The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-02-16
MISS BOISE IN JAIL.
Owners of the Buildings Have
Her Arrested.

Three separate complaints have been
filed against Blanche Boise by persons
who owned the glass that she smashed
Saturday morning. The charge in each
case is malicious trespass, and she will
be required to give bond to the amount
of $500 on each count. Miss Boise is
still in jail, nobody having appeared to
furnish bond in the second and third
indictments. DR.. Eva Harding has
agreed to go bail for the first complaint.
The COMPLAINTS SO far made are sworn
TO by Dr.. @. w. HogeboOm. owner of the
building at 1873 Kansas avenue, where
The Palms" is located: w. E Sterne,
whose wife owns the buildings at S3S
and 1874, the addresses respectively OF
Russum's Joint and Clarence Young Z
drug store, and Dick Hodgins, who owns
the building where the State pharmacy
with its Joint attac hment is situated
next to the Copeland hotel
II Is not now believed that the loss OF
smashed glass will exceed $500 IN all
SIX OF the places visited by Miss Boise
,Ihe figures printed Saturday were pure
ly estimates, and not based upon fig
ures BY the glass men, because uiate
glass has a variable market value. anu
ARRANGEMENTS had not then been made
for replacing the broken windows n N
/ also considered questionable if the plate
gl&ss insurance companies will stand for
4 breaker.
man who is well posted In such
matters said today;
/ II IS very doubtful whether the plate
glass insurance companies will consent
1 70 pay for the glass smashed by Blanche
sores me insurance contracts pro-
vide only for breakage by accident. II
was no accident that caused the des-
ftruction of the glass Saturday morning.
but we'll laid and definite plan on
Miss Boies' part. suppose the CUES
ton of her sanity may be raised If it
can be proved that she is insane. the
case VIII be altered somewhat
/ 1t IS quite likely that the owners of
4 the buildings will have to bring suit to
correct damages. They May sue the
insurance companies if the companies
refuse to pay up, or they may sue the
city for failure to protect the propertv.
The question of whether the insurance
companies will settle the claims is to be
I determined by the head officials of
those companies. The local agents
have nothing whatever to do about it.
1t is doubtful whether the owners of
damaged buildings would have a good
claim against the city, for the work
was not done by r mob or riot. One
woman does not constitute a mob, the
law definitely specifies this to be the
case. OF course il Miss Boies has any
4 property she will be personally liable. -
The axe which Blanche Boise used to
smash thousand dollars worth of plate
glass is a sight.
Evidently Miss Boise purchased it for
this business, and it is admirably adapt
4 gu lOl Lit MOlh 1t II Il immature axe,
with a short helve. and three pound
head; just about the size that a woman
Of Miss Bosses physique could swing
I easily. and which would not cause her
1 to lose her balance and fall under the
deadly sheets of falling plate. The axe
was purchased brand new for Miss
Boise
Now it shows the marks of terribly
rough usage. The blunt end of the head
! is Eashed and damned and Scraped; ii
! is surprising that cuts a quarter of an
/ inch deep could be made in the hard
steel, but that is exactly what the plate
glass did to the aXe-blade. The helve,
4 too, is cut deep where the falling glass
struck it. The stout hickory has big
crack which with a little more such
work as Miss Boise was doing would
have rendered the axe useless.
The axe is now locked I'D at the iaiI-
er's Office. and will be produced when
/ Miss Boise comes on for her trial
Blanche Boise is product of Hol-
ton. Kansas. For several years she has
lived in Topeka. earning her living as
a professional nurse She IS about
thirty-five years of age and wears the
calm exterior of the religious enthus-
4 last who viii do her duty regardless
Of consequences. When Mrs. Nation
1 came to Topeka Miss Boise was in
! terested in her joint smashing but she
4 did not personally take part in any Of
the Nation raids. She had not gotten to
that point
I however she iAQ lIQQlDeQ the Nation
/ idea pretty thoroughly and it took
charge Of her actions about the time
when Mayor Parker went into office.
One day she went to the mayors office
armed with a little leather riding
'.quirt." She found Mayor Parker sit
ting in his office chair and struck him
several blows about the head as the
only suitable way of expressing her in
! dignation at his joint policy Miss
Boise left town for q few weeks until
/ the thing blew over and since then she
has restrained herself from any dem
Onstration of her feelings further than
an occasional communication to the
public on the subject of wide open
joints.
1t is not seriously believed that her
Z outbreak viii be followed up as there
/ is no leader for the Home Defenders.
No considerable degree of alarm per
vades jointdom although the jointists
viii watch their property a little more
carefully TO. . while.