St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 28, 1910

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Francis, Scullin, Priest, Allen and Clifford Are : ‘Where Mother Lies, but eo Set Free. ‘Rejected

TESTS LATER ID DEADLINES ¢ IS’ “SURFRISED MOSS a | rents’ Misfortune Deprived Him of Proper Guidance; Decision, He Says, Makes President of Board Nothing but an Office Boy. ? The cases in which former Gov. David R. Francis and four othe> St. Louis millionaires were charged with failure to make tax returns were notie prossed Thursday in the Court of Co minal Cor- rection. This followed a .decision by Judge Wilscn A. Taylor vAiich, in the language of Prosectuting Attorney Moss, reduces Christian Prinkop, President of the Board of Assessors, to ‘the role of an office boy to the district assessors, who supplies them with lead pencils and printed blanks.”’ Francis’ co-defendants in the _ suits were John Scullin, Henry S Priest, James H. Allen and A. C. Clifford. When the cases were dismissed the mil- lionaires sprang to their feet and shook hands warmly with one another. “You can tell the public I'm still out of jail... said Seullin jocosely to a Post-Dispatch reporter. “Tell ‘em J] don’t have to go to the Workhouse,” shouted Alien. . “I knew from the first it would end this wa’.” said Judge Priest. “It couldn't have turned out any other way.” _. Francis declined to.discuss the de- cision. Cliffurd was not in court, as he is now tn Ca)ifornia | “by her fimess, was yh gee the death ite “Cty. He "died ‘Wiednesday ing at the Ellen’ M. Osborn Hos- 2300 North Taylor avenme from a oe ee te ir — we day in the trial of Dr. B. Clark Hyde on. ac T. H. Swope with, strychnine and cyanide ‘0 watched the physician trample two Independence street last December. The w sule. There was an odor of cyanide about £1 e1 ny This happened the night of Dee, ieee g nurses in the Swope home had rebelled d declare would leave the house unless Dr. ma fe. depai ‘ ae Se fe. de Tom Swope, nephew and namesake of ‘te a io st 9 fi ae Sex ) a pist, watched them. wat ie he ne “It was a moonlight night, and I SS stayed in the shaGow of the trees,” young Swope testified. “‘Dr.. Hyde was about a block away on Pleasant avenue. He started to cross the street and just ‘after he got off the sidewalk he oevees: something into the snow and pled » Mrs. William 5. Hand- usly il) at the Deacon- : gisberss 4125 West Belle place, Where she has been’ under treatment tor séveral weeks. For months prior to her entrance to the hospital, she, was unable to ene her som @ mother’s care. = » ron oe ‘mill laborer, was / daily toil: to fill MRS. AUGUSTA SCHROEDER. LADY BOUNTIFUL — {S1. LOUIS OPERA TO SEND ADOPTED | SCASUN NETTED PUPPY T0 COUNT UOMPANY $26,012 Injured Dog Picked Up by

ac seq os ~) elias to L. P. -. Frohardt, cone betame the, most in- eorrigible ‘truant ‘in Granite City. He attended school omly 20 days ‘during the | lest term, and hig father was cited into {seeert three times under the IlMinois tru- |} ancy law. Twice the cases were dis- > molsse: acgne of} the. fliness of Mra. » This snapeshot of David R: Francts, in the role of a real “Bashful St. Loutsan,” was taken as he, entered the our Courts Thursday for the hearing of the tax cases. As the camera mén approached him, the Senatorial candidate, for the first:time inthis life, acc ording to known recond, hid his face by holding his overcoat before it. Morton Jour- dan, attorney, aho.was.one of his party, remanked : ‘This ts the first ogiveincat One _of _Most

2, t ae ; agit ‘Louls vba ath After oe a ; circumstan , Sebastian AM ane seid dismiss. ts Jones. x cr ‘told’ thé nurses (that he went > fas “Tast ‘Thursday, , and that the eteaeher “him permission to en- ‘t ‘ought a letter from his’ memes i his Cohioryam ab- / boy: was afraid to g6 aan edmncund obs remained ties sebool sent most of the Goon Hunting tn Same, geve his playmates ask- ‘eters ‘school and join h: bors ‘Whose name the superin- it does not remem , consented. i with an air ri the lads went umps to shoot, frogs. Newton as he hed been for sev- e, he weld, t to have the wound aby a —— They slept that nes 7 ind lara , ae well as he his: Rach hyve fear of the

