St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 25, 1906

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E COURT'S ORDER | | 1S IGNORED Bt TOM JOHNSON © ee ee A on “Tear Up Cleveland Street Rail- way Tracks in Spite of Injunction, a

. At Head of Five Hundred Men He Directs Work of Destruction.

‘ HALF-MILE RIPPED UP

He Says Cleveland Electric Co, Ignored City Council Resolution.

_ Special to the Post-Dispatch. - CLEVELAND, O., July 2.-—War was “‘begun.on the Cleveland Electric Rall- “way ©o. by the city today, when a force of 500 men began tearing up the tracks of the street railway company in Fulton street, between Lorain street and Franklin Circle. The force of city employes was un- ‘der the direction of Mayor Johnson and Chief of Police Kohler and they were ‘protected by a force of police. a Judge Ford granted a temporary in- ey against Mayor Johnson and other city officials from tearing up the ‘ track and set the date for hearing on e “The injunction was promptly served - and found the work of ripping up tracks “neatly completed over the half-mile of . street involved. Mayor Johnson paid no _ attention to the order and the work is om finished. "The action of the city was a com- plete surprise to the railway company nothing of the kind. had been General Manager Stanley of the elec- averaged heard of what the city goon after the page ot, of : ~ geo said the pu of to make wa for t Ps. | to get yd _ » Haat ¢ Gide. nley said t no question of t of the Cleveland Bleetric Co. use the tracks on. Fulton He cata the city’s action was in of the company’s franchise or Johnson said the action was because the Cleveland Electric y Co. refused or neglected to com- with a’*Council resolution requiring to take up its tracks along Fulton Beall ng them to the east side u tans orrere company to which Gen- r Stanley referred is the SMantctpal tion Co., recently orgun- to construct and operate a number street car Hnes in this city on a ; fare basis. Mayor Johnson is _eredited with being largely interested in the municipal company.

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legal Combination of | Three Dealers. MADISON, Wis., July %.-—In a deci- which will be made one tomor- 33. - District Attorney Bosshard of. La Cross Alleges that three dealers in La oe who control the greater ay of ig fice are in an illegal combinatio

ae eR er me mee St. Louis is to have another brief spell of warm weatier, according to the Man Who Ought fo Know, be- cause of an area of low baro- metric pressure along the Can- adian border. The concitions wil. be some.

temperature will continue fomea-

THAW C AND BEAT WIEE, SAYS MASSEUSE Eye Witness of Amazing Abuse Tells Story to District Attorney. a

THOUGHT HE WAS CRAZY

Says He Struck Her Too for In- terfering in Evelyn's Behalf.

GAVE HER LITTLE MONEY Mother Was Turned Into Street and Left Absolutely Destitute.

