St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 18, 1907

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ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES.

VOL. ee

NO. 301.

ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, JUNE. 18, 1907. PRICE one cent

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WIFE HELPS 10 TRAP HUSBAND'S BLACKMAILE Opens Letter ideale $ 300 on Threat of Informing Her of Rival.

BRICKS IN CIGAR BOX

Decoy Is Left at Place Men- tioned and Police Wait for Their Victim.

TWO PRISONERS —— G: L. Gray Who Wrote Note About Blanche Wilson Implicates Negro. GET

Mrs. Fred Heckman of 2834 Osage street was not a bit nonplussed when she opened a special delivery letter ad- dressed to her husband. which the writer threatened to send to Mrs. Heck- man (herself) ‘‘the ~ Heckman should forward $300 in a cigar box to a cigar store at Jefferson avenuc and Olive street. “The Tdea,’’ mused Mrs. Heckman, as she opened ‘the inclosed. ‘Well, I never,’’ she cjaculated, reading the mis- sive, alleging that at some time or some Place Heckman had known a certain Blenche Wilson. “Oh, Fred,’ she called: ‘“‘you had bet- ter get after this swindler,” and she GBuve the letters to her husband. The letter was from Gardner L. Gray. late of Paducah, Ky., lodging at 280 Olive street, Wanted Quick Returns, Gray expected that Heckman would Set the letter, immediately become frightened, tear up the -missive ad- in inclosed, unless ,Gressed to Mrs. Heckman and send the money. Heckman became a little nervous when he read tne letter, but decided on a plan of action at once, He obtained a cigar box as directed and placed in it, ».ot three hundred-doilar bills, but three pieces of brick that filled it snugly. He went to Police Headquarters. De- tective Keeney and Finan were detailed to help him trap Gray, whose identity, however, at that time-was unknown, as he signed the name of Minnesota's fa- mous Governer, “John Johnson.” Fears the Box. The box was left at the drug store and at 7 p. m. Monday it was asked for by a negro. The box was given him and he waiked west on Olive street with it until Gray stopped him in front ef the barber shop at 2844 Olive street. Gray gave the negro a dime and took the box. He hurriedly opened the box and had hardly recovered from his astonishment at the sight of the bricks when Keeney and Finan tapped him on the shoulder. Gray admitted that he concocted the Heckman, whom he had been told was rich. He said ‘Willie Red, a porter in the barber shop, had helped him plan the scheme and the black Mr.“ Re@ was taken to the “@tation with him. pa Wife Not W ™ ne. ‘Heckman returneg home fter the ar- that y 23 _ things had turned out all right. * 90?” 3 feed oat street. started from home to apply for a “Warrant against Gray. Mrs. Heckman says she is not worrfing over the matter, She read in a newspaper that Gray and a negro had been arrested > and when a reporter for the Post-Dis- patch saw uer, she sald: “Did they arrest Blanche Wilson, WITNESS RUNS AWAY AT THE EGAN MURDER TRIAL James Van Anderson, principal wit- ness for the State, ts missing from the trial of former Deputy Constable Thom- @s Egan charged before circuit Judge Bale with the murder of William « : January in the Jolly Five C Ti

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BREEZE FROM 1 COOLER REGIONS I$ BRINGING COMFORT TO ST. LOUIS ower Temperature With Veiled Skies Promised for This City and Vicinity. Midnight

