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board carton, its flaps held closed by a cord, rested upon a
ledge of stone about two feet under the water. Eagerly the
boys dragged it out.

“Gee, it’s heavy,” said one. They tore upon the flaps. Within
seconds, the four fled shrieking and babbling in terror along
the WPA roadway. Pe

Dr. Bakes was notified. He pushed his way through the
fast gathering crowd and took charge of the heavy, dripping
box. It contained a block: of concrete, but thrusting from the
solid mass, were two human fingers of a man’s hand!

AKES carried the carton to the Sheriff’s office. Here he

carefully chipped the concrete. It fell apart in lumps and
revealed—two large hands and a man’s battered head. The
face had been beaten into a grotesque horror. Hair from the
head, thick and gray; was held fast by the concrete. Much of
it was torn from the scalp as the fragments of sand and
cement fell away under Dr. Bakes’ chisel. Two bullets had
torn through the skull; the mouth was filled with broken
and splintered teeth.

Thus was revived the mystery of Owl Hollow. Identification
even of that badly beaten face, was now possible. The hands
had been‘in the water too long for satisfactory fingerprints
to be obtainable. Further search of the lake revealed a large,
bloodstained bath-towel, lodged among the cattails along the
roadway. The towel was perforated by three small holes,
evidently made by bullets fired at close range. :

The head and the two hands, palms up, were laid on a
slab in the Musk Road Mortuary in Carrollton, and requests
were sent out by the officers that all who could, visit the
Mortuary and see if they could identify the person to whom
the head and hands had belonged in life. All day long a
steady stream of people filed past the ghastly exhibit, while
grim-visaged officers scanned each face, hoping to catch a
flash of unexpressed recognition or of guilt. They saw none.

At 9:30 that Sunday night, three men arrived. They stated
that their friend, and neighbor, Harry R. Miller, a retited
captain of the Cincinnati Fire Department, had been myster-
iously missing since June 11th, ‘They had heard of the

(Above) Andrew Richie points to the spot beneath
a culvert, dry at that time, where he found the torso
of the Owl Hollow murder victim. (Right) Heber
Hicks, who was drawn into the grim investigation

gruesome exhibit and had come to make sure that these
human remains were not those of their friend. The visitors
gave their names as Alfred Sintz, Obbey Beard and Frank
Sacksteder, ull of New Trenton, Indiana.

Mr. Sintz stated that he had been doing some gardening
at the Miller hillside cottage. On June 11th, he quit work at
4:30, promising Captain Miller he would return in the morn-
ing. When he arrived next day, Sintz was astonished to see
the gates swinging open. The iron rod that linked them had
disappeared, and Captain. Miller was nowhere about.

Led into the Mortuary, the three men confronted the head
and hands on the slab, Their knees shook as the conviction
grew upon them that what they saw (Continued on page 94)


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the Captain’s wealth which reposed in a
safe in the woman’s home.

Should they or should they not take
in Miss Miller at the same time? That

was a much discussed question. None of’

the officers thought she was enmeshed in
the crime. But she should have knowl-
edge of incidents that would be valuable
in building up their case. She, in all
probability, had bécome the dupe of the
suave Hicks, not knowing his past, nor
what. possibilities for scarlet schemes his
cunning mind held,

It finally was decided to take the two
in for questioning and next day, in sep-
arate automobiles, they were whisked
away to the headquarters of the Indiana
State Police at Indianapolis. During the
Journey, Miss Miller (she was wearing
men’s shoes and socks), repeatedly as-
sured Prosecutor Copes that the idea of
Hicks being involved in her brother’s
murder was absurd.

That day, July 3rd, Dr. A. C. Bauer,
Captain Miller’s dentist at Harrison,
visited Carrollton and examined the teeth
in the head on the slab. He positively
identified a gold denture as one which he
had repaired for Miller.

|e Indianapolis, shrewd Captain Matt
Leach of the Indiana State Police,
studied the data furnished him on Heber
Hicks and Miss Flora Miller. He decided
to hold them till one revealed the infor-
mation authorities sought. He felt confi-
dent that Hicks was tied up with the
murder of Captain Miller. Whether Miss
Miller knew of his guilt, was doubtful.
But he believed that if the woman were
left alone in a cell and made continually
conscious of the fact that her companion
was entangled, she would begin to recall
things that would now have an atmos-
phere of suspicion.

Dodging defense lawyers with habeas
corpus writs, he rushed the couple secretly
from one jail or police barracks to an-
other—six in all.

Hour after hour the questioning of the
two went on. As Miss Miller learned
piece by piece the incriminating clues
that were being gathered around Hicks,
her faith in her favorite began to crumble.
From what she told the officials, numer-
ous little incidents, heretofore forgotten
but now pregnant with sinister signifi-
cance, flocked into the unhappy woman’s
memory.

When she had wanted Heber to drive
her to her brother’s home on Sunday,
June 7th, he had pleaded another en-
gagement and left. But when she hired
a neighbor boy to drive her, whom should

Sheriff George Pulskamp (left) and William Kuhlman

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she find at her brother’s house but Heber
himself!

She recalled an apparently unnecessary
trip to Dayton on June 12th. The plan
for the trip was his, not hers, and he had
not shown up the next morning at the
hotel until nine o’clock. Where had he
been? ,

She now recalled that on returning
home from Dayton on June 13th, she had
made an alarming discovery.

“Heber!” she called. “Somebody’s had
this safe open while we’ve been gone.”

“Oh, I reckon not,” he replied. “What
makes you think so?”

“Because I laid this apron on it yester-
day and now one of the apron strings is
caught in the door.”

She was aware that Heber knew the
combination, and when she looked for
the key to the strong-box inside the safe,
which contained Harry’s securities, it had
disappeared.

One of the strange things was the dis-
Appearance of the card which had notified
her of her brother’s determination to go
on 4 trip. She always hoarded letters,
yet she told the officers that when she
made a search for this card signed
“Harry,” and postmarked Cleveland, Ohio,
she could not find it. She felt sure she
had not destroyed it herself.

As for Hicks, the officers pounded away
relentlessly at him. Their trump card
was their knowledge that about midnight
of June 11th he had driven Captain
Miller’s old Buick into a garage near the
Alms Hotel in Cincinnati and left it
there. The night-man knew him. Ree-
ords showed that two days later a young
fellow named Henry Green called for the
car and drove it away,

PERHArs the intense heat helped to
crack the case. At the Seymour police
barracks, about two o’clock in the morn-
ing of. July 7th, Ilicks, sweating, un-
shaven and exhausted after twenty-eight
continuous hours of questioning, asked
for a few minutes’ private conference
with Miss Miller. This the officers
granted. They led in the woman and
withdrew—only to listen in through a
dictograph under Hicks’ chair. Her first
words won for her an apologetic release
as being wholly innocent of any connec-
tion with the érime.

“Heber, if you know anything about
my brother’s disappearance, for God’s
sake, tell it!”

He protested innocence but declared he
would have to trump up some story to
satisfy the officers,

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me,” he promised.

She agreed and proffered him a $10 bill
then and there for his present use. °

When she was gone and the officials re-
turned, he asked them:

“Would it make it any easier on me
if I had no part in the actual killing?”

Told that it probably would, he began:

“Well, here goes! I planned to make
away with Miller to get control of his
money through his sister. She’s crazy
about me. I wanted him to disappear,
see, and no body be found, so it would
take seven years before he could be de-

clared legally dead. I had no hand at .

all in the actual killing; -I wasn’t there.
I hired three fellows to do the dirty work.
They agreed to take him several hundred
miles away, where he’d never been heard
of. But the dirty skunks double-crossed
me! They dropped him practically in
my back yard and in a place where I
was known!”

RODDED to reveal their names,
Hicks gave them: John Poholsky,
thirty-eight, once a Pennsylvania coal-
miner and later a Cincinnati WPA
worker; Frank Gore Williams, — thirty-
seven, and William Kuhlman, twenty-
eight, both, of Cincinnati. Each had
served jail sentences, but none for mur-
der. Poholsky had been living with
Williams’ brother at 30 West Court
Street; Poholsky’ had been missing since
July 2nd, ihe day of Hicks’ arrest, but the
others had not been seen since June 12th.
Hicks’ confession, typed, was brought
in. He signed it—and slept.

During that hottest of all summers,
while Hicks sweltered in the Brookville
jail, detectives located the junk yard
where Poholsky had bought a fifteen-
inch length of lead pipe; the hardware
store where Hicks had bought the axe;
the stolen murder car, run over a cliff
and wrecked near Lorain, Ohio; and Cap-
tain Miller’s old Buick, in Cleveland,
where Hicks had hired the boy, Henry
Green, to drive it and leave it.

With specially made keys, they opened
the strong-box in Miss Miller’s safe. The
weeping woman found that one hundred
shares of steel stock belonging to her
brother, were missing. Tracing their dis-
appearance, they located a broker who
had bought them for $2,500. He iden-
tified Hicks as the man who had sold
them to him.

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12th were now evident. He had taken
Miss Miller to Dayton, ostensibly to see
a movie, but actually to build for him-
self an alibi in her eyes. While she was
sleeping in a hotel, he made a fast drive
back to her home to provide payment
for her brother’s killers out of the mur-
dered man’s own moncy,

Hicks never did admit stealing the
stocks, however; just why, secing that he
admitted planning the murder, seems
strange. Perhaps it was too humiliating
to his professional pride to confess that
he had been tripped up by an apron-
string!

Comparisons were drawn between the
cases of Miller and Joy Vance Sparks,
the young Kentucky widow killed by the
nineteen-year-old = Hicks—avarice as a
motive, the mutilation of the bodies, the
hiring of help in their disposal.

Summer merged into fall, but still free
were the three killers hired by Hicks,
whose faces had by this time appeared in
True Derective’s Line-Up of wanted fugi-
tives and on thousands of fliers through-
out the nation. But on the evening of
November 18th, Detectives John Barton
and Meredith Stuart of the Rushville,
Indiana, barracks, hovering: on the out-

Frank Gore Williams, member of
a strange quartet

skirts of Warren, Ohio, suddenly swooped
down on a short, stocky ‘man in blue over-
alls. For almost four months, and ‘over
more than 2,000 miles they had trailed
him. Working against tremendous odds
and heartbreaking setbacks, they had at
last got their man—Poholsky!

In Indianapolis next day Captain Matt
Leach listened while Poholsky told his
ghastly story. The former coal-miner,
who said he could read “some” and write
“a little,” used, in the one place where he
showed emotion, words which echoed an
immortal passage of Shakespeare. It was
‘the “sleep-walking scene,” where Lady
Macbeth, in the dead of night pouring
out the story of her crimes to her castle
walls, exclaims, “Yet who would have
thought the old man to have had so much
blood in him?” So Poholsky, telling how
he had chopped off Miller’s head and
hands, voiced this same question. “Now
go on and send me to the chair,” he ended
defiantly. “You'll find I’m not afraid
of it.”

On December 7th, Hicks went on trial
for his life in the Brookville courthouse.
The State opened with a terrific blow to
the defense:

“Call John Poholsky!”

The former coal-miner shuffled in, still
wearing the paint-smcared overalls he had

(Left to right) Detective John
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on when captured. Not once did_ his
stolid face change expression or his light
blue eyes waver, as in answer to the
State’s questions, he outlined the fan-
tastic plot.

His amazing story told how Hicks, the
preceding April, had offered him the job
of burying a dead man for him; how it
soon developed that the man was not
yet dead. Hicks then hired him to kill
the man, stipulating that the body must
be taken far way, and the head and
hands destroyed to prevent identification,
and warning him that on account of the
great size and strength of the proposed
victim, he must have help.

Then he, Poholsky, enlisted the aid of
Williams and Kuhlman, his former fellow-
convicts at Ohio State Penitentiary and
with all their murderous equipment, they
drove with Hicks to Miller’s home on the
night of June 4th. They found nobody
there, and the house so well locked up
that they could not break in to lie'in wait
for their victim.

HEY finally drove away to look for
him and recognized his car parked out-
side a gambling resort at Harrison on the
Indiana side of the state line; and Hicks
abandoned the attempt for that night,
thus allowing the big man another week
to live. On the night of the eleventh
they tried again, stopping at a Harrison
saloon to buy whisky to carry out Hicks’
introduction of them to Miller as liquor
salesmen. Determined not to fail a sec-
ond time, Hicks had made a special trip
to Miller’s home on Sunday, the seventh,
to make this date. When the quartette
arrived, they found the lights on and the
radio going. What followed their en-
trance has already been told in this story.
After cutting off the head and_ hands,
they had. put them into a box of cement
and sand brought along for this purpose,
and set about digging a grave for the
grisly torso that was left. A foot down
they hit solid rock. This created a prob-
lem unforeseen a month before when
they had selected this lonely place for the
burial. They were obliged to reload the
ghastly burden and find another place
to hide it. And quickly, too! The June
nights were very short. They decided
on the culvert near Eminence, then as
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True Detective Mysteries

The Horror at the Sacred Pool

had once been the genial, familiar face
of their friend.

“It’s Cap,” gasped Sintz. “There’s that
little scar under his left eye.”

Questicned by the authorities as to why
they had delayed so long, they stated
that they had had fears for their frien
and that these fears had been increased
by the news of the finding of the match-
folder from Harrison, Ohio. Harrison 18
only six miles from New Trenton, Indiana.
However, Sacksteder had called_up, Miss
Flora Miller, who lived in Cincinnati
and who was the Captain’s sister and only
living. relative. He conveyed their fears
to her about the safety of her brother
whom he said, they had not seen since
June 11th. She told him over the tele-
phone not to worry, that she had had a
card from the Captain from Cleveland.
Ohio, dated June 17th, on which he had
written that he would be absent quite
awhile. The card carried the further in-
formation that a neighbor, Bill Meyers,
would look after his property while he
was gone.

DR long making sure of their identifica-
tion, the three men went to Brook-
ville and reported to Kenneth E. Copes,
Prosecuting Attorney of Franklin County,
the story of their recognition of Captain

(Conlinued from page 14)
come more eccentric. :

In the attic of her old-fashioned home
on Crown Street were fourteen trunks
filled with costumes which she had worn
in her opera-singing days. Long ago she
had locked up her bedroom, as if it were
sacred to some romance, and ‘had since
then slept on two planks laid across a
couple of chairs. She had a queer habit
of wearing her huge brother’s cast-off
shoes, socks and coats, and another of
buying large quantities of things witb
little regard for cost or usefulness.

In her basement she had stacks of finely
dressed marble, which she said she was
going to use in building a. marble room
in her home. She had no income of her
own, but was dependent on her brother’s
bounty. His wealth had been variously

from him several days after he left home.
He called at my home on the twelfth,
but I was in Dayton. So he called Mrs
Hicks, mother of Heber here, my chauf-
feur, and told her to tell me when I got
back that he’d been there to bid me
good-by. He was going off on a trip and
wouldn’t be back very soon, and I wasn’t
to worry. No, it can’t be Harry.”

As they sped away, W. C. Smith, editor
of the Carrollton News-Democrat, who
had never taken his eyes off the chauf-
feur’s face during his short stay, suddenly
exclaimed:

“Hicks! Heber Hicks! I knew I'd seen
that fellow before! He was sent up for
life from Clay City ’way back in 1918
for murdering a young widow. I’ve re-
membered the affair because it was so
brutal and cold-blooded and he was so
young—not then twenty. T hadn’t heard
about his getting out. As I recall it, he
was after a diamond ring she wore. She
was found buried under the floor of a
cow-shed with her finger chopped off and
the ring gone.”

This editor's remarkable memory made
interesting news for Deteetives Barton
and Richardson when they arrived from
Indiana that day.

On Wednesday, July Ist, they went on
to Cincinnati, where they conferred with
Lieutenant Schattle of that city’s police

Harry Miller’s head and hands, and what
they knew of events preceding his murder.
Copes at once summoned Detectives
Barton and Richardson from the Indiana
State Police Barracks at Rushville and as-
signed them to make an investigation.
By this time other friends of the miss-
ing man had become alarmed and notified
Sheriff George Pulskamp. Accompanied
by them,.the Sheriff visited the hillside
home which Captain Miller had built and

force. What they wanted particularly was
information about the chauffeur and his 4
eccentric employer. They found that 4
Editor Smith was right. Hicks had been B
sentenced to a life term October 27th,
1918, but was paroled December 14th, Cr
1929, and pardoned a year later. Since
then he had been engaged in various
shady undertakings. mainly bootlegging

occupied alone since he retired from the EARNING that Miss Miller intended fr
Cincinnati Fire Department in 1930. They visiting her brother’s house next day, ‘
forced an entrance. An unpleasant odor Barton and Richardson resolved to beat .
pervaded the. silent rooms. On a table her to it. Consequently, when her car tw

stood unwashed dishes and the moldy re- drew up before its gates on the afternoon ~

mains of a meal. An electric clock was of July 2nd, a reception committee—be- i

} running on the mantel and an electric sides the two Indiana detectives, there he

Mi refrigerator, well-stocked with food, was were two from Kentucky, Messrs Hill and Fr

i also in operation. In a skillet on the Seiter, Dr. Bakes and Sheriff Pulskamp— :

il range was a piece of beefsteak, turning ; sy ser her a Hicks. bt

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ner of Heber L. MHicks—nicknamed \

it did seem as if the house had been

; a crimson stain
ransacked of its occupant’s best clothes.

“Jimmie.” In a black suit with reversed

One of the two screen doors opening on ; collar, he could easily have passed for Ty
estimated at from fifty thousand to a an earnest young priest; a pince-nez and a

i quarter of a million dollars, made by in- an armful of books would have fitted him

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if someone had thrown his, weight violently vestments in securities and real estate, to any campus. Only the shifting glances

He against it. Captain Miller’s car, an old and he kept most of it in a safe in her of the large gray eyes in his immobile

® Buick sedan, was not in his roadside home. face suggested suspicion. He seemed to

garage at the foot of the hill, but the When told that the officials felt sure have a remarkable range of vision. His
garage door was locked and there was no her brother had met with foul play, she manner was courteous and ingratiating

sign of the key.

Sheriff Pulskamp, confident that the
identification of the victim as Captain
Miller was accurate, drove over with
Frank Sacksteder to the home of the
Captain’s sister, Miss Flora Miller. in
Cincinnati.

It developed that Miss Miller was now
in her early sixties. In her youth, under
the name of Florence D’Eplia, she had
toured the United States and Europe as
an opera singer who attracted favorable
comment from critics the world over. It
was said that an unfortunate love affair
had embittered her life and caused her
to retire from the operatic stage. Thirteen
years before the opening of this tragedy,
she had come to Cincinnati where she
had_ lived the life of a recluse, never
leaving her home except to go to the
mailbox. As she grew older, she had be-

scouted the idea. but promised that she
would go to Carrollton and view the head
and hands taken from the concrete.
The next morning she drove up in front
of the Mortuary with her chauffeur in a
new, luxurious car bearing an Ohio license.
This chauffeur, a rather handsome, black-
haired man, slightly built, deferentially
escorted her into the building. They were
in every way an ill-assorted pair. The
large, elderly woman, clothed in careless
and outmoded attire, contrasted strongly
with the slim, nattily clothed figure of the
chauffeur. Leaning heavily upon his arm,
she gazed shudderingly at the gruesome
exhibit. Her companion’s face was set
like a mask. Soon both shook their heads.
“There is some slight resemblance,”
said Miss Miller to the detectives who
stood by, “but 1 do not think that is my
brother’s head. Besides, I received a card

as he promised to assist them in every
way to solve the mystery of Miller’s dis-
appearance

But the sleek chauffeur’s answers to
many of their questions were evasive and,
after consultation, the officials decided it
would be best to take the suave young
man into custody. Then they would be
in a better position to hammer out of
him some explanations of his suspicious
affiliation with Miller’s sister. They re-
called that his former killing was a mur-
der prompted by greed, and that mutila-
tion had followed his assault on the girl
he robbed.

Why should this sleek young “smoothie”
be hanging around a sixty-three-year-old -
woman, who not only had lost her femi-
nine charms years before, but who ac-
coutered herself in freakish masculine
habiliments? The only explanation they


Vol. 7, No. 38

"Two long-term convicts, Ezra Daven-
port, 21, and Robert Benewitz, 34,
snatched a deputy warden’s gun and be-
gan blasting their way toward freedom
from the jail at Eddyville, Ky. As they
approached the gates, guards shot them
down. They died on the spot.

Blaming liquor for his downfall, Fred
Richie, 32, was electrocuted at Nashville,
Tenn., for slashing his wife, Elsie, to

death.
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Sentenced to 40 years for bank robbery”
and facing a murder trial, Clair Gibson
dived to his death from the third floor
of the Ramsey county jail at St. Paul,
Minn. He had confessed to robbing 22
banks during his lawless career. °
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The electric chair at Michigan City,
Ind., claimed the lives of John Poholsky,
Frank Gore and William Kuhlman. The
three were found guilty of the mutilation

murder of Harry R. Miller, retired Cin-
cinnati fire captain.

Edmund Blut, paroled convict, was -
killed during a liquor store holdup in Chi-
cago when a heroic-civilian wrested Blut’s
gun from him and shot the bandit,
wounding him fatally.

The body of Sam Silverman, 25, Brook-
lyn gangster, was found with a bullet
through the head, lying in the back seat
of an abandoned car. Police said he was
the victim of underworld vengeance.

Caught by two policemen as he was
robbing a service station, Bert Brown of
Pittsburgh tried to shoot his way out. He
was mortally wounded by one of the
quick-shooting officers. r

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Steve Locagno, gambler and gangster, in-
curred the wrath of an unknown New
York mob. Grim vengeance claimed his
life when gangsters took him for a ride,
murdered him and dumped the body into
the street. Locagno had spent most of
his adult life in prison. He was a twice

November, 1937

convicted burglar, who promoted floating
gambling games. ides

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Saale i050 Bilary d'' aca thie @ gies stein goneey ...By Hollis B. Fultz 6
The amazing story of how a lovely girl broke up a vicious narcotics
ring.

BROOKLYN’S MURDEROUS BAR BANDITS AND THE
SONG OF DEATH............. By Joseph Csida, Jr. 14

Cold-blooded murder in a cabaret is avenged by quick police work.

CRIMSON DOOM OF CALIFORNIA’S PASSION BRIDE
Cee hey eae By Ward Winslow 18

The emotions of two young lovers sweep them into the depths of
tragedy and horror.

OHIO’S LOVE KILLER AND THE WADING CORPSE....
Sees 0 od be Menceg eben By Jack Heil 22

A body that seemed to walk in the water reveals'a shocking love
murder. :

MARYLAND’S CLUE OF THE SEVERED FINGER....... ,
......By Detective Charles J, Schalter and Joe Massal 26

One of the strangest bits of evidence on record solves a baffling
mystery, }

THE FAITHLESS MISTRESS AND THE FLOATING
HORROR...................By Edward §, Sullivan 32

A brutal passion murder is solved by brilliant detective work.

MYSTERY OF THE FATAL WANT AD

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oly scenery By Detective Homer Long and Cary Moran 38
An innocent newspaper advertisement traps a woman into hideous
’ death.

HE MURDER THAT WAS TOO PERFECT...

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+++.......+By William Sewell 42

A slayer’s own cunning betrays and a country sheriff triumphs.

ARCTIC TRAGEDY ......... édigly Ghee '.By:W. M. Meier 46

Justice cracks down a killer in the frigid fastness of the northland.

SHORT FEATURES

DEATH TRAP! ........... ee eh CR es |
MOONLIGHT ASSASSIN ...:................ er 13
PHOTO FLASHES ..................... ees wn 30
RN RAR cn, oe ek ee 49
PARENTS MAKE CRIMINALS—Editorial.......... 50
STRAIGHT FROM HEADQUARTERS................. 82

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IKE LEPUSHAN, 23 years old, and

John Urko, 31, both of Youngstown,
Ohio, came to the end of the crime trail
recently when they walked into a police
ambush as they attempted to hold up and
tob the Eagles’ club in East Palestine,
Ohio. Both bandits were instantly killed
when the officers opened fire on them.

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An attempted escape from the Tattnall
County State penitentiary, in Georgia,
brought Julius Young, 22 years old, to
death when he resisted possemen and was
fatally wounded. Young was serving a
10-year sentence for armed robbery and
joined with other convicts in the break by
hitting a guard over the head with a hoe.

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William Brown Read, 25 years old, died
on the gallows at West Virginia peniten-
tiary recently for the torch murder of
W. Earle Dollman. Read was convicted
of murdering the Charleston salesman in
an automobile last Thanksgiving eve. He
protested his innocence to the end, claim-
ing he was in Richmond at the time of
the crime.

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The electric chair in Indiana put an
end to the career of Heber L. Hicks, 40,
for the slaying of Harry R. Miller, a re-
tired Cincinnati, Ohio, fire captain. Hicks
was the fourth to be executed for the
‘ murder, his three accomplices having been
executed in June, 1937. The victim was
slain in 1936 at his cottage near New
Trenton, Ind. —"|

The first electrocution in Georgia’s new
state prison at Tattnall removed Archie
Haywood, 42-year-old Tift county negro,
from the crime trail. Haywood was con-
victed of the axe murder of a companion
last fall. The condemned man walked
calmly to the chair and was pronounced

dead six minutes later.

_ THE MONTH'S BEST CASES
CRIMSON SECRETS OF THE DESERTED FARM........

veseeeeeeeess «By Joseph Glancey and John S. Thorp 4
Massachusetts—A strange disappearance leads police to a crimson
murder,
KANSAS’ TORTURE TRIO AND THE TELLTALE CIGAR-
ETTES..... Pea) 0 din» oceie amialg By Philip R. Rand 8

Kansas—Amazing laboratory tests solve a brutal killing,

CLEVELAND’S TRAGEDY OF THE BLIND POET........

chiA vA Kup he UC) Pee hals aa Heuer . .By Jack Heil 14
Ohio—A mysterious telegram leads detectives to a murderous fiend.
PHANTOM KILLER OF THE GAMBLING SHIP.........
a teaiets aa he Oe By Jay Hilton 18

California—A ruthless killer gambles with life and death and loses.

WAYWARD BEAUTY AND THE MURDERING PHYSICIAN

ee rata bh ears By Claude Tyler and Dennis McDermott 22
Oklahoma—Police check the lawless career of a criminal doctor.
DEATH TRAP!................ eae es By J. Victor Bate 28

Michigan—A fiend sets a trap but is caught in its toils.

LOUISIANA’S MURDER PYRE AND THE MIDNIGHT
ASSASSIN. .By Edward J. LeBlane and Clarke Newlon 32
Louisiana—Greed led a crimson killer to his doom.

FRANCE’S MISSING JUDGE AND THE BLONDE DECOY
96 wise 'e Bvcwd cg ee err By Edward §S. Sullivan 36
France—A noted judge disappears but police solve a grim riddle.

MISSOURI’S DEADLY RAIDERS AND THE SLAIN SPIN.
DEMONS < 45:4 ba wa eki boos es heya By Alfred L. Clement 40
Missouri—Bandits leave a trail of blood that seals their fate.

NEW ENGLAND’S MYSTERY WITNESS AND THE DOUBLE
HORROR, ou ei creeks By Richard Enright 46

New Hampshire—Mystery shrouds the murder of two spinsters
but police trap their slayers.

SHORT FEATURES

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KIDNAP TRAGEDY..............0.00 000.00 ccc cece eee 44
THROW THE KEYS AWAY!........................

By Sheriff Thomas C. Wilcox, Wayne County, Mich. 50
CRIME FILE... 1.1... . cee ccc cece cence nee e ens 52
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HICKS, Heber, wh, elec. IN (Franklin) Mey 17, 1938; and
KUHRLMAN, William; PHOLSKY, John & WIILIAMS, Frank, whites,

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= One day, Flora emerged from her cocoon of selfs - ;
effacement and turned into..asocial~butterfly. ~

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As an opera singer Flora Miller, under the somewhat

more romantic pseudonym of Florence D’Epia, had ap-
peared before the crowned heads of Europe, but no role she

- ever sang on the stage, whether it was.in lurid “Aida” or
melodramatic “Carmen,” was ever.as bizarre as the drama
of murder and intrigue that she was to play in real life.

