St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 25, 1910

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to Je — ‘gaid Diederichsen, —— scene of the tragedy a few minutes a9 _ after Diederichsen surrendered himself. — the City Hospital. It had a blade like _. @ dirk, nearly four inches ‘was closed. . i 5 eel shortly before Barry died, and te ¥ S “2 3 ee Dispute Over Politics. * * 1 Only Evening Pa Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service.

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INQUEST ND DEFIES GANG ‘lf There’ s Any Feud, I Can Take Care of Myself,’ De- clares Diedrichsen. VICTIM ACCUSED HIM You Shot Me Without Cause,”.Is “Bad Jack’s” Dying Statement. WEAPON IN POCKET

Found on Barry Unopened After the Shooting—lIts Part in Tragedy a Mystery. An inquest was begun at 2 p. m. Fri- day into the death of John W. (‘Bad Jack’) Barry, who was fatally shot in Justice Reichmann’s court Thursday afternoon by Henry L. (‘‘Lonie’’) Diede-' richsen, clerk of the court, after a quar- rel over politics, The clerk was present in the defend- -ant’s seat, and appeared unafraid, ' though Barry was a member of the + Rats gang, whose feud caused the mur- _@ers of Samuel Young and Fred Mohrle “Jast year. » "I do not think any gang vendetta will result from the death of Barry,” “but if it does, I can take care of myself.” Among the witnesses summoned was Daniel Schriever, brother-in-law of Die- derichsen, and a deputy constable, who ran in from an adjoining room at the sound of the shots, and caught Barry fn his arms as he was reeling to the floor. Sergt. Burke and Policemen Scully and Hollingsworth of the North Market Street District, were summoned, as they were the first policemen on ‘the scene, Poliee Gather Evidence. * Other witnesses were Henry J. Forth- " man, a deputy constable; Edward Bent, * North Market*street, “and Napoleon Tuttle, a megro, 1726 North Eleventh street. ‘These men were the first to ar- } rive after the shooting, with the excep- t'on of Schriever. "The police had gathered evidence con- *cerning Diederichsen’s plea that he shot in self-defense, after Barry, notorious as the roughest hand-to-hand fighter -in St. Louis, attacked him with a knife. This evidence consisted of ante-mortem ' gtatements by Barry to the police and to City Hospital physicians. Contrary to gang ethics, Barry, be- fore his death, identified Diederichsen as his slayer and denied drawing a knife upon him. He -made this denial both in the courtroom and in the pres- ence of Diederichsen at the City Hos- pital, according to the police. Diederichsen was at his desk Friday, having been released on $5000 bond. signed by Riechmann and Farwell Wa)- ton, president of the St. Louis Express Co. The bond was accepted by Judge Wilson A, Taylor in the Court of Crimi- nal Correction Thursday afternoon, be- fore he was informed that Barry had died, but after he had learned his wound was mortal. When told of the death, he allowed the bond to stand as sufficient. No Witness te Shooting. Sergt. Patrick Burke and Policemen Scully and Hollingsworth reached the A wicked looking knife was found in Barry’s pocket when his garments were searched at right-hand overcoat long. It Scully took Diederichsen to the City ’ the two men were confronted. Barry positively identified Diederichsen as his player, and said: | a “He Shot Me Without Cause.” asked permission to put = question to Barry, and it was granted. “Didn't | you pull @ knife on me, Jack?’ — clerk anxiously. “I had in my pocket, but I didn’t draw it,” said Barry. “You're a Har, you did!” away. Diederichsen, who was somewhat drunk when he walked into the North

“So the Stone- Hadley controver- sy is all over,” remarked the poli- ticilan, “and now - Stone says it was all a joke.”’ “That leaves only one man who takes it serious- ly,”” said the tax- payer. But whom is the joke on?’ “Primarily,” said the politician, “it’s on the peo- ple who thought the primary law would give them & chance to choose their own Sena- tor.’’ “And rily?’’ “Secondarily, the joke is on every- body who ever imagined for a minute that Stone would let those ballots be recounted.”’ The official forecast: Fair tonight and Saturday; rising temperature; the minimum temperature tonight will be between 25 and 30 degrees. The stage of the river is 7.6, 2 rise of .2.

