The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-11-18

one of the detectives spied red gaso-
line can in the corner of a wood shed
which opened into the kitchen of the
shack and the supposed gasoline was
bright sparkling beer.
One night while peeking into the
windows of an alley shed just in the
rear of a business block on lower Kan
SaS avenue, local detective saw the
sight of his life. In the room were
three men and two girls and they were
all sitting in chairs around small
hole in the floor through which extend
ed a half dozen rubber tubes. Each
person had a tube in his mouth and a
huge piece of cheese in each hand.
They were laughing and having the
time of their lives. Waiting until the
patrolman on that beat passed on the
street below the detective kept a close
watch on the place and when the officer
came strolling by he gave him the whis-
tie and summoning him quietly to the
window he hurried the officer to the
nearest phone and gave word for rub
Der soled detachment of police to make
the capture. The police arrived and at
ter surrounding the house a knock was
given on the low door. Each extremi-
ty of the rubber tube gave a jump and
with a hasty shove the tubes were
pushed out of sight. When the officers
searched the place they found a large
sized key under the floors and in it
was a series of tubes through which the
thirsty drinkers sucked the Milwaukee
fluid
There are hundreds of cases on rec
ord where the local police have found
beer in pop bottles and in ketchup and
preserve bottles and vessels of all
kinds. In two or three instances the
officers have found kegs of beer buried
out in the back yard among the weeds
and rubbish and under the bed is the
favorite hiding place of bottles and
cases. In the last few weeks the ia
vorite scheme of the bootleggers is to
exhibit cider in every form possible
and on the strength of the cider sell
whisky and beer.
All of these things sound as if To-
peka was regular den for bootleg
gers but it is far from SO. Never
has a man been able to sell for many
days without the knowledge of the po-
lice and never has the force failed to
catch the offender. The only reason
people think that other cities are clean
is because they never hear of the I'M
demanded ways of disposing Of the
liquor and other thirst and dope
quenchers.
Commencing at the age of fifteen
her first offenSe being drunk on
parking out Tenth avenue Jessie Har-
ris was arrested last night for being
drunk and street walking. She is but
twenty years old but has crowded
more sin into those few years of wild
ness than a woman of twice the age
and a resident of the Bottoms. Jessie
first came into the ltmelight five years
ago. It was a colo rainy night and
the young girl lay out on the parking
near Bethany with practically no COW
ering, her clothing being torn from
her body. Since then she has entered
every department of the average ca
reer of a Belle of the Bottoms and but
five years have elapsed since her first
misdemeanor. She started out drink
ing, then began taking cooke" after
which she became an inmate of a dis
orderly house. Since including these
three Studies in her curriculum she
has entered into several other little
side lines which have kept her before
the police continually.
Officer F'ribance made a valuable
catch last night but before the prison
er could be viewed by the detectives