St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 25, 1910

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ONE DEAD, 20 HURT IN WRECK CAUSED

BY RIOT ON A CAR

* Crash Occurs in Midst of General Fight Between Men and Women Near Crow's Nest.

MERRYMAKERS IN DEBRIS. OF TWO CREVE COEUR CARS

Man’s Attack On Girl Causes Panic, and Some Declare Trolley Was Slipped, Others That Motorman of Car Follow- ing Lost Control.

One person was killed and more than a score injured when two old-fashioned Creve Coeur cars, returning early Monday over- loaded with merrymakers from the erashed together in a rear-end collision near Crow’s Nest. An investigation is under way to fix responsibility for the wreck. It occurred during a general fight, which assumed the pro- portions of a riot and involved both men and women on the fore- most car. in darkness when the second hit it. to discharge passengers and was fully lighted, but that the motor-' man of the second ear lost control. Those who were not hurt used argu- ments and tnally threats to force the motorman of an approaching westbound car and a road superintendent on the scene to turn the car back and take the injured to the De Baliviere sheds. ..n hour elapsed before this was done. The second car, close béhind the first, was running at such speed that it swayed and grazed the telegraph posts on either side, according to one passen- ger on it. William B. Hoffman, 20 years old, son of Police Lieut. John Hoffman of 4938 oOtanical avenue, was. the passenger who lost his life. He was taken to the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium, where he died at 2:45 a. m. The second car was partly tele- scoped. That others were not killed and many more injured was due to the fact that most of the passen- gers on the first car, seeing the second approaching, jumped off. After the crash there was panic and disorder in t! : darkness. Screams of women and children mingled with the groans of the injured. There were. cries. for water, but there was a long wait before any was ob- tained. It was 45 minutes before there was any effectual relief for the injured. ° William Hoffman was on the front seat of the second car with two com- panions, Arthur Michaud of 4939 Reber place and Keith Burks of 4954 Magnolia avenue. All three were pinioned in the debris. A young man and three young women, whe were on the same seat, jumped or were hurled off the car in the crash. A man beating a woman with his fists in the front car started the fight that caused the collision and the death of one and the injury of many. Several men on thé car attacked the man who was beating the woman and a general fight ensued. Wrecked Near Crow’s Nest. The wreck occurred at the stop for Ashby place, a restricted subdivi- sion, and was one-half mile east of “row's Nest, and one and one-half miles weat of Overland Park. The first car was stopped about 200 feet around a sharp curve, and the rails for a distance of 100 feet were “burnt,” shewing that the mo- torman of the second car had seen the car ahead from a4 distance of at least 100 feet, and had applied the brakes in an effort to bring his car to a stop. County officials said Monany an in- vestigation would be made to ascertain if the car carried a large red light in the rear, which is customary on that line as a@ result of several rear-end col- lisions. The uninjured in the wreck laid the injured on the grass, where they re- mained for nearly an hour awalting medical aid. Persons in the vicinity telephoned to St. Louis for aid, and a ear which approached from St. Louis was sent back to bring doctors, The metal portions of the car were hauled to the de Baliviere shed, and the splintered wood was burned at the seene of the wreck, Miss Jennie Macklin and Miss Irene McCale, passengers on the first car, agree that it was lighted when the ac- cident occurred. To their testimony is added that of Berry Gunn of 8000 Page boulevard, who was with Miss Pearl Archer of 4100 Westminster place on the rear seat of the second car. General Manager McCulloch of the United Rall- ways says, however, that an incomplete report to him says some person had thrown the trolley off. Arthur Michaud, spe serious- iy injured, gives a cl account of |

| se _ the handling of the second car and! notorious summer resort, Some say the trolley was slipped and that this car was Others declare it had stopped a graphic description of the disaster. “We left the lake,” he said, a minute after the other car, soon overtook it, and most of the way to Crow’s Nest we were running within a hundred yards of it. We “about but T (COURT DECISION ABOLISHES ALL RADE CROSSINGS Judge Withrow Orders Rail- roads to Begin the Work at Once. MUST PAY BILLS, TOO Enjoins Companies From Stopping Until Depressions Are Complete.

