St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 17, 1907

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VOL. 59. NO. 269.

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PAROLED MAN MUST WATCH HIS CONDUCT eam

-— Officials Will Keep Clogg Tab:on the Actions of Michael Nemow. —_ Oe POLICEMEN ARE ANGRY

Release of Burglar and Hold- Up Man Is Bitterly Re- sented by Them.

IS) CRITICISED —_ ---—_—_ -_ ~—-~_--- Judge Sale Liberated Con- vict for Circuit Attor- ney’s Office. ACTION

Ne- to conduct of Michael who pleaded guilty ‘ The future mow, ex-convict, attempted and robbery, burglary larceny, and who was paroled on the plea that his mother has become a matter of intense interest to officials at the Four Courts. Judge Sale, who paroled Nemow on the recommendation of the Circuit At- torney's office, and who had slight knowledge of the Penitentiary record of the prisoner, had served notice on the prosecuting oficers of the court that he would consider their - recommendations only so long as he was not imposed The outcome of the Nemow case, he says, will be watched carefully. The Police Department to a man Is disgusted over the parole of a man who has pleaded guilty to felonies. three times, twicé to avoid the habitual crim- final act. This feeling is intensified in the North Merket Street Station by the fact that the arrest of Nemow and com- saloon of Abraham Worth Broadway, as.a on May 15, robbery was about to be effected, earned for Special Officer John Derby a gold medal for bravery and honorable men- Stewart. In Interest of Humanity. The Circuit Attorney's office, repre- Bented by Grant Gillespie, who had the prosecution in hand, says the parole of Nemow was in humanity’s interests and that after the aged mother is dead there will be plenty of time to satisfy the law if Nemow proves himself un- worthy of the parole. The Nemows live in the rear of 821 Mound street. They have lived there since Michael was a boy. Sitting near his mother, Michael was found there Thursday evening, the second night he had been out of Jail in several months. Mrs. Bridget Nemow, the mother, ap- parently has but a short while tq live, She suffers acutely from asthma and spends most of her nights and days propped up in a big arm chair. With the two was a younger sister, Mary, whose anguish when the prisoner was pentenced, first attracted the attention of Judge Sale to the case. Michael said ‘that having learned the shoe makers’ trade at Jefferson City he had secured employment in a local shop and would report for work Fri- _@ay morning. He was silent and mo- rose and answered few questions, It was learned Friday morning that with his lunch under his arm he had de- parted for work at 6:45 o'clock. Mrs. Nemow, with unfailing faith in the boy, said that while he had erred, he had been kind to her and she still be- lieved in him. Judge Sale Talks of Case. Judge Sale in discussing the case sald: “When I came here I served notice that I would not consider pleas for pardons from attorneys. Consequently, | IZ notified the Circuit Attorney's office ' that I would depend upon it for rec- ommendations for mercy until I found the confidence had been misplaced. I did so because I have neither the time nor the means to investigate. “Nemew to inte is just what his name signifies—nobody. I understood in a gen- eral way that he had been in the Peni- tentiary before, but when Gillaspie rec- ommended clemency, .I listened. The _ gates of the Penitentiary are open for any man who violates a parole, and the State will lose little time in opilect- = ing its debt if I have been imposed ‘ Michacl Nemow’'s Record, - May 6, 181. Positively identified as | eompanion of “Sheeny” Smith in rob- . "Aug. 17, 1903, arrested _ end Cass avenue with Michal McDonald ~Gumiley Mike, a three-termer) for steal- Rat eleth frrom car No. 32,762, Southern * ber of Henry Eilerman, bartender, Sec- - ond and Mulalnphy streets. Revolver - and $7 taken. July 6, 1901, pleaded guilty : aed attempted robbery and served two years at Jefferson City. .t Sixth street Jan. 4, 1964, pleaded guilty to ieeaperses 18, 1905. y 22, 1906. Asreated at 1535 North lie, with Henry Hannon (a two- r) mcr) for. at os ee wl Mo a fo ; -termer or empt © ’ ) Freid , & saloon kon r. ’ PARTLY CLOUDY WITH THUNDERSTORMS IS THE Will Be Cooler Today and Saturday. THE TEMPERATURE. Midnight Spring came out of her hole, saw the sun and went foack again. The on- ty consolation is that it will not stay in hiding six weeks like the groundhog. But it isn’t go- ing to be very steasant in the next 24 hours. The forecast: ‘Partly cloudy Friday night and Saturday, with occasional thunder storms; cooler Saturday; variable winds.”’ Tempera- tures are higher in the central valley and “re- gions and lower on the Atlantic Coast and in tne Northwest- ern States. Light frosts formed in North Caro- lina, West Virginia and North Dakota. : Showers and thunderstorms. have becon general in the Central West. There is a storm_area over the lakes and another is forming in the South- west. The junction of the two will bring thunderstorms. The thermometer in St. tered 58 degrees at 7 a. mi. Temperatures in other cities at the Same hour were: Boston, 58: Chicago. 56; Cincinnati, 54; Denver, 50; Galveston, 70; Indianapolis, 52; Kansas City, 44: Louisville, 56; New York, 56; Omaha, 60; Philadelphia, 58; St. Paul, 48; San Francisco, 52; Washington, 56. GAVE BELL BOY $5,000 WORTH OF MINING STOCK

