St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 6, 1912

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# Oificlal forecast for St. Louis and ity: Snow tonight; Sunday fair. stinued cold, with the lowest tem- stare tonight about 4 below zero. - THE TEMPERATURES, below & a. m a, below below 1 below 1 below 2 1 below 3 ter 15 at 5 a. mm. Low, 2 below at — A ¢inch snow- OH, WELL : with the} JT MIGHT ture below] BE WwORSE_! was the un- Suai weather Indition to ich St. Louis e Saturday. hough the low- -. temperature ally. record- ms 1 degree W zero at the tether Bureau hon the roof “the Chemical ming, ther- léters on the in the i End and tying "ts low

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mtered as low 14 below zero. on fhe storm came so suddenly that et car traffic, though not suspended, } greatly hampered, and it was im- Bible to run United Railways cars on fuie time. e were Liockades on all lines, and ! nds of St. Louisans were late for re! work in office, store and factory. eoout two inches of snow covered #tracks before the plows and sweep- F could be put in commission and total snowfall! was more thar five

Menditions at the city hospital were f improved. The inadequate heat- E apparatus failed to warm the build- p&nd the temperature in the corri- ‘could not be raised above 40 de- In the wards !t was about 50 ‘of the vatients »emained in bed wr heavy blankets. Superintendent Mm said Saturday that the Board of me Improvements had notified him B the new heating plant would be md in operation Saturday afternoon. Blizzard From West. me drop in temperature from 5 de- above zero’ to 2 degrees below mfapid, and when the blizzard came iN SNOWSTORM | ee ST. LOUIS, SATU RDAY EVENING, J ANUARY 6, 1912.—12 PAGES. PRICE ONE CENT |

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| PHILANTHROPIST WHO IS VERY NEAR DEATH o* Macc Men eee” . * 7S CO pe comer ogee Se _ SAMUEL CUPPLES. W. J. BURNS FREED BY HABEAS CORPUS Writ Granted for Detective: Ac- cused of Kidnaping Dynamiters. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Jan. 6.—Federa] Judge A. B. Anderson today issued a writ of habeas corpus releasing Detec- tive William J. Burns from the custody of the county authorities. His bondsman had surrendered him to the County Criminal Court, where he stands indicted on the charge of kid- naping J. J. McNamgefa. The writ is returnable on Jan. 11, when the case will be argued before Judge ‘Anderson. Burns will offer the plea that in removing John McNamara to Los An- geles he was acting within the provis- ions of the Federal statutes and cannot be prosecuted under the Indiana law governing extradition. The two indictments are pending against Burns and Detective Hosick of Los Angeles, charging kidnaping and conspiracy to kidnap. Burns testified earlier today before the Federal grand jury in connection with the alleged dynamite conspiracy.

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Besieged on Sagamore Hill He Takes to Woods and Re- fuses to Talk. OYSTER BAY, N: Y., Jan. 6.—Col. Roosevelt and half a dozen men chopped down trees today in the weods sur- rounding the ex-President’s home at Sagamore Hill: When Col. Roosevelt was not wielding an ax, he was giving directions. The biting cold apparently made impression on him. To all inquirers the Colonel sent word that he would say nothing. After more than a year of comparative obscurity, Oyster Bay is again achieving prominence. When his unsuccessful tour through New York State in 1910, in be- half of Henry L. Stimson ended, Col. Roosevelt went into retiremént. Until a few weeks ago he was permitted to re- main undisturbed at his home, but result of recent political developments, Sagamore Hill is once ‘more in a state of siege. Despite Col. Roosevelt's refu- sal to talk politics, a squad of corres- pondents has camped in the village. J no as a TREES FOR EXERCISE|

SAMUEL CUPPLES DEATH EXPECTED AT ANY MOMENT Announcement Is Made From _Home After an Illness Ex- ceeding Six Mégnths.

FAMILY GIVEN NO HOPE

Former Business Man Has Do- nated More Than $1,000,000 to Washington U.

