St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 5, 1909

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ee Pe + th: 8 we as ee . Py ~, ‘ wo ee ie. + Ads -¥ “ ate — ny 2 My ' » «te \ _ 3 w et haps Es aint, on Board Yacht to Discuss Troubles His Wife. = QUESTIONS Worried at Publicity 1 ants to Know Attitude of the Public. 2 ess. RK, Nov. 5.~The papers in ‘ divorce which Mrs. Jghn , reported to have brought ph 3! a, Colonel Astor, are : Eoemoleted state and’ were if today by ‘Referee Young to h parties in the suit. n ended a decree in favor i ‘The custody of their a, aged 7, is said toe have 1 Shere. Astor, while sro 4 will be giv , William Vv mati nya aa ab oghay suit ous for information as to the ee nenas toot: 18. proceeding. i to have overcome his nat- zoe hes left ‘New York fot nares, for the particular | Qnty Evening Paper in ‘St. Lonis With the A 7

NOT SIGNED ARTICLES YET) por een ee oer “THE TEMPERATURES. m.......6 . ch. Rs. ss. Wisvis nos ste. SE Bs tie... ss @ m..i..+.358 1 Pp. m..s....78 Wiss odes 3 Pp m.......79 Yesterday. Maximum ........--.+.+:78 at 3 p. m sr se alae eee ee eB? eo WuEYRE GoIl@ | , “No,” said the fe bom en judge, ‘I must ‘ERE BRIDGE positively decline MeL 1. TO THE to serve. I can- not do it.” *<“Do what?" jasked the clerk. “Act as referee of the Jeffries- Johnson prize fight. They are trying to engage me because of my experience.’’ “Why, I didn’t know ~-you had any experience as a referee,”’ ‘ “©, yes; being a judge has given me fine training. I am always called upon to give a decison when one éminent member of the bar knocks down an- other ih my courtroom.”’ The official forecast: Partly cloudy tonight and Saturday; not_much change

The stage of the river is 6.6, a fall of 1. , Missouri and Ilinolse—Fair Frigar night d probably Saturday; not much, change in cempet ature. "| SIDNEY LOVE IN SEATTLE FOR NEW START; NOT DOWN TO PICK AND SHOVEL YET Former Millionairé Bre Broker Still Able to Live Fastidiously at . Expensive Hotel. | SEATTLE, Wash., Nov. 5.—Estranged from his beautiful wife, formerly Miss Marjorie Burns, a St. Joseph (Mo.) girl,

j and*reduced to;financial: straits, sidney” C. ‘Love, once a millionaire New York broker and Social lien, isin pattie: to recoup his fertunes. ‘ He has been quoted as cayliie that} | he was coming West to “start all over |. ain,” -even té” working ‘in the ‘streets He has not yet come to that pess, for lhe octuptes a luxuridlis sulte st ‘the Butler Hotel; ahd his immaculate ap- } parel ‘Das. not given way to workinge- man's garb. “Seattle looks ‘good to me, ”* he énid today, ' ‘and I.may. locate here,.‘but 1 have made no decision.” It is understood that his wife, who is in Engiand, will sue for a divorce as soon as she returns to Chicago. Love refused to speak of this. PEARY TO GET $1.20 A WORD - FOR STORY OF NORTH POLE Discoverer Will Be Paid More by Magazine Than President ase: velt Receives. ° NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Thé literary end

profitable than that of running errands Commander Peary is to get 20 per cent more a word for the magazine story of Lhis- achievement than ex-President Roosevelt ig getting for his hunting story, and a8 @ rule words do not grow as long in the Arctic as they do near the equator, — , Mr. ‘Roosevelt's price is\$1," so Com- mander Peary is to get $1.20 a word for a story of. about 86,000 words that is. to the next eight ‘ionths. A statement-thar the contract had been closed with the explorer was Made today by Benjamin B. Hampton, the éditor. Ponre AS WAL I

ttn ¢ PAID clireulation patch in St. Louis and | } ite waberte Cie than that of ALL other | Baglish Dailies f-

rs FREI ELA MG SE ERE RE NEN ROG IEE CHORE: pani 9 a a + uly h : ge $ ys ‘ 4 - +O Sire $ » _— a aj ree * in temperature; light, Variable winds. 4 of discovering the North Pole js miorc’ in Africa for the Smithsonian Institute. |

“vor. 62. NO. 77. 5 eater om a NE Former Member of Federal Bench Silent as Court Imposes Penalty. ——————, GILLIAM SICK IN: BED

Disabled by B Blows of United Railways Lawyer, Gets Cases Continued. sateiiieilie a

