St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 6, 1911

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BURGLARS BREAK DRILL IN SAFE IN HASTE TO ESCAPE Detectives Called to Offices of Perry-Whiting Pie Com- pany, Refuse to Tamper With Damaged Cash Re- ceptacle, Fearing Nitro- glycerin. DELAY CAUSED UNTIL AN EXPERT ARRIVES He Is Successful in Picking Lock After Tumblers Had Been Disarranged—Ma- rauder Was Heard on the Second Floor of Building. There was need for cash at the be- ginning of business Monday in the of- fice of the Perry-Whiting Pie Co., 1008 Dillon street, and John W. Gillespie, the secretary, started to open the safe. He couldn't turn the knob of the combina- tion. lock, and on closer inspectio. lre saw that a hole had been drilled beside it. . There was $350 in the safe Saturday ‘tight, when the office was closed, and “the money was needed. The officials of “the company held council, and decided ¢-ask help from the police. Chief Young sent Detective Kaiser to the of- fice, “Just drill into the safe,’’ suggested frank C. Whiting, vice-president of the -ompany, when he arrived. ‘Not for me,’’ said Kaisér. ‘There may be ‘soup’ in that hole.”’ Soup is slanyx for nitroglycerin. ‘Woull Blow Up Safe. Whiting hadn't thought of that. tillespie came to his rescue with a ov Spestion. “Suppose we put some 7 eas “under it, touch off the fuse and get fur énough away to be safe,” he said. Whiting did not like the sugges- tion.” He thought the damage to the office and the safe might be consid- erably more than $350. And he was not sure there was any money in the safs, anyhow. To gain time and think the matter over, Kaiser made a round of the pull@ifig. He found that an insecure window on the second floor over- looking a seoond-story porch of tie dwelling adjoining. It was there the burglars had entered. A foramen for the company told him that, eiMering the place at 5 a. m., Sunday, he heard footateps on the second floor, but did not see anybody. Kaiser concluded that this foreman had frightened the men away. Expert Opens Door. The officials decided they had bet- ter tall an expert from the Hall Safe Co. When he arrived he found that ‘part of the steel auger remained in ‘the drilled hole, and it was apparent that the burglars, in the haste of their departure, had broken it off. The expert romoved it, drilled five, minutes, and picked the tumblers in- ‘side the safe, so that the door swung open. The foreman had arrived in time to prevent the robbery. ‘The money was found untouched,

SLAYER HAUNTED TWELVE - YEARS BY CRIME GIVES UP = New York Police Wire to Ken- ‘tucky and Hear He Is Wanted for Mysterious Murder. Wire From the New York Rureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Feb. 6.—A man who said he was King McNamara, formerly of = by memories of a crime, surrendered to the police last night. He said he - kitied a man in Lexington 12 years ago and that a reward of $10,000 had been . offered for his arrest. A telegram was _ fhiet of Police J. J. Regan replied: sent to Lexington. _ "King McNamara wanted here for February, 18%. Hold. Wil! send man.”’ MeNamara said he had traveled all __ over the country in the 12 years, eluding ‘pursuers, but not his conscience. “I'm Bick of it,” he said. ay The cause of the murder of Kelier by ‘McNamara, each about 19 years old, ac- _ cording to dispatches from Lexington, ” was a& mystery, although it was said it followed some trouble in a secret so- @lety. Since. McNamara disappeared, es two of his brothers, Jady and Thomas, “ — been ‘Ruled, each shot fn a quarrel, 3s "SHEEHAN STILL HAS 66 VOTES gel York Legislature Keeps

