St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 6, 1909

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; ea = i a » fl ee 4: ab 1% oe es > Oe me = A Re ree nee oe i oe : ‘ 7 10 “PAGES “FIRST IN EVERYTHING.” ~ VOL. 61. ‘NO. 170. ee ee ee ee ee Mt et oR Fe , iF bgt ¥ % Gay eta she NTR SS 3 Maia Lee Lore eye, Ce NRPO kee AN ie 3 Cg Py ¥ ae oo CO ae Cl a fe ae LP ag ee Se ge ee _ w + + _ _ a 3 * > Pies, . ST: “LOUIS, “SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 1909. 7 ST rT LOUIS POST-DISPATCH | Only Evening Paper in St. Louis with both Associated Press and United Press Service PRICE ONE CENT ee ae alles HERMIT DEAD IN MYSTERY AND CATTLE STARVE Coeur Recluse Last Seen Alive Last Monday. Creve HAD SOLD Received $6000 Last May, but Used It to Pay Off Mortgage. ? HORSES NEAR ’ DEATH Too Weak to Stand _ for Lack of Food and Water. Jacob Mathews, 56 years old, a reclute who had lived for 60 years in a dugout cabin at Creve Coeur, St. Louls County. was found dead in his hut Saturday. Whetrer he starved to deati, or was murdered: will not be known until the Coroner holds a post-mortem examina- tion. Mathews. was last seen alive Monday ef this week when he went to the gro- Cery store of Jacob Kosh, in Creve Ceeur, and bought some canned goods and eggs. Saturday noon William Bar- dee and Frank Rohan, neighboring farmers, who had not seen the old her- mit about his place and were susyi- elous that something might have hap- pened to him, went to his home and | peeped through a knot hole in the door. Broke Open the Door. They saw him lying in the harvester box in which he always slept. They called to him. He did not move. They broke open the door and went in and found him dead. The body of Mathews was fully dressed. There was no bed in the hut. Math- ews had slept for years in the harvester box which was made of boards and was 6 feet long and 3 feet wide. In the bot- tom of the box was some straw and this was the old man’s only bed. The two men who discovered the body did not touch it but fastened the door and notified the coroner. Two Starving Horses, ‘There was not a morsel of foed in the but and the neighbors of Mathews think he might have become too iil to go for help and starved to death. Two horses owned by Mathews were found penned in a small shed near the They were 80 weak from huna- lying down and arise until they had been cabin. mer that they were could not given food and water. His pet cat was algo near death from starvation. Mathews came and upon which he died. & acres of very valuable land left. had a sistery Mrs. Farinie Brooks, lives in St. Louis. Mathews was miserly in went huhgry to save money. ey in bank in. Clayton. Joseph Stecker, a real estate dealer of Clayton, who transacted business for ‘Mathews, said Smturday that last May Mathews sold 2 acres of his farm for $6000, but this was all eaten up by a mortgage on the farm. He says that ‘Mathews had no money. thinks that he had no other money. NEW BATTLESHIP DELAWARE LAUNCHED; COST $4,000,000 ee ee ee ee ee Governor and Young Women At- tend Ceremony at New- port News. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., Feb. 6.—With a bottle of Delaware champagne dashed against her port bow by her sponsor, Mise, cone Cahall, the moneter battle- re slid ed and staff. is Cahall had as her aids Miss OD nee ats, LAND to this country from Dublin, Ireland, in 1848 and bought the farm upon which he lived ever since After selling the 30 acres two weeks ago he yet had He who his habits. He lived in the meanest squalor and It Is be- Heved that he has a large sum of mon- He drew from the bank $82 last December and that was all the money he had. Mr. Stecker astern into James ng. The launching was wineneel, by several thousand guests of the Company, including Gov. Penne- Delaware “LOVE PIRATE NOUTS Witt Th ca —_ “l’ll Shoot You,” She Threat- ens When Found With Woman’s Husband. TRAPPED IN HIS STORE Wife Shadows Man Who Did Not Come Home Nights, Discovers Charmer. armed tove pirate who of Mrs. To capture the had scuttled the Grosch's domestic happiness, early Satur- locked Mamie ship Mamie policemen persuaded a boy to climb, of a sat Miss holding ay, through the transom within Herman, store, which 18 years old, the re- ‘volver with which she had driven Mrs. Grosch from the place. The