St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 9, 1909

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no yuncement Made After Officials Resume Questioning of Ds- posed Treasurer.

STERIOUS CALLERS A PUZZLE TO DETECTIVES

4 Boy Try ‘a Night to Hand Note to tly--- Official Under Arrest. rine Beret Gave All to Make Restitution.

to o the Post-Dispatch. J ATI, Nov. 9.—The letaas in the financial depart- ite Big Four Railroad may reach $2,000, 000, according to neement made soon after the interrogation of Charles L..War- = = attorneys, several men from New York being in the n official statement given out in New York last night je. shortage at $600,0 000-and conceded it might be much in haters Both vis- Eat vie satiy. be im is said to be living in on . distance away, wait- in of the man and yr

Everywhere the Popular Cry Is That She Will Be Ac- quitted of ‘Charge. IS DEFIANT AGAIN Explains Why She Had Jewel- ry Melted. That She Said Had Been Stolen.

UPROAR IN. COURT Officers Express Approval When the Prisoner Baf- fles Judge. eat nll

‘Special Cablegram to the Post-Dis- patch. PARIS, Noy. 9.—Wherever one goes today’ he hears the prophesy: “Mme. Steinheil will be acquitted.” The best-informed politicians, the men whese opinions sway the clubs and even the knowing ones who discourse in the cafes, chorus: “Mme. Steinheil will be acquitted. She has paid for acquittal by a silence that seemed to endanger her life.” The public is turning to her. The witnesses yesterday. were favorable to ‘her.’ It is hinted even that Judge de Valles’ excessive severity is assumed s9 that sympathy for her may be more éasily éxpected. “Have pity on me! I am an unhappy woman who should not be tortured,” cried out Mme. Steinheil on the resump- tion of her trial today. The appeal came during the testimony of the jew-_ elers with reference to the changes Of jewelry confided to them by the prison- ér, but which she originally said, had * }] béen stolen by the assassins. The pros- We THEE S O.. Noy. 9 ocaL. cater ano WARRI-. a Big. Be * “the “Cas a of. his monthly. eee a his eee nee from.. When bert tal soit fe month Y het Pen ‘he dia. not: rahe ‘enough on hand’ to make his books. bai- ance. So he. Marked the differ- ence, $3000, as ‘‘in transit.’’ A S. his shortage grew to six A figures, the report. shewed that correspondingly greater sums were on the road. It his only ‘fear. was ae detection at” _the main office. .

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high official of the railroad system, “but before another sun sets. there will be. other men mentioned officially who will be asked to come here and tell why they helped Warriner steal the money.”’ “Must Have Confederates. _ “Tt is absolutely impossible,’ he con- tinued, “for a man to steal over $600,000 and not have confederates.” According to the official, a confederate in another city would make false entries on his slips, and send them to Warriner, who would O K them and send them on to the auditing department. The sus- pected man will be questioned with a view of obtaining in full detail the plan and the extent to which it was worked. The official intimated that a general | shake-up in the auditing department of the road is planned. Werriner Frank About Shortage. From Cincinnati yesterday came word of how Warriner’s shortage was discov- ered. Rumors that all was not right with his accounts reached officials of the Big Four and a committee, one member of which went trom the New |} York Central offices here, visited War- riner in his offices at Cincinnati. He was all alone at the time and the com- mittee frankly told him of their sus- picions and why they were there. War- riner was almost as frank in admitting } that he-was short in his accounts. Aft- er that admission, Warriner | was } Kept er close surveillance until

