St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 17, 1907

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t ee | : . : Ellen Harris Unwittingly} [Pe } fe | =~ | Road From Cahokia to Ferry Caused Her Husband’s |: fF roo oe d : : Is Scene of Midnight | : | | , ice : Death. re fo) : . ce - ee Clubbing. | : ey ; | 7 Sea |HE CAUGHT A = Left Town, 18 Minutes ai ae - . . oe os | River Tragedy Was | “Then Wrote to Campbell of : > Miller declared he did not see Krug 7 tion for her husband that of dyin Woman’s Biood Invalidates Get Letter From Nettie after leaving Palmier’s saloon. Miller ~ “ehat stood tut vith fantastic nunor » Her Marriage. Snyder. Twelfth street, St. Louis, and worked ee taeir pure tragedy, with unmis | a in.a saloon on Cherokee street. my ly pathetic. signs of a breating ; i Ri acaema ’- rug was well known tn Cahokia. He and, running throug): all, a mer- | Special to the Post-Dispatch. ~ It developed Tueseday that the iden- | Worked about that town in summer and . HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Sept. 7.~After | tification of the remanis of the myste-|4!d cobbling in. St. Louis in winter. When in St. Leuis he lived on Second ba) rious woman who died in a pig stye teal ‘mss H. Fort and Ida Fort had lived street, near Victor street, his Cahokia hrough

Men and women held as witnesses in the friends of Victoria Case and Harry Isambs, for whom d ing; the houseboat where the Weavers lived; whére fisherman says he saw | boat and threaten return body fall and diagram showing bis footsteps after the scene. . jevére as a woman has beeh,sv two and one-half miles east of Tipton i i County Court, will be gone t as,man and wife for 20 years and had/,. ‘urs, Nettie Snyder, sister of Ernest | lends say. He told them he had a son with by Mrs. Harris in order to satisfy |Teared their three children to young|Gastoff of 5117 McKissock avenue, was {2nd two sisters in South St. Louis, one f the latter living on Texas avenue. He hatred of Mrs. Campbell. In one] manhood, a ‘decree in Chancery Court |incorrect. Mrs. Ernest Gastorf was was 66 years old. , [ ] : i. was made today which declares they satis anaes gtk sen Fe pee Palmier told a Post-Dispatch reporter ; “2 toria Case agreed were never legally married because the |in¢ that she was well Bes eases and | -uesday that Krug stayed in his saloon , Sa IN he received a letter 3 as late as he would permit, and had adi | Bessie McKittrick do. Wer opportunity came with the} Wife had a strain ef negro blood in| making inquiry as to why her relatives . but $1 when he left. summoning him to go te her " hr of Campbell for murder. Throwing! her veins. here had not written to her. “He was going across the road ‘td ae if : Because he could TR oh ra nettat st Tonance, | The famity nas resided in this city], 7 letter was received Just four 48y8] siggy. im a, houte T have there,” Pal DIN UT [Mi |ntestieerine ctor cae, 35 : a eee ee eee POMPLEV ERY SUS” I etter said, “and I supposed he was over Because he was seen starting across j ia i | i

vet, : : y+ : "6 ¥. : . A 3 *. w Re air 2 ’ oa ; eer ¢ ' aie gee UTied them in a cemetery here. This| ,, ¢ i ci : a : new turn in the case tends to deepen ee eee ee ee Because St. Louis County authorities: for an Ango-Saxon, the question of her he left here, and I suppose he wandered Young Moth er Gave Infant to Stranger to Hold, say they have information that he and : j

