St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 16, 1906

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‘ 4 tr Ps ; { s* | J PAG ES ai TODAY ree “FiInST in SVERYTHING® “VOL. 58. N —_ SOIL MANIA LED PEORIAN 10 DROWN HIMStLE | | | F, R. Avery, Who Ended Life Near East St. Louis, Tem- porarily Insane. STUCK HEAD THROUGH ICE First Tried to Take Poison at Cairo and Was Thwarted by Clerk, LEFT WHILE WIFE AWAY Sad > co” te ten net riting That “Tough . Going’ Had Him. The body of Frederick R. Avery of Peoria. Ill.. who drowned himself by thrusting his head through an airhole ‘in the ice of Pittsburg Lake at Valley St. 4 Junction, four miles south of East Louis, will be taken Friday to his home by W. M. Kilbourn, his brother-in-law, and an officer of the Avery Manufactur- img Co. Avery was secretary and treas- urer of the concern. Avery is believed to have , been suffering from _ suicidal mania. Avery’s mother temporarily insane. “A sudden fit of insanity could have been the only motive for Avery’s act,”’ #aid Mr. Kilbourn, who reached Hast St. Louis Friday, to a Pod#- Dispatch re- porter. ‘He was to have joined his wife at @ church social Tuesday night, djd not appear there. When his wife returned home she found a note which he had left for her. Wednesday night he called J. B. Bartholomew, president of the Avery Manufacturing Co., over the long-distance telephone from Cairo, killed herself while - UL ° so i * “ "This is Fred. 1 am very tired,’ he vad. “Mr. Bartholomew advised him to -eome home at once and he promised to He must have started for Pe- erie, for among his effects we find a ia through ticket from Cairo to Peoria, pee ea Pica he 8 i a + are Rts be rt eee Ne Business Troubles. “So far as we are able to learn he fiad no business or family troublaés.” ~The note Avery left at his home for his wife read: It breaks my heart to leave I feel that I must. My love to you and the children. I feel that I must go, but after this I will be working for the betterment of man. Your loving hus- band, FREDERICK. Another directed to the directors of Sees Avery Manufacturing Co., read: Ty wish to tender my resignation as Eogheasurer and director of the Avery Se eutacturing Co. A chain is no E adronger than its weakest part. By go- ing the corparation will be stronger by you, but ; ' the eliminating of the weakest part. * i x ‘ '¢ (Signed) F. R. AVERY. 000 estate to his wife. They have children. Two notes were found in Avery's _pockets when the body, still warm, was ‘found lying on the bank of the pond, with the head submerged. The first was ‘to his wife and read: “My Dear Wife: If IT am dead it is not by my hand. A tough gang has me da Both were signed F. in bdbad.’’ te Bartholomew. It 5 Feb. 16, 196-1 am gving in ihe river St. Louis.” R. Avery, First Tried Morvhinue. ‘ Avery appeared at Halliday Hotel in told _ Michael Dowell, ‘The physican found him about 9 Wednesday evening. His actions aroused the suspicions of the clerk, > gent a physician to his room. to iow morphine and prevented him. | Avery was then put under guard by tion of relatives in Peoria. He es- his 8 while waiting for a fiel to Mounds, a suburb. of ) } boarded an [illinois Central Fags Peoria. He had his watch, $18 ne ticket to his home. At ‘Valley Junction Avery left the in, as told in late editions of the -Dispatch Thursday, and walked to ‘Jake, 100 yards east of the station. nger saw him take off his over- coat and vest, break a hole in at the edge with his heel, then himself on the ground and plunge face into the water. The passenger conductor of the * who telegraphed a warning to y Junction. G. FE. Ensminger and Bennett. vardmaster, found the and had it taken to Fast St. Louis. an inquest in > a of death by Pia was re- company after Avery left home sah accounts to be in perfect i INDICATIONS. and lowa--Generally fair Iriday | t and Saturday; warmer Friday night and | portion Sa turday, rally fair Friday night and’ temperature; fresh southerly Generally fair Friday night generally fair Friday night Tmner in southeast am and and colder in Boston, Cincin- shington. Ohicage, 16; Minneapolis, &, . PB rwag increasing ciondi- Saturday, partly Cloudy; prov. ; Indian Territory—-Friday Baturiay, fair; cooler. t, partly clovd y. Warmer; | In weet ; to southerly winds on toe but he. kissed