St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 22, 1908

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Wanted to ‘Get pts td of”. Fa- ~ ther and Three Others, * Witness Declares. HAS WOMAN. LAWYER

‘She Makes the Thirteenth At- torney for Noted Ken- weey' Slayer.

From a State cisietmbendont of the Post-Dispatch. IRVINE, Ky. . Dec. 2.—Evidence brought ont’ by the Commonwealth | ‘against: Beath Hargis, on*¥triat “for the murder of. Judge James Hargis, his father, ‘disclosed that, he was a worthy gon of a feudist king, in that. he planned te kil) four men who. were. digtasteful te ‘hit. : Rec Bach of Jackson testified Mon- day afternoon ‘that Beach’ told himt a week before he killed his, father that gz to kill ‘not “only Judge 1 Drraces Jett, June Jett and Dr. ia ‘gaia the witness, “that 3 kill all four of them and thes’: said he had. heard Beach ame: thing ‘at other times when he was ‘drinking.’ Will ands @ume: Jett ‘are. _ brothers of Curt Jett, Who is ‘serving two Mfe terms in the Penitentiary for the murders of J, B, Marcum and Dr. B. D.. Cox. In - @ confession, Curt Jett implicated Judge Hargis in these killings. The Judge was . thdicted, but acquitted. Both the Jetts ‘employed in the Hargis store at - Dr. Hoge 4s the brother-in-law of : who drew a revolver on him at Jaeug store a ‘few minutes before a ‘his father. et te. Har- aa when. the Judge was killed ae that he seized Beach aft- pear ‘tired four ‘shots into his as emptying his revolver. Will Jett —s Jimn bea, another clerk, held Beach until the Marshal came for him. June aleo testified that Judge Hargis ‘was killed with his own revolver. The weapon, he said, was the one which the Judge kept in a drawer back of his desk. He had seen it there the sight _ before. After June left the stand he conversed cordially with Beach. June : heard the testimony of Bach as = ch. having planned to kill testimony of the afternoon re- almost exclusively to the incidents late aon and ‘tended to show that}, ~ Beach fired on his: father without hay- - $mg been attacked... None of the wit- seses Baw the first shot fired, but all pin. testified that the shot was the ie sound they heard. , eS. Commonwealth is trying to make BP it appear that the first shot shattered ' the Judge's right arm and that he bore Beach to the floor with his left hand, ‘Wat the defense claims that Beach was an! fipor, before he. began fir- #4 cb San ee Ta ‘on, cross-exam- ~ nation that two of the bullets which : 4 through the Judge’s body and nd othea” - the thread case ert * Mibee "« of . rT Frosen. Creek, who was Pee“ otore, testified that the wWadge's right arm was “dropped down’’ ‘Bs though useless “Willic Jones, a barber, testified that i, a few days before the killing started up from the barber ‘chair and “reached for his revolver when a man Pp “by ‘who resembled his father. - thought it was the old man,” was. Ns _ explanation. oa cme other witnesses were James P. Brop! = Sanford Brown, Miss Mary of the bookkeeper; Mrs. Lizzie I Who was in the stare at the time Ppa Harlan Rice and Dr. ‘The testimony of the forenoou pertained to threats alleged tno ave b made by Beach against his ‘Mather. Beach will be first witness for the ‘defense. | ry Hargis, brother of the Judge, . > is aiding in the prosecution, sits in ultation with the Commonwealth's , Mrs. Hargis sits with her who _— @ lively interest in the | ae court adjourned Monday even- - me a nu of pretty girls gathered : ‘about Beach and his mother and the ip conversed vivactously. Blast Near Station. sar Sed ‘ - Brame Bie wet off to remove oe @ in the excavation for the new if startied persons! near the

