St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 9, 1912

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Xe sors of the Suffolk County St pce since his confession of the murder. Walks With Slight » slight ' Wained standing. | District. ——— NI Great Courthouse Pleads ing His Former heart, EDITION FINANCIAL Spintec Sold = — — — _ IBALTIM — 2 —_—_——— --- } PASTOR RICHESON FNCED TO DIE WEEK Of MAY

Crowd in Boston as Slayer Guilty to Poison- Sweet- 19-Year-Old Avis Linnell, With Cyanide. FOSS W ILL BE ASKED FOR A COMMUTATION Special to BOSTON, . i today on his Riches der of Avis peart. The week of May ihe aft Richeson arraigned lowing his wr + Saturday, nea and mad Commutation to It is wide to Gov. (.unci}] of t death sentene Richeson made no statement. His face was pale, but he was perfectly composed. He answered formal ques- tions propounded by Judge Sander- son in the simplest possible way and when asked if he had anything to say, replied: “] have nothing further to say than hy written A great cro today in an Louisan Richeson | with little brought into assista At minister’s wr sulted counsel and if he had acted vol- 1 Utarily. To each question Richeson said, “Yes, sir.” the murder of Avis Linnell on the night of Oct. 14. Miss Linnell was 19 vears old that the Government have was cence to Picheson first degree. solemn duty Judge San bearing on frisoner if he realized tho aetion in plea When the pri fo make an Court pronoi tiamediately jail, History of Richeson Case. The crime aud was a 1 | Richeson formerly sicyving at tl a ‘tery of Music in Boston at the time. Miss Linnell g bathroom in the Young Women’s Chris- Mon Associati street, where Re ee ee ee - eS ee ee eee 3 home of Moses CG irant Kdmands, father | 0” Miss Violet Edmands, to whom Rich- “fs believed she fay or two later it became known she had taken a ould remedy foncition, Th On the day Great}, *90n Was to lust B® Young pastor Linnell, 1t that the mi; _ Whom Miss | a Would cause the * that a few days before E the deft); of Miss Linnell. Richeson had % aan Cyanide of potassium from % hepa the next day Richeson was % at the Edmands home. The _ Wedding invitations we re recalled. A prand jury Oct. 31 returned an in- — dietinen: against Richeson, who pleaded z Pat Bullty, His trial was set for Jan. yew he resigned his pastorate. ts tort fs about 35 years old, and i at Rose Hill, Va.

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the, Post Jan. 4 f2uilty when er. liis indictment, but fol- itten}confession, hiade pub- he /today retracted that ea formal plea of giulty. Re Asked. understood a petition © ‘© to imprisoninent for life. apparent was taken back to the city cvanide of potassium. Richeson Was ee ee eee FIRST KILL OF PEACH CROP “Oran Believe the Cold Has Killed Every Bud. FIELD. Mo.. cold weather in the Ozarks the peach crop. today they beliey ed

The Rev. Clarence Wis montenced Lo death Oi) aot pl: Linnéll, guilty of the mur- his former sweet- execution for Li). 1d pleaded not Was set may | inxecutive the and the hy mS he State to commute confession.’ wd thronged into the corri- Courthouse the former appear- effort to in his first see public Assintance. death sentence emotion, When walked with Hie re- ward the he officers. court nee from torney Pelletier read the itten confession and added had sufficient evi- convinced a jury that guilty of murder n”the He then said it became his to move for sentence. lerson read the _ statutes the and asked the gravity of his if he had con- CASe ding guilty, risoner expressed no desire y further statement, the inced sentence. Richeson charged to Richeson was lative of Hyannis, where preached. She was 1e New England Conserva- Was found. dying in a on Building on Warrenton she lodged. At first it was had taken poison, but a drug in the belief that it her embarrassing nhvsical efutopsy showed the drug following Miss went to the Linnell’s Brookline have been married Oc .- a ried to the police that the had been engaged to Miss police theory the to Aenell’'s physical condition also a lister Was person greatest worriment. t Told of Purchase. 9 William Hahn. reported Jan, 9.—It is be- Fruit grow- an investi- iy the zero weather had a in this section MARKETS in . lying hardly the !; since the last’ week crisis was imminent. and the present situation. and days and nights check waste of water issued bw the Commissioner. Householders, on the other hand, have felt that they must let the water run to prevent freezing. The turning off of the supply in base- same purpose, Chief of Police order to captains Tuesday morning to have patrolmen visit every residence and tify all persons to be economical with water. South Side breweries were running Tuesday wits their usual forces, fol- lowing a partial shutdown Monday aft- ernoon. Laundries in the central part of the citv found pressure good and made a spurt to catch up with the work $5. AS bed LOUIS POST- UIS PATCH Only Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service.

