Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1911-12-01
-sucK" WEAVER IN TROUBLE.

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Season, and who WIS manager eCd
catcher O: Tie Larned club in hat
league last season. Is undsr a:TrG at
Larned.
He is facing trial on a s,nous +
charge preferred by Hazel Weaver,
his adoptad daughter, aged II years,
a former Hutchinson girl, who was |
known h IRE as CeciIEe Pr.ca.
The LMned TE,lar ard Toier, IN
telling O. Weaver's arraSb s2id:
The s'rl frs. io'd her story to
Sheriff Winehes er. She seemed in
great fe,r CT Weaver. and said she /
would onar die Than have to stay !
AT his house another nigh. The
Sherlff was Just starting for Garfield ,
and told her she would have 10 make I
complaIi., TO the county at orney.
She did not do so until the next day, /
6ut then told how her fCs 'arfather
had put a fresh bolt on their door
the might before. She had tried to
hide his revolver but he had found it, !
and when she asked why he Was bolt
ang the door she says he said he in
eended to give a wanm reception 10
anyone who might Try to break IN ON
them
The next morning she says he tod
her to get her best dress on and be
ready to go with him to be married
TO stop the mouths of the g0ssipng
neighbors" He said he would come
Tor her as soon as he could arrange
for someone 10 act as her guardian
and give written consent to her mar
mage. He was i'm Attorney Rogers
office fixing this matter up when the
sheriff stepped i'm and arrested him.
A few moments more and he would
have had everything ready for the
OenemOny,
As soon as Weaver left the house
the girl went To County Attorney Yer
nm's office and told her story and
Swore to the complaint, and then
again appealed TO Sheriff Winchester
for protection for herself ard for
her baby. She declared she would not
marry Weaver under any circum-
stances, and seemed very much afraid
of him, pulling the curtains and hid
ing i'm her room whenever he passed
OF appeared near the Sherff's resi-
demce. She has since been stopping
with Sheriff and Mrs. Winchester,
who are caring for her and her baby.
Weaver was at once taken before
Justice Warrsn, who set his bond at
$500, which was signed by Attorney
Rogers and DR.. Stroud, and he was
given his liberty again a few NOM
eMts after his arrest.
Weaver first came to Larned sever
al years ago to play on the Larned
ball team, which he managed part OF
the season year before last- His
home was then at Lakin, Kan, where
he had been farming after refining
fnom major league baseball few sea
SONS before. Following domestic diff
Guilty he was divorced from his wife
several years ago. His divorced wife
Mrs. Dora Weaver, now lives a
Boise, Id Her father, whose name i!
Dye, lives at Uakin, Kan. Mrs. Wea
ver wro.e to Larned a year ago, af
ter the baby was born, stating tina
she believed her former husband t
be responsible for the girls ruin.
Ce0ille Price, or Hazel Weaver, al
She is known here, was II years oil
the Sth of this month. She says he
father and mother went out ives
from Hutchinson she believes and o.
the deah of one of them-She doe
o not remember which-She was left a
Pueblo, where she was adopted b
the Viewers when she was about
years old. It is believed that she ha
Relatives at Hutchinson or somewher
in Kansas. She has never been lega
iy adopted by Weaver She says
first assaulted her when she was
years old, and that he has compelle
her to live with him ever since.
When Weaver came to Larned
was given every assistance and e
couragement, and was the popult
idol Of the baseball element for Sc
eral seasons. When he brought b
supposed daughter here year az
last spring she was taken into maI
Or the best homes, and was ma
much Of by many ladies whose hear
weue touched when they learned tn
she was an orphan.
Her foster father charged b
downfall to young man with who
he said she had kept company at b
former home, and expressed great
dignatiOM
Since Weaver's return from umI