St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 25, 1907

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ST. LOUIS. SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 25, 1907. = room to talk with her, and left his — friend and the girl in another room with the physician. Baldwin proposed to Mrs. Beamer, she says, that he pay her $60 to care for the girl and pro- vide some clothes for her, but Mra, Reamer says she refused to do this, al though the man offered her the money and presented a paper in the nature of a contract ready for her signaturé, Girl and Man Disappear. we When the man an@d Mra. Baldwis turned to the room where they” left Florence and the man's friend, they had disappeared. Mrs. Beamer says the friend is 4 horse trader, whose name she does not know, but who had sper ken In her presence of going to Mem- phis, and the Memphis police have been requested by telegraph to watch for him and the girl. Mrs. Beamer reported these occure rences to the police, who had already re-+ ceived a report from Haman of _ daughter's absence. They notified the contractor that the girl Mrs. Beamer referred to fitted his description of his daughter, and he called at her house Friday evening. ; What Mra. Beamer told Haman conee him to have Baldwin arrested. _ found at bome with his wife. are that he knew Florence or had ever ees her, declaring Mre. Beamer wae , taken in her positive identification ot : him. Starck aleo Mentified Baldwin the man who had been at the house. Baldwin was questioned an hour urday at the Four Courta, but a tained his denial. The voice made | plication for a warrant.

thereof. The northeastern corner of Missouri has heavy rains. The official forecast: “Showers and thunderstorms this afternoon er tonight; cooler tonight; Sunday, fair and cooler; | southwest and west winds.” In comparison with a temperature of 70 at 7 a. m. at St. Louis, Chicago was able to report 50. In other cities Gov- ernment thermometers registered: Den- ver 42, Duluth 38, Galveston 76, Kansas City 64, Memphis 66, New Orleans 72, New York 54, Pittsburg 56, Washington 58, St. Paul 50, San Francisco 50. Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch, MEXICO, Mo., May 2%.—After having been in session 10 days the coroner's jury has announced its inability to solve the mystery of the murder of Edward Reed, a who killed here on the night or May 10. jury decided that robbery was the murder, but found not the to the identity of the Laborer. was The mo- wealthy stockman, tive of tlre Blightest clew guilty The sessions were conducted with the greatert secrecy. The slums of the city Were dragged fcr witnesses, and all per- gons of questionable character were com- pelled io tell where they were the night ‘of the murder. Both the atrocity of the crime and the thoroughness of the Coroner's in- quiry are without~ parallels in .the his- tory of this part of the State. Reed was found on the morning of: May ll on ‘gm side street unconscious.’ His entire body was a mass of bruises. He died a short time after being removed to his home. His clothing had been torn amd.his pockets emptied. Reward of $4000 Offered. Rewards aggregating $4000 have been |, offered for the detection and arrest of the murderer. Several experienced de- tectives have undertaken the task, but have met with little encouragement. On the night of the murder two young men were stopped by a masked man, “who looked at them closely. To one the masked man remarked: “You are not the foliow.”"’ He said nothing to the other, and made no attempt to rob him. “These facts have led many to clude that there may have been a per- “gonal motive in the murder of Reed. The Coroner thinks the masked man was looking for Reed because of a cer- tainty of finding money. In 191 La Fayette Newkirk, a wealthy eitizen, was killed here, and the mys- - tery has never been cleared up. He was shot to death, and it ts believed robbery was the motive in that case. PRINTING AWARL GOES TO REPUBLIC _ ° Submitted Lowest Bid of Any Pa- per for City Contract for Ensuing Year. persor.

i. 2 ee , ; : life in St. oe “LOVE ME IF YOU CAN,” HE SAID; SO THE GIRL “CANNED” HIM BY MAIL. When He Friends’ - 4 - 4.

Opened Her Package in Presence, Tin Cylin- der Fell Out. me just a little if you can,” Pernard Jun of Alton said this telephone to Miss Clara. Mielke, out a fects,

