The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-09-06
COULDN'T FIND HIM
PROHIBS WANTED TO KNOW WHAT
HAD BECOME OF THE Law.


Nicholas Bird Raids the JungIe-Con
Now Only Constructively in Prison but
He Refuses to Desert His Captors-Hon-
est Prohibi,ionists are Becoming Dis
gusted and Express Themselves in Very
Plain English.
Tiger Bill is having his hands full
Of habeas corpus proceedings now and
in consequence he has but little time
TO attend to closing the joints that
every day are increasing in number.
Otto Eckstein and Kos Harris threw
brick-bat into the Topeka side of
Tiger Bills jungle and he sprang TO
that side and got out writ of habeas
corpus IN order to keep his chief OF
police out of jail.
And while Tiger Bill was in Topeka
yesterday trying to get Massey out of
the soup, Colonel Nicholas Bird went
before Judge Reed and procured writ
OF habeas corpus for Con Kelleher who
was arrested at the instigation of Tiger
Bill for violating the prohibitory law
and whom Colonel Nicholas Bird claims
is illegally imprisoned in the city jail.
down 10 the city building and served a
writ on Assistant Chief of Police Harry
sutton az eleven o'clock yesterday and
colonel Bird was there to demand that
his client be treated kindly
during all the time of this proceeding
Con kelliher was walking around po-
lice headquarters in his shirt sleeves
and seemed to be the most unconcerned
man in the building.
You are now only constructively in
prison, said Assistant Chief Sutton"
TO Con Kelliher, why don't you skip out
Con only replied that he was in the
hands of an officer and that he would
not betray confidence and take advan-
tage of the kindness shown to him.
The writ ordered the officers TO pro-
duce Kelliher in the district court at
a. m, on Saturday next and Harry
Sutton told Charley Burrows that they
would deliver the carcass of Con KEEL
liner promptly at that time.
The prohibs are greatly worried over
the case and they were hunting nigh
and low for Tiger Bill to find out what
it meant. He had made a public state
ment that he did not intend to go
to Topeka TO argue the Massey case
but he had disappeared and the prohibs
were alarmed and worried.
Tiger Bits daughter is his stenogra-
pher and the men who have sho, ldered
voluntarily the responsibility of enfor-
cling the law pestered the life almost
out of Tiger Bills stenographer trying
to find out what had become of him.
but she only replied that she was not
there to give away secrets of the Of
flee
This eXasperated the prohibs more
than ever and when the stenogra pher
n tajl Ind no
tiger was the prohibs verify believed
that Tiger Bill had retreated far into
his jungle or that he had betrayed the
faithful and sold out to the enemy.
Even the police commissioners were
hard to find and some Of the men who
had been prominent in getting the
reputable citizens who composed the
old board of police commissioners fired
and who still imagine that they are run
ming the machine talked right out in
meeting and declared that there were
any number of screws loose somewhere
One Of the most prominent of the
gang who has been politically dead
for several weeks but who does not
seem to be aware of that fact declared
that the assistant attorney general
and the police commissioners had for
gotten who made them and that they
needed to be reminded of that fact.
It is pitiable to behold the indigna-
ton and discontinue of some of the
law and order league leaders who are
just beginning TO find out that they
have been the plient tools Of a lot Of
unprincipaled politicians. Tiger Bill
and Dave Smythe used to run after
them, but now these same leaders are
compelled to get out a search warrant
for Tiger Bill and Smythe when they
want to see them for the purpose of
giving them some good and wholesome
advice. They are even compelled to
wait for an indefinite period in some
hot ante-room TO see these mOguls
whom they Vainly imagine they have
created
1t is not the least bit surprising that
the honest prohibitionists are disgust
ed with the whole proceeding. They
can see for themselves that new joints
are every day being opened and they
can also see drunken men staggering
along the streets every day who are
not arrested as formerly and they
know not what it means.
The political prohibitionists are will
ing to allow drunken men and boys 70
make a nuisance of themselves in the
streets and go unmolested so that they
may refer to the few arrests made for
under the rule of nrohi-
bition but that kind Of a proceeding
makes the honest prohibitioniSt who
wants prohibition for the purpose OF
weary and he speaks his mind in plain
terms. He denounces the
drunkenness exceedingly
thing as a fraud.
Tiger Bill and the commissioners see
this change Of sentiment among the
honest wing of their followers and that
is the reason they have their clackerS
on the street talking for a compromise
They want a hole out OF which TO
crawl while they are able TO crawl
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