The Topeka state journal., 1922-12-09
.OURTnOUsENcTEs
AND
Police GoSSlP.

Mrs. Clara Stonebraker today was
granted divorce from Roy Stone
braker by Judge James Mcclure in
the district court and awarded custody
of their small daughter, for whose
support Stonebraker was ordered to
pay SIS a month. The wife charged
him with failure to support her. They
were married in Toronto. Canada, Oc-
tober ,, 1918, and moved to Topeka
in December, 1918.
Unlocking a door with a key, burg
lars sometime Friday morning entered
the home of Martin Ferguson. 1194
Lane street. and stole about $40 in
money, according to a report to the
police Nothing else was taken.
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Mrs. May V. Arnold was granted
divorce in the district court, Friday
afternoon from Benjamin Arnold She
charged him with neglect and cruelty
They were married in May, 1918
Arnold did not contest the suit.
A federal warrant charging B. H
Blosser, of Great Bend, with trans
porting a stolen car from one state tC
another. was issued this morning in
the office of AL F. Williams, United
States district attorney. Blosser, ac-
cording to federal officials, is in Gus
tody of the sheriff at Concordia, where
he was arrested while trying to borrow
$50 on a Ford roadster. InveStiga ton
revealed that the car had been stolen
in Kansas City, it was said. Blosser
asserted that he met a man in Law
renee, who asked him to drive the
car to Great Bend, and that he was
carrying out these instructions when
arrested.
Levine & Tanz. Inc, of Kansas City.
today filed suit in the federal court
here to collect Sf,279 from the Etten-
son Dry Goods company, of Leaven-
worth, for merchandise they claimed
to have sold the Leavenworth firm a
few months ago.
A suit to collect S1,O25 commission
from George Hanley, 1O15 Tyler
street, for the sale of the building at
IOS Kansas avenue, was filed in the
district court late Friday by Roger
Murphy. 1884 Jackson street He al
leEes that Hanley listed the building
with him for sale and that thru his
efforts it was sold to Abe Scrinopski
for $4,000.
Dill, farmer living near Eskridge. and
a large touring car driven by George
Stratton, local jitney driver, were
slightly damaged Friday when they
All lO5SlAtI near curtin avenue anu
Madison street. Both cars were going
east. No one was injured.
Mrs. Matilda Beasley, negro woman
who shot and killed her husband, D.
Beasley, at their home on East First
street a few weeks ago after she
claimed to have discovered him in
with another woman, was
from custody Friday after
a preliminary hearing in the city
court. Judge Paul Heinz held that the
evidence was insufficient to Justify |
holding her for trial.
Ogden Mumford and o. T. Thomp- !
ION, negroes, charged with stealing
ome clothes from the August Cloth |
ng store, where Mumford was em-
)loyed as a porter, were both bound !
)ver to the district court Friday after |
loon by Judge Paul Heinz. Munford
waived his preliminary hearing. The |
wo men were arrested a few weeks |
Lgo by Capt. Jesse Hill while trying |
o get away with the clothes.
Two damage suits were transferred |
Friday from the Wyandotte county |
district court to the federal court in
Topeka. One was brought by John |
;hatto, of Kansas City, to collect |
5000 damages from the st. Louis & |
san Francisco Railroad company for |
INJURIES he received while in its en- |
10y. The other was brought by Mrs. |
Emma Mahon, of Kansas City, to col |