Hobbs Indicted In Grand Jury Case Involving Theft and Blackmail
Robert Hobbs faces two indictments for petit larceny and blackmail in a May session grand jury report. He allegedly took money from Albert Hitzelberger and extorted funds via a threatening letter to witnesses. Hobbs was arrested after meeting Hitzelberger in a hotel lobby with cash. Additional indictments include William Wilson for petty larceny, Hayden Wilson and Thomas Conners for robbery, and others for assault, forging checks, and related charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alford
Criminal Court
Robert Hobbs
Takfoe SS
Albert Hitzelberger
Tha Jorrer
Jucoelberger
North India
Hitzelberger
English
Tiseelberger
Hobbes
Hobbs
Hlbbs
Willam Wilson
Court actions pile up in Indianapolis area cases
Terry Moore sues Clark Caldwell and Swan for damages alleging harassment after arrest for liquor sales. Moore, a Clyde Wynegar roadhouse bartender, was jailed then released by Judge Daly as Wynegar held the license. Others sue Cranor Bank owners for $1, Adah Painter sues for $50, and Cranor Brick Co. notes circle. Police Court handles an eleven-person fight at Sixteenth and Martindale with fines levied. Bradley sues Goodwins for specific performance of a $1.40 lot sale agreement, claiming breach of deed terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evid
Telatrix
Susie L. R
Albert C. Brewer
Orient Insurance Company
Henry Coe
Superior Court
Benjamin F. Lefter
John M. Cranor
Terry Moore
Njamin Clark
Benjamin FP
Lefter
James M. Cranor
Adah Painter Potts
Anthony T. Bradley
T. A. Goodwin
Supreme Court
Benjamin Clark
Frank Caldwell
James M. Swan
Moore
Clyde Wynegar
Northwestern Avenue
Daly
Wynegar
Clark
Indianapolis
Good Citizens’ League
Benjamin F. Lester
James
Cranor Bank
Daleville
James Cranor
Adah Painter
Lester
Aaron G. Campfield
Sixteenth Street
Martindale Avenue
T. A
C. L. Goodwin
Judge McMaster Drops Ten Divorces Over Fee Noncompliance
Judge McMaster of the Superior Court dismissed ten divorce cases after plaintiffs failed to deposit the required fee for the deputy prosecutor to defend uncontested suits. The federal grand jury adjourned yesterday without reporting, to reconvene Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McMaster
Superior Court
Federal Grand Jury
Divorce and contempt actions heard in split courtrooms
Court records show multiple divorce dismissals for noncompliance with orders, judgments for costs, and one damages verdict of 59 dollars. Separate sessions in Room 11 with Judge McMaster and Room 3 with Judge Vinson Carter, plus Circuit Court under Judge Henry Clay Allen, handle estates, real estate conveyance, contempt, and land sale decrees amid numerous filings against spouses and corporations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Superior Court
John L. McMaster
Lena Tolle
Lewis Tolle
May Halstead
George Halstead
Hattie Stewart
Augustus Stewart
Lillian Conlen
John Conlen
Jmemisses
Jdebo Meriff
Lula McGiit
Mary Scudder
James Scudder
Hannah Howell
Thomas Howell
Elizabeth Smith
George Smith
Jennie Boone
Daniel Boone
Joseph Clark
Sarah Clark
Benjamin Gammer
Mary Gammer
Peter Boone
Indianapolis Street Railway Company
Nancy
Leering
McKendra
Aivorce
Daisy Britten
Theodore Britten
Divoce
Vinson Carter
John M. Sullivan
Vorney T. Mallett
Circuit Court
Henry Clay Allen
Frances Groves
Eliza Austin
Samuel M. Compton
Mollie A. F. Warner
Mary Brackett
Sidney G Brackett
State of
Addie Duncan
Harlan
John H. Ad
Loutitt amendment debated as constitutional by Bell opinion
Assistant City Attorney Bell says the Loutitt amendment to the Indiana compulsory education law is valid and within state constitutional powers. The City Board of Health may still require vaccination, while officials plan Saturday early closings and several ordinances were signed, including funding for the law department and Board of Works and a Memorial Day appropriation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Board of Health
