The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-24
ATTEMPTED A BRIDE.
offered Policeman Any Amount
to Release Him.
Other Sensations Cleaned From
Police Records.

during the early morning hours. He
had attempted to rob the Heron &
Middaugh clothing store on East Sixth
street and obtained a coat and let
ter He then made away with about
$50 worth of jewelry from the Raj
feloch Clothing company, $50 Kansas
avenue, and was caught in the alley
Just behind the store by the vigilant
officer.
Mason is one of these crooks who
depends upon the early morning for
his work. He puts little faith In the
midnight hours and is used to work
ing in larger cities where the cops are
all asleep at this time. But he failed
hopelessly in Topeka and has 6een
transferred to the county jail where
he will be stationed until the trial
Mason carried on his professional
traits further by having conf1dentlal
talk with officer England in which. ne
offered to this policeman every bit OF
iewelry. his personal belongings and
little sum besides-anything to escape
the bars. Look a'here, partner, |
don't want to go back to the pen ana
you don't want me too do you Ola
head?" But England was not very
particular what was done with MS
prisoner after he had taken him to the
CITY holdover and he refused the
temptation with jerk OF the collar
and a swing of the hickory
Mason commenced his operations at
the Heron & Middaugh store about
O'Clock. The windows IN the rear o.
this store are grated but TINS olo not
cool the determination of the burglar.
He broke the glass with stick, STUCK
his arm inside and pulled through the
opening a coat belonging to MI Her
ron which was hanging near by He
searched the coat, found nothing but
a letter from the sister of the owner
placed this in his pocket, threw the
coat in the alley and left In disgust
He then struck out for the river, 49,,
hi m shores
Kaw where he had originally Intended
to drown his sorrows. he stopped at
the Jacob Raffeloch clothing and Jew
elry store Knocking the panel out OF
the rear door he made an entrance and
after carefully changing his old SHOES
for a pair of new ones and picking OUT
two or three watches and removing
about Is watch chains from their
cards he passed out through his per-
sonaI exit and made once more for the
river where he might find Santa re
or the Rock Island train 5000
OFFICER England, meanwhile, was on
the lokiut He heard faint footsteps,
saw hazy signals, and shifted foreign
Intrusion To the self same alley he
and behind a huge teie-
phone pole he roasted waiting for the
return of the prodigal burglar and his
jewelry store
Hands up" shouted the officer. :,
''Ah, say, VIVA We, ,givin' me.
g-owled the bold bad robber.
ss,The Judge will tend to that re-
piled the officer and he made reach |
for his gun. Up went the hands OF
Mason and flashing under the spot
light of the pocket lantern of the cop I
per was a fight gold watch. Then fol-
lowed series of bribing offers but
England receives his bride every
month from the city and he couldn't
afford to turn it down.
Mason was taken to the city Jail, !
registered on the docket and later I
taken to the county Jail. He is just
out of the penitentiary and the pros
poets for a quick return are bright.
A language unknown by the
struggling passersby and volley of
curses which could only be recognized
by their vehemence startled peaceful
came the gonging police patrol and
all was over.
Steve Kalarok and Peter Brown
own the shine parlor at sol Kansas
State Journal office. Steve and Peter
had finished their days work and
had counted the money-aH seemed
very satisfactory. The lights were
turned out, and the cash register
for these educated Greeks have the
real thing now days-was checked up
and found correct. But who was to
lock up the place of busineSs-that
was the mighty question-and it was.
the question that caused the run of
the Black Maria and the attention of
the police
/ Finally the polite Alfonso and Gas
ton argument fell into a sharpshooter
affair and inside of very short time |
blows were falling thick and fast on
each dark face. The boys were |
strong and muscular but they failed /
to make an impression upon each
other. Both were caught up and
7ned this morning for distur bling the
peace. They disturbed the peace all
right but no one knew just what they I
were saying and just how it all hap
pened.
The question has been brought up
since an arrest last night-who is in
sane-the man who starts a fight or
the man who ends it? 1t seems that |
was receiving a visit from his
brother, Peter. John works for the |
Santa Fe and Peter is in the employ
of the Rock Island. This was enough
to start a fight but finally Peter told
John that his wife (John's wife) was
not faithful to him, she was tickle /
and when she had chance she would |
move the furniture from the house |
and leave him.
Naturally John did not like to have
his brother recount his family |
to him and he gave Peter a |
little love pat on the left cheek. An
other quickly followed on the right.
Then came the reaction and in the /
space of few minutes both men
were rolling and struggling on the I
ground Finally Peter drew his knife |
from the sheath of his pocket and
holding John to the ground with his /
left hand he stabbed him just below
the right cheek bone with the /
weapon. The police had arrived by /
this time and John was arrested and
charged with insanity
The people in the neighborhood /
claim that John was insane because
he started the scrap. The officers of |
the. law have about decided that If an /
insanity charge is placed it should |