The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-14
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Amateur Safe Cracker Who Be-
came Discouraged.
Tried in Vain to Pound Door Off
Dyal Bros. Strong Box.
MOP CASE CONTINUED.
Question of License Will Be
Threshed Out Today.
Negro ROys Fined for Brutality
Beating White Boy.

working frantically with a hammer
and chisel on the hinges of the safe,
some premature yeggman experiment.
ed in the Dyal junk store COL North
Kansas avenue, last night. How long
he beat at the hinges and knob is
hard to determine, probably until he
had crushed all his fingers in the dim
light of an alcohol lamp, for he had
cut some vicious gashes in the iron
front of the safe.
Detective Hopkins this morning
found that the burglar entered by way
of the rear door, The door is Sc
cured on the inside by wooden bar
falling into an iron socket. The anna
teur had pried open the door with an
improvised Jimmie until he could get
his hand through far enough to lift
the bar from its place. He evidently
had his intentions riveted upon the
safe before entering, as the shop con-
tanned nothing but copper, brass and
junk, too weighty for a pocket pre-
former. AS proof of this theory it
might be stated that had he been
equipped to carry away junk he may
as well have taken the safe ITSELF Still
it safely held whatever treasure it
contained One hinge was partially
dislocated by the chiseling and the
knob was battered and bent, though
nOl enough 10 prevent the WOIhlIlS Ol
the combination by the proprietor.
Apparently disguised with the ex-
pertinent and his inability to solve the
combination, the would be midnight
robber left his job for further study
of 1.-THE Yeggman's Art Illustrated
and Exemplified by One Who Knows"
The Monarch Mop agency case is
continued until this evening session of
court. The president of the firm and
enough wall mops to break up all the
cobwebs in the city have arrived
which would indicate that if license
is needed then there will be some
bought. But there is still a maybe
not in some minds and today will tell.
Officer James explains his action in
one of them had offered to let the U.
P. porter take mop on the spot and
hence was nothing but peddler.
Three young negro school boys
have broken into police circles num-
Der of years before due by jumping
onto white boy Of their own age and
leaving tracks on his pale frame. The
negroes are Charles Scott, Bennett
Perkins and Grover Starnes, aged 16
years. Their victim is T. l.. Huntoon,
about the same age.
Huntoon happened over in Ten
nesseetown near the colored Baptist
church on his wheel just at the time
the three negroes were going to the
church Monday night. The shaded
boys grabbed him and did bruise and
beat him according to a warrant Sc
cured later.
They were all rounded up into the
court room yesterday afternoon. "Just
for fun seemed to be all the excuse
brought out at the trial for the bru-
tai treatment of the young white. The
three pleaded not guilty but upon the
evidence were fined S5 each and piueu
a corrected estimate of their obliga-
lions to law and order in order to
avoid the penitentiary in later years.
George Christie, Germany 'O4, tour
ing America, quite unlike man of
similar name who has worried Bar
ney Oldfield considerably, arrived in
Topeka last night and was sidetracked
in a private car in which sheep rode
east. He, instead of waiting for
carriage, began Immediately to seek
another car going on west. In the
search, unfortunately, Patrolman Fri
bance saw him and invited him to stay
over night at the Eaton house and
find a way out of town the next
morning.
Christie had heard of the laborer's
pay in Kansas where employment was
plentiful and wages high. He had a
hard time saying so, however, on ac-
count of his legacy from the father
land and the judge was handicapped
in his lecture by that same obstruc-
ton in his listeners English compre-
hension. Still the gist of the fatherly
talk left no doubt with Christie that
the American method of getting job
on a farm was to get 1t from a far
mer and not a brakeman.
He was sent to the state employ
ment bureau for help promising to
hike into the country and leave the
railroads to pay their brakeman.
Edward Mullin a lock maker lies in
a twenty-four hour dream at the
Eaton sanitarium awaiting con-
sultation to determine whether or not
he belongs to the U. S. A. The way
of the unemployed is very hard If
he gets on a train to go somewhere
to work he is "jugged" and given a
period on the rocks to be released no
nearer a job and often much farther
by the reputation of having been
locked up. If he looks around for
work. and fails to find it and sits down
to rest he is locked up for vagrancy
and takes a turn at the rocks to be
freed to the same condition. If he
acts like he did not know just what
he wants then a big policeman takes
him up as a deserter, for the sake of
that $50, and he is thrown into the
"den of creepers' for a, day, awaiting
investigation. But to get back to
Mullin-he will be asked who he is
today in the judges hearing.