The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-02-17
He USED A GUN.
Deputy Sheriff Has Exciting
Experience Today.
Arrests Geo. Waterman at the
Santa Fe Shops.
EXPECTED TROUBLE.
Compelled to Overawe Man at
Revolver Point.
Prisoner Says Oklahoma Charge
Was Fixed Up.

Of Cheyenne Okla, was arrested today
in true Oklahoma fashion by Deputy
Sheriff Judkins on a warrant from that
state charging burglary in the night
time. As he lodged the big fellow with
shaggy hair and piercing black eyes in
the county Jail, the deputy exclaimed.
That's the first time I've had to pull
that gun from its scabbard in three
years.
well, they use them right along
down there answered the prisoner
Armed with the warrant from Sheriff
j. NJ. Evans of Roger Mills county,
Oklahoma, the deputy and the news
hunter first drove toward the little
finding him at home. With the warrant
had come a description of the man
wanted. The reporter did not see this
but the deputy had absorbed the con-
tents and began to rig himself for bat
tie. His old trusty gun was slipped into
a house." he said, here, if I can't
handle Inn use this" and he showed
over lead slug billy.
Why. no. He's got steady job now
in the steel car Shops" proudly an
swered the little wife at the door, I'M
suspecting. At that the offices of John
Purcell, superintendent of the shops,
were visited to get the location of the
man. Then came the reference to the
new steel car shops where Foreman
Cornelius was consulted. After another
delay and the calling of other foremen,
the man was traced to a light repair
shop and a man sent to call him into
the office.
AS he heard the warrant read to
him the mans chest began to heave;
his eyes flashed. Apparently he was
caught and very closely backed into a
corner, but with the cry, You'll never
take me backi" he sprang past the
foreman, opening the door in the same
movement. The deputy, however, was
as quick, seized the mans arm and
was jerked through the door after
him, retaining his hold. Half a hun
dred shopmen appeared from some
where. In a fierce fight of an instant,
the workmans shirt gave way and he
sprang back, but Judkins had whip
ped out the ready gun and had him
covered. With an oath the man gave
up.
iii kill that when I go
back there. Who swore to that war
rant? I don't know what they got on
lot o times already, but they amt
got nothin' on me. I always come
clear. Just cause a fellows seen in
the day time with some fellows, they
think he goes with EN- at night.
Il amt afraid to go down there.
Why didn't they get me while I was
there if they wanted me instead of
comm up here when I get a good job
and make me come back. That guy has
got to swear to lot of lies and then
I'll make him pay for it,
Then followed the system of draw
ing time-from the immediate shop
where he worked and where he rang
out and waited for figures and his
services satisfactory" thence back to
the general foreman's office, and from
whence Or Iafnr fn
office and then to the general offices
to get his pay in person. But the noon
hour had rang. Waterman wanted to
go home to see his wife and change
his oily clothes, but it was late and he
was promised to be taken before night
| to settle up all his business.
On the way to the county Jail the
man told of his experiences, of his
wife and babe. He had come to To-
| peka from Cheyenne December IA Or
| and has worked steadily since. The
crime is alleged to have been com
| mitted about December l.
| Waterman was married little more
| than a year ago in Cheyenne. He ha:
a claim on the prairie near Cheyenne
where he says he lived before marry
| ing.
"It was for drawing a gun out a
that place when a fellow was trying
| to steal some stuff that I was arrest
and food in a sack taking out to tn,
shack and wanted to ride a little wa,
across the grass, so left the sack lyins
by the fence. When I came back
saw a fellow taking it up and mad
him stop. They fined me $65 ant
costs.
rive been arrested for fightin', too
but that's all 1 never stole nothin
in my life. This is the first time
ever was arrested for anything of TIL
kind
The warrant charges Waterman will
entering the house of Peter Hess, jr.
in the night time with intent to steal
Waterman says he never heard of Hes
and he knew everybody in that county
The prisoner lived at 239 Nortl
Chandler street. The little wife wa
left alone with her child at noon t.
wait and wonder. The accused say
he will take her with him back to tn