St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 13, 1910

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RE SR eek Trick When St. Louisan | Nieto After Fortune. ‘@ Sais TO EUROPE seonge Daish Sails to Valla- | _ dolid to Get $500,000 Bequest. Chi ‘Institution prises Victim of Confi- -. dence Game. i. gow! version of the “«Span- to press dispatches from Washington. Postoffice inspectors have been detailed to he case, which differs widely from the Spanish letter swindles are reported to the de- ‘tment every few days. s ead of several million ‘ tas locked up in a‘trunk, with | oO wner Sy seriiea his heart out t ial : f million—it would have to be - ‘so near the North Sea— ‘om the: estate of a Russian no- mat ‘But, like the conven-| 8 1 al and familiar mail fraud, it F de a ; at in Spain. of the Mound Pert iger. €o,, received a letter a months ago, bearing a Spanish me The letter stated that it had | discovered that one of his an- t sit “was a Russian nobleman who a i a Spanish woman, and that he yas one of two heirs to a vast estate. Goes to Spain With $3750. th not assured that the estate was Mot less than $500,..) to him, and cs further correspondence he vised to go at once to Spain and . the money. The Ape dr tax | court costs against the estate, he Songer amounted to . He was 4 to bring that amount of _pay the claims, so that he e perfect title to the estate. ish, n, according to the dispatches, ar- da with. his friend, William | Stolz, _ webs a a de ea a cast train for New York and | * ‘Lusitania for Spain. His was ‘VaMladolid, an interior natn a short distance north of “polished. gentlemen, who lated him upon his great good ana F atieed him to go with mt the edi hotel of the city to 3 coh pnnee. Meutvea | me Gate of deposit, showing that “pair ‘been deposited to his credit int First National Bank of Chicago, 4 Aap to Daish, to convince him — that th » estate nad been carefully pre- | ved . He also saw a table- ats k, awaiting his 1 By Wire From the Washington Bu- Ap- | 4 . ieee os | el ss oY ea ae gy moa *. PRA eda mt SS pe ee eS a ees re. 4 te ’ re the we

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WIGKERSHAM [ANSWERS THE INSURGENTS WITH A STORY; TO MAKE NO OTHER REPLY | Attorney-General Implies That He Is Competent to Judge Republicanism. i

reau of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, April 13. TTORNEY -GENERAL WICKER- A SHAM is not going to answer Sen- ators La Follette, Borah, Nelson, Cummins and the other insurgents who have been “roast- ing’’ him ever since he made his Chicago speech, When he was told that the in- surgents question his right to act as a judge of Repub- licanism in view of his brief career in public life, he said he would an- swer it with a story. ° ‘ “A number of years ago,” he said, “an associ- ' ate of mine went up to Connecticut to test a will. The will had many faults and fail- ; ures to follow the law o {the state, My associate pointed them out to the court and sat down. The attorney defehding the will then got his turn. ***Your Honor,’ he said, ‘this will was drawn by Squire Jackson. He has been living in this country and in Connecticut for sixty years. You know, I know, and we all know, that he knew how to draw a will. But this lawyer from New York comes here and tells me what we ought to do in Connecticut.’ ”’ Mr. Wickersham does not think the in- surgents have answered his arguments by questioning his right to judge. tin SIX FIREMEN MISSING Ik FIRE THAT IMPERILS JAIL Five Other Firemen Injured and ~Sent to Hospital in New Haven, Conn. NEW HAVEN, Conn., april 13.—Fire almost destroyed the New Haven County Jail today following the burn- ing of wooden buildings adjoining oc- cupied by the New England Chair Co. Six firemen are missinz and five fire- men are in hospitals. The prisoners were marched out on the lawn by the deputy sheriffs and.later were transported to Police Headquarters in patrol wagons. The women prisoners were taken to an armory. Three companies of the Second Con- necticut Infantry wére sent to the as- sistance of the police reserves. The chair shops were of Wooden struc- ture,- very old and rambling in design. The fire was brought under control at 1