A very commonplace incident rang up the curtain on
what was to unfold as one of the strangest crime stories of
the day. A boy—on.a sprightly June morning in 1936—went
fishing in'a pond near Carrollton, Ky. He dragged out a

' water-soaked cardboard box which contained a rather large
block of cement. Something sprouting out of it cauged.him

No role in Flora's operatic career came anything near to the real and macabre one -

elec. IN (Franklin) June 10, 1937

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BY HAROLD HELFER

to run as fast as his legs could carry him. The something

-was a human finger.

Some minutes later Carrollton officers, upon breaking
open the cement block, came upon a couple of hands—and
a man’s head. :

Several days went by without identification. And then

the rest of the body was found stuffed in a culvert several

milés away.

By the week end, several men showed up from nearby
New Trenton, Ind. The description of the large, decapitated
man, they said, sounded like it might be their missing neigh-
bor, Harry R. Miller. [Continued on page 38]

which almost ended with her head in a cement block at the bottom of a river!

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They had a look at the macabre re-
mains in the morgue, and they were con-
vinced. Harry R. Miller was a former
Cincinnati fire captain who, upon his re-
tirement, had gone across the Ohio river
to spend the rest of his life in a swanky
home on a bluff overlooking the river

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in the New Trenton vicinity. in Indiana.

But police were now much more in-
terested in his ‘sister, Flora Miller, the
former opera singer. Flora, a woman of
62, lived in a fashionable home too—hers
was in Cincinnati—but for many years
there never had been a greater contrast

between brother and sister. Where he was’

gregarious and convivial, she had become
a strange and eccentric recluse. For some-
thing like a decade and a half it was said
that she never went outside except to go
toa mailbox. . “

PINKERTONS

and the GRAVE CAPER

To the hard-working ghouls, moving like
shadows on this spring night in 1878, the
huge stone set in concrete atop the brick-

‘lined grave of John Scott Harrison posed: no

problem at all. Medical schools were paying
good prices for bodies in those days, and
while‘the ghouls let the sun set, they didn’t
let the concrete set long enough to seal off
from them their prize. For it was only five
days after John Scott Harrison’s death that
his family learned of the depredation.
John Scott Harrison, two-time member of
Congress and son of William Henry Harrison,
ninth President of the United States, had
been a brilliant and distinguished man. He
had died suddenly at the Harrison family
home in North Bend, Ohio. His son, Ben-
jamin, later to become this country’s twenty-
third President, was, at the time of his
father's death, practicing law in Indianapolis.
When he learned of the theft of his father's
body, he hurried to Cincinnati, a short dis-
tance from North Bend, where he obtained
a search warrant. He then hired -Pinkerton’s
National Detective Agency to assist local
police, There at once began a thorough

search of all medical schools in the Cincin- |

nati area. Pst

The nude body of John Scott Harrison
was finally discovered in a conveyor chute
of the Ohio Medical College. However, the

college's officials denied any knowledge of *

how the body got there, or who brought

it to the school, despite the fact that an ar- |

terial incision had been made on.it and that
clothing which had been on the body at the
time of burial was found in the school’s attic,
days after the recovery of the body itself. In
an open letter to the press, Benjamin Har-
rison accused the college officials of being
hand-in-glove with the body snatchers when
they denied knowing their identity. Finally,
the janitor of the college put the finger on

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the ghouls, and they were arrested, tried and
punished. So on June 7th, Allan Pinkerton
receipted payment of $101.35 for his agency’s
services,

The ironic part of the whole thing is that,
although a huge stone was used to seal the
grave of John Scott Harrison, it was his
father, President Harrison, who .lived and
died in dread fear of having his own body
snatched, The elder Harrison had died 37
years earlier, and this fear of desecration of
his grave was traditional with the President.
So much*so, that when he died in 1841, his
body, according to earlier instructions, was

encased in five coffins, qne inside’ another..

The \report made to the Congressional
Funeral Committee described the coffins as
follows: “Ist Leaden Coffin (double thick-

ness). 2nd'Mahogany Coffin—1 inch thickness .

covered with silk velvet’ and trimmed with
gold lace & Breastplate (satin). 3rd Zinc
Coffin. 4th Walnut Coffin (watertight). 5th
Oak Case (Watertight with Chloride of
Lime).”

Yet his grave was undisturbed, while the

nearby grave of his son was robbed, ‘
Curiously enough the numeral three and
its multiples seemed to have a_ peculiar af-
finity for the Harrisons. William Henry
Harrison, ninth (thrice three) President of
the United-States, was the third son of Ben-
jamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration
of Independence. John Scott Harrison was
also a third son, as was Benjamin Harrison,
twenty-third President of the United States.
Both the first President Harrison and his son
used their triple names consistently, William
Henry Harrison was born in 1773 and Ben-
jamin Harrison in 1883, the latter the third
son .of a third son of a third son. Maybe the

, numerologists can make something of it... >
The ghouls? Ah yes, there were three of

them, too! —Ralph Richter

‘

But the officers of the law were not so
much concerned with the past as they
were intrigued by the metamorphosis
which she recently had undergone. All at
once—in the past year and a half or so—
she’d emerged from her cocoon of self-
effacement and had turned into a social
butterfly. She was seen, all ritzily sprouted

out, too, at ‘the race tracks, at the gay.

night spots and so forth and so on.

he reason for this change was not
hard to find. He was a young, rather dap-
per man who called himself Miss Miller’s
“chauffeur-secretary” and who had moved
into her home with her. He’d become her
escort and they were seen almost every-
where together. :

Flora Miller also had identified the
grisly remains in the Carrollton morgue
as those of her brother, but she told police
that she had no idea who might have

_ killed him, Nevertheless, Indiana police

took the former ‘star of the Damrosch
Opera Company into custody. As they did
her chauffeur-secretary, Heber L. Hicks.
He was the one whom Captain Matt
Leach of the Indiana State Police really
concentrated on. Leach knew the gigolo
type when he saw it.

Hicks admitted that he’d come to know
Harry R. Miller, the murdered fire cap-
tain, that he’d visited him in his home,
but denied any knowledge of his slaying.
zest the same Captain Leach kept after

im,

Captain Leach had a theory. If the man
was innocent he would sooner or later
drift off to sleep. But, if he was guilty, he
would crack. :

What happened was that Gigolo Hicks,
without any warning, shouted, “All right,
all right, T’ll tell you what ydu want to
know.” .

He then proceeded to tell the officers
that he’d hired three men to help him
kill Miller, paying them several hundreds
of dollars for the job. They’d overpowered
the bachelor firefighter in his home and
then decapitated him and cemented his
head and fingers in order to avoid identi-
fication of\their victim by sight or by
fingerprints. ‘

And why had Hicks engineered this
heinous crime? For the $120,000 in bonds
that Miller had kept in the strongbox of
his home. He had taken. these bonds and

hidden them in Flora Miller’s home. He .

said that Flora Miller had’had no inkling
concerning the murder plot, knew nothing
about the transfer of the bonds to her
home. The tinhorn gigolo explained that
he knew he had the former opera ‘singer
eating out of his hands and that when
she inherited the bonds from her brother

the money would really be his to manipu- °

late—he would see to that!

Completely exonerated by Hicks’
statement, Flora Miller was released by
the police. But, during his trial, Hicks did
an about-face; he sought to place the
onus of the crime on his. benefactress,
saying that the killing had come about
at her instigation. This move did neither
Hicks nor his three henchmen. Frank G.
Williams, John J. Pholsky and William A.
Kuhlman, any good. They all wound up
in death row.

Flora Miller, her brief “resurrection”
having resulted in such evil and ghastly

ramifications, withdrew into her shell, |

bitterly convinced, as a result of a

number of sinister remarks Hicks had °

made concerning the final disposition of
her money, that her dashing chauffeur-
escort had intended not’ to stop with the
murder of her brother, but that the final
curtain of the melodrama would have been

rung ‘down after her own head, too, had °

been cemented in a block and left in some
lonely pond. :

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sank to the porch floor,
blood gushing from a
dozen fatal gashes.
The first man then
went into the house and
soon returned with tow-
els and a sweater.

head completely, they
picked him up and car-
ried him down the long
driveway to their car.

tween the front and rear
seats and covered with
a pup tent.

“Now, get going,”’
ordered the ring leader.
“You know the roads
and I’m going to clean
up this mess. I’m driv-
ing the Captain’s car
home. Ill. meet you
there as soon as you get
back.”

The driver of the car
stepped on the gas and the machine with its bloody load
soon disappeared.

The first man returned to the scene of the conflict and
turned on all the lights. Carefully he went over wood-
work, glassware and furniture, wiping throughly to
remove tell-tale fingerprints. All blood splotches were
scoured and turned-over pieces of furniture put back
in place. Again and again he walked through the rooms
to make sure that nothing was overlooked in his deter-
mination to destroy all evidence.

Finally he switched off the lights, closed and locked
the back door and proceeded to the garage which stood
some fifty feet from the house.

-Then he climbed into Captain Miller’s sedan and
headed down the driveway.

FRANK WILLIAMS

HE following morning, William R. Dunn, a farmer,

who lived seven miles from Carrollton, County Seat
of Carroll County, Kentucky, paused to wipe his brow as
he stood in a lane thick with tall grass. It was an excep-
tionally sultry day. Because the drought had exhausted
the water supply for
his stock, he was com-
pelled to drive his cattle
every morning and eve-
ning to a small body of
water known as Baptis-
mal Pool.

The cattle, already
dry from the heat, pro-
ceeded to the edge of the
pool, while Dunn held his
position in the lane. He
reached down to piuck
a spear of grass when
his attention was sud-
denly drawn to a blood-
soaked rag. While push-
ing it with his foot, he
spied another, and then
a small heap, all crim-
son stained.

Moving closer to the
pool, he found -blood
spattered leaves and an
extensive space of grass-
covered ground literally

HEBER HICKS

CRIME DETECTIVE

Wrapping the Captain’s *

Here he was placed be- _

soaked with blood. Closer to the pool, he came across
what looked like the beginning of a grave. About seven
feet long and four feet wide, it presented evidence that
someone had started a burial but was thwarted on strik-
ing bedrock after digging down about a foot.

But when the farmer saw the handle of an ax sticking
out of the shallow edge of the pool, he decided this was
as far as he personally would carry the investigation.
Dunn hustled down the road to the nearest telephone
and called Sheriff Banks.

Alfred Sintz, gardener for Captain Miller, whose estate
was a short distance from New Trenton, had arrived at
the usual hour to take up his duties. He had been given
his instructions the night before, so, as was his custom,
he proceeded about his work until noon. The fact that he
had not seen the Captain all morning meant nothing.

The Captain often spent the night and day with his

sister in Cincinnati. Thus, after checking up at the’

garage and finding it empty, and locked, the gardener,
employee and good personal friend of the murdered
Captain, gave no further thought to his absence.

But over in Kentucky, Sheriff Banks and his deputy
were finding plenty of things at Baptismal Pool. A
through search of the surroundings produced a bloody
half of a pup tent, many blood-soaked rags, a blood-
stained handkerchief bearing the initial “J’’, some tent
stakes, some bloody strands of rope, three cane fishing
poles tied together and an empty paper match package
bearing the name of a restaurant in Harrison, Ohio,
which is located about eight or ten miles from New
Trenton, Indiana.

The pool also revealed two diabolical weapons—a
new hand ax and a meat cleaver. That an attempt had
been made to dig a grave for a human body could not be
denied by Sheriff Banks and his deputy. However, a

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’- was used to being alone.

‘HE evening of June 11th presented balmy atmos-
-pheric delights that would have inspired the most
lazy of poets, had they strolled in the vicinity of
the town of New Trenton, Indiana.
In the kitchen doorway of his palatial hillside home, a
giant of a man stood, inhaling the fragrance of the
scented trees and bushes that adorned his estate. Captain
Harry R. Miller had retired from the Cincinnati Fire
Department after thirty ‘
years of continuous ser-
vice. ty
- Taking a final gulp of
the delicious air, the
huge captain moved to

kitchen and sank down.
Insects buzzed against
‘the kitchen door screen.
It was a big house and
he was all alone. But he

‘That was part of the
routine of a bachelor.

Captain Miller
glanced at the clock on
a shelf. It was just nine.
His hand wandered to
an end table and grasped
a letter. He re-read it,
then looked again at the
clock. ‘‘Hum’’, he
mused, ‘‘about time
those follows were ar-
riving.”

He smacked his lips.
The night should prove
to be very successful,
for the men he was ex-
pecting were bringing
samples of some most
excellent whiskey.

_ Captain Miller was

not to be disappointed.
At five minutes after
nine, there came a tap
at the screen door.

“Sorry we're a little
late,’ spoke the new
comer, pushing open the
screen door. “We were
delayed in getting.
started from home, but
we finally got. here and
the boys brought along
their samples. I told
them to wait in the car
until I found out for
sure you were here.”

“You bet I’m here,”
replied the Captain.
“Tell the boys to come
on in and make it
snappy.”

The man walked
through the house to the front door leading to the porch
and shouted for his companions to join him. Three men
stepped from a parked car in the driveway and entered
the Captain’s home. One carried several bottles of
whiskey.’ Another carried a bulky object under his coat.

“These are the boys I wrote you about, Captain,” said
‘the first man, introducing three dressy young men. “How
about us having a little drink around for a sampler?”

“That’s what I’ve been waiting for,” said the Captain.

Greed.and avarice form a

background for the. most

ghastly murder ever to be

‘committed in the midwest.

FIRE CAPTAIN HARRY R. MILLER

-BY EDWARD BARCE

Former

DEPUTY ATTORNEY GENERAL OF INDIANA,
as told to AL DUNLAP

“Get some chairs for the boys; we’ll use these glasses.
You’re in no hurry and we might as well make an
evening of it.”

The first drink was downed and soon the Captain
began to feel the mild exhilaration. He started to talk
about the beauties of the surrounding countryside but
in his enthusiasm did not notice one of the men slip
over near the sink. This position placed him directly

behind the Captain. .

And then—in a flash,
it came!

H= exploded with
might and main.
What the Captain had
planned as an evening
of conviviality turned
out to be the bloodiest,
most vicious murder
ever perpetrated upon a
human being.

Yanking out a length
of lead pipe, the man
standing behind the
Captain executed a ter-
rific vicious swing and
the Captain was struck
a crushing blow on top
‘of his head.

But Captain Miller
was a man of no ordi-
nary make up. Although
he was sixty years of
age, he was still a giant
in size and_ strength.
That smashing blow
failed to render him un-
conscious. —

He struggled to his
feet. Blood cascaded
down his face. Amazed
and terrified, his huge
fists swung out in wide
arcs.

Surprised and an-
gered as the attacker
was that his blow did
not have the desired
effect, he managed to
duck clear of the swing-
ing fists and began to
rain with terrific force a
series of additional furi-
ous blows with the lead
pipe upon the battered
head of the fireman.

All this time the first
man had stood by. Cap-
tain Miller pleaded with
him to come to his res-
cue. But this only
brought one of the other
hoodlunis into the me-
lee. The Captain was
knocked against the front door screen and onto the
porch. Fighting back fiercely and in mortal terror, he
continued to beseech the first man to lend. assistance.

With superhuman strength and endurance, Miller
managed to wrest the lead pipe from the first attacker.
Blood obscured his vision and ‘before he could make a
successful swing, a blackjack from one of the assailants
beat him into insensibility. .

Mortally wounded and bleeding profusely, the Captain

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CRIME DETECTIVE 73

careful search of the premises thereabouts failed to dis-
close a corpse.

The Sheriff took samples of the blood-soaked earth to
be turned over to a crime laboratory for scientific analy-
sis. Sheriff Banks gazed at the steeple of a distant
church. From the edifice of God, the followers were
soon to come to that very spot of horror to conduct their
Baptismals.

Publicity was given to the findings along the Pool and

ople in the locality were requested to be on the look-

— out for freshly dug graves or other evidences of murder.

Four days after visiting the Pool, Sheriff Banks of Car-
roll County was notified that an analysis of the blood
i near the Pool disclosed that it was from a human
y.
‘But where was the body? Who was the victim? What
was the motive? Could these questions be answered
through such clues as a half a pup tent, fishing poles, an

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ax, a cleaver, blood-soaked rags and strands of rope, a
handkerchief with the initial “J” and an empty paper
match package from an Ohio restaurant?

N the: meantime, back in New Trenton, Indiana, the
continued absence of Captain Miller began to arouse
comment among his friends and close associates. Even
Alfred Sintz, the gardener, now wondered why his good
friend and employer was remaining away SO long.

One of Captain Miller’s closest friends, Frank Sacks-
teder, living in New Trenton, happened one day to read
an article in the local newspaper about the mysterious
findings at Baptismal Pool in Kentucky. He particularly
noted the reference to a match package bearing the
name of Harrison, Ohio. Mr. Sacksteder discussed the
newspaper article with several other friends, also close
to Captain Miller, and while no action was decided upon

for the time being, all
agreed that something
should be done to find
out where Captain Mil-
ler had gone.

Sheriff Banks had told
his deputies that new
developments were.
bound to come to light
and this prediction was
soon shown to be cor-
rect. The next episode
in this macabre drama
had its curtain rising on-
the morning of July
18th, just seven days
after the gruesome find
at Baptismal Pool.

Andrew Ritchey; 4
farmer residing about
twelve miles north of
Carrollton, in Shelby
County, Kentucky, was
passing through one of
his fields flanked by a
much traveled state |
highway. Nearing a culvert, he was attracted by a
sickening, putrid odor. Owing to a flood-gate, he was
unable to observe what was under the culvert until he
had: removed the obstruction.: Then, to his sudden
horror, he discovered the feet and: legs of a human body.
A pile of stones covered the torso. ~ if

Sickened and frightened, he’ hurried breathlessly to
his home and called Sheriff Banks. In ‘a,short time the
Sheriff with his deputy arrived and-about the same time
the coroner of Shelby County and an uindertaker made
their appearance at the horrible scene., ~ :

Removing the rocks, the officials came upon a badly
decomposed body of a large man. As the stones were
lifted one by one, there was clearly brought to the

‘Sheriff’s mind the murderous use to which the hand ax

and meat cleaver had been. put. The head and both
hands of this huge corpse were missing. . “SA

The torso with its mass of bone and decomposed flesh
was removed to the county seat of Shelby where it was
buried that afternoon in a pauper’s grave. The sheriff,
however, had had plenty of time to make further inves-
tigation. He learned
that the feet were tied
together by a piece of
rope identical with
pieces found at the Bap-
tismal Pool and he also
learned that a bullet
had penetrated the left
side of the body just be-
low the heart and had
emerged at a point a
little lower down on the
right side.

Captain Miller’s
friends in New Trenton
became more and more
concerned as they read
new accounts of the lat-
est developments in this
strange murder mys-
tery. And in Cincinnati
old friends in the fire
department discussed
the case and began to
lay plans for some sort
of action.

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night of June 6,

vas the reply.
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given. June 8,
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with Miss

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receding nights.
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sullenly refused

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different theater.

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smpanied Indiana
ghout a five-day
was questioned.
n the questioning

sdiction naturally
cers of the two
att Leach refused
er until he knew
crime occurred.
tain Miller’s back
1 terrific struggle

determined that
stain Miller’s head
han the .22 caliber
ky.
in opposition evi-
and the argument.
les indicated Cap-
lured away on a
Captain Leach
ons from friends
d and offered the
shing poles were
ly to give it an in-

yner and kept
. secret. After
arence Grim-
state police, some
enant Schattle of
Ww other ones who

. questioned him.
‘da lie detector on

him and pointed out that it showed his
story untrue. Tiring, endless questions
were used to break down his story.

“Mental fatigue finally breaks crimi-
nals and they tell the truth,” Captain
Leach said.

Mental fatigue did break Hicks.

“All right, all right,” he said. “I'll tell
the truth. . But first let me talk alone with
Miss Miller.” j

The request was granted. Miss Miller
later related the story of their conference.

The moment I had waited for all
through that terrible ordeal came then,”
Miss Miller. stated. ;

“Jimmy, I said, ‘you’ve got to tell
the truth now.’”

Miss Miller revealed that at the time
she hired Hicks she never knew of his
criminal record, and upon learning of it
she had been in mortal fear of her chauf-
feur, that he had once said to her:

“If your brother should die would you
take care of me?”

She took his meaning to be that he
wanted a will made in his favor. After her
brother was slain she was afraid she
would be next. She had hesitated to
identify her brother’s head and hands or
take any other step which might direct
the homicidal rage of the chauffeur
against her.

Admits Engineering Plot

HAGGY and haggard from days with-
out shaving, Hicks said that he had
plotted the killing of Captain Miller.

He named as his accomplices and as
the actual slayers John Joseph Poholsky,
the man who had been a former inmate
of the Kentucky reformatory with Hicks
and afterwards a partner in bootlegging ;
William Kuhlman and Frank Gore Wil-
liams, both ex-convicts.

The motive was cold calculating greed
for Captain Miller’s fortune, he revealed.
He planned that the fortune would go to
Miss Miller and that he would get it from
her.

He had hired the others as killers. For
himself he sought to establish an alibi
by taking Miss Miller to a picture show
while they actually committed the crime.
He said that he next saw them the day
after the murder.

“They told me the first lick was struck
in Captain Miller’s kitchen with the pipe.
(The bar taken from the gate.) When he
finally went down he was loaded into a
car and driven away. I stayéd to clean
up the place and drive his auto to Cin-
cinnati.”

The doughty and powerful old man
had put up a terrific scrap and had been
severely beaten before he gave in, Hicks’
story revealed. And not even the beating
was fatal to. him. He started groaning
as the hired killers drove toward Ken-
tucky- where earlier they had chosen a

_ spot to bury him.

“T was told that somewhere near the
Warsaw Ferry on the Indiana side, Kuhl-
man shot him twice in the head and once
in the body,” Hicks said. “He was sup-
posed to have died before they got to
Madison, Indiana, where they crossed the
bridge.”

He was somewhat hazy on the details
of the cutting off of the head and hands
and the disposal of the body. Poholsky
he named as the one who did it. Hicks
admitted he had written the card received
by Miss Miller and had the killers mail
it from Cleveland, Ohio.

He paid them with 100 shares of stocks
worth $5,500, he said, and the stock was
sold in Cleveland.

The confessed plotter was placed in
jail at Brookville, Indiana, county seat of
Franklin county to await trial. His in-
dictment, drawn by Prosecutor Kenneth
Copes, was July 18.

By that time the manhunt which always
will stand out in Indiana police history as
a‘tribute to the ability of Captain Matt
Leach and his men was underway. Cap-
tain Leach is unstinting in his thanks to
the G-men for aid they gave in that man-
hunt.

There quickly were indications that a
trail of wine, women and song might help
lead to the bloody-handed three. The
police learned in Cincinnati the names of
“girl friends” of Poholsky and Williams.
One of the young women, unaware of
what the trips were for, had accompanied
them into Kentucky when they were look-
ing late in May for a place to bury Cap-
tain Miller.

Even after the murder the two were
promised “silks and satins” after a “busi-

The jury, determined to bring the slayers to justice, inspect the home of Captain
Miller for traces of the struggle.

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ness deal” in Cleveland had been carried
out... The girls had come to the attention
of police even before it was known Pohol-
sky and Williams were sought. On the
night of June 14 they ran into a police
station and told of being thrown from an
auto by two ex-convicts after one had
fired at them. They named, Poholsky
and Williams, That had been the end of
their’ “romance.”

Apparently the killers also had women

.in Cleveland. It was learned that they

stayed there for some time,after the kill-
ing, and that three men and two women
were seen in a certain beer place fre-

quently. The stock deal was traced down.

The proprietor of the beer place had re-
ferred one of the men, who used the
name Burke, to a lawyer who ih turnévok
him to a broker.. The broker gave $2,500
on the stocks but insisted the rest of the
$5,000 be kept on account. |

In the meantime Miss Miller had in-
formed officers that her brother’s for-
tune was kept in a safe at her home. It
was opened and an inventory showed a
value of $65,000. Miss Miller asserted that
gold, gems and some stocks were miss-
ing.

The stock deal in Cleveland was com-
pleted July 3. Immediately afterwards
the broker saw an account of the grue-
some Indiana crime and the attempt in
Cincinnati to pass stocks and bonds. He
suspected he had dealt with the criminals,
but they already had fled.

Hear Of Fourth Man

“YAPTAIN LEACH’S men, aided by
Lieutenant Schattle, also had learned
that there had been a fourth man with
the killers in Cleveland. He was called
Hank and it was he who had driven the
Miller auto from the Walnut Hills garage
to Cleveland. But investigation convinced
them that while he would be a valuable
material witness he was not connected
with the crime.

The next break‘in the case came on
August 13, with the finding of the long
sought Miller auto ina Cleveland garage.
The garage owner said the garage had
been rented by a man named “Burke.”

“Hank” was picked up soon after that
in Detroit and was held as a material wit-
ness. Information he gave aided in estab-
lishing the characteristics and habits of
the wanted men. State detectives as-
signed by Captain Leach, usually John
Barton and Meredith Stewart, worked
tirelessly pumping every vailable source
of information. And through the sources
they established they soon were hot on
the trail of John Poholsky.

They arrived in Pennsylvania mining
towns where he had worked. The most
disappointing experience was their arrival
in Erie, Pennsylvania, to find that Pohol-

sky had been held on a minor charge

there and released before a checkback
from Washington on fingerprints showed
him to be a wanted man.

Then from Pittsburg came word from
the cooperating G-men that Poholsky
could be found at Warren, Ohio. Late on
the evening of November 18, Detectives
Stewart and Barton with Warren police
drove up beside a man trudging in over-
alls into the outskirts of the town.

“John Poholsky,” they said, “we want
you.” 4

He was covered with four guns. But
that was unnecessary. He who had de-
capitated the fireman shrugged wearily.
He was unarmed.

“All right,” he said. “You've got me.”
Then later, “I’m tired of ‘running any-

way. Just like a rabbit, twisting and dodg-
ing, running ... never getting to stay in
one place long enough to rest.”

Unlike Williams and Kuhlman, Poh-
olsky had never been considered as a
dangerous man by the police. However,
Captain Leach had warned his men that
Williams and Kuhlman would shoot. to
kill when cortiered.

Poholsky had not carried a gun
throughout his flight.. He was a petty
criminal, working more often for a living
than stealing, the product of squalid con-
ditions and ignorance. He had been work-
ing as a corn husker the day of his arrest.
The other two were sharper, Kuhlman
particularly being the type that abhors
honest work.

Poholsky refused to talk in Ohio,
waived extradition and said: “Wait until
I see Matt Leach. He’s known as a square
cop. I’ll talk to him.”

And Poholsky did talk to Matt Leach.
One look at the tall police commander
and he stepped forward quickly, taking
Leach by the left hand.

“Yes,” he said. “A finger missing.
That’s the way I was told I would know
Matt Leach.”

There was a substantial difference in
the murder story as told by Poholsky and
as told by Hicks. Poholsky placed Hicks
not only as the plotter but actually at the
scene of the attack on Captain Miller,
‘Hicks first offered him $2,000 to take part
in the crime and later boosted the offer
to $5,000. What he actually got, because
aeuentry by his fellow murderers, was

The 35-year-old criminal told as coldly
of the murder and dismemberment as of
the husking job at which he had ‘been
getting $1.50 a day.

He, Williams, Nibiien and Hicks had
gone to the Miller farm home on the pre-
text that Hicks was introducing Kuhl-
man and Williams as whisky salesmen.
Poholsky said he sat in the auto while
the other three went to the house. Soon
he heard an outcry and Hicks called for
him to come to the house.

