St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 13, 1911

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aor 63. NO. 266.

Only Evening Paper in St. Dewi With the Associated Press News Serbs oo BE LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, MAY 13, 1941.

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, ARRESTS MADERO BUT THEY: HUG AND MAKEUP Fighting General of the Rebels Forces Provisional , President to Acquiesce in ' Demand That His Cabinet, of Which Soldiers Are Jealous, Resign. FOOD AND PAY FOR SOLDIERS DEMANDED Leader of Rebellion Agrees to Obtain Provisions for ‘Ragged Fighting Men as Soon as Possible, and Saves His Army. JUAREZ, May 13.—Gen. Navarro, leader of the defeated Federal forces at Juarez, against whose life threats were made by angry insurrectos, was personally escorted to the river short- ly before 12 o'clock by Provisional President Madero and forded the river to the American side on a horse. CANANEA, Sonora, Mexico, May 13. — Jose Carmelo‘ and Tomas Lopez Linares, representing -the Federal Government, who are in conference with Juan Cabral, the rebel leader, are understood to be — for the surrender of Canan It in said that only a few minor de- tails remain to be agreed upon and that Cabral will undoubtedly occupy the town tonight without resistance. By Associated Press. | JUAREZ, Mexico, May 13.—Rebellion within the ranks of the Maderoists army this morning resulted in the de- claring under arrest of Francisco I. Madero Jr., Provisional President, and the demand and acceptance of the de- ‘mand that Madero’s cabinet resign, _ @nd for two hours threatened the de- ‘struction. of the Juarez army as a con- crete fighting force. | The incipiene rebellion arose in the fanks of the forces under Gen. Pascual ’ j HATCH WINNER OF MARATHON AFTER A BITTER CONTEST

Erxleben, with a lead of four minutes over Sidney Hatch, t> have the seventh Missouri Athletic Club Marathon race well in hand when more than half the distance between Freeburg, Ill., and St. Louis ha@ been covered at 2:15 p. m. Sat- urday. The St. Louis boy was going easv when he passed through Edgemont at 2:02. Hatch, Chicago's hope, loomed up at 2:06. Forshaw, Johnson, Ken- nedy and Gwin were close behind the leaders. The hopes of Erxleben’s supporters seemed well founded when the M. A. Cc. runner led the fleld out of Belleville. Erxleben was running easily and had a good lead. Fred J. Kern, son of the Mayor of Belleville, dropped out at Main and Church streets in Belleville after lead- ing the race about a quarter of a mile for the first seven miles. Kern said the dust was unendurable. His elimination increased Erxleben’s chances. Kern arrived at Main and Church streets at 1:05 p. m., and Erxleben, at 1:08 After them, came Kennedy, at 1:12; Johnson, at 1:12:30; Hatch, at 1:13; For- shaw, at 1:15. Then in order. came Schweiderski, Booth, Gwin and Torbert. 31 of 34 Start. Thirty-one of the 34 men entered for the M. A. C. marathon race departed from Freeburg, Ill., at noon Saturday. C, Heath, of Chicago, unattached, and H. K. Wilkenson, unattached, failed ‘o start. Joe seemed After a desperate struggle for Hatch of Chicago Passed Joe Erxleben of St. Louis at 16th and State streets, East St. Louis, in the last stage of the sev- enth Missouri Athletic Club Marathon race which started from Freeburg, Ill., Saturday afternoon. Sidney ‘Hatch of Chicago won the sevnth M. A. C. Marathan race from Freeburg, Ill., to St. Louis Saturday afternoon after a desperate contest with Joe Erxleben of St. Louis. He passed Erxle- ben in the last few miles and was not in trouble after that. He was 10 minutes in the lead approaching the Eads Bridge. supremacy Sidney lap around the small town square at Freeburg. The runners coursed three times around the smal: square and four times around the large square before taking the road to St. Louis. The sun was hot and the roads lead- ing from Freeburg were heavy with dust. The start was witnessed by practi- cally all the population of Freeburg. which annually suspends business to cheer the contestants in this event. Dr. C. W. Bassett, the starter, sent the men away at exactly noon. The men circled the square four times be- fore startirig out on the corduroy road toward Belleville, thus giving the of- ficials time to check up accurately all the men in the race. How the Men Started. The runners left Freeburg in the fol- lowing order: F. J. Kern, unattached; W. J. Ken- nedy, Bricklayers’ I. U.; C. Booth, Chi- cago, unattached; Frank Johnson, Washington A. C.; Joe Erxleben, M. A. C.; Joe Forshaw, M. A. C.; Sidney Hatch, Chicago. unattached; M. Cooper, Chicago, unattached; W. H. Schwider- ski, Cornell Square A. C.; Charles’ Brickley, Marathon A. C.; E. Saladin, West Park A. C.; George Lindow, tn-. attached; N. Stabill, Central Y. M. C. A.: Henry Levison, Marathon A. C.; W. Sieloff. Typo Athletic Association; Harry Arnold, Raeks A. C.; E. J. Cur- ran, Alton Catholic Club; Arthur Kraus, Bakers’ Mutual Aid; Dan Brown, Ranken School of Mechanical Trades; M. Stephenson, Central Y. M. Central Y. M. ‘C.

