Los Angeles herald., 1910-03-14
INDIAN PURSUES
FOUR POLICEMEN
FEAR OF MEASLES ALSO
CAUSES HASTY RETREAT
"PuRlTY SQUAD" OFFICER LEADS
IN SENSATIONAL FLIGHT
Liquor.crazed Half-Breed Beats Wife
With Money Bag and Throws
Sister-in-Law Through
Window

Accused of being afraid of measles
Patrolman Windsor of Capt. Dixons
so-called purity squad" beat a hasty
retreat from the premises at 232 Hewitt
street yesterday, according to report
at police headquarters last night. Close
behind him were three officers of his
detail, and in their immediate rear a
liquor crazed half-breed Indian accel-
Grated the flight from the dread dis
ease" by brandishing two wicked look
ing revolVers.
Patrolman Windsor of the purity
squad" was sent with three other Of
ficers to arrest Charles Edmonson, the
half-breed, who was reported to have
brutally beaten his wife and thrown
his sster-in-law out of a window when
she demonstrated with him. After
Windsor and his aides had returned
without him the half-breed was taken
into custody by Ora May, secretary to
Chief Galloway, and Detective Bert
Cowan. who subdued the man after
desperate battle.
Edmonson conducts a lunch room at
Third street and Stephenson avenue,
and, according to the story told by
Mrs. Edmonson, came home yesterday
IUOTHlIB Ill all lnlOklGdleu Goilullipn
and proceeded to make things dis
agreeable.
Vest Used as "BIack Jack"
She was attending her two children,
declared the woman, and was admin
istering to one suffering from an at
tack of measles, when Edmonson be-
gan to abuse her. finally striking her
on the head with a vest, one pocket of
which contained a of cfINyar Cning
The improvised blackjack proved eff
fective and the woman fell to the floor
with blood streaming from a deep
liberation of the scalp. Ora johnson,
Mrs. Edmonson's sister, rushed into
the room at this juncture and Edmon-
son Immediately hurled her through a
window, says the woman.
The police were notified by the John
son woman, and Mrs. Edmonson was
taken to the receiving hospital in the
patrol wagon. There she made known
fully the extent of the abuse inflicted
on her by Edmonson, and Patrolman
Windsor, of Capt. Dixon's purity
squad" together with three other pa
trolmen, were detailed on the case with
orders to arrest the half-breed.
With Windsor at its head, the detail
marched down to the house on Hewitt
street, and what happened there was
not discussed by those present. They
returned to the central station and re-
ported that no prisoner was with them.
Excuses Are Offered
Lieutenant Kriege when asked a
short time after the officers failed to
arrest Edmonson why the latter was
not taken into custody, declared that
the patrolmen had acted right in not
arresting the accused without war
rant and defended them on the
grounds that the children were i'll and
no one would be left to take care of
them. The fact is that sister of the
injured woman was caring for the
children.
The leader reported to his superior
officer that Edmonson had acted with
in his rights and could not be arrested
without a warrant.
This case was undoubtedly different
from that Of an shour previous, in
which Patrolmen Windsor and Am
man of Captain Dixon's purity squad
broke up a small crap game and ar
rested seven men on a tip furnished
by police spy.
1t was then brought to the attention
of Chief Galloway that officers had
failed to arrest Edmonson, even though
complaint had reached the police that
he had beaten his wife and driven his
sister-in-law from their house at 232
Hewitt street. The chief was also no.
titled of the fact that Patrolman
indsor had not made the arrest after
being defied by Edmonson.
Chief Galloway investigates
Chief Galloway said he was ignorant
of the matter and when he learned of
the circumstances connected with the
case ordered Lieutenant George Will
liams 10 make an investigation and
have Edmonson placed under arrest
on a charge of assault with a deadly
weapon. At this moment another sis
ter of the injured woman appeared
at the police station and said she had
been sent by Edmonson, who gave her
SO for the injured woman and instruct
ed her to tell the latter to get the sick
children and take them away from the
house. The woman also said that Ed
monson defied the police and told her
to deliver a message to the effect that
the first officer who attempted to
take him into custody would be shot.
This message spurred the police into
activity and Ora May, who is the
chiefs secretary, and Detective Bert
Owen, also an efficient officer, were
detailed to take Edmonson into GUS
tody.
The officers lost no time In getting
to the home of Edmonson. They en-
tered the house and just as they
walked into the room the accused,
who was awakened by their entrance,
sprang up in the .ised and offered siren
uous resistance. He quickly was sub
dued, handcuffed and taken to the CEN
trail police station.