St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 15, 1909

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VOL. 61. NO. . 179. T. LO OUIS POST Only Evening Paper in St. Louis with both Associated Press and United ‘Press Service PRICE ONE CENT. a ee a ey, —- ‘ST. LOUIS, “MONDAY EVENING, “FEBRUARY 15, “DISPA

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\ LEMP OBLECTED

suit, He also found fault with > TOALL LAVENDER GOWNS FOR WIFE :. ‘Color Affected by Mrs. Lemp ; Was Distasteful to Brewer, He Testifies. —_——— MONTHS OF _ SILENCE

Husband and Wife Did Not Speak for Long Periods Before Final: Breach. HE IS CROSS-EXAMINED Says Separation Came More Than Year After ‘Dear Little Pal’ Note. -_- William J. Lemp, in the closing re- plies of his cross-examination Monday in Mrs. Lillian Handlan Lemp’s divorce explained his annoyance at the costumes worn by his wife, which gave her the title of “The Lavender Lady.” It was not so much the colors she chose, he declared, as the continued wearing of any one color, attracting at- tention to her, to which he objected. her collars and rucbing as being too conspicuous. In the questioning of Mr. Lemp re- garding the picture of his wife intro- Ag : A tte time it was taken. The costume was mot in one of which she had her mouth, Lemp was - duced by him, “a cigarette in asked if he did not know that they were _ taken by her brother, and that she was -@ne of her brother's costumes” at bed in detail. | Sie “Na, IT don’t know that,” said Lemp. on ~ Lentp told’ Monday how he continued the fall of 1906, 'Jchn 8. Leahy, - Charile’s car. - to live with Mrs. Lemp. with occasional _interva ls of strained relations, for more than @ year and a half after the finding of the “Dear Little Pal’’ letter, written by her. “You continued to live with her until in spite of the letter, and in spite of the reports of the de- tective whom you sent to Palm Beach to follow her in January, 1906?" asked Mrs. Lemp’s counse), “Yes,"’ answered Lemp. ‘I made ref- erence to the letter in her hearing. I told my sisters and brothers, and my lawyer, Mr. Krone, about it.”’ “Did you refer to the detective’s re- port? *. * “I did not introduce the subject. She _®poke to me Of the detective.” “Have you a copy of the detective's Mr. Krone has it. 4 have read “Was there anything of consequence ‘din it?” It was not of much consequence, so Yar as the contents were concerned.”’ One of Mr. Leahy's questions related to an order given by Lemp to his chauf- _ feur to say, when asked about the own- ) @rship of his machine, that it belonged _ to Charles A. Lemp. vey brother used the machine some- ’ said the millionaire brewer, ‘‘and qT; told the chauffeur, when he had the ‘machine out for Charlie, to say it was I didn't know whom he might have riding with him.”’ When asked about the origin of the 4 : newspaper article, published just after the separation, in which Mrs. Lemp was * first described as the “Lavender Lady,” fe ~ Lemp said: “I did not solicit the interview. Mrs. Howard came to my office and asked me for a statement and I went to her home to look it over. I approved it and ah was published the next day " Wrote None of This Interview, “You went and had yourself inter- wiewed?” Mr. Leahy asked. “No,”” was the answer; “‘I thought the _ best way out of it would be to have the - matter published in correct form.”’ “Didn’t you write some of the inter- wlew yourself?"’ '* “No; IL am positive I wrote none of att.” MOTHER: Special to the Post-Dispatch. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Feb. 15.—Forced by his wife into a bigamous marriage with her own 16-year-oid daughter, William Smith lived for six years as the hus- band of the two women® A comic val- entine and a pistol shot ended the strange situation yesterday. Smith received both the valentine and the bullet. He accused his ‘‘wife,”’ Cora, 22 years old, of sending him the anonymous ‘‘comic.”’ There was a quar- rel. Smith -packed up his belongings and prepared to leave. Then Cora shot him. To the police who arrested her she un- folded a remarkable story. She said that seven years ago went to live with her mother and step- father, who had just been married. She fell in love with Smith, and he returned her affection. Her mother discovered it and she forced her husband and daugh- she

