St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 7, 1907

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PEK AROS PAE OE riya ean a ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING (NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATE MAN SHOT A MAN HE FEEDS lS | STOCK AT NIGHT Brother. of Slayer of Missoyr Judge Believed to Be Fa- tally Hurt. es + DISPA: TCHES. . LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 7, ty Ss ceties | PRICE ONE : CENT _ |ROUTE 1AKEN BY SAFE Veacnant (CUFF LINKS D PRESS” TODAY “FIRST IN EVERYTHING.” YOUNG a REPTILE THAT DAES INGENUE ENTERS FESTUS MYSTERY Miss Florence Horne Says She Doesn't Know Where Paul ‘+ -Biesbarth Is. WHO GOT ONLY | ND ONLY PAIR OF CUFF LINKS -_-~- — ijClimb Up Four Flights of Stairs, Across a Roof and Down Again. Expense Bill Only Official How Those Killed in “Meteor” ” denims maine Disaster Met Death. oe WORK FOR AN HOUR b 3 here Was No Money Drawers anid Vaiuable Pa- pers Were Left. SHE KNEW HIM WELL INQUEST CAUSED FEUD? Shooting Believed to Have Re- sulted From Exoneration | by Coroner’s Jury. in Singer Admits Being Close Friend of Miss Edith Jar- vis’ Promised Husband. FOUL PLAY. IS FEARED} ALTON HAS SHOT-PROOF ONE INTERRED WITHOUT _ oMSUN EVERY DAY; HOMES Bo decwnsean LS ae. , My |. |. EFFORT TO IDENTIFY I POPLAR BLUFF, Mo., Oct. 17.-- : : Blue Racer Pays No Attention " George Williamson, a brother of James . 18 prin a0 a Oy Ye our stairways and went through a sky- ba Volley of Bullets and Missiles Coroners in Phelps and Pulaski, Shift the Responsibility, Each Williamson, who recently killed his fa- a ’ = = : at to the roof, t crossed over to Hurled at Him. seagate “0 : It Was a Matter for the Other to ther-in-law, Judge John A. the adjoining building and went down Alton has a snake that knows the Look After. former Well-to-Do Merchant Took $500 on Starting to Home of Girl He Was to Marry. - Hayes, was ambushed and shot after through its skylight and down its feur time of day better than folks who carry eg . dark, while feeding his cattle. expensive watches. It is aiso impervious{ ‘The bullet entered Williamson’s breast Bot fe Se oe ~~ gy Piet to bricks and bullets and cuts so many - ; mt. a sledge r unconventional capers that there is a a ee eee ere breaking into a steel safe and got only selemn conviction on the part of cian fears he will not recover. a pair of gold-plated cuff buttons with the populace that it is operating under] The attempt to assassinate George|# Pawnable value of about % cents. the direct supervision of satan. Williamson is believed to have been in-|_ 7h Safe was in the office of the It is very regular in its habits. Her- : Kight & Klipstein Hide and Commission man Gallagher, ai runs the depot | *Pited by the feeling that has existed|(o., 724-726 Nerth Main street. There hotel at the Illinois Terminal station] Since a Coroner's jury exonerated his| were certificates of stecks and valuable and always speaks the truth, says chat] brother for the killing of Judge Hayes. }Papers in the safe, but no meney. The exactly at 11:30 each day the snake Judge Hayes was visiting his sick |Stere was closed Saturday afternoon at pokes his head through a crevice in the] ddughter, James Williamson's . wife, |°:390 o’clock and no one, except the bur- station platform. when he was shot. The Coroner's jury |8/ars, was in there again until Monday held that the killing was in self-defense, He says he sets his watch every day morning. Some time during that in- terval the safe was. broken open, CLiIM@ THREE FUGKTS oF = STAIRS TO ROOF Miss Florence Horns, a blonde in- @enue, has entered the mystery attend- ing the disappearance of Pau! Bies- barth of De Soto, Mo., through the statement of Miss Madge Jarvis of Festus, Mo. 3 Mr. Biesbarth was to have been mar- ried Saturday afternoon to Miss Edith Jarvis, whose sister Madge suggested Special to the Post-Dispatch. ROLLA, Mo., Oct. 7 —The body of an unidentified mat Me Sept. 30 in the wreck of the Frisco Meteor, 21 miles. cast. of he er was buried yesterday in the potter’ s field néar this city witt formality of an inquest. There is no official record of how h ni’ death. The body of Frank FE. Crissey, the St. Louis mail fbn ROOSEVELT BENDS RIFLE =et a i. 5 af Lat rab: 9. * ad by telephone Monday that Miss Fior- ence Horns be asked where Biesbarth is. He never arrived at Festus, where the wedding was to be. Miss Horns sings