ZIONCHECK’S CAREER

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 144, 3 June 1936, Page 8

ZIONCHECK’S CAREER

Lunacy Warrant Now Pending VISIT TO PRESIDENT By Telegraph—Press Assn.—Copyright WASHINGTON, June 1, Representative Maroon Zioneheck’s erratic career was at least temporarily halted to-day when tho police medical authority sworo out a lunacy warrant against him and ho was confined to the municipal hospital for observation. Since tho fracas with his landlady, Sirs Young, he has been in continual trouble. He was arrested, and later released, on a disorderly-conduct charge. He smashed his automobile in a traffic accident, threatened to blow up tho hotel where he thought his wife was hiding from him, and finally called at White House to ask President Roosevelt to assist in the search for her. Zioncheck was turned away from the executive offices but left a bag of empty beer bottles as a ‘‘gift” for tho President. Shortly after this the police instituted the lunacy action.

It was Zioneheck’s actions that recently aroused the question of the right of members of Congress to immunity from arrest. Police were four times called to the Congressman's apartment, where, apparently, a hilarious party was in progress during the evening. The owuer of the apartment, Mrs Young, attempted to evict the Congressman and his bride of a few weeks. Mrs Young later reported to the police that Mr Zioncheck violently threw her from the apartment, breaking her hip. During recent weeks Mr Zioncheck had been the subject of newspaper publicity almost daily. He has been detained at least a dozen times for speeding in an automobile and at such times invariably bragged of the amount of intoxicants he had been consuming. Iu hospital, Mrs Young declared that the police refused to arrest him because he was a Congressman.