The Topeka state journal., 1909-01-18
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Peter Ficklund's Family Row
Lands Him in Jail.
Some One Complained and the
Arrest Followed.
LOCKED UP FOR NIGHT
Explains and Will Be Let Off
Without Fine.
Owner for Stolen Welch Horse
Appears.
LOCKED UP FOR NIGHT

lhe NlcklundS and the police have ar
rested the head of the family. No /
names are mentioned but if the woman
who lives across the alley does not stop !
meddling she will get into trouble. |
Peter Vicklund lives at HOO Brooks |
avenue in Lowman Hill with his wife, |
oaby and some six boys; the wife is |
quick tempered. two of the big boys are
bull headed, and the father drinks as |
he says gradually but outside of that
they are all right and get along very
nicely without the assistance from over
the dead line.
A telephone call to the station
brought an officer out to quelI an aw-
ful disturbance at the home but the |
trace OF the complaining person was /
found.
Peter was kept in the prison over !
night. This morning he and his mar
were in the court room to tell the story /
Vicklund was charged with being
drunk and disturbing. He said, when
the gas went low 1 thought it would be
room but only in the kitchen and the I
living room yet the boys insisted that /
we have good fire in the other room. +
l did not want to do it and promised
that early this morning 1 would get
coal burner set up and they could have
all the fire they wanted. Nothing
would do, however, but what the boys
wished and we had a little row. Yes,
drink some but never get drunk or
stagger. 1 was not drunk yesterday. |
Our little fuss passed over and was !
with my wife and baby when a police |
man came TO the door and told me
Chief Eaton wanted to see me- He
promised 1 could come back so I
kissed my wife and baby and went
along. They threw me in Jail and I
walked the floor all night The son
corroborated his fathers tale: MY
brothers are bull headed" he said, land
my mother is quick tempered but
everything is as soon patched up as
started l think the boys and father
just had good rag chewing last night
and mother said this morning that
when they begun she went out for
walk. She denies that she phoned to
| the police but says that she went back
and all was well and that Peter did
nothing to merit arrest. 1t seems to
me that a woman in the neighborhood
who is a nuisance and forever making
trouble for us took the opportunity of
the woman hung around. acted and
talked so indecent that he would never
| take his young wife out home for fear
that woman would be there.
The father and son offered to plead
| guilty and pay the fine but the judge
rather thought there would be no fine
so left the case until evening for more
| evidence.
An anxious, frightened call brought
/ Officers WonderIy, James Hopkins and
/ Palmer to the home of Tom Cooper at
| Third and Jefferson Sunday to save the
| had gotten on a cocaine drunk and was
/ in the procedure of demolishing the
/ house. Nearly all the windows were
| broken out, mangled chairs, and other
| furniture lay scattered over the floor
and Tom had just seized upon a razor
/ with which to cut his throat when the
! police appeared. A little cash on the
| side of his neck, by way Of preliminary,
! had just been inflicted as an officer
! grabbed his arm The people were
! frightened and were hiding from him
! behind cupboards and tables, he seemed
! to be nearly crazy and was certainly
feI. to the floor In convulsions, doc
| tor was hastily called and the officers
| thought he would surely die before aid
| came. He rallied, however, and was on
/ his feet when the doctor arrived.
Tom is out on bond of $50 awaiting
trial this evening
The thumb screw of polite police
regulation has again been tigntened
nm a little by the chief and no more
! smoking is permitted around the sta
! ton. on duty or in public. Chewing
is considered to be in bad taste like
wise II not more so.
Red Welsh. the horse thief with a
| penitentiary record who was ap-
| pretended in Topeka some time ago,
| when he drove a horse into North
| Topeka livery and arrested but con-
not even himself, would claim the
! horse, forfeited his bond of 500, fur
nished by John Peers, and did not
appear for trial last week. Now he
| is being searched for again as the
| owner of the horse has come to claim
it. Elmer H. Jorden of Winfield is
/ the owner of the horse and started
/ home with it today.
Some time before Reds arrest W.
| E. McCarter, who runs the Con-
tinental transfer in the east part of
the city, had a horse and buggy stolen.
Chief Eaton learned that this man
had been around for some time and
that he had left simultaneously with
the horse but there was no trace of
him until he drove this other horse
| into Topeka when he was arrested.
drove McCarter's horse to the vicinity
of Winfield and came back with the
other either having disposed of the
| first or. passed it on to confederate
| of Oklahoma.
But who was to have the horse,
| was the question for a time. though a
very brief time, until the owner should
report The morning after it came,
| the horse was grabbed by the A H. T.
| A. of which McCarter is a member and
put to work in the place of the one
| stolen and unfound. Nothing could
| work smoother. lose a horse, find one
to take its place. And it worked well.
/ There was no opposition among the
| members and it would seem that a
sociological problem has been effec-
| lively handled in most modern
| sociological manner. That is, the
| system is good if no horses are found
| and none are claimed 1t is a sights
/ unseen" trade at long range. Schufie
and seen what you draw.
/ The rig was stolen on the night of
December from rack in front of the