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in Sew + =m WIG What clerk MA fer econ ct WiDOW PULLED HIS HAIR AND MADE HIM LOVE HER Sheriff Takes a Hand. ‘ing to settle in wre FF Dr. Maier Hints at Witchcraft in Telling How His Wife Won Him--He Says That He Still Cares For Her. 17-year-old elry store, he didn’t know going to happen. Miss Mielke ‘“‘canned’’ him in a novel way that may be imitated by other young women who are beset by too ard- ent swains. Miss Mielke says that Jun called on the telephone so often that she tired of it. The words of his last message, ‘‘Love just a little, if you can,”’ suggested the idea. She got a little can and mailed to Jun. Jus when he thought he was a star, he was canned in the Mielke way, and it was a milk can at that. Miss Mielke’s message was condensed. It consisted of nothing except a card with her name written on it. She wrapped the can in tissue and tied a red ribbon, on it. it in a neat pasteboard box, she ad- dressed it to Jun and mailed it to a young men’s club, where she knew he woud be when the postman made his rounds. In the presence of a dozen friends he opened the package. All he said was the one word: ‘“Stung.”’ | ASK MORE RIGID INSPECTION. Butchers’ Association Requires More Food Inspectors. The Master Butchers’ Association, by a bill introduced in the House of Dele- gates, ask the appointment of one chief inspector and 14 deputies for a more rigid inspection of meats, fish, game, poultry, vegetables, fruit, cattle, hogs, sheep and calves in St. Louls, Delegate Gallagher presented it by re- quest Friday night. It provides that the chief inspector shall receive $150 a month, the deputies $125 and a clerk, $75. The inspectors are empowered to en- ter all slaghter houses or establish- ments where the foods mentioned are offered for sale and make inspection. Penalties ranging from $50 to $500 are in- cluded in the bill for persons who pre- vent inspections, slaughter diseased cat- tle or offer tainted foods for sale. The inspection department shall be under he direction of the Board of Health. Chicagwo has 2% inspectors, Cincinnati 12, Milwaukee 12 and Cleveland in- spectors, a communication states, while St. Louis, which is larger than some of these cities, now has four. THREW MONEY TO ALL HE KNEW. Higginsville Man Is Arrested in Kansas City for His Generosity. Special to the Post-Dispatch. KANSAS Lt, , Mo., May 3%.—Isaac WN. Skelton of Higginsville, Mo., came t» Kansas City Thursday afternoon, in- tending to go to New Mexico. David Bradley, Harry Harvey and Edward pretty was

Seven sisters are sec court a snarl growing out of an estate left them by their father, Adolph Mauchenheimer at 3142A and 3144A Pennsylvania avenue. Svon after the appointment of Eugene Koenig as a commissioner to take depositions in Judge McDonald’s court Friday, the sis- ters and their husbands had a wordy warfare in the e¢-~ridor. Sisters and brothers-in-law were separated by a deputy sheriff before serious conse- quences ensued. Edward and Matilda Oliver and Henry and Emma Keiss are plaintiffs against Otto and Cora Meyer, Frank and Ame- ila Hampe, Willfam and Augusta Schlag of Alton, Joseph and Ida Faude, Ed- ward and Lena Kaub and Dwight D. Currie, trustee.

Enjoyed Favorite Authors, Going straight to the library, he would fall with the voracity of prolonged fam- upon his books and enjoy the deli- clous pleasure, which only a scholar knows, of renewing acquaintance with the authors who first opened and en- larged his mind. The art gallery ine the late con- ine and the theater con- tributed their refined delights to the resurrected Herbert, who, in such pur- suits, was led almost to forget the ex- istence of his other self, Frost, or to re- member him only as a frightful night- mare from which he was now awak- ened. The ideal became for him tem- porarily the real, and the real only im- aginary. . But as he inevitably turned home- ward ‘to his garret, with every step Frost, the laborer, reasserted his sway, and Herbert, the scholar, sank in turn into a@ memory, even more anguished than the scholar’s memory of the work- ingman. Once in his room, the triumph of the latter was complete, and persist- ed for periods which grew longer and longer,

