St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 11, 1886

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1 OP „ * ~~ VOL. 37. NO. 113. BY CARRIER, Fi 2 1 — * e Le f 8 1 8 te 1 * . x x 4 1 *. 22 . 2 eo 8 ‘ WEEK, 1 x 5 7 PRICE, FIVE CENTS. FTEEN CENTSA ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1886, ‘hoping List ir Friday and Sure GREAT NEW BARGAIN LOTS LADIES’, GENTS’ AND CHILDREN’S Maler UMUEPWedr, HOSEN, Ee, . CRAWFORD & C0. tions in price, Ruineus Prices. * oS AWAY surrs. JK — $10, $15, $18, 820 dich Cheviot....... $15, $20, $29 orsteds $15, $18.$20,$25,$30, 535 420 and 422 SACK surrs. SPLASH READ UE CARPETS! eR $20, $18, 815, coe LOT 1------58 dozen Gents’ Heavy Two-Thread White Merino Under- ™ ——— Sah. gan Son shirts or Drawers, at 500 each; regular price, 65c. AT BANKRUPT PRICES —— — LOT 2— 82 dozen Gents: Fancy Wool Undershirts or Drawers, in oo 2, $35 — d white stri t $1 60 h: x rice Best Wilton Car ts at $1.50; 00 eviot....$15,$18, $20, $25 $1 40, pes, a . each; regular p , Beck & Marshall’s price, $2.50 SU. 2 Py ; , a Best Axminster Carpets at $1.50; | j LOT 3------60 dozen Gents’ Fine Camel’s-Hair Striped Undershirts or Beck & Marshall’s price, $2.50 Drawers, in all sizes, at 750 each; regular price, $1.25. | Best Moquette Carpets at $1: | LOT 4------45 dozen Gents’ Red All-Wool Medicated Undershirts or Beck & Marshall’s price, $1.50 Drawers, at $1.00 each; regular price, $1.50. apie, + A — ket ag pat- LOT 5-~-.--39 dozen Gents’ Real Camel’s-Hair Undershirts or Drawers, in all sizes—Shirts, 34 to 44; Drawers, 28 to 42— at $1.75; worth $2.25. Extra sizes—Shirts,46 to 54; Drawers, 44 to 54—at $2.00 each; worth $2.75 each. LOT 6. 55 dozen Gents’ White Lamb's- Wool Undershirts or Draw- ers, in all sizes, at $1.00 each; regular price, $1.50 each. LOT 7------23 dozen Gents’ Imported All-Wool Real Scotch Full Reg- ular-Made Undershirts or Drawers, at $2.00 each; regu- lar price, 52.75. LOT 8.-----47 dozen Gents’ Red Fine Lamb’s-Wool Undershirts or Drawers, best made, at $2.00 each; extra value. LOT 9. . IOO dozen Ladies’ Superfine Light-Weight White Merino a or Drawers, in all sizes, at 5Oc each; regular price, LOT 10-----65 dozen Ladies’ Heavy-Weight White Merino Two-Thread 8 or Drawers at 50c each; regular price, 750 eac LOT 11---—-40 dozen Ladies’ Red Fine Lamb's- Wool Medicated Under- vests or Drawers at $1.25; regular price, $1.75. LOT 12-.~—23 dozen Ladies’ All-Wool White Undervests or Drawers at $1.00; regular price, $1.25. LOT 13-.---—-1,000 dozen Children’s Knit Undervests or Drawers for all ages, in white, clouded, red, Shetland and camel’s hair. Prices from 10c each up to $1.50; all at bottom prices. LOT 14.----85 dozen Children’s Union Suits Underclothing, New Brit- tain in white or Shetland; sizes, 20, 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30; all sizes, at 65c per suit; worth $1.25. DON'T WASTE -TIME~AND MONEY Tapestry Velvet Carpets at 95c and Fi: Beck & Marshall's price, $1.35 Tapestry Velvet Carpets at $1.05; Beck & Marshall’s price, $1.50 Body Brussels Carpets at 92c; Beck & Marshall’s price, $1.35 Body Brussels Carpets at 80c: Beck & Marshall’s price, $1.10 Body Brussels Carpets at 750; Beck & Marshall’s price, $1.00 Best Tapestry Brussels Carpets at 70c: eck & Marshall’s price, $1.00 Tapestry Brussels Carpets at 60c; Beck & Marshall’s price, 90c Tapestry Brussels Carpets at 45c; Beck & Marshall’s price, 75c Best extra Two-Ply Carpets at 60c; Beck & Marshall’s price, 50 Two-Ply Ingram Carpets at We; Beck & Marshall’s price, 500 Berlin Rugs, 9x12 feet, at $65; Beck & Marshall’s price, $100 Turkey Rugs, about 9x12 feet, at $70; Beck & Marshall’s price, $110 India