St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 23, 1909

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OWN TIES. UP $2250 : ; Wy # wm z Ba aye: f Re ¥ s, In? Ss Sha i eee RA Sy > (I om et ie ; ar vest Personal sti by e “More Than $1,000,000, Made is 6 ib St Lois. CITY GAINS $50,000 ty pe Millionaires Increase Re- _ftums ‘When suties Call Attention to Penalty. - LET TERS NOT HEEDED Wea Residents | gnored As- : -Sessor’ s Attempt to Enforce. _ Law Requiring Affidavit. | ere Campbell; millionaire broker d financier, in his sworn tax return Sa8: i tO Assessor Brinkop, fixes the value of persona! property in St. Louis at 4. This. ig the. largest personal tax return | a by more than $1,000,000 ever made in St. aon year. Mr. Campbell's personal beperty was Valued at $450,000 for tax- able purpones and $350,000 for each of as two preceding years. The return made by Mr. will increase his personal taxes from $9990 to $09,940-—-a net gain to the city of almost. $50,000. i We City Gains Much. _ Many. other millionaires are said to ve gone to the Assessor’s office with- | the past few days and made returns ot which the value of their personal iw is. increased from $100,000 and Campbell For several months. ‘Aseenboy Bririkop been trying to enforce a law requir- Moomgem to make affidavit ‘to their 1 tax returns. Registered letters ‘that Jan, 1 would np checlaw. ‘win $10 t0 $1000 and c alec hanes eee e told the assessor he never 4 personal return, as the value of property heretofore had been | @wore to the value of his personal prop- te: ny he fixed it at $2,250,000 more than it it pags ever been before. ‘His fortune has been variously at $30,000,000 to $40,000,000, much if it in railroad and other public utility . Brinkop declined to state what wealthy men have visited his of- to make returns on their hold- Inge as the district assessor fix the val- fter returns made by Campbell or t tell anes: returns were made by other [SECRETARY OF THE KAVY Only Evening Paper in St.

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_—_—_—_—_— . HAS PRIVATE DOOR WHICH IS BARRED TO VISITORS By Wire From the Wishtenten Bu- reau of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. HERE is one door in the big aD State, War and Navy Building which is sacred to the presence ed . one Cabinet officer. He alone Vous in and od through it and every

other person cdmnected with the United + States Navy or Yo’ HAS To with the Govern- ; ment of the Unit- GO ROUND ed States, has to go around. The door leads into the office of Secretary of the Navy Meyer. Mr. Meyer enters through it and leaves by it, but at all other times it remains locked. Today ~,Mrs. Meyer visited the department. She was in a hurry and as soon as she reached the eorridor in front of her husband's office she headed for the sacred door. Mrs. Meyer tried the door. She twisted the knob and then khocked. She knocked again. The answer came from Private Secretary Tayldr's door in the form of a@ big negro messenger. He spoke to Mrs. Meyer and she followed him through the circuitous path which leads to her husband's desk. Fifteen minutes later she came out. This time she used the private door of Secretary of‘the Navy Meyer. TAFT, ON THE WATER WAGON, GETS BARREL OF KENTUCKY . . WHISKY FOR CHRISTMAS By Wire From the Washington Bu- WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. MPLOYES of the White ‘@ conundrum. Here it is: “If the Presi- ter wagon and somebody bine him 20 gallons of reau of the Post-Dispatch. iol House have dent is on the wa- fine old: Kentucky |

oe *,6,° | whisky for | arist- TPP. it into the sewer, o give it to his Mx friends or divide it” among the boys? — The. answer is yet to come. The preblem was furnished when an express wagon backed up to the White House and deposited a fine little barrel of whisky for President William Howard

Taft. * |INSURGENT MURDOCK TOLD

WHEREIN HE IS LIKE MAN WHO DIDN'T LIKE WEATHER By Wire From the Washington Bu- reau of the Pox«t-Dispatch., WASHINGTON, Dec. 23. A SHER C., HINDS, Cannon's Speaker right- hand man, and the best posted man on the rules of the House on top of ground, met Victor Mur- dock, the Kan- san insurgent, in the House lobby. “The trouble with you insur- gents ‘is the

same as the trouble of a man who did not. like the weather,”’ he remarked. “That fellow busted the thermometer because he didn’ t like snow.” WOULD YOU? ()*s. a little more than half

the needed sum has been subscribed for the Post- Dispatch Christmas Festival. Ten thousand dollars. will be needed to pay for the dinner to all the poor | ley’s checks now in evidence?” | the $12,000 the same as

in the Coliseum, for the toys which will be given to all the - children there, for the baskets of suitable food sent to the homes of the indigent folk shut in their homes by illness and for the din- ner to homeless men: Here is an act of hospitality wherein the spirit of Christmas

— “TTULLEY SIGNATURE’ INFORTNER'S HAND EXPERT TESTIFIES « . Swears Acknowledged Writing Is Identical With Alleged Forged Indorsement.

