St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 17, 1911

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ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 17, 1914.

in n German and — Ter- very and Peoplé Flee in Panic—Cracks Opened in Castle Hohenzollern _ Tower. GREAT CONSTANCE. SPIRE TUMBLES F ———— Stuttgart, Munich, Strasebere and Mayence ~ Badly Damaged—Theater _Panics in Heidelberg, Muelhasen and in Swit- _zerland. BERLIN, Nov. 17.—The earthquake of last night, which was felt in a wide aera of Central Europe, severely damaged the castle of Hohenzollern, on the steep, Zollerberg, near Hechin- _ gen, Prussia. Statues were disfigured ) and great cracks appeared in the tow- ers. . At Constance, in the Grand Duchy of Baden, the spire and cross of the eathedral, the most imposing building in the city, fell. A colossal statue of Germania, which crowned the postof- fice building, tumbled into the street. ane —* om of Wuertemburg was 500 frightened persons night around fires in an. ñ— — sate —— in —* and the alarm gen- s¢ thah would have wee case in countries where seis- em. Great cracks of several ggg Tewns Rocked. + Btu rt felt the movement strong- on — rocked, pictures fell from | fhe walls and furniture was tumbled abor Reports from Munich, Strass- and Mayence tell of similar ex- There was © panic in the theater at “Hotael rg. ear utlingen a rail- | ‘Way viaduct fell in. Several buildings, including 8t. itephen’s Church, were dameged at Mueingusen and a large stone was on from the church steeple. sicke and tiles from disturbed * litter the streets there. J— theater audience stampeded. eo = nae in the walls at 10:27 o’clock last night. ‘was especially strong in the of Berne and Zurich, in the of. Ijterlaken and throughout or of the Alps. So far as known

~ She Declines to Say Whether She t $16,000 Because Liquor Was Sold Husband, oa ne J. B. Warden. of Litchfield, m., announe —— grams of. her- : “and Cla “TFAIR AND COLDER = WEATHER TONIGHT THE TEMPERATURES.

Yesterday's Temperatures. OF oy 52 at 4 p. m.; low 29 at 5 “Who are those men drawn up in tine there?” ask- ed the one with the fat cigar. ‘“‘Barbers who shaved him when he was here.’”’ ‘““And who are those fellows with flat feet in double file on the other corner?” Malters served him.“ “And those old fellows with _ the e{ik hats?” — “Prominent cit- zens who showed Aim the Planters House.”’ “Shaved whom? Served whom? Shov.ed whom? “Charlies Dickens. His son is coming to town and they’re going to make him feel at home.” Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Generally fair tonight and Saturday; colder tonight, with low-

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high winds shifting to westerly, Stage of the river: 10.8 feet, a fall of .2 of a foot. Missouri—Generally fair ‘tonight and Sat- urday; colder tonight. Illinoie—Generally fair weather tonight and Saturday, except rain, turning to snow, in north and central portions tonight; much eolder tonight; high, shifting winds. TRUTH PREVAILS | OVER GIRL’S LOVE She Refuses to Swear Age Be- : cause She Does Not Know It. For once truth was stronger than love at Clayton, the St. Louis County Gret- na Green, Friday. Miss Ida Lorenz and John F. Osborn, both of O’Fallon, Ill., went there to get. @ marriage license. Both seemed to be of legal age, and Deputy Recorder Ahlers filled out the papers. “Now, as a matter of form you will have to swear to your ages,”’ said he. The young woman seemed embar- —

“I can’t swear that I’m 18, though I believe I am,” she said. “My parents died when I was a baby and I have no ) birth certificate.” “Tiotigh Osborn pleaded with her, Miss Lorenz could not be induced even to swear that to the best of her knowledge and belief she was of. legal age. She» and Osborn departed without the license. BURIED ALIVE FOR TWENTY MINUTES Laborer in Kansas City, Kan., ‘ Rescued Uninjured After Thrilling Experience. KANSAS CITY, Mo.,| Nov. 17.~—After teing buried alive 20 minutes under several tons of clay, Neil Thomas a laborer of Kansas City, Kan., was res- cued by fellow workmen. Thomas was working in a deep trench when the earth caved in over him. A ladder fell across his body dnd kept the

