St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 3, 1909

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ee a ee . & HSN TT “HAS 10 in LOVE TO WIFE’S | POLICECHEVRONS, PRETTY SISTERS} MIND GIVES WAY They Tell of Attentions From |Cuddihee, a Gold Medal Man, Harry Hoiness. in, Wife’s Grieves When He Is Not Suit for Divorce: Promoted. VOL. 61. “NO. 195. TGS BULLY!” ere PORT cuaKies RO ISEVELT THE WINNERS POLICEMAN WHO COLLAPSED. WHEN HE WAS NOT ' PROMOTED WAVAW/ He T els Guests of the Post- Dispatch He Is Mighty Glad to See Them. — CALLS IT FINE TRIP| ae are E>. ee HAS A FINE. RECORD § Sz. MEN. THINK IT Jé City Hospital Physician Fhinks He Will Recover With a Week’s Rest. One Sister Testifies That Hus- band Left-Her on Learn- ing of Letters. St. iS School Children Also Meet Vice-President Fair- banks. s How Harry J. Holness made love to Thomas Cuddihee, a gold ee po- CANNON { s PRAISE FROM Tells, Boys of the Party He Would Like Chance to ' Court the Girls. ee vrem! a sig ll ae eensont of the SHINGTON, March 38.—President velt, Vice-President Fairbanks and er Cannon greeted the boys and of the. Post-Dispatch inaugura- party and their escorts, the Rev. , Williamson and Mrs. William- this morning. Each statesman had ¢ words for every boy and girl and them away happy and excited. igressman Bartholdt presented the and girls to the President in the. net room at 10:40 a. m. ‘The Pres- t seized each hand firmly, gave it tick pull that made the owner of hand jump into action. Then came famous Roosevelt smile and a word each. Here are the words: Chis is‘ bully,” “A great trip,” “Fine sO vee to have you here, "Warner Greets Party, ~enator Warner -received the party at ug Capitol at 11:30 a,m.° and led it to t! Vice-President’s private office. The | Vite-President left his seat in the Sen- oo | e and hurried to meet them. He shook han cordially with each boy and girl, hame after Dr. illiamson then sald: ese, boys and girls were elected oe the schools of St. Louis through votes tn the Post-Dispatch. A million aqua ‘ter votes were cast and these. the winners.’ Fairbanks Makes Speech. “Eeeaent Fairbanks, responding. Williamson. “This is a great opportunity for you. vhen 6% dook at: you I am sure the Night boys: and girls won the election.” ‘Speaker Cannon came next. The par- # ‘was weer ee to his office by ongressra: Caulfield and his secre- ary, Frank Laween; and Mrs! Lawson. » Speaker left the chair in the House eg ne boys and girls. He shook t as many boys as girls,” he Triple Ceremony Unites Den- /The three couples were all married at MRS. CARRIE HAMILTON. -—Loutsiana Studio. FLOPING SCHOOL GIRLS AND JAPS WED IN WYOMING , - rr s ey ver Young Women and _ Oriental Sweethearts. ‘DENVER, Colo., March 3.—Following the elopement of three white girls from Denver with their Jap sweethearts, three remarkable weddings were ceéle- brated at laramie, Wyo., yesterday. the’.same time by Rev. A. C. Hogbin of the First Presbyterian Church and i return to Denver to take up their residence. The names of the parties were: S. Yamada and Carrie Newman; Bill Sabata and Dora Walker; Harry Watanabe and Mabel Osborne: Miss Newrman and Yamada were the first of the six to elope from Denver for the Wyoralng town. They arrived at Laramie Monday afternoon and ap- plied for a marriage license, but were of the family who has not at some time refused, as the County Clerk was not AIR PLALNTIF HAD ONE SIS UT OIORCED a > hl lima RI i Ret ae Mother and Five Brothers and “Sisters Legally Separated From :Mates. Seven divorces in one family will be the record if Mrs. Carrie Hamiliton, an actress, succeeds in divorcing her hus- band, George H. Hamilton. an actor now traveling with his company in the West. - s She says there is only one member been in the divorce court. “Divorce seems to sort of run in the family,’’ she said to a Post-Dispatch re- porter at the home of her mother, Mrs Nicoline Keller, 5573 St. Edwajgd avenue, Many members of her fdmily are theatrical performers anf’ nearly all