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Be EDITIO ’ ae king felnurely, away ‘when the oMfcerd |) iy; 14 Me
Cor Oe nd: im, Bnd, bed ‘in jhts jhand thé weapon erst Mi pM Nase ele

peri Ja sateen, with whi be ha ddne tho foul and das} |: Rate biel Wako)

a ene,

lo bald, “here’ my gan,” ant
volver tathem./.It.'was.a fir
mith & We 2, old, worn and
yAA the station he said that Ke
ne sare i shot for himself
d the revolver to his heart ral
eapoh fmpty. |. .
uTIo‘s -WyRAT TRIAL, - ( °)
| ‘pt, Gaeta’) tgtn before, Judgo
‘Helles, In" 4h8 criminal conrt,

h td aso Ot. Capital |
hmentin Ma-,. ; jae hi.

vee Mt hs : I Nvember 9, .1878, with the following jury::
Li eae A ie i County, 4h We Ja jes W terrowd, Heary Coe, David: |
ee pies ae ‘oD re i te in, Ba uel Shoewalter, ‘W.D. Cleary f, y
ve 4A ri, Ye bhadea: went b Fy | | Jobn B.O roland, i W./ Wilson, Hiram|
es it ig W. Miller,|/Teaac N.} Jackson, Thomas: D,.
oat ‘A Hoch Nab drew J. Boyer, and David B.)
ie sy thao si ani continued elght. days, ‘the } ver. '
Berger e ei I ee ; at F ay endered November ,27,. the Jory! ;
wR ig we ca de bp ‘7 \ being oa ane hour and forty tolnutes, and |
N wih | ek / [fe verdict sled “Ani the frat) 4 0 |). iti Mo 7
= aces t Louls G ¢ Ue. oh for’ the, wW ssi i ea 1879 Penal. ae ill Nappa. ‘When ho arose thts morning he ances’ of 6
0 Pe He Slaughte of mh fi FeGthewet ) ' was fixed aa th date ( his “hangfay,|| Braye anain, and seemed to be ‘mach less.| forms} you 1)
Oe LP Arty mal | deed! ° Bryce jrfeliagt an ye tight “| _. pb dat without com
NR a fap ! “t : yy o'3i: ‘of Deder ber. 1878, John Achey.']')) |, \* : our, frnbght w
( L- PligllapiahemlavAdiicck a oy beers ba fa heeetlaaere ‘Leggett, fad be Aas | tie correx Fadia to.
WH, f Pa Tee a ee } ne Fae Lengelt, mii Aces 45am: ‘the & aadertaking agon of | “wy ben
mane to be hanged/January:30, and on Peatk!| i ‘ oben

eaver Grove. to the Jail aud the | wronged] in any

We es 1 arms £ / MM AG
oe ' it a J ‘an condemned h.
j A, History, of the Murderer ' ‘January’ U William, KK,’ Mer ly Was con-| LT brought, into the fall yard, through and if,

on. the instracttoy

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2 bee hy mace t pHi Trials,’ : \ femned tole on the same day. A Presi le door on" the west side of the yard, life w e a.
Sead ee eT ffort was7nade by Gridtith & Pita, Guetig’s Teo ae bral vga fee pae Yueh s | a int
= | rane iv, oe 2" [attorneys tqshow that in eoxivequence’ of M iéngt at ig not] dertain thata he will be Soh Jen: ney
uy % | Kerth, ‘ate Words his trirg bject to ileptic fits he was not}! buried: fn. . thie coffin,’ bat that anotherand | tone of yolce, be
~ 1 rs on ae ea i] capable o governih bis'-actions,(that these) |, Aner vill be ready for the body when it “Gentlmen, i

d i i md: Actlonse bl at ite t Mite hed, tendered » hfo {a. a attly at dt House, ' My pave 1b) baie
Sp 4 sii BR vay ot AL fea} Of the Law an: /Anpane: man, and on that} |"), , THR eCATVOND,; |. | hope 4
- ror mt: 4h! | ™ nt po § proper Ibject of puathhment,| , Th tcaffold and its su undings are’ ex- ren yes
. bd His Br Brav ato to ho. Ho had frequent spasms fn jail at which’ field Acar ptine ecw Te givt Faren
44 4 omg 4 ft i] times he ould froth | atthe mouth, and being The trap is inj the eame cdndition as then wad | Jig, |, giv

a a toed Bey 14 iF, Fi a mant bf great ‘strength though only five | the rope is furnished by the same ‘firm who | When | he
is, “Gin 3 : ie he Togt seven {Inches in-hight,and weighing 15 pane vprechee | e Coe vt sont peomno®, lig || banded

ra Af ’ toty { mn) ngton, ‘
ty Bi [hee ee polndr, had the practiced agilityjot an. alti Abové the jafl wall'ls a wall of canvas, ane: side ria
Reade a ‘Laat Dying Jete, and would muscular. displays that | ing the entire hight of the: wall over eigh; |/goodbye.| He w
Byecch,”’ Lat, would require as many as eight men to igteen feet and totally excluding all view tron tla witb sas, R:
peeen ’ ht , strain “nd prevent hit, raf injari g him4 ere ide sv hefntit C she's i ‘Judge ler jan
yeahs Piha tena] a F fellpw,| p leone is- attorneys | 4). rise mi Atlan pax ate poy Re: nid

ge ep sey | ie” re é. eoney aed tigers andl ‘Upon aie ns furnish A e| edi bound by
gee 7 he heulg vs. the btate measurement, | \: ‘| /green’ |" cord.
‘AS Hed Woon ma of ori foal}: circuit court, (was flea mM isha ; he

; errr a be ndbred | eating & moderate breakfast, he:was | not,
ates Li Agat eh ee ae bth ae eg! rece P. Bid Borg We "% 9 4 prougit at 6:15"t6 the: room |ad joining |
he ha Mae Repay ? Naas Tay th faa | Agauary 879, two before thie. mb | a peg ed Bnetioteeset Dine
ee ie bh pine . re Oe ie “at te ay ni ri f bap Boi ped talking \and praying with’.him,' |.
‘ ss Ks Pn t tthe Tofth: ea DAD Y ine Fano 3 8 surasin: Loch | "Brien remalniog: fo | hb cor ith

Twelte,; " A et hi my y
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he room where the dtl ing’ ‘moth:

pl sey —- Hee yA [tthe appelinnt bas bes d the reiatives were with the condeme(,
prin ee Y 1 \ ag epilepsy, dnd epilepsy fs ha and groahe which ‘were {ns more
y i 4 hich tends to produce |{nsanity, with't e importyinate } ” hocks ‘at atthe
n | Minttes ‘at ‘a vai ese are not pufficient to raise a reason. jallor" aldo hae the jokes and langhter of
Fromounsed ‘Dead. | le \; of Monae ke uel a9 of ane. thé meh and san they were allowed to:
Pe BAA SRD SS AAL at 14] was held to he erroneons b ye i ore any bol eon

ro ; grea ar fap R ly| states eps ipertala Injevidence wide re ¢ ct bg
“4 le ty Mtg, ie i pea ‘ely pore Wh 1 fri gonng ihn, a particular |
rtatn | fa v riend, permission cr
‘Yui onte of ‘ rica | ovep br, pds to alter it fe ne to the |.f0 oy moment,’ Deputy Bbertft Reynolds, th Kd
@ Burropn rage tpe ee feation wholly for the jury'to\de- | all uh ner to Info the jail} )¢
Bt, Be oe an error, for the court to Inter. ona full Ares sult of, black, | 7:
UI $ he Vik 5 y 4. ut
heh dae “a i Agciston,, om, BROR, Ne iol f te Ma bgt See ‘deal 3 Nee

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RON HE a yah ibstraction! The ju pel zi fr was combert
re gh RY NMS hg Dhupia q,}t +" he shook h ands ith Ne ee:
ey i Ter YH ape i, Be ‘pinot baie here a the “hotles for a ey, jeafant’ “amile, ends ‘cortveraation:
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Poth i BAL mel des: Zs ud Rice i fore with {i au os whl for the e Aoek ta sof
vg: THM ras wade s. ize bays is avidende-b} Aecisi ¢ fos the ob ury'to|< oy A pl a
¢ is thk 1% 8 ah ¢ ers a3 was.re »Y /AD- last Tpon | seta phe r- sall of o i veo
8. 19th * ni p eyo 1 ed oa afte ue ea Fe The Mts ht of Tae vi ner pala punt Have
GR ea ‘quurdered piember reat cri eman m at cape @ fall info the iat’
oh ae oes ey me tba | es aaa t further proceed Botlon fora xem ni 8 oun eet athe rate of pplset
Ae aaa, aa onthe Ta gatas, | Th ees tone kag 8 ow | wba dleasan ra ona ici | tribal
ae at scaffold, © penal of ¢ ary | ara, bl Bios asted » arant ands bora co, Vora ute, 121
ony “sith ae "MoGlent wr his chi. 3 y 10th Guetig thos ie, bao ated ut a, aha aes coe | ie 1
ce empl ed § encer be (wae, a dini®e- to dadae. h his: ate ood: by 7 * 4 ‘Well, versation |/ Filth m Th ad is
Pie 7.0 there . for: tgs * She see of Jade elle. , ad 96 ere Sayer  aniawered Chieti ‘good ity ve Bixih minut Noi
y ‘ Oh 2 :
pe hg siecle Young. years, and, w een | wart, sues June © "3d No, |/outby i sald the f b Ghetig with’ the fr th mingte—;
ff ot ¢ .wowian ; Was al| evi and aajthe tolgo sheriff. riend a3 b eof eh Sate nlp are—e
co) thie Behe tlt a | Bl ts ‘eects | Beta nd catipeatato ate cops ie
7 ur)’ har phe: tof | J, Levi | oof. T Fletcher, A ames C itical © sansiter which ion | fart s
ie - member workin was an hi deh VERE winami r, Andr ral Dts it ook at ed on Als Twel 2
; ‘Guetig of: the ©; & ‘girl, a onest, | ‘ n J, tae ine, Aaro} e) Thomas J; 6 in Bal ep the - ing’ the welfth . pt
i was Pa deg ae Tach whad une jatrite Thomas J. Hines: {  statidinet | var old, the “de A ony | Funtteekth=t ie
i pana Bars Ge orks cf that tious | Tm tne aiat the jay. re ete ap iand:] wih th to Abe around. Vathors he At th ahaa »
pata inborn in itn othe bi fie pero wae i meets ime pte ot y and He told _Wishard pronoun
‘father w D Lo Vill¢, be proprieto which’ otion tr 6 penal of rhs ww ive McK nt out,. 2 Smalling brav: office eaeced bat rong
4 strong dri ada barbe Ky. J r, | ed ju overral . new tri ty of de rte opened, ppt be yfally ch ado with | b fe... Déput Mex
sae nk, having had ‘aud ioetatt Aaba. f pie eo mons, oaetl by’ the. was made, heart: beeen shies dates oe cae Oe tbe eo fpaty Abe
“hte to ina tre ens, a oot or more tae to. ae Hed was cont re, Be fected” who . ote wad othe et eee ty
pport : 8 mot a which Iho ‘com 6 9th, KES other bo bod 986,
_ Was add fm, ‘at’ other bei st is P, itted, * a x t- LRAT E re dy: J Srox
pted By\his three ng dod | ') Gneti ast ried ob sloutigh nee tt -ropewcod walt
Ve ee to me uncle, me yours of age He Jj & should 9 at: : rot noo etter een ie h uperyids «welyet y)
eee ut gy, Be bad Guat, nid | belt sumed cov Biogen na Goa Woveued and thes Paicccenta
7 the” sand’ at South Bead he: vent: sen bay September earrinas, Be aut ihe pre Gaeilge BS smagther nemed vo hud
ae il ¢. hotel, { terwards ta te " = f ath ae th “& Gordon, lamb dain the (Pr joner ig. Lous Brother, | tba ‘¢ ie tragé,
peels i? Fe appeal ts; G 8 aun “by. in th poker done tere
4 ‘Serre v8, clerks.” : rs |Wrbich was jof} , oth Guctig § A ak rs. Gal The e.doo t tweld
he Ye bag bee BH WITH M Bedbmlng peace ro ptly. jot; no & ae sup arbara G rs. Gale, and . oth r, r | was rea twelt
Roracr. : Any, r oourt, affirmed t ome” ng violen ale... Th ér da ies | chann y to, tur
ral ‘aie, ut n paying att MOLEW ng |, morping: and a the. jade @ full Hy sh tly and 6 agh i 1
os : she f eftion to y i 1 beir opi ll o’e gment : and aken, th Guet! mother |
; “and ed to her f ; Bad dion * d lock of |.) " unw » though’h 4 Ww F - HIS SoU
nfl Leta | rian Hees te His reel Lac sok hed he ek, by fuage “ lan inci as ever; | re Peadints athe [ether (
elng well” per wnd 4 piltesecant at Now # doom rns daw, as'did ‘Gtee 330 a. OF HIB PRi a oe f pra i “
F id th ma. Vath ae / o'clock ‘had be
St arunlan known th issipated hab tol). pp J\}ms sebled, eit || nocked at the jail | PX haar fih gta dng
He: guatd oll saboate ot ao babi if Geen rosa pas cox on im PRIBON,! {" ‘| . i Sia ae ae Donagha hue “and : fuewiag repel
» Femnarkabt y eighteen ” of vile wo 4 mony: bs t manifest An his acrest iq ie t men. of nuinbel, ortly befor ad bow mother’ at
t ih “% rs oe an car e 8a | or e er
lie Jal men, | ip and G, car] th until to-d avis. the ‘{ all: the day this | "™8* aff a
ptessed: iG cious: fn all of { inpery joking,: h nega, wap impeni A ut Hine jel ts ce headed » y and scuna fea ectip
“ote male it A ciapdoo | Bot ig toy fel fortwo Gav, Depaty ine fafes soled sth nee
ee asca: a had : 9 a8 . co TAC
oa as.ettaeg ich | ihe pe : a We) Merrick aod fei | raagemes cerita vot the | Ove e ake Daly vi
“‘wlao' a ehé Hténtion at shew g ected ment, of' t thelr doo che yard! ad four of the ‘next | oie Fi
i from T. as recely was: ook is owa-death h shi eriffa, assist t poticem dread ar. | you Over
ae Tako; ysilett the hh P. 2 i r i no «thou fleath h lefore, Vall ‘Everyt be seven en’ pla é, +4
jr eq otdl, asi ght. ad been anc hi or'e ced i that nie!
Beebe pe eatics ‘threats of and was hojtd fs | aia re Pa mania the nt seri, but : mpé and tact, gaits to Hip deputy Prednis Fee:
| Fae ¢ Yor more: rsbgeance opalaa J bxerete paolo baud 7 fet in eithous the. in completest order, ed Ris Pinttracy c
oo ied ef ‘he had: than a w gainst || sien cen te her ht lets cna ly thout,” th great cr t order, |. Father. inacy «
arse tat A i nk, aviee: been eck, befo | arid led at th: we | XX | Sted bon ® least | ash, to morn Seiler a
Bie JSS ‘olin Aca mae prckacted | it thar Or ~ ad Sats, ll yo af Sn ener eiadinng soafdsion, | % lng shown a
‘fy-fated i benny, to "up to th rturable atith t a 6. jail i,’ ff 6. office’ he ‘ tered, ret The
HR commit the | eaite wesinosird. dhe “hae aad where: | ravis ai Premay® oie arene sootad ith ‘bios! seayis,
Plies tpeepestint Sees i et et | ahaa now een
"Es ser iene, @ nigh Pe PUY 1 ‘old al mada: iscovered iby a cjfix’ ér” ce o fe
et ¥ Katie Coll! ¥ , 2 ath of Septem We] sal Quet together|in Be. veted somethlag heh, Then Genes be next, “bdashae T sien’ tractable & bi
ote login 1'Ainio : Molanght eye bene otk Vaiss Clas the: hf: consemned Bp Geeta, br arlog |S was mich.
oh the doo m,, Ki parade ghey tpl from bis pocket. ms earing reased in tlaioe BR ™ b
Ry Meee eed of et | She i ei oonone hor: sia at pe ale oF toot Dele
ny n u A i 3) /
, maton falatog oi pony epee pell | Ea i ane i | ae
i i manner at ule. Gia the mather b ¢ bilo pig S| de equaint e walked lingand self He w avenue, Sun Mary|:
vy ; ‘AR, ow otlg an as as rie a / ances. alou 1f re
fic hee thick,” hin teat nelle be wou mong t Bit; hi how ‘votes fentiy ‘overlook! sam before toleer y.af
“a ei te ith basen he | alte ito la own pc ibee fe after. | i Reynold apport ore besa | Inge Theos fa th
"Wea IP aaley int ty ready. 4 and and a ichriat hithewe ‘that | took’ Ble © mie, iad at By th en 2OPOET:| ibis Aig eae
ec ed nd, Mn aR ® ite eset yiog, |'Well, Say a ieee the storm Hh 8) Bea. 8 . ie mounted invitation yee ea
Bee Sh Pes, 2 lary vets ’ rom orm, 6 Was b
aa ae any haa Pipa ont, ':Yes,, ae at ts tha et, | ke adr wet the between the p ietta”. Y ack. ‘addition to the t
AN ats d ‘vil wi en on the in cols a ersenio, - th the of-the tela: Ww ere give then
AG bei ‘ate aan ; spedis at work hoe of th riton chore hen’, Y tacin en a place
by Agi at v a its. DT ead aim e church Utoe*whou the le faping tre man
iis) § | the doorw ane this ‘teanall ost! | “weil a Rag Bo end | om Nits eager te
Yi t " QO’ “bet bl¢ to In ) repeated oda ity offici
/ ity od rle ted: te een, th ne. This | i but’ a, @ Y ‘office Uy} ,_ eoverony
4 i poison, w eth ‘ 4 n i ny and » service re | ne} tm
. or at “ iat | Was” foard: mine ra and yee
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we dike and area
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Maar sey ey uf) har working’ gitl, a conséontious |. in thef ester

a Yeh dee BO OME AYU

budgcu Ayes Ud ig 44 (ol
ding ot guilty of. -m vere

s heart-brokén

’ His father w:

he penalty o da ther and other re
Lopes member “of the: Catholic’ church, .. Louis June 2 in otion Bean Y of dia wae
} _Guet was ob¢ of the clerks of the hotel, bis | Which |! wag’ overruled , by’ A... judge nied ces tate 3 OF His RELATIVES, Rapes bh
} pt: _ uncle Hong pi peetetelie ithe, Proprietor, |- pase od jPogten realty Hig 8 tember 19th, $7.2 unlau ‘alter. 10,* the door of .the {|
en 7 Louis wis bo ‘in\Lo vill4: “ Kys- Jn. 1859. | foro ‘the anniv. ry f ¥ on which | mber of mort iy opened. and the ‘mother |,
vals

- barber, sa ‘much given: to} ate was ‘com teed -ag the day La

is .P, ti he ld:
“gtrop drink, ing had 6né or tore at b f sta 8 8 ou t:) a bas

He ein nf tret eng, His mother being ral |
a # ‘ble to upport him, at three years of age Hej! lon ae Any Septen ber 16, Gordon, Lamb

i ue _, Mas addpted By, his tasted Hoary fusite 9 1d ie Ct Wand Griffith “& Potts, Guetig's
(brought to thinicity. Hp had- been bes counsel, filed. their. appead it the aaprens
|

| Tit SUPREME couse Avrines, :

¢ his aunt, Mrg,.'

ee note ‘Gale... The’
4 ng violently and Gueti RE

slightly shaken, though his

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4 4 Sor bith was of} no avail, as’ tle! full and unwinkip Ne
| hcg school here and at South Bead for’ | r winking as‘erer,
! i 4 tly affirmed : 7
eas ‘yedty’ and’ | ‘afterwards taken | into” bench patil at Lh o’ ne! jude at of ey pe, ARRIVAL OF HIS PRIESTS,
a hark. ~ Becoming ‘morning their opidion,. deliveréd by Judge 14530 a. -m.-Wathers Q'Dons, hue and

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Palit aioe | toe felon atath ne ak
tt Tice, 60: in numbed, all: the day and
aan pi ale doom rps sealed, pil ¢ nen. of: the ‘foro headed by Chief
“aiid OB conptor IN PRISON. °° y ravis.: surrounded | pre toils. stretcted
gat | the | dell ap 0 the
Deputy, Sheriff ft Reyaol 8,. a: next .
t ‘he’ sheriff was in charge‘of the dread ar.

sa ‘Sucre wire MARY WaLEW, rite ple, x freturn¢d jto the -elerk, and Gne-

‘Al > Nebag been payiog atteation to her for donie .
c " 2) me, de phe fajled to rectprocate His feelings |
Ae se mma had’ Degn fo avoid’ him on; account of. }) :.n, at
~The Volen$ terhper and ‘dissipated habits, it, oe ae bese rrecy of ls acrest until to-ded

the same: impesitenh,
17, Dole well” kogwn that he was an habitual / 3 ness, laughiug, sing-
- @runkard and

lan latecof” vile wo iad} s from fret wo last’beeo || "AOgements, had four policemen’ placed in:

associate i, f ard to assist the' seven or ¢i deputy

; He. was. ‘only’ - percorse ge ha rife... Btervtatb owing to: cy officer’s

on v- Yemarkably., ie in all grickednesg.. re |. Laianpe nd tach one carga deg

ye d; a ng m [a an Ppite of Wythe - great eras to

e, ie ih pa i ee £ 1, ate [5 Bo ought, of eternity, but'| in Without” the “least eoatasion,
“infimacy Guet} thought that she was receiv, |} i.» : she jail. | “| al a ae Xa, os ir ey ia ihe

ing téo miuth égtion from T. P. ‘GUETIG va To “Comair? 's cy, | 1: At 1 :50- exactly tne procession noved |

ete 7 the ‘hota, and was “hebed to | sh Newatep the. office ot she jai ase ae old.

fF | ey ‘and a alice
the

Richard O' Brie D, tiated and the.

led.at the.<jail yester-’ |:
| day. Newstepo o'clock... The. ie

Fees: that a week before | rer noti¢ed haftth te serene add t {'Donakhue and pana came next,’

: had: been on a protracted |. ‘chee whimcnerane ah much. tracey Pei eee rite
‘working Himed{t“up to the. 1 hakion: 7 ten pure that (bye ine condemned. boy” | Then -the | rs
‘fey. ot it the hos lucky chance: het ‘had discovered conn: ‘oth .

‘that’ had: not mie , Yoo buildi imself, dressed in al neat suit ‘ blac
2 Rater earin broideted li
. ij Ppgeptiold altbgetherlta vals ald.” *I'v¢ just come ei tmall More at ee
i be poopy WORK.’, ‘ ES | sald the jai rd takley ing ous Mf selon ae nd a ‘stud eb his ‘shirt bosom. He wee
the night of Sopteniba : s

ckage an inch long d:-a: quarter jof an
apo Gas cH | epee fa deh bit ne ‘ed wrapped) ound |
x | ning, room| girls, were’ fr i
Se ig sabe in doorway ofthe steward’s ||. Well what ie it?” “
, foam, | Hit. hone, which fronts upon. the pourt fie tven i pela hp sior i a hone roe
of the. main: building ot ‘the | b aeiong od br things told ‘hi ‘that /
a : rt frouse, ‘wheh “Louis. jGuetig ‘ap- have no hope of heaven it- he took
‘tae Es | his mee Bick rit aba excite:

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ai jailor O'Brien | Loved Ze
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con “back |/
he sitlorm, leweee the Prost, x. Wher |

into alobige’ own bands; that he maust.die’ i fwas'ailent theimén of:the ch

whan and/a. christian. At.this he

“fe Japghed| antl took rf his ‘knelt with the risoneb;- -for* whose the I by
° “fh Vey ist ‘Well, | pa r. font be Bodket, irayers of the'ch urch were: ppeated, 8 dat
: | fra beeh Ian hing “at thO“foots at worl on 9-4: ip epg gira AE ae an
mie Toy ‘.: revol ret. Tae |p Secaftold intending: bo take this | Are ¢ Phat rhe This : aoe
@ tine ed to-night laid “chtat eft, but hv ‘between, three’ and four: atterst

nd Mary cried ont, “Yes, I/li,; ‘my mindand will die game.” » 0’ Belt od {ietzen ' Pefore. J Sheri woe

0 ou a rune rhea on the ae Bt ito find gut who » him the poison, other a wh fore ,
te eco! old i sgt -atepplog up to Lit: w tute |who has been visiting ey) “Who tod war eo, ‘began R' the
2 yn pfdked to,tell the name pheiwaid Sag? 16th. nee dated
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with "I'm just one of those guys who never get a break. Life
imprisonment means about 25 years. The chair means about five minute:
What's the difference?"

John Hall, Tommy O'Brien, and "Red" Prough were arrested in
Elkhart for several robberies in this county, and after their
arrest it was learned that Hall and O'Brien were probably the
murderers of Louis Kreidler, akthough no suspicion of that crime
had been attached to them at the time of their arrest. An
investigation pinned the crime unmistakably on the two, and a
charge of murder was filed.

The men were held -in the county jail here as a change of
venue from St. Joseph county was granted, and during their stay in thé
jail a number of jail breaks were attempted, and two of them were
successful. In the first neither Hall nor C'Brien escaped, but in
the second O'Brien managed to get away. .Hall failed only because
he was unable to squeeze through the opening cut in the bars.
O'Brien was later recaptured, but not until after Hall had been
tried by a jury in the Elkhart superior court, and sentanced to die.
The two men were regarded by officers here as by far the most
dangerous who had ever been in the local jail, and it was
necessary to keep a constant watch over them, and to take other
special precautions to prevent their escape.

C'RBrien later was recaptured in Chicago, and he was tried in
South Pend, where he was given a life sentence,

Kreidler was fatally wounded March 29, 1926, when he
interrupted Hall and C'Brien as they were robbing his store,

Witnesses declared Hall struck Kreidler over the head with
the butt of a revolver. Hall received the death sentence in the
Elkhart superior court while O'Brien was sentenced to life
imprisonment from the St. Joseph superior court. ©

Hall was to be electrocuted March 9, 1927, but pending his
appeal to the Indiana supreme court, he was granted several stays -
of execution. The court finally affirmed the conviction January
56, 19238, and his case then was carried to the prison board of
trustees, where Coughlin appealed for a commutation to life
imprisonment. The trustees refused this, and Governor Jackson
approved their action.

Then O'Brien, in a last effort to save Hall's life, issued a
statement from his cell at the state prison. He said he had
suppressed the facts at the two trials, that he and not Hall had
struck the blow which resulted in Kreidler's death. His affidavits ¢
this effect were given to the governor by Coughlin, 14 hours
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5/2/40 p.l Police of city join in search for Clark man 2
5/27/40 p.l Return pair on "murder ride" to Clark County 2
5/29/h0 p.2 Fugitive killer captured 1
6/6/40 = pel Trial is set for cab murder pair 1

6/2/40 p.2 Pair removed to County Jail here (A change of venue was granted
| from Clark County to Floyd County.) 1
| 8/5/40 p.l Attempted break at jail foiled by sheriff, aid 1
12/16/10 p.1 Insanity plea is entered at Hawkins trial c
12/17/40 p.1 Jury selection in murder trial still under way 2
12/18/10 p.1 Extreme penalty for Hawkins is sought by State 2
|,  12/19/:0 p.1 Girl tells jury of death trip of Jeff cabman 2
12/20/40 p.1 Marijuana blamed for fatal attack on Clark cabman 3
12/21/40 p.1 State demands Hawkins go to electric chair 3
, 12/23/40 p.1 Hawkins awaits to learn date for execution 3
12/2/40 p.1 Hayden gets lifes; April 18th fixed for Hawkins death 2
12/26/40 p.1 Slayer of Davis in "Death Row; Pal starts term 2
12/27/40 pel Kentucky girl in murder case content in jail 1

nom oo ps1 Hawkins may be 50th man to die in electric chair (picture &
caption) (Pictures usually don't turn out too well in a

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/6/4ul pel Stay of execution sought for Hawkins 1
3/14/41 p.1 Way opened for Hawkins appeal to High Court 1
3/26/41 p.1 Supreme Court grants Hawkins execution stay 2

11/6/41 p.1 Appeal to keep Hawkins from chair planned

11/11/41 p.l Plea for Hawkins made to Governor

11/14/41 pel Electric chair claims life of Milton Hawkins
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There was nothing for the harried in-
vestigators to do but explore every possi-
bility. For weeks they worked untiringly
on the riddle, questioning every inhabitant
of the backwoods community in hope of
digging up the answer. But their relent-
less efforts proved futile.

No one knew of any other arguments
in which Matt Jepson had been involved.
Nor could the sleuths find anyone who
had seen a stranger around his place
immediately prior to the killing.

The deputies even probed the possi-
bility that the old rancher had been mixed
up in some romance and had been slain
by an irate husband or sweetheart. But
this theory was quickly discarded when
the victim’s closest acquaintances declared
Jepson had had no interest in the oppo-
site sex.

As the weeks slipped into months
Sheriff Houser realized that he and his
staff could not continue giving practically
all of their time to the case despite its
importance. Other official affairs
clamored for attention, so Houser had a
long conference with District Attorney
Keator. ;

They decided to enlist the services of a
special investigator. Next day William L.
Priest, one of the shrewdest operators of
the Burns Detective Agency arrived in
Pendleton. He at once began to study all
of the facts the Umatilla authorities had
uncovered.

He talked at length with every officer
who had participated in the investigation.
He absorbed the background of the case—
the personalities of all of Jepson’s neigh-
bors and the kind of life they led in the
remote mountain region.

He asked questions that seemed to havé
no bearing on the case yet he hada definite
reason for each bit of information he
sought.

After two days of preliminary work
Priest went into another huddle with
Sheriff Houser and Prosecutor Keator.
“I’m going up to Government mountain,”
he told them. “Somebody there knows
something but mountain folk don’t open
up to officers. I’ve got to win their con-
fidence, get them to talk. They won't
know I’m a detective and that ought to
help a lot.”

On the following morning the ace
sleuth, dressed in rough clothing he had
purchased at a second-hand store, headed

for the desolate hills. He purposely had

not shaved since his arrival in Pendleton
arid the stubble on his face added the per-
fect touch to his convincing disguise.

He found the mountain inhabitants
friendly enough. They asked few ques-
tions other than who he was and what he
was doing in their neck of the woods.

Priest told them that his name was Fred
Miller and that he was looking for a place
to settle down. His pleasant personality
soon won him the confidence of his

adopted neighbors and enabled him to ~

glean bits of information that finally
brought him the first hint of a lead.

He learned that some of the moun-
taineers were engaged in distilling illicit
whisky and selling it to nearby com-
munities. More than that he discovered
that Matt Jepson had vigorously opposed
this activity and threatened to go to the
authorities if need be, to bring it to a halt.

Nobody seemed to know, however,.why

‘the old man had taken this attitude. But

Priest did find out that a few weeks before
Jepson was slain he had been in a bitter
argument with Charley Von der Ahe, who
operated the biggest still in the region.
Some of the mountain folk hinted that
Von der Ahe had accused Jepson of turn-
ing him in to the federal officers. Priest
also learned that the moonshiner had been

haled into court at nearby Athena and
fined $400 for his illegal enterprise.

Was this the reason, Priest asked him-
self, why old Matt had been brutally mur-
dered? The killing had every indication
of being a grudge affair yet Charley Von
der Ahe had been one of Jepson’s closest
friends. Would he have slain the old man
merely on the suspicion that Jepson had
turned him in? ‘

Priest determined to follow this lead as
far as he could. Next morning he went
to the Von der Ahe ranch and engaged the
39-year-old bootlegger in earnest con-
versation.

“Charley, I want you to know just why
I came up to Government mountain,” the
detective began. “I’m not looking for a
place to buy. I’m really trying to make a
deal with a good distiller. You see, I’m
a whisky runner and I need somebody to
make me the stuff to peddle.

“I’ve got plenty of good connections in
Seattle and Tacoma and I can use every
gallon I can get. But the main thing is
that I’m looking for a guy who can supply
me. That's why I’m offering to tie up
with you.”

For several minutes Von der Ahe did

EXECUTE MURDERER
OF TAXI DRIVER

Ly fete L. HAWKINS, 25,
of Owensboro, Ky., was elec-
trocuted in Indiana state prison for
the holdup killing of Edmund J.
Davis, a taxicab driver, near Jet-
fersonville, Ind., on the night of
May 29, 1940.

Hawkins’ murderous attack and
his capture were told in the Octo-
ber, 1940, issue of STARTLING
DETECTIVE under the title,
“Missing Cabbie and the Jigsaw
Clue.”

Hawkins was convicted at New
Albany, Ind., of first degree mur-
der. A companion, J. W. Hayden,
Jr., 20, pleaded guilty and is now
serving life for the same crime.

not answer. His piercing eyes searched
the sleuth’s face for some trace of decep-
tion. Finally he nodded cautiously. He

said, “I’d be glad to work with you. Both °

of us should make plenty of dough in this
business.”

And so for the next few weeks Priest
was with his “partner” almost continu-
ally. He helped to make the moonshine

_ and even suggested how Von der Ahe

could “cut” the whisky more advanta-
geously.

The shrewd detective soon gained the
complete confidence of the mountaineer.
When the time was ripe Priest casually
mentioned the Jepson affair.

“T heard,” he told Von der Ahe, “that

the old guy was a stool pigeon. If that
was the case he got just what was coming
to him. There’s nothing lower than a
stoolie.”
_ A hard look came into the bootlegger’s
eyes. “That’s right,” he grimly declared.
“Nothing’s lower. Matt was a pretty good
guy until he stuck his nose into my busi-
ness. And if anybody else tries the same
thing he’ll end up at the bottom of the
well too.”

Priest tactfully dropped the subject and

’ went about his chores in the usual manner.

But inside he was churning with eager-
ness to go into action, to find something
that would tie Von der Ahe into the

66 Pith Lett,

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murder beyond a shadow of a doubt. of

During the next few days the detective

clevérly conducted a campaign for in- 4

formation, being certain this procedure —
was not known to the suspect. Surprising
success rewarded his efforts. He located
a rancher at nearby Freewater who made
an important statement.

“Shortly after old Matt was found mur-
dered,” the informant said, “I ran across
Charley Von der Ahe in Pendleton. I
mentione Ow surprised I’d been at
hearing about the killing but Charley only
smiled.

“He said it wasn’t any surprise to him.
He also said, ‘There are a couple more
stool pigeons going into the well if they
don’t mind their own business.’”  ~

Sure of his man now, Priest looked for.
a final bit of evidence to clinch the case. It
did not take him long to find it. He located
a mountaineer who told him, “After
Charley was arrested and fined for making
moonshine he came to me and said he’d
give five hundred dollars to find out who
had turned him in. He saia, ‘I'll kill the
rat that did it no matter who he is.’”

On the pretext of taking care of im-
portant business, Priest left his “partner”
and went into Pendleton. He submitted
his report to Sheriff Houser and Prosecu-
tor Keator. Next day, Mar. 11, Von der
Ahe was arrested and lodged in the county
jail on a first-degree murder charge.

He bitterly assailed the officers who
took him into custody and threatened to
sue them for false arrest. He refused to
answer questions hurled by Houser and
Keator.

Then Detective Priest and two deputy
sheriffs went to the Jepson place for
another search, hoping to find valuable
evidence that might have been previously
overlooked.

Their quest proved highly successful,
for in the straw which covered the old
recluse’s shack they found a bloodstained
ax. They had no trouble establishing the
re that the weapon belonged to Von der

he.

Despite this damaging evidence the
suspect continued to deny slaying his
long-time friend. Following indictment
by the Umatilla grand jury the prisoner
went on trial in the circuit court at
Pendleton.

Judge Gilbert W. Phelps presided in the
bitterly fought legal battle, which lasted
for more than a week.

On the stand Von der Ahe admitted
having a mild quarrel with Matt Jepson
but insisted it was a dispute over the
property line between their ranches.

Von der Ahe also emphatically declared
that he had never known who had turned
him in to the authorities. He said he never
had suspected Jepson.

The prosecution spun a puncture-proof
web of circumstantial evidence around
the accused. It was brought out that Von
der Ahe had admitted seeing the old
hermit at noon on the day he disappeared

and that he had been the one to find the © 4

victim in the welb.
Von der Ahe’s threats to kill whoever

had informed on him were stressed by the aa

a,

district attorney. The bloodstained ax..\j

was proved to be property ‘of the de-.

fendant.
On Apr. 29, 1922, the jurors, after
short deliberation, found him guilty of

second-degree murder. Judge Phelps pro- 4

nounced the mandatory sentence of lif

imprisonment in the state penitentiary at}

Salem.

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innocently involved in a murder investigation,
name Hank Stewart as used in this story is
real but fictitious.—Ed.)

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the rear of the cabin, allowing them 15
minutes, after which he and the others
drove down the lane to the house.

They saw two men working in the
tobacco field in front of the place, alighted
and walked toward them. The youth they
sought was black-haired, but the youth

who faced them now, standing beside the

older farmer, had peculiar, streaked hair,
more blond than dark and he wore no
mustache. He leaned upon a hoe and
watched the officers without apparent
interest.

“We want Milton Hawkins,” Capt.
Eckert announced, and the man looked
with surprise at his younger companion.

For only a moment Hawkins seemed
to contemplate escape, then he shrugged.
“T’ll go along,” he snapped, “but I want
to change my clothes.”

“Bring them out here,” Capt. Eckert
ordered, and slowly the father trudged

into the cabin, returning with his son’s-

dapper suit.

The officers waited until Hawkins
donned the clothing and then placed him
under arrest for the murder of Edmund
Davis. The youth, without his mustache
and with his black hair streaked with
blond dye, the disguise he had affected

to escape detection, was not such a dash-

ing figure now.

.He refused to talk until he had been
taken to the state police barracks at
Seymour where, like Hayden and Miss
‘Luttrell, he faced a lengthy grilling by
Capt. Eckert and his men.

But in a short while the Indiana state
police had obtained their third detailed
confession of guilt and the case, as far as

’ successful investigation, was closed.

According to their combined state-
ments, Hayden and Hawkins had plotted
the holdup. They ordered a cab and Ed-
mund Davis was sent on the call. When
the Luttrell girl asked him to stop the
cab and got out, Hawkins beat him into
insensibility and robbed him of $60, while
Hayden held a gun on him.

“Is this the gun?” Eckert asked Haw-
kins. “The officers found it hanging on a
nail just inside the door of your father’s
cabin.”

“Yes, that’s the gun,” the youth ad-
mitted.

Callously he and Hayden had tossed
Davis’ body from the cab, wheeled about
and driven up U. S. highway 31 until
they realized it was no longer safe to be
seen on the road with the missing taxi.

At midnight they had abandoned it a
short distance from Taylorsville. Haw-
kins had found Joe Gray’s wallet in the
car during the trip to Louisville, kept it
and later tore up the identification card
at the tourist camp.

Hawkins was taken to Jeffersonville
and lodged in the Clark county jail fol-
lowing the signing of his confession.

On Tuesday, June 4, the grand jury
returned indictments against all three of
the trio, Hayden and Hawkins being
charged with first degree murder and
Miss Luttrell with conspiracy to commit
a felony and being an accessory. They
were arraigned before Circuit Judge
James L. Bottorff.

They were to have faced trial for their
confessed crime on Monday, June 24,
but defense attorneys, arguing that feel-
ing against them was strong in Clark
county, obtained a change of venue to
Floyd county, and the trial date was ad-
vanced to the October term of Circuit
court.in New Albany, Ind., sister city
of the slain cabdriver’s home.

(To prviect the identity of innocent persons the
names Joseph and John Gray as used in this story
are not real but fictitious.—Ed.)

‘Monster of Marseille

[Continued from page 27}

’ to keep the banker under constant sur-

veillance. Back at the villa he talked
with Dr. Dufour, who told him that the
young woman had been strangled with
the wire which was still about her neck.
He removed it now and handed it to the

officer. Taddei studied it, then gave it

to one of his detectives.

“Try to find the store where it was
bought,” he ordered.

The man departed. Dr. Dufour told
Taddci that while the woman had not
been criminally assaulted she had
obviously been intimate with a man. He
had ordered the body removed to the
morgue.

HE detective who had queried the

neighbors, meanwhile, had learned
little. None of them had been friends with
the slain woman. But all agreed that she
had led a quiet life, seldom entertaining.
No one knew of any relatives or close
friends, nor could anyone tell the police
anything about the middle-aged man
with whom Mademoiselle Foce had been
seen most frequently. No one could be
located who had seen anyone enter or
leave the villa after the bank cashier had
been admitted.

No fingerprints of any value had been
discovered in the house but the auto-
mobile parked in the garage carried the
prints of a person with a crippled little
finger. The print was on the door and

_ also on the driving wheel.

“That must be the man we're trying
to identify, who drove her when she
used the car,” said Taddei thoughtfully.

Leaving one of his men to guard the
house, the inspector left and went back
to headquarters. Here he put detectives
to work locating Camille Gaillard, the
new owner of the villa. He hoped to learn
something of the murdered woman’s
background from him. He instructed
other officers to look into the life of

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Mademoiselle Foce. He believed this
would give some clue to her slaying. The

‘background of the bank cashier also was

examined.

By late afternoon Dr. Dufour had
established the time of the killing as
between 9 o’clock and midnight of Sat-
urday. There was no identification card
on file with the Marseille police for
Gaillard, so he evidently did not reside
in that city. Detectives were told to hunt
him out no matter where he was.

Meanwhile, no near relatives nor
friends of the murdered woman could be
found. She had left her teaching position

‘six months ago when she had inherited

the villa. There was a considerable sum
in her bank account but as near as Taddei
could discover she had left no will. He
could find no one who had benefited
financially by the slaying.

As part of routine investigation he had
the license on Mademoiselle Foce’s car
checked. To his surprise the automobile
did not belong to her but to Monsieur
Gaillard to whom she had recently sold
the villa. He, then, must be the middle-
aged gentleman with whom she drove
occasionally. The license bureau stated
the owner’s address as Rue Cas a la
Blancarde. Putting on his hat, the
inspector drove to the house. A maid
invited him into the living room and said
she would call her mistress.

Taddei stood up as a_kindly-faced
woman in her middle forties came into
the room. Taking a chair, she asked
politely what the officer wished.

“T understand that a Monsieur Camille
Gaillard lives here,” jhe told her.

“Well, yes and no,” she said slowly.

“And ‘what does that mean?” inquired
the inspector.

‘He has a room here which he uses
occasionally when he comes to Marseille,
but he does not live here.”

“T see. And where does he live?”

“That I can’t tell you. He has never

confided much in me. I have a number
of people rooming here and he comes
and goes as he likes. I have seen very
little of him.”

“What sort of a man is he?” probed
Taddei. “Has he a business of some kind,
does he usually come alone to his room?”

“Yes, always alone. As to his business
I have no idea about that,” she replied.

“What sort of looking man is he?”

The woman’s eyes held a faraway look
as she gave the description. “He’s good-
looking,” she asserted. “Not in the way
some Steple might think, but he has a
face full of character.”

“And about what age is he?”

“In .his late forties or early fifties, I
should say,” she answered. -

“Did you ever happen to_ notice
whether one of his fingers is crippled?”

“No. I haven’t,” she said.

HE fact that she blushed as she de-

scribed her roomer did not escape the
shrewd eyes of Taddei. After a few more
questions he asked to be shown to
Gaillard’s room. The landlady led the
way to the third floor and opened a door
at the rear of a hall.

The room was large and pleasant. The
inspector went over it carefully. He did
not find. any evidence linking Gaillard
with the crime. There were several
photographs of pretty girls in the room
but none of Mademoiselle Foce. There
were no incriminating documents or
letters.

As he left, the inspector asked the
landlady to notify him if Gaillard re-
turned to his,room. She promised to
comply with this request, but her ex-
pression showed her bewilderment.

. Taddei did not feel certain of her co-

operation. She was much too vague about
her roomer.

That night Taddei asked the Marseille
newspapers to request the public to come


and the presence of blood in the car
served to spur the effort to solve the
riddle.

Officers were stationed near the homes
of the Hayden youth and the Luttrell
girl who, in addition to being wanted: for
questioning by the Indiana authorities,
were being sought by the Kentucky
officers for fraudulent check passing.
Neither Hayden nor Miss Luttrell had a
previous record and it was believed that
their association with Hawkins was the
cause of this trouble.

The hours dragged on and it was not
until Saturday morning that Clementine
Luttrell attempted to return quietly to
her home in Livermore, Ky., approxi-
mately 22 miles southwest of Owensboro.
She was.immediately placed under arrest.

Police took her to Capt. Bristow’s office
in Owensboro and notified Capt. Eckert
of the arrest. The Indiana state police
chief, in turn, got in touch with Detec-
tives Ball and Meredith Stewart, officers
he had previously sent to Louisville in an
attempt to pick up some clue and trace
the trio’s activities there following Gray’s
return to Owensboro on Sunday after-
noon. Eckert instructed his men to bring
the girl to Indiana without delay.

ENDING the arrival of the Indiana
detectives, Capt. Bristow began ques-
tioning Miss Luttrell, seeking informa-
tion about the present whereabouts of her
companions. The girl flatly refused to

talk. She would not admit that she had |

been in Jeffersonville at all, ‘that she
_knew anything about a taxicab ride or the
disappearance of Davis. She denied
knowledge of any crime and said she had
never been to Taylorsville. Furthermore,
she said she did not know where Hayden
or Hawkins might be. i

Hour after hour the questioning went
on, with the officer convinced that the
attractive young girl held the key to the
mystery. Finally, he changed his. tactics
and began abruptly to accuse her of com-
plicity in the murder of Davis. There was
no doubt in his mind that Davis had been
murdered. There was no direct evidence
whatever to connect the girl and her com-
panions with the disappearance of the
cabdriver, yet Miss Luttrell’s sullen
silence was proof enough that she was
hiding something.

Capt. Bristow, pretending to know far
more about the crime than he did, began
outlining a case against the trio as if the
entire matter were settled. As he talked
casually he watched the girl carefully. A
white snood upon her dark hair, a comb
protruding from the pocket of her sports
shirt, Miss Luttrell sat with downcast
eyes, nervously toying with a wrist watch
on her left arm. Occasionally she wet her
lips and cast a quick, worried glance at
the officer.

Suddenly, without warning, her nerve
broke. She promised to tell all she knew
about the affair. Still staring at the floor,
she began to speak in a low voice.

“We went to Louisville with Joe,” she
began and Bristow interrupted abruptly.

“Tt’s what you did after you left Gray
that I am interested in,” he said. “Did
you go with Hayden and Hawkins to
Jeffersonville when you left Louisville?”

She hesitated, then admitted. “Yes. We
crossed the Ohio river on the bridge that
joins the two cities.” ; :

“And you hired a taxicab in Jefferson-
ville early Monday evening, didn’t you—
Edmund Davis’ cab!”

“TI didn’t know who the driver was.

’ Maybe that was his name.”

“But you did hire a cab!” he insisted.
“Didn’t you?”

“I didn’t,” she said, “but the boys did.”

“And they assaulted him,” the police
captain declared grimly. :

“IT don’t know what happened,” the
girl cried. “I only know that I got sick
and asked them to stop the car.”

Later Clementine Luttrell acknowl-
edged that the cabdriver apparently had
had some trouble with Hayden and Haw-
kins and had been attacked by them while
she was out of the cab. She said the
youths had thrown him out of the moving
taxi not far from Jeffersonville.

“I didn’t have anything to do with
whatever took place,” she said, “but I'll
go with you to the place where they threw
him out and show you where it was.”

Willingly she accompanied the Indiana
and Kentucky authorities and guided
them to a lonely spot a short distance
north of Jeffersonville. “Just about here,
somewhere,” she pointed out. ;

However, a cursory examination failed
to reveal any signs of Davis and Detec-
tives Ball and Stewart decided to take the
girl up to Seymour, leaving her under
guard at a hotel for the remainder of the
night, intending to question her the fol-
lowing morning at their barracks.

They returned to Jeffersonville to aid .
in the search but, handicapped by dark- .
- ness, they finally drove back to Seymour,

filled with doubt. Was the girl telling the
truth, or, frightened by her-arrest, was
she weaving a story to throw them off the
track and give Hayden and, Hawkins a
chance to make sure their escape? |

At 5 o'clock Sunday morning a posse
of 800 citizens, directed by Sheriff Claude

Conner of Clark county, left Jefferson-.

ville, the county seat and began searching
along highway 62, over which Clemen-
tine had led the officers, in a northeastern
direction, toward the small town of
Watson.

The men had moved more than four
miles when suddenly two hunters, slight-
ly in advance of the others, gave a startled
cry.

“Here he is! We've found him!” the
called out in horror-filled voices. Sheri
Conner and his aides came running
swiftly,

The body of Edmund Davis lay face
downward, his hands wired securely be-
hind him, his head mercilessly crushed.

The body had been tossed about 25
feet from the road and, although no obvi-
ous attempt had been made to cover or
secrete it, it had been obscured from
passersby by high weeds and brush.

_ A short time later Jeffersonville was
in an uproar.

Detectives Ball and Stewart, together
with other state police officers, and Cor-
oner Edmund M. Coots soon arrived at
the scene.

The coroner’s inquest returned a ver-
dict of murder, stating that Davis’ death
had been caused by bludgeoning. His
skull had been fractured and his head
badly battered.

Sunday morning Detective Ball and
Capt. Eckert also obtained a signed state-
ment, accusing Hayden and Hawkins of
the brutal murder, from Clementine Lut-
trell, and Detective Don Wynn returned
her to Owensboro pending further de-
velopments. :

But, even as he and the girl traveled
toward the Kentucky town, Capt. Eckert,
who had returned to his office at the
Indiana capital,’ received another phone

.

call from Capt. Bristow, advising that he
had just learned that Hayden and Haw-
kins had returned to that state with
Clementine following their flight from

the hotel in Indianapolis, where they had

registered under assumed names.

“I have established proof.that the three
of them arrived together in Louisville by
train and I feel confident that the two
boys are hiding out somewhere not far
from here,” he reported.

“ll leave at once and get there as fast
as I can,” Eckert said.

“Meanwhile,” Bristow said, “I'll start
my men out to the transient camps along
the river.”

Squads of Kentucky officers began a
careful search of the hobo jungles and
secluded spots in the river bottoms which
would afford a hiding place for the
wanted men. The move was met with
speedy success.

Even before Capt. Eckert could reach
Owensboro, officers found Hayden hid-

ing in a desolate spot along Rough river.

near Livermore, not far from the home
of the girl, Eckert promptly returned
the youth to the Seymour barracks. De-
tective Ball questioned him for hours but
met only denials and a stony silence.
Hayden refused to admit any knowledge
of the affair.

Finally on Monday morning, Ball con-
fronted Hayden with the girl’s statement
and the prisoner wilted. Reluctantly, he
admitted hiring the taxicab. Then with
that out, he began talking freely. He
accused Hawkins of the actual murder
but admitted that the two of them had
planned to rob a taxicab driver long in
advance of the crime. They had gone
into Indiana with that intention.

“We bought the copper wire we trussed
Davis up with at a store in Louisville.
The lead pipe Milt used to beat him in
the head, we picked up at a junk yard,”
he admitted, “but I wasn’t aiming to
murder anybody. I just meant to rob
him.”

Hayden, in additional questioning, gave
a. list of Hawkins’ relatives and, when
Capt. Eckert had turned both Hayden
and the Luttrell girl over to Sheriff
Conner, he, Ball and Sergt. Eugene
Vance returned once more to Owensboro
to aid in an intensive search for the third
member of the trio, arriving there at
8 o’clock Monday night.

BF eal morning they picked up
Sergt. Glenn Seward, of the Kentucky
state police, and Jesse Stone, criminal in-
vestigator for the state and started the
manhunt. They visited the homes of
Hawkins’ relatives and a former employer
in Bowling Green, moving up to Mun-
fordville, in the Mammoth Cave section,
where they enlisted the aid of Sheriff
Noah Riggs.

“Milt Hawkins was seen around these
parts not many days ago,” Riggs re-
vealed. “His father lives out near Cub
Run, a crossroads town about fifteen
miles in the mountains, and I wouldn’t
be surprised. if we found him right out
there now. It’s a forsaken enough spot
for anybody to hide in.”

Capt. Eckert and the other officers
agreed with him and presently they
sighted the Hawkins’ home and stopped
to make their plans,

The house was set in a clearing, a
mountainous woods on one side and a
creek behind.

Capt. Eckert directed Vance, Ball and
Seward to take up strategic positions in

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Missing Cabbie and the Jigsaw Clue

[Continued from page 47]

stand regarding the empty container. He
bent over suddenly and touched the bot-
tom with his forefinger, withdrawing it
a moment later and wiping it with his
handkerchief.

“It’s wet,” he told Sheriff Noelting,
“and there are small bits of torn paper
adhering to it.”

He went down on one knee and began
to gather the damp particles together
with the greatest care. It was slow work
but at last he had them all wrapped in
his handkerchief.

“It may mean something or nothing,”
he remarked to the sheriff later, “but, at
least, it was the only thing the cabin gave
up that might help us at all. That paper
stuck when the can was emptied.”

“T can’t help but wish they hadn’t been

so prompt with their cleaning,” Noelting -

said. “Mr. and Mrs, Charles Brown and
Allen Bradford were the names they gave
the office here. What’s our next step?”
“We're going to comb this neighbor-
hood. Perhaps they stopped somewhere
for breakfast. Perhaps some of the early-
rising farmers or their families noticed
them,” the detective replied. “Without a
car they couldn’t have gone far, but I’ve
a hunch they either hired someone to
drive them to their destination or they
thumbed their way. We'll inquire at the
farmhouse across the way first.”

BALLS hunch proved to be right. The
owner of the farm had been ap-
proached by the trio early Tuesday morn-
ing.

“They said they had had an automobile
wreck and asked me to drive them into
Indianapolis,” he revealed. “I told them
I would and then afterward I wished I
hadn’t.”

“Didn’t they pay you?” the detective
asked.

“Yes, they paid me, all right, but I grew
a little uneasy. One of the fellows had
what appeared to be blood on his trousers,
but I guess he got it in the wreck,” the
farmer explained.

“Perhaps,” Ball agreed noncommittal-
ly. “Where did you take them in Indian-
apolis?”

_ “They said they wanted to go to the
corner of Maryland and Meridian. I let
them out there.”

“Before some dwelling?”

“No, I asked them at what address I
should drop them and they said none.
They just wanted to get out on that
corner.”

A.short time later Detective Ball was

“speeding toward Indianapolis, while

Sheriff Noelting returned to his office at
the Bartholomew county courthouse at
Columbus. The case was fantastic. There
was a missing cabdriver, some evidence
of violence and nothing else except a
vague report about three young hitch-
hikers. f

The detective made his way to the
Indiana state police headquarters in the
basement of the state capitol and entered
the office of his chief, Capt. Walter
Eckert. :

He made a complete report of every-
thing that had happened since Sheriff
Noelting had notified him of the finding
of the bloodstained cab some hours be-

54

fore. He explained his belief that the
mysterious trio was involved in the dis-
appearance of the cabman.

“Good work,” the tall, distinguished
captain commented. “Take those bits of

paper into the laboratory and help piece .

them together. I’ll send some plain-
clothes men out to check all rooming
houses and hotels.”

Capt. Eckert summoned six of the de-
partment’s crack detectives to his desk.
He reviewed Ball’s findings, furnished
them with the very meager descriptions
of the trio and directed them to overlook
no lodging place in the district. “Go to
the corner of Maryland and Meridian
streets. Use that as your central point
and work out from there,” he instructed.

For six hours Ball and the laboratory
men labored over the scraps of paper but
finally their nerve-wracking job was
ended and triumphantly they delivered
to Capt. Eckert a small, pieced picture
of a dark, smiling youth. The photograph
matched the sketchy description of one
of the mystery trio. '

“T’ll photograph and enlarge that and
you'll be able to get a much better con-

ception of the subject,” the staff photog-

rapher promised, “but this is the
original.”

“And here’s the second clue. At least
we hope it will prove to be a clue,” Detec-
tive Ball announced, Jaying before the
chief a patched identification card, of the
type often found in cheaper billfolds and

ocketbooks, which vied with the most
intricate jigsaw puzzle.

“Joseph Gray, Owensboro, Kentucky,”
Captain Eckert read, “In case of accident
or serious illness please notify John Gray,
Owensboro, Kentucky.”

The card might or might not have been
dropped by the trio. That was a matter
which could be checked promptly.

“If that trio had any connection with
the missing Edmund Davis, I believe
we're getting somewhere,” Eckert ex-
claimed. Reaching for the phone on his
desk, he told the operator, “Get me Cap-
tain Raleigh Bristow at the Owensboro,
Kentucky, police headquarters.”

He and Bristow were good friends.
They had attended school together at the
FBI in Washington. A few moments
later he was explaining the affair to the
Kentucky officer.

“Joseph Gray?” Capt. Bristow repeated
in a puzzled tone. “I’m afraid, Walter,
if the card and the photo are those of
Joseph, there’s no connection with either
the trio or the Jeffersonville case. The
boy lives with his parents out the road

‘ near here and he’s a youth of good stand-

ing and reputation. I don’t think he could
be involved in anything questionable, but
I’ll check for you anyway.”

As Capt. Eckert replaced the phone in
its cradle, both he and Detective Ball had
little hopes that their “clues” would lead
to anything. Owensboro was not near
the area where the cab vanished and was
far from the place where it was found.

“Enlarge that photograph notwith-
standing,” Eckert directed, and then
began to check on what his detectives
had discovered in their canvass of room-
ing houses and hotels. So far they had
learned nothing.

It was not until 2 p.m., Wednesday,

May 22, that they picked up any trace of
the three, when they learned a hotel on
South Illinois street, that two youths and
a girl, registering as Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Brown and Allen Bradford, had checked
in on Tuesday, remained overnight and
checked out at 9 a.m., Wednesday, just
five hours before the officers arrived.

There, again, the trail ended. With a
five-hour start ahead of the state police,
the trio had apparently been careful to
cover their tracks and there was little
immediate promise of tracing their move-
ments after they left the hotel. The cab
had been identified positively by Jeffer-
sonville officers but they had found noth-
ing to help crack the case. Was Davis
dead, or lying helpless and badly beaten
in some secluded spot?

Shortly after the detectives had brought
in the disappointing news, Capt. Eckert
answered a long distance call to hear the
excitement-filled voice of Capt. Bristow.

“Perhaps those are pretty important
clues, after all,’”’ he announced. “I’ve just
been out to. the Gray’s and Joseph says
he drove three young Kentuckians from
Owensboro to Louisville, Saturday after-
noon.” *

“Two youths and a girl?” Capt Eckert
asked. ~

“Yes, but that’s all he knows about it.
He left them there and returned home
Sunday afternoon. He hasn’t seen them
since and he says that photo you pieced
together can’t be his. Suppose you de-
scribe it to me,” Bristow suggested.

Capt. Eckert studied the face of the
dark, -wavy-haired youth, with its trim
mustache and dark, smiling eyes despite
the mutilated condition of the picture.
He described it minutely to the Kentucky
police captain and Bristow replied,
“That’s not a likeness of Gray, but one
of the boys he gave a lift to Louisville. I

* believe that’s Milton Hawkins, a twenty-

four-year-old convict, who was just re-
cently released from the state peniten-
tiary at Eddyville. He served two years
on a forgery and bad check charge.”

66 AIT until I get that down,” Capt.

Eckert said. “And what about
the other two Gray took to Louisville
with Hawkins?”

“He says they were J. W. Hayden, Jr.,
of Owensboro, and Clementine Luttrell,
of Livermore, Hayden’s about twenty
and the girl’s seventeen,” Bristow an-
swered. “I'll get my men busy down here
and we'll be on the lookout for them. By
the way, Gray said he lost his wallet with
the identification card on the trip to
Louisville,”

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land skirting U. S. highway 31 all the
way from Indianapolis down to Jeffer-
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every ditch and culvert between the two
points, a distance of 118 miles, to no avail.

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taxicab driver or the elusive trio. It was
as if all four had melted into the country-
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with Nia black cap, andl tie inidister maniit i@ a matter of fact duty with cent she then tol:

j i . “Toam 338) yen:
pulied hin through rh D frap. } then ime, tf { were to talk to him, I Wor ld many years at 9
ehliane bape the pole, add { fixed thea trap, 7

hot mention hiactime, and sanld pot | York. There are |:
The man wisina dead is woons, Lb tock

| mention the execution unless he acked | who will be able
aa, hira tioder one arms, the mints cer woder about it } Twas always ¢

| the other, and beld himoup., TP tixed the unl Tturned «!
| aniffrope around hia aeck, and polled it | seas born at. }!

“Many criminale pasa into a rort of
homatose condition a few hours before

an THLitehowked: hte, lhen with 49 ere tia egecvion, ft is not a condition of eter alies ti.
| 6a him Ppolled the deter, and cater he hostate insensibility, or faability toac-} them, as farns |
{ 1 i went viow. When this ie the eaco thay turn | in them = Abou
Shan | CEL Lewd fers pre-enye wt cick Atlin 0 ie low or bright straw color, and vou | &P0t om my wae
Hated hanging | 2° han dee it ¢reep gra! Maally up the neck, doe ta.leprosy, tu
Pa Ee ae rad Cabbons were HOPR Aha they (nae virality—thelr nerves give tigen in 101,
| # nie fd tine 18, 288). for the murder of Wille}: iw iy, and the me rita pivds nway asthe | yeors apto n a
it 4 ie With an bx fd iat oily jrives down. itp complete preatra.| my arm, and “wy
i Phaitran'a train on cay New » Ok elon theie eye Ww anders and they lose | my breast and hy
f ‘ratlroad, and Knew Thirn, who Whe on ‘spnecionsness, They may fo upon the body. The docto:

te toatl. ea opiate nea fold, but they may not be conscious | * Cancer appear’ |
Hi | “ésheorifl G ite: wis near seve mye Ite], of it. | | Nino-teat hal of the nen hting are had an operation p:

os rowing wl it evs
Chung Steingraver in Ashland, the fest hinktérors, Pew brave mén come to the Be tbl  o
“fi that county, in 40 or 50. My father pone My: th

‘ 5 faalilea | galliwa, Cwards inst invariably com- my entire pereon
jlives at Ashland, areal Powis auqnatutes rit, murder, Their brags lostin the | 1 can get any quan!
_ there. The ol niin WEL 16 know ited af death on the aeaffoll. Some of! port of my state:
t Cwhether he coud de it, tind T ald | them lay Meetaithele colisiand ‘cry. inte Dri EV
_  wonld help him, fia el ah | “Many Sheriffa weaken, Put itisa long tt eee
if 5 ji fBrepiurations were ieee at) Manet coat’ strain on them,’ TI saw one faint ie Piet he
li | fleld fo go over an vl teat dow’ the en- and fal, | alobast ori BAYS hie |
i ' be tk ae { , " iffeen years,
“¢losure, and bof i Tel ! ret rte itat] “Marder fac love ig not ag cold- true. He sald tie:

4 iS hee TD ‘ ‘
Wi te | ‘movement. Ms Hd ‘ " ii treight | ‘blopged a murder, as that for money| quently Ween via

od pide track, and the pds Sauoeining took |

i ihen ta jul The ae Ah de, WorR fetal | ant wag loitering around. Washing!
el PO) A romance
OE Watary ones Ta tos Bhohland county | Towént with Col, Baker to see the /allenopi

just heen. mastered out of the service | 7 oh age faba
: J We

‘1 ceary mand thing he Fyre Me ies p- vit tavenge, Men who have not brains| that her case has «
; pling hobs dud |r my ph di ee (Be ae an ‘snough to control/themselyes are more | MeN
: itt Sold ‘eopductot boise pal atl Ow Hemi ines ‘easily wrought ap on love and religion aS
bik ‘ would cone, Woe net ene arrived 1} than anything else. © STRANGER T
ii Rh lorkei! the fellows up: tal tye: cir bins the Hi uy daw. Mrs.) Surratt bung. 1 bad said. |
ai

‘ ; ee precited a colored fellaw wwhd miir ders fatiging. Se stood the ordeal better | seems ineredih!
[Pet awe oft fotke, Hing near Mankielt, (ban any man J) ever saw. It way) [Cp every by
f oe ei }
Hed for their money. Adhtand | went, over Henuine nerve,” | i ic france. Hd

AMAT? i ahd lore down the coy lisueds eeenney tl iL ace) are some things that Mr | dronm. Louls we

: nt i he) R publid exeention. | | | iukley ‘olds Hé is now «a member of | ‘ery strong. On
ta | ieSheritr ¢ Clee cout hint any Sr) i Any the eer City police fore. « fellow workman

hides ei moh Tee sto) his frtend He baaned | ie it a acd sottiiced to tf tif
1b phe handeed | Reenti,| ne tn encldsnre | |i H. Ll) he Crowd. ment Hts hear!
et 1}

( éy eobh I wife duting his |:
Panes feet. OF cours they eobk IF si n sifter. day light the crowd be! as péibhi as tre we

A pet In, nnd the people Kot down © ‘| . .| quires concernt)
4 Mivey Savmpathized wht] th Hat 1 th gather in. The city was awake yes sutprise ais

‘i nyo, Taret apecttl padding tenth a 81% dn ne foot lang before the nsnal hour. | thet wom!
nt f bn named Walther
ent epacliak aach, came down) fo he! people ate. hurried ptenk fasts and chitdreal hy, the

ld, at he Niner bey yooty wail aha ‘i ph Ared tipon the strects ‘several hours Hes rg | ll Aaah sn
a wrod abe redbted: Wye hs ‘ ler OG Zove, Tor
ve lows Lath) it wronte Vat alias ok std: tit their sre are one pitbously, ihe, yy!
on] son, i i ri application t The jail in which Sylvester Grubb was

1 not

Vv i) (les:
No, Lowes’) som:
‘concealed from the eyes of the | ‘Tie chiklren. be
theong, waa the ebier point of eat Late
tic ot. “Thither the crowd throng- Hiern nae Aadan ,;
4 . a
by 10 “Mm. Wagohe, carriages willing. ip take 7
ple on horte back bean pour. | was to retain Wn

cout help provide {

maou Yenc ling’ to the} The woman ni hus!
to this atrangem:!,

aing broucht crowd} Leite Walther hee |:

§ same cutio He, raoyed by | ‘ihe twormen ber
a sda tinul eedtinte dle cost. | (oy amd Happiness

markwable arran

hen st Blips i ' A a, !
‘A mtstike In thesa skating bt the] |
8 arean ard iH out


‘7 his white. sales peice. FH Hye

Shit tO TENZBS Lat COUrls are not.)
‘uy a place of refuge for criminals.

