St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 20, 1906

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GHD STARTS FIRE IN SHED AND 1S BURNED 'Five-Year-Old Boy in Benton Loses Life Playing With Matches, / MANY HOUSES IN DANGER

Flames Burned Fiercely and For a Time Threatened Other Buildings.

LITTLE WIND BLOWING

This Condition Fortunately Prevented Spread of Fire in Suburb of Benton,

Orrin Martin, the 5-year-old son of Sheldor? Martin of 7257 Bruno avenue, Benton, was burned to death in a fire which he is supposed to have started himself while playing in a shed used as a paint shop in the rear of his father’s ouse, Friday noon. His Father, who is a painter, was at work downtown on a building at Fourth and Locust streets when the child’s death occurred. The boy’s mother, Mrs. Eva Martin, was at work in the house. Glancing from a window at the rear of the house she saw smoke and flame coming through the door and window of the shed, and as Orrin was not in sight in the yard. where he had been playing, his mother immediately connected him with the fire. She rushed to the shed and tried to enter, to save the child. Three times she made the attempt, but each time she was driven back by the smoke and fire. Finally the shed became a ass of .flame and she had to abandon her ef- forts. The shed was destroyed and for a time it was feared that the house would be burned also, and that the fire might spread to other residences adjoining. ‘The bal that there was little wind, it was blowing the flames: _from the house is eonsidered to vented a bad con tion . t was fhe fire burned. itself out pas lal s shed. After it was extinguished _ search was made of the ruins, and ge eg beyond t af the child, burned almost recogn ve. As | ition, was found, HABEAS CORPUS WRIT. ivorced Husband Says Wife Kidnaped Their Child. J. W. Thompson, living near Auburn, ‘Ind., ~was granted a writ of habeas forpus Friday by Judge Holder in the - Belleville Circuit Court to recover | session of his 2-vear-old_ son, ce h W. Thompson, now held by the bey's mother, Mrs. Edyth Thompson, at ew Athens, Ill. Thompson's petition recited frat Me wife obtained a divorce from him June 14, that the custody of the child » Was awarded to him. but that the > Wether kidnaped the child about | three weeks ago. Thompson finally ebay them and instituted habeas & proceedings. Accompanied by puty Sheriff he went to New ens Friday afternoon to recover ssion of his son. _ NEGRO STRUCK WOMAN. Dita Is Fined $50 After rial in Police Court. _ Allen Buckner, a negro, was fined $50 nd costs by Judge Pollard in the Day- _ ton street ce court Friday morning > for striking Mrs. Anna Hinckler of 2501 North Twentieth street, _ Mrs. Hinckler’s son Albert, aged 11, hen fighting with another boy June 15 cs Buckner by. Heu the boys to their utmost when Mrs. Hinck- ter upon the scene. She inter- and sent

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MRS, BILE POISONED UST FORE MURDER Physician Not Permitted to Say Whether She Took Drug Purposely.

TRIED TO BUY REVOLVER Told Dealer, He Says, She Wanted Lawder to ‘Come Across.”

CHILDREN IN COURTROOM Five-Weeks-Old Baby Named After Jay Lawder With Mother Constantly. + — +--+ 0

From a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dis- ULTON, Mo., July 20.—Evidence of- fered today in the trial of Mrs, Alva Balley, charged with complicity in the murder of JAy Lawder, developed the fact that Mrs. Bailey suffered from poisoning two weeks before the killing of Lawder by her husband, Edmund Bailey. ‘Dr. John Welsch testified that Mrs. Bailey went to him at that time for treatment for poisoning. There was ob- jection to his testifying along that line, and -he was not. permitted to say whether she had taken poison purposely or had been poisoned by accident. Dr. Welsch is the owner of the re- volver with which Lawder was killed by Bailey, whose trial was concluded Thursday night, and whose fate is in the hands of the jury. He loaned the weapon a week before the shooting to J. W. Ross, Town Mar- shal of Farber, Audrain County. Ross says Mrs. Bailey borrowed it from him the day before Lawder was killed, say- ing she wanted ft for a prowler who had been around her house. She Tried to Buy Weapon. J. W. Bestley, keeper of a general store, testified that Mrs. Bailey tried to buy a revolver at/his store the day before the tragedy. She told him, he testified today, that she wanted it to compel Jay Lawder to “comé across’ with money. On cross-examination it was developed that at the preliminary hearing he had not testified anything about money. He denied that he had leaned across a sugar bowl and tried to embrace Mrs. Bailey, and also denied that in the scuf- fie which ensued he had hit her on the head with a loaf of bread. Husband and wife sat in the court- room close together. Mrs. Bailey held in her arms the 56-weeks-old baby named for Jay Lawder, and between husband and wife are two of their three chil- dren, Mary, aged 6, and Edmund Jr., aged 4. The arguments in the case of Baile® were conciuded at 10:30 Thursday night with an address by Attorney liay for the defense, which occupied threc hours, The jurors retired with- out taking a ballot, and did not begin Le aga deliberations until Friday morn- ng. They began their consideration of the evidence at the same time that the work of getting a jury for the trial of Mrs. Bailey began in the courtroom. There was no great dif- ficulty in getting the jury, and be- fore 10 o’clock Prosecuting Attorney Orear began his opening statement to the jury. He told the jury that it would be proven that Mrs. : Bailey fave her husband the revolver with which Lawder was killed. It is understood that the defense has no intention of trving to prove insan- ity on the part of Mrs. Bailey. The round will be taken that she had nothing to do with the kiHing. Just after the jury itn Bailey's case filed out Thursday night Bailey was asked how he felt. He straightened up and, looking his questione ‘the eyes, said: “I know that I did right. If | wo to the gallows I'll know that I go as an innocent man. “Yes, I know that he did right,” said eed Bailey, ‘“‘and I know I am all right, “The goer looked at each other and clasped hands.

