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VERSED IN LORE OF ANCIENTS, THIS MAN KNOWS NOT A WOMANScop Keffulos, Mixed in the Eternal Triangle, Finds Himself Without Wife and Friend.WARRANT FOR EACH OF THEM-When a man marries his troubles begin. So say the cynics, and the story told by Scop Keffulos would seem to prove the truth in one instance at least.Scop Keffulos is an educated Greek. He has a speaking and writing knowledge of a half dozen languages and has served as an interpreter for his countrymen in the employ of the railroads in and about Cedar Rapids. He Is versed in the wisdom of the ancients and moderns and knows of the philosophy taught by Socrates and Plato. Despite his learning Scop not pay much heed to a certain mwdern epigram and in epite of himself he loved not wisely birt too well,” to his subsequent undoing. Just now Scop is one aide of a triangle in another eternal triangle” story all because he was blihd to the actions of his spouse.Married Three Years Agp.Two years ago or maybe it was three Scop was married to a young woman at Coggon whose name is said to be Stella. She is said to have been a belle in the comunity and to have been the center of attraction in more than one social function in the town. Scop was looked on as having made a ten strike when he won the hand of the young woman in marriage. Whether he believes so in the face of recent developments is open to question.The young people came to Cedar Rapids and lived here for a time where Scop served in the capacity of an interpreter and strove to make the life pfhlsfellow countrymen in a strange land a little easier. All was happiness about the Keffulos family hearthstone until the railroad company by -which j Keffulos was employed transferred him to duties at Manila, Iowa, about 150 miles west of Cedar Rapids. Then the matrimonial skein became tangled considerably.At Manila the Keffulos couple lived in a bunk car. Mrs. Keffulos did not take kindly to the new residence as it was not regarded highly as a domicile In the best regulated circles of society there. She accordingly began to manifest certain evidences of dissatisfaction and began to pine for a life far from the screech of the steam whistle and the jargon of the Greek workman.| Scop began to devise ways and means to bring a larger measure of satisfaction to his spouse. She told ! him that she desired to visit an aunt at. Fairfield, Iowa. Scop assented eag-| erly because he thought a change of ; scene and action was just what his ! wife needed. The change of scene and action came all right but not quite In the way Scop expected. Enter the oth-; er side of the triangle in the person of , Raul Engellvu*.Here’# Where Paul Enters.Paui Engelhus is an educated Greek also. He is or was an interpreter in the employ of railroad companies in I Kansas City. He had seeh the wife ! of Scop and was smitten by her charm^ Accordingly he knew of her where-! ebouts and when she went to visit in Fairfield he sent her-a- elegram telling her to meet him at Kansas City. She, nothing loth to find her desired change of scene, went to*'Kansas City and met her friend Paul.About this time Scop had an intui-i tion that all was not well with the marital felicity of the household • and ! he began to carry on an investigation which uncovered to him the erring i trc.il of Mrs. Keffulos and Paul Engel! us He immediately called the ma-f chmery of the law into action to stop 1 the free-love procedure of his spouse ; and had a warrant sworn out for Eng-clhus charging him with a statutory crime. Engelhus was arrested and I gave bond for his appearance in Kan-1 sas City to answer to the allegations made by Keffulos He will be arraign-' ed in the near future.Warrant For Wife.Scop did not content himself with j | impairing the freedom of his rival in I love, Paul, lie has sworn out a war- i ; rant for Mrs.. Keffulos. but so far she ;lias not been apprehended. He charges j , mat in addition Mo violating the con- ' ventions and the moral code. MYs. j i Keffulos made away with certain mon- ' ey belonging to him to the subsequent j | flattening of hie purse. He says that j Mrs. Keffulos was given $125 by him to take to a Manilla bank, but on in- | vestigaticn he found that the $125 did ; not enter the coffers of the bank. Scop also charge# his wife with being too free with her penmanship on checks on which she signed his name also to the ; subsequent weakening of his bank f account about $1,000 worth, it is said.Just now the matrimonial tangle of Mr. and Mrs. Scop Keffulos is interesting local Greeks who are conversant with the situation. Whether the skein will be untangled “to the future enjoy-j rnent of the couple rests with the , courts.
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The Evening Gazette
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, US
Fri, Oct 22, 1915
Page 3
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