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Newspaper
Indianapolis Times
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 24, 1927
Page
4
Mayor Duvall awaits arraignment set by Judge James A. Collins for June 6 on alleged fraud. He may cancel a Windsor trip to attend. He has not yet selected an attorney, with Schuyler Haas handling preliminaries.
Pop Brooks pressures the city editor and lawyers as Roger Brooks eyes the danger. Ex convict suspect linked to a kidnapping looms. Paddy O'Brien drives the limousine outside. Jane Dexter notes the upcoming briefing while Canfield hints at a hot line on the case. Shadows of the past appear in the next chapter.
Diana Brooks, owner of the Catawba City Times and nine other papers, is kidnapped and released unharmed. Her father battles a corrupt administration while editor Donald Keene and broker John Walden probe stock manipulation. Don is wounded, Teddy Farrell aids rescue, and a strained romance between Don and Teddy ends with a retracted marriage proposal.
Roger Brooks, publisher and editor of the Catawba City Times, battles threats and a power ring seeking to oust him. The stock control plan hinges on insider blocks, with lawyer John Walden Sr. warning of a broader underworld frame as the fight tightens.
Judge John M. Paris of Floyd Circuit Court was ordered to appear before the state Supreme Court to explain why a writ of prohibition should not stop him from commanding Mayor Newton A. Green to appoint election commissioners for the city manager vote. The interim mandate from May 27 remains in abeyance as the conflict continues.
Westfield on U S Route 31 saw L. M. Smith of Indianapolis injured when his car veered and struck a telephone pole. He was taken to Nickel Plate Hospital in Peru with body injuries and facial cuts requiring fifteen stitches. Smith is a Nickel Plate employee.
Police arrested Herschel Wiggons, 22, after a chase through north side streets at 2 30 a m He could not explain his presence in the neighborhood and was charged with vagrancy The stolen auto belonged to Charles Wiggans of 127 W Merrill St and was recovered at the scene.
BEDFORD Ind May 24 Walter Bachman 16 son of Dr Bachman Mitchell attempted to hop a freight train at Orleans Monday fell beneath a car His foot was amputated and he suffered fractures above and below the right knee
Police took Jean Strubbe, a 3 year old, from 333 8 Harris Avenue to the city hospital Monday after a fall on a shovel. Head and ear cuts were treated.
Answers to the daily questions include New York City, Maid Marian as Robin Hood’s sweetheart, St. David, China, big cats in the same family, Wilson’s birthplace Staunton Virginia, twelve ounces to a Troy pound, Calvin Coolidge, the Statue of Liberty on Bedloe's Island, Mt. Whitney at 14501 feet, a five dollar maximum fine for long hatpins, and City Clerk William A Boyce Jr as custodian of ordinances except when in committee.
Arcadus Dupuis of Ville Platte Louisiana describes a long battle with indigestion chest pressure and spells. After using Black-Draught he regained health and strength and his son and wife also used it for ailments. A 25 cent to $1 package is advertised.
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