The Topeka state journal., 1908-10-15

POLICE JOTTINCS
Little FOur.Year-Old Runaway
Stirs Up Officers.
Returned to Mother Who Didn't
Want Him.
NEIGHBORHOOD ROWS
They Seem to Be Epidemic Just
Now.
SEIGHBORHOOD ROWS
Lawrence Man Comes to Grief
in Topeka.

The police had a little boy visitor
late wednesday afternoon and he
made every department on the force
get busy.
ABOUT O'Clock an old soldier came
llmping into the station with a little
boy four years old, who had been
picked up about four miles outside
the city limits on SoIoIer creek. The
boy was crying when found and said
he lived in Topeka.
His name was Alex Burgers and he
lives with his parents at the corner
OF Fourth and Locust streets. He
told the police in his baby talk that
ne had hoped on a milk wagon and
the man who drove made the horses
go faster and faster and he could not
get off. He begged the milk man to
let him off but not until they had
gone about four miles outside of the
city limits would he allow the boy to
ailght. Then he drove away and left
him crying and screaming for help.
He felt better when he was in the
station and had great fun looking at
the prisoners and viewing the rock
pile, patrol wagon and the police
oflcers. When he was shown the
patrol wagon he teased the patrol
driver to let him ride home and af-
his address.
Big Bob Palmer and officer Fri
bance took charge of the little four
year-old and he was taken home in
the wagon 1t was an unusual sight
seeing two big police officers with a
little tiny four-year- old boy in their
hold
When the trio arrived at the house
the mother of the boy came rushing
out and demanded that the officers
take the boy back to the station. She
said he was a bad boy and did not
have any use for him. 1t was a very
poor display of mother love and Of
hcer Fribance gave the mother a good
lecture and told her to take care of
the boy or she would be taken back
to the station. She did.
Thomas Oliver, an Indian. was
popping off with fire water last night
and became a prisoner for creating a
nuisance and being drunk. He was
taken in hand by Heap Big Chief
of his tribe for the time being-or the
rock pile time. He said he had
come into possession of a few extra
coins and wished to spend them and
then forget it..
Neighborhood fights draw the at
tention of the police when nothing
else happens. Just after the old maid
on Twelfth street complained of the
crying baby, another lady of equal
mouth capacity came tearing down to
the station and said that a mean man
was piling logs out into the alley and
obstructing it. She seemed very much
concerned about the matter because
she could not help but think of the
awful danger to the horses of the fire
department if a fire should occur in
that alley. 1t is very unusual for a
woman to have Iat
as this but the police took her word
for it and investigated. 1t was found
that Joseph Trembly who bought
property at 1903 East Tenth street
wanted to build fence on the prop
erty and his neighbors had piled their
logs on the site. He therefore rolled
them out into the alley and then
came the row. 1t is true the logs are
not in very accommodating position
but the police can see the neighborly
love CD clear through the whole
If the police had listened to all of
the calls from excited people last