I THINK MY NAME WOULD HAVE SOUNDED MIGHTY SWEET ON THAT HAR Bor BOAT!

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‘Bryan G. Hughes Does Not-Gharge: Anything for Shares in “Copper Company.” Special to the Pos*-Dispatch. NEW YORK, May 17.—All the pro- moters and get-rich-quick in Wall street who premise to pay'50 per cent a minute to the investors in their stocks must take off their hats to Bryan G: Hughes. The get-rich-quick men gell their stocks to begin with; Mr. Hughes gives his away. Hiughes has presented to everybody he meets blocks of stock in the ‘‘Inter- national Copper Co., incorporated under the laws of the Territory of Arizona: authorized capital, 1,000,000 shares, $1 each.” The engraved stock certificates are things of beauty and a joy until it comes to collect a dividend. They are signed: “‘R. U. president.’’ Mr. Hughes sent a good check for $2 to the head waiter in a hotel, telling him it was the first monthly dividend on International Copper. The news of this remittance spread like wildfire; now there are dozens of anticipating Afro-Americans in Washington waiting “to get theirs.” Mr. Hughes learned that Mr. Corey was so happy when he left the Hotel Gotham with his bride that he forgot to tip the bellboys. So Mr. Hughes sent $5000 worth of shares to the cap- tain of the bellboys, telling him to di- vide the money equally. Ontoit,

St. Louls has more Post-Dispatch readers every day than it, has homes. First in Everything. | IMMEDIATE PROSPECT Spring Will Go in Hiding and It

TRAILS WI TRAMP AND GETS INTO JA ——

George W. Miles Accused of| Opening and Destroy- ing Wife’s Letter. a IT’S CONSPIRACY

SAYS Remained Year in Disguise Watching Wife’s Move- ments at Cartersville. =~ Disguised as a tramp stableman and shadowing his divorced wife, Pearl, to the country postoffice at Cartersville, Ill., to learn whether she was mailing a letter to his former farmhand, George W. Miles, of Jewett, N. ¥., now finds himself indicted by the Federal grand | jury in East St. Louis on the charge of | tampering with the United States mails. Denying that he intercepetd his wife's letter to Seeley Brackett of Jewett, Fase ee reading it, iles claims that the in- dictment is the result of a conspiracy between his wife and the man to whom she was writing, to get him into jail while she obtained her divorce at Car- tersville. Mrs. Miles is now living at Clifford, Ill., with her parents, who removed a few weeks ago to that place. Miles is under bond of $1000, which -he has failed to give: He is desparate to get aut of jail because he says he wants to pre- vent his wife from returning to New York, where, he, says, he understands she is going after Brackett returns to East St. Louls to appear against him in the trial of the charge. Miles, a rough-bearded young farmer himself, whose father is a well-to-do agriculturist at Beecher’s Corners, N. Y.. was happy with His wife, a. fair young woman of 23 years, who gave birth to one child two years ago on their farm near Jewett. Then Brackett came to-work on the a hand&Some, | £ Miles tract. He was straight-limbed chap, Miles told a Post- Dispatch reporter in the Jail at East St. Louis, Friday. Everything in their lives, he said, was serene after the ad- vent of the 24-year-old farmhand. Little differences began to arise he- tween husband and wife, winding up in her sudden disapvearance from. the farm. The next information he had of her whereabouts was when Miles learned by chance that she had gone to hgy father’s home near Cartersville, Tl. Spied On Wife in Disguise. Smarting under his suspicions con- cerning what he calls her infatua- tion for Brackett, Miles followed the woman to Carterville, arriving in that town about a year ago. He did not make himself known but, adopting the disguise of a tramp stableman, he remained under cover for the purpose of syying on his wife. He says he became convinced that she was con- ducting correspondence with Brack- ett. Without warning to her he suddenly called at the farm of her parents some months ago and asked to see Mrs. Miles. He was turned away, but after persisting had an interview with her. He iearned from her that she intended to get a divorce. To this, he says, he agreed on the understanding that she would permit him to see the children, another baby having been born to them after her arrival in Cartersville. ‘ Then came the temptation which Miles says formed the foundation of the con- spiracy between Brackett and his wife. a |

