St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 4, 1900

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LOUIS—DECEMBER 4, 1900 PRICE | sates 81 tisets, Fore vent BOLD ROBBERS BIG CHRISTMAS FUND BURGLAR LIT MATRON OF THE CELLS eae BE NN WEST END) FOR THE ST.LOUIS POOR qi THE Hous THE st BEATEN BY A PRISONER SUPREME. sand E Remarkable Robbery’Done at ten he oat Regalo ay Ea E Scene of Crimes. ittaibes ic This Gece Oley Alton, Il a Mrs. Sarah Woodruff Seized by Joseph Dunn. Stipposed to Another Be Insane, and Dangerously Injured With a Pad- ‘lock Before Help Could Arrive. — of f Munioipal Darkness Coming. : NO FUNDS FOR PUBLIC LIGHTS ‘ CUT THIS OUT. St. Lowis, December I, 1900. THE APPROPRIATION WILL = a - EXHAUSTED ABOUT NEW rsaR ‘ > Supervisor of City Lighting vent 3a Notifies the Comptroller That St... Louis Is to Have More . Darkness. A second era of darkness in the city in stitutions and public buildings of St. Louis like that with which the present year opened is in prospect for the new year. — Supervisor of City Lighting O'Reilly has notified Comptroller Sturgeon that unless an extre appropriation is made for the pose the fund for lighting public Tit will be exhaustéd about Feb. 1, ‘1901, @ that the utmost economy will not avail te put off the crisis many days after that date. This means that unless revenue is BI vided for lighting from some source fot now known to city officials, the incandes- cent lights will be extinguished at the City Hospital, Insane Asylum, Poorhouse, Fe- ) male Hospital, engine houses, police Pe ao tions, City Hall, courthouse, Four Courts — and other city buildings in ed Gaeta that candles, which furnished light’ in similar emergency last January, will be the official flluminants of St, Loufs. According to Mr, O'Reilly the cost of lighting the buildings is abqut $8200 per month under thé present system. The ap- . propriation made for the purpose last sum- mer was $72,000—nearly $20,000 less than the amount asked for. The deficit for the year, he estimates, at $17,000. Besides this item for lighting public buildings, de- ficits of $2000 for office expenses and $1584 — for salaries are mentioned in the communi- cation which Mr. then forwarded io SON RETURNING HOME CAUGHT BY THE THIEVES. + VACANT LOTS. 7 WOMEN AFRAID TO CROSS THE ‘- “It Is More Blessed tu Uive Than to Receive.” _..-.—_ POST- DISPATCH Ct Christmas Festival for the Poor OF ST. LOUIS. THE PURPOSE of this fund is to supply the destitute of this city, young ani old, witha Christmas feast and clothing. fuel, toye—EVERYTHING that wiil contribute to their necessi- ties, comfort and happiness. Due acknowledgment of all contributions will be made through the POST-DISPATCH. ‘ ag Anwunt { They Marched Young Steiner Into the Road and Kept Him There Until They Had Actually Looted the House. Attorney Doepke Writes City Authori- ties, Complaining of Absence of Light and the Frequency ‘of Crime. Burglars visited the héme of. Joseph Steiner at 1103 East Fifth street, Alton, [Ii.. about 2 o’clock Tuesday morning ant got away with all the silverfWare and nearly all the wearing apparel @f the famiiy, as well as some money, dishes and bric-a- brac. The thieves were detected in the act of ransacking the house by Henry Steiner, 20 years old. He managed to infortin the pol.c: but when the policemen reached the Stein- er home the burglars had fled. Mounted on horseback the police set out in pursuit of them. A telephone message received ut Alton police ‘headquarters at 1. «clock Tuesday morning announced that the po- lice were on the trial of the ourgliars at Mitchell, Ill, and expected to capture then before reaching Kast St. Louis. Steiner is a well-known grocer of Alton, where he has resided many years He was formerly cn the police foree there. jis store is at 820 East Seconda street. His home on Fifth street is a pretty cottage. where he resides with his wife, his two daughters and his son, Hensy. The boy is employed at works and works at night. He us- ually finishes his labors “by 2 o’clock in the morning. He worked as usual Monday night and it was on voming home that he discovered the burglary. He | noticed lamps burning In ahi parts of the house as he approached it and imagined somebody was iil. Ae he neared cne of the windows, however, he w the forms vf four men moving about ‘within. The men saw him abouc the same time, apparently, as one of them ,jumped through a window, revolver in nd, to the spot where the astonished ya#ith was standing. Young Steiner was unarmed and could offer no effectual resistance, so he »uletly obeyed the big burglag’s order to march out into the street and stand there. The burglar kept watch over him there for several min- utes and then went inside to join’ his com- rades. As he did. so, young Steiner ‘“‘hvut- footed” to the police headquarters, one- half mile distant. There he told the story of his experiences and Policemen Thomas Lighting O'Reilly has Doepke, Supervisor of City received a letter from John F. W. ai attorney, living at 1444 Goodfellow ave- nue, and representing the citizens of that r.eighborhood, complaining that the fre- + | quent recent crimes against property were, e Name. Amount Name. | partly at least, due to the defective lights in some places and their total absence in others. The territory where the complainants came from is bounded by Goodfellow, Eas- ton, Blackstone and Ridge avenues. In this territory have occurred three highway rob- beries and one -burglary that the police have been informed of This district offers exceptional advan- tages to burglars and thugs. On Goodfel- low avenue are the ruins of the old Grace Presbyterian Church that was destroyed by fire. The dismafitied walls create shadows and offer a place of concealment that is enhanced by the ghostly appearance and 2 loneliness of the place. On the same thor- o & oughfare lie a row of three-foot water pipes that have been there more than a year. | These big black pipes offer a place of con- ceaiment. Goodfellow avenue is supposed to be lighted. Those familiar lamp posts with in- candescent burners are in place along the street. There is no gas, however, and the gasoline that furnishes the light often gives out early and the place is in darkness. There is a vacant plot of ground lying between Goodfellow and Blackstone and Wells and Easton avenues. No streets are made through this property. A cinder walk has been made along Blackstone avenue and this is used by the citizens of the dis- trict from which the complaint comes from as the only outlet to the Easton avenue ears. On this lot are a number of large forest trees. There is not a ray of light there save that afforded by the mayor's moon-yet. Old arid Feeble Woman Robbed. Mrs. E. C. Parker, living at 1441 Shawmut place, and her little daughter May, 11 years old, witnessed the robbery of an old and feeble women on this lot last Thursday evening shortly after dark. The robbery was made by three men, who disappeared without any one being able to give a good description of them. “Tl had been downtown with my little daughter,’’ said Mrs. Parker to the Post- Dispatch, ‘‘and we had left the Easton ave- nue car to walk across the lot to our home. We had gone only a short way when an aged woman approached us, crying piteous- ly, and we saw three men run away and disappear in the darkness. “At first I did not think of a robbery; it was so early. But when the old lady came up I saw there was blood on her face and that her clothing was badly torn. She cried that three men had assaulted and robbed her of all her money. T saw the old lady well for we walked toward the light on Easton avenue. “She must have been at least 70 years old and she was very @elicate. Her hair was ——— LL badd 7 name and amount and mail to The Post-Dispatch Christmas Festival Fund 0 p00 O90 >-——-—--—0—_ 9-090 _¢_% -w 0-9 ——_—___—___ ae de ae —-#-+--— 00-0 — 0000 90-6 -9 > 0 —-6—9-—-+ ° : = > 7. e ° *' y > Mrs. Sarah Woodruff, matron of the cells | had him strapped. Dunn struggled to free at the City Hospital, had a desperate en- | himself ogg Kelly and those who were counter with Joseph Dunn, an insane pris- | jeg > Sgr ut to no avail. He was then oner, Tuesday morning and no doubt would| The other prisoner who did what he could have been killed had not Nellie Wovwds, a | Felton, poe Seams the matron was Olize detail, fought Dunn off with his OWN | recently neoaaal’ tale te: PE eS noah weapon. have an injured hand treated. The bones From her heroic struggle with the mad-| Of his hand had been broken and he was dened prisoner, Mrs. Woodruff is suffering a jdm + hn ag ory mand. rie kicked from four 3evere gashes in the head. “The slippers he wore were note aaa oad ns a te Th fag insane man on Het | effect. Dunn struck Felton a violent blow That Dunn was trying to escape from the | in the chest, but the latter struggled cells none at the hospital doubt. He knew | brav ely to free Mrs. Woodruff Green and Wiliam Thomas were burried to| Mrs. Woodruff had the keys to the »uter | | After the thew he, was over Nellie Woods the scene of the burglary. doors and after striking her with a heavy i discovered that her hand had been badly When they arrived ‘there, young Steiner | board and knocking her down, he struggled | woo ae thrusting it through the win- says, his parents and sfsters were still; for the keys. & arom the wounds of the mat- asleep and the odor of ¢hloroform was all; Mrs. W oodruff devined the prisoner's pure seed La weit unn &nd Mrs. Woodruff's res-» over the house. It was his tmpression that | pose and held tightly to the chain