St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 28, 1909

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VOL. 61. NO. 312. a A OA LLC I _ Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service

ST. . LOUIS, , MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 28, 1909.

FALLS DEAD IN WIDOWS ARMS a ee Suicide Follows Murder Roadside Tragedy Near Caruthersville. in f MEN SEEMED FRIENDS Attack Without Warning, as waar | : time. The item wil the gauntlet -ef conference. ; mH THAT JEP HOWE WOULD Favored Suitor Drives in’ Buggy With Woman. LOCALITY IS AROUSED Acquaintances Supposed Con- test for Woman’s Favor ‘Was Good-Natured. Special to the Post-Dispatch. CARUTHERSVILLE, Mo., June 28.— Rivalry between J. W. Head and Ottie Bush, neighbors, for the favor of Mrs. Denie Kelley, a grass widow, led to a double tragedy in the country road 10 miles nérth of here. Head shot and killed Bush as Bush was seated in a buggy with Mrs. Kelley. He then shot himself and died a few hours later. At the Coroner’s inquest into the shooting it developed that the two men had not quarreled previously. Bush and ‘Mra. Kelley were driving quietly along the country road Sunday morning when Head galloped up on his pony. Without @ word of warning Head drew his re- volver and fired, at close range, at his rival, His aim was good and Bush died al- most instantly in the arms of the young woman. Without waiting to see whether the wound was fatal, Head shot himself. Woman in Hystericsa. People living in the vicinity of the tragedy went to the scene.--rney found Mrs. Kelley -almost distracted, with bush lying dead in the buggy, and Head unconscious by the roadside. - The tragedy created great excitement among the quiet country people who are neighbors of the principals. It was gen- erally known that the young farmers were rivals for the hand of Mrs. Kel- ley, but it was believed to be a friendly contest, with the advantage somewhat with Bush. The tragic ending was wholly unex- pected, as it was not known that the two men had ever quarreied. The Cor- ener, upon being notified of the double tragedy, went fmmediately to the scene an: held an inquest. HIGHER DUTY ON STEEL AND IRON; COTTON BAGGING FREE

—Goncession Made to Save Time, but May Be Changed in .~., Conference. \WASHINGTON, June 28.—The Senate y adopted a slight increase in the on structural iron and steel, when fii at more than nine-tenths of a _ *%r pound. A’motion by Mr. Stone to put structural iron and steel on the free list was voted down, as was a mo- tion by Mr. Cummins to reduce the duty. Without debate the Senate placed cot- ton bagging on the free list and agreed \to the House rate of three-tenths of a ‘gent a pound on cotton ties.. The con- eession on bagegi made to save still have to run

Bed A QUO WARRANTO ON ’ SUN AS TRUST'S COMPETITOR! THE TEMPERATURES. Pree Sy vt a. WiBec ee neve | reer rs & f 11 a. ee a erro. | 2 P. onc aag ase mh. 70 3 p. socsee see my don't t see why -the Union Electric doesn’t do some- thing about it,” said the grocer. “About what?” asked the canned- goods salesman. “This heat. It seems to me that the sun is clearly in competition with