Bell
Loutitt
General Assembly
City Health Board
Beil
Board of Health
State of
Indiana
Clark
Hurty
State Board of Health
State Board
Law Department
Board of Works
Murphy Gospel Temperance League Meeting and Addresses
The Murphy Gospel Temperance League will meet this afternoon at 3 o clock in its hall at the corner of Alabama and New York streets. Rev John Logan and Senator Thomas Boyd will speak, with Miss Eva Pearl Perrin performing vocal selections. Robert Clark will present Life on the Ocean Wave at Grace M E Church this evening at 7 30 o clock. The public is invited to attend both events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murphy Gospel Temperance League
Alabama
New York
John Logan
Thomas Boyd
Eva Pearl Perrin
Robert Clark
Grace M. E
Fees Would Enrich Him New Indiana Incorporations
Secre tary of State Hunt notes rising fee income as Indiana sees a flood of new corporations. Indianapolis figures lead a rapid surge with the Lucille Quicksilver Mining Company forming to develop a Texas quicksilver land hold. Other filings cover La Crosse Land Company in Indiana, Up-to-Date Manufacturing in Terre Haute, and the National Retail Hardware Dealers Association. Columbus Development Company seeks oil and gas in Bartholomew and Brown counties, Laporte Telephone expands capital, and several firms adjust capital or par value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union B. Hunt
Indiana
Indianapolis
Lucille Quicksilver Mining Company
Granville M. Ballard
Buderus M. Johnson
M. H. Spades
Harry J. Milligan
Charles L. Buschmann
William P. Herod
Charles J. Buchanan
Joseph R. Irving
Texas
Quicksilver
la Crosse Land Company
la Crosse
Ind
Illinois
Charles H. Tuesberg
Clark E. Legg
John 8S. Murphy
William F. Cook
David 8S. Myers
Adalis M. Legg
Pontiac
Terre Haute
Columbus
George W. Caldwell
Evansville
Joseph Irwin
Irwin Reynolds
F. T. Crump
P. H. McCormack
J. R. Dunlap
Marshall Hacker
Laporte Telephone Company
Mutual Building, Loan and Savings Association
Owensville
Indiana Publishing Company
Koken Barbers’ Supply Company
William A. Pickens
Commercial Club Building
D. M. Sechler Carriage Company
Moline
Ill
Paul A. Keller
South Capitol Avenue
Indiana Delegates to National Civic Federation Convention
Governor Durbin appoints Attorney General Taylor State Auditor Hart and Secretary of State Hunt as Indiana delegates to the National Civic Federation convention in Buffalo on May 4. About twenty-five other state delegates will join, names withheld pending acceptances. Delegates will represent the state government and focus on taxation and economic topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor
Hart
Hunt
Durbin
National Civic Federation
Buffalo
Land
Twety
Indiana
Federation
Hazen Company Sues Plasterer In Danville Trial
The first May term jury trial opened in the U S Court over a suit by L P Hazen & Co contractors who built the National Soldiers Home at Danville Illinois against McGarvey and others who held a plastering contract. Both sides accuse the other of unpaid sums. Evidence is finished and argument set for tomorrow.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
L. P. Hazen & Co
National Soldiers’ Home
Danville
McGarvey
General Contractors
Hazen & Co
Military Carnival in Tomlinson Hall Monday Night
A National Guard battalion hosts a military carnival in Tom linson Hall on Monday night June M. Features include company guard mounts competitive drills and individual drills with the captain mounting the guard instead of the adjutant. The best company wins a prize and a battalion parade will be presented followed by dancing. Governor Durbin Adjutant General Ward General McKee Colonel Harry B Smith and other Indianapolis officers will attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tomlinson Hall
National Guard
Durbin
Ward
Adief
