The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-29
That Is Charge Made by G. w.
Trickett.
rendered a $4,000 Attorney
ship by Brewery Interests.
HE WAS NOT EASY.
Suspected the Purpose and De-
clined.
Condition Was That 1t Would
Require All His Time.

Kansas City, Aug. &C. w. Trick
EFT, assistant attorney general for wy
andotte county, gave out a statement
yesterday In which. he said that he had
been offered a $4,000 attorneyship
that would have required him to give
up the fight against the Joints" Mr..
| Trickett said further that j. ]. Helm
had volunteered to support him for
the Kansas City, Kan, postoffice.
Mr.. Helm was shown the statement
of Mr.. Trickett and denied it in en-
tirety. He also gave out a statement.
"a few days after the padlocks
went on the joint DOORS" Mr. Trickett
said, "or about July or 6, 1906, a
large portly gentleman came to my
office and said he represented the
| Peoples Ice company; that Mr.. Kim
| brell the prosecutor in Kansas City,
| MO, had commenced, or was about to
| commence, an action against them I'M
| der the trust law; that they desired
| to engage a lawyer to take special
charge of that litigation and had de-
cided to offer the place to me.
| He at some length explained and
! discussed the matter, and said that the
| litigation would require all of my time
and that he was authorized to offer
$4,000 a year, with written contract
for five years. He emphasized so fire.
quently that they would want all my
| to get me to resign. I asked him the
| question if the breweries were not
stockholders in the ice company. His
reply was:
They are deeply Interested
His reply convinced me it was sim
ply scheme to induce me to resign.
| informed him I could accept no en-
| ployment that would interfere with my
| duties as assistant attorney general
who was the mani" Mr.. Trickett
was asked.
He gave me his card but I lost it
| He was a large, we'll dressed man, and
would know him were 1 to see him. y
do you remember his name?"
No, 1 cannot recall it," replied Mr.
| Trickett.
"a few days after this happened
| continued Mr.. Trickett, -. ]. Helm,
| called at my office at 644 Minnesota
avenue and after introducing himself
| he commenced talking the appoint
ment of a postmaster for our city. He
| seemed to think / was an applicant for
the place and stated that he could Sc
cure the appointment for me If
| would resign as assistant attorney
general. He explained that Senator
Warner had been their attorney for
twenty years and that they would
send him to Washington by the first
train and would guarantee the ap-
pointment within forty-eight hours af-
| ter his arrival in the national capitol
| I cut him short by saying that he was
making a mistake as it was Judge
| Keplinger, my partner. who was a
| candidate.
Mr. Helm then left my room and
| went into Judge Keplinger's room and
made a similar proposition to him.
| Judge Keplinger refused to consider
it and a few days later A. L. Berger,
| an attorney for Helm Brewing COM
pany, appeared upon the political
scene opposing Judge Keplinger for
| the Office and advocating the appoint
ment of w. R. Childs, who eventually
| got the place.
"a few days later Thomas Carey
| came to my Office and wanted to know
if something could be done to stop the
| closing movement. l told him that
| there could not and he left, saying if
| anything showed up by which any
thing could be done to let him know,
as he had been authorized by the
| brewers to act for them
Kansas City, Kan. Stirred Up.
The prosecution of Mr.. Trickett will
be the subject of the sermons in most
| of the churches in Kansas City Kan
Sunday morning and at night severa
| mass meetings will be held, one OF
| which will be addressed by Mr.. Trick
| EFT. This programme was agreed upor
| at a meeting of the Civic league last
night.
The ministers agreed to unite in ar
| effort to arouse the people who favor
| law enforcement to a danger of the
| brewers regaining control of Kansas
| City. Kan, and opening saloons again
This prosecution is all a plot tc
| force Mr.. Trickett out of Office" said
| NJ. A. Waterman at the meeting
when the brewers found there was nc
| hope of securing his removal from Of
| flee by political intrigues they hoped
| to disgrace him away from home. There
he had been a power in the prohibition
fight and If he could be driven to jail
it would undo much of his work"
w. T. Hopkins. another member of
the Civic league, lent color to Mr.. Wa
terman's statement.
Matthew Knapp, who says that he Is
a detective, came to me-" he said. He
asked me to go before the league and
tell them he knew of many joints in
Armourdale and would furnish the in
formation if we would secure a lawyer.
I told him Mr.. Trickett would prose-
cute. He said no; he wanted another
lawyer. After some insisting 1 found
that he wanted us to employ G. R.
Cooksey, who brought this action
against Mr.. Trickett. This was before
Mr.. Trickett was arrested
Trickett Asks a New Trial.
c. w Trickett, assistant attorney
general of -Wyandotte county. was not
sentenced yesterday. Mr.. Trickett filed
motion for new trial and as the pros
ecution was not ready to argue
sentence was postponed until next
Wednesday. The motion for new trial
alleges that the jury was wrongfuIly
Instructed and that the verdict was
contrary to the law and the evidence