have married persons on the Stage. She does not believe, however, life on the stage had anything to do with the divorces, saying the majority of the his wife’s sisters was told Wednesday in- Judge Grimm’s court in their testi- in Mrs suit for divorce. Holness is mon'y Holness" now superintendent of a printing concern in:Mexico City. The sisters are Mrs. Luella Bauman, a plump and pretty brunette manicurist, 20 years old, and Miss Mabel Largen, of Pekin, Ill. Mrs. from Nick Bauman, ter Bauman said she was separated husband, last September, on account of his discovery that Holness was writing love letters to For a year prior to that time she she her. had been corresponding with him, testified. ‘How often did he write to you?” she was asked. ; “His letters were very numerous,”’ replied.” “They. were love letters.’’ Suggested an Elopement. In response to further questions she snid some of the letters were ‘‘warmer than others,’’ and explained that Hol- ness wanted her to leave Bauman and elope with him. He wrote to her, she said, that he did’t love his wife. On cross-examination, Mrs. Bauman said she answered these letters, but that she hadn't intended to elope with Hol- ness until she got a divorce from Bau- map. At that time she and Bauman lived in.Buffaio. Miss Largen said she never willingly received a declaration of love from Holness. But on her birthday, April 21, 1906, she said, he took her downtown to celebrate, and they visited a wine- recom. She said she refused to drink then, and during a subsequent sight- seeing trip through Hop Alley, but that after they reached Delmar Garden she drank two glasses of wine. Ca¥essed After Drinking Wine. The wine made her dizzy, she said, and. gave her. a “strange feeling,” SO that she insisted on starting home at once. On the street car she became ill, and she and Holness left it, she said, and walked into Lafayette Park. There, she testified, he caressed her, until she she fregained her strength and repulsed him. So humillated was she by this experl- ence, she testified, that she didn’t tell her sister of it. Mrs. Holness said she was married in March, 1898. Her husband accepted the position in Mexico City in October, 1908, and the following month he sent her a railroad ticket to visit him. She said he told her it was only a visit, and sent liceman with an exceptionally *gaod rec- ord, City the observation ward of the Hospital, is in suffering from a nerv- ous breakdown, said to be due to: the fact that he has not been promoted to be a sergeant. At 3:30 o'clock” Cuddihee’s wife heme, Tuesday afternoon, telephoned from her 2422 Coleman street. to the Day- Police Station that her hus- acting in ton Street band was a strange manner and a policeman was sent to the hause. Earlier in the day Cuddihee had report- ed to Capt. Mansfield at the Newstead Avenue Station, and said that he was ill and unfit for duty. He told Capt. Mansfield that he had not slept al! night and that he was very nervous. Hie wes relieved of duty and sent hame. Later Police Surgeon @®r. A. C. Robin- son called at his house and adminis- tered a sedative and reported that the patient was suffering from a nervous breakdown. Brocded Over His Case. Fellow officers say that Cuddiheé has been brooding over the fact that While he has done service entitling. him to pro- motion, he has not been given the chev- ron. They say that he was a gold a) al man, and that it turned his head.\ He} won a gold medal! in 1906:for the excep- tionaltty good arrést he“inade of Dave Henderson, a negro burglar. whom he shot while in the act of robbing a jew- elry store on Twentieth street. After- ward he killed a negro burgiar on the levee and later shot a prowling negro in the West End. He has only been before the Board of Police Commissioners once, shortly after New Years, on complaint of a chauffeur who accused him of slapping him at Boyle avenue and Olive street. On this occasion Capt. Mansfield gave him a good recommendation and he escaped with a slight reprimand that was con- sidered equal to exoneration. Spoken of Highly. Capt. Mansfield said Wednesday: ‘“‘Cuddihee is an intelligent, brave and conscientious officer. He was always ambitious for promotion and often spoke to me about it. I consider him an exceptionally good policeman.’’ At the City Hospital Cuddihee ap- peared to be surprised that he was un- der observation. He said that his broth- er had asked him to take a walk and he found himself in the hospital. He TAREE: THROWN when. one of the tires burst on Olive street, afternoon, and Ramsey, his guest, Frank ville, were thrown to the pavement. was belleved at first to have been fa- found that his chief injyries were gash- es above and below th has lived at 608 North Garrison avenue FROM: AUTO. ~ TIRE EXPLODES} a dill iW. C, Ramsey Hurt When Machine Falls .on- Him After Wreck. 4 W..C. Ramsey’s automobile overturned near Twenty-third, Wednesday Williams, and the chauffeur, F. 8S, Nea- Ramsey, who was pinioned by the car, taliy hurt, and4was hurried to St. John’s Hospital, a block away. There it was right eye. Machine Hits a Car. Ramsey, a traveling salesman, who ABNERJUSTCANT. EEP HORSES AND THE POLICE AWAY == | eee Animals Seem to Love Him, Somehow, “and So: He Gets: * -Into Trouble. Louis Abner is in a peck of trouble because there is some strange quality about him that suggests a bale of hay. He is now occupying a stall in the Mascoutah Jail, after having been held for the grand jury ona charge of horse- stealing. ‘“T can't help it,’’ said Abner Wednes- | day. “Horses just have a. way of fol- lowing me wherever I go. They'll get a halter around my neck yet. I never owned a horse and never. cultivated the society of ‘horses, but I can’t shoo ’ém away.’ Abner says that his trade is ‘looking for work." He has followed it all over a the only’ one : 0 as the State. bs pan direct evidence than, elsewhere, and the serious nature’ th > meta 4 soners unt their indictment a joke. They did not. ee ¥ the idea of the separati bray, howev or, as he 7 since’ “they Gee ae "a ead of George Ryan, plicated with Maj New Orleans. and The men in . Ja give the. bord ge oie aes eae in tea AER ieee de hw Ae said that he had won a gold medal for ar - ke his mean- round-trip ticket t¢ make good police duty, and that he had hoped ing clear. | w bring him promotion, A Mexican’ senéfita hall wor Holness’ | “D8! iC would bring Dp nh, «nd had worried because it had not. heart, Mre. Holness said, and she testi- ; Tr, rintendent of fied that’ the, girl gave him a flower Dr. , Kirchner, Supe it of the : City Hospital, said that Cudgdilee was | : ry cl ? i - a : . daily, w ie est ce gh suffering from a case of upset nerves, s@ er 7 r sure it was legal for a white woinan to | ‘aSeS were for re . necte ae avian: The : ; CaSes Were for reasons not connected . ,' © matter was passed Ullin any way with the stage. to the District Judge, who yesterday de- Mother Was the Firat cided there was nothing In’ the law to] «y¢.. morher. Mrs., Nicoline Keller, preven? the marriage. By that time the was the first one of the family to get other two couples had appeared on the : a divorce,’’ said Mrs. Hamilton. “‘She cene and all decided to be married at} wag merried to William Lauer, who is iene “TN tell you, : wish for a few days past, was the owner of the car. He was running it east on Olive street when, at Beaumont street, he ran one wheel against the rear of a street car. The collision was not a. severe one, and aside from a slight ex- citement on, the rear platform of the the country. On his present tour he started from winter quastets at Tren- ton, N. J. .