St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 25, 1905

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WIFE'S FLIGHT Declares He Ought to Have: Known “It Was Com- ing, Though,” - LETTERS LACKED LOVE: 7”. Wore Former Wife’s Jewels, but Seemed to Prefer “Yours Always,’

MILLER DENIES ELOPING |

Major Says Prize Fighter Is Insanely Jealous—Talks of Shooting.

Special to the Post-Dispatch. SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. .—Here Fiobert Fitgsimmons’: authorized story of his trouble with his wife: ‘This is awful, awful. I have known it wis coming, sure, I ought. : “Before I rmarried Julia Gifford I knew that she and a man named Char- ley Miller had been very friendly. Aft- * J married her we were very happy for a time, Sut she soon seemed to tire of me and to care more for him. "YT Gid everything in the world for hen I sent her to Paris to study mu- : I bought jewels for’ her and gave all of my former wife’s jewels on condition that if she shonld ever untrue to me that she would return I did everything for her, but al! time T could not help but feel that thing was not right. en I went over to Paris to bring her back to New York a few months ago I learned the truth She received a telegram about meeting a man end I happened to see it. It was signed ‘Yours Always.’ ‘Who is this ‘Always,’ “Te {t Miller?” “She could not deny it. When I left her to come out for this fight I fitted ‘tp beautiful apartments for her in New ought to though, I asked. York, with piano and everything that} She Is Brave and Cheerful and | ghe would need for the study of music. She has not been very appreciative. She hee not written moreo than once or twice, and there was not a word of love in her letters. “J wanted to hear something from her, and so a week ago last Monday I wired her to let me know whether she was sick or not. I did not get any an- ewer I wired again. For five days I kept sending messages without getting any anewers. Finally the day of the fight « telegram came from her. It read, ‘fame, win or lose; you are sfiil my Bob, but wir.’ “Yas, she was tive sarns, win or lose, just the sare {it did not make any dif- ference, sho was going to run away, and it did not make any difference. “Win or lose, I lost. When I got that message | wired to find out why she had not answered my other tele- grams. I said ‘You were away from home, were you, with “Always?” Then I did not hear any more from her till Friedman got the telegram Saturday eaytng she had left me.” wee eee > MILLER DENIES \ CHARGE OF ELOPING.| Special to the Post-Dispatch. FRANKLIN, Pa., Dec, 26.--Maj. Chas. Sibley Miller has not eloped: with Mra. fopert Muizsimmons (nee Julia May Gifford), He reached home from New York . ne oe en ene et FAIR, CRISP

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a 2 Meronts Hermoro Geta Into Gunte. The Marquis Hermose, who had lat- to the conversation of hia friend 7% mF or ith b here at’ accompanied his wife to | _Bouth as New Orleans, Mobile TO CONTINUE ——— ee Enjoying Fine Christmas Weather. The fine Christmas weather is to con- tints, according the following fore- Cast for St. Louis nd Vicinity, Nude Monday morning:

OLD SANTA CERTAINLY Was} "°" GOOD TOME”) na) enieht muderate teni- perature: west- riy winds. Min- imum tempera- ure tonight ibout 2°. Nearly all of United States is enjoy- the same of Christ- mas weather ouch there Is small rainy ir Pa- Northwest i rt

a. Lae (hers are om flurrice Ih the lake region Along the Atlantic Coast the weather is bright and fair, while dewn South heavy frosts have added a erlapness to the alr. The frosts extended ax far cand

ce OTR Wiericts, O CHILD ON HER HOME-COMING CATHERINE JOHNSON. ! aann emcee ceive _

—— es FIGHTS. MANIAC NAN AMBULANCE Patrolman Chesnik Defends Helpless Man From Fren- zied Attack.

