The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-27
BUY LOCKS NOW.
Senate POStOffice Robbed on the
Sabbath Day.
Thiarns Hara PaSSah the Over.
Thieves Have Passed the Over
coat and Hat Stage.
THINGS NOT NAILED
Carried Away Daily by Unde-
tected Pilferers.
Senators Lose Clothing, Hats,
Bottles, Combs and Brushes.

The stealing which has been a prom
snent feature of the senate sessions Gull
minated Sunday afternoon in rob-
berry of the senate postofice.
Six dollars in cash was stolen out of
the office from drawer, which is not
cash drawer. but simply a wooden
drawer without locks in a table.
Now that the office has been robbed, a
lock will be put on the drawer. This
has been neglected until the session is
about ended. Friday a cabinet with
locks and modern protective appliances
was ordered, but thieves raided the Of
fee yesterday.
Assistant Postmaster J. P. Easterly
of Eureka will be compelled to stand
the loss.
The experiences of the senators dur
ing this session with sneak thieves have
been nothing less than remarkable
There are four men who are paid SO per
day for guarding the cloak room. but
the thievfng is not stopped. There is an
army of men paid for doing nothing
around the senate-enough to person
ally guard every senator's oVevcOat, but
the stealing goes on.
1t is a disgrace to the state-this sys-
tematic pilfering-yet every man con-
nected as an employee, with the senate
disclaims any knowledge of it. That
there is a thief and a successful one
too, among some of the employees, is a
WHICH, IlOn0 Q6IlN. his Is proven
by the fact that all but employees are
kept out of the cloak rooms, and besides
every movement of a stranger is watch
ed from the moment he enters the SEN
ate until he leaves.
Following is a partial list of the ar
ticleS stolen:
From the postoffice, Sc in cash.
From Senator Fulton, a $40 oVercOat.
From Senator Lewelling, a hat and
gloves
From Senator thinner, gloves and
muff1er.
From Senator Hanna, a new hat.
From Senator Stone, hat and gloves.
From Senator Anderson, gloves and
muff1er.
Other senators have lost small ar
ticles, and not a day passes, but combs
and brushes are stolen from the lava
tory. Then too, towels are carried away
every day. In short, there is systemat-
&c stealing going on all the time, and
nothing is done to stop it.
The men charged with protecting the
property of the senate and senator's,
today thought they had accomplished
neat piece of detective work, and were
pompous in announcing that one thief
had been captured after stealing and
selling a typewriter to a Topeka agency.
heen IaGts we're that sh4 to fb 5
agency for repairs, and had not been
Cal Goodrich correspondent of the Kan
sas City Star, had valuable book on the
1tio - a uS t,jII ~; hnI1
was stolen.
The senators make an effort to keep files
of bills, journals and calendars. Tom An
derson had his completed and kept them
his desk. One of them was stolen.
Books, reports, pens, papers, knives and
pencils, in fact ali kinds of small articles
are stolen every. day. Some of the mem
berS now put their OVercOatS in their
chairs and have their clerks watch them.
Lieut.-Cfov. Richter has not been neg
1ected. The thieves have held him up for
combs and brushes, ink stand which
was a present, and some books parlia-
mentary law.
The thief or thieves as the case may be-
have some feeling for things temporal,
and have made free and easy with bottles
belonging to senators. Of these things,
however. no complaints have been made.
Senator Hanna has had two or three boxes
of cigars stolen, too. However. it is but
just to him to say that he lost bottles,
he does not carry one. No, he does not
have a jug either. The colored janitors,
only, have the jug.