The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-05-14
ARGUES HIS CASEIIN A GREAT RECORD
2. Again Evades Santa Fe General Offices In
Trip Lansing. Wonderful War Showing.
Habeas Corpus Subscribed
Taken Under Advisement to the Five Loans.
|DR CLARK PUT ON STAND w. B. COLIINSON, THE LEADER
Officer Explains Chairman of Organza
Stand Against Greek. ton N Railroad
Conduct Persons Diseased Never Offices Failed
| Govern Action of Officials. When Called Upon
2. CharOwhas Again Evades
a Trip to Lansing.
Habeas Corpus Petition Is
Taken Under Amusement.
DR.. CLARK PUT ON STAND
City Health Officer Explains
Stand Against Greek.
Conduct of Persons Diseased
Govern Action of Officials.

Two hours were spent today by at
torneys in arguing the case of 2.
Charowhas the wealthy Greek candy
man. whom city health officers are
attempting to send to Lansing for
treatment. Charowhas, it is claimed,
is diseased. Judge Robert D. Carver,
in whose court the arguments were
heard, took the case under advise
ment. A petition for a writ of habeas
corpus has been filed which would
keep Charowhas out of Lansing but
would keep him under quarantine in
Topeka until he is pronounced cured.
J. J. Schenck, attorney for Charow
has, called DR.. H. L. Clark, city health
officer, to the stand and demanded
why the physician insisted on sending
Charowhas to. an internment camp at
Lansing for diseased m n and didn't
insist on similar measures for from
twenty-five to fifty other young men
who are registered as diseased at this
time.
Clark Explains Ordinance.
THE ordinance under which we
operate specifies that mans conduct
and actions during the period of his
illness count "a great deal in our
method of handling the cases." replied
Doctor Clark. IF his conduct con-
vinces us that he is likely to infect
others we demand his instant removal
to Lansing"
George P. Hayden, city attorney,
asked the health officer just what ac-
ton on the part of Charowhas had
| caused the citys attempt to send the
Greek to Lansing. Schenck was on his
| feet instantly offering objections
| which were sustained by Judge Gar
YER.
Schenck was nearly hidden behind
a stack of law books from which he
| quoted opinions to indicate that an
| administrative office such as the city
| health office could not usurp an exec
| utive office and did not have the
! power to confine man outside of the
city limits.
Hayden Cites Other Cases.
| George Hayden, city attorney, stat
| ed that it should be more of ques-
| ton as to whether Charowhas in his
| present state of health and past ac-
| tons is a. menace to the health of
| the community and Hayden told how
| diseased women had been sent to
! Lansing over writ of habeas corpus
| before, an ordinance providing for
| such internment had been passe@ by
| the city commissioners.
1t was explained that there are
| from 80 to 40 diseased men under
| treatment at Lansing at this time
| These men, it was stated. are not
within the prison walls but are in
| termed on an island in the middle OF
the Missouri river. opposite the prison
| where they have the best of treatm
and care. Schenck declared the ordi-
| nance was merely war measure and
| lost its force following the signing OF
| the armistice. CharoWhas WIS placed
| under arrest about two weeks age
| charged with . statutory crime against
| 17-year-old Bernfce Dillon. who had
| been employed in his store The CIR
has since died as the result of a socia1
disease, SO physicians declare.