The Topeka state journal., 1897-09-27
SPOTTERS ARRESTED.
Two Men Claiming to Be En-
plOyed by the Committee of IL.
Are Arranged on a Charge of
Highway Robbery.
a Danville Travelling Man Thinks
They Took His Diamond and
$3.50 in Money.

c. L. Lockwood and J. c. Dunlap were
arrested at the Fifth Avenue hotel last
night charged with highway robbery.
Charles Shirley is a travelling man and
lives in Danville, ILL.,, and travels for
tobacco house in Hannibal, Mo. Shirley
came up to Topeka Saturday to see the
Fall Festival and in the evening" as his
time was hanging heavy on his hands, he
dropped into joint on the east side of
Kansas avenue between Fifth and Sixth
and proceeded to enjoy himself. Two
young men stepped up to him and made
some remark about his being alone. The
two men invited him to drink with them
and after they had set up the beer sew
eral times Shirley thought it about his
time to furnish the liquor and he ordered
the drinks, and when he paid for them he
drew a large roll of bills from the inside
breast pocket of his vest A few more
drinks were taken and the two strangers
asked Shirley if he was looking for fun
and when he replied he they invited
him to go out and taken in the town
with them. hack was hired and the
trio started south on Kansas avenue and
by this time they were pretty well intoxi-
Gated. The hack stopped in a dark street
somewhere between Kansas avenue and
the fair grounds and one of the men said
to Shirley, This is the house, Shirley
stepped out and just he set foot on
the sidewalk of the men whirled him
suddenly around and snatched the roll of
bills, amounting to S16O, that in his
pocket, and also took his diamond stud,
valued at $75, and then started to run.
One went east and the other went west,
and the hack was too far away and GO
ing too fast for Shirley to catch it.
Shirley was the worse for the beer he
had taken and could hardly walk, but he
managed to make his way back to the
National and early Sunday morning he
swore out a warrant for their arrest.
Shirley and officer visited the joint
where the three had met, and by giving
a very good description the barkeeper
was able to give the names and to in
form the officers that the men were
stopping at the Fifth Avenue hotel
Detectives Capron, Davis and Jones
went to the hotel and the clerk inform
ed them that the parties were out. The
officers waited for them and when Lock
wood and Dunlap returned they caught
sight of the officers and attempted to
give them the slip. They went into the
dining room by the side door and ate their
supper and left by the same door about 8
o'clock and turned west on Fifth street
and were half way to Kansas avenue be- !
fore the officers suspected that they were !
the men. The officers gave chase and
caught them in the alley behind the ST. |
N1chOlaS MOTEL
They were taken to the county jail and |
locked up on the charge of highway rob- |
berry. At the jail they told Sheriff KEEP |
ley that they were detectives from the |
Thiel detective agency of Kansas City !
and that they were employed by the !
Committee of Seventeen to obtain evil |
dence against the jointists- On being |
searched they were both found to be heav- |
lily armed and they had list of about |
ten different joints, the names of the bar |
tenders and the names of the proprietors |
and the names of persons that they could /
call upon as witnesses, the dates on |
which the liquor was bought and how |
much In the same book were the names |
of railroad conductors who had carried !
them against the rules of the company. |
They were asked If they could furnish |
bond and they said the following men
would go their bond: Matt Campbell.
Frank Foster and Harry Larimer. Bond |
was not furnished.
Chief Steele has the description of three
men wanted in Kansas City for the MUIR
der of a policeman, and Lockwood and
Dunlap seem to answer the description OF
two of the men, but the third one has not
been seen.
A search warrant will be gotten out
and the room that the two men occu-
pied at the hotel will be searched Shir-
lev has not as yet found his SIS diamond
stud nor his $3.50 in money.