Rugs, 9x12 feet, at $65 and $70; Beck & Marshall’s price, $115 CO., Hatters and Furnishers, B BROADWAY AND PINR, — — - Per Dozen, 250, with Jelly, 25¢, U Beans, 15¢. ATESSEN Fourth Street, e Street. th Broadway. — Smyrna Rugs at $3.50; Beck & Marshall’s price, $6.00 Mottled Smyrna Rugs at $2.00; Beck * Mars all’s price, $3.00 500 Rugs and Mate, various sizes, At Half Usual Prices, o A * J By going elsewhere for Underwear, but go at once to oes fon cnn yD: CRAWFORD ls gee nden Quarters, ITH 8TH 81. und Olive. Our stock of EXAMINE THE PI At Which We Will Sell the Remainder of # Beck & Marshall Bankrupt Stock 2 CARPETINGS = CURTAINS! The Goods must be sold without delay, hence these Sweeping Reduc- First-class Geods will probably never be seld again at s Note them and buy at once whatever you may need er may require ip the near future. It will pay yeu! © NARD & SONS, gt wh * r ts r - «⁵vb 7 1 * 1 5 N. Fourth St. Lace aud Portiere Curtains AT BANKRUPT PRICES. 350 pairs Nettingham Curtains, from $1.35 to 2 * * Marshall's 48 from 165 pairs Nottingham Lace Curtain, from $4.50 to 6 50 per pair; Beck & Marshall's 22 trom 7 to $10. 45 pairs Swiss Lace Curtains, $5 to $11 Beck 4 Marshall's prices, from $9 2 $1 30 pairs Swiss Lace Curtains, from $12 t pair; Beck & Marshali’s pices, 1 — $20 to 74 pairs Brussels Lace Cu |, from $20 to $35 pair; Beck 4 Marshall's from $35 to 45. 46 pairs Irish Point Lace U ins, from $15 t 5 ger pair; Beck & Marshall’s prices, 1 2 to per patos $20 per $35. 48 pairs Rurmese and China Curtains from $9 $20 per pair; Beck & — hy dy te ’ I's prices, from $15 ere Curtains, from 120 pairs Austrian Chenille ; „ Marshall's prices, $5 to $11 per pair; from $i4 to $25" 84 pairs Austrian Chenille P Curtains,at $13.50 E pair; Beck & Marsh prices, from $25 to 37 pairs Silk Turcoman P Curtains, from $19 to 8. 4.80 per . Marshall’ from $30 to oo . — 16 pairs Oriental Veleur P Curtains, from $23 to 1 Agee Beck & li’s prices, Ax 50 Tapestry and Chentile T ers, fr „ Beck 4 N ez, trom $2 — 8. 54 inches wide, fe yard; Beck & Mar 250 yards Burmese and In elegant faorics. $2.25 shali’s price $3.50. 375 yards Roman and 50 inches wide, only $1.50 $ cn & ’ : ren BLD RE eenall’s peices 2,500 yards Velours, s. suitable for P. ond Leon wisn angings, from 400 per yard; one price. Embroidered Table Mats > and at one-half Beck r In addition to the BANKRUPT STOUK quoted above, we huve everything New and Desirable, designed and manufactured for Fall Trade. ‘Choice Styles and ns im every grade of CARPETINGS, CURTAINS and DECO ee — These, in their season, excel the rose in popularity, and are without doubt the most beautiful of all Fall have an immense stock of Fine Plants just comencing to bloom in our conservatory. Over 75 distinct sorts in all shades of red, pink and golden yellow, 35c each; 3 for $1, OC. YOUNG & SONS, 1400 OLIVE STREET. 2 1 1 Bis Seas TIVE 6 Fashionable Fall Flowers, ll flowers. We Prepared Roofing, ABOUT NOVEMBER 15 WE WILL REMOVE TO sing Felts and Paper, — arpet Linings, ete., ete., A Ve F e 2 5 GF Catalogue of Bulbs for Fall Planting Free. e invite your inspection. I, JR, & CO., AME, Agent. a! Unlimited. NALKER ED THIRTY YEARS) oadway, Under Mercam- ibrary Hall. Diamonds, Wa Fine — Muric Boxes, Guitars, i ° onthe ther (OUR OLD LOCATION.) And Will Continue to Maintain Our Reputation for Fashionable Tailoring at Moderate Prices Autumn and Winter Styles in abundance at 25 to 35 Per Cent Less than other Tailors. NICOLL, The TAILOR, FOURTH AND OLIVE. SSS eee able Revolution Cooking. PUBLIC EXHIBITION of BAKING, ROASTING and BROILING in Charter Oak Ranges, with Wire Gauze Oven Door, AT NO. a NORTH FOURTH STREET. Do not