Osage County KS Archives Photo Person.....Connors, Mathew Sylvester Lavey 1923
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Source:             Alton Evening Telegraph (Alton, IL)  Tue May 1, 1923
Name:               Mathew Sylvester Lavey Connors

Date Of Photograph: 1923
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Alton Evening Telegraph (Alton, IL)
 Tue May 1, 1923
         From Box Cars to Court Desk
         [Photo was Inserted Here]
   Mathew Sylvester Connors, stop speeding box
cars of coupling cars, in his long career as a
railroad man, probably never thought he'd sit 
on the bench of the Alton police court.
   But he was there today, his first as police
magistrate. His first morning wasa fairly busy
one. Robert Lowry, colored, was accused by his
uncle, Andrew Lowry, of disturbing the peace,
and was expected to come into court later and
plead guilty. This meant that the new magistrate's
first case would not be one requiring the taking
of evidence, the citing of laws, and other points
of trial procedure, but that the new magistrate
would merely accept the plea of the guilty and
mete out justice according to the magnitued of
the distrubance.
   The new magistrate was asked many questions,
including one from a man who wanted a warrant 
that was taken out against his son three years
ago. He probably feared so long as there was
no action on the warrant his son was in danger
of prosecution. The new magistrate said he would
look it up.
   But he found time to receive congratulations
from friends who dropped in to see how he looked
behind the police court desk.
   The Police Court generally took on a new
appearance, with Charles Halsey as the city
attorney.

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