St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 29, 1910

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5 TIMES A BRIDE WOM TWICE, 3D. DIVORCE IS FOUGHT Woman for man Scollard Killed Him- self, Is Sued.

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Reply Is Made to Action Brought by Husband, William R. Schildener.

Grace Letson Birkenhead-Wassner- Trahey-Scollard-Schildener, five times a bride and twice a widow, is again in the divorce court, this time as de- fendeant in a suit brought by William kk. Echildener. Aithough her successive failures to f'nad marital happiness have causei her to be a divorcee twice, Mrs Schildener gained her greatest promi- rence as the wife of Policeman John A. Sco}lard of the St. Louis Broadway squad, who killed himself with 2 re- solver 24 hours after she became his wife in 1906. Disclosures at that time showed twat for a long period she had been the only woman member of the po- lice department and that her service in tracking down gambling and policy zemes had been- concealed from the public by placing her name on the payroll as Officer Burke. Wite Files Crossbill. In her two previous experiences in the divorce court Mrs. Schildener was Plaintiff. Now she is fighting Schil- dener’s effort to obtain a decree ana she has filed a crogs bill in which she alleges that tere was a conspiracy to blacken her character. In his petition Schildener names Rupert Sazer. He gives the date of the marriage as Sept. 25, 1908, and that of the separation as Jan. 19, 1910. The ceremony was performed at Louisville, Tll., and the Schildeners were living at Tucson, Ariz., when they separated, Mrs. Schildener charges in her cross bil) that her husband and Rupert. Sazer, aided by Charles Schildener, formed a plot to disgrace her and caused her to be arrested and put in jail at Tucson. Thomas E. Mulvihill, attorney for Mrs. Schildener, says that his client is not now in St. Louis and that in her absence he cannot dis, cuss her charges. Mrs. Schildener, whose mation name was Grace ,Letson, is the daughter of Mrs. Grace Scully of 2842 Arlington ave- nue. Widow 24 Hours After Wedding. Policeman John Scodllard became the fourth husband of .Grace Letson Jan. 25, 1906, and killed himself 24 hours later, on the day when He was to have answered Police Board charges of im- Proper conduct. It was alleged at the time that these charges were instigated by William Trahey, former policeman and third husband of Grace Letson. The charges were based on an affidavit that for some time Grace Letson lived at the - Ihause ocecypied by Scollard at 4745 East- , On @venue. While his trial was pending Scollard #ubmitted his resignation. When the board refused to cccept it and insisted ‘ that he go to trial, he made Grace Let- . son his wife and killed himself. In a dy- ing statement he said he had been jJobbed. HEIR TO $1,500,000 DOES NOT WANT TO QUIT NAVY Grandfather’s Will Stipulates That He Must Be Earning $75 a Month at 25. NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 29.—Despite the fact that he is reputed to have fallen\ heir to more than $1,500,000, Horace Keeler, a young hospital steward on the receiving ship Frank- lin, does not want to leave the navy. Keeler enlisted at Chicago Sept. 7. His home is in Richmond, Ind., and hig father is a manufacturer of cas- kets, Young Keeler is learning the undertaking 2nd embalming business and says he ix «etting’ valuable ex- perience in tie navy. One of the stipulations of his grandfather's will is that he must be earning at least $876 per month by the time ne reaches his twenty-fifth birthday in’ order to inherit the estate. “I can earn that much in the navy,” said young Keeler. CHARLES VAN STUDDIFORD IS MEMBER OF PROBATION CLUB “vill Not Be Tried on Charge of Trying to Ride Into Bar, If He’s Good. Charlies Van S8tuddiford,

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divorced husband of Grace Van Studdiford, is} _ the charter member of a probation club founded Thursday by City At-: torney Anderson: Van S8Studdiford did not appear in the Clark Avenue Po- lice Court to anewer a charge of try- ing to ride on horseback into the Laclede Hotel bar two weeks ago. “I told Van Studdiford I would con- tinue the case generally,” explained Anderson, “if he would promise to | es te drinking and keep out of esca- He has been good for two and I informed him he nedn’t wi 1 tag _ he gets into PAGES TODAY “FIRST IN EVERYTHING.” Whom. Police- CROSSBILL 2 ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATC Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service.

VOL. 63. NO. 40. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, ,SEPTEMBER 29, 1910.