* or some time after this Grubb lay
etly in jail, and had almest dropped

/ of public notice, The general elec-
tion in November, with its attendant
+xcitementa, contributed no little to
the hush that fell upon this foul mur-
derer. But the game fellow would not
permit the public to remain inatten-
tive to him,

On Saturday nights March 2, he
startled everybody by ercaping from
jul. Heand anegro by the name of
‘olin Scott, committed for stealing an
overcoat, occupied alone the upper
~vottbof the jall, ‘The ‘iron ceiling had

hoon eut with a brace and bit, and the

\utilator in the roof opened. This
, ‘onde a clear passage to the free air
| outside. Grubb and the. negro de-

ended to the ground by the means of
fone bittikets tied together. When
| the
| DIKCOVERY OF THE KSCAPR

| was made there was much exsitement.

lie other pradners ia the jail esata

vething strange had happeued, but
did not know what. |:

ine steps were taken to reeap-

1D. The negro ‘twas never

cain. Marshal MeW iiiames,

It!) wae telegraphed | to. to

' vlood-hounds on) thé next

for the purpose of | trailing the

linno, Dispatches were rent to}

points lo the authorities to he on

lockout. Postal cards were et once

, ited and railed, oterine [ fewnrd

‘hig recapture,

\ll next day the search waa cduttw.
(ed The blood-hounds were brought,
and ag effort made to have them track
i ‘eman, Bat too many curious feet

.) pressed the earth! around ‘where
lah priséner had escaped, and they

eo D dnot assist at all ta the, seatch,
até Sunday evening, | ‘Match | 8,
She vit McDowell recetyed a “dixpateh
fron Marshal J, D, Rigall, of Gray ville, |.
I “shylig he thought he ‘could get
(bb and asked what reward they
\d give forbisreturn, (|)
he next day, Monday, ust hs Me.
‘ell was going to take the train for
y ville, he was not a litte butprised
plonsed to see) Marshal Rigall |
oh the domed man to the jail. |
 etoty of. re He s 8
cand jikoamipkatld ane
riliing one, and Grubh's 43 peti.
‘ity out of jail idno agg Interent. |
it f § He
and the negto Mhored five
secure @ place of exit! from the
By means of a brace ‘and two
“A hole was bored in thé fron) celt-

The negrd labored all Light, and

‘ during thé day. Thin?) a no
viclop, #8 Grubb was!) tee n) about |
ipper jail ebrridas all Hay.! ‘Files

» also used. | | Daring theday Grubb
ced it, order to gain

| long tramp ont of jail,|!)) meee
The means. for} hi te ay brea
ware beh ie) hi if

| dine working rip
«| obtained: au [ol

t

Helf with thé most stoi¢al! ‘Nudd fference,
amd when hla mother nud ‘ntster called
on him te showed & stero, hard, cruel
manner thatalmest broke their hearts
Their tenderness was tnough 10 tielt a
heart of stone, but yet Wa tye was dey
and tearldga,

He remarked one day that it ho zo!
out of jull again the | eS
i
teeth |
would ries before they got him back,
Ile asked the Sheriff to give him opium
to quiet his nerves so ho could +liep at
night, This was given ta him in mall
quantittes tn water,but lio requested the
powder, saying he conld take it hinneell,
His ol ject was to enve the drug until be
had enough to end dia miserable career,

But hoate woll and slept rounely,
aod weighed more than he did whch
be was fret imprisoned, |

Aéthe time drew near for his execu-
tlon the ministers of the cliy took an In-
forestin hie spiritual welfare, and be-
gantoeallen bhimand counsel him to
turn bla attention toward his, futority
With a eort of churllet Indifference he
turmed away fiom them, and they finsl-
ly pomsed to visit him. We absolutely |!
rufnred to eee Aby one whocame but ot
eurtoautr,

PRIOK OF COFFINS

day, however, he remarked curtly ton
tlelous adviser that there Is eo hell
(He avowed then that ho was not a mur.
dir, and that: be had nok killed | Mree
Downey, Me meant that he had) teen
batthe simple means of teiacea lat
her. i

‘About a weekago Sheriff MeDowel!
tebied asort of proclamation, defining
bis position, and stating that the execu-
ton woultt be done Lg taal eh

PY
a i

i HUMANE A MANNER:

i

accorded with tbe lnw. ‘The poblie
curiosity certaloly would not be pratt. |
fied, and therefore it was useless ta Con-
‘tina the requests for Uckets of: ndlmis-
‘slop, as be ‘would edmit none but lite

“pollen canary 4 and n few arabe

mon. a |

» Just a weak bet fore the, execution! the
beau watch was placad (ver ‘the dooro-
ed man, Two men flted: this position,
one by dry and the ‘Other, by night, and.
thelr eyes were never taken, off of him,
‘Theol ject weito prevent any attempt
on his part te “remove? himeolf Metore
patie time allotted by Inw.)) 40)

Phe only one that seemed to lek Witec
any touching Influence: upon hin, ina
‘reliptons: way, wan Mra, Ww. N. | Denny.
On Sunday he knelt wht her. white ahe
‘offered up & prayer for him, but would

she prayed every night.’ On ‘the! ext
‘da y, under the prayers of ien.! Dal ny,
he professed the Christan rellg}on, and
lEeqhestad. think: wll the dots facbou tleaigt|

pepen hit, "his autrehder of bila wtolent

“tyrelers) unconcerned ik wae no tile
furprise to tote | BEE
»D. ‘iM, , okie. ole Ka
i Mo., & khan Who Bhs w)t Hen

| anniated nt nadrly evenly, ‘en ,

|p arrived here: ‘Monday |! trig ti
8 | Midna, where hie wae 1 on Add
‘eutlon vt tye! IoMand

He talked very Htde,, and
(ew knew his thoughts or feelings, One |

rf possible ind with ae mie aderdoy ae:

nok prog, Mo teld her, however, | ‘that |

BE ee Re ENCE CY. Pi ghhsy Ah
‘year! would be a good salary for euch n
(position, fer there would not be aver
five or six, or at most ade.
‘lone ina year, |

| “To Ohio T pat my inmy bid ry he
ilong, and the warden there hnowa
D what my bid ta. | H

tt “My first execution was In Charles-
ton, 'S. C,, to 1872—-the execution of two
colored follow a. Oy 0 Rowen waa
Sheriff, and was a candidate for re-elor-
Moo. I was traveling tn the inauranco
buatnese, and had written some tra or-
anc forthe Sherif, and in this wey I
got acquainted with him.

“Bunch was an ex- -policeman, and got
drutik and shot a policemsn, Hardea
and two other fellows wero hunting,
Re when they got back they rot to
‘diuinktog: and playing billirds, Phe
three meu shot another man. ‘Lhe to
younger fellows received long terme of
Imprisonment, and Hardea was hung,
Prothinent leaders of the colored
strength seid they would knife the
Sheriff 4 he hong Bunch end Hardee,
Khe Sherif was in a politica! pickte,
| “Itran on ult the Saturday before tha
ext cution,' On that’ day I met tho
Sheriff coming out of the poets Mee Just
a8 I was going in. I eald to him:

»™ Got anybody to do that Jub yer?!
mc) (No?

| “Give mea thoussnd dowlars and Itt
ido it,’

“Nothing more Was i gald, rnd |
Iahee abi bo more about if, as it wus ein-
ply a banter, Monday morning came,
wand | when I returned to my home my
‘wife told) me- that Bowen had been to
ea me, I then found ute and he nec m=
ed very mad, ts
iit “Strange you make a. bargaln nnd
then! break fr,’ sald be. | “y
0, well, you put up the mone, and
I will do the work.’ me
““You order’ what you w ant, eureey
‘the. ground, and goon with the wok,
My ontire corps Js at your icposal,’

1 “tow do you want them hung, frou
the ground up, or down? |

i “Anyway you please," |

|! Well, T Agured, on the! businese and
Wenton. with the work.) Tem no: »
carpenter, but I had the. work done. |
breught up a pile drive Ebired for the
peeadion, setit upon oneend, and but
Ly pbst at the Other.) I bored two hoes
ho wi upper beam and Inserted

‘OH Oke

i} j

tte

Reet, ‘It waa to: a private hangin, r,
butt do not know. how Private fe wae,
latetioned: the troops along the gane-
may and around the enclosere. It prov-
hay to be A public execution, .
Hi || athe mintsters were In the cell of rhe
” ndomned men, sad I Was in the cfilce
if thé Sheriff, Just then'wa heard a bend
Pinging, an unusual. thing, and looking
soit meta w the ‘street wos black with
‘bol rod people. They came up an Rr
ond arly way. ‘The Sheriff did not !knoe
what to dé'in the extremity. They evr
rounded | the p’nce, and the rpokéeman
tod into the Shertff'a office, nnd. set:
Witbte. of Bheritr,: ff} you wil) lot as in co
‘this. thesis ala ape Bie, and

=> ee

pullays, | 'T put the pile driver upeleven,

in a es eas

.
+ ‘
= es >
Base aS Si ot

_ dbs.

me tee’ BS

|

Sede Siasts

Dich ee

SS yt a tas 9
Sis ck ME Set Be ba ee

Soares


the aan, Bot tod many curious féet,

Sherif! McDowell recetved. . © dispatch

DIRGOVERY OF THE RSCAPR .
cade tiere was much exsitement.:
other prsoners in the jail said
thing strange had happeued, but
Hid not know what. |
nen steps wee taken to recap:
(eh, The negro was! never
vecain. Marshal MeWilliams,
}, EY, was telegraphed to to
lis blood- hounds on the text
,for the purpose of trailing the
ped nan. Dispatches were sent to
r points to the authorities to be on
bockont. Pagtal cards were at once
incl nnd inailad, oe a reward
ls recapture, i
‘next day the search: wan dontiou.'f
The blood-hounds were brought,
ii an effort made to have them track

had pressed the earth. around, where

the prisoner had escaped, and they

coul dnot assist at all in the search,
Late Sunday: evening, March 8,

from Marshal J. D. Rigall, of Gray ville,
Ii), @eaying, he thought hd conld get
Grubb and asked what. Toward vaned
would give for bis return.) |

The next any, Monday, Rist | ‘As ‘Me-
Dowell was go ing to take the train for |
Grayvillé, he was not a litula stirprised
nnd pleaced to see Marshal,’ Rigall
roarch the domed man to the jail. |.

The utory of at a fi K

is a thrilling one, ‘and ‘Grubb's- Nabari
ence while out of Jatt isno lesa Aripant
ing. Ueks Bint
Grubb» ‘and the. nests bored | five
daya.to secure a place of exit from the
ji. By meaus of a braea ana two.
hits a hole was’ bored in thé iron cell:
‘The negro labored. alt) hight, and |
nt t during the day, ‘Thi. Bo en no.
‘clon, aa Grabb wad. 4 about

‘pper Jail corridors all ‘Hay, | Piles
‘cused. Daring thé day Grubb:
‘din orded to gain tt he fort

iy tramp out of jai,’ P|
he meaon for disguising
‘ec obtained from hia fel}
cv. One of them cutof of
tha pair ot sclemors,. Feedba ed!
7 ‘white shirt ‘and gold, hhc ota ie a

| one by day and the othde dy. night, and,
| thelr eyes were never taken . off of him,
i (Theor ject, was to prevent nay attempt

1 The otily One that beemned: id silos

Von the ministers of tha cliy took an In-
‘@rest In hin apiritual | welfare, and be-
gantocallon him and: counsel him to,
turn hia attention toward his fubarity

With a sort of oburligh | Jndiffurenee he
turmed away from them, and they final-

lyabased to visit him. We. nbadlutely
rofuged to tee any ove who oemo out of
gurfoiy. He talked very lew, and
fuw know his thoughts or feelings, One
day, however, he remarked curtly ton
rc Hyious advisor that there 13 po hell
He nvowed thon that ho wna not a ‘mur.
dar, nnd that be had nok killed) Mise

Downey, He meant that, hoe had: een].
batthe simple meang of. “sreund lig”
her,

| About a week ago Shertr MeDowel!
lthaued nrort of proclamation,’ deflaing
bis position, and atating tint the execu-

Hon would be done Wing's Pen

HAH lo sematek MARKER a

inedible and with de mueh neerecy ar
accorded with tho Inw.. The! public |
curtosity certataly wor 1a ‘not. be grat.
fled, and therefore: it was useless to con-
tinua the requcats fot tickets of admis. |
elon, as he would ndinit none but hie
“police | 4 fficers” andi
men. aa Rial

Just a weok before the! execation. the
loath watch wea placed! (ver the doom-
ed man, Two men Allied this, position,

He

‘on his part te “remove’t himectt before
phe time allotied by law, 0). ) |)
‘any’ tonching Inflaenge ipon him, Ina
religions way, was Mie, ‘W.Ny Denny,
On Sunday he knelt with her while ebe.
| offered up A prayer for hin, but | arould |
‘not prog, Ha teld het, hawever,, that]
| ho sprayed | every night! Oa! lia! “next |
any, under the prayerd of i'n. ‘Denny, |
he proferred ¢ the Ohristhn ‘refigtot, and,
requested | that wll the: tiloleters onl |
Npon, het. | Rist surrender of his ttolenl
| cereleae) uneancerned n ae was no Aittle®
[ptrorise Lojabme. |) fi) 4 ES

t tt D, M., Binkley, a pollenma th of Kene

City, Mo.,/a. tinny who his withessed and "
exact! ‘fone, F

baited pt mouirly neventy,
ay here’ Monday) fro

mite nowepsper it
i Went on with tho work,

the Ay ett ee | ee CSTR,
‘Prothinent leaders of =the colored
strength sexi they would knife the
Sherif? H he hung Bauneh end Ha:
‘The Bheriff was tn a politica! pick!«,

“Te ran on ull the Saturday before tho
exteution, On that day I met tho
Sheriff coming out of the poor Mea fut
nal wus going in, Tenid to him:
| ty Got anybody, to do that Jub yer?’

“ ‘No, ¥!)

“ “Give mea thousand vo. lars ane Vil
do it,’ |
| “Nothing moro, waa! sald, and |
theught no more abont it, As It wns eime
riy| a banter, Monday morning cane,
hod (when I returned to. myhome my
‘wite told me thet Bowen bad been to
vee me. I then found him, and he eee m-
ed \very mad, | |

\ ~Btran ps you make 4 bargaln nna
then break Ir,” rald he. | ‘

| 0, well, you pot up the moines, anil
i willdo the work. ier ede’: cheeminaat sb

i “You order what you ss ant, eurvey
the ground, and goon with the wok,
eee entire corps 3s at your iisposat.”
ioe ‘How do you want them hung, frou
the ground up, or down? i

(1 ‘Anyway you please,"

welt, T figured on the business and
Cem no> a
‘tatpenter, butI hadthe work done, I
breughe up a pile drive [hired for the
peeation, Set itupon oneend, and put

[gt Host atthe other, I borer two holes

Anan upper berm and! inserted two

Feat}! ‘Tt wad to. A private hangins,

} bot!l do not know: how Private ir wan,

‘Tetatloned tho troops along the Qanir-
ray and. around the enclosure, It prove
‘ed to bon public execution, =.
he thinteters were: In the cell of tho
leslie ue men, snd I was in the cifca
of the Sheriff. Just then we heard a band
playtag, an unusval thing, and looking,
‘out \wefaw the ‘street wos black wlth
colored people, They came up in on
orderly’ way. The |Shetiff! did not know
what todditn the: xtremity. They ser.
‘founded: the place, and the cpokeimnn
ink Into the Sheri". oMfer, anid est:
beg eri, tf you will let te tn to
anging, all, wii, be antet rnd
is chile,
iwiltt ied naked the Sheri

we

polleys., Tput tle pile driver up cleven,


H
x be ag tee LF Titre: a dh saa te

Pride fh
ir (Ona (ie, t gates,’ I eld, “Phen 1
ro juirtied ta Brown, the epokesinan :
“eh tae ‘Brown,
thelr gurvs with ball in your presence,

3

iH a i lle TONE IMENT.

aret they whl ‘ghoot on tha ti vat signet,

nov Gemonetration. | |
“The Sherltfiopaned the gate,
wit these fellowe went, L told the eel:
diers to hold their ground, ta Yond their
eons and AX [thelr bayonets, ‘Lhen I
yotopt on a beam, of the seofuld rnd
told the soldiers that theses felldya had
avked to seé Phe execation, ft bud
“promised to be quiet, and at the first
rove they patie to hegin te ‘shoot. All
whoa donot Ww tint to abiile., by We ge Ore
dirs will get ont at onec.’
“Phen the fellows began Ww aia, nid
giueb alnging CE never heard before nor

giles, bovan neither eng, wiisthe oy
dates, tat Ung sang. Tr keemed that
my two were ginging the game tune,

nil vet. they herp together FOUE WAT,
They were juat packed and jitamed in
that enclosure, and a furioiig sin shone
daw orn thin, iu art the, vinell Was
te} itte,

' ;
a 2 4

“Whan 1 Laake nt hout for the depns

hes, hot ate was td be fouad ++ hev tae
fed, of waked fot sone one to day dn
Tboanen oP fies eolored: preavhat anid
“Powill ze are Alay Ww ict the brothers
i they are duad .* amet Pa Bh
>| pinigacd thee in sin tien they

yell, aagh #e An) man never bear 1, and
; set thre! heey tos! Ne BEL
(r$ Afier the! Natale: a the " dori: H cot
oner and eotorial phy kicttth w alted
- the bodles rid denk duqieed th ens iléadd.
They were c vit) towgn anal nas in Vee uy
edffina, | mea FI ||
Tie Shertfl aunt me afte £8 ards
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were given ain opportunity ALG pass out,
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wanted a piece of the coffin tls a) meéro-
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carried on | for two And a
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house two nnd a half squared | away.
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vodies pladed in them, The, nob now
began to piss in file: bet weit! the cof-
fins, and ag they went by they dropped
money inte a large dish-wash pan un.
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others sat mpon piles of lumber near
by, others Idaned agains! lamp posts
and fences, while the sroster part of
the throng walked roond and round
the square in order to to try and get A
better view at the single board fence
that shut thd ses {fold trom view.
“It reminded one of cirens day, only
there was a perceptible histie, There
was less hilarity aod mirt) than that
the usval crowds moenifrst. As the
hour drew nigh, the crowd grew
larger, until it was alnest imposstble
for those having tickets to the execu-
tion to work their way to the matin en-
trance, On ithe house-Lops, and all
points, elevated above the heada of the
crowd, could he seen men and boys,
long before the execution, vainly en-
deavoring to get a view of the myster-
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A fingerprint on a safe
played an important part
in the Jackson investigation

son said to Detective Deeter.
“I—I'm afraid Dad’s dying!”
It had been purely by accident that
City Detective Charles Bauer had beer
sauntering past the Standard Grocery
Company’s main store and headquar-
ters—at No.. 419 East Washington
Street, Indianapolis, Indiana—just at
the time of the shooting. Gazing
through the window, he had seen La-
fayette Jackson crumble to the floor;
had seen the two bandits—one armed
with an automatic, the other with a
shotgun—holding the rest of the peo-
ple in the place at bay.
Bauer had rushed into the store,
gun drawn, when Detectives Edward
Deeter and Albert Kelly passed by in a

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"G's help quick,” Chester Jack-

OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES,

cruiser, driving toward the Headquar-
ters’ garage on Alabama Street to have
a punctured left tire repaired.
Amazed by Bauer’s mystifying antics,
Deeter halted the car. He and Kelly
leaped to the sidewalk and started into
the store. At that moment the terrific
blast of a shotgun echoed from inside.
Bauer stumbled backwards from the
door, clawing with both hands at right
side of his head where he had been
struck by a part of the shotgun charge.
At the same time the bandits hurtled
through the door, shooting wildly ‘at
Deeter and Kelly. Flattening them-
selves on the ground, the detectives
fired back at the gunmen who were
streaking for a black Oldsmobile sedan
parked by the curb 40 feet east of the

May, 1945

24, 1933

HAMILTON, Louis, wh, elec. IN (Boone) Sept. 28, 1934; and
WITT, Charles, wh, elec. IN (Boone) Nov.

Louis E. Hamilton: Because

he had made a friend, ie

moved closer to the killers

Charles Vernon Witt: It was
due to him that the officers
started an intensive search

By L. Bradway

Special Investigator for
OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES

store. Both bandits stumbled, one
struck in the forehead, the other in the
hip. They managed, however, to reach
the car, to climb inside. The detectives
snapped shots at the auto, even as it
pulled away. Although a splattered
rear window showed that their aim had
been effective, the car kept speeding
down Washington Street, then cut
north into East Street and disappeared.

Realizing that their punctured tire
wouldn’t hold up under a chase, the
detectives hurried to Bauer’s assist-
ance. He waved them aside.

“Tl be all right,” and he gasped.
“Just a raking with a buckshot, but I’m
afraid someone inside is badly hurt.”

[DZETER and Kelly rushed inside.
Office workers, clerks and custom-
ers were rushing back and forth, talking
incoherently, gesturing wildly. And on
the floor lay Lafayette Jackson, the 67-
year-old president of the Standard
Company. A big man—six feet tall
and weighing around 190 pounds—he
was breathing heavily and staring fix-
edly at the ceiling. Bending over him
was his son, Chester, and his son-in-
law, Edward Wiest.

Detective Deeter didn’t wait for
Chester Jackson to ask him to sum-
mon help; already he was rushing for
the phone to call Headquarters, to ask


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Ground beef at Storer’s Grocery
Store, 128 S. Lebanon was selling for
two pounds for a quarter.

A one pound box of candy was selling
for $.60 at the Hammond and Mitchell
Drug Store on the square. ,

And Wards was advertising a new

coal range for $45.
The date was September 28, 1934. And
at, Michigan City, Indiana Warden

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execution. It was one of only two
executions ever to come from Boone
County and it was the last.

Louis Hamilton, 31, of Iola, Kansas
that noon was asked what he wanted for
his last meal. He answered: ‘“‘A big
bow! of ice cream. . .that’s all.”

Hamilton’s last wish was granted. At
12:05 a.m. Hamilton was led to the

guards who apprehended him after he
was charged with the slaying of
Lafayette A: Jackson, an Indianapolis
store magnate, the deputy warden and
two physicians. At 12:12 a.m. he was
pronounced dead. Reports in The
Reporter of that date from Michigan
City say he showed no remorse. He
never confessed the killing of Jackson

‘who died while being robbed May 27,

1931. But a Boone Circuit Court jury,
after the case had been venued here,
found he and Charles V. Witt, guilty of
the robbery-slaying and sentenced
them both to the electric chair. Witt,

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was electrocuted Nov. 23, 1933. in the».

same Michigan City chair.
Boone County got the case on a

change of venue from Marion County. -

Witt, from Bainbridge, Ind., was
described as “‘a mighty brave young

“man,” by the warden when he walked

to the chair. Earlier he had requested a
chicken dinner and two cigars for his
“last meal.” -

Witt was described as calm
throughout his final day. 3
Witt had been convicted of slay:
Hamilton County, Kans. sheriff Grover
Mills. The sheriff was shot to death

when he picked Witt up following a

‘robbery in Kansas, for which he was

sentenced to life in prison. He escaped
from the Kansas Reformatory Dec. 18,
1930 and remained at large until In-
dianapolis detectives picked him up for
the Indianapolis shooting. A tip from a
boarding house resident where Witt and
Hamilton lived was responsible for
their arrests. Upon conviction, both

. Men said they wanted to die together

but Hamilton’s appeal to the Supreme
Court took longer.

Hamilton’s death was the 25th in the -

state’s electric chair. Before that there
were 18 legal hangings.

No other death sentence has been
meted by Boone juries since, despite an
estimated two dozen murder cases
tried locally since the mid 1930’s.

The argument over capital punish-
ment goes on and Boone residents are
generally described as in favor of it.

But they seldom used it when it was
available.


for an ambulance.

While Deeter was on the telephone
Detective Kelly was getting the facts
from the distracted son. From him he
learned that the bandits had entered
the store on this Wednesday morning
of May 27, 1931, only about seven min-
utes before an armored truck was sup-
posed to arrive and transfer several
thousand dollars of the firm’s money
to the Merchants National Bank.

uM DAD had all the money on his desk,”

the son said. He was holding his
father’s wrist, chafing it gently. “One
of the bandits—the one with the re-
volver—asked Dad to hand it over. The
other bandit had a sawed-off shotgun
and was threatening everyone else.
Well...”

“Go on,” Kelly said soothingly.

“Well, instead of giving him the
money, Dad grabbed a revolver he al-
ways kept hidden on his desk for such
an emergency. He fired at the gunman
and just about skinned his right eye.
Then I came running over to Dad and
so did Eddie here, but it was too
late because the bandit started shoot-
ing at Dad. Then they both ran away.
You—you know the rest.”

Young Jackson described his father’s
assailant as 25 to 30 years old, five-
feet-five inches, hollow  cheeked
brown-haired with greenish eyes and
bad, irregularly-spaced teeth. He wore
a brown pin-stripe suit, a gray topcoat
and a soft brown hat pulled low on his
forehead.

Wiest and three clerks, Raymond
Gibson, Elmer Frankel and Frank
Ayres, described the shotgun bandit
as 23 to 25 years old, five-feet-ten
inches, weighing about 160 pounds,
with dark hair and eyes, sallow com-
plexion and even, white teeth. He
wore a blue serge suit, neatly pressed.

Even as Jackson and Bauer were
being removed in an ambulance to St.
Vincent’s Hospital, descriptions of the
gunmen were being flashed over the po-
lice radio to squad cars in all sections
of Indianapolis. Marion County
Sheriff Charles Summer’s office and
State Police likewise were notified.

Major Herbert Fletcher, acting Chief
of Police in the absence of Chief Jerry
Kinney, dangerously ill in St. Vincent’s
— took command of the man-

unt.

FARLY reports from St. Vincent’s in-
dicated that Detective Bauer’s
wounds were more painful than serious,
but Jackson, unconscious, was fighting
for his life. His relatives were advised
that he probably would not live through
the night.

Never had Indianapolis’ underworld
suffered such a jostling as it took
Wednesday night as Fletcher pressed

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Although This Indianapolis, Indiana, Grocery
Magnate Swore That Bandits Never Would
Steal His Money, He Couldn't Stop Them
From Taking His Life. Who Murdered Him?

A few minutes after Lafayette
Jackson was shot, the getaway
car sped around this corner

A detective dashed through this
door in an attempt to prevent
the holdup, only to be wounded

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his entire police force into the bandit
search. Hotels, gambling houses and
suspected underworld hangouts in the
tenderloin were searched carefully.
But their occupants were tight-lipped,
as they customarily were; but police
soon sensed that the bandits were un-
known in the usual haunts of hunted
men. Nowhere could a fragment of
evidence be picked up suggesting the
bandits’ identity. .

By Thursday morning the police still
hadn’t found a single trace of the gun-
men or their car.

ND then, at a few minutes after
nine o’clock, came the first break.
Radio Patrolman Horace Eller re-
ported that he and Patrolman Albert

Brahaum had located the getaway car

at Michigan and Concord Streets on
the far West Side, about four miles
from the holdup scene. Fletcher, ac-
companied by Detectives Deeter, Kelly,
Edward Glenn and John Marren and
Lieutenant Michael Morrissey, hurried
to the intersection.

They found the car—an Oldsmobile
sedan—a bloody shambles. Both the
windshield and rear glass had been
bullet-shattered. Other bullet holes
spotted the sides and rear wall of the
tonneau. Blood had literally drenched
the entire front seat. The gear shift,
dashboard and handles of both front
doors were smeared with blood. A
crimson pool had coagulated on the
left running board.

Fletcher whistled softly, shook his
head. ‘‘Those men must have bled like
stuck hogs. No doubt but what both
of them were wounded.” He turned to
Deeter and Kelly. “Rip into this
neighborhood for all it’s worth. Find
someone who saw those punks leave the
car. Find out where they went. Check
the drug stores and see if they picked
up any bandages, ointment or such
stuff.”

Marren and Glenn were instructed
to trace the car’s owner and Morrissey
was ordered to drive the vehicle to the
police garage. Fletcher returned to his
office alone to work with Detective
Chief Frederick Simon in coordinat-
ing the new developments. Simon was
just concluding an interview with
Chester Jackson, Edward Wiest and
clerks Gibson, Frankel and Ayres.

Simon looked discouraged. ‘These
men,” he said to Fletcher, “have just
been going over our rogues gallery.
They didn’t spot anyone who resembled
the pair we want.”

“I was afraid of that,” Fletcher re-
plied. “It’s my opinion that they’re
outsiders with local connections. Oth-
erwise they couldn’t have holed up so
completely and so quickly. However,
now that we’ve found the car, we may
get the ball rolling.”

As the day wore on, Fletcher found
that “the ball wasn’t rolling” as well as
he had desired.

HEN A.- G. Perrott, the Depart-

ment’s technician, reported on his

examination of the getaway car, all he
did was lower the officers’ hopes.

“I thought there would be dozens of
good fingerprints on the car,” Perrott
told them, “but the men did an expert
job of smudging. There wasn’t one
print that could be used for identifica-
tion.”

But that meant one thing: The band-
its weren’t amateurs.

A report by Arch Ball, ballistics ex-
pert, on the slugs and empty cartridges
picked up at the shooting scene estab-
lished the fact that Jackson’s as-
sailant had used a regulation .45 caliber
Army automatic. Ball filed the slugs
and cartridges for future comparisons.

Deeter and Kelly were called in
from the neighborhood of Michigan
and Concord after a three-hour in-
vestigation had failed to turn up a
single person who had seen the bandits
abandon the car at the intersection.
The officers had learned only one sig-
nificant fact. A youngster living on
Southern Avenue informed them that
he had seen the car parked in the same

40

spot as early as 7 p. m. the day before.

How it had escaped attention all that
time was a mystery.

Shortly after 2 p. m., Marren tele-
phoned Fletcher from the Bureau of
+ tl Vehicle Registration at the State

ouse.

WT RE license for the Oldsmobile,”
Marren said, “‘was issued to Daniel
Yarling, over in Shelbyville. I’ve just
talked to the Sheriff’s office there and
they tell me that Yarling reported his
car stolen on a Saturday night several
weeks ago. The Sheriff said he’s heard
reports that the car’s been used in some
robberies over in Putnam County, but
that’s out of his territory and—”

“Wait a minute,” Fletcher inter-
rupted. Chief Simon was standing in
the doorway, his face sober. ‘““What is
it, Fred?” Fletcher asked Simon.

“Jackson’s dead,” Simon replied.
“The hospital just called.”

Fletcher spoke softly into the tele-
phone mouthpiece. “Come on in, Mar-
ren. It’s murder now.”

News of Jackson’s death fanned in-
dignation to a high pitch throughout
the city. Jackson, whose chain com-
prised 250 grocery stores, had been a
widely-respected man.

From his sick bed at St. Vincent’s
Hospital, Chief Jerry Kinney made the
statement: “I have the utmost faith
in my Department. The bandits will
be caught and Mr. Jackson’s death
avenged.”

More than anything in the world,
Fletcher wished to bring Kinney’s
prophecy to quick fulfillment. He and
the entire force knew something that
Kinney obviously didn’t realize—that
doctors already had abandoned all hope
for his life. Kinney, the victim of a
nervous breakdown brought on by over-
jeg and strain, did not have long to

ve.

But would the Department be.able to
live up to Kinney’s confidence? Fletch-
er wondered, his hopes not too high.

Throughout Friday, Fletcher pressed
his men into a wider, more exhaustive
search of the underworld. Dozens of
criminals were hauled into Headquar-
ters and marched across the lineup
stage before Chester Jackson, Wiest,
Ayres, Frankel and Gibson, One by
one they were released as the witnesses
failed to identify them.

| ATE Friday evening Fletcher was
pacing his office, waiting word from
his investigators, when a sergeant
opened the door.

“There’s a young man out here,” he
said, “who wants to swear out a war-
rant for a couple of fellows. Says he
picked them up on Road Fifty-two
south of Lebanon last night. Both of
them were bloody and—”

Fletcher didn’t wait for the sergeant
to finish. He rushed passed the officer,
out the door and hurried to the desk. A
pleasant-faced young man stood there,
nervously twisting a soft felt hat in
his hands.

“I’m Leonard Ehlson,” he began.
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“Yes—yes,” Fletcher interrupted.
“Now just what is this trouble of yours,
Mr. Ehlson? Who.were these men?
Give me all the facts.”

Ehlson, wide-eyed at the officer’s ex-
traordinary interest in his case, said
that he was driving toward Indianapolis
on Road 52 at about nine o’clock
the night before, when he was ged
by two men limping along the highway.
This was about two or three miles south
of Lebanon. When Ehlson halted, the
men asked whether he. would drive
them to Indianapolis for a dollar each.

“TY didn’t like the looks of them,”
Ehlson explained. ‘Both were roughly
dressed and had blood on them. The
one who did most of the talking had a
gash in his forehead. He told me that
he and the other fellow had crashed
their car into a culvert just outside
Lebanon. Said he didn’t want to tell
the police because he was using a pair
of last year’s license plates and was
afraid he would be fined.”

(Continued from Page 29)

Ehlson said he consented to drive the
pair to Indianapolis where they gave
him an address on Schofield Avenue.

“When we got to the house,’’ Ehlson
continued, “the men jumped out and
started in without paying me. I said,
‘Hey—how about a buck a piece from
you two?’ The one with the gash on
his forehead came back to the car,
pulled a gun out of his coat and said,
‘Scram. We're not giving you a nickel.’
That made me sore. The more I thought
of it the sorer I got. That’s why I came
down here to have them arrested.”

Fletcher, excited by this new lead,
said nothing for a moment. Were
those hitch-hikers the killers? Fleeing
from town, they may have decided to
back-track to some Indianapolis re-
treat after dark. Was the Schofield
Avenue house their hideaway?

FLETCHER grasped Ehlson’s hand and
shook it warmly. “Thanks for com-
ing in. You might have helped us clean
up @ murder, and you can bet your life
those guys are going to wish they paid
you that: buck a piece.”

As soon as Ehlson was gone, Fletch-
er summoned Marren and Glenn. They
were to go to the Schofield Avenue ad-
dress and bring in any one who was in
the house.

When Marren and Glenn left Fletch-
er put through a call for the Boone
County Sheriff’s office at Lebanon.

“Know anything about a crack-up
near Lebanon last night in which a cou-
ple of fellows ran a car into a culvert?”
Fletcher asked a deputy.

“T sure do,” the deputy replied. “I
was there when it happened. Two of
the fellows got away from us, but we’ve
got the third one up here in jail now.
He’s a stubborn cuss. Won't tell us a
thing.”

“Three of them?” Fletcher repeated.
He Bhar expect that. “What hap-

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“Don’t hardly know myself. We got .

a call from the Lebanon police a few
minutes before nine o’clock last night
that a big black car was_ bustin’
through town at about seventy miles
an hour. Lebanon police said there
was three suspicious looking men in
it and asked us to stop it on Fifty-two.
We pulled a squad car across the road
just as the machine come shooting
around Little Hairpin. The driver
swerved and went around our front
end but the rear wheels went off the
road and he couldn’t get. her back.
They ran about fifty yards and piled
up in the culvert. When we got there
two of the guys had lammed. The other
one was caught in the wreckage.”

“I wish you’d hold your prisoner un-
til I can get some men up there to look
him over,” Fletcher said. “That guy:
may be a murderer!”

“Sure thing. We'll be waiting for
you.”

Fletcher, hanging up, wondered how
the Lebanon incident fitted in with
the Jackson murder. Had the two
killers tied up with a third man? Or
had another man actually been in on
the job as driver of the getaway car?

about Mafren and Glenn,
Fletcher wondered if he had done
‘wrong by just sending two men to the
Schofield Avenue address. If the kill-
ers were there, the officers might run
into difficulties. The gunmen were
armed, dangerous. Having murdered
once, they would not hesitate to mur-
der again.

VEN as he was thinking this, Marren
and Glenn were knocking at the

door of the Schofield Avenue house.

Surprisingly, the man with the gash-
ed forehead answered the door. Polite-
ly, almost meekly, he invited the de-
tectives into the living-room. The of-
ficers searched the house but. could find
no trace of. the second man.

“Where’s your friend?” Glenn asked.

“Priend?” repeated the man. “What
friend?”

“You needn’t lie to us. We know
you and another fellow were picked up
south of Lebanon last night and

Read It First In
OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES

brought here by a man you promised
to pay but didn’t. What were you do-
ing around Lebanon, anyway?”

The man suddenly lost his meekness
and his voice grew harsh.

“Suppose I don’t answer your ques-
tions, Copper,” and moved toward the
door as if preparing to make a break.

Marren lunged forward. The man
lashed out with a fist. The blow caught
the detective on the side of the head,
glanced off. Marren, not stopping,
grasped the man’s arms, pinned them
back. And in that moment, Glenn
snapped a pair of handcuffs on his
wrists.

“Take him outside,” Glenn said. “I
want to look around.”

When Marren left with the prisoner,
Glenn began a systematic search of
the living-room, bedroom and kitch-
en and he made three startling discov-
eries. Beneath a pillow on a dilapidated
iron bed he uncovered a box of cart-
ridges for a .45 caliber automatic pis-
tol. He found in a battered bag under
the bed, a cartridge clip which fitted
the same type of gun. And on the floor
of the dining-room he discovered an
empty .45 cartridge. Nearby was a
freshly-made bullet hole where some-
=~ had fired deliberately through the

oor.

FTER an extended search had fail-
ed to turn up the gun, Glenn re-
turned to the cruiser.

“Where’d you hide your automatic?”

The man refused to talk, even while
he was being booked at Headquarters
under a charge of vagrancy. He did,
however, give his name as Lloyd Swift,
but he refused to name his companion
who had ridden with him from Leba-
non in Ehlson’s car. Fletcher didn’t tell
Swift that he had dispatched Deeter
and Kelly to Lebanon to interview the
man pinned in the wreckage.

Glenn turned over to Arch Ball the
box of cartridges, the clip and the dis-
charged shell. Ball was to compare the
markings with the .45 cartridge shells
picked up at the scene of the Jackson
killing. Fletcher sent out a hurried
call for Chester Jackson and the
Standard clerks who had witnessed
the shooting.

Their arrival an hour or so later
punctured Fletcher’s rising hopes.

Lloyd Swift, they said, was not one
of the bandits.

Fletcher sighed, but hung on dog-
gedly, determined to solve the mystery
of the Lebanon incident.

Who, he asked himself, was Swift’s
missing companion who had ridden
with him and Ehlson from Lebanon?
Who was the man in the Lebanon jail?
Why had the three men been
through Lebanon at such high speed?
Why had they risked their lives to es-
cape capture if they were not con-
nected with the murder?

Shortly after midnight Fletcher
learned most of the answers when
Deeter telephoned from Lebanon.

i"y BIS fellow up here calls himself
George Tyler,” Deeter said. “He
just cracked awhile ago. Said he doesn’t
know anything about the murder. Said
he, Swift and another fellow whose
name he doesn’t know came up here
to hijack a load of whisky. When they
saw the Sheriff’s car across the road
they thought he was on to their game.
Swift, who’d had a brush or two with
the Feds, was afraid of a stiff rap if
caught on a hijacking charge. That’s
why he tried to run the barricade and
smashed up. Tyler says he’s willing
to come back and take his place in the
lineup.”

“All right,” Fletcher said, more dis-
couraged than he would admit. “Bring
him in. We'll put him under the
light.”

Fletcher realized now that his in-
vestigation hadn’t advanced much
since the getaway car had been found.
For the life of him, he couldn’t under-
stand how two men, bloody and wound-
ed, could park a machine at a busy in-


road to the Blue River Inn,” the man-
ager said. “It’s only a piece from here.”

At the Blue River Inn, consisting of
a semicircle of neat, well-ventilated
cabins built in a clearing several yards
east of Road No. 31, Boll found Donald
Collier, the-night manager.

“Sure,” Collier said, ‘those very three
came in here about one-twenty Tues-
day morning and rented a cabin. The
dark-haired fellow did most of the
talking. When I asked him how he got
the blood on his shirt and pants he told
me his car had turned over on the

For the first time, Boll now received
a fair description of the girl and the
second man.

The girl, Collier said, couldn’t have
been much over seventeen..: She was
short and plump, weighing near 115
pounds. She had dark-chestnut hair
and her oval face was pale and drawn,
not considering the fact that she wore
no cosmetics. She wore black patent-
leather pumps, a black silk dress with
white lace collar and a navy-blue coat.

The second man was described as
young, less than five feet ten inches
tall, weighing about 135 and having a
reddish face and dirty-blond hair.

“They left the cabin just a little after
six o’clock Tuesday morning,” Collier
said. “The dark-haired fellow went
across the road to John Williams’
house, Pretty soon all three got into
Williams’ car and they started north
—to Indianapolis, I suppose.”

Boll was anxious to interview John
Williams but there was a pressing mat-
ter of more importance before him.

“Which cabin did these people oc-
cupy?” he asked.

Collier motioned him to follow,
walked past several cabins on the right
side of the semicircle and stopped in
front of one built under the protect-
ing branches of a great oak tree. —

“In here,” he said, unlocking the
door. “The place was cleaned up as
soon as they left but no one has rented
it since.”

’ Boll’s hopefulness vanished. He real-

sis fe Ad

ized that a thorough cleaning might
have destroyed invaluable clews.

Then he saw the metal waste-basket
standing by the head of one of the
three cots. In the bottom were hun-
dreds of fragments of torn papers and
bits of cardboard. They were the only
things except furniture in the cabin.
If these had been left behind by the
men and girl, could they provide the
key to unlock the door of the mystery?

‘pid those three people leave this
stuff?” Boll asked hopefully.

“J don’t know,” Collier said. He
showed chagrin. “Those baskets are
supposed to be emptied every day
when the cabins are used.”

Boll realized that it would . require
hours of tedious, patient work to put
the fragments together. For that rea-
son he decided to leave the job to
Robert Borkenstein, head of the State
Police laboratory in Indianapolis.

He placed his handkerchief on the
floor and up-ended the basket. Assured
that the last scrap of paper was in the
handkerchief, he left the eabin and
hurried to the Williams home.

T= owner, a tall, spare farmer, lis-
tened attentively to Boll’s outline of
the case and then said:

“| knew nothing good would come
of taking that outfit. to Indianapolis.
The girl seemed to be a nice pretty

little thing but the men—there was

something sneaking about them.”

“Where did they leave your car in

Indianapolis?” Boll inquired.

“At the northeast corner of Meri- -

dian and Maryland Street.”

“Notice the direction they walked

away from the corner?”
“Yes. West.”

Boll knew the Meridian-Maryland
sector well. It was almost at the heart
of downtown Indianapolis, only a few
blocks north of the Union Railway
Station and about the same distance
south from the Bus and Traction Ter-

minal Station.

Facilities for flight. to any part of
the country were available to‘ the trio

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J. W. Hayden, Junior, and Clementine Luttrull: She liked him but
she thought he didn’t treat her right on their homicidal joyride

Officers could understand why

Milton Hawkins tore up his photo-

graph and this letter “To The One
1 Love The Best,” but his disposal
of the torn pieces puzzled them

upon a few minutes’ walk. Or,
they had not wished to flee, they we
in an area full of small hotels a)
flophouses where they might hole |
with safety for weeks or months, A)
only they could tell the fate—probab
death—which had overtaken Davis.

As soon as he reached Indianapo!
Boll conferred with Captain Ecke
tall, lithe, silver-haired veteran of t
department, recognized throughout t
Mid-West for his ability to coordin:
a criminal investigation.

Eckert’s first move was to place {
paper fragments in Borkenstein’s har
with instructions to assemble them

ONSULTING a map of downto

Indianapolis, Eckert then block
off half a dozen areas on the south s
radiating from Meridian and Mau
land and sent a dozen picked det:
tives into those areas to check on
hotels and flophouses.

Paired with Boll was Headquart
Detective Meredith K. Stewart. TI
were assigned a territory bound
Meridian Street on the east, lin
Street on the west, Maryland Str
on the north and Louisiana Str
fronting the Union Railway Stati
on the south.

When these men had left his off
Eckert went to the laboratory to ¢
laborate with Borkenstein on the
per fragments. There, with the
of a microscope and glue-pot, they
gan slowly to assemble a queer (
lection of documents. By three o’cl
in the afternoon, the salvage consis
of:

1. An identification card, prest
ably from a cheap wallet, bearing
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Four- Way

AS Ed Davis dead or alive?
And where?

His boss asked that four
hours after he disappeared. The police
asked it twelve hours later. And every-
body in Jeffersonville, Indiana, within
24 hours was trying to answer it—and
couldn’t.

The questioning began about mid-
night on Monday, May 20, 1940, when
William J. Ford, an executive of the
1100 Cab Company, telephoned Sheriff
Claude C. Connor of Clark County.

“One of our drivers, Edmund J.
Davis, picked up some passengers
about eight-thirty and hasn’t re-
turned,” Ford said.

Sheriff Connor knew that Davis—
who was 36 years old, a church-goer
and sports enthusiast and clean and
wholesome in every respect—would
not run off with his employer’s cab.

So something must have happened to -

him.

He had the radio announcer broad-
cast this order:

“Pick up 1100 Cab Company cab—
Number Twenty — Chevrolet sedan
with green body trimmed in cream—
license number 311-100.”

This brought no results by morning.
City and county and state officers cov-
ered the roads out of Jeffersonville for
several miles and found nothing.
Broadcasts over the State Police radio
did no good.

By the middle of Tuesday afternoon,
Captain Gordon Gilmore of the Jeffer-
sonville Police Department was direct-
ing an intensive search in the city.

- ge did Ed pick up?” he asked
ord. :

“I don’t know. It was somebody

who came to our stand at 133 West
Court Avenue.”

Gilmore had his men ask questions
of everybody in the neighborhood of
the stand. But no one had seen Davis
pick up the mysterious fare.

Captain Walter Eckert: “The body
must be close to Road Thirty-one”

By John L.

Special Investigator for
OFFICIAL DETECTIVE STORIES

Driver Edmund J. Davis, dead, rode 86%
miles in this taxicab; his Passengers rode 90

Everybody was talking about Davis’
disappearance now, for he was well
liked.

That helped Captain Gilmore. He
got a tip that Renn LeMaster, who
lived at No. 721 Ohio Avenue, had said
he saw Davis make the pick-up.

“Yes, I saw it,” LeMaster answered
Gilmore. “But only out of the corner
of my eye.”

“What did his passenger look like?”

“There were three of them,” LeMas-
ter said. “One was a woman, a young
one. She had on a dark coat and dress.

Bowen

When officers saw the blood that covered the floor
and spotted the seats and ceiling of this taxicab

they didn’t know who had been killed, how or why

She got in the cab while the two men
talked to Davis.”

“What did the men look like?”

“Well, I didn’t notice. The taller one
had on a white sports coat. When they
got in the cab, the woman moved up in
the front seat beside Davis.”

“I hope,” Gilmore said prayerfully,
“that you heard them tell Davis where
they wanted to go.”

LeMaster shook his head.

“I didn’t hear a thing. I was just
passing by.”

“You say the woman got up in front

with Davis. Did she seem to be a
friend of his?”

“I wish I’d known this would be
important,” LeMaster said. “I’d have
paid some attention. I didn’t notice
how any of them acted.”

Had Davis known the woman?

If so, was there a woman angle in
this disappearance?

Captain Gilmore wondered how this
could be. The only woman there ever
had been in Davis’ life was his aged
mother, Mrs. William Davis, with
whom he lived at No. 426 Meigs Ave-

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Would a Killer Leave His Photograph
to Help Manhunters Trail Him? What
Climax Came on June 5, 1940, in the Slay-
ing of This Jeffersonville, Indiana, Man?

Was it Davis’ blood?

A green cloth-and-leather jacket lay
on the rear floor near the right door.
On the floor in front, opposite the driv-
er’s seat, was a woman’s lace-edged
handkerchief, spotted with forks of
crimson.

Boll, familiar with the details of the
search for the cab-driver, lifted the
jacket and said:

“This belongs to Davis.”

He studied the blood-flecked hand-
kerchief for a moment and then placed
it carefully in an inside pocket.

“A cheap item,” he said to Nolting.
“From the ten-cent store. The gal in
that cab was no duchess.”

Nolting studied the ground, looked
puzzled.

“And what happened to the girl who
wasn’t a duchess?” He pointed to two
distinct sets of footprints leading from
the cab toward the gravel road link-
ing the field with - Highway No. 31.
“Those prints were made by men. The
handkerchief says the woman was in
the cab, but she certainly didn’t walk
away from here.”

There wasn’t any doubt about what had happened
to Edmund J. Davis when he was found face
down, his wrists bound behind him with wire

nue. His devotion to her was well Thursday, near Taylorsville, Indiana, mond Boll of the Seymour barracks
known in Jeffersonville. far north of Jeffersonville. arrived at the field.

By Wednesday almost everyone in John Bozzell, an employe on the They looked through the side win-
Jeffersonville who could walk was Norris Groves farm on* the southern dows. The car was empty.

helping officers search every highway, fringe of Taylorsville, found Davis’ Boll opened the left rear door and
lane, ravine, culvert and woods in a green-and-cream taxi parked ina field leaned inside the car.
wide circle taking in southern Indiana of the farm. Both doors were closed He pulled back quickly, snorting to
and northern Kentucky. and all windows were up. clear his nostrils of the fetid stench
But none of them found even the One look at the cab’s interior sent that struck him. That was what had
smallest thing to indicate what had be-_  Bozzell ry a dead asi to the Groves amr —, . nould
come of Davis. And all of them were home and the telephone. olting peered over is shoulder. a
worried. : It was a few minutes after six Blood lay thick on the floor, spotted pot - nialgh Biketew eee
They were more worried after the o’clock when Sheriff Elmer Nolting of the seats and the ceiling, stained part oug

next development. It came at 5:30 a.m., Columbus and State Detective Ray- of the upholstery of the driver’s seat.

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This identification card
from a wallet put an
innocent man on a spot

Trying to destroy this
check hurt its writer
more than his forgeries

This bloodstained cap in the weeds was the
clew that marked the turning-point In the in-
vestigation of the four-way joyride to homicide

Boll walked slowly forward for 20
yards, his eyes following the footprints.

“Hello!” he said suddenly, hurrying
toward the clump of tall trees to his
right.

HE STOOPED over a decaying log

and picked up a white sports coat.
It evidently had been rolled up and
tossed toward the log in a careless
effort at concealment. As it unfolded,
Boll observed several deep crimson
stains on the front.

Here was evidence directly linking
the tall, dark man seen by LeMaster
to the fate of Edmund J. Davis, what-
ever it might be—and perhaps with
the fate of the girl who, like Davis,
had not walked away from the cab.

Nolting, criss-crossing another part
of the field to Boll’s left, gave a sud-
den ejaculation. He had stepped di-

rectly upon a chauffeur’s cap tossed:

carelessly into the weeds. It was blood-
stained. On the front of the cap was
the lettering: 1100 Taxicab Company.

“It’s beginning to look mighty bad
for Davis,” the Sheriff said. “All this
blood shows that somebody has been
killed—and it must be Davis.”

He knew that the vanished girl could

10

be dead, too, but hesitated to decide
definitely that she was.

“Suppose you stay here and guard-
the cab,” Boll said. “I’ll go telephone

for help. If Davis is dead, his body
should be close around here unless
they dumped it on the way.” or
Boll reflected that Taylorsville was
roughly 83 miles from Jeffersonville.
If the passengers had killed Davis
near Jeffersonville, there were dozens
of side roads, some of them leading into
wildernesses, where they could have
disposed of his body.
Boll walked back to the cab and took
the speedometer reading—8,741 miles.
Once back on Highway No. 31, Boll
sped a mile north to a_ gasoline
service station operated by Walter
Nichols. There he telephoned Sergeant
Eugene Vance at the Seymour post,
asking him to send all available men
to the Groves farm for a search for a
dead body that must be in the vicinity.
“Have Wilson look the cab. over for
finger-prints and scrape up enough
blood for thorough tests,” he said,
referring to the post technician, Chester
Wilson. “I’m taking the handkerchief
and coat and cap into Headquarters at
Indianapolis.”

Boll next telephoned Captain Walter
Eckert, his superior at Indianapolis,

After listening closely to the detec-
tive’s description of the cab and the
clews found on the knoll, Eckert told
him:

“Don’t leave Taylorsville until you’ve
picked up a trail of some sort. We’ve
got to know whether Davis’ Passengers
went north or south. They are killers.”

When Boll hung up and_ turned
around, he saw that the filling-station
man’s face was suffused with excite-
ment.

“DP you say someone had been
killed, Ray?” Nichols asked.

Boll nodded.

“Well, maybe this will help. Two
men and a woman got me out of bed
about one o’clock Tuesday morning.
Told me they’d had an accident and
wanted a place to stay all night. I
sent them—”

“Wait a minute,” Boll interrupted.
“What’d these people look like.”

“I only got a good look at one of
them,” Nichols said. “He was a tall,
dark-haired fellow. Must have weighed
around a hundred and sixty pounds. He
had a black mustache. His eyes were

wicked-looking, but he smiled an aw-
ful lot and he had the prettiest white
teeth I ever saw in a human. It was
him who knocked at the door. Said
the blood on his shirt and pants and
shoes came from the accident. The
other man and the girl were standing
back in the road. I couldn’t see them
very well.”

“Good!” Boll said. “Now have you
any idea where they went?”

“I sent. them to Hartman’s tourist
camp up the road.”

This information answered several
important questions. It showed that it
was Davis—not the girl—who had shed
the blood in the cab. It showed that the
trio that had entered Davis’ clean cab
in Jeffersonville and left it, blood-
soaked, 83 miles away after commit-
ting some criminal act. Their lying
about having an accident proved this.

There was no doubt that they killed
Davis, Boll thought. What had they
done with his body? Who were they?
What was their motive? How were
they to be captured?

The Hartman camp manager a few
minutes later said that the girl and
two men had not appeared there.

“They may have gone on up the

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piihat | « O you know what day this is, Mr. Kreidler?”
sens The druggist replaced his spectacles and
ot looked at the youthful clerk, then at the
_— led wall clock. It was a little after nine o’clock.
a | “Certainly, Royal; it’s Monday. March 29th. No,
y for I haven’t forgotten that it’s Studebaker payday; I’m
going to the bank right now.”

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yaaa “Couldn’t I go for you, sir?”
wae Louis C. Kreidler chuckled. “No, thanks. Your
aged name may be ‘Gould’, but I’m getting $3,000 in bills
aul to cash those pay checks, and it’s a man’s job to
. a a carry that much money:” ‘The druggist took up an
ost rs old-fashioned revolver from near the cash register
state and dropped the gun into the pocket of his coat.
14 “Just in case some of those young fellows who have
. ! been sticking up places get ideas,” he added signifi-
cantly as he strode out into the murky morning. He
often | Walked from the pharmacy at the corner of South
cad a | Michigan and Sample Streets, South Bend, Indiana,
- iva _ to the bank, a block away.
mae k A man entered the drug store. It was Elba Collins,
« WeeX a youthful factory worker whom the clerk knew.
| “Coke.”
Swain ! “Ves sir.”
inally As the customer accepted the drink, another man,
~ On “who had entered quietly, stepped up to his side. °
_ From a pocket of the newcomer’s dark coat came a
voted | stubby-fingered hand. In it was a black revolver,
srmer |
South, Sergeant Loren H. Northrop (right), who tells
escape | this story. He and his colleagues were instru-
, made | mental in solving the perplexing murder riddle.
Mrs. | (Below) It was with this revolver that Louis
wy, and | Kreidler was fatally injured. The rubber hand-
Y illed | gtip, broken off the weapon during the crime, and
¢ found at the scene, spelled doom for the killers
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Two of the desperadoes answered the descriptions given of
the drug-store bandits,

The case took on a new aspect wh
cleven-thirty p. a.. in the Epworth Hospital at South Bend,
Kreidler died of septic: emia, an infection which developed
from the lacerations of his scalp. A subsequent autopsy dis-

closed that his skull had been fractured by the blows from the
bandit’s gun,

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en, on April 5th, at

The South Side Businessmen’s Club, of South Bend, of
which the murdered man had been a member, held a meeting
and began accumulating a reward, which later amounted to
over $1,000, for the capture and conviction of tl

he slayers of
Kreidler.

Meanwhile, notes valued at several hund
and a leather case taken from the safe during the robbery of
the Chapin Park grocery store were found in a box-car in
Klkhart by railroad police. Chief Nihart, of our department,
notified the South Bend police that the men wanted for the
robberies and the murder might be operating out of our city.

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Five miles southwest of South Bend, on the Crumstown

road, was a sprawling roadhouse known as the vanary Inn.

Mere, at 2:15 a. M., on Monday, April 19th, two men entered
the back door and accosted Howard Mayo, a waiter.

SP UROW up your hands,” the lead
white mask—commanded.

Mayo laughed. He did not take them seriously. But the
bandits meant business. A blow from the gun of one of
them knocked the waiter to the floor.

While one of the thugs shoved the contents of the barroom
till into his pockets with stubby-fingered hands, the other
moved swiftly into the dining-room, where nearly a score of
men and women guests and employees were seated. On his
face was a white mask and in his hand a black revolver. He
fired several shots into the floor. Simultaneously, other ban-

dits on the outside fired through the windows. Bullets fanned
past the frightened guests. Women screamed.

er—a stocky man in a

“Get in line, all of you, and keep your hands up.”

Tumult. and terror
_»-Teigned at the Canary
_. Inn Ueft). “Get in line

_. all of you, and keep.
‘your hands up,” snarled.
- the masked gunman, as ©
“bullets sped past the’
frightened customers. |

- (Right) Rear view of
othe Anderson dance
hall, in Elkhart, which...
was frequented by the
bandits, Here the slaye
read newspaper head-
lines that told of others.
suspected of his crime

Then, as if in denial, across the top of the South Bend after-
n

oon paper, of Tuesday, April 13th, was the streamer head-
line:

KREIDLER KILLING SOLVED?
Three Held—Confessions Awaited—Brutal Assault
May Be Near Solution... .

. . . The chain links Stephen Bedics, nineteen, of 815
West Monroe Street, who is in the Pendleton reformatory
(10-25 years) for holding up a filling station at South Street
and Lafayette Boulevard, February 28th. .

Bedics was arrested a few hours before Kreidler’s death
because he answered the description of the man who struck
the druggist. But Kreidler was unconscious, and the clerk
and customers were unable to identify Bedics positively.

LINKS IN CHAIN

1: Bedics was anxious to be sentenced quickly for the
filling station job—told other county jail prisoners that he
was glad he was sentenced as he might have got the chair.

2: Bedics and his two confederates admitted that they
had planned several robberies of places where Studebaker
pay checks were cashed. ...

BEDICS THREATENED

3: A prisoner in the jail told authorities that he overheard
a conversation in which Bedics’ confederate told Bedics not
to come back from Pendleton to testify against him, or he
would “squeal on him.” What could the man tell that
would damage a man serving from ten to twenty-five years?

Police Chief James J. Hatt, Prosecutor Harry S. Taylor
and Detective Captain Horace M. Hamilton went to Pendle-
ton, Sunday,. but could get no confession from Bedics.

Then, confounding all theories and throwing the Kreidler

| murder case wide open again, came the robbery of the

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| Canary Inn.

They lined up, as ordered. Through broken windows oi
the roadhouse poked ominous guns, behind which, hidden in
the early morning darkness, were other bandits.

“The first one who makes a fals ts shot.”

ie rst one who makes a false move gets shot.
From the barroom came the other desperado, armed with

two automatics. He covered the frightened victims; then,

leisurely, the man in the white mask moved along the line,

ordering each to toss what money he had on the table in the
center of the room.

_ For more than a quarter of an hour that group of men
and women trembled before the deadly weapons of the thugs.
No search for valuables was made. Watches and jewelry
worth thousands went untouched. Then, from the center
table, the leader collected several hundred dollars in cur-

rency and coins, and the two men backed to the door.
“Don’t attempt to follow!”

A motor hummed outside, and they were gone.

“Call the police!” Mrs. Ruby Campbell, the proprietress,
commanded, and one of the guests hastened to the tele
only to find that the wires had been cut.

Mayo drove to South Bend and reported the robbery. A
patrolman, sent to investigate, found no trace of the robbers.
Some of the guests claimed there were a half-dozen bandits;
others said there were three. One of the desperadoes had
been at the inn on previous occasions, but no one knew his
name, or anything about him.

Most important of all, the descriptions given of the two
bandits inside the inn fitted those of the murderers of Kreid-
ler; and the handle of the big gun used by the masked thug
was wrapped with white tape.

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18 Master

Jong-barreled and big of handle. He leveled the weapon.

“Get into the back room.”

The big gun covered Gould and Collins. Neither spoke.
They stood in startled surprise, regarding the intruder.

_ “TE mean it,” the bandit snarled, his thick lips seareely mov-
ing. “Get going before I shoot.”

Gould moved down the aisle behind the low counter along
the south wall, and Collins, closely pressed by the bandit,
followed along the outer aisle. As they reached the partition
to the back room, the front door slammed. Seconds later
the cash register clanged, indicating that a confederate of
the desperado was robbing the till.

_As one stubby-fingered hand was frisking the pockets of
Collins, while the other held the gun covering both him and
the clerk, the front door slammed again and a voice spoke.

“T want a bottle of ink.”

“Get into the back room!”

“What?” The voice sounded startled.

“Get into the back room or [’ll fire!”

store, in

Indiana,

Kreidler, Later, em
ployees’ identification |
helped pin th -
the thy

Detective

tition, with his large, black wenxpon covering the three men.

Shafer, at the opening, saw the arm holding the big gun
rise and fall, once and then agains and at each movement
there came the groans of the victim as Kreidler—for Kreidler
it was—slumped to the floor.

The man from the back room rushed to the register, which
was open. Then, accompanied by his companion, he burst out
through the front door and disappeared.

Kreidler staggered to his feet, calling for help, and the
voice of Gould joined in as the three men rushed from the
rear room.

South Bend police, led by Detective Harold Whitmer,
fingerprint expert, arrived in a few minutes. The bandits
had escaped down an alley, toward Main Street, a block
away; leaving the four victims and an increasing group of
curious persons, which Whitmer quickly dispersed.

Both Kreidler and Gould had investigated the looted reg-
ister, thereby obliterating all fingerprints that might have
been left by the desperadoes. From the witnesses the police

Hurried footsteps approached from the front, and another
man appeared back of the partition. The clerk looked. It
hadn’t sounded like Mr. Kreidler. It was not. The third
victim was William B. Shafer, a blacksmith. Gruffly the bull-
necked bandit ordered the newcomer to be quiet and con-
tinued his search of pockets. From Gould he took a watch
and fob, a pen and pencil, a pocketbook containing four dol-
lars in bills, and a small automatic, cramming the loot hap-
hazardly into his own pockets.

Up at the front of the store the door to the street again
opened and closed. The listening ears of the clerk heard the
challenging voice of the druggist, containing no hint of fear.

“What are you doing in that office?”

“Shut up and get in the back room with the rest of them.”

Distinctly there came the sharp click of a gun trigger strik-
ing, then another click, but still no report. A rush of feet
and the sound of scuffing followed, then a third click of the
impotent trigger.

Gould knew what had happened. Mr. Kreidler had re-
turned to find the second bandit looting the cash register.
Three times he had pulled the trigger of the old revolver, only
to find it useless as a weapon; and now the moving rush of
feet, the labored breathing of excited men, and the sounds of
struggle came nearer and nearer. Then there came the dull
thump of a falling body, and a voice called:

“Come and help me.”

The clerk’s heart leaped. It was not the voice of the elderly
druggist. In spite of the fact that the gun had failed him,
Kreidler was proving his courage in a hand-to-hand struggle
with the desperado.

“Stay where you are, all of you,” the bandit in the rear

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received good descriptions of the robbers. Then the druggist,
following the advice of a physician, was taken to a clinic to
have three deep lacerations in his head dressed.

The actual loss was slight, only about $30 having been
taken from the cash register. Ironically, a package contain-
ing $3,000 in currency, carried by the druggist from the bank,
lay near the dark stains on the floor, unnoticed by the rob-
bers as they fled. _

Seemingly, no real clue remained; but in the center of the
aisle a customer named Samuel Wile, who had been in the
basement at the time of the robbery, picked up the druggist’s
broken glasses and two pieces of black hard rubber.

Whitmer, a small, quietly efficient officer, examined the
black rubber fragments closely. Tersely he questioned the
witnesses, learning that the bandits had taken the druggist’s
small gun along with them. They learned, too, that the
blows which had wounded Kreidler had been dealt by the
bandit from the back:room with the butt of his big re-
volver.

HE two pieces of rubber, fitted together, formed a hand-

grip of a revolver. There should be another. There was.
Near the dark stains on the floor, William Eric, the pharma- -
cist of the store, arriving at nine-thirty, picked up the other
handgrip, intact except for a chipped corner, and gave it to
Whitmer. It was the lone clue.

