The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-10-21

the woman S8,O00 She would not touch
it, so she said, and she came to KAN
sas City, hired another firm of lawyers
to aid her first detachment, and sat by
to await the shaking down that she
proposed giving Ranchman Slower in
his home county out in Kansas.
While Mrs. Slower, or Mrs Lane, or
whatever her real name might be, was
sitting down waiting, Ranchman stow
er was up and doing He asked his
lawyers to find out if Mrs. Slower had
got the s., COO insurance on the life of
her supposed late husband, which leg
acY she had put up against his own
$50 600 when they were discussing the
matter prior to the marriage ceremony.
The lawyers hooted at the idea of hir-
ing detectives
You are going to be done anyhow"
they told him, and there is no use you
letting detectives get hold of you. Keep
your money and part from only what
you have to-
secures Detectives.
Slower said he would. but he didn't.
He slipped over to Kansas City one
Sunday and went straight to the Offices
end of it was the detectives reported a
week ago that they had evidence to
show that the Lane woman had jobbed
Slower; that she was a married woman
at the time she went through the mar
rage ceremony with the ranchnan, and
that all Slower had TO do would be to
wait while the detectives could round
up Lane. Yesterdays Developments in
( the case We're that the alleged dead and
gone Lane had RENTED this month s
assessment to the Woodmen, and that
the photographs taken of him had de-
veloped all right. Lane and the man
he is working for will be surprised, not
to say disappointed. when they find
/ that the man who had told them he
was from Kansas City to buy a pair Of
/ coach horses for a banker here was
/ merely d detective and that the photo
/ graph of the horses was in reality OF
/ the man and not Of the horses.
How 1t Ended.
1T was a shame to take the money, "
/ said Detective Phil Kirk yesterday, re-
/ lating his visit to the alleged ghost
/ II Lane had been dead, then StOVel
was in for big damages, because &
/ woman with face and figure like thai
! OF the Lane woman would be good fol
! almost the limit in any court. If Lane
/ was alive, the Kansas man would be
as right as a rivet We located hin
/ through the address he gave the sec
( rotary of his lodge where he carried
/ MS insurance, and off went to Wher'
/ he was I found him working for {
horse breeder not far from Tivoli. III
/ went to the farm and represented my
self to be looking for a coach team fol
a Kansas City banker, whose name
gave. After that it was all easy Th'
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Lane working overtime for me. I wa
! driven behind all sorts of horses and il
all sorts of rigs. Finally I had to d.
! something, SO 1 hit upon one pair ant
asked to have them photographed. Tht
farmer made Lane drive me into tow
and we went to a photographer. Il
order to have the man thoroughly pho
| tographed I had the horses photo
graphed hitehed up, stripped of tfei
harness and under a saddle. In thi
way / got three views of the real hus
/ band of this woman. Now they are al
here and viii be produced in court a
Ottawa as soon as the case comes ur
If it ever does"
Goes to Missouri.
Mrs. Lane is supposed to be in Cen
traI Missouri, waiting till the storm
blows over. The detectives claim t
know exactly where she is, and the
nave sent for a Ness City man to in
Vlte him to make visit to the tow
where she is for the purpose Of seeing
II she IS not a runaway wife from Mes
CITY This story is to the effect tina
q Ness City man married d Kansas Cit
woman and after a brief period had t
let her leave in row; that she offere
TO take $1,000 and permit the Ness Cit.
man to get a divorce on the ground
OF desertion. The Ness City man, it i
said, did not like the looks of things
and baked. While he was hesitatin
the woman dropped out OF sight. Tn
Kirk agency believes the Ness City ne
gotiations were Interrupted by the Ste