IWOMAN WHO OPPOSES THIR™ OINWORCE SUIT MRS. GRACE LETSON-SCHILDENER CHILDREN UP IN BERRY’S BALLOON

Gas Bag Lards Near School House and Pupils Have a Jolly Time. The spelling class of the West Alton School was abruptly dismissed Wednes- day afternoon, when.Capt. John Berry and two passengers in the balloon Mel- ba sailed across the Mississippi River and landed in a fie'id near the school- house. Forty pupils ran out with shouts of glee at the spectadéle. “Why, said Melba Green, aged 12, ‘that’s my balloon. It’s got my name on it.’’ Capt. his gasbag, “T’'ll take you for a to go,’’ he said. Melba did. So did her brother, Er- win, and so did Mamie Ruckman, Mar- garet Lemothe and William Johnson. The teacher and the other children end the two passengers, who had been with Capt. Berry, held the drag rope while the balloon ascended about 100 feet, and kept it stationary for the most blissful and thrilling 10 minutes the five youngsters have ever known. Capt. Berry took it all so much as a matter of course that none of them was afraid. When the balloon was pulled down the children were hailed by their schoolmates -as heroes and heroines. The balloon sailed for the Alton Busi- ness Men’s Carnival. The passengers with Berry were George Milnor of Alton end Miss Anna Langwith of 4645 West Belle place, St. Louis, who is employed in Alton. EAT SHARKS AND AVOID HIGH COST OF LIVING, URGES EXPERT Scientists Declare That Meat of Deep Sea-Monster is Delicate Luxury. NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—Shark meat is a dainty of high quality, according to the savants who are here attending the sessions of the American Fisheries So- ciety. They declare that the creatures are quite edible and that it is only a foolish prejudice which keeps them from being served as a delicacy. One scientist said he prefers shark to lobster. Prof. Theodore Gill declares that shark meat broiled has ‘‘a flavor as fine as. anything which comes from the water.’’ Several of the delegates expressed the belief that cultivation of the shark as a food fish might do much to solve the problems of the higher cost of living. WIRELESS OPERATOR ACCUSED Berry didn’t want to give so he compromised. ride, if you want up

Possibly Will Serve Four Years in Prison if Charge -Is Substantiated. BUFFALO, N. Y., Sept. 29.—Ernest lL. Goodwin, an operator in the em- ploy of the Continental Wireless .Tele- graph Co., is charged in the City Court with having willfully prevented the transmission of a message from the steamer Western States on Sept. 21, when she was disabled on. Lake Erie, «ff Long Point. The operator on the Western States tr.ed for several hours to.ask for assist- ame, both from the Buffalo and Erie (Pa.) stations, but, jt fs alleged, the op- position company for which Goodwit worked would interfere and, having a more powerful plant, would smother his waves. The penalty for the offense is four years’ imprisonment. was continyed. HORSES CERTAINLY HAVE GROWN

Specimen of One of the First Found, About the Size of a Fox Terrier. NEW YORK, Sept. 29.—The skele- ‘ton of a horse which must have been ‘about the size of a modern fox ter- tier and had four toes, has found in Wyoming by an exploring party sent by the American Museum of Natural History. The museum au- ‘thorities have just received the news. The. skeleton represents the oldest ancestor of the horse of today ever found on the American Continent. It was about one and one-half feet tall and resembled a hippotamus and a tapir as much as‘it did a horse.

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NEGRO WITH KNIFE MAKES POLICEMAN ~ DANCE ON STREET

Patrolman O’Keefe Com- pelled to Sing Irish Airs for Crowd of Blacks.

“JUST. HUMORING HIM.”

Peace Guardian Explains He Was Only Diverting “Prisoner’s” Mind. With a negro holding a butcher knife and demanding that he Patrolman Con O'Keefe

