The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-31
FIGHT IN COURT
Free for All Among CoffeyviIIe
Citizens, Is Charge.
Mayor, Judge, Chief and All
Mixed in the Melee.

Following a free for all fight in
which many prominent people par
ticipated, Coffeyville citizers today
appealed to Governor Capper to abol-
yers, chief of police, county attorney
and mayor mixed in the melee. A
lady from the alleged primrose path
tainted and was walked upon, while
Y. NJ. c. A. officials stood on the
sideline and pleaded for peace.
Stories which came to the offices of
Governor Capper and S. NJ Brewste-
today, indicate a lively day in the
Coffeyville court Disgraced and iu-
inflated Coffeyville citizens have
asked that the city court be abolished
A number of persons who participat ted
in the free-for-all fight are said to
have been arrested. The primrose
princess is nursing her wounds and
the Y. NJ. c. A. secretary is sending
up prayers for municipal tranouillitv
1t was the arrest of the alahastine
angel that really started the trouble
Because the law interfered with the
pursuits of peace and tranquilIit,- in
the towns easy care district, a num-
Der of people found occasion to attend
a session of the city court Some of
the grille girls from the ALLEGED house
of reckless nights came to court with
the spangled queen. They brought
lawyer, too. And one of the charges
is to the effect that he was not only
intoxicated but displayed the DISPOSE
ton of a hyena that had gene with
out its breakfast
Fist Fight in Court
Three times during the course of
the hearing Judge Keith assessed fines
for contempt. Once Charles Bucker
the lady's lawyer. drew a fine for a
slantwise uncimp1imentary remark
to the court Another time he was
fined when he stopped court proceed
ings to go to the mat in a fist fight
with a witness.
Real trouble broke loose when the
judge unceremoniously announced ad-
journment of the case Then Bucker
is alleged to have broken loose when
language that has no place in a digni-
fed court. He applied the fighting
terms to the trial judge and the Judge
forgot his dignity and walked right
over the bar of justice after the law
yer
Judge Keith, Bucker, County Attor-
ney Hill, c. u. Ise, former county at
torney; Chief Walton, Mayor Cavep-
dale and Assistant County Attorney
Higgins are alleged to have suddenly
converted the court room into d wild
and tumultuous prize ring Everyone
seemed to be fighting. Y. M c. A
officials who had gone to court to see
that justice Travelled a safe course and
that the women went to jail. stood at
the ringside and wrung their hands in
horror or pleaded for peace
Right in the midst of the fighting
the primrose princess tainted. She
closed her eyes, threw up her hands
gave little yeep and slipped onto
the floor right in the midst of the bel
hgerents- When the fight ended the
princess picked herself from the floor,
brushed the dusty shoe prints from
her skirts, sobbed copiously and left
the court room rubbing her damaged
spots.
1t was an awfully disgraceful affair,
according to the stories sent to Topeka
All Coffeyville is talking about the
scandal. And now the state is asked
to interfere by abolishing the court
and declaring new deal for the dis
tribution of Justice