The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-24
POLICE JOTTINCS.

1t is believed that the city has beer
blessed with the disappearance of =
number of citizens, who moved mere
recently and who were not wanted.
Among these are number OF the peo-
pie who were arrested by the ponce
during the week on numerous charges
but which mostly consisted of Vagran-
CIV or disorderly conduct. The police
announced a cleanup during the early
part of the week and then secured the
lower parts of the city in search OF
the undesirable characters. At least
dozen were arrested who did not be-
long here and a number of others who
make their home in the city. Those
who did not belong in the city We're
allowed their liberty after promising
to leave the city and those who live
in the city were fined on various
charges. 3
Aunt Jane Davis, aged SO and prob
ably more reported at the police sta
>tion Thursday to answer to the charge
of maintaining nuisance at her nome
at 4O1 East Crane street. The police
searched her place Wednesday after
noon and found two cases of beer
The aged negro has given the officers
both city and county, considerable
trouble for a number of years. She
persists in selling liquor at her home,
but on account of her age and infirmi-
ties the officers have found it practical
ly impossible to held her in jail After
raiding her place Wednesday! Aunt
Jane was told to report at the police
station. She reported last Thursday
afternoon being brought to the sta
ton in an express wagon. After being
booked on the charge she was told 20
return to her home until notified to
report for a hearing.
Ethel McCorkle, aged Is years, was
arrested by Officer Frank Parcels this
morning and taken to the police sta
ton where she is being held by the po-
lice matron, Mrs. Della Sare, on the
charge of being an incorrigible. The
girl has been III the habit of walking
the streets at night and of other con-
duct unbecoming to one of her age.
She was at Garfield park Thursday
night and an effort was made to arrest
her but she eluded the police and was
not found until this morning. She
in North Topeka. An effort will be
made to send the girl to the Girls
Industrial school at Beloit
Brigadier General Charles Lindsay,
officer of the guard in charge Of the
city rock pile, is a busy man. At pres
ent he has charge of a number of ne
groes, MexicanS, and a number of other
police characters who are compelled to
assist in building good roads, by crack
ing stone, because lley ulQ not nave
the necessary long green to buy their
liberty which had been denied them by
his honor, N. B. Arnold, judge of the
police court. The said officer, who
wears more chevrons than any other
officer of the police department, is
busy watching the prisoners while at
work and spends considerable time at
herding a number of chickens which
have been turned over to the police de-
partment by people who did not have a
pen to keep them confined or no sys-
tearing out their neighbours garden.
Even at that, Officer Lindsay finds
time to discuss the events in Cilicka-
manga park, while the Twenty-second
Kansas regiment was in camp waiting
for a call to the front during the Span
ish-American war. Officer Lindsay
wore stripes while member of said
regiment.
The home of Raymond Sauls of 1856
Green street was burglarized last
Wednesday night and number of
barber tools and a few articles of
clothing were taken. He reported his
loss to the police this morning The
burglars entered the house during the
absence of the family by cutting a hole
in a screen and crawling through a
window.
The police report that there is a
dearth in reports of automobile scorch-
ers since the police automobile has
been put into service. Detective Otto
Anderson and number of other off
GERS patrol the streets at night and
search for scorchers but find few. A