The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-22
0URTHOUSENOTEs
Police GCSSR.

Iorin Sieber, charged with stealing
/ a Buick car from Lincoln B. Willis. of
| Topeka, pleaded guilty before Judge
James Mcclure in the district court
I this morning and was sentenced to
] serve from five to fifteen years in the
state penitentiary. Sieber took his
/ sentence with a laugh Russell Wass-
/ weller, AS Green street. who was
! charged with completely in the theft
4 of the car. pleaded guilty some time
! ago and is now out on parole. it was
said. S:eber pleaded not guilty to
l a charge of breaking Jail and this case
was continued for two weeks. He was
! one of the trio who got out of the
! Shawnee county jail two weeks ago by
picking the lock, SO the prisoners
! claimed, with wire.
Merle Clay. negro. 1904 West Norris
! street who was arrested December .
bv Charles Holman and Vic Plants.
plain clothes men, on a charge of
stealing several Ford cars in Topeka,
pleaded guilty in the district court to-
day and was sentenced by Judge Nc
Clure TO serve from five to fifteen
years in the state penitentiary. Clay
confessed to the theft of seven cars.
He asserted that he sold them to the
Jaeschke- -Greider Tire shop, 219 Kan
sas avenue.
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adjustments.-Adv.
ogden Mumford. the negro who
sought to escape prosecution on the
ground that he was afflicted with "a
DsychIogical twist of the nerves., was
sentenced by Judge Mcclure today to
serve from one to five years in the
charge. Mumford was a porter at the
August Clothing store, from which he
is alleged to have stolen some clothes.
He and o. T. Thompson another negro,
were caught by Capt. Jesse Hill as they
were carrying the clothes away The
case against Thompson is pending
Dick Terry. one of the three men
who escaped from the county Jail two
weeks ago. pleaded not guilty when
A arraigned on that charge in the city
court this morning. Terry was await
ing trial on a charge of stealing an
from Dale Burdick, of To-
peka He will be tried on this charge
in the near future, according to off
cials.
George Durkin, living near Four
teenth and Lake streets, was SEN
fenced today by ]. d. NJ Hamilton.
probate judge. TO serve thirty days III
the county Jail and pay fine of S1OO
on a charge of falling to support his
family The evidence showed that
while Durkin had had several oppor-
tunities to work and make money, he
had declined to do so. it was said
The i've CnllQIen VI ln0 AdAAAAAS e4 =
being cared for at the detention home. |
Randolph Stewart. 14-year-oId ne
gro boy with mania for running
away was today sentenced by Judge |
Hamilton to the Boys Industrial
school, Randolph twice ran away !
from the state orphans home and also !
ran away from a farm, where he was I
sent, on two different occasions. He |
ran away from the county detention |
home recently, taking with him $15- (
He was recaptured and returned and 1
gain made an escape q He was taken /
INTO custody again last Tuesday and !
will now be sent to the reform school,
where the officials hope to make him
stay put"
Three new suits, aggregating $45,-
900, were filed against insurance COM
panies in the Shawnee county district
court today b. the d. Z. Rose Trunk
to collect insurance as a re-
suit of the burning of the trunk fac