St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 10, 1908

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VOL. 60. NO. 233. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, _ APRIL 10, 1908. P ae } PRICE QNE 'C (ONE CENT

JOHNSON CALLS RATE DECISION

UNHAPPY EVENT

7 Minnesota Governor Says Peo- ple Have Right to Curb Judicial Power.

LONG STEP BACKWARD

Protest in Speech Against Sub- stitution of Bureaucracy for Democracy. ———— STATES LOSING PLACE

‘Government Does Not Need More/Power, but Better Distribution. | aaa ‘SHILOH, Tenn., April 10. ~—Gov. John A. Johnson of Minnesota, speaking at the dedication of that State’s monument at Shiloh battlefield today, deplored the action of the United States Supreme Court in the Minnesota and North Caro- lina railroad rate law cases. He said the principle of Federal con- trol over state affairs, established | by this decision, would radically change the and He de- clared the decision to be “one of the unhappy incidents in the history of our American system of government, would retard national progress. Republic.”’ He said that ‘obedience to the judicial authority, even when it ig wrongly’ ex- is a duty, but that the people have a right so to Iimit the judicial ercised, power as to prevent future errors. Referring at the outset of his speech to. the Minnesota soldiers slain at Shiloh, to whose memory the monument its dedi- cated, he quoted the closing sentences 40f Ldncoln’s Gettysburg speech,. ending’ with the words “that government of the! - people, by the people and forthe people _ shall not perish from the earth.” Protests Against Bureaucracy. He then. said in part: “Shall we not teday con Fate for the further perpetuation of the principles of _American liberty, and a constitutional form of government, purchased at the cost of the blood of patriots? “In this hour, when there seems to be a disposition to depart from the estab- lished forms, when there seems to be a desire on the part of these in authority to abide in a central bureaucracy, rather than in a representative democracy, it becomes you and me to protest against any departure whatever from the gov- ernment which came to us from the con- gtitutional convention of 1787, and the amendments which have been made to it by specific will of the people. “The marvelous foresight of the fath- ers of this country in framing the Constitution of the United States is shown by the fact that, in spite of all the changes which ,have occurred - industrial and economic conditions, in spite of the unexpected expansions of the country, been found sufficiently flexible to meet every emergency which has arisen. Danger of Public Error. “Tet us remember this, for the danger of today is that the American people may be lulled into a false security, and, yielding to the demands of selfish interests, permit the breaking down of constitutional provisions, under which. Saad Ameérican people have attained this ‘won derful degree of material prosper- ity and have yet maintained the indi- vidual liberty of the citizen. “Our government is divided into three ceparate and distinct co-ordinate branches, the legi#lative, the executive and the judicial. Danger will surely come to this republic when any of these departments of government attempt in the slightest degree to usurp the func- tions of the other; and while now and then it may be that a court of the land, in construing the Constitution, } may nulify a section of it, I have the feel that the people of the ®erve their own rights. “Our duty is not % to criticise the “@xecutive, the legislature or the judi- clary. Our duty is to recognize the - Majesty of the law when enacted by the legislature; to abide by and with the honest execution and administration of the laws when so enacted, and to re- spect, even though wrong, the opinions of the courts of the land, because when - Yespect for these then the very framework of our gov- “ernment is bound to crumble and de- : Right to Limit Power. institutions is gone, “But, having thus given our acquies- ‘mee to the voice of authority, if in

the opinion of the people the action taken is one which should not be exer- Tage by that particular department it Ms our inalienable right 80 further to

the Constitution has| pmitted suicide. THEEVES NVADE A PRNTNG SHOP AND GET MOST OF THE

OwNer HaS_ nOthng aS$orTeD SiZe$ LefT, But He’S DoiNg the Be$t He cAn. daY NigHt and aLL the TypE, ex sToleN, do The beSt tHey couLd witH wHa which everY Printer’S deVilL aRe neCe$$ary to GooD pRinTing, iNfestEd. ThE tHieVes also perloyneD Ary. looKng fOr Dav-D. aLL the tYpe wHat was lefT by the tHeef. CHAMPION EGG EATER OF MISSOURI DOWNS 38