a WASHINGTON AVENUE BUILDING Two Seven-Story Structures to Be Built for Ely-Walker Company. That two new seven-story buildings Ge to be erected in the neighborhood of Sixteenth street and Washington ave- nue is evidenced by a lease filed in faa office of the Recorder of Deeds The lease, which is to run 30 years, is from the Ely & Walker Dry Goods ee OF ‘4 the Ely & Walker Dry There are two tracts of Lo ae gy a et yr ts feet on the sou avenue and Robbins t is that amount of Saeed, 78 shat be pald eacity for the lease. pana, ie. ’ be * whe B the | * “en t LAW INE SWE H MUNDY GIRLS City Attorney and State Official to Proceed Following Investigation. SUFFER IN AED TO LThO

HOT ROOMS State Factory Inspector Hiller Says Women Work in Tem- perature of 135,

SEATS PROVIDED BY LAW

Suits Will Be Filed if Institu- tions Do N ot Meet the Requirements,

Women and girls who work 10 hours a day in the laundries of St. Louis, where the temperature is estimated to be as high as 135 degrees, are to bea re+ lieved, if the united action of State Factory Inspector J. C. A. Hiller and City Attorney Thomas Anderson bear fruit. Mr. Hiller is preparing an order to all of the laundry operators and if they do not comply with it suits will be at once instituted and prosecuted by Mr. Anderson in an effort to ameliorate the conditions of the women and girls. It is in the ironing rooms, where the h.lp employed is comprised exclusively of women and girls, that the greatest suffering is endured, according to the ctatement of the officials. In these rooms the hollow steel rollers, through which sheets of flame are continually pouring, so as to keep the ironing roll- ers at a high temperature, temperature of the room to a degree that is said to be almost unbearable. On the floor of the average laundry from 75 to 100 women and girls are em- ployed at these machines. The ironing machines series of steel rollers, running length- wise of the reom, and the operators stand between these rows, with one set just a few inches in front and the set of rollers at their backs not more than four feet distant. The steel rollers, between which the clothing to be ironed must pass, are required to be heated to high degree, consist of a Girls Dvrop From Exhaustion. In some laundries gasoline is used to produce the heat. Gas is the agency in other laundries, and in some _ electric flames are produced, but in all the same heat is produced, and it increases the temperature until often the giris are said to drop from sheer exhaustion while they are at work. Mr. Hilier has made a personal inspec- tion of several of the laundries. He says that he has been unable to get statements from many of the girls, be- cayse they fear they would lose their positions were they to utter complaints. “One laundry that I inspected,’’ said Mr. Hiller to a Post-Dispatch reporter, “and it is not materially different from what | foung in most of the others, lL was in about an hour. I never expect to be in so hot a place again. 1 do not think I am exaggerating when I say that the temperature of that room was 135 degrees. ‘When I stepped out of doofs, al- though it was an exceptionally hot day, the air seemed frigid, and I caught me. “These girls and women were stand- ing at these machines, passing a cold that still stays with which streams of flames were ever flowing, and never for a could they pause for a breath. hours they work are long, 10 hours each day, with only half an hour for luncheon. The wonder is that more do not collapse under the _ terrible heat. “Fans are not used in these rooms. The laundry men teil me that the wind from fans would dry out the Washing se that the ironing could not be properly done.. The damp gar- ments passing .threngh the heated } rollers add to the humidity and_ the temperature that is maintained in the roo. a is almost indescribable. "In some laundries exhaust fans are used. This carries away the vitiated air, but it does not decrease the tem- perature to any appreciable extent. Laundry men tell me.that the girls would not consent to the installation of agitating fans overhead. The cool air coming down on them would give them colds in the heads. . “T have canvassed the situation and I have consulted with City Attorney Anderson, and T have arrived at the conclusion to try and bring about a reform. Remedies in Statutes. “There are two sections of the stat- utes that he will proceed under. Section 6443 provides that every manufacturing, mechanical, mercantile or other estab- lishment, employing women and girls, shall provide seats when they are not necessarily required by their duties to be on their feet. “Section 1858 makes still more provis- lon. It declares that seats shall be pro- vided, and provides that the employes shall be permitted to use these seats to such an extent that their health shall be Fong tg on i ow now that while tro duties are such that the girls pons _— pelled to stand. But, under the last sec- tion quoted I think that the forcés may be so shifted, 7 recreation periods pro- vided, aH, that the girls may get breath- ing 8 ENO I rson — work f at a stretch in’ these hot places with-4 out sSeueas zing his eaith, - = gg A yo rvale. wil have od ut own at intervals to, determine themse! — is for the ‘men "At y order to tetresel aT issue a Hed with, “hes will insti to Police Comets

