The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-01-20

them into submission. Another colored
person, Geo. Parker, was ''pinched" in
do with it and was discharged. Cope
land and Youngman got SIS each, al
though the evidence was that they had
smashed a Joint, "a la Carrie"
Jas. Cooper, Jas. Healey and r. Pre-
row were fined three each as plain
drunks. Andy Redmond, the absorbent
printer, was fined fifty. Not because
against Andy, but because he came
back. He was arrested Friday night
and given five on Saturday morning. AT
noon the kind-hearted jailer turned him
out and told him to take a sneak ere
the administration changed. Saturday
night he was brought back, fuller ma
goat" Redmond cannot pass The seduc.
tive brew.
Tom Moon, one of the Rock Islam
laborers who were paid off here Satur-
day, came to the station last night, and
requested q place to sleep. He was
protracted drunk. This morning he told
the court that he woke up last night in
building near the river, shorn of his
valuables and money. He did not know
him. He has discovered that Topeka
whisky is not cheap at any price.
Two colored bootblacks, John French.
aged IA and Louis Campbell aged u,
had little row about a dog, and pro-
ceeded to bat each other on the coco"
with their boxes. They We're arrested.
and spent a few hours in the Coop
The court pro tenn, Attorney T. H.
Balm, gave them a nice little Sunday
school talk. and they were discharged.
Judge Lindsay is in Kansas City to-
day on business, and as his term of Of
flee closes shortly, Judge Balm, who
filled the police pulpit for the day, took
pains to warn the victims against the
new administration. He told them that
sisted on punching large holes in the Or
dinances of the city. Chief Stahl goes
out of business tomorrow morning. He
said that he was notified last Thursday
by Mayor Parker that the new chief
would move in on Tuesday morning.
Mrs. Emma Dorsey, the real wife of
o. J. Dorsey who was arrested last
week on advices received from the Bax-
ter Detective agency of Minneapolis.
arrived in Topeka Saturday night in
search of her husband. Dorsey was ar
rested by Officer Pavey, and held until
Friday evening, when he received a dis
patch from the Baxter outfit that they
could not get warrant from the coun-
ty attorney there. who refused to issue
the papers on the grounds that there
was no fund allowed to bring back a
man for trial The police here could do
nothing but release Dorsey, who at once
left town with the woman whom he
represented to be his wife. Mrs. Dor
sey No. 1 arrived after he was gone
to parts unknown She was accom-
panied by her two pretty little girls,
and a SiSter-in-law who lives at Law
renee. Mrs. Dorsey told pitiful story
of the desertion, and said she was sick
when Dorsey ran away with the wo-
man, and it was suspected by physi-
clans that she had been poisoned for the
purpose of keeping her out of the way
while her husband and his sweetheart
skipped the country. She has hopes
that she can get her husband to return
If she can see him. and as the matter
now stands, he will probab bly, be run to
earth and brought back here for fur
Their investigation. Chief Stahl said this
morning that the detective agency who
offered $25 reward for his capture was
not a reliab BILE firm. or they would not
have let Dorsey escape for want of q
warrant. They informed the police here
that they had a warrant for him, which
proved to be false. If Dorsey is cap
tured again, he will not be given a
chance to make a second escape.