A wave of holdups and robberies was sweeping Northern
Indiana and Southern Michigan. On the night following the
Kreidler robbery the Chapin Park grocery store was held up
by three men and robbed of $481.56 in cash, as well as watches
and other valuables taken from the proprietor, J. W. Waters,

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And two cCierKs.

tots Dave noah been are
fai oS atch fee reed cited

cous pact ace anaucd and cedar ue
comes mulliply ia the untertor

fou beter fran Horleane,
booed Maree 2d,
caimiatce te Span, Me For-
voeesd bere trom Madeid ie
ed constant delays and oath
Wes toute eapeaslly between
pad Una place, fram the want
{he road ve wend to be liter
howard Prages of the rovading
wooprteat by Dukes, Marstala,
tod \arnerale at every degree,
cg with tie cupfidence of vic:
ecpe (ag, ar neeening fa ew
hod victios and § ot sppcnens
rains troops. Phew will how
chance can be place! cn the
at those who have recently
Spain, be watully dresppoiot
tots, perhaps, not hazardous to
_ of tae 100,000 inen who are
‘oeaier Spain, not 30000 will
ross the Pyrenees. Me. jFor-
ena’ with bis family in che
ter, for Patiadetynia ”
American.

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EAU NITE AERIN,

Letters frou Adie.

rica. — No. LY,

County, lndisna, 1$2-.

tata

seople of Indiana are apparent! y
wiser eratic, tor, their paasi o for
1 fondness tor othces, however
is certainty not exceeded hy aay

cader the sun: at first [ thought
profit arieing from official em.

Satameiut pe the cause of tose vi-
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vhs hers, but To was mistaken.
sever aretched'y paid, or wuat
oy het pad ata, and io many
Yoare a prstive siucce of ex
tatoeg sab Poe Legere Gre thing,
wey stessenrd oy the com

Uf dorp, tite and office. ft ia
me vie aed Oty heaweeer etegeg
A Vibe iy bad the paldeelinus ul

fe.

sunost estimahe quality, the peo-
nadsana can vie either orth Greece
e, when the spirit of Re publican-

| over ther now faded ferss her

“\ightening intluences. A Tailor
t of pore love of country, spend a
\ hard sutching, to be made
n oof miliga, merely to prove he
w blood in other ways than by
He—a Baker will leave hisoven—a
aith quit hiv anvil, and a Shoe-
devert bis last, for the pro bone
and Jeave theic respective cus-
to slarve. or themselves or thete
0 go baretuoted while they settle
fairs of the nations and I cen
you that there is oct a ben-
husband in the land, who despairs
g his wife or governing his spoiled
Oy iuiwhat wishes to display hin
he abilities in rulieg the gtet) and
ng bis weighbors, You woud be

"+> wee even with what dignity

Moa town corporation preside
destinies—with what magna.

_ peice on aby drad borse or
ich fies in cuid Goetruction’” bes

‘m, and wita whateneruy tieya-

any ublortunate pediar who dares

ei tine Ouchy Ob fie nag y

accosted by a pale ywiza

choses | mn
faces dittie fallow, with @ iol peaceahty
ooking countenance, who told we that
he should costainty gain tis election, and
Laccerdegly congratulated him, and e¢.
pressed aphope tat the cecasiwnal cup.
tinement ofa cist offer woul not yy.

jure his healthy he theo told me that he

hat not axked the peopl: for a civil of.
hice, but merely desired to be made inty
a Majoras be thought he had something yal
a veniuw for tarlitacy watlers--sice tieg
Dhave neser ventured to gens what ‘
man Gunks bimecil gastted tor by pug
appearanre.

You will oatucally suppose that in ,
Democratic state, such au itch for office
must cause 8 vaat deal ot intrigue ang
electioneering; in fact we see nothing tp
equal itin England The salf Homing
system js (he most honerable aod most
general, put there are certain carylul,
amivaous pharacters, who never oflyp
their aepvicrs, but say they “will gorse
the peapie if elected Pais means thas,
they will, if encouraged, electioneer lika
herors th prove how indhiferent they teel,’
and use every exertion, just to prove how
little concern the election gives them.

A regulac candidate for office, how.
ever, commanily oom nates himself, aod
generally closes some training, town
meeting, or log rolling to anpounce the
itnportant event to the people, which hs
does ina stump speech, nut particularly
remarkable cither fer its eloquente or
modesty, neither of which, he knows,
are required of a candidates after which
he deshends and calls for a gallon of
whiskey, aod wesures them very gravely,
that his inclinations had nothing to ds
with tps offering, but that it was sole
ly owidy to the solivitations of bis Friends
who hid assured biva thut) such was th:
yenerde opinion of Nis acquirements, tia
there was po doultoef tos election Tho
is the Commencciien’, oot from this tia:

wold the day ele ection Le is expected
to treat ion t no old wo-
mroye vat of them—
quarre toenadly with

vo ld, anit bs-
y : aid hua,
olflcs vacant,
» lated occasion
Dou ihe approach of
cticas, wheo thirty
tse genilemen are ranging
Ine elect is ,politically supe
lime. Sues professions cf patriotism aad
public spiril—such vepouring about per
secutiog, and such a display of disinter:
ested feiendabip, as occurs within daly
Gbaervation, strike even an Buglivs iia
with astonisninent No voter who wailé
adinner, néed, on appitcation toa a
didate, go hunvy. The thirsty are all
provided fory civility can always be wad
when wanted, and bosouw friends are 4s
‘plenty ag blackherries.””

Ag the important diy itself approche
ea, the plot thickens,” the linpurtasce of
the vulers increases, and the puuteaess
ot the candidates becomes aore protound,
they and there tends cedouule tusir es:
erlivns; they scamper over the county 02
horseback bike so many devils—eleciiod-
eering with the men, petung the childrey,
and Hattering the wamea with suped
ideas of thei political impurtance. fief
attend all puliticgl meetings, where they
are ezpected to talk myc, explain Ciew:
aelvea to every body, and yet sallieisathy
druak to conply with the custom of the
country; avout Cais Give aivu, certain p-
tlent fiithe places of composition, wt
ed with a candidates name, are met fy

ord civol t
the count’

jog sround the country, In wich tie ge”

ror

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SM GALL TR.

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EVANS VILL b {UNE 11, 1823,
. - Y Ape fd~

Oa Yhucaday of last week came on tor
tial before the Circuit Court of this coun
ty, tie care oi the Bate al Indiana vs.
sooadisrvey, foe the marder of Phowas
toasy by sGeeltng fie wath a Ralie on

the sth of May bast. | die Coune occu-
wea the Courtthe whole day. when the

Jory retired, BOO alter a dhert absence
returned witha virdiat of eyailty An
aitempl was made by his counsel, Mes-
ay Baitell, Daniel, & Law, to obtain a
Law trial, the motion Was, however, aver.
ruled by the Court, as was also the ino
tion made by thear to) arcest of judgment.
foe Court on Saturday pronouaced judge
mentjand we have bien politely tavored
by ius han. Judge gGoodlett, at our re-
quest, with a copy the address to the
prisoner on passing {the sentence of the
jaw, which ve lay befere our readers,

“Joba Harvey, the painful task which
jx now become my vuly to perform, t
would gisdly put farther from ine, by
postpoang the judgment of the Taw until
a istare day, were it not thet thia is the
fast day ot the term. Phe Grand Jury of
your county, af this term, have midicted
you for the crime of willlul and maicious
murder. A tesverse jury, selected with
all possible care by your counsel and
ceursell. alier bavin patter dy and) ate
yenuve y listened to your detence, after
Loving duly and de Wheratery weighed the
(estimony tor dy apapuat yoo. assisted as
you were by counsel have returned a vere
dict of guilt azatnsf you. Your Ceun-
sei, io he actor of their zeal, have ape
pred for anew teraz the Court did oct
think the cireaimatenees of your cose
would warrant it, They idea om sed
the Court in arrestol pudgment, whict
motion the Court fe ( boand te overrule.
‘There is nothitiy delt fur tse Court so do
but to pronounce the sentence of the law
apen the Rading of Ch jury, however

antul that duty way oe

@The judgment oct tis Court is, (hat
yu Joho Harvey, ce condtcted to the
place from wuedce you came, there to
seman watt Faidsy (ie 27 day of Jade,
Di secn the hears of nine
echock o tne forennos, aad two wchonk
da the niternoon, tac Soerifel the coun.
ty will conduct you fo saa convenedt
place withia one mile uf the Court house,
godtheresen a gallows eree si for wat
Poopase, will bans fou oy tle oeck wae
Ql sou are dead.

‘cere tiny duties as an otBloes ace ct an
ey) but tet ay @ ieliow Ciestare,
ecrrat you to amore the mete. ob shat
G boa sie mercy b iope inyseity tet
tec of you to repent, not oily of thas
no cer, uutof the ana of your tite Ay
tub we are conscieds, in thia ine cance,

bose he yy fats

dae,

th we hate fattatuliv discharged our da

ty (owsrds rou; yet (01s possibee tora.
earthly tabumel to eres; but you ana |
moist meet tugether et the bar ot that Gel
wit) rivlit. Oh, let oe eatreat
Fou to prepare doe the event--and may
he have Merey Upon you”?

will ae

The Pirates —Capt. Reed of the heiz
Mont Hope, trou Cuca, hayiog ieaet

thaa piraiical beat wad w J tor nen,
abd procured three ex.
Woeo clear of the land, he
dsvutered a pivaticds nat, Of 4; tons and

Svea Capt. i. manned his boat wita
wae se

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a. 1q bin Vessel

te onen

ee oe a

: proses ded

curlous fF

wanshd at io-berte, onal as US stsikesd
the Keys, tha types all tall from the case
into their proper places with a velocity
that keeps pace with the uost rapid
speaker, ‘Fhe form having bee worked
olf, the type moves inte the melting-pot,
from which it ja retucned recast into its
Gliginel state without aay dimmution
of waterial, and thence distributed inte
the cnse quite new. One of these presses
pliced at the bar of the Houee of Com-
tpens would always insure a correct Te-
puctol the debate, Ue Church, the ine
veotor, is a native of Bostun, New bng-
Jad.”

4 London paper states that the Coun-
tesa of Lie pene, (ix Queen of Napies,)
bad applied to the Vourt of Vienna for
permission of her two sons te go to A+
merica to their uncle, Joseph Bonasate,
which was granted her on condition thet
they never return to the Austrian do-
minions,

. Pontianp May 6
On Thursday last, the Cirewit Court

of the United States commenced ite ses

sion in this town, Phe Grand Jury re-

cevved fiom Jadge Story an impressive,

eliquent and interesting charge ii the

best syle of this able jurist. At this

term came on for trial the cases of Jed

edish Eilett, and Jonah Austin, twe

old sevatutionary soldiers, both of whose

beets the winter of three score aid

ten years had covered with the snow of

old ige. She charge made against both

of them wes e wilful misrepreseniation

of che amount of their preperty, made

urder cath, ia onder to enatle them to

the benefit of the provision of the act

for ihe relief of Revecutionary Sediers,

‘Thev bad recited foci peastons since

the first estabiehimeent of the act{ Mle.

Vesserden oiade their detenee, (hs fr

al thew co es seemed very ssodie

the chief tice which apjevred

either wes the suppression ef thy

Abat they held lecces of stellt

Mirdbam, the place ef thet rs

ductoa thetr tatuial frees, |

ero Wa Made Oo peocure Chor

tei. which sucerGed an the case |

sty but proved ietlectaal io

Pilsett. doa the latter there wee!

ten tee go unrest of Judgement |

forte alities in the indictavept.

‘Yhe situation of the two old men cx-
cicd utcommon interest end sympathy,
mere particularly a3 there wes much
roens te peheve that the laise rep cereale.
fion was rather the result: of igierance,
than of premeditated crime, Lhay were
patricts alec, who had done their all to
secme ie be the fivaivable privieges
whih were the glorious fiuiis of that
struggie ib which they io
he youth entered koa continued with
tear aid honti, She pusibavent for
the ofcice is fise, imp henment and
peers; but feaa nlin.dsts wiseh fell
hoa the ciUel at ty bevetved dat) the
pare Of the sentence whic imposes
stetdh g ip ‘he piilory, would, 00 pele
tou t. the Pr-csment, be remitted; ag
ben goveipst Fe giepius of cae State law,

‘ og to all ous inpreecieta of
the peoestaryestent afd beture ob pao
le oebis der Cieaidal ¢heonces, aad inat
such a petinon woud oe suuutebanced
uy the Jauge.

On the alernoon Gh vesterioy,
retused to arrest Wie pug

‘ y
Tied wae

the
‘ht aad
ist Ihe

ov

te prenveiee Ob
lulowarg gentence. viz. Phet hs shead
pry ane te the Cored Status of ten
de dtnes hoe Jeemeter ted einte dace. and

+.0r Qe

watee has vever nearly

atine period pes

it of

prs

Hupp woce

me

ibe

thre
excavation proviessed with greater ra- eit
pidity, and with vo much advantage ty

work, has rock tet

the state agat preseat. Phere ace now
cuployed oa the rock, oud ia oreparing "r
stone for ihe tacks, upwards of WoGg oe
nen, and We probability 3 Chat this»
number will La greatly mcremerd ta the  s*!

course of a few weeks We outeder- 04
Stand, dint the ducks ore to hae cet
menced aw geun ae th SUth ab nest
faonth,

With regard to that part of the ranal é
whieh lies between thiy place and Ko
chester, ag far ax we have been able to
secertain, is progressing io a tanner
which justifies the belief that wtwii be ©
completed thie fall, agreeably to the ©
last report of the commissieners, ys tnat Ue
hoate may poss asta: west ce Becky. ct, a:
inthe spring of eighteen hugdred and 1%
twenty-four. ol

Bosron, May 8

The new state-~-Capt Cacters who ¥
came passenger in the Kaperimert, fron |
the Bay of Honduras, srrived at Peeve
dece ou Sunday fast. ioforins ua thot >
days prenous to his vaing & Canna. bi
sioner« from the Prosince of St. Satva
dor de Gustimala, aahed tor Boston rs to
the achr. Planet, on a missin to this
country. fer the purpose of uniting that les
province with the government of the
United States. We understand “the
Pianet arrived at Falmouth on Monday &
last—and chat the above mentiones Com- ©
Misstorers seached sis city yesteriav >
alternoon, and iamediately proceeded 4
to Washing'on.—Com. Gaz. "

New Your, May 8 vr
lt appears from the Nurtotk papers ot
Mandar. that the Congress fiivate new
fu couds for sea, is te vo ceund to
fo tak@ Mr ial.ev, our
Hoenos Ayres, cis tonne
din Néieii, acaetoien to
the Deiaware ene wi
12, tO baud Mtr Ne .
ree to Sueter Agus
Phe dota Ades teres
Noderson, as Sbinveter tu
iy ef Colomisa,
Sonete brow ods Curceeousdent, We
inst. abd received this morning, ny the 4

Steam hilg, states. that the US. sloup
ef war Hornet, Capt. Smith, dropped
down inte the bite of Craney Leland
yesterday, and this morning got ander
wav. enc proceeded to sea, tesnd on @
the West Indian seas.

SuawsxeutTown, May 47,

Moody hasivess —Last Tuesday weak
a party ob 1S 0 ZO set out fram Galeon-
da to arrest Uhe Sturdivants, who Lee
rdout 16 nes above that place, near the
fintorwer, and aresupvosed to carryso
the cougtertertiny business, bere en
gravers, acd baving the necessary unple
wenta, yc. We have oot learned bow
the .ftiay commenced, or who heed frat,
but presucithegan on the attempt of
the Golconda party to enter the buuse ta
make whe ecrest. A Mr. Seal, who was

at the he of Sturdivant, was snet
throvy fy etd died ty a lew bouce
alter. tesa suppused lo have tren aa

agent of Vie countectenters, employed th
putting ef them pauper. Koswell Stucd:
vant, the pracipal euyraver, wae >

throuch the sipe ef the acck, and is sep
posed to be diagerously wounded. Mer
Rondeau. who was of the Golcomsa par


SRY

4

Cue "
‘et car render O84 at GiOiment and a
bleneeng Co wociety here, & give ux [favarce
tle hepes & expectahuns of @ giorivos &
blessed tus mortal ty beyond the grave,
thenare we indeed what we ofeas. But
the man who wilt not do all this, may be an
aff clhonate frend. @ social: cpmnpavion,
the boucat sud fam dealer, the gener:
ous honest hearted oe ghbor,| sod even
auenher of a Todge, but believe me,
be ie pol atrve and genuine |(maron.—
Yew my trehien, unless the specimens
cour wokmauehip are wrought by the
Jhgeot hand of tdustry, equared by the
square of eitue, plumbed with the plumb-
bine ef rectitude, cemented with the in-
B cdiswluble ties Of brotherly love and af-
fection, and povehed with the smoot.e
principles of charity, they will be ffourd
unfit foc the masterchitiders use, and
thrown over among the rutin) Do we
ask where such a mode and partern of
Sg perfection 13 fo be fund? Gy to the
aa mountains of Judes, listen to Ibe voice
faq vf one crying ip the wilderness, “prepare
Sai yethe way of the Lord, and ‘nuke his
Ried paths etraight;” sce hin clothed with the
J garments uf siniplicity; sec Thin) feeding
npon the simple d weld produc ipos of na
ture; see him patiently enduring the per
reculion and censure of acensorivus and
frowning world; witness bis terth in the
aq Redecner, his stlaciment to evr princi-
mj ylesand precepts; and behold him seal-
ing ois Gdelity with lis bioud; do this,
sud the enquiry ta tally ansvercd Go
mitate his perfections, pattern his exain-
pleas do this, snd althiugh mieny uf the
ma vrixe andl virtuvus mey question the pro-
priety of secret associates, ie pe they

inte

1  PPY
bt

vk yest

have charity, Althougt. the | pedantic
coxcomb will abuee and ridicule an in-
stiution, within whose coi secrated wal.s
he can never hope to enter, yet wall he
do borwiry; aliough the envious and
iiciwoua will oever Cecse fo tire Yer por-
M serie Garte Of Dalevolener, yet will they
Gifs ibarmtess wteour feet, fe the, and
retry, without tear of injury, put forth
‘be hand and sence tne serpent by the
td fand be wil beceme Bharttiless rod
becetand, Po this, ane although for-
cure flown, Wy Intecds forenke, although
the world omey Lecrine a Leitcn wart,
ey -Malthouph the grad leveler, Death,
Bay divest veel cibour we BOiy “wealth
of riches, yet will atonly serve os a pre-
(aratory step io eur ebterity he potas
bite New Jerussien.; where sorre wig
Bcit sigtkng shell fee away, aud where
ge shalt never cease to ascoibe bOLL
BXto5 10 THE LORD.

{Tranststed for the American. }
ctriay of the Pyreners—4ih Mivision,
CAP, Uh OF LOGKUNG,
Locuono, April 13, 1823.
Q  Venasigneur— We marchen tiem Vit-
gor ch Logrons on the Tin. Un the
Toth, early im the mourning - reconviss
eg OLE Was nade lo ascertain wheiner {be
Ba tuemy secupicd Lagrone, which it was
Pa fuuad they did. die advance uaid,
gy ota anced ty the Camp Maras, Usent
ag) tre, Moved torward, aud wes followed,
9°) ths Sd wrgade. Arrived opposice to
c reno, M. Lolet, captain «f ardiaance
g Tis sent with a Meg, iat was Gred upon,
The attack was then ordered oud tse-
eg ‘tec by the head of the co:umn, form:
g°' 6a the det company uf Voltiguers
"the Quth regent, aod of the tra
{ON SBY ctl sasears of Dordogne, ucday
to (CMmsed of Diaces de Chursroe 8;
Ud thpported by the cds: ofthe tg:
Wr. dbe towe ot Lone way cen:
ed by simui oct 7k0 idantey, ace 259
avkre, the CCH) bag barricaeeu .e -
wee oom, . a ae eb

vcd

HARVEY, John, white, 50, hanged Evansville,

his Woops occupy diiviceca. dhe Mar
shal will advance to Burgos. The di
vista Orvert occupied Lagrone yes-
terday. (Vhe deiail of the occupation”
ia abuve.) The secoad corps is movin
ou Saragoss. Prince Huhenloe, wit
the third, is biockading St. Nevasiaus
and Pampeluow, —»

Signed at-the hoad quarters at Vitto-
ria, Apeil 18, 1823, by bia Boyal Ugh.
Lees’ omlers,

GUILLEMINOT,
: Major General,
THE GAZETTR.,

AVANSVILLE, JULY 2, 1823

Joho Harvey, who was sentenced to
he hung, by the Vanderburgh | Circuit
Court, at their last term, for the murder
of Thomas Casey, was execu ed pur-
fuant to the sentence of said court, on
Friday the 27th ult, .

The. prisoner was brought out about
12 o’clock, and his execution was pre
ceded by an able and impressive dis-
course delivered by thé Rer. Wm, Bar
net, from part of the 30th and Styt vers
es, ofthe [61h chapier of the acts of the
Ap stiles. The prisoner appeared tmuch
affected, and when asked sy Mr. Bar.
net, “do you feel the peace of Ged, and
the hope of a future state of Ulesedneas,”?
he teplied “L think 1 do. fe awvas
asked by the Sherif if he wished to
make any public communication ta the
spectators, to which he replied, 10 4 low
and faltering voice, “that he had nothing
to say, but tuat the crime for which he
wey nb at to be excuted, was rot will-
fuily cornmitted.” Phe Sheriffthen axke
ev the prisoner if he wanted the lougest
Gime given in the warraut for his exe-
cution, he repied no, “that he did not
wish to Vleay’—he then consented that
abyimno might be sung, tuck an attection-
ate lecve cf the Sheriff and his Deputy,
thanked them for their humanity and
aitentun to him during his confinement,
ecd aout ft ovclock P. M. was lauach-
ediato eiercityeAbout 1560 persons
were Aseermbied tu witness the avwlull
: Wh conducted themsetres with
pregeiety shariog the day. Much credit
tsdlue to Se Sherif! Warner, for his
feelings aud humanity tewards the pris
Ghar as well ss the promptitads with
wai be disebsrged whe painful Cuty roi
an executioner —Vhe officers and eniiia
ef that part of the [Oth regiment, that
were paraded cu the occasinn, conducted
ina wanner Ligh y creditable to thei.

selves. Huervey, (the prisoner,} was en

- entire stranger in the county, and far!

custded but a shert ime in thiac aatry

ieeure he cummitted the offence for

Wotch he had justly suffeet. as we png.

pune. He is a man uuiler the comune

statire, and from appearence upwards

ol itty years of age, sayc he isa native

of Pennsylvania, tut haa tived for

many years tn Hardin County, Keatue-
ky.

Euvtract of a letter frow a gentleman
on board the Steam Boas WVaniville,
daied

Matcuns May 24.

“1 bave to commusicate to you a must

Goforiuuare occurrence which happere¢

tu the steam boat Nashville, OT Whit

@ partial wjary bas resalted to ihe vost,

Se wet ar a total loss uf the cutton on

deck. Ou yes-erday about 10 or 12 »?.

clock, we were progressing. very rapid.
ty om our way ta New Usieaus, and

Were Congratuiatins uurechves wa gecount

- of the speedy aad pleasent (e%ege we

IMD,

ae

Pi

and ‘thet covered by @ tem rary deck
in a blaze, the cotion extubiting § Gem
plete mase f fire, ine wind a» reading
the emuke aud dame in every ¢ irection,
and lyou wil hive a feint ides of our
sitution, Coutesry lo my expectations
we have been enabled to aie the boat
with the luos of the temporary as well
a8 Gonsidera led injury to the u
deck} the toot can fen few deye 06
re ip a cond ton to pu-aue her regular
usidess, Poo much jeclie cannot be
owed to Cap ain Crawford and hig ex-
cellepit crew, for their indefaiganle and
successful exertions ta saving the boat
eed carge frum entire toes.”
WVashville Guretts,

Mechanical ingeauty —We had the
Coringity tacail ing wocmay ind witndes
the jrgenious operadon of moving @
large three sory orick house in Maiden:

dane.) Lhe reins d way partly accom.

prished at the time we were thee, by a
very siinple process and without the
Jeas injury to the building It ig done
by the means of nree screws, with a
mau hnu w iever ateah. Me, Brown,
the dontrector; de ervee credit: foc hia
ingenuity, avd tis invention mav doubt.
leas ie uv zreacuein a city like this,

_ wheilit is often necese ry to remove vale

usble| hudings in wideoing and improv-
tog Bircets.

ie WV. F Statesnan.

West India Trade.—Mr. Lyford the
Keeper of the Commercial Rooms at

Norfdk, weites to hie co-reapondeat at

Kichmond. Tam eorry to inform youy
that | have sodervnt
authowity, Urat the Negocistions between
Our geveroment and that of tae British,
relatige to tie tonnag: of vess-ls be-
longiéx to tue latter, aud the trade be-
tween the United States and the [i+
tish Wrest ludia (stands is suapeaded at
least—--and is not umprobalde that our
vessels. wiil soon, hy a) order of the
Coundil, be excluded fi.a the Bartiss
Isenide.? *

j —

\From the Nationel Gazette.

We hiv: conversed with a very ine
telligent geodeman, woe recently tra
velled tron Met udte Paris and vigtted
St Senscrien, on the geversi condition
of #ffure in S ainy to stock nes stten-
ton bad neen derecieal. He mentions
thet sourh uf he Eno, the population
By 0A B luge aimust universally Con.
Shtntiunacsts he fw & euall nands
af WSUTRENtH TA tMat qua tes consist
chielly of commen marauders rather
(han of poli ical maleouteots -Narth of
the Busy, in the provinces vs Hiecay,
Navarre ‘aod Catalonia ‘the ariny of the
Fay hae teen cecruited hy meace of
Frevcn pold, whien the lower tlagsess
CfinGsitanta were tue pour avd aretch-
ed to resist. Cireumstances ted par
Neulscly impove ieced amd deyyaied
those provinces; aod their promasty to
the Breach territury laid theo “penta the
brines aod integaesefihe F sch govern
tment aud ie Spaiaish cefugers. Bet the
influcuce of the pricy had ued not been

much exercised upon C On, Dor wos it

in any degree ss pwerul as it bad
een. ia any petted Spain, Much tess
mob Le spjceherded for the conéutg-
take! Cavee drome this soave. thal fro
tne waat of monsy and tae material of
ware ;
The, garcigoa of St. Sebastian was
compezed uf shogt 2,100 mes, and com.
ieanded by U'Uonsel, @ brother of the

abie general of the same newe. The ut-

most reliance ie tHresd anen hie brmncas

Tadiend. on June 27, 1823, f

Sal Gn aes

yourkolt 200 bales «i cotton or upwards,

fom the best -

t
é

fhey did not expect to be obhised to
feave Mevilie; bat if so,the retreat to Ca.
liz would be easy, and the asyluin im-
pregnadle.

Our informant inferred from what he
saw in the Frensh provinces, aad in Pas
ris, that the war and the Hourbons were
Uop: pular, to use the pof est terme.

New appointments —We are inform.
ed (says the Baltimure Chronicle) by a

eotemany who arcved here Veesterday,
com Washington, that it was currently
reported there, that Sinith Thompson,
the prenent Secretary of the Navy,
wou.d he appointed to fi) the aest on the
bench ut the Supreme Court, vecated by
the death of Brockhost Livingston, aud
the «fee of Secretary of the Navy
would be off red to Samuei L South.
ward, one of the Senators ju Congresa
from New Jecscy, oe

A New-Vork paper of June 5, says,
“itis said’ thet the 1. M Vienecal, K.
Jo Meigs tes been removed, and that
Mr M'Lean of Ohio, and formecty in
Congress from that tate, is his succes
sor We have reason to think this ru-
taer well founded = The National In-
telligencer of Jane 7, saya. “The Post
Master General left ‘his city, a few days
820, bu a visit to his taimily in the Ktate
ot Ohiv.

}
Si BIIIF IDI GDIIEB) ee ——
~ AUGUST KLECTIUN, _

ASSEMBLY.
ROKER TM. RYANS
THOMAS FITZOER ALN.

poe

A LIST OF LETTELS. /
Remaining in the Post Office et Fivaot-
ville. Indians, quarter ending ‘the
Istof July, 1823 \which if not taken
cut by the SistatlSeptember, will he
sent te the General Post Udice as dead
letters. aa

A

Robert Armstrong, ‘homes Fitzyd, Ad-
ans. ‘

——

Mary Nrumfeld, Ame Carnes,
c

Joseph PB. Chase, Mtct Costiite,
t

Jessee © Deon-

1p

Janes biliat.
Charles Ferret, Jisrth Fellows,
(

Jota Gipson, Jewed B. Goodset, Rag
Jates Grant, Bouts of the Eracspille
Gazette. fie
j t
Kit Higgins, James (Holt, Amey Haug’
er, |

J)
Gideoo Jus in, Benjamia J+ feris,

Jo-rph Kirg, Laueun foapp, Samuel
Kelty j
M.

John W. Maddox, Jhon Mathan, Wn,
ACreius,  Jamre M’Riouey, Jemes

Mere, Dan. Miller, Hush SVOary &

¥raokiin Marsh,

MN
Samuel Neele, Themen Neely,

Wm. Pesnock, David | Paseons, Josey ia
Pidei,

; L
‘Mre La Serre, Adau Svyter, Bti Shee-
wood, James Kexrman, “.

James Tupman, Pre ding Tanquia,
1 ». we

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or ‘murder of Thomas
Caseye


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180 WEST SPRING STREET e NEW ALBANY, INDIANA 47150

March 18, 1976

Watt Espy, Jr.
Box 67
Headland, Alabama 3635

Dear Mr. Espys:

Enclosed is a list of articles found on Hawkins's crime, trial, and
execution. It is quite possible that other articles appeared in the Tribune;
finding them would require more research. (Please let us know if you need more
information than you are able to find.) We have 2 lenses which can be used
with our Magnaprint copier. One (sample of print is enclosed) does not magni-.
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magnify as greatly is used. Each print costs 25¢. Since the article of 11/14/41
contains a history of the case, you may need to see no other article.

As for legal hangings in New Albany or Floyd County prior to 1901: The
History of the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties, L. A. Williams & Co.,

Cleveland, Ohio, Love, has a section on "murder trials" which contains accounts
of 3 trials and hangings (for murder). This section can be copied in 2
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P.S. The Indiana Magazine of History of March, 1945, has an article con-
cerning one of the above-mentioned murder trials discussed in the History of
the Ohio Falls Cities and Their Counties. It would take 3 copies (@ 10¢)
to copy this article. The author of this article refers to "Book A, p.l96,
in the Floyd County Circuit Court" as a source of some bit of his information.
You might try writing to the Circuit Court Clerk, to see if he can help you.

(The Floyd Coumty Circuit Court is in the New Albany-Floyd County City-Coun
: ied ¢ : - 1ty- +;
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Tn et ee Te eT SSN Ue ee ee a NURIA Sm See wy eR ERN

hite, electrocuted Indiana (Bloyd County) on November 1h, 19h.


HARVEY, John, hanged at Evansville, Indiana, on June 27, 1823,

"On Thursday of last week came on for trial before the Circuit Court of this county
the case of the State of Indiana vs, John Harvey, for the murder of Thomas Casey by
shooting him with a rifle on the 8th of May last, The case occupied the Court the
whole day, when the jury retired, and after a short absence returned with a veridict
of 'guilty.' An attempt was made by his counsel, Mrssrs, Battell, Daniel & Law, to
obtain a new trialg the motion was, however, overruled by the court, as was also

the motion made by them in arrest of judgment; and we have been politely favored by
his Hon, Judge Goodlett, at our request, with a copy of the address to the prisoner
on passing the sentence of the law, which we lay before our readers, ‘John Harvey,
the painful taks which is now become my duty to perform, I would gladly put farther
from me, by postponing the judgment of the law until KA@XXYASEXAX a future date, were
it not that this is the last day of the term, The Grand Jury of your county, at this
term, have indicted you for the crime of willful and malicious murder, A traverse
jury, selected with all possible care by your counsel and yourself, after having pa-
tiently and attentively listed to your defence, after having dulf and deliberately
weighted the testimony for & against you, assisted as you were by counsel have re-=
turned a verdict of guilt against you, Your Counsel, in the ardor of their zeal,
have applied for a new trials; the court did not think the circumstances of your case
would warrant it, They then moved the Court in arrest of judgment, which motion the
Court felt bound to overrule, There is nothing left for the Court to do but to pro=
nounce the.sentence of the law upon the finding of the jury, however painful that duty
might be, The judgment of this Court is, that you John Harvey, be conducted to the
place from whence you came, there to remain until Friday the 27th day of June, on
which day, between the hours of nine o'clock in the forenoon, and two o'clock in

the afternoon, the Sheriff of the county will conduct you to some convenient place
within one mile of the Court house, and there, on a gallows erected for that pur-
pose, will hang you by the neck until you are dead. Here my duties as an officer
are at an end, but let me, as a fellow creature, entreat you to implore the mercy

of that God, in whtse mercy I hope myself; let me beg of you to repent, not only of
this murder, but of the sins of your life, Although we are conscious, in this ins-
tance, that we have faithfully discharged our duty towards yous yet is possible for
an earthly tribunal to errs; but you and I must meet together at the bar of that God
who will do right. Oh, let me entreat you to prepare for the event - and may he
have mercy on you," GAZETTE, Evanvsille, Indiana, June 11, 1823;

"John Harvey, who was sentenced to be hung, by the Vanderburgh Circuit Court, at
their last term, for the murder of Thomas Casey, was executeed pursuant to the senénce
of said court on Friday the 27th ult. The prisoner was brought out about 12 o'clock
and his executed was preceded by an able and impressive discourse delivered by the
Rev. We Marnet, from part of the 30th and 3lst verses of the 16th chapter of the Acts
of the Apostles. The prisoner appeared much affected, and when asked by Mr, Barnet
'do you feel the peace of God, and the hope of a future state of blessedness,' he
replied 'I think I do,' He was asked by the Sheriff if he wished to make any pub-=
lic communication to the spectators, to which he replied, in a low and faltering
voice, 'that he did not wish to delay! = he then consented that a hymn might be sung,
took an affectionate leave of the Sheriff and his Deputy, thanked them for their hu-
manity and attention to him during his confinement, and about ) o'clock p.m, was
launched into eternity. About 1500 persons were assembeld to witness the awfull scene
who conducted themselves with propriety during the day, Much credit is due to Mr.
Sheriff Warner, for his feelings and humanity towards the prisoner as well as the
promptitude with which he discharged the painful duty of an executioner, The
officers and militia of that part of the lOth regiment, that were paraded on the
occasion, conducted in a manner highly creditable to themselves, Harvey (the priso-
ner) was an entire stranger in the county, and had resided but a short time in this
country before he committed the offence for which he had justly suffered, as we pre=
sume, He is a man under the common stature, and from appearance upweaads of fifty
years of age, says he is a native of Pennsylvania, but has lived for many years in
Hardin County, Kentucky." GAZETTE, Evansville, Indiana, July 2, 1823.

90

(same technique as used on Glass) and
drive them out along a lonely road to Port
Washington, Long Island. There they took
Chioccola’s bankroll of seventeen dollars,
his watch and ring.

But they decided, Gaetti told police, they
could not risk leaving Chioccola alive be-
cause he was friendly with several mem-
bers of Murder Inc., the Brooklyn murder
syndicate which was apparently the only
force Gaetti and his pals feared. They
shot Chioccola, dumped his body in a road-
side ditch, drove his car to Manhattan
where they abandoned it, and went on to
an evening of fun provided by the dead
man’s money, watch and ring.

Now confessions, accusations and coun-
ter-accusations flew thick and fast among
the five men, Carosella having been arrested
after Gaetti’s confession of the Chioccola
murder.

All five men were indicted for the three
murders, some of the quintet for ‘both the
Glass and Fitzpatrick murders, some for
the Chioccola.

During Gaetti’s trial for the murder of
Chioccola, Mrs. Gaetti testified that her
son “caused me traquble continuously from
the time he fell from his carriage at the

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his fingers in his brother’s eyes.” rs.
Gaetti, broken and ashamed but proud of
her other children, none of whom had ever
caused her the slightest difficulty, told of a
series of petty crimes with which her son
Alfred had jorge” his childhood. He
had run away from school, had been sent
to several institutions, had run away from
them, had. finally been sent to prison.

Dr. Richmond Beck of Veterans State
Hospital at Northport, Long Island, de-
scribed Gaetti as “a moral imbecile but not
an intellectual one.” Dr, William Leonard
gave as his opinion that Gaetti had the
mentality of a child nine years old. Gaetti
was 25 years old when he was tried.

All five men were convicted of murder.
a are now in the death house at Sing

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Olga Glass is back at work behind the
counter which she left so joyfully on
Thanksgiving Eve. John Glass was buried
and mourned and his young widow now
lives with her sister again in the apartment
Glass left to go to his death.

The sentencing of Gaetti and Dolney can
mean only one thing to Olga Glass: per-
haps their removal from society will pro-

tect other Olgas—it cannot reopen for her
the door that slammed shut when Gaetti
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“Nothing serious,” Dr. Evans said, “A
slight touch of indigestion.”

He could add no information as to where
the three had come from nor where they
were going. He had treated the girl and
left immediately.

By the time Eckert returned to the office
it was mid-afternoon, and Boll was wait-
ing. Elated, Boll pointed to a pile of soggy,
torn paper.

“Got ’em out of the wastebasket in that
tourist cabin,” he said. P

Eckert glanced at the tobacco-soaked
mass. “What is it?”

“Torn letters,” Boll said. “The cabin
where those three stayed’ hadn’t been used
since, and this stuff was stuck in the bottom
of the basket.”

The two took the soggy mass into the
police laboratory, where Eckert ordered the
skilled technicians to separate it and piece
the various parts together as rapidly as
possible.

The paper had lain in the wastebasket for
three days and was saturated thoroughly
so the men had to work slowly. to avoid
tearing it even further.

At first glance, it seemed as though there

was no head nor tail to the pile. But sud-'

denly an exclamation broke from one of
the officers. ;

“Get those photo pieces out first,” he said,
indicating a piece of torn photographic
print.

Feverishly, the detail searched out the
other pieces. As they came to light and
were put together, a slim face smiled from
two photos.

The officers looked at the patched up
photos. They showed a_ tanned, lean
face. A thin black mustache topped the

broad mouth and even white teeth gleamed -

from below. An air of self-assurance was
evident even in the stained, torn picture.

As Boll and Eckert gazed at the repro-
duction, one of the technicians spoke ex-
citedly.

“Got something here, Captain. Looks

like an identification card.”
“Can you read it?” Eckert asked.

THE VANISHED CADAVER

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 31)

“Yes,” the officer answered. “It’s E-L-
L-I-S B-A-U-L-W-A-R-E ... Ellis Baul-
ware and the address is Owensboro, Ken-
tucky.”

“Might be our friend of the mustache,”
Eckert told Boll. “And if it is, we may
have the case solved.”

“Maybe we'll find the trio,” Boll said.
“But we still don’t know whether they were
with Davis or where he is.”

Eckert returned to his office and calted
Capt. Raleigh Bristow of the Owensboro
police department, whom he had met at the
FBI school in Washington, and knew for
a careful, alert officer.

“Do you have any record on Ellis Baul-
ware?” he asked.

“Good character,” Bristow replied
promptly. “I’ve known him a long time.
td lives on a farm near here. Why do you
ask?”

Eckert explained his suspicion that Baul-
ware was connected with the mysterious
disappearance of Davis.

“He’s never been in any trouble that I
know of,” Bristow declared. “But I'll
make a check and call you back.”

Within half an hour he had a report.

“Baulware’s not implicated,” he said.
“He was here all week. But he gave me a
lead that sounds promising. Baulware said
he took J. W. Hayden, Jr., Clementine
Luttrell and Milton Fewiins to Louisville

Saturday night but came home after they.

said they were going to Indianapolis.”
Eckert pondered his words for a min-
ute. Then, “If he wasn’t up here I wonder
how his picture got in that wastebasket.”
He described the face on photo. +
“That’s not Baulware,” Bristow said.
“That sounds like Hawkins. He’s got a

record down here for forgery. Fact is, he

just got out of the Eddyville’ prison after
serving a term on a forgery charge. I'll
check him and call you back.”

Meanwhile, the technicians had _ finished
separating the rest of the torn paper. There
were two letters pieced together and some
checks signed Milton Hawkins.

Bristow’s: report on “Milton Hawkins

’

came almost as rapidly as his first one.

“Hawkins hasn’t been here since Sunday
and neither has young Hayden. We're
checking on the Luttrell girl now. I'll have
a report on her the first thing in the morn-
ing.

Then. he dictated a list of Hawkins’ rela-
tives in Louisville and rang off.

Eckert ordered Boll and Detective Mere-
dith Stewart to check the names and they
left immediately for Louisville.

As Captain Eckert was about to go home
that Thursday evening, the Seymour bar-
racks called to report they were unable to
locate any body along the main roads in
southern Indiana.

Where was Davis? Eckert’s brow
wrinkled in thought. He knew that unless
the missing driver was located the work in
trailing the mysterious trio would be wasted
effort. So far, there were only suspicions,
*no positive proof, that murder had been
committed. ‘

Bristow. reported the next morning from
Owensboro that the Luttrell girl had been
found. Unable to locate her in that city,
he had sent two officers to her home in
Livermore, 22 miles south. The 17 year-
old Miss Luttrell agreed readily to return
to Owensboro with Bristow’s men to help
the investigation.

On her arrival there, Bristow called
Eckert again.

“I’ve got some men at Louisville,” Eckert
told him. “I’ll send them over to Owens-
boro at once.” :

’ “See what she says,” Eckert told Boll a
few minutes later. “See if she will return
to Indiana with you for questioning. Don’t
arrest her .. . we'd be laying ourselves
open to charges without a warrant and
extradition papers. And keep in close
touch with me.” ~

Bristow already had begun to question
the plump, cherub-faced Miss Luttrell
about her activities of the past few days.
At first reluctant, she grew talkative as
Bristow won her confidence, and by the
time Boll and Stewart reached Owensboro,
had accused 24 year-old Milton Hawkins

of shattering Da
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92

It took an hour and a half to cover that
fifteen miles, and the officers sighed with
relief as Seward said: “Better stop here;
we're getting close to the farm.”

Seward, Vance and Boll were ordered
to work their way to the rear of the farm
to cover any attempt at escape from that
direction. The rest of the squad was to
stay in the car until the three reached their
position, then close in for the raid.

‘As the trio left to begin the trip through
the heavy woods, Seward said: “Give us
half an hour. We'll be set by that time,
and you fellows slam into the front.
he’s there, we'll get him.”

The next half hour passed slowly. Fi-
nally the deadline came and they started
their car, eased slowly over the hill before
them and saw, nestled halfway down it, the
weatherbeaten Hawkins cabin.

It was a small shack, grey from stand-
ing without paint for years. It was sur-
rounded by tobacco fields, and at the front
were two men hoeing the crop.

“Let’s go,” Eckert said, and pressed the
accelerator. The car roared into life and as
it spun into the driveway, the two men
looked up. The younger dropped his hoe
and glanced hurriedly about as if to break
into a run, but apparently changed his mind
as he saw the two details converging on
him.

As the officers sprang out of the car,
Eckert noticed with dismay that both men
were clean shaven. And Hawkins, he re-
membered from the picture, had a mus-
tache. The younger man’s hair was a
muddy brown and Hawkins was supposed
to have black hair.

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As Seward leaped toward the younger
man, Eckert realized that Hawkins had
attempted a disguise. Hawkins said later
he had doused his head in peroxide and
shaved his mustache in an attempt to alter
his appearance.

He didn’t seem surprised to see the offi-
cers, but professed no knowledge of the

- Davis murder, They could find nothing in

the overalls he wore to link him with the
affair. ‘

AS THE QUESTIONING seemed headed for
a blank wall, his father, Richard Haw-
kins, approached the younger man and
grasped his arm.

“Son,” he said, “I don’t know what this
is all about, But if you had anything to
do with it, tell the truth and make your
peace with God.”

Then, turning to the officers, he said,
“Milton’s good suit is in the house. Tl
get it for you.”

In that suit they found a pair of eye
glasses, later identified as belonging to
Davis. And part of the money taken from
the taxi driver was in the pants pocket.
During’ the search they also. found a .32
calibre: revolver.

As these things came to light, Hawkins

_ abandoned his attitude of ignorance and

confessed he had slugged the taxi driver,
taken $60 and tossed the body into the
weeds.

“But,” he insisted, “Hayden and that girl
made me do it. Hayden said he’d shoot the
driver and I thought I’d tap him easily
— dust knock him out and that way save

is life.”

He agreed to return to Indiana without

extradition papers. On the way he filled

in the gaps in the case.

" After leaving the Stubbins Hotel in In-
dianapolis, the three had returned to Louis-
ville by train, where they caught a bus to
Owensboro. Hayden and Miss Luttrell

_ had caught a bus to Livermore, while Haw-

kins returned to his father’s farm to hide

out.

The white jacket which Boll had found
near the taxi belonged to Hawkins. He
had used it to wipe fingerprints from the
cab and blood from Miss Luttrell’s shoe.

At the Seymour barracks, Hawkins
signed a statement in which he admitted
killing Davis.

Miss Luttrell was brought back from
Kentucky as the Clark County grand jury
indicted the three for murder. At ar-
raignment, all pleaded not guilty and trial
was set for June 24, 1940, when the case
was venued to Floyd County and trial
scheduled for a later date.

Miss Luttrell, who appeared as star wit-
ness for the State in the trial of Milton
Hawkins, was allowed to plead guilty to a
lesser charge and was sentenced to four
years at Indiana Girls School on December
17. Hawkins was found guilty of murder
in the first degree and was given a man-
datory death sentence on December 21.
He was condemned to die on April 18,
1941, Three days after Hawkins’ trial
ended the third member of the trio, }s' Wi
Hayden Jr., pleaded guilty to being an ac-
complice and received a life sentence.

Note: The name Dr. F. S. Evans is a
fictitious one.

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ing at his stomach, he spun around, dropped
to the ground in a grotesque, kicking heap.
His body jerked spasmodically as more
slugs pounded into him.

Crouched on one knee, Deputy Wootan
kept firing into the front door of the cabin.
But suddenly he stopped. A small dark
hole appeared in his forehead. Slowly,
blood trickled in a crimson streak down his
face. He slumped forward on his face.
He was dead.

Haynes, his eyes wide with anger and
horror, saw him fall. A curse burst from
his lips. He sprang to his feet, raced for-
ward. He had gone but a half a dozen
steps when his foot slipped on the hard
snow. Arms waving frantically, his body
made a half-flip backward. He fell and his
head hit the side of a rock. :

The Sheriff threw a quick glance at his
fallen companionis. Half-crouched, he
started toward the cabin. A bullet gouged
its way across his cheek. He dove head-
long behind a huge boulder. Calmly he be-
gan to reload his rifle.

Inside the cabin, a skinny man with a
walrus moustache and blue eyes gleaming
fanatically raised a rifle to his shoulder.
He was Tom Sisson, an old friend of the
Power clan,

“Steady John,” he said to the man be-
side him at the window, “I’ve got a bea
right on top o’ the dirty dog’s head.”

Sheriff Frank McBride never knew when
the slug tore off the top of his head nor
did he know how many more hit him. He
didn’t know because he was dead.

As suddenly as it had begun, the shoot-

ing stopped. Three men crept out of the

TRAIL OF THE DRAFT DODGERS |

(CONTINUED FROM PAGE 55)

cabin. One of them held his hand over a-

bloody eye that had been shot out. They
headed toward Jeff Power, who, miracu-
lously, was still alive.

A minute later, Haynes sat up, his head
whirling. His three companions were dead.
A hundred yards distant, he saw the three
men carrying Jeff Power toward the dark
entrance of the mine shaft. He knew that
it would be useless to attempt to carry on
the battle by himself.

His course was clear. He must return
to town and get help before the killers
escaped,

He was half way up the opposite side of
the canyon before he was spotted.

John Power, Jeff's twenty-three-year-old
son, spied him.

Bullets splattered around Haynes as he
went over the top of the ridge. Then. in
one leap, he was in the saddle. He headed
for the Upchurch. ranch. ;

There he told Upchurch to take the news
to Safford while he continued on towird
Klondyke, to the north up the Aravaipa
Canyon. Here he planned to organize a
posse and return by the same way, in case
the Power boys and Sisson tried to make
their escape through the canyon.

By nightfall, he returned to the Power
claim at the head of forty possemen. Big,
red-headed Sandy Mangum greeted him
from his outpost hiding place.

“By now,” Mangum said, “there should
be more than a thousand men on the look-

out. They are spread out before the Gal-

uiros all the way from Duncan in the
south and Geronimo in the north.”
Haynes knew the’ distance between those

two towns was more than seventy miles.
Still, two thousand men should be able to
form an intact blockade on the east side of
the mountains. It would be impossible for
the Power gang to. escape over the moun-
tains to the west in the dead of Winter.
Escape was apparently impossible.

But Haynes had not reckoned on the
phenomenal cunning of Tom and John
Power. They knew the mountains, deserts
and rivers of Arizona as well as they knew
their own hands.

Henry Allen, who owned a ranch thirty
miles to the southeast of the Power claim,
brought Haynes some startling news.

“They came by my place about noon,”
he said. “They was armed to the teeth.
They even told me what they had done and
headed south, riding fast and hard.”

“South,” Haynes murmured. “That
means...”

Despite his weariness, Haynes galvan-
ized himself into action, If the desperadoes
were headed south they were heading for
jai and Mexico meant escape from the
aw. :

He immediately put in a call to Douglas,
Arizona, on the Mexican border. He in-
structed the Sheriff there to be on the look-
out for the fleeing men. Further instruc-
tions included the notifying of General An-
gel Contrias, of the Fiscales, an order of
men whose function was similar to that
of the State Police.

Similar calls‘ were made to Warren,
Nogales and Bisbee, Arizona. With any

sort of cooperation, the border would be _

closed. - ‘
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Abandoned cab, above, driven
by young Hayden, had stopped
at W. Nichols’ place, inset.

“I’m not satisfied those three stayed
in that tourist camp without leaving any
clues,” he said. “Of course the names
they used were probably phony, but
there should be something in the cabin
to help us.”

“Thought the attendant said the cab-
in had been cleaned up,” Eckert said.

“He did,” Boll replied, “but there’s a
chance that whoever cleaned it up
missed something. I think I’ll go back
there.”

As Boll left the office Eckert ordered
that efforts to locate Davis be increased.

“Search all main roads, culverts,
ditches and bridges from Jeffersonville
to Edinburg,” he said. “Get the whole
Seymour barracks on it by districts.
If Davis was murdered, his body should
be there somewhere. And if we don’t
find it, chances are he’s still alive some
place.”

Radio orders flashed to the barracks,
and the officers swung into action. Two
men worked together and the corps
split up the 85-mile route into shorter
districts to make the check faster.

It was a big assignment. The road
curves through hilly southern Indiana,
into the flatter plains of central Indiana.
There are, especially in the wooded hills,
thousands of places where a body could
be hidden. But Eckert was banking on

the fact that the trio—if it was respon-
sible—didn’t go far from the main road
at any time. The 93 miles recorded on
the taxi speedometer didn’t leave much
leeway for side trips.

The detectives checking the Indian-
apolis hotels had quick success. Two
blocks from Maryland and Meridian
Streets the Stubbins Hotel reported two
men and a woman had checked in there
within a few minutes of the time Wil-
liams had reached Indianapolis.

They had registered as Mr. and Mrs.

James Brown and L. B. Lambert, the
latter styling himself the brother-in-law
of Brown. From their descriptions,
Eckert was positive they were the mys-
terious trio. But they weren’t there
now. They had checked out the day
before, without leaving a forwarding
address, after a doctor had attended
the young woman.

Eckert ordered a check of all tourist
camps near the city and then hurried
over to see Doctor F. S. Evans who
had treated her. (Continued on page 90)

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road near Jeffersonville.

Miss Luttrell repeated hertharge to Boll

“We haven’t been able to find the body,”
Boll told her. ‘Will you go to Indiana
with us and show us where he was left?”

Miss Luttrell agreed and early the fol-
lowing day, Boll and Stewart returned with
her to Jeffersonville. }

“We got a taxi here,” she said, as she
pointed out the taxi office. “I was sick
and the boys thought a ride in the country
would do me good.” At her direction Boll
and Stewart: followed road 31 and stopped
the car about two miles north of the city.

“There,” she said, “is where I had to get
out of the car because I was sick. The
driver pulled off the road and stopped to
let me out.

“As I stood outside, I heard a dull-thud
and a groan and I saw Milton Hawkins
hitting the driver with a piece of pipe. I
screamed and Milton told me to shut up or
I’'d get some of the same treatment. Then
Milton and J. W. pulled the driver from
behind the wheel and J. W. got in to drive.
We went on up north a little ways and
turned off to the right.”

Boll and Stewart were amazed at her
calmness as she related the details of the
killing. They headed north again and
turned off the highway as she indicated an
unpaved country lane.

“We drove about four or five miles,” she
continued, “and then J. W. stopped and he
and Milton pulled the driver from the taxi.
I could hear him gasping for breath as they
jerked him out. Then J. W. took
wire they’d bought in Louisville, and tied
the driver’s hands behind him and threw
him in the bushes along the road... it
should be along here.”

But although Boll and Stewart strained,
their eyes in meticulous search along the
road, proceeding slowly and stopping fre-
quently to inspect possible hiding places,
they were unable to locate the body.

Had Hawkins or Hayden returned to
take the body away and thus cover all evi-
dence? It semed improbable, but the vete-
ran detectives knew that it was not unlikely.

They relayed the information to Captain
Eckert that afternoon, after taking Miss
Luttrell back to Seymour for the night.

Eckert ordered Det. Don Winn to take
the girl back to Owensboro the next day.
Bristow had agreed to place the girl in a
detention home until Indiana police could
prepare warrants and extradition papers to

- bring her back to Indiana for trial.

On her information, Hawkins and Hay-
den were charged with murder, and the girl
was charged with being an accessory before
and after the fact.

Detective Winn took his wife with him
on the trip and as they were on their way
Bristow called Eckert to report that Hay-
den had been captured in a surprise move
against an abandoned hunters’ camp on
Green River, ten miles east of Livermore,

ci informant had told Bristow that a
youth answering Hayden’s description had
been seen slinking through the backwoods.
The captain sent two officers to make the
difficult trip through the wooded hills to
the camp. The going was heavy, the roads
poor and the two men were forced to tramp
for miles along little used paths, over log
bridges and through dense undergrowth be-
fore they reached the camp. ‘

Hayden, belieing the killer reputation
which Miss Luttrell had pinned on him;
surrendered without a struggle.

When Bristow called Eckert to tell of
the capture, the latter arranged for Winn
to bring Hayden, who was 20 years old,
back to Indiana. ; ay

As Captain Eckert awaited Winn’s ar-

some —

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rival, he got word from Jeffersonville that
two members of the Jeffersonville posse,
William Sage and Edward Garriott, had
found Davis’ battered body, lying face
down in a mud puddle near the. settlement

of Utica, about five miles from Jefferson-:

ville. The road was a short distance south
of the one Miss Luttrell had pointed out:

VEN HARDENED officers were forced to

turn their eyes away as they looked
at Davis’ crushed skull. A thick pool of
blood which had soaked into the ground
proved that Davis had been alive when
thrown there and probably had died while
still unconscious several hours later. He
had had no chance to ‘summon help, even
if he had come to his senses, for his hands
were wired behind his back.

The body was taken to Jeffersonville for
autopsy and Coroner Edwin M. Coots of
Clark County returned a verdict of murder.

Eckert and Boll were anxious to hear
Hayden’s story. There were several details
still to be uncovered and they had not yet
found a motive. Davis, a slight bespec-
tacled figure, was popular in Jeffersonville,
where his reputation was good.

He lived with his mother and was of:

average means and probably would not have
had any large amount of money on his per-
son. Seemingly he had no acquaintance-
ship with the murderous trio, and robbery
seemed an unlikely motive.

But Hayden’s story dispelled that idea;
Davis had had $60 which Hawkins took.
Hayden’s story coincided with that given
by the Luttrell girl. ;

He said that after cashing several forged
checks in small Kentucky towns, the three
had gone to Louisville, where Miss Lutt-
rell became ill.
lay in a hotel, Hayden and Hawkins went

to several movies and later took her to Jef- .

fersonville, where they hired the cab to
drive them out into the country believing
i fresh air would give Miss Luttrell re-
ief.

They had purchased a lead pipe and some
copper wire in Louisville and when Miss

Luttrell stopped the driver to get out of’

the cab, Hawkins had slugged Davis, and,
when he showed some fight, slugged him
a second time.

Hayden agreed to waive extradition and
remain in Indiana on the murder charge,

and Indiana and Kentucky officers concen- —

trated their efforts on finding Hawkins.

Eckert, Boll and Sergt. Eugene Vance of
the Indiana State Police, went to Owens-
boro where they met Sergt. Glyn Seward
of the Kentucky state force.

“T’ve been unable to locate Hawkins so
far,’ Seward said when they began the
conference, “but from information I’ve
picked up he may be down at his, father’s
farm in Hart County near Cub Run. But
I hope we don’t have to. go down there.
It’s a forlorn place, way back in the hills,
and it’s pretty hard to reach. In fact, we
won't be able to get there at all if it rains.”

It was late Monday when the officers
reached Owensboro to begin that confer-
ence, so after arranging to meet early the
following morning, Boll, Vance and Eckert
returned to the hotel for a. night’s rest.
Too, Eckert wanted to sift,the evidence al-
ready collected to see whether there were
any loopholes that might mean freedom
for the three killers.

Seward, Sheriff Noah Riggs of Hart

_ County and Jesse Stone, head of the Ken-

tucky Criminal Investigation Bureau,
joined the group for the trip to the Haw-
kins’ farm, 15 miles from Munfordville.
None of them looked with any anticipation
on the trip. From what Seward had said,
they knew that it probably would be a
long, tedious journey through the rough
backwoods of the Kentucky hill district.

The following day, as she _

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Grubb In Jail--Report of the Hangieg —
How He Stood the Dreadful Or-
denl—Other tholdents of
the Affair.

, BYLVRRTEN GRUBH.

Sylvester. airapb lias paid the pena'-
ty ofhiscrime, Ife wae. hanged at
11:04 this Gaordihiel 4 oat

Hin Last Meurs,

Probably & majority of those wlo
witnessed the execution, did not reat
as well during the night as did Sylver.
ter Gubb. Knowing it would be bis Inet
sleep upon this ‘earth yet he appeared
calm and composed and retired to his
couch at 10 o'clock. ‘He slept. soundly
until shortly | after five o'clock this.
_ morning when he arose, donned his at-
tre and prepared himself for breaks |
tant which he ate with apparently as:
keen a relish ag) bei ever did in bis life.
At nlx o'clock he was visited by Rev.
Keith and prayers: were Offered, Ee
wan also vinited by his brother, Thomas
Grabb,-of Oakland | City.
ed dressed in alplot nuit at hack un-
til atter 8 o'clock, ‘Shortly. before 8
o'clock ho. was agal ‘visited by Rev,
Keith in, company with. Mon, WN.
Dehny and Mtb, MeDowell| ‘Te’ ‘met
thm at; the door with a) smile and

weleomne | Gheuldass the cdrrldor, | AL
“iponye ‘

rat te ih hat | ih 4 pee
oF a
43 ‘ fees

‘ee te
4 ® iG

HR Ata

me. ‘remain. |

‘for a few ‘moments

te Ts ‘

of spirit. was more felgr 6} thin foal.
fle did not rannifest that ebriatlan for-
givences that ts one of the leading
tenchings of the Christian religion,
The condemned man, Atl soon, as the
Sheriff withdrew, began his pace up
and down | Abe corldcr with a neivous
tread that betokened the keenest aux
tety. 1 | ieee (era

LAST our.

At9 o'clock Grabb's brother bid him
good-bye, and left the jal |

After the execution Rey. J.T. Keith
and Mra. W.N. Deany were sitting in
the waiting room of the jail ‘dvtelling,
and in conversation with them we
learned that Mr. Keith spent: the last
hour with Grabb if religious service,
The two men walked up: ‘and down
tha cell, conversing. Grabb was
Interested, He asked whether we
would know ‘each | ‘other | in
heaven, and sald be thonght they
would. Mr, Keith saye there wae notk-
Ing sentimental about bim, He hada
quiet, firm belief, | Mr, Keith thought
he never knew a man to give 2 a better
evidence of religion. “ae I had nover
believed before in religton,” enid. Mr.
Keith, “I would belleve ‘how nines i
saw his conversion, it-was go ¢omplete,
I wanted to £0 out of town, ‘but’ how
I consider it a privilege of my; life to
be here, i never) knew a noldier to go
to battle better and firmer fban cH on
the scaffold.” f i : Hit {i aie

ai

tremor, though the’ hotte drow cloee | ;
he glanced towarat his dell door now |
and then. But. ‘he was | Not} startled
when the cell dost was, openied and
dhowed no nervousness, |

? i
ytd fia bd

1 i omen ;
Whe tenat Weal ea
At pranapily 11. hig! | jut

bourt-house| bell | tolled th tor,

Sherif, to Heating Rey,

the condemned rhiitderer’ 0 pels

‘bbe death’ ‘mitren and appeared at the

foot of tho: gallows.) Grit. intoonde

Bd sw hivateenie t

iy

il
1}
Hie
Wey
Has

(iy

| goes to show that Grubb's ‘contintness

| Mr. Keith sald he did) not Feu a

andj ‘Tribune; |

eS ee ee eee oo! lhe. ee Sow

mirable, and he deserves great eredit
for, bis coolness and ability.  [t|
wana trying ordeal for the Sheriff ard
he hasthe public rympnthy as well as
gratitude for his skill mantfested. —

S mtienainetiiel

Tonching the 1. ever.

When Grubb said he waa ready, and
the executioner gave the signal Dr,
MoDowell, took hold of the lever with
& firm, steady hand and sprung the trap
coolly and smoothly. He did hie un-
peasant job in that coo), manly manner
ta which he performs 'l this work. No
man could have dons the work more
skillfully.’ It was an unpleasant taalr,
but he, in the nate of the law, did h's
duty unflinchingly. |

The visitors, who were to witness the
execution, were admitted through the
hall of the jall dwelling—a Httle after
10:30 o'clock. They filed into the en-
closure into the rear of the jail, There
were abéut sitty newnpsper men and
sheriffs and sane of the hakeeg sobat
fitteen. ..

" Mtepresentetives of the rea were
pnt on a bav!ster surrounding the peal.

‘|'fold of the platform. A little before 11.

‘Mri Binkley stood ot tha top. of the
long, low, sloping storm, nd eald to the
visitors: | 4 |

“Gentlemen, when tho bell. strikes

the hour of llo "clock, I wish each one

of you wonld remoro your hata,”

The clock atrock,
‘taken off;even ‘thonrh the hot sun
potired @oWn Into the enclosire,

The following repreeentatives of the
press werd ranigned places. Upon the
‘| boastolds, MH, Adana, Daily Cosme
OLAL; Georce KE. Creene,. Cincinnati
| Boguirers Charles Covert ‘Evanaville
‘J. Ly Jackson, * Loutavitte
Tribune; ‘Sonn! A. F oreythe, Seymour
Demoerap; Howard Roddy, 4riitbeh nes
Truth; Lou Hernate!n, Vingennes Ban.

ve Myper, Ooseerncr. Ake) el

i

|

tik coffin was sitting below on two |
“horaea,” with a blac! covering over it. |
and chats were |


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\ i te ‘Trond several tavtieg trom the. i ula af-} the atepa, ‘bution A sagond caught hier heey!
N : IP iy fit Pt iter, whink Lhe peleondit nike fot prayers | eelf.), He was polo as death but did nol years .
ri fe uN "| fo hls behalf, frokn Mr, Denpy.| ‘She | make a/movenient of his tins. Asthe| on...
a © aa bean al re i i whan followed by fav, ‘Keith th & ter: platforti was reached Itty. Keith read bes
\ fry ai tant nuppliedtion, fot ‘the Brisoters for: from the 234 Prat, { thor
‘ givénena., Th prisoner himuelt (then | “The! Lord 4s my "Bhepard, exit? i Oat
\ iT te at alloys fr offered up n biteat | prayer to hin crea- ‘shall, not want, * *|* He restoreth | 18»:
| And er he tor. After hfe L | ty soul, He Jerdeth mo inthe path | Buspee
a sa Albas asl, Y ‘ai Lab iu pct at hi Of. righteousnéss for hi. pamenake; | rents ©
oe d 5 1 blidj 1 a teave of. hy hie wpititan yea, though f walk throih the valley | Prepors’
a | Xdvisor who promised’ te retuth at /10 | of the shadow of death, J will fear no | teen yeu
\ v'elook to avcompany him to the | gat. evil for, thoa art with mo. ‘Thy rod | bright 5
i af ii § Crime, | ttows, Just before loavthy his ‘brother ‘and thy staff they comfort: mo.” ef About
a \ { i by
AY he ie Td wiaited hint nenin bringing a ‘ndwipatr|)) Grebb stepped on ths trap, Hig | Ore
\ Baan te ‘ | perate!
\ | moti ||| of pants of a brown ohdcked ‘pattern, arihe'were ‘piafonsd behind his back. | iQ). 5,
a | | al ! : [A Commer ror At reproventative, who His legs were tied together with &] enough,
i i] ‘wal present, wan greatly narptived | at stont cord.” Short MoDowell atepped the youn
The Law Avenges t the the prisoner's) composure,’ Although ‘forward and said: | the your
pi) |) | somewhat palo ho was wonderfuuy |  “Do.you want to ray nnything@ | him _
kiln of Miss Ger- =| | componed, for one, ‘who, in lend than |!) ‘I've got w gront deal to way, but ET op pin .,
three hours, was to moet, his) ‘doom. darsent | ‘open my month on account of | popred (1,
Me Downey. it The ‘old defiant alr and epltit) lof the newspapers, You might ag well | ed his +:
: , bravado had disapponred and his ap;| Put on the rope,” answered Grubp, | slatence :
| 1 Sill es 1: | | Ponrance showed that {f evet a ooh Grmlys ot Vi <i
ae) ' 1 | demned man, had been converted 'to| “You are ready, then,” said the eating hi
Cece Months ‘After ny Christ and tho Saylor and wan pte |Sworim | gree be
pared to depart | ito that udkndwn ) “Yes, Tam ready.” wiabes 0!
Diaholicali Deed the word beyond, tt was the condemned. The noose wad drawn taut about his | NS far *
wt de Ha HH iti il At alute hotr Thursday night! he heok,, The hideous diack cap was oe
oat rer anes. ! | was asked if het bad aDy statment to. eiaeed Uyer his Bead and carefolly sa
ne | | Hii innke, and he sald ho, Ho told all he Juated, Mr. Binkley, the executioner,
A EP new about his love affair while in| @8¥e the word; ane Sherif MoDowell
jall at Evansville and at Chat tijtie hha | Pulled ‘the lever and down wont the
A Complete History of tho a statement. published, which he dia’ murderer's soul into eternity.
Foul, Cowardly Crime. fot wish to alter or deny. ‘Grubb’ Wires de | 1 —
T th it th Py fd | seemed to havea horror of nemepaper ike | ih - :
Hi toen. |“ mn ee ae
hr er " \ en. “They iro hot friendly te maat| | np. vibes (eit'th Your lintnutes atic cee
ity sy db at all and have said some hard words —
Pe eee ou j aret, a tails i i | eleven: o'clock. Dra, Hensly and on
nae ARAM 1] against me eit have nothing to rei 5
fe Swartzel then examined tha body, At oS
tothe atall,” | 1 Pee
An Account of the Trin, 2 L resid i the end of two-minutes the pulve wre So
ale (|) | | 66; three minutes 52 at which time ee
Po Hin Kant Ment. WH a |
riray al of. His Escape | Grubb's lant meal was eaten soon af. | there was ® slight twitching nnd draw- _
and Exciting Rew 5 ter he arrose, It consisted of bredd, ing up of the body. At theend of | he Seow ; |
| capture, cake, ple, beefateak, fried epan, rice four minutes the pulse wan one- ~hun- ond oecasio:
| ! te and coffee, A plentiful: atlownee— |{ dred with a alight quiver. At tive] hours wait!
| | Lat? af | enough for two ben, was rent to him, minutes the pulse was one-hondred{ For a ti
f 1M Je ate an ordinary meal, though with. chika giictaa saggaoae riparlirliat ace tte
And At the Details that Go out viible relish, Lie tie a HI eieaer wereeeeole heart beat wes tee ee
ede I! folt andshewas proponneed end. The .
iW visited an:
to Make Up a Completa EPH eh wre.) ‘soak ted WAMRANT, Hl it body was then allowed to haug until] Ire ata
Report. f | } | ie id, Ab 10:10 sharp Shorift McDowell atid | 11:30 when it was out down by Coroner | audienc:
ees ih Wi iG Depoty Sherift ‘Backles ‘entered | the. Beckes. It was placed ina plain por= | Sbe gran!
selina 1" at he | corldor of the ‘Jud, anid Mr, an lar coffin, furnished by the county, nine
i ee ata announced that he had come to|read and at 11:45 was taken to the under | :
j “| by going &
Tost iting | Experience o the death warrant, ng ordered by the taking establishment of EB, G, Gardner, tefl the ars
Mr. Binkley i His Work | \Jeourt. Deputy, shertft Bilotien then At 4 o'clock the vemator will be] ina
procvede 1 te rend {hy firty voten|| heed + noforet tn annt? pass 17 18


SS Oa ww es «tf Es

‘Report.

