Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-10-01

/ " the sOluleTS- II WAS pay Jay at L.
Harrison. Captain Ellis ordered a war
rant officer and a corporal to arrest the
women. The two started a search for
the bootleggers and for a time failed to
find them. Then the warrant officer left
Corporal Bowling and went : to stand
guard mount. The corporal saw the
three women in the automobile and
knew that they answered the descrip-
tlon Of the bootleggers. He called to
them to Halt"
The car was on the road in the rear
of the barracks. The driver of the au-
tomobile, later identified as Mrs Deni-
son, increased the speed of the car and
Corporal Bowling fred. The bullet that
struck Mrs Denison hit her in the back
and ranged downward through the right
hip and lodged under the skin Of her leg
Mai L. B. McAfee, post surgeon, and
Captain Payne. officer of the day, con-
Quoted an investigation. After the po-
lice reached FIT. Harrison the Ferry
woman and Dorsch woman were taken
/ to police headquarters and are held on
charges of vagrancy. Mrs. DenisOn's
lody was ordered removed to the city
morgua.
Tuesday the police raided the rooming
house at 81 North East street, a place
that has been notorious for many years,
and arrested Mrs. DenisOn on the charge
of contributing to the neglect of her
daughter, Helen, 10. and son, Robert, 6.
At the same time they arrested Edward
Oliver. 2S, of Muncie, on the charge of
contributing to child neglect. These cases
are pending in Juvenile court. While the
police were searching the rooming house
Mrs Denison slipped away. but was
found two hours later and arrested.
At the time of that raid the police found
a gallon of white mule whisky and a
half pint bottle Of white mule thirteen
quarts Of home brew and eight gallons
of home brew in the making, and this
liquor was confscated to be used as evil
dence In Juvenile court, but a charge Of
operating a blind tiger was not placed
against the DenisOn woman at that time
because the police visited the place with
out a search warrant. and the courts
Nave held that officers must have a search
warrant for blind tiger charges will be
dismissed.
TbS Dorsch woman in statement fol-
Lowing ksr arrest declared she did not
know Mrs~Qenison had liquor in the
auromobiIe S1e said she was invited by
Mrs. Denison to n Ike an automobile ride
to TT Harrison as Mrs. Denison wished
10 denver some WdshNNe ~ AS-Nti~A
named Sears He was Mot at the bar
racks. she said. aud theF took another
soldier to D crossing, in their car and
had returned 10 find Sears when the
shooting occurred. She said sGe heard
the corporal call Halt" and s&id 70
Mrs. Denniscu. Didn't that NJ. p yen
at usf" but Mrs. Denison answered TO
hell with him." and gave the car more
gas. Then the shooting occurred.
Lieutenant Woolleu who had charge OF
the raid on the North East street house
said that he took the two children,
Robert and Helen Denison, to the de
tention home after arresting their mother.
The children later were given into the
care Of Mrs. Denison's sister. Mrs. Mills.
$40 East Ohio street. who promised to
care for them until Nov. I, when Mrs
Denison would be tried in Juvenile court.
The Ferry woman. known to the p0-
lice as Acres, formerly lived in the 200
block on South East street and moved
to a house in the 800 block on Davidson
street, the police say.