The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-30
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Interesting Game of Craps Is
Interrupted.
Quiet Game of Checkers Also
Raided by Off GERS.
ARE MORE VIGILANT.
No Telling Who Will BE the
Next on List.
ARE MORE VIGILANT.
Unusual Number of Drunken
Men Arrested.

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A large and lucrative game of craps
was well under way at the house of
"Chink' Meyers on the corner of
Eighteenth and Kansas avenue last
night when the officers got wind of it.
Officers Leach, Meade, Summers,
Bryant, Griffin and Fowler surround
ed the house and there We're not too
many of them for as soon as an en-
trance was effected, there was a grand
rush for the windows, chairs and tables
being knocked over and the lights ex-
tinguished.
However, the shootists were all cap
tured' two white and seven colored
youths. The white fellows were Will
Hawkins and Norris Van SERVER, the
colored, Will Minor, John Miles, Sam
Warren, Tom Allen, Harry Archer, Jim
Smith, and Tom Dunn. In police court
l this morning they pleaded guilty and
were fined ten dollars each.
| This offense is only one of a series in
that district. In the summer time the
Offenders used to get out under the
| street light and play the dice, keeping
| a careful watch for the officer along
| that beat. The grand coup last night
| ought to hold them for awhile. Some
| of the captured have already begun
work on the rocks and others are wait
|
out A relative of young Hawkins,
| while paying that lads fine this morn
ing, delivered himself of an argument
for the Sunday theater. He said that
if the young fellows could only go to a
show they would then go home and not
get mixed into these troubles resulting
from having nowhere to go to spend the
evening.
Shortly after noon Sunday, just when
Ia oh n
Dan Atkinson, a drunken laborer, was
found by Detective Meade at the corner
of an alley on Second street. He was
in full view of every one on the street
far up Kansas avenue. Women
going home from the Catholic church,
mostly German and Russian women
from the riverside, were forced to cross
to the other side of the street in order |
to avoid him. On the way to the sta |
ton he finished the bottle of whisky he |
held and reached there limp and for
getful. The previous night he had been
causing a disturbance around the City |
Mission meeting, insulting every one he |
saw, and indulging in much profanity |
Dan is married and lives in the Bot |
toms He pleaded guilty to the charge |
of indecent exposure and was fined $25
Three good old pals and side wheelers |
of police note. Chas. Baker, plumber; |
Chas. Boyer, a painter, and Lew Maze, |
a blacksmith, were all picked up Sun |
day morning on the score of drunken |
ness. These old pals always stick to- |
gether if one wants to get drunk, they |
all get drunk but they are all willing |
Should one be dismissed the other must |
each be treated the same. In this case |
they all pleaded guilty and were fined, |
Boyer and Maze ten dollars each- But |
Baker was stuck for $25. However, !
there is a reason. The former two were |
simply down rolling in the mud. while |
Baker was ambling up and down the |
most of the sidewalk and making an |
excessive and foul mouthed noise.
Fleeing across the street from an
irate husband who had been Informed |
that she was with another man. Mrs.
Will Dupree and Will Dupree were in
tercepted by Officer Wonderly and
taken to the police station last night
for disturbing the peace. Their trial
is set for $3.50 today. "Good bye,
Honey" was the farewell as they
were separated for the night, she in
the care of the matron and he to
cell. They are colored people living
in the bottoms.
More than the usual number of
drunks were taken in yesterday. Be
sides those mentioned, Arthur Coe
and Joe Hallig were taken in and
Bartell, a farmer, Leo Urbass, Joe
Franklin Thomas Ryan are held
pending an investigation. William
Prick and John Patterson are to be
tried today for vagrancy.
B.F. Meyers and Morris CASTOR
were arrested for the fiendish crime
of playing checkers on Sunday. They
were only playing "funnies'' and were
ignorant of the ordinance prohibiting
the game. Their trial is set for $3.50
but one of them must reach K. c. to-
day in order to cinch a job. However
Judge Urmy could not let him go I'M
less he pleaded guilty and paid a fine,
which the man seemed to think was
an absurdity.
Apropos the article in Saturdays
paper about Miss Hanlon's troubles,
Mr. Dorsey on behalf of the accused
makes the following statement: THAT
statement of Miss Hanlon's is a false
hood from start to finish. Instead of
going fifteen steps as she stated, she
was gone fifteen minutes. She had
time to talk to officer Walker on duty
across the street. to go to the ex-
press office; had time to go to the
other end of the platform to the bag
gage room. No train was in, none
had been in, there was no hurry to
catch any train. The lady treated
Miss Hanlon with courtesy and even
helped her look for the book"
This seems to utterly discredit Miss
Hanlon's story and puts a reporter in
the position of an innocent bystander.