St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 5, 1912

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* essary to shift the outstanding obliga- - tlons of the concerns. The indictment sets out that Lewis proposed'to take up $900,000 in 7 per cent *™ notes of the Lewis Publishing Co. and ae. | Seaprann in its stock, on which $260,000 4 5 00 tock tn the University Helghts Real- _ ty and Development Co., with $10,009 due in di vidends; $500,000 of past due trustees’ certificates of the Readers’ 1: ($60,000 in stock of the United States her Stopper Co. and $400,000 worth of f athos paper and to merge them al! into one enterprise on which debentures would be issued. The indictment recites an advertise- ment, printed in July, 1910, under the eaption..“‘The Solution,” in which it is nen “ie apie F 2 _. charged the plan of substituting the de- rding to it, be wag outlined. — * gt the ‘end of 19 years all the property Was to be consolidated into one corpora- i a which should be a permanent in- At said also that Lewis had guaranteed “to turn over all bis great personal es- | tate to the new corporation: that it rep- resented the whole business would be sting approximately. $9,000,000, with less ding indebtedness. ti: The indictment quotes the advertise- ik t as saying that the debentures of- eo an entirely safe and peying invest- = that the committee which h: -gided Lewis in preparing the plan w. go much impressed by it that its mein bers ie subscribed for $10000 wort: = each. The paecctinaniont the Founders’ Chapter or vast holding _ Gorporation to take over all these inter- este would not only pay the face value of the debenture® in cash, but would es trout paid dividends to the holders and would give them stock in, the holding tion iteeif, * The indictment further charges that : te advertised that these debentures , 1910, subseriptions would be at par, that fev that time the trustees one of Missouri's Made Way Across Country. Young Francis arrived here several weeks ago, having made his way across the country, while some of his compan- ions, who had taken a different route, arrived on a coastwise tramp steamer. He is tall and of athletic frame. Gov. Francis would say little. about bis visit with his son, but he ‘talked readily of the prospective work of fhe Baltimore convention, to which he is eight delegates-at- large. “Champ Clark will be nominated and elected,”’ he said. “I expect to see him take the lead on the first ballot. I can’t judge who the Republican nominee is likely to be, but Clark can beat any Republican.”’ 4 He praised Willlam Randolph Hearst, whose Los Angeles paper is supporting Clark, as ‘a most. loyal and. unselfish Democrat.’ CLOUDY AND ABOUT SAME TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES.

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“How would you like to be Ma- dero?”’ “What’s the matter with him?” “Orozco, the man who helped to make him Presi- dent has now turned against him and is marching on him at the head of an imsurgent army. “Is that so? | haven't been read- ing about it. I have been busy following the po- litical situation here at home. “Well, it’s the same here as in Mexico. Madero hag his Orozco and Taft has his Theodore.” what's become of the other CLAIM THe. CLAIMANT ¢

“The Kimmel claimant.” Official forecast for St. Louls and vicinity: Generally cloudy weather tonight and Wednesday; not much chdmge tn temperature; lowest to- might about 18 degrees. Stage of the tiver: wa feet; a fall Hutchinson told a Post-Dispatch re- porter. ‘“‘At first she consulted a St. Louis doctor of high standing and it was only in the last six months that she re- led altogether on the Christian Science attendants. The St. Louis doctor. told her her case was incurable. Her illness was of a complicated nature.” Mrs. McKeighan leaves another daugh- ter, Mrs. W. H. Phillips of Webster Groves. Hutchinson told a Post-Dispatch re- porter at Clayton that Mrs. McKeighan’s death was due to the infirmities of ad- vanced years. “The inquest revealed that her death was due to old age,’’ said Hutchinson, “and Coroner Bracy has so decided as a result of his inquiry. We consider there is no ground for any Seacessiiadlh or comment whatever.’’ Coroner Bracy said the verdict was that death was caused by a _ cancer. Mrs. Hutchinson testified that Dr. G. W. Carson of St. Louls pronounced the cancer incurable a year ago and that since that time Mrs. McKeighan had not been attended by a physician. She said Christian Scientists frequently vis- ited Mrs. McKeighan, but these were merely social calls. LEWIS BANK LOSES ITS LIBEL SUIT The St. Louis Court of Appeals Tues- day affirmed the decision of Judge Wil- liams of the Circuit Court dismissing the $4400 suit for libel of the People’s United States Bank against Russel} P. Goodwin, Postoffice Department attor- ney, and Robert M. Fulton, former Post- office inspector. The bank claimed to have been in- jured by a statement issuéd by the Post- office Department in March, 1907, in which it was alleged that funds of the bank had been misapplied. The state- ment was issued in connection with a previous fraud order against two of the E. G. Lewis publications. ; The Court of Appeals upholds the rul- ing of Judge Williams that the bank did not show that at the time of the al- leged damaging statement, it was ac- tually engaged in the business of bank- ing and that its standing and credit were injured. TO FLY OVER FATAL SPOT NEW ORLEANS, La., March 5.—Miss Matilda Moisant, in her aeroplane, will .attempt a few dips and glides over the spot near Harahan, La., where her brother, John B. Moisant, was killed a year ago in an aviation accident. Miss Molsant arrived yesterday from Torreon, Mex., where she had two spills and thrilling encounters with the Mex- ican rebels. Miss Moisant said she will pot attempt anything spectacular in New Orleans, but jut to show she is