A busy little breeze of the North is expected in this vicinity, and its advent will cause some- what lower tem- peratures. The breeze will bring a sprinkling pot with him and will shake this over St. Louis at intervals for the next 36 hours. The forecast is: “Partly cloudy and cooler, with showers, tonight - or Wednesday; variable winds, becoming north- erly.’’ The tempera- ture was high all the Mississippi Valley, the dis- tricts east of the valley and the Western Gulf States this morn- ing. the Rocky Mountain region and Northwestern States it was cool, but temperature was rising. Frost. formed last right in Wyoming. Temperatures in other cities m. today were: Atlanta 72, Boston 7%, Buffalo 7, Chicago 78, Cincinnati 68, Cleveland 70, Denver 66, Galveston 580, Indianapolis 68, Kansas City 72, Mem- phis 70, New Orleans 176, New York 70, Omaha 66, Philadelphia 68, Pittsburg 62, Portland 60, St. Paul 66, Salt Lake 54, San Francisco 60, Wasington 66. TWIN STRAW HATS CAUSE SLASH IN THE SOUTHERN Two Guests, Confused by Simi- larity, Claim: Same Bonnet in Dining Room. Two straw hats of similar appearance, but, according to their owners, of widely varying value, almost caused a serious encounter between G. F. De Foe of Johnson City, IlL, and E. von Hermann of Chicago at the Southern Hot@l Tues- day morning. The guests breakfasted about the same time and Mr. De Foe was the first to leave the dining room. Ten minutes later Mr. Von Hermann discovered that somebody had carried off his new bon- net. While pouring his tale of trouble in to the ear of Chief Clerk John Ryan, Mr. Von Hermann saw a man hurring to one of the exits. “There he goes with my hat now,’’ velled Von Hermann, starting on a swift run in the direction of De Foe. Uneermoniously he snatehed the hat from De Foe, who protested that it was his own property. An examination revealed that Mr. Von Hermann’s breakfast card was in De Foe’s hat band. “There, there,’’ The controversy was finally referred to Mr. Ryan, was settled and the peace Was sealed by a visit to the bar. LEG SEVERED BY LOCOMOTIVE Boy Dodges Passenger Train and Is Struck by Switch Engine. Joseph Stapleton, 15 years old, son of John Stapleton, 1509 West Billon street, was run down by a Frisco switch engine at 8:15 a. m. Tuesday. His right leg was severed below the knee. The accident occurred in front of 5851 Man- chester avenue. The boy ran across the tracks in front of an east-bound passenger train and failed to see a switch engine running west. He was carried to the office of Dr. R. B. Murphy, 6025 Manchester av- enue, and Dr. P. W. Upshaw, 6825 Man- chester avenue, was called in consulta- tion. The boy was later taken to the City Liospital. His condition is not se- rious. William Hartford was the engineer of the locomotive and George Ebert was foreman of the switching crew. St. Louls has more ~ Post-Dispatch readers every day than it has homes. “First in Everything.”’ ELL’ YOU vE BEEN HOLLERING FoR ALITTLE NICE WARM WEATNER | SO Now J‘Y GOING To GivE [r Ta YOU, AND GIVE iT To YoU GOOD Rub STRONG.

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- DELEGATE HUSSEY INDICTED. FOR SLUGGING POLICEMAN

Follows Fight in _ Charge of Assault to Do Great Bodily Harm Which Patrolman Joplin Was Knocked Down. @uneeees

A bench warrant charging Delegate ‘Frank Hussey with assault to do great bodily harm in attacking Patrolman ‘ was issued late Monday by Judge the Manchester Avehue Police Station, Hussey again struck the policeman. The case against Daley was dismissed, Hawes refusing to prosecute. The cases against Hussey, charging disturbance

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COMMUTERS | READY FOR RAISE IN FARE Fearing Advance to Cents a Mile, They Buy Tickets by Wholesale. ob ae NEW RATE TOMORROW

