St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 25, 1900

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} 161 636 Last Sunday. ) } ) | EY OVER 50,000. ) ) BIGGEST WEST OF THE MISSISSIPPI, 68,155 Higher Than One Year Ago. FIFTY PAGES. 31.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH. Mant Ads... SE 276,150 tax Yas) 14,523 MORE THAN ANY OTHER WEST OF 41,809 More Than the Year Before. THE MISSISSIPPL -— ~_ ~ — -~ - ~ VOL. 52, NO. 216 SUNDAY MORNING—ST. LOUIS—MARCH 25, 1900 LOOKS CALM AND UNDAUNT Miss Horlocker Shows Strain of the Trial. FEATURES OF POISONING CASE. DR. CROMWELL SAYS THE WOM- AN IS A DEGENERATE. Afflicted With Dementia Which in a Short Time Will Develop tnto Insanity—Incidents of the Trial. ° Special to the Post-Dispatch. HASTINGS, Neb., March 24.—With the cloee of the first week of her trial, Miss mmm “DR, COOMBS HAD TO RESIGN Sequel tothe Fulton Asylum’s Many Troubles. Viola Horlocker, who is accused of trying, to murder Mrs. Anna R. Morey, with whose husband she was irJatuated, looks as un- daunted as when she stepped into the courtroom last Monday mornina The alleged maeans of murder in this case—poisoned candy—gives ‘t an unusual interest. In all its experience with court cases of thé most sensational character, including the grastiy Yocum and Mason murder trials, is city has never heen wrought to a higher pitch, ner has it evinced a livelier interest in the” varying fortunes of*a hotly contested legal battle than is now shown in the same courtroom, as the various phases of the poisoning are unfdfded before Judge Adams and the 12 men who are sittinig in jude- ment. - . The male population of Hastings is deep- ly interested in the proceedings, but the men have had tq give way, for it is the! women who have taken possession of the courtroom and pre-empted everg availa- ble inch of space that offers any induce- nent to the would-be auditor or specta- tor. the chamber of justice this afie.goon, less than 100 were men, and this count inciuded the court, jury, members of the bar®and the working representatives of the press. To the casual observer it appeared to be an audience entirely of the gentier sex, and, from the bench, the sea of faces seemed but the foundation supporting a multi-colored expanse of ribbons, feathers and flowers. , Nor was it an audience that required any special invitation or unusual attention to induce it to remain. Of the entire number, probably one-half were standing, and they were jammed together like beans in a bar- rel. They filled the space just outside the railing and completely cut from the occu- pants of the chairs behind them ail view of everything inside in the rail, with the possible-exception of the top of the judge's chair. But no one complained. They were lucky to even get ingide the courtroom, as hundreds were turned away at the portal and the more fortunate ones knew it and congratulated themseives on their good luck. The testimony taken in the Horlocker- Morey poisoning case this morning was all of a nature to support -the plea of insanity on the part of the defense. By order of the court all of the testimony of Miss Eva Stewart given at yesterday’s hear- ing, regarding things told the witness by the defendant concerning her rela- tions with Mr. Morey, was ordered stricken from the records as incompent and hearsay. The testimony of Witness Frank- lin, in which the defendant told him she was in love with a married man, Was also stricken from the record for the same rea- eon. Dr. Lynn testified that he had treated the defendant during 1898 when she came to him suffering from severe pains in the head. That on these occasions he gave her hypo- dermic injections of morphine; that he at- tributed the pains to ordinary woman's ill- mess. He saw her after April, 1899, at her home. She was suffering at that time from severe pains in the head, loss of sleep and appetite. That the pupils of her eyes were dtlated and he said he attributed the dila- tion to congestion of the brain, but it might -hRave been caused by belladonna or other drugs. Dr. Cook testified that he saw the de- fendant at Tibbett’s and Morey’s office and concluded that she was suffering from hys- terio-epilepsy. A number of other witnesses testified to the good character of the de- fendant and the court adjourned until 9 o'clock Monday morning. There is but one more witness to go On the stand for the defense with the