The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-01-28
!. The OTHER SIDE.
Attorney for Constantine Chu-
mos Makes Statement.
Shows Wife Was Not in Want
on Farm.
PLENTY PROVISIONS.
Also a Man There to Do Heavy
Work.
Was Sent There Because of Con-
PROVISIONS.
Was Sent There Because of Con-
sumptive Tendencies.

attorney, has demonstrated that there
is another side to the case The rea-
son nothing was learned before is that
Chumos refused to talk and the case in
the juvenile court was continued with
out the defense having a chance to cal.
witnesses.
1t is all in connection with the al
legged neglect of his wife and babies
whom he sent out to the farm north OF
the city that the feeling has been
stirred up . The allegations OF Humane
| Officer King and Chumos' brother-ln-
uninhabitable, there was no fuel, moth
ing to eat for six days, no furniture
and only one bed for the four of them
the wife and three children.
THE wife has evidences of tubercu-
loss'' said Mr.. Ensminger CDR. Mill
lard, the family doctor, advised Con
to get her into the country. Haven't
you got some place in the country
where you can send her?' asked the
doctor, she must have fresh air. The
consequence is that Con took her ana
the children to the farm.
He sent out at the time two COWS
and chickens that they might have
fresh milk and eggs. He has man
farm and who made the trip to town
| nearly every day to get provisions. Be
sides there is a telephone in the farm
house connecting with the store and
1t
with her every day.
Before the trial which was contin-
ued so peremptorilly / said, Con, !
want to go out and see that place ana
he took me out. Now what l say,
saw there myself and had witnesses TO
prove it. True. the house looked MAD
and the paper was torn off as alleged
Con said when he took his wife OUT
there he told her to take anything and
any furniture from their home that she
wanted. He said the house looked BAD
and he began Immediately to NIX 1t up.
The first thing was to get 1T papered
The hired man and Con pulled lot OF
paper down and Con had CONTRACT
with Parr brothers. as they would have
tie stified. to come and do the papering
but the cold snap broke and they could
not work.
1T is a stone house with great thick
walls. That brother said it was
church. That's funny Where he got
his idea was cross on II, ne salo'
Well that cross is an American light
ring rod with a weather vane on II;
There are two rooms downstairs and
two upstairs. The furniture IS scant
admit but all she ever wanted. There
is a great range in one room down
stairs near the foot of the stairway,
the top of which is larger than Two
of these office desks. In the position
of that stove it would heat the Whoie
house But in the other room there was
There was also a folding bed in that
room. Upstairs there was a bed in the
front room and in the back room
springs and mattress on the floor where
the hired man slept.
During the cold weather the wife
had moved downstairs and slept in the
folding bed with two children. Inc
baby usually slept in the baby buggy
they say, and it was near the PED IN
one corner of that room was pig
IN 7
cover and reached down and picked up
a double armful of all kinds OF chill
dren's clothing, mostly baby clothlng:
There were bundles of it Then
looked down in the cellar There were
as MANY as fifty bushels of potatoes
spread out over the floor and covered
with sacks to keep them from rottlng
and freezing. There were three ana
half sacks of flour. There were
dozen pumpkins, but these at the
time T was there had been frost .nipped.
There was also a three-gallon can of
sugar.
81 went out to the barn. There
were two cows, fresh cows. and their
calves were in another stall. Tnere
was a. horse. I saw there the finest
bunch of chickens 1 ever saw. ana
counted twenty-nine of them, twenty
seven of them hens
Fright there was a greater source
of food than most of us can boast, but
and his sister have sent out there: A
pounds boiled ham, 10 pounds ham
burger, pounds sausage. 8 POUNDS
| pork chops, pounds sirloin steak, ~
pounds olives, pounds soup bone, b
| pounds cheese, 6 pounds rice, pounds
string macaroni, pounds crackers,
| so pounds maearoni so loaves of
bread, ESQ pounds flour, 25 pounds
and coffee cakes. 2 pounds candy.
pounds grapes, 8 dozen oranges,
dozen apples, dozen lemons, cans
| of chilli, pounds coffee, Is pounds
mas. 2 dozen pears, 5 pounds nuts, 8
gallons of milk, case of soap. A
boxes I've, 10 pounds starch, pounds
figs. salt and pepper. The milk was
| sent out when the cows went dry when
| the calves were born.
| Now, I don't believe they have been
starving. I wouldn't starve with those
chickens and potatoes there and the
flour and milk. would you? She could
have killed a chicken. Con says he
never denied her anything but once. I
asked him what it was and he said,
| coffee He said the doctor said the
children must not have it and she
would always give it to them.
when this affair came UP. Todd
Mathews went to Chumos and said he
wanted him to call him for a witness.
Todd told me that Chumos and his
wife came in and she wanted pair
of shoes. Con bought her two or three
pairs. Another time she wanted stock
ings. He bought her $12 worth. Is
that stingy? He wanted to buy her a
| big wide American hat. but she shook
her head and waved her hands, No,
no.
Perhaps, the children did not look
so well dressed, but this is a fact and
shows the reason. Chumos' sister has
taken the children up to the rooms in
town here, bathed- them and dressed
them in clean clothes and brought
them down to the store and Mrs.
/ Chumos had taken them right back
and put their dirty clothes on them.
/ Con says he can buy his wife a $50
ldress and in an hour it will look like