St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 18, 1910

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~ATHIEF 14 MILES epinied Vigilante Pursues - Hencodsp Robber Into St. Aus, Meanwhile Ex- _ hanging Shots With Fugi- - tive, Who Runs Over a: Policeman. “WILD CHASE LEADS TO DOWNTOWN ALLEY i Man in Buggy With Sacks of Fowl Finally Is Cornered - in . Washington Avenue Basement and Then He Avoids Capture. Otto L. Riek had a wild night ride ie Which ermied at 4:30 a. m. Friday after he had chased a chicken thief 14 miles , through St. Louis County and over the greater part of central St. Louis. _ Shots were exchanged and Sergt. * Michael Burke of the Magnolia Avenue - Police Station was knocked down, run over and injured by the buggy in which the thief was fleeing. Chicken thieves recently have been so active in Maplewood that ea yolunteer force of five vigilantes was formed. They took turns patrolling the suburb on horseback at night. Thursday night it was Riek’s turn. He leaped*into the saddle and left his ~ home, 7829 Lohmeyer avenue, at 10 p. m. At 1:30 a m. Riek saw a horse and buggy moving slowly along the Clayton road near the Gay estate, half a mile West of the city Mmits. . a Fires at ive, In ‘the buggy were three sacks. Riek . detected a movement in one of the ffacks and heard the cry of a captive _ Ghicken, The driver of the buggy looked ¢% ‘and. Urged bis horse into a gallop. ‘followed the buggy east on the ton road after ng two shots at Wimmanding the driver to halt. . mile further Gown the road Riek overtaken by. an automobile in Be h were George s Reid. of 463 ‘Whittier street ana two women. : “Help. @ éatch that chicken thief!” erled Riek. > en run him down,” said Reid, hand- touring car sped onwand and Rained on the buggy. But the He turned sharply road and the auto- i “unable. to make the quick turn, _ past him. | After alding in the chase for half | hour, Reid gave it up and turned his ts toward the city. Policeman Joins Pursuit. * wiv Batolcon thief turned his galloping into the right of way of the Ma- oe wi ‘electric line, and headed east ~ on Chouteau avenue. _ The chase continued on this street for hree miles to Vandeventer avenue. Here ‘Retk Saeed Sergt. Burke, who jumped ) & Wagon which was standing at the ng-rooin door of the Independent as Co.'s aes 5 and joined in the * ‘nt fired two shots after.the . “The thief fired back, then Y ‘paaith into the railroad yards. irk / headed off the buggy, jumped apie wyeen and tried to grab the ny "deliberately drove over the . who was trampled by the ree and-cut and bruised by the buggy wheel . Despite his injuries Burke con- i the chase on foot ugtil he was Jefferson and Papin ek afterwards told the ‘thief threw the three sacks ‘into an alley and tured 4 ’ is Overtaken, ° foliowed him to Pine street and a od oo astit . “1 ee A ~ & . | to Thirteenth street. After driving | x out of alleys for half an hour eon: ‘his pursuer the thief turned » followed the thief Into an alley peat of 2647 Washirigton avenue, pbedghim and pulled nim from the The ‘thief, ‘drew a initiate but Riek ok ~ Poop him and beat him over the tar it. As though stunned by the “thief staggered to a rear nt door at 2647 Washington ave- ene Bae ane fell to the floor ap- ia’ vain for police, Riek n toe ere at Beaumont and: ne | og a customer a Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service.

VOL. 63, NO. 90, ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 18 18, 1910.

