The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-11

| . tr1e bill. and an Indictment follows,
which is tried before the district court
| in the usual manner.
| The law requires that the jury be
drawn 40 days before the beginning of
| the term, and it would therefore be i'm
| possible to get jury until the Sep
| tenlber term of court. If an ind1ct-
ment should be found, the case would
not be trieo until the January term Of
court. It might be difficult then to get
witnesses.
Frank Bates, who makes the charges
which would form the basis for the IN
Yestigation, says:
If a grand jury should be called, I
believe 1t could get all the evidence II
wants. The people who have been put
ting up would testify before that Jury
If they could be assured of pEotection-
They would not testify If the evidence
was to be used against them But
there are disorderly women in the city
who might be willing to tell the jury
some things. 1 heard of one street
walker who was putting up 81 amonth
That's about the smallest business 1
ever heard of. I don't know who was
getting that money.
County Attorney Hungate says that
it is reported to him that a petition for
grand jury is to be circulated atonce,
but he does not know who is getting
it up.
May Require Bond.
There is a report today that the city
ed some time ago exempting the chief
of police from giving bond. This or
dinance was passed for the purpose OF
enabling Chief MeCollum to serve as
chief of police. He was unable to get
anybody to go on his bond If Mayor
Bergundthal refuses to dismiss NC
Collum, it is altogether probab bic that
the council will take a hand and pass
BergundthaPs friendly attitude to-
ward McCollum is costing him the
friendship of many staunch law and
order people, and the council IS not
likely to stand back OF him II Ber-
gundthal expects to get the credit OF
ridding his administration Of the rot
ten police department, he will have to
act quickly Otherwise, the council Is
likely to take that privilege away
from him.
If McCollum should be required to
give a bord, he would probably have to
give up his office as chief of police, Tor
no one would be willing to go on his
bond.
Scandal Extending.
There is a report that somebody has
been impersonating the police, ana
getting money out of the disorderly
houses. Jennie Cline, propr1etress OF
one of the leading establishments OF
| this kind in the city, makes the charge
that she paid SIS to a certain party
claiming to represent the police de-
partment, and that she was pulled
| the following night. She came to Chlet
McCollum and made complaint about
Mayor Bergundthal said today:
ssThis is one of the stories which mas
been circulated. but it is in the same
class as the Frank Bates statement
1t does not amount to anything.
NfcCoHu1n's Queer Methods.
Chief of Police McCollum has cut
loose as far as possible from the
office of the city attorney, and has his
own attorney, A. L. Redden. It is
said that McCollum pays Redden $1uO
a month for his services. and the
question is how McCoIlum does this
on an income of $50 a month. 1t is
claimed by some that the Committee
of Two Hundred is putting up for
City Attorney Spencer was asked
by Judge Redden whether the city
would stand good for his fees as spe-
cial counsel. and Mr.. Spencer emphat-
ically stated that the city would not.
Mr.. Redden has therefore been get
ting his money some place else.
McColIun draws all his own COM
plants, and only he knows about
them. His complaint in the Plamo on
don case, in which Councilman Luther
NeHis was a star witness, charged
three sales of liquor but the "nuiS-
ance clause in the complaint was
carefully scratched out. also the
blank provided for the insertion of
the address of the joint. If McCol-
Ium had been acting in good faith, he
would have left the nuisance count in.
He could have proved a nuisance
count with much less evidence than
required to prove three sales of liquor.
1t seemed that McCollum had fixed it
so that there would be no possibility
of convicting PlamondOn, who runs
one of the combine" joints.
Wolf and McCoIlum Deny.
c. v. Wolf and Chief McCollum
Dot 1I,@a
as it was expected they would do.
Mr.. w off says:
II want to emphatically deny that
there is any truth in that statement.
Bates, or any one else. for police pro-
lection. He did come to me at one
time and offered to pay for the priv
ilege of running his joint, but I
turned him down. I told him plainly
that I could not furnish any one with
protection and that I would not do so
if I could"
Chief MeCollum also gave out this
statement:
In the first place, I want to deny
! emphatically that ever took a nickel
or anybodys money. That story is
Ialse from beginning to end.
This Rates matter dates back some
tlIhe. About q month or two ago, Bates
| came to me and wanted to get in the
clear He wanted me to pay me money
Tor protection, Just as the Royal, the
national, the IhrOop, the Copeland,
Fred Ross and a dozen other places
have wanted to do. I treated him the
same as have treated all the rest of
them, and turned him down. I told
him that he could run a joint like all
the rest of them, so far as I was con-
cerned, but that he would have to take
his chances of arrest with the others.
Last Tuesday evening Bates was
arrested. When I went to the police
station after supper he was sitting in
nd he 4r.
talk to me privately. He went into
the back room with me. and said that
he wanted protection. He stated that
he was ready to pay for it, but that
he wanted to run his joint just as the
Schlitz people were doing. 1 told him
that he couldn't pay me for protection: