St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 25, 1912

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Nineteen- Year-Old » Pupil, Daughter of Texas Minister,Accused of Being Man’s Affinity by His Wife, Dying From Four Bullet Wounds.

YOUNG WOMAN WAS LIVING IN THE HOME Neighbors, Attracted by Screams, Say They Saw Girl Trying to Run When She Was Pulled Back Into Mrs. P. C. Reynold’s House.

Pspecia to the Post-Dispatch. FOR? Mildred at Stephensville, WORTH, Tex., March 25.—Miss 19 years old, is dying 50 miles south of here, inflicted by whose home Logan. as the result of wounds Mrs. P. C. Reynolds, at The girl times, two bullets piercing her stomach. Mrs. the girl was shot four According to Reynolds, Was her husband's affinity. Miss Logan the daughter of a Methodist minister of Morgan Mills. Tex., and has been attending schoo! at Stephensville. Until recently she and Mrs. Reynolds were chums, but her hus- band’s apparent affection for the board- er, it is said, made Mrs. Reynolds jeal- Ous. is Husband Surprised. Just before the shooting neighbors hedrd screams at the Reynolds home and hastening there saw the girl start to run out of the door, but a woman's arm seized her and drew her back. Four Bhots were then heard, Miss Logan was 5 - 4 : 4 .

found lIving unconscious on the floor. Reynolds was not at home. His wife is out on $2000 bail. Reynolds today over the shooting. expressed surprise “My wife had not the least provocation,” he said. ‘I only admired Miss Logan as a friend, and there certainly were no manifestations of love. My wife must have become temporarily insane. I always have loved her. We have been married five years.”’ Mrs. Reynolds claimed she was justi- fled in shooting Miss Logan, and did not regret it, and said that improper relations had existed between her hus- band and the girl, who, she says, stole from her her husband's love. She Expects Acquittal, “I will be certainly acquitted tried,"’ she declared. Miss logan is barely has made no statement. She and Mrs. Reynolds were together frequently in society events. Reynolds is 35 years old and a realty dealer. a ee GRANDFATHER HANGS HIMSELF IN ATTIC ooo Boy Finds Man and His Mother Cuts Down the Body. “Run upstairs and call grandpa,” said Mrs. William H. Kaetvel Jr. at noon Monday to her 10-year-6ld son, Harry. The Kaetvel home is at 820 Wachtel ave- nue, Luxemburg, St. Louis County, andl William H. Kaetvel has lately lived there with his son's family. The boy hurried to his grandfather's bedroom, and then to the attic. A mv- ment later he ran downstairs, sobbing. and told his mother that he had found his grandfather's body hanging from az old wardrobe. Mrs. Kaetvel entered the attic, and, with scissors, cut the sash cord her fa- ther-in-law had used to hang himself. He had been dead a half hour, accord- ing to a physician. Kaetvel was 70 years old, and since his wife’s death, four years ago, he had frequently ists a wis! to die. a TT SPECIAL SESSION IS CALLED BY DENEEN ——_—— ae 8 ee Main Purpose Is to’ Provide for Presidential Pre >*ence Pri- mary April 9. SPRINGFIELL If) March 25.—A call for the State Legislature to meet in ex- traordinary session at 5 o'clock Tues day afternoon, March 26., was sent u) today by Gov. Deneen. The extra sessiol. is called for the main purpose of enacting a law provid:- if conscious, and

ing for a preferential vote on President to be taken at the primary election, April ®% The Govenfior has refused to take the responaii of calling a s) cial session for the purpose bf legalizing ae #uch . . primary, but agreed to issue the | es call, a rovided two-thirds of the mem- ip of the General Assembly de- [him to do so. eens ee ee . an See eee a isin %e

DIAGRAM SHOWING SEASON’S SNOWFALL

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a a TOTAL SNOW OF THE SEASON 67.6 INCHES Record Established by 28.8 In- ches Which Fell in First 24 Days of March. The 12.1 inches of snow which fell Saturday night and Sunday brought the total snowfall of the season in St. Louis up to 67.6 inches. This would be equivalent to about 6% inches of rainfall. Had all the snow which has fallen here this season remained on the ground there would be enough of it to reach more than half an inch above the head of a man 5 feet 7 inches tall. A 6-foot man who tried to go through this snow to catch a street car would find himself buried up to his neck. In the first 24 days of March 288 inches of snow fell, the greatest amount that ever fell in a similar period since the Weather Bureau began keeping snow Statistics, 25 years ago. The first snow fell Oct. 27. With a range from October to March, the 1911-12 snow period extended through three seasons, beginning in the fall and run- ning into the following spring. The Oc- tober fall was light, but by Nov. 15 the total fall had heen one foot. Had the snow remained on the ground there would have been more than 2% feet by Jan. 25. Between March 1 and 15 there was a total fall of more than two feet, andl on the latter date the accumulation. had it remained, would have been 55% inches, or enough to reach to an aver- age sized man’s shoulder.

Ruler of Island of Samos Killed. CONSTANTINOPLE, March 265.—An- dre Keppasses Effendi, prince-governor of the Island of Samos, was assassi- nated by a Greek who fired several] shots at him. The assassin was arrested. _| 4 GY RIVER AND RESUUES HIS SON Hunters’ Boat Fills With Water and Both Are Forced Into Stream.

NO HELP NEAR. - THEM

Boy of 13 Clings to Skiff and Parent Tows It to a Tree.

Battling with icy water in the flvod- swollen Okaw River, William J. Reich- president of the Reichert Milling and one of the wealthiest citizens of Freeburg, Il., rescued his 13-year-old son, Elmer, from drowning Sunday. : He gave the details of their thrilling expe- rience Monday. Reichert has a hunting lodge on the banks of the Okaw River between Fay- etteville and New Athens. He and_his son went there Saturday night and slept in the lodge so as to be on the river early in the morning to shoot ducks, At daybreak, tn a blinding snowstorm, they pushed their skiff in the water and started to row across the Okaw, which at present flood stage is more than two miles wide. When they were in midstream a fece of driftwood tore a_ hole in the skiff, which filled so rapidly that they saw they would have little chance to get to shore before it would sink. Father and son took turns bailing out the boat. While one werked the other would fire his shotgun to attract the attention of hunters and farmers along the shore. When it became apparent that the boat must founder Reichert leaped over- board into the swift current. The boy could not swim. Following his father’s directions he held on to the skiff. The father grasping the gunwale of the ovat with his left hand swam toward a tree top a quarter of a mile away. The man and. boy..were almost exhaust- ed and the boat was about to sink when they reached