St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 8, 1907

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A OT SAYS INSURANCE ELECTIONS WERE FRAUD CARNIVAL in. il The Policy-Holders’ Committee Charges Companies Gross- ly Violated the Law. > ‘DECLARES DEAD VOTED

New York Insurance Depart- ment Is Denounced as Inefficient.

NEW YORK, April &—Gross viola- , tions of the insurance code by compan- |fes In the recent election of officers, in ‘which, it Is alleged, irregularities, such as the casting of votes signed by policy holders who had been dead for years and others who nad allowed their po! icies to lapse, are charged, in a state- ment issued by the International Hol- der’'s Committee yesterday. The state- ment also points out alleged inefficien- ey of the Department of Insurance in the supervision of the election. Although every effort was made to protect the interests of policy holders who voied against the old management, and a force of waAtchers and transla- -tors employed, deflares the statemenr, the ruling of the inspectors were so uni- formly against the International Com- atchers were with- Crawn. It is declaned that the commit- . tee was thoroughly satisfied that, un- der the existing conditions, it would Le -im ble to get a fair count of the

as cast Filed Fictitious Names. From the beginning, continues the statement, the companies, with the as- sistance of the Department of Insur- ance, evaded and nullified in every way — ble the law as enacted. It is al- ed that both the Mutual and New York Life companies filed lists of pol- icy holders at Albany, which contained thousands of incorrect names and false while they gave to agents and canvassers, not alone the correct names and addresses, but the policy numbers of the insured. Pa yg 7 ang By sa cada Avs detail the ous forms of irregularities charged and declares they were practiced oh a a sonte. swuion is ren mily w was’ Tecorded tasting five Cites.” The statement add- Not One Had Voted. “Investigation showed that not” a Member of the family voted in the recent election and that they had not ded at the stated address in over two years Numerous. instances developed where d sent in proxies and ballots , icy holders ears, while bearing the oie: mennere who cies Oo apse. he Score of thane companies. and the De ag Negee of Insurance are re- spenaitie e for this condition Hon of affairs.” = HOE ” PLAYING TAIDTO COAL MAN Madison ss. Boys Accuse August Wilkens of Strange Conduct, names of a? allowed

HE WROTE THEIR EXCUSES LLL ne me Principal's Investigation Leads to Arrest on Three Charges: More Expected, August Wilkens, a coul dealer in the neighborhood of the Madison School, Seventh and LaSalle streets, is a pris- oner at the holdover charged with in- ducing young boys to play “ ‘hooky” and to visit With him, both at his office and residence. He is said to have forged nearly 200 notes, purporting to be from the moth- ers of the boys and excusing them for absence from Achool. This conduct is Bald to cover a period of nearly two years. Wilkens is 29 years old ana single. His office is at 411% Spruce street and he lives at 297 South Third street. The boys said to have visited him frequent- ] . a & fi i Hrnest Gee a, and South ‘ourth Awe! 0, of it Sou ~et, and Octavius aged 12 and 14 ‘nth street. from Y days hey 1@~- ays brought he eee their moth- ey be e : Aen nonagpel xc use d hool nergy lela, visited thelr par- . Prof. Mc Dan ov homes ok with t surprise When informed of the ! absences from aghool of their and disclaimed writing any notcs Pr , MeDaniels then questioned the vere mee. They Admitted their vis- A IB hc ens, Brtéog | mre them em and other pres- AB em that he wrote the notes. for MeDaniecla went to Wilkens’ South mee Snir street and found room with Peter Scrabinti. Pt Talled .in and Wilkeas

TATE WI “TALKS” ABOUT PEORIA Th “Gertie’ Comes to Town and May Clear Up Safe-Blow- ing Mystery.

INFORMATION WITHHELD Gentleman Burglar Ill, Makes Confession Said to Involve Prominent Peorians.

