St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 8, 1906

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GRIEVING FOR VOTES ATI

the DEAD, WOULD SAVE LIVING eS Townley Has No Censure for Slain Son or Brother Who Shot.

DEAD MANWAS WAYWARD

Tragedy Ended Happiness Par- ent Saw in Aiding Broth- ers in Business.

FOUR SONS DRUGGISTS

Self-Defense Will Be Plea of Prisoner, Regardless of Law’s Course. a

Sorrow that seldom falls to the lot of a@ man has befallen T. R. Townley, whose son, Verner, xilled another son, Nicholas, at Union Station Saturday afternoon. Tuesday night fhe arranged for the shipment of the body of Nicholas to his old home in Versailles, Mo., for burial. He remained in St. Louis to do what he can to aid his youngest son, held for the shooting of the son who is dead. The elder Townley has passed his al- lotted three score years and ten. His hair and beard are snow white, but his form is still erect and he possesses much vigor of thought and action. He dis- cusses the great trouble that has be- fallen him and his family with dry eyes, but with a voice that quivers, and at times he rests his head in his hands as he thinks of his double misfortune. Wednesday he sat in the office of his attorney, B. . Clark, in the Lincoln Trust Building, with his oldest’ son, John R. Townley. and talked about his dead boy and about the boy who killed him. He showed an equal regard for the dead and the living. While express- ing the decpest grief at the killing of son, whom he always refers to as Nick.”” he said that he could find no words to condemn Verner, the son who fired the fatal shot. Sons All Became Druggeists. The elder Townley has spent his life- time on a farm near Versailles. There he-reared a family of four sons and one daughter. The sons all grew to man- hood and all became druggists. They left the parental home, but returned for occasional visits and while they were away letters from them came at in- tervals. “Nick was always wild and trouble- some,’ said the father. ‘“‘As a boy he was often in what I called row troubles. They were not serious, but they wor- ried me. Nick's temper was to blame. He would become angry at trifies and when angry he used abusive and violent language. He made threats against his brother and sister, and even against me. Maybe he meant to carry out these threats. mavbe he didn’t. But we were always afraid of him, afraid of his un- goOvernable temper. “He caused his mother and me lots of trouble. Time and time again he ap- pealed to us for help and we helped him. “I had not seen Nick for three years nor Verner for nearly that long, until nearly two weeks ago, when they came to Versailles tog~cvihne:. Since T had seen Nick he had been in trouble,. serious trouble, in Texas. He had served a term in the Penitentiary there on a perjury charge. He was released last March, at which time I had sent $75 to him to help him to ect started again. “When h ecame to see me two weeks ago, IT said: ‘You have been tn serious trouble. Nick.’ That was all I said to him. I did not reproach him, did not chide him. He passed the matter off likhtly and said that he had been about &s contented in prison as he had ever been anywhere. Promised Business Aid. “The boys stayed at my home five or Six days. They wanted me to aid them in establishing a little business. My wife Was dead. I was alone, and I told them that I would help them all I could. They maid that they had heard of a town in Arkansas where there was a 1 open- ing for a drug store. I told them to g0 m and look the situation over and if it was what they had heard it was, to let me know and I would join them and investigate. If it looked good I was to furnish a little money and we were to start a drug store, which the boys were run, “I was led to do this by my desire to reform Nick. I thought that his Texas experience shouid have taught him a lesson. He was 31 years old and I hoped that he was through with his wildness and that with Verner and me with him he woujd mend his ways. He was a good t—there was none better, and when the boys left I felt happier than I had tn years. “During the time they were at home there was not a quarrel, not a word out of the way. They came to St. Louis and wrote me a letter saying they were get- ting ready to start for Arkansas. One of them wrote on one side of the paper, the other wrote on the other side. “That was the I heard from them until I was noti that Nick was in the hospital, seriously wounded, and that _ Verner was in Jail for shooting him.” e. The head in man paused and held his gray his hands for some moments while he rocked slowly back and forth. x Then he continued: “IT came to St. Louls and went to the : b City Hospital to see Nick. They would of-- not let me spend much time with him. awfully sorry this has happened,’ hi am I,’ he answered. ‘but it was . my fault. I abused Verner, called him het and struck him. When I t well am going away where I will never my family Any more trouble. 1 not prosecute Verner.’ Biame for Bearing Pistol. “That wes about all he said to me and all I said to him. The doctors did not want me to see him, and would pot let me siay in the room long. I ont want to say anything against my @i fon. though I feel that he was myidle for the quarrel that ended $106,000,00 TROLLEY EAL Stockholders of United Rail- ways and Suburban Approve Merger Plan.

NO TRANSFERS JUST YET me ee ee ee Actual Consolidation of Differ- ent Lines Will Take Sev- eral Months.

WAS NEARLY UNANIMOUS ee Se — Few Opposing Votes in United Rys. Election, None in Suburban.

The proposition of the management of the United. Railways Co. to merge the St. Louis & Suburban System, on the basis of an exchange of United Railways preferred stock for the stock of the St. Louis & Suburban company, was ratificd Wednesday by vote of the stockholders of the United Railways Co. The stockholders of the Suburban sys- tem met at the sume hour at Maple and Hodiamont avenues and voted to accept the offer of the United Railways Co. The voting of the United Railways stock certificates took place in the di- rectors’ offices of the company on the sixth floor of the Security Bullding. Sented by proxy. President Beggs of the United Railways Co., said to a Post-Dispatch reporter that amalgama- tior. of the new system and the conse- quent issuance of transfers from one line to the other may not be brought about for some time, perhaps for six stock issue months. The total of Railways Co., including preferred stock, is 378,970. Out of this number 321,705 shares were voted in favor of the consolidation and 2450 shares against it. The polls opened at 9 wa. m. and closed at noon. The Suburban stockholders cast 35,678 votes for the proposition. This repre- sents 90 per cent of the entire stock issue of the Suburban Co. Not a stock- “eeend of the Suburban voted against the United common and ‘The scheme of consolidation involves a total of $108,000,000 Will Hasten Transfers. ‘“Today’s action,”” said Mr. Beggs, “merely ratified the plan for the United Rallways to acquire actual possession of the Suburban system. We held proxies for 70,000 of the 130,000 shares of preferred stock, and there was practi- cally no opposition to the merger. But after this ratification there is a great deal of detail that must be attended to before the properties may be physical- ly united. ‘The Suburban in and canceled. New issued, properties must and this will take time. “Tl know that the people of St. Louis are anxious for the !tssuance of trans- fers to begin at once, and we will do all we can to expedite matters. I know that if the proposition to consolidate were left to the people of St. Louis to- day, instead of the stockholders, the plan would be unanimously indorsed. “This consolidation is going to result in the loss of many fares to the two railways. Heretofore there were many who rode on both lines, especially from Union Station to the suburbs, and paid double fares. When the transfer sys- tem is inaugurated they will ride for one fare, and the loss will be the com- pany's. The gain will be the public's. “The United Railways Co. wfll not at onee take over the Suburban system. We may make suggestions as to the op- eration, but the property will not be actually turned over for some time. Just when it will be I| cannot now state. must be taken stock must be be transferred, stock More Direct Routes. “Even when it is turned over to us the transfer system will not at once be put into effect. There are certain phy-, sical changes in the streets and routes that must firsf be made. We will have to study out what changes in route are needed to best suit the convenience of our passengers. “For instance, the Suburban passen- gers from the southwest should not be hauled all the way north on Sarah street to the present junction point. New routes will have to be planned to bring them downtown direct. The transfer system is naturally the last one of a multitude of details incident to the con- solidation of the two properties.”’ Capt. Robert McCulloch, vice-president and general manager of the United Railways Co., told a Post-Dispatch re- porter Wednesday that it would be im- possible to put the universal transfer system into use at once, even were the actual transfer of the properties com- pleted now. “In the first place,’’ said Capt. Mc- Cullough, “an entire new aystem of transfer slips will have to be printed. Every transfer ticket that we have now on hand will have to be discarded. “But the greatest delay is bound to occur from the changes that we will necessarily make in the routing of the lines. We want to change the lines so as to benefit and accommodate the greatest number possible, and it will take study and much time to provide for all of the changes that will be neces- gary. Capt. McCulloch would not make an estimate as to the length of time that would be required yefore transfers would be given. FREE ON MOTHER'S PLEA. Mrs. Griffin Released in Cin- cinnati Court. Mrs. Lola Griffin of #35 Olive street was, released Wednesday in the Police Court In Cincinnati on the plea of her mother, Mrs. R. Adcox of St. Louls, a press telegram to the Post-Dispatch says. Mrs. Griffin was arrested in Cin- cinnati with Frank Williams, who was accused of representi himself falsely as the representative of a Denver whole sale house, and obtaining money in that Mrs. Griffin did not know her mother had gone to Cincinnati until she saw her in the Police Court. She burst into pase en begged to be brought to St. Williams was formerly a boarder at the Olive street address. He and Mrs. Grif- fin teft St. Louis together and went to