Appearing in Judge Muench’s division of the Circuit Court as a prisoner Fri- day. Henry 8. Priest, former judge of the United States Court, and now chief counse] for the Un:ted Railways Co., was rebuked in the severest terms and was fined $500 and costs for contempt in striking and knocking down Attorney John A. Gilliam. He paid the fine. Since 10:30 a. m. Thursday, when the attack on Gilliam was made, Judgé Priest had constructively been a pris- oner of the sheriff. More than fifty members of the St. Louis bar were tn court Friday to see one of the led@ing members Of the profession arraigned. In Court With Sc. When court convened, Judge Muench asked: ee | “Is Judge Priest in the room?” — George. Priest, son of Judge, Priest, walked out to the corridor and touched his father on the shoulder. Judge Priest, holding his head high, but apparently somewhat impressed by the gravity of the situation, walked down the aisle and stood at the bar. Sheriff Nolte, who had been standing in the inclosure reserved for lawyers and court employes, @so moved for- ward... Rebuke Read to Him. Judge Priest: stood before the bar, his right hand in his.trousers pockét. Read- ing fram-a Cymer tttee page, » Judge "sere 2 said: Thé assault made by you yesterday a fellow member of the bar, in the language wea ‘time, constitute as gross a breath of orum and as flagrant a disrespect tor. the presence of the Court, as have probably ever been witnessed in any . tribunal. The fact that you have at oné time #racea a position upon. our Federal bench, and since your retirement therefrom have been regarded as one of the leaders of this bar, after whose conduct the demeanor of oth- ers, less favored, should be patterned, aggravates, instead of palliating, the reprehensible character of the act. The rights of our courts, zealously endeavoring to maintain the adminis- tration of justice between man and man upon an elevated and dignified plane, and the aspirations of a bar, anxious to preserve the amenities and ethics of their chosen profession, alike demand that such an infraction as you have been: guilty of should meet a reprimand sufficiently stern to at least partjally atone for the offense, and to serve as a warning against future. like ‘offending; and this must be done, notwithstanding the personal apology offered in court yesterddy. . For your contempt of the court, shown in its very presence, you will be fined in the sum of $500 and costs, and stand committed and debarred from practice in this court until you purge yourself of contempt by its payment. Pays Fine, Is Stlent, When the scathing arraignment was finished, Judge Priest made fio reply to the Court, He turned and walked from the room, followed by Sheriff Nolte. On reaching the corridor, Judge Priest withdrew the hand which had ‘been. in his trouser’s. pocket. In it was a roll of bills; from’ the top.of-which he drew five of the $100 denomination and Continued om Page 2, Colamn 5.

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The grand: jury will take up at once an investigation of the death of Ralph Collins, electrician, who succumbed to the effect of a blow on the head with a night stick by Patrolman James ©’Hearn. The policeman was held by the Coroner’s jury on a charge of homi- cide and has been released’ on a bond of $5000. Sheuld the grand jury hear the same testimony that was given at the inquest Thursday, it will have to decide between two conflicting stories.. One version is that of Patrolman O’Hearn and Proba- tionary Patrolman John Baker, both of whom declared ‘that before. the blow was delivered Collins. had seized O'Hearn’s leg and tried to trip. him. The other story is told by friends of Collins and several] disinterested wit- nesses, who declezre that O’Hearn thrust his knee into Collins’ groin and then hit him over the head with his stick, and that the assault was unprovoked. Witnesses who volunteered their tes- timony at the inquest were Prof. John Gilbert Campbell, an instructor in the David Ranken Jr. Trades School, and William Daulley of 2222 Thrush avenue, & Wood turner, neither of whom knew Collins, Prof. Campbell said he was waiting at Union: boulevard ‘and Easton avenue for a Car And had stood ‘near Gollins and hig companions for five minutes or more, ice sic Accuses Policeman. were not making anv noise,” he said, “nor using any profane lan- guage. I saw the policeman come across ‘the street and order Collins to move on “and cut out ‘that profane lan- guage. Collins replied that he was waiting for a street car and the police- man’ said: ‘you ‘think you are one of them tough guys, don’t you?” With that he thrust his knee into Collins’ groin and-instantly struck him on the head with ‘his club, knocking him down. The assault’ was maps eae. Provecation.’’ Daulley Said the. young- men | we ere | at the corner laughing ie B put he heard ‘no offensive jan- —43@ Saw a policeman run into WG, spreading the men apart =o lg , then run up to a man Stood with his back against 4 —_ © pole, kick him and hit him sstimony of Richatd Healey of on «avenue indicates that ea lem & grudge against Cony

