The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-04-13
Seven Charged With Making
Illicit Sales in Topeka.
Topeka PRINTER IN TROUBLE
Sent Obscene Matter Thru Z. s.
Mails, Is Charge.
Jury Refuses To Indict North
Topeka Physician.

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grand jury in federal court late Wed
twenty-six indictments returned by
the jury, nine of them were directed
| against such persons, seven of whom
are charged with carrying on their
Illicit sales in Topeka. Alfred H. Car
main. 724 Polk street, employed By
Crane & Company as a printer. was
| indicted on a charge of sending OBJ
| scene matter thru the mails Seven
or eight of the indictments will not
be made public until the defendants
have been arrested.
Thru the indictments directed
/ against the alleged narcotic dealers.
have practically put the lid on such
traffic in Topeka. The seven Topeka
persons indicted on this charge are
negroes. They have all been arrested
and are out on bond since their cases
have been continued until the October
term of court. They are ]. Lewis
Ransom, DR.. Stacey F1ournoy, Steve
Proudly, Emma Brantley, her son, Ar
thur Brantley; Helen Anderson. alias
Helen Jordan, and her common law
husband, James Jordan. To this num-
Der can be added J. Burson, who was
indicted on two counts of violating
the Harrison narcotic act, althO Bur-
son came to Topeka from Hutchinson
and was engaged in the business here
only short time before his arrest.
1t was Burson who had a large guam
tity of dope" checked at the cigar
stand at the Santa Fe depot.
Sold Narcotics to Prisoners.
The ninth person indicted for the
violation of the Harrison narcotic act
was Chas. T. Clark, of Lanape, Kan.
who was also indicted on charge of
sending poison thru the mails. Among
his customers, it is alleged, were some
prisoners in the city Jail at Oklahoma
City to whom Clark is supposed to
have sent narcotics concealed in news
papers. The plan, according to A. H.
Skinner, assistant United States at
torney. who handled the grand jury
matters, was for prisoner to repre-
sent himself as being from a certain
town, and would write to Clark re-
questing a copy of the "home paper"
Clark not only would secure the
home paper" but enclosed in each
copy small package of dope" Clark
is also alleged to have swindled other
drug peddlers by delivering to them
powdered rock instead of the real ar
ticle.
In connection with the various mar
cotic cases, the jury returned a bill
generating DR.. NJ. A. MiIlard. a North
Topeka physician, whose arrest oc-
CURED when the federal authorities
put out their drag-net some time ago.
The jury refused to indict him on the
ground that he was "tricked" into
making a couple of small sales to
operatives of the treasury department
which handles all narcotic cases. !
Doctor MilIard, who is rs years old
and one of the leading physicians of
North Topeka. wept when informed of
the jurys action.
Two counts of sending obscene mat
ters thru the mails were lodged against !
Carmain, who was placed under ar
rest last Saturday on information fur !
nished by postoffice inspectors It is
alleged that Carmafn conducted a reg
ular mail order business in obscene |
pictures, books and literature. as well I
as questionable merchandise. Car
main gave bond for his release this
morning, planking down 1000 in cur /,
rency with a local trust company as
security.
Lewis NJ Werth, of Fillmore, Mo, /
was indicted on a charge of stealing /
$50 liberty bond from a package [
of registered mail while acting as a
substitute mail clerk in 1920. The /
bond was later sold to a bank at St |
Joseph, Mo, and Werth was arrested !
when the bond showed up at the Fed /
eral Reserve bank in Kansas City for /
exchange Werth came to Topeka this /
morning. gave bond, and the case was /
continued until the October term of |
court
johnson Pleads Guilty.
Charles johnson, who was indicted
on charge of attempting to pass a
81 bill raised to a IS bill, plead guilty
this morning and was sentenced to
he attempted to evade admitting to
Judge Dyer that he was a habitual
criminal johnson is Sc years old and
has served twenty-nine years in prison.
according to Skinner. He was arrested
at Arkansas City last month and has
been confined in the Shawnee county
jail since. He tod the officers he OBJ
tanned the raised" bill In a crap game.
A bill charging larceny was returned
by the jury against Frank Goodale, a
Leavenworth youth, who plead guilty
before Judge Dyer this morning but
It is alleged that Goodale stole BIZ
cycle on the government reservation
at LeavenwoTth. He was released on
his own recognizance to report at the
next term of court.
Stealing interstate shipments was
the charge which the jury lodged :
against william Edward Wright, who ,
1t is alleged that
Wright stole a quantity of silk which
the Leavenworth & Topeka was TAX
ing to Oskaloosa. and that he also
broke into a Missouri Pacific box car j
and stole some cigarets consigned to
an Atchison jobber. The thefts we're {
in the railroad yards at
IF a similar offense in Des MOines. Ia.
put was paroled from the federal ,
prison last June. d
Clyde Wasson. of Peoria. Ill. was ,
indicted on a charge of violating the
Mann act. It is alleged that he trans !
ia to Kansas City, Kan. He is now
n Jail in Wyandotte county.
The other eight indictments Skin
her is Withholding until the persons
against whom they are directed are
apprehended. Most Of them refer to /,