The Topeka state journal., 1909-03-16
POLICE JOTTINCS.
New Record in the Collection of
Fines.
Indications Are That 1t Will
Pay Its Way.
URMY IN NEW ROLE.
Uses His Influence as a Match
Maker.
URMY IN NEW ROLE.
Boys Arrested for Shooting
SparrOws in Willow Park.

With the summing up of the police
court fines which were collected
March 10Th, it proved to be the record
breaking day in the history of the po-
| lice department, almost $500 being
received in the single day.
Lawson Whiteker, Mike Ring and
Joe Matthews paid their gambling
fines of 1925; Geo. and S. M. Hill, and
Ed and Fred johnson paid their fight
ing fine of $40; VIII Maze donated
| $51.25 for throwing skates at Officer
MCGUIRE; Mike Watts and Jim Clay
| bourne lost SO by horse racing on
Topeka avenue; Mable Eckert and
Will Reynolds surrendered SCOTS for
disorderly conduct and ChaS. Morris
Harry Schreckles, Dan Atkinson and
| J. H. Neill left $20-75 on drunk fines,
which totals $494.75.
The monthly record is already
broken and the month only half past.
The sum of $1,384.45 has been taken
in and the police department promises
to pay an unlawful dividend of 40 per-
cent on the investment of a salary roll
of $4,000.
since, when the amount of fines col
lected yesterday surpassed the month
ly footings on the police cash book.
Perhaps some day the department will
be enlarged with a few more patrol
men in order to better protect the
districts not included on Kansas ave-
nue. now that the investment is pay
ing so well.
The other day F. B. Clough,
demonstrator for n. S. Wear took
spin to North Topeka where no police
man is supposed to be needed past the
U. P. depot and fell to burning paving
brick with the hot rubber of a red
roadster. He was unconcernedIy
demonstrating what the engine could
do in the way of thirty horsepower
speed with the fiues open. What 1T
did would have been impossible for
the motor police to follow without un-
due risk of human life, and in that
respect the case is similar to many Tor
which the judge and the department
are censured by the Motor league The
complaint was made by three prom
inent citizens who witnessed the per-
formance and held their breath. They
are ex-Mayor w. S. Bergundthal j. O.
A. Peyton and L. C. Betz. They also
offered to testify in the case and yes
terday afternoon upon the evidence
they furnished Judge Urny fined Mr..
CIough $25 and the costs of $2.2O
which the prominent people did not
hesitate to claim as the speed was
considered an outrage on an or
ganized community
Another affinity case so soon. In the
annex of a barber shop at 402 East
Fourth street, according to the police,
a barber, VIII Reynolds, lived with
Mabel Eckert The two lovers were ta-
ken to the station because there is an
ordinance that they shall, otherwise the
officers would not interfere with stall
wart cupid. There the couple were
shown the error of the method they
had observed and promised to marry
Immediately, upon which promise the
charge which was worth $25 each was
altered to one of being found in a dis
orderly house which is worth only $40,
and the fine was paid.
The marriage question was not look
ed upon at all unfavorably by the wo
man. perhaps not by the man, and the
records of Probate judge Schoch regis
ter the oneness of Will and Mabel to
have been perfected last evening as they
had elected.
The new ordinance is working fine and
fast Dozens of loving pairs who can
not quite make up their minds to make
''it'' a final choice will be aided in so
doing by the big chief and Judge Urmy
who promises to become the prize
matchmaker of the town.
The sparrows of Willow park will
henceforth enjoy their predigested
breakfast food in peace and without the
pop of a little rifle for the bad boy per-
secuterS have been called to the police
station to answer for the molestation,
not that anyone cares especially for the
little English terrors but because thou
may not shoot or cause to be exploded
fire arms in the city of Topeka" Clyde
Mills and Roy Agard, school boys, who
were caught shooting in the park, have
law and order lecture this afternoon
and the park of suspension bridges is
left quiet and untrampled in the sun.
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