The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-05-15
College Student Thought He
Knew Where Liquor Was Sold.
Discovers Error When Cues
toned by County Attorney.
HE WILL DO IT NO MORE
Severely Lectured by Kiene and
AtchisOn for Conduct.
Feared That 1t Might Injure
Prohibition Cause.

| w. E. Atchison, county attorney,
was today informed that Roscoe
Graves, student in the sociology class
at Washburn college, Friday had made
statements before the class that liquor
could be purchased IN every block on
Kansas avenue south of Ninth street
and north of Sixth street, and at many
places in Mud Town"
The county attorney sent for the
young man and an inQuisltion was
held Graves statements to the coun-
flied from what they were reported to
have been before the sociology class.
He insisted that he had said nothing
about present conditions.
The result of the inquiSition was
that Mr.. Atchison found that Graves
really knew nothing at all about the
matters he had discussed before his
college class. He conscientiously be-
lieved that his statements were true,
but he had no first hand information
upon which to base his conclusions
He related having been told OF viola
lions occurring year ago, and was
persons complained of all had been
convicted and put out of business.
After being lectured by the sheriff
and county attorney and being told
ton his statements might be, should
the brewery interests publish them
broadcast, as they would do had they
the opportunity. Graves made the fol-
lowing sworn statement:
His Affidavit.
Roscoe Graves, being first duly
sworn on oath says that he lives at 519
Mulvane avenue in the City of Topeka,
Kansas; that he is a Washburn college
student; that on May 14th, 1915, he
stated to the sociology class at WASH
burn college that he knew of places
where Intoxicating liquors were being
sold about year ago; that the places
he referred to when he made the talk
were the places formerly kept by
Alice Davidson and lube Jordan on
Kansas avenue between Ninth and
Tenth streets, The Myer Drug store on
Kansas avenue between Fourth and
Fifth streets; a colored man living IN
a hut in Mud Town.; second hand
store on Kansas avenue, the location
of which he does not know and a
colored man who was at that time
working of the Peoples Ice company
and was bootlegging whiskey; that
affiant cannot give the name or loca-
ton of the colored man who run the
joint at that time in Mud Town
THAT he cannot give the name of
the proprietor or the location of the
second hand store on Kansas avenue;
that he cannot give the name OF the
man who was Bookkeeping whiskey and
at that time working for the Peoples
Ice company.
THAT he does not know of any place
that is selling intoxicating liquors in
violation of law anywhere In Iopeka
at this: time; that he does not know
the names of any persons who know
of violations of the prohibitory liquor
laws of the state of Kansas at this
time; that the only name that ne can
give of anybody who ever knew OF a
violation of the prohibitory liquor laws
of the state of Kansas is a certain Mr..
Moser who worked for the Peoples Ice
company as dellveryman; that
affiant has no further knowledge of
any violations of the prohibitory liquor
laws of the state of Kansas and does
not know that said Moser knows of
any violations that have occurred
within the past year."