The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-01-01
AN OUTRAGEOuS CASE.

The New York newspapers are sit ting up and taking some notice of the infamous treatment received by Mrs. Trautman, a highly respectable wo- man, wife of a prominent physician. While standing on Broadway, looking at a show window, she was seized by man named Hogan, who caHeds a policeman and had her arrested, claim ing that she and another woman had enticed him into q dark hallway the evening before and robbed him.
 s It hardly seems possible that such a thing could have occurred. but as The Hartford Times puts it, the publicity of the arrest was by no means thp worst feature of the case. The po- liceman who took Mrs. Trautman to the station at the behest of a little man, whose purse had been toyed with in a Fifth Avenue doorway, supposed he was doing his duty. Afterward came the brutality of the police sys- tenn. Mrs. Trautman was treated as if she were a absolute woman and thief from the moment she entered the dominion of the police sergeant She gave a straightforward account of her. self, of her residence, and stated that at the time of the alleged robbery, she was confined to her home by a cold. All this could have been verified or disproved in few minutes by the po- lice. But that mattered nothing to them. Mrs. Trautman must be searcn> ed and locked up m a cell. If she had friends the police evidently said to themselves they will appear in due time and bail her out. Tn this case nothing was left unuone by the police to make the arrest as stupid and as gross as it could be. It happened that Mrs. Traut- mans husband could not be easily reached and she was confined n the dirty cell for many hours before she was released"
 In the accounts given of this alto gether infamous procee 1ais 1t is stated that Hogan is described as "a small man, with a weak chia and wearing double glasses on account of weak sight" In his own statement of the reason for his false accusation he stat ed that on the evening before Inc was met on the street by two women, one of whom led him into a dark hallway, and put her arms around his neck. When he managed to free himself from the woman, whom he declared to be Mrs. Trautman. Hogan said he found SIS had been taken from his pocket book. which later. according 10 his statement had been returned to his pocket"
 This is the mans absurd story-the story of a man whose eyes were so weak that he was compelled to wear double glasses to see his way, yet, hay ing seen the woman against whom he. made his charge only one time, and that in semi darkness, he rrofessec to be able to identify her with sufficient certainty to enable him to swear out charge against her. if is no wonder that a lady friend of the victim de. clared that If such an outrage had hap pened South of Washington Hogan wouldn't have lived to appear in court" And it Is no wonder that New York newspapers, accustomed as they are to outrageous police behavior, should con- demn the treatment of Mrs. Trautman Indeed, The Globe goes so far a. 10 say that mo woman in New York, no matter what her standing and charac- ter. is free from the danger of being treated as Mrs. Trautman was treat ed"
 This is a plain admission, and We see no reason to doubt its truth or fair ness. It is a notorious fact that wo- men on street cars in that city are treated with absolute indifference by the male passengers, even if they es- cape annoyance and insult A great deal of criticism is bestowed on South erners by those North of us. but if the men of New York and other Northern cities had a fair share of Southern spirit and difference to wemankind. the