St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 8, 1910

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“Only Evening + Paper in St, Buk! With the Associnted Press News Service. VOL. 62,NO. 200. HUNTING $135,000 OF LIGHT TRUSTS, MISSING ASSETS) Public Service Board Finds Part of Money From Bond Issue Is Gone,

Oe “PRICE ONE CENT MRS CUD OF LILLIS, ‘HUSBAND CO _——_— ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, MARCH 8, 1910. |SNAPSHOTS OF MILLIONAIRE AND COUNSEL, HIS WIFE AND BANKER WHOM HE SLASHED SAP TULA // ZAR Sms ia* . ERK a EE

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Declares She Is Innocent of Wror EXPERTS TO* TESTIFY Body Will Go Fully Into the doing---No Cause: fix: Tangible and Intangible Assets of Combine.

_ Two. MEN RUN TO AVERT _ [HIGH FIANCE siown| | TAS Yala ae | )©6 | ADMITS HAVING DINED a “ ': TRAGEDY, BUT TOO LATE Pant of Laciede Power Co.| [/) a utp a re "OUT WITH THE BAC ; Transferred Twice at In- creasing Figures.

Praises Injured Man and His Fan Declares Her Husband Should | ‘Met Him as Man to. Man. a eepueesed by Obligations Aggregating $36.25, He Wants Fellow Union Members to Settle _ Them Rather Than Use Money for Burial. The disappearance of $135,000 from the assets of the City Lighting Co., organ- ized in 1899 to handle. the city lighting contract, was the subject of inquiry Tuesday shortly after the Public Serv- ice Commission began a public investi- gation of the rates of the Union Elec- tric Light and Power, Co. C. J. Marr, an expert accountant connected with Price Waterhouse & Co., which firm in- vestigated the books of the Union Elec- tric, said he was unable to determine where the money went. The City Light Co. was organized by persons who owned the Sechner Elec- tric Co. Both: corporations were sub- sequently acquired by the Imperial Electric Light and Power Co., which was bought by the Union Electric when it was organizing a monopoly. Marr said the recerds showed the City

Special to the Post-Dispatch... KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 8.—Bitter d tion of “Jacl P. Cudahy, millionaire packer who attacked Jere FI ‘ill | “4 rg president and hacked him with a buteher knife in agp hy hi were pronounced today by Mrs. Cudahy and Gen. C her father who came here at her earnest request. - Lillis who lay on a cot in St. Mary’s hospital, recovering fr more than a dozen wounds and Cudahy who is to escape | _—"

ti pede! to save funeral expenses, so that his death benefit from labor union could be used to pay debts amounting to $36.25, An- ‘drew Hanson, 3026 Locust street, leaped from the Eads Bridge at ' 12:45 p.m. Tuesday and was drowned in the Mississippi River. He was seen approaching the ticket office on the St. Louis end ftom the Illinois side. When he arrived within 100 feet of the office, he stopped, took a letter from his pocket, weighted it down with a and: a dime, and vaulted over the rail.

BES He sank and “ sae es tery ae eae ae . - tha A ~ a , = . Utne ae Pua ¢. | ee che sprang to wi we two ous saw his body whirl down- a nt hy ae 2 a 3 ~ a Leg ay a ¥ - x 4 ” 2 ; . ae al = Michael Dietz of Pickensville, Il, expected sto, pay all my debts before ba diver bajloon pilot in St. Louis except pockétknife “A %, ~ . ~*~ Allen of _ alae : and were! _ within 60 feet of Hanson. when he - stopped. /Seeing hfm deposit the letter, they spected -his intention and ran to restr him. But as he heard their the railing, | one ‘upon it end leaped over se seinen ; iaeo: Ok., cken over the river, & and gh the water. They caught i.them at the rail also wv ee’ more’. of the JOnion No. 3, Seventh street’ and fanklin avenue: Brothers—You will please excuse me for the following Mies, ag I: have ‘that life is - mot: worth living after all. I fully _ I left, but I was unable because I couldn't get work, I understand that . you’ pay~ the* fimeral expenses of 2 was hot seén again by the dla which ran to the. edge of the would save you that expense in case you would settle what I owe to the following persons: To Mrs. William B. Hough, 3026 Locust street, $8.75 for the rent of a room. | 4 To Mr. P; ‘Massa, 2921 Olive street, for board, $29.30. Dhese-are-my. only. debts. I will jump from: the bridge into the M. River to save funeral expenses. I wish you all success and prosperity. ANDREW HANSON, Member of Bricklayers’ Union, No. 3 Attached to the letter were two bills from Mrs. Hough and Massa, covering the amourits named by Hanson. On the back of the Masta bill Hanson added a | postscript: “Please pay Mr. Massa 20 cents more for another meal.” } Stephen G. Longley, business agent for the Bricklayérs and Masons’ Inter- national Union, of .which Hanson was & member, said, when told of the sui- cide, that he-did not believe Hanson would get any death benefit, as he is behind in his dues. ““Hewever,” he said, “the union will meet. tonight and decide what to do about it. The regular benefit. for mem-