New York and Most of the stockholders were repre- . be excused the STATE TO USE C7 WITNESSES IN MOB TRIAL Case of Hill Gooch Is Called First in Springfield (Mo.) Court.

DEFENSE IS OVERRULED Motions to Quash Indictments Allege Nine Grand Jurors Opposed Them. Se ee ee ee COURTROOM IS CROWDED

Messenger Announces Juryman Can't Come Because Light- ning Killed Children. ent, SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Aug. the mob which hanged and burned three negroes, Fred Coker, Horace Duncan and Will Allen, in the public square on at 9:20 a. m. to-day. O. T. Hamlin, attorney ‘for pleaded not guilty in hebalf of his client and immediately began the gument of a motion filed yesterday by the defense calling upon the State endorse the names of the indictments. Assistant Attorney-General declared that the State was willing by) this endorsement to give the He said it was tutes, but Judge A. W. Lincoln sus- tained the motion and the Prosecuting Attorney’s office started on a day's work of furnishing the defense’ with summoned by the State. Crowd Fills Windows. ‘The courtroom was crowded when the Gooch case was called, every seat was filled and every window sill had from two to four occupants. Every aisle was filled by men standing until they were forced tod the bailiff In all thé wd of 500 persons “hen: the trial began there was just on. @vo- | man, the mother of Gooch, the ac.el-! dant. Gaunt and | her son and watched every move made | by the court and the attorneys for both ' sides, turning with to her boy to see how the proceedings. Gooch, himself, is not an unprepossess- | ing-looking chap. He is only 24 years | old. He has a squared-off jaw that sug- | gests determination, and as he laughed} and joked with his friends and counsel, ; he had.no appearance of being worried | at his position. While the attorneys were squab- bling over formal motions, more women arrived. WUalf a dozen came in one party, and later came Mrs. Robert J. } Reeves, mother of Mrs. Minna Ed-| wards, the alleged attack upon whom precipitated the lynching of the three negroes. Mrs. Reeves lives at Fair Play, Mo., about 20 miles from Springfield, and her intention, it is said, is to remain until the conclusion of Gooch’s trial. The first exciting feature of the trial came while a a to quash | the indictments against Gooch was being offered. A messenger’ rushed into the courtroom and explained the absence of one of the regular panel of jurors, who had been missing when court opened. Juror’s Children Killed. J. L. Maxey won't be able to be here this morning,” blurted out the messenger, ‘“‘because his house Was struck by lightning at 4 o’clock this morning and two of his children, a boy of 7 and one of 15, were killed.” | Before the Court could even tell! him formally whether Maxey would messenger ran and mounting his horse in front of the Courthouse rode away. sad-eyed, she sat beside | almost every word | he was taking Mr.

this episode had subsided, Hamlin offered a motion that the in- dictment against Gooch be quashed and court.was adjourned for an hour to allow the attorneys for both sides to prepare to argue that motion. Attorney 'SPRINGFIELD MOB SCENES, AN ALLEGED ‘LYNCHER AND A PROSECUTING OFFICER

By a Post-Dispatch Staff Correspond. | 8.—Hill | Gooch, charged with murder in the first | degree in being one of the leaders in— the night of April 14, was called to trial Gooch, | ar- | to its witnesses on | Kennish } defense } the names of the witnesses, but objected | to the formal] sustaining of the motion. | contrary to the sta-: names of 627 witnesses, who have been As soon as the excitement attending |