Most Thrilling: Experionce of
Mr. Binkley in His Work
as Executioner.

te ee

Two Men Hung Upward,
and the Crisis of
the Moment.

wee

Awful Conduct of a Mob at Ash-
land, Ohio, by Seizing the
Coffins and Bodies,

ee eee

Grubb In Jail---Report of the Hangirg —
How He Stood the Dreadful Or-
deal—Other tnoldents of

the Affair,

oe oe ee me

» SYLVESTER GruBB. |

Sylvester. Grubb fins paid the pene!.
ty of hisorime, | He was hanged at
1 D4 this ‘morning,

min ‘Kant. Heures.

Probably a mpjority of. those wlo
witnossed the @xecution, did not reat
as woll during the bight as did Sylvee-
ter Gubb, Knowing | it would be bis lart
sleep upon this: earth yet he appeared

calm and composed “and retired to his
couch at 100° clock, | He slept soundly

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until’ shortly after five o'clock this,

morning when he arose, donned his at-

tire and prep red himself for break. |

fast which ho ate with apparently as
keen a relish’ eth he ever did! in his life,
At six o'elockihe wns visited by Rev.

Kelth and prayers were pffered.. He

was also visited by hig brother, Thomann

LW e' Pe WR GANGA GAT ate |

and down the corider with a ne: vous

tremor, though tt

find then,
‘when tha ett Bode wns, lapenea, and

RECRS APA PERE ae Ay

At 10:10 Bhitp’ Meet BMeDévell atid’
Depnty , ‘Shorlit B okled Nentérdd the]
coridor ‘of the jail, and Mr, Buckles
announced that he) hed come to read
the death warrant ae ordersd by the
court. Deputy Sheriff Tooktes then |
proceeded to read jaa frm voles the
words that. were to teal thadoom of the
condemned man, He listened atten.
tively, and after Mr. Buckles finished
reading, bowed hig head a moment,
and then turned to Sheriff Me-
Dowell and said In atone of bit-
ternessthathe wished the foreman of
the jury no goud luck, and ina vicious
manner spokeof him and. sené him a
message that Sherif! McDowell will
not repeat and which the people has
no particular right to know, and Lad
better remain unsaid. The message,
however, was of such a nature that it
goes tothow that Grabb's contintness
of spirit was more feigio} than real.
Ile did not manifest that ghrietlan for-
giveness that ta one of the. leading
teactilngs of the Christian Teligion..

The condemned mag, an Boon as the
Sheriff withdrew, began his’ ‘pace up

tread that betokentd the Reenest ADX-

Iety. \ Whe A LH
Hod it

“Last our. | ‘II
At9 o'clock Grabb's mira t bid him

foou-bye, aod left the jail. Ht Hi ij
After the execution nets Keith
and Mra. W. N. Denny were sitting in
the waiting room of the jail, dvelling,
and in. conversation with them we
learned that Mr. Keith spent the last
hour with Grabb It religious service,
The two men walked up. ‘add down
the, cell, | | conversing. (Grab was
Interested. | He | asked whether | we
would =| know) éach | other © ‘in
heaven, . ‘and said | ‘he thonight they
would, Mr. Keith! days there was notk-
ing sentimental abont him, He had a
quiet, Grm belief.) Mr, Keith thought
he never knew a man to tive a a better
evidence of religion, “Jf} I had never
believed before inl | reltyton,” paid Mr.
Keith, “I would batieve how |pince I
saw his conversion, it was go eomplete, |
I wanted to go ont ‘of town,! but how
I consider. it a privilege of: my life to
be here, | 1 never! khew alnoldter to go
to battle better and, Srmet than he on

thencatfolat ||) at

| Mr. Keith said he ala, not show a
the’ hoitr drew close
‘his oell ab F now
0 whe, not) tartled

he glanced toward
! Bat,

thotwed na nervousness, H i |!

~~ a Se ECL ey wars feet WhF RACBSE RR NG ME LE
"Wf: 30 when i was cut down by Coroner
Beckes. It ens place in plaim por-
lar coffin, fornishe! by the county,

end atliA5 was taken to the pnder-
taking estab! 'shment of ©. GQ. Gardner.
VAC o'clock: the romstna will be
transfered to another coMn, in which

they sill be tranntered, to Pubeaton,_|

thence toOrkiand City, which place
the funeral will oceur rt 11 o'clock
Saturday.

D. M. Binkly sald }t was as amoothe
a job as he ever saw. Everything
worked well. -

+ Bome time before the execution Mr.

Binkly examined the ecaffold, and saw

that everything was in good shape,
SHERIFF MDOWELL

bore up with courage and fortitude.
He managed all the details with a pre-
Cision and forethought that was ad-
mirable, and he deserves great credit
for his coolness and ability. It
was a trying ordenl for the Sheriff ard
he has the public sympathy as well as
gratitude for his skill manifested. |
Torchinag the Lovers aa
When Grubb said be was ready, and
the executioner gavo the signal Dr,
MN eDowell; took hold of the lever with
& fitm, steady hand and eprnng the trap
coolly acd! smoothly, He did hie tn-
p edsant job in that cool, manly manner
in which he performs 91i this work. No
manp.could have done the work more
skillfully.’ It was an unpleasant task,

but he, fn the nate of the rail pe aia hia

duty unfilachingly.
} | |

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7 |

| The visitors, who tera to witness the
execution, were admitted through the
hall of the jail dwelling—m little after
10:30 o'clock. They fled into the en-
clogure into the rear of the jail, There
were about sixty newrpoper men and
sheriffs and citizens, of ae ook
fifteen. *

» Representatives of the press were
putona badieter snrron nding the acal-

‘|'fold of the platform. A little before 11>

Mr. Binkley stood. st the top of the
long, low, doping ctey™, rnd sald to the
{sitors: |
| “Gentlemen,
the hour of 11 o'clock, f wish oath one
of you would remove your hats,”:
'A coffin) was sitting below on two
torn "with a bleet corering over it.
) The clock strnok, and hate: were
takin off, even thove® the hot son
potired down lito the os+rontire, |

The follow oo re ‘ivan at thn

when tho bell strikes :

anes $
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attention was raised unsuccessfully as was the nonallowal of the
questions concerning their previous identification of men other
than Hall and O'Brien. An additional trial error raised was the
fact that Hall was forced to wear handcuffs and leg irons in the
courtroom before the jury. When this was objected to during the
trial the trial judge entered the following into the record:
"Let it appear on the record that, by virtue of the

fact that the defendant had attempted to escape prison

on at least one occasion, and that his codefendant did

escape prison, and for the reason further that the de-

fendant on one occasion secured the revolver of an off-

icer while in prison, and shot the same, directed at

the sheriff, and for the further reason that it has

come to the attention of the court that some effort

might be made to release the prisoner during the trial,

the objection is sustained as to the hobbles or leg

irons which are ordered maintained on the defendant's

person during the trial."
Due to the circumstances set out above, the appeal on this question
was also unsuccessful.

On January 6, 1928, in an opinion by Justice Martin, the Indiana
Supreme Court upheld the conviction of Hall.

O'Brien was tried in St. Joseph County Circuit Court and was

convicted and sentenced to a term of life imprisonment. On

April 6, 1928, four days before Hall was to be executed O'brien
made a written statement to the effect that he was the one that
struck Kreidler the blow from which he subsequently died. This
statement was witnessed and notarized at the Indiana State Prison.
This ‘statment and a plea to the governor to commté~- Hall's |
death penalty to life imprisonment due to his age were both un-
successful and on April 10, 1928 Hall was executed.


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court tointer- | room... He hadona full dresé suit of black |. Second ‘nute, 120 in tight and 63 tn lett... : | sion became'ed arent that the co adjou ; tthe hc
10 Weight of | an a pair of handsomely embroidered slip- Tbird minute, 146 ip right, and 140 in left. furthe day, 4600 wy rl! OA reN We i, aine elect
he judgment | Pers. His hair was combett with elaborate Fourth minute, 164 uright and 166 in left,drreg- | | Guctlg nearest ‘relatives: are‘ hia mother, |] moral effect
Med with’ ia- | elegance, and be shook hands With hid visitor 4 i inte utei-Wok lad induale Cathérine ‘Her gow livin n| Louigvilfe, pe great in:
‘a! for ane wit a lpleacant amile, s The’ conversation |. sixth minute Quiver of pu sehen eg | ands 8 ‘brother George, ho isVolder than | hii hyo
3. -, (Aagted but a minute, 4 “Well, good-bye, Beventh|mingte—75 in both arma,* | |. Louts, being twenty-two yeaps' of age, and. tips Ve De

CP Tega. ie Nain; hoth|adslgreate Piiuingtatadias | ABQives dntbak ey, 7S Suan 1 Mew

' M64 , : ‘Ninth, and eleventh—dndistinguista LP Cates a alt pd BaP Bg , 4a) 8.
vga naa | gpm ngihaen inch pou | Mga tae es sateen | agony mere ade by Guu Ink [de
ro Heller, aad | ‘Self, Lew,” said the friend as he was shown | “hesrt werd betwen 60. and TO, eeatons of the |: f j ‘mittee

thia; “ b don’t want that sait’ i vex a
rior court’ No, | OUt.by the sheriff. Guetig then had occasion | ~~ ‘Twelfth minuté—40 heart beats, vf ’ tipht, to tetas [taken dr Oe ee ‘Mitchel, @
June 3d the | t0.got) the water closet, which is {n ‘the Thirteen th—Indistinguishavle, pee ot Dwi fly off.” bea a 4 of po pré min t
und sworn: | Jtil yard. He sanntered out, taking a coo! | Fvurteeath—Nq pu sation. } George Guetig, Lon #. brother, sald to a'}, ‘be #ominal
uel GQ. Llod- | "9d critical look at the scaffold, the deputy At the|end of sixteen minntés Ooronor. News reporter: “Don’t labor to make.the | , Map foe
‘ey, Jamas OU, | sheriffs, eporters, and others» who | Wishard pronounced the body dead, and, an: people think him‘'@ man, He isn’t;.he is |!’ alae
Andrew J. } Weve | Btarding, around. , He | strolled | dounced {hat officer Durham would cut the | on] 19, but you'll see-that he | dies’ :gamo;” |). Osrow Prox
masJ. Hines. { back | to, — the —_jailor's office | rofic. Deputy sheriff Blume unlocked’ the | Thisrat 11:10 o'clock—ofly 60 minutes until po tat acl
vardtnan iand-| With the dame easy and smiling bravado with | bands, — dn the cords —_ biadiog | eternity opened forthe murderer, pecy Mie he
ed-until June |’ Which he went out, playfully chucking De- | the legs and rma, Jailer O'Brien r ov The stor is circolated iirat aetig, when | packéorp are ch
aurnibg in ten: | te¢tive McKinney un erthe chin asthe door | the nodse from: the neck, atit. the going to Catholic schook at |Sou Bond, by Kor! their, «
y of murder }“WiM opened, to usher him into theroom where | body ‘was placed -in a  handaome | goveral years ago, attempted icide, having |’ 46 ¢holce »
alty of death, | bls heart-broken mother and other relafives | rcsewood, yelyet ‘mounted ‘casket under the. hada quarrel with his mother over.her refu- Belected light

t's

1 were. | |. : supervieion of Unertaker Weavor, by whom | gal 'to allow him to come to Louisville, ° It is |/ Belected heav.
, judge tebe || (TAKES LEAN OF MIS RELATIVES, ‘ the bod |was delivered to 3 i aoa : F paid he hangedhiniself in a privy witha Habe Mixed Packiv
tember 19th, |' | At: 20-minutes after 10, the door of the | | The three hundred peoplé. who had wit. | and when discovered was Biack In the face, | Light Throw.

ay on which | chamber of sorrow, opened and the mother | 2¢aed the trag fy were ordered out of Be was cut down and restored, after several nash a

the day: on | of \the condemned! man, with two other: the op dehpoabs 11 and at twenty | hours’ hard work by the doctors, “The Sery |’ 54.

ibe hangdjy| ladies and George Guetig, Louis's brother, | D!inutes pest twelve the currept of jail lif | ig thought.to have‘ho foundation, = «°  "

- ; eaeonh the pridoner standing: in the door | 88 ready to. tucn again into its ordinary _ Those who thotght Guetig would weaken | Prime butche
bidding them good-by. The othor ladies | Channels. i. _ | atthe last moment were -iiistaken, Guetig | Medium to gc

“eae were his aunt, Mrs. Gale, and her daughter, | | His SOU 8 PREPARATION. ‘Wag as firm 96 those who preceded him on |’ Common to 1
‘Ordon, Lamb | Mirs Barbara Gale. The pdor mather wa. -From Father O’Donaghue, of’ St. John’s thescaffold,/ |. ees ce % pal oma cal?
tts, Guetiy’s | weeping violently and Guet g himself seemed Catholic church, who, with Father Seiler, of | - The bady twitched considerably, although glo

the supreme slighily shaken, though his eyes remained as | St. Mary's, had Leen with Guetig from 10 |,.the doctérs announced that’ the neck was } Bheep—Reo
. ag the full | dry and unwinking asever. —' « | o'clock this morniug until his death, the broken,/; ; a1 i ee i eared te
judgment of | | ARRIVAL, OF HIS PRIESTS, | following, respecting the last hours of his]. Pat ¢Glew, brother of tlie murdered girl, | Com A om
ck paerasy A 18:30 a h 1H “| h life is learned: The parting with witnessed the execution, He says his sister'| ~!
ed by Judge g bel @is a.m. Nisthers Q’Donaghue and | tig mother a _half-past, 10 o'clock, | is now avebged'and he is satisfed, , he ¥
eck, aud Gno- ais A Sap eat oer Beverly keke ne was very affecting on lier paft. Louls showed | When) Guetig Idoked at the scaffold this | werket wel
- did their. ihe police, 6p -in numbel, all: the day and some feeling, it ts true, but Hid not shed'a | morning, -he remarked tocdmmissioner Remy, :| saleable at

. tear. He embraced his mother, attemptin who was in the yard: | ‘This id the first time | changed.
i night men of the force headed by Chief to comfort her, tiling her tot, to wap ode ‘T’ve seen that thlogs ‘I guess I can stand it; | . New potat:
N, _ Travis. Burrounded tne fojes stretched while she only sob , repeating his name | the otbersdid.” |. +: ” ofie Me tae % 00 per bri.
sbuntilto-day, | about the jail. to keep off the | ove ’ ang dvor 8 ain—*'Loule, Loule, The scaffold pnd platform. were in view of Onions $22 5
1e Impeniten}, | crowd. Deputy angi one hegre Who-next | Fonte, . Louie! he \. father said: the upper tier of windows of the court-house, | 2.40 per buahe
iguiug, ‘sing: | oe fe = Mer ra pl bce ne a tainly that Guetig received the rites ~ot/ the | frum which a number of fetsons looked out, |: Yushel, Water
ont se the” ard vaseist the’ seven or ei he deputy church at 6:20 this morning, having recant-’| attheexecution.. | iv’. Aece | 8
© for his cherie \Evervthibg, owing to Aig officer’ ed his obstinacy of Yesterday, and ‘sent fot All the Catholi¢ girls are satisfied. Mary, 64
Pn Achey Vietlanbe end inet Deed Invomcl tat " "| Father Seiler and: himgelf, He- had this | McGlew was algreat favorite, and the pua-
oom before . a f c iithe * oi pietest Order, | morning shuwn a better disposition than for | ishment of}her murderer. meets with their maine bey
‘ath had been | | + oF ih it rr Rreat crash, to | ‘eey al days. The sacrament. was adminis- | hcartiest approbation. °° 1 {ye ¢ ‘cae 70
( oternity, but | £6) nh ywithou 16 lvast confusion, tered, and the priests ‘had. stayed | % Guetfg wrote his name “Loals P: Gifetig," u s
a aon oe ) DIE BX ROU TION, ; , with him, prayiag wi hier wall Arh leat, but he he ApAloted, - tried,! convicte and The)
© yo, At ins 4 g | He expressed his ho 4 better life but |“hung as plain Louis. * a os ee es
' SUICIDE, 4 inden Ab26): exactiy the Peterman ry ewe no feryor. Father O Donaghue said On the. ecaffold the condemned man ex- meen Tone,
6. ail yester- Sheriff Pressley and chief of alice e was tractable but {mpassive,. The chang | bibited that demeanor best: described in an | and common
‘ aildr, Travis wera at the head. ~ ather | in bim’was Much.more than ‘his ouvvard | account of. a. hangin out west, where the rime pati ve,
miele d b 'Donaghue and Sefler’ came next, bearing m Heaachclya might /indicaté, but not at | victim, io response to’ the Garnet: eayets of a say aa
eles” The (tbe crucifix and sacred’ emble { the fa _ What t Yehould ' have ~ been | the m pistes, waved him,off with Ta ta, see :
id that by a ¢hurch. Then George Guetig, brother of | in| view ni his. - terrible. crime, | you later,” | ;

8,100; ordina:

lec eee: . i] pounds, Lan
. | the. condemned boy. |Then.the | Father Seiler preach hisifanoral, and he Whatsina name? Guetig Is'aaid to be | state lambe $6
se eenenting : himself, dyeased e al de salt ét ce will be buried ,from St. Mary’s' Catholic | the German for “goodness” or “kindness.”" | Swine, rese{p!
v6 fast come | Wearlng embroidered slippers and striped | charch, on Maryland , street, Dear Virginia |, One of the crowd in the jail yard Watching. ere yay
“ oe! this" ‘stockings, a emall black bow at thelneck | avenu , Sunday afternton, F the execution, one Of the observing kind, ' r@ ,

\ and a ‘stud in his shirt, bosom. Hé was / as “OT noted ae fat Shak Sh trap’ was sprung jyst | . i
petaeel! pale, very pale, but smiliog and self IM THE 443%, ARP, 5 y ki}. Fhe Is

36 : * | a8 ten of the'l2, strokes marking 12.0'c i"

juartor Of a0 | god’ as be walked along, nodded to such | , The crowd jn the jailiyard was about as | had strick from fhe court house clock. “One, | ‘corn te higher
rapped roand | acquaintances as he saw. before him, ap, | /arge 4 ‘that attending the execution of; two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, | Grain—No.
f | [parentl ovérlooking pone, Deputy . Achey and M ck.; About 250 tickets of ten,” be counted; “just twice the num gt ‘Corn—white,
hoarse 'votoe’ Pheritf Reynolda'supported Him by the aray, | invitation bad been. feaued, and every |: times that Guetig shiot at bie victim.” 9) ¥: Tolle 86s his
\ 7 afb shee and jailor O’Brien Ppilowed. he moun one was represented. ‘Tho lookers.on'were, |,:": Shortly mer one o’clock thi afternoon it:| 23? ze

iia “pinches the aters wih, a firm tread and paket apiece tarfront ot ¢ aie oP tings was report the streets that the body of Bio few
‘ took., big seat. at the . back |, were al hp hacell g: , ein; fted‘in J: H. 'g| 6 70s family §
yey he Me lof ghe platform, betweon the priests, When” rng the man Me be jbanke Maite Caven | Guetig bang Pplng exhbited ia 3 Russel A oe y
ar "tbls he | ail"was silent the!mén ofthe charch aroseand |, 80d the city officials,’ t and ex-county ' of. the’.
p | knelt with the -pritoner, for whom the lan] Officials, government officials, -sherids and | joers) hundred cmon a:

'
re

(

m’ bis pooket, | officers from neigh boring counties and several é Len dnd wom
ae fig eg ibe’ tmmoet' wae, rretes apie | To¢gl and visiting attorneys, Coroner Whh- sfbrooen the ball

r to take ie ieaudiblq.. tone. This» service Ahsted || 1% Dr. 0. ‘8 Boynton. and the board-of | arog esterday morning, .

‘, : ‘between , three’ and four! minutes, and | health were prevent, al CART stem datite boy,
Osean! bwhen 7

4 ee ber . rennet: rose ) OUTBIDE THE JAIL YARD, qi
F ver [00 Tet PO toercssd Re brag t 9 o’clock this morning the crow:
PeaTrtng lyr tt® At MiB” beens roan the | Aaya ice mariage eed ones
ithe naine of | September 16th, “Thi required | te. Of thes execution grew nearot, 4\D
leadly drug. | three minutes, se peect not being in the a ee tecrenmed “Mats ‘share. siwers |:
‘ to a

very’ best conditio as an elocu. | St least’ 5,000) people ‘thronging the
epi During the retdlog Goctig mood |noquc yard abd sdjscens streets: ne police

QTM,

=a

‘supper, con-

' t busy {a watching | the -rope ri
ef, eon. |} ust ith t list! “P ‘beter :

tatoos, | bread | Oot ie trowel otorebiee He vawiedonen races irehy hh to jwas 4 . Be
ial yes bd ‘that same yawn ‘which’ marked | hie] 20cR, B and ig Pin hot {Considerable
all yesterday} qomeanor on th occasions when standing Janghing loud bat no'qnarreling or: | |
Joking. bout up'to receive hissentence’-from ithe opurt, |, Sxbting. | After.the court Bouse glock, had, |
‘Joking about | cq which’ was.’ them ‘:taked $1 be 9 pellet Bieag An nl hea
me pareadiate: a ‘Mere exhibition |:of ‘bravado. |{He phen Ay Stba as ee etold Trou
, bg told th ® | drew forth 'a silk handkerchief with his gloved could bare: a “h

Ad there’ at) hapds, aod wiped bis} mouth in» a menner as striking athe
TeLtee | tmoundon chuet ontecadons’ Wawa, toe} eh, PGR, na
“often iifet,theaberitaige” "=, 2°00 wt) ‘beard Histol form

sayf-hows | UP tea a 9 , | nee,
“he Bi ‘1 ot averia’s FAREWELL ‘avonnsa.! | “| | the talking was hegu where it was broken
deg itr Be ie Naa Hg BE ale ir 2 Phe eae Ithew hte hth
; thing, to ea utiono iy. , Was 't
pa Nendo en yest the Zant? IA Mase bee af me * fall doo to’ recelve mest Thindts wae Oxo


atid auedii ala Me cen MAR bod aia Cantal sn bicutant aati NI RL PI eevee ct

INDIANAPOLIS FRIDA

rletim. He was |, ; ‘THe MURDERER,
en the officera | - I's
tnd the weapon
foul and das
my gon,” and
} It was.a five.
old, worn and
he said that he
ot for himaelf,
» his heart only

tarragon
childr sci se

TAL. ad

before Judge
criminal conrt,,
following jury:
Coe, David F.

attendance:
“prospect o

|). Clay Ba
W. D. Cleaver i sfriviog fo
Wilson, Hiram i Ho}eies
my, Thomas D.. esterd “J im, jur
and David B. |, life b m the pack: | Pboulder.
days, ‘the ver. ‘age meee ith ‘aki om Re’ dntendea self. eres '
r 27,: the jury: des ees order taking i plier oon
y minutes,'and Ce half- “pasts, r+) 8 bi
er inl the first |; | neat woth io Bie crooked |v
ty. Judgment; | == — —

seé him, an accom act ire | every prey

T Mi wll
. ’brother. “When he arose thts morning’ he |':ances| of a dyio ‘ ‘man, ‘when hp in-.| otber sl ee aghue oe this ety, and.
perish prayed again, and seemed to be ‘much leas | forma! you that” *h he /aceply: broaiines McMullen, of mond, ¢ and remafned | the ay
Na DangOg. | defiant than last night. mop _ but without complaint, ths solemnity of this. with bim nearly an hour, Gactiz’s mother } sgo, it is
‘8, John Achey 1 R i" i. 4 hour, fmpght- with the greatest change that induged bin 10 4 send :for | Se) priests, being | in. op bod
sgett, had been THE COFFIN can come to . anklud in thig restless life, | persuaded that all hope was end that | found yes!

sary 3, and an ACR: :45ajm: the undertaking wagon, of “If there

be any wh in thd past I have | He should look to the welfare of his vag 4, 1 | mara.

ary Fradl W. Weaver drove. to the jail aud the i hert Yesterday afternoon a| at toek hee
ridk Was cons, api was brought into the jail s Jalt aud the and ip bor Gey anki ine othe. Bayne of the sporhid ap) Vian
Gay. A great all’ door on” the west side of the yard. life wh ere sorrow never comes,” “Fleitz!
Pts, Guetig's The cofin is an imitation rosewgod casket. |). At thi point Quetig oa manu, | been tl
-onsetjuence of six'bar handles, five feet, pine inches - in rcriptiand looking the spectators full - in ‘the 4 davit agai
aa, léngth, Jt ig;not ertain that he will be | face,’ added thefojlowing in @ mote nataral { ‘more will
fits he was not’| buried ‘in. thie coffin, but that another and tone of.voice, but with equal distioctness: mais end § prevailing
ions,|\that ae finer gne will Sp dips gE be the body when it “Gentl mgt if there be any here that I}. red eal . , Svimcaraal
hf in th tyes althe spencer House, , pars rojured in any “matter or any way, I } ivy py
d ‘ het [.., ) TH scaryouD. ou will fot ite me. I will now suffer: Abert Peele had haa besa besieged both ae || ps oat
ay, and on the ages dent debt of Mary BeGlew, and {hope | and night for. theta the -exeoution, He : me
of punishment, The scaffold and its gu oundings are ex- all my friends and all my tors} wor for seat *bed'a ee rly‘hout last’ night to
‘ail at which | #ctly as they were atthe| execution of Mer- givt 4.| Fargwell,” * g0fG st |him) throug the “mdden’
) rick and Achbey on the 29th of Jast January, * a ui My ees of to- ie and ‘cane
oath, andbeing | The trap is in| the eame cOndition as then and . BIDDING FARRWELE | Sheu Pree a 2. eth truth * five
ugh only five | the rope is fursished by the same ‘firm who When he had eaid “farew 1” Gue-: | don't bave theses. i Ya) often: enough,
d weighing 155. made the bemp on the/ previous occasion, lig handed. the! |-manu ript to] The curlosRy. t te! people mt be ret:
ityfot an-athd | “Ls HN. Brecker,.&” Co., of Covington, Ky. Dick

O’Brien, at the. same} fied.” 70% ‘

ehaking ands with him and. bi ding him Governot Wittlams ete jfor a
’ goodbye, =. hon through the same torm-| o'clogk’’ yesterday ‘fterhoony

ht men to re- | teen feet and totally excluding all view trom, ula.w ith nolds? h Pena George, || return Until’ to-morrow, ” In}

injuring’ him: fae ontide, Joageld foyer. Clerk Eensisil, who were | etcapes’ whatd er importuaitica :

His: attorneys. | "4,06 Proper height-of the rope was ganged | onthe | platform. nay 44 Pe ee pre wader wade: in GQuetig’s behalf, thought

this morning, Hiram Atland, an ex- EE thie’ scaffold, his Gemned: man’s attorn
t, and the case man, 8tanding upon the drop to Yeates y the were bound by jResnotas and 0’ Brion ae
‘the btate from required measurement.

“Abové the jail wall is a wall of canvas, mak-

on at ry
ar displays that | .ipg the entire hight of the- wall over eigh-

{ among the

dhe Sheriff |, Pressley.) dane mk Mu ab can ‘s :
court, was re- | |: + HIS: TASK MORNING, a adjust dy he nodes, he s.catetally Sey: f ater Gore a wits2 * Cases :de
d After eating a moderate breakfast, ‘he wae | prepared knot, bring ng it under the left ear. ern 8780, Ma
Pirie by | brought at, 8:15~to the room jadjvining the Mh re wasiat 11:59. Reynolds then covered | left for for (edlaop, ot Se

jailor’s/ ‘ office, | where his) mother, bro er, his face ind head wéth the white: cowl, and
efore the time! bis uncle, Henry Guetig, and othe relate all was readiness for the final act.) oe i fats as

ce | t remained talking’ and praying with’. be a THM DROP, 3 te * Za" incident 10.00 an
‘MB CcouRT.! | vptor 0 Brien xemainiog eh che aries ith ‘ The co rt hduse sho be an striking the ‘ of Guetig that! has neve
the instruction Fr om the room where thesorrowin ‘aboth | hour of 12 as, Depu er nolds was |
vane rate been | er and the relatives were with the ondemed, jelngon hecoy on there weses wd Bh rit

an 8

ep es hy arosd soba and groans which were ins + stepped quickly’ - the: Tite of him, he fi

garding the mental condition t

duce jiasan

id nelt she 5

conttast with the importunate knocks at t the first sh

» raise a reasoa: aflor’s door and thé jokes and Janghter of | lever and» . catchin - the .”. jsig,’] moment the ¢ court foon
he time of the th hen and boys, as ea “were allowed to inal 0 eo (ieee pulled neryo ay by of epinatia
romitide. This’! cofne in or refused admission. « and the platform popped on the tegth's rite hee
“oneous because eo seg wh . of the clock. : Drs,’ ishard® ange oyatas ns oe
svidence which | ‘ “ft MORK’ BRAVADO! took » |charge; © of | the’ contieneds: “And then: he

ia not anfficient | At 10 o'clock 4 gcung man, a particular ‘while, Wands,| Waters and: Jettries’ shot—" Here) the second’ shi
What evidence | friend.of coment pes permission to speak fingered the pulses, Dr.| Boynton prnouacing Warren. Tate’a’ ‘tevolver, eda

to bim a moment,’ Deputy’ Sheriff Re olds : the rate of pulsations as follows: / was ajdead man.” The nolse
the Racy tole sallowed the. prisoner to step into th 4

© jail’) Fizst mi ute,76 In pulse, both ‘lincreaged in

6, court room, ‘

. |.ro0m. He badona full finesse suit of black || Second minute, 120 in ff ht and 84 in left. . sion bécamel nO Rreat Uiag th t \ .
tie Wel ben qan a'pnir of Iandsomers embroidered slip- ‘Third Dute, 1th t, and 140 in left, for the day. ay ? 0 RENEE BB gd perce id
The judgment ‘pers. His hair was combetl with elaborate | Fourth minate, 164 {t, xbt and 186 fn loft, irree- (willie menehet clartcon , Maral ele


ed-untll June
unibg jn ten’
y of murder
ilty of death.
iL»was made,
¥ judge who
tember 19th,
'y on which
the day: on
1 be bangdy:
“IRMS,° |
ordon, Lamb
tts, GQuetiy’s
the supreme’
as the full
judgment of

ck yosterdny. |.
sd 6

y Judge
rk, aud Gnoe-
a3 did their

i]

N, . X
‘buntil to-day,
‘6 impenitenf,
‘ghiug, ‘sing-
it to last’ been
omorse for hig
aod Achey
doom before
‘ath had been

‘ eternity, but

'suICIDE,
ajail -yester-
‘he ‘jaildr,
} and the re-
serene add

excited. The°

id that bra
-d something
\didg of the
"V6 Just come
ve me this,”
vocket a small
juarter of an

rapped round |

hoarse voice.
) this ‘after-
old him:that
en if he took
it he must die
At thig he
a his pooket,
his arsenic.
Is at work on
r to take this
I’ve changed
O'Brieh tried
ison, whether
been visitin
\ the name o
eadly drug.

TH.
supper, con-
‘atoes, | bread

inl detective: ||
all yesterday:
young murs.

joking about
‘8, particular.’
s baie: for the
© told ‘that
ver there”

oishéd “with a,

which{he was.
’’ payg, how-

the. fi t

ut half: past 5
cord, he knelt
erveantly.

Lif
by hitler

sand tried on 4,

ton the scaf-
iafled with it;
ioriff’s: order
i metwith the

| upon the trowd before him, He yawned c
(that same yawn which ‘marked | bis
; demeanor on both occasions when standing
up'to receive his sentence« from: the court,
ab which was. then taken t0| be
a ,.tere ’ exhibition |of ‘bravado. |{He
‘drew forth a silk handkerchief with his gloved
hands, aod wiped his| mouth in. a manner
amounting almost to affectation,,’.When the |

redding was finished, which Yoccarre at
N11 357, the sheriffeaid:”). 4", oe baa
1 queria’s ranzwetu ‘avparss,” | i a

©, Bheriff Preseley

. follow “3 @ Br
tag mays
Jaw, Ves are Ted

rile

#00 1
OO ks

‘

4S

°% / much noise in’ the. crowd,’ | Consid

end when ‘it was Ris ae abpare, « the
crowd that-he was on the scaffold, « pin robe
could ity heard. | ene slod
was striking, |!’ noon,” and,’ at.“ the
- tenth en. the ult; thad of ithe was
‘heard di und; ahd at.
‘ounce the ta

fighting. | After the court house glock
struck 11 this noise began to ' dim{n

not),
ible. #
laughing andioud talk bat poanarreling or

*

t

OL Rates GE f

aaa

‘ ‘ Kets > 4s . s wt we Vauaen elermily Opened for. the murderer, eee very fair. qu:
which he went out,. playfully chucking De- | the lege dud drme, Jailer O'Brien removed. The story is circulated that | saetlg, mines packers are'th
tetive McKinney under the chin as the door | the nodso from~ the ‘neck, atid. the goingto Catholic schook at, South. Bend, |) supply thelr,
“was opened, to ushef him intotheroom where | body :was placed -in a  hagdaome several years ago, attempted: suicide, having: |'8 4¢¥ qhoice »
his heart-broken mother and other relafives | Tcsewood, velyet /mounted casket under tho, hada quarrel with his mother. over her refu- Belectod ight.
were, | |‘. ' a supervieion of Undertaker Weaver, by whom | gal 'toa low him to.come to Lo isille. * It is |/Belected —

[| (KES LEAYY OF 113 RELATIVES, "fhe body was delivered to the relatives. said he hanged himself in a can dap ATOpe,/ jae intone
' | At: 20-minutes alter 10, the door of. the Thet tee huudred peopl nl ich wit and when discovered was bl ¢ in the face.  Beavy, Rough
chamber of sorrow opened and the mother ao t : tragedy uae | pr er hy ’ © was cut down and restored, after - several |» Cattle=Beor
of |the condemned! ‘man, with two other ! i. : ene t twelt the “ie t at litp hours: hard work by the doctors, The story ' Prime shippin
Indies and George Guetig, Louis's brother, | »inutes ay ete . ‘Sin late ite Ley '? | is thought.to have‘ho foundation, 4. | Good shipping
chme out, the pridoner standing inthe door | ¥®8 veial 0.tucn again Into ordinary | «Those who th mens Saale: would weaken. | Prime butcher
bidding them good-by. The othor. ladies | Cbanvels. os _ | at the last moment) were -mistaken, Guotig | eared
ere his aunt, Mrs. Gale, and her daughter, nas Nice FREEARATION, ; ,, | Wap as firm | those, who’ preceded him on: Bula iia
Mirs Barbara Gale. The poor mather Wx -From Father O’Donaghue, of’ St, John’s the scaffol Dagens Bh. [eal print \ |-Qows and caly
weepjog violently and Guetfg himself peemed | Catholic church, who, with Father iler, of | | The body twitched considerably, although : Bheep—Rec
sligh}ly shaken, though his eyes remained as St. Mary's,’ had Leen with Soe from 10 ; the doctors announced that’ the neck was} Ning ea
ry and unwinking asever. |, / / + | O'clock this’ morniug until his death, the | broken,/ | eB Magda CE god ghipedmn
. ‘oii ' following, respecting the last hours of his]. Pat MéGlew, brother of thie murdered girl, |. 1
ABRIVAE OF HIS PRIESTS, life ig learned:’ The parting with | wit e execution. | He ‘pays his Arnie
Aty1$:30 a, m. Wathers Q'Donaghue and his mother at half-past, 10 o'clock, | is now avebged'and heis satisfled, ; opie Tf Oh
Seller knocked at the jail door and werp ad- was very affecting on hier patt. Louis showed | ‘When Guetig Idoked'at the scaffold this Merket well
Tityed to the prisoner. Shortly before this some feeling, it ts true, but Hid not shed'a | morning, he remarked tocdminissioner Remy, :| saleable at
ibetpolice, 60 in nuimbef, all the day and | tear. He embraced his mother, aheee a who was in the yard: | “This is the first time | changed. ~
night men of the force headed by Chief | to comfort her, telling her tot. to weep so, | I’ve eeen that thloge 1 guess. I can stand it; | _ New Ss
Travis: purrounded tne Topes ptretched while she only sobbed, repeating his name | thoothers did.” Bw #00 eer bel.
about the jail to keep off the | ove ang dveg. again—"Loule, Loute The scaffold and platform. were in view of. Onions $2@32 5:
qrowd. Deputy Sheriff Reyoolds, who-next ‘Louie, . Louie t” be .. father said] the upper tier of windows of the court-house; ‘| 2. per bushe!
to the sheruf was in charge of the dread ar- | that ‘Guetig . received the rites “ot/ the frum which a number of $efsons looked out | an gt OOgt
ponemctts, had four policemen placed in’) church at 6:30 this morning, having recant-'| attheexecution. 9 7’. + ro diipg BG
the yard ito assist the seven or eight deputy |’ eq his obstinacy of yesterday, and,sent fot | All the Catholic girls are satisfied. Mary | @%o per Ib.
sheriffs, i Everythipg, owing to this officer's Father Seiler ‘and: Limeelf, He- had this | McGlew wis a great, favorite, and the puao- ae per Ib. F
Vigilance and tact, moved In completest order, | morning shown a better disposition than fot | ishment of ‘het murderer meets with thejr |, mators Bi@a
‘and in spite of ithe ' great crash, to ‘several days, The sacrament was adminis: {| hcartiest approbation, =‘ | 1 Qui $1.75.
det in without the least coofusion, tered, and the priests ;had. stayed |< Guetig wrote his name “Louis P; Gt tig,” | Serene o,
4 | ; DIE EXECUTION, . © * | with him, prayiag ae sent a vob ead oo ial ‘Toume Y Mahe?
“ay. ‘vant! 4 | xpressed ° 7. r life but |*hung, ain ;
, At 11:60 exactly ‘the procession moved | loll no fervor Father’ U'Donaghue said | On the, scaffold the co Texas awk Gol
poh ot . . y ’ “ oar 7 { A
Travis were at’ the head. ~ Father | in bim'was much. more than his onward aoe ll the earnest Jose 200 tat
+ O'Donaghue and Seilercame next, bearing rence mi By /sadicats, but not at the Notsdse, alf sold; mar)
(tbe crucifix: and sacred’ emblems {the fay what . t “should | have ~ been Sate ’ | 8,100; -ordinar
church. Then George Guetig, brother of | in| view “of / his.’ terrible crime, 1 ee
the. condemned boy. | Then .the ‘prisoner | Father Seiler is $6 preach bisituneral, and he | Da nat at agg of
bimself, dressed in a neat suit of black, | Will be buried,from St. Mary’s' Catholic | the Germay for “‘goodn ba yt ag Lg
wearlng embroidered slippers and s iped churely on Maryland. street, near Virginia One of the thej 75@4.00 for
stockings, .a emall black bow at thelneck | avenu , Sunday afterndon. Pa, : the execution, one o he 0 : ae
and a “stud irr bis shirt bosom. H@ was cane ap), YARD, . ee aod ry foot shat 2h fede. The In
pale, very pale, but smiliog and self sed, oa ae f a tke” The wheat +
Kod ga be walked along, nodded to such ne crowd p» re jail yard was aves af bad strack from the court ho ‘Corn is higher.
acquaintances as he saw. before him, ape At 6 od Meecek , amg 360 tie on pa) ‘two, , eae
poverty overlooking one, Deputy 7 Be an bad eke ny ets of | ten, counted ; a Se saet the
eberiff Reynolds supported him by the ar nvitation ted. 'The lookare on pend. | times that Guetig shot at hie victim.” °° Rew Ke. tuk
nod tatice O’Brien Dilowed. - He mounted inadditi i tothe: ibe a 1 the pre wae: ' “Shortly, after one o'clock th{4 afternoon it; “PE 2, Bic.
th eters with, a firm tread and | {a® ivon w plaow'tnt trent at fhe confrols, | Was-reported on the streets tha Flour—New
took, big seat. at the . back ve ievef gH ba arya red, Maror -O olf, | Guetig was being exhibjted‘in J; H. Russell's | 6 70; family
lof the platform, betweon the priests, When” “ry t ' officials \ an 4 r phe sary undertaking rooms.’ A’ crowd ‘soon assem- _
all was silent the'mén of-the charch grose and Officials,” ty o ’ vfficials, heriffs pa bled at the doors of the estab! ment, and
knelt with the ‘prisoner, for whom the lant] OMciale, ar pelasocd _— AGdtandser ral | Several bundred men ‘and wom ee
‘prayers of the church were repeated, amidst te rie a einiti igh a Cofoner Wis .through the hall “taking ‘a ‘Iast look atthe | #4 ¥ oglead
ithe almost ‘stillness, but py an’ + Dr Oo." ¥ Ro ton’ d th 2 i rer brown face of the tramp who was foand | ‘at $0:25. Bhou
ipaudibld.. tone. This servicé / hsted | health werekiso peobene OG the board af): aead yesterday morning, .under- the impres-' hamoe 97.5998 |
‘between, three and four’ minutés, and | Deelth wereAlso present. ' ‘‘e 1 sion that it was the boy murdecpe. ee very. /
‘when it was concluded /rose| - OUTBIDE THR JAIL YARD, ‘L  Guetig’s body was: taken to ‘the Spence ieee 4 -
and stood = before Sheriff = Presse | at g o'clock this morning the crowd began\| haute immediately after it’ had been gived |. oak
|ley, -who at 11:54 began redding! the to gather slowly‘aroupd the jail, and asthe’ to the undertakers, he Bee ded | ., gi cas fa
jwarrant = for. bis- execution, . dated time of the . execution grew . nearet, 4\ by a double row of politeo ‘and follow: Mamted griies
| September 16th. |. This required | the. crowd increased unt ‘there. were | ed by at least a thousand 'p le. It was. me ber 4
J) three minutes, the sheriff not being in the at ‘least 5,000’ people ‘thronging the | carried from the Mearse into the :
| very: best condition to +e as an olocu- | court yard and jacent stree he police are
| tiapist.’| During the log Goetig stood |.—: - 3 i he.
apm i were kept bey watching |the -rope ring ||}
' gazing squarely and with apparent listleasness “and in keeplog order, ere “Ww


i the | incentive, Def
in »apperentiy thes name - Guetig wan almost immediately srrested, and tn
interviews held with rorestare Setraved no me meaeel
conception of | ; ene
a ae ae enue oF His CRIME. sinker kale
He rather gloated over the deed he had done... ‘With | |
satanic malignity he ssid, *‘She refused to go up and
sce mother, and I thought 1 might. ‘as well kill -her
right there. I drew my revolver and fired,. 1 don’t
know just how many times. : The second shot hit, and
she turned to run, when I banged awsy at the d—d
b—h again, and she fell. ‘She then raised on her
knees, threw her hands over her head as if about to
pray. I asked her to speak to me and she did not. |
ran up and banged her again, and that was the shot.
that killed the G—d d—n b—h, for I saw her eyes.
wiggle, and I knew she was dead. I have killed her,
and I am ready to bang for it. I wish they would
come and hang me toa lamp-post to-night. At one
time during the shooting I thought I would will my:
velf, I took a second thought and :

MANNER, raaT MK HAD’ Liven. -
Guetig ' wan hung, was ‘one of the

wae Mary: MeG@lew, for many
‘gitl in the ‘Spencer - House, a
hotel in this city. For her Gnetig-con-
ft , and eo operated on her mind
0° & matrimonial ongagement. |
e class, she was rained under the |
iscipline of the Oatholic church, and when the
Aperity and dissoluteness of say’ het became ap-
“parent, she renounced him. After, it, waa that
‘Guetig plunged. deeper in the mire of debauchery,
moking the vilest haunts and the mont depraved an-
| This. -was the condition of affairs between the cou-
ple on the fatal night. Ou that day Guetig had been

 marder of Mary McGlew, at the
nis city, a year and ten days ayo.

- apr minutes past eleven
n | | though pale. ‘He was attended

Anished the sheriff read the death warrant,
response to an inquiry by.the aheriff.
he had anything to say, he replied that
spoke as. ‘follows, reading from a roll of
which. he drew care pe from hia breast
unfolded:—
t lant, my: ‘friends, the time cot apart by: law has
"© gprived for me to ssy ferewell, not only to you who
bane: gathered, about me at this. inoment, but to all
“the world bebind. You: will, therefore, believe the
- last utterances ofa dying man, when he informs you
that he deeply realizes,but without complaint,the so-
~ leunity of this hour, fraught with the greatest change
that. can come to mankind in this restless life.” At
this: point Guetig. ‘dropped bis manuscript, and look-
ing the spectators fully in the face, added the follow-
- ing in a more natural tone of vuice, but with equal
‘distinctness : :—** Gentlemen, ‘if there be any here that
1 have injured in any. matter or in ‘any way I hope
. you’ will forgive me. I‘ will now suffer death, the
debt which 1 owe: ‘to Mary McGlew, and I hope that
all my friends and all my foes will forgive me. Fare-
well! If there be any whom in the past. I have
wronged | in any manner I crave : forgiveness, and, if
poxsible, their friendship in that other life, where
horror never come.’ - He then turned tu those on

‘the’ scaffold with him and saook bunds with Sheriff

_ Preseley, Deputy Reynolds,Clerk Ransdell, Judge Hel-
‘der andothersand :
0s) ANNOUNCED HIB READINESS TO DIR.
The: paper ‘was held. with the utmost steadiness, not
the slightest trembling being perceptible.
- the reading the color was noticed to come .nto his
‘face, and at the close, when the attendants began

their: lest. solemn service, he looked as fresh and un-
were being © fitted

s concerned | a8. though | he.

ie his - ‘marriage instead for his marriage.

He ‘spoke. no further words, but stood quietly until
ae cords. and ‘cowl were adjusted, and on the ninth
stroke. of the court-house clock Sheriff Presaley pulled
‘the lever, and Louis Guetig hed paid the penalty of
his crime. The attending physicians announced that
ho signs of life'were observable, and Coroner Wishard
. pronounced: him: dead. The body was cut. down at
. 12,494,, and . the. Aoal mene in the. Lae tragedy had

__ been. enacted,

_Guietig are the subject: ‘of all sorts of comment.

Natio

. O'Donohue and Seiler, and |
engaged in devotional exercises.. After |

‘the hotel to see hin mother, which request she at first

| Here Guetiy again insisted ‘that Mins McGlew should

During.

| ed...“ ¥es, I'll promise you anything.” ‘Then thie

The: piel coolness sod nef r exhibited by

_Nome » think it_genuine courage, while others attribute
“it tos concentration of all bin energies into an effort

out to the stock-yards drinking and carousing with a |
party. of young rowdies, and, returning, met Miss
McGlew and another girl, Ada McLaughlin, on South
street, about two squares from the Spencer house.
He accosted Miss McGlew, and requested her to go to

lee lined. —
He then became es dies ‘much excited, and sureatencd
to kill her unless she.
‘COMPLIED WITH HIN WIPHES.
she finally consented, und with her companion
went with him to ,the hotel. They passed through |
the ladies’ entrance and went out into the court-yard. |

accompany. him up staire to see his mother. This |
she again refused to do, and she and ber companion }
started to return homie. It way be naid parenthe ti-
cally that she bad resigned her situation in the ‘hotel
about two weeks previous, on account of the ‘annidt-
vus attentions of young Guetig, and was at the time
ntupping at the residence of the father of Miss Me.
Laughlin, who was her companion on the occasion of.
the murder. The girlestarted to leave the hotel, when
(ruetig sought to detain Mine McGlew by force. The
noise of the scuffle attracted the attention of ‘Thad
Kayadale, the night clerk, and be ran out Cenc what
wasthe matter. He uptraided Guetig for bie eon
duet, Dut received an sneulting reply. He proper: d
ty have the buy. arruated, but Mie M: tilew uljow tad

| Torrisea by bi his looks, words op ectlons

young fiend drew closer to. herand, exclaiming, “You:
say so because you think am going'to shoot. yuu,”
began firing at her. The firet “shot missed. her ‘and
yrazegl the aside of her companton, Ada McLaughlin.
Mise MoGlew then fell upon her knees: and, putting
her hands before. her. face,piteously cried, For God's
sake, don’t kill me." Guetig retorted, « G—d: d—n
you, aint you dead yet ?”’ and then fred, in repid suc-
ceasion, the four remaining sho from the revolver.

He then turned oway, leaving. his victim metering in
her gore.

On the first trial of Guetig for the murder, the de-
fense set up the plea of emotional insanity, claiming
that the defendant was subject to Ate of epilepay, and
that in one of these the crime waa committed.

withstanding, the jury retnrned a verdict of guilty,
and he was sentenced to be hanged ou, the same dey,
with Achey and Merrick.

decision. waa reversed,

of testimony, somewhat strengthened as regards the
defendant's epileptic attacks.
ever, had strong textimony in rebuttal, and the reault
| Wa B verdict of guilty and that he auffer death then”

thoroughly indifferent as regards his fate.
‘no one in the town. was less concerned. about it- then:
he bimeelf. He was a curious ‘peychological subject, |
He ‘neithtr. seemed to realize. the ‘enormity of his:
crime or the terrific retribution. Ho had a blind re-|
lance on bis luck, and has repeatedly aaid that “All
| hell could not make him believe he will hang.” He
seemed to be a specimen of total depravity, or, if not
that, an example of the moral idiot. His way ward-
nesa is partly due to his defective. training, having |
been adopted in early youth by Henry Guetig, his
uncle, proprietor of the Spencer. House, where the
tragedy occurred. His record is that ofa youth: of un-
controllable temper, and when in. his fantrama bers
fectly unmanageable. :

_' DETERMINED TO HANG FOR ir."

‘This was the main point in the defense, but, not-

An appeal was made to the snupreime ¢ court, and the
On the second trial the defense set up the same e line

The prosecution, how-

for. ry

Guetig was 19 years old on May 20. Ho oo been ap
inmate of the jail for one year. His career. while there
has presented a curious atudy for tho student of men-,
tal philosophy. Born in the Catholic faith, the pricets |
rofthat church were unable to make any impreselon |
on him in regard to his future state. Previous to and
during his first trial he bed real or elmulated epileptic
attacks, rotualng fe. * eat, and erting mi

National Police
Gazette 10/4/1879

rder with-

Raymond
Columbus,
ew County
e’s words

ipid, terse
rang off,
i moment

1eaded
State
» trio.

—

later to order technician Chester Wil-
son, at the Seymour State Police Bar-
racks, to meet him at the Norris Grove
farm, near Taylorsville, Ind.

Then he called Capt. Walter Eckert
of the detective division at State Police
headquarters in the Indiana State House
at Indianapolis.

“Sounds like a line on’Edmund Davis,
that missing Jeffersonville taxi driver,”
Boll said.

He sketched the facts briefly as Capt.
Eckert noted them on a pad before him.

John D. Bozzell, Boll said, a 25 year-
old farmhand who worked for Grove,
had found an abandoned, blood-soaked
taxicab early Thursday morning, May
23, 1940, as he rode a corn planter
across a remote clover field. The cab
was hidden from the country road 100
yards away by a slight hill and trees
which covered the entrance to the lane.

Bozzell had thought the driver in
trouble and approached the taxi to offer
assistance. His eyes grew wide in hor-
ror as he gazed at the blood soaked
interior. He cast a quick glance about
the immediate vicinity, failed to
see any person nearby, and then
sped to tell Grove of his dis-
covery.

Grove, in turn, had called
Nolting, who had hurried there
before asking Detective Boll’s
assistance.

Eckert ordered Boll to forget
previous assignments until the
case was cleared up.

“Keep in close touch with
me,” Eckert ordered, as Boll
hung up.

Slim, dapper Captain Eckert
studied the notes before him,
then called the radio dispatcher

for messages sent out the previous Mon-
day. That night, the 1100 Taxi Service
of Jeffersonville, Indiana, had reported
that one of its drivers, Edmund Davis,
36, was missing. The State Police had
put a message on the air, asking that
Davis, if located, call his office. Since
that time no word had been heard of
him and friends in Jeffersonville were
anxious for his safety.

Ww Eckert mapped plans for
a wide search for Davis, if he
were not found near the taxi, Boll sped
northward along U. S. Highway 31
and turned into the county road leading
to the Grove farm. He pulled to
a halt on Sheriff Nolting’s signal.
“It’s going to be a tough case,”
the sheriff said grimly. “But I’m
sure whoever was riding in that
cab is dead by now. I’ve or-
dered everyone to stay out of
that field. There are several
pairs of footprints which may
help us. I still haven’t found
a body anywhere near here.”

Participants in ill-
fated ride in taxi of
Edmund Davis, were
(right) Clementine
Luttrell and J.W. May-
den Jr., who was cap-
tured in backwoods
(below r.), Milton
Hawkins, farmer.

Face downward in a pool of his own
blood, the battered body of driver
Edmund Davis was found by a posse.

By now the two men had reached the
abandoned taxi. Drawn up behind a
clump of trees, it might not have been
discovered for days had not the weather
delayed Bozzell in planting corn.

Boll postponed his search of the cab
itself, tintil Wilson should arrive with
equipment for taking photographs and
fingerprints. Meantime, he began a
close scrutiny of the surroundings.

Footprints near the cab were too
blurred to be of help, and there seemed
to be no other evidence nearby.

News of the discovery had spread
rapidly about the countryside, and keen-
eyed Hoosier farm folk had begun to
gather in ever increasing numbers as

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27


Innocently, John D. Williams,
inset, received $2 for driv-
ing killers to above hotel.

that the small store and filling station
remained open‘every night for the bene-
fit of late driving tourists who sped
toward Indianapolis or Louisville.

His deduction was correct. Nichols
recalled that shortly after midnight the
previous Monday, three strangers—two
men and a woman—had stopped at the
filling station. But only one of them,
a rather tall, dark youth with a thin
mustache, had entered the little store.

“The young woman evidently was
sick,” the grizzled Nichols told Boll,
“and I sent out a glass of water for her.
The fellow who came in the station
bought her a bottle of lemon sour, and
then asked me if I had anything to fix
a cut on his hand. His shirt and trous-
ers were bloody. Said they’d had an
accident and wanted to know if they
could use my phone to call a taxi.

“T told him, sure, but he changed his
mind and asked about a tourist camp.
I told him about Hartman’s Camp, and
the three of them disappeared up the
road.”

Boll sped to the Hartman Camp, only
a short distance up the highway.

But disappointment awaited him. The
trio hadn’t stopped there for the night.
True, they had been there, but they had
obtained a ride with a young couple in
a coupe and headed toward Indian-
apolis.

30

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ALL OUTSIDE Rooms

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TES 75/ up

RCVAL Areas

Indianapolis was some 30 miles far-
ther north—less than an hour’s ride—
and Boll knew that city could have
swallowed all trace of the three stran-
gers in a monfent.

Disconsolately, he climbed back into
his car and headed north, but slowed
on a sudden thought. It was possible
the trip to Indianapolis was a blind and
that they had stopped at one of the nu-
merous auto camps on the way to the
metropolis. Boll decided to check every
camp into the capital.

Just north of the town of Ediygburg
he picked up the trail again. The Blue
River Inn, which operated three small
tourist cabins, reported that two men
and a woman had stopped in the center
cabin Monday night about 1 p. m.

They had checked out again at 6:30
Tuesday morning. No, they had left
nothing behind.

“John Dale Williams took them to
Indianapolis,” the attendant said. “They
told me that they had been in an acci-
dent and wanted to get up there to bring
back some help.”

Williams, a farmer living across the
road from the camp, remembered the
trip well. ;

“They paid me $2.00 and bought five
gallons of gasoline,” he told Boll when
the latter questioned him a few minutes
later. “I let them out at Meridian and
Maryland Streets.”

Meridian and Maryland Streets in-
tersect just a block from the famed
“Crossroads of America” where U. S.

Highway 31 (the main artery running
to the southland) and U. S. 40 (the
primary east-west road) cross.

Nearby are many hotels and board-
ing houses, any one of which would
have provided rooming space for the
mysterious trio. A check would take
hours, and by that time the three might
have disappeared completely.

Boll clambered back into his car and
sped to Indianapolis, where he reported
at once to Capt. Eckert in State Police
headquarters.

| Sages HAD NEWS, TOO.

“Radio call from Seymour a
short time ago,” he told Boll. “The taxi
was identified as the one driven by
Davis when he disappeared Monday
night. It had been driven just 93 miles
—almost a straight line from Jefferson-
ville to where it was abandoned.”

“What's the next step, Captain?”
Boll asked. “Check of doctors and ho-
tels? Williams said the three intended
to get a doctor for the girl. She was
pretty sick, I guess.”

“That sounds best,’ Eckert replied.
“The hotel check probably will give us
the fastest action. They had to go
somewhere and they couldn’t walk the
streets with a sick girl.”

He assigned three pairs of state de-
tectives to check the cheaper hotels,
working outward from Meridian and
Maryland Streets as the center of their
search.

As they began the task, Boll spoke:

Aband
by yo
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Boll and Nolting continued their search.

After a few minutes’ inspection, Boll
called Nolting.

“We'd better begin a search of the
woods,” he said, pointing to the 40-acre
wood lot which lay a few rods away.
“And check the culverts and bridges
between here and Taylorsville. See if
you can organize a posse from the men
here.”

Nolting nodded, then organized the
bystanders into searching parties. Such
men, he knew, would be better than a
posse he could raise in Columbus, for
they knew the surrounding terrain from
long years of residence there and were
familiar with every hidden gully in the
district.

As the Sheriff issued brief instruc-
tions, Wilson arrived from Seymour and
began taking photos and searching for
fingerprints. The posse moved away
slowly, its members dividing into small-

Indiana State Officer Raymona
Boll whose check of a_ tourist
camp unearthed the vital clue.

er parties to speed the search along the
road and through the woods and ravines
for a mile in every direction.

“No fingerprints,’ Wilson called as
Boll approached the car. ‘Looks as
though they’ve been wiped off.”

Boll inspected the interior of the cab
minutely.

“Whoever lost that blood is probably
dead,” he told Wilson. He pointed to
the thick pool of coagulated blood on
the rear floor of the taxi.

“A person couldn’t lose that much
blood and still live.”

Wilson nodded. “Looks as if he was
held up in the front seat for a while,”
he said, indicating the stained and stiff-
ened upholstery. ‘‘And, I imagine, who-
ever was in the car with him pulled him
over the top of the seat.”

Boll searched the ground near the cab
for some indication that the body might
have been carried from there. Sud-
denly he turned to Wilson.

“We're not going to find that body
near here,” he declared, calling Wil-
son’s attention to the right running
board. Blood had dried on the rubber
covering ... but there was none on
the ground below.

“Proving,” Boll said, “that whoever
was slugged in that car was dragged out
to some place other than here.”

He glanced about the field.

“Better take some photos of the en-
trance to the field,” he said. ‘Those
trees pretty well hide it. Whoever
drove that cab in here must have been
familiar with the landscape to know
where to turn in . I’m going to hunt
around those bushes.”

He began to circle the cab, increasing
his distance from it as he went. His

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slow, minute, search was rewarded in
a matter of minutes when he found, be-
neath a log, a blood-stained, white cot-
ton jacket.

He inspected it carefully. There were
no laundry marks, no store label. It
looked, too, as though someone had
wiped bloody hands on it. A few dirt
streaks suggested it might have been
used also to clean incriminating finger-
prints from the taxi.

Placing the jacket in his car for an-
alysis by state technicians, Boll renewed
his search but was interrupted by the
return of possemen. They had found
nothing.

Boll ordered the taxi hauled to a Co-
lumbus garage for safekeeping, and
headed for his own car to attempt to
pick up the taxi’s trail from Jefferson-
ville. The car’s two-tone paint job, he
thought, should help in that hunt.

As he crossed the lane to reach the

Clementine Luttrell became
ill, her friends suggested
a taxi ride in the country.


ewarded in
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There were
label. It
meone had
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hun
h the
Sheriff Elmer H. Nolting got
word of the discovery of the
abandoned cab from a farmer.
' gate leading to the roadway, he cast one
} last glance about the field, and as his
eyes focused on the tall grass near the
I gate he leaned forward eagerly.
| A taxi driver’s cap, its color blend-
4 ing with the dark shadows cast by the
bushes, lay where it had been thrown
} carelessly.
{ - | Boll’s eagerness turned to wonder as

he inspected it. There were no initials,
no blood stains. The cap carried the
insignia of the 1100 Taxi Service, but
- there was no indication as to who had
been wearing it before it was tossed

\ » | | aside.
AN Was Davis the victim or the assail-
N ant?

% ' 30ll realized that until the cab driver
or his body, was found either theory

could be correct.
; If Davis were the victim, his body
r
probably had been secreted some place
» which might take weeks to find; and
every day that passed would make the
capture of the killer more difficult.

If Davis were the assailant, he would
have left the state and by now be far
from the scene.

¢

HE CROWD BEGAN to disperse and

Wilson packed his equipment for
his return to the Seymour barracks.
Boll waved him on, and then began a
search of the neighborhood for some
trace of the taxi’s movements. The alert
i rural Hoosiers would, he knew, have
| noticed any strangers or unusual occur-
| rence in the neighborhood during the
{ past few days.
The most likely place for such in-
i formation, he decided, would be the fill-
| ing station operated by Walter Nichols
} at the intersection of U. S. Highway 31
and the Taylorsville Road. Boll knew

‘ll became
uggested
country.

In the center cabin of the
Blue River Inn, the fleeing
trio spent part of a night.

Torn picture, in-
set, was found in
this wastebasket ars.
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by Officer Boll.


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book were quite ordinary, Mr. and Mrs.
Harold Jackson and Tom Carter,

But the manager’s description of the
trio showed indisputably that the guests
were the ones the police were trailing.
All three seemed the worse for wear, and
the manager distinctly recalled that the
man with the mustache had a bandaged
right hand. =

From this point on, though, the
troopers were unable to follow their
quarry. They’d left no‘indication of their
destination behind. The officers, never-
theless, refused to concede defeat. In
rapid succession they tried the cab stands
for blocks around, then the bus terminals
and finally the trains. Their efforts
proved useless; they could find nobody
who remembered seeing the two men
and the girl, They returned to head-
quarters to turn in their report,

CAPTAIN ECKERT accepted the
tidings from his subordinates with-
out too much disappointment. He knew
his men had done everything possible at
the moment; they were efficient Officers,
as good as any who ever carried a badge.
Besides, he knew that “getting lost” in a
city the size of Indianapolis wasn’t too
difficult.

Detective Boll’s idea was that the three
could have split up and gotten out of the
city much easier that way—if they had
indeed left it. :

“That’s an idea that occurred to me,
too,” the captain assented. The pair
now set about a campaign to canvass the

“entire city systematically. One starting

point, they agreed, was the fact that a
member of the vanished party needed
medical attention for his hand, perhaps
even hospitalization. At any rate, he’d
have to have drug supplies, and somebody
must get them for him. Therefore hos-
Pitals, doctors and drug stores would be
queried at once.