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DRAMATIC STATEMENT MADE BY JOHN DIETZ. HERE was a moment’s silence following the reading of the verdict. asked John Dietz to stand: up. : . “Mr. Dietz” said the Judge, “Have you anything to say before sentence is vad} Es Dietz calmly faced Judge Reid. “Do you suppose,” he asked, Ixoking straight at the Judge, ‘I haven't knawn that soone er or latér the Lumiber Trust, because it is big and I am little, would kill me or put me out of the way? I have fought my fight and defended my home and family. wrong and this conviction does not aiter the fact. HE trust has one creed, one law, one purpose. That is ‘rule or ruin.’ - Not rule John Dietz, si» they tried for six years to ruin him. This morning it looks as if they have got what they were after. ayy “T have done nothing wrong and the State has. And yet it is the State that sends me to It is the State that has come in here, in a court of law, and told the jury I was a bad man, when I was not allowed, and have never been allowed to tell what started this whole T is the State that waylaid my children and took one away to jail and put a bullet through the other—a young girl.” The Court ‘then ] have done nothing They could

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— IT, ii oi ox eo ia). SOR — THE ONE ee SOR EEO ILE of PLUMBER =" . tiie FAMOUS CAMERON DAM DEFENDER AFTER HIS CAPTURE AND HIS ARSENAL OF RIFLES.

JOHN DIETZ GUILTY OF MURDER: WIF AND SON ACQUITT

Defender of Cameron Dam, Senten to Life, Makes Dramatic Speech Against the “Lurhber Trust.”, °

‘IT HAS BUT ONE CREED, RULE OR RUIN,” HE SA

. «ee en ; e : es ae “It Failed to Rule John Dietz So It Started Out — to Ruin Him,” He Adds—He Killed a 4 Deputy Sheriff and Surrendered After a Long Siege.» ” ee