him. “They tell me it was only 20 minutes,” he said; when he’ was taken out unin- jured, “but it seemed like hours. I could hear the men's spades and their. voices, but they sounded a long way off. est temperature about 28 degrees; | LECTURE ARE 700 JEALOUS: CHAMP CLARK OUT Speaker, in St. Louis, Says They Are Worse Than Opera Man- agers About Stars. MADE HIM BREAK PROMISE Wants to Finish His Benton Bi- ography and Says It Will Be Interesting. The . literary career of Speaker Champ Clark has been nearly. blasted by politics and the Chautauqua cir- cuit. Arriving in St. Louis Friday, Speaker Clark lamented the fact that pressure of political and. lecture du- ties had made it impossible for him to complete his biography of Thomas H. Benton. ~ Having written 120,000 words por- traying the life of the Missouri states. man, Speaker Clerk declared that he had found himself absolutely without time to write the remaining 20,000, “And that book will be more intcr- esting than any novel ever written,” he said. “But 1 don’t see any chance to finish it in the next five years. “Now I am done business. These Chautauqua bureaus, if you dicker with them long enough, will certainly get your goat. They are more jealous of their lecturers than opera managers are of their stars. “ Cites Detroit Instance. “They pull you and haul you around, and make you truckle to them like you were a child. Not long ago the bureau sent me to Detroit to lecture. When the bysiness men of Detrolt heard I was coming they sent me a telegram saying they would like to give a dinner of 500 plates and have me make. a speech. They, went to the, trouble of telling me how I could get! from where I was to Detroit in time to make the speech if T would take an automobile drive of about 20 miles. — “I wired back that . would be glad to make the speech if the local ; fal- low in charge of the lécture didn’t ob- ject. Before I started. for Detroit I received a letter from the lecture bus reau inclosing a letter frem:the local man in Detroit raising h 1 because the business men wanted me to speak to them. “The upshot of it was that I had to refuse: to speak at the business men’s dinner. Then the bureau goes and makes contracts for me to deliver six lectures I never agreed to ‘noake. I told the bureau that I would not deliver the lectures, as I wanted to take a Jit- tle rest before going to Washiugton. Blocked in St. Louis, “T had an invitation from some civic organization in St. Louis to-—make 4 speech while I am here. Now, I came to St. Louis to transact, some business before I started to Washington Satur- day night, and to attend the dinner to Congressman Bartholdt at the Southern Hot€i Saturday evening. “I wanted to make the speech to ths weight. of the avalanche from crushing}civic organization, but somebody sail I must not, because it would interfere with the Business Men’s League Bar- theldt dinner. Heaven may know how it would interfere, I don’t.” Speaker Clark refused to talk politics. He sajd he had not come to St. Louis to attend any conference with Senatur

I could not move and thought I was doomed.” ; learned that publicity pays than in others. Stone. Q great business builder Advertising builds business, fortunes, homes, commu- nities, cities and nations. Publicity i is an enormous power in business, nothing makes money without it, save a mint. St. Louis business men learned this long ago, they also better in some publications This accounts for the distribution of the advertising ‘space of our home merchants yesterday, Thursday, in the Bt. Louis papers, which was as follows: Post-Dispatch, 100 columns gether

Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times, our 3 nearest competitors, all added to- 88 columns There is a whole sermon in these figures. The best is always the cheapest. _ with the lecture. SUITOR DIVORCE FILED AGAINST SAMUEL BREADON Wife Is Friend of Mrs. Milten- berger, Who Is Breadon’s Associate in Business. INFIDELITY IS CHARGED Petition Declares That Husband Associated With Persons. of © Loose Moral Character. Mrs. Frances Josephine Breadon fol- lowed the example of her dearest and closest friend, Mrs. William H. Milten- berger, Friday afternoon when she filed suit for divorce from Samuel Breadon, president of the Western Automobile Co. It has been known to several of Mrs. Breadon’s women acquaintances that she contemplated this action three weeks ago after a petition had been drawn up there was a conference at which Mr. and Mrs. Breadon were re- conciled. They continued to live together at 4917 McPherson avenue with their 5-year-old daughter, Frances Josephine. Miltenberger and Breadon have long teen business associates and chums. When Mrs. Miltenberger charged that her husband stayed out at night, Mrs. Breadon told friends that she had the same cause for complaint... It is known that Mrs. Miltenberger and Mrs. Breadon often exchanged con- fidences as to their marital grievances and that they had the deepest sympathy for each other. The Breadons were married Oct. 25, 190, and the petition says they separated in November this year. Mrs. ‘Breadon makes the _ general charge that her husband associated with women and persops of loose moral char- acter. She says these associations were so constant and notorious that they came to the knowledge of her friends and relatives, causing hér great suffering and mental anguish and resulting in a shock to her nerves. Recently, she alleges, there has been somplete lack of consideration, love and affection in her husband’s treatment of her. . Breadon, whe. says, has property worth r $25,000, and has an income of more than $8000 a year. She says she is without means to prosecute the divorce suit, and she asks maintenance for herself and hef child, who is now with her. JOHN R. WALSH’S ESTATE $800,000 Will Gives It All to His Widow —Half of It Is in Stocks and Bonds; Rest in Realty. CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—The will of John R. Walsh, banker, railroad builder and newspaper owner, who died recently nine days after his release from a Federal prison, will be filed here today, according to relatives. The total value of the estate is placed at $800,000 and Walsh’s widow is named as sole heir. One-half of the property is in stocks and bonds and. the balance consists of one parce] of real estate, the family homestead. BOY OF 14, WOMAN 30, DISAPPEAR TOGETHER 19-Year-Old Opal Bell of Alton Says Demara Overpowered Her in Room. CHICAGO, Nov. 17.—The police are watching outgoing trains and searching hotels today for Bernard Herbert, a 14- year-old schoolboy, and Miss Bertha Atkinson, 30 years old, who was em- ployed as a housekeeper by the lad’s father, ‘Frank Herbert. Neither has been seen since last Tuesday. There is no thought of the boy being kidnaped, according to the father, as everything indicated that he left home deliberately. The father, who is a rail- road conductor, engaged Miss Atkinson to care for his two children when his wife died last May. SHIP ASHORE;