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|Three-Year-Old Girl | SURGEONS WITH BUCKSAW CUT GRATING FROM CHILD'S FOOT Gets: Hobble While Playing in Lafayette Park. While playing in Lafayette Park Monday, Celesta Haehle, a 3-year-old child, caught her foot in a sewer grat- ing, and her father was unaple to ex- tricate the imprisoned limb. She was taken to the City Hospital by her father and Policeman Zeitler, with the grating ‘still fastened to her foot. The grating was sawed in two by the hospital physicians with a buck saw and she was released, without hav- ing been hurt. The grating was two feet long and a foot wide, and weighed 60 pounds. The father, Henry Haehle, who lives at 1801A Rutger street, and the policeman, lifted the grating from its resting place, and carried it, with the baby, to the hos- pital. HUNTER HIDES DEAD BIRD IN HIS MOUTH TO AVOID ARREST Game Warden Sees Tail Feathers Disappearing and Marches Man to Jail. Sixteen men to one brown thrush fur- nished excitement for Granite City Sun- day afternoon. The men were gathered under a tree on the bank of Gabaret Slough shooting at song birds. George Lacki had just killed a brown thrush when Deputy Game Warden Waters arrived. Lacki made desperate efforts to hide the bird. First he put it in his pocket, but he figured that the officer might search his pockets. Then he tried to cram the feathered carcass into his mouth. Waters got there just as the tail feathers were disappearing between Lacki’s teeth. He arrested Lacki and marched him to the town jail, his fif- teen companions following. MAN HAS A FIT WHEN UMPIRE DECLARES LONG DRIVE A FOUL Lone Rooter Has Convulsions and Bursts Blood Vessel Over Adverse Decision. NEW YORK, June 28.—Wild with en- thusiasm, as Danny McCreehan, captain of the visiting team in a game between Blizabeth and Allentown, N. J., yester- day afternoon, hit a long drive over left field fence, Martin McPherson went into convulsions when the umpire called it a foul. He was taken to the Elizabeth Hospital raving, and physicians there fear he will die, having burst a blood vessel. It was an Atlantic League contest, and 21,000 spectators were at high ten- sion, when McCreehan came to the bat in the ninth inning, with the score 2 to 3. He hit one over left. McPherson, the only visiting rooter on the grounds, shouted himself hoarse, thinking it a home run. When the umpire called ‘“foul,’”” Mc- Pherson turned purple, gave a yell like a maniac, and rolled from the top of the bleachers stand, head first, to the ground, writhing. Allentown players say that McPherson has been following the team all over the circuit. AMERICAN 1$ HELD FOR FORGERY Conrad Harms Is Arrested in Lon- don; $5000 Seized. LONDON, June 28.—A man who gives the name of Henry Clifford, but who is believed to be Conrad Harms, was re- manded at Bow Street Police Court to- day for one week. Harms was until recently an employe of J. 8S. Bache & Co. of New York and was being sought by the police on the charge of having forged drafts for near- ly $8000 on the Swiss Bank Verein, the London agents of Bache & Co, He denies that he is Harms, but the bank officials have identified securities valued at about tte which were found in his rooms.

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STABBED MAN DIES AFTER H NAMES SLAYER Casual Meeting at a Bar Is Fol- lowed by Affray That Results Fatally. —_—_—_ IS

MYSTERY DEEP Wounded Man Is’ Found Later by Party of Searchers.

Witnesses at the inquest Monday into the death of John De Witt, who was stabbed by Thomas Driscoll in a Butch- ertown saloon at 1925 North Prairie ave- nue and died without telling the mo- t‘'ve for the act, were so reluctant that Deputy “Coroner Carriere took occasion to remind several of them that they were under oath to tell all the truth. In spite of this, three hours’ questioning failed to reveal the cause of the brawl. ‘‘Weren’t three of you in a plot to ‘get’ De Witt?’ Carriere asked Fred Feitze!, their drinking companion be- fore the killing. ‘No. we weren't,’ said Feitzel. Feitzel said Driscoll called him into the saloon a short time before the stab- bing to have a drink, and that he no- ticed Driscoll’s face and head were bruised, but he denied that he knew how Driscoll received the bruises, or whether De Witt had inflicted them. He evaded questions, and refused to an- swer some. When Carriere wearied of trying to get information from him, he told the witness to stand aside, to be questioned again later. Not less reluctant to talk was James Larmie, bartender in Henry Roeder’s sa- loon, where the three were drinking. Larmie couldn’t remember who was in the saloon or what Driscoil and De Witt and Feitzel were talking about, or how much they drank. “Do you know that you are under oath, and can be sent before the grand jury?’’ demanded Carriere, out of pa- tience. “I don't, care where I’m sent,” the witness, defiantly. The only witress apparently ready to tell ail he knew, in addition to the po- licemen who made eight arrests in the place, was John Sweitzer of 38841 North Market street, a contractor. Schweitzer was helping Rveder in the part of the place devoted to groceries, separated from the saloon by a parti- tion. He says Roeder told him that Driscoll and De Witt had quarreled earlier in the evening, and had fought, but that the cause of the quarrel was not mentioned. Schweitzer said he didn’t know wheth- er it was a political or a business quar- rel. Driscoll was a teamster, and De Witt foreman for the Prendergast Con- struction Co. Roeder denied, when he took the stand, that he knew of any trouble between the men before the fatal fight. It was Schweitzer who disarmed Dris- coll after the stabbing, wresting from him the big’ butcher knife which he had driven into De Witt’s abdomen. “De Witt cried, ‘He's got me—let me get him,’’’ Schweitzer testified. “‘I ran up and took the knife away from Dris- coll ,and had to choke him to make him turn it loose. He ran back into the store and came back in a minute with a quart soda bottle, looking as if he meant to hit De Witt with that. I took the bottle away from him.” The witnesses said the struggle and stabbing occurred in the door of the sa- loon, but they disagreed as to whether Driscoll followed De Witt fro mthe bar, or whether De Witt left the saloon, re- turning 15 minutes later to renew the quarrel, said

