St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 20, 1910

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~ §T. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 20, 1910.

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Bartender Fights With Rob- ber After Being Probably Fatally Wounded. Fred Reisemy as He 5 Breaking Into Her Home. fl | 2

WARNS BEFORE FIRIN

MRS POLITO ACCUSES ‘NO ARRESTS “ *

MADE | ‘- ¥ Treatment of Two Boys Un- Pitsonee “take ga BS . Hold-Up Men Held High Car- | nival Friday Night, Many Losses Reported. NEGROES ROB Stranger Loses $275 Blacks—Thief Steals Woman’s Suitcase. John Karner of 2281 Old Man- chester road, wounded in one of many highway robberies in St. Louis Friday night, probably will die, according to physicians at the City Hospital. Karnér was weakened by the desperate fight he had with the robber after he had been shot through the ab- domen. After being wounded and robbed ir front of 2261 Old Man- chester road, Karner, seeing what he considered a favorable opening, leaped upon the robber and bore him to the ground. They struggled for nearly five min- utes without any person appear- ing to aid Karner, and then Kar- ner, after being shot, wrested the revolver from the robber’s hand, and as the latter fled, fired two shots at him. | Karner. bartender. He was on his way home at ll p. m., and was alone in front of the saloon over which he lives, when the tall robber stepped out from a shadow and held a revolver at his head. The Fight With the Bandit. Karner threw up his hands and the robber seatched his pockets, taking $7 in bills and silver, some nickles and dimes, and Karner’s watch and chain. As the robber was putting the money into his pocket, Karner leaped upon him. Karner is a small man, while the robber was about 6 feet tall. Karner threw him to the ground, and the two struggled silently until the robber suc- ceeded in placing the barrel of the re- volver against Karner’s abdomen, and fired three shots. The first two grazed. the skin, but the. third penetrated the abdomen and passed* through Karner’s liver. ’ The two struggled to their feet after that, and Karner then wrenched the re- volver from the bandit. Karner rapidly was losing strength as he made the last effort for the revolver. When he felt it free in his hand, he dropped to the sidewalk, and the robber turned to run. As he did so, Karner ly- ing in the street, fired two shots at him. ? John Schomogy, a friend, was at Kar- ner’s home and heard the shots. He ‘rushed out in time to see the robber leaping over a fence into @ vacant lot which would give him access to King’s ‘highway, which is sparsely settled in that neighborhood. Schomogy pursued sim, but in leaping the fence his clothes cpmught on a rail and by the time he ‘extricated himself the rubber was out of sight. : Ten policemen, then going on duty, heard the shots, and in a few minutes reached the scene, but could find no tresce of the robber. Karnev Likely to Die. Kusrner was taken to the City Hos- pital, where he underwent an operation et m@®inight. The physicians said they did not believe he could recover. In the scuffie with Karner, the rob- ber dropped the $7 he had taken from _ Karner’s pocket, and the money was . found Saturday by a policeman. Karner told the police the robber ap- peared to be about 90 years old, and wore a heavy black beard. He hed on -& black coat, and had no mask. The a. wr She Won $3 Awards in Picture Shows So Often That Factory Inspector Arrested One Proprietor to Learn if They Constituted W ages.