7 WINDS JOKE WITH | SMOKE INSPECTORS Zephyrs, Wafting Clouds First Into County Then Into City, Defy Jurisdiction. Is the smoke from the United Rail- ways Hodiamont powerhouse city smoke or county smoke? Part of the powerhouse is in the city and part is in the county. The smoke from six ‘towering stacks shows which way the wind blows. When it blows from the west the smoke covers the Cabanne district in St. Louis and Smoke Inspector Parker gets busy. When he protests and threatens prosecution he is told by representatives of the company that the smoke comes from St. Louis Coun- ty and that the company cannot be expected to control the winds. When the breeze shifts around to the east and the smoke takes a jaunt into St. Louis County, the authorities, urged by indignant suburbanites, ask the company what it means by send- ing its smoke into the county and it replies: “Why that smoke comes. from the city. We can’t help it if the wind changes, can we?" And there you are. The Cabanne Improvement Associa- tion of which W. F. Funsten is presi- Cent has appointed a committee to determine whether it is city or county smoke and to have it suppressed. Residents of the Hodiamont district cf St. Louis County will co-operate with the committee. CHASES MAN IN PAJAMAS; CUTS OFF A POLICEMAN’S COATTAILS Armed’ With Knife, Joseph\Max- well Drives Thinly-Clad Roomer Into Street. Joseph Maxwell was tired when he went Thursday night to his room in a boarding house at 314 South Jefferson avenue. In the back yard two dogs were howling. Maxwell couldn't sleep on account of the noise and he deter- mined to stop it. With avlong knife ‘Maxwell went to Benton. W. Kleisser’s room. Kleisser is a medical student and owner of the dogs# When he refused to try to quiet them Maxwell threatened to cut his heart out and Kleisser fied. The chase led through the house and into the street. Kielsser was in his pajamas. Patrolman: Myers of the Laclede Avenue Station saw the pursuit and he stopped A asrwelh.: 4 re eee ere By that time Maxwell was so enraged that he cut the tails off the policeman’s uniform. He was fined $5 in the Cltrk Avenue Palice Court Friday for disturb- ing coi. and $25 for resisting arrest. INSANE FROM TRIMMING TREES ere ee eee ee Bending of Neck. While at Work Causes Softening of Brain. OVID, Mich., Nov. 18.—It has been learned that the cause of the derange- ment of John H. Cross, who died this week in an asylum for the insane at Kalamazoo, was the unnatural position | in which he had to hold his head while at his work as tree trimmer. After his death physicians discovered that the bending of his neck caused a

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GOUNTERFEITER S CAUGHT AT BAZAR WHEN GIRL COUGHS Half Dollars in Church -” Fair. PRISONER CONFESSES

Tells Detectives That He Found It Easy to Make Bad Money.

When Miss Florence Steinmann, cash- ler in the candy booth of a church ba- zar at Lemp’s Hall, coughed Thursday night, secret service operators arrested Edward J. Flood on a charge.of coun- terfeiting. The cough was a prearranged signal given by Secret Service Agents McHugh and Sommer to the cashiers of the booths at the bazar’ dollars had been passed Tuesday night, and Wednesday evening Summers and McHugh, who had been summoned, waited in vain for the cough, although, it subsequently developed, four counter- feit half dollars were passed that even- ing. Flood bought a 10-cent wheel filled with candy, and gave a half dollar. As soon as Miss Steinmann glanced at it she gave the signal. Sommer was not far away, and he began edging toward the booth, picking up McHugh with his eyes as he went. Makes a Bolt. Flood became suspicious, and with- cut waiting for his change made his way to'a window. As he was about tu raise it McHugh caught him and turned him sharply about. One of Filood’s hands was clasped. “What have you got there?” McHugh demanded. “None of your business,’ torted. McHugh pried the hand open and found five half dollars, all bad. He and Sommer took their prisoner out of the hall without attracting attention from more than half a dozen persons. Fiood is a horséshoer and lives at 2618 South Tenth street. Recéntly he patent- ed @ per. . After his experiments with these met- als, Flood icld McHugh, counterfeiting seemed simplicity. itself, and he made some molds in his blacksmith shop. He said he passed two half dollars Tuesday evening and four Wednesday. He was arrested after passing his first Thurs- day evening. All were passed at the bazar given by the Church of the As- sumption at Lemp’s Park. Destroyed Molds. When McHughit asked Flood where his molds were, he replied that he had destroyed them Thursday after- noon, because he was dissatisfied with them. He used a combination ef sink, lead and block tin for his coins. Flood’s bond was fixed at 8500 by United States Commissioner Stanton Flood re-

