The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-28
Want IT TO WAIT
Effort viii Be Made to Defer
Famous Perkins Case.
Insurance Companies Want
Them Disposed of at Once.
MAIL CASE ALSO UP
Involves Length OF Cars Used
Involves Length of Cars Used
Kansas City and Chicago.
Mail Carrier on Trial on an Em.
bezzlement Charge.

Judge John c. Pollock this morning
convened the November term of the
first division of the United States cir
cult court and an adjourned session of
the United States district court The
cases carried over on the docket Of the
district court will be tried first. The
morning session was devoted largely to
making up the court calendar and hear
ing motions of the attorneys.
One Of the important matters before
the court at the November session is
the trial of the Perkins insurance cases.
several weeks ago the cases were as
signed for trial on December 5. Since
that time the attorneys for the Per-
kinS interests have intimated that they
would ask to have the cases carried
over until the January session. They
state that dispositions which will be Of
material benefit to their case are de-
sired and that the cases should not be
tried at this time. On the other hand
the attorneys for the insurance com
panies say they have been ready for
trial for several months and want the
cases disposed of. The question of a
continuance will be argued late this
afternoon. There are eleven cases on
the docket involving nearly S5o0,000 life
insurance, This insurance was carried
by Lucius H. Perkins and taken out a
short time before he fell from the roof
of his home in Lawrence and was kill
ed. The greater part of the insurance
had been issued only few months be-
fore Perkins death. He gave his notes
for the first annual premium. A suicide
theory viii be sprung by the attorneys
for the insurance companies when the
cases are tried.
A large per cent of the cases on the
pnnfinIIpd A few 0f
the cases were dismissed at the morn
ing session on motion of attorneys rep
resenting htigants.
The case of the Atchison, Topeka &
Santa Fe railway against the United
States. involves the length of mail cars
in service between Chicago and Kansas
City.
The cases Of Agnes Boss Thomas
against the Globe Publishing COMPANY
and Ed Howe, of Atchison, will he
tried soma time Tuesday. Mrs. Thomas
is the daughter of Rev. Mr.. Boss, who
for twenty years was pastor of the
Congregational church in Leavenworth.
A recent article in the Atchison Globe
displeased Mrs. Thomas and she in
stftuted a. series of suits in the circuit
court charging SANDER. Her total
| claims aggregate nearly 100000.
This afternoon the case OF Ln0 y n1lSO
| States against z. NJ Harris is being
| tried Harris was a rural mail carrier
in Wyandotte county and Is held on a
charge of embezzlement. Some months
| ago one of Harris patrons gave him
| SIS with which to buy a money order
and send to a party. It is charged that
Harris appropriated the money to his
| own use and did not send the money
! order.
| Another case on the docket is that OF
| the United States against the Missouri
| Pacific Railway company and z.
| Markey and B. E. Hughes. A viola
| ton of the quarantine laws is charged
| in this case. A shipment of cattle by
| Markey and Hughes from Colorado tt
| Kansas City is involved. The cattle
were unIoa1ed in Dickerson county in
| alleged violation of the quarantine laws
and the case was filed in the circuit
court a plea of guilty as to Markey
| and Hughes was entered this morning
| and the trial Of the case involving the