St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 15, 1906

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16 ““robay ¢ a ial —_ T. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH —

ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. . - —_—,

VOL. 59.

a NO. 55.

ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 15, 1906.

Cent. PRICE (Surdiae’se. Loure. Two Cente

ovinsT IN EVERYTIVNG”

AIGHT FLIGHT OVER OZARKS SAVES SLAY Joseph Hamilton, Who Mur- dered Family of Five, In Jail at Greenfield,

MOB FOILED BY SHERIFF

Prisoner, Guarded by 20 Armed Deputies, Is Hurried From - Houston,

BOARD TRAIN AT CABOOL Youth Shoots Man and Clubs Woman and Three Children to Death.

} "Murderer Lodged in Jail at Greenfield. Special to the Post-Dispatch. GREENFIELD, Mo., Oct. 15.— Yielding to the request of Sheriff Horner of Springfield, who feared a lynching there, Sheriff Woods of Texas County, brought Joseph Hamilton from Springfield to this city today and lodged him in jail. Sheriff Woods was persuaded to leave Springfield with Hamilton at Horner’s request, the latter saying that the people there were very excitable and he#wished to avoid trouble. ee re ee eT Special to the Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, Mo., Oct. 15.—Sheriff Woods of Texas County at the head of twenty deputies, heavily armed, safely landed his prisoner, Joseph Hamilton, self-confessed slayer of the Parsons family at Licking, Mo., at Cabool] after @ thrilling night's ride of twenty-five miles across the Ozark Nountains, frus- trating the efforts of a mob which had gathered to l¥nch the murderer. At Cabool the Sheriff placed his pris- oner on the Kansas City Limited, No. . 86,. bound for Memphis, and brought him tod Springfield, Fearing an outbreak in this city, where the story of the crime had become known, Sheriff Wood and his deputies took the prisoner off the car on the side away from the station platform and spirited hinmrto a carriage which had been driven up into the rear yards. Hamilton was driven in a roundabout way to the jall and lodged in a cell ae 4:45 o'clock this morning. Although Sheriff Horner denies that the murderer is here and the office of the jail shows no unusual appearance and no extra guards are in sight, the Sheriff will not allow anyone in the cell- house. His reticence is believed due to an effort’‘to prevent the mob at Hous- ton from learning’ where the prisoner is secreted, as it is feared it mizht come to Springfield and a repetition of recent disorders take place. ———— SHERIFF FLEES WITH PRISONER; FOILS MOB. HOUSTON, Mo., Oct. 15.—To prevent @ mob from lynching Joseph Hamilton, the 20-year-old youth who confessed tha+ he murdcred Carney Parsons, a Texas County farmer, his wife and three chil- dren, the Sheriff and a posse of depu- ties last night smuggled Hamilton from the County Jail and fled with him across the Ozark Mountains to the jail at Springfield. One report stated that the posse and prisoner had driven to Cabool, the near- ‘@st railway stution, 2% miles from here, and had gone to Springfield, where the prisoner was placed in jail for safekeep- ing. A telephone message from Spring- field states that the county officials deny receiving Hamilton and know nothing of the arrival of the posse and prisoner in that city. Houston is thronged with friends and neighbors of the Parsons family, from Licking and vicinity, where the quintriple murder occurred. They came on horseback or drove to this, the county seat, upon learning of Hamilton's confession, and a lynching seemed imminent. All the mob neede Was a leader. The sheriff took prompt steps to foil the mob. Twenty deputies were sworn in yesterday afternoon and they pa- trolled the yard about the jail, a struc- ture none too strong. The crowd grew stronger and the in- tention of lynching the prisoner more apparent as nightfall approached. Hastily the county officials decided on a ruse. Hamilton was smuggled out of jail and driven away in charge of sev- eral deputies, heavily armed. When it became known that the pris- oner. had been spirited away, it was given out that he bad been taken yo Springtield in hopes that the excite- ment would be allayed and Hazrnilton uld be brought back here after being ‘pecreted a few days in some safe re- treat in the mountains. Tella Grevwsome Story. The quintuple murder occurred Fri- Gay afternoon near Platters Mill in the nerth part of Texas County. Hamiliton has confessed that he shot Parsons in « quarrel over a tride, then Pareons to death with the of the gun and cut the the three children, tn order might be no eyewitness to bodies he threw in the Pin- It was the finding of two |DONATIONS WERE $1000 PER MINUTE