‘}wumed an aggressive attitude, p ecutipg Judge responded that accused HW persons always repeated that cry when sed for an answer. ‘anew that she 7 Riciiin. scale, the gifts of her. | admirers,--melted, but she maintained ‘}that this was done to keep the facts ‘ of her ~ ‘life. from the Beowledge of her: daughter. - = “Mh Becomes Agegresstve. mh From this point Mme. Steinheil as- which continued during the’, examination of several witnesses and resulted in a se- ries of lively tilts between ‘her and Judge de Valles. Pishetag reproached for having concealed #0 long from the authorities the fact that she ‘possessed imitation duplicates is the woman defended her 'seereey on. ‘the. ground that she wished to hide from her friends the real finan- cial condition of the family. When the ‘journalists testified that Mme. Steinheil was in a state of great depression when she confessed to them that she had placed the pearl in Couil- lard’s pocketbook and then accused Wolf, the prisoner interrupted to de- clare that the newspaper men had tor- tured her Into speaking, one even hav- ing twisted her wrists to make her talk. The, reporters, éontinuing their testi- mony, denied they had used force, but admitted they had pressed the suspected woman to confess. Their testimony was in sharp contrast with most of that in- troduced yesterday in that it was most damaging to the defendant. Widow Threatened Suicide. M. Barthy, a photographer, testified that when Mme. Steinheil was convinced she would be arrested, she wished to commit suicide. The witness said also that at a critical moment in the inter- view between Mme. Steinheil and the newspaper men, Mariette Wolf, the cook, entered the room and the two women fell into each other’s arms. After a momentary display of emotion the two withdrew to a corner of the room, where they conversed in whispers. After the cook had left the room Mme. Steinheil told the reporters that the Wolf woman had said she would deny everything if her mistress was arrested. Turning to the reporter who had made this last statement, Judge de Valies asked: “Do you understand the full gravity of your heatinneeyy against Mme. Stein- heil?”’ To this the witness replied: “Tl accept full responsibility” The judge then cross-examined defendant concerning the photogra- pher’s testimony, but the only recut elicited was, “I don’t remember In her extreme danger 1 ay "stim f e has not > one 0 en ae might call. "delay. ‘Bo cir [peencionea by sie de’ * eh ly Sr Parodi > RE xe ar WEE Rah to tt ak ‘ee eb “ 4 i 3

IN THE ENGI.

The. messages were sent pa St. Louis to New York and from New York back to thig city on the new 24-hour traine which went into service on the Big Four-Ne€w York Central road on Sunda the inauguration of similar schedules on the Pennsylwania line. Martyn of the Post-Dispatch were delivered to Acting Mayor Gundlach and Mayor broke all reported records for such transportation by trains. nday simultaneously with The .greetings, carried by Migs Marguerite ee in time that

; Nov. 6, 1909. To the Hon. George B, McClellan, Mayor ‘of the City of New York: cj}

In behalf of the people of St. Louis and at the sugges~ tion of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, it gives me great pleasure to send you, by the first 24-hour train, our greetings and best wishes. May the reduction‘of the actual railroad distance between the two cities bring us closer together in-‘com~ mercial and social life, Wha tol,

7 Dear Sir:

Louis and New York. Hon. J. H. Gundlach, I received this morning, from Miss Martyn your " greeting carriec on the first 24-hour train between a 2 Please accept my thanks. ‘as,Mayor.. af your “courtesy and the kind wishes you. es, ‘Respectfully

She Goes to New York and Back to

fa fore me. on record. , This I know: That I am at the Post- Dispatch office 53 hours later than I departed; that I have had a marvel- ously interesting experience filled only with the most delightful surprises and with the exception of when I. chose. to ride the engine, the usual discomforts of traveling reduced to the merest mini- mum; that the age of chivalry is not dead for there are princes among rail- road men; and, of course, I believe that the message i carried from the acting Mayor of 8t. Louis to. the Mayor of New York was of unique importance, the first official recognition of the fact that the two cities are now only 2% hours apart with all that means of mu- ‘tual benefit and good fellowship. Ice in Gotham City Hall. To be sure, it was moro difficult to “break through the icy reserve which surrounds the Mayor of New York than it was to annihilate the 1175 miles with all the obstacles mowed down by the New York Central Railway system. But for a moment informality reigned between the two highest officials of the first and fourth cities through our exX- tremely unofficial medium. It is of common knowledge that Mayor McClellan is the exponent of the old ‘school of manners, yery dignified and courtly. He lives in conservative old- fashioned grandeur in the ancient and historic Washington Square, New York, but if the Mayor was taken aback -by the sudden and bree Ww Inva- sion and 4 Zy estern