Captain Miller was unconscious on the
floor. Hicks stayed behind while he.
Kuhlman and Williams took the uncon-
scious man away in an auto. Hicks later
drove Miller’s own auto to Cincinnati.

Fire Three Shots

ACROSS the river from Warsaw. Ken-
tucky, while they waited for a ferry,
Captain Miller started groaning. Poholsky
described how Kuhlman leaned back,
pushed Captain Miller down with one
hand and fired. three times with a gun
held in the other into Captain Miller's
head and body. Then they drove to Madi-
son, Indiana, and crossed back into Ken-
tucky by bridge, he said.

When they arrived at the lonely bap-
tismal pool where they had decided to
bury the body, they started digging. After
six inches they struck solid rock and had
to change their plans.

He described without a tremor how he
hacked off the head and hands. “I expect
to burn for it.” he said. “I’m ready. But
first I want to put the finger on Hicks
in court.” ~

The trial of Hicks started on Decem-
ber 7 before Judge Roscoe C. O’Byrne
in Brookville, with Prosecutor Kenneth
Copes aided by Charles A. Lowe and J.
vod deck Barce, an assistant attorney gen-
eral,

Even while that trial was going on

Indiana state police were hot on the trail

of another of the killers. His progress

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was marked by holdups and led through
Nebraska. Once they thought they had
him in Lincoln, but he escaped to the
West Coast.

Early the morning of December 10
two bandits held up a downtown Port-
land, Oregon theater, tied up the theater
official employes and officials, and walked
out with a bag containing almost $1.000.
Unfortunately for the bandits, two police-
men aproached the theater just then to
act as guards for the transfer of ‘the very
money the bandits carried.

Suspicious of the two strangers, the
officers followed them to an auto parked
nearby, then accosted them. One bandit
reached for his gun. A police fist swung
and connected hard with the bandit’s eye.
The bandit crumbled.

He was William Kuhlman. His finger-
prints quickly showed what he was
wanted for and before many hours In-
diana State Patrolmen Barton and Sheriff
Pulskamp were on a plane headed for
Portland.

Kuhlman confessed to Portland Police
Chief H. M. Niles. He waived extradi-
tion, confessing again to Captain Matt
Leach after a fast return by plane to
Indiana. He told the Hicks’ jury essen-
tially the same gruesome story Poholsky
already had so unfeelingly told thern.

He told Leach of a girl Williams had
picked up in Chicago and fallen in love
with, refusing to leave her. State detec-
tives immediately obtained information
about the girl. In Chicago they found her
parents. And on that day, Captain Matt
Leach in Brookville at the Hicks trial
offered to bet that Williams would be
under arrest in five days.

From the parents the detectives had
learned that the girl wrote letters to them,
and obtained the address of her apart-
ment in San Francisco.

Steps Into Police Trap

ATE December 16 a young man who

only a few days before had obtained
employment in a San Francisco dry
goods store as a salesman walked into the
apartment of the girl with whom he had
fallen in love.

It was into the arms of the police he
walked instead of into the arms of the
girl. He told her he hoped to escape the
electric chair and come back to her some-
time. She told him she would be waiting.

But opposed to the story of Frank Gore
Williams that he only thought Captain
Miller was to be kidnapped and that he
was not in the auto when the captain was
shot were the adverse stories of the
others. The same fate threatened him
that the jury had given to Heber L. Hicks
on December 21.

“Guilty of first degree murder as
charged in the indictment.” ~

That same night Judge O'Byrne sen-
tenced Hicks to die April 10 in the electric
chair.

Williams, Poholsky and Kuhlman were
whisked away to the state reformatory
after the trial because of fear that a jail
delivery would be attempted. Their pleas
were taken in February.

The piece of flesh and piece of home-
made shirt found about a mile and a half
from the baptismal pool was called only
a coincidence by the prosecution in the
Hicks trial, The jury said in its verdict
that the jurisdiction was in Indiana. Even
if the shots had been fired in Kentucky.
the state established through medical tes-
timony that the blows struck in Indiana
would have been fatal.

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murderer of Mrs. Nancy Titterton in
New York, was executed in the Sing
Sing death chair after appeals and peti-
tions to the governor had failed. A
single strand of rope was the clue that
doomed Fiorenza to death.

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Theodore DiDonne, 31, and Joseph
Bolognia, 24, two of six thugs who killed
a subway collector for a bagful of nickels,
paid for their brutal crime in the electric
chair.

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Louis R. Shaver, 58, was hanged at San
Quentin prison for the murder of his wife,
Lillian. Jealousy was the motive for the
murder.’

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Jesse Roberts, 24, a grocery clerk,
turned bandit and-killed a tavern keeper
in Chicago during a gun battle in which
he was wounded.’ The wound proved
fatal. Roberts’ first crime was his last.

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Tommie Howard was hanged in Caddo
parish jail, Louisiana. for the ambush
shooting of Daniel’L. Perkins, who sur-
vived his wounds, but was, crippled for
life.

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Louis Lazar, 29, was electrocuted for
the murder of Morris Saskowitz, 55.
Lazar killed Saskowitz during an argu-
ment over a $25 paint bill.

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Chester White, 33, who slew his sweet-
heart; Charles Ham, 20, and Fred Fowler,
who killed a man during a holdup, were
executed on the same night at Sing Sing
prison.

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+ Edward Williams, 62, a confidence man
in the county jail at Chicago, complained
of rheumatic pains and was given a cup
of linament. He drank it and died a
suicide.

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One of Sing Sing’s: oldest inmates,
Jack Parker, 76, died. there recently of
pneumonia. All his life Parker had been
in and out of prison. At the time of his
death he was serving a life sentence as
a fourth offender. He was known as
the “Gold Brick King.”

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tler Park where missing heads and hands were

Marshy area in Bu
ed by Sheriff Banks (1.) and Or. Bakes

found was closely inspect

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At the start there wasn’t evena corpst , but

f ~~ piece by piece one was provided for Ket tucky.

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| lawmen investigating one of the most haffling

| : and amazingly complex murders in Southey history

N THE ABSENCE of incriminating clues left behind by Appropriately enough, conside#ing all the weird cir-
the killer, the next best assist for murder investigatorsisthe | cumstances that later developed, it wagon Friday, June 13th, that
quick establishment of a clear cut motive. * _ word of something possibly amiss wa brought to the attention of

that came to be known among Sheriff Walton Banks.
That was when a farmer telephded the sheriff's office at

Carrollton to give a confused report 1 some mysterious crime.
~ Sheriff Banks listened attentively, ask a few questions and then
hung up after promising to look int@ it immediately. Next he
summoned one of his deputies, an¢ Etogether with Dr. DC
Bakes, a local expert in criminolog% started out toward Owl

But in the gruesome mystery
te folk of Carroll County in northern Kentucky as the Horror of
© Owl Hollow, there were neither clues nor motive readily ap-

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| prent:
“There was, in cold fact, very little to go on. Literally and
‘ ‘Bgurtively, the case developed in piecemeal fashion. At thestart
there wasn’t even a corpse, and when at last one was provided it —

“gamn't in one piece or at one time. Hollow.
ih * j “We may just be on a wild goo chase,” Banks admitted
ba ; frankly. “I couldn't make head nor ta! about what this man was
trying to tell me. I don’t think he kn@w himself for sure, except,

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chattle (left) and Detective Hall with abandoned | that he kept repeating there was evigence of something wrong

88 and fishing rods which were key clues at start of the probe “out there in Owl Hollow.”
; 5 “Owl Hollow,” Dr. Bakes murm ed reflectively. “Isn't that
where there’s some kind of baptisng! pool used by one of the
religious sects hereabouts?”

Sheriff Banks nodded. “Right.
superstitious nonsense about the pice.
might be on a fool’s errand now.”

Shortly they turned off the mai#highway onto a rutted dirt
lane that led to the banks of windibg Mill Creek. Here in the
somber shade of towering trees gro Hing out of thick underbrush
was a spot where Mill Creek wideded into what was known as
the Sacred Pool. The farmer who haq elephoned was waiting for
them there, some fishing rods clutdied under his arm.

“Rightly speaking, it was my bowavho discovered something
wrong,” he started in quick explariation to Sheriff Banks. “He
came home bringing these three fishing poles I got here. I could
see they were store bought and n@w and | couldn't figure on
anybody throwing them away. So ]Bame down here to put them
back where my boy had found ther ‘and that’s when I saw these
other things and wondered some about them.”

“What other things?” Banks asled.

“That axe over in the water y@nder and that rope on the
ground over there. One end of it lo@ks like it was bloodstained.”
He paused, glanced around uneasify. and added, “There didn't
seem to be any healthy explanatiomp! could think of for finding
things this way. That's why I calla you people.”

“You did right,” Sheriff Banks t id him. “Solving mysteries is
our job.” : :

But there wasn’t any quick sofgtion to the assorted bits of
peculiar evidence they soon colleae-d. In the shallow waters of
the pool there was a new hand axeand close by a meat cleaver.
There were the two short lengtli of rope, the longer piece
knotted and darkly stained at one nd. Upstream from the pool
they found a man’s handkerchief # loodstained and marked in
one comer in indelible ink wi § a small “j”. There was a
crumpled-up brown canvas pup ti@pt half concealed in the thick

bushes. ey

Then, as the earth widened, thd found other puzzling things.
[here was a small pile of freshlgdug earth, and around it a
sprinkling of sand and a grayish jwder.

And there’s been a lot of
That’s why I said we

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“Whoa!” Will Dunn, a farmer, pulled his
horse to a stop and stepped off the wooden
sledge he was driving to pick up something
which had attracted his attention among
the bushes fringing the bank of a creek.
There were three fishing poles, all new, tied
together with a piece of blue rag. f

“There’s been somebody here,” he re-
marked, as much to himself as to his boy,
hn — on the sledge between two water
nirrels,

“They must have been here during the
night, too, because it was pretty nigh sun-
down when I was here last evening hunting
for those goslings. Look!” he exclaimed ex-
citedly as his eyes traveled rapidly over
the grass and road in search of other trea-
sures. “There’s tire tracks. Someone’s had
a car in here; and there’s sand and cement.
What would anybody bring sand and
cement to Owl Hollow for?”

The boy made no answer. To him, Owl
Hollow was an awe-inspiring spot. It was
a holy place, for right there was the baptiz-
ing pool in which he, with much astonish-
ment, had often watched people he knew
by name have their sins washed away by
immersion in its crystal waters.

As the youngster stood between the
water barrels recalling these scenes, the
father continued his eager search. He
nudged with his toe an irregular grayish
smudge on the ground. Under it he saw

Cracked open by officials, a concrete block enclosed in a cardboard carton

disclosed a grisly and shocking sight.

BAEN

THOMPSON

THE SACRED POOL—Inspect-
ing the scene of a Kentucky farm-
er’s sensational discovery, Dr. D. C.
Bakes (at left) points to the spot
where an axe was found, while
Sergeant Clarence Grinstead
(right) stands where a mysterious
pup tent was picked up. The
spot is known as Owl Hollow

Pieces of the concrete shell are pictured

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| 12 True Detective Mysteries
j | that the soil was sticky with something resembling varnish. nothing less than murder, he reiterated to himself, doggedly. s)
| | He bent over and dug at it with a stick, Tt wasn’t until the afternoon of Friday, June 13th, that he R
i j When he straightened up to give his back a rest, his mild reached Sheriff Banks in his office at Carrollton. The story
| blue eyes were troubled. Then he noticed other smudges a Dunn told, drawing partly on his imagination, was gruesome cr
few feet away. He prodded them too. His eye caught sight enough to stir something more than curiosity in the, Sheriff’s k:
| of a match folder. He picked it up. The advertising on it mind, Summoning his chief deputy and Dr. D. C. Bakes, a M
i was of a saloon in Harrison, Ohio. He also picked up two student of criminology, the three sped out to Owl Hollow in Ke
1 short lengths of new rope; the longer piece being knotted the Sheriff’s car. th
f and crimson-stained. Near these was a piece of paper on There they examined the scene carefully. What struck them cor
which he read, “Thirty feet of indoor clothesline.” He had as peculiar were the three smudges of blood which formed the
moved slowly as he scanned this legend. When his eyes again points of a triangle, with the largest apparently its apex. The Hi
i rested on the ground, he uttered ‘a startled exclamation, more they studied, the more puzzling the three bloodstains nor
became. Certainly at that time they had not the slightest tril
i “THATS blood! It’s blood, and a mighty lot of it, too. And idea of the gruesome horror which alone could explain that the
iF Idok! There’s blood on the bushes and they’re all bent bloody triangle. : mis
it down and mashed. What’s been going on in this holy place?” Tom the bushes they Picked up a man’s handkerchief, A
i A ripple of red and orange out in the pool now caught his  bloodstained and marked with a small “J” in indelible ink : the
eye. He went back to the sledge, stepped on it and drove it also a brown canvas pup tent. They searched further along fari
out into the soft mud of the bank. the bank of the creek. From the water they took a meat gett
In six inches of water lay a new hand-axe, conspicuously cleaver, which Dunn’s eyes had missed when they lighted on wha
banded with red across the head and orange on the handle. the scarlet-headed axe. A few rods upstream, they came upon culy
' e€ soon had the prize in his hand. & small pile of earth, freshly dug. These things, “with the Inve
fter several minutes of concentration on his discoveries, fishing poles and axe discovered by Dunn, seemed to indicate in t}:
I Dunn finally shook his mind free of ‘speculations, Silently he a4 terrible crime, as Will Dunn had suggested. But, if someone the |
{ and the boy filled the arrels with water and drove the sled had been murdered, where was the body? They made a and
from the little clearing, down the narrow dirt road which thorough search of _the forest atound ‘the pool, but found W
i paralleled the creek, to a farmhouse a short distance away. nothing more, stror
Proudly he showed his newly discovered treasures to his < It did not take long to have tests made of the soil samples, this
wife. She examined. the fishing poles and the axe with the. scraped up at the scene. The stains were from human blood— torso
spirit of appreciation which she knew was expected. there was no doubt about that—and it had been spilled in
“Guess it’s chicken thieves again,” she Suggested. “But I such quantity that they knew no one could survive go great At
, oF didn’t hear a sound last night, did you, Will? And the dog a loss. Murder had undoubtedly been done but how were it
didn’t bark. I’m sure of that, or I would have woke up.” they to find the body? And what was the significance of Emin
i; - unn accepted her remarks with that silence of toleration that bloody triangle? that |
i due the observations of & woman. He had far deeper thoughts Now began the painstaking detective work to trace the week,
} of on the subject than chicken thieves, but he wasn’t imparting body and learn the identity of the victim. A diligent house- of his
[ those thoughts to anybody less than a sheriff. He called y to-house inquiry for miles around, was instituted. It brought been «
eriff Banks at Carrollton, eight miles away on the Ohio * some information. A Mrs. Agatha Martin had seen a strange that |
j River; but the Sheriff was out of town. He had gone to car with fishing poles attached, on the night of June 11th. As }
rankfort. i : The car, as she recalled it,-was a new Ford V-8 and bore snatch
, | Dunn, still hoarding his secret, to retail it only in quarters Ohio license plates. She remembered that three young men sat the ch
ih where it would receive the appreciation it deserved, returned in the front seat while the rear was filled with camping at the
to his work of Setting tobacco plants, He said nothing to equipment. She had been able to get a good look at the was D;
anyone, but all day long, as he went up and down the rows, occupants and contents of the car because when viewed by The
he felt a developing conviction that the sacred Owl Hollow her, it was being driven very slowly, . the be
baptizing pool had been profaned by something damnable. It’s The Ohio license and the Ohio address on the match folder,


HICKS, Heber,
and. WILLIAMS, elec. Ind,

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An Indiana Mystery

S the shadows deepened around a hillside cottage,
perched on a bluff overlooking the Whitewater River
Just outside of New Trenton, Indiana, a car bearing
four men came to a stop on the River Road.

They alighted and climbed the many steps to the entrance.
There they held a whispered consultation which resulted in
one of their number, a wolf-faced wide-eared individual, with-
drawing into the shadows. The remaining three stepped onto
the porch, Jistened for a few minutes to the sound of a radio
which came through the door, then knocked.

The door was opened by a well-knit figure.

“Hello, Captain,” said the tall man of the trio, “I’ve
brought the two whisky salesmen. I talked to you about.”

“Oh, yes, Jimmie, come right in.”

The host invited his three guests to sit down. They did.
Jimmie drew a bottle of liquor from his pocket.

“Here’s a sample,” he said.

‘Glasses were brought and Jimmie poured out four drinks.

“It’s good stuff, Captain,” he added, as each threw back
his head and tossed off the whisky:

One of the “whisky salesmen” asked permission to get a
drink of water. He walked toward a sink that stood in the
room, Then, when the Captain had turned back to the
table, he drew a piece of lead pipe from beneath his coat
and struck his host a savage blow on the back of the head.

The husky Captain was on his feet immediately, though
the blow had been a severe one. Before he had a chance to
lunge at his assailant, the other “salesman” sprang at him
fiercely. A bitter struggle ensued, in which tables and chairs
were overturned. As they fought backward and forward, two
against one, Jimmie stood watching, crafty lights flitting re-
peatedly over his glowering eyes.

“Jimmie! Jimmie! Help me!” the Captain shouted franti-
cally but, though he repeated his appeal, Jimmie paid him
no heed. Finally, Jimmie turned his back on the struggling
trio and ran out on the porch, to which he summoned the
wolf-faced man who still lurked in the shadows,

The husky Captain fought his way to the door, still shout-
ing, “Jimmie! Jimmie! Help me!”

With his two assailants attempting to drag him down, the
Captain burst through the screen door to the porch. Here he
wrested the lead pipe from his more ferocious assailant, and
the weapon sonbled: him to take the offensive. It soon be-
came apparent that the fighting Captain was dominating the
situation. With the lead pipe in his hand, he was giving dn

| 7 5 ; and. KUHLMAN, POHOLS
c. Ind.(Franklin), 5-6-1938; and
(Franklin), 6/10/1937.

excellent account of himself, proving a redoubtable adversary.

But the wolf-faced: man was watching. At a-signal from
Jimmie he sprang forward, swung a piece of lead pipe in a
wide are and crashed it down on the head of the courageous
Captain. There was a sickening thud as the husky giant
slumped to the floor. With lead pipe and blackjack, . the
three strangers then beat their victim over the head and face
until he lay still. Then, taking him by his arms and legs,
they carried his 260-pound body down the drive, between
rows of wild flowers, to the car.

“Friend” Jimmie had brought an old sweater and towel
ftom the house and these he wrapped around the fearfully
bruised face of the Captain. The four then crammed their
victim’s body between the front and rear seats, covering it
with a pup tent.

“You beat it over into Kentucky,” shouted Jimmie to the
three killers who had accompanied him. “And bury him so
damn deep they'll never find him. I'll go back to the shack
and clean up. I’ve got work to do there anyway.”

The car started, and, with the two “whisky salesmen” and
their companion of the shadows, sped. southbound over ‘the
Ohio River into the hills of Kentucky, until they reached a
place known as Owl Hollow.

The moon, which had risen at midnight, shone benignly
down upon the still waters of a pool hidden among the trees.
The three fiends dragged the heavy body of their victim out
upon the ground. The phantom of the shadows had taken

in axe from the car. Swiftly it flashed up and down in the

moonlight. Each time it rose, red blood dripped from its
silvered edge. His ghastly work completed, the phantom

tossed the encrimsoned axe into the placid waters of the
pool...

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suggested that the outfit had come from north of the Ohio
River.

The night man on duty at the toll kiosk of the great bridge
crossing the Ohio between Madison, Indiana, and Milton,
Kentucky, was questioned. He stated that a car answering
Mrs. Martin’s description had driven over the bridge into
Kentucky. The occupants had paid one-way fare. Whether
this: had occurred on the evening of the 11th or 12th, he
could not be sure. :

The clue of the match-book was followed. A visit to
Harrison on the Indiana-Ohio state line was made. It led to
nothing. Hundreds of similar match folders had been dis-
tributed by that Harrison saloon and there was no person in
the town or surrounding district who had been reported as
missing.

At 4:30 on the morning of June 19th, just a week after
the strange discoveries at Owl Hollow, Andrew Richie, a
farmer living two miles south of Eminence, Kentucky, .while
getting up his mules for the day’s work, caught sight of
what he thought was a dead sheep lying under a concrete
culvert. He scrambled down the slope of the roadbed to
investigate. The culvert had been dry for many weeks and
in the dim light of the June dawn, Richie only vaguely sensed
‘the horror he had come upon. He raced back to the highway
and hurried home to telephone.

Within a short time, the road was blocked with cars, while
strong men nerved themselves to drag out into the daylight
this thing of horror. that lay under the culvert. It was the
torso of a man, minus head and hands.

AMITLE later that morning, a truck-driver dropped into

a barber shop in Carrollton, twenty-four miles north of
Eminence. He began to horrify his attendant by telling him
that he had been driving his truck over a dead man for a
week. The others listened, thinking he was getting a rise out
of his barber. But when he went into details of what had
been discovered, the startled patrons and attendants realized
that his horror story was a true one.

As he talked, a man reclining in a chair alongside suddenly
snatched away the apron tucked in his collar, lunged from
the chair in which he had been seated, and dashed to a car
at the curb. Jumping in, he sped southward out of town. He
was Dr. Bakes.

The doctor had learned from the truck-driver’s story that

_ the body had been taken: to Shelbyville, a few miles

away. Reaching there, he soon found the funeral parlor to

which the torso had been removed. When he saw it, headless
and handless, he stood for a few moments stunned with the .
horror of it. Then suddenly, like a flash of lightning, he ‘
realized that this butchered body of a man was the explana-
tion of the crimson triangle at Owl Hollow. The three crimson
splotches on the earth with the biggest at the apex. The
apex—that was where the head of the murdered man had
lain and where it had been severed from the body which lay
before him; the other two crimson smudges on the sand were
the explanation of the torso’s missing hands—the three were
the signs of a. horrible crucifixion.

It wasn’t long before he had the result of the autopsy. The
victim was a man of about ‘fifty, six feet tall and weighing
approximately 250: pounds. Besides: having had his head and
hands cut’ off, presumably to make identification impossible,
he had been shot three times through the left side. The only
clothing on the body was a pair of blue-gray socks and a
cement-smeared, bloodstained piece of underwear, on which
could still be seen the words, “Size 52, Length 72.”

Later that day the decapitated remains were identified by
Jesse Roberts of. Frankfort, Kentucky, as the body of his
son, Jesse, aged thirty, who had been missing since June 11th.
However, when it was explained to Mr. Roberts that the
man on the slab was much older than this, Mr. Roberts gladly
accepted their disagreement with him as to the identification
and left. His son was later found alive and well, in Arizona.

Decomposition had already set in when the body was found
under the culvert, and there being no further identification
made, it was buried in potter’s field of the Shelby County
Poor Farm,

Thus the Owl Hollow mystery promised to remain unsolved.
It appeared inevitable that the questions as to the identity
of the murdered man and his slayer would remain forever
unanswered. ,

But what man had failed to accomplish, nature was to
achieve.

On Sunday, June 29th, a distressingly hot day, thousands
sought relief in the waters of lakes and rivers. Among these
were four small boys who splashed noisily in the lake at
Butler Memorial Park, four miles southwest of Carrollton.
WPA workers had recently constructed a highway across this
lake, building it up from the bottom with large pieces of
rocks. It was along this roadway that the youngsters sported.

“Hey, fellows,” suddenly bawled one. “Look down there on
that rock! See? It’s a box. Let’s get it out.”

In they splashed. The box, a common corrugated - paste-

SLEUTH AND CRIME SCENE—Tirelessly, relentlessly, Captain Matt Leach (circle), head of the Indiana
State Police, worked on the case. (Right) High above the Whitewater River was the murder house


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veen slipped to
ne convinced me

that I was on the right track. On July
5th, I learned that on the night of
June llth, sometime after midnight,
Heber L. Hicks drove the 1936 Buick
automobile, owned by Captain Miller,
into a garage in Cincinnati and had
checked it for the night. The last
time this car had been seen pre-

‘viously was during the daytime on

June llth at Captain Miller’s New
Trenton home garage.”

“Nice work, Captain,” I said. “But
tell me, what makes you think Hicks
is holding out on you?”

“In the first place,” said Captain
Leach, “no suitable explanation was
given by Hicks when I talked to him
regarding his possession of Captain
Miller’s automobile on the night of
June 11th. Then, if Hicks was to bene-
fit by Flora Miller’s inheritance of
her brother’s property, why was an
attempt made to destroy the means
of identification of his body? In In-
diana, Captain Miller’s State, no legal
presumption of death would arise for
seven years without the identification
of his corpse as you know. So you
see, Mr. Barce, the picture just didn’t
fit together properly.”

I again congratulated Captain Matt
Leach as‘ he took his leave.

I knew very well what was bother-
ing this efficient officer and why he
wanted a- better confession. Should
Hicks repudiate his confession and
the court refuse to admit it for some
reason or other, this man whom
Leach knew was guilty, might walk
out of court a free man.

Consequently, Leach decided to
work with but one end in view and
that was to bring about the capture
of at least one of Hicks’ associates.
tn would have to be done before the

rial,

Police records showed that Kuhl-
man, Williams and Poholsky were all
ex-cons. Thus, in quick order, thou-
sands of circulars bearing descrip-
tions and pictures of the three villains
were printed and forwarded to every

olice department in the United
tates,

And now time and good breaks
were the determining factors. By
September, Hicks had employed for
his defense Stephen Blakely of Cov-
ington, Kentucky, and Virgil McCarly
of Brookville.

Hicks then repudiated his confes-
sion and insisted that he was_not
guilty of any crime within the State

-of Indiana. This was exactly what

Matt Leach and I had been afraid of.

HE State was fortified with ex-

perienced counsel including a for-
mer Judge of the Franklin Circuit
Court, Charles A. Lowe, and the writ-
er. We were appointed to_ assist
Prosecutor Kenneth Copes of Brook-
ville.

As time went on, the defendant be-
gan to clamor for a trial. Lodged in
the Franklin County jail, he became
more confident every day that he
would be acquitted. His spirits were

ood and his appetite excellent. It
ooked as though he had committed
the perfect crime.

Knowing that time was all-impor-
tant, Hicks’ attorneys demanded an
early trial and after much insistence,
the case was set for December 7th.

Then came the breaks for the State.

On the 22nd of November, Indiana
State Detectives Stewart and Barton
apprehended John Poholsky at War-
ren, Ohio. He was ready to talk. He
said he had worried night and day
since June 11th.

CRIME DETECTIVE

CONCRETE BLOCK——
after Captain Miller's head was removed,

When Poholsky completed his con-
fession to State Police, he not only
sealed his own doom, but the doom
of Hicks, Kuhlman and Williams.

Poholsky’s confession is perhaps
one of the most remarkable docu-
ments of its kind ever to be volun-
tarily given by a killer. It covered
thousands of words, beginning with
the time he met Hicks in the Eddy-
ville, Kentucky, Penitentiary.

Hicks first agreed to pay Poholsky
$500 for killing Captain Miller. Po-
holsky wanted more and Hicks finally
agreed to give him $2,000.

Hicks wasn’t so sold on Poholsky’s
ability to carry out the murder. Hav-
ing met  Kuhlman_ and Williams
through Poholsky, Hicks decided to
interest these two desperate men in
taking a part in the crime. Also, ata
meeting of the four, Hicks disclosed
that he would receive some $18,000
in securities on proof that Captain
Miller had died. Hicks said that he
wanted the body disposed of_so that
it would never be found. For this
terrible crime, he would pay the three
men $2,000 each.

Hicks emphasized the fact that the.

body of Captain Miller must never be
found. To guarantee this, the body
must be dismembered and buried in
separate and remote places.

