The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-19
ONE is CAUGHT.
Result Of the Twenty-mine In
quisitiOn Joint Cases.
Fritz Durein Is the Lone, Lorn
Victim.
LAST GOES BY BOARD.
Thomas Libby Is Today Found
Not Guilty."
Farce at Last Comes to an
End.

The jury I'm the district court wound
up the series OF joint trials, on this
weeks docket of the court, by finding
that Thomas Libby was not guilty OF
violating the prohibitory law.
The case was one of the 'inQuisition'
series instituted by the late County At
EOrneN Galen Nichols. The complaining
or star witness was one Silas Wright,
not the county superintendent however.
Dir Wiiehts memory was quite defec-,
tive He knew that he some times took
drink and he was OF the opinion that
he might have purchased glass of
spirituous. Tremendous, or breWed IL
Quors of Libby but ne could not be GER
tain. Neither could he be quite sue
when he had bought said stuff In fac.
Mr Wrights memory was SO neNlbie
that he wasn't sure Of anything taat
might he discriminating toward libby.
Ihe jury lost mo- time in finding the de-
fendant not guilty
That made the twenty-eighth man
charged with selling liquor Dy the lite
County Attorney Nichols i'm his batch of
-iuquisition' cases that went free. Que,
lone. lonesome unlucky joiatist Was
found guilty. That WAS fritz DureiI
Another man. Charles -I1eitman, was
found guilty but his case Was not in
the lnquisiuon" series. The complain
iur Witness i'm that case was W. Fl.
Duttcu who appeared before the late
County Attorney Nichols ON February
and secured warrant for Heitman-
Efe charged Ieitman with selling nQJtf
to his SON. Roy Dutton. l3 years old and
two other BOYS feitmau was foIud
guilty ON those three counts Dutton
also purchased liquor of Heitman +Hr
the purpose OF convicting him but the
jury found Heitman not guilty on that
count
The convicting Of one man out Of the
% charged hy Galen Nichols is consider
ed hy some to bee pretty good percent
age eff convictions every tnins consider
nH HH
holes that only five cases went TO the
Jury and out of the five there was che
conviction The loop holes were the tarI
that Nichols failed TO give lhe ieai
names ot several 1ontistS ana IalIel ~
follow the law and also say that tile
afnaut was unknown The other loop
hope was Nichols setting the time 1or
the witnesses To testify between ths
date of the sale of liquor TO- them ana
the dav the testimony vas given, a per
fod of only about two months or less
Iustl1d Of TWO years.
Tbe following is the list of cases and
the disposition o1 them.
State SIS. Boutwell,, dismissed.
Statcvs Klein jury disagreed
state. Ns. Little 4<lein, dismissed.
state VS. j. Nci lhcraft dismissed
state vs. . bar tender unknown.
state vs.Jack Jones. dismissed
State VS.. A. Hayshp, not guilty
State KS. McGregor. dismissed.
State vs. Fred Ross, not guilty.
state VS.. bar tender, unknown.
dismissed.
state VS. Fritz Durein guilty
state VS. SchuOor dismissed
State VS. NJ Bundy. dismissed.
state VS. Anderson. dismissed.
state VS. Tom Libby. not guilty
state VS.. Jack Smith. dismissed.
State VS. Peter Brown. dismissed.
state VS. Henry Brown dismissed.
state u.s. Branner, dismissed.
state US. Maim dismissed.
State VS. i Loe dismissed
State VS. John Doe dismissed.
State VS. Dick Coe. dismissed
State VS. Coe. dismissed.
State vs Poe dismissed
State VS. Tom Poe dismissed
State VS.. Bert -, dismissed
state MS. Jim Dee. dismissed.
State US. Palms bar tender. dismissed.
lu each case- the officers arrested some
one. even if they were unknown" but
that didn't hciu matters i'm the court.