By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, July 25.--The most ex- traordinary story yet told in connection with the shooting of Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw is that of Miss Anna Crane, a masseuse, sent by the slain architect to Paris in the summer of 1904 to bring Evelyn Nesbit back to this country With funds supplied by him. She has told her story to Assistant District Attorney Robert J. Turnbull, and her testiinony will be most important if Thaw is placed on trial for his life. Miss Crane was located only after weeks of clever detective work by P. L. Bergoff, the private detective, now at- tached to the District Attorney's office, whose defense of Stanford White, print- ed exclusively in the Post-Dispatch, was the turning point in the most absorbing murder cause of the century. Miss Crane is 50 years old, with gray hair and frank features. She occupies a modest apartment, where she was vis- ited tuday by a reporter for the Post- Dispatch. She was a masseuse long before. that profession fell into the hands of the frivolous young women of the Tenderloin and numbers among her customers some famous actresses. This ald sc masseuse waa the myaterious “wo who. yesterday vis- Jited the Criminal Courts building and was closeted ‘with Mr. Turnbull for three hours. Miss Crane's Miss Crane's story is as follows: “I have known Evelyn Nesbit ever since she went on the stage. I met the poor, young woman when she was play- ing in “The Wild Rose’ company, and was living with her mother at the Hotel Wellington. It was through Mrs. Nes- bit and her daughter that [ became ac- quainted with Stanford White. “We then called Evelyn Nesbit by her right name--Florence. She was my es- pecial charge, and it was-a part of the girls routine to receive facial massage irom me. We became well acquainted. and I received many confidences from her; in fact, she often called me ‘Maim- ma No. 1.’ “Refore JI go further in my Want to ~.t) Florence i never heard her say but the kindest words of Mr. White. The archi- tect was deeply interested in her career and was equally as much Interested in her brother. He was a kind-hearted man. whom Mrs. Nesbit had interested in her children. “Then Fiorence met Harry Thaw and her real troubles began. “tT was only slightly acquainted with this young man up to two years ago, when whatever good opinion I ever held in regard to him was destroyed. “But I am getting ahead of my story. Young Thaw used to take Florence out to hunches and dinners, and so far as T know conducted. himself ag a gentle- man up to the time she and her mother went abroad, in 1904, and was followed Statement. ‘by the Pittsburg millionaire to the oth- The Trip to Europe. “The first I kuew of the troubles of Mrs. Nesbit and her .daughter with Thaw was in the fall of that vear, when Mr. White sent for me. He told me that he had received several communications from the mother and that he wanted me to go to Paris and help straighten out inatters. “There was delay in my ‘tting away, and I did not get two the Nesbits until after the mother and daughter had been separated by Thaw. All had been living in a beautiful apart- a slight ment located on a thoroughfare tn Paris 7 : Just limd been the principal, caller on Florence. CREEPING UP off the Champs Elysee and Thaw if not the es pla, ‘'The day before I got there a terrible row had taken place and Mra, Nesbit had been put out of the apartment by i Thaw. who acted like a madman. ‘Mrs, Nesbit was nearly destitute, and but for the timely arrival of Mrs. Ida Very Symington, a newspaper woman. who had gone abroad with the Nesbits and been left behind in London, she would never have got back to the Unit- ed States. “Mre. Symington aided Mrs, Nesbit with her money and subsequently called on Mr. White for funds. : ‘Oh, do not leave,’ begged F’orence. ‘He will kit! me. I am dreadfully afraid.’ "She meant Thaw. I stayed and the inciderite of the nex be forgotten while I live. “They are the most distressing mo- ments of my life. I cannot understand the girl's present attitude toward the inan who is a prisoner in the Tombs. “Thaw a Monster.” “Harry Thaw is a monster and any one who bas lived in the same housc with him, as I have, will agree with mec, “{ bellewe him te be a lunatic, and so did Fierence when we finally got away from him and took a steamship fer New York from Evgiand. "The first thing that Florence did dg hg were alone was to bare her show me the bruiees and claimed, recital I: that in all the time T knew . 10 days Cau never

] BATTLE WIT BANDITS IN ROCKFORD, (LL. Daylight Cracksmen Loot the City Offices and Blow Open 15 Safes. SURPRISED BY THE POLICE

Two Are Captured After Fight and Others Escape in a Big Touring Car, -——_— POSSES IN PURSUIT That Has Been Terroriz- ing Illinois Towns, Special to the Post-Dispatch. ROCKFORD, Ill., July 25.—Cracks- mén, who have terrorized the smaller cities of the State for weeks. Postoffice safes with impunity, Rockford today. After looting the offices of the Mavor, City Clerk, and Superintendent of Water blowing raided Brown Bloc kK, by the police, A running battle followed, in which two of.the robbers were captured. ‘Two escaped in a big touring car they had placed near at hand to meet such an einergency. Others fled to the country. Posses of police dnd citizens are now in pursuit, aided by farmers, who are tracking the fleeing robbers. The two captives gave their names 12 Edward Williams, and George Everett. Both say they live in Chicago. Theic clothing ts of fine quality and fashiona- bly cut. They had $6653 in currency in their pockets in addition to the grape abandoned when the police closed in vr them. Efforts to force them to give informa- tion concerning the identity of their companions have proved unavuili; ng. It is thought the gang, emboldened by past successes, determined to use the sume tactics in a bigger game when descend ing upon Rockford. The municipal offices are located in the Brown Building as well as the of ficeés of a number of leading lawyers. physicians, brokers and business men. In the shadows of the structure the automobile stood unobserved for an hour. Rockford. slept unconscious of the fact that a crew of half a dozen or eo were looting the place. Suddenly the sound of crashing glass centered attention on the Brown Block. Sergt. McGraham and Policeman Quinn ran into the building expecting ty e» counter fire. Instead, they humped int the lookouts stationed by the cracksmen There was a brief struggle. a flash of revolver shote and the two lookouts dashed out. leaped into the hithert) un noticed automobile and escaped. The two men who had been at work looting the offices were captured as ¢t} tried to escape from the building. the raiders were detected le) max) _—— OFFERED 10 DROP CHANGES FOR $100 ne TT oa a a ee Girl Reprimanded by Judge on Making. Admission—Ac- cused Clerk. Annie Kirsch, 12 years old, and sister, Emma, testified in the City Hall Police Court Wednesday that for $100 they would have dropped the allegations made by the younger girl against Chas. M. Cravyatte, a grocer’s clerk, who | lives at 2618 Washineron avenue. The defendant was not Diaced on the stand. Judge Tracy rebuked Emma Kirseh and Cravatte, who unofficialls charges made agaimst him Annie Kirseh Alleged hat Cravatte had ridden with her in a den verv Wagon for the purpose of taking out groceries, promising her that he would assist her as far as Twenty-first and Locust Streets, Which ts not far from her home at 600 North Jefferson avenue. She said that before he reached the stopping i place he embraced her rudely and -at- ' tempted improper attention. These she repised, she savs, ‘he two sisters, on tion, revealed that the day after the al- leged incident, whieh occurrei July ly. they had called at the store where Cra- vatte is employed and offered to drop the charges against him if he would pay them $1. He denied that he had been guilty of the accusations and, re- fusing to accede to the girls’ demand, was arrested. The smaller girl stated that she fre- quently went to Cravatte’s working place for groceries, and that when he said he would drive her out near her home she was glad to ac cept the in- vitation. She said that while they were passing a shoe factory on Lo- cust street, the clerk became unduly attentive and that later her sister had accused him of insulting Annie, promising, however, to call off the af- fair if $100 was paid. : The Court appeared indignant when Emma Kirsch's admission was made and criticised her strongly for placing little value on her younger sister's honor. He said it was/not necessary to place Cra- vatte on record in the case and that he would dism s tas. the de Fondang- forthwith. BATEMAN. “MUST HANG. her

