The Topeka state journal., 1922-09-12
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the fair grounds Monday night, some |
one got away with it anyhow. The |
bicycle didn't have name on it. but |
it was red, with black trimmings /
no mud guard on the front wheel, a !
new tire on the front wheel and had !;
one pedal soidered.
r. H Hayes, of Esbon, notified the
s!;it case somewhere between Ripley |
park and Kansas avenue, with chill i
dren's clothing and work clothes in it. !
A 1. Olney. 1894 West street, dis
covered this morning when he went to
his garage to get his Ford, that some
enterprising thief whose own Ford was
on the bum, had removed an entire
wheel from the car and decamped
with it.
Two young bandits stuck up J. ].
Schonfeld, f11 Clay street. and a lady
friend, near Gage park Monday night,
and with a gun on Scnonfeld, robbed
him of SPA in cash and took a dia-
mond ring +alued at 5000 from the
lady.
When Mrs. Harvey Wilson, 1922 To-
peka boulevard, parked her car in the
alley behind her home Monday. she
left her pocket book, with some Sc in
cash and diamond ring IN it. lying in
the seat of the car. When she re-
turned to the car the pocket book was
missing. She found it later, several
yards farther down the alley. with the
money missing, but the ring intact.
J. C Co:e. 1880 Topeka boulevard.
had his Buick touring car, license No.
1922, sto-en from the garage at his
home. Monday night. The car had a
flat tire on a rear wheel when stolen
and the spare tire was also blown out.
The car was pa a-nted green with yellow
wheels.
A Dodge touring car, belonging to
o. f. Baker, of the Reilly-Baker
clothing company, was stolen a few
minutes afternoon today from his
apartment at PIG East Eighth avenue.
Major Carl R. White, 1915 Western
avenue, disbursing officer for the
Kansas National Guard, parked his
car in a safety zone Monday. and put
up $5 cash bond for his appearance
in police court later.
John johnson, Swede, was afraid to
be out in the dark, and when the
police picked him up in the Union
Pacific yards shortly after o'clock
this morning, he was carrying a sap
ling, some fourteen inches long. with
heavy iron nut wedged onto the other.
The thing made a formidable, if
clumsy, weapon and johnson was
charged with carrying a dangerous
weapon. He told B. NJ. Buffers, and w.
NJ. Willis, the officers who arrested
him, he was carrying it for his own
protection
Cipriano Ariaza, Mexican, was
badly cut in an affray near Second and
Klein streets, Sunday night. Deme-
trio Martinez was arrested by Detec-
tive Jacob Barr:entos, and charged
with the cutting, but men who were
with Ariaza at the time of the row.
said Martinez was not the man, and
he was released. No reason was given
for the fight.
The case of ]. w. Stokes, travelling
salesman, charged with disturbing the
peace in a local hotel. is set for trial
in the police court this afternoon The
information at the police station is
that Stokes became drunk. and vul-
garry abusive. in the hotel and
wouldn't make proper apologies after
he was sobered up. He secured 500
in cash as a bond which he put up
for his appearance in court this after
noon.
Suit has been filed in the district
court of Shawnee county by D. NJ.
Dibble and Ivan Dibble, partners in
the Dibble Grocery company, against
promissory note for s314.9S. The pc
tition of the plaintiffs asserts that
thru error, the note was dated jan
uary 1, 1922, and was due and payable
on January 1, 1922. The petition asks
that the error be corrected and judg-
ment for the amount of the note, given
to the plaintiffs.
Florence Fishman has filed suit for
divorce in the Shawnee county district
q or hnT hIIG nd 6na
Fishman, alleging neglect, abandon
ment, and non-support. The Fish
mans were married at Lawrence, Au-
gust 20, 1921.
Mr. and Mrs Elmer jackson and
Leila Dotson, colored, and Pablo Es-
Quibel, Mexican, who applied Monday
thru their attorney for writs of habeas
corpus to get out of the county Jail,
are out of luck Before the applica-
ton for the writs was heard, govern
ment warrants for the four, who are
charged with the selling of narcotics,
were issued, which are sufficient to
keep them in Jail. The alleged dope
peddlers were arrested by the city
police and federal government rep
resentatives. and after giving bond at
the police station, were locked up
without warrants in the county Jail.
George E. Moeser has filed suit in
have the will of his deceased mother.
Mrs. Ida B. Moeser, set aside, and to
have the heirs of the estate involved,
participate according to law and not
according to the will, which left all
the property to his sisters, Eta B.
Moeser. of Topeka. Mrs. Clara J.
Schreiber, of Denver, Colo, Mrs. Irma
B. Lorts his niece, and his daughter,
Lillian Henrietta Moeser. S. J. Hod-
gins, executor of the estate and trus-
tee for Lillian Henrietta Moeser, is
also made a defendant in the suit.
Moeser's petition sets forth that the
estate inherited by his mother was
badly in debt, that he assumed the
managemnt of it and made it a val
liable property, but that his sister Et-
ia J. Moeser and his niece. Mrs. Irma
B. Lorts prejud:ced the mind of his
mother against him by false repre-
sentations, so that she left him out
of the will.
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