\ Hight-year-old Lilian Schaeffer, chief Support of a family of 10, was in dis- tress Saturday at the prospect of having her source of income, from prizes given by moving. picture show proprietors on “amateur nights,”’ cut off through the efforts of State Factory Inspector Wil- liams. / Lilian’g singing and. dancing came to be the subject of praise.of customers at shows she appeared in and so reached the ears of the factory inspector. He filed an information Friday against Lou Wagner, proprietor of an airdome pic- ture show at 4120 Easton avenue, and proposes to make Lilian’s case a test as to whether nightly appearances in amateur contests constitutes an occupa- tion and is therefore subject to the law governing child labor. Lilian is the youngest of eight chil- dren, and lives at,4609A Evans avenue. Her father is in poor health and only two of the ohildren work. Mrs. Schaeffer was urged by friends who knew Lilian’s voice to-let her compete for prizes offered by the man- agers of moving picture shows on “‘ama- teur nights.”’ On her first attempt sue won $8. Since then she has been com- peting at a different place each night, and she wins from $15 to $20 a week, Mrs. Schaeffer told a Post-Dispatch reporter that this move on the -part of the authorities would work a severe hardship on their family. “My husband is an engineer, but on account of poor health has been unable to work,” she said, “and the money Lil- jan has been making has been helpful to us, besides giving her valuable ex- perience, which she must have, if she is to go on the stage. “Tl do not let this interfere with her studies in the .winter, but now she is out of schoel and she enjoys it, and the prizes she receives enable her to take music lessons, which otherwise we would be unable to give her. ‘Do they want her to grow up in some factory and make 10 cents a day? ‘They do not seem to realize that if she can fit herself for the stage or con- cert work, she will escape that life. I have one daughter who is working in a factory now. She is up early in the morning and does not get home unt!! late. She is tired out all the time. If she wishes to enjoy herself, she must go out in the evening when she really should be in bed. And with all of this, she receives $ a week.” DR. CRIPPEN AND LENEVE GIRL SAIL FOR ENGLAND Special to the Post-Dispatch. QUEBDO, Aug. 20.—Dr. H. H. Crippen, accused of murdering his wife, Belle Elmore, in England, and his typist, Bthel Clare Leneve, sailed today for England in custody of Inspector Dew of Seotiand Yard. The departure was marked by almost sensational attempts at secrecy on the part of Dew, who! chartered a special boat to catch the Magentic, a slow liner which sailed last

LILIAN SCHAEFFER,

der Arrest Is the Basis

of the Criticism:

‘PRISONERS DISCHARGED

‘Chief Young Gives Orders | for an Investigation of : Complaint.

Chief of Police Young Satur- iday ordered Capt. Hickman to investigate the conduct of Pa- 'trolman Joseph C. Keimel, on ‘duty at the Coliseum Friday ‘night, after he had _ been in- formed that Keimel flourished a | ‘revolver before the faces of Mrs. ‘Nick Polito, wife of the Republi- lean committeeman in the Fourth Ward, and a number of other women who were against the manner in which he was handling two young men he had placed under arrest. A compaint was also made to the Chief of Police that officiousness on the

VANKEES CHANGE. PIIGHERS ALMOST. Al VERY START Fisher Takes Quinn’s Place in First Half of Second Inning.

FIRST GAME. ST. LOUIS AT NEW YORK. OOM 79e@LO Oo NEW YORK. Loli t2j0@L) O THE BATTING ORDER. BROWNS. NEW YORK. Stone If, Daniels cf, Schweitzer rf, Wolter rf, Newnam 1b, Chase Ib, Griggs 2b, Knight ss, Hoffman cf,

