The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-06-21
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John Stitz, former garage man of that
town, paroled from the state peniten-
ti2ry. where he was sentenced March
%, 1921, by Judge George Whitcomb
in the district court to serve a term
of from five to twenty-one years for
a statutory crime gainst Miss Ella
Davis, a 17-year-old girl. Stitz was
about SO years old. A petition bear
ing the signatures of 14S Wamego
citizens who testified to the mans
former good character. was filed in
the district court, together with an
application for parole.
The belief that he was the king of
Greece and also the greatest physician
in the world led to an insanity COM
plant being filed in the probate court
late Tuesday against George Charowa-
has. one of the proprietors of the
Palace of Sweets. The complaint was
sworn to by his brother and partner,
Pete Charowahas, known as Pete the
Greek" George is said to have been
receiving treatment for his condition
during the last three years.
Judge Lashbrook in police court
Tuesday settled a neighborhood quar-
rel between two Mexican women by
filming both the complainant and de-
PENDANT So each. The women gave
their names as Frances Garcia and
Clara Molina.
The case of John Steele, former
pianist at the Orpheum theater,
charged with assault, was continued
until June 81 when called in police
court Tuesday afternoon. Steele was
arrested on complaint of G. L. Hooper,
manager of the Orpheum, following a
one-sided fight between them Satur-
day, it was said. The row started
when Hooper announced that he in
tended to cut the wages of his mu-
sicians to the union scale. Steele is
said to have knocked Hooper off d
table and to have Goored him again
when he arose.
c. F. Gish, carpenter, living at 633
Monroe street, reported to the police
that his tool bcX was ransacked and
several valuable tools taken Tuesday
night at house he was working on
at 2215 Hazelton court.
PatroIman w. H Wilt and Detective
Charles Holman started on ten-days'
vacation Tuesday. =,
Mrs. Susie I. Carter today filed a
petition in the district court asking r
separate maintenance decree against
Ernest Carter, alleging that he spends
too much time and money on other
women. He has deserted her, she de-
clares, and is now staying with an
other woman. She asks for the Gus
tody of their two small children. Car
ter is said to be living at 71S Lafayette
street.
A suit to foreclose a $4,000 real
estate mortgage was filed in the dis
trict court today by the Security Bene-
fit association against E. ]. Longren.
A man giving his name as w. B.
Tony was picked up by the police this
morning and turned over to the
county, where insanity proceedings
were started against him in the pro-
bate court. Tony is said to have
walked into a local hotel and with the
remark that the floor was dirty, seized
a broom and started sweeping.
Two men giving their names as
Frank Murray and James Moore were
arrested about midnight by the police
and are being held for investigation
under the suspicion that they may be
hoId-up men They were found loiter-
ing in the vicinity of Fifteenth street
and Jewell avenue. Officers quoted
them as saying they were looking for
the home of y. V. Wood, of the Wood
Motors company, and that they had
come here from Kansas City to close
a business deal with them Wood,
however, said he had never heard of
them. In a suitcase found hidden in
the grass near the spot where the men
were arrested the officers found pint
bottle half full of whisky.