The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-02-12
Seventy-TWO Convictions i'm the
Lower Court.
REVIEW OF THE CASES
1Neny Resorts Have Been Broken
Up.
Includes Several Clubs Used as
Drinking Places.


pree to the city prison to serve their
original sentence of the police court af-
/ ter their appeals to the district court
ends a long chapter of the suppression
of the liquor traffic in Topeka which
| has involved 70 convictions in the po-
ice court and extended over two years
| of time
! There have been no successful raids
for several months and the police seem
| to have disposed Of all the joints and
dives where liquors have been dfspens-
ed besides a large number OF drug
stores and clubs. Beginning in April
1907, when the present administration
began its active campaign with R. W.
Eaton at the helm of the noIice de-
partment against the nuisances and
houses of fIIfame, there commenced
a rapid succession OF raids and con-
vfctions which swept the traffic from
the city until now a Sort1e from the
station invariably results IN bum
steer and no booze found
/ Frank Raynor was one OF the first
to go the way, an old veteran who had
been undisturbed for years, Fritz Du-
rein, :. Watts. Martha Watts and
other veter&ns at the business quickly
followed and old coIored Aunt Jane
Davis also got in line. Fritz DUrein was
arrested and convicted half dozen
d
Not two months ago he finished serv-
[ ing out his last fine Of so days and
300 1t took as many to finally quench
f NJ. Bee Adams and Joanna Ad-
ans Robert kneisIer. the wholesale
agent of BIatz beer was convicted Ben
Jordan and his barkeeper. Harry Crit
fin tumbIed. Dick Johnson was detain-
I ed a month from his wet restaurant
H G. Wolf and W--M- Bright Of the
Heitman hotel sUccumbed. Frank
Murphy Of the billiard hall went down
| and out and two bo0tIeggers, H Jack
son and VIII Murray lost their bottles
Dick and May Hoffman soon paid the
penalty and Bob Campbell and James
Miller were convicted on six counts
each. and old Peg Leg NcCIafety was
pulled from the last joint where spiked
cider had become the beverage for the
weary passerby- Among the women
fofutists most of them in connection
with houses were Lucy Stevenson Ma
RE Wall. josephine jackson. Joanna
Adams Bertha WoadzlI. Maggie Stew
art Agnes Hightowe- and May Heit-
man
The case of G Young IS probably the
most famous OF ttesss9Eg list OF drug
store casualties Esisss=s Sic Chesterteld
pharmacists, J. w HQIlIuger and J. NJ
Thoupsor- whose tflaGsand dollar stock
of HdIlor seized last Fourth of July
and destroyed a fortnight ago follow
with a close second.
But the greatest achievement and
the pride az the department Is that
thew got to a number of the clubs sup
posed To be uut0uchaoIe- one OF
these was the famous Harmony cIuo
operated at 222 Kansas avenue oy OElo
Anderson well to do druggist VINO
/ had the goods in his store below the
cITrb rooms where met men and women
of all types over the tables OF peer ana
vine This was undoubtedly the
worst of the organizations of the time
and its adjustment was heralded as a
great triumph
Another club of prominence was the
CSermaria to which the chief secured
4 kew and entered one night. watching
the proceedings for several minutes
before he was perceived TO pc IN the
room Ed HoSsfelt, the bartender,
as showing glasses across the bar as
fast as he could I'LL them and loud
and CAV throug was fast getting INTO
shape when Hossfelt spied the chief
and sank behind the bar a defeated
man r ]. Horton, president; Robert
SempIe. secretary nd treasurer, and
Charles Lum berg, steward, the officers
Of the club, were also arrested
review of the books makes a
very interesting chapter in the history
Of the prosecutions OF the liquor trar-
nc in Topeka where the fight has been
one of the hardest and yet most sue
cassrI1T in the state \ more interest
ing chapter perhaps would De the MS
torv Of the banishmsut OF the dlsor-
DERBY houses, but they are gone ana
Topeka is cleaner IN morals 1han II
has been in years.
A, extra number of police were
used in the fire district last night and
succeeded in preventing any dlsoroerly
conduct or purse suatching among the
great crowd which hung on until the
small hours Of the morning watching
the big wholesale house .crumoied by
the intense heat The only arrests
1a~sssarv we're Of sam and Elmer
Swearingen about II O'Clock when the
walls fell and they became rough IN
JostIfnE aside the people in their path
They put up bonds of $40 eacn and
1rofaF3Tv returned to the fire. In
police court this morning they were
fined IS each
About O'Clock last evening man
who could not give his name was
taken TO the station and turned into
the pen to come TO his senses He
vas brought in by Detective SaulS and
PatroIman Wonderly- who placed
verx UNIQUE and humorous charge
AGAINST him On the docket was the
charge with exclamation point 80
DRUNK The name this morning was
". c. hampton and he was fined SIS.
William Coon. a glass worker, not
working went into the restaurant or
Mrs. Frisby down the Avenue yester-
dax and getting rfIed about something
connected with his purchase named
the proprietor and others things which
disturbed their peace Of mind for
which oreuse he vas taken into the
station BY Ofhcer Mead and fined IS
but Judge Crnny this morning
Ths fstfc battle between W NJ.
Tockeutou and Susie Wesley, his pri-
vate cook. which occurred in the bot
toms and resulted in the arrest OF the
negro and uegreSs eombatants, came to
| trial last evening and he was fined $z5
and she SO
Zane. there was whole pile in the PAN
| try What became of IT, Ny young