St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 14, 1912

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ROME, March 14.—A desper- ate attempt to assassinate King Victor Emanuel failed this morn- ing, although one of the three bullets aimed at the King or the Queen, who sat beside him, hit Maj. Lang. He was wounded in the head. Maj. Lang, in command of the cuiras- fiers composing the roval bodyguard, was first to spur to the side of tha carriage when the assassin, Antonio Dalba, fired. Interposing his body be- tween the King and the anarchist, "ie recetved his wound. The attempt on the King’s life was made as His Majesty, with Queen Hel- ena, was going from the palace to the Pantheon to take part in the annual memorial service in honor of the late King Humbert. The royal carriage was preceded and followed by an escort of culrassiers. Guard Surrounds Carriage. The procession was passing along the Via Lata, when three shots rang out from amid the crowd. The Queen was seated in the side of the carriage nearest to the would-be assassin. As the shots sounded, she paled, but threw her arms around the King as though to protect him. The King tried to comfort her by saying “Be tranquil; it is nothing.’’ The soldiers following the carriage immediately dashed forward and as they did so their commander fell from his horse. The wounded officer was moved to one side by some of his men while the others dashed up to the royal carriage, where they found the King and Queen sitting calm and unmoved. Meanwhile the crowd seized the man who had fired the shots and attempted to lynch him. He was so badly handled that he was scarcely able to answer questions when he was handed over to the police. The royal procession was scarcely in- terrupted, but proceeded toward the Pantheon, where the mass for King Humbert was completed without further incident, and after the conclusion of the service, the King and Queen returned to the Qutrinal along the same route. On their arrival at the palace King learned for the first time Maj. Lang had been seriously the that wounded ‘and His Majesty at once started for the hospital, where the Major was lving. He traveled in an open automobile and showed no signs of having passed through an ordeal. Officer's Wound Slight. The physicians in charge of Maj. Lane said that he probably Will recove) With- in a fortnight. His helmet deflected the bullet and he received only a slight wound. The ball was afterwards found inside his helmet. He suffered from the shock of the fall from his horse, which caused slight concussion of the brain and some severe bruises. On the return to the palace of the King’s carriage it was found that one of the horses had been slightly wounded by a bullet. The man who had fired the shots had in the meantime been taken to the po- lice station, the policemen having great difficulty in passing through the crowda, which showed intense anger and de- ‘ved to wreak immediate vengeance. At tt Solice station, in splte of the man's condition, he was subjected to keen in terrogation. He said his name was An- tonio Dalba, that he was 21 vears of @@e and that he was a stone mason. @We described himself as an “individval enarchist’” ang said he made the at- tempt on the King’s life as a protest agftinst the organization of society. Riden Bicycle to Scene. Dalba rode a bicycle to the spot from which he had planned the assassination. Me left the wheel in the doorway of the Baiviati Palace. All the circumstances led to the belief that the assailant of His Majesty was fot concerned in any plot of an organ- tzation, but that his deed was the out- come of his individual aberration. People who were present in the Pan- theon say that despite the narrow es- ' he had just had, the King went 2 the service without a tremor, Queen likewise showing no signs more SNOW AND CLOUDY FRIDAY EXPECTED THE TEM PERATURES. Yesterday's Temperatures, High. .40 at 5 p. m. Low. .22 at 7 a. m. —_- oo — There g¢now fall day, but promise of tne of- ficial forecaster was that amends for the omission would be made fiuring the night. |The rain which began with a mist is expected to turn into snow, with an accom- paniment of lower emperature. The temperature ras) «6Comild Thurs- ay morning and he mild breeze eemed to bear a romise of spring. But as the day grew @lder it grew more disagreeable, with the: probability of be- coming even more so before Friday. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Rain, turning to snow to-~- night; Friday cloudy, colder late to- night and Friday; lowest tempera- ture tonight about 30 degrees. Stage of the riven: 8.5 feet; a rise 2 of a foot. | - was no WILL THE MAYOR HIT THE HOUSE A FRencw Lick? Thurs- the of tonight, heavy in extreme north portion: colder tonight; cold wave in west portion: Friday unsettled with colder in east portion: high shifting winds. Illinois—Snow in northernpart; probably rain turning to snow in southern portion to- night and Friday; colder Friday and in south and west portions tonight: brisk to high Nishifting winds. ROOSEVELT EXCUSED FROM ANY JURY DUTY Missouri—-Snow Counsel Tells Court Colonel’s Presence Might Distract Other Men’s Minds. MINEOLA, L, I., March 14.—Theodore Roosevelt’s jury duty is over. Supreme Court Justice Putman told him today he could be excused. Counsel had confided in the Court that Roosevelt’s presence in the box might distract his fellow jurors’ minds from any case and for that reason:they would challenge him. The Colonel appeared in court as usual this morning and when a court officer touched him on the shoulder he stepped to the bar. “I understand,”’ said the Court, “that there is little likelihood of your services being required, Col. Roosevelt, and on account of your other engagements I will gladly consider any request you wish to make.”’ “Your Honor,” said the Colonel, ‘‘as I have been here two weeks, I shall make a request to be excused, if that is a proper request.”’ The Court granted the request and shook hands with the Colonel, who then left for Oyster Bay, to remain all day. KANSAS UNIVERSITY OPENS WAR ON SLANG English Professor Shocked by “Take Your Queen to an Ice Cream Jojnt.”’ LAWRENCE, Kan., March 14.—A cant- paign to discourage the use of slang has been started by the department of En- glish at the University of Kansas. “My attitude against slang is a hos- tile one,’’ Prof. C. G. Dunlop, head of the English department, said: “It may }sound smart to call an ice cream parlor a ‘jgint’ and your girl a ‘queen,’ but George Ade did a great harm to the English language by writing ‘take your queen to an ice cream joint.’ ”’ “Slang is detestable,” said Prof. R. I), O'Leary, formerly of England. ‘“‘It is weakening to the intellect to make one set Of phrases answer for the ex- pression of every emotion. Slang is a term and includes many neolo- gisms. There is entirely too much of this slang heard.” Vague CARS GET ON WRONG ROAD eee ee 0. eee Train Leaps to Another Line and Is Run 50 Miles to Get Back. TROY, tnan., March 14—A St. Joseph & Grand Island train of two engines nd two cars jumped from its own tracks ere to the Burlington Railroad tracks at a crossing frog and to get it back en it own rails again it became neces- fary to run the train to Atchison, Kan., and back, a distance of 50 miles. The railroads cross at an acute angle and both engines made the change of roads without difficulty, as did one car, but the caboose failed. NEW STAR IS DISCOVERED ew In Constellation Gemini, trum Like Sun. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., March 14.—A new- ly-discovered star which gave an udt- usual spectrum resembling somewhat that of our sun, is interesting Harvard astronomers. The star, which is of the fourth mag- nitude, is near the star Eta of the Con- stellation Gemini. It was discovered by Spec- Jan astronomer at the Kiel Observatory. LEWIS’ MANAGER. TELLS OF $52,000 A MONTH LOSSES H. K. Taylor Declares This In- Cluded $20,000 Monthly Deficit of the Star. PAPER HAD TO HAVE AID Money Sent From _ University City to Make Up Monthly Shortage. Hugh K. ‘Taylor, manager of the mechanical department of the Lewis Publishing Co. during 1908, testified Thursday, in the trial of E. G. Lewis on a charge of using the mails to de- fraud, that Lewis told him in that year that the Woman’s Magazine was _ losing $12,000 a month, and the Woman’s Na- tional Daily $20,000 a month. Taylor said that these losses, and the later