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ST. LOUIS. TUESDAY EV ENING, JANUARY 9, 1912— 20 P.

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CIV 18 STIL IN DANGER OF A WATER FAMINE Only 25,000,000 Gallons, Day’s Supply in Reserve, but an Emergency Gate Is tc Be Opened at the Chain of Rocks Plant. _— —— ee DANGER OF INTAKE BECOMING CLOGGED

—— eee With Only 25,000,000 gallons of (water, less than a half day’s supply reserve, and with the pumps sup- more than one-half the needed, the danger of a water famine continued imminent Tuesday, [although pressure was better equal- ‘zed throughout the city than it was Monday afternoon. Water Commissioner Wall, spending most of the night at the in- take tower, the seat of the difficulty, appeared at his office in the city hall at 10 a. m., and declared that the sit- vation Was no less critical than it had been. He returned to the Chain ‘of Rocks soon afterward, and was en- couraged to learn that another gate, known as the emers gency gate, about to -be opened by the tower force. This, he hoped, would greatly increase the flow. Three Pumps Working. Three pumps, and for a part of the time only two, were at work. The mia- chinery in perfect order, but low water and the clogging of the stream by ice at the intake tower has so re- duced the flow that there has not been encugh water to keep more than two or pumps busy. Including the 40,000,0-gallon centrifugal pump, the city has at the Chain of Rocks six bumps, capable of pumping — 180,000,000 gallons daily—if they can get the water. The city’s normal consumption does not exceed 90,000,000 gallons a day, but this has increased by much cold weather waste, from faucets left run- ning all night, to 150,000,000 gallons or more, Unless this waste can be stopped, department officials say, the supply may yet fail. At noon three pumps were running a rate of about 70,000,000 gallons day. It was hoped that the open- ing of the emergency gate would make it possible to pump at a 90,- 000,000-gallon rate. The low stage on the reservoirs 1s one of the chief sources of alarm to the department officials, the Compton Hill reservoir being practically dry, and the supply elkewhere not exceeding 25,090,000 gallons. Everything now depends on the cess of efforts to keep the 7-foot tun- nel, which leads from the intake to the land, clear of ice, and on the stage of water in the river. The stage of the water was 76.5, which is 3.5 below the normal, and two of the upper intake gates are 14 feet above the water. The gorge near Grafton is believed to have lewered the river’s level several feet. Plans for dynamiting this gorge are be- ing discussed, not without fear that such action might imperil boats on the river Lanks, and even the bridges, particu- larly t..c uncompleted free bridge. Big ice is kept out of the tunnel by a grating, but fine ice cannot be kept out, and the constant fear is that this sinal! may cake and clog the tunnel. such an event, pumping would and no one could tell when relief would come. It realized that more than one tunnel, dependence might not passageway. The department flow after was is three at a, Suc- Ss In CeAS®e, ice there should be so that the sole be on the is One oftficials have known that a Cheney December Secretary said Tuesday, effort to avert The Commissioner assistants have spent at the intake, commissioner's every the have oft made severa! to his trving improve the situation, \/arnings. and appeals to the public have been to the Inconven- night would accomplish but this entai's ments at iences to which many persons object. Young issued a general place of business on their beats and no- which was delayed by the enforced clos- ing of the day before. ———— ananneniieed a —a——- Ruralar Hobs an iinet Safe. Rurglars forced the rear door of T. J. Kastner's grocery at 4257 Olive street Monday night, taking $25 from an un- locked safe, but scorning a check for mall locked compartment of the safe, containing a gold watch, a neck- lace and th Which Is Less Than a Half new |

MORTON JOURDAN

GEO J. TANSEY THREE ACRES Ot BUILDINGS BUR N30 MINUTES Commercial Acid Plant, East St. Louis, Destroyed at

Near Loss of $200,000.

acres of buildings, comprising the plant of the Commercial Acid Co., Louis, Three two miles south of East St. were Lurned in 39 minutes, Tuesday, following an explosion at 12:40 a. ™. Companies from the East St. Louis Fire Department, having no water with whieh to fight the blaze, looked on helplessly while the fire swept the plant. A strong south wind alone saved two big ’torage tanks of the Union Oil Refining Co,, which stand directly. south of the acid plant. The plant consisted of a chamber room, 70x100 feet, a burner room, 49x100 feet, and a_ boilerroom and machine shop, each 30x40 feet. The chamber room and the burning room were of ‘frame eonstruction. The others were of cement, with asbestos walls. All the buildings were one-story in height.