Special to the Post-Dispatch. PEORIA, Ill, april 8.—‘‘Gertie,’’ wife of Edward Tate, the gentleman burgfar, who is held in this city for the robbéry of the School Board safe, and who holds the solution of the cracking of the strong box and the disappearance of evidence damaging to Newton C. Daugherty, ex-school] superintendent, is in the city. “Gertie” has talked, too, and it is said that she and Tate have told anough to the police to warrant the statement that indictments and arrests of several prom- inent Peorians connectew# with the case will follow shortly. What Tate has told the police is not known and the mys- tery surrounding ‘‘Gertie,”’ sald to be Tate's wife, has not been entirely cleared, even by her appearance in this city. Tate is’ now in St. Francis’ Hospital, dangeroubly ill, and it was only when it was learned that he was near death's door that his wife came to Peoria. Tate had sent for her four weeks before, but she refused to come until Tate became seriously ill. Now she is at his bedside daily. Tate had told the police that if his wife told him to talk, he would tell the whole story, and he declared that when he told the story of the school board safe robbery it would eat @ sev- eral prominent Peorlans. ie has come and it is said that Pv has ad- vised her husband to talk. What state- ment she made to the police is closely guarded, but Chief of Police Wilson and State's Attorney Scholes do not deny that Tate made a confession when he feared that he was near death. The gentleman burglar is now better and it is believed he will recover. Attempt to Stop. Investigation, Desperate attempts have been made by certain Peorians te stop the further investigation of the Tate mystery, to find out who was behind the robbery of the School. Board safe on the night of Jan. 6 It is known to Chief of Police Wilson that certain influences have been working just as hard on the matter as he has, but in an entirely different direction. And the chief says that this is partly the cause of the delay in not bringing the affair to a more sudden termination. SAYS DAUGHTER IS SAFE. Father of Missing Irene Camp- bell Knows Her Whereabouts. Dispatches from New York State that Dr. Jesse Campbell acknowledges know- ing the whereabouts of his 16-year-old daughter, Irene Campbell, who disap- peared from the home of her mother, Mrs. Jane Campbell, 4107 Laclede ave- nue, March 29 last. Dr. Campbell, it his daughter was in New York, just where he would not say. He denied that he had connived at her flight from St. Louis. The girl's parents were divorced 13 ago and at that time Mrs. Camp- bell, who is a public stenographer with an office in the Granite Building, was age custody of the child, then 3 years old, ; A share in the estate of the girl's ma- ternal grandmother will come to her when she is of age. The administrator of the estate is the girl's uncle, James H. Smith, present head of the Detective Department of the city. He declined Monday to state how large the missing girl's share is. ae a The Sunday Post- Dispatch has over ONE-HALF MILLION more readers than any’ other newspaper west of tne Mississippi.

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1 ACHANT 1S MISSING: HIS DEATH FEARED Joachim Abeles;y President of Fashion Cloak and Suit Co. Gone Two) Weeks. HAD SPOKEN OF SUICIDE

Made Despondent by Valued Employes Leaving. Him to Go With Another Concern.

Involutary bankruptcy preceedings against the Fashion Cloak and Suit Co. have revealed the fact that Joachim Abeles of 4236 McPherson avenue, pres- ident of the concern, has been missing for two weeks. At that time his most valued emplove left him with several others to accept work with a rival house. Abeles was formerly in the wholesale clothing business and has been a mer- chant in St. Louis for a quarter of a century. His only child is Mrs. Samuel Werner, with whom he made his home. Her husband said Menday that she had heard nothing of her father since his de- parture and knew nothing of his where- abouts, but Mrs.; Werner expected him back any day and was not uneasy. Joseph H. Goldman, who was the designer for the Fashion Cloak and Suit Co., told a Post-Dispatch reporter Monday that when he left the concern Abeles seemed worried and despon- dent and threatened to end his life. Goldman _ said his former employe sometimes made “remarks of that) sort,’ and that he did not attach much! importance e to it, but among business | men there is fear that Abeles, unable to bear business reverses at his age,

has ended his life. Gave Keys to Forewoman, Goldman gave up his position under Abeles in the middle of March. He is a trained designer. His departure seriously crippled the business, as several of the cutters and machine workers left the concern with him. Abeles closed his place of business at 4145 North Eighth street March 20 and gave the keys to Miss Lyons, his fore- woman. He told her if he did not re- turn to turn over the keys to M. mosen~ treter, in business on the second fT of the building. He said he was goi to Chicago to find employes to replace those who had left him, as they ca@uld not be obtained in St. Louis. He hag not been seen here since, and diligent inquiries by his family have failed to reveal any trace of him. A petition to force the Fashion Cloak and Suit Co. into bankruptcy was filed Friday, and there will be a beaches on it April 19. The signers are the Morris Woolf Silk Co., which says the concern owes it $736; Frederick, Vietor & Acheles, a New York concern, $292, and Herman Butzkueben, who holds a prom- issory note, he says, for $1000. In the petition it is charged that when Abeles left St. Leuis March 20 he drew $800 from one Of the depositories of the j ‘ af “Ei Fh 8 L =<

