The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-12-01
OURTHOusENcTEs
POLICE IOSSR.


and take up a $2.4S check when he
was arraigned in the city court Octo-
Der IL cost him a SIS fine and so
day Jail sentence in the city court this
morning. County Attorney Veale ex,
hibited to the court fourteen alleged
worthless checks for various amounts
which Patrick was alleged to have
written. Patrick entered a plea of
guilty and asked for leniency:~
Yes, I know all about this case"
said Judge Paul Heinz. This man
was arraigned October II charged
with passing one $2.43 check. He
told be a long hard luck story about
having trouble with his wife. and Civ
ing her money to put in the bank,
which he said she didn't do, and that
was how the check came to be worth
less. 1 let him go on his promise to
go out and get the S2.43 and come
right back. 1 never saw him again
until he was picked up by the police.
The sentence of the court will be thir-
ty days in Jail and pay a fine of $25-"
John Riley, negro. charged with
stealing a suit of clothes from the
home of Frank o. Brown, 215 West
Curtis street, pleaded guilty to mis-
demeanor charge in the city court this
morning and was sentenced to serve
one year in the county Jail.
! The preliminary hearing of Clarence
Brother" Woodall, living near
Twenty-fourth and Madison streets,
on a charge of assaulting Robert Hag-
gard with intent to kill, was begun in
the city court this morning, and then
continued when several witnesses failed
to appear. Haggard testified that
Woodall shot him thru the mouth at a
party at the latter's home a few
weeks ago. Haggard said there
were sixteen or twenty persons at the
party, six of whom We're white men
and women, and that all were drink
ing beer and whisky. A crap game
also was in progress. Haggard stated.
Many families in Topeka had
chicken for Thanksgiving dinner. but
the forty prisoners in the Shaw
bred, milk-fed white Wyandottes.
They were purchased by Sheriff ROB-
ert Miller from Kenneth Raub, deputy
county clerk, and breeder of white
Wyandottes.
Mrs. Pearl Walker, 1922 Kansas
avenue, was granted a divorce from
Fred I. Walker, proprietor of a drug
James Mcclure in the district court
this morning. Mrs. Walker was
awarded the ownership of the home
and most of the furniture. the custody
ter, Lucille, and $4,000 alimony, pay
able in $50 monthly installrnents.
Walker is also to pay $50 a month for
the support of the girl until she is of
age ne was given the STOCK Oh drugs
and certain household furniture and
personal property and the automob
Walker, who originally brought the
divorce suit. later dismissed his petit
ton and the case went on trial on
the cross petition of his wife, who ac-
cused him of extreme cruelty.
Mrs. Reva Keeton today filed a Pc
tition in the district court asking a
divorce from Ray Keeton, an employee
of the Central Topeka Paper COM
pany, charging that he possesses a
violent temper and when he becomes |
angry, curses; assaults and abuses
her On August he struck her sew
eral times and then abandoned her,
she says. She asks for the restoration
of her maiden name. Reva Jones.
Burglars who entered the store of
Sam Cunningham, Eighth avenue and
Lake street, Thursday night by re-
moving a window, took 50 in pennies
and several cans of smoking tobacco,
according to report to the police.
Get your Burglary insurance from
THE TUER-PRATT INV. co. Phone
1997.-Adv.
A Packard bicycle belonging to We'll |
don jolly. COS North Van Buren, street,
was stolen Thursday from in front of
Petro's Drug store in North Topeka.
A Conn saxophone and an overcoat
belonging to c. C. Rogan, 1113 Quincy
street, were stolen from an automo-
bile in front of 1922 Madison street.
evening, the police We're
notified.
INSURE YOUR CAR TO-DAY WITH
TRAP & MEADE.
Phone 6537. Lowest rates-Prompt |
nts.-Adv.
James Thompson, alias Wood. now |
serving a term in the federal peniten- |
uary at Leavenworth. will be met at |
the prison gates by a deputy United |
States marshal when he is released on /
New Years day, and taken to Toledo, |