St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 16, 1910

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ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, 1910.

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CRAMER PAID WIFE ND. 1 310,000 FOR GETTING DIVORCE She Testifies, Before Suit for $5000 More Is Dismissed, That Decree Was to Per- mit Banker and Politician’ to Wed Another and Be- come Beau Brummel. MADE UP HIS MIND JUST LIKE NAPOLEON € Had Pictures of oman Framed for d That He Said ways Had a Bot- tle of Whisky and Siphon. Mrs. Annie Cramer's suit for $5000 against her former husband, F. Er- rest Cramer, president of the Broad- way National Bank and former City Councilman, was dismissed Wednes- day in Judge Withrow’s court by her lawyer. The suit was On a promisory note given to Mrs. Cramer before the di- verce was granted. She testified and Cramer set forth in an answer to her suit that it was part of $15,000 be agreed to pay her to divorce him. Mrs. Cramer at 2:30 p. m. again filed the sult through her attorneys, Robert & Robert. The petition is the same as the origina! one, the action being to col- lect on the $5000 note which, she the court, hes long sines feeured. Cramer remtfied soon after the di- vorce, tis bride having been assistant te & California photographer. They are eonspiouous in South Side society, and thé seoond Mrs. Cramer takes an active interest in the Baturday and Sunday Association and other chari- cae ty Gideitat We toe O. Cramer Co., in addition to his bank- “He was a candidate for ! her suit Nov: 16 of that , charging that her husband was table and tyrannical, and that a before that time he had transferred bis affections to another woman, mani- extreme indifference to his wife. In Cramer's first answer to his wife's suit on the note he set up the defense that they had agreed the note was not to be paid untill afier the death of his father, who is still living. Subsequently he filed an amended answer, in which this de- fense was repeated, and it was also “ptated: And for.further defense this de- fendant states that the consideration for which this note was given was as follows: The defendant gave said note to the plaintiff, who was then his wife, as part of a consideration of $15,000 givey to her to induce her to institute suit for divorce and to recover a decree of divorce; it being further agreed that the defendant should not contest the sult and that said note should be held in escrow until such decree was obtained, and to be returned to defendant in the event plaintiff failed to obtain such decree. Wherefore the defendant says that the consideration for which said note was given wae illegal, and therefore said note is void and unenforceable. The note was mude payable five years after date, and the first Mrs. Cramer did not file suit on it until 1908. She is now living at the Hyde Park Hotel in Chicago, and her dep- osition was taken there. She re- » fused to sign it. Rassieur and Sehnurmacher, repre- senting Cramer, contended that the divorcee’s unwillingness to sign the deposition was due to the fact that she had admitted the truth of the defense, and moved that she be com- pelied to sign it or that the case be out of court. When Judge Withrow indicated Wednesday that ,he would sustain this motion, BE. W. Robert, representing the first Mrs. Cramer, dismissed the suit. In her deposition Mrs, Crame, testi- “fied that at her husband’s request she Be i ‘i had pictures of the other woman framed

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STOLE 400 CENTS, TRIAL LASTS 45 MINUTES, HE GETS 2 YEARS Cornelius Bell, Negro, Gets Quick Action in United States District Court. Forty-five minutes after he was placed on trial Wednesday morning. Ccrnelius Bell, a negro, was convict- ed before Judge Dyer in the United States’ District Court of stealing 400 pennies and .was sentenced to serve two years. #n tke Pederal prison at -eavenworth, Kan. Bell robbed the postoffice substa- tion in a news store at 2822 Manches- ter avenue, Oct. 4. When Miss May Austin, who had charge of the sta- tion, stooped under a counter to get change for a $65 bill for him, Bell grabbed a. box containing the gov- ernment money from the. counter. Miss Austin ran to one door and her mother, Mrs. Susan Austin, to an-

ontil a policeman earrtved:* W. C. Balley, also a negro, entered a plea of guilty to a charge of send- ing worthless checks to mail order houses and getting jewelry. He was sentenced to serve three years in the Leavenworth penitentiary. GIRL TO WED IN CHURCH A DAY AFTER UNCLE’S FUNERAL THERE Aunt Advises Against Postpone- ment and Offers to Cook the Bridal Supper. Tn the same church where her uncle’s funeral was held Tuesddy and with the same minister officiating, Miss Lucy Schuls of Sappington, St. Loulg County, will be married-to Dr. Arthur Westrup Wednesday evening. Her uncle, Charles Schulz, died Sun- day. Invitations for the wedding were already out and it was decided not to change the plans. Before deciding to be married at the time announced, Miss Schulz asked permission of Mrs. Minnie Schuls, the uncle’s widow. “Go ahead and get married and I'll help cook the wedding supper,” said Mrs. Schulz. MOST ANYBODY CAN BUY A PORK CHOP SOON IF THIS FALLING WEATHER KEEPS UP THE TEMPERATURES.