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Has Been First in Post-Dispatch / Giobe—Democrat . ....... PU sk tk ST. LOUIS, June 28, 1909. BULLETIN 117 (One Hundred and Seventeen) For 117 consecutive Sundays, covering - a period of two full years and 13 Sundays, The Sunday Post-Dispatch Sunday Advertising (Excluding Special Editions and cheap legal.) x* *k * Yesterday’s (Sunday) figures: 203 Cols. iz 112 Sunday Post-Dispatch Excess Over Republic .. ® rae = Over Globe-Democrat. ... The above measurements are all on a column for column basis. x XK &. “The supreme test of the advertising value of a ne —does it wd the preponderance of the local ad soph the most advertising, month after. month, always the best advertig; from a New York 91 Cols. Ra ead ai is A ng medium.” expert’s opinion.) Yesterday’s (Sunday, June 27) circulation figures: . 250,849

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MUNYON BARS his WIFEFROM HOME: SHE ASKS DECR as Medicine Man Sued by Former Actress After Sons Object to Her.

ROMANCE A YEAR OLD Young Woman and Doctor, 64 Years Old, Met on White Way. Spccial to the Post-Dispatch. PHILADELPHIA, Louise Neff Metzger Munyon, recently north of Over- chorus girl and until mistress of the palatial ‘‘Towers,”’ brook, has brought suit for divorce from ‘Prof.”’ M. turer of medicines. known to the public vertisements showing him with hand raised. Mrs. Munyon bobbed Munyon, manufac- Mr. Munyon through James is the ad- right into publicity first by the invention of a startling new | dance, second by wearing the first sheath gown seen on the board walk at Atlantic City and third by her mar- riage to Munyon, whom she met on the great white way in New York. Mrs. Munyon’s chief grievance is that she was sent away from “The Towers’”’ by her millionaire husband on June 12. She is also known to have had differ- ences with her nusband’s two married sons, the eldest of whom is only a year her junior. Dance Startled Altoona. Little gloom clouds have hovered about the Munyon country home intermit- tently since the marriage that surprised Broadway a year ago last April. Pauline Neff Metzger organized some amateur theatrical specialties in Al- toona two years ago. One was a dance which set conservative Altoona awhirl and sent a little throb all over the coun- try. Mrs. Metzger, who had resumed her maiden name of Neff, figuratively danced right onto the New York stage. She was a member of the chorus in “The Show Girl,”’ and then vaudeville. Somewhere in the incandescence of Broadway she and ‘“Dr.’’ Munyon met. They motored together and rested their elbows in friendly fashion on the same cafe tables. Then they surprised New York by getting married. Their honey- moon was in the Knickerbocker Hotel. Pauline used to sing with pleasing effect that little song: Honeymoon, honeymoon, Tell me why vou wane 80 soon; Hearts are broken when you're sone, Honeymoon. Sadder maids. away and You will ne'er Honeymoon. Disagrees With Stensons, The Munyon honeymoon waned sceon after Pauline Neff met her grown-up stepsons. They had a row with their father because he had married her and they were very indignant at her because she had married him. Pauline was 24 and the doctor was 64. Mrs. Hall, Mrs. Munyon’s aunt, made it quite clear, or tried to, that her niece had married only the professor. The impression she succeeded in conveying was that Pauline hadn't undertaken to mother the adult sons of her liege lord. Early in June the public learned that “Dr."" Munyon had disappeared from “The Towers” and that Mrs. Munyon was left in the mansion, the prey of nervousness and grief. While the “doc- tor” moped around New York hotels, Mrs. Munyon called in other goctors and shut herself from society. On June 12 Mr. Munyon returned and simultaneously Mrs. Munyon left the house. She took her gems and little belongings. The Munyons, father and. sons, then set a guard about the place. Strong men watched the gates and a strong chair leaned against the front door in case the lock should not prove strong enough to withstand the attack ‘“‘The Towers” seemed to dread. But the at- tack didn’t happen. Instead the enemy chose to file a brief bill in court. OCEAN LINERS IN SIGHT IN RACE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC oe ree. ~ ee eee For Most-of the Voyage Two Ves- sels Were Within a Mile of Each Other. LONDON, June 28.—It falls to the lot of comparatively few voyagers across the Atlantic to enjoy the excitement of a race from Fire Island to the English Channel in such measure as did those on the Hamburg-American and Red Star liners Amerika and Lapland, respective- ly. The former arrived at Plymouth Saturday night, while the latter reached Dover yesterday morning. For seven days and nights the two great vessels plowed the selfsame wun- ruffled seas almost side by side. 80 evenly matched were they in speed that their logs were almost identical, and although for five and a halr days the Amerika held her rival haif to a quarter of a mile astern, she coula not shake her off, and finally turned into Ply- mouth with the Lapland only a few hundred yards behind. wiser men, watch you fade then return again,