LET ME Teu You A STORY

7000 HANG AND. BURN NEGRO WHO AILLED A JAILER First Shoot Him as He Is Barricaded in Prison Cellar.

Sstrng Him Up, Then Cut His Throat and Set Him on Fire. Special to the Post-Dispatch, MERIDIAN, . Miss., April 13.—Afte; having killed ex-Sheriff J. R. Temple, a jailer, in a battle in the prison today, Tom O'Neil, a negro desperado, was shot and then, before he died, taken by a mob of 2000 men and boys, strung up to a telephone poie and lynched. His body was cut down py the mob; his throat out, his clothing saturated with oil and set on fire. The authorities recovered the body and put out the. fire. ‘The lynching was preceded by the most stirring scencs in the town’s history and it is feared that an attempt will be made to lynch another negro who was in the fight in the jail that resulted in the ex-Sheriff’s death. - Négro Kills Jailer. The trouble started in the early morn- ing when O'Neil attacked a‘ deputy in the prison. O’Neil got the deputy’s pis- tol from him after a desperate fight in which George Williams, another negro convict, aided him. Temple ran to aid the deputy and was shot dead. As Temple dropped dead the two ne- groes rushed to the cellar and barricad- ed themselves in. Word was sent for outside help and a crowd soon gathered and prepared to oust the negroes from their stronghold and lynch them. The authorities called upon O'Neil and his companion to sur- render. O'Neil again defied the men and shouted that he would only be taken out dead, adding that someone else would die, too. Officers Were Powerless. It was then decided to rush into the eellar. All other prisoners were locked in their cells and the attack made by the armed crowd outside. There was a fierce exchange of bullets and when the smoke cleared away O’Neil lay on the floor dying with several bullets in his body.. The other negro was taken out of the cellar and locked in a remote cell to keep the mob outside frorh lynch- ing him. The mob was wild with excitement and despite the efforts of the jailers, grabbed the dying negro and strung him up. The jailers could not stem the fury

o'clock. At that time it was estimated that the total loss was about $175,000. MOB FOR NEGRO SUSPECTS IN DANVILLE FEARED BY SHERIFF DANVILLE, Ill., April 13.—Albert €ra- vens, a business man who was shot by highwaymen shortly before last mid- night, died at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital at 11 o’clock this morning, and there is strong talk of lynching Thomas Brown and Milton Armstrong, negroes, who

“lare held by the police for the murder. The Sheriff has sworn in extra deputies and is prepared to defend the jail. Cravens resided at Grape Creek. He had just left his boarding house to go to the bedside of his mother, who is Ill, when he was set upon by highwaymen. He refused to surrender his money and was shot, the bullet passing entirely through the -body. The negroes deny guilt.

TUMBRELLAS WILL BE PROPER BUT OVERCOATS WILL NOT BE NEEDED AT THE BALL GAME THE TEMPERATURES. Yesterday's ‘Temperature. Maximum ... -G1 at 11 a. m. Minimum . .» 61 at 7 a. m. “Huh! So Roger is going to put a Maxim silencer on the fans this sea- son, is he?’ said the man who al- ways reads Wray’s column. “Yes,” -replied the baseball en- thusiast, who never tires of see- ing Johnny Kling’s name in print, though ; all the rest of the world does. ‘‘Roger. says it will be either ‘can’ the comment or out of the park you go.” . “Too bad about the Cardinals, isn't it?” Never knew eevee eeee

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“el ly ign’ ws the right king of e! NP RS Secdeton: for of the crowd until the victim’s throat was cut and his clothing set on fire. The town is still in a wild state of ex- citement. ae oes

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If the Cardinals | Beat the Pittsburg Champions Tomorrow they will start the season just as the POST-DISPATCH started its regular weekly championship series yester- day. | , : What a glorious thing it would be for dear old St. Louis if the Cardinals and Browns should beat their competitors, as the POST- DISPATCH beats its’ com- petitors six days out of seven each and every week, year after year. The Score ,of the St. Louis merchants’ display advertising yester- day, Tuesday, April 12th, in the St. Louis newspapers was as follows Tuesday, Post-Dispatch 66 Cols. Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times ADDED TOGETHER, 70 Cols.

