The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-25
HE TOOK PENNIES?
Wife Says Her Husband Rifled
the Baby-GirPs Bank.
Then Took Her Money and De-
serted Them She Alleges.
SHERIFF GOES AFTER HIM
May Be Required to Put Up
Bond for Support.
Even Stopped Credit at Grocery
Store Is Charge.

If the sheriff of Shawnee county
can lay hands on Andrew Calkins,
Calkins will have a choice of two
things. He may resign himself to
term in the penitentiary for wife and
child desertion or place himself under
heavy bond to support and remain
with the wife and child. The county
commissioners today authorized L. L.
Kiene, sheriff. to go after Calkins and
bring him back to Topeka. That fol-
lowed the issuance of a warrant from
the court of Topeka charging wife and
child desertion.
Mrs. Calkins, young woman and
the mother of a baby g months old,
appeared before the county commits
sioners today with her attorney, Paul
Heinz. She had already been before
the county attorney and sworn to the
complaint
Many cases of wife desertion are
checked up to the county attorney but
few are handled as expeditiously as
was the Calkins case. The young
wife's story appealed instantly to the
county attorney and the county COM
missioners.
She stated that when her husband
left about two weeks ago, he not only
took every cent of money that the
couple had but that he stopped her
credit at the grocery store and even
took the pennies from the baby S
bank.
He Took Her Clothes.
1T was hot night and 1 wanted
to get baby out for some fresh air, p"
said Mrs. Helen Calkins, the wife and
mother, Il asked my husband to walk
around the block with me while took
the baby He refused to go so l asked
neighbor woman to go with me.
hat h.
abused me frightfully. He took my
clothes and the baby's clothes away
and threatened US"
Then Paul eHinz, her attorney, took
UP the story with the commissioners.
This man Calkins is a steady work.
err" he said, land fully able to take
care of this young wife and baby. He
worked at the oTpeka Pure Milk COM
pany. He married this girl became
the father of a baby and because
things did not just exactly suit him
though he could ditch his whole re-
sponsibility.
When his wife came back from
the walk with the baby and n neigh
Dor woman, he became angry and
t,startcd trouble. He took their clothes
i'e way from them and went away leav-
! ing her stranded. He took all the
money they had. even to rohbing the
| baby's little bank of its pennies. He
shut off his wife's credit at the gro
Gerry store and elsewhere. she haSn
cent for herself and the baby.
7 They'll Attend 10 Him.
He should be brought back here
and forced to support his wife and
! baby. What chance has woman
with a thirteen months-old baby to ge:
! out and make a living?"
How do we know" asked James
! Sinner, comm .ssioner, that if we Ut
up the railroad fare for the sheriff
to bring him back, he will not do the
same thing AGAIN."
| Leave that to me-" said Heinz and
Robert Carver, assistant county at
torney. in the same breath.
IF he is brought back here" con-
tinued Heinz, he'll go over the road
or he'll put up good and sufficient
bond to stay with a job and keep his
family
| With that understanding the com
| ty commissioners authorized L.. L
kiene, sheriff. to make the trip nee
essary and bring Calkins back 1t is
thought certain that he is at Tulsa
Okla, and Instructions will be zen. to
| officials there today to hold him fol
the Shawnee county official