St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 6, 1911

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the last word.”’ “I should say not.’’ Officia}] forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair tonight and Saturday; cooler tonight; brisk southerly winds shifting to westerly. Stage of the River: of .4 ef a foot. ers After Bennett and Lahm Trophies.

Special to the Post-Disputch. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Oct. 6.—Four of the racing balloons which sailed from here last night have landed, reports re- ceived here up to 1. p. m. show. The America Ii,’ which came down near Emmetsburg, Io., after a fight with 18.3 feet, a rise

Missouri—Generaliy fair tonight and Satur- day; cooler tonight. lllinols-—Generally fatr tonight and Satur- day, xc s “ 4 ‘stor a storm, was the first to report. Topeka : except showers and thunderstorms al 1tD i. Mi é north portion this afternoon or tonight; cool- anded a —e ¢ tN., & few miles er tonight and in south portion Saturday. further on, Berlin I ended its fligin

at Austin, Minn., in the same section, while Buckeye came to the ground near La Crosse, Wis. MAKOWSKY SURE THE JURY IS GRAND THING Stands on Courthouse Steps Two Days Looking for It and Judge Pays Him $9.50. SNOWSTORM DRIVES ST. LOUISANS DOWN

Assmann and ae ‘Battle Frank Makowsky of Benton, Il... a ° miner, was taken to Bellville, Friday, With Elements, and Descend charged with contempt of court in fail- in lowa. ing to anette a a witness before the grand jury, Oct. 26. By Associated Press. Judge Crow found that Makowsky EMMETTSBURG, Io., Oct. 6.—A blind-} could not speak English, and questioned him through an interpreter. He said he did not Know what a grand jury was, never having heard of one before, but that he supposed if it were grand it would be on the pubiie square. So he stood on the Courthouse steps two days looking for it. Makowsky’s name was found on the register of the hotel near where he said ing snowstorm several) thousand feet above the earth forced the balloon America II, which sailed from Kansas City in the international race for the .*ames Gordon Bennett cup, last_ night 10 descend at a point four miles west af here at 1,30 o'clock thts morning. When nearing the ground the b. iloon struck wires along the Chicago, Mil- waukee & St. Paul Railway =nd was| "@ Stopped, an@ the proprietor remem- wrecked {| bered him. Pilot W. F. Assmann escaped ‘without| 5° Judge Crow directed his clerk to injury, but his aid,.J.~*. Hurlburt, was pay Makowsky witness fees and mile- *? , > . . painfully bruised by ng from the| 28° @mounting to $9.50. And Makowsky departed in wonder at the devious ways of American courts. -_- telegraph wires. After the mishap the men found shel- ter in a farmhouse nearby. At 3:30 o’clock Assman notified the Associated Press by telephone of his fanding. He said that he and his companion had been through a most thrilling experience, Hit Snowstorm. Early last night they encountered a

Scores in Today’s Baseball Games NATIONAL LEAGUE. AT BROOKLYN. FIRST GAME. rainstorm and ascended in hope of a aaa Gi: Ge cc oe whe GO BE Me MB... c coves S55 7 Oe Gee es 06% 64 12 (noon) .. 86 FLIGHT IN STORM Yesterday's Temperatures. High, 70 at 5 p. m. Low, 54 at 7 | a. m, Pilot Assmann and Aid Hurl- Bors he gn staan ‘ ‘ MBER TrusT you’ volunteer, burt After Battle With Mane BOARD, said Mrs. R., with 4 ILLS HIGH: n trace of sar- Elements Descend in lowa casm in her voice. “No,’ I'm neith- and Gas Bag Is Entangled er a Turk nor an in Wires; Hurlburt Hurt. oar — . “I wasn’t talk- . . ing about the Their Balloon America II Hit war.” “What then?’ by Snowstorm and After “They are look- ‘ » ing for a man to They Had Tried to Rise debate the suf- ce frage question Above Downpour of Rain. with Mrs. Pank- hurst.”’ ? ‘Not for me, Three Other Racers, Topeka, ity uthlp regent kK ~ have had a great Berlin and Buckey, Also © ayer’ pt Dreptions What do you mean?” Come to the Earth—Oth- “Well, like me, the man who debates : with Mrs. Pankhurst can’t hope to have SHOOTS AT WIFE TWICE WRILE Sat

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Amann Caidls Mrs. Amann Thief and She Calls Him Murderer —He Is Arrested.