It is better to advertise (in the POST-DISPATCH) than to wish you had. Fo in Quay First cacti te Quan mcity.

TAKE HIM OUT DYING} ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING,. APRIL 13, 1910.

| pf: of 50 Applicants These Are Able to Wear Shoes Size 1A, the Smallest Offered to Femininity. Similar Tests in New York Found Only Three Women Who Could Use the Tiny Footwear Offered as Gift. Four St. Louis Cinderellas, that title by the fairy smallness of their feet, and not by any experiences with cruel stepmothers, or other unpleasant features of the old story, have won shoes made for such dainty feet -as theirs. Not glass slippers, but beauti- ful and serviceable creations of the finest leather, were the prizes awarded to them. -Mrs. Myrtle Chamblin of 614 Forest avenue, Webster Groves, was one of the four winners of the pairs of 1A shoes offered by the Scruggs, Vandervoort & who win Barney store to thse who could wear in adult footwear, its outer length being exactly nine inches. Mrs. Chamblin, a young widow, came to St. Louis recently, and is living at the home of her sister, Mrs. Charles Wright. Miss Blanch Whitaker, a stenographer who became known through the Home Section of the Sunday Post-Dispatch last January as the wearer of the small- est shoes worn by any St. Louis woman, did not enter the Cinderella competi- tion. Her shoes are No. 18s, a shade smaller that the 1A size, are made to order. - Of 50 applicants at the store, four proved able to wear the shoes, and won them as prizes. In a similar test in New York and Brooklyn recently, only three women succeeded in winning the shoes. The St. Louis Cinderellas were already wearing shoes as small as size 1A, and in one case a little smaller, but they were having them made to order. Those awarded them at the store were ready- mades. The names of the winners were withheld by the store. Had to Wear Tiny Shoes, To obtain the shoes, they had not only to be able to squceze their feet into the narrow casements, but to satisfy Man- ager Copp of the shoe department that they could wear them comfortably. In the case of button shoes, every button had to enter the buttonhole readily, and in case of lace shoes, the normal width of lacing was observed. The unsuccessful applicanes wore shoes running into the 2%, 8 and 3le sizes, and some of them. said they had not expected to win the prize, but had merely wanted to ste how near they could come to wearing the tiny shoes. “The search for Cinderella feet be- gan,"’ said Copp, “‘with the advertise- ment of a New York theatrica} manager for women who could wear 1A shoes, as recruits for the ballet. I don’t know how far he succeeded, but he started an interesting test... Brooklyn only three women won the free shoes offered. The result here would seem to indicate that St. Lonis has more women with tiny feet than Greater New York has.” tele WEAST WILLING TO PAY FOR APPEAL OF MRS, SAYLER’S CASE Brother-in-Law _ of Convicted Widow to Let Golda Decide Mother’s Fate. WATSEKA, ill., April 13.—1¢ Golda Sayler decides today, when she meets her uncle in Chicago, that an appeal shall be taken from the conviction of her mother aS an accessory to Dr. W. R. Miller in the murder of her father, J. B. Sayler, the necessary funds will be advanced by Peter Weast of Peoria, Il., according to the statement — of Weast on his departure for Chiéago, Weast is a brother-in-law ’ of Mrs. Sayler. It is understood that Golda Sayler will make her home with him.

Trolley Car Dynamited, Conductor Is Hurt, PHILADELPHIa, April 13. —Benjamin Wachto, a trolley conductor, is in a critical condition in a hospital as the result of injuries he receiveq when his

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PULIGEMAN TRIES 0. OUTDO COWBOY: YOUTH WOUNDED! ele Ross, Accused, Declares That He Did Not Fire Pistol Shots.

