The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-23
Get TWOBADONES
Men Who Cracked Rodgers
Davis Safe Captured.
VIM. Scott and VIM. Carter
Admit They Did Job.


William Scott and william Carter.
TWO negroes about 80 years of age,
/ were arrested shortly after noon today
py sergeant Voiles and Detective Pad
: ole Belts charged with having robbed
! the SaIe in the Office of the Rodgers
Davis Real Estate company at ITO
! East Sixth avenue. last Saturday night.
The door of the Office was opened
! Dy means of a skeleton key and the
outer door of the safe had been left
unlocked which made access to the
steel drawers an easy matter, though
preparations had been made TO blow
the safe o~en in case that it should be
necessary. The steel drawer was dug
out of its receptacle and afterwards
cut open with a heavy pocket knife
which was found on Scott when he
was searched at the city Jail.
william Carter. who is paroled
convict, admits that he and Scott did
the job and told with evident glee how
they secured $135 from the drawer
and Row he held OUT on his partner
and gave him but $35 for his share of
the deal. Scott claims that he is DE
ing jobbed" and that he knows MOTH
ing of the robbery and that in the face
of the fact that the knife with which
the drawer was cut open was found on
his person, with the edges showing
plainly the rough usage to which it
had been put
Scott IS a paroled convict who was
sent to the penitentiary from Franklin
3
to seven years and was paroled last
May and has been working about To-
peka since that time having been en-
ployed at the brick plant west of the
city for time and afterwards worked
for the Santa Fe. quitting his position
with the company the morning after
the robbery of the Rodgers safe.
The capture of the two men is due
Voiles and Detective Belts" said Chief
Donovan, land consider 1t one of the
best pieces Of work that has been done
since 1 have been chief of the force
men when 1t was learned that they
were spending money about the resorts
of the city when In the past they had
been considered as buns and were al
ways without money.
Each Of them has changed gold pieces
during the week and q portion of the
money taken from the safe was IN 10
and 20 dollar gold pieces None of the
money has been recovered and Carter
says that they lost most of 1t shooting
craps and spent the remainder about
the resorts which they have frequent
ed Scott was arrested at his rooming
house on East Fourth street. while Car
ter was picked up at his room in Park
dale.
When asked by the officers how they
came to overlook two solid gold watch
es which were IN one of the drawers OF
the safe Carter said: I'VE didn't over
look them but we didn't intend to load
ourselves down with a lot of junk that
would get us in trouble the moment that
we tried to dispose of it and SO we
left them in the safe, only we put them
in another drawer from where we found
them .i-.-
Both Of the men are known to the
police as crooks oand as they are out
of the spenitentiaEy on parole they will
probabl be sent backs to serve out the
remainder Of theaHG ~Hnexpired terms.
The officers have hopes of recovering
some. Of the money as they do not be-
sfe.est 81 f1]. 11,+
they have spent ali of ii, but think thai
they have secreted it about the city
somewhere. or else have given it to
some friend to keep for them.