St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 8, 1909

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oo , Jefferson, “FIRST IN EVERYTHING.” VOL. 61. NC NO. . 172. BORER RRR E RRO B RII ST TO OUI 5 POST-DISPATCH Only Evening Paper in St. Louis with both Associated Press and United Press Service ae a ee - ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, ~ FEBRUARY 8, 1909. ” PRICE ONE CENT EDITION OE HADLEY SEEKS OLAS ADVICE IN PICKING. MEN Governor and His Predecessor Confer Over Appointments at Southern. HOCKER FOR POLICE Man Selected Does Not Want the Job—Consults- With Howe and Stifel. SELECTS MEN CAREFULLY — | pega Says He Wants to See Every Man Who Is ‘Slated for, Office. “a Gov. Hadley, here to confer with can- didates for St. Louis appointive po- sitions, left Hotel Jefferson at lunch time Monday and spent a half hour at the Southern in conference with ex-Gov. Polk. When asked, aftvr his return to the whether St. Louis appoint- ments wére talked of, Gov. Hadley said the Demofratic election commissioner- ship was mentioned. James L. Carlisle, present chairman of the Election Board, and @. R. Kenamore are the principal candidates for this place, and Kenamore was,a caller at Hadley’s quarters Mon- day. “eg When asked whether Republican ap- pointments were talked of, Gov. Had- ley made no direct answer, merely as- senting to the statement of a third per- n that Mr. Folk was very well ac- ted with St. Louis men and con- ditions. After returning to his own rooms, the Governor entertained Capt. Henry King and C. P. Walbridge at lunch. Adju- ‘tant-General Rumbold, who accompa- ’ nied the Governor from Jefferson City, was also present. He acted as a body- guard and a buffer for his chief through the day. The Governor said at the outset of his conference here that he had decided on one appointment, that of Lon O. Hocker as a Police Commissioner. He spent most of the morning conferring with Jeptha D. Howe and Otto F. Sti- fel. Mr. Hocker “called at’ the Jefferson utes after Gov. LEGISLATOR BEATEN IN ALLEY BY TWO MEN Murillo Portrait. HIRAM LLOYD, BINNS’ SWEETHEART GIVES HIM GREETING (NOT WIRELESS) oe ees She Is First in Liverpool Crowd to Welcome Him and Capt. Sealby. LIVERPOOL, Feb., 8.—Cant. Inman Sealby of the illfated White Star liner Republic, and Jack Binns, tl.e wireless operator hero of the ship, were landed here this morning from the Baltic. A large crowd was at the pier to welcome them, Binns recéived the greater Share of attention. His first greeting was. a warm one from his sweetheart and the next from his uncle and aunt. A bat- tery of cameras caused in. ; to retreat. Binns reiterated that he did only what any other operator would likel¥ have done under similar circumstances. He disclaimed being a hero. He was pre- sented with a gold watch by the di- rectors of the Marconi company. He will go t~ London wednesday. HADLEY GIVES POLITICIANS A FROST, AND WE'LL ALL GET SOME SNOW TUESDAY THE TEMPERATURES. Mindnight “What’s that crowd outside the Jefferson?’ asked the sandbox pas- senger as the car crossed Twelfth street. ‘Is some- body holding a re- vival meeting there?’’ “Not To THE HOUSE OF DELEGAT on HIRAM LLOYD BEATEN IN ALLEY: RUBBED, HE SAYS ~ Legislator Declares He Was Waylaid After Nap on Car. POLICE:-THEORY DIFFERS He Was Battered in Fight With Men He Knev, They Believe. Hiram Lloyd, member of the lower House of the State Legislature, presi- dent of the Hiram Lloyd Building and Construction Co. and former Speaker of the House of Delegates, was beaten by two men near Wyoming street and Wisconsin avenue, three miles from his home, 3111 Laclede avenue, at ll p. m. Saturday. Though his diamond stud, valued at $165, fs missing, the police of the Wy- oming Street District do not believe he was attacked for purposes of rob- bery, but think he was injured in.a three-cornered fight with men whoni he knew. This belief arises from a* stateement of Otto Kurtz of 1962 Arsenal street, who says that when he ran to aid Lloyd and bent over him, Lloyd said: ‘‘What did you do that for, Al?’’ Street Fight, Police Theory. Capt. Hanna of the Wyoming Dis- trict said Ménday that Kurtz told hfm that when he saw Lloyd and two oth- er men struggling with each other it did not look to him Hke a “hold-up,” but more like a fight. On the strength of this the Captain announced that he is working on the theory that there was no purpose to waylay and rob Lloyd, and that ‘he was one of three men engaged in a street brawl. Efforts are being made to determine the identity of “Al.” When Kurtz's statement was repeateti to him, Lloyd said: “‘I have no recollec- tion of using the name ‘Al.’ I didn’t know the men who beat me. They were strangers and they jumped on me from an alley.’’ The police did not learn the identity of the man who was beaten until 9 a. m. Sunday, 10 hours after the robbery, when they found the saloonkeeper who had sent the battered legislator home in a carriage. Lloyd’s right eye is blacked, his left eye i- puffed, hig left cheen is swollen a. 1 bruised and his right ear is ¢ut. “I was at the Maryland Hotel on ” he said 4 ~~ oe “ 4 y wae er te & +e! ‘7? aa mete LAVENDER LADY ON THE STAND TELLING HER DOMESTIC TROUBLES IN SEEKING DIVORCE MRS. EMP ON T STAND TELLS HO HUSBAND ON TH BEAT H Many Times, She Declares, Mi aire Brewer Threatened Her: S wan. Life “With Pistol. | BLACKENED HER EYE ONCE 4 AS SHE WAS RETIRING Had Detective Trail Her, Lockéd Her Qut,Door&, Moved Away Furniture, and Taught — Child to Be Atheist, Other Accusations. \ in the court of Judge Hitcheock. furniture while she was absent. While Mrs. Lemp was telling of how she had the child baptized in the Cath- olic church despite his objections, and of how her husband sneered at her at- tempts to train her child in Godly ways, Mr. Lemp sat with his arms folded on the table in front of him, watching in- tently the face of his wife, listening to each word she uttered, an earnest, ie? tense look upon his face. : Mra. Lemp Called, Mrs. Lemp was called to the’stand at 10:30 as the first witness and her attor- ney, John S. Leahy, questioned her. She sat straight up-in her chair, deliberate- ly and without apparent excitement or nervousness, raised her veil and care- zully folded it upon the front brim of her hat so that her face, almost pallid in its paleness, was framed in the white hat brim and veil above, a white Before a crowd of women and men that filled the court 00 the trial of the divorce case of Mrs. Lillian Handlan Lemp against William J. Lemp, the millioinaire brewer, began Monday morning From 10 o’clock until noon she was on the stand and her | ross examination was resumed at 2 p. m, E Mrs. Lemp told how Lemp beat her-in the bathroom of tl home until she had to lock herself in her room. She dee he derided her when she told their son there wasa God. «| Mrs. Lemp also told how her husband had often threatened h with a revolver; how he had a detective trail her; how he locked her out of her home, and how once the had moved ¢ open the door. - cyan he returned and I- Neeta hia to someone in the hall. Then By. the door in, but afterward ‘he stairs to bed."* “Did Mr. Lemp drink?” asked, Pe “Yes; he drank whisky, cocktalia:? kinds of wines and absinthe." re “Were there times in which he did | not speak to you?’ “Yes ; sometimes he would not ' to me for 2% hours, and would not speak to me for three r at a time.” “Did he stay out at night?” “Yes; he began in 1908 to stay 4 all night and he would often come in the morning showing the eff ee ¥ + drink. I would not know where he been. We accupied separate’sboms there were weeks at a time that I ¢ not know whether he was in the ) or out of it.” “Why did he do that?’ “IT do not know, he gave no Saturday evening with friends, to a Post-Dispatch reporter. “I won’t tell who was with me, be- cause I don’t want to drag anybody into this. I am satisfied ‘'t Was not a po- litical plot. “I left the hotel about 10:30 p. m. and Hotel just a few Hadley and Gen. Rumbold had gone out for an hour. Mr. Hocker said that he did. not wish to take the appointment, but that Gov. Hadley was a very hard person to say “no” to. He said he would not give @ definite answer as to your lace collar beneath the chin, and the draped folds of the white veil hanging to her shoulders at each side. Her chestnut-colored hair was parted in the middle and fell in wavy rolls covering the tops of her ears. Her black-gloved pink transfer,’’ said the motor. nan. “Those are the politicians waiting to see Gov. Hadley. He INDIAN EXPERT © |CONTRACT FOR CONNIE SULLIVA ' Hocker. whether he will accept the appointment until he sees the Governor. “fT have known Mr. Hocker several years,"’ said Gov. Hadley. ‘‘Some time ago, while discussing the St. Louls ap- pointments with some St. Louis friends, I asked them what they thought of They were unanimous in in- dorsing him. He seems to be the ono man on whom all the Republicans are agreed. Several Democrats with whom I have talked have also told me he would be the ideal man for the place. “Mr. Hocker himself is about the only person who does not indorse him. He wrote me a letter asking me not to give his name further consideration, as he was not an applicant for the place, and could not accept it. ‘“That’s the kind of.a man I want. Of all my appointments so far I have appointed just one man who was an applicant for the place. In every other instance I have had to beg, urge and plead with men. [ have offered