The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-12
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Warm Reception Provided for
Gang of Yeggmen.
But the Bold Bad Burglars
Didn't MaterialiZe.
EATON CALLED BRAVES
The Delegation Met a Rock Is
land Train.
More Forged Checks Make Their
Appearance.
EATON CALLED BRAVES


A gang of four desperate yeggmen
speeding toward Topeka late last
night caused excitement among the
officers of the police department on
night duty to reach the highest ebb
| in years.
| Fire in the prison tower would not
| have aroused half the furry and a
midnight fire alarm would not have
| brought out the force quickly as
sembled to fight the desperadoes upon
| their arrival as did the absorbing tele-
gram from Maple Hill: -Four yeggs
| have gone east on 99S freight-one
| heavy set, stoop Shouldered; one tall
and muscular; two medium build; get
| busy.-H. c. Ericsson, Sheriff.
| The telegram reached the station
| in the quiet of the night when all the
officers were out on thlr- beats, slowly
pacing up and down. Sergeant Ken
ney got the message and hurriedly
set about getting. all the available
men together, formed a reception
committee ten strong, got out the
riot guns, carefully examined their
| revolvers and hurried to the Rock
| Island yards and west to the first stop
the train would make in the city, the
coal chutes, several blocks up the
| tracks.
|
ments, gathered along both sides of
! the track, when the long freight pull
ed in and stopped. With the Wheel
] ing of the engine and the humping of
the braked cars, the police squad
| Swarned onto the train at every point
| searching over and under the cars, in
side the empties and the loaded. All
| the shadows of the coal chutes and the
ice plant and other dark corners OF
the vicinity We're carefully searched
in the chance that the gang had
| slipped off for the minute, but nothing
of the tribe could be found. 1t was
the most diligent hunt the men have
/ had and they were sorely disappointed
as the heavy train slowly drew on
down the tracks and out of the yards.
Ericsson, the busiest sheriff in the
| brush, had learned of the characters
| from country men who had seen them
| south of Maple Hill. One farmer had
| entertained them and seen their
equipage of yeggmen's tools, fuses
and other paraphernalia. Err1esen
| had made a vigorous attempt to head
! them off but could not and felt sure
/ they would run into Topeka and per-
! haps try to turn a trick last night. An
attempt will be made today from both
/ directions to locate the gang in the
country betweep Maple Hill and To-
peka.
Another bunch of milkmen will be
put through the PAGES in the police
i
milk they sell as soon as they can be
rounded up by the police officers.
During the winter months dozen
or more were tried but in most of the
cases the evidence was not substantial
enough for convictions and only a few
fines were imposed. Now the milk in
spector, D. NJ. Campbell, is after them
again heavily armed with infallible
evidence, it is believed.
| Five warrants are in the hands OF
the police for serving: They are is
sued for S. Pottinger, NJ Mcintosh, E.
Argo, r. Hams and o. c. Spetter.
| Pottinger has already been found and
will be tried this evening. His charge
is for adding water to the milk be-
sides removing the cream from it. The
others are charged with removing the
cream.
pure food inspectors. to short
quarts, tubercular kline, filthy milk
and cream, and watered and skinned
milk, the question with the consum-
ers will be SIS there an honest milk
man?" And the angry mob will cry,
mot any,
Three new checks have been turned
in and acknowledged by the forgers as
their handiwork NJ. L. Zercher took
one for SIS and had it cashed at the
Capital National bank. One for 81
WAS received at the McClintock china
lstore Another for SIS was accepted al
zens' National bank. The two forgers
and their girls are still held in the po-
ihce station awaiting removal to the
county Jail. King, whose real name
proved to be Melvin Courtney, is stolid
Ilv silent while Dolman kept from
sinking into helplessness by hypoder
mics of morphine whenever his. habits
come on, talks freely. Both men were
visited this morning by A. w. Ford
acting parole officer from the Hutchin
lcOT at r-U n nd QX
: Marshall, and identified as two former
: inmates of the school. The two have
been friends for 10 years, Courtney
: specializing in burglary and Dolnaan il
3 forgery. Aside from his reformator!
| i.record, Courtney recently finished {
term in the Missouri penitentiary.
e A w Ford, the acting parole office
from Hutchinson, came up to lool
y over the record of Allan Cantrell, a pa
Z rcle prisoner now in the city prison
4 charged with being the companion o
/ Anna Young, the negress who, robbed ;
5 man named Willard in an alley Tuesda.
/ night of $65. The negro says he cal
= prove an alibi for every charge ant
Y may not be taken back to the reforma
6 tory.
+ Perfectly good citizen. John Kaber
! line, police representative from Littl
Russia, slipped one over on the kind.
D judge when instead of reporting 70
o trial as per continuance OF his W.eO
. ding refreshment case he skidded witt
his whole tribe for the beet fields o
Garden City to pull weeds and late
. beets Sor the sugar company. John hat
Isimply had little key party for hi
9 lcousin's wedding celebration and ha,
given the beer only to his friends AM
| II: his own house SO there was proba.bl.
e no case anyhow but the officers has
t made a daybreak raid and wanted SOM
satisfaction for their late night work
|