The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-04-06
DROVE HIM OUT.
Il. E. Johnson Tells How He Lost
His Happy Home.
Wife and "the Other Man" Told
Him to "Clear Out"
FOLLOWED DIRECTIONS
Now He Is Going Back to Change
Things.
Will Try to Get His Children
and a Divorce.

r. Z. Johnson, a resident of North
Topeka, left Wednesday afternoon fol-
junction City, where he will ask the
Geary county district court to straight
en- out his domestic difficulties.
The trouble in the johnson family did
not start until the family left North
Topeka recently and went to Geary
county to live on a ranch. 1t was
while Johnson was on the farm that he
was ordered from his home by another
man and the opposition to Johnson be-
came so pronounced that it was neces-
sary for the man to leave Geary coun-
ty. Johnson now wants possession of
the children and he will also try to send
his wife and the man who ordered him
from his home to the penitentiary.
1T was several months ago when /
secured a place on a large ranch near
Junction City" said Johnson, as he told
the story of his trouble. "Wen, you
know everything seemed to be all right
when We left our little home in North
Topeka. My children were happy and
my wife seemed contented. But we
hadn't been in Geary county a week
until another man appeared on the
scene and ordered me to leave. He said
my wife was his wife and my wife said
he was right. They told the neighbors
about it and in "a hours my reputation
in that neighborhood wasn't worth go
cents I stayed around in the COM
MUMMY GIdl udyS anu lIlSQ " SSb
possession of the children. but they
said if L came on the premises they
would shoot me. 1 believe they meant
1t, too, as a neighbor wrote my sister
that they would have probably killed
me had I stayed.
just Wants the Children.
You see it isn't so much that Dolly
has left me- continued the much
abused Topeka man, but to think they
won't LET bn oIaiIdrcn
Well, when they ran me from the place,
the children wanted to go with me-
Somehow they seemed to know that I
was right and that the other man was
wrong. The Oldest one-she's 8 now
chung to her mothers dress and begged
her to let her papa stay. Then the two
younger children cried, too, and
Dorothy climbed right up in my arms
and putting her little face against
mine. cried as though her heart would
break. But it didn't do any good. My
wife said I was an imposter and had 10
go. The other man said so. too. Then
the neighbors began to arrive and they
Of course, believed the woman and
threatened to make things lively for me
If I stayed in the community. Then 1
came to Topeka"
He Has the Proofs.
The last few days Johnson has been
busy. He has a copy of his marriage
license, a rev dIIludVlIS ana some form =
er letters from his wife. He says ne
viii SEPARATE from his wife. but will
make a fight for the possession of his
children. AS johnson stood on the de-
pot platform Wednesday afternoon, he
was dressed in a new suit of store
clothes. He was freshly shaver and
presented a decidedly different appear
ance than the rustic laborer who
worked on the Geary county ranch.
1t is Johnson's idea to Immediately
commence criminal proceedings against
both the man and woman. Out in Geary
county they believe that Johnsons
mission in the community had been to
interfere in the happiness and pros
perity of a happy home. 1t is now that
Johnson says he will be able to con-
vince the neighbors of their error.
johnson has lived in Topeka for IL
number of years. He is hard working
young man and about 80 years old. In
1905 he was married to Dolley Petit.
They are the parents of three children.