paper s lacing she look sweet—so—and she put her hand on back of my hea@ and pull out some little hairs—so—and there all of a sudden I was crazy in love with her. “Afterward once she tell me, ‘If 1 zet just three or four hairs from anybody's head, right away I make them love me.’ Witchcraft, in which love is compelled | by mystic use of a few hairs snatched from the subject’s head, formed part of Dr. Joseph Ludwig Mailier's story of his second marriage, told in the hearing of his wife’s divorce suit before Judge Kin- Wore Belt of Gold Francs. “Lagan had papers which indicated that he was a descendant from a titled family in Austria,’ said Attorney Fen- sky, who has been employed by mem- bers of the congregation to assist in finding Lagan. ‘He said his home was in Blazwa, Austria. “He told me that he established @ simUar church in Webster, Mass., and that the Congregation of the Immacu- late Heart of the Virgin Mary at Cleve- land, O., Was one of a chain of inde- pendent Polish Catholic churches. , The object of these churches, he said, was as much to uplift the people of Polish birth as to administer to their spiritual needs, “The man always seemed to me to be sincere, but it now seems that all his plans were laid with a view to getting away with a large amount of money. He always wore a belt containing $1000 in gold frances. He had about three hundred members in his congre- gation, and he had completely won their confidence. They are very bitter against him now, and it would not be safe for him to return unless he is prepared to fully explain what he has done with the money collected to aid in the es- tablishment of his church,’ “CENTRAL” GIRL BURNS TO DEATH IN HOTEL FIRE. - ‘ > GR Nites amine Thirty Guests Were Awakened and Escaped Without Injury. SOMERSET, Ky., May 2° ~—The Mer- cer Hotel at Burnsides was destroved by fire early today and Miss Bertha Goonds,- a_ telephone operator, was burned to death. The telephone eX- change Was located in the hotel build- ing and Miss Goonds was at work at the time the fire broke out. The fire spread so rapidly she was Unable to reach the street. Thirty guests asleep in the hotel were awakened and escaped uninjured. of- his Married in a Hurry. “I know I have to get dispensation from the archbishop to marry her, and we go to Father Garthoeffner. When she hear how long it take, she say we shall not wait, and we go to Jim Cronin and he marry us. “All the time my wife tell me she have only two husbands before. How many children I never find out, except that I see a new one around every few days—one I didn't see before, I mean. “But just a few days after, when she gO to theater one abend with one of her daughters, comes a woman to see me, with a black vell, so 1 can see no more than her eyes shining through, and say to me, ‘You think you are your wife's third husband, but I teil you you are the sixth one. And she has 17 chil- dren.’ Much more she tell, but not who she is or why she come. I find out she is divorced wife of one of the other five husbands. ‘ “That very night, when my wife wife come home from schausptel, what you say theater, she say, ‘Bee, husband, [I buy some candy from boy at the show.’ Then she pick all over the pieces and she find one and she say, “Have some candy,’ and I eat it, and all at once I got so sick. “When I feel so bad I want to die I take some sulphide of zine, © oder & grains. Then pretty soon I feel better, “When I asked her about that candy, she say, ‘Ach, du schmalz-gesicht, noth- ing Was with the candy the matter. You have too much liverwurst and sauerkraut eaten.’ Now, dearest honor, I eat sauerkraut all my life, and never before I get sick so. If there was liver- wurst in the house. she bring it there, I don't know. Mineed Feather Bed. “Next day comes one of her daugh- ters, and I see them making a big bundle. My wife say it was washing. sey. Although as anxious for the granting

| a of the divorce as his wife, Dr. Mater re- peatedly warned the Court not to be- lieve her statements. In assailing her veracity he quoted a daughter, one of the 17 children whom he says his wife during her fermer marriages, he declared, were five in num- —— ee

Sunday Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine, May 26, 1907 which, ber. ‘My dear Honor,” pleaded the physi- cian, rising from the witness chair and approaching Judge Kinsey, ‘“‘let me tell you what says my wife's daughter, a good girl she is and the wife of a pum- pernickel baker on Mullanphy street. She says, ‘If my mother shall speak 2 words, 10 of them shall be lies.’ ”’ Moved by these and other declarations, Judge Kinsey announced at the close of Friday afternoon's hearing that he would take the case under advisement. He repe ateg s former declaration that the Qaputats, ore are 60 and 56 years old, and separated last fall a few weeks after their four days’ courtship and marriage, had a very poor claint to re- lief from the Court. Dr. Maier Was Serious. Dr. Maler took his testimony serious- ly, but others in the courtroom found it extremely entertaining. The physician's pantomime of scenes of his courtship and marriage kept him on his feet much of the time, and at other times confiden- tial passages of testimony brought him near the Judge's ear, though #peaking loudly enough to be heard throughout the room. “My dearest Honor,” he began, ad- dressing the Court, “Last fall I find my- self getting old, and with no one in the world, and I want a good, true wife. So in the zeitungs I advertise for a wife, Catholic she must be, and next day comes this Mrs. Lottle Huster. “sight away I see she had her mind

