The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1902-09-03
Kansas City, Has, Crowd Want
ed to Do Some Lynching.
An Angry Mob Of Hundreds
Visit the Police Station.
POLICE OUTWIT THEM.
Two Men Suspected Of Murder
Of Policeman Spirited Away.
Jails Searched Thoroughly by
Appointed Committee.

Kansas City. Kan. Sept. "a crowd
of from 200 to 300 determined men. bent
on lynching. stood in front of the CITY
hall last night and demanded the sur
render by the police of ''Toots'' Rambo
and ike" Johnson.
The two prisoners were arrested by
the police yesterday on suspicion OF be-
ing the men who killed Parolman w.
]. Morris of the police force. and dan
gerously wounded S. A. Minsker,
Waterman while trying to rob the safe
at Metropolitan car barn in Armour
dale at $3.50 o'clock yesterday morning.
The details of the crime as printed
aroused the people of the city to such
indignation as has never been seen be-
fore. At night, when the full details OF
the tragedy were known to almost ev-
cry man. woman and child in the city,
together with the fact that the wound
ed man in St. Margaret's hospital had
identified Rambo and johnson. there
was talk of lynching on many street
corners where men congregate.
At the police headquarters in the city
hall the accused were imprisoned In
iron cells in the basement Chief Zim-
mer and the officers on duty evidently
did not realize the gravity Of the stu
alton until after o'clock when tele-
phone messages were sent in from var
1ouS parts. of the city telling OF the
state of public feeling. The city coun-
Gil was assembling upstairs and the
usual crowd of people who attend the
nothing to betoken anything unusual
until about 1880 o'clock when some one
telephoned that one crowd was march
ing up from Armourdale and another
crowd was marching in from the north
west part Of the city.
Chief thinner. who had gone to his
home in West Armourdale, was quickly
notified. He drove to the city hall in
great haste, and while the crowd was
assembling Rambo and johnson were
taken out of the Jail through the police
court room adjoining and taken away
without the crowd knowing 1t. Toward
O'Clock the crowd had grown to such
proportions that 1t blocked the entire
street. but there was no demonstration
of any kind or loud. boisterous talk
such as one might expect from a mob.
The crowd was composed of orderly
we'll appearing men, many of them we'll
dressed, but they were determined men,
Finally a tall man. wearing a gray
suit of clothes and a mass of red hair,
addressed the men.
"We1l, boys, let's see If they are here"
1.-THE men have been taken away and
are not here" said John A. Hale. the
lawyer employed by the Metropolitan
company to help bring the murderers
to Justice.
"Well, you may be speaking the truth.
but we prefer to see for ourselves" re-
piled the spokesman.
So, suiting his actions to his words,
the man with red hair and gray clothes
took a committee of four or five men
and entered the station. Sergeant Tar
pley was at the desk.
I'VE want to see If these murderers
are here" the spokesman said
"We1l, gentlemen, they are not here, -
the sergeant answered.
Sergeant. we want to make sure OF
1t and we demand the keys" put in a
thick-set man. who stepped up to the
disk.
Srgeant Tarp1ey took a bunch of keys
out of a drawer and turning to the
leader. said:
Follow me-"
The committee passed down the stair
way, and as the doors of the Jail swung
open they marched inside. There were
only two persons in the jail, both young
men held for minor offenses.
I'VE are satisfied and we thank you, -