St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 8, 1911

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FOLK 15 10 HAVE FULL CHARGE OF WAINWRIGHT CASE Jones Says He Will Give the Former Governor the Same Power and All of the Evidence at Hand That He Would Have if He Were the Circuit Attorney. NOTE THE DEFENDANT SIGNED IS DESTROYED It Was for $135,000 and the Cashier Who Made Loan Is Dead as Are Other Wit- nesses—Philip Stock, Most Needed by Prosecution Is Abroad. Circuit Attorney Jones told a Post- Dispatch reporter Saturday that he would place the entire prosecution of Ellis Wainwright, who returned to St. Louis Friday to be tried on 4a charge of briber}, after a nine years’ exile in Paris, in the hands of former Gov. Jo- seph W. Folk: Folk was Circuit At- torney when Wainwright was indicted. Jones declared that every particle of evidence in the circuit Attorney’s office would be placed at Felk’s ¢’uposal, and that Folk would be senior counsel and ‘could ‘handle it just as if he were Cir- cuit Attorney. He can subpena the wit- nesses, have charge of the police and detectives necessary for the presenta- tion of the case, and everything else that it is in the power of the Circuit Attorney's office to give. Folk in the West. Folk will not return to St. Louis until the middle of May. Jones said he would have the W'ainwright case set for trial to suit the convenience of the former Cireult Attorney.! Folk said that the death and absence of witnesses might hamper the State to a certain extent, but that it could be, proven that $135,000 was raised to pro- cure the passage of a franchise pill for St. Louis & Suburban Rallraad, that Wainwright, as one of the di- rectors of the company, signed the note én which the money was raised. It could algo be shown that Wainwright d a material interest, in the road, he Aid. 'The only question. left for deter- mination was whether Wainwright knew when he signed the note that the money was to be used to procure the — of the Suburban bill, Folk sa * ‘Not Taik About Stock, Circuit Attorney Jones declined to comment on the absence of Phitip Stock, who was one of the State's principal witnesses in the former boodle trials... Stock left 3t. Louis tWo months ago for a two years’ tour of the world, He cannot be brought back here by process of the court. Circuit Attorney Jones began an in- vestigation Saturday to ascertain wheth- er the note signed by Ellis Wainwright, Charles H. Turner end Henry Nicolaus to raisé the $135,000 used in the Suburb- the German Savings Institution had sur- rendered the note to its ‘makers when it was paid, and that it probably had destroyed. n , a e note wae held by the bank and. was produced mn court’ when it was needed in the trial of the boodle cases. The State had no claimgon the note, preserved after it was paid. ‘Richard Hospes, cashier of the Ger-|. man Savings Institutign, who loaned Wainwright, Turner and Stock the motey on the note, is dead. Hospes was of the boodle cases. Kone of the Evidence Gone. With the note destroyed, with Hospes dead, and the«$135,000 in cash returned to the Suburban Railroad, much of the material evidence used in the other boodle cases is not now available for © $135,000 raised on the personal pic pf Wainwright, Charles H. Tur- and Henry Nicolaus to procure the e of a franchise bill for the St. Was re- “Ser of court, four years ago. -This money was used by former Cir- @ence in all of the trials growing out The money @ eases except Wainwright’s was posed of. Folk desired to have the | confiscated to the use of the holding that it was put up for purpose, and that the owners Raliroad got an order for its No member of the House of ates or Council combine for whose . the money had been orginally — to protest the claim ou, on ARNE aR

