Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, June 08, 1919, Page 10, Image 10
10 A THE OMAHA SUNDAY BEE: JUNE 8, 1919. ARREST OF MRS. BROWN FRAMEUP, SAYS U LONES Charges Conspiracy to Dis credit Women Who Might Be Called as Witnesses ; Against Roy Kelly. (Continued From Fag. One.) , the conversation plainly. "Kelly was telling the detective that I should not be. arrested when 'the officer, called him into one of - the rooms. They still were talking about the case when I heard Kelly i . . , ; liri . l j . t laugning. , wnen we reacnea tne porch Kelly just jumped over the ' railing and walked away. The offi cers made no effort to catch him. , "All of the men were drunk." Had Their Door Open. Miss Kubat declared that " Mist ; Applegate and Mrs. Baldwin were : seated in one room across the hall from her with the door open. ""Miss Reed, she said, just had returned from the theater with a man named A. Williams. Miss Reed was com plaining of a headache and Wil liams went to the drug store to get , , .4 : : r i iru:i t- - j.was away Miss Reed retired. " Wil liams walked into the room with the tmedicine and hardly had time to stake his seat when the detectiyes followed and placed them all. under arrest. Accuses Kelly and Ray Woman. 1 There hao been complaints made agairfst the house in which they were living, Miss Kubat declared, because of the numerous fights be tween Kelly and Ellen Ray. There ! had never been'a semblance of dis order about the house except that f :j created by Keliy and the woman ifwho passed as his wife. ! The trou ble is alleged to haveistarted when : a former sweetheart of the Ray woman returned from the army, and iihe girl showed a preferance for the " " soldier. Kelly is said to have beaten ithe girl repeatedly and threatened :(to kill her, and because of these dis turbances, neighbors are said to !have registered complaints against the house. x "I have heard Kelly brag many itimes how he had fixed policemen tin connection with his bootlegging (business," continued Miss Kubat. f-"He told of making trips to St. i Joseph in his automobile and bring f ing back whisky. He said he paid if the guards on the Douglas street j bridge $50 for each load he brought to umana. ne saia ne paia tne money in advance and signaled to the guards on the bridge with a sign which was known to them and he was allowed to pass." An automobile belonging to Kelly recently was seized by the police when it was discovered to contain Fa consignment of whisky. Chief iof Detectives Dunn declared the car : would be sold at public auction. i Chief Dunn said he was at a loss it. to understand why Detectives Hcrd jjzina and Armstrong allowed Kelly jfctfr escape after he had been placed under arrest. He said he would in vestigate the matter and immedi ately issue orders to his men to ar mrest Kelly on sight. ,f- Will Demand Investigation. Commissioners Zimman, Butler 'and Ure have gone on record with ; unqualified statements of condemna tion of the arrest of Mrs. Brown, and Commissioner Zimman is par ticularly emphatic in insisting that - the girls are being held at the De tention home wrongfully under "Dean 1 Ringer's and Dr. Findley's i!;new (ordinance. Mr. Zimman prom uses a lively time at Monday's ses sion of the city council. . Mrs. Brown's condition was re ported as slightly improved at the hospital last night. The family ,-physician is in constant attendance. One of the numerous insults t which were offered Mrs. Brown while she was held at the police station was hurled at her as she was :Ntfowded into her cell, according to Thomas Brown, her son. Police "'-Captain Heitfeldt, as well as Detec i tives Herdzina and Armstrong, was rough and discourteous to Mrs. 'Brown'. After refusing to accept any amount of bonds for her release, "giving as his excuse that he had Ebeen instructed by Deari Ringer to hold all women withont bond for instructions from Dr. Findley. Cap '.tain Heitfeldt threatened thathe I would attend to the reputation of "Mrs. Brown," according to the ,' statement of her son yesterday". Mr. Ringer Attempts To Justify. Arrest and Brutal ; Treatment of Mrs. Brown In Signed Statement, in Which He Admits He Never Questioned Injured Party or Her Son, He Says He Will Not File Charges Against Accused Detectives Statement Substantiates Conspiracy Charge. The Day fVe Opened This Plant, Some Years Ago, We Decided to Improve the Standard of Cleaning Clothes And today large as our growth lias been we still bend all energies toward elevating the "standard." DRESHER BROTHERS Dyers, Cleaners, Hatters, Furrier, , Tailor, Ruai Chicaners, Shoe V- Repairers. . "tin Office and Plant, 11-13-17 Fumb St. 7 4. . Branch Of fkt I - " Dresner, The Tailor, IBIS Famm St- Pompeiaa Room of Brandsta Stores; West Ea4 of Mala Flow of Barg w Nash PHONE TYLER 345. Police Commissioner Ringer and Chief of Police Eberstein yesterday afternoon stated that from informa tion they had obtained in connection wih the arrest of Mrs. Thomas Brown, 508 North Twenty-first street, they are unable to see why charges should be filedagainst De tecives Herdzina and Armstrong, the officers who so rudely took this elderly woman from her home at 2 a. m. Thursday and threw her in jail, denying her bond. In fact, these police officials sub stantially give the detectives a clean bill. . . . The police commissioner and the chief of police admitted that their investigations have been- limited to the reports of the officers concerned with the