The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-06-08
POLICE JOTTINGS.
Burglars Rob Walter Bromich
of Watch and Money.
Negroes He Had Befriended Are
Suspected and Arrested.
SENT OUT OF TOWN.
Suspicious Negro Couple Headed
in Another Direction.
Machinist's Story of Low Gear
Speed Didn't Go.
SENT OUT OF TOWN.

Burglars entered the room of Walter
Bromich, foreman of the Topeka
Steam Boiler works, at 124 Jefferson
| street, while he slept Saturday night,
| securing $31 in money and his gold
watch and chain
J. H. Belcher, colored, is held at the
station under investigation and a war
rant has been sworn for the arrest of
Sneed, another colored man. Bromich
had entertained several of his frineds
during the evening and the two negroes
had dropped in. All the company hav-
ing left, Bromich retired. In the
morning he found he had been robbed.
Neighbors told of having seen the two
cOlored fellows return to the house
and call loudly for, Walter but getting
no response go in. Walter himself had
not been awakened and can not swear
as to their identity, but the neighbors'
testimony seems to be certain enough
to warrant the arrest of the two color
ed follows who seeminly returned to
rob their hose. The case will probably
go to the district court.
Belcher had been arrested for
morning was fined So which he
promptly paid. He had not been out
ten hours before he was picked up on
investigation for this robbery. He
seemed to have money handy which
added weight to his suspicion.
The alacrity with which the police
sprang onto a pair of colored crooks
just landed in the river district is COM
mendable for such hot weather. Lizzie
Smith was picked up last night on
Third street for street walking. She
cried on the policeman's arm and wept
the station force. into hating such a
cruel world but she was locked in the
tower for the night. In court this
| morning she said she was a respectable
cook from Emporia, where she had
lived for five years but firing of that
place finally had come to Topeka yes
terday morning about three o'clock in
tending to get work. Inside of three
hours, however, she decided that To-
peka was too dead so she telegraphed
to her husband in Kansas City for a
ticket to come to him on and was only
going down to the Santa ,Fe depot to
see If it had come when the officer ar
rested her. She could not say what
street it was nor the street where she
lived, all she knew was that she had
stayed with yellow family with three
children.
About 9 o'clock a. m. a we'll dressed
colored man came to the station to in
quire after the woman, saying a yellow
: man had sent him up but he did not
know the fellows name. His clothes
were all too large but everything new
which was suspicious, so the officers
searched him, finding a bottle of hop"
pills. They then went to the rooms
where he gave the address, 112 Kansas
avenue Towards rooming house, and
there found several cans of the opium
gum which they conf1scated, leaving
other articles and clothing both mas
culine and feminine lying about the
room. A roomer said that the man and
woman the police had, just came in
and were staying in that room. Their
baggage was learned to be at the ROCK
Island depot.
Going back to the station the officers
sweated out the man who gave his
name as Jim Jones. drawing from him
that he and the woman were travelling
together and had last been at McFar-
land. having come up from Oklahoma
The two were loaded into Black Marian
and hauled to a train to be shipped on.
c. ]. Metty, tried last evening for
exceeding the speed limit, testified that
he was undoubtedly making a big noise
like accelerated motion for he had the
muller off but he stated that he had
the engine on low gear. The Judge
saw no reason why there should be a
no law violation in that nor in gears
or other technica1ities. but two good
witnesses had testified that he was
certainly doing an awful speed for a
low geared car. something more than
IL miles or Kansas avenue, where the
limit is eight, so he would have to
fine him a little something. $40. Metty
| is a machinist for Terry Stafford.
Bud Roseby, the colored man who
brutally attacked Ralph Kuppus yes
terday and escaped when he saw the
chief after him, duplicated that trick
again this. morning when Detective
Lawson tried to catch him. Rosebud
was working in the stall currying a
horse. Lawson just caught sight of
his hand through an open door and
Bud must have seen Lawson from
somewhere else for as the detective
reached the door Buds coat tails were
YES, WE'RE GLAD SCHOOL Is OUT