They were engrossed in plotting their
strategy when the phone rang. The
operator told Eckert it was a long distance
call from Captain Bristow, in Owensboro.

The Kentucky man’s voice was vibrant
and enthusiastic as he spoke. “I saw
Ellis Boulware a little while ago,” he said
to Eckert, “and I think I’ve got just what
you need to help wrap this case up.”

“Fine!” Eckert exclaimed. He pulled
a notepad toward him, held a pencil
poised over it. Boll watched and waited
impatiently, sensing something important
was breaking.

“On Saturday, May 18th,” Captain
Bristow continued, “Boulware drove a
couple of fellows and a girl from this
city to Louisville. Yes, he said he knew
them. They’re Donald Milton Hawkins
—he’s the one on that photo you sent
me—J. W. Hayden, Jr., and the girl is
Clementine Luttrell. Boulware said he
was just doing them a favor in giving
them the ride, that’s all. He left them
in Louisville and didn’t see them after-
ward.”

According to Bristow, Boulware had
said also that Hawkins, usually called
Milt, was wearing a white sport jacket at
the time. None of the three had told

Boulware where they were going from _

Louisville, or even if they intended stay-
ing over in the city. Bristow then in-
formed Eckert that he’d checked on
Boulware, who was in his early 20’s and
had absolutely no reason to suspect that
the young man was not telling the truth.
His réputation locally was beyond re-
proach. '

“Then how does he account for his
identification card being found in the

Blue River cabin?” Eckert inquired “~

sharply.

“He was pretty upset about that,”

Bristow responded. “He couldn’t find
his wallet after he’d given those people
the lift, and he was positive that he hadn’t
lost it. Hawkins must have stolen it from
him. I checked on Hawkins and found

he once served two years in the state pen -

on a bad check charge.”

“Well, we'll accept that explanation fo
now,” Eckert declared, referring to the
matter of the identification card. “Where
do those three people live, did he know ?”

“Hayden lives here in Owensboro,”
Bristow replied. “The girl comes from
Livermore, which is about twenty-two
miles southwest of here. But he doesn’t
know Hawkins’ address.” ‘The Kentucky
official then said he’d have men watch
both Hayden’s and the Luttrell girl’s
homes. Should either turn up, the
Owensboro police would be on hand for
the arrest.

Ts was Saturday, May 25th, one
week from the day 17-year-old

Clementine Luttrell and her two male

companions set out for Louisville. It was
also the day she chose to return home—
right into the waiting arms of Bristow’s
men, An hour after her apprehension,
she was in the captain’s office. Before
beginning to question her, Bristow first
telephoned Captain Eckert and asked him
to send a couple of his men down. Eckert
promised to dispatch Detectives Boll and
Meredith Stewart at once.

A pretty girl, Clementine’s face was set
defiantly as she sat across from her
interrogator. She answered in sullen
and evasive monosyllables, but Bristow
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question to her.

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the driver was murdered. Now, why
don’t you tell us what you know?  It’il
be easier for you, for your conscience.”

Her lips trembled with the emotional

impact of the shock the words “electric.

chair” produced. She could hold out no
longer. Her voice quavered, and as her
eyes filled with tears she began her story.

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was no more’n 25 or so,” he said. “The
other ? Maybe a couple of years younger,”
he declared emphatically. Another im-
portant factor was that the sheriff had
received no reports of any accident on
Highway 31 for either Monday or Tues-
day. The story about a “crackup” was
a patent fake.

Nolting felt that the trio, undoubtedly
Davis’ original fares from Jeffersonville,
were headed for the state capital, some
40 miles away. He called the state
trooper headquarters at Indianapolis and
asked for Detective Boll. Boll promised
to meet the sheriff in a short time.

When Boll arrived at the meeting
place, Sheriff Nolting informed him of
the latest lead. In turn, Boll told Nolt-
ing that the technicians had been unable
to get satisfactory fingerprints from the
cab. However, the bits of paper he
had found, Boll added, had been
painstakingly fitted together.

“It was just a love note, though,” Boll
said ruefully. “The only name on it was
signed at the bottom, Don M. Hawkins.
Which doesn’t mean a thing right now.”

“It may not have been left by the last
people in Davis’ cab,” the sheriff ven-
tured. “Anyway, it looks like they headed

* for Indianapolis. Let’s get after them.”

Traveling north, the two men stopped
at every roadside stand and tourist home
to inquire about the two men and a girl.
They passed Edinburgh without obtain-
ing word of their quarry, and soon they
crossed the small Blue River. On the
other side of the stream they rode into
the Blue River Inn, a neatly kept and
attractive tourist camp. Boll’s questions
here brought some highly satisfactory
answers.

“Yes, we rented a cabin to three people
early Tuesday morning,” the manager
“They were a young fellow and
his wife, and the girl’s brother. The
woman, she was more likely a girl of
about 18 or 19, looked like she was feel-
ing bad. She was dark haired and pretty.
Her husband was dark and slender and
he had a thin mustache. He was maybe
25. Oh, yes, I remember his right hand
was bandaged with a handkerchief. He
said something about it, that he hurt it
in an auto wreck. The other guy, the
girl’s brother, was a little younger. He
had brown hair, was nice looking but
had nothing in particular to mark him
by.”

“How long did they stay ?” Boll asked.
The manager shook his head. “Not

very long. They slept till morning some ~

time, then left.”

“Take the bus ?”

“There weren’t any busses along just
then,” the manager informed the officers.
“But they got a ride into Indianapolis
with Johnny Williams, the farmer across
the road.”

Boll asked the tourist camp man if they
might inspect the cabin occupied by the

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transients. The answer was a prompt
yes, and five minutes later the officials
were shown to the spotless little
bungalow. ¢

“The place was cleaned up right after -

those people left,” the manager said. “I
don’t know what you can find.”

Boll shrugged. “We’ll see,” he said
noncommittally.

For half an hour the two men searched

diligently. But it was true that the cabin .

had been cleaned. Boll looked dis-
appointed. He looked about the room
almost in annoyance as he stood ready
to give up the search. At the door, he
gazed about in one long last look. Then,
under the washstand, he noticed a small
crack in the floor and through it he
could discern a sliver of white sticking
ouf of the aperture. He walked over
and with a penknife picked it out.

‘It was a piece of a photograph. Now
Boll, with his knife, painstakingly pried
out a few more pieces of paper. With
the aid of the manager, the board was
loosened and soon the detective had a
pile of perhaps 20 bits of paper. Some
of it made up a small photo, the rest
apparently had come from some kind of
card. The detective placed the scraps in
his wallet. Whether these pieces of
paper had been left by the departed trio
was questionable; there was no telling
how long they had fai between the
boards and under the flooring. Besides,
the cabin had been used after they had
gone. Boll, nevertheless, was satisfied
for the time being with his efforts.

Leaving the cabin, Nolting and Boll
sought out Johnny Williams, the farmer
who had given the three people the lift
to the state capital.

“I took them to the corner of Mary-
land and Meridian,” Williams told them.
“That’s where they said they wanted to
get off.”

“Did they talk about anything while
they were riding with you?” Nolting in-
quired. “I mean anything that you might
remember, such as why they were going .
to Indianapolis ?”

Williams shook his head. “No, the
one with the cut hand just told me how
he’d come to hurt himself. In an auto
wreck. Otherwise they didn’t say much
at all.”

At this point, Detective Boll and
Nolting parted company, the former to
continue on to Indianapolis headquarters
and the sheriff to return to his own office
at Columbus.

| fe CAPTAIN ECKERT’S office, Boll

gave his superior a full report on his
recent activities. He wound it up by
producing the scraps of paper he’d dis-
covered in’ the tourist cabin.

“Of course, these papers might not
have a blessed thing to do with the case,”
Boll said soberly. “But I’m quite certain,
as is Sheriff Nolting, that those three per

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what you can find.”
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in hour the two men searched
But it was true that the cabin .
cleaned. Boll looked dis-
He looked about the room .
nnoyance as he stood ready
the search. At the door, he
in one long last look. Then,
vashstand, he noticed a small
1e floor and through it he
‘na sliver of white sticking
aperture. He walked over
penknife picked it out.
piece of a photograph. Now
uls knife, painstakingly pried
nore pieces of paper. With
the manager, the board was
id soon the detective had a
aps 20 bits of paper. Some
up a small photo, the rest
had come from some kind of
detective placed the scraps in
ether these pieces of
) ft by the departed trio
maple; ‘there was no telling
they had lain between the
under the flooring. Besides,
ad been used after they had
, nevertheless, was satisfied
e being with his efforts.
the cabin, Nolting and Boll
Johnny Williams, the farmer
ven the three people the lift
capital.
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such as why they were going |
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shook his head. “No, the
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1erwise they didn’t say much

point, Detective Boll and
‘ted company, the former to
to Indianapolis headquarters
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‘ior a full report on his
He wound it up by
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he tourist cabin.
se, these papers might not
ed thing to do with the case,”
erly. ‘‘But I’m quite certain,
Nolting, that those three per

sons Davis drove are involved in his dis-
appearance—or most likely his murder.
They’re the only suspects possible.”
Captain Eckert nodded. “And a good
place for anybody to hide out is a large
city. Indianapolis is the most logical
spot right now.” The captain, an officer
accustomed to making quick decisions
and taking immediate action, summoned
half a dozen troopers to his office. He
detailed them to search all hotels and
lodging houses in the vicinity of Mary-

_land and Meridian on the theory that

the two fellows and the girl had decided

‘to hole up in one of them.

Meanwhile, Boll took the pieces of
paper into the laboratory to see if he
could fit them together. Patiently he

worked with the impromptu jigsaw, try- _

ing to match the component parts and
create a recognizable unity. Several
hours of plugging finally produced two
things—a snapshot and an identification
card, the kind usually placed in men’s
wallets. Keeping the pieces in position,
the detective brought them into Eckert’s
office on a sheet of cardboard.

Eckert gazed at the dark-haired, be-
mustached and smiling young man on
the picture. The face meant nothing to
him. Then he read the name on’ the
identification ‘card: “Ellis Boulware.”
The address was Owensboro, Ky., and a
route number was given.

“That guy seems to match the descrip-
tion we’ve gotten so far on one of the
two fellows we want,” Boll commented.
“He’s dark, looks about 25 or so, has the
mustache everybody’s noticed.”

“It’s possible that’s the same one,”
Captain Eckert said evenly. “But re-

member, Ray, you yourself remarked that .

this stuff'mightn’t mean a thing in the
case.”

Boll accepted the cautioning wofds.
“I know, but—” He stopped when he saw
his superior reaching for the phone.

Eckert’s call to Owensboro went
through quickly. In a few minutes he
was talking to Captain Raleigh Bristow,
the youthful and energetic police chief
in the Kentucky city.

Captain Bristow knew a little about the
case, but now Eckert rapidly explained
as much as was known to the state officers,
concluding with the finding of the torn
up picture and identification card, and
the circumstances of their discovery.

Captain Bristow asked Eckert to
describe the man on the photograph after
the latter had given him the Boulware
name and address. “I'll see what I can
dig up for you right away,” he promised.
Before the telephone conversation was
ended, Eckert told the Kentucky official
that copies of the snapshot would be made
immediately, and that Bristow would re-
ceive one in the following morning’s mail.

That evening passed without anything
else cropping up. Early the next day,
however, the troopers who had been
searching hotels and rooming houses in
Indianapolis found what they sought.
Two young men and a pretty girl had
registered at a small hotel on South
Illinois Street Tuesday evening, stayed

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day, then went to Jeffersonville. That

evening Milt and J.W. decided to hire
acab. We started north out of the town,
and after awhile I didn’t feel so good
all of a sudden. Milt told the driver to
stop and I went out to the side of the
road for a few minutes. When I came
-back there Milt and J.W. were with the
cabman in the back of the car.

“Milt was holding a piece of pipe, and
the driver’s head was bleeding something
awful,” she went on, somewhat steadier
now. After that, the girl said, Hayden
drove the cab for awhile, then stopped.
The two fellows dragged the driver out
of the cab feet first, hauling his body
off into the bushes off the highway. When
they emerged perhaps ten minutes later,
Hawkins was trying to bandage his right
hand with his handkerchief. He ex-
plained that he’d cut it when he swung
at the taxi driver in the cab, and that
his fist had shattered the overhead light.

They drove on after that, but the
boys decided that it would be unsafe
to go much further in the cab, so they
abandoned it in the Taylorsville field,
some 85 miles north of Jeffersonville.
Here Milt Hawkins hid his bloodstained
white jacket and J.W. had tossed away
Davis’ cap, which had been left behind
when its owner had been disposed of.
From there they went to Indianapolis,
with the intermediate stop at the Blue
River Inn. They’d split up before
leaving the city, which explained why the
troopers hadn’t found a trace of them.

It was evening by the time her sanguine
recital was finished, and with the
arrival of Detectives Boll and Stewart,
Clementine Luttrell readily assented to
the suggestion that she return to Indiana
willingly. That night, before turning in
at the barracks at Seymour, the girl
attempted to show the troopers approxi-
mately where Eddie Davis’ body had been
deposited along Highway 62. But her
memiory failed her in the road’s darkness.

The news that Ed Davis had been
murdered stirred Jeffersonville deeply.
Early Sunday every able bodied citizen
for miles around had already enrolled in
a posse to help search for the corpse.

Following Highway 62, the entire
assemblage moved slowly toward the next
town, Watson. The work of beating
through the bushes was tedious, but the
small army progressed grimly. Leaders

_of the crowd were less than five miles out

of Jeffersonville when the electric shout
was heard: ;

“Over here! We've found him!”

The hapless cabbie was lying face down
in the high weeds about 15 yards off the
road. His arms, tied behind him, and
his legs had been bound with wire. His
head had been beaten savagely. Coroner
E. M. Coots declared that the skull had
been crushed in several places, indicating
the ferocity of the attack. :

‘As an additional macabre touch, Davis’
pockets had been emptied and turned
inside out.

Throughout Kentucky, Indiana and
surrounding states that day, police mes-
sages called for renewed vigilance in
the hunt for Milton Hawkins and J. W.
Hayden, Jr., coupled with more accurate

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descriptions of the pair. Hawkins’ photo
was distributed widely.

Late in the afternoon, Owensboro’s
dynamic Captain Bristow telephoned
Captain Eckert. “We got a hot tip that
young Hayden was back in town, so we
went out looking for him. Got him, too,”
he declared triumphantly. The fugitive
had been captured in the dense woods
along the Rough River, where he’d gone
to hide out, Bristow explained, in the
vicinity of the home of his girl friend,
Clementine Luttrell.

Detective Boll, sent to question 22-
year-old J. W. Hayden, Jr., was received
by the youth with open hostility. But Boll
had the cards stacked against the slender,
brown-haired captive. Hayden’s attitude
underwent a rapid change as he heard the
detective relate the details of Clemen-
tine’s confession.

AGER to tell his side of the story
now, Hayden corroborated his girl
friend’s story and added some facts sur-
rounding the actual murder. “It was all
Milt’s idea,” he said. “All I thought we
were going to do was hire a cab and
then rob the driver. But Milt, he’s kind
of nervous, began to sock this guy with
that lead pipe he’d brought along.”
“What do you mean by nervous ?” Boll

‘inquired,

“You know, jumpy,” Hayden explained
with a serious air. ‘“He’d get excited fast
and lose his head. Take that letter he
wrote to a girl friend while we were in
Louisville. He stuck it in his pocket and
forgot to mail it. When we were riding
in the cab he suddenly took it out and
began to tear it up. Just like that,” and

Hayden snapped his fingers to illustrate

what he meant.

“He did the same thing in that tourist
camp,” Hayden continued in the same
vein, “when he disgovered he still had
Ellis Boulware’s identification card with
him. He’d put it in his wallet with his
own stuff, and when he took it out that
picture of himself stuck to the back of
the card. He had the jitters bad then
and didn’t notice until too late that he’d
torn the picture up, too. He shoved the
pieces through a crack in the floor at the
cabin.”

Hayden didn’t know where his partner
had gone after they’d separated, but he
told Boll that Hawkins’ father had a farm
near Munfordville, Kentucky. Possibly
Milt Hawkins had gone there to hole up
as it was rather an out of the way sec-
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Kentucky state officers, Captain Eckert
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riding along a backwoods road toward
the Hawkins farm, near the tiny village
of Cub Run. Presently Sheriff Riggs,
who was familiar with the territory, sug-
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said. “We’d better surround the place.”
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65


HE WALKED IT

[* WAS lucky they found Olivett
Griggs when they did. The pool
of blood was spreading to the razor
blade a few feet away.

They whisked Griggs to the hos-
pital and put in a rush call for Dr.
Patrick Weeks who took one look,
then said crisply, “This is bad. Got
to work fast. Get him into surgery.”

Griggs said nothing. He was
pretty far gone. Besides, his wind-
pipe was cut two-thirds through.

In surgery, attendants moved effi-
ciently. “Type his blood,” Dr.
Weeks directed. “He'll need trans-
fusions.” Then his skilled hands
went to work. ’

He saw color come back into
Griggs’ pallid face when they gave
him a saline injection. “Get a blood
donor,” Weeks ordered.

Presently the donor was at his
side, looking down at the man on
the emergency table. He said,
“This is something new—”

“Keep quiet,’ Dr. Weeks said
sharply. The donor walked over and
sat down,

The throat wound was closed |

now. The stitches glinted in the
brilliant white light. Griggs wanted
to speak. Dr. Weeks bent to listen.

“"., made a bad mistake, Doc.
Silly thing to do. Cowardly thing.
You got to fix me up, Doc! I got to
walk it... .”: =

“You'll be all right, boy,” Dr.
Weeks said softly. “You'll make it.”

Weeks took the syringe of blood
and put it into Griggs. The injured
man seemed to feel itsnewstrength.

“What time is it?” he asked.

“Ten-thirty,” Dr. Weeks replied.
“Relax, now, and rest awhile.”

“Yes... yes. Rest. Got to rest.
Got to walk it, Doc.”

And “walk it” he did 92 minutes
later—from his cell to the electric
chair. Olivett Griggs walked it, like
aman. There was a guard at each
elbow, but he didn't need help.

For five hours Dr. Weeks, Indi-
ana State Prison physician, had
fought with everything known to
medical science to keep Griggs
alive—so he could die in the chair,
with 28 stitches still fresh in his
throat and another convict’s blood
giving him strength.

12:04 a.m., June 14, 1935,
Griggs, who had slain one Vugo
Orescon in a Lake County holdup,
was electrocuted. Dr. Weeks, him-
self, pronounced him dead.

—By Al Spiers, Jr.

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by EDWARD RYAN

HE DAY Olivett Griggs came to

Indiana State prison, Dr. Patrick

+H. Weeks made a mental note:
“Watch this one. He may flip.”

Soft-voiced, perceptive and de-
voted to his work, Dr. Weeks had
been the prison’s physician for many
years. He knew cons—and shrewdly
savvied their peculiar mental quirks.

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carefully examined by Dr. Weeks.
Physically the newcomer was a
magnificent specimen—a tall, burly
giant in robust health. Mentally he
was something else—a brooder with
a low intellect and a boiling point to
match. Pressured or prodded, Griggs
might explode ... and Dr. Weeks
knew he’d be pressured aplenty, if
not prodded, in prison.

But not even sage, perceptive Dr.
Weeks dreamed that Griggs would
flip in such classic style...

As time passed, Dr. Weeks’ early
éoncern faded. Griggs settled obe-
diently, albeit moodily, into prison
routine. He behaved meekly and
showed no signs of blowing his cork.

“Maybe I was wrong,” mused Dr.
Weeks thoughtfully. ‘Maybe he’ll
adjust, after all...”

Two weeks later, on the night of
June 13th, it happened.

All day Griggs had been in good
spirits. As the sky darkened at dusk,
so did his mood. He barely touched
supper and afterwards paced his cell
in growing agitation.

When told, Dr. Weeks said:
“Watch him closely!”

Guards obeyed—but too laxly. In
an unattended moment, Griggs
whipped out a safety razor blade and
slashed his own throat.

The brooding convict was quickly
discovered in a widening pool of
blood. He’d done a good job. His
jugular vein and windpipe were cut.

But wary Dr. Weeks was close by.
He got there in time to prevent death
by bleeding. Then he whisked Griggs
into the prison hospital for repairs.

Dr. Weeks skillfully sutured jugu-
lar, windpipe and throat. Still Griggs
hovered on the brink of the great

beyond. He had lost a lot of blood.

“He needs transfusions,” said Dr.
Weeks. “Call for volunteers.”

Finding blood donors among the
prison’s 2,000 inmates was no prob-
lem, but they came to the hospital
wryly amused.

“Kinda silly, ain’t it?” one said to
Dr. Weeks.

“Not at all!” snapped the dedi-
cated physician. “Shut up and bare
your arm.”

The new blood gave Griggs new
strength. By 11 p.m., Dr. Weeks
knew he’d won the tense fight to
save his patient’s life.

But there was still a mental prob-
lem.

“You should be ashamed,” Dr.
Weeks gently scolded Griggs, now
fully conscious and alert. ‘“‘What you
did was cowardly. Where’s your
courage? Can’t you face things like
aman?”

The words got through to Griggs.
A glint of pride crept into his dark,
brooding eyes.

“TT... Tl be a man now,” he
croaked.

Dr. Weeks smiled. “‘You’re strong
enough to go back to your cell, if
you like,” he said. “Ready?”

Griggs’ quick nod provoked a
pained wince, but pride still tran-
scended the murky fear in his eyes.

Griggs went back to his cell on a
stretcher. For a few minutes he
rested prone on his bunk. Dr. Weeks
hovered watchfully nearby.

Presently Griggs struggled to a
sitting position. When he got his feet
on the hard, concrete floor he gave
Dr. Weeks a tight, pained smile and
said:

‘Don’t worry, Doc. I’ll be a man.
I’m gonna walk it... by myself.”

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&a chair falling over," or "like someone had broken a box." Wit-
ness Shaffer, from the back room, saw a motion at arms length
towards Kreidler, who was almost down, by "the man who had been
in the rear of the store," and "heard an awful crack" twice.

witness Collins said he then saw Hall open the cash register

in the front part of the store and tcke money. The witness then
heard sounds of men running out of the store. Mr. Krieder jumped
up and followed the men out into the street, calling "Hold up"

or "robbers" and "Help." Kriedler had two or three wounds on

his head and over his eye and bled profusely; one witness said

he looked like someone had thrown a bucket of blood over his head.

Dr. Walter H. Baker was called and attended Kreidler. Dr. Baker
cleaned the wounds, put on an antiseptic dressing and sent Kreid-
ler home in a car. About five days later Kreidler started to run
a fever and died on April 5, 1926, ten days after the robbery.
The coroner, Dr. Charles B. Crumpacker, reported the death as
being caused by blood poisoning following a fractured skull. A
second doctor, Cooper, basicly agreed with this cause of death.

At his trial Hall put on no defense. Instead he attempted to
impeach the testimony of the various eyewitnesses. In the cross-
examination of prosecution witnesses, Gould and Collins, Hall's
attorneys questioned them at lenth regarding their visiting the
jail for the purpose of looking at, and establishing the identy
of three men, Betticks, Hayes and Fredericks, who were originally
arrested as the ones that robbed Kreidler. Collins testified
that he was satisfied in his own mind that these three men were
not the men that robbed the drug store. Gould also denied ident-
ifying them. Gould was shown a copy of a South Bend newspaper
and asked a question concerning an article in it. An objection
to the newspaper and the question was entered by the prosecution
and the trial judge ruled that the newspaper could not be seen

by the jury and the question could not be asked of Gould.

The defense also attempted to show that Kreidler's death was due
to improper medical treatment due to Dr. Baker's treatment of
him because he did not have head x-rays taken of Kreidler. Had
x-rays been taken the skull fracture would have showed up and he
could have had proper treatment and the blood poisoning would
not have set in.

As previously stated, the defense presented no witnesses and Hall
was found guilty and sentenced to death. An appeal was taken to
the Indiana Supreme Court. Hall was represented on appeal by
Frank E. Coughlin and Paul V. Paden, of South Bend. The prose-
cution was represented on appeal by Arthur L Gilliom, Attorney
General, and Edward J. Lennon, Jr., Deputy Attorney General.

The appeal was based on sixty-seven reason for the granting of a
new trial. The question of Kreidler receiving inadequate medical


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still, though her scales waver, or
even tilt falsely, usually her ends some-
how are finally served. It has been said
that Justice has a guardian angel called
Fate...

Tommy O’Brien and John Hall were
a pair of smalltime crooks whose spe-
cialty was a fast heist of a gas station
or of a small merchant whose store was
located in some outlying district.

The racket never paid off in. big
dough, but the way they worked it, it
brought frequent returns. And they
played it safe—no shooting, no murder
rap for these two.

‘T even hate to carry a_ heater,”
O’Brien would say, “but it’s one of the
props of the business. Remember this,
Johnny. Never pull a trigger when your
sights are on anything but a tin can.

Bosc: he HER blindfold, Justice can

- You can sit out a stretch for a stickup,

but nobody I ever heard of got up and
walked away from the electric chair.”

On the night of March 28, 1926,

O’Brien and Hall walked into a neigh-
borhood drug store in South Bend, Ind.
\They had cased the place carefully and
knew that Louis Kreidler, the pro-
prietor, and a young helper were alone
in the pharmacy.

“You take the clerk,” O’Brien in-
structed his pal. “T’ll put the sneeze on
the boss while you keep the kid quiet in
the back room. Here’s luck—and no
shooting!”

The holdup was perfectly timed, per-
fectly planned. Hall prodded the clerk
into the small room in the rear, while
O’Brien, leveling a Luger, marched
Kreidler to the cash register. ,

The druggist calmly explained that
he’d have to unlock the till since he had
started to close up for the night. He

reached under the counter and came up,
not with a key, but with an old revolver.

Kreidler pulled the trigger, but the
piece missed fire. O’Brien kept his head.
Swiftly he reversed the pistol in his
hand and crashed the-heavy butt of the
weapon on Kreidler’s skull. The drug-
gist went down. Tommy and Hall fled
into the darkness.

when justice errs...

It was only when they were several
blocks away that O’Brien observed that
the wooden grips of his Luger were
missing. He swore bitterly, for he knew
they lay back in Kreidler’s store, jolted
off when he slugged the druggist. And
there was no hope of recovering them,
for the wail of sirens was growing
louder by the second. However, the
rough gridiron pattern on the wood
would hold no finger prints. He was
safe enough.

“And anyway,” he laughed to Hall,
“it’s no murder rap. He’ll have a sore
beezer for a day or two, and the cops’ll
soon cool off...”

Kreidler was taken to a hospital with
a gash in his scalp. Some time later an
infection set in and he died. Under In-
diana law, since the injury had been
suffered in the commission of a felony,
it was murder.

The pistol grips led police to O’Brien
and Hall. Feeling ran so high against
the pair in South Bend that their lawyer
obtained a change of venue and the two
men were transferred to a small town
jail in a neighboring county to await
trial.

O’Brien knew they could never beat
the charge. He (Continued on page 50)

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seat and kept scrutinizing the jail. They
asked the best road to Chicago and bought
gas, requiring only four gallons to fill the
tank,

The men intimated that they were
strangers, just passing through; yet one
of them asked the attendant if he knew
Where in the jail Hall was kept. He told
them “No.”

Another tip that a man who looked
hike O’Brien had been seen at Station 19,
south of Elkhart, at  six-thirty Saturday
evening, led to a long, futile search by the
Sheriff and our officers.

Witness after witness appeared before
the court, piling up damning testimony
against the stolid Hall. Foremost of these
Was his erstwhile buddy. “Red” Prough,
due to face robbery charges although not
implicated in the South Bend holdup-
murder, He was later sentenced to from
two to fourteen years,

Prough told of giving Hall and O’Brien
a cigar box and tape one day at his ecard
room in Anderson Hall, and how they
had whittled out wooden grips for the big
revolver and wrapped them on the weapon
with tape.

E told of seeing them reading the

flaring newspaper headline, “Kreidler
Willing Solved?” and of hearing O’Brien
say, “I wonder if they're going to hang
it on to those poor kids!” and how Hall
had merely laughed. Bedies and his two
associates had, of course, no connection
with the crime in question.

One after another the witnesses canre
and went, identifying the dozen exhibits
and the accused man. piling up evidence.
Spilman and other officers told of fitting
the rubber handgrip on the big weapon
and finding that it fitted perfectly.

The rubber handgrip—insulated  ma-
terial—would it electrocute a killer for
murder?

Clinching the evidence was Exhibit 12,
an unsigned letter in Hall’s handwriting,

found in his cell at the County Jail on the

day after the escape of O’Brien. In tones
of accusation Prosecutor Sawyer read the
letter:

Dear friends: Just a few lines to
let you know that we are up for trial
for murder Sept. 27th. By we, I mean
John Hall and Thomas O’Brien. We
may get the chair. The least we can
expect is life. Red Prough snitched
on us. He sent us to the chair for a
few paltry dollars from the State.
God help him if we ever see him.

The note was dated August 4th,

“They went prepared to rob and to
kill,” Sawyer said in his closing argument,
“and on that occasion they did both. This
man merely laughed when O’Brien won-
dered if they were going to hang it on
the poor fellows in South Bend. Death
to the laughing killer!”

The jury retired at 3:51 Thursday, Oc-

Elkhart County Jail, at Goshen, ln-

diana. Cross indicates window through

which Tommy “O’Brien” made his
desperate break for freedom

Master Detective
tober 7th. Sixty-four minutes later it
passed the verdict to the Judge. All
had voted for death in the electric chair,
“to remove John Hall from — society
forever,” .

At 9:49 on Friday, Hall stood before
a grim-faced Judge and stolidly heard
himself sentenced to die in the electric
chair at the State Prison in Michigan
City, between midnight and sunrise Fri-
day, January 21st, 1927,

Seated near by. Helen Young. auburn-
haired friend of Hall. O’Brien and Prough,
free after being held five months as a
State witness, wept softly as the decree
was pronounced,

Somewhere in hiding Tommy O'Brien
would read of the fate of his fellow bandit-
killer and congratulate himself on_ his
own escape. But the law had not for-
gotten that pale-eved human rat with the
tattooed hands, for out from the Sheriff’s
office at Goshen had gone the $500 re-
ward posters bearing the picture and rec-
ord of the fugitive bandit to all corners
of the land.

This man is wanted for murder of
Louis Kreidler, druggist, 801 South
Michigan Street, South Bend, Ind.,
March 29th, 1926.

A man who called himself John Cun-
ningham was arrested late Sunday night,
January 23rd, two days after Hall's execu-
tion had been postponed. At the Bureau
of Identification in Chicago, where the
arrest took place, he was recognized as
Mallahan, alias O’Brien, by his finger-
prints and one of the numerous $500
reward posters,

The bandit was returned to the Goshen
county jail, from which he had sawed
his way to freedom four months before.
This time there was no escape. His case
was venued back to St. Joseph County,
and the trial opened in May, with Taylor,
acting as Prosecutor on appointment by
Judge Deahl. following the illness of the
hew prosecutor, Attorney Samuel P.
Schwartz.

Witnesses who had helped condemn Hall
testified against O’Brien; -but, unlike the
Hall trial, the Prosecution did not specifi-
cally demand the death penalty.

HE trial closed on May 5th, 1927. For

a long time it looked as if it would be
a hung jury. One juror voted for the
death penalty while another remained
just as firm for acquittal. Finally, after
fifteen ballots. they agreed on a verdict
of life imprisonment.

O’Brien, despondent during the trial,
beamed as Judge Deahl read the verdict.
He had expected the same fate as. his
pal, Hall, who was’ still living in’ the
shadow of the electric chair at Michigan
City.

After four stays of execution for John
Hall, on January 6th, 1928, the Indiana
Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of
the Elkhart Superior Court. The prison
board refused to change the death sen-
tence to life imprisonment, and Governor
Jackson, of Indiana, affirmed their de-
cision in spite Of a last-minute attempt
of O’Brien to shoulder all the blame by
stating that he, and not Hall, had struck
the death blows.

At 12:01, Apr 10th, 1928. Hall, stoical
still, was led to the black chair and
strapped in. At 12:09 he was pronounced
dead. after two shocks.

From a near-by cell in the same prison,
the pale-eved O’Brien, on vigil, saw the
sudden dimming of the lights and knew
that his partner in crime had paid with
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When Justice Errs

(Continued from page 7)

looked over the jail, which was. little
stronger than a cracker box. The prisoners

night, squeezed through a hole and escaped.

They were recaptured and returned. This
time they were confined in a “safe” cell.
Undismayed, Tommy set to work again.
It was harder now, but he managed to open
a small aperture in the “wall. Small and
wiry, he managed to squirm through. But
big, bulky John Hall couldn’t make it.

“Go ahead, pal,” Hall told his partner.
“T’ll stay. You’re on the spot since you
slugged the guy. I wasn’t even in the same
room. They can’t do too much to me.”

But Hall was a poor prophet. O’Brien
was still at large when he was brought to
trial and the jury looked on coldly while
Hall’s lawyer argued that he was, at most,
merely an accessory. The verdict was
guilty, the penalty death in the electric
chair.

An appeal failed. Hall was lodged in
death row in the big, bleak prison at Mich-
igan City.

That winter O’Brien was recaptured, a
sodden derelict picked up for panhandling
in Chicago. Identified in the lineup, he
was returned to Indiana to face the murder
charge. His lawyer managed to make a
‘deal. Tommy pleaded guilty and got life.

Months passed, but the ironic situation
‘did not change. Tommy O’Brien, the actual
killer, was safe in his lifer’s cell, while
John Hall, who was not even present when
Kreidler took his fatal blow, sat in a
nearby section of the prison, death creep-
ing ever nearer.

Tommy tried to save his pal. On the eve
of Hall’s execution he wrote a complete
confession, exonerating his crime partner
as best he could. But no official raised a

hand and John went to the chair.
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went by and his sentence was commuted
from straight life to a 16-to-life stretch,
and in June of 1944 he was paroled. Thus
a killer walked the streets a free man, his
partner long since dead in payment for
the deed.

O’Brien returned to South Bend and got
a job at a sanitarium just outside the city
on the strength of his experience in the
prison hospital. He worked steadily and
kept to the terms of his parole.

Then, one blustery night towar: the end
of November, Fate had the final word in
the fortunes of.Tommy O’Brien, invoking
the sentence Justice had failed to render.
Walking along a road near the hospital,
the released killer was struck by a car. He
died soon after. —PAvuL PENDLETON.

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Ambush in the Rain

(Continued from page 25)

We’re going to question everybody.”

Armstrong watched the investigators get
in their car.

“IT don’t like the idea,” the chief deputy
began, “but it looks like we’ll have to talk
with Lem Thompson.”

Nuby agreed. “The road doesn’t go with-
in a mile of his place on the mountainside.
We'll have to walk in from there.”

Half an hour and a stretch of the worst
road south of the Arctic Circle later, the
two officers came to the narrow path lead-
ing up the steep mountainside to Lem
Thompson’s cabin.

“We'll have to watch out for his dog,”
Nuby reminded. “That mutt sees people so
et that he’s a killer. Can’t blame the

og.”

. Upward they climbed until they reached
a vantage point in a clearing from which
they could shout and be heard in the cabin.

Kirkpatrick motioned to Nuby. “You
call,” he said. “Thompson knows you.
He’ll answer you if he’ll answer anybody.”

The deputy cupped his hands to his
mouth and shouted a long, drawn out,
“Hello—Lem Thompson!”

There was no answer except the hollow
echo of Nuby’s voice coming back from
the mountain into the valley.

“Either he’s back up in the mountains
with his dog or he’s sick,” the county of-
ficer surmised.

“He’s back in the mountains all right,”
Nuby assured him. “If Lem were in the
house sick the dog would be near him,
and we’d hear from the mutt.”

“Think it’s safe to go on up?”

“Yes, if we keep our hands on our guns.
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“More likely,” Nuby said, “this is the
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The chief deputy walked across the
creaking board floors to the fireplace. It was
filled with burned papers and other rub-
bish. He stooped and examined a crumpled
cigarette package.

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near the body,” the investigator said
grimly.

Nuby shook his head. Then he went over
to one corner of the room where clothes
hung and picked up a pair of well-worn
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“They’re big ones,” Kirkpatrick stated.
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Michigan City, Ind., April 10-

John Hall walked out of his death cell in the state penitentiary

here early today, sat down in the electric chair, and died without
thes least show of emotion.

Hall was the thirteenth man to be electrocuted in Indiana and
he paid with his life for the murder of Louis Kreidler, a South
: Bend druggist. Kreidler was killed in a hold-up staged by Hall

and Thomas O'Brien, who is serving a life sentence for his share in
the murder.

Hall was perhaps the calmest man in the death chamber as he
was strapped into the chair. The nearness of the chair to the

death cells had spared him the agonizing "death march” staged in
some prisons.

The condemned man left his cell at 12:01. It was exactly one :...
minute later that the current was turned on. He was pronounced
dead at 12:09.

As was his custom during his confinement here, Hall spent the
final night of his:life in a quiet manner. Not one relative came
to see him. In the afternoon he was visited by the Rev. Paul Iron,
Lutheran minister. Last rites of the church were administered.
At Hall's request, certain scriptures were read.

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innocence. On the brink of death he said he had no last words to
leave.

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‘Oty; an admission, that-he: ‘Ycongumed.
a lark: amount of:marihuans. and

whisky” the‘ day; before Davis was
Slaing A sanity. commission bag

nee sound. mentally,

gra-and fifteen 1

pr, setaing a. verdict’ of. Cally ‘On:
Hast Christmas Eyé, Hayden plead-’

ted. ‘guilty. here and was.sentenced
to:life: imprisonmert.> The: death.

)Penalty was imposed upon: his coms:

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been: used, *

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Fie of death’ row: for. more’, acts

totes ‘about "170.7 7 acres of section. ro

ntha, blamed the. fatal blud->

a | geoning? of Davis on: his longstime:

sah the Cite addition to: marihusna,. The: story.

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ured Davis" cab aiid after a short: denied a motion. f¢
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nds with: wire , drove ‘about. seve i

yen’ miles: north: of Jeffersonville}
}-and> hurled: his ‘body into pate?
weeds. along ., ‘Charlestoy
The: three-e

‘Henry: $F semcteetes executive
clemency; and a: asked: that the’ sén- |
tence be Poni ULeG: to life impris-
Executive |:
& Tuesday - morning: ‘studying 4

- With | part: of the’ mp eae Mi ative “who

Set ok Peony Davis, they paid-a farmer to;
NEOTZEL. take them ‘to Indianapolis: In: the

« Olficers. found the.
sy} abandoned cake ‘A bloody: SEY and

a cap bélonging. te Davis, :
After seine ok

OR: instituted: ‘Within a edie Hay.

ae rden and the Lattrell. gir]: ‘were: ar

ed: at Livermore ‘and named:
aed as the slayer!

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Rahn Tidus aking
and Hayden’ ‘were: periyrh with:
first-dezree. murder a ise Lot.

hac unkngwi! Beste ieee jrell. ‘Was accused of -eonspitacy, ta
OF devisees of Lula Teck-! murder. Thé meat were held.in’ he
neon or Ree Floyd County Jail, and’ on’ August
p Teskdion te of. ect 4, 1940,’Sheriff-Raymond -L; Jae

gers caught’ Hawkins sawing’ bars

Wey sre nde par-t-
Fo peek aise, Soentaree®
Ghada;aea | that-said:

defen.
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“of a skylight and ‘discovered res

wig na eral hacksaw blades in his: colt:
: ; Hawkins'* trial which was_ven«
et
“January 10, 192. at he:
aie Se

County, ° began. December 18, .

pe71940. His defense was built about
city! an’ -gdmission, that-he | consumed
Ue a large amount of aie

tel a from Clark: County to: Floyd :

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Captain Walter Eckert was in e a : ee,
complete charge of the investi- 2
gation in Ed Davis’ slaying.

casts and teletype messages were sent
over the entire state, all asking for in-
concerning the missing
driver, The next day search parties
were organized as it was felt certain
that some tragedy had befallen Eddie
Davis. Besides official posses led by
Sheriff Conners and Chief Gilmore,
county road department workers and
citizens joined in the wide hunt.
Fanning out from Jeffersonville, they
had explored little used roads, county
roads and state highways. But it had
been fruitless. Se,

Within an hour ‘after Nolting’s

call, state troopers from Seymour
and Captain Walter Eckert, from head-
quarters in Indianapolis, had arrived
at the cab, and under the captain’s di-
rection had begun searching the area
carefully. Meanwhile Chester Wilson,
a technician, had begun taking photos
of the taxi. Another technical worker
was going over it for fingerprints at
the same time.

State Police Detective Raymond Boll made the first sig-
nificant find, a white sport jacket, partly hidden under a log
about forty yards from the taxi. The jacket was dirty, crumpled
and heavily bloodstained. The connotation, however, was
puzzling. One of the men who had ridden in Davis’ car had
worn a white jacket. Had he been the victim? Or had it
been the driver? Whoever it was, what had happened? So
much blood had been found in the cab and on the jacket that
the presumption of death—murder—was a fair one. But where
was the body?

The searchers next discovered a dark gray chauffeur’s cap,
nestling in a patch of clover. Above its stiff black visor was a

42

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Captain Bristow helped
find the killers atter cab
and driver had vanished.

. Davis’ cap was found near
car, but his body came to
light a hundred miles away

as soon as they had finished. 3
Within a few hours of this FBI disclosure, a man living in

his local police precinct a shirt and tie he had found on the. @
shore of nearby Silver Creek. Theé tie bore the label of a Jeffer- &@
sonville haberdasher, and promptly speculation arose in New
Albany that Eddie Davis had been disposed of somewhere in ei:
the vicinity. With the interest flaring locally, another resident a

winged circle insignia and the designation, 1100 Cab. Stamped
in the leather sweatband were the initials E.D. Moreover,
and this caused the searchers to feel that any apprehension
for anyone other than Eddie Davis was unfounded, the inside
of the crown was bloody.
With Captain Eckert and Sheriff Nolting, Detective Boll
turned his attention to the taxi itself as soon as the technical
then had finished their work. With practiced care, they ex-
amined the interior minutely. They looked under all the seats
and floor mats, in the tool compartments and ash trays. It was
in one of the latter receptacles, the large one facing the rear
seat, that Boll sifted a bunch of paper scraps from the cigaret
butts and ashes.
“Might come in handy, if it was left by Davis’ last
fares,” -he observed quietly. He placed the pieces in
: an envelope and pocketed it. ‘

SRA Several carloads of Clark County officials
had arrived, having been notified by the
State Police, and they now aided in the
general search. Though the fields were

. Scrutinized almost inch by inch, no fur-
ther clue was uncovered. ;

Arrangements were made to take Davis’
cab back to the state trooper barracks at
Seymour, and gradually the officers dis-
.- banded to return to their respective offices,
~each to continue the investigation from
his own territorial seat with the state men
doing the overall job and acting as clear-
ing house and integrating agency for all,
Word was sent out over the interstate
police networks of the finding of the cab,
and one of the first repercussions came
from Chicago. There, FBI agents had
arrested two men and a woman, believed

to be fugitives from Tennessee. The Federal men declared ~’

they would check the actions of the trio immediately to deter-
mine whether they could have been involved in Davis’ dis-
appearance, and promised to report to the Seymour barracks

New Albany, a few miles west_of Jeffersonville, brought into


This youth and his girl friend went
for a taxi ride and later on confessed
to their parts in the grisly slaying.

came forward belatedly to tell the authorities
that he thought he saw. an 1100 cab riding
toward the creek late the previous Monday
night.

Enlisting the aid of the Coast Guard at
Louisville, Ky., state troopers and local. police
dragged Silver Creek thoroughly. Volunteer
posses, meantime, combed the stream’s banks.
Hours of gruelling work, however, brought
no result. Nothing was found to indicate defi-
nitely that Davis and his cab had been in that
area.

Capping the New Albany disappointment
was the word received later in the day from
the Chicago office of the FBI. The three per-
sons they were holding hadn’t been within
several hundred miles of Jeffersonville on the
20th. Intensive investigation had proved they
couldn’t have been involved in Eddie Davis’
strange absence.

Back in Bartholomew County, Sheriff Nolt-
ing hadn’t been idle. He had reasoned that
whoever had abandoned the cab might have
been seen leaving it, or might have been noticed

.in the vicinity, particularly if it had been the

This torn picture was left behind by
the murderer and it finally led to
his capture. The crime was stupid.

/

trio Davis had driven. Or, the two men and a girl might
have been observed somewhere in that general area. So Nolting
had made inquiries at all farmhouses in the section, and at
roadside service stations and stands.

Outside of Taylorsville, on U.S. Highway 31, Nolting struck
the lead he had been hoping for. At a gas station, he was told

. that around midnight the previous Monday a young fellow had

shuffled into his place. He was disheveled and his right hand
was covered with a bloodstained handkerchief.

SsFFTOLD me he'd had a crackup not far from here,” the
gas man related to the sheriff. “He asked if he could
use my phone; said he wanted to call a cab down
from Indianapolis. I don’t have a phone, so he asked me for
some water. His wife wasn’t feeling so good, he told me.”

Taking a glass of water, the young fellow had brought it
outside, where another fellow and a girl were waiting, the
service station man continued. “I saw him give it to the girl.
She seemed tuckered out and they both had to support her when
they all walked up the road.”

Although no corpse had been discovered as yet, it seemed
almost elementary to Nolting that murder had been done. The
gas station man was certain that neither of the two men was
as old as Davis was known to be; the one who asked for the
water, “the one with the mustache, [Continued on page 62]

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HE morning was crisp and
clear, and the early sun prom-
ised a fine day ahead. John
Bozell, a 20-year-old farmer, re-
garded the good weather signs
appreciatively as he strode through
the sweet smelling fields near
Taylorsville, Bartholomew County,
Indiana. i
Off to Bozell’s left stood a small
group of trees, and as he came
abreast of the end of the wooded
area he stopped short. Partly hidden
‘in the clump was a car, and the sun
reflected strongly from its light
colored roof. The young fellow
walked rapidly, toward the vehicle.
It was strange, finding a car parked
so far off the road and out in the
fields. :
Coming closer, Bozell saw that it
was a taxicab, a flashy green and
yellow job. On the back he saw the
words, “1100 Cab Service.” But
neither the taxi nor its name meant
anything to Bozell, for Taylorsville
boasted nothing like it. He openéd
the rear door and looked in. A
moment later the farm youth had
slammed the door shut and was
hurrying back to.a telephone.
County Sheriff Elmer Nolting in
Columbus, personally received John
Bozell’s call, and within a short time
he was speeding along Highway 31.
Following Bozell’s directions, he

40 DETROT TUT

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Ed Davis picked up death

Bohn deed SP ke hs

f

turned right on an intersecting
country road, picked up the waiting
farmer, and ten minutes later the
sheriff’s car was parked near the
cab. Nolting got out and approached
slowly. He circled the rear, studying
it as he walked. On the other side
he halted. A shapeless, dark splotch
was on the running board; Sheriff
Nolting recognized it as blood.
Using his handkerchief, he care-
fully opened the door and peered
inside. Blood in liberal quantities
stained the floor and the leather
seat. The overhead light had been
smashed and small pieces of. glass
-lay on the floor.
Knowing this to be a case for the

as a passenger when the
trio asked him to drive.

A farmer found this taxi,
abandoned in a field, and
officers looked for a body.

From this intersection a cab driver picked up three fares and without questions
he started out on a drive which was to come to a bloody end in the woods.

. Fora: week they’ searched forthe: body ‘that they knew they: would: find:sooner
or! later—and* then’ they* came» on: this:. The»murderers had..shown no mercy.

state police, the sheriff instructed Bozell to wait there until
he returned, then got into his car and headed for the nearest
farmhouse, where he telephoned the Indiana State Police bar-
racks at Seymour, 24 miles southward.

Nolting introduced himself to the trooper who answered
the phone, then said: “That Jeffersonville cab you’ve been
looking for is down here, near Taylorsville. There’s a great
deal of blood in the back. No. No sign of Davis, the driver,
but I haven’t looked around yet. I wanted to report to you
first.” Nolting supplied the precise location of the field, and
after hanging up started back. .

This was Thursday, May 23, 1940, and nearly three days
had elapsed since Edmund Davis, a driver for the 1100 Cab
Company, of Jeffersonville, Indiana, had
last been seen. Since late that Monday
evening, all law enforcement officials in the
state had been posted on the developments
surrounding the man’s disappearance, and

By
Gregory Reit

asked to be on the watch for Davis or his distinctively
colored vehicle. ~*

According to the -information Jeffersonville police Chief
Gordon Gilmore and Clark County Sheriff Claude Conners had
assembled so far, Davis had been hired by three people, two
young men and a girl, early in the evening at the taxicab com-
pany’s office, just off the corner of Pearl and Court Streets.
Another cabbie had seen the trio just before they rode off
in Davis’ car, but all he could tell ‘the authorities was that
one of the men had worn a white sport jacket.

When Davis had failed to report hours later, his employer
had grown worried. Thirty-six-year-old Eddie Davis’ record
was spotless ; his habits were regular, he was thoroughly reliable
and trustworthy. Only some accident could
cause him to stay out this long without
getting word back. The police were notified.

Throughout the remainder of that night
and the next day, Tuesday, radio broad-

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_ DANGEROUS MOOD.

Hearing that Miss Downey would be
at the fair at Princeton on September
13, 1888, he determined to meet her
there, On the way tothe fair he met
two boen acquaintances, and ‘one said
to him:

“Why haven't you got your girl with
you to-dity ?”

“Another will have her to-day, and
theyawill be sorry for it,” Grobb an.

(tog with some lady ‘friends near the
amphitheatre, and approached them.

were,

saw her Sunday,” ghid the com-

| didn’t, and by Gd Lonly want to

* herence more,” teaponded Grubb,
Hlis chief object in being at the fale
that day was to meet Miss Downey
face to faceonce more. About 9 o'clock
ty the fornoon he espied her convers-

Ite curtly aeked Miss Downey to ac.
company him ona littl walk, and she
refused, Insisting with determination
she consented, telling her Indy friends
she would be back ina moment, ‘They
walked off together, strolling foward
the entrance to the grounds, It was
evident to those near that nena ar

THY WERE QUARRE LIN a,

and the young lady was beard-to say:
pe don’ t want to i your com-
pany.” |
“ All that passed between’ them at this
conference will never be known, but
suddenly the stream of people powtripg.
in at the gate, and the throng. all
around, wan startled beyond means at
bearing the report of a pistol anil pee-
ing a young lady running off scream-
ing and bleody,._ Two other shots were
fired at the fleeing girl, and the people
looked on in perfect amazement. The
first shot penetrated het right cheek
and fodged in the throat, the powder
from.the | revolver burning her face
and sin geing her eyelashes, One shot
wounder her in the arm and another in
the breast. Then Grubb turned the
pistol to bis own wortbless head and.

trikes
h one

ny tro
rer ‘t,
were

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of the
n the
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snapped It twice, but it falled to goof.
Turning the pistol down he fired the
fourth shot Inte thd! ground, Thote
sho rushed at bft to! atop him in! his
boody work were held at bey by. the

point of his revolvers and the thraat
that he

WOULD, bid ney aa
the first one ‘who- ‘attempted to-tip-
| proach him. At length he gurrended
to the officers, Cries of “bang hips!
hang him!” were heurd hround, and.
when the officers: sald’ it wos not safe
to linger there” he ii¢reased hie’ , pace.
He was at once lodged tn jail.’ gat

To prevent any attenipt to lynch
him that night the local militia whe
stationed ground thé Jail.) ‘There ware
serious threats of iynebing by the at
rents of the young lady, |

‘The wounded girl wag tenderly takeo-
to the hotel; and ‘metical ald summaon-
ed. | She (waa, pubseifhently taken to
her home at Frisco, where ahé lingered
in great Agony till ‘September 19, whea |
death relieved . her of) her physicals gat. |,

jes kA SHY OR OR MO,

ferloge. | Lihat ei i # ha ee wi a

On Septombee! 16, ‘the authorities |,

| spirited Grubb. away froin thie Piidds |
PRPOMPaL lie) Coal DR evaR CRT OR CORI LL se Ora Be

“A word to Mra. Downey: | Mra,
Downey, I know yor griaved overt
what has happened with your
dear daughter. It is grief to mo ten
times more than to you, for I loved her
Jearly. For God's sake, Mrs. Downey,
do not interfere with lorcra again,
**** Twas driven to this; it was
toomuch for my brain, A miserable
man in jail, once Nght-hearted and
happy!"

Ho stated to others that he Hi

KILLED HIG SWEETHEART, |
because he did not waut any one ele

MMA AMY UVULL BTC THe ACLION OF
the lower court, The last lecal hope
for Grobb had pa&seod awr> forever,
He began to relize that cor are not
exactly a place of refnge for erlminala,
Yor some time after this Grub) lay
utied in jail, and had almost. dropped
t of public notice, The genera’ ele
righ in November, with its attendant
txcitemente, contributed no Jittls to
the hush that fell upon thia foul mur.
derer. But the game fellow would not
permit the public to remain jinatten-
tive to him,
Op Saturday nights March 2 he

to enjoy her love. Frequently he a startled everybody by escaping from
}

pressed the desire to hang rather tl
40 to the penitantiary, ‘

The grand jury of Gibson county in-
dicted him for mutderon September
25, and fixed the date of hid tral, Fur
safe keeping he was then taken td the
Jflereon wile povitentiary to awalt bis
trial. Ona change of venue he ‘wes
brought to the Knox Cireult court for
trial, which began Ovtober 12, |

The profoundly enreged people of
"Frisco, or Francisco, supposed! he.
would pass throbgh that place on his
way from Evansyille to the plage, of,
bis trial, and planned to Hii i

SAVE COURT PXPENSEN |.
inthe case. Twd men) boarded the
train at Oakland | | City, and searched
the train for the oritninal, Their pala.
were nt Frisco awaiting the. arrival of,
the train. A band leader, wanting to.
reach Princeton that night and entire

ly anconscions of the deep-laid acheme

in hand, flagged’ the train, LAG onoe a
band of determined, mesked men.
boarded tho tratn.| | ‘Right of them) en-
tered each coach’ snd searched fot
Grubb, but he was not there. Without
a word they dropped off ‘of the: train,
and It possed on, | Grubb unconscious
ly escaped this xtreme danger by bes
Ing brought to thia mtr, over the 0. &
M.-rallroad,

The trial was of a woek’s Hhoratibal
and a strong fight was made for his |
life. His attormneya were AI. Twine
hem, J. 8. Pritchett and W. A. Oullop,
The State was represented Lf Provecus
ting Attorney J.C Adame. ). R. Hretz
and J, BE, McCullough, |.) |. i

H

The jury consisted of good ten, wizt |)

enry Spraugh, T. J Beckéss, Michael
Kaney, A. Q. Jordan, Eling, Rackley,
Theo, Leveron, Robt.’ MeCord,| La
Horace Polk, W. If. Willlamson, i. A,
Wood, Samtel qacech and Theo, Wel-

ton, 3), at Bad

The prosecution tntredicsa in court

(|) A DANGEROUS Latter |||!)
of his, written to Miss Downey atter
theirestrangement, This letter breaths
ed the threat: “I told you, Gertie, that
I would disgrace you as long as I lived
for the cruel way you treated mé, if
you kept it up, and [have done so al:
ready; but it te hovaing ihe the way it
will be if I keep it: taps.” Even stronger
terms than these were wsed, and a te-
vengéfal spirit was manit-sted. Thin
letter farther sald: / "It you are going
to be Feghyen bi | Pan be ‘Rn
enemy to you? |, tt

The defenss! ‘ca deaa ‘he’ ibaa
‘the gehve deed, dntier the actin inwlated!

wrongs ot tivo! iphaite, Tin’ bpell) Voth

[ tere tet | mberratidn, TN rot hed! ‘heal

‘| font bldtkets tied together.

jail. Heand anegro by the name of
John Scott, committed for stealing an
overcoat, occupied alone the upper
pact of the jail, The iron ceiling had
been cut with a brace and bit, and the
ventilator in the roof opened. This
made a clear passage tothe free air
outside. Grubb and the negro de
ascended to the ground by the means of

When
the:

DISCOVERY oF THE ESCAPE

wag made tiere was mitch excitement.
The other prisoners in the jail sald
something strange had happened, bat
they did not know what

At once steps were taken to recap-
ture Grhbb. The negro was never
heard of again. Marshal Mew INiams,
of Olney, Il, was telegraphed to to
bring « his blood: hounds on thb rext
train, for the purpose of trailing the
escaped man. Dispatches were sent to
other points to the anthorities tobe on
the lookout. Postal cards were at onee
printed and mailed, cffering a reward
for his recapture,

All next day the search war continu.
ed. The blood-hounds were brought,
rand at effort made to have them track
‘the inan. Bat too many curious feet
‘had prested the earth around where
the prisénet had escaped, and they
eoul dnot assist at all in the search.

| Late Sunday evening, Maren 8,
‘Bheriff. McDowell received a ditpatch
from Marshal J.D. Rival, of Gray ville,
ML, enying he thought his conld get
Grubb. and) asked what reward they
|would give for bis return,

The next day, Monday, fnst 9 Me-
‘Dowell was going to take the train for
Grayville, he was not » littl surprised
‘and | pleased to see Marshel, Rigall
march the domed man to the jail.

4 The etory HES; |

HIS RECAPTURE

isa thrilling one, and Grubb’s expert-
lenoe while obt of Jallisno tess Interest.
WOgiiee ds. |

Grobb and the Rexto labored five
days.to necute a place of exit from the
Jail, | By means of a brace and two
‘bite & hole'was bored in the iron cell.
ing.’ (|The negro labored all night, and
slept. during the day, 1 hig. exc ite dno
suspicion, as Grubb wat seen about
the upper jail corridors all ‘day. Files
owete also used.  Duting the day Grnbb
walked: in order to fa'n strength for
his Jong tramp ont of jai!

The means for discuising himself
were obtained from his fellow prison.
Ihers | One of them ent off his trinetecha

with is palt Of eclasote,
thie white ‘phére

pe ee

te Hreohpynrend

net ¢ at

might possi
and all cos.
prisoners :
Belf with t!
Amd when |
on him he «!
manner tliat
Thetrtende:
heart of
and tear!
Hoeorer
Out of |.

would rie
He naked)
to quiet his
night, ‘Vi
quantitte
powder,
His ol jo
had enow;
But he
and wely!
hie bene (|

AS tthe
tlon tine
f@rest in
gin to en
tern hila ncte:
With a @ort «
turmed away
ly aeried to
refuged to c¢
curlo dry
few knew |
day, howe v
religiaus ad»
He avowed 1!
der, and thet
Downry. 1!
but the slo)
her.

About a v
Asaued a ort
bls posldon,
tlon would by

ttt

ad poselble x
accorded
curlosity ce:
fled, and the:
tinue the rec:
ston, as le
“police «fic
men.

Just awee!
death wate!
ed man, Te
one by day a:
their eyes wr
Theol ject ww:
on hia part to
the time allot:

The only on
any touchins
religious way,
On Sunilay he
Offered up» p
not pray, H>
he prayed ev:
day, under the
he professed t!
Fequested thet
upon him. ‘Th
careless) uncor
surptise to cer
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refieed,

she would be back in a moment. They
waiked off together, strolling foward
the ontrance tothe grounds, It was
evident to those neat that ‘

THEY WERE QUARRELING,

and the young Iady was heard-to say:

‘I don’t want to keep your com-
pany.”

All that passed between them at this
conference will never be known, bnt
suddenly the stream of people pouring
in at the gate, and the throng all
around, was startled beyond means at
hearing the report of a pistol and pee-
ing a young lady running off scteam-
ing and bleody... Two other shots were
fired at the fleeing girl, and the people
looked on In perfect amazement, The
Orst shot penetrated her right cheek
and lodged {nthe throat, the powder
from the revolver burning her face
and singeing her eyelashes, One shot
wounder her In the arm and another Jn.
the breast. Then Grubb turned the
pistol to his own worthless head and
mnapped It twiee, bit it failed to go off,
my arning the pistol down he fired the

ith shot into the gronnd. Thore

lio rushed at him te stop him fn ‘his
ving work were eld at bey by the
point of bis revolver, and the se rent
that he Hi | | ta

WOULD xILt. haem BT

the first one who ‘attempted torap,
[proach him, At length, he guriended
rto the offlcers, | Cries’ of. “bang, dim!
hang him!* were board, around, aod
when tho officers nald it wow not safe
Lo linger there he locreaned his. _ Pace,
He was at onde lodged tev fad’ 28 )-}1;

To prevent: any attempt to Jyneh
him that night the local. militia! wae
stationed around the! jail, There were
serious threata of lynebing. py cain
rents of the young lady, \° be

The wounded girl was tenderly Li
to the hotel, and modical aid summon.
ed.’ She was, ‘wobsetfheritly: taken to
her home at ‘Frisco, where abe lingered
in great agony, till September 19, when |
death relieved het of. | physteat mit
feringas() i 02 ph i) cote!
“On: September. 16, nb dune lies
spirited Gradb. away’ i the Prince.
ton juil, in order to ithe mob that

Inststing with determination, |
ole consented, telling her lady friendn

Jetter fart

Lata testifodit

threatened bh his ferrin || n ‘

trial, whieh began Ostober 12, |
The profoundly enraged people of
‘Frisco, or Franelseo, supposed ho
would pass Lurotgh that place on his
way from Evansville to the. place of
bis trial, and planned to | lit
SAVE COURT EXPENSES | | ||
inthe case. ‘wo men boarded the
train at Oakland City, and searched
the train for the criminal, Their pals
were at Frisco awaiting the arrival of
the traiv. A band leader, wanting to
rench Princeton that night and entire-
ly uncenscions of the deep-lald schema
in hand, flagged thre train, At once &
band of determined, masked men
boarded the train. Kight of them en-
tered each conch and searobed for
Grubb, but he was not there, Without
a word they dropped off of the: train,
and It possed on,’ Grubb unconscious
ly escaped this axtreme danger by be
Ing brought to thia city ovor the 0, &
M, ratlrond. ii | wel ee
The trial was of a week's “duration,
and a strong ght. was made for his
life, Dis attortneys were A, P, Twine.
ham, J. 8. Pritchett and W. A. Oallop.
The State was represented by Probeou.
tiog Attorney J. 0 Adama, IR, Brete
and J. EB. McCullough. | Hi in
. The jury consisted of gaod inen,, | vie |
enry Spraugh, T. J Beckes, Micha)
Kaney, A. Q. Jordan, Elias, Kabkley,)
Theo, Laveron, Robt. MoOord,! jr.)
Horace Polk, W. EL. Willtesa son, | + ALI
Wood, Samnel Livech and ae nt
i | t

an ;

ton. ie
The prosec ution {nitro tibed in bbe
a DANonnove Letrer «|| || |)

of his, weltten| to Miss Downey attr]

their datrnsatieny This letter breath. |.
‘led the threat: |

I told you, Meee eel
I would disgrace you: ‘ad lotig as Tilved

for the crael way ‘you’ treated mai, |
you kept if up, and I haveldone so i
ready; but.it ia nothing: ke the way it
will be if I keep ittap,” | Even stringer
terms than there wore ‘used, and
vengeful ae wae Pitted 4 rh
atid: we S44 you |
to. be ‘An oat H

\
wi

enemy to you."s| tie

. The defease dlaimed A Rea
the stave deed, under the agcumuldted |
wtorgs of two: years Jn! a spall: a
mental ' nbertathdn,| Tie! thothed ope
at he | Sobh plainer
ahd:

four bléhkets lied together.

When
the

DISCOVERY OF TrIEF
was made tiere was much ex :itement.

The other prisonece in the jail said
something strange bed happened , but
they did not know what

At onco steps were taken to recap.
ture Grhbb. The negro waa never
heard of again. Marshal ¥ev ilin m8,

of ‘Olney, AN, was telegraphed to to
bring: his ‘blood: hounds on the next
train, for the purpose of trailing the
escaped man. Dispatches were rent to
other points to the authorities to be on
the lockout. Postal cards were nt ones
printed and inailed, effering a reward
fur his recapture,

| All next day thé search was continu.
ed. The blood-hounds were brought,
rand ao effort made to have thero track
the man, But tos many curious feet
had pressel the earth around where
the prisoner had escaped, and they
eoul dnot assist at all in tho se: wreh,

Bate Sunday evening, Maren 8,
“Bhoriff McDowell recelved a dlepateh
from Marshal J. D. Rigall, of 4 tray ville,
Ih, enylng he thought he conta get
Grubb. and asked what reward they
|| would give for bis return,

‘| The next day, Monday, fust as Mee
Dowell was going to take the train for
Grayville, ho was not a little eurprised
and pleacéed to see Marshal Rigall
march the domed pian to ths jail.
+ Bhe stary of.
eho Heb PTURE
ts i thrilliug one, and Grubh’s expert
ence: while out of jail is no legs interest.
ing, he yt |

-Grabb. aod taal beaks Iddored five
days.to Bectire a place of exit from the

{| bits a hole was’ bored in the iron call.

ing.’"The negro labored all night, and.

slept during the day. This excited no
| suspteion, las Grubb was seen about
| the uppér Jail corridors all dey. Files

3) were also used. | During the day Grubb
ig | walked In jorder to gain strength for
| ‘hte long tramp ont of jail,

«| Phe means for} disguising himnelt

were obtained from bis fellow prison.

‘ere, One Of them ent off his minetache
with a pair OL scissors, Ie exchanged
| feaeeoues shirt ‘and cold studs for a
working abict, and from others he.
bo <Coet apd vost, His

véd'| jal, By means of « brace and twol On

Ad th:
thon theo)
@reat ts
gan toer!)
turn hls ot
With a eor
turmed nvr
ly cease |
rofused to
curloalir.
few knew |
duy, howe:
religious a
He avowed :
dar, and th:
Downey. |
but the elm
her.