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|HUGS AT ALPS CAUSE WIFES | DWORCE SUIT =~ —

Mrs. Davis Says Two Married Women, Sisters, Sup- planted Her,

SPENT MONEY ON PAIR

Scenic Railway and ‘Nigger Baby” Ball Throwing Their Diversions.

WIFE HIRED DETECTIVE

His Look Into Cab Leaving Planters Caused Hasty Departure,

Leonard Davis hugged woman at the Alps, allegation in the divorce suit of Mrs. Mina E. Davis of 4384 Morgan street, filed by her attorney, James M. Rol- lins, in the Circuit Court Friday after- noon. Mrs. Davis also says, on the strength of reports made by private detectives to her, that he went down the Pike at Delmar Garden with another married woman, and that they threw balls at “nigger babies,’”” got weighed, rode three times around the scenic railway, had their fortunes told, viewed the moving pictures and were gay and hilarious to a high degree. Mrs. Davis names the two married women in her petition. They are sis- ters, she says. The home of one is on Morgan street, and the other lives in New York. She says both of them left the city about the time that her husband deserted her, June 3 last. Most of the allegations in the petition are based on information provided by a private detective employed by Mrs. Davis. He reported to her that Davis met other women in public places, spent money for champagne when he com- plained that he had none for household expenses, drank champagne with the married sisters at the Alps and after- ward allowed his arm to steal about the waist of one of them, and that he “did’’ the Delmar Pike with one of them. Mr. & married according to an and Mrs. Davis were married 10 years ago. They have lived in different cities. Her husband was employed as sales manager of an Olive street piano house. He is now employed by a firm in Cleveland. Saw Them Once Herself. Mrs. Davis Says in her petition that her husband began keeping company with the two married women the first week in April. One night that week he took them from his place of business to Q& restaurant at Seventh and Locust streets, and did not reach home until 2 a.m. She says the women visted the store where he was employed until they were told to remain away. Mrs. Davis alleges that May 26 her husband pawned a diamond ring be- longing to his wife for $90 and took the married sister to the Alps, where they ate supper and drank champagne at an outlay ef $12.80. That was the occasion, she says, on which he put his arms around the waist of one of them. They then went to Delmar Garden, and he took the other one for a ride around the old mill stream. LIle took the one he had hugged to her home, Mrs. Davis says, and reached his own home at midnight. He told his wife he had been kept late at bis office. On one occasion Mrs. Davis says she was notified by her private detective that her husband and the two married women were at the Alps, and she went there and saw them together. When she asked him to take her to the Alps or to the gardens, she relates, he always said hey didn’t have the raoney or he had to ‘work, she Says, but on the very evenings he had refused to take her out he would spend’ large sums on the other women, she alleges. Continuing, the petition says: Detective Scarcd Them. ‘May 28 last Davis met the women at a place on Olive street, bought them each a box of candy and soft drinks and put them on a car. ‘Wednesday, May 30, he met one of them in McPherson avenue and after a stroll took her to Forest Park and re- rn. seep hursday, May 31, he met one of them at the Planters Hotel, where they had dinner together and afterward went to Delmar Garden. They Wwent ‘down the Pike,’ got weighed, threw balls at ‘nigger babies,’ rode three times around the scenic railway, had their fortunes told and viewed the moving pictures. He was lavish with his money, gay and hilarious, and entirely thoughtless of his wife at home. “Priday,June 1, he met the same wom- an at the Planters Hotel and had din- ner, after which they went out and took a cab together. While driving away from the hotel, the detective, in order to learn who were the occupants, peered into the cab. When they saw they were detected they rode hastily west.’ Mrs. Davis tells how she once delayed the departure of her husband from the house by @ ruse, pending the arrival of the detective. ‘‘He dressed up im- maculately one evening,” she sa “He said he was going to the ores. i thought he was going to meet women. I had ordered my detective to be across the tga at 7:16. husband got er than I thought he would. ard. chan soil time ‘the