Yesterday's Temperatures. .87 at 12 (midnight) at € a. m., Par) Te ots ie BUTCHER Rt- buy one,”’ said the Dota PRIC stationer. ° “J thought you said you couldn't afford it,’’ replied the paperhanger. “I was afraid I couldn't, but they're getting cheaper now, and nearly everybody is planning to buy one."’ “Are you going to get a runabout or @ touring car?’ “I should say not. I .wasn’t talking about an automobile.”’ “What then?’

Missouri—Unsettled weather, with probably rain or snow tonight or Thursday. lilinote-Partiy cloudy, with rain or snow eho eaten bef gree

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STUDENT, MADE MAD BY HAZING, DIES IN ASYLUM Parents Declare That Their Son Was Injured While at College. IS DENIED College President Says Stu- dent Acted Queerly Before He Was Taken Ill. Special to the Post-Dispatch. COLUMBUS, 0O., Nov. 16.—Dead in a hospital for the insane at 21 years of age, from the effects of hazing, as his parents believe, the body of Charles ‘B. Schnearer was removed from the Co- lumbus State Hospital to his home in Baltic today. Death was due to pneu- monia, but Dr. Charles F. Gilliam, su- perintendent, said last evening that the young man was in a weakened condi- tion when received at the hospital, Oct. 24, and had scarcely taken any nourish- ment 4t all, so that he had no vital- ity to withs:and the disease. Schnearer was freshman ‘n the preparatory de- saieeabas sat. 7 Wittenberg College at Springfield. Attendants at the State Hospital say that from the_young man’s talk, they gathered he had been subjected to a severe ordeal that had frightened him. One expressed the opinion yesterday that the youth might have been sub- jected to the water cure. College President Denies Hazing. President Charles Heckert of Witten- berg said to the Post-Dispatch this morning: “There is absolutely not the least foundation for a charge of haz- ing. I never heard of any rumor of the sort. Professor Nathan Harter has told me that there is absolutely noth- ing In the t:ory. He has charge of the academy and is in charge all night as proctor of the boys’ dormitory where Schnearer roomed.’’’ President Heckert said that young Schnearer had been acting queerly for some days before he was seized with. acute iliness about four weeks agu, when he collapsed. Dr. Heckert said that the boy’s studies, particularly his geometry had caused him great worry. This is borne out by the students who were NA+: PAGAEOR- AERLORAONEIDE. far..2.. conceal her son from her husband. said that one ticular problem ffi plafif geometry had been much on his mind. Schnearer is said to have remarked a day or two before his collapse that he had work- ed out seven methods of demonstra- tion, SAVANTS TO EXAMINE THE MOON WHILE ECLIPSED, FOR VOLCANO Phenomenon to Take Place Wednesday Evening Between 5:54 and 6:46. A total eclipse of the moon will be visible in St. Louis between 5:54 and 6:46 p. m., Wednesday, weather per- mitting. It will be after 8 p. m. be- fore the satellite passes completely out of the earth’s shadow. At the request of the British As- tronomical Association, its members all over the world will use the oppor- tunity to observe dAristarchus and Proclus, two brilliant specks on the moon’s surface which some scientists believe to be live volcanoes. Others assert that they are extinct volca- noes, and that their radiance is due to the reflection of the sun’s light from glassy beds of lava about their craters. Father Martin 8S. Brennan is the St. Louis correspondent of the English society. RABBIT SEASON IS OPENED; TWO MEN KILLED, SIX SHOT Majority of the Victims Were Wounded Accidentally by : Their Companions. CLEVELAND, O., Nor. 16.—Two men were killed gnd six seriously injured yesterday as the result of the open- ing of the rabbit shooting season. One of the dead and five of the wounded were accidentally shot by comrades. John Hoffman, 21 years old, of Mans- field, ©., was killed by Harry Bride, acompanion. Homer Yankie, 15 years old, of Elmville, O., fell while climb- ing a fence and a gun was exploded, mortally wounding him. . Albert Beck- er of Canal Dover, who was accident- ally shot by his brother, probably will die. John Fox, a farmer, was accidentally shot and killed by his 16-year-old brother-in-law, James . Holverstott, today while they were rabbit hunting.

