The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1894-07-26
LIKE new YORK.
How the Joint Keepers Of To
peka Pay for Protection.
Chief of Police Lindsey and
Captain Gish Involved.
They Bse6d Beer Club Room
Keeper Repeatedly,
so IT is STATED
In a Remarkable Affidavit Filed
in Court Today
A Disgraceful State Of Affairs
The Populist Police Board is
vitality Concerned.
DEMANDS OF REMOVAL
Made by County Attorney SAT-
ford Against
The Chief of Police and the
Police Captain
DEMANDS OF REMOVAL
Made by County Attorney SAT-
ford Against
The Chief of Police and the
Police Captain

Quo warranto proceedings were com
mencec IN the district court this after
noon to remove Chief of Police Henry
G. Lindsey and Police Captain Peter N.
Gish from Office.
The charges against them are highly
sensational and include extortion from
the criminal element for protection"
and also for levying money on the liquor
joints for the Populisr campaign fund.
The charges are brought by County
Attorney III. c. Stafford, in the name Of the
state, but the complaining witness is joint
ist John II. McWilliams, who says he was
"bled to death" McWilliams, while
willing to put up for protection. and the
campaign fund, and incidentally provide
free beer to the police force, objects to
being robbed, and has turned states evi-
dence.
1t is said that other joint;sts are will
ing and ready to make affid4vits similar
to McWilliams.
In the petition which was fled in the
district court today, County Attorney
Stafford says that Lindsey and Gish have
refused TO close tho joints or provide
him with Information which would lead
to their being closed He charges them
with receiving money from the jointists
for protection and in conclusion the Pc
tition says:
Wherefore. the said county attorney
OF Shawnee county, on behalf of and
in the name of the state of
Kansas. prays Judgment that the
aforesaid Henry c. Lindsey and Peter
n. Gish by reason of aforesaid acts, re-
fusai and misconduct in office, may be
adjudged and declared to have for
feited their offices as police officers in
the city Of Topeka, and that they be
ousted and removed therefrom.
fSigned) III. &. SAFFoRD"
These accusations against the present
Metropolitan police force are a substan-
tiation of what has long been currently
suspected of it That money from the
joints for protection and campaign pur-
poses has been collected has been mat
ter of general suspicion for many months,
but the work of the police officers in this
line has been "fne" enough to render
proof of these charges from outside
sources next to impossible.
1t is not unfair to presume that Nc
Williams ease is only one Of many In
proportion to its size the police depart
ment of Topeka appears to be as rotten
and corrupt as that of New FORK City
and it should undergo the same minute
investigation.
The police commissioners two Of whom
are Populists and one a Democrat, have
claimed right along to have the utmost
confidence in their subordinates and es-
pecially in Hank Lindsey and Peter Gish
If they have been sincere an expIana-
rion OF how they have been 50
completely duped would be appreciated
by the public. It is stated on good
authority that this sensational charge is
only the first BARREL and that second
barrel" can be fred if it is necessary.
The defendants are given twenty days,
or until August 18th, in which to demur
to the charge against them
rQ -ySn affidavit of McWiIIiams. as
fleE&n fthe Office of the clerk of the dis
trict court, ie one of tho raciest and most
sensational documents ever fled in this
court and reads a. follows, the sub head
iigs only being inserted BY the STATE
JoURNALs
A verieabIs stunner.
STATE OF KANSAS,
SHAWNEE COUNTY.
John H. McWilianss, being first duly
sworn according to law, on oath deposea
and says:
Nv name is John II. McWilliams. I
am % years Of age and I was raiseN in
Wabaunsee county My people are now
living in Pontiac, Illinois On the 23rd
day Of August, 1898, I began working ID
the boiler shops of the Santa Fe and
worked there until the second lay of in
May, 1894
About the 10Th day Of May a brewery
agent and I met He suggested to me
To 10 into the club business
After 4 had decided TO 20 into the club
business went 10 see the agent who