St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 26, 1907

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From a Staff Correspondent of the DES MOINES, Post-Dispatch. ~. lo., April 26.—‘I have here an information charging Dillon C. Willoughby with obtaining money under false pretenses,’ said Chief of Police J. W. Jones today to the Post-Dispatch Correspondent. “The requisition blank je ready and the tnstant I get a line on Willoughby's movement I shall take it to the State House and have the Gov- ernor sign ateps on the wharf his return from r Mr. Willoughby New York on he will be ar- When at Europe it. for us.’ Chief Jones was one of Willoughby's victims, and he is eager He also Charles W. Jones, ‘here for the Rock Island Road, his sister, putting up $50 for gays Carmon Layton, to prosecute. his nephew, superintendent and for each, He he went into the scheme because the wealthy realty for the Invested man, had become interested and thought the investment safe. Mr. On this account Layton paid Chief Jones $150 out of his own pocket. “Willoughby was the smoothest talker I ever met,” friend cleared said Chief Jones a % of mine—C., E. Starks—had $9000 in a Colorado land deal, and I though I saw a chance to make money. office went to Willoughby’s he, When 1 at the solicitation of a friend, * took me to ene side and said: that conditions were ed. “ "Now, Chief, I am going to give you a select piece of 40 acres which I have set aside for my The other people other side of the “The price a tract friends. on the in I sell to £0 valley.’ was to be $35 yable $50 down and tlie remainder after seven months, or the $50 re- nded if upon investigation I found not as represeni- Mr. Layton’s suggestion I had an acre, At Willoughby insert a description of the _ property in. the contract. — on the same day except Mr. with complaints, tigations had developed that the land Was not open for entry. by” — aid Investigation Starts Trouble. “Finally we decided to send a party out to : n’t take kindly to this, and gt wwas no use sending any body out. , oh gee the land. Mr. Willoughby All came L, 1V hey came straight to my office They said their inves- yton went with them. The crowd of immediately adjourned ‘to Willough- 8 office, and demanded our money Willoughby refused to listen to He said Starke and the others ‘'t know their business. @ were all leaving “when Willough- ‘ by nudged me to remain after the oth- ers left. He then said that the assist- ant treasurer of the company would be back in half an hour, and asked me to rome back at hat time. T went back, ' Put the assistant treasurer had not re- turned. “ ‘He isn't back and I will out of said to me. three-quarters Mr. Gurley of Denver. for a time and Gurley then that IT come back Monday. pay you own pocket,’ Willoughby He went out and returned of an hour later with They conversed requested IT didn’t my ‘wait until Monday, but went back Sat- ur day. Willoughby wanted a few hours’ 6 in which to pay up. By that time was fully determined to take drastic . measures with Willougnby, and at noon - Continued on Page Two, ‘Column One. —- y bs ee ee he oer ae # - a ake i i a i i i i i 2 oo ikl ee ay 4 * ee SO OS gy ee ob ——E——— a -_™

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Wy on ees Sears $ | Wis Soe “ tes pied a Me. Se ee ‘An Honest = - Sunday Post-Dispatch, Sunday Magazine, April 28, 1907, CONTENTS. Page St. Louis’ New Sunday Recrea- tion Drawing Large Crowds (in colors). Sending a Sand Pump Down After $2,000,000 in Pure Gold Kidnaping Famous Pictures. . Sane People Who Slip a Cog of Memory; Brain Storms in St. Louis Surprising Scientific Discover. ies About the Blowing up of the Maine A Tragedy of St. Louis Politics Told in Graphie Figures and Life Stories A Woman Who Married All the Members of a Single Threaten South. “western Writers An Immigration of Millions Into the Mississippi Valley New American Invasion of r | Ee The Play-Writing Romance of ~ §Tom” Johnson's Daughter Indiana Banker Sent to Prison on a Tech. nicality Through St. Passes Trip Louis oo “From we will not rely sistible impulse” the written law, URING the trial (,0V. or upon the to wit: Where a the frailty and weakness slaughter in the fourth degree. ishment for manslaughter.” te ie behalf Friday in Judge Sales’ wife, declared that he ‘

