St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 16, 1909

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~ one _ keeper, 8232 South Grand avenue, has there were four nickels on the table. - eense and all penuchle games in sa- - loons will be stopped. -BROWNS-NAPS GAME CALLED OFF Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associ

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ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, ING, AUGUST 1 16, 1909. —- oe, PRICE ONE CENT. -

BACK CHARGING | INTIMIDATION Motion to Quash Land Fraud Cases Says Grand Jurors Were Threatened.

CONSPIRACY IS ALLEGED Oklahoma Governor Declares That Foreman Forced

Indictments. | 4 PARTISANS ON JURY! Contends That Secretary of Interior Knew How Lots Were Handled. By Associated Press MUSKOGEER, Ok., Aug. 16.—Attorneys for Gov. Charles N. Haskell and the five other defendants indicted in connection with the alleged Muskogee town lot frauds, today filed motions in the Fed- eral Court here to quash the indictments, setting forth a number of startling alle- gations. Aside from charges against five grand jurors and the allegation of improper conduct on the part of United States Marshal Grant Victor, the allegations deal largely with the grand jury’s se- lection, with especial objection to the exclusion of Muskogee County, the home of the defendants, from the territory from which the jury was chosen. | It is alleged that George W. Strawn, J. H. Dixon, J. C. Burgess, A. G. Dumas}. and W, T. Bailey, members of the grand jury which indicted the defendants, de- liberately sought to go on that jury, with a view of returning indictments: that Strawn, a foreman, conspired to intimidate the other jurors into veting indictments after they had refused to do s0. Perjury Threat Alleged. The motion insists that Foreman Strawn repeatedly told the jurors that they probably would be charged with to.indict, and at would know who should be prosecuted. It is alleged that out of eight tales- men selected, seven were partisan Re- publicans and the eighth a bitter per- sonal enemy of Gov. Haskell. Gov. Haskell is a Democrat. After pointing out numerous techni- calities in the manner ana time of the grand jury’s selection, the motion de-} ’ clares there was no evidence presented to show a conspiracy to defraud and that the Secretary of the Interior and all its departments in the Indian Terri- tory. were fully aware of how the lots were scheduled and that no objection was raised. Six Imdicted May 27. The six defendants were indicted by the Federal grand jury at Tulsa, Ok., on May 27, charged with obtaining titles from the Government to town lots in Muskogee by illegal methods. The five co-defendants of Gov. Has- kell, all wealthy and prominent citi- wens of Oklahoma are: C. W. Turner, Ae Z. English, W. R. Eaton, W. T. Hutchins and H. E. Severs. Gov. Haskell and six other defend- ants had previously been indicted on the same charge, but on April 10 last, Federal Judge John A. Marshall of Utah upheld a motion of the defendants to quash the indictments. The indict- ments were quashed on _ technica! grounds. FATE OF PENUCHLE AND ALL SALOON GAMES IN BALANCE Excise Commissioner to Decide if Barroom Customers Can Play on the Premises. Excise Commissioner Caulfield will de- cide next Monday whether penuchle, “high-five” or any other card «game may be played in a saloon or on the premises. Lawrence Meyer, a saloon

been cited to show why his license should not be revoked for allowing a card game to be played on his premises. Policeman Burns of the Magnolia Avenue District saia he saw four men in @ rear room playing cards and that He said Meyer explained that the money Was payment for drinks and was not stakes. The statutes say that the playing of cards on the premises of a saloon is fambling and a violation of the law. They also say that saloon keepers must not have pool, billiard, card, dice or any other gaming device. If Commissioner Caulfield decides that Meyer has vio- lated the law, the latter will lese his

_ OL™VELAND, O., Aug. 16.—The dou- ble header whic was scheduled for the Browns and Cleveland today was post- mea on account of rain. A double ‘ “6 . en the ballot stood eight to! eight, he called for an open vote, so he|: \* & © @2 OS SOS. po ; x