excep- tion of the expert witnesses, upon whom the attorneys for. the defendant are counting to prove beyond a doubt that Viola Hor locker has a diseased mind. Probably as clear a line on the defense’s contention as can be secured may be gained from a statement made to the correspond: ent this afternoon by Dr. Annie Ht. M. Cromwell. the proprietor and managing head of the sanitarium at Jacksonvilie, Til, where Misa Horlocker has been spending her time for the past 11 months. Dr. Crom- ; Said: WeThere can be no question among those who are advised of the facts that Mirs Hor- locker is not insane. She is nov afflicted physical degenerate. She has been at our place for’nearly a year and there is no doubt whatever in my mind as to her real con- dition. , the time and have had as high as 14. 4 am a doctor myself, although I now loc after the business management and do not like the general practice. The institution was established by my grandfather in 1871, and later conducted by my father, who was a doctor, and now by myself. Mies Hor- locker is nto insane. She is not afflicted with dementia, but that will come later. It may not come before see is 45 or 50, but that does not prevent her being wholly ir- nsible et believe she haa grown worse in the past year. In fact I Know she ‘s worse thun when she came there. I am satisfied that it is incurable and I am inclined to the opinion that it will shorten her life. I have seen a great many of these cases and we have had her examined by several phy- sicilans. Dr; Frank Norberry of our insti- tution ij6é here and Dr. Green of Lincoln will aleo testify. There are 20 depositions from eeveral experts on these matters, among them Dr. Eleanor Milligan of Springfield and Dr. R. L. Warner of Chi- : Miss Horlocker ts entirely rational knows what ie going on around her, We have 35 or 40 patiente there ali) Horloeker | Of the nearly 600 persons who packed 3 OR. COOMBS LEFT THE STATE. HE IS NOW WITH HIS WIFE AT HOT SPRINGS, ARK. Tyice Before Attempts Were Made to Oust Him, but Gubernatorial Favoritism Prevailed and He Triumphed. Special from a Staff Correspondent. FUL'RON, M»., March 2%4.—When, on March 13, the® Board of Managers of State Insane Asylum Ny. 1 at Ful- ton, Mo., accepted the resignation of Dr, J. T. Coombs from the superintendency, few persons knew why. Since that da the causes which led to the.resignation have filtered out and have become known to all the people of Fulton and to a few }hersdns outside that city. The story of this last and successful at- tempt to terminate Dr. Coombs’ connection with the asylum ¢s peculiarly interesting, in view of iwe two previous attempts that were nrade and the protection that was afforded him by Gov. Stephens. The case of Coombs is probably the most remarkaDle instance of the value of gubernatorial fa- vor and kinship in the history of the State. Dr. Coomh; is a \yrother-in-law of Paul B. Moore. who is the Governor's brother- in-law nd private secretary When Dr. Coombs was found gulity of drunken- ne8s and immorality by the Board of Man- agers #nd a committee of the House of Representatives, the Governor refused to belleve the trjith of the findings and allowed him tv retain his place. This time the Governor was convinced that Dr. Coombs’ ,abits rendered him un- fit for so resporsible a posftion, and neither he nor Mr. Moore attempted to intg¢rfere when the Board of Managerg demanded the Superintenden ' to send souvenir dispatches. postoffice, which was in- stalled at the top of the Eiffel Tower in 1889, will again open. Souvenir letters, il- lustrated post cards and telegrams will be stamped, “sommet de la tour liffel, Paris Exposition Universele, 1900."" On the sec- ond and third stories of the tower restau- Likewise the Saunders | rants will be refitted, as wel as the Eiffel ‘Tower roof garden, which has been eo pop- ‘ular here every summer, Australia will make a feature of its precious stones and mines, besides showing how the gems are polished from the rough. Famous jewels of the whole world, belang- ing to the crowned beads of Europe, In- dian Rajahs or Amerkan millionaires, will be admirably imitated, so that the exhibit will the most marvelous collec- tion of gems ever gathered. The showcases guarded during 2 hours by detec- At night time the whole exhibit will be lowered hydraulically into the vaults built underneath. The Post-Dispatch correspondent visited the Swiss Village, where