The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-10-23

orderly at the Rock Island depot was
released this morning after his fine
had been paid by Indian friends. John
was "tickled to death" to get out of the
bastile and when he left he was as
happy as a lark. Just before he took
his belongings he said to Tailor Smith;
For the last twenty years 1 have
been coming to Topeka to bail out my
| friends from this Jail. But Saturday
night was the first time that l was
ever behind the bars myself and today
| the first time my friends had cnanceI
to pay me back. / can say one fnlng-9
never got my booze in Topeka, Inc
boys put me on the train with II anu
came all prepared"
"I want to thank you chief and you
boys for keeping my son over night.
You did the right thing and you de-
serve praise" Parson Hayes of tn
A. NJ. E. church of North Topeka, thus
thanked the police for keeping MS
drunken son from harm. And l am
] much obliged to YOU all. too, SAID the
| obedient son as he left the statlon Win
his father. The old saying that preacn-
er's sons are always worse than otner
bows seems to have been proved last
night The Hayes lad was tighter
when arrested and all the way over IN
the patrol wagon he threatened the OF
| fcers by saying that he would sue
| the world" for this arrest.
bud" williams is at it again. Bud
is one of the premier dope artists In
the city and can show more eHects
from cocaine than any other man VINO
has ever been arrested by the ponce
He is a charter member of the white
horse gang" and is a-.bootleSser ny
trade. He makes a little pile with ms
bootlegging. Spends it on dope, JOINS
the white horse gang and then goes
crazy When he was captured py the
police he was running down the street
as fast as he could go, saying that there
were 300 street car men AFTER MIN. ne
said they were chasing him IN street
cars and he couldn't get out OF tneIi
way, The officers finally made him rea-
lie that the police were the only ones
after him, and as soon as he could get
this through his head ne chansen ms
course of fear and thought ana with
lean into the air he tapped his arms
franticalIv irving to fly. This time he
complained of the devil and said that
he had his horns under his ears. Inc
Topeka cops have never been mistaken
for devils before and they were at loss
what to do with the crazy man. he
was finally locked up in cage by hlm-
self and all night long he fought lmagi-
nary street car men and devils rms
morning he called the chief TO the door
of his cage and said that he believed
he had killed the whole of the noble
Three Hundred and the devils has ceas-
ed to bother him. Chief Eaton then
unlocked his cage, the jail door ana
the door of the office and Bud was
free man. He had hardly reached the
sidewalk before West Fourth street
car came along, and grabbing his hat
off his head and swinging his arms ne
ran in Jerks down Jackson street just
in front of the car. His eyes were
bulged out until they overlooked his
nose and when last seen he was touch
ing the pavement about three times to
the block, and had disappeared over the
southern horizon on Jackson street. He
was making for the car barns just
where his devils dwelt.
Williams is the man who knocked
over three or four nurses out at the
state hospital because he imagined they
were street car men. He was captur-
ed by five big policemen and locked up
in the city bastile. He was turned over
to the county Jail as insane but they
switched him onto the city again. No
one wants to attend to him and the
police force has it's hands full. He is
an old colored man about So years old.
Some people have an idea that if they
drop postal card to the chief of police
and without any description as to
color, size, name or place, he can find
their pet cat, regardless of the number
of men he must place on the job and
| the expense of looking up the past
records as to behavior and residence OF
the said animal Every day Chief Ea-
ton receives a Letter that reads some
thing like this:
81 have lost my dog. We all loved ii
so and it loved US and we want it back.
We think he was stolen by some bad
| boys or maybe a thief We want him
back right away and wish that you
would find him for u.s.
The color of the dog is never given.
The size is never thought of. The breed
| is an unknown piece of information.
The time the dog was stolen is a mys-
| terry. And to cover it all telephone
numbers and addresses are practically
a minus quantity under a radical
This is the way the city people make
monkeys out of the police force. The
| out of town people are as bad If not
worse. A letter was received the other
| day asking for a man and his last
name was the only name given. 1t
asked about his property and his finan-
| cial matters, etc. Then they desired a
| hasty answer. 1t would take a good
attorney to get ahold of most of the
information they desired and then they
| forget to even send a postage stamp.
AS Colonel Gordon says: They may
say that ignorance is bliss, but I say
| 1t is h"
to the rooming house at 100 East Fifth
| street, and without saying a word to
| anyone he left his carpetbag and few
This happened about a week ago and
dlter seItlnB llISu OF the Dag the pro-
| prietor called the police and told them
! to take charge of the nuisance. He
said that there might be one of those
| slow working Russian bombs inside and
he was not going to have the thing
! around his rooning house. The police
| opened the dreaded bag and it was full
! Of Women's clothes. Some of the stuff
was of good material. The grip will be
waiting in the police station for the
| return of the wandering boy. Possibly
| he is one of these men who have a
mania for running around In women's