Patrolman Geo. R. Ross’ demonstra- tion of the superior method the police have of handling revolvers over that employed by cowboys is believed to have been responsible for the shooting Tues- day of Leslie Meads, 1/ years old, a high in front of Loehr’s sa- loon, 3566 Olive street. Meads is at the Deaconess Hospital with a bullet wound in his lefi thigh. The bullet glanced from the index finger of his left hand. Ross denies that he shot Meads. Meads and two other Central High School students, Stuart and William Southworth,.17 and 14 years, respective- ly, declare. it was Ross, but say the shooting was accidental. The story the boys tell is that they had just left the saloon with Patrolman Ross and were standing on:the sidewalk discussing a Wild West show poster displayed in a window. Ross argued, the boys assert, that the cowboys were crude in their manner of handling a pistol. Then, they say, he took out his own revolver and began to twirl it on his finger. Ross is locked up at the Newstead Police Station. Capt. Mansfield is pre- paring charges against him to be sub-| mitted to the Police Board. # Ross is accused of being in civilian dress with- out permission, unbécoming conduct, en- tering a saloon anti drinking in a sa- loon. Ross denies that he shot Meads or that he was in the saloon with him and other students. “IT went into the saloon alone,” said Ross, “and took two glasses of soda. The bartender charged a dime for the first glass and that was the cause of an argument. As I was coming out of the saloon I heard a shot fired, 1 looked around and saw several policemen in uniform’ there, so I didn’t stop to in- vestigate but jumped on a street car’ The high ‘school students say. they drank the soda. They assert they met Ross at Grand and Olive as he jumped off a street Car and that it wag at his suggestion that they went into the saloon. ELEVEN WORKMEN CRUSHED To DEATH. IN A STONE QUARRY all foreigners," were crushed to death to the stone quarry of the Nazareth Port. land Cement Co., near Nazareth to- day. A premature explosion tore loose 5099 tons of atone, covering the victims.

se tegen Le a the a Bove mprnoe WIDOW FAILS 10 BREAK CONNOR'S $3,000,000 WILL Adopted Daughter. and 5 Nephews and Nieces Get Money.

Dispatches from Joplin Wednesday stated that Mrs. Melissa Connor’s suit to break the will of her husband, the late State Senator Tom Connor, had failed, and that his $3,000,000 estate would go, ag devised in the will, to Miss Agnes O’Heron Connor, the “little milk- maid,’* who is an adopted daughter, and to five fephews and nigees living in Ohio. Miss Agnes O’Heron Connor, who ngw is 18 years old, will inherit not less t..an $500,000, as the result of the fancy which the aged millionaire took to her when, six years/ago, he saw her in the convent where she, an orphan, was the ward of the sisters. When, a few days later, Connor fell sick in the Joplin Hotel, he asked that the milk sent him daily from the con- vent be carried by little Agnes. She thus became known as the “‘little milk- maid.” When he recovered he adopted her. ° Connor died fn 1907, after an filhess which kept him from most of the ses- sions of the State Senate; to which he had been elected in the November pre- vious. His wife had been since 1887 an inmate of St. Vincent’s Institution for the Insane in St. Louis County. A be- quest in the husband's will provided funds for her board and continued care there. D. C. Taylor, Public Administrator. of St. Louis County, attacked the Connor will, and claimed the major share of the estate for Mrs. Connor, who, he maintained, had her legal residence in St. Louis County. The Jasper County Circuit Court ap- pointed Col. William H. Phelps, former railroad lobbyist, as guardian for Mrs. Connor, and a contest for the prize of administering the Connor estate fol- lowed. Judge Wurdeman, then Probate Judge of St. Louis County, decided against Public Administrator Taylor, by refusing to take jurisdiction in the case. Suit was brought in the widow's be- half in Jasper County, and it: is this suit which has just failed. Juége D. EB. Blair of the Jasper Coun- ty Circuit Court, sitting in Joplin, decid- ed Wednesday, according to dispatches, that the adoption of Agnes O’Heron in- validated the widow’s claim to one-half the estate. He ruled that she provisions made for her in the will, $50 2 month’ during her stay in St. Vin- sent’s, and $100,000 at any time when she would be a the institution. Testimony was haebanced to show] ‘hat her mind was sound, and that she whould have been reat saya)