og Over Senatorial Contest. Y, N. Y¥.,. Feb. 6—The seven- Eotees oF United States Reneter ICITY CLERKS IN UNWASHED CLASS Janitor Has No Money to. Buy Soap; Many Bring Their Own to Work. The city hall is soapless. The appropriation to provide soap for toilet rooms is exhausted and Janitor Shaffner says it will require $17.75 to buy enough to last until another appro- priation is made in April. He hasn't been able to get the money from St. Louis thus far. City Comptroller Taus- sig says that when a requisition made out in Gue form is presented to him he will think about it. Meanwhile clerks in the Recorder's office are carrying their own soap to work with them every morning, as there is none except in the Mayor's office and in the Council and House of Dele- gates rooms, supplied by contingent funds. F ST, CHARLES HAPPY OVER THE PROSPECTS FOR HAPPY MAYOR Henry C. Happy Probably Will Be Happy to Be Candidate for the Office. Happy will be; the man who runs for Mayor in St. Charles this spring. He Is Happy now and will continue to be Happy whether he is elected or not. One reason he is Happy is that he was born that way. Another is that he owns a brewery and a third is that a large number of residents of St. Charles think well enough of him to Insist that he be- come the city’s chief executive officer. Petitions already are being circulated for the nomination of Henry C. Happy as candidate for Mayor. Happy is one of the principal owners of Moerschel’s brewery and is a Democ.at. His party holds the balance of power’in St. Charles and it is believed that if he consents to make the race he will have a walk- over. GIRL FINED FOR SPEEDING SAYS SHE HAS RUN FASTER Lena Woods, Aged 19, Arrested at 2 A. M. While Piloting Women and Two Men. Lena Woods, 19 years old, of 3697 Wlive street, was fined $20 in the Clark Ave- nue Police Court Monday for speeding an automobile and not having the rear lights burning. She was arrested at 2 a. m. Sunday at Sarah and Olive streets. Tb¥ “Patrolman: Burns of the motor cycle squad, and he testified that she was going 27 miles an hour. In the machine with her was Philip Nagel of the Chauf- feur’s School, Eleventh and Pine strets, and another man and woman. Miss Woods said she was not driving so fast as she was accustomed to. She had owned a machine two years and knew how to drive it. She formerly lived in Louisville, Ky. BEARDED CARESS COSTS HIM $10 Ben Weglan said in the Dayton Street Police Court Monday that all he did was to rub his stubby beard gently across the cheek of his divorced wife. “Honest, Judge, I didn’t do a thing but rub my cheek against hers. I hadn't shaved yésterday and my beard is kind of coarse and it made her mad. She had me arrested.”” But the divorced

over her eye, where she said he struck her, and the Judge fined him $10. The Weglans were divorced four years ago, but live in the same house at 1116 Palm street. Last summer she went to Germany and he followed and came back on the same ship with her. Ever since he has been trying to get her to re- marry him. wife, Matilda, showed a faint blue mark { SINGSFIRST SONG. [MIXER OF FANCY FOR 12 YEARS AS SHE PLANS DEATH Mrs. Berg Appears Extremely Happy Just Before Killing Herself.

HAD THRBATENED TO DIE Her Husband Was Long Dead and She Said She Wanted to Join Him. Mrs. Lena Berg was so unusually cheerful Sunday that her son, Arthur Berg, and his wife, with whom she lived at 4825 St. Louis avenue, noticed it and spoke to her about it. She went around the house singing snatches of songs that she had not sung before for many years, and when they found her at the window at 9 o'clock looking up at the new moon and the stars that shone for a moment through a rift in the clouds and asked her about it she said: “T shall soon be up there with him; he is waiting for me.”’ An hour later they heard her moaning in her room. They went in, and as soon as he entered Arthur detected the smell of carbolic acid. them away from her and said: Mrs. Berg motioned “The end is near.’’ her to the dispensary, to the hospital, much of the acid. she reached the hospital. They called an ambulance and hurried and from there but she had drunk too She died soon after She was 54 years old. Twelve years ago Mrs. Berg’s hus- band died. Before that she had a happy disposition. never seen to smile until Sunday. But after his death she was She had often talked of ending her life so she could join her husband in Heaven. Once her son an a drug store buyin his wife found her in an ounce of carbolic acid. They took it from her, and after that they watched her closely. _ Saturday she was out of the house awhile, and when she came back she was smiling, and-Sunday she was sing- ing for the first time in 12 years. MESSENGER PINNED UNDER

