The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-07-06
X. G. Woman Brings Action
Against BasebOr Farmer.
Charges Him With Attempting
Criminal Assault.
EMPLOYED AS HOUSEKEEPER
Says He Tried to Kiss Her the
First Day.
Told Him She Was Not That
Kind of Woman.

Charging that on two occasions dur
ing the brief period she served as his
housekeeper, Lewis Treff of Basehor,
Leavenworth county, attempted to as
sauIt her criminally. Mrs Ethel Weav-
er of Kansas City. Missouri, today
brought suit against him in the fed
eraf district court asking for $4,000
damages
Mrs Weaver says she is a married
woman but that because her husband
could get little work she answered an
advertisement placed in IA Kansas City
newspaper by Treff Trcff wanted Z
housekeeper and she states that she
answered the advertisement IN person,
meeting Treff in che lobby of the
Kansas City Star office. Terms were
agreed upon, she says, and she left
that day for Baschor with Treff in his
automobile. That vas September IS,
1915.
1t was late when they reached the
Treff home says Mrs. Weaver, and
she was shown to her room. The next
morning she arose early and prepared
breakfast for the household. She dis
covered then that in addition to the
defendant there was a 16-year-oId son
and a hired man to cook for.
-'sThe next morning after breakfast
says Mrs. Weaver, the defendant
came into the kitchen and asked if L
wasn't going to kiss him good morn
ing" She says he made other ad-
vances to her.
Il want you to stop-Fm not that
kind Of a woman" Mrs. Weaver says
she told Treff.
Takes Automobile Ride
Farthef along in ner recital Mrs.
Weaver states that the evening of that
day the son and hired man left and
Tfeff asked her to take an automobile
ride with him.
4 did not want to be left aIone,'
she says and consented to go along"
Then, she states, they drove along
a country road to a lonely spot and
TTef1 made unseemly suggestions to
4 her. She says she urged him to stop
that kind of talk but that he took
hold of her and dragged her out of
the automobile. Just then, the woman
says, some one came along driving a
horse and buggy and Treff made haste
to crank up the car. They drove on
home and Mrs. Weaver says she was
so shocked she was forced to go to
bed, at once. The next morning she
/ managed to get breakfast but went
/ right back to bed.
Along in the afternoon, Mrs Weaver
says. Treff came into her room and
renewed his suggestions. She declined
to talk with him but was too weak
. from the previous shock to offer much
of a fight.
Se1ZeO Her Again.
He took hold of me again." she
said, and was struggling with me on
the bed when we saw his son pass
| the window on his way home from
school. He left the room"
Mrs. Weaver says she was too sick to
| leave the place and that, besides, it
4 was rainy weather and too muddy to
walk In order to protect herself, she
asked the hired man and son to leave
the tent in the yard in which they
had been sleeping and move into the
4 house in a room adjoining the one she
occupied. They moved. The woman
+ states that when Treff discovered that
4 the boy and man had moved into the
welt out into the yard and tore up
the7t in which they had been sleep
ing.
Some time later she doesn't say
jusk when, liz woman got away from
the Treff home and returned to Kan
i Sa.s City. She states that the shocks
sustained during her stay at the Treft
II hone permanently injured her nervous
a syss-em: that from q strong, healthy
woman she has become G seni-invalid
She asks that the court award hel
$4,000 for her alleged experiences or
and near the Leavrlworth county
fafxn.
Mrs. Weaver gives her address as
6436 Lydia avenue, Kansas City Mo
The case was filed lSJ ]. K. Cubbisor
ana W. "A Hooper, Kansas City at
tofneys.