St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 21, 1907

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ree 4 aa eS # = f v ° . Kags TSS. 6 Page er amn® \ie titi, wl Saji, wa TS wT ot Bee eon ee one Chl IEA gh Renee t-te SN ~~ RRA 4 4 tk eine fess sanegumiesieds BRM SSL nad i. OO TIE ND 2 Eat 2 wre Sr oe ~ % . . “FIRST IN EVERYTHING” nda ae | VOL. 60. NO. 31. dat LOUIS, SATURDAY AY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1 ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER aR WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. -—- A TTC a tem —_——- ee Ep Pe PRICE ONECENT iT | STGLES ARE SPIRITED AWAY FROM ZION CIT} e Feeling !s Intense Against Fa- natics Who Killed Helpless Woman. TAKEN TO COUNTY JAIL Mitchell Testifics to Crushing the Life Out of Mrs. Greenhaulgh. PROMPTED BY “SPIRIT” Coroner Will Investigate Oth- er Deaths; Inquiry to Be Resumed Tonight. (BY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) CHICAGO, Sept. 21.—Walt and Jennie Greenhaulgh, together with Harold Mitchell, Mrs. Mitchell and Mra. Leulse Smith, who were _arrest- ed. on the charge of causing the death of Greenhaulgh’s invalid mother, were today taken frem Zion City to the County Jail at Waukegan in order to avoid any possibility ef an putbreak. The feeling against them is intense. The inquest will be resumed tonight. and it is possible that further arrests will be made, as it is believed that other cures for ‘“‘demoniacal possession”’ have terminated disastrously to patients. The case of Bertha Young, 19 years old, who recently died in Zion City, is wnder investigation. Mitchell Tells of Strangling. Mitchell, principal among the tortur- _ @rs, has admitted that he has resorted - fo the process of strangling on numer- ‘ie ous. occasions where persons were found to be possessed of “demons.” Mitchell testified before the Coroner that when he clutched the woman’s throat with his fingers the spirit forced him to crush the bones of the larynx. “As long as the muscles moved under my fingers,”’ he said, ‘I felt I had the demon, and I ‘had to squeeze to get him out. Now I know I did wrong, but the devil had me in his power and I had to do it.’’ “Did the devil have you in his power When you choked these other people?” {8%al Wild to be brought to St. Louis and inquired Coroner Taylor. “He must have had me. I thought it was God at first, but now I know it Was the devil. I know it—I’ve had manifestations. ' Resurrections Sought. Coroner Taylor says he has proof that persons have been tortured ‘to death and their bodies kept for days in the hope! that “‘the gift of tongues” store them to life. Mrs. Mitchell said today: “When we started to Mrs. Green- haulgh’s house a radiant light, as of the Holy Ghost, led us. When we got there the devil came himself and fought with the spirit. There was a great struggle, and the devil won.” Jennie Greenhaulgh lies face down- ward in her cell, “Tf I could die I would be happier,” she moaned. “Poor mother! We loved her so we stayed single for her until now we are too old to marry—broth- ér and I. She said, a few days ago, ‘If I can't get relief soon, I want to go to Heaven. Maybe God answered her prayer. ‘They bent her legs till they broke. Mitchell put his hands over her mouth when she tried to callus. When they tertured her, we ignored her cries. They held her down and pulled her head until they broke her would re- neck. “She never wanted anybody pun- ished, and she wouldn’t want them punished now. We forgive them. She formives them, Let them go their way and repent.” * Benjamin Hopkins, an Ce aE in Zion City, has been warned not to un- dertake to leave the place, under pain of being placed under arrest. He. ad- mitted to the Coroner today that he knew that the bones of Mrs. Green- havigh had been broken by the treat- ment she endured, but said that he suppressed the fact on the request of members of the family. Hopkins is 2 Parhamite. ST, LOUIS BOY HURT IN CLASS FIGHT AT PERDUE 21.