On June 4th, the killers set out for
Captain Miller’s home, but on ‘reach-
ing the house they learned the cap-
tain was not at home, despite the fact
that the lights were on and the radio
was going full blast.

Then, on the night of June 11th,
they found the. captain in. To as-
sure that he would be in, Hicks had
written him a letter telling him that
he wanted to bring some liquor sales-
men out with samples of their wares.
Hicks and Captain Miller had always
been friendly. .

As related at the start of this story,
the men had a round of drinks. Then
Kuhlman stepped. behind the captain
and crashed down on him with_the
lead pipe. All this time Captain Mil-

83

ae continued to call upon Hicks for
elp.

After the body had been loaded in
the car, Hicks went back to the cap-
tain’s house to clean the place up.
Kuhlman, Williams and Poholsky
started down the driveway. After
going a few miles, Kuhlman suddenly
said, “Stop, we got to go back. [I lost
my gun someplace.”

They returned to Captain Miller's
house and aided by Hicks, who was
still mopping up, the gun was soon
located.

_Once more the car with its murder
victim turned down the driveway,
fishing poles tied to the side of the
car to give the appearance of an in-
nocent fishing party.

Driving along the highway at a
good clip, they approached the War-
saw Ferry. As they drove off the
State Highway down the little road
leading to the ferry, they discovered
that the ferry boat was on the oppo-
site side of the river and blew their
horn to attract attention. The ferry
pron started across toward them,

ut suddenly the bloody, apparently
murdered captain began to show
signs of life. He started to struggle,
groaning loudly.

Williams hastily backed the car up
and as they drove off, the ferryman
flashed a bright spotlight on them.
They re-entered the State Highway
and . continued southwest toward

’ Madison, Indiana, intending to cross

the bridge there. But the captain
continued to groan loudly and to
struggle. Kuhlman pulled out his re-
volver and shot the captain four
times.

Crossing the Ohio River at Madi-
son, they came upon the Baptismal
Pool location which had previously
been selected as the spot where the
torso was to be buried.

Poa performed the ghastly
slaughter. The head and hands
that had for years rendered gallant
service to the citizens of Cincinnati,
were hacked from -the body.

Then came the digging. After going
down six or eight inches, rock was
struck. This was alarming, as dawn
would soon break. So they decided


————

84

to find’a better location for burial.
The ax and meat-cleaver were thrown
into the pool. The head and hands of
Captain Miller were placed in the
cement box and secreted in the lug-
gage compartment. The torso was
loaded back into the car and a furious
drive was made to find a more suit-
able place to hide it. |

light and finding no satisfactory burial
ground to dispose of the torso, they

Just at daybreak, they came to Mill
Pond Creek. The water looked deep.

Hastily washing off blood from the
board, the murderous

ting for the sale of the stock but had
been able to find a buyer.

papers the startling accounts of the
various discoveries.
Hicks’ arrest.
talk? What would an Indiana farmer

jury think when they heard this awful

trial.

On December 7th, Heber L. Hicks
went to trial in the Franklin County,
Indiana, Circuit Court before a Jury
of eleven farmers and one truck driv-
er. Judge Roscoe O’Byrne occupied
the bench.

Poholsky, the State’s first witness,
was rapidly succeeded by twenty-
nine other prosecution witnesses and
twenty-six of the most gruesome ex-
hibits ever displayed before the eyes
of a jury.

Then came startling break number
two for the prosecution. :

On the 9th day of December, while
the trial was well under way, William
Kuhlman was captured by the police
of Portland, Oregan, following the
holdup of a theatre. Sheriff George
Pulskamp and Detective Stewart were
dispatched by plane to return him.
Captain Leach carried on lengthy
telephonic conversations with the
Portland police and suddenly came
the news that Kuhlman had_ told
everything, and was willing to testify.
Hicks was cornered like a rat in a

trap.

On December 12th, William Kuhl-

man took the witness stand. His con-
fession was identical with that of Po-
holsky. He calmly admitted the vi-
cious slugging of Captain Miller and
the firing of the four shots into the
body.
On the ninth day of trial, the State
rested its case, Hicks’ confession hav-
ing been admitted over his counsel’s
strenuous objections.

And on this same ninth day of trial,
Frank Gore Williams was arrested in
San Francisco.

After thirteen days of trial, the
case was given to the jury at seven
o'clock in the evening. At eleven

CRIME DETECTIVE

o'clock they filed into the courtroom
with their verdict—guilty of first de-
gree murder; the penalty—death.

That same night, the court sen-
tenced Hicks to die in the electric
chair in Michigan City Prison, on
April 10th, 1937. Frank Gore Williams
was returned to Indianapolis where,
on Christmas Eve, I took down his
full confession revealing his partici-
pation in the crime.

The day following Christmas, Po-
holsky, Kuhlman and Williams were
arraigned in the Franklin Circuit
Court. The court refused to accept
their pleas until they had consulted
counsel.

On the 6th day of January, William
Kuhlman announced his intention of
pleading guilty before a jury, a pro-
cedure which is permissible with
capital cases in Indiana. The follow-
ing day, John Poholsky and Frank
Gore Williams pleaded guilty before
Judge Roscoe O’Byrne, throwing
themselves upon the mercy of the
court.

On February 15th, Kuhlman went
to trial before a Franklin County

farmer jury. Poholsky and Williams
testified against him, repeating their
gruesome tales as they had done at
the trial of Hicks.

On Thursday night, the second jury
sentenced Kuhlman to die in the elec-
tric chair for his part in the brutal
killing. His execution was set as-the
10th day of June, 1937, in the Michi-
gan City prison.

On February 22nd, Poholsky and
Williams appeared before Judge O’-
Byrne and began the introduction of
evidence in an effort to beat the chair.
At these hearings all four murderers
testified.

On Thursday, February 25th, Judge

O'Byrne sentenced both Poholsky and

Williams to death, execution to take
place on the 10th day of June.

Four murderers died for the bru
slaying of Captain Miller. And as I
think over the many criminal cases
in which I have represented the State
of Indiana, I feel particularly proud
that I was part of the smooth func-
tioning machinery of justice that sent
those four degenerates to their well-
earned death.

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arrested on a charge of vanishing with half million dollars belonging to the Guild.

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THE CASE OF THE REACHING HAND

One of the most heinous crimes in the Department’s his-
tory came to light on June 29, 1936. Four boys were sitting on the
bank of a lake in Carroll County, Kentucky when they noticed a
box in the shallow water. Full of interest and curiosity, they
fished it out and opened it, only to stare back in pure horror. A
human hand reached out to them from a base of cement.

Dropping the box in terror they fled to summon the sheriff
who, investigating further, found that the box contained not
only one hand but two, plus a man’s head. The officers then
recalled that on June 17, a torso minus head and hands had been
found under a culvert south of Eminence, Kentucky. Five days
before that a farmer in the area had stumbled upon more grue-
some evidence, blood stains on the ground, a hand axe, and a
bloody towel. Nearby were some fishing poles and a matchbox
stamped with advertising from Harrison, Ohio near the Indiana
line.

The head gave the Investigators their first clue. A check
of dental work identified the victim as Harry Miller, retired
captain of the Cincinnati Fire Department, who had disap-
peared from his New Trenton, Indiana home. -

Further investigation, quiet and careful, pieced together
the whole grisly puzzle, after which officials and police from
Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky joined in a manhunt that covered
eastern as well as western portions of the country.

Eventually it was proved that the Captain’s sister Flora
Miller and her chauffeur, Heber Hicks, had plotted the murder,
engaging the aid of 3 ex-convicts from Cincinnati, John Poh-
olsy, Frank Gore Williams and William Kuhlman.

The story brought out by their confessions described one
of the most cold-blooded and coolly planned killings ever
encountered by the Indiana State Police. The plotters had pre-
faced the murder by conference after conference during which
they decided on tools and weapons, planned how to dispose of
the body, and how to use the bonds they intended to steal from
the Captain.

Their first attempt on June 3, 1936 was shorted when they
went to the Captain’s home and found him gone.

On June 11, they paid him a second visit. They went to the

‘house at 9:00 P.M. where Hicks, the chauffeur, introduced Kuhl-

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oar, leaving Hicks to clean up the house, drive Miller's c
Cincinnati and meet them at his apartment later By

They sold Miller's car in Cleveland and took the bonds to

an underworld lawyer who pai
paid them, not the $10,000
expected, but only $5,000. : Bee

After the murder was solved and the murderers con-
victed, they were sentenced to death and all were executed in the

one chair, Hicks on February 4, 1938 and the others on June

THE BURG]

Acrime that has nev
Police is the baffling homi:
as the Burger Chef Murde:

The fall of 1978 was
ever experienced by the re
cent to Indianapolis. Killin
by a shocking mass murde

On Friday, Novembe
what appeared to be a robb
restaurant on Crawfordsvi!)
rant was scheduled to close
employees did their cleani

On this particular n
was passing by and decide
any help. He found the b:
(empty) on the floor, and th:
called the police.

It appeared that the
from the site in a Vega ow
20-year-old assistant mana
out a struggle and the car w
add to the anxiety and myst
ransom notes contacting i
about $500 was missing.

On the following Sun
three other employees wer:
property in Johnson Count
Ruth Shelton, 17 years old,
Flemmonds also 16. The }
while taking a walk and sa
anything unusual that wee

The four dead youn;
orange and brown Burger
Daniel Davis were lying
through the head. Jane Fr:
Mark Flemmonds, about
injuries.

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the unholy triumvirate. A few weeks later
they, too, went on trial. The verdict was

= the same, guilty. 5 ars ot
Execution date was set for June 10th,

almost a year to the day from the date the
crime had been committed. But there

= were delays, so that it was not until July
- that the three went to the chair.

Ironically, Heber Hicks, the man who
had thought up the plot, managed to ob-
tain anumber of postponements while his
case was reviewed by a higher court. But
justice caught up with him on May 6th
1938, when he was executed at Michigan
City, Indiana. .

Thus the strangely twisted crime that

That took care of the final member of ;

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had started with a confusion of contradic-
tory evidence found on the edge -of
Sacred Pool at Owl Hollow came to a

. final, factual close.

.But the superstitious still claim that the

* four killers were trapped not by the law

but by the spirits watching over the bap-
tismal pool. : ooe

EDITOR’S NOTE:

Phil Moore, Larry Page and Newton
Sims are not the real names of the per-
sons so named in the foregoing story.
Fictitious names have been used
because there is no reason for public
interest in the identities of these per-
sons.

Southwest Killer Had
Thing for Naked Boys!

. (Continued from page 41)

car and Hatton's apartment, the latter
carried out while Hatton’s wife and
children watched anxiously.

In a report to newsmen, Lieutenant
Wilkins said, “The searches turned up no

clothes, no gun, no evidence.” The detec- =

tive told reporters that Hatton was not a
definite suspect, but that police were still

checking to determine any possible con- *

nection he might have with the slayings.

While the interrogation of the nearly
hysterical Hatton had been underway, of-
ficers had canvassed the apartments in an

attempt to idenify the slain youths. ~

Others searched: fer their missing
clothing. As Hatton was driven away ina
patrol cruiser on the assault and obstruc-
tion charges, Wilkins conferred with the
uniformed detail which had been handl-
ing the door-to-door questioning.

“There has been no sign at all of the
missing clothing,” the detective was told.
“But from the descriptions we've been
giving, we found atenant who believes he
can identify the boys.”

The lieutenant was taken to the unit
occupied by a man introduced as 37-year-
old Walter Steinman, who said he was liv-
ing in the apartment complex with his
stepmother. He told Wilkins he thought
the victims were Jeff Schlosser and Kelly

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Kardell. Young Schlosser, he said, had liv-
ed with his family at Canlen House until

‘they moved a few months ago to

‘ Scottsdale, another Phoenix suburb:

located just to the north of Tempe.

“The boys came to my place about six
forty-five on Wednesday night, just as I
was sitting down to dinner,” Steinman
said. “They asked if they could spend the
night with me...said they had run away
from home. They said they wanted to
prove to their moms that they had the
guts to run away.”

“Did youlet them stay with you?” ask-
ed the detective.

“No, sir. I told them they'd better get
back home to their parents, but they
seemed determined to run away. I saw
them fooling around and playing in the
patio area for awhile and figured they'd
soon get tired and go home.”

Other residents were canvassed by of-
ficers as Lieutenant Wilkins contacted the
Scottsdale Police Department to see if
parents could be located on the basis of
the tenative identification given by
Walter Steinman. After locating the
families, it became the grim duty of
Scottsdale patrolmen to notify the
Schlosser and Kardell families: of the
possibility that their sons had been the
victims of a tragic shooting incident, and
to see if members of the families could go
to Tempe Community Hospital to verify
the identification of the two murdered
boys.

By midmorning, it was established
that the victims had been Jeffrey Don
Schlosser and Kelly Bennett Kardell, both
12 years old and students of the Mohave
elementary school in Scottsdale. The two
youngsters had left their homes together
Wednesday morning, supposedly to go to
Mohave School, but they did not reach
their first class of the day. When notified
of the absenteeism, their parents had con-
tacted each other and the boys were
reported to Scottsdale Police late
Wednesday as missing and _ possible
runaways.

It was time for a review of the
evidence gathered thus far in the case
Wilkins, Detective Sergeant Bob Hanna,
Detective William Rogers and several

~ study the preliminary autopsy findings

yweapon. One slug has been recovered.”

*“. “Ballistics comparisons can be made=#

* and had discovered no reason to FORT

members of the Arizona Department @
Public Safety and Maricopa County
Sheriff's Office who had been called
for assistance, gathered to pool notes ang

“Each boy died after being shot one
in the back of the head with a .38-caliber

Wilkins told his fellow investigator,

we can find the weapon. There was @
bloody palmprint on the door. We check:
ed and found it to be that of John Hattes,
the man who found the bodies. He could
have contacted the blood when he found
the boys and made the print as he we
running out of theroom to contact pole,
There’s not enough yet to make him «
prime suspect, but I want Hatton
background checked out completely.”

“Were the kids molested?” one of the
detectives wanted to know. =)

“No. Even though they were bot
nude, the coroner says there’s no signal
sexual molestation or any perverted *
tack.” : aS
A complete search of the murder
premises had turned up no trace of the
death ‘weapon, nor of the missing
clothing. Steps were made to initiate the
routine checks to be madein all such child
killings. Known sexual deviates and per
sons living in the area with crimind
records were studied, some contacted fer
interrogation. Police records and daily
reports were scanned to determine if any
unusual occurances had been reported i
the vicinity near the approximate time
the murders, which was established by
the coroner's report as somew'
between 1:30 and 2:30 a.m: on Thursday,
November 7th. This effort resulted ®
Wilkin’s discovery of the call ans
by Patrolman Gabe Rios at the Cankes
House apartments shortly before b®
am. :

The homicide veteran contacted OF
ficer Rios for a detailed oral report:

“I talked to the man who pho
complaint,” Rios said. “He told of seit
someone he thought was John. Hatta
with two strange boys leaving the groce?
store down the street and cutting acto®
the field toward the apartments. Hes
Hatton later, crouching behind some#™
bage bins behind the apartments aol
without the boys, and_ called
quarters. I drove around for a '
flashing my spot, but couldnt se
anything out of line.” ,

“Did you search the pool cabana”

“I looked in that area, but didnt
any unusual activity, so I didnt 0"
side.” RG

“Did you check with Hatton?’ =

The officer nodded, saying he'd
to Hatton's apartment after obtaining
number from the complaining W!
He had talked briefly with Hatton's we

up further on the complaint. ; ‘a
The check on_ police calls
revealed that Hatton had been stopp™ 4

—_

: bya patrol car in Phoenix about 2 a.m. for

giving with his bright lights on. He’d
been issued a warning and given a sobrie-
ty test, which he passed. This time ele-
eat seemed to verify that Hatton may
juve been some 15 miles away from the
eabana in his car at the approximate time
te boys were murdered.

When last seen, Kelly Kardell had
heen wearing a striped brown pullover
dirt with a half zipper, a red and blue
windbreaker jacket, blue jeans and black
tennis shoes. J eff Schlosser was wearing a
sed polo shirt with a pocket on the left,
tue flared Western jeans, a yellow wind-
tweaker with red horizontal stripes, and
ehite and blue track-type tennis shoes.

Detective Rogers spoke to newsmen
eovering the case, giving them a com-
e rundown on the clothing. “Anybody

ing an item similar to these should
eontact us,” the detective said, “and we
can determine if this is what we are look-
ng for.”

At this point, police were emphasizing
fat Hatton was not charged with the
shootings and was not a suspect, but that
te investigation was continuing.

Dozens of calls had been received by
friday afternoon, 36 hours after the
gurders, from persons who had found
dothing similar to that described, but
see of it was confirmed as belonging to
fel or Kelly.

b ater on Friday afternoon, Hatton
wpeared in the court of Justice of the
Peace George Boyd, who ordered the of-
ike of the public defender to represent
Hatton. He then set a bond of $5,500 on
te obstructing charge.

The fruitless search for the killer con-
med over the weekend. On Monday,
Hatton's. newly appointed public
defender appealed for a reduction of the
bond. Justice of the Peace Boyd agreed to
telease Hatton on his own recognizance
othe condition that he returned for a

February, 1975 trial on the assault and |

tbstruction charges.

It was later revealed that Tempe
police had wanted Hatton released so
bey could follow him. Although no
tidence had been gathered against the
an, they hoped that Hatton, if guilty,
would lead them to the boys’ clothing or
tothe gun used in the slayings.

‘he man, however, made no
*spicious moves in the days immediately

wing his release. Detectives trailing

man were called off whenat least part

Hatton's hysterical reaction to the

ice preliminary investigation was ex-
plained by his background. It was dis-
‘ered that the 9-year-old daughter of

man who had found the bodies of the

sser and Kardell boys had been a

estation victim herself.

‘he incident occurred four months

et. It was learned that Martha

ett, a Phoenix policewoman, had in-

‘viewed the child and established that a

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would soon be found. It took ten days to bring to light
the final episode of one of America’s most vicious
murders.

ou UNE 28th was just another torrid day. Some eight
miles northeast of Carrollton, Kentucky, there is a
large pond sprawling on both sides of a public highway
through which extends a stream known as Mill Creek.

“The last one in is a so and so,” shouted a lad as he
ripped off his clothing. There was a scurry and amidst
shouting and splashing several boys were soon enjoying

_the invigorating waters of the pond. One of the boys

noticed a large cardboard box caught on some submerged
roots near the bank.

Suddenly one of the boys shrank back with a start:
“Look,” he shouted, “‘There’s a hand sticking out of the
box.”

It did not take the lads long to get into their clothing.
Rushing across the meadows, they reported their dis-
covery to a farmer who in turn notified the sheriff’s office
in Carroll County.

Sheriff Banks once more hurried to the scene of the
latest discovery and carefully removed the box together
with its contents, and then returned to Carrollton. The

74

BAPTISMAL POOL——

is shown in the inset. From here
and from the culvert above, of-
ficers obtained amazing evidence.

box was filled with lime and cement which had solidified.

Imbedded in this hardened mixture were a pair of
hands and the head of a man. There was no question in
Sheriff Bank’s mind now, as to the other two episodes
and their relation to this final event. The head and
hands undoubtedly belonged to the torso found in the
culvert.

Friends of Captain Miller in New Trenton read of this

latest find and now, throughly alarmed, delegated two
members, Frank Sacksteder and O. B. Beard to rush to
Carrollton and see if what they feared had actually
happened.

The cement had preserved the head and hands so
throughly that the two friends positively identified the
exhibits as being from the body of Captain Miller. On

the same day,-the head was: definitely identified by’

Captain Miller’s dentist.

It was decided that a conference should be called of
Carrollton, Kentucky, officials, detectives from the Police
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Indiana State Police.

On the morning of July 2nd, the Kentucky officials, to-
gether with Sheriff Banks of Carroll County, Lieutenant
George Shattel in charge of the Cincinnati Homicide
Squad, and Captain Matt Leach, as well as officers John
Barton and Ernest Richardson of the Indiana State
Police, met in general conference in Cincinnati.

The Cincinnati police were able to produce the follow-
ing vital information. First, that Captain Miller’s
securities comprised of many thousands of dollars in
stocks, were kept in the home of his sister, Flora Miller
of Cincinnati. Second: that Flora Miller had a chauf-
feur who also acted as secretary and companion, by the
name of Heber L. Hicks. Third: that Heber L. Hicks
nad recently attempted to sell some shares of stock to a
broker in Cincinnati. Fourth: that Heber L. Hicks was
yn ex-convict, having been convicted and sentenced to
ife imprisonment for the first degree murder of a young
arl named Joy Sparks in 1918. Hicks had been paroled
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The most startling information disclosed at that im-
portant conference however, was the fact that both
Flora Miller and Heber Hicks had appeared in Carroll-
ton, Kentucky, to view the head and hands of Captain
Miller and both had definitely denied that the gruesome
exhibits belonged to the late Captain Miller. It was dis-
closed that Flora Miller and Hicks were now living in
Captain Miller’s home in New Trenton, Indiana!

With this amazing news buzzing through his mind,
Captain Matt Leach of the Indiana State Police lost no
time in withdrawing from the meeting and dispatching
his two officers, Barton and Richardson, across the Ohio
River to New Trenton to take Hicks and Flora Miller
into custody. The two officers in company with Sheriff
George Pulskamp of Franklin County, Indiana, pro-
ceeded to Captain Miller’s home.

Knowing that Hicks was an ex-convict and a killer, the
officers prepared themselves for any emergency. Slink-
ing up to the front door, they gave it a try, but it was
locked. Peering through the windows they learned there
were no occupants in the house.

Ra URE ENLY. a Pontiac sedan swung into the long drive-
way and proceeded toward the house. Quickly the
officers took up strategic (Continued on page 81)

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sidys. And then Elton became truly
panic-stricken.

“Oh, God, mother, I wish I’d never
done it!” he breathed into the chink.
“And now they’ve got Charles in here.
If they ever go to work on him—he’s
so damned weak...”

“Don’t tell them anything,” came
the iron woman’s command. “We’ve
got to ‘stick together!” A moment
later, however, her real thoughts came
to the fore. “I’m just praying Charlie
keeps his mouth shut. It’s our only
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here was little more conversation.
Murphy and Hart read over the ste-
nographer’s notes, and smiled with
satisfaction. “Let’s talk to Elton about
the ‘suicide’ again.”

Elton was brought into the sheriff's
office, perspiring and shivering. Hart
cocked, an eyebrow at him.

“Look like you didn’t have a very
good night, Elton,” he observed.

A wan smile of defiance crossed the
man’s face. “I’ve slept on more com-
fortable beds.”

“Oh, it was the bed. I figured may-
be it was because you spent most. of
the time talking through that-chink in
the wall. That’s a favorite trick
prisoners have. They find the chink,
and when. they discover they can
carry on a conversation they sit up
and talk back and forth. It’s very
interesting to hear what they have to
say. We got to like their conversa-
tions so much we put a dictophone in
there.”

“Dictophone!” the young man
croaked hoarsely. “You mean that if
I said anything—”

Hart nodded affably. “Every word.
We even got a confession ready for
you to sign.”

Cassidy looked as though his legs
were about to give way. “You win,”
he said shortly. “I killed her. It was
my mother’s idea, to get the children
back, and I did it. We sent Charles to
Detroit, because the suspicion would
naturally have grafted on to him right

away.

Immediately Elton had signed a
confession, Charles was called into
the office. He took one look at his
brother’s face and knew it was all
over. He, too, admitted his part in the
crime.

It was the old woman who held out
the longest, as Murphy had expected.
Even confronted with the confessions
of her two sons, she refused to admit
any knowledge of the matter. Finally,
after long hours of grilling, she broke
down and told the truth. And then,
for the first time, the whole story
came out.

She told about how she and her
q «two sons had sat and figured ways

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another lady came from the rear of
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out from their places of concealment.
Both women screamed. Hicks cursed

CRIME DETECTIVE

and means of retrieving the children.
Charles had suggested divorce, but
that was two expensive and too risky.

The judge would probably award
the children to the mother. And
Helen wouldn’t just give them up;
that had been proved before.

Death was the only solution. Poison
was first suggested, but that had to
be ruled out because of the possibility
that the youngsters might be given
some, accidentally. Murder that
looked like suicide was the answer.

No other members of the family
knew of the plot. It was something
to be shared only by those three.
Each was given his part to play.
Charles was to effect a reconciliation
with Helen, and then go to Detroit
“on business,” thus making a sure
alibi for the one who would most
naturally be suspected.

Elton was to perform the actual
murder. “I went to the house quite
late,” he told police. “The children
were all asleep, the house was quiet.
I talked for a few minutes with Helen,
and then I started an argument.

“I told her I didn’t like the stories
she been spreading about me. She
first denied having said anything,
then she got mad and said she’d say
anything she pleased.

“T called her names, and finally
grabbed her by the throat... It was
awfully easy ...”

The trial was brief. Elton and
Charles were very beat throughout,
as though finally realizing the vicious
heartlessness of their crime. But the
iron woman was as rigid and obstinate
as ever.

Elton and Charles were each given
life sentences in Jackson Prison.
Matilda Cassidy, whose twisted brain
had devised and planned the murder,
will spend the remainder of her life
in the Detroit House of Correction.

Andrew Cassidy, who found the
body, told a crowd outside the court:

My brothers and my mother are
done with. It is their lives and I am
living mine. You can look down on
me, as I suppose some of you are,
but I will try to live my life straight.”

The crowd cheered him.

And the children, for whose pos-
session a young woman’s life was
cruelly snuffed out, are with Mr. and
Mrs. Nathan Morlan, Helen’s parents.
They gurgle and play as though noth-
ing has happened. Junior, whose
lisping words first put authorities on
the trail of the murderers, little sus-
pects that he will never see mummie
again, and that because of his childish
prattle to “the nice man”, his daddy
will spend the rest of his years in
prison.

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but before he could show any further
anger, handcuffs were snapped to his
wrists. The three were led inside
the house where they were separated
and questioned.

Hicks raved. Nor could any infor-
mation be wormed out of Miss Miller.
It was apparent that the other woman
arrested with Hicks and Miss Miller
was entirely innocent, so she was re-

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MURDERED

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stabbed to death in New. York as she
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leased with apologies.

The officers took their prisoners to
the Brookville, Indiana, jail, that be-
ing the Franklin County Seat. The fol-
lowing morning they were taken_to
the State Police Headquarters at In-
dianapolis, where they were turned
over for Sergeant Grinsted to retain
until they were questioned by Cap-
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Stories from New ‘Trenton and
Cincinnati were soon picked up by
the Indianapolis newspapers. Cap-
tain Matt Leach and his State Police
were now in for as severe a panning
as ever was released by the press in
a municipality.

The increasing demand for Matt
Leach’s scalp reached such a point
that the entire case was presented to
Attorney General Lutz.

Being first assistant Attorney Gen-
eral of Indiana, this broiling hotbed
of trouble was turned over to me to
settle according to the laws of the
State of Indiana.

My first move was to summon Cap-
tain Leach. I wanted to find out for
myself just why this outstanding peace
officer was so sure of his ground.

“Captain Leach,” I began, as the
officer sank in a chair, “you know
why I have called you. The public

and the press are against your holding

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CRIME DETECTIVE

Miss Miller and Heber Hicks. Take
a look at these newspaper clippings.”
And I handed him a bale of news-~-
papers each bearing ominous head-
Lines.

Captain Leach stood up, gazed out
the window, slipped his hands into
his pockets and said:

“Mr. Barce, give me five more days.
That’s all I want. Five more days. At
the end of July 8th, I'll tell you and
the press what they can do to me.
That's all I can say at this time.”

“All right, Captain,” I replied.
“Suppose we leave it that way. Let’s
make a date for say July the 10th to
determine what is to be done.”

After Captain Leach took his de-
parture, I further reviewed the case
and promptly issued a statement to
the effect that Matt Leach was legally
right in the actions he had taken to
date.

