Christmas weekend crime spree totals $1500 in loot
Over the weekend three hold ups and multiple burglaries spread Christmas fear with loot tallied at 1500 dollars. Victims include Willis Yorker at Second Presbyterian church overcoat theft and Walter Dockstetter who reported three turkeys stolen.
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Pennsylvania St
Second Presbyterian Church
Walter Dockstetter
Tenth St
Co. HE
Sheffield Ave
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King Ave
Ed Osborne
A. W. Gray
Walker Winslow
Delaware St
Josephine Mathis
N. Bosart Ave
William Schlegel
N. Riley Ave
William E. Symons
Shriver Ave
Francis Hill
Layman Ave
W. B. Getty
Southeastern Ave
James Seaman
College Ave
Trains Won't Stop Now as Bandit Steals on Mine Train
Petersburg, Ind, Dec 21 Times Special reports motorists refuse to stop for pedestrians and conductor Mont Shadley, while stopping to aid a groaning pedestrian led to a gunpoint robbery yielding $2.
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Petersburg
Ind
Mont Shadley
Shadley
Civic League to Hear Clergy and Federation Leader
Robinwood Civic League meets at 3227 School St tonight to hear Rev Clarence Wilhelm of Calvary Baptist Church and A Le Roy Portteus president of the Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs. Officers are H H Minchin president N E Baker vice president and Mrs J Griffith secretary.
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Robinwood Civic League
School St
Clarence Wilhelm
Calvary Baptist Church
A. le Roy Portteus
Indianapolis Federation of Community Civic Clubs
H. H. Minchin
N. E. Baker
J. Griffith
Hoosier Jurist Thomas Ellison Dies in California
Thomas B. Ellison former Ft Wayne attorney and jurist dies in Pasadena California. He served on the Indiana State board of charities and wrote the current Indiana law on dependent children and other laws remodeling the penal code, establishing parole and indeterminate sentences. Funeral plans awaited.
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Mar
Ft, Wayne
Ind
Thomas B. Ellison
Pasadena
Cal
Ellison
Indiana State Board of Charities
Indiana
Seven to Face Court in Juvenile Delinquency Case
Six men and one woman were to appear in Juvenile Court in La Porte Indiana to answer charges of contributing to the delinquency of a 14 year old country girl. The woman Helen Fritzen twenty is alleged to have lured the girl to La Porte for a wild party attended by six men. The ill girl may testify against the accused.
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Times
LA Porte
Ind
Helen Fritzen
Laporte
Puzzle of a Day Sparks Controversy at Toledo Church
A four month old was adopted by a Toledo church congregation and women take turns caring for him. One caregiver has grown fond and designs a carriage robe for the child claiming it can be traced in a single continuous line without lifting or retracing. The puzzle answer notes a rubber concern as a closed corporation with stock and bonds totaling two thousand units valued at two hundred thousand dollars.
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Toledo
Army officers join Marion Legion posts at Harrison
More than thirty Army officers stationed at Ft Benjamin Harrison join John H Holliday Jr Post 186 in Marion County 1926 membership drive. Brig Gen Dwight E Aultmann leads the list of officers paying 1926 dues for local American Legion posts.
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Ft. Benjamin Harrison
John H. Holliday Jr
American Legion
Marion County
Ft. Harrison
Dwight E. Aultmann
Shot Halts Driver Stop Incident In City
Brown Patterson age 31 of 1902 W Michigan St was stopped by a bullet through his tire. Motorcycleman Hiram Fischer arrested him on charges including assault and battery driving through a safety zone fail ure to stop after an accident driving without lights and intoxication. Patterson allegedly struck Catherine Springer at Liberty St and Massachusetts Ave while she waited for a street car.
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Michigan St
Hiram Fischer
Patterson
Fischer
Catherine Springer
New York St
Liberty St
Massachusetts Ave
Rotation Disapproved for New Indianapolis Courts
An Indianapolis Bar Association committee disapproved the rotation plan for four new municipal courts opening January 1. Judges Dan V. White and Paul O. Wetter will hear criminal cases at police headquarters, while Judges Fred McCallister and Edward Felt will adjudicate civil matters at the courthouse basement. The plan faced opposition from three attending judges. Judge McCallister was absent.
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Indianapolis Bar Association
Dan V. White
Paul O. Wetter
Fred McCallister
Edward Felt
Lawrence B. Davis
McCallister
Church Peace Discussed At Y M C A Big Meeting
Brig. Gen. William G. Everson of Muncie declared that armies can restrain the world but only the church of God can save it. He spoke at English’s Theater alongside expectations that disarmament and air service reorganization will fade without united action. Governor Jackson will address the January 10 gathering as meetings in January are open to women.
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William G. Everson
Muncie
United States Reserve Army
English
Air Service
Everson
America
Jackson
Seek man who killed woman in midwest case
Clarence Hunter, 30, is sought for the slaying of Mrs. Edna Irvington, 27, in her Fort Wayne apartment during a liquor fueled party. Police say Hunter shot the woman and fled. his sister fears he may have committed suicide as the search spans the Middle West.
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FT. Wayne
Ind
Clarence Hunter
Edna Irvington
Middle West
Nine families living in crowded ten-room house
In Portsmouth England an inquiry into a two weeks old baby's death found the residence housed nine families. The occupants included seven adults and twenty three children in a ten room dwelling.
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Portsmouth
England
Dinner with Daddy at White Cafeteria Brightens Family Day
A family outing described as pleasant for mother and the children titled On the Circle centers on a dinner at the White Cafeteria. The report captures a simple, cheerful domestic moment and the enjoyment of a meal together.
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Daddy
White
Mother
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