The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1935-11-30

same hospital, lay Mrs. Liver
room while deputy sheriffs barred
the way to others.
DR.. usher, in a bulletin issued
this morning, said:
Jesse Livermore Jr is slightly
improved, but little change in con-
dition is expected for several hours.
His condition is very critical, the
small bore bullet having entered the
lower right area of the chest and
probably penetrating the liver.
X-rays show the bullet shattered
into minute particles which lodged
behind the right lung near the
spine
Calls for Girl Friend
The boy was kept under opiates
to alleviate his pain. When the drug
wore off, Jesse Jr. kept calling out,
Mary want to see Mary"
Outside the door stood Mary, 10
year-old Mary Frank, his blond
girl friend" who pleaded with ply
sicians to see the youth. DR.. usher
informed the girl she could not see
Livermore Jr, because excitement
might cause recurrence of hemor-
rhage."
Mary, daughter of the proprietor
of an exclusive Santa Barbara dress
shop, had been Livermores COM
panion at prep school dances and
athletic contests for more than six
months.
District Attorney Percy Hecken-
dorf prepared to file charges of as
sault with intent to kill against Mrs.
Livermore as soon as she RECEIVERS
from the opiates. She was under
sheriff's guard at the hospital
Mr.. Heckendorf said he removed
Mrs. Livermore to the county jail
today where she would be ques-
| toned on the shooting
Tutor Only Witness
The only witness to the shooting
was the youths tutor, D. B. CBilD
Nevelle, who was reported to be
Mrs Livermore's f1ance Questioned
| by Undersheriff Jack Ross, Neyeile
gave the only coherent story of the
shooting.
Mrs. Livermore was delivering the
| youth lecture on excessive drink
ing after gay evening at their
home when the boy grabbed a quart
Of whisky and tilted it to his mouth.
''I'll show you," the youth shouted,
according to NEVILLE.
| ~
Mrs. Livermore cried:
I'D rather see you dead than
drinking that way"
Whisky Bottle Near Rifle
Young Livermore marched from
the room, returning a few seconds
later with small-bore shotgun.
You haven't the nerve to shoot
me-" he tainted, handing his moth
er the weapon
Nevelle said he rushed over and
took the gun away from the boy,
taking the shotgun back to a bed
room. AS he returned, he heard a
shot Stretched out on the floor
was the youth, blood pouring from
his body. A few feet away lay the
whisky bottle and 22-caliber rifle.
Huddled over the wounded boy,
Mrs. Livermore was screaming, I've
shot my son.
Don't Blame Mother"
NEVILLE said they boy apparently
went to a guest house in the garden
and obtained the second gun while
ne was returning the shotgun TO
the bedroom.
AS the youth was carried from the
14-room mansion to an ambulance,
he muttered, IT'S all rights
nothing. Don't blame mother
At the hospital, physicians said
both young Livermore and his
mother were intoxicated"
Mrs. Livermore, the former Doro-
thea Wendt of New York, set socie.
/ ty in whirl few years ago when
she married Walter Longcope, New
York prohibition agent, a few min
utes after divorcing Livermore in
Reno, New, in 1882.
Lost Heavily in Crash
She married Livermore in 1918
when he was just starting his career
as "the boy plunger of Wall Street"
He was reported to have pyramided
I MS market winnings into a s4OO,-
100000 fortune, but lost much of it
/ in the crash.