The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-03-03


held tomorrow morning before
Judge Whitcomb.
t'If they don't let me m-rry him
I'll kill myself. oh, mamma! 1 Iove
him!" With the olunt knife of grief
and ruin plunged deep into her -oul,
Tillie Patterson, age Is, just slip OF
child, stood on the steps of The
county Jail this morning and sobbed
out the tragedy of her love for a man.
Inside the Jail, in a gloomy cell, chill
cot his only surroundings, sat her
youthful lover, who the county offl-
cials say ruined her The boy mid his
face in his hands and didn't hear the
cruel jests hurled at him by con-
victed forger. In the jailer's lobby
lawyers put their heads together Ind
gathered ammunition for the .egal
battle that is to come in the criminal
proceedings against the youth in the
court of Topeka next Friday. TRUSTEES
lounged about the room. International
N the face of the drama which TO
them was an old story.
Telephones to Carver.
About O. clock Thursday night Mrs
Ida Patterson of North Topeka tele-
phoned Robert Carver, assistant coun-
ty attorney, that she had caught her
Is year old daughter and William
Elliott a 16 year old boy, together.
Mrs. Patterson stated that on promise
! of the boy that he would never speak
to the girl again she made no COM
plant, dreading the disgrace. Last
week, she told Carver. she received
word from a daughter in st. Marys
that the latter was ill and asking hat
the mother come there to assist.
The mother could not go on account
of her own children and the girl,
Tillie Patterson, suggested that she 20
and help her sister.
Mrs Patterson consented. Tillie,
the mother stated. packed her suit
case and left supposedly for St Marys
last Saturday Thursday evening
Mrs Patterson told Carver that she
learned that the girl was not at the
ST. Marys home
Issues a Warrant.
Carver made a short investigation
/ and then issued a warrant charging
young Elliott with a statutory crime.
With Detectives Frank Summers and
Carl Goff he went to North Topeka in
search of the girl. The boy was found
with his mother, officials declare. at
1914 North Harrison street. When
, the detectives asked for the girl he
, denied having seen her. Then the
boys mother admitted that the girl
had been there and finally admitted
that she was there then.
I'VE found the girl hiding behind a
door in another room" said Carver
this morning. 81 had taken the mother
of the girl over to identify her daugh-
ter in case we found her. When the
girl was found the mother created
quite a scene, the girl and boy were
both defiant and the boy ordered the
girls mother out of the house. We
took the boy to jail and the mother
/ took the protesting girl home.
Ten in One Small House.
'+The house where we found the girl
was a three-room affair with three
beds. 1t was occupied by the boys
mother, his stepfather, two small chill
dren, this boy and girl and the boys
uncle and his wife with the latter
two small children-1O persons in ALL"
Pleads Not Guilty.
Young Elliott was arraigned this
morning in the court of Topeka and
pleaded not guilty. However, Carver
says the boy told him that he had had
i proper relations with the girl.
Elliott was placed under $500 bond.
/ Today the girl signed an affidavit
stating that the boy had committed
offense against her. She told officials
that she had met the boy many times
last summer at the parks and other
places in a secret way. Preliminary
hearing in the case comes up before
Judge Fisher in the court of Topeka
next Friday morning