St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 15, 1909

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~ DIEWN WRECK Nass and Son Roll Down _ Embankment With Car; 4 35 Are Injured. 4 OFFICIALS ‘ARE HURT a Superintendent and Roadmas- ter Victims in Southern Road Accident. _ COACHES ARE DERAILED | e ~ Broken Rail Believed to Have -, Caused Engine and Four 4 ~ Cars to Jump. A: : - > I to the Post-Diepatch. ENSBORO, N. C., Dec. 15.—Geo. he Pa d and his son Jay were injured in | on the Southern Railway near et v wn's Summit today. They were in a a ear which rolled down a 60-foot em- . “bankment. Sixteen persons were killed @nd 60 seriously injured. -- -@are Roll From Track. Two passenger coaches and two Pull- on ‘were derailed and rolled over the - @age of a high embankment. A broken «ra believed to have caused the acci- 3 Z | Phe derailed train was No. 11, a local 3 running between Danville and Charlotte. ee “carried two sleeping cars, one with . {rom Richmond and the other n Norfolk, Va. The engine and four forward cars were derailed. _ Ten “bodies had been removed from the wreckage at. noon, and the others A a: ey aks under the Richmond sleeper, which ry nearly demolished and which is ee water, We peteos roiled into a " Rgb- Fob t New York, jotroailst and > of Mr, Gould, was badly ts the. ‘and shoulders and the hospitat here. ~~ er "hate of injured passengers. brougtit in and taken to St.- 8 e Lat se =e the scene of the wreck. fhe names of the known dead are: ‘A. Broadnax of Greensboro, N. C. o-ggorage .a lawyer of Mount Ww. Kilby, formerly of Ports- ‘ey Mogae. A, ®, Cone, superintendetit of the ihe ond division of the Southern Rail- D. s fetes, conductor of one of the oe, a. White, traveling auditor for th ithern Railway. “The names of the other victims have OMAHA, Neb. Dec. 15.—Train No. ‘westbound, on the Chicago; Mil- "i ce & St. Paul Railway, was de- | ai on two miles east of Bayard, Io., | itly this morning, the engine, tend- entire train composed of bag- mail cars, two coaches and F ibeapers, leaving the track. Thir- passengers were sligiitly in- : it Was announced at the the eal office of the company. A broken eel is believed to have caused the

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POSTCARD FOUND IN ROOM OF OPTIMIST Wid ENDED LIFE Smile, it’s as easy to smile as to frown. Smile, it’s hard to keep 4 cheerful man down. Smile, be happy and aside care. Smile, you'll find you have friends everywhere. Smile, your prospects at once will grow better. Smile, thus make the whole world your debtor. Smile, for the morning must follow the night. Smile, out of darkness there cometh light. Smile, cease making a friend of old sorrow. Smile, the day’s done, there will be dawn tomorrow. Smile, for Dame Fortune no favorite plays. Smile, by so doing your Cre- ator you praise. Smile and the worst of the yourney is done. Smile and one-half of the battle is won. Smile; r each cloud has a bright silver lining. Smile, for, behind them the bright sun is shining. Smile and thus banish al! doubt and all fear. Smile, for I send you cast the best of good cheer. HE above card was found on T a table in Mrs. Peck’s room. Evidently she had it In front of her as she wrote her last ler- ters before death. BOY CONFESSES HE WAS | PAID 20 CENTS TO TESTIFY FALSELY AGAINST RABBI He Then Told How He Had Seen Pupil Hit—Rabbi Is Discharged. . Louis Carl, 10 years old, of 1104 North Ninth street, in the Court of Criminal Correction Wednesday, said that 3 cents had been paid to him to testify against Rabbi Wolf Goun, who was charged with striking his 9-year-old pupil, Ben- nie Schiller. After Judge Taylor had heard from the boy that Bennie’s father had paid him 5 cents Tuesday and 15 cents Wednesday to appear as a witness, he deciared that it was a “frame-up” on the rabbi and ordered his discharge. . Goun was charged with beating Bennie Nov. 16. Bennie and his mother ‘told the rabbi, who conducts a religious training school, struck the boy on. the head and face without provocation. The mother said she just happened in when the rabbi struck her son. Louis said he did not see Bennie struck or abused, but*that he simply heard the rabbi rebuke him for looking out of the window. ACCUSED GIRL KILLED TRYING TO SAVE MAN FROM WIFE’S SHOT of