by whi a | the burglars had chioroformed the family | the keys were suspended from her belt. | Mrs. Woodruff before beginning their search of the house. F Maddened by his failure to wrest the keys After the family were thoroughly aroused | a bony | grasp, Gp — a large| Seriously Hurt. and young Steiner assured himself they | padtoc rom a cell door, which was open,|! Dr. Amyx, asst: were all right, he ana the two policwinon and began beating the matron over the h ee yO eSpace Of the started on horseback after the burglars. head with it. | Ospital, took charge of Mrs. oodruff and They took the road leading toward East St. Still Mrs. Woodruff held on _to the keys stiteued the wounds in her head at once. | Louis and were informed that four stran-| 2d had made no outcry. Nellie Woods | tte says the matron is badly injured, but le ; , is a detail. She was working in the rear | Beene OAT Mitchell thee voce nd thar | Of. the celis and ran to Mrs. Woodruff's | to just what extent he is unable to state the men had come through there only a|#!4@ when she heard the matron scream. |at present. short while before. Then the telephone mes- |, DUunn had dropped the board with whitch! pr Nietert, superintendent of the hos- , ; , > . . he he dealt Mrs. Woodruff the first and moat will join in the Christmas festival movement. The festival arrangements will be ue lich beeeakt Gace ie ee ne of effective plow. Secing it lying at his side, | Pital, stated that it was recently found nec- essary to lay off one of the day male as complete as it is possible to make them and the measure of success will depend itd ieee Sedaiite thin ateeee denied Nellie Woods picked it up and struck Duun | on the generosity of the men, women and children in St. Louis who desire to make |» h ‘a ~ ai Stel Ss ‘nt | On the head with it, at the same time cal- | ds y_ the burgars’ visit. Steiner, Sr.. went/ ling an another prisoner to assist Mrs. | SU@"as. others happy on the last Christmas day of the nineteenth century, downtown Tuesday morning in an old uni- : "| The men tn the cells are necessary, but a ®, o Richard. Blow, Jr A Friend of the Poor: sve se ots Mr. Sturgeon has late that there is no m any purpose other than t h been disposed of in the a and Mr. O'Reilly forwarded his | an additional appro tion to troller more as a matter of form than the hope that any — would be The dark period city institutions be e serious matter than the one a municipal commotion. that time funds wére a and the darkness in the alleys “ Ethel B..... - o,° * . $403 33 .) Poet oese WOO oo, Casha se as *. — *,° * ee SPOSSSSOSESES SSE SEDO EO SESCOCES ES OETEO Several additions’ were made to the Post-Dispatch Christmas Festival fund Tues- day. The work is fairly started, but the time is short and contributions should be made at once. bas EKarly Tuesday morning a lady cated up-the Post-Dispatch office by telephone. She said she wanted to contribute to the fund because she believed it would be a splendid idea to banish misery from the homes of the poor on the last Christmas in the nine- teenth century. She requested that $2 be added to the subscription list and credited to “A Friend of the Poor.’’ A contrib. tion of 50 cents was sent in by ‘“‘Cash.’’ Several chiidren mailed their savings to the Post-Dispatch to be added to the fund. With the co-operation of the Post-Dispatch’s readers, the Christmas festival can be made so broad in scope that it will not interfere with the work of any of the regularly organized charitable organizations. In fact there are many such organizations which will be materially aided in their efforts to do good if they ‘Ta? . tay Vt . : contracts for the lighting exist in ee 8 form, but the money which the city m pay out to fulfill its part of the contract is nearly exhausted, and when it is ayn one seems to know how more is to pro- vided. DR NEWCOMB WON: HIS CASE Attorney George Safford Fined in the City Hall Police Court for Dis- turbing the Peace. Dr. Carman.A. Newcomb and George Saf- ford, attorney, were defendants in the City Hall Police Court Tuesday morning on Cress charges of disturbing the peace, In passing on the merits of the cases Act- ing Judge Boettger decided that Dr. New- comb had in no wise transgressed the law, while Mr. Safford had. In consequence, the remember thar ad to give other children a happy but small amounts fut CIRCULATION LAST SUNDAY... “I had been downtown and my servant There are boys who have never had marbles, tops or kites. And worse than that, had accompanied me,’ Mrs. Doepke told the Post-Dispatch. ‘We were walking across this vacant lot. When we were more there are boys and girls who have never tasted turkey. There are boys and girls who have never eaten a full meal and who have never had clothing enough to keep them warm in winter. A