oi i oa i _Station mer Pinned Sa. Oe ee Be a aes we aa noe omdeck. Ww. -GUTEREE:, EORGE W. GUTHRIE, Mayor of Pittsburg, i is the third member of his family to be C hief Executive of the and great-grandfather held the position. He is a lawyer of wide’ G oon Bee “IPI11SBURG. MAYOR LEADING FIGH? ‘ON GRAF1 BLOCKING FREE BRIDGES BP Sag ae 2 en it age aS K Ae kt ee A aE a Oe, ASS eT OP rw FOP ey \ ¥ | ron City. His grandfather reputation and a scholar of distinction. His personal fortune is. considerable. H he was elected by 40,000 majority. E entered public life in 1899 as the Democratic candidate for Mayor on a strong anti-graft platform. He was defeated by 1100 votes, but kept up his fight in the four years to the next election, when: His term expires in April, 1909. He is a Mason of the thirty-second degree, and a Mystic Shriner. He belongs to many clubs and occupies a. high social position.

Pittsburg Bankers and Councilmen Are ‘Accused of Bribery i ie»

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whereas they are now tol! bridges. As a result of the committee’s obstruc- tions, the prices of the bridges were raised beyond all reason and the charge now is that the committeemen accepted bribes to block the raherwd pur- chases. All ihe. informations wore. swern. to by Lensard De Wolf, secretary of the Voters’ League and formerly a politi- cal writer on a local paper. Robert. Wilson, superiniendent of the Municipal League of Scranton, Pa., is described as ‘“‘The man behind the gun.” Mr. Wilson, assisted by a corps of private detectives, which he brought to this city from Scranton,~ gathered tne evidence against the defendants. It is explained that as a result the entire matter was snyomigated without publicity. The Pittsburg police were not con- sulted until yesterday, when it was de- cided to make the arrests, Then .Mayor Guthrie, Director of Pubiic Safety Lang, Superintendent ‘of “Police Mc- Quaid and otner officials met ‘in the public rafety building “~where Mr. Wil- son, his detectives and members of the voters Jaid the cvidence before them. Lawyers Advise Arrests, Previously some of the'best known attorneys in the city had been. consult- ed and pronounced the evidence suffi- cidnt to cause the arrests. Immediateiy Mayor Guthrie ordered the: arrests and the private detectives, accompanied by city detectives, rounded up all the defendants. Mr. Wilson says the Voters’ League is back of the prosecutions and it: 1 the intention to make Pittsburg -as clean as Scranton is today. In mgking, Scran- ton an example, Mr. Wilson said prom- inent men were sent to the Peniten- tiary there for long terms. Among the lawyers who approved the prosecutions are Thomas Patterson, J. Ross Sterrett, M. W. Acheson and Da- vid T. Watson, an attorney of inter- national fame. All these have signi- fied their willingness to prosecute the defendants without compensation. Jacob Soffel Jr. was the first man ar- rested. He is a member of the George Soffel Co., a large plumbing concern. His uncle, Peter Soffel went on his bail for $15,000. His arrest was followed by that of Capt. Klein, a steamboat man and owner of several excursion boats. Klein had a difficuit time find- ing bondsmen. Alderman Steve J. Toole, formerly

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-Brooklyn’s pitcher & in the American League, finally‘ put up the $15,000. Hugh Ferguson is a contractor. He pretended to treat his arrest lightly. Accused Are Candidates. President William Brand was very~te- rious about the wnatter when «brought in with his bondsmen, who went bail for $30,000. W. H. Melaney is. forernan in'George D. Hogg & Co.’s engineering plant, and his bondsman was‘ his em- ployer. All the men arrested are candidates for re-election. Soffel said that in spite of the charges against him he will re- main a-candidate. ,He.declared the ar- rests are the result of a political con- spiracy. Capt. Klien said: “TI tell you it is a pretty, sertous charge,to bring against;a man on the eve of the primaries and so close to the election. It will scarcely give a man time.te square himself with his ‘constituents; -It’s all bésh, and’ I'm’ going to stay in the fight.’’ After remoying President Ramsey and Cashier Vilsack, the German; Natidnal Bank elected A. A. ;Frauenheim presi- dent and J. F. Eversman cashier to succeed therm. j EAST ST. LOUIS PREFERS AIRSHIPS TO TAXICABS Be

