The Indianapolis times., 1929-03-28

trusted him.
Daisy Sullivan left an orange
peel as she was brought to Irdian-
apolis by sheriff to begin her long
term in convict's garb.
At 2 o'clock last Friday, Daisy
Sullivan was just a girl without
a job.
At II o'clock Saturday morning
she was under a sentence as heavy
as Bolinger, banker derelict to all
his trust.
DAIsY SULLIVAN, from an i'm
H poverished and motherless
home, had worked in restaurants at
Bloomfield. At one time she must
have received check in payment
for her wages. That is surmise, for
the record of her trial shows little
evidence and much gossip.
At any rate, she walked into the
Bloomfield Trust Company, got a
blank check, filled it in for $3.50,
made it payable to Ruth Sullivan" "
and. signed the name of the res
taurant owner for whom she had
worked at times.
She walked a block to a grocery
store, presented it to a young clerk
and asked him to cash it, He did So.
She bought some oranges and
bananas, walked across the street
to the courthouse, entered the wom-
ems rest room and ate the oranges.
She had not reached the bananas
before the law reached her. For the
clerk says that he saw at once that
the check probably was fraudulent,
called the restaurant man, and the
girl hunt, an easy one, began.
The law took away the remaining
S2.60-and the bananas. 1t took
Daisy to jail,
A T II o'clock Saturday morning,
N Daisy is standing before Judge
Thomas Van Buskirk, and the cir
cult court of Greene county is in
session. Kern Beasley, deputy
prosecutor, is present. So is the
sheriff and the bailiff-and no one
else.
Without notice to her father,
without call to any friends, with
out lawyer to present even a plea
for pity, this girl was arrested. On
her confession she was sentenced to
serve not less than two nor more
than fourteen years as felon.
There was no photographs of
Daisy Sullivan. In all her life, she
had been to poor to have one. Judge
VanBuskirk furnishes a verbal pic
ture Of the girl convict:
II though she would say that she
was IA or Is and then could send
her to the girls school. She is a lit
tie thing, rather pretty, with dark
eyes. She seemed bright. When she
said said she was 18 sent her to
the Woman's prison" says the judge.
THE- judge was more familiar
i with gossip concerning the girl
than he was with her history. He
did not know, until his bailiff fur
nished the information, that she
had been without a mother for sew
en- years. He did know, or professed
to know, about escapades with boys,
an unbelievable number of boys, at
Worthington, few miles away.
"I was told by one of our officers,
who got his information from the
marshal Of Worthington, that she
had run around with boys" said
the judge.
WAS that in evidence?" he was
asked.
"Oh, no. There was no evidence,
she pleaded guilty" he replied.
II heard abou, other checks, too" !"
said the judge. "At one time girl
forged check for So. I was told
this girl did it.
No evidence in court that this
was the girl. Just carried by whis-
pers!
IF there be those who wonder what
Il the good people OF Bloomfield
were doing while this girl was sent
to a felon's cell, the judge furnishes
the answer.
"Yes, we have churches here, four
of them" said the judge. Now, if
this girl had a home to go to
might have paroled her. Why, the
sheriff treated her as a trusty while
she was in jail (she was there from
Friday until Monday. Possible to
ask some one to offer her a chance
and a home? Not a chance to ap-
peal to the public opinion or the
people of this town"
The indictment TO Bloomfield, or
eulogy as you look at it, comes from
the judge. Bloomfield and its four
churches. in the opinion Of the
judge, have no interest in mother
less girls who are faced by four
teen years in prison cells.
Just whether his estimate OF his