arrests of the party of men and women at 2106 Cass street and also at the Brown residence, and a one-sided questioning of the three women who are being held at the City Detention home. Both Mr. Ringer and Mr. Eber stein admitted tha they have not en deavored to obtain information from Mrs. Brown, her son or their attor neys. Will Not Show Reports. The police commissioner, who holds the reports from the officers, declined to allow newspaper men to see those reports. Are you going to file charges against Herdzina or Armstrong?" was asked of Chief bberstein. "Not from the information that I have at the present time," the chief replied. "What about the arrest of Mrs. Brown at her home without a war rant?" "That is a legal question. I am not a lawyer. Ask Mr. Ringer here. He knows the law on that." Mr. Rinsrer, who was present, said: "The officers asked Mrs. Brown if she was in charge bf the Cass street place and she said she was and I believe the officers were doing what was right although there may be some technical pointjnvolved in that matter." "I am sorry for Mrs. Brown,' added the chief, "but we have evi dence to show that she knew wh?.t was going on at the Cass street ad dress. All of the telephones of this place are in the name of Mrs. Thom as Brown." "What about the refusal of bond for Mrs. Brown at the police sta tion?" was asked of the chief. "We have evidence that Mrs. Brown did not want a bond," he re plied. "Don't you know that Attorney Lloyd Magney offered $5,000 in Lib erty bonds for the release of Mrs. Brown?" , "We don't know that." "In your investigations of the case haven't you interviewed Mrs. Brown or her son?" "We have not." Will Not File Charges. Commissioner Ringer was asked if he inended to file charges against Herdzina or Armstrong, and he re plied that he did not intend to. The police commissioner and chief expressed satisfaction with the work of the officers who went to the home of Mrs. Brown at 2 o'clock in the morning and summoned the elderly churchwoman from her bed to go to the police station, and then placed her in an apartment of the jail with men, and otherwise subjected her to such humiliation and cruel treatment that it was necessary to send her to a hospital. , ' Mr. Ringer's Statement. Following is the, signed statement of Superintendent" Ringer, based on the statements of the two accused detectives: My Investigation relative to the arrest at the Brown apartment, develop, tb following: ComDlalnts came from neighbors that from about 10 or 11 o'clock at night untiNl about I o'clock In tne morning, taxicao. and other cars carrying men and women were constantly visiting the flat at S10 Cass street. An officer was stationed close by for observation and n the night ot the arrest, from 10 o'clock on, saw parties coming and Going continually from and to this place. The officer called for additional help and upon its arrival entered the flat for investigation. They found A. Williams and Wilms Reed together. In the north west bedroom. ' In the northeast bedroom they found Esther Applegate, Helen Bald wind and Roy Kelley, the two women dressed. In night attire and smoking cigar ettes An empty .brandy bottle and a partly filled glass of liquor was on tha table. . TJie girls told the officers that Mrs. Brown was In charge of th-eir apartment The Brown apartments are an "L" shaped building, one flat facing on Cass street and five on Twenty-flrst street, Mrs. Brown living In that part of the building facing Twenty-first street and Just .round the corner from 210S Caiemtreet. After pishing the girls In the wagon, the officers callioX at Mrs. Brown's apartment and wlien she opened the door? they told her they were officers and asked her if she was the one in charge of the apartment at 10 Cass street. She"" said she- was and the officers told her it would be necessary for her to go to the station. She called a taxi and was accompanied to the station by Officer Armstrong, i In his report. Officer Herdzina states that he remained In the hall while Mr. Brown was preparing to go to the station and he is corroborated in this by Officer Armstrong; Mrs. Brown's sen was ar rested on the charge of Interfering wits an officer when he attempted to shove the officer away from where he was standing. Csptaln Heitfeld, Emergency Officer Hughes, Desk Sergeant Rose and Turnkey Brady are authorltj for .the statement that the son told hi mother to put up a bond but that she refused to do- so ind started to follow her son Into the cell room. The turnkey suggested that Mrs. Brown go to the matron's depart ment but she went up Into the cell room, the officers saying that the women were loklng with each other at the time. Cap, tain Heitfeld says that no complaint was made by Mrs. Brown of any Illness nor was any request for anything made by her. In the morning she was given courteous attention by Dr. Edstrom, city physician. In Police Court Friday morning, Wil liams and Wllma Reed were each fined 150 and costs, Esther Applegate and Helen Baldwin were each fined 125 and costs and Elsie Kubat was dismissed. Kelly, who escaped at that time, has since been arrested and will be prosecuted. A party living In the immediate neigh borhood of Twenty-first and Cass, says that a man and woman Inmate of this place staged a fight in the street last Wednesday afternoon, the man knocking the women dqwn several times, 'after which he entered at 2106 Cass. He also tays that it Is' not an unusual thing to ee Tellow