The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-04
.OURTHOUsENOTEs
POLICE OSslH.


was almost captured this morning BIZ
Frank Leech, chief of detectives, and
Tim Donovan and Mitchell Bundy
When the negro approached Went
worth and drew a gun Wentworth
boldly attacked him and took the gun
away from him. The bandit fled and
Wentworth notified the police. The
detectives located the negro on Wash
shake hands. No shots were fired at
him, it was said, and he made good
his getaway.
A Ford coupe stolen last Sunday
from J. G.. Hughes, employed in the
, tax department of the Santa Fe, was
since Wednesday on Jackson street
near the American Express office at
the Rock Island depot The battery
had been stolen from the car when
| it was found.
The trial of Maria Lopez. pretty
17-year-old Mexican girl, charged
with the brutal murder off her 32-
year-old husband, Francisco Lopez,
began this morning in Judge James
McClure's division of the district
court. Most of the morning. was taken
up in obtaining a jury. The killing
! occurred August IS, at their home on
4 East Crane street. The girl first con-
fessed to the crime, later declared it
/ had been committed by her youthful
/ lover, Jose MaciaS, and then changed
i
cording to officers. Ed Rooney is
conducting the defense. The case has
aroused considerable attention among
| the Mexican population of the city
! and large number of Mexicans at
tended the trial
Keith Lewis, Is, and George Greene,
IS. students, were arrested this morn
ing by Frank Leech, chief of detec-
tives, and Ed Nedeau for investigation
on the assertion that they were steal
ing keys from automobiles. The
youths were held in the basement of
| the Crosby Brothers store until the
officers arrived.
Nine years, residence in America
| failed to give Jacob Kotlarsky, 200
Quincy street, the American view
point that woman is equal with man,
according to the divorce petition of
his wife, Rebecca kotlarsky, filed in
the Shawnee county district court
| She asserts that he curses her in three
llanguage Hebrew and Eng
| lish-and that he has offered to buy
their children new clothes if they
would disobey their mother. She also
/ asserts that he has threatened her
with death, once shooting hole thru
| the wall and assuring her he would
shoot her some day. He told her, she
says, that he would be especially
pleased were she to be run over by a
train or automobile and killed. She
says they own six houses in Topeka
| and about $4,000 in bonds. They
/ were married in Russia in 1897 and
came to the United States nine years
ago. Kotlarsky worked at the Santa
Fe shops until the strike.
Trial of a suit brought by Mrs
Flora Caskey, 43O Reno avenue,
against Parr & Parr, painters, to COL
lect s35 damages to her clothes, was
| in progress today in the city court
1 Mrs. Caskey claims that Z. A. Harris
| then R0nlnVpd & int
ing the front of the Palace Clothing
| store, upset a bucket of paint over her
as she was passing along the sidewalk
last June. Harris was just coming
I down off a stepladder when the acct
dent occurred. He asserts that ne
| didn't spill the paint, but that Mrs.
Caskey ran against it while he was
| holding the bucket in his hand.
Mrs. Fannie Walter, ISL Green
street, late Saturday filed a petition
/ in the district court asking divorce
| from Emmett p. Walter, garage man,
| charging that he is persistently nag
| ging, quarreling and accusing her of
| improper conduct He also refuses to
make a home with her, and persists in
| living with her mother, she declares.
Adolph H. Role. sO4 Leland street
/ was granted a divorce from Nellie
/ Role in the district court late Satur-
| day. Mrs. Role was awarded 5000
| cash. the ownership of the household
1 ana ner maiden
name, Nellie Simons. Role charged
that she used every art and cunning
/ device known to her SEX to get him
to marry her, but that after she had
| induced him to purchase the property
at S04 Leland street, her attitude
| changed and that she pursued d
course of studied insult toward him
from that time forward.
Mrs. Gladys Langan was granted a
| divorce from William V. Langan in the
| district court Saturday afternoon and
restored to her maiden name, Gladys
lsandol.
Pete Limbach, proprietor of the
Rent-A-Dodge company, 713 Quincy
! street, and George Britschage, sales
man for circulation pumps for Ford
cars in Topeka, were arrested near
Washington, Kan, Sunday, by Sheriff
| Connie Collins and charged with viola
ton of the liquor law on four counts,
according to word received here. Five
| gallons of liquor was found in the
Ford car occupied by the two men, it
$1,000 bond each.
Mrs Arthur Green, 21s Story street,
| is in St Francis hspital today suf-
fering from bullet wound from a
| So caliber revolver, which she said
was accidentally discharged while she
was examining 1t. The shooting oc-
| CURED Saturday night. The bullet en-
tered her body just below the heart
and lodged in a muscle of her back
/ She IS still too weak to undergo an
/ operation, but has a chance for re-
! covery, according to physicians. Mrs
/ Green said she was curiously examine
ing an old revolver. and that 1t was ac-
cidentally discharged when she pulled
back the hammer. Her husband had
[ stepped into the yard when the shoot
ing occurred. Relatives declared Mr.
and Mrs Green had been getting along
amicably and knew of no reason to
i suspect that the shooting was not ac-
cidental.