The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-24
Federal Activities Cause Alarm
in Big Towns.
join THE I'm BAD" CLUB
Grand Jury Indicted % Topeka
Men and Women.
In LeayenwOrth is Forgot Gov
eminent Licenses.

| The day is dark and times uncer-
tain for Topeka boot1eggers. Results
| of indictments returned by the fed
eral grand jury which convened in
Topeka last week show that twenty
one illegitinate liquor dealers of this
city are under bond or custody of the
federal authorities and are facing
penalties of from 500 fine and thirty
days in Jail to $500 fine and two years
in the federal penitentiary at Leav-
enworth.
| Forty bootleggers were indicted on
| liquor without federal licenses. OF
this number twenty-one are residents
OF Topeka. Leavenworth furnishes
the next highest number-sixteen.
Nearly all the others are scattered
through small towns in the vicinity
of Topeka
The number of liquor indictments
returned by the Topeka grand jury
was the largest in years. Those who
claim Topeka as their residence and
are now full fledged members of Fred
Robertson's I'm Bad club are nearly
all old offenders and are familiar
characters in police and Shawnee
county courts. Some of them are now
in Jail for city and state violations
For these the future looks gloomy
la deputy United States marshal will
be waiting at the cell door when their
sentences expire. Not a few eX-con-
v1cts are numbered among those in
dicted-some of them have served
time for the same federal offense.
Trotter Could Not Be Good.
Sherman Trctter IS one of the lat
ter. About year ago he was sent
up for selling liquor without taking
out a revenue stamp. With story
of an aged mother who depended up
on him Tor support, Trotter appealed
to Judge Pollock and Fred Robertson
to help him get a parole. The district
attorney and Judge Pollock took
Trotters case up with the president
of the United States, who wired a pa
role to the applicant. Now Trotter is
up again. Maybe Fred Robertson and
Judge Pollock will take special inter-
est in Trotter's case when it comes up
for trial-maybe they will not Fig
ure it out for yourself.
E. c. Russum, another alleged Of
fender who was indicted, was not long
officials, found to be an agent of Dick
Bros. Quincy brewing company of
Kansas City.
James Casey, of Leavenworth,
thought he was protected because he
held a revenue stamp bearing fic-
titous name and street number. In
this manner he managed for a time to
dodge both federal and state authori-
ties. Evidently the grand jury did not
agree with his belief for he was in
dicted. Ed Fullum, of Leavenworth,
tried to work a similar game. When
investigated, it was discovered by Fred
Robertson that Fullum's revenue
stamp covered a lot in the center of
the union depot.
List of Indictments.
Following is the showing in indict-
ments made by the Topeka grand
jury:
Topeka-J. NJ. Hockenberry, New
ton Thompson, Ollie Wilson, Dan
Beasley, Laura Wisdom, Thomas
Moore, Fred ogden. Sherman Trotter,
Logan Justice, Noble Brown, Bud
Muir. John Wilbur, Thomas Stump,
Thomas Carol, Theodore Jones, o. S.
Bussey, Joe Dwiggins. E. c. Russum,
Leila Dotson, Ray Russey and Bill
Briggs.
Observation-Disclosures Fitch, Mike
Bodenshotz, August Schmidt, Anna
Neabaur, Fritz Warner, Babe Galand,
Louise Casey, Louis Mallody, James
Mallody, A. Mallody, Marie Schned-
inskie, Casper Sneidinskie, Walter
Quinn, Ed F'ullum, James Casey and
Ambrose King.
Scranton-J. NJ. Lutes.
observation-disclosures Smith.
Eskridge-John Lloyd.