The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-16
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! Charles Palmer, rs, giving his oc-
/ cupation as a stenograph was ar
rested Saturday evening by Detectives
Charles Holman and Ed Nedeau on a
forgery charge. He is alleged to have
passed several bad checks on Topeka
merchants and was arrested, it was
said, after he had passed a worthless
check on the j. E. Wilson & Son ga
rage. He is being held in jail pending
the issuance ola state warrant, Of
ficerS said.
In a<quarrel over a crap game, said
, to Involve only 10 cents. Sipriano Mar
tineZ, 113 Adams street, was stabbed
| in the jaw Sunday evening by Pablo
| Medina, who occupies. the double
house with him. When police officers
arrived on the scene Martinez request
| ed them not to arrest Medina, declar-
| ing that he was going to take revenge
lin Chinese style" When Chief Leon
ard heard of the incident this morn
ing however. he issued orders to the
effect that Medina be picked up at
| once. He was brought to police head
quarters this afternoon.
John R. Martin, negro, a merchant
| policeman, was arrested this morning
I on a warrant sworn to by Enfenio
Montreal, Mexican, living at $40 North
Topeka avenue. According to the
story told by Montreal, he was passing
along the street in the vicinity of
Laurent and North Kansas avenue
Saturday evening when Martins little
daughter passed him and said Hello
Afonreal said he replied in like man
ner and passed on. When he arrived
| at Kansas avenue. he said, Martin at
tackled him and beat him for several
minutes while a crowd of people
| looked on. Martin declares that his
| mi haf
| frightened, and told him that the
Mexican had asked her to follow him.
| Montreal commended that if Martin sus-
pected anything wrong he should have
exercised the authority vested in him
| by a special officers commission and
| arrested him, instead OF beating him
| up.
| H G. Frydendall, 81, giving his c.
cupation as a salesman, was arrested
Saturday evening by Lieut.. James
Kennedy and Detectives Charles Hof-
man and E. D. Glynn when they
raided his room at ZIG East Sixth
avenue and found five pints of liquor
| $500 bond to appear Tuesday in pc
| lice court.
E. w. Shaw. 20, a steamfitter. and
| Thomas A. Bush, Al, an iron worker,
were arrested by Detectives Sam Jones
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gambling charge. They We're released
on $40 cash bonds to appear Tuesday
in police court.
| Emmett walters, garage man and
former grocer, was arrested Sunday
afternoon by the police on a charge of
| selling liquor. He was released on
$500 bond to appear Tuesday in po-
| lice court.
/
rested sunday afternoon by the po-
/ lice on liquor charge and spent the
night in. jail.
| urday night was reported to the police
| by Robert Fullerton, 926 Polk street.
I A burglar who entered the home
| of E. D. Nordstrum, 1907 Lane street,
| about 4 o'clock Sunday morning, was
| frightened away when Mr.. Nordstrum
arose and seized a shotgun. The burg
lar beat a hasty retreat and got out
1 of the house before Nordstrum had a
chance to shoot. A short time later
Lane street, was entered and a pock-
| etbook containing S12 was stolen. Mrs.
| Robinson was awakened by a noise
and when she started to investigate
the burglar made his escape. The po-
| lice were called to investigate both
-
been perpetrated by the same indi
vidual.
| Leonard Lewis. IT. of 431 Taylor
| street, is free from the clutches of the
law today for the fourth time. Altho
| he confessed to robbing the cash
| drawer of the Rent-a-Ford company
| 204 West Sixth avenue, Saturday
| night, J. j. Giles, manager, said he did
not want to prosecute inasmuch as the
/ riS t1Yrr a
| loose. Russell Wassweiler, AS Green
| street, who was implicated in the rob-
| berry by Lewis. also was released. The
| boys are said to have sent R. S. Siler,
night clerk, on a fake call to the
Santa Fe depot while they broke in
and robbed the cash register. Lewis
| has been picked up three previous
| times on charges of stealing, according
| to the police, but always was released
because his victims did. not want to
/! prosecute him.
Asserting that her vocabulary of
profanity would put the most profane
| man to shame, Clarence Browneu, an
| employe of the Security Benefit home
west of Topeka, asked the court to
grant him the divorce for which his
| wife, Ethel Brownell, had asked
when the case came to Trial late Sat-
nrday. The wife charged that
| Brownel1 had failed to provide for her
and that he cursed, abused and
struck her. Brownell denied these
| charges and asserted that she had
/ abused his two sons by a former mar
rage until the oldest was/driven away
from home. He said she had seven
children by former marriage when
| they were married at Sterling, Colo.
in October, 1917. Judge Mcclure took
| the case under advisement.
C. H. Huckins was granted divorce
| from Dora Huckins by Judge James
| Mcclure in the district court late Sat-
| urday and his title to his property in
Horton. as we'll as his household
| goods. was confirmed in his own name
He charged his wife with neglect and
| abandonment and asserted that she
went out nights with other men. She
| lives at 1916 North Topeka avenue.
They were married at St Insenh