St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 31, 1908

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AND LOOT BANK Oklahoma Robbers Protected by Barbed Wire While Breaking Into Vault. STREETS BATTLE IN

Hundreds of Shots Exchanged With Citizens, but No One Is Injured. FLEE WITH $5000 BOOTY

Desperadoes Ride Away After Holding Residents at Bay for Two Hours. MUSKOGEE, Ok., Dec. 31.—Armed posses that followed the five bandits & who robbed the bank at Wellston of _@ $6000, are still on the trai) at last re- = ports, but have not caught sight of the robbers. The bandits adopted a novel scheme in the robbery. They erected a barbed wire barricade, from behind which they fought the townspeople for two hours while they were breaking into the bank’s vaults, Hundreds of shots Were fired, but so far as is known no one was hurt. ’ There were five of the robbers and / they were heavily armed. They rode % into Wellston before daylight yesterday morning, while everyone in the village ™ Was asieep. They broke into a hard- f ware store and stole sledgehammers, | 9% crowbars and such other tools as they _ needed, and also took several reels of » arbed wire. “Wire Stretched Across Streets. te bank Was on a corner and tne its went half a block each dGirec- stretched strands of the ~ -% barbed wire across the thoroughfares. @8The wire was fastened to the buildings and dozens of strands were stretched so * “that it was impossible for an animal to pass and would have been extremely PW aifficult for a man to have crawied + through in the day time, and was. prac- tically impossible in the darkness. Then the robbers began their attack on the bank vault. The noise aronsed residents of the town, who made af in- vestigation and learned what was going on. But they were prevented from ap- proaching close to the bank by the “ees a barbed wire barricade, which resembled the famous trocha used by the Span- jards in the last war with insurgent Cu- Cit'z« 18 who approached -too close Were warned away by a fusillade of shots that sent them scurrying for cover, The bandits rolled dozens of spoois of barbed wire‘into piles near the bank, behind which they sheltered themselves, shooting at every moving thing that ap- peared. The spools of wire offered con- plete protection to the robbers. The townspeople hurriedly armed themselves. Those not awakened by the pounding on the bank vault were seprased by the shooting. They got shotguns, rifies and revolvers and cau- 3 ly approached the bank. When the bandits on guard began shooting again the fire was returned. Taking aim was ' impossible in the darkness and the _ shooting on both sides was at random. _. The barbed wire barricades prevented s a rush on the bandits, which would have resulted in a hand-to-hand en- wounter, in which the superior number the citiens would have been effective. In the esha ange the bandits continued & hammer on the bank vault, the blows the sledges alternating with the dis- charge ot Tifles and revolvers. For two ‘hours the hammering and shooting jued, and then the bandits, having their loot, mounted their horses a ptaas covering their rifles and re- | that there were five During most of the the bandits remained street, while two t. During the fight- ts were tired. Win- in business houses | ° and bullets. whistled s ef the citizens, but no it was daylight posses and started in pursuit The trail was struck

AMPED S1. LOUIS 1N SEARCH _ FOR WORK AND 1S HUNGRY

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SEARCHES CITY FOR WORK, SAYS THERE IS NONE HERE ~~

- A James P. Moreland, well Educated and Capable, Declares His Experience Is That of Hundreds of Other Men.

