The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-25
ASKED TO RESIGN
10y Hubbard, Assistant At
tOrney General, Is Scored.
Defending BOOtlegger Is
b Charge Against Him.

sKansas City. Mo. Sept. 25.-Reply-
ing today TO an attack by citizens of
Kansas City, Kan, who have filed a
protest over his connection with the
defense of L. Z. WEIGH, accused as a
bandit, Roy E. Hubbard, assistant at
torney general of Kansas. said, &C
cording to a local newspaper:
4 : My defending Welch is a private
law case. taken just as any attorney
takes cases. 1t has nothing to do with
naF being an assistant attorney gem
eral.
'The public should interest itself in
my record as a state official, and not
in, my private business"
F.5Roy Hubbard, of Kansas City, Kan,
assistant attorney general of Kansas,
is creating some attention for himself
by defending L. E. WEIGH. one of the
men accused of being implicated in
the robbery of the Joe Howard Cigar
store, in Kansas. City, where daylight
bandits took $2,072 recently.
N Members of the London Heights
Methodist Episcopal church of KAN
sas City, Kan. Sunday morning passed
a. resolution declaring that they feel
that a public official should not ap-
pear-in defending a man accused of
cfi1ne,r and asked his removal from
office. The Sunday morning issue of
the Kansas City Kansan also carried
QOuDle column eQ1lOTldl on the ITOHL
page asserting that Hubbard fought to
resign his job as assistant to the at
torney- general of Kansas or quit his
job as defendant for bootleggers
charged with robbery"
Hubbard created some attention in
Topeka last June when he and Hap
Haywood, assistant county attorney
of Wyandotte county. came to Topeka
to represent James Moore and Frank
Murray of Kansas City, who had been
picked up here by the Topeka police
on a liquor charge. John Hagan
head of the Midwest Detective agency
of Kansas City, who has since been
also came to Topeka to consult with
Moore and Murray.
Got Men Out of Jail.
Hubbard and Haywood succeeded
in getting the two men out of jail
here and they went back to Kansas
City after running the regal gauntlet
in Topeka. Later, following several
robberies and holdups, a man named
George Willis was arrested in Kansas
City on a robbery charge. Investiga-
ton by Topeka officers and Alto II.
Skinner, United States district attor-
ney, revealed that Willis was no other
than James Moore. Hagan's arrest
came later on information obtained
from Willis, but the detective agency
head is now on bond in Missouri,
fighting extradition to the Kansas
SIDE.
When WEIGH was are follow
ing the Howard robbery, I'd ap-
peared as his attorney. h .plana-
ton was that he was going 20 Show
up" the Kansas City police depart
ment, it was said.
Why" suggests the Kansan in its
editorial headed Time For Hubbard
to Resign" ''why isn't Hubbard prose-
cutting Welch criminal violation of
the state liquor laws instead of de-
Tending him from the charge of an
other crime that goes along with and
is fostered by and promoted in boot
Logging and bootleg resorts? How
does it happen that a bootlegger is
able to hire a Kansas prosecutor, a
deputy to the attorney general, to de-
fend him? What information or ac-
quaihtance did WEIGH have after years
of an extensive practice as a boot
logger in Kansas City, as Hubbard
says, that caused him to go to the as
sistant attorney general in hiring a
lawyer to defend him on a charge of
completely in a robbery"