The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-23

they must have brains"
With this last qualification in view
a civil service examination covering
general knowledge of the duties of a
policeman, his rights and restrictions
knowledge of the location of all the
business places of the city, and a
sight description of all the crooks In
Testing tire city is to be given
common school education. at least is
required before such examination can
be taken. Examinations will be given
applicants when several shall be
ready and if they pass the tests will
be placed on an available list for ap-
pointment The chief will still be
empowered to ask the resignation of
officers, and suggest appointments to
the mayor.
Present incumbents will not be
molested for small stature but flu
ture candidates must have the build
of Saul.
The mystery of the barefoot maids
of $40 Harrison has at last been
solved satisfactorily to the police. 1t
was Sunday night and the grassy turf
of Central park seemed soft and in
viting and peaceful as the slumbering
swans on the surface of the simmer
ing lagoon. Gertrude Long and Effie
Madison strolled into the lovers para
disc and their lovers met them there.
But the hard paving of civilization had
bruised the feet of the playful sprites
and the harsh footwear of modern
convention was cast at the foot of a
weeping willoY as they ran about the
velvet sod in thoughtless merriment.
Just then a policeman, from heaven
knows whence, espied their Fittings
and brutishly took a hand. Curiously
enough the men were told to hurry
nome to mother while the girls were
taken to the police station. They
were booked for trial last evening but
We're excused by the chief after long
telephone conference wherein he was
satisfied as to their intent.
''W-w-well ah d-d-don't know
W-w-what ah ken do. A-ah done So
s-s-soaked m-m-m-ma w-W-watch an
all ah g-got,f laboriously stated the
the Kiehl hand home at 91S Kan
sas avenue. where she created an ultra
Yermlll1on atmosphere Sunday night
she was fined $50 by Judge Urmy and
her suffering husband was on hand,
as ever, to do all in his power
This is one of many times Ola has
got out her high horse for a big noise
and the police are tired of her. The
5aller who is pretty ready advisor
f fna PERFECTLY y siRfsre upon hearing
arm saying, I'm tell you what you
ought to do. old fellow, instead of
worrying about paying that fine. Why
don't you just leave your wife in soak
A load of 1924 pounds of coal is
cruel burden to hitch onto one team
and adjudged so by Police Judge
Urmy when he fined A B. Van Horn
$50 for the offense.
Van Horn was driving for the jack
son Coal company but the team be-
longed to Frank Bechtelheimer They
We're horse and mule, the horse having
huge sore on the shoulder. The
drew along he
asphalt of Eighth street east of the
avenue was reached, when the weight
of the load sank the wheels into the
hot pavement and the struggles of the
team attracted the attention of hui
name passers who telephoned Officer
King and the police causing the arrest
of the driver.
Down you go. boy. The last man
we put down there died but you've got
to take it. You're bad case" but
Thornton Scales, a 15-year-old colored
boy, drew back clutching the detec-
tives legs, pleading to be allowed to
tell all he knew of wheel thieving.
Scales was arrested charged with
stealing a bicycle piecemeaI and con-
fessed to the charge. Three good
wheels were taken to the Simpson
known to be stolen from the reports
which the anti-wheel thief association
is keeping. The, claimants of the BIZ
cycles were awaited and Scales was
one of them. He was turned over to
the juvenile court.
Wandering about the eastern part
of the city eating raw fish which he
had caught in the Shunganunga with
a siene made from an old undergar-
ment, daffy German named Fred
Hebenstriet, was run down by Ser
geant Ross and Detective Lawson.
Hebenstriet is reported to have
been an inmate of a private asylum in
Chicago but broke out several weeks
ago. No relatives could be found to
return him to Chicago, and he was not
thought to be wholly insane, so he was
released to leave the city.
eyes, they told me they did not care
if 1 left" finally confessed Willie
Short, a deserter from the navy, who
had assisted in his own arrest that he
might be prepaid back to his own
California and his home at Los An
geIes.
Short is II years old but small of
stature and merely large enough for a
Middle He enlisted at San Diego,
Cal, about year ago and was put