The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-11-07
BEAUTY SHOP
FIRST STOP OF
MRS. SIMMONS
Poison Suspect, Freed on
Bond, Gets Permanent
Before Going Home.
PROSECUTORS IN DOUBT
Cost of Trial Is Factor in
Taking Action for Sec
ond Hearing.


ing her daughters, Mrs. Carrie Sim
mons was deep in the sancitity of
that home today, probably admir-
ing in farmhouse mirror the re-
suit of her first act upon gaining
her freedom on $4,000 bond-a
permanent wave.
Mrs. Simmons was released on two
bonds Of $4,000 each at o'clock
Friday afternoon.
Shortly before her release from
the. Boone county Jail in Lebanon,
her husband, at her request, phoned
the beauty shop OF Mrs. Helen j.
McCord, 7O5 Odd Fellow building,
for an appointment for his wife.
And while the farm wife per-
mitted beautieians to shampoo her
scalp, the town of Lebanon settled
back into humdrum existence, dis
cuSsing the Stalemate end of the
trial that consumed six weeks-a
hung jury.
Prosecutors in Doubt
Today Mrs. Simmons, besides adj
miring her new wave, was free to
take up the honey occupation OF
cooking meals, cleaning house and
darning socks, which she left the
morning of June 81, when she made
the picnic sandwiches in the kitchen
of her home.
A few miles away from the farm
home, in family cemetery, are two
grave markers, with the inscriptions,
Alice Jean, TO- Virginia Simmons,
A."
Prosecutors of Boone county are
awaiting the tenor of public Senti-
ment before determining whether
the farm wife will be retired on the
charge of Staying Alice JEAN. Bur-
den on the taxpayers, due to the
$500 cost of the past trial.. has
held up their decision.
Twenty-Five persons, coupled with
her husband and Charles L. Tin
dali, her Greenfield counsel, signed
the two bonds.
Takes Radio From Jail
Mrs. Simmons was not brought
to the chambers of Judge John w.
Hornaday for the final court act.
She remained in the county Jail
packing her bags for the trip to
indianapolis and the journey, two
hours later, to her home.
Her sons and their girl friends,
Misses Evelyn Whitton and Lois
Rutherford, helped load the radio,
which she had in her jail cell, into
the family auto.
John w. Simmons, her husband,
stepped in his car, and Mrs. Sim
mons, waving her hand to friends
and small crowd of Lebanon on
lockers, got in beside him.
Arriving in Indianapolis, they
went Immediately to the beauty
shop.
AS the woman who has been
front page" for six weeks entered
the Odd Fellow building, a whisper
echoed through the buildings COR
ridors, Mrs. Simmons is in the
building"
Curious Throng to Scene
Elevator operators informed pas
Sengers and dozens of curious ones
stopped at the seventh floor to
glimpse the farm wife on her bauty
tour.
The beauty shop manager, Mrs.
McCord, said Mrs. Simmons told
her she made the stop for the per-
manent ito get it over" before she
went home.
Her hair was shampooed and she
received what is known to the trade
as a beau cheveaux" wave.
Her husband sat beside her dur
ing portion of the beauty opera
tions.
They arrived at the shop at Ais
p. m. Informed by Mrs. McCord that
the work would require two hours,
Simmons told her he was going over
to L. S. Ayres & Co. to see an "old
friend" The friend, he said, was a
detective employed by the store.
At $50 p. m. he returned and sat
beside his wife as the beauty oper-
ator placed" her hair.
Both Dodge Reporters
Both Mr.. and Mrs. Simmons
lodged reporters on the beauty trip
He termed his wife a wonders
full woman as they left the build
ing's elevator and denied that Mrs
Simmons would take a rest triS
to forget the trial.
I'VE have to work; we are labor
ing people. We have no money to
go anywhere" he said.
Observers believe the trial cost to
the family will be near $500.
Asked to comment on the trial
Simmons said, 1T could have beer
worse. There never has been q
harder battle than there was tc
convict my wife. They used every
kind of tactics"
He bitterly called Charles w.
Friedman, Indianapolis druggist and
alleged identifier of Mrs. Simmons
as the poison purchaser, a fine fell
low"
Jurors disagreed, 8 to 4, with the
minority for conviction. Ora Brown,
jury foreman, admitted that some
Of the jurors voting for acquittal
believed in the farm wife's guilt,
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