If this motion is refused and the trial proceeds, and perhaps, three weeks. In addition to the 627 summoned by the State, the defense has called 50 in the Gooch case and 200 for the other three cases. When court reassembled for the ar- xuments on the motion te quash the in- dictments it developed that the motion to quash was made principally on the ground that nine members of the grand jury did not concur in the indictment. and that they were cortrary to the Con- stitution. Kennish Makes Chief Argument. witnesses After Prosecuting Attorney Patterson had entered the official objection to the quashing of the indictments, Mr. Ken- nish made the argument for the pros- ecution. The argument for the defense was made by O. T. Hamlin, chief counse! for Gooch, and A. H. Wear, who came to. court on trutches, having been con- fined to his home with gout for sev- eral days. Judge Lincoln sustained the objection of the prosecution to the quashing of the indictments and the motion was for- mally overruled. it is not expected that | it can possibly he finished under two, | | Rainfall 1,80 Inches in Twenty-

motion to quash the juror panel was also Overruled after the same evi- dence had been introduced as in the Campbell case a week ago, when it was Republicans had been called and in oth- ers only Democrats. With the overruling of the motions by the defense, activity in the Gooch case stopped suddenly as the prosecu- tion discovered that their witnesses were conspicuous by their absence from the courtroom. Out of a roll call of the first 28 required just six an- swered to their names. One of these was Sheriff Horner, three were his deputies and one was a local newspa- per reporter. When this situation developed At- torney Patterson asked the Court to CONTINUED ON PAGE Two.

ti a week ago. after trips to Philadeiphia. contended that in certain districts only |

ASST. ATTY GéNL. SOHN HENNMISH ae LACLEDE PLANT DEAL RUMORED Market Report Is That North American Company Has Bought It. Through the agency of the stock tick- er, fiinancial circles were advised cA Wednesday that the deal whereby tue Laclede Light and Power plant becomes the property of the North American Co. has been all arranged and will be an- nounced as a fact tn a few days. The cy aa is neither new or unex- pected. It was in circuiation, printed and denied three weeks ago when John l. Beggs was here assisting in the work of closing the deal when the North American Co. purchased the Suburban Railway for merger with the United Railways. Reports on, the Stock Exchange were to the effect that the Laclede officials denied the completion of arrangements for the transfer. It is stated that the purpose and course of procedure will be the same as in the purchase of the Suburban property, the Laclede to be merged with the Union Electric Light and Power Co., placing all of the city gas and electric lighting and power Ca- pacity under control of the North American Co., the holding company for many of the interests of J. P. Morgan & Co.

MORE SHOWERS: THEN WARMER eR a Four Hours. , . » § - NOOL A combination fan-umbrella is still the inven- tion most to he desired St. according Weather He says more rain is to fall. What has already fallen Si ete el threat- be y routh in ont all sections east of the Rocky Mountains. The official forecast Wednesday: “Showers to- night and prob- ably Thursday: warmer Thurs- day; light south- erly winds.”’ During the hours ending at 7 a& Mm. Wednes- day the precipi- tation in St. touis was 1.8 inches, The total since the rain broke ae er the hot wave has been Russian Paper Raises “American Peril” Ory. ST. PETERSBURG. Aug. The Novoe Vremya raises the ery of “the American peril,"’ and says that “the time ig not dis- tant when the Slav, German and Latin races of Europe will be compelled to unfte for self-pro- tection againet the combination ef greater America, greater Brit- ain and greater Japas.”

WOMAN TELLS STRANGE STORY ‘ HER FURY

> Mrs. Erler Says She Caused Foster Daughter to Leap From Window.

CLEARED PICKET FENCE

Becomes Violently Angry as She Tells of Child’s Tardiness.

Mre. Annie Erler, a widow, of 2835 Magnolia avenue, told a Post-Dispatch reporter Wednesday a remarkable story of a woman's fury that drove a 17-year- old child to jump from ea secord-story window. The woman was Mrs. Eriler herse'f; the child her adopted daughter Hilda Erler, who late Tuesday afternoon jumped from the bethroom window tin- to a neighbor's yard, clearing a picket fence three feet from the house and was painfully hurt. Mrs. Erler is a muscular woman of stout bulld. She owns the four-fam- ily two-story flat house and lives in one Of the upper flats. A stairway leads directly from the front porch to her living rooms. She led a Post- Dispatch reporter up the stairs to prove that Hilda was not seriously hurt. While the woman shrieked auswcecre to questions, still showing every evidence of high te sat sobbing near by. Ban on her jeft arm. Ready te Repeat Scene. “I gent her to th buteher said Mra. Eriler. “and told her back in 16 minutes. Inetead eh hour we ge —~ was waiting for her at ke front 400 when ahe ret a room, slam out of the w Mra. Erier aa

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