The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-03
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Clarence Wilson, who was arrested
last May on a liquor charge when Of
ficers raided his home at 623 West
Seventeenth street and found a still
and thrity-five gallons of whisky, was
sentenced to serve ninety days in the
county Jail and pay fine of $500, in
the district court Monday afternoon.
Ruth Wilson was fined 500 and costs
and sentenced to the womens indus
trial farm at Lansing, but paroled as
to the farm sentence.
Cliff Palmer, former partner of
doc" Cook and declared by officers to
have been one of Topeka's most no.
Judge James Mcclure in the district
court this morning, to serve thirty
days in Jail and pay a fine of 500, on
a charge of having liquor in his pos
session. Palmer was arrested by the
police July 80 in garage in the rear
ficers found and confiscated twenty
gallons of rye whisky. His former
partner, Cook, captured by the police
a short time before, is now serving
time in the penitentiary.
Glenn Baker. arrested by the police
August %, when officers raided an al
legged liquor party in his home, 1121
Lime street, was sentenced to pay a
fine of 500 and serve thirty days in
Jail when he pleaded guilty in the dis
trict court this morning to a charge OF
having liquor in his possession
C. NJ. Spangler, proprietor of a
livery barn on Norris street in North
Topeka, and Paul Taylor, both
fined $500 and sentenced to thirty
days in Jail in the district court Mon
day afternoon.
Mrs. Ethel Clements today filed a
petition in the district court asking n
divorce from Thomas Clements, charg-
ing him with extreme cruelty and
neglect. They were married Novem-
Der 16, 1912.
Matilda Chavez and Augustin Hi
dalgo, MeXicans, were found guilty by
Judge Paul Heinz in the city court
this morning. where they were tried
on a charge Of living together as man
and wife. Hidalgo was sentenced to
six months in the county Jail, while
the woman will go to the .women's
farm at Lansing for an indeterminate
sentence.
Jesus Hurtado, Mexican, was on
trial before a jury in the district court
today on a charge of assault with in
ployed by the Rock Island railroad
here, went out on strike with the rest
of the men July I. He resented an
other Mexican coming from Horton to
take his place and is said to have
drawn a revolver and started shoot
ing during quarrel. But the man
who had taken his job proved to be
a better marksman than he, and Hur-
tado went to the hospital. When he
got out he faced charge of assault
with intent to kill.
Mrs. James Switzer. arrested by the
police last June on a charge of shop
lifting from the Warren NJ. Crosby
store, was sentenced by Judge Nc
Clure. Monday afternoon, to serve an
indeterminate sentence at the women s
Industrial farm at Lansing.0b ~. 4,
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Officers today had failed tor; locate
holding up and robbing Crescencio Ro-
meriz and who eloPed early Monday
morning with Modesto Serbantes, a.
year-od Mexican girl, instead of APP
pearing' in court, where his trial was
in progress. The jury Monday after
noon returned q verdict finding him
guilty of first degree robbery. Pedro
to find Reyes almost as much as@the
officers do, for be came long way to
Topeka to marry the same girl, it was
said.
Robert Foster, Roy Anderson and
Fisher Allen, negroes arrested by the
Lawrence police, were brought back
to Topeka Monday night by Under
sheriff Oscar Carlson in the Ford
sedan they are charged with stealing
from F. G. Larimer Sunday night.
They pleaded not guilty when ar
raigned in the city court and will be
held for trial.