Rival Can’t Devour 42 at One Sitting. WHITESIDE, Mo., April 10.—It’s a poor day when Frank Ryan can’t put away from one to two dozen eggs at breakfast, but even Frank himself is a trifle elated over his feat of this morning, when he ate 38. This broke his own record by three time he feels particularly lusty at breakfast he intends to better this mark by five or ten. There is nothing vainglorious about Frank's performances Ongthe egg cir- cult. He breaks records inadvertent- ly, as it were. It .was entirely ac- cidental that he set his own mark of 35 eggs ard equally by chance that today he bettered it by three eggs. He just happened to feel eggy and kept ee wife wea.iing a patch between the hen rT v0 finally she sala: Phen: ‘there isn’t an egg left in the house and there were 38 when you Started, You'll have to quit.” Lewis Gill of Montgomery City has offered to bet Ryan a 14-acre farm that he (Gill) can eat 42 ees at a sitting. Ryan will accept the wager, speci- fying only that Gill adhere to the Ryan way of eating the eggs, five at a time, the first relay fried on-one Side and the second fried on the oth- er, and so on tu the bitter end. WEATHER STORE, RUNNING LOW ON STOCK OF SHOWERS, PROMISES FAIR, BLUE SKIES Forecast Says Moisture Will All Leak Out of Clouds by

Tonight. THE TEMPERATURES, Midnight 7! i Ws ieee Ole Ces ss wee oe OO MMi ss eka 57 OG We. 0 ete 52 12 (moon) .62 @ M. Me... ...5; 53 ee Gt T @. Wh..ss Some showers - ~—eeg Still remain on the APPY ARRY Sune bargain counter, ooo ae he but Department uN YESTERDAY’ Manager Bowie

has reduced them so much, on ac- count of the fall- ing off in the de- mand, that he ex- pects a clearing by tomorrow. This is his cheer- ing forécast: “Showers fol- lowed by clearing late tonight or Saturday; no de- cided change in temperature; vari- able winds; the minimum temper- ature tonight will

be about 62 Gearees. * SOME MARRIAGES WORSE THAN HELL, SAYS MORMON ELDER KANSAS CITY, Mo., April 10.—When the conference of the reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints opened today, the discussion on marriage and divorce was continued. A stirring argument of yesterday was by Elder T. W. Chadburn, who sald: “Some marriages are worse than hell. There are many conditions to be met In the married state which no set of laws can govern. To condemn a man to live forever in a condition worse than hell, is not right or just on the part of the church. Unless we have a divine rev- elation, we should allow divorce on oth- er than scriptural grounds.”

Morse Suicide Rumor False. NEW YORK, April 10.—A rumor was circulated in this city today that Banker Charles W. Morse had com- Investigation showed

TYPE, NCLUDNG ALL THE EYES buT THe Printing sHoP of DaVid VeitcH at 36 RuTgeR sT. waS roBBed tHuRs- CepT a hatfU! of aSSoRted siZes, waS leaVing tHe sHoP -shorT on all sorTs, coMpeLLinG thE priNteRs ts they coUldD Commé&. THe RoBBeRs eveN decaMpeD witH thE tyPe Lick, kNow$ & witH wHicH eVerY printiNg pLanT is (hav no eWeS and eYes) a pRntNg pRess, & otheR nece$$aRy peeCes of maciheen- VeetcH had alReadY morTgageD tHe plaNt to J. M. McKeMan, a real, es- TaTe deaLer, wHo, beLeeyvnG tHat iT waS a scHeMe to eVade the PayMeNt oF thE mortGaGe, caU’sed the aRResT of Wilam Veetch, 19 yearS old, bRotH- er of tHe oWneR of th pLanT, Thers- daY neYt at 11:30 o’clocK, cHarGing hLm with tHe tHeft & the pOlce aRe MeaNteyMe the Pr-nTer$ aRe dOon Ssett-n dem&ed w-tH OF THEM FOR BREAKFAST Will Accept Wager of Farm That eggs and he says now that the next; ge and-the breakfast tablé® LARGE SUM DUE T0 OLIVE BANK t Loan Was for $12,000; Sev- eral Clerks Indebted.