aie race had never been raised. the Moniteau County niystery. _{along the road towards the ferry, in- Vieteria were In a houseboat near the The Tipton weman gave the name of stead of going across the read to ny Stayed Away too Long, and Little One St. Leuis County appreach to the bridge 3 ~ Two months ago ida Fort asked for a Saturday night. «: . in ] > y y widow's weeds were teuchingly elo Nettie Snyder and her description cor- other place.” divorce from her husband, Gaston Fort. na 3 of her love for the man from ded so closely to that of Gas- ee : No property interests were i lved eH. y A it § ; Beca John Vetter, a farmer : she had been diverced and whose en f’ ORE AAGAES SSSNe. | oh use John , a ’ =. SHS torf’s sister that relatives here claimed Krus’s ay Ww dutnh ude Pas toile Was aken on Train, Fe m3 i “ a fishing FS th she unwittingly brougnt about. and the question of custody of the chil- n —3t was in memory of him that she voc har po agg "7 the patitien be- having them buried. It appears now|the spot where a Post-Dispatch report- toc frem the bridge at 9:30 Dp. mm ——_ e - - : turday. ‘ went dressed in black and heavily iliaXor tee. ac at each was al that the Gastorfs knew their sister|/er and artist were assaulted and beaten Fate played a strange prank with oa The Chief telegraphed to Salt Lake Because at 9:40 p. m., 10 minutes atter veiled. ; “se Trae ae ee BI had been in Seattle, but letters to her |Sunday afternoon by thugs who feared baby of Mrs. Dora Hickson of Redfield, /again and found that the baby was still the on en the : ae When letter after letter, breathing 7 Chancery Judge Curl took an the case | UMOpened.and inquirles made to thejthe effect of publicity for the roadside ; O , ed h - |Kan., when it separated child and moth-;at the asylum pending instructions as “ey ueres besa uf ae ned passion for vengeance, was! on the docket in the usual manner, and|Chief of Police brought the answer|Mente Carle, where two dozen games Machine CCupI y PrOmMl-| Campbell to Dr. Har-| Peace here 20 years ago. Fair and Stationary,” Pipes Fore- dered and where the reporter and artist | of the occupants were killed outright; ajexpected, and then she could not find gma if s. The witness said she had been mar- “I ordered the atterneys to make a caster, Who Can See N were assaulted. fourth was fatally wounded and the oth-|the spot where she had left Mrs. Corey. The only a week, when she intercepted full investigation.” l : ° Levan says he was robbed ef $45 by alers were more or less seriously hurt. ters from § letter filled with endearing terms frem “and trepert not} “See aot oop ape Change Coming burglar at 1:30 a. m. Monday. A . dies of the dead Carried the Baby Away. Arkansas and ; not hearsay, but facts, to or ot ee one men were | Mrs. Corey happened to be waiting for the writers _—_—— > = Mrs. Campbell to her husband. She in- m " ‘ lier, he said a #0 . y court. few hours eartier, he said, @ saloon at| mangled almost berend recognition. . ereepted letters constantly after thal. bivibes Bee Aniae ‘ ae Ge ERATURES. East Carendelet was entered by a burg-| .The dead: W. H. Halston, a dealer in |® ‘in for Salt Lake. og ee aan intimately ef which contained money. She} Pending a result of the investigation ae — 11.74 12 (on lar. A half-hour after the burglar left! electric! supplies; H. Winnall, John §. |!" #"¢ Mrs. Hickson . " secre whem man — Campbell gave Dr. Harris| Chancery Judge Curl rendered a decision 7 61 — "*""g@ | Levan's heme a negro attempted to rob! Gray, formerly of New York. The in- her child. Mrs. ses hoe mas smohey constantly, setting aside the divorce judgment. _* the home of Edward Godin, another jured: George Buckley, F. H. Ward, V. mothers whe desert eir infants in | i + : ’ : 75 . : this fashion. She looked pityingly at (HY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) | “Time for Me or Us to Act.” This morning the attorney who had ogee SS {farmer ef Prairie du Pet, but was frigh-|4| Ww. Markscheffel. ae tt hild and decided she would] TOKIO, Sept. 11.—Forty of the + "The climax came today,” Mrs. Har-|°" “ed the divorce for Mrs. Fort ap- ; tened away. we pretty c cone ; - ih rew| Eightgen Fila Wrote in one letter A Campbell. | Pe* ®4 in court and presented affidavits Weather Levan sys the man is a tall, broad- Pee ae 4 ee ak ae not desert it, as she supposed the mother) were killed and injured on board the hie 8 | to tap effect that d negro and has The party had been to the Elks’ Club-/had done. When the conductor shouted I- came into possession of an- Ww she was a negress, and| Bird was tired THE shouldere 4 very thick Manitou to attend » letter written by her with $10 in- that the fact had heretofore been con- Tuesday and he MR HUSSEY ‘lips. He wore a white shirt, black sus- somagg awed Gables thie Wks “All aboard,”” Mrs. mgpeens took Mrs. Also a detective’s report of the coaled. decided to take a T penders and gray trousers. soe h ned. Walle th er Hickson’s baby on the train with her. that I had descrinea In accordance with this testimony,| gay off and do JUST CAN cident happe e autemobile,| yeanwhile the young mother was al-! shield, after target practice near Kure, nr page leh engraet with its merry passengers crowded into} most distracted by her failure to find| at 4p. m. on Sept. 9 wom. ‘ ) a ‘ii earee/ S « u l - ‘ ti and ie going to rent a room at my Judge Curl made an order of court de-| just nothing at | KEEP Quiet BROWNS AGAIN the two seats, en the hood and en the|/yrg. Corey. She had néver been in a