- tell youNafter this. ‘ Bédy Wilt Mmmediately Take | ell you that you have got to. fa If yous , BOY BLACKED His ACE TQ PLAY A BLACK HA Also Wore Overalls and Whis- kers, Thereby Fooling Dan- ville (Ill.) Police. By Associated Press. DANVILLE, Ill, Nov. 5—Ben John- son, a high school boy, today confessed, according to the police, that it was he who attempted, with threats of murder, to extor® money from C. L. Bnglish, president of the First National Bank. Roscoe Bailey, a prominent young man who has been in jail for several days charged with the crime, was immediate- ly released. Johnson, -his face blackened with burnt cork, was arrested last night near the Postoffice. He was waiting for the re- turn of a messenger whom he had sent into the office for a letter in which he had dtmanded Mr. English should in- close to him $200, Trap Failed to Stop Him. In the first letter to Mr. English, it was demanded that he should deposit in front of his residence last Saturday night a package containing . $200. A dummy package was placed at the designated spot and a score of. police | watched. the neighborhood. Bit. John- son slipped through the line, got the package and saabdiaied reached home, he said. “I was disguised in overalls and whis- kers,’’ he added. Render of Chea» Novels, When he found there was no money in the package the boy wrote again to Mr. English, directing him to send $200, addressed to a fictitious person, through the mail immediately and advising him that if he failed again his life would be the forfeit. In his room were found a small re- volver and cheap novels relating to the career of desperadoes, and in his desk at school was an essay sy had written on “The Indian.” The boy was toutid over to the grand jury in court today. .He said he had no accomplices. s ; WIFE WANTS DIVORCE FROM ‘SON OF BANDIT JESSE JAMES Lawyer-Pawnbroker” Stayed: Out Late at Night, She Charges in -Suit, KANSAS CHETY, Nov, 5.—Jesse James Jr., Son of the famous-bandit, was sued for divorce here yesterday. Mrs. James alleges indignities and declares that her husband has stayed. out late at night, — to tell her where he has been. ey Were married in ‘January, and . a se last September, thet the. mother.

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Difficulty and Fond Mother Follows. ALlé TRE WITNESSES 7 THE POLICEMANS VERSION OF . THE ASSAULT SECOND FRACTURE RADIATING Te WARD BACK OF HEAD ery THE SKULL . ' SO SPLIT THAT A KNIFE BLADE CAN SE INSGERTFSA IN FISSURE.

Forced to: Tell How. She | of Herself— Beceay ; of Mother’ S.

Le. MME. STEIN “DENIES ATE w Peer OLLOWIN¢ G. — re farts ti ve father: 4° Denies: ’ ee HAT she did the slaying. | i. That she. was all powerft in the ‘Government during, t] Faure “administration. . a fi | “That: her tather was a dr | "glia: did not ‘care for ‘his “tamity.

New York Find’ Rumors That Disturbed EaStern ‘Cities Were BaSeless. By, Leased Wire Front the New York Burean of the PoSt-Dispateh. NEW YORK, Nov. 5.—Washington and the East were stirred today by a rumor, since definitely denied, that former Prés- ident Theodore: Roosevelt was killed while hunting in Africa, Inquiries from over the country showed that the report was widespread, but its source could not be traced. A cablegram was received from Nal- robi early this afternoon by “a news agency in which it was stated that there } was no truth in the report of an acci- dent to the ex-President, and from re- liabie/ sources it was also learned that no tidings of any such mishap had reached the country by, @ny: of the oceah cables. Engiand Discredits Report. LONDON, Nov. 5.—The East Af- rican Department of the Colonial Of- fice has heard nothing of any acci- dent to Mr. Roosevelt. The of- ficlals state that it is inconceivable that anything serious’ could have happened to him’ and the fact not te reported by the Governor to the Colonial Office, COW AND CALF CLIMBS STAIRS OVER IN EAST ST. LOUIS AND INSPECT A VACANT ROOM: Youngster Coaxed Down With

* A cow and her calf took possession of. the second floor of 117 North Third street, ~East st. Louis Friday forenoon and held’ eer neninet all comers with other cows and | street. toward ro spied an open '

sal ee overs: hte Shion’ ‘knew. a amie n the home of Mme. Maseline, who had painted a likeness of the late President: : sah Denies that the crime was mitted so that she might marry kaa Borderel.

That she had first it Faure in 4 i ts «tale ene | & oe dy: gr:

ov. 5.—Under rial for the m 7 intrigues, and protested against the re the. Court. Judge de Valles r ing this affair. Her of Ties.” Proceedings Late in the afternoon tie #™”™ ings were suspended for & short | When. the were resumed, . “Tam justified In pod ono eon ;

heil had a brief respite, her exe depositions. of witnesses This introduced a‘ seacrtane ot crime. When her examination was | | im the accused woman described an ¢ to which she had been subjected, which she said continued! fow four. During that time, she. eaid, wo! Heaech | journalists bad tortyred her into vee jnouncing young Wolf by “telling that she was about to be arrested. She then. accuseg Wolf of the crime. oe dais waa finished this recital Steinheil broke down under ° and was taken fainting tom the court:

tion beitig suspended while othe tre a th 3s tothe poliee and to the m condition of the “house. er the} tention 10 ime.