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Harriet Smith and Her Daughter Charged With Policv Selling Harriet Smith, who has often been before the court on the charge of selling policy, and who was pardoned after being sentenced to state's prison, was again arrested last night, together with her daughter, Susan Kinsey, on the charge of selling policy.
Judge Vroom sentenced policy writers Walter Garwood, Harriett Smith, William Parker and Washington Ketline despite Harry S. Scovel's plea for leniency, and refused Joseph Swing of 509 Taylor Avenue and John Cochran as Ketline's bondsmen.
Judge Vroom of the Quarter Sessions Court gave policy sellers the full penalty of the law on May 24, 1895, sentencing Mrs. Harriet Smith of 750 Federal Street to one year in the penitentiary despite Lawyer Harry Scovel's appeal for clemency.
A twelve-year-old boy, Terrance Miles, arrested for vagrancy, gave the Mayor information on the policy-writing operation of 'Policy Bill' Smith.
At Mayor Pratt's direction, Chief of Police Franks had officers raid the policy shop of William 'Policy Bill' Smith at 14 South Eighth Street.