The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-05-05
FIRppers Picked Up Thursday
May Have Stolen Sedan.
Il. c. Officers Take Young Mys-
terry Women Away.
CARRY PIPE AND A REVOLV YER
Claim They We're Driving From
st. Joseph to Tulsa.
Followed Into Topeka by
Suspicious Farmer.

waldo. the plot is surely thicken-
ing. Verify. the scenario becometh
goo-ey at this point.
For the police have information
that at least two of the four young
girls picked up here Thursday noon
with a Ford sedan are regular BAN
dts. 1t is believed they are the cou-
pie who, Wednesday evening, held up
Cecil Holopeter. a driver for the Edi-
son Auto Livery. 11A West Ninth
street. Kansas City. No. and at the
points OF two revoIvers relieved him
OF SIS in cash and his Ford sedan.
Kansas City officers arrived in To-
peka this afternoon and took charge
of the young women and the Ford,
returning to Kansas City with them
The girls were not questioned here
before being returned TO Kansas City
Stuck Up Kansas City Taxi Driver.
According to the word received by
the police here, a man and woman
hailed Holopeter at Eighth and Cen
trail avenue in Kansas City Wednes-
day evening about $3.50 o'clock and
asked to be driven to City Park drive.
on the Kansas side Arrived there,
the couple each produced revolvers
and. leveling them at HoIOpeter, COM
PEELED him to give up SIS in cash.
They then climbed into the sedan and
drove away It is believed here that
the man referred to in the Kansas
lily DuAleNln was. IN TeaAlLys one OF the
girls One wore heavy service boots
and a mans cap. Her coat resembled
mans coat While the girls were
passing thru Meriden Thursday morn
ing one wore a cap and held pipe in
her mouth. Men at the Meriden ga
rage were ready to swear she was
young man.
Carried Pipe and Revolver.
When booked at the police station
here the girls gave their names as
Verne Flahierty.. 1s. and Joe Connel-
ley. 10 A pipe and smoking tobacco
were found in the car and under the
rear seat was found -3S caliber re-
L. S. Steffy. farmer living two miles
west of Rock Creek, was responsible
FOR the girls arrest They stopped at
his place about $50 o'clock Thursday
morning to get some gasoline. Their
stories were so confused that he be-
came suspicious and followed them
to Topeka. They stepped on her
when they saw him following them.
and Steffy could hardly keep up with
them on the wild drive. He lost them
at Tenth avenue and Quincy street
then notified the police Officers
found the sedan al the filling station
at Tenth avenue and Topeka boule-
ward. where the girls were having a
tire repaired. They We're taken TO the
station. At that time the officers did
not know whether or not the girls
were wanted
No Tangible Information.
Hours of talk and questioning this
morning and Thursday afternoon
failed to draw from the girls any
tangible information. They claimed
they were going from st. Joseph, Mo.
to Tulsa. Okla. Joe Connelley de-
clared the car belongs to her father
who is in Tulsa. She said she drove
il to St Joseph several months ago
and had to take out a Missouri license
tag as she was going to stay there
several weeks The motor number
license number and general descrfp-
tion of the Ford sedan in which they
were riding corresponds exactly with
that of the Kansas City taxi driver.
The girls admitted knowing the re-
volver was in the car. but Joe declared
it belonged to her father. However
they denied all knowledge of the pipe
and tobacco and said some man must
have laid it in the car while they were
having tires repaired
Joe claimed to be married. but said
she had left her husband Rosa Bass
said she was married and has boy
she wouldn't tell where.
Don't Care for Her "Old Man"
''I don't care anything about my old
man." said Rosa. but I do want my
boy. I'm going back to him just as
soon as ! can get out of here"
"Oh. / wish I was back home"
sighed little Verne Flahierty I've
goc a brother in Council Bluffs. Ia.
and I wish I was with him. But I
sure wouldn't want him to know I'm
in here"
believe me, here's one that won't
holler" emphatically asserted Joe
Connelley. I've got a fourth Chero-
kee Indian blood in me. There's no
use wiring my dad. because it would
mt do any good. He'd say: That lit
tie Indian has got in bad, but she'll
set out of it
I'm not saying a thing" said Marie
Lamont, rolling her eyes coquettishly.
Were here, and here we stay until
we get out"
''Came from nowhere, going no
where" chimed in Joe. I'm at home
wherever my boots are off. and you'n
notice 1 haven't got EN- on now"
Have Bobbed Hair.
The girls all wore bobbed hair
When arrested they were dressed in
khaki trousers and Joe wore the
heavy duty boots. Little Verne wore
a mans cap. In the seclusion Of the
-vomens ward they had donned
feminine attire again, with the ex-
r-eptiOn of Marie. who wore a loose
white shirt and tight knee breeches OF
velveteeen-
Marie seemed to be the most IN
uocent OF the quartet She was ready
to go home. yet appeared to be willing
to stay by her companions Rosa ap-
peared sick of the whole proceeding
But Joe and Marie boasted OF their
nerve and declared that even tho they
went to prison, they would always