The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-06-13
PATCHED IT UP.
The Sumner-Fulks Family
Squabble at an End.
Mr.. Sumner First Ran Away
With Mrs. Fulks.
LUCAS TOOK A HAND.
Brought Recreant Sumner Back
for Forgery.
Then His Wife FOrgave and So
Did Mr.. FuIks.
LUCAS TOOK A HAND.

William H. Sumner caused family
troubles in Burlingame by running
away with Mrs. Fulks. the wife of a
barber in that town. That was the
first chapter. other chapters fol-
lowed fast and Sumner was caught
in St Louis by Sheriff Lucas and
brought to Topeka and lodged in the
Shawnee county Jail to answer the
charge of raising a check for $26
given by Otto Bendure to $45.
When Sumner was captured in St.
Louis Mrs. Fulks was with him She
was working in a restaurant She
begged Sheriff Lucas to bring her TO
Topeka too. She said the only real,
unalloyed, genuine Ella Wheeler VIII
cox rapture she had ever experienced
was since she had Economically eloped
with Sumner and left her husband
and three children in Burlingame.
Sheriff Lucas had no funds with
which to buy Mrs. Fulks a ticket TO
Topeka, and when he got her here he
would not find any SO cents a day
to reimburse him for her board and
keep, for she would not be a prisoner.
The big Shawnee sheriff of Noting
ham refused to bring Mrs Fulks to
Topeka along with Sumner She cried.
she begged, she pleaded. She told
of how her heart had yearned for
just such love as Sumner showered
upon her. The sheriff was obdurate.
He brought Sumner to Topeka as
q prisoner, and Mrs. Fulks announced
that she would follow just as soon as
she could wash enough dishes in the
restaurant to get money enough for
a ticket.
Sumner had been in Jail a week or
ten days, and had been busy all that
time explaining that it was all a mis-
take and that he had not raised the
check from SIS to $45, and that Ben
dure had made the check out for $45.
he did not convince the sheriff and
he remained, and still remains, in Jail
FINALLY Mrs. Sumner of Burlingame
left her three children at home and
came to Topeka to see her husband.
Mrs. Fulks finally earned money
enough to buy ticket to Topeka, and
she quit the worlds fair restaura Mt
ana all the gay crowds of St. Louis
and she too came to Topeka.
Mrs. Sumner and Mrs. Fulks both
called at the county jail to see Will
nam H. Sumner at the same timei
ana sumner was safely locked behind
the bars. like a lion in a cage, and
other nor both!
Just what happened when the two
women met IN the Jail has been for
gotten by Jaiier Lawson. but he re-
members that first there was a calm
the CAIN that railways precedes a storm
ana then the storm broke. 1t was
only words-there were not even nm
bre elias, and seconds for two.
GXCGDT
Sumner. There he was in the cali
and he could not dig out nor get
away. 90
me two women confronted him and de-
manded that he choose between them
- - was either Mrs. Summer and three
tttl IN, or Mrs Fulks, who also has
1nree children Sumner had to choose,
N9 ,y5 the The story might stop right here.
as dld the story of The Lady or The
Tiger, and it might be left for tbe
reader to guess which he chose, but that
Mr.. Sumner behind the bars. and Mrs
sumner on the outside. and Mrs FlIks
on the outside, was the situation IT was
strenuous Tor few seconds, but Sumner
WASH long in making known his choice
and his choice was Mrs. Sumner and the
three children. -
Mrs Sumner agreed to take him back
even after his elopement and his arrest
\ woman with a. forgiving a heart as
that is woman worth having Sumner
thought he made a wise choice
Then Mrs. Fulks got Sheriff Lucas to
telephone Mr.. Fulks. who was still in
Burlngame with the three children and
ask MIN if she could please come home
Mr. FulkS would not announce positive
~ and at once just what he might do
but the sheriff understood that possibly
Mrs Fulks might come back Anvyys v
she left the jail fOr-SOme Where-proba bIv
home.
Sumner is still in jail.