STEWART AIDS DEFENSE

Lawyer Asserts That Union Trust Company Wants Acquittal. WOULD SAVE = $12,000

Wife in Court Sits Near Her Husband and Gives Advice. Testifying at the trial of M. Dwight Fortner, charged with. forgery, Hand- writing Expert Gus V. R. Mechin testi- fied Thursday that the hand which wrote the signature of M. Dwight Fort- ner, identified and acknowtedged as Fortner’s, was the hand which wrote the alleged forged endorsement on the famous $12,000 check. . “In my opinion they are identical,” he said. Expert analysis of . the curleycues in the signature on the fa- mous $12,000 check as compared with those in the acknowledgéd signature. of Henry C. Tulley and the appearance In court of A. C. Stewart as the friend and supporter of Fortner were interesting features the second d@ay’s ses- sion of the trial. Stewart is counsel for the St. Louis Union Trust Co., which gave Fortner a treasurer’s check after he had aeposited the one which he is alleged to have forged. When Fortner arrived in court at 9:15 lines and of | Attorney Stewart greeted him cordially sgh ct aes oy BED Insult. - 4p@ shook hands with hi e “ate you this morning. ‘ner?’’ he said. “Fine,”’ had to get up a usual,”’ Stewart and Fortner stood near the counsel table talking for 10 minutes. Their conference was interrupted by the arrival of Mrs. Fortner. E. B. Williams, one of Fortner’s attorneys, introduced Mrs. Fortner to Stewart. Without being questioned, Stewart turned to a Post-Dispatch reporter and said: “I am convinced that the signature on that $12,000 check was written by Tulley.” y “If that is proved,” said the reporter, “and itis shown that there was no for- gery, the banks through’whick che check passed will not lose anything, will they?” said Fortner, ‘‘except that I little earlier than Wants Fortner Acquitted. “No, the loss will be Tulley’s,’’ re- plied Stewart. Then the former Presi- cent. of the Police Board added: “The banks would be very well satis- fied to see Mr. Fortner acquitted.’’ Throughout the morning session Stew- art sat near the counsel table, though he has not entered his appearance as an attorney in the case. > Mrs. Fortner, dressed in black as on the opening day of the trial, sits near her husband and frequently leans over and. talks to him in whispers. Tulley took the witness stand a oe court opened and identified as his the signatures on 10 bundles of checks, ag- gsregating about 1000; introduced in evi- dence by the.State. .L. C. Haynes, vice-president and gen- eral manager of the East St. Louis & Suburban Electric Railway Co., identi- fied Fortner as a man he met on a steamer bound for Panama, and later at the Tivoli Hotel in Colon. Gus V. R. Mechin, handwriting ex- pert, was called. He said he had % years’ experience in comparing hand- writing, and had qualified himself as an expert by reading many books and spe- cial articles on the subject. © “Are you familiar with H. C. Tulley’s | signature?” he was asked. “I am,” he replied. “Have you seen the bunches of ~~ “I saw them a few minutes ago in the }] Cireult Attorney's office.” Not Vally’s Signature. “In your opinion is the signature on that on the | checks identified as havinz-been signed | by Tulley?”’ “In my opinion it is not.” “In your opinion did the same hand : write them?’ “In my opinion it did not. The $12,000. check was then handed to Mechin ‘and he was asked to point the ae on which he based his opin- lon.

———— SIGNATURE IN DISPUTE, TULLEY’S WRITING __ | AND THAT ACKNOWLEDGED BY FORTNER|

pontant E SF ne I”. FORTNERS.

he wrote it and Foriner is charged with having forged it. and the bottom one was written by Tulley. In his testimony, Thursday, Handwriting Expert Mechin, a witness for the State, pointed out that the first stroke and loop of the “H” are different, that the “n” the indorsement shows that the person writing it first started to makethe letter in a different way and that the capital “C” in the indorsement is followed by a period which never appears in the Tulley also called es Pi one ‘to differences in the first stroke of the “T” in Tulley and the last stroke of the. my”. T* upper signature is the indorsement of Tuiley’s name on the $12,000 check. in the indorsement is more lik¢ a “un”,

Tulley has denied that The middie signature is. that of Fortner that the “r” in res. He

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