Samuel Cupples is near death at his home, 3673 West Pine ooulevard, and at 1:30 Saturday -afternoon, his daugter, Mrs. Scudder, said his death might oc- cur at any minute. His physician, Dr. Ellsworth Smith, did not give the fam- ily any hope that the aged philanthro- pist would survive the present crisis in his condition. 3 He is 80 years old, and has been in| failing health for a year. For six months his condition has grown steadily worse, and Friday he lapsed into unconscious- ness. Members of his family have been at his bedside almost constantly since Friday. “My father may die at any moment,”’ said Mrs. Scudder, Saturday. ‘There seems to be no hope that he will rallv.”’ The last of the many gifts to Wash- ington University was made a week ago when he and Robert S. Brookings deeded property worth $500,000 to the institution. His previous gifts to the university make his total gifts to the institution more than $1,000,000. NEW HAVLIN REPORT IS GIVEN TO MAYOR Kreismann Says Architect Failed to Follow His In- structions. William Eames of the architectural firm of Eames & Young sent his report vo Mavor Kreismann Saturday in regard tw» the condition of Havlin's Theater. h'ames & Young were requested to make 2% report on the building after three union carpenters filed charges with the Mayor against Building Commissioner McKelvey in connection with the recon- struction of the building. The Mayor also ordered MckKelvey to make an official investigation and McKelvey sent his report in Tuesday. H. C. “Henley, chief of the Fire Pre- vention Bureau, who was also asked report, made his report Friday afternoon, Mayor Kreismann declined Satur- day to say anything about the con- tents of the reports. He said that. he had sent the Eames report back for correction. When asked what correction was to made Mayor Kreismann said that Hames had not followed his instruc- tions in making the report. He said that he had requested that a distinc- tion be -made in the report between the original condition of the building and the condition of the part which the McKelvey Constructon Co. re- modeled.

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Celebrates His 99th iBrthday. STIRLING, Ill, Jan. 6.—Isiah Rucker today celebrated his ninety-ninth birth- day with five generations of his family present. He drove a stage coach from Springfield to Dixon 77 years ago.

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arom the west at midnight it was | WMpanied by a high wind. ! m coldest weather last year was wan. 2, 3, and 4, when the tempera- m Was 2 below, the same as the mini- ‘Tecorded at 1 a. m. Saturday Men Ride on Fenders. use of blockades which diverted me from disabled lines to those ' were kept in operation, the num- ‘Of street cars running was inade- me to handle the crowds at the going- hour. Sommission, and some cars of the bn line were diverted over. the mvcee route. Congestion was so mt in the North Ena that several! eenth street line cars came down- With passengers riding on the fen- *-and others sitting on the back Mard with their feet hanging over. MKers rode until and then oa few they became dropped off and * baie “ December circulation: yunday average, 294,152 Daily average. .167,141 St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. First in Everything. Circulation books open to all FARMER KILLED AS FARFLAPS MUFFLE RATTLE OF TRAN Zach Goforth, in Storm, Jumps From Safety to Death When Too Late to Look Back. GOD, IT’S “MY FATHER”

Depot Agent at Sherman Makes Discovery When Body Is Car- ried Into the Station. em The blizzard was sweeping over St. Louis County Saturday morning. Blind- ing clouds of snow scurried about the little railroad station at Sherman, a mile west of Valley Park. Frost covered windows, Pacific the station shutting the Missouri tracks

{chug and the whirr:-and the warning from the sight of the agent, Charles Go- (forth, who was busy at his desk. Out of the waste of drifted snow which | lay north of the tracks came a man. His ‘collar was turned up, and the earflaps