contribution to this fund will than half vey across three men just seemed to rise up from the ground and came toward provide these children with food and clothing and toys. Is it not worth while? us, calling for us to give up our money, 1 was frightened, as you may well imagine. and 1 gathered my skirts and ran as fast as 1 could, The girl was right after me. We held to our purses and lost nothing. But 1 never use that lot any more, even in the day time. Mrs. \V alley of Ridge and Coulter avenues, | niso met three highwaymen a few nights | ago. She was returning from market. Her Christmas festival, and how you are go- try to make Christmas happy for little daughter aeccompant T To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch. jing to was coming through this came 0 a — Dear Sir: I send you 20 cents which I! | ail the poor children who will not get any- on Sage Mamet They wefe rough looking | took from By bank oe make | | thing. Brother and I have been saving up ellows, and a8 they came | some poor chi appy on ris eS quickened their pace. Mrs. Cater gr If avery child in St. Louis would give a lit- | for six weeks so as to be ready for Christ her market basket, and seizing her little| tle, Santa Claus would bring sunshine and | mas, but we think we shall enjoy ourselves girl by the hand ran to a place of safety, happiness to those that wou: d be pene ene | much more if we give a part of it to you to All of the residents in the district named | forgotten. MAMIE CUNNINGHAM buy something for the poor children. We Of, that their li “e Tamm avenue. | — ehting service is far from |have a dollar and a half, and inclose % equate and they complain that it is sel- IR, ia dom a as nds occasion to be in that From Her Christmas Savings. | cents for the fund, hoping it will make some | one more happy on oe ae tan . 5 t Di ° mamma has read to me of your CHOSE A VALEDICTORIAN. | _.. A Dr. 8. W. Tanham of Bldorado, 1y,,|FOR THE BENEFIT OF A HOME.) = INJURED WHILE DRIVING. Gets Honors at Medital College. Hot Time Minstreis at the Odeon Next| Mrs. Richard Watson Recovering From The students of the St. Louis College of Monday Night. Her Many Wounds. Took It From Her Bank. was another For St. Lonts and vicinity—Uneettied, followed by fair Tuesaday night and Wednesday. Missour!—Fair Tuesday night and Wednesday. I'inole—Generally fair Tuesday night and Wednertlays. Indiana--Showers or enow flurries Tuesday after- noon: generally fair Tuesday night and Wednes- | day; fresh westerly winds lowa—Partiy cloudy Tuesday night; freah westerly winds. W oodruff. form which he wore when a member of Al- oe : r ea | COLLECTION AND DISBURSEMENT ton's police force. He Said it was the only | eq i rr choke him, — seen Shout- the salary appropriation has been dwindling raiment he owned that the burglars failed | oC. 2 eo detail to the other prisviver,| away and it was thought possible to get OF THE POST-DISPATCH FUND. + sais fanaa m seth "ite F along with one male guard and the matron. white = she ro cae wr he on grag The collection and disbursement of the fund will be conducted systematically. the ape and bleeding matron. stick. was so fr tene that ( not F at once. tenec ury of*the think to ask her name. We called for help Dunn was sent to t s amount given and the number of the subscription blank will be entered in a book BURGLARS AFTER aR HYATT Insane Prisoner. ‘city jail. He = a Bye by ne “ee ye gee house — w- ge che The blanks distributed in the business houses and Post-Dispatch branch offices will h ad started to meet us, heard our shouts : y * ; bear numbers which will be entered in another book. In this way it will be pos : eget toate ave committed July 17. Mrs. Mary Hessel, and came toward us. They saw three mex, #!8° Weather Man’s House Entered by/|*%#ne man. He held tightly his grasp on | 2647 Chouteau avenue. identified Dunn as y the matron's throat and was slowly strang- sent for a policeman, but in the excitement All the time the funds are being collected. the Post-Dispatch will not lose sight Thieves and Sundry Articles of taining $3 near her home. She swore out a oi the old lady who had been robbed left and! ,» the fact that it is equally important to arrange in advance for its disbursement. pull Dunn from his intended victim, Nellie | Warrant and Dunn was locked up. physician was acquitted, while the lawyer Next day an attempt was made to rob i m4 . hegre and thrust her nhani| While in jail Dunn had fights with every! was —— $5 and the costes of the veg eb the home of r. H. Anderson at 1441 Shaw-/ entered in another book, so that Santa Claus’ rvuute may be pnapped out. Carried Away. sige FE go reall amet nace plc | Saulted several prisoners in jail and acted @ stated that last FYaiee Murua : mut place. Mrs. Anderson was outeand had This will ental an immense amount Of labor which the Post-D‘gpatch will checr- Rurglars called at the home of Dr. Rich-| William E. Kelly, chief day guard, had | Strangely. ceived a telephone, message from Mr. Saf- and toward evening she heard the door | fully donate in the interest of the festival. gone to make his regular R SS ee Soe ne nat a downstairs open. She supposed it was Mrs. 6115 Suburban avenue, Monday afternoon. |ta], this neing one of his regular duties | EFUSES TO TAKE HIS CROWN. 