+2 e™ Triangular Family Arrangement in St. Joseph. Lasts Six Years— Becomes Public After Quarrel About Valentine. ter to go through a marriage ceremony MAN WED GIRL AND HER SHOT BY GIRL

without the formality of a divorce. The police sent for the young wom- an’s mother, and she corroborated the story. She said she married Smith in 1902. Her daughter by a previous marriage, Cora, was then 15 years old. A year later, she said, she discovered that her daughter and her second hus- band were in love with one another. Believing that no one knew of her owh secret wedding, the mother made daughter marry Smith. @Quarreled About Valentine. The situation did not result in any trouble, she said, until the quarrel! oc- curred over the comic valentine. Her daughter was known to the neighbors is ‘‘Mrs. Cora Smith,’’ and no one ever suspected, she said, that there was an extra wife in the Smith household. Smith is badly wounded and may die. “Mrs. Cora’’ will be held pending the re- sult of his injury.

BRIDE TAKES PUISUN, LAUGHS AT PHYSICIAN First Said ‘Joke,’ Then De- clared She Was Grieving Over Mother’s Death.

Mrs. Alice Spinney, a bride of 10 months, swallowed mercury Monday afternoon in an effort to kill herself, and reached, the City Hospital in an am- bulance a half-hour later, laughing. “! did it just for a joke,’’ she told physicians, ‘“‘No; T didn't. Come to think of it, I did it because of grief for my mother’s death. She died five years ago,” Mrs,. Spinney is 19 years old. Her husband, Joseph Spinney’ was away from home when she took the poison in the coal ghed back of their home at 14065 Tower Grove avenue. Takes Poison, Calls Friend. After swallowing the mercury, she threw the phial which had contained it into an old stovepipe. Then she called to Mrs. Minnie Brim- ley of 1318 Tower Grove avenue, who was in the house, and told her what she had done. Mrs. Brimley called a policeman. Hospital physicians said her condition was not serious. When they asked yer where her husband was employed, she said she did not know, as they had been married less than a year. SEVERAL REPORTED DEAD-IN INTERURBAN TROLLEY WRECK TOLEDO, O., Feb. 15.—Severa] passen- gers were killed in a wreck on the In- terurban Electric Railway near Ver- million, according to a report just re- ceived here. The wires are down as a result of the heavy sleet storm and the report has not been verified and no details can be obtained.

MORE SLEET, MORE SNOW. MORE WIND, WITH ZERO BUT 10 DEGREES FURTHER DOWN oe Cee THE TEMPERATURES,

“Isn't Capt. Mc- Culloch the wel! fixed gentle- man?’’ said the “motorman. al | wish I could fix it so I'd make $20,000 a year when I’m 67 years old.”’ “I'd rather have it the other way 1:1. ‘TAT “ REAPPOINT THE STORK? sandbox ger. ‘Hiow's that?’ “f'm rather be 20. years old and make $67,000 a year.”’ The man says: Snow and sleet this afternoon and tonight, followed by clearing Tuesday: somewhat colder; north winds: mini- mum temperature tonight about 10 de- grees. The snow passen- weather

came ahead of time. It be- gan falling in large flakes at 11:30 a. m. The storm which was central over Colorado should have come here og its way to Central Mississippi, but it changed cars somewhere out in the country instead, and St. Louis only got the edge of it. Texas has had about as cold weather as St. Louis, it having been 24 at Galveston. The river is at 10.3, a will continue to rise. lllinois—Snow flurries in extreme south portion: rise of .5, and cold- partly Monday night: er Tuesday, cloudy. Missouri—Partly cloudy with snow flurries in Bast tions; Tuesday, partly cloudy, in West portion. Monday = night, and South por- with warmer

Third Set of Triplets Arrives. WHITESBURG, Ky., Feb. 15.—Trip- lets were born yesterday to Mrs. Sarah Bell White, aged 35, making her third set of triplets. She is now the mother

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WATERS-PIERCt PAYS UP: STATE DEMANDS OUST -_-_—— Attorney-General Major Asks Supreme Court to Enforce Its Decision. et FINE IS PAW $50,000 No Evidence Presented toShow Standard Oil Connection Has Ended.

