The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-06-20
Twenty-four of Sanders Band
Brought Here,
Where They Will Stay Behind
Bars for 80 Days.
THEY'RE VERY BAD.
Marshal Neely Calls Them All
ScOundrels,
Scamps and Va@abonds of the
Worst Stamp.

Twenty-four ragged and hungry Cox
eyites arrived in Topeka on the Santa Fe
plug last evening in charge of six guards,
to spend thirty days in the Shawnee
county Jail
They are the Cripple Creek common
wealers who have benin Leavenworth
for more than month. They were fined
$50 each by Judge Thomas of the fed
eral court.
When the train pulled into the Santa
Fe depot there was an Interested but
small group of spectators there. There
was no demonstration, however, and the
men were marched out Fourth street to
Jackson, and south on jackson TO the
Jail They had their bundles with them,
consisting chiefly of old clothes, camp
utensils and tent canvas.
The coIored prisoners, six in mum ber,
who have occupied the upper two large
corridors, were transferred to other cells
up stairs and the Coxeyites were locked
up. They were given a supper of bread,
meat and vegetables, after which the
men removed about 70 per cent of their
clothing and turned in" sleeping in
hammOcks-
Today is wash day at the county Jail
and it devolves upon the prisoners not
only to bAthe but perform their weekly
clothes washing
The old tradition about tramps and
Coxeyites dreading water was exploded
for once, for the mon bathed with will;
and from what the repo rter saw there
are lots of men around town that need
the cleansing process much worse.
The county jail is dark and hot. When
a person first enters it requires several
seconds to become accustomed enough
to the darkness to see at all Gas jets
are kept burning outside the cells
The men will not be compelled to
break rock like other prisoners. Federal
prisoners don't have to work. They are
simply committed until their fines are
paid. OF course none of them have $50
bills to give TO Uncle Sam so they will
have to stay it out.
At the end Of thirty days the men can,
by going through considerable red tape,
under the pauper criminal law (sec. 1912,
r. 5. L. s. be released To do this they
must apply to Commissioner E. A. Wag-
ener, notify District Attorney Perry,
and must undergo a personal ex-
2 animation regarding their financial
condition. Then they must make an aft
davit that their real and personal prop
erty does not exceed in value $50, and
after all this is done maybe they will be
released.
The Coxeyites are quiet and orderly
and disposed to make the most OF their
confinement They say it is only what
they expected and vlen they get out
they will keep right on going towards
the District of Columbia.
Their Trip TO Topeka.
The passage from Holiday to Topeka
appears to have been decidedly stormy
one. At the Holiday station where the
men made a change of cars there were
fears that a break would be made for
liberty, but the men were kept so closely
packed together with the guards on all
sides that it was not attempted.
just after the train pulled out of Cedar
Junction an organized break was made
for liberty that was nothing short of
mutiny. At a signal the men sitting
next to the windows tried to jump out
Deputy Marshal James Gray, who was
in charge of the car, threatened to shoot,
and they all stopped except one. He
was big man wei ighing 1875 pounds, the
fattest one in the lot He was half way
out of the car aud concluded that he
might as well keep going. The train
was going about twenty-five miles an
hour. Mr.. Fatman alighted on all fours
and was on the ground only for mo-
ment when he was up and off.
Guard Mike Mcdonald was standing
He jumped of and gave chase.
The last heard of the pair
they were running over the hills, with
Mcdonald only about 100 yards behind.
He was firing his revolver, and there are
Tumors that the escaped Coxeyite was
wounded.
Marshal Neely was seen by JOURNAL
reporter today, and he was disposed to
give Mcdonald credit for being a very
nervy officer. Although only about 20
years of age. he wounded one Coxeyite
at LeavenwOrth who tried to escape
These men are all scoundrels,'' Mr..
Nicely says "Thsy are scamps and vag-
aoonds of the worst stamp. They have
the appearance of being very mild, but
in my two months experience with them
have found them to be rogues
almost to a man. There is no treach-
cry beneath them If they ever get to
Washington they are liable to make a
great deal of trouble" Marshal Neely
said also that he expected General San
ders to skip his bond, and that unless
Sanders came into court by next Mon
day he would hold c. B. Hamilton. of
Topeka, responsible for the $500 bond
The sum of 800 has been collected of
Warden Dick Chase, the amount of his
security on the bond of LlewelIyn, the
engineer of the camp
The fines and place of Imprisonment
OF the I26 COxeyites who remained to be
sentenced, are:
Thirteen were fined $25 each and com
mltted to the Douglas county Jail at
lawrence Six of the officers were fined
$oO each and committed to the Sedgwick
county jail at Wichita. Forty were fined
$SV each and committed to Leavenworth
county Jail Thirty-two were fined $50
~ach and committed to the Wyandotte