The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-10-25
AFTER 5 YEARS.
Lyman Hamilton Nabbed for
Kansas City Robbery.
He Had Something Of Career In
lola.
GREAT ON SUICIDES.
Made Many Bluffs About Self
Destruction.
A Good Long Time in Jail Is
Before Him.
GREAT ON SUICIDES.

lola, Oct. 25.-Lyman Hamilton.
aged %. who usd to live in lola and
was mixed up in some sensational
escapades here, has been arrested in
St. Louis on the charge Of stealing
some trousers, ties and neckwear from
his employers, the West End Bazaar
That charge was the least serious one
Of several on which the authorities
wanted him and to prosecute him for
which the detectives have been
searching for him two years. Appre-
hended for this petty theft he broke
down under the examination of the
detectives and admitted his other
crimes.
Hamilton is the son OF c. T. HamiI-
ton who used to conduct the drug
store in East lola, which is now owned
by DIR. ManIey. The family left here a.
year or two ago.
A dispatch from St Louis says that
Lyman Hamilton, alias Z. 3. Sharp,
was arrested for the theft of the fur
nishing goods mentioned
Where have you been keeping
yourself? We have been looking for
your ever since the Worlds fair" was
the remark Of Detectives Cremin and
Finan as they took SHARP" by sur
sharp" seeing that the jig was up,
confessed.
In May of 1904 he passed three
bank checks aggregating $40 on his
fathers friend, Charles J. Eckhart, he
says, and jumped town after getting
the money. He secured a job in q
drug store at the corner of Independ-
ence avenue and Locust street, Kan
sas City.
According to the confession he
made in St. Louis he stole 1925 from
the drug store safe and he wants TO
go back there and face the music.
Hamilton left the pharmacy of w.
K. and c. NJ. Hill at Sol Independence
avenue, where he was employed, TAX
ing with him about $3.50 in stamps
and money, on the night of September
4. He had been employed by w. K.
Hill, one of the members Of the firm,
two days before as relief clerk while
Mr.. Hill went to st, Louis for
weeks trip. On monday night when
Hamilton was on duty he emptied
the cash register and went out, leaN-
ing the store unlocked and with no
attendant there to protect it. Moth
ing had been heard of him since then
until his arrest yesterday
The proprietors of the pharmacy
did not know Hamilton before he en-
tered their employ. He had been re-
/ ferred to the Hills by a wholesale drug
house to which he had made applica-
4 ton for a position 1.a g z.4f.-.r1t
He had no Recommendation when
he applied to Mr.. Hill for work bat
as a man was needed imme dia tely he
was given the position. Mr. Hill says
he will prosecute Hamilton il he re-
turns to Kansas City.
Hamilton viii be remembered by a
number of lola people because of the
/ fondness he had for committing sui
| eide. Suicide as practiced by Hamil-
ton did not at any time end fatally. as
may be inferred by the busy life he
has been leading since he left lola.
/ Young Hamilton was a very roman
tic lover. When his. affairs of heart
did not run along so smoothly as he
| desired he always resorted to suicide.
( One time Hamilton told the object
Of his hearts desire that he was go
/ ing to make an end of living. He drew
from his pocket a little paper con-
| tanning d powder which he said was
poison. and swallowed the contents
He did not die. One reason was that
the contents of the paper was nothing
more deadly than finely pulverized
sugar.
| Another time he went to the girls
house and put on a ten-twenty-t thirty
melodramauc performance. He drew
gun and said he was going to blow
his brains out. He is said to have
really fired a shot. He survived
though. for the guns muzzle was
| pointed into space when he fred