The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-26
POLICE COPPINCS.
Show Manager Moore BIames
Myrtle Russell.
Makes Many Nasty Charges
Against Show Girl.
TRUNK is SECURED.
Was Turned Over by Youngs
After Contest.
New Developments in the Show
Girl Drama.
'RUNK is SECURED.

Some startling developments have
been made in the case of Myrtle Rus
sell, the nineteen-year-o girl who
complained to the police yesterday
that a merry-go-round manager by
the name of ]. P. Young of this city
was holding her trunk in order to
gain her promise of marriage.
Myrtle Russell claimed that she was
being forced into marriage by not
only young Young but by his whole
family and that they not only owed
her money but held her trunk and
claimed that she was indebted to
them.
J. c. Young. the head of the Young
Brothers Combined Shows. and the
father of J. P. Young, who is ac-
cused of holding the trunk by Myrtle
Russell. made several statements to
State Journal reporter this morning
in which he made many charges
against the girl.
Mr. Young also denies the story
told by Charles Bradshaw, deputy
marshal of the city court Mr. Brad
went to the Young home last night
with replevin papers and the trunk
belonging to the girl was removed
to the court house officer Bradshaw
gave out a story to the effect that
while trying to serve the papers and
obtain the trunk he was struck by
one of the managers of the show. and
before he could gain his prize he had
found it necessary to smash two men
to the floor and hold three men at
bav with a revolver. He then said
that the door leading to. the room IN
which the trunk was hidden was un,
locked by the girl and she dragged
the trunk to the hall where dray-
man took it and loaded II on MS
wagon.
were struck and that the trunk was
never locked in a room. He also says
papers they gave up the trunk with
but any words whatever. He accuses
officer Bradshaw, who is coIoreo |
man, of pushing to one side his wife. |
If the story told by Mr.. Young TO
J. State Journal reporter this morn |
ng is true-and Mr.. Young has given
1ut most excellent reference-the |
supposed innocent little blue eyed
girl is not so innocent as she seems.
rhe carnival manager also produced
proof to show that Myrtle had been
sxneIled from hotel in Sapulpa,
Okla.
The father of the boy also had in
lis pocket a letter written by Myrtle
Fort Worth, Tex. The letter would
suggest that Myrtle was as much in
Owe with J. P. Young as he has been
With her She calls him her baby
weetheart, DARING, ana SSNSIdA OlneA |
.ndearing names of the love SICK
rariety.
young and Myrtle Russell seems to
,e two sided after all. Mr. Young
Omitted that his son was very much
n love with the girl until he found
mt for sure that she was not what
,e supposed. Then he had no use
or her and did not want her in his
light. From the contents of the let
or she wrote to him it would seem
hat he had been Cutting her and
he was asking for forgiveness She
Iso wishes in the letter that they
ouId be "in the little home they had
Tanned for so long" The father
lafms that since the boy has refused
O have anything to do with the girl
she has threatened to kill him and
old him If he did not marry her she
would shoot him.
In telling the story of the whole at
air Mr.. Young proved all of his state
nents with newspaper clippings, rec
from different city Of
ciaIs and also related his career as an
ffcer and a politician. 1t seems that
Ir Young is a cousin Of Lafayette
young, editor of the Des Moines Capt.
al-the man who came to Topeka and
alked on the commission form of gov