member that dies, I'thought I | bers in good standing is $150,”

2 scends. Half.an | an Hour After es Eva Tanguay and Tony _dobn Berry saw Percy Noel, acting sec- ‘retary of the Aero Club of St. Louis, ke his frst flight Tuesday. He ac- companied H. Boy Honeywelt ana Wil- an F. Assman in the new unnamed Of 40,000 cubic feet capacity for a Peoria man. The start was the Aero Club grounds at Chou- 1 and Newstead avenues at 12:15 eal fan hour before, Tony von Phul, i by Eva Tanguay, the act- ery Horatio Bauman Jr. of Alton e left the grounds on a.sky voyage in the Louis IL. In less than an hour, the | } had made a semi-circlé in the

(OL TRUST CALLS | TISELF GOLD MINE HONESTLY EARNED Files Brief in Supreme Court Protesting Against Suit to Dissolve It. | WASHINGTON, March 8.—The “Stan- dard Oil’ today filed in the Supreme Court of the United States its brief in opposition to the attempt of the Gov- ernment to dissolve it as violating the Sherman anti-trust law. This comes as a prelude to the oral arguments of the case Monday by attorney for the de- fense anad-Government. The brief is the work of D. T. Watson, John M, Free- man and Ernest C. Irwin. The brief of the Government has not yet been filed. The keynote of the defense is the 80- called preservation of the “rights of in- dividual citizens of the United States.” The issue, according to this brief, is the charge made in the petition, denied in the answer and reasserted in the rep- | Heation that the individual defendants, John D. Rockefeller, William R. Rocke- feller, John D. Archbold, Oliver H. Payne, Henry M. Fiegler, Charles M. Pratt and Henry H. Rogers, combined and conspired, and continued to com- bine and conspire at the time the pefi- tion was filed, ‘to restrain interstate trade in of! and to gain @ monopoly of sie SR potas PS t ¥ Mectric Co. issued $600,000 of bonds, but received only $435,000 for them. He con- sidered it probable that the missing $135,000 represented a bond discoynt, the bonds having been sold, he said, at 72% and 9%. He said there was no record to show how the money was spent, or why the bonds were sold at a discount. Although no trace of the money could be found, it was allowed as an asset by | =~; Price Waterhouse &°Co. in their valua- tion of the Union Electric's plant. Attorneys for Union Electric took the position that the corporation 1s not con-| cerned about what was done with the money, as the incident happened long before Union Electric was organized. The gross earnings of ‘the Union Elec- tric and its subsidiary corporations for 19 years, as shown py the testimony. of Marr before the Public Service Commis- sion, Tuesday, were $22,341,151.98, only about $1,000,000 less than the aggregate tangible assets of the company. The value of the company's tangible assets, as fixed by Marr, is $23,411,866.55. |. Marr was put on the witness stand by Union Electric to, defend its capitaliza- tion and the specified items of its as- sets. Attorney Priest told the commission that the company was entirely willing to submit itself for investigation and that the figures prepared by the expert accountants were obtained from indis- putable sources. Expert Accountant Marr said that he worked continuously ~en the books of Union Electric from May, 1909, to No- vember, and that his investigations cov- ered the period between Jan. 1, 1889, and Dec. 31, 1908. He said his figures show the cost ‘of everything. the com- pany now owns, real estate, machinery, buildings, cost of licenses, expense of organization, discounts and interest. “We excluded from the assets of the company $600,000 paid for the Missouri electric plant, $600,000 for the Edison patents, and $1,500,000 for the stock of the Municipal Electric. Co.,’’ said Marr. “The books of the Municipal Electric Co., which was absorbed by the Mis- sourl Edison Co., have been lost. We found in the minutes a record of the bonds of the Municipal Co., amounting to $1,500,000 and that was allowed, to- gether with a flmating indebtedness of $450,000."’ The Public Service ‘Commission has challenged the accuracy of -21 of the items reported by the company’s expert accountants, the total of which is up- wards of $9,000,000 When the | éaring opened the Union company w represented by Alten 8. Miller, president; H. 8. Priest, John H. Drabelle and H. H. Pierce, attorneys; Prof. M. E. Cooley of the University of Michiggn, William von Phul, an elec- trical engineer of New Ofleans, C. J. Marr and Walter B. Stevens. _The Public Service Commission l..s been investigating Union Electric for nearly a year. It has made a complete inventory of its assets and has fixed tentative valuations on them. The ‘re- port of Price, Waterhouse & Co.,. on the assets of ‘’nion Electric, was made at the company’s instance at a cost of $25,000, and was submitted to the Com- missio::. Two Appraisements Made. The company filed with the eommis- sion a‘ schedule of its assets, tangible and intangible. The schedule was pre- pared by Price, Waterhouse & Co. The commission had its own experts investi- gate the books of the company, and its own engineers inspect and appraise every piece of the nae e prop- erty, PES EE RES AES items were selected for investigation that the commission's figures do not agree with those prepared by the com- pany. Oye emerge report of Price, Waterhouse}

