The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-01-07

George Hannah.
mingled together in protest against the
designation and there were many mur-
murs of the respect that should be
shown the commission.
The chief developments in the hear
ing today were the charges by Roy
Payne and the testimony of Hirum
Sturm, now taxicab driver for Payne
but a former sergeant on the police
force who related having seen Eva
Lambert and another woman named
Thompson in an intoxicated condition
in the Victory lunch room in March or
April, 1920. He said Eva Lambert
picked up the telephone and called
-four r-eight' and that she. asking for
Lieut. w. p. Long, asked him to come
and get her and take her home.
Sturm said presently Long drove up in
what appeared to be the police car
and presently the two women got in
the car with him and drove away
north.
Changed the Charges.
Charles Lytle, deputy marshal of the
court of Topeka, told of arresting a
drunk man at Sixth and Kansas ave-
nue. last December. The man violent
ly resisted him. he said, but after call
ing the patrol wagon he took him to
the station with the assistance of Au-
gustin Albaaand William Glynn, where
he was booked on charge of being
drunk, disorderly and resisting an Of
ficer. Lytle said when he weI1t to po-
lice court TO testify against the man
he found he had been released on S5
bond and that the charge had been
changed to plain drunk
Chief Hannah said he mans fam
lily had he measles and that he also
was breaking out with the measles
and that he considered it humane to
let him go home with friends. Were
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an officer, he said, the courts could
try no other cases.
what you say it strue," said the
chief The man deserved more than
he got. The man had $500 so we
took his SIS. Now if that is wrong.
sisting an officer, the courts would
have time to try ne other cases if all
drunk men were charged with that
offense."
-hy Arrest a Drunk?
"Then why arrest a drunk man at
all?" asked Lyt1e. It's true, the
stuff they drink now makes them all
resist the officers, but just because a
man has been drinking Jamaica GIN
ger gives him no license to resist ar
rest
The first witness on the stand this
morning was Jesse Hill, whom Pa
| trolman William Meagher said he saw
| drunk on QuIy SnOFlly dlleF oHGTll1
Hugh Larimer was shot. Hill testi-
fled that he was in the hospital at
| this time and was under DOCTOR :
care at nome for several days after
He was not in the employ of the
police department at that time, he
said.
Paul Murphy, patrol driver. was
called next.
Il will ask YOU" said Hugh Mac
! Farland, "if you didn't haul George
Frost in the police car from the police
station to the Sixth Avenue hotel or
September %. 1919"
Saw No Officer Drunk.
81 don't remember" said Murphy
| I've hauled him lots of places"
Didn't you haul him there that day
because he was too drunk to walk? %
Il don't remember it."
Murphy said he had never seer
Frost or any other policeman drunl
on duty.
/ "All right, then, Murphy, I gues
you are blind" said MacFarland
Were you with Alba when a bottl,
was found in the police car with liquo
in it?"
There were often bottles in the ca
4 after we had hauled in some drunk.
But when you went to Investigate
the car after Long had driven it VI
) to the police station and It wa
wrecked?"
don't remember it, said Murphy
A taXicab driver for the Payne com
pany was excused from testifying thi
morning because he said he did no
want to make enemies.
We have a hard enough time get
. ting along" he said
| Il don't want any man to testif
| here if he thinks it will hurt him,
said MacFarland. 81 will say her
that this room wouldn't hold all TIL
people who have called me up for jus
such reasons and asked to be pro
: tected
Invitation to Conference.
Here Mayor Corwine suggested tha
! as the commissioners will meet in pri
vate conference after the probe an
talk the matter over that men an
women like this might come to ther
privately and present their testimony
This was agreed to. MacFarland sal
a woman of unquestioned integrity ha
. some valuable information but that h
mad excused her on account OF drag
: S1ng her into testifying in public.
Chief Hannah requested to be pres
!, ent at this private hearing, saying
= wanted chance to ask questions an
defend himself.
2 Chiefs Slap at NacFarland.
:. This room wouldn't hold the wit
lnesses that have called me up from tn
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