The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-10-14
Three New Divorce Suits Filed
in District Court.
Five Are Dismissed for Lack of
Prosecution.
ONE DECREE is GRANTED
A Husband Agrees to Pay Lib
orally for Freedom.
Offers $500 Down and Bal
ance in InStalImentS.

Three new suits to dissolve bonds
of matrimony were thrown in the di-
vorce hopper of the district court this
morning, one divorce was granted in
Judge Dana's division, five divorce
cases were dismissed for want of
prosecution, and one husband who
does not suit his wife filed entry of
appearance in his case agreeing to
divorce and promising to pay his wife
$1,000 and an additional $500 year
as alimony when the decree is granted.
Love in a cottage did not run
smoothly for j. C. and May
Smith, 1908 North Madison street,
who were married in 1905,
for divorce. He charges neglect of
duty, prays for a divorce, custody of
Merle Smith, age 5, one of their two
children, and asks the court for pos
session of the little four room cottage
which they own on North Madison
street Mrs. Smith files with her hus-
bands suit an agreement of divorce
providing she be given custody OF
Margaret, age Z. their other child.
Elva Briggs will never obtain a de-
cree from John Briggs, for the last
chapter of the turbulent life of the
defendant was written in one word
dismissed by Judge Dana this
morning. BriggS'S wife filed suit for
divorce last winter. Soon after Briggs
made an attempt to set fire to the
house of John Stevenson in North To-
peka- Stevenson shot Briggs with a
shotgun and blew the top of his head
off but it did not kill him Immediate
ly. Briggs hovered between life and
death at a local hospital for months
and finally died. At the time of his
death, Briggs had an insanity COM
plant against him and a criminal
charge in the court of Topeka wherein
he was defendant.
Nellie Burrell, who was wed to Ed
ward Burrell in 1905. vixen she was
<Nf 1ad xsf-a <aaIxr
discarded the short skirts of child
hood, charges her husband with ha-
bitual drunkenness and abandonment
in the divorce suit filed against him
this morning. She lives ct 300 Bran
ner street. She appeared before Rad
cliffe Lee, divorce proctor, this morn
ing and told how Burrell had taken
their 3 year old child and gone to
California four years ago. He is now
in San BerIardinO.
Alleged neglect of duty" enters into
the petition of Mary Allison CahilI
against John Cahill. They were mar
ried IN 1906 at Chicago and later
came to Topeka
Albert J. Bassett agrees that l4audie
Bassett his dissatisfied wife, may be
granted her decree and alimony. She
filed her petition August 27. He
agrees to pay her alimony of $1,500
in an entry of appearance filed this
morning
Lulu Bacon WdS STdHICu u ulNOFce
from william Bacon by Judge Dana.
Her husband filed the first petition.
She filed cross-petition and alleged
non-support. When the case came up
for hearing this morning, Bacon was
not in tie court room. His case was
dismissed for want of prosecution
and she was given her decree.
The following case were dismissed
by Judge Dana beca use attorneys or
principals in the cases did not appear:
Edith Cooper VS.. George Glen Cooper,
Ellen Knight US. William Knight and
Pearl Raynor VS.. Myrtle Rayncr.
Suit for divorce was filed this aft
ernoon by BIanch Floyd against Clar-
ence Floyd. In her petition she al
leges cruelty on the part of Floyd.