The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-25
POLICE JOTTINGS.
Harry e. White, Druggist,
Makes a Compromise.
Will Plead Guilty on a Single
Count.
TASSELL'S MISTAKE.
I Jerk Failed to Profit by EN-
plOyer's Example.
Given the Limit of $500 and Six
Months.

Harry z. White. the druggist of 222
Kansas avenue, after listening to the
evidence against him for selling liquor
illegally and keeping a nuisance when
the attorneys met in the afternoon
after an adjournment until two o'clock
in which the prosecution was to select
their five sales and one nuisance counts
offered to plead guilty to the nuisance
count and get his father to return to
the city and likewise plead guilty to
one count if the sales counts should be
dismissed. This was agreed to by the
prosecution provided that if the father
did not return then the son would plead
guilty to another count thereby fixing
at least two counts against the family.
Harry was fined the customary 800 and
the costs of $3.50 and sentenced to
thirty days in the city prison but his
former bond was held as good until
March 4th until which date he was
given to produce his father
J. w. Tassen, clerk in the White
store, heard all of the testimony in the
morning and could not by any sound
reasoning base hope of escaping the
full count should it be the desire of the
prosecution to deliver 1t and yet he OBJ
stfnately refused to plead to the one
nuisance count upon the advice of his
cousel, Judge Magaw, resolving to see
it out. He may now be classed a sad
der and wiser man for he was handed
the whole package every one of the six
counts being decided against him which
aggregates to 5000 and six months in
the prison.
Besides the band of witnesses with
their memoranda books who wrought
havoc for White the police had located
a number of the men who had run
booze accounts at the store and when
TaSselPs trial began at least fifteen
witnesses arose to take the oath.
The prosecution desired that White
take the stand to prove that the hand
writing on some of the applications
was that of Tassell and to prove that
TasselI was employed by White. The
defense objected on the ground of self
determination and after a long parley
the objection was sustained by the
court. That resulted in a delay for
the summoning of Fred A. Snow of the
board of pharmacists who testified
that TasselI worked for White and
that the hand writing was his. s. o.
Simpler and Geo Rhody proved the
most valuable witnesses for the state
both of whom had bought liquor from
Tassell without swearing or signing
the application. Shipley had kept an
open account for months which read
BIB. soc, ( BIB. 81, 1 p. VIII. 75c. etc.
BIB. is a bottle of beer and P.Wh is
a pint of whisky. He could swear that
part of his numerous purchases had
been made of Tasseu- When all the
witnesses had been questioned it
neared the mark The testimony of a
son of Scandinavia with a great crop of
whiskers and a cob pipe was thrown
out on account of being irrelevant,
was Anderson. Asked where he lived
he said. Corner. corner Fust street
and Jefferson. brick house" DO you
know this man % 'Ah. ay look on him
couple a times. that's ALL Did you
ever go into that mans store?'' Two
times ay bane in, ay expected Get
any beer there? ''Ya. ay buy bottles
dare for a dollar, wiskey.' From
him - Don want, ay can't not swear
on it so ay say ay don know"
When the counts had been selected
and TasseH fined he still stood pat and
had an appeal bond made out but to
date, his wife has found no one to sign
it as he Is still in the prison.
a part of Matron Thorpe's rooms
have been allotted to the jointists who
have begun serving their time. There
are six cots in a big room on the sec
ond floor, and has already gotten the
name of governors row. among the
prison officials.
I.uxuries from home are allowed
and the mems wives have been carry
ing food and bundles to their hus-
hands all morning coming and going
in a continuous line.
1t looks like a holiday season to the
offces-this continual buzzing around
the buiIding-but it is long penance
for wives and families.
That gracious surgeon of sewing
machines, H. C. Lenitens who has so
often worked a week among the
sharp needles and breaking threads
lust for one good "souse" on an off
day, and has so often been suspected
of various and dire crimes about the
mere drunk A plain dippy drunk is
a slight offence in the sight of the
law but a recurrence leads to greater
things and Leniton has hit the slid
ing scale the further down when ne
goes the higher his fine, ad infnitum-
This flag registered $40 and a few
days in the Rockies viii be necessary
for his health.
On account of the over-crowded
condition of the Jail with prisoners
of consequence the attention given
buns is growing near to the point of
neglect. Where they were formerly
wined and fined that they might break
a few rocks before being chased out
of town, they are just turned around
and started for the tall uncut" A
little squad who came in for lodging
last night were put out "on the hot
foot" and told to avoid any semblance
of a railroad track until we'll into the
country. Another squad brought up
from the Rock Island last night and
released in the morning went right
back to the depot and inside of twenty
minutes after being released from the
station were back at the booking desk
They were again set off in a differ
ent direction. At any rate II would
seem that the Rock Island depot and
yards are we'll patroled-
There is still a mystery as to who
got the SIS from DR.. Lyle of Dur
ham. He writes that he will come
down to prosecute Lutte Atkinson, the
woman he identified as one of the
two who did the plucking. The two
Howards who were in the Atkinson
n avoided