The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-07-07

It seems We are getting further In debt
ana NOT 8eIt1ng out Now, IL you think
anything OF your baby you WIN also
care ana sell out ana get out Of this
town And All 6aby's clothes - here
ana mine. We have only ten dollarg
to our name. You have the rest
There = $z4 standing out. I put it all
on ono page
MAUD AND DENNIS.
Bert: No one viii know I am gone
II you don't say anything.
Hunting for Mrs. Dunford.
Sheriff L L Kiene Il making IN
EFFORT to locate the wife Of the dead
man. whose departure from home.
with her four-year-old son. is said to
have precipttated tho shooting. She Is
believed to be in Omaha with rela-
tives. Tho Dunfords had been mar
ried about five years. and she was Miss
Maud Middaugh, member Of a we'll
known family. some of the members
of which live In Topeka.
Unable to read the letter his wife
wrote him, Dunford took 1t to Sam
Bayless, neighbor. who had acted as
his bondsman In q recent liquor prose-
cution, which was still pending. Bay
less read it to him.
DunfoEd Went wild.
He went all to pieces when he
found what the letter said,' declared
10y @SSS SAAAS AAOIAlu8. oCIlf u0OA
been drinking, and for the last three
months he has worked harder than he
ever did before. He was trying to
Keep straight, and am positive that
he had not sold anything in that time.
After he was arrested the last time.
he said to me: I'm going to quit. The
next time they get me it will be over
my wife and baby alone
Bert has b Acn WIRING m a 1ahorer
In an excavation and his clothes were
wrtnging wet with sweat when he came
to me with the letter. He has been SELL
ing milk and had built up a good milk
route and bought horse and wagon
and lot of equipment-bottles and
cans
Later in the evening Dunford return
ed to Bayless' house with a proposition
to sell his entire milk route business
Tor trivial amount. He also wanted
to borrow a revolver, says Bayless. Ex-
actly where Dunford procured the
weapon. .3S caliber revolver which
was apparently almost new. is not
known. This morning his milk wagon
was driven around in the south
west part Of town by another milk man
named Gray to whose house Dunford
told Bayless he was going when he
finally left.
Afraid of Trouble.
Il wouldn't let him have my gum"
declared Rayless. II was afraid of
trouble for I had heard of a family
quarrel at their home Sunday. He told
me he wanted to shoot bull frogs with
1t as 1t was q moonlight night and
argued with me a long time before he
finally gave up"
Found Beer In the House.
That Dunford had been drinking
beer during the night before the
shooting is the belief Of Sheriff Kiene
I'VE found half a dozen empty bot
ties and one which had been untapped
but not tasted, beside several more full
ones in the house when we went to
get the body" said he. HE had evil
IDENTIFY passed a bad night and sup
pose was hardly responsible when he
finally made the attack on Mrs. WILL
When Mrx Stanford il located bv
the officers she will probably be re-
Quired to give a new bond for her ap-
pearance in the district court on q
charge of violation of the sprohibitory
law as case against herself and hus-
band now stands on the county rec
ords. Sam Bayless. who furnished
bond for the two advised the sheriff
this morning that he desired to be re-
lieved.
Dunfortls Are Old Timers.
For many years the Dunford family
have lived in the retired corner of the
city just west Of the fair grounds and
not far north Of the Shunganunga
creek. Three little houses occupied
respectively by the aged mother of the
Dunford boys, Mrs Susie Dunford and
her youngest son, Clifford. the next
by the family of william Dunford, a
laborer for the city. and the third,
the southeast corner Of Twentieth and
Fillmore. They are tiny cottages
around which are few of the signs of
progress which mark the neighbor-
hood a few streets farther west around
Cheney Park. Tall weeds cover the
vacant lots between them ana the fair
grounds.
Aged and Grief Stricken.
Old Mrs. Dunford, nearly eighty
years OF age. sat in her dooryard this
morning after the officers had gone,
a picture of hopeless grief. She has
had a good deal of trouble with her
boys but she has kept them around
who was first to get into serious trou-
Bile, was killed in a quarrel eight years
ago by Fred Johnson, who Is now at
liberty under parole from the state
penttentiary. A year ago Jim Dun
ford, another son. was committed to
the penitentiary as the consequence
from an assault on Joseph Drake, a
street car conductor. Drake died a
year after Jim Dunford shot him and
the lapse of time prevented his prose-
cution on a murder charge. He is
serving an indeterminate sentence.
Patrick Dunford, the Oldest son, is
OF a different type and has for many
years held an honorable position on
the St Joseph police force Of which he
Is now sergeant. A daughter older
than the one now in the hospital is q
prosperous and respected business
woman In st. Joseph.
IN PRISON "a YEARS.