The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-13
Woman, as Years of Age, Tells
of Alleged Assault.
Frank SummerlOtt, so, Charged
With Luring Her.
WANTED HER TO GO TO SHED
Police Found Him With Her
Spectacles in Pocket.
Man Must Stand Trial for an
Attempted Assault.

Mary Albright, old and feeble. with
the criss-cross wrinkles that come
with age and hardship, went on the
stand in the court of Topeka today
and told of the alleged indignities she
suffered a week ago today when
Frank Summerlott lured her to the
city park and on thru the fence to a
shed by the promise of work. Fol-
lowing her carefully told story Sum-
merlott, himself man so years of
age, was bound over to the district
court to stand trial on the Gharge of
attempted criminal assault.
Mrs. Albright is rs years of age.
She doesn't see well. She is poor and
even at her advanced age must work.
Il met this man in front of the Rex
hotel" she said, land he spoke to me.
told him L was going to the Provi-
dent association to see if they could
find work for me.
He told me he was glad he met
me; that he had wife and three chill
dren and that his wife was bli1.d. He
said if L would go to his house and
d. the work he would pay me 81 a
week.
Il went along with him to the City
park. L was tired when we got there
and we sat down a little bit while /
rested. He said he lived just thru the
fence and remarked it was a peculiar
place for anyone to live. There was
G shed just thru the fence and he
said he lived there.
Il stopped but he grabbed me.
There were some people not far away
and 1 said 1 would scream. He said
he had $25 and that he would give it
to me if L would go on to the shed
with him. 1 screamed and he grabbed
my spectacles. I couldn't see very
all
the police station. After 1 started
away he yelled that he didn't have any
wife and children ard that 1 better not
start anything"
Bert Richardson, motorcycle police
man, one of the men who arrested
Summerlott, testified that they found
Summerlott in the shed indicated by
Mrs Albright, sound asleep and that
in his hip pocket they found the
spectacles Mrs. Albright claimed as
her own.
Summerlott declared when he went
on the stand that Mrs. Albright gave
him the glasses to keep for her.
I did meet her." he said, and she
said she was looking fer work. 1 told
her 1 knew where she could get work
| but that ] was too drunk to show her
| then. L told her l would have to go
to the shed and sober up and she in
| sisted upon going along to see where
the shed was so she would know
where to find me when 1 sobered up.
l don't remember anything after l
went thru the hole in the fence"
SummerlOtt is 4 tall, partly gray
haired man. He is known to the po-
lice and county officials but not as
a particularly bad man.
While he was in the office of the
clerk of the court waiting for his
commitment today a woman relative
talked with him a moment then in a
S1ffiPipnt1x- 1n1rd ALL, -ierI, -
hear. said:
THE next time you run across any
body looking for job let them find it
themselves"
Summerlott did not answer Tears
came to his eyes and ran down his
cheeks as he stood looking out the
window at the streets he is not likely
to tread for some time