The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-02
Partially Dressed, She Stood
Midst Fires i'm Topeka.
WAS FOND OF PATROL WAGON
Called Cop ''Son" and Request
ed One More Little Ride.
Other Items From Days COllec-
ton of Police Gossip.

A telephone message to the effect
that two boys between the ages of IL
and 20 years had burglarized a pool
hall and clothing store at ST. Marys
4 Thursday evening or this morning
with the request that the local police
be on the lookout for the thieves, has
been received at the police station.
The communication from r. J. Best,
city marshal of St. Marys, stated that
both boys were dressed in new suits
One of them wore blue hat with
white band and the other a gray hat,
when they left st. Marys.
The value of the goods taken was
not stated by the marshal other than
it is thought that the youths have in
their possession a large quantity of
tobacco which they took from the
pool hall.
Started to Burn Town.
The neighborhood in the vicinity of
| Eleventh and Grand avenue was dis
turbed and Iermed this morning when
Biddie Manson, a husky colored
woman, was discovered on the cor
ner of the two streets waving Ian
tern about her head and several fires,
| thought to have been started by her,
were seen in the vicinity.
| Telephone calls by the dozen were
made to the police station and sher-
| ifs Office, and excited voices stated
that the negress was trying to burn
the town.
officers Brown and Gragg were sent
to bring the woman to the city jail
and when they arrived on the scene,
she was standing on the corner of
Eleventh and Grand, partially dressed,
waving the lantern and, in the words
of one of the officers, was making
things hum
When Officer Brown attempted to
seize the woman she made a swipe at
his head with the lantern, missing the
officer by only few inches.
She was brought to the city Jail,
where she begged Gragg and Brown
for another ride in the patrol wagon
and insisted on calling Brown '-son."
She was later turned over to the coun-
ty officials as insane. The Manson.
woman has served previous commit
ments at the state hospital.
About a year ago, when confined
temporarily to the county JAIL she all
but wrecked the woman's ward at that
place.
Confessed to Lyle.
Following attempts of various other
officials at the police station Thurs
day afternoon to obtain a confession
from Lowman McLain, held on inves-
tigation following the disappearance
of ten chickens from the coops of
Charles Warner, who lives near the
Topeka cemetery, Charles Lyle, for
mer city detective and now assistant
marshal of the Court of Topeka, gave
McClain course of sprouts and
obtained a full confession of the theft
in less than ten minutes.
Lyle dropped into the station
while McClain was being questioned
take charge of the third degree"
McClain's confession was followed by
state warrants being issued for Nc
Claim and Clifford Frost, who, ac-
cording to McClain, took part in the
chicken coop raid.
Another Woman With Husband.
Mrs. Matt G. GIasse, wife of the
proprietor of the Clothes Shop on
East Eighth street, last night discov-
cred her husband in his store with a
young woman. Mrs Glasse called
Officer Joe Wonderly and Roy Craw-
ford and took them to the store to
witness the scene.
Mrs. Glasse turned on the light with
the remark, ST want everybody to see
who you are" The young woman was
Miss Gladys Cation, of Oakland She
was led away by Mr.. Glasse, weeping,
and declaring that she would never
again be seen with another womans
husband.
| Mrs. Glasse announced her inten-
ton to either have Matt arrested or
sue him for divorce.
Police Shift.
Owing to the police shift on the
first of every month, the following
is the lineup of members of the de-
partment for April:
sergeant; Jacob Barker, North To-
peka, Norris street north; G. s. Fur
guson, North Topeka, Norris street to
river; Herbert o. Cook and Walter
Bryant, bottoms; J. w. MCGUIRE, Sec
ond to Fifth street; A. o. Woodland,
Fifth to Eighth street; J. w. Hill,
Eighth to Eleventh street; J. L. Ken
nedy, Santa Fe; Carl Golf, plain
clothes; George Huron, judge; Eva
Corning, policewoman; Laura E.
Thorpe, matron; John L. Pugh,
guard; w. T. Calvin, driver; Frank
PARCELS, jailer.
Night-Ed Walker, sergeant; Perry
Brush, North Topeka, Norris street
north; William Garrett, North Topeka,
Norris street to the river; George
Harmon and w. L. Douglas, bottoms;
Zach Gragg, Second to Fifth street, L.
J. WonderIy, Fifth to Eighth street;
c. A. F'urgason, Eighth to Eleventh
street; Sam Jones, South Topeka;
George Brown, Santa Fe; J. w. Ander-
son, Parkdale; Thomas J. Morgan,
east Of Santa F; Kirk Pinkston, Tenth
street, south and west; o. c. Wyatt,
Seventh to Tenth, west; Frank Sum
mers, Fourth to Seventh, west; c. E.
Richards. Fourth street, north to the
river; Elizabeth Barr-Arthur, police