— LAYFAYETTE, Ind... Sept. Francis Ball of St; Louis is in a hos- pital here, with ‘ner students of Perdue University, as the result of the annual “tank rush” today. “The ob- ject of 90 sephor. res was to place the class flag on the high university water tank and 450 freshmen gathered | A with the same intent. "The battle was waged on the ladder jeading to the top of the tank and on ‘the ground. Ball was pushed from the nami oe the Inader. In falling : ne +, 4 einen, AGED BANKER WHO IS | ANXIOUS FOR TRIAL : DE OAILD. AGED BANKER S ANAIOUS 10 STAND TRIAL Flavius J. Tygard Taken to Kansas City on Embez- zlement Charge. iii wr Capt. Flavius J. Tygard, former presi- dent of the Bates County National Bank of Butler, Mo., and trusted official pf the Masonic Home of Missouri and half a dozen lodge and real estate concerns throughout Missouri, passed through St. Louis Friday in custody of Deputy United States Marshal Wild, on his, way to. Kansas wity to answer an indict- ment of 11 counts charging the aged banker with appropriating the bank’s* funds to his own use. — Tottering under the weight of his 72 years, much of that time having been spent in doing good to others, Capt. Tygard was brought to St. Louis by Deputy Marshal Wild from Farmington, Mo. Since his indictment by the Fed- erul grand jury at Kansas City, Capt. Tygard has been confined in the State Insane Asylum at Farmington. On an order from Judge Dyer of the United States Court he was delivered to Mar- then taken to Kansas City to answer to the embezzlement charge. Twice the authorities at the Farming- ton asylum had refused to give him up to Wild. Contempt proceedings against the superintendent of the asylum re- sulted in the order to turn him over to the Government authorities. The Gov- ernment established the claim that Capt. Tygard’s confinement in the asylum was a ruse to prevent his trial in the Fed- eral court at Kansas City. Hurried to Kansas City. When Deputy Wild reached St. Louis with the aged banker he took him 1m- mediately to the office of United States Marshal Morsey at the Federal Build- ing. Capt. Tygard was arraigned before United States Commissioner Chase Mor- sey. The Commissioner had bit three things to determine--whether an_ of- fense had been committed in the Kan- sas City District of the Federal Court, whether there was probable cause that the defendant named in the indict- ‘ment had committed that offense and whether Capt. Tygard was the identical person named in the indictment. These three things were soon determined and Commissioner Morsey issued the order of removal to Kansas City. Judge Dyer signed the order of removal and Wild was on his way to Kansas City with Capt. Tygard on the 2 o'clock train: Capt. Tygard thus spent less than two hours in St. Louis, Capt. Tygard was a model prisoner, Deputy Wild said. ‘‘Don’t be afraid, I won't try to get away from vou,” Wild says the aged prisoner said to him as they were en route to St. Louls. Capt. Tygard is as sane as sane can be, according to his own statements, and to judge from the manner in which he conducted himself after he arrived at the Federal Building. Soon after he got there Assistant District Attorney Daues went up to him and introduced him- self. A long conversation ‘followed, in which Capt. Tygard discussed his case with Daues.. He had refused to make any atatement to reporters who accosted him, saying that he “had nothing to Say at this stage of the game.’ Glad te Stand Trial. Daues said after the interv lew that Capt. Tygard told him he was glad to go back to face the charges against him for three reasons: “First, because I can't help myself,” said Capt. Tygard, “second, because I want to go back to the county where I was a banker from 1870 to the time of this trouble and want to stand trial before the people among whom I have moved all these years, and last, because I'@ rather go there or anywhere else than to stay iy an in- sane asylum. B. The legitimate PAID. circulations of the Post-Dispatch in St. Louie and ite Suburbs is greater than that of dhe .matter until last Tuursdey, Midnight BITTEN SAVING — CHILDREN, DIES VOROPHOBIA Lutheran Hospital Patient Be- lieved to Have Had Dread Malady. CHOKEDDOG TO DEATH Animal’s Mouth Had Rubbed Against His as They Strug- gled in Yard. Max Podgorschek of “6006 Hancock street died at 3:30 