Heavier-Than-Air Craft Will Sent Skyward There Saturday. East St. Louis is‘ going in for airships instead of taxicabs. And it is going to be an East St. Louis invented and pat- ented craft. It will be jnflated Christ- mas day in Athletic Park, where a spe- cial gas plant and aerdrome have been built to facilitate airshipping. The inventor of the airship is W. J. Smith, a member of Smith Bros. & Sparks Commission Co. He has had the airship built by the Berry Automo- bile Co. of St. Louis. Although it is a heavier than air de- vice the craft will have a gas bag 6 feet long and 22 feet in diameter. The lifting -power of the gas bag will not, however, be sufficient to raise the air- ship and its load from the ground. _ Spiral propellers will be used to raise the machine. These will be driven by an engine, which will also operate the propellers to drive the machine forward through the air. The first flight will be made from Athletic Park at noon Saturduy. INDIAN ELOPERS ARRESTED Short Dress of Girl, Aged 16, Cre- ated Suspicion. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 22.—Dora Fair, 16 years, and Lewis Rogers, 2 years old, two Cherokee Indians, who eloped from Chouteau, Ok., were arrested at the Union Depot here late yesterday, when the girls’ short skirts drew attention. Later a telegram was received asking that. the pair be held. They were on their way to Colorado. Injunction to Stop Raids Raids Denied. ‘The petition for ifjunction filed’by the ?

Twentieth Century Walters’ Clubd of [100% North. Ninth street, which sought to restrain the police from raiding the Kinsey verb- se TAORNTON HANS WENT READY 10 ~ GUARD BROTHER / Witness Testifies tes Bes Writer Declared He Would Shoot if Neéd Be. a JUSTIFIED HIS ACTION “When You Know All You Will Think Differently?’ He Told Club Member.

FLUSHING, L. L, “Dec. 22.—“When you know all the facts you will think differently. I come down to protect my brother and would have shot anybody who interefered.”’ John C. ~tephens, a Bay Side Yacht Club member, swore today in the trial of Thornton J. Hains that this. state- ment came from the defendant's lips immediately after the shooting of Wil- liam E. Annis by Capt. Peter C. Hains. Efforts to shake the testimony of Mr. Stephens, who further declared that Ahornton.Hains swung his revolver raround and ‘threatened to kill anyone ‘tion- the float’ that sought to interfere were not successful. Under cross-examination Mr. Stephens said that while he had watched the de- fendant and his brother during and sub- sequent to the shogting, he did -not see Thornton Hains place his revolver at the back of Mrs. Annis. Father and Brother Downeast. Prior to the arrival of Justice Crane, Thornton Hains had a long and ener- getic consultation with his father, Gen. Hains, and his brother, Maj. Hains. Both were plainly downcast and the de- fendant did his best to cheer them up. The General, however, shook his head vigorously as his son made remarks and indicated plainly that he fully real- izes the importance of Mrs: Annis’ story. | Merrill L. Downs, a member of the Bay o:ide Club, who was in the club- house when the shooting began, was the first witness. He swore that his atten- tion was attracted by a noise and com- motion on the dock and he ran down to it. When he got on the float he de- manded who did the shooting and Thornton Hains told him, “We are the men.” : 2 Downs declared that Thornton Hains told him to stand back, that it was a b for the police). Thornton Said He Was Captain. ; stint that time Thornton Hains had a cocked revolver in his hand," swore Downs. “I asked those’ present if they had searched the Captain and I start- ed do so. As I did so, Thornton Hains pushed me aside. I told him he must think us fools to let a stranger, arméd with a revolver, run things, and he told me he was Capt. Hains of the regular army, the son of Gen. Hains. I de- clared if he was an army. officer he should be a gentleman. Just then the real Capt. Hains stepped forward and | said, ‘No, I am Capt. Hains. This is I my Brother.’ “I said again if he was a gentleman he would give up his gun, and the }Captain said .to him, ‘Yes, do so; this is a gentlemen’s club.’ “Thornton ‘then opened his revolver, called my attention to the fact that none of the cartridges was exploded, placed them in his pocket ‘and handed the reyolver to me. As I started up the float, the defendant called me back and handed me the belt and holster in which he had carried his revolver. I left him there and went back upon the dock and cleared a way through women and children gathered there.”

