The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-04
INSULTED BY POLICEMAN
SERIOUS CHARGES PREFERRED BY
A COLORED COUPLE.
Crannon and Schroeder the Defend
ants-A Complaint Also Filed
Against PatrOIman James Pope.

At its meeting next Wednesday morn
ing the Board of Public Safety will hear
charges of unbecoming conduct against Pa
trolmen James Pope, Timothy Crannon and
Henry C. Schroeder, filed yesterday after
noon.
Ruyal II. Bybee, a colored man, employed
with his wife at COL North Meridian street,
seems, from an affidavit filed against
Crannon and Schroeder, TO have an
aggravated cause for complaint. n
certificate as to the character and
worth of the man and his wife
is filed with the complaint, signed by Nj.
A Downing. president of the Board of
Public Works, G.. l.. Hare, Nj. j. Osgoo
Edward ~Schoenberger and a number of
others.
The complaint of the colored nan says
tina at about IL o'clock on the night of
March q, while he was in his bathroom,
he heard a knock at the front door and
sent his wife to answer it. When she
opened the door the officers rudely pushed
past her. She asked what they wanted and
what they were looking for, when Bybee
says Crannon replied that they were look
ing for trouble" Bybee says that they &C
cused his wife of keeping an immoral
house, and said that they were looking
for men and women. In their search they
pushed into the bathroom, where they
found Bybee.
When they entered the room where /
was bathing says Bybeeis statement. Il
said: Il suppose if / were a woman you
would have come in Just the same| Gram
non then said: Yes, it wouldn't make a
DIN bit Of difference They then went
through the entire house and left without
ceremony or apologies. 1 now declare that
the aDRlGatinn made hV the said notice Of
ficers is wholly false and without any foun-
dation whatever, which L stand ready to
substantiate.
There is a feather bed and some pillows
in the affair In which James Pope is
charged with unbecoming conduct by Mrs.
Lena DuboWitZ, wife OF the proprietor OF
a secondhand store at 315 East Washing
ton street. Pope, she says in her written
charges to Superintendent Colbert, came
into her husbands store last Wednesday
morning at $3.50 O'Clock in company with a
woman who was looking for a feather bed
which she said had been stolen from her,
Mrs. DubowltZ says that she asked the pa
tIolman If he had any authority from the
superintendent to take the feather bed
when the patrolman became abusive. call.
ing her vile names and using profane Ian
gnage- According to her story. he pushed
into a rear room and took a feather bed
and pillows from the bed on which heI
children were sleeping, while the bed tbs
woman claimed was in another part of the
building. Mrs. Dubowitz Was very much
attached to that feather bed, because il
had been given TO her by her mother wheT
she got married in the old country and sht
brought ii to America with her. The sto-
len property, Mrs. DubowitZ says, was sole
to her by the woman's son, a man thirty
years of age. She did not know that 4
was stolen when il was purchased, she
says, and declares that il was reported
with other articles bought TO the police al
the law requires Mrs. Dubowitz asks thai
the case be investigated, as she does not
believe that any man is justified i'm abusins
her, even If clothed with some authority