Severely dischareed denied the

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souri’ Woman’s Assailant. JEFFERSON Orr, Mo., July ward Bateman, a negro, sentenced to was;denied by Gov. Fol e- man Was convicted of Exam od te ate’ He ete tinrwe ol under | | ‘we of high-

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Folk Denies Clemency to Mis- | 95. ala The application for clemeney for Ed- | be hanged in Mount Vernon, Aug. 7. ! A €*hi den, one oe ral 1: partiaills Lwuis “Mike.” R quentliv thr kept, Tt decided Solterman The butcher broken the knee. The bull gored the horee repeatedly. | the ground on the other *he bellowing of the enraged bull at the neighbor farmer, house. FARMERS ENGAGE IN A LIVELY BULL FIGHT, ONE HAS LEG BROKEN --——-90-—- — ak oo eee Anaty Durham Attacks Butcher on Horse, Knocks Him Down and NIn icts Scrious Injuries—Keeps Man in Tree for Three Hours and Then Imprisons Family in House. several times they they appeared the bull would the house it, but wherever door or window Infereenr them. Rinme catied for help until he aitraect- ed the attention of a neighbor whom he Sent to get Sa.terman’s rifle. One bul- ‘let made a g0ooO1) bull out Mike and the Blume family gained its liberty. Durham. Solterman Wits faken to the Laitheran ¢, | HospAal at Granite City, where his con- * i dition is said serious, injured { leave Mor. | tried iat a ter- | tree maddened bull seriously Solterman, a bn I1i.. 28 miles farmers, kept-a and held Aan soners before its life was ended by © builet Wednesday. bull 3-vyear-oul It belonged farmer. who named = animal has fre- persons passing | has been, ' ‘ horseback and into the field. | an instant the bull was upon him. It} the horse. knocking it down. | Proprietor of Chinese Laundry } ! at Tonis, in terme? St. man is from a fainily a ized hours entire of ne Was a2 dehorned. Blume. a to De ecently aitacked the field the ough where it Blume for that and sent dangerous it killed became so io jhave went to the Blume farm | rode the fall Solterman’s right lez was at the ankle and dislocated at Arrested While Smok- ing Dope.” proprietor of a. Chinese laundry at 807 North Sixteenth street, was convicted on charges of Selling ;}Opium Wednesday morning. He was | fined $300 and costs by Judge Pollard In the Dayton Street Police Court. Sergt. Hurst entered Lee Sing's ected Blume from the house. Just aioe: Tuesday afternoon and. found reached the field he saw the bull lift!the air reeking with fumes of opium, horse on its horns and | Lee Sing was cleaning an opium pipe Re AN ,and when ques tioned, said he was re- cence. /PaIring it. Three white men, a ne- Tree. (Bress and a white woman were lying | lin bunka. minutes later Gus Albright,| Hurst watched the Chinaman. clean took a short sonal ved ba After cooking the “pill” he eciined in a bunk and smoked. Hurst field. The bull | called Officers Dooley and Sheehan and arrested the inmates, who gave their names as-Chariles Green, Edgar carried Solterman to. the meyer, Willlam Mariow, Sarah Boy- When he returned to the fielder, the negress, and Lee Sing, the found that Albright was still in | proprietor. The white woman waa tree, The bull kept him there/|sick and unable to leave her bunk. At three hours before it retre ated far | the Carr Street Station the prisoners | furnished bond and were released. Judge Follard in assessing the max- “It is clearly shown hasheesh and opium were sold found the bull standing at the | at the luundry. The smokers cannot pawing the ground; be fined as the law does not provide was impossible penalties for smoking opium.” the family to The trequenters of the place were discharged, _ rede eee ee Lee Sing, te his injur‘es, crawled # feet to a terman extricated himself, and, de- | 1 fence. The bull followed him, forc- | side. butcher's a it over a Chased Into a few ough Blume’s ree. lume morning when Blume|imum fine said: bellow ing. It any member of