me. Avery left important business papers | "4" into the house. Faun the notes and his will leaving his os Fortune t¢ Her, | GIAL TELLS 0 NEGRO MAS HUGGING th a Miss Annie Schmieder Says She Was Kissed Against Her Will. DIDN'T DARE TO SCREAM Half Carried to Her Honie aud Left There, She Testifies. EE ee NEGRO CLAIMS AN ALIBI Says He Attended Dance on the Night of Occur- rence, Miss Anna Schmieder, 3716 Oregon ave- nue, a stylishly dressed young woman with pretty face and large brown eyes, today reluctantly told in open court of her terrible experience at the hands of a negro who hugged and kissed her on the street near her home and made im- proper remarks to her. She was prosecuting Edward Wilkin- son, a negro barber, 27 years old, charged on two counts with assault, in the Court of Criminal Correction. Miss Schmeider was the first witness. She said that she was born and reared at the Oregon avenue address, where she lives with her father and mother, four brothers and two sisters. Her hours of work at a downtown res- taurant are from 6 p. m. until 1 a m. On the morning of Dec. 27, she said, she left the restaurant with a man as her escort. She intended to take the Broadway car, but missed it, and as her friend was going to take a Spring avenue car she rode with him to Jef- ferson avénue and transferred there. This, she said, was the quickest way she could get home atter missing the Broadway car. “Tf left the Jefferson avenue car at the end of the line at Chippewa street,’ said Miss Schmieder. ‘1 started west on Chippewa street, and was between California and Oregon avenues, about a block from my home, whgn that man there (pointing to Wilkins®@n) came up behind me.”’ Put His Arms Around Her. ‘“‘Hle put his arm around my waist and pressed me to him closely and said: ‘You’re out rather late, aren’t you? Why are you walking so fast?’ “I tried to pull away from him, but he wouldn't iet me. He walked along with me, holding me tight all the time, and he said: ‘“*You are a nice- looking girl and I'd} like to meet you.’ I said: ‘*‘T do not meet people.’ * “Well,” he said, ‘we will have to come to some agreement. I want vou to meet me on South Twenty-third street. We can have a Httle to eat and a little to drink!’ “By this time we had reached my front gate. I tried to pull away from - The second was written inside an en- ! velope addressed him, but he drew me close to him and Then I freed myself and “I did not scream while he was with | me because. I was afraid he would kill me. The street was very dark. and there was no one in sight who could have helped me. % “I knew he was a negro. I had known him by sight for several years as his home is less than two blocks froin mine. He was on the Jefferson avenue Car which I had left a few minutes before. I cannot be mistaken as to his identity, “I did not say anything when I went into the house, becuuse 1 didn’t want to worry mamma. “Wien [ went to work that ev ening | ' told some of my girl friends about ‘it and they advised me to have the man arrested. I told Sergt. Connelly about that night, and we went to about it CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO. ea hal HER ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES, LL ALOE AE LLC tt O. 179. ct ete, ee LLL ee eee WEATHER JUST CAN’T STAY COLD Temperature Flies Back Up, With Rain Coming, The tier stay wea re to cold. The tem- perature drops toward zero once in awhile, but climbs back toward § the freezing point. This is Friday’s forecast: “Partly toraght ‘fuses 1M SORRY FIFI BuT ] MusT MULLLE You WHILE WE ARE BROADWAY cloudy and Sat- urday; light rains Saturday or Saturday nigdt: te Dp a ture With south- erly winds; mum tempera- ture tonight will about 28 grees.”’ é iy lowest temperature friday degrees. The weather that Louis to have is general all over the country except in the extreme Northwést and in Central | New England. rising e r m mini- be de- e was 18 warmer 7 mt. ny fe. is ee ee eee | aade ‘LOUIS, “FRIDAY. “EVENING. FEBRUARY 16. - 1906 geen nee NO ea In Bt, PRICE ( Louis, One Outside St. Reale, Two Cents. Cent. th Edition “FIRST IN EVERYTHING” — ee ‘FOLICEMAN CUDDIHEE AND WOMAN ) WHO DECLARFS HE SLAPPED HER CAPTAINCY 1S POSSIBLE FOR CHILE KIELY --—--—-- &>- -—-—-— Police Commissioner Says Ac- cused Man Will Not Be ‘Railroaded.’