Corporations Will Try the Law for Ninety Days With- out Fighting It. —_—-.—_... Fearing the railroads wil! apply the 2-cent fare rate on all suburban busi- ness, Which is now carried on a basis of less than 1 cent a Kirkwood, suburban mile, residents of Webster Groves, Tuxedo and towns adjacent to St Louis ordered large-blocks of commuta- tion tickets Tuesday morning. At the Missouri Pacific, Frisco and other ticket offices no order had been received to change the existing subur- ban rates. The report according to other that this would be done, A. B. Chandler of Kirk- wood, gained currency from the fact that an employe of the Missouri Rail- road at Kirkwood nad advised all his friends to get the benefit of present commutation rates. “Tf the railroads,’’ said Mr. Chandler's informant, ‘‘find they can’t inake money on the regular 2-cent fare rate they will raise Suburban rates to even up their losses.”’ Loraine Jones, National Bank; Ashley C. and other well-] president of the State Attorney Paul Bake- Cabe }], ; ere Fs known men in the §St. Louis business world, who reside in suburban cities, bought enough « tation tickets to last them until Jan 1. Ag a result the -suburban receipts the railroad cifices have been suddenly swelled to large proportions. The distance from St. Louis to Kirk- wood is 18 miles and the commutation rate now in effect is 10 cents. Under the 2-cent basis 26 cents would be charged. “Two times one hundred and eighty- four is two hundred and-—no, three hun- dred and sixts-eighi—no, ma'am, were not selling the tickets for 2 cents a mile today; have to wait till tomorrow—two times sixty-nine is a hundded and—say, Bill, why didn’t they do this down at the general office?’ Buyers of tickets for Missouri points at Union Station Tuesday hesrd con- versation {in this strain as they ap- proacned the grated ticket windows. The ticket sellers were transacting the day's business, ainid great public test, on a ¢@-cent-a-mile basis, and were also-preparing for the expected rush of travel on the morrow, when, by order of the Federal Court and the railroads, the 2-cent law becomes actually opera- tive. It has been “in effect’’ since last Friday. Railroads Not Ready. The Court’s order, delivered at Kan- sas City Monday afternoon, found tiie railroads unprepared with new tariff sheets. Consequently the work fig- uring out the new fares has fallen on the-individual sellers of tickets. The order making the 2-cent law operative applies for 90 days, at the end of which time the railroads may apply to have it set aside. Eech ticket figuring out pro- of the station, in sheet for use Wednesday, multiplied the number of miles shown in the time table by two. in the case of points reached by two or ‘nore roads, the shoztest distance was taken. lrate travelers surrounded the ticket Windows, the bureau of information and all the policemen in sight, demand- ing to know why they have to Pay a cent a mile more than those who travel 24 hours later. Obeying Orders. “It's our orders,” was the reply to such inquirtes. Missouri is ¢ State of magnificent wallroad distances, and the differences between the old and new rates from St. Louis to the State’s extremities amounts tO many dollars. The new fare to Ken- Sas City will be $5.50, a cut of $2 from the former rate. To go to Springfield will cost $4.78 in- Stead of $7.90. The rate to Danville, ULL., Which is 47 miles nearer than Spring- field, Mo., is $5.76, anc the rate to Cairo, 87 miles nearer, is $5.30. One of the longest rides within the State out of St. Louis is to Maryville, Mo., 318 miles distant on the Wabash. ‘his now costs $9.34, and will, under the new rate, cost $6.36. To Seligman, Mo., on the Frisco, the distance and the ¢dif- ference in-rates are the same. MANY BONES BROKEN WHEN LEVEE TRAIN STRUCK MAN Hospital Patient Has Fractured Skull, Collar Bone, Rib and Spinal Column. A passenger train on one of the levee @urface tracks struck Peter Herman as he was walking toward a steamboat landing near the Eads Bridge Tuesday. He was thrown to one side of the track eud his skull, one collar bone, a rib and his spine were fractured. He was Congcious on reaching the City Hos- pital, but wag unable to move. Physi- Clans said he could not recover. Herman said he had been out of regular employment as a mechanic for ® long time and had made a living at 044’ jobs on the levev, having no settied seller at his rate should mode

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NEW LIBRARY WILL BE TWO STORIES HIGH Building Will Be of the Re- naissance Style With Basement. ee The new Carnegie Library, on the site of the old Exposition Building, as de- signed by Architect Cass Gilbert of New York, will be an imposing two-story and basement structure, with a front of 220 feet on Olive street, and a depth of 165 feet. It will have an immediate ca- pacity for 550,000 volumes, which can be readily increased to 750,000 volumes. The building will be of the renaissance style and will be constructed either of marble, granite or stone, the materiat not having been decided upon by the board. It will cost $1,200,000 and will be completed within two years. In the rear of the library building, which will stand back 75 feet from Otive street, there will be a sunken garden or a small park. There will be large stone steps in front of the building, leading into the main entrance. On the first or main floor, there will be the celivery and stock rooms, the open shelf. reference reading, periodical and art book and special collection rooms. Lecture Room Possible. On the seeond floor will bo the Hbrari- an’s office, catalogue and order depart- ments, exhibition room, class rooms and perhaps a lecture room with a seating capacity of 360. The plans were made public Tuesday, after a conference between Architect Gilbert and several members of the Li- brary Board. Mr. Gilbert, in an interview, explained the plans and the purposes of a library building. “A public library must not only be a beautiful building, but must properly be a useful one,’ he said. ‘The conven- fence of the public as well as. che work- ing staff is of prime importance, “The important functions of a library are: The stockroom (where the books are kept), the reference reading room, the open-shelf room and the delivery room, Y% Convenience Considered, “Tt 1s essential that these three de- partments should be closely connected with the stockroom, and at the same time readily accessible to the public. A visitor entering the new public library on the Olive street side will pass through an imposing ornamental vesti- bule directly to the delivery room, which ts in the center of the whole structure. ‘‘The stockroom is placed immediately behind the delivery room, To the right of the delivery room, as you enter from Oliv@ street, is placed the space for public catalogues, which, in turn, opens into the reference reading room.