the little confed- eration expects to boom its tourist business. whence half the income of its inhabitants is derived. It is really astonishing to see how successfully the whole picturesqueness of Switzerland has been condensed into thar 12-acre plot. Mountains have been bullt and a forest of firs and chestnuts planted among the rocky declivities and gorges and the charming vaileys. The village proper nesties between the green hills. There is a moun- tain lake feeding many cataracts and a con- siderable stream. Miraculous bridges at dizzy helghts have been bulit on the over- hanging rocks. In curious nooks, reached by steep bridle paths, are cottages and resthouses. There is a reproduction of the St. Bernard Monas- tery and inns and population. Guides. watchmakers and milkmaids, dressed in pe propriate costumes, will sell cuckao c!* constitute er and fresh milk. A diorama effect will prolong the - FROM DRUDGERY ON A RANG The Rare Good Luck of Come- ly Little Elsie Tyson of California. NOW OWNER OF $13,000,000. A YEAR AGO SHE WAS FEEDING CHICKENS AND PIGS AND MILKING COWS. She Has Suddenly Come Into Posses- sion of the Vast Fortune of an Eccentric Australian. SAN FRANCTSCO, Cal., March 20.—In San Francisco just now, hiding from the public gaze, furtive, uncertain, hardly knowing what to make of her great fortuns, is one of the richest young women in the world—Miss Elsie Tyson, recently confirmed as sole heiress to the thirteen millions of dollars left by “Old Tyson’’ of Australia, as eccentric a millionaire as ever hoarded gold or jeft behind him a life story. And one year and a month ago Eijste Ty- son was a dependent in the family of a Humbolt County rancher, fecding the chickens with a careful hand, famillar with the kire and with an easy nution of how to call the pigs to the trough There are few stranger stories than her ¢henge in a year from household ¢rudge to resplen- dent heiress, and no wonder the change from beggar maid to queen of Cophetua has set her eyes wide and made her pinch herself to be sure she is not dreaming. “At first I thought it was so lovely, and [ enjoyed getting all sorts of things,’’ she sald yesterday. ‘But, do you know, things are a bother to take care of and think about, and they are not satisfying. If I had only enough to live on and be econom!. cal, as I always have had to be. I would like it better. Oh, it would not be any trouble to give it away, but it has been given to me and I must do the best I can with it—and I have given so much away. I am going back to my father’s old home in Scotland, and I shall spend lots of money and do things there, and try to make the people in the place all happy, or et least comfortable. “With all-my money I cannot give the least little thing to one of my own people. They are all’ gone. And how happy we might have been—all of us, and Uncle James too—but now there is only just me, and I am a very plain little body, and wanted so little, and could not have that: and now I have so much and never felt how lonely I was until I became the personi- fication of money and diflerent from other a “Still, it is nice enough to be rich, and I mean to have good times if I can find them. I have a companion who liked me before she knew how dreadfully rich I was to be, and we are going to make a home, and have a good time, and forget about the money, except to spend it in the best way we can. That is the heart-wall of a youn of 2 who has known sorrow and has on her tongue the accent of Drumtochty or Balquidder. lassie suddenly taken given enormous wealth, sclence ann the prideful shyness heather lafid still is all her own. Few stranger tales will ever be told than that which brought so many millions to the possession of this modest maid. “Old” Tyson was a weird man, with a hard life behind him. Scotland drove him woman from poverty and of the IDs Ce onceRr ; MPRRIVAL TA ~ FP SHOPPING IN Ml SAN FRANC'SCO | j ne ! YW fy fA IM fi Tee: TO HEIRESS OF MANY MILLIONS. | | f sei ful THER PoRST TefaTR Pe — MISS ELSIE TYSON, who was a farmer’s drudge a year ago, and now is the possessor of $13,000,000—one of the richest maids in the world. a sheep station until he was 23, nursing the ambition to have a “station” of his own. He hoarded his savings and put them in a Sydney bank. At 23 he walked to Sydney, living on the fish he snared in the river, intending to draw his money and set up for himeelf. The bark had closed its doors the day before. He walked back, took his old place, worked another year, kept his money in his belt, walked into Sydney again, bought | cattle and drove them to a range on which |of the blacks and every She is a wee bit of a Scoteh ; and her Scotch con- | out when he was a lad of 12, and he went: to AuStralia ail alone. ee There he worked on he squatted. The year was a_ year of drouth. At the end of the summer all his cattle were dead. Then he worked on a sheep station for, killed | and |} Tyson led the whites in a round-up | The black fellows rose, the flocks *‘thirds.”’ one man and wiped out herds. last One of tho natives—men, women and shot. He always thought he had earned the gratitude of his country for his share in this massacre. When the news of the discovery of gold at Bendigo came to him, he took beef cat- tle to the miners. Then hie fortune began. He piled herd on herd, flock on flock, mile on mile—and never changed hie habits. He lived in a hovel, slept much itn the open, and sent his money to his lawyers for in- vestment. ‘The only pleasure in money is in the getting of it,’”’ he used to say. “I like to prove that I am emarter than some one else. Every one has his chance if he chiidren—wa3?} | i ! ' | takes it whén it comes. I don’t know any- thing about any other life. I'vé got along with this, and I suppose I can with an- other.” When he was asked to make a will he said that he had no relatives that he knew of, and he died Intestate. In California he would have been provided with a dozen heirs to his thirteen millions. In Ause tralia his lawyers, Wilson, Lawrence & Wilson, began at once the search for & rightful heir. In an ancient tron box In Ms cabin t found lettens from his mother written years before. They went to Scotland and found nothing but tombstones. The . sons had lived on a farm of the Duke of Argyle. The tombstones and the kirk reo- ords carried the lawyers to Orange, N. Ja on to Evanston, Ll, and then— One day a year ago last February Laws yer Wilson startled Humboldt County, 9 by riding down and finding Baslle “ ’ 3 feeding her chickens at a rancher’s telling her that she waa one of the riche est young women In all the world. He gave her money for gewne, took her toe the opera, carried her to Australia, estab- lished her claim, and turned the greag Tyson estate over to her. » Now she ts hiding from notortety, will remain In California but a short time, an then will fare on to Scotland. Think o $13,000,000 and the spread they will make in the Highland country of the Duke of gyle. showing in the far distance the glaciers of the snow-topped Alps. A glass palace, Just completed last night, tried its electric illumination. That edi- flee exemplifies the most bizarre architec- ture. It is made entirely of glass of many colors, and even stands over a grotto made of glass blocks. Within there will be glass working in all its branches—even the spinning and weav- ing of glass into gorgeous dresses. When lighted powerfully from inside the suffusing tints will give the building, with the lu- minous cascade pouring out of the glass grotto, the appearance of some fairyland castle glowing marvelously from the dark- ness. The Society of Christian Progress wi!! have several rather sensational exhibits. Among others wi)! be a wax museum, showing how criminals have been tortured and executed in all countries. The figures have very lifelike facial expressions, and some of them are calculated not only to illustrate the cruelty of capital punishment but to send beholders into fits. The same society shows in the same way the horros of vivisection. All sorts of harsh experiments have been so faithfully re- produced that the animals operated on seem alive. At the Engineering Palace the Post-Dis- patch correspondent to-day discovered an exhibit sure to Interest American visitors. It is a vpelief production of the Isthmus of Panama, sixty feet wide and suffilently large to show every detail of the ground. The visitor will be able to follow several canal courses over the light steel . bridge epannig the relief map and judge for him- self which route he would prefer. The present state of the work in Pan- ama and Nicaragua has been reproduced, with the docks, locks, drage, laborers, gangs and the harbors of both oceans. Another interesting relief map reproduces Niagara Falls, showing how our engineers have utilized the enormous force to pro- duce