b ‘cence laces, and the hours ar at these Chee of the nk a LEONARD DAVIS AND WIFE, WHO - SAYS HE HUGGED MARRIED WOMAN

KIFLY . PLEADS CASE WITH FOLK “My Hands Are Clean,” He Tells Governor in Hotel. ' Gov. who of c the Board of Police Commissioners, for the first Thur Planters Hotel. “Governor, I said tended his hand. vy. Folk TO" with ‘‘How is everything, Gove “ra the Tne of hi "Cc Fo! Folk ~y The minutes.” Chi smiles as he left the hotel. Rested on Railroad Track. Pet old, eame sick Friday of Quincy street and when he sat down on tr struc freig wound and his back was injured. ambi answer.

Folk and Chief of Police Kiely, is under suspension pending trial harges preferred against him by met time in nearly a year eday afternoon in the lobby of the)

am glad to see you,” he approached and ex- 2.822.LlAV/IS Kiely as smiled g@nd shook hands suspended Chief. Chief?” asked the the rnor. think everything: is all right,”

was n Chief Kiely, showing the palms said dramatically: those hands are clean.” silence, Gov. s hand, yvernor, lowing a moment of replied: am. glad to hear that.”’ ‘n the two talked aside for several Nothing of Value. Thursday Gien, where Louis County, to Fern St. ceeded robbed ef Kiely’s face was wreathed in beer.

window was broken, but so much er Broderson, a laborer, 31 years | ened away before they living at 6930 South Broadway, be- morning at the foot Here they ‘anner Lumber Co \Woodinen olf America, and made tile attempt to get into the safe. At Fern Glen - Capt. 1e end of a railroad tie to rest was k by a south-bound Iron Mountain ht train. He suffered a slight scalp An Hos-

tlance took him to the Clty and beer taken. nital. ee VALLEY PARK - BURGLARS. They Visit Two Places, but Get Burglars, after making two attempts to obtain valuables at Valley Park, night, in pro- they a saloon of $4, some cigars and The butcher shop of Fred Coleman at Valley Park was first entered. The bay noise was made that the burglars were fright- got anything. Next the’ broke into the office of the took papers belonging to the local lodge of a fu- Schaff's saloon was entered and the money and cigars

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One Equals | hree! without juggling the figures Again Thursday (July 19) the Post- Dispatch carried as many columns of paid advertising (creep tee) a8 all the other St. Louis English News- papers combined ! The Count: ost-Dispatch, 92 cats Globe-Democrat, Republic and y ? ry Star-Chronicle, Combined ... 4 4 First in Quality First in Quantity First in Results

I shortly IN MARITAL TANGI + 24 - Mr. and Mrs. Otto Trechsel Sign and Re in Clayton Formal Agreement of Sep. tion, Dividing Their Property and Agre ing to Henceforth Live Apart. Ps a a.