AERO CLUB PLANS. Vehicle Dealers to Be Ad- dressed by Secretary Kearney. The first address made to any or- ganization of manufacturers in the in- terest of the bailoon flights of the Ben- nett Cup contest in St. Louis in Oc- tober will be delivered by Secretary Kearney of the Aero Club Monday at a banquet to be given by the Vehicle and Implement Association at the Jefferson Hotel. The manufacturers and dealers will be told that there are now nearly 370 mem- bers of the St. Louis Aero Club and that the books for membership will be closed when the number has reached 400, which, it is expected, will be at the next meeting. All of the plans for the tournament will be outlined. Advices were received in St. Louis Monday that the Aero Club of Americo Which has its headquarters in New York, has arranged for a banquet in honor of T. T. Lovelace, an expert aeronaut, who will be in St. Louis dur- ing the races, and who has some pic- tures taken from a talloon showing tie effects of the earthquake at Kingsto.. These pictures are said to be the only ones in existence.

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WILLIAMS RELIES UN THA i. IREAT STORY Little Ex-Detective Expected to Introduce Note Which He Wrote.

CONTINUANCE IS SOUGHT Thomas McGrath, Accused of Assault, Also Arraigned in Court, "Little city Lee

The trial of liams, former and killed R, mer detective, McGrath, Eighth and of Feb. 27, division morning. The courtroom was doors with Witnesses, jury and spectators. In the back row of Seats, concealed by the Crowd which stood about them, sat Killlan’s widow his daughter and his mother, all ied in deep mourning. Williams’ attorneys, Judge B. Harvey and John Gernez. asked for a continuance Of the case because of the absence of severa} important wit- nesses for the defenge. They were given until the afte *-FrrnOONn Session to furnish affidavits to the effect that four of the defendant's Witnesses are absent from the State re, Williams did not ry - j appear in the court- room. He was taken from jail to the prisoners’ cage, adjoining the court- room, “and remained there while his lawyers argued for a continuance. He appeered eer rope and ill, His exces. Sive Smoking of cigars w , , im jail had told oneere, hile confined Thomas McGrath, charged with as- sault to kill on “Don” Killian, brother of Lee, was in court. His case is also on the docket, but will be continued if the Willlams case is. as the same wit- nesses are to be used in both. The State's witnesses tn both were prosent, and Circult Attorney ger announced that he was ready trial. Williams will claim self-defense as & justification for the killing., He says he has witnesses who will testify that Killian frequently threatened to “get” him, and he expects to show that on the night of the shooting Killian “was look- ing for trouble. t is expected that the note. written by Williams and found in his pocket after the shooti will be used in the de- fense. Willlams asked at.the time that it be preserved. It is dated “Feby. 29th.’ and oe ro threats against his life - ve en made by Don and Lee Killlan, . Williams intimated after the shooting that the note was written not only with Georgie’ Will- detective, who shot Killian, also a ‘for- in the saloon of Thomas another. former detective, at Olive streets on the night was called in Judge. Sale’s of the Crimina} Court Monday crowded to. the veniremen Thomas cares Sa- for

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ALL BUT $3. 85 WAS SAFE. Missing Purse Found After Mrs. Foster Left Town. Mrs. A. C. Foster of Columbus, O., sat between two women on one of the circular seats in the main waiting room of the Union Station Monday nmrorning for half an hour. Then she walked away and within a few minutes missed which contained $3.85 in cash, her trunk were of

her a check, checks and some value to her. Mrs. Foster reported her loss to Mrs. Hunter, the matron, and from her it went to the police. All were balked from the outset, for Mrs. Foster insisted that, although she had occupied several seats, she had always been careful to sit be- tween women so that nov gharper or pickpocket could rob her. The police had no evidenée on which to arrest any of the women, and as they all turned up pag noses even when asked if they had seen a pocketbook | there was nothing to do. Mrs. Hunter arranged for Mrs .Foster to Columbus. After she had left her missing pocketbook was found on the seat which she had insisted she had occupied, but the $3.85 was missing. From which fact Detectives McKenna and Howard, into whose purse fell, make the deduction was all the time in one of the women, who searched it and decided that nothing but the cash was available. OIL TRUST RAISES PRICES. New Quotations on All Grades of Refined Oil, CLEVELAND. O., April 8.—The Stand- ard Oj] Co. today put up quotations on all grades of refined oll a half cent per gallon. The new prices are: Ohio State test, 19, Water White Ohio Headlight. 175 degrees, Eocene, Quotations on gasoline and naptha are unchanged. purse, her railroad ticket, papers which that it

