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Federal ftgents and Bootleggers Believed Cause of Bullets on Busy Corner.COKOLriED FfOM PAGE ONItutfied pigeons and that theirformer confederate!* hit\e a worn, vent* nnce against the Lialtors Several fights hav occurred The shooting yesterdav which Is b« Ueved to be a culmination of the con troverey started when a man stood Jn the center of Kentucky avenue/ and opened firs with a sholwun on another man Who had Just coma from a res tavran*. at 21 Kentucky avenue The mitti on the sidewalk returned his assailant a curs-a with like expletives and hJa gunfire with bull eta from a revolver ha hastily drewBath Shots Go Wild The shotgun charge struck the ra diator of an automobile parked in front of the restaurant The revolver bullet struck a horee owned by the American Linen Supply Company which was standing Jn the middle of the street After the shooting the man with *he shotgun whn non natri to b« young and slender and wearing a brown overcoat walked lelsurelj to a coupe parked near bj got In It and drove away northeast on Kentucky avenue The man. witl t! c revolt *r described as tall and thin and dressed In dark clothing tan down an, alley on the east aide of Kentucky avenue Passers by scurried to what cover they could And as the duel opened When they emerged-^cnm thnir hiding places they gave police meager de scrip t/ons ot the twn gunman About an hour later the man with the shot gun returned to the scene J» anoth r car His pres^noa was j sported to police from the jvew York poolroom ^5 Kentucky avenue hut he was gone before police arrived Upon investigation police learned the two msn had engaged in a fight near the poolroom Saturday night Harry Ins 000 Nojih New .Tersey street who was ttarrowiy missed by the shotgun chargc said he saw the fight Clyde Kllmler of the Indiana meat market 30 Kentucky a ism a oaid he also saw the fight end that the man in the coup* wu« one of the prin cipalsLawrence Barnelt denied hew as In vnlved in foo shrfoting scrape but Sul mitted he was In the fight Saturdaynight Hp so,Id It started when tie Jokingly pulled a man s necktie01t«i Case of ghouasThe theory of the operations of steal pigeons was substantiated yesterday Jn tbo case of Charles Shouse 32 years old Beech lt;?rove who was dlemlsaed 3n City court yes terday oh charges of drunkenness operating a motor \ chicle under the influence of I kjdor vagrancy and carrying corcenlnd wflapans He was arrested Sundaj night bv Pfitrolmen Bitter and Bhaw on froapne.t at re at and at police naaUqiiarterfi Bald he waa a Federal stool pigeon A revoivcr was taken from a he^iy belt around his ifatatWhen arrested Shouse was drMng
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Indianapolis Star
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Tue, Nov 18, 1924
Page 3
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Marvin M.
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