Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1921-08-29
TWO GIRLS NAbbEO
BUT NOT UNTIL ONE
FOUGHT OFF Police
FOUR OFFICERS FIND TARTAR IN
RUTH ENGEL, ACCUSED OF DIS
ORDERLY CONDUCT WHEN
SHE KICKED AND BIT THEM TO
PREVENT HER ARREST.

If Officer Thomas Reilly, officer
Walter Hisler, Commissioner Dana
Palmer, Jailer George Stephens and
Policewoman Launia Aussem are
walking slower than usual today, or
show bruised marks on their smiling
countenances, 1t IS not the result of
family tilt, or running into a door, or
any of the otner causes usually attri-
buted to such marks. No their bruises
were caused at the hands of a nine
teen year old girl, Ruth Engle of West
Main Street, who with Dolores Nor
rell aged 10, of Catherine street were
placed under arrest yesterday after
noon, on charges of dsorderly con-
duct
Ruth put up powerful fight. and
the officers who tried to subdue her,
thought they knew just how Carpen-
tier felt on July 2nd, as they rubbed
their battered jaws and ankles, where
her fists and feet got in some wicked
Wallops. Ruth refused to walk from
the patrol to the Jail, and upstairs to
her cell, so it was necessary for the
officers to carry her in spite of the
bites and kicks she showered upon
them.
Dolores was taken in charge first, |
when a resident of South Ottawa
phoned that woman was lying intoxi- |
Gated in an old shed near the stand |
pipe. The officers went out and found
she had a pint Of cherry wine with |
her She informed them that she and |
Ruth Engle spent the night at Pros |
perity Park in Spring Valley. They |
were brought home early yesterdav |
morning, she claimed, by two men in
a Hudson car. Ruth vas arrested at !
her home.
The pair had been chased from
Park at o'clock on
Saturday night by Miss Aussem, the
police woman.
When arranged for trial this morn |
ing at II o'clock in the county jail be.
fore Judge l.. l.. Thompson, Ruth was
given the full limit of fine 5000 and |
costs while Dolores was assessed a |
fine of $3.50 and costs. Not being
able to pay the fine or having any.
body to pay it for them, they were
held at the jail where they will serve
it out
Walter f. Hisler motorcycle police
man was first to take the stand He
testified that yesterday about 1880 /
o'clock he and Officer Jesse Holmes
were called to the South Ottawa mill,
by a resident who informed them
that a girl had been sleping there all
night. He further added that when
they arrived at the mill they discover
ed Dolores just leaving the building
According to Officer Hisler, the Nor
rell girl said she had been with Ruth !
and two young men from Streator, and /.
that she had been left off there about /
|: 80 yesterday morning He added .
that a quart of wine was found in the
mill, which Dolores admitted belong
I'd to her
Oficer Jesse Holmes and Thomas
Reilley testified against the two girls.
Their testimony was practically the
same as that OF Officer Hisslers OF
icer Reilley stated that the Engel
sirl admitted that she and Dolores had
been ont together with men for i'm.
moral purposes.
Miss Launia Aussem who took the
Engel girl into custody was next on
he stand. Her testimony was brief
She stated that Ruths reputation was
not of the best and that on several dit
erent occasions she has been in
rouble.
Mrs. John Morrell. mother of De
ores, stated to States Attorney Pool
md to Judge Thompson the father
vas to blame for the girls actions
She said that he had not allowed her
% come home for the past two years
If more and that when ever she did.
lie was in the habit of beating her.