State Strikes Back At Defense Moves
The murder case of Miss Madge Oberholtzer heads to trial with D C Stephenson and co defendants jailed in Noblesville awaiting Judge Fred E Hines ruling on bail. Attorneys challenged the dying statement as to causation while the state argued murder by humiliation and mistreatment. Charles E Cox drew a reprimand for a heated remark as the court urged caution and allowed time to reconsider.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. C
Ephenman
Floyd
Christian
Ira M. Holmes
Dieense
Miss Oberholtzer
Indiana
Hammond
Oehrholter
Charles E. Cox
Stephenson
Hines
Cox
Ex-Day Agents Fined and Jailed in Prohibition Conspiracy
J E Russell former Ohio prohibition director and ten others were sentenced in Cleveland for conspiring to flood northern Ohio with 22 000 gallons of illegal whisky from the Hayner distillery Troy three years ago Russell and Warren E Barrett Columbus attorney and politician each got two years in the federal penitentiary and 7500 fine Copeland fined 2500 and two years imprisonment others faces up to one year and a day and fines up to 5000
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Cleveland
J. E. Russell
Ohio
Hayner
Troy
Russell
Warren E. Barrett
Columbus
M. B. Copeland
Anr Russell
Judge fines Thompson for liquor law violation
Criminal Judge James A. Collins fines John Thompson of 325 S Arlington Ave $300 and sentences him to sixty days on the Indiana State Farm after conviction for liquor law violations.
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James A
Collins J
John Thompson
S.w
Arlington Ave
Indiana State Farm
Barney Conroy the City Sewer Cleaner of Indianapolis
Barney Conroy a veteran sewer cleaner aged 85 lives at 526 West Court Street and is famed for his knowledge of Indianapolis underground pipes. Foreman of a street department gang he has forty years of service and claims he can still outwork younger men. He spends Sundays fishing and hunts in winter and is a Republican committeeman in the Sixth Ward Fifth Precinct delivering for local politicians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barney Conroy
Rones
Indianapolis
Barney
W. Court St
Conroy
Street Commissioner's Department
Fifth Precinct
Sixth Ward
Local Firm Receives Death by Own Action Note
Seymour Indiana June 20 A local insurance company received a letter from James Leighton 25 formerly of the city stating he would take his life in Chicago and instructing police be notified if a policy existed his mother Mary Leighton died January local police are investigating.
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Times Special
Seymour
Ind
James Leighton
Chicago
Mary Leighton
Bus Hearings Conclude at Statehouse in Transit Fight
After twelve days of hearings before the public service commission counsel for Indianapolis Street Railway and People's Motor Coach, final witnesses testified. A. Smith Bowman proposed a bus depot near Market and Delaware Streets with a waiting room and check stand. The commission will schedule oral arguments, and several new certificates were approved or denied for local routes including Indianapolis to Greensburg and Indianapolis to Muncie, with related court rulings on motor bus law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public Service Commission
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
People’s Motor Coach Company
A. Smith Bowman
Coach Company
City Market
Market
Delaware Sts
Clyde H. Jones
Hiner
Red Ball Lines
Indianapolis
Greensburg
John McCardle
Union Traction Company
Muncie
Hoosier Stage
Inter City Safety Coach Company
Kokomo
Fern
Ice Money Theft Impacts Boys On Brockway Street
The ice man on Brockway Street became the unsuspecting contributor to juvenile delinquency as two youths pounced on an ice box top. Mr J Surrey at 2542 Brockway left 35 cents, and neighbor Mrs Elsie Sherrin left 25 cents. The boys fled after officers arrived.
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Brockway St
J. Surrey
Brockway
Elsie Sherrin
Veteran Horseshoer Reflects as The Craft Fades
William J. Carey soaks in thirty five years at 660 Virginia Ave once shod sixty five horses a day now he rarely shoess a horse and laments the passing of the trade He recalls beer fueled shops water scarce and the shift toward college trained tackers noting Cornell University now offers a course and the old art fades as new hands take over
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William J. Carey
Virginia Ave
Carey
Board of Trade
Cornell University
Yanks Set Out Today for Top of the World
From Wiscasset Maine the MacMillan Navy Polar expedition team sails later today in a bold Arctic bid. The group leaves with countrymen cheering as they pursue America’s most ambitious polar conquest since Peary marked the pole sixteen years earlier.