? HIS RECORD CONSIDERED Service Not to Be Disregarded Unless Serious Facts Develop, HEARING MAY BE LONG , Board Will Give All Time Asked for Questions and Lestamony, —- mark of consideration for his years’ service in performance of po- lice duty, Chief of Police Kiely, insvead AS a val Oa TTY 24S CUDDIHEE /)\ of being dismissed from the department, will be reduced to the rank of captain, unless at his trial next week charavs of an extremely grave nature are Sus- tained. This was the statement of a member of the Board of Police Com- missioners to a Post-Dispatch reporter I‘riday. There is no disposition, the Commis- sioner declared, to ‘railroad’ Kiely or deprive him office without a fair hearing. “From what ee ee ee e ee SKELETON IN THICKET. MAY j } ; | ot nrvembers of the board have observed,” he said, “‘they are con- vinced that a new Chief must be found or the department. “Chief Kiely’s communications to the board would indicate that he expects be removed from the department. } While Kiely has not measured up to i,, . : _ ithe standard of executive efficiency Grewsome Discovery Recalls | as iibeuion. ela aa aa {fixed by Reign of Crime in St. ‘nize that he has been and is now a good ; ‘ | police officer, one whose fine record in Louis County. |the past cannot be obscured by ordi- nary charges of misconduct, incompe- tency or neglect of duty.”’ to BROWN-CHECKED CLOTHES Seventy-Five Accusers. Inspector Lally Friday completed the , drawing up of the charges against Kie- ly. The charges were submitted to the Fred Schroeder Reports Find | ) | iboard at Friday afternoon’s meeting and Coroner Inves- served on Kiely, who, | JTARIE COLLIER. under the rules of the police manual, will have 48 hours in which to file an answer. The summary includes two counts, un- and officially tigates. _|NEAR BARRINGTON SCENE becoming conduct and neglect of duty. Under the heading of unbecoming con- ~~--- POSSE BATTLES Running Fight, Over Six Miles Follows Dynamiting of Bryan Postoffice. TOLEDO, O., Feb. tie extending over six miles, posse and a band of safe blowers, fol- lowed the wrecking of the Postoffice at | Bryan, ©., today. i ‘he Postoffice was blown up by dyna- ; mite. A posse formed, 'placed on the bandits’ fis known they have ,ailthough the posse [| distence. t So far as been captured, trail. not got than ONE MILLION people in of St. Louis and contiguous READ the SUNDAY POST. EVERY Sunday. More the city territory UNIO BANDITS 16.—~A running bat- | between a and hounds were | Within shooting, oe eee ee ee Believed to Disclose Foul Play of World’s Fair Period. duet there are five specifications, two which have to do with the Sergt. Dorsey case. The charge of neglect of duty includes eight specifications. Seventy-five witnesses will be sum- moned to testify against Kiely. He may summon as many witnesses in his own behalf as he desires. Chief Kiely ‘has indicated his intention to fight. He has told friends that at least one of the police commissioners is prejudiced against him on_ personal grounds, and that ne may aitempt to show what has prompted this prejudice. “There will be much testimony bear- ing on the charges against Chief Kie- | said a Police Commissioner Friday. Kiely comes out of the trial with! hands I believe the board will | him in a spirit of abSolute fair- } oL ~ MASKED WOMAN RUBS CHICAGOAR Grabs Shopper’s Purse on Dark Deserted Street and Escapes. 16.—Mrs. Samuel] Sam- som, 4455 Catumet avenue, was today robbed by a woman highwayman near Forty-third street and Calumet avenue. She described the woman 18 being comely, about 2 years old and well dressed. A neavy mask covered her | face Mrs. Samson, (alighted from Koch of St. Louis County went to Bonfils Friday to hold an in- quest into the death of a man whose skeleton was found Thursday evening in a thicket on the old Clecburg place, two miles north of Bonfils, on the Obershone road. It is believed the man was robbed and murdered during the World's Fair, when crimes were of daily occurrence in the county. The skeleton Schroeder, who (‘oroner | G. Feb. CHICAC iy,’ s es) cloan treat ness. “While was found by Frederick lives on the Clecburg place. He was clearing underbrush 2 at the corner) when he came upon ft. The skeleton and had gone. about 5) feet south on} ; e Calumet avenues when a woman, who; Was lying on