INVALID IS “TERRIFIED

Over Cobblestones Desperate Encounter Rages in Nar- row Space. Defending himegelf and two men from the violence of a drink-crazed giant, Patrolman Joseph Chesnik was the hero of a thrilling encounter in a ambulance, which Jasted during a minutes’ drive from City Dispensary Liospital. Over cobble stones ambulance dashed, fought witit ail his John Keena, 6 feet 1 inch and weighing 209 pounds, from harming a gick mart and a man unconsclous from drink, his companions in the narmw room on wheels. IKeena is In Citys from his frenzy bruises which were arrest. Keena, W hejpiass (*j Lv rad « ix ; ihe Chesnik keep and car 1 while *trengih to , {a}j recovering guts and hefore his I iOSpiiai, and from inflicted ho lives a: 1214 Washingto: avnue, was found with a broken nose and numerous scalp Wounds in frent of James Cully's saloon at 1320 North Broadway early Sunday bv Patrolmen Cheentk and Meaney, of Carr street sta- tion. Insi_e the saloon they found Elmer McClure of 1101 Tyler street and Dickson Cunninghem, who lived stairs. Right Taken, Four Held. The policemen arrested them and aix others, including ‘he proprtetor, who protested when his bartender was placed under arrest. While Chesnik called the patrol wagon, McClure zot away through « rear door, but was caugh’ an hour Iater by Meaney. At the sté- tion four were relessed, and Keena, MeClure, Cunningham and Culiy were held. Ups 7 : o 4 ; Chesnik took Keena immediately to the dispensary in the patrol wagon. The prisoner's right eve wag completely closed and the other was swollen, there was @ large bump over his ear end his face was battered. After dispensary Physicians had dressed ‘is wounds temporarily, he be- gan to show fight, Shouting that they were trying to kill him and resisting all attempts to hold him, he was overpow- ered by ®& half dozen men. There was one ambulance on hand, and he was put Into it with two patients waiting to be taken to City Hospital. Chesnik get in, called to the @river to go ahead and the fight began. As the wrels jolted over ’ street tracks Keena began gen He cursed his captor and started for the door. Cheeniek, who weighs 20 pounds, arose in his with him. path and grappled ck and forth they fought while a drunken pee snored, and the sick man gazed in terrified silence. ATTACKS HELPLEss MEN. Keena protested against allgwing the two men to lie down while he was forced to sit up. He kicked across the aisle at the stretcher to rouse the sleeper. Then he called on the 8. man rs say something and not to stare att m. ‘hen Twelfth street br ere@eced and Keena saw the troins below, he cried out on a steamboat and war bet; off to be thrown overboard. “eae ke ronewe rantic eff nue ort to reach the Striking his head © was being ights of the that he was j the anrbulance and poundiig: tne eat tore the policeman's uniform " window with dis fists he grappled When the hospital was reached y; the driver and physicians came to iced, nik's assistance, it required tha oftervs of all to overpower Keena and get him : out ef the ambulance.

ARRESTED ON HUNCY MOOK ————— > —-— Siegfried Goldman Taken From Bride at Southern Ho- tel by Police. ee | ee ee ee WANTED IN LOS ANGELES

Charged With Diamond Swin- dles by Use of Fictitious Drafts, + BRIDE SPEEDS WESTWARD

Prisoner Denies That He Is Noted Swindler of His Name, Also Sought by Jerome.

While his bride of two months is speeding to Los Angeles, Siegfried Gold- ' man, arrested while spending his honev- _™mvon at the Southern Hotel is a pris- |Oner at Four Courts, the St. Louis po- | lice having been asked to hold him for _the Los Angeles authorities, who say | that the is wanted there on a charge of \obtaining money under false pretenses

| ‘ ‘ : the rogues’ gallery. and embezzlement. Advices from New York say that he is wanted there alao in connection with a swindle of na- tional importance. Goldman dentes that he ham been guilty of any crime. He says that until a short time ago he was a hotel keeper, and had commercial interests in the California city, but that he wound up his affairs there just before his mdar- rlage. Goldman is ® years old, well dressed and handsome. With his wife he en- gaged a room at thé Southern Hotel last Thursday. A Siegfried Goldman, known as B. F. Goldman, married Mies Bess Cheney, daughter of a prominent New York family, two months ago, just after he had “served a penitentiary sentence, and whose picture was printed in the news- papers in connection with the wedding, while another portrait of him was fn He is one- of the most noted criminals in the United States, The Goldman who is wanted in Los Angeles and New York made @, specialty of buying dlamonds from jewelry d:al- ‘ers in the West and paying for them , }

with drafts on fictitious houges in New York. Another of his favorite means of raising money was to borrow from hotel keepers. District Attorney Jerome is sald have sent detectives to los Angeles to capture ‘him in connection with a big 4 1 °° ON Nga Oy ge ge

streets. avenues. nue nue. Market streets. 8 eS In seven halls, in sevén sections of the city, the great Post-Dispatch Christ- mas Festival is in progress this after- noon. For the purpose of celebrating Christmas St. Tiouis is grouped. around seven halls as Rome was built on seven his. Bach hall is an eminence toward which throngs of poor children have Sravitated and are now gathered and are elther being entertained or receiv- ing Christmas boxes and Christmas gifts. After 12 o'clock every street led to a Christmas festival hall and every veyance. It had been announced time and time again that the entertainment at each hall would not begin until 2 o'clock, but there was no keeping ehil- dren who held tickets for the festival at home after the Christmas dinner was disposed of. Before 1 o'clock they be- San arriving at the various halls and | pre-empting the front seats. From that , time until 2 o'clock there were steady Streams of children pouring into the halls and the buildings echoed with the hubbub of excited expectancy. The big Christmas trees engaged the attention of the children while they were waiting for the entertainment to begin. They marveled and exclaimed Over its wonders, in detail and in the | 8&STegate, and when the trees Sprang aflame with electric lights there were Cheers in seven halls which could al- most be hearfl from one to another, Music for the Children. At some of the halls there were bands to keep ‘the restless children enter- tained until the regular program be- gan. At 2 o'clock, when the regular pro-

stam be each of the halls, each | ae stalment of 30 men were admitted to ithe big dinner, 180 at the Pine street one of them was packed with children keen for entertainment and for the time unmindful of the gifts that were to come after. Hvery number was re- celved with demonsartions of the most Pronounced approbation, and ff all the encores that were nolsily demanded had been given the program would not have been finished before night.

