Black Man Fights Cops Amid Weekend Crime Spree
Police report ongoing burglaries and holdups in Indianapolis over the weekend. A Black man is held for investigation after allegedly attempting to shoot two officers. A watchman was seriously hurt. a safe at Gausepohl & Co. leather goods was blown with $548 stolen. Several suspects, including Walker and Collins, faced charges or investigations for robberies, assaults, and parole violations. Two neckpieces valued at $240 were stolen.
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Indianapolis
Claude M. Worley
E. J. Gausepohl & Co
West Washington Street
Gausepohl
Hide Leather and Belting Company
South Meridian Street
Harry Reese
England Avenue
Elsworth Walker
Eldridge
Clifford Brown
George Sticker
Eleventh Street
Senate Avenue
Walker
State Reformatory
Theodore F. Frakes
Emerson Avenue
Sterling
Muskingum Street
Frakes
Matthew Collins
Minter-Middleton Coal Company
Winton Street
Ishmael Barger
West Morris Street
Collins
Barger
Woodward Dailey
Edward Dailey
Clarence Pressley
Shelby Street
City Hospital
Restores Order At Auburn Prison After Outbreak
Acting Warden Frank L Christian has restored normal routine at Auburn state prison after an outbreak that cost ten lives. He temporarily replaces injured Warden Edgar S Jennings who was held captive during a mutinous incident involving a Marmon Motor Car Company auto downtown. The report lists multiple thefts from cars and homes including cash, jewelry, guns, and presents, with several named victims and locations in Auburn and surrounding streets.
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Frank L. Christian
Auburn
N. Y
Elmira Reformatory
Edgar S. Jennings
C. M. Williams
Marmon Motor Car Company
Frank H. Wilson
North Sherman Drive
L. F. Wolfgang
Park Avenue
Lucille Osman
East Twenty-third Street
Sadie Turner
Martindale Avenue
Hong Lee
North Illinois Street
Lee You
George W. Litts
Carrollton Avenue
Mooney- Mueller-Ward
Twenty Sixth Street
Paris Avenue
J. W. Dungan
North la Salle Street
Guy Manuel
Bond Street
Broad Ripple Sales Company
East Sixty-third Street
Harry Cushman Poultry House
South
Illinois Street
Standard Oil
Fifty-sixth
Illinois Streets
Chester Johnson
Elim Street
Virginia Avenue
Noble Streets
Johns
Warn Congress to Provide for Prison Relief
Washington December 23. Attorney General Mitchell and federal prisons chief Sanford Bates urged Congress to pass a parole system, more prisons and better living quarters amid illness and overcrowding. They warned riots could recur as in Leavenworth Canon City Dannemora and Auburn. Bates said ideal penitentiaries should hold under 1,000 inmates.
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Scripps-Howard Newspaper Alliance
Washington
Congress Today
Mitchell
Sanford Bates
Leavenworth
Canon City
Dannemora
Auburn
Bates
House Judiciary Committee
Cap
There Is a Santa Claus in Alimony Ruling
Oscar F. Allen won a judge’s order reducing his ex wife’s alimony from 75 to 40 dollars monthly, a judge Calvert decision described as a Christmas gift. The piece notes broader issues of prisoner labor idleness, pending prison bills, a committee report on harsh conditions, and calls for new penitentiaries, hospitals, and a parole system, with Mitchell seeking shop authorization in federal prisons.
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United Press - Galo
Oscar F. Allen
Henley A. Calvert
Ital
Atlanta
Leavenworth
House
Mitchell
Cop Is Shot Twice In New York
December 23 report states Andrew Bornkessel, a longtime holder of a blue police uniform, may die from two gunshot wounds received in the city. Witnesses describe the incident as a grave assault with potential fatal outcome.
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United Press
NEW York
Andrew Bornkessel
Robbery ends in murder as cop shot in midtown hold up
A 43-year-old widower and father of three, Bornkessel, wandered into a Midtown speak easy during a six man armed robbery. When the robbers saw his uniform one ordered to shoot him. a bullet struck his arm and another fired into his temple as they fled. Elmer Blue to retire as Putnam County road superintendent on January 1 and join Galion Iron Works as a salesman.
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Bornkessel
Greencastle
Ind
Elmer Blue
Putnam County
Galion Iron Works
Galion
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