The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-09-24
ANDERSON GOES TO JAIL.
Evidence Showed He Was as Slippery
as His Soap.

Marshal or the City Court ThomaS
Voss yesterday put handcuff on one of
the arms of c. w. Anderson, alias c. W.
Robertson, the soap man, and led him
over to the county jail to serve a SEN
tence of one year, pronounced by Judge
Alexander. If he serves out his time
the presidential campaign will be in full
blast when ne gets out
County Attorney Eckstein prosecuted
Anderson for obtaining money under
false pretense and he was defended by
Keith & Matson. who made a vigorous
fight to save their client. Since Mr..
Eckstein has come into the Office of
county attorney the lawyers who are
called upon to defend criminal cases have
learned that the county attorney puts
in a good deal of time arranging his evil
dence for conviction and this case was
TO exception.
The evidence showed that Anderson
was going about the country selling
boxes of Ark soap that can be bought
OF the retailers of this city for 1925
box. for IS and IS a box and promising to
give valuable premiums with each box
of soap. which Judge Alexander was con-
WINGED he never intended to give.
He went 10 the home OF Charles Prince.
four miles east Of the city, on Twenty
first street Mrs Thurm was . caller
at the Prince home and to them. the
evidence showed. Anderson represented
That ne was the agent OF the n. X. Fair
banks company to sell their soap. and
he was sort Of a4rertising agent for
the company He did not advertise in
a-1. al r,r
box Of soap he gave some valuable house
hold furniture. ana then the people who
got the furniture would tell it to their
neighbors, and in this way his soap would
be advertised without people taxing the
trouble to read the papers. He told
them that he had an Office in the Whine
building and a store room back of the
second building east OF the Fourth Ma
tional bank where he stored his furniture.
Mrs. Price and Mrs. Thurm each
bought 81 box of the soap. for which they
gave Anderson two s bills and waited
for him % send them a beistead. springs
and conmode. They are waiting get.
The two ladies' we're on the witness stNnd
and ted in substance as stated above.
Mrs. Thurm sas1 she did not need any,
soap 81 that time but since she seem
ed 70 have 4 chance to get furniture
enough 10 furnish a house By buying one
box Of soap. she thought K would be
business % buy it, Mr Price said he
thought al frst that the man was fake
and he tcld him that he was from Mis-
souri, and would have 20 BE- shown how
man could afford TO give that Kind Of
premiums with a box Of soap. he admit
ted that Anderson gained his confidence
ard that he consented for his wife u
buv the box Of soap.
James Cook. who IS manager Of the
Whine building. said he had never sen
The defendant before and that he did
not have an oSsce in that building Geo.
Pulls ana several others II that section
q the city ssi(l there was NJ store room
where Anderson said his valuable furni-
ture was stored. and Charles Sullivan
said Andersen bought his soap Of Jstt &
woods and Il was a very good cheap
soap.
JudEe Alexander sad he thought these
men who ran about the country eeceiv!ns
the farmers ought to be stopped and IL
this case he would maka the term OF tn
prisonment one year.