The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-13

| ~I a complaint yes
terday eve in which
II. she made it plain
to the court that
on the Sabbath
Dageant had wrongfully. feloniously.
etc, came to her yard in" and smashed
her son Lawrence DONNIE in the back,
also IN the yard of his parents. Mrs.
Joe Haffner,a daughter of the complain
ing witness, who could 'sprechen United
States as she is spoke" sat by the back
ground in and Strenuously coached the
younger members of the family while
they cheerfully testified about $500
worth to the detriment of John Dageant,
pronounced "Day-'gone," equivalent
to twilight" in good United States.
1t was evident that the entire Domino
family had been carefully posted prior
to the trial, and the elder sister was not
interrupted by the court when she told
the kids what to say. They answered
promptly as to the time of the assault.
They had all made note of it by means
of a stop watch and knew that John
he come by the ya'd and hitted Law'nce
two time" ''Lawnce" said that "he
call me bad name and things and spiked
Englis." During the jambOree a young
Russian woman who has been away
from the land of the double buzzard
but short time was introduced as evil
denee; She could speak English
'nichl' so the prosecuting attorney,
the defense, Attorney Slater, and Mrs
Haffner took turns at asking her foolish
questions in as many brands of poor
the yard on Sunday, but couldn't re-
member what Sunday it was, probably
or numbers back. The defense put
great and eloquent stress on this pro-
position, claiming that the affair was
so ancient that it had a. bad odor, and
the prosecuting witnesses had resurrect-
ed it to get even with Dageant for Sc
curing the conviction of Mr. Haffner in
an assault and battery case Monday.
By the time the prosecution had closed,
and everybody had choked black in the
ffa on Oh chA rir7cr .f0h dc
the court seemed to think he was Ger
man scholar of the first water, and at
tempted to interrogate the late arrived
witness in the mother language. He
had very Indifferent success. Mr.
Dageant his sister and cousin swore to
various things John that he had risen
from his slumber at 2 O'Clock in the af-
ternoon, and could not have been en-
gagged in shifting the youth at the stated
time His sister cOuntered by a state
ment that John had risen. but had not
escaped from her sight during the day.
After a burst of eloquence from both
attorneys, who yelled vigorously and
pounded likewise on the desk of the
court the net results were that
Dageant was ''mulched' to the extent
of $500, and the witnesses were made
miserable by finding that no witness
fees would be allowed in the case. They
all went home to patch up another COM
plant. The police court would do well
to follow the example of the city court,
who has blacklisted a lot of the Russians
their many requests for complaints.
George Gaydon, who was arrested for
violating the city stink ordinance by
feeding dead horse to his dogs, came
around to stand for it but the prosecu-
ton reluctantly admitted that he had
failed to secure the necessary witnesses,
and would therefore have to put off the
case until the morrow.
Mr.. John Sims was the name of col
ored citizen of the North side who was
called to show why he should be caught
wearing a small drunk and a large,
ancient muzzle-loading musket. Mr..
Sims explained. He was troubled with
thoughts of possible visits from the
escaped convicts, and had, upon the re-
ceipt of a small amount of cash. re-
moved his relic of the civil war from
downtown hook shop. and was returning
home, only stopping to drink a couple
of bottles of beer. Here is where De-
tective'' Urmy scored. Both he and the
court asked the victim where he got his
beer II bought it from Policeman Nc
Donald's son, Ed, in the back yard of
Ben Jordan's." The court proceeded to
jot down a lot more information squeezed
from the witness, and fined him $500.
This is a bad habit of the court. While
following the trail of plain and I'M
embellished drunk, he is prone to fly
the track upon crossing the trail of an
unluclxy jOintiSt. 1t has been limited for
some time that the colored coppers son
was in the tabooed business, but this
is the first direct testimony bearing on
the case. Mr.. Sims also gave the names
of several other parties whom he had
seen buying bottled goods from young
Mcdonald and all the fathers official
prestige will be needed to keep the bril-
liant youth from acting as defendant in
the usual booze case.
officer Ed Pavey was fooling with a
revolver last night, wanted to see how
it worked. 1t worked to perfection, as
q floor TESTIFY
plugged the hole with a cork, but some
of the other officers had to tell it on him.
Thursdays Gold Export.