Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1921-06-17
RAILROAD SICKED
VAMP ONTO HIN,
is PATS CHARGE
Says He Was Tricked in
Damage Suit by EmpIOye
of Claim Department.

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Union Pacific Railroad claim department
"sicked a vampire" in the shape Of a
pretty 19-year- girl, on him, and that
she made all sorts of love to him IN an
attempt to euchre him into a position in
which he would settle q S45,00O damage
suit against the railroad for $500 or
less, Pat Kelly, former section hand on
the Union Pacific, has filed suit in the
Omaha courts for an additional S30,GOO
against the railroad, J. +. Cox, claim
agent, and Stella Summers, alias Ruth
Martin, the alleged ''yamp."
Pat is 4S years old and has been
chauffeur Of a railroad handcar for
twenty five years or SO. He looks the
part
Stella, or Ruth, ia alleged to live in
vt. Joseph, Mo. She's "as pretty as
picture" Pat says she won't have
picture taken and would not even give
Jdm a picture Of herself after they be-
came engaged to marry.
Pat Kelly was hard in luck in March,
1920, when his handcar became unruIy
and, leaving the railroad track ran up
Pats back. injuring his spine. He was
taken to a hospital in st. Joseph, Mo.
whore the accident occurred.
The next day the claim agent for the
railroad put in appearance He offered
to pay Pats hospital bill and let it go
at that. Pat demurred and wanted $780,
900. The claim agent, according to Pat
increased his offer to $500, and Pat re-
duced mis- estimate of damages by ten
times as much, and offered to settle for
S45 900.
There matters rested for several days
and then Miss Summers, or Miss Martin,
appeared on the scene.
Pat, just like Mr.. Jiggs Of cartoon
fame, blessed the day the handcar be-
came unruly. The pretty girl fell VIC
lently in love with him, he says in his
petition He couldn't account for her
taste. She came to see him at the hos
pital
whats your name?" she asked him
the first time she saw him.
pat Kelly" answered the injured sec
ton man.
why, you're Irish, aren't you?" she
asked again.
How in the world did ye guess it
miss" replied Mr.. Kelly.
And the courtshlp was "on."
Stella told him her mother was mean"
to her and she wanted to get a home Of
her very own.
Pat CALAMITY offered his heart and his
home, telling her the latter was one end
of a boxcar sitting on the ground beside
the tracks. But he also told her that
when he settled his claim against the
railroad he would have a real home for
her
Stella accepted, he says in his petit
ton. But he also alleges that, in the
light of later developments, she had not
the least intention Of carrying out her
promise of marriage.
Miss Summers wanted to be married
in Omaha So she and Pat came up mere.
Miss Summers went to the Conant hotel,
where you can got a room and bath for
$3.50 a day. Pat went to the North
western hotel, where you can get room
for rs cents and you don't have to take a
bath except on Saturday night. The
municipal bathhouse is only one block
distant.
In his petition Pat says Miss Sum
Iners insisted he settle his claim with
the railroad company so that he could
get money for them to live on.
Get the claim fixed up and then we
viii so to California and live with my
aunt, who has nearly all the money in
the world Pats petition says Miss
Summers proposed. Well help her
spend it,
Pat was for marrying at once, but
Miss Stella put him of until he had
spent all his money. Then she ar
ranged an interview with the railroad
claim agent. The agent offered $1,000
in settlement of the $4,000 suit. Fat
demurred again.
How can you live at the Commit
when all our moneys gomez" at
asked his fancee.
"Oh. don't eat much, anyway" she
told him, he says in his petition.
But that same day Pat says he had
reasons TO become suspicious Miss
Summers opened her bag to flour her
nose" as Pat expressed it, and the sec
ton hand saw a big roll of bills.
Pat stalled for time He grew more
suspicious. Then he went to see his
lawyer.
In his petition Pat says the plan was
that he and Miss Summers were to start
Tor California, she occupying the draw
ing room Of a Pullman while he held
down a seat in the smoking coach.
1T would never do for US to occupy
the same car going out" he says she
told him. When they got to California
the marriage was to be performed and
thereafter they would spend aunties
money Ike water.
But in another section OF the petition
Pat says the real plan was that once the
railroad suit was settled and the two
got on the train Miss Summers was to
drop off during the night and let him
continue his bride-less journey alone.
Wherefore, Pat claims. he was "dtsap-
pointed, Inundated, mortified and dam
aged to the extent Of an additional
$4,000. Service was secured upon Miss
Summers at l o'clock in the morning at
her room in the Conant.
And while the love dream Of the hon
est railroad handcar chauffeur is broken,
he now has a claim against the railroad
for $4,000, instead of for only $4,000.