fail to see the wonderful results in cooking produced by use of this door. EU OUR OWN OTN FLANNELS Derby 1 the best domest in cut and finish, lined GOLD WATCHES FOR GENTS, AT $25, S28, $30 and up to $150. OVERCOATS Fashionable, serviceable and jour. tailor-made Over- coats for all of the masculine persuasion, regardl size, age, form or previous condition,” in all the new and pleasing shades of Blue, Brown, manufactured from fine foreign and 0 — 4 to the trade; stylish oughout with lasting wool and silk linings, and have the shape and tom garments (which they are) at much lower prices, at the wholesale manufacturers’, the WHEN . Clothing Store,: 210 and 212 North Broadway. gap” REMEMBER OUR PRICES ON SOLID GOLD WATCHES ARE THE LOWEST IN THE CITY. HESS & CULBERTSON, 22 NORTH FOURTH Ss’ rREET. ASK YOUR GROCER FOR BEER’S BENGAL CHUTNEY and BEER’S WEST OF ENGLAND SAUCE. ess of Olive, Drab and of cus- GOLD WATCHES FOR LADIES, At $12, $15, $18 and up to $75. The Finest Relishes in the Market. FOR BEST VALUE. * , N Pe, 1 7 * ‘ « 4 7 aod . N Pe is — 8 5 ö de 7 . a, + * * N * a | ‘ i 2 i“ 4 = Aes. P wf ee at: ¥ E . » 4 a : 1 0 7 a 4 ae j x bial 5 * * * ‘> nd) * 2 , ay 7 „ ; ‘LLM re - V. ; , i — ’ SN a 1 * N. *. ; ; 1 * a. Peg 4) #8 2 ‘ * 8 3 . " rr i eh ee Oe N N r — . * * * yy Me — * Sky oe , * . 4 * 2 oF ty 7 4 os * * 7 5 ny 2 * ~ Ke “ = . te x * ae tet FPG 3 " + ~~ pt.) . A is 1 a ees AS 4 * * — Ne Table Complete Without It. NUGENT EMNVANT DAY! TO-MORROW. Goods and Silks at About Half Price. GREAT PURCHASE MISSES’ and CHILDREN’S AT A SACRIFICE. French Ribbed Hose, all in Navy, Seal, Wine, Cardi tle and Black. Wagon-Loads of Remnants of Dress PreNch Wool Hose These are genuine Imported 7x1 ure wool, l, Myr- ponents A. 1 BE J Price. We | 35e | 40c | 45¢ | 50c | 50c Worth from 45c to 80c a pair. Bargains in Every Department All Day Friday, B. NUGENT & BRO, 815 to 821 North Broadway, Between Franklin Av. and Union Market. Oysters, Per Dozen, 250. Turkey, with Jelly, 2c. Pork and Beans, e. VELICATESSEN 118 N. Fourth Street. 712 Olive Street. 718 North Broadway. PROF. MATTHEWS’ OLD ESTABLISHED DYE WORKS. No. 812 OLIVE ST. Gentlemen's Clothing Cleaned. Altered and Repaired in best style. (rrders bv express vpremntly sttended te —— ESTABLISHED 1859. CLEANING, DYEING AND REPAIRING. SUITS CLEANED IN SIX HOURS. Cleaning. 50 | . 100 W. SURBLED, N. Stxrth st., bet. Market and Chestnut sts. Orders by mail promptiv attended to : Prva Lyin INCORPORATED. The only regular institate ofthe kind — — Dr. H. NEWLAND, 1205 Chouteau avenue. — — — Drugs, Patent Medicines, etc., 10 to 20 p. e. less than at any other and Market Streets. Prescriptions a Specialty at Lewest Rates ‘Choking Catarrh. ° Have you awakened from a disturbed sleep with ail the horrible sensations of an assassin clutehing your throat and pressing the life- breath from your tightened chest? Have you noticed the languor and debility that succeed the effort to clear your throat and head of this catarrbal matter? What a depressing influeace it exerts upon the mind, clouding the memory and the bead with pains and strange noises! How difficalt it is to rid the nasal pas- „ throat and luags of this isonous can testify who ' are with curativ wers, when all tall Sanrorp’s Ra- thousands who found in his trunk ticed ° and — * — with the James and Cummings letters. In say this that I may written „ ar- rette s name some trunk; I have down. I don 12 PILING UP, the Adams Express Robbery. Additional Evidence Which Looks Bad for Messenger Fotheringham. ä Led to the Indictment, ‘‘Jim Cummings” and Richard Roe“ Grad- ually but Surely Materializing—The De- tectives Now Sure of the Identity of Both Some