The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-06
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AS the result of a fight over a poker
game, Thomas viliareal, Mexican, was
arrested by the police Tuesday night
on charge of operating a gamb bling
house at his home. PIP Hancock
street Eafciso Ribera, who spartici-
pated in the fight, was also arrested
According to information gathered by
| Jacob Barrientos, Mexican detective,
four men were playing poker. Claro
Romirez bet 81 on his hand, but threw
a SIS bill in the pot viT1erreal called, 4
and won He then claimed theNwhoIe
| SIS bill This resulted in a fight, the
! fourth player. Marcelino Mendoza.
taking the part of Romirez. syillerreaI1
fired a shot at Romirez but missed. it
was said Ribera then held Romirez,
while Villerreal beat a tattoo upon
his head with the butt. of his revolver.
it was declared. Mendoza went to his
friends assistance and finally the two
I got out onto. the street and escaped.
Burglars Tuesday night entered the
repair shop of Clarence H. Hastings.
l7ol Kansas avenue. by prying open
a rear window, according to report
TO the police. Nothing was missed,
/ however. They also Ixfed the lock
loft barber shop door near by but
failed to gain entrance.
i J. NJ. Lewis, a member of the
/ Novelty theater, reported to the police
4 late Tuesday night that a negro,
i woman had. robbed him of his pocket :,
i book containing $50 and Masonic.
ring near Fifth and Harrison streets.
! He said she stopped him and tried to
drag him into an alley and that She
got the pocketbook out of his HIP
/ pocket during the struggle. Motor
cycle men were sent in search of the
woman, but failed to find her
Fred Hopper was granted a divorce
i in the district court Tuesday afternoon
from Effie Hopper, whom he charged
with abandonment. ~ sssfs ass
Hovey Sipes. charged with stealing
a Ford car from p J. Wallenstine, of
Tecumseh. was discharged by Judge
Paul Heinz in the city court late Tues
I day following his preliminary hearing
/ Sipesf was arrested by George T. Han
nan,s former chief of police, and now
Operating a detective agency. Judge
i Heinz held that the evidence against
! the young man was not sufficient to
justify binding him over to the district
/ court for trial.
| N. F. johnson was fined SIS in police
court Tuesday afternoon on a charge
| of violating traffic rules at Sixth and
j Kansas avenues. Jean Ryan, a. a
! barber, was fined $25 for speeding, but
was paroIed on good behavior.
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/ John Napeau, negro. may lose his
eyesight as the result of a quarrel
| with his sweetheart Eula Huntert'91 4
North Topeka avenue. Tuesday night.
| The girl threw the contents of a small
bottle of carboiic acid into his face
when she claimed he reached in his
pocket for knife to cut her throat.
According to the story told by the
Hunter girl in Countg Attorney VeaIe,s
office this morning, shes and Napeau
had started uptown to a show, when
he accused her of going with another
man. She said they gave up the idea
of going to the show, and that Napeau
knocked her down twice. slapped her
several times and threatened. to cut
her throat. They walked back to her
home and sat down for about twenty
minutes. y She went in the house for
his hat when he was ready to leave,
and at that time procured the carbolic
acid. She said that when she handed
him his hat, Napeau reached in his
Il pocket as If to- get a Knife and that
; she then threw the acid in his face.
She said she had been keeping com
'panyi with Napeau for five years and
that he had frequently abused her
She was being held in the county Jail
| today. 80, 49,
y Mrs. Esther Moore. charged with
bigamy, was discharged by Judge Paul
Heinz in the city court. Tuesday, or
the ground that the statute of limita-
tons had expired The alleged offense
l occurred more than two years go
Mrs. Moore admitted having married
George Moore while her first husband
: Ernest Leroy Boaz, was in France
Boaz obtained divorce decree wher
:. he returned. .r,fr--.-.--
/ The Checker Cab & Baggage com
pany, Tuesday afternoon, won its xtes
e suit in. police. court for the privilege
= of parking its Lawrence-Topeka busse,
r at Seventh street and Kansas avenue
The city ordinance provides that tax
drivers must not solicit business "A
the curb. but the court held the ordi.
nance would not apply in this case be
cause the Checker cabs are engaged
y in intra-city traffic.
E Roy Hollingsworth. charged witt
the unlawful possession of intoxieat
ing liquors, pea ded guilty in the dis
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