Show STOLE BEER I Mysterious DiKiippeiirniice of Enough Liquor to Flout a Ship KANSAS CITY Feb 9A special to the Journal from Topeka ican says For years all the whisky beer and I j other liquors captured from the Topeka bootleggers and joint keepers has been stored away in a cellar beneath the court house Wagon load after wagon load of good liquor has always been stowed away in that cellar and it has always been the belief that it contained con-tained a larger stock than any bonded warehouse this side of Kentucky Yesterday Bob Kepley the new sheriff sher-iff of Shawnee county concluded to take an inventory oC the liquor on hand What was his astonishment to find that every barrel keg and bottle was empty with the exception of some bottles of White Horse which the robbers appeared to be too fastidious to desire Where the stuff has gone to is a mystery I is said that but one key exists to the cellar door and 2t has always remained in possession of the sheriff The retired sheriff Dave Burge says he has no idea where the stuff went and is sure none of the officials about the court house had anything any-thing to do with the disappearance |