The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-03-16
Expecting to Become Mother,
but Remains in Jail.
FAMILY WELL KNOWN HERE
Denies She Made $50 Out of
SO Note.
Former School Teacher Says
She Saw 1t Done.

Denver. March left the story told
nv Mrs olivia Stewart, federal pris-
oner held in the county Jail on the
charge of jumping her bond, which
was given last October when she was
arrested on the charge of raising a SIC
bill to a $50 one is true, some wielder
of the dramatic pen might write a
soul gripping psychological play as
compelling and just as realistic as
Madame X
Whether Mrs. Stewards story is true
or not, the young woman with t he
biuest of blue eyes, shaded by the
blacklist and thickest of lashes curN-
ing red mouth with amorous lines, a
straight, shapely nose, black mar ana
a plump figure told it with convince
ing manner that makes of her one
of the most unusual prisoners w .s,o
have given their life stories to the
newspapers.
The words were: - =
"I did not change that bill, but II
knew who did. wouldn't 1 be fool 10
tell when, by accepting the blame, L
may be able to clear myself and also
the guilty party?
IF the one who did it acknowledged
the crime, it would mean a long peni-
Tertiary sentence. I'll not tell, believe
me, for we will botH De cleared IL L
take the blame"
OF Unusual Interest.
If the story is true, this Kansas
school teacher, not more than % VINO,
since her 18th year has taught and VINO
holds a life certificate of the first class
in Kansas, graduate OF lne state
Normal school at Emporia, the daugh-
te- of a judge is a figure of unusual
interest.
olivia Stewart is in Jail because of
SO bill upon which the -numeral cut
frcm a bill was pasted, concealing
the 1.
you couldn't tell it wasn't genuine
to save the life of you" she said, but
I mustn't talk of that; I didn't do 1t,
but 1 saw it and know who did it.
Last April, this young woman, VINO
saws that as soon as she is liberated
she will go back to teaching, was ma =
ried to a young man named Stewart
who comes from near Goodland, Kan.
When she was arrested last October
she was liberated on a $500 bond, pro
vided by A. P. OBTien, whose sym
pathies were aroused because she said
she was soon to become q mother.
Immediately Mrs. Stewart disappear
ed from Colorado Springs and her re-
cent discovery at Goodland Kan, mas
resulted in her being brought hg;.in
to the Denver Jail.
says Stories Ridiculous.
Il didn't jump my bond protested
Mrs. Stewart vehemently. Il supposed
when they let me out could go wnCre
I pleased. I never tried TO el1de the
officers, and the stories they tell are
ridiculous
my father is Judge N. P. Larue of
Abilene, Kan. I was born there on the
old Larue HON estead. which now joins
the city limits of Abilene. My brother
is county attorney of Saline county,
and my uncle is county superintendent
of public instruction in Dickinson
county. I am Kansan through and
through and my people are all well
known among the early settlers.
ct always wanted to be a school
teacher, so my father sent me to nor
NAL. 1 have taught all over Kansas
and in Colorado, too, for after 1 mar
ried last April my husband and 1 de-
cided to take up a homestead. With
his mother and father we came in
wagons from Goodland, their home, to
Colorado, and took up homesteads
near Colorado Springs.
She Taught School.
81 taught school near our home
stead and was to get $50 instead of
sos this coming term If taught high
school branches. couldn't accept the
place. however, for i am soon to be a
mother.
well, this trouble has come upon
us, and believe me, that $50 will bring
in the highest interest of any like it
in the world.
The thing that bothers me so is
the fact that in my present condition
/ am kept in this environment. You
see. I expect to be a mother in May"
One point in the stories of her re-
cent arrest that annoys her is the
fact that she was using an assumed
name.
Oblivious to Sacrifice.
The main point of Mrs. olivia Stew
arts story, however. she did not seem
to realize. 1t was contained In the
few words inadvertently spoken, or
else spoken with a keener premedi-
tation than the simpleness of her man.
ner would ndicate-concernfng that
spirit of sacrifice.
If this Kansas school ma'am, who
has combined with teaching the daily
ton to her husband and his brother
ton OF her husband and his brother,
she cooked for and looked after two
boaFders, is a woman shielding an
other, taking on herself the crime. the
disgrace, the suffering of imprison-
ment in order that the eventual hap
pinesS of two human beings may reach
a higher standard, there are indeed
depths of feeling coursing beneath
her red sweater and poor clothing that
make har an heroic figure.