The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-05-14

ing Case.
After a series of domestic upheavals,
,rhomann has ogain become reconciled
70 his wife. His threats of divorce
mont at the time his wife's name was
,,sAd in connection with the Gillett
.andaJ have changed to a merc1ful
ana forgiving spirit. For the sake or
tba three sons in the little town OF
S11Inrerfield, Thomann will hght Tor
the acouittaI of his wife. He declares
that he believes that she has told the
truth and that he Will not forsaKe ner
in her present troubles. Thomann ad-
1ofts that he hopes for a compromise
or agreement that will free his wife's
name of the rather sensational develop
ments of the last few months.
Sitting acrUss the aisle from Tho
mann last night, Leta roster rode on
the train to Topeka. in the same seat
with a State Journal reporter. Some
tines there were tears in the girls eyes
as she related her siIlple little story
and revealed the things that had
caused her so many heart aches
II don't know what will happen
now" the young girl said, as she look
ed out the window and across the broad
acres of a Marshall county wheat farm.
Mrs Thomann is just awful mad at
me. since 1 made that last statement.
She won't speak to me or have any,
thing
last statement is the truth and-and-
well. I just won't ange word of It.
It's so and can't help it."
Then the girl leaned back against her
seat and closed her eyes again. After
a few minutes she seemed to take
new hold on the situation and talked
more freely.
Thinks o. Father.
.If it Just wasn't for dad" said the
girl. IF 1 didn't always think about
how he will look at this, wouldn't
mind it so much. 1 haven't written
him about this, you know and 1 don't
know how to tell him. He reads tbs
newspapers, of course, and 1 don't know
what he thinks. If just could tell him
that I never did a thing in my life
that was dishonorable, I would fee,
better"
1t was the girls thought of her faith
er, who lives in the little town of Cen.
traIia that caused her the greatest
concern. Leta Fosters mother dice
when the girl was just wee bit of {
child. Foster remarked and his sec
ond wife died four years ago The girl
is the seventh of eleven children. Last
year Foster rented a farm, but it was
an improbable season and poverty has
haunted the family for several years
1t was the necessity of becoming a
bread Garner that caused the girl tc
accept employment in Mrs. Thomann's
hotel in Holton.
''I was working at hotel in Seneca"
said Leta Foster, as she started to tell
her story all over again. "One day
went home. There was a traveIfne
man on the train whom 1 had seen in
Seneca. He sat in the seat with me
and said that Mrs. Thomann wanted
a girl at Holton. That was last Octo-
Der or November and was the first
time I ever heard of the woman
Several days after I went back tc
Seneca, Medlock came to see me- He
wanted me to work for Mrs. Thomann.
but I told him didn't want to CO. Then
a few days later, Mrs. Thomann tele-
phoned to me and asked me to meet
her at Goffs. When 1 got there she
said she was busy and asked me to go
on to Holton with her. 1 did. At HoI-
ton she induced me to go to Topeka
with her. After that l began working
for her in the hotel.
"Medlock was in Holton often when
was there and 1 saw him in company
with Mrs. Thomann several times. l
know they registered as man and wife
at Topeka hotels several times. 1t was
when I was in Holton that Mrs. Tho
mann told me about the Griffith deal
She told me how she and Medlock got