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wd . bee. ’ Ve ae ae Ne, aa ee a * > Cas Ae | Loss Put at ¥200,000. Including a let of finished etored 1n of estiinates product, the build- its loss at Was one the company Poet 0 oe which ings, 0 The about ut Si the Ss ‘yeni ‘ plant (ne an, em plos few were compan: bit when the explosion took place in the burning reduced, oniv a who Was alone room, where pyrites 1s SAW «a sud- flash of light time to flame. for help isast bad not rushed outdoors, devastating den and in escape a of just Llast A call mediately was telephoned Louis but the eo that the engine companies did arrive until the plant was virtuaHy in ruins. ou Tanks Are Saved, blaze f burning rres Hluminated the landscape for direction and for a time im- to St. roads were whole The rom the wooden strucicl 4 . i hiocks in ever) seemed to make the destruction of the oil. tanks inevitable. The Commercial Acid Co. ee factures sulphuric acid and = muriatie acid. It has a St. Louis office at 3043 Duncan avenue. INCOME TAX IS UPHELD Wisconsin Supreme Passes on Statute. MADISON, Wis., Jan. 9.—The legality of the income tax law enacted by the last Legislature was sustained in a de- cisionp by the Supreme.Court today, sf Court

— UREY WOODSON’S “COME ACROSS”

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10 DEGREES TONIGHT; WEDNESDAY WARMER

High, 14 at 9 midnight, > - THE TE i a ke eae ee. SOR Oe ie ee i Se oe: Mh ea es . a. ) | eee oa ere OM 7: 2. mM, - MPERATURES, ~~ £ of So See i 2 oe eee eee Ge ee 10 SN ae of ay. Sree Cee | ine. Te rv. "§ cote 12 noon eseeeen ee 0 me toe “ee Prey ee i ' 24 Yesterday's Temperatures, a.m. Low, 2 above at Wat

forecaster Says. Official grees; Stage of the of .4 of a foot. warmer. j WELL, ANY WAY, WE CAN MELT THE SNOW AND GET WATER.

strata of air to settle forecast for St. vicinity: Fair tonight, with the low- est temperature tonight about 10 de- Wednesday ness and not so cold. Missouri—Fair tenight; creasing cloudiness and warmer. Iilinois—Fair tonight, portion: Wednesday increasing cloudiness and iIner Weather is in sight, but will heat prostrations, With the tempera- there be no ture stationary at 10 degrees above zero, Forecaster H Saw aves Tuesday of moderation, signs fur- ther Vy hile still an area of ex- treme cold in the northern part of the T'nited States, temperatures were generally higher in the Middle West. Increasing cloudiness tne next 24 hours will cause Warmer over St. Louis, the there was it

Louis and increasing cloudi- river: 3.2 feet: a rise ~_-—— - Wednesday in- with colder in north

jnewspaper in 8t. lishea paws The Post-Dispatch !s the only evening Louis that receives or pub- bu Asassisiad Presa re — Big E f St. Louis Loses Big Event After * . Close Contest in Which Three 7 - o ) Cities Were Chief Contenders. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Jan. 9.—Baltimore won the Democratic Na- tional Convention for 1912, the National Committee today deciding in favor of the $100,000 certified check the Maryland boomers brought with them. The St. Louis delegation offered $65,000 and the convention hall. but refused to raise the sum to $100,000. The convention will be held June 25. The hall was full of Baltimore boosters but has had none since 1872. Chicago, he when J. (. EF. Talbott, the Maryland | declared, was becoming a headquarters National Committeeman, was intro- | for Republican conventions. duced to speak for Baltimore. ‘Four years ago we offered you $10,- “We come to offer you $100,000 for the |," said Franklin; ‘‘this year we come eonvention. and no questions asked,’’|to offer you the reasonable and neces- caid Talbott. “Come to Baltimore and | sary expenses,of the convention and the we'll give vou a royal time. St. Louis ][¢est convention hall in the country.” has had three Democratic national con- Chicago next had its innings. Roger ventions and now it wants this one. |Sullivan, amid laughter and applause, \\ David R. Francis, who is here |8a4id he had the unprecedented pleasure ‘ning St. Louis. is as familiar to me as [Of introducing to the Democratic com- FRE a hei string peddler at a country fair. mittee Fred W. Upham of Chicago, as- D LEHMAN. Congress voted St. Louis money to help sistant treasurer of the Republican na- - fit its World's Fair, and the same year | tional committee. it was held we gave St.@Louis the na-| Upham offered to guarantee the nec- tional convention. St. Louis*is never | ©S8ary and liberal expenses of the con- satisfied. It ought to let us have the} vention. The money was raised by a ' nonpartisan organization of Chicago, he

