The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-07
MURDER IN THE AIR.
But That Is All There Was to the
Story.

There was nervousness about the pO-
lice station this morning. visions of an
other holdup murder, and a thick i'm
pervious atmosphere Of mystery.
A man by the name of John Hicks Che
has been there before) was arrested last
Monday night on the charge of carry
ing concealed weapons
After Hicks was pulled he cautious
Iy called one of the officers aside and
related to MIN how last night about
Fourth street, between Madison and
Monroe, he was frightfully shocked and
scared.
In the dim outlines of the mist, he
said, he saw a man sneak out of the
alley, hover beside an old box, and
strike a pedestrian across the head and
rob him. Hicks didn't run to the vic
tim for the purpose Of playing the good
details of the affair, but on the contrary
disappeared as quickly as his shanks
could carry him.
why didn't you stay to see what
was going on" was asked of him.
IT was afraid" was his answer.
Strange to say the officers took his
story in good faith, and Detective Joe
Ross was ruTnina ting among his gray
street for blood all morning.
He conferred with the chief. Then
the seriousness began to pail. Stahl and
and Ross began to laugh 1t seemed TO
creep over them that Hicks story was
a romance.
Ross wandered westward to look up
a baseball glove that had been stolen
from some little boy. Stahl went up
plumbago from his whiskers. which
he blackened in making up his dis
guise to raid the poker game at the
Copeland hotel on Friday night.
1t was a quiet night at the police
station-was Monday night. Harry
Gregg was gathered in for vagrancy.
Mike HanIey was arrested for walk
ing on some Union Pacific railway ties.
The more dignified charge against him
is ''trespassing on railway property"
Special officer George Washington
Dusenberry, c. c., (Which stands for
chicken or calf catcher, as you please)
captured youthful, frolicsome bovine
on Monday afternoon and set at rest
some violent fears that the animal
'' .@Whi-i-i-r-r!" went the telephone
at the police station at about $3.50
p. m.
Fourth and Madison at once! Some
body stole our calf" said feminine
voice over the telephone.
Dusenberry, who has to pull o,V l11It
Ties used a to disinfect the station. to catch
ing stray mavericks, was detailed
After talking with the aggSIIe,Sea paFtiff 9
how, when and where their calf was sto-
len Mr. Dusenberry sailed out into the
back ward to see about it. He is about
six feet tail and looked out into the alley
over the high board fence. There he saw
the ''calfie" playing peek-a-boo with lot
Dusenberry improvised lasso and did a
Rough Rider stunt which would have cap
fivated Buffalo Bill. He got the vagrant
child bovine back into its corral before
dark. And that is the end of the story.
The case of Rollin Todd against Minor
Hickman, both colored will come up in
the Shawnee county district court on next
Monday The charge is assault with in
tent to kill They are brothers-in-law.
While at the home of Hickmans parents
the two got into an alteration concerning
the taking of Todd's child out into the
cold. The finale was that Hickman pune
tured Todd's stomach twice with a revol-
YER Todd was not expected to live more
than few hours, but this morning he
was at the county attorneys office relat-
ing details to help the prosecution.
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