boy, whose name the policemen did not record, braved the angry girl's wrath and let the police squad in. They t©ok Miss Herman to the Carr Street Station, where Joseph Grosch was al- ready a prisoner. Then Mrs. Groschi returned to her home at 3901 Kossuth avenue. She was told to return when she should decide what she wished to haye done to her husband and the young woman. ““‘My husband has no! been at home for several nights,’’ Mrs. Grosch told Lieut. McCormack as she enrered his office at midnight, after fleeing from the armed young woman. Finds Girl With Husband. “Tonight I made up my mind I would go to the store and see what was Keep- ing him there, or whether he was there. “IT went in, and found him and a young woman at the rear of the store. As * approached them she called cut: ‘Gei away or I'll shoot you,’ and pointed a revolyer at me. Of course I ran.” Policemen were sent pack to the store, at 810 Wash street, with Mrs. Grosch and found the place locked. They wait- ed outside, and when Grosch put his head out to look around arrested him. Simultaneously the door was again locked from within. The policemen, en- tering with the boy's help, found Miss Herman at the rear of the store. She readily relinquished the revolver. She lives at 819 Wash street. FINE FOR THE CITY: IT WILL SOON HAVE ENOUGH MONEY TO CLEAN STREETS LIFORN iA “That’s fine WAT UNTiL We GET} about the city E PANAMA saving @ million CANAL: Dua? and a half on the new lighting con- tract,’’ said the ha berdasher. “*Yes,”’ said the film agent. “O’Reilly and Ger- hart won't have to worry now about whether one of those _ bridge approaches will cost 10 cents a front foot more than the other.”’ The forecast: Partly cloudy to- night and Sunday; no decided change in temperature; minimum tonight, 30 variable winds; degrees. A special forecast received from Wash- ington at noon says that a storm is moving from the North Pacifig Coast and that it will cause a cold wave to reach St. Louis Monday or Tuesday. Missour! and Ilinois—Partly cloudy tonight and Sunday; no decided change in tempera- ture, eee Pte se 28 ‘lincoln, the Statesman, When He Hesitated”’ By IDA TARBELL ——=IN TOMORROW'S—— — ee a a em _———~ ane = tereperepepenepee x 2eDees ae ;, *-* > + mito 2 te ee "7? Gt Sad er AE A he? ns ; * oo 2° erly point of it, and with tT LEAVES GIBRALTAR FOR LANDS IN A CELL; HAMPTON ROADS eee Bands Play “Home, Sweet Home,” as Vessels Begin Last Stage of Jorney. CAPTAIN IS SUSPENDED Qualtrough Found Guilty of Intoxication at Banquet at Tangiers. GIBRALTAR, Feb. 6.—With the bands on board playing ‘‘Home, Sweet Home,”’ the American fleet of i6 battlesh.ps, un- der Rear Admiral Sperry, left Gibraltar at 11 o'clock this morning for lic last lap of famous mipton Roads, the its around-the-world cruise of 42,000 miles. the on One hour later vessels were wile! the land double-column clear- of and steaming west- ward in formation at a speed of 10 Knots an hour. They Hampton will follow the southern route to distance of off met on ds, 2 1000 miles the will be Third under miles, and about American coast they and Squadron Ad- home by the Atlantic fleet They escorted of the Rear miral Arnold. are due home Feb. mw we. The weather conditions at the time of departiire were giorious. The skv was without a cloud and there was just enough breeze to curl the crests of the sun-floocged waves. Nothing could have surpassed the beauty of the marine pic- ture as the American armada weighe: anchor from under the shadows of the towering Rock of Gibraltar and moved out into the strait. Vexsselxy Handled Skilfully. The difficult operation of getting the 16 huge battleships out of the narrow war basin of the port and under way was accomplished with a skill and per- fection of maneuvering and detail which won the admiration of all the foreign naval men who witnessed the proceed- ings @ritically from land and sea. Admiral Sperry directed the whole op- eration fram the after-bridge of the Con- necticut, At 8:30 o’clock the signal ‘o vwnmoor was given and the great chains holding the ships to the buoys were loosened one by one, until the vessels were held to their anchorages by only a single strand. At 8:55 a stream of multi-colored sig- ral flags on the flagship communicated the order to get under way to the Geor- gia, the Nebraska, the