loss of $20,000 a month by the St. Louis Star, were the subject of frequent discussions between him and Lewis, and that Lewis frequently brought up the matter and stared that:the publications were losing money in the amounts named. Taylor's testimony will be used by the Government in connection with adver- tisements of the Lewis Publishing Co.’s notes and securities which, the Govern- ment charges, Lewis sought to sell on the representation that the company’s business was profitable. Taylor Was Manager. Taylor said he went to the Lewis pub- lications in an editorial capacity in 1904, and that he took charge in 1907 of the mechanical department at the Univer- sity City plants. In 1907 and 1908, he said, the big press of the Woman's Na- tional Daily was used to not more than one-third its capacity, and the Woman’s Magazine presses could have done three times as much work as they did. Yet, he testified, Lewis planned extensive additions to the mechanical plants, and when Taylor remonstrated, saying the plant had all the equipment and all the room needed, Lewis said he had ‘‘given his word’ to increase the capacity. Taylor said’ hé also advised Lewis to defer an increase in sAlaries until busi- ness should he more favorable, but that Lewis said the company could stand the increase. and that the money wouid be found. He said he discussed the financial condition of the company and of the various publications fully with Lewis during 1908, and that Lewis was fuliy acquainted with the losses of the dif- ferent periodicals. None of them, Tay- lor said, was making money. Sept. 1, 1908, Taylor went to the Star as general manager. The Star, he said, lost $20,000 a month, and the Lewis Pub- lishing Co. had to ‘‘send down money” to the Star every month to supply the deficit. He said Lewis often discussed this matter with him. Lewis’ Idea of Daily. Taylor said Lewis maintained that the Woman's National Daily, though losing money, Was a good investment, as it Was a valuable advertising medium for his other enterprises, and was the chief organ of the Woman’s League. In cross-examination,. Taylor told of the work of the Woman's League in getting magazine subscriptions and con- ducting correspondence courses. He was then questioned about the effect of the withdrawal, in December, 1906, of the second-class mail privilege, and said the publications never recovered from ft. In 1906, he said, the Woman’s Maga- zine property, in his belief, was worth $3,000,000, and was earning $22,500 a month from advertising, aside from subscrip- tions. The Woman's Farm Journal, he said, was worth $1,000,000. He told of Lewis’ plan, after acquiring the Star, to promote the building of a subway to connect University City with the downtown district of St. Louis. This, Tavior said, would have greatly en- hanced the value of the Lewis properties. He said he believed the money put into the Star property by Lewis, and his work for that paper, had doubled its value. Postal Men Witnesses. William Lottmann, cashier of the St. Louis Postoffice; . John Biedenstein, weigher of second-class mail, and T. J. Gilson, who had charge of Winner Sta- tion at University City, were put on the stand by the Government to prove that Winner Station was a.part of the St. Louis Postoffice and that all the Lewis mail, including second-class mat- ter, was handled as St. Louis mail. Attorney Barclay attempted to ques- tion Biedenstein about the holding up of 68, 000 pounds of the Woman's Magazine and the Woman's Farm Journal, on which postage had been paid. The Dis- trict Attorney's objection, on the ground that the alleged seizure had no bearing on the present case, was sustained. Barclay then asked about the issu- ance of a fraud order against Lewis in 1905, and Houts again objected and was sustained. BALLOON IS UNREPORTED SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 14.— Newspaper correspondents tn scores of towns in Texas had failed today to get trace of the balloon Buckeye, which sailed from San Antonio last night, carrying J. H. Wade of Cleveland, O., and Thomas Cook of San Antonio, Former MRS. H.CLAY. PIERCE. Stormy Scene When Magnate Learns of His Son’s Elopement, but Bridal Pair Go Away Happy on Their Honey- moon—Both Had Denied Engagement. Special to the Post-Dispatch. PALM BEACH, Fla., March 14.