toward him dance and sing, did an Irish jig and sang all the SOngs he knew. while a crowd of negroes, gathered around Sixteenth and Chest- nut streets, cheered the spectacle for 20 minutes Thursday morning. “Go on! Dance ang sing, or I'll carve you with this knife!’ shouted the negro, James Mayfield, whenever the policeman showed a sign of wearying. The perspiration poured from beneath O’Keefe’s cap as he kept his weary feet pattering on the granitoid and shouted one air after another. : ‘“‘Has Anybody Here Seen Kelly?’ was the first song the policeman sang after the negro’s butcher knife had: revived his long-forgotten vocal powers. This was not lively enough for Mayfield and the singer changed his tune to ‘‘Yip-I- Addy-I-Ay, I-Ay,’’ and then to “Baby, Dear, Listen Here, I’m Afraid to Go Home in the Dark.’ .He was hoarsely bawling “I Wonder Who's Kissing Her N- -9-ow,’’ when the reserves arrived with an ambulance. “T sure did want to hear you sing that song about rings on your fingers and bells on your toes,’’ grumbled May- fleld as he was hurried into the ambu- lance, after his knife had been taken from him. ‘Never mind,’”’ said O’Keefe, ‘You'll get a barrel of gold dollars when you get to the place where we are going with you.” O'Keefe explained to the ambulance (rivers that he had only been dancing and singing to keep the negro’s mind diverted until the wagon came. “He was running around the neigh- borhood with the knife, telling every- body to sing’ and dance, or he’d cut them up,’’ said O’Keefe. “I told him he mustn’t do that and I sent a man to call an ambulance. Until the ambu- lance came, I thought it was best to try and keep him in a pleasant frame of mind. So I danced and sang a bit for him.” SON-IN-LAW’S CLAIMS MUST COME FROM WIFE'S ESTATE Mrs. Brookes’ Will Provides for Any Suit on Part of Daugh- ters’ Husbands. If any of Mrs. Susan O. Brookes’ three sons-in-law presents a bill for services to her in her lifetime the claim must be taken out of his wife’s share of the estate, according to the terms of Mrs. Brookes’ will filed for probate Thursday. The sons-in-law are former Judge Selden P. Spencer, Harry F. Knight and Dawid F. Williams, Mrs. Brookes’ property, valued .at more than $200,000, is divided among the three daughters, Mrs. Brookes was the widow of the Rev. Dr. James H. Brookes, who for many years was pastor of the Washington and Compton Avenue Presbyterian Church. FAIR AND SLIGHTLY WARMER WEATHER THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY IS FORECAST THE TEMPERATURES,

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Yesterday's Temperatures. Mreximum Minimum 53 at 5 a. m. ‘Love in a cot- tage doesn’t seem as popular as it used to be,” said the haberdasher. ee No,” the cigar “romantic young heiresses now - adays have a way of balkings when it comes to mov- ing Into the cot- tage.”’ “Probably it is because they do not care to live in a house which is smaller than fa- ther’s garage.” "ne 2 Slee there is another and deeper re@

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“What is that?’ “They don't want to acknowfedge that they can't make cottage pudding."’ Official forecast: Fair and slightly warmer tonight and Friday. Stange of the river: 10.2 feet; a rine of 2.8 feet, , Missouri—Fair Thursday night and Friday; warmer Thursday night In extreme = west portion, replied /

warmer Fuorvday night tm edatral portion, Mie * sets pe Se a, RED-HAIRED THIEF TELLS POLICE Hild NIGHT ADVENTURES Confesses 11 Crimes and De- tails His Most Thrilling Experiences.

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Caught at 8 P. M., He Says He Should Have Waited Until Later Hour. ———————

Joseph Riley, 17 years old, with red hair, .confessed at police headquarters Thursday that he committed eight bur- giaries and attempted three others at St. Louis drug stes, saloons, grocéries and meat markets in the last two months. He was caught. Wednesday night while prowling around Bernhardt Drape’s market at 4102 Olive street, awaiting a chance to climb in through the transom, his favorite method of en- trance. ‘*‘That’s what early in the night,”’ ives O’Brien and Garvey, when they arrested him about 8 p. m. “All my other work I have done after midnight.”’ The only other job he would tell of at that time was the robbery of Wil- liam Wolk’s meat market, 2204 South Jefferson avenue, Aug. 19. Under ex- amination at headquarters, he admitted nine other crimes, and told of ad- ventures in committing them. He de- nied he was the red-haired burglar who last summer robbed West End homes, posing as a huckster. His thefts, he declared, were all at retail stores. “The closest call I had,’ he said, ‘‘was at a grocery at Tower Grove avenue and Papin street. I cut out the plate- glass show window and carried it away to lay it on the grass so it wouldn’t make a noise. When I went back a minute later there stood the grocer with a gun in his hand. He began shooting, ‘but he couldn’t shoot as fast as I ran, and I wasn’t hit. “The most fun I had was at Grant's drug store, 8718 Olive street, the night of Aug. 29. I went in through the tran- som. .and..ceuld hear the clerk sn in the rear as TI ‘took things 'é6ut of the showcases. I went back and got $2 out of his trousers. Just as I was I get for working so he said to Detect-