would make it difficult or impossible for me to serve the public by undertak- ing a great task, if the people as a whole seemed definitely to come to the conclusion that I ought to do that task. In other words, as far as in me lies, I am endeavoring to look at this matter purely from the standpoint of the public interest, of the interest of the people as a whole and not in the least from my own standpoint. Nothing to Gain, He Says. “If I should consult. -nly my own pleasure and interests, I should most emphatically and immediately announce that I would under no circumstances run. JI have had all the honor that any man can@pave from holding the office of President. From every personal standpoint there is nothing for me to gain, either in running for the office or in holding the office once more, and there is very much to lo When Col. Rooaeve ache his ed- itorial office here Oyster Bay this morning he found a number of politi- clans waiting to see him. John T. Mur- phy of Philadelphia brought him the latest reports from Pennsylvania. Wil- liam Allan White, the Kansas: editor: R. J. Wynne, who was Assistant Post- master-General in the Roosevelt admin- istration, and Elon Hooker, treasurer of the Roosevelt New York City Com- mittee, also talked with him. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post- Dispatch. OYSTER BAY, N. Y., March 5.—Col. Roosevelt told in detail the cireum- stances under which he wrote the letter dated June 27, 1911, to E. A. Van Valken- burg, which made made public from Washington yesterday and printed in the Post-Dispatch Monday. Upon learning that the letter had been made public, Col. Roosevelt made this formal state- ment: “To all who were at that time writing to me to ask me to be a candidate, I answered that I would not be. To all who then asked whether I would ac-. cept a nomination, I answered yes, if I knew them sufficietitly well to! knew they would understand me. To others’ I said simply that I would cross that bridge when I came to it, and in most cases, if the man was at all a close per- sonal friend, I counted on his doing everything possible to prevent any move- ment looking to My nomination. “It was not until the last three or four months that I was finally obliged to come to the conclusion that there was a real demand among the people as a whole for my nomination, which did not come in any way from any personal friends of mine and was neither inspired

PUSHES DIVORGE She Hears He Has Been Con- verted, and Receives Affection- ate Letter From Him. Mrs. Pear! Elliott Davidson announced Tuesday she would prosecute the divorce suit she filed Friday against Alfred J. Davidson, former president of the Iris- co Railroad, notwithstanding the friend- liness of a letter she just had received from her husband. She said shd believed she had been considerate of his feelings as long as her own interests would permit. The letter began ‘““My Dear Pearl’ and end- ed “Lovingly, Fred,’’ she said. Mrs. Davidson’s statement to a Post- Dispatch reporter Tuesday was the first word she had spoken publicly about her affairs since the dramatic incidents of a few years ago, when Da- vidson quit the railroad presidency and then disappeared, to be found half dazed and penniless in Chicago several weeks later. In making it she says she wishes to set herself right before the world. Insists She Isn’t Extravagant. She had heard rumors that she had been blamed for the family’s financial difficulties because of her extravagance. She insists this is not true and says she is eager her friends shall know the truth as she sees it. She is staying at the Buckingham An- nex. The reporter saw her at the home of her friend, Mrs. T. E. Price, 26 North King’s highway. She was dressed sim- ply in a white shirtwaist, blue skirt, tan shoes, with a blue turban trimmed with an aigrette. She said her husband as not supported her for a year, but that relatives in Texas are supplying aer with money. “It seems almost ironical, doesn’t It, that I should be forced to endure the humiliation and publicity of this?’’ was almost her first remark. ‘. have heard that my husband has been converted and baptized into a Bartist church of Portland, Ore. They say he sings in the choir every Sunday.” Although this was spoken bitterly, the woman’s mood changed quickly. A few seconds later her eyes were filled with tears, as she told of Davidson's court- ship and their marriage 19 years ago, when she was a girl in a San Antonio (Tex.) convent, and the bridegroom was a trainmaster. She says the divorce action was de- ‘Tiayed once before by a letter from Da- The vidson. That was last summer. papers were ready to file when he wrote her he was on his way West to obtain pra reo sae meatn work

