The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-03-23
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Officers Respond to Riot Call
From "The Bottoms.'
Bad Negroes We're Using Knives
and Guns.
NO ONE WAS KILLED.
Several Badly Bruised and Cut
With Knives.
Mrs. Thorpe Approves Keep Off
Street Order.
10 ONE WAS KILLED.

Leila and Felix Dotson, Jim Jor-
| dan, Leona Shepherd, Mary Collins
and Ella Buckles, all colored, and
tough characters from the bottoms
of northeast Topeka, were arraigned
| in police court this morning on
charges ranging from disturbing the
peace to attempt to- kill and resisting
an officer. All of them pleaded not
guilty and their trials were set for
$3.50 this afternoon.
This bad half dozen negroes were
the cause of a riot call being sent in
| to police headquarters last evening at
about o'clock. Officers Summers,
Leach, Hall and Ross answered the
call, and after a brush with the wo-
men, succeeded in arrestfng Jordan
and Felix Dotson, who had been
| fighting. They took the women along
on the charge of resisting an officer
and disturbing the peace.
Jordan and Leila Dotson are sweet
hearts, and the woman had accused
| her lover of keeping company with
other sirens. He admitted his guilt
and the woman scorned, slugged him
on the ear. Jordan retaliated with a
love tap that sent his sweetheart
down for the count. Her mother
came to the rescue with club, and
was also f1oored by the warlike Jor-
dan. Then came Felix, bad negro,
to aid his sister. Jordan retreated in
the face of superior numbers, and
harassed his purSuerS with a run
ming gun fire.
Felix had a knife in his hand when
he overlook Jordan and in the scuffle
Jordan dropped his gun and also
drew knife. He gave Felix bad
cash in the shoulder. The arrival of
r at
to further hostilities-
In police court this morning the
answers of the dusky prisoners to his
honor's question of 'tAre you guilty ?"
were 1udicrous. Jordan said: Il did
MT start no riot. Z was runnin', that's
ALL This gemman, (pointing to Fee
lix) was after me with a big knife
When asked if he was armed, Jor-
dan said:
mo, sab. I just had a little Fourth
it once or twice to scare him off,
Jordan's Fourth of July toy was a
As bull dog and Ea1 wicked, looking
piece of artillery.
All the negroes@mixed up in this
riot are old offenders, declare the
police, and are about = the toughest
chara cters in the bottoms"
Ed Weaver and Clark Lickliter
were arraigned this morning on a
charge of gambling last night. They
will be tried this afternoon.
John Moore, who was picked up
late last night In an alley In a drunk
en- stupor by the police, claimed that
he had been robbed by gang of
men he had been drinking with in
the bottoms. He said he had lost
about SIS. The police did not pay
much attention to his story.
A man named TaIkington, who has
been in the ho1dover for some time
was turned over to the state today,
and will be prosecuted on a state
charge.
Chief Eaton has installed a COM
plete photographers outfit and put
Detective Judkins, who is an amateur
photographer, in charge of this de-
partment of criminology. The plan
of photographing all prisoners except
the plain DRINKS was started this
week, and it is a good one. A cabi
net and file system viii be installed
and biographical records kept of all
the prisoners in connection with their
pictures.
Al Warren, who was arrested last
week on suspicion Of being in the Rouse
robbery and hold up March II, was the
first subject for Photographer Judkins.
darlington was also photographed be-
fore being sent to the county Jail.
One Of the victims of the Rouse hold
up was present at police headquarters
this morning to identify Warren. He
was positive that the pistol that the po
lice found on Warren is the same
weapon he looked down into the night
of the holdup. 1t was a short-barreled,
nickeI-plated pistol of the bulldog pat
tern This gentleman will take look
at Warren tonight and pass upon his
identity.
Matron Thorpe has just received the
third shipment of books from the
Moody Institute at Chicago for the pris-
oners of the city and county jails.
These books are gotten up along prac-
teal lines. They are small. strongly
bound. printed in large type and deal
briefly with religious subjects that are
most likely to interest prisoners. In
the new list are the four gospels, each
separately bound the sermons Of
Moody, a story Of London life and crime
and redemption and list OF adventures
compiled from the Old Testament.
Mrs Thorpe says that many of the
prisoners read these books with interest,
while others tear them up. She believes
they do a lot of good in the main.
Chief Eaton and Mrs. Thorpe talked
this morning about the good results of
the chiefs new order for girls to keep
off the streets at night unless accom-