—The Homeric wrath of H. Clay Pierce, the St. Louis and New York oil magnate, over the elopement and marriage of his son, Roy, and his stepdaughter, Miss Virginia Burrowes, which raged all day yesterday and last night, was still un- appeased today. Although it is said he Kept the pair in his room and berated them until time for them to take their train on their honeymoon journey to St. Augustine, Fla., last night, the resentment of the father, who is said to have spent $100,- 000 to hava the son’s first marriage, to Mrs. Elizabeth Faulkner Chapman, an- nulled, has kept him in his room today. He refuses to make any statement, either in person or by proxy. Dented the Engagement. It has been less than a month since the first marriage was finally canceled. It is learned that the father had heard hints of the attachment of Roy Pierce for the stepsister. He is said to nave told a friend he heard rumors they were engaged two years ago, that he wrote to them about it and they sent nim most positive assurances it was not true. When the son and the girl appeared before him yesterday afternoon and tol4 him that from being his stepdaughter the young woman had been changed into his daughter-in-law, the million- aire was for a few moments speechless with wrath. He hustled the pair into his apartments, from which only rum- bles of the explosion that followed could be heard by those passing outside. Young Pierce and Miss’ Burrowes slipped away from the family home vyes- terday afternoon and went to West Palm Beach. They first asked the Rey. Hq. Ashton Henry of Saratoga, an E piscy- pal minister, to marry them, but ne refused. Then they hunted up the Rey. Edwin Waldo, a former Boston clergy- man, and he consented to say the cere- mony. The clergyman afterwards said he dia not know of Pierce’s previous mar- riage. He knew the families of the bride and bridegroom. He yielded to Miss Burrowes entreaties, he said, when the young woman pleaded with him they wished to begin their honeymoon in the South. The bride is the daughter of Mrs. Vir- ginia Prickett Burrowes, who was mar- ried to Henry Clay Pierce in London. two years ago. Her mother's father was Maj. Russell Prickett, a banker 5? Edwardsville, Ill. Most of the time since 1999 Miss Burrowes has lived at the Pierce homes in New York, at. Louis and Pride’s Crossing, Mass. She is 22 years old, two years younger than her husband. First Wife an Actress, Roy. Pierce’s first marriage and the proceedings to annul it, brought by his father and brotner, are still fresh in tnx memory of his acquaintaces. Mrs. Retty Chapman divorced her first nusbana. T. Irvin Chapman, @ Boston banker. She and young Pierce were married secretly Nov. 14, 1910, by a New yor, Alderman. Before her marriage to Chapman the wife was an actresg. In the petition, which was filed by }- ‘I ~~ Continued on Page 2, Columa 2 Wife wedding about a year ago; his stepmother. No Father’s Blessing for Roy Pierce On Honeymoon With Stepsister Bride Congratulates Oil magnate’s son, his stepsister-bride as she appeared in bridemaid’s costume actress his marriage to whom was annulled, and his father. MISS are “CHAPMAN H.CLAY PIERCE MRS .B. GRAHAM WTS HOME. AND SFEKS A INORG Former Complaint ‘Omits Charges Wife Made Rich Paper Co. Secretary. Mrs. Zulah Beatrice,Graham Thursday filed suit to divorce Henry’ Brown Gra ham, secretary of the Graham Paper Co., asking custody of their son, Henry B. Graham III. 2% years old. She re- moved Thursday from the fashionable Graham home, 5831 Cabanne avenue, to apartments she has rented at 5896 Cates avenue. The divorce and indignities. Against petition alleges cruelty No mention is made of the matters touched upon in a recent newspaper interview, in which the wife was quoted as xaving she had follow-d her husband's automobile to a West End apartment and had seen it in front house there. Tells of Finding Letters. At that time her attorney said Mrs. Graham found some letters in her hus- when they were in Denver and that these letters had grieved Mrs. Graham. He said, how- ever, that this had been condoned by his wife some time before. The petition accuses