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YANKS
United Preas
Norway Hopes Amundsen Will Fly Home
Oslo waits proudly for Captain Roald Amundsen to repair his airplane and fly here. Officials hope he will travel down via King's Bay Tromsoe and along the coast in a triumphant homecoming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norway
Amundsen
United Press
Oslo
Roald Amundsen
Explorer
King's Bay
Tromose
Alleged booze runners taken after chase
Police captured two men believed to be members of a gang after a morning chase during which Lieut Ralph Dean was hurt. Thirty gallons of alcohol were seized. Dean, Lieut Cliff Richter and Sergt Dan Cummings sped to New Jersey and Wyoming Streets where two Ford coupes were found. Harry Pierson, 22, of 1026 Woodlawn Ave., driver of one car, leaped out and ran. Dean jumped from his moving car and injured his right leg but captured Ernest Cherry, 22, of 1619 W New York St., driver of the other Ford, as Richter and Cummings pursued Pierson. They fired six shots and finally captured him after a three-block chase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Dean
Dean
Cliff Richter
Dan Cummings
New Jersey
Wyoming Sts
Harry Pierson
Woodlawn Ave
Ernest Cherry
New York St
Richter
Cummings
Pierson
Record Floods in School Board Race Reaches Sixteen
Two more candidates joined the race for the city school board raising the total to sixteen. The new entrants are Rev. C. J. Baker of 201 N. Addison Sr and Harry O. Williams a pattern maker at the Big Four Railroad, listed at the controller's office.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of School Commissioners
Joseph L. Hogue
C. J. Baker
N. Addison Sr
Harry O. Williams
Big Four
Girl drinks poison after park curfew reprimand
Miss Helen Boyd, 15, of 420 Be St Clair St, drank poison Friday after her mother Emma Boyd reprimanded her for staying out late with three others at a park. She was taken to City Hospital in serious condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Boyd
St. Clair St
Emma Boyd
City Hospital
Flea training ruling shocks Lords as fleas deemed non animals
In London on June 20 the House of Lords ruled that trained fleas are not trained animals. Exhibitors protested exposure to animal handling laws and the Lords concluded fleas are not animals.
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London
House of Lords
Lords
La Follette Brought Home on Funeral Train
Robert M. La Follette returned to Wisconsin on a funeral train near Garrett Indiana. The services in Madison will be simple as he wished with rotunda ceremonies led by Rev A E Haydon, University of Chicago divinity school, and the La Follette family will attend.
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Capitol
A. E. Haydon
School of Divinity
University of Chicago
Fonsuer
Unitarian Church
Wisconsin Governor Blaine Likely to Call Special Senate Election
Madison June 20. Governor Blaine of Wisconsin probably will call a special election to choose a successor to Senator La Follette, it was learned today.
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Buy United
Madison
Wis
Blaine
Wisconsin
la Follette
Kiwanis Leader John N. Bromert Dies at 43
John N. Bromert 43 of 2444 N Meridian Sr died early today from bladder cancer at home. Indiana Kiwanis official and longtime Missouri Life Insurance Co. agent had been in ill health. Survived by widow Ethel, a stepson, three sisters, two brothers. Services at Ss Peter and Paul Cathedral tomorrow at 10. burial in Carroll Iowa. Born Feb 12 1881 on a Carroll area farm. Former Indiana Kiwanis governor 1922.
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John N. Bromert
N. Meridian Sr
Kiwanis
Bromert
Ethel Bromert
Richard
Indianapolis
James Harrison
May Bromert
George Turner
Frank
Water's Fine but Clothes Gone at City Beach
Two bathers lost items at the Twenty-Sixth Street beach Friday night. Florence Kidwell reported her coat valued at 39 dollars stolen from a parked car, while Frederick Bowers left barefoot after his shoes worth 3.50 dollars were taken.
