The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-12-07
HE'S REAL SLICKER
Fred Kramer, Deserter, Talks
Officer Out of Shirt.
Soldier Caught in Topeka Has
Most Oily Tongue.
GAVE MONEY BACK TO GREENS
Admitted His Topeka Bride DID
Not Get $500.
said He Was on Way to Chicago
to Kill Man.
GAVE MONEY BACK TO GREENS

The dav before Fred G. kramer ue-
serter. wed Heloise Green. Iopeka
eir1 in FL Paso. he telegraphed to the
pirrs father and mother. MI. ana
Mrs Herbert c. Green of North To-
neka for 5000. He telegraphed in the
name of Heloise Green and got the
money. He requested in the telegram
that the money be sent to the girl IN
the care of Fred c. Kramer
4 short time later MI ana MIS-.
Green. who live at 921 North Harrison
street. received word that thelr uauSn-
ter had married Kramer.
When confronted by Mr.. and mrs
Green at the city Jail Kramer ADMIT
ted sending for the money ana gave
tacm what the officers refer TO as
hot air story about it. He stated
mat the girl had spent four or five
hundred dollars of his money tnat
they were going to be married ana
he needed money quickly. he adnllt-
ted that his wife, their daughter knew
nothing of his telegram and that the
money never reached her
Green Gets $50 Back.
When he was arrested Kramer had
s55 in his pockets and that was turned
over to Mr.. Green. 1t was all Kramer
had left of the 5000. He also had
ticket for Chicago in his pocket but
in spite of that he told Mr.. and MRS.
Green that everything was all rlght;
that ne was on his way back to Ell
Paso. He neglected or overlooked the
fact that the train upon which ne was
riding when he was located and ar
rested was heading away from I'll Paso
and the border at the rate of about
thirty miles an hour
Kramer didn't tell Mr.. and Mrs
Green but to officers he added to his
original story about "affinities,'
After we were married Thanksgiv-
ing day" he said, Il discovered that
my wife had an affinity in Chicago. l
blew up and beat it out of town.
bought a ticket for Chicago and was
on my way there to kill her affinity
That's why I left Ell Paso. 1 am
sergeant to the quartermaster and the
reason he asked to have me stopped
and arrested as a deserter is that he
thought l was on my way to Wash
ing to tell some things l know.
Stories Hot Air.
Local officers do not take much
stock in his stories. He has smooth
voice and an oily manner that is con-
vincing for a time but Robert Miller,
than any other officer, declines to
take him seriously.
That fellow could talk most men
out of their shirts, and he did talk
Curly Porter out of his shirt said
Miller 81 don't want to talk to him
Kramer was taken to Fort Riley
today by Earl Porter motorcycle po-
liceman. Porter took him away in
handouts but Kramer managed to
have a little fun after they left the
city Jail. Porter was wearing shirt
like the army shirts. Kramer called
attention to it.
IF l were you" he said II wouldn't
wear that shirt to the fort. You know
it's against the law for any one except
a soldier to wear an army shirt and
you're likely to get into trouble with
the officers up there"
Porter didn't know whether he was
wearing an army shirt or not but he
took no chances He gave Bert Rich
ardson a dollar and told him to find
him shirt before the train left town.
Then Richardson watched Kramer
while Porter changed shirts.
Kramer says his home is in New
York.