seconda- Missouri and Illinoie—Fafr tonight and probably Saturday; rising temperature. CABINET DIRECTS APPEAL IN PANAMA LIBEL CASE Wickersham Orders. Case Against New York World Taken to Higher Court. WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.—As a re- sult of the Cabinet meeting, Attorney- General Wickersham today tele- graphed to District Attorney Wise at New York to note an appeal from the decision of Judge Hough, dismissing for want of jurisdiction the. indict- ment against the Press Publishing Co. (New York Wortd), on the charge

of libel in connection with the Pan- ama Canal cases. “The defendants tn the case, it was stated, are anxious to have the ap- peal taken In order that the matter may be settled by the highest author- ity. FORMER MISS ELIZA BOYD SUES W. B. WARE FOR DIVORCE Member of Old St. Louis Family Charges Desertion and Asks Alimony. Mrs. Eliza B. Ware, who was Miss Eliza Boyd before her marriage, filed a suit Friday in the Clayton Circuit Court for a divorce from J. Bissell Ware. She asks for the custody of their child, J. Bisell Ware Jr., 4 years old. : She alleges that her husband earns a salary of $2000 a year as a solicitor for a printing company and asks ali- mony. The Wares separated Feb. 3, 1909, according to the petition. Desertion is the ground upon which the divorce is asked. Mrs. Ware, who is a mem- ber of an old and wealthy St. Louis family, is living at the home of Mrs. Joseph W. Dickson.

The Post-Dispatch is the only evening news- paper in St. Louis that receives or publishes news gathered by the Associated Press. 5 DOCTOR INIECTS LIFE INTO SUBURB WITHA SHOTGUN W. H. Richardson Thrills Fer- guson by “Shooting Up” a Street. FIRES THIRTY TIMES — — — Crowds Scatter in Rain of Shot; Prisoner Taken by Physician Escapes. ADMITS A “HEADACHE” Goes to Jail After Shooting Telephone to Pieces and “Peppering”’ Car. After giving the town of Ferguson a night of terror by firing a shotgun and a revolver 30 times from the window of his office, where he had barricaded him- self, shooting his telephone to pleces, and endangering the lives of num- erous passers-by, Dr. W. H. Richardson surrendered himself Friday morning to Marshal Graf with the remark: ‘{’ve got such a headache.” Residents of Ferguson, who were the targets for thé physician’s recklessly bestowed volleys, had headaches of their own, which were not relieved until, at 16 a. m., the cautious townsmen, peep- ing from the doors of their homes and ffom: store windows, saw the dauntless Marshal and the disarmed and crest- falien physician start for the county jail at Clayton. Dr. H. A. Jacobi, whose dental office is in a room opening into Dr. Richard- son’s office, was at work on a woman patient’s teeth when, shortly before 8 p. m. Thursday the physician’s “head- ache’’ began its unusual manifestations. First the dentist and the woman in the chair heard Dr. Richardson at the tele- phone,: uttering words ahd sounds which even on the suburban toll. board, are tlassed as ‘“‘loud and unusdal noises,” Crowds Summoned by Shots. “Sey, Central,” they heard Richard- son shout, humber do I want? I didn’t fay I wanted any number, did I? I said [ wanted to talk to you. What’s that? You haven’t got time to talk to me? How much is your time worth? Charge it.up at $ a minute, will you, and send me the bill the 29th of the month? Hey, what’s the matter? What did you hang up for? Don't you know I’ve got 4 shotgun here, and I'll shoot you.”’ And an instant later the dentist dropped his burr and the patient leaped from the chair as two deafening shots Were fired in the next room. The shots were fired, it was afterward found, directly into the telephone in- strument, which was shattered. Almost everyone in Ferguson heard the shots and men and women ran out, thinking there was a fire. Dr. Jacobi, who had escaped to the street, told them the trouble was worse than a fire and a crowd formed on the side- walk at a safe distance from the doc- tor’s office window. Bob Woods, employed at the Wabash switch shanty, did not hear the shots and he innocently walked up the stairs to Dr. Richardson’s office to return some magazines he had borrowed, just as the doctor was raging at the ruins of his telephone. “IT want you in here,”’ Richardson shouted, leveling his shotgun at the frightened Woods and the switchman, ———

