The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-14

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IN the National windows in that time. -
IN the Royal windows, as in every
other place visited. the holes had been
made about five feet from the ground
there We're two large plates OF glass on
each side, two more in the doors and
two narrow ones danking the doors All
but one of the two narrow ones at the
slde were broken. Great holes showed
where the hatchet went through and
long cracks extended in every direction
from the holes. Every one was a hope
less wreck and was soon afterWard
boarded up pending the coming of the
glass man. The similarity in the marks
OF devastation showed that they were
all done by the same hand and the same
instrument and description of one
smashed front fits all the rest
THOUGHT IT WAS a GHOST.
john Wilson, the cOlored janItor at the
National which is run by Jim SheesIey
q veteran OF the joint business in To-
peka, was in the back room where the
bar is when he heard the smashing in
progress. Wilson is superstitiOus.
-Four years ago Frank Morrow. who ran
a meat market In the building now oc-
cQpled by the National, committed sui
eide Since then the people who have
used the place have been hearing
noises" When Wilson heard the glass
falling he thought it was a ghost. In
telling about this mornings smashing,
he said:
4 was in the back room when that
woman got here and when the glass
broke thought 1t was sp0OlSs. A man
Killed himself here a while back and he
makes noises around here sometimes.
We can hear things fall or the tele-
phone will ring without anybody being
around, and that was what 1 took this
Tor When 1t kept on breaking Il ran
out here and saw the woman with the
axe starting away. She wasn't here
morn'n a minute or two and Just as she
started away she was taken in by a
cop"
The Russum place had not been open
ed up when Miss Boise visited it by e
c. Russum, the proprietor, who saw her
smash in the Royal and telephoned to
the police station To a reporter he
said;
'PHONED AN OFFICER
I was standing al the Cremerfe res
taurant door when I saw her go by with
her hatchet. She had just come from
my place, I guess but ] didn't know it
at the time. She was hurrying and I
turned to friend and remarked that
the woman looked like a 'smasher.'
We watched her 60 down the street and
saw her stop and hit the window in the
Royal billiard hall / went inside and
phOned to the police station for an OF
hcer. but she had smashed the windows
at the Royal and the National before
an officer came. don't know what our
damages amount to but the loss isn't
on me anyhow, and it makes a pretty
good advertisement"
A GOOD ADVERTISEdE
It's a good advertisement" ," was Geo.
klauer's comment as he viewed the re-
mains of five plate glass windows in
the state drug store, of which he is pro
prietor We dom lose anything by it
but it viii cost the insurance men some
thing. We weren't around when it was
dOne.'
AL Hayshp, the proprietor of the
Palms the joint at 833 Kansas ave-
nue. about which such row broke out
at Washbufn college when the editor
OF the college paper printed an adVef-
tisenent Of the place a few months ago,
had slept late and had not opened shop
when Miss Boise called. It is probable
that the fact that most of the people at
the places where the first smashing was
done were not around. made it possible
for Miss Boise to get so far upon her
smashing trip. The officers on the pO-
lice force were just changing. That is
the Gay shift was just taking the place
of the night force when she started out,
and the street was empty Of policemen.
officer Rosander. who made the arrest
was just coming on duty and arrived at
Seventh street in time to see her finish
ing up the windows al the National The
National billiard hall and the Royal
stand side by side and she made short
work OF the two.
SHE WAS REFUSED BOND.
When Dr. Eva Harding, for whom
Miss Boise asked after she had been ar
raigned in police court, reached the sta
ton, she offered to go bond for the pris-
oner but her offer was rejected. No
T
MagaW and she was told she would
would have to wait until this afternoon
when the case was set for trial. 1t was
i expected that the case would be taken
into the county court where a different
bond would be likely 70 be named. Miss
Boise asked that the legal services of
J. NJ Dumenil. who was Carrie Nations
lawyer, be secured for her defense. DR..
j. Harding set out to locate Mr.. Dumenil.
who viii probably take the case Mr..
4 Dumenil has been the official attorney
for all the joint smashers ever since
Mrs Nation first got into trouble and
is something of an expert in that sort
of criminal practice.
Of any specific previous knowledge Of
the plans to smash joint windows DR.
Harding expressed her absolute innO-
cence. She said. however:
Il have known that some of the
women have been talking about doing
this sort of thing ever since Mrs. Nation
quit joint raiding. They have wanted to
do something of the sort but I didn't
know about any intention of carrying
out their threats The first I knew about
this mornings breaking was when I was
called to the police station to see Miss
Boise. She said she was by herself this
morning and suppose 1t Is true
haven't any idea who else could have
i been behind her. We have been friends
for Il long time, in fact ever since Mrs.
/ Nation was here, and I shall try to help
/ her out of her present difficulty I Of
/ fered to go on her bond but the police
men said she had not been allowed bond
yet and that I would have to wait until
this afternoon"
/ WILL GO TO DISTRICT COURT.
1t is very likely that a half dozen
+ prosecutions Will arise against the win
/ dow snasher as a result of her morn
ing's work Three or four insurance
agencies, including those represented by
! c. G. Blakely Nellis & Nellis and Bailey
Bros, will sustain losses upon the glass
i smashed and those and some Of the own
~
broken are likely to swear out COM
plants Tt is rather a new situation lo,
] the insurance companies here. as one Of
the agents interested explained In dis
cussing the matter he said.
Il don't want to be quoted on this
/ business. because we have not made up