The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-10-24
Local Police Think Pomona
Youth Was "Sandbagged."
Cards Found in Willow Park
Identified by Him.

Lancelot E. Mooreland. %, of Po-
mona. Kan. was slugged and robbed
of $50 in Willow park Tuesday night
by two highwaymen, according to a
story told the police at IL O'Clock this
moFping. From the time that the
youth fell into the home of the Rev.
A. S. Embree, 1916 West Sixth street,
in semi-conscious condition. he re-
manned in a state of coma until IL
O'Clock this morning
Postal cards and a collar identified
by Mooreland as his property were
found in Willow park this morning
and taken to police headquarters. An
overcoat which Mooreland had pur-
chased from Dave August Tuesday
morning was taken from him in addi-
ton to the money.
Not a mark could be found on the
back of Mooreland's head where he
declared the highwaymen had struck
MIN. The blow must have been adj
ministered by sand-bag, the police
| say.
There was nothing in his pockets
when he was carried into the police
station Tuesday night, excepting
clipping from the editorial page of the
, Topeka State Journal. describing the
realization of true love-" Among the
postal cards and loose paper found in
| Willow park this morning and identi-
! fled as his property by Mooreland was
a scrap of paper containing the fol-
lowing:
This might be so with women,
I out not so with man. Love but once
only and when that love is taken
! away all that is good in man goes
| too.
Tried there for I know.
LANCE"
Yes, l wrote that all right" Moore
land admitted.
A postal contained a poem against
curslng. Mooreland said he had read
1t recently and jotted it down on the
postal card.
Here to See Sister.
Mooreland told the police that he
came to Topeka from Pomona to bid
sister, Miss Ethel Mooreland. good
Dye before she left to join her par
| ents In Virginia. She gave him S1OC
Sunday night, he said, and he spent
| $50, possibly, on a new overcoat anf
food. He roomed at the Commercial
motel, across from the Santa Fe depot
He intended to leave for Pomons
Tuesday night. he said, and caught &
West Sixth street car about 7:3t
O'Clock in the evening, intending t.
visit the family of James Myers. whom
he understood. lived at 622 Horn,
street. He alighted from the car neal
Willow park and, as he was waIkin.
thru, two men ran up behind him.
|, i looked around and saw one o
them was negro" he said. "Thei
something hit me. 1 don't remembei
anything else"
The first heard of MooreIand wa
when he knocked at the door of tn
Rev. Mr.. Embree's home.
7 opened the door" said the Rev
Mr.. EmbHee. and he was standin,
racing the east. He turned slight,
and pointed toward Willow park. in
dicating that he had been robbed
there AS near as l could learn h,
seemed to say he was robbed"
He relapsed into semi-consciousness
unable to answer questions
The postmaster at Pomona sait
that Mooreland had been working OF
the farm of B. A. Adams, four mile
south of Pomona. Adams upon hear
ing of the young mans trouble left TO
Il, Topeka in an automobile, the post
master stated over long distance tele
phone
! Il haven't any steady girl" tn
youth maintained stoutly when cues
toned about the note he had writer
and the newspaper clipping.