| WHERE THE SEVEN : FESTIVALS ARE HELD } District No. 1—Germania Hall, 7222 Michigan avenue. :

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i oe rs ob ere ton 9: on, Post-Dis;\atch Festivals Enjoyed by Thous- ands f the Little OQnes—Creat Dinners to the \Throng of Homeless Men and Basket Dinners for All titi ti i i a ~~. & District No. 2—Concordia Hall, Thirteenth and Arsenal District No. 3—Union Club Hall, Lafayette and Jefferson District No. 4—West Nave of Exposition. District No. 5.—Northwest Turner Hall, 3948 Easton ave- | District No. 6—Niedringhaus Mission Hall, 700 Cass ave- ! District No. 7--German Military Hall, Twelfth and North | ( i at ee ee ee ae ee ee x When the ehildren had been enter- tained as they never had been enter- tained on a Christmas day before. the distribution of the the big Christmas boxes and 19,000 gifts. In every box was candy and nuts and an orange and an apple, and the gifts consisted of dolls and horns anid books and Knives and rattles. Arrangements for the distribution nad been well made by the district commit- tees. ‘The boxes and gifts apportioned to cach hall had been placed so that they could be handed without confusion to the children as they passed out. After ali of them had been supplied trooped away toward the street cars or toward their homes, the boys blowing their horns and the girls hug- ging their dolls and the babies rattling their rattles and all as happy as they could be. The dig dinner for homeless men be- Sen at il o'clock. in the basement of the Merchants’ Exchange. More than an hour before the time announced for the fret table men were gathered around the Pine street and Chestnut stréet en- trances walting for the doors to open. Through the windows they could see the work of preparation going on and as the doors were opened from time to time by the caterer’s assistants they caught oders of good things which not tend to take any of the edge from their appe- tites. Most of them were men who had Gispensed with breakfast, partly because they had no breakfast to eat and part- ly because they wanted to fave them- selves for the big feast. Turkey and trimmings was such an event fn thetr lives that they did not want to mar their enjoyment of it by eating any- thing else before dinner. Promptly at 1] o'clock the first in- the Needy of

Christmas boxes! and gifts began. There were 10,000 of| , CANNON MO . ‘ he » * * z ~ ve 4 - ne J 4 REBELS AND THEIR x 7 STREET REDOUBTS

a » | TTF F Revolutionaries Routed in Fierce Fighting — 3 OS Lae 7 a 2 ‘ oe Over Extended Area in Moscow—Can- non Rake Private Homes and Bombs Slaughter Scores of Non-Combatants, ~— r wo

ail ail POLAND SOCIALISTS PROCLAIM REBELLION |

, i 7 wr ~ v Conditions Strike Terror in Court at St. tersburg, Where Repetition of Mos Horrors is Feared — Baltic Province MOSCOW, Dee. 25.—Despite Saturday’s awful casualties, the revolutionaries returned to the battle yesterday with renewed energy, and the fighting continued throughout the day.- The area of battle was extended, including Trabnois Square, Sadovia, Karet-_ naia and many other streets. bombarded, dragoons charging after the cannonading and set fire to the debris. One barricade after another was Scores of non-combatants were killed by the dragoons, has, raked private dwellings with their artillery in the hope that among the slaughtered might be revolutionary refugees. Bombs throw in the streets also killed many innocent persons. Late in the ¢ noon it was reported that a big battle had oeeurred in the ow es, i skirts of the eity, with heavy losses on both sides. eee The revolutionaries fought in other districts, but achieved few suc- ceases. In Karetnaia street they sur- prised a force of gendarmes and killed | going from The troops, hold the! or wounded 20. railway station, but the trains continue to be plundered. WARSAW SOCIALISTS

