The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-09-29
DETECTIVES WERE THERE
THEY WAITED FOR CHARLES j. Al
LEN AND HIS sIsTER-IN-LAW.
A Mystery Partly Cleared Up by the
WOman-The Charge Against
Allen.

Charles ]. Allen. of 431 Hudson street,
bailed his sister-in-law Mrs. May B. Feasel,
out of the police station yesterday after
noon, ard when the two reached their home
they found Detectives Gerber and Morgan
waiting for them The detectives arrested
Allen on a charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses and took him to the place
from which he had short time before re-
leased his sister-in-law. Allen was a trav-
cling agent for the Danbury Hat Company,
of Danbury, Conn, and was employed by
the Chicago agent of the company. He sold
goods on commission. Recently, it is
claimed, he sent in bogus orders to the
Chicago agency and for them he received
SSS commission. Allen told Chief Colbert
yesterday that he would refund the commits
sion money to his employer
The case of Mrs. Feasel is a peculiar one.
She is charged with being drunk. She was
found lying on the lawn at the side of
Charles Norton's drug store, at Massachu-
sets avenue and Vermont street, early yes
terday morning. Her face, clothing and hair
were plastered with blood. which was flow
ing from a deep cut on the bridge of her
nose. She was removed to the police sta
ton and Police Surgeon Christian dressed
her injuries, which consisted of the wound
on her nose and bruises on her face and
body. She was intoxicated, but shrewdly
thwarted all the attempts of the police to
make her tell her name and address. She
said she did not want to disgrace her
family.
Later yesterday morning Bicycle Patrol
men Holtz and Wallace found the woman's
umbrella and pocketbook in the alley near
xUha he boI fol
book gave her name and address. Both the
umbrella and the pocketbook were covered
with blood Police Matron Reisner went to
the address given on the cards and found
Mrs. Feasel's brother-in-law at the house.
Charles Allen stepped back as if he had
been struck in the face when he was told
that Mrs. Feasel was at the police station.
He gave the police matron a change of
clothing for Mrs. Feasel and afterward he
went to the station and secured her release.
1t was only a short time afterward that
the detectives received telegram to arrest
Allen While he was at the police station
Allen spoke of the disgrace it would call
down on the family if Mrs. Feasels case
were published He is charged with a much
more serious crime than his sister-in-law.
When Mrs. FeaseI found that the matron
Knew HeT name she talked little ABOUT
what she had done the night before She
said she had taken hack ride with a mar
ried woman and a man. They went to
room at SO East Washington street and
there drank some wine. At 80 o'clock,
Mrs. Feasel says, she decided it was time
for her to go home. but when she reached
the sidewalk she lost consciousness. One
theory of Mrs. Feasel's further movements
IS that she wandered about on her way
home and fell in the alley where her UNI
brella and pocketbook were found, her face
striking against something sharp and then
dragged herself to the lawn where she was
found. Another theory is that she was
struck by some one who was with her. Mrs
Feasel stoutly refused to tell the names of
the persons with whom she had associated
earlier in the night. 1T would only bring
about a sensational divorce suit she said.
1t is not known where her husband is. She
has daughter nine years old.