Elkhart (IN) Truth, September 26, 1919, p. 7. NOTE: According to information noted at www.Indianadigitalarchives.org, Warren Wallace Smith was committed to the Department of Corrections, Prison North, in 1919 following his conviction in Wayne County, Indiana. ENJOINS AUTHORITIES TO PREVENT OPERATION Prison Surgeon and Trustees Made Defendants in Peculiar Case at State Reformatory Jeffersonville, Indiana, September 26-Warren Wallace Smith, an inmate of the Indiana Reformatory at Jeffersonville, has filed suit in the circuit court by Lincoln E. Lankford, his next friend, against Charles F. Williams, chief physician at the institution, and the members of the board of trustees including Joseph H. Ennings, Alvin Padgett, John H. Weathers and Thomas A. Dailey, seeking to enjoin them from carrying out a surgical operation on the plaintiff. The operation is known as vasectomy and is designed to prevent procreation, the complaint says. The prison authorities had proceeded under a law designed to avert birth of subnormals.