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not even seen the prisoners since their
arrests. But the moment had now
arrived for a showdown. Time was
short. He was to report to me on
the 10th of July. Everything ig gree
upon the outcome of Captain Leach’s
first interrogation of the prisoners.
This first grilling took place on
July the 6th at seven o’clock in the
evening. Hicks was at once subjected
to a “lie detector” test. Then Captain
Leach commenced his relentless bar-
rage of questions which continued
until the next afternoon at 2 o'clock.
Then, Hicks and Miss Miller were

transferred to the Seymour State Po- ©

lice Barracks where the questioning
was pursued up to nine o'clock in the
evening. It looked like a futile waste
of time and words. Many an officer
would have given up long before.
But not Matt Leach.

Then came the beginning of the end.
Hicks suddenly said: “If you will
permit me to talk to Flora Miller
for a while, I will tell you officers
the truth. I know the men who
killed Captain Miller and why it was
done.”

Hicks was granted permission to
talk to Flora Miller alone. After a
short time, he announced that he was
ready to talk.

He said that he knew about the
thousands of dollars worth of securi-
ties in the safe at the home of Flora
Miller, where he was working: that
he had great influence over Flora
Miller and that in the event of Cap-
tain Miller’s death, he would benefit
indirectly because of his intimate as-
sociation with her. He admitted he
had conspired with three other ex-
convicts, John  Poholsky, William
Kuhlman and Frank Gore Williams,
to bring about Captain Miller’s death;
that a part of the conspiracy took
place in Franklin County, Indiana, but
that he, Hicks, was not present in
Indiana or Kentucky during any part
of the actual commission of the crime.
The man added that Captain Miller
had been attacked and struck down
in his home on the night of June 1ith
by Kuhlman, Poholsky and Williams
and taken to Kentucky where his
body was dismembered; that Kuhl-
man, Williams and Poholsky were
paid killers, hired by Hicks to do
away with Captain iller; and that
Flora Miller knew absolutely nothing
about the affair.

After making this statement, Hicks
was taken to the Franklin County jail
to await. indictment and trial.

PTs Matt Leach kept his appoint-
ment in my office on the morning
of July 10th. There was no doubt that
Hicks was the villain behind Captain
Miller’s death. Flora Miller had been
released, subject to further call as a
material witness.

I congratulated Matt Leach on se-
curing the confession. He gave mea
wry smile and said: “IT want a bet-
ter confession than what Hicks gave
me.” he said. “Hicks had a lot more
to do with the Captain’s murder than
he admitted.”

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ground, Captain. Why were you so
certain Hicks was mixed up in the
murder?” I asked.

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the newspapers were inflaming the
public with adverse criticism, I was
busy making a very intensive investi-
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head and hands had been chopped off.
Most of his clothes were gone. A size 52
undergarment remained.

“Whoever he was,” Deputy Sheriff
Bakes said, “his murderers didn’t want
him identified. So identifying him is our
job. Find out who he was and we'll find
out who wanted to kill him.”

But discovering the identity of the dead’

man was not a simple matter despite the
publicity the crime received. The sen-
sational news of the decapitation murder
was linked with the baptismal pool mys-
tery by the newspapers in that part of
the country. Cincinnati, Indianapolis
and Louisville headlined the story. Clues,
mostly false, poured in upon the officers
of the two counties? ,

A stream of people passed through the
undertaking establishment to which the
body had been taken. Some were grief-
stricken, fearing the body was that of a
loved one. Others were only curious.
Several times the torso was identified but
never positively.

One of the most promising clues
came from New Trenton, Ind., where it
was reported that Captain Harry R.
Miller, retired Cincinnati fireman, had
not been seen for almost two weeks. He
had gone to Indiana to establish a sum-
mer home near New Trenton.

Haggard and unshaven, the

killer tells an Indiana po-

liceman how he plotted the

. crimson kidnaping. At right

is Captain Matt Leach
whose shrewd sleuthing _

helped solve the ghastly

At first no one had been alarmed by his.

absence. He often escaped the loneli-
ness of his home by. taking long trips

- around the country. Returning from

these excursions, he would regale the
neighbors with stories of his adventures.
Possessed of Rabelasian good humor, he
was a large, powerful man who had re-
tained his love for a good time.

- Worried Financially .

AD he told some one he was taking a
trip, asked some one to keep an eye

on his place and feed-his chickens, there
would have been no concern oyer his
absence. But, besides the odd circum-
stances surrounding his disappearance he
had talked worriedly of certain requests
for money: which had been made to him
repeatedly. He was known to be wealthy,

a shrewd or lucky stock market player. .

Another thing that worried his neigh-
bors was the absence from his front gate
of an iron bar which customarily held the
gate shut. The gate was ajar, as the
captain never would have left it. His

murder.

neighbors could not find the missing iron
bar. But otherwise nothing about the
appearance of the place excited suspicion
except that vegetation near the porch
had been trampled.

Some of his friends and neighbors
viewed the. body in Kentucky but were
unable to say whether or not it was his.
It seemed the same size, and Captain
Miller was known to have visited Har-
rison frequently. Perhaps the match
packet found at baptismal pool had be-
longed to him.

As June neared its end interest in the
case was waning. The whole affair might
have been, dropped except for two small
boys who went swimming on June 28, in
Butler Lake near Carrollton.

At the shallow end of the lake there
was a swimming hole overgrown with
brush and cat-tails. Choosing this place
because they had no suits, the boys
threshed about in the water, diving under
its surface and splashing back and forth
from shore. Suddenly one of them burst
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“T felt fingers down there under water,”
he jabbered. “A stone, and fingers stick-
ing out from it.” |

The other burst out) laughing, How
could fingers stick out of a stone?

“Yes, sir!” the first boy insisted. “You
go out and sée.” :

The other, a taller jad, waded to the”
spot indicated by his companion. When
his foot struck something hard he stopped
laughing. He went under water, came
up as frightened as his. friend.

“Jeepers!” he shouted. “There's
fingers sticking out of that rock. Cold
fingers. But there’s no one down there.
Let’s get Dr. Bakes, quick !” °

Sensing a solution to the mystery of
the headless and handless body, the deputy
sheriff rushed back to the lake with them.
There he brought up the object the boys
had felt, a block of cement. It was incased
in a pasteboard box around which were
about 30 feet of clothesline. “Fingers of
a hand projected from one side. .

Deputy Sheriff Bakes hurried back to
Carrollton with the find. He and Sheriff
Banks split the cement box. It broke
open to reveal.a human head and two
hands. ;

The startling news stimulated fresh

efforts toward identification. The officets /

were confident the head and hands be-
longed to the body found earlier in the
neighboring county. A few more weeks
in the lake and the box would have been
lost forevet. in the mud of the lake
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Captain Miller’s friends again were

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called to attempt an identification. Most
of them agréed that the head and hands
were his. Particularly were they sure of
tthe hair, When asked about scars-found
of. the hands, the identifiers said that
Miller had borne similar marks. But a
carbuncle that had been on his neck was

neither on the head or the torso found

‘fin Shelby county.

| The investigation received another set-
back when the missing fireman’s sister.
Miss Flora Miller, said the body could
not be his. The former opera singer

, offered a reason that dashed the hopes of
Deputy Sheriff Bakes that the identity
had been established definitely. She had
received, she said, a postcard from her
brother dated from Cleveland, Ohio, after
\June 12. He had written that he was
making a trip and would be gone for
sometime, ;

Head Doesn’t Fit Body

ADDING to the mystery, a physician
submitted his opinion that the head
and harids did not belong to the torso.
The torso was that’ of a person dead for
much longer than a month..
“The murderers made a great mis-
take,” the physician said. “They thought
| they were pouring quicklime on the body
which would destroy it. Instead they
poured on slack lime which acted as a
preservative,” ,
The examination of the head by Cor-
- oner Walter S, Brim revealed’ a bullet
hole in the right temple.: \
ih /

Holding the fishing
poles at left is Dr. D.
C. Bakes, astute Car-
roll county officer.
Lieutenant George
Schattle, to whom the
killer confessed,
grasps the crimson
hand ax used in the
decapitation. Below
ig William Kuhlman
after his capture by
police.

“But there were other serious injuries,”
he said. “The man was beaten. The
back of the skull was crushed.”

Deputy Sheriff Bakes rallied from his
setbacks. He refused to believe that the
finds at the baptismal -pool, the body
under the culvert and the head and hands
were not connected. Comparing the
cords discovered at all three places, he
found them of identical twist. He pointed
out that cement had been used at each
place.

The sister of the ex-fire captain was
persuaded to visit Carrollton to view the
head and hands and determine whether
they were her brother’s. She was driven
there by her chauffeur, Heber L. Hicks.
The’ chauffeur, known as Jimmie Hicks,
had also been well acquainted with Miller.

Miss Miller was shaken with emotion
at the sight of the head and hands. Gain-
ing control of herself, she scrutinized

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the face of the moon blotting out

its cold: light and darkening the
waters of baptismal pool on Mill Creek.
In the trees clinging to the damp banks
a rising wind sobbed through the early
summer foliage. Suddenly the fragrant
warmth of the June night was dissipated
by a chill that swept up from the moist
earth, «.- -

In a nearby lane a man paced nervously
back and forth. Beneath the thin-coat
pulled tightly around him his shoulders
trembled violently. A ‘night bird shrilled
wildly and he whirled toward ‘the sound,
striving to pierce the darkness by the
intensity of his gaze. .

“Won’t they ever get done?” he mut-\
tered,

For years faithful converts had sought,
peace and salvation in,the waters of the
pool but the man in the lane was unaware
of that. He only knew that the blackness
of the night cloaked a deed so terrible
that convulsive shudders gripped: him
when he thought of it.

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April, 1937

Abruptly the beam of a flashlight split
the darkness by the pool, touching the
opposite bank and ‘moving across the
ruffed water. At last it rested on’ the
thin twisted face of a man who gripped
an ax in both hands, i

Suddenly the ax rose and flashed down
through the light beam. The light raced
across the ground. until it rested on a
clump of rank weeds where something
round and white had rolled..

Then the flash was snappéd off as if the
man holding it was horrified by what he
saw. A moment passed before the ax-
wielder’s voice crashed upon the stillness.

“Pull youtself together,” he said
hoarsely. “He can’t hurt us now.”

The next morning W. R, Dunn, owner
of the farm surrounding baptismal pool,
walked whistling down the lane where a
restless man-had shivered on the night
of June 11, 1936. Mr. Dunn carried
tobacco plants which he intended to set
out in one of his fields across Mill creek.

He turned down the path worn by the
church people of Carroll county, Ken-

Savage and pitiless, this slit-

eyed headsman received $55

for his part in the horrible
slaying.

tucky. Near the pool he was halted by
the sight of three abandoned fishing poles
lying tied together. He halted and looked
around curiously. Next he saw a crimson
handkerchief lying close by.

Mr. Dunn put down his tobacco plants
and sought some explanation of his dis-
coveries. He still was not alarmed.
Some fisherman had probably injured
himself end: wanted his poles. But
the next object he saw caused the white-
haired farmer to stare in horror. It was

‘a blood-stained handax. Not far away

was evidence enough to convince him
that some horrible thing had occurred.
He found the ground stained by three
pools of red, one so large that the life
blood of some being must have gushed

-out there. A substance, apparently

cement, had been poured on the ground
in a hasty effort to hide the dark stains.
The farmer also found some stained
pieces of clothesline.

Hurrying to his home, he called Sheriff
Walton Banks who rushed to the scene

_ with Deputy Sheriff D, C. Bakes, who

is also an able detective.
Matches Offer Clue

"THE two officers aided by Mr. Dunn

hunted for a body but could find none,
nor could they find more to tell them what
grisly act had happened there. All that
the search revealed was a packet of
matches bearing the name of a Harrison,
Ohio, cafe.

“Of course some animal may have been
butchered,” Sheriff Banks said. “But in
that case the fellows that did it wouldn’t
have forgotten their fishing poles. Guess
the thing to do is just to wait for develop-
ments. If somebody’s been murdered we
ought to be hearing about it.”

After a week passed and no further
evidence turned up. the officers began. to
think the affair would always-remain a

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mystery. But on the morning of June’

19 they received a phone call that quickly.
changed their minds.

Andrew Ritchey,.a farmer of Shelby
county adjacent to Carroll county,,had
found that his mules had broken down a
fence and gotten away. He set owt in
search of them. In doing so he passed a

little-sed culvert on a lane near his ,
farm. Something under it caught his eye.

“I thought it was a dead sheep,” he said
later. “But when I got closer I saw it
wasn’t no sheep. No, sir! It was a
corpse layin’ there! Horrible, I tell you.
No head, no hands! It was wrapped in

_some kind of oil cloth and there was lime

and cement poured all over it. I got
away from there quick.” :

Mr. Ritchey ran to neighbors who ©

called Shelby county authorities. Remem-
bering the:baptismal pool mystery, they
in turn called Deputy Sheriff Bakes of
Carroll county. An examination of the

ddme: 4 solved wahen the miutley waters
ke reveal the clue of the lifeless hands.

Fe a bafflin

of a tiny.

‘Sheriff D. C. Bakes, standing, and Sheriff Walton
Banke’ Tait the pond where the head and hands of Cap-
-‘tain Harry Miller, left, were found.

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to start on an extended vacation trip. Deputy Bakes,
still ruminating over the strange find, was in the barber
shop getting a shave.

While Bakes was seated in the chair, the driver of
a Louisville to Shelbyville bus came in and began an
amiable chatter that made the deputy sit bolt upright.

The driver was laughingly telling about how he had
been running over the body of a dead man every day
for a week. Explaining, he said that a farmer two miles
south of Eminence, in Shelby County, had been attracted
to a highway culvert by an unpleasant odor issuing from
it. Investigating, he found the torso of a large man
clothed only in the ragged remains of a suit of underwear,
with a bloody piece of oilcloth wrapped around the
shoulders. The head and hands had been hacked from
the body, and were nowhere to be found. *

Deputy Bakes was galvanized into a fever of excite-
ment. He formed a sudden picture in his mind—the
picture of a man lying outstretched on the ground, while
a blood-thirsty, axe-wielding killer chopped off first the
head, then the hands at the wrists. ‘The gush of red
blood from the severed arteries of the wrists and the
jugular vein... - Three pools of blood, one large and
the others smaller... - The bloody triangle!

Bakes rushed to tell the sheriff. Gathering up their
collection of clues, the two officers left post-haste for
Shelbyville, where the Shelby County sheriff, John
Barnes, took them to view the dismembered torso. When
the undertaker showed them the pieces of cord with
which the arms and legs had been trussed, Bakes’ eyes
gleamed. They were identical with the cord he had found
near Mill Creek pond!

More than ever confirming his suspicion that the dead
man had some mysterious connection with the bloody
triangle, Dr. Bakes saw that the torso was smudged with
sand and cement. All the buttons were intact on the
torn underwear except one. Bakes produced the button
found near the pool and compared it with those on the
underclothes. They were the same. But if murder had
been done at Mill Creek, how had the body found its
way to the highway culvert? SS

_ Sheriff Banks interrupted his revery. “Bakes,” he
said, “since I’m leaving on my trip tomorrow, I’m placing
the case in your hands. I rather doubt if you can find
who this man is, since all identifying marks have been
removed—but go to 36)”

DETECTIVE ae

The torso was found in Shelby County a short dis-")

tance from the Carroll County line, but neighboring —
officials gladly cooperated with Deputy Bakes in obtain- |
ing all available details. The dead man, they found, |
had been of more than average height. He was heavy |
set, weighing something over 200: pounds, and his age
was placed variously at from forty to sixty. . ;
With newspapers in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio |
carrying headlines about the gruesome find, and with ‘
the sheriff departed on his vacation trip, Bakes realized .
that he was faced by a mystery bloody and formidable.
Here was murder, cruel and cunningly premeditated—
and he was balked until he identified the corpse. Yet
in the back of his head was the firm conviction that if he
could explain the occurrence at Mill Creek, he would
be a long way toward solving the riddle of the headless

and handless corpse.

EMEMBERING the fishing poles, and the tire tracks

,. Bob Dunn had seen near the creek, Bakes now began
a house-to-house canvass of the neighborhood near Mill
Creek. Had anyone, he wanted to know, seen an auto-
mobile with three poles strapped on the side, on the night
of June 11 or the following morning?

After much patient work he came to the home of Mrs.
Agatha Martin, whose keen eyes had seen something out .
of the ordinary.

“Why, yes,” Mrs. Martin answered. “There was a Car
like that that passed here.’ I remember wondering why,
they drove so slowly. It was a sedan with three men
riding in the front seat. The back seat was filled with
what looked like camping equipment. I think the car
had an Ohio license.” ’ em

Another. farmer’s wife, Mrs. Mary ‘Bruce, added a
puzzling bit to Mrs. Martin’s story. As she arose at
five A. M. on June 12, she said, a sedan drew up across
the road and two men got out, while another remained

_jn.the car. The two carried a bundle over near the barn '

and appeared to be trying to burn it. Fearing that they *
might set the barn ablaze, Mrs. Bruce went out to stop
them. To her surprise, the men grabbed up the bundle |
as she approached, jumped into the car and drove away.
All three men were well dressed, she said.

Still a third woman, Mrs. Walton Morgan, had seen a \
car coming from Carrollton toward her home near White’s
Run. The car stopped, two men got out, lifted a bundle |
from the rear seat and tossed it over the side of the
bridge spanning the run. Then they turned the car |
around and sped away. 34

Waiting to hear no more, the chiropractor-sleuth
leaped into his car and drove to the bridge. Probing the |
muck and debris of the dry run, he soon pounced on a
misshapen bundle and opened it. It contained'a woman’s |
hat, some rags soaked with kerosene, road maps of Ohio
and Kentucky, two credit cards. from a service station |
in Cincinnati, and a sheet of the same type of oilcloth |
that had been wrapped around the torso. And folded |
i the oilcloth was a two-inch square piece of human

esh!

Bakes vividly remembered that an inexplicable
gash had been cut in the back of the dead man’s neck,
He hurried back to his. office, called Sheriff Barnes at
Shelbyville—and found that the piece of flesh matched
the hole slashed in the corpse. What was the’ reason for
this blood-chilling and apparently meaningless may- |
hem? ; ~ / iil
Sheriff Barnes divulged yet another bit of information
that cemented the theory connecting the unidentified
body with the bloody triangle twenty-five miles away.

A Shelby County couple, returning from a dance at
slightly after midnight of June 11, had seen a car parked |
at the fatal culvert. The car was a Ford V-8 sedan and |

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clothes stripped from their victim’s body
in the culvert.

Asked about the fish poles, Poholsky
said that they were attached to the car
merely as a camouflage to cover the
deadly purpose of their drive. .

Hicks, he said, had agreed to pay him
$2,000, but actually paid only $55. Out
of this had to come $20 for expenses—his
net payment being $35 in place of $2,000.

During the long story, Hicks remained
as impassive as Poholsky himself, except
for an occasional flicker of his eyes or a
whitening of the knuckles of his clasped
hands. :

Following Poholsky’s testimony, the
State introduced various exhibits ranging
from the tiny gold denture to the heavy
screen door. But the big moment’ in the
trial came when the defense fought bit-
terly to exclude the signed confession
Hicks had made at Seymour.

TEPHENS BLAKELY, Hicks’ attor-
ney, demanded of Lieutenant Schattle :
“You admit that you kept this man
from his sleep for twenty-eight congecu-
tive hours?” ;

“He got as much sleep as I did!” re-
torted the officer.

To Captain Leach, the man who had
worn the hatred of John Dillinger like
the cross of the Legion of Honor,
Blakely barked: ;

“Had you no respect for the rights of
this man?” ;

“I had more respect for the rights of
the people of Indiana than for those of
a convicted murderer!” was the spirited
reply—and it was a good reply.

“Read the confession,” ordered Judge
O’Byrne.

On December 11th, a telegram was
handed to Sheriff Pulskamp. He hurried
to Chicago, boarded a_ transcontinental
plane and shot through the sky, over
deserts and mountains, westward to the
end of land. Back in Brookville the
State’s Attorney solemnly declared:

“This is the hand of God!”

On the sixteenth, a wave of intense ex-
citement swept over the courtroom when
Prosecutor Copes said quickly:

“Call William Kuhlman;” —

Sheriff Pulskamp led in a slight, dapper
young man with a black eye, who pro-
ceeded to turn his soul inside out. Less

than a week ago, he said, he had been ,

nabbed by the police of Portland, Oregon,
while getting away with $800 from the
holdup of « movie theater there. “They
gave me this shiner,” he said, and added:
“T had it coming.”

He told how Sheriff Pulskamp_ had
flown to Portland to fly back with him in
time to testify for the State. Deliberately
he told his story, punctuating it with
venomous glances at Hicks, the man who
had tempted him into murder and then
betrayed him to the law. Asked where
he got the death car, he replied, “I stole
it.” Like Poholsky, he contradicted
Hicks’ claim of not being present at the
actual perpetration of the crime. Hicks,
he said, took him and Williams to Cap-
tain Miller’s home and introduced them
as whisky salesmen.

Kuhlman’s story of the crime was much
the same as Poholsky’s, but he con-
tributed this further information concern-
ing their ride over into Kentucky with
the body of their victim crushed down
between two seats.

“Just after we’d honked for the War-
saw, Kentucky, ferry and it had started
across the Ohio River for us, Poholsky
said, ‘This guy ain’t dead yet!’ and we
didn’t dare cross. We left in a hurry
and continued down the river road. Cap-
tain Miller was groaning and struggling
and Poholsky was trying to hold him

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down. About three miles before we got
into Vevay, I leaned over from the front
seat and shot him three times. Then he
lay still.” Glancing vindictively at the
defense lawyers, he added: “That was on
the north bank of the Ohio, on the In-
diana side,”—thus dealing a crushing
blow to their contention that Miller had
died in Kentucky.

“On the morning of June 13th.” the
witness continued, “I called Jimmie
Hicks’ mother, as he had told me to. I
let on that I was Captain Miller and
left that message for Miller’s sister, Then
Williams and I drove to Cleveland, Ohio,
in the Ford I had stolen, and when we
got there, I mailed that posteard to Miss
Miller. Hicks had written it and signed
her brother’s name to it.

“T have told all this of my own free
will, without either promise or threat,”
he said in conclusion. “I told it because
I wanted to tell it.”

As he was led out past the table where
Hicks sat, he paused a few seconds to
glare down at him with concentrated
hatred. It was probably their last meet-
ing on earth.

When asked in Portland where Williams
was, he had snarled:

“IT only wish I knew! He ran out on
me in St. Louis with my gun and $200,
the dirty rat!’

But Nemesis was already treading on
the heels of the fugitive with the in-
credibly appropriate middle name. While
Kuhlman was closing the State’s case,
Captain Leach sat quietly listening. No
one knew that in his pocket was a tele-
gram, just received, informing him that
Frank Gore Williams*had been caught
in a San Francisco department store,
Where he had landed a job for the dura-
tion of the holiday rush,

Williams’ confession paralleled those
of Poholsky and Kuhlman.

Hicks took the stand in his own de-
fense in an attempt to offset the damn-
ing effect of his confession. His sleek,
almost boyish figure, attracted the atten.
tion of the whole court. -

A lone woman_ usually keeps a cat.
Miss Miller had kept Hicks. And now
he was about to turn on her. All the
love for husband and ‘children which fate
had denied her, the frustrated woman had
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human intelligence enough to keep hidden
his fangs and claws. Now he showed them
as_ he fought for his life.

He detailed unashamedly his activities
as gigolo to the former opera singer. He
told of the trips they had taken together ;
of the gifts from the infatuated woman,
ranging from a night-club and an auto-
mobile, down to the very suit and shoes
he was wearing when he stood on the
witness-stand. She had built a marble-
lined room and shower-bath for him. in
her home, he testified, and had once
bought him four pairs of shoes at a time.
Also four pairs of men’s shoes for her-
self, he added, almost maliciously. In
their two and a half years’ association,
according to his statement, the woman
had spent more than $15,000 on him.

Hicks admitted that he had hoped to
benefit indirectly by her brother’s death,
but was emphatic in his statement that
he had had nothing to do with the crime.

“Miss Miller,’ he said, “hired those
fellows to put Captain Miller out of the
way. I knew nothing of the murder un-
til she told me about it the next day.
+ dliaaae he had been robbing her all her
ife,

Hicks’ mother, an industrious and re-
spected woman, long estranged from his
father, followed him on the stand. and
as mothers. have done since the beginning
of time, did what she could to save her
son, corroborating his statements and en-
larging upon his good traits. Ag she
spoke, Hicks’ poker face quivered; he
suddenly burst into tears.

“NARS. HICKS,” asked the prosecutor

J gently, “you are the mother of the
Pe eadant yonder, who is on trial for his
ife

“Yes, sir.”

“That is all.” .

After four hours’ deliberation, the jury
brought in a verdict of guilty, with death
in the electric chair. Asked if he had
anything to say, the pallid prisoner cryp-
tically replied,

“T have broken no law of Indiana.”

On his being returned to his ground-
floor cell, Poholsky and Kuhlman, watch-
ing from upstairs, greeted him with jeers
and taunts of gratified revenge.

Christmas Eve found the murderous
quartette reunited under the roof of the
Brookville jail. A few days later, Hicks
was quietly removed to the penitentiary
at Michigan City.

A few weeks later, Poholsky, Kuhlman
and Williams pleaded guilty and were
sentenced to die in the electric chair on
June 10th, the day before the first anni-
versary of their crime,

When asked if they had anything to
say why sentences should not be pro-
nounced upon them, Poholsky said noth-
ing; Kuhlman declared, “This sentence is
a just one. I deserve it.” Williams burst
into tears as he said, “I have helped to
murder a good man and I deserve this
sentence.”

Over the Miller hillside home hangs
the pall of tragedy. Already the weather
has worn away the name “Harry R.
Miller’ from the mailbox, stuffed’ with
yellowing newspapers which bear his name
in their shrieking headlines. The rooms
are cold and dark as a grave. The clock
sits silent on the mantle. In the middle
of the room stands the kitchen table
where Miller awaited the cooking. of his
last supper. Beside it stands the chair
in which the big man sat that lovely
June night, at peace with his fellow men,
serenely looking over his favorite Cin-
cinnnati paper and enjoying the music and
jokes of the radio, while a pack of human
wolves was sneaking up to tear him,
literally, limb from limb. ‘


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4 quiet Barr Hollow neighborhood, Bob Dunn was
taking his horse to water in the Mill Creek baptismal
pool: It was Friday morning, June 12, 1936, and the

i rising sun glinted on growing corn-stalks and tobacco
a leaves as the farmer turned from the main highway to
follow the lane which led to the pool.

In the dust Dunn saw automobile tire tracks which had
not been there when he watered the horse the previous
evening. He noticed, too, that the car had evidently
retraced its route, for the tracks did not continue along
the main highway. But he gave little thought to these
things until he reached. the bank of the creek. There
he saw something which caused him to call a hasty
“Whoa!” to the horse.

There was blood on the foliage at the creek’s edge,
and the weeds were bent as if some heavy object had
been dragged over them. Near the edge of the bank was
a heap of something foreign to the surrounding soil. Dunn

’ stooped over it curiously and found it to be loose cement.
He scratched at the cement with a stick, and found
beneath it a sticky, brownish substance that looked like
blood.

Puzzled, Dunn probed further and came upon two other
spots about three feet distant, covered with sand and

rts forming the two other corners of a triangle.

FY The horse had still to be watered, so Dunn led it down
to the pool. There he saw the handle of a tool sticking

out of the water. He retrieved it and found it to be a

‘small hand axe. The blade was stained with blood,

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despite the fact that it must have been in the ¥
overnight. !

