The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-09
POLICE JOTTINGS.
Two Men Who Got Into Jail Ov-
er Dollar.
Attempted to Short Change a
Business Men.
SMALL BOYS ARRESTED
Tried Their Hand at Youthful
Hhitecapping.
Echo of Recent Raid on the Auto
lists.
SMALL BOYS ARRESTED

/ ACOSs
For trying to work Mr.. Oscar Krause
in the North side harness and leather
store of KrauSe & Son in a little
changing game. two never-work-at-
anything -always-somebody. H. G.
King and w. d. Stanley are spending
the cold weather in the city prison and
their luck.
Representing themselves to be work.
ers on the dixie these two men went
into the store and asked for a snap
a harness snap. They were shown one
and to pay for it one of the men threw
a two dollar bill on the counter. one
dollar and 50 cents in change was pass
| ed back when the purchaser found he
had nickel in his pocket and draw
| ing the dollar toward him asked for
/ another dollar in place of the change.
When the other dollar was thrown on
| the counter, he wanted his two dollar
bill back and in return for it pushed
over the change and the dollar Just laid
down, keeping the first dollar and get
ting the bill also. They had gone, but
krause thought something was queer
about that changing and found he was
out 81 and harness snap. Running
out he saw Patrolman Walker and told
him to arrest the fellows who had not
yet disappeared.
! They were taken to the station for
investigation and brought before the
judge, struck up the familiar tune in
| Topeka of late, I've been workin' on
the levee,' bat just like others 1t was
found they had not. and as a conse-
quence they are still in the prison. 1t
has become the custom with the vag-
rants and others picked up to make
their defense upon the ground that
they have come here to work on the
dixie or that they have been working
on the dixie. In a very few instances
only have the dixie contractors ever
heard of the men but every tramp who
comes to the city knows of the dixie
and uses it as a blind. =
| These two men who said they were
working on the dixie were carrying a
hundred or more. envelopes inscribed
| to help the poor and paralyzed,' which
| they are supposed to have used at times
when their speech failed them.
Warrants are issued for the arrest
of gang of small boys who Individual
ly are harmless but who when they
gang up work havoc on any object of
their wrath. The boys are David
Dixon, Fred Janison, ''Swede'' Osten,
Joe Rocks and Dave Lowe.
| NThe- complaint was made by S. J.
Wilson. a boy who, as he was standing
| in front of the Grand opera house
where a spiritual meeting was in prog
at the hands of the boys. The gang
had some grudge against Wilson and
| asked Lowe who was a stranger to
| the others if he did not want to take a
/
| though he did not know who he was
and had not seen the color of his eyes,
/ he slipped UP nearer and struck him
| a mighty blow behind the ear. Wilson
fed and the whole gang followed, adj
ministering a good thrashing. Wilson
spotted Lowe and had him arrested
last evening but the remainder of the
| warrants were filled out this morning.
1t is quite likely that the boys are
all under the age limit of sixteen years
for the police court and great synpa-
thy should be extended the officer who
must walk to the various ends of the
town on day like this to serve the
| warrants.
The echo of last weeks rampage
| on the merry automobiles has sounded
| at the station and DR.. w. F. Bowen
who was wanted but had gone out of
the city last week has now returned
and notified to come around and see
| the police judge. The doctor in hurry
| ing from place to place has been seen
| a number of times and fined in court
but the machine has caught the habit
counterfeit the fever. There are other
| doctors who drive faster than Bowen
| but the police seem to be suffering
from stra bismus, so far as they are
| concerned. Aren't DR.. Bowen's calls
as urgent as the others?
Joseph Sheridan and Jess Mccoy,
young men who know not the pain OF
manual labor but who nevertheless go
| into an awful fret trying to think of
some excuse to give the judge for their
| vagrancy have been placed on the
rock reducing plant.
| They were found at the Rock Island
| depot last night at 1 o'clock by Patrol
man Wonderly and brought to the sta
| ton. One claimed to have had money
| to get a bed but he did not show any
| symptoms of so doing when found and
the other couldn't think of anything as
| good so the judge awarded them five
! days each on the rocks where by dill
| gent pecking they will be able to keep
| warm and have meal now and then.
| Leniency is usually extended educa-
| tional institutions but the Barber coll
| lege has been fined a three dollar bill.
| A H. TIGER was found guilty of throw
| ing refuse of the shop out into the
| street to the winds and weather of
| lower Kansas avenue He claimed he
| was not guilty, and SO is a lot of money
| for a college to raise, but things are
things and the ordinance is one of
them.
| An imported printer from Kansas
City. Frank jerks. brought the K. c.
spirit with him to Topeka when he got
his Job with the State Printery and had
to be dragged to the prison last night
1 overloaded and exaberant. jerks could
not pay his fine but thinks his boss will
i fix it cup before night.