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out the sound of the Also it shut out the of his cap shut whistling wind. signal of an approaching train. Jumps Before the Engine. Two trains from the west are due at this hour—7:30 a. m. One is the Wash- ington accommodation and the other, | closely following it, is the through ex- press from Kansas City. The accommo- dation goes on a siding at Sherman to let the express pass on the main line. The man who was pushing his way through the blizzard did not hear the train until it was almost upon him. He either became confused, or thought the train was the express, and jumped back from the main line to the siding. It was the accommodation. Blinded by the snow, the engineer did not see the man in time to stop his en- gine. Was the Agent's Father. The man was killed. Passengers and members of the train took the body from beneath the locomotive and carried it toward the station. The conductor went ahead and knocked the station door. The agent opened it. “Our train has killed a man,” said the conductor. “Can we bring the body station?’ crew on into the

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“Yes, bring it in,’’ said Agent Go- forth. Out of the blizzard came the sad little procession. The body was lald on a bench in the station. Goforth removed a cloth been laid over the face. “My God, boys,”’ he cried; “‘it is my father.”’ Hidden From Son’s View. The man killed was Zach Goforth, a fermer,.57 years old. Under ordinary eather conditions his son, whose desk was at one of the station windows, would have seen him crossing the track and could have warned him of Als danger. Goforth was on his way to a neifghbor- house to get milk and. eggs when the train ran him which had ing farm ror breakfast, down. eT MUCH IMPROVEMENT Speaker Remains in Bed, but Ex- pects to Be at Jackson Day Dinner. WASHINGTON, Jan. §.--Speaker Clark, suffering with a severe cold, re- mained in bed today but was much im- proved and expects to resume his duties in the House Monday. His friends have been concerned over his illness and have tried to persuade him to take all precautions against the cold developing into anything worse, but he fully expects to attend the big Dem- ocratic: dinner here Monday night when William J. Bryan will be the principal speaker. Clark refused to give up his duties at the Capitol until after the adjournment of the House yesterday, when his cold had become much worse. The Post-Dispatch ts the only evening newspaper in St. Louis that recoives or pub- whee news gathered by Associated Pregs,

RICHESON CONFESSES HE POISONED AVIS LINNELL —

MISS VIOLET EDMANDS

DRUG CURE FOR DEADLY MALADY ATTACKING BABIES Rockefeller Institute Discovers an Anti-Toxin for Infantile Paralysis.

Special to the Post-Dispatch. CHICAGO, Jan. t.—Infantile paraly- sis, the deadly disease of unknown ori- costs the lives of this urotropin, gin which thousands annually of cured with babies in country, a newly to Dr. the Rockefeller In- can be discovered. drug, according Simon Flexner of stitute for Medical Research, who last night addressed the South Side branch of the Medical Society here. It will probably take months and _ perhaps years of experiments with the drug, ac- cording to the physician, before a moadi- fication of the drug can be perfected Which will place the medical professior in direct control of the In the meanwhile, medical experts the world over are working to discover the cause of the malady the germs of whie! aré so small that they cannot through the most powerful microscope now in possession of the Institute As yet the only is known abo infantile that it In Kong of Said: This drug our Wishes by icals. } ° gai Sease. he seen Rockefelle! thing paralysis is is contagious. spea urotropin Dr. Ilexner easily molded tu aittion of other chem is appii Our aim is to make it more thor- Oughly antiseptic, and that is what ou: experiments are doing. “I think it will be only a short time before urotropin by Which we can control this disease. tain it Is that this drug comes near being a powerful agent for the destruc- tion of the paralysis germs. ‘‘We have no serum that we can safely say a direct control of this disease, but urotropin lie our hopes. “Experiments with this drug indicate that our hopes are not based on too fragile a foundation. Besides, we have three or four other ‘drugs, but none gives us the hope that urotropin af fords us. Our experiments have been conducted mostly on monkeys. It peculiar fact that our investigations and experiments on monkeys prove fat more beneficial and instructive than will be the means (‘er- to is hn is similar investigationsW.ar experiments | with the human species.’ ida that,

