Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1918-05-26 | Page 34 | Woman Sues Police of Ogden for $ 90,000

I I I I c t t l 4 WOMAN SUES POLICE OF OGDEN FOR False Imprisonment Is Alleged Alleged Alleged Al Al- in Case Filed in District Court Special Dispatch OGDEN May 24 An 24 An action involving approximately approximately- damaged for alleged false also arrest t and Imprisonment was flied filed hero here today against Chief of Police T T. T E B. Browning Detective J J. J L. L Hoh Hohson former Police Sergeant T T. H. H Blackburn and tho the Guardian Casualty Trust company by Stella Moore who formerly conducted a rooming house houst at al Twenty fourth street In this city The action was as filed tiled In tho the district court this afternoon and the summons were served about 3 o'clock Tho The action Is the tho result of tho the arrest of the Moore woman May 26 26 1917 1017 o on a charge chargo of pandering Tho The complaint tots sets forth that she was arrested on an alleged warrant and was placed In Jail and re restrained ro- ro strained of her liberty until June 7 1017 1917 she rhe was wan released from custod custody on order of oC tho the judge of tho the municipal court and without triaL During the lie time of or her Imprisonment at the city Jail jall the tho complaint sets pets forth that she was compelled compeller com corn peller to occupy a cell In company with witha a a. colored woman confined there and that the hn pollen refused to accept ball bail refused to o permit h her r to have e the service of an attorney and delayed taking her before a magistrate te GOOD NAME INJURED The Tho plaintiff alleges further that b by r reason of the Imprisonment nt and restraint of her liberty she Is now Injured Injure In her good name and reputation and subjected to humiliation from froni the citizens of Ogden and amon among friends and acquaintances and others who ceased to do business with her on account of hearing of tho arre arrest t tand and supposing her to be a a. criminal Accordingly Ac Ac- cordingly tho the complainant avers she was waa compelled to leave lea Ogden Osden and that she hc lost ost possession of the rooming house she operated at the time of her arrest Allegations are aro also made mane that the woman woman wo wo- man suffered men mentally tall and physically and Is now greatly troubled with nervousness ner b by r reason ason of the Imprisonment and that her nerves are permanently Injured d In the second cause for action set forth In the complaint It is alleged that the police In securing the warrant acted wil il full fully and maliciously ly and without probable probable probable I able cause 11 1 On each count Is asked as damages damages dam darn I ages from tho the casualty c. company which concern executed a bond for or the chief of or police and the tho balance Is divided d da a against the other defendants for or compensatory com corn damages special damages and exemplary damages COMPANION COMPLAINS Records on file at police headquarters show how that Mrs T T. V. V Moore was ar arrested arrested arrested ar- ar rested on a warrant on May 26 26 1917 on ona ona a a. charge of pandering following a a. complaint com corn plaint made mad to tho the police by a woman named Katherine Bennett who had been the report says sas rooming with Mrs Moore for tor about a month The Bennett womans woman's star story was re repeated repeated re- re in the presence of DI District Attorney Attorney ney S S. P P. Dobbs and Count County Attorney C C. L L. L Farr according to the police records rec roc and these officials after atter hearing the story advised the poll police co there were were sufficient grounds upon which to bring a complaint for pandering The story of or Katherine Bennett Bonnett as contained con con- tamed In the police report was was to the f effect that Mrs Irs Moore brought men to tho Bennett Bennatt womans woman's room and insisted upon her entertaining them It Is la also allo set forth in tho report that Mrs Irs Moore with threats to kill compelled Katherine Bennett to give I e her mone money sho she had re received re- re from tho the men callers Vr Willard fIlard Hansen n and Shirley y P P. Jones of or Salt Lake are arC the attorneys for tho the Plain plain- tiff tift 1