The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-10-24
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4 WITH intent 10 XIII. SANDERS IeSll1leQ
that Griffith came to the Bomgardner
funeral home that evening in a
/ drunken condition and started a quar-
rel and that the man had slashed his
face with a knife before he knew what
he was attempting to do. Mrs. San
ders, the undertaker's divorced wife,
testified that Griffith roomed at her
home, SIG Topeka boulevard. at ting
time, and that she had been trying to
get him to leave for some time because
he raised a disturbance" on occa-
sions. Sanders said Griffith COM
planned to him that Mrs. Sanders was
not raising their small son properly,
but his talk was incoherent.
! Oran Squires and Paul Boyles
waived their preliminary hearings in
the city court this morning and were
, bound over to the district court to face
4 a charge of stealing an automobile
tire from Charles Strickenfinger.~
Kirk Pinkston. veteran negro po-
| liceman. is in Christ's hospital today
suffering from an attack of appendi-
citis, which overlook him about the
| time he reported for duty at the. -po-
lice station Friday night, His condi-
| ton is SO serious that physicians have
declined to operate on him at present.
| 1t was said. Pinkston has been on the
police force for more than twenty
years.
Mrs. Pearl Walker, whom her hus-
band, Fred T. Walker. proprietor Of
drug store at 1133 Kansas avenue,
sued for divorce recently. today filed
a counter petition in the district court
| asking SEPARATE maintenance. She
charges that he cursed and abused her
in the presence of others and in fits
OF rage accused her of intimacy with
other men. She says he left home
July 81 and has not lived with her
| since. Walker asserted in his petition
that she had alienated her affections
from him and that she preferred to
associate with other persons.
Mrs. Bette Parks today filed a
counter petition in the district court
asking the court to grant her the di
voFee for which her husband, David
P. Parks, recently asked. They have
been married forty-six years and she
declares that she supported him in
idleness until fifteen years ago, when
she made him get out. She admits.
she says. that she has made him sup
port himself since that time. The
parties are negroes.
Mrs. Elsie Cockenour was granted
divorce from Roy B. Cockenour in the
district court Monday afternoon.
the hearing was ordered to pay $40
a month into the court for the sup
port Ncf their minoF child, Virginia,
until she is Is years old.
Magnus Nelson, 1924 Lane street,
was painfully bruised and his bicycle
broken up Monday night when he was
struck by an automobile on Kansas
avenue.
L. Hefner. living at-20s North Lake
street, reported to the police that some
one threw a brick thru a large window
in the front of his house Sunday night.
Hefner is working at the Santa Fe
shops, and accused union men of the
deed, officers said.
w. A. Stowe, proprietor of bus
service between Topeka and Law
renee, late Monday filed a petition in
the district court asking judgment for
$3.50 against Mrs. A. A. Hurd. 1874
Tyler street, for injuries to one OF his
cars resulting from a collision between
it and Mrs. Hurd's car on the East
Sixth avenue road, just north of the
stitute, October 4. Stowe charges
Mrs. Hurd with negligence. His car
was driven by Ernest Greer
suit to collect s764.2s from W. B.
Fisher, s17 Lane street, was filed in
Sweet. She claims the damages as the
result of a collision between her
Franklin sedan and Fishers car at
Seventh and Fillmore streets January
%. Her car was driven by her
brother, Paul B. Sweet.
The Citizens State bank of Topeka
today filed suit in the district court to
collect $4,000 on promissory, notes
from A. e. Dillon and Alta M. Dillon.
William F. James of Salina is under
arrest at that city on a charge of steal
ing mail belonging to the Butter
Packing company of Salina. Accord
ing to reports received by Frank Nc
Farland, United States district attor-
ney in Topeka, Williams signed a con-
fession to the effect that he took a
letter from the Buffers companys
lock box. which he found partly open,
and extracted q check, which he
cashed at a Salina bank. A federal
complaint. has been lodged against
Williams, it was said.
Two gasoline stoves, two stills,
thirty gallons of whisky and 400 gall
Ions OF mash were confiscated by fed
eral prohibition officers and deputy
sheriffs when they raided a cave
about three and one-half miles east
of Topeka on the East Sixth avenue
road. Thomas Thomas, 126 North
Van Buren, street, and Noah Chiies. |
route 81, both negroes, and Frank
Shifflet, white man who lived in the |
cave, were arrested. The cave set
back in the woods on the north side
of the road, and it's entrance was hid !
den by dense thickets. After the |
booze and equipment had been confis-
Gated the officers set fire to the wood
en- supports and the roof tumbled in.
The raid was made Monday afternoon.
Nash car stolen Sunday night
from J. d. Jones' 904 Clay street was
found by the police near Lakewood
park Monday afternoon.
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