The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-11-06
OOH WHAT
A TOOThACHE!
CONTINUED from Page one.l

CONTINUED from Page One.J
the books Of the Fifth Avenue hos
telry with SIG worth Of eats and
sleeps and there is no entry on the
credit side of their account. If they
are overtaken in Oklahoma City, local
county authorities will make an Ell
fort to have them brought back Tor
trial on a charge of obtaining food
and lodging from a public inn under
false pretenses-
The penalty for the crime is either
a fine or Jail sentence or both. the
limit being 500 fine and three months
imprisonment in the county Jail. ~Mr.
Long indicated his desire to see them
brought back in irons and handed the
limit Of the law, his account Of their
dOings being as follows:
Owed a Weeks Board.
Mr.. and Mrs. Dutton, initials and
previous residence being obscure,
sought the shelter of the Fifth avenue
on Friday of last week SO the story
goes. They enjoyed it's privileges as
welcome guests until near the exptra-
ton of their week, when the hotel man.
agement tactfully intimated to Mr.. Dut-
on account. Mr.. DuttOn automatically
postponed settlement with the explana-
ton that they expected to check" out
on the morrow, as he had business
which would take him to Kansas City
then. and that he would settle the whole
bill at one payment.
Last night the buttons were still in
their quarters at the hotel. the shades
of evening had fallen over the city and
the night clerk had finished leisure
ly inspection Of the election returns in
the late editions of the evening papers
when Mr.. Dutton hurried down to the
desk with worried expression and re-
ported that Mrs. Dutton had a tooth
ache-something excruciating. 1t de-
manded the attention of dentist
right away and the night clerk adj
vised calling upon some local practi-
toner to see if he might not find one
willing to do relief work after the usual
professional hours. The clerk vOlun-
teered to call up one he knew. but Mr.
Dutton decided to do the telephonine
himself
A few minutes spent with the tele-
phone and Mr.. Button announced that
he had located dentist who was still
at his office. He hurried to their room
and returned moment later with Mrs
to her face which was distorted with
the pain" She was weeping audibly
They went out the door, accompanied
by the night clerks sympathy. but
could not have gone far when Mr.
Dutton returned in haste and said that
the stairs, got it and left the hote
once more.
The buttons Never Came Back.
A vague suspicion which formed
after a while sent the night clerk on {
trip of investigation to the room oc
cupied by the Dutton man and wife
It was innocent Of baggage. On tn,
floor by che window lay suncoiled. th'
fire escape rope which button hat
pulled back in when he came aftel
the that" Presumably he had fearet
to leave it dangling lest suspicion b
aroused and had taken the excuse O.
the hat for going back to recover i
after he had released the two valisei
which had been tied to the lower end
Proprietor Long fastened to thu
Rock Island to investigate q nigh
train for Kansas City.
He found no clue to the missing
boarders there, but he caught theil
trail at the Santa Fe depot. But h,
caught only the trail and the derisiv'
whistle of No. III which was alread!
bearing the buttons swiftly toward tn,
southwest
Now the sheriff is waiting for new
from Oklahoma CITY.