St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 14, 1907

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ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIA TED PRESS DISPA TCHES. _ ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1907 |MAX FACTOR, SECOND WIFE WHO DESERTED HIM AND MOTHERLESS

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~—ANALIZE ALTON'S IMMUNITY BATH Federal Judge at Chicago De- lays Investigation of : Rebating. : | |

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Mother of Young.Man. Denies He Is to Wed Miss Dym- ple Aubuchon.

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Says He Knows Man, but Woman Would Not Make" Complaint. Declares He Cannot Under- stand Why Youth’s Moth- _ er Makes Denial. Freda Factor Got Used to Work When __ First Mamma Died.

bil Aimor— He Mrs, M. E. Birchett of 4343 Lindell boulevard denied to a Post-Dispatch re- porter Wednesday the published state- ments that her youthful son, Sidney A. dsirchett, is engaged to M Dymple Aubuchon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W, N. Aubuchon, of 4129 Lindell boulevard. She said her son was with Mrs. Aubu- chon and Miss Aubuchon on a river excursion, but that she did not know his exict whereabouts and was unable | to reach him by telegraph or mail, physician as the result of an Mrs. Birchett says Sidney is very made upon her and Mrs. Fred A. young, and that he cannot legally wed while they were a hundred feet _vithout her consent. She says that he ¢neir home, 3857 Westminster place” | nly told her he was going to take &@ Yandeventer avenue, at 8:30 ject ‘keation before he started on the river Tuesday evening by a masher. rip, and that she did not know until The masher kicked Mrs. Hill” after his departure who the other mem-/| when she .remonstrated with htm: bers of the party were to be. She has/ nis attention, and Detective A .eard from him only once since he left, | Dooley held her assailant he says--a postal card mailed at Quin-/| turned him over to Patrolman cy, IL, in which the young man said! piegs. the weather was fine, but gave no oth-| fess let the man go, despite er information, assertion that he had seen the a Miss Aubuchon is regarded as one of | and would appear against the n «the prettiest girls in the younger society, (Chief Creecy said Wa an mset of St. Louis. Her father is connect- . had no authority to turn the aaa ed with a local land company.» The once having arrested him, and tha "irthetts are regarded as wealthy, | will make an official vce a Engagement Understond. ; i the matter. When Mr. Aubuchon was toid of Mrs. Mrs. Hill, Rirchett’s statement he said: , appearance, did not wish to “Young Birchett has asked me for | ‘the masher because of the notoriety Nymple’s hand, and I have understood that she feared would come of pie 7. for some time that they are engaged. Shields Man He A ie I do not know who sent the announce- Hess ref used w ny to ment to the papers, however. The ednesda young man is certainly of age and his own agent. “IT do not understand Mrs. Birchett’s denial. So far as I know there is no family disagreement of any kind, I much prefer that there should be no further publicity about the matter, “Mrs. Aubuchon and our three daughters are in a party traveling to Minnesota by way of the Mississippl River. .They will return in about ten days. It is the intention to make little side trips through the country and I do not know their*texact whereabouts.” “Is young Birchett with them?” was | asked. asked. | } “You must have mide .a. yes, he is a member of the party. Mrs. Hill replied. She saye-the There are about eight in all, I be- | did not appear drunk and did not ht- lieve.” !en her at. first. : ; It has been generally understood for “No, I haven't made a mistake,” the: a year or more by thelr friends that ‘man said. oa Miss Aubuchon and Mr. Birchett were; “If you don’t leave us,” Mrs. Hillesid | | Visitor to City Beaten Into In- engagea, | ee eee ae + sere "ae sensibility, Purse Is ' FAST WINDS AND Kicks Her Twiee, Taken. SHOWERS TONIGHT, THE a, Se pel tn William Vail, living at Wood River, WEATHER PREDICTION kicked Mrs. Hill twice on the Ill., a suburb of Alton, was beaten into ug she passed hin. Dooley, who was a former’ city” insensibility and robbed of $22 by a day- ,- : : % light highwayman at Third and Carr. assaiph i fase Moder ate for i wenty- CREECY NveanEE E Four little children at 1419 Biddle strect. are wondering what has become of their second mother. It is only a little more tnan a vear ago that they saw their Through Slot and He Fol. ewn mother lying so quiet end still upon es ~ the bed, and then some strange men lowed Example. came, carrying a big black box, and they The Laclede car had reached the end | put their mother into it and carried her of the route and the conduator was! away and she never came back. making out his report. When it was They had not ceased wondering about finished he iInclosed it in an envelope 'tnat when their papa brought them an- and dropped it into the little box “ig wag mother. She was good to them, | i

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Chief Declares Patrolman Had No Right to Release — 3 : oner After Assault. If Anything Was Withheld in Oil Trust Hearing, Prom- ise Is Not Binding.

