The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-05

guilty, but Jared no better. as -
likewise drew Sz5 number Tudi
cations are that the fine for Speeding
IS to remain at Sz5 until the reckless
get used 70 it though it Is more likely
that they viii use their heads a Tf++Ia
more and restrain that wild desire for
meteorfc rapidly
Dave August. James Stewart and
N s Wear are due for sentence This
evening. while DR.. Bowen has not re-
turned to the city Several of these
drivers have been before the poIice
judge for fast driving a number Of
times The doctors are the most fire.
quent vioIators, perhaps because thew
are in a hurry, but Mr.. August once
grazed q man. who had stepped Off a
car and was jerked back by the con-
ductor, gong some forty miles an
hour, and frightened the man SO bad
he went home, kissed his wife ard
baby, and wept the next morning
while telling his story 10 the chief
almost q nervous breakdown from his
nearness to certain death That was
going some.
If the Girls" the other night had
seen John Briggs at the station there
would never have been more than the
first act and their vow to forever de-
spise and repuIse men would still hold
good Briggs lives four miles north of
the city and came in with his wife who
wanted to do some necessary Shopping
Il
good wife was also burdeued with a
sixteen-months-old baby and it's bottle
but John slipped off on the pretext Of
seeing his brother. fell to drinking. and
was found by Orncer Leach drunkeuIy
asking where his home was. that he
wanted to see his wife That was at
1870 o'clock in the evening Meanwhile
the wife, failing IN her search for him.
tired, nervous, and anxious for herself
and two small boys aged 8 and 10 at
home alone. drove out to the farm hold
ing the little girl beside her in the
buggy seat All the evening work had
70 be done by the boys and herself
The nearest neighbOr is q Quarter mile
distant and the nearest phone a half
mile But the beast OF a man was 10
Gated at the police station this morning
unable TO pay his paltry fine of S. 50
the patient suffering wife hftCHad I'M
the horse and with the two bows and
the baby girl drove to the CITY to plead
with the chief and judge for the release
Of her husband whose british care she
must have at any risk
After she had told her story there
was not a. moments hesitation about
the release but the Judge gave the
brute Of a husband such a lecture as
only Indignation Of true man could
his wife An hour after the Judge was
still thinking OF what d great boon 4
sound horsewh1ppiug would be to soma
men
The fact that yesterday was pension
day for the old soldiers brought a great
many OF them to Topeka for their
money and not a few left most of it
mere Many old soldiers from the near
towns come here for their pay but in
reality TO get on & drunk SeveraI of
the old scouts were taken up yesterday
and released upon recommendation Of
J. D CoddIugton, pension claim agent
WnO knows al the Old soldiers and their
affairs But there was one. Joseph
Chamberine from HoIton who has been
locked up almost every time he comes
down Judge Crmy was on the point
Of giving him a heavy fine after keen
ing all night because it was found that
he was not d soldier in the rebellion but
merely q regular discharged % years
ago and hence not entitled to the favor
ne was trying to pose as belonging to
him Again Mr. Coddington fnterposed
and the man was dismissed upon Cod
dingtou's promise to see that it did not
happen again
4 young man named Chas. Hutchfu-
son got room last night at the Ger
man hotel and found he was in with an
old soldier who had drawn his pension
money. After the old man had retired
and hung up his trousers, the younger
took q ten dollar bill out of the pockets
and hid it This morning the soldier of
past fame suspected his roommate OF
taking the money as the lock on the
the outside, being locked with a night
latch Detective Summers arrested the
fellow who denied any kuoWIedge Of
the matter, but at the station told the
officers that if they searched the room
they would ind the money there as he
thought perhaps Il had been dropped
somewhere The room was searched
the bedding shaken and as an old
comfort was thrown down a 80 bill fell
out Hutchinson is being held for trial
VIM Gay, who was reported here to
have died from the knife wounds in
7fcted by BUss Cross in Kansas City, is
in q Kansas City hospital and is report
ed by his people to be doing well
Gay was stabbed and robbed On his
way rom work on MS pay day, and
Watts, who had gone to Kansas City
with Cross and another negro helped
Buss in the crime Gay did not have a
weapon Gay was q night fireman and
had won the commentator OF his boss,
neither was his name to be found on
police books there though he is said to
have been a bad character before he
went there several years ago. It seems
he was not accustomed TO be in the
company Of the bad element in Kansas
City and was d hard working man
4 small change in the classification
OF the police officers, recommended TO
the city council some time ago by the
chief, has been favorabIy acted upon
classes. "A - b" &C." with salaries re-
spectfveIy $50. s55. ss5. Beginning in
class c. 1t took six months service to
enter 81 and six more to enter a -
The department tries TO get only ex-
perieuced men and a full year c. ser
vice for such to reach the full pay class
was decided to be too long q time SO the
new provision lessons the time to 'fB''
to three months, and to a. TO six
months
min MAUI nonHIA,n