The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-08-12
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Mrs. Inez L. Ingles, 624 Van Buren,
street, today filed a petition in sne
district court asking decree of sepa-
rate maintenance against William 1.
Ingles, whom she married in July,
1921. She charges that Ingles is a
habitual drunkard, that he curses and
abuses her and has threatened to
choke her to death. She declares that
Friday he flew into a fit of rage and
announced that he would not support
her any longer.
Mrs Elsie Cokenour today filed a
petition in the district court asking a
divorce from Roy B. Cokenour, charg-
ing that he abandoned her and their
minor child in December, 1921, and
went to Oklahoma. Before leaving
her and accused her of improper con-
duct. She received a letter from him
in July, she states, in which he in
formed her that he was leaving Okla
would go. She says she has received
no support from him since last De-
cember. They were married at Win
field in October, 1914.
Leroy Doty, IS. living near Dover.
was sentenced to year in the county
iafl by Judge Paul Heinz in the city
couEt this morning when he pleaded
guilty to assaulting Loren Dutton. the
small son of Frank Dutton, Dover
farmer. Doty is said to have con-
fessed that for ten years he has been
guilty of obscene practices with young
boys in the vicinity of Dover. The
man is said to have had the Dutton
boy down in a cellar when he was
discovered. Rumors that a mob was
forming to ''get" Doty led some Dover
men to bring him hurriedly to Topeka
and turn him over to the county au-
thorities. No statute covering the
particular crime which Doty con-
fessed to could be found on the stat
ute books. but the fact that he Is al
legged to have detained the Dutton boy
forcibly led to the issuance of the as
sault warrant, to which the man
pleaded guilty. Doty is married.
Mrs. Mary Metcalf today flied a pc
tition in the district court asking a di-
vorce from J. Metcalf She charges
been guilty of assaulting her and
treating her in a cruel manner. His
treatment. she declares, has seriously
impaired her health. She also makes
that Metcalf prior to their marriage.
decided Galitzky a lot on Madison street
in order to defraud her. She also
claims her husband has $4,000 in
cl1attels which he is concealing from
her.
Four automobile tires. valued at
5000, were lost or stolen from an
American Express company wagon
on Quincy street about o'clock Fri
day afternoon, according to a report
to the police. A lady's black plush
coat and a wool suit were stolen from
SIS Topeka boulevard, it was reported
Theodore Blank, driving a United
States mail motorcycle, was painfully
bruised about 1880 o'clock Friday
night when his machine collided with
a Checker taxicab driven by Harold
nj af lob
Jackson street. Blank was thrown
to the pavement and the motorcycle
turned over several times. His in
juries were not reported serious.
The case against o. NJ. Estes. of the
Checker Cab & Baggage company.
was taken under advisement by Judge
S. L. Lashbrook in police court Fri
day afternoon. Estes is seeking to
determine whether the ordinance pro-
hibiting buses parking on Kansas
avenue to solicit business applies to
buses engaged in inter-city traffic.
Mrs. Fern P. Herrick, a house
keeper living at Berryton, Friday filed
suit in the district court to collect S.
900 from DIR. A. F. Harrison of To-
peka. She alleges that on October 10,
1921, Doctor Harrison dressed a
wound she had sustained on her hand
from a fruit jar lid, and that he sewed
up a surgeons needle in the incision.
She asserts that she was incapacitated
from work for three months.
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