The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-23
POLICE JOTTINGS,
Minnie Messick Is Discharged
by Judge Urmy.
No Evidence to Connect Her
With Theft.
TWO CHILDREN HELD.
Charged They Sold ''Hand Mad g
Lace' That Wasn't.
Old Offenders Appear Before
Bar of Justice.

| The arrest of Miss Minnie Messick,
charged with theft of clothes at the z.
M. Burnette boarding. house yesterday,
was shown in the trial to have been
made wholly upon the suspicion of a
| boarder, Miss Eloise Vonquett, and no
| evidence was found connecting her
with the theft. She had seen some
things which she thought were hers.
| she said. on Miss Messick's line. After
| the accusation and arrest the girl
| started to move and Miss EIoise Sc
| cured search warrant from the city
| court and the girl was further perse-
cuted by having her trunk searched
| and her clothes piled out upon the floor.
Nothing was found in all the clothing
| which the accuser would lay claim to
and the police began to think the ar
rest i'll founded In the trial was no
evidence to detain the girl and she was
discharged Immediately.
Two little girls, Annie and Jennie
Williamson, aged u and IL years re-
spectively, were picked up off the
streets Thursday and locked in the
women's tower of the city prison fer
obtaining money under false pretense.
The little girls belong to a faml of
roVerS who were camped north Of the
city on Soldier creek They brought
lace into the city which they sold FROM
house to house, representing it to be
hand made lace, thereby readily secur-
ing a higher price for the goods and
also avoiding the purchase of license
as one has a right to sell his own man
ufacture without one.
But the lace though apparently of the
finest make was soon found to be fac
tory made and the numerous house
wives began sending in their COM
plants to the police station. DetecuFe
mutton caught the girls and after keep
ing them a while at the station took
them to the Juvenile court where their
trail was deferred. Upon reaching their
wagon it is understood the outfit was
soon packed and the roadside camp
was shifted in the night
Pearl Horton, coIored, was arrested
last night charged with stealing SO
from the pocketboOk Of Mrs. L. E
Faust. Mrs. Faust laid her chatelain
bag down in the Rock Island depot
and her pocketbook was in the bag.
Patrolman James was called and be-
gan an investigation which resulted
in the arrest of the Horton woman.
Nellie Coffman a white woman, was
taken up again lastnight charged with
lettering about the negro dives of the
bottoms. She was convicted of
vagrancy less than q week ago and
fined So, butt upon release returned
directly to the same places and the
officers have resolved to drive her out
of town. She is getting wise to the
game and this time did not hesitate to
plead guilty. She was fined $40.
sapho. enraged. turned upon her
rival, Ada Hall. and beat her wicked
" is the complaint of Ada Hall who
got a, warrant for Della Sapho who is
now in the city Jail awaiting trial.
Ada shows damages to the extent of
three gashes cut upon her forehead
which had to be seWed up.
Expressman William Smith has
been taken off his beat by Patrolman
James until he shall have secured a
license.
Quentin Ford a small boy of North
Topeka. said to be the leader of
gang of small brigands was taken in
hand by Detective Wonderly this
morning. The lads are charged with
falling upon the property of unsus-
pecting farmers who put up at the
feed yard at go North Kansas ave
nue. taking fruit packages and other
articles from their rigs. A complaint
was made by w T. Purdun this
morning in the juvenile court charg-
ing the lad with stealing his notary
public seal.
w. H Wolfnbarger, the liveryman.
who ran down G. F. GreenWay
Wednesday night knocking the man
off his wheel and running over him
with horse and buggy was fined $40
in police court last evening. That
the accident was not the fault of the
Hveryman, Greenway, laid up at
Kfeths hospital is said to have ad-
mitted. Wolfinbarger thinks that he
can prove to a jury that the occur
renee was accidental rather than
malicious and has appealed to the