‘Take Over Medical School Because of This.

rectors and officers, borrowers, but the amount of their in- debtedness, Mr. Cook says, is not large. tion of the loans he regarded as col- lectible, Mr. $100,000 capital stock of the bank and its surplus of $5000 hardly would be suf- ficient to defray its total obligations. The bank had 3800 depositors, with an aggregate of $337,000 to their credit. Its py loans amountéd: to $350,000, or $17,000 Amore than the deposits. Says Directors Were Surprised. “I am satisfied the directors were not aware of the critical condition of the bank,” said Mr. Cook. ‘‘Follow- ing an inspection of its books about ten days ago, I told the directors of my suspicions. They laughed at me. ‘Why this bank is all right,’ they said. They seemed to regard my warning as a sort of a joke. “But when I called their attention to érie paper after another, ‘which I con- sidered worthless, or at least worth muth less than its face value and cer- tainly inadequate as collateral for the loan made wupen it, they opened their eyes to the real situation. “They remarked then that they hadn't thought things looked so squally. I gave them time to produce better se- curity for the loans. This they were un- able to do and there was nothing left for the Secretary of State’s office to do but close the bank.” St. Louis bankers who are familiar with the institution’s affairs say the depositors should realize 80 cents on the dollar. It became known Friday that the Barnes Medical Coliege is heavily in- debted to the bank. Dr. Pinckney French, president of the bank, also is head of the Barnes college. This loan was obtained some time ago and Mr. Cook thinks the collateral of- fered is ample to protect it. University Refused Offer. Recently the State University au- thorities refused to accept the Barnes Medical College as a gift because of the indebtedness against it. David R. Francis, who is a member of the University Board of Curators, said the University regarded the of- fer of the Barnes faculty as unusual, but they refused to consider it until a debt in the shape of bonds approxi- mating $30,000 or $40,000 had been cleared. Concerning this feature of the bank’s affairs, Mr. Cook said: “‘I have been in- formed that there is a mortgage of $90,006 against the Barnes Medical Col- lege. It is in the form of a deed of frison and Lawton avenues, whic been represented to be worth nearly $200,000. “The collateral with which the Olive Street Bank loan is secured is part of the mortgage recorded against the Barnes College.” When the Missouri-Lincoln Trust Co. began to wind up its business last Oc- tober the Olive Street Bank had loans aggregating $120,000, secured by Missou- ri-Lincoln stock. One-half of this pas per with strengthened with other co)- lateral at the request of the Secretary vf State. Loss on Loans $40.000. The remaining $60,000 worth is valued by Examiner Cook at less than $20,000, showing a loss to the Olive Street Bank on this item alone of $40,000. The report being prepared by Ex- aminer Cook for Secretary of State Swanger shows that many of the loans now classed as good may be difficult to collect when they mature. ~ Following the receipt of this report, Mr. Swanger will request the Attorney- General to apply to the Cireult Court for a receiver for the bank. This will be done, probably, next Tuesday, Mr. Swanger says. The Commercial Trust Co., at Jeffer- son avenue and Olive street, which owns a large block of stock in the Olive Street*Bank and for a time was seri- ously considering the purchase of & majority of its holdings’ for consolida- tion purposes, will ask to be appointed RUM OFFICIALS Examiner Cook Says One BARNES SCHOOL OWES State University Refused to Bank Examiner R. M. Cook admitted to a Post-Dispatch reporter Friday that the closed Olive Street Bank, at Garri- son avenue and Olive street, had extend- ed important loans to several of its di- one of whom owes the bank about $12,000. Three or four clerks of the bank also were among its Although refusing to say what por- Cook intimated that the ‘answered, Smith said to him: trust on the college property at Gar-{~ fichds WIDOW WONT TELL WHO WAS WITH VOERSTER . A

Schrader, Doctor’s Cousin, With Witnesses.