Banquet of Odd Fellows. Wildey Lodge No. 2, the oldest Odd Fellows lodge west of the Mississippi River, will hold their annual roll call and banquet at the Planters Hote] Tues- day. evening. Plates will be set for 100 members, and a number of addresses are to be made. The affair is in charge of Gordon 8. Servant, H. G. Austin and C. C. Meryhew, contingent committee. Dr. J. C. Brown will be toastmaster. pareene supervision deceive you in this. “ Just-as-good goric, Drops and Soot Sontatns neither Opium, substance. Its is its and allays Feverishness. Colic. It relieves Teethi and Fliatulency. It assi Stomach and The Children’s Panacea—

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The Kind You Save poo Bought ture of Chas. H. woeeener and has for over 30 Counterfeits, Imitations and » are but Experiments, and endanger the health of Children—Experience against Experiment, aWhat is CASTORIA pee t cures Diarrhoea an a ween cures Constipatio tes wels, owels, givin’, “healthy, and’ — 4 / Declares Responsibility ‘of Position | Is Too Great—Directors Praise Him= NEW YORK, Dec. 22.—After. # years of railroad service, eight of which was spent as head of the Great New York Central system, William H. Newman to- i day tendered his resignation as presi- dent of the New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Co. The directors ac- cepted the resignation, to take effect Jan. 1 next. It is said that possibly Mr. Newman may nduced to remain a member of the directing board. Although Mr. Newman’s retirement has been mentioned at intervals during the last two years; his resignation today came as a surprise. Mr. Newman said the time had come When he believed the strain incident to a-position of such responsibility wag too great. In accepting the resignation the di- rectors adopted a resolution appreciat- ing “‘the services he has rendered, the harmony which prevails throughout the management and the co-operation which the board has always had from him.”’ DIVORCEE WEDS DIVORCED MAN; DIVORCE JUDGE SAYS CEREMONY Jurist Declares He Forgot Granting Decree to Mrs. Sinnige, Bride of A. A. Eberson. Alex A.. Eberson, president of the paint company which bears his name, and his bride, who was Mrs.- Rachel Sinnige, both of the Washington Hotel, have gone te Norfolk, Va., to spend their honeymoon. They were married at the Washington Hotel in the apart- ments of former Judge Talty Saturday evening by Judge Virgil Rule, who granted Mrs. Sinnige’s divorce. Mrs. Sinnige formerly was the wife of Harry H. Sinnige, manager of the Meyer Bros. Drug Co., who paid her, in com- pliance with a court order, $15,000 afi- mony, following her successful suit for divorce in December, 1906. Eberson, within two years, was divorced by Mrs. Fannie Wieder Eberson, to whom he was ordered to pay $175 a month or $6000 within two years. He paid the $6000. Judge Talty, in whose apartments the marriage of Saturday took place, repre- sented Mrs. Sinnige in her divorce sult. Judge Rule did not remember, he said, that the bride had received a divorce in his court, and was not informed of that until after the ceremony. DOCTOR ANSWERS TELEPATHIC CALL, SAVES DEAREST FRIEND “Go at Once,” Voice Tells Him— He Obeys, Operates, and Pa- tient Will Recover. PHILADELPHIA, Pa., Dec. 22.—An- swering what he characterizes as a telepathic call, Dr. Paul Mecray,: head surgeon of thé Cooper Hospital, at.Cam- den, cut short a visit to Jersey City, came ‘home on a train three hours

