St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 15, 1911

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PANVASS PROVES THAT INCOME TAX WILLBE RATIFIED Post-Dispatch Correspond- ents Find Necessary Five States Will Approve, in Addition to Thirty Which Already Have Indorsed It. EIGHT ARE PLACED iN DOUBTFUL LIST ‘Action by Some of the Com- monwealths to Be Delayed Because Their Legislatures Will Not Be in Session Un- til 1913. A canvass of prospects for the Fed- @ral income tax amendment by corres- pondents of the Post-Dispatch in cap- ftals of states not yet definitely com- mitted on the proposition favors the adoption of the measure, but not this year and possibly not next. It pequires the vote of 35 states, through their legislature, to become ef- fective, being three-fourths of the total number. As 30 have declared for it and @eannot revoke their action, and as Rhode Isiand, Vermont and Connecticut have rejected it and may be set down @s permanently opposed, the issue is left to the determination of 17 States. The correspondents report that public Opinion will probably swing at least the required five of them for the amend- ment. Their forecast is as follows: For. Doubtful. — ee 1 seer eeeeereee 1 New Hampshire ....... Massachusetts New Jersey Virginia West Virginia ............. Loulsiana Utah “iinnsylvania .... nesota ansas DEE Geb bnvedobvccescces yoming eeeeeeraeeeeee Bee 1 eeeeeev ee eee eee aeeee eertreeeveeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eee eeeeeeeaeeeeeeee eee eee Reese seen eeee New Hampshire, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Virginia, West Virginia, Louist- ana and Utah have already given partial approval, one branch of the legislature favoring and the other opposing the moasure. The New Hampshire legisla- ture will not meet again until 1913, and sentiment is not fixed there, but action fis expected in the other States within a year, How Mansachunetts Stands. Gov. [oss of Massachusetts, be- lieves in the tax and has urged it and now that it is laid aside for the pres. ent year, public opinion is veering ‘his way. The Democrats will put an income tax plank in their plat- form, following last year's precedent, and the Republicans will not openly oppose it. They were content last year to straddle the issue. It is thus likely to be agitated with some effect in the approaching legislative campaign. The politicians expect the next legislature to adopt it Gov. Wilson sent a message to the New Jersey legislature “urging the amendment, but in the confusion of sentiment in that body, ratification. failed, The fall elections will make many changes in the legislature. In the opinion of those --ho keep close watch on tendencies in that Stata, the next legislature will adopt tho amendment, as it has strong public support, : i : Virginia Not Intereated.! Virginia has displayed little fnter- est in the measure. The Senate, last session, voted almost’ unani- mously for it and the House of Dele- gates rejected it. Speaker Richard EH. Bird led the opposition. It 's Buppored that he and his aliiad political interests will again fight it and public opinion is lukewarm re- @arding it. It is not an issue in a single legislative district. The State may be classed as doubtful. Although sentiment is not pronounced ia West Virginia the impression there f+ that the amendment has a fair chance with the next legislature. Only one vote Was Cast against it out of 8 in the House of Delegates last session. The Democrats leaders talked it down in the Serate, which rejected it by a vote of 17 to 13. Louisiana Is for It. Louisiana is counted for the amend- “Ment. In the last session Gov. dum. His influence prevailed jin the Senate, although the House voted af- firmatively. Gov, Sanders has since pub- licly announced that he favors ratifica- tion, Uias removing the only active op- _ pesition, All the candidates for Gov- - @rner at the coming election are for the - amendment. The Utah legislature will not convene a avai wat 1915. The amendment was ee last winter through the activi. of Gov. William Spry, who urged if there is to be an Income tax the ates should be the beneficiaries. Spry wil ‘run again for Governor and if elect. 3 he ¥ fli no doubt use his Influence as | m+ Democrats favor the tax, ae