Woman Declared Innocent Charges Receives Shotgun Charge in Heart. BATON ROUGE, a., Dec. 15.—Enrag- ed over her husbard’s alleged attentions to Miss Sophie Birslow, Mrs. Edward Wilson leveled a snotgun at her hus- band and éxclaimec: “Sophie cannot have you. you. ” Miss’Birslow :.aped in frént of Wilson just as the wife pulled the trigger and received- a load of buckshot in her heart. She was instantly killed. Mrs. Wilson is almost a raving maniac and the husband is frantic. “Sophie was a good, pure girl and my wife’s suspicions were unfounded,” he said, KING LEOPOLD HAS RELAPSE AFTER UNDERGOING OPERATION Royal Patient | First. Rallies, but Later His Condition Be- comes Worse. BRUSSELS, Dec. 15.—The condition of King Leopold, who was operated on yesterday for the removal of an ob- struction of the intestines, took a turn for the worse this afternoon. The morning bulletin was hopeful in tone, destribing the patient’s state as “stationary.”” In the middle of the aft- ernoon word came from the sick cham- ber that His Majesty bad suffered a re- lapse. The morning bulletin read: “The King’s condition is stationary. Temperature, 977-10, and pulse 72." Mis Majesty’s private secretary Bar- on Goffinet, in spite of the bulletin, de- clared that the condition of the royal patient was not very satiefactory this morning. I will kill

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T.V-PECK’S WIDOW MILLS SELF WITH A PISTOL SHOT Woman «Who Admonished Happiness Yields to Adver- sity and Ends Life. WIDOW OF A CONVICT School Board Officer Com- mitted Crime to Hide His Infidelity. STOOD BEFORE MIRROR wee ee Dressed for the Street When Shot Was Heard and She Fell in Hall. Mrs. Emma Peck, whom her friends knew aS a conqueror of troubles and a teacher of optimism, yielded to a weight of adversity, that lIong before would have crushed a weaker spirit, when she shot and killed herself at noon Wednes- 612 North Grand avenue, a family hostelry. “Be happy,"’ was Mrs. Peck’s daily to her neighbors. “Why have wrinkles and gray hairs? Your greatest troubies are those you make for yourself.’’ Her “sunshine talks,” as she called them, had almost a melancholy interest for those who knew the tragedy of. Mrs. Peck’s lifé, a tragedy in which, it seemed to them, Fate could hardly have been more bitter. Less than three years ago, Mrs. Peck |} made a discovery such as would shake the loyalty and break the heart of al- most any wife. She learned that her husband, Thomas V. Peck, had been | forced -to pay tribute to-a woran; whose] claims on himself he was obliged to admit. He was chief clerk of the Board. of Education, and in the effort to keep the woman from telling the story to his wife and to his superior officers, ‘he had fraudulently placed the woman on the city’s payroll as a substitute teach- er. Wife Stood by Him. This fraud was revealed after a few months. The wife, prostrated at first by the shock of Peck’s arrest and the greater shock of her own wounded feel- ings, rallied and stood by him through- out his trial. When he was convicted and sent to the penitentiary, she at once began an effort for his release. The faithful wife importuned teach- ers and principals of the public schools to sign her pardon petition and finally obtained the signature of Supt. Soldan at the head of the list. Gov. Folk Sranted the pardon after Peck had served a few months, and together the husband and wife endeavored to make & new start in life. They went into business as proprietors of a family ho. tel on Locust street. But Peck's health had been shattered by prison life and within a year after | bis release he died. Sister Died Aliso. The devoted wife tried to overcome her grief: by her philosophy of ‘‘sun- shine.’ A favorite sister who lived in Eureka Springs, Ark., came to St. Louis last spring to be with her. The sister became sick, went to a St. Louis hos- pital, recovered sufficiently to go home, and in August died there. It seemed to her friends that Mrs. Peck must break down under this final stroke of misfortune. But she did her best to. show serenity and “be happy” . continued to be her advice to her asso- clates. She seemed in her accustomed mood Wednesday, when, after a cup of coffee, drunk in the dining room as a late breakfast, she asked Mrs. Mary Beech- er, proprietor of the Kentwood, to put- ton the back of her street dress. She said she was going downtown. Going’ to her room on the second floor, she dressed herself in street costume. he put K a brown cloak, a fur col- larette and a black lace hat and even drew on her left glove. ’ Shoots Before Mirror. Then, apparently by a sudden impulse, she stood before her mirror and fired @ bullet into her heart. She ran into the hallway and fell dead at the head of the stairs. When the revolver was found on her bureau, where she had dropped it, it lay beside an illuminated post card, the heading of which was “Smiles,” and | which bore a serfes of short sentences on. Petiniom.