OTHER WOMAN SOUGHT

She Ran Away From Scene When Bearded Slayer Took His Departure.

Frank Metz of 2741 Eads avenue Fri- May afternoon identified Mrs. Schrader as the woman he saw with Dr. Voerst- er at the time of the Killing.

Mrs. Johanna Schrader, a handsome widow of 40, is now the center of inter- est in the efforts which are being made by the police to clear the mystery of the death of Reese Bell, whom Dr. En- gelbert Voerster Jr. is accused of hay- ing shot at Dolman street and Chou- teau avenue. Mrs. Schrader ‘and Dr. Voerster are cousins. Friends of both know that for a long time they have been on the friendliest terms, and that Dr: Voerster has taken an interest in Mrs. Schrader’s affairs. Four years ago, when Mrs. Schrader lived at 4062 Cook avenue, it was re- ported to the police that she had mys- teriously disappeared. Detectives and others who went to the Schrader home found Dr. Voerster there. Returned As He Said. He assured them that there was no cause for alarm over the disappearance of Mrs. Schrader. “My cousin has simply gone away for a little trip, and she will be back in a week,’’ he said. Ten days later Mrs. Schrader returned to S.t Louis and told her friends she had been South on a steamboat. — Mrs. Schrader said to a Post-Dispatch reporter at her home, an hour vefore her arrest, that she did not know who was swith Dr. Voerster when Bell was killed. Friday, after her release on a $1000 bond, she would not repeat this state- ment. “There {8s no. use to question me,’’ she then said. “I have been ad- vised not to talk. She Asked His Advice. “Dr. Voerster has not been stopping at my house. I sent for him to ask what I should do if the detectives in- sisted on taking me to Police Headquar- ters.’’ Mrs. Schrader, Dr. Voerster, Mrs. Bal- ley and all of the witnesses to the shoot- ing were summoned to appear before am grand jury Friday afternoon and ce each other. Dr. Voerster was at Mrs. Schrader’s home when detectives went there to ar- rest her Thursday afternoon. Dr. Voerster Protests. While the detectives were trying to induce her to accompany them, Dr Voerster steprod to the telephone and called up Chief of Detectives Smith. “Chief,”’ he said, ‘‘I want to give you some professional advice. This woman is ill. Her lips are blue now. If you take her from this house, you will do so over my protest.’’ “Send one of my men to the phone,” said the Chief. When Detective Rogers that talk. here at “Don't listen Bring Mrs. rs) °, to any. of Schrader down Mrs. Schrader then consented to ac- company the o:ficers, but she begged for time in which to take a bath and change her clothing. Daughter Lives With Her. This request was granted. Dr. Voerster remained at the Schrader home when Mrs. Schrader was taken away. Mrs. Schrader is 40 years old, and is the daughter of John Vogel, a retired nierchant of 20 Benton place. She has five children, the oldest a daughter of 22, She is a blonde, with light hair, rud- dy complexion and large gray eyes. While the police believe they have made no mistake in arresting Mrs. Schrader, she does not answer the de- scription given by Mrs. A. J. Burdick as that of the woman who fied past her restaurant with the slayer of Reese Bell. Description Haraly Fits. Mrs. Burdick says the woman whom she saw was small and dark, seemed rather homely and was plainly dressed in a blue cloth suit and a black hat without flowers or colored ribbons. Mrs. Schrader is larger than the woman described by Mrs. Burdick, and could not be .considered “plain” either in face, figure or dress. Mrs. Hattie Bailey, who was with Bell when he was killed, said Friday that a photograph of Mrs. Schrader which was shown her did not look like the woman who was with the slayer of Bell when the shot was fired. “But it was so dark,”: said Mrs. Bai-

