The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-05-07
KANSAS NEWS.
Seneca Married Woman Runs
Away With a BOarder.
Leaves Her Husband and Two
Young Boys Behind.
BOTH ARE ARRESTED.
She Was Given 80 Days in Jail,
He Three Months.
Desires to Place Her Children
in an Orphanage.
BOTH ARE ARRESTED.

Leavenworth, Kan, May THE
Times says:
With a smile on her face as if run
ming away from her husband with an
other man, taking two children with
her and leaving two with him. was a
good joke on the deserted husband,
Mrs. May Simmons was arraigned in
the city court yesterday afternoon be-
side Frank Moler. Both were charged
with having lived together in violation
of the laws of the state of Kansas and
both pleaded guilty" Moler was
given three months in the county jail,
while the woman, in consideration of
the fact that she has two little girls
two miles south of Basehor, was given
thirty days in the county jail.
John Simmons, the husband of the
woman, has beeneGhasing her and
MOler from toW44&tszt0Wn for over two
months. The simmons family lived in
Seneca. Simmons and Moler were
both employed on the section of the
Kansas City, WyandOtte and North
western. They had four children, two
girls, aged and 5 years, and two
boys. the eldest 10ayears. The family
seemed to get along nicely until Moler,
another section hand, went to board
with the family. Moler is not a bad
looking fellow and neither is the wo-
man bad to look upon. Simmons won
the wife from her husband and one
day over two months ago she boarded
a train with her two daughters.
Her husband heard that she had
gone and supposed that her destina-
ton would be a little town in Okla
homa where her parents reside He
was heart broken and Immediately took
the train for that place, but upon ar
rival there was disappointed. When
he returned he found that Moler had
also disappeared and then for the
first time had This eyes opened" He
r-4a VT rob n
son, then to st. Joseph, later to kan
sas City and lastly to LeaVenWorth,
but without success.
But Moler and the woman stopped
at Basehor and there lived with the
children, the two girls. Simmons OBJ
tanned a trace of them a few days
ago and on Tuesday came to the city
and before Count Attorney Wendorff
swore to a complaint charging them
with unlawfully living together.
Sheriff's officers went to Basehor, or
two miles below there to find the
couple, but they got wind of the Off
GERS coming and left
But they did not go far Their stopping
place was McLOuth and there yesterday
Sheriff Cadwallader of Tongan oxie, who
had been notified by Sheriff Meyers to
look for them. The couple came to the
city in charge of the deputy sheriff and in
Sheriff Meyers office agreed to plead
Both seemed to fully realize that what
they had done was in violation of the
statutes and MOler, when arrested and
asked If he had anything to say, did not
hesitate to state that he knew that he
had violated the law. but was willing to
abide by the decision of the court. Mrs.
Simmons also readily admitted her fault
and told how she had left her husband
and the two children. In extenuation OF
her act she stated that her husband had
never made a living for herself or the
children and that she was forced to take
IN washing to support them. However
she would not say that he had been I'M
kind to her at any time. She said she
wished to place the children in an orph-
anage until she got out of Jail
Judge Flynn gave the man three months
in the county Jail and the woman thirty
days. He spoke to the woman about re-
turning to her husband after she got out
but she said she would not do so. 1t was