The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-07-17
JIMMY RAN FAST
Rut Parole officer Eaton Had
Staying Qualities.
Consequently the Boy Is at
the Reform School.
AN EXCITING RACE.
Just Another Chapter in Career
of James ingalls,.
" Rather Do Tilne," He Said,
Than Stay in Atchison.

It was an eighth of a mile dash up
the alley between Jackson and Van
Buren, streets that held the attention
of the clerks and stenograp piers Of
that district for a brief spell this
morning about the noon hour or a few
minutes before The cause of all of
the commotion was Jimmy ingalls,. a
diminutive specimen of the bad boy
who had been sentenced to the reform
school and made a break for liberty.
Jimmy is a bad boy, and he knows
it, and so do all of the force of the
juvenile court who have had dealings
with him since he broke into the lime
light some weeks ago when the
stenographer in the probate judges
office sentenced him to a term some
where for stealing and general cussed-
ness. He made his escape before he
did time by making a plea for SYM
pathy and then slipping away, and
has been at liberty since for he has
| been out of town, and the police force
figured it out that it was good rid
dance of bad rubbish" But Jimmy
was in Atchison and he decided that
he would rather come back to To-
peka and do time than stay in that
village, and that was just what he
! did.
! He arrived in town a few days go,
tired out with his stay away from To-
peka, and was picked up by the police
shortly after he arrived in the city,
and according to the custom of the
police was carted off to jail. Juvenile
| officer Eaton heard of the capture,
and since that time his life has been
filled with trouble. He made appli-
cation al the county jail for Jimmy,
and as the officers were glad to get
rid of him and Jimmy himself well
I p cd n I'D q
change of boarding place, he was in
1 formed that the prisoner was "hissen, -
or words to that effect.
It was just before feeding time to-
| day that Officer Winfield Schofield
| Eaton appeared at the city Jail for his
prisoner. whom he had agreed to
transfer to the reform school on the
old charge. He was standing in the
jail Office while Sheriff Lawson ex-
planned to him the handling of hand
cuffs and leg irons when Jimmy gave
a sneeze and darted out of the door
and up the alley with tn entire office
force after him.
JaiIer Lawson is too short to make
a good race and quit early in the
| game but Deputy Patterson kept on
until for want of breath he WAS COM
PEELED to stop. Had it not been for
Eaton. Jimmy would have been al
liberty right now, but he was the I'M
doing of Jimmy. The race in this in
stance was TO the swirl, anu Slowly
but surely did the space between ,pur-
sued and pursuer disappear until the
officer tagged his victim and told him
that It was all aver.
Jimmy took his defeat coolly and
expressed an opinion that he should
not have been matched against the
sheriff's entire force on an occasion OF
the kind. and as there was nothing
else to do he agreed to accompany the
juvenile officer back to the Jail anc
from there to the reform school
Officer Eaton expressed a desire tt
attach the troublesome Jimmy to the
rear axle of the buggy while the triI
was being made to the reform school
but finally agreed to other safety ap-
planes and the journey to the state
Institution was made in safety.
There was one detail of the chase
which has been overlooked. Will,
officer Eaton was under a full heat
of speed he turned a corner and fel
= and turned a complete somersault
landing on the bridge of his trousers
which suffered a compound fracture