Y TRACTION BILL

Mayor Says He Will Not Sign It Saturday as Opponents Plan to Defeat Bonds. — Mayor Kreismann told a Post-Dis- | patch reporter Saturday that he would not sign the Southern Illinois Trac- tion bill during the day. He has until Thursday to sign or veto the bill. He has not signed the. public utili- ties bill regulating electric light rates. It is reported at the city hall that if Mayor Kreismann signs the South- ern Illinois Traction bill sgveral dis- trict improvement associations will begin organization of a movement to defeat the issuance of $2,500,000 of bonds to complete the city free bridge. The bond issue is:to be submitted to the voters in August. The bridge cannot be completed on the original appropriation of $3,500,- 000. Some of the district associations are so deeply opposed to Jeptha D. Howe and the Southern Traction Co. having the franchise that they would prefer to see the bridge unfinished. BOYS DANCE AT DOOR OF GIRLS’ DORMITORY Lights Go Out at Lebanon, III. College and Ghostly Night Parade Follows. The lights went out at the new dormi- tories at McKendree College, Lebanon, Ill., Thursday night. and so did the boys. They gave a nightshirt parade and per- formed various goblin high jinks by the light of the moon. When the lights failed the word *was passed by the students’. wireless to get ready for a ghost walk. When «they lined up some wore nightgowns, some white shirts and some pajamas. They tied handkerchiefs over their faces and did the war dance of the Kuklux Klan in front of the girls’ dormitory, to the very great. consternation of the co-eds. Then they scurried across the campus toward the lights of Lebanon and ran single file through the middle of Main )street, yelling like a lot of red Indians. 'They disbanded at the end of the street and slipped back to the dormitory and to their rooms without any of them having been recognized. MOTHER AND SIX CHILDREN BURNED Kerosene Stove Explodes as Par- ent Gathers Little Ones to Prepare for Bed. CHICAGO, April 8.—By the explosion of a kerosene stove, six children and their mother, Mrs. Luddie Podotil, were perhaps fatally burned last night at Clyde, a suburb of Chicago. A 3-year-old boy died today. All the others suffered fearful injuries from flaming oil. The explosion occurred just as the mother had assembled the children preparatory to putting them to bed. ‘The house was so quickly destroyed

were able to drag out the mother and ehildren. OVER TO MONDAY | Ltheir senses” that it was with difficulty neighbors |

ROOSEVELT WOULD HAVE 4 CHILDREN IN EACH FAMILY Colonel Says That Is the Only Way for Married Folk to Be Happy. | GIVES VIEWS ON SUFFRAGE Former President Is Willing to Let Women Vote, but Mother- hood Comes Foremost. By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW ‘YORK, April 8.—Parenthood raised to the fourth power is the bur- den of Col, Roosevelt's utterance un- der the head of “Race Decadence” in the current umber of The Outlook. The Colonel asserts that whether there are one, two or even three chil- dren to a marriage it is nevertheless a sterile marriage. But four children let a man and wife out of the class he abhors. He also believes in letting the woman who wishes to vote do s0, but still her primal and most essen- tial duty is motnerhood. The Colonel's Views, Says the Colonel: “I believe in a full equality of rights. If women wish to vote, I favor it (although I do not think anything; like as important for them or for the state as are many other things that they can and should do); but the extent of my reverence for and belief in a woman who does her duty, measures also my contempt for the woman who shrinks her primal and most essential duty. The man who either is responsible for or ac- quiesces in sterility in marriage is even more contemptible than the woman, but he is the only person contemptible. “Exactly as the measure of our re- gard for the soldier who does hig full duty in battle is the measure of our scorn for the coward who flees, so the ‘+ measure of our respect for the true wife and mother is the measure of our scorn and contemptuous abhorrence for the ii mother.” Race suicide, wife who refuses to be a the Colonel says, ig as much the fault of the man as the woman, and they must go through a great, mental cleansing and “comé to before they reach the understanding that there is no other happiness comparable to that of hav- ing a large supply of children to make the home happy—and do. the er- rands. A large family .is also useful, although the Colonel does not say so. in constantly reminding you of the | high cost of living. Still, if you cannot afford eight »r ten youngsters the Colonel implies you are eligible to the parent class with four, and unless you attain this average you are helping to put this

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—-—_—_- advertising. — — —— — — a double record! the biggest Friday for. years! Ist, in the total columns of legitimate bona fide one 2d, in the — of St. Louis merchants’ display. ad-

vertising. 147 columns. ad The previous Friday record was Oct. 21st, 1910— ‘ J Vesterday, Friday, April 7th, 182 columns ‘This is the largest volume of advertising ever carried “by the ’OST-DISPATCH on any Friday in its history, and is the largest volume of legitimate paid ‘advertising ever carried by any other St, Louis daily newspaper un- der normal conditions on any wee day.

record Was pa tage Republic and Times ADDED TOGETHER ——— This reco It is the ch ered, in the United States.