BURNING CAR KILLS HIMSELF

Uses Pistol When Rescuers at be roasted alive, John Whitelaw, press , messenger, Train Wreck Are Driven Back by Flames. PARIS, Ontario, Feb. 6.—Rather than an ex- shot himself dead while pinned under the wreckage of a Grand Trunk train near here late Sat- urday night. Four trainmen met death in the crash. Whitelaw always carried a revolver. Although crushed under the wreckage of his car, ‘he remained conscious and urged rescuers to extricate him, The wreck was workers were driven back, burning, however, and the leaving the express messenger to face death in the flames. all, “Tf you don’t help me soon, I'll end it ’ moaned Whitelaw. In a@ moment more there was a muffled shot. He had kept his word.

mea, A Bulletin 201 For weeks in exces tising. Globe-Democrat Republic . . . Globe-Democrat Republic . .

7 201 consecutive Sundays, gs of 3 full years, the Sun- day Post-Dispatch has led all of its St. Louis competitors in volume of adver-

= ee eo or 4) \ The Sunday Score Yesterday, Sunday, February 5th, was as follows: Post-Dispatch, 266 Columns . 180 66 122 Post-Dispatch Excess Over the Republic.......... 144 cols. Over the Globe-Democrat.....86 cols. or 118 per cent excess over the Republic 47 per cent excess over the Globe-Democrat The Want Ad Score: Post-Dispatch ._ 86 Columns 43 . 24 POST-DISPATCH excess of Want Ads over the Globe- Democrat and Republic combined 19 columns Over the Globe-Democrat:....43 columns Over the Republic............62 columns Circulation books open to all. ST. LOUIS, MONDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 6, 19114.

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DRINKS TESTIFIES FOR MRS. PICGKEL New Yorker’s Deposition in Her Behalf in- Husband’s Divorce Suit Filed Here.

MADE DINNER COCKTAILS Tells of Telephone Incident and of Fanning Her When She Played Ill for Joke. The man who names the mixed drinks will be a star witness in the divorce sult of Frederick J. Pickel against Billa Mulholland Pickel; set for trial in Judge Homer’s court Tuesday. He ‘Victor H. Stockell, a New York lawyer, ard.his deposition fn Mrs, Pickel’s behalf was filed in St. Monday. One of the questions asked of Stock- ell was: “Did the Pickels know of your fame as a mixer of drinks and of your un- Louts limited capacity te consume them?’”’