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Fort Sumter Defender Dies. CHARLESTON, 8S. C., John Johnson. D. D., $ emeritus of St. Phillip’s Church, Major of Engineers in charge of Fort Sumter during the siege of the 60s, and author of “The Defense of Fort Sumter’ and other historical works. died last night, aged 75 years. He left a widow and several sons and daugh- the of vindicating himself if he ent Kitian, but of helping to punish either of the Killlans who might harm him. Witnesses for the State are expected to testify that Killlan was helplessly drunk, and that his back was turned to Williams when the fatal shote were fired. Among the witneseea for the State are “Don” and Pierce Killian, brothers

of Lee, John 8 of Collinsville, and Herry Neitson, private detective

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FROST TONIGHT, WARM TUESDAY i. = Temperature of 85 Degrees With Clear Skies. THK TEMPERATURE, ‘ss § a.

Midnight 12 neon The weather THI§ is THE will hand = &t. ONLY SPRING Louls a lemon Monday night, | PRACTICE TaeT! if the forecast is accurate—a lemon of agreeable fla- vor, right out of cold storage. B ut better things are pre- dicted for the tmmediate fu- ture, The official forecast ig: ‘Fair and cold- frost Tues- and brisk The be

dis- er. with tonight; day fair warmer} variable. tonight will

west winds, becoming minimum temperature about 3 degrees.’ In Chicago the temperature at 7 a. m. Monday was 3 degrees, in New Orleans 70, Denver 32, San Franciscd 52. Cincin- nati 44, New York 36, Pittsburg 46 and Washington #. PEDDLERS PLAN A MARKET. | eames: in New York to Cost $2,000,000. YORK, April &.—Five thousand push-cart peddlers, members of the United Citizens’ Peddlers’ Association, are to enter into a co-operative plah for building a iarge central market house on the lower East Side. The building will cost $2,090,000 and will occupy an entire city block, @® by 200 feet. Plans for raising the money bave been perfected and architects’ pians for the market house have been completed. The

NEW ‘building will be two stories high, with a roof garden on top for the peddlers’ chiidren. hy the two floors below wiil

DELMAS TO ACQUIT is TM AL ASKS JURY THAW | THE “WRITTEN

Summing Up in Prisoner’s Behalf, Lawyer Stanford White Committed a Felony by Y ing Evelyn Thaw—Quotes Jerome’s W Should Not Be Trying This Man for His =

~~ CASE EXPECTED TO REACH THE | WEDNESDAY; THAW PREDICTS

Prisoner Plans Trip to France With Evelyn ity Is Acquittal—Justice Fitzgerald Lawyers When, After Eleven Weeks of | gling, They Special to the Post-Dispatch. Finally Close Theft Cases. NEW YORK, April 8.—A powerful plea for the Harry Thaw, based on ‘‘the writte was made to the jurv this afternoon sel for the defense, when he arose at n law of the State of New Yt or] by Delphin M. Delmas, chief 2:09 o'clock to make hi: f battle to save Stanford White's slayer from the electric chair. ~ Delmar reviewed Evelyn Nesbit Thaw’s past life at length, i clared that White had committed a tacked her in his Twenty-fourth st of age. One of the-most spectacular moments in the lone trial was that in which Mr. Delmas rose to address the jury. It was his final plea to the 12 men who are to pass upon the fate of Harry K. Thaw, and no stage setting could have been. better than the surroundings in which the attorney found himself when, with a bow to the court and to the jury, he began an argument that was as interesting as any of the many sensational features that have marked the development of this trial. The courtroom was packed to the doors and scores of eager men and women were barred because of the lim- ited number of available s Every member of the and most of the alienists who have tes- tified either for or against the prisoner, were present. A good many lawyers who have been waiting of this oppor- tunity to hear the widely heralded pleader from the Pacific Coast also were on hand, and everyone of the 300 spec- tators followed closely the words of the lawyer. Before nodding to Mr. Delmas to be- gin, Justice Fitzgerald ordered the court attendants to maintain perfect order. Uses Jerome's Words.