and Brown taxtcabs unload at this flat. AH six telephones In the Brown Apart ments, Including that at 2106 Cass are in the name ot Mrs. Thomas Brown. No Record of Arrest. Attorney Lones says the state ment of Commissioner Ringer bears out his charges, of which Mr. Ring er apparently was not advised at the time he madp it, in a number of essential points. First, it admits that Roy Kelly, the alleged bootlegger whom At torney Lones charges conspired with the detectives for the arrest of the girls to protect himself and the woman with whom he was liv ing, was actually on the scene at the time of the raid and allowed in some manner to escape. The statement also substantiates the charge of Attorney Lones that it was Kelly and the woman he says is his wife who were fighting in front of the Cass street house and about whom the neighbors com plained. I Attorney Lones last night de clared he would prove when the case went to trial that the men and women who went to the Cass street address went there at night to get whisky from Kelly and not to visit the four working girls taken in the raid. While the signed statement of Mr. Ringer said that Kelly had been arrested. Captain Heitfeld, who'is in charge at the police sta- tion, last night af 10 o'clock de clared that if Kelly had been ar rested he did not know anything about it. "There is no record of his arrest here at the station," said the night captain of police. Omaha Machine Gun i ; Battalion Plans to Organize Members Members of the 341st machine gun battalion, "recently returned from overseas, are discussing a pro posed organization which will per petuate the memory of this unit Seven hundred and twerrtv-eieht K)triaha men originally wenl into the battalion ana iuu were auaenca later. Nearly 1,000 Omaha men. served with the 341st at some time. A meeting will be called this month to star.t the proposed organ ization of the men of the 341st. Mayor Issues Proclamation Urging Support of Scouts Mayor Smith has issued t procla mation in which he calls attention to Boy Scout week throughout the United States. The mayor , states that the Boy Scout organization is conceded to be one of the best of the civic organizations. He also states that this organiiation is helping the boys to grow to be ambitious and patriotic. He asks every Omahan wno is in terested in the upbuilding of splen did young manhood and loyal citi zenship to contribute to make the Omaha money-raising campaign a success. The mayor adds that eve-y dollar collected will be well invested. Husband Gets Divorce Just v 76 Days After Marriage Just 76 days elapsed between the marriage of Albert and Margie Clag gett and their divorce. Judge Day granted Albert a divorce from Mar gie yesterday in divorce court Thev were married March 72, 1919. Al bert said Margie was cruel to him. STRIKE OF UNION TELEGRAPHERS red m 01E (Continued From Page One.) any commercial business originat ing in the United States or directed to any point within this country. Railway telegraphers also would refuse to handle commercial busi ness it was declared, as a result of passage of a resolution at the recent convention. Carlton Belittles Trouble. New York, June 7. The nation wide etrike 6f telegraph and tele phone operators ordered by S. J. Konenkarap. international president of the T. U, "will amount to nothing" according to a statement tonight by Newcomb Carlton, head if the Western Union Telegraph Company. "The Western Union would like to assure the public that there would be io delay in handling messages," said Mr. 'Carlton. "We will maintain a full force, at all our offices and the small ntfmber of union employes who obey the strike call will not 'affect the character of our service or its continuity." Telegraphers to. Meet i . Today to Consider Strike The 125 members of District Council. No. 10 Commercial Tel egraphers' Union of America, com prising the city of Omaha and sur rounding smaller cities . sfld towns in Nebraska, will meet this, after noon in Labor Temple to consider matters relative to- the threatened strike of telegraph operators for better working conditions and the abolishment of the "sliding" ' and substitution of .a permanent scale. About a month ago the, local union sent out blank ballots to its members. ' When these were re turned and 'opened, it was found that one out of each 10 telegraph ers favored the strike. It is under stoodVthat every telegraphers' union in America held similar-meetings. the members of their union in three classes, first, second and third class men. The first class man, according to the telegraphers, may receive a sal ary of about $140 a month here and, wljen, he leaves, for example, for Kansas City, the Western or Postal company branch there 'may employ him at a salary of but $80 a month. In order to prevent this "sliding" scale, the men wanta uniform "set scale of a minimum wage. The average first class telegrapher, ac cording to uniorl officials, can handle about 450 a day, the messages aver aging about 20 words each. While he thus earns a gross profit of about $350 for the company, he re ceives a salary of about $5 a day. It is understood that Monday the local union will receive the strike order from national headquarters. Injunction Is Issued : ' Against Toledo Strikers Toledo, June 7. Declaring the industry had been obstructed by 'riotous and disorderly conduct and intimitation," John M. Killitts, iudge of U. 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