About a +

Asaued a wor!

his poalsion,
tlon wonld }
Pl
yr
Ad posed’)!
aceoorde
curioalt:
fled, an:
tinue the :
ston, ag ly
“police ¢ 1):
men.

Fiat nwo:
death wor
édirman. |
eno. by day
thelr eyr

: we Phew) je t

én hie por!
the time
+The o:
any tow
reli rion
Sunde:
Offered u)

not pray. on

he Prayer)
day, under t

he profer:ed

Fequesta:) th}

‘apon him.

Onreleaa, un
surprise to

‘5D. M. Bin!

‘dity, Mo., 9:
asaleted at p

‘arrived here
‘Mion Y where
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,18ER, |

- eM eo

—< — 7 ere “ron om
of dizzness, and that. be had been sac
and brooding for two years past, with |,
un wild stare in his eyes. At one time |

lo had been overcome by hent, and af.

‘hat he was never exactly himself.
» minor incldénts wero) related to
then the ples of the defense,
r fie trial Grabb tat with a
I, i?
re rRENT MANNER. |
(he vitnessdes recotnted bls love

‘'y, tha only girl he ever loved,
“only then was he. moved by ‘his
eliogs. He bowed his head and wept.
Ihe lovertory seemed to be the only
pooolble thing that cond move him in
Auy pereeptibla degree. Apparently
he was absolutely indiffergnt as’ to
what the result might be, 1°.

‘fter deliberating eight hours the
jury returned & verdlet of, ‘guilty of
invidec {a the first degree, and fixed
hic punishment, The jury took but
‘lie ballots, - Before taking the last
vs ot they voted on the insanity dodge,

they unanimously agreed he was

‘non they considered the’ de-

of his crime, and they were a unit

point that he wag guilty of mur-
the first degree. The last bal-
course, simply affixed the ~~
DEATH PENALTY, |) («|

iry was pelected from aVeulre of

FiOTh,

‘it heard the verdict with the ut-

difference, He said not a word,

J not a sigh, moved thot a mos.

» oor old father and mother

when they heard the ver-

vept profusely, They were

matly distressed, Ghuby | was
led to paik.

ution for a now trial. was byet-

by Jadge Townsend, and April

Las the day of the ‘execution.

ird-Hearted  wreteh “Was | not
when the Judge pnsted son-
upon kim i. | ha yt
iug the period of | his iné¢ercera-
he refused to be interviewed, and
sore that as a carpenter he vould ald
u building the saeffold, | *
Hearing that Miss Downey pisture
was sold on the street ho remonstrated
\o Mr. Downey in’ ‘a letter he handed to
Sherifl MeDowell. Tn part he wrote:
“Mr. Downey, for God's sake do stop
f you have aby respect for your
laughter at.all. You know if Gertie
vas living and knew of any one buta
articnlar friend | having her picture,
he would be grieved, ‘Dob't’ peddle
ny more of her pictures, I beg you,” |

q

Au appeal was taken to: thal) | L |

|
; |
i] I j

SUPREME oouRT, 1

ind that court averred the action of
he lower court. | The last legal hope
‘or Grubb had pakied’ nway’ forever.
Je began to relize that, courté are not
‘xactly A place of refuge for ctiminals,
Por some time after this Grubb lay
iuietly im jail, and had’ almost dropped
nu of pablie notice, The renetal elec

store

en

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i

i.
= ——— eee —

Sneednets tebe sab nae

black sult he sewed up In his cell, bed-
tier, |

After he got out he | | wistieed doit!
Broadway, and at Elnerdy. hatdwate

it | *,
WALKED ROLDLY IN) |

F and purchased % 38-calibra revolver, |

This was early Io the evening, not 1a-
ter than 8 o'clock, when ‘there were

“Jot many people on tha streets!) Thus
armed he set out on bis journey, Oroae-

Sar ry AL ; . rnilroad bridge into
pind his fond devotion for Miss af ipe hinted endl ed atesh ,

Uioots, he endeavored to ayoid the
railway and tho possibility of meeting
ancy one, but tho earth In the Nelda and
woods was so soft and muddy that
travel there was dificulb and weari-
eotio. So he boldly took tho’ railroad
fot Lawrenceville, acd from there
waiked down the Wabash. railroad to
St. Francisville—a distancein all of
abont twenty miles. By this time he
Was very tired, and it was past mid-
bight, <A freight train pasred at that
point, and breaking the seal of a box-
car he entered, intending to go direct
to Calro, At Mr. Carmel the ene fn
which he! was accreted wan switched
opon the eide-track and left. He got
Out and set forward again on foot, Some
time after daylight be took brenkfast at
a German farm house, and when he had
almost reached Gray ville! he a:¢ down
on x bridge to rest, Justithen a trainp
printer, who lind shortly before been
In tho Vincennes fall with Gr LD, paps
ed by. His nate wae Hin, EAE, Wns
the: (printer i I

qt Bist RECOGNIZED GRUBB,

arid knowing his desperate charatted he
completely deceived the murder, who
thougtit his Claguise lind rerved him a
sfood purpose this time. When out) of
aight Hilltorned off tlio ratlrovd pnd
going around back to Grayville ip foriin~
ed the authorities of the fac t (hat Gritbb
Wad neur, bid ti!

ale wis 4 o'elock Sunday afternoon
when Marehal Rigall trode down ‘the
railroad track, and) under the pretence.
of wanting Grubb for some steailng
that had beenidone at Albion tha night
before ersily bandeuffed | him, and
marched him triamphauily Into Griy-
ville, Grubb was astonished ty sea
Hill there, whom*he «saw, ao shortly

| before going up the railroad track, nad

TURNED QuiTR: PALM, {

He knew then that he waa not wanted
ag one of the Albion thieves, but as the
escaped murderer from tho vipveniies
jail. |

When he was once again luge ait
lyin) jail, he was contlued, In wm cell;
and watched with untligging nttenudn,
Nothing whe given him by which he
might poselbly end hid midetable life,
and all caramuniention with the ‘other
prisoners whe cut off. Hy deported him-
self with the most atoical Indifferenve,
aed when his mother ani ptster cally
on hin he showed a a ster, | hard, cerdel
manner that almost broke thelr hearte

Thetr tendernpee wae enone | te ale

rourder, He hae been babseed In thle
bosiness for tw enty years,
Tt: @ senffo'd ign
dl atour MNF eTRUCTUNE,
otanding at the rear of thr J.!),
lowe by ablgh bourd fence
‘The olin which Grobb was confined
in one In the upper tler, sceond from the

ebtrance, |
{i

and en-

| The young man who pald the penelty

for kiting bis sweetheart wee rather »
hiandrome fellow, Wack intr and eyes,
ark | mustache, a little aver mediam
stature and of col phya’que. Mis rie-
tlin was a beautiful young lady, well
fs toed, and vivactona and Intelifgent,

watt rt Chat With BinkIcy,
nD. OM. Bivk'ey, the geutleman
who erected the sesffold and superin
tended) the hanging of Grubb, tan very
eoctable and intelligent genti: man, and
he kagarich memory of thrilling ex.
perfences Im his’ business, Dropping
Into the Commenciure ¢ffive tn a eoctal
way the other evening he telstcd some
of his cxperlences, which we will pre-
fent here but not in the xrephie and
dietinet way that he teld them,
“Where were sou born, Mr. Bink-
ley? 2 was neked, 5

if was born in Wayne county, Ohio,
avi tilsed there, Four yeara ergo I went

| 6 Koabas City, Mo. where I have re-

rided ever since, Icame, Tf might aay,
directly here from Menkato, Minn. I
have been In this bustness for twenty
yours, and I bave jn that thme attended
and stiperintended nearly seventy ex-
ecutlone, and we of these ovar
twenty,

| Money In this busine R22?) «=6Well,
eoine| not mich. Many olf ct to mr
high price. Some S:atcs pontrol the
fee, In Ohlo, under the new law, the
suriate allowed $500 for bis services

till relation ‘to the} execntion, and all
miley expenees.. Pennaylvaina al-
lows the Sheriff $1,900 for the execution.
In this State there Is no law regulating
the feo of tho execntioner, The Sheriff
mares outa bill, and I suppoeed It fa o)-
lowed.

*O, na, there is nothing secret about
my fee in this Grubb case, I come here
and seq to the execution of the fellow
for $125, Itook this business at this
| figure, | ‘becaure I knew it wold be the
laut county execution Inthe State be-
fore the adoption of the now law, and I
Jesired to make a good example of this
ancl apply for the position of State ex-
evulloner,if the new Jaw makes such a
plaice necensary,

“Now! In Oblo under.the new law tha
Sheri simply takes his prisoner to Co-
luinbus at the proper time, and draws
hha /$500. Further than that he has
nothing to do with the execution.

“No, €2,500, or I would say $1,500 2
yent Would be a good salary for euch a
position, for there would not be orer
tive. or aIx, or at moat a dezen execn-
tlonk in a Fenr, a

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“Mistory of the, Crime, a
Sylvester, Grubb was jtwenty-four
years old, He ‘ited with | hia patente
Oua farm rear_Oakland’ City, Gibson
county, this State, Hé also claimed to
bea carpenter. ,’Friseo is a small étn-
tion on the Air Line, thidway. between
Oakland City and Princeton, and bere
is where Miss Gertie Downey, hit tn-
suspecting victim, lived with “her pa-
rents on a farm: .8hé ‘was a pretty,

‘prepossessing young Iady, about nine-

teen years old, just in the bom of ber
bright young life. i
About two years before the tragedy
Grubb met Miss Downey and fell des.
perately Inlove with her. ‘For a time
‘heir love-life passed along smoothly
hough, but at length the parents of
‘ve soung lady objected to the calls of
he young man, |The! father forbid
him the honge, becanae ho B Lay!
THREATENED mE hire: idl
of his daughter, Grabd afterward con-
fessed that he was mad when he utter
ed his vengeful words. | With the per-
sistence of a determined lover, ho em:
braced. every opportutiity | to throw
himself in her presence, Not teclpro-
cating his warm attachment in the de:
gree he gave it, and “tespecting the
wishes of her parents, she avolded him
as far as she possibly could, On acs
count of her indi fferenge toward him

J;

-ERTIE pow#ay, | mn

iad sibs Buble as

grew morose and | sullen, and on
ne occasion pat ona board pile three

| hours waiting for her toct Dts home,

For #-time he ceased toinett her,

hoping that way ‘to | gin ‘ber back.
‘again. To farther, avdld him, about:

three weeks before the [shooting she
visited an dunt of hers

audience, and intimating that unlens

af wroté her a letter tilete, heking an

she granted this requast he wonld

fF | war taken to Rvanev

| saw ber at the fair, |

iin Princeton. |

ae

in Jail,

UA bandiofy Sis fel uy |

A ruNDReD MEN Wi
collected that niglt to hang btn’ w ithe
‘out process of lav, and his meck ‘wad
saved # stretching by the prompt. ad:
tion of the Shutiff in removing bind

‘showed signs of fright, Public metal
mation ran highs) 4) 84 is {
In Evansville a Wart reporter, ate
tempted to interview hin, ‘or get a
sketch of his physiognomy, and ‘he
stouthy objected, | At some fancied
eeieanto toward the: reporter he took
mortal) offense, and attompted to kill
bim with a chair,
tempt: | em i iW;
Then in a,

porter for publication,
only time he*mada any statement: Te-

| 8pecting the case to the public. After

his sentence, it will be remembeted,
he wrote outa bill of fare! whieh! be
wanted charged to the jary that order.
ed him hung, This was mert}y aplece
of bitter irony. He also wrote a letter
concetning the sale of Miss Downéy’s
pietlare, of which we will speak further
along. The letter ke presented to the
Tribwne stated that he had been going
with Gcrtle Downey for two years, avd
for, agyearanda half they) |. 4)
NAD BEEN /ENGAGED.

with fond devotion, Two months be-
fore the tragedy the mother of the
young girl, he wrote, because dissatia-
fied with her daughter's choice, and
slighted him. Gertie. told ‘him, he
says, that her mother mistreated her
on his acconnt, and she had no satis.
faction at home, Mrs. Dowhey told
her daughter that she was young, and
might yet marry a man with thoney,

|} two weeks later, after sha had kissed

him good-by at the gate and told hihi
to take care of himself, she had) Hl]
* TURNED AGAINST AIM, |

and fold him she had concluded to
have ho more to do with him, | | He goose
on in dis letter to say! era

“Ef didn’t seo her ‘ny more until 1

When I saw her,
handsome face, which | was once my,
joy and pride, but now, Jost to!) me for.
some other that had money, tt. over
eomeme, T lost all reason aid anil
the fatal shot that killed dedi Gertle|
and rulned me ‘forever! GQ, Mra)
Downey, you are the. ‘fault of this: you.
hare killed your dear daughter and

ld adh conttned |

secretiy, On this ocension the prisoner |

Me tulle in his at-

'

| any perceptible degree.
temdisefal moment he
presented a letter to. the Tribune |re-:
‘It was the | |

He wtote that each loved the other |. |

ise dizznesr, jand that he had been sac
i} and brooding for two years past, witl-
:a wild stere/in his eyes, At one time
he had been ‘Overcome by hent, and af-
ter that he was never exactly himself,
‘Many minor incidents were related to
strengthen the plea of the defense.
Daring the trial Grubb ast with a
‘very stolid, | '
INDIFFERENT MANNER.

affairs, and his fond devotion for Miss
Downey, the only girl he ever loved,
and only then’ was ho moved by ‘his
feelings. He bowed his head and wept,
The love stoty seemed to be the only
possible thing that could move him in
Apparently
‘ho was absolutely indifferent as to
what the result might be.

After deliberating eight hours the
fury. returned a veétdict of guilty of
murder inthe first degree, and fixed
his, punishment. The jury took but
three ballots, Before taking the Just
ballot they voted on the insanity dodge,
and they nranimonsly agreed he was
Bane. Then they considered the’ de-
gree of his crime, and they were a unit
on the point that he was guilty of mur-
derinthe first degree. The last bal-
lot, of course, simply afixed tha
i DEATH PENALTY,

The jury was selected from a yentre of
sixty men,

|| Grubb heard the verdict with the nt-
“most indifference. He said not a word,
‘breathed not sigh, moved not a mna-
cle, His poor old father and mother
broke down, when they heard the ver-
‘dict, and wept profusely. They were
very greatly distressed. Grubb was
remanded to jail,
|| A motioti for a new trial was over-
ruled by Judge Townsend, and A pril
19 fixtdas tha day of the execution.
The hard-heatted wretch was not
moved, when the Judgs passed sen-
tence upon him,
|| Daring the period of his inceresra-
tion he refused to be interviewed, and
swore that as a carpenter he could aid
In building the’ sce ffold,
| | Heating that Miss Downey's picture
was sold on the street he remonstrated
to Mr. Downey in a letter he handed to |
Sheritt McDowell. In part he wrote:

i 4 Mr, Downey, for God’s sake do stop
if} you, have any respect for your
daughter at all You know if Gertie
whs living and knew of any one hota

. and .purch-

“When the witnesses recotinted hin love

black auit he
tier.
Afterhe ¢
Broadway, 7
store
; WAT

This was eo:
ter ‘than &
yet many pe-
armed he cet
ing the ©. &
Ilinoie, he
Fallway and ¢
any one, bo!
woods war :
travel (hero
Bote. So hv
for Lawren
walked down
St. Franttecisy:!
about twenty
Was very tired
night. A fre’
point, and br:
car he entored
to Calro. At
which het we.
upon the side!
out and set for:
time efter day!
a German [erin
almost reached
on a bridge to
printer, who |
In the Vincenn
ed by, His nv
the printer

RECO:
and knowing hi!
completely dec:
thought his dis,
good purpose tl,
steht Hill turne:
going aroun’ |
ed the nutho
WAS Neur,

It wos 4
when Marsh).
rallread tract,
of wanting ‘)
that had been ©
before easily
marched tim ‘
ville. Grab
Lill there,
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tersection and vanish completely with-
out attracting attention. He wondered
if another examination of the Michi-
gan-Concord Streets neighborhood
might not be in order.

One officer who had been working
quietly and unobstrusively on the Jack-
son case since the beginning was Lieu-
tenant Morrisey. Saturday morning he
sat down in Detective Chief Simon's
office and scanned the evidence so far
gathered in the case, weighing each
factor for its individual value and seek-
ing above all things else to find some
single clew that might distinguish the
Jackson gunmen from the usual run
of bandits with which the Department
had been having trouble.

Jackson’s killing had come as a vio-
lent climax to a wave of banditry -par-
ticularly heavy during the Winter of
1930 and the Spring of 1931.

ACKSON’S grocery chain had been
one of the principal sufferers. Con-
sulting the records, Morrissey found
that between early November, 1930, and
May 27, the day Jackson was shot, six-
teen of his stores had been held up. The
loot had run into thousands of dollars.
Wiest, the son-in-law, had been slight-
ly wounded in one of the robberies.
Several Winters before, Morrissey re-
called, one of Jackson’s store managers
had been slain by two bandits. It was
upon that occasion that Jackson, thor-
oughly aroused, had purchased a gun
and placed it in the mesh basket at the
side of his desk. He had said at that
time: ‘‘I’ll shoot it out with any bandit
who tries to take me for a loss.”

Bios resolution had cost the man his
life.

Morrissey thumbed through the
Standard file, noting that the descrip-
tions of the bandits in the various hold-
ups were similar in only a few instances,
but that none of them corresponded
with the killers’ descriptions. And in
none of the robberies had a .45 auto-
matic or sawed-off shotgun been used.

Idly, Morrissey glanced at a page of
notations Fletcher had made on inter-
viewing Detective Bauer at the hospi-
tal. One of Bauer’s statements struck
Morrissey forcefully.

“The man with the sawed-off shot-
gun fired at me as I stepped inside the
door. He held the gun in his left hand.”

Morrissey knew well enough that a
left-handed gunman was not uncom-
mon; but Bauer’s observation had one
desired effect. It set aside, if only in
a single detail, one of Jackson’s killers.

Had any left-handed bandits been
in the Standard holdups prior to the
killing? Morrissey consulted the files
again but failed to find any such evi-
dence. He wondered if the investigation
had gone back far enough—to the night
Yarling’s automobile had been stolen in
Shelbyville, for example. The Sheriff
there had told Marren the car had been
suspected in several subsequent robber-
ies in Putnam County.

Who were the victims of these rob-
beries? Might they know something
that would help identify Jackson’s slay-
ers?

\ACEBISSEY pondered these ques-
tions thoughtfully, but decided to
keep his theories to himself for the time
being. He would work on them later,
perhaps, when everything else failed.

Meanwhile, the days were passing
and the mystery was still far from a
solution. Lloyd Swift and George Tyler
had been freed in connection with the
murder; but the detectives still kept
their names in mind in case some new
clew might sweep them once again into
the investigation.

On June 8, the Indianapolis officials
got a hot lead from the Chicago police.
A detective from that city phoned
Fletcher that they were holding three
young men in connection with a rob-
bery in Chicago. Two of the men
corresponded in “a vague way” with
the descriptions of the Jackson killers.

Fletcher himself went to Chicago,
accompanied by Detectives Deeter
and Kelly, Edward Weist and Chester
Jackson. Disappointment was quick to
come the moment the men looked over
the suspects in the Chicago Head-
quarters’ lineup room. None of the
three men had been involved in the
killing.

When the officers returned to In-
dianapolis the following morning, they
found the Department in mourning.
Chief Jerry Kinney had died.

WEEK after Kinney’s death, Lieu-

tenant Michael Morrissey was
named Chief. Thirty-three, and with
only a little more than eight years’ po-
lice experience, he had become head of
a force composed of seasoned veterans
—a tribute to his ability.

The new Police Chief didn’t waste
much time celebrating his appoint-
ment. The Jackson murder was with
him constantly. More than anything

else, he wanted to clear it up—and-

quickly. But how?

Morrissey decided that he was go-
ing to work on the Jackson investiga-
tion just as if it were a new one; as if
nothing had been done on it before.
And he planned to follow the theories
which he had in back of his mind.

One of his first steps was to assign

Deeter and Kelly to an investigation ©

of the Putnam County robberies which
had followed soon after the theft
of the death-car at Shelbyville.
The value of this move became ap-
parent almost at once. Deeter and
Kelly learned that the Yarling Olds-

interviewed by Deeter and Kelly was
Harvey Hendricks, proprietor of the
grocery at Groveland.

“Two men came into the store on
the last Saturday night in April,”.
Hendricks said. “One of them, a sort
of anemic chap, stayed at the door
while the other one walked up to me
at the cash register. He pulled a short
shotgun from under his coat and said:
Fone ’em high—this is a stickup.’ I
said—”

“In which hand did he hold the shot-
gun?” Deeter interrupted.

HENDRICKS pondered a moment.
“Come to think of it, he held it in
his left. Why?”

Deeter turned to Kelly. “At least
we've found a left-handed bandit for
the Chief. I wondered why he told us
to look out for a southpaw. I believe
he’s got something.”

Hendricks’ description ot the two
bandits fitted the Jackson killers
exactly.

For the next few days Deeter and
Kelly spent most of their time in Put-
nam County. On Tuesday evening,
June 23, they stepped into a clothing
store in, Roachdale, operated by C. A.
Fuller. Fuller had reported the theft

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mobile had cut a wide swath in the
county during the operations, in late
April and early May, of two daring
young gunmen who had preyed on
gasoline stations and small merchants.
Among the victims were a clothing
store at Roachdale; a grocery at
Groveland; a gasoline station at Bain-
bridge; a feed store at New Maysville
and another general store at Carpen-
tersville. In addition, the same bandits
were suspected in the robbery of the
Roachdale post office in which the
postmaster’s .45 caliber Army auto-
matic had been among the stolen loot.

Theft of the gun primarily interested
Morrissey in view of the fact that
Jackson had been killed with a 45. He

‘ gave Deeter and Kelly blanket instruc-

tions to cooperate with Putnam
County officers in digging up all known
facts about the robberies in that
vicinity.

Fortunately, the postmaster at
Roachdale had preserved several empty
cartridges which had been kicked out
of his .45 during target practice. prior
to the gun’s theft. Markings on these
caps corresponded identically with the
markings on the caps of the cartridges
picked up in Jackson’s office.

Tae meant that the same gun had
been used to kill Jackson. But did it
mean that the post office bandits were
the killers? Wasn’t it possible that
some other thugs had gotten hold of
the automatic?

For some reason, even though they
had not been identified by the wit-
nesses to the killing, Morrissey kept
thinking of Lloyd Swift and’ George
Tyler. He could not bring himself to
believe that only coincidence had swept
them into the investigation. But he
realized that he had nothing against
them; knew that he had to hold back
on that angle until he picked up evi-
dence against them.

Meanwhile, one of the first persons

of $350 from his safe on the night of
May 17 and the Putnam County Sher-
iff and State Police had been working
on the crime.

Fuller recognized Deeter and Kelly
as officers the moment they walked into
the store.

“ ELL,” he said, smiling broadly, “I
suppose you’ve got him?”

“Got who?” Deeter asked.

“Why ... why... the fellow who
robbed me,” Fuller said. “The man
they wrote me about from the State
Prison Farm.”

“We don’t know what you're talking
about,” Deeter explained. “We just
dropped in to ask you some questions
and it looks like you’ve got the an-
swers.”

Fuller was plainly disappointed. He
walked toward a small office at the
back of the store and motioned the de-
tectives to follow. He bent over an
old-fashioned roll desk and began to
unscramble a pile of dusty letters, in-
voices and other records that obvious-
ly had been accumulating for years.

“The morning after my safe was
broken open,” he said, “some of the
State Police fingerprint men came over
with their equipment. They got one
good print off the door of the safe.
Just the other day I got a ietter from
O. D. Williams at the Identification
Bureau at the State Farm saying they
had identified the print as... oh,
damn...”

Fuller had reached the bottom of
the stack of papers. “I must have mis-
placed Williams’ letter.” He looked at
the detectives. “Of course you can
check with Williams.” °

“That,” Deeter exclaimed, “is exactly
what we're going to do! Come on,
Kelly. We're highballing back to In-
dianapolis.”

In less than an hour, Deeter and
Kelly were in Morrissey’s office. Mor-
rissey immediately called the Indiana

State Prison Farm and was connected
at once with Williams.

To whom did the print belong?
George Tyler? Lloyd Swift? Some un-
known?

“The print in Fuller’s store,” Wil-
liams told him, “belongs to Charles
Vernon Witt, an escaped lifer from
Kansas State Prison. I happened to
have a circular from Kansas on my
desk the other day when the print was
brought in from Roachdale. Out of
curiosity, I compared it to Witt’s print
on the circular. They’re the same.”

Morrissey smiled. Witt was no
stranger to the Indianapolis Police De-
partment. In fact he was a fugitive
right now, having fied after being in-
dicted for a holdup. Witt's family,
Morrissey recalled, lived on a small
farm just north of Bainbridge—in
Putnam County where the series of
robberies had occurred in April and
May.

41 ACCORDING to the circular,” Wil-
liams went on, “Witt was sent up
for life from Dodge City, Kansas, in
1927 for killing a deputy sheriff near
there. He escaped last December.”’

When Morrissey hung up, he sent his
secretary to the Bertillon Department
to bring him the file on Witt.

The reaction on Deeter and Kelly
was electric as Morrissey pulled a small
card from the envelope and laid it on
his desk in front of the detectives. In
one corner of the card were two small
photos, a front and side view of a pimp-
ly-faced youth with dark eyes, dark
hair and even, white teeth.

“That’s the guy with the shotgun!”
Deeter cried out. And Kelly nodded
agreement. “It even says on the card
there that he’s left-handed!”

When a visit to the Witt home re-
vealed that Charles had not been there
for years, Morrissey called the officials
at the Kansas State Prison. From
them he learned that Witt’s most inti-
mate associate in prison had been a
young Iola, Kansas, man by the name
of Louis E. Hamilton. He had been
paroled six months prior to Witt’s es-
cape.

Realizing how frequently prison as-
sociations are extended outside the
walls, Morrissey wondered if Witt—
having fled from prison—had tied up
with Hamilton. Maybe Hamilton was
the second gunman in the Jackson kill-
ne It was a long shot—but worth a

ry.

Morrissey immediately called the
sheriff at Iola, Kansas; learned that
Hamilton, newly-married, was still liv-
ing in the city. An hour later, the
Iola officials had picked up Hamilton.

“He denies everything about the
murder,” the Iola sheriff told Mor-
rissey on the phone. “Says he hasn't
seen anything of Witt for years. But
there’s a letter in his belongings that
was mailed from an address on Ash-
land Avenue in your city. Maybe
you’d better look into it.”

FEW hours later, staking out the

Ashland Avenue address, Morris-
sey and his men arrested Witt as he
was entering the house.

Hamilton and Witt denied murder-
ing Jackson—until they were identified
positively by the witnesses to the kill-
ing. Witt was the first to crack; and
in his confession he named Hamilton
as the bandit with the 45. He ad-
mitted he carried the shotgun.

Hamilton, who had been wounded
by the grocery magnate, told the of-
ficers: “Jackson’s bullet dazed me. I
heard my gun go off, but I didn’t know
that I had hit Jackson until I read it
in the papers. They say I’m a murderer
—that’s the first I knew. I threw my
gun into a river... .”

On January 28, 1932, Witt was
sentenced to the electric chair. Hamil-
ton didn’t go on trial until November
13; and he also received a death
sentence. Witt was electrocuted at the
Indiana State Prison on November 24.
1933. Hamilton, after battling for a
commutation, paid for the murder with
his life on September 28, 1934.

The names of Lloyd Swift and
George Tyler are fictitious to protect
men who were not connected with the
murder.

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The owner of the store (above) vowed
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The Standard grocery store
chain, numbering its red-
front stores in the hundreds,
was built to a dominant
position in food distribution at Indian-
apolis, Indiana, by the driving will of
Lafayette A. Jackson, 62-year-old mil-
lionaire, its founder and owner.

The heart of this important food-store
chain was located in the headquarters
building at 423 East Washington Street,
well within the downtown, mile-square
area of the Hoosier state capital. It
stood like a Gibraltar against sweeping
waves of banditry that had recently
surged about the city. It seemed par-
ticularly safe, since at nearly any hour,
day or night, policemen could be seen
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central headquarters on Alabama Street,
a stone’s throw away. In addition, the
Standard store chain headquarters was
amply fortified with gas, arms, burglar
alarms, watchmen, and the many em-
ployees at work there.

But the security of the building was
not vested alone in physical protection.
It centered about the zeal and indomit-
able will of the older Jackson, through
whose veins ran pioneer Kentucky blood.
Upon more than one occasion he had
spoken against temporizing with bandits.
He had declared emphatically, in the
presence of his employees, that he would
never submit to robbery. Mr. Jackson
kept a fully loaded revolver in a pigeon-
hole of his desk; his theory being that if
all persons resisted armed robbery, re-

gardless of personal consequences, rob-
bery would become unprofitable and
would cease. Those who knew him best,
were convinced that, if provoked, he
would quickly use the gun in defense of
his earnings.

Jackson ruled his many stores from
behind an old-fashioned desk in a wire-
enclosed space. It commanded a view
of the entire storeroom, where a retail
business was also carried on. On the
morning of May 27th, Jackson, a stockily
built man with thinning hair, peered
through shrewd, bespectacled eyes at a
bunch of checks on his desk. Near by sat
Chester H. Jackson, his son, upon whom
the father leaned heavily in the manage-
ment of his vast interests.

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House, just across the way, had tolled
out the hour of 9:00 a. m. Walter English,
a porter, paused while sweeping in front
of the Jackson headquarters store, and
commented upon the “nerve” of two
young men who were parking their big
black Oldsmobile sedan, motor running,
in the parking zone where the Standard
trucks loaded. English, having com-
pleted his sweeping in front, went inside
the store to pick up empty cartons from
the floor. He was followed by the two
prepossessing young men who had just
stepped out of the car.

The two young men might have been
salesmen, or any of the numerous in-
dividuals who came into the store in the
course of a day. They went with deadly
precision directly toward the enclosed

office space. Ralph Ayres, a clerk,
paused when he saw their sinister mien.
He later described their appearance and
actions as follows:

“The youth in the lead was hatless,
and wore a dark suit. He suddenly
whipped out of a sweater pocket a heavy
calibered automatic. At the same in-
stant, his companion, who wore a top-
coat with upturned collar meeting
slouched hat, jerked a sawed-off shot-
gun from under his coat.”

The intent of their invasion was in-
stantly apparent.

“Stick ’em up,” came the sharp com-
mand, followed by a vile oath, from the
bandit with the automatic.

The bandit with the sawed-off shot-
gun held close to his left hip,- at that

cue whirled on his heel. He covered the
customers and clerks in the store, and
echoed the command to ‘stick ’em up.’
Surprised, clerks and customers alike
raised their hands.

“IT mean stick ‘em up in there, too
Throw out the money,” ordered the
tight-lipped bandit who stood in front
of the office cage. To add emphasis to
his command, he smashed the glass top
of a desk with the butt of his automatic.

Chester Jackson, son of the million-
aire grocer, turned quickly. His eyes
caught sight of $14,000 reposing in the
near-by safe, the door unlocked. Ring-
ing in his ears were the words he had
feared so long, since he knew they
would provoke his father to action.

“Don’t shoot. The money is in the safe

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I'll get it for you,” Chester said hastily.

At these words, the elder Jackson
whirled quickly in his swivel chair and
found himself looking into the business
end of the automatic. Suddenly the
bandit’s heavy gun belched out fire and
lead. The bullet split the woodwork
close to the head of Chester Jackson.
Young Jackson dropped to the floor to
escape further gun fire. He called:
“My God, man, don’t shoot! Give me
time to get the money for you.”

The heart of the elder Jackson was
torn. He heard the gunshot, saw Chester
drop! He thought his son had been hit.
His hand darted, quick as a flash, to
the pigeonhole of his desk, where he
kept the loaded pistol. As he came to
his feet, gun in hand, the bloodthirsty
bandit stood not more than eight feet
away. Jackson fired pointblank at him
and, courageous and conscientious soul
that he was, blazed away as fast as he
could squeeze the trigger. In the first
burst of gunfire the bandit was seen to
stagger. Blood started from a wound
over his eye. He shot wildly, returning
Jackson’s fire. Then, angered by the re-
sistance, the bandit seized the wire net-
ting and, with a tremendous effort, tried
to tear it down. He sent inkwells and
papers flying in all directions. Tearing
loose from the netting he next pounded

on the door of the cage, trying to break in.

The firing was resumed from changed
positions. More than twenty shots rang
out at close range in a few seconds. Then
the hammer of the bandit’s smoking
pistol fell on an empty chamber. As his
companion with the sawed-off shotgun
ran up to help, friends of Jackson were
horrified to see the elderly grocery
magnate slump, clasping his hands to his
stomach.

“They’ve got me,” he gasped from a
position on his knees on the floor. And
the bandit loading the gun called to his
partner: “Let him have it!”

The report that belched forth then
was from the heavy shotgun. Blood
spurted from Jackson’s face as. he
crawled painfully toward a washroom.

English, the porter, ducked out a side
door and raced to police headquarters,
about a block away by the alley route.

Occupants of the store, half choked
by acrid powder fumes, were stunned by
the sight of blood streaming from both
the bandit and Jackson. An aged book-
keeper, out of the main battle, rum-
maged in a desk for a pistol that a sales-
man had taken the day before. The two
bandits, having stirred up such a ter-
rible furor, exchanged a few words,
glanced about hastily and began back-
ing toward the door. Their guns were

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learned that his theory as to
bandits’ destination was correct

When the man (center, left) was
picked up by police, he said, "I'm
not the man you're looking for"

swaying back and forth to cover their
retreat.

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dits. It did not seem probable that they
could create such an uproar within a
few blocks of headquarters without
bringing a hornet’s nest in the form of
armed policemen down upon their heads.
Charles Bauer, plainclothesman, at-
tracted by the din in the Standard
building, ran to the entrance. He, too,
came face to face with the gun muzzles.
He drew his service revolver and
blocked retreat. Guns rang out in uni-
son as the bandits saw him. Bauer sud-
denly sank to the floor, blood streaming
from more than thirty wounds in his
scalp, face and chest. A citizen near by
suffered a stray shot in the knee.

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the bandits emerged from the store just
as a police squad car, manned by Ed
Deeter and Officer Kelley, coasted to a
point on New Jersey Street with a flat
tire. Naturally, the officers were at-
tracted by the gunfire.

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blood streaming from over his eye,
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card where it could be traced to him?”

One answer could be that Baulware
had occupied the cabin at an earlier
date than the three mysterious stran-
gers, Eckert knew.

Eckert described the snapshot found
in the waste-basket.

Bristow said: “That sounds like Mil-
ton Hawkins, He’s one of the town’s
pet nuisances—a good-for-nothing. But
I didn’t think he’d have the guts to go
in for homicide. His racket is forgery.
He’s—”

“Forgery?” Eckert cut in. “Then
that explains those checks on the
Louisville bank—they’re signed by
Hawkins. He must've been on a
paper-hanging spree before he and the
two others ran into Davis—if he is the
fellow who did run into Davis.”

“Wouldn’t surprise me,” Bristow
grunted. “He got out of Eddyville
five months ago after serving a rap
for bad checks.”

Eckert had.another question.

“Have any idea who Hawkins might
know at 104 West Barbee Avenue,
Louisville?”

“Not unless it’s his mother,” Bris-
tow replied. “She married a Louis-
ville fellow after divorcing Milton’s
father, Richard Hawkins, several years
ago. I'll ask Louisville to check the
Barbee Avenue address and pick up
Hawkins if he’s there. In the mean-
time, I’ll locate Ellis Baulware.”

“Unless he can give a good account
of himself Monday and Tuesday, he’s
in a bad spot,” Eckert ended grimly.

FCKERT waited anxiously—but. not
idly—for a report from Bristow.

On the chance that the trio still
might be hiding in Indianapolis, he
ordered his men to continue their
search of downtown hotels.

Special copies of the snapshot of the
dark-haired man were dispatched by
courier to Nichols, the filling-station
marf; Williams, the farmer-chauffeur,
and Collier, the cabin-camp manager.

Each of these men identified the pic-
ture as that of the man with the
“pretty teeth” who had’ come to their
doors in the early hours of Tuesday.

Was he Milton Hawkins, as Captain
Bristow suspected?

Eckert felt sure that once the dark-
haired man was trapped, arrest of his
companions would be comparatively
easy. But where had he gone? And
what had he done with Davis?

Boll and Stewart were unsuccessful
at Union Station. . The ticket-agent
could not remember any such cus-
tomers Wednesday .as the detectives
described. None of the porters re-
called them.

Eckert called his two aces into Head-
quarters for stand-by orders.

Early Thursday evening, Bristow
called from Owensboro. :

“T have Baulware in my office now,”
he told Eckert. “I’m sure he’s inno-
cent in the Davis affair, but he knows
the names of the people you’re look-
ing for!” :

“Who are they?” Eckert shouted.

“The dark fellow is Hawkins, all
right. The other fellow is J. W. Hay-
den, Junior. He lives with his folks
on a farm near Moseleyville, Ken-
tucky. The girl is Clementine Lut-
trull of Livermore, Kentucky. She
and Hayden have been soft on each
other for a spell.”

Eckert interrupted.

“How does Baulware explain his
identification card being in the waste-
basket at the Blue River Inn?”

“He says it was stolen.”

“How?”

“Well,” Bristow said, clearing his
throat, “it’s this way. Baulware says
he was fooling around Owensboro
Saturday and just happened to fall
in with Hawkins, Hayden and the girl.

“Baulware swears he saw a bulge
in the right pocket of Hawkins’ white
sports coat that must have been a gun.

“On the way home, Baulware says,

ocket.

“There wasn’t anything in it but his
identification card, so Baulware just
dropped the matter. He says he’s
ready to help us in any way he can.”

This made it almost certain that

missed his wallet. He felt certain
at Hawkins had slipped it from his

oD—?

Hawkins, Hayden and Miss Luttrull
were the persons so ominously: con-
nected with Davis’ disappearance.

In the face of this information, the
prospect of finding Edmund Davis alive
sagged to near zero. If Baulware were
right, Hawkins eventually had left
home in possession of a revolver.

Baulware definitely had linked Haw-
kins to the white sports coat which
Boll had found near the log on the
Groves farm where the bloody cab had
been abandoned.

Bristow, before hanging up, promised
to raid the hills not only for Hawkins,
oo for Hayden and the Luttrull girl
also.

If Eckert had nursed a secret hope
that Davis was alive, he abandoned it
now. He directed the State Police de-
tail working out of the Seymour bar-
racks to redouble its efforts in the
search for Davis’ body.

“Simple mathematics will tell you

“What has she got to say?” Eckert -

asked eagerly, -

“Enough to make us mad,” Bristow
replied. “She admits that she was the
girl in Davis’ cab and that Hawkins
and Hayden were with her.

“When ‘we arrested her at her

daddy’s home at Livermore she seemed
to expect it—made no resistance, But
she won’t admit enough to explain
Davis’ disappearance.” -
: Eckert immediately : radioed the
Louisville Police Department, asking
officers there to tell Boll and Stewart
at the Roberts home on Barbee Ave-
nue to proceed to Owensboro and take
a statement from the girl.

By the time the detectives reached
Owensboro, the girl, pale and ill, des-
perately nervous, laboriously was writ-
ing out a statement.

Boll seized each page as she finished
it and read eagerly:

“On Saturday, May 18, 1940, I

Harry Sitamore, in white trousers, helped Detective Lieutenant
Michael F. McNamara uncover a cached fortune in jewels in this
house in Miami Beach, Florida. Turn to Page 19 for the story

that the body must be close to Road
31,” he said.

The cab’s speedometer when found
on the Groves farm had registered
8,741 miles. A check with the 1100
Cab Company showed that it had regis-
tered 8,651 when taken over by Davis
Monday at 6 p.m. The difference was
90 miles.

Since Taylorsville was only 83 miles
due north of Jeffersonville, the speed-
ometer indicated that the cab had been
diverted for seven miles over some
side road between the two towns. Re-
duced by half, the extra seven miles
indicated that Davis’ killers had driven
three and one-half miles east or west
of the main highway, had disposed of
his body, returned to Road No. 31 and
driven directly north to Taylorsville.

Te body had to be found or his
killers could not be prosecuted.

Friday the searchers followed en-
tirely new tangents based on a four-
mile range east and west of the main
highway. Eckert dispatched Boll and
Stewart to Louisville to watch the
Horace Roberts home and then fidgeted
in his office while waiting reports from
the crews beating the bushes.

Friday afternoon and evening passed
without a trace of the body being re-
ported. Saturday morning the search
was resumed with diminishing hope.

At noon Captain Bristow at Owens-
boro telephoned Captain Eckert.

“I’m holding Clementine Luttrull
here in my office,” he said.

caught a bus at Livermore, Kentucky,
and come to Owensboro. I went to
Mattingly’s Drug Store and happened
to meet Milton Hawkins.

“I asked him where J. W. Hayden
was and he told me that he was down
the street at a beer joint drinking beer.
I went to a place near Mattingly’s and
ate some ice cream... J. W. and Mil-
ton came in and Milton wrote several
checks. J. W. and Milton then went
to the pawnshop and got my watch.
J. W. and Milton came back after a
while and some boys were with them.

“We went to Herman’s Place on the
‘Leitchfield Road and had some drinks,”
she continued as Boll grew more and
more impatient for her to come to the
point,

Throughout several subsequent para-
graphs the Luttrull girl described an
afternoon and evening given over to
a continuous joyride from tavern to
tavern in the hills around Owensboro.
They visited more than half a dozen
small towns, consuming beer paid for
by spurious checks given out by Haw-
kins and Hayden, she wrote.

About midnight only the Luttrull
girl, Hawkins and Hayden were left in
the party. On a sudden impulse, they
drove to Louisville where they all
bunked together at Mrs. Roberts’ home.

Hawkins suggested that the three
take a room at a hotel near the railway

depot. They stayed there until Monday .-

evening, crossing the bridge into Jef-
fersonville about 7:50.
They walked around a while and

then decided to take a cab ride into
the country.

“Hawkins told the cab driver that I
lived about a mile out of Jeffersonville
on Road 31 and he wanted to take me
out there,” the girl wrote,

“When we had gone about a half-
mile, I told them I wanted to vomit
and they stopped: the cab. Milton
opened the door and I got out. I went
to the front of the car and I put one
hand on the fender and the other on
my head...

“I felt the car jump and I come
back to the car door and saw blood
on the man’s shirt and I started cry-
ing and screaming.

“I told Milton and J.-W. how come
them to do what they done the shape
I was in. Milton told me to shut up
and get in the car. He was hitting
the man over the head with a pipe and
J. W. was sitting in the front seat with
a gun turned on the man,

“They pushed him over to the side
and J. W. drove the car a short time
and then they stopped and tied the
man’s hands behind him with some
wire.”

Clementine Luttrull’s story from that
point was a rambling account of the
trio’s flight with the body of Davis
and their subsequent trip to Indian-
apolis,

Hayden, she said, turned off on the

first cross-road he came to going north
on Road No. 31 from the spot where
Davis had been slugged.
_ The girl said she remembered cross-
ing a railroad track and driving about
three miles along a deserted gravel
road. ‘Hayden stopped the car and
he and Hawkins carried Davis into a
field of. weeds where they threw him
to the ground, face down.

Returning to the cab, they drove
back to Road No. 31 and turned north,
continuing until the carburetor began
to sputter, indicating an exhaustion of

the gasoline supply. Hayden spotted

a side road, turned into it and drove
several hundred yards. He stopped on
a knoll and he and Hawkins got out.

The girl explained that she was sick
at the stomach and asked the men to
carry her. Hawkins, she said, rolled
up his white coat and threw it toward
a log. Hayden sailed Davis’ cap into
the field in the opposite direction, They
decided to leave the driver’s leather
jacket in the car-since it was drenched
with blood.

Hayden and Hawkins made a criss-
cross seat of their hands and wrists
and carried the girl to the main high-
way.

UNNOTICED by any of them, she had
left her handkerchief on the floor
by Davis’ seat.

Miss Luttrull’s story from there on
dovetailed in almost every respect with
that put together by Boil and Eckert.
In the Blue River Inn cabin, she said,
Hawkins suggested that they destroy
all identifying papers. He and Hay-
den did so.

Blithely and stupidly, Hawkins
tossed the fragments into the waste-
paper basket, assuming that they
would be burned by the cabin attend-
ant in cleaning up the following morn-
ing.

The girl said that after arriving in
Indianapolis, Hawkins and Hayden left
her at a coffee-house while they pur-
chased new trousers and shirts. Then
they went to the Stubbins Hotel, hid-
ing until Wednesday morning when
they caught the nine o’clock train to
Louisville. :

In Louisville, the three took a bus
to Livermore. Clementine’s father
stoutly refused to let Hawkins and
Hayden remain at the house. So far
as she knew, the girl said, Hayden
took a bus to his home at Moseley-
ville and Hawkins took one to Owens-
boro.

Upon Captain Bristow’s advice, Miss
Luttrull consented. to accompany Boll
and Stewart to Jeffersonville in an
effort to locate the spots where Davis
had been slugged and where his body
had been thrown.

The expedition left about 2 a.m.
Sunday. :

But, unfamiliar with the surround-
ings, Miss Luttrull was unable to

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Indiana State Det. Raymond

Boll, at his home in Columbus,

Ind., grew alert as Bartholomew County

Sheriff Elmer H. Nolting’s words
crackled over the telephone.

Quick questions brought rapid, terse

information, and then Boll rang off,

only to pick up the receiver a moment

Capt. Walter Eckert, who headed
the forces of the Indiana State
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low wai the trials, we can get
ready. | spend our money for
defense ‘s an’ alibis. We can

spend our money for guns. An’ then,
when our boys are acquitted—why,
then we can strike as never before.’

E LOOKED once more around the
room, sat down abruptly.

In the silence feet shuffled uneasily.
Men whispered hoarsely, coughed,
cleared their throats, murmured rest-
lessly.

Frank McAndrew rose.

“McKenna’s right,” he said. “While
the rest o’ us have been talkin’, he’s
been collectin’ guns. We’re not ready
yet. When the time comes for civil
war, we’ve got to be ready. An’ we
will be. No sense makin’ it harder for
Kerrigan an’ the boys.”

A murmur rose louder. But Mc-
Kenna stared straight ahead at Black
Jack Kehoe, poker-faced, trying to
keep a smile of triumph from his lips.
And Kehoe stared back, ‘and in his
veiled black eyes was not anger or re-
sentment at this challenge to his au-
thority, but pure suspicion. °

Others spoke. Almost to a man they
backed McKenna. Kerrigan and Doyle
and Kelly had many friends there who
wanted to do nothing that might
jeopardize their cases. These were with
McKenna. Older, cooler men were
with him, too; so were those who ad-
mired McKenna personally.

He had. won—had won this fight. He
watched while Kehoe tugged at his

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name and address of Ellis H. Baul-
ware, Rural Route No. Five, Owens-
boro, Kentucky.

. A small camera snapshot of a
young dark-haired man with Latin
features, a thin, black mustache and
sparkling white teeth.

3. An impassioned letter “to the one
I love the best” and signed by Don-
ald Leon Milton Hawkins.

4. Three bank checks drawn on the
Liberty National Bank & Trust Com-
pany of Louisville, one signed by Mil-
ton Hawkins and two by J. W. Hayden,
Junior.

5. A torn page from a pocket-size
note-book containing the address No.
104 West Barbee Avenue, Louisville.

Eckert was scanning the hodge-
podge speculatively when he was sum-
moned to the phone in his private
office. Boll was on the other end.

“We've spotted their hideout,” Boll
said, “but they’ve already skipped.

40

Uppeaiload 44. de. DICwWeIid, wie Caulvoull
County district attorney; at his coun-
sel table were F. W. Hughes of
Schuylkill County and General Charles
Albright and Allen Craig of Carbon
County.

The defense attorneys were John W.
Ryan and Lin Bartholomew of Potts-
ville, James B. Reilly of Schuylkill
County and Daniel Kalbfus and Ed-
ward Mulhearn of Carbon County.

From throughout the coal-fields
came the crowd on the day the trial
began, January 18, 1876. Fearing a
mob attack on the jail, District Attor-
ney Siewers threw a cordon of guards

‘around the courthouse grounds and

armed them with hand grenades.
Doyle was led in shackled and man-
acled to two deputies. The crowd,
divided between Mollies and vigilantes,
was harangued by Judge Dreher, who
ordered everyone searched and dis-
armed and warned he would clear the
courtroom on the first evidence of dis-
order. Deputies gathered a huge stack
of pistols from the spectators. Mc-
Kenna was in the courtroom with his
Molly friends, and no member of the
midnight order drew more _ hostile
glances from the citizenry.

So began the trial of Doyle, charged
with the murder of John P. Jones.
And on February 1, 1876, he was found
guilty and sentenced to hang.

The forces of law and order had
won their first great victory. The de-
fense alibis were riddled by the prose-
cution, which had prepared for them
in advance on the basis of information

The three of them registered Tuesday
morning about eight o’clock at the
Stubbins Hotel, forty-two West Geor-
gia Street.

“The short man and the woman
registered as Mr. and Mrs. James
Brown of Chicago. The tall, black-
haired guy gave the name of L. M.
Bartlett. Said he was a brother of
Mrs. Brown. They all slept in one
room.

“Tuesday night the girl became ill
and they called in a doctor. Wednes-
day morning they came down to the
lobby. The dark-haired fellow called
a phone number from a booth behind
the clerk’s desk. :

“All three waited’ around a while
watching the clock every few min-
utes. Then about five minutes to nine
they left. They walked south toward
Union Station.” :

“Fine work,” Eckert said enthusi-
astically. ‘Get over to Union Station.

itl was all he could tearn. He we
on to Malachi Cleary’s tavern a
there the excited clan was gatherir
He learned soon enough what was tue
matter with. Lawler. Many of the
Mollies recalled Lawler’s earlier es-
trangement from the order; they were
saying now that he should have been
purged for good instead of reinstated.
- Quickly McKenna gauged the tem-
per of the crowd. And he learned he
was not suspected. All resentment was

aimed at Lawler and Kerrigan, the rat. -

But the Mollies were helpless. Their
only course now was to strike back—
to strike at the citizens. 2

But they were as yet too stunned by
Kerrigan’s confession, too leaderless,
to re-form their riddled ranks.

And while they hesitated, the au-
thorities moved again. Swiftly, on the
night of February 4, the killers .of Po-
liceman Yost of Tamaqua were round-
ed up: Alec Campbell, James Roarity,
James Carrol, Hugh McGeehan, James
Boyle and Thomas Duffy. Campbell
was taken to Mauch ‘Chunk, the others
to Pottsville.

Kerrigan had furnished their names,
the District Attorney announced. Cap-
tain Linden and his Coal and Iron Po-
lice rounded up the criminals.

Hurriedly McKenna learned he was
in the clear, and secretly he smiled.
His plans were working perfectly. Now
to disprove the phony alibis the Yost
killers would present. Everything was
going according to schedule.

On February 10, the Coal and Iron
Police arrested Charles McAllister and

See if there’s a train to Chicago leav-
ing around nine o’clock.”

“We’ve already been there,” Boll
said. “The first train to Chicago after
eight in the morning is the Big Four
leaving at ten-twenty. There’s a train
that leaves for Louisville at exactly
nine o’clock and I think—”

“Louisville!” Eckert ejaculated.

HEF was a positive tie-in with the
| ' papers in the laboratory—the frag-
ment bearing the Barbee Avenue ad-
dress.. Baulware’s address on the iden-
tification card was Owensboro, but he
might have Louisville connections.
“Check with the ticket-agent and
porters,” Eckert instructed Boll, “and
see if you can trace people answering
your descriptions who left on the
Louisville train Wednesday. I’ll start
things moving from my office.”
Already Eckert had made up his
mind to telephone his old friend, Cap-

‘Not Muff?”

‘No, not Muff.”

VicKenna swiftly took the offensive.
Belligerently he stopped, planted him-
self on the sidewalk, folded his arms,
and demanded, “What do they say?”

“They say,”. McAndrew told him
quietly, “that you’re a detective.”

McKenna’s jaw was set; his words
came from between clenched teeth:

“Why do they say that?”

“There’s got to be a spy. Kerrigan
could have ratted on the Yost killers.
But he didn’t know anything about the
Sanger-Uren job. An’ you did.”

“Yes? What else?”

“There’s a matter of a letter,” Mc-
Andrew said. He was not looking at
McKenna now. “A returned letter.”
And swiftly McKénna remembered the
letter addressed to Franklin at Phila-
delphia which had. been returned for
want of postage.

“I see.” He paused, then, “Who says
those things?”

McAndrew said, “Jack Kehoe.”

Is this the showdown at last? Can
McKenna bluff his way out of the trap
that Black Jack Kehoe has set for him?
Will his good work go for naught on
the very eve of success? Can he escape
with his life and push his plans
through to a conclusion? Can the pow-
er of the Mollies be broken—can Black
Jack’s baleful plots be smashed? Don’t
miss the exciting concluding instal-
ment of this detective - adventure
classic in the October OFFICIAL DETEC-
TIVE STORIES.

Read It First in
AL DETECTIVE STORIES

tain Raleigh Bristow of the Owens-
boro Police Department. .

Eckert and Bristow had _ attended
the. same session of the Federal Bu-
reau of Investigation School in Wash-
ington in 1938. Eckert knew the genial
Kentuckian to be a sterling, sagacious
officer willing to cooperate with him
one hundred percent in any investiga-
tion. :

Would Bristow know anything about
the Baulware whose name was on the
identification card?

The call went through in a few
minutes and after a brief exchange of
pleasantries, Eckert gave Bristow a
thorough description of the contents of
the waste-paper basket.

“Why, I know Ellis Baulware very
well,” Bristow said. “Lives with his
folks on a farm back of town. A nice
lad. I can’t picture him being mixed

up in a thing like this and if he was,

why should he leave his identification

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dropped the matter.

ECKERT waited anxiously—but not
idly—for a report from Bristow.

On the chance that the trio still
might be hiding in Indianapolis, he
ordered his men to continue their
search of downtown hotels.

Special copies of the snapshot of the
dark-haired man were dispatched by
courier to Nichols, the filling-station
man; Williams, the farmer-chauffeur,
and Collier, the cabin-camp manager.

Each of these men identified the pic-
ture as that of the man with the
“pretty teeth” who had come to their
doors in the early hours of Tuesday.

Was he Milton Hawkins, as Captain
Bristow suspected?

Eckert felt sure that once the dark-
haired man was trapped, arrest of his
companions would be comparatively
easy. But where had he gone? And

_ what had he done with Davis?

Boll and Stewart were unsuccessful
at Union Station. _The ticket-agent
could not remember any such cus-
tomers Wednesday as the detectives
described. None of the porters re-
called them.

Eckert called his two aces into Head-
quarters for stand-by orders.

Early Thursday evening,
called from Owensboro. .

“I have Baulware in my office now,”
he told Eckert. “I’m sure he’s inno-
cent in the Davis affair, but he knows
the names of the people you’re look-
ing for!”

“Who are they?” Eckert shouted.

“The dark fellow is Hawkins, all
right. The other fellow is J. W. Hay-
den, Junior. He lives with his folks
on a farm near Moseleyville, Ken-
tucky. The girl is Clementine Lut-
trull of Livermore, Kentucky. She
and Hayden have been soft on each
other for a spell.”

Eckert interrupted.

“How does Baulware explain his
identification card being in the waste-
basket at the Blue River Inn?”

“He says it was stolen.”

“How?”

“Well,” Bristow said, clearing his

Bristow

- throat, “it’s this way. Baulware says

he was fooling around Owensboro
Saturday and just happened to fall
in with Hawkins, Hayden and the girl.

“Baulware swears he saw a bulge
in the right pocket of Hawkins’ white
sports coat that must have been a gun.

“On the way home, Baulware says,
he missed his wallet. He felt certain
that Hawkins had slipped it from his
pocket.

“There wasn’t anything in it but his
identification card, so Baulware just
He says he’s
ready to help us in any way he can.”

This made it almost certain that

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point out either spot. Boll and Stew-
art took her on to Séymour and placed
her under surveillance in a_ hotel
there. She promised to return to Jef-
fersonville later Sunday afternoon and
help in the search again.

This was unnecessary.

At 5:30 a.m. Sunday, two twenty-
year-old Jeffersonville youths, Wil-
liam Sage and Edward Garriott, mem-
bers of Sheriff Connor’s posse, stum-
bled upon the body in a weed patch
a few feet from the old Charlestown
Pike at a spot approximately three

_miles north of Jeffersonville and three

miles east of Road No. 31.

The body lay face down, with the
hands and wrists tied behind the
back.

The sleeves of Davis’ bloody white
shirt were rolled above his elbows.

Later when Clark County Coroner
Edwin M. Coots turned the body face
upward, the cause of death became
evident. Great fractures in the skull
and frontal bones stood out horribly
clear in the morning sun. Investigating
farther, Coots found that both of Davis’
wrists were broken.

Discovery of the body gave new im-
petus to the search for Hawkins and
Hayden.

After a ten-mile trek through for-
ests, swamps, rivers and almost im-
penetrable brambles, Bristow and two
fellow officers tracked Hayden to an
abandoned camp on Green River sev-
eral miles west of Livermore.

Hayden surrendered without re-
sistance. He made a statement paral-
leling in all principal points the state-
ment given by the girl, explaining

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“Did most .of the people in camp
know that?”

“Oh, ”

“So Foight was the intended vic-
tim,” Knight reasoned. “But why kill
him? And why kill him that way?
Another thing: The killer should have
known he would injure the man right
next to him—I presume that man was
Seaton?”

“It was Seaton,” Miller said, for the
first time realizing the enormity of the
crime—if it was a crime. He added
with a quick-drawn breath: “And
Seaton was expecting to be out of
camp last night.”

“What’s that?”

“Yes. Some of the boys told me it
was too bad that Seaton hadn’t gone to
Thermopolis as he had planned. The
rain and slippery roads held him back.
Most of his acquaintances knew he
planned to be away.”

NIGHT looked thoughtful as they
walked through the wreckage of

that Hawkins had made arrangements -
for a robbery while the trio was in
Louisville, later proposing that they
lure the luckless cab driver into the
country.

“Monday afternoon he and I went
to a junk shop,” Hayden said. “He
gave me a dime and told me to buy
a length of pipe which I did, not
knowing what he wanted with it. He
had it in his clothes when we got into
the cab.”

Of Hawkins’ whereabouts, Hayden
said:

“TI ain’t seen him since Wednesday,
but I bet you can find him at his pa’s
place over back of Cub Run. He
usually hits for his pa’s when he’s
in trouble.” .

Tuesday morning two carloads of
officers sped through the sleepy main
street of Cub Run in Hart County
nestling in the hills of central Ken-
tucky.

Their objective was the tenant log
cabin seven miles distant where Haw-
kins’ father lived in the middle of a
small tobacco patch.

Long before they reached it, the offi-
cers espied the Hawkins cabin perched
on the near side of a valley welling
deeply on their left. The entire- party
halted and the’cars were run into the
cooling shade of a thicket of trees
where they could not be observed
from the highway. The officers split
into two details and moved in oppo-
site directions.

Captain Eckert’s party reached the
tobacco-clearing first. A middle-aged,
work-worn man and a younger man of
possibly 25 were hoeing rows of newly

— expertly, but he could set it
off.”

“We have only one clew that I can
see—or possibly two. The first is the
marks on the powder-house door. The
second is the piece of fuse. We’ve got
to find that bar and who has caps and
fuse in camp. Then, too, it’s possible
we may find a clew in Foight’s life.
Did he have a sweetheart?”

“Well,” Miller said, “Harry was
keeping company with Grace Lee—
she’s our caretaker here. But don’t get
any ideas about her. She’s all right.”

Had Knight, barging about in his”
amateur detective way, knocked into a
lead of importance? Before following
it, he had another task to get under
way.

“Have you a couple of men,” he
asked Miiler ‘quickly, “who are ob-
serving and whom you can trust.
absolutely?” :

“Of course I have.”

“Pq like to talk to them.”

Miller left and in a few moments

planted tobacco industriously. At the
sight of the officers, the young man
dropped his hoe.

He lifted an expansive straw hat
from his head and dropped it at his
side. Eckert halted in momentary con-
fusion.

The man’s hair was blond. His face
was smooth shaven and without a
mustache. This couldn’t be the Latin-
appearing Milton Hawkins of the torn
photograph. The young man smiled.
His matchlessly white teeth glinted in
the sun.

Eckert stepped forth determinedly.

“Milton Hawkins?” he said sternly
with the barest question in his voice.

Again the young man smiled. Thin,
cruel lips pulled away from his per-
fect teeth. .

“Right,” he said coolly. “Shaving
off the mustache didn’t do much good,
did it?”

“No,” said Eckert. “Nor bleaching
your hair with peroxide. You’re-under
arrest for the killing of Edmund
Davis.”

The elder Hawkins, who had been
standing by wordlessly, looked at his
son with stricken eyes.

“Did he say killing, Son?”

The younger man patted his father
on the shoulder.

“That’s right, Pa. And I’m the

boy they want.” Turning to Eckert, he
said: “I’ll go along.”

At this moment Detective Boll
stepped through the front door of the
cabin. He had walked through from
the rear. Boll held a .32 caliber re-
volver and a pair of gold-rimmed eye-
glasses.

f

“In the meantime,” Miller asked,
“what do we do?”

“Talk to Grace Lee.”

They foitnd the young woman in the
small house which the oil company
provided for her. She was small and
well shaped, and Knight caught him-
self wondering how a woman so petite
could perform the arduous tasks of the
camp caretaker. He wasn’t bothered
particularly by her tears. He was used
to that, being an undertaker. But he
wasn’t used to questioning a grieving
woman about possible motives or sus-
pects in a murder.

He began rather awkwardly.

“Miss Lee, was Mr. Foight having
any trouble over you?”

She dodged her head backward as
if she had been slapped.

“Of course not!” she exclaimed with
some heat.

“What I mean,” he said, “is that
there must have been other men—a
girl as attractive as you—I mean—”

She broke in:

“Tm not exactly public property.”

“The gun was hanging on a nail by
the back door,” Boll said. “And the
glasses were in the pocket of a shirt
hanging on the other side of the door.”

Hawkins looked from the gun to the
glasses, smirking.

“That’s the gun I stole from my
step-dad,” he said without prompting.

-“The glasses belong to the guy who

got bumped. I figured they were too
hot to try to sell.”

Hawkins was strangely silent on
the ride back to Owensboro, but once
in jail he wrote out a lengthy pen-
ciled statement admitting that he had
struck Davis with the pipe but blam-
ing Hayden and Clementine Luttrull
for everything.

Hawkins said:

“The Hayden boy told me to hit him
put I argued with him and told him
I would not. But him and the girl in-
sisted and the Hayden boy said ‘If you
don’t, I’ll. shoot him. Then I said
‘Don’t do that.’ The Hayden boy then
threw a gun on him and being afraid
he would shoot and kill him, I hit
the driver, just intending to knock
him out, but he hit back at me and
I had to hit him again.”

Six days later, a Clark County grand
jury was called into special session by
Circuit Judge James L. Bottorff.

On June 5 the grand jury returned
an indictment charging Hawkins, Hay-
den and the girl with first-degree
murder.

The three defendants obtained a
change of venue from Clark County to
the Floyd County Circuit Court, where
their trials have been set for the Oc-
tober term.

Read It First in
AL DETECTIVE STORIES

here. I went through Yellowstone Park
with him.”

“So you broke your engagement with
him to get engaged to Foight?”

“No. I wasn’t engaged to Bert.”

“And this fellow Nolan,” Knight
said. “I suppose he was using his auto-
mobile as bait to get you away from
-Foight?”

“T haven’t gone out much with Nolan
since Harry and I were engaged.”

“I suppose Nolan and Lampitt were
glad to have you throw them over?”

“Oh, I don’t know about that!” she
retorted. “They were Harry’s rivals—”

“Which one of them wanted Harry
out of the way enough to kill him?”
Knight asked.

“Neither of them,” Miss Lee said
with spirit. “They’re not that’ kind.”

Knight strode out of the house, Mil-
ler at his heels.

He wondered: Was this love-triangle
—rather, quadrangle—sufficient moti-
vation for murder? On the face of it,
the thing appeared unreasonable.

“Now, if Lampitt followed Miss Lee

wor a seytad te

,ATiMar “he’s the

' get anywhere doing it, t
it for

kind of liked to do it

“Where were you last.

“Wh 5 ae!

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Lampitt cbragens. igo

“Okay. I was in bed a
o’clock and I stayed ther

“You weren't out of yor
once?”

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idn’t hear thin

der all night.” _ .

Still seeking somethin,
about, Knight said:

“See that you stick ar
day!”

Lampitt grinned. “Ok

Knight strode away f
chanic’s cabin. He said ~

“Well, let's talk to Nol.
will give himself away a
a motive.”

HEY found the big

driller talking with a
near the bunk-house wrt
motioned him aside. Kn
head to look into the di
their introduction and
Nolan’s heavy left eye-k
he spoke.

“Aren’t you the fellow
the piece of burned 1
asked.

“That’s me,” said Nolz

“What’s this I hear at
a rival of Harry Foight’

Nolan spat out of tr
mouth.

“You want to talk
Lampitt,” he said.

“Is that the reason y¢
the fuse?”

Nolan leaned forwar
his face close to the Cor
“Are you tryin’ to
framin’ Lampitt?” he gr

“T’m trying to make y
about Lampitt and tell
hated Harry Foight.”

Nolan waved a big 0}
Coroner’s face.

“Ah!” He sibillated th
it sounded profane. ~T!
this camp I hate is Ber

“You hate the man w
in the cold with you—
Lee was concerned?”

“Sure I hate him! Wt
him the gate, he sneaks
dow and listens to her :
sneakin’ thing he is: ]
him out of camp on a}
him so.”