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Court Had Reversed Son’ s Senten for Carmack Slaying but Attrmed That of Parent. i BOTH WERE SERVING AL SENTENCE OF 20 ¥ 7

Tragedy Was the Outcome of a Political in Which Carmack Attacked the ld Ed itorial. _,

By Associated Press. MEMPHIS, Tenn., April 18—Gov. Patt reon to Col. Duncan Cooper, after the Supreme’ Court had sentence of 20 years for the murder of former Se and remanded the case of his son, Robin, for retiial. serve 20 years. pe OLY ie esse Cooper in a Sarcastic eos. Young Cooper also. had been sentenced by the lower court +

An air of suppressed excitement per- vaded the courtroom and as the reading pregressed signs of nervousness were; apparent among the counsel for the Coopers, while Robin and his father fre- quently bit their lips. Court Disagreed, ) Justices Shields and Niel affirmed. the! decision of the lower court as to both'} Col. Cooper and son but Chief Justice Beard and Justice Bell reversed as to both. / Justice McAlister affirmed as to Col. Dacnes and dissented as to Robin gee anid Senator Carmack ‘was shot 264.3 death in the streets of Nashville by Robin Cooper on Nov. 9%, 198. Young Coopér and his father, who was a polit- | ical enemy of Carmack, met while Car- f. mack was talking with Mrs. Charles H. Eastman. Before a word had been ‘spoken, Carmack leaped aside, so that ‘Mrs. Eastman would not be in the line of fire, and a pistol duel was begun. ; When, Carmack was found dead in the 1 gutter, a revolver with two chambers e empty was lying just out of reach of| his right hand. Col. Cooper had drawn a weapon, but’ had not fired a shot. It was averred by the prosecution that Cooper had threatened Carmack’s life and that Carmack had no opportunity to defend himself when father and encountered him. On the other : the defense maintained Carmack was]. the dggressor and had fired the first shot, Robin Cooper having killed ‘the former senator in defense of his father’s life. eR eR ON I 2 eee a ee) een Ors a Tragedy Caused -by Editorials. The immediate cause of the tragedy was editorials printed in the Nashville Tennessean, a newspaper of which Car- mack was editor. Col. Cooper had been one of Carmack’s warmest friends, hav~- ing been his sponsor in journalism many :

years before. Col. Cooper had allied himself with the present Gov. Patterson when Carmack was Patterson's opponent in the guber- natorial election. In his editorial col- umns Carmack had attacked Cooper In sarcasm and contempt and Cooper had warned Carmack through friends that he would resent the printed articles’ in- sinuations if they were continued, Cooper was returning from a confer- ence with the Governor at the execu- tive mansion when he and his son met the former Senator. Cooper had been requested by his friends to avoid Car- |" mack and, according to Robin Cooper's] story, they tdok a roundabout path from the Governor's house. tah Young Cooper declared his father crossed the street when he saw Car- mack, saying he believed that he could effect a reconciliation by speaking with his enemy. Carmack a Figure, As a senator, Carmack was a national figure.. Probably his greatest speech during his career as a legislator was his defenge against Josiah Patterson, the present Governor’s father, who con- tested Carthack’s seat in the Senate. He vas generally admired by Republicané for his fearlessness and intellectuality, although he was looked upon af one of the best members of the Southern De- mocracy. He was in the Senate from. . i 4 i a ; mh; oA. Tie, Sees ee I _ ‘3 Salis las 4 3 7 ” : ¥ eae ts ee, = os ~~ ~® », . , » i. ey me wt & ap be:

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