The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1919-07-28
Beauty Contest Winner
Forcibly Arrested On
Auto Parking Charge

man met her as she was leaving her
home to catch a o'clock train at
Union Station. Montgomery told Mrs.
Rice she was under arrest. Mrs.
Rice asked to see the warrant. Ac-
cording to Mrs. Rice, the policeman
refused. Thereupon Mrs. Rice main
tanned again she was not arrested,
while Montgomery held up his argu-
ments with vague threats OF force.
Calls Patrol Wagon.
Mrs. Rice stepped into drug store
at the corner of Second street and
Massachusetts, avenue northwest.
While she went in one telephone
booth and called up her lawyer, the
policeman went into another and
called for the patrol. Mrs. Rice, ac-
cording to DR.. George w. +. Boyd,
proprietor of the drug store, remained
in the booth perhaps fifteen minutes.
At any rate, when Mrs. Rice opened
the door of the telephone booth, there
were two burly policemen waiting
for her. Montgomery asked her IL
she would go to the station, and
Mrs. Rice reiterated her refusal.
This time there were no more
threats, for the policeman took hold
of one arm, and his assistant took
her by the other, and Mrs. Rice. pro-
testing, was escorted to the waiting
patrol wagon.
She reach the station house land
deposited IS with Captain Harrison
as collateral. She did not appear at
Police Court the next week, but sent
q friend.
Seen today in her Massachusetts,
avenue home, Mrs. Rice was emphatic
in her statements against the police
nan who arrested her.
Mrs. Rice Claims Grudge.
He has a grudge against me be-
cause I laughed at him." she said.
lone time before, when he told me I
could not leave my car in the vacant
lot, 1 laughed and asked him If he
was another one bothered about that
car You see. I had been told once
before by a policeman l couldn't leave
my car in the lot, so I brought it
around in front of the house. It
wasn't long before another policeman
told me couldn't leave it there. but it
would be all right to leave it in the
vacant lot.
80 I was rather exasperated when
this man appeared. I laughed at him.
good-naturedly, and he told me
1
would remove that car. He asked me
IL he might know my first name, and
told him he might but I wouldn't
tell him.
He came back again, but I could
not see him. as I was indisposed that
day and saw no one. Ny little daugh-
ter. however. told me OF his call
On Way to Train.
II was on my way to catch a s
o'clock train out Of the city last Sat-
urday when he met me outside my
door. He told me he had come to ar
rest pe. and I asked for the warrant
He wouldn't show it to me, but he
aid he had one. I haven't seen IL
vet. but I understand from a friend
Who did. later, that 1t wass made out
sor Frances Rice, which is not my
name.
Il was in a hurry to catch my train,
but I had to stop in Doctor Boyd's
tore to get q check cashed. I also
telephoned my lawyer, and when I
'ame out OF the booth there was this
nan waiting with a patrol wagon
He actually dared to touch me, and
when I resisted he caught me by my
arm. he and another policeman, and
made me get in the patrol. My arms
were blue where he ptnched me.
when I got to the station. after
the humiliating experience OF being
forced in the wagon while a crowd
looked on, Captain Harrison was
overcome with surprise. He told me
that never before in the history of
the department had such a thing hap
pened. I paid my collateral but could
not appear at court because of illness.
I am going to press this thing to the
full extent OF the law. That police
man arrested me because OF spite and
hatred, and l can prove It,"
Policeman Montgomery, who has
been at the Sixth precinct a yer
and a half, said today he made the
arrest Saturday last and used a patrol
wagon to escort Mrs. Rice to the po
lice station. He declined to answer
any questions concerning the details
of the arrest, however.