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Mae re after he had waived preliminary hear- ing. Testimonial perienced merchants of St. Louis een testing the value of the St. Louis newspapers for over quarter of a cen- tury have found that their announcements in the POST-DISPATCH cover all of the homes of St. Louis and suburbs, and result in prompt sales of their merchandise. : This fact was never better illustrated than their advertising copy yesterday, Thursday, when these home mer- 110 Columns f display advertising in the POST-DIS- PAT alone, while they were content with 116 Columns in all of the four other St. Louis newspapers, namely, the Globe-Democrat, Republic, and Star, ADDED TOGETHER. This continuous practical evidence of the er of a daily newspaper is un- oe ay ae! any other metropolitan oe: in the ted States. Advertising that grows pays. Advertising that pays stays. =. imes “First in Everything” Trapped While Passing Bad Worthless half IMAN SEALED ALIVE IN TRUNK IN 1902. BUDY JUST FOUND Waiter Who Left Grewsome Baggage at New York Rooming House Sought. VICTIM ASPHYXIATED

Is Believed to Have Been a Roommate of: William Lewis, the Suspect.

By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. YORK, Nov. 18.—The autopsy held today by Coroner’s Physician Le- hahe and Prof. John A. McAllister es- tablished that the nude body, found in a trunk last night at 450 West Fifty-fourth street, that of a man. was Although the corpse had been in the trunk for more than eight years, the murderer's precaution in placing it in a hermetically sealed case of zinc and plaster of paris resulted in its pre- servation to an extent to allow the experts to describe the victim as he appeared in life. —- | From a part of the tissue of the left lung it was found that the man was still alive when put in the trunk. The cause of leath was asphyxiation. It igs impossible -to determifie whether poi- son was administered to bring about a stupor. There are no outward marks of violence and death was not preceded by choking The assumption is that the murdéred man was the roonimate of Wiliam Lewis, a waiter, the owner 6f the trunk. The fact that the body was clad in a night shirt indicates the man wag killed tn his room. Waiter’s Name on Trtink. The police are ooking for William Lewis, a waiter whose name is painted on the trunk, and ‘qo whom it belonged eight years ago. All that is known about the man is that before he dropped out of sigh‘ severa! years ago he was frequently scen in the company of a woman named Winten. When the trunk was-forced open late yesterday afternoon the body was found to be lying on its left side. Both arms had been crossed over, and the legs bent back like the closed blades of a jack knife. Apparently the limbs had been tied when the body was forced into the trunk, but the cords had dropped off. The trunk, which is of the cheapest type, had a zinc inner case, a most unusual thing for trunks of its kind, and the police believe it was built to | hide the crime. The selection of zinc for the inner case indicates careful thought, as any other metal would have yielded to the corrosive effects of the acids from the body. Sealed With Plaster of Paris. After the body had been jammed intvu the case, a zinc cover was found over it. As a last precaution, the case was hermetically sealed with plaster of paris so as to prevent the escape of betray- ing odors. Philip Meagher is the man who opened the ‘trunk .yesterday, and thus stumbled over the mystery. The “W. Lewis,” whose name is printed on it, was his boarder when he lived with his family in another part of the city. When the Meaghers moved into 40 West Fifty-fourth street they brought the trunk along, although Lewis had left nearly a year before. They put the trunk in the cellar, ex- pecting their former boarder, who had left without paying his board bill, would return for it some day. Seven years ypassed and all the while the trunk stood in a corner in the basement without anyone opening it. Tenants of the house threw bundles of paper and other rub- bish on it, and the janitor, whose name is Heidenreich, asked that it be taken out of the way. Yesterday afternoon Meagher. went down into the basement and decided to open the trunk and see if it contained some clew to his former boarder’s whereabouts, or, at least, the name of some relative to whom it might be sent. Alarmed When Lid is Lifted. He removed the rubbish which clut- tered the top of the trunk, untied the straps over the hasps and then tried to raise the lid. But this proved to be no easy matter, and he caHed Helden- rich tu help. The two men tugged away at the lid, and when it yielded to their ‘efforts, part of the plaster of paris lifted, disclosing the top of the zinc case. Alarmed, the two men made no fur- ther effort to open the trunk, and Meagher hastened around t6 the West Forty-seventh Street Station and told Lieut. O'Neill of his suspicions. Word was sent to the Fourth Branch .of the Detective Bureau and to the Coroner's office. When Coroner Winterbottom arrived Lieut, McKinney and detectives were waiting for him in the basement. The plaster of paris was shattered with an ax and the zinc lid pried off, disclosing the trunk’s grewsome contents. Four newrepapers, which had been spread on top of thé lid of the sinc case, three of them of the date of April 17, 1002, and the other April 20, 1902, were Subjected to close scrutiny, but they contained nothing which would throw light on the mystery except, pos- sibly to fix the approximate date when the body was hidden. | After the trunk had been taken to the aol