Missionary Alliance Preacher Receives $72,000 Collection. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—At the rate of $1000 « minute the Rev. Dr. A. B. Simp- son collected nearly $72,000 Sunday at the annual convention of the Christian and Missionary Alliance held in the gospel tabernacle, Eighth avenue and kForty-fourth street. The money, in cash and pledges, was dropped into baskets by hands trem- bling with the fervor of reiigious en- thusiasm. The total broke all records in the history of the alliance. Dr. Simpson's appeals were re-en- forced by the singing of the choir until the crowded auditorium was swayed with the spirit of giving. “Here's one for 5 cents. Bless the Lord'’’ was his first announcement. Contributions covered a wide range. There was one for $6240, another of $6000, one for $5000 and two for $3000 each and one for $2000. The choir sang the loudest when the largest contributions were announced $213.05 HER PHONE BILL. Company Sues Girl for Four Months’ Talking. Special to the Post-Dispatch. BALTIMORE, Oct. 15.—Within a happy and talkative four months dur- ing which Miss Mary Gitting Gillette had only to reach from her bed to the telephone and call up Richmond, Va., she ran up a bill of $213.05 for which the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. has entered suit. against her. : The night rate to Richmond, whither, the telephone company Says, Miss Gil- lette talked almost nightly, is 20 cents for the first three minutes and 1b cents for each additional minute. The con- versations ceased last May when it was announced that Miss Gillette was going to New York to study for the stage. l’apers in

the suit state that Miss Gillette was living in the 3rexton Apartments when she ordered the tele- phone installed at her bedside. The night messages began. in Feoruary, for which month the bill is ; All calls were for Richmond. In March $85.40 worth of phone talk was wafted Richmond way. During April the toll dropped off to $80.15, but there was one less night in Apri! than in the preceding month. Up to May 16, when Miss Gil- lette denarted, the bill was $25.20, She returned to Baltimore a few days ago, and it was announced that she had abandoned her dramatic aspirations for a seuson at least. CHILDREN BOSS PARENTS. Knichts of Columbus Hear Home Reform Advocated. St. Louis Chapter. Knights of Col- umbus, celebrated the 414th anniver-

the | a COML RATES 0 ALTON BALD EDUC = After Terminal Combine Got Control of Structure Charges Dropped.

DECREASED 80 PER CENT

Effort to Show That This Re- duction Was Result of Ter- minal Agreement,

COAL SHIPPER FAVORED Car Clerk Says the Big Four Accepted Less Than Pub- lished Tariff, At the hearing of the Government suit Monday against the Terminal! monopoly, ‘beld in the Federal Building before Special Commissioner Rombauer, W. F. Louden, manager of the Alton Bridge, submitted published tariffs of the rates over the. bridge, which showed that in 1905 after the Terminal! acquired it the rate on bituminous coal wus sud- 'deniy put down from 4 cents a

‘hundred pounds to 1% cents, and that little later it dropped to 1 where it now stands. This testimony was ‘former Attorney-General E. C. Crow, senior counsel for the Government, as a link in the chain of evidence he is trying to forge that the Terminal agreed on coal rates. Kk. Ek. Rand, secretary for the Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Co., was the first Witness. Ele testified that the firm de- livered all its Outgoing goods by wagons to depots in East St. Louis owing to delays when sent there by the Ter.ninal Association The service was ex.remely unsatisfactory, he said, and customers complained so frequently that the firm was torced tu the wagun delivery sys- tem. Miss Martha S. Elliott, formerly a car clerk for the Beck-Walker Coal Co., cent, brought out by