McKee
Harry B. Smith
Indianapolis
Board of Health official questions licensing duties
Secretary Harry of the State Board of Health asked Assistant Attorney General Moores if the board must issue certificates to veterinarians under the Keyes veterinary surgeons law. Moores said the board is only required to provide the certificate form to county clerks who may print the certificates locally. The confusion centers on legislative intent mixing animal care with licensing duties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry
State Board of Health
Moores
Keyes Veterinary Surgeons
Crarty
Transcript in Keith case shows record length and stay motion
A mass of paper sits on the clerk of the Supreme Court desk as the Keith appeal transcript, one of the state’s largest, heads toward Indianapolis. Keith’s lawyers plan a motion to stay his May 24 execution while briefs and records are reviewed. An 1893 ruling allows stays to study the record. The transcript, filed April 10 in Gibson Circuit Court, spans five parts and may be rebound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Joseph D. Keith
Gibson
Michigan City
George Batchelder
Keith
Pigeon Creek
Evansville
Nora Kifer
Vanderburg
Taylor
Indiana
Parker and
McAfee
Evster
Gibson Circuit
Indianapolis
The Military Spirit Grows in Indiana Towns
Adjutant General Ward reports rising war spirit and calls for mustering new Indiana National Guard companies. Towns cited include Jeffersonville Plymouth Frankfort Logansport Fowler Cambridge City Noblesville Bluffton Lafayette and Chalmers. In Chalmers seven hundred residents help muster sixty men. locals ride bicycles or horses weekly to drill under Ward's oversight.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward
Indiana National Guard
Jeffersonville
Plymouth
Frankfort
Logansport
Fowler
Cambridge City
Noblesville
Bluffton
Lafayette
Chalmers
New Fish Law Outlined By Attorney General Taylor
Attorney General Taylor sent Dan Burlingame a plain language summary of the recent fish and game law. It bans dumping refuse into waters, dynamite fishing, use of spears nets or poisons, and defines lawful gear and seasonal limits. The notice emphasizes penalties, seizure powers, and license rules, with officials charged to enforce the act. J C Hamilton heads to Philadelphia as a presbytery commissioner, accompanying Rev F O Ballard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taylor
Dan Burlingame
Erie Railroad
Chicago
Mr. Burlingame
Lake Michigan
Ohio
Wabash
Ohio River
Wabash River
Indiana
Illinois
J. C. Hamilton
Philadelphia
General Assembly
F. O. Ballard
Indianapolis
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AlBert Hitselberger
Melvin A. Demarest
William H. Holderman
The
Ohio Valley Coffin Company
Martin Goble
Chicago & Erie Railroad Company
Ezra T. Lee
Appellee
Curtis McCoy
James T. McCoy
John Klein
State of Indiana
New Supreme Court
Mary Tobin
John W._ Tobin
Marion Superior Court
Samuel Hinkle
Marion Criminal Court
Gibson C. C
William F. Churchman
Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance Company
Bartholomew C. C
Marion County
Mary Stanton
PB. C., C. & St. L. Railway Company
Samuel Gray
Western Union Telegraph Company
Martin T. Krueger
Bond
Laporte Superior Court
Citizens’ League Men
Federal
City and County Officers
Assessment Bureau
Johnson
Tion
Charles F. Kennedy
Indiana State Board of Agriculture
Fassett A. Cotton
Joseph Joiner
Joiner-Kennedy Music Company
Charlies F. Kennedy
K. of P
Massachusetts Avenue
Pennsylvania Street
Civic Federation
Brussels
Sec Core Srep
Unicen
Vetour
Goa
Linois Street
Keith Case
Otis M. Astley
Capital National Bank
Fred Rubin
Astley
J. W. Hill
St. Joseph County
Ney
Albert Gall
West
Washington Street
Baldwin
Paris
Teephone
D. H. Baldwin & CO
Harraom & Hert
Washington St
C. Aneshaensel & CO
Ohio Street
Dr. Emerson
Druley
Maes Ave
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