a. m. Saturday at the Luthern Hospital of a disease diagnosed by the physicians th attendance, cluding a Pasteur expert, as hydropho- bia. Every symptom exhibited by the man after being seized with the fatal illness Thursday is said to have indi- cated this malady, which is so rare that some physicians discredit its existence. While Podgorschek lived, the physi- cians thought his case inignt possibly be hysterla, which sometimes sim\'!ates the symptoms of. hydrophobia. A man at the City Fiospital recently barked an@ frothed at the mouth, but recovered trom what was shown to be hysteria due to intense fear that he would suf- fer hydrophobia., Podgorschek’s death in coma, follow- jing delirium, is said by the physiciars Ito remove the last vestige of doubt. Early in August a huge mastiff in- vaded Podgorschek’s yard and to pre- vent the animal, which seemed to be mad, from attacking his small chil- dren, Podgorschek battled with it. The mastiff snapped at his face, and he grappled with it, man and beast falling to earth. The dog’s mouth rubbed against the man’s, and Pod- gorschek lost a tooth in the fall, but he was unable to find afterward any break in the skin indicating a bite. He choked t!:e dog to death with his hands. Choked at Word Water.” Podgorschek believed he had escaped injury, and gave no further thought to whea he was taken suddenly ill He was seized with viclent thirst, but when his wife approached him with water, or when mention was made of water, Pod- gocschek strangled. As the hours passed, this aversion to water increased, and the strangling amounted to paroxysms. Thursday evening Dr. L. W. Schermann of 543% Old Manchester road was summoner. He found Podgorschek in such a.condl- tion :hat he could swallow nothing, and medicine was administered hypodermic- ally. The sick man did not yield ¢o treat- ment, but grew worse, the spasms at the thought or mention of water grow- ing hourly more violent. His mouth watered consta: tly. From the time Podgorschek was seized Thursday until his death he was unable to drink any water. Dr, Schermann summoned Dr. Harry A. Upshaw, Dr. Robert Lilleman and Dr. J. H. McCaughan, who agreed witn him that the case clearly indicuted hy- drophehia. Friday night Podgorsche. was taken to the hospital. Dr. Carl Fisch, «a Pasteur expert, examined him there. The patient's temperature rose rapidly, and he became delirious. From this he passed into coma, from which the phy- Siclans were unable to rouse him, and in which he died, At ll a. m. Saturday a post mortem was held, at which a “culture” was made from a portion of Podgorschek’s brain. Rabbits will be'fnoculated with this, and if they exhibit hydrophoblia symptoms the case will be finally prov- en. Podgorschek was 41 years Old. * ine and four small children survive DON’T LET GULF STORM WORRY YOU: ’TWILL BE FAIR AND COOLER HERE THE TEMPERATURES, in- “sae weather man announced off i- Clally today that St. has nothing to fear from the sterm which is now cen- tral over the Gulf Cuast, and on which a warning Was sent out from Washington early Saturday. So far, he says, there has been no high wind report- ed from any ob- scrving © ta tion. Toe storm will pass to the North- east and out over the Atlantic and will not come this far north. The forecast: Fair and cooler tonight. Sunday, fair and continued coo). Fresh northerly winds, ' The Lake Superior sturm has passed to the Lower St. Lawrence. causing gen- eral rains in the lake regions, the middle THE TRUSTS ARE RAISING THE PRICE OF BIRD SEED CuRSES ow 'ém! Louis sep 21" o7 eee Sash Dalles Con valleys and the Norteastern States. I SHOE STRIKERS UFFER TO MEET MANUFACTURERS Employers Pay No ‘Attention to Workers’ Letter Sent and Will Fight. 