The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-15
He Threatened to Throw Her
Out if She Did Not Do So.
Court Order Kept Him From
Carrying Out Threat.
many CRUELT|ES RECITED
Bride Says He Began Abusing
Her Right After Wedding.
Asserts Lumberman Has "Beat
Her Up" Numerous Times.

| Margaret Huycke, last summers
bride of Paul Huycke. prominent To-
! peka lumberman. says when her nus
band left home Wednesday morning
he told her he did not want to find
her there when he returned. He did
| not, for he didn't return. When home
| coming time arrived Wednesday night
! Huycke was barred from his home,
| at S2S Buchanan street, by court or
| der. between the time of his leaving
and his prospective return Mrs.
Huycke filed a petition for separate
maintenance in the district court and
| obtained three-cornered restraining
/ order.
| Even if the Huyckes were not
prominent people in Topeka, socially
and in business way, the charges
made by Mrs Huycke in her petition
would still be sensational.
The immediate cause of the court
| action was domestic encounter in the
Huycke home early Wednesday morn
ing, according to the petition. After it
was over and the head ofthe household
had gone, Mrs. Huycke called the po-
lice and asked for advice. But she
| didn't follow it. The police advised
her to see the county attorney. In
stead, she saw Edwin McKeever, at
torney, and had him prepare a pc
tition for separate maintenance.
Mrs. Huycke declares her husband
attacked her about o'clock Wednes-
day morning, struck her on the side
of the head with his fist, beat and
choked her and ordered her to leave
and never return. He emphasized his
statement, she says, by adding that
unless she went while she could he
would throw her out.
Alleges Extreme Cruelty
The petition itself runs back to a
date, few months after Topeka So
KxvjfT 11a %
Paul Huycke, wealthy widowed lum-
herman, and Margaret Huey, an at
tractive widow
Mrs. Huycke says that within a
short time after the wedding and
after her husband had taken her to
the handsome Huycke home on Bu-
chanan street, he began a systematic
treatment of extreme cruelty; denying
her the use of the elegant furniture
as will as that of the most ordinary
household articles. She says that he
Inundated her as an alien in his
home; that he permitted his Young
daughter to dominate her completely
TO the extent of humiliating her in
his presence while he apparently ap-
proved of it.
she is informed and believes that her
husband is worth in the neighborhood
or 100000 he is continually lecturine
her about expenses, interspersing his
that he is on the verge of bankruptcy,
She says he refused to furnish her
with ordinary and decent expense
money and even complained whenever
she asked for money for necessities
The first assault mentioned in the
petition followed the wedding August
l. 1915, by not more than three
months, according to Mrs. Huvcke
She states that about the middle of
November her husband knocked her
down onto a bed. beat and choked
her The second assault described
IN the petition is alleged to have pre-
ceded her call upon, the police We'd
nesday.
Does Not Want Divorce.
Mrs. Huycke does not want A di
Vorce- 1t is said that both belong to a
relglous denomination which frowns
upon divorce. 1t is also said that
members of the church have known of
the trouble for some time and have
taken sides. What she asks the court
to grant is separate maintenance and
she asks that her husband be required
to furnish her with $500 a month for
that purpose. Meanwhile, she has
obtained. thru her attorney. a restrain
ing order. 1t prevents Mr. Huyckc
from going upon the premises of his
family home at S2S Buchanan street
it enjoins him from ''cursing or strik-
ing" her. and prevents him from dis
posing of any of his property pending
the action of the court upon Mrs.
HnVcke'S natitiOO