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about to go, a policeman came and be- gan to rattle the door, as if he was trying to shake the house down. He never looked up at the open transom, I guess. He stood across the street quite awhile afterward, and before I left I wrote a note on a post card, which said: ‘At 1:30 the policeman was across the street.’ ; “At F. Hendrick’s drug store, 3434 Cherokee street, a few nights later, I cut my way in through a panel and took a razor. I got into Ward & Kelly’s grocery, 8701 Laclede avenue, not long afterward, and took $2 worth of gro- ceries. At C. Schuman’s grocery I got $17.90 and some groceries. Frustrated Several Times. “T only got 86 cents from a gro- ccery at Cottage and Spring avenues, where I got in through a transom. I bored a hole through the panel of a drug store at Easton ‘and Pendleton avenues, but the clerk heard me and came to the front of the store and I heard him moving around so fong that I got discouraged and went away. “At Pagwe and West End avenues I cut out a panel and was about to get in when a policeman came along. I stood with my back to the panel and asked him how to get to some street or other and he told me. I had to walk on then. “At the Wedge Saloon, Evans and Eas- ton avenue, I got cigars and $8.20."’ The young prisoner said he was born in Redlands, Cal., and had been an or- phan since the death of his mother, six years ago. He came to St. Louis two years ago and got a job as a dairy wagon driver. He said: “I was around early in the morning end heard a lot of talk about burgiaries, and how the burglars generglly got away with it, so I decided to try it for ” |

U. $. DROPS TRIAL OF HASKELL Cannot Make Case Under Re- Strictions Made by Judge. M’ALESTER, Ok., Sept. 29.—The trial of Gov. C. N. Haskell of Oklahoma in the Muskogee town lot cases came to a sudden end today. The Government- announced that under the restrictions laid down by the Court it would be unable to make ‘out a case against Haskell or any of his co+defend- ants. Gov. Haskell and three other de- fendants were charged fn an _ indict- ment returned by a Federal Grand Jury with conspiracy to defraud the Govern- ment in the disposal of town lot sites, at Muskogee, Ok., was charged that by the false registration of the names of people scattered over the coun- try, they got title to about 600 lots. Judge Marshal] ruled that under a recent Circuit Court of Appeals decision, rendered in the Lonabaugh case, the prosecution would have to prove con- scious participation by Haskell, with the other defendants during the three years prior to the return of the indictment, which was in May, 1999. SINGER BUILDING ON FIRE NEW YORK, Sept. 2. .Ftrethen today had the somewhat novel experience of fighting a fire in a skyscraper, 26 floors above the street level. The flames broke out in the offices of a financial concern iy the tower of the

Siager Bullding, and dense stioke was! ‘pouring from the windows on the Broad- way side of the structure when the fire- men arrived. Fmd, fre 10 somppentiewhy | Soe: obeus | little damage. ‘

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CAR PASSENGERS BUY NEWSPAPERS FROM MAGHINES Devices Get First Test on Olive Street Line; 19 Out of 32 Copies Are Sold. Automatic news-vending machines Were used on a St. Louis. street car, Thursday, for the first time. Passen- gers took to the innovation as though they had always been accustomed to obtaining their newspapers by dropping a coin in the slot and it is belteved that the success of the initial trip will lead to the similar equipment of all of the pay-as-you-enter cars in St. Louis. There is no intention to compete with newsboys and the machines will be placed only in those cars from which the boys are excluded. The first installation of the apparatus was in car 313 of the Olive street Del- mar division. 14 Out of 19 Post-Dispatches, AS the car left the downtown terminus at 10:30 a. m. four of the machines wer: filled with copies of the midday editio; of the three afternoon papers. There is a separate machine for each paper, but two were filled ‘with Post-Dis- patches. On the trip west 19 of the 32 papers were sold. Of these 14 were Post-Dis. patches. Each machine holds eight daily pa- pets and in each there is a slat in which either a nickel or a penny may be dropped. If a passenger puts a nicke! in the slot the machine drops a paper agd at the same time makes exact change, The mechanism is so delicately adjust- ed that if a penny is dropped in, it will work the spring controlling the papers, but will not return any change: When the machines are loaded with Sunday papers only a nickel will re- lease them, and if a penny or a dime is dropped in by mistake it will be ve- turned to the passenger. When the supply of papers in a ma- chine is exhausted a sign appears on top to show it and the slot automatic- ally is covered.

