Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-13
POLICE TRY TO
HUSH ARREST
OF TWO SMELLS
Report of Accident and Hold
ing of Two DRINKS
Missing.
PRISONERS TELL STORY

Following an accident at Meridian and
Ohio streets at 5:25 a. In. today In which
q street car and an automobile oolnded,
two men were arrested. but certain MEM
bers of the police department made an
effort to cover up the affair. The report
of the accident was mysteriously missing
and efforts of the day captain to find
the report met with failure
Frank Higemeier 81, packer, $50 Ray
mond street and John Short, 6S. 4151
Graceland avenue, are the names that ap-
peared on the turkeys slate. HilgemeieR
was charged with operating a motor We
hicle while under the influence Of liquor
and Short was charged with drunken
ness. Efforts to obtain information from
the two men arrested failed when it was
found they were not in the cellroom at
police headquarters. 1t has long been
standing order to all turkeys that
prisoner charged with drunkenness or
with operating a motor vehicle while
under the influence Of liquor must re-
main locked in the cellroom for four
hours.
PRISONERS SAY
"sWELLs" WERE RELEASED.
Prisoners declared two swslls" who
were in the automobile wreck remained
locked up less than fifteen minutes. The
turnkey and the bailih of city court adj
mitted they had no bond for either Higle-
meyer or Short, and there was no rec
ord on the turkeys slate TO show that
two men had been released either with
or without bond.
When asked about the accident the men
who investigated ana made the arrests
. stated I'VE have made q written re-
port and It was taken to the front Of
fee" The report disappeared some time
between the time the night shift went OF !
duty and the day shift came on.
The accident report book, In brief, I
stated Frank Hilgemeier. $50 Raymond
street, driving an automobile south on
Meridian street, collided with a street
car in charge Of Charles A. Andrews"
The usual custom Of stating the number
Of the street car and the number Of the
automobile license were missing. More
details Of the accident were found on q
red accident card in which Andrews adj
dress was given as 453 North La Sale
street. and the cause Of the accident as
speeding and carelesness."
TWO MEN ARRESTED
AT SANE TINE.
On the card or on the accident book
no mention is made OF Short, but his
name appears on the turkeys slate at
the same time that Hilgemeier's name
appears and the same officers made the
arrest, and the arrest was made at the
same corner, Meridian and Ohio streets.
Prisoners say the men were brought in
together One had a skinned and battered
face the other appeared uninJured, the
prisoners said.
In the alley north Of police head
quarters there WAS big automobile with
license number 1905, which was the one
in the accident at Ohio and Meridian
streets. II appeared TO have been side
swiped" and the damage to the car
probably would exceed 500. Ths
records Of the secretary Of States office
show that the license number was issued
to 3. Hlgemeier and Brothers, SO West
Raymond street.
Four hours after the accident occurred
the report made by the officers who In
vestigated the accident mysteriously re-
appeared in the captains Office The re-
port stated the police had been sent to
Ohio and Meridian streets on report Of
a fight. They found both an accident
and fight. The report stated that Hlge-
meier had hit Andrews, mOtorman Of the
strset car after the automobile collided
with the car. It told OF the arrest of
Hilgemeier and Short, both of whom were
IN the automobile.