HORSE FALLS I HOLE AND SPENDS SUNDAY THERE Second Accident in Same Place in Alley Which Had Not Been Repaired. eee A horse belonging to the Merchants’ Basket and Box Co. spent Sunday night in a deep hole in an L-shaped alley running from Biddle street and Bending around to Collins. Hay and buckets ef water were let down to it With ropes, This horse’s fall was the second acci- dent of the kind that has happened at the same place in the last three months. The tloor of the alley is earth-covered voarde. The boards gave way the first time dnd tumbled a wagon and horse 2% feet into an abandoned cellar. The horse’ was killed. Horse Appeared Injured. The hole never has been filled up, and Sunday, when the basket company’s horse was hitched in the alley it took fright, broke loose and jumped into the hole. The bottom of the eld cellar is filled with boards and loose timbers, on which the horse struck when it fell. It is be- lieved that the animal was injured, as it seems unable to stand. It ate and drank the food and water lowered to it, however. An appeal was made to the Fire De- partment to ald in getting out the horse, but the appeal was refused, on the ground that the alley where the acci- dent occurred is private property, and net a public thoroughfare. An order was sent for a derrick Monday, and the horse wil! be hoisted out. EARTHQUAKE CONTINUES FOR AN HOUR, LOCATION UNCERTAIN WASHINGTON, Aug. 16.—An _ earth- quake of moderate intensity was record- ed early today by the seismograph at the Weather Bureau. Beginning at 2:06 a. m., it continued nearly am hour. It was estimated that the origin of the disturbance was about twenty-five hun- dred miles distant, either in Californta or on the Pacific Coast of Mexico. " PABK CONCERT TONIGHT,

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SHOW IT TO AN EAGER BUYER Owner Swears to Warrant for Realty Man’s Arrest, Charging Unlawful Entry. Charles Pyne, Richmond Heights real estate dealer, has raised a question of law which Justice Werremeyer will have to adjudicate and may immortalize in verse. The question is: May a real estate agent break into a house that he is agent for when tho family isn’t at home, but a buyer is on the scene, anx- lous to see the property. Pyne say: he thinks,it is perfectly prope: for an agen* to do this. John H. Sc*roeder, who placed his home at 7539 Hiawatha avenue, Richmond Heights, in Pyne’s hands tv be sold, takes an Opposite view. He caused Pyne’s arrest on a warrant charging the real estate man with unlawfully forcing his way into the Schroeder home. Pyne will be tried by Justice \Verre- meyer Thursday. He admits he went into the Schroeder home during the ab- sence of the family, but says he had a

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prospective buyer with him. | 4 :| BY HUSBAND 0 STEALING CHILD IO He Follows Her Into the Union Station and Demands Her Arrest. ———_ ~*~

a CROWD IS ATTRACTED Mrs. Arnold Korb Asks Police- man to Take Disturber Into Custody. As Mrs. Cora R. Korb was about to board a train with her 2-year-old boy, John Theodore, at the Union Station Monday a man ran into the station mid- way waving his arms and excitedly cry- ing: “Stop that woman. She is abduct- ing my child.” The midway was thronged with ar- riving commuters and outgoing passen- gers. Many of them believed that a kidnaping was being attempted and they followed the excited man. Policeman Dunn pushed his way through the crowd which had closed in around the woman and child and asked was was the mat- ter. ‘s “T want that woman arrested,” said the excited man. ‘Who is she?” asked Dunn. “She’s my wife and that’s our baby. I am the Rev. Arnold B. Korb, and I was on my way downtown to institute habeas corpus proceedings to get my boy when I saw him being taken out of town.” All Taken to Station. ‘It’s my child and I have a right to it,”’ said Mrs. Korb. “I want yeu to arrest that man for disturbing my peace.” Husband, wife and baby were taken to Police Headquarters in a patrol wag- on. There Korb said that he is a school teacher in Lenzburg, St. Clair County, II. “My wife left me @ year ago when we lived at Nauvoo, Iil.,’’ he said, “and It have had private detectives on her trail ever since in an effort to regain possession of my boy. She has trav- eled around so much that I was never able te catch up with her until a few days ago, when I learned that she had come.to St. Louis and was living at the Thome of her father, the Rev. John M. Rohde, pastor of the German Metho- dist-Episcopal Church, Saw Wife on Car. “I was coming downtown to see my lawyer and file the application for a habeas corpus writ this morning. I boarded a Market street car at Sarah street. At Grand avenue my wife and baby got on the car. They didn’t see me. ‘When they left the car I followed them and frend that my wife was about to take the child out of town.”’’ “Tt is true I am trying to keep my child from his father,” said Mrs. Korb. “I have a right to do that until the Court orders me to do otherwise. I did not know anything about the habeas corpus proceedings and was net prepar- ing to evade service. I know the Court won't take the child away from me.”’ After Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Falkenhainer refused to issue warrants Korb and his wife were released. Less than an hour later Korb, through his attorney Fred Mueller, applied to Judge McQuillin for a writ of habeas corpus for the possession of the child. Tha writ was issued and made return- able in Judge Hitchcock’s Court next Monday, Mrs. Korb meanwhile retain- ing custody of the boy. Korb is an ordained minister of the German Methodist Episcopal Church and a school teacher. He rides a cir- cuit of denominational schools in St. Clair County.

SS eee “ LOUIS, August 16, 1909. BULLETIN 124 (One Hundred and Twenty-Four)

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