The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-10-26
SHERIFF TIED UP Cash.
Attached Doclxstader Receipts - An
Excellent Minstrel Show.

! The box office receipts of the Dock
stader Minstrel company together with
| the stage scenery We're attached Iase
night 10y Sheriff Wilkerson and Iorce
| of deputies This was done to satisfy
| claim of D. c. Scott who claims that
| Dockstader is indebted to him to the
| extent of 1854.
Scott. who is the complaining witness,
| is now with the Mahara Ministries but
| was represented by A M. THOMAS,
local lawyer. According to the auesa-
lions of Scott, he was employed a cou-
pie of years ago by Dockstader to take
part in the performance of the Williams
& Walker company. He was to receive
1854 for his services during the season
He spent eight weeks in rehearsals Tor
the performance after which time tne
company disbanded for financial rea-
sons Scott claims that he was thus
deprived of a chance to travel with 9TH
er shows on account of the lateness OF
the season. Mr.. DockStader rejected
Scott's claim for remuneration on the
ground that no services had been rem
dered.
The first intimation which Mr.. Dock
stader had OF the affair came last night
Just before the play commenced. SherlH
Wilkerson accompanied by Deputy
Sheriffs Ward and Monroe arrived at
the box office where they presented Roy
Crawford with the papers In the case
Mr.. Crawford called the attention OF Z.
d. Wilson, press agent of Mr.. Dock
stader. to the affair and a wordy COM
bat ensued. but the sheriffs were not
affected.
After the performance it was found
that the box office receipts would not
justify the claim and accordingly MI.
Wilkerson attached the scenery of the
company Dockstader arranged for
bond in the sum of SLIPS, which was
furnished by Mrs. L. NJ. Crawford
According to the version of the story
bv Mr.. Dockstader he planned to take
hold of the Williams & Walker company
in 1905 but the scheme failed to finally
materialize. Williams & Walker made
several contracts in DockStader'S name
The signature on the contract which
Sheriff Wilkerson presented last night
was signed Lew Dockstader, per G.
w. W." Dockstader claims that Walker
signed the contract without authority
and that Walker should stand RESPONSE
BILE for the payment.
From the time the curtain rose on
the first act at the Grand last night I'M
til it finally dropped at the end OF the
performance there was not dull mo-
ment in the Lew Dockstader minstrel
show last night Dockstader and his
inimitable MINISTRIES have appeared In
Topeka many times before but they
have never shown up as we'll as last
night. Something doing all the time is
a feature with the Dockstader show
which is almost unknown in minstrel
show.
The first portion of the performance
last night was marked by the most
elaborate staging which has been seen
in Topeka this season. 1.-THE Temple OF
Gems" was up to advance notices. The
minstrel show is all confined to the first
part of the entertainment. The old
fashioned juggling and acrobatic stunts
which have characterized minstrel
shows from time immemorial have been
discontinued and have been superseded
by comic farces.
Dockstader, who is of course the cer-
ter of attraction in his MINISTRIES, seems
to improve the longer he remains on
the stage His songs which he sings in
his own peculiar manner made great
hits. In the comic farces which are
interspersed through the play Dock
stader takes the leading part and in
the part of the president in "A Dull
Day in the White House" makes hit
in his representations of the president
Neil O'Brien is another blackface COM
edian who runs Dockstader pretty
fast heat for the favorite. He is nat
ural humorist.
The singers of the company are all
good. Reece Prosser and Will Oakland
made great hits with the crowd The
house was crowded to it's capacity and
any return to Topeka by Dockstader
and his minstrel troupe would find
hearty welcome