St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 27, 1909

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Ro ing : oT re — — —— J a, a ee — — — —— — > CONVICT WHO ENTERED HOSPITAL FATALLY SHOT Ignores * Invitation © to.. Hear Actor Discuss His Long- . . Distance Views. SPEAKS FROM - PULPIT | | EO § Bloodstains on “Five Dollar: Bill and: Clothing Basis of © ing; Assailants of Biyth Are Aury Verdict. ‘Shielded. FIRED ON Al AT -PARTY | _ ‘Pati Hurley’s Story Is That. He Was Wounded by HE AxES THE Sano Sa dae EE | waltz Keeps® —— — Hodge —“ the Rev. Mr. Mauze’s Attitude on Drama He Never Sees. . J 1 The Rev, > Layton — critic ot the stage, yas invited to hear William’ rey boy \ That Frea — ————— came. to hie Friend “on. a Dare. 4h ‘death from: blows witha pockér ‘struck |. by: Philip. Waitz —* verdict” of a “comic IS ‘A VICT IM Corexer’s jury Mon ion at the Compto Congregational “Mickey” Reed Enters City 5 — — Tetose ‘ye @ dramatic’ ear! : Which | \--ureh. Bunday. Dr. Mauze did not - Hospital as Automobile 1 a tikchnnd | Waltz: accdsed of ki hagetite t best friend | ddcaiit Cia: sivtiation’ » Was the Starewitiites: “T sent Dr. Mayze an invitation to. A | nid tds Away. was found =a Gered in | hear. Mr. Hodge's reply to his attacks As ————— _ | the, affice Ag-the, Beigee: suerKract Co.jon*the stage,” said Dr. Meeker, “Dr. wee = d, and Hem a” streets, |Mauze did. not come—at léast if he was ee. ————— -whootings, one of ee er — * =, — chim, Waltz, in the audience I did not see him, I | which “has resulted in a death, are mys· tHandlan, fi refusing’ to'sign the appeal | "#4 been lig’ with him in ) am sure if Dr. Mauze had heard Mr. | | teries oe in. conformity ‘with | bond of M. Dwight Fortner, Handlan's celebration of. the@holiday,. Por years | Hodge he Would have indorsed all the “gang oth ‘Dias woundéd | re. | Bon in-law, under a two years’. petiten- it had been their custom to meet cays: actor said. My congregation was de- sive: tlary se . * ton | forgery, nt to the | 0" Christmas. lighted. with the actor's presentat fused to eny information which Ca ee ae : Several times while the inquest was ot the stage from the standpoint of the would . Jena * the arrest of their. as-’ } Four Courts Monday and signed Fort- ner’s bond himeelf. under way Waits } Moved uneesily in his | man who participates in the play. Fortner’s young wife. who was for- chair and said: -Ain't.I going to have a “Mr. Hodge, made a plea for fair play. chance to make a ‘statement.”’ I saw the Rev. John L. Roemer of the . Mi th Handlan, a — died at the City tos. ee iglesia a eee — When he was called to the stand he| Tyler Place Presbyterian Church at the — J shé thanked the aged capitalist, who J— a —— Aonday from) a ‘bullet. Was ——* seat. oh had to be helped | ¥@* calm as he has been since his ar-|™eeting. After Mr. Hodge spoke Mr. . rest.. Roemer came on the platform to shake into. Judge Grimm's courtroom. : : Ss ‘Fortner’s bond for $10,000, which Judge| “Where do you live?” he was asked. | hands with him. ‘ | Grimmi: had. refused to atoept with Mrs.| “In jaf! now’ he said. My home is at Can Criticise Without Seeing. L. L. Gardner and Wilbur F. Parker as|the South House but I sometimes stop} In his address Mr. -foage stated that securities, was made acceptable to the at 1627 North Broadway. I am a barber | Dr- Mauze might be doing ‘hell an in- Court by the addition of Butler’s name, | but in the winter I work in the sauer- justice by criticising it without having and the young real estate dealer went} Kraut factory. I went there at 9:30 a!| been ‘there to see what it is like. He 1] home with his wife. m. Christmas an@ took a bottle of whis-| "emarked humorously that Dr. Mauze "The ‘Handians’ ubed to. be re‘ghbors|Ky with me Fritz Oberstetter and I might like “he inferna) regions if he ¥ 1 of mine,” said Butler in: explaining. his | drank it and s¢veral times I went. out | became acquainted with them. In a re- unexpected appearance in ‘Fortner’s be. | @n4 bought beer and whisky. He paid cent interview Dr. Mauze said that he nalf. ““B knew Mrs. Fortner. when she|for some of ft.’ When I left there at felt as much privileged to criticise the wD little girl. 4:30 p. m. Fritz was all right. That’s all 1 | 8t#s¢ without having seen the plays as — 3 he does to criticise hell without seeing In the papers — Sunday I read how/can tell unless you want e ask ques- ‘ 1} Mrs. Fortner and her child had. to pass } tions.” * | @ lonely Curistinas becanse her father] “{Where did you’ get the bloodstains * he pid help; Fortner to, get out, and 1}0n your coat and hat?’ asked Deputy to, my. wife, “Handlan isn’t treating | Coroner Carriere. — — —— ‘Whe won't help] “Well my coat wasn’ t wet when I/got — pcaig nt tlageng — — x ie Ta —* ne —— iss bad spots. He said Mr. ‘Hodge * had : I had time enough to clean it — either been. misinformed or’ tn oo 1 RIES TO CARRY FIVE | I was: arrested.” preted his ériticism. INS OF TAFT’S POTABLE Mauze, after being informed of the tenor of the actor's remarks, that he considered them unworthy of a reply. 71YTR. ‘ a : % go awe ary — # > t milked into the at § a = 2 * ‘Sak, ‘ y 7 ~ . * * 9 * ; ° gee y ~ - He was asked where he got two keys, |" Sate 46 digi'd-vetiark about Dr. ee Jione-of wiftch was identified as the prop- liking hell if he’ knew what it is was ey of Oberstetter. intended as a bit of humor,” sald Dr. ‘One is a key to a MG club and the) yeocor’ The’ actor was not talking other Js the key to.my room on South | soyiously, but evidently Dr.’ Mauze has Broadway,” he replied.,. Then volun-| sapen’ it seriously. turlly he added: “I never saw any Belteves in Fair Play. blood on my ,coat or hat. They were} “My-own opinion is that préachers downstairs at the South House when I] ought to know something about the was Arrested. I had my trousers in my/ stage before they condemn it. Mr. room with me.’’ Hodge said that the courtesies ofthe table liquor, Pres-| Deputy Coroner Carriere tossed across | theater were usually extended free to ident Taft saxs] the table a % bill which was taken from | ministers and pastors to give them an 80.” , Waltz's pocket “when he was arrested. | opportunity, to study it. “Wrong,” 885d) «aren't thofe* bloga stains on that criticise the stage, without knowing the Colonel, Who} money?” asked! Carriere. : what it really. is, is unfair. I, thought was waiting until] -pney look mere like tobacco. to me,” | tMfat Mr. Hodge’s plea for American fair the first of the d Waltz. He picked up the bil! and} play, in the criticism of the stage was year to get on the ne gab derasching the stain ‘with his| manly, and. right. I am sorry Dr. Mauze was not there to hear what he had to say.” There was a. large audience at the chureh. to behold the unwonted specta- “Now we know what whisky is,’’ said the man who was on the wagon. “It's po- wagon. “It’s less thumb. porrehis' than. aayt | Bon't — that too much,” said Liew of t cried | DY: Carriere. ‘apparently fearing that to carry five the evidence -would. be do troyed. | drinks of it "Well, it isn't blood, anyway,” anid cle of an actor speaking from a pulpit, Christmas, and I Waltz, tossing back the bill. All | and mg was much —— laugh- made a grand suc- that money was mine. I had $42 ~~ n appreciation of Hodge’s humor. tess, I think not.’ which: I nad saved up:for Christmas.” The drama in ite field does Sood, Just “Not portable,” He showed no emotion when the like the ministry, said the actor. “The corrected ‘the man whbd was on the wa-| ‘edict was read. 2 se —* tg grag hg he! ter wagon. “Potable was the word.” ,| ©. John A. Laird, president of the ‘ y winning the love — e stage “What ‘that mean?’ Police Board said Monday that he-does| beauty and the bad man ts poisoned, “Don’t ask me.’ | not believe that the méthods employed — or arrested. “Well, come on in Gus’ place and weu)| °¥ detectives in putting Waltz through Ms py eg ay want “ ped ae thea- look ‘it up. ‘He’s got a dictionary be- | + sruesome ‘third-degree’ ordeal at the —* nd in ‘ — hs * the hing the’ bar.” { Morgue call for special ection on nig | People not to go, ave nm told most ' Phe effictal forecast: Partty cloudy | lart. ; of the attack on. a stage here was tonight and Tuesday; not” much| Waltz was taken to’ the Morgue eget gs we — — — * change in — the minimum | "Y aren he says, and made to —B— temperature onig * about 15 Sisley acha' Sen Oar deieeaate eat ve, pos above sero, - Continfied on Page 2. — — ——— — “I believe it is the duty of preachers Dode’ -8T. LOUIS, December 27, 1909. to. attend plays, and especialy bad — tee See en : : ones. A preacher's duty, I nave been oT * rst ‘Wash | .j taught, is to go to the wicked and help — ——* 143 * HE : if HT ie Ht ki —* “It certainly is not fair to roast every- thing on the stage because some plays need roasting; any more than it would be fair to close up every bank because some banker goes wrong or to shut up pevery church because some clergyman ‘| Tens @way with a girl. under age.’’ MR. AND MRS. R. J. NEWTON AND THEIR SON HURT. WHILE COASTING DOWN STEEP HILL R. J. Newton, seoretary of the: Missouri — 143 consecutive Sundays, poet period of two full years and 3 * YS, day Post-Disp atch be in — = —* ——— Gunday) * — Post-Dispatch gia te ‘Has juries received Sunday afternoon in coasting accidents at. Richmond Heights. They were visiting at the home of Frederick Stillman, and joined a coast. g a ee ts ; * —* ie * —— — — — tthe Hic “@ jt ‘Cahn: | 4 . ae — a 4 —* Ret” Z a F 1 ¥ ee * re ee ee % — me. bo oR * ee - = — — ⁊ oe i — oa oe al ¥ hodge, aétor defend the stage at the For them toi. 5 Z 48 Fi — is. jules, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER — 190%, J —— — —— EI Re —— — ——— “IMPRESSIONS: OF HIM‘ IN- 7 Fie ‘PULPIT ! > — — i , — — ——— * * —— — Se 4 4 Se — — —— — MRS, OOXEY TI — MSTA ENTITY PL Attorney Charles P. Johnson Believes Such a Defense Would: Not :Hold. The plea of mistaken identity ‘which was at first suggested ‘as the probable defense of Mrs.. Dora Doxey, who, with her’ husband, Dr. .L., B. Doxey, is dharged with the death of William J. Erder, ‘will not be presented. Former Lieutenant-Governor .Charies *P. John- son, who has been taken into. the case with former Judge Orrick Bishop, told a Post-Dispateh reporter Monday that it did‘ not seem that such a defense would hold. He bases this: opinien on the fact that several persons have iden- tified Mrs. Doxey as Erder’s wife. Gov. Johngon declared that a defense for the Doxeys would not be formally outlined until after indictments heave been returned. me suggested that the question of poisons and their agrees will enter largely into. the trial. The attorney finds fault with failure of the post-mortem surgeons to examine all ef the vital organs of. Erder into which arsenic or other poison Would be likely to aasemble. He. holda that the fact that arsenic was found in certain organs is not conclusive proof that the poigon permeated the system. Gov. Johneon further said that the question as to whether Erder was ad- dicted to the use of arsenic or other optates, wil) probably be one of the de- fenses. It te the theory that the poison found in Erder’s body was self-admin- istered. Dr. Doxey will not be permitted to. see his wife in jail except.on urgent cocca- sions. He was not allowed-to visit her Sunday. Other prisoners. are said to have complained that Jailer Wolf wax ting the Doxeys more privfeges gran hehan is accorded to other inmates, This/| led to a curtailment of the privileges the | Doxeys have enjoyed since, (Rey, were — tn sm [PRINCE CHUN = FORMER COOK Father of China’s —— Slightly Wounded Stepping » From Carriage. * : ; Special Cubte te the Past — and. New: York Werld.. SHANGHAI, Dec, 2.—Prince Chun, the regent and ‘father of Emperor. Pu, was stabbed ag he was a lighting from his carriage before the ‘palace at Pekin today. His wound ts not serious, His assailant, a Manchu, was arrested. He formerly was a cook In the Imperial nousehold... s Attempts to kiu high officials of aed ernment were successful in three in- stances Jast week. The Chief of Police of St. Petersburg, Col. Karpoff, was killed by a bomb explosion. The Prime Minister was assassinated in Seoul, Korea, and a british ‘magistrate was snot to death Ip a theater in India. An attempt on the life of the Prime Minis. ter of Roumania felled. POLICEMAN CUDDINEE, SANITY — RESTORED, LEAVES HOSPITAL Family Rejoices: at Recovery From Effects of Highwayman‘: 8 Stole the Money as Bride * —— Theodore B. Moss, 60. years old, ar- rested on’ the charge of ebandoning bis bride of a month- and taking $1000 of | her money, - pleaded in his own defense Monday that the $1000 was given him by his wite as his neem eter Syeda rying her. “She did the proposing,’ declared Moss, who was arrestéd’ while he wait- ed at the Union Station on Christmas night for a train to’ Columbus, oO. “I didn't want to marry her. She canie into my sécond-band furniture store at 2744 Olive street, day after day, though I told her she ought to stay at home and ‘tend to-her rooming house «ae Although he was 10. they, fell in love A at wy % iy ay a * Ot eae Ee 4's “Aa ae + 4 * te ; on te teen —Jr1 — —— — Spree iy : a 3 J— x ¥ . : a it RES we a * 7 a 4 —— = x uy a>) urs & age 3 ? fea a a Rem, oY, — 0. at ma wit es in mit — Pag * — — ——