The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-24
Regular Movie Picture Scene
Enacted at Court House.
Boy Turns Down Father 1OI
Love of Marie ROaney.
MYSTERY IN AUTO THEFT
George Cole and Harold Wright
Refuse to "Squeal."
Youths Stayed With Girl and
Made Plans, 'Tis Said.

Father and sweetheart WaSed d pdt-
tie at the court house today over 10
vear-oId George Cole, charged jointly
with Harold Wright with stealing the
Ruick roadster of Charles d. Cuth-
bert.
George Cole. father. an East side
proceryman, spent long time Win
the boy. He tried to get him to ten
the officers all about the matter he
tried to get him to agree to give up
the girl. Marie Roaney- He tried 10
persuade him to go back home and
beein over again as he was before ne
became acquainted with the girl.
When he and his father came out
of the county attorneys private oIIlce
the father shook his head-nothlils
doing. ..,,,,s,id T.
T. T<iene sheriff. to one of his dep
The elder Cole passed on out the
door with bowed head. Young Cole
stepped to one side where Marie
Roaney was standing. They Wills
pered quietly.
Come on" said Kiene.
The bow and his sweetheart staged
a motion picture kiss and he followed
the sheriff out. -,..
as well figure on letting that boy 60
You've put him in bad and he's
goner."
The girl went out of the office cry
ing and went stumbling down the
stairs. Apparently she had won as
against the father, but in winning she
lost, for apparently it is because OF
her that young Cole is standing pat
and refusing to take advantage OF any
of the things that might lead to
parole.
Harold Wright, Coles companion on |
the drive to Lawrence, was in another |
private room and officers were trying |
to get information from him without |
success. The officers believe there |
was a third party to the theft of the I
automobile: that someone besides the !
boys engineered it and told them
where to take it and how to dispose |
of it. i
that kind" said w. f. Atchison, coun- |
ty attorney. 81 never saw two young |
boys who were more headstrong. They |
are stubborn and I believe the best
thing that can happen to them is to
spend a term in the reformatory. 1 |
hate to send them over the road, too.
They are young and this is the first
trouble they have had
Girl Is Blamed.
Marie Roaney is blamed by the Of
ficers for the trouble the boys are in.
They do not charge her with having
aided in the theft of the automobile
but they hold that if the boys had not
been associating with her there would
have been no theft.
She has a house at 1918 East Tenth
avenue and both boys have been stay
ing there. Before she moved there ,
she was on West First street and four
or five arrests were made of men who
were hanging around that place. She
is only 8 years of age and an excep-
tionally good looking girl.
Cole told the officers today that
Marie Roaney tried to make the boys
take the car back after they had driv-
en- it out to her house.
"Cole told me-" said Mr.. Atchison,
that she begged them to take it back
where they got it; that she knew it did
not belong to them and that she knew
it would get them into trouble Shs
even kept Coles clothes so he couldn't
get away with the car but he got hold |
of his overcoat and drove away in the
clothes he had on"
Cole is apparently infatuated with
the Roaney girl. Apparently she is
infatuated with MIN also but county
officers doubt it. Cole is merely a boy
while she is woman, so far eX-
perience is concerned. Heretofore she
has been asSOciating with grown men.
When Cole was first brought back
to the county Jail the Roaney girl was
at the jail ready to go out and raise
a Oond for him. But his father was
there also and he objected to having |
his son released upon any bond fur
nished by the girl. He stated that he |
would prefer keeping him in tail to
having him associate with her. The
officers refused to release Cole upon
any bond furnished by the girl and un-
less someone relents he will STAY in
jail along with Wright until his case
comes up for trial
Take a Gun and Get Money.
Young Wright is related to Mr.. and
Mrs. II. E. Pendry. They were at the
court house today to talk with him
and with county officers about the
case Wright refused to talk to anv
great extent.
Il don't know anything about such !
matters. he said. Il was never in a !
court room in my life. / don't know
where the judge sits nor where the
jury sits nor anything. But it looks
Ike l was going to find out all right
Cole told the officers that Wright
had suggested to him several times
that they take gun and go out and /
get some money.
Wright denied this. Then Marie
Roaney was brought in and she veri
fled it,
He said at the table one dav. .Iet.s
take gun and go out and xiii some
,,1,7 she said