The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-16
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Boys Did Good Business in
Stolen Bicycles.
Rebuilt and Re- painted Them for
the Trade.
ARRESTS ARE MADE.
Two Youths Confess When
Taken by Officers.
Exciting Chase Of a Diamond
Ring That Wasn't Lost.


of good and unrecognizable wheels
turned out. The building of the
wheels is conducted by two small
boys, one giving the age of 16 and the
other Is. They are Walker Quisen-
bury and Earl Vaughn, respectively
Both live on Buchanan street and |
there ply their adopted trade.
The discovery was led to by the
reported stealing of bicycle frame
from the barn of w. r. Han at 1871
on the same street. 1t is the alleged
business of the factory to gather up |
pieces of wheels or entire machines
and readjust and repatnt them until
they no longer seem the same Wheeis
and are difficult of Identification. The
bows were taken and confessed the |
charge this morning. They were
booked at the station but taken from
there over to the juvenile court where |
they will be tried at 2 o'clock tomor-
roy. Still, if glastonbury is 16 years
of age, as he said, he will have to pc |
brought back to the police court for
trial and the mother will be called
upon for testimony.
The loss of a dia mond ring was
telephoned to the Eaton headquarters
by Mrs. J. r. Stitt about O'Clock last
evening. Considerable excitement was
aroused by the hurry in which a de-
tective was wanted to catch the th1ef
and the motor cop cranked up and
flew to the location designated as 2o2
Chandler street.
Detective Hutton arrived in a re-
markabIy short time but in the going
he had struck a little insignificant nail
which, however, caused him to finish
the run on one fiat tire. At the house
all was excitement. Paper hangers
had been working there and some
others had been in the house. The
woman was excitedly giving the de-
tective all her breathless information
and possible clues when her daughter
walked in, returning from work, and
| asked what all the fuss was about
and then showed the ring on her
finger.
Having succeeded in finding the
ring the duties of the sleuth were over
and he thought of returning to head
| quarters. He went to his machine
! and painfully examined the crippled
wheel. Finallys he decided that he
was derelict and hunted up phone to
| call the old faithful brewery wagon.
to come and gets him n. and his iron
horse.
| Blonde Shields, a female colored
waiter, was arrested last night at,
! 1910 by officer James and added to
| the list of investigations cases.
| A Lawrence paper contains a story
of picture takers and board bill
| jumpers who worked that town to the
amusement of Topeka papers and says
| that now they have the last laugh for
the same people came on up here and
| turned the identical tricks, beating the
| Fifth Avenue hotel out of several days
| accommodation. More than that, N.
j. Winchell left for Topeka to get the
men. But the hotel mentioned denies
any knowledge of the affair and the
| officers have not heard of it, so the
case will have to be dismissed.
The great national league game is
rare success behind a high board
fence or perchance in the back lots
| but as a pastime on the municipal
| thoroughfares it becomes a mis-
demeanor. The motor cop popping
| about the west side of town hap
pened upon trio of youthful fans in
/ dulging in the passing of the horse
| hide as an after-dinner paStime in
front of their boarding place on To-
! peka avenue.
/ Instantly he became interested in
l the game and refused to let the play
ers disband. Instead, he gathered
them together and took the little
team down to see his manager, Mr..
Eaton. To Mr.. Eaton the youths
seemed to be ineligible to play as they
had violated one Of the councils rules
and were listed for consideration this
morning.
4 This is not the first trouble among
amateurs this season though this is
with the students of the great game.
4 If it was not for the few available
| back lots, where in the world could
the game get recruits? But there are
a few such lots left where there are
no window lights and lawns and to
them the enthusiasts must go. This
, was the notice given by the judge
when the three men, A. A. Williams,
Il Carl Osborn and J. c. Lewis were
fined 81 each.
Il
Luvin Steward, her mark ok" The
first instance of an adult American
unable to write her name appeared
before the judge yesterday desiring a
scarce that a shock was susceptible
when the woman said she could not
sign her name. Mrs. Steward was
; well enough dressed and talked fair
English but cher mark" was the only
| penmanship she ever knew.
Her complaint was thatsone George
i Austin had followed her boy Freddie
too close and fast into her very
yard at Twelfth and Chandler streets
| acceIerating the speed at every step
only next door and he also has a son.
!, According to the tale of Mrs. Steward,
Austin's bad boy threw a stone
which, when it bounced. left a SWELL
ing on Freddie's head. Freddie, sore
headed about the matter, hunted up
similar stone and heaved it back
with even better results. Then the
father Austin gave chase to the win
ner and was led full speed into the
neighbor lot at full sight of Mr.. and
Mrs. Merritt, other neighbors.
Freddie'S mother expressed a
strong desire for all the law there was
to be descended upon Austin with
the Merritts to help bring it down.
The warrant was made out and her
mark attached with its meaning writ
ten opposite by Attorney Wilson.
In the trial this morning Austin
told the court of a burning desire to
thrash the boy because he had made
wry faces or something and made
his defense passionate unaccount-