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i and his Forest of way. the mat- Residents of fashionable Oaou8 Over a right to decide place are. ut The courts will have i fer Boogher is said by some obstructing the They her and Elizabeth 8. of her neighbors to be passage to the rear of their lots. ask the Cireuit Court to enjoin interfering with ingress CRTess., The application for an injunction was mi ide Thursday afternoon by Parker H. dettchfield, Frederick C. Orthwein, Mar- guerite DPD. Orthwein and Florence B. Longstreth According to the petition Mrs. Boogher owns 36 feet of ground on the south side of McPherson avenue and the plaintiffs own lots on the same side of the street and In the same block, which is block 4907A, a@ part of Forest Park place. All the lots on the south side. within a strip beginning at King’s highway and extending weet to near Lake ave- nue, are held, according to the petition, subject to a right of way along the south ten feet of each tot. It is alleged tuat Mre. Boogher has Obstructed the soute ten feet of her property and has refased to permit the ' mara said, iis | girl ought (and told Sullivan he intended to put he r | Mrs. | wife, tie ally all his salary, ticularly women in the courtroom, craned their necks to get a better view of his huge figure. He seemed entirely McNamara gave his age es ‘77, and said he was suspended from the police force Aug. 28 last, the day of the trag edy He married Nelile F. Knox Nov. 21, 19%. which was Thanksgiving Eve and they kept heuse at I21 Bacon Sireet, McNamara’s born Sept. 26, 14. He said there were no dissensions in his home. until April, 1995, when the incident occurred which resuited tn Mre McNaimara’s accusations regarding her husband's treatment of a guest in their home. : teturning one evening, McNa- Patrolman Dan Sul- Ma«gie Coler was Maggie Coler child was home he met who told him at the McNamara home. now Mrs. Margaret Gaskill of 201% Morgan street, and was one of the wit- nesses Thursday against McNamara. McNamara said he did not think the to be in charge of his child livan, did this. he said, and the girl made the accusations she re- ene “a on the stand time the McNamaras lived with McNamara’s stepmother, and some quarrels arose, the witness said, because his wife “‘Hstened too much to her mother.” He said his wife drank, that their differences arose from objection to that habit. Explaining the quarrel with Thomas Gieason, an uncle of Mrs. McNamara, which, according to the State's teatl- mony, arose from the charges by Mrs. Coler. McNamara testified that it Was due to the faet that he poured a bottle of whisky in a sink to keep tt from his and had hidden a case of Ty from her She returned home with Gleason, McNamara said, and hecame angry because he had hidden the beer. “At first, 10 cents’ worth of beer would do her a day.” McNamara said, “but it got so a case or aA Case and a half of beer wasn't enough for her.’ Inti! the separation, McNamara said, he always gave his wife prac- $45 or $87 out of He de- he sup- out. He in anger peated For a 90 if he received full pay. ecribed the four-room fiat plied for her. April 6. 1906, McNamara said, his wife consented, after repeated appeals from him, to @o back to him. Wife Wanted te Have Geoed Time. “Bhe said she wanted to have a good time all summer.” McNamara ote ole “and wouldn't live with me then, but that after the summer was over she would come back to me. I begged her fot to get running around, but she just laughed tt Na During July, preceding the killing. MeNamara said, his wife rented a reom at 1426 or 1422 Glasgow avenue, and he said he visited her there viarly. He gave her $30 sald, out of his salary.

others to ve ingress to egress from the rear ot lotsa, this, Attorney Charles T. fense said to a Post-Dispatch reporter: Johnson’s opening statement you can see that upon “emotional insanity,” “unwritten law.” ‘loved her de: irly,’ J. Brophy, a bartender, last August, ‘lost all sense of reason. | From that moment until after both Brophy mortally wounded,

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Her Companion Registering at the Royal Hotel and . Didn’t Know He Had Shot Her Until After the — Sg Noland of counsel for the de- “transitory mania,” “irre- But we will stand upon husband detects his wife under the circumstances in which McNamara found his wife and Brophy and im- mediately kills his wife or the man, or both, then the law, of human fience we will ask for a small pun- recognizing nature, makes the killing man- court in his trial for killing his "and that when he fou Mrs. Me- oe MeNamara declarta, he had no, contented. and complained to lice that he would not support ‘She wanted money the first moath and the middie, too,” mara said, turning to the ju only got paid the first. In laspy's- ¢ she told me it money she wanted; she didn't for me. “T sent in my resignation after I couldn't have her going down to complain about me. resignation the third or fourth of Ath gust, but it Was not accepted. : Cillaspy told Nellie if what ahe was true she could have me fired, but she would not prefer charges.” g: Less than two weeks before the kill- ing. McNamara testified, his wife prom ised to return to him early in September, © and they were to go to house ' Gov. Johnson asked him why he tried 2. effect this reconciliation. jecause I loved my wife deariy.” Me- F Namara answered. “I loved both her and the baby.’ : McNamara said he suspected his wife before the day of the killing, but f it off the suspicion and tried not to : at = ES ; ee e D | ie ; oe ——— way to it. He was stationed and Pine streets, he said, and his é sometimes stopped there to talk to him, — She did that the Tuesday before the killing, he said, remaining an hour. The night before the killing, Mes Namara said, he and his wife and ba spent the evening on a porch baek her mother’s home—he Was not allowed to enter the house—and they talked of. their plans for housekeeping. MeNa- mara said he was with his wife from 8 o'clock until midnight. Trailed Her te Hotel. | Aug. 23, McNamara sald, he started fn the evening to see his wife again, and saw her coming out of the house “all dressed up,’ and followed her at a ats She went north on Howard and then east to Jefferson avenue, where ehe took a street car south. McNamara boarded the car without being seen by her. McNamara said he was suspicious be- cause his wife was “dressed up.” A Olive street she left the car and met @ ~ man he did not know, and they took — an Olive car east to Eighteenth street, McNamara “‘shadowing’’ therm. At Eighteenth street the. man left Mrs. McNamara, her husband said, and she met Brophy, walked around the blogk with him, and then entered the Hictel Royal, 17% Olfve atreet. He gaid that as a lice officer he knew the character of the hotel. Following, McNamara aald, he afi- tered the hotel hallway and encoum« tered his wife. “She screamed ‘Murder,’ ” McNamara said. “She tried to catch hold of and cried, ‘Tell that man to run.” brushed on by her and ran down hall Mia Stery of Killing. ‘Brophy was standing by the the pen atill in his hand. en a saw that I lost my head. I don't know — so what I did. I wasn't a sane = don’t remember what f the that, until [| came aren © ‘ and saw my wife lying t Then I knew ahot "ab. It the firat time I knew it. "I pieked her up and carried down the steps. Just then | heard an ambulance passing. I could tell rattle of ft, ran out to a a Aa tance. and stop It. followed It to Eighteenth Pine atreeta, nae _inere iy Brien Joyce arfeste¢g ™m During this 4... a delivered with markable composure and coherence, solute quiet r ed in the broken oniy by ad Gov. MeN some that hia Sootionenst was the esent. ag er then retired for «a short with hie assistants. 3 watt beginning fi. the cross- that the signature to utes eS oe Raed aa atinued ou

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