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NAUGHTON WILL NOT ANSWER A WARNER TRIAL Declares He Might Incriminate Himself When Asked About Bribe

Testimony for the defense in-the sec- ond trial of Ferd Warner, former mem- ber of the House of Delegates from the Second Ward, charged with bribery in connection with the passage of the Ascher garage bill, was begun at noon Wednesday. ‘ The State’s final witness was Danie! E.-Naughton, former clerk of the House of Delegates. When asked by Circuit Attorney Jones if he had turned over to Sam Weis- man $500, the amount which Ascher is alleged to have paid Warner, Naughton refused to answer on the ground that he might incriminate himself, Previously Weisman, H. J. Butzkne- ben; teller in the City National Bank: Henry Ascher and Bert Sutherland, Weisman’s negro porter had testified to the effect: that the $500 bribe money was deposited at the bank to the credit of Weisman. Weisman admitted that he got the money from Naughton and that he.sent Sutherland to deposit it. Appeals to Judge, When Naughton refused to answer the interrogatories relating to this tra»- saction, Circuit Attorney Jones appeale:j to Judge Shields. Attorney Rowe, ecoun- sel for Warner, protested that the su- preme Court had already decided in the cuse in which Naughton was convicted of perjury and subsequently acquitted by the higher tribunal that a witness cannot be forced to answer any ques- tion that might subject him to a crimi- nal prosecution. On being shown a copy ‘of this de- cision, Judge Shields ruled that Naugh- ton need not answer, The Circuit Attorney then askel: “Were you in the House of Delegates on the night of Oct. 18, 1908?’’ ‘Tl was,’’ replied Naughton. “Were you Assistant Cletk at the time?” ~ **Yes.”’ The Circuit Attorney thereupon an- nounced that Naughton would be ex- cused and the defense announcing thar it had no qtestions te ask the witness, the State rested its case. WIRES CUT AND BANK IS ROBBED | Thieves Obtain $3800 and Posse Is in Pursuit. ARDMORE, OK., Dec. 15.—atter cutting all telegraph and telephone wires entering the town of Paoli, Ok., robbers eafly today dynamited the State Bank of Paoli, obtained 33899 and escaped. A posse started in pur.

Woman Admits Diuaried With Him Over $300 He Loaned to Her.

‘ Mrs. Mary ps SNE, Shupe, a middile- aged widow, is held at the Magnolia Avenue Police Station’on account of an injury to John Garrett, a boarder at her home, which, (.ty Hospital physicians ay, probably will cause his death. Gar- rett’s head is split and near the middle of the fracture is a small round hole, which might ) been caused by a bullet or the point. of a pick-ax. , Mrs. Shupe lives at 3806 Chouteau ave- seven inches, have nue, year-old son, Wiibur, and Joseph Bowen, brother, another boarder at the house. Mrs. Shupe told Cant. Wilson of .the Magnolia Station that Garrett. accident- ally shot nimself in trying, to shoot her or her son after demanding; $800 @he had borrowed from him during the last six months. “He came back to the house this morning while Wilbur was eating break- fast,’ she said, “and demanded the money, week, but hoe said: he wanted it imme- diately.’ Then I said I would go. to ‘the bank and get it, for him, but he wasn’t satisfied at that. “TI started upstairs, and as I turned my back he shot at me.. Wilbur grasped his wrist,,and the bullet went over my head. Hgtried.to shoot again, but Wil- bur was pulling his arm backward, and the bullet went into his own head.” Wilbur cerroborated this story. It does not‘account for the long fracture in Garrett's skull,. but Mrs. Shupe and her son say this may have been caused by falling against the stove. : When a policeman reached the house, Garrett lay’ with the ‘revolver beside him, close to his right hand: Two chambers were empty. Bowne said he was at the head of the stairs when .the first shot. wag fired, and could not see his nephew nor Garrett. He ‘had heard the quar. rel about the money, preceding the shots, he said. Four of Mrs. Shupe’s children live with her at the Chouteau avenue ad- dress in addition to Wilbur—Edgar and Kdwin, 12-year-old twins, Lydia, 8, and Sarah, 6..." Garrett has & 19-year-old son, Cari, working at Shaw's Garden, and three daughters: Mabel Hves at, ‘Montgom. ery City, Mo, and Lucy, 17 years old, | and Maggie, 18. live. at New Florence, her Under arrest with her are her 17- I told him I would pay it this

