The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1910-07-16
ROBBED TO BUY
FOOD FOR WIFE
She Denies Story and Exhibits
Diamonds to Prove Her
Assertions

Kansas City, July 16.-Confiicting
stories were told yesterday by Ralph
! l.. Sise. % years old, who is charged
with beating and robbing Robert Will
son, chauffeur of the Royal Auto
Livery company, and by Mrs. Sise, 19
years old, who until six weeks ago
was Aimee Mcpherson of Wichita
Kas. Sise told Captain Whitsett in a
statement that he robbed Wilson be-
cause his wife was starving. Mrs
Sise, wearing a diamond and a ruby
ring and living at comfortable ho-
tel Kansas City. kas., said that she
had all she wanted to eat
| When a visitor saw Mrs. Sise last
night in their room at the Maltby
house, Sixth street and Ann avenue
Kansas City, Kas.. she expressed sur
prise at her husbands statement to
the police.
Bought. Rings, She Says.
"He always has been able to pro-
vide for me and granted every wish
made" she said. why only last
week he brought me these rings
she continued. holding out one Of her
hands. Doesn't look as il l was in
want, does it? We were married in
Wichita. where Ralph's father is a
merchant. He offered to start Ralph
in business, but my husband prefer
red to start out for himself and three
weeks ago we came here"
| ralph was an electrician, but he
couldn't find work. For while he
painted telephone poles, but the wag-
es were not large. On the third
fourth and fifth of July he acted as a
special policeman and them he be-
came bookkeeper for the Interstate
Transfer company. l can't under
stand it at all. Ralph never went
out and I never knew him to drink
more than glass of beer.
"He said early last night that he
was going to Kansas City. Mo-. to
look for a job. He must have got into
bad company and they must have lur-
| ed him to drink. am going to
stand by him and do everything to
get him out of trouble"
Nothing to Eat All Day, He Said.
Sise's statement to the police differ
ed In it he said nothing about the
diamond rings and the fine clothes
his wife was wearing.
"My wife had nothing to eat for a
day." he said in the statement. Il
could not bear to see her starve, be-
cause | love her better than any,
thing else in the world; better than
my own honor. told her that l
would get some money If l had to do
something desperate"
what did your wife say when you
told her about your intentions?" ask
ed Captain Whitsett.
"She cried and begged me not to do
anything dishonest. She said 1t would
be better to starve first. But l
knew she was hungry and that al
most drove ME crazy. decided to
rob somebody if 1 didn't find a job.
took long file. that we used for
sharpening knives, out of our dresser
drawer and put it in my pocket. 1t
was about foot long and had a gas
pipe handle Then I kissed my wife
good-by and told her would come
hack with some money. She began
crying and begged me again not to
do anything dishonest or wrong.
His Story of the Robbery.
cit was raining and I couldn't find
anybody who wanted to hire a man
for anything. I went by the Hotel
Maltimore and saw all those motor
cars standing there and then l just
decided to rob one of the drivers. l
have meyer been arrested before and
this is the first trouble was ever in.
1t probably will break my Ather's
heart. but ! simply couldn't bear to
see my wife go hungry"
Sise then told about the robbery.
He said he did not have revolver.
He beat Wilson with the file, he said.
According to Sise's statement, he was
the only person besides Wilson in the
motor car at the time of the robbery.
Wilson said last night that there were
two other men in the motor car and
that they helped Sise rob and beat
him.
Sise's Parents Won't Discuss It.
Wichita, Kas., July 16-Ralph Sise
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