In local merchants’ display advertising yesterday, the POST-DISPA TCH. — 101 columns The previous Friday record for local merchants’ dis- play advertising for the. POST-DISPATCH was 109 columns. . J — “ | ee is one of our specialties, and is ae dn — the POST-DISPATCH blankets t ity of St. uis and its suburbs with its tremendous : —— — Ie It is the one paper in every. home, the only paper in most homes. advertising medium, value consid- vn at SS eee? Ao — ‘First in Everything! | i

BRIDE, LOVING. | ICIAN MORE, ENDS HER LIFE She Chooses Death Rather Than’ Longer Deceive Her Hus- band of Three Weeks. DRINKS ACID TO MUSIC Takes Potion in Man’s Apart-} ‘ment as He Plays ‘“‘When the Fire Is Burning Low.”

W know that it is not my hus- | band’s fault that I am going good man. I thought when I got married that I would be different. been if I could. I and a man have been too good friends. I met him leave St. Louis so I could do right. If he had gone away I could have he said he wold not go away, and told me that if I could not live -I Well, I guess hé was right. I hope he has the best luck with his side.”’ 1 hope he makes good, so tell him other girls than he has done with me. .He has not only broken my I am dead will Someone please ring up 907 Lindell and ask for Mr. Ollie is dead. I know that he’ll be glad, for he cusses me. He calls me names. God forgive him. There is no use that he has not treated me right, but it is too late now. Good-by to Clothes and my rings and bracelet. -Tony, dear, be good to Sadie. HOEVER finds this note will to kill myself. God knows he is a God in heaven knows I would have not long ago, and I asked him to lived and done the right thing, but ' could die. ‘music. He is writing “BY, the Fire- for me to try and do different with. . heart, but several others. When Bosenbury and tell him he is free. every time he sees me here of late of my saying so. All friends know all. I want Sadie to have all my npr sad OLLIE.

Given the alternative of leading 4 double life or dying, Mrs. Oliie Strater, a.bride of three weeks, drahk carbolic acid Friday night, while Willard Bosen- bury, @ composer, with whom she was infatuated, played softly and siowly, “‘When the Fire Is Burning Low.”’ The woman was married three weeks ago to Antonio Strater, proprietor of a grocery store at 3610 Olive street, and tried to overcome her infatuation for the composer. It was a love that could pot be ‘thrust aside and Friday night the bride slipped away from her home at 3818A Morgan street and went to the apartment of Bosenbury at 3544 Wash- | ington avenue. Tried to Cheer Her. Walter W. Vollmer was practicing with Bosenbury when she arrived, and, seating herself in a low rocker, asked Bosenbury to play her favorite song. When he had finished she said, ‘‘Please play it again, very softly and slow— piay it slow.”’ Neither man saw what the woman was doing, but she had evidently de- termined to end her life with the last note of the song. Bosenbury played as requested, softly and slowly. As the last note, little more than a breath, died away the woman gasped and fell from her chair. The bottle in which she car- ried the carbolic acid rolled to the floor. “Bosenbury ran and brought Dr. I. Adams and Dr. Sherwood Moore. They worked over her for a half hour, but could not save her. She died without | regaining’ consclousness., Strater, her husband; Bosenbury, the musician, and Sadie, the 38-year-old daughter, of the woman, came together to the office of the Post-Dispatch Sat- urday morning. Bosenbury sat with the little girl on his lap and the husband leaned over his shoulder. There were tears in the eyes of each, but the little gir] wept continuously. Strader wished published his state- ment, that there was never any love ler affection between his wife and the musician. Bosenbury wished to declare the same thing and particularly to pro- tect the name of the dead woman and to deny that he had ever cursed her. The Httle girl hid her face«on the shoulder of Bosenbury and sobbed. “She was never away at night,’’ said the husband. “She was always at home but her mind was upset by moving pic- ture shows and that gave her a mania for killing herself. Was Playing the Piano. “She talked many times of ending her life. Bosenbury is my friend and I believe in him.” - Bosenbury said: “I tried my best to keep her away from my place of busi- ness. I tried. to see nothing of her. She kept calling me up continuously and threatening to kill herself. On the street, if she saw an automobile coming she would want to throw herself in front of it and I would have to pull her away. She carried poison around in a bottle. To keep her from coming to my of- fice last night I carried the music she