Rv Associated Tress DUNKIRK, N. Y., dan, §.--Passengers on the Lake Shore road's “‘Wwnickerbock-

TRAIN I WRELA, PASSENGERS SAFE Thirty Girls When Lake Shore Hits “Light”? Engines. Vassar Aboard Express

Cr Special,”’ eastbound, received a severe shaking up, bout escaped pheyuyy toda when the express crashed nto rw freight envines, running “le Ce tiiles west of bere. The engines were coinpletely demolished and tt mem berg@of their crews were sitent eald ed and suffered minor fractures The tracks were blocked fi hours, Passengers Were then tta to relief train Among tl ¢ Vassar College students The special, which lett 1 tercay was several howl brate Ow ins te severe conditions A snowst pore vailed at the time of the belong ‘ is thought to have bee caused | a? scured signals. One section of the wrec} IN K¢ Locker Special was made up in sf L.o and departed from this cit) noo! Morday, being joined to another section at Cleveland. 4+ the St. Louis ticket office of we New York Central lines a dispatch was

received that no one was hurt In the wreck. The sa cinetiinine PAID circulation of the Post-Dispatch in St. Louis and itn suburbs is greater than that vf ti

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HOWDY DR. COOK COES THE NORTH POLE WANT THIS CONVENTION TOO

JAMES E.SMITH DISCOVERING SOMEBODY - LOBBY OF .THE WILL ARD. IN THE

| WANT TO LECTURE IN HO

convention this year. ©. F. Hersey spoke for chairman of the Baltimore and called out a storm of cheers when Robert Crain, committee, he drew from his pocket a certified check for $100,000 and laid it upon the | table. The demonstration continued for »; minute or more, The claims of St. Louis were presented iv KE. F. Goltra, former Gov. David R. Francis, Rolla Wells and James E. Smith St. Louis offered to be more liberal in appropriations for the conven- tion work than ever before, but no defi- nite amount was offered. iHdward M. Tierney then spoke for ew York City. fs eoon as the New York bid was in the committee began balloting. The adjournment of the committee un- ti) Tuesday gave the St. Louis workers in opportunity to get their proposition before the committee leaders in better siape than they had it vesterday. The xt P.ouls proposition was to be made ti OO like $85,000 to the committee, was lelieved to be sufficient to wit Mat politicians, espe ally those fa- coring the candidacy of Woodrow Wil- on, favored Baltimore, believing its roximity to Washington would aid their main Presents Denver's Claims. ley « elaims were first presented, Charles Franklin, chairman of the Den- tonvention League, speaking for his Ife thanked the committee for eiving Denver the eonvention of 1908. He oe embed at length the Denver Audi- ost which the convention was eld. and urged the selection of his city. | <enator, Stone and former Goy. Fran- eis of Missouri were sitting as members of the committee. Senator Stone held the proxy of Committeeman Collins of North Dakota and Francis the proxy of Nevada. Franklin used a chart to illustrate his nlea for Denver. His chart showed that Balti nore has had one-third of the na-

said. Chicago, in addition to defraying the expenses of the offered contribution of $40,000 to the Democratic campaign fund. This announcement caused a stir and apparently increased Chicago’s chances materially. Col. J. Hamilton Lewis of Chicago fol- lowed Upham and presented the claims of his city in detall. Lewis said Chicago would do as much convention, a for the committee financially as ans other city. ‘Chicago has 100 trains a day and hotel accommodattons for 100,000 vis {tors,”’ he said. “If seven counties of Illinois, now He- publican, become Demorratic, you: will get the electoral! vote of Illinois, We can lose New York and win Iilinots and Ne- braska and get back all that is lost Laltimore followed (‘hicago hiepre eentative Talbot of Marviand made the opening speech and Senator Rayner pur- eued the argument ° BRYAN FLATTENED BY STEAM ROLLER WASHINGTON, Jan ' im Jen nings Brian wa in over by a steam roller at Monday's seesion of the Dem ocratic National Comroilttee. The rolle was manned by the id Guard and Eryan met defeat in his effort to pre yent Col. J. M. Guffey of Pe * vania from sitting as a ‘ er of the committee. lour years ago Den ver, Bryan, who was running a steam rolier of his own, had Col Guf- fey expelled from the Nation al Com- mittee In a spectacular maaner and tn a convention hall before ten thousand persons. The session at which the committee rebuked Bryan by a vote of ® to 18 was held behind closed doors. But