~ Even to Dunn’s inexperienced eye, these were sigt
sinister import. Returning to his farm, he tried to
Sheriff Walton Banks in his office at Carrollton. Fa
to locate him, the farmer let the matter rest for the)
But the more he thought about his strange find, the!
it worried him. ; }

The next morning, Dunn went to the sheriff's office
found Banks in.

“Sheriff,” he said, “strange things are happening
our way. Jest thought you ought to know about th
And he launched into a description of what he had}

Banks looked interested. “Guess I'd better run
and take a look,” he said. “Wait while I get the dept

He soon found his deputy, D. C. Bakes, a young ¢
practor who followed criminology as an active ho
and together the three men drove to the pool.

“It’s probably only chicken blood left by chi

thieves,” scoffed neighbors to whom the officers ta
when they arrived on the scene.
) But Sheriff Banks and Deputy Bakes wanted iot
sure; They removed the piles of cement and sand
found that under each the ground was saturated
depth of several inches. They saw that the three!
of blood were so placed as to form a triangle with
largest one at the apex. A bloody triangle! Could
be some significance to this weird symbol?

Chicken thieves were not in the habit of using con
to cover their tracks. Feeling that something queer

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right: Lieut. Schattle, Dr, Bakes, Detec-
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officers scoured the surrounding ter-
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Heber L. (Jimmie) Hicks because of
the attractive widow, and that the youth
was known to have blamed her for it. It
was learned that sbortly before her dis-
appearance she had started with young
Hicks on what was supposed to have been
a business trip.

It was the story of a negro livery stable
employe that proved most damaging to
him. The negro said that one night Hicks
came to the stables with something tied
up in a sack. ‘

“I’ve got some stolen liquor here,” he
told the negro. “I want to bury it.”

The negro tore up some flooring and
with another negro dug a deep hole. Tell-
ing them to leave, the scowling youth
buried the sack. Later he took a trunk
belonging to Mrs. Sparks to the stables,
buried its contents and mailed it to an-
other address. The negro reported hav-
ing heard Hicks say, “Well, we won't be
bothered with that girl anymore.”

But Hicks was caught and sent to the
penitentiary, sentenced to life imprison-
ment for her murder. The jury found
that he choked her almost to death, shot
her, cut off her finger and stole her
ring.

It strangely paralleled the Miller case
in which there was an attack before a
shooting, a dismemberment after the mur-
der and a theft, the last being a suppo-
sition in the Miller case.

Served 11 Years

H ICKS, the records showed, served 11
years of his. sentence, then was
paroled and a year later pardoned. The
records also showed that Hicks subse-
quently had been questioned in regard to
a Kroger grocery story robbery. It was at
that time that Captain Hayes crossed his
trail. For the robbery, John Joseph Po-
holsky was sent to the Ohio Penitentiary.
Poholsky formerly had served time in
Kentucky while Hicks was imprisoned
there.

“Nice fellow Miss Miller has as a
chauffeur,” Lieutenant Schattle reported
to the conference of officers. “It was he,
we suspect, who parked Captain Miller’s
auto in the garage the day after the mur-
der and tried to dispose: of the bonds.
According to Captain Miller’s fiancee, he
hated the captain after Miller decided to
change his will.

“He was not a beneficiary himself. But
he must have had some way of profiting
from Captain Miller’s wealth.”

Still the evidence against the chauffeur
was not conclusive enough to make a
sure fire case. There remained various
angles to clear up.

It was at this point that Captain Matt
Leach entered the case prominently as
he personally took charge of the Indiana
end. This square-jawed officer: is over
six feet tall, lank, but powerful as a tiger
in action. He has the respect not only
of his own men but also of the criminals
he pursues among whonr he is known as a
“square cop.”

It was in no small part that Leach was
responsible for the breakup of the Dil-
linger gang. In fact, Harry Pierpont told
officers who had him under arrest that
the gang would never have been broken
but for Captain. Leach. His. weeks of
work on the Miller case proved the
prowess of Captain Leach and his’ detec-
tives as manhunters.

Additional cause for suspicion against
Hicks was that he steadfastly had argued
against the identification of the head and
hands in Kentucky as those of Captain
Miller. He told a story of’ Miller's hav-

Bred poi

ing recently planned to buy a trailer and
go to California, maintaining that he be-
lieved Captain Miller was on the trip. It
was also’ known that the man who sud-
denly had displayed a roll of money in
Kentucky was a friend of Hicks.

So Captain Leach was-informed by Cin-
cinnati police that they would give the
Indiana officers an opportunity to arrest
Hicks in Indiana, avoiding the necessity
of an extradition hearing. It was known
that Miss Miller expected to visit her
brother’s home and that Hicks would
drive her.

State Detectives Barton and Richard-
son, Covington Detectives Seiter and

giall, Deputy Sheriff Bakes and Sheriff
Pulskamp were at the New Trenton
country home the afternoon of July 2,
when Hicks and Miss Miller drove up.
Hicks was taken into custody. Detective
Barton questioned him.

“Where were you the night of June 6,
Hicks?” he asked.

“I don’t remember,” was the reply.

“Um-m. How about June 7?”

The same answer was given. June 8.
9, and 10 also evoked no memories for
the chauffeur.

“Where were you the night of June
11?”

“June 11?” Hicks suddenly was alert.
“Oh, yes. On the night of June 11, I
went to a picture show with Miss
Miller.” :

Detective Barton smiled grimly as
Hicks went ahead giving a detailed ac-
count of that night’s events.

“Strange,” he said, “that you can re-
member that night so well when you can’t
remember any of the preceding nights.
Particularly strange since that was the
night Captain Harry Miller was slain.”

Hicks bit his lip and sullenly refused
fo comment.

Miss Miller in another room was tell-
ing how she and Hicks had attended’ a
motion picture. She named the same pic-
ture but each named a different theater.

Miss Miller Aids Officers

M ISS MILLER accompanied Indiana
state police throughout a five-day
period in which Hicks was questioned.
She even aided at times in the questioning
of her chauffeur.

The question of jurisdiction naturally
arose between the officers of the two
states. But Captain Matt Leach refused
to relinquish his prisoner until he knew
definitely where the crime occurred.
Trampled weeds in Captain Miller’s back
yard indicated to him a terrific struggle
there.

Ballistic experts bad determined that
the bullets fired into Captain Miller’s head
were of a larger caliber than the .22 caliber
shells found in Kentucky.

Deputy Bakes offered in opposition evi-

dence recently acquired and the argument ,

that the three fishing poles indicated Cap-
tain Miller had been lured away on a
fishing trip, then killed. Captain Leach
countered with assertions from friends
that Miller never fished and offered the
suggestion that the fishing poles were
placed on the auto simply to give it an in-
nocent appearance.
Leach held on to his prisoner and kept
the location of the prisoner a secret. After
‘Hicks’ arrest, Sergeant Clarence Grim-
stead of the Indiana state police, some
picked men and Lieutenant Schattle of
Cincinnati were the only other ones who
knew where he was.
Day after day they questioned him.
Lieutenant Schattle used a lie detector on

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in the car from
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had fired, and
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trio re-enacted the crime the following
day and the case against them was com-
plete. They signed full confessions, were
speedily indicted and went on trial July
29 before Criminal Court Judge Robert
C. O’Connell.

But the story of Bones Korezykowski,

‘Andrew Bogacki and Paul Jenkot was not

finished. Another vicious chapter was to
follow.

Two days of the trial passed and the
evidence against the three. defendants
made their case seem hopeless. Korczy-
kowski and Bogacki appeared doomed to
the chair as the actual killers of Police-
man McCauley. Jenkot could hope for
nothing better than life imprisonment as
the driver of the death car.

After the morning’ of the third day.
the prisoners were handcuffed together
by Deputy Sheriffs Ed Tierney and Ed
Wing and placed in an elevator to be
taken down three floors, and thence to
the adjacent county jail for lunch.

In the elevators, the trio suddenly
whipped out daggers fashioned from iron
bands torn from a jail mop bucket and
whetted to razor sharpness. Again Bones
had displayed Dillinger tactics!

Threatening their guards with death,
the desperados forced Deput Tierney to
unlock their handcuffs ond slashed
Deputy Wing on the neck when he hesi-
tated. Within a few seconds they emerged
from the elevator on the fourth floor.

Criminal Courts was thrown into a
screaming bedlam by the escape. Through
the corridors the trio ran, threatening
court attaches and visitors with their
knives. Two persons were slashed seri-
ously by their cell-made daggers.

The prisoners separated, attempting to
escape by three different exits. Scores
of deputies surrounded the building, sum-
moned from the sheriff's office and from
the jail, ’

Jenkot managed to reach the strect be-
fore being clubbed into submission: The
other outlaws had to be knocked uncon-

scious before they could be captured .

within the building. All of them were
returned to their cells.

Triple the usual guards were placed
over them for the remainder of the
trial and they were forced to wear leg
irons.

On August 2, the jury received the case
and required only 40 minutes to reach a
verdict. The-jurors fixed death in the
electric chair as the penalty for Korczy-
kowski and Bogacki who fired the shots
‘that killed Policeman McCauley. The
penalty for Jenkot, the car driver, was
set at 199 years.

Shortly after midnight on October 21,
Korezykowski and Bogacki were led to
the electric chair and sent to. their deaths
by 23,000 volts of electricity. Both whined
and pleaded to be spared.

As for Tworek and Dembrowski, they
were sentenced to from one to twenty
years in Joliet for the Maywood payroll
robbery. Mrs. Pearl Korezykowski and
Mrs. Nowacki were of course released and
fully exonerated from any connection
with the bandits’ activities. Walter Kania
remains a fugitive from justice as this is
written, but he has been identified by a
score of persons as Bones’ companion
in robberies.

(Note—To protect an innocent person, the name

. _of Mrs. Rita Nowacki is fictitions.—The Editor).

Horror at Baptismal! Pool
[Continued from page 49]

packet exactly like that found at the
baptismal pool. The other was a pair of
underwear trunks size 52, the same size
as those found on the torso.

But where was Captain Miller’s re-
puted fortune of about $100,000? Not in
his New Trenton home, it was certain.
No banker reported having rented a
safety deposit box to the retired fire cap-
tain. ‘

Again the Cincinnati police force’s
widespread sources of information func-
tioned. Recently, Lieutenant Schattle
was informed, a Cincinnati broker had
been offered about $100,000 in stocks and
bonds. The offer was. said to have been
made by a man upon whom suspicion in
the case was rapidly centering. Of the
stocks, 300 shares were of an issue known
to have been purchased by Captain Miller
not long before.

The broker was vacationing in Florfda
so Lieutenant Schattle appealed to the

Federal Bureau of Investigation for aid —

in tracing the bonds. The G-men entered
the case at that point and, though their aid
was quiet and unaccompanied by pub-
licity, it proved invaluable throughout the
case.

Reporters for The Cincinnati ‘Post used
an even swifter way of verifying the in-

formation on the bonds. They conversed ,
with the broker by long distance tele-

phone.

“Yes,” he said. “I was approached with
some bonds but refused to handle them.
No, I don’t know the man’s name.”

A description of the man under sus-
picion was read to him.

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“That sounds like the fellow,” he said.

Lieutenant Schattle and his men talked
with everyone who might have known
anything about Captain Miller, One of
these was an attractive hospital employe
who said she was engaged to. marry Cap-
tain Miller. He had contemplated chang-
ing his will in her favor, she told the
officers. :

Efforts were’ made to trace the sales
of the handax, the meat cleaver, the
clothes line and the fishing poles. The
fishing poles were made in Japan but
there were many stores handling them.

But the most important information
that turned up came through the keen
memory of a veteran Cincinnati detective,
Captain Pat Hayes.

“Look up the record of that chauffeur,
Heber Hicks, if you want something in-
teresting in the case,” he suggested to
Lieutenant Schattle. “I know that fel-
low.”

The memory of Captain Hayes was not
amiss. Lieutenant Schattle whistled
sharply at what he found in the Bureau
of Records.

“A murderer!” he exclaimed.

-Old newspaper files told even more
than the brief police records. In Jan-
uary of 1918 the body of beautiful
Joey Vance Sparks, 24-year-old widow,
was found under the floor of a livery barn
at Clay, Kentucky, 10 miles from Dixon
where she had lived. The third finger of
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them carefully. But Hicks, the dapper,
slick-haired chauffeur, was. unable to
stand the terrible sight. He whitened
after a glance, turned quickly and left
the room.

“Doubtful at first, Miss Miller finally
said that the head and hands were those
of her brother,

But by the time she had returned to’,
Cincinnati she again was expressing un-
certainty.

“I am waiting for more evidence,” she
said. “I want his dentist to see the teeth.
He'll know. An soon as I am convinced
it is hisehead I will offer a reward for
the murderer’s capture.

“My brother and I come from a dis-
tinquished family. Among us have been
a President, a mayor of Cincinnati,
United States senators, congressmen and
generals and I think we are entitled to
assistance in solving the mystery and
apprehending the murderers, if this case
proves to be murder.”

That was on July 1, the day on which
the case began to develop rapidly, A
description of Captain Miller was broad-

’ cast over many radio stations in an effort

to locate him if he were alive. Aged 65
and weighing 260 pounds, he jhad gray

hair, bridge work*in upper jaw, a small
scar on the right cheek and a long scar
between the thumb and index fingers of
his right hand,

Sheriff George Pulskamp of: Franklin
county, Indiana, had been drawn into the
case with Lieutenant: George: Schattle,
crime expert and. head of the Cincinnati
Homicide Squad. The Indiana State
Police were taking a part under their
commander, Captain Matt Leach, with
Patrolmen John Barton and Ernest
‘Richardson actively at work. Detec-
tives Albert Seiter and Leroy Hall of
Covington, Kentucky, had been called

¢ into action.

Predicts Quick Arrest

THys the police of three states di-
rected their attention toward the one
case. Each possessed a part of the mass
of confusing reports and clues. The
crime was becoming a news sensation
and\everyone with the faintest idea of
facts relating to the case was carrying
them to the authorities, ‘
In an effort to coordinate the efforts
of all the. officers a conference was
called in the office of Chief Emmett Kir-

Left, the killer, once more dap-
per and self-assured, is shown
° handcuffed to Chief Deputy
Helmig who follows him through

the door. Judge Roscoe O’Byrne,
above, sentenced a a killer to die.

\
‘

gan of the Cincinnati Detective Depart-
ment. After working day and night
for over a week, Deputy Sheriff Bakes

felt able to: forecast an arrest within 24
hours.

» It was to him that the greatest mass of
unstable and useless reports accrued.
Much of his time had been spent in
chasing down and disproving false
rumors. But out of that activity came
some information which was very valua-
ble.

He reported that a green auto bearing
Indiana licenses with three fishing poles
tied on its side had been seen in Carroll
county the evening of June 11. There
were persons who could identify the
driver if they saw him again.

Firemen friends of Miller had identified
the head and hands as his beyond a doubt,
Deputy Sheriff Bakes asserted. That
subsequently was bolstered beyond ques-
tion through identification of dental work
by Captain Miller’s dentist.

Deputy Sheriff Bakes had investigated
a discovery made by a farm boy near the
baptismal pool. The boy had found a
meat cleaver, new but dulled by blows on
some hard substance, some crimson-
stained towels, one containing a bullet
hole, and three fired .22-caliber shells.
What seemed more important was the
finding on a farm about a mile anda half
from the pool a piece of what appeared to
have been human flesh and some shreds
of a home-made shirt. Captain Miller
wore shirts made by his mother before
her death. From Miller's neck had been

.cut a piece of. flesh, the carbuncle

which might have been an identifying
mark,

Even more exciting to Deputy Sheriff
Bakes was the story told by a farm woman

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living near the place where the flesh was
found.

“That night of June 11 I heard three
shots,” she told him. “One-was loud and
sharp. The other two were muffled.”

“Those last two were the ones fired
through a towel,” Deputy Sheriff Bakes
reeonstructed. ‘This proves to me the
killing was in Kentucky and the ‘juris-
diction in this state.”

A roadhouse keeper of the neighbor-
hood had an interesting story to tell
Deputy Sheriff Bakes. She said that two
men in a green auto stopped for beer and
whisky at her place the night of June 11,
one a white man and one a negro. Both
were tough looking men. Then they drove
off in the direction of the lake where the
head and hands were found.

“Later they returned and stopped. for
gasoline,” she said.. “They were so
nervous that I kept looking at the negro
and I guess I showed I didn’t like his
looks.”

“Whas’s matta,’ he said. ‘Afeared of
me?’ Then they drove off.”

But another farm woman had seen four
white men the morning of June 12, who
acted even more suspiciously. These
men stopped and got out of their auto not
far from her farm house. Smoke rose
from where they had stopped and, think-
ing their auto was afire, the woman ran
‘toward them. Seeing her they jumped
into the auto and fled. She found they
apparently had been trying to burn some-
thing which they had gathered up and
taken away as they fled.

On the same day four men had dumped
something into a creek near her house,
according to another woman. Bakes in-
vestigated and found under the bridge
some women’s, clothing, a partly burned
piece of oil cloth and some charred scraps
of gasoline cards from a filling station in
Walnut Hills, Cincinnati. That seemed
definitely to involve four men in the

- crime.

The Covington officers had received a
DETECTIVE

~

Frank G. Williams, ax-mur-
der suspect, was seized as he
entered his fiancee’s apart-
ment. At right is the Brook-
ville, Ind., courthouse where

ax killers.

tip that a man who had been broke before
June 12 had been seen after that date with
a roll of bills. . He had bragged that he
“had bumped off a man.”

_ Lieutenant Schattle and other Cin-
cinnati detectives gained considerable
ground:on the Cincinnati end of the in-
vestigation though they had been unable
to check the purported signature of Miller
on the post card received by his sister

_from Cleveland. She had destroyed it
soon after receiving it. At the confer-
ence it was decided that the card had been
sent by someone else in an effort to make
it appear. that Captain Miller still was
alive, ;

Attempted Hoax Revealed

AOoTnes apparent effort on the part -

of someone to convey the idea that
Captain Miller was still alive was re-
vealed by the Cincinnati police. The
mother of Heber Hicks, the chauffeur,
reported that on the night after the mur-
der a man who professed to be Miller

justice was meted out to the ,

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called asking for her son. She told him
her son was out driving for Miss Miller.

Another important part of the work on
the case had been the search for Captain
Miller’s green Buick sedan which was
nissing from his garage at New Trenton.
Acting on a tip, Lieutenant Schattle and
a squad of men raided a Walnut Hills
garage.

An attendant was arrested. 'A search
of the garage revealed a piece of clothes
line of the same sort that was found at
the baptismal pool, with the body and
with the head and hands. The attendant
said that an auto answering the descrip-
tion of the Miller car had been parked

‘there the morning of June 12. He named

aman, The auto later was taken out by
another man whom he did not know, he
said. After questioning him the police
released the attendant.

Sheriff Pulskamp had searched the
Miller home at New Trenton with the aid
of the Indiana state police. He found
two. interesting things, one a match

[Continued on page 77]

49

Saar es

116

which was invested for the most part
in Bethlehem Steel stock, was cached
in an old safe in Miss Miller’s home.
Moreover, a Cincinnati broker re-
ported that a man whom he identified
as Hicks had come to his office on
June 10 inquiring about the best way
to dispose of some $100,000 worth of
steel securities.

Schattle also revealed that a Cin-
cinnati nurse, Miss Laura Heulefield,
had told him that she and Captain Mil-
ler were to have been married in Sep-
tember. Miss Heulefield further di-
vulged that the captain had said he in-
tended to change his will, leaving his
fortune to her, because of his repeated
quarrels with his sister about Heber
Hicks.

From Covington, detectives reported
that a former friend of Hicks disclosed
that Hicks had recently made him an
offer of $1,000 “to bump off a guy.”

Enough had been told to make the
wires hum with warnings to officers
in adjoining states to be on the lookout
for Hicks. But the ex-convict and
murderer, instead of fleeing the police
net, drove right into it with his ec-
centric mistress:

While Deputy Bakes and the Indiana
officers were inspecting the Miller farm
at New Trenton on July 2, an automo-
bile stopped before the house. Seeing
the policemen, the driver hurriedly
started the motor and began to drive
off when Bakes leaped on the running
board, waved a gun, and forced him to
stop.

FRONT PAGE DETECTIVE

In the car were Heber Hicks, Flora
Miller, and her cousin, a Mrs. Kuss,
Mrs. Kuss was released, but the other
two were taken, despite loud protests,
to Indianapolis for questioning by Cap-
tain Leach.

Was the former diva, who had en-
thralled audiences on two continents,
at the bottom of the bloody mystery
of the dismembered corpse?. Angered
by her brother’s tightening purse
strings, and by ‘the thought that his
money might be left to another, had
she plotted with her shady chauffeur
to murder Miller before he changed
his will? Captain Leach thought it
extremely likely, and he began to grill
Hicks alone in his cell.

Highly indignant, Miss Miller issued
a statement from the Indianapolis jail
professing the complete innocence of
both herself and Hicks,

“I don’t know why I’m in jail,” she
said. “The last time I saw my btrothen
alive was when I visited him on June
7. Heber Hicks and I were in Dayton
on June 11, at a motion picture show.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there were
a woman behind this—Harry was a
handsome man even if he was sixty.”

On June 16 she had visited her bro-
ther’s house again, she asserted, and
had been told by Bill Meyers, a neigh-
bor, that he had not seen the captain
for a week. She had inquired about
him without result, and the last word
she heard from him was the post card
from Cleveland.

Perhaps Hicks had been at a movie

LEGAL HIDE-AND-SEEK

Heber Hicks (center) began to weaken when police officers rushed him from one
jail to another while dodging habeas corpus proceedings.

the night of the murder, reasoned
Captain Leach—yet that did not clear
him of suspicion. Three men dad ap-
parently done the ghastly job. Was
it not possible that they had been hired
by Hicks; who had tried before to hire
a killer?

There was no time to lose. Attorneys

for the suspects were already launch- |

ing habeas corpus proceedings to se-
cure their release. With increasing
vehemence officers hurled questions at
Hicks and Miss ‘Miller, knowing that
if they did not get a quick confession
their prisoners would be lost and all
their work wasted. So convinced were
officers that between the former diva
and the paroled slayer lay the answer
to Captain Miller’s macabre murder,
that they played a wild game of hide~-
and-seek to evade the pursuing habeas
corpus writ. They took the pair suc-
cessively to six different jails, main-
taining the questioning all the while.

TILL FLORA MILLER and her.

‘J ‘chauffeur-secretary denied all. In
desperation, the officers placed the two
in a dictophone-equipped room and
listened to the ensuing conversation
between them. What they heard made
it clear that Miss Miller had no con-
nection with the crime whatsoever!

Taking Hicks aside, the state police-
men grilled him relentlessly and with-
out respite. It was almost midnight
when Heber Hicks, sweating and
trembling, began to tell things that
branded him as having at least a part
in the savage dismemberment-murder
of Harry Miller.

Meanwhile, the frantic attempts of
Attorney Stephens Bleakly to locate
his clients and secure their freedom
ended in a compromise when Captain

. Leach agreed to allow the lawyer to

see the suspects the following day.

On July 5, Leach took the stand and
said that Miss Miller had been re-
leased and was on her. way home, and
that Hicks had signed an incomplete
confession involving himself in the
murder. He told the court that Hicks
was being taken to Brookville, county
seat of Franklin County in which New
Trenton is located, where a charge of

murder in the first degree would be

brought against him. Because the dead
man’s limbs had not been lacerated by
the cords which bound him, authori-
ties had decided that he was already
dead when he was transported from
Indiana to Kentucky, and the prosecu-
tion of the case therefore rested with
the state of Indiana.

But definite details of the murder
were still lacking, so Captain Leach
hurried to Brookville determined to
worm a full confession from ‘Heber
Hicks. Hicks, he found, had lost his
defiance and was already seeking for
a soft way out. ;

“If I didn’t actually do the killing,
would that make it any easier for me?”
asked the ex-convict.

“Possibly,” answered Leach. “Ifyou
help clear up the case, the prosecutor
and the jury may take that into con-
sideration.” :

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“All right,” said Hicks, “here’s the
story. I hired three guys to do the
dirty work. A hundred shares of Beth-
lehem Steel stock worth $5,500 and
$400 in cash was the price agreed upon.
Miss Miller had nothing to do with it.
I went to the movie with her on the
night of June 11 in order to have an
alibi.

“These men, who all had criminal-
records, were to waylay Miller at his
New Trenton home, bump him off, and
carry him four hundred miles away
before dumping the body. But the dirty
skunks double-crossed me! They got
rid of the body only a hundred miles
away—and on top of that they picked
a place where I am known!

“According to the story they told
me later, they slugged Miller on the
head with the pipe used to fasten the
gate. But he didn’t die, so one of them
shot him. They left a lot of biood on
the porch which I had to wash up
afterward. When they got down around
Vevay, Indiana, the captain started to
squirm again. One of the guvs said,
‘Why in hell doesn’t this guy stay
dead!” and pumped another bullet into
him. But at the outskirts of Madison
he was still alive, so they finished him
with a third shot. You know what
came after that.” ;

Only too well did Captain Leach
know what came after that. The
fiendish butchery at Mill Creek pond.

FRONT PAGE DETECTIVE

... The twenty-five mile drive with
the ghastly cargo. ... The disposal of
the torso in the culvert, and the toss-
ing of the concrete-weighted box con-
taining head and hands into Butler
Lake. ... “Later they came to my house
in Cincinnati for the payoff,” continued
Hicks. “They wanted more than the
agreed amount, but I refused because
they’d bungled the job. They beat it
and I haven’t seen them since, but I
know they went to Cleveland because
they mailed that card to Miss Miller.
I wrote the card and signed Harry’s
name.

“I had the captain killed before he
could change his will, so that the old
lady would get the money and I would
benefit from it.”

“How did you expect to: benefit?”
inquired Detective Barton, who had
now joined Leach.

“Well, the old lady’s almost seventy,
you know, and she liked me,” Hicks
replied laconically.

“Your story won’t amount to much
unless you name the three killers,
Hicks,” said Captain Leach. ‘Who are
they?”

“They are Bill Kuhlman, John
Poholsky and Frank Williams, Kuhl-
man fired the shots and Poholsky did
the cutting, they told me.”

Immediately police calls went out
for the three killers. Lieutenant
Schattle in Cincinnati reported that he

knew these men from their long police
records, mainly as bootleggers and
thugs. No trace of them could be
found in their usual haunts, and a net
was spread to bring them in.

Schattle had maintained a guard
around the Miller home in Cincinnati
since the valuable contents of the safe
were revealed. The safe was now
opened, and a hundred-share Bethle-
hem Steel stock certificate belonging
to the captain, and about $5,000 worth
of jewelry and $3,500 worth of stocks
belonging to Miss Miller, were found
missing. Now tearful, Miss Miller ad-
mitted Hicks knew the combination. .

Most of the loose ends of Kentucky’s
gruesome murder horror have now
been investigated. The missing stock
certificate was traced to New York.
The Ford sedan used in the atrocity
was found wrecked at an Ohio road-
side. Captain Miller’s car was located
in a Cleveland garage. ~

Still at large are Hicks’ alleged pro-
fessional butchers, Kuhlman, Poholsky
and Williams, but the police dragnet
may even now be closing on them. And
facing trial at this writing in the
Franklin County courts is the blackest

‘villain of them all—Heber Hicks. Will

he atone at a rope’s end for the merci-
less scheme he devised? Or will he be
sentenced to prison, languish there
a while—and be paroled to do murder
once more? .

CONDEMNED TO THE FIRING SQUAD

(Continued from page 17)

file open in the case of Delbert Green. °
And when the. alienists found the
slayer to be coldly sane, their remarks
were added to the records.

A trial and a stern faced judge, a jury
that hung on every word uttered for
prosecution and defense—and Delbert
Green, declared guilty, was given his
choice of death by hanging or by the
firing squad, as Utah law provides.