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aia HYDE. [S RELEASED. ON $100,000 BAIL FURNISHED BY Banker, Lawyer and Cattle- men Among Those on Doc- tor’s Surety.

— Special to the Post-Dispatch. KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 8.—Dr. Bennett Clark Hyde, charged with the murder, in the first degree, of Col. the killing of ‘Moss Hunton and §the poisoning of eight persons in the Swope home, was ,released on $100,000 bond by Judge Ralph 8S. Latshaw in the Crim- inal. Court at 11:25 o’clock this morning. “Fine,”’ said Dr. Hyde. “I have time to get home to luncheon with Mrs. Hyde. She’s been alone’ since yesterday afternoon, and I know she is lone- some.”” With that he shook hands with his attorneys and those about him, picked up his suit case containing the apparel he used in jail last night and started for the automobile that was to convey him to his home. Dr. Hyde’s $100,000 bond is divided as follows: In the Thomas H. Swope first decree murder case, $50,000; in the Chrisman Swope first degree mufder case, $30,000: in the Moss Hunton manslaughter case, $4000; in the eight poison cases, $2000 each, totaling $16,.v0. The bondsmen are: F. P. Neal, prési- dent of the Southwest National Bank: Ss. L. Simpson, life insurance: M. D. Scruggs, livestock; H. F. Hall, grain dealer; W. D. Johnson, capitalist; Rich- ard McCartney, livestock. During the long wait while the at- torneys, greatly excited, were using tele- phones and automobiles to arrange the bond, Dr. Hyde was sitting calmly in the hospital ward, smoking big cigars. “Why all the excitement?” he asked one of his attorneys, ‘who came to con- sult him. “T’am not excited, this is ‘not a bad place, an hour or two longer will Bot hurt me. Keep.cool, John, keep cool.’ He read his magazines and smoked his cigars as though he were in an easy chair in his own comfortable library and seemed no more concerned about his bond than as if he were an onlooker in- stead of the principal in the drama. Postponement Is Opposed. The original plan was to take up a case at 10 o’clock and at that time all were present in court and the forma! application for fixing bail was made. The attorneys fer Hyde carried a num- ber of lawbooks and large bundles of transcripts of ‘the depositions which had been taken. ; When the case was called, Judge Lat- shaw announced that Prosecutor Conk- ling was selecting a jury to try William

Sen te o> nce Rover on ool = LEO LANDAU'S Thomas H. Swope and Chrisman Swope, |

by. TORNLY ANDER Ww and

LURID BOOK IS BARRED FROM LIBRARY

“Big Cinch’’ Too Sensational From Cover to Cover, Bostwick Declares— Author Angry (of Course) Because Readers Now Will Buy It.

