The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-06-30
QUEER KINDNESS!
Young Couple Couldn't Recall
Kindness of Chief Wilson.
His benevolent Eye" Did Not
Gaze Upon Them.

1t would be hard to convince IT.
vear-old Herbert Phillip and 15-year-
old Maude Moore that they We're mar
ried Friday afternoon under the
benevolent eye of Chief Jim VIII
son. They would have trouble for
getting that he arrested the boy at
the Victoria hotel while the girl was
staying at the Y. w. c. A. and laid
all the ground plans to send the boy
to a penal institution on a statutory
charge. They would have trouble for
getting the information given out by
the police department that they took
rooms at the Victoria hotel when
there was no time that both of them
were registered there.
This young girl-the boy the son
of a wealthy "stogie" manufacturer
and lumberman at lockwood, Pa,
and the girl the daughter of the
superintendent of schools of Somerset
county. Pa..-elOped with the inten-
ton of getting married. He had $l5o
in his pocket. They went to Pittsburg
I and the license official refused to
grant them a license without the
written consent of their parents. The
next stop was St. Louis and they re-
ceived another rundown there. AT
Kansas City they were again refused
/ and they came on to Topeka.
Money Gave Out.
From home until we reached To-
| peka," the boy said, 1--WE travelled as
brother and sister. 1t was easy be-
/ cause we both look like kids. But
when we got here my money was
about gone and 1 had Maude go to
the Y w. c. A. while 1 started out
to find work.
i The boy found work at Emporia
and returned to see the girl last Sun
| day. He reached town early in the
! afternoon and went to the Victoria
| hotel. He registered and took bath
a a rot a
night and spent the night there. The
next morning about nine o'clock the
girl called at the hotel and inquired
| for him. They visited together in
| the hotel parlor for an hour and she
| left. A short time later George Frost,
| police detective, arrested Phillip.
An attorney who had talked with
| the boy learned what had happened
knew the boy had telegraphed his
| father for money and had read the re-
| ply in which the father stated he
would send money for both to return
| to Pennsylvania, called at the police
station to talk with him. Chief Will
son declined to allow the attorney to
/ see him.
But if he's under arrest he's en-.
titled to see an attorney the Topekar
protested.
Hes not entitled to anything" re
piled the chief, hes in my charge
Girl Under Guard, Too.
Then the attorney went to the Y. W. G. A
to talk with the girl and found her il
charge of another officer who refused to al
low him to talk with her.
Following that both the boy and the CIR
were taken to the police station and turned
over to the matron. The girl was held TO
four days without booking her on the pc
lice docket. That being done Chief Wilson
established a censorship over his actions
that would do credit to the kaiser. H.
instructed police officers that the case wa.
his affair and that they were not sup
posed to know anything about it.
! After much telegraphic correspondence
between the parents and the boy and cir
consent to their marriage here was granted
and they were granted a license by Judg
Ralph Cav Friday afternoon, and mar
ried Immediately. With money in hi
bought two tickets to the parental hom
and left for Pennsylvania on an evenin;
train.