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Assault in the Topeka State Journal, 1900 & 1920

In-state crimes

In-state stories (9 in 1900, 2 in 1920). All but one story comes from Topeka.

In 1900, 2 Russian men, man & his lawyer, boy & sheriff, politician & neighbor, black man & black woman, man & police officer, black man & performers, black man & officer, railroad man (3 cases involving assaults on police - 3 involving violence between men - 1 case involving AA woman and man, and 1 case involving railroad man, like those in out of state)

In 1920, one case of a woman beaten by her husband, in context in divorce proceeding, and one of daughter beaten by her father

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