IN VIADUCT CRASH Machine Skids on Grand Avenue Bridge and Then Turns nay Over. « ~h Frank ~....poell of the American Ho- tel, a traveling salesman for the Tror- licht-Duncker Carpet Co., suffered a fractured collar bone and a dislocation of his right shoulder at 4 a. m. Tues- day when an automobile in which he was riding with two other men skidded near the south end of the Grand av- enue viaduct, hurdled an 18-inch rail- ing and turned over. The front end of the machine stopped about a foot from the edge of the via- duct, which, at that point, Is 30 feet above the Mill Creek Valley. Other Two Not Hurt. The other occupants of the machine were Ernest W. Kitchens of 3830 Minne- sota avenue, also a salesman for the carpet concern, and John M. Houson, chauffeur, of 4506 Ceok avenue. Neither was injured. A patrolman called a taxicab and the party went to the American Hotel, Where Campbell was treated by Dr. Newcomb, house physician, and sent to the Baptist Hospital, Garrison and Franklin avenues. Kitchens, the police say, agreed at the viaduct to pay for the taxicab, but re- fused when the party reached the hotel. He was taken to Central District Po- lice Station. There, it is said, he changed his mind and settled the bill, after which he was released. Zhe automobile, a limotsine, is * | ie . Larges of 22 Chest- greatly dam- age The police say the accident must have Wbppened. while Houson was driv- ing at a very rapid rate, ag the car appears to have skidded,and leaped over the guard rail almost wEnost touching. MRS. HERBERT SWIFT DIES OF PLEURISY Was Widow of Chicago Packer’s Son Whose Body Was Ex- humed for Autopsy.

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Lawyer Makes Charge. Following the dismissal of the jury, Attorney F. H. Bacon of the plaintiff’s counsel declared, that. an attorney for the New York Life Insurance Co., the defendant, side the courtroom to a member of the jury. Fred 8S. Hall was named by Ba- con as authority for the statement, and Bacon said the information came to him through Claud D. Hall, Fred Hall's brother. He said McIntosh and O'Bryan talked to jurors in the courtroom, and that those to whom they talked most formed the minority for the defense. Explanations made by various jurors of their attitude, in the few mimutes fol- lowing their dismissal, showed that dis- sent had increased rapidly among them in the last few. hours. of their three days together, and that religion and lodge affiliation had an important part in keeping them from getting on a com- mon ground of understanding. Juror Meyer called attention to the fact that there were Masons among those favoring a verdict for the plain- tiff, while of the four who at any time favored the defense, three were Catho- lics. Foreman Schisler made a more guarded allusion to the same fact. When the jury reported Monday morn- ing, in a communication signed by Fore- man Schisler, that it had agreed that the claimant was not Kimmel, Judge Amidon gave further instructions, and a verdict seemed near. The Judge's in- structions at that time were that the only question remaining was whether George A. Kimmel was dead in March, 1904, when the suit for $5000.0f his $25,000 insurance was filed... He also told the jurors they could consider probabilities in determining this question. This great- ly encouraged the plaintiff's lawyers. | : Harmony Receding. But later in the day it became evident that harmony was receding from the ranks of the twelve. Monday night at the Hotel Rozier there was no discus- gion, because the members were so far apart that discussion seemed useless. Tuesday the Judge tet the jury remain in the jury room until —— time, then called them in. Foreman Schisler vephed, in answer to the Judge’s first question, that there had been seen talking out-|* but the mother did not. . lieve Swinney. I prtdaena -ay why re not, only his story was A simply balanced the claimant with 6 veep ney and believed neither of sae a me. enue

stood. On the other te that statement from McMy ir, Certainly believed” Mrs. Imother. She was ‘convincing, — The sister might have aid 1 G. H. Baschmann: The about the finding that the ¢ at not Kimmel was due to « lack of ¥ standing. The stat ; prepared by Foreman Rode i pocket until the next | that he understood that it wi or ; handed to the court. ono thers, it seems, did not so what was to be done with ft. © I believed Gwinney’s seniyiant- a majority of the jurors did. I know what impression was made Charlies 8, Booth: The - we could not agree on °

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