—_——e— Special to the Post <Daapeten, and who pS his own byritmy in cduxk ‘was today found gu of murder insthe first degree for having killed Oscar ‘Harp, a uty Sheriff, last fall. Mrs. Dietz the wife, and Leslie Dietz, the son, who were | trial on the same charge, were acquitted. Dietz was sentenced to life imprison- ment. On Oct. 8 of “each year while he spends his life in prison, Dietz will be kept in solitary confinement. That is the anniversary of the dat@~on which he killed Harp. There was a moment's silente fol- lowing the reading of the verdict. The Court then asked John Dietz to stand up. . : “Mr. Dietz,” said the judge, “‘have you anything to say before sentence is passed?” Dietz calmly facdd Judge RelA, that has come In here, in a court ic: law, and told the jury I1- bo a bag ‘man, when I was not allowed, a have never been allowed ‘to Psa wh ha started this whole trouble.” “It is the State that waylaid a young girl. af “I cannot see, Mr. tS ee t hag anything to ae ‘with haa <} of Oscar Harp,” said Judge Reid, he passed sentence, a Dietz made the usual motion ae ot new trial. . = ee oe eet.. — Fee Sins jee “< " C. tA.; EB. H. Alien, He Makes a Speech. “Do you suppose,” he asked, look- ing straight at the Judge, “I haven't known that sooner or later the Lum- ber Trust, because it is big and I am little, would kill me or put me out of the way? I have fought my fight J. F. Connelly of the Business Men’s Gymnasium dropped out ~on the third CHICKEN INFLATED JUST LIKE BALLOON dae nani one of the fighting leaders of * the Madero army. and was headed by _. Orozco himself, ‘A demand was made upon Provisional ‘President Madero for food and money for his ragged, hungry soldiers. Madero H. V. Jameés of Eau Claire, replying for the State, suggested to the convict- ed man that he get an attorney and have him draw up the motion in proper legal form and ask the Court for a ten days’ stay in which to file the exception, x

| BLUE SKY:TO-PLEASE THE FANS WHO GO TO THE SUNDAY GAMES! Continued on Page 2, Column 7, _ CLERK CONFESSES HIS FATAL MISTAKE

RABBII'S FOOT (CHARLES WARNER, re 4 a SS 5 3 am 3 em aoe RP ay 4 Bry é : os ial 5 & S Sa! x % R ; AZ eS * ‘i " ¢ .it became known yesterday that “number of officers in the Federal fortes side. ‘put food supplies, this was the’ bis » came to an end. | ‘Was unable to satisfy these demands at the time, but his explanations were per- emptorily thrown aside by the belliger- ent leader Orozco and his soldiers, and Madero was declared under arrest. Fin- ally the matter was settled by Madero ‘promising that the immediate needs of the soldiers would be attended to and the insurrectos, who had gathered in hundreds about headquarters, dispersed. Trouble Was Brewing. Trouble has been brewing ever since & eaptured at Juarez had violated their paroles and crossed to the American Without funds, practically with- last straw with - Orozeo and his followers, "who had been much dissatisfied over ‘the mannér in. which Provisional Presi- dent Madero had followed up the hard «fought victory of Juarez in appointing cabinet officers with whom they assert- ,ed he consulted over state matters in — to his army officers and his ; apparent neglect of the actual needs _of his followers. It was about 2:20 this morning that Orozco gathered about a hundred of followers, ali heavily armed anda most of them mounted, and marched to the headquarters of Provisional Presi- @ent Madero. Orozco demanded money for hig unpaid men-and food for their | : “unfed goeenenetn neompetency Charged. A, declared that incompetency had re - been shown by Madero and his newly . + appointed advisors. + *@ero under arrest. the soldiers. He then placed Ma- Madero appealed to “Viva Orozco!" went up from the ranks of the men. ‘Madero then acquiesced in the de- mand for the immediate resignation of the Madero Cabinet. He and his ‘general then embraced in true Latin fashion ard the incipient rebellion How deeply the rebellion pereme- pted the ranks of the Insurectos out- ride of Orozco's command is no: known But from talk with the so!-, diers themselves it would appear that the dissatisfaction over the con- duct of affairs during the last few cays had become so widespread as to ‘ affect nearly the entire Juarez in- gurrecto fighting forces,

THIRTY BELGIAN 4 -© SOLDIERS DROWN Two Barges Upset in Storm in Head Stream of the Congo River.