New Jersey, the Phode Island and the Virginia, lying ar the rear of the basin. As the flags came fluttering down five minutes later the designated battleships cast off their lines and, like freed leviathians seeking escape, slow'y swung their noses in the direction of the breaches in the breakwater. Twisting and turning to the clanging of engine gongs, they crept out, the Georgia leading the way with lieutenant-Commander George W. Kline bridge. Saluted by English Craft, Once outside Rear Admirai Wain- wright’s division fe!l into formation and waited for the second and third groups. The second group consisted of the Ver- filving the “battle effi- clency” trophy at her fore; the Minne- sota, Kentucky, Oh!o and HKearsarge, and the third was composed of the Wis- consin, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri and lilinois. The three groups waited ont- side and at 10:30 the Connecticut brought up the rear. Although it is not customary to fire parting salutes, the Devonshire, the flagship of Rear Admiral Sir James Goodrich, R. N., admiral superintend- ent at Gibraltar, which had taken a position at the entrance of the harbor, hoisted and saluted the American flag as the Connecticut passed out. The band on the quarterdeck of the Connecticut played the English anthem, while the m@sicians on the foreign war- the “Star Spangled Ban- respective ensigns were soodrich and Admiral last or: the mont, proudly ships played ner’? as the dipped. Admiral ¢ Litvinoff of the Russian navy signaled: “Good-by; pleasant voyase- ' Admira| Sperry replied laconically: “Thanas.”’ Procession Three Miles Long. Then the Connecticut steamed majes- fically along line of the walting American vessels, took its place at the head of the column and set the guide flag “five of clubs.” The other ves. sels wheeled gracefully in behind the Connecticut and. with the black speed cones run up to the yardarms, the im- posing procession, which was over three miles long, moved to the south. The alignment of the ships Was per- fect and the sight was 80 impressive that the spectators crowding the ter- races of the Almeda and the Europia Point could not restrain exclamations of delight while the America® passen- gers on two liners anchored Close, into shore burst into involuntary cheers. For a distance of about 4 miles the Tleet stood to the South, © Tt n being clear of Cape Tarifa, the #90 the 360 | iw but lon. 7 e a ' MINNIE. LEONALD writer. CABANNE.-. BRANDENBURG tueky woman, the heroine of an international romance, defendant in a divorce suit filed in St. Louis by James Shepard Cabanne, but who says she obtained a divorce from Mr. and was married in the same place to Broughton Brandenburg, magaiene 7 i: is Mrs. Minnie Leonard Cabanne Brandenburg, beautiful Ker A charge of obtaining money under faise pretenses, growing out of his sale of an article purporting to have been written by ex-President Grover Cleveland, is pending against Brandenburg in New York. is, pending against the woman in Si. says she has no knowledge of her husband having obtained a divorce. Louis.. Cabanne in British Honduras The divorce suit The wife of Brandenburg FUGITIVE AUTHOR, AND ST. LOUIS WOMAN WHO CLAIMS HIM AS HER LAWFUL HUSBAND BreoucHtTox PRANDENBURSGS POLICE BEGIN TU CLEAN QUT Th ELECTION ROLLS List of 2500 Persons Not En- titled to Vote Has Been Compiled. An investigation begun Saturday by Police Sergt. McMullen at the office of the Board of Election Comsnissioners is understood to presage the purging of the registration lists of lawbreakers and result in prosecutions for perjury. Sergt. McMullen, who has two men assisting him, is armed with an indexed list of about 2600 persons nét entitled to register or vote who are believed to have been both registering and voting. The index bears the names of persons eCnvicted of felonies, misdemeanors and Offenses against suffrage. The names Were obtained from court records and from the books of Supt..Dawson of the Workhouse. Every person who applies to be regis- tered is required to answer whether he has been convicted of a felony oF & misdemeanor or for larceny of any degree or for any crime against suf- frage. Such as are found to have an- Swered these questions falsely will be Subject to prosecution for perjury. Thé investigation is understood to be at the instance of Circuit Attorney Jones. LUCKY BALDWIN STILL IN A CRITICAL COmnITIOR LOS ANGELES, Feb. 6.