The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-04-24

wagon into service. The new
wagon will likely be set up today and
given its first airing.
A colored woman indignant and
irate told the mysteries of her life
and many others to the police this
morning. She is new in Topeka hav-
ing arrived here at just % minutes to
10 O'Clock on the evening of the 24th
of last September from Kansas City
and she arrived out to the house of
VIM. Mccoy. where she was to serve
as spousee, at just 10 minutes to 10
and if anyone doubts it she can show
him the cab she rode in. Bill had
license waiting over at the county
court house So their welded life be-
gan. The story:
THAT man has given me As cents
once and IS cents once and that is
all he has given me in all that time.
l had some money of my own when
come and kept little Yesterday /!
says to my man, Bill. we am out of
-four and amt had none for two
weeks or more and the price is goin'
on up to "a hundred, you bettah
get some today. But he didn't pay
no attention to me. so went up town
myself and bought a sack of flour,
some eggs and butter and things and
the bill was s2.35; lets see. butter 10
cents, eggs 20 cents, and some butter
milk cause 1 was goin' to make some
cake today. lard Is cents cause we
needed it, salt pork Is cents and -"
Here stop just there" COM
manded the judge. 81 want to know
what the trouble is. not how much
you spent and what you bought"
well. you see, Bill drinks. Now l
says to Bill my father never did drink
and my grandfather did not and my
step-father never drank and you don't
need to- And Bill said. ooh --
your father and mother and all your
family and went out o the house.
You see was married once before in
Kansas City and I just came heah
and I'm new in Topeka And there is
six of us in the house, Bills mother
and kids. and others and
Help, police" yelled the judge in
agony, What did you come here
for?"
ooh. this is all cause Bills moth
err lost five dollars yesterday and when
she saw me have little this morning
she said I took the money but l new
er took the money. 1 had that money
saved and I says. (now you will ex-
cuse this cause 1 know it amt nice
for a lady to say) 1 say Anybody who
says 1 took that money is big fool.
and then Bill he walked up to me and
hit me and beat me and I want to
persecute him all 1 can. I won't
stand to be hit by the father of my
expected boy and any man who would
hit a woman like that ought to be
hung and 1 am goin' to do all l can"
Did any one see him hit you but
the mother"
NO"
well then you better go over and
get divorce or else make up with
your man." and the judge fled.
That a mans business methods is a
matter quite apart from his private
life is disclosed in the affairs of F. D.
McAvoy the insurance man represent
ing the National Life association in To-
peka and vicinity and involved in court
proceedings with his wife.
A letter from a Mr.. Messick, former
district manager of Kansas and Okla
homa. stationed at Wichita. seemed to
place McAvoy in a shady business
light but letters from the company to
Mr.. McAvoy indicate that McAvoy
stood we'll In fact when McAvoy
came to work the Kansas field he was
sent by the company to pool commits
sions with Messick and given the east
ern half of Kansas for his field. Later
McAvoy was transferred to Topeka and
made district manager, leaving settle |
ments at Wichita to be made by Mes |
sick. who soon quit the business All X
McAvoy got for his trouble at Wichita |
was SIS and the inference from Messick /
that the same should satisfy him
Letters from the National Life as
ISOLATION under the signature of the /
secretary, Henry Pyle. contain such /
tributes to McAvoy as: Now. YOU |
are doing splendid. You are the very |
best man by all odds that we have in