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Only Three Members of Crew Are Saved. QUEBEC, Nov. 17,—Fifteen ef a crew of 18 men lost their lives last night when the Norwegian bark An- tigua was driven ashore at Martin River. The Antigua was loading at Martin River, below Quebec, | 7 OF CREW’S 13 DROWN

t Boat Upsets and Log Drivers} i |Judge Condemns “Brass Wi 3 as He Frees Her on Technicality|

aaa alleged they were victimized by her Sketches made in court reper by Marguerite Martyn of the “Brass Widow” and two men who

JOSEPH NJEMEYER, MRS. BERNFELD MEETS DAUGHTER IN HOT SPRINGS Both Are Overcome, but Parent Forgives Sabina for Running Away. ’

Special to the Post-Dispatch, HOT SPRINGS, Ark., Nov. 17.—A re- conciliation took place here today in the office of Chief of Police Leonard be- tween Mrs. Bettie Bernfeld, mother of Sabina Bernfeld of St. Louis, and her daughter, who had been apprehended yesterday after an absence from her home since Nov. 3. Mrs. Bernfeld arrived on ‘the Iron Mountain Road at 10:35 o’clock. She was met at the station by Rabbi A. B. Rhine and Captain of Detectives How- ell and escorted at once to Police Head- quarters, where her daughter was awalt- ing her. The girl rushed into her mother's arms and sobbed out her grief for sev- eral minutes, The police stated today that late last night she gave the name of the man she ran away with, stating that it was not the man whom she had. known for over a year, but one she had met only ‘two months ago. The police, in the hopes of still catching the man, decline to divulge his name. The gir! stated that he had taken her as far East as Boston. 3 “T cannot understand why my girl left home,’’ said Mrs. Bernfeld to the Post- Dispatch correspondent, ‘for her home Was always pleasant. She has insisted on going on the stage, and has taken | lessons at a St. Louis dramatic school. 4 , * — a J *

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ed on $500 Bond at — Upholds Objections Filed by His.Son Who Is Woman’s Attorney—Mrs. Morton Releas- Afternoon Hearing.

| Fannie K. Morton, the “brass widow,” .on trial for fraudulent use of the mails, was acquitted Friday by & jury on instructions from Judge Dyer in the United States District Court, whv ruled that the indictment was defective. She wae immediately rearrested to answer another charge in Kansas City. In ordering the acquittal Judge Dyer said to the jury: In ordering the acquittal of Mrs. Morton the Judge sustained two of three objections to the indictment made by his son, Horace L. Dyer, Mrs, Morton's attorney. He ruled ‘that the indictment was faulty-in that it alleged that Mrs. Morton had obtained money from Nie- meier and from “others.” He upheld the defensw’s contention that the in- dictment should have contained - the names of these “others” or ‘that no reference to them should have been made. He als? ned that the ind'ctment was fanicry it. that H did not zet forth that Mrs. Morton laid the foundation of her scheme by insert- ing matrimonial advertisements in newspapers, An objection to the indictment on the ground that it did not. specifically state that the: letters. written by Mrs. Morton were mailed with intent to defrdud was overruled. As Mrs. Morton stepped from the courtroom she was arrested: and taken to the United States Marshal's office by Deputy Marshal Knehans on @ war- rant issued in Kansas City, and alleg- ing that she fraudulently obtained money there from Jesse E. Guy, J. J. Meehan and W. 8. Risden. This indictment alleges that she held cut marriage as an inducement to men who would put money into her “paint- ography” business and a beauty: parior which she conducted in Kansas City. It alleges also that she used the name Anna B. Taylor in her Kansas City operations. The charge on which Mrs. Morton

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i a Judge’s Instruction to Brass Widow Jury éé it is the duty’ of this Court to direct a verdict, I shall direct a verdict of not guilty. One of your number will sign that is done that so far as the case went it showed practically, while not le- attempt on the part of this woman to get money out of men, and it. fools there are in this world. A have no sympathy in the world condemned; but I have less sym- pathy for the fool that gives up his Y view of this case is that and under the law I shall so do. verdict, and I may say before this gally charged, a most outrageous showed with equal strength what for this woman—she deseryes to be ° money in such a —

signed by Joseph Wilson, who said he was a personal friend of Mrs. Mor- ton. ‘BRASS WIDOW'S LETTERS IN CASE Letters Mrs. Morton wrote from Kan- sas City, under the name of .“Anna B. Taylor,” to the three men gnentioned in the indictment against her there, are in the hands of postoffice inspectors. She wrote to J. J. Meehan in Oklahoma City, Ok., Oct. 2 190, acknowledging his inquiry about her advertisement and continuing, in part: I am a widow, 31 years old, bru- nette type, black hair and dark brown eyes, height 5 feet 5 inches, ) ?

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