St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 26, 1907

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VOL. 60.

NO. 36,

UIS: PO 51-DISP; ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHEd. Re ere ees eee ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 26, 1907 —~-.—

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HUNTED NEGRO ~ (S SURROUNDED N CORNFIELD Chicago Police Besiege Rich- ard Walton, Accused of Teacher’s Murder.

HE IS HEAVILY ARMED Detective Who Trailed Him to Summit, Ill., Feared to Attempt Arrest.

CHIEF SHIPPY ON SCENE

Ex-Convict Is Suspected of Several Attempted Assaults in Chicago.

Bpecial to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Sept. 26.—Richard Walton, yiegro, wanted for the murder of Mrs. Lilian Grant, the school teacher who _ Was assaulted, robbed and then stran- - gled to death with her underclothing in het room several: days ago, has been tracked to Surgmit, lll, and. is believed to be surrounded in a corn field. He is heavily armed, and it is probable that he wil! not be taken withvut a battle. Karly today Police Inspectors Revere, who had been following Walton, tele- Phoned to police headquarters. that he lind Walton surrounded, but that his men were too'few in number to make a capture absolutely certain. He re- quested that additionai officers be sent. Within a few minutes an automobile containing Chief of Police Shippy,- As- sistant Chief Schuetder and several de- “tectives armed with rifles was on the way to Sumniit. Welton: te an ex-cenvie @ Womay Found Dead in Mrs, Grant was found d@ad in bed in}. i apartments strangled bY a knotted | Se of Her-cidthes. - Her nightdress had been torn and there were marks wn the body which' showed * where rough. hends: haf ‘grabbed ‘her. | Lov¢ for & waitress at the Hay’ Hotei, Bixiy-fourth street and Lexington ave- nue, where he worked for awhile, is supposed by tlie police to be the motive which, it is alleged, prompted the negro in his attac Helen Memert, 20 ‘years old, the wait- ress, was arrested to aid in finding Wal- ton. Miss. Memert has admitted that Wal- ten expressed his affection for ber and even went so far as to write a letter requesting her to meet him at his home that he might give a present to her. Miss Memert says she repulsed the ne- gro’s advances. ' Negro Woced White Girl. Walton was employed as an assistant §anitor at tlie hotel where Miss Memert worked, and it is said that his atten- tions to her caused his dismissal. ‘The police. believe’ Walton stole Mrs. Grant’s watch, to give to Miss Memert. He wrote a letter in which he begged her not to fail to go to his home,*&’s he had a gold watch to give her. In the letter he reiterated his af- fection for her. Miss Memert stated sat she did not go. of the assaults attributed to Wal- is that on Miss Emma Thompson, #615 Monroe avenue, who was attacked on Woodlawn avenue. LAUNDRIES ADVANCE PRICES, BUT DENY UNITED ACTION High Price of Labor and Material Given as Reason for the Increase. Several laundries in St. Louis have paised the schedule of their price lists in the past month. The managers sey they lave been forced to the increase by the steady advance in the price of ‘material and labor. The increase in price has been made Individually by the laundries, according to thelr representatives. “There has been absolutely no cancerted. action,” eaid John W. Burley, president of the St. Louis Laundrymen’s Association, to a Post-Dispatch reporter, “I don’t even know which laundries: have raised their prices. and my information as to any advance at all comes through hearsay.” FORMER POLICEMAN HUMPHREY |

| SOUTHERLY WINDS WILL |

ji) - | MUST 60 TO THE WORKHOUSE, 3 Judge Sale Refuses to Commit the — .. $layer( of Daniel Guy — to Jail. F. Humphrey, who, when a po- serve his six ons F in the hor Saas Gut Seale te rack: seat: ® city’s quarry instead of doing BLOW SHOWERS TO TOWN, WEATHER MAN. THINKS Temperature Will Be Warmer Within the Next Twenty- Four Hours. THE TEMPERATURES. The frost is rot going to make the persimmons good in this vicinity just yet, and the prospects for the next 36 hours thet dimpled elbows may still be ex- posed without danger of chil- blains on girls’ funnybones arc good. The _ forecast : lair and warmer Thursday night and Friday; south- erly winds. The cool wave has passed east-

