St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 30, 1910

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eee Dat nr hin ee ae ’ ae +Te3 Tun OFFER _ in his ST. ‘Lous POST-DISPATCH. “ : JES ea m ths Dee paPir —s pn eee me : | A. i #2 nals Cha ia . ste . tof New York yachtsmen.

® 6Ast Aw ee cs cae " he reall ” Convict From-St. Louis 1 oan pects “Coming Out” té Bi Something of an Event.» By Leased Wire From Bureau of the nisher a dress suit case order for convict who is an the Federal Penitentiary wat Leavenworth, Kan. having beén there from St. Louls. Whether name is Edmund Burke, the Hon. Ed mund Beresford, or whether he is titled to be called: “Duke,” as present associates address him, ‘glishman. When his term of th years for swindling ends, next Ap ns, he will walk out with his ettecty 18 ~ receptacle that ds strictly It cost $100 and was made efter his own drawings. The t furnishings include ebony military: hair brushes. All the movable fit- tings are mounted in sterling «lly and decorated with a coat of arms, | crest, the family motto and the ogram “E. F. L. B. P.,” these init raising further conjecture, as to real name. In payrpent for this traordinary order he forwarded Mark Cross four 6§-pound Bank England notes. Burke got into the Fort Lea worth prison for passing himself as an Internal Revenue. and collecting money in that capacit in St. Louls. When he was : it was sald that he had been @ fessional swindler in England | had served time there for gett! money on false pretenses, While rather uppish in his at the prison, he made a good im pression on the officials there,: 6 was heightened when: they -observed that every three months the, mail brought to him, under oa. SRS Bark of England, 100 pounds, +f only explanation of it was that was his regular alléwance and t he came of a distinguished family. He proved so urbane and well- haved that he got an assignment keeper of the inner gate, where it his business to admit teams and li in and out other convicts on from the guard. He seems proud this -mark of confidence. in. him .a attends faithfWlly to his duttes..- While Burke holds himself so fe above the ordinary run of .conviet that he will permit none of them take liberties with him, he has pick his own friends, whom he ts permit ted to meet on Sundays and wit whom he unbends, Most of them a banker convicts. They have conf dential talks that are supposed look ite the Suture CANDIDATES. QUARREL* AND... HAAS ASKS THE ARREST OF WIETHAUPT IN COU Judicial Candidate Dees Remember Incident He Denie: but Is Sure It Is Untrae. Burning with indignation . overt . terrible charge that he.had., paid. b one-half of his $2 subscription for road improvement, John Whethat presiding judge of the St. Louls Coun Court, and candidate for re-electio seized Louis Haas by the shoulder the public park in Florissant and af in passionate tones: “If you ever say that about me aga! I'll feel like knocking your. block off.’ as these appalling words were. eps

ly of Constable John Miller, trem for fear a tragedy was.to. be endcte And to those who viewed the. pair it seemed dimost as if was about to attempt to strike It looked that way to Haas too, he ‘“‘ducked.”’ . Haas appeared at Clayton Saturda visited Attorney McAtee and. then turned to Florissant declaring he | swear out a warrant against W before Justice Ruegg when he home. Haas and Wiethaupt are iness rivals, both being San Florissant. “Tl heard,” said Wiethaupt ‘to a Pos Dispatch reporter Saturday, “that had been charging in speeches that subscribed $25 for the repairing of .C Lane road and had pald only $12.6. don't remember the matter at. all, I always pay everything I subscribe @ I wouldn't stand for any such an eation.”’

— > q Woman and Two Children Drown. ALBUQUERQUE, N. M., July” In a flood which swept throegh ¢ lup, N. M., this afternoon, Mra, Juag Lebeo, a Mexican woman, end children were drowned. The flood fcliowed a cloud burst tn the tains.

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