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access to the open shelfroom and refer- reading room, being both connect- ed in the rear to the stockroom, so that books can be delivered with equal fa- cility from the stockroom to the deliv. ery, reading or open she'f rooms. “These rooms surround the oven court in the center of the building. To the ence y right and left of the main entrance hall and facing toward Olive street are the periodical reading roum and rooms for special collections and art books. “In the basement or ground story en- trances are made at Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets and from Tocust street in the rear. The juvenile reading room, with its dependencies, !s placed on the Olive street front, !n the south- west corner of the building.”’ Newspaper Reading Room. “The newspaper reading room is in the Fourteenth street front, with an entrance from Locust street. The branch and stations departments are on the Thirteenth street side, and will also be entered from Locust street. In addition to these features there will be a service driveway from Thirteenth street, so that the handling of supplies and delivery and return of books to and from the branch libraries can all be done under cover and without obstructing the street or defacing the property. the second story on the Olive front are placed the exhibtiion rooms, classrooms, special study rooms, the librarian’s office, catalogue and or- der departments and other working de- partments of the library service. A public lecture room to seat 350 persons has been suggested in this story, but it is possible that it will be placed at an- other potnt in the butlding or other rooms may be used for that purpose. “Im the exterior design an effort has been made to give the building a serious and monumental character’. consistent with its purpose and to express in a large way the various functions of the structure. “I understand that ‘In street it is the purpose of the library board to have the building | of local } constructed, as far as possible, material and by local men.”’ Plenty of Daylight. The open courts immediately in the rear of the delivery room will furnish an abundance of light. During the day no artificial lighting will be required. There will be a 12-foot rise of the huge steps from the level of the ground to the main floor. A large semi-circuiar desk 40 feet across in the delivery room will face the vestibule entrance. The stocR room will be 40 by 140 feet in dimensions, with seven tiers for a books, each shelf having a giass floor. Five of these tlers will be equipped ‘or stacking books at once, giving the room a first capacity of 600,000 volumes. The upper tiers may be completed at any time, giving it an additional capacity of 200,000 books. The open shelf room on the west side of the delivery room and the reference reading room on the east side will each be 82 by ll] feet. The periodical room will be 38 by 91 feet, and the same sized space on the east end of the building will be divided into the art, | book and special collection rooms. Mr. Gilbert has drawn his plans on the theory that Locust street will be opened through the site. If this is done the rear of the building will face Locust street. On the north side of Locust street, if the tentative ground plans are carted out, there will be the sunken os ——---@— - -- — BHI UN TRIAL IN UVENILE COURT Jealous Wife, 14, Pulls Neigh- bor’s Hair and Wants Hus- batd Who Left Her. —— Mrs. in short Porter Boyd, will Court straighten difficulties when she appears Friday as a defendant of a charge of disturbing the peace, brought by Mrs. Alice Daimes, her next-door neighbor, at }209 South Seventh street. Judge Williams will be termine whether the girl, who was mar- ried at 14 and separated after five months of wedded life, was justified in a jealous attack upon her netghbor. R. M. Boyd, the husband, who is 39 a 15-year-old bride, the out her domestic skirts, ask Juvenile to asked to de-

years old, calls occastonaliv. on his l,outhful wife, and it was thus Mrs. |} Daimes learned to know him. She was seen in conversation with him, and Mrs. Royd became jealous. he didn’t want him herself, but she wasn't willing for Mrs. Daimes to talk to him. The two women quarreled. The’ rclations , families reached an acute be- tween the stage. Monday evening Mrs. Daimes threw a split basket of clothespins over che partition between the back porches of t}_e two homes, which are on the sécond floor: The clothes pins showered Mrs. | Boyd, who promptly hurled them back. With them she hurled defiance at Mrs. Daimes, ‘‘daring”’ her to go down into the street. Mrs. Daimes went Royd. They clinched, and hair was pulled. Mrs, Charles McCammant, mother of Mrs. Boyd, aided her daugh- ter, and for five minutes the entrance- way to the Daimes flat was the scene of lively scuffling. Mrs. McCammant says she only tried to separate the con:batants, but Mrs. Daimes to'd a different stor} at the Wyomngz Street Police Station, whither all were taken, and charges were made against hoth mother and daughter They niso filed complaint against Mrs. Daimes. Mrs. Daimes and Mrs. McCammant were arraigned in the City Hall Police Court, and Jurge Tracy fined them $6 each for their part in the quarrel. Mrs. Boyd testified, but did not relate the fealcus quarrels which led t6 the en- counter between herself and Mra. Dalmes. ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS. The Post-Dispatch ia the osly even-~ lishes news gathered by the A:seciated Prean, ae Neo other St, Leuls evening sews-

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Contempt Charge Made Against At __torney and Ex-Detective Thomas K. McGrath Alleges Coercion.

ACCUSATION BASED ON AFFIDAVITS OF BA

—— Indictment fur Bribery Also Expected as Rest ult” of Disappearance of Witness on Day _ He Was Called in Williams’ 2 Murder Trial.

