St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 16, 1906

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{Have You ad the House | That “just suits” ‘Hundreds have by reading { Post-DISPATCH WANTS—Especially Sunday Some exceptional offers yesterday, you for a home? ONLY

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Noted Writer, Separated From His Wife, Who Is Sojourning in St. Louis. RS Be i fo ee ~r oe Se _—— «ee

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La » “My Boy! My Boy!” She Cried as She Pressed Him to Her Breast. ee we ee ee ee PRISON RULES BROKEN eee eres But It Was Only by Acciden and the Bars Were Soon Between Them, NEW YORK, July 16.—Mrs. Willian Thaw of Pittsburg paid a visit to hfr son, Harry K. Thaw. in Tombs prisop, today, where he is a prisoner, accus@d of the murder of Stanford White. Mr@. Thaw. who arrived from Europe Sa urday, and was unable to visit her so! on Sunday, went to the prison accom- panied by Josiah C. Thaw and A. R. Peabody of Thaw’s counsel. Mrs. Thaw was met at the door b the prison Warden, who told her in apologetic way that it would be nece sary for her to comply with™the pris rule that all visitors must be Search Mrs. Thaw then retired to the room the Tombs matron, where the rule w&s complied with. Made Her Way to Cell, The Warden, Josiah C. Thaw, and Mr. Peaboyd escorted her to the corri- dor in which Harry Thaw’s cell is lo- cated and then withdrew after she had thanked them. Mrs. Thaw then made | her way alone to cell No. 220, and greet- | ed her son for the first time since he: shot Stanford White. As Mrs. Thaw reached the cell of her son it was seen that her daughter-in- | law had left the consulting room and gone to the cell of her husband. When the young wife saw the -mother proaching she slowly backed away from the cell to a spot some 15 feet down the corridor. tion between the two. Onsthe mother's arrival at the cell Keeper John Smith saw that she was somewhat feeble and opened the door of Thaw’s cell to get the stool, on which she might sit dur- ing the interview with her son. The mother, not knowing the rules of the prison, upon seeing the door opened rushed forward to her son. In an in- Stant both her arms were clasped around the neck of her son, while he, with bent head, clasped his mother to his breast. Tears streamed from the eyes of both mother and gon. There en-

. Belt a Merchant's Son. Alfred Beit was a well-educated mer- chant’s son in Hamburg, destined to go into the office, where he would learn to check and supervise accounts relating to shipments and’ receipts of goods to and from the ports of the earth; to inherit a comfortable income from a staid oid shipping business; to cultivate a family, a taste In music, a proper regard for beer. and go to his fathers a respected but very little known German mere hant. But about the time he was going into business and giving up the duels and other delights of student days, there was a sudden commerce with the young South African town of Kimberley, which promised such development that his firm considered it wise to send a rep- Yesentative into this new marvel land to examine and see if the resources of the county justified the big credita the trades in all sorts of stores and ma- chinery were demanding from Ham- burg merchants. Dlamotée, wealth in ite most concen- tented form, had been found In the Orange River country 1867, and in 1870, or possibly a year riiér, reports came of even greater diamond mines found in Kimberley to the northwest. There was a rush to the country from all over South Africa, and soon from all over the world, but {it wasn’t till 187% that the slow-moving, conservatwe Hamburg firm, of which the elder Beit was a member, felt the tremendous Im- petus of the new trade strongly enough to gg them to send out and inves- ti bat sort of work required the vigor and health and activity and, the enthusiasm of a youngster, and 50 Alfred Beit. then 2 yeurs of age, waa. outfitted with credit, with arma, with letters of introduction, with a in- ernal bi struction a wn, thence by ei ers without initials, ened the claims of the Republican counters in regard to there, it is said there is a Democrati¢ gain of eight in the precinct recount, EXPLOSION KILLS d, INJURES 2 Superintendent Among the Vio- ‘tims of Accident Near — Ashland, Wis. | ) ASHLAND. Wis, Joly M—A powder mill several miles from this eity Blew .

e*t eal] for Cape team—for the railroad wée fot yet butlt —across Cape Colony, the Free Sitate, Transvaal, and so into Kimbertey. Found a City of Madmen. He found a city of madmen. Thousands had rushed in, taken up oF bought land. worked the wonderful uel 4

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