The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-08-13

Appears and Pleads Not Guilty
session of KIauer. cases held last week
For the reason that he was in Dav-
export Iowa, at the time. Mr.. Klauer
became angry because Hawkshaw Bre-
nard had seen him at such a great dis
lance He then entered into the spirit
of the chase with a view of relieving
the strained condition of spotter life
Yea, they began to prepare a vacation
for Mr. Brenard. Mr. Otis Hungate.
chief attorney for the jointists. was
the whole show when It came to put
ting this scheme into execution He
ordered a transcript of Mr.. Brenard's
testimony. and wrote a long document
with lots of 'wrOngfullys, maliciOuslys
and Willfullys' with a plentiful sprink-
ling of whereas" Scattered around
among these eXtravagant legal fixtures
was a charge of perjury against one
John Brenard Now this is an interest
ing situation. II Mr.. Brenard is con-
victed, many of the oft-appealed liquor
cases VIII be cast out of the district
court without ceremony Notably
among them is the case against Nick
Chiles and his Mckinley" club, the
convictions being the direct result of
Mr. Brenards testimony. who swOre
that he inferred himself in a pile of
rubbish and watched the busy cOlOred
politician for about four hours by the
clock Everybody who says anything
about 1t says "SpOtter evidence must
gu'-but they don't all mean the same
way. The jOintist and his attorney say
it must go to-wel, anywhere but a
jury. Prosecuting Attorney Urmy and
Chief Stahl say il must go-as convinc-
ing and convicting evidence. They will
all know more about it when the dis
trict court gets through with Mr.. Bre-
nard.
Mr. George Dupree, fat, perspiring
and sad at heart, pleaded mot guilty.
and friend named Vance put up a
$500 bond for his temperance. The
friend was not A. H Vance. 1t is a
hardship for Mr.. Dupree to transport
mis- great bulk to the police court so
often He is thinking of building a
little private jail and police court in
connection with his joint to save so
much useless travel. When his sorrow
ful visage doomed up in the court room
-hizzOner" said reproachfully, George,
buggy yesterday would get you into
trouble
Miss Susan Brown was arrested in
the midst of Saturday night by officers
Smith and Hutton. They appeared
against her Monday afternoon. Susan
bitterly denied the charge that she was
not on the streets for legitimate pur-
poses as did her attorney, Mr.. Joe Reed,
who said Topeka had become so cor
rupt that it was against the ordinance
for people to live He said that it was
customary to fine a girl $40 for going to
a dance IN a .Wra pper- This, by the way,
was one of Urmy's long suits in prose-
cutting the woman He put much stress
on the fact that she wore a wrapper.
The horizon looked smoky for the Brown
woman until her legal defender made a
epread-eagle Grafton in which he told
OF the awful persecution OF the innocent
citizens Of the under world" by the
ponce The court was not moved to
tears. but he was moved to discharge
the defendant, not. however without
telling her that he believed the testi-
mony offered by the defense to be a fine
collection Of fish stories.
The meanest trick played on any one
Tor long time was the little joke of a
police official, who extracted some I'm
willing information from a woman who
called in behalf of her father whose
name is Dumford. who was staying out
a sentence for plain drunk She was
not allowed to take him home. She
started to tell the force what she
thought of them. taken as a whole and
said that her husband had seen three
policemen. stars and all. drinking beer
in a joint on Sixth street next to YES
per's bakery Here is where the official
scored He picked up a pencil and
pad, What is your husbands name %
ne asked pleasantly. The lady prompt
ly answered that it was Tom Wilbur.
Album Where did you say he lived ?"
The lady had forgotten just where.
when she saw what she was doing, but
when the officer insisted she remem-
bered that 1T was 124T Harrison street
"Ah-huml We viii call on your hus-
band for a witness. Maybe he can
point out the policemen to the chief
That's all Thanks" The giver of in
formation seemed to think she had
made a sad mistake