The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-20
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Affinity Trial Set for This
Evening in Police Court.
An Echo of the st. Patrick's
Day Celebration.
AN ARMY DESERTER.
James williams Worked for
Months in Santa Fe Shops.
He Was Captured Today by
Detective Summers.

The trial of ]. N AIsup and his af-
finity, Minnie Heider, will be held in
police court at the evening session to-
day The affinity innovation does not
meet with a kind reception from the
police for the reason that the law and
city ordinance calls it something else
and provides a fine of at least $25.
A large number of marriage certif-
Gates, gilt frames and all, seem to have
been lost in the floods or misplaced in
the attics, but that is no real diSpar-
agement to the affinities for the bur
den of proof is on the shoulders of
the police and it is a very heavy bur
den. Several couples have already
pleaded guilty and run for the pro-
bate judge when the charge could not
have been proven. The present case,
however is termed "a cinch," be-
cause the persons were arrested very
early in their luxuriously furnished
apartments at 412 Kansas avenue by a
squad of officers who will be called
upon for testimony.
After celebrating the beloved old st.
Patrick in the only acceptable way
Pete Bagan, the best brick mason in
town was 'jugged'' the following day
apparently having forgotten that the
Green Day was all over Working,
Pete demands the highest wages for
his trade, and gets 1t, but that only
the better furnishes the wherewithal
for another spree which is established
many is the time Pete has seen the in
side of the prison bars. Allowing the
due respect for St. Patrick, who is
justly celebrated, the judge fined the
old Irishman only $40, but he did not
have that much left so a really good
mason is breaking rocks into bits alto
gether too small for any use he ever
put them to before.
The lanky, Yankee boys in blue are
not particularly honored in Topeka.
They expect to be however, and when
they visit the city from the Riley fort
they stand for no humiliation before
the six foot policemen. Yet to the
mind of policeman every soldier he
sees is either deserter or a drunk and
the khaki clothes are the red rags to
a patrolmau's eye.
There is a $50 reward for the return
of a deserter which makes the q. S. A.
man a suspicious character until he
has shown his pass. James w. Will
1iams, however, concealed his identity
for several months in the Santa Fe
shops until two days ago Detective
Summers got a tip and investigated.
Williams was nothing loath to confess
his identity without any effort on the
part OF the officer. In fact he said he
was glad he had been found at last
as every time he opened the door of
his boarding place to go to work he
feared some one would be there wait
ing for him. He also stated that he
was about to be married and would
rather go back to the army and fin
ish his time than to suffer the humilia-
ton of a detection later on. Summers
took him back to Riley yesterday and
claimed the reward.
Last evening another suspected de-
serter. David Winehouse. was arrested
by OFFICERS Wyatt and Douglas with a
vision of reward. He is in the city
prison smoking Bull Durham and
waiting for the kilograms to the fort
to claim him or release him, as he
says nothing.
The trial of Dave Burrel. accused of
selling liquor and delivering orders of
Pabst beer. which was to have been
held yesterday has been postponed un-
tel March gath. on account of the ill
ness Of the defendant.
A cracked letter written in great
bold pen work came to the chief of
police this morning from Wilfred J. R.
Grover of Trenton. N. J., and Phila-
delphia which, if the suggestions
therein are observed, will no doubt
greatly add to the efficiency of the
local police. Whoever Grover is, he
says-and that is the point: 'I rec
ornmend for a job on your police and
detective force. The ReHgiously Insane
Roman Catholic Heather Detectives
Of Trenton who threaten TO shoot men
TO find out If they are United States