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— — they broke even with us The displa yesterday advertising of the St. Louis mer- chants only, in the Globe-Democrat, Repub- lic and Times added together yesterday, Thursday, Feb. 24th, was the same number of columns as was earried by the POST-DISPATCH alone. On a column for column basis these St. Louis merchants bought 61 Columns of display advertising in the POST-DISPATCH and 61 Columns is. the Globe-Demoerat, Republic and Times combined. only These figures do not include eign advertising, ard e

Pee. | Prat tm Qual legal advertising, for- of the or classified advertising, but ex- advertising ‘display First in Boerything. “First in Quentie. huge — —— ia — 5 — PR gia, a! — Awant to talk to you. What

V AUGHN’S WIDOW, HER DAUGHTER AND MEMBERS OF FAMILY SHE VISITED AFT ER THE DEATH

CONTISSES PAULINE and IMARY Ek. ia BETRAYED BY HIS RED HAIR, YOUTHS

— ADS OFFER airy Dawes Admits He Stained It, but Dye Ran Down His Neck. Harry Dawes’ red head, seen on a Tower Grove owl car at 3:30 a. m. Fri- day, seemed familiar to Special Officer Eiler ana when Dawes and his, com- panion, William Kennan) started to leave. the car, Eller stopped them and, calling a patro! wagon, took them to the Lafayette Park Police Siation. Before the station was reached the youths had admitted enough to convince Eller that young Dawes is the transom burglar who has been robbing South St. Louis stores during the winter. Harry Dawes is 16 years old, five feet tall and very slender. It anyone could get through a partly opened transom, policemen say, he could. That he was formerly a ‘“‘transom worker’ the youth admits and the police records show that he served a term in the State ‘Reform School two years ago for his part in four South Side burglaries. Dyed Hair to Feil Police. ‘After I got back,’’ said Harry Fri- day, “I dyed my red hair black, so the police wouldn’t bother me, but the black dye ran down on my neck and the po- lice ‘got next,’ and whenever there’s anything of this kind doing on the South Side, they pick me up.’’ No trace of the black dye remained on the boy’s fiery red crown as he waited in the station Friday for visits from at least three South Side busi- ness men whose stores have been en- tered lately by the transoms. The three robberies with which the po- lice expect to connect Dawes were com- mitted at Charles Suda'’s hardware store, 1881 South Thirteenth street, where two revolvers and $75 worth of pocket knives were taken, Joseph Schil- ly’s tailor shop, 2125 Cherokee street, two overcoats, and Charles Kuhn’s jew- elry store, 1748 Chouteau avenue, where, so far as the proprietor could see, only postage stamps were taken. The. lad admitted Friday to a Post- D reporter that several weeks ago he had robbed ‘Buda’s store of 16 pocket knives. “I wanted to take my girl to a dance,” said 16-year-old Dawes, “and I sold the kriives for $1.50,’’ When two city detectives, Neely and Prendergast, found Dawes in a Chou- teau avenue pool parlor a few days ago, they took from him a revolver which Suda identified as one stolen from Suda’s hardware store. Eecapes From Police, While the detectives were searching the boy he jerked from their grasp and ran into a crowd across the street. The detectives did not dare to shoot for fear of wounding someone éise and the hoy got away. Since then police orders for his arrest have been out and Eller, though he was not sure of the boy's identity, had these orders in mind when he took him from the car. :