5 2 ‘ the time for the accomplishment of the work is short and that they send in their | Dr. Hyatt was in his eyrie in the dome of | Employes and details in the reception room, Pri at the time mentioned. Mr. Safford was not heavy Foutsbens downstairs. SAG ainete contributions as early as possible Twenty-one days will soon sfip away and if conri- /|the Federal building trying to decide what | which is near the cells on the west side of | on hs Aenea > tg by | tain his commission for designing a price from 10 to % cents, The amount expended by car the house, and scattered clothing, silver- | was broken, however, | received a negative reply. I sot q was attracted by the noise | lately submitted to Prince Ferdinand, who on missed nothing. for me and kicked me an the stomach. Children should band together to aid the plan supposed they were disturbed and left in sii a pistol, and a pistol fell out to the aS with the three highwaymen a few nights Hyatt's dress suit is not apparent, as the te to the festival fund they might the other bo¥s and girls and ask them to contribute t y did not want to be arrest been entered when she returned from shop- | at There are little girls who have never owned a doll. Just think of that—never owned carry off his revolver, spent. most of .the | many messages aimost daily asking | was the first to strike a blow or begin mains of the late J. D. Fletcher, traffic Ride | W ner, Mr. Fay. where the funeral and interment will take 0 p a 7 “< right to do this. Therefore, I on ae arawn to St. Louls by the Burlington road | nantes Safford. fw Last Sunday's Sunday Post- -Dispatch record- ins * ‘the family of the dead man. medium, monopolized 157 columns of this issue. FAIR. ago. TACOMA, Wash., Dec. 4—The transpost nila via Nagasaki. According to the Post-Dispatch gain over the sa me Sunday 1 year ago. 19 columns Republic loss over the same Sunday one year ago 6 columns | with smal! favor among the amatioasl 4 were 160,460, the circulation figures, which Wednesday Surgeons and Physicians held an election| The Hot Time Minstrels are rehearsing | Mrs. Richard Watson of 1129 Leonard av- Monday night to determine the valedicto- rian for the class of 1901, whose commence- arog exercises takes place in a few months. Ss. W. ee of Eldorado, [l., won, sanaivk 24 out of the 4 votes. Dr. D. D. sponse of Carbondale came second, with wanes two candidates cg Soh my addresses, : piapanes * Dr. artwe “American Fa artwe discussed delega n of friends of tbe sat naa earnestly and enthusiastically for their an- nual performance, at the Odeon next Mon- day evening, which is to be one of the so- clety events of the season. Already there has been a large sale of seats and boxes at Boillman’s. The performance will be for the benefit of the Mothers’ and Babtes’ Home. The m_nstrel nization includ: s Mess 8. enue, who was.sertously injured tn a run- away accident at Forest Park Sunday af- ternoon, is slowly recovering. In addition to severe internal Injuries her face was terribly bruisea and her nose frac- tured. Mr. pa gghn was also hurt, but is now able to be out. The couple were driving ow pa a ihe nt Park in a . when eS pl Nee who were in etnet lid with them at the Wabash Both Mr. Watson and his wife ae thrown to the fair; Kansae—Generally falr Tuesaday Wednesday; variatle winds. Mississipp! frost Wednesday night; ly winds Eastern Texas—PFair Tuesday night: northwest portion; fresh northerly to easterly winds on the coast. night in east portion Tuesday night ; Wednesday, fair; northerly winds, and Fair Tuesday night and Wednesday: fresh westerly to norther- warmer in Wednesday, fair and warmer: Kentucky—Falr io west; rain -* snow and colder These figures are 60,000 greater than the last published claims of the second largest St. Louls Sunday paper; 80,000 greater than the last published claims of the third largest St. Louls Sunday paper: 4 125,000 greater than the fourth largest St Louis Sunday paper. The Sunday sean Digyeteh w w ishes to emphatically repeat the un- challenged statement which it has published in its columns scores of times, viz.: That “its net paid circulation, either Sunday or daily, in the City of St. Louis and suburbs is greater than that of the Sunday Globe-Democrat and Sunday Repu blic combined.” “This is the milk in the cocoanut.”