The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-25
NO HUBBY FOR HER
Myrtle Russell Appeals to Police
to Get Her Trunk.
Held by Young Man Who Wants
to Wed.
WAS ALL A DELUSION.
Attracted by Glitter of Show
Life But Isn't Now.
Wants to Go Home to Parents
in Texas.
AS ALL A DELUSION.

The rainbow after the storm Of carni-
val company failures which always de-
sends upon the larger cities of the
country about this time every year ap-
peared at the police station this morn
ing in the form of pretty nineteen
year-oId Myrtle Russell, who came to
the police with tears in her blue eyes
| and her cheeks red with weeping. She
IS another example of a pretty girl who
listens to the call of the wild and who
deserts her comfortable home to enjoy
the ups and downs and sorrows of L
dereliet carnival company.
Myrtle Russell live at Houston
Texas She has a kind old mother and
a well to do father. She Is now in To-
peka making the last attempt to break
away from the managers of a carnival
company, and especially from one
young man who holds in his possession.
her trunk and all her vaIuables for the
supposed purpose of gaining her per-
mission for marriage
The story as told by the pretty blue
eyed, light haired girl this morning 1
one long experience of connection with
what is known as Young & Ranny
Combined Shows" a company working
all of the smaller towns of the south
west and escaping, so she says, from
each town with a mass of debts piled
up behind them Myrtle Joined the
company longing for a touch of tn.
with the police with another longing
and that for her home and her mother.
The first tie that must be broken to
regain her freedom is to escape from a
young man who was at one time the
manager of the company and who is
now in Topeka conducting a merry-go-
round in the west end of the city park
near the river. J. p Young is the name
Of this young fellow, according to the
story told by the girl
It seems that Myrtle ran away from
home in the early spring in order to
join the company which was then
pany and which soon was turned over
into the hands OF the Young family
and man named Ranny. 1t was
during her connection with this last
set of owners that Myrtle Russell be-
came acquainted with ]. P Young, the
young man who managed the swing
Young fell in love with the girl at
once and they went many places to-
gether. He kept her as his ticket
seller near the merry-go-round and all
was well. Young's family was with
him on the trip and they combined
forces with the young man, taking the
girl into their hands and keeping her
with them at their hotels and wher-
ever they stopped. Finally the young
she declined. Then she left his EN-
ploy as ticket seller and Joined an
other department of the show. But
this did not dampen the spirit of the
trunk and her belongings.
Meanwhile the company was having
all kinds of trouble Their swing was
attached a number Of times and they
creditors who demanded settlement
A number of times they barely es-
capped the law but luck seemed to be
with them, says the girl.
Finally in kansas City they decid-
ed to come to Topeka and Myrtle
scared and tir1fd left them and found
a position with the Swift Packing
company. But the Young family came
back she says, and made her give to
them all of her wages which amount
ed TO two dollars a day. When they
I'll North Kansas avenue. set up their
merry-go-round here and started over
again But they held Myrtle Russell's
trunk and now refuse to return it to
her unless she will purchase for Young
a suit of clothes. 1t is either a case of
purchasing a suit of clothes or marry
the man and she does ont have the
money to buy the clothes and refuses
Her father has sent her a ticket
home and when she obtains the
clothes from Young she will leave at
once. She will swear out a warrant
for the arrest of the parties this even
ing and it is expected that at that time
she will obtain the trunk.
Tom Foreman, nineteen-year-o1d
Yer for the last year and who came
back to Topeka to visit his aunt was
arrested last night by Officers Hut
ton and Wonderly because he enter
ed the house without knocking
The charge on the police docket
is burglary. The aunt of the boy, Mrs.
LumpkinS who lives at 1858 Mulvane
street came home from a neighbour
hood visit last night about ten o'clock
and she saw a light in the kitchen.
She screamed and yelled for a neigh
Dor to call the police. When the Of
ficers arrived they entered the front
and back doors and with Mrs Lump
kins they found the boy sitting in the
kitchen sorting over some old clothes
and humming popular tune
According to the story told a State
Journal reporter by the boy at the
police station this morning. he lived
with his aunt about a year ago when
he worked in the Santa Fe shops
When he left the city he left his
clothes behind him. He came back
last night to get them and as no one
was at home he made MS entrance
and hunted for the clothes anyway.
He took a cap, trousers. socks, hand
kerchiefs and a pair of shoes.
The aunt claims that she does not
want him and has told him never to
return and he committed burglary by
entering the house in this manner.
Judge Urmy will decide the outcome
this evening
Walter Blake and Willie Long, the
two young men who were the hosts at
4 "sIumber parry on Madison street
not long ago and who barely escaped
the clutches of the law on state offense
for holding in a house over night girls
rnder age for immoral purposes, are
row being hunted by the police and
IL caught it means that they will be
punished to the full extent
It is believed that their offense this
time has been to entice from her home
a 15-year-old girl by the name of Hazel
HartzeH. who lives with her parents at