fas his son’s Correspondence’ Filed in _ Court Includes = ‘Letter From Father to Rey Pierce Declining Request and Al-: ‘SO Refusal of: Millionaire's Friend to Serve Youth. By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. 'NEW YORK, April 8—Papers made public in the “next friend” suit to an- nul the marriage between Roy P. Pierce, son of the St. Louis millionaire, Henry Clay Pierce, to Mrs. Elizabeth Perry Chapman Pierce, cast the case into con- fusing contradictions. They show the father declinffig to act ‘next friend, his own “end, Eben Richards, doing. likewise; then the young man himself writing to

H. Clay Pierce Refused to Act as Son’s Next Friend; Picture Said to Have Turned Him Against Bride} TWOSTATESKI ; 7 145 COAL Mil ERS. 3

Pe ss SSIS Catastrophe in 40h Pines F Costs 85 Lives, While Convicts Pegish in Similar] Accident in Underground © Workings at Littleton, Alas SOME STILL ALIVE, | RESCUERS BELI 175, Mostly Negroes, at Work in Penal Establish | ment When Blast Far Une . derground Cuts Them O and Destroys. Fans.

Reports from two coal ainhig eel ters, one in Alabama and the in Pennsylvania, indicate that at least 145 miners have been Killed the last 24 hours by explosions. At Littleton, Ala, early thia nents ing, an explosion is — to caused the death of 60 of the 5 convicts who were at work.’ Late yesterday fire in a mine at Throop, Pa., cut: off 85 workmen from’ em caping, and the bodtes of 73 of ; have been recovered,