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— WHICH PVERE DAMAGED AND ENGINE. THAT - BxPL 208° FE RECONGILED 10 HUSBAND BY THEIR MINISTER After They Make Up, C. H. Apple Says Woman Was Jealous of First Wife. ne 7”

Mrs. Anna Dlizabeth Apple and her husband, Charles. H. Apple, cashier of the Aetna Life Insurance Co., were rec- onciled Friday, less than 24 hours after Mrs. Apple filed suit for divorce, al- leging cruelty. The reconciliation was brodght about by the Rev. Charles M. Hawkins, pastor of the Lafayette Park Methodist Church, of the Board of Governors of which Apple is a member. Husband and wife met in the pastor's after a conference lasting more than an hour Mrs. Apple agreed to instruct her attorneys to withdraw the divorce petition. Says She Was Jealous of Dead. “Time alone will tell whether this means a reawakening of the 61d love,” said Apple to reporters after the con- ference. “As matters now stand, we have made a business Things went~ worse there because there were too many rela- tives living in one house.” In her petition Mrs. Apple charged that her husband choked her, threw clothes brushes'and knives at her, and on one occasion held her while one of his women relatives beat her. On leaving the conference Mrs. Apple would make no statement except that she would return to her mother’s home and remain there until arrangements are completed for her and her husband to go to housekeeping again. Shortly after noon Mrs. Apple’s at- torney, H. \R. Small, withdrew the di- vorce petition, explaining to the Circuit Court that the couple had -been recon- ofled. JURY SENTENCES POLICY MAN TO 3 YEARS IN PENITENTIARY Edward A. Hilton must serve three years in the penitentiary for having established a policy game, unless the Supreme Court sets aside the verdict rendered by a jury in Judge Hitchcock’s division of the Criminal Court Thurs- day afternoon. Hilton lives at 42 sid- ney street. 3 ’ In January, 1908, Judge Taylor in the Court of Criminal Correction fined Hii- ton $3000 on three counts of policy-writ- ing and sent him to the workhouse. He served five months and was then re- leased on his promise that he never again wonld éngage in the policy bust- ness. On May 19 last Detective Wells and the gambling squad raided Hillton’s home and found him writing policy. They also found a quantity 6f policy paraphernalia in his room. The jury which convicted Hiiton spent two hours

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SS Mrs. Vanderbiitts Daughters Hurt. NEW YORK, Nov. 18.—Barbara ang Margaret - Rutherford, mat sys of Mra. Willlam kK. Vanderbilt. slightly injured today when ial oe au- }tomobile smashed into.a fence just outside the satrance to the Vander- bilt estate, Ix at Oakdale.

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mene AGED FATHER DIES IN ABIECT POVERTY Parent of Physician Await- a Charity Ward. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Nov. 18.—Myron H. Crippen, the aged father of Dr. Hawley H. Crippen, under sentence of death in London for the murder of his wife, died today in this city, friendless and penniless. His death, due to the infirmities of age, was hastened by grief over his son’s crime. Crippen’s father, who was 80 years old; died in a reap, - house and the ohly person at his bedside was the proprietress. Hawley Crippen, a son of Dr. Crippen, was with hjs grand- father during the night, buf left be- fore death ‘came. ; Dr. Crippen was th. sole support of his aged father and since the son's flight from London with Ethel Leneve and. his arrcst in Canada some months ago, no. remittances had’ come. Facing actual starvation, Crippen’s father was saved by a few persons whom he had come to know during his residence in Los Angeles. The landlady of the rooming house gave him a room ard a restaurant kéeper at whose place he’ had been accustomed to buy his meals supplied them free. WEATHER MAN CAN SEE NO STORMS IN ST. LOUIS ZONE; TEMPERATURE THE SAME The aietneitdenteeen:. 11 a,