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“- HIDES TO SAVE YOUTH WHOM SHE TRUSTED

Cte Gaee Edna Karsch Writes. Her tO RN She Is Married, but Man Denies Her Story and Family Seeks Police Help.

Wavering between love for her mcth- ‘wr and pathetic loyalty to the man who has wrecked her life, Edna Karsch, 2 dainty blond of 17 years, is conceaiing ‘erself somewhere in St. Louis, effort to convince her relatives that the wrong done her has been repaired by marriage. . Two of Edna’s sisters, Mra. Charles Springer and Miss Tillie Karsch, told a ost-Dispatch reporter Friday morning wt Mrs. Springer’s home, 220 North Sixth East St. Louis, that they had decided to appeal at once to the police of St. Louis and East St. Louis to find the giri. They hope, through the police, to com- pel Edward Kickhain, son of former Sheriff John Kickham of St Clair County, to reveal her hiding place, which. they believe is known to hita. Kickham Makes Denial. As told in the late editions of Thurs- aay’s Post-Dispatch, Edna mailed ‘n St. Louis a letter, which reached the Springer home Thursday afternoon, in which she declared that she and Kick- ham were married at Clayton Wednes- day, taking precautions against pub- licity. Kickham, who was freed in Bellevitle Wednesday of a charge brought against him by the girl, because of her fail- ure to appear in court, denies her state- ment regarding the marriage. He says he has not seen her since Tuesday after- noon, and that he was with friends in East St. Louls and Belleville at th? time the letter says ‘the Clayton mar- riage took place. The Clayton marriage license records and the affidavits, which must by law be filed by all applicants for licenses, do not show the name of either Kick- ham or Miss Karsch. Marriage license officials and justices of the peace at Clayton Friday declared that no license had been issued and no marriage performed for Kickham and Miss Karsch, or any persons answering their description; that no license had in an street,

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cumstances as those described in the girl’s letter and that no one had paid or offered to pay $25 or any other sum for suppression of a license. Girl's Letter to Mother, The girl’s letter written on stationery of the May Store, and postmarke j May 16, 11:30 a. m., follows: “Dear Mamma; Hoping that you will forgive me, Tf will break the news. guess you'll think it’s almost impos- sible. but it’s truc. “You know, I met Ed Wedmietas morning and we went to Clayton and got our license. So yesterday vening we went back and got married. We got the license in thé morning, to be sure he wouldn't go back on me. “Now, mamma, this will have to be kept a secret for a . -y months, because if his parents find it out they'll cut him off and’ not give ‘him a cent. So he wants it kept culet until he gets enough money to get me through that trouble. and afterward we'll go to housekeeping and he won't need then, “He wanted you to come over here and stay wh me yesterday afternoon until he got back and then go out with ‘ us to Clayton. He had to pay the Judge $2 to keep*it out of the papers. “Now, mamma, I want you to come over here Saturday morning. I'l) call you up Friday aft:-noon, and you can and see me or not.” “But you needn't be stubborn now be- cause the others put you up to it, be- cause I knew Ed was the only one I eould depend upon, and that I didn’t have enough to support myself and child for a lifetime. “['ye got a swell boarding place. 1}! stay there until I'm about to take sick, and then lil £0 to a hospital. Bo don't worry. I'l call you up tomorrow and let you know where I'll meet you. but I was so tired I just couldn’t. I guess I'lt close, with love and hope that you will let me meet you Saturday morning. Ed had two tickets for us for ee now. SPEED + OS EAE, oan one WIS CHARGES Judge Trieber Sustains Demurrers to Two Indictments Against Him and Associates. —_—