END OF LONG FIGHT

All Grade Ordinances of City Upheld—Tower. Grove Crossing Test Case.

Judge Withrow in the Circuit Court decided Monday S8t. has the right to abolish grade crossings and Louis held that the ordinances under which it is now acting in an effort to com- the their tracks their own expense are pel railroads to depress at valid. p The decree directs the railroads named in the suit to commence the work of dgpressing their tracks at once and perpetually enjoins them from neglecting to continue the work until it is completed in accordance with the city ordinances. The decree is a victory for the city on all points at issue, and closes a long struggle between the legal de- partment of the city and the rafil- roads. The railroads must begin at once to abolish the grade crossings or appeal from Judge Withrow’s decision. The bills filed by the American Tobacco Co. and the American Car Co. to enjoin St. Louis and the Missouri Pacific, Frisco and St. Louis, Oak Hill & Ca- rondelet Railway companies from de- pfessing the tracks were dismissed and the companies are enjoined from further

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_—- tien or St. Louis, July 25th, 1910. Bulletin 1753. 173 consecutive weeks! or 17 weeks more than | three full years the POST-DISPATCH has on each and every Sunday, under normal conditions, beaten all of its Sunday competi- tors in the volume of legitimate paid advertising. Yesterday, Sunday, July 24th, the count of legitimate, bona fide paid advertising in each of the Sunday papers was as follows: Post-Dispatch . Globe-Democrat ... MOOUENC 264 4 os 205 cols. —_— 92 POST-DISPATCH excess over the Republic 113 columns or 122 per cent POST-DISPATCH excess over Globe-Democrat 56 columns or 37 per cent In legitimate wants—those little messages from the people to the people—the Post-Dispatch carried 79 cols. Globe-Democrat Republic 66 66 38 18 66 66 Excess of the Sunday POST-DISPATCH over the Sunday Globe-Democrat and Republic PUT TOGETHER, 23 columns, or 41 per cent The reason for this great supremacy of the POST- DISPATCH over its Sunday competitors in the advertis ing field is attributable, Ist—To its immense ‘circulation which is equal to both the Globe-Democrat and Republic Combined either in St. Louis or out of it. 2d—It reaches more families in St. Louis and con- tiguous territory than the Globe-Democrat and Republic combined. 38d—Its advertising rates culation are the lowest of paper in the United States, Its advertising columns are CLEAN, all objectionable medical, fake financial and other classes of undesirable advertising are eliminated from its columns. It is First in everything. Cireulation average first half year 1910, Sunday only Daily only , 7 Circulation books open to all. em | ! per line per thousand cir- any other metropolitan news- 269,644 166, ‘525 4

\First Published Picture of Woman , Who F led From London With Crippen ~ a A ny aa eo

Aa. —_ DETECTIVE RAGING UVER SEA 10 nEAD Urt GRIPPEN BOAT Inspector Dew of Scotland Yard Bound for Canadian Port, London Believes.