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the door at the front end of the car. ioo, but not like the first mother. An elderly man who looked like a Her kisses were not the same. But character from a b'gosh play watched ; she seemed to love the four little or. the conductor from the front seat. iphans, the eldest only 3 years old. “Say, brother,’’ he asked, “is that | Kisses Children. where you mail your letters?” | And before. she left them last Sun- “That's the place,”’ said the conduct- i day she took each ome them into her or jovially as he started to the rear plat-!arys and hugged them and cried over form. When he turned around he saw {hem and bade them good-y. the farmer standing on his tiptoes to, ‘Are you going away, too, push tw letters into the report box. little Freda asked her. “THioll on there!” yelled the conductor, “Ves, child, I must go,’’ was her an- “Whit are you doing?’ iswer. And she went that afternoon, “T am mailing my letters,”’ was thejtaking a!l of her clothing and trinkets reply. ““‘That’s where you put yours. Ij with her, and no one that knew her in have carried them all day 'ooking for a ‘that neighborhood has heard of her chance to mail ‘em.”’ since. The conductor had no key to the little; The four little children, orphaned for | box so all he could do was to caijl atten- “ine second time, are doing ‘he best they tion to the farmer's letters when he can with the housework. The father, turned in the car. Max Factor, is a barber. His hours of “Anyway,” he commented to the ‘ork are long and it is tiresome work, smokers on the rear platform, “that was “nd he is hungry when he comes home better than. trying to mail a letter ai night. in 4 a fire alarm box and calling out the engines.”’ Little Freda, only 9 years old, cooks the meals, makes the beds, sweeps the ifloors and’ mothers her little sister and liwo brothers, all younger than she. She has a sober littie .ace, and a wise look in it for her age. “O, it's not so hard,” she said as she knelt upon a chair and chatiered with a sink full of dishes in the kitchen corner. “I got used to this work when my first mamma died.”’ “And what has become of your (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) CHICAGO, Aug. 11.—Judge Landis to- Gay postponed until Sept. 3 the grand jury investigation of the charges of re- bating aguinst the Chicago & Alton Railroad grow!lrg out of the recent trial which resulted in the conviction of the Standard Ci: Co. of Indiana. It Was the original intention to com- ®Mence the investizution Aug. 27, but Judge Lend said had received a notification fron Attorney-General Bonaparte tint ihe Chicago & Alton had been pron.ised immunity, and the Judge ordered the adjournment in order that the records of the case might be looked into. Officinis Were to Tell AIL In addre: tine grand ju.y Landis sa'c: I have a commu: ic tornoy-General of the United States, the Substance of which is that, prior to ih: indictinent of the €tandard Ol] Co., the then United Btates District Atterne: made an errangement with the offictals ! of the. Chicags & Alton Poilroad, under | whlch $ wos not to te oro-ceted! HAIR GUT NEARLY COSTS : HUSBAND HIS HAPPY HOME secution in good faith with cvidenc« witnesses in the ynutter then pend- 4 oe Sends His Picture on 4 Card by Mail and Wife Says “Stay Away.” “In view o fihis. it js the ‘convictton of the. Attorne ‘y-General that good faith TeQuires the Depurticent of Jugtice to do what it can to make good the Dis- trict Attorney's assirance, ‘and this pre- |» The swimming pool of the Missouri Sents a grave question Lecause it is of | Athletic Club is in charge of “The Two | ond mamma?” the utmoet intportance that no offender | Macs.’ McCarthy is the director of! ‘I don't know, she just went away.” @hould undescrvedly escare pin'shment |SWimming in the daytime and McIntosh! And there was a pathetic look in the from crime on any such plea as wel] as |)@8 charge at night. The two Macs little face as she added: “I *zuess she that even tic criminal may not truth-/}!00k very much alike and are often, didn’t love us very much.” fully charge the Governinent o¢ mistaken for one another. Monday | “And you think, you can get along United Staice with bad faith. morning McCarthy had his hair cut;alone?’’ To Review Testimony. and his head shaved. When McIntosh “T’ll try. And they all help us what the came to relieve him that night he ad- they -can.”’ | About a year ago, after upwards of jt Mired the shaved head and the coolness; ‘They ail’’ meant the good neighbors. ;1° years of sobriety, Collins again took of it and followed suit. Then ‘he re- | Nearly all the families thereabouts are ‘to drink. Since that time he had drank | membered that his wife particularly Jews and they take care of their own ‘heavily at intervals. For over a week ie NC te e : | “What this arrangement § was Chicago & Alton Co. should emancipate admired his long hair and he feared who are in troubie.- One sweet-faced he had drinking. Saturday night y 4 oe Al Wedded Tonopah Man, Now ’ ‘jury on the trial lately closed. If this | “We keep a watch over the four little ' pital. Tuesday afternoon he left ihe Aask of determining what shall be that! “Mac, you needn't come home. f a wonder. She is almost as good a| He wrote on the inargin of a news- 1“ of these railway agents in order that he - -—+ -- woven into the story of the stepmoth- | bartender, Frank Hendricks, and swal- immunity. Whether the grand jury acts him the four babies to care for. He, died.

