The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-03-03

Delk had a little girl. Grace Kersey.
3 years old, whom he made go out at
i night and solicit money for him in the
| pool halls ami on the streets She
\ went in the worst of weather and her
| shoes were worn through She took
sick and went home in the country.
! She got we'll and Delk got her back.
promising her pair of shoes. But he
did not give them to her, and when I
was in charge 1 went to shelf and
got her a pair as I had a right to do.
/ was in charge and Delk does not
own these things anyway. But here is
another thing. That place was full of
clothes, shoes and all manner of gro
ceries and provisions Delk had all
the poor. He never gave anything
away but piled them up there to sell,
I suppose, when he got to it. The poor
never saw them.
I'll tell you something else. too, see
those shoes Yarbrough has on. Well
they belong to Delk. See they are torn
and worn out. Delk is wearing Var
hrough's shoes. He took them away
from the boy. Just ask Mrs. Mckinney
about Delk.'
Popular With Girls.
Mrs. Maggie Mckinney, 1920 Van
Buren street. reluctantly told what she
knew about him. when he first came
here,'' she said, she was pretty popu-
my daughter May. who was but Is
years old. One night after meeting he
detained her when we had started away
and tried to get her to enter the rear
room of the mission with him. did not
see them but May came running to me
and told me about it and asked if she
ought to go. No. you mustn't listen to
him. said. and hurried her OUT That
was the time when he was about to
marry his present wife who was Mrs.
Rannie Clark, divorced wife of Saliva
ton Army captain.
This marriage is held by former be-
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his own patent and printed code of re-
ligion which in reference to divorces
says there is only one ground for di-
vorce and sets forth that a Nazarene
shall not marry a divorced person.
But the real beginning of the down
fall of the NaZarenes in Topeka began
one night when Delk, the evan gelist,
refused to pray with a Mrs. Brubaker.
says, and Delk came over and said:
When that woman yonder gets up to
make a testimony I'm going to make
her sit down and shut up, for she is
a regular devil" Here. you take
charge here yourself if you are go
ing to do anything like that. am not
going to be in it, So Delk sprang up
with 'whoopee' and jumped on one
foot, hopping across the platform, yell
ing, praise the Lord
RebuIxes Woman Follower.
Then he called for a testimonial
meeting and when the woman in ques
ton stood up he called her down, told
her to shut up and keep still and
other things. adding that she was
devil. After the meeting Mrs. Bru-
baker penitently came to him and
asked forgiveness from him and want
ed him to kneel with her and pray,
but he said, mo, I don't pray with
1evils''
The worst in this great battle which |
has waged in a second kind of under |
world is thought to be over. The mis- |
sion has been dissolved for the present |
as the Nazarenes could not pay the |
rent. Dell is said to have tried very |
hard to induce Buoy who was in the |
Spanish war and entitled to a pension, |
to take up the church debt when he go. |
his pay but Buoy could not ''see'' the |
Long Haired One" Others say Delk
IS not wanted in any of the towns
where he has been because he never,
never, pays his debts.
Nothing was said today about the So
which Yarbrough is alleged to have
taken and the sum is regarded as a
myth. The lad was placed under $500
bond secured by Buoy and Petty and
MS hearing set for March II.