The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1911-07-17
White Man, Preston Carr,
Appears as Witness against
His Half-sister, Mrs. Reed,
Who Is Negress.
THREE VICTIMS OF
A NORTH END RAID
Received Stiff Sentences, and
Negro Whose Wife Cary
ed His Anatomy, Was Civ
en- Long Jail Term.

Preston Carr, white, was in police
court this morning as witness
against his ha:f-sister. Alice Reed, col
ored, charged with assault and battery
OH Carr's wife, whom he married about
a year ago. Carr's mother married a
negro after the death of her first hus-
band. The Reed woman, with several
of her children, lived at Carr's home
She acted as housekeeper until his
marriage. then Carr turned over the
MANAGEMENT of the household to his
wife,
This cauesd i'll feeling between the
wife and the negress. Then Carr or
dered his half-sister and her children
to leave the house. At that time Mrs.
Reed assaulted Mrs. Carr, inflicting
several severe wounds on her face
Then she and her children left and
year.
Last Friday evening, Mrs. Carr went
to the woods near her home at North
Fifteenth and G streets and encounter
ed the Reed woman. The latter at
tempted assault and battery then. and
threatened to kill Mrs. Carr. The po-
lice were afterward summoned and
Mrs. Reed was arrested. The case
was set for trial Saturday morning, be-
fore Mayor Zimmerman.
Police Make a Raid.
Only one out. Of four escaped Patrol
slsaeIf Lawief when he ratded b house
or ill-fame at Eleventh and North G
street Saturday evening. Marie Good
win, Laura Baker and Hamilton Glib
son, arrested, were given respectively
90, 80 and 60 days, when brought be-
fore the Mayors court this morning.
The fourth member of the party,
who was sitting on a couch with the
Goodwin woman when Patrolman Law
Ter arrived on the scene, snatched
some clothes from a cot and went out
a back window.
Mrs. Baker and Gibson, both drunk,
we're hustled to police headquarters in
the patrol Patrolman Lawler has been
watching the Baker place for some
time, having made two previous, but
unsuccessful, raids. Baker it is alleged,
was sitting on the front porch of the
home, when his wife was drunk inside.
Mrs Goodwin, who is the divorced
wife of Hamilton Gibson, when arrest
ed cursed the Baker woman violently
after being placed in Jail She claimed
Mrs Baker had guaranteed the place
to be safe from interference by the po-
lice.
Carves Up Husband.
After quietly cleaning her hnger
nails for few minutes at Thirteenth
and North streets, Saturday evening,
| Mrs William Shumake, a negress.
| looked around for her husband Just
then he came up in big hurry headed
toward a saloon, he afterward explain
ed. Shumake unfortunately glanced at
his wife, and, it was said, she darted
back mean look" The negro hit her
sweeping right and she dropped to
the sidewalk with a whack. Shumake,
according to the police dropped over
| her on his knees and sank his fingers
into her throat.
But Mrs Shumake was not too much
overcome to resent this treatment. She
let out a blood curdling yell and drew
a knife and cut her husbands trous-
ers to threads. He got two deep gashes
| in the left leg. Patrolman Bundy ar
rested both but no charge has been
filed against the woman. Shumake was
given s25 and costs and 80 days in
Jail, when he appeared before Mayor
Zimmerman in police court today.
| Other fines given by Mayor thinner
man this morning, were, IS and costs
to Tom Heinbaugh, public indecency
and 81 and costs to Arve! Padgett and
Sabe Swell, for drunk.