and dances upon the metropolitan stage during the seasen, and out of season lives with her moth- er at De Soto, Mo., which is also the home of the Biesbarths. The young man who was to be niarried was a well- to-do merchant. Miss Horns said over the telephone that she knew nothing of the young man’s whereabouts. Actress Saw Him Often. “I came to Qe Soto from New York two weeks ago yésterday,” said’ she, “and Raul got on the train, at’Silica, He had been over to Festus’ ‘to cal] on Miss Jarvis, and he rode home with me. We had not. written to one an- other for three months—before that we had corresponded pretty regular. I sup- he quit after his engagement was nounced. After we got to De Soto he went home with me and spent the evening there. ' “He told me he was to be married in two weeks. Since then I have seen hin. downtown often, and have been in his ¢tore several times, but he hasn't Called ‘cn me. Actress Liked “Paulie.” “a kind of liked Paulie,” but there has never been any talk = marriage between us.”” Miss Jarvis is 2 years old, and Bies- barth is the same age. They were to have been married Saturday evening, after a year's engagement, and he left De Soto Friday evening with the an- nounced intention of coming to St. Louls to buy the wedding ring, and re- turning to Festus Saturday morning. He had $500 with him, his brother says, when he departed. Nothing has been heard from him since, and the polite h@re have been asked to look for him. The fact that he carried such a sum of money causes his friends to fear that he may have met with foul play. RAILROAD TICKET NUMBER COSTS VISITOR HIS LIBERTY Fact That Oscar Blaven Has Two -. Hands Obtains His Re- lease. Railroad ticket 13,523 is responsible for the fact that Oscar Blaven, 21 years old,’ of Bristol, Tenn., spent two uncasy Nights and a day in the Four Courts holdover, suspected of a murder. Bilaven was arrested Saturday night at Union Station by Detective John Howard, on a telegram from the Sheriff Bay “Why, the Sheriff Was the last per- : gon to bid me good-by before I depart- ed,” said Biaven, after his arrest. “There must be some mistake. not wanted for anything.” The police wired to Pendleton that - they had arrested the holder of ticket * 13,52. “Ask him if he knows stock clerk for construction company. Hand off at first joint,’ read the telegram from | . Which reached St. Louis Monday. : Miaven was cooley tesche released. . I am! | District Attomey ney Jerome and Coun- by the snake. Sunday afternoon the snake had all kinds of fun by exhibiting half a yard of itself above the platform. G. C. Tredway borrowed a revolver and fired five shots at the serpent’s head. It never winked. A. E. Kirk blazed away a few times and the snake seemed about te succumb of ennui. Then the whole crowd fired a broad- side of bricks, but the snake did not dodge. It was only when somebody ap- proached with a stout stick that the reptile discreetly withdrew and remained invisible. LIE COSTS ONE YOUTH LONG TERM, TRUTH FREES 2 MEN Prisoners in One Court Admit -In- toxication, While Boy De- nies Previous Arrest. Thomas F. Maxwell, who said he was a law student and gave his address as 2261 Clark avenue, and Wilifam Mal- len, a blacksmith, of 368 Laclede ave- nue, were arraigned in the Wyoming Street Police Court Monday charged with intoxication. They said they had gone down ons South Broadway in search of adven- ture and in a “yinegar garden’’ had found two girls, with whom they drank bottles of what purported to be wine. Judge Kleiber commended their truth- fulness and on their promise to keep out of police courts in the future they were discharged. John Burns, 19 years oid, admitted before Judge Taylor in the Court of Criminal Correction Monday that he had stolen a halter from the Oatman Con- densed Milk Co. Judge Taylor asked him if he had even been in trouble be- fore. “No, sir,” said Burns. “You are living,’ said Judge Taylor. “You have been before me in this court before. Because of your falsification I will send you to the Workhouse for a year.” SITTING IN ROCKING CHAIR TOO STRENUOUS FOR BREWER Discharged Man, Reinstated to Pre- vent Strike, Quits After Three Days ‘of Idleness. This tells How one strike was settled in Belleville at a total outlay of $7.0. A man employed in the washhouse of one of the. breweries became obstreper- ous and the superintendent discharged him. “he next morning all the men were sitting on