a § claring that Gaston H. and Ida Fort There i . and try to get those letters away hud never been legally married, all. 2 oe steps, plunged at a4 terrific clip down large city before and did not know. That is the limit.” the hill. where to appeal fer assistance. She was time for me or us to act change in any- Markscheffel, who was driving, lost : —_ : , ing to visit her aunt, Mrs. William wyer about this wite o¢| SHE WOULD NOT TAKE MEDICINE! tnine in the me- _ PI AY ) f AMES control of the wheel and the powerful|Snaw, in Shelbyville. Her ticket was g? ing to be no i | : iF

| go insane. You can just ———— teoric line. It is machine, swerving from side to side 4 & ; it’ already purchase , Weeping over _ a ne ne Soe Coroner Asked to Investigate Death ange , ot gt fe road gored — faire ae the gut- os ices shin’ bonita mw tehh for Gleb was. getting the wari | of Mrs. Gebert. the temperature P86 a3 evel AND agreed 17.~Oni b caniiiell onward, the right front won rear aber odes = wegen wae a: Capt. O'Malle be refuse i mr aee + ’ “ig . . niy a en . to him he had hie mali District has iad dik tascoes ie a ned for 24 nies iL Y “| small crowd was on hand when this she gy ed 3 ek ore a + rs. Sew ere oe eee vestigate the death of Mrs. Mary Geb- | or more. ) afternoon’s double-header between the ean Sudeheniiir-the’ rane ere Fes A : her that if she would write to another ert, 68 years qld, who died a her The forecast: Browns and the Naps began, the early = & some ebject and the pond Pacers aunt—Mrs. F. W. Sherman of 110 North. . hour at which the first game was called struc Ne. Tenth street, East St. Loule—Mrs. Sher- home, 1016 North High street: Monday | Fair, stationary ing around, was thrown a distan : being responsible. turning C@l man could tell the police and possibly afternoon. The cause of her death is| temperature : ; i & feet down the hill, striking a tele- unknown. night > Umpire Eagan, late ef the American ent pole the police might trace Mrs. Corey and Her husband, August Gebert. tola| Wedne - Association, made his debut as an ser was out of the car and jammed the baby. | | 8a am, O'Malley that on Sept. 12 he} goutverty Winds, vos ge Bese streets when his wife said that she | fall of -4. jured by & . nday ati iss skull was laid open, the impact tear- pe a om: anil ywas iit EN sald that Dr, Boogher ad-| There has been little change in generat | St. Lou's. foot, spiked in the ff ing his head almost in two. Rapmmtenshenr- vised that he gend his wi . }conditions ig the last M hours. Ral Yeager § fom". © Bret game Ralston was thrown against the pole ee ees Epona nS | yesterday, WAS still too sore to | saday, “’. yest y, permit” or against the board fence on the other ii Deputy meg ate gepe, vate hospital. have fallen in the Southern States, the - He said that Lake region, the Upper Misstssipp! ana|% 2s playing. and Hartzell went te/ iae ef the walk. His skull was frac- . hi auer, ee ee that his wife not only retn } Missourt valleys and on the North Pa- | ‘a ten . Winnall was hurled 6 feet. es ta ne 1 emmiunmeil si but refdsea ; elfic Coast. : teo, was fractured. . ; I an ere ¥ oy aes & ss

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