THE DETROIT FREE PRESS

Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.

7 January 1923

(page 7)

SEVEN ART PUPILS FREED BY POLICE.

“Policeman Overzealous,”

is Inspector’s Charge.

“Overzealousness on the part of the policeman on the beat” was given by Police Inspector John MacLellan Saturday as the reason for the raid on the Chalet d’ Art school, 135 Jefferson avenue, when seven young men, students of the school, were arrested at 5 o’clock Saturday morning. The seven students were released by Inspector MacLellan at noon Saturday. The officer, it appears, thought the students were making too much noise.

“We have nothing on these young men and have therefore released them,” the inspector said.

Mrs. Mazie Mitchell Ryerson, who recently filed a suit for divorce against Albert W. Ryerson, leader of the O.T.O., is one of the models who posed at the school, and posed Thursday night, one of the seven youths taken in the raid told the police.