St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 13, 1911

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HADLEY T0 D REPORT OF

Yesterday's Temperatures. 44 at 5 p. m. ‘. .38 at il Pp. mm.

A LITTLE. SUNSHINE PLEASE

GILL MAN FEARS ASSAULT

Attorney Asks Protection for F. H. Evers Against Repub- licans’ Fists. Takes Every Precaution to Ex- onerate Man With Whom She Had .Quarreled.

+ Attorney Peter T. Barrett, attorney for Congressman Gill in his contest against the seating of Congressman-elect Catlin, pointed Monday at 25 Catlin witnesses, seated in the office of Commissioner Heideman in the Security Building and declaréd that he feared they intended to assault one of-his witnesses. “T demand,” exclaimed Barrett, “that these followers of Justice George Riech- mann be removed from the room, I shall not permit my witness to be browbeaten and attacked while I am here.*’ “That is a spectacular play,” rejoined Cleveland A. Newton, counsel for Catlin. “It’s not so spectacular as your Sum- moning Mr. Catlin’s sister, Mrs. Allen, to the witness stand Saturday,” Barrett retorted. Republican Aided Gill. | The witness declared by Barrett to be in danger was Francis H. Evers of 1415 Benton street, * who was a Republican clerk of election in the Ninth Precinct of the Third Ward, but who testified that he voted for Gill, the Democratic Before cutting her throat Monday, ‘Mrs. Mary McGee made preliminary ar- rangements to prevent the least possi- bility that her husband, with whom she had quarreled, could be suspected of attempting to murder her. She made sure that a witness, would accompany her husband to their room at 3527 Lindell avenue and be theré when she was found. She also left a note telling that she had taken this pre- caution. Mrs. McGee and her husband, Thom- as, had lived 4n the house. only two weeks. Mrs. Emma Woodworth and her brother, Lee Woodworth, who conduct the rooming house, say they had fre- quently quarreled. When Mrs. McGee was found with her throat cut, Dr. M. J.. Hopkins said her jugular vein was severed. She was hurried to the city hespital in a seri- ous condition. Prepares for Tragedy. McGee works at the Langan & Taylor Storage Co.’s branch, half a block from MAJOR WAI FOR COMP Police Department Stations Guards at Institution, at Homes of Suspected Offi- cial and His Assistant and at Comptroller’s Office.

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Special to the Post-Dispatch. a JEFFERSON CITY, Feb. 13. —Gov. Hadley said day he would immédiately ask Cireuit Attorney Jones and a Taylor for statements of the facts connected with Jor

Industrial Sthool Manage- ment Confers With Mayor “It’s a fine car.” . “Have you used and Acts Following the it much?” ° S bmis : f E ‘dence | “Every day for] + u ission oO Vil the last two z “ years.” ALSO WRITES A NOTE Which Has Been Obtained : “Is it cooled by a ae My water ?’’ Against Accused Official. | > - fete “No, by air.” | * Ane \) “Run it _your- i t] self?” , . ju —= te “ EVIDENCE: IS READY ay, ie oaks acs : = 4 EEL f runs it and oa FOR GRAND JURORS Seq ams 77" sit in the ton- neau.”’ “Tonneau noth- ing. My car is a 6-cylit.der United Railways. Its up- keep costs me only 10 cents a day.”’ Official forecast: Cloudy, with rain tonight or Tuesday; not aeem change in temperatures. Stage of the river: 35 feet; a fall of .1 of a foot. After a two and one-half hour con- Missouri and Illinois—Unsettied. with rain ference with the Board of Directors of | ‘0MeMt or Tuesday, the industrial School in his office, Mayor Kreismann Monday afternoon SMITHS D ECREASING gaid that the board had indorsed the IN SOCIAL REGISTER suspension and the arrest of Superin- tendent Allen P. Richardson. Clarks and Browns Are More “Tl want it made plain,” said» the : ; Mayor, “that no immorality on the part Numerous in St. Louis of any person connecte¢c with the school Directory. is charred or suspected. The new locater of the Social Regis- “All theefacts and information gath-/ter containing in alphabetical order al! MBS. J. O’FALLON DELANY.