its back iu the midst o had been walking behind her, jumped in!a dense thicket. There were four or! jfront and grabbed her purgp. AS Mrs. five gold teeth and a derby hat of good iSamson screamed the woman fled with | A lthe purse. Mrs. Samson continued to quality and .fragments of a brown check suit and a pair of shoes indicated her home and notified the Fiftieth Stree; that the man had been well clad, The returning from shopping, a street car Chief Kiely Tae a ii itmitted to have counsel, every opportunity to witress and to make complete, ‘If necessary, trial should last two or three days, may be no Suggestion of will not be per- he will be given | examine each his own defense we are willing that the that there snap DISPATCH ~,, Sunday Post-Dispatch. SUNDAY MAGAZINE, FEBRUARY 18, 1906. CONTENTS; Page. St. col- Characters ee Funnyside Louis |} eee To Wipe Out. a St. toric Spot ... oo New Rival of Missouri Mule.... A New Judgment of Solomon. Natural History Miracle to Witnessed in St. Louis Romance of Ex-Speaker onan son How Lot’s Wife Turned NG Pillar of Salt Indians Who Are Capitalists. The Revolt of the Strap et: Why Rockefeller Left Home. . The Folding Flat Tips on the Art of Conversation O. Henry’s Story, “The Duel’... Novelist Accused of “Swiping” a Western Poem The Only Other Recent White House Wedding (in colors)... THE FUNNYSIDE: Snoozer ... Father’s Smoker; Nobody W orks Like Father The Bad Dream That Made Bil! a Better Boy The Comie Artist and ‘ie Ter- rible Twins Ambition; a . Funnyside for Winter Evenings Panhandle Pete in Napoleon's Bed Warm Ride—Hot Finish. at {in Louis His- Be ‘Game emma eee police by telephone. The purse con- hat was still on the head. tained $1.89. There was no overcoat, indicating that TT + er eT judgment.”’ The case of Policeman Thomas Cud- The Fact of Next Don’t Overlook that the CIRCULATION SUNDAY’S the death of the man occurred in warm weather. Mr. Schroeder concluded from the condition of the bones that the body had been .there for a year and a half, which would make the time of death during the World’s Fair period. Mr. Schroeder was so startled that he) did not make an effort to determine BUSCH CAYS 1S dihee of Central District, accused by Miss Marie Colier of striking her when she was arrested at Twenty-second and St. Charles streets for threatening to cut a ‘‘masher’’ was begun by the Police Board Friday afternoon. fs a little more Bonfils quarry, ‘ann, mur- was found ee Spe Tos SPATCH POST-DI will be A MILLION! Over a car as heartily. bya Post-Dispatch Wilhelmina Buscn Busch turned to Was First in Quantity—First in Quality “First in Everything” from the skeleton what had caused the man’s death. Schroeder reporied his find to cK & Brannaky at Pattonville, who telephoned ' to Coroner Koch, who started at once (IP il WILHELMINA and hold an inquest. The Clecburg place than two miles from the wi e€ f ® os an’ | > T ° * ee Brewer Now in Pasadena Will dered by “Lora” sarrington, wr UNM KED GR AVE. Know About Wedding When AR He Sees Daughter. iT; al! Body of “Dick Motrin” Was! ic we tom enaed. | a ' Buseh reache@g here in his special car at _ehe body of a Mani supposed to be 9-9) this morning. Lieut. Scharrer was Dick Morris, who was found dead the train to greet him. Lieut. Schar-! with a bullet wound in the back of his|" head last S i i n all betw en|™ r jumped on the "AG last & day in ;¢ alley betwe pe fete ; . ‘stopped, kissed Busch and his daugh- Market and W ginut sireets near Ninth . M = Sadek: evected Gebers! , , i P ae us. Sci rreeve ec a sireet, and which was erroneously ident-; **" Mrs agnu ~ ifled | buried in Potter's field. An inquest held} Eusch asked | Friday resulted in a verdict of death by | correspondent when a gunshot wound of an unknown cause. | would er be are er, co ' aker of 2 § », | Scharrer and said: + i Mas © ONMnAReY OFS Soule “When are you going to get married, | Rroaadway identified the body Monday at Lieutenant ?”’ 