St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 16, 1909

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“VOL. 62. NO. 88.”

a ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, . 1909.

INDICTMENT SAID “nT, ” NOT “ON? ; RESULT, MISTRIAL IN TWO-TIMES FUGITIVES CASE

| \Jury Ready to Try, Jacob Wesley McClure Dismissed Because One Word Was Wrong. The use of “at” for ‘“‘on” in an indict- ment charging Jacob Wesley McClure with forgery caused Judge Grimm in the Criminal Court .Tuesday to declare a mistrial and dismiss the jury. McClure, formerly agent for a sewing machine company, was twice a fugitive and was brought back from Texas on charges of forgery and embezzlement. It is charged that he sold machines for cash, pocketed part of the money and made out notes for the balance, making it appear that the. machines were sold on time payments. The error in the indictment was not discovered until J. P. Costello, manager of the company, took the stand to tes- tify: against McClure. He read the in- dictment, which quoted the alleged forged note verbatim. The note read that Mrs. C. Douglas “agrees to pay on the above-mentionéd date.” The wording of that part of the indict- ment was “at the . above-mentioned date.””’ There are five other § indict- ments, and they will be amended to cor- rect the error. on one of the amended indictments. 6000 BOY IN DAYLIGHT, BUT WHEN DARKNESS COMES MURDER MANIA SEIZES HIM Strange “Hyde and Jekyll’ Story of an Eleven-Year-Old Kansas Lad. By Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 16.—What is the strange impuise that leads Walter Schoonover, 11 years old, one of the kindest and most devoted boys to his parents in his waking hours, to desire to murder them when darkness falis? For months his parents, who live in Kansas City, Kan., have been puzzled by the strange ailment that displays it- self. only at night, and which makes of the boy a veritable fiend of darkness. Finally they have appealed to. Judge Van B. Prather to help them. Several times-of late the boy’s father and stepmotrer have awakened to find the youth stooping over them with a hammer drawn, prepared to kill them. {+ is with difficulty they restrain him, but when awakened he returns to bed in-a peaceful frame of mind. The boy stoutfy meintains that he loves everybody and does not kaow why he has such homicidal impulses, The Court ordered him sent toa sani- tarium. ‘STREETS LITTERED WITH TACKS TO PUNCTURE AUTO TIRES, MISCREANTS HUNTED Motorists Complain to Police of ‘Deliberate Efforts to Disable Machines. Following the complaints of automo- bile owners that parts of Lawton ave- nue and.Locust street from Jefferson to Grand avenues are strewn with tacks to puncture tires of their machines, the police began search cusmrad to find the offenders: Barney McGilligan Lair George Kaiser, owners of taxicabs, complained inat on Locust street near Jefferson avenue, their tires were punctured and the street at that point was littered with tacks and brads. — ‘Sunday night chauffeurs found a sim- flar condition on the Clayton road near Campbell's Forest Home. ghe cost of repairing a punctured in- mer tube is 75 cents and the cost of vulcanizing a punctured ‘casing is from $1.25 to $6. J. J, ASTOR’S YACHT SEVERAL DAYS OVERDUE AT PORTO RICO NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—The friends ot Col. John Jacob Astor are worried he- cause nothing has been heard from him and his son, Vincent, .since they salied on their steam yacht, the Nourmahal,

McClure will be tried }. STERN UNION IS MERGED WITH TELEPHUNE TRUST Telegraph Concern Passes to American Telephone and Telegraph Co. IN $1,000,000,000 MERGER Wire Concern Plans Single Corporation With a Heavy Capitalization. POSTAL IS INDEPENDENT Telephone Subscribers to Have Connection With Dispatch- ing Keys.

