The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1922-08-11
WIFE SPINS HER
LONG FAIRY. TALE
SHE TOLD STORY FILLED
WITH ROMANCE
MADE HER FADE AWAY
Claimed Husband Had Disap-
peared When She Was One
= Who Left Home.

Mrs. Lillian Turek spun a fairy
tale at the police station last night.
She told her story pretty well and
answered questions quite readily.
She related a sorrowfm tale Of
disappearing husband. Not only
once did he quit the family home,
but twice, so she claimed. Instead
Of a husband fading away, her ap
pearance here develops into a case
of a wife doing the wandering away
act. The unfortunate woman is re-
ported to be affected somewhat men
tally. That accounts for the nara
tive she told last night
Mrs Turek is the wife of Adolph
Turek. a farmer living seven miles
from Montgomery. Last evening
she was found on the highway near
Vernon Center Corners. AS several
men approached her, they having
been attracted by her strange ap-
she remarked: They are after me
TO take me back" To Scott Grover,
deputy sheriff, the woman gave the
name of Mrs. Adolph Turek, Manka-
TO, as her dwelling place, and said
further that about three weeks ago
her husband had disappeared from
home; that a policeman named An
drews on the Mankato force was as
sisting her in trying to locate him.
There is no man named Andrews
connected with the police depart.
ment here. #
Woman Brought To Mankato.
Deputy Sheriff Gnover brought the
woman to Mankato. At the police
headquarters she repeated the as
sertion that her husband had disap-
peared from home about three weeks
ago. According to the woman's yarn
the husband had been employed in
a local plant for the past several
months. On the day Of his leave
taking he had informed her that he
was not feeling well. She advised
him TO go TO bed and sleep; that he
1870 o'clock in the afternoon. She
left the house TO 60 down the street,
returning about 4:30 o'clock. Her
husband was not at home. The fol-
lowing day Mrs. Turek started out
to search for him. She had been
combing the highways in the hope of
locating him, according to her story.
When asked why she had drifted
of into the Sterling zone. the woman
replied. that she thought that Mr..
Turek might possibly be employed
with a threshing crew.
Mrs. Turek declared that she had
lived with her husband in the north
end of the city and that she could
find the house. A midnight party
was organized and to the north end
of town they drove The result of
the trip was the waking up Of a
family in a dwelling which Mrs.
Turek believed was the one in which
she had been domiciled for a num-
Der of months. The present occu-
pant told a police officer that he had
lived there three years.
Some Fiction Retailer.
To make her piece of fiction more
thrilling Mrs. Turek told her aud
fence at the police station that not
long ago her husband had left home
and not returning on time, she mott
fed her brother. who resides in
Montgomery, and together they made
a search. They found Mr.. Turek
sitting alongside the Mankato- ST.
Peter highway .
The woman was given lodging at
a rooming house, with instructions
to report at the Police headquarters
this morning at nine O'Clock. She
did not show up at all and is prob
ably wandering her way on high
way.
The Free Press learned from Mont
gomery this morning that the Tur-
eks never lived in Mankato; that
Mr.. Turek is a farmer residing about
seven miles from Montgomery, and
that Mrs. Turek had once before
wandered off.
Officers at the police station last
night suspected the woman was not
in her right mind, but deemed it
safe to permit her to go to a room
ing house for the night, rather than
lock her in a cell.
The Tureks have one child Mrs.
Turek stated last night that she had
no children.
Parties at Montgomery have mott
fed Mr.. Turek that his wife was in
Mankato last night.
Mrs. Turek is hatless and dressed
IN a dark skirt and a shirtwaist of
greenish color. She is penniless, so
she claimed.