The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-04

attorney hanging onto the legs or a
colored woman dangling from WIN
dow-and what a g-pul1ng. "A nttle
story and a half house where men and
women cuddle like sheep with Al exits
where men and women skiddo like rab-
bits was surrounded by the ponce last
night and entered. Many of the dem1-
monde were seen but Just then some
thing happened; that part of the world
had vanished and the watch outside saw
them not. They had departed, all ex-
cept two demure little females and the
one held by the legs was swung onto
from the outside and finally pulled away
from the officers or maybe it was two
for they did not know whether or no
they both had hold of the same woman
but they could see it was feminine.
The house raided was down on Crane
street. It was negro rendezvous with
much reputation. Constructed on
peculiar plan with corner porches and
an odd arrangement of rooms all of
which have several doors and windows
opening into one another or into the
street or yard, the police knew of its
Irregularities and three remained out
side to pick up the falls from the Win
dows which are not too high to jump
from.
Sergeant Ross led the band which
consisted of Detective Summers and
Hopkins, Patrolmen Fowler and James
and Attorney Wilson. Ross, Summers
and Wilson entered first while the 9TH
ers remained on guard. In the first
room nothing but cards were in prog
reSs. In the next were cOlOred women
and white and colored men. The whole
number were ordered under arrest and
James from outside and the chief who
had just arrived on the motor bike
started up the stairs from the entrance
door when that something happened.
Ross grabbed two skirts and held on.
Summers and Wilson grabbed two legs
as they went through the window but
could not hold on so two women were
the only captures.
Some were seen to have dived head
foremost through the windows, these
presumably fell in shadows and sneak
ed, away but the two men at the rear of
the building saw nothing and the sew
eral seen inside to rush for the back |
room and were seen no more were a |
puzzle to the police who began |
search of the house for trap doors and |
the like. A little room was found in |
the rear of the house which held two |
cases of beer and a little steep stair |
led to a. low cellar. Nothing but a few |
empty bottles were found in the musty |
hole of a cellar. but side opening up
held by a crooked fence post offered |
room for body to squeeze through |
into the dirt walled cellar of a tumble |
seen forms move back of the out |
buildings of the next lot but supposed |
it was merely lookers-on, who had |
come as close as they dared as is the |
had not called for them to halt. Those |
forms are now supposed to have been
the escaped inmates of the raided |
house escaped through the beer room !
and the old cellars. More reason for
the failure to question the lockers on |
by the officers was the fact that James
had just staggered down the stairs
into the yard, sick and faint from the
horrible stencil of a room up stairs.
The chief alone searched the upstairs
for none other would go further than
the head of the stairs so fearful was
the odor which permeated the atmos-
phere of the upper story where were
the chambers of the women
The two captives and the beer were
taken to the station. The women gave
their names as Myrtle Chesney and
Maggie Porter. In court this morning
Maggie said she had Just called for
Myrtle's washing and that she lived
on Klein street. which is true for part
of the time for her husband was in the
court room and said that his wife had
gone out saying she was going to
church. Myrtle admitted that she
roomed in the house, but had been !
there only three weeks and did not |
know it was disorderly
They were both locked up again to
appear this evening when the evidence !
against the place is more complete.
Trouble for the violators of the prohib- |
itory laws of the state seem never to end
or at least that must be the opinion of |
Hutch Cave of North Topeka and H F. |
White who is at the present time a guest |
at the Hotel de Wilkerson with a good |
long sentence before him. which he is |
doomed to serve.
Hutch Cave has had similar troubles in /
the past and the arrest experience is not |
a new one to him. However. he is feeling |
easier under the present conditions than |
under many similar ones as the county
Officers failed to find a stock of wet goods !
at his place, 127 West Railroad street The !
warrants in each instance We're sworn out !
by County Attorney John Schenck and /
while no goods were found at the Cave
domfcile there is other evidence which will: I
be introduced at the trial of the case.
Cave gave a bond of $500 which was sign
ed bV A. c. Townsend who refirad FROM