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COURTHOUSENOTES AND POLICEGOSSIP. Otis E. Hungate, prominent Topeka attorney, today was appointed by Judge James McClure of the district court, as receiver for the United Elevators company, with headquarters in the New England building. The receivership suit was brought by James Nelson and W. C. Cooney, of Topeka, and William Stoskoff, of Barton county, comprising a majority of the board of directors. They claim the company to be insolvent. Hungate is authorized to take charge of the concern, with power to employ and discharge employes and fix their compensation, and to collect outstanding accounts. The company owns an elevator in Eskridge and three in Barton county. Five alleged speeders benefited by Judge S. L. Lashbrook's parole system in police court Friday afternoon. They were: H. Carr, high school student, fined $25, paroled on payment of $10; G. G. Finley, truck driver, fined $25, paroled on payment of $15; John Brinker, student, fined $30, paroled on payment of $10; C. H. Wasson, engineer, fined $25, paroled on payment of $5; Donald France, cement worker, fined $25, paroled on payment of $10. Apologizing to T. D. Humphrey, local attorney, saved Pearl Wilson, negro, from being fined in police court Friday afternoon. Judge S. L. Lashbrook was inclined to be lenient when he heard the man was supporting a family of five. He therefore fined him $15 and paroled him on payment of $5. But when Wilson walked across the room, grabbed Humphrey's hand and apologized, the judge's heart was touched and he "called it square." Wilson hit Humphrey in the eye, it was claimed, following a crash between his bicycle and the attorney's car. Wilson was charged with assault. William F Zirkle late Friday filed a petition in the district court to obtain one-half of a 160-acre farm which he claims his brother, Claude Zirkle, refuses to turn over to him. He said it was the understanding that the farm was to be divided between them when he reached his majority. His father deeded the land to Claude, he says, because William was not of age at the time. The two brothers live near Quenemo. Mrs. Alfred Sanders, 613 Hancock street, was given judgment for $1,150 by a jury in Judge Whitcomb's court Friday evening against Dr. D. A. Bragg, 1227 Western avenue, for injuries she received when the car in which she was riding with her husband, and Doctor Bragg's car collided at Sixth avenue and Harrison street March 6. She sued for $5,250. A Studebaker car driven by Floyd Carter,837 North Harrison street, and a Chevrolet driven by H. Benedict, of Oakland, were slightly damaged when they collided Friday afternoon at Gordon street and North Kansas avenue. No one was injured. INSURE YOUR CAR WITH TRAPP & MEADE, LARGEST AUTOMOBILE INSURANCE AGENCY IN KANSAS. 119 WEST SIXTH. PHONE 37. -Adv. A state warrant was issued today charging Bradford Eastman, 18, and Cecil Thompson, 23, with holding up and robbing Mae Buck, who operates a rooming house at 609 North Kansas avenue. It is claimed that the youths compelled Miss Buck, at the point of a revolver, to write them a check for $60. They also struck her, she told officers. Oscar Gay, negro, was arrested today on a state warrant charging him with manslaughter in connection with the death of "Boots" Henderson, who died from the effects of a bullet wound received from Gay's revolver. It is charged that Gay shot at Henry Massenberg, another negro, with intent to kill, and that the bullet struck Henderson, resulting in his death. The shooting took place at the home of Bertha Glover, Twenty-fourth and Madison streets. An alternative writ of mandamus to compel F. H. Foster, state bank commissioner, to issue her a certificate on the defendant State Bank of Hope, Kan., is asked in a petition filed in the district court late Friday by Mrs. Alice Channon. She declares she had $11,780 on deposit in the bank when it was declared insolvent, April 20, 1922, and that the bank commissioner has refused to issue her a certificate on the ground that John M. Ketchersid, cashier of the bank, had signed her name to several checks made payable to himself. Mrs. Channon asserts that if this was done that it was without her knowledge or authority. Mrs. E. Lorraine Freeland defied her husband, Karl E. Freeland. when she filed suit in the district court late Friday requesting a divorce. She says Freeland threatened to kill her if she took such a step. He has also failed to provide for her and has been quarrelsome and cruel, she asserts. However, Freeland filed an entry of appearance and consented to trial of the case at the court's convenience. Halloween pranksters engaged in premature celebrations are keeping the police busy at night. The removal of rocking chairs from front porches and of gates and other movable property is becoming common in all parts of town. Motorcycle police were kept busy answering calls Friday night. A rock was tossed thru a window in the State Street school house and several benches broken up. Garfield avenue was blocked for a time with sewer pipe. The "mystery of the white sedan" has been solved. Charles G. Schlegel, owner of the Ford which burned up on the West Sixth avenue road Monday night, appeared at the sheriff's office Friday afternoon and explained that he had recently traded for the car in Kansas City. He said he had taken his old license off and placed it on the Ford. He said he and Roy