Very Queer Facts About the Jim Cummings” Letter—Fotheringham Talks —The Indictment and the Witnesses Whe Furnished the Testimony—Latest Devel- opments in the Express Robbery. The results achieved in clearing up the Adams Express robbery are not as satisfactory as it was expected they would be two weeks ago. Gradually a great many facts and cir- cumstances have been brought to light that direct suspicions against Messenger Fother- ingham. Someof them are ofa convincing character. One fact is generally acknowledged, and thatis that no prisoner was ever shielded by a better behavior than Fotheringham. His conduct has perplexed the detectives even in the light of the developments. During his detention at the Southern Hotel he was re- quested to repeat his statement of the robbery time and again in the hope that if he was tell- ing aconcocted story in some ofthe repe- titions he would lose the keystone, and his story would fall to pieces. If he let slip any damaging admission it has been kepta profound secret by those who had him in charge. Itis certain, however, that he made no admission or contradiction of sufficient im- portance to settle the case; and from the fact that the detectives were obliged to resort to handwriting evidence and to ask Fothering- ham for samples of his chirography one would conclude thatthe operatives were contenting themselves with small pieces of evidence, which must accordingly have been a precious commodity. The operatives, who all believe Fothering- ham guilty and delteve that the fact will be proven beyond doubt in a short time, are im- pressed with the fact that the prisoner has given a great many evidences of truthfulness. In accounting for how he spent his time in St. Louis while off his run his statements were all found to be true. This part of the investigation was pursued with the Teatest accuracy. As each admission of how he spent a certain hour was obtained operatives were burried out to verify the statement. Unusual care was exercised, as it was supposed that within this time, if he was guiltily implicated, he must have met Im Cummings, as a young man’s courage in such a criminal undertaking could scarcely sustain itself for forty-eight hours without the support of an interview with con- federates. This they proved entirely wrong. No Jim Cummings was unearthed, and where Fotheringham—whether innocent or guilty— had reasons to be without a possibility of detection he told the truth under pro- test. When warned that if he was innocent of the robbery the best thing he could do was to tell the fullest truth, he suid he was willing to do so, and in no instance were his main statements dis- proven. These facts are admitted even by those who believe him guilty, and who hope to soon complete a chain of evidence for presentation in the Criminal Court. Already along string of convincing statements bave been made going to establish Fotberingham’s guilt. The most criminating testimony comes in shape of handwriting. Onthe day after the — 2 of the express car on the Frisco road Fotheringham came back to St. Louis on the east-bound train, baving turned over his rified car to Joe C. Griffith, another messenger, who was coming east. The facts concerning the robbery were telegraphed to Superintendent Damsel at 1 o'clock, and work was immedi- ately begun onthe case. When Fotheringham returned in the morning he was immediately taken in charge by the express people, and held by them until he was sent to jail. On the Arst day his trunk, which was stored in the sleeping room of the Adams Express messen- gers, was seized and haa since been rifled. It is stated that in this trunk a sheet of found on which the