** At Shiloh, lL, near Belleville, a horse saw him. It was all up with Abner then. The faster he walked, the faster the horse followed him. It was a fine} om oul “Just ae up and get busy al court ‘these girls. I'm glad to see mou. Have a fine time.” ni ee Piibetin gi escorted the party |/* | Senate reception halls and famous marbie room and t's room to the boys and rk and heard Senator Money a speak, They saw Till-. d La Follette and Gore and the sstr en. Cau aha Mr taw- d them ey a the House ATC 1 and explained the on the President this santly received. ware House «..d the same time. The three couples had arranged to: be married by! the -police judge, but at the last‘moment Miss Newman insisted that a clergyman shuuld perform the ceremony. An Episcopal minister re- ‘fpsed, but a minister who was willing to perform the ceremony was soon found, and the three girls became the wives of three brown- xmoet lovers. {Big WIND | BRINGS IN NEW COMBINATION OF Moving PICTURE MEN THE TEMPERATURES. Midnight «.... oe s @, ¥M@e.... So SS Sea a. : 2 a, re 4 ‘2. meee tthe 3 a. cera n. nb Band Seah eres 2 (noon) 413 She - x eae > oa arts ae -—.... # 3 Pp. m.. . 43 a -...41 “I sé@e the nick- elodeon proprie- tors have” formed a combination,” said the druggist. “What “are they going to. call it?” asked the grocer. “The Projecting and ~ Producing ‘Co,, I believe.” “That's just the tight name.” ; “How's t that?” ] “Well, t com: pany will project the pictures and the public ° will produce the nick- | her to’ reform her. my tather. They didn't get along very well together, and he drank to excess. Home was a very unhappy place, and mother govt a diyorce. ‘The rumor that she has been divorced more than once is not ‘true.. She is now living with her second husband, Joseph Keller “I may be a little off of the order of the divorces, but I think the next one was that of my brother, Charley Lauer. Charley is on the stage. He does le- gitimate work, but married a variety actress. I believe hea said he married ell, I guess you know how that turned ou\ My brother got a. divorce, | “Then them was my other brother, Arthur Lauer. He was divorced also. “My sister, Lottie, was married to a man named John Halt. Hé was in some Vays like my father. He drauk too mich, and ghe had to go to court to get rid of him. “Lena, another of my sisters, mar- ried Frank Blumenthal. “They didn’t get along at all well, and she got a divorce. “f don’t know much about the case of my sister, Tillie. She was married to ® irah named Rohl, but they lived up in Iowa, and she got a divorce there, but I don't know what the treuble was. “Oh, I have one sister who has not oven @ivorced. She was Mrs. Harry Mitchell,- and her husband died after they had been married a little while. Says Her Case Is Different. “I don't believe much in divorces and in ordinary cases I don’t think I would go to court, but with my husband it is different. We were married Aug. 10, 1904, and separated in July, 196. He never did support me. I am doing dramatic work, and he was on the stage, too, We traveled together a good deal of the time. “Once, when I was taken sick, in- tre of me, he sent me In August, 1908, Mrs, Holness returned to St. Louis. Jan. 24 of that year, she testified, Nick Bauman sent her a let- ter written by Holness:to Mrs. Bauman, which Bauman had intercepted, It was on account of this that the Baumans separated. The note, which@s an ex- hibit in«the» suit, is ag follows “Sweetheart Mine: I will only write a shogt note, and TI will also send with this one you can read to Nick. Is it all right to write to you atthehouse, dear? “Why da you say you can't write as you want to?. You know I like you to write just what your thoughts are. And just forgét that foolish dream. When 1. come East Y will convince you that is not the way’ things are. Certainly I do love you as much as YOu do me, or. more, and always will, You just be careful and be a good ifttle girl” unti! I see you. I cannot write.more, Lou, as I do not. want this envélope to look large and suspicion. Write me a nite, long, loving ‘letter, telling me whether P it is safe for me to address you as this is sent.» Ther I will write you a longer und more loving letter and will send a picture a'so. With loving kisses, as al- ways’’—— . Tits note was, sighed “H.” Accom- panying was a formal note, acknowl- edging Mre. Bauman’s thanks for a Christmes brdcefet Holness had sent her, which