The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-06-26
Eight Hen in City Jail &c Free
Today.
They Are Started for Harvest
Fields.
A. H. Mofitt Found Fifty Har-
vest Hands.
Takes Some Of Them Away
From Plumbers.

n RTofitt. a help collector from
Iarned, Kan. arrived in Topeka TINS
morning and left at noon with about 50
harvest hands.
Afofatt seemed to be very anxious to
secure. help. He telegraphed Chief Don
ovan twice yesterday. asking if he
could get a hundred men here The
jan doors were opened at his request,
and eight prisoners, who We're serving
out small sentences for drunk and 9TH
er minor offenses, were released upon
a promise to go with him and help
save the golden grain. This collection
was escorted to the depot by detec-
tive. whose mission it was to see that
they got on the train. There were nc
real bad ones in the bunch, and all of
them were willing to go and earn some
money,
Besides this jail delivery, Momtt coli
Iected about 40 others. Before he had
got out of town, half a dozen contrac-
tors were bowling because he had
''shanghaied" some of their help a
plumber, who was trying to put a new
boiler in the county Jail was mulcted
of his best Workmen, and he had 10
abandon the work at noon until he
could secure more men,
Several small groups Of laboring men
have started to the harvest fields on
their own hook. without waiting for
an agent, and it is probable that To-
peka has contributed three or four
hundred men.
In a few weeks they viii be coming
back" said a detective this morning,
and then we Will have trouble A lot
of the bad men from this town will
meet them at Mcfarland and other
functions, and rob them. We average
SO hold-ups and two murders year
on that deal"
Two young girls, Lille Boyer and
Eva Dixon, aged 13 and IS, are held
I'm Kansas City as runaways. They are
Topeka girls, and before running
away, made it point to rob the house
Of DR.. 2. A. Caulheld, at 7O9 To-
peka avenue where the Boyer girl
was employed to care for the baby
Sunday afternoon, while DR. and
AIRS. Caulfeld were calling. the baby
was left in charge of the girl When
they returned they found the house
locked, and the baby at the home
of a neighbor, where it had been left
by its nurse. After gaining admit
lance to the house, an inventory was
taken, and it was discovered that the
following articles had been stolen:
One box of cigars, one dress skirt.
ore pair of shoes, one hat, two purses
containing something close to $40, and
several other small articles. Neigh
bOrs announced that three other girls
had called shortly after DR.. and Mrs.
Caulheld left the house. and had de-
parted, after depositing the baby with
q neighbOr, with large bundle.
The family did not report the theft
to the police, and the first intimation
the officers had of it was when the
mother of the Boyer girl, who lives at
1902 East Eighth avenue, received a
telegram from the Kansas City pO-
lice telling her that her daughter was
in jail there, together with the Dixon
girl. The mother went to Mrs. Thorpe,
police matrou, and said she would
have nothing to do with her daugh-
ter, and would not let her come home
If she wanted to. Mrs. Thorpe has
cared for the girl for some time on
account Of the mothers attitude, and
1t was on her recommendation that
the girl secured employment
Mrs. Thorpe left for Kansas City
today, and will bring the Boyer girl
back with her but is at loss to know
what to do with her DR.. Caulheld
does not desire to prosecute her for
the theft, but it may become neces-
sary to send the girl to the Industrial
home at Beloit for want of some other
place of refuge.
A Kansas City paper prints the fol-
lowing about the girls:
We went to Wamego Kan, to see
the carnival and then we came to Kan
sas City to meet two actresses. We
were going to be trapeze performers
and join a circus
Eva Dixon, Is years old. and Lillian
Boyer, g years old. runaways from
Topeka, had this story to tell last night
at police headquarters Detectives
Bradley and McAnany sent them from
the union depot to the station Eva
Dixon wore clothes that did not fit her.
About them she said:
Il went to a house in Topeka to take
care Of a baby while the woman went
out. / stole some of her clothes and
$3.50 and then left the baby at
neighbor's house. I never had any
pretty clothes of my own, that's the
reason I took them"
Charles Baker, a plain drunk who
freQuented the city prison, has been
taken to the Kelley institute at Kansas
City for the jag treatment. Baker has
been drunk most Of his life, and was
in jail at frequent intervals during the
past four years. The recent death of a
relative left some property to Baker.
and DR. H H. Keith was appointed as
his guardian. Baker would not stop
drinking and as a last resort he was
sent to take the Cure" He was ac-
companied to Kansas CITY bv his
guardian, DR.. Keith. and City TALLER
Kenney.