The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-20
POLICE JOTTINCS.
Mrs. NJ. E. Little Identifies AS
sailant Today.
Negro Was Captured With Gang
at Lime Kiln.
VISITING IN TOPEKA.
His Home Is Supposed to Be in
Missouri.
A. G. Maggie the Latest Victim of
Horse Thieves.
VISITING IN TOPEKA.


night. AS Mrs. Little, wife of a
bicycle dealer, was returning to her
home at 1914 Monroe street. walking
along the first block on Tenth avenue,
big negro passed her giving her a
side glance, and hurrying on to the
next block between Quincy and Mon
roe where he sprang out from behind
q telephone pole and grabbed her
She jumped and his fingers only tore
her sleeve. and she fed to her home
where, instead of fainting, she i'm
mediately got a revolver and placed it
on the sideboard. Then she busted
herself in the kitchen thinking her
self safe from the negro but in a mo-
! ment the front door opened and she
started toward the door only to meet
the same negro in the room. Fright
ened. she began backing toward the
| telephone. you're going to phone
the police, amt you," he said, and
started for her, when she remembered
the revolver on the sideboard, seized
it. and shot. The negro was not hit
but fed and could not be found until
last night.
Last night Sergeant Ross led
Officers Griffin. Mead. Robinson and
Mcguire down to the lime kiln to
capture a gang known as the Lime
Kiln club" who carouse there. and af-
ter round. make it their rendezvous.
Those caught are George Bunch, John
Carol, Will Norman. VIII Jackson.
James Jones, and they will all be tried
for vagrancy this evenig.
Among the number is a big black
with stubby mustache, a scar on his
forhead, and rolling eyes, the most
dangerous looking man, the officers
say, ever kept in the city prison. This
is John Carroll who claims for his
home Kansas City, but who has been
all over the States. some time at st.
Paul and in Tennessee. Patrolman
Mead knows of his record in Missouri
where he has been considered a bad
man. Learning that he has come to
Topeka occasionally and that he was
here Christmas. the police i'm
mediately began in investigation and
down the way, the night after
Christmas where the Little home is
located.
Mrs. Little was notified and has
positively identified Carol as the man
who assaulted her. a mistaken
identity is. almost impossible after
once seeing the bully whom the Of
fcers watched SO carefully this morn
ing.
sworn to state warrants issued by the
county attorney which will be served
on the negro today. From the weight
of evidence already gained in all
probability Carol Will be sent to the
penitentiary.
A pair of salome dancers of Cleopatra
hue were giving the best they had to
quickly gathering crowd at the corner
of Sixth and Kansas avenues about 6
o'clock last evening when Officer Grin
interrupted the performance.
Carrie BLACKWELL, giving her name as
Mary Roe at the station was caught but
the mate, Laura Copeland, e1uded the
grip of the law for the time being and
must be chased by warrant today
Carrie used to haunt the dives OF the
city and the police cells as well. once
4 hi as n
turb the peace of Bob Ransome, when
on a cocaine drunk, and was convicted
on that count for IS but the reputation
of having been wilder-and wooll1er than
he was worth far more than 1t cost
After that Carrie got too big for the
town and seemed to pine for larger
scope and finally bade farewell to the
old haunts and set out for conquests
in other lands. But there were others
Just as mean. Other police nabbed her,
too, until disconsolate she has return
ed to the village where her prowess is
not disputed.
bosom friend, Laura Copeland, got well
keyed up and 6 o'clock found them,
though time was no matter to them,
out on Kansas avenue doing a celebra-
ted dance which Carrie had picked up
in the east OF course the attraction
drew but the police had to stop it for
the sake of the morals of the small
boys. Griffin was near and caught the
taken today.
Cowboys, horsethieves. purse snatch
ers, and crap shooters galore but sup
posed1y dressed in the conventional
fFWiId West garb did the Highland
fling with the ladies of the West" at
the negro club dance at the MetropoH-
tan hall last night. 1t was a great
Wild West fancy affair and nearly
hundred were there doing the West as
seen and unseen. Many did the dress
to the limit and appeared with real
loaded guns in their holsters, and then
arose the trouble. Sombreros, chapps'
and guns, together with the presence
of women in short skirts and jaunty
cowboy hats got into the play too heav-
lily and started things.
The negro plain clothes man, Griffin,
who was having his busy day last night
saw armed men going up the stairs
over the colored Y NJ. c. A. and follow
ed up. He arrived in time to witness
a knockout. after which the winner
quickly fed the scene chased by the
officer Bystanders interfered as far
as they dared but the runner was cap
tured at the point of gun. With
this one in hand Griffin marched back
and added the other to his line and
marched them to the station where the
names of Louis Walker and H. NJ. Mar
shall were entered on the docket
In court this morning Walker admit
ted he had been fighting but Marshall
said his name was Moore and that he
did not remember any fight but that he
was well aware he had been drunk The
two were turned back in the pen to
await more evidence when they decide !
to talk and the officer can be on hand. |
The horse thieves who have been
so busy of late have confined their |
stealing to unhitching horses from |
hitching racks and the like, but now it |
seems that one has tried to take a |
horse out of a locked barn. well |
bred driving mare belonging to A c. |
Maggie, with the Darling Stamp com
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