TRS. ALMA PROCTOR VAUGHN and Aer DAUGHTER WIN] FRED

$100,000 TRACT FOR FREE BRIDGE Propose to Tear Up the Pop- lar Street Tracks in the Bargain. The Iron Mountain Railroad and the Gould heirs have offered to give the city an easement to a strip of land through their property at Broadway and Chouteau avenue for the wagon and rail- road approaches of the Free Bridge, and also tear up the Poplar street tracks from the river front to the Mill Creek Valley. President Reber of the Board of Public Improvements terms the offer a most generous one, as the land owned by the Iron Mountain and the Gould heirs, re- quired for the bridge approach, is prob- ably worth $100,000. It is to be con- veyed to the city for $1. The Iron Mountain asks for the priv- llege of building an elevated track diag- onally from the Mill Creek Valley to its tracks in the vicinity of Broadway and Chouteau avenue. The Poplar street tracks intersect all the streets from Sey- enth street to the river, making danger- ous grade crossings. For years the city has been trying to get rid of the tracks. Needs 100 Feet. The city will require a strip of land about one hundred feet wide from the river to Sixth street for the west ap- proach of the free bridge. The Iron Mountain formerly had a passenger depot at Broadway and Chouteay ave- nue and owns considerable property in that vicinity. If the city does not ac- cept the property as a gift it will have to,condemn it, and pay the court costs as well as the appraisal price. The bridge approach will extend through the Iron Mountain’s lang for more than 1000 feet. The elevated tracks from the yi} Creek Valley to the river front lines will give the Iron Mountain a new en- trance to Union Station and will obviate the long detour over the tracks of the Oak Hill branch. It will reduce the mileage considerably. There are many dangerous grade crossings on the Oak Hill line which will have to be eliminated at ereat ex- pense if the Iron Mountain continues to wee it for all of its trains. The Iron Mountain tracks run the river front from Carondelet to, Broadway and Chouteau avenue, but there it has now no access from thet point to Union Station. The company has asked President Reber to make the elevation of the free bridge approach at Broadway little higher than contemplated in the plans sq the Iron Mountain can bujigq ite elevated tracks under it. Rede, says this can be done at very little additional cost.

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PAGKING MEN ARE INDICTED Officers and Directors of Parent Corporation of Beef Trust Must Go to Trial. By Associated Press, NEW YORK, Feb. %.—Indictments charging conspiracy to raise prices on foodstuffs contrary to the public good, against all the officials and directors of the National Packing Co.—the so0- called beef trust—were presented to Judge Swayze in the Supreme Couft or] Hudson County, New Jersey, in Jersey City this afternoon. Prosecutor Garven announced that he had issued subpenas for all the officers of the Corporation Trust Co. of New which represents the packing companies in the State. He has de- manded that they bring with them their books showing the stock ownership of the various companies, their officers and directors and other information desired. Mr. Garven said if the officers failed to comply he would move for the quash- ing of the trust companies’ charter. It is understood that two of the men whosé testimony is wanted have volun- teered to appear, oné of them being 8. A. Patterson of Chicago, who. is aiso first vice-president of the National Packing Co., and one o: the men said to be named in the blanket indictment aaginst National Packing Co. officials, which, however, does not become effec- tive until confirmed by the Court. This is the indictment expected to be brought in by the grand jury today. Mr. Garven said if Mr. Patterson and Eastern Manager Murphy of the Na- tional Packing Co., the other volunteer witness, come into the State he will de- tain them there pending action on thé indictment. Following are the directors and offi- cers of the National Packing Co. ii- dicted: Edward Tilden, president. L. B. Patterson, vice-president. A. T. Fuller, vice-president. Cc. C. Snow, secretary and treasurer. Arthur Colby, assistant treasurer. DIMECTORS. J. Ogden Armour, president Armour & Co. Louls F. Swift, president Swift & Co. Edward Morris, president Morris & Co. “ Edward F. Swift, Swift & Co. Ira N. Morris, director Morris & Co. Arthur Meeker, general manager Amour & Co. Edward Tilden, president Libby, Mc- Neill & Libby. Thomas J. Connors, superintendent Ar- mour & Co. L. A. Carton, treasurer, Swift & Co. T. EB. Wilson, vice-president Morris & Co. Charles H. Swift, director Swift & Co. L. H. Heyman, manager Morris & Co. Samuel McRoberts of Armour & Co. F. A. Fowler of Fowler Bros. A. W. Armour, director Armour & Co. FIVE PERSONS HURT IN CAR CRASH ON FINNEY AVENUE On the street crossing where a similar accident occurred a few weeks ago, a southbound Sarah street car collided at noon Friday with a westbound Page car, at Sarah street and Finney avenue. vice-president

