The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-26
POLICE JOTTINCS
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Officers Interrupt a Little Crap
Game.
Young Men Make Trip to the
Station.
WERE HARD TO STOP.
Appeared to- Resent Intrusion
of Detectives.
Their Fines Will Be Assessed
WERE HARD TO STOP.
Their Fines Will Be Assessed
This Evening.

Not since the time the travelling
newspaper men and the Silver Lake ho-
teIkeeper boarded at the city Jail has
the police station been the scene of
such bunch of silk stockings" Last
night a little after dark Detectives
Sauls and Summers suspected that
something was going wrong in the
room above the Aurora theater on Kan
sas avenue, between Eighth and Ninth,
and silently sneaking up the stairway
they leaped into the room and behold
on the floor was a gang of fortune
hunters shooting the innocent craps out
of season.
This gang was not the regulation
gang of colored boys shooting for pen
MES and possibly nickels but the young
men were from some of the good fami-
lies of the city and constitute a good
part of the city "bloods," and on the
floor in front of them were piles of
money formed like the counting cashier
of the savings bank. The young men
were SO busy when the officers arrived
that not an eye was raised as the fing
ers snapped and the dice rolled across
the floor.
The two detectives look at the bunch
minute. then looked at the exits from
the room and finding them all in safe
order they announced in loud tones
their mission. The official announce
ment was passed up at first and the two
officers stood like disappointed news
boys. But when the last man had
had "crapped OUT and the dice ex-
changed hands one of the high rollers
allowed his eyes to stray away from
his pile and the lively craps and he
discovered the serene expression on the
faces of the two big detectives. First
look of surprise, then an expression
of dismay, then a cry of alarm and
the hunters dropped their game, 81
fenced their guns and timidly dropped
their hands and eyes before the two
vfgilant game wardens.
The two detectives called up the po-
lice and the patrol wagon called for the
shakers of the dotted squares. With
the wagon piled four deep and Off
GERS hanging on the sides the parade
wended its way down to the police sta
ton with a crowd of men and boys
trailing along behind. With hats pull
ed over their faces and with their
minds frantically hunting for names
other than their own the eleven rah-rah
dressers were hauled to the Tower. At
ter a half hour of registering and hand
ling of names they were informed of
the S25 bond and without CULVER they
all paid up except one who had been
the heavy loser. He had to stick it
out. and when his companions had de-
serted him he plead guilty to the whole
affair and the gang was cinched.
The nnes are SO each and they will
be placed this afternoon. The evidence
is strong enough to hold the whole
gang and the fines will be in the city
treasury tonight One man succeeded
in getting away from the officers but
they know him we'll and he will get his
medicine with a few pills extra.
The names given by the gang are:
c. M. Howard, John Wood, Bob Black,
j. Roller, Ray Wideman, VIII Wright,
Fred Whitman, Harry Evarts, Jesse At
kinson. ]. c. Ryan and Ed Wray.
This is the third big crap shooting
gang pulled this month and with the
ten-dollar-per fines it looks as though
the police department would soon be
able to furnish their own salaries and
pay off some of the numerous city
bonds.
Last night about midnight Officers
Mead and Costello saved about six
black eyes, three broken noses, six
skinned fists and any number of bruis-
es and cuts. A gang of young fellows
who had been shooting craps and who
had quarreled over the game came out
on the street to settle the matter and
the officers took them to the station
where they will settle with the judge.
The fight happened just above the Rock
Island depot on Kansas avenue and one
bloody nostril was the only damage
done before the officers arrived. The
fight was very peaceful one as far as
unnecessary noise was concerned and
all three men. were fighting as if they
meant it. The warriors included John
Andrews, John Glachner and Andy
Clark.
The officials at the Haskell insti-
tute Lawrence, are complaining to
the police on account of the downfall
of the young Indian students who
came to Topeka not long ago for the
| Haskell-Washburn football game and
who landed in the police station on
account of being drunk and disorder
| ly. The Haskell men say that the po-
| lice have no right to allow the In
dams to get whisky in this city and
| the federal authorities will take the
dams are at the federal prison in
Leavenworth and one of them had a
card of a Topeka druggist in his pock-
ct. This will cause a fight on the
druggists by the government.
/ SEQ 44an1 AIR"
/ During. the severe cold spell last
week Humane Officer King was kept
on the rum. Reports of suffering
| horses and animals came in from all
over the city and the busy little Off
Ger covered more territory than he
has covered in the last month or two.
Most of the complaints were on ac-
count of horses standing out in the
storm without covering. The grad
| ing camp at the corner of Fifteenth
| and Monroe allowed a large number
/ of their horses and mules to stand out
in the storm, but before the officer
could get there they had heard of
the complaint and a tent was hastily
constructed. Later the animals were
taken to stables in different parts of
the city. ~ r+
1 A little family cup was passed
around last night and before the cup
| could be stopped three brothers and a
cousin were captured by the police.
! Clark Licklyter opened the evening by
purchasing the necessary liquor. He
invited his two brothers, Cleveland and
Eddie. to help him dispose of 1t. Then
the cousin John George (this Is the
first name he could think of Joined the
happy throng and the band played on.
Officer England could not see the fun
in the matter and he asked that they
come with him and "see the sheet" as
Carl Lawson says. and they did. Five
dollars each was their license for con-
Quoting the amusement stand and they