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Florence Kiidwell
New York St
Frederick Bowers
N. Capitol Ave
Bridgewater Turned Over to Kokomo Police
Everett Bridgewater 23 suspected of leading a bank bandit gang is moved to Kokomo Indiana to face charges for robbing the South Kokomo Bank on March 27 of 11128. He was captured with William Zander and Clint Sims is held for questioning. Bridgewater allegedly confessed to robberies in Marion Upkn New Harmony and Kokomo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Everett Bridgewater
Indiana
Kokomo
Ind
South Kokomo
Bridgewater
William Zander
S. Pershing Ave
Lester Belle Evans
S. Mount St
Clint Sims
Henry
Division Sts. Bridgewater
Sixteenth St. State Bank
Fletcher Savings and Trust Company
Bernard Thompson
N. Drexel Ave
Sims
Indiana State Prison
Beach Grove
Zander
Jerry Kinney
Harry Pierpont
Theodore Skeers
Earl Northern
Marion
Upkn
New Harmony
Calumet Gas Seeks Purchase of Power Company Property
The Calumet Gas and Electric Company of Gary filed with the public service commission to buy Calumet Power Company property for 1.397 million dollars. The deal covers a substation at Aetna Indiana and thirteen miles of transmission line extending toward Michigan City. The petition notes the line will be extended to Michigan City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calumet Gas and Electric Company
Gary
Calumet Power Company
Public Service Commission
Aetna
Ind
Michigan City
Drowned Man Sought in Pit at Eagle Creek
Police returned to the gravel pit at Eagle Creek near Kentucky Ave to recover the body of John C. Nolan 45 of Missouri St. He reportedly drowned while swimming with Richard Toohill as five other men were arrested on liquor charges.
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Eagle Creek
Kentucky Ave
John C
Tess) Nolan
Missouri St
Richard Toohill
S .Capitol Ave
Nolan
Oh Death Where Is Thy Cloespin Courthouse Plot
Courthouse workers discussed buying clothes pins for noses amid repeated poison attempts. Janitors placed poison around the building recently and rats died in the facility, triggering a strong reaction.
Ford Plant Fight Persists To Save Indianapolis Assembly
The Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce renewed its 1924 campaign to keep the Ford assembly plant at 1315 E. Washington St. open on Oriental Street. The city may close the street for railroad elevation work, risking the plant’s operations. John B. Reynolds urged reversal of the board of works decision, noting the plant’s value with a yearly business of over 35 million dollars and the impact on thousands of residents if the street closes.
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Board of Works
Oriental St
Indianapolis
John B. Reynolds
Chamber of Commerce
Reynolds
Ford Company
Body of Slain Man Is Found in Michigan City Alley
The decedent Frank Ekibo aged 49 was found with head injuries from a crowbar in an alley behind his home in Michigan City Indiana Police questioned his wife Anna 39 daughter Mary 20 son Charles 18 and several boarders at the Skibo residence Investigators think he was beaten in bed and dragged to the alley after celebrating his birthday with his death occurring Thursday night while the family denies knowledge of the crime
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United Aress
Michigan City
Ind
Frank Ekibo
Anna Ekibo
Mary Putz
Charles
Skibo
Agents Clash Ends in West Virginia Chief's Death
Federal and State prohibition forces exchanged fire at Camp Creek in Wayne County over moonshining. Field chief William F. Porter was killed by a shot to the heart, while state officers W. E. Workman and George Ball were wounded and hospitalized.
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W. E. Workman
George Ball
William F. Porter
West Virginia
Camp Creek
Wayne County
Porter
Kessler-Hatfield
Workman
Ballly
Shepherd on Offensive as Murder Case Moves Forward
In Chicago court William D. Shepherd faces murder charges in the death of Billy McClintock. Prosecution witness Dr. Charles Farman testified he kept typhoid germs at his National University of Sciences and gave Shepherd three tubes. Defense witnesses challenged this, while Shepherd, confident of acquittal, prepares to testify next.