June 28.—Pauline | former ° inte. YOUNG WIFE OF MEDICINE MAN WHO HAS SUED FOR DIVORCE

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DOG GOES MAD N BATHTUB AND CHEWS CES TUBE Almost Asphyxiated, but Re- vives to Die by Police- man’s Bullet. / A mad dog that came near killing him- self by gas' asphyxiation was taken from the home of Oscar Rode, 4227A St. Louis avenue, Sunday afternoon and shot by Patrolman Fitzgerald of the Deer ae Station. Mrs. Rode called up the station and requested that a man be sent quickly, as there was a mad dog in her home. Fitzgerald was led to the bathroom door, which was locked. “I smell gas,’’ he said. “IT thought I did, too,”’ said Mrs. Rode. Unlocking the door, they found the high-bred dog, Newstead Nero, lying on the floor with his feet in the air. He was barely breathing. The bathroom was heavy with gas odor. In his delirium, the dog had chewed a hole in a rubber tube. leading to the gas stove used in heating the water. The dog was almost dead when found. Mrs. Rode said she had taken Nero to the bathroom to give him his usual! Sun- day bath. He had been acting queerly for some days, and had refused to play with Mr. Rode or to run to meet him when he came home. “Nero snapped at me several times,” said Mrs. Rode, “‘and I slapped him. I thought that he would quit acting foolish when the refreshing water touched him, but when I put him in the tub he began to kick g@ond splash about at such a rate that I became alarmed and ran out, locking the door.” Newstead Nero was a white bulldog, 8 months old. He was raised by the Rodes from puphood. He was highly pedigreed. Mrs. Rode apparently did not realize the peril she and other members of the household had been in until the police- man arrived and saw symptoms of ra- bies. DETECTIVE WILL LEAVE PARIS WITH FORTNER ABOUT JULY 4 Detective-Sergeant John McMullen, who was sent to Paris, France, to get M. Dwight Fortner, fugitive rea] es. tate manipulator, wanted here on charges of forgery § involving thou- sands of doilars, expects to get pos- session of his man not later than July 4. . This information was contained in a letter dated June 16, received Mon- day by Chief Creecy from McMullen. In the letter no mention was made of any probable technical interference with the extradition of Fortner. t'n- der the French law, McMullen wrote, the prisoner must be given a prelim- inary hearing ang prima facia proof of hia guilt must’ be presented before the Government will turn him over. “There is a lot of work to be done

