The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-14
LET Them SUFFER-.
ChumOs Divorce Case on Trial
Before Judge Dana.
Rich Greek Let Family Want
for Clothing and Fuel.
DRY BREAD FOR FOOD.
Officer Tells of Condition of Lit
tie Children.
Husband Gave 81 to ClOthe New
Born Babe, Woman Says.
DRY BREAD FOR FOOD.

The divorce proceedings of Maria
! Chumos and Constantine G. Chumos,
the Greek confectioner. opened with
dramatic technique today before Judge
Dana. The first witness described the
! scene wherein began the trouble A
stone farm house. damp walled within,
two rooms down stairs and two up. bare
floors. Calico strips across the windows,
some OF which were broken, to dull
the bright light reflected from the snow
covered ground-a broken folding bed
and a small heater in one room;
range, a table with two loaves of dry
bread on it, and a few chairs sitting
around in another. That was the scene
laid by o. S. Perkins. a Hveryman, who
drove Humane officer King out to the
farm, where Chumos had sent his wife
and three small children, last January.
He was followed on the stand by
King who after the visit filed com.
plant against ChumoS as delinquent
parent in the juvenile court Mr.. King
further described the farm as bleak
homestead on low lying ground over
flowed by the Kaw river and situated
about three and a half miles from To-
peka. The date of this visit was fixed
as Sunday about the 18th OF january
The weather was very cold, he told the
court. The wife and children were IN
a miserable condition. She could not
speak English so he had taken a Greek,
Louis Charowhas. along to ask her
questions. She complained. She and
her three children, the oldest years
of age were Improperly clothed In thln
summer wear. There was some green
wood piled on the back porch There
was a poor fire in the heater. This stove,
King described as a. little sheet IRON
thing broken and loose. Inc pipe ne ne
said was broken and wired hanging in
pieces. He could find no food put tne
dry bread and few apples. He went
cut again Monday and wednesday. Inc
last time, he said. he had found some
provisions had been brought out lof
he found two sacks of flour.
Mrs. Peter Chumos. sister-1n-law OF
the defendant. described the Chumos
family affairs before Chumos SEM ms
wife and babies out to ''cold storage.
She and Pete had lived with them last
fall, The home of the Chumos, VINO
arc said to he worth $4,000, Is hve
small upstairs rooms at 951 Kansas
avenue The Chumos restaurant ana
confectionery is at S04 Kansas avenue.
In the home. said Mrs. Pete Chumos,
who is a German and does not know
Greek, the wife and cnlldren were
given one room with one bed. Con and
his sister, who works in the restaurant,
occupied anorher room with two beds.
Another room was given to George
Zervulis. a brother-ln-la a OF con VINO
of space was occupied by Pete Chumos
and his wife and their two children.
All parties ate at the restaurant.
Constantine Is Thrifty.
This Mrs. Chumos told how the 9TH
err Mrs. Chumos assisted Constantine |
in his chase after the American dol |
lar, "She got up at o'clock in the
morning, cared for her children and |
went down to open the restaurant at |
& O'Clock. Then she mopped up the |
floor and busted off the counters and |
made coffee. She then began cooking |
up the meats for sandwiches for the |
day and waited on customers. She had |
a. the ice
cones then and get dinner. She al |
ways took the children to the restaur-
ant with her so she could take care Of |
them"
s'What time did Con come down
them"
ooh, about II or IL o'clock. He
and his sister came down together"
"Were you present when a child
was born to Mrs. Chumos?"
ST was there when the second was
born"