Grand Jury to Confront Mrs.J $ ‘When they tell me that it will take

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WIDOW WHO REFUSES TO SAY WHETHER SHE. WAS WITH VOERSTER AT TIME OF KILLING a MRS, . JORANNA SCHRADER, ‘f

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_—— es ee PORE BES > BARTHOLOT TALK ON PROHIBITION LASTS 8 HOURS aie

st. Louis Congressman. Con- demns: Proposed Federal Aid as Illegal.

By Wire From the Washington Bu- reau of tne Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, April 10.—Comparing the campaign for prohibition to the in- tolerance of the days of witchcraft, Representative Bartholdt of St. Louis today began an eight-hour speech be- fore the House Judiciary Committee, at- tacking all bills attempting to give pro- hibition states Federal help. Bartholdt today discussed only the legal phases of the bills. At later hearings he will ar- gue that prohibition is bad policy and injustice. Mr. Bartholdt argued that the states do not need Federal help to control the liquor traffie. “They haye ample power, if they will enforce their laws,” said he. “You wiil notice that no attorneys-general or oth- er State officers have been here asking for Federal legislation. They do not come, because they realize that the fault lies in non-enforcement of State laws. Would Require Officers. countless police to enforce the State I tell them that it will take 4 laws, greater number, under Federal law, to meet every train and every boat and search every farmer's wagon and every pedestrian’s basket when crossing 4 State line.”’ Mr. Bartholdt conceded the constitu- tional. right of Congress to exclude liquor entirely from interstate com- merce. But he argued that it was un- constitutional to admit the liquor as & proper commodity in interstate com- merce and then stop it at lines of pro- hibition states, and not at other lines. The Littlefield bill is the chief of those attacked by Mr. Bartholdt. It provides that prohibition states shall be authorized to take control of a shipment of liquor in interstate commerce as soon as it crosses the State border. This will

that the rumor was without founda- tion. . receiver.

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ai 0 LRT REWIN HIS WIFE Dr. Herman Sante, Sued for Divorce, Pleads for An- other Chance.

Rising from a sick bed, Dr. Herman Sante of Kirkwood went to Clayton Friday and, like an apparition, entered the courtroom while his wife was tee- tifying in her suit for a divorce “Let me talk to her, Your Honor,” he said. “I think I can win her love again if you will give me a chance.” Case Is Adjourhed. Judge McElhinney adjourned the trial so that the husband might plead with the wife for a reconctilfation. | Advancing to where’ Mrs. Sante sat, Dr. Sante, with tears in his eyes, pleaded with her: “Drop this suit, Mary, and take me back. I will never do anything to make you sad again.” For 15 minutes, while the machinery of the law stood still, husband and wife were.in conference. At last Mrs. Sante shook her head and turned away, and her husband, supported on the arm of his brother, Dr." Henry Sante, walked slowly from the courtroom. : The case was continued untill April 15, In the hope that a reconciliation might be effected. Were Divorced Before. Twice the, Santes have found mar- riage a failfre. Two years after their first marriage in 19% Mre. Sante ob- tained a divorce, They were married a second time in February, 1907, and separated last October. When Dr. Sante appeared in the courtroom bis Avife was telling of his treatment of her. She said that when panes of window glass were broken in their home he replaced them with rags and strips of ca@pet. When the roof leaked he would not repair it. She said that he was ad- dicted to the use of drugs and that when under their influence he would flourish a revolver at her.

enable such states to excludé liquor.

ROM SICKBED 10) further resistance.

Me OY or Linttinmeediin — < = : ee LARRY | 1 ; | JA) ‘ ; GETS EXCITED IN CE CREAM RAID Detective Wells sian aad His Trus- ty:Men Arrest Everybody Who Comments.

