Omaha daily bee., 1919-06-08

at the Brown apartments develops the
following:
Complaint. cam. from neishbor. that
about o'clock In the morning. taxieabs
and other cars carrying men and women
were constantly visiting the flat at 2106
by for observation and on the night Of the
coming and going continually from and to
IKE officer called for additional help
and upon its arrival entered the flat for
Investigation. They found t., A. Williams aa,n
and wilma Reed together IN the north north
they found Esther Applegate, Helen Bald
wind and Roy Kelley. the two women
IN night attire and Tnts cigar
partly filled glass of liquor was on the
The girls told the Officers that Mrs.
The Brown apartments are an Il" shaped
building. one Cat facing on Gas. Gas: street r.
facing Twenty first street and just around
the corner from 2106 Cass\ street. After
plaetng the girls in the wagon. the officers
when she opened the door: they told her
they were officers and asked her If she
was the one in charge of the apartment at
the officers told her it would be necessary
for her to go to the station. She called
taxi and was accompanied to the station
BY In of his repo9t officer Herdzna state.
that he remained in the hall while Mrs.
Brown was preparing TO go to the station
and he is corroborated in this by OFFICER
Armstrong. Mrs. Browns son was ar
rested on the charge Of interfering with
an officer when he attempted to shove
the officer away from where he was
Captain Heitfeld, Emergency Officer
Hughes. Desk Sergeant Rose and Turnkey
Brady are authority for the statement
that the son told his mother to put up
and started to follow her son into the
cell room The turnkey suggested that
Mrs. Brown go to the matron's depart
sn but she sayns he se
Joking with each other at the time. Cap
tain Heitfeld says that no complaint was
made by Mrs. Brown of any illness nor
was any request for anything made by
her. In the morning she was given
courteous attention by DR.. Edstrom, city
physician.
!iams and Wilma Reed were each fined
$50 and costs. Esther Applegate and
Helen Baldwin were each fined s25 and
costs and Elsie Kubat was dismissed.
Kelly, who escaped at that time, has since
been arrested and will be prosecuted.
A party living in the immediate neigh
borhood Of Twenty first and Cass, says
that man and woman inmate Of this
Wednesday afternoon, the man knocking
the women down several times, latter
which he entered at 2106 Cass. He also
says that it is not an unusual thing 20
see Yellow and Brown taxicabs unload at
this flat.
All six telephones in the Brown Apart
ments including that at 2106 Cass are in
the name of Mrs. Thomas Brown.
No Record of Arrest.
Attorney Lones says the state
ment of Commissioner Ringer bears
out his charges, of which Mr.. Ring
err apparently was not advised at
the time he made it, in number Of
essential points.
First, it admits that Roy Kelly,
the alleged bootlegger whom At
torney Lones charges conspired
with the detectives for the arrest
of the girls to protect himself and
the woman with whom he was liv-
ing, was actually on the scene at
the time of the raid and allowed in
some manner to escape.
The statement also substantiates
the charge of Attorney Lones that
it was Kelly and the woman he says
is his wife who were fighting in
front of the Cass street house and
about whom the neighbors COM
planned.
Attorney Lones last night de-
clared he would prove when the
case went to trial that the men and
women who went to the Cass street
address went there at night to get
whisky from Kelly and not to visit
the four working girls taken in the
raid.
While the signed statement of
Mr.. Ringer said that Kelly had |
been arrested. Captain Heitfeld,
who is in charge at the police sta
ton, last night at 10 o'clock de-
clared that if Kelly had been ar
rested he did not know anything
about it.
There is no record of his arrest
here at the station" said the night
captain of police.
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