The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-05

Der of complaints left at the station
concerning lost valuables.
Sunday was a busy day for the po-
lice. In fact it was the biggest day in
a number of years for arrests and
raids. There were in all 10 arrests dur
ing the day, IL of them being DRINKS.
Police Judge Urmy said this morning:
Il thought business had been pretty
dull for quite awhile and was not sur
prised at the immense increase Sun
day."
Sergeant Ross is suffering from blood
poisoning in his right hand. 1t started
from little sore on the index finger
and at the present time the whole right
arm to the elbow is sore and infiamed.
The sergeant is still on duty but he
has to carry his arm in a sling.
A man giving the name of John
Trevis was arrested this morning for
vagrancy. He was found with a pack
age under his arm which contained a
woman's hat and veil He did not have
| any excuses to make and did not know
where he worked He will be investi-
gated this afternoon.
Dutch Gogins, who was arrested
not long ago for keeping and maintain
ing an opium joint, is making the
jailer all kinds of trouble Ever since
work, and lays out on the stone pile
| grooming and complaining of the lack
of hospitality of the police. He doesn't
seem to care for anything but opium
but he will have to go without it at
the police station. Unless he cheers up
and makes little rocks out of big ones
this afternoon he will be put down in
the hole" on bread and water and not
| much daylight.
TIL &c ,4I1 tIo
stage at the police court, and the help
| full hen is causing neighborhod row.
every day. 1t is not out of the ordi
nary for the chief to be called to the
phone and spend a half hour in quiet
| ing an Infatuated housekeeper who tells
of the ravages, devastation, pillage and
plumber of Mrs. Smiths hens.
A number of cases of picked pock-
cts were reported to the police after
the Saturday celebration. They in
clude: D. r. Moore, 1928 Van Buren,,
pocketbook taken at corner of Eighth
and Kansas avenue while watching
| the parade. Pocketbook contained
about $40 and the pickpocket was a
| slender man about six feet in height.
J. B. Cain, 1925 Kansas avenue was
picked on a street car Saturday night.
| Pocketbook contained $50 in cash and
check on Merchants National bank
drawn by ]. J. Green in favor of Cain
for S1224 D. R. Cation reported the
loss of a gold watch attached on a
Taft fob and was taken from his pock-
ct during the crush at the auditorium.
One delegate, name unknown, lost
pocketbook with a little over four
dollars in change.
Miss Dorothy Walker of sos Lincoln
street lost her pocketbook Sunday eve
ming while returning from church.
She was followed by a young man I'M
| til she reached the alley near her
home when he snatched the pocket
| book from her hand and ran up the
alley The highwayman was white.
The pocketbook. contained small sum
OF money.
Phillip Chesney again renewed his
acquaintance with the local police
force and Sunday he was arrested for
starting a big fight in the bottoms"
| Chesney is hard working fellow. but
he has a habit of getting drunk every
Sunday and during his spree he has
an idea that his wife loves another
and he raises a rough house with ev-
| cry one in sight. Sunday he pitched
onto about a dozen men and women