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Criminal Court
Chicago
William D. ‘Shepherd
Indianapolis
Billy McClintock
Cr. C. Faiman
National University of Sciences
Faiman
Shepherd
McClintock
Walter Smith
Faiman’'s Institution
Farman
Smith
William Scott Stewart
Crowe
Stewart
Isabelle Pope
John P. Marchand
Monday Shepherd
Powers Aim to Rule Shanghai Diplomacy Discussed
Washington reports that foreign domination of Shanghai international settlement may be raised by powers in addressing Shanghai riots. The Pekin diplomatic body advised the Chinese government that if desired they can request authorization from their governments to discuss Shanghai proposals in a more friendly spirit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United Press
Washington
Shanghai
State Department
Pekin
Richmond man elected state commander of VFW
ELKHART Ind June 20 Frank T Strayer of Richmond was elected State commander of Veterans of Foreign Wars here today. Other officers include Albert L Pauley Indianapolis senior vice commander W B Jakway Ft Wayne junior vice commander and Fred J Byers Indianapolis quartermaster Ft Wayne was selected for 1926 convention. Resolutions adopted requesting the Federal Government to extend due honors of Maj Gen Omar Bundy of Newcastle recently retired.
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United Presse
Elkhart
Ind
Frank T. Strayer
Richmond
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Albert L. Pauley
Indianapolis
W. 8 S. Jakway
Ft. Wayne
Fred J. Byers
Omar Bundy
Newcastle
Muncie Doctor Sentenced for Drug Traffic
Dr. Harry R. Spickerman of Muncie Ind pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Robert C Baltzell and drew two years at Leavenworth plus a 250 dollar fine and costs for possession sale and transportation of narcotics. Agents found 1000 dollars worth of morphine in his office during an April 1924 raid. Spickerman denied links to the death of fighter Tommy Teague and was linked to shipments with famed bandit Gerald Chapman. Also sentenced were Raymond L Goldsberry for counterfeiting one and a day to Leavenworth and Penny Kelton for transporting liquor with case held. Eddie Monfort led a two year sentence and five thousand dollar fine in a liquor ring case. Marshall Rowe J M Quigley each got two years and three thousand dollar fines. Herbert Breedlove received eighteen months. William Crews was acquitted. Mrs Kitty Clyde's house, alleged ring HQ, under advisement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry R. Spickerman
Muncie
Ind
Midddle West
Robert C. Baltzell
Leavenworth
Kan
Gerald Chapman
Spickerman
Chapman
Raymond L. Goldsberry
Washington St
Penny Kelton
Evansville
Monfort
Eddie Monfort
Broadway
Marshall Rowe
J. M. Quigley
E. Walnut St
Herbert Breedlove
William Crews
Juvenile Wells Bound Over On Auto Theft Charge
Judge Frank J. Lahr bound Oliver Wells a 17 of 1408 Pleasant St over to the grand jury on a vehicle taking charge after his return Friday from Effingham Illinois Wells is alleged to have taken an automobile belonging to Claude Baker 1402 Pleasant St
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Frank J. Lahr
Juvenile Court
Oliver Wells
Pleasant St
Grand Jury
Effingham
Ill
Wells
Claude Baker
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Noblesville
Statehouse
Moorhead
Harry O. Chamberlin
Circuit Court
Sidney S. Miller
Superior Court
Chamberlin
Arthur L. Gilliam
Terre Haute, Indiana & Eastern Traction Co
Publi Service Commission
Red Bull
Chamberlain
Miller
Gilliorn
Joseph Gregg Company
Terre Haute
Harmony
MacMillan
Chase
al R. Mallon
Garrett
Robert M. la Follette
Senate
EAD
Kokomo Police
Calumet Gas Company
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Ford Factory
Prohibition
United Preas Huntington
W. Va
W. D. Shepherd
Edward 0. Derr
Robert E. Crowe
Tommy ‘Teague
Flapper
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