The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-07-25
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avenue, a Rock Island switchman,
was arrested this morning by the
police on warrant charging him
with assault and battery upon ]. H.
Thomas, his next door neighbor, fol-
lowing a fight between the two men.
Reedys case was set for this after
noon.
Mrs. Lena M Kelley was arrested
this morning by Marshal Tom Hurley
of the court of Topeka, on a warrant
charging her with passing a worthless
check for $3.50 on the Topeka Pure
June 8 and drawn on the Merchants
National bank
Mrs. Nellie Graves today filed a
petition in the district court asking a
divorce from Wilbur A. Graves whom
she charges with refusing to make a
home for her and their 5-year-old son
and with refusing to live with them.
An amended and supplemental an
| swer, together with a motion for a
new trial, was filed in the district
court today by the Santa Fe Hospital
association in the case in which Clyde
E. Hampstead, 729 Horne street, is
seeking to compel the trustees to let
him take his seat as one of them.
Judge James Mcclure last Saturday
decided Hampstead was entitled to his
seat and that the trustees would have
him. But the association is now
seeking a new trial of the. original
suit, and in the supplemental answer
charges that Hampstead is morally un-
fit for the position.
A suit to collect $1,000 from Earl
Butts, farmer living on Route 4, was
filed in the district court today by J.
]. Lynn of Kansas City. The sum IS
the amount of promissory note given
in the purchase of a tractor, according
to the petition.
Cecilia Ilnas, 21, Mexican living at
209 Hancock street, pleaded guilty in
the city court this morning to assault
and battery upon Hazel Mayes, II.
of 800 East First street, and was sem
fenced by Judge Paul Heinz to serve
six months in the county Jail. The
youth claimed that the girl tried to
make him accompany her, and that he
scratched her with scarf pin to make
her quit annoying him. A complaint
charging the girl with delinquency has
been filed in the probate court.
Z The glass in the front window of
avenue, was broken early Monday
morning, but the building was not en-
tered, according to report to the
police.
Emerson Evans, farmer living on
route 9, Elmont, reported to the police
Monday the theft of seventy-five
chickens.
Frank De Hart, negro, has been ap-
pointed by Sheriff Robert Miller as
deputy sheriff and night jailer to sue
coed J. H. Lambertson. who was dis
charged recently. following the dis
covery that Chester Hatton, negro con-
fined in the Jail awaiting removal to
Lansing, had been allowed to leave
the jail to keep dates with Eva Lam
bert.
The estate of the late Mrs. Lillian
Foster, widow of the late Rev. Festus
Foster, is bequeathed to her only
daughter, Miss Dorothy Foster, by the
terms of the will filed in the Shawnee
county probate court. The estate
consists OF personal property valued
at $2,500. Mrs. Foster left 81 to each
OF her four sons, Carol Howe Foster,
consul at Vienna; Prof. Ralph B. Eos
ter, of the United States naval acad-
envy, Annapolis; Lieut.. Com. Paul F.
Foster and Lieut.. Festus Finley Fos-
ter, both of the United States navy.
Miss Mae Brewer, deputy clerk of
the district court, returned to work
Monday after a serious illness of three
weeks
Andrew Whitiow, 251s Buchanan
street, must be a good man unless he
wants to serve thirty days in Jail.
Judge S. L. LAshbrook, in police
court, fined him 500 and sentenced
him to thirty days on a charge of hav-
ing liquor in his possession. The
judge then paroled him from the Jail
sentence, but compelled him to sign
an iron-clad agreement to obey all
the city ordinances tn-the future
Burglars who entered the home of
J. S. Queensbury. 2010 West Tenth
avenue. Monday night by taking off
window screen. took IS from a pair OF
trousers. but left the trousers. accord
ing to a report to the police.
Get a residence burglary and theft
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