Mr. jury by quoting from an District Attorney Jerome during the trial: ‘“‘We have no right, if the real facts were known, to be here trying this man, and would be absolutely prohibit- ed by the statutes.” ‘Had you heard tinued the attorney sponsible babbler, ficial charged with i ig had this been spoken ‘ idje men resort to Indu instead of in a tribunal whe justice presided in solemnity; had the occa- sion which they were utteed been some trivial discussion on some insignificant topic, instead of a bedate, the issue of which is life or death, and had you, after so hearing them, heard the same lips make an orp to prove that the law demanded rfeit of the life of the man about whom they were spoken, these words might not have filled you with amazement, “It is to prevent such a conclusion in this case went on Mr. Delmas, “that | bav -e<\undertaken the perform- ance of the onerous task before me. In this task it will be my duty to give you all the help in my power in deciding the question before you. In the performance of my task, it Is perhaps not improper to say that I shall make no attempt. to ‘influence your passions, no attempt to make your sympathies overbalance your judgement. “Tt shall not utterance -of words," con- some irre- ‘inste 4 from an of- public duty: miace where m idle talk, these “from call on. such a fllrmay thing as the ‘unwritten law.’ Tis de- fendant finds his justification in the written law. in the statutes of this State. In the written law he finds it necessary to protect his life and his liberty. “In the performance of my duty ft will be necessary for me to refer to the dead. I will do so in all respect possible, but there are cases where the memory of the dead must give way to the needs of the living. For those who are left behind, for the widow who mourns, for the son, I have nothing but words of sympathy. Gladly would I suspend if possible the law that the sins of the father must descend for four generations. “Snddeat of All Stories.” “The story is that of two young peo- ple whom fate, by Insecrutible decree, had determined to link together, to be united and walk through life in the company of one another. The story cov- ers only a few years. It is the saddest, most mournful and most tragic which the tongue of man has ever uttered or ear of man ever heard. Let me begin briefly with her story—one filled with incidents with which a volume might overflow, or which might be written by the vivid imagination of the most gifted novelist. 9 “She was born on Christmas Eve, ISM, in the city of Pittsburg, Pa. The first years of her childhood saw her lone her father and natural protector and left her in charge of a mother who early manifested that character of frivolity and extravagance which were to lead to such deplorable consequences. When the trial was resumed today Justice Fitzgerald promptly overruled District Attorney Jerome's formal con- test against the confirmation of the re- port of the commission in lunacy which declared Thaw sane. The Juftice the report and tIneisted that the trial proceed. Dr. Hamilton was called as the laat witness, but the District Attorney ob- jected to his teat at thie stage of was sustained ‘hae family Tt ' H Delmas began his appeal to the » See’ Detmas of pence for felony when, as she alleged, } re reet studio when she was 16 y y to charge the jury the same Jerome closes, Harry Thaw's family were court, and (ook the seats they cupted on all occastons when th y been allowed in the couftroom, ~~ evelyn Nesbit Thaw were th of lar biue sult and the black lo which several « — one trim Mr. and riad late mm gh iny the so, and before .th brougte into courtroom ney Jerome arose formally ask that Commission in Lunacy, clared Thaw sane, He had no argument to offer. Justice Fitsgerald reac commission's report which ¥, desk, and signed his name ac “The trial will proceed,” he ¢ The jury then filed into the arry K. Thaw was’ to the. asked the clerk to call Dr. i Lane Hamiiton, the anenist, on the stand when the trial rupted more than two weeks Delmas wanted to get from Dr. ton the opinion that Thaw wt when he killed White Judge Sustains Jerome! bas As soon as Dr. Hamilton was 86 in the witness chair District Jerome objected. He said Dr. should have been called as a by the defense in its direct Ga call him in surrebuttal. he nt the reo ing of the entire me te sustained the 4 After he had done so, Mr. — argued that Dr. shasitton should. lowed to testify for the reason ¢ td trict yr sage J Jerome had on Ute said he + ae _ allowed to tell eve “We accepted tha otter,” mas, “and therefore feel we right to proceed rr the as discretion in the matter. no occasion to rule on when it came up before. Had it up at that time I would forced to rule as I now rule. jection ia sustained.” a After a moment's consurtatn the other attorneys,, Mr. i) “The defense rests.” ie. “The people rest,” sald Mr. Je Ju@ice Pitagerald them anim that in view of the oul be. eae case he thought tt would be - to ee the jury together | close of the trial. He therefore of that the fury be gonfined un same conditions as@at the t the trial. Mr. Jerome as this would be something of % ship on the jurors, who of it, they should be allowed 0 | til 2 o’clock in order to affaires. : Court Ordered — Justice Fitererald agreed are until 2 o'clock was ordered, — Justice Fitegerald asked the to submit to him in writing _ quests they might have te his charge to the jury. Mr. Delmas announced that | begin his summing-up add o'clock. District Attorney Jerome an could be given an idea of the defense would require. “In a enae of thie cha Mr. Deimas, “where the been #0 voluminous, and w have been so many interr deem it my duty to retvewm pa the jurors aa to the te aaible. may take swe oe naa I find

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