Leo A. Landau has reached the ‘sum- mit of literary, fame. His red-bound and red-dictioned book, “The Big Cinch,’’ which: he praises as ‘‘a nude picture of St. Louis as she is,” has been excluded from the Public Library by order of Librarian A. E. Bostwick. The saying used to be, “O, that mine enemy would write a.book!”’ In these days of advertising, .it has been changed into: “Would that mine enemy would exclude my book. from the li- braries!’’ Of course, Mr. Landau is shocked and deeply. outraged. He says so himself. He does not wish to criticise Mr. Bost- wick, he says, but he, is compelled to declare that it is a shame. it is an in- dignity to the people of St. Louis, he says, who will now be compelled to pay hard cash to the author's publisher for the book instead of getting its “educa- [ tion in civic life’’ for nothing from the library shelves, Landau, In his indig- nation, even threatens to establish a free circulating library. of his own, to distribute his book. “T cannot endure for the people. to have to pay real money for my work,” he exclaims in a flush’ of philanthropy. Librarian Bostwick, after glancing through’ “The Big Cinch,” remarked coldly: “This book cannot be admitted to our shelves. It is too sensational.” Asked to distinguish any chapter which was definitely offensive, Bost- wick said: ‘I object to its genera) tone. It is sensational from cover to cover.’ “My book,” said Landau, “is a chron- icle of things as they are in St. Louis. It gontains in print things that you will, see in everyday life. ae submitted it to two publishers hen fore I had it printed. They were eager to put it on the market. I turned them down because they would not agree to print it in St. Louis, and I had enough civic loyalty to wish the work to fog Made-in-St.-Louis.- “Literary people always have told me‘ that the presentation of facts in the form of fiction makes the very best lit- ang ok Eee A ORE my book “There. - nothing quite $9R98~:i 2 9 tional in. The apps ast

hide, es “HES WiRE LESs?- terested in the public affairs of the city.” ‘Landau was anxious te “learn to what particlular passages Bostwick objected. 1 “T fancy,” sald the writer, “that he must have disliked the chapter called ‘A la ‘out anything in it Bostwick wishes.” CLOUDS WILL GROW DENSER Pagliacci.’ If so, I will cut

AND DENSER AND DENSER AND DENSER, THEN IT WILL RAIN The Temperatures.

a. a. n. a. n. 4 Weotebaue’s Temperatures.

VILL NIGRYT LET- Ter TELEGRAMS MAKE TME COMPAN- Spring had nearly sprung. Its praise was heard on ev- ery tongue, but oh, there came a killing frost, and all that’ light was lost. Dave ‘Francois, opens up & place where he can

boom. TT. KR is. done with shooting Mons. The latest “dry” plan. is Bill Bryan's. ! We scan the news <hréugiiout the | tne « Staté—no poison victims up to date, to} , rankle daily a eat er, ae oak near-de- | : all ts

'Cowin declared that he had his daughter’s marriage to Cudahy and blamea him for any misfortune which had befallen her. ‘He declared also that Lillis was wrong in coming to the Cudehy home after he had been told to y away. "Mrs. Codehy, aside from reiterating scenes were enacted in Bee home early Sunday morning. ; It became khown through the announce for Lillis. and for C would. be. no further against ‘Cudahy. it wast the. accusation of petite: made, by a policeman who moneda to the Cudahy homie while re “p in a quiet way and disposed of early 1 wt week,

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/4rg. Cudahy’s new statement was. in- spi.*4 by published accounts of the tragic happenings in her home, Sh¢ was indignant in her denial of wrong- doing with Lillis. “Tl am heart-broken more for what has been said about this thing than for anything which has happened. My ‘relations with Mr. such that nobody but one insane, It seems to me, could heave found: fault with them. eget frequentiy in the ‘Pompiiss room the Baltimore Hotel. I think I was never there with him more than once or twice since I have known him. Ad to meeting bim at a roadhouse or be- ing at ene with him, that is also un- true. I know of no such places— never heard of them until I read what was said about me in the newspapers. “I consider it an honor to We admired so sincerely in every way ‘py a man like Mr. Lillis. | “He is not a drunkard, nor a gam- bler, and is a member of one of ihe best families in. the country. He is a clean, upright, moral man and every- one always speaks so highly of him. It is such a blessing to have: someone whe really takes an interest in you, you know. “Mr. Cudahy has lavished diamonds and jewelry on me. I have often told jhim if he would give me’ more of hip love and less of his diamonds anda’ jew- elry we would be happier. = sn,

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