The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-02
AN UGLY CHARGE.
Police Officer VIM. White Is
Under Arrest.
Frances Main, Il Year Old Girl,
the Complainant.
HITS CHIEF GOODWIN.
Statement of Accused COmprO-
misses Head of Department.
Mayor Davis Orders Investfga-
tiOn at Once.
HUNGATE is EXCITED.
SSvs He viii Bring Guilty to
Justice.
Duty of Police to Protect Young
Girls.
Mayor Davis Orders Investfga-
tiOn at Once.
HUNGATE is EXCITED.
S,ys He viii Bring Guilty to
Justice.
Duty of Police to Protect Young
Girls.

A scandal in the police force of Tope-
ka involving Chief Goodwin has cul-
minated in the arrest of William White,
patrol driver on a statutory charge
preferred by Frances Main the 17-year-
old daughter oe Z. h Main of Fourth
and Tyler streets.
White is now confined in the county
jail and on the advice Of his attorney.
Galen Nichels. has refused to make a
statement further than to say that he is
innocent of the charge.
The stories as told by the girls, Miss
Mabel Scott and Frances Main. neither
of them being Is years Of age. agree
Their story is that they We're returning
home Thursday night and as they pass
ed the city Jail they were accosted by
Patrol Driver VIII White who stopped
them and talked to them for a few mo
men-s and that they then proceeded on
their way home, turning west on Fourth
street and that as they were about to
pass the alley between Jackson and Van
Buren, streets on Fourth street they
were accosted by Chief of Police Good
win and Patrol Driver VIII White. Miss
Scott was acquainted with White who
Immediately introduced Chief Goodwin.
The couples then separated, Miss Scott
and Goodwin going west on Fourth
street and White and Miss Main going
south uo the alley.
After going up the alley about half
way White took the Main girl and
went across a vacant lot and then up
the alley back of II. @. Lindsey's livery
barn Miss Main insists that she
plead with him to turn her loose so
that she could go to her home, as she
had promised to be in by 10 o'clock
but that White kept a tight grip on
her arm and showed her his star ana
said that nothing would harm her as
long as she was with an officer. White
and the girl then vent north down the
alley between Kansas avenue and
jackson street until they came to the
rear entrance to Pigg's chop house and
when they arrived there the Main girl
says that White called to a man bv
the name of bill" and this man
brought out bottle of beer and two
glasses and that he insisted on her
drinking, which she refused to do, and
shortly after woman came out and
this woman and White drank the beer.
At this point the girl says she tainted
ana does not remember anything until
she came to and found herself with
White at the entrance of the alley back
0I tne patrol barn on Fifth street.
White then told her to wait while he
went to the station and got the chiefs
automobile and that ne would have the
Nt44SA ldrAE tuGill nome As Lueg were
standing there Mrs. White, the wife of
White came around the corner and de-
handed to know what was going on.
She was told by White that the girl
was in his charge and told to 60 back
70 the police station and that they
would come around the other way.
Mrs. White refused to do this and the
three walked down the alley and came
TO the station from the north where
they met the Main girls mother and
Miss Scott who had been out looking
for them and a scene ensued. Frances
Main was taken to her home by her
mother and then told the story The
parents of the girl went to County At
torney Hungate, who Immediately
swore out a warrant charging White
with attempted assault
Whites story differs materially from
= che story as told by the girl He adj
mits that with Chief Goodwin he talk
ed with the girls and that he walked
up the alley with the Main girl but de-
lies that he took her to the chop house
on lower Kansas avenue and tried to
induce her to drink beer. He claims
that he has known the girl for several
years and that there was nothing
wrong intended or done and that he is
innocent of the charge that has been
made against him He says that Chief
Goodwin wanted to meet the Scott girl
and went with him for that purpose.
An Outrage, says Hungate
County Attorney Hungate is very
much exercised over the Incident and
said. This is a disgrace and an out
rage that the police force of this citv
should be implicated in the scandal OF
this kind These girls are both young,
neither of them being eighteen years
of age and it seems to me shat it should
be the duty of the police force to pro-
tect rather than to assist in running
Young girls. I intend to probe this
matter to the bottom and see that pun
ishment is meted Out to the guilty
parties. The evidence in this case is
strong and I shall have no trouble i'm
securing a conviction The woman
mentioned in the case as coming out of
the chop house and drinking beer with
White after Miss Mai.g had refused to
gave the name of C. Evans and makes
affidavit TO thz effect that White and
some girls we're down there and in ev-
cry particular corrObOrates the story
as told by the Main girl. This story is
further cOrrOborated by William CuIp.
who is the man who was designated as
*Bill' and who admits that he brought
the beer out to White and the Main
girl White saws that there must be
but the woman and the man Culp are
both sure as to the time and the dates
that White appeared with the girl and
ordered the beer
Chief G00dwin's Story.
Chief Goodwin s story of the affair
is as follows;
white called me out of the station
and told me that girl was waiting to
zee me, and didn't want to talk before