The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-04-22


hay Tidanic proposition ha shared das
Svede and ay tank ay pull off gom
shoe Sdunts en- Dopeka das summa-
Ay would luf to see day old country
agan bud ay am skered ma undt day
old woman would find Valkin CROWDED
if dey skip SHOULD hat an Ice
borg.''-Otto Anderson of the police
department.
/ Henry Ogee, an expert oarsman OF
North Topeka, whose boat was stG%en
about two weeks ago, has recovered
the boat With the assistance OF
the police department several boys
were arrested and two were sentenced
/ to the Boys Industrial School Dy
Judge w. F. Schoch of the juvenile
court last week. Morris jenkins, the
| chief of police learned last week that
| the boat was in the possession or Hen
| ry Miltonberger, who lives in the nrst
| block north of the river on Harrison
; street He notified Mr.. Ogee of TINS
and sent the latter after the poat: IN
going after the boat, Ogee found Mil
| tonberger in possession of forty or
! fifty pounds of insulated copper wire
! which was possibly taken off dynamos
/ in the Home elevator in North IopeKa-
/ The elevator has been closed to busl-
| ness for more than year and the
! copper wire was said to have beeh
/ removed from the dynamo by boys
who crawled through broken WIN
dow.
Moltonberger was trying to burn the
! insulation off the wire and had built
! a fire on the dixie along the river Mr.:
| Ogee reported this to the police ana
returned, with officer Mask and took
! possession of it. The wire is now be
ing held at the police station and the
police are trying to fi1-d somebody VINO
| will identify it.
It is practically certain that the wire
was taken off from the dynamos IN the
| Home elevator, as the wire has been
| taken off the dynamos and it Is the
information has been learned which
will aid in establishing an identnlca-
| ton.
Roy Gohing started a quarrel and a
| fight on a street car while returning
from the baseball game Sunday after
noon and was arrested. The cause OF
the quarrel has not been learned but
it is reported that he raised a general
disturbance and the conductor ordered
him off the car. Hostilities continued
when he refused and he will be given
chance to explain his conduct to
Judge n. B. Arnold in police court at
$3.50 o'clock this afternoon.
Bill Clark has been arrested again
and on the same old charge. Bill lives
at 116 East Fourth street and is often
suspected of selling liquor and main
tanning a nuisance. Officers England
and woodward visited Clarks place
Sunday evening and found crowd
holding a post mortem examination
over several bottles of beer. Bill and
the beer were taken to the police station
Bill is chargd with selling and main
tanning and the beer is being held for
evidence. His hearing is scheduled to
begin at $3.50 o'clock this afternoon.
George Owens and party of
friends were enjoying a key of beer
at 1881 Jackson street Sunday after
noon when the police interfered and
tC ok charge. GVenS and his friends
allege that it was one of those chip
in" kegs which are permitted by a
recent decision of the supreme court.
But George made a mistake. He did
not attempt to collect the pro rata
from each member of the party I'M
til after the police took charge of
the program. Officers Voiles, Golf
and Lindsay made the arrest.
Jailer Al Hopkins has returned to
work, after having been off duty ten
days and enjoying his annual vaca-
ton. Detective Frank Summers, who
has been working as jailer, has re-
turned to his usual duties with De-
tective Otto Anderson.
To the Editor of the State Journal:
1t seems as though some people
here in Topeka do not believe that
had 1856 and was robbed, that I am
not capable of earning that much
borer by few people, when I am a
boilermaker by trade. [ served my
apprenticeship in the Santa Fe shops
in Topeka, but have not worked for
that company since June, 1910.
l went to work for the Union Pa
cific Railway company February 3,
1919. in Kansas City, Mo. l was sent
to Topeka on February 4 to work in
the L. P. roundhouse for two weeks.
then 1 returned to Kansas City and
worked tvUO
back to Topeka March 2. I worked
here until April 4, when I went back
to Kansas City to work. Now here
is what bothered the police. They
thought because I was sent to To-
peka l wasn't working. As every
every day and are paid time and one
haf for working overtime, and for
working Sundays and holidays. I
worked every day in March and
worked hard for my money. After I
got my expenses paid i'll Kansas City
had $166.70 and 1 came to Topeka
en- No. II on the Santa Fe to pay my
bills here at home The $165 was all
in bills in a black morocco billbook
in the inside of my vest pocket, where
money badly. 1 have six mouths to
feed and now they and all my cred
itors have to suffer.
I never saw nor heard my assail-
ant, but told the police all [ could.
1t seems as though they never can
get trace of criminals here in To-
peka- The article in Saturdays pa
per stated perhaps [ had the money
and was robbed and perhaps I was
rot robbed.
Perhaps if the police would do their
duty this would not have happened.
Hope this makes it plain to those who
couldn't understand where L got my
money. Yours truly,