S0:NCH WATER MAIN BURSTS A EIGHTH AND CASS Women Carried From Rush of Flood by Rescuers——Factory Supply Cut Off. “he bursting of a 30-inch water main at Eighth street and Cass avenue at 10:25 a. m., Saturday, caused great alarm in the neighborhood. The water overflowed the five blocks west on Cass ayenue three blocks north on Ninth street. A portion of the street caved in at Ninth the of water be- neath the street caused the paving bricks to bulge upward in the block between [Icighth and Ninth streets. Frightened women were carried across the street by volunteer rescuers when the water threatened to sweep them off their feet. The street was converted into a lake and cellars were flooded. In a temperature below zero the water quickly froze solid and the boys in the neighborhood had fine skating on what thoroughfare. Water Department employes checked the flood by turning off the water in the main. The work of making a cut- off into another main was then begun. It was announced that for about two hours, While this was being done, fac- in the district east of Seventh street and between Cass avenue and Chouteau wolud be without water. ; Separate mains supply water for residences, and these were not af- fectec. ' Water pressure was noticeably low all over St. Louis Saturda¥, and it was al- most impossible to get a flow of water above the third floor‘of some of the downtown office buildings. The Water Department telephones were busy aii day with complaints from the residence districts, coming mainly from the high points on the North and South sides. E. E. Wall, Water Commissioner, ad- mitted that there had been more or legs complaint of the water pressure since the cold wave hit St. Louis, and attributed it to two causes,-ice in the and the practice of house- holders to leave faucets open all night preven of the water pipes “Thie in the river has ne- «sitated slower pumping at the Chair BR Wall said, the ive rets into the intake pipes and would mar if the engineera pumps, slowly and street for street and pressure is usually a busy tories avenue, he river t freezing broken Ice Ks,"’ “hecause mage the hineryv did not work -the the consumers watch ice, “The They to much of are partly to blame, their faucets on all freezing. and that is a drain on the water sup used in sum lea ve tOHa night prevent as hose as the garden

Successful Men of St. Louts The first article of a series of interviews by Walter B Stevens with ten eminent men who, through § their own efforts, won success, appears today on the Mag- azine Page. Adolphus Busch he won his way and advises yvoung men for whom he sees greater op- portunity On Page 7 Today Tella how

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~~ ——— _ lemme MENTAL TORTURES — FORCE ADMISSION, IS HIS STATEMENT

—— -_ Attorneys Make Public Letter From Preacher in Which He Tells of “Lashing of Remorse.”

PROSECUTOR WILL INSIST | THAT TRIAL BEGIN JAN. 15

— Only Pena’ty for Crime to Which Preacher Pleads Guity Is D<eathin Electric Chair— Says Only Wish to Live Is That in Pri:on He Mizht Redeem Past

Special to the Post-Dispatch. tlemen: or leniency. the tortures of the damned. with me. the judge of the court. for Jan. 15. Just before noon the judges of the Superior Court and the District Attor- ney went into conference at the court- house and about an hour later represen- tatives of the press were called. to the office of William A. Morse, the leading counsel for the accused clergyman. In the office were nearly a dozen news- paper men while in a private office were Morse, John H. the Virginia lawver engaged by the father of the young clergyman, and Philip R. Dun- bar. After all the papers to be represented, Mr. “Gentlemen, I now give you Mr. Ri Lee, had found Morse said: been h- eson’s confession.” Typewritten sheets containing the con- fession were then handed to the newspa- per men and those who paused to ask for some further explanation were told that there was nothing more to be sald at this time. The fact that the confession. was dated Ago out to the but they comment this time. was pointed refused to three days counsel, on it at Death In Only Penalty, Attorney Pelletier had conference with informed of Hie made just the the this District from when he in the come his judges was new turn statement: “T have no discretion in this matter ex- plea of ase to ac first degree ' gaid District Attorneys a secon degree plea ept a cert guilty, Pelletier I shall not as or a mansiaughter.~plea When asked under what circumatances induced to ept Kicheson had been confess Pelletier said ‘I shall have Norse for answer to that question oning is a first degree offense and eannot make anything else out of it.” Chief Justice Aiken also refused to make any statement regarding the con fession or say what effect it might have on the trial. As Richesoo standa today before the law, he its Tndicted for the murder in the first degree of Miss Avis Linne!! by giving her a quantity of cyanide of potassium The peaity for such a crime tn Massachsetts is death in the electric chair If Richeson stands in ‘ourt and acknowledges his guilt, i ac- corda-ce with his statement mad@ jub- to refer you

