St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 4, 1906

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Classes Are offered from day to day through Post-Dispatch Real Kstate Wants. SPENDS — THEDGEPETH FREE “TTS FOURTH IN | SFEKS TO BEGIN THE COUNTRY! NEW LIFE HERE > Downtown Streets Deserted, | Train Robber Says Police Will Except for Those Watch- Never Again Have Cause ing Ball Séores, to Seek Him. Rn > RIVER Liederkranz Olub Corner-Stone ' Laid in Afternoon on _. , Grand Avenue.

noon, at least, the citizens themselves proud by the celebration of the safe and sane, instead and foolish. est Independence Day w, although the small Marion C. Hedgpeth, train robber and burglar, with a long police record, was released from the Penitentiary at Jef- ferson City Wednesday, on a pardon from Gov. Folk. He announced his in- téntion of coming to St. Louis in the afternoon, and declared that never again would the officers of the law have need to seek him. Though only 42 years old, he looks 60. His imprisonment of 12 years has bowed the stalwart frame, and has taken from his face the defiant look that he had in November, 12 years ago, when he entered the prison to be- gin serving the 25-year sentence for the Glendale train robbery in St. Louis County. “Remember,” said Warden Hall to him Wednesday, “that the Governor and myself have expressed our confi- dence in you. We have said to the world that we believe you to be a re- formed man. Do not disappoint us. Behave properly when you are outside When Victor Venarde filed suit at Clayton for $25,000 damages against his father-in-law and mobther-in- law, Mr. and Mrs. George Kerth, alleging the alienation of his wife’s affections, he reopened a family quarrel that has been intently watched for a year by most persons in the southern part of St. Louis County. It first became public a year ago when Mrs. Venarde sued for divorce, alleging indignities, The Court refused to grant a divorce, but this did not re- unite family, Mrs. stayed-at her father’s home and her husband let her keep their three chikdren. He stayed on ‘his farm alone. His suit against his father- in-law wes begun two days ago. The Venarde and Kerth families are well known in the southern part of the county, which has Mehlville for a center. No more fertile lands exist any- where than the farms of these two families. The lands adjoin, and from.

atreets were deserted and @ residence district there was ip noise than heretofore end fewer re- nat or cannon crackers were fired. ' One apecies of nuisance which usually * ge Except in a few scattered cases | the idiot who puts fulminating caps on ‘the street car cnr tracks was suppressed by i nniown there were few signs of fe. ‘Broadway would have been de- . but for the Post-Dispatch bulle- tin “ on which the progress of the morning baseball games was shown. - Many of the regulars were out to watch 'VicTor VENARDE AND BRjpE__ a TWO WEATHER VIEWS ROOSEVELT AS Ss) sect) ORATOR SCOLDS The weather man, count- Johnny, the pride of ‘the ing, on a quiet Fourth, office, wasn’t willing to ae- PINCH ME: IVE GOT ME PERMIT!

doesn’t predict the usual cept the weather man’s showers which follow the forecast Wednesday. He Independence Day bombard- said he couldn’t see why ment. He sees nothing but Uncle Sam wanted to work

+ the board. There was some life on | Locust: ana Fine strests below - + : Olive . ie bap! 4 om abel ey when re seek- a \ the levee, aa hiamaneion boats them up or down the the boats had pulled out |°v°% spc downtown the city for na ration Garden. Thousands listen to patriotic speeches sy te! remained in the the laying of the corner tea Grand avenues Club gg es Huge Par oasamion, cert ‘ ort the « gos is just what you need today. t be honest, clean living oa ise thinking ¢ FIRECRACKER SETS A HOME ABLAZE A boy. with a firecracker caused a grove came from the assem-

destruction pe oh of the furnitdre in Ned ry Kane on the second roome of floor of iz Chantpan

vents. Saizan is known to have come to the eity Sunday night. He was seen at the Union passenger station by acquaint- ances and went through the waiting proom to the Sixth ‘etreéet side, and poret ? was the last seen of him. As he was not expected at the home of his fiansee unti] the next day, noOth- ing was known there of his presence inj the city on Sunday night. On Monday the girl waited for him all day, prepared to go. with him to the Courthouse, where they had planned to be married by a Justice of the Peace. Housekeeping fn Kansas City. Saizan had told the girl that he had saved several hundred dollars and that after the wedding they would take’ a short journey and return to Kansas City to begin housekeeping. When Saizan fal'ed to appear Mon- day, relatives of the girl telephoned to Kansas City and learned that he had left there Sunday afternoon for St. Jo- seph. Miss Boyd said she supposed he had been unavoidably detained and was still waiting for him when yesterday afternoon she received a postal card, in the handwriting of Saizan mailed at Kansas City, containing the informa- tion that he was detained against his will, Miss Boyd does not believe that Saiz- an has been abducted and is being held, but her mother its of the opinion that all he says on the postal card is true. She believes he is being held for ran- som, Police Are Puzzled. The young. woman has searched the jails of the city but has found no trace of Saizan. The police are aiding her search. The young woman, who Is re- fined and pretty. says it is the third time the wedding has been set. In Feb- ruary she was to have been married to Saizan in Kansas City, but it was postponed. Then the time was set for early in June and the last time on Mon- day night. Iintil today the police have believed that Saizan did not appear because he did not want to marry the girl, but the) mystery of the postal ecard is a puzzle to them. They know that many tough characters are in the lower nart of the city and say it is possible that Sai*an may be held by some of them. How the! postal card was mailed in Kansas City. however, is not understood, unless Saizan is there. SIKTY-ONE CLUBS SURRENDER TO LAW Iroquois and Hibernia Among Those Which Will Take Out Licenses.

R WJ. MeGEE PRESENTS — CHAMPION c a Remarkable and Almost Ex set SPECIMEN Of the Genus BOS” Under the Directon of Ben Selkirk. “Why is Dr. McGee's exhibit « Jefferson Club Carnival like music? aor Now, all at once. Ein, swel, ¢ ‘, 3 schrump. Because it’s mostly horns, © This joke has two points, seven feet — apart. ae _ aa They had to take him out to the eine nival because they couldn't give | away to the Park Commissioner. Aull. This marvelous specimen of the | Bos started to the Paris Bxr once, but his feet got sore _ he ¢ back on rollers. Ferd ‘Dr. McGee is the only al who @ af. preciates the fine points of this Ss v8 Even the Beef Trust magnates have cided to do what they can without i © 3 Dr. McGee thinks the steer : services Of a taxidermist, wat Mae a ” says that is a mistake. What it need a is a chi ors i ; <7 2% t the skin of the le be Mr, Aull insinuates tha t the ni and a 1 and a self ig nothing but a “‘skin’’ Anyway, aon men o genus side-show steer. this extinct into a Those who have seen degenerated * than age a possibly an a Aull wants to bet Bp = cut up this long- that an his fetes ase oe aon ee

Sixty-one “lid” clubs raised the flag Ve “ommerets of truce Wednesday and surrendered| Githens’ Ret to the ce by closing thetr 4 The ae 4 dozen other