Ripe Strawberries in Massachusetts. GLOUVESATER, Mass., Nov. 16.—While wandering about The Ramparts, at Eastern Point, today, Joseph Nught found a, bed of ripe strawberries and several roses in fuil bloom. Almost a full quart of strawberries was picked from the vines in the vicinity.

BOSTON, Mass.. Nov. 16.—-The su<«- cessful campaign of Eugene N. Foss, the Democratic candidate for Governor,

[FATHER GUARDS CHILD ALL NIGHT: MOTHER OUTSIDE After Trying to Kidnap | Son. BOY IN A SCHOOL Each Wants Possession of the Child. An all-night siege at the Mission Mrs. Daisy Martin of East St. Louis, assisted by her mother, Mrs. James K. Hubbard of Winkle, Il, detective, to kidnap her 5-year-old son, Arthur James Martédn. who had been placed there by his father, Arthur G. Martin, who separated from Mrs. Mar- tin three weeks ago. Martin was on guard all night fn the reception room of the institution. Mrs. Martin and her mother and the detective stayed on watch on the outside to pre- vent Martin from taking the child to an- other hiding place... A policeman, sum- moned from the Newstead Avenue Sta- tion by Matron wolkewitz, stayed in the house from ll p. m. until morning to prevent a disturbance of the peace. Taxis Kept Handy. Both sides kept taxicabs standing at the curb all night, Martin in the hope of being able to gel away with the child and his w.fe for the purpose of pursu- ing him if he made any such attempt. Mrs. Mariin is the woman who, on Sept. 29, 1908, horsewhippecd S. M. Litt- real, an insurance agent, on the Belle- ville public square, with the assistance of her husband, because of his alleged attempts to force his attentions upon her. Littreal, on Oct. 7, this year, ob- tained a divorce from Mrs. Emma Litt- real on the ground ihat she had bruised his shins w'th the heels of his own shoes and had sabjected him to other cruel usage. Tuesday evening she and her mother, a detective and a man relative dnéve to the vicinity of the home in a taxi- cab. Mrs. Martin and one of the men went to the door. Mrs. Martin told the and a private -POLIGEMEN KEPT

BUSY CHASING 3 HOGS IN STREET Mrs. Martin. Keeps Up Siege One, Hypnotized by Trolley Head Light, Lies in the Track. LOST BY A BUTCHER |

Parents Are Separated and Porkers Are Corralled in Po- lice Station and Held for , Owner. | A hog—not of the end-seat variety— Free School, 369 North Taylor avenue, ' held up a Natural Bridge line owl\car followed an unsuccessful attempt of! at Seventh and Carr streets in the heart of’ Wednesday. Patrolman Roland heard the mo- torman frantically sounding his gOng and ran to the corner. The car was stopped and lying in the trick in front of it was a 400pound porker, which was grunting - and giaring ee at the electric head- light. Roland srihiniin tall, the Ghetto at 8 a. m., the He the hig by but couldn't budg¢ it.