When the condemned man declined
to make the choice, it was made for
him. Death by a firing squad at dawn
of May 17 was decreed. But the slayer.
smiled when he was taken to his cell
in the Farmington courthouse, his
smirk one of confidence and self-im-
portance. He read the accounts of his
trial in the newspapers pushed through
the bars to him—and smiled again.

But in the Ogden Police Department
Sergeant Hilton did not smile. In-
stead, he left open the case of Delbert
Green and prepared his cards for the
entries that would eventually close the
case.

In March, 1930, the execution was
delayed by the usual notice of appeal
from the law’s decision. Delbert
Green’s smile grew wider.

HE sun was hot in Utah and the last
traces of the winter’s snow were
melting from the deep canyons atop
the rugged Wasatch range a year later,

in August, 1931, when the state su-
preme court at Salt Lake City decided
that Delbert Green should be tried
again. ;

In February, 1932, Green again heard

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Mrs, Lillie Mae Alexander did all in her
power to save her wayward son, Delbert
Green, but it was futile,

a jury foreman read the verdict, “Guil-
ty as charged,” and once more a grim-
lipped judge sentenced him to face the
firing squad. May 17 was set for the
second time as the date for execution,
but this time it was of the year 1932.
There followed another appeal, which
was te time denied by the supreme
court.

These legal maneuvers dragged the
case of Delbert Green along until: Ser-
geant Hilton made an entry in his case
record on January 4, 1935, the fifth
anniversary of the triple killing. Del-
bert Green was still fighting: for his
life. A new date, May 1, 1935, had just
been setfor his execution.

In desperation, the condemned man’s
lawyers made another demand for a
sanity hearing. The request was
granted by Judge Herbert M. Schiller’s
third district court, and execution was
stayed again by Governor Blood, who
granted a reprieve until the sanity
hearing was concluded. _

But the milk of human kindness, so
common in Mormondom, was quickly
curdling. Wade M. Johnson, a prose-
cuting attorney, obtained a writ from
the supreme court restraining Judge
Schiller from proceeding with the
sanity hearing. Delbert Green’s law-
yers promptly countered by making
application for a sanity hearing in the
court of the original trial magistrate,

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KENTUCKY'S BLOODY TRIANGLE

body, Jesse Roberts readily admitted
that he had been mistaken when he
thought it was his son. The remainder
of the day a stream of people passed
through the mortuary at Carrollton to
‘gaze intently at the head and hands,
allowed to.do so*because Deputy Bakes
wanted above all to identify the mur-
dered man, |

So it was that on Monday evening,

June 29, three men drove the hundred
miles from New Trenton, Indiana, to
Carrollton. The three men were Frank
Sacksteder, O. B. Beard, and Alfred
Sintz, all of the Indiana town. Their
friend and neighbor, Captain Harry
Miller, had been missing for some
time, and they wondered... «

Captain Miller, they said, was a
.retirec fire captain of Cincinnati who

had moved to New Trenton after
his retirement, and whose wealth was
estimated at about $200,000. Sintz had
last seen Miller on June 11. On June
12 he had called at Miller’s farm, but
the captain was nowhere to be found.
The front gate stood open, and the iron
pipe used to close it was missing.
Miller’s car’ was gone, and on the
garage floor Sintz had found a new
penknife and a piece of cord. These
he had brought with him.

Seizing on this new disclosure, Dep-
uty Bakes examined the cord and
found it identical with the three other
pieces already linked with the case.
Moreover, he knew that New Trenton
is only four miles from Harrison, Ohio
—a fact which made the match folder
again loom important. Holding his
breath in suspense, the deputy took
the three Indiana men to view the
head. h

“TT’S HIM!” cried Sintz, after a mo-

ment of speechless horror. “I re-
member well that scar under his eye.
The scar came from a mole which had
been removed.” : .

The others agreed. And when Sack-
steder added that Miller had been suf-
fering from a carbuncle on the back of
his neck, the deputy was convinced

. that he had the answer for the bit of
flesh found in the bundle under the
bridge. The killers had undoubtedly
slashed out the carbuncle to destroy

* all means of identification!

Captain Miller’s only relative, Sintz
said, was a sister, Flora Miller, a
former ‘opera singer whose home was
at 628 Crown Street in Cincinnati.
Bakes lost no time in telephoning Miss
Miller and requesting her presence in
Carrollton the next day. He likewise
‘called Detective Ernest Richardson of
the Rushville station, Indiana State
‘Police, and asked him to comb the
Miller property for possible clues. -

Flora Miller, sixty-five-year old sis-
ter of the retired fire captain, arrived
at Carrollton the following morning
with a rather handsome man about

* thirty-five years old whom she intro-

- side.

duced as Heber Hicks, her chauffeur-
secretary.

“The last word I heard from Harry,”
she said, “was a post card he sent me
from Cleveland, Ohio.”

Bakes read the card—and became
assailed with sudden doubts. It said
only that Miller was taking a trip and
would probably be gone for several
weeks. He instructed his sister to ask
a friend, one Bill Meyers, to look after
the captain’s property until he came
back, Stranger yet, the card was dated
June 17, and the murder had been com-
mitted on the night of June 11!

But the most baffling circumstance
of all arose when the former opera
singer, suppressing her repugnance,
went inside to inspect the head and
hands.

“The mouth looks somewhat like his,
and the hair is about the same color
as his,” she said, shuddering. ‘“But
there are hundreds of people like that.
I'm convinced that this is not Harry.”

Meanwhile W. C. Smith, publisher of
the Carrollton News-Democrat, was
talking with Coroner Musgrove.

“T’m sure I’ve seen that man some-
where, Al,” he said, indicating Heber
Hicks, who had come outside after
viewing the.head.

Musgrove walked over to Hicks. ‘Is
that Captain Miller?” he asked.

“Wouldn’t say,” was Hicks’ taciturn
reply. And a moment later he whisked

._Miss Miller away in her shiny big

sedan.

Within the mortuary,. the three
Indiana friends of Captain Miller were
hotly disputing his sister’s denial of
the identification. They pointed at
bridgework in the battered mouth, and
they gave the deputy the name of the
dentist in Harrison who had done the
work. Quickly Bakes resorted to the
telephone again, and three hours later
Dr. C. F. Bauer of Harrison had visited
Carrollton and positively identified the
bridgework in the dead man’s head
as that which he had done for Captain
Miller. The sister had been mistaken,
and the head was a mystery no longer!

Newspaperman Smith had not ceased
all this while in puzzling over the
recolléctions aroused in him by the
face of Heber Hicks. Being an editor,
he had a long memory, and it sud-
denly clicked. He called Bakes to one

“I knew I'd seen that Hicks fellow
before,” he said. “Now I-recall that
he was sentenced to a life term at
Eddyville for the murder of his sweet-
heart, Joey Vance Clark, whom he shot
in a jealous rage. That was back in
1919, but I didn’t know he’d got out
of prison.”

In the face of positive identification
of the brother, Miss Miller’s failure to
recognize him was beginning to take
on a sinister significance. Hicks, too,
seemed a fellow well worth investi-
gating. Deputy Bakes at once tele-

phoned Detectives Al Seiters and
Leroy Hall of Covington, Kentucky,
and asked them to check the chauf-
feur’s police record. He likewise
called Lieutenant George Schattle of
the Cincinnati detective force and re-
quested him to search into the activi-
ties of both Hicks and Miss ‘Miller.

No further clues had been found at
the Miller farm near New Trenton.
But Bakes made a further scrutiny of
the culvert where the torso was found,
and there he found the missing pipe
—bloodstained!

Captain Matt Leach, head cf the
Indiana State Police, now declared that
his force would join the investigation
because he believed that the murder
had been done in Indiana. He there-
fore arranged for Indiana officers to
meet Deputy Bakes at New Trenton
the next day and go over the ground
together. Meanwhile Detectives Sei-
ters and Hall reported from Covington
that Smith’s memory was correct—
Heber Hicks had been released from
Eddyville Penitentiary in 1929 after
serving some ten years for murder.

EWS NOW came in so fast it almost

made Bakes’ head swim. From
Cincinnati, Lieutenant Schattle, who
had been doing some investigating of
his own, turned in a lengthy report
that threw an aura of weird mystery
around the Crown Street home and the
former diva who occupied it.

Records of the city welfare depart-
ment revealed that Miss Miller had
toured the United States and Europe
as an opera singer many years ago.’
After an early and unhappy love affair,
she had forever locked her bedroom
and had instead slept on boards laid
between two chairs in the kitchen.
Some years later the neighbors began
to complain about the filthy condition
of the property. So persistent were
the complaints that eventually police,
with the cooperation of Captain Miller,
forced an entrance into the singer's
home and made a general cleanup.

The officers found’ fifteen trunks
filled with stage-clothes in the attic,
and several truckloads of marble in
the basement. Miss Miller explained
the marble by saying she had intended
to use it in building a house in her
back yard. She was plainly furious
with her brother for aiding in the
forced entry, but since she was largely
dependent on him for support, there
was little she could do.

Lieutenant Schattle, indeed, found
that of late Flora Miller and her bro-
ther Harry had not been on the best
of terms. On June 7 she had driven
to New Trenton in an attempt to get
more money from him. He had given
her $300 and said that it was thé last.
The captain, it was apparent, did not
approve of his ageing sister’s associa-
tion with young Heber Hicks.

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ing the unidentified
aty-five miles away. |
ing from a dance at 7
ad seen a car parked |
Ford V-8 sedan and —

Some aspects of the case
now seemed clear. Three
killers in a Ford sedan had
made the stop at Mill Creek
to dismember the body and
destroy identification. Not
considering this spot safe for
the disposal of the corpse, they
had loaded the headless and
handless man into the car
again, driven him on to the
culvert near Eminence, and
cached the grisly burden
there.

With the report of the Ohio
license tags, Deputy Bakes
recalled the match folder from
a bar in Harrison,. Ohio, and
he suddenly decided that a
quick trip to Harrison would
not be amiss. He was about
to leave when his telephone
rang. .

“I'm Jesse Roberts of Frank-
fort,” said the voice on the
wire. “My son has been miss-
ing for some time, and-——I be-
lieve the torso found near
Eminence may be. him.”

Bakes bade ‘Roberts drive
immediately to Shelbyville to
view the body, and when the
deputy reached the Shelby
County seat, Roberts was
already in the morgue. The
man was visibly shaken as he
looked at the remains.

“I'm' almost positive it’s my
son, Jesse,” he said brokenly.
“He was a big man, thirty
years old, and I haven’t seen
or heard of him since the night
of June 10. He left the house
in a rage following an argu-
ment over his proposed mar-
riage to a girl of whom I dis-
approved.” ,

But when questioned in

Frankfort, Goldie Anderson,
the girl young Roberts in-
tended to marry, refused to

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believe that he was dead. He had gone to Arizona, she on the bank. Slowly the soggy paper flap gave way—
insisted, where she would join him when he sent for her. and revealed something that widened the boys’ eyes.

Now convinced that Roberts was mistaken in his iden-
tification, Deputy Bakes made a hurried trip to Harrison,

It was a human hand!
The boys ran pell-mell to spread the story. Rushing

where he questioned local officers and the proprietor of to the scene, local officials opened the box and staggered
the bar advertised on the matches. But no one could pack at the gruesome cargo it contained. There were two
remember three well dressed strangers, nor was there hands in the box, and a fearsome, puffy object that could
any person missing from the neighborhood. As he be nothing but a man’s head! A block of concrete had
returned home, the deputy did not know that the route been used to weight the box down and conceal the work

he had taken was part of a ghastly murder trail... .

of murder.
The hands were too water-softened to admit of finger-

T was now the last Sunday in June, and Kentucky was printing, but officials had heard of the headless corpse in
gripped by a torrid wave that sent natives thronging Shelbyville, and soon the head and the hands were sent
to lakes and creeks. In Butler Memorial Park, four small to Deputy Bakes.

boys, Arthur and Robert Hunt, and James and Paul
Banta, took refuge in Butler Lake.

Bakes and Coroner Musgrove of Carrollton completed
the grim job of preparing the three parts for inspection.

The boys noticed that a school of fish persisted in One side of the face, they saw, had been crushed by some
swimming around a certain spot, and they decided to heavy club-like weapon, and there were two large-cali-
investigate. Probing the bottom, they discovered acor- ber bullet holes in the skull. Yet the gray hair of the
Tugated fiber box, which they succeeded in dragging to victim was intact, and the features were not beyond pos-
shallow water though it was quite heavy. Paul Banta ~ sible recognition.

clutched at the folded top to heave the heavy burden out

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for investment. Later, when she retired,
he provided her with whatever income
she required. Both had made wills in
favor of the other. There had never been
any friction over money matters. In fact,
Miller still used an old-fashioned safe in
the old home in Cincinnati to hold certain
of his securities, bonds and_ business
papers.

Flora Miller had the combination to
the safe, and used it to hold certain of her
own papers and the household cash.

When all this assembled information
was at hand, the investigators considered
it carefully. Certainly there was no readi-
ly apparent motive here.

“People have been killed plenty of
- times to hasten an inheritance along,”
Sheriff Banks pointed out. “But
remember, in this case the killer or killers
went to considerable effort to prevent
identification. In other words, whoever
murdered Miller didn’t want it dis-
covered that he was dead. That doesn’t
tie in with the usual murder for profit
pattern.” 5

- Dr. Bakes frowned in concentration,
not answering immediately. Then he said
slowly, “On the surface, maybe. But
there’s something that disturbs me. Did
you notice how quickly and smoothly
Heber Hicks managed to present his own
alibi for the approximate time of the
killing? Miller supposedly called Hicks’
mother on June 12th with a message, but
Mrs. Hicks has admitted she couldn't tell
whether it was really Captain Miller or
not, for she had never spoken to him
before. Then there is the matter of that
trip to Dayton. Flera Miller can’t recall
why it was taken except that Hicks
suggested it. And she didn’t see or talk to
Hicks once they were there from late in
the afternoon to around 10 the next mor-
ning.”

“Just what are you driving at?” Banks
asked.

“It might be smart to check up a little
further on that young man. Perhaps we've
taken too much for granted.”

With the aid of-the Cincinnati
authorities that was done, with surprising
results that threw a new but no less con-
fusing light on the case.

Heber Hicks, police records soon dis-
closed, was not quite as young and inno-

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cent as he appeared. His looks were
deceptive, those of a man who even in his
late 30's would be able to pass asa college
student. .

But the only college Heber had ever
attended was that of prison. When he was
still two years removed from voting age
he had been arrested and convicted for
the brutal slaying of a young widow. He
had been given a life sentence, but for
some reason had been paroled a year
later.

Since that time, until his latest position
with Flora Miller, he had been engaged in
a number of dubious activities, skirting
the law sufficiently to avoid arrest and
conviction. .

Now the question that arose was what
motive Heber could have had, if any, for
the murder of Harry Miller. Simple
robbery, by all evidence at hand, had
been ruled out.”

What did Heber Hicks stand to gain
by Miller’s death?

And even more perplexing, why had
the body been mutilated so as to make
that death difficult, if not nearly impossi-
ble, to establish? ;

Ase as Sheriff Banks had wearily
remarked so many times, there were too
many contradictions. Nevertheless, there
was at long last a definite lead, however ~
tenuous. Once again investigators tactful-
ly interviewed Flora Miller, this time ask-
ing about the safe that held her brother's
securities.

“He keeps them in a small strong box
in the safe,” she told the officers. “Usually
the key is left in the safe, but he must have
taken it with him when he stopped here
the day I was in Dayton.”

Dr. Bakes, who had accompanied the
other officers to her house, looked at her
sharply. “What makes you so sure he was
here while you were away?”

“Because the safe had been opened,”
Flora Miller said quietly. “I saw that as-
soon asi got home. I'd left an apron on ©
top of the safe. and when Harry closed it
one of the apron strings caught in the
door. A woman notices those little
things.”

“But don’t you know whether
anything was taken from the strong box
or not?” ;

She shook her head. “I told you the
key is missing.”

The fact was quickly remedied by
sending for a locksmith. Within a matter
of minutes the strong box was opened.
Miss Miller went swiftly through the con-
tents and then exclaimed. “There's a hun-
dred shares of steel stock missing. I can’t
imagine why Harry took it.”

“Can you give us the name of the stock
and the serial numbers?”

Surprisingly, she could. All the stocks
and bonds were carefully listed on
another slip of paper in teh box.

So now there was anew angle to be in-
vestigated, and one that quickly paid off,

Contact was made with the-
brokerage houses and their affiliates, and
within a matter of hours a Dayton broker
came forward to report ‘that’ he had
purchased the steel stock on Friday, the
13th of June. The seller had given his
, name as Harry Miller, His desc
was that of Heber Hicks.
~ Now the investigators moved
It was decided that lacking’ positive
evidence to the contrary, the crimes had
taken place in Indiana and so Captais
Matt Leach took over active jurisdiction.
_ There was the problem of extradition te
_ be taken into consideration, but Heber
Hicks himself removed that legal diffiew-
ty. When detectives went searching for
him, they found him at Captain Millers §-
home in New Trenton, Indiana, calmly |
taking an inventory of the place.

In the light of all the new information
collected, his
questions were evasive and unsatisfae
tory. In consequence, he was taken inte ~
custody on suspicion despite his vebe
ment protestations that the authorities |

* were making a bad mistake.

“You're the one who has ma’
take,” Captain Matt Leach told: his
bluntly. “Too many mistakes.’ There's
enough circumstantial evidence on hand § ~
to bring one of several indictments —
against you, including murder.” \\ >> ~

“You can’t prove anything!”

“Wrong,” Leach snapped. “To begin
with your carefully prepared alibi for the
time of Captain Miller's death doestt
hold up. Secondly, there's the matter of
the stolen steel stocks. You've been idew
tified as the man who sold them to the
broker in Dayton. With your past record,
you haven't a chance.

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bornly silent, Flora Miller was broughti#

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depended on me for everything. She was
suspicious of everyone in the world but
her brother and me.” ;

Within another hour he had told his
story again, this time with a police
stenographer taking down the confession
for his signature. He named the three men
he had hired to do the killing—John
Poholsky, an ex-coal miner living in in-
cinnati; Frank Gore Williams and William
Kuhlman, also of Cincinnati.

That interview and confession took
place on the afternoon of July 7th. Hicks
was lodged in the Brookville jail, to await
grand jury action, while the investigation

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tiles away and cut it up and hide it so that
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dumped it right where it could be iden-

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fom the swinging gates, and
jm to death in the car while
@ard Ow! Hollow.
ember 7th, 1936, Heber Hicks
4] for his life in the Brookville,
®urthouse. The first
tPoholsky, and Hicks’ defense
to belittle his
s prejudiced. And halfway
@ trial a second witness was
y introduced when it was dis-
two days before William
fd been arrested in Portland,
#1 brought back to Indiana.
H, too, supported Poholsky’s
4idding bitterly that Hicks had
Shem $3,000 for the job and
iving them less than $100.
# n defense, Hicks had little to
t than a belated attempt to
im plete ignoranance of the en-
buggesting that he hadn't been
ec interested in getting rid of

at ee ee

She looked at him for a long moment
in sorrow and bewildered disappoint
ment, as if unable to believe he co
have done wrong. “If you know anything
‘about this horrible business, tell the truth
Heber,” she begged at last. “I don't u

- derstand how you could have done this:
me. I've always treated you as though yo
were my own son. Maybe I'm a fool
and lonely old lady, but I always trusted
you completely.” ys

Heber Hicks’ answer was a Cur
one. “Do you still trust me enough to pa
for my defense if they arrest me?”

Miss Miller sighed and nodded.
wouldn't feel right unless I did. Perhaps
it’s because I stil] want to believe you#®

< Dr. Bakes, who was present at the
ioning, asked curiously, “But why
‘ou want the body hidden? Why did
want it dismembered so that even_if’.
d it couldn't be identified? Just how’
4id you hope to benefit by that?”

He Hicks smiled thinly with self-
Mtisfied pride in his smartness. “I didn’t
“ant any murder investigation centering

t the Captain. I knew if that happen-
td you fellows would come up with my
cord and get suspicious.”

Hicks smiled again. “I told youl hada
Wart idea. I knew that after he’d been
pPre for seven years, Captain Miller

B cwld be declared legally dead. I could
Wait that long, because his only living
tive was his sister, Flora. She’d have
trol of the money and the estate, and I
wrap her around my little finger.
ou heard her say that she thought of me
er own son. By the end of seven *
I'd have fixed it so that she would
adopt me or marry me. She'd have
¥ whichever I . wanted, for. she

In the weeks that followed, patient
detectives ran down. the hardware store
in Cincinnati where Hicks had purchased
the murder axe, and the sporting goods
store where he had bought the three
fishing rods found at Ow! Hollow.

But it wasn't until mid-November that
Indiana Detectives John Barton and
Meredith Stuart were able to run down
one of the murder trio. Following a tip,
they apprehended John Poholsky in
Warren, Ohio.

But not until Flora Miller
Heber Hicks break down and talk.
even then his story came piecemeal, #
much the same manner as the discove

argument that the jury quite
‘lidn't appreciate. It took only
= deliberation to return a ver-
ty, with no recommendation

‘

“I didn’t have anything to do with
actual killing,” he insisted. “That s
make it easier tor me, shouldn't it
looked hopefully around at the grim face
watching him, then swallowed and wet

crime, detailing how he had enlisted the
aid of Williams and Kuhlman and telling
how they had stolen a car, called at Harry
Miller's home onthe evening of June 11th,
knocked him unconscious with the iron

ast the same moment that the
liberating, word came that
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ee OED é 3 yell. No hurry about it, ough. covery that left no doubt that & Bat that was ab. :
ate a ere — it between As yet we don teven know that any crime crime had been committed. ‘ee f * was still no indication as to the
“Cement.” eg are Ce anual took place.” | ae It came in the early morning how | desity of the victim, oF why he had been '
watching Sheriff Banks. “Sand “x 1 the , xcept for certain negative things, when a farmer clearing thick weeds and Bed and his head and hands cut off. |
Re 4 cetnied wh x oy - oe ‘ee Bakes reminded him. Remember, undergrowth at the edge of his land, Swiously it was to make identification |
what?” ec at and: 108, . ose werent any of the usual signs of a where it bordered the highway, spotteds @icult,” Dr. Bakes observed as he drove c 1
Yui beahiding so: wemdien, 0 ot-OE ets at the scene. No underbrush broken canvas bundle half *concealed_ in the: ‘yk to Carrollton with Sheriff Banks. “In 4 i |
things,” Banks said oe a lot of nts or ground torn up. Yet con- _ culvert that ran under the paved road. ~ circumstances, that could have : i é <1 4) |
aa bs ox he peed elie siderable blood spilled and somebody— : Curiosity prompted him to drag oat jpn done justiby chopping off the head. ~ es | i
Piss Shoat ra ao : ease a ge A a o! one or more persons—hightailed away ¢ the bundle and open it, then a singe Gating off the hands as well would seem ‘ |
on discovered = = e we e . from there in a hurry leaving some shocked glance at the contents sent him eindicate that the victims fingerprints % | |
Se ad sukide or ban ar ght peat camping equipment running for the nearest phone. eB gen record scart ie “i ere mean ry | %
: , : : aap pipes The esome find had been fat he was a criminal, with his prints on ? t ;
ae agen gs as se ata Cae, You tell me,” Banks retorte d. “If we near pi soma a short distance a @ewith the police, or that in the nature of a |
a anise up on the Ohio- knew the answer to that, we d know just county seat of Shelby County. Authorities is work his prints were routinely taken, ay |
Sheriff ak sighed ‘ : what kind of acase were investigating. If there, aware of the problem that hag B wthey are inthe army and navy and most . i Ti, |
glanced at Dr. Bakes ows sas tions any, that is. : been disturbing Sheriff Banks up i ment jobs. é j \ £ “| |
one” . . at do you make e As one day merged into the next, it Carroll County, a half-hour’s drive to _ He hesitated, then went on, “The ce- ( + f | |
“it's anybody's guess. Offhand, taki . gan to look as though the whole north, immediately contacted him, ~ ent was probably used to encase the ‘ |
aks ccnsidernlion te pa hea > 4 a usiness was a false alarm, that there was At once Sheriff Banks, accompat PD adand hands so that they could be safe- * : i \
fishing rods would rth Peart e  nocase at all. But neither, for that matter, by Dr. Bakes, made the quick trip. Arm dumped ina river somewhere. Possibly |
Se ees caida ie - at res per-..» was any explanation forthcoming to clear ing in Shelbyville, they were directed tos  @ Ohio. That sounds like the work of Fag : . ae
ogg aioe pats ~ #e ; aes orp ee up the curious discoveries at Owl Hollow, - > local funeral parlor and there for the fire Mgcity hoodlums, and if it happened : x ' |
Ae srt thet ees t= sed ay _ot — despite the fact that the story had been time they saw definite evidence thats @at way the chances of our ever finding es ; _ | |
ications a0 am ais Ae ay- ee written up in the Carrolltown News- brutal crime had been committed. em are slim. But there’s one thing that Pe ue . # i |
ee as oils e _ an fo ee Democrat. True, a patient check by For it was the torso of a man, headles ‘makes me think that whoever did this had b } | | |
really have to go on Seine rete: ra eo inp pee rk a the and without hands, that they found laid seme knowledge of this locale. That's the One suspect. flanked by lawmen, was cool, gelf-assured ufgeer inter rogation |
aa, ok tlaot, snd A Gate Saad ose gi es Lae up severa persons who out in the funeral parlor. There were #® fact that part of the crime—probably the ‘ |
rs dedar ween” possi- vaguely recalled seeing a car with fishing ready means of identification. The om Asmemberment of thebody—took place J | |
agai P a Se he SH stuck out of the window driving clothing found on the mutilated body w# @ the Sacred Poo} in Owl Hollow. Only : |
ioc at uek _ emin im. along the highway near Owl Hollow, but a pair of blue socks and bloodstained we § #meone familiar with these parts would ; : : ise he head and | :
or all we know there may bea perfect- only one woman professed to be at all derwear. Decomposition had already st how of the place and its reputation and ment. There were two bullet holes inthe _ this business ofgfinding the hea an F |
? ly natural explanation for everything. The definite. 2” in indicating that week or nd he fact that most of the farmers living skull, but no trace of the bullets hands, | talked itgver wit Phil and Newt | { |
blood could be that of some wild animal “T was driving back from town and ed since the killing. But from the hhysical: tre shun the spot because of super- themselves. and we decidedpve d better come <= i |
: that attacked the would-be campers and __ noticed the car in front of me because it structure of the torso it was evident 4 Aton. Now at last there was a complete cor- and take a look #pr ourselves. : | |
*~ frightened them away from here.” slowed down so suddenly for the turn-off the victim had been a large man, around “"More contradictions!” Sheriff Banks pse. And now Sheriff Banks had some of Nervously, pth no liking for their | |
2 Dr.. Bakes looked at him skeptically. leading to the pool those church folk use,” six feet in height and weighing well ove | @unted. “It would be nice to have a few __ the hard facts he had been asking for. But __self-assigned clipre, they filed into the 1 |
Do you really believe that? she explained. “I had to jam on my brakes 200 pounds, and that he had been a } lid facts for a change.” with those facts came the more pressing morgue and st@pd by the marble slab \ | | |
: No, 1 can't imagine anyone—even quick to keep from hitting it. It was a although well along in middle age ~ But it was another 10 days before that mystery of the victim’s identity and the | where the hea Eand hands were on diss - j |
city folk unaccustomed to the country— black Ford ‘sedan with an Ohio license With a little grimace Sheriff ‘wish came true. It was on Sunday, June reasons and background of his murder. plya. | ; : NI
getting so scatter-brained as to run off __ plate. I think there were three men in it, turned from _ his ‘in ection of the 3 Bh, that some youngsters playing about. At once Banks contacted all the- For a long 1igpment the trio was silent, i
leaving things like these behind.” -. but I couldn't tell too well in the dark.” headless, handless cor et and addr ~1 & te lake at Butler Memorial Park, four avenues of public information. The then Larry Pag said hoarsely, 1 reckon |
All. that, however, was speculation. She put the time as around 10:30 the Dr. Bakes “Do you think this ties up W <tailes to the southwest of Carrollton, newspapers, not only in Carrollton but in that’s him, thoggh it ain teasy to say with
For the moment there were only two previous Wednesday morning. That that business out at Owl Hollow?” potted a corrugated cardboard box in the surrounding towns of Kentucky, _ his face battcged up that way. But I
possible avenues open for immediate in- would be the night of June lith, Sheriff The criminologist frowned “thet te shallow waters near the shore. With Ohio, and Indiana, were notified. So, too, remember wclt that Cap had the same |
vestigation. One was to start an inquiry ~ Banks noted when he received the infor- answered slowly, “It could. One thing -wme difficulty, for it was heavy, they * — wwere the radio stations. kind of scar u jer his left eye.
among those living in the vicinity as to. mation. It fitted in with the rest of the can do immediately is to have a blow | Wagged it up to dry Jand and opened it— ““.” As a result, before long a steady The other @o men agreed. \ |
any strangers, appearing to be campers puzzle, but did nothing to make that puz- analysis made to see if it’s the same wed a moment later ran in frightened stream of viewers began moving through From the gorgue they went over to i
on a fishing trip, seen recently. Secondly ~ zle clearer. as that found at Owl Hollow. That wa © ‘error to find the nearest adult and babble the mortuary to view the dismembered the sheriff's office, and there Larry Page H
_was to establish if a crime had possibly During. the week that followed the type O, you remember, and it’s the mot & a weird horror-tinged story. head and hands. Some were prompte recounted mai fully the little he knew
been committed. : : first visit to the Sacred Pool at Owl common type. So it won't nece ‘Inside the box was a massive lump of only by morbid curiosity, but others about Captai filler’s disappearance.
The latter presented the greater Hollow, Sheriff Banks made other rou- prove anything if they turn out to be tumbling cement from which protruded managed to still a natural feeling -of | work for him at f and on helping with the
problem. However, there was one tine moves in an attempt to clarify the same. But I believe there’s a more defin rotting fingers of a hand! ~~ yepugnance in order to perform a public gardening, Hé explained. That’s what I
preliminary step that could be taken at —_—- mystery. Remembering the match folder link that we can find.” The sheriff's office was immediately duty. Among the latter were three men was doing 0 ‘Wednesday, June Lith. 1 }
once. As soon as they had driven back to - with the advertisement of a Harrison, “What's that?” wwtified, and again Sheriff Banks and from New Trenton, Indiana, who iden- quit work abg@pt 4:30 in the afternoon and
Carrollton, Sheriff Banks turned the hand _ Ohio, tavern found at the scene, he got in Dr. Bakes indicated the dirty” and . Bakes journeyed together to in- tified themselves to Sheriff Banks as Phil told Cap I'd jp back the next day to finish |
axe, meat cleaver, lengths of rope and the touch with the authorities of that small bloodstained underwear. “I thi “wep Wtigate yet another bit of the crime Moore, Larry Page and Newton Sims. It up: But whey showed up the next mor- | 4
other items found at the Sacred Poolover — town and advised them of the strange should run laboratory tests on this That ee Mystery that had plagued them for the was Larry Page who acted as spokesman ning he was @pne- The gates to the place |
to Coroner John Musgrove, explaining problem perplexing him. The Harrison a hunch that some of those thickly ca ced Past fortnight. for the three. He explained that he feared were swingite wide open, and when I 7
briefly what was needed. chief of police promised full cooperation, smears are a combination of blood, sa ~The water-weakened cardboard car- that the dead man might be an old friend went to clos them I found the irom bar |
Within half an hour Musgrove had a but in the end was able to offer nothing in and cement. Remember that we fourd ton with its macabre contents was carried and neighbor, Harry R. Miller, a retired used to late! them shut was missing. I |
report ready. the way of helpful inforvation. A check sand and cement at Owl Hollow.”® hack into Carrollton and to the mortuary.. captain of the Cincinnati Fire Depart- hung about fr a bit and then went back |
The ‘bloodstains on the rope and — was made of gas stations, and of toll That was done. Laboratory; | Tere, Dr. Bakes carefully chipped away ment, who had been mysteriously miss- to my own ce, figuring Cap had been |
handkerchief came from a human being,” ~~ attendants on the bridge crossing the * revealed that the blood type wae the sai “Mthe mass of cement with a chisel until it ing from his home since the evening of called away @ddenly on a buisness trip. 1
he told Banks and Dr. Bakes. “Laboratory Ohio River between Madison, Ohio, and as that found on the articles nick aw apart in lumps, to reveal two large June 11th. didn't reallygstart to worry until T read
tests also disclose traces_.of human blood Milton, Kentucky. near Sacred Pool. Further ale revea . and a man’s battered head. The “I got to feeling it might be Cap Miller about the figding of that headless body. ;
in the joints of one of the fishing rods and Here, too, the investigators drew a the presence of cement and cata maine’ | © face had been brutally beaten on one when I first heard a week or so ago about Sheriff Binks listened thoughtfully, at |
in the crevices between the axe-head and _ blank. : ; with the blood staining the victim's’ @ We, and the skull partially crushed. the finding of that headless body down the same tit pondering how it was thata |
haft. Do you want me to go ahead and test It was not until the morning of June derwear. Solid, circumstantial evide ; Much of the thick gray hair on the head near Shelbyville,” he told Banks. “Then = man coulciflisappear mysteriously pod
for blood type?” » : 19th that a new segment to the puzzle was © ~ linking the torso with the mystery # Sime away with the bits of covering ce- when I heard over the radio today about (Continued on peer —

