Tragedy in Marion: girl Mary Ball dies after road attack
Mary Ball, 19, died after a July night assault as her fiancé Claude Deeters was killed trying to defend her. A mob later lynched two of the three Black suspects, while the family faces grief and a mother’s search for justice in Grant county.
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Marion
Ind
Bucktown
Frank Ball
Mary Ball
Grant County
Claude Deeters
Fairmount
Mary
Claude
Deeters
Motherneath
Claude Deeter
Elatives
Deeter
Hoot Ball
Baby Drowns in Bath at Bellwood Home
United Press reports two year old Caroline Eberly reached for toys in a bath and drowned in about six inches of water at her Bellwood Nebraska home on August 8.
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Toy
United Press
Bellwood
Neb
Caroline Eberly
Odd Vagrant Roams Town With $17,000
Endallville Indiana August 8 a vagrant named Ligonier was taken into custody by Hoffman after authorities found him with 2000 in cash and a 15000 certificate of deposit in a Canton Ohio bank valued at 17000 dollars. Police believed he recently inherited the money as he appeared penniless.
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United Press
Endallville
Ind
Ligonier
Hoffman
Canton
Marion’s Boy Mayor Returns to Aid Lynching Investigation
Jack Edwards, known as Marion’s “boy mayor,” left Thursday for an unnamed destination and was expected to return today to assist officials investigating the lynchings following the assault and murder of a girl victim and the mob’s fury at the scene.
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Jack Edwards
Marion
Mooney Billings Retrial Demanded
Water shortages in southern Indiana drive reports of water being sold at five cents a glass or fifty cents enough to fill a car radiator. A. C. Brown from Lafayette says armed guards protect dwindling wells as fish skeletons line dry banks and water is shipped in from Louisville to feed starving farms and livestock.
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United Frese Onticello
Ind
Indiana
A. C. Brown
Lafayette
Brown
Jackson
Louisville
World marathon dancing title claimants named Gouvas and Gerry
Mike Gouvas of Hammond Indiana and Miss Ann Gerry of Chicago are crowned the world marathon dancing champions after 2,831 hours and 4% minutes of dancing. The event began at the Merry Garden ballroom and ended Friday night. Jack Ritof and Theresa Zito withdrew due to Ritof’s swollen ankle. The New York drought forecast milk prices rising one cent a quart starting Monday, costing the city about $35,000 daily.
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United Press
Chicago
Mike Gouvas
Hammond
Ind
Ann Gerry
Mike
Ann
Merry Garden Ballrooom
Jack Ritof
Joliet
Theresa Zito
Nitof
New York
McKenzie objects to conspiracy charges in Mooney Billings case
Edwin McKenzie Warren K Billings counsel blasts Fickert prosecution for retrying Mooney and Billings on conspiracy charges. He says witnesses MacDonald and Estelle Smith are discredited by cameras clocks and logic and demands a new trial or hearing. He offers to waive jeopardy and accept the first twelve jurors if needed to pursue any theory.
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San Francisco
Fickert
Mooney
Billings
Edwin McKenzie
Warren K. Billings
MacDonald
Estelle Smith
McKenzie
Cunha
Green Apples Fatality Hits Four Year Old Dowell Case
In Crawfordsville Indiana on August 8 a four year old boy Thomas Franklin Dowell died after eating green apples earlier in the week. He was the son of Mr and Mrs George Rowell who live north of Crawfordsville.
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Crawfordsville
Ind
Thomas Franklin Dowell
George Rowell
Heat To Hold Grip On State Amid Drought And Heat
The U S Weather Bureau forecasts little relief from heat with possible thundershowers in the north. Indiana rainfall ranged from trace to .68 inch in the 24 hours ending 7 am. Three heat related deaths are reported: James Auchue Logansport. David H Larson near Lafayette. James A Orr of Muncie.
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United States Weather Bureau
Indianapolis
South Bend
Angola
Lafayette
Farmland
Cambridge City
Columbus
Paoli
Indiana
James Auchue
Logansport
David H. Larson
James A. Orr
Muncie
Fragmentary OCR timing data from schedule fragment
Incomplete notes show a sequence of times and numbers such as 6a.m 7 10a.m 84 Te Bhesee SL 11 B.m 3 8a.m 8 12 noon 85 9a.m 85 2p 3 is 88.
Double Inquiry Into Lynching Of Two Negro Slayers
Marion Indiana crowds roared through downtown as a mob lynched Thomas Shipp and Abraham Smith after trapping them at the Grant county jail. Police moved to quell threats as vigilante action sparked a riot with tear gas and improvised weapons across the jail area.
Marion Lynching Probe Opens With State Aid
Attorney-General James M. Ogden sent two deputies and an investigator to Marion as Grant county prosecutors prepare a grand jury review of the double lynching. The judge will convene Sept. 1 to initiate the inquiry, with state officials warning of severe penalties for mob participants.
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James M. Ogden
Marion
Harley V. Hardin
Grant County
Hardin
Ogden
Earl Stroup
Merle Wall
L. O. Chasey
Harry G. Leslie
E. Clawson
Grant
Barred The Times condemns publishing lynching photos
The Times states it obtained closeup pictures of the Marion lynchings but will not reproduce them. It argues printing such images serves no journalism value and only stirs morbid curiosity.
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the Times
Marion
Graphic Lynching Told by Eyewitness at Marion
William E Hallberg recounts witnessing a mob in Marion Indiana lynch two Black men by hanging after a night of curfew crowds at the Grant County jail. He describes the crowd’s mixed mood, sheriff figures facing rioters, and the dispatch of a heavy mob that dispersed by early morning leaving streets crowded and tense.
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Marion
Ind
Abram Smith
Campbell
Higgs Undertaking Establishment
O. L. Stout
Herbert Cameron
William E. Hallberg
Lewis Lindenmuth
Senna Kane
Sudanen
Ball
Deeter
Death Valley May Become New National Monument
Death Valley in southeastern California could join the U S national park system. President Hoover signed an executive order reserving strategic points to prevent entry while Interior Department studies the area's suitability for national monument status.
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Science Service
Washington
Death Valley
California
United States National Park Service
Hoover
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