The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-02
John Marshall Protects Sheriff
From Mob at Radley.
Women Threw Stones and CluDl
at Officers.
SAY THEY'RE "CLUBS -
Law Breakers Have Been Read
ing of Topeka Affair.
Exciting Times in Crawford
County.

Assistant Attorney General John Mar
shall has just returned from CraW-
ford county where he has been making
a number of liquor raids with the Of
ficers of that county. He arrived at
his desk in the state house this morn
irg and laying his hat on the desk ana
his travelling bag in the corner he sat
down for the first time in four days
and breathed q little of the peaceful at
nlosphere that Ctroulates through the
state house these hot days
The trustv assistant has gone through
many exciting experiences during the
trip in the southeastern part of the
state and on request and through a
series of nondodgable questions he re
lated the whole story of his night Win
the women of Radley. Crawford county
where it was reported that the attorney
general and the sheriff mad been Slolisu
and dubbed
There we're plenty of stones and
clubs hying through the air during our
raid at Padley," said Mr.. Marshall-
"but they were thrown by women ana
children and their aim. together with
their inexperienced mob violence kept
US from any injury
it seems that the assistant attorney
general had heard from various sources
amount
string OF towns in Crawford county ana
armfng himself with some legal docu-
rhents and that knowing smile ne start
ed for the scene of action On arriving
in Radley he Joined Sheriff Merriwether
OF Crawford county and they started
on a tour of the town. They were first
told of a bad joint by some small chill
dren They followed the directions
given them and arrived at a small frame
building surrounded by d board tence
eight feet high.
They inquired for the keeper of the
building on the outside which Joined
the fortified enclosure and Il was
found that he had heard the foot
steps in the sands and had taken his
flight His wife was interviewed in a
kindly way by the state and county
officers but she refused to give them |
the key to the joint, the fence or even
outer doors. She enforced her re- /
fusal with language issuing from a 1
frame at least 200 pounds in weight /
and muscles as large as those of the /
average laborer. Finally the brave /
sheriff and his most brave assistant |
attorney general made a rush for the (
doors and created out of their stall /
wart frames massive mattering rams. /
ShriekinS and screaming the pro /
prietre5s yelled-'I paid $50 for the /
right to run this place and the sheriff |
is on my side-he will protect me"
She was unaware that the sheriff was
at her very door. But the doors were (
broken in and the barricade entered.
Here the two raiders found Z
barrels of beer and any numb Der of
bottles The booze was spilled upon
the ground and allowed to triCkle un-
der the fence to the mob which had
gathered in the interim
This mob is what caused all of the
trouble. They were all women, girls
and children and they threw huge
rocks. bricks and clubs of various as
sortments over the fence into the
ranks of the enemy. While the sheriff
was turning loose the liquor John
Marshall was acting as guardsman
and he succeeded in lodging and pro-
tecting the sheriff from injury by the
flying missiles.
caused the trouble at first entered the
place with a big heavy oak table
poised above her head. She stood over
the sheriff while his back was turned
and was in the act of crashing him on
the head with the weightY weapon
when Mr. Marshall rushed behind her
and grabbed the table from her hands.
At another time she procured a big
Fat rock and was in the act of break
ing open the head of the sheriff when
the assistant attorney general knock
ed it from her hand and thus saved
the sheriff from serious injury. A
tussle followed and it was all the two
men could do to extract the woman
from the fortress of wood.
The whole trouble was as exciting
as a man would desire and furnished
Mr. Marshall plenty of material on
which TO entertain the state house Of
hCials when they drop in for their
daily chat. In speaking of the matter
to a state Journal reporter this morn
ing Mr.. Marshall said that the only ,
thing the women lacked vas a more .
thorough knowledge of the mode of
warfare. They have the spirit and the :
muscle but they don't known how to
put it into practical use.
Mr.. Marshall is confident hoU-s1-er |
that all of this trouble will be settled
in a short time There are very few
dealers left in this part of the state
and the officers are doing efficient |
work in closing out their business
They are mostly foreigners and prob
a bly, do not realize the Importance Of
the new prohibtory Law. They do
know enough, however. to put IN the {
claim that their saloons are clubs, ,, {
They plead private organization !
when approached by the officers.