. The contract for city printing for the year beginning June 15 will be awarded Monday by City Register Regan to the St. Louls Republic, on that paper's bid of 29-10 cents a line, In its regular city editton- only. The City Council] has yet j to approve the bond required to be given y the successful bidder. The Republic 3 _firace two bids, the first of which was 4 cents a line in the daily and Sunday editions. Each was lower than that -ub- mitted by any of the seven competing newspapers. Only two newspapers—the Post-Dis- patch and the Globe-Dermocrat—tfur- ‘nished sworn statements of their actuai circulation. The bid submitted by the Post-Dispatch was accompanied by an affidavit that the circulation for the first four months of 1907, after deducting a’ copies returned by newsboys, and cépies left over, spoiled in printing and unaccounted for, averaged daily 175,397 and Sunday 266,987 full and complete papers. On this ; ‘owing the Post-Dispatch proposed to do the printing for 17 cents a line daily, excepting Thursday, and 18 cents a line Thursday and Sunday. The Globe-Democrat's bid was 6 cents a line, accompanied by a sworn state- _ ment that its daily and Sunday circula- tion during the year was 129,015. The other tewspapers were content with a mere affidavit that their circula- tlen exceeded 3000 dally. The bids. of the various papers were: Republic, first, CONTENTS. Page A New Invention Which the Parisian Aeronauts will Use in the St. Louis Balloon Races (in colors) Gigantic Dam _ Ac1oss River to Supply Power, and Heat to St. Louis Other Cities “Called Up by Death” Being the Strange Story of a Voice That Came Out of the Night and Led a Young Man to His Doom.. Society rher * in St. Louis Favor the Introduction of a Fascinat- ing Sport “The Newest Private Graft in the World Today” Illustrated in St. Louis ‘TInnting for a $50,000,000 Buried Treasure Leads to a Second nee ain Crossing the Mississippi Tato St. Louis on a of a . Wire — Became a Saloon Porter, By the time Herbert lost his job as & packer in a glass factory and took the downward step of becoming a sa- loon porter, the seholar and man of re- finement was almost dead, and made himself fel: only by vague and painful stirrings. of the memory. There were no more visits library, theater or art gallery; habitual drudgery had se- cured the triumph of Frost. Then came the recent night when the man sat in Tower Grove Park with a vial of prussic acid in his hand. The body was found a few days ago behind a clump of bushes. It was taken the morgue, where John -Doern- hoefer identified it as that of Richard Frost, and Rev. Mr. Baltzer of 2906 Benton street as that of Otto Herbert. He was 50 years old, and had been a widower for ® years. He !s said to have & brother in St. Louis County. RUNS FROM POLICE, HITS CAR. an Accident Ends Chase and Victim Goes to City Dispensary. James Blair, 30 years old, of Chicago; John Seman, 21, of Memphis, Tenn., and Ike Levitch of Indianapolis were arrest- ed at Broadway and Carroll street Fri- day night after an exciting chase by three policemen who had been detailed to watch for street-car pickpockets. In running. Blair collided with a street Missouri Light and to to i2

A Girl Who Dresses on $13,500 a Year and One Who Only Spends $30 a Year “How the Rabbit Came by His Short Tail,” a Good Night Story New, Strange and Curious Things Third Prize Winner in Post-Dis- patch Beauty ns fin col-

THE FUNNYSIDE, : : say 4 centa a line, dally and Sunday; second. £ 9-10 cents, for the regular city edition. Royle, city detectives, found him Thurs- day night sitting on a truck on the Unio: Depot platform, throwing his car. and when caught he was taken to the City Dispensary. eee ——— — Confesses Second Theft. The Bad Dream That Made _ a Better Boy made up I shall marry her. like to wait till I know you better.’ She When her daughter had gone, I go up- stairs and see our spare feather bed is Feine Dischbein, a gir! friend of ence, says that she and Florence say, “You in the seltungs advertise for a wife, is it not? and I say ‘yes, aber I advertise for one Catholic wife.’ “Then she say, ‘My rent come due, I like to know abeut this,’ and then, dear honor, by gollies she come over to me and put her head way back on my roll her blue eyes till “being edition distributed in 8t. Lowy - gnd adjacent territory”; Star-Chronicie, ss S cents a line; Times, 4-10 cents a line; |- Anseiger, 6) cents a line, Westliche . rt Segre Amerika, 10 cents a there not any longer. Also other things from the room, dearest honor, more than $75 worth, are gone. “Then 1 begin to get telephone calle to go to patients, way off some other part of town. When I get there it is s vacant Oe Sar CONTINUED ON ee _— ‘ Herman Kiemm, the coachman whe admitted having stolen jewelry from the home of John Schorers on Mis- sourl avenue, has Confessed to an- been “run out” of several cities by po- |] other theft. While employed by Het- lice, but denied having been acquainted | ry Griesedieck, Jr., of 3250 Hawthorne with each other previous to Friday. Be wae ged he told Chief of Detectives ie are held pending investigation, | Smith, he stole $109, | | At Police Headquarters he resembled & wreck victim, his face and head be- ing Swathed in bandages The prisoners admit that they had Romeo Has Come Back.. See’ See? Bully for the Kid... The Newlyweds, ir Baby.. Yens Yensen, Yaniter, Has Break- fast . ma Sammy's History of the W orld... ; y Bragg Visits the Zoo money right and left. He was held un- til yesterday morning. Last night a telegram was received at Police Headquarters from Skeliton'’s wife in Higginesville, asking that he be held until some member of the family comes eats ere him He was rearrested. He ee

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