In a pleading to be filed Monday after- noon in the Supreme Court in Jefferson City, Attorney General Major asks that notwithstanding the fact that the Wa- ters-Pierce Oil Co. has paid into} court the fine of $50,000 assessed against it Dec. 23 by the Supreme Court, it be ousted from the State for failure to comply with the Court’s order that it produce satisfactory evidence that it had severed all connections with the Standard Oil Co. The Waters-Pierce Co. Monday morn- ing paid the fine, but did not file .-s showing of severance from‘the cu Trust. Immediately after the fine was paid, General Major, Gov. Hadley ..ssistant Attorney General a conference in the Gov- The result of the confer- 1..€ and Former KXennish held ernor’s office. ence wes the decision to ask that company be ousted from the State. The decree of the Court provides that unless the Waters-Pierce company rid itself of Standard Oil ownership it shall be ousted from the State March 1. How the company intends to comply with this order of the Ccurt is not explained in the formal acceptance, which was filed by Ex-Judge Henry 8. Priest attorney for the. Wasears-Plerce. Board Pledges Obedience, A resolution of the Board of Directors | of the Waters-Pierce Oil Co. aceepting the decree of the Court and pledging the company to abide by it was filed with the -check. , As the Standard Oil Co. owns a con- trolling interest in the Waters-Pierce Co., it is pointed out that: Plerce can- not even reorganize the locai company without consent from 26 Broadway, the headquarters of the Standard Oi! Trust. Dispatches from Jefferson City state that the Waters-Pierce €o. may ap- to the Supreme Court for further aid in carrying out the provision of the decision requiring severance of its re- lations with the Standard. Attorneys for the Standard Oil Co., in their prop- ogition to take the State into partner- ship in the oil business, offered to de-s posit with trustees appointed by the Court the 60 per cent of Waters-Pierce stock owned, by the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey. A majority of the board of directors are friendly to Pierce and he has éon- trol of the distributing machinery of the company. If he can succeed in prevent- ing the Standard Oil Co. from exercis- ing the rights of stock ownership in the Waters-Pierce company he will then be in a position, it is said, to eliminate Standard control.

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Yesterday’s, Bulletin 98 For 98 Consecutive Sundays or Over 93 Consecutive Months am. (Excluding Republic's Centennial) The Sunday Post-Dispatch Has Been First in Sunday Advertising Post-Dispatch . . 268 Cols. Louis, Feb. 15th, 1909. - from the West and Southwést were from ie ie ed r ‘ 6 LO Wf Om PLL S PARADA A RAO OD

Mrs. DANIFY | ACTRESS-WIFE WHOM HUSBAND GIVES UP, SAYING HE HOPES'SHE WILL WED ANOTHER TOHMAN — Tiarewet IxtN6TON FROHMAN 6 | WE HS Margaret Hlington Prepac to Ask Divorce From Theatrical Manager.

YEARNS FOR Says She Prefers Socks to Starring on the Stage. HER “HEALTH \ BROKEN, Fee ye Practically Afnounces | She Intends to Marry Rich Land Owner. A HOME 7 ve on a. ee te? . . 7 “ae ro a . on » . . »» - \ a . . ae > Sa - m= ar , = Pee Sg > “oy “ ; : By Leased ‘From Bureau of rts NEW. YORK, Feb. 15.~Daniel Frob- | man, the theatrical manager, and his oeautiful and talented wife, ceninig 2 (llington, the actress, have separated. Mr. Frohman himself gave tke news in this announcement: z “Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Frohmafi have dé: ided upon a separation, with « view) > Ruskin, where the husband aco wife. pedi her se angstrom a ; anid, in” last ateht “Ap ¥- ears a person is in any way mistresses U matter. My wife and I have come to he : mutual agreement to separate, Pas pe will procure a divorce under laws of C when she has resided there long to get oné under the masta Jot that inbia i “Il regret greatly that this has come, I am exceedingly sorry because of the — effect it may have upon public opipion — regarding people of the stage, and I don’t like to add one more to the ais vorées in the professional world; bat:

