St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 6, 1910

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ST. LOUIS, SUNDAY MOENIS G, FEBRUARY ¢ 6, 1910

MUSIC-MAD THESE OPERATIC SYMPHONIES ~ ARE HEARD IN COMMON NOISES

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Ethelfrieda: Yes; thank heaven I found you out in. time..J—boo hoo!—could never love a man who mistook the “Vesti la giubba” from “Pagliacci” for the “Di Quella Pira’ from “Il Trovatore.”’

Judge: Madame, how do you know that you and your husband are thoroughly incompatible? Fair Plaintiff: My husband’s favorite opera is “Manon” while I am partial to “Andrea Chenier.” Judge: - ~-_—_--—- =] = =: = = = «= «=: «+ « «=: => = = => ~~ AGT: ON THE: TRAIL. No. 29 in the Post-Dispatch Limelight Series. police relief fund, was like setting a bloodhound to follow elephant tracks. And when he an- nounced that he was not going to do “detective work” in the fund investigation, one could almost hear him add: “Because I don’t have to.” ; - But if trailing over the level paths of ledger and balance sheet isn’t so exciting as his earlier chases through the boodle morass and the police graft jungle, there is compensation to Maroney it his belief that the men he is after need punish- ing a little worse than any of the former ones did. : : “The boodlers were bad enough,” says Maroney, “for they violated their oaths and sold out the city. The policemen who grafted from the crim- inal and delinquent classes deserved all they got and then some. But men who will rob their own aged and disabled comrades, and the widows and orphans of their comrades, well—”’ .' That was as far as Maroney got, for it oc- ODP BP Leal aaa et ee te ge ge ge a ge ge ge le ee ee ge - «= ee ae ae ae

with her glorious voice, came, sang and con-| quered. We have heard two programs of the | Beethoven cycle, four symphony concerts and’ recitals by the Amphion and Apollo Clubs within | the fortnight. As if these were not enough to make us music- | ally cultured, we shall ‘have the French Opera ; company in eight performances next week. The | week afterwards there will be another Beethoven | program by the Symphony Society and two sym- ' phony concerts. And as a climax, in April, ited, shall hear the Metropolitan Opera Co. and the | incomparable Caruso! — ) ‘ at

—PSO OPO OOOO POPP PD PDGF PODS T. LOUIS did not turn a deaf ear.or close | MUSICAL S a parsimonious pocketbook upon the musi- | cal entertainments which have just ny Gratifying audiences attended the Beethoven pro- | grams. Society turned out in force to fill the houses at the opera. The Amphion and Apollo concerts were packed and jammed. Hundreds were turned away each Sunday from the Sym-, phony Society popular concerts. Thousands and ) thousands of dollars were gladly lavished to sat- | ) isfy the craving which has seized upon the ear- drums of the city. With another week or so of such musical prod- igality, incidents like those of the following dia- logues will probably occur in St. Louis: ) Algernon: Wa-e-at! You ask me to take back | my ring?

‘ot ) etropolitan Police Department is ules pleaded that he was ‘celebrating the coming 2” sald the prosecuting polos Seg Mak trae nat bseecinddr yar Regedit l, making up in authority for 1 A, — sometimes makes it t he is thinking about.

has become so much “it” at Police Head building on a cosmopolitan one. It has not only its Murphys its Dugans, but its Schwarzes, its Tomassos and its Wardenskis.. And at the head of what lacks in numbers, Scotland can ‘point to ‘atiricalt to learn: what he ts Going and timponsinie for all that, the president of the Police Board seneliiare 1 cma age his on me i ad HEY ought to have given Andy Maroney a harder job. To start him, with all the books and records in hand, after the looters of the

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curred*to him that he woulé better save, for the ears of a jury, his matured and unexpurgated thoughts as to the proper fate of men who: would do what he had described. “ET Maroney, when he: appears: again at the Four Courts in his familiar prosecuting role ‘of a half-dozen: years ago, will follow, just as he then followed, his rule of trying every case “as a law case,” and not on a basis of sentiment. Maroney’s reliance on law, rather than on sentiment, doesn’t mean that sentiment is lack- ing from the: category of his mental processes. How much sentiment Maroney has, a Clayton jury found out a few years ago, when he defended a young woman from whom a St. Louis County swain sought to recover damages for breach of promise to marry him. The suit sounds, and sounded thes. like a -joke, Q but it was not possible for counsel for the defense to regard it that way. The man offered pretty good proof that the girl had promised to marry Yhim, and her father’s. broad acres showed how fair were the financial. prospects that were shat- " tered ‘when she changed-her mind. Besides, who } knew but some woman hater, stung by the mem- 4 ory of an early, jilting, might -be on the jury, and might swing the other 11 with him? So Maroney, .perhaps consciously following the example ot Senator ‘Vest in his immortal speech i the dog, said little about the facts or the law in-his plea,.but asked the jury the — “What is Love?” “ , “In answering that; question, he ‘Seanad Shaks- peare,Tennyson, Shelley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox ¥ and Bathhouse John of their choicest gems of Rerotic speech. As for the plaintiff, with his tale S of money spent for. cream puffs and. car tickets, the jury was made:to feel that he was.a profane ) person, worthy of a penalty for applying the name of love, to his sordid feelings. And the jurors ) “soaked” him for the costs, and were sorry the , i \ costs weren't larger. — CONVICTED WOMAN OF MURDER BY CLEVER METHOD. HAT Maroney can do in an all-fact and nc sentiment case appeared when he made 12 men declare that the killing of Dennis ) Cummings by his wife, witnessed by no third per- <son, was murder and not self-defense. By dia- ) grams and measurements of the room made by a civil engineer and compared with a surgeon’s (tracing of the bullet’s course, he overcame the ) reluctance of the jurors to convict even the grim fand gray-eyed Minnie Cummings on circumstan- ) tial evidence, and caused her to be sent to Jeffer- ‘son City’ for 10 years. ? That was one of the triumphs of the days when } Maroney and Orrick Bishop, as Joseph W. Folk’s ; { assistants in the Circuit Attorney's office, did the |

Election Board. This aid very well Police Board, also dit to establish r and upset the department grafters, found ‘tl witnesses they needed wouldn’t talk to ain: There was little doing in election year chairmanship and take a police i sionership at $1000, or $80 a year less than the pat Polmen who were the humblest of his marks. — HIS OWN DETECTIVE | : IN COLLECTING WITNESSES. HERE was detective work to be done. and T Maroney left none of it to detectives, public or private. He dic it himself, and the arra of bedizened and drug-tremulous witnesses wh “ the board heard was of his own marshaling. T policemen were arraigned, nine were two others killed themselves, and the members of the force became so inoffensive that a crusade against smoking on duty had to b started, just to keep up the appearance of something. | Back to his $2000-a-year election post went Ma. roney, but there was another fterruption? «A circuit judgeship became vacant, and Gov. Folk offered it to him. Maroney wondered the law would allow him to step from an elec: tion commissionership to the bench, and madg some dubious comment to that effect, quoting t stat@tes. When he was told that his. before the appointment, would make the regular, he sent in his resignation: sand for the appointmént, which came ales: oe days later. é “I thought,” he said afterward, “that eine) had changed from the Election Board to the P lice Board at a loss to myself, without raising - point about the law, I might be seeret oe nak a change when it was for my gain.” - But he was not allowed to. Someone 1 very point that had to Ms one’ matter went to Aneaar eapants . tac decided that there couldn't he that year. S if to make amends f chairman gets. Maroney: Ps ig pit. “I knew all the time ip abo. er law than hold office,” wae a practicing now long th And when he atom