The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1897-09-03
GUS WOULD NOT WORK
So the Policeman Said and the
Judge Fined Him.
John McCrOw'S Mother Gives Up
Hope for Her Son.
Other Police Court Items Gathered at
That Tribunal This Morning.

There was a hurrying of feet and
some confusion in police court this
morning and name was called by the
city prosecutor. In answer to it a man
over six feet in height, in his shirt
sleeves. walked into the court room and
started toward the outside door.
Hold on. there. mani" yelled Jailer
Dagg, and the tall man stopped and
faced the court. 1t was Gus Henson.
He stood before the bar OF Justice with
an Old black derby hat in one hand and
his coat thrown over his arm. His black
cotton shirt was open a the breast and
the sleeves were rolled up above the
mans elbows. When the eye had sur
Veyed this tall, slim form ana the vision
had extended to the top of his head
a peculiar physiognomy was revealed.
From the mans eyes to his chin he look
ed like ordinary mortal But his
forehead was not to be seem. The top
of his head had never grown high
enough. and probably this was the rea
son that there was a large round alkaH
spot on the top of the Uranium A mod
est growth of hair on either side of this
bald spot gave some appearance of Il
border.
Gus Henson twirled his hat uneasily
as he awaited the charge to be pro-
nOunced against him.
i suppose l am guilty of being
vagrant, said he, but 1 was trying to
1 was here and put in some coal on
Sixth avenue
PatrOlman Davis was sworn ana
said: 4 met this fellow a few days ago
and asked him what he was doing. He
said he was trying to get work. L took
him to a man named Ward, who wants
TO hire farm hands at $1.15 a day, but
he said he couldn't do that kind of
work Then man offered him job
on the bridge at $125 day and he
wouldn't take it. When I saw him he
must have had a bout an inch of whisky
in him
Then Chief Steele said: Il know this
fellow. He wouldn't work if he had
chance If he was made cashier OF the
First National bank he wouldn't handle
The money longer than to fill his pock-
cts"
The tall man had a sad. hopeless ex-
preston on his face and as these things
were said of him il didn't improve his
spirits. He attempted to talk several
times. but was usually headed off with
the quick response of an officer. When
asked if he wanted to make a state
lnent under oath he shook his head
slowly and sat down Judge AtchlSon
looked at the fiat, bald head and re
marked:
If 1 thought you We're just an unfor
tunate man you wouldn't be fined. |
don't think you would work if you had
a chance. 1 fine you So.
Gus Henson arose and dragged his
leg, which he said was crippled, out of
the court room and was locked up in
cell.
A man who will tell bare falsehood
an court before d pOlACt JuOSC - JAY
who is lacking in tact. John McCrow
told Judge AtchisOn yesterday that
when he was found "a Fourteenth and
Kansas avenue Wednesday night at
midnight lying in the street he was
sick and that he had not drank a drop
of anything Today in police court it
was proven that he had drank hard
cider at n place on lower jackson street
and that he was intoxicated before
that When confronted with this state
ment OF facts McCrow denied having
made the statement yesterday, but
Judge Atchison remembered it and fined
him $50. McCrow's mother was in
court and said on the stand: If l have
to tell the truth, as true as God IS IN
heaven John can't leave liquor alone
drunk. 1 won't pay out another cent
for him.
McCrow was let out of the city jail
"Wednesday noon and by night was
back again This time he will have to
stay in over Fail Festival week, and
this will be bitter pill to swallow.
Jacob Parker, a Hebrew who was ar
rested on a charge of Vagrancy. told q
straight story to Judge Atchison and he
was discharged. He came here from
Chicago expecting to get work He still
had some money, but his clothes We're
abby and he was arrested He had
been in America about five years he
came through Oskaloosa to Topeka and
an orphan boy named Noah Fr1Snan,
aged II years, followed him. The boy
is being held as a runaway and Will be
sent back to his guardian.