The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-11-18
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| All kinds OF mean things have been
said about the Kansas climate. but
| Ambrosio Sanchez, Mexican. likes it
| better than the one his wife. Erlinda,
| invited him to visit, according to al
/ legations in his divorce petition, filed
/ today in the district court. Ambrosio
got used to tropical warmth down be-
| low the Rio Grande, but he has also
become accustomed to the vicissitudes
/ of the rigorous Kansas winters. He
asserts that Mrs. Sanchez also insists
on going to dances against his protest.
A Jury in Judge James McClure's
division of the district court Friday
/ afternoon returned a verdict finding
Adam Degand, Russian, guilty of yio-
] lating the liquor law on two counts.
1 His wife, Anna, was found guilty on
| four counts. Sentence was deferred
] temporarily. Anna recently shot her
husband five times, telling the police
she did so because he compelled her
to assist him in making moonshine
whisky. He recovered after several
weeks spent in the hospital. Anna
was not prosecuted.
Three speeders were fined $25 in
police court Friday but paroled upon
payment OSLO cash. They are E. L.
plumber, and G. A. Howell. rs, garage
man. c. F. Kincaid, 20, a farmer, was
fined IS for speeding.
Judge Mcclure In the district court
this afternoon took under Adjustment
motion by I. NJ. Blitz, local jeweler
and former professional bondsman, to
quash the information against him in
the case in which he~is charged with
attempting to bride Harry Burger,
city baeteriologist, to report no alcohol
in confiscated liquor submitted to him
by the police for analysis. Blitz
claims the sections of the statute I'M
der which he is charged do not apply
10 Tnd Mcclure
under advisement his motion to COM
pei the state to make more definite
and certain the information against
him in the case in which he is charged
with compromising misdemeanors. At
torneys were given one week in which
to file briefs. The trial of Blitz, which
was set for Monday, will thus be post
poned for at least another week.
A special railroad car will carry the
Topeka delegation of attorneys to the
meeting of the State Bar association
to be held in Salina, November 272S.
A meeting of the Topeka Bar associa-
ton was held in the first division court
room this morning to discuss plans for
the trip. About forty Topeka lawyers
are expected to make the trip.
Judge Mcclure this morning over
ruled a motion by the defendants for
the appointment of a referee in two
cases brought against insurance COM
panieS by the D. E. Rose Trunk COM
pany, of Topeka, to collect insurance
the ground of fraud in the proofs of
loss. The Rose company refused to
waive a jury trial and the court held
that it had constitutional right to
trial by twelve men. Nineteen SINH
lar cases, being each in excess of
$4,000, were recently transferred from
the district to the federal court. The
two remaining cases probably Will be
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Judge Mcclure expressed little hope
that a jury could sit thru three weeks
of litigation consisting mostly of
mathematical evidence and return an
verdict.
Douglas county officers were ex-
pected to arrive late today to take Or |
Vile Sellers, alias Pistol Pete, to Law |
renee to be tried on a charge of bur-
glarizing a clothing store there the
night of May 6. A jury in the Shawnee
county district court last week was
unable to agree upon a verdict after
hearing evidence in the case in which
Sellers was charged with assisting Joe
in the holdup and robbery of
Che Victory lunch room here. Mo-
rand, who testified at the trial was
returned last night to the penitentiary,
where he is serving a sentence of from
five to ten years for the crime.
A Ford coupe belonging to G.. r.
Ames, superintendent of the White
Eagle Oil & Refining company, was
stolen Friday night from in front of
1915 Tyler street. according to re-
port to the police.
Be safe. Insure your car with
TRAP & MEADE
Phone 81. 119 West Sixth st.
ADV.
A fine of $500 and sixty days in jail
was the sentence imposed by Judge
in police court Friday |
afternoon upon J. H. Dunigan, pro-
prietor of a feed store in North To-
peka, on two liquor counts. DUNCAN
appealed to the district court.
Alleging that he is infringing on its
patent on a device used for re-en-
trees, the Davey Tree Expert
company. of Kent, Ohio, Friday filed
suit in the federal court against Rob
art Brann, of Topeka, asking that he /
be enjoined from its further use.
T. D. Williams. Shawnee county pro-
baton officer, who was elected presi-
dent of the Kansas Probation Officers
which met in Topeka with
the Kansas official council, has also
been named Kansas secretary of the |
National Probation assqeiation, inc,
according to word received Friday.
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