The Post-Dispatch “Sport Edition” is the complete pa- r published anywhere in the United States. The Post-Dispatch receives by telegraph from spertal correspondents, daily, from 4000 to 5000 swords giving the Sport news of the day from all parts of the country. Robert Edgren, the noted expert, writes daily for the Sport Edi- tion. There's also a tine department for boys and amateurs. In short, there are MORE THAN THREE PAGES OF. BRIGHT, ENTERTAINING SPORT NEWS, handsome pictures and enter- Peon, reece im the ds ogategeeat 5 — largest, most interesting and mos} pe

‘found. Tue Schmitt's barroom Thlteenth and POSSE HUNTS ASSAILANT ..OF AMES Wi —__~ G TELLER iN COLORADO CALLED ON "LEN LAST SUNDA ro eee ~~ S

Mrs. Fred Beach, Young Woman Amarillo, Tex., Tells of Correntan n With Charles H. Everly, Trust oem Attache, Who Confessed $5000 Er zlement.

MET AT WORLD'S FAIR, SAYS LETTERS INNOCE -—- — or @- Brother of Mrs. Beach Tells of Plans f@ Everly’s Vacation and Surprise Whi He Came Alone and Left Saying He V / Going to Mountains. The mysterious ** Leni,’’ whose letters from Denver, ‘ole. Charles H. Everly, absconding teller of the St. Louis Valve Co, are considered by the trust eompany their best clew ¢ whervabouts, is Mrs. Fred Beach, wife of a rich elevator manuie turer of Amariilo, Tex., according to a special dispateh to the Pe : Pilesasch from Denver. Everly, who disappeared from St. Louis Friday following 1¢ ; confession of a $5000 shortage, leaving his wife and ehi au ras at the peadeael Hotel in Loveland Sunday’ where ill is visiting. He called on her and then left Loveland, saying was going to Colorado Springs or Estes Park, Colo., for a af He has not been seen at either place. bs Ree When seen at the hume of her broth- ‘. not rye Pe mpeimese he took th reli ? ‘ r went into the mountains on a er at Loveland Wednesday morning staxe com pany iepors t Mrs. Beach at first denied any know!l- ¥ iepo a eet awering his Cem dstrk Ot any Ot edge of Everly, but finally admitted senger to Kkistes Park that she had been writing to him, butt mer resort in this l-call Descr.puons of Charies: that the correspondence was of the most innocent sort. missing teller of the St. I Trust Co., who onieionk ot Everlv while at the Bushnell Hotel remained in confinement atl afternoon $000, have been sent to ail citics and search. for and night and earlw Monday morning left. He. visited the young woman at her brother's residence and, W is said, told herthat he was out there for rest and recreation. Fiverly Just Her Friend. Mrs. Beach says that Everly was sim- ply a friend of hers and that the letter found by Everly s wife was written in response to one received from him in which he asked for information regard- | ing the different summer resorts -!n Colorado, sating that he wished to come here for a vacation. Roy Stewart, whose name appeats In the missive the person with whom Everly should tell his wife he was g0- ing fishing. brother of, Mrs. Reach and is a member of the firm of R. 8. Stewart. stationery deaters of Laove-. land.- He a prominent Elk, well known throughout the Wést and reputed

