The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1929-03-30
RESCUE Child
FROM PRISON,
! STATE PLEADS
Hundreds of Letters, Wires
and Phone Calls Sent
to Governor.
MANY OFFER TO HELP
Thorough Investigation of
Bloomfield Girls Case
Is Ordered.

~ ~ HSt W.T.
The warm heart of Indiana is
touched and letters, kilograms and
telephone calls came by the hun
dreds today to ask of Governor
Harry @. Leslie, lust another
chance in life" for Daisy Sullivan,
l, of Bloomfield. The girl is under
sentence of two to fourteen years
in the woman's prison for forging a
$3.50 check.
All day Friday and today the Gov
ernor's Office received offers to aid
the girl in a legal way, letters urging
her release from prison, and one
offer to take her into the home of
mountaineering jeweler of In
dianapolis.
Even the Women'S prison in this
city has received many pleas for
Daisys release.
Miss Margaret Elliott, superin-
tendent of the prison, said numer-
Gus calls have been received by her.
Case Being Investigated
Persons interested in the girl from
/, the Greene county hill country are
requested not to file their petitions
for her pardon at the Woman's
prison. Miss Elliott does not have
The power to release the girl.
State probation officers and parole
agents, at the direction of Governor
Leslie and the board of trustees of
the Indiana Woman's prison, are
investigating the case of Daisy Sui
Ivan, to determine whether she is
deserving of a parole. They expect
to report on her case next week.
Meantime, Daisy will spend East
er Sunday in the company of at
taches at the prison. Miss Elliott
said the seven days Of isolation en-
forced on each prisoner would be
liftefs Sunday to permit her to spend
Ea3 I in the company of others.
TndiananS clamor for a new
Daisy, force of opposition
mors-the same rumors that
her trial-defend the "jus-
e gave Daisy a two to four
sentence for forging a
Ok.
led Partly on RumOrs
was tried in the circuit
Of Greene county on the
charge of a $3.50 forged
and rumorS.
rumors are: That she forged
Cher check for $12; that she took
hing from a Worthington store
approyal and did not return it;
It this girls of the hills-just 18
went with a boy who now is at
#ae state farm; that her behavior
sn Bloomfield was not of the best;
that she is another small-town
Ghatrack."
In letter to The Times, Mrs.
\. F. Chambers, chief probation
offieer, tells OF delinquencieS in
yBloomf1eld. She says that she was
in court when Daisy was sentenced.
The judge, who sentenced Daisy,
told a Times correspondent, who
first investigated, that no one was
in court with her.
Personal history reveals that the
girl comes from broken home, the
mother died seven years ago; no
special supervision of her own sex
since that time. Educational advan-
tages have been meager, a lack of
Hsuitable clothing making the school
: days anything but Joy.
The girl was reared in unSocial
surroundings, with low standard of
living, physical, educational, moral
and religious training, therefore the
girl has not reached correctional
esnstitution on her first offenSe," Mrs.
Chambers writes.
Mrs. Chambers blamed the girls
father for her alleged moral de-
alinquincies and upheld the judge.
81 Attorneys Ready to Aid
Excerpt from letters received by
8 The Times from two attorneys who
have interested themselves in
DaiSy'S case follow:
Russell B. Harrison, attorney
Right thinking people of this
progressive state will agree with you
that it is absolutely wrong in princi-
pie that a girl who by her forgery
nets. 20 cents and a bank, looter who
nets S150,0o0 to 100000 receive the
same punishment, two to fourteen
years"
Having been chairman of the
judiciary committee of the general
assembly of Indiana for four legis-
latures, I am volunteering my serv-
ices to right this wrong Harrison
writes.
Verne C. Chapman, attorney--"In
the writer's opinion, this is case
that demands the attention of So
ciety and a movement should be
started to parole the girl. I am very
busy, but will ind time to give
matter whatever attention is
ested. to help place it before
Governor