the police cb issionership in Kansas City to six men. Refused te Make Race. “You know, I wanted Mr. Hocker to be the Republican candidate for Attor- ney-General, but he refused to make the race. The fact that he is indorsed for Police Commissioner by all the dif- ferent elements of the party and by _ Democrats as well, amounts, in my mind, really to an election instead of * anh apyointment. When a young man goes into a city like St. Louis and makes good, winning the confidence and respect of everybody, he owes something tg the people. I think Mr. Hocker should ac- cept, and I shall endeavor today to ob- tain his promise. “It is possible I may not decide on any of the other places while I am in St. this time.” the men suggested for St. Louts appointments the Governor will get here before’ and after.”’ ‘“‘What?’’ “Three weeks after the politi- Cians expected m, and one day before they expected him."’ The weather: Rain this afternoon and tonight, changing to snow Tuesday; de- cidedly colder Tuesday, temperature to fall. to 10 degrees or lower by Tuesday night; strong easterly winds, | shifting t northerly. cee took a Bellefontaine car at Ninth and Pine streets, intending to transfer to a Laclede car at Fourteenth and Market streets. I went to sleep on the car, When [I woke up I was in a strange neighborhood. I got off the car. “I don’t know just how long I 4walked around before I got my bearings from a street lamp which showed me that I was at Wyoming street and Wiscon- sin avenue. “Just after I passed the lamp, two Continued on Page 2 Column 4. —_—__ + oe For 9 (Excluding Special Post-Dispatch i se Ares The Why and St. Louis, Feb. 8th, 1909. - Bulletin 97 97 Consecutive Kundays Or Over 22 Consecutive Months The Sunday Post-Dispatch Has Been First in Sunday Advertising Yesterday’s,- Sunday, Globe-Democrat. iesbumesl.. . 179 ; Sunday Post- Dispatch Excess . Over Republic............. 1O7 Over Globe-Democrat........ 38 _The above measurements are all on a column for column bast. The sales of the POST-DISPATCH in § St. Loul burbs every Sunday or week day are greater than eg ag: Democrat and Republic COMBINED: in the Yesterday's (Sanday, February 272,815 a Circulation Books ao in tarsal Sunday Editions) Figures: - al7 Cols. oe artes a oe | 66 the Wherefore those of the Globe- same field. 7th) circulation figures Open to All > | ARRESTED FOR EMBEZZLEMENT ne 13 4 YEARS 0 PLEA OF GUILTY ——_o—__. ad ——— S. M. McCowan Indicted After a Year’s Investigation by Government. Bottoms Gang Member Who Shot Policeman Surprises Prosecution. GUTHRIE, Ok., Feb. 8.—Samuel McCowan of Degraff, Kan., one of the best-known Indian authorities in the country, W&@sS arrested here today on a Federal grand jury indictment charging him with embezzlement and misappro- priation of Feredal funds while Super- intendent of the Indian School at Chil- occo, Ok., from 1904 to 1908. He was released on bond. The indictments, which were returned on Friday last, consist of nine counts, alleging embezzlement and five for mak- ing alleged false vouchers. The charges allege that McCowan converted money belonging to the Indians to his own use and also took grain and livestock and that he made false vouchers, there- by obtaining money from the United States Subtreasury at gt. Louis. There is an alleged shortage of $1500 and the indictments intimate that an additional sum was wrongfully secured. Agents of the Federal Government have been working on the McCowan case for almost @ year and the indictments were based upon their report. Mr. McCowan was superintendent of the Government’s Indian exhibit at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition at St. Louis, and at the time of his arrest was preparing to go to Seattle to take oaaline of a similar exhibit during the approaching fair. s Cornelius (“Connie’’) Sullivan sprang M. & surprise on the State by pleading guilty in Judge Shield’s court Monday | Morning when he was arraigned for shooting Policeman John Hutton at the West End Physical Culture Club on the night of Jan. & He was sen- tencéa to four years in the penitentiary. It is believed by the police that he took the burden of guilt to shield the members of the Bottoms Gang and to keep them from being “held fer con- spiracy in a plot to murd@ the police- man. called E. A. Sullivan’s attorney, aros® and stated to the Court that his client pleaded gutity to the charge of assault to kill. The attorney asked for clem- ency for him on account of his youth, because he had been drinking before be fired the shot, and because the act Was “not premeditated.”’ Frank Hussey, Charles (‘Hardluck”). Haughton ang Beverly Brown, who were brought back from Springfield as wit- nesses in the Case, were on hand to tes- tify. Georgie Brazier, the boy singer, was also there as a witness, but was kept frem the public. He has been im hiding ever since the meeting of the srand jury that indicted Sullivan and other members of the West End Club. dee a arial of five other members um ndictment were laid over until Feb. li, They are Dannie Hogan, indicted for assault to kill; John (“Heavy”) Connors, When the case was Noonan Jr,, Wayne County grand jury at N. Y., has indicted Mrs. Georgia on for murder in the plehen « ine Jerry (9 ge Tee CITY LIGHTING GOES 10 UNION Price Is $602,400 for 1200 Arc Lights and $302,385 for 1000 Small Lamps. . a The Board of Public Improvements awarded the 10 years’ contract for light- ing the city streets and allefs te the Union Electric Light and Power Co. Monday. ' According to the estimates of Light- ing Supervisor Sanderson the cost to the city, under the contract, of maintain- ing 1200 arc lights will be $602,400 for the 10-year period, and the cost of the 1000 incandescent lights will be $302,285.40. Mr. Sandergon did not explain why it wil! cost one-half as much to maintain 1000 incandescent lights as it will 1200 are lights, which consume more than five times as much electricity as the 32-can- dle power incandescent lights. Protests against letting the contract. under the specifications of the Board of Public Improvements, were made by Mayo Fesler of the Civic League, and a committee from the Downtown Light- ing Association. H. H. Humphrey and William M. Dix- on, electrical engineers, appeared be- fore the Board and stated that 470 mod- ern arc lights can be maintained in the district bounded by Fourth, Twelfth, for what the city will pay for 572 old- style lamps. Mr. Humphrey stated that the city should avail itself of the use of mod- ern lamps, which are three times efficient as’ the lamps now in use. The Board agreed that it would: Market streets and Washington avenue | hands gripped the arms of her chaingand she faced her lawyer and caimly awaited the first question. It was: “Mrs. Lemp, please state a circum- stance that took place in your bathroom in October. 1904.” “He was out all the evening, and came back at 10 o'clock,” she said. “I was in my bath arranging my bottles in the medicine cas® when I heard him enter the front door. He came in the bath- room and knocked me down. “IT got up and he knocked me down again. Again I got to my feet and the third time he knocked me down, using vile oaths and calling me vile names. “T got up after some effort and went to the telephone to call my Tather, but Mr. Lemp followed me, and threw my head violently back against the wall, I was very faint. He threw me down the steps and I laid awhile unconscious. When I recovered I looked around and he was gone. I went to my room and looked inthe mirror, and saw how badly my face was battered. Her Eye Blackened, “I then went to the ice box and got a piece of raw meat and bound it on my blackened and swolien eye. Then I went into my room and locked the door. “Mr. Lemp came to the door and knocked and demanded that I open it. I kept quiet. He said in a very angry voice: ‘I will give you two minutes to open the door. He evidently had his watch in hand, for at the end of two minutes he asked me if I intended te “He drew a revolver and cursed the butleh, and placed the muzzle to his head, and threatened to ki)! him.” “Tell what happened when you re- turned from a reception at your moth- er'’s in 1984." “When I got home it was ses cent : and rang the bell. I went eh? od _ “Did he take you to the World's 3 in 190478 “He pon only three or four ¢ to the be “What hacen did you have ae home? “T had none at all to speak of my son. He was my constant and ae only companion since his birth.” | She said she tried to prease Mr. Lemp a she found out the kind of food he like al and had it prepared for him, | began to be Irregular at his In 1904 and from then on she could nat ~- pend on him at all. a Oct. 13, 1906, she went driving when she returned fn the evening | house had been dismantled by Mr. Le The furniture, pictures, ornaments | part of her clothing nad been mo across the street to the home of 1 mother. She said she sent Christmas to Mr. Lemp during these years of t growing estrangement, but he never any to her. She toid of an incident that ned in the presence of their butler, Denali son. “We were at table.” she said. “wh the bell rang and Donaldson went to i door. It was a man delivering som hats, but Mr. Lemp thought ft was seme: one else, and when the butler retur Mr. Lemp said to me: "Damn Mrs. Lemp imitated the voice and tures of her husband in saying thie, Tells How Husband Drew Pistol and Threatened to Kill E : ss » s “- ae 4 se il A i i li a aot w oe rs ae g yee