and Beeretary Burkham, | * ‘of the ered by the officers who made an in- vestigation into conditions at the In- dustrial School were laid before the board which approved the action taken by Acting Mayor Gundlach last Satur- day and owt indorsement of that ac- tion by me.’ Four women employes of the Indus- trial School were taken to the grand jury room Monday afternoon as wit- nesses in the investigation. They were in charge of Deputy Sheriff Heitinger. The employes are Mrs. Catherine Leath, a seamstress; Miss Emma C. Puschner, a stenographer; Miss Lena eon of Allen Richardson, who is em- ployed at the Industrial School as a Geputy, also sat in the anteroom outside of the grand jury chambers waiting to testify. | . The Police Department with great pecrecy as to the reasons for its ac- tivity, joined in the investigation Mon- A man-never before seen there occu- a desk near the door leading into omptroller Taussig’s office at the cily hall Monday. He stopped every person ‘who entered and asked him to tell his business with the Comptroller. Inquiry ghowed that he was Special Officer Wil- iam Meyers of the Wyoming Street Police District. It was said that Meyers bad been detailed to aid the Comptroller fn the investigation of the Industrial Behool. Special Officers on Guard. » Special officers were sent to keep a constant watch on the home of Supt. Richardson and the home of Assistant Superintendent Walter King. Thus far mo formal charges have been preferred against King. Sergt. Maupin of the Wyoming Street District was assigned to watch the In- dustrial School and see that nothing was-.carried away from it. Beyond the assertion that the assignments of po- licemen mere rg to aid the Comptrol- ler, police o is will say nothing as to their part in the investigation. It is known that the charges against Richardson are in the hands of Circuit Attorney Jones, who: authorized his ar- rest Sunday, but Jones says he will not discuss them in detail until after they have been jaid before the grand jury. Soon after the grand jury began its investigation, Mayor Kreismann and the board of directors of the Industrial ‘Bchool met for a conference in the Mayor's office.” The board, composed of Willian Christy Bryant, Robert Rutledge, H. G. Cleaveland and M. K. Salmon, met Saturday, and by a vote declared iis confidence in the integrity of Rich- ardaes. +mdorses Gundiach's Action, After the conference between the Board and the Mayor, Monday, Robert Rutledge, vice-chairman of the board, said: “I. want to say with émphasis that if I had had before me the, facts presented to Acting Mayor Gundlach I would have acted just as they did. I know there ‘Was no political motive.” After his suspension several days ago Richardson was asked by a Post-Dis- patch. reporter whether the supposed 2 in pt could be explained and ‘shown to be merely technical diversions city funds. He was asked since also whether, as some of his had suggested, he had taken from | account and applied | ith an idea of benefit- th ‘ He would not reply 1° questions and said he had no the names in the 29 books issued for the various cities covered by thd asso- ciation, has just been issued. It shows that St. Louls has more Clarks and Browns than Smiths—that is, more who are fashionable enough to get into the register. register, four Clarkes, 27 Browns and no Brownes. There ‘are 21 Smiths. Twenty-seven members of the Jones| family are listed. In New York there are 166 Smiths, 143 Browns and 91 Clarks. The 19 Auchinclosses in the New York direc- tory are the only enes of the:family in bile ah Aaa there are 187 Smiths. Coen, & seamstresy, and Mise Lalien. Wanz;.a cook. William Richardson, a 92. Morrises and 2&9 Biddles, the last being relatives of the St. Loftis family for which Biddle street was named. WHO HAS 40 ’POSSUMS?

California Elks? Steward Wants Some Live Ones. Chief of Police Young received from Vallejo, Cal., Monday, a request for 3 or 4 opossums. The request came from J. J. Christian, steward of the Elks’ Club at Vallejo. He said the members of thé club had planned a ’possum dinner for the sec- ond week in March and that he had been informef that Chief Young could furnish the material. He agrees to pay $1 a head for the animals and the ex- pense of shipping them, but they must be, sent alive.

