The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-08-02

Case.
Assault and kissing Mrs. wentz is
the charge against Farmer John Pull
lam, on which he will be tried today
This is John Pulliam is it mott" ask
ed Constable Tom Voss yesterday morn
ing as he overlook a farmer out on the
Cowskin creek who was coming 10
town with a wagon load of wheat
Yes; you guessed it the first time"
answered the farmer.
Well, YOU can consider yourself I'M
der arrest. l have a warrant for you"
What for?" enQuired Mr.. Pulliam,
as he pulled on the lines and said whoa
to his horses.
Well" said Constable Tom Voss,
William T. Wentz went before Justice
Jones and swore out this warrant, and
you are charged with unlawfully kiss
ing his wife, Martha Wentz."
John Pulliam is big good natured
farmer, nearly so years old and he add
ad:
We'll I kissed her all right. What are
you going to do about it?''
The constable told the farmerto come
on TO town and when he had disposed
Of his wheat 10 report to Justice Jones'
This Mr.. Pulliam did and the trial was
John Pulliam is well known by two
thirds of the business men in Wichita
as well as the clerks in the stores. He
owns fine farm over in Illinois town
snip and the VENTS are neighbors Of
his who recently came from the east
The kissing was done about the mid
die OF last June and the offence has
grown ever since like a snow ball in
winter rolled around the neighborhood.
Like every trouble of this kind in ru-
raj neighborhoods division has been
made. Some of the farmers. Pulliams
neighbors, think that he did not COM
init an objectionable offence when he
kissed pretty brown eyed Mrs Wentz,
while others think il mighty poor ex-
ample to set for the raising genera
ton.
These conflicting opinions may color
the evidence in Justice Jones court to-
day and determine the magnitude OF
Farmer Pulliam's offence, if offence at
ali.
A reporter for the Eagle saw Mr..
Pulliam on North Main street last
night after he had reported to Justice
Jones and asked him how about this
trouble.
;. ell, come here and sit down on the
stair steps and / will tell you all about
II, he said, because it is in court now
and will have 10 be told anyhow to-
morrow"
1T came about this way: About the
middle of last June. it was on Satur-
day that my wife come to Wichita TO
see my daughter and l remained at
home.
Il was cleaning and vanishing the
furniture and was all alone: the hired
man was in the field blowing corn.
Shortly after l o'clock l herd a noise
out on the kitchen porch which ] sup
posed was made by the dogs. I heard
II again and went TO the door and found
Mrs. Wentz.
Il told her that I had heard her but
supposed 1t was the dogs and she laguh
ed and asked If l took her for dog. I
said no; cor1e in.
'.She asked where my wife was and I
told her that she had gone to Wichita
She took off her sun bonnet and sat in
the kitchen and we talked for while.
She looked in the parlor and said
you have been papering.' and she went
In and Of course politeness required
that l shold follow. She compliment
ed my papering and work on the furni-
ture and said she would like to have a
man who could fix up like that.
Il told her that If | had anything else
to do ] would better hire a man who
knew how 10 DO that kind Of work. She
looked through the album at the photo
graphs and asked me whose pictures
they Were. ] had TO get close in order
to see them because / could not see
across the room.
The bed room door was ajar and
she looked in there and said you have
been papering in the bed room, too
and she pushed the door open and went
In.
Il stood out in the sitting room until
she picked up an old picture from the
bureau and asked me whose ii was,
and | went in To see and tell her.
Then she said that she always liked
TO look at those old pictures. ! told
her that there was a whole box full of
them somewhere and / opened the
drawer and took them out.
Mrs Wentz sat in chair and I
stood beside her and handed her pic
ture and told her whose il was.
kept this up until she had seen them
all.
When l went to put the picture back
In the box il was too small and il would
not hold them. Mrs. Wentz put them
in for me and | put the box back in the
drawer and walked out into the sitting
room.
she stopped in the middle Of the bed
room and said why your wife has fin
ished her crazy quilt L believe that
was what she called it, it was made Of
pieces Of silk.
Mrs. Wentz said that it was the
most lovely quilt she had ever seen and
that pleased me for ! liked 10 hear nay
wifeS work praised, because l have
mighty good wife.
wv hen she said that I went TO the
bed room door and she said that would
be mighty nice to sleep under. wouldn't
ito Then ] walked out and she said
she must go home
Il opened the screen door fer her 70
go out when she said don't you think
] have improved since l came here?
told her she did look better.
she put on her sun bonnet while I
held the screen door and holding out
her arm she said see. ] am a whole lot
beaver. She is a pretty little wo-
man and i said yes you look very nice
and | put my index finger under her
chin and raised up her face and kissed
her.
Then she said you are naughty, and
7 put my arm around her ana she laid
her head on my shoulder and ! kissed
her again without disarranSing tEat
cute little sun bonnet
Then she went out on the porch and
asked me what my wife would say X
she knew that | told her that ! beiieV
ed that ] would not tell my vile any
thing about il.
she stood on the porch and talked
uuite a while. l was on the inside
She said herself and husband were CO.
Ing UP to BaSnNille that evening ana
they would bring my mail down 70 the
church the next day; | said all right
Mr.. and Mrs. Wentz did not come 10
church the next day and in the after
noon went up TO their house 10 get