|ONE (REAL) HORSE POWER AEROPLANE COMES TO GRIEF Motor Runs Away, Spark Plug Troubles and Boy’s Rib Is Rroken in Fall. Harold Edmiston, of Marissa, southeast of Belleville is suffering from a broken *‘b and numerous bumps and bruises because of his attempt to ride i. a motorless and rudderiless acro- plane. The plane was built by Frank linger, Fhillip Schneider and Roland Matthews of Marissa. It is 20 feet long, 8 feet wide and of the Wright type. The boys did not have the price of a motor or 4a rudder, so they pressed a family horse into service to give the proper momen- tum for a glide. The plane nicely with each of the bullders. Edmiston expressed a desire to take a trip as a passenger. Finger volun- teered to act as pilot. Dobbin was hitched to the affair and a few sharp licks with a whip were given. The animated motor started off at a dead run and the machine rose grace- fully until a counter current of air was met. That was too much for the craft and it turned turtle and stopped the horse so quickly it ' heen balky ever since. Both the pilot and spilled 15 feet to the ground. escaped injury. GOVERNOR COLQUIT READ OUT OF CHURCH Methodist Bishop Criticises Texas Executive for His Stand on Prohibition. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., July 15.—Bishop E. D. Mouson of the Methodist Episco- pal Church, South, has read Gov. O. B. Colquitt of Texas out of the Methodist Church. Colquitt has been throughout the State against

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campaigning the pro- on July 22. In addressing an audience yesterday, Bishop Mouson said: ‘“T am one of the executive officers of the Methodist Church. I deem it appropriate to say this much because a man who is to speak in this city to- night is going over the State claiming to be a Methodist—professing it with his mouth while denying it with his deeds. “There is a rule of the Methodist Church, a rule as old as John Wesley, which forbids in toto the use of in- toxicants by members of the Methodist Church except on the prescription of a physician and then only as one would use any other drug. The Methodist Church is a prohibition church.” LAWYER WOULD BURN ABSOLUTE LIFE BOOK De Woody Will Ask Court for Order to Destroy Writing oF S.A. See. CHICAGO, July 15.—‘‘Absolute Life on Trial’ and the “Book of Truth,” the two books which played a prominent part in the tria! of Evelyn Arthur See, who was convicted of the abduction of Mildred Bridges Thursday night, b rned if J. G. de Woody, special agent of the United States Department of Jus- tice, can obtain an order of court. De Woody, in whose custody are the only copies now known to exist, announced yesterday that he would ask the }le4- eral Court to order their destruction after the summer vacation of the judges has ended. “IT am going to do everything I can to Leve these books destroyed,” said De Woody. “It would be criminal to allow them to be published.”’ NOW THE ARMY IS TO BE INVESTIGATED

Congress Will Look Into Affairs in Pay Department Since January 1905. TASHINGTON, July 15.—Investiga- tion, will be made of the record of Maj. Beecher B. Ray of the Pay Department of the Army, says the Army and Navy Register. It is said that in response to a resolution by Covington of Maryland, calling for information “relative to charges of misconduct on the part of officers of the Pay Department since Jan. 1, 1905,”"" the department returned in- complete records in the case of Maj. Ray. 4 Allega’'o-s are made that he had been the beneficiary of favoritism in the mat- ter of frequent and prolonged leave even when cther officers did not get such leave as they were entitled to under the regulations. AVIATOR MARS’ INJURIES SLIGHT

Sande: « 3 oOppowrl ratificatien without a referen- ' ——— oo Physicians Expect He Will Be Able to Leave Erie, Pa., Hos- pital Within 10 °Days. ERIE. Pa.. July .—J. C. (Bud) Mars, aviator. who was hurt in a fall with his acroplane yesterday, will be able to leave the hospital in about ten days. This announce- ment was made by the attending physicians today. Mars’ inujries are not nearly so se- vere as at first reported. He has a slight fracture of the skull, which is not serious, but no other bones are broken and beyong a slight hemorrhage of the lungs, which was stopped this morning, there is no internal injuries apparent. Because of the accident to Mars’ machine the aviation meet has been called off. Mars recently returned from a trip around

the world, Finger * DENCEN GOT FIRST PAPER CONTAINING JACK POT STORY ’ Governor Tells Lorimer Commit- tee He Was in Newspaper Of- fice When It Was Printed.

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Planned Special Session, Then Refused to Convene Ac- cused Lawmakers.