E. G. Lewis won a victory in the United States District Court Friday, When Judge Trieber sustained his de- murrers to the indictments charging him with defrauding the Government of postage on his publications, the Woman’s Farm Journal and the Wom- an’s Magazine. Two indictments icharged. Lewis,. jointly with Frank J. Cabot and William E. Miller, officials of the Lewis Publishing Co., with the offense. The first indictment was returned tin December, 19%. Flaws were found in it by the District Attorney and Chester H. Krum, special counsel for the Gov- ernment, and in May, 1906, another was returned, it not being expected that the first would be upheld. Judge Trieber, in upholding the demurtets, pronounced both “fatally defective.” A third indictment against Lewis alone, charging him with a scheme to defraud in promoting the People’s I'nited States Bank, now defunct, is not affected by Judge. Trieber’s ruling. The charge against Lewis and the of- ficers of his company was that they padded subscription lists to the maga- zines. Under the law publishers are allowed to send out as many samples as to subscribers. Judge Trieber held that both Indict- ments were improperly drawn in that they only specified the number of copies Lewis sent out in excess of what he should legally have sent out—not the number he was entitled to mail.» The excess on the Woman's Farm Journal was given as 30,7277 and on the Wom- an’s Magazine as 529,000. Judge Trieber ruled that Lewis was entitled toNnow how many he might send out, and that the omission of these figures in the In- ctment made it invaid. Dist trict Atforney Blodgett and ‘ who were in the asked whether —s 0 Pe new ts. odgett e to consider this, and retired with Judge Krum for conference. Held for Neat Grand Jury, District Attorney Blodgett eae epoca’ counsel for the he Goversment in court and requested the of the bonds until the next, At

FOUND DEFECTIVE MURDER OF CHOIR GIRL CHARGED TO FIVE MEN FRIEND

Exhumed at.

—— ee ANONYMOUS LETTERS GAVE AUTHORITIES FIRST CLE

Anothér, Accused of Performing the Op- eration, Is 57 Years Old---Two Physician’s Nephews,