School Dismissed at KANKAKEE, ha whistles and tT nounced the appearance of Brookins’ biplane to this city. Schools were dis- missed and practically the entire popu- lace of the city turned out to the flight over Kankakee. The

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On Second Start Flier Arises 2000 Feet Despite the Stiff Breezes From South and East Which Added Peril to His Remarkable Feat---Was Cheered by 200,000 Chicnewtiial as He Started in the Morning.

a —_—_ Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Sept. 29.—Forced to descend at Gilman, 1, take on gasoline and oil, Walter Brooking; who left here at 9:16 this morning to fly to Springfield, Ill., soon took the air again and in the early afternoon was dashing southward, racing with a P special train. There is every indication that he will be able“to reach the capital today. ; ‘oi Gilman is. 75 miles from Brookings’ a point and a d miles from Springfield. The first flight lasted 2 hours and $ 22 minutes. If the second leg is made without alighting Brookins w ls establish new American records for both time in the of and bea tance edvered in tross-country flight. The descent of Brookins at Gilman will not prevent the vabiialitia of ean prize proffered by the Record-Herald, as the publisher stated today that oe would award the prize should the flight to Mahia 20 be completed dete ~ next Sunday. ‘ The special train was held at Gilman until Brookins was about ready ‘to resume his flight, and from there a race between the train and airship 4 ensued. The aviator went up about 1500 to 2000 feet, following omni? 4 above the tracks. q At Thawville the train was even with Brookins, but during the ree : ular stop the airship passed almost a mile ahead. As Guthrie paseed ty ; Brooking at 1:28 he was -wo miles ahead of the special. 7 ae At Gibson, four miles from Guthrie, Brookins again was behind the 4 train, having lost considerable time in soaring: aloft, apparently to evade = shifty currents of wind. He gain swooped down to within 500 feet of the earth, ascending and descending at intervals along the track, At Harpat-t, 4 34 miles from Gilman, he was one mile ahead of the train and moving aleog ors and evenly at a height of about 500 feet. ‘200, 000 Chicagoans Cheer Start. At 9:23 o’clock Brookins started for Springfield. As he started he was cheered by 200,000 persons. His destination was the State Fair Grounds at Springfield:and his the winning of the Chicago Record-Herald prize of $10,000. Brookins eaid | intended to sail high to avoid the treacherous’ air eurrents. The aviator’s sucessful exhibition flights here Tuesday and Wednesday gave him confidence in his machine, He left the ground without diffieulty, x circled to tes: his machine and then shot away like a homing pigeon to the - southwest in thé direction of the State capital. ~ a His last words before starting were spoken to Wilbur Wright, ousting “4 of the air craft, ‘‘Good- ‘by, Mr. Wright,’’ he said. — see ” in Bay! oa field.’’ Tre ested spectators, started in pursuit: of the aviator. Lae Br okings passed over Kensington, 13 miles from Chicago, at 9: 36 and) | 4 sped over the suburbs of Harvey, 19 miles distant. He was ‘lying « 2000 feet high and at about the rate $f 50 miles an hour. Thee -y roads and fields were dotted everywhere with people witnessing their ‘aeroplane flight. Train Was Far Behind. The village of Monee, 34 miles from here, was passed at 10:10 0 The aviator was flying steadily at about forty miles an hour. The train was 18 miles behind him. The aviator passed over Kankakee at 10:53. Business was at * hour, passed high above the streets. = oe When the aeroplane passed Otto, 60 miles ees Chicago, % 11 a. oh 3 was flying at a height of about 2000 feet. The special train following Brookins had not yet sighted the but as the aviator had maintained an average speed of about 35 n hour since he started, it was expected he would be overtaken shortly. ee The special train was due at Springfield at 3:04 p. m. At the aver. age speed thus far maintained by Brookins, he would not arrive Loss nt 3tate Fair Grounds at Springfield until 3:23. : It was believed at this time, however, that the aviator was for a spurt at the finish of the race. Drops to 1000 Feet Chebanse, 64 miles from Chicago,’ was passed at 11:07 . later he,passed over Clifton, 69 miles from Chieago. At A further on the route, which he passed at 11:23, mrectiee of about 1000 feet. eee Danforth, 77 miles from Ch was passed at 1 eo wits at Gilman, which is the next town on his route. At D ; sended to. 0 lived at whos 400 to 200 ist.” ie Be Brookins stopped st Gilman for: sil st 11:08. “4 poeguens Nino al ef q record, toe ee a 2 ° ee ae res. ae