The Topeka state journal., 1921-03-12
START A CLEAN UP
County Officers Successful in
Recent Efforts.
Many Notorious Characters
Convicted in Court.
CRIMINAL CASES DISPOSED OF
Some Defendants Pleaded
Guilty-Others Convicted.
County Attorney Lost Only Two
Important Cases.

County officials declare they have
been successful in Kidding Topeka of
many notorious police characters dur
ing the present term of the Shawnee
county district court. Practically all
the criminal cases on the docket for
this term have been disposed of.
Some of the defendants pleaded
guilty to the charges against them and
some were convicted on trial. Some
Eave already been sentenced and taken
to the penltentlary; in other cases the
sentence will be pronounced in the
few days.
Lost Only Two Cases.
Tinkham Veale, county attorney, lost
only two important cases during the
term. They were the State against
E. (BilD Anderson.
Two of the most important conyic-
tions he obtained were those of
Brownie Burns and Mabel Porter, both
negroes. Burns, who has long given
the police and county authorities ex-
tensive trouble, was charged with first
degree robbery. He was convicted by
jury of attempting to commit rob-
berry and sentenced to serve not over
ten and one-half years in the peniten-
tiary. Many charges had been brought
against Burns from time to time, but
it was not until recently that the Off
GERS could assemble enough evidence
against him to convict him.
Mabel Porter. also a police charac-
ter, was convicted of highway robbery
She~was charged with holding up John
Hanson. of Oakland. and robbing him
of 81 Her sentence was ten to twenty
one years.
Joe Collins, another negro, pleaded
guilty to a charge of assault and bat
terry after his trial was started He
was alleged to have carved" Kath-
arine Jaco, his sweetheart, with a
razor. He was sentenced to serve five
months in the county Jail.
Gets Year in Jail.
Hickory Jones' alleged to have re-
ceived stolen Ford car from Harrison
Dempsey, one of the bandits who shot
Sheriff Hugh Larimer on the Jones
farm south of town a year ago, pleaded
guilty after his trial was started and
was sentenced to serve year in the
county Jail.
Charles Miller. who attempted to
cash worthless checks totalling $4,000
on Topeka banks, pleaded guilty TO
attempted embezzlement and was SEN
fenced to two and one-half years IT
the penitentiary. J. NJ. Stevens, who
also tried to pass a large check on
the Bank of Topeka, and who also
cashed a large number OF worthless
checks on Topeka merchants, pleaded
guilty to forgery and was sentenced
to serve not more than five years.
Fred Dunlap, alias Robert Trebor,
negro, who confessed to robbing the
Willow Park garage. was sentenced to
serve a year in the county Jail on a
charge of burglary. He is wanted in
Indiana on another charge and will
probably be returned there as soon as
his sentence expires, officials say.
Sam Holt and Ernest Arnold, negroes,
who confessed to holding up several
Topeka men on the streets, pleaded to
first degree robbery and were sem
fenced to serve from ten to twenty
one years in the penitentiary.
Raymond D. Merit, former cashier
of the Grove State bank, pleaded guilty
to embezzlement and was sentenced
to five years in the penitentiary.
Herbert w. Hall, who held up and
robbed Pete Pandrew. an employe of
the Victory lunch room, was returned
to prison on an old parole. Virginia
Graham, who is alleged to have lured
Pandrew into Halls clutches, pleaded
to being an accessory. Her sentence
was deferred.
Many Other Convictions.
Other pleas and convictions this
term were: r. G.. Davis. negro, grand
larceny. Sentenced to six months in
Jail.
Verne Imhoff, grand larceny, five
years in the penitentiary.
Garnett V. Taylor, bigamy, not
more than five years in the peniten-
viii Porter, larceny from a freight
car. not over seven years in the peni-
tentiary.
Cecil Chapman, highway robbery.
not more than five years in the state
reformatory.
William T. O'Hara, for gerry, not over
ten years
Lewis Taylor and William Perry,
robbery sentence deferred.
w. F. Patterson, who was convicted
of committing statutory crime
againts Helen McVey, and John Stitz,
convicted of a similar crime against
Ella Davis, will both be sentenced
March 10, it was said.
British King Docs Own Time Saving.
Sandringham, Eng, March 12.-All
the clocks at this country home of
King George are kept thirty minutes
fast. The reason for this is unknown.
1t is surmised that it had something