The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-07
POLICE PICKINCS
Plenty of Booze Flowed i'm To-
peka Last Night.
No Arrests at Station Proclaim
Their "Decency."

Despite the fact that no DRINKS
were booked at the police station be-
tween dusk Tuesday evening and day
light this morning, there were parts
of the city where a leaky lid was in
evidence about II o'clock Tuesday
night. And the bad districts of the
city were not the only places where
the condition prevailed.
Men with unsteady-decidedly I'M
steady-gaits were observed skidding
down Kansas avenue with three sheets
unfurled to the balmy south breezes.
An auto with occupants waving OBJ
jects shaped suSpiciously like beer
bottles whizzed the full length of Kan
sas avenue at high rate of speed.
''Hauled" Votes.
Although the law prohibits candi-
dates hiring cars to haul voters to the
polling places, not few of the voters
of the city were taken to voting places
Tuesday in autos. The candidates I'M
doubtedly will claim that the cars
were donated by private parties back
ing their candidacy.
The situation was worse in the First
ward than in any part of the city
Dozens of cars were employed in this
manner in North Topeka. Nearly all
the voters hauled to the polls were
colored or naturalized inhabitants of
the foreign settlements.
Bourbonaise en- Again.
Walter BourbonaiSe, Topeka'S Drodi-
gal scion of the once powerful Europ-
can house of Bourbon, broke into the
social circles of the Bull pen at the
menagerie for the first time
in several weeks Tuesday evening
when he was arrested by G. S. Fergu-
son, police officer, in North Topeka
on a charge of drunkenness.
However, Bourbonaise had a charge
of resisting an officer against him be-
fore he landed in the bull pen. On
the way to the station he told Patrol
Driver Calvin that he would clean
house at the Jail if they attempted to
lock him up.
When Frank PARCELS. jailer, start
ed to search Bourbonaise, the prison
err started to make good his threat.
Chief Ross and PARCELS were forced
to put the chain on him before they
succeeded in getting him to the cell.
In the struggle PARCELS suffered an
injured hand.
And this morning the last of the |
of French kings was fined |
$40 on a charge of drunkenness and
SIS on a charge of resisting an Omcer, |
by Judge Huron.
Police officers have been trying to |
reform Bourbonaise for the last year.
About the first of the year he was pa
rolled from the city Jail on good be-
navior. The municipal menagerie saw
him no more until Tuesday evening.
His parole was also revoked by the
Judge this morning
Bourmonaise's family was once the
most powerful in Europe. 1t was
founded in the ninth century by Count
Adhemar De Bourbon and at one time
'uled France, Spain and was powerful
n neighboring countries. The begin
1ing of the reign of the Bonapartes
marked it's downfall.
Booze in Sewer.
Several quarts of forbidden liquid,
including beer, wine and whisky, were
his morning turned into the sewer
rom the basement of the city Jail by
Chief Ross and Douglas Mote, assist
ant city attorney.
According to the police the liquor
vas obtained from the places of Nels,
Robinson, Bud Troupe, Sally Wright
mo Frank Connelley 49, -.
Ross'S Clean Record.
Joe Ross, chief of police, who retires
with the Cofran administration and
who will be succeeded by Harvey Par
sons has made an especial clean rec
ord since he has served as head of
he department. While no one will
ak for publication, it is known in po-
ice circles that Ross had had little
chance to make record for the de-
oartment since he has been chief, be-
ng handicapped by his superior Off
GERS. Taken in all, Ross has given the
city, to the best of his ability, twenty
years of clean service as a police Of
,icer.
Mrs. F. B. Thomas is booked at the
police station on charge of disorderly
conduct.