kegs. They said they were on a striké because Jake had been fired, The superintendent said -he would re- Instate Jake right away. Before he | arrived the superintendent borrowed a rocking chair and had it placed | told that there was nothing for him to do just then and he was directed to sit In the rocking chair. The other em- ployes were .instructed to see that he had all the beer he wanted. At the end of the third day he went to the supérintendent and said he thought he wou'd quit. He was given a pay check, went to the office, Grew $7.50 and went home. HARRY K, THAW’S SECOND TRIAL 10 BEGIN DEC, 2 _ i, ; 4 : 3 a % > * ‘ in the corner of the ‘shop. Jake was: “trial for the kiting of } will begin Dee, .§ ‘This The two men had been enemies for sey- eral months. Renewed Old Grudge. ° On the evening of the tragedy Judge Hayes met his son-in-law in the road as he neared Willlamson’s house. The young man is said to have spo- ken to Hayes in a friendly manner and Hayes renewed the old grudge by cursing him. Hayes then went to of: his daughter and \.:.lliamson eén- tered from a rear door. As soon as Hayes saw Williamson he began abus- ing him again, according -to veiliteam- son. e At the inquest he ‘said: ne askéd his father-in-law to desist, when Hayes drew a revolver. Both fired and Hayes fell. af Hayes Well-Kuown Politician. Hayes died a few hours later. the sickroom He from the First Ward and was one of the wealthiest and most influential Re- publican politicians in this county. Williamson is a young man of good repute. Hayés was the father of Rube Hayes, who shot and killed two men in this county a few years ago and served in the Penitentiary 90 days when he was pareen. FARMER AVOIDS JURY DUTY TO COOK FOR FARM HANDS Only 2 Men Released From Serv- ice, Though Many Had In- genious Excuses. two of a dozen or more €Xr men escaped jury duty Monday in the East St. Louis City Court. Judge Mo;ers blandly but con- vincingly told the rest they would have to serve. ‘One of those wh> was excused was over the legal agé limit for jury sefrv- ice, being 67. The limit is 65. The other was James Monk, ‘i wealthy farmer of Centerville Township. He told the court that, having no kitchen help, he had to cook for hts farmhands, who would desert him unless they were fed Judge Moyers said this gave Monk no claim to exemption, but excused him when he showed that he had previously served on a jury less than a year ago in the Belleville Circuit Court. Only cuse-making further.” was a member of the City Council ‘Mayor who has beén urging bachelors “Snow took him at his word. The burglars used no explosive. They knocked off the knob of the combination, drove in the rod and with a punch and a sledge drove in the inside works, and thus permitted the handle to be turned and the safe opened. The office is in the rear of the store, one story above the street. Few persons are in that neighborhood upon Sunday, and the burglary may have been done in daylight. The chntitiinatiok on a rr in the tin- ware factory of Henry Seltzer, 706 Wash street, a block from thé’Carr Street Po-: lice Station, was found Monday to- have been, smashed off... A sledge hammer in the factory is thought te have been used. Apparently the burglars had ‘been frightened away, as they proceéded no. The attempt. is supposed to have been made early Bunday or Sunday night... SPITTERS PAY $1200 IN 4 MONTHS TO SPIT IN PUBLIC Several Policemen Are Engaged in Sole Work of Arresting Offenders. During June, July, August and Sep- tember citizens of St. Louis, who do not believe in signs, paid in fines $1200 for the privilege of spitting in and on the street cars or on the sidewalks in this city. Four special officers are working con- stant'y to enforce this ordinance, walk- ing the streets and riding on the cars and arresting all violators of the law. During the carnival week a large num- ber of arrests were made, but in case of strangers in the city who are not. aware of the crusade being made against expectorating in public places they were released after a warning. © MAYOR TOLD ALL BACHELORS TO WED; DAUGHTER ELOPES DES MOINES, 1 lo.,. Oct. 7.