The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-04-20
Lyman Naugle, of Wellington,
Deserts His Family.
Leaving Them Destitute and
Broken Hearted.
TOOK WITH HIM $1,000
All His Interests Transferred
to Other Parties.
A Woman In the Case Accord
ing to a Local Paper.

1 Wellington, April ZU.-4 ne JOQI1l6AA VI
| last evening says:
| Lyman Naugle has shown the white
! feather. He has deserted his wife and
| only child and apparently attempted to
| deprive them of any interest in his
! newspaper or residence property in this
! city The indications are that he is now
| in New York city with another woman,
| and will never return to Wellington
| His interest in the Peoples Voice has
| been transferred to his brother, Fred
| Naugle, and his wife has sued him Tor
| alimony and secured a restraining order
| preventing Fred Naug1e and R. L. Col
Inns from paying to him any money until
the termination Of the suit.
Naugle left Wellington the morning
of the Sth inst, after telling his friends
that he was going to Los Angeles, Cal,
to start a fruit growers paper. He gave
his wife $40 and his son 81, promising to
send for them as soon as he reached
Los Angeles and became located. AT
, Newton he wrote his wife a letter to
the effect that he would go to Topeka
and procure transportation for her and
the boy and the Following day wrote
from Kansas City that all arrangements
for securing the transportation had
been completed.
Nothing more was heard from him. and
! Mrs. Naugle supposed he was out IN
California arranging to start paper.
Monday morning she received a letter
from him bearing the postmark New
York City, N. Y, April IA, II M" The
time had come for them to separate.
and that she would not hear from him
again for long time, possibly never
again. He told her that he had ar
ranged matters so that his half interest
in the paper would support her and the
boy, and that his brother Fred would
look after her welfare.
There are strong indications that an
other woman is at the bottom of Maui
giles latest troubles, and that his head
has been turned. The day he left We'll
lington a certain woman, with whom
he had been involved before, left To-
peka and told her friends that she was
going to California. The supposit1on is
that they are now together, and that
instead OF going to California they went
to New York. When Naugle left Wei
nngton he had not far from $500 in
cash.
Yesterday. the day after the receipt Of
the letter from Naugle, a bill of sale
signed by Lyman Naugle, transferring
his half interest in the Voice plant to
Fred Naugle, was filed for record with
the register of deeds. 1t was dated
April s, 1S99-the day Naugle left We'll
hngton. This bill of sale practically
shut Mrs. Naugle and her child off
from any support from the newspaper,
and Mrs. Naugle consulted her attor-
neys, Herrick & Rogers, with the result
that a suit for alimony was instituted
at once and an injunction secured to
restrain Fred Naugle and r. l. Collins
from paying any money to Lyman Nau-
gle. This suit will involve the validity
of the transfer of the half interest, as
we'll as determine Mrs. Naugles right
to the property on Sylvan Heights, to-
gether with the household furniture and
fixtures and the family horse and bug
gy. Mrs Naugle alleges in her petition
for alimony that the transfer of her
husbands interest in the Voice to Fred
Naugle was done with the intention of
defrauding her out of it.
Before Naugle left home he told his
wife that the deed to the residence pro-
perty had been made out to her and
was in the safe at the printing office
where she could get it when necessary.
Whoever has possession of this deed
has refused to give it up
AS matters now stand Mrs. Naugle
and her son are destitute and without
the courts for what is rightfully due
her. Fred Naugle is supposed to have
possession of the deed together with
Lyman Naugle's life insurance policies
and other papers, upon which Mrs Nau-
gle might realize. Fred Naugle says
he is ready to turn over the life inSur-
ance policies that are made out to
Mrs. Naugle, whenever called upon.
1t is now evident to everybody that |
Lyman Naugle's business transactions |
before leaving Wellington and subse- |
Mrs Emma Sells Marshall matron of
the Topeka insane asylum figured, were |
all made with the intention of deserving
his family as soon as he could realize |
upon his property. He made strenuous |
efforts to sell his Sylvan Heights resi- |
dence property before leaving yelling |
ton, but could not realize sufficient cash |
there being an incumbrance of $500 up |
on it, to part with it.