22,000 OUT, MEN SAY Manufacturers Declare There Are but 15,000 All Told in the City. The largest industry in St. Louis is threatened with complete paralysis by the strike of the shooworners in 18 big factories. St. Louis is probably the largest shoe manufacturing center in the United States, and half a dozen of the smaller factories only are not affected by the strike. The army’of workers on a strike is now estimated by the union of- ficials at 22,000, though the manufactur. ers say the total number employed is 15,000. For the week ending Sept. 7, the last for which official figures afte obtain- able, the shoe factories’ in St. Louis made 455,024 pairs of shoes, the daily average being 75,827. The factories that a capacity of not more than 10,0W pairs daily. are running have A Remarkable Strike. In many respects the strike of the shoeworkers is the most. remarkable in | the history of trades unionism. At the time of the strike not more than one-, tenth of the shoeworkert were members of any labor organization. Yet the strike was so complete that within 15 minutes | after the shoeworkers walked out not a | wheel was turning in any of the mam- | moth factorfes, some of which turned | out 10,000 pairs of finished shoes every day. The’ shoe cutters, the rejection of whose demands precipitated the strike, ' had an organization of 1500 members. Of! > the other 20,000 whe struck only #00! were members of the union. In one day .5000 joined the union, and the oth-: ers are being taken in as rapidly as they can be supplied with application blanks. The cutters began forming an organ- ization in April, and in June formulated their demands for increased wages and shorter hours. They demanded a nine- hour day instead of 10 hours, a minimum wage scale of $)8 a week, certain in- creases in the price of plece work, and that only one apprentice be employed for each 10 journeymen cutters. These demands were presented to the superintendents of four of the Hamil- ton-Brown Co.’s factories, the four Brown Shoe Co.’s factories, the three factories of the Peters Shoe Co., the four factories of the Roberts, Johnson & Rand Shoe Co., and the facteries of the Courtney Shoe Co., the Glesecke- D’Oench-Hayes Shoe Co., the Dittman Shoe Co., the Goodbar Shoe Co., and the Carruthers-Jones Shoe Co. The manu- facturers met and decided not to yield to the demands of the cutters’ union. Cutters Out First. This led to the. strike of the cutters Thursday, fellowed by the general strike of all shoeworkers in the shops owned by these manufacturers. Business Agent George C. Frank of the Independent Boot and Shoe Cnt- ters’: Union of Missouri, in behalf of all other striking crafts than the cut- ters, made a demand upon the manu- facturers Saturday for a nine-hour day for the stitchers, lasters, edge- makers, bottomers, stock fitters and finishers. It was stipulated in the demand that the rate of pay was to remain the same for the nine-hour day as for ten hours. The demands as to’ wage in- creases probably will be made more specific before the strikers ask for con- ferences with the manufacturers, The strikers say that they are will- ing to confer with the manufacturers any time relative to their demands. So far the manufacturers have ignored all demands of the strikers, I. H. Sawyer, a director of the Brown Shoe Co., who is president of the Shoe Manufacturers’ Association ef 8st. Louls, said Saturday that he had no statement to give out in regard to the meeting of the manufacturers Friday afternoon. He would not say whether another meeting would be held Saturday, or whether a committee had been ap- pointed to formulate a plan for the set- tlement of the strike. Will Not Join Others. Michael Flahive, business agent of the Boot and Shoe Workers’ International Union, which has union stamp agree- ments with the Wertheimer-Swarts Shoe Company, the Johansen Brothers Shoe Company, the John Meters Shoe Com- pany, and the union factory of the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Company, told a Post-Dispatch reporter that it was not likely that his organization would become involved in the strike. He said that while the cutters had made a demand for a nine-hour day and a minimum wage of 8 a day, they could not strike until after arbitration had been tried and failed. The mixed local of the shoe workers, met Saturday morning at Lightstone’s hall, Eleventh street an. Franklin ave- nue. The lasters met in Walhalla hall Meetings ‘ef the different crafts are held almose hourly. e strikers’ declare that they will not return to work until their demands are granted. [ALTON MA : N 5. JULIA t nate pen 7 r we ey ae Sa P ud eal ™e - Pets “WILCOX Si OWN», WILCOX (pr qe es eee FOLK CHEERED. AT JAMESTOWN AS 0G FADER 4 Referred to Possibility, He Gets an ‘Ovation. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NORFOLK, Va.. Sept. Folk of Missouri received an ovation toady as a presidential possibility in 1908. When Lieutenant Governor ETii- son, in his address of welcome,’ refer- red to Gov. Folk as the party leader ef the Democrats, there was tumultous applause. This was Missouri Day at the James- town Exposition and the principal speaker was Gov. Folk, who talked on “Liberty of the Individual Right, not a Priviledge.’’ The celebration was the most elaborate of any of the State days. Gov. Folk was accompanied by Mrs. Folk, Inspector General J. L. Hanley of the Missouri National Guards, George Creel of Kansas City, and Harry T. Kent of St. Louis. They were the cen- ter of a‘crowd of thousands which had gathered froin many Southern States to hear the reform governor speak. Folk Scores the Tariff. In his address Gov. Folk discussed law enforcement, federal interference with State rights and the .tarriff. While gen- eral in his discussion of the tarriff, Gov. Folk said that the present duty scale could not be defended. It wag ‘“trust- making.” he declared, that hampered American trade at home and abroad. The liberty of individuals, he said, did not permit the breaking of laws. Liberty was not lawlessness, declared the gover- nor. Gov. Folk declared that he did not be- lieve n trust-baiting, but that if the conduct of the corporation magnates showed respect .or the law in the same degree that they expected others to show toward corporation property, there would be no need of agitation. Railroad Legisiation. Taking up ratiroad legislation, he said that States should ‘be given the sole right to govern them within their own boundaries. Federal interference of the neforcement of laws until those laws had been found constntutional curtailed the rights of States, said the Governor. The exeer@ises of the day opened when Gov. Folk and the official Missouri par- ty was escorted by a detachment of the Twelfth U.S. Cavalry from the Missouri State uBilding to the Auditorium, at 10:4 a. Mm. President Harry Kent of the Missourt Jamestown -Commission presided. Ad dress of welcome was delivered by Pres- ident Harry 8t. George Tucker of the Exposition, by seeenant av ereer of as Presidential! 21.—Governor ~ ws Las .to and Alton; bury us together. | about. with best wishes to all. and think of me and Sophie. Goodby forever. NOTE LEFT BY ALTON MAN WHO | KILLED WIFE AND AIMSELF “T) EAR Mrs. Mary Bernhoff—I will write you a few lines to let you know what happenetl to Sopphie and me. Sophie went with and another woman to St. Louis Wednesday night and never came home; stayed out all night and then came home. You wilk find me and her side by side along the road between Bethal- “You can raise money enough on the furniture to bury us. “I told Sophie I would kill her, as it is too late to say anything So I have done what was right. talked to her with tears in my eyes, and that did no good, so I will close “Tell Julia that I said goodby and don’t go with any bad company. It. will lead her astray. Tell Julia that I say to take the watch and ring Yours, ALTON, IIl., Sept. 19, 1907. She wouldn’t listen to me. I JOHN WILCOX ‘AND SOPHIE. 7 Post-Dispatch Magazine Sunday, Sept. 22, ‘07. Page Frederick Remington’s “Prettiest Indian Girl in America” (in colors ) Just Why You Are Ticklish The Mystery of Prolonged Sleep. Doctors With Only a Single Pa- tient Just Like Mrs. Wiggs of the Cab- bage Patch Romance of the Diamonds : River of Quicksand *Under St. Louis Battle of the Rival’ Patent Milk Bottles in: St. Louis Making Sauerkraut “While You Wait” in St. Louis Factory. Missouri Farmer Adopts Nine Waifs in Two Years and Wants More He is America’s Champion ‘Talker Ex-Governor Dockery Drops Poli- ties to. Build Good Roads. . FortunessWon by Working Peoy Can You Answer These — Bibl “Onestions .... A Talk With Hall Caine s Oval Billiard Tables the Latest Invention How St. Reached the Limit Dressing The Correct