The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1922-09-21


automobiles with dogs and men,
passed through Hays, Tuesday. en-
route for the western part of the
state, on a hunting expedition. It is
the open season for chickens. They
may find few Chickens in the
towns but they are scarce on the
prairies.
If you wish to have your eyes fit
ted with glasses, phone 348 for date.
w. F. Czeskleba.
Fred Schwaller and wife attended
the automobile races at Kansas City,
Sunday.
Attorneys Blair and Lillard of To-
peka, attended court here this week.
DR.. Pruitt came up from Wichita,
Monday night, and shipped the bal
ance of his goods.
Christ Schaefer, the shoemaker,
has moved back to Ellis.
Try US with your laundry. If we
pleas tell others; if not, tell u.s.
Hays Steam Laundry, phone PIG.
Special sale on Hats and all other
Millinery for Fair Week, at Miss
Deane's.
Miller Brothers this week sold to
John Bengtson one of the cottages in
the Cochran Addition.
can honorable discharge and certi-
ficate Of character in such discharge
J. NJ. Wiesner, County Attorney, de-
clared in his closing argument in the
case of the State VS.. Leonard R. Bing-
man, "did not mean much except that
the fellow had not been caught"
Bingham was arrested a short time
ago charged with burglary and grand
larceny of Geyer's Drug Store at
Ellis, early on the morning Of July
4th, 1921. The jury brought in
verdict of guilty in the grand larceny
charge. 1t appears that someone got
into the store through a window fast
ened from the inside. About three
hundred dollars worth of articles were
stolen. What was particularly
noticed was a tray or two of fountain
pens. They were discovered in a
second hand store at Ellsworth. The
secOnt hand store man swore posi-
lively that Bingham was the man and
that he could not be mistaken, but his
mind was blank on everything else
that happened that day Everything
in the way of evidence was fought
and especially that Of the identified
ton of the fountain pens. They were
high priced but had nothing written
on them that may not be found on
any fountain pens on sale in hundreds
of places in the state. The defendant
never took the stand in his own be-
half but did produce the proprietors
of the restaurant at Ellis where he /
worked. Powell and Frazier both |
took the stand. The former said that
he started in the last week in June to |
work on a night shift from p. M
to z a. m, and that he got full time
during the month of July and that he
was AIOI cOSCAO LUZ OIIC udys MI
Frazier worked with him during the |
night shift and he said that on July |
3rd the restaurant was bare of all |
food for they were sold out. Until |
nine or ten they were busy preparing |
food and waiting on the trade and
after twelve all their time was taken |
up in getting ready for the Fourth
and that if Bingham was absent for |
any length of time, it would have
been noticed. One witness from Ellis
was brought on the stand for the /
state, that refused to say anything |
The state tried to prove that Bingham
had complained that he had only got
ten $500 out of the deal. The wit
ness refused to say anything and said |
he knew nothing about it. He was
threatened with being locked up for
contempt but it did not change his de- |
meanor. Bingham is an overseas
man and served twenty-five months |
in the army and has an honorable dis
charge.