Spectal Cable to the Post-Dispatch and New York World, Copyrigm, F da by the Press Pub. Co. ew York World.) LONDON,” July 2.—Confirmation of Saturday’s news that Dr. Hawley Har- vey Crippen and Ethel Leneve, hia typewriter, had been positively located on a steamship now crossing the At- lantic to Canada, was published here in extra editions ef the dailies and in the Sunday newspapers. Scotland Yard has been reticent, even misleading as usual, in giving news- papers information. There are several ships now on the Atlantic, In any one of which Dr. Crippen may have sailed. The Lake Champlain, Capt. Webster, a fast boat, left Liverpool Thursday for Montreal. It is significant that Inspec- tor Dew went to Liverpool Thursday evening to make inquiries and sailed Friday on the steamship Virginian for Quebec. Dew being in charge of the investigation into the Crippen mystery, it is contrary to the practice of Scot- land Yard to send him out of the coun- try unless on a virtual certainty and that an arrest is to be made seems sure, It is denied that the fugitives are on the Sardinian, Capt. Henry, which sailed from Havre for Montreal’ by way of London, despite a news agen- cy’s unqualified announcement to that effect. Signaled by Wireless. The steamer Montfort, Capt. Mos- crop, which sailed from Antwerp for Montreal by way of London, is again mentioned as the boat ‘taken by Crip- pen and Miss Leneve. The story is that Capt. Moscrop signaled by wire- less when passing Prawle Point that he has a couple on board, a man and a woman passing as a boy, who cor- responded to the descriptions of Dr. Crippen and Ethel Clare Leneve, the alleged boy having been discovered to be a girl. The Montfort is a slow vessel and Inspector Dew, who is on board the swift Virginian, should reach Quebec 12 hours ahead of the Montfort. There is a general belief that Dr. Crippen suspects that he has been de- tected and he probably will shoot both himself and his companion. And it is reasoned that the hunted man, his fears unceasingly on edge, will be sure to gather from the demeanor of the others on board whether or not they regard him with suspicion. Captain Must Be Sure. It is said that Scotland Yard has sent a wireless message to Capt. Mos- crop advising him to separate the couple and to place a guard upon both of them to prevent any attempt at & double tragedy. But it is question- able whether Capt. Moscrop would take such a responsibility in the ab- sence of positive information of their identity, for nothing could save him from incurring heavy damages if his suspicions } should prove unfounded. BAND CONCERT TONIGHT. St. Louls Park. 7:30 to 10:30 D. ™.

Méss ETHEY LE RLVE :

ASSASSIN: KILLS VIRGINIA MAYOR Wi A DUMB Infernal Machine -Hurled at Executive as He Lies in Hammock.

RIDGEWAY, Va., July 2%.—Mayor A. H. Bousman was assassinated by a dy- namite bomb which was thrown from a street under a hammock in which he was lying last evening. He died an hour after the explosion. No clew to the idontity of the murder- er or the cause of the crime has been found. Mayor Bousman had been spending the hot evening sleeping in the ham- mock on the front lawn. About 10 o’clock, the dynamite bomb was thrown from the street. Bousman’s feet were torn away and his legs frightfully mut- flated. The news quickly spread about town and excitement grew to a high pitch. The surrounding community to- day is worked up over the murder and it is believed if the assassin is caught he will be lynched. As Mayor of Ridgeway, Bousman pre- sided over the police court. It is thought that some person on whom Bousman had passed sentence held a grudge against him. The charge of dynamite in the bomb must have been a heavy one because the body was badly torn A part of the fuse of the bomb was today found on the roof of the Bous- rman residence. Mr. Bouesman was 57 years of' age, and ts survived by a widow and son 13 yeare old. NO RELIEF FROM HEAT IN SIGHT I$ THE CHEERFUL VIEW OF THE WEATHER MAN THE TEMPERATURES. 9 i m.

: “T ran across a great piece of news this morning,’’ said the moist cit- izen who had just sent out the office boy for a _ third collar. “So?” said the other, who was roaring because there were not six more electric fans in the office. “Yes. A great matutinal purvey- or of intelligerice informs us that St. Leuis escaped the hot wave Sun- day.’ ”’ “By heavens, that’s news, all) they heard about

itr” ‘The man who wrote that yarn must have got the cold shoulder from some. body.” “Yes, or too apathetic to get aroused over anything.” Official forecast: Fair tinued warm tenight and Stage of the neta 6.8 feet, a tali of aa Ao. and a

O0 AT 12 0CLOCK WITH MERCURY ON THE CLIMB Prediction Is That Mark of 93 Will Be Reached Be- fore the Day Ends.

