Mae Young arrested

[Guest Frank_Nabbit]

Reno Evening Gazette

Reno, Nevada

Friday, April 29, 1949

 

Lady Wrestler, Friend Back in Jail Again

 

Johnnie Mae Young, Oakland’s 28-year-old lady wrestler, was back in trouble with the law today.

 

So was her photographer-bar-maid-waitress companion, Mary Anice Huse, 22, late of Monrovia, Ala.

 

How they got there was a source of considerable confusion. But these facts emerged as definite:

 

The husky, cigar-smoking Miss Young and the slight brunette, Miss Huse were both in the city jail, charged with robbery.

 

Their alleged victim, identified as Elmer J. Nelson, 38, was treated at Washoe general hospital early this morning for multiple brusies and lacerations of the face and forehead. Mr. Nelson, who gave his home variously at North Platte, Neb., and San Francisco, was still a little groggy at noon today from the effects of the beating he had received.

 

Police said they still weren’t sure:

 

1. Who was involved in the attack.

2. Where it took place.

3. What precipitated it.

 

The district attorney’s office, after a brief talk with the well-bruised Mr. Nelson this morning, issued four robbery complaints against Jane Doe, Jean Doe, Richard Doe and John Doe.

 

Miss Young and Miss Huse were arrested on the Jane Doe and Jean Doe warrants. Gordon Thompson, duputy district attorney, said there “wasn’t much doubt that they were the women involved,” but that complaints bearing specific names wouldn’t be issued until positive identification could be made.

 

From the welter of contradictory statements surrounding the story, police drew this story today:

 

Mr. Nelson, who arrived in Reno for a visit only recently, dropped in at a Commercial row restaurant late Thursday night for a bite to eat.

 

While there, he engaged in conversation with the waitress, whom he later identified as Miss Huse.

 

Shortly after he had told her that he had “come into a sum of money through the sale of some property ,” he said, she told him she wanted him to meet “a very nice girl.”

 

It wasn’t but a matter of minutes, Mr. Nelson groggily told police, that Miss Young put in an appearance.

 

Then, he said, began a round of several local clubs. Police said they weren’t sure which establishments were involved, because Mr. Nelson “was pretty hazy in his descriptions.”

 

Mr. Nelson said he cashed travelers checks in the amount of $260 at three of the clubs, $160 of which he lost over various tables. In the meantime, he sadly related, he had bought “several” drinks for himself and Miss Young.

 

When he decided to hold onto the last $100, he continued, Miss Young took exception to his stand. So, Mr. Nelson averred, did the bartender at the place.

 

“The next thing I knew,” the victim told police, “these two guys were in an argument with me. Then they held me down on the floor and that girl (Miss Young) began kicking me in the face.”

 

Police said the “two guys” were still unidentified today.

 

When Mr. Nelson finally got back to his feet, he said, Miss Young and the two men were gone.

 

So was his $100.

 

He staggered out to the street, and was picked up by police, battered and bleeding, in front of a West Second st. hotel at about 3:45 a.m.

 

Miss Young allegedly admitted to officers she had been with Mr. Nelson during the night.

 

She also assertedly admitted there had “been a little trouble.”

 

And last, officers said, she hinted she might have “worked Mr. Nelson over” because he made certain “improper advances.”

 

Miss Young and Miss Huse, who gave their Reno address as 1247 West First st., were until this morning free on $4000 and $2500 bail respectively on a earlier robbery charge.

 

They were charged several months ago with beating Salvadore Manriquez of Sacramento, and dumping him from a car on the Pyramid lake road north of Sparks. Mr. Manriquez, who also reported his cash missing following the incident, almost died of exposure.

 

The district court trial in that case is set for May 17.

 

Not involving in the latest incident, according to police, was Eva McDevitt, blond Texas bar owner, who also faces robbery charges in the Manriquez case.

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[cawthon777 0]

BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[Guest wayzing]

Aaaaah. That explains the THUG 4 LiFE tatoo. I always thought it looked kinda old.

[Lil' Bitch 0]

Wow, that would make her 83 years old.

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

This should be classic already.

[Nevermortal 0]

This confirms my theory of Mae's lesbianism.

[Guest Jay Z. Hollywood]

Moolah's a lesbian too. There have long been rumors about her running trade on the girls at her wrestling school.

[Guest Your Olympic Hero]

Wow... I knew the WWE advertised her as being that old, but I always thought they were full of shit.