HE Southwestern Limited of the Big Four-New York Central, bearing Miss Marguerite Martyn, commissioner of the Post-Dispatch, ar- , rived ‘in St. Louis from New York af 1:41 p. m,. Tuesday, having not only made up nine minutes lost before reaching Indianapolis, but having clipped four minutes from the 24-hour schedule, By MARGUERITE MARTYN. They tell me I have made the quickest trip from St. Louis to New York ail back again evér accomplished by man of woman. They tell me that_I am the first woman who ever rode out of New York on an electric’ locomotive and that probably I have ridden at a greater rate of speed, 72 miles in 75 minutes, in a steam locomotive than any woman be- They tell me I am the swiftest personal messenger between two cities or rather 23 hours and 50 minutes, for the new train arrived in New York ahead of schedule acting as intermedi- ary between two popularly chosen offi- cials, signifies some progress since Fa- ther George's time. Of course, my sense of the importance of the occasion and my own responsi- bility weighed upon mée“mpressively, but for real exaltation it had about the fla- vor of a quilting party compared to the excitement of riding in the engine. : It was my first experience in the cab of a steam locomotive and dou- bly valuable as it may be my last, for they do say these magnificent steeds of fire, metal and human. en- ergy are doomed to be superceded by: the nice, clean spacious, smoke- less and comparatively noiseless smart little electric engines, and I shouldn't be surprised at any thing in the way of transportation now. To get into an electric engine you gather your skirts about you and climb a straight steél ladder high over your head. You. find yourself upon the smooth flat floor of quite a large interior, I should say about 12 by 16 feet. The middle of the floor space is taken up by @ big compact metallic col), which they told me were air brakes. At each end there is @ narrow passage leading in between dynamos, or something, which flashed fire and created a dis- turbance now and then. At the front as also at the reverse end are two win- the Post’ Dispatch Office in 53 Hours--Makes Run =| of 72 Miles in 75 Minutes. President City Council and Acting Meyor, i- >My. Sues 2 ae

DRINKS | POISON, OUND DYING! Harry T. Boehn Takes Chioro- form in Railroad - Office. s . j ~ Harry T. Boehn, chief clerk in the ab- stract department of the Wabash Ral)- road offices at Third street and Frank- lin avenues, was taken unconscious from m. and hurried to, the St. Mary’s In- firmary. The police found a bottle of chloroform in his room, partially empty, and suspect that Boehn attempted to take his own life. It is paid he cannot live. master of Union Market. Boehn is 3% years old and lives at $868 Ashland place, The police were uiformed-he had domestic troubles, C, 6, SWAFFORD, BANK EMPLOYE, SENTENCED FOR FIVE YEARS Prosecutor, Prisotiér’s Schoolmate, Says Punishment, ery is not be-} ! lieved to. haye been the.motive, for she was @ shopgir! in the Putkin dry. goodg| the board! | Store, and had.but Jittle money at any | OY Cniiy time, © b #53 was o aiiacked. with ‘what appears ve the premeditaticn | of: ha- assailant, had vided ies } & . ‘with which to’ strangle her, - Her clothing,, torn to shreds, the desperate | with, quaint girl defended. her | It is supposed} ‘ny, she was attacked last | night» by some]... - one ‘familiar with her route homeward, }| ,.;.

down and dragged through the alley as 1 1ee an. to death with the —oe eee |her place of » employment : othe ‘| Monday for her | Si ckas’ the failed’ to. ‘arrive, wwe apprehension ———— WEATHER WiLL BE CLOUDY.

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CAIRO, Tll., Nov. 9.—As yet’ withou of Miss Annie Pelley, whose stripped ar d mut tive for’ the erime ‘has left the case a’ ec ) and had lived at io end under « which the| quaint seized. from ‘behind and ‘gagged, knocked | pusain at