The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-12-19
Girl Suing LOehr Grubbs Has
Her Reputation Aired.
SaIina Cop Says She Was Ar
rested in DisOrderly House.
ALSO IN TROUBLE IN K. G.
One Affidavit Says She Was
Girl of Easy Ways.
Furniture Man Described Her
As "BIack Haired Bessie"

That Bessie Stewart, Topeka girl,
suing Loehr Grubbs. Topeka druggist
for $4,000 for breach of promise is
''soiled dove" and has been arrested in
Kansas Cit. and Salina are charges
made in affidavits filed today in the
office of Mrs. Mary Chaplin, clerk OF
the district court. Affidavits OF i've
persons, covering more than 100
closely typewriter peges were flied
Other affidavits are promised, includ-
ing that of a woman detective who
traiIed Miss Stewart in Kansas City.
c. L. Pitts, an employe of a Kan
sas City furniture house, living at llo4
East Eighteenth street, swore in ms
affidavit that he knew Bessie Stewart
to have been an inmate of dlsordel-
ly house. that he had called her on the
telephone while she was in notCrl-
Gus Kansas City resort, describing her
to the landlady when he 'phoned as
BLACK Haired Bessie" He described
a conversation he heard between Bes-
sic Stewart and Harry Robinson, an
other Kansas City man, in which ne
charges he heard Bessie Stewart de-
mand 81 from Robinson for an imt
moral act.
A Girl of Easy Ways.
Jessie Westcott of Kansas City ad-
mitted in her affidavit that she had
been a girl of easy ways. She also
described Bessie as girl with SIM
liar reputation. She testified that she
had known Bessie to be the inmate of
Elizabeth Trains place at 1871 Holmes
street.
Bessie was known as the call in
GIRL said Jessie Westcott in her affi-
davit. When men wanted to see a
girl, Bessie was called"
Continuing Jessie Westcott stated
that Bessie had told her that she split
$3.50 with the landlady with the
money she made. At the time the af-
fidavit made made Jessie Westcott
stated that Bessie Stewart was walk
ing Oak street"
Jessie Westcott swore that she was
with Harry Robinson, Pitts and Bes-
sic Stewart one night. She substan-
tiated Pitts statement that he heard
Bessie ask Robinson for 81. She also
had heard Bessie Stewart ask Robin
son for money, the Westcott girl de-
clared.
In conclusion, Jessie Westcott stated
that she knew Bessie Stewart had
been arrested in Kansas City in a re-
sort with other women-and that
Bessie had told her she had been un-
der arrest in Salina
SaIina Cops Knew Her
A. F. Gibson, Salna policeman,
swore he knew Bessie Stewart to be
the same girl who under the name of
BESSIE Harper was arrested by him in
raid on disorderly house at Sa -
lima, May %, 1916 In that raid Glib
son stated the landlady was found in a
room with a. man. Bessie was in an
other room alone.
The landlady was booked at police.
headquarters charged with operating
a place where liquor was found and
for running disorderly house Bessie
Harper was booked charged with
being an inmate of a disorderly house
"A man by the name of George
Powell put up SIG bond for Bessie's
release" Gibson testified 1.-The bond
was forfeited. The landlady was re-
leased upon promise to leave town. .
Media Roberts, manager of the Fred
er1ck hotel, 217 East Fourteenth
street, Kansas City, Mo. testified to
finding numerous beer bottles in Bes-
sic Stewards room. However, she de-
MED knowing anything against the
girls reputation. On one occasion she
stated that two men called at the hotel
with bundles under their arms and
. went to Bessie Stewart room where
another girl was visiting
Men Were Ordered Out.
We don't allow beer to be taken
into the house and l went up and told
the men they had to leave" said Mrs.
Roberts.
Mrs. Roberts testified that Bessie
stewart worked. Once, she stated.
Miss Stewart had quit her job and her
employer called up and asked her to
go back to work. This Miss Stewart