The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-09-19
Does Maybelle Bridges, Sus-
pected of Selling Booze.
Police SwOOp Down on Her
Place of Business.
LOOKED IN THE OVEN FOR II
sYO Pc Fool" She Told Officer
Who Made the Probe.
White Man Tells of Hiding in a
Damp Cellar.

With warrant lSSueu ny W. L.
Atchison, county attorney, Robert
Miller and other police officials
swooped down upon Maybelle Bridges
at 627 North jackson street today and
this afternoon Maybelle, William Hen
derson and oscar Gay, all negroes, are
in the county Jail.
Just before the warrant was issued
the telephone rang in the county at
torney's office.
This Mr.. Atchison ?" a mans voice
asked This is w. o. Richardson. l
just got jack-potted for IS at Maybelle
Bridges house on jackson street, but
becore I left 1 bought half-p1nt OF
whisky from her and I've got it with
me now. 1 wish you'd arrest her and
the two fellows there with her."
Atchison asked a few questions,
then made out the warrant. Robert
Miller, city detective, was in the office
and he took the police car and five
minutes later was going thru the
Bridges house. Gay was gone. Hen
derson and the Bridges woman were
arrested then and Gay was picked up
later.
Told Their Story.
They were all taken to the county
attorneys office for an inquisition.
The woman denied she sold whisky
to Richardson.
Henderson denied that he had sold
whiskey to him.
Gay denied he had sold him any
whiskey.
Richardson declared under oath
that he had bought whiskey of all
three of them since Saturday night
and that this morning he gave May
belle Bridges a half dollar and that
Henderson brought him in a half
pint.
How did you lose your money!
asked the county attorney of Rich
ardson.
7 was shooting craps with all
three of Them he replied. "and it
was a crooked game"
Richardson declared that when he
| left the place he told them he was go
ing to turn them in" and that Gay
followed him with an open knife with
a blade three and one-half inches in
length calling to him to stop.
Did you stop" some one asked.
| Did 1 stop" asked Richardson in
hesitate. 1 didn't have any business
stopping
| Officers searched the house for
whiskey but found nothing. officer
Cook looked into the oven of a cook
stove in which there was a big roast
coming to a rich brown.
No Booze in Oven.
"Yo pc fool" remarked Maybelle
Il 'aint got no booze. but if sah die
ah'd know more'n te put it il a oven
what's red hot
Little trap doors were found under
1 the rugs but the holes underneath
were empty.
! Richardson declared that last Sat
urday night he spent an hour in the
| cellar under the Bridges house wait
ing for Joseph Holman, deputy sheriff
| to go away.
'"They run me into the cellar when
they saw Holman coming" he said
land 1 stayed down there in the darl.
until l got tired. Finally 1 crawled
| OUT the cella- window and if they
haven't had coal delivered since you
can find the marks where 1 went
| thru
Holman verified the statement that
| he stopped at the Bridges house Sat
urday night and gave it the "once
over.
Richardson IS white man. He said
| today that he is due in Leavenworth
| the latter part of the month to answer
to the federal charge of gambling with
| the Indians.