The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-11

that they had stepped in hole and saw
but one way out. That was the return
of the false statements. But Simon
/ refused to surrender.
| AT Summerfield the Burns man was
| a busy party. He visited the little
bank over which Frank Thormann
presides as president. He told the
banker the facts. Thormann was not
only a sympathizer, but did real work.
Leta Foster was called to the bank.
Under a cross examination she broke
down, admitted her own perfidy and
that of the bankers wife. In this
! affidavit, which she gave in the pres
ence of her foster father, she told
blackmail and ruin the Kingma n
judge. This is the affidavit that told
the whole story. She testified
The Girls Story.
"I went to Topeka last January, 1872,
with Mrs. Thomann and Mr.. Medlock
at the request of Mrs. Thomann ana
Mr. Medlock. We arrived about 1:4o
in the evening at Topeka, over the ROCK
Island, and went direct to the Firth
Avenue hotel Mr.. Medlock registered
me for a room at the hotel' unoef
either the name of Minnie or Emma
twenty-eight (28). Mr.. Medlock anu
Mrs. Thomann occupied a room next to
mine and registered at the hotel I'M
der the name Of Mr.. and Mrs. Cham
bers.
Mr. H. c. Ericsson came to see US
at the Fifth Avenue hotel and want
ed to arrange with me to go TO the
National hotel and get in with Judge
p B. GilIett of Kingman, kansas,
saying to me that there was a Irleno
of his in trouble, lawyer, ana tnat
if he could get something on Judge
Gillett there would never be anything
said about it, except that they would
make Judge Gillett stop the case
against this lawyer, whose name DO
not remember, though Ericsson called
his name.
a'They promised to pay me $45. I
mean by they. Ericsson and Medlock.
I finally went to the National hoIel
one morning, they sending me ana
Ericsson was to meet me there met
Ericsson in the lobby of the motel ana
he told me to go up to the parior;
Then he came up to the parlor and
told me to wait there, and he would
go down and get me a room. He did
this, and came back and told me ne
had a room for me on the Iourtn
floor 1 think it was 400. He told
me 1 was registered under tne saIne
name as was registered under at
the Fifth Avenue hotel. He gave the
key to a bell boy, who took me to my
room.
Ericsson then came to my room
three or four times, and wanted TO get
Judge GilIett was, so Ericsson INFORM
ed me in room 507.
''I refused to go up on the fifth floor.
Ericsson sent me down into the LOBBY
of the hotel, but 1 think he went down
lust ahead of me, and his object in hav-
ing me go down, was to point out TINS
Judge Gillett to me. He told me be-
fore 1 went down, that Judge Glllett
was sitting in the second chair from the
north, in a row of chairs facing the
east in the west end of the lobby of the
hotel. 1 then went back to the parlor,
in the hotel. 1 never saw Judge Gillett
in my life except that morning and L
never saw him any where except in the
lobby of the National hotel. I never
spoke to Judge Gillett in my life nor he
never spoke to me. l stayed in my
room at the National hotel most OF the
day No one was in that room except
the bell boy. Mr. Medlock and Mr..
Ericsson, and myself. This is the only
time 1 was ever at the National hotel.
Mrs. Thomann was not in the National
hotel that Gay in my presence. went
back to the Fifth Avenue hotel that
evening, and l think We left Topeka the
next morning. That night Mr.. Ericsson
brought a typewriter to Mr.. Medlock in
Mrs Thormanns room and wrote the
papers that we signed At least I know
that Mrs. Thormann and I signed those
papers, there.
one in the room at the time except
Medlock, Ericsson, Mrs. Thormann and
myself. The paper signed is false.
81 told Mr.. Ericsson at the time the
paper was false. and we all knew it
was false, and that I did not wish to
sign It.
HE persuaded me, stating that it
would never hurt anyone That this
Judge Gillett would never hear of it,
and that it would simply get his law
yer friend out of trouble. and he also
promised me again the $45 at that time.
"a little while after that Mrs. Thor
mann and I were taken by Medlock
from Holton to Topeka, and we were
informed by Ericsson and Medlock that
we would have to sign the same paper
again and that we would have to go
to a lawyers office to do SO. Medlock
also had go with Mrs. Thormann
and have my picture taken. I was to
have all but one of the dozen pictures.
but I have never received any of the
pictures. The last time / signed pa
pers, the time in the lawyers Office
Mr. Medlock. Mr.. Ericsson, Mrs. Thor
mann and myself all signed different
papers, and we all held up our hands.
and sworn to them. and we all knew
at the time the papers were false.
L am making this affidavit at the
home of Mr.. Frank Thomann in Sum-
merfield, Marshall county, Kansas,
where am staying temporarily. Mrs.
Thomann has called me up from her
fathers home in the country, three or
four times within the last few days,
and begged me not to talk to anyone
who might call on me about this mat
ter
Lawyer Tincher, Judge Gillett and
their friends were feeling better. But
the fight was not over. The men
scarce ate or slept. The detective
worked overtime and fractured all the
rules of the union.
At the Fifth Avenue hotel, it was
learned that Medlock and the Thor
mann woman had several times oc-
cupied rooms as Chambers and wife;