MM SN HELD, W PIC OF BAS Proposed Reduction of Com- pany Would Save $1,000,- 000 to Consumers. A’ 15 per cent reduction in the price of fuel and ‘illuminating gas is said to be ariong the important questions under consideration. at the meeting of the Laclede company directors Wednesday. It‘ is' declared that this proposition is favored by the executive committee of the gas» corporation, composed of Charles H, Huttig. Adolphus Busch, Thomas H. West, W. K. Bixby and G.. H. Walker, and the recommendation of that body ts expected to be made at the present meeting of the board of directors. Thé cost of illuminating gas, with- out the usual 10 per cent discount, is $1.10 per thousand cubic feet and that for fuel gas 90 cents. The proposed cut.in rates would result in an esti- mated saving of neatly a million dol- lars to St. Louis consumers. On the other hand it would benefit the Laclede company, the directors Say, by inducing @ more extensive use of Gus tor lumifating and fuel purposes. The prevailing prices for gas have been ip effect more than 15 years. ' Beggs Attends Meeting, John I. Beggs, former head of the North American’s St. Louis public util- ity. corporations, is attending Wednes- day's. meeting. Beggs is one of the largest individual stockholders in the gas corporation, which until recently Was owned by the North American Co. He now has charge of the North Ameri- can’s Milwaukee properties and will continue in that capacity, according to President Campbell. He refused to dis- cuss any of the affairs connected with the various corporations in which he is interested. The election of a president for the La- clede-company will not take place until the ‘annual meeting in January, accord- ing to the statement of one of the direc- tors to a Post-Dispatch reporter. — It is generally believed that the presk -Genty willl be offered to H. West, chkirman of the Board of Direc- tors of the St. Louls Union Trust Co, IRISH WILL SUPPORT LIBERALS DUBLIN, Dec. The Irish National- ist convention which. opened today with

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most daily for three weeks. rmotives ofthe attack on Mrs. | Deans, Hat tae shee Pag 4 ‘bc oe os BBs) be arp awe Osburn employed negtoes” to’ bring whisky to her lek arm and that, faccording to the sta ‘of neigh- bors, she frequently cants with the negroes and had drink-. ing bouts with thém im the furnace room in the basement. Unconscious, her skull erushed by a ecarpenter’s mallet, Mra. Osburn was found lying in the basement Tuesday. evening after Mrs. P. J. Taafe, occu- pant of the lower flat/ had heard piain- tive moans which at first caused lrer. to believe that an abandoned baby had been left on the doorstep. The kimono and. sweater coat which: Mrs. Osburn wore had been tern open, apparently in a quick and Tough search for the diamonds. The mallet with which she had been struck on the right temple and on the back of the head was found hidden undg¢r a pile of kin- lay. The belief that the crime was com- is based on the statement of Mrs. Taafe that she heard a negro man singing in the basement a short time before. the crime: was committed. was working about the furnace and Mrs. Taafe says she recognized the voice as that of the mulatto. | Mrs. Taafe heard Mra, Osburn go down the stairs leading to the basement and heard Mrs. Osburn and the negrd conversing. Once the man laughed. A fow minutes later Mrs. Taafe heard the low moan which caused her to go to the front door to see whether @ baby had been left on the steps. Returning she put her ear to a radia- tor and discovered tha: the sound came | @go. “Mrs. Osburn was the friendliest white woman to colored folks I ever saw,” said Tuggie. ‘‘When she lived on Spring avenue it was no uncommon thing for her to sit in the basement with me and my wife and drink beer out of @ can. “She knew a negro chauffeur who took her out riding. Once she and her sister went out with this man and they came back on a street car. The feur was a mulatto,

diing 10 feet from where mses Osburn mitted by the mulatto man-of-all-work: who worked for her .eost her life. he’ poli they believe is.a good deseription of the mulatto | sts pec te tally seis 3 and robbing her,in the basement ghee Her husband, W. H; Cale Deng | Bare of a downtown Gepartment store sala iis Though A search of the basement where the ra the Osburn flat failed to reveal #500 worth 6 Y @anior Osburn always carriéd in ‘a chamo’s bag pinne ; regarded as certain that the theft of these jewels wa -_ a > the intoxi- |} >/

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