The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1933-03-28
CITY SURGEON,
NURSE NABBED
IN POLICE RAID
Held on VagranCy CHARGE;
Accused of Operation by
Woman, Officers Say.
BABY FOUND IN ROOM
Doctor Has Arrest Record;
Long List of Names on
Card Index Pr0bed.

IbdiQlilB NOIlIl GtlluSylNdIld
street residence, a police squad
Monday night arrested a surgeon,
his nurse, and a Negro porter
The three arrested are DR.. Tell
C. Waltermire, So, of 4045 Graceland
avenue; Marie Willingham, 81,
nurse, and Robert Arnold, Negro
porter Dr. Waltermire and Arnold
are in city prison under SIS 900 bonds
each on Vagrancy charges. The
nurse was released after she gave
bond in a ike amount.
Called to the residence on reports
OF a fight, Lieutenant Dan Scanlon,
Sergeants Kent Yoh and Charles
Hodges, and Patrolmen Walter
BaaSe and Orville Quintette said
they heard a man screaming and
cursing and calling for hammer.
They forced the door to an inner
room and found there, they say, DR..
Waltermire and 5-day-Old baby.
The surgeon according to police,
apparently was under the influence
OF narcotics.
Woman Found Upstairs
In one upstairs room, police said,
they found a young woman who
told them that Dr. Waltermire had
performed an illegal operation upon
her and that she had been without
medical attention for ten or twelve
hours.
In another upstairs room, accord
ing to police, they found an 18-
year-old Charlottesville girl, who
told them she had been brought to
the house by a young Indianapolis
business man after she had borne
a baby without medical attention
in a downtown hotel.
The father Of her child, police
quoted the girl as saying, paid DR..
Waltermire $3.50 to arrange for an
adoption and paid her 5000, most
of which is being held by an attor-
ney.
Both women, whom DR.. Frank T.
Down, police surgeon, described as
suffering from pCst-natal medical
neglect, were taken to city hospital.
Seize Card Index
To-day, Detectives Edward Tut
and Charles Jordan, assigned to the
case, were investigating approx
mately 300 card-indeXed records
which police seized in the raid.
Many of the records, practically
all of which were of women, and
date as far back as 1926. had a nota-
ton of "$35" scrubbed on the back.
The alleged victim of the illegal
operation told police it was this
amount she paid Dr. Waltermire.
Cases from larger cities of Indi-
ana, small towns ear indianapolis,
and such out-state cities as Louis
vile. Chicago, and Ft. Worth, Tex,
were included among the records.
The card index was examined by
newspapermen on court order
from Municipal Judge William H.
Sheaffer, when Chief Mike Morris
sey objected,
One Rubber Check
Included among the records was
a check bearing the signature of
a well-known member of bonds
mems row. 1t bore the notation,
mot sufficient funds
DR.. Waltermire has a lengthy
municipal court record of arrests on
blind tiger, drunkenness and traffic
charges. police said Several of the
arrests we're under the names Wal
Ienmire" and "Wallenmeier, court
records reveal.
on April l. 1929. Dr. Waltermire
pleaded not guilty when arralgned
in criminal court on an abortion
charge. A change of venue vas OBJ
tanned Oct IS and on Oct. % the
state nolled the indictment and a
new affidavit was filed. A criminal
court jury returned not guilty
verdict three days later.
DR.. Waltermire was fined 500 and
costs and sentenced to thirty days
at the state penal farm on a blind
tiger conviction in municipal court.
Jan. 6. 1880. He drew fine of $50
and costs on a companion charge OF
drunkenness. Criminal court re-
versed these convictions March IA,
1890.
Freed on Other Charges
On five other arrests for drunk
ennesS, drunken driving and traffic
violations DR.. Waltermire was dis
charged in municipal court. except
for a 81 fine for running a prefer
entail street
Municipal court records on Miss
Willingham revealed that she has
been arrested four times on charges
OF blind tiger, vagrancy, assault and
battery. and vagrancy again. she
was discharged in all four cases.
Dr. Waltermire is listed at Offices
Of the state medical board as a
graduate of the Eclectic Institute
Cincinnati. and is a licensed ply
stefan.
Most recent case. police say,
against the surgeon was on last
Aug. l, when he was arrested at 30l
East North street, Apartment l,
listed in the city directory as his
Office.
Police arrested DR.. Waltermire
and a Marie Winningham" on
blind tiger charges, when South
port man complained that he
bought some beer al the apartment,
went to sleep, and awoke minus APP
proximately $40.
Both defendants and the South
port man. held for vagrancy. were
released when the latter refused to
sign an affidavit.
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