The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1907-05-23
Scoheld Out on Bond.

Judge Whallon, of the city Police
Court at indianapolis, May Is, an
nounced his willingness to release on
bond Floyd Scoheld. now in the
workhouse serving thirty-day SEN
tence, which accompanied $25 fine,
on Schofield's plea of guilty to the
charge of assault and battery on his
wife The announcement was made
after 'extrajudicial proceedings" to
use the courts expression, had failed
to operate agreeably. 1t involves the
delivery by Judge Whallon of val
uable diamond ring which he had TAX
en- into his possession.
Schoheld, whose arrest Thursday
night at the Commercial Hotel, fol-
lowed his hugging his wife to pre-
vent her pounding his nose with the
high heel of her slipper, had engaged
attorneys Johnson and Mehring to
obtain his release on bond, pending
an appeal to the Criminal Court. The
attorneys had prepared mandamus
proceedings to be instituted Wednes-
day afternoon but Judge Whallon
agreed to release Schofield.
The workhouse prisoner complain
ed that Whallon had taken possession
of the diamond ring, which he says
he values at more than $1,000 on the
ground that the wife has said that it
belonged to her The wife, by the
way, had received the same sentence
as her husband, bur the court had
rescinded it. No proof of her own
ing the ring had been given the court,
Schoheld says. while he had offered
ample evidence that it was his own.
The diamond was taken by the
judge. he says. while he was negoti-
ating with Sam Farb, professional
bondsman. to obtain bond. The judge
simply put it in his pocket and walked
out. he said.
Thursday Theodore Cressner, a.
banker, of Plymouth, Scho6eld's
home, came to the city as the repre-
sentative of the young mans mother.
When he visited the court i. COM
pany with the attorney. Judge Whal-
lon turned the ring over to him. He
said the eighteen-year-old wife had
gone to Plymouth and was staying
with her husbands mother.
The court said he would release the
young man on bond and would remit
the workhouse sentence, on promise
that he would go to his home in Ply
mouth. The fine and costs, however. |
are to be paid
Explaining his peculiar connection
with the diamond ring, Judge Whal- |
Ion said.
1T was merely one of those extra
judicial proceedings in which courts
sometimes indulge to protect women
and children. The woman told me
the ring was her own and that she
had turned it over to her husband to
use in getting bond for them both.
She showed me nick in the band
made to enable her to get the ring
over her knuckle. ! took the ring and
placed it in the police departments |
safe, to be given TO the one that
should prove ownership later. Either
could bring replevin suit or otherwise
have the courts establish the owner
ship of the ring.
'She said she was sick and ready to
go to the hospital then and / felt
sorry for her. She was going to his
mothers home in Plymouth, she said,
because she had no where else to go.
took the course l did to protect
her"
Schoheld adds another interesting
chapter to this police story, with the |
statement that he has positive knowl- |
edge that the young woman is pos
sessed of husband in Birmingham,
Alabama, and is, therefore, not law
fully his wife. She married the man,
he says, before she met Sche6eld, |
last October. in Kansas City. The
man has been making an effort to find
his wife, chofeld says.