4. A remark made: by Byerly te hephew, a youth named % fore his departure, is thought cate that he had no intention o his wife or other relatives, teow W | he was going. He sent a letter te wife by Ferd, and when the latter ay him where he was going he you don't know you can't tell The only definite clew as yet 4 session of the trust company is t cial delivery letter from a. ing herself ‘Leni,’ erly after his departure and. Pe to pians for a meeting in I The facts regarding the r thie letter as exclusively in the Post-Dispatch to mystify Everly’s friends m ever. Not a person in all — who was friendly with found who even suspected © missing bank teller had on friends except casual “( who were known by his wife an himself,

a wy as Phe: eat iat is a ae apse Mayr is wealthy. Stewart, talking for his sister, said: “Mrs. Beach, my sister, first met Ever- ly In St. Louis during the World's Fair. They were passengers on the same @X- cursion steamer and an acquaintance sprung up between them. Another sis- ter. Miss Mary Stewart a popular teacher in the East Denver High Schoel, accompanied Mrs. Beach, and Everly treated them very courteously during their stay in St. Louis, and since that time I beileve a friendly correspondence has passed between them. But I know that it*was of the most innocent nature, What the letters contained I do not know, but as to the one mentioned in prvss dispatches I can easily explain, “Everly had written eh nee ae ago at the window. . to Colorado 4 ’ ana gore bey “ag Ha the best place to pets peti arenchtes ot go. In view of the kind a he uesday ning, “a acorded my sisters while in Bt. Louls wé| tainly was popular with the girls, were all interested in ates Se aaial have, you know, ‘four : good time t to nim end told him to meet 10 on the receiving and pratt paying side. It was a very i thing for @ woan to come to us at 1624 Tremont street, Denver. That ts the residence J = — — : ing there during the rece . ear stage the Elks. He did not bank when Everly had three. ort meet us there, but for what reason we customers on his hands while t never learned. 1 returned to Loveland, | teller would be disengaged. a thinking he had — ervies be gee “En ats ; " ter. I had agree oO mar carer male nl te ihe * mountains on a fishing trip,} Starces the women, instead of i which was planned for this week andi the vacant window, would alt ¢ ly, ‘and the other women whom ‘Everly ; us reas Eatotree, pores stated would accompany therm. wait un was to Her Famity incidents as these had att = = apbit ieees attention of the other clerks aa often “jollted Everly about his) * wavs. He would always pase with a tauah. and never : embarrasament and no one “This is a complete surprise and shock to all of us. Mrs. Beach did not an instant that anything was Net Activo as Clab hear from Everly again until he ar- aked eed, caren falta cid he state that they had decided not to come. To offers of taking him around to see Mos Everywhere the same venid “Never dreamed that ‘there, | anything wrong about Everty.” member of the Mlawourt At? put it Tuesday night: the sights he thanked us and said that be would go up into the moun- never ‘tipped his hand’ ‘to friends.” only iets § tains and rest. I did not know the At the club trey man personally. only what I heard man who came there on the ay my sisters say about him. | am con- fident that Mrs. Beach has not seen of once a week to bowl, on eat “arks” with the Was Popular With Women, he At the bank. however, they ha slightly different stery to tell, wm Everly’s popularity with the customers of the institution had 1 noticed and commented upon on | than one occasion. Nothing, had ever happened around to excite afiy suspicion that acquaintance with any of these _ mers extended beyond a little courtesy in transacting Rex * fe - a, - sus oF him since the Worlds Fair.” Mrs. Beach was reticent about the affair and treated the matter lightly. She says that it is not her fault ff the man is an embegzler and that she wrot> to him only as a friend. Mrs, is extremely handsome and very attractive. She ix tall and willowy and dresece in the latest fashion. She is apparently not over 24 years old. She ts Loveland and i society beth in tytn ar ii Her Colorado | . arg tty family custom } #"

at this time is ¢ as in aceordance with a fi of holding a family reunion atthe home of their parents in. Loveland every sim- mer. ; Fred each, the husband, formerly lived Wichita. Kan. where, ag ie eaid, his ~ atill resides, Beach has been | until recently and tow cone be thme Loult, w ) ) hd es he. i wok 5 veg ‘ Cee me? a ae. % ae

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