By Associated Press. : NEW YORK, Nov. 16.—The control of the Western Union Telegraph Co. passed today to the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and a long step was taken toward the merging of the tele- phone and telegraph companies into a corporation with a capitalization of nearly $1,000,000,000. Announcement of the acquirement of the Western Union—for years known as a Gould property—by the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., came to- day from Boston. The ‘acquisition of the Western Union-and the recent ab- sorption of various district Bell telé- phone companies in various parts of the country, indicate a large increase in the present capitalization of the parent com- pany, the American Telephone and Tele- graph Co. The« present capital stock of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. is $300,000,000 in stock and $228,000,000 in bonds. The Western Urfion has a capi- talization of $125,000,000 stock and $,- 000,000 in bonds. Postai Remains Independent. Offic of the Pastel. Telegraph Co. stated that their company. would remain independent. ,Btocks of the Western Union fell 3 points on the Stock Exchange on the news of the passing of control. President 8. N. Vail of the Amer- ican Telephone .and Telegraph Co. had the following to say: “From the very commencement of the telephone business it has been thought that a close co-operation—the making of one business the auxiliary to the other business, would give additional public service, as well as results in large eco- nomics both to the public and the com- panies. Telegrams by Telephone. “There is much to be gained by the joint construction and maintenance of the plant and by its common use to the greatest possible extent, but the great- est advantage would follow the placing of the millions of telephone subscribers in close and reliable connection with the receiving and dispatching offices of the telegraph companies. “While some provision for this after a manner exists today, a lack of harmony and co-operation between the compa- nies and an inability to agree on meth- ods of fixing responsibility’ has limited its utilization to cases of absolute ne- cessity. The harmony and co-operation necessary it is believed can now be established, and the resulting advantage made available for the public.” Many Years in Litigation. The action on the part of the Amer- ican Telephone and Telegraph Co. did hot come as a surprise to the finan- cial interests of this city. The nego- tiations for the purchase of the West- ern Union stock have been in pro- gress several months. The contracts between the Ameri- can Bell Telephone Co. and the West- FIERCE HEAT STOPS MINE RESCUE PARTY; HOPE TOSAVE WANES

President Earling of the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Comforting Widows and Orphans at Cherry, Ill., and Group of Sorrowing Relatives at the Mine Shaft Waiting for VWiord From Their Loved Ones Below, anaee en aereret

WOMAN POUNDS TREE WITH nth WEEK'S SALARI tn * ‘le = se. z Miss ite Walton Routs Rob- ber With-Purse He Would Steal. Miss Lillié Walton, --ve feet and one inch in height, proved herself more than a match for a six-foot robber, a big, muscular man, who tried to take her} week's salary from her as she was g0- ing from her.work in a —ine street restaurant..to her home at Il115 —— street. It was raining when she reached the mouth . of: an: alley between ‘Franklin avenue and Wash street on’ High street at 8:30 p..m. Monday. Her purse con- taining $8 hung from her left wrist by a chain and in the same hand she car- ried her umbrella. A man jumped from. the alley and wrenched the umbrella from her grasp. Wrapping the chain more tightly abous her wrist, Miss »alton used ‘the purse as a weapon and struck the robber in the face with her week’s salery. Several times she landed telling blows @n his head while he struggled to lower the umbrella so that he could use it to fight back. Unable to do this, he used it as a shield. holding it between him and the swinging purse, With .her right hand, Miss Walton caught*the ferruled end of the umbrella and pulled it from the robber’s hand. He fled into the alley and Miss Walton went on home with her umbrella’ and her week’s salary. \ TAFT NEGLECTED TO ORDER THANKS TO BE GIVEN FOR

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Tearful Women, at Mouth. ‘of Despair While: Heroic Effort to:Aid -Men Is Made.

By Associated , Press, CHERRY, IIL, Nov. 16 —Further efforts to enter the St. Paul coal mine, where 300 men are entombed, were abandoned at 1. o’clock this afternoon. George S.’Rige, chief of the field ,;work of the ‘United States Geological Survey, announced this decision after an inspection of the mouth. The sand over the seal was at a tompeuntune "4 of 110 degreés, indicating that the heat in the ‘interior was intense. The fire-fighting apparatus ordered from Chicago last night arrived here on & special train at noon. The car was switched into the mine yard, President | Earling and General Manager Mining | Superintendent W. W. Taylor personally superintending the removal of the ap-

CHECK NUMBER OF DEAD TODAY FROM PAYROLL” CHERRY, Ml. Nov. 16. ODAY is the big) monthly pay day at the mines. Nine- | assistant secretary of the treasury, i earner Peanhameieoceanee et es ee, ee ee ie *. SP o Be is ee

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Taft and His Cabinet Ye aterm mine d 2 3 Directors and Other . | Racts Point. to Guilt. NEW YORK, Nov. 16 —Seven ndiet ds at 10:30 o’clock this morning before Ju I States District Court, pleaded not» a James F, Bendernagel, former ril Sugar Co.’s plant in Brooklyn. — es __ Next was Oliver Spitzer, the dock followed five lesser employes, all aecus the Government in customs duti ‘served the privilege of vabetitiee den nurrers today and applying for an adjournment or ae the ground that the present state of publie : at lin possible for their clients to gétet fair pine * ore. , sa! see patter mF Harry 1. pate —- Pgh pir eg BS eee A eee. P} a about the Bi ong say was: “This prosecution wilt be | gently. ‘he first wr have been set down for Nov, 2, 4 ro as ro, oi ny he. ‘oun : ms Fe 2 . >. iss ae : : . time, Barring | . there will be no- in the trials. “As to, other. ments, I prefer not to talk about. what we may expect to do, You must wait for the faet to be accomplished. — Ir can only tell you that the. is ging ahead as rapidly as ‘we can, and there will. be no halting.” ‘ The sensational statements made to af reporter by Richard Parr, who investi- gated the Sugar frauds and who now}: charges that James B. Reynolds, former, is work, caused Collector Loeb to hold ‘a heart to heart talk with all of his force. | “You can’t get a word: ‘out of me on Former Collector at the.

