The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-08-02
HEAVIEST DOCKET
Shawnee Criminal Court Cases
Break Record.
VIII Be 155 for September
Term, Says Simon.
122 VIOLATE PROHIBITORY LAW
Three Murder Cases and House
Contempt Case.
Misbranded Food Case VIII
Come Up for Trial.

The heaviest criminal docket in the
history of Shawnee county, which con-
tains 1856 cases, 122 of which are cases
in which violations of the prohibitory
law are charged, will be called at the
opening of the September term of the
district court The docket has just
been completed as 10 the criminal cases.
1t is a record breaker from every stand
point.
Of the 122 liquor cases approximately
so have been filed in the last month
by County Attorney Ernest r. Simon.
number of the cases will have to be
carried forward because arrests OF
persons charged have not yet been
made, and in a number of cases car
ried from the last term forward the
same is true However the bulk OF
the cases are new ones. The docket
speaks well for County Attorney Simon
in his effort to clean up the city.
There are comparatively few cases in
which prisoners face serious charges
but there never are many Such mere.
There are three murder cases, one OF
which has been carried forward for
several years. The other two are new.
Mary Thomas alias Matte Troy, chalg-
ed with the murder of a young co1oreu
boy nearly three years ago for the pur-
lose OF collecting insurance on his me-
appears on the docket. The woman
61I6r DelDS Will liz NAAA--0'
was found to be insane and was sent
to the state hospital. Later she es-
capped, was recaptured and escaped
again, and is now at large. She is SAID
to be sane now, or was when she last
escaped from the hospital But she
annot we'll be tried until she is caught
Henry Moody is charged with the
murder of Morgan Howard following
an alteration between the two men
near their homes, at the corner of East
Fifth and Lake streets. Moody is out
on bond. Andrew Wallace is charged
with the murder of Mabel Morris, 10
year-old colored girl whose body was
found in the Kansas river couple of
months ago. The Troy woman and
Wallace are colored. Moody is a white
railroad fireman.
The J. E. House case in which the
Topeka newspaper man is charged with
to testify before the attorney
appears on the docket for trial.
The case against r. o. Vognitz, charged
with operating a moving picture ma
chine on Sunday, in violation of the
labor law, also appears for
trial. This case is pending in the SUI
preme court.
Aside from the liquor cases the num-
be-. of persons charged with the various
crimes are as follows: Murder, g.; as
sauIt with intent to kill, 3; assault and
ba ttery, 3; perjury, 2; larceny from a
lily. 2; libel, 2; grand larceny, 2; and one
each of the following: Burglary and
larceny, threatening assault, forgery,
va grancy, pocket picking, robbery,
operating moving picture machine on
Sunday, threatening to kill, simple as
So ult, refusing to testify before the at
torney general, larceny from railroad
property and offering for sale mis-
branded food products.
The two criminal libel cases appearing
include =
Mrs Charlotte Thomann and H. c. Med
lock-, not yet tried, and the case against
E. c. Wilcox, G. w. Black and H. C..
Ericsson in which a verdict of not guilty
was returned as to Wilcox and the others
were found guilty. This case is pending
on a proposed appeal to the supreme
court.
The case in which the sale of misbrand-
ed food products is shown is against the
Davis Mercantile company.
The docket, as completed to date, does
not show all the cases that are yet TO
come before the court during the term.
There are several cases still to go on and
all criminal cases in which prelinci-
naries are held before the opening of the
term and any other liquor cases to be
filed before the term opens, will apear on