The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-13
Follow a Trail Nine Hours Oidi
Think of Ii.
TREE AN OPERATOR.
The Person Sought Had Taken
a Train.
And Mrs. BrannOck Won't BE
Tried for Sanity.

The hounds will trail. This was DEM
onstrated at $50 last night by
Sheriff wilkerson.
weldon j. Brannock filed COM
plant against his wife at o'clock
wednesday afternoon, charging her
with insanity. Her hearing was set for
9 o'clock this morning. and warrant
issued for her arrest. But she has
not been tried on the insanity charge.
and the chances are that she will new
er be tried for her sanity. 1t APP
pears now that Mrs Brannock was far
from insane. Instead of insanity. she
was suffering with 4o-horse power,
double distilled crouch.
A deputy sheriff was sent to hunt
the insane woman. He found her not,
because she was not at home. Bran
mock said that he would LAY" for his
wife, and notify the officers when she
returned. At 9 O'Clock last night he
telephoned the officers that the miss
ing wife had probably committed sui
eide, as she had not returned with the
two small children. John Wflkerson,
sheriff, is ever ready to try his blood
hound pups, John" and Lucy" al
though the dogs failed on a North side
burglary case and their master sprain-
ed his ankle trying to get them
through a flooded cellar. So he load
ed them into a buggy and hauled them
TO the Brannock home on North Mon
roe street. Here the officers found a
condition, which in the words of the
average country correspondent, beg
CARED description" Every stick OF
furniture in the house was chopped to
splinters with an axe Every piece OF
clothing on the ranch was stripped to
ribbons with a pair of scissors. The
entire contents of the house would not
inventory Is cents cash.
The dogs were unwilling to enter the
house, but were dragged I'm by their mas
ter. John" the lead hound. was intro 70
missing Mrs. Brannock. He began &c
'bawl' and show signs OF interest. Wher
turned loose. he Joined his mate Lucy;
toward the Santa Fe railroad track
Down the track southwark they ran
ger trains passed, and the active deputy
sheriff was kept busy kicking the busy
dogs off the trail to save their hides
dashed full cry. and-treed the night
Then the sheriff. who, owing to his
lameness was late in the game. arrived
and found the following facts. to wit, as
they say in the legal briefs: Mrs. Weldon
tcts after Ticket tS to
Jose, California. arranged that the same
should be delivered at the junction depot
ready for her. Here she got the ticket
and wandered westward. bound for heI
mother and mental peace, I'm the coast
state. She took her children with her
but before leaving the house. carefully
wrecked every vestige of property there
in. What she did to that house. for thu
purpose of showing her husband wha'
she thought of him. was a plenty: The
officers say they never before looked
through human babtation which com
pared with 1t. Not an article of any
kind except the baggage she took along
was left Intact.
Mrs. Weldon Brannock. wife of thu
only Shawnee county Rough Rider, will
not come to trial for insanity. The neigh
bors who live near her piled out in thu
street to tell the sheriff that the faul
was all with Brannock, whom they de
scribed as an overbearing person.
And In the meantime: John WilkersoI
thinks more CT his dogs. John" ant
Lucy trailed Mrs. Brannock from he
home to the Santa Fe junction at e:3
last night. Mrs. Brannock left Topeka
bound FOR California, on train which
left just nine hours earlier. She left To
peka at II 80 wednesday morning.