The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1899-01-09
MUCH SUNDAY TURMOIL
AMONG THE PRINCIPAL OFFENDERS
WE'RE WIFE HEATERS.
Manhattan Craps Club Again Raided
james Owens a Brutal
Husband.

There was turmoil somewhere in the city
nearly every hour yesterday, and beginning
at o'clock in the morning, it was no
"quiet Sunday at home" for the police. At
that hour Sergeant Laporte was on his way
to early morning roll call. On kentucky
avenue he found a colored man VINO said he
had been skinned" in a crap game at the
Manhattan Club. at No. 2915 Kentucky ave-
nue. He had gone out to find some crooked
dice and intended, if he procured them, to
go back and make good But when he met
Sergeant Laporte he saw an opportunity
for finer revenge and he 'squealed." This
Manhattan Club is operated by Bud
Banks, a negro gambler, for his own pur-
poses and was raided short time ago. The
terms quoted above are those used in the
rooms of the Manhattan Club. The police
thought that the lively raiding of colored
gambling clubs would have some effect on
the Manhattan and at IL o'clock Saturday
night Sergeant Hyland visited it and touad
no one about.
When the colored man who had Cost to
the game told Sergeant Laporye, ne call "a
Sergeants Hyland, Corrigan and Scheigert
and they, with a squad of pat"olmen,
pounded on the portals of the cluD. The
doorkeeper answered. but when he saw the
policemen he ran back, closing the three
door system behind him. Sergeant Hyland
and the rest followed him and the three
door system was not able to stand the
shock-the sergeant broke them all in. Up
stairs thirteen colored men were crowded
about a pool table. The side Of the room
gave the lie to any prete use of playing poo,
hoo l,ofr f11a
table and the walls to WELD a cue Bud"
Banks's pockets were full of money al d he
had "rake-off stick" in his nand. One of
the players, in MS excitement, took OK + is
hat and there was a shower Of rickles and
dimes-his hat had been full of small
change" When the gang was counted it
was found that there were thirteen mem
bers, and after that none of the gamblers
thought it strange that they had been UNI
lucky enough to be caught shooting craps.
After the crap shooters had been slowed
away in the coop there was period of quiet
in the turkeys room. About 8 o'clock the
"hold-over jags from Saturday night,
freshened a bit by Sunday morning drinks,
began to come in, mixed with a few every
day fighters. John Hughes of No 1908 Elm
street, was locked in on the charge of forg
cry. During Judge McCray's reign Hughes
was arrested for forgery, but because it was
alleged there was evidence that his mind
was not bright he was released by the
Criminal Court. Now he is accused with
forging the name of Robert Higgins, shoe
dealer at No. $50 Virginia avenue, to a check
for $12. A stream of DRINKS and vagabonds
followed Hughes into the cell house.
At o'clock in the afternoon a telephone
message from West Indianapolis came to the
police station that man had shot and killed
his wife. Captains Colbert and Kruger and
Bicycle Patrolmen Holtz and Bray hurried
out to the suburb and fOund that lanes
knocked his wife senseless. They have two
children, and their home is with Owens's
brother, George r. Owens whose wife died
three weeks ago. Yesterday afternoon James
Owens came home about half-drunk and
asked for his wife. She was out calling on
the neighbors. Presently she came in and
Owens began quarrel with her. It was
nothing new for them to quarrel. They had
been married eleven years and most of the
time had been spent unhappily. Without
warning, he struck her on the head with all
the force of his strong arm. She was sitting
The screams of the children called in the
womau'S father and brother, Nelson and
Arthur Clifton, who live near by. Arthur
dragged Owens to the bed and knocked him
over it with a blow in the face He SAen
drew his knife, saying: Come on now,
and I'll rip you open" George Owens, who
and said he would have no more fighting in
his house. The police arrived and Captains
Colbert and Kruger took Owens to the po-
lice station in their buggy a doctor was
called and in a half hour Mrs. Owens had
revived. She said her husband had struck
her with a stove hook. George owens said
that was not true; that his brother had only
struck her with his fist There was no cash
in the woman S scalp. Apparently she was
not seriously injured but the husband was
charged with intent to kill.
At O'Clock bloody fight occurred in
the rear of the Capitol House, on West
Washington street. between a colored man
and two white men. The colored man laid
open Hugh Warren's cheek and cut a deep
hole in Burnley Drydens leg with a knife.
rested the two white men at DIR. Eisenbeiss'
office, where their wounds WerA dressed.
They caught the colored man on the railroad
track as he was leaving the nelghDorhood.
The two white men claimed they were go
ing in the gate as the colored man was COM
ing out, and he cut them without any cause
The colored mans story, which the police
think more credible, is that he met the two
others at the gate and quarreled with them,
other tried to kick him and he struck deep
into his leg with his knife In the mtX-up
he cut the other man in the face.
Bicycle Patrolmen Holtz and Bray arrest
ed Henry Smith No 1911 North Arsenal av-
enue about the same time the Capitol House
fight occurred, on the charge of assault and
battery on his wife. Friends of Smith said
he had not struck her and tried to bail him
out but his wife said she would be AFRAID
of her life if he were not locked in, so ne
remained behind the bars He was drunk.
Frank spangler and Mrs. Clara Stevens
quarreled, fought and were arrested last
night, and all because the Stevens family
had a turkey dinner Thanksgiving day and
the Spanglers had none. Mrs. Spangler and
Mrs. Stevens are sisters. Because of an alb
sence of sisterly regard, Mrs. Stevens after
her family had finished the turkey Thanks
giving day, wrapped the bones in a paper
and laid them at the door of the Spangler
home. which is just across the hall from the
SteVenses' rooms, in the block at No. 30 In
diana avenue. Spangler found the bones
ana threw them back into the Stevenses'
rooms, saying sarcastically, You may have
to eat 'enI some day
After that occurrence the two families
did not mngle happily, and last night when
Spangler went home and found his wife in
the Stevenses' rooms wrath rose in him and
he reproached her bitterly for sitting under
the Stevens figtree. Mrs. Stevens then be-
came angry and she and her brother-in-law
exchanged q few blows. NeighbOrs said
Spangler threw Mrs. Stevens downstairs
The end was that Bicycle Patrolmen STREET.
and Lancaster arrested them. Mrs Stevens
was bailed out and Spangler languished in
the police station all night.
CHINA's GRAND OLD WOMAN.