The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1895-12-12

many amendments the one who at first
urged the motion lost interest and the
resolution was defeated.
committee was appointed to draw up
resolutions. 1t consisted of a man from
each lodge, as follows: J. s Ensminger,
lodge No. 244: 5. c. Miller, lodge No
331; A. G. Seller, lodge No. 260; 7. A.
Beck, lodge No 8; II. E. Fletcher, lodge
No. 299; Ii. W. Davis. lodge No. II; Chas.
M. Brown, lodge No. 1888; B. A Wilson,
lodge No. 20
The resolutions were proposed and
unanimously adopted. They we're:
The mem bers of the Ancient Order Of
United Workmen of the city of Topeka,
in mass convention assembled, having
heard of the Infamous crime and outrage
that was committed on the bodies of the
wives of our brothers, A. N Dake and
Pat Lillis, and desiring in some way to
express our condemnation and censure,
hereby resolve,
First That in the preparation of
these outrages this community has been
shocked by crime more dastardly dis
graceful and revolving than any that has
| been committed within it for many a long
year.
| Second-That we, as members of the
! A o. L. W. of the city of Topeka, in
mass meeting assembled, do express our
severest censure and condemnation of
this outrage, and we demand that the
authorities bring to speedy punishment
the inhuman tiends who have been guilty
of this outrage, and the severest penalty
be meted out to them; and further
Resolved, That we as Workmen render
the authorities all the aid and assistance
necessary in ferreting out these crimin-
ais and bringing them to justice, and
that we will hold to a strict accountable
! ity our county officers who are entrusted
with the enforcement of the law; and
further
Resolved, That it is the sense of this
body that all persons implicated in this
heinous outrage be brought to punish
ment no matter whether he be president
of this charnel house, or member of tho
faculty, or student, as well as the janitor
thereof. Further be it
Resolved, That the disgusting efforts
of the faculty in trying to shove this
crime to the shoulders Of the employees is
cowardly, and in their attempt to hide
and cover up the clues leading to the de-
lection of the guilty parties, make them
selves equally guilty with the principal
perpetrator of this outrage and should
| be punished as accessories to the crime.
| Further be it
| Rssoved, That we, as Workmen. will
never EN- plov the services of any physi-
clan who is connected and associated in
any way with this institution, unless this
charge is cleared up to our entire salts
faction. Further be it
! Resolved, That we sympathize and
! condole with our brothers, al Dake and
| Pat Lillis, in this, their hour of bsreave-
ment, and extend to them the consola-
ton of honest hearts of fellow Work
men.
Several doctors connected with the
medical college are Workmen. There
has been talk of having them called to
| account by their lodges.
| As soon as the meeting was over and
| the men went home the news was tele-
| phoned to the college, and the police
| men on watch forgot the little anxiety
| they felt and began to get hungry. They
passed most of the night there on guard
telling stories.
The crowd which had been in front of
the lodge room now found an object of
torture in City Physician Mitchell, who
drove up in his carriage with DR.. Wilson
of Nortonville, in front of the city build
ing. The crowd surrounded him and
cursed and jostled him.
In the fore part of the evening "Big
! George" Reedy of North Topeka had
made himself conspicuous by announc-
irg, "I'Il take you to the man who does
these things 1t amt anyone else
but Doc Mitchell. Last Sunday night he
offered Scotty Carr So to haul a corpse
from the cemetery. Scotty borried my
| spring wagon and we hitched up the
| team but we met Doc Mitchell on Tay-
lor street in North Topeka and he told US
some one else had gone out. He threw
Scottv u dollar and said that would pay
him for the trouble of hitching up, and
we came on back"
The crowd gathered around DR..
Mitchell and cursed and yelled, while be
tried to argue it with them A telephone
message to the police station brought
| Sergeant Donovan with three patrolmen
| and relieved the doctor, from his un-
| pleasant situation. DR.. Mitchell said the
! story was simply lie.
That the medical fraternity is pretty
| thoroughly scared is evident by state
ments which they make.
| Dr. Wilson of Nortonville gives a lee
ture at the college every Wednesday, and
he was at the police station last night
with DR.. Mitchell just before they were
| surrounded by the crowd on Kansas ave-
nue..
This is all foolishness," said the Nor
tonville doctor to John Haisch. ''People
get SO excited. Now, that body there to-
night could not have been Mrs. Lillis, for
two of my students told me today that it
had been there three weeks. SO you see
it could not have been She"
County Attorney Harry Stafford will
take the trouble to ask DR.. Wilson who
these two students are who knew all
about the body when the trials come off.
| Wilson also said that "Those people
out there tonight thought there were
| other keys TO the dissecting room but
there are not. Johnson has the only one.
! When I wanted to get a skeleton out to
use in my lecture l had to go to him to
| get the key"
There are doubtless other empty
| graves in the cemeteries around Topeka,
although there are no more bodies, ap-
parently, at the college. Possibly the
skeletons of those stolen before this
fall are now adorning the rooms of some
of the students.
1t was said yesterday that Mr. Of1eld