Laporte lf, Wallace ss Gardner 2b, Truesdale Sb. Austin 8b, Killefer a, Sweeney c, Hall p. Quinn p. Umpires—Perrine and Kennedy. —— AMERICAN LEAGUE PARK, NEW YORK, Aug. 2. The biggest crowd the Browns have seen here this season turned out for this afternoon's double-header. The weather was perfect and there were about 14,000 in the stands when the first game started. For the first game Vgillace sent Hall, the “blackjack” miner” from Joplin, Mo., to the mound and to start the open- ing, Stallings used Quinn. Because of Hartzell’s injury yesterday, Wallace had to change his lineup. Truesdale went to third, Griggs to center and Schweitzer to right field. FIRST INNING, BROWNS—Stone walked. Schweitzer hit into a double play, Quinn to Gard- ner to Chase. Newnam out, Knight to Chase. NO RUNS. NEW YORK—Daniels lined to Stone. Wolter flied to Stone. Chase flied to Hoffman. NO RUNS. RECOND INNING. BROWNS—Fisher pitching in place of Quinn. Griggs singled to center. Hoffman singled to left, Griggs being caught trying for third, Laporte to Austin, Hoffman went to second on the play. Wallace out, Gardner to Chase. Truesdale out, Fisher to chase. NO RUNS. NEW YORK—Knight singled to center. Laporte walked. Hall drop- ped Gardner’s fly, but Knight was caught at third, Newnham to Trues- dale. Gardner was Out at first on same play, it being declared an in- field fiy. Austin singled to center, scoring Laporte. Sweeney received a pass. Pisher forced Sweeney, Truesg- dale to wat ONE RUN, 3 WHIRD INNING. BROWNS—kKillefer out, Knight to Chase. Halt struck out. Stone was a victim on strikes. NO RUNS. NEW YORK—Daniels tried to punt but Hall threw him out at first. Wo}. ter was hit by @ pitched ball. Chase struck out, Wolter stole second. Wolter went to third when Killefer threw the ball to center field trying to catch him napping. Knight drew &@ pass, Knight Stole second, and Wolter scored when Truesdale threw wild on the return to the plate. Knight going to third. La. porte flied out to Schweitzer. OnE RUN. part of the officer who wore star No. 1398, Keimel’s number, had delayed the removal from the Coliseum of Miss Thoman, 233 Main street, 20 minutes. Miss Thoman had dislocated her left ankle by tripping in a stairway of the auditorium and was being wheeled toa street car in a chair furnished by the emergency hospital when her escort, who was wheeling her, was stopped by Patrolman 1398. Struggling for Free Purses. The young men who were arrested by Kelmel were Walter Davis, 2929 Wash street, 17 years old, and Alex Kohudek, 19 years old, 176 South Tenth street. Mrs, Polile and other women say that Keimel struck young Davis in the face without provocation. Davis and Kohudek were in the crowd that was struggling to get pocket books which were being given away at one of the Dbooths. The women who were in the crowd protested when Keimel struck the boy and it was when the women de- manded that the patrolmen let the young men go, they say, that Kelmen drew his revolver and waived it over their heads, announcing that he “knew his business,” and for them to attend to theirs, The angry women followed the pa- trolmen and his two young prisoners to the Laclede avenue police station where they again demanded their re- lease. Mrs. Polito says that Lieut, Hoffman gruffly ordered them to get out of the station and informed them that if they wanted the boys re- leased they might have bonds signed for them. Mrs. Polito says she remembered reading that there was a professional bondsman named Dick Kent and when she inquired where he could be found was informed he was at Twenty-second and Market streets. Kent is a negro but Mrs. Polito said she did not know this at the time, Negro Bondsmen Gets Release, Mrs. Polito brought Kent back to the station and had him sign the bonds for the young men’s release. They were discharged in the Clark Avenue Police Court Saturday by Judge Tracy on Keimel’s testimony. Keimel said he arrested them be- cause they had been postling in the crowd.: Judge Tracy excused Keimel’s act- fon by saying that ‘there are times when extreme measures must be used by policemen.” One. real star who had been eagerly anticipated as an added attraction did how Friday night. ° Miss Lily Lena, sweet-singing English comedienne, headliner of this week’s Columbia Theater bill, was one of the 10,000 who tried in vain to gain admis- sion to the Coliseum. On the previous night she sold 560 packages of popcorn and many flowers at the Post-Dispatch Pure Milk and Free Ice Fund booth, and she had planned again te devote herself to the cause. of saving the babies Friday night. : When Miss Lena’s taxicab reached Washington and Jefferson avenues the throng was so great that the car coullii not be driven within half a block of the entrance. The crowd within the building was so great. that 4 thief was not detected when he stole a silver oar from the Otto Stifel rowing trophy in a jeweler’s it. oe Made-in-St. Louls show closes Saturday night. In anticipation of rec. ord-breaking crowds & special police de- tail has been asked for. Old Marshall Merehant Dics, MARSHALL, Mo.,. Aug. 20,—Oliver

protesting Venezuela. read the morning papers!

TALIAN AVIATOR FALLS 1000 FEET INSTANTLY KILLED Machine Dashes to Earth Suddenly — Cause of Accident Unknown.

By Associated Press. ROME, Aug. 20.—Lieut. Vivaldi of the Italian army was killed this morning by a fall frum his aeroplane, He had made a trip in the early morning hours from the military aviation field at Cen- tocelle to Cittaveccia, on the Medi- wag returning to Rome when the dent happened. é A few miles outside of Rome, for some unexplained reason, the machine dashed to earth., The aeroplane fell from ‘a height of 1000 feet and the body of Vivaldi was crushed to an unrecogniza- ble mass. Lieut. Vivaldi had just returned from Chalons Sur Marne, France, where he had taken up aviation. He used a Far- man biplane. He started from Cen- tocelle this morning, accompanied by Lieut. Savoiain in another aeroplane, but the latter was unable to keep pace with him and returned to Rome before reach- ing Cittaveccia. When Vivaldi left Cittaveccia, he announced hé sould attempt a round trip, no-stop flight, if possible, making the total distance of the trip 76 miles. The machine was s0 badly smashed that it could not be determined accu- rately what caused the disaster, but ex- perts declared their belief that motor trouble or the snapping of part of the framework had sent the aviator to his | death,