—E. J. (Lu¢ Baldwin, the noted turfman, is still & very serious condition. It was stabi at his Arcadia residence this morning that he rested fairly well last night of ae advanced age and ENDS HIS LL THROUGH GRIE UR SON IN JAIL —~— — Henry Walther Severs Arteries in Wrists and Bleeds to Death at Home. Grieving continually because had been convicted of death of another and is Henry Walther, his son causing the now in fail, an aged man who lives or his own property at 3706 La Salle street. cut both wrists with a razor at noon Saturday, and bled to death before his wife, Loulsa Walther, who had been ¢ © out to call on a neighbor. returned and found him. Recently Walt her had said that the burden of his sorrow at his son's plight was more than he could bear, but none suspected that he contemplated taking his own life. Last July 4 Edward Walther, his son. went with @ friend to Luxembourg, St. Louls County, to spend the day. There they got into a fight, and Walther in- jured his companion so severely that he died. Walther was arrested and taken to Clayton, where he was tried and con- victed, and se ntenced to spend one year in jail and ye a fine of $500. MISS ROOSEVELT'S DOG GONE Lemon and White Bull Answers to Name of “Ace.” WASHINGTON. Feb. 6.—If you meet a handsome lemon and white bulldog that carries a white diamond upon his hip, and answers to the name of “Ace,” make friends with him at once and take him to the White House, for he belongs to Miss Ethel Roosevelt. A reward ts Rance for Mie. retern. Dist the. ; for af i CLERKS tAROR THROWS QUT ALL LIGHTING BIDS -—_—- @--- - Outside Concern Loses Gas Contract Because Guaran- tee Was Made Too Low. Because of a mistake made by Wa! ter B. Dryden, secretary of the. Board ef Public Improvements, in figuring the amount of the deposit that company bids for the contract to ligis outlying St. Louis streets with gas éor I years, the contract cannot be- let at this time, and it is probable that the p ocedure of inviting bids must be gona ‘ r again. Rut for the mistake the contraet would have gone to the Suniight Ijun)i- nating Co. of Pittsburg, Pa.. on its pic of $5.59 per 1000 lamp hours or a total of $7,275,126, a saving of $1,181.400 for the term of the contract, compared wi:j the present price of $6.81 per 1000 lamp hours. The law requires each bidder to de- posit with his bid a certain percentage of the total sum he would recelve in the 0 years. In this ease each bidder should have deposited $337,000, but because of Mr. Dryden's mistake the bidders de. posited only $15,575. Referred to City Counsetor. The Board Saturday referred the mat- ter to the City Counselor for his opin- fon. The district covered by this contract is all that part of St. Louls north of Bremen avenue, south of Arsenal street and west of Jefferson avenue. The contract to light a'l the city buildings, including tie police oe engine houses and the City Hall ler Saturday to the Union Electric Co. for 10 youre at: a tot | saving | Bio R Should ae- wae . es gy ver ee roa aS hagas serpy scotaam sib ee tiger: EDITION MISS DIEKMANN- SHOT SELF UNDER IMITATIVE IMPU a eo 7 f >» — Physician Says Remark Made ¢ : Earle McCourtney, Who Ended Life, Preyed on Mind. TOLD SHE WOULD FIND LIFE NOT WORTH L in Hospital . School Teacher Put Bullet in Temple Whi Her Fiance, Robert A. Roblee, Was Call-. ing Her on Telephone— Unconscious — a and Can't Live, * Diekmann’s recovery. Miss Diekmann, a school teacher, shot herself in the right temple in her room at the home of her uncle, Rudolph Schulenberg, 3535 Victor street, evening. Mrs. Joseph H. Roblee of 3657 Del- mar boulevard, mother of Miss Diek+ mann's fiance, who learned of the shooting when he called up the Schul- enberg home to ask Miss Diekmann if he might call-to see her, said Satur- day that her son and Earle McCourtney ‘lwere “in no sense rivals” for the hand of the school teacher. Roblee’s father, Joseph a Roblee, is vice-president of the Hamilton-Brown Shoe Co. Called Psychic Suggestion, Dr. Kolbenheyer,, whose office is at 2006 Lafayette avenue, made his state- ment a few minutes after Miss Diek- mann made what was believed to be @ dying statement to the Rev. D. C. Gar. rett, pastor of St. Peter's Episcopal Church. Dr. Garrett refused-to repeat the statement, saying that it was a “priestly secret.’ McCourtney, a dry goods sales agent, was found dead in his office in the Cen- tury Building the night of Jan. 8. There was a bullet wound in his right temple. There was a coroner's verdict of sui- cide. “My son knew McCourtney and they were both friends of Miss Diekmann,” said Mrs. Roblee. ‘I am speaking for my son in this matter. He is not at home. I want to make it clear that my son and McCourtney were not rivals. “Tl heard Dr. Frederick Kolbenheyer ay after the shooting last night that McCourtney was with Miss Diekmann the afternoon before he was found dead in his office. That was the first I heard of it, though I knew that Mce- Courtney was often in her company. ‘Miss Diekmann and my son were engaged and they and McCourtney were mutual friends. The engagement had not been announced. It was not to have been announced at the party which was in progress at the Schulenberg home when Miss Diekmann was found wound- ed.”” Rudolph Schulenberg, at whose home Miss Diekmann had lived for several vears, said Saturday that Roblee. who is a traveling salesman for the Hamil- ton-Biown Shor Co., came in from an out-of-town trip Tuesday and that he called on Miss Diekmann that night. He visited her again Thursday night. “Last night,”” sacl Mr. Schulenberg, “Roblee was calling to ask Paula whether he could come to s¢e her after dinner. There was no indication that they had quarreled. when he was here Thursday night. Pavia was cheerful yesterday and went to her school at Mehiville, in St. -Loulse County, as usual and returned in jolly mood.” A reception given by Mrs. Schulen- berg was in progress when Miss Direk- mann returned from school. Among the guests were Mra, August A. Busch ani Mrs. J. W. Teasdale, a daughter of Mrs. Schulenberg. Miss Diekmann went upstairs to dress for the dinner party which wae to have followed the reception. Half an hour tater, at 5:30 p. m., Friday Dr. Frederick Kolbenheyer, who has for years heen Mise 2 > at Diekmann’s physician, declares that she shot aa through imitative impulse created by Earle MeCourtney, who $f dead with a bullet in his right temple in his office in the Cel building, Jan, 8. The doctor asserts that a remark made b young man to Miss Diekmann the day of his tragic death me. with her and finally resulted in her shooting herself. 7 After a consultation of physicians at St. Anthohy’s Hospi ~— at noon Saturday it was announced that there is no —— She has brief intervals of consciou ne but most of the time is in a stupor. ay oS tHe - planation of the young we an’s-act is that the “pos mous suggestion” or, in pla words, the suggestion after dé of a striking remark made to! by McCoirtney the day diel prompted the young yer herself. According to Dr. ; | McCourtney sald to Miss mann: “There will come a f¢ you will not think life te we ing.”’ “This sentence, tiving a | death of the man who spokn moved her to self-destruction,” 4 Dr. Kohibenhey er. cae “McCourtney frequently wal with Miss Diekmann. He her the day before he was | dead. I know and have kn some time just what was. ing that last walk they had | er. Miss Diekmann told ber “McCourtney said to her: not worth living. I havea and when I get a chance I ams ing to take my life.’ a “‘O,’ said Miss Diekmann, say that. Life is beautiful.’ “McCourtney turned to her _ said: ‘Ne, you are al There will come a time we ovale, think life is set the | a, know that after McCourtr death she complained that € words ran in her mind all the ti In women there is a primitt tative faculty which nt comes to the surface mést § ne pectediy. ee “She was convinced that Courtney took hie own uifes” had mentioned a revoiver. I that when she Wa* pa cousin's room yesterday she glanced thrower the ope and saw hia revolver, which © always in plain vlew on @ was displayed as a curio f than regarded by the family wearon. 5 “Miss Diekmann was able to ta to me ai the hospital tits. _~ From what she said, rather @ nectedly, 1 gather that the | s! the revelver brought into er oe a picture of that ab the ail Next came like a flash € of als thieat to kilt himaelt a1 remark that he had a “Then what he had said t about life net being worth 1 came back to her, Mere the in tive ihinpclse was : 24 meee 4 Ps ry