CITY. ESCAP WORST OF STORM RAGING NEARBY —---@-—- - St. iouis was fortunate in getting into a pocket of comparative caim in the general storm that swept down upon the West Monday morning. A sleety snow began to fall after midnight, and laid a good foundation for the soft heavy flakes that began to come down about nooi. But the snow was not sufficiently neavy or deep to interfere with street ear traffic, and the United Rallways did not find it necessary: to get out its rotary plows. The railroads wefe not so fortunate, as the sleet blew into the switches and frogs and froze there. In the switching and transfer yards the companies kept 500 men at work all night keeping the switches open by means of salt and fires. The storm was heavier West than Fas. of St. Louis and while ifcoming trains one to three hours late, those from the Mast were generaliy on time. The telegraph companies greatest sufferers, and the mes- were received Stalements by ARGARET ILLINGTON? Mi My one desire is for “home life and children. I want’ to leave the stage forever and darn socks and tend to my own offspring. That is my aim. Mr. Frohman knows of my interest in Mr. Bowes and approves of it. I can’t say that Mr. Bowes and I will marry, for as yet I don’t know that I am going to get my divorce. But Mr. Frohman and I will separate as soon as. possible. ANIBL FROHMAN: Mrs. [) Frohman and I agreed aly. She to this step recent- has retired perma- nentiy, from the prefession. There is no scandal in this disagreement —no man or woman is the cause of it. In fact, the arrangement is far more amicable than hostile on either part. ‘The decision was ar- rived at recently. She came to New in Frohman Triangle we haye so decided.” os. “When did Mrs. Frohman and you Bey. make up your minds to take this ~~ course?” ' 7 “8 few weeks ago. She wanted to a live on the Pacific Coast. I have to =~ live here. We had to separate upder— those conditions. Of course, T regret tt { regret the whole thing deepiy.” . “And does. Mrs. Frohman also re- great it?" ~ “That I Cannot say. "ie that we are still good friends and that — ee f am Dent Gay. ov. eaparanon: Gain come about, byt there is no scandal, ~ no hidden eause for this action. We — talked it over in.a friendly way and concluded that it was the best thing that could be done under the @eum- io stances.” : Fi ; , “And vou wl sive mo other cause tot ct “Shere is no other to bive. You know. Principals York from California a few weeks ago, apparently entirely recovered from the breakdown in ‘The Thief,’’ but the Eastern climate did not agree with her. She finds sol- ace and health In the air of the Pa- cific Coast, and there she has de- cided to live for the future. We have been married nearly six years. DWARD J. BOWES: Yes, it fF is true that Margaret I}- lington came out to Cali- fornia to get 4a divorce from. Daniel Frohman. I do not know where the divorce will be obtained. I met Miss lilington in the East several years ago. I am very well acquainted with her family and with Mr. Frohman, and am very friendly with them and with him. If @ good weman finds that her path of happiness les in another direction, she has a right to get a divorce. that they will be better are sensible they talk it pened in this case. be happy 4 and satiefied pose, and so she has gone there with her parents.”