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Accused Physician Returns Ho Actions of Another Susp

By a Staff Correspondent. a hotel in Quincy. It {s believed that an indictment against Dr. Hull and against the other person who is suspected in the case will result. The summoning of Chief I-och and W. A. Johnson, a private detective, has strengthened the theory that the grand jury is taking into account the friend- ship of Dr. Hull and Mrs, Vaughn. Johnson: said before he went into the grand jury reom that he had followed’ Mrs. Vaughn to Quincy and that he had seen her in company with Dr. Hull, He declared that hé traced her to the Moecker Hotel in Quincy and that after she had gone to her room, he called the attention of the night clerk to the fact and asked that he remember the date and the appearance of the woman. It is believed that he related these cir- cumstances to the grand jury and that his testimony was corroborated by Chief Koch in so far as that official was able to testify. Prosecutor Riege> announced that the, the testimony of Koch, but it will have its decision is announced. The fact that) grand jury would close the case with} a number of records to go over before}

it convened so early in the day gave strength ta the belief that the investi- fore night. at a moment's notice for Kirksville, her former home, if her presence is required by the special grand jury which is in- vestigating her huspand’s death. She munication by long-distance telephone with persons in Kirksville, who are ad- vising her of the progress of the in- vestigation. A sanguine temperament, reinforced by @ strong will and a keen sense of huiner, enables Mrs. Vaughn to face with a fortitude that amazes her friends an ordeal few women of her refinement nnd station in life have been called vpon to meet. The stress and distress, which almost prostrated her during the carly part of the investigation, which began informally three brought into play a foice which enables her now = world very squarely in the face thote she deems her enemies and perse-

Is Ready to Go to: Kir ville Any Time, — 55 — a 2 Bah ,. 7 — "eS tay sa o® Re 85 > ‘ t " - . 7 n Fe — J * ee fe es * F — = = > Sr 6 - * — * — 9 ary . * * * — — « ea 4 KIRKSVIULE, Mo, Feb. 25.—Dr. Joma: Hull, a Monroe City on a ‘warrant charging him with the murder John T. Vaughn, is on his way back -home with his and lawyers, following his release here at 10 6’el on a $7500 bond, signed by J. E. Stiker an As he departed at 11:06 this mo of Adair County. was listening to the Koch of Quincy, the last witness, who told me

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not taking» Professor's Widow Is heady toto to Kirksville When She Is Nee Mrs. Alma Vaughn, the professor’s { tofor ¢ made elle widow, is ready to leave Monroe City | band, and Proctor, « fF at * we ‘ ‘ * * a * v — * * x * * —114 2 * * q i wir 3 — J Pay) ned to make any Le * i . «, # es , r 4 : — 1 5 ee : N a ’ J — Sees ee — — Dr. Hull arrived in the city at 8:3 cousin of Mr — o’clock last night and during the re-j mainder of the — was with his} Sheriff Williams said that his os * F = 3° a 5 — * et aise * F ae : om — +, — « — AS EOS TB CNT ota sss. Sf Me Be 4