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Wolkewitz remarked that there was a little boy in the house who had been placed there by his father to conceal him from his mother. Mrs. Martin ex- pressed a wish to be shown over the home. As the matron started to comply, telephone bell rang. “My wife and de- tectives are coming there to take my boy’ away,” shouted Martin over the wire. “I will be there in five minutes and take him away.” Father Arrives. Mrs. Wolkewitz divined that her vis- itor was Mrs. Martin and requested her to leave. A few minutes later Martin whirled up to the home in an automo- bile and ran into the building. The great excitement under which he was labor- ing was somewhat allayed when. he found that the boy was still there. The horsewhipping of Littreal firs¢ brought Mrs. Martin into prominence. Littreal was called from a banquet to the telephone by Mrs. Martin, who asked him to meet her at a drug store en the Public Square. According to her state- ment at the time, he protested that the drug store was rather a public place and suggested that they meet in front of the Firet M. EB. Church on First street. He, however, met her at the drug store and as they started to walk away together she drew a whip from the folds of her umbrella and slashed him across the face, exclaiming: “You will hound me, will you.” Husband Appears. Her husband stepped from a doorway and attacked Littreal with a knotted quirt, exclaiming: “You will love my wife to death, will you,’ alluding to language he alleged Littreal had used in a letter to Mrs. Martin. Littreal attempted to protect himself with his raised umbrella and it was cut to ribbons by the whistling whips. The combatants were finally separated by bystanders. MEMBERS OF SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION MASSACRED VICTORIA, B. C., Nov. 16°—A mys- tery of 14 years concerning the fate of the Austrian scientific expedition from the ship Albatross in the Solo- mon Islands, is cleared up by the finding of the skeletons of the expe- dition in the Solomon Islands. The discovery was made by Dr. Northcott Deck of the South Sea Evangelical Mission. News of the discovery of the skeletons of the party in the Albatross was received by the steamship Zeelandia from Australia. The expedition from the Albatross was headed by Baron von Norbeck and included Lieut. Budick, Midship- man DeBeaufort and nine sailors. Dr. Deck found evidences of a mas- ‘pacre on Tatuve Island and from the natives learned the details. The Austrians, according to the na- tives’ tale, were surprised by the bla¢éks. Baron von. Norbeck was tomahawked by a savage who crept up behind him, The sailors fought the

punched st with his night-stick, but pork was down to stay. “I think the light hypnotized him,”; saiq the policeman: “Turn it out.” Hog Wakes ‘Up. The motorman’ obeyed and the ef- fect was magical. The hog came out of its trance and ran north on Seventh street. Roland: followed. North to Biddle street ran the porker, then west to Eighth street and south two blocks to Wash street. Ro- 7 llang headed it back and it ran right into the police station at Tenth and Carr streets. “What's he charged with?’ Desk Sergeant O’Connor. “Speeding, I think,’’ replied Roland, mopping his brow. When an effort was made to put the hog in the holdover it backed out to the sidewalk. Mickey Breen, telephone boy, got a clothes line and tried to lasso it. After 15 minutes of hard work, Roland, O’Connor and Breen drove the hog into a blind alley next to the station and made it a prisoner. Another Hog Appears. Roland went back t6 his beat. Meet- ing Patrolman Moynihan and Halloran, he said: “T don’t want another job like that. I’ve been chasing a hog for, an hour.” As he spoke another hog came si tt around the corner. After chasing it for half an hour the three policemen caught it and dragged it to the station. They were resting after their exer- tions when they saw a third hog ambling down Carr street and they had to do it all over again. This. time they chased the porker around three blocks before he dropped ex- hausted on the steps of a synagogue Three hours later the hogs were claimed by Joe Giliberto, a butcher of 711 Wash street, who said they es- caped from the yard in the rear of his shop. 2,700,876 LIVE IN INDIANA New Census Shows an Increase of 184,414 Inhabitants. WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.—The popu- lation of Indiana is 2,700,876, accord- ing to the census made public to- day. This is an increase of 184,414, or, 7.2 per cent over 2,516,462 in 1900. Yhe increase from 1899 to 1900 was 324,068, or 14.8 per cent. asked

Buys Grave Pilot and Ends Life. BLOOMINGTON, Ill., Nov. 16.—Yes./ terday Christ. Frederick, a retired farmer, bought a cemetery lot and monument ang mailed a check to an undertaker with instructions to find his body on the lot. Frederick wag found lying on the lot today with 4 bullet In hig brain..

_GMRTHUVR GF MARTIN. GIRL GETS $5000 FOR KINDNESSES 10 AGED WOMAN Sténographer Is Remembered in Will of Mrs. Elizabeth L. Devinney.