- ANTWERP, Beigium, May 13.—A news| Giapatch reports the capsizing of two Darges, laden with Belgium soldiers, a o during @ storm on the Lualaba River, Ste) . ia ab Baw ia] iv ~ 4 the head streams of the —

Post-Dispatch mw the only evening res ee ane

Floats in Air Like Feather, and When Punctured Blows Itself Up Again. The latest 1s a chicken flated like a balloon. All Maplewood has been to see it, ‘at Mrs. Louis Taylor’s home, 3342 Gres:.- wood boulevard. It was hatched in an incubator from an unusually large egg, and it is so inflated that when you toss it into the air it floats gently to earth, like a feather. Honest! It has a hearty appetite, and seems to suffer no pain. Dr. N. E. Metcalf of 7417 Flora avenue, in Maplewood, lanced its neck once, and all the air escaped, but the very next day the chicken had blown itself up again. It is 2 weeks old. Mrs. Taylor-has named it Airy. which is in-

Seeks $10,000,000 for Japan. TOKIO, May 13.—Prince Katsura, Premier and Minister of Finance, leading a movement to obtain a fund of $10,000,000 to be used for the relief of the sick and poor of Japan.

Preacher's Lecture Flustered and He Put Strychnine, Not Mor- phine, in Prescription. CHICAGO, May 13.—Emil Hecht, clerk in the Grug store of A. C. Wil- liams, on West Sixty-third street, ac- cording to a report that has been sent to Coroner Hoffman, admitted he was responsible for the death of Mrs. Belle Duncan, who gied in convulsions, crying “I’ve been .poisoned.’”” He _ confessed that he had filled'a prescription for the woman, and had given her strychnine instead of morphine by mistake, He blamed the Rev. J. F. Futcher, a Loomis street pastor, for his error. He said the clergyman came into the store while he was filling the prescription and upbraided him because his daughter had failed to get a bottle of grape juice for communion service when she called for a

is | it. The preacher’s lecture, he said, con- fused him and he got the bottles of drugs mixed.

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petitors, is widening all the. time. all the people all the time. sufficed them for three out papers combined.

tisers find its columns profitable. In placing their advertising in the St. Louis papers yesterday, Friday, these merchants bought 96 columns | in the POST-DISPATCH alone, while 77 columas 35 out of 5 days this week the POST-DISPATCH carried more advertising for the St. Louis merchants than the three next best of its com- all added together. Nothing new or unusual in this, for the same thing has been going on for years, only that the breach between the POST-DISPATCH and the other papers in the field

The POST-DISPATCH is on top as an advertising medium in this territory solely and only because it reaches This is the reason that adver- ae of the four other St. Louis -Always—First in Everything. * Circulation books open to all. FAILS 10 WORK; PROWLER IN JAIL Card in His Pocket Tells Where to Send Body if Anybody Gets ‘‘Drop”’ on Him.

Carrying a letter of identification, di- recting that his body -be sent. to his wife at 6129 Walter avenue, St. Louis, in the event anybody got the ‘“‘drop’’ on rim, Fred Smith, aged 45, was captured in the back yard of John R. Wolff's tome in Kirkwood at 1:30 a. m. He had an electric flash light, a re- volver, a razor, a wire, and a rabbit's fobt and a buckeye for good luck, in his pockets, and was carrying his shoes under his arm when Marshal House cap- tured him. The letter of identification read: “This is to certify that I am Fred Smith. If anyone should get the ‘drop’ on me, please send my body to Annie Smith at 6129 Walter avenue, for she is my wife.’’ Peeps From Mulberry Tree. Marshal House was making his rounds in Kirkwood. As he approached the Wolff home at Geyer and Woodbine av- enue he saw something white in the yard. He crept up behind a mulberry tree. He says he saw Smith making a careful examination of the back of the house, apparently trying to find a way to get in. He covered Smith with his revolver, and ordered him to throw up his hands. Smith told the marshal he was trying t@ find some place to sleep. “What are you doing with your shoes off?’ the marsnal asked. “My feet are sore, and I was wading in the dew to fire them,’’ he : Says Mother Was Ind Smith said he is a brickiayer. He was put in jail at Clayton on a charge of carrying concealed weapons. Smith said his mother was a Choctaw Indian, and that his father was an Irishman. He is six feet tall, and has a swarthy complexion. -“T earried the rabbit’s foot and buck- eye for good luck,” he said, ‘‘as he was taken to the jail, ‘“‘but this doesn’t look like they did me any good.” MOTHER IS BURNED SAVING CHILDREN Mrs. Christ Brauer of Belleville was seriously burned while trying to Save her two children, Irma, 4, and Frank, 17 months, after a lamp exploded in their bedroom in their home at Belleville at midnight Friday. Brauer tore the burning garments from his wife and was seriously burned

about the hands.

