The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-04-14
POLICE J0TIINGS.
Department Receives a Very
Valuable Accession.
3. A. Payey, Well known Detec-
tive, Gets a Place.
KNOWN AS BRAVE MAN.
Man With a Gun Has No TerrOrs
for Him.
Almost a Murder in a Bottoms
Joint.
KNOWN AS BRAVE MAN.


police force was materially improved /
at 4:15 o'clock last evening, by the APP
pointment of Everett A Pavey, the well
known detective, who has been working I
Tor the Santa Fe company about a year.
Pavey has resigned his position with /
the railroad company, will put in one /
night at real sleep and then begin his /
duties on the force tomorrow morning. /
Pavey is recognized as one of the best, +
81 not the best, detectives ever employed (
In this city, and will no doubt be put [
in charge Of the detective department |
which win consist of four plain clothes /
officers.
With the exception of the short time |
he was sergeant under Tim Donovan, /
Pavey has been a plain clothes officer /
for several years. He was a detective /
during Stahl's first term as chief. and I
again under Donovan, GOm and McCOI- I
lum. He resigned about three years ago |
and went to Portland, Oregon, and Sc I
attic, Washington, where he worked as /
q detective He returned to Topeka /
IN about a year. worked as a detective !
under McCOllum, and quit to take a /
position with the Santa Fe May j, 1904 |
Pavey, In his many years OF detective /
work, has made reputation for ability t
and nerve, and has caught a number I
of vicious criminals. A bOut three years /
ago he caught a fractions horse thief, I
and started with him to the station. /
While walking along quietly the bad /
man" suddenly poked a revolver under /
your mitts-yOu." Instead of complying |
with this modest request, Pavey seized |
the thief by the throat with one hand, |
and the revolver with the other Then |
he "crucifed" the man against a brick /
wall, and although he dared not re- I
lease either hold to break the grip on /
the gun the robber was almost cholzed /
into insensibility when a barber ran /
out and plucked the weapon from his |
weakening grasp
Because he knows most of the crimi- |
nal element of the town is fearless and
wide awake, Pavey will be a valuable !
addition to the force.
The crying need" of a little hard US
age for bottoms " joints, is crying
louder each day. In fact this crying
need is becoming noisy. The good old
days when hOmicides were a feature Of
the joint entertainments, seem to be /
coming back again. The mayor and /
chief have advertised that they will (
clean house before long, and they can 7
not get busy any too soon to please the /
public.
Last night William Waters, not the /
one who runs the Heitman hotel but |
lower cruster, playfully tapped Bert I
Cunningham, another of his kind, on I
the COCO with a beer bottle, and Gun T
bingham is now in Keith's hospital with /
a cracked skull. This little diversion +
occurred in a tough negro dive at 329 |
East First street, which has been the I
subject of some very unfavOrabIe COM /
ment Both men were satura ted with +
a very poor grade of VitriOl, tobacco /
juice and burnt umber, and felt like 7
lighting So they fought for no pur- +
pose other than to ascertain who was (
the best man. Although this is the first (
time any one has been so badly injured /
that an arrest followed it is claimed by (
the ponce That such affairs are common F
in that district, and in and about this +
particular joint, which is run by Annie 7
Mitchell negro of police court fame.
Waters, the man who was winner of +
the last nights melee, is now in the T
county jail awaiting the results of Gun +
ningham'S injury, which may prove IA I
tai He escaped after the fight but 7
was run down and captured by Officer /
Darby.
Bob VanTuyl and George Oswaldt, I
who were recently convicted of running I
Joint at 815 North Kansas avenue F
may be granted the distinction Of being /
the second and third liquor sellers who /
ever served out their allotted time in +
the city Jail The first, in the recoIlec-
ton of the present regime, was an old |
darky who was accused of b0OtIegpiner
convicted and incarcerated because he [
could not furnish an appeal bond /
Messrs. Van Tuyl and Oswaldt are now
serving time, having been cast in last /
night, because their attorney forgot to /
file an appeal.
A couple Of weeks ago VanTuyI and
OsWaldt were fined S100 and 30 DAVIS T
each They We're allowed by law ten
days IN which to file an appeal Thew
thought this had been done until four /
O'Clock in police court last evening
when Judge Urmy issued a commit.
ment and they We're cast in. Galen /
Nichols, their attorney, SAYS he is SIRE (
he filed the appeals, but the police 5env
having received any such documents
Unless some kind of a compromise can
be made. the victims are doomed to
to a jointist looks like adding Insult to-
injury, be forced to pay a fine of s100
each or stay in, at hard labor. for
hundred days more. 10 d
Beside the arrest of Waters. who was
turned over to the state. the police busi-
ness last night consisted of the arrest re
one very plain drunk. - u
SHE GIVES IT UP.