“I was 80 Fowler, “that when I went to Washing- ton I made a special effort in Mr. Parr’s | evide behalf. I went around to the Treasury |», ne Bo far Department -to see if anything could ve |i 2,000,000 1 done, or if any information I had @s8 t0 | Rey, ‘cou Parr’s special fitness was desired by the}, t department. If my memory serves it |» sec pretar ae whom I talked. I was told that tad ‘The statement o from Port Antonio. Jamaica. on Nov. 8 | ern Union, dated Nov. 10, 1879, provid- estigat ’ , : paratus. t East- » i BE god ‘eae i While Col. Astor had no definite pro--| ed for the mutual exchange of bust- A FEW CLEAN STREET CARS Water’ at: Mo. Avail teen thousand dollars at been thought best to send him Rite Abso- Saereis abetiranion toes |S. WS SAK ox Port Antonio that | nene/and co-opetation, the Dell com: President Trling dvdered that the wa- || ‘meet the may oll ts on doped |{ recuperate, epee | : a d delivering gigi: at the Che well a | of the House of Delegates the Nourmahal would go direct from | Pany to do collecting an THE TEMPERATURES. ter spray be lowered into the shaft. The eth pemeetr all who ap Mi money or was offered money © on the bill.”’ pengiiatey with Speaker Rom- _oe made this statement and the’ Speaker as to its ac- » Igoe said he went with Mr. a Judge Marshall to as- her an- of the reports re- * gh have arrived several days ago. where it should Since leaving Jamaica the vessel is believea to have experienced exceptionally severe weather in the hurricane and torrentia rainstorms which have swept over the West Indies. Inquiries have been made bate at the there to Porto Rico, as far as possible over their lines, but until the present move corporation and stockholding distinctions have prevented any measurable degree of co-operation. For more than 25 years there has been litigation between the phone company and the Western Union. 1 a. 3 a. 5 #. 7 a. Maximum .. Misimum spray was turned on soon after noon, but it failed to reduce the temperature. A straggling line, for. the most part women, tramped the muddy streets be- tween the mine office and the Cherry bank. At the mine office they were giv- en the pay checks; which they cashed. At the bank Mayor Connolly, who was and in this manner it is believed the number of men entombed in the mine can be definitely estab- appear will eventually be given to their families or relatives. The average pay for the miners for ‘There is un fort made to swi ‘that his account of the hindrances” m:t with and the obstacles faced fn No Chanse in Officials. eppointed by President Farling chair- Maritime xchange and at other plaots, “y a the Presi- i tut no informition concerning the yacht thad been received. The Nourmaha! ts hig and staunchly built and it is be- lies ed it could weather almost any kird of. BO. é E PIUS x CELEBRATES HIS ' tie and Mr. Igoe said th gus to obtain all but this, or any oth-

Official denial was given this aft- ernoon of reports that President Clowry and Assistant General Man- ager Barclay would resign from the Western Union. It was reported that William H. Baker, formerly - vice- president and general manager of the Postal Telegraph Co., would become general manager of the Western Union, Postal Buying ‘Telephone Lines. TOLEDO, 0O., Nov. 16.—The announced | absorption of the Western Union Tele- by the American Phone and parent company of dent has issued his Thanksgiving proclam a- tion,” said the haberdasher. “Yes,” replied the stationer. “I was disappointed when I read it, though.”’ ‘“‘How’s that: I thought it a very strong and digni- fied document.” ““Maybe it is, but it doesn’t cover the ground the way it ought to.’ “In what re- .?"

put a. line in about those new or [te rm lights on Broadway line cars.” “Well, he aian’t

man of the local relief committee, en- deavored to ascertain the condition of each woman’ who came in, and in what way she could be helped. . There was no anxiety on the part of the women or the men to get the money. The funds distributed will keep the re- cipients from immediate want. Nearly $19,000 will bé paid out, it is said, by to- morrow night. .. There was more evidente of grief to- day than there has beén since the first news of the disaster went out. The seal- jing of. the mine appeared to many of tne women as would the filling in of a grave. With the smoke drifting into the re- ‘i motest gata of the mine for almost

the last two weeks amounts to ‘835 or $40,