The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-01-23
POLICE JOTTINGS.
Policy Operators Are Given
Heavy Fine.
Porter Patterson and Geo. Sad
der Must Each Pay $3.50.
RAID A BEER PARTY.
We're Holding High Carnival on
West Side.
Milk Retailers Again Before
Bar of Justice.
RAID A BEER PARTY.

The two king bee policy wheel pro-
prietors, Porter Patterson and George
Saddler, captured January by city de-
tectives in their retreat at 312 Kansas
avenue, while operating the wheel,
were given the largest fines last even
ing on the police records.
They were caught dead to rights
and knew it. They offered Prosecuting
Attorney Wilson $25 each to fix it UP
with the judge but the Chief and Will
son had too long been waiting for a
| chance at these men who have oper-
| ated their game in Topeka for two
years without leaving a trace to pick
up The attorneys for the defense,
Galen Nichols and Joseph Reed, entered
pleas of mot guilty. but made no de-
Tense as the testimony of the first de-
tect1Ve On the stand made such an at
tempt useless. The maximum fine for
such an offense is $500, Patterson and
Saddler were fined $3.50 each by Judge
Urmy. The trial had not taken more
than ten minutes, seemed easy, and
the defence were resting on the leniency
of the judge which in this case was a
minus quantity for the judge knew the
magnitude of the operations of the
policy men and the long work to catch
them. The defendants are much better
winners than losers SO the counsel filed
appeal bonds of $500 each for their
clients.
In an exciting daylight raid the police
surprise the house of Mrs. Ollie
Etzel. whose husband is out of town,
and captured three men and two wo-
men at 5 o'clock last evening. The
police have known of doings at the
house at 1873 Tyler street at intervals
for some time but had no good COM
plant until Friday when, soon after
the session of police court was over,
complaint was made from that quarter
of the coming and going of hilarious
20 I, 1T y,
was quite obnoxious to the respectable
neighbors. Five couples were said to
be carousing in the place.
The patrol wagon was quickly on the
run with Detectives Hutton and Sauls
as official fun exploders and Attorney
Wilson as an innocent bystander to be
near and get run over. As the wagon
wheeled up to the place an interested
audience made its appearance at the
windows of all the houses within eye
shot.
The house is a little cottage with
high basement. Hutton and Wilson
ran to the front door and Sauls started
for the rear but he had not yet reached
there when Hutton who never waits
for ceremonies, kicked the front door
off its hinges and sprang for the base
ment stairs, but he had to go to the
door in the rear and unlock it for il
was too stout to be kicked in. By this
time the innocent bystander was facing
the whole tribe up stairs trying to get
the broken door in place and keep Art
Snapp from stampeding over him. He
was doing very well when the officers
got up in time to see man jump from
a back window whom Hutton jumped
right after and brought back while
Sauls held the rest at bay. Counting
their prisoners, they found they had
two women. Mrs Ollie Etze1 and Maud
Shipley, and four men: Art Allen, Art
Snapp Frank Johnson o. Williams.
All the doors of the house were locked
and the blinds drawn when the officers ar
rived. A Dutch lunch was being served
in the basement where were found two
empty beer cases and another not so
empty. 1t was a happy lot but somebody
told on them and they will spend many
days in discovering who did it, SO they
say. AS the party emerged from the house, |
the audience, scattered around the neigh |
boring houses, set up glad hurrah with
hand clapping but when Wilson ran to
them for evidence. they shut up like
they were so undoubtedly happy to see |
the beer being hauled away.
This is not an ordinary lot, for although |
Mrs. Ollie is not so well known to the |
police, Maud Shipley has a career Maud |
is the handsomeSt girl the police were ever /
able to capture and they. pegan long ago. |
she was sixteen, her father came down |
from Rossville one day and found his lit |
tie girl in the house of Mrs. Raper on |
Sixth street and the police helped him get
her From that time Maud set up for
herself on West Sixth, on East Fourth, on
Third, in Oakland, on Seventh, on Fifth,
where she is finally brought to the police
court and then moves her quarters. Once
she tried teaching school but tired.
In police court this morning Mrs. EtZel
was fined s25 and the others $40 each-$75
in daylight.
The trial of the four remaining milk men
out of the lot accused of selling SKINNED
IL al al Init Of no