J A. H. F. Seeger, a lawyer, requesting. him to act as his “next friend’’ for pros- ecutng the annulment «cu.uon. Whereupon the ‘‘next best’’. Seeger makes -affidavit that after. conversation with Dr. Carlos MacDonald, proprietor of a sanitorium at Central Valley, he is convinced that Roy Pierce was, at timé of marriage, last November, and still is, “insane and incapable of entering into the matrimonial contract.” Where. this . uninterrupted insanity and incapacity leave the validity of the appointment of a ‘“‘next friend’’ is one of the first things, it is said, which Mrs. Pierce's counsel will ask to have cleared: up. Father 4 Friend Refuse. Henry Glam Pterce’s letter, filed with the exhibits, runs: “My Dear Son Roy: “So many complications may arise be- cause of your marriage to Mrs. Chap- man that I do not feel that I can con- sistently act as your ‘next friend,’ as you have requested mé to do, in the JIrs -ROY nulment of it. I have requested Eben Richards to act, and he hds declined, and so I suggest that you must secure someone else tO act as your ‘next friend’ in this matter. Affectionately, “H. C. PIERCE.” Another exhibit is the following nate: “I hereby request Albert H. F. Seeger to act as my next friend for the pur- pose of bringing and . prosecuting the foregoing entitled action‘ “ROY E. PIERCE.” At the special term of the Supreme Court at Nyack, Rockland County, Jus- tice Arthur A. Tompkins, on March 25, 1911, issued an order saying: ’ How’ Seeger. Wis’ Appointed. “On reading and filigg the affidavit of Albert H. F. Seeger, duly verified on March %, 1911, and it appearing that the said Roy Ensworth Pierce is now in- sane and confined in, an institution for the insane, and incapable of maintaining this action, and it further appearing that no action to ahnut said marriage having been brought by ans rélative of said Roy Ensworth: Pierce; on motion . PIERCE. —* This is the photograph that is said to have prejudiced the oil magnate against his daughter-in-law. ‘next friend’ in: the Suprens one negotiation becomes capable in an- LITTLETON, Ala, April 8st to .& feared that about 60 State and tounty: es — convicts have been killed by a & ? ous explosion that occurred in t ner Coal Mines, near here, this imc ing. One hundred ahd seventy-five min~ ers were in the underground workings: when the explosion” occurred. The. explosion occurred far. under. ground.” -Most of the miners are ne« groes. . At 11:30 a. m. betrean & snd 3 had been taken out of the ming . number of them were more or iss ously injured, and two, both Jef County negroes, weré dead: are going — in the mines as % as of Parker, Hatch & Sheehand, attor- neys for-the plaintiff, it is ordered that the said Albert H. F. Seeger be and hereby is appointed ‘next friend’ of Roy Ensworth. Pierce and avowed to we action and prosecute an action as - —— man.”’ : Besides the “conversation with Dr. McDonald,”’ Seeger offers in his affida- vit no further evidence of the insanity ef the young man who’ appointed him “next friend.”’ Attorney Congdon of Parker, Hatcn & | Sheehan, says that counsel for Mrs. Pierce havé 10 days more within which to answer. Then the action would te put on the calendar. Hg would not further discuss the case, or under what circumstances a person “incapable’’ fn The ———— came aftér —* A : crew. Was, out and before po ere wof free miners had —— the mine. There were 165 convicts and about ten free miners in the workings. at the time of the explosion. Fan Is Destroyed, The greatest damage hag been dd? to a new shaft known as No. 2... The fan in this shaft was destroyed, mak- — ing the rescue work more difficult: : It te believed that half of the Fe other.

matter of your efforts to secure an an-

TWO-GENT FARE b OUT ~~ IN MINNESOTA Federal Court Rules Against| State’s Passenger and Freight Rate Law.

By Associated Press. T. PAUL, April 8.— Judge’ Walter H.: Sanborn, senior United States Cir- cuit Court, Judge, Eighth ~ Judicial Circuit, in an. exhaugtive opinion handed down today, decided. the Min- nesota rate cages against the mem- bers of the Minnesota — aoe at Commission. —J The court ruled that the eecesnary effect of the reductions ordered was substantialNy to burden and directly to regulate interstate commerce, to create unjust discriminations between localities in Minnesota and those in FAIR WEATHER IS SUNDAY’S PROMISE; 36 ABOVE TONIGHT THE TEMPERATURES.

46 at 46> 42 at 7 Pm. The dull, gray lays are over, ac- ording .to the veather man, and or as far as he van, See -into. the uture the sun will Aay a welcome ‘veturn engage- ment. i Those who are yjlanning to go out ny the country sunday or to take t walk unincum- yered by heavy wraps are fairly sure of not being

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adjoining states in _ violation of the commercial ‘clause of the Constitution and to take the properties of the railroad companies without just com- pensation in violation of the four- teenth amendment to the Constitu- tion. Judge Sanborn in his ruling says: | “The power to regulate commerce among the states as granted by the people to the nation in the Constitu- tioh is exclusive, may be expressed to its utmost extent by the use of all means requisite to its complete exer- cise and no state by virtue of its police power or any other power it possesses may restrict this grant or the plenary exercise of this power, for these inhere in the supreme law of the land and are paramount to the powers of the states. “The fares and rates of transportation in interstate commerce are national in character susceptible of uniform regule- tion and so far as the nation has not regulated them, are free from regulation by virtue of commercial clause of ‘the Constitution. ‘To the extent that it does not sub- stantially burden -or regulate inter-: state commerce, a State *may regulate iterstate imerce and the fares and rates therein within its herders, but farther. It may enforce regulations of intrastate commerceand its fares and ———