sary of the landing of Columbus Sun- in Tower Grove Park, at the foot of the statue of the great dis- coverer. In the address of the oc- cssion Judge Martin J. Wade of Iowa Mitv, Io. former Congressman, de- clared that the great need of the country was the development of char- acter of American bovs and girls. “American children,’’ he declared, “need more humility. Their intoler- ance of authority is a menace to our Government, In many American households today the baby is a ty- rant. Children should be taught to honor the laws of home, society, State and church.” Rev. Father F. J. O’Connor, State day was asked by Crow: “In 1901 and 1902 did that company ship coal over the Big Four road at less than the published tariff rate?’ ‘“‘Yes, sir,’’ she answered. Crow dismissed the witness. Attorney Lehmann for the. Terminal brouzht out from her the fact that this rate was Ooniv to Hast St. Louis. W. F. Louden, manager of the Alton Bridge, appeared with the pub- lished tariffs since 1897, which he had been asked at a previous session to produce. Crow questioned him as to the rates on bituminous coal at dif- ferent times over the bridge on what is now the Missouri & Illinois Bridge y Piperey Co., connecting Alton and West Alton.

ehaplin of the organization, made the opening prayer. The Knights of Columbus Choral Club and their band also gave several selections. The Statue was draped in American and Spanish colors. TILLMAN FOR BAILEY, Says He Believes the Texan Is Hones Special to the Post-Dispatch, DALLAS, Tex., Oct. 15.—Senator Till- man, before leaving yeste rday to attend the Texas Farmers’ Congress, said when asked for expression on the Democratic senatorial situation in Tex-

an “Senator Bailey is a Democrat in whom the whole nation Its interested. Among the men wiio lined. up in the rate bill, when others fell down: who watched when others slept; whose fidel- | ity, loyalty and indefatigable industry could always be counted for the protec- tion of the people’s interests, Bailey was a veritable leader. I had, and J] have implicit confidence in the purity of his purpose, in his integrity and in his freedom from corporate influence.” —- = _ PRIEST AN INVENTOR.

»nected (known ‘system. In September, 1899, this rate was 5 cents per 100 pounds. Oct. 4, 1899, it was 4 cents; June 26, 195, after the purchase of the bridge by the Terminal, the rate dropped to lt cents, and it is now 1 cent. At Crow’s request the records were left in his possession. He will examine them and then question Louden further regarding them. V. W. Fischer, agent for the Terminal, and. asked whether the with the Illinois Traction as the McKinley Line, general passenger was recalled Terminal con- Ce. operate any trains in connection tickets good over the Terminal, Crow had no other witnesses present, and the hearing was provisionally ad- journed until he could summon others. WARNER LIKENS hi: Senator Says People Go to Hear Him Merely Out of

Church Built Money Is Dedicated, Special to the Post-Dispatch, WILESBARRE, Pa., Oct. 15.—The $5),- 00) church built largely with the money that Father Joseph Murgas has made his wireless telegraphy invention from : , Sunday. It is for Slavic wasdedicated Catholics. : Two years ago Father Murgas, after 17 vears’ experimenting, perfected a sys- tem of wireless telegraphy which is claimed will send messages ten times faster and much more cheaply than any system now in operation. A company is installing the invention and [I‘ather Murgas has received a large sum for it. This he is spending for a church, parsonage and convent. He is now at work on an underground wireless con- trivance. ROOSEVELT NURSE DEAD. Slave Owned by President's Maternal Grandfather. NEW YORK, Oct. 15.—Nannie: Jack-

velt’s mother, is dead at Evergreen, L. 1. She was 9% years old. She was brought to Conneoticut slave by Stephen Bullock, dent's maternal grandfather. ee Ee -c POLITICS VS. CHRIST. Western Nominee for Coroner Refuses to Run. Special to the Post-Dispatch. LARAMIE, Wyo., Oct. Welch, in declining the Democratic nomination. for Coroner, said that he could not be a politician and a Chris- tian at the same time. He preferred to be the latter. The SALES of the POST-DISPATCH in St. Leuls and Suburbs are Greater than those of ALL THE OTHER S8t. a

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