| Show j HORRIBLE CRIME OF TRESPASSING Pack Is Packed Off to Police I 1 Station by Fearful Americans FILE COMPLAINT Say Watcher V Slept SIet Ate and andt v t Camped on Doorstep Without Without Without With With- out Permission J Alarmed at tho tiu failure of ot th their lr at attemptS attempts at- at tempts at registering anything am antI everything that tho they thoy have been colonizing colo cob In the dens lens of or Commercial the Americans Amen Ameri- and other cans Wednesday caused the arrest o of Gerald F. F Pack one of ot the Uw camera I i brigade Earl W. W Ripley fi rL tool o otho of the tho American party part was WaR u used e 1 to C carry UTY carryout carryout out out tho the arrest and In Induced his alto to swear out a. a complaint against Pack Pack charging chargin trespass 5 on the ley l premises at South Second 1 West West rest street Ills ibis arrest was not considered considered con con- serious seriously oven even at police headquarters headquarters headquarters head head- quarters for tOt his ball bail was vas fixed 1 at the small amount of or 10 which was at once furnished fui and Pack released Pack was s one of the watchers of ot the Republican county committee In district 26 26 6 and had with him hint u II camera cam earn era At the time of his hili arrest he ho of the Rip Rip- was WaR sitting sitting- on the steps Ie home and at no time did ho receive re- re an any notification that hl his presence pre pres ence nce there was undesirable le Ills His first Intimation was when approached bYan by bya byan a an n officer and informed that Mrs rs lIce Alice Ripley Hiple had s out a n. warrant for 0 his hie arrest The Tho American p party organization had made ext extensive arrangement for tor colonisation and to offset the these tho tim thoi i T n n n Committee ommIttee sent watchers I to in i many man man- of oC tho the districts district some sonic or ot them armed with cameras that tbt proof I of of the tho registration of tho tile vaga a fI and ana other undesirables whom the Arnera Amer- Amer a 1 Iran committee were ere resurrecting j might bo ho had This had haa Its effect and alarmed those who v. v tre re trying to lo to get et around tho the law Jaw I I the Tool Kail Ripley was one of ot these and he was as particularly Indignant that hat I pictures be taken of or American i party part workers worker dragging ln the scum oCr of oC r I the city to the re registration booths So enraged was lie he that ho dragged his hl his Into the matter and taking her to tho the police headquarters tho the complaint was sworn to The cha charge charte e of f trespass Is a n. much more serious thing than the average citizen knows Ordinarily one ono would think that to trespass meant merely the minor J possibly unintentional offense of of- tense of or walking over a a. portion of oC tho the f earth uth owned mod by hy some person hostile I to io Intrusion It does mean this but It also means a n lot more from a le legal 1 standpoint In the tho case caso of F. F Pack I to the complaint he Is charged with doing about everything on the premises es of the 8 except bathing doing the family w washing or manicuring his feet on the front veranda veran He Is supposed to have o ate camped and strolled about bout the place as would the tho lord of ot the I manor and th there rc Is nothing to show that h ho c ever overpaid r the rent so presumably abl ably he was trespassing It will however however how how- ever come as M something of a shock hO 1 to him to l learn arn that he did thid so BO man many i things there and being a modest mode t man I he would prefer that his private life In In Iii little matters mattere such as his sleeping sleep sleep- in lug ing eating camping etc etc be left rather rother to the Imagination of oC his frien friends fJ than brought Into the glare of oC public scrutiny b by means of an unfeeling legal document but such Is the fate fato of DC reformers Pack was doi do- do i his hlA duty as aH a good citizen clUzen taking photo photographs of those patriots who want to bo ho among the elect when the day to cast votes volos rolls roll around so taht in case some of them were carried away b by enthusiasm and other sentiments senti senti- ments and feelings they wouldn't forget for for- get ct et that thc they had registered without having ing the right to do elo so so and anel PO so get Kat Into jail for or oUn voting without the tho right to do j so o. o Xo No Objections to Packs Pack's efforts were partially eclipsed by tho the untimely arrest aIrest at atthe I tho the behest of ot Ripley all o-Jl because ho did lid all these things on the tho front porch Of or course courso there wasn't the tho sll slightest objection to hl his taking all aU the photographs photographs photo photo- graphs he wanted to to but tho the thought that there was a man mati walking sleep sleep- leepIn I In Ing eating and anel camping on the front porch In short so enra enraged en- en ra raged lagod d Mr Ir and Mrs I Ripley taht nothIng nothIng nothing noth- noth Ing hon r-hon of dragging th the trespasser h before ore the police court would tho the from froni his mussed up t temper em per Trespass Is a thing The arrest of Ripley had no effect ct on nn fl tho the Republican watchers They proceeded with their work and am will be at it again on the tho coming regis regis- I ration days October days October 12 U 27 and 2 28 The They will collect all the evidence of Illegal registration they can and in ever every case caRe prosecution will follow an 1 Many photo photographs have ha been taken and the evidence at hand liand Is already In In the hands of the o There Thero Is sufficient to show how that If lC prompt measures had not nol been taken Inken such men as Ripley who Is city Jailer jaBer and others would have re registered all aU the tho criminal element and a in lit the city over O whom they havo have complete con con- It I Is In furtherance of this plan that tho the police pollee have made no arrests for tor vagrancy l rancy for some omo Unto time back Packs Pack's case caso will como come up Ut In the 9 court this afternoon at 2 o'clock when whoa he will have ha counsel ready The Tho matter of Illegal i registrations Is fg one of the mo most t difficult problems with which the Republican count county committee has hns to deal Th Tho American cSt city administration nas at Its IUs beck and call the tho entire police and fire lire de do- and In the these e there aro are many such men as city Jailer jaUer I completely In touch with the criminal crimi crimi- nal element and there Is Js no doubt that colonizing ha has been going on for weeks The committee has bias decided to prosecute In all cases and will spare no effort to secure evidence |