Use of Jewelrv Autumn Leaves Very Popular for Weddings 9 The Champion “Baby Block” of St. Louis (in colors) THE FUNNYSIDE. The Newlyweds—Their Baby.... 1 Little Ole, He Bane Gade Geatier; World’s Great Women Have in Hair Tao Billy Bragg Eat Tee Cricin, Well, Well! The Kid—He Gets the Calf...... 3 Romeo on. His Way-——No. 10 The Bad Dream That Made Bill a Better Boy 4 Sammy's History of the Workl.. POLICY PLAYERS GET LONG TERMS N — ee Judge Taylor in the Court of Criminal sent elght negro Workhouse to Correction Saturday policy the serye terms varying from one to eight years, in pursuance of "is announced determimation to break up policy In St. Louis. ‘When these negroes serve a time in Judge i:aylor told a Post-Dispatch reporter, “and learn that the ‘men higher up’ cannot release them and have not so much influence as the they may reveal the of the policy| information we vendors to the Workhouse,’ vendors thought, names of the games. That want.” owners is the Sent to Workhouse. Fines of $1000 for each effense—the maximum—were imposed recently on the negro vendors, and they were ar- raigned Saturday for final hearing. On their admission that they could not pay, they were sent to the Workhouse, i the sentence being one year for each $1000 fine. Théir names and terms are: Sallie Casey, one year; Madison Bar- nett, three years; Charles Henry, seven years; William Bolger, cight Years: Robert Roe«, one year; Edward Hilton, three years; Fred Hutchinson, three years; John Chaney, two years. . Mouroe Dobbs, under $200 fine, was paroled on the statement of Detectives McMullen and Wells that he was dying of consumption at the City. Hospital, Fines are pending against John Quinc a0, Leroy Wright, $4000, and Road the Scene of Dou- - ble Tragedy. —s DUE TO HIS JEALOUSY. | “sig He Plotted the Double Aftey Agreeing to a Separation. Theory. As. Mrs. Sophia Wilcox, 20 a relative near Alton, she and her husband, had determined to band, who walked fell dead in weeds by the roadside, h kissed her, then turned the m himself and fired a fatal shot i te i his right eye. Ryan Jones, aged © satats was a terrified witness of the tragedy. A letter found in Wilcox’s addressed to his mother- showed that he had planned the der and suicide. Nothing \¢ - the Alton police Saturday uphel theory! of a death pact, whieh. suggested by some persons after double killing Friday afternoon, — Mrs. Wileox” was yeep to ti residence of her co Mise Henckhaus, in Yager > pe She was hugging to her brat photographs of herself, . her. Miss Henckhaus and her taken atter thee wedding. _— rr, ee eet 1h ae She turned her head. awares, Wilcox fired a bu head. A second bullet followed: Composing her body in some — weeds, Wilcox then stooped and her. A third shot stretched him by her after he had stood in @ position to § beside her. The boy who witnessed the ki remained transfixed as the whole of death was enacted before his Then he turned and fied. Thursday, when Wilcox ran exc into the Alton Police Station and 1 Police Matron Demuth to have his arrested because she had 20 another woman to St. Louls the night and remained away from han ee Carried Pheotographa, “eee Mrs. Demuth told Wilcox that ie could not have his wife arrested, as 6hé was married and of age. claimed: ‘Well, do for her and do for myself.” Then he dashed from the place. The letter found on him after death threat. woman in Alton, It was this who accompanied his wife to St. according to Wiicox’s statement to Demuth. | Emma Wilheldt, a former patch reporter Saturday that and his wife called on her Th afternoon while Mrs. Wilcox was om . the way to call on her sag a quite chipper. Mrs. wllcox her husband’s statement about ¢ aration. She told me that she was | ing to bid her cousin good-bye breaking up housekeeping. “Wilcox said he would ; his wife to her cousin's house. . Wilcox told him she did not want } to go with her. He persisted, that he did not want her to pass son lonely weeds along the road. She 66 sented, and they went away toge Mosiander old, walked toward ‘the residenee of — - Sad if something {s not done, rn had evidently been written after his It contaiged the name of 2 oti oe