The Butler weekly times and the Bates County record. (Butler, Mo.) 1918-1950, 1922-05-11
ACCUSED OF TERRIBLE
CRIME
John Alkire Charged With Outraging
His Fifteen Year Old Daughter.

| Jonn <AhHe AHdI6C WItH SuLdGA'8
His Fifteen Year Old Daughter.
John Alkire, farm hand OIL the
Mcfarland place east OF this city
was arrested in Kansas City Tuesday
afternoon by Kansas City police at
fthe request of local authorities. AL
kire is charged in an information
filed by the prosecuting attorney be-
fore Justice B. F. Jeter with having
outraged his fifteen year old daugh-
ter, Mable.
Immediately upon notification from
the police that Alkire had been appre-
hended, Sheriff Petty went to Kansas
City and returned to Butler Wednes-
day at 1870 a. III. with Alkirc in
charge. Alkire will be arraigned be-
fore Justice Jetcr Thursday .'ien the
date for his preliminary hearing will
be set.
Mable Alkire the fifteen-year-old
daughter of Alkire gave birth to a
baby girl last Thursday and Dr.. 7.
+. Lockwood was called to attend
her. When questioned by the doctor
as to the parentage of the child she
maintained that she did not know the
father and said, supposedly referring
to her father, TASK him, he knows"
Alkre left home Saturday and
when arrested in Kansas City had
ticket to Rush Center, Kansas.
Alkre when seen at the Jail here by
reporter for The Times refused to
max a statement other than that he
would say what he had to say at the
trial.
While he was being held at police
headquarters in Kansas City he was
evidently more loquacious, the Kan
sas City Journal quoting him as fol-
lows:
an the cell at police headquarters
here last night, Alkire, an elderly
looking man, with the appearance OF
farmer, denied ever having had inn
proper relations with his daughter.
81 certainly am not guilty OF these
charges he said. And my daughter
does not claim am responsible. We
live along the railroad in Butler and
my daughter used to go out often to
pick up coal on the tracks. A rail-
road brakeman, whose name do not
know. met Mabel on some of these
trips. He is the father OF her child '
d" why, then, do the people OF But
Ter claim you are responsble:' the
man was asked
8" 1t is spite work, he said. I have
enemies who are like cattlemen who
will try to get anybody i'll trouble.
ASKED why he has enemies, Alkire
replied:
That's something I'd rather not
go into
"Alkire said he did not run away
from Butler because he had received
threats, so he claimed, from the ku
Klux klan.
1T is ridiculous to think that
should abandon my Children he as
serted. I'D rather have my throat
cut first. No one has taken better
care of their children than | have
mine didn't run away
The man claims that he left But
Ter to save his three other children
ALI younger than Mabcl-from be-
ing taken to an orphans home i'll St.
| Louis. The childrcns 5 mother is dead.
| He said his brothes-in-law. X. A.
Wright, preacher, told him men
we're in Butler from St. Loul, 10 see
Judge 6. A. Denton of the circuit
court. After conference, Judge
Denton told him, according to Alkire,
that ii he would leave town there
would be no prosecution and his chill
dren would be turned over to rela-
tives; if he stayed, and the case went
against him, his children would be
sent to St. Louis
Judge c. A. Denton "Wednesday
evening emphatically denied the state
ment attributed to him by Aikre that
if Alkire would leave town there
would be no prosecution.