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Mrs, Hil) and Mrs. F.. A. Smith at the Westminster place i. Emith was with Mra, Hill when went to a drug store at the corner Olive and Vandeventer avenue at r m. Tuesday. They started south, nlong the east side of Vandeventer os nie. Midway of that block is the West-. minster buffet. ° The masher walked out of the pare 2. us Mrs, Hill and Mrs. Smith approached, Piud aceosted Mrs. Hi'l. a “Hello, where are you going?” “he, ~ aoe > ‘ et Me. .

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Court does not know, but sssumes Possibly may tmve provided that the those who act and speak for it froi all Obligation to deceive and wislead the tO go home and meet her. He had his woman, with several children of her;he went to Alton and placed himself picture taken upon a postal card and own, said: junder treatment at St. Joseph’s Hos- AA be true whatever officer of the De- ,Mailed it to her. When she received | MOUTTS Loss of ner partment of Justice is charmed with the ;the card she called him up and said: orphans and help them in the house- | hospital and went to Braunagel’s sa- M ,work all we can. But little Freda is loon, Second and Oak streeis oney. department's attitude must carefully | Won't have such a looking thing around consider the trane | e change ito matrimony. Her Pan ci ce just “I was walking down Third street,” he | material change | ‘died and in her loneliness Mrs. Miller eaid, *'woen CRE HERS EH Up ‘DeRNe Me. | The official was touched by the well-worded adver- Mibbienrtgitbsd miss, + She nee Oupen ote apa’ forecast: “In- iisement. She replied and several letters ane head Soveray Sane? ., | Teciee. ome creasing cloudi- exchanged. feli to the ground. i aie melee Miller arrived at her home in Colum-|]. “hig Rae; Gee “Sngiing tn: Henere ers late tonight Mo., three days before their mar- han wy + SE OF SE eee or Thursday; | Could arrest him St any Cine; oe | with only a hand satche! she ‘hnucks. , asked why he did not preseeute nfen oo He bepeaennted Mieanele! Gi a mPAn ee pte ithe testimony of Dooley and other -= Wealthy mine owner, with interests at CHICKEN DODGES DECAPITATION a ae witnesses. a Tonopah, Ney. ions - Defends His Action, . Nis distinguished Guillotine Slips, Hursts Wrist of es on barome-| “That would be only circumstantial, ter over the up- | ¢Vidence,” Hess answered. “You've *

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Recently the company made arrange- | steamboats around. ried him she had not given him her eles and automobiles. poo ments to obtain power from White No spooners like to spoon heart. She’ could not. It beionged to Hall. Collins then entered upon compe- A representative of the company made this statement: “The receivership is due to our ina- dility to obtain accommodation from the banks. We have plenty of asscts i and are doing an excellent business. ‘We can say nothing more at this mo- receivership came so agsameé

ae: Deneen made a brief address he Methodist centennial at Shiloh, iy ur “into polities, beyond saying that lethodism and politics aré closely a). |} 4." He e reminiscently, recalling ‘Gays when his grandfather, William gs eden was & member of the Church, attended serv-

searchlight, with a lot of grinning peo- ple looking on, and there is a grand breaking away. The Liberty was the worst, because it came in at just the wrong time and because the man at the light seemed to have it in for the spooners. It was taken off Tuesday and Tues- day night the spooners had the most satisfactory spoon of the season. WEDDINS PREPARATIONS STOPPED Mrs, Detlef Furstenwerth of 3522 Castleman avenue has ceased prepar- ations for the marriage next fall of her daughter, Miss Marie Fursten- Werth, to Arthur Mudd, a former St. Louisan living in Newark, N. J. She has just learned that the wedding took place secretly July 20 in Ed- wardsevilie, during a visit of Mr. Mudd to St. Louis. When the marriage license was ob- tain the couple arran vg for se- vote & but a report of t wedding reached St. Louis, and ig Fursten- Werth was questioned about it Tues- day evenir in*her daughter's pres- Th y admitted tha

