The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1910-04-29
IN AGAIN.; OUT AGAIN
MRS. AZELLA SMITH REMOVED
FROM LATE HOME.
Another Act in the Lincoln Street
Drama Is Given, With the Lady
and Her Daughter, the Sheriff and
His Deputy as the Principals, and
City Policeman Doing Think
ing Part.
From Saturdays Daily.

From Saturdays Daily.
Sheriff Donahue and Deputy Sheriff
Klugherz, acting under the instructions
returned last night from the twin
cities, this morning went TO Mrs.
AZella F. Smiths residence on Lincoln
street, about ten o'clock. and demand
ed admttance. Mrs. Smith was down
town, but saw the officers going to-
ward her house, and returned home
and was on the porch when they ar
rived. The officers demanded that she
open the door. and she refused to do
so. Mr.. DOnahue then observed that
they would have to break in, and at
the suggestion of Mr. Klngherz they
first took Mrs. Smith, who was on
the porch, and lifted her over the
property line and put her down, and
! Mr.. Donahue informed her that ii she
returned he would arrest her.
TelephOned to the Police.
Mrs. Smith then went to a neigh
boris and telephoned to the police and
others. While she was doing this. the
officers broke in the back door and
, an inner door and began taking the
things out that Mrs. Smith and her
daughter had brought in after THEN
first election. They found Miss Smith
lying on II cot, sick, and were parley-
ing with her about getting a doctor
| and removing her to II hospital, when
Officer Swedberg appeared on the
scene. Mrs. Smith sent him in To pro
teet her daughter. while she remained
out, across the line.
An argument took place as TO Miss
Smiths right to reenter the house
after eviction, and she informed the
officers that they had not ordered her
! to leave but had thrown her out with
! ont words, and that she had right
| to return. This did not convince the
/ officers. however
Objected to Doctor.
Sheriff DOnamIe proposed that he
i send for Il doctor for Miss Smith, but
she objected TO any but her own physi
clan, whom she had already sent ion
! and who was to arrive this afternoon
| He proposed that she 90 to a hospital
but she refused, saying she had no
! means to pay the bill.
Mr.. Donahue tried to reach the at
| torncy for Mr.. OcsOn by telephone
but failed to locate him, and being
| in dilemma he concluded to 10 nc
more at that time. The storm was Sc
we're, and there was no place to have
taken Miss Smith but out in it, and
if she was sick it would have beer
very perilous for her and in any event
! it would have been inhumanity to
| have turned either her or her mother
ont into the storm and blizzard.
Mrs Smith had no stove in the
house. being enable to carry one bacl,
into the house, and she and her daugh-
i ter had stayed in the house ever since
/ the eviction without a fire. Before
going. the officers brought in and
| set up IL stove. so thatthe two la
dies need not suffer unnecessarily. and
| Mr.. DOnahue cOurteously built II fire
| for them.
Refused to Make Statement.
! Sheriff Donahue desired to secure 4
statement from Mrs. Smith that he
J was in possession. and that she SC
considered it, but she refused. He had
allowed Mrs Smith To come in, whcr
! he saw that it would be impossible
/ to eject her daughter, and she hH.l de
clared that the officers should not
carry the daughter out into the storm
From the exposure that they have
| suffered, it is wonder that botl
ladies are not sick. Without fir,
during the storm, and their house bare
of carpets and the comforts of home
they have stood the cold and the
excitement OF the events of the last
few days. Miss Smith also claims tC
! be suffering from rough treatment al
the hands of the officers the day oI
! the eviction.
Sheriff Awaits Doctors Opinion.
! Mrs. Smith claims that she is IL
possession, and that she cannot he put
out until the twenty days stay is
up. and that whether she can remain
longer will depend upon what bono
she puts up. She says that the sheriff
had not made his return of the eXecu
ton and had not closed the building
/ when she reentered.
| Sheriff Donahue told The Free Pres: