The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-16
IN MORE TROUBLE
Mrs. Rupp Connected With
Sixth Avenue Hotel Case.
She Is Charged With Helping
Run DisOrderly House.
TELLS OF VISITS TO HOTEL
Says Charles BOutOn Made Ar
rangements With Her.
Toy King May Have To Face a
Federal Charge.
TELLS OF VISITS TO HOTEL

When Dorothy Rupp. the 20-year-
old blon5e-the wife of William Rupp
who recently was involved in an at
tempted flying elopement with Toy
King, Santa F'e telegrapher, walked
thru the corridors of the court house
and into the office o. the county at
torney she created something of a
stir Once IN the private consultation
room, where she had been summoned
by Hugh Fisher. assistant county at
torney, in an effort to straighten out
charges and countercharges hurled by
her and ner husband. things began %
happen. She told story. and swore
to it in an affidavit. that resulted to-
Gay In the issuance of warrant
against her on a charge of assisting
in maintaining and keeping a disor-
derby house.
The Rupp woman's attempted
eiopement with King ended disas-
trously when, after being notified by
the husband, the two were intercept
ed at Newton, while on their way tC
Clovis. n. NJ. King was arrested and
brought back and :odged in the
Shawnee county Jail on a white
slave charge Mrs. Rupp was held
In Jail also. When told that her hus-
band was responsible for the clippers
not reaching their destination she
came back with a number of coun-
tercharges, made to Fisher. which
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CONSULTATION between Dorothy and
Fisher took place. Dorothy mentioned
being at the Sixth Avenue hotel at
different times and Fisher, following
the lead, questioned her
First Trip to Hotel.
- She declared she first went to the
Rex hotel during the first part of this
year with a girl named Rachael CRIT
I'm. Charles Bouton. she asserted,
6old her that she could make money
oy coming to the hotel and informed
fier that when the hotel wanted her
she would be 'phoned for. She was
phoned for several times she said
a negro porter by the name of Mack
she asserted, was always on duty
when she was there. P. w. Mack, a
porter. was one of the state wit
nesses when l.. c. Bouton and his two
sons. Archer and Charles, were bound
over to the district court after a pre-
liminary hearing in the court of To-
peka.
She vouched for her statements by
making an affidavit. The warrant
was then issued. 1t will be used
Fisher said. to insure her testimony
IN the hearing of the case of Esther
Hulvey and Edith Carter charged
with assisting in keeping an immoral
mouse at the Sixth Avenue, in the
court of Topeka tomorrow. At the
preliminary hearing of Bouton and
his two cons the girls, Esther and
Edith, refused to testify because
+isher says. they refused to incrim-
mate themselves Warrants charging
them' with assisting in running the
Immoral house were promptly issued
Their preliminary will be heard before
J. e. Addington, judge pro tenn. in
the court of Topeka tomorrow. Mrs.
Rupp's hearing, according to Fisher,
will also be set for tomorrow.
~ In Big Tangle.
Ever since the Sixth Avenue hotel
was raided Saturday night, July 6, the
case has been growing in proportion.
County officials have continued inves-
ttgation of the places activities and
today's warrant for Mrs. Rupp adds
another angle to the case besides, incl
dentally. tangling the two cases to-
gether or, better say, involving Mrs.
Rupp in both of them.
- Several new angles have developed
in the King white slave case. When
King and Mrs. Rupp were arrested at
Newton a quantity of liquor was found
on King. He said it was his own.
3fhe sheriff at Newton Immediately put
in bid for him under the bone dry
law. The Newton officials however,
stand no chance of trying their prose-
cutting powers on King until Shawnee
county gets thru. Besides that Mrs
Rupp has tangled the liquor business
up, county officials said today. by
claiming it belonged to her. At pres
emit ia quart bottle half filled-is
decorating the desk of Hugh Larimer
sheriff.
Make Federal Case.
County officials today also saw pos
sibilities of federal fingers in the King
ease. When caught at Newton, King
and Mrs. Rupp were riding on a imam
and wife" pass. His application, nee
essary to obtaining such transporta-
tfon, il is said, was in violation of
federal statutes and he obtained the
pass under false pretenses that he
woman was his wife. Emmett Gregg.
chief special agent for the Santa Re
today, said that neither the railroad
or the federal government. so far as
ne knew, would make any move
against King because of the county
attorneys action. Gregg declared
however, that he would watch the
county prosecution closely and stated
that developments might follow if
the present charge went awry