she read to Bauman. Holiness, although he was not present at the suit, had filed a cross-bill, in which he said his wife expressed love for F. F. McArthur, \|Holness’ business. partner in Mexico, seace younger than Mrs. Holness. . She ts Mrs, Holiness, | cryss-examined ag§to this, dented that there whs anything Umproper between her and. MeArthu _MeArthurs” deposition, on file in An, but that a rest of a week would prob- ably restore his mental health, The physicians in charge had come to no definite cenclusicn as to how badly his nervous condétion is and will hold him for observation for a few days. Appointed in 1889, . Cuddihec was appointed tothe force Aug. 21, 1899, when he was 27 years old. He was on duty for a long time jn the Central District, where his conduct was very good, and was transferred from ‘the Ninth District to the Newstead Avenue: Statién Aug. 31, 1908. He is the father of five children, and happy. »% POTATO BUG EXPERT, SEEKING WILLEMUM, SWINDLED BY GIRL Becomes Engaged, Sends $700 for Trousseau, Misses. Fiancée, @ (st © O0eKs: Police. CLEVELAND, O., March 3.—As soon as C. C. Hughes, an’ aged Virginia farm- er and wealthy inventor of a potato bug exterminator, reached Cleveland, the police expect to learn interesting details ‘pad the allege bunco game efor which old, of ‘Pittsburg. and her. "pal," Joseph L. Silberman. m Arrested on the compibine of Postof- ‘fice authorities, the pair is in jail here today, charged with ‘having obtaified $700 from Hughes and plagning to get. thoushnds more, _ | The police say Hughes met Miss Wil-lopen son in Pittsburg when he canse from bis Virginia” home “summer to ate | tend a ‘Millienial Daw . iB sonvention. or ear, it had no apparent: effect at time, rf party passed Twenty-third street a which had been weakened by the the curb and :turned over. his home life was said to be unusually machine and ‘they are holding Hattie Wilson, 22 years } at 2308 Benton street, died at the city to arepats food for herself or to call for aid. Ba Ulrich of 2812 Benton street forced b | en the door of Mrs, Fitagerald's roan the the the tire col- and the car ran into chauffeur, took Just after Neaville, the guidance’ of thé car. lision blew ‘up, The wreck -occurred directly in front of a chocolate factory, and giris with their hands and wrists covered with the ingredients of candy ran out to velun- teer for Red Cross work. W. Lambert, who was passing in his auto, tedk Ramsey out from under the carried hirh afd Neaville to the hospital. Williams. went, to Dr. Mer'win’s ‘office. Neayille and Williams were not injured beyond scalp wounds, Witliams lives at 3421 Lindell avenue, and Neaville at 524 North Theresa. The machine was a wreck. WOMAN TOO WEAK TO CALL AID DIES OF STARVATION Neighbor Forces Open the Door of Her Room and Finds Uncorts ™ scious Form. Mrs, Johanna Fitzgerald, 62 years ole. who was found unconscious in her room } Hospital Wednesday. Neighbors’ believe that she otervelis with food close at hand. The weakness of old age made it impossible. for her black horse with a rope around its neck. Horse es Infatuated. In vain Abner tried to get rid‘ of thé nag. He would catch hold of the rope and run along with it until the horse would get into a gallop. Then he would let go the rope, ‘thinking that the horse’s momentum would carry it forward and he could slip into the un- derbrush: gnd lose himself. But it wouldn't “work. west Then he would climb up on the horse's back and ride awhile,” watching his change to slip off the horse’s tall. He might have been devising schemes of that sort yet if it hadfi't been for the Mascoutah Anti- Horsethief Assoeia- tion. Now He Is in Trowlfie. leading members of this organiza- lion are Phil Postel and: Dr. John Leu. When they heard that Hiram, Jentzen’s horse was missing. they jumped in a bugsy and took up’ the traii., It was easy to follow béctuse horse had a peculiarly. shoe on its: left They, overtook too ¥ after he md been told that she ei m tt Hiram's shaped goetertering”