The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-05-21
BIG SERVICE FLAG OPENS A new VEIN
City of Topeka To Mon Margaret A. Sullivan Files
ster Military Banner Amended Petition.
Compa She Art Store Proprietor
ton of Names q Once. Struck Abused Her.
ITO HOLD 4 BIG DEDICATION WOULDN'T EDUCATE DAUGHTER
IGorgeous Ceremonies To Ac Kissed,
company Flags Completion. Daughter Sighted
Family Honor in City Wife Claims She Helped To
Asked To Build Up Business
Mrs. Margaret A. Sullivan Files
Amended Petition.
She Says Art Store Proprietor
Struck and Abused Her.
WOULDN'T EDUCATE DAUGHTER
Other Children Kissed, Her
Daughter Sighted. Is
Wife Claims She Helped To
Build Up Business.

The divorce troubles of Margaret
| A Sullivan and James d. Sullivan of
the Sullivan Art store at Eighth and
jackson streets took on a full head
of steam today with the filing of an
amended separate maintenance petit
| ton by Mrs. Sullivan in which she re-
| cites the whole story of her married
life. Henry Sullivan, Washburn
fraternity man and Sullivan's son by
| a former marriage, and Alice Sullivan.
19-year-old daughter of Sullivan and
his present wife. play a big part in this
story. Alice Sullivan is pledged to a
washburn sorority at this time.
Mrs. Sullivan starts out by saying
| that she was a girl 10 years of age
when she married Sullivan. who was
/ a widower with four children and a
man twenty years her senior. The
one daughter, Alice, was born to this
union.
| Instead of Quitting into the busi-
ness, Mrs. Sullivan tells the court she
| entered it at his request when her
baby was only one year old. At that
| time, she declares, he was $500 in
| debt and since that time she has done
as much as he has in building 1t up
to- business of considerable proper
tons.
| Says He Struck Her.
| Sullivan Is accused In the amended
petition of drinking to excess. of call
! ing her the worst names In the Eng
fish language. of denying her daugh-
ter and his daughter. Alice. an educa-
| ton at Washburn such as had been
given Henry and his other children.
The girls education, she declares. is
being paid for by a brother of Mrs.
Sullivan. She also tells the court that
Sullivan has struck her.
Mrs. Sullivan denies that she has en-
deavored to ALLEVIATE the affections of
her daughter, Alice. from the father.
Instead, she has asked the girl to show
every affection possible for the father
and to hug and kiss him. These ad-
vances. Mrs. Sullivan states. were
turned down by the father. Often she
declares. he has kissed the other chill
dren and passed right in front of Alice
| without a word.
Also she tells the court that he OBJ
jected every time Alice walked home
from college with young men. She
denies she wouldn't prepare the doc
tells the court his drinking proclivi-
4 ties are responsible for the apparent
failure OF the doctors medicine to ef-
feet cure.
Once Talked OF Separation.
1t was not Mrs. Sullivan's attempt
public in her original petition, she
states in the petition. But. when Sui
Ivan in his answer made sensa tional
n charges against her. she decided &c
bring up the heavy artillery and pre-
pare for a real fight.
Mrs. Sullivan wants him enjoined
from taking any mopey from the
, bank. She states that once in April
. they decided to quit living together
and divide the property. that this
agreement was broken by Sullivan and
thru her fear that he intended to Gus,
her out altogether and make Henry
manager of the store, she asked fol
the restraining order that temporar-
! SyvlI <~lx
store. Later, the restraining order
was madified.