FINE FOR SUNDAY OUTINGS: FORECAST PROMISES A FAIR DAY, NO TEMPERATURE CHANGE THE TEMPERATURES. jt... 20 72 76 79

Yesterday's Temperatures. Maximum ....-- 82 at 3 p, m. Minimum . A woman kills offending® man. (Now, go and beat that if you can!) A preacher is in jail for theft. (What hope, if any, now is left?) Outlaw surrenders, pained by wounds. (Oh, how familiar all this sounds!) A nightgown gir 1 creates a stir. (Maid-in-St. Louis fame for her!) High wa yman shoots a passing youth. (This cer- tainly is bad, in truth!) Another Damm: elopement filed. (What won- der we are getting r-ile1?) Official calls a witness “liar.” (Of “short and ugly” will none tire?) ; The Castro family is expelled from (All rebelled.) “The birds disclose a skeleton,” a headline tells us. Havé you one?) Dave Francis to the farmers speaks. (Lét’s see—what is it David seeks?) Gee whizz! Life’s dreary when you "Tis indeed! Official forecast: Fair tonight and Sunday; stationary temperature. Stage of the rivef: 3.8 feet; no

terranean Sea, 38 miles from Rome, and

INTO INDIAN DEAL Ex-Senator Thurston’s Name Is Also Mentioned at Land Inquiry.

™ By Associated Presa, SULPHUR, Ok., Aug. 2#.—What re- lation former Senator Chester I. Long, of Kansas and former Senator John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, have with the so-called McMurray contracts was described by J. F. McMurray before the Congressional Committee investi- gating Indian iand deals. today. Mr. McMurray, who seeks by the contracts to sell. $30,000,000 worth of Indian lands in this State on a 10 per cent contin- gent fee; declared Mr. Long and Mr. Thurston’ both had been employed as counsel, In endeavoring to obtain the approval of the contracts, the witness said Long had called on President Taft and Thurston had called on Attorney Gen- eral Wickersham... Asked to explain exactly what the former senators were employed by him to do McMurray said they were to advise him on legal mat- ters, Asks Why Senators Were Employed. You don’t call visiting the President and the Attorney General, advising you on legal matters do you? asked Representative F. W. Saunders. ) McMurray declared the visits were made relative to legal phases. It pre- viously had been shown that President Taft at such visits had expressed dis- approval of the 10 per cent fee on the grounds that it was too large. The wit- ness denied the former senator had been employed to lobby. McMurray was com- pelled to be in Washington to seek ap- proval of his contracts, and he selected the former senators as counsel because he believed they were well qualified to assist him. Questioned about Ceci] A. Lyon, Na- tional Republican Committeeman of Texas, the witness said certain indict- ments were pending against the Mc- Murray law firm in connection with the $750,000 fee paid im 196 in the citizenship cases. , Lyon had been convinced the indict- ments were not well fourided and used his influence at Washington to have an investigation. The investightion resulted in the dis- missal of the indictments. Mr. Lyon was not interested in the present con- tracts, witness said. GAYNOR IS OUT OF DANGER; BULLET NOT TO BE REMOVED NEW YORK, Aug. 20.—Mayor Gay- nor’s condition was excellent today, his physicians said, and the period of ‘danger has now passed. The doctors agree that he will be completely re- covered within a short time.

DY M MURRAY:

