The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-02
SLEEP 3 IN BED
To GUARD WOMAN
FROM HUSBAND!
Fortune Teller Said He Would
Try To Kill Her.
Mrs. Elizabeth Larimer All Ex-
cited After Seance.
She SUES FOR A DIVORCE
Her Husband Makes S1,5O0 a
Month, She Says.
Four Automobiles i'm Family;
Wife Uses Taxicab.
Mrs. Elizabeth Larimer All Ex-
cited After Seance.
She SUES FOR A DIVORCE

A day after she had consulted q
fortune teller. Mrs. Elizabeth Lari-
mer rushed to the Shawnee county
court house, where she filed suit
for a divorce against Floyd Larimer
in an endeavor to overcome a voodoo
woman's dire predictions that her
husband would attempt to kill her.
At the same time thru her attor-
neys, J. J. Schenck and w. E. Atchi-
son, Mrs. Larimer asked for a re-
strainlng order to keep her husband
away from their home at 1889 Bos-
well avenue and to tie up his prop
erty and his income, which she esti-
mates to be $1,000 a month.
bodyguard consisting of Miss
Anna E. Hayes and Miss Priscilla III.
Grange accompanied Mrs. Larimer to
the court house All three had con-
suited the fortune teller on New
Years day to learn what the year
1918 mad in store for them.
Was Afraid To Sleep.
Following the predictions concern
ing Mrs. Larimers ghastly future. all
three went to the Larimer home. Miss
orange stated that they slept 3-in-a-
bed with Mrs. Larimer in the center
10 protect her against harm.
Miss Grange
From allegations appearing in the
petition filed with Mrs. Mary Chaplin.
clerk OF the district court, threats of
death have been nothing out of the
usual in the Larimer household in re-
cent months. In fact, on Sunday
night, December 80, Mrs. Larimer
charges that her husband attempted
to Kill her with butcher knife, which
he held in his hand. She escaped by
running out of the house. The police
have been called to the house twice.
she says.
Another time, she charges he at
tempted to disfigure her by throwing a
skillet of hot grease at her. Many
times, she alleges, he has threatened
to kill her.
John Barleycorn played a part in
one act of cruelty charged against
Larimer by his wife. That was at the
Savoy hotel in Kansas City where
she claims he became intoxicated and
threw a tray of dishes in her face. An
other time, she charges. he beat her
with chair until she was unconscious
and her face was smeared with blood.
Friends came in and revived her.
They were married in Independence,
Mo, June 80, 1917.
Larimer Wealthy Man.
From descriptions of Larimer's fin
ancial standing given by his wife, ne
is a wealthy man. She states that he
derives a revenue of from $1,000 to
$1,000 a month in the sale OF stocks
and bonds. Then, she states, that ne
has a large sum of money in banks at
Kansas City, Mo-, is the owner or two
Ford automobiles and a Crow Elkhart
car. has rich Woodson county oil
lands and owns a patent on valuable
accessory to a Ford machine which is
now being tried out by the Ford peo-
pie.
Mrs. Larimer alleges that IN an en-
deayor to keep the money away from
her I.arimer has transferred the title
of his oil lands to his mother, Mrs
| Nora Iansberry of Topeka She in
cludes Mrs Lansberry in the restrain
ing order which was granted by Judge
Whitcomb today. Larimer was 10
| Gated at the Eaton hotel at Wichita
where the restraining order VIII De
| served upon him today
| Asks for $3.50 a Month.
Mrs. Larimer refused to divulge
her maiden name or the name OF the
company. for which her husband
works. She was richly dressed when
she appeared at the court house with
her bodyguard and rides to and from
her home in a taxicab since her hus-
band has issued orders not to permit
her use of a fourth car which she says
she purchased with her own money.
"I'm not going to mix my people
I'D in this affair" she said today.
! Mrs Larimer asks for $3.50 a month
| alimony, court costs and attorneys 81
fees valued at $500.