Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 17, Number 17, DeMotte, Jasper County, 21 March 1947 — INDICT COUPLE FOR HOLDING NEGRO WOMAN [ARTICLE]

INDICT COUPLE FOR HOLDING NEGRO WOMAN

Two Daughters Testify Against Moth- * er, Stepfather in Slavery Charge Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Wesley Ingalls, soeilite Massachusetts couple, were indicted today by a federal grand jury on charges of holding a Negro maid as a slave for 30 years. Federal Judge William C. MathOs signed the two-court indictment charging the Ingalls specifically with enticing the 90pound Negro woman, Dora L. JJones,, 57,' from Berkeley, Calif., to Coronado, Calif., Oct'll, with the intend of holding her as a slave, and knowingly aiding in causing Miss Jones to be held as a slave. Daughter Testifies. The indictment Was returned after a daughter of Mrs. Ingalls, Mrs. Ruth Castendyk of 3015 W. Walnut st., testified before the grand jury. I She told reporters that she Ugree/1 with her sister, Mrs. Richard Roberts, Berkeley, Calif., that .heir mother and stepfather had forced Miss Jones to work, as an .unpaid servant... The case was the [first in Cp 1 ifornia 15 since Civil War days. i lYears of Slavery Charged. Mrs. Roberts also has testified before the grand jury. Mrs. Castendyk, whose husband Frederick, is a leather chemist. . told reporters the ; Ingalls kept | Miss Jones in servitude for years | in Boston before moving to CalifI jornia a year ago. %