The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-03-27
POLICE PICKINCS
Aged White Woman Taking
Treatment for Drug Habit.
Says She Acquired Habit When
a Girl.

a Girl.
A white woman, feeble and old and
gray-a nervous wreck with muscles
twitching-came to the police station
and asked for treatment for the drug
habit Friday evening. The woman is
65 years old and has been affected
with the morphine habit ever since
she was girl. She is in the hospital
ward at the Jail taking treatment from
DR.. A. B. Jeffrey. The unfortunate is
the fourth patient to be treated for
the morphine habit and the fifth pa
tient that has been confined in the
ward under the supervision of Mrs.
Thorpe, matron.
The woman acquired the terrible
habit during an fitness when a
girl and her physician gave her NOR
phine in liberal doses.
For a long time she has been living |
in Topeka and cared for son, who is
paralyzed, by taking in wash1ngs
When the Harrison anti-narcotic law
became effective the supply or NOR |
phine was cut off and she broke down |
physically and became frantic
Her case is the most delicate of any !
that city officials and the physician |
have been forced to cope with. When |
she came to the station she was weak |
owing to the fact that she had been |
trying to cure herself by gradually !
cutting down the size of the doses of
narcotic.
at the Jail. The white woman who be- |
gan treatment Thursday has passed |
the frantic stage and is recuperatng- |
The colored girl who had for the |
last several weeks been at the Jail was
dismissed as cured Friday afternoon.
Didn't Get 1t Here?
During the last month in which G.
A Huron, police judge, has been keep
ing a record of places where DRINKS
that are brought to the station claim
to have purchased their liquor, only |
one man arrested on the charge has
stated that he bought his liquor in
Topeka.
Judge Huron's record shows that
arrests for drunkenness in the last
month are the result OF weekend trips
to Kansas City. A large number of
people picked up in the city on the
charge claim to have sent for their
liquor.
The drunk who stated that he
bought his "skee'' in Topeka, said that
he purchased it from a stranger on the
street.
Onions Expensive.
Jason Gomez son of the south
land, paid high price for bunch or
onions in police court Friday evening:
Gomez was arrested on a charge of
petty larceny because Tony JORDAN
claimed he stole a bunch of onions
from the Jordan grocery.
Gomez was fined 81 by Judge HUI
ron and told that if he came back
again it would cost him SO. Approx
imately the retail value of the onions
was or 10 cents.
ConIey Found Guilty.
Frank Conley was found guilty of
violating the prohibitory law in police
court by Judge Huron on two counts
- Conley was fined 5000 on each
count According to the police, Con-
ley lives on the East side.
On To Berlin.
The latest war story told in police
circles is ON a more or less well
known Topekan who has a 'failin'
for intoxicating drinks and is a parti-
san of the Teutonic allies. The To-
pekan is also said to be an admirer
of German customs governing liquor
sales and consumption.
Three sheets in the wind, he skid
ded into the Rock Island depot re-
Gently and stretching out on a bench
went to sleep. A passing cop raped
none too gently on the soles of his
shoes. !
"Get out quoth the unit of Tope-
ka's thin blue line; you can't lay
around here in this condition.
The friend of the kaiser ambled to- ,
ward the ticket window. "Give ush ,
one to Berlin" he mumbled; 81 want
to go where-hic-I can get shot
quietly
The story was evidently started by
an Englishman. ~
George Hayes, arrested Friday eve
ming by Walker and Pinkston, police |
officers, was fined $40 in police court
this morning by Judge Huran on a
charge of drunkenness.
Thomas Wallace, who claims to be :
a citizen of Evansville, Ind, and who |
was arrested Friday evening by
Walker and Gragg. was fined $40 in ,
police court this morning on charge !
of drunkenness by Judge Huron.
The interior of the city Jail is fast
becoming Spick and span. In addition
to a number of the rooms having been
remodeled, the walls have been given
a fresh coat of paint
A letter asking his cooperation in .
locating Dellsia Firestone, formerly a
resident of Topeka, was received this
morning from Mrs. T. F. MacReynolds,
Council Bluffs, Ia, by Joe Ross, chief
of police. The letter states that Mrs.
Firestone's husband is dead. /
Kansas Wheat King Is Dead.
Kansas City, Mo-, March 27.-Wil-
liam Scott, formerly one of the largest
wheat farmers in western Kansas,