—Mabel Bennett, daughter of the Fort Dodge to marry, eloped last night with Noland Snow, a chauffeur, and ax | wefe mar- ried here today. Mayor Bennett dideeithy teued a ukase requiring all bachelors to marry. Republic Sunday Advertising | (Less Cheap Legal) Yesterday (Sunday) Oct. 6 Post-Dispatch, 266 cass. Globe-Democrat. ee, gy — ee lil i i 66 258 180 Sunday Best eee Excess Over Republic tae Over Globe- Democrat First in Quantity Fg ins way —— ee EE A a ORS IE ee ag ne em I ar - — 86 Cols. 8 Cols. ee a a. ——— | black —_—e A shi a 9s a SO IT, SHOOTS IN CURVE a». » = rw YF Mighty Hunter Kills Bear in Front and Behind Him With One Bullet—He Turns Deer Into Auto to Get Breakfast. anne By Wireless Telephone to the Post-. its antlers ‘and, by twisthhe the head,’ Dispatch. CAMP ROOSEVELT, -Miss., Oct.7.%4 While hunting this anorning in the cane- |! brakes, President Roosevelt came upon | two she-bears and their four chbs.. They attacked him and were sdon réinforced' by two huge male bears. The four adult. bears reared upon -their haunches and aurroiided the President, while the four cubs ran in at his’ feet and snapped at his shins. He backed against a tree, and with one single shot slew two o: the bears in front of him and wounded a-third. The fourth bear was reach- ing from behind the tree. The resident dared not turn his face from the wounded bear in front, which Was advancing to another attack. Quick- ly he bent his rifle across his knee till it was in the shape of a half circle, then he shot and the bullet, traveling in a circle, killed the bear behind, and, continuing in a circle, pierced the heart vf the bear in front. “he Presiulent went. before breakfast today to a canebrake 20 miles away. Before he xrew it it was breakfast time. He climbed a tree, went out upon a simb, imitated the call of a doo, and when a big buck came beneath he dropped astraddle of its back, scizcd POLICE BOARD MEETS TO PROMOTE MAN TO LIEUTENANT Stewart Announces He Will Not Interfere With Cain’s Medal. The Police Board wgnt into executive session Monday afternoon to proniote a se¥geant to tieurenant.. I‘ive ~ser- geants, candidates for the elevation, were at the Four Courts. They were John Hoffmann and Jonn Flanagan of the Central District, William Tierney and John Lyons of the Dayton Street District and William Doyle of the Mag- nolia Avenue Station. Of these men, Hoffmann was said ‘to have the best chance for promotion, with Flanagan a close second. ‘There are two vacancies among the lieuten- ants, but only one was Slated to’ be filled Monday. President Stewart announced for the board that it would not interfere with the award of the medal for the best errest to Special Officer Cain, who cap- tured William Rice, “‘the chocolate-col- ored burglar,’ on information supriied by a woman. The award, Mr. Stewart explained. was not for bravery or cleverness, but for the best “catch,” and Rice was con- | gloved : fhe, buck into camp as a chant. He covered the » feur steers am; Ub nies Jn 18 ‘minuts. ° Waile hunting. teday the Presid:nt caine to..a deep. siream.. The current ws too swift for kiin to“ ¢wittt aeoruss. He climbed into the top of a tall sap- ling, rocked it mack an.) forth, and at tie Tight. moment. let’.go- his hold, awi U.6 raomentum shot him. with the force of a catapult, in a gratetul curve across ths stream. He alighted softly ia the ter .o2 another tree. COOL WEATHER WILL FOLLOW WHEN THE CLOUDS ROLL AWAY | Tuesday Will Be Clear, Says Fore- caster, but There'll Be Snap in Air. TEMPERATURE. 6512 (noon) 2 a. m........ @l p.m ee OAR fee OO Wi céiawiess THE Midnight It is going to be cooler when the mists have rolled away. They are due to roll away Monday night. By Tuesday it is ex- pected that the clearing up will have been com- pleted. The drop of temperature will be coincident. The official fore- cast: “Clearing and cooler to- night; Tuesday fair and cool: southerly winds shifting to north- erly tonight.’’ The showers Monday were caused by an extensive “low” extending from the lakes to Oklahoma, which harbors two storm centers. The showers have ex- tended over Missouri and Southern IIli- nois and have occurred in other states. It is warmer in the Mississippi Valley and cooler in the West and Northwest. The stage of the river is 117 feet, a rise of .1 foot. sidered the most valueble capture of BOY LEAVES HOME WITH the year. . KILLS SNAKE WIT H WOMAN'S GOLD RING AROUND ITS NECK The Band on Long ‘Long Reptile Slain on Farm Once Had a Stone Setting. THREE VEHICLES AND WOMAN Herman Jackson ” Thought ‘to, Have + Sold Wagons and Driven > | Away in Buggy, Mrs. Anna Jackson of x North Eleventh street, a widow, ed the po- uce Monday to help search for her