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Matrimonial her sister are involved. wed her Should he get a divorce The agreement is designated as “articles of separation’’ and was filed with the Recorder of Deeds at Clayton by Otto Trechsel and his wife, Ida, who until a few days ago lived in a small cottage at Overland Park; St. Louis County. Miss Estella Schenework, the wife’s sister, who is some _ years her junior, resided with the couple for A time, but asserts that she was com- pelled to leave, owing to the bickerings between her relatives and the talk which was circulating in the neighbor- hood. Husband and wife have divided their property, consisting of several lots in Overland Park and her effects. Mrs. Trechsel has gone her mother's farm near California. Mo. Trechsel is com- pleting the erection of a cottage In the county and his Snprttey lle: is a do- mestic in a Wes? End home. Was Once a Soldier. Tre the chsel were married Spanish-American been a cavalry- He owned a farm near Russell- and they settled upon it. She was 21 and he 24 years old. They man- aged to save $2500 up to last Decem- ber, and when they learned they could not live happily together and Mrs. Trechsel went her way. the man sold his farm for $2200 and went to St. Louls County. Miss Schenework and made her home with Trech- sel’s sister. Mrs. Rose Herr, at Over- land Park. Then the Trechsels patehed up an agreement and together. with Miss Schenework, lived in the cottage being erected by the husbard. But things were not as pleasant as might be, and Mrs. Trechsel went to Califor- Mo:, with her mother. and Mrs. after the man having Mr. war, man, ville, Mo.., came to St. Louis nia, Agreement to Live Apart. The following is a copy of the agree- ment: Whereas, unhappy differences have arisen between Otto Trechsel and Ida Trechsel, his wife, on account , of which sald parties have mutually agreed to live separate nd apart from each other and to relinquish and release each other from all marital rights ang duties; Now, therefore, pursuant to agreement and in consideration $1 each to the other paid, it is here- by stipulated and agreed by and be- {ween sald Otto Trechsel and Ida Trechsel, his wife, and Lawrence B. Colgan, trustee of and for said Ida Trechsel in this contract, all of said parties of St. Louis County, in the stute of Missouri, as follows, to wit: Said Otto Trechsel hereby releases, relinquishes and forever quitclaims siid Ida Trechsel and to her heirs and assigns all and singular his rights, title, interest, marital, cour- tesy, or other interests whatsoever, In ‘and to the following describod real estate, situated in Overland Park, in said county and State, and now held and owned tn fee by said Ida Trechsel, to wit: Lots 8 and 9 in block 11 of said Overland Park, aecording to the recorded plat there- of, and doth further pay to sald Ida Trechse) the sum of $4 In cash upon the execution of this contract. And the said Ida Trechsel, con- tracting herein by and through her said trustee, Lawrence B. Colgan, doth Rote Aad the considerations relinquish and said of “ les of a ae that upon the execution o s cOon- a = yment to the said SF aga of said a of 840 > > . 7 EF nal : "oe

Gq! ‘in wh Dive Wife Once Planned to Sue for a Divorce, Failed to Do It and Spoiled Hust Plans -- Her Sister ~ Acted as Peacemaker. The filing of a strange matrimonial compact at Clay , revealed the queer love tangle in which a husband, his wiles nd The husband, who is a party to the 7 ment, which stipulates certain conditions that attend the couple separation, admits his love for his wife’s sister and his désire © ; his sister-in-law admits that sk has agreed to marry him when * is legally free, and his wife | failing to sue for divorce has prevented her husband and | fulfilling their announced desires. —— a" er 7% sed - In witness whereof we have unto set our hands and seal July 13, 1906. OTTO T IDA TRECHS: - Sister-in-Law Saved His Lite, “Should it ever happen that I ¢ a divorce, I may marry my sig law,” said Traechsel. “I think the finest little woman in the we Because of persecutions by her - and my wife, she was forced to les her home and come I feel that it is my ~ her, and as long as can earn money she shall never ans “My nister-in-law saved my. [ am grateful, as I should be, head to abandon the resolve to ‘myself. She sald I was gh a rr man to even contemplate such and she convineed me of my put the weapon away that she was the one woman in” world to me. pee pt “| will tell you all the “te connected. with this for 1 a nothing t@ conceal and Se that I was in any way to me for t present state of our. “From almost the ‘time of riage my wife and I did not ge well together. Our quarrels CF crisis last December, and she returning to her mother’s home, | | ; was not far from ours, I me. farm and stock for asin Gate Fe wife a portion of the money, 6S Sa Had Many Disagreements, — “Previous to this we had nareed ta o divorce, and | gave my wife the ms to pay the expenses. She. did not the suit as agreed, and we together aguin, The same ce confronted us ard she Jeft me cember. It was then that I w spondent, and Estella saved my’ if came here and cto gg wanes lo ; in my wife's name, provided for should ahi to me, and I took 4 any ne of my sister, Mra Rosa Servo ee land Park. “My mother-in-law came to several times, and tried to pat matters, and last March she bro wife, who begged me to take her “Suse Estella Esse oe 4 Bers ) I didn’t want to do it, uged it and I finally consented, | { = three lived together at this and it was only a short while until my wite= was again at her old habits, 0 “She told the neighbors unfow stories of my relations with her and [ got Into bad repute, as did EBs She finally said she would 201s0R fvod, but I told her I - own meals, and from that day Lh done so. Estella obtained employ and Wednesday beforé Inst my ite I had a final serap. We time to disagree, vide our p and do the thing tn the proper a Just Agreed to Disagree. “We made the agreement of Pt tion. I gave my wite #0 and her sha of the property we own t an we filed the compact as {ogethet a pe ment so that there could oa no ing its provisions. I am still my cottage and will week, after which a s into it. I don't know what I I gi