The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-28
OURTHOUsENCTEs
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POLICEGCSSI

| A lone bandit entered the grocery
store at 1884 Quincy street about Z
| O'Clock Monday night, held up the
proprietor and escaped with $35 taken
from the cash drawer, the police were
notified. The bandit was white man
and wore a handkerchief over his
face, it was said.
Get your Burglary insurance from
THE TUER-PRATT INV CO. Phone
1s97.-Adv-
Ogden Mumford, negro. charged
with stealing two suits of clothes from
the David J. August store, waived his
preliminary hearing in the city court
today and was bound over for trial
under $1,000 bond. Elisha Scott. at
torney for Mumford. and his partner,
A T. Thomas. said he expected to
prove by Topeka physicians that
Mumford is feeble minded and not re-
sponsible for his acts.
A $4,000 breach of promise suit
brought by Marie Clovell against
Frank Fletcher, of Topeka, was filed
Monday afternoon in the district court.
Guy L. Bradford, one of the attorneys
for the plaintiff, removed the petition
in the case from the office of the clerk
of the district court and refused to
produce it.
A Ford coupe driven by Harry L.
Rice, salesman. boarding at 1878 Bos-
wei avenue, and Ford touring car
driven by w. p. Miller, 164 Grafton
street, were badly damaged Monday
evening when they collided on the
East Sixth avenue road near The
Elms- The front of the Rice car was
crushed and M.ller's car. was turned
over. it was said. No one sustained
serious injuries, 1t was stated.
Be safe Insure your car with
TRAP & MEADE
Phone 81. rs West Sixth St.
ADV.
Theodore Seal, 1922 North Monroe
street, today filed a petition in the
district court asking a divorce from
Carolina Seal, who he says is now re-
siding in fBellingham, Wash The
Seas have been married for forty-five
years. but the husband charges that
she left him in 1918 and has since re-
fused to live with him.
Charging that she deceived him
into thinking she was a single woman,
but that after they were married he
discovered she already had a husband,
Walter Carl Brown today filed pc
ution in the district court asking that
his marriage 20 Anna b. Brown be
annulled. They were married No
vember , at Eldora, Ia, according to
the petition.
William Fry, proprietor of a garage
at 112 West Fifth street, reported to
the police that SPA was stolen from his
office Monday night.
Get your Burglary insurance from
THE TUER-PRATT INV. co. Phone
1997.-Adv.
Charging that he spends most of his
time hunting and fishing with men
friends who have cabin on the Kaw
near Tecumseh, Mrs. Grace E. Adams
today asked the court to grant her
the divorce for which her husband, NJ.
NJ Adams petitioned a few days ago
Mrs Adams asserts her husband has
failed to provide clothing for herself
and children and that if he derives
any profit from his fishing, she fails
to get any of il. She asks for $50
month ali-nony.
r. NJ. Patrick was arraiEned in the
city court today on a state warrant
charging him with passing n worth
less check for $61.6O on Pete Limbach.
proprietor of the Reut-A-Dodge COM
pany. He was released on 1000 bond
to appear December l for a prelinl-
mary hearing.
Sheriff Robert Miller today went to
St Joseph to return Phillip Newbold.
wanted here on a charge of commit
ting a statutory offense a inst Emily
karpis, 16. Newbold was arrested by
the St Joseph police. it was said.
Russell Wassweiler and Lorin Sic