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Brother Believes Story of Girl Jumping From Car Is False—Claims Curtis Lured Her to Kansas City With Promise of New Job. (Special to The Star.) KANSAS CITY, Me. March 12— The wheels of justice halted for a few minutes later Saturday after noon when A. C. Phelps, brother of Evelyn Phelps, who met her on Thursday night on a lonely road near Kansas City, assaulted W E. Curtis, the man she was with ¢ the night of her death. Just as Cur tis was being taken into court to be arraigned on a charge of first de gree manslaughter, Curtis had both his eyes blackened and was otherwise painfully injured. When Curtis resisted and cried out, J. M. Elder, detective, chased Phelps into the court room. Justice John George ordered Phelps searched and released him with the advice not to repeat the offense. Curtis was released Saturday af ternoon on $4,000 bond after his ar raignment before tatice John George. R. B. Kirwin, attorney for Curtis, and T. I. Pelletier, his en joyer, furnished his bond. His pre mary hearing is set for March 26. “The story that Evelyn tried to jump from Curtis’ motor car in or der to go back to look at a cottage is too thin to hold water,” said. “I think if she jumped at all it was to keep from being taken to the place. A peculiar thing to me is the wound just the size of Klaxon horn on the left side of her head just beside the car. Curtis says she jumped from the right side of the car. A loose blazen horn was found inside the car.” Says She Promised Job. Phelps said that when he was in Kansas City about the middle of February his sister was debating whether to marry Curtis. “She had made one unfortunate marriage,” said Phelps, “and she said she wanted to be careful this time,” he said. “He had given out the wrong im pression about Eva following him to Kansas City. She met Lim in Lincoln when she was working for a telephone there. When he came to Kansas City he wrote telling her he had obtained a better job for her in Kansas City with a detective agency. “Lured by the promise of more money and anxious to get away and forget her divorce sult in Lincoln she came to Kansas City. She didn’t like the job with the detective s and went to work with the hone company.” Phelps said that friends of his sister at the telephone company said she had not been telephoning Curtis for several days prior to the acci dent. Thursday noon, however, she talked to him,
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Lincoln Sunday Star
Lincoln, Nebraska, US
Sun, Mar 13, 1921
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