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lan, the Coroner saw. ¥
his words, to learn wh
go. So he asked:

“You surely don’t tk
the kind of man who \
a rival, do you?”

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14

“I don't see any watch,” Milton said,
looking at her chubby wrists.

“IT haven’t gone after it, smarty.”

“Tl get it for you,” J. W. offered.
“Give me the ticket.”

Meanwhile, Milton took a checkbook
from his white coat and began writing
checks. “I make ’em small,” he grimaced.
“Nobody’s going to risk making a cus-
tomer sore by refusing to cash a measly
five-buck check.”

“Going to put them over here in town?”
J. W. asked.

“Yeah, and we'll get hold of some slug
with a car and make the rounds of some
of the whistle stops.”

They left for the pawnshop then, and
the two girls waited at the drugstore.
They came back, riding in a car with a
boy named Ellis and two other boys. It
was Ellis’ car. The girls got in the back
seat with J. W. and Milton. The latter
was a little out of sorts. J. W. had put
over one of the checks at the Interstate
store, but when Milton tried to cash one

there they. started questioning him and .

he fled.

While a couple of the boys visited a
doctor’s office, Milton again got out his
checkbook and wrote some more checks.
The whole gang then went to a tavern
on the Leitchfield road where they had
some drinks and some laughs, but the
boys had to fix'a flat tire. Back in
Owensboro again, two of the boys and
Mazie dropped out. The rest of them
headed down Route 75, to Pettit, where
J. W. put over one of the checks.

“It’s all in having an honest face,” he
told Milton, a half-hour later, as he came

Above picture, taken at trial,
shows killer (arrow) listening
intently to the testimony of
co-author Boll (extreme right)

Interior view of the taxicab,
showing bloodstained running
board and handkerchief that
proved to be a valuable clue

out of a grocery store’ at Sutherland,
after cashing another five-dollar check.

They headed for Mosleyville, on Route
81, twelve miles southwest of Owens-
boro. Here, Milton put over one of his
checks, and at a place called “Driscoll’s,”
near Rome, he cashed another, as they
were on their way back to the city.

“Let’s go to Louisville,” Milton sug-
gested, as they arrived in Owensboro.

“My tires are too near shot,” Ellis
protested.

“Drive to Arcadia,” J. W. told him.
“My credit’s good there, and I’ll have
new tires put on your wreck. Then we'll
go to Louisville.” :

Ellis agreed. At 9:30 Saturday night,
May 18th, 1940, three young men and a
girl started for Louisville. Twice along
the way they stopped to eat and drink,
and at 3 o’clock Sunday morning arrived
at the home of Milton’s mother and step-
father.

J. W. and the girl posed as man and
wife and were welcomed as friends of
the handsome son. After dinner the three
boys and the girl went to the Fountain
Ferry Park. Milton’s folks went along.
They all returned home at about 4 o’clock.
Shortly after this, the visitors drove
away. In a pocket of Milton’s white
coat was a .32-caliber pistol that he had
stolen from a suitcase belonging to his
step-father. ,

“Let’s drive on. to Indianapolis,” Milton
suggested, but the boy named Ellis shook
his head. He had seen the gun.

“I’m going back to Owensboro, starting
right now. Anybody going along?”

Nobody was. Milton, still dapper and

arrogant; J. W., looking a little drawn;
the chubby girl, her blue eyes red-
rimmed, climbed from the car at 6
o’clock, and Ellis drove away.

“Just a panty-waist,” Milton sneered.
“Anyway, he helped out some.” He pat-
ted a pocket. It contained Ellis’ billfold.

The three went to a show, then to a
hotel near the Union Depot, where they
stayed Sunday night, allina single room.

They got up late Monday morning and
went down to breakfast; but the girl
couldn’t eat. “I’m sick,” she told them,
and she looked it.

They left her in the restaurant and
were gone for a time. When they re-
turned, the three of them went toa show,

but the girl asked to leave, saying she- -

was sick. They got her a room ina hotel,
tried to doctor her, then went back to
the show.

Milton and J. W. got out of the show
at mid-afternoon and stayed around
town, making plans. At 7:30 they stopped
at a junk yard on East Market Street,
Louisville. There, J. W. bought a piece
of %-inch pipe, 171% inches long. Milton
was carrying this, wrapped in paper,
when they came back to the hotel at 8
o’clock Monday night for the girl. J. W.
had the gun.

At 8:30 the trio caught a bus and
went across the river bridge into Jeffer-
sonville, Indiana. The girl was still sick.
An empty taxicab sat at the corner. “Get
in the back seat,” Milton told the girl.
As she complied, he called the cab driver.

“Which way?” the bespectacled driver
asked, as he got in under the wheel. A
second later J. W. slid in beside him.


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companions pulled: up before the small
farmhouse. Two men were working in
a tobacco field nearby. They stopped to
watch the trio bearing down upon them.

_ Suddenly the younger of the pair dropped
his hoe and turned to run to the rear
of the house. At that moment the two
Kentucky policemen appeared. The
would-be fugitive halted and his shoulders
slumped resignedly.

Hawkins, dressed in his old farm
clothing and needing a shave, showed no
spark of resistance as handcuffs were
slipped on him. “Just let me get out
of these duds,” he whined. '

The young man’s companion in the
field, his father, shook his head sadly.
Deep in this mountain backwater he
hadn’t seen a paper in weeks, hadn’t the
vaguest idea why his son was being
arrested.

Milt Hawkins returned willingly to
Indiana, and when questioned at the
Seymour barracks he held nothing back.
He admitted buying the pipe and wire
in Louisville specifically for the purpose
of using them on some cabbie. Then he
disclosed that Hayden hadn’t told all the
truth, had tried to cover up for himself,
Hayden, he said, had a gun, and with
it had ordered Eddie Davis out of the
cab, at which time Hawkins first attacked
the unfortunate driver. They tossed
Davis into the rear after the initial
bludgeoning, but he came to unex-’
pectedly. Ina frenzy of anger, Hawkins
leaped in and finished Davis off with the
pipe. That was when he cut his hand
on the rear light glass,

Wade, who was examining the high-
way with almost microscopic care, gave
an exclamation of surprise, then stepped
over to the car, got out a newspaper and
began to fan a spot on the soft earth.

“Look here,” he finally called to the
chief. “Unless I’m mistaken, this is the
imprint of a woman’s heel. It was filled
with dust. That wind blew just enough
away to give me an idea something was
underneath.”

“Damned if it isn’t,” Hedrick agreed,
and together the officers proceeded to fan

the rim of the road. They uncovered a:

distinct trail of tiny heel treads, from: the

- point where the murder car had stopped,

to the place where the body had been
pitched into the ditch.

“A woman was here, there’s no doubt
about that,” the chief declared, “but she
must have had an accomplice. Only a
man could drag a big guy like that down
the road and dump him over the rail.”

yes arranging to have the dead
man removed to the Bliley Funeral
Home, the chief phoned Dr. A. P. Tray-

ham, the medical examiner, and asked for

a speedy autopsy.

_ “evil genius” of the pair was sentenced

‘

The coldblooded saga of the disposal
of the body, and the subsequent wander-.
ings of the trio ‘tallied with the
information already known. - Hawkins,
dejected and hopeless, attempted one last
flippancy. “All we got,” he said with a
shrug, “was a lousy sixty bucks.”

Within a day of Hawkins’ arrest, he
and his two friends were indicted for Aue
first degree murder. Arraigned on June 436
5, they pleaded not guilty. Their attor-
neys, however, contended that they would
be unable to get a just trial in Clark
County, and asked for a change of venue
to Floyd County. This was granted, as
was a subsequent request by Hayden for
a separate trial. *

These maneuvers proved vain, for
when the men came to trial the follow-
ing December they found an imposing
array of witnesses testifying against
them. The biggest blow came when
Clementine Luttrell, Hayden’s former
girl friend, took the stand as the state’s
chief witness. She had been allowed to
plead guilty to a lesser charge and sen-
tenced to the State Girls’ School.

Another witness was Ellis Boulware,
who told of the first lap of the fatal
journey. Boulware, of course, was com-_
pletely exonerated of any connection with
the crime and commended by police for
his cooperation ‘with them.

The outcome of both trials was never
in doubt. Donald Milton Hawkins, the

by Judge George C. Kopp to die in the
electric chair on April’ 18, 1941, I. W.
Hayden, Jr., was given a life term in

State Prison, where he is today.

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It was some time later, after the chief
had contacted radio stations and taken
other steps to hasten the identification of
the victim, that Dr. Trayham telephoned
to report on the post mortem.

‘“Not more than three, eh?” Hedrick
inquired of the physician after listening
to the medical man’s findings. “How
long has he been dead? You mean, he’d
have to know his anatomy? Yep. I get
it. Expert. Thanks.”

Hedrick smiled as he placed the re-
ceiver on the hook and turned to meet .
Wade’s inquisitive gaze. “Cheer up, old
man,” he said. “We’re on the trail of a
butcher, a médical man or medical stu- :
dent, or an undertaker—or maybe just a
criminal who studies anatomy.”

“That clears up everything,” the lieu-
tenant observed dryly.

“Yeah,” assured the chief, grinning,
“Anyway, the coroner says death was
caused by a stab wound above the collar-
bone—a stroke which expertly severed a
large artery. There was another deep
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Handsome as a movie star, but sinister as any ruthless
gangster, he led his young cohorts on a wild night of

crime that ended in murder and flight to evade justice

N Life in the little town of Livermore, Ken-

oe tucky, was dull for cherub-faced Christobel

i Spurgeon. That was why on Saturday,

May 18th, she boarded a bus bound for

Owensboro, twenty miles to the northward. In that

city of 25,000, located immediately across the Ohio

River from Spencer County, Indiana, Christobel hoped
to find her boy friend, J. W., and some excitement.

In her flowered print dress and dark cloth coat,
and with her blond hair encased in a snood of white
lace, Christobel was not unattractive; but there was
too much of the country, too much of the over-sized
baby-doll look about her to incite ogling or whistles.
In short, she looked too innocent to be exciting. Milton
had told her so.

Tall and dark, with thick black hair and a black
mustache trimmed to imitate some movie star, Milton
was real-good looking. The trouble was, he knew it.
He fancied himself quite a ladies’ man, too. Accord-
ing to J. W., he had been married for several years
ahd had a nice wife and two small children, but did
not live with them.

Christobel:resented Milton’s “airs;” and she resented
his influence over her boy friend. Just because he
had seen more of the world than J. W. and herself
was no excuse for him to treat them as kids. Milton

wasn’t too smart. The cops had sent him to Eddyville
for a stretch for forgery. J. W. had told her.

Oddly enough, when she had gotten out of the show,
to which she had gone with a girl friend, whom should
she meet near Mattingly’s Drug Store, in Owensboro,
but Milton.

“Where’s J. W., do you know?” she asked him.

“You’ll find him down the street at a joint, drink-
ing beer,” Milton said.

“I’m not Iooking for him,” Christobel lied, primly.
Couldn’t accuse her of chasing after a man, even if
they had been sort of. engaged for nearly three years,
ever since they were neighbors in the hills near Windy
Hollow, twenty-eight miles from Livermore. She and
J. W. had “cottoned” to each other from the first, ‘and
still did. Milton would tell him she was in town, and
J. W. would come a-lookin’ for her.

Surely enough, while she and a girl friend, named
Mazie, were in the Oasis, near Mattingly’s, eating ice
cream, J. W. and Milton walked in and sat down with
them. J. W. was slim and blondish—not a collar-ad, but
not bad looking, either.

“What.-brings you to Owensboro?” he wanted to
know, greeting her casually.

“My watch is in hock, down the street at a pawn-
shop. I came up here to get it and to see a show.”

‘By Detective RAYMOND BOLL

The hunted "1100" cab, hidden

from main road by trees, as it
appoarod when found by polico

Columbus, Indiana, as told to-

CHARLES PIFER


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Wheel, A
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“Out north, on number 31,” Milton
told him. “The girl lives about a mile
out. She’s sick, and we want to take
her home.”

At a point a little beyond the city
limits Christobel asked the driver to stop
the car.

“Oh, oh!” the cabby said, sotto voce,
as he braked the car to a halt at the side
of the pavement, reached back and
opened the door for her.

Around at the front of the car
she stood in the headlights, with one
hand on a fender and the other on her
throbbing head. From the dark interior
of the cab came the sound of commotion,
and she felt the car jump. She ran back
to the door. The driver was doubled
over the steering wheel, and by the faint
rays of the dash light she saw blood
running down his face.

* * *

At about 8:30 Thursday morning,
May 28rd, as I drove through Edinburg,
Indiana, on my way south toward the
Indiana State Police Post at Seymour,
where I served as a detective, a lady
mortorist flagged me down.

“You’re Detective Boll, aren’t you?
Better get out to the Norris Groves farm.
I just heard someone call the sheriff and
tell him that a farm hand of Groves
found a taxicab hidden out there this
morning.”

I thanked her, inwardly praising the
wonders of party-line phones; then

stepped on the gas, sped south four miles °

through the little village of Taylorsville,
in Bartholomew County, -and turned
west on the Old Ferry Road that led

past the Groves farm a mile and a half
from number 31.

As I drove, I got out my memo book
and re-read a “locate person” assign-
ment I received via radio at the Sey-
mour barracks Tuesday evening:

MISSING FROM JEFFERSONVILLE
SINCE 8:30. P. Mm. 5-20-40, EDMUND
DAVIS, 36, WT. 130. DRIVING A CREAM
AND GREEN 1939 CHEV. SEDAN, 1100
TAXI PRINTED ON BOTH SIDES, LICENSE
311100. IF LOCATED, HAVE HIM CALL

HOME OFFICE.
A/JEFFERSONVILLE PD

I recalled that on Wednesday a more
complete description of the missing cab
driver came. Davis was described as
5 feet, 9 inches, weighing 130 pounds,
with blue eyes, fair complexion, and
wearing glasses. When last seen he
wore dark striped trousers, a green com-
bination cloth and leather jacket, and a
cap with his company’s emblem on it.

My first thought had been that the
cabbie had gone on a busman’s holiday,
possibly with a lady friend; but word
came that Davis was a popular driver,
of regular habits and unimpeachable

character, and that foul play was sus-.

pected. ‘

The missing man had been employed
by the taxi company for four years. He
was unmarried and lived with his par-
ents in Jeffersonville. He had never
before failed to return home after work.
Officers in near-by Kentucky, Illinois
‘and Ohio had also been alerted by the
Jeffersonville police department notice.

Raymond Boll, Columbus, Indiana,
detective and co-author of story

Ahead of me, a black sedan that I
recognized as Sheriff Elmer Nolting’s,
from the county seat, at Columbus, In-
diana, halted at the side of the gravel
road, opposite an opening in a fence
which led southward into a brush-lit-
tered pasture, fronting a thick woods a
hundred yards or so away.

The sheriff, a trimly-built young offi-
cer whom I had worked with and knew
to be efficient and cooperative, greeted
me as I alighted.

“Johnny on the spot, I see, Boll.”

“Try to be,” I grinned. ‘“What’s the
dope, Sheriff?”

“From what I was told over the phone,
at about 5:30 this morning a twenty-
year-old farm hand of Groves went
back through here on his way to plant
clover seed. He had seen a car parked
down there under the hill, on Tuesday,
and had thought it was just a petting
party. When he saw it was still there,
he went down to look it over. Said there
was no sign of anyone in or around it.”

“A taxi?”

Nolting nodded. “Yeah, a two-col-
ored job, he said, with the number 1100
on the sides.”

“That’s the Jeffersonville cab that has
been missing, along with the driver,
since Monday night.”

“Eighty miles,” the sheriff mused.
“That would be quite a bill to run up
on a taxi meter.”

“Off-hand I’d guess that the cab driver
was the one taken for the ride,” I told
him.

The faint imprint of tire tracks could
be seen on the (Continued on page 65)

(Above) Rubber check that eventu-
ally led to killers. Elmer Nolting
(right) former Sheriff of Bartholo-
mew County, who helped crack case

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(Continued from page 15) turf which
spanned the opening in the fence. One set
of tracks. As we walked together down
the slope toward the woods we watched
for footprints or other evidence, but the
impervious turf yielded nothing. Round-

ing a clump of trees, we came suddenly’

upon a green and cream colored sedan.

Blending with the foliage of the woods,
the cab appeared innocent enough, but one
look into the interior belied this. Dark
stains all but covered the front and back
of the forward seat, while on the floor,
both in the front and between the seats,
was coagulated blood.

“Looks like someone was murdered,”
Nolting commented. “What do you think?”

“Looks that way. Judging by the blood,
he must have been hauled for some dis-
tance propped up against the front seat, on
the right side,” I replied.

After going over the car I concluded
that whoever did it shoved the driver from
under the wheel and drove the car. Some-

| where between Jeffersonville and this spot,
| he got rid of his victim.

“Maybe right around here,” Nolting said,
surveying the dense, forty-acre woods wit
an appraising eye. ’

I admitted the possibility but pointed out

He pleaded guilty
and received life
sentence for his
part in the crime

that there were no spots of blood on the
grass and weeds leading into the woods,
as there should be had the victim been re-
moved from the car at that*spot. When I
said that my first move would be to call
my post at Seymour and get our techni-
cian, Chester Wilson, there for Pictures,
the sheriff chuckled.

“No need to do that, Boll. I left word
with a deputy to call your barracks for you
and a technician before I started out here.
Rather surprised me to find you right on
my tail. Wilson should be pulling in here
any minute.”

Nolting was right. We had just returned
from ‘a near-by farmhouse, where he called
a garage in Columbus to send out a
wrecker to tow in the cab, when the young

juniformed technician came striding down

the hill, carrying his paraphernalia.

Quickly and efficiently Wilson went to
work, photographing the car first just as
we found it. Then, carefully opening the
| doors to avoid eradicating any fingerprints,
jhe snapped successive pictures of the front
jand rear seats, from both sides.

As was customary, we were building up
evidence of murder for possible use in
court. The condition of the interior of the
cab indicated that someone must have been
mortally injured. It was up to us to es-
tablish the corpus delicti. Homicide would
have to be proved, and at that moment
proof appeared to be a long way off.

In the cab was one lone clue. On the
foor of the front compartment, to the right
of the driver’s seat, Wilson picked up a
woman’s handkerchief, saturated with
tlood. It bore no initials. We marked it
exhibit 8; seven pictures having beén taken
of the abandoned cab.

“Cherchez la femme!” the technician
sid, as he tucked the small square of
tained cloth into an envelope. “This lady

|

used a cheap but potent perfume. I’d say"
she shopped at the dime stores.”

That isn’t going to help much, I thought.

Taking sections, the three of us searched
the weed-covered meadow between the
woods and the fence that bordered the
country road, moving back and forth in
ever-widening arcs.

A hundred feet east of the opening to
the field, and not far from the road, I
located a white sport coat, wadded up and
half-hidden under a log. It was the type
known as “bush” ‘coat, and was sized 40
or 42, indicating the owner to be fairly
large. It was splattered with bloodstains. I
noticed that all of the labels had been
removed.

The coat was handled carefully and
marked exhibit 9. At the post laboratory
later Wilson would go over the garment
thoroughly, checking for cleaners’ marks,
missing buttons and particles of dust in
the various pockets that might give us a
lead on the owner’s occupation and habits.
Too large for the missing driver, and not
mentioned in the description of his apparel,
the white coat must have been discarded
by the killer. "

In a clover field about a hundred feet
east of where the coat was located, Wilson
found and photographed a taxi driver’s
cap. It was bloodstained and carried the
emblem “Cab 1100” along the visor. We
marked it exhibit 10 and added it to the
others. On the way back to the ear, Wilson

. Photographed the entrance to the field.

Pockets and compartments in the cab
yielded nothing. The car appeared to be
undamaged, except that the accelerator
pedal was off and the horn cap was miss-
ing. The gas tank was nearly empty.

' The tow car arrived, and Wilson fol-
lowed the cab into Columbus to direct the
handling and to process it for fingerprints.

Shortly after noon, when the sheriff and
I had just completed a thorough check of
the vicinity, a big car zoomed up and four
men got out. They were three Clark County
officials and a man from the taxi company,
arriving from Jeffersonville after being
notified of the discovery of the abandoned
cab by radio.

I talked with’Captain Gordon N. Gilmore,
of the Jeffersonville police, a big, keen-,
faced officer in plain-clothes. He said that
they had checked the speedometer of the
cab at’ Columbus, and that it had been
driven only ninety-three miles from the
time Davis went on duty Monday night at
6 o’clock. .

“That means that it was driven almost
directly here,” he said.

I suggested that, as the gas tank was
empty, the car may have stopped some-
where en route, with the motor running,
while the body was being disposed of, and
ran dry. Gilmore said they had a pretty
good idea whom they were looking for,
but didn’t elaborate. I told him of find-
ing the coat, the driver’s cap and the hand-
kerchief.

Clark County Prosecutor Homer D.
Smith, a towering man of middle age, said
little. Sheriff Claude C. Conner, big and
phlegmatic, said nothing at all. They
looked over the scene briefly, got back
into their car and headed toward route 31.

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my phone to call Indianapolls for a tuxl,
or to find a tourist cabin.

“T told the fellow who did the talkin’
that Indianapolis was a long haul for a
taxi and that I doubted if any would
come, as there was too much danger of a
holdup. .

“The woman started complaining about
being sick. She sat down on the doorstep,
like she was ready to pass out, so I got
her'a glass of water and a bottle of lemon
sour. I. figured that would settle her
stomach. . :

“After she quieted down, I suggeste
that they would probably find a cabin down
the pavement a mile north, at the Hartman
tourist camp. The last I saw of ’em, they
were headed that way, walking down the
highway.” ‘ :

“Can you describe them?” I asked, my

_ notebook ready.

“The man I talked to was about twenty-
five, about 5 feet, 10 inches, and not very
hefty. He was bare-headed, and wore a
light-colored suit. I remember his right
hand had been hurt. It was bleeding.”

“What about the other two?”

“They stayed outside, in the dark. I
don’t know what they looked like. What’s
this all about, anyhow?”

“A cab driver, Edmund Davis, has been
murdered,” the sheriff told. him. “Looks
like that trio you saw. killed a Jefferson-
ville taxi driver sometime Monday night,
ditched his body along the route some-
where, and abandoned the cab out on the
Grove farm, west of here. Could you iden-
tify that man you talked with?”

Nichols nodded. “You’re dad-gummed
right I could. You boys catch him and I'll
identify him.” ;

That was the. rub—we had to catch him.
And it appeared that this might not be
easy, for when we checked at the Hart-
man tourist camp we found that the mys-
terious trio had not showed up there.

Down at a Columbus garage Wilson had
been processing the entire cab, using
powders to bring out the- latent finger-

‘prints. It was slow, painstaking work. The

hope was that somewhere on that cab
would be a fingerprint impression made
by the killer.

Wilson knew that the most logical spot
to find clear prints of a car thief is on the
reflector mirror by which the driver
watches traffic coming from the rear, Any
difference in height of the new driver will

4

require him to adjust the glass, inad-
vertently leaving on the polished surface
n latent imprint of a thumb or finger, But

the rear-view mirror revealed no print.
Either the substituted driver was approxi-
mately the same size as the missing cabbie,
or he had wiped away his prints.

The latter appeared to be what had hap-
pened, as none of the logical places within
or outside of the car revealed any prints
whatsoever, so Wilson told me by telephone
Thursday afternoon.

“No prints?” I asked. “That’s too bad.”

“Cheer up, Ray,” the technician chuckled;
“I didn’t say that. Fact is, I found one good
print on the ventilator, and another on the
right windshield visor. They’re in the box.”

I knew what he meant. The “box” was his
inspectograph—a self-focusing, self-illumi-
nating camera that is held against a print
to record it on film. I told him of the
Nichols’ story and the temporary stale-
mate at the tourist camp. ;

“I figure someone around here might
have picked that trio up and hauled them
somewhere. It was after midnight, so
Nolting and I are checking all night owls
around Taylorsville and Edinburg.” °

Following my report to my post at Sey-
mour, several state officers from there
joined with Nolting’s deputies and volun-

_teers in a posse, to search the woods on the

Groves’ farm; and from our headquarters
in the State House, at Indianapolis, a radio
message directed every available state
patrolman along route 31 between Taylors-
ville and Jeffersonville to join with sheriff's
officers in Jackson, Scott and Clark Coun-
ties to search for the body of the missing
taxi driver in all culverts and logical hid-
ing places, and to question residents along
the highway. — :

We were convinced that Davis had been
murdered by the trio, and realized that
there was plenty of work ahead of us.

Meantime, down in Clark County, sev-
eral hundred volunteer citizens who had
known and liked the cab driver had joined
with county and city officers in an inten-
sive search for Davis’ body, with organized
parties combing the rugged countryside
along route 31.

Tips flowed into the sheriff’s office at
Jeffersonville. A truck driver reported that
at 10 o’clock Monday night he was passed
by the cab on route 31, near Austin, in
Scott County, thirty-five miles from Jeffer-
sonville. The cab was traveling northward,

“One thing about this operation—_
what comes out of me comes out of my income tax!"

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funt. Thin seemed to indieate that the Icilers
might have stopped previously to dispose
of the victim, as it would not have re-
quired ninety minutes to travel that dis-
tance.

Another report came in that two men
and a woman had entered a filling station
at Memphis, fifteen miles north of Jeffer-

. sonville, sometime Monday night, and had

left in a hurry without buying anything.
One of them had said, “Let’s get going.
We've got to get out of here.”

The finding of a necktie and undershirt
on the bank of the Silver Creek, near a
park bridge on the Clark-Floyd county
line, resulted in a two-hour dragging of

the creek by Coast Guardsmen. However,

nothing was found in the stream. Taxi i

officials said the necktie was similar to
one worn by Davis, but could not positively
identify it as his. The undershirt was
definitely not that of the missing man, as
it was much too large for him.

Searchers in the Groves’ woods and
‘throughout Bartholomew County, and those
along the highway south through Jackson
and. Scott Counties, found no trace of the
driver.

In our check for persons who might have
seen the trio after they left Nichols, a
tip led Nolting and me to a young man
and woman in Edinburg. They appeared
reluctant to talk. I pondered the probable
reasons: fear of reprisals from the fugi-
tives, loss of time in court, or the desire
to avoid publicity. I diplomatically pointed
out that refusal to talk would hinder our
investigation, and appealed to their civic
pride and inherent sense of justice.

It worked. The man talked, and I allowed
him to tell.it in his own way; but I took
notes, preparing against such time when,
through fear or faulty memory, he might
deny his story.

The couple had been driving north, to-
ward Edinburg, on route 31, shortly after
midnight Monday night, in a one-seated
car. They had picked up two men and a
woman on the road between the Nichols’
filling station and Hartman’s tourist camp,
and took thenf to the Blue River Inn, at
the northwest edge of Edinburg, on route
31. .
The couple could give no description of
the trio, but said that the woman had been
ill and that she rode curled up back of the
seat, by the rear window.

Nolting and I headed for the Blue. River
-Inn, There, at a combination dance hall
and tourist camp, we contacted the night
man, Donald Collier, a small, dark-com-
plexioned fellow in his early twenties.

He, too, was a bit reluctant to talk, but i

when the sheriff told him that he wanted
the two men and woman on suspicion of
murder, he couldn’t tell his story fast
enough.

“I rented them that cabin, over there.
The big fellow did most of the talking. He
had a chunk torn out of the top of his
right hand, and it was bleeding. I wrapped
it up for him.” ‘

“Describe him,” I cut in. ‘We'll call him
the Number 1 man.”

“Off-hand I’d say he was twenty-five or

twenty-six, about 5 feet, 11 inches, and |
weighed around 170. He was dark, with |

black, wavy hair and a black mustache.
Wore a light suit, with pants that didn't
match the coat, and no hat.”

According to Collier, the Number 2 man
was younger and smaller—twenty or so, 5
feet, 8, 140, with light complexion and me-
dium blond hair. He was wearing a dark
blue suit.

“What about his , headgear?” Nolting
asked.

Collier wasn’t sure. Seemed like he was
wearing a hat, but on the following morn-
ing both men had been bare-headed. As
for the girl, the night clerk said she ap-
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coat and a white lace tam.

“What became of them?”

Collier lifted his hands in a shrug. “I
couldn’t say. They got up early and left.
You might ask John Williams, who lives
over there across the road. They left with
him in his car about 6:30 Tuesday morn-
ing.” a
As we left the inn, on the way to the
Williams home, I told Collier that we would
be back to look over the cabin, if it was
all right to do so.

“Sure, go ahead. It isn’t locked. You'll
be wasting your time. If they left anything,
it’s long gone now.”

Williams, a rangy farmer in his late
twenties, said that at about 6:15 Tuesday
morning a man came and asked for trans-
portation to Indianapolis, saying that he
and two companions had been in an auto
accident and wanted to get help for their
car. The description given by Williams
was that of the Number 1 man depicted by
Collier, plus three additions: pretty teeth,
a pointed nose, and Italian features. I
jotted it all down, feeling that I could
Pick the guy out of a line-up right then.

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I told him that I’d take them for a
dollar’s worth of gas and two dollars in
cash. Seemed a little screwy that they
would hire me when they could have
caught a bus every couple of hours; but
the guy agreed and got in the car, and we
drove across to the inn and picked up
another man and woman.”

Williams’ description of the other man
and woman tallied with those obtained
from Collier, except that the farmer de-
scribed the girl’s hair protector as a
snood.

Apparently, the girl was still ill, as she
lay stretched out on the back seat of the
car on the thirty-mile drive. The trio
got out at the southeast corner of Maryland
and Meridian Streets, two blocks south of
the Monument Circle, in Indianapolis, Wil-
liams said. :

“That means that at least one of them
knows the city,” I told Nolting, as we went
back across the road. “My guess is they
holed up in one of those small hotels along
South Illinois Street, a block west of where
they got off. They may still be there.”

“Then we'd better get going, or call in
for a check, don’t you think?”

“Right away,” I said, “but first I want
to take a look at that cabin where they
stayed.”

It was growing dusk as we stood on the
threshold of the little one-room building
and surveyed the semi-dark interior. The
double bed looked clean, and the uncar-
peted floor was rough but dirt-free. There
was nothing on the washstand nor on the
oil-burning stove. Apparently Collier had
been right, I thought. Then I saw it.

On a high stool in a corner of the room
was a man’s hat.

I crossed the creaking floor with long
steps. The hat was medium-sized and dark
green in color. Under the artificial rays
of my flashlight small dark specks appeared
on the underside of the brim, like varnish
against a dark background. I had seen such

spots before.

“This proves one thing,” I told the sheriff.
“Davis wasn’t shot or stabbed—he was
bludgeoned.”

“How come?”

“When any kind of a bludgeon is used
on the head of a victim who has fairly
long hair, and more than one blow is
struck, the attacker always gets small
specks of blood on his own headgear. The
Teason is that the victim’s hair becomes

_blood-charged from the first blow and

acts as a kind of a spray to project the
blood to the underside of the brim of the

assailant’s hat or cap.” .
“Then you say the man who wore that
hat was the killer.”
“Not exactly. All the spots appear to be
on the left side of the hat. I'd say the
man who wore it was on the right side

of the victim, Possibly in the front seat:

of the car. If he had done the bludgeoning,
the blood specks would have been along
the front of the brim, not just along the
side. That makes our mustached man with
the pretty teeth the actual bludgeoner,
Probably from the back seat of the car.”

I tagged the hat, thinking ruefully that
we were getting long on exhibits and no-
where on the actual solution.

“What’s that there by the washstand?”
the Sheriff asked, pointing to a small,
tin receptacle.

“A wastebasket. Let’s have a look.”

My flashlight probed the interior, and
my pulses quickened. The bottom of the
bucket was piled high with Scraps of paper.

I reached down and took up a small |

fragment that appeared to be part of a torn
Photograph. It might have been the nose,
dark mustache and smiling white teeth of
a movie star; but I knew it was part of a
picture of our Number 1 man, wanted on
suspicion of murder, ;

Without a word, I dropped the scrap
back upon the Pile of torn Paper, lifted the
receptacle and headed for the door.

“What’s the rush, Ray?” the sheriff
queried, as he matched my strides toward
the patrol car. “Where are we going with
that basket?”

“Headquarters,” I told him. “I’m saving
the pieces. Unless I miss my guess, we’ve
got a bucketful of evidence right here
that'll crack this case wide open.”

“You mean those scraps of paper?”
Nolting’s voice sounded skeptical. “That’s
a mess, and water-soaked to boot. I
wouldn’t want the job of trying to make
head or tail of it.”

“Neither will the boys at headquarters,”
I chuckled, “but they’ll do it.”

My reason for taking along the tin re-
ceptacle with its contents as found was
that I wished to avoid the possibility of
further folding any of the confetti-like
scraps of paper, thereby making their re-
assembly more difficult.

.

I. was a job for technicians. I knew
that torn Papers should never be repaired
with any kind of adhesive tape, as such
might irreparably damage important writ-
ing. The best way to deal with badly-torn
Paper was to lay it, piece by piece, flat
upon a sheet of glass slightly larger than
the whole area of the Paper, and then ar-
range the scraps in their true order. When
assembled, another sheet of glass is placed
over the first and the writing is framed
and secured by Placing a strip of adhesive
tape around the edges of the two sheets of
glass. Then both sides of the reconstructed
Paper can be photographed to show all
writing and other marks.

Thus it was that Thursday night I barged
into Lieutenant Ray Hinkle’s office, at head-
quarters, and passed the bucket to him,
with an explanation and a request to “save
the pieces.”

Hinkle, a big, quiet, bespectacled vet-
eran, shot a couple of questions, then
buzzed for Hancock, the slim, youthful
record clerk. Late that night, as the sheriff
and I returned to our homes for a well-
earned sleep, at a long table in the de-
tective bureau a half-dozen technicians
were working on a number. of jigsaw-like
puzzles that we thought might solve a
brutal murder.

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Captain Walter Eckert, a tall, powerfully-
built blond officer, unbent to offer a
guarded word of commendation, then
pointed out. the exhibits. °

Marked as exhibit 11 was an identifica-
tion card that had been torn into twenty
pieces. All but one of the scraps had been
found. Writing on the card said: “Ellis H.
Boulware, Owensboro, Kentucky, route No.
5. In case of accident notify J. W. Boul-
ware, Kentucky.”

“T’ve just talked with Captain Rollie
Bristow, of the Owensboro police,” Eckert
said. “We were classmates at the FBI
school in Washington. He’s a’ good man.
Promised to check on Boulware and call
me back.”

I studied the identification,.card for a
moment. ‘Funny that a fellow would tear
up his own identification.”

Eckert nodded. “Yes. I think, myself,
that there’s-a pretty good chance this
Boulware was someone ‘rolled’ by the trio,
rather than one of them; but it’s a lead.”

There were others. Exhibit 12 was a
blank check on a Louisville, Kentucky,
bank. It was for five dollars, and was made
payable to Milton Hawkins and signed by
him. Exhibits 13 and 14 were recon-
structed love letters, apparently written
by this same Hawkins, with an address
given as 104 West Barbee Avenue, Louis-
ville.

Finally, there were two photographs of
the same handsome, mustached man, un-
doubtedly. of: the Number 1 suspect de-
scribed’ by Nichols, Collier and Williams.
Taking a photograph of the torn pictures, I
set out to make sure, accompanied by De-
tective M. K. Stewart. Our first move was
to check the small hotels in the vicinity
of Maryland and Meridian Streets, where
the trio had left Williams’ car.

At the Stubbins Hotel, on the corner
of Illinois and Maryland Streets, we in-
troduced ourselves and showed the photo-
graph to James A. Dean, an elderly. but
active clerk at the desk.

“Ever see that man?” I asked.

“Sure did. Him and another fellow and
a woman came here Tuesday morning and
rented a room. What’s he done?”

“Probably murder,” Stewart said. “Are
they still here?”

“Nope. They pulled out Wednesday
morning, about 9 o’clock.”

Dean told us that, shortly after they ar-
rived, he had called a doctor for the girl,
at the mustached man’s request. We
searched the room. On the dresser we
found the missing ignition key for the
cab, but found nothing else there. Unlike
the tourist cabin, if anything else had been
left behind it had been cleaned out.

Back at the desk, we studied the register.
The man with the mustache had signed
as L. M. Bartlett; the other man and the
woman as Mr. and Mrs. James Brown.

’ Iam no so-called “examiner of questioned
- documents,” more commonly known as a

handwriting expert, but the signature of
Bartlett looked very like the writing signed
Milton Hawkins.

We contacted the doctor. He, too, iden-
tified the photo as one of the trio. He had
treated the woman for an infection. The
name she gave him was that signed on the
hotel register, Mrs. Brown.

Stewart and I checked a number of

- cheaper hotels and rooming houses along

Illinois Street, but found no further trace
of the trio. We then made a quick trip
down to Edinburg, where Collier’ viewed
the photograph and positively identified
it as the Number 1 man to whom he had
given first aid.

Returning to headquarters, we found the
usually calm Captain Eckert displaying
signs of excitement. Captain Bristow had
just telephoned from Owensboro.

Ellis Boulware had told the Kentucky

- officer that he had been with Milton

Hawkins, J. W. Hayden and a girl named
Christobel Spurgeon on Saturday, May
18th, and again on Sunday, when he had
driven them to Louisville, where he had
left them. Upon arriving back in Owens-
boro, Boulware discovered that his pocket-
book containing his money and identifica-
tion card was missing. He was exonerated
and allowed to go free.

“The descriptions Bristow gave me fit
our trio,” Eckert said. “That picture is
Hawkins. He was dressed in a white sport
coat when Boulware left them in Louis-
ville. Hawkins and Hayden put out a num-
ber of bad checks around Owensboro Sat-
urday, and the police there have been
looking for them. They’ll hold them and
the girl for us.’

“What do we do, sit tight?” Stewart
asked.

“Not on your life. I want you and Boll
to go to Louisville.” Eckert consulted his
notes. “Hawkins’ mother lives at 104 West
Barbee Avenue. Check there for him; and

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On May 25th, Stewart and I were in
Louisville. The Barbee Avenue address
was that of the mother and step-father
of Hawkins. Checking at a corner grocery,
by means of the photograph, we learned
that Hawkins had not been at his mother’s
home since Sunday.

We contacted headquarters, and Cap-
tain Eckert informed us that Christobel
Spurgeon had been picked up by Bristow
and a couple of deputy sheriffs at her
father’s home in Livermore, Kentucky, and
was being held at Owensboro. “Go there
and help question her,” Eckert ordered.

At the Owensboro police station Sat-
urday evening we met Bristow, a slim,
alert officer, and talked to the bedraggled
blond girl prisoner. Her story began when
she alighted from a bus there in Owens-
boro exactly one week before. Now she
was there again; this time in custody. For
seven nightmarish days and nights she had
run the gamut. Caught in a whirlwind
formed by cross-currents of unbridled pas-
sions her life had been torn asunder, As

she poured out her story, 1 wondered i!
the pieces were worth saving.

After passing several bad checks ané
visiting a number of night spots, they hai
gotten the Boulware boy to drive them
to Louisville, ostensibly to visit Hawkins
mother. Monday evening she and Hawkins
and Hayden had crossed to Jeffersonville
and had hired a taxi there.

According to the girl, a short distance
north of Jeffersonville she had become sick
and had gotten out of the car. Then, while
Hayden held a gun on the driver, Hawkins,
from the rear seat, had bludgeoned Davis,
striking him several times with a lead pipe.

They had pushed the unconscious cabbie
over to the right side and Hayden had|
driven on north, then down a side road
east of the highway. The boys had wired
the driver’s hands and feet and carried
him into a thicket. She said he was‘ still
gasping when they took him from the car.

The remainder of her story was that
which we had learned. The boys had re-
turned her to her home at Livermore,
Wednesday, coming -to Louisville by train
and from there by bus.

“My Pa gave J. W. a bawling out, and
I haven’t seen him or Milton since.”

The girl agreed to accompany Stewart |
and me back to Indiana to locate the spot
where the driver was abandoned. We
arrived in Clark County at about 1 aM,
Sunday, May 26th. The girl directed us
to a country road which ran east from
route 31, six miles north of Jeffersonville.
After searching for an hour or so and fail-
ing to find the body, we drove on north
with her to the Seymour post.

However, we had promised to return
her to Owensboro and, to avoid the possi-
bility of being charged with illegally
transporting her to Indiana without a war-
rant, Captain Eckert ordered Detective
Don Winn to return the girl to Owensboro,
after further questioning.

Although the girl had failed to find the
spot where the driver had been abandoned,
when the news of her attempt went out by
radio during the night, groups-of search-
ets who for three days had scoured Clark
County unsuccessfully, now concentrated
in the area around ‘where she had taken us.

At 5 o’clock Sunday morning two twenty-
year-old Jeffersonville men, William Sage
and Edward Garriott, came upon. the
trussed-up body of Davis in a weed patch,
off the old Charlestown Road, about five
miles: north of Jeffersonville.

Coroner Edwin Coots viewed the body.
Light, copper wire had been used to bind
the victim. His skull had been crushed,
in front and back, and both wrists had been

broken. A large mass of dried blood beside
the body indicated that the. bludgeoning
had continued at that spot, before the
victim was thrown face downward in the
mud. The body was removed to a funeral
home in Jeffersonville. The coroner said
death was due to a fractured skull.

In Davis’ shirt pocket was three dollars
and thirteen cents, overlooked by the kill- |
ers when they took his wallet.

After receiving news of the discover |
of the body, Technician Wilson drove to
Jeffersonville, where he took pictures of
the remains. He also photographed the
spot where Davis was found.

The case was moving along. At 3
o’clock Sunday afternoon Bristow and
Kentucky highway police arrested J. W.
Hayden at a river camp in Daviess County,
near Mosleyville, ten miles east of Liver-
more. The charge was passing bad checks
He was returned to Owensboro.

At 8 o’clock that same night Winn arrived
with the girl. Following Eckert’s orders
he had stopped at Jeffersonville and ob-
tained murder warrants for both Hayden
and Hawkins, but none for the girl. She
was to be held in the detention home for
further investigation and until proper

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Informed that Hayden was in custody,
and shown his signed confession obtained
by Bristow and other officers, Winn con-
tacted headquarters and was ordered to
return the prisoner.

Hayden’s story duplicated that of the
girl friend. He admitted having held a
gun on the driver, but said that Hawkins
had master-minded the crime. and had
bludgeoned Davis with a length of pipe
that he, Hayden, had bought at a junk-
yard in Louisville at Hawkins’ request.

Hayden, a pasty-faced farm youth of

twenty, appeared cowed and frightened..

He waived extradition. Shackled to the
patrol car, at the side of the stocky de-
tective, he remained silent throughout the
long trip to the Seymour post.

According to Hayden, sixty dollars was
taken from Davis’ billfold by Hawkins,
who kept forty dollars and gave the
younger man twenty dollars. He said that
he had left Hawkins at Livermore Wed-
nesday evening, and hadn’t seen him since.

Meantime, Sheriff Conner, at Jefferson-
ville, upon learning that we had returned
the girl to Owensboro, telephoned authori-
ties there to hold her until he arrived.
Armed with a warrant charging her with
being an accessory before the fact of mur-
der, the Clark County sheriff drove to
Owensboro late Sunday night and arrived
at Jeffersonville with his prisoner at 2 A.M.

On Monday Captain Eckert, Sergeant
Vance from our Seymour post, and I were
in Owensboro, joining Bristow and other
officers to search for the mustached killer.
Officer Stewart, of the Kentucky Highway
Patrol, joined us.

Bristow had located a hotel room where
Hawkins had stayed overnight, near Utica.
True to form, he had left a trail. Two
billfolds, a pocketknife and several month-
ly report forms from the Kentucky parole
department were turned over to me to
be held as evidence. We reasoned that
one of the billfolds was that taken from
Davis and the other purloined by the killer
from Boulware.

The parole forms were explainable.
Bristow gave us a copy of Hawkins’ record,
He had served time in the Eddyville, Ken-
tucky, penitentiary for forgery, and had
been at liberty only five months, living at
no particular place and having no obvious
means of livelihood.

As a check at his mother’s home in
Louisville had revealed no trace of our
man, Stewart suggested that the next logi-
cal spot was the home of his father, Rich-
ard Hawkins. “He lives near Cub Run, in
Hart County. It’s rough country over
around Munfordsville, sixty miles straight
south of, Louisville and about a hundred
miles southeast of here, as a crow flies.”

“As a crow flies,” was correct. It was a
car-wrecking journey to that tobacco farm
in the hills of Hart County.

We contacted the Hart County sheriff
at his office in Munfordsville, and he guided
us out to the Hawkins farm, through the
rugged country..A few miles over a wind-
ing graveled road and the sheriff pointed
to a little house, perched on top of a hill
ahead of us.

Stewart, Vance and I left the car, cut
down through a ravine and approached
the home from the rear, to prevent our
quarry from escaping into the rough wood-
land. We arrived simultaneously with the
sheriff and Eckert and closed in upon two
men, at work in a tobacco field near the
house.

Hoeing away in the green-leafed to-
bacco patch was a tall, smooth-shaven
fellow with a strange shade of blond hair
and wearing glasses. It was Milton Haw-
kins. He had shaved his black mustache and
dyed his hair, but when Stewart greeted
him, he admitted his identity,

“I suppose you want me for some

checks?” he offered.

“Not exactly,” the Kentucky State officer
told him, “the charge is murder.”

“There’s some mistake. I wouldn’t kill
anybody.”

“According to the Spurgeon girl and
Hayden, you did,” Eckert told him grimly.

Quick hands went over Hawkins for
weapons, but found none. His father, a
tall, weather-beaten stan, had been listen-
ing silently. “I had no idea Milt had done
anything unlawful,” he said. “Tell the
truth, boy. If you did it, own up to it
and take your medicine,” he advised him.

At the home, a few minutes later, the
elder Hawkins turned over to Eckert a
32-caliber pistol. Milton admitted that it
was the gun used in the crime. He said
that he had stolen it from the home of his
step-father, in Louisville. He was calm;
but this was shattered momentarily when
Stewart jerked the spectacles from his
nose and asked if they hadn’t belonged to
Davis.

“Yeah. I figured he wouldn’t be needin’
them.”

Hawkins waived extradition, and we re-
turned him to Seymour. There, as we
started to take his statement, he asked to
write it, himself. Using the same pen with
which he had written the bad checks, he
wrote down his story and Signed it. Ex-
cept for the claim that Hayden had master-
minded the crime, and that the girl had
planned to pretend illness to get Davis to
stop the car, his story was identical to the
other two confessions.

Hawkins and Hayden were indicted for
first-degree murder, and the girl on the
accessory charge. A change of venue to
Floyd County took the two men to the
county jail at New Albany. Trial was set
for the Fall term.

Early in August the Floyd County sheriff
thwarted an attempted jail break when he
relieved Hawkins of two hacksaws as he
was sawing at the bars of a skylight. A
former inmate at the jail, who had smug-
gled in the blades; was apprehended and
received a sentence of a year and a day
at the Indiana State Farm.

The charge against the girl was subse-
quently changed to delinquency, and on
December 17th, 1940, she was sentenced
to the Indiana Girls’ School until she was
twenty, following her plea of guilty in the
Clark County Circuit Court, at Jefferson-
ville. She had agreed to appear as a State’s
witness at the trial of Hawkins.

In a sensational trial that ended on Sat-
urday, December 21st, Hawkins was found
guilty of murder in the act of committing
a felony. On Monday,’ December 23rd,
Special Judge George Kopp, a heavyset,
ruddy-faced little man, looked over his
glasses and solemnly sentenced the once-
arrogant killer to die in the electric chair
on April 18th, 1941.

-On the day before+ Christmas Hayden
pleaded guilty and received a life sentence
in the state prison.

Hawkins appealed, and received a stay
of execution until November 14th, 1941.
But at 12:05 a.m. on that date, after the
Supreme Court of Indiana had refused to
set aside the conviction and the Governor
had refused to commute the sentence to
life imprisonment, due to the brutality of
the crime, the killer was executed in the
State Prison at Michigan City.

Epitor’s Nore

The name Christobel Spurgeon, as
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of the person concerned. She has been
given a fictitious name because she has
paid for her part in the crime.  Pic-
tures of the killers appear on the fol-
lowing pages: Milton Hawkins, page 12;

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by Hon. Samuel Bigger, presiding judge. Liberty, C. V. Duggins, printer,
1836. In.

22 p. 17 cm. sewn.

Vv 467 Hiellier, Thomas

The vain prodigal life, and tragical penitent death of Thomas
Hellier born at Whitchurch near Lyme in‘Dorset-shire: who for murder.
ing his master, mistress, and a maid, was ‘executed according to law at
Westover in Charles City, in the Country of Virginia, neer the plantation
called Hard Labour, where he perpetrated the said murders. He suffer’d
on Munday the sth of August, 1678. And was after hanged up in chains at
Windmill-Point on James River.... London, printed for Sam. Crouch, at the ‘
Princes Arms, a corner-shop of Popes-head-alley in Cornhil, (0. NN. H

2 pl, 40 p. 21.5 cm. sewn. ie

Hellier had fled England after a theft. He was bound to one master who sold
him to another, Cutbeard Williamson, Resenting his situation, he killed the
family with an ax while they slept. A. S. W. Rosenbach describes this work as i
very rare in his note on it in his 4 Book Hunter’s Holiday (New York, 1936), r
page 54.

params staeap

v 468 Hendrickson, John Jr.

Trial of John Hendrickson, Jr., for the murder of his wife Maria,
by poisoning; at Bethlehem, Albany County, N. Y., March 6th, 1853, tried
...at Albany, N. Y., in June and July, 1853. Reported and compiled by
David M. Barnes ... and W.S. Hevenor.... Albany, David M. Barnes &
W. S. Hevenor, 1853. CtY-L, DLC, MH-L, NHi, N-L, NN, NNB.

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4p.1,176 p. front. (port.). 23.5 cm. cloth; also wraps.

Hendrickson, twenty years old and a wastrel, poisoned his nineteen-year-old wife
in the first case of aconite poisoning in America. The murder took place in a
small country house with seven others of the Hendrickson family close by, all

apparently conspiring to conceal the crime. Hendrickson was convicted and
hanged.

469 4

Poisoning by aconite. Synopsis of the trial of Hendrickson for the
murder of his wife. The letter of T. C. Geoghegan .... The McGrath


JANUARY 2-3, 1935 ‘

Complete Confession Of Only Man
__ Legally Executed In Union County

THE LIBERTY HERALD

HANGED TO TREE.
NEAR LIBERTY

One of the most recent contribu-
tions to the Union county historical
society museum is a Newcastle Ban-
ner, with a date line of Thursday,

May 19, 1836.

This paper, presented to the mu-
seum by Lee J. Cully, of Brownsville,
contains the confession of Isaac Hel-
ler, the only person ever officially
executed in Union county.

Heller was hung from a walnut
tree, which stood about one-half mile
east of the Catholic church onthe
present U. S. 27 near the B. & O.
railrodd track. This tree was on the
farm where Carl -Grimme is now
~fivmg, “Thé Heller home ‘is not stand-
ing at the present time but it was
located on the road known as Lover’s
Lane which goes past the. W. A.
Fosdick farm.

The Benjamin Fosdick, whom Hel-
ler states was a witness at his trial,
was an uncle of W. A. Fosdick,
local furniture dealer.

The article in full follows:

Confession of Isaac Heller, alias
Isaac Young, who was executed at
Liberty, Union county, Indiana, on
the 29th day of April, 1836, for the

and would then again come forward

ed to this society I was the slave
of those harrassing fears at night,
believing that I was continually pur-

terrified ‘was my immagination that

far superior to ordinary christians,

to the mourner’s bench to be prayed
for, confess my sins, and engage

in my religious exercise as usual. _
“During the whole time I belong-

sued and watched by the Devil, so

some times I would become frighten-
ed at my own shadow in the broad
light of day, :

“Notwithstanding all these fears,
I believed that I was endowed with
the gift of prophecy and that I was

“I was at this time residing at a
Mr. John McCommons, a tavern-keep-
er in Middletown, where I had for-
merly lived. I left my brothers when
about 19 and lived with Mr. Me-
Common most of gt Pageeiiag 8 ut
3 years. During the whole tirc! 7]
professed religion! [ was af Pe
sleep © alone, ~ and “even < avhen /
persons were sleeping in ‘the: Same
room with me in 2. differént. bed I
could not rest. I preferred “potting |
up and walking about out of doors
with a club in my hand to lying in
a room by myself. ;
_“A part of this period of my life.
perhaps for something more than
one year, I was in the habit of ap-
pointing meetings in the neighboor-
hood and trying to preach to the
people, believing it to be my duty
to do so. .
“While making this profession and
exhibition of religion I universally

murder of his wife and three child-
ren.

‘| was born on the second ‘day of
May, A. D., 1809, in Dauphin coun-
ty, state of Pennsylvania.

“My father’s name was -
‘Young, a respectable farmer, .
Dutch descent, though I think born
jn-America. He was of the religious
order cornmonly known in this -coun-
try by the appelation of Dunkards.

“My. mother’s name, before her

. marriage, was Sarah Heller, also of
German descent. ‘My father and
mother had 9 children, 5 daughters
and 4 sons.. My 3 brothers are still
living, (as far as I can tell), 2 of
them in Dauphin county, Pennsyl-
vania, by ‘name Emanuel and Ben-
jamin, and one in the state of Ohio,
whose name is Jonathan—all farmérs
by occupation, and I believe are con-
sidered honest, respectable men. My
father died in the year 1822, and my
mother in 1829. I think they were
Leth about 60 years’ of age at the
time of their death. .

“J think I went to school while

young, about 12 months in all, to 5
different teachers. The names of
3 of my teachers I remember were
Jacob Syler, Obediah Jennings and

_>Ichn_Hav._the--other.2. 1 .bave , for-}guxed -

gotten.

“I learned to
cyphered twice through Pike’s. arith
metic and worked some in other au:
thors. I never took much delight in
writing and consequently wrote a
poor hand. I was fond of figures,
nrdalwavs

read and _ write, .

considered myself al;

felt proud and high minded and
looked upon those whom I considered

less religious than myself with great
ie ae

contempt. — Sy 1

*“When I attended the experience
or class meetings I universally con-
cealed my fears of the Devil from
my brothers, in the church, lest they
would doubt the reality of my re-
ligion. ° : .

“When I left Mr. McCommons, I
went to live with my brother, Ben-
jamin. My object in going there was
to induce ,him and his. wife to join
the church to which I belonged—they
both being members of the Luthern
church. .

“A day or two before I commitled
the enormous crime I am about to
relate, in the state of Pennsylvania,
I felt constrained to travel through-
out the world, as.I thought, from
house to house, and exhort and ¢n-
treat the people to attend to their
future welfare. I therefore left my
brother, Benjamin’s, with that inten-
tion, refusing to take with me any
money to bear my expenses, or any
other -preparations, though- by--bre-
ther urged me to take money from him
for that purpose, yet I- i a
ion of our Savior to. his’ Apostles
when he sent them forth o the
world to preach the: Gospel, thdt they
should take with them neither their
purse nor scrip, etc, :

“J therefore commenced my oper-

bed room. I then became much in-
censed at my brother and his wife

considering them my inveterate enem-
ies; and attributed the cause to our
difference of opinions in matters. of
religion. I thought I was in the
line of my duty when endeavoring
to destroy the little girl, and that
they were standing in my way. I
ran down, found my brother holding
the door at the foot of the stairs. I
burst it open, and my brother immed-
iately ran out of the house.I followed
him—he ran around a wood pile in
the yard and again into the house
and’ closed the door—he ran frem
room to room in the house,: closing
the doors as he ran. I followed up
breaking them open—and in this part
of the evidence of Mr. Benj. Fosdick
in relation to my confession of this
crime previous to the murder of my
family, he was to the best of my
recollection, mistaken; although I
belieye he related the truth to the
very~best of .his_knowledge,°I_ am
confident that I related this fact to
him as I have now; and that I did
not ‘tell him as I pursued my brother
and broke down the doors with. an
axe, but with a club of wood.
“At length I came to a room where
they kept their cupboardware, in
which there were looking glasses ete.
I broke them to pieces with my club,
and followed on to the bed room,
but found that my brother with his
wife and infant child has ‘escaped
through a window, which was the
only way they could have effected it,
as there was no door leading out
of the room. I had broken down
5 doors before I came to this one.
When I found my brother and his
pwisee were gone, I searched the
cradle for their infant intending to
kill it. While thus engaged I heard
a groan under the bed.
unfortunate little girl I had' beaten
upstairs. I:got on my knees and]
commenced beating it with a club, It
still moaned. I then went up stairs.
and got my pantaloons; came, down
with them in my ‘hand; took. my
knife out of my pocket, and dragged
the child from under the bed and
cut off its head. mar
“This was a little girl my’ brother
had obtained from the poorhouse;
her name was Catherine Muckeroy.
“T hurried from the house: as soon
as I had perpetrated this horrid
deed, with my knife in my hand and
my pantaloons on my arm, made my
way towards the house of a neighbor
about half mile from. my brother’s
intending then to continue my work
of destruction. After having made
my way for some distance, I seemed
constrained to change my direction,
and did so; and in my wanderings
fell into a sink hole where there were
| numprous_stones,on—which I -hruised
myself terribly. I got out, however,
and concluded then to put an end
to my own existance, and deliberately
began upon my own throat with the
knife I still held in my hand, think-
ing thereby to end my suffering in

It was the}-

however, I related to my _ brother,
Emanuel, all I had done at.my bro-
ther Benjamin’s, < tS es
“At daylight they .took ‘me: down
stairs where I found.a. large con-
course of people, with an officer
who took me into custody; ‘and after
giving me some breakfast, ‘they teok
me to Benjamin’s to show: me the
little girl I had murdered. ‘I found
her still lying .as I -had; left’ her
with her head in one place and her
body in another. Osis
“When asked why I did the foul
deed, I answered I was - compelled
so to do. And when ask why.I did
not answer my brother when called

child, in the bed, I ey ae could
not; all of which I, sat. ; ; ‘time
believed to be true. - | pee Ae ead

“I was then taken before-Obfi
Spade, Esqr., a. justice ofr Pep
Middletown, where I ¢confe
the foregoing facts,» ch...
he-took down.:on .pape
conveyed by. my- brothers«.
constable, _whose - namep. wag. Sn
to Harrisburg where we: wenf’

vot
incensed, as
ing out from all quarters,
Hemp!—thereby meaning the pw
ment they thought I deserved.

“After I was confined, as ‘before
stated, I called. for:a Bible; which
was furnished me.’ For a while 1

read .attentively,. and was constant-
ly operated upon: with sti e and
extravagant imaginations: At “one
time I imagined mysolf.a great king,

the people of;the world, as i thotyhi,
were passing in.review before’, me;
all bowing with reverence. , Mp

“At another time I’ came. to th
conclusion that my confinement. coul
not last more than 10 days longer—
that, at’ the. expiration’ of‘ that. tim¢
my chains -would fall off, and th
prison doors would fly. opén.. This |
for a time, steadfastly believéd, an
spoke of. it: as a-matter of. ceruil
occurence to the preachers.and other
who visited ‘me. But ‘the «10 ~day:
passed by and | found myself stil
in chains, and the pleasing -delusior
vanished: away. I again..concluded
while confined in jail, that: I wa!
duped to select 144,000 of a‘choser
band, males and females of equal num
ber and that I had to select such as -had
either cold. or warm hands; and ‘foy
that reason, was to select..them by

to Indiana. ‘* - : -
“The evening before I started, my

keeper, the superintendent of ithe
establishment, took me into his room,
and told me to go to Indiana, gave
me some very good advice, and pray-
ed with me. He was a professor of
religion’and I believe a good pivus
man, He advised me to change my
name to Heller; and said as this was
my mother’s name before marriage,
I could not be injured for so doing.
His’ reason for advising me was, on
account. of the unfortunate ‘deed I
had perpetrated in that county. The
superintendent gave me a letter to
a friend of his in Ohio, which I
never delivered, as I came a different
route from that which he expected.
In the morning I received my money
and started before day, traveling on
foot to Pittsburgh, where I took a
steamer to Cincinnati. I remainzd
there 2 days—crossed ‘the river to
Kentucky where I was directed to get
work—found I -was in a slave state
which I disliked—returned again—
took a canal boat to. Hamilton—-re-
mained there but one night and the
next day to Union county, Indiana
and engaged to -work for Allen
Heavenridge.

“I commenced working for Heaven-
ridge about the 10th of, April, 1831,
which I continued to do until May.
I then loaned him $220—went with
him to Cincinnati and, purchased

and he set up a grocery store, at
Union. I was to keep his grocery
and let him have the use of the
money for $8 per month.

“It was in this grocery I first
became acquainted with Elizabeth
MeCollan, my wife, and on the 25th
day of August following, -we were
married. My wife was a member of
the Methodist church when I :mar-
ried her; and proved to be a loving
_ affectionate wife during her
life.

“About 2 years after our marriage,
I joined the United Brethren. church
and was again immersed. I then be-
came strongly impressed . with ‘the
belief that it was my: duty to

teh preach the gospel; and consequently
:| frequently spoke in public until some

time in the spring of 1834.

“About this time I again commence
reading: incessantly; and my read-
ings as before was principally con-
fined to the Revelations. I continued
my reading in this way until I verily
believe I did not know right from
wrong; and it now seems to me, that,
at that time, what was really evil,
appeared to me to be good,.and visa
versa. My impressions were at that
time to travel to my native state and
preach the gospel. And accordingly,
one morning before day, after having
notified my wife of my intentions,
who remonstrated with me, but at
length, as in all other things yield-
ed to me, I started, as before, with-
out money or other preparations for

taking them. by the hand, and’ that
all those whose hands were Iuke wa

were to be rejected_bein
as I thought, “by ‘that*
scripture where’ it —— :
that ye were either, ¢old’,

hete—This-choser~ ct 5 :
I was to select to attend the marriage

ion of
‘would
it: hot,”

ed them, I would be their commander,
and provided with splended horses

ations in my own neighborhood, go-
; Bruny wlan aa ’ ~! wanes!

this world, and believing that J]

and carriages for all to travel in, and

my journey. ; -
“I was, at that time embarrassed

; governed. and in-debt, having, from neglect of

business, necessary expended all my
‘money in supporting my family, con-
wisted-@t.that. time, of my wife und
2 children, John Wesly and Sarah.
I therefore started in the night, lest

supper of the Lamb,’ as spoken of inyy creditors might arrest me, and
scripture; and that whttt E-had'seleet~p. that means I

should be thwart
in my design. : :

“I went on my way on the Oxford
road about 5 miles, when about day

groceries and liquors with the money,

the air the martial music, and the
armies congregating,.of whom, I was
to be chief commander. I concluded
the army I was to command, was
to oppose a mighty army in the

east that were to fight,our way and
press forward to the tree of life,
which I thought was situated in the
extreme east, which I believed if we
attained and succeeded in partaking
of the fruit, we should live forever.
At that time, it appeared to me,
that those I had formerly most es-
teemed, were now my most inveterate
enemies. I also during this delusion,
concluded the Bible was false; and
at one time, when it was handed to
me by a friend, I struck it and pro-
nounced it accursed. :

“After this delusion wore away, I
ceased my religious duties for near-
ly a year; when I again began to
be religiously exercised, and com-
menced attempting to speak in pub-
lic; and thus continued to do until
last fall; I had appointed-a meting
at a neighbor’s house on Sunday;
and when I came to my appointment,
they refused to let me speak, stating
that I was not fit to preach:

“I then withdrew from the society.

“In the latter part of: November
I commenced reading. principally in
Revelations as before} \‘to “the - ex-
clusion of every thing élse;*at which
time I became a subjec$. to:delusions
similar to. those I had. been twice
before subjected, which for>a space
of 8 or 10 days. One night during
this time, I burned -my Bible and
testament. vise?

“The night after I -first became
unsettled, at this time, I recollect
I was very restless. This was the
night which my wife discovered me
whetting my razor, as was related
by evidence on my trial. But at that
time I intended no evil, but was only
endeavoring to amuse myself and
pass away the time. ~ .
“My wife when she discovered me,
got up and dressed herself, and asked
if I did not want to go to Mr.
Jones’s, a near: neighbor, and . see
how they were doing; I assented, my
wife took her daughter and I took
my son, John Wesly, we accordingly
went to the Jones’s where we re-
mained until morning.

“Next morning I. wanted my wife
to go home with me, but she refused,
and I went alone. :

“I then believed myself a ‘secord
Savior, and that:.my mission was
to go throughout the world and
séal the elect in the forehead and in
the right hand. : :

“At this time I came to the con-
clusion that inasmuch as John the
Baptist was beheaded, at the com-
ing of our Savior, that my little John
Wesly was to be beheaded at my
coming, I being the Savior. .

“I had, before I perpetrated the
monstrous crime which I am now
about to relate, frequent strong temp-
tations to commit the act; yet what
induced them, ] cannot satisfactorily
relate. paerrome es ae | Res

“The first temptation of ,tHe kind
which I had, I remember, was} in Base:
forepart of summer, ‘st a. time
pret oe et in $i: Pareoas
with 2 of my children, I felts strong
temptation to kill them. “*“~> *-~~

“At another time,: in November
last, while sitting in-my house much
troubled in mind, the words of -ihe

———

‘my heart failed me.

