The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1934-07-14
RAIDERS
At BAY, BURNS
z WITH MASH
NEGRO Woman Subdued
With Aid of Tear Gas at
City Home.
WINKLER is SCALDED
Stands Off Federal Men,
Three Police Squads
for IS Minutes.

A msSive, pugilistic, 35-year-old
Negro woman today stood of four
federal liquor agents and three
SQUADS of police for fifteen minutes
before she finally was captured,
with the aid of tear gas, to face
charges of operating an illegal still
and of resisting arrest.
In the course of the battle, waged
at 1926 Cornell avenue with the
usual weapons on the side of police
and with buckets of Scalding mash
as her armament, two federal agents
were burned badly.
One of them was George WlnKler,
special agent operating out OF
Chicago, who has served in Indian
apolis as sheriff of Marion county
as police lieutenant and as head OF
the local prohibition bureau.
Mr.. Winkler was treated at city
hospital and returned to the scene
of action, although burned about
the eyes, on the face and on the
chest.
Admittance Is Refused
The second burned agent, 0. w.
Roberts, also operating out OF Chi
cago, was burned so badly on the
back that he did not return to the
scene of action, but remained at city
hospital.
Agents Winkler and Roberts and
two other federal men-P. r. Carroll
and w. P. Allender-went to the
Cornell avenue address this morn
ing to seize a still.
The house, a one-story yellow
frame structure with green shutters,
has a second-story extension In the
rear and it was in the extension
that the still, which has a capacity
of thirty gallons, was located.
Agent Winkler identified himself
and demanded entrance at a door
leading I'D to the extension. The
woman, who later identified herself
as Mrs. Sarah Bean, but whom po-
lice described as Jessie L. Jackson,
refused to admit them.
Force Open Door
They forced the door and Agents
Winkler and Roberts led the way
UP the stairs. The Jackson woman
appeared at the head of the stairs
with a. bucket in her hand, shouted
defiance and deluged them With
scalding mash.
Screaming with pain and Shout
ing imprecations, the agents re-
treated temporarily and with great
speed.
Agent Winkler called police for
the emergency squad and three
SQUADS under Lieutenant John Shee-
han responded. Agents Winkler and
Roberts were rushed to city hospital
and police resumed the battle.
Lieutenant Sheehan, who had OBJ
served what the mash did to Agent
Winkler's eyes, led the second as
sault. First, he sent police to the
front of the house to throw tear
gas in on the Jackson woman.
Then. revolver in hand, he started
up the back stairs.
Sheehan Dares Mash
The Jackson woman met the chal-
lenge. A fresh, steaming bucket OF
mash in her hand, she told Lieu
tenant Sheehan to stop:
Look out, policeman, or III
throw this mash on you, too"
you throw that mash" Lleuten-
ant Sheehan snapped at her, and
it'll be the last thing you ever throw
at anybody"
She drew back her arm. Just
then, the gas began to get in its
work. The woman started unwill-
ingly down the stairs. Lieutenant
Sheenhan, daring the mash, made a
dash and grabbed her.
A crowd estimated at more than
200 was on hand to watch her final
defeat. She was placed in the
patrol wagon and taken to police
headquarters.
The house was a wreck. The back
door was broken. The windows,
through which the gas had been
tossed. were broken. A hole had
been chopped in the roof by gas
throwers who believed man might
have remained in the house after
the Jackson woman surrendered.