The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-14
Galena District Judge Makes No
Direct Charges.
Understood Beer Was Traded
by Raiders for Ice Water.
WHAT LINDSAY SAID.
Jackson and Others Got Rich
Off PrOhibitOry Law.
Tells About Large Fees of For
mer Attorney Generals Force.

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The second inquisition (this one pub
lic) was held in Attorney General Daw-
sons office today, with Judge E. e
Sapp of Cherokee county as the prin-
cipal witness. The construction that
might be placed upon some of the evil
dence was sensational. Judge Sapp de-
clared that Frank Lindsay, represent
ing the State Temperance union, told
him that jackson, Codding and Mar
shall got rich off the prohibitory law
and we are just getting our noses to
the trough It was shown further i'll
the examination of the Cherokee judge
that as a result of a certain raid con-
Quoted by the state officials that it was
"a h of a raid. you could trade ice
water for beer all along the road Of the
confiscated goods clear to Columbus"
on the other hand, Judge Sapp de-
clared that he was not here to tear
down regulations. L complain, not of
the individual, but the system, which is
to say the noise the charges against
my county, the newspaper notoriety. I
might cite cases that would reflect
upon the individual, but 1 will not do
So"
When asked il he took the charges
made by Frank Lindsay against former
Attorney General Jackson, John Mar
shall and j. K. Coddlng seriously
Judge Sapp said: These state tenn
perance officials had a bill in my court
then for 81 900 attorney fees in the
Regal Brewery company case when tire
value of all the property involved In
that receivership was not worth over
$3.50. In view of that fact my sus-
picions as to alleged graft were keenly
aroused"
The inquisition was begun this morn
ing in the attorney generals office at
10 O'Clock. Besides Judge Sapp the fol-
lowing newspaper men were sub
poenae as witnesses: w. r. Kercher
of the Kansas City Journal, c. c..
Howes and G. p. Macdonald of the
Kansas City Star and c. A. Cain of the
Topeka State Journal Only Judge Sapp
testified at ths morning session The
der that they might testify as to inter
views they had written quoting Judge
Sapp In regard to Cherokee county
conditions and charges he had made
about graft down there on the part of
certain officials.
Judge Sapp was still en- the stand
when the noon recess was taken.
Attorney General Dawson conducted
the direct examination of the Cherokee
county judge, who was here as a vol
untary witness and not in answer to
summons or subpoena and therefore
could answer or not the questions
asked, just as he chose. But the judge
made reply to all questions at the
morning session.
Denies an Interview.
Judge Sapp repudiated the Kansas
City Journal interview, declaring that
he had talked to no one at that time
representing himself to be an employee
~ 70 hr7f he
he made many of the statement ac-
credited to him in that article. He
said that it was true that / g had stated
from information he had received that
officers from the north had selected
the deputies that made the raid where
the wet goods did not reach their des-
tination in Columbus, but were sold or
given away on the route. Il was out
ragged at this proceeding" said the
SlIdge, land I made no bones about
talking about it. I understood at the
time that Dawson. Lindsay and Trick
EFT had charge of that raid until the
attorney general himself told me that
he had nothing to do with it,"
Judge Sapp then went on to tell
about the enforcement OF the prohib-
itory law in his county and the de-
tails were not without interest. He
told about raid where rs barrels of
whisky and beer were seized and half
that number were destroyed He told
Of another case where ten cases of
whisky were taken and only six turned
in. He gave the county clerk of Cher
okee county as authority for the in
formation that beer was traded by the
raiders for ice water.
He told how the driver of the
wagon carrying the confscated goods
had been quoted as declaring that he
lost a keg of beer en- route and that
It was too heavy to lift back on the
rarn ha Lot Tfa
front of a convenient barn, and then
there was beer party in that barn
that night
The judge declared that the raids
were failures because too much public
ity was attached to them. He said thar
the volunteers of law and order were
really volunteers for pay, and there
was some question about the pay"
State journal Interview Correct.
Asked about the state Journal in
terview of June "A in which he was
quoted at some length regarding graft
conditions in Cherokee county. Judge
Sapp said that the interview was es-
sentially correct.
Telling of the work of the special
agents employed by the state to fas-
ten the lid down in Cherokee, the judge
declared that they were like the strike
breakers in time of a strike, they did
moro damage than the strikers. They
arc most of them the refuse element
from other counties come to my county
to join the refuse there in injuring the
community"
Judge Sapp said he had instructed
the sheriff Of his county not to deputize
these volunteers. They came down to
my county for fees alone. 1 have not
changed n mind since I made that
order some time ago to the sheriff. 81
The judge made this statement with
some heat and emphasis.
Attorney General Dawson asked the
judge about the fee transactions in his
(Dawson's) name. and the judge sta
ted that only in the case Of the Regal
Brewery company had any one sought
doubtful fees in the present attorney s
EeperaIa name. Dawson here denied