The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1902-03-07
ARRESTS MAY
CAUSE BOTHER
oLYPHANT WOMEN JAILED FOR
STREET WALKING.

STREET WALKING.
They Are Married and Claimed to-
Be Seeking a Hotel When Taken
Into Custody Yesterday Morning.
Their Husbands Came OH the Scene
and They Were Arrested--All
Fined After a Hearing-Appeal
Taken and Damage Suits Will
Probably Result.
| The arrest of Mr. and Mrs John
ODowd and of Mr.. and Mrs. i. II.
Crandall, of Olyphant early yesterday
| morning by Patrolman John McMul-
len, promises to be the cause of action
| against the city. Attorney Joseph
OBrien, after a hearing held late yes
terday afternoon, said there is trouble
| ahead for the patrolman and the city.
Both Mrs. Crandall and Mrs. O'Dowd
were arrested for being drunk and
! street walking while their husbands
| were charged with being drunk and
with interfering with an officer. At the
bet'ilHS DelOie NdSlSlTute f1DWe SeSleI-
day afternoon, the defendants were rep
resented by Attorney Joseph OBren,
while City Solicitor Watson and his as
sistant, D. j. Davis, appeared for the
| police. Attorney OBrer had a stem
| ographer on hand taking the testi
mony.
Patrolman McMullen, who made the
arrests testified that at $40 o'clock yes
t,r 1,n NIp. 'p,y 1p11
| and Mrs. ODowd leave "Roxie" Jones
saloon, on Spruce street, unaccom-
| panied, and start for Penn avenue. He
stopped them at the corner and in
quired where they were going. They
told him they were seeking a hotel. he
said, and that their husbands were just
| behind, whereat he placed them under
| arrest and took them down Penn ave-
nue. toward Center street. Just as he
was turning into Center street with
them, Mrs. Crandall screamed and
| broke away, he said. She ran toward
Lackawanna avenue and met Attorney
Thomas ]. Duggan, whom she pleaded
with for protection.
HUSBANDS APPEARED
McMullen said he caught hold of Mrs.
ODowd and followed after Mrs. Cram
dali Just as he caught up with the
| latter, the womens two husbands came
dashing down the street and stepped
| between him and his prisoners. Mr..
ODowd. he said, called him a fake"
| and both interfered with him so that
he placed them under arrest also,
marching the four up to the Center
street police station, where they We're
nYf DI pisr1,t Jn cntI t1,Di hot, tl,n
women and men appeared to be intoXi-
Gated.
On cross-examination by Attorney
O'Brien, he admitted that the women
| We're walking along in a peaceable,
orderly manner and that they We're
| neither boisterous or disorderly when
he placed them under arrest.
Patrolman John Thomas, who was in
charge at the station house, and Lieu
tenant James Feeney testified that all
four of the prisoners. seemed to be
drunk and that they made a loud
noise in the station house. Patrolman
Thomas said O'Dowd told him that he
ought to be shot down like the Beers"
He put the charge of drunk" on the
books because his previous experience
with drunken people led him to believe
that they We're all drunk.
Mrs. O'Dowd, an attractive young
woman, testified in her own behalf. She
said she and her husband together
with Mr.. and Mrs. Crandall, came down
from Olyphant on Wednesday night to
go to the theatre. They attended the
performance at the Academy of Music,
and after the play her husband said
that he wanted to go to "RoNie" Jones'
place to see about purchasing some
linoleum for his saloon in Olyphant.
She didn't know the character of the
place and went in with the rest of the
party. They went to the back room
where they remained for two hours
while her husband had q conversation
with Jones. She was served with beef
tea, as was also Mrs. Crandall. She
drank no intoXicants, she said.
WENT TO STATION.
All four left for the Delaware and
Hudson station after / o'clock to take
the train home, but We're told it had
gone, and started back to the Coyne
house to stay over night. They decided
to go back first to Jones and see if
they couldn't strike a better bargain.
They again went into the saloon going
upstairs, and remained there until
| O'Clock, when she (Mrs. O'Dowd) COM
planned of being tired. Her husband
told her and Mrs. Crandall to go to the
Coyne house and get rooms, promising
that he and Crandall would follow at
once Mrs. O'Dowd thought Patroman
McMullen was taking her and Mrs.
Crandall to u hotel at first as she told
him she was seeking one, and became
greatly agitated when she learned she
was under arrest.
Her husband corroborated her testl-
mony denied that she was drunk or
that anyone else in the party was in
toXicated, but admitted having said
things to the officers because of his
rage at seeing his wife arrested. He
said that he had several hundred dol
lars in his pocket, but was not allowed
TO leave a forfeit for the party at the
station house. He, himself, but recent
ly came to Olyphant and had no knowl-
edge of the character of "RoXie's"