The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-04
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Many People Try to Have the
Shooting Stopped.
Car Blown from Track by Dyna-
mite Bomb.
CASE is HEARD TODAY.
Mr.. Dunn Before the Court to
Tell His Story.
His Assailant Is Discharged at
the Close.
CASE is HEARD TODAY

AS usual, on celebration day, people
are calling upon the police to stop the
shooting in their vicinity. The requests
are made in vain, the shooting contin-
ues. But the police dol take chips when
the almighty - raiser is brought
to bear. A car was blown from the
track this morning at Sixth and jack
son streets by one of these internal ma
chimes, which endanger the safety of
passengers. This wicked little affair,
which resembles a section cut from the
side of rubber ball. is composed of 60
per cent nitro glycerine, and should
horse strike one with its shoe, there
would a hoof missing. Dealers should
be prohibited from selling such explo-
sives.
Officers Riley and Anderson pulled
nice little crap game in North Topeka
last night, which also developed a small
sized Joint with H. Fletcher as pro-
prietor. The officers were stalking the
dive when Riley heard a voice say,
Come seVen.'' Riley's number is seven,
so he took it as an invitation to enter.
As he did so Mr.. Fletcher, the main
stem of the game, played leap frog with
him, and made get away. Not so the
rest of the bunch. They were caught
with the goods on them and pulled from
beneath beds and tables. Among those
who rode to the keep in state and the
dead animal wagon were Messrs- Will
Shearley, Frank Lawson, Charles Gill
man, j. NJ. Leslie, Sherman Burns, w.
]. Curry, Fred Wilks, H. 7. Barnes and
H. Watson, the only colored man in the
bunch. A key of beer was also among
the receipts. Fletcher. who had made
the good escape, thought that all the
officers were gone with the wagon, but
they were not as he discovered when he
returned to take charge of the remains
and ran up against Grandpa Anderson.
he oil .a1,- rod
crap shooting out of season, Fletcher is
booked for maintaining a nuisance. The
unlucky man of the bunch was Curry,
who was pulled in the afternoon for
bond and was taken with the crap
shooters on another charge.
The sad case of Mr. Jordan Dunn
was heard this morning between the
booms of cannon crackers. Mr.. Dunn
had a large cluster of witnesses, and so
did the defendants, John McCrow and
his mother, Mrs. Winnie Smith. The
case was quite humorous. Mr.. Dunn
told his story. 1t was to the effect that
he was eating supper when johnnie.
Crow came to his door and remarked
that he had seen picture in the state
Journal concerning Mr.. Dunn and some
medicine Mr.. Dunn told him to go on
bout his business, but John continued
to remark AN L don't say nothin',"
added Mr.. Dunn in testifying. 1t was
like a chapter from Uncle Remus."
'.Brer Fox he KEEP a traipsin' roun,
but Brer Rabbit he lay low" John
represented "Brer Fox. while Mr.. Dunn
done KEEP his face closed and played
rabbit. Finally. so says Brer Dunn,
John got aggressive and abusive, so
he picked up brick bat and SHE'D 1t
at the youth, who returned it with in
terest. Here Mr.. Dunn exposed
wounded funny bone as exhibit a"
OF course Judge Reed represented the
defendants. He questioned Brer Dunn
concerning his domestic habits, and IN
timated that he was residing with one
Liza Wright. But Brer Dunn rebelled-
''Ge'men. dis is out oh ohdah." he de-
clared. and the court held that 1t was.
The final chapter of the comedy caused
by an innocent cartoonlet was the DIS
charge of the defendants Brer Dunn
gets it where the Newport lady wore
the rope of pearls with startling regu-
larity.
Three Joints were raided last even
ing. The National booze parlor was
pulled off the roost: also the Rachel
Brown establishment on South Kansas
avenue and the Currey place in Nortn
Topel<a. The usual Fourth of July
r-o15s xvera found and cOnfiScated.