eleciric power. The Transvaal section Includes four sep- arate constructions. The chief bu!lding wil face the Avenue d’Jena. In this will be shown all the documents, maps, photo- graphs, > ans, books, etc., having to do with * ‘*arious branches of the adminis trr h as pubile instruction, rai \1] telegraphic service, etc. ‘ding will be a mineralogi- valuable collection of hind this pavillion ""90-—-4n exact re- ~bode of che ' Transvaal peasant. This 1s a one-story structure, thatch-roofed and primitive. The omy luxury possessed by the Transvaal peasant is an harmonium, used to accom- pany his singing of hymns, This an an old ‘staten’’ Bible will appear asin the Trans- vaal, California has opened sumptuous offices opposite the opera. These headquarters are independent of the American commis- sion. The Californians intend to attract attention to the resources of thelr State by all possible means during the Exposition, ANOTHER =ROAD ABSORBED Norfolk & Western Now Taken in by the New York Central and Penn- sylvania Combination. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NiikW YORK, March 24.—It is rumored on Wall street that the combination now exist- ing between the Pennsylvania system and the New York Central will be further strengthened by the acquisition of a con- trolling interest in the Norfolk & Western. When the Chesapeake & Ohio, In the matter of cutting rates and breaking traffic agree- ments, became Vanderoblits and Pennsylvania interesis quietly absorbed enough cf the stock to get the road under their joint control. Next came the Laltimore & Oh!o, the big- ger interests much the policy. Whether the effort to acquire control of the Norfolk & Western is because ii is a dangerous rival or whether it is merely a step further in the policy of a vast rail- road combination in the bast Is not public- ly known. Norfolk & Western has @ territory practically parailel with other roads in the deal. The stock of the rvad has been steadily going up for two weeks. and all floating shares are being absorbed gradually. FORTIFYING BERMUDAS. English Will Make the Islands a Ver. itable Gibraltar. Special to the Post-Diapatch. NEW YORK, March 4.—John McGtlivrey, a veteran dockmaster of the Erte Basin. has just returned from Bermuda. He states obnoxious the emupioyin piv) j5 The that England is making extensive prepara-! He said: dock. tions for fortifying the Islands. “The fortifications, barracks and ards bid fair ibralitar of the Atiantic. read building 4 the biggest i, LAR eee, et! RRR ha bet i. Se same | first to make the isiands the! SOLD HER HUSBAND, WIFE LETS HIM GO FOR THE SUM OF $1.25 A WEEK. STRANGE CASE IN NEW JERSEY, Fantastic Mood of a Woman Brings to Light a Romance That Winds Up in a Regular Bargain Sale. Speci.l to the Post-Dispatch. MEWARK, N. J., March %—Men com® cheap in Harr.sonville. One has just bees leased for life at $1.25 a week. His wife made the, bargain with another womasa and the agreement was duly witnessed and signed tn a court of law. John L. Keen is the man tn the case. He is 5S years old and has long been a reputae ble, hard working citizen. There he lived happily with the woman whom everybody, himself included, thought to be his legal wife, until yesterday, when the fantastie mood of another woman brought the whole strange @tory to lght. She declared that Keen had deserted her long ago When they met In court the wife kissed him. Keen and this wife had parted » years ago and had never seen each other since, She did not say where she had spent the long (nterval, nor how she came to learr that Keen had married again, and he, ¢ his part, @id not deny the charge of p support, pleading that he did not know was alive. The Justice was in a quand The first Mrs. Keen lifted him out of difficulty. She was in bad health, she said, and cor not Live long, but she had no means, Keen was willing to pay her $123 a weet while she lived she would relinquish ali claim to him. The Justice loobed inquire ingly at the husband and he, with « attempt to conceal his eager conse ited and a Moment after put his signature the bond. Then he Was told that he Was free, and he etarted of With his bride, | she sepmed, for home and happiness. they meached the door the first woman there/too. Bhe stopped them «a her face to the 8 and once more for aA eaey SS oF por F Pee ie PPP POL: pe Sr aR ey ee ERS BIg “OURO Ge agin ea Ri RY © PRR re ane FEEL LEST te RE I