The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-07-19

drinking"
related today by the four officers.
Each officer risked his job in telling
their stories, so they said.
I'D rather los my job than con-
tinue working among a bunch like
that" said Sergeant Sturm.
Amen" said the other three.
They told of smelling liquor on the
chiefs breath at different times.
They told of Paul Murphy, a driver
telling of taking Maurice Leonard, an
officer, home drunk in the police car
the night of the fire on Kansas ave-
nue., the same night Duncan struck a
newspaper reporter while it is claimed
the officer was drunk.
Every man named by them, the Of
ficers declared, had either been drunk
or liquor had been noted on their
breath.
There's Jesse Hill. who is full of
booze any time you meet him." said
Officer Ford.
Tale of Trunk
Sergeant Sturm told of asking the
chief about going into the cellar and
counting the bottles Of booze in the
trunk taken from Awfield in order to
make his return on the warrant.
The chief told me- said Sturm, ito
write a part of a trunk of liquor on
the return"
About the Awfield affair. The
chief charges that Judge MacFarland
dismissed the case. Judge MacFar-
land charges the city attorney asked
to have the case dismissed, or rather
the assistant city attorney, Clyde Cow
gill. The latter said today he couldn't
remember it. Hugh Fisher, county
attorney, stated today that he had
warrant issued against Awfield in the
court of Topeka. The warrant was
never served. Awfield is said to be
out Of the city.
Did Officers Get Booze?
Sturm and the other officers told
of seeing the chief and Sergeant Long
going into the cellar and returning
with hip pockets bulging under their
coats. In one instance, according to
Sturm, Sergeant Long went into the
cellar with his coat on and came back
with it folded carefully over his arm.
Slicker the man who is quiet today.
called Sturm's attention to Long at
the time. according to Sturm.
Ray Busey, according to the police
is a well known police character. He
was arrested the other night by Of
ficer Ford in North Topeka, after he
had struck a girl with a revolver.
Ford took him to police headquarters
and says he asked Sergeant Long to
place an investigation charge against
him, awaiting a search for the re-
volver. Ford says he found the re-
volver and took it to police headquar-
ters where he discovered the investi-
CATION charge had been changed to
assault and Busey had been released
on a IS bond while the city ordinance,
it is said. specifies no one shall be re-
leased on an assault charge for less
than $40.
"And, besides" said Ford, Long
took him home in an automobile
The police say Busey works in John
Heitman's pool hall in North Topeka.
John Heitman is known to mix con-
| siderable in politics.
Went to Mayor With 1t.
Officer Ford told of arresting a
drunken soldier on Kansas avenue and
taking him to headquarters where a
charge of drunkenness was registered
against him. He returned later, he
says, to find investigation had been
! substituted after an erasure had been
appeared: Released by chief" ac-
cording to Ford.
"And, too" said Ford, ct saw where
officer Duncan had put his name op-
posite mine as one of the arresting
| Officers
Ford says he took a strong objec-
ton to this procedure to Mayor Cor
wine. Later, he went to the chief.
4 can change those charges any
time - - please the chief told
me-" said Ford.
Taxi Drivers Release.
Earl McQuilliken is a taxicab
driver. He was arrested by officer
Mike Morrisey the other day. Nor
risey claims McQuilliken was driving
reckIessly and tried to run over him.
| Detective Harve Williams says he
was acting desk sergeant when Nc
| Quilliken was brought in. He placed
a reckless driving charge against Nc
Quilliken and told the taxi driver he
would have to put up s5 bond or
go to Jail.
''I guess I'll have to go to JAIL" Nc
| ouilliken said, Il haven't any money
now"
| an erasure had been made on the blot
ter and investigation" had been
marked after McQuilliken's name.
released" appeared after investiga-
ton.
These statements were made by the
| officers in the presence Of Police
Judge Hugh Mcfarland this morning.
Let the Crooks Co.
Judge MacFarland told of being
obliged to wait three weeks for service
on commitments of eight prisoner
jail. It was not until he wrote and
! told the chief that he couldn't wait
any longer for action that the persons
named in commitments to serve sent
ences were brought in.
so far as I can see.'' said Judge
MacFa rland, the chief plans to bring
the decent. respectable people into Jail
and pay expenses thru fines and let
the crooks go"
Judge MacFarland also answered
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