'the Morgue as that of a fellow shoe- Seharrer reddened to the roots of his maker, A.bert Brown. : " “Tt don’t know anything about it, Buseh then said: over the body of the supposed Albert “Withelmina is running this, and when Brown. That night after the story of { seo her at the house and have a talk the i beni ‘ared In the papers with her I will know all about it. ae Severs ee appear 2 ' “Il bave known Lieut. Scharrer ever Brown turned up very indignant. since he was a little boy, and he is a There were no powder burns on the head of the dead man and the revolver| hin was at his side. In his pocket yreke | Wilhelmina was not at the train to ter father. for the place to make an investigation Erroneously Identified. | PASADENA, Cal., Feb. 16.—Adolphus Monday Albert Brown, will be | rer hair and said: An inquest was held that afternoon very fine man. I have no objection te found a cgrd bearing the name “Dick] grget TEN WEEKS OF HIGH FINANCE RUINS NEW BANK Al CHICAGO aos rr President and Other Officials Accused of Looting Bank of America—Shortage May Reach $300,000 -- Housemaid’s Notes Among Collateral for Loan. » i RECEIVER APPOINTED; PROSECUTIONS LIKELY ad» ws Vv President Smith, Former Circuit Judge, Alleged to Have Borrowed Bank’s Funds on Worthless Security, Replacing It to Deceive Auditor—Makes Denial. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Feb, 16.—Criminal prosecutions today threaten the officers of the defunct Bank of America, which has just gone into the hands of a receiver, with losses said to aggregate $300,- OOO, after the most remarkable record of high financiering in the history of Chicago. President Abner Smith is alleged to have defrauded the bane out of more than $125,0vU0. ‘ Ten weeks of active business sufficed to end the existence of the institution, and 14 prominent business men who were persuaded to invest in the eoncern as put in the bank, Receiver Healy Rumors that the were in a tangled condition have been | assistant cashier. spreading for several weeks. turn from New York a few days ago |er him. Clarence Darrow personally | the depositors, saying in substance: Attorney undertook an fnvestigation of these re- ' Complaints of the business meth- ods of former Judge and President Ab- ner Smith and Vice-President Sorrow, and the privileges permitted Stockhold- er Creelman, was voiced by several offi- cers of the institution. ports. The result was charges in the formal bill for receiver- ship by Attorney Darrow and Attorney C. LeRoy Brown, complainant personally. Attorney Darrow, holders, declares that all depositors will The savings department be paid in full. deposits, ence §. Darrow, Judge Chytraus County Treasurer Daniel D. Healy as re- He filed a bond of $150,000 with the Metropolitan Surety Co. as security and took immediate charge. will not open its doors today. ceiver. Nine Serious Charges. charges : President Smith are: Auditor.—Before dois ink was certified by the State Auditor | Smith borrowed money and paid it into bank to cause the requisite amount of stock subscribed for by them to ap- | pear as paid on the books, of money the capital stock was on deposit. The specific Deceiving the the , full amount Depleted capital ‘after the examination by the Auditor, and after the bank had Smith, do business, depleted the stock money they for the stock subs Leans on rowed $70,000 from return brother-in-law and said to be of little Housemalid’s Housemaid on his note—On the day the bank began business Smith present- ed to the bank two gate sum The notes were mortgage on property commercial value. Big loan weeks return giving In estate which are said to be inadequate eecurity. Absorbs bank's man named Martin the company and ized, $10,000, Borrowed on Big voted salary for himself cers salaries greatly , they should have been paid. money as his own--During the as son 48 It time he has been president of the bank , he has done nothing but take from the L ses treasury whatever desire for his own private use. Depositors Gather Early. A crowd of around the door of the bank as early as 7 o'clock today in the hope of secur- ing their money. were many drug clerks, the bank hav- ing worked extensively throughout the drug stores in all parts of the city. In many drug stores notices had been stating that deposits would be received at the drug store for the bank, and offers of interest In the institution posted were held out to t ment to secure large deposits. The firet official amounting to $25,000, will paid immediately at the office of Clar- Mr. agreed and arranged such claims personally and at once. had deposited ‘ribed for by them. ‘familly notes signed of $25,000, signed Dufsey, a housemaid in his own family. secured small security—Within a few after busine cured $37,500 from the bank for himself. cash—He sold for his own use. wife's borrowed $3000 on the note of his wife. grab—He affairs of the bank On his re- the drawing up of who represents the as one of the stock- be Darrow having to liquidate all appointed Former The bank e made against the so that the represented by stock.