PAGE SEVEN ©

power to help me. And I am bound
to say that she used every exertion
on her part, for, but a short’ time
before I committed the unnatural
crime for which I am now doomed
to die by the laws of my country,
she’ purchased’ for me articles of
clothing which she saw I was much
In need of, by the labor of her own
hands, though’ she at the’ same

time had charge of 3 children, one
of whom was not 3 months old and
none of them able to’ render any
assistance. Yet my energies were
unaroused, and although it seemed
to me that my family was dear to
me, and that I could not bear to be
Separated from them, yet, stranze
and unaccountable as it may seom,
I determined to kill them. '

“I 6 times resolved to perpetrate
this most horrid of all acts, before
I consumated the full design. A
few mornings before my crime was
consumated, I got out of bed, intend-
ing then to kill my wife, I got my
butcher knife and went to the bed.
I was shuddering and felt chilled to
the heart, I placed my hand on my
wife’s face to commence the -dire-
ful deed, she roused up in the bed
and observed my hand was as ccld
as ice and said, ‘I fear you have
the rig 7 6 tenderness subdued
me an ropped t <ni

eek te tad pp the knife and
“The evening previous to my last
crime I meditated much on the deed,
at one time came to the conclusion
to consummate the deed, but desist-
ed. That morning, before breakfast
my wife handed me the babe. I was
tempted to throw it im the fire, but
a After breakfast
my wife was sitting by the fire
with her sunbonnet on, holding her
infant and the 2 other children were
under the bed getting apples. .I got
up with feelings I cannot describe,
observed I must go and cho- some
wood. ..I took my axe from under
the bed, walked up by the side of my
unsuspecting and unoffending wife.
She did not see me. I struck the
fatal blow,eshe fell, she shrieked, but
never spoke, she fell forwerd, I
struck her twice more and then left
her. I turned about, my little sister-
in-law had fled the scene.

“My little John Wesly was stand-
ing by the bed with upraised hands
his eyes steadfastly fixed on me,
and running over with tears, implor
ing me to spare him. I struck him om
the head, he fell and I cut it off. My
little Sarah, was yet under the bed,
I called her and the little victim
came at my command and shared the
same fate of her mother and little
brother. My little infant, Mary, was
by the side of her murdered mother,
shrieking, and I went to ser, struck
her on the head and thus closed the
dreadful tragedy.

“TI then fled from the house a short
distance, returned again to see if
they—were all dead, which finding
to-be-the fact, I then flew from the**
acene; Kees:
- “To give a reason i
wove ierimes’ [I - have - commi
more than I can do.

temptations without taking the pre-
per measures to restrain them of ap-
plying in a proper and suitable man-

wife of Job, ‘curse God and die,’

ner..to. the,

‘A

for the enor" ‘
I «io row Eg a:
however, that I have been led. om.
by indulging in cruel thoughts. and. ¢

ANA TAR tps

we
aieren jonent, ree

eee aed ng fear 1822, and my
mother in 1 hink they were

beth about 6 of age at the

time of their :
“T think ya «to school while
oung, about 12 months in all, to

The names of
I remember were’
Jacob Syler, Obediah Jennings and
__sdehn Hav. the-other Pod sbaye.. for

gotten. : ts
“J learned to read and write,

cyphered twice through Pike’s- arith.
metic and worked some in other . au-
thors. I never took much delight in
writing and consequently wrote a
poor hand. I was fond of figures,
and always considered myself. a
ready calculater. . After the . death
of my father,: at. which time I was
about 13 years old, I lived with my
oldest brother, Emanuel, and my imo--
ther, who lived together, until I was
about 19 years old. My manner of
life until that time, had been guilt-
Jess, as far as I can remember; with
the exception of disobeying my par-
ents commands, by indulging in play-
ing ball, fishing, and shooting on
Sundays, for which I' was.often re-
proved, and sometimes chastised. I
also, at about the age of 17 or 18,
contracted a habit of profane swear-
ing to a considerable extent. :
“J was never a habitual drinker of
ardent spirits. I recollect once when
a small boy, of becoming intoxicated
and once as I came to this county.
With these exceptions, my life has
been temperate in that respect.
“My brother, Emanuel, with whom
I lived, and my brother, Jonathan,
whom I have stated lived in Ohio,
_ gre members of the society called
the United Brethren, my brother.
Benjamin, of the Luthern church, c
“In the summer of 1829, while _liv-
ing with my brother, Emanuel, one
to bed, and soon

thought garret
I was extremely alarmed, and lay

~ for sometime, almost petrified with

terror, believing it to be the Devil.
At.-length a young
brotnér had hired,-by the name of.
Jacob Broughtforn,
He was a religious you I
observed to him, that I wished I was
as good as he was. I could not sleep
that night. At all times when
frightened in this way, my impression
was that it was the Devil which was
tormenting me- About’ 2 weeks after
my first fright } went to hear @
Presbyterian by the name of Wine-
prenner, preach. He was a very
warm and zealous preacher. This dis-|
course had & strong impression on
my mind,’ and from that time I was
jnclined to be religious.

“] was from that time, frequently
exercised in prayer. My brother and
all the adult members of his family
every evening joined in social meet-
jng, each pryaing in their turn. —

“In about 2 years after my first
serious impression I joined the church
of the said Winebrenner, who
at that time withdrawn himself from
the Presbyterians, _and established
an independent society, he was 1m
the habit of cca both in Eng-
i erman languages.
Me joined Winebrenner’s So-
ciety I was baptised by immersion.

“<q remained for oe in that
ociety, during which time
I se Christian, although I was,
during that time, subject to swear
profanely. The occasions however,
did not often occur, but whenever
they did, I would invariably forsake
my religious exercise for a time

|mind and go ta work.

vid OOO . SO NE ee
anoupaeiis # iN ectable men. MY|out the world, as I thought, from

house to house, and exhort and en-
treat the people to attend to their
future welfare. I therefore left my
brother, Benjamin’s, with that inten-
tion, refusing to take with me any
money to bear my expenses, or any
other -preparations, though~ by-—re-
ther urged me to take money'from him
for that purpose, iyet I steadily re-

F hearinz.cin. mind the. -inetruc- j
tion of our Savior to. bis Apoatles
i

when he sent them forth o the
world to preach the Gospel, that they
should take with them neither their
purse -nor scrip, etc.

“I therefore commenced my oper-
ations in my own neighborhood, go-
ing from place to place, urging
upon all the necessity of santification,
and anxiously inquiring to find those
who had attained it, as I verily
thought I. had.. And declaring to
all that the world was shortly to
come to an end, as I then verily
believed, believing myself a prophet.

“During my visit, I alarmed many
persons with my predictions, and left
them weeping and thanking God that
I had given them timely warning of
the pending calamity. Toward the
evening of my fourth day’s travel, it
commenced raining: very’ hard. I
called at a house which I was near.
and commenced exhorting the family
as I had others. They, however, did
not -seem so ready to believe me,
and warned me to examine myself,
lest I might -be laboring under a
delusion. It continued to rain until
towards night .during which time
I became discouraged, and accord-
ingly that same evening, returned
to my brother, Benjamin’s feeling
very much ashamed of myself, as I
had left there in the morning expcect-
ing to have traversed the world be-
fore I returned. On the. following
day I went to plowing for my bre-
ther, concluding I would propose my.
I was: yery
tired in the evening, and although
afraid to go to bed.alone, as usual,
yet my fatigue urged, and I went

When I went ‘upstairs to’ bed,, I
kneeled down and prayed but: my
heart seemed hard, and. my prayey
seemed to me but an eraer secon |
lay down and fell asleep,.
ly awoke and heard,. as: L.. thought
some person open the* door’ at the
foot of the stairs, and walk heavily
up, and open the door of my room,
come in, shut the door, and place
itself against it. I was exceedingly
alarmed and cried out “The kingdom
of heaven is at hand.” I turned my-
self in the bed with my. eyes toward
the door. I came to the conclusion
that it was the beast spoken’ of: in
the Revelations with 7 heads and
10 horns; and that I was -compelled
to fight with and conquer it. I lay
for some time, I thought, reasoning
with it.-- :

“I began to feel exasperated, and
suddenly sprang from the bed to
the door, and commenced striking
violently, as though I had encounter-
ed the enemy my imagination had
depicted. When I found the monster
had eluded my grasp, that I was
striking the door, it appeared to me
that I was forcibly impelled to a bed
in my room, where a little orphan
girl which belonged to my brothcr’s
family was sleeping, about S$ or 9
years old. I immediately fell to
beating the unoffending creature on
the head with my fists. :

“The noise I made and the shricks
of the little sufferer, brought my
brother and his wife into the room.
They immediately rescued her and

took her down stairs to their own

‘

upstairs to bed earlier, than -ysual.|

but. shorts) -

mi€CeCG, Warih Voiy meirbaw ane
my pantalevcg on my arm, made my
way towards the house of a neighbor
about half mile from. my brother’s
intending then to continue my work
of destruction. After having ‘made
my way for some distance, I seemed
constrained to change my direction,
and did so; and in my wanderings
fell into a sink hole where there were
numerous. stones,on_whi is
myself terribly. TI got out, however,
and. concluded then to, put an end
ta my own existance, and deliberately)
began upon my own throat with the
knife I still held in my hand, think-
ing thereby to end my suffering in|
this world, and believing that
should be happy in the next.
“While thus engaged, I thought I
heard in the air, the most beautiful
music I had ever heard, ceased my’
operation suddenly, letting my knife|

OOM: yee en eet ee

Pete=—-This chose eal

I was to select to attend the marriage 7
IM my creditors might arrest me and
selectpy that means 1 should be thwart

fall from my hand, I saw nothing and
the delusion ceased. I then got down
on my knees, to search for my inife!
but could not’find it. I. commenced
making my’ way on my hands and
knees, singing, “Ho every one. that
thirst come ye to the waters,” etc. I
recollect at that time, I thought it)
my perogative to fulfill that portion,
of prophecy: which spakes of the end
and destruction of. all things on earth.
I wandered on after getting upon
my feet,. to my brother, Emanucl’s.
As I passed along I heard the chick-
ens crowing and cried out with a
loud voice, ‘Peter denies his Lord
and cries.’ I then went to my bro-
ther, _Emanuel’s, opened the yard
gate and went into the porch, sprang
up to a window and with my hands
broke it-in. I then retreated again
making as eastern’ direction to a
water course intending to pass over
and warp the inhabitants on the op-
posite side, of the approaching dis-
solution of the world, which I be-
lived was then approaching.

“As I passed on towards the creck,
I saw scattered along the road side
what is. conimonly called foxfire, and
believed’ it to~ bethe stars» which
had fallen-from the firmament, re-
volving in my mind a passage of
scripture inthe Revelations where it
spoaks of the stars having fallen
from ‘heaven; - 8
“[ passed to the creek, and went
into“ it* intending to. pass over, but
finding it;deep, I suddenly, returned
about and returned to the door-yard
of my brother, when he called. me
and I went in. :

“At that time one of my sisters
was lying sick in his house, whom
knew had long been seeking religion,
I considered her given over to re-

ee im

band, males and females of equal

num
ber and that Lge to select suchas -ha
either cold: hands;. and ‘fo
that reason| . select them. b
taking them e hand, and’ tha

a ee ee

all those whose nands were luke w
were to be rejected bein
as I .thought, by?‘ that™
scripture where’ it is. said, *
that ye were either. cold a

supper of the Lamb,’ as spoken
scripture; and that wheit E-had’

NOvseu s64yY were w*
who remonstratece with
length, as in all other. things yield-
ed to me, I started,
out money or other preparations for
my journey. = 4

erp, and-an-debt, having,
ion 7 DE business, _ necessary expended all my
vwould.mone
r; hot,” agi

_— coma

EE Ee:
me,wesut a

as before, with-

“T° was, at that time embarrassed
from neglect of
in supporting my family, con-
at—that. time, of my wife und
children, John Wesly and Sarah.
therefore started in the night, lest

ed them, I would be their commander, jn my design. :

and provided. with splended horses

Iland carriages for all to travel in, and yoad about 5 miles,

“T went on my way on the Oxford
when about day

the road: on-which we were to PASS break, I saw a star, as I thought,

was paved with gold.
ter I had made this selection, it wou
then be my province to. destroy and
drive the’ luke-warm from the face
of the earth. Hara is

“Thus was my mind continually
engaged in some delusion or other, un-
til the time of my _ trial arrived,
which came on, I think, in the month
of November, 1830, in the circuit
court of Dauphin: county. _I was
defended by an attorney whose name
I have forgotten. , He was employed
by my brother, Emanuel, who gave
him a fee of $100.. As I was going
from the prison. to the court, in cus-
tody of the sheriff, I recollected see-
ing ‘on the ‘ court: hill,- numerous
horses and. carriages, which I con-
cluded were for the accomodation of
the chosen band I haye described
above. aes

“While on trial, I recollect I was
very noisy and unruly and at one
time struck the sheriff, broke .down
the bar in “which. I was arraigned,
and committed many other extrava-|
gant acts. Mi a ne :
“After my trial, I was again taken
to prison where I took some refresh-
ment and for a while felt happy; but
I was chained down and.as before
suffered much through the night.

“1 was acquitted by the court on. the
grounds of insanity and on the fol-
lowing day removed to the poor
house where I was chained down as
before, in a dark cell, wher I lay
for some’ time praying-and-at--others
commanding in a loud voice, as--the
commander of a large: army; which
I thought I could hear obeying me,
though I could not see them. While
in the cell at the. poor house’ I was
attended regularly by a physician.

“J continued. thus- confined for 2
months or more, when I became more
calm. JI was.then taken into another
room and kept with a large chain to
my leg, though permitted to: walk

probacy, and made my way directly
to her room, intending to kill her as
I considered it my duty, My brother,
however, arrested me in my cruel de-

about the room, for a term of 4 or
'B- weeks. I was-then permitted to
go at large, for a time;-and worked
-some about the stable. A_ short

sign—took me to the fire—washed time after my release, my broth
the blood from me and put clothes called to see me and paid the sper
on me and took me to bed. I however, tendent $273.50 for my own use. It was
could not rest, but was much terrified} money due me from the estate of m

and alarmed. Before going to bed|father. Two days after this I leks

ae and and made" my+-way

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I thought af- shooting back towards my residence

Id which I took as. a signal that I
should return to my family, and in
ecordance with that impression, I
returned,
fontent myself and go to work.

and concluded I would

“{ went out to chop wood, and

‘elt myself again endowed with the

pirit of prophecy—though I. clearly

‘aw my wife should shortly die, went

lirectly to’ the house ‘and told her.
3he appeared to believe me and was

leeply affected:

“My delusion at this time continued
\bout one.month. At one time
hought I was to be a great king,
ind was to command a mighty army,
ind frequentlyin my wanderings at

Ilendeavored much ‘to appease

coming, I being the Savior.

‘q had, before I perpetrated the
monstrous crime which I am now
about to relate, frequent strong temp-
tations to commit the act; yet what
induced them, J cannot satisfactorily
relate. Hen Gontreiweicalt Se Pa Sane

“The first temptation of ; the
which I had, I remember, was} in
forepart of
when 1 was walking ~im -the™ woods
with 2 of my children, I felt-a gtrong
temptation to kill them. “> *~

“At another time,’ in “November
last, while sitting in my house much
troubled in mind, the words of -ihe
wife of Job, ‘curse God and die,’
came tome. I felt indignant, and
varily thought that if my wife
should make such a reply to my suf-
ferings,-I would instantly kill her.
Why this thought had occurred to me
I do not know, for I certainly never
had any reason to expect such a
reply from her. : ‘

“About 2 weeks before I killed
my family, some .of my neighbors
told me unless I provided for ‘my
family better than I had, I would
be taken to the poor house. This
troubled me very much. I conversed
with my wife on the subject, who
m
grief, told me if I would keep Set
and use some exertions’to provide
for the family J had nothing to fear,

kind
the

and. said

summer, ‘at. a time}

SAY.” RES PR Owe See

shrieking, and I went to ser, struck
her on thggmead and thus closed the .
dreadful pa

distance, ed again to see. if
op Cort ‘ail dead, which finding
to -be-the fact, I then flew from the +?
scene; . Bie PRL

“To give a reason for the enor-'<-
pone +erimes” I~ have - i tiny
more ‘than I can do.
eee that I have been led. om‘.

+
&

‘

by indulging~in cruel thoughts: and - ¢
temptations without taking the pro-  .
per measures to restrain them of ap-—
plying in a proper and suitable man-
ner to the proper. source to give me

a genuine repentence, and strength
and grace to resist them, until my
cruel propesities gained:the assen—
dency, -and until my. mind was sear-

ed and eternally incapable of

or humane feelings.” .

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20

Just when we were congratulating ourselves on the fact that
Elkhart had been free of the holdup and robbery epidemic
which was raging in South Bend and surrounding towns; on
the night of Sunday, May 9th, the Star Auto Sales Company
office on East Marion Street was broken into and a safe con-
taining valuable papers and $111.70 in cash was carried
away. °

At the Police Department we went into a huddle. No
tangible clue had been left behind; but as the safe was large
and heavy there must have been more than one man, and for
the same reason they must have had an automobile. A
Durant coupé had been seen parked on that street late the
night of the robbery.

It added up to a fellow named Frank “Red” Prough, a
heavy-set, red-haired ex-convict, who had narrowly escaped
conviction for an “assault with intent to kill” charge a year
before. Prough had a Durant coupé, and had been friendly
with several rather tough-looking strangers. A slim enough
lead, Chief Nihart, Detective Seth Spilman and I agreed;
but the Chief ordered that Prough be brought in, and any

Master

one found with him. Spilman and Patrolman Ed Wooley ©

set out to find him.

FARLY Monday night the Durant coupé owned by Prough
pulled up in front of McCarty Brothers Restaurant, at
608 South Main Street, Elkhart. In the car with Prough
were two short, stocky men. One of these was John Hall, a
beetle-browed, large-headed fellow who looked like a thug;
the other was black-haired, with peculiar green-blue eyes and
tattooed arms and hands. Tommy Young, he said his name

‘was, but we had heard him called Tommy O’Brien.

“You three men are wanted at the station,” Spilman told
them. ;

“What’s the charge?” O’Brien demanded.

“Suspicion,” the detective snapped. “Ride on the running-
board, Ed. I'll cut across the alley.”

Wooley climbed on the side of the car. On the way to the
police station a thick hand in the dark interior of the auto
found a gun and poked its dark barrel
over the door at the officer.

“Say the word and I'll blast that cop-
per right off there,” a snarling whisper
came.

Prough struck the hand down with
a stifled oath.’ He lived in Elkhart
and wished to continue to live. Weeks
later the officer learned how near he
came to death that night as the Durant
coupé turned off Main Street on East
Franklin, a block away from the police
station.

Arrived at the station simultaneously
with Spilman, the three suspects were
herded up the long, narrow stairway to
the Detective Bureau, and the quizzing
began.

Prough stated that he ran a soft .
drink place, and that he knew nothing
of the Auto Sales robbery or of any
other. Hall and O’Brien refused to
talk, except for sarcasm.

“Maybe I’m Tommy Durkin,”
O’Brien sneered, referring to a Chica-
go crook who had been making the
headlines. ‘You small town coppers
make me sick!” John Hall was equally uncommunicative.

Arrogant, all of them; but back of that bravado there was
the undercurrent of uneasiness.

Meanwhile, Wooley, following instructions, left the grill-
ing and descended to the street. There, together with a
patrolman named Lee Hummel, he searched the Durant. In
the seat, oddly enough, he found a woman’s coat, which ap-
peared to be new. From beneath the turtle back, Hummel
drew forth a black walrus traveling bag.

Inside the station, we examined the contents of the bag.
There were two dials which had evidently been chiseled from
office safes to get at the tumblers. There, too, was a partially-
filled cartridge belt and empty revolver holster. And in the
bottom of the bag were two revolvers.

One of these guns drew our eyes. It was a .32-20 Colt, on
a heavier frame; wrapped around the big handle of the weap-

Detective

on was tape which had once been white. This was significant.
One of the bandits at the Canary Inn holdup had carried
a big gun with white tape on the handle, and he had answered
the description of the man who had clubbed the South Bend
druggist to death. ‘
“Cherchez la femme,” the French police say, meaning,
“Find the woman.” So, on Tuesday, May 11th, following our
failure to get anything out of the three men held, we arrested
Helen Young, 23-year-old friend of Prough, upstairs at 904
West Franklin Street, Elkhart. In her rooms were found
three dresses and a coat identified as part of a robbery
loot. In her purse was a green fountain pen. And, hidden
in a sewing basket, Detective Spilman found a small, old-
fashioned Hopkins-Allen revolver.
We confiscated the articles as evidence and booked the
auburn-haired woman with receiving stolen goods.
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Hall and O'Brien were lodged in’ the
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cast of Elkhart, and the ease disappeared
from the headlines. Then, on June 8th,
their attempt to escape was foiled when
Sheriff Thomas Long, following a tip from
another prisoner, found two. steel bars
partly sawed through and the steel ceiling
cut. They were confined in steel bunks
used for desperate criminals.

It was well they were, for on August
29th, four prisoners overpowered the
Sheriff, took his keys, pushed him and
his wife into a cell, and escaped from the
jail. They were Roy Merz, twenty-five,
arrested on a morals charge; Homer W.
Harvey and James List, filling station
robbers; and a negro, held on a minor
charge.

In a running gun battle with a hastily

formed posse, Merz, Harvey and List
were recaptured in a few hours, after

Harvey had been shot in the shoulder
and List through the leg. The fate of
these jail-breakers was thought to have
discouraged all thoughts of escape.

At ten p. M. Wednesday, September
15th, Deputy Frank Ixnisley made _ his
last round for the night, locking Hall and
O’Brien in their steel-enclosed bunk, lo-
rated in the separate cell for desperate
criminals in the southwest corner of the
jail,

"BRIEN, who had been increasingly

surly, was almost pleasant. What was
in his mind? Some time before this the
deputy had been tipped that this dark-
haired, green-eyed prisoner had _ offered
a man who was being released $2,000 if
he would bring saws to the jail and pass
them through the window. A glance at
the steel padlock on their bunk door and
the two large padlocks on the door leading
to the main part of the jail reassured the
deputy.

At six-thirty Thursday morning. when
Knisley went to inspect the cells, Tommy
O’Brien and three other prisoners were
missing.

The deputy rushed to the Sheriff, and
a general alarm went out over Elkhart and
surrounding counties as a big posse of
officers and armed civilians gathered for
the manhunt.

O’Brien, held for murder, was the man
wanted most. He would be traveling
alone, as the other three fugitives—in-
cluding Merz, of the previous break, a
man held for auto theft, and a Wisconsin
boy charged with cashing fraudulent
checks—had little in common with the
accused killer. *

Saws had been passed in from the out-
side. The three padlocks had been sawed
through, giving Hall and O’Brien access to
the general part of the jail. At the south-
west corner window, reached by climbing
on top of a steel partition, they had sawed
through the same bars welded from their
previous attempt, and through two steel
shutters over the window on the outside,
making an opening cight inches high and
twenty inches wide, through which the four
had crawled,

Harvey and List, recovered from wounds
suffered in their previous break, said that
they, too, might have escaped, but that
“once was enough” for them.

As for John Hall, partner of O’Brien, he
sheepishly admitted to officers that he
tried to escape, but that his enormous
head would not go through the narrow
opening.

Printed on the wall of his vacated cell
was the missing O’Brien’s parting thought,
in big black letters:

RED PROUGH, STOOL-PIGEON

Several day~ Jater, Deputy Ralph A.

Try . | i ma

now Sheriff of Elkhart County, was the
only officer in the Goshen jail. Hall
stepped up to the bars of his cell and
asked Logan a question. Another prisoner
distracted the officer’s attention. With the
speed of a striking reptile the bandit’s
hand darted through the bars and grabbed
the deputy’s gun. A struggle ensued as
Logan sought to regain possession of the
weapon. Hall threatened to fire. The
deputy hurried to the office and _tele-
phoned the Sheriff, who was in the court-
house across the street.

Long rushed to the jail. The two
officers warned the prisoner that tear-gas
bombs would be used if he didn’t give up
the gun. Hall, realizing that his attempted
break had failed, passed the pistol
through the bars.

x Ok Ok

In the Superior courtroom at Elkhart,
Hall sat stolid and unblinking at the side
of one of his attorneys as the jury was
selected that would decide his fate.

Through Judge W. B. Hile’s ruling, the
removed from

handeutis had been his

aaats

Helen Young. Her valuable informa-
tion aided in clinching the case
against the two slayers

wrists, following a protest by defense at-
torneys; but leg irons remained, due to
the known dangerousness of the accused
man,

As the curious spectators crowded into
the little courtroom, deputies watched
closely, searching all strangers and sus-
picious-appearing persons for hidden
weapons.

Late Monday afternoon, during a final
search of the prisoner in the municipal

‘building cell room, before taking him to

the city jail for the night, Deputy Banks
found a six-inch hack-saw blade con-
cealed beneath the lining along the seam
on the inside of Hall’s trousers. The blade
was held in place by a small safety pin
and, being flexible, could hardly be felt
through the cloth.

“You've found it now!” the bandit
snarled at them as they sped him away
to a cell on the first floor of our jail.

Two deputies remained on guard in
front of his cell throughout the night.

At two-thirty, Friday, October Ist, a
jury was finally sworn in, after more than
100 men had been examined. And on
Saturday morning, as the trial progressed,
an anonymous tip over the telephone in-
formed us that seven or eight Chicago
gunmen had drifted into Elkhart, one by
one. on [Triday, and planned ‘to liberate
Hall. The informant did not give his
name and the call could not be traced,
as it was from a pay telephone.

At ten-thirty Saturddy morning a mud-
spattered sedan with Illinois license plates
pulled up at the filling station just‘ west
of the Elkhart eitv istl One of the two

“O’Brien” resulted in a convic-
tion. Prosecutor Glen Sawyer

ite of

Hall and Tommy Young, or O’Brien, for six weeks. She had
met them through “Red.” They had left the dresses and
coat at her rooms a month before. Hall had given her the
mottled green pen.

The previous Friday or Saturday she and a woman who
lived downstairs at 904 West Franklin had %topped at a
cottage neat Eagle Point, on the way to South Bend. Tommy
O’Brien came out with a sack full of canned fruit and put it
in the car. The cottage belonged to a farmer who lived
next door. Hall and O’Brien had recently rented it and lived
there, she said.

In a flying trip to the Eagle Point resort, a few miles west

the

_of Elkhart, we raided the cottage where Hall and O’Brien

(or Young) had been living, and found in addition to canned
goods sufficient to nourish two men for several months,
women’s clothing, auto tires, and numerous other articles,
obviously stolen. There, too, we found papers taken from the

Prosecutor Henry Ss.” Taylor.
(above), whose brilliant han- —
dling of the case against.

{right) demanded the death
penalty for the killer. Sheriff —
Ralph Logan (below). When —
a deputy he foiled WHall’s .
attempted. break from prison _

Broken Gun CAS
Star Auto Sales safe. This seemed to be conclusive evidence.

Learning that Hall and O’Brien had lived at 123144 West
Marion Street, at a rooming house conducted by Mrs. Jessie
Breyfogle, before moving to the cottage, Spilman went there.

The landlady identified photographs of Hall and O’Brien
as her former roomers, and stated that they had owned a
black walrus traveling bag. She had. cleaned everything
out of their rooms and thrown the junk into a scrap barrel.

The detective searched through the scrap patiently, and
unearthed an empty cartridge box which the landlady said
had come from John Hall's room. This, and an envelope
postmarked at Salt Lake City, Utah, and addressed to John
Hall, at Elkhart, was taken along.

In the meantime, at the police station, we examined the
big gun with the taped handle. Why should the handle be
taped? The obvious answer was—it had been broken, and
possibly by striking some victim’s head during a robbery.
And six weeks before the day we arrested Hall, O’Brien and
Prough on suspicion of robbing the Star Auto Sales, a South
Bend merchant had received wounds with a revolver butt
which caused his death.

Was this the lethal gun?

A few days later, on May 19th, at the detective head-

quarters in South Bend, in the presence of county and city
officials, we unwrapped the white tape from the handle of
the revolver. Wooden handgrips, obviously whittled from
a cigar box, dropped off as the tape was removed.
_ Detective Whitmer quietly brought out the unbroken
rubber grip which had been picked up from the floor of the
drug store following the fatal struggle. None of the dozen
officers spoke as we fitted the black rubber grip to the
handle of the big gun.

Scratches on the handle of the weapon matched those on
the grip. More than that, the rubber grip had long before
been chipped at a bottom corner, and the metal underneath
the handle proper was light in color, while the part not
covered at the chipped corner was dark. There could be
no denying it, the rubber handgrip had come from the
revolver. It was the murder weapon!

It was agreed then that the South
Bend officers should bring the wit-
nesses of the killing to Elkhart to
view the suspects; and in the mean-
time we would work on them to ob-
tain a confession.

One thing was certain, neither of the
‘bandits who had killed Kreidler, the
courageous, kindly druggist, was red-
haired. This would eliminate Prough.
If we could scare “Red” he might tell
what he knew to clear himself.

BACK from South Bend, we brought

in Prough and unfolded our case
before him. We were sure that Hall
and O’Brien had killed the druggist.
Prough had been with them. All three
would die for the murder.

“Red” tried bluster, and when it
failed he talked.

Friday night, a short time before
Prough signed a lengthy statement
naming .-Hall and O’Brien as the mur-
derers of Kreidler, South Bend police
arrived with the robbery victims to
view the two suspected killers.

Gould, Collins and Shafer, viewing the men separately,
positively identified Hall and O’Brien as the thugs who held
up the Kreidler drug store, at 801 South Michigan Street,
South Bend, on the morning of March 29th, 1926. The
big revolver was identified as the one carried by Hall. The
smaller, old-fashioned gun, found at Helen Young’s, was the
one which the murdered druggist had been carrying when
attacked.

The Chapin Park grocery store victims also identified
Hall and O’Brien; and from the Canary Inn came Mrs.
Ruby Campbell to identify them as two of the men who
held up her roadhouse, Hall had been carrying the taped
gun, she said.

On Saturday, May 15th, Helen Young,

statement, helped us elinch th: ontimued on

in a complete

April, 1939 Master Detective 69

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was wearing a light suit coat. He took
the coat off and left it there. When he

went to town, I picked the coat up to hang
it in the closet, and I noticed something
heavy in the pocket. I took out the gun
and stuck it under some clothes. It was
loaded.

“Johnnie and Tommy always had
plenty of money and never worked.

“T heard Tommy tell ‘Red’ at a dance.
‘Here is the gun he snapped, and it didn’t
go off.” He had the gun that was found
in my room in his hand at the time .. .”

A check of the fingerprints of the two
men brought word from the FBI. at Wash-
ington, that Hall, whose real name was
John Grzyb, and whose age was twenty-
one, had served twenty-seven months in
the Utah State Prison for burglary, get-
ting out in January, 1926. a few months
before he appeared in Elkhart.

Thomas O’Brien, alias Thomas Young,
Tox and Morgan, and whose real name
was Thomas Telix Mallahan, had served
time in the Nevada State Prison, from
November, 1922, to April, 1924, for grand
larceny; and had served time in the Utah
State Prison, at Salt Lake City, from
October, 1924, to November, 1925, for sec-
ond-degree burglary. He was twenty-five
years of age, and had originally hailed
from a town near Boston, Massachusctts,

Becoming acquainted while in the Utah
prison, the two had met upon release and
taken up a career of crime together, end-
ing in the Elkhart jail accused of murder.
The fact that “Crime does not pay” must,
by this time, have penetrated the minds
of these human rats.

Arraigned at South Bend on June Ist,
the case was venued to Elkhart County,
where our Prosecutor, Glen R. Sawyer,
was called upon to assist Prosecutor Harry
S. Taylor, of St. Joseph County (South
Bend), try the two men in the Superior
Court at Elkhart, on September 27th.

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While these developments were unwind-
ing at Indianapolis, the detective team ar-
rived in Kansas. Extradition proceedings
against Hamilton were instituted before
Governor Harry Woodring.

Hamilton claimed that he had been home
with his family on the day Jackson was
killed. He said he was able to fix the date
of his arrival as May 27th, 1931, the day
Jackson was killed, because upon that day,
he and his pretty wife, Iona, had thrown a
birthday dinner for his younger brother.

Quietly the officers began piecing to-
gether a damaging chain of evidence to
tear down his alibi.

A most important witness in the accusa-
tions against both Hamilton and Witt was
unearthed. This witness was an invalid
neighbor of the Hamiltons. She said that
Louis and his companions, a young man
and woman, arrived on May 29th, two full
days after the Jackson slaying, instead of
May 27th. The neighbor said she fixed the
date because she was in the yard cutting
flowers for Memorial Day when they ar-
rived. Also, a former town marshal who
removed his automobile from the Hamil-
tons’ garage to make room for Louis’ car
set the date of arrival as May 29th instead
of May 27th.

Mrs. Ruby E. Govan Mills of Syracuse,
guiet little widow, had been appointed
sheriff to fill out the unexpired term of her
husband, who had been killed by Witt.
She volunteered to come to Indianapolis
for the trial, should Witt be captured. So
rapidly had the case progressed, however,
that Witt was in custody some time before
Mrs. Mills knew it.

4 Woodring of the Sunflower
State honored the extradition papers for
Hamilton when he learned of the brutality
of the crime charged to the young man.
The detectives rushed Hamilton by auto-
mobile to Fort Scott, and there caught a
train to Indianapolis. Questioned on the
train, Louis Hamilton contended that he
knew absolutely nothing of the Jackson
murder. He said the first he learned of it
was when his mother read a piece from the
Kansas City Star about it while they were
having the birthday dinner for his brother.
Young Hamilton was met at the station by
Chief Morrissey, Inspector Simon and other
high police officials. He was taken directly
to detective headquarters and subjected
to questioning, but continued his denial of
the shooting.

The sweating detectives held up their
sleeve a trump card which Hamilton never
suspected. It was the arrest and confession
of Witt. Hamilton thought Witt was en
route to Massachusetts and believed him
far too smart to fall into the hands of the
officers. In fact, however, Witt was reposing
in a near-by cell at headquarters. The
carrier boys came upon the street shouting,
“Extra! Jackson Murderer Caught!” One
of the detectives left the room where the
questioning of Hamilton was progressing,
stepped out to the street and bought a
paper. It carried information on Witt’s
capture and confession under big head-
lines. With a smile, the detective unfolded
the paper and laid it before Hamilton.

The debonair young man scanned the
headline and paled. Slowly he read the
accusing story in the dim light of the
room. His eye caught a paragraph saying
that Witt had squealed and thrown a major
part of the crime upon him. Hamilton’s
face was lighted by a bitter and sardonic
smile. The accusation that he was the
trigger-man leaped at him from the page.
He dropped the paper and said:

“Hell!
damned shooting, and I won’t put Witt into
it any more than myself.”

Five hours after leaving the train at the
Union Station in Indianapolis, Hamilton,

Tll tell the truth about this ©

too, was spilling his story about his part in
the bloody and brutal killing of the mil-
lionaire store owner.

“IT met Witt in the Lansing prison,” he
said.

“In April, Witt sent a wire asking me to
come to Indianapolis.”

Detectives breathed easier. Young Ham-
ilton’s words were checking with the story
that Blodgett had told, and it had all the
earmarks of being true. Hamilton contin-
ued:

“IT went with Witt to the Ashland Street
home of a man named Blodgett, where
Witt lived under the name of Irwin.”

He then related how they had gone to
Shelbyville on May 22nd and stolen the
Yarling car, intent upon using it in a
stickup. They had planned first to hold up
an isolated Jackson store; then changed to
the big job of tackling headquarters. Ham-
ilton told how they had driven the stolen
car slowly past the Jackson headquarters
store to get the layout.

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her wages was exactly equal to
her 1947 income tax, she owed
the government nothing. With no
thought in mind of playing a
joke, she sent in a check and
wrote “Nothing” in the space re-
served for the amount.

—Walter Barnes

He said he ascertained that the armored
truck would stop at headquarters store to
collect the funds at 10:00 am. They
planned the job before this hour of pick-
up, the morning of May 27th. Hamilton
told of entering the store, automatic in
hand, and of how he advanced to the office
cage where he saw Jackson and several
of his associates working.

Hamilton would not admit explicity that
he shot Jackson. He said that he left the
store after the shooting without having
gained one cent of loot; although the at-
tempt resulted in murder. He said that he
lost consciousness from his wound near
Bainbridge, to which place they went to
pick up Blodgett’s wife before they drove
on to Iola, Kansas, arriving at 3 p.m. the
afternoon of May 29th. At the conclusion
of his confession, Hamilton was taken to
murderer’s row of the Marion County Jail.

Witt first came to trial in Lebanon on a
change of venue. His attorney, Ira M.
Holmes, in his opening statement to the
jury, said that witnesses for the defendant
would show -that he was in Iola, Kansas,
May 27th, the day Jackson was slain.
Prosecutor Wilson and his assistants Floyd

Mattice and Ben F. Seifres, reported that
this statement of Holmes was invaluable to
them. They knew the defense would be an
alibi, but did not know where the attempt
would be made to place Witt.

Wilson slipped from the room and con-
tacted Chief Morrissey, arranging for a
detective to go immediately to Iola. Di-
recting Detective Schultz by long distance
telephone, he gained valuable evidence,
located rebuttal witnesses and otherwise
helped in the fight to get a conviction.
Witt paled when Mrs. Mills, widow of the
slain sheriff, took the. stand as a surprise
witness. There was a dramatic moment
when Blodgett pointed an accusing finger
at Carrie, his former wife, and said that
Witt had stolen her from him.

The jury was out several hours before it
returned with a verdict:

“We the jury find the defendant guilty.”

These terse words constituted a death
sentence for Witt under the Hartzell Pro-

‘ vision of the Indiana law. His execution

date was fixed as March 3lst, 1932.

“T.rather hate to leave here,” Witt said
a few days later when, shackled with leg
irons and manacles, he was put in an auto-
mobile and rushed to the Michigan City
State Prison to await execution.

E ncommasilt by the verdict, the first
death sentence ever given in the Lebanon
Court, Prosecutor Wilson and his aides
brought Hamilton to trial.

Although the case was bitterly fought,
the jury in the trial was hung and finally
discharged. This placed in jeopardy the
verdict in the Witt case, since Hamilton’s
case was so closely linked. Very promptly
Prosecutor Wilson brought Hamilton to
trial a second time before a Boone County
jury.

The state characterized Witt and Hamil-
ton as “Siamese twins of modern crime.”
The defense characterized the invalid
neighbor who had testified that the trio ar-
rived in Iola, May 29th, two full days after
the murder, as the “Mrs. Probe of Iola,”
and said it was a dastardly piece of show-
manship to put her on the stand.

“Never again will you sit in a jury-
box where the evidence mounts so high
and speaks so strongly as in the Hamilton
case,” Mr. Seifres of the prosecution said.

He dramatically re-enacted the fatal
shooting with a .45-caliber revolver similar
to the one Hamilton “is alleged to have
used.”

Finally, the jury was ifhstructed on
thirty-seven points, and the case com-
mitted to their deliberation. The jury
stayed out from evening until the next
morning, when it filed in to report:

“We the jury find the defendant guilty as
charged.”

Judge Fred E. Hines sentenced Hamilton
to die in the electric chair August 15th.
Cold steel manacles were snapped upon
him, and he was rushed to the prison at
Michigan City.

Witt’s appeal to the Supreme Court was
denied, and he went to the chair on July
21st, 1933.

On August 15th Louis Hamilton followed
his pal to an ignominious death for his part
in the brutal murder,

Epitor’s Nore:

The names Carrie and Joseph Blod-
gett, as used in the foregoing story,
are not the real names of the persons
concerned. These persons have been
given fictitious names in order to pro-
tect their identity. Picture of Charles
Vernon Witt appears qn page 44, top,
left; that of Louis Hamilton on page 45,
bottom, right.


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of the patrol car officers coming up,
guns in hand. He ignored their com-
mand to put up his hands, and when
they opened fire, he slid inside the car
and slammed the door. The policemen
felt sure they had hit him somewhere
near the waistline.

The bandit car careened wildly from
the curb into the center of Washington
Street, which forms a section of the
National Road, heavy with traffic at all
hours. Two bystanders, Nestor Petciva
and Harry Clark, although unarmed,
jumped into a car and started in pur-
suit. They obtained the license number
of the getaway automobile before it was
swallowed up in traffic.

In the meanwhile, English, the porter,
had made his way to headquarters and

houted, “Help! Standard is bein’ stuck

' They’v> shot Mr. Jackson!”

In a minute or two, the heavily loaded
police emergency squad car rushed to
the curb in front of the Jackson store,
just around the corner. The squad split.
One section, after gaining a brief de-
scription, set out ip pursuit of the bandit
car; the other paused for minute investi-
gation of the scene and to aid the
wounded. Jackson’s brother-in-law had
released a canister of tear gas in the
battle, and the fumes hung heavy in the

The statement by the defense
attorney proved invaluable to
Prosecutor Herbert Wilson (above)

The young man (between
women, right) had been mar-
ried for just twelve hours

air. The curious were forced from the
store, and Jackson’s son and friends,
were trying to give first aid to both him
and Patrolman Bauer. Quickly the men
were rushed to the receiving ward of St.
Vincent’s Hospital, twenty-five blocks
away.

“They shot me down like a dog. I

never had a chance,” gasped Jackson,
as Doctor Thomas Noble prepared to
operate in a desperate attempt to save
his patient’s life.

Patrolman Bauer, in lucid moments,
said of the robbery:

“When I heard shots, I knew a stick-
up gang was working. I ran to the
Standard store, and through the window
I saw the bandits, guns in hand.

“One had a sawed-off shotgun which
he held in his left hand near his left
hip, finger on trigger. I drew my gun
and fired at the same time the bandits
did. Something struck me on the head,
and I knew nothing further until car-
ried into the hospital.”

Jackson’s last words were: “I have
been fatally shot. They’ve killed me.”

He died without recovering from the
operation.

Doctor Noble found that a heavy
bullet, probably a_ .45-caliber, had
penetrated the millionaire grocer’s ab-
domen and had emerged at the back.
Some hopes were held for Patrolman
Bauer’s recovery.

Public sentiment was fanned to white
heat by newspaper extras announcing
the brutal murder. Jackson had been
prominent as a church worker, and was
known, more or less. directly, by
thousands of housewives who bought
from his stores. The shooting of an
officer was likewise reprehensible to the
public mind.

Three weeks after this sensational
crime, death wrested control of the

Indianapolis police department from the
veteran Jerry Kinney and it was passed
to Michael F. Morrissey, who had come
up from the ranks.

“I realized that the gun battle and
murder within shouting distance of
headquarters was a challenge to law
enforcement agencies that must not go
long unanswered,” said Chief Mor-
rissey.

“From the first moment, I threw every
agency of the department into action,
and I had the most wonderful coopera-
tion from the men on the force and the
public. Those engaged in the hunt for
the killer of Jackson, as well as the
criminals who might be in cahoots with
him, realized from the first that it was
a life and death game.”

Under the law, murder committed in
perpetrating a robbery is punishable
in Indiana by death alone. Cooperating
in the manhunt was Fred Simon, veteran
officer, who had been appointed head of
detectives. Station WMDZ kept patrol
squads in the field supplied with minute
descriptions of the youthful bandits and
all phases of the hunt. Telephones, bul-
letins, and circulars were used to broad-
cast descriptions. Police were charged at
roll call that the Jackson case was the
first order of investigation until the two
criminals had been stopped. dead or
alive. Bauer, badly hurt. was promoted
to detective sergeant for the brave part
he had playeu in trying io stop the
youthful killers.

Physicians were warned that reports
were required by law on treatment for
all gunshot wounds. It was felt the
police fire had drawn blood. Hotels and
boarding-houses were combed.

Check of the license number on the
bandit car, supplied by the two citizens,
showed, as suspected, that it had been
stolen. It (Continued on ypaage 70)


70

THE KILLERS AND THE KIDNAPPED BRIDE

(Continued from page 45) belonged to Dan
Yarling, and had been taken from the pub-
lic square at Shelbyville, forty miles or so
distant. Attention was focused on finding
this car, which it was hoped would yield a
clue. A squad led by Sergeant Hod Ellers,
a former National League baseball star,
found the car and reported:

“Three bullets from police guns had
penetrated the right front door of the car.
There were blood-soaked bullets in the car.
Blood was on the upholstery, windshield
and gear box. This bore out the belief that
at least some of the bullets fired by police
had drawn blood.”

The battered bullets were turned over to
Arch Ball, ballistic expert. He reported
that the gun of Sergeant Decker, as indi-
cated by the recovered pellet, had wounded
one of the desperadoes. Witnesses of the
shooting knew also that Jackson, before
dying, had drawn blood from over the eye
of the driver of the car. Guy M. Loy, an
employee of Standard, picked up from
the floor of the store, two empty .45-caliber
cartridges which had been dropped by the
killer of the wealthy grocer.

After the first flush of excitement, the
officers settled down to a detailed analysis
of the known facts of the case. The ban-
dits did not seem like amateurs entirely.
They were cursed: with tremendous daring
to strike in the heart of downtown Indian-
apolis in broad daylight. Neither wore
masks. They proceeded in their bloody
project with abandon, shooting with com-
plete indifference to life. It was concluded
that the killers were experienced in crime,
although young in years. i

Witnesses of the tragic gun battle were
brought to headquarters to pore over pic-
tures of known criminals. It was hoped
that they might be able to single out the
bandits. This was deemed especially
necessary when it was decided that the
criminals sought were professionals.

Meanwhile, a most unusual element was
entering into the sensational murder of the
grocery magnate; the conscience of a man
who had knowledge of the Jackson killers.
To the office of Chief Morrissey came this
man, Joseph Blodgett, willing to cooperate
with the police although at times he be-
lieved his life was in danger at the hands of
the bandits. “I am sure that if I tell they
will bump me off,” he had said upon enter-
ing headquarters.

Asked to whom he was referring, he said,
“The Jackson killers, I know them!”

When he had been assured that he was
safe in the security of police headquarters,
Blodgett began to talk: “I knew the killers
of Lafayette Jackson as Carl Irwin and a
chap I knew only as Hamilton, who used
to room with me.”

A; Blodgett got better acquainted with
the roomer known as Car] Irwin, he found
that this name was only an alias to cover
up the man’s true identity, which was
Charles Vernon Witt. He said that Witt,
sometime after taking a room at the
Blodgett apartment, wired Hamilton in
Kansas, asking him to come to Indianapo-
lis. Hamilton sent word that he was broke,
needed fifty dollars to “get a girl out of
trouble’ and could not come. Witt left
Indianapolis, and later returned with Ham-
ilton,

“They both slept side by side in our
home,” said Blodgett.

He then told of things he had witnessed
that made him believe Hamilton and Witt
were desperate characters. They appeared
with various automobiles and chiseled the
‘dentification marks from them, Blodgett
said. Both carried heavy pistols, always
within reach. It developed that not only

did Witt take possession of Blodgett’s home
but he also took Blodgett’s wife, Carrie.
Asked as to why he had not reported these
developments to the police sooner, Blodgett
said that he lived in mortal fear of Witt
and Hamilton.

“Witt would have me sit in a chair and
press the forty-five against my heart and
say that if I ever breathed to a soul that he
was an escaped convict, he would blow my
heart out,” Blodgett said in the graphic
recital of his fears. Then he continued:

“Sometime after the shooting of. Mr.
Jackson, and his death, I was reading a
newspaper about the crime when I heard a
car, and Witt soon entered the house. He
told me that he and Hamilton had been
wounded by police who raided his moon-
shine still near Bainbridge, Indiana. He
showed me a wound on his side which was
bleeding, and asked for medical attention
and food.

“Witt must have sensed the doubt in my
face, as I had before me the newspaper
telling about the sensational shooting. He

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changed his attitude and admitted, ‘Yes,
we pulled the job all right. My buddy and
I both got plugged. We didn’t get a damned
red cent either. I hope the old
dies!’ Witt was referring to Mr. Jackson.

“I inquired of Witt whether the police
had chased them after they had shot Mr.
Jackson. Witt assured me the police had
not.”

‘Blodgett went on: “Witt then took his
automatic from his holster under his arm
and said: ‘If you tell a soul about this affair
you are signing your death warrant.’”

Blodgett evinced fear, and appeared sin-
cere in the reason he had given for not
tipping off the police in time to trap Witt
and Hamilton. He offered a ray of hope
by saying that when Carrie, his wife, de-
parted with the bandits, he believed they
had left possessions at his home for which
they would return. Blodgett was taken to
the office of Marion County Prosecutor
Herbert E. Wilson, a young and aggressive
attorney, who went over the ground again
with him. He was permitted to leave but
was kept under surveillance as a valuable
witness in the case.

The trail of the Jackson killers was get-
ting blazing hot. The officers realized the
caliber of the men they were seeking, and
were ordered td take no chances. The
arrow pointed to Iola, Kansas, the home of
Hamilton. A description of Hamilton was
wired to the sheriff in Kansas asking his
arrest. The Indianapolis officers learned
that Louis Hamilton, the man wanted, had

done time. The record disclosed that Louis
Hamilton had been sent up when seventeen
years old for wounding a man in a dispute.
He was released from the House of Correc-
tion and later was given a five-year inde-
terminate sentence at Lansing, Kansas, for
stealing an automobile.

Moments seemed like hours while In-
dianapolis police awaited word from the
Kansas sheriff as to whether the theory
that Hamilton had gone back home was
correct. Then came a telegram announcing
that Louis Hamilton was in custody. Chief
of Police Morrissey immediately got the
Kansas sheriff on the long distance tele-
phone. The Kansas official said that his
men had swooped down upon the Hamilton
home and had arrested the gunman, whom
they found asleep upstairs.

Crier Morrissey asked the Kansas sheriff
to examine Hamilton to see whether he
had a wound over his eye. The answer
came that there was a wound that had the
appearance of being inflicted by gunshot.
This checked perfectly with reports of wit-
nesses of the desperate gun battle that
Jackson had drawn blood from one of the
young hoodlums who had attacked him. It
was learned that twelve hours before Ham-
ilton was taken into custody, he had mar-
ried a girl who worked in the five and ten
cent store at Chanute, Kansas. Detectives
Harry McGlenn and Edward Glenn were
immediately dispatched to Iola, armed with
warrants for the extradition of the prison-
er.
The Kansas sheriff offered another in-
valuable tip over the telephone. He said
that when Hamilton arrived at Iola he was
accompanied by a companion, identity un-
known, and a young woman. Both had left
just before Hamilton was arrested. In-
dianapolis police were convinced that the
companions who had pulled out in the nick
of time were Witt and his stolen bride,
Carrie. The idea that Witt might be en
route back to Indianapolis to pick up the
girl’s belongings at the Blodgett home was
advanced.

Check of Witt’s criminal record began to
reveal his desperate past. He had escaped
as a lifer from the Lansing, Kansas, prison,
Bert Parrott, in charge of the Indianapolis
fingerprint department, found. Witt had
in cold blood murdered a county sheriff at
Syracuse, Kansas, when the officer tried to
arrest him along a country road for auto-
mobile theft.

Witt had been convicted in Kansas and
sent up for life. Under all ordinary ex-
pectations he had been disposed of. But he
was a crafty individual. He was reported
missing one night at roll call, to the amaze-
ment of Kansas prison authorities. It was
never definitely established how Witt
escaped; but it is believed he had some-
how managed to scale the high prison
wall. He had met Hamilton, it developed,
while they worked together in the prison.

The man who had left Iola with his gir]
companion just before the arrest of Ham-
ilton, had left indefinite information as to
his destination, but said he was bound
“East.” Acting on the hunch that Witt
might stop in Indianapolis, a trap was set
at the Blodgett home. Four detectives were
stationed in the house. At 2:30 p.m., the
waiting officers heard a light car roll to
the curb. The driver honked the auto
horn loudly, then stepped out, nattily
dressed. His description answered that of
Witt, the crouching detectives decided.
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chances with the escaped lifer, and when
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From a shoulder holster under his right
arm they removed a gun. This tallied with
the description given by Sergeant Bauer
that the man he engaged in battle was left
handed. The suspect begain to stall.

“My name is Carl Irwin, and I live on
Route 3, Salem, Indiana. There has been
some mistake. I’m not the man you're
looking for,” he said politely.

“Never mind that, we know who you are.
You’re wanted badly,” he was told, and was
hustled off to headquarters. Upon learning
that Witt and Hamilton were the men
sought, detectives began tracing actions of
the men while in the state. It was discov-
ered that Witt was a fugitive from Marion
County, having been sought in connection
with a payroll robbery the year before.

Investigation revealed that there had
been a car wrecked near New Maysville,
Indiana, in May, and that this car had been

stolen from in front of Keith Hall on May °

17th. Witnesses claimed that both Witt and
Hamilton were seen leaving the car, and
that*Witt carried a pistol on his hip. Search
of the wrecked car had showed that it con-
tained a light topcoat identified by Blodgett
as belonging to Hamilton and establishing
the fact that the partners in crime had been
in the Hoosier State during the month the
Jackson killing took place.

i. was a tense moment when the much-
wanted Witt was rushed into police head-
quarters. From the first he gave the ques-
tioning detectives ample proof that he was
a hard nut to crack. Soon Carrie, Blodgett’s
wife, showed up, and began a staunch de-
fense. Witt and the woman were separated
and the questioning went on, the discrep-
ancies in their stories mounting up. The
detectives played their trump card while
Witt maintained he was Carl Irwin. Bert
Parrott, fingerprint expert, was called in
and he carried a Kansas circular display-
ing description and photograph of Witt.
Witt was in the ludicrous position of deny-
ing his own photograph for a moment, then
he seemed to wilt.

“Never mind the fingerprints. Give me a
cigarette,” he said, as he began bargaining
for his life.

“Hamilton was the trigger-man,” Witt
said, attempting to place most of the blame
for killing Jackson on his companion.

With such celerity had the case pro-
gressed that within less than twenty-four
hours after Blodgett had sat within the
office and poured out his tale, both Witt
and Hamilton were in custody. It devel-
oped that a thirst for blood had led Witt
to abandon a trip to Massachusetts, which
he had planned, and to return to Indianapo-
lis and Blodgett’s home.

His crafty criminal instincts had been
overcome by a desire to kill Blodgett.

He had read of the arrest of Hamilton in
Kansas, and knew by deduction that the
tip had come from Blodgett. Upon arriving
at Indianapolis he had put Carrie out on
Massachusetts Avenue and had _ ridden
alone to the Blodgett home to square the
score. There he had fallen into the trap.

At this point there developed a remark-
able trend in the attitude the woman in the
case took toward Witt. Carrie staunchly
and vehemently defended her abductor.
She said to newspaper reporters, from be-
hind the bars where she had been put as a
material witness:

“You can put this in your paper and be
sure to get it straight. I love Charles Ver-
non Witt, knowing that he is an escaped
convict and a murderer, if you please. I
knew he packed a rod and that our life
would be a round of jumping ahead of the
police. But I love Witt. I’ll stick to him
to the end. You can write that down for
me.”

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71

One week after he was last seen
leaving his stand with three passen-
ers, Edmund Davis, below, was
‘ound murdered on a lonely road,
far from the scene of the intensive |
search for clues to the mystery. |
Discovery of the body is pictured
in the scene at right,

of Edmund. Davis of Jeffersonville. “T’ll
give the cab a good going over for pos-
sible prints and clues first thing,” he an-
nounced, and immediately set to work.
Aside from a none-too-clear. fingerprint
on the rear view mirror, the taxi yielded
nothing helpful. .

“Judging by the amount of blood on
the floor and the spattered seats, someone
gave up his life in that taxi,” Ball said ©
grimly, “and the chances are that we'll
find the body of the victim somewhere
near.”

Sheriff Noelting nodded. Slowly the
two men began to cover the ground, mov-
ing in opposite directions. Presently
Detective Ball caught a glimpse of some-
thing white under a log in a thicket about
50 yards from the car.

He stooped, lifted the end of the heavy
log and drew forth what had been a white
sports jacket, almost completely dyed
crimson now with blood, He carried it
to the state police car and resumed his

‘search,

At last he entered a thick clover field
back nearer the road and suddenly
the bright sunlight focused on the light
metal of a winged emblem at his feet.
His hand swept aside the thick, sweet
clover to discover a dark cap, bearing
the same winged insignia and ‘1100
Cab” design found on the bloodspat-
tered cab.

“Here’s the driver’s cap,”’ he called to
Sheriff Noelting, motioning him to his
side.

“T think I’d better call the office and
have Technician Chester Wilson come
out to take pictures of the cab, inside and
out, and anything else we may uncover,”
he decided. “Keep guard and when I get
back in a few minutes we'll go on.with
our search for the body.”

“All right,” Noelting replied. “It’s
bound to be around here somewhere.”

With the return of Ball and the arrival
of the’ technician, a posse was quickly
formed and under the guidance of the
state police detective, the searchers cov-
ered every inch of ground in all directions
and finally moved up to U. S. highway
31. They found no trace of a body. There
was nothing to indicate what had hap-
pened either to the driver or his fares.

Ball concluded it would be best to
abandon that search temporarily and try
to pick up the trail of the person or per-
sons who might have driven the blood-
stained taxi to the remote field and left
it there. Had Davis been the driver or
had he been involved in some strange
plot? Where was the person or the body
of the person who lost all the blood? Ball
and the sheriff drove to the nearest gas
station on the main highway.

"THE proprietor’s face widened in a
grin as he recognized the two officers.
“On the trail of something?” he asked
genially.

Detective Ball nodded, with a brief
smile. “Have you taken note of anything
unusual in these parts since yesterday ?”
he asked. “Have you noticed anybody
who struck you as acting suspiciously ?”

The gas station proprietor’s features
sobéred. His brow creased into a puzzled
frown. “Why, yes, come to think of it,
I guess I have. Of course, I might be
wrong and they might have been telling
the truth—” he hesitated, “but—”

“Just what happened?” the state de-
tective asked.

“Well, last night around midnight’

some people came into the station and
asked to use the telephone and the thing
that struck me as odd was the fact that

they weren’t driving a car and that they
were pretty disheveled. But they ex-
plained that.”

“How ?” Ball asked.

“They said they had had a wreck. Their
car had been smashed and they had been
considerably shaken up,” the man replied.

Ball shook his head. “We've received
no word of an accident, especially a
wreck as bad as they described,” he said.

“No word was turned in at the sheriff’s
office, either,” Noelting added, ‘and one
or the other of us would have receive
that report.”

HE state detective turned back to the

service station owner. “Did anything
else arouse your suspicions, apart from
their appearance and the fact that they
were on foot?” he questioned.

“Well; when they first came in, they
asked to use the phone and when I pointed
it out to them, they changed their minds
and decided not to make a call. Instead,
they asked me to direct them to the near-
est tourist camp where they might spend
the night.”

Swiftly Ball made the entries in his
notebook. “You say ‘they’—how many
were there ?” he asked.

“Three,” the gas station proprietor
said. The detective looked up with in-
terest.

“Three,” he repeated, as if to himself.
The police broadcast from Jeffersonville
had announced that Davis, when last
seen, was driving three fares toward the
edge of town.

The abandoned taxi was Davis’, Ball
wondered what had happened after Davis
disappeared. Were the three fares re-
sponsible? _ Had he picked up another
fare later? Were the three disheveled
midnight hikers, connected with the af-
fair, or was their appearance here en-
tirely coincidental ?

“Describe the trio,” he said briefly.

“There were two men and a woman,
or maybe I’d better say two boys and a
girl, for they all looked young,” the man
replied. “I can’t give you much in the

disco.
where


MISSING CABBIE

JIGSAW

HE terse voice of the radio opera-
tor at Jeffersonville, Ind., police
headquarters cut through the air:
“We are trying to locate Edmund
Davis, driver of an Eleven-Hundred
taxicab—Edmund Davis driving an
Eleven-Hundred cab—if you contact him,
ask him to call his office—if you contact
him, ask him to call his office in Jeffer-
sonville. That is all.”
But Edmund Davis was not located
during the ensuing hours and early the
following morning additional messages

were broadcast, this time more urgently:
“He was last seen Monday evening, driv-
ing three fares toward the edge of town.
If you learn of his whereabouts, notify
the Jeffersonville police.”

The manager of the cab company and.

police authorities, as the hours passed
without word of the missing driver, be-
gan to fear that he had met with an acci-
dent. They harbored no doubts about his
absence and refused to consider the pos-
sibility that he might have fled with the
cab, for the 36-year-old man was an
honest and trusted employe. He was al-
ways alert on the job, driving his fares
carefully, and his record was an enviable
one. Fear about his fate developed when
he failed to report after picking up three
fares early in the evening of May. 20,
1940, Finally, the manager sought police
aid.

“Something has kept him from report-
ing to the office, something unavoidable,
and I am afraid he’s been hurt,” the
manager of the taxicab company told the
officers.

He was soon to learn the prophecy of
his words, for even as the Jeffersonville

i radio operator continued his intermittent

broadcasts for news of Davis, a farmer
living in Bartholomew county near Tay-
lorsville, far to’ the north, put in a call
for Sheriff Noelting at Columbus, the
county seat.

“Sheriff this may not mean anything,”
the farmer said, “but there’s a compara-

Hiring a cab at the stand indicated
J. W. Hayden, Jr., and his girl frie

tively new taxicab parked out in a field
near my place and it’s been there since
yesterday. I didn’t think anything about
it when I saw it there last night, but when
I found it still there this morning, I began
to wonder.”

“T don’t blame you. Perhaps I’d better
have a look,” Noelting agreed. “I’ll come
right away.” Noelting had not heard of
the local broadcast at Jeffersonville.

A few moments later he had driven
eight miles north on’ U. S. highway 31
and turned west on a county road, accord-
ing to given directions and pulled up at
a field where the farmer waited.

Sheriff Noelting found the taxi nosed
into a wooded spot.. For a moment he
studied its new, spotless exterior. “It’s
strange that a car like that should be
abandoned in this lonely spot,” he said,
“and it must have come from another lo-
cality. I’ve never seen a similar cab
around these parts anywhere.”

H E MOVED nearer as he spoke, open-
ing the rear door of the sedan. Then
he stopped, aghast.

The figured upholstering was deeply
stained with crimson and upon the floor
were pools of dried blood.

He pulled out his handkerchief and
carefully closed the door. “This is a job
for the state police,” he told the startled
farmer, “stay here and guard this car
until I can get in touch with them.”

by arrow below in Jeffersonville, Ind.,
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at Seymour, 24 miles south \

Detective Raymond Ball, whose keen |
sleuthing was well-known in the Hoosier
state, answered.

“There’s a bloodstained taxicab parked
out in a field up here,” Noelting said.

“Just a minute,” Detective Ball inter-
rupted eagerly, “what kind of a taxi is
it?’

“Well, let’s see. It’s a two-tone, new-
looking cab—”

“But what’s the name of the cab com-
pany?” Ball interposed. ~

“Tt doesn’t have a regular name, I
guess. It just says Eleven-Hundred cab
on the side and—” ‘

“T’}] be right there,” Ball cut in again.
“Wait there for me. And exactly where

- js the field located?”

“A mile and a half west of U. S. high-
way 31, not far from Taylorsville. Tul
meet you near the road,” the sheriff
replied.

Detective Ball picked up the memo-
randum upon his desk. “Eleven-Hun-
dred cab, No. 20. License No. 311-
100. Driver, Edmund Davis. Missing
since early Monday evening,” he read,
then thoughtfully slipped the paper
— his pocket and reached for his

at.
Seconds later he_ was speeding
northward through Columbus to the
designated spot.

He pulled up into the field and
joined the sheriff. The numbers

checked. He was looking at the cab

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Shown above in an enlarged re-

production is the “jigsaw” photo-

graph which, discovered by police

after it was torn to bits, proved a

vital clue in solving the riddle of

the missing cabbie. A startled

farmer found the vanished cab,

left, parked in a secluded spot
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Capt. Walter Eckert, right, of the Indiana state police, assumed
charge of the two-state investigation after Davis’ cap, circle, was
discovered in a clover field more than 100 miles from the city
where he picked up three passengers who ordered him to drive
to a fateful destination.

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spend help us materially. Where did you send
wily them, anyway ?”
in his “To the first tourist place up the road,”
—! the station proprietor pointed out, and
; shortly afterward the two officers drove
rietor expectantly into the camp.
th in- But here they lost the trail. “No,” the
; manager told them, “no one answering
imself. that description came in last night, either
ville after midnight or before.”
a last “Looks as if they changed their minds
rd the about the lodging place the same as they
did about using the phone,” Ball said
Ball glumly, “but we’re starting out right now
Davis to cover this highway until we find some
Ce" iG trace of them. I have a hunch they can
nother explain a lot of things.”
eveled “North?” Sheriff Noelting asked. ‘
he af- “First, yes,” the detective responded.
re en- “If they are mixed up with the taxicab
efly. ; Capt. Raleigh Bristow, left, of the
ee Owensboro, Ky., police, assisted
and a the Indiana officers in the investi-
e man gation and helped bring the case to
in the a speedy conclusion.

in any way, it’s logical to believe that
they’ll keep moving north. If they trav-
eled south, they’d be heading back toward
Jeffersonville.”

Slowly the officers moved up high-
way 31, north of Taylorsville, stopping
at every roadside eat shop along the way.
The elusive trio had not been seen. Four
miles they went, through the little town
of Edinburg, following the slight west-
ward curve of the highway to a spot be-
yond, where it crosses the narrow Blue
river.

66 ELL, here’s our next bet,” Ball
said, pulling into a parking space
before a modest touring camp.

“We're trying to locate three young
people who had a wreck Monday night,”
he told the manager, “and we have rea-
son to believe they might have come
here.”

“Perhaps they did,” the manager re-
plied. “Three young people, who looked
the worse for wear, did come in and hire
a cabin about one a.m.”

“Are they here now?” Ball demanded,

“No, they evidently slept only a short
while, freshened up and left early this
morning. They’ve been gone several
hours now, I suppose. Would you wan
their names ?”” :

“Presently, yes, but now we want to
see the cabin they occupied.”

“Of course,” the manager agreed, “but,
if there is anything wrong, I’m afraid a
search of the cabin will be of little help
to you for unfortunately it has been
straightened and cleaned since they left.”

“T’ll have a look anyway,” Ball de-
cided, and he and Sheriff Noelting were
led to the small building.

The state detective’s keen gaze swept
every object in the cabin and covered
every inch of the recently brushed floor.

Then he moved across the room to a
small, metal wastebasket.

“That, too, has been emptied,” the
manager reminded him.

Ball nodded briefly and continued to

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