The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-04
POLICE JOTTINGS.
Officers Are Still Juggling With
Alleged PickpOckets.
Case of a Man Who Invested
Two Cents and Got $50.
MIR. BOLMAR FAILED.
Couldn't Identify Suspect as
Man Who Robbed Him.
Judge Hamilton Fines an Army
Comrade $40.
MIR. BOLMAR FAILED.

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ANS q fS14&M been in progress
/SS&z3J SE944A since the coming Of
#za5S$J lWBaHNtHA the president and
N4HEzDlD l-a4gNH although the sus-
WIKI II kN#z poets held by the
WlA III c<T n police freely admit
Ws1 @@ r that they never
stone a pocketbook in their lives, they
are held Just the same. Two of the
number We're turned over to the state,
after being partially identified by
losers. Another young pilgrim, who
was with them when arrested, was
turned loose Saturday with two cents
IN his pocket Last night he came back
and asked to see his companions, and
Detective Lucas tossed him into the
waiting room and told him to rest
awhile, and at the same time give the
touchabl public rest OF course
Duscher, as the suspect named himself,
''roared," and after he had been there
an hour he was released. without see
ing his alleged confederates. Later he
crossed the beat of Frank Hendricks,
who ran him in at a rapid clip and
charged him with vagrancy. When
searched, behold a transformation. The
man who went out Saturday eve with
two cents had a postoffice order which
he had bought and made payable to
himself, for SIS, also ten plunks in the
coin of the realm. This time he will
stay while the police try to find out
how an honest man may invest two
cents to bring profit of $S5 in one day,
the Sabbath day at that. It is the pop
ular belief among the officers that he
met a confederate who had been hold
ing his share OF the spoils, and then
turned the SIS, which was in bills into
postoffice order for fear they were
marked
Two other suspects, c. J. Lamb and
| George L. Moore, by acknowledgment,
are still held for losers to look upon.
I c. p Bolmar the Potwin real estate
man. came down this morning and sized
4 them up, but said they were not II
/ Mr. Bolmar was relieved of a bill book
containing valuable papers down at the
corner stone services, and it was found
intact in the Bethany college grounds
last evening. The thief had examined
/ it carefully, and finding nothing OF a
cashable nature, had tossed it aside
John Hawkins, an old soldier who
was acting as cashier at the Saturday
afternoon auction held at Firth ana
Quincy street, caught man in the act
of 'frisking" him for a fat wallet. He
grappled the thief and hung on till
! lady found his pocketbook under piece
of furniture where it had evidently been
| thrown, and then he lost all interest IN
the suspect and turned him 60. The
suspected one hit the pike, just prior
To John Rhodes, the second hand dealer,
I who was not satisfied with the deal.
1 Rhodes followed the man to Third and
/ Kansas avenue where he found an of1l-
Ger and the suspect was picked green
No one appeared against him, however,
| and he was released.
No one can charge the police with not
doing what they could to abate the
several dozen big mits" and "yeag-
ers who followed the presidential pro-
cessiOn but there is little chance OF
sticking any of the suspects as the
! losers are mostly delegates who will go
hack home before the crooks can be
brought to trial.
T,,5aa I4a,nilton was called upon this