The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-17
POLICE JOTTINCS.
How Farmer Bunce Forgot
His Pain.
Saved q Large Sum by Being
Arrested.
TROUBLES OF M'AVOY
His Marital Clashes Are Aired
in Court.
POttawatOmie SQuaw Fined for
Being Drunk.
TROUBLES OF M'AvOY

No indicator registers the change OF
seasons more accurately and regularly
than the farmer. His call of spring
is the summons to the fields to SOW
and cultivate and It is up to him to
respond.
Feeling this duty's call John Bunce,
a farmer from out south with money
in the bank, came to the city yester-
day to buy a pumpkin drill. horse
and some harness. He went to the
bank and took out more than 5000 ana
began to look I'D his intended pur-
rchases.
A suitable harness was bought
when he remembered a hurtful tooth
which he ought to have pulled. In
anticipation Of the pain, John began
to tremble and feel faint. What was
he to do? Happy thought-the great
pain-kiIIer, Topeka dollar-five. s1.05
the gallon. Securing quantity of the
stuff, John Bunce started in search
of horses, implements and the like
Later he was seen by Officer Wyatt
drinking with a crowd of men in
lumber yard, then following winding
trail up Kansas avenue where ne
knocked two women on the track,
finally becoming derailed by the
Watchful patrolman.
Searched at the station the drunken
man was found to be carrying $1S2.OS
of the money he drew at the bank.
How he got through his carousal
without being relieved of his roll is
the wonder of the police for 1t was
near evening when he was arrested.
Judge Urmy fined him SIS in court
this morning upon his plea OF guilty
and the old farmer counted 1t off his
roll only too glad he had been check
ed before he had lost it all. His
horse and buggy with which he came
TO town were kept at Peterson's barn
last night. The officer went with him
to show him the place and send him
back to the fields.
F. D. McAvoy, an insurance agent
with residence at 916 East Eighth
avenue is much troubled with his
sweet wife, Adelia- He complained to
the police Judge over the telephone in
the middle of the night that his wife
and her sister even went so far as to
pummeI hirn-and he sighed for
some recourse Then last evening he
appeared again with more trouble and
showed signs of having been imbib-
ing some of the "dollar-five pain
killer for which he was warned to
be careful. The warning, however,
fell on deaf ears for at 1850 o'clock a
message came from the wife to the
police station to come and get the
man He had visited his home and
kicked chair in the back, table on
the leg and otherwise disturbed the
peace and quiet of his better half.
He was arrested and hauled away.
A $50 bond was furnished for his APP
pearance this morning. Within hall
hour after leaving the station a re-
straining order from the district court
was served upon him, having been Sc
cured before the last trouble. More
than that a divorce petition had beer
filed and the man was very much or
the defense.
When the case came up in police
court this morning w. A. S. Bird ap.
peared for the defendant and asked
for q continuance and had the case Sc
for the 9th. Mrs. McAvoy was in tn,
room and swore out a warrant for hel
husband charging him with disturb
inr her peace, making the charge Sc
cure and raising the bond to $780,
An Indian squaw large and capable,
witness summoned to the federal cour
from the reservation and moving abou
under the name G. Tennio. waits at tn
Eaton rest rooms for her release. !
squaw is quite much an Indian as is
buck when the booze appetite is concerne
and Mrs. Tennio had on the same kin
Of st ]ag After fo amusing f, the sbe
lodged in the alley back of MARSHALL
drug store, where she was found by Pa
present rest. Bailiff billiard located hi
witness this morning and called to Sc
Judge is $40 and will likely be supple
when she is wanted.
ing a good out of town business latel
having furnished convicting evidence fl
at least two cases.. Two trips wei
made to Westmoreland on the case
Thomas Cook, the young man arreStt
here for selling clothes stolen at S
Marys to a pawn shop some time ag
Conviction was secured. Yesterday Sun
mers went to Fort Riley to testify at Il
court martial of the deSerter, J. w. WI
liams. whom he captured here. He all
was convicted.
Jess Harris a colored female coke fiel
with a reputation already won and not a
lowed to become ruSted, FURNISHED up h
record last night with drunk and di
orderly charge and led Officers Ross al
the bottoms A stone bruise put her o
of the running at the eleventh lap. no.
ever, and the officers won. She was n
sufficiently recovered for trial this NOR
ing so the trial had to be continued.
mason Joe Snyder, kicked down the dc
of the Willis undertaking rooms at 1
North Kansas avenue in a determined
fort to get inside, thereby disturbing
peace of a live man there. In fact it W
very lively scene for a dead house a
Joe is under bond to come to trial Il
afternoon. House rent is stated
cause of the noise.
Complaints of baseball players block
the streets and climbing into yards af
the ball have begun to come to the pl
lie trouble-men, the policemen, and mt
collections of one dollar fines are in ord
AS the back lot gardens thrive a
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