operation that caused her death. Coffeen. The Allen, K Cullen men under arrest are Oran married only two months; Allen, Byron D Davis, a mining William Sharp, accused of performing the cpera- tion which caused the girl’s death, and Taylor Phipps, a barber. Sharp is years old and has a grown son. Phipps is married. Feiher Swore to Charges, The vrisoners will be arraigned at 8 a. m. Saturday, before Justice Grassel, for preliminary hearing. Attorneyv-Gen- eral Stead will attend, and State’s At- torney Hill will be further assisted by former Judge George R. Cooper of Hillsboro, retained by John H. Nance, father of the, girl. Nance swore out the warrant against the men. Hill told a Post-Dispatch reporter I’riday that he expected to fix the actual crime on three of the men arrested, und to hold the others as accessories. Lola Nance was accounted one of the prettiest girls in Montgomery County. She was a plump, dark-eyed girl, ro- bust and vivacious, widely popular and a leader in the work of the Coffeen Baptist Church, where she sang in the choir. Many young men were attentive to her, none of them more conspic uously than Oran K. Allen, who was an as- siduous suitor until his sudden elope- ment, March 27 with a daughter of ats P. M. Laws, Postmaster at Coffeen. The votes ‘fail ed to get a license at Scoisyatipail Sunday Magazine May 19, 1907. Oe et i id CONTENTS: his younger brother; engineer; } ' ; | : ‘ ; ’ 1} : , : ‘ ; : a i i hl il il i ee ii, Page The St. Louis Smart Set Enjoy- ing an Indian Sport on a Sat- urday Afternoon Near This City (in colors) A Queen’s Buried Treasure Found After 118 Years, Together With Secret Historical Documents. . Proposals of Marriage Bet ween the Acts in a St. Louis Theater and the $200,000 Law- suit to Which They Have Now Led A St. Louisan’s Part | 000.000 Scheme to Settle a Long-Standing Political Contro- vérsy How the Missouri “Lid” Is Being Screwed Down in China and How the Crooks and Grafters of Tien Tain and Canton Are “Knocking” It Western Man Living Happily for 50 Years With the Same Two 1 al 2 of St. Louis’ Eddy,” the Strangest eine in All the West.. Ten Million Drums to Beat the Air About St. The “Grand Old Man” tucky’s Famous Fend “The 70-Year Old cae of Ken- Dispatch ea Contest ( colors) ; THE FUNNYSIDE, Romeo—He's a Bum Actor. Panhandle Pete & Co. Try Tug Fishing Sammy's History of the World... The Newlyweds—Their Baby..... Yens Yensen—-He Turns a *eeee 1 2 2 3 ck. 3 The Bad Dream That Made Bill a Better s@eagweorer re ve Body of Pretty Lola Nance, Aged 18, s ) of Coffeen, Ill, {4 Midnight, Showed Operation. Bad ~~ | 4 25 acid ¢ e pan 4 pe ey ee su . ae , oe A ¢ git sick am a a Sc aksnvabteude. tier te Lc Phat es, oe a : a “ ie Sie” oe he Py ” Me me _ ‘é ra . torney accusing them of responsibility or complicity. j in the legal £ | iq S & ’ Investigation of the girl’s death was caused by anonymous letters to the Sheriff, Coroner and State’s Attorney of Montgomelahlt County, describing the operation and naming the five men now in. jail at Hillsboro, 60 miles from St. Louis and eight miles from i: Belleville and went to Edwardsville, where they succeeded. Wedding Surprised Girl. town, and no one seemed more aston- ished than Lola Nance. Allen and Als — bride lived in Coffeen. He is &% years stockman at Donaldson, near Coffeen. William K. Allen, a brother of the’ stockman, is one of the most physicians of that section of the State. | Davis, 35, became atientive to the Davis was the more frequently a call- er at the farmhouse. Cook, who were called to the home aft- er she became fatally ill, announced that their dlagnosis of the malady was wn acute heart trouble. ally did not suspect there was any other cause, Sunday was one of the mort largely at- tended’ ever known : County. She was buried in MeDavis feen and Hillsboro, and the grave was | mirers and friends of the family. Operatiog at School Howse. signed “Six prominent citizens of gornery County” It said that the had died from an illegal operation, ¢ that five men, who were named, ¥ guilty. The operation was performed, the letter said, at a schoolhouse | the girl’s home, two attempts being nec- successful. Sheriff Bray’ received a similar let | ter the following day, and a short ‘tinge > later Coroner Hauser received another, all contained substantially the same ifi- ~ formation. Acting on this, Dr. William C. Span- nagel of East St. Louls was summoned to Hillsboro. Lieutenant of Police Doyle ~ accompanied him, These two, accom-~ panied by State Attorney Hill, Sher- iff Bray and Coroner Hauser, went at midnight the night of April 27 to the | cemetery, and with the asa tions against discovery opened the Se grave. The body was taken to the © farmhouse of a relative of the girl, who | lives near the cemetery, and there me physicians performed an autopsy. The autopsy showed beyond question . i reer sp . a . , ‘ , : n he «adh ane isoail Tie Ut Ae 6 plane i ae ry Pex 9 e Me , te Tee ee q + . 4 * 7 = “a . i . { nO % 4! Te rt ’ +» ee ry , Beaee me Ko A a Rial Sige pe Ee, -, ‘ais me eid akeeet as BO bss oe turn to attend the preliminary trial. - Body Neturned te Grave. tummed to the grave, and the made to look as much as though it had not been disturbed. Hill pushed his Urvestigation after t

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csorssrragqeesaee ces rewege : ; ¥ 3 me We. c The marriage was a surprise to the | old, a son cf George Allen, a wealthy . The girl died April 13. Drs. Barry and Stato’s Attorney Hill, at Hillsboro, re- — ceived an anonymous letter April n : E essary at different times before it s All were signed in the same way a id & é ie After Oran K. Allen's marriage, Cule 7 _ len Allen, 23 years old, and Byron — ae Residents of © Coffeen and friends of the family gener< — The funeral of Lola the following ~ in Montgomery: ee ; ioint Cemetery, midway between Cof- * ™ . banked with flowers sent by her ad- 7] that an operation had been performed ~ and had been the cause of the girl's © death. Lieut. Doyle and Dr. Spannagel — returned to East St. Louis, but will ree — After the autopsy the body was re-. ee ——e