AMES .’. MORELAND, a young man J of good address, well bred and ca- pable, after tramping the streets of St. Louis for weeks in quest of work, came to the office of the Post-Dispatch to tell of his experience. He says it is that gof hyndreds of others whom he has met in search for work. “The only square meal I have had for a month was at the big Post-Dis- patch Christmas Festival dinner in the Coliseum,” he said. ‘All I have had to eat today has been a piece of pie and a cup ‘of coffee. “My father is a stock breker in Charleston, 8S. C., and my brother is Episcopal Bishop of California, resident at Sacramento. “T am an experienced hotel man and [ can do any sort of clerical work. I am not afraid of manual labor, but though I have offéred to take even the most menial positions, they have told me everywhere I went that they are not hiring men now. Instead, they are letting men go. “It seems that somewhere in St. Louis there ought to be a place for a man who is able and willing to work, but every- where I go for a job I find dozens of mén waiting for the same place.”’ Moreland exhibited more than a dozen letters of recommendation from former employes. All spoke highly of his char- acter and ability. His Wife Doesn’t Kaow. “T’ve been eating at a 4-cent lunch- room on Market street,’’ he said, ‘‘and I've been sent away from every one of the dozens of places where I’ve asked for work. But she doesn’t know what I’ve gone threugh here. I just write that I haven’t got on yet, that's all.”’ Moreland is 29 years old. He is stop- ping at 1610 Locust street and has been in St. Louls a little more than three weeks. This is his story in his own words: “My brother Will, the Bishop, was in Charleston four years ago. He said he wanted me to go West where there were’ more opportunities for advance- ment than in Charleston. He gave me a ticket to St. Louis, $8 in cash and letters to Bishop Tuttle and Dean Da- vis. “The first position I had here was as correspondent in the order depart- ment of Butler Bros. I answer the mail. During my stay in St. Louis at that time I became acquainted with the young lady whom I afterward mar- Lest His Position. “Subsequently I returned to Charles- ton. I entered the brokerage office of my father, working as a clerk. I want- to get into the hotel business and had tried to do so in St. Louis. Whilé in Charleston I.succeeded in getting an offer from the De Soto Hotel at Sa- vannah, Ga., as manager of the raths- kellar. I went-to Charleston and was working in that position when the fpro- hibition law put the rathskellar out of business. I went back to Charleston, “The young lady to whom I was en- gaged wrote me from St, Louis last Spring that if I did not come to 8t. Loulgs and marry her her during the summer I need not come at all. I was not in a position to marry, but I had passed my word. I had $50 and it took $24 of that to pay my way here. “I was a guest at my fiancee’s home. We talked things over and decided to elope. We went to Belleville May 1), but couldn’t get a license. Next day we went to Edwardsville and were mar- ried by an Episcopal minister. When he heard my name he asked me if I knew Bishop Moreland of California. I told him we were brothers and then he gave my bride and myself a little im- promptu wedding dinner. Dreve Salvation Army. Wagon. “The story of our marriage leaked out and was published in the Post-Dispatch society column. I had to go to work, but the only thing I could get to do was driving 2 solicitor's Wagon for the | Salvation Army in the West End I ‘brought in more than any of them and 1 apan peld poore. “Meanwhile my wife had gone with ; ‘hia mother to their Kansas City home.

they discharged a lot of men and I, be- ing one of the newest comers, was among those let out. But they gave me a letter of recommendation. “I could find nothing to do in Kansas ‘City and came to St. Louis to get a job. I didn’t want my wife’s parents to sup- port me or her either. I lived first at a Market street loding house. Then I moved to Locust street. “At a 5-cent lunchroom where I eat you have to pass through a barrei house into the lunchroom. It is filthy. Drunk- en, frowsy men, bums of the worst class, hang out there. I -was offered a job at $7 a week with board at that place. But I didn’t take It because 1 couldn’t spend my time in such an at- mosphere. Can't “Buy” a Job. “T have been to every hotel and every big business in St. Louis. They all say they are letting men go. Some have told me I couldn’t even buy a job in St. Louis. I applied for a job*as mes- senger boy at one of the telegraph of- fices. They told me I might keep com- ing back and if there was a vacancy I could get it. “I’ve tried to get a job washing dish- es or sweeping. Everywhere the an- swer is the same. I am told they are letting men go instead of hiring them. At one place I was told that if I got work it would put somebedy else in just the position I was in. And the man to whom I applied knew me and had written a letter of recommendation for me a couple of years ago. ei dy but Not Discouraged. “I’m hungry, but I’m _ not iscour- aged. Bishop Tuttle has loaned me money and has tried to help me. He's treated me very kindly. But I want to help myself. I know the stock and bond business better than anything. I'm a practical hotel man. I have worked as a male nurse. I have drawr: high sala- ries as a business correspondent, for I know how to dictate a business letter. “T received a ticket to the Post-Dis- patch Christmas dinner for’ homeless men. It was the best meal I'd had since I've been in St. Louis. I tell you it was good to sit down to a table with food on it like that. You couldn’t know what it meant till you've beer up against what I have. “The young lady who waited on me I recognized as one I had met socially during my first stay ‘n St. Louis four years ago. She didn’t remember me and I was glad. She was young and sweet and happy, like my two sisters. [ thought of them and it made the tears come into my eyes in spite of all I could do. “It was fine to have a-uinner like that, but somehow, being Christmas, my situation seemed all the more deso- late by contrast with the joy that was everywhere else. I was a bit discou”- aged, but I got over that. «as long as I have strength to keep up I'm going to keep a stout heart. And I'll win yet.” COLDS CURED IN ONE DAY

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NO APPEAL IS ALLOWED

Count Is Forbidden to Again Ask for $60,000 Annually for Children.

