The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-12
POLICE JOTTINCS
Officers Have Lively Experience
With Lilly Mooney.Jordan.
Attempts to Scald Officer Who
Arrested Her.
FOUGHT LIKE A TIGER
Finally Subdued by Three Stall
wart Policemen.
Will Be Returned to Lansing for
Violating Parole.

back to Lansing. Lilly Mooney-Jor-
dan, colored. who has been in the
state penitentiary two times and who
is out on parole, having three more
years to serve, was taken by the po-
lice this morning after a long hard
fight. She will be taken back to the
penitentiary at Lansing at once and
it will be a long time before Topeka
is troubled with her again.
Last night a man named C. w. Pill
fer, who is working on railroad gang,
reported to the police that Lilly
Mooney Jordan robbed him of $16.15
while strolling around with him in
North Topeka and he did his best to
recapture the money but she beat him
down and ran from him. He followed
her to her home and this morning Of
ficer Fribance accompanied the man
to the home of the vicious colored
woman. She was seen out in the back
yard and the officer told her that she
had to go with him to the police sta
ton. Lilly has had considerable ex-
perience with the police and she i'm
mediately fixed her plans of escape.
AT tn etime she had nothing on her
head and was dressed very scantily
and she begged that Fribance allow
her to put on few more clothes be-
fore going to the station. Fribance
followed her in the house while she
went to get the necessary wraps. He
was waiting for her when the door
suddenly opened and Lilly appeared
with a kettle full of boiling water.
She drew it back and was about to
let fly at the police officer when he
spied a two-by-four timber in the
corner He picked it up and made
slash at the kettle. splitting the
scalding water on the floor. Then he
grabbed the woman and called for re-
serves. officers James and Douglas
arrived on the scene and the woman
was fighting with all her power. She
persuaded the officers, however, to al
low her to go to the home Of her sis
| ter, as she wished to tell her some
thing. The police kindly consented
and Lilly then made the fight of her
| life. She ran in the house and when
the officers followed her she picked
up bracket from the piano and tried
to beat their brains out. When final
! ly caught at the point of a gun and
with her arms pinned behind her she
had her hands filed with bricks and
would have killed anyone if they had
not been able to dodge them. The
man she had robbed was on the.
scene and before the officers could get
her she had hit him three times with
bricks and he came to police station
this morning with his arms bleeding.
1t was one Of the hardest catches
the officers have had for long time
and 1t would have been impossible for
one Or even two men to handle her.
She was crazed with anger and at
tempted to kill everyone who came
within sight of her. The police
chased her three blocks over on the
north side this morning and she could
run like deer She swore inces-
| sanity and was arrested on three
! charges-highway robbery, profane
| language and resisting officers of the
| law. When taken to the station this
morning in the hoodlum wagon she
refused to give her name. saying she
not know how old she was and was
not aware of the fact whether or not
she was married
| Lilly Mooney-Jordon is one of the
worst police characters in the history
OF the Topeka police force She has
been to the penitentiary two times
once for robbery and once for trying
to burn down the city jail. 1t was
not very long ago that she was sent
| for the latter crime. She set fire to
her bed clothing in the Jail and a bad
fire was narrowly averted. She is an
old-time "alley rat and has been ar
] rested for everything from n1ain
drunk to highway robbery. The pa
role officer said this morning that n
would be long time before she would
get out again.
A man who claims to be representing
! an art firm in New York CITY Is worl<-
ing graft on the art enthusiasts in tha
city and has cleaned up a god sum
today. He was suspected by Mrs Earl
Seymour, who reported the graft to the
police this morning. He goes around to
the art enthusiasts in the city and pre-
tends to represent an art concern
which publishes a journal of interest
to artists. Naturally the artists in the
city are glad to subscribe to the paper
and the agent has them pay cash In
order to get the subscription two dol
lars cheaper than otherwise. This
morning Mrs. Seymour wrote out a
check to the agent and then, suspectine
something, because the man did not
give receipt of the firm but one of a
personal nature, she telephoned to her
husband, who at once called I'D the
bank. The bank authorities stated that
the check had been cashed.
This same agent was in the CITY two
years ago and worked" a good many
| women over the city and they are no.
on his trail He is a large man about
six feet tall and is a smooth talker
He tells of the value of the journal and
then states the price at six dollars q
year or four dollars if cash is paid He
insists that the checks be made out as
cash" and not to him personally. TIL
! police have wired the publishers in New
, York and the man will be taken up.
The district court is in session and
half of the day force were on the stand
this morning, leaving the beats" to bs
taken care of by detectives and any
men who could be spared. 1t just hap
pens that business picks up at thi.
time and the force is head over heels il
trouble.
The weekly Sunday night lap robt
and buggy whip robbery report came
to the station this morning and it i,
surprising the number of such rob.
berries that occur. Last night in from
of the First Presbyterian, the United
Presbyterian and United Brethren
churches there were over twenty-five