The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-20
.OuRTtlOUsENcTEs
POLICE CSSlP.

If the Ku Klux Khan isn't operating
in Topeka, someone is usi ngits name.
according to r. Reed, 1401 North JEFF
ferson street. Reed found a note on
his doorstep this morning reading:
Leave town at once and stay out
"KU KLUX KHAN"
Reed showed the note to the police
and told them that he had been hav-
ing trouble with his wife and they
may, have an important bearing on
tracing the author of the note.
Adam Degand, who a jury in Judge
James McClure's court Friday found
guilty of violating the liquor law on
two counts, was sentenced Saturday
afternoon to serve sixty days in the
county jail and pay a fine of 5000. His
wife, Anna, found guilty on four
counts, has not yet been sentenced.
Mrs. Nellie Graves-was granted a
divorce from Wilbur H. Graves by
Judge Mcclure in the district court
Saturday afternoon and given custody
of their minor son. Jack. Graves was
| ordered to pay SIS month for his
band with failure to provide home
/ for her and the child and with
| fusing to live with them.
| DepQly ana III
ficers who raided the home of J. A.
Martin, 2035 Adams street, Saturday
afternoon, confiscated about seven or
| eight gallons of wine. Martin was ar
| rested.
While Bert Keele of the Keele Elec-
; trio company, in company with
| Charles Holman and Vic Plants, plain
| clothes men, was frantically search
ing for his Marmon car in Lawrence
4 Caf aff I'M ff-trn
| proprietor of a garage. was giving it
\ a good washing Daniel Muller of the
/ Muller School OF Music, and musical
critic fol The State Journal. took his
, MarElon to KeeIe's shop for repairs,
| and then notified Frye to come and
get it and wash it. When Frye ar
| rived he saw q Marmon car standing
in front of the Keele shop, drove it to
| his garage and put it on the wash
| rack. Missing his own Marmon, Keele
| notified the police and the search
started. Meanwhile, Muller went to
\ Frye's to get his car and discovered
the mistake. then notified the officers.
| Early Sunday morning providers en-
| tered two West side homes and at
| tempted to enter two more. e. A.
| money thru some intuition which
| caused him to transfer it from his
| trousers pockets to a pocket in his
vest saturday night. burglar en-
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| the trousers, but didn't get the money.
| However. he took Mrs. Peters's pock-
| etbook containing 81. The trousers
were found in the alley next morning.
| Get your Burglary insurance from
THE TUER-PRATr INV. CO. Phone
| 1997.-Adv.
The residence of r. E. Nelson, 1910
Lane street. was also entered Sunday
morning. The thief took a pocket
book, two bank books. bunch of keys
/ and gold pencil. Screens were torn
street and 516 Horne street, but the
providers were frightened away before
they gained an entrance.
Get your Burglary insurance from
THE TUER-PRATT INV. CO. Phone
| 1997.=Adv.
Fancy work which he says he made
with his own hands and valued at $3.50
was stolen Sunday by burglars who
entered the room of j. C. Heslop, 400
Kansas avenue. The goods consisted
of linen pieces, table covers and pill
low slips, together with a large num-
Der of needles and two dozen balls of
thread.
Get your Burglary insurance from
THE TUER-PRATT INV. co. Phone
1997.-Adv.
Officials who investigated have
been unable to find any clue to the
identity of the body of a babe found
by small boys in the Shunganunga
Saturday afternoon. DR.. H. L. Clark,
county coroner, expressed the opinion
that the child was born dead. but 1t