“Well,’”’ replied Stockell, ‘I named many of the most popular of the mixed! drinks at Atlantio City. Pickel sampled | them and uniformly drank them. As to! my capacity, I drink when I feel like it, but never to excess.”’ Tells of Mixing Drinks. Stockell told_of mixing one of his famous drinks, the Clover Club cock- tail, at the Planters Hotel, Feb. 8, 1910, when he had as guests at a dinner there Mr. and Mrs. Pickel, Miss Marte Horne of Keokuk, Io.; Edwin J. Milliken and Thomas H. Bramhall, both of New York, “Mrs. Pickel arrivel at the dinner late,’’ testified Stockell. ‘‘Pickel was angry and said nasty things to her when she came into the dining room. I served Clover Club cocktains for the party, but I can’t remember whether all drank them. “The men at the dinner were informed that there was to be an actress’ ball in St. Louis that night and decided to go to it. It was arranged that Mil- liken and I should take Mrs. Pickel and Miss Horne home. Then Pickel was to telephone his wife that he couldn’t get home and I was to meet him and go to the bal] with him. Says Pickel Was Jealous. “After I got home with Mrs. Pickel she became hysterical. When Pickel called up I.told him to come home as He was very angry.’”’ Pickel in his petition alleged that he called up his wife and when a man’s voice answered he hurried home. “When the Pickels were my guests in New York in 1909, Mrs. Pickel was the life of the party,’’ Stockell testified. ‘I couldn’t see why Pickel scolded and cor- rected her so much. He put a wrong construction on everything she did, he was so jealous. One evening the men of the party, including Pickel, started out to see the sights of New York. One of the men broke his gold-headed um- brella and left the party, saying he was going to get the umbrella fixed. Pickel said: ‘I’ll bet he’s going back to see my wife.’ ”’ Letter From Buxom Girl. Pickel alleged in his petition that Mrs. Pickel accepted attentions from men and permitted them to fan her. Stockell told of one fanning Incident. “The Pickels and Miss Horne were stopping at the Windsor Hotel in New York,”’ he said. “I went to visit them and Pickel met me at the station. He seemed greatly worried and sajd that his wife had appendicitis.. I went to the hotel with him. Mrs. Pickel was in bed. A rian I took to be a doctor told me to fan her. Pickel and Miss” Horne | left the room, leaving me there with Mrs. Pickel. I fanned her for awhile. Then she burst out laughing and jumped out of the bed. She was in full evening costume. Pickel and Miss Horne came in and told me they had just played a joke on me. Pickel seemed to enjoy it as much as anyone. “While we were in Atlantic City Pick- el showed me a letter which he said was from a buxom English girl in St. Louts named Ruth.” TYPEWRITER EXPERTS SEEK TO FASTEN CRIME ON RUSSIAN Letter, Written to Accused Doc- tor, Is Introduced, as Count’s. ST. PETERSBURG, Feb. 6—Medical witnesses gave way today to typewriter experts of the prosecution which seeks to connect Count Patrick O’Brien de Lassy with the murder of his brother- -in-law, Vassilli Bouturlin, by estab- lishing that the former wrote a letter on poisoning of Dr. Pantchenko, who is accused as the assassin. The witnesses were given an unused machine and also one owned by Delassy and they sought to find peculiarities in the typing of the letter in question to determine its authorship. De Lassy typed a passage from them on the new machine and also gave them a sample of his penmanship. The typewriter men were unable to agree. In a confession, since repainted, Pantehenko said that he inoculated Bauturlin with germs for money paid him by De Lassy, who wished his broth- er-in-law removed so that Countess de

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was burning of the Capitol Building reopens. the capital. adequate capitol in keeping with the greatness of HE principal objection to the transfer of the State capital from Jefferson City to a more convenient and suitable location was the State Capitol Building. It was urged that the State could not afford to lose its investments in Jefferson City. ago to bring checked with ‘The chief obstacle to the change of location has been removed and the leading argument against it MAKE ST. LOUIS THE CAPITAL! St. Louis is the metropolis of the State. It is acces- sible from all parts of the State. conveniences overtop those of any other city. has ideal sites to offer. growing State should have as a beautiful city. It should have noble structures and harmonious surroundings. advantages civilization can offer. railroad center. In all respects no city in Missouri can compare with St. Louis for capital purposes; no city can of-

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SOCCER CAPTAIN, NURED IN GAME FAINTS AT WORK “Bull” Brannigan Carried From Election Commissioners’ Of- fice Unconscious. Richard Brannigan, captain of the St. Leo’s football team, which won its fifth successive championship under his direc- tion Sunday, fainted in the Election Commissioner's office at the city hall Monday. The cause, it is believed, was an injury which he received in Sunday's game with the Innisfaiis. He told his friends that he was kicked | in the stomach. Brannigan is a clerk tn the Hleotion Commissioners’ office. His fellow workers there expected to tee him in an unusually good humor Monday because of his team’s victory by a score of 4 to 1. But when he reported for work his face was pale and drawn. “I Was kicked in the stomach at the game yesterday, and I fainted iast night,”’ he said. “Fam sick." Brannigan shortly before noon was taking dictation from Atttérney Harry Walsh, who was preparing papers to file in an election contest. Rising from his typewriter desk he said: ‘‘Mr. Walsh, I'm pretty sick.’* He staggered back and fell heavily to the floor. Election Commigsioner Blodgett and Secretary Beedle carried him to the press room, where he was ———— five minutes. Brannigan'’s friends fear the kiok in Sunday's game may have caused in- injuries. ie