Ammunition Expledes Near Nicara- guan President’s Home. MANAGUA, Nicaragua, Feb. 13.—A series of explosions occurred this morning in the ammunition barracks situated within the grounds of the Presidential mansion. Bulletin 202 tising. Post-Dispatch, Globe-Democrat Republic ... Globe-Democrat

There are 28 Clarks in the St. Louis’

For 202 consecutive Sundays weeks.in excess of 3 full years, the Sun- day Post-Dispatch has led all of its St. Louis competitors in volume of adver- Republic .. . POST-DISPATCH excess of Want Ads over the Globe- Democrat and Republic combined 20 columns Over the Globe-Democrat.....44 columns Over the Republic ‘ytr+e++s++-63 columns the rooming house. It has: been his custgm to return home at 9 a. m. for e lunch. After he had gone to work Monday Mrs. McGee went to Mrs. Woodwerth. “When my husband comes home for lunch I want you to come up to our room with him,’’ she said. Mrs. Woodworth did this. Whén Mo- Gee opened the door he saw his wife | j lying unconscious across the bed. The knife with which she had cut her throat was on the floor. On a table was this note: “I have been down and seen the landlady and told her te come. Please, Tommy, kiss me when you find me dead.” Is Neat Death. McGee rode in the ambulance with his wife to the city hospital, where physi- cisians said she had little chance to re- cover. 3 The husband denied that he and his wife had quarreled. He says that since she came to St. Louis from Leslie, Ark., she had been homesick. Her father is Matthew Chandler of Leslie. Mrs. Pear! Anderson, a sister, recently came from Homer, Ill., to visit Mrs. McGee, and they talked of their desire to go back to their Arkansas home for a visit. WOMAN FOUGHT AS MAN

Says She Was Union Spy and Asks a Pension. ? ‘SHERIDAN, Wryo., Feb. 13.—Mrs. ouisa Elizabeth Bliss has applied to Se. Clerk of the District Court for a Civil War Pension, asserting she saw active service with the Sixty-third IIlli- nois Regiment, disguised as a man, and was detailed many times on peril- ous missions as a spy in Confederate camps. A deep: scar over her left eye shows where a bullet wounded her. She is now destitute and without relatives. or 46 The Sunday Score Yesterday, Sunday, February 12, was as follows: 295 Columns . 19] . 160 % Post-Dispatch Excess Over the Republic.......... 135 cols. Over the Globe-Democrat. -- 104 eols. or S4 per cent excess ever the Republic 54 per cent excess over the Globe-Democrat The Want Ad Score: Post-Dispatch . 87 Columns 43 . 24 6

NNEDY 100 MUGH MOTHER-IN-LAW Once He Got a Divorce but Married Again—Now Wants Another Decreé.

Mrs. Adele G. Kennedy just couldn’t stay away from her mother, so James K. Kennedy, manager of the Sherman- Williams Co., testified Monday in Judge court in his suit to divorce her. were di- Kinsey’s He said the first time they vorced it was on his mother-in-law’s ac- count and that when he married the second time it was on condition that his wife stay away from her mother; but that she didn’t. Kennedy is 42 years old and his wie is one year his senior. She divorced him in 1889 and after that he went to the Philippines on business. ~Returning in 1908, laden with Oriental curios and fabrics, he went direct to his wife, at her mother’s home in Los Angeles, and laid them at her feet. ‘‘T gave them to her and asked her to marry me again,” he testiffed. “I told her I wanted a home, but I made it a condition that she was not to be in- fluenced by her mother.’”’ The marriage took place in May, 1908, and after. a bridal trip the two returned to the home of the mother, Mrs. Bast, Kennedy had to go back to the Philip- pines on a business trip. “Mrs. Bast said my wife shouldn't go along with me unless I took her, too, so I went alone,’’ Kennedy testi- fied. 2 He was gone nine months and when he returned to the United States he prought his wife to St. Louis and left her with relatives while he went to Cleveland to consult with officials of the company of which he now is: iss ah Sent $25 a Month. “When I came back to St. Louis,” Kennedy said, “my wife told me she would have to go back to her mother in Los Angeles. I told her if she did that the separation would be final. Ever since then I have been sending her $265 a month.” James Black, a cousin of Kennedy, and an instructor in chemistry in Wash- ington “University, at whose home. Mrs. Kennedy stayed while he husban ent to Cleveland, said she was childish. “She even wanted advice as to how her dress looked,” said Black’ scorn- fully. Resists the Mrs. Kennedy is Bano A oan the suit with Gepoaitions, but is not attending the trial of it. She is represented by Selden P, Spencer. In her deposition she says it.was the understanding that she would return to her mother until Kennedy had established himself here, but that he never expressed a wish to have her with him. ~ SECRET BOARD MEETING

Three °* Police Summon Chief Young. President Woerheide and Commission- ers Brinsmadé and Teichmann of the Police Board held a session of an hour Monday afternoon behind closed doors. Chief Young was summoned and a copy of the municipal code. was sent for. Chief Young said that only routine

Commissioners

ELANYS Wi LEAVE OLD nOME ON SOUTH SIDE They Will Move Into the Old Niedringhaus.Mansion at 5105 Lindell Terrace.

