The Topeka state journal., 1922-10-28
OuRTHousENoTEs
AND
Police GosslP.

Judge James Mcclure of the district
court, as receiver for the United Ele-
yators company, with headquarters in
the New England building. The re-
ceivership suit was brought by James
| Nelson and w. c. Cooney, of Topeka,
and William Stoskoff, of Barton
, county, comprising a majority of the
board of directors. They claim the
company to be insolvent- Hungate is
authorized to take charge of the con-
Germ, with power to employ and dis
| charge employees and fix their COM
pensation, and to collect outstanding
accounts. The company owns an
| elevator in Eskridge and three in Bar
! Five alleged speeders benefited by
| Judge S. L. Lashbrook's parole sys-
| tenn in police court Friday afternoon,
They were: H. Carr, high school stu
dent, fined s25, paroled on payment of
| $40; G. G. Finley, truck driver, fined
$25, paroled on payment of SIS; John
| Brinker. student, fined $50, paroled
engineer, fined $25. paroled on pay
ment of $5; Donald France, cement
worker, fined $25, paroled on pay
ment of $40.
Apologizing to T. D. Humphrey, To-
cal attorney, saved Pearl Wilson,
negro, from being fined in police
court Friday afternoon. Judge S. L.
Lashbrook was inclined to be lenient
when he heard the man was support
ing a family of five. He therefore
fined him SIS and paroled him on
payment of s5. But when Wilson
walked across the room, grabbed
Humphreys hand and apologized, the
'called it square, Wilson hit Hum
,phrey in the eye, it was claimed, fol-
lowing a crash between his bicycle and
the attorneys car. Wilson was charged
with assault.
| William F. Zirkle late Friday filed
a petition in the district court to OBJ
tain one-half of a 160-acre farm
which he claims his brother, Claude
Zirkle, refuses to turn over to him.
He said it was the understanding that
the farm was to be divided between
them when he reached his majority.
His father decided the land to Claude,
he says, because William was not of
age at the time. The two brothers
live near Quenemo.
Mrs Alfred Sanders 613 Hancock
street, was given judgment for $1,150
! by jury in Judge Whitcomb's court
Friday evening against DR.. D. A.
| Bragg, 1927 Western avenue, for in
iuries she received when the car in
which she was riding with her hus-
pand, and Doctor Bragg's car collided
at Sixth avenue and Harrison street
March 6. She sued for $3.50.
| A Studebaker car driven by Floyd
| Carter, ,S37 North Harrison street, and
a Chevrolet driven by H. Benedict, of
Oakland, were slightly damaged when
they collided Friday afternoon at Cor
don street and North Kansas avenue.
No one was injured.
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A state warrant was issued today
charging Bradford Eastman, IS, and
Cecil Thompson, 23, with holding up
and robbfng Mae Buck, who operates
a rooming house at 500 North Kansas
avenue. 1t is claimed that the youths
compelled Miss Buck, at the point of a
revolver, to write them a check for
| SEQ. They also struck her, she told
officers.
Oscar Gay, negro, was arrested to-
day on a state warrant charging him
with manslaughter in connection with
the death of Boots Henderson, who
| died from the effects of bullet wound
| received from Gays revolver. Tt is
charged that Gay shot at Henry Mas
Isenberg, another negro, with intent to
kill, and that the bullet struck Hen
derson, resulting in his death. The
shooting took place at the home of
Bertha Glover, Twenty ty-fourth and
Madison streets.
| An alternative writ of mandamus to
compel F. H. Foster, state bank COM
| missioner to issue her a certificate on
the defendant State Bank of Hope,
Kan, is asked in a petition filed in
the district court late Friday by Mrs.
| Alice Channon. She declares she had
| $11,780 on deposit in the bank when
| it was declared insolvent, April 20,
| 1922, and that the bank commissioner
has refused to issue her a certificate
on the ground that John M. Ketch-
/ ersid, cashier of the bank, had signed
| her name to several checks made pay
! able to himself Mrs. Channon as
| serts that if this was done that it was
without her knowledge or authority.
Mrs E. Lorraine Freeland defied
| her husband, Karl E. Freeland, when
| she filed suit in the district court late
Friday requesting divorce. She says
Freeland threatened to kill her If she
took such a step. He has also failed
to provide for her and has been quar-
relsome and cruel, she asserts. How
ever. Freeland filed an entry of ap-
pearance and consented to trial of the
case at the courts convenience.
| Halloween pranksters engaged in
premature celebrations are keeping
the police busy at night. The removal
| of rocking chairs from front porches
and of gates and other movable prop
erty is becoming common in all parts
of town. Motorcycle police were kept
busy answering calls Friday night. A
rock was tossed thru a window in the
State Street school house and several
benches broken up. Garfield avenue
was blocked for a time with sewer
pipe.
The mystery of the white sedan
| has been solved. Charles @. Schlegel,
| owner of the Ford which burned up
on the West Sixth avenue road Mon
| day night, appeared at the sheriffs Of
flee Friday afternoon and explained
that he had recently traded for the
car in Kansas City. He said he had
taken his old license off and placed it
| on the Ford. He said he and Roy
| Johnson $40 Monroe street were in