| Mrs. Augusta Schroeder to’ Get Fresh-Air. Gures ~- a _ “¥ Thée homeless brown pup which was picked up at Twelfth street and .Wash- ; ington ayenue ‘Wednesday by Mrs. Au- gusta Schroeder, ‘‘Lady Bountiful,”’ is nof a homeless brown pup any more. It has a. very comfortable home at the resi- dence of ‘Mr. and Mrs. Henry Schroe- dér, 3669 Humphrey street.. His injured leg has been put in splints, his strength is being built up on such rations as he never’ dreamed of, and his complete re- covery. ds. assured. “As soon as he is able he will be sent déwn to the Schroeders’ country place in Jefferson County, where the country air and country food is expected to make a new dog of him. Meantime,- he has the run of Schroeder home. house and does. his best to show that he appreciates all the attentions he ts receiving. For the fime being he is getting. a share of the attentions that formerly went exclusively to the great St. Bernard owned -by the family, and it is thought best to keep the brown pup in the house out of possible harm’s way. The doctor, who was called in to at- tend tothe pup’s injury found that the leg was not broken, but only severe'y bruised and ‘sprained and prophesied an early recovery... Mrs. Sthroeder and her son Walter were passing’ in an automobile when Schroeder noticed the plight of the the machine ‘and pick it up. ALONG COMES OUR OLD FRIEND, THAT FAIR AND WARMER PREDICTION The Temperatures. : 12 (noon) ee Sere a olesten Spree re “Fine, fine!” ex- claimed the fan ‘with the red tie. “What's fine?’ asked the one with. the plaid socks, “The $700 John- ny Kling paid” to Square himself with the Nationa) League for play- ‘ing hookey ast year.’”’ te _. “Well, let's hope diana on this trip. In the coming Pike the President wi} gee three ball ¢ one in Pittsburg and two in St. Lo >) will return to Washington én May 6 Five Killed on «a Stenmer. * NEW ORLEANS, Sori! 8—Five men |, | were killed April 23 by the explosion on eae Es“ f ; rs, ite on, gery, “Cae ee , x Pee . as x eee es |S Tao, wr nat rE t re Py - x a - Ss authoritatively do so, Lamb. Se ‘> = Soe TAGGART DETEATED BY DEMOCRATS N CONVENTION Indications Vote to. Indorse Senatorial Candidate Over Boss’ Head. INDIANAPOLIS, the: April 28.— When the result cf the first ballot was announced... Kern ied with 308 votes, Taggart was second with 22%. There are 1747 In the convention, 874 necessary to a choice. Marien Coun- ty stood by Taggart, civing him 177 votes and Kern: six, INDIANAPOLIS, .Ind., April 28.—In one of the stormiest political conventions in. the history of Indiana, the Democrats today, by a vote of 888% to 858%, decided to endorse a candidate for the United States Senate. The vote was taken after leaders of the party on both sides of the question had been heard. Senator B. F. Shively and Samuel Ralston spoke against the proposition, while J. E. McCullough and John. E,. Lamb argued in its favor, After Senator Shively had protested that the convention had not been called to nominate a’ senator and could not arose to close the debate In favor of the proposi- tion. When he declared: “I am eternally opposed to Taggartism,’’ a riot seemed imminent. The 183 delegates from In- dianapolis and Marion County, among ‘whom sat Thomas Taggart, srose in their places with hoots and hissés: The political delegates from Terre Haute and Vigo County—Lamb’s home, retort- ed with cheers, the other dé*legations took sides and crowded from their seats into the aisles. “Lamb,” shouted a Terre Haute dele- gate. **Raa-a-a,”” mocked’ an delegate and the convention, With a roar of laughter, permitted Lamb‘to go on. ‘This is a battle for the rights ‘of. the people,’ said Lamb, “afd if that is ursurpation,. Iam a@ ursurper. This con- vention must nominate a candidate for the Senate, if not myself, some better manh.’’ Gov. Marshall presented the supreme chairman, ‘Senator Shively, who called for the report of the Resolutions Com- mittee, and its report was adopted as the pais of the convention. XN the Southern Pacific een sinner Bl a Admission Refused Indianapolis. setting forth about the same as that made by Walsh. oan on it. ~s r be “He did this tele : “after he passed on, I went to the plaeerand found.two. broken: in the snow. I put then ia my pocket and when I got home TI shéwed’ them te Miss Van Nuys, @ nurse, anda told moth- er. I noticed & peculiar odor. about them, and recognized it as cyanide. It was .an odor like burnt almonds.” Young Swope formerly worked in «@ gold mine at Tonapah, Nev,, where cy- anide was used, and he said he was familiar with the smell ef the drug. Susequentiy Swope returned to the place with John G. Paxton, an @xecutor of the estate, and they found fragments of three capsules, which they put into an envelope, he testified. Chemical tests were made of these capsules by the ex- perts who examined the viscera of Col, Swope and Chrisman. The capsules re- vealed nothing, but the repert shows that the part of the envelope stained by the melted. snow, gave a positive re- action for cyanide of potassium, The experts also round cyanide in the stom- ach contents of Col. Swopé and Chris- man, both of whom died after convul- sions. Mrs. Hyde was at the jail early this morning to see her husband. She was] not permitted to enter but they met anis hour before court convened in the court room. . ; Brecklein, the druggist who sold Hyde cyanide of potassium, was recalled as the first witness and questioned by Frank Pp. Welt of Hyde's eounsel as to the tom She Tries to See Hus Attorney Walsh launched upon a vig- orous protest against the Court's per- mitting the witness to maké such an exhibition. Lou E. Van Nuys, a nuree, who fied yesterday that she smelled on the hands of Thomas H.. Dec. 18, after he had handled s sules dropped by Dr. Hyde. Walsh also said it wag unfair to mit any of the testimony a cyanide to go before the jury when t indictment against Dr. Hyde for alleged murder of Col, Swope charged that Dr. Hyde . adr not specifying cyanide. Attorneys Brewster and Laas also er agp spoke, Lucas saying he desired to 4 ewe & mitfing any testimony relating nide going into the case. shaw said he was ready to h then ahd Lucas spoke’ at

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