CLOUDY WEATHER TONIGHT AND TUESDAY AND SOMEWHAT COLDER I$ THE FORECAST! THE TEMPERATURES. Highest Lowest

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| esterday _ bier ures. il p. m™m. 82 ae 11 a, m. The doing asked thre “What's Harue about it?’’ the man with hobble necktie. “About what?” said the one with the sheath rain- coat. “Why, about that war down in Mexico. Why doesn’t Dr. Bar- tholdt stop it?’ “Well, nobody has been hurt so far."’ “Quite true.” ‘Then why should The Hague interfere?’ "To prevent neediess slaughter. One of those fellows is apt to step on a rusty nal and die of lockiaw.” “Or get ptomaine Official forecast: from eating pto- Cloudy weather tonight and Tuesday; colder tonight, with lowest temperature about 36 de- agrees above sero. Stage of the river: 6.4 feet above sero; a fall of .6 of a foot. Tiltmote--Theatening tonight with colder tn portions; Tuesday,

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WOMAN SHOT 3. TIMES BY MAN NEAR DEATH Ambulance Is Called in a Hurry to Home on Washington Avenue, A man shot a woman thrice Monday afternoon in the home of Mrs. L. C. Lund, 2724 Washington avenue. The tele- phone message for an ambulance was to the effect that the woman probably would not live. Neither her name nor that ef the man was given. All three of the shots, it was said, took effect in the breast. The woman was taken to the city hospital Later it was learned that the man who fired the shots was lee Kennedy, 71 years old, who came to St. Louis from Canada several months ago. He es- caped. The motive was jealousy. GERMAN ARMY AVIATOR KILLED Aeroplane Drops 65 Feet to Military Field.

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EVE: EDITION - IFIRE RENEWS CAMPAIGN TO MAKE ST. LOUIS STATE CAPITAL MEETING CALLED.

Numerous Business Ors ations Will Be Represent at Mercantile Club Gath ing Monday Evening: @ Consider Suggestion of tt Post-Dispatch. Railroad and Hotel Pacilities Will Be Strong Argum for Building in St. Louk a a Replace Destroyed —— : tol.

Make St. Lonis the capital @ Missouri! 4 This was the slogan taken 1 ys Monday by commercial organ- izations, business and sai: sional men, on the sugg of the Post-Dispatch. ning, striking the dome “> old capitol at Jefferson started a $1,000,000 fire practically destroyed the ing Sunday night. - Hadley Plans Election. Gov. Hadley said Monday that he would special election to vote a issue for a new i capitol ing. To enable him to do this, ti Legislature must pass a joint con cur rent resolution, submitting a constiti Le 3 tional amendment for’ the- bond 4 ‘ ue. * The House of Representatives will r temptrarily in the Jefferson Jefferson City’s principal auditorit The accessibility of St. Louls all parts of the State, the many t ful sites it has to offer for a tol, and the surroundings offered by th stately buildings already here : among the arguments advanced in f of removal. day sent out invitations to the | dents and secretaries of busines / civic organizations of Bt. Le tend a meeting at the Mercan‘’ at 8 p. m. to consig@er a cam removal of the capitol to St. . During the morning Presider conferred with the directors ar officers of the Manufacturers’ tion, and found they were all in favor of having the new capitol b here. # = a The invitations were sent out by. cial delivery at 1 p. m. from the hea quarters of the Manufacturers’ tion in the Wright Bullding. The capital cannot be moved | Jefferson City without a c amendment. The question ot removal could be submitted_ voters of Missouri at the same ¢ tion with the amendmént for the b issue. A majority vote would either proposition. The question of # bond issue for a e" capitol building was submitied as 4 amendment to the Constitution at — last general election, but went ¢ tt defeat with the other ten submitted then, including the f measure. The amount specified 000,000, but members of the say not less than $10,000.00 appropriated, in order that a ure may be erected to last for all time. — Two resolutions looking to @ } ; sue, each for $5,000,000, are now befor the General Assembly. One was tr duced by Senator Hall of Sedalia. p sumably in the hope that the. would be moved to that town.» other was introduced by ! Irwin of Jefferson City, providing 1 new building on the present ite CITILENS WANT © =

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