The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-12-28
THEY 60 TO JAIL.
Ten JOintists Are Locked Up
This Morning.
George KIauer at Last Placed
Behind Bars.
HUNGATE'S BIG HAUL.
County Attorney Is Responsible
for the Innovation.
Liquor Sellers Actually Placed
Behind the Bars.

The colony at the county jail was
increased by the admission Of ten new
members this morning who are mem
bers of the jointists' union of this city.
Those admitted to the county jail this
morning were John Heitman, who ad-
mitted without argument that he was
the owner of a joint located on lower
Kansas avenue; George Baker, who
operated a place at 323 Kansas ave-
nue.; George klauer, who for years
has had a joint at 526 Kansas ave-
nue.; A. P. Albert, who for very brief
spell sold liquor at 1856 Kansas ave-
nue.; John Hart, the proprietor of a
thirst parlor at 211 Kansas avenue; !;
Charles Simmons, who was just one
door above him but on the opposite
side of the street and in the same busi-
ness; Frank Christ and Dan Finney,
who operated a partnership joint down
in the jungIes on East Fourth street.
With this aggregation of viOlatorS Of
the prohibitory law will be confined
II. A. Cochran and William Reese who
were each found guilty of operating
joints in the village of Willard.
The eight jointists first named and
who operated joints in this city con-
c1uded after a thorough investigation
to plead guilty to a nuisance charge
they were permitted to do by the cOun-
ty attorney who had worked up the
cases and to whom belongs the credit
for their Incarceration. The sentence
of the court which was passed today
was the same to each of them, the
same old sterotyped form: Thirty
days in Jail, one hundred dollars fine
and costs The defendants to re-
main in jail until the fine and costs
are paid
II C-ooTrs,, vEr;I1f.,,, D ooe, ~, =
E. L. Evans were convicted on evi-
dence furnished by the grand jury
which returned indictments against
| them last February. The trio was con-
victed at the last term of the district
court on nuisance charges. Cochran
and Reese of conducting joints at
Willard and Evans or selling liquor
contrary to law at the Eagle drug
store on lower Kansas avenue.
Evans failed to appear fer sentence
and his bond was declared forfeited
and his bondman, H. c. Lindsey, will
be called upon to pay $500 into the
county funds. Evans is said to be in
the drug business in Kansas City at
the present time but to be outside of
the grasp of the officers of this state.
Among the list of those sentenced
I will be found the names of many OF
the old time offenders, though there
are several in the list who are having
their first experience in answering Ia
( George Klauer, who has conducted a
! joint continuously for years, heads the
/ list, and County Attorney Hungate is
responsible for the statement that this
is the first time that he has seen the
inside of jail on the charge OF
/ liquor selling Gus" Alberts the
baseball enthusiast, player, umpire
and general factOtum of the fans Will
/ of his old friends for the next thirty
/ days at least It was the "jobbing'' OF
/ Alberts which caused the uprising
| which resulted in the appointing of an
assistant attorney general. AIberts
! opened a joint at GIG Kansas avenue
which is near one which is owned and
operated by the beer combine and
! they refused to furnish him with beer
4 The result was that he handled anti
/ combine beer. with the result that he
/ had hardly made connection with q
fresh keg of the noncombine beer un-
til he was arrested, and his friends
claim at the instigation Of the beer
trust. Be it as 1t may, Alberts was not
permitted to run and he is now spend
/ ing his time in the county jail for run
ming a joint which he operated for
/ less than a week, and the county has
an assistant attorney general.
The jointists will be made as COM
/ Portable as possible during their en-
/ forced stay in the county institution
4 though it is announced that they will
/ all have been ION the water wagon
/ Tor at least thirty days when they are
/ released. Early this morning express
wagons began to arrive at the jail
| loaded down with bedding, mattresses
springs and other things which viii
add to the comfort of those who re-
| ceiVe their sentences today. Those
who We're sentenced today have been
/ out on bond since their conviction
/ and have plenty of money with which
1 to purchase the dehcacies which are
not found on the ordinary bill of fare
as furnished by Sheriff Lucas. As
! long as their money lasts they will be
/ permitted to purchase about any
thing that they care TO, excepting
! liquor, which is barred, as it is moi
/ considered good form to permit this
! commodity to be introduced into the
/ jail even to the jointists. There is nc
/ great demand on the part of con-
/ victed jointists as a usual thing fol
wet goods as they are familiar witt
/ the mode of manufacturing the ordi
nary run of joint whisky.
The conviction and sentencing oi
| these men means that there will be &
1 big day at the court house soon WheT
the bars, fixtures and liquors captured
in the raids on their places Of business
will be destroyed by the sheriff and hi:
valued at several thousand dollars anC
in accordance to the law governing
the case must be destroyed. The fin'
| oak bars and SidebOa IDS will be spill
into kindling wood and used for heat
ing the court house, while the liquors
will be emptied into the Kaw river bl
| way of the city sewers.
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