GOVERNOR TELL CAULFIELD. MUST ULOSE WINEROOMS State Executive Acts Upon Reading Facts Presented in Post-Dispatch. Gov. Hadley im Jefferson City Satur- day, according’ to a news telegram to the Post-Dispatch, told Excise Com- missioner Caulfield over the telephone that he must suppress winerooms in St. Louis, and that there must be no loosening of the lid. Gov. Hadley called up the Excise Commissioner after reading reports in the Post-Dispatch about winerooms in St. Louis. The Excise Commissioner protested that he had no knowledge of any winerooms and that if they ex- isted they had opened since he had been on his vacation. He returned to his office Saturday, after several weeks’ absence. In reply to the Governér’s instruc. | tions, Commissioner Caulfield prom- ised an immediate investigation and assured the Governor that wherever he found the rule was being violated he would revoke the license of the place. Commissioner Caulfield, admitting that Gov. Hadley had discussed the wineroom situatin with him over the telephone, declined to tell what passed between them. Caulfield to Investigate. “There are in the city of St. Louis some 2250 saloons, restaurants, ho- tels and summer gardens having dramshop licenses,” said ‘the Com- missioner. “These are widely dis- tributeq over the city. “The Excise Commissioner has but two police officers to assist him in investigations, and their time is ne- cessarily occupied to a great extent with office business. The commis- sioner is compelled to depend on the Persecution and Threats Against Life. .. INQUEST IS PUT OFF Attorney Retained and Crim- : inal Lawyer Declares ~ She Will Go Free. .

Two Other Girls Maen EBERLY, 18 years } fiance, Thomas Lane, also | — knéwn as Edward Leonard, at | night of Oct. 8 1904. Her reas- |. — on was that he had failed to keep } ot . had taunted her when she | | begged him not to abandon her. } murder in the first degree, Te ae “Tess” Sullivan, 20 years old, — 3 4 Kill in St. Louis old, shot and killed her - Jefferson and Clark avenues, the his promise to marry -her, and She was acquitted of a charge of P stabbed Michael Landers during oe 1907, and she was acquitted threa ‘months later of a charge of sec- ond degree murder. Her defense [ Landers. He hed angered be an hour, while he drank beer with companions, instead of tak- | ing her to an entertainment, as he [| had promised to do. ia

ee ae Ruth Snow; prisomer-on amar der charge, told a Post-Dispatch — reporter in the Dayton Street Police Station Saturday of her away from her life of the past six years, and, of the killing of to desperation by his persistent — effort to drag her back to the — old life, x rs More mature than ‘‘Tess”” Sullivan and Myrtle Eberly, the — principals in two similar St. Louis tragedies of recent years, Ruth Snow will plead in her de- fense a more urgent .provoca- tion than they experienced. She ~ killed Reisemy Friday evening — while he was standing on her — doorstep at 822 North Beaumon street, with his right fist pro- jecting through the front loor : sash, which he had smashed ii his violent attempt to enter, = Counts as He Breaks Door, “Cne, two, three!” he had counted ~~ loudly, in “Monte Cristo” stage ion, having first warnéd the woman on the other side ef the police department for information of ‘that he would break it at the of the law, and he wel- any citizen violations comes information from or from any other source. “It has been the fixed policy of the count. True to his threat, he glass as he proneunced true to the threat which she commissioner to suppress any licensed |),44 uttered in reply, Ruth Snow place, on proof that it is a rendez- vous for people of immoral character. The commissioner will suppress any licensed place on being satisfied that it is of such a character. . “It has also been the -policy to use all the power of the commissioner to prevent cafes from becoming mere drinking places, as such places tend to become disorderly. It is not al- ways easy to distinguish between a restaurant or: cafe and ‘such a place, or to determine when an apparently respectable place has degenerated, but the commissioner has done so and | will continue to do so when brought to his attention. “I shall ask the Chief of Police to investigate the. places recently named as winerooms. ' “The people may rest assured that the wineroom of the ‘good’ old days’ does not exist, ang will not be per- mitted to exist during this adminis- tration.” oo os WINEROOM VISIT AND A TAXI her eyes and fired the direction of No skilled duelist Hae * * ~~ a i a8

a quarrel, using a short knife, aes He died the next day, Aug. 16, f ~ was that she did not mean to Seem she said, by keeping her a Bray’ four months’ struggle to break ~ eS Houx, the oldest merchant.in Marshall, dicd last night. He was 87 years ola and was one of the pioneer settlers of : 2 FOURTH INNING. BROWNS—Sch weltzer struck out, Newnam followed his examp le. ay i night from Montreal and which stopped aap | At Sillery, a port on the St. Lawrence, | %® weit for the Inspector and his pris. i change. The physicians have practically de. ie “ cided not. to Operate to remove the |* Missourl—Generally fai tonight~and Sun, | °!¢ | , ) the } Phooyper, $ bullet as they think that the ' EAR 2 io Beet PETES bro suffer no inconvenience from

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