The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1899-02-22
Editor of the Wellington Voice
Disappears MysteriOusly.
Nothing Seen of Him Since
Last Saturday.
UGLY STORIES TOLD
Connecting a Woman With His
Departure.
She is the Late MatrOn Of the
Topeka Asylum.


ton Voice, chairman of the Seventh dis
trict Populist congressional committee,
and one OF the prominent Populists of
the state, has disappeared, and it is
aneged that a Topeka woman Is re-
sponS1bIe for his disappearance. Some
of his Wellington friends believe that
he will be able to explain every suspic-
iOuS circumstance
Mr.. Naugle has not been seen nor heard
or by his friends since last Saturday
evening, at which time he boarded a.
northbound Santa Fe train at Welling-
ton. Mrs. Naugle is said to be lying at
the point of death, at her home in Well
ington. of heart disease.
That .Naugle contemplated leaving
Kansas is evidenced by the fact that
he transferred all his life insurance
from his wife to his father a week ago,
and that he has turned his newspaper
over to his brother, Fred NaugIe who
has taken full charge of it. Whether
they were aware of his contemplated
movements or not is not known.
THE WOMAN
The woman with whom NaugIe's dis
appearance is said to be connected Is
Mrs. Emma Sells Marshall, until last
night matron of the Topeka insane
asylum. 1t is stated that Naugle has
made frequent trips to Topeka during
the past Few months for the purpose Of
visiting Mrs. Marshall, and that he has
often taken her to the theater while
here. These trips eliminated a month
ago when Governor Leedy appointed
Naugle as one of the Kansas delegates
to the st. Louis convention to prepare
Tor the centennial of the Louisiana
purchase. 1t is alleged, and Mrs Mar
shall also admits it, that she accom-
panied him as his wife. The couple
also visited Indianapolis on the trip.
RumorS of this expedition reached
Mrs. Naugle at Wellington, and the next
time Mr.. Naugle came to Topeka she
accompanied him, and together they
Mrs. Naugle discovered that her hls-
band was making preparations to dis
pose OF his property, and she employed
Ready & Ready, attorneys of Welliag-
ton, to bring an injunction suit to re-
strain Mr.. Naugle from doing so, but
NaugIe had transferred the property
before the suit could be brought.
MRS. NAUGLES SUSPICIOUS.
Mrs.Naugle and her relatives employ
ed G. c. Sharover, city marshal of Wei
1ington, to shadow Naug1e and to as
certain the actions of the couple on the
ST. Louis trip. He followed Naugle to
Topeka on the occasion of one of his
visits to Mrs. Marshall, and NaugIe at
tempted to bribe him to make a false
report concerning his actions, but
Shawver refused.
When it became evident that Naugle
was getting his plans into shape to
leave, officials were instructed to
keep watch for the couple and ar
rest them if they attempted to elope to-
gether.
When Naugle's friends in Topeka
learned how matters stood, they notified
the asylum authorities to watch Mrs.
Marshall and the latter demanded an
explanation of her. She made the ex-
planation yesterday and at the same
time presented her resignation as mat
ron to the board of charities
TRAVELLED AS HIS WIFE.
She admitted going to st. Louis and
Travelled on Naugles pass as his wife,
but she denied that there were any i'm
proper relations between them.
When Mrs. Marshall offered her res
ferv7G firT1 70
she asked that it be kept quiet long
enough to allow her to leave the state
and last night she departed. Her home
is in Usage county, where her husband
resides. She has two little girls who
lived with her at the asylum, and whom
she took with her when she left.
NAUGLE'S PAST.
Naugle was one of the prominent
Wellington Voice, is regarded as one
of the strongest Populist papers in the
state.
No Populist in the state had a
stronger personal following than Nau-
gle. At the Abilene convention in 1896
he lacked only a few votes of securing
the nomination for secretary of state.
Prior to that he was probate judge Of
Sumner county. He lost the nomination
al Abilene, as he always charged,
through the treachery of w. L. Brown
later by jumping into the state printer
contest in 1897 to do up Brown, who was
also candidate. So many of the lead
ing Populists lined up for him in the
fight that Naug1e soon became the
most formidable candidate, regardless
of the fact that Brown had the solid
support of the entire Leedy admins
tration. 1t got to such a point that, in
order to defeat Naugle, Brown had to
combine with other candidates and
throw his support to Parks.
BUSINESS ALL RIGHT
His business affairs are said to have
been in good shape, his family relations
were exceedingly happy, until the
present trouble arose, and Mrs. Naugle
is regarded as one of the most estima-
BILE ladies of Wellington. They have
one son, a bright boy of IL, who was a
page in the house during the special
session of the legislature.
Naugle was member of the Chris
board, but he resigned last week.
FRIENDS ARE SURPRISED.
His friends in Topeka are greatly
surprised at his action. HE was the
last man 1 would have suspected Of
doing a, thing of that kind" said Tay-
1or Riddle, chairman of the Populist
state central committee, today. Il can
not conceive how he could do it,
Tt is alleged that some of the Populist
state committee asked the board of
charities to remove Mrs. Marshall last
August, charging that her actions at
that time were not for the good of the
institution, but the board refused to
discharge her.
A A. Richards, editor of the yelling
ton Mail, who is attending the State
Editorial association, discredits the
story that Naugle has eloped. He says
it is true that he has left wellington,