Mr. and Mrs. John O'Fallon Delany, whose old-fashioned mansion at 2900 La- fayette avenue has bétn one of the social landmarks of the South Side, have pur- chased the residence of the late William F. Niedringhaus at 510 Lindell Terrace, and are preparing to make their home there. The old Delany mansion has played an important part in the social history of St. Louis. It has been the scene of many brilliant gatherings in the last half century. When most of the relatives and friends of the Delanys moved their homes to the West End they refused to join the tide. They sai that there were too many pleasant associatiens clustering around their home for them to leave. But in the last few years they have reached the conclusion that the: situa- tion was socially inconvenient for them with so many of their friends moving further into the West End, in spite of their high-speed limousine. And so they determined to move. The death of Mrs. William F. Nied- ringhaus last summer, following that of her husband two years before, re- sulted in the determination of her chil- dren, all of whom are married, to give up the home. It has been kept open during the winter for family reunions, but will be turned over this week to the Delanys. ° Clarkson Carpenter of the real estate firm of James M. Carpenter & Co. ne- gotiated the deal. POLICEMAN HIT AND CALLED A DUTCHMAN Injury Exhibited in Dayton Street Court and Offender Is Fined $15. John Fiood, 2711 Sheridan avenue, was fined $15 in the Dayton Street Police Court Monday for, calling Policeman Schneider a Dutchman and then hitting him in the mouth. The altercation be- tween Flood and Schneider occurred Saturday evening on the street in front of 2621 Cass avenue. Fiood’s boy, Joe, hed kicked a foot- ball through a window, and the police- man took him home and said the win- dow must be paid for or the boy would be arrested. Later Flood met the poe- liceman on the street and they quar- reled. The testimony showed that “Flood had hit the policeman in the mouth with his fist and the policeman had hit him with his club, but on all other points the tes- tinjony disagreed. Upon the evidence of ' the policeman's swollen meuth the Judge fined Flood. PENSION RAISE FAVORED WASHINGTON, Feb. 13.—The Senate Committee on Pensions today voted to report favorably the Sulloway general pension bill, which already has passed the House. It increases the general pension roll about $50,000,000 a year. The vote “was

candidate. mann’s justice court two days the November election, at a meeting of precinct committeemen and judges and clerks of election, and that Riechmann offered prizes of $15, $10 and $ for get- ting out the vote. present at the meeting.

Evers declared that he was in Riech- before “I don’t remember whether the prises were offered to the precinct committee- >> or to the election clerks and jwiges,” said Evers. He admitted, on cross-examination, that he had bet and lost a “‘good drink” on Gill’s re-election. By a “good drink’’ Evers said he meant champagne ~~ Would Bet Elther Way. *“T couldn’t get any champagné, so T pajA the bet'with a $2 bill,” he said. ‘I off. zed to make other bets onthe elec- tion. I was willing to wager either way if I got the right odds.”’ Evers was asked whether he had not expected to be appointed secretary to Gill }/ Gill was elected. ‘“‘No,”’ said the witness. “I make $8000 to $10,000 a year in real estate, and a $125-a-month job doesn’t look good to me.”’ “Riechmann badgered me atl ut the secretaryship before the election,”’ is- tinued Evers, ‘‘and I told him that #&f he said I was after the position, he was a liar.’’ It was during the questions and an- swers concerning the secretaryship that Barrett emanded the ejection ef Cat- lin’s ‘witnesses. The request was over- ruled. Workers Got $16. M. L. Alexander, Republican clerk of election in the Third Ward, testified that he was present at the meeting in Riechm - .s office and that Henry Pins, a precinct committeeman, sug- gested that “‘the boys’’ woul@ be more interested if cash prizes of $10 were of- fered. ‘‘Make the prizes $15,”’ the other com- mitteemen shouted, according to Alex- ander. The witness said he thought the prizes were intended for precinct cemmittee- men only, as he, a clerk, recelved none of the money. Harry Linnaman, com- mitteeman from the Sixteenth Precinct of the Third Ward, corroborated Alex- ander and added that” Catlin was not In answer to a question, Linhaman declared that he did not know whether Justice Riechmann was financially in- terested in a saloon next door to his courtroom. Evers was recalled to the witness stand by Attorney Barrett and was asked if he had discussed with Justice Riechmann the tesflmony he had given at a former hearing in the Gill-Catlin contest. His Manner Threatening. “I met Riechmann in his saloon at Eleventh and. Market streets the day after I testified,” said Evers. “Riech- mann was very angry because I had told ‘about the prizes offered to the judges’ and clerks of election and the workers for boosting Catlin’s candidacy. His manner was threatening, and aft- er remaining a short time I left the saloon, feariiig that some of his hench- men might attack me.’’ Henry Pine of 1409 Clinton street, a clerk in the License Collector’s office, who says he has held political jobs for many years through the agsist- ance of Riechmann, testified that jt was he, and not Catlin, who suggest- ed the cash prizes. “IT made the motion,” said Pine, “that the boys who did the best work at the election get $10 apiece. Catlin - had Tnething to do with it.”