Copy right, 1908; by the Press Pub. Co. w York World.) PARIS, Dec. 31.—Rigid with rage was Count Boni de Castellane when he heard Leberquier, vice-president of the Tri- bunal of the Seine, read the verdict of the Court which gave his divorecd wife, formerly Anna Gould, now Princess de Sagan, the custody of her three chil- dren, of Whom he is the father. Boni, chafing, followed his counseé! into the great hall adjoining the court- room, known as the ‘“‘salle des pas per- dus,”’ and he and Bonnet strode rapid- ly up and down together, Boni with flushed face, evidently almost beside himself with rage and humiliation. Gestures, but No Smiles, Occasionaliy ne would gesticulate, but he never smiled. The Post-Dispatch correspondent approached him, but fie, declaring that he had nothing to say. jumped into an automobile and rode off. Later Maitre Bonnet said to the corre- spondent: “Of course Count pleased with the outcome. hoped for something else Court.”’ Prince and Princess Sagan were wait- ing for the verdict in their palace, in the Avenue Beis de Boulogne. It was there that the Post-Dispatch corre- spondent found them, after they had received the news. _ a “T feel that I am vindicated,’’ said the Princess. The verdict, although regarded as a great victory for Clemenceau and his client, is not an unqualified defeat for Count Boni. While the court grants him no money and forbids him again asking for the $60,000 a year, which he said was necessary for the support of the children, he is allowed to see the children twice a month when they are in school, and to have them with him one week at New Year and one week at Easter. Will Visit Grandmother Tt ls decreed also that the childres shall spend six weeks ‘With Boni’s moth- er, the Marquise de Castellane, during the summer vacation, that the Marquise is to bear the expense of such visit, which is.to be at a time suitable to their mother. For the present school year, the two oldest boys are to enter one of the principal schools of Paris and reside with their mother. Next fall they are to go to some college near Paris, prob- ably Normandie College, which has al- been recommended by the Prin- Castellane is not He had fromthe ready cess. Under the decree the children cannot be taken out of the country without their father’s consent, or, if he refuses, by permission of the Court. In regard to Prince de Sagan, the Court says that whatever may have been his past, he and the Princess have been blameless since their marriage. Warning is given, however, that the de- cree will be modified if there is any cause for complaint in the future. Bont is assessed with all the costs of the suit.

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aby bs AND SAYS SAINT DIRECTED DEED Neighbors Call Police When They See Man Carrying Woman’s Head. INSANITY IS DOUBTED

