The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-18
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What officers declare to have been
notorious negro resort at Twenty
| fourth and Madison streets has been
broken up, according to Sheriff Rob-
ert Miller The house was the home of
Bertha Glover and her husband, John
Glover. A jury in Judge James Nc
Cures court late Tuesday returned
verdict finding the Glover woman
guilty on two counts of violating the
liquor laws. Sentence was deferred
until Saturday. Glover himself was
arrested October 5 by the sheriff's
forces on liquor charge, having run
away from the county JAIL where he
was a trusty, serving an old liquor
sentence. Several liquor cases are
now pending against him, Sheriff
Miller said. Clarence Brother Wood
all, brother of the Glover woman, is
also facing trial on charge of as
saulting Robert Haggard, negro, with
intent to kill. The sheriffs office had
long been attempting to get evidence
| on the Glover report, but with only
varying success until recently. Bertha
Glover was formerly the wife of Ar
ME Mitchell, who died about year
ago from the effects of a bullet
wound.
A jury in Judge McCIure's court
this morning returned a verdict find
ing Frank Lawson guilty of violating
the liquor law on two counts. Sem
tence has not yet been pronounced.
The trial of "Cocky' Robinson, ne
gro, proprietor of restaurant at LOG
Kansas avenue, on charges of keep
ing and selling liquor and maintaining
a nuisance, was begun this morning
before a jury in Judge McClure's di-
vision of the district court.
Asserting that his cruelty, indie
| cency and inhumane treatment has
been the cause of two previous wives
leaving him "by death or divorce
Mrs. Margaret Bartlett, 512 East
Fourth avenue, late Tuesday filed a
petition in the district court asking
separate maintenance decree against
Will N. Bartlett, guard at the Santa
F'e shops. LAS a result of their fire.
quent marital and domestic frolics,"
declares Mrs. Bartlett, "she became
bruised and skinned and suffered
much physical pain and mental
agony She asks for $50 a month
alimony. They were married in July,
1920.
Arthur F. Miller, assistant cashier
of the Topeka State bank, late Tues
day filed a petition in the district
court asking a divorce from Bessie I.
Miller, now residing in Los Angeles,
Cal. Miller says he took his wife to
California in the latter part of May at
her request, and that she has since
refused to return to Topeka. He de-
clares she wrote first one excuse and
then another. finally stating openly
that she wanted to be free and that
he might as well get divorce" He
asks for custody of their 22-months-
old son, Donald Eugene Miller.
Oscar Peek would have saved
money by buying himself a watch and
a pair of pants instead of stealing
them from L. r. Miller. Altho he
was fined only $40 when he entered
| plea of guilty in the city court to-
day, the fine and costs together
amounted to s10125 OF this sum
sS1.75 was railroad fare which a
deputy sheriff expended going to
Oklahoma after the prisoner. Altho
originally charged with a felony Peek
agreed not to stand trial if the COM
plant would be amended to charge a
misdemeanor-
The Oakland State bank today filed
suit in the district court to collect
S1,624.39 on promissory notes from
Charles E. Canavan.
The Oklahoma Guaranty bank, of
Blackwell, Okla. was given judgment
! by default against L. B. Myers, 1921
Van Buren, street, for S11,34693 in
the district court Tuesday afternoon
Myers was endorser of a note given
the bank in, April, 1919, by the G. o.
Twyman Lumber company, an Okla
homa concern
Vermont Evans, negro, charged
with the murder of Ray Logan. ne