: / Little kindnesses which Elina Klien, as a girl of 14,.did for her aged neigh- bor, Mrs. Elizabeth L. Devinney, caused a stenographer in Muskogee, Ok., to receive a bequest of $5000 from the De- vinney estate. The estate is being settled, and Miss Klein, who is an orphan, received her share a few days ago. She has an- nounced that she intends to invest the money in a home. Six years ego Miss Klein lived in the next house to Mrs. Devinney’s resi- dence at Grant and Big Bend roads, near Glendale, St. Louis County. Mrs. Devinney, who was then 82 years old, ‘became verv fond of the girl, and the latter showed an unselfish willingness to. perform such services as reading to the aged woman and going on errands for her. ; Mrs. Devinney died nearly two years ago. The girl had in the meantime gone to Oklahoma to make her own living She was notified, some time after the (death of Mrs. Devinney, that she had been remembered in the will, but she did not suppose the remembrance was more than some article of personal property, as a keepsake. | s few days ago she opened a second letter from Morris D. Clary, executor of the estate, and was surprised to und a draft for $6000, with the state- ment that it was her shkre of the prop- erty. Mrs. Devinney left her. $75,000 estate

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3 DAYS A WEEK UBLY IS LEFT OUT

-| despaired of cramming -such § feet the young woman, now 20 years old and . ¥ "hd a \ Ss “SD Brides married hereafter in Clavton on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays may have “he ceremony. performed ro- ymantically in rhyme, but will be re- quired to take the vow of obedience to their lords and masters. But those who consent to bé married fn mere prose on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat- urdays Wid be compensated by the omission of the promise to obey their husbands. Poetic. Justice Werremeyer .did not conceive, when-he agreed to divide the marriage business at the county’s Gret- na’Green among alternate days, that his new colleague, Arthur D, Willeck- en, would be so enterprising as to of- fer a bonus for prose marriages—the bonus being exemption from the connw bial promise to obey. He Woos the Muse, In dismay, Werremeyer retreated to his study and wooed the muse for re- inforcements. The divine afflatus refused to afflate. The’ justice-bird could think of no rhyme: for bonus .evcept Honus, and AS those attached to the Pittsburg short- shopt into sentimental rhythm. He fears that Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays will find Clayton a deserted village, so far as brides. go, while the other days of the week will draw bar- gain-sale, crowds to the matrimonial counters; of Justice Willecken. The latter’s coup, he admits, was not deliberately planned by. himself, but had its origin with his wife. Monday night, in preparation for wedding a couple Tuesday, his first day in office, Willecken spent two hours at his home in memorizing the marriage ceremony, When he had mastered it, he ae it to. his ‘wife. “Leave out the word obey,” she ete: “Only slaves and prisoners obey.” “When you and I were married, I promised to obey you. Nevertheless, we have lived happily 13 years. But all men are nut as good as you are.” To himse.f. Willecker says, he reflect- ed that although his wife had promised to obey him, she had never done so. He decide! that the wifely vow of obedience isn’t of much use anyhow. So he replied: “Very well, dear, I will leave the monies.’’

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2 a de OF MARRIAGE YOW But if You Are Married in Rhyme the Obey Is word ‘obey’ out of my marriage cere- THIEVES GET “$15,000 IN GEMS! :

They Pay Jeweler $500 and nes ing Schoolgirl Only Li ing Child of the St. Lou Multimillionaire. PARENTS AT. ‘WHEN DEATH C Miss Lois, a Papi in a at a i- vate are ve a Conn., Had ee. Sum a victoria, with an atte! Campbell family coacaman. - z-o= fort. which money and could supply. was , his, but his was incurable, ee His parents have been at ‘néme, tending him. closely, since his ‘condt tion became acute seyeral days’ ago.” Tuesday it was seen that he’ was a ing rapidly, and a jelegram was, t to Miss Lois Campbell to come horr.* 2 She is a pupil in u private wrhoor dt Greenwich, Conn, é She replied that she would leave at once, and .s expectea to reach St. Lodls Wednesday right. At the hume it was stated Wednes- day that arrangements for the funeral had not been made. The burial will be in St. Louw The young man's home had been at the Westmoreland place mansion since it was purchased by his father from Vera Lawrence Siegrist, granddaughter of Dr. J. J. Lawrence. The millionaire physician had built the house as a home for his daughter and her child; who was known as the richest of St. Louis phn Pa Made His ae Sn Here, The Campbell fortune, to which Miss Lois wiil become heiress, was made in St. Louis and the Southwest. James Campbell a. railroad surveyor on the pres = ent Frisco System, and engaged ih — Te land buying and later, in the purchase ~~ of county bonds in Southwest ; sourl. He entered the stock and bona business. in St. Louis in 1876, his me bition being to make $100,000. ae He invested in street ns and #

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began in the. sixties as