Murderer Quarreled With Parent After His Release From Prison. NEW YORK, Dee. 31.—Arthur Trot- ter, a slight and poorly nourished man of 30 years, who was discharged from the Island on Tuesday morning, killed Mrs. Annie Trotter, his 70-year-old mother, yesterday afternoon. Within an hour he was under arrest. Trotter committed the murder with a carving knife.and an ax, and then sev- ered the head from the body. He built a fire on the parlor floor’and attempted to incinerate the head. All this time he wore only a pair of blue swimming trunks. Neighbors heard the row in the rooms of Mrs. Trotter, but that was nothing unusual when the son was about. , Then all was quiet. Only last June thé moth- er had the son committed to the Island for beating’ her and the neighbors, knowing of his return, supposed he was getting even. A half hour alter Mrs. Alice Simpson, who lives in the rear of the front tene- ment, looked out of her window and saw Trotter clad in the swimming trunks balancing himself at an open window 30 feet from the ground. In his arms he held a human head. He jumped to the top of a small shed, dropped from there to the ground and darting into the house reached his own rooms. Says Saint Directed Murder. In an instant the tenants were in an uproar. Policemen were éalled and soon the man was a prisoner. Owing to his behavior the prisoner was sqnt to Bellevue and there he told of his return from the Island on Tues- day and a quarrel with his mother, who would only give him $8 when he desired more, Then he stated that he killed his mother because St. Michael ordered him to. At times Trotter talked in a ram- bling way, and at other times he ap- peared sane. Asked if his mother had money, he replied that she possessed $18,000. This was in szeveral savings banks, the books of which were in tne hands of a priest. When Trotter was arrested he wore a pair of rubbers, which he said were iron shoes, and declared that the Virgin Mary had told him to purge his sou] by killing his mother. Dr. McCarthy of St. Vincent’s Hospital suggested sending him to the Bellevue psycopathic ward. Coroner Doubts Iasanity Theo “If Trotter had been out Of his mind while in Jail the authorities would have found it out,’’ said Coroner <Acritelli. “The fact that they made no such re- port speaks for itself.’ While the Coroner was making his investigation, William Steiner, the wom- an’s son-in-law, arrived. “Mrs. Trotter was the widow of Wil- liam Trotter, who for many years con- ducted a prosperous spice and flavoring extract business in F_udson street,” said Steiner. ‘“‘When he died he left her a considerable sum of money, which, I understand, was deposited in four sav- ings banks, It was Mrs. Trotter's idea to live on the income and not touch the principal. “As a result ‘of this she had consid- erable trouble with her son, who refused to work, and who cofitinually came to her for cash. Six months ago she had him sent away for beating her. No longer ago than last week she told me that she ought to move where her son could not find her upon his release. She intimated that she feared he would harm her.” SAGER FAILS IN EFFORT TO CHANGE JUDGE'S MIND Taylor Declines to Set Aside His Decision in Union Electric Case. The attmept, in the opinion of Judg Daniel G. Taylor, by the Cireuit At- torney’s office, to raise a new issue in the quo warranto proceedings against the Union Electric Light and Power Co., caused a spirited discussion in the Circult Court Wednesday afternoon. Sager and his assistant, Loomis John- son, stated to the Judge that they be- lieved he would set aside his decision sustaining the demurrer tn the suit after a perusal of the recent decision by the Supreme Court in the Standard Oil ouster case. Sager had with him a copy of the de- cision Which holds that quo warranto proceedings are not demurrable. Judge Taylor declared the Circuit At- torney Was not dealing fairly with the Court. The Judge said that at the time the demurrer in the Union Electric Light case Was argued there Was an agree- ment that the case be heard on the de- nhurrer. Mr. Sager and his assistant, Mr. Johnson, dented there was any such agreement and claimed that the point was raised in the brief filed by the State. After a tilt with the Court Mr: John- ‘gon asked that an appeal be granted to ‘the Court of Appeals, but tater with- drew the request. Mr; Sager stated to 4 Fost-Dispatch reporter that he probaly will walt until Judge Taylor leaves the bench and that then a. motion for a rehearing Will be presented to his suc- cessor, Judge age Hugo. Grimm. wt Tekes Skin

tUNA GOODRICH MADE GOGD RICH BY NAT GOODWIN LOS ANGELES, Cal., Dec. 31.—To Ed- na Goodrich, the fourth stage beauty he had induced to enter the matrimonial double harness with him, Nat Goodwin has given half the income from a prop- erty, stocks and bonds pool amounting to $231,500. He will get the other half himself. The deed covering the fund, which makes Mayor T. P. Guéley of Ocean Park trustee, was filed yesterday. It was executed in London on Aug. 13 last, a date which shows that Mr. Goodwin was successful when he went scurrying over Europe last summer in pursuit of Miss Goodrich, after the announcement of her engagement to Harry McMillan, the Nevada millionaire. ’ The principal piece of real estate con- veyed to the trustee is the Lafayette apartment house in San Francisco, which is valued at $100,000. Goodwin’s Ocean Park home, appraised at $15,- 000, is also in the pool. The remainder of the holdings is made up of stocks and securities totaling $116,500.

A VANDERLI NEW PRESIDENT HAT. CITY BANK NEW YORK, Dec. 31.—-Frank A. Van- derlip is to bo advanced from the vice- presidency of the National City ‘Bank to the presidency at the annual meet- ing on Jan. 12. The fact was admitted today hy the best authority. Mr. Van-. deriip has been the acting head of the bank since the departure of James Still- man for Europe, nearly a year ago, at which time he also took Mr. Stiliman’s place as director in a namber of impor- tant railroad boards.

There have been numerous explana- {i tions offered of Mr. Stillman’s retire- ment, one of which iavolved ‘some fric- tion between the Standard Oil and Mor- gan interests, which appears to have been overcome by the ciplomacy of Mr, Vanderilip. Mr. Stillman’s aim was to make. the Nationa! City the most important bank in the country, and his organization was patterned after the Bank of England. He said before giving up the helm that he considered that work practically - complished. A A ETE A LDS AD

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