While 695,000 St. Louisans were swel- tering on the streets or in their homes Monday, Montrose W. Hayes, weather wizard, sat in his airy perch on the eighteenth floor of the Chemical Build- ing and smiled. “When are you going to give us re- lief from this hot weather?’ asked a Post-Dispatch reporter. “What hot weather?” asked the Wiz, looking up in surprise. “Why, this extra caloric stuff right here, right now.”’ “T hedn’t noticed it,” said the fore- caster, fondly caressing his thermom- eter, which showed 93 degrees at 2 Pp. m., making it the warmest of the year. The highest previous heat record this year was 91, on three days, June 2, % and 26. “Don’t you call this hot?” Hott Why of Course Not! “Most certafnly not,” answered the imperturbable Wiz, who has made weather nearly al] over the United States, including Cairo, Ill, and who manufactured the stuff for three years in South America. “You see, I never bother about the weather. We have so much of it, don’t you know? Now, if we had no weather” But that would be another story. The name of Montrose W. Hayos would not adorn the payroll of Uncle Sam. He might be a stenographer in a livery stable—taking down hay for the horses. “Besides,” he said, “St. Louis is one of the coolest spots on the weather map Monday. So it was Sunday. The maximum of heat was 90 degrees. Kansas City had 93, St. Joseph 98, Chicago 98, Springfield, Ill, 96, and Keokuk, Io., 100. “The tempreatures at those places were just about the same Monday. St. Louls ought to consider herself lucky. What's a little matter of 90 degrees as compared with the wither- ing winds from the southwest which are sweeping over Chicago?. “You see, there is a very pronounced high pressure all over the South, and this causes an indraft of hot winds in this direetion, This condition ie likely to continue for several days—three or four, at least. The hot spell in June lasted five days—that is, what people called hot, although the temperature went to only 91 degrees. Humidity Is at Fault. “Tt's the humidity that gets away with people. At 7 o’clock this morning it was 81 per cent. Monday afternoon it will be only 6 to 70. This means, of course, that the air is charged with $1 per cent of moisture. If ft contained 100 per cent there would be either fog or rain. When this moisture gets hot peo- ple begin to steam. If the air were dry, few people would complain and many a laundry bili: would be saved."

Heat Mantfestation tn Mexico, Mo. MEXICO, Mo., July %.—Last night a biplane passed over this city coming from the South. Many local business men saw the mechine : a ~ ~ “ . ‘ we 3 . ie re é ep eae egg aes Pee at cig ii bt. * lig? we ttin. ‘igre kil. * ¥ - or eae | Kai : 3 + aig ie 3 tt pee 4 fo SPDR Cl Se

: TAKING $1 HAYNES ACCU SED OF 3 00,000 BY HYPNOTIC f INANCE

Conservatve Not Withstand Svengali Business ld Lay Preacher’s’ | Men Co Influence.

Led Employes in Prayer and Conducted Serv= ices— Preminent in Anti-Saloon Crusade— : ce Is Eelieved to Ee in Northwest and het Order for Arrest Is Out.

000. The money has long since loss’’ public. the late George W. Cale, Cale, who was a wealthy railroad man and a liberal giver to church en- terprises, died a few months after: having been forced into bankruptcy. His home in Magnolia Terrace, near Taylor and St. Louis avenues, was sold over his head, chiefly as a re- sult, it is now said, of his confidence in Haynes. Cale Supported a Church. Haynes’ religious activity gained for him the confidence of Cale, who at one time practically supported a church in the neighborhood of his home; of Carleton, who is a leading