—_—_—_——_ —_ “" = => RICH MAN GOES FOR MEDICINE, FAILS TO RETURN TO HOME 1463 Union the police Mrs. William Baggot of boulevard has appealed to to find her husband, William Baggot, a real estate dealer with offices at 1005 [MAN WHO SHOT DREYFUS SAYS. MME, STEINHEIL KILLED FAURE PARIS, Feb. 15.—Louls Gregori, who threw France into a furere last sum- mer by shooting Maj. Dreyfus at the canonization ceremony for EXmfie Zole, ‘oday wrote to Examining rate

I can . ole pas ee at te 66 sages “‘subject to delay." Dispatches from rg said that a specia! train left’ thete early Monday over the Missouri Pacific carrving ‘line- men to replace 1500 telegraph poles which had been put out of commission between Sedalia and Kansas City. The telegraph lines along the M.. K.P & T. in Missouri and the Southwest also suifered greatly and the road was withou. @ wire to Denison, Tex. al} trains were delayed. ,ue telephone service in the y icinity of Sedalia was seriously interrupted by the fleet and ow of the past two days, At 10 o’elbck Monday the. ten)- perature at Sedalia was - degrees above zero and it was sti}y snowing. it is believed that the sleet seriously in- jured the fruit trees. Fallen wires seriously hampered the operation of the railroads in Ohio. Dis- patches from Lima say that the Penn- sylvania between Pine street. Mr. Baggot, who has been suffering from grip, left his home Saturday after- noon at 3:30 o'clock to go to 4 neigh- boring drug store for medicine. He did not go into any, drug store near his home, nor did he ‘return to the house. He is 63 years old, 5 feet 7 inches in height and weighs about 7 "ear His complexion is ruddy and he has a red- dish-gray mustache, His eyes are blue. When he left home he, was dressed in a gray and black mixed suit and a light- weight gray overcoat, and wore a black derby hat. Mr. Baggot is an admirer of Dave Bali and during the recent campsign bet $100 with Harry B. Hawes that Ball would be nominated for the governor~- ship.. But the lose did not worry him, as he is said to be worth about $10,000 184. Sunday Figures: From the depositions Laahy next pick- ea as a theme the incident of Mrs. ' Lemp's effort to get into her home af- _ ter returning from a reception at the home of her mother-in-law. She com- _ plained that Lemp refused to admit her _ to the house. “I wks asleep, and the annunciator was not Working properly,” he oad. ae | ian’ hear her." ae “She had been at your mother’s?’ pe oy couldn't swear to it.” _ “She was with your sister?’ Roe § believe s0."’ “How long were the periods when you ‘nd Mra. Lemp did not speak?” ." es & month at a time.’’ # “How often did you take Mrs. | o the ‘World's Fair?” en or five times, near the close.” “Ever during the summer?” - "i can't remember.” * ton the incident of the letier in- nee in your conduct toward Mrs. n leave the prestitax a ay > aay er 322 tees Aibanel, formally accusing | . Stein- hell of the murder of form pvckiaies Felix Faure on Feb. 16, 1 Gregori's action follows t of M. de la Haye, a member of the Chamber of Deputies, who charged an unknown per- son with the crime, in a complaint to the Magistrate, who promised to trans-. mit it to the Public Prosecutor. - The action of Gregori and De la Haye wilt prevent an. inquiry into Faure’s death being prescribed by law, which would have been the case had no com- plaint been made. within ten years, to- no being the expiration of that pe Mme. Stetnhell. ie in prison on a charge of mnurdering her husband ~~ and mother. 7 * Globe-Democrat ........- as vom Republic... Sunday Post- Dispatch Excess — Over Republic ( ) Over Globe-Democrat-..----- The above measurements are @!l On a column for column basis. The Why and the Wherefore The sales of the POST-DISPATCH in St. Louls and Suburbs every Sunday or week than those of the Globe-Democrat and Rpublic COMBINED in the same field. Yesterday's (Sunday, Feburary 14th) circulation figures 275,167 B= Circulation Books Open to All <Be@g “First in Everything.” day are greater Lemp orapge grove | on Pe age Pow der tagtinaian. ite Four Sein: nenthy, polis + U VIVIAN, W. Va., Feb. rig ta oy 5 those who k he: a small whanty, 1 EEG - RAT Sing ae James, Thomas ‘Freeman. pas kcteny : i Nd ars wa . ae xe a . fk eS @ c taste 3

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