This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Author: EDCRF Surnames: Classification: obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.washington.counties.king/7165.5/mb.ashx Message Board Post: The Pueblo Chieftain Pueblo, Colorado Sunday, April 28, 1917 Page 3, Column 5 City Briefs Gets Divorce - Gratia Long has been granted a final decree of divorce from her husband, H.J. Long in the county court. They were married at Parsons, Kansas, July 23, 1899 and the mother is granted the custody of three children. The decree was granted on the grounds of infidelity. ========== Colorado Springs Gazette Colorado Springs, Colorado Wednesday, August 22, 1917 Page 7, Column 3 City Hall - Courthouse Joseph J. Boatz of Colorado Springs and Gratia A. Long of Pueblo were married yesterday by Justice Rudy. ========== The Seattle Daily Times Saturday Evening, March 25, 1922 Page 3, Column 2 Daily Statistics In Divorce Court Divorce complaints were filed in the Superior Court today by Marvel Ely against Hagan H. Ely, nonsupport ========== The Seattle Daily Times Thursday, October 15, 1925 Page 1, Column 5 Neal And Wife, Bon Marche Bandit Suspects, Caught Joe O. Neal, former Seattle policeman and his wife, Mrs. May Neal, Bon Marche hold up suspects, were caught last night in Minneapolis. A family quarrel which caused the summoning of police to their apartment resulted in their arrest. Although Neal first gave the name of Charles McCall, later he admitted his identity, but not until he had struck one policeman and nearly escaped. Neal and his wife have been sought since February 16, when they failed to appear in the King County Superior Court for trial on a charge of taking part in the $22,000 hold up of Bon Marche employees August 8, 1924. Neal's $10,000 bond and his wife's $5,000 bond were forfeited. Neal also was at liberty on $5,000 bond on a charge of robbing the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Vancouver, British Columbia of $19,000 June 1924. Speedy Extradition Sought King County official and Detective Chief Charles Tennant today began preparations to obtain extradition of the Neals and their speedy trial. Seattle officers will be sent to Minneapolis to return them. The apartment in which Neal and his wife were arrested was at 11 East 17th Street, Minneapolis. The noise of their quarrel caused other tenants to summon three motorcycle patrolmen. They found Neal threatening his wife with a knife. He was disarmed, but on the way to the street slugged Patrolman Clayton Sewall, broke away and ran. Other officers recaptured him. At the police station Neal admitted his identity. The trial of three other defendants, Edward Lee Fasick, proprietor of the [sic] went on after the Neals fled from Seattle. The three were convicted February 19. Fasick and Dooley were sentenced to serve from seven to fifteen years in prison The Fasicks appealed, Mrs. Fasick being at liberty on bonds and Fasick being held in county jail. Dooley is serving his sentence without an appeal. The robbery occurred at 2:30 o'clock the afternoon of August 8 at the crowded entrance of the Bon Marche on Union Street, just west of Second Avenue. As James M. Telfer and J.H. Whelan, employees, came out of the store with the $14,000 cash and $8,000 checks in satchels, three men jumped out of a slowly moving automobile, snatched the satchels, fired two shots and jumped back into their car, in which were two other men. Neal Captured Patrolmen J.M. Kokesh and George Cowan happened by as the crowd gathered and chased the bandit car to the waterfront, where the bandits got out. Neal was captured on the scene. Ross C. Watson, former city detective, who is awaiting trial on the $42,000 Nanaimo bank robbery charge, was charged with complicity in the Bon Marche robbery but this charge was dismissed before he was extradited to Canada. John Callahan, arrested near Mount Vernon last spring, pleaded guilty March 20 and received a sentence of from twenty to fifty years in prison. Confession Solved Hold Up The Bon Marche hold up was solved principally through the confession of Norris W. Lockwood, a porter in the store, that he had aided the bandits and had helped them plan the robbery in Fasick's soft drink place. Lockwood was released July 1 on a suspended five to fifteen year sentence, but is available to testify against Neal, Mr. Colvin says. Neals Seen During Hold Up Two women who were chatting on the street corner just before the robbery also gave material evidence for the state. One of them knew Neal and said she saw Neal, his wife and the other defendants loitering about the store entrance and giving various signals to each other just before the robbery. This witness is the mother of Frank Stevens, alias Steve Montrose, also a fugitive in connection with the Louis Barei hijack murders at Coalfield, for which two former policemen and two other men were sentenced to life terms. ========== The Seattle Daily Times Sunday Morning, November 22, 1925 Page 10, Column 5 $15,000 Bond of Neals Is Ordered Forfeited Forfeiture of $15,000 bail bond for Joe and May Neal, who fled from this state to Minneapolis while charged with robbery, has been ordered by the State Supreme Court, it was learned yesterday by Prosecutor Ewing D. Colvin. The case was carried to the high court by Sidney Brunn and E.S. Turner, bail bond agents. Neal pleaded guilty last week to the charge of participating in the Bon Marche robbery and was sentenced to twenty to thirty years at Walla Walla State Penitentiary. Mrs. Neal was acquitted on the same charge. When Mrs. Neal fled from Seattle she deserted her two small children by a former marriage. Since that time the children have been given to the custody of her former husband. ========== The Seattle Times Friday, November 17, 1944 Page 24, Column 3 Couple, 75 And 74 Years Old, Are Divorced An elderly couple - both in their 70's - were divorced yesterday at an uncontested hearing before Superior Judge Clay Allen. Mrs. Lilla A. Boats, 75 years old, testified that she and her husband, Joseph J. Boatz, 73, were married May 1, 1920. Both had been married before, she added. Questioned by her counsel, W.B. Magee, as to "the trouble between you and your husband," Mrs. Boatz said Boatz "used profane language regularly and would go for weeks at a time without hardly speaking." She added that he was "ugly and cranky." "Who paid the bills?" inquired Magee. "I did," said Mrs. Boatz. She added that her husband left her July 29 and moved to Idaho. She earns her living, she explained, taking in boarders at her home, 2901 Fourth Avenue West. Judge Allen awarded her an interlocutory decree of divorce. ========== The Seattle Times Tuesday, September 7, 1965 Page 27, Column 7 Orin A. Spencer Funeral services for Orin A. Spencer, 78, of 2406 South 158th Street, will be at 1 o'clock tomorrow in the Washington Memorial Chapel, with cremation following. He died Sunday in a hospital. A native of Labette, Kansas, Mr. Spencer resided here more than 50 years. He was a street car operator 20 years with the Seattle Transit System before retiring in 1936. He was an Army veteran of the First World War. Mr. Spencer was a member of Lodge No. 7, Independent Order of Odd Fellows; Theodore Rosenfelt Post No. 24, Veterans of Foreign Wars and Division 587, Amalgamated Transit Union. His wife, Annabelle, survives. ========== The Seattle Times Tuesday, December 6, 1966 Page 47, Column 1 Obituaries Mrs. Orin Spencer Funeral services for Mrs. Annabelle A. Spencer, 64, of 2406 South 158th Street, who died Sunday in a Burien hospital, will be at 1 o'clock tomorrow in the Washington Memorial Chapel, with entombment in Washington Memorial Park. A native of Pennsylvania, Mrs. Spencer moved here 40 years ago. She was a member of the Rebekah Lodge. Her husband, Orin, died in 1965. Important Note: The author of this message may not be subscribed to this list. If you would like to reply to them, please click on the Message Board URL link above and respond on the board.