A new method of dealing with a wife who extracts money from her husband's pockets was used Friday by Alois Amann, of 2012 Locust street. He awoke at 1:50 a. m. and saw his wife stand- ing at his bedside with his trousers in her hands. He drew a revolver from beneath his pillow and shot at her twice. When Policeman Robert Webb forced his way into the house, a few minutes later, he found Mrs. Amann denounc- ing her husband as a murderer and he frantically shouting back at her that she was a thief. Sorry He Did Not Hit Her. ‘My husband shot at me twice,” Mrs. Amann. ” “Why did you the policeman. “Why did I shoot at her? Didn’t I catch her stealing money out of my pockets’’—— “But,” said the policeman, ‘don’t you know the courts have decided a wife cannot steal from her husband?’’ “What have the courts got to do with my wife stealing from me’’— said shoot at her?’ asked taking money out of your pockets’’—— “Can’t 1? Well, you see I did, don’t ‘ou? I got a right to shoot any thief that takes my money. She’s my wife ond it’s my money, and I have got a right to shoot her if I catch her steal- ing money out of my pockets.. It’s an outrage for you, Mr. Policeman, to come here and tell me I can't shoot my own Wife when she takes my own money.” While this exciting dialogue was go- ing on, Mrs. Amann stood in the hall- way protesting that she had net stolen any of Amann’s money. Pocket Turned Out. Amann’g trousers lay on the floor, with one pocket turned wrong side out. Nickles and dimes, quarters and half dollars were scattered all over the floor. “Somebody has been picking my pock- ets systematically,”’ he said. “I keep saloon on the first floor of my house. Last Saturday night I decided I would eatch the thief. I had my two bar- tenders count the day’s receipts. There was just $95. ‘T went upstairs to bed. Next morn- “2 J counted my money. There was just $85. I called in my bartenders, and they counted it. I then bought a re- verver and put it under my pillow and told my wife I was going to_kill the tuief who had been robbing me. “Tuesday morning I found more money gone. I accused my wife. She said the bartenders or the roomers in the house had robbed me. I told her I knew my tartenders and the roomers were hon- est. “Then I forbade her to enter my room. | I was sleeping with one eye open for the thief Thursday night. When iI heard a noise in my room, I got my re- volver, and then saw my wife standing there with my trousers, going after my money. “Sure I shot at her just as I would shoot at any other thief.’’ Wife Forgives Him. Mrs. Amann called at the holdover at noon, and said she would not prosecute her husband, as she had forgiven him. As the case could not be made without her co-operation, Capt. Schwartz releas- ed the husband, and the two went a ‘+

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' KANSAS CITY. Meo., Oct. 6.—AY pf the nine balloons which went up here yesterday In the Bennett Cup, Lahm ‘Cup and altitude contests, save one, ‘were still in the air at 9 o’clock this ‘morning, according to information at ‘the headquarters of the Aero Club here. The America II landed near Emmetts- burs, Io., at 1:30 o’clock this morning, after weathering a severe storm, All the other balloons are believed to be sailing northward over Minnesota. None of them has been sighted since passing ‘Tarkio, Mo. Before a favorable 2-mile wind from the south and southeast, the eight bal- oons sailed away from here late yes terday. Six of the air craft, three represent- ing the United States, two Germany and one France, are entered in the Eennett race, an annual international evont. The three American balloons in 6th contest and two other American ‘patloons are after the Lahm cup. A ; ‘ninth balleon, which acted as pilot in the dvtermational race. ts attefopting to break the altitude record. , ven ‘Balloons Got Away in Kansas * City. _Bvery be balloonist got away to a good The pilot balloon, Pennsylvania the Anierica IT had trouble get- and

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SEARCHES POCKETS Husband Declares He Has Right “But you can’t shoot at your wife for’

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|AUTO RUNS DOWN BOY; POLICE TRAIL

Splinters of Glass at Scene of Coilision Fit Broken Headlight.

