregation
Of a crowd and few we're allowed
near the building. Mrs. Long and
her two children went TO a down
town hotel where they planned TO
stay until the senator's condition Is
finally determined
The family Of young Dr. Weiss
was Frustrated with grief. Mrs.
Weiss. who three months ago gave
birth TO a son, and Judge B. z
Pavy. father-in-law we're under a
physicians care.
State officials were highly opti-
mistic over Longs reported salts
factory condition. Confidence in
his recovery was expressed freely.
although it was admitted it would
be 70 hours before his condition
would take a definite change for
better or worse.
Gov. o. K. Allen. at breakfast in
the Statehouse coffee shop. appeared
in good spirits. He was reported to
have collapsed twice last night, fol-
lowing the shooting
The best physicians in the state,
including DR.. Urban Macs. world
famous surgeon, fastened here by
plane and automobile. In New Or
leans 200 hastily modified members
of the Louisiana National Guard
prepared to move to Baton Rouge
against any attempt of Longs pOlit-
ical enemies to seize the state gov
eminent
Fear Political Explosion
Physicians were ready to give
Long a second blood TRANSMISSION. He
already had undergone one trans
fusion and an emergency opera
ton.
Gov. Allen and other sub-leaders
of the Long organizations kept close
watch on a seething political situa-
ton they appeared to fear might
explode. Anti-LOng leaders were
silent and there was no word from
the militant Square Deal ASsocia-
ton which has advocated the over
throw Of the Long dictatorship by
force.
But the mobilization of troops,
Longs subordinates appeared to be
taking all precautions.
Telephone and telegraph brought
condolences from scores of Long S
"Sharc the Wealth" clubs through
out ~ country. These clubs Long
hoped to fuse into the nucleus of a
national political organization to
back his presidential aspirations in
1886.
No Sympathy From Enemies
The Louisiana Share the Wealth"
Club, backing Long in his feveriSh
fight on President Roosevelt and the
New Deal. ordered its members to
pray lot Ills ItCONtIE.
Not one word of sympathy. not
one expression of hope that he would
recover came from Longs political
enemies, many of whom have
openly expressed their wish that he
would die violently The last such
expression was that of former Mayor
George Hardy who, in a speech here,
urged a "hempen rope" for Long.
Recently Long charged in the
United States Senate that a group
of Louisiana politicians, including
four congressman. had plotted his
death. All denied participation in
the plot. but several we're quoted
that they thought it "a good idea. "
Feared Attempt on Life
In an atmosphere of bitterness,
Long had moved for years, fearing
the fate that overlook him last
night. With unprecedented ruth
lesSnesS. his organization had
wrecked scores of budding political
careers removed from public office
hundreds who had held them for
decades. turned upside down the
rolls of state employees
Long surrounded himself with a
bOdyguard ranging from 10 TO ~
men wherever he went. but it was
ineffective againsto the StUd.ouS
young surgeon who stepped from be-
hind a marble pillar in the ornate
S5.OO0.000 capital Long had erected
as a monument to himself, with a
German-made pistol in his hand.
The Senator had just left a ses-
sion of his SubSeTvient Legislature
where he had introduced a new
series Of laws TO hamString the Fed
eral Administration and his Louisi-
ana enemies. The laws. in addition
to gerrymandering the assassin S
father-in-law out of office, would
have made it a criminal OffenSe for
a Federal office holder TO perform
any official duty in Louisiana not
directly sanctioned by the Federal
Constitution.
Is Bullets in Body
DR.. Weiss fred two shots. the first
catching Long in the right side, the
second hitting the thumb of one OF
his bodyguard. Murphy Roden. who
already was leveling his pistol. One
shot and DR.. Weiss fell on his face
In the subsequent panic, others OF
the bodyguard fired into the pros
trate form. In all. it was struck by
IS bullets.
All through the crowded corridor
Long politicians were drawing pis-
tolls from their holsters. Mlracu-