f- year-old. son, Herman, #h6 is missing. Samuel Martin, a farmer residing near} ¢). believes he has ’ McClusky, Jersey County, Il, while atl, woman known to her ‘only as ~-_ work on his farm Saturday killed a shake three and a half feet long. There was a woman's. gold ring on its get stone. The ‘ring had former'y contained a} who is % years old. © | - Mea. Jackson told the police that, Fred Chambers, the engineer, who ber of persons killed. The laws of this State provide that an inquest shall be held over the bodies of unidentified persons, whatever may have ‘produced death. The wreck oc- curred just over the line in Pulaski Gounty, but the unidentified. man: was huried in this (Phelps) county. “Harry R. McCaw, the Rolla under- taker, who buried the unidentified body, said today that he had only the railroad company’s permit to remove the body from the. wreck and that he did not think: Coroner. Crissey’# body was sent to Windsor, Mo., his old home, for burial, while ‘Chambers was buried in Springfield, Mo. Expense Account Only Record. Soon after the wreck it was reported that two unidentified bodies had been found. So far as the official records of either Phelps County or Pulaski County show, there may have been a dozen. Only the expense account of the under- taker exists to show that any was buried. , It is a custom in Missouri as old as the State itself that where a man meets a violent death the Coroner empanels a jury to fix the responsibility. L. E. Rolens, Coroner of Pulaski County, lives at Rich Hill, almost within a stone’s throw of the scene of the wreck, and. vet he will not undertake to say how many men were killed. His office rec- ords do not show that there were any fatalities. O. R. Bradley is Ccroner of this coun- ty and his home is in Rolla. He cannot officially state that any of the victims of the wreck was buried here, or if any, how many. Each of the Coroners | says it was a matter for the other to In- vestigate. eaten Bradley said today that if there were any guarantee that the ex- penses would be paid, he, would be will- ing to exhume the body puried in the potter’s field and hoid an inquest to de- termine the cause of the man’s death. The unidentified body was that of a man who had apparently been of good circumstances. No effort was made to determine if he had any relatives who might have wished to give him a decent burial, $105 In His Pockets. Because of the condition of his cloth- ing, which was badly burned, there was little in his pockets by which he might have been identified. Only a Yale key and $1.06 in silver were found. The cause of the wreck certainly re- mains to be determined, for, while the company says it was due to @ brokea flange on the Meteor’s engine, there are other seemingly well-founded : theortes. One is that the train was going at the rate of 60 miles an hour when {tt hit the compound curve, where the accident occurred, and that the rails gave Way under the strain then placed upon them. | It is stated here by raflroad men that the engineers of passenger trains on the Frisco system are under instructions to make their schedules on time or elge ee their job. BOY BOSSES GANG WITH WHICH LABORER LOST LIFE The tron Mountain Raliroad and. the | been buried. and yet the Coroner of neither Phelps nor P Cou ty has done anything to determine the cause of the wreck ort h ov ai Both coroners shift the tc 5 ERE it. his businéss to consult os met death in the same an ie? to death. He and ‘the: other 9 had. no- warning: of hee — approach. — a# Pe 5 as ‘OA at ONE OL mn Firm Tells How He Shut’ Out. ° NEW YORK, Oct..7.—The diffic df the New York Lubricating on Cc its fight with the Standard Ol Ce the business of the railroad former, in the hearing of the Ge ment’s suit against the Standard, Mr. Harrison said that the ¥ Oll Co., previous to 184, mant lubricating ofl, but that tt made agreement with the Standard — ii turned all of its tubricating~ ‘sidiary of the Standard. The witnesses said his c a contract with the Loutevide ni with lubricating off. On the of the contract President ton of the Louisville & Nashville r renew it, but would give no Tes Paid Higher Rate : Mr. Kellogg. chief oan Government, _— se fess Head of New wv York Lubricatit (RY ASSOCIATED PRESS.) s * ey es : ; throughout the United States were. re - lated today by Phillip Harrison of over to the Galena Signal Of me at es: ville Ratiroad in 1906 to oupety sien ned “a