earlier than he had intended and by s0. doing arrived in time to. save the life of William D.: Delamaterf, of 1018- South’ Pighth friend. Mr. Delamater was seized with an at- tack of appendicitis on Friday: Dr. Miller, his physician, saw that an opera- tion wns necessary but could net per- form it without Dr. Mecray. They tried in every way to locate Dr. Mecray but could not. .In the meantime an immediate operation became neces- sary. Dr. Mecray was in Jersey City: .’ He said: a. voice seemed to be saying, ‘Take a train and go back to Camden— & man’s life depends on your doing so. Don’t hesitate—just go.” Dr. -Mecray obeyed the impulse and reached Camden about 6 o’clock, barely in time to successfully operate on Dela- mater. SPRECKELS RACES ACROSS SEA TO SEE RUEF SENTENCED HONOLULU, Dec. 22.—In order to arrive in San Francisco in time to be present in court when sentende is pro- nounced on Abraham Ruef next Thurs- day, Rudolph Spreckels, who financed the graft investigation and prosecution in that city and who is a passenger on the Japanese Iiner Nippon Maru, which sailed from this port Saturday, has agreed to pay for the extra coal burned in the effort to reach port a few hours ahead of schedule. The Nippon is due at San Francisco Thursday morning. street, Camden, his dearest

e the signa- been meade under his ears. Allow no one It destroys Worms d be sar sleep. The Kind You Have Always | Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For OV : NG “) SMISH SALOON IN NEW. BADEN} Masked Men. Visit Town, Demolish Furniture and Spill Drinks. Night riders wrecked the saloon of John Nowak in New Baden, IIl., 10 miles east of Belleville, demolishing the fix- tures, chairs and furniture, and smash- ing every bottle in the place. Other saloon keepers in New Baden appealed Tuesday to the Clinton Coun- ty authorities at Carlyle for protec- tion. Threats have caused them, they say, to fear that the same band which wrecked Nowak’s place Monday night will attack their places also. New Baden is in Clinton County, just over the line to the east of St. Clair County. A dozen masked men rode on horse- back to Nowak’s saloon Monday night, shortly after the proprietor had closed and locked it. They carried clubs and firearms. They first shattered the win- dov's and mirrors, then smashed the furniture so as to render every article worthless. f They then broke the bottles of whis- ky. and beer, until the floor was covered with broken glass and flooded with the odorous liquids. Nowak, hearing the noise, ran to the saloon, but a revolver, displayed by one of the intruders, made him keep still. Chief of Police Zann of New Baden arrived on the scene just as the night riders mounted their horses and galloped away. Nowak had received letters warning him to conduct his saloon in a more orderly manner. he sold liquor to minors. The complaints and warnings were not confined. to Nowak, and the punish- ment inflicted on him has made the oth- er saloon keepers nervous. They have armed, and will sleep in their places of business Tuesday night. Illinois , It was charged that}, a 4 Ss papel: din: —— ome ae we errs Baa * tw ; Syatps - — “5 vs 2 ye a Q ' a “a 3 * igs ‘ 2¥ re saline 3 Salar : J i a Z if q

PAZO OINTMENT ts guaranteed to eyre case of Itching, Blind. Bleeding or ine Tiles in 6 to 14 days oF money refunded, Oe.

An | vite to Men VW* believe that there are many men, some > doubtless have ‘their. names on ‘our’.bo eustomers, whose business hours have from becoming familiar with our store, We therefore desire to announce that the store will be open tonight until 7 o’clock to give” ‘men an | portunity to see each of the eight rant their best. ; Be. We want the men of St. Louis to know, the organization that is here and which is, in the ablest manner, caring for the comfort of themselves, t heir families and their homes. T ee aes 3 On whichever floor yon go, from the Basement to — the Eighth, employes will be at hand to show the — beauty spots and conveniences of each d Bree well as the provisions for the safety and Soper customers,

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