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: | pi ydedbo geod afew ang Nema? adios disappointed. The official does not promise anything sultry, ‘but it is April, wld * the mercury starts up the tube, ‘it wil ‘Senday morning, it will —— keep on climbing until a very comfortable temperature is reached. Wild duéks, for two weeks past have been waiting inthe ponds over the river to see what was wrong with the alma- nac. Saturday morning the crdereJl a continuation of thew? * flight. ‘ + Official forecast: Fair — and Sunday; cooler. tovight, with the low- est temperature tonight about 36 de- grees ahove sero; —— temperature Sunday. Stage of the river: 15,3 feet; a rise of .8 of a foot. 7

¥ Miseoutl—Genersily fair tonight and Sdn- i. aaa —— one etna after- peer) ree ; ris- ing t Corral’s “Leave fer Eight Months. MEXICO CITY, April &—The Cham- ber of Deputies reconsidered a resolu- tion granting an indefinite leave of ab- Fsence to. Vice-President Corral and his leave of absence was limited to eight months. . Century ad Peigete te Be Retired. | u. "B. 8. Independence, nearly a century

forecast}. the total may exceed that number, - s hirty whites are in the mine yet. © : — J — — — —“* Seventy-Three Bodies Taken Out FLEES DIVORCE SHIT TO. SPARE WIFE, HE WRITES Charles..K. Pickles, in Letter to ‘Judge, Asks Kindness for Helpmeet. taken from the Pancoast mine at where fire yesterday entombed many men. The indications are that 13 others are yet to be found and the — tragedy of the colMery will be far more — awful than was anticipated. The fire did not reach the —— men and the condition. of their boale⸗ x shows that death was due to suffota- ~ tion from smoke or ‘asphyxiation: from the accumulated gas. Forty-four of the dead have * identified. Many of the victims were foreigners and known only by @ sumeer 7 or nickname. Heading the list of victims is ough E. Evans of West Scranton, who was — foreman ef the United States rescue ‘ear, which was sent to the mine from Wilkesbilftre. He was % years old. ‘ Rescue System's First It was the first time that the rescue system Was brought into action= in the anthracite coal region. It has not yet been definitely established how. Evans came to his death. One theory — * that in adjusting bis helmet after bump<« ing it against the low roof of the smoke-- filled gangway, he. released it slightly — from his head and in doing so inhaled — black damp. All through the night the. gangs kept at their’ task of up the dead who lay st further parts of the tun coast colliery from off chambers and headings in had entered for their da Before midnight 21 that of Foreman ernment’s rescue in an improvised morgue gine house near the head of At 4 o'clock this morning there

After pleading vainly with his wife of 33 years not to go on with her pro- ceedings for divorce, Charles K. Pickles, 60 years old, abandoned his defense of the divorce to save his wife the hu- miliation of his appearing against’ her. In a letter: to Judge Muench,’ before whom the case is set for Saturday, Pickies stated that he would leave town and beggeti the Judge to deal kindly with the woman with whom he has lived so long. The letter to Judge Muench was, in part, as follows: Rather than have her subjected to humiliation, I will not appear, but . will leave the city this morning. I * hope yot will deal kindly with her. She has been misinformed and badly advised. I think after living together ‘for more than 36 years it is too late ‘to part only by death. Hope you will-use your kind endeavors to have her change her mind. The couple was married in 1878.’ Their Gaughter Mary married E. V. Selleck, a St. Louis attorney. She alleges fn her petition that Pickles deserted her in July, 1909.’ Pickles told a Post-Dispatch reporter that he did leave St. tc take a position In San Franci that he urged his wife to accompan him, but she refused. RIVAL CANDIDATESSHEARD Harrison and Merriam Speak at Same Meeting. CHICAGO, April 8.—Mayor-elect Car- tér H. harrison and Charies EB. Mer~} riam, his defea opponent, spoke for a common cause from the same plat- form iast_night. They were the chief speakers at & mass mecting held in Or- chestra Hall in behalf of the initiative and referendum. | Following the by Mr. Har- rison and Mr. Bras poled ogee’ were or %