The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-24
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POLICE OSSIP.

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district court Wednesday afternoon
took under advisement the evidence
in the divorce case brought by p.
H. Coney. local attorney, against his
wife, formerly Mrs. Mabelle L. Coch-
ran. A decision probably will be
handed down in a few days.
Wendell Teel, negro from Emporia.
was fined $25 and costs by Judge Paul
Heinz in the court of Topeka today
when he pleaded guilty to a charge of
carrying concealed weapons. TeerS
story was to the effect that he was
riding on a freight train when some
W. WIS accosted him and asked il
he carried a red card. When he re-
piled that he did not they put him off
the train in the Rock Island yards
here. As the train passed on, Teel
took a shot at them, 1t was said. He
was arrested by Rock Island detec-
tives.
C. Frank Brown, negro. charged
with grand larceny in connection with
the theft of 1925 from the Topeka
Street Railway company where he was
employed as a porter, was sentenced
in the district court Wednesday at
ternoon to serve not more than five
years in the state penitentiary. Brown
was arrested last April.
T. A. Holt, on parole from the state
penitentiary, will return to that insti-
tuition to finish a five-year term as
the result of his check writing actfyi
ties in Topeka recently. When he was
arraigned in the city court this morn
ing on charge of passing q worthless
check for 800 on a woman in Still
water, Okla, he was recognized by
a man who was serving time at Lans-
ing while Pendleton was employed as
a guard there. Hello, what are YOU
doing here?" asked the deputy sheriff.
"Sh-h-h-h. Fifty dollars" said Holt
significantly. Fifty dollars nothing
snapped PendIeton. 1T wouldn't make
any difference to me if it were $780,
But I'll have to go back and serve
my time if they find out who L am,''
pleaded Holt. That's where you be-
will again take up his abode at Lans-
ing. He is alleged to have passed sew
eral worthless checks in Topeka. the
last few days.
The police believe they may have a
much wanted man in the person OF
Roy Bagby, alias Wade Scott, arrested
wednesday night at a local hotel.
Bagby and a woman he claims as his
wife came TO the hotel Tuesday, When
they failed to pay their bill, the clerk
demanded the money, whereupon they
are said to have raised a disturbance
which resulted in the officers being
called They gave their names as
J.
This morning, however, Capt. Jesse
Hill found letters in Wade's possession
in which he was addressed as Roy
Bagbys at Langley, Kan. He also
found special pen and special ink in
the mans possession, which led him
to believe Scott may have been rails
ing federal currency. The couple arc
being held pending further investiga-
ton.
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ard Thompson, II, and Frank Tucker,
IT, white, were arrested in North To-
peka Wednesday evening by Rock Is
land special officers and turned over
to the police for investigation. They
are said to have been discharging
their revolvers near the railroad prop
erty and one bullet is said to have
struck the rear end of a Pullman car.
No one was injured.
H. L. McPeters, 80 years old, of
Lawrence, was brought to the Shaw
nee county Jail today following his
arrest by a deputy United States mar
shall at Salina Wednesday on a charge
of impersonating a government Of
ficer. McPeters is alleged to have
gone to Eureka last February, obtain
ed credit upon the representation that
he was a government officer looking
for stills, and left town without pay
ing his bills.
Leo Moore. a farmer, was arrested
this noon by Bert Sutherland, traffic
officer, for driving his car over a fire
hose which had been laid by firemen
apartment house at 60S-610 Topeka
boulevard. He was released on bond.
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