The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1920-11-08
'G|RL SUES FOR
W. R. INSURANCE
Indian Maiden Asks Court to Give Her
Part Of Sweetheart's War Risk
Insuranee-ciaims $500
is Due Her.
TALE ANOTHER ROMANCE
Soldier Lover Was Taken Aaway from
Her Before They Could be Mar
ried and Soon Afterwards
Died In War Hospital.

In INDIANAPOLIS, no., NOV. O.
Hidden beneath the musty tones Of
the courtroom and the slow-grinding
machinery of the law, the light of a
love that transcribed convention
shines in clear relief in suit Alma
Rosebrock Teike filed in federal
court here to recover $500 in war
risk insurance which she claims as
her due as the wife Of Carl Fred
Teike, killed in action October Is.
1913. The young woman's simple
statement that they were man and
wife in the eyes OF God is the basis
for the suit. She is twenty years
old
A year before the war first swept
across Europe, Teike and the young
woman met as schoolmates. Later,
when she had celebrated her six
teenth birthday, they became sweet
hearts. Teike called to, see her every
Sunday. The first Christmas of the
World war in 1914 he gave her a
lavalliere. She wears it now. Other
gifts followed, and in 1917, the year
that America lent its aid to the
struggle, Teike bought the diamond
ring that was their betrothal pledge.
u Had Planned Their Home.
The spring of 1918 was decided on
for their marriage. The little home
was planned and furnishings bought
on shopping tours together.
Then came the call to duty and
April 26, 1918, Teike left to join the
colors at Camp Taylor. The wedding
plans had been made for May, and
rather than change them it was de-
cided that Teike should apply for a
furlough and come home to make her
his bride.
But the furlough was harder to get
than they thought. Training days
passed and Teike had been unable to
come home. Finally he contrived to
obtain permission for one-day leave
and on Sunday, May -, he came. 1t
was after noon when he arrived and
he had only until O'Clock to stay.
There was no way in which they
could obtain the marriage license, no
means Of bringing all their dreams
true. So they pledged themselves
before God as man and wife. She
sealed the agreement with a kiss
their last-as he boarded the train
that was to take him back to camp
and out Of her life.
Died Of Wounds.
Shortly afterward Teike received
embarkation orders and was sent
east for overseas service. He trans
ferred his bank account to her name
and took out a policy for $4,000 war
risk insurance, which he asked be
made payable to her. When they
told him that 1t could not be done
unless he had been married with all
legal formality he changed it to be
made payable to his estate for distri-
button in case of death.
His mother had died when he was
only eighteen months old, and his
father, though living, had placed him
in an orphan asylum.
Assigned to the Seventh infantry,
Teike went overseas, and in the
Meuse-Argonne offensive he was
wounded He died in hospital Oc-
tober Is.
The girl, for whose future Teike
had planned and with whom he had
built air castles for the days to
come, is pleading in federal court for
recognition as the logical recipient
of his estate. She is entitled legally
to three-fourths Of his total effects If
her claim is found just. She lives
here with her parents. -,a