The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-09-20
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Uncle Sam turned TO the Topeka
police for protection this morning
Ernest Carter. negro. driver of a truck
for Warren Monroe, who has the con-
tract for hauling the United States
mail to and from the depots in To-
peka had an alteration with his wife
at Third and Adams street. Carter
asserted that she was-throwing bricks
at him and that he abandoned his
truck for fear the windshield would
be broken and he would be cut by fly
ing glass. Mr. Carter is said to have
then taken possession of the truck anu
with a knife held her spouse at bay.
Someone called an officer. and when
she saw the policeman coming the
woman disappeared and Carter re-
turned to his truck. A similar Incl
dent occurred a few days ago and the
police had TO be called to keep the
Unitad States mails moving" It was
said.
George w. Hamilton, former To-
peka undertaken, was made defendant
in A suit filed in the district court to-
day by the state to collect $500 on the
SoAd of Sadie Bohanun, charged with
having liquor in her possession. and
wlro failed TO appear for trial Janu-
arg Z. 1922. according to the petition.
Hamilton was her bondsnan.
Cour: house officials are experience
ing difficulty in getting rio of an aged
negro vino spends his entire time
sleeping on the benches in the corridor
on the second floor. as well as in the
various offices. He is said to believe
that he has a. $4,000 damage suit
against the city railway company in
court and that Tinkham Veale. coun-
ty attorney, is his attorney. He says
he is waiting for the court to render
Judgment for him. He declares he
formerly worked on the track for the
street railway company and that his
feet were frozen off while he was in
the service. Recently he entered the
county farm bureau, in the basement,
went unobserved to a back room. lay
down on the floor and went to sleep.
Mrs. Julia Kiene, county home demon
stration agent, later entered the room.
In the dim light she saw the figure of
a man lying on. the floor. She also
saw a crutch and across one of his
legs the end of a red shawl, which
she thought was blood. She lost no
time in notifying the sheriff's office
The man is said to own some property
in. North Topeka and has relatives liv
ing near him, but will not stay away
from the court house. #
A suit to collect s533.33 on two
promissory notes from B. r. Hayes,
of Los Angeles, was filed in the dis
trict court today by VIII w. Mcbride.
of Topeka.
Mrs. E. S. Cooley, of Topeka, today
filed a petition in the district court
asking a divorce from F. c. Cooley, of
Hutchinson, charging him with neglect
and abandonment. They are the par
ents of six children, according to the
petition.
Burglars Wednesday night entered
the filling station of the Standard Oil
company at Seventeenth street and
Topeka boulevard by prying open a
window, but failed to get anything,
- -+ gan
The police this morning received
request from Sheriff J. A. Morine to
be on the lookout for six prisoners
who escaped Sunday night from the
Mcpherson county jail The men and
the charges against them are: Ed Tay
lors %, forgery; Claud Sits. 80, rape;
n. A. Thompson, %, larceny; Walter
Young, %. larceny; William King,
negro, robbery.
+. c. S. Pyle, resident OF Garfield
Place reported to the police Tuesday
night that a bay mare had been stolen
from his barn. Is
Mrs. Carrie White, of Topeka, to-
day filed a petition in the district
court asking a divorce from George
White, now living near Baileyville.
Kan. She charges him with extreme
cruelty. neglect and failure to support
neT, afleglnS tCnSI she mas naQ TO. 90
sewing for several years to keep her
self and three children in food and
Clothes. r.
Judge J. D. NJ. Hamilton, of the
probate court started on the final
lap of his summer. vacation Tuesday
night by starting to western Kansas,
where he will spend the rest of the
week hunting. Barton Griffith. clerk,
is acting as Judge pro tenn in the
absence of Judge Hamilton.
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