Associated Press, WASHINGTON, of Lorimer By 15.—Gov. De- figured in the July neen Illinois, who sensatorial fight again test- before the Senate lorimer It third foccupancy the ified today the day of ef Committee. was witness that he would conclude before adjournment. The sionsof the alignment of the factions Deneen'’s stand, and it was expected hearing opened with a discus- in Illinois politics in connection with the Hanev senatorial contest. Attorney suggested that none of the followers of Chauncey Dewey or John R. Thompson voted for Lorimer until after a senatorial conference, held in the Governor's office. Deneen replied that the purpose of that meeting was to prevent their followers from vot- ing for Lorimer. Special Session Calleq Off. Gov. Deneen said that before the pub- lication of the alleged White confes- sion James Keely, publisher of the Chi-

hibtion amendment, which will be voted | ‘special session of the legislature be call- will be,

| se nator, cago Tribune, suggested to him that a ed to consider the Lorimer case. The witness said, after the publication he tentatively wrote a message proposing a special session. At a consultation with his -advisers, however, the conclusion was reached that the investigating com- mittee probably would consist of the men who were guilty and the special session was not called. Gov. Deneen told of being'*in the of- fice of the Tribune the night the White story Was printed. He said he read probably the first copy printed and walked out with it hidden under his vest. He explained that he was warned that everyone leaving the building that night would be searched. White’s reference to the $30,000 loss to the corruption ‘‘jackpot”’’ because of the Governor vetoing one bill was taken up. Gov. Deneen said that he had ex- amined his vetoes and ‘‘guessed’’ White was referring to the ‘‘Corporation bill,’’ revising the corporation laws of the State. Gov. Deneen said he vetoed it because it allowed “a barber shop to incorporate and buy a railroad.’ The witness said a large number of leading lawyers of the State had seen him in behalf of the Dill. Harvester Agent Called. “Did Mr. Bancroft, general counsel of the International Harvester Co., see you about not vetoing the bill?’’ asked Hanecy. “I do not recall whether he called be- fore or after the bill was passed.’ The witness added that he did not know whether Bancroft favored the feature of the bill which was Objectionable to Deneen., Touching on the election of Shurt- leff as speaker in the legislature which elected Lorimer, Hencey asked if Deneen had not said in the pres- ence of J. W. Ford Jr., and Repre- sentative D. D. Browneback that “he would defeat Shurtleff if it was nec- essary to use all the patronage to tT" “IT never do did,” replied the Governor, He that Ford claimed at one conversation that Deneen was using all the prestige to that purpose. Dentes Favoring Lorimer. Gov. Deneen denied that he had said to Representative Charles Durfee when Durfee announced to him that was going to leave Hopkins for Lorimer that Lorimer would be elect- ed and the election would be satis- factory to him, “I tried to prevent Durfee voting for Lorimeg,’’ said the Governor, “and sug- gested to him that I probably would have to call a special session of the leg- islature in the fall to pass on water- way matters and in the meantime the Senatorial candidates would fight the matter out before the people.” Conversations Gov. Deneen had with frank .B. Noyes, then publisher of the Chicago Record-Herald were gone into. The witness denied that Noyes had said t. him that ‘‘Lorimer was the only Re- nublican who could take or consistently have the office of Senator by Demo- cratic votes.”’ He also denied that Noyes had told him “that if an attempt was made by Lorimer to elect Shurtleff that every vote the newspapers could control would be thrown to Hop- kins and Hopkins would be elected.’ ‘Testimony Near End. . “Il do not recollect any such con- versation and do not recall any con- versation in which he claimed that he could contro) any votes in the Legis- lature,” added Gov. Deneen. When the committee adjourned for luncheon Hanécy said he hoped to finish his cross-examination in about an hour. added he

Se *. Thaw Marl tn Bankruptcy. LONDON, July 15.-—-The Earl of Yarmouth, former husband of Alice Thaw, sister of Harry Thaw, was in the bankruptcy court yesterday or the petition of money lenders to

