The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-11-12

John Hightower and David Smith
were charged with assault and battery,
but pleaded not guilty and will secure
the services of an attorney
All drug store cases have been re-
arranged once more. The several attor-
neys who engineer the cases are play
ing for position but the court says they
will be tried in the order of the arrests.
AS the first three, Hatch, Gunther and
King were all arrested at the same
The other trio, Young, Lake and Sim,
seem to be trying to get in ahead of the
first outfit. Since Probate Judge Pagan
announced that the permits of all six
would be suspended between the dates
of a conviction in police court and the
outcome of the final show down in the
district court. all the victims seem to
be DESTROYS of shortening this space as
much as possible.
Lou Maybee and George Buckner held
the attention of the court for spell"
They were charged with drunk and
bootlegging' With the assistance of
Attorney Salyer, Buckner made stand
against the drunk charge, the bootleg
ging charge having been dismissed so far
as he was concerned. His sworn state
ment and the eloquence of his defense
failed to move the court and he was
fined $500 as per ancient and honorable
custom. Maybee used the same attOr
ney with the same result so far as the
drunk charge was concerned, and the
evidence of Bookkeeping was so thin that
the court refused to consider it. The
fact, said the court, that Maybee had
a half gallon jug of valley tam was
not enough, and further, the defendant
did not wear boots, so how could he be
guilty of bOOtlegging- The prosecuting
attorney seemed to be we'll satisfied with
his luck, however. as he squeezed some
valuable testimony out of Maybee as to
the source whence came the jug. May
bees memory was defective, to be sure,
but he knew positively that he paid
dollar and four bits for the jug and its
contents and got it at the Moeser whole
sale house of a slim young man. The
jailor expressed a wish that Maybee
would escape, as he is subject to fits,
and had the two big Injun' prisoners
freed on top of the cages all night They
are afraid of him though he is a harm
less unfortunate, and not at all danger
Gus.
Mrs. Katherine Dornie of Little Rus
STA called on Prosecuting Attorney
Urmy this morning to swear out a war
rant for the ever-to- be-seen- or heard-of
Johanathanovitch Dageant who, she
alleges, came into her house while she
was at church and hits her fiddle boy
two times swipe on der coco. This
was because John was try to loaf my
was object" John has business with
the police frequently Yesterday he APP
peared wearing sore head, to testify
against Dennis Kishner- John Katerllne,
hunter today, and Joe Haffner. They
had assaulted him by humping on his
head with various instruments. and at
tempting to stab him. The city court
has blacklisted a lot of these Russians,
and their attempt to secure return war
rants against Dageant were unsuccess-
full yesterday.
While court was in session this morn
ing the peace and dignity Of the place
was broken by deafening roar from
the jailor's reception room. Everybody
turned pale, thinking no doubt that the
bold bad convicts had captured the Jail
and were about to use the court as
movable breastworks. An investigation
showed a room full of smoke and large
hole in the plastering back of the desk.
Jailor Smith looked suspicious1y like
the guilty party but no one would plead
guilty. The two prison guards who
were left in Topeka had left their ham,
merless Spencer shotguns at the Jail,
and one of these new tangled weapons