The northwestern bulletin-appeal., 1924-01-19
Lawyers Seek to
Deprive Maiden
OF Rich Land
Intrigue Seen in Attempt to
Wrest Vast Fortune From
Student at Western 'U."

Kansas City, Mo.-Eager hands,
working under protection of oklaho-
ma law to snatch a girl and fortune
from the campus of Western uni
versity, in Quindaro, were brushed
aside in a Wyandotte district court
Monday, when Judge F. D. Hutchings
dissolved an order restraining DR.. F.
Jesse Peck and other officers of the
university from preventing outsiders
from communicating with the girl
student.
The girl In the case is Miss Lon
zetta Canady, attractive eighteen
year-old student at the university,
whose home is In Depew, Okla.
Miss Canady's holdings of 100 acres
Of Oil land there are reputed to be
worth nearly 100000. The court
action was the result of efforts on
the part of her half brother, Giles
Canady, to communicate with her,
and, according to lawyers and others
in the case, to get her to sign away
her rights to the valuable property
for the benefit Of white men in Okla
homa. .....
Marriage Sought.
A veritable network of intrigue, in
cluding the sending of a prospective
husband to register at the campus as
a student and marry the heiress, has
been woven about Miss Canady since
she became of age. Ben Canady, her
father, brought her personally, to
Western University and requested es-
pecially that she not be allowed off
the campus on any pretext whatso-
ever unless she was accompanied by
the matron. Mr.. Canady said Mon
day that he felt at that time that
white lawyers in Oklahoma would try
some means of getting control of his
daughters property and he brought
her to school for safekeeping.
About the middle Of November a
prospective student, from Oklahoma,
sent a draft for $3.50 to the registrar
of the university for tuition. He
came to Kansas City, but instead Of
going directly to the campus, he went
out on good time" became talka-
tive and told friends that he had
come to Western to marry Miss
Canady and THUS have a share in ad-
ministering her money.
The story reached the ears of DR..
Peck and the mans tuition was re-
turned, not TO him, but to other men,
who, 1t is alleged, paid 1t for him.
Scheme Thwarted.
For three days just prior to
Thanksgiving an automobile bearing
a Tulsa license and containing two
white men and Negro camped in
front of the women's dormitory and
Eroved about the campus until police
forced them to move, Mrs. Curry.
girls matron, said Monday. Head
quarters for the alleged conspirators
'are said to have been at a well known
Eighteenth street hotel. A number
.of Negroes, including the girls half
brother, are alleged 10 have been
bought" by certain white men who
want to get control of the fortune.
The effort of the half brother.
Giles. to get Miss Canady away from
the campus to lawyers Office
brought on the court action that ex-
posed the plot. The boy wanted the
court to order DR.. Peck to allow him
to see his sister at will. This the
court refused to do after w. L. Wood,
attorney for the university and the
girl, told the court that the whole
business was scheme on the part Of
one Thomas G. Swanson, white
lawyer Of Oklahoma City, to be ap-
pointed Miss Canady's lawyer in
IOklahoma