lic today, the Court under the, law In this | find a measure of comfort. my mental anguish I recognize that there is still, by the merey of the Master, some remnant of the divine spark of goodness lingering

— BOSTON, Mass., Jan. 6.—Clarence V. T. Richeson today mag a full and complete confession of the murder of Avis Linnell. The confession came as the result of a season of mental torturs which he says has possessed him since the commission of the erime, and which reduced him to the state whenee, by self-immolation, he sought to make expiation for the sin which lay~so heavy on his soul. The statement is addressed to his counsel and reads: J. L. Lee Esq., W. A. Morse Esq., Phillip A. Dunbar Esq.: Gen- Deeply penitent for my sin and earnestly desirous of, as far as in my power lies, to make atonement, | hereby confess to my guilt of the offense of which I stand indicted. | I am moved to this course by no inducement of self benefit or Heinous as is my crime, God has not wholly abandoned me, and my conscience and mind, will not admit of my still further wronging by a public trial that pure young life I have destroyed. Under the lashing of remorse, I have suffered and am suffering however depraved and blighted, In I could wish to live only because within some prison’s wall ] . might in some small measure redeem my sinful past, help some other despairing soul, and at last find favor with my God. You are instructed to deliver this to the district attorney or to Sincerely yours, CLARENCE V. T. RICHESON, The confession came as a surprise today. complete case and the minister was to be called to trial Jan. 15: After hearing of the confession the district attorney said it would not affect his plans and that the trial would go on. The State was ready with » It is on the court calenda: would be sentence, officials. to Impose the death Opinion of courthouse obliged in the May Lower Degree of Charge. Mr. Pelletier qualified his statement later by admitting that Richeson might possibly be brought into court before the day set for the trial, but that eueh action would depend on the attitude of his counsel. ; This was regarded by those at the eourthouse as indicating that the Dis- trict Attorney and the Court might find some legal way to accept a plea of gulltvw of murder in the second degree and permit a Iife sentence. that Richeson would never jury in a trial for his iife have rife about the city for several. but they failed of verification” when they reached the prisoner, counsel yr the Dietrict Attorney. a Attaches of the Dtstrict Attorney's of- fice here belleve that Rich@son made a confession in hope that he would escape the electric chair by so doing. , Rumors face a been WEEKS, the Three Ways to Faecape Death. to members of It seemed be the general opinion the har who could be found this afternoon that there ways by which tiehesor conld escape death *t by ihe acceptance by the Court ie District Attorney of a plea fer of murder; second, by t of a commission which Richeson insane, and appeal to the Governor founcll, after a death for the granting of commuta- those amMmonK were tiree RT eOe ntmen adjudge bY an ind Executive fentience Lior ‘ M;:. and Mrs. Moses Grant Bdmands, oarents of Miss Violet Edmands. te Richeson was engaged, refused omment on the confession. Nel i they say where thelr daughter is 19 years olf, whose was at Hyannis, Mage. wae fcund dead in the bathroom ef the Young Women's Christian Assoeiatio®#§| home tn Boston, Oct. 14 At first tt was belleved she had com mitted suicide, but later developments showed that she had unknowingly taken ~ cyanide of potassium, given or sent te her by some other person, which she used In the belief that it | remedy Contianeé on Page 2, 3 *T aory} WOU! Stay iris Avia Linnell, hore

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