j Whom he owes $2000. | WILL THE QUAGKS AND DOPES GET DR. WILEY’S GOAT? TITANIC CONTEST WATCHED RY ARMY OF MICROBES

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By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatich, NEW YORK, July. 1.—Warwick M. Hough of St. Louis, who, as attorney for the Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ As- sociation, wrote the definition of whisky which was after a_ bitter fight of sev- eral years adopted by President Taft as the official definition, reached New York this morning after a motor trip through the Adirondacks. Hough takes issue with the statements that he represented the Whisky Trust or that he wrote the definition for ‘‘So- licitor McCabe, which superseded the opinion of Dr. Wiley.’ He said that the Wholesale Liquor Dealers’ Associa- tion was distinctly not the trust, but the independent dealers allied against the trust, and that it was the trust which wanted the word ‘“‘whisky”’ to be applicable only to the unrectified distil- lation of grain, the rule favored by Dr. Wiley, a concoction which Hough's clients assert was impure and injurious. The Hough definition, which is now the law in this country is the “any potable distilled spirit from grain is whisky.” This definition, Hough said, he had been insisting upon for years, but had been overruled by Dr. Wiley, who wanted the word confined only to the straight spirit. Solicitor McCabe also took with Hough, although he did not gu as far as Dr. Wiley. He tried to teke a middle ground, and restrict the use of the word to any potable distilled spirit that indicated its or- igin, but Hough said he had over. turned the McCabe view by proving that no expert in the country could tell the origin of distilled liquor which had been placed in similar containers, as whisky or brandy placed in charred containers absorbed the same qualities to such an extent one could not be told from the other. Hough makes no secret of antag- onism to Dr. Wiley and says he ought not to be in the powerful po- sition he holds, but he says that up to the time he severed Jhis connec- tion with the Wholesale’ Liquor Dealers’ Association, that body ha never made any effort to have the doctor ousted and he was absolutely sure no such effort had been made since he retired from the case. He said his connection with the association expired two years agen. but that he had continued to repre- it in the one controversy with Wiley. TODAY'S SCORES NATIONAL LEAGUE. 2 @ 8 84. Fe 8 CARDINALS AT BROOKLYN. MOOoOLILLDILII Meo OOOO Co Batteries: Cardinals, Sallee and Bresnahan: Brooklyn, Rucker and Er- win. U mpires—Klem and Brennan. PITTSBURG AT PHILADELPHIA, | ioe ee) PHILADELPHIA. CII) issue sent Dr.

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FREE GOLF LINKS POSSIBLE HERE Al A NOMINAL GUS Samuel Rosenfeld Reporis on In- spection Made in Parks at Chicago.

The construction of free golf links in St. Louis {is recommended and ‘:s declared feasible at small cost by Samuel Rosenfeld of the Westwood Country Club in his report to Park Commissioner Davis on the free links conducted in Chicago. He states in the report that the park commisstion- ers of Chicago say that the free golf links there have proved the most popular feature of the parks, and have continually grown in § favor since they were established. Rosenfeld went to Chicago at the request of Davis to investigate the eonditions there regarding the popu larity and cost of the links. He says that the records show that last vear more than 400,000 persons played on the free links in Chicago. The play- ers ranged in age from 8 vears to 92 years. Fight per cent of the play- ers Were women, 10 per cent were boys and 82 per cent were men em. ploved in various capacities who could not afford to become members of expensive golf clubs, the report States. The Chicago links were laid out at nominal expense, according to Rosen- feld. The park employes prepared the tees and greens and laid out the courses. A shelter house for players was built for $2500, and toilets were constructed at a cost of $800 each. There are two free golf links in Jack- son Park. One is an 18-hole course and the other nine holes. The annual ex- of maintaining the two courses aggregates $7200, according Rosen- feld. This includes a starter for each course at $75 a month, a head attend- ant, assistant attendants, janitors, wom- en attendants, green keepers and labor to keep greens, sand boxes and hazards in satisfactory condition. The Chicago links were opened to the public-in 1899. In 1901 the average oum- bers of players daily was 600. The links were closed on Sundays. In 1907 the number of players grew to more’ than 165,000, The links were overhauled in 1906 and many changes made by an expert. The cost was $704.64. This expense is the only item of sufficient importance to be charged against the courses for improvements or maintainance in the ll years the links have been open to the Rosenfeld says. Davis is and pense LO public, Park Commissioner thusiastiq@ over the report clared Saturday that the cost of pro- viding free links in Sf. Louis will be nominal if the Chicago plan is follow- ed. At his request, other St. Louis golfers are investigating conditions in other cities where they have Pffee links, and will report to him. soon. Davis expects to be able in a short time to outline a practical plan by which free links can be constructed at a small cost which can be paid out of the apprepriations made by the city. GIRL THRUSTS KNIFE INTO HEART BY FALL NEW YORK, July .—"I'm not hyrt mother, but please take this knife out of my heart,” 15-year-old Helen Wini- man moaned as Mrs. Winiman found her en- de-

prostrate on the floor of their kitchen, last night. The girl had fallen and been impaled upon a potato knife which she was playfully brandishing. The mother drew out the knife and ran screaming for a doctor. Returning, she found the girl poe

BOTTLER HANGS HIMSELF AGAINST FAGE OF A GLIFE Ties Rope to Tree and Neck, and Jumps—Found Suspended at South Broadway Bluff.

Charles Schmoll of 2863 South Eight- eenth street, a member of the bottlers’ division of the United Brewery Work- ers of America, killed himself by tying one end of a rope to a tree and the other about his neck and throwing him- self down a cliff in the rear of 5130 South Broadway Friday night. His body was found at 9 a. m. Saturday hanging against the face of the hank. ‘The discovery was made by William Thorp of 6412 South Broadway and Wil- liam Tweddle of 5813 Water street as they were passing along the Iron Moun- tain track at the foot of the bluff. They called Patrolman Mullen and Cramer. The body was hanging about twenty feet above the track., While Cramer went for a ladder Mullen climbed up to the body and severed the rope. - The nody fell to a ledge near the track and was carried down the rest of the way by Tweddle. In the pockets were found a union card which served to identify the body, a pawn ticket which showed that a watch had been pledged Friday for $, four pennies and news- papers opened at the want ad pages. The body is at the morgue. “JEP” HOWE LOSES SUIT FOR CARDINALS

Supreme Court Dismisses Appli- cation for Mandamus Against Judge Holtcamp. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, July 15.—The Su- bane today preme Court en overruled the application for a mandamus filed by D>, of St. Probate Judge Holtcamp of that city to latter to vacate an order ap- pointing A. Kk. Steininger executor of the estate of M. Stanley Robison, former owner of the St. Louis Cardinals. The Probate Judge previously had ap- pointed A. E, Steininger executor of the estate. Howe contended that as F. N. Abercrombie was named executor by Robison in his will that the Probate Court acted without authority in the premises. The Court denied the application for the writ without prejudice, which means that a similar application may be ap- plied for in the St. Louis circult courts or appellate courts. BANKS MUST NAME DEPOSITORS’*TO BOARD supreme Court Rules Seats Must Be Given in Tax Equalization Matters. JEFGrFERSON CITY, Mo., July l6.— The Supreme Court of Missouri today held that county boards of equalization have the power to compel bankers to give lists of depositors and the amounts of their deposits for purposes of equal- ization. The case decided was from Greene County where William B. Sanford, a bank cashier, was held in contempt for refusing to give the depositors’ names Jeptha Howe Louis against compel the

and amounts. The Court refused to re-. lease Sanford on a writ of habeas cor-

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SADDLER ACCUSED UF SADDLING SELF WITH EIGHT WIVES Women From Over Half the Continent Call H. F. Nelson Husband.

SHREVEPORT, La., Julw b.—H. F. Nelson, a middle-aged harness manu- facturer, if reports are true, is one of widely married men in the country. Eight wives, from different parts of the United States—as far apart as West Virginia and Texas, call him husband, and seek his punishment for bigamy. Nelson came here a few months ago. bought house and set himself up in the saddlery business. Recently . this burned, and he was arrested for arson. That beean his troubles. From Waris, Tex., came a letter that he had deserted a young wife there, 18 months ago. Within the last few days other letters came, containing similar allegations against Nelson, until the number of women who have set up claim to him has reached the total of eight. With this information the lastgMrs. Nelson, who lives here, has brought big- amy proceedings against Nelson. District Attorney Foster, who tis prose- cuting the case, has not announced the names of the alleged former wives, but he has said that the letters come from Fort Smith, Ark., Memphis, Tenn, Elizabethtown, Ky., Ohio County, West Virginia, Dozier Parish, Louisiana, Paris, Tex., and Dallas, Tex. Foster also has been informed that Nelson had already paid at least one penalty for his marital tendencies, the information being that he served a term in a penitentiary of or ache iad for bigamy. FAIR AND CONTINUED WARM IS PROMISE OF THE WEATHER MAN THE TEMPERATURES.

Yesterday’s Temperatures, High. .89 at 2 p. m, Low. .70 at 5 a. m. “When Greek meets Greek,”’ the saying goes, “in deadly combat do they close.” But that séems rather out of date, from what we have ob- served of late. “When Greek meets Greek,” we often hear as something to in- spire a fear. It intimates the fur “will fly and that a Greek or two must die. Yet, throwing off tradition « haze, when Greek ineets Greek these later days, they do not have a fight at all, but find a crevice in a wall and there.as brothers. hand in hand, they start a new shoe- shining stand. And there they wreck our new straw hats with gasoline and young brickbats So let us then revise that phrase to bet- ter fit the later days, and say, “We fear a mightly slam when Wickersham meets Wickersham."

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‘TOE sid) She Charges Miss Harriet Byington, Who. Lived in : Home, With. Peculations, — and the Disappearance of Great Amount in Bonds and Securities, PART OF MISSING . < ‘ PROPERTY RESTORED | Buying of Two Hundred Dol- lars’ Worth of Roses for’ Spaniels at Dog Show Put Employer on Track— Young Woman Former Nurse. : ters eae Special to the Post-Dispatch, KANSAS CITY, Mo., July 16.—The name of the young woman accused of robbing Mrs. Margaret E. Armour,. s widow of the late 8. B. Armour, of stocks and bonds to the amount ot nearly $150,000 became public today when Mrs. Armour brought suit against Miss Harriet Byington for $142,000. Miss | Byington formerly was Mrs. Armour’s — companion and secretary. 7 , Mrs. Armour sues for the full amount. which she asserts Miss Byington took,” She alleges the wrongful conversion on negotiable bonds and coupons. The De: e tition is short and reads: “Plaintiff complains and alleges that _ at various times between the first day ~ o* August, 1907 and the 27th day of Feb- ruary, 1911, (the exact dates being to plaintiff unknown) defendant wrong- fully took from the possession of plain- tiff, and wrongfully converted to her — own use, negotiable bonds and coupons: © of the aggregate value of one aes) and forty-two thousand dollars ($14. 000), the property of plaintiff, to titf’'s damage in the sum .of. $142,000, which sum together with ipterests costs, plaintiff prays judgment,” “The $142,000 Mrs, Armour seeks te 4 recover from Miss Byington is the — total value of all the bonds and coupons taken,” Judge H. C. Tim- monds, her attorney, said this morn- ing. ‘ “Only $30,000 of the bonds taken have been recovered, while tha bulk — of the property recovered is in the shaps of pictures and rugs. It is° my understanding these pictures and rugs still are stored somewhere in ‘Kansas City and that the value of ~ them has not been determined, : ‘Miss Byington will be entitled to credits when the time comes for the $30,000 in bonds recovered and of the value of the rugs and pictures whefi their value is determined in the proper way under the order of the ~~ court. She probably will ask that — ~ these credits be allowed and even if she does not they will be allowed «n Mrs. Armour’s application just the same. I have had no conversation with Miss Byington and do not know what she has to say about it. We have had no correspondence with her brother in South America,” Makes a Statement, “I would werk my hands to the bons if I could thereby help Mrs. Armour recover all the property that I took from her. Mrs, Armour was my friend © and I would never. have taken the things if I had not been temporarily de- rented. If there is any other property ~ left to be discovered I can be ef mo help for I can recall no place in which § have hidden It.”’ This was the statement made today by Harriet Byington to her attorney, Joseph Stacy. : Stacy believes that his client ts speak- ing the truth. The suit he believes is _ merely to take Miss Byington's deposi- tion. “Mrs. Armour is anxious to learn where the other property is,” Stacy sald today, “and I believe that this “— is to attempt to force Miss Byington te tell how she has disposed of it."’ Stacy expressed the belief that the sult would accomplish nothing. “My client can't tell what she doesn’t know,” he said, “and I believe — her when she says she can't remembér taking anything other than she a ready has returned.” Stacy does not fear any action te the criminal courts. | Mrs. Armour first suepected her — companion at the time of the sumed Kansas City Dog Show in Fiectrig Park last October. Cocker —s for which the young woman ts to have paid $3000, were the cause “ the suspicion. Orders for $200 Werth of Reses. At the opening of the ‘show a florist — announced to the oe, Ont mour had placed pies pet for $200 worth ud au