The Topeka state journal., 1908-11-23
POLICE JOTTINGS.
Two Men Arrested for Beating
Up a Boy.
Over Indulgence in Liquor Was
Responsible.
HAS A BUSY TIME.
Many Petty Offerd ers Face Biz-
ZOner Judge Urmy.
Usual Grist of Indians Among
Them.

4 Hems
With the charge of assault strike,
beat and bruise' against them George
Keaberline and his brother John
Keaberline are awaiting trial at the
police station. This is their side of
it. But the rest of the story anxious
ly awaits the doctors verdict of the
seriousness of the condition of a II
year old boy, John Bollock, who is ly-
ing at his home, Sal East Sardou
street. suffering in. agony and under
the constant care OF asphysfcian.
Last night while crossing the Santa
Fe tracks just east of the viaduct, the
victim and his brother were pounced
upon by George Keaberline and his
brother John, who were in a partial
ly drunken condition and before help
could be summoned the boy was a
bleeding heap, fought over by the
brother Joe, who is but boy himself.
Joe Bollock however, was no match
for the two large burly drunks and his
brother was soon beaten into a. bleed
ing mass. When the two men had
completed their job to a satisfactory
end, they started down the Santa Fe
tracks running with all posi- Bile speed
which was much impeded by their
high spirited comments on the crime
they had just performed and by their
tipSy condition.
The two men did not use their fists
to much advantage in the assault as
the two little brothers made too for
midable defense. They picked up
huge sharp edged cinders and hurled
them at the youth. Some of the
cinders cut wide gashes in his face
and head and one of them knocked
out all of his front teeth. A bad cut
in the back Of the boys head is giving
the physicians considerable trouble
on icy Goo 81
brain will follow.
The trial is awaiting the final report
of the doctors and the two men will
receive a heavy sentence. They had
boy as he had done nothing to them
and as far as the family knows they
have never known each other. 1t was
just a plain case of coldblooded as
sault
After being questioned and lectured
by Judge Urmy for considerable
length of time, a Swede by the name
of August F. Bostrom shook his head
and said: me no understand" He
had been arrested for allowing his do
mestic animals to run at large much
to the annoyance of his neighbors and
he was arrested on a warrant He is
a carpenter living at4Secendz and Har--
turing all over the adjoining blocks.
When arrested the Swede could un-
derstand English perfectly we'll and he
recited several little piecessto the Jail
er, but when brought before the Judge
his sense of understanding failed him.
He understood the words: "I fine you
five dollars, however and was using
the very best of the Queens English
when taken back to his CELL
Charlie Baker, the star boarder at
the police station has the honor of ac-
complishing a feat never equaled in
the history of the police station. Last
night at the supper period he ate one
of the beans furnished by a local res
taurant keeper and within a half hour
he had the rock of ages crushed and
masticated. The feat was witnessed
by twenty admiring prisoners and his
sentence will be shortened five days on
account of the bravery exhibited.
bold act was performed by two
bricklayers this morning when they
came to the police station to seek the
release of their friend, Oscar Dahle-
gren, who had been arrested the night
previous for being drunk and disorder
ly. The two fellow workmen of the un-
lucky Oscar came to the station with
a jag on" as bad as the one exhibit
ed to the police by Oscar and then
asked Jailer Smith If they could not
sign a note for the release of their
friend 1t took but a few well chosen
words from the Jailer to convey
''hunch'' to them and they left the sta
ton as fast as their cylindrical soles
would carry them.
A colored waiter at the Copeland, CIV
ing his name as Jim" Doe, was ar
rested last night at the Rock Island de-
pot for exceeding his liquor speed linn
it. He was piled in the patrol wagon
with a number of Indians who were
caught at the depot at the same time
and when the dumping took place at
the police station Mr.. Doe saw a chance
for escape, seeing the officers busily en-
gagged in transferring the Indians, and
he made a rush for the summit of Fifth
street. The only man in the wagon who
was not busy was John .Bul' Clark,
reporter. He was deputized at once by
Patrol Driver Palmer to catch the fee
ing shadow and leaping from the seat
of the wagon he started in brave pur-
suit. When Mr.. Doe hit the curbing
just across the street from the station
he stumbled and with a crack and a
thud the cowboy sleuth came tumbling
after. He hit Jimmy on the back and
turning a perfectly cylindrical somer-
sault he fell against the pavement with
a dull crash. The scene was such