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ward to the At- lantic Coast and causing a marked to the gulf, south chan Southern States. There is Nérthern Wiinois, Indiana, Ohio and Northern Kentucky. In the upper valleys and the South- west the temperature is rising. ‘There have heen showers in Iowa, Western Missouri and through: the central vai- leys. SHIVERING CARDINALS TO HUG RADIATORS INSTEAD OF PLAYING BALL TODAY Game Called Off at Noon When McCloskey Arose and Looked at Thermometer. wlil be no baseball game here Michigan,

There this Giants establishing a record for the ear- off game of cold weather. afternoon, the Cardinals and the ly calilnog of: a on - account e to cooler weather in Eastern anu ; frost in:

Just at noon today it'"Was announced that it was too cold to play: baseball out; at the National League Park, and that the Giants and the Cardinals would play a dovble-header on Sunday. The teams have a game scheduled for Saturday. DEAF ALTON BUTCHER BLOWS JO PROTECT HIMSELF Julius Haas Trusts Blasts to Warn ~ Off Dangers Whose_ Approach He Cannot Hear. Alion has a perambulating Angel Gabriel in the person of Julius Haaa, proprietor of a butcher shop and owner of a’'horn. He blows the horn as he walks the streets to warn others against , colliding with him. .A street-car line passes Haas’ shop, ! and sO many accidents have occurred at the corner dately that it has become | known as ‘‘Hoodoo Corner.’’ In. four such accidents in the past 10 days ve- hicles have been smashed and indi- viduals injured by cars. Haas is hard of hearing. An car trumpet affords his only means of hear- ' ing any sounds less violent than. can- nonading. When the last aceident took

to aid the injured man, and declared to: others who gathered: | “IT can’t hear the cars and wagons, | so I'll make them hear me. ivext time I go out on the street, you'll hear me | blowing a horn.’”’” He kept his. promise, and now promenades abot Alton with his ear trumpet in his left hand and a tin horn in his right. Heas is a conspicuous figure at the ! picnics of the muster butchers, appear- | ing invariably in silk hat and frock coat and ecting as master of ceremonies. TOWN MARSHAL OF SHILOK MUST BE GOOD FIVE MONTHS Henry - Werner, town marshal and street superintendent of Shiloh, -I11., must behave for the next five months when Henry Friedewald, his fellow townsman, is about. Judge Holder, a Belleville jurist, has held Werner in $290 bond to Mes the peace toward Friedewald. The town marshal business being rath- er dull recently, Werner became active in street work, and drove a scraper ove; | Shiloh’s principal thoroughfares. Friede- | wald’s horse and buggy were hitched in! the way and Werner untied the animal and led it across’the street, where he tied it. The owner came along and objected | to this action and a fight followed. Each was severely punished and Friedewald wept to Justice Mousette and had the marshal held under $300 bond. . Werner appealed to the Circuit Court, but Judge

| Holder held him just as the marsha! | had done, ouly under a jessened bond.