PROCLAIM REBELLION. WARSAW, Dec. 2%5.—The Socialist par- ties have issued proclamations summon- ing the people for an armed rebellion. This step followed the receipt of news of the situation at Moscow, The rail- roads are still. running here, but the sit-: uation is serious. A quantity of dynamite stored in a flat was destroyed by an explosion yea- terday. The house was unroofed, but there were fyo casualties. FINLAN} \CELEBRATES LIBER{ S RESTORATION HELSING’ \S, Finland, undated, by courler to ‘etersburg, Dec. 23, 5:45 p. n.—The cation of the Finish Diet, murk! Vesseubibaias the rep- toration of th liberties and the last appeart! |} the European stage of the par consisting of the four ancier %, the nobles, the clergy, the Sand the peasants, was an ec 'y picturesque af- fair. The audi many perso

palace contained suffered in ex- ile rather th t to this, Baron Von Born, a a fal of the nobility, who replied to the"Emperor’s speech in bebalf of his estate, ands M. Pekka, who spoke on behalf of the peasantry. had returned to Finland since the man- ifesto Was issued. Bishop Praleery act- ed as spohesman tor the clergy, and M. Von Pfaler, a banker, for the bur- vers. The replies of the presidents of the esiates were cordial in veln, but each took cure to say that the imperial man- lfestO Was “uccepted as the restoration ft the original constitution and rights of Finland guaranteed by Alexander L.” 25,000 TROOPS MASSED AGAINST MOSCOW REBELS ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. 23, 11:33 p. m, —The situation at Moscow tonight is ex- ceedinglyvy critical. raging in the streets of the city and a State of terror reigns. A telephone message just received by the drumming of machine guna, volleys by infantry and the bouming of cannon can the Associated Press says that be heard at intervals. The multtary seems to have the upper hand, althougn there are rumors that the gendarmerie revolted and and the Cossacks have have refused to fire on the people. According to this telephonic message, which was very laboring, the revoluiionary leaders had given the scignal for an armed rising of the proletariat at 6 o'clock this evening, but Gov.-Gen. Doubassofff their plans and acted quickly. Hie massed 26,009 troops of all arme in Red Place under the walls of the Krem- ot A pate fg Ae earner o 20 -hinese wall, posted arti at intervals eneirclin the Peerdeala boulevard, and plac heavy detach- ments of horse and light artillery at atrategic points. There has been almost continuel figh«- ing somewhere in the city, men threw up barricades at umphal arch, at two piaces In aky street. and at another were assaulted and carried troops. OZAR CALLS WITTE sgedly |} regiments, only a part of the ga & series of the moat. A regular battle is confused owing to the excitement under which the sender was discovered ns in the towers

has remained loyal to the Caar—a most portentous circumstance, . ees In the Baltic provinces matters Ar bad to ; peasants are perpetratin a high scale every day. gimeant - to cormbat the rders th re, and has virtually thrown o sembiance of obedience to authorit apparen sirmpl si ~ Th eral strike has not been as succe up to this time as its projeetora 1 supposed {t would be. Neverthelem — businesa is annoyiigly interfered with, — particularly because of the irregular | mail and tel service. The people — seem to he settling down. however, & work as best they can wnder the wun- favorable conditions. ee That the army is not to be relied Ge has been known for some tine, nie Caar D Soldiers. Acting on the advice of Gen, Tre the “Iron Fisted,” the Cga 7 ing out a policy of sedulous ourtius |. the support of his soldiers. He le givin in his palace at Tsarskoe-Selo— wie: he is at least surrounded, if not ed, by 100,00 picked troops of all brilliant officers of regiments now stationed there. 2" z BS parties to the officere are received in their turn. ny His Inyperial Majesty, who ¢ With a gracious friendliness that a 7 hly. ae e dinners afe served at little ti. bles. The Czar presides at one, tis Czarina at another, and a grand duke at each of the rest, so that every table is graced by some imperial pe ‘ who exerts himself to be ext 5 cordial. The Czar himself makes ft « point to say during thé evenin | eal agreeable tq each inieidens: ue m : - e+ This ingratiating policy is having expected effect here and also on ie garrison of St. Petersburg. Ts 8 Noting this, the Caar hopes to be aid soon to appeal confidently to the pe ted regiments. to carry out Tre scheme for a military dictatorship ‘itte Wea Trepof is persistently striving ft break down Witté's influence with tin — r and t offset or upmet th Premier's plans. That he ts eu dirs in a measure is betrayed by an ict dent which occurred at the palage hes: sday. es A council of the cabinet was betng held, the Czar presiding. The . yt de Ot : a’ Salduly the Cons tnterrepted, ane n rr s with evident irritation, * | romps | to nie tion, replied : t ; Pak - of “i to the beat of my ata ity for the for arses gut if a, substitute is avaliable, J shall willimge ~~ < mm wf f ou se eeracy. Trepoft pretends A FATAL BLUNDERER.|cume New York World. (By Cable from a Special - of the World and Post-Dispsteh.) | anare entrance and 150 at the Chestnut street entrance. They were given three-quar- ters of an hour in which to dispose of a dinner fit to be set before any hungry man, and then they were sent on their far no when the capital, the mele otk . Nay spread to this# one. Rn RN RE REN ON NER ne gente © epee ete mn en — CONTINUED ON PAGE Two. | igntim ph fight

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