The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-01-11
ARRESTS IN 1912
Total Number of 2,13s for the
Year.
This Is IS More Than Made in
1911.
POLICE REPORT is OUT
DRINKS Led the List With
Total of $50.
Were lis Disorderly Conduct
Were lis DisOrderly Conduct
and 40 Burglar Arrests.

The members of the police depart
ment made 213S arrests during the
year of 1912, which is So more than
during the year of 1911. DRINKS, dis
orderly conduct, gambling and selling
liquor or maintaining liquor nuisances
comprised about one-half the number
of the offenses that We're committed.
The total number of arrests on these
charges amounted to 932.
More people We're arrested for being
drunk than for any other cause. The
total number of persons arrested on
this charge were 534. OF this num-
Der SS1 were whites and rs negroes
were arrested on the same charge.
Among these were 13 women and IS
men. Indians from the Pottowatomie
reservation in Jackson county donated
to this list with a total of Sc and IL
MeXicanS also were arrested.
Disorderly conduct shows up prom
inently. A total of 178 arrests were
made on this charge and designated
as 2 white females, SO males, So ne
gro females, 20 negro males, 9 Next
can males and Indian males. The
police raided disorderly houses and
arrested Sc white persons with "a
white females, 80 males, IA negro fe-
males, 10 males, and Mexican males.
This makes a total of 25S arrests on
this charge.
Gambling plays a prominent part in
the number of arrests. A total of Ill
arrests were made on this charge.
F1fty-two white men were arrested.
The colored people just cannot over
come the temptation to shoot craps
and So were arrested for the offense.
Among them was one woman. This
makes more arrests on the charge of
crap shooting than was made for all
kind of gambling among the white
people.
The police have had considerable
trouble with bootleggers and persons
who have attempted to maintain
places for selling the beverage. A to-
tai of 113 arrests were made on this
charge which were distributed as fol-
lows: Seventy white men, white wo-
men and 33 negro men. This does not
include a large number of liquor raids
which were made and where stocks
of wet goods were captured but I'M
claimed.
The majority of persons run away
from their stock if given an opportunity
thus avoiding arrest. Chief of Police
We're made which resulted in the seizure
of unclaimed liquor than in raids where
arrests were made.
A total of 274 persons were arrested
for investigation Some of these We're
convicted Of various offenses and q
large number were released after the
officers were convinced that they We're
not guilty. A large number of them
were transferred to the state courts.
Among those arrested for investigation
were 176 white persons, "a negroes, II
Mexicans and 8 Indians.
Six murderers were arrested. Four OF
those were white men and two were
negroes. All were men. One embeZzler
was arrested and that was Ward Spiel
man, who was convicted in the United
States court of embeZzling money from
the Merchants National bank.
A total number of 104 arrests were
made in which the prisoner was trans
ferred to the state courts for prosecu-
ton. A total of no arrests of this
kind were made during the year of
1911
Children under 16 years of age and
delinquent parents were arrested for
the juvenile court. The total number
of arrests for these offenses was 81.
Below is table showing the number
of arrests for various offenses but it
does not include 157 arrests that were
on minor charges. The number of ar
rests for the year include 1882 white
persons, $50 negroes, So Mexicans and ~
Indians. This does not include the ar
rests numbering 157 which are not
specified. Among the arrests in the
specified list We're 237 females and 1,764