The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-09-16
Was Betrayed by Preacher
Friend in Illinois Town.
TO BE BROUGHT BACK
Sheriff of Franklin County Has
Gone After Him.
Counterpart of Loretta Whaley-
Rev. Cooke Affair.

Williamsburg, Kan, are in custody o1
the officers at Waukegan, ILL.,, and
Sheriff Latimer of Franklin county
came to Topeka and secured requisi-
ton papers after which he started for
Illinois to bring the couple back to this
county.
This, accepting the positive state
| ment of the officers at Waukegan, as
| well as that of the pastor of the Chris
tian church there as to the identified =
ton of the parties clears the mystery
that has existed since the Rev. Mr..
| Stuckey abandoned his family, the pull
| pit of the Christian church and ~he
! editorship of the Williamsburg Star at
Williamsburg on July 10, and that wa
| intensified when, two weeks later, pref
| ty Lorena Sutherland, 16 years old a
| member of the Rev. Mr.. Stuckey's con-
gregation, also disappeared
While the police Of Hubbard Tex
the old home of Stuckey, were wiring
| news of their location supposedly OBJ
tanned through correspondence with
relatives the Christian minister at
| Waukegan was writing to fellow mill
| lster of the same church here, recalling
| Stuckey to his memory and stating
that stuckey was in waukegan with a
! girl who posed as his daughter
| Stuekey is said to have Travelled un-
der the name of W. B. Morgan, and the
girl gave the name of Lois. II is con-
relations with the church, and that the
minister's discoveries may have been
based upon what the girl may have told
MIN In detailing her church record
There is report that Stuckey had
oeen attending a chautauqua session.
and that he had planned to engage in
revival work again. The girls hair
Is said to have been blondined since
she left home. and the Rev. E. N
Tucker, who wrote from Waukegan
concerning her. said that she seemed
TO have been an actress. Rev. N. S
Franklin, pastor of the church at
princeton, to whom the letter was adj
dressed, turned the information over
to the sheriff.
Legal proceedings against the min
lister are based on the sworn COM
plant of Lorena Sutherland's
He is charged with abduction. an
offense which, the officers assert. is
not mitigated by the fact that the
girl did not accompany him away
ward. In any event the minister
upon his return will have to reckon
with charges in Franklin county.
Though loath to act. the abandoned
wife will assert her grievances if
necessary to secure his return and &C
counting. This she stated to friends
this afternoon.
There is deep feeling IN Williams
burg over the case During the six
cured the confidence of a great many
people and enlisted much interest in
his revival work in the church. In
Williamsburg there is the utmost
sympathy for the abandoned wife and
for the parents of Miss Sutherland
Sheriff Latimer expects to return
home Saturday.
Like the Cooke WhaIey AFFAIR.
Waukegan. Sept. 16.-The accused
preacher, who had been pastor of the
Oh, - Co. c4x
n onths, disappeared from Williamsburg
on July 10 last. deserving his wife and
four young children. Two weeks later
the Sutherland girl disappeared, and it
is now known that she Joined Stuckey
in Chicago.
Their punishment began almost inn
mediately. Stuckey was unable to find
employment in Chicago. He was with
out funds and he found it hard to pre-
vent people from suspecting that his
story that the Sutherland girl was his
daughter was false. The girl bleached
her hair in an effort to disguise her
self and altered her dress in order to
make it appear that she was older than
she really was.
The first of their troubles occurred
when Stuckey was struck by a Chicago
street car and suffered the fracture of
three ribs. When he recovered from
this injury he found he and his child
compa Mon had been reduced to the
point of starvation
Then, in desperation. Stuckey put his
cornet under his arm and engaged to
perform a musical act at a cheap the
alter. His effort was a failure. He "got
the hook the first time he played and
he was forced to turn to something
else.
PaWned His Watch.
Pawning his cornet and his watch for
S13 and leaving Miss Sutherland in
Chicago. Stuckey made his way to
Waukegan, where he arrived three
weeks ago. He secured employment in
a brass foundry and after a week he
sent for his daughter"
Stuckay represented himself as a
Mr.. Morgan" and engaged two house
keeping rooms for himself and Miss
Stuckey in private home. Two days
after the arrival of the girl the conduct
of the. two dodgers aroused the Sus-
picions of the family occupying the
house and they notified Sheriff E. J.
Griffin.
Griffin soon became convinced that
there was something wrong some
where. He learned that Stuckey, alias
Morgan, had formerly lived in Hub
bard. Tex. He wired there and was
Informed that information about the
man might DE obtained at Williams
burg Kan. where he was engaged in
the ministerial profession. A response
from the sheriff at Ottawa, Kan, re-
suited in the arrest of Stuckey and
Miss Sutherland.
The Girl Confessed
Before his arrest and while he was
being investigated Stuckey found that
the work at the brass foundry was
hard on his back. so he gave it up and
went to work as night watchman at
a sugar refinery at $50 a month
The sheriff waited last night until
Stuckey had gone to work and then
went to the house where he had been
living with the girl He inquired for
Miss Clara Morgan and the girl re-
cr.0 fol haf hA