The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-29
BIG DIVORCE DAY
One Petition Every Hour New
District Court Record.
Wave of Domestic Unrest Seems
To Be Sweeping Topeka.
WOMEN LEAD COMPL Amt LIST
Five Out of Six Applicants for
Freedom Are Wives.
One Husband Accused of Stay
ing Out Every Other Night.

Six divorce petitions have been filed
in the last six hours with Mrs. Mary
Chaplin. clerk of the district court.
Cruelty, drunkenness. infideIity and
abandonment figure in the half dozen
cases.
1t was only few hours after Will
liam Lewis, 931 North Monroe street,
is alleged to have threatened to kill
his wife, Kate Lewis, with razor
that she had him clapped in the city
Jail and Tinkham Veale was prepar-
ing a divorce petition and asking
Judge Dana for a restraining order.
ordering Lewis away from the house
and making it impossible for him to
draw any money from the Rock Is
land until the case was settled. The
restraining order was granted.
Mrs. Lewis alleges in her petition
that they were married March 10,
1912, and that her husband has been
guilty of gross neglect of duty. Only
recently she returned from hospital
after undergoing a serious operation.
While she was alone in her room in
critical condition, she alleges, Lewis
entered the house in an intoxicated
state and threatened to kill her
Ncighbors interfered and removed her
the nome OIL lIleHuS uSdIpy, tic pc
tition states.
Barber Is in Trouble.
A few months after Maxine Claudia
Names. 1925 Clay street. was born to
Charles E. and Cora f. Names, the
happy father, who is a Topeka barber,
signed away his property to the little
girl. 1t is alleged that he wrote the
following:
&C. E. Names, grantor herein, re-
linquishes all his rights herein to said
Maxine Claudia Names if she lives to
be 10 years of age"
The domestic happiness evidently
existing at that time has become a
thing of the past and t)day Mrs. Lewis
asks for divorce and a proper share
of property which she claims as a re-
suit of contract. Mrs. Lewis accuses
ner husband of being a devotee of Il
we'll known public dance hall She
alleges that he associates with disso-
Lutte women and doesn't come home
at all about every alternating night,
and upon his nights in" Lewis often
puts in an appearance while under the
influence of liquor. In her petition,
she states that she fears disease and
Claudia. is II months old. The Lewise=
were married at Usage City, Septem-
Der IS. 1912.
-e-e-.szs Indian Seeks Divorce.
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The possession of eighty acres Of
land on the Indian reservation, neal
Mayetta, Jackson county, haS cused
Ermina Wahbnum, an Indian, to en-
ter a suit for divorce against her hus.
band, John Wahbnum. Mrs. Wah.
bnum states in her petition that he
has threatened her life unless she re.
Iinquishes her claim to the land and
that fear of execution of the threat
has caused her to move to Topeka
They were married in Topeka, No.
vember IS. 1906.
W. E. Page has entered a suit fol
divorce against Alice L. Page. He
states in his petition that she ha.
packed her clothes on numerous oc
casions and threatened to leave hin
and has told neighbors that she 'nevel
| intended to live with him.
One colored couple entered the di
| vOrce mill. Mabel Anderson wants
| divorce from John w Anderson
| charging cruelty and non-support