The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-17
POLICE JOTTINGS,
Two Boys Apprehended Trying
to Break Into a Car.
One Is Caught But His Brother
Gets Away.
BEEN MUCH THIEVING
Railroad Detectives Have Been
on Look Out.
Frank RaynOr Begins His Term
in City Prison.
BEEN MUCH THIEVING

| Two of the gang of freight thieves
who have molested the local yards
during the past months were caught
at work last night it is claimed and
one, F. Lincoln Carter, of North
Van Buren, street was captured. His
brother who was working with him
escaped.
Carter, IS years old, and his
! brother were seen by Special Agent
| Biggs of the Union Pacific tampering
with the door of a merchandise car
standing in the U. P. yards just west
of the freight depot at IL O'Clock last
night Making a dash for the thieves
from the opposite side of the car he
caught Floyd while the other eluded
his grasp. At the police station the
father of Floyd admitted by the
tongue that the other one had been
another of his sons but quickly added
that he had left for Denver-which
will lead the officers to look for him
in Topeka.
Thieving from the railroads has
been common because of the great
reason it has been hard to catch the
offenders. Wholesale robberies have
not been practiced but lesser articles,
coal cases of eggs and various kinds
of merchandise have been stolen first
from one yard and then another with
such regularity that the officers were
led to believe the gang lived in To-
peka Occasional arrests have been
made and several convictions have
resulted.
Carter was held at the city prison
all night and morning awaiting the
complaint of Biggs to be made to the
county attorney that the lad might
give bond. The father secured Otis
Hungate to defend his boy.
Frank Raynor, once proud repre-
sentative of the Goetz Brewing com
pany in Topeka with headquarters
on West Curtis street in North To-
peka, is now humbled before the law.
Convicted in the police court last fall
of maintaining nuisance, he APP
pealed the case to the district court
where the decision of the police judge
was upheld At 10 o'clock this morn
ing Judge Dana sentenced him to pay
500 and serve 80 days in the city
prison He has begun his time.
Mad dogf and Detective Hutton jump
ed his motorcycle and hurried to 12Zl
North Polk street to save the lives of
the people in that vicinity. 1t was a
poor little dog scarcely more than
pup Many moons had come and gone
and the starving little cur had Watch-
ed them drift across the sky s1lhouet-
ting a whining kitty on the top OF the
coal shed safe from the hungry Jaws.
Thus night by night she mad watched
the kitten grow thinner ana tn1nner,
restrained from its nightly raids until
that morsel also was wasted away.
No wonder the little dog frothed at the
mouth and tears ran from her eyes.
No one would care for her and she
was powerless TO help herself.
It has come to this. The thirsty have
fallen back a half a century and are
row tapping up Hcstetter's Bitters and
other stomach bitters in the absence
hT-f01I crf
in last night by Patrolman Gilbert, al
ready shot sky high and with few
fingers still left in the bottle of Hos
letters.
The policemen who are forced to
make a regular memorandum tablet Of
their brains have been complaining the
last two nights of awaking in the
middle thereof to laugh as the follow
rg description OF dog revolves around
to shove up the thinking cap: Lost;
4 fox-terror which has brown spots on
mis- sides about the size of the top of
4 Iann cbimneV''