The gambling squad, under Detective Wells, had its feelings hurt :at’ 12:30 p. m. Friday, when raiding a tiny ice cream parlor at High and Linden streets, on information that handbooks were being operated there. All the neighbors gathered and said the de- tectives were just too mean. In retalia- tion, they arrested all who complained. Joseph Wolpert, a saloon keeper at 1218 Morgan street, walked by and remarked that he thought the raid a “dirty shame.” He was placed under arrest. Joseph Goldstein, a clothing merchant, expressed surprise that the detectives should expect to find people wealthy cnough to beat the “ponies” in that neighborhood. He was arrested. Negress Thrust in Cell. Minnie Lee, a ngeress of 1235 Lucas avenue, strolled by and exclaimed: “Foh de lan" sake, what does this mean?” She was told that she would have, Opportunity to solve the riddle in a cell’ Tom Bradshaw, who happened to be In tho Vicinity, ‘Was arrested “on general principles.” Abraham Swidman, pre- prietor of the ice cream parior, declared]. tnat he did not know the meaning of the term “handbook.” “You're too unsophisticated,’ said Wells. “You are under arrest.” Will Johnson, a negro, gazed at the aéetectives as he passed by. ‘You're under arrest,” announeed De- teetive White to him. The negro struck White on the head with a club, and the detective retorted with a blow over the eye with the butt end of a revolver. Johnson decided ta go along without letective Wells. says he has evidence that the ice cream parlor was used as a handbook stand. What the evidence is he declines to state. He will produce

SOURT HOUSE SO TL: Crowd 5 Stenmhder Proot oi of the Oldest Structures of Its Kind in Missouri.

WAS ERECTED IN Witnesses in McCann : Say They Were Offered Money to Kill.

BODY IN BURNED 7 |

Brother and Sister Are Chi : ed With Murder of ‘ Sis- ter-in-Law.

Special to the Post-Diapatch, RICHMOND, Mo., April 10 the trial today of Mra. Jane | and Tom McGonnigle, charged with murder of their sister-in-law, Mra. ¢ McGonnigle, the Courthouse, the of -structure of its kind in Missouri, b to settle, and a panic resulted. The and walls cracked as if ‘the b

last order was superfluous, tor ong C e.eared itself. ft The Courthouse was built int

Mrs. Fannie Davis | and ‘his sister, Mrs, Mary: 3 had offered her $0 to kill Mra : nigle. Tom had fixed a bottle ¢ with poison in it to give to Gonnigle, she said, but she ¢ the wine. They then wanted | shoot Mrs. MeGonnigie, she ao leave the pistol and a hat at i to give the impression that s ot kPled her. At another time, she t fled, they gave her some ; to give the woman. Mrs. Jane told her, she said, that she : Mrs. McGonnigle, but didn’t know & she would do it. CALLS THEM “LITTLE Tl go + Says Anyone Who Appears in C Will Be Asked to Leave y With the Sexton, Special to the Post-Dispatch. KANSAS CITY, Mo., April | with broad, spreading brims and ¢ . waving plumes—‘little tents,’ marl be called—are out of place in ehut his ts the decision of the Rev. Ag Kuhis of St. Mary's Roman: Church in Kansas City, Kan., has placed a ban on the Merry hat. Father Kuhis believes that dress with taste without every fad. Last summer elbow sleeves, saying their in the kitchen, over the rt young women of his church § surprised, therefore, when ce ver able priest denounced the Merry al ow hat. 2 Do not wear them in thie" he said. “They are out of worn with the crucifix. Hate brim spreading ever two feet must be worn. Those in the rear ¢ the sanctuary. Anyone church with such a hat will b Pt

ef the town of Weatville, 3 situated {n Georgetown | election ldet Tuesday is rea ville Township, which went wat

it before the grand jury, tt meena LON AL LOE ELLIO LAGOS LOE IID a Tee

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