Yesterday's Temperatures, "s 7 40 at 4 p. Mm. 26 at 5 a. m. “Would you please be kind enough to move forward so as to provide room and comfort for other passengers?” said the conductor. , “Pardon me for disturbing you.” “With pleasure,”’ replied the strap- hanger. “By the way, here’s my nickel.’ I would feel bad all day if you failed. to col- lect my fare.’”’ “Thank you,” said the con- . @uecter. “Your though tfulness ‘ @oes you credit.’ “And while I think of it,” said the passenger, “I want to congratulate you on the warmth and excellent ventilation

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DROPS DEAD IN GAR TALKING TO HIS GRANDCHILD Morris Flack Expires After Joyful Greeting to His Son’s Family.

orris ‘Flack 6f 180 North ‘Sarah t was vastly’ pleased when he met Mrs. Walter J. Waite and her daughter, Marian, at the Union Station Thursday night. Mrs. Waite is the wife of his son, former Coroner here, now living at Bourbon, Mo, Mr. and Mrs. Flack took the‘ visitors with his little granddaughter. He told her about a little girl who lived next door to him, who would be a fine play- mate for her, and then he told net: about his parrot. The -grandfather was in the undint of an animated description ‘of the ~arrot’s mplishments when suddenly he gasped and fell over against the little girl. Marian was frightened and her grandfather « body. was heavy, so that she .cried out. Died ia the Car. other passengers lifted Flack’s body he apparently was dead. The car was run to Sarah street, where the body was taken into a grocery and thence to the city hos- pital, but Flack was dead when he got there. Apdplexy waa the cause. Mrs. husband seemed in excellent health when he left home, and that he had: never before had such a seizure. He ark

When &randdaughter, who was his favorite, and Mrs. Flack thought ft possibile that the joy of seeing her again might have had something to do with the attack. : Flack wis 70 years old. Tn. fune- ral will take place Saturday from the home to Bellefontaine Cemetery. EVER SEE SIX HORSES 60 OVER A FENCE TOGETHER? Remarkable Photograph of dees Chase to Delight Thousands - Next Sunday. Six horses and their red-coated riders going over a fence all at once, the most spirited and remarkable photograph of its kind ever taken, is certainly worth looking at. This pic-

Flack said Friday that. her} nk and t the. Felt for the R: Ra Mires eral Inj Gasoline in Blows Up and.One Re Is That Dynamite ’ _ Also Set Of Originated at New Sewer é — Three hundred dwellings in Map = and Greenwood were shaken, the ations of some were cracked onda windows In many agreed the entire suburban forar of more than a mile was aroused t terrific explosion which occurred at 8 is a.m. Friday in an engine shed at Tene — nyson and Canterbury avenues. pe rt only persons injured were several t dren, who were cut by broken glass. Dynamite, said to have been sto near the gasoline engine in the sh believed to have been the cause of t damage.. The contractors in ch r who are excavating for a sewer to tis River Des Peres, denied that was the cause, and said that @ of gasoline formed the only ¢ matter stored in the shed~ Elea ‘Williams, the itil gineer who was in chatge of pate horsepower engine, was detained by ¢ Mounted Distriet on He said th he could not explain the | aty: a ‘shed. at. tho t was away the mi ; war used to compress alr € m1 % ~ + ae ea Ci. wd : ss pe: : The engine a rock art. ? ‘ He kon Earthquake, is A panic f Nowed th the blast, meu per - sons believing that. an 1 oceurred. “The pupils of the Cant School, occupying a portable pull near the scene of the just taken their seats when the ¢: In neighborhoods so far away | the blast was hardly heard, dows were rattled and glasses and ¢ re | Lindenwood melabaebiate: city iimits, and from MoCausland 4 nue, north of the tracks of the chester line. The eogine shed was block south of the Missourt Pas M. Hohner and John Davis, on | — sides of Canterbury avenue, near ¢ engine shed. Both, according to liam Hunting, a neighbor who ts in’ th ture was taken at one of the meets! . of a fashionable hunting club in the East where riding to hounds In pur- suit of a fox is yet & popular pastime every fall Printed the full width of a page| with every detail shown as

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