St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 1, 1912

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beats ess BURNS AND HANECY ba ULASH AGAIN IK LORIMER HEARING Wrangle Is Resumed as Soon as Detective Goes Back / on Stand.

COMMITTEE INTERFERS

Rules That Lawyers Must Cease Using Language Which May Appear Insulting.

Py Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Feb. 1.—Wordy hostil-

ities between. Detective William J. Burns

BOMB THROWER IN ARMY AEROPLANE

‘From the New York au of the Post-Dispatch. ORK, Feb. 1.—Edwin Hawley, railroad magnate and many | millionaire, died at his home : y’at the age of 61, after three ness, during which he refused . chairma ouls Rail er lines ty corpogations who began his business ca- Harriman. His fortune has ated as high as $50,000,000, but, the conservative rule of cut- » estimates in two,’ he would among the country’s rich se or some time and for | *weweeks had been confined to + at 19 Bast Sixtieth reports that his condition was denied and only yesterday : he hoped to be downtown week or so. His death came at ps morning. the winter Hawley’ had an grip and returned to work be- lad sufficiently recovered. As pe suffered a relapse and his told him that he would have fone rest. Since then Hawley confined to the house and re- began to suffer from indiges- fs morning Hawley was ‘fatlure anda death soon njn Chatham, N. Y., ire of 17 and was one of the His home was in New $e he belonged to many clubs. ‘ companies of which Haw- . lirector were the St. Louis & | et », Colorado & Southern, Col- nd Iron Co., the Evansville lite Railway, the Minneapolis , the Iowa Central, ey Railroad. ebtrusive in Manner. miey been a man of the ag- if intense personality of Har-, pe methods suggested those ne t cavalry ieader, sweeping With a powerful army over ie and subduing them, or had @ the personality of James J. ; fore him, and in per- ity © Was 80 completely lacking c or striking characteristics ‘presented no attractive angles, them, wherewith to catch and bic attention. é bly never was in railroad personal force less occupied wile or by it than was Haw- We life had always been ew Kand modest. He’ main- at Babylon, Long Isiand, ols sisters administered ~eomfort. the passage back -and ew York and the Long of slight stature, quiet move- y undemontrative, not seek- : hip or shirking trom any, @ day passenger upon the in. town. He was a fre- ' of no clubs, ‘gathered around 10 congenial social companionships, that was not because he was kindly disposition, but because

ever, Return to Camp With Valuable Data. TRIPOLI, Feb. 1.—While Capt. tor was severely wounded today. The outposts at Tobruk, which occupied by the Italian expeditionary ork. aithough confined to hi8| army in October, have been subjected rected his enterpriges as usual. | recently to harassing attacks by the fire. The aeroplane was ad tn office boy, was considered t imposing figure in ‘the times by the Arab bullets, one of which world, and a fit suc- hit Capt. Monte. He was able to re- turn bringing*valuable information. ARRESTED WOMAN’

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street. gun in Valley, Park Ends in ‘Aurora, Ill. Roumanian Park, is warrant sworn out by peddler, who formerly va. i.. Sturdy of Valley Purk had Abki’s ‘his railroad career | V@lued at $250 nally successful men that | ficers, acting with Sturdy, she denied ever known. He was.a ai-jher guilt, and cried all the way back ny roads, banks and indus- to St. Louis on the train.

INHERITS BIG ESTATE,

and the $40,000 a Year Through Brother’s Death: NEW YORK, Feb. 1.—James morial Hospital, helpless with paralysis, Long Branch, will $1,500,000 estate of his brother, Simon D. . S > Us - ee ) offering.

PREDICTS VICTORY

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AFFINITY FLEES N2POOLROOMS, | WITH MAN'S $2000 ~APTER SIX YEARS Woman Who Eloped From Se- Companion in Toledo, Where Both Worked. i ported to™the police that his wife had disappeared with $2500 of his money. ‘We can't do anything about it,’ Knapp informed him, ‘‘because a man’s wife in this Stage hus a right to run The law she was not exactly my wife,” see, away from Sedalia six years ago. woman’s name was Maggie May Calla- han, and she was then the wife of Con- severe < . dadtipceinienhiiiae a Ebgdorff also admitted he had deserted children .when ‘he left the womédn across the United States and his money. Ebgdorff believes the woman has gone | to her mother at Bunceton, Mo. The man sayy he knew of no rival for the woman's hand, and the police ad- vanced the theory she had returned to her husband, with the $2590 as a peace FRIENDLY NEIGHBORS DESTROY FURNITURE They Hurl Belongings of Three Families to Destruction at

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tern so that the rest of the entry i could not be ascertained. , The newsboy told Miss Adeline Wale? . ters, cashier of the Enderie drug store ai Eighth and Pine streets. that he saw? man leave the Cowperthwait store about 8:30 o'clock, carrying a black ale. ligator skin bag. Such a bag ? missed from the place Thursday, Wurzburger, 24 years old, one of i proprietors of the store, is at— | hospital delirious from ‘a bullet west in his left temple, five scalp st two on the left side and one” | right, and two bluish bruises © throat. He has not régained al ness’ since he was found In the ment of the place at 9:30 « Wednesday evening. His hones 2117 Arsenal street. Father Was Worrt

- accordance with the your jer methodical habits. The + | burger, alarmed, telephoned ie sour! District Burglar Alarm Bur mf see if everything was all ere Pine street store. In his excite ven’ : se ‘

’ Chief here is forgot to telephone the pa information. An automatic burglar alarm. & connects the principal safe In t shop to the operator’s desk at reau. A record js kept of the tim safe is closed every night a every morning. Reference to ord showed that the pawnshop #@: rot “rung in’ as closed at 8 p. B Andrew Whalen, 4 watchman, ‘ifr oF meantime had noticed a ata o: pace and gone in to investiga . A tered and found the lights all ‘bu ine. When he called Wurzburger’s inate eral times without gettlhog a” nee he examined the premises. es ; The pawnshop is separated fro’ hohm’s saloon on the east and t He {4 P. Leahy House and Home Co lwest by two thin plaster wat front door opens upon Pine et a brilliantly iMghted corner ang’ ¢ busy thoroughfare. Shop Very Narrow,” The shop is a very narrow of the entrance is a jewelry , East of it is a wooden partition shuts off the business office rest of the interior. The p pierced by @ door amba na window, if front. at ich © must stand to trar’: 184 | pawnbroker DO. nat | Inside the 1 (ae the north of the window , te the bit which records of pier ¢ are t. : podite the windo” bao . : nye = we ran The

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