100 years ago: Lawrence woman returns home early, finds husband in compromising position

From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for April 22, 1911:

  • “Last week a Lawrence woman, whose husband was formerly a minister, concluded to go to Kansas City for an Easter hat and to spend a week visiting relatives in the city. She was not expected home until the latter part of this week. However, tiring of the giddy life of the city, she concluded to return earlier, and horror of horrors, when she peered through the front door she was a dainty and distinctly feminine slipper reposing on the dining room table. The front door was locked and when she finally gained entrance through a side door, there was hubby and another woman drinking something from a bottle in the kitchen. Just what kind of scene was enacted, the reporter wasn’t told.”
  • “Lute Nelson was fined $1.00 and costs in Justice Clark’s court late yesterday afternoon. Nelson is the man who created a disturbance by pounding upon a partition and inviting the occupants of the other portion of the house to make a trip with him to a climate which winter never visited. He is also accused of having tried to intimidate witnesses.”
  • “L. M. Murray of San Francisco swung through Lawrence at a six mile an hour clip yesterday, pausing only long enough to get a drink. Murray is walking across the continent from San Francisco to New York, in an effort to establish a new record. He claims to be a newspaper man and is collecting notes of his trip for a series of travel articles upon his return.”