—Immedlately commenced to Sorrow and others by withdrawing the in payment notes’’—He bor- the, bank, giving in by his wife, his others, which are or no value, Notes, notes for the aggre- by Mary by a second of little or no ss began Smith se- mortgages on real to a 50 shares of stock of kept the sum real- note—Later he caused to be the other offi- in excess of what and money he seemed to depositors gathered Among the number he clerks aa induce- of the bank to put stockholders. will lose $150,000 they says. in an appearance was R. H. Howe, the He opened the doors and a crowd of depositurs swarmed aft- Mr. Howe made a speech to “Within a week you will receive % to 4) per cent of your money, and the balance within a few days after that. All depositors will de paid in full. We have $100,000 in cash on hand and some securities that will be disposed of with- in a week. There is not the slightest fear that any of the depositors will lose any of their money.” When asked as to the cause of thre trouble Mr. Howe replied: “The cause of the failure is Injudi- cious loans. Ali money received after ¢ o'clock yesterday has been put aside and customers can have ft at any time they call for it.” Receiver Healy issued a notice saying that savings accounts will be paid on Monday and that commercial depositors will receive 40 per cent of their money within a few days and the balance in a short time thereafter. The receiver declared, after looking over the books today, that, while the depositors will be paid in full, the stock- holders will lose every cent they have put into the bank, Receiver’s Statement. The receivership was asked for by John E. Kavanaugh, a stockholder. His petition recites that President Smith is $146,000 short and that involved with him are Vice-President G. E. Sorrow, Cash- ier J. V. Plerce and F. E. Creelman, « stockholder. These men, it is asserted, have dominated the directorate, loaned money to whom they pleased, voted themselves large salaries and inaugurat- ed a system of looting unknown to di- rectors and stockholders. lt is charged against these officials, together with President Smith, that they had absolute control of the bank and its iunds. The operations of President Smith and the other officials mentioned in the bill are gaid to have been begun before the bank opened for business. Judge Smith is said then to have borrowed money and placed it in the treasury to de- cetve the State Auditor into . believing that the stock had been paid up. President Smith was one of the prime movers in the formation of the bank, having subscribed for $70,000 of the stock. In order to prevent, if possible, a panic and a possible run on the bank, it was decided to file the bill for the ap- pointment of a receiver late last night, Smith Denies Charges, Judge Smith denies the charges made by Kavanaugh. “Tl! have not taken a cent of the bank's money, and no one will lose a cent by this action of Hquidation, said he. ‘We had a committee to pass on loans and no loans were made unless the commit- tee had indorsed them. The bank moncy has not been looted, as# it is charged, “T eannot understand how Kavanaugh can make such acéusations. One charge is that I received $25.000 through a maid servant. I did receive the money, but it was a demand note and I stood ready to pay it at any time. If there had been any desire on my part to Joot I could have made a note payable in @ or 9 days. I do not believe the creditors will be able to proceed against me crimi- naliy.”’ Lamber Firm Involved. The first hint of trouble came in a “-- patch from Nashville, Tenn., saying that Fe. E. Creelman, a director o@ the bank, was tnvolved in involuntary t ptey proceedings begun against the John M. Smith Lumber Co. of Nashville. The proceedings brought to light 4 story re- garding the Issuance of about $300,000 of accommodation paper, the p of which are deciared to have her ~~ CONTINUED ON PAGE TWC » = oF