CONSTABLES FRIGHTENED BY |- ken Barbers’ Supply Co., will lay. the report of Dr. French hefore 2. second stockholders’ meeting, to be held at 3 p. m. Monday at 1822 Locust street. The committee met Dr. French in his former office in the Missouri-Lincoln Trust Bullding and conferred with hin. for an hour. At the conclusion of tie conference Slupsky and other. members of the committee stated that Dzy. I’rench had promised to furnish a writ- ten lst of the securities and assets of the company, the list to be verified by Festus J. Wade, president of the Mer- cantile Trust Co., who holds the assets of the Missouri-Lincoln as a guarantce to its depositors. The committee refused to accept any verbal statement or to be satisfied with a mere casual inepection of the books. Out-of-Town Stockholders Here. Several of the out-of-town stockhold- ers arrived in St. Louis Wednesday to ‘ind out the cause of the sale of the company's business. Among them was J. B. Reynolds, manager of the Kansas City Life Insurance Co. Many of the stockholders paid as high as 14 for their stock. The bookyvalue of the stock is $137 a share, but the amount realized by the stockholdérs will depend upon the value of the bank's assets. Since the stock of the Missourl-Lincoln company was withdrawn from the Stock Exchange, and the company its in proc- ees of liquidation, the stock is not now consideied active collateral by bankers. A well-known banker ‘old a Post-Dis- patch reporter Thursday that for sev- eral years somo of the banks had dis- criminated against Missourt-Lincoln stock as collateral and that since the company had decided to go out of busi- news the stock was not now considered good security. Private Trading Now. There has been some private trading in Missouri-Lincoln stock since it was taken off the market. One broker, who made a bid of 6, had half a dozen small lots of stock offered before he withdrew it. Several sales at $50 a share are re- ported, and a broker stated that large blocks of it were freely offered at 70 and 75. No market value has been established for the stock owing to lack of infor- mation regarding the securities of the _jcompany. The stock was selling at 9 ‘when it was withdrawn from the mar- ket. John Nickerson Jr. is the only broker who has made a bid for the stock. He offered ® for the stock, but quickly withdrew it. He said he could buy all he oould bandle at 75. Liscola Officers Silent. The reasons for the liquidation of the Missouri-Lincoin company and the value of certain of ita securities have been much discussed in financial and bus!- ness circles. President French and other before the transfer depositers had drawn $400,000, leaving only a few the company. The company had th out practically all of its funds, and not In a position to realize rye ! them. financial men in a position . 4 say that the loan of $600,000 te” Morton ‘in 1902 was one of pene Morton was a ——— or the company dollars on. ands tn ‘Washington Missour!, and took first, | on the property as security. ingten County lauds, consisting of ceiver. 2 The Morton debt, which has been rune ning since 190, now amounts to more. than $600,000. Of the Washington f lands 8000 acres are suitable for cultural purposes, while large tracts covered with timber. It has been mated that there are 75,000,000 feet lumber in the forests T.:ere are mines on the property, which are to be paying all fixed charges. 5 A former official of the wrest Lincoln Trust Co. stated that if givén time to develop the Washington properties they would eventually more than pay off the Morton indebtedness. A financier who has examined the securities says that if cents on the dollar ts realized on it the stockhelders may consider themselves lucky. The company has considerable invested in lands near Muskogee, I No profits have been derived from thete lands, which were purchased several years ago, but an official who has fa- millarized himself with the situation 000 there. Money in Catiia Tract, The company has had large sums of money tied up in the Catlin tract, on the north side of Forest Park, west of De. Baliviere avenue. This property was controlled by the Lincoln Trust Co. at the time of its consolidation with the Missour! Trust Co. The Missouri-Lincoln Trust Co. herd! the property until a few months ago, when it was traded in on the deal for the Liggett Building, at Eighth and Chestnut * streets. While the tract sewer improvements, "The iseouri-LAncoin Truat Ce. $200,000 worth of value sec said another official of a trust who made a careful examination of ossets. “Just at present no man tell how much wi realized com any 8 assets. here are many securities which not more than 3 or &@ cents the dollar will be realized, while others are estimated to be cents on the dellar. “There one seed accounts on books whic ve been standing yeats. How a it will take te them is a matter of conjecture. August Schlafly, who retired as presi« and sold ail of his stock In the pany, stated that he did sot unders how the company could have any amount of valueless eecurities on h He said he undérstood that the than pay off the Morton loan, and in time would prove a fine in Louls from Sedalia several years After the Union Trust Co., which « officers of the tnstitution and members ~— of its Board of Directors, have refused to make any statement as to why the company sold its business to the Mer- cantile Trust Co. and decided to mar from the financial field.

dred thousand dollars inthe vaults of 4 acres, are now-in the hands of @ fee suys the loss will not be more than $2,- — Former President Surprised, ington County properties would more. The Missouri Trust Co, moved to St, was constantly increasing i valu | 3 it was paying no dividends, ‘ae company had to pay vut large “and - every year @r taxes and street eae a iC i. dent of the company eight months age _-