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...Tulsa, Okla., Negro George Tipton, held for the theft of a lawn mower, explained: "I didn't steal it. I stumbled over it and was too lazy to walk around it -so I just pushed it away...
...trial for "criminal conspiracy" at Kahoka, Mo. was Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, acquitted last autumn of having helped kidnap Dr. Isaac Dee Kelly in St. Louis in 1931. That trial had been featured by the arrival in Mrs. Muench's home of a baby, which she called "a gift from God in my time of distress." Wealthy, Socialite Dr. Marsh Pitzman of St. Louis, who once shared offices with Mrs. Muench's physician husband, certified the baby was hers. The conspiracy charge was brought when the child was later proved to be a servant girl's bastard...
...Orleans. In 1933 she was sent up to Brooklyn Navy Yard with a bottle of Mississippi water which she smashed over the bow of the New Cruiser New Orleans (TIME, April 24, 1933). This week, from the balcony of the Boston Club, Queen "Coco" will watch R. E. ("Rube") Tipton, steamship agent, proceed down Canal Street on a papier-mâché throne at the head of the Rex Parade. In ermine cloak and rhinestones, she will rise and stand with outstretched arms as Rex rides past, drinking her health in champagne...
...behavior of Mrs. Nellie Tipton Muench, who also claimed to be the mother of the baby, Commissioner Limbaugh found much to suspect. The red-headed modiste, with two arrests for larceny against her, had been implicated in the kidnapping of Dr. Isaac Dee Kelley in 1931. Two of the men with whom Mrs. Muench was alleged to have engineered this snatch were sent to prison for long terms. The trial of Mrs. Muench, sister of a Missouri Supreme Court Justice, was frequently delayed to let public sentiment against her cool...
Threats of violence were made good when Times Reporter Tipton Shields Blish was set upon in the Marion County Courthouse, hospitalized with his cheekbone broken in 20 places. For that assault police arrested onetime Deputy Prosecuter Peter Anthony Cancilla, whose record includes a conviction for auto theft. Last week Cancilla was convicted of the attack on Newshawk Blish, fined $50 Scripps-Howard executives announced that the Indianapolis Times would pursue its investigation of local corruption further only if "reason for doing so exists." City Editor Harold La Polt, who had actively abetted the Powell crusade was was relegated...