The Topeka state journal., 1903-06-22
He WAS BUSY.
Police Judge Surely Earned His
Salary Today.
The Court Room Was Filled
With Prisoners.
IN A JOINT RAID.
Two Negroes Are Arrested on
the Usual Charge.
Mr.. Urmy's Effort to Get In
formation Fails.

A motley bunch of prisoners filed into
the court room at the police station
and faced Police Judge Hamilton this
morninG
Two raids We're made Sunday. and as
q result Porter Patterson colOred, who
keeps a place near the corner Of King
and Lane streets. and George Dupree,
also colored. who has a place near
Tenth and Kansas avenues. were
urrested by the police for selling intoxi-
cants. Both cases were called in pO~
lice court this morning and both We're
continued until Tuesday afternoon at
9 O'Clock Joe Reed appeared in behalf
OF George Dupree. Lawyer Reed asl1ea
10 have the case continued until tomor~
row. Patterson was also not ready for
trial and his case was continued.
Oncers owen. Gardner, Lucas AMI
Reed sWooped down on the Patterson
place on King street. When the Off
GERS hove In sight some cOlored women
who we're sitting i'm front OF the house
made q hurried retreat. The officers
entered the house and got the prOprl-
etor Patterson. A search of the house
revealed new scheme for deceiving
the officers and making an innocent
looking place of his resort.
In the corners of the room ard in
various places in the center of the room
trap doors had been cut in the floor
large enough to allow a keg of beer Oh
8 beer case to be let down under the
floor These trap doors were then re-
placed end rugs of mating or other
material thrown over them in such a
manner as TO disarm suspicion
ne officers did not find a big quan-
tlty of gOntraband goods but Patterson
VIII probably find il difficult to explain
10 the judge in a satisfactory manner
why ne mad any hidden in the house
A bushel basket fun of emptv bottles
secured at the Dupree place win he in
tfoduced as evidence in the case. aeains1
that pelsonage. The bottles are repos-
lng ~ corner at the police station.
J Ranock. who has little clotbine
store at No 100 Kansas avenue was
ealied before the judge ON the charge
Of keeping his store open on Sunday
1nere was no evidence that he had
made a sale of goods or had offered anv
al les for sale and he was released bv
the judge with Instructions to be more
careful iu the future to not let there he
suspicion against him on such
charge.
Deputy City Attorney Trmy made an
enort this morning to discover if p0ssi-
nie. am opportunity to catch a druggist
uaiaW luAy selling liquor or to discover
The 80 Whereabouts of a joint.
TWO men who are farmers four miles
south OF the city spent the night in Jail
They were charged with being drunk
IN a public place. When they were call
ed be fore the police Judge CITY Ar
torney Jrmy tried to pump them for
information. hoping that they were not
wise 30 the ways of city drunks in an
sWerlng all questions with an Il don't
know
The first Of the farm hands to come
before the judge. was a boy about 2s
years old He gave his name when he
was booked as William Carol His
name he afterward admitted to the
judge is Norris Clark He plead guilty
10 being drunk and was fined three dol
lars Mr. Drmy then asked him where
he got his whisky He replied that it
came from a drug store but protested
that ne DID not know what drug store
il came from although he helped pay
Tor It, Il gave the money to the other
fellow who was with me-" he said. land
he got the whisky / didn't go with him
10 get it,"
John Earring was the "fellov'' with
Norris Earring said he was 40 years old
and that he was a farm hand He
'fessed UP that he had been drunk be-
fore and the judge assessed him s..
He was not backward about telling
where he got the liquor. He stated that
he got it al the first drug store on the
south side of Fifth street. east of Kan
sas avenue
Nv hatdid vou tell the man YOU wanted
the whisky f0r?" asked Mr.. Urmy. Did
you tell nim YOU were sick2"
told the clerk I wanted it for ma
laria replied the prisoner at the desk.
Did YOU sign statement to that
effect2" was the next question
II did, he replied, and he was allow
ed to 20 at that.
The income of Special Policeman G.
W. Dusenberry. who is paying special