The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-31
Officers Couldn't Extract IOli
Stroud on North Side.
Had to Chop Furniture From
Around Her Leg.
FIGHT FIT FOR ANY MOVIE
For , Hours 3 Men Tried to Put
Her in a Ford.
A Mother Hubbard and = Gar
ments All She Had.

Mamma, you're not going to let
them take me. are you?" shneked 200
found lola Stroud from the police pa
a oil wagon. after she had fought three
officers all over a back yard for two
hours. But mamma was al in, too.
and didn't lift a hand after the door to
the wagon was banged shut
lola Stroud is a sister of Ohio Bat
ties. the one-legged man who escaped
from the officers last Saturday night.
she is the Mary Roe" mertioned in
the warrant served on the Battles
Place al the time of the raid but she
was not there then.
Information reached the court house
that liquor was being sold at the Sat
ties place again. Hugh Larimer, an
dersheriff, Robert Tasker ard William
Anderson took the sheriff's Ford and
drove over.
Two hours later Robert Carver had
need of Anderson and asked L. l..
I<isne, sheriff, what he had done with
him.
Let's go find him." said Kiene.
When they reached the Battles
neighDorhood the sheriffs Ford was
standing peacefully under tree. Not
sound did they hear. An advance OF
another hundred yards and the scene
was transformed. Loud walls, threats
and cries. singly and in groups came
from the rear of the house
The Sight They saw.
When Kiene and Carver rounded
the corner of the house they found
lola Stroud putting up fight fit Tor
Il Keystone comedy With her mar
down her back and the few clothes
she wore hanging in shreds she was
still successfully resisting all efforts
to place her 200 pounds in Ford
The battle had been raging for over
an hour At times the officers had
The puzzle almost solved Time after
time lola had been led to the Ford and
Larimer and Tasker had mounted the
car and pulled onward and upward.
anderson on the gro ground ana put hea1 na5
nightly. But lola did not enter the
Ford At one time Tasker and Lari-
mcr mad her two feet inside and her
caught hold of the running board and
could not he pried loose
Council of War.
a conference was held and it was
determined that a larger opening than
a Ford door was essential The police
patrol wagon was telephoned for.
Pending its arrival lola determined
TO leave that locality and it took all
the forces at hand to change her mind.
Just when everyone would get good
handhold Iola's mother would remem-
Der she had a gun in the house and
would start for it. Someone had to
let loose and stop her. Several times
the mother was stopped just as she
was preparing to stage an attack from
the rear with a club.
At one time lola seated herself in a
large and comfortable rocking chair
under "A tree in the backyard. She
ran one leg through the arm of the
chair and hooked the foot attached
around the rocker She defied all three
officers to remove her by fair means
or foul. They removed her but not
by fair means. They took an axe and
broke the chair away frorR3h her a piece
at time until she sat on the ground
upon pile of debris.
Rcinforccmcnts Arrive.
When tn patrol wagon arrived
enough men accompanied it to bring
the total force up to seven. All hands
took hold and lola landed in wailing
heap upon the floor.
II won't go looking like this" said
lola. You've torn all the clothes off
of me"
The officers looked her over. HeS
raiment was in pretty bad shape. y
mother hubbard and two other gar
ments was all she had on when the
parts of each.
III get something for her." said
one gallant officer.
He ran into the house and brought
back q silk waist and a handful OF
wasn't worrying her and the silk waist
wouldn't cover much territory.
She substituted the bed of the pa
troll wagon for clothing and arrived al
the county Jail sitting flat on the floor