The Iola register., 1901-11-08
William Black Found New
Born Babe in Corn Field in
Usage Township
SUSPECTS UNDER ARREST
Emmett Lamunyan and
Coda Huffman Arrested
iii lola a Few Hours
Afer Marriage.

What promises to prove one of the
me st sensational and dark chapters
in he annals of Allen county criminal
records developed Wednesday even
ing in lola, when deputy Sheriff Pal
string arrested Mr.. and Mrs. Emmett
Lamunyan at the boarding house just
south of the Missouri Pacific depot.
They weretakento jail charged with de-
serting an infant child in Il field near
the home of Mrs. Lamunyan.
Emmett Lamunyan and Coda HUFF
man drove to Wednesday morning
from their home in Usage township
and we're married about 3 O'Clock that
same afternoon by Probate Judge
Smith. A. f. Huffman, the brides
father drove them to town and then
drove back home. After the wedding
the young couple went to boarding
house to await the evening train on
which they intended going to West
Plains, Mo-, where the groom's father
lives. They we're arrested before the
train arrived and lodged in Jail
The warrant on which they were ar
rested was sworn out by William
Black, a neighbor Of the Huffrnans,
before Justic James Woodland, of
Moran. 1t charges that on October
25 the defendants did "expose very
young child, the child Of Coda HUFF
man, she being the mother thereof,
and said child being confded to her
and said Bamunyan, in the field near
the Huffman home in Usage township,
with the intent to wholly abandon it. d"
| The following witnesses are cited to
! appear and testify in the case: Will
| lam Black. Mrs. Black. Joe Cutter,
Mrs. Cutter. Mrs. Nellie Huffman,
Mrs Name Huffman, Mrs. Adaline
iiggs. The time of trial had not been
set today. as the young people teIe-
sraphed for their fathers to come and
,elp them out Of trouble.
Lamunyan said that his father is a
nine worker at West Plains. Mo
! That he himself has been working by
he month for A. f. Huffman for the
,ast two years. He admitted that
come of the neighbors had been saying
,ome pretty hard things about himself
| md the Huffman girl all summer but
'harged this to gossip and malice,
d Al. lu,t ia. h l..
wife by marriage had 1t in for him
self and wife. Asked If he thought
ne could prove his Innocence hesaIo Ne
hought he could. He jclcgraphed tor
lis father last night and expects him
here on the first train.
Mrs. Lamunyan was equally posi-
tive in her assertions of innocence.
''If there was a child found, and
d mt know anything aboutthat except
what ! was told yesterday. | dom
know whose it was. know il wasn't
mine
The young couple are rather puz-
zle to talk to. The husband is an in
nocent looking, boyish youth and
liked unconcernedly about the affair
Che wife likewise seemed little mo we'd
There were no tears, no exhibitions Qi
anger, no white alarm. They talked
calmly about the affair as if it might
be an everyday occurrence and seemed
to think that their fathers would give
bond for them and the trouble bC
ended.
Mrs. Lamunyau, in addition, to be,
ing but sixteen years old, has beer
withouta a mothers care for years, tina
guiding hand having been removed 10y
death.
When the young people were search
ed at the Jail, something like ii 40 was
found in his pocket and about forty
dollars in her purse. They were GO
ing to Missouri to stay short time
they said, in the hope that the tall
about them would die down
The trial promises either to dras
someone else into adisgracctul public
guilt or to confront these young peO
pie with evidence that they canno
r break down, If the child is still aliv
the case viii not he a1 hard agains
, them a in case it has died since beini
, rescued The women of the nelghbor
: hood will figure prominently as wit
D nesses and on their testimony the de
fendants will doubtless be convicte,
b or acquitted.
Alltn COunty'S light Vote