The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-17
Dorothy Rupp Looks Like In
nOcent Country Lass.
Appearance Bellies the Life She
Has Been Living.
PRELIMINARY HEARING TODAY
Toy King, Boy She ElOped
With, Is Bound Over.
She Wanted To Begin Life
4 Anew With Him.

4 Dorothy Rupp, her blue eyes large
and staring and with a confusion of
golden hair tumbled about her head
and shoulders. sat in the court of To-
peka today and heard J. L. Addington.
5udge pro tenn, rule away what she
claims was her last chance of hap
piness and honor. Toy King, the Santa
F'e telegrapher with whom it is
Charged she tried to elope to New
Mexico, and who, according to her
own story, she had depended upon to
take her away from a life of shame,
was bound over to the district court
on white slave" charge under $500
bond. Another case. involving the
eternal triangle, had been checked up
TO a jury.
.. The court room was crowded when
the preliminary hearing began this
morning. King, a youth of twenty,
was ushered in and seated behind his
attorneys, Douglas, Mote and Ed
Rooney. The girl, scarcely more than
twenty, and looking-Hugh Fisher
the states attorney said so during the
argument-not older than sixteen, sat
aside from the attorney and specta-
tors. The latter she ignored. The at
torneys, she seemed to regard as pres
ent only because she was forced to
do so. For the most part her eyes,
big and baby-blue, rested on King.
Looked Like Country Lass.
- A good percentage of the spectators
was made up of women and men
whose names may be found in police
records. Compared with them she
was a startling contrast and looked
like an unsophisticated country girl
Only once or twice did the baby
stare leave her face. Once Ed Rooney
attorney for King, in arguing the case
described her as a woman whom no
decent man would pick for a wife
She WINGED as if in pain. Rooney
wrangling with Fisher, declared that
King, a green country boy from Ar
kansas, had been "duped" and
"'made a sucker Of by the woman.
Kings father on the witness stand
testified that his son had come to
Topeka only a few months ago and
entered the Santa Fe telegraph school
here. Before coming here he had al
ways lived on a farm, the father said.
Young King, behind his attorneys, APP
peared not more than a slip of a boy
and looked younger because of the
absence of a collar.
Beginning of Case.
The case against King began a few
days ago when William Rupp, Doro-
thys husband, appeared at the coun-
ty attorneys office and told story
about finding King and his wife to-
gether when he came home from out
of town. He told the officers the two
were planning an elopement and ac-
ton, that headed the two-King and
NlTS- ISupp-OlL eiI -NSWlOlAi was
taken
Once back here. Mrs. Rupp told
Hugh Larimer. sheriff. that she had
been leading a life of shame; that she
met King and liked him. She saw a
chance, she told the sheriff, to leave
the hard life she was living and the
two agreed to go to Clovis, N. M,
where King had a job, having obtain
ed il after graduating rom the Santa
Fe telegraph school here. She assert
ed she expected to get a divorce from
her husband and marry King, and live
honor ably.
Later in the office of Hugh Fisher,
assistant county attorney, she told OF
acts at the Sixth Avenue hotel which
was raided and the proprietors ar
rested recently.
Fisher Immediately issued a war
rant charging her with assisting in
keeping and maintaining an immoral
house Her case was called this morn
ing, just before the King hearing, and
she was bound over to the district
court under $500 bond after waving
preliminary.