The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-07-11
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the laws of the state. I am nor salts
fed to accept such information as he
cared to give I request that you
subpoena Mr. J. E House, under the
provisions of paragraph 366 of the
general statutes of 1903, and compel
him under oath to disclose all the in
formation and knowledge he has re-
garding the incident referred to and
all other information he has respect
ing the violation of the laws of the
state relating to Intoxicating liquors;
and further request that this be done
at once and such proceedings fns-f-
tuted as the evidence SO secured war
rants I request also notice of the
time and place where such hearing
will be held that may appoint counsel
to be present and assist"
Dawson's Reply.
Hon w. R. Stubs. Governor of Kan
SaS.
Dear sir: Your letters of July 10
are at hand Therein you remind me
of the conference held at your resi-
dence in the presence o. Senator
Brewster, Judge Holt, John Marshall,
Mr. Trickett and Mr.. Fred Trigg, and
say that I positively agz eed to brins
custer proceedings against the sher-
iff of Cherokee county Immediately.
AS soon as I returned to Topeka
did prepare the custer petition and
sent it to Mr.. Trickett for such sug-
gestions as he might see fit to make,
and to await the procuring of some
afidavits by Mr.. Trickett. AS the tes-
timony did not seem to me to be suf-
fcient to warrant the suspension of
the sheriff until the conclusion of the
trial, decided, in my best judgment,
that I should hold an inquisition and
subpoenaed to my Office q large num-
Der of persons from Cherokee county
for the purpose of procuring other and
additional evidence before filing that
rI73e has 1ad
with with all possible speed and I have
just returned from Cherokee county
and filed this custer proceeding. I
have served notice upon the defend
ant, Ralph Martin, that a motion for
his suspension will be presented to the
supreme court on Wednesday, July
10, or as soon thereafter as it can be
heard by the court, and shall be glad
to have the assistance of such coun-
sci as you see fit to employ.
Dawson's Letter to Sapp.
Touching the article in the Kansas
City Journal pWporting to be an in
terview with Judge Sap which ap-
peared in the metropolitan newspa-
perS some time ago, on June 81 I
wrote to Judge Sapp as follows:
In the Kansas City Journal 4 week
ago appeared an article purporEing to
give an interview of yours wherein it
was stated that some person protesting
OF pretending 10 De Ell assistant dLlOI-
ney general had selected the deputy
sheriffs who made the raids in the
northern part of your county and that
this person had authorized a sale OF
the liquors seized in those raids. This
article further went on to say that
whom the liquors were sold ana the
names of the persons who had sold the
liquors
Il think that these charges are so
grave and they have received such wide
publicity throughout the state that it
would be well indeed If you did not
give that interview If you would write
me a letter denying it in toto or de-
nying such parts Of it as you see fit
to deny and If any part of 1t is true
pretended to be an assistant attorney
general and who did select these depu-
ties, If you claim it to be a fact that
he had anything to do with the selection
of the deputies, and that you should
also furnish me the names of the per-
or who sold the liquors seized by them,
and the names of the persons who
bought from them, and if any Of these
matters have come to you by hearsay,
think it is proper. and for the further
ance Of justice and the enforcement of
the law for you to give me the sources
of your information
Hoping to hear from you at an early
date, I remain, with kind regards"
Judge Sapp's Reply.
Judge Sapp was out Of the state at
the time, but on his return, July 5, he
wrote me as follows:
your letter of the 9th came to hand
yesterday, and as have been away,
did not get the same until my return.
have not had an interview with any
reporter of the Kansas City Journal at
any time, in which 1 made the :.tate-
g. -
be or claiming to be an assistant It
torney general, had selected the deputy
sheriffs who made the raids in the
north part of this county. I have not
had but one interview with a reporter,
and that was an interview I gave to
the reporter for the Kansas City Jour
nal on the day in which I was IN your
office, and certainly did not say that,
and that was not in that article.
This is the only interview I have
had In reference to this matter. There
has been a number of reported in
terviews that I have given. in the
paper and where they got the infor-
nation, I have no way Of knowing. AS
to the sale of liquor by these depu-
ties or the drinking I may suggest to
you that the only person whom know
Of was Mr.. Wickershann- the district
clerk, who told me that ne had bought
some of the beer. After I had learned
this, I did make a statement to the
sheriff, the county attorney and clerk,
of the selection of that kind of depu-
ties and complained about the persons
whom he had used because had I'M
derstood that they had been used by
former officers and had done the same
thing before. He told me either by
the sheriff himself. or the clerk or the
county attorney, and am not certain
which, that the sheriff was not to
blame, as Mr.. Lindsay had selected
the deputies and taken them to the
sheriff's office and asked him to dep
utize them. I will get you. as soon as
I go to Columbus, which will be in a
day or two, the names of the persons
who acted as deputies, ard the names
of the men I think honestly that the
enforcement of the law against these
men, will do more to stop the sale Of