The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-12-08
County Commissioners Offer
$s.50 q Week for Support.
HAVE 4 HEATED AR6UMEN1
Judge Mcfarland and County
Board Fight 1t Out
Over COunty's Policy as to
Holding Juveniles.

AS the result OF q cOmmlttee VI ~
pel<a club women appearing before
the board of county commissioners at
! the commission session late Monday
afternoon and offering to establish a
detention home fdf juveniles upon
the agreement Of the county commits
sioners to pay $3.50 a week for the
board Of each inmate, indications are
that Shawnee county is soon to have
at least temporary detention home.
After a lengthy argument between
the commissioners, Frank Simms. r.
F'arland, probate judge. and the wom-
| en-, Mrs. C. ]. Evans, Mrs. S. A.
ThurstOn, Mrs. c. B. Thomas. Miss
Guenn GODDARD and Mrs. David Page.
to the proposition The movement
for a detention home for juveniles in
this city is regarded as a result OF
sending Mary Turner to the ThrOop
| hotel because no suitable place for
! such cases is being maintained for
the city. When the committee OF
women appeared Judge Mcfarland
was defending his action of placing
the Turner girl and Florence Coon in
the Throop hotel, after being threat
ened with habeas corpus action for
the release of Mary Turner, owing to
| the fact that she could not legally be
| placed in the county Jail.
Why First Glass Hotel?
The commissioners assumed the atti-
! tude that Mcfarland had placed the
girls in too expensive quarters.
IF the commissioners will provide a
suitable place at less cost I will place
such cases there" said MacFarland.
In speaking of the situation this
morning Mr.. MacFarland said: AT the
session Monday night the commission
ing the manager that the county
would not be responsible for the board
Of the two girls.
las the same time they failed to sug-
gest or provide a suitable place where
they might be sent. The commission
ers suggested a place in the county Jail
for a detention home. According to the
/ laws Of the state the home or place
for such cases must be outside the jail.
| Technically the commissioners might
, avoid a question of this kind by estab-
i fishing q room in the Jail building not
connected with the Jail.
Il am not in favor of home OF that
kind. The commissioners say they
will allow $3.50 week for the board OF
such cases. This is less than is being
paid for each inmate at the county
jail. The county pays 60 cents a day
for the board of the prisoners
! A detention home similar to the one
| in Kansas City, Mo-, was suggested by
/ the club women Monday evening. The
| policy is to rent a building and main
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cost. This suggestion led to the
agreement between the commission
ers and the women to establish a
home temporarily.
| At the meeting Judge Mcfarland
| offered to contribute $50 to be used
| in experimenting with a detention
| home for six months. Frank Simms
| offered IS.
| In answer to the women's argument
| for a permanent home the commits
| sioners stated that no funds for such
a purpose were available. The COM
missioners made .o promise of includ-
| ing such an allowance in the levy
next August.
| According to statement made to-
day by Mrs. c. J. Evans a committee
will be appointed by the club women
| to find a place near the county court
house where such plan as they sug-
! gested may be carried out. If possi-
| BILE a report will be made to the
| county commissioners at next Friday
meeting.
| The hearing of the Mary Turner
case has been set for tomorrow after
noon at 1 O'Clock before Hugh Mac
Farland, probate judge.
That Expensive Auto Ride.
When asked this morning as to the
truth of a rumor- to the effect that he
sent Mary Turner and Florence Coon
! to the Throop hotel in an automobile