cantile Safe Deposit Co., was imprisoned sawed through several two-inch steel nis life in the vaults.

A ce Ne 4KNOWNDEADIN. $0,000,000 Wa AFF WALL ese Others Hurt, Battalion Chief Missing in Fire in Equitable | Building Housing Securi- ties Worth Nearly. $300,:, 000,000.

Financial District Roped Of and Business Stopped! While Flames Are Fought —Absolution for Dying Man.

NEW YORK. Jan. 9.—The creat marble eight-story building | of the Equitable Life Assurance Society at 120 Broadway—the | home of the Mercantile Trust Co,, the Equitable Trust Co., the bank ing house of Kountze -Bros., tix Mereantile Safe Deposit Co. ané the Harriman lines—was destroy: ed early today by fire. = Four men are known to he. dead and five injured and wel ral persons are missing, includ? ing Battalion Chief Walsh; | whose body has not been found.’ H The fire, which caused a loss of | # $6,000,000, was still burning a the debris in the basement of the building this afternoon. William Giblin, president of the Mer- |

with three other employes in the vaults and was rescued after the firemen had bars. One man is believed to have lost Wall Street at Standatill. The fire was in the heart of the finan- cial district and the flames were fought mainly from the tops of towering sky- te ea

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scrapers. Business was brought almost to a complete standstill among banking and brokerage houses, whose employes could not reach the scene of their activi- ties. Financial firms stopped business to care for the firemen. Most of the vital records ef the Equi- table Life Assurance Society were kept in the branch offices of the society in the Hazen Building, several blocks from | the main offices. An officer of the menttable Life Assurance Society said that the #s0- ciety had duplicates of every record,

whi were stored in a building sev- eral blocks away from the burned structure. The fire, he said, would not affect the company’s business

with its policy-holders throughout the country. So tremendous was the reat blocks of the granite walls buret their places and crashed down, | danger to the others, from adding which men. this a new avalanche Cedar and Pine streets. flome of Banks and Ratliways. The big Equitable the home of the Union and Southern Pa- cific railroads, the banking house of August Belmont & Co., the Mercantile Trust Co., now a subsidiary of the Bank. ers’ Trust Co.: the Mercantile Safe De- posit Co., together with a number 9? New York financial firma. Millions on millions of dollars In ge curities and cash were cared for In the heat that threatened firemen and police-— After a few minutes spent under of falling rock, Chief. Kenton ordered his men withdrawn from | Bullding was ol i

ipmense vaulta of the Equitable com

e vaults In the trust ate 1 but it is net be pany and in ¢ safe deposit companter, lieved that the etrate the safes and this source, watchmen itn the bullding ve figit the flames with fire ea there will joa from Three heat of the fire can pep- | be fic)

miaineal to b tinguishes it they were driven finally if. Firemen made an attenmpt em and scaling ladders wefe 5. hy ? ro rie aave ft Rescuers got as far as the fourth floor when the watchmen, their formes eutiined against the glare of flames, were seen to kaeel and prar, nnd then, as the corser of the belld-' ing on which they were standing fell, : thes jumped to the street, Man Imprisoned in Vawit. lire Commissioner Johnson discovered) a4 mar the. morisonred in the vaults of the) 7 A RO aL At

fereantile Safe Deposit Co. at the eoenae,; of Cediar street and Broadway. The man could be seen from the street” and hia legs were pinned down by s mass of fixtures and debria, which nad fatien from above. He was alive and beld out bis te the firemen, whe — though fetile, efforts through the beavy steel

* the last rites toe the dyiag

ALL other St. . Dalilies od IKE tional conventiona of the United States, | Continued om Page & Coluga 2 Deputy Fire Chief

Father MeGean of the fire department gave |