The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-24
POLICE J0TTINCS.
Negro to Whom Drummer's
Shoe Samples Were Alluring.
Carried Them Off Without Stop
ping to Consider.
ALL FOR LEFT FOOT.
We're Recovered and Man Placed
Under Arrest.
Ladder That Got Two Families
Into Court.
ALL FOR LEFT FOOT,

ana the heels slipping back and the like
but nothing has been said about them
being turned inside out or about fitting
into any shoe whether right or left. Yet
there seems to be pair of such kind
OF feet in Topeka out near Highland
Park.
A colored man named Lockard, who
mas had the job of slop carrier at the
National hotel passed and repassed a
sample room where shoes We're on dis
play until he resolved to lay in a sup
ply notwithstanding they were all
Someone saw him go out with a sack
OF something and reported the same
when the shoes were reported missing.
COL Wood appeared at the police head
quarters this morning and asked for a
warrant Tor the man. This was secur-
ed and Detectives Summers and Hop
kins went on a still hunt for a flock
OF one-sided shoes. First they went to
the nome of the negro out in High
land. Lockhard was not to be found
but 80 left foot shoes were there and
were confiscated
OF course if City Attorney Ralston
needs some one to help handle the
pending cases of the city the appoint
ment of Mr.. Dreaming to conduct those
cases is irreproachable
BUT during the campaign the adj
minStration. stand was that Mr. Rail
ston, having been so long assistant to
Dreaming, knew all the kinks of the
pending cases and therefore should be
elected to the office of city attorney
In order that it will not cost the city
any more to have Mr.. Dreaming on it's
pay roll than to leave him off it is the
plan to discontinue the office of police
court prosecutor. Phil Wilson has been
police court prosecutor for four years
and has made the police department al
most pay for its maintenance by his
vigorous prosecutions Thousands of
dollars extracted from the jointists I'M
der his prosecution Swelled the sum of
fines Convictions secured in the dis
trict court have been from the direct
repetition of evidence brought out in
police court-and the credit was given
to wonderfully skilled officers in the
county court house.
There is a method used when cases
become too numerous. That is, get the
defendant to plead guilty and give him
the minimum or else fail to find any
thing serious in the case and dismiss
him. The method is quite adaptable
for usage in police court for that is d
small and insignificant court anyway
in a good many minds. Is this the pro-
posed change in the police court prose
cution?
Because he rescued his landlady's
ladder from its appropriated service
as a gate to a neighbours horse lot,
j. d. Gurley, a painter by trade, lies
in the city prison awaiting trial for
disturbing the peace of H. T. Moran,
the man who had the ladder.
Gurley recently rented a little cot
tage down near the Shunganunga
where he set up his bachelors quar-
tiers. The ladder in question led to
the attic but he did not need the attic,
provided the ladder was out of the
way, so he put the ladder out under
the caves with his own painting lad
ders. Moran then bought the lot next
his residence and proceeded to build
a barn. When he needed a gate for
his horse lot, he simply stepped over
and took the ladder as a convenient
substitute for bars.
Meanwhile Gurley had been tending
some rhubarb along the fence for his
landlady and it had grown and thrived
most beautifully but Moran in build
ing had knocked the fence between
the lots down until it threatened the
life of the cherished plants. Gurley
propped the fence up to keep it off
Then he went to see the owner of the
ladder about what course to pursue
and was told he was responsible for it,
so he went over after the ladder and
took it to another neighbours barn for
safe keeping.
Then Moran called upon Gurley and
they INDUCED in what the Big Chief
mildly terms an alteration the
outcome of which is a warrant for
Gurley and his Incarceration. The
little trial will be held this evening.
Nice fresh yun-yuns, gud ripe str
bur-r-rys. fifteen a box, SUNNY sun
kist oranges, rad-dishes. lettuce and
banans. e-yah poke chops" or some
thing else with less sense curdled the
blood or shamed the gondolier's song
along the peaceful streets in the after
noon quiet
The cries emanated from a buck
ster's wagon coming slowly by the way
But the cry sounded new to the ears
of the man who listens. G. T Mating
ly, and he stopped the man for his
name. He was T. S. Donley. colored,
and it was found he had no license. Ia
ken to the station he furnished bond
to appear next Monday when he will
likely be supplied with necessary
document.
g. j. o. Corners came to Topeka last
evening and no one seemed to know
him so he was locked up for investi-
cation. He might have been a mad
man and the terrible results pending
il such case led an officer to nab
him. The chances were so heavy in
his favor, however. that he Won. or
course, and was later released-but his
arrest added another to the list and
swelled one officers diligence card
lube Jorden with a $50 fine not a
week old hanging over him for main
tanning a disorderIy house was last
evening found guilty of maintaining a
nuisance and funded $500 and so days in
prison This is the first time that the
judge has assessed more than the mini
mum fine, SO and 30 days, on one count.
The maximum is $500 and FIVE months
imprisonment for each count The
costs in the case were also assessed to
him amounting to $6.75.
Both of the cases have been appeal
ed by Jube. hoping for better treat
nent in the higher court The same
evidence will be carried over there to
convict him again
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