Graham of hav- ing a violent temper, and of giving awey to demonstrations of “furious wrath and hatred.” Mrs. Graham makes no request for all- mony. It is understood that $60,000 In life insurance of her husband has been settled upon their child, and that a fi- nancial settlement has been arranged. of a band's possession Him at a St. Louis DUAT'S POTTERY GEMS PURCHASED FOR ART MUSEUM W. K. Bixby Buys Collection From Noted French Artist for S6000. M. Taxile Doat, one cf the most emi- nent of living ceramic artists, has sold his collection of his own works of art potterv, numbering 172 pieces, to the City Art Museum. It will be placed on exhibition in few weeks at the mu- Seum. The sale- was made after M. Doat had called on W. K. Bixby, head. of the Museum Board, and had explained to him his difficulties with the- United States Government, which was requir- ing the payment of $5000 duty on the collection or its removal from the coun- try. Bixby investigated and found tnat the works were of the highest order of modern art, and their purchase for %600) was agreed on. This was one-half the price which M. Doat expected, when he brought the collection here, to receive for it from the American Woman's League, headed by E. G. Lewis. As the articles will be hereafter exhibited for educational purposes, the Govern- ment will waive its claim for duty. M. Doat, who its 61 years old, was, for 30 vears, prominently connected with the Royal French Pottery Manufactory, a Government enterprise, at Sevres. It was one of Lewis’ ambitious plans to establish in University City a school of ceramic art which should become known Internationally, as is the Royal French pottery manufactory at Sevres. For this purpose, while tn France ifn 1909, Lewis engaged M. Doat to come to this country and conduct auch a school in the Art Building at University City, as part of the educational work of the. Woman's League. He came in No- vember, 1910. His salary, M..Deat says, was to be $10,000 a year, and. his: collection was to be acquired bythe .institution for a MOONSHINERS KILL JUDGE, PROSECUTOR, SHERIFF, 2 . ; z . 4 a + ¢ , kt = ae E | e iy 2 pay aye a 3 ay Poy, ¥ Me fy a Pa rat ‘> . os t Mob of Outlaws Riddle Hillsville: © (Va.) Officials After Leader’s Brother Is Sentenced and, Backing. Out of Room, Members Escape on: : 4 Horseback to the Mountains. % » ii JURORS AND CLERK OF 3 COURT ALSO WOUNDED, “Ps Posse of Citizens Pursues Eand Which Takes — Prisoner Away and One of the Mountaineers Is Reported to Have Been Wounded in Bat-. : : tle— Militia Ready to Go to Scene. ~~ Special to the Post-Dispatch. HILLSVILLE, Va. siding in the Carroll County Cire ousyy. , March 14.—Judge Thornton Massie, pra Commonwealth’s At torney William Foster and Sheriff Louis Webb were shot dead ins the courtroom today by a es of moonshiners. ult Court: J. H. Blankinship,' The assassins were sympathizers of Floy Fl Allen, leader of gang of feudists and illicit distille the arrest of a member of his clan. As the words, “One year at hard la- bor, passed the Judge's lips, a re- volver cracked and the Judge sank dead in his chair. An instant later there was a volley of shots and Prosecutor Foster fell dead on the floor, his head pierced by bullets. Sheriff Webb, reaching for his weapon, started toward Floyd Al- len, but was shot dead before he could lay hands on the prisoner. Clerk Goad and Juror Blankenship, the former shot in the neck, fell apparently dead, and others ran for their lives from the hail ef lead. Horses Take Band to Hills. With no representative of the law re- maining to lay a hand on him, Allen, who had taken part in the shooting, joined his comrades, and all backed slowly out of the courtroom, holding back at the point of their revolvers the few resolute men who remained in the courtroom. Outside, they jumped into their saddles and dashed for the moun- tains. Citizens, determined to uphold the law, formed a posse to follow the men to the hills, and galloped away in pursuit, vowing to shoot the outlaws down at sight if they would not submit to ar- rest. Reports have reached here of a conflict in which one of the Allens was wounded, but this has not been verified. This town, the county seat of Carroll