THE TEMPERATURES. 7O 12 (noor) Yesterday’s Temperatures, . 80 at 5 p. m. Low. -6Z at 6 a. m. model of weather This May doesn’t make ev- erybody happy. Just. think of the anguish of the young man who doesn’t own an auto and . who feels sure that the ‘“‘not-at-home- Sunday’ message from his best girl means she has ac- cepted an invita- tion from the chap who owns an auto to go out riding. Outside of this and the sad- ness of the man who has to work despite the lure of sunshine, the rest of the community is happy in the enjoyment of a spring day worth living through a hard winter to enjoy. Official forecast: Fair tonight and Sunday; not much change in the tem- perature. Stage of the river: .6 of a foot.

BET THE ATH- LETICS CAN BEAT THE TERMINAL. ‘ Vd by

8.2 feet; a fall of Missouri—Generally fair Saturday night and Sunday; warmer in northwest portien Saturday night. INinois—Fair Saturday night and Sunday; probably becoming unsettied Sunday night; warmer in north and central pértions. PASTOR EARL HEWSON SUES FOR A DIVORCE He and Wife Have Been Sepa- rated Five Years, Misconduct, Is Char®ed. The Rev. Earl Hewson, pastor of the Reber Place Congregational Church, filed suit for divorce Satur- day against Gertrude <A. Hewson. frem. whom he has been separated for five years, charging misconduct. They were married 11 years ago and have one child, Gertrude Eari Hewsgn, 7 years old. A year ago Mrs. Hewson brought suit for divorce, but the case was dismissed after Mrs. Hewson had taken her child and left the city. In the present suit the pastor names two co-respondents, one of whom lives at the Park Hotel and is accused of entertaining Mrs. Hewson at the Plant- ers and of making her valuable pres- ents. The husband alleges that _Mrs. Hewson carries the picture of this man with her and is much devoted, to him

MER RAILROAD UFFIGIAL, 15 DEAD Consolidated. the Gould Lines in the West—Rose From a Clerk. He ~~

Charles Guille Warner, pioneer rail- road man and former vice-president of the Missouri Pacific, died at his home, 5206 Washington boulevard, Saturday morning after a prolonged ‘fliness, re- sulting from a paraiytic stroke of sev- eral years ago. His most noteworthy achievment was the consolidation of the Gould lines in the West and when he retired from ac- tive work in 1904, George J. Gould in- sisted on presenting him with two years’ salary. During the Civil War, he served with the Thirty-second Regiment of Missouri volunteers and was mustered out a cap- tain. After the war, he tried farming for three years in Jefferson County af- ter which he began his career as a railroad man. His. first occupation in this field was a job as billing clerk for the Great Western Dispatch, a fast freight line operating on the Ohio & Mississippi. His connection with the Missouri Pa- cific began in 1369 when he was em- ployed as a clerk in the St. Louis of- fice. From 1877 to 1898 he was general auditor for the road and during that time scanned accounts aggregating $400,- c00,000. From 1893 to 1904 he was prin- cipal vice-president of the Missouri Pa- cific and the Iron Mountain roads and retired on account of ill health. Nq@ arrangements for the funeral have yet been made. He is survived by a widow, Mrs. Anna Warner and three Zaughters, Mrs. Herman Kooser of Web- ster Groves, Mrs. W. M. Armstrong and Mrs. A. G. Douglas of St. Louis. WALL STREET PRODS U. S. SUPREME COURT By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, May 13.-—J. 8. Bache & (o., Wall street brokers, today noti- fied the Justice of the United States Supreme Court by letter that Wail street and the public generally will be greatly delighted if the justices get a hustle on, or stick by their jobs and not. take @ summer: holiday until the