a ALBANY, N. Y¥., Feb. 13.—The twenty- third ballot for United’ States Senator today resulted: Democrats—Sheehan 7, ‘Shepard 4, Ker- nan 2, Sulzer 2, Giynn }, Littleton | ‘h, ‘the statutes, including the derelict of- Taylor would not-grant a parole. case,’’ said the Governor, ‘‘and I want to know what the facts are. If I.7 em such action necessary, when I résive the statements, I shall direct the Attor- ney-General to go to St. Louls and to take such action a§ He Considers proper to keep the scales of justice evenly bal- anced between the defendant and the public. ‘“‘Whether or not the Attorney-General will have the power to take the prose- cution out of the hands of the Oircuit Attorney is a questiOn which would have to be decided if the occasion arose.”’ Hadley said that so far as he was concerned, as Governor, he had no power to remove any official. All that he could do when complaints were made to him with reference to the official conduct of any officer, would be to lay the matter before the proper prosecuting. official with in- structions to him to proceed under the law. Attorney-Gereral Major made it clear this morning that if Circuit Attorney Jones nolle prosses the case against Garen he will bring proceedings in the Circuit Court in St. Louis to oust him from office. “There are a number of sections of ficial act,’’ Major said, “under which I could proceed. The Attorney-General has an inherent right to proceed against any prosecuting official who is derelict in his official duty: “As yet there has been no complaint of an official character lodged in my department. <Any citizen can file such a complaint and upen such complaint it becomes my duty to proceed. “Jonesn’ position in this matter, if it in correctly reported, is indefensibie,* No prosecutor should be permitted to exact a public promise from the Cir- cult Court contingent upon anything. “Judge Taylor did just right. He should not have promised Jones to parole Garen. The most that he could do was to say that he would take the matter of paroling Garen under advise- ment. ; Complaint Necessary. “So far I have had only a long 4dis- tance telephone conversation with a man in St. Louis. It would not be fair to that man to give out his name. But before I take any action there will have to be laid before me a written complaint or citizens or @ public officer. “T hope that Jones will see the error of his course and not free Garen. I dislike to be drawn into this matter, put my duty as a public official is clear. If complaint is made it is not for me to refuse to institute a suit. ’ , em at once the Circuit Court be tri the Court and not t Major will not take an “My attention has been called to this vance, The arc rid : to look up the matter complaint in writing lodged wi : sieis shiaiala 2a PA JONES STICKS | TC : _ANNOUNCEA | Says He Will monte day, as he had said he inte | but woulg wait un Feb. “When I sald I docketed until next Monday, | ’ 4 to wait until then. Bot my st unchanged, I will nolle there are certain classes of pel 50 were neyer prosecuted : to get even with me. — ‘

“There will be no investigation In a» SUIT TO PREVENT NEW FLATS FAILS Neighbors’ Objection to Houses in Hamilton Place Over- ruled by Court. Judge Withrow Monday § decided against the Cabanne Protective Asso- ciation, which sought to prevent Honora McGowan and Thomas A. Bigwell from building flats at 5900 Von Versen ave- mue and 721 Hamilton avenue, in what is known as the Hamilton piace section ef the Cabanne residence district.

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wan the Attorney-General, “bets the case against William Gar en nt Circuit Attorney and who have