layman of the Southern Methodist Rutledge and Whitener are now de- fendants in suits on Haynes’ bond with the Mannattan Insurance Co., the in- surance concern which he last repre- sented in this city. A shortage of $5000 to $6000 caused the suits against the bondsmen. Cale, who was on a former bond, sustained his heaviest loss in thet manner. Whitener, who its head of a real estate firm, was not in his office when a Post- Dispatch reporter called Monday, but Attorney W. L. Coley, who represented Whitener In the deals’ with Haynes, told how Haynes had worked on his client. One Leases 810,000, “Mr. Whitener became involved to the extent of nearly $10,000 through his deal- ings with Haynes,” said Coley, “and from what I know of the experiences of others, I believe not less than $100,000 was lost by St.. Louls business men through Haynes. “Haynes once brought to Mr. White- ner a note for $1500, signed by H. A. Vrooman, and discounted it, Mr. White- ner paying him a little less than face value for it. When Mr. Whitener pre- sented the note to Vrooman at maturity for payment, Vrooman told him he had paid the note, and produced a cancele! check signed by Haynes as evidence that he had paid. Vrooman said he been charged up to mnie a few moments, he. the first note, and later the other ote And I am not the only one, either." #4 Accused of Being Short Between $5000 and $6000; Bondsmen S this note, which has already cost Vroo | man its face. “I understood that the note was ats as an accommodation to Haynes, ~ | 3 swell his insurance business at a when he wanted to make a good ing, would be returned if Vrooman it back. 7: “I do not wish to go into the docatly of Haynes’ direct deals with my but I will say this, that his ssemed to amount to hypnotic Mr. Whitener would come to me and tell me he was determined to havi dealings with Haynes, and then ¢ seeing him he would come say Haynes was all right, and let him have what he wanted. “From what I have heard of Haynes deals around town, most of those ) dealt with hitm were disappointed — notes which he got from them various pretexts, and which they to get back, but never did, and in cases they were ‘stuck,’ as Vroo Rutledge were, for two notea.” Coley and Rutledge said they did 1 know the basis of the present ments, on which caplases have z sued for Haynes’ arrest. They are | ” a posed to be connected with his ¢ with business men who lost money @ care to prosecute,” said preggo. = because we hoped to get > back, and next because we did not -

had not asked for his note back, de- pending on Haynes to destroy a Whitener is now suing Vrooman on “Haynes came to me while he was in the insurance business,” said Rutledge Monday, “and knowing that I had con- fidence in him because of his religious activities, asked me to assist him by taking $25,000 worth of insurance, to help him out on his month’s showing. If I didn’t want the insurance, he told me, 1 could later have back my note for $1350.00. To accommodate him, I con- sented. Nete Sent te Bank. “Later I found that my note was in the hands of a bank. Haynes came and told me he had to discount the note, but asked me to give him another for $1200, and said he would pay $160 note with the one for the’ smalier amount, which he wouwlé later take never got back elther note.

i up in full. I granted his request, and HE MIXED RELIGION WITH ai HIS INSURANCE BUSINESS While he was holding daily prayer meetings in his office ; an | giving his leisure time to work as a lay preacher and anti-y fe i room crusader, Edward A. P. Haynes, by the use of a species Of . hypnotic influence, was obtaining from some of the most | on> . . servative St. Louis business men sums aggregating nearly 100,< by Haynes’ creditors, and the story of their tranectifan 4 with him was brought out Monday by the news of his is ment here on three charges, the nature of which has not been made Haynes is believed to be in Spokane, Wash. Cpe ae Among those who lost thousands by their dealings with | ‘Haynes are said to have been Murray Carleton, president of ie Carleton Dry Goods Co.; L. B. Tebbetts, wealthy implement man- ufacturer; Robert Rutledge, real estate dealer; Henry S. W rit oe ner, H. A. Vrooman, E. G. Lewis, the late Ed Butler Jr. ai = tapes = with the understanding that. i — a ie ” te, ee Wa aye See the Manhattan company. "Wi Es to show how we had been bitten! tes Light Thrown on Method Haynes Used — to Get Money From His Acct ef te of them were losers. The at the bank and replace the $1350] or