t upon terms dictated by an alleged trust. another, a sweetheart in the old coun- try. Last Sunday she went away and has! not been back. None of her old neigh- hors has seen her. Max actor is heert- broken, because he loved her. “Maybe she'll come back to my little babies, because I ; name.” Se mee believe she loves GRAND JURY TO INQUIRE INTO THE PLUMBERS’ TRUST Accusations _ made against local plumbing supply houses, cliarging the maintenance of a trust, are to be made a subject of inquiry by the grand jury which convenes on Sept. 10. This statement was made to a Post- Dispatch reporter by Robert E. Coyne, one of the proprietors ef a plumbing school, who said that he had received his information from Nicholas R. Wall, foreman of the grand jury which will conduct the investigation. Certain master plumbers of St. Louis have repeatedly declared their inability to get supplies in the local market save

' tition, Was a Hard Drinker. When he was a young man 'was a heavy drinker. About 14 years ago he was cured of the habit and untii about a year ago he drank nothing. It is not known what caused him to be- come dissipated again unless it was simply a reawakening of the old appe- tite. His home relations were pleasant and he is said to have been kind to hia wife and children, even when he was drinking. So far as is known his business af- fairs were in good shape. He owed some money, but not so much as to be embarrassed, according to business as- sociates. He had recently threatened to kill himself on account of his appetite for liquor. The body was taken from Alton Wednesday. to Greenfield

Orphan Girls Miasing. Maud Parse, 17 years old, and Hulla Thompson, 16, who disappeared from the Christian Orphan's Home, $16 Au- bert avenue Monday, are still missing. They have been traced to a St. Charles car at Weliston.

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affections, she introduced Says. and she proudly him in the society of which r family is prominent as her fiance. Whey were marriel Aug. in the Athens Hotel at Columbia. hey came to St. Louls last Friday und took rooms at the Moser Hotel. At her husband's entreaties, she had sold ail her property except two small nouses. Mer benker, she says, tried to persuade her not to draw ali her money at once, but her husband said that if she intended to take her frends’ advice in preference to his, she could stay with them. Mrs. Miller, after paying the hotel bill which her husband neglected to settle, got lodgings at 9@ North Sixth street. She was a widow of eight years when she married Miller, and her prop- erty consisted mainly of her first hus- band’s insurance. The drafts were drawn by a Colum- bia bank in her favor on the Third National Bank here. Officials at the bank said Wednesday that the @rafts had not been presented for _ payment. owe Miller has wired to Celumbia to have payment on them stopped.

| High Executioner. The objections of a chicken to hav its head cut off neurly resulted disas- : trously for B. Angelo, 20 years of age, a cook in the Missouri Athletic Club. Av‘ter the encounter Angelo was taken to the City Hospital to recover the weakness caused by loss of blood incidental to a knife wound in his wrist. Angelo was preparing some chickens ic) luncheon Wednesday and tackled a full-grown hen, The hen had objections to losing her head and flopped wildly. After several ineff-ctual efforts to de capitate the chicken in an orderly man- rer, the cook became enraged and slashed viciously at the fowl. He miased the lively hen and buried the point of his knife in his left wrist, severing a tinod vessel. He ran sereaming from ing the kitchen and dashed up Broadway, | eeovery. MeNutt became impatient , A policeman sent him to the hospitai.

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per lake region is causing cooler weath- er east of the Mississippi Valley, ex- (cept in the South Atlantic states. Con- ditions west of the Mississippi are un- settled. There have been showers In Missouri in the past 24 hours. The termperature is rising in the North- west and is high in the Southwest. No material change of temperature is expected in St. Louis in the next & hours. The stage of the river ie 17.8, a fall of 4 in 24 hours. It will continue to fall. Takes Walk; Gees to Hospital. Andrew McNutt, 71 years old, of Port- mand, Ind., is in a serious condition at St. Mary's Hospital, East &. Louis, ' and physicians hold little hope fer his

while waiting for a train at the Relay Depot Tuesday night and took a little turning home from @ visit to in Oklahoma, . to have the testimony of the bates @ case like this.” 3 “Suppose Mrs. Hill was so hurt she could not testify at alj- would you do?” Mr. Smith inquired. — “You can’t make a case unless Mra, Hill testifies,” Hess insisted. “I she wants to avoid notoriety, the?” : Hess told a Post-Dispatch reporter 3