name ot J. B. was written a great many times and each time approaching nearer to the genuine signature of the superintendent. This sheet together with the letter written to Frank James, the letter the Globe-Demecrat Mou, and acample of Fotturiagham’s writing o., and ot ms writing were submited to F. W. H. Wiesehahn, an rt, who pronounced them the same hand- esse ate * 1 „ .. „ that Cummi — 1 (F bem) was a »box, had ut LATEST DITION 2 To-Day’s Sensational Developments in Streng Chain of Circumstances Which per was Barrett * was at the hotel I did whatever» oe acqual ° % look of yrs my that , 1 overspread the messenger’s face, as he locke up to the tier, was one of unmistakable genu- 1 story of Mr. James Wabash locomotive engineer press company after the robbery was com- mitted. This writing was upon several of paper, and was the evident of rr to perfect rn — 2 „ kaeas ot” nature of J. B. Bar- . u nt o © express com . These other documents upon whieh the forgery had been practiced and which were also found in the trunk were submitted to oe 59 inspection of Mr. Wiesehahn. The letter ae ten to Frank es, the De letter to . the messenger’s mother, inclosing $60 and 1 letter signed by Cummings, and inclosing , cxpress package wrappers and indie the hiding place of the skiff, guns, ete., which came to the Globe-Democrat, also placed in evidence. After an ae examination of them Mr. Wiesehahn « we positively that the writing was ae the work of one and the same hand. He minutely out the sim which convin him of this fact and that the writing of Fotheringham was that the same penman who had written these three letters. The expert also declared that Foth- eringham wro at least half a dozen distinct hands, all easily distinguishable. Mr. Wiesehabn in an interview is quoted at length as to the means by which he jodges the identity of a handwriting. He said. | é an individual was as much personified in eS his handwriting and as easily recognized by it ‘aa is face, figure, speech or other pece- 5 as by h liarities. andthe characteristics of the writing would show through all efforts to d- tort it as plainly as would the distin characteristics of voice, face and walk in an attempt to disguise them. Mr. Wiesehahn also said that undera microscope there ap- pearedin all writing a characteristic nerve tremor unknown tothe individual and un- controllable 7 him. This tremor, Mr. Wiesehahn d, was the most unfail- ing means of identifyin a hand- writing. In relation to the Globe. Democrat letter the speaker said that there was evi- dence that it had been written four days be- fore the robbery, on October 21, and the date had been changed from the Liest to the glet. The date line, St. Joe, also indicated that it had been attached to the letter aiter the letter was written. The letter indicated too, that it had been written at different sittings, and not at one time, while the James letter and the one to the messen- ger’s mother had each been written at one sitting. Oertain peculiarities in m lp letters, as the capitals D, I, N, an and the small t’s and g's, ran through all of „In Mr. Wiesehatin’s — 2 1 @ messenger was « very skit ul thas witnesses before the Grand-jury vero baggageman of the train on wittth the 1 took place, the conductor ° rinkle, the telegraph operator of South Mr. Parker, and Mr. J. OC. Griffiths of Rolla. The baggageman testified that when he, one of the firstto do so, entered the car w Fotheringham’s the messenger was found bound, the gag was lying on Fotheph.« . pe 2 not to case they should "bat they have me not to 80 and won't think me uncivil to talk was never in any — aan : the th of — new to me. ot my 5 : I W — 8 8 2 . pe