County, is in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountain region, and is 15 miles from the nearest railroad station. The courthouse is a small red brick build- ing. The ‘‘Allen feud gang” three brothers and a number of follow- ers. The brothers are Floyd, Jack and Sidney. Flovd Allen, a Deputy Sheriff who one of Allen's friends. Allen beat officer into insensibility with the butt of a pistol and brass knuckles, and, leaving him for dead, took the prisoner away and secreted him. Officers Feared to Arrest Him. Shortly after this, KFlovd Allen was irdicted and his trial was set for the December term. Allen never was ar- rested. It appears that no officer in Carroll County would undertake to ar- rest Alien, who more than once said he; never would be taken alive. The case was called at the last term of Judge Massie's court. but the deputy sheriff whom Allen had assaulted did not appear, fearful of the consequences. Judge Massie deciared at the time the case would be gone into at the March term of court and that Allen would he arrested and brought to time, if the Court had to get men from outside Hilleville and Carroll County for the purpose. His arrest. finally was effected with- out bloodshed, but there had been fre- quent rumors of intervention in his be- half by his brothers and their friends. Militia Held Ready. Special officers are being rushed into the county to help in running down the murderers who took the prisoner with them. Gov. Mann is holding two com- panies of militia in readiness in case the Allens and their friends gather recruits in the mountain fastness. The trial had been in progress for several days, without any indication of ‘* is composed of attacked custody the six months ago, had in the jury, and Judge Massie pronounced sentenéé.” rs. He was on trial before Judge + eee brothers and their associates. The Allens and their friends must: have been well armed, for it seemed to. room that fully 100 shots had been fired. Judge Massie was one of the the Virginia Supreme. Court. appointed to the bench by Gov. Swan-. son in 1908, was 48 years old, and {s sur- ter. Commonwealth's Attorney Foster held his office for eight years. years of age and known as a fearless” prosecutor. er in the county. Sheriff Webb had been a deputy tor: iff last November. Governor Offersn $1000 RICHMOND, ‘Va., March Mann has offered a reward of $1000 for’. Courthouse, after having slain” court officers. ordered Roanoke and Lynchburg” militia companies to be prepared to proceed to Hillsville if their services” should be required. ; Ville three has GQne Report Is That Prisoner shot Judge and the Sheriff, RICHMOND, Va., March 14 —One re- — that Floyd Allen, the prisoner says and that friends of his in the audience” shot and wounded Juror Brown and an-«- other juror, whose name ts not given, 17 Fesitive Mountaineers Said te Be CINCINNATI, March from Bristol, Tenn. taineers who esc aped from H after three court officers were took refuge in an old barn in a tainous spot and prepared to resist forts of any posse that might — with them. All are sald to be withstand a much larger body of PRISON WARDEN, 3 GUARDS KI They Lose Lives in Lincoln, (Neb.) Penitentiary Mutiny — of Convicts. LINCOLN, Neb. March 14.— walren of the State penttentiary three guards were killed in a mt her today. The mutiny was quelled, — Reward for Farmer's siarer | - | CHILLICOTHE, Mo. M Mh the fourth time the reward f reat of the mendareny of Mx wealthy farmer, in | been increased, two b man pend added $ } ready Z [death to his ; » be Ever a. Ab cog > . ay n EOE SP Ge ERE 1 vived by a wife, two sons and a daugh- _ He was a Republican lead. : 15 or 20 years before being elected sherss; the murderers who escaped from Hilis-— port of the outbreak at Hillsville, Va... , Barricaded and Well Armed, «+ 14-+A special: ava , Says 17 of the mounes fon ike eo 3 : Massie for assault on a deputy sheriff, committed in oreventiall “ He was found guilty jer ty spectators who escaped from the court- ~ most. prominent jurists of the State, and re- ~— | cently was considered for promotion to — He was He was @ The Governor also” — — ¢ > ie ‘es killed Judge Massie and Sheriff Web 4 : : with much ammunition and able. er