The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16

GOT CASH ANDJEWELS
Failed to Give Five Hundred
Dollar Bond.
Man Pretended to Be Religious
and Cried Easily.

Kansas City, Sept 16.-'And in
case of this kind. judge, where a
woman consents to marry a man on
months acquaintance. don't you
think the issues form a ponderous
question for any judge to decide ?"
asked an attorney in Justice John B.
Young's court yesterday afternoon.
Tremendous" murmured the
judge.
The judge then bound over for
trial in the criminal court Arthur B.
Lewis, formerly of Topeka, on the
charge of embezzling money and
jewelry from Mrs. Leonora Deeringer,
also of Topeka. with whom he had a
mock marriage ceremony in this city,
August Z. After the marriage he
disappeared. Lewis had a legal wife
in Topeka at the time of the mock
marriage. She was a witness yester-
day afternoon.
Lewis came to our home, 1875
Logan avenue, Topeka, in July to
contract for painting" testified Mrs.
calling on me. In August, when my
mother decided she wanted to move
to Kansas City, came here to see
about buying a rooming house at
companied me. Well, as soon as we
got here he began talking marriage
and 1 liked him and trusted him and
respected him and at last consented.
He left me to curl my hair while he
went after the license. He came
back pretty soon and we walked
downtown and went in a little room
in a brick building where Mr.. Lewis
introduced me to two friends. Mr..
Taft and a Mr.. Batch. A little later
a man in black suit walked in and
he pronounced US man and wife"
What were his words?" asked the
attorney for Lewis.
81 don't remember"
"Surely you haven't forgotten your
own marriage ceremony.
"Well, it was the usual form.
was married twice before this and
there was no difference in the cere-
mony."
After contracting for the rooming
house. Mrs. Deeringer and Lewis re-
turned to Topeka where he announced
the marriage to the mother and sister
of the bride.
A Phonograph Song Made Him Cry.
when L asked him for the marriage
certificate >" said Mrs. Emma R9gsdale.
mother of Mrs. Deeringer. "he said that
he was afraid that, he might crumple It
in his pocket and had left it in room
in Kansas City. He promised to show
it to me framed. have never seen 1t
yet. And we always thought him to-
be such a Christian man.
You" said Mrs. Ragsdale. pointing
house and represented yourself to be
so good and nice. Why, judge, we have
g. grapnopnone and every time he'd call
he would insist that we play all the
religious pieces. And there was one
song called Mother. 1 Think of You
Always that would make him cry every
time we played it. Religious man!
HUH"
When Lewis disappeared, Mrs. Deer
IT. ger began q search for him with
friends, and found him living with his
real wife at 805 Cherry street. c. 5.
Howe of 807 Cherry street testified that
Lewis attempted to escape out of the
back way while the friends went for
a patrolman.
The dialogue then ensued between the
Judge and the attorney for Lewis, who
cndeavored to have the case dismissed
several times because the mopey and
property were given by Mrs. Deeriager
to Lewis in Topeka, out of the jur1s- |
diction of a Missouri court. The judge
held with the assistant prosecutor, |
Floyd Jacobs, however.
The sympathy of the court room was
rot with Mrs. -Deeringer or Lewis, but
V ent out to Mrs. Lewis, who testified |
in defense of her husband and burst in
tee rs when the case was decided against |
him.
Lewis was not required to testify. He
is a young man, about "a years old, ana
has shiny. black hair with long curly
hangs. He smiled frequently in the |
trial On default of $500 bond, he was
committed to jail.
Go to Burghart's and buy your
smoking supplies and get a rebate |
check.