Friday, November 22, 1968
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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Mrs. Harrison bound over,1 count
Mrs. Leonard Harrison, assistant instructor of history and wife of the director of Lawrence's Ballard Community Center, was discharged on one of two counts of felonious assault in a preliminary hearing before Probate Judge Charles Rankin yesterday.
Mrs. Harrison was bound over for trial on the other count before District Judge Frank Gray in the February session of District Court.
Rankin ruled sufficient evidence for a trial on one count but discharged Mrs. Harrison on the second count of assault.
She was arrested Oct. 29 after allegedly assaulting a Douglas County undersheriff and a Wichita police detective when they attempted to conduct a search of the Harrison home.
The same day, her husband Leonard Harrison was arrested in Lawrence and taken to Wichita where he was one of nine charged on seven felony counts.
Chester Lewis, Wichita attorney and lawyer for both Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, tried to prove from the following testimony that Mrs. Harrison was acting within her rights to resist illegal arrest.
Both Douglas County Undersheriff Wayne Schmille and Wichita police detective Gerald E. Skelton testified they took a search warrant to the Harrison home.
They were authorized to search for articles of evidence for the case against Leonard Harrison. The officers said they had a warrant for Harrison's arrest at that time.
Both Skelton and Schmille said Skelton stopped Mrs. Harrison from using the phone during their search because they thought she would attempt to call her husband, who was the object of another search at that time.
Mrs. Harrison said she had not tried to call her husband, but that she was phoning W. S. Robinson, head of the department of history, to inform him that she would not be able to teach her class.
In separate testimony, Schmille and Skelton said they arrested Mrs. Harrison after she ran from the house while they were conducting their search. Both said she stabbed them with a ball-point pen when they tried to bring her back to the house. Skelton said Mrs. Harrison also bit his wrist.
Neither officer was certain whether Mrs. Harrison had been
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informed that she should not leave the house during the search.
After saying that she was not allowed to use the phone, Mrs. Harrison testified: "I said, 'Am I under arrest?' Somebody said 'no.'" She said she then walked out of the house. Mrs. Harrison said she "panicked" when the officers shouted at her.
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Mrs. Harrison said she met Schmille after she had circled a neighbor's house to return to her own home.
Schmille said that Mrs. Harrison then asked him if she would be arrested if she "did something to one of the officers." In her testimony, Mrs. Harrison emphatically denied asking this question.
Schmille testified that Mrs. Harrison asked him if the warrant called for her arrest. He said he told her it did not.
Schmille contended that Mrs. Harrison stabbed him with a pen after he answered her question saying he probably would arrest her.
Mrs. Harrison told the court
she did not remember the circumstances surrounding the alleged stabbing of the officer
Skelton said he joined Schmille in restraining Mrs. Harrison, who was struggling and screaming. Skelton, Schmille and Mrs. Harrison all said Skelton hit Mrs. Harrison with a large flashlight during the struggle.
Skelton said, however, he had not intended to use the five-cell flashlight as a weapon when he went to Schmille's assistance.
Mrs. Harrison said she was screaming because the officers were twisting her arms behind her back. She said the hand cuffs were too tight.
Mrs. Barbara Pearson, 1011 Kentucky, a neighbor of the Harrisons who witnessed the struggle, testified she overheard one of the men tell Mrs. Harrison, "Shut up, or I'll break it for you."
Lewis attempted to show that Mrs. Harrison's arrest was illegal because she had not committed a crime in the presence of the officers.
Harrison's struggle was rightful resistance to an illegal arrest because, at the time the officers tried to restrain her, Mrs. Harrison had not committed assault and had not been arrested.
Lewis contended that Mrs.
County Attorney Daniel Young said, however, that because of the nature of the warrants and the situation, the arrest was valid.
Lawrence attorney Fred Six assisted Lewis in the case.
Caracas meeting draws KU profs
Two KU biologists attended the Fourth Congress of South American Zoology in Caracas, Venezuela.
J. Knox Jones, Jr., professor of zoology and associate director of the KU Museum of Natural History, and John A.W. Kirsch, a National Science Foundation post-doctoral fellow, were among the more than 300 scientists at the meeting.
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