UY RIDERS TRY TU SELL STOLEN INt BOAT} Men Deceive - Caretaker and Drift Ten Days in Dis- abled Craft. A 10-day joy ride is responsible for the disappearance of Charles Fossett's gasoline launch, the Wasp, he learned Monday from Jesse Moore of’ Sulphur Springs, who recovered it from the joy riders... Fossett, a carpenter, who lives at 3421 Manchester avenue, will go to Sulphur Springs for the launch. Fossett and Henry Lasby, a cousin, who lives with him, took a ride in the launch June 16, and met with a mishap to the motor, which compelled them to tle up at the Quarantine Hospital. They left the night watchman in charge there, to look after the boat, and re- turned to St. Louis by street car. The following day two men, adopting the tactics of those who pilfer automo- biles from garages, told the night watch- man they had been sent for the boat by the owner, and he let them have it. They drifted downstream in the dis- abled Wasp, and the watchman arin a no more of them. Moore, from his home near the river at Sulphur Springs, saw two men run aground last Friday, and went off in a skiff to théir aid. They offered to sell him the boat, and, his suspicions arous- ed, he suggested that they wait until Monday. Scanning the newspapers Sunday, Moore saw an advertisement Fossett had placed in the Post-Dispatch for the lost launch, and he caught the next train for St. Louis. Fossett promised to reward Moore, who returned to Sulphur Spring to take charge of the boat for him. When Fos- sett found it would cost about $100 to bring the joy riders back to St. Louis, he told Moore not to have them held; if he found them still waiting to make a trade. The launch is valued at $800. FINK WILL BOSS CHICKEN FARM OR QUIT BUSINESS Wants His License Revoked Be- cause His Mother Gives Orders ‘ to Negro Servants. William M. Fink proposes to be boss or quit business. Fink owns the place known as “The Chicken Farm,” a roadhouse resort for automobile Parties, on the Manchester road, four miles west of St. Louis. Monday he visited Prosecuting At-

“Your own loense?” asked the — ecutor. “Bure,” said Fink. “You see my mother, who is a widow, lives there,

12 years ago a poor man, will go back terested the world was staged. He will live there with the Princess whe was the cently purchased for $600,000. He was a years ago as Foreign Secretary, but he and Prince and with a private fortune

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German Chancellor Will Retire § as Finance Measure Is Settled in Reichstag. /

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(BY amoelisnhgeianed BE announcement that he intends to retire from the the Empire as soon as the pending finance reform me ry / posed of. The Prince remains in office only caper in : =e : deavor to pass the bill. The semi-official Norddeutsche Adie aidliag: Zeitung! © ing today on the various reports published, tending to’ significance of Chancellor von Buelow’s aga ‘‘Prince von Buelow besought the Emperor to { at once, but His Majesty, in the warmest terms, exp that the Prince remain in office until the emma been put through the Reichstag.’’ In last November Chancellor von Bue- low was reported to be indignant at certain statements given to the public through newspaper interviews in which. the Kaiser had touched on delicate in- ternational relations. . f There was a popular protest against the position in which the empire had been placed, also, and Chancellor von Buelow went to Potsdam, where he talked plainly to the Emperor and was said to have received assurance from the Emperor that thenceforth he would conform to constitutional methods of conducting the policies of Germany. Successor Not Chosen. Emperor William has not. considered the question of a successor to Chancel- lor von Buelow. The most probable choice, however, is Dr. van Bethmann- Hollweg; Imperial Secretary of State for the Interior, and Vice-Chancellor. He has been in close contact with the Emperor for 10 years as President of the Province of Brandenburg and Im- perial Secretary, and his personal re- lations with the Emperor are cordial. As Secretary. for the Interior, Dr. Jchn Bethmann-Hellweg has dealt with afiairs between the federated states and the Empire, often most delicate in char- acter, with uncommon success, and he has won the confidence of the various allied governments. He is an able par- Hamentarian, but he never has had anything to do with foreign affairs. He is 52 years old and has a ‘great capacity for work. In filling this office, the Emperor has a wide choice and he may consider Bar- on Marschal von Bieberstein, the Am- bassador at Constantinople. The Baron ie dita ie Pad ea eoeoes : ¥ + St A $0 SCTE oa incidents when he was for Alsace-Lorraine, . when Prussian Minister of the Interior, Among the other possibilities |

is not altogether agreeable to the Em- peror personally on account of certain on van Rheinbaben, Gen. von feldt and Gen. von Wedel. Born an Aristocrat, Eloped With Young Wife of Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch. BERLIN, June 28.—Prince von Buelow, to Rome where his romance: that in- heroine of that romance, and his home will be an Italian villa, which he re- poor man when he came to Berlin 2 will go away with the title of Count that reaches Into the millions. Prince von Buelow, on the day the title of princes was bestowed upon him

aes amt aS ‘pay : Aig = ‘ * ‘J fs a ‘ sie hee a. ox re 5 ant Me” : So oetey RLIN, June 28.—Prinee Von Buelow today authorized ti tary, and had a violent controve’ = Ernest von Koller, poe «gp 2 y ta