The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-07-06
POLICE JOTTINGS.
A Burglar Who Was Evidently
Lost
Got Into the Wrong House With
Refreshments.
HE LEFT SUDDENLY.
His Well Filled Pasket COnfis-
Gated by Officers.
Frank Rudolph Creates Con-
sternatiOn in Auburndale.


gether noiselessly shuffing about. dis
appeared as the girls came tearing into
the room to the mothers aid.
Frightened yet brave enough to
search for the marauder, Mrs. Crow. a
widow, who is employed in an up town
dry goods store as coat maker and her
two daughters went through the rooms
and examined the doors and windows
an easy raising half screen was settled
upon as the exit of the stranger within
the gates.
Satisfied that the burglar had gone
for good the women retired again and
spent few hours in troubled sleep 10
arise early and look farther about the
house. Going out upon the porch they
found sitting there near the window
market basket full of half pint bottles
of Schlitz beer and catfish sandwiches.
A clue entirely satisfactory was agreed
upon and the police called. Detective
Wonderly went out to investigate.
That some one was carrying home
lunch to his wife and got into the
wrong house was accepted as the most
plausible explanation of the near trag-
eqy and WOnderly picked up the de-
serted lunch, carried it to the police
station for an exhibit, and the owner
can have it, he says by coming after
1t and telling where he got it.
Celebrating as he is not known to
have celebrated for some six years,
FRANK 6uQOIpn, a tinker OF gas stoves
and kindred subjects, last evening de-
Veloped as vivaciouS and sprightIy a
drunken craze as ever entertained Au-
burndale at his house at 102 Hawthorne
street.
Nefghbors telephoned to the police to
come on out and take it away and
the moter cop who went out says that
the inside of the house was reduced to
a junk pile.
''All he did, stated Mrs. Rudolph
concerning her husband to the court
this morning, was to break a. few
dishes. He did not break things up in
the least He pulled the stove over
into the middle of the room and of
course the pipe came down and he
kicked a table over as any man might.
There was a dish of cake on the table
and plate of pie and guess a potted
plant and maybe a pitcher of water
and few glasses but that was nothing
He might have misplaced a dish pan
and a skillet and a broom but as to
dashing dishes onto the floor as report
ed he never did-the cupboard is built
in the wall. The sewing machine was
leaning up against the dresser and the
lounge was on the center table but
nothing was broken in the least.
THE neighbors are indignant, your
honor, about that arrest. The police |
man on a motor cycle came down there
and enticed him out of the house and
down the street so that he could arrest
him He was in his own house all the
papers and some other things out into |
the yard and threw a small gasoline |
engine out of his buggy onto the wash |
ing machine but otherwise he did not
create a bit of disturbance and do not |
think he should have been arrested"
But an hour before she came there |
the judge had fined Mr.. Rudolph $40 |
and he could not be convinced that it |
should not stand.
Much credit is due to the county Of |
fcialS for the conviction of the four |
teen criminals who are over due at |
the penitentiary from the county Jail |
and much credit has been given. But |
there has been a grave omission of |
the captors of the crooks-the men |
who took the risks and walked the /
treets for possible clues and hunted |
she town and other cities for evidence. |
AS q matter of fact twelve of the /
fourteen cases en- route to the peni- |
Tertiary are direct convictions from |
police gathered evidence and the |
bodies themselves were captured by |
the police. The department has never |
been so successful as during the last |
six months and scarcely crook has |
slipped through their meshes while |
out of AZ cases of stolen property in |
"a cases the property has been found |
and restored to the owner.
Steve Proudly and Harve Enochs,
convicted of robbery from the person |
of Mrs. Jewell, were captured by Ser
geant Ross and PatrOlman England |
after long hunt and investigation.
Lew Boughner, forger and dope !
field, was detected by Joe WOnderly |
and arrested by him.
Frank Hammond, convicted for
burglary and larceny of a store at
Berryton, was found by the chief |
hiding in the brush along the Shunga-
nunga creek.
Elmer Hagman of jamestown. N
Y, convicted of burglary and larceny.
was arrested and the case framed by
Detectives Wonderly and Hutton.
n Qn11 10 /
a9mans, Bessie Baker, with several
aliases. convicted for forgerieS and ac-
cessories, were captured in an inter
esting engagement about the Chester |
field hotel and Rock Island yards by
the chief of police, Detective Hutton,
Patrolmen Penney and Bryant.
Ed Carroll, convicted of attempted |
assault upon Mrs. Little was arrested
in famous raid in the old lime kiln
by Detectives Sauls, Hopkins and
Summers.
from dwelling, was arrested by Offlcer &
Leach. Il
Ransome Pigg. convicted of larceny
from the person. was taken in hand
by Sergeant Ross.
In all these cases which have gone |,
from police court to the district court
lice. They are proud of their record
and are working hard to avoid letting
sny crooks get away. There is no be-
, Etling the work of the higher Off
Il
long solely to them are Thomas Tur-
ner of Pauline and the old soldier who
stole hogs at Tecumseh. The police
of Topeka is really active.
Boomi also crash! a great cannon
cracker exploded in the center of Kan
ass avenue directly in front of the
state Journal office where a crowd
was gathered watching the baseball
score from Lincoln about o'clock.
'sHey, guys, what do you think of
that huh? Wasn't that a good un,
huh 2 Guess that amt shootin'."