$®obacco and other anti-trust -cases ‘are decided. Of course the letter was most cout teously: worded, but the foregoing is the substance. Hee eal@ate Se the firet time; dines the court was established that anyone

has dared to tell the court to hurry up.

and defended my home and family. I have done nothing wrong and this conviction does not alter the fact. “The trust has one creed, one law, one purpose. That is ‘rule or ruin.’ They “bo not rule John Diets, se they tried for six years to ruin him, This mornifpg it looks as if they have got what they were after. “Tl have done nothing wrong and the State has. And yet it is the State that sends me to jail. It is the State 7

Dietz ignored the suggestion. The Court also advised Dietz to get an attorney. Judge Reid overruled the motion for a new trial, but gave Diets ton days in Which to file exceptions. — All through the trial Dietz had been his own lawyer, conducting his caso in — a way that did not conform in the otathibey the law the Judge had given him: 4 2 great deal of leeway. < Deputies Get Dietz After Having x Tried Ten Times to Capture Him The surrender of Dietz occurred last October. It was the tenth time the deputies had tried to” capture | him in the last six years. A fierce battle had been waged for Lours between the Dietz family in their cabin and barn and nearly 100 ricked ‘sharpshooters sworn in as deputy sheriffs in the woods. The girl’s appearance was the signal for s cessation of the depurfes’ fire. No shots had come from the house for several minutes before Helen Dietz appeared, weeping. Dietz asked assurance that he be safely conducted to Winter with Rls family. This was promised, and Fa- ther Philon went to the cabin with the deputies to handcuff Dietz. The whole Dietz family was taken to Winter in an automobile. but John r

Lietz and his son, Leslie, were bro to Hayward, the county seat, alr immediately, for safekeeping. Mrs. I -and children were taken to « hotel morning. Besides the killing of Sieisiie Dietz was shot through the hand, Cbleptich’s right ear was shot off, C John Dietz was shot by was found on a hill behind cabin with a bullet Panne’ He, with Mont Wiley, and William Rankin, all deputies, ha tried to crawl to a place of vantage 1 the lumber piles near the Dietz bart when a well-diercted bullet hit him.” Dietz a Popular Hero While — Fighting the Lumber Company Dietz lived ina rvde log cabin 12 $600,000, strung along the bottoms of | ss miles from Wipter, a new station on @ branch on the Omaha, 157 miles north- east of Minneapolis. With his wife and six children. Dietz was far removed from courts and their officers. To reach his home it’ was necessary to drive 12 miles through a hardwood for- est. The Dietz home stcod on a bill in a clearing a stone’s throw from Thorn Apple River. Some 80 rods south of the cabin was the famous “Cameron dam,” which brought Dietz so much notoriety. In a nutshell, Dietz maintained that the Chippewa Lumber and Boom Co. employed him to watch the Price dam on the Brunette River some years ago and promised to sell him land in the vicinity for $250 an acre. The com- pany utterly repudiated.this claim for 5 days’ work in watching Frice dam, and his claim for damages because “Of flowage from the Cameron dam. greater part of the Cameron dam was Thorn Apple River. The matter was fought out in courts, Dietz ignoring the entire pro- ceedings, and Judge Parrish's was entirely in favor of the lumber com pany. Dietz, who had aroused the dignation of the Court by his to appear and by his many “acts o outlawry,” was roasted to a turn by the Judge. Strong as an Ox. Deitz is about 6 feet 10 inches im height, of sandy complexion, Penetrating blue eyes, a good a large, pleasant mouth, a bald great on one of his “forties” and te im- cove mediately proceeded to make Fa e the lumber company. Controlling dam, he refused to allow the company head of water to | and because of the