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The girl also told the jury that she had

helped when the Fuhrmanns moved into.

~ their apartment and had seen two small
handguns placed in a cupboard.

She said that on the night of the
murder she had looked in the’ cupboard
for some food to give to the Fuhrmanns’
_ young daughter and the guns were not

2. there-

Omaha Police Officer E. J.
O'Shaughnessy testified that he ex-

ecuted the warrants for Fuhrmann and

his wife on the Monday following the

~ , Thursday night slaying of Lucey when he
‘appeared at their Omaha apartment. He

testified that his search turned up one
small revolver, similar to one described
~ by the baby sitter, along with two gun
permits bearing the signature of Mrs.

- Fuhrmann. :

Trowhen, who had testified in the
Nuzun case that he had been instrumen-
tal in the hiding of the jewels stolen from
the Lucey jewelry store, and had helped
investigative authorities in solving the
case, testified again.

- He said that on Saturday following the
murder and robbery the Fuhrmanns told
him they had thrown a revolver in the
Missouri River while crossing into Omaha
from Council Bluffs on the night of the
killing. /

A former Council Bluffs police officer
testified he was among a group of officers
who recovered more than $100,000 worth
of jewels stolen during the murder.

The officer said the jewels were found
in the bedroom of Sam Trowhen on
August llth, along with a pair of blue
slacks and a blue and white checked

» sports coat in Trowhen’s car. Trowhen

had testified_.earlier that Fuhrmann

had given him the clothing and jewels
early Saturday after he had followed the

Fuhrmann car into an area north of

Omaha. He testified that at that time the

jewels were hidden in a ditch.

The former Bluffs officer testified
that after the recovery of the gems he and
Mrs. Lucey took aninventory and that she
said at the time that she was not sure the
sports coat in question was the same as
that worn by one of the suspects.

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Council Bluffs police officer John

Mitchell, who took part in the
preliminary investigation, testified that
he had talked to Fuhrmann after his
arrest. Mitchell said that Fuhrmann
denied shooting Lucey or seeing anyone
else shoot him. ~ = >

Mitchell said Fuhrmann stated that he
and his wife had been at Lucey’s office
Thursday night but had left about 7:15
p.m. and that he and his wife drove to a
well known night club on the outskirts of
Council Bluffs for a couple of drinks.
Mitchell said that Fuhrmann told him he
and his wife then went to a drive-in movie
in Omaha across the river. Seer

Dia Court J udgeJ erry Larson told

the jury he expected to turn the case over

to them for deliberation on Friday,

January 9th, the next day.
Mrs. Lucey was the last witness for the
prosecution. Her testimony was substan-

tially the same as that she had given in the

trial of Nuzum.

The defense then rested its case

without putting a single witness on the
stand and the jury heard the: final

- arguments from both sides.

The jury left the courtroom and
started its deliberations on the fate of

- Joachim Fuhrmann at 2 p.m. leaving the

99-year-old Omahan to sweat out the
minutes and hours that are the toughest of
any trial for a defendant.

No decision had been reached at the
dinner hour and the female dominated
jury took a break to eat their evening meal
under close supervision of the court of-
ficers.

- appeared that a verdict would ‘not

- indicated it had reached a decisidn,

- all three counts as had the Council Blah

~ Fuhrmann was convicted of first-degne

-As the. evening hours.- waned ¢
reached but at about 9:30 p.m., the jee

The jurors, court observers poled
were grim-faced as they. filed into &
courtroom and the news. was bad fe
Fuhrmann. eee

The jury returned guilty verdicts @

jury in the trial of Nuzum. Only this time

-murder where the jury had retumed¢
verdict of second-degree against Nuzag.
At this time Nuzum was already sp
ving a life term in the Iowa State Penitep:
tiary in-Fort Madison, Iowa. Fuhrmase
also was convicted, as had been Nuzam
of robbery with aggravation and asa
with intent to commit murder..2* =
Judge Larson deferred sentencings
is usually customary in cases of.this im}
portance until a pre-sentence’ ey
could be prepared. A
Both men had been held withow
until they went to trial for the mu
John Lucey. Fuhrmann’s wife, Mats
was released on a bond of $100,000, butt
was later revoked. ie
Mrs. Fuhrmann is scheduled to fat”
trial on the same charges that resulted
convictions against Nuzum and her har
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The Headless Torso
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more than two weeks without a hue and
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further questions put to Page. It appeared
that Captain Miller had been living in
New Trenton, Indiana, only since. his
retirement from the Cincinnati Fire
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his sole immediate relative being a sister,
Flora Miller, who still lived in the old
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—“< the musty smell common to all dwellings

that have gone for any length of time un-
attended. There were no signs, however,

>. of astruggle or fight having taken place in

- any of the rooms. No bloodstains, no
overturned or broken furniture. Nor was

there any indication of the house having
been ransacked by burglars. Ona table in >

the kitchen there were unwashed dishes
containing the moldy remains of a meal ,
for one person, while an iron skillet witha
small bit of meat was still on the stove.

A thorough search was next made of
the grounds and fields surrounding the
house. But again no signs were found ofa
struggle of any kind.

Sheriffs Pulskamp and Banks went
into conference then, trying to decide not
only on the next move but by whom it
should be taken, for now, quite clearly,
there was the matter of jurisdiction to be
decided. True, the first evidence found at
Owl Hollow indicated that it was there

that the body had been dismembered. °

And there was also evidence, indicated
by the bloodstains found there, that the
victim had been dead only a short time.
Later the torso, and then the head and
hands had been discovered—all in the
state of Kentucky. But that didn’t
necessarily mean that the murder had ac-
tually been committed there rather than
_ in Indiana. ;

. | “Looks as though we both have to
share the headaches,” Sheriff Pulskamp
said finally. “The body was discovered in
your state, but the man lived in mine. So
we both have our work cut out for us.”

S heriff Banks nodded. “Working
together should make things easier. At
least, as long as we know and agree on a
common plan of investigation we can get
things done faster.” He paused, then
smiled wryly. “And you've forgotten one
other aid we'll have.”

“What's that?” Sheriff Pulskamp ask-
ed.

“Someone else to share our
headaches,” Banks told him. “Remember
that Miller moved here from Ohio, and
his sister still lives in Cincinnati. That
means that the Ohio police will do their
share of the investigation.”

The Ohio end was started immediate-
ly. A telephone call to Cincinnati revealed
that Captain Miller's sister was currently
living at their old home in that city.
Pulskamp decided to drive over there at
once and interview her as the first step in
attempting to learn something of the
background to the mysterious murder.

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There Flora Miller, in her early 6Us, lived
alone, although she was constantly
attended by acombination chauffeur and
handyman. In her youth, as Sheriff
Pulskamp soon leamed, Miss Miller had
been an opera singer of some renown in

both the United States and Europe, -

appearing under the name of the

Florence D’Eplia. In the late 1920s she :

had suddenly ended her career, returning

- to Cincinnati to live with her brother. As

always happens in such cases, there were
rumors that a tragic love affair had
prompted her retirement from public
life. Whether that was true or not, it was
nevertheless certain that she had retired
not only from the stage but from normal
social activities as well. She had kept
house for her brother until his retirement
from the Cincinnati Fire Department,
and after he had moved over to his semi-
farm in New Trenton, Indiana, she had
lived on alone in the old mansion. Accor-
ding to neighbors she rarely left the house
except to take a drive with her chauffeur-
handyman. Sheriff Pulskamp sensed

- when he first met her that he was face to

face with a woman living largely in the
romantic past, and he attempted as tact-
fully as he could to break the news to her
of-the possible death of her brother. But
when she understood clearly what he was

saying she simply shook her head in*

denial.

firmly. “I'm quite sure this poor man who
was murdered wasn’t Harry. Not if you
say it happened more than two weeks
ago.” :

“Why are you so certain it’s a mis-
take?” Pulskamp asked.

“Because my brother is in Cleveland
now. Or rather, he was until quite recent-
ly. | have a card from him, sent on June
17th, from that city. He told me then that
he would be away on business for several
weeks and that a neighbor of his named

Lawrence Page would look after his place ‘

while he was gone.”

“Could I see the card?”

Flora Miller nodded, and then in
dicated the paper-cluttered desks and
tables in the living room with a hopeless
shrug. “I'll look for it now. It’s there
somewhere, but as you can see I haven't
had a chance to straighten things up late-
ly. My eyesight isn’t what it used to be.”

Sheriff Pulskamp nodded politely
while his mind turned over the informa-
tion he had just received. Then he said
quietly, “I’m afraid I'll have to ask you
one further thing that may not be very
pleasant. It would be help if you could
drive over to Carrollton tomorrow and
make a definite identification, one way OF
another, regarding the head they have
there. It’s quite possible that the card
you received might have been sent by
someone else.”

Flora Miller gave a little shudder of
distaste. Then she said reluctantly, “If you

insist. But I’m certain it’s a mistake.”

“isn’t Harry.”

~ one swift glance, then ~shuddered

“There must be a mistake,” she said

Caer ae

It was late the following morning
when Miss Miller arrived at the mortuary,
A young man in a neat summer suit ac
companied her, assisting her deferential
ly from the car into the interior of the
funeral parlors. To Sheriffs Pulskamp
and Banks, who were waiting for her, she
identified her companion ‘as’ ber
chauffeur, Heber Hicks. Be

At the door to the room where the
dismembered head and hands were laid ©
out, Flora Miller drew back and madea ©
final appeal to the police officers. “Must!
go through with this? I’m quite sure that it

“We have to know one way or the See
other,” Sheriff Pulskamp told her firmly. § =
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“Heber could tell you as quickly as” =~
she said, indicating the chauffeur, who
was supporting her by one arm.
knows my brother quite well.hee8

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Pulskamp <said., “It will only take.
minute.” > evant ;

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than that. She gave the grisly exhibit only

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called my mother and left a message SS
me to give his sister when | came 0
saying that he was going off ona tripe his
didn’t know for certain when he woudl ‘eddenl
back.” Suns!

‘ever.

stances,

home.”

eerat seemed to be that. A few minutes
” “a Miller and her chauffeur drove
_ leaving Sheriffs Pulskamp and Banks
3 ound ba latest turn in the case—a
5 Seal 0 pers ended up against

A certain amount of qui i

j quick checkin
Was done, but when it was over a
M remained as contradictory as

i Seat Pulskamp frowned and asked
fully, “Are you sure of your dates?”
Heber! Hicks gave a positive nod.
in can ask my mother about the
phone call from Captain Miller,” he
og ee And I can give you the name
the hotel I stopped at in Dayton. I
— joking with the clerk about it
ing Friday, the 13th, when I checked
at to pick up Miss Miller and drive hér °

ute of Captain Miller’s old friends
ew Trenton, Indiana, had postively
ified the head in the morgue as part
temains of their neighbor.
the other hand, Flora Miller had
equally positive that the man wasn’t
ther. Her chauffeur, Heber Hicks
sacked her up.
evertheless, the hard fact remained
Captain Miller had disappeared
home—and_ disappeared
y and under mysterious cir-

Who was telling the truth? Who was

she only gave the head one quick glance. I
can't say that I blame her. Besides, her
mind was already made up that her
brother is still alive. That leaves only

just six mil@s

across the state line from

meee ee = pone New Trent @h, was contacted. He needed
MR a = vee be Seo Dr. only a quick#examination of the victim’s
— “elem fs rs a Jengtny teeth to caffe up with an affirmative
ect ‘cbiesas sme srosigey be statement. “Paid this bridgework and fill-
h skamp of the In- ing on the $wer molars here,” he an-
diana evezetyre Dr. Bakes, the nounced firiply. “There’s no doubt about
criminologist who had a knack for strip- this being Harry Miller!”
ping confusing matters down to their es- :
: sential facts, finally suggested, “Maybe W
bien t as much of a contradiction as ith id@ftification now positive, the
- became Ae pie but — oe a investigatin® officials of Indiana "and
n of testimony. Those three — Kentucky wnt into anoth
e er conf
. es from New Trenton were pretty Now thé problem was finding the
lefinite, remember. As for Miss Miller, motive for fhe crime. The eapieriad

then those #@sponsible for the gory deed.

The retiaed fire captain had reputedly
been a wealthy man, having amassed a
fortune of #everal hundred thousand

eg eeeagrchi gy 23 ned pashan apse dollars durifg a lifetime of shrewd in
about the tele : iiding
poseard? a phone calls and eee real estate and building
__ Bakes had an answer to that. But thea had been no indicati

"Telephone calls can be faked. So could * robbery at i farm peenets New asad

the postcard sent to Miss Miller. Inciden-
tally, she hasn’t been able to find that card
among her papers to turn over to us.” He
paused, then added, “How about tracing
down Captain Miller’s dentist? There’s
been considerable dental work done on
the teeth in that head we have in the
morgue.

So the latter suggestion was followed.
In short order a dentist in Harrison Ohio,

to which hefiad retired. That left the ob-
vious questin of who would inherit his
money.

With th@ cooperation of the Ohio
authorities @iscreet queries were made
and soon tuned up a logical and normal
enough situgtion.

Apparerly, during her years on the
opera stage} lora Miller had turned over
a portion of her earnings to her brother

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Ernest Herwig, Texas
farmer, is seen in Travis
County jail after he had
confessed the axe killing of
the woman he married
through a matrimonial
agency, and her nine-year-
old son

Already serving a life
term for the murder of a

lice sergeant, “Little

il” Alguin is held in,
the Los Angeles Jail,
charged with the slay-
ing of another man,
Frank Rudeen. He
faces possible death on

the gallows

Guarded by G-Men after his
arrest, Alvin Karpis, public
enemy No. 1, is shown at
right center, handcuffed to his
accomplice, Edmund C. Bar-
tholomey. Both men are on
trial for the $100,000 ransom
kidnapping of William Hamm,
Junior

* S
Delbert Green, Utah’s triple
slayer, poses for his last pic-
ture less than forty-eight
hours before facing a firing
squad in Salt Lake City.
He spent over ‘six years in
prison while his case was
fought through the courts

Samuel Whittaker, con-
victed of the murder of
his wife in Los Angeles.
He was found guilty
‘of an amazing double
death plot in which he
iilee

Heber Hicks (left)
) Cincinnati chauffeur, in
custody of a state officer
after his confession that

he had hired three men #

to kill Harry L. Miller,
wealthy Cincinnati fire
captain. Head and
; hands of the slain man
were found embedded


6/10/193

Harry Thomas Thompson, dis-
charged Navy yoeman, convicted
of selling secrets to Japs

URDER of the month was that

of lovely Helen Clevenger, 19,

New York University co-ed,
shot and mutilated in her hotel room
at Asheville, North Carolina. Her
face had been gashed and deeply
stabbed, probably with a scissors
blade. Attempt at sex assault was in-
dicated by autopsy. Among those
quizzed and detained and later re-
leased was rotund Professor W. L.
Clevenger, the victim’s uncle, with
whom she had been traveling.

“There is gonna be hell here to-
night!” was the warning tacked July
24 to a cross-roads tree, near Holly
Springs, Mississippi. Early the next
morning the Knighton and Roach
families met on their way back from
church and fought to the death, A
load of buckshot in the breast killed
Mrs. Willie Roach. A young mother
and her baby, as well as two men,
were wounded. Just one of those
Southern feuds.

George Mortensen, arrested
for multiple murder: “I just
went crazy”

Also in Mississippi, near Natchez,
Charles Phillips, 14, slew his father
while the two were squirrel-hunting.
Spurred by conscience to confess,
Phillips said “the old man kicked and
abused” him. He led police to where
he had hidden the body in dense un-
derbrush.

They come in pairs this month.
Eleanor Clayton, 24, night-club enter-
tainer of Albany, New York, went rid-
ing with two men, and jumped over a
cliff to escape their attentions. She
was mortally hurt, but lived long
enough to identify David Rosenberg,
36, and Joseph Levin, 32. They are
under first-degree assault charges .. .

CFF (1 CCAL. LEVECTIN CE

and 5/6/1938

Latest Sensations in the
Crime Whirl and What the
Law Is Doing About Them

And down the main road, at Yonkers,
New York, Mrs. Fannie Plotnick, 34,
hurled herself from the car of an un-
known motorist, presumably for the
Same reason. She never regained
consciousness,

Canada reports an epidemic of
hideous attacks on children. In Hali-

‘fax, Nova Scotia, a masked marauder

crept into the bedroom of Beulah
Newell, 11, and had almost choked her
to death before he was scared off . . F
A Montreal boy, J. L. Masse, 16, was
knocked from his bicycle by unidenti-
fied monsters, thrown into a ditch and
beaten into unconsciousness, The mo-
pat both cases was perverted sex
mania,

PURE CAPTAIN HARRY R, MILLER,

retired, of Cincinnati, Ohio, disap-
peared in June. Weeks later, pieces
of his dismembered body were found
scattered through Carroll County,
Kentucky, across, the river. Miss
Flora Miller, 66, the dead man’s sister,
an eccentric former opera soprano,
was accused by Cincinnati police. But
in July, Herbert L. Hicks, Miss Mil-
ler’s chauffeur, confessed the murder,
Hicks had done time for a previous
killing. He was vague about his rea-
son for butchering Miller,

The State executed Frank Rascon,

murderer, with gas, at Florence, Ari-
zona, on July 10. As the body was
removed from the lethal chamber, the
Screaming widow, Ramona Rascon, 36,

demanded that the coffin be opened,
This was done, and Mrs. Rascon kissed
her man. She fell back, temporarily
paralyzed by fumes which arose from
the body. ‘

PYING, the scourge of European
governments, has hit the United
States at last. At Los Angeles, Harry
Thomas Thompson, 27, discharged
Navy yeoman, has been sentenced to
15 years for selling secrets to the Japa-
nese. Charged with a similar offense,
John S. Farnsworth, former lieutenant
commander in the Navy, is being held
for trial at Washington.

Sailing between Puerto Rico and
the Virgin Islands, Terrence Burrows,
master of S. S. Catherine, was stabbed
in the throat by a member of his
crew. A United States Navy plane
flew to the rescue, took the captain off
his vessel in a rough sea and rushed
him to a San Juan hospital.

In Ogden, Utah, a man over six
feet tall and swinging a huge club,
rushed into a house where he battered
three aged persons to death and se-
verely injured Mrs. Grace Mortensen,
25. Betty, eight-year-old deaf-mute
daughter of the victim, managed to
escape and sought help. Mrs. Mor-
tensen accused her husband, George,
whom she had left because “he drank
too much.” Arrested, he said: “I just
went crazy.”

Another mass slayer was Samuel
C. Weed, of Erie, Pennsylvania,

Mr. and Mrs. George Thomas, whose nephew Bobby
Kenyon was found dead and mutilated, were asked

what they know about

the boy’s disappearance

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John S. Farnsworth, former Naval
Lieutenant Commander, awaiting
trial for offense like Thompson's

who brained his wife and two children
with a hammer. Police said he
ascribed the deed to his having com-
mitted “a scarlet sin, a sin against
God.” The next moment he tried to
grab a guard’s Pistol, and they put
him in a strait-jacket.

The body of Bobby Kenyon, 10, was
found in a pool near Tawas City,
Michigan, his neck slashed to the
spine, his tongue cut out and his ears
severed. The George Thomases, his
aunt and uncle, pleaded innocence,
but must submit to a lie-detector
test.

SADIE LAWSON, 35, of Winston-
Salem, North Carolina, got rid of
her invalid mother by pouring gaso-
line on the latter’s bed and setting fire
to it. Said Sadie in jail: “Mother and
I had been drinking together, and we
quarreled.”
It did not satisfy M. H. Cansler, of
Lufkin, Texas, that his father’s mur-

Helen Clevenger, slashed to
death in an Asheville, North
Carolina, hotel

derer, Glenn Warren, had been con-
victed and would die in the electric
chair in less than a week. He “got
even” by shooting A. B. Warren, the
father of Glenn, and now must face a
jury himself.

Newark, New Jersey, contributed
two freak events to the kaleidoscope
of crime. James Davis, 52, opened his
mouth widely in protest when three
colored thugs took $1.80 from his
pocket. The holdup men saw glitter-
ing bridgework and immediately pried
out the bridge, netting two solid-gold
teeth . . . Mrs. Anna Lauer, 39, was
leaped upon, beaten and robbed as she
knelt praying at her mother’s grave.

29

SRVNIEs

RANK GORE WILLIAMS. Murder.

Reward: True Detective, $100. Age, 38;
height, 5 feet, 6% inches; weight, 138
pounds; build, medium. short and slender;
eyes, gray; hair, dark chestnut ; complexion,
fair. Scar back of left ear. Wanted with
John Poholsky and William Kuhlman for
murder of Harry Miller, 6-11-36. /f lo-
cated, hold and wire Indiana State Police,
Indianapolis, Indiana.

OHN JOSEPH PHOLSKY. Alias,
Johnson R. Jones; alias, John Smyth.
Murder. Reward: True Detective, $100.

Age, 35; height, 5 feet, 54% inches; weight,

137 pounds;

chestnut ;
pvlexion,

build, short

florid.

Wanted

and medium;

with

Frank

eyes, light blue; hair, medium

coIn-

Wil-

liams and William Kuhlman for murder of
Harry Miller, 6-11-36.

wire Indiana State Police,

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Indianapolis, Tn-

ILLIAM ARTHUR KUHLMAN,
Murder. Reward: True DetTECcTIVE,
$100. Age, 27; height, 5 feet, 8% inches;
weight, 144 pounds; eyes, light chestnut;

hair. dark chestnut; build, medium slen-
der: complexion, medium dark. Wanted
with Frank Williams and John Poholsky
for murder of Harry Miller, 6-11-86. /f

located, hold and wire Indiana State Police,
Indianapolis, Indiana.

ESLEY JOHNS. Aliases: Harold
Weaver, Wolff. Altempled Murder
and Escape. Rewards: True  Derective,

Age, 32; height, 5
eves,

$100; authorities, $100.
fect. 5 inches; weight, 120 pounds;
blue; hair, dark brown; build, slender; com-
plexion, dark. Factory worker. Wanted
ior shooting of Capt. D. Williams o!
Kalamazoo, Michigan, Police Department.
Wanted for escape by Sheriff, Bay City.
Michigan. Jf located, hold and were Shercff,
Kalamazoo, Michigan, or Sheriff, Bay City,

Michigan.