Judge Lee Killian by George Williams, The cttations are based on ‘an affi- davit made by Saker and submitted to Judge Sale itast Thursday. Similar cita- tions against other persons are te fol- low. The disbarment proceedings against Gernez are in the sane language 1s the contempt citations. They set forth that he, as attorney for Will‘ams, being oc- cused of coercion and bh'bery, must show cause why he should 1..t be dis- barred from further legal practice in, the courts of this State. Witness Fled From City. Baher appeared as a witness when the Williams case was called for trial June 3 The case was laid over until June 5 pending the selection of a jury and on VJune 6 Baker failed to appear. Circuit Attorney Sager, arguing for a continuance of the case, stated in open court that he had_ information that Baker had by means of bribery been induced to flee from the city. The case was then continued until July 8. On June 10 Baker was found in De- troit, Mich., and brought back to St. youls. He was taken before the grand jury and there told the circumstances of his leaving the city. Baker's statement to the grand jury supplemented by a statement made by Harry Brolaski submitted to Judge Sale and the contempt proceedings followed. Baker was married by a Justice of the Peace last Saturday to the woman whom he has been introducing as his wife and whom he left at the New Commercial Hotel when he disappeared from the city. They are both wards of the Circuit Attorney while the Wil- liam’s trial is pending. “Little Georgie’ Willams, a former detective, shot and killed Lee Killian, also a former detective, on the night of Feb. 26, in the saloon of Thomas K. McGrath, 12 Olive street. Baker saw the tragedy. At the time of the killing Don Killian, a brother of Lee, Was heaten over the head with the butt of a revolver. McGrath was indicted for as- sault to kill Don Killian. Bribery Indictment Expected, It is said that one indictment charg- ing bribery will be returned by the pres- ent grand jury against a man interest- ed in the case of Willlams, Williams has killed three men. He was tried once for murder and acquit- ted. A Coroner's jury exonerated him of the other muraer. He has been in jail éever since the killing of Killian. Others to Be Accused, This action of Judge Sale is the usual procedure in contempt cases. In such gases, contrary to the usual legal form, the guilt of the defendant is presup- posed until innocence is proven. It is understood at the Four Courts that further contempt — will be TELEGRAPHERS CEASE NEGOTIATIONS, ASSERT STRIKE IS CERTAINTY Secretary Commercial Union Says Men Will Go Out— Assessments Made. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) CHICAGO, June 18.—Secretary Wes- ley Russell of the Cothimer graphers’ Union r from New York and announced today tain leat ed

eine Sale of the Cireuit Court issued citations Tue ig against Attorney John A. Gernez and former Detective Thomas ¥ | McGrath to appear before him next Monday morning and show cause why they should not be punished for contempt of sourt. ; J Juige Sale instituted disbarment proceedings against Gernez. ” he citations allege that Gernez and McGrath aided and abetted i i coereing and bribing Joseph Baker, eye-witness to the killing @

to willfully perjure himself,» je —eeyay trought, and that Baker has told | ir- cuit Attorney Sager he was pald 9 to leave St. Louis and remain —7 til after the Williams trial. At Mark Gumberts’ roadhouse ~ Delmar Garden there was rejoic’ ywhen Baker's disappearance becs known, Gumberts, who is friendly Williams, ordered drinks for all pres and a toast was drunk to the fo detective’s successful defense, Witt SHIELDS

Fight, but Says She Insulted.

Or< Mrs. Anna Hornish, a brunette, ae years old, persistently declines throw loyalty to her fugitive husband, Je OP Ne -« to throw any light on the affray ie which he stabbed a nickel odeon sing at 1530 Market street, known as Webb. Her silence, since her ped cited statemenr that Webb had In the facts in the case. Arrested immediately after the st bing by a policeman who jumped of street car in pursult, Mrs. Hornish all Monday night in the matron’s tention room at the Four ¢ utes Tuesday, after an hour's ‘sweatin Assistant Chief of Detectives thy, wept profusely but was stil Gi= ~ durately silent. Threats of Jail_@n@ even of the Penitentiary failed to her. er She admitted that she had said - | ‘ebb insulted her, but refused to say TOre Her husband, who fled just a stabbing, is being sought by the Asks to See Webb. 7 ee Mrs. Hornish repeatedly begged to Ber Webb, but the police, believing — wished to dissuade him from : ing Hornish, refused to permit her go to the City Hospital, where wounded man is under treatment has stab wounds in the left che shoulder. The Hornish family lives at I teau avenue. Misa Pear! Marr, -. of Mrs. Hornish, who lives at th. iand Hotel, above the nickel odeor,, the police Tuesday that the on about her. She says Webb's real name iw Quinte, and that his attentions t@ angered Hornish, resulting in the”