The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-08-15
POLICE KEPT BUSY.
Unusually Large Number of Minor Ar
rests Made Over Sunday.

| 1t took two pages of the police
court register which is a big book, to
hold the names of all who were arrest
| ed Saturday night and Sunday. These
will stand forth as the two busiest days
of the summer time in police circles.
Judge Urny was busy for an hour in
closing up the uncontested cases in
police court this morning and all those
charges to which the defendants
pleaded not guilty were continued un-
til this afternoon. Drunks, fights and
disorderly house raids furnished vic
tins by the dozen for the busy police
men.
Sprague Chase, already enjoying the
privilege of parole from fine of
| 800 for drunkenness and disorderly
conduct was gathered in by Patrolman
Jackson on a charge of having repeat
ed the offense. Sprague denied any
guilt and protested that whenever any
thing happened in his end of town he
was arrested on general principles.
Judge Urmy put his case forward for
| investigation.
M B. Anart. a youth who shattered
a bottle upon the pavement of Kansas
| avenue Saturday night, came next
Guilty. Five dollars Then Jube Jor-
dan and John Barrett, two North To-
peka negroes, were called to answer a
charge of disorderly conduct in max
1 ing an unnecessary amount of noise.
They denied the charge. Thomas Wal
ters, held on a larceny charge, was
| turned over 20 the state.
| Six "black diamonds whom Ser
geant Dan Garden, with Patrolmen
Wonderly, Fribance, Matthews and
Frazier gathered in the bottoms" Sat
urdey night, are to be examined this
afternoon on charge of shooting
craps. Among them are the two Dot
son brothers, Wesley and Felix. who
lnow have a case in the state courts
where they are charged with partiei-
| patfng in hold-up in which five
white boys were made to stand and de-
| liver all their small change one dark
| Saturday night month ago. The four
| others are William Cross. Charles Pop
py, Fred Mack and c. Richardson.
With a search warrant several Off
GERS entered the up stairs at No. 522
| Kansas avenue Saturday night expect
| ing to find a supply of wet goods ru-
mored to have been stored there for
sale, but nothing of the kind realized.
| Not to return empty handed the raid
| ers arrested Mrs. Alice Cells and Wal
| ter B. Hinman, who were in possession
| of two. adjoining rooms. A rather
vague charge of disorderly conduct was
placed against them and to it both
pleaded not guilty before Judge Urmy.
Their case was continued. Mrs.
Cells is the divorced wife of J. B. Cells,
| who. not long ago, flourished a deadly
weapon at Hinman who, he claimed,
| had robbed him of his wife's affec-
| tions. Hinman applied to the city
court for protection and Cells was for
hidden to modest him further. Hin
| man told the court he was not person
ally acquainted with Mrs. Cells and
| that the only ground that Cells had
for his suspicious was the fact that
his former wife worked in a boarding
| house where Hinman lived.
While William Hirsch was about his
business as gateman at the Union Pa
cific railroad crossing Sunday night he
became engaged in an alteration over
a personal matter with Milo Lee. Their
| trouble degenerated into a fight. Lee
was taken to the police station but
Hirsch, who could not be spared from
his duties at the crossing, was allowed
to continue at his post until morning
Both pleaded guilty and paid SIS fines
Oscar Gay and Ben Jordan were
booked on a charge of selling intoxi.
Icating liquors and will be examined
lat a later session of the police court