The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1896-03-26
MRS. LEASES HAIRPINs SEIZED.

| Wichita through one of its best cltl-
zens. has again suffered injustice and
insult from that town at the mouth of
the Kaw. town that forever reeking
with its own putreScent infamy, for
ever levies tribute on the shimmering
white virginity. the profits Of the MOL
and toll, the marginal gain Of the COM
merce even the inclination of political
| independence Of Kansas, ever pure and
fair.
Mrs. Lease has had her baggage at
| tached in Kansas City by Constable
Frank King, directed to do so by Police
! Justice Kruger. at the complaint of G.
Bernheimer Bros. and Company, who
claim that Mrs. Lease owes them bill
OF sol.
1t is not enough that Kansas City
should pare down in invisible diminu-
ton the profit of the products of thOus-
ands of calloused hands in Kansas. 1t
is not sufficient that having sqeezed to
superlative dryness whatever the Kan
sas farmer has. it has added a grabali
corn rate to still farther pauperize the
state, but it must needs meet Kansas
citizen at the Union depot and seize
a few hair-pins and a nightgOwn, to
make the steal complete.
Mrs. Lease had explained that her
secretary had probably overlooked the
bill. But in the cold eye of the law ex-
plantations do not avail. And so the
country. through the kind offices of the
telegraph. is Informed that Constable
Frank King. a Kansas City constable,
made as Kansas City constable are
made, in the back room of a saloon,
where saw-dust, beer and precinct pa
triotism is intermingled, that Constable
Frank King had served on Mrs. Lease |
a greasy, thumb-marked document Of
law. That he had served it at the |
direction Of Police Justice Kruger, a |
mighty engine of the law, elevated by |
the same machine that elevated his con- |
stable. That these men Of such city |
had swoOped down on a woman whose |
mental residence has always been on
the Handicapped heights of genius. 1t
was indeed a sad sight which makes a
dOleful tale that lone woman, travel
ing without escort a woman whose
mind has met and grasped the subtlet-
les of !Sben, whose ear quickenS to the
successive Sixths of Wagner,
whose eye lights up with the sparkling
genius of Rembrandt, should be held
up, and by a legal process of robbery,
of her hair-pins and her night
gown.
But it wasn't really as bad as all this.
Mrs. Lease, although alone and unes-
cOrted, with no other weapon about her
but those hair-pins, said when Con
stable King appeared: "YOu can't
bluff me with this" She said this in a
-oice that shook Constable Kings back
eeth loose and scaled the glisten off
lis eye-balls. With a tremendous eff /
Ort he kept himself from falling, and ;
With a voice of gasping hesitation, re- ;
lied: mo bluff intended, madam" ]
1t this point, so the best accounts re- s
ate, Mrs. Lease swiftly switched her
eft eye upon the constable, with the
esult that he lodged quickly and !
lunged behind the sofa, from which
etreat he guessed there was some mis-
AXE, and after picking up hastily, sew
raj teeth which had fallen from his
Mouth to the floor, dashed through the
oOr and was gone.
But he got Mrs. Leases satchel and !,
arried it away triumphantiy. Mrs. .
ease did not throw herself diSconso- !.
ltely on the lounge and weep infinite
'etness. She did not wiring her hands !
nd cry in a smothered voice for the :.
resence or Intervention of Mr.. Lease. :,
it. She met the reporters who were :
osing after the succulent item of news
lyolyed in the affair, and said that
ley could keep the hair-pins and the :.
iEht gown if they wished; that she =.
al more at home.