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Prison Term or Heavy Fine Is Penalty for Fleeing From

Victim. Hubert Kurt, 17 years old, lay near death at the city hospital Friday, while policemen, with splinte:s of broken plate glass, fitted tegether the evidence by which they hope to prove a felony charge against ran the youth down in Tower Grove Park Thursday evening and who then speeded away -ahd left him unconscious in the road. The case is the most flagrant violation the; far reported sf the new State law, which makes it a felony, punis. able by imprisonment in the penitentiary, for a motorist to flee under vane conditions. Brown Arreste Brown of 6649 ES EE av- enue, owner of an automobile bearing State license number 1671, is under $2000 bond in the case. His arrest was caused by the alértness of Otto Lange, 17 years old, who heard the crash between the automobile and young Kurt's bicycle, and the call of a woman bystander, “Get the number!’’ In the darkness he applied himwelf so intently to the task of seeing the num- ber that he paid no attention to the shape or color of the car or the num- ber of its occupants. All he saw was the number, 1671, painted in black on the lighted side lamp. Then the ma- chine was gone. He repeated the num- ber to himself until he reached a light, and then, having no paper, he wrote the number with a pencil stub on the flesh of his left forearm. When Brown’s machine was _ fennd, the headlight was found to be brok- en. At the Magnolia Avenue’ Station Friday policemen fitted pieces of glass found at the scene of the accident Into the broken headlight. Brown refused to make 4k direct statement about the matter. Isaac N. Boy Probably Will Die. Hospital physicians said Friday that Kurt was not likely to recover. His skull is fractured at the base, and there is a second parietal fracture at the right side. His face and eyes are swollen, and his body is covered with bruises. Internal injuries are believed to have been inflicted. He is the son of Lawrence R. Kurt of 6247 Magnolia avenue, a printer. i trrother went to the hospital Thursday night to identify him, and was over- come by grief when she found him un- able to recognize her. xXurt, employed as a clerk by the Sim- mcns Hardware Co., had received a bi- cycle as a birthday gift last Wednes- cay. He was riding it through the park shertly after 6 p. m. Thursday, when, 01 a curved roadway, the automobile, a two-seated open car, ran him down, smashing the bicycle and running over him. Miss lulu Helm, daughter of the keep- er of Tower Grove Park, was in the park lodge when a woman, accompanied by a little girl, ran up on the porch and told her an automobilist had killed a man and had not stopped. Miss Helm called Park Superintendent Gurney, who notified the police. She went to the place where the accident occurred and saw a policeman and two men putting Kurt tnto an automobile. Boy Ran to Get Number. Two women who were walking in the park with a little girl saw the acci- dent, and their screams led to the ascer- tainment of the machine’s number. They called to the driver to stop, but he ran on. Otto Lange, 17 years old, of 3197 Portis avenue, who had just walked across the curved roadway on which the automobile a half minute later went west, at a’ point about 50 yards west of where the boy was run down, heard one of the women scream “get the number.” He watched as the ma- OWNER Wa Fee the automobilist who y

BOY KILLED LAD BY ACCIDENT 15 JURY'S VERDICT Witnesses at Inquest Into Death of Eddie Lamb Say Frank ~ Holtman Was Teased. an

“I DIDN’T GO TO DO IT”

Policeman’s Son Declares That He Didn’t Know His Mother’s Revolver Was Loaded.

|; Ten-year-old Eddie Lamb’s death was a Coroner's jury concluded Frank Holtman, an accident; Iriday, after hearing ‘also aged 10, tell how he had fired the bullet which almost instantly ended the other boy's life. He said he did not know the revolver was loaded. Eddie lived at 2919 Montgomery street, and Frank at 2506 Bacon street. The youthful slayer testified that Eddie was one of a gang of boys who had beaten and teased him, and that he took the revolver, with his mother’s consent, in- that the boy did not know the revolver The verdict was returned after the dead boy's mother had made a remark-

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able plea to the jury for clemency for Frank. The inquest left unsolved the question whether the bullet was fired directly at Eddie, or rebounded from the granit- oid paving. The autopsy. showed that the bullet was flattened; but ranged downward through Eddie’s chest, in- stead of upward, as might be expected if # had been deflected from the pave- ment. All the testimony of eye-wit- nesses was that Eddie was standing upright. Dr. F. W. Abeken, who made the autopsy, touch a bone, and the fact that it is flattered is regarded by him and by po- licemen as mystifying. Frank Testifies. Frank, in blue Knickerbockers, with a turned-down white collar, told his story to the jury without apparent nervous- ness, in a clear, childish voice. He ex- plained that his mother told him to go to market for a steak and bread, and that he got her consent to take the re- volver., He knew she had emptied it the night before. Mrs. Holtman’s testimony and her

chine passed him in the darkness, and says he saw plainiy that the number was 1671. To a Post-Dispatch reporter Lange gave a vivid account of the manner in which he detected the number and the circumstances that he says make it positive to his mind that he could not be mistaken in it. At Junction of Roads. “The spot where Kurt Was run down by the automobile,” related Lange, “‘is at the junction of the Tower Grove en- trance road and the second curved road leading west. The second curved road begins only about forty yards from the point where the first curved road starts nearer to the entrance to the park. The curves in the two roads bring them together, so that with thé entrance road or main road for a base they form a small triangle. I had just crossed at the juncture of the two roads or the apex of the triangle, when I heard a shrill cry in a woman's terrified voice: “ ‘Get the number.’ “T looked down the second curved road a distance of about fifty yards or so and saw the lights of an automo- bile starting to advance towards me slowly. Hid in Shadow. ‘Instinctively I knew that someone. had been hurt, and that the automobile’ was trying to get away. It was very

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dark, but thinnKing that I might = husband’s, corroborating this point, | showed that when the weapon was “‘broken,”’ to throw the shells out, one of them sometimes stuck. When Frank reached the point in his narrative where he turned to threaten Eddie with the revolver, he rose from the witness chair and illustrated the position he took, holding an imaginary’ weapon with both hands down in front of him, to fire at the ground. He was on the stand only a few minutes, as his testimony followed that of others who had gone into details about the tragedy, and the quarrels preceding St. Mrs. Holtman testified that after her son left the house on the marketing errand she thought that there might be a loaded cartridge in the revolver and ran out to recall her son. “IT couldn’t make him hear me,” she s#id, “and I called:to Mamie Powers, a little girl who lives next door, to run and tell him not to pull the trig- ger. Just then he came running back toward the house, with Eddie chasing him, and I saw him turn and fire the shot.” Mrs. Holtman ran out into the street, and the boy gave her the revolver. She testified to the trouble he had had with, the other boys, and how, on Tuesdey, and again on Wednesday, they had beaten him. The shooting cqvagren b 5! ednesday. awe an, a lagi nA craven, Det oer Ps

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Lad Pleads for His Boy Slayer HE mother of. 10-year-old Ed- - ward Lamb made a dramatic plea for clemency for the lad who had killed her son during the inquest into the boy’s death. . Leav- * ing a seat near the railing, she walked to Deputy Coroner Fath’s table and, clasping her hands ner- vously in front of her, addressed him and the jury in turn: “Gentlemen,” she said, her voice breaking, “I don’t want this little boy to be punished. He couldn't help it. God help his poor mother, who has to be here this’ morning and listen to this testimony. Her boy is just the same age as mine. dé Fen was a good boy, al- though he had no guardian but me. He was my only child. It may be that if he hadn't been killed this way he would have died in some other way before he became aman. I can’t stand to listen to this. Please let the boy g0.”" Mrs. Lamb spoke in a low strain- ed. volce, but amid a silence se tense that it carried to every part of the room. “You needn't stay if you care to go,"" said Fath and Mrs. Lamb, the tears overflowing, walked from the room alone.

conducted the inquiry, observed, ‘“‘That is a terrible custom.” “I Know ‘it,” Mrs. Holtman replied, “and I am sorry now. I'd rather have my own boy_killed than the other one.”’ “Don't you know it was careless to 1et the boy have a revalver?’’ “Yes, but I didn’t realize it until too late.”’ Mrs. Holtman was dressed in black. Fleven-year-old Emmett Lally of 2407 Coleman street was standing 150 feet away when the shooting occurred. He said he saw Eddie Lamb running after Frank_ and noticed that Frank had a revolver. Then he saw Frank turn and fire the shot. Emmett testified that he jad fought Frank Tuesday, ut said Eddie wasn’t. present. Patrolman William Holtman, father of the youthful slayer, identified the revolver ag an old one belonging to him, which he ieft at home for his wife's protection when he was out or his beat at night. He said his wife told him about unloading the revolver Tuesday afternoon before using it to frighten away some boys of the neigh-| borhood who had chased ‘Frank home and were throwing stones at the house. Frank had run into the house with his nose bleeding and his face bruised from a beating the other boys had given |.

oth ATTORNEY IN SUIT FOR DIVORGE USES SELF AS WITNESS Lawyer Wright Asks Corespond- ent Wright About Action Toward Mrs. Bertram.

Attorney Joseph T. Wright, named as corespondent in the divorce suit of William C, Bertram against Anne Bertram, as counsel for Mrs, Bertram put himself on the witness stand in Judge Shield’s court Friday. Wright as an attorney interrogated himself at length as to his relations with Mrs, Bertram. He asked himself numerous embarrassing questions, but always answered them to his own -satisfac- tion, in one of them declaring that “no squarer man on earth could be foung than Mr. Wright, the attorney.” Hardly less unique than Wright's ex- amination of himself was his. question- ing of his wife, which followed, She ‘said she had confidence in him, and thought him, if anything, too honorable) and conscientious to be a lawyer. She admitted, on cross-examination, that she had at one time been “curious” about his acquaintance with Mrs. Bertram, and had gone to Mrs. Bertram’s house to see what he was doing there. She denied that she wore a disguise, or that she shed tears. Works at Postoffice. Attorney Wright, it developed, is @ Postoffiee clerk, and usually attends to his law practice after his dally work ends at 3 p. m., Witness Wright was at a loss how fo proceed when Attorney Wright put him on the stand. He had a list of ques- tions that as an attorney he wished to ask himself. He handed the Hist of questions, to Mrs. Bertram, and re- quested that she read them. But Judge Shields intercepted Mrs. Bertram, and said that she was a defendant and not a lawyer, and that it was improper for her to be required to conduct her own case to the extent of interrogating her the’ case. . Kel Attesney and. Witnemy * Wright in “Mr. W attorney for Mrs. Bertram?”

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One hundred and thirteen jail ers, temporarily confined in the old 1 over in the Four Courts building,” rescued from suffocation. by su fumes Friday afternoon, after Therese Gorman, operator of the Courts telephone exchange, had ered their peril. The fumes came from nearly 200 pa of sulphur which had been ignited the jail by sanitary officers of the ae) Heakh Department to fumigate the prison. oo Before the fumigation was begun, the men prisoners were crowded into old holdover in the basement and & women prisoners were taken to Cen District Police Station, a block away. Saved by Telephone been vol Miss Gorman Was at her switch in the Cireult Attorney's office on t me second floor when sulphur fumes = into the roem, Clerks and ,oth — ‘taches of the office fled, but Miss man remained at hér post though b ed and half choken by the fumes. Sie remembered having heard that the prisoners were in the basement. , Gropingly putting a plug in switchboard she called Police Young’s office and gave the alarm. she called Chief Deputy Sheriff F ; ee Chief Young with a force of policemen : and Huber with eight deputy a started to the Four Courts Pe % Unable to see their way they pushed & 3 through the sulphurous fumes. a. 3 deputy sheriffs took with them chains which are used to handcuff oners to when they are being taker. the pentientiary. Men Dragged te Street. > As they went down the stairs into. basement they could hear the ! oned men coughing and gasping breath. In the holdover they felt a for the prisoners, and depsite the fu they handcuffed # to a chain and them out. Most of the men were to stand and had to be dragged to street on their knees. Some had orrhages from the lungs and others at the nose. All were coughing. some could scarcely breathe. SS) In a few minutes # more a eae a were taken out. In the third lot oe 23. The, tember were Seer iah aera Sy deputies and policemen. é Prisoner's Condition Serious, —_ Henry Thiebold, a prisoner, was in fo serious a condition that he was to the city dispensary after milk been given as an antidote. | Richard Wall and John Nichols, Pag guards in charge of the prisoners Ih the old holdover, said afterwards th ye the fumes were s0 overwhelming they could not call for ald and that they would have perished but for Mh Gorman. es The fumes spread throughout the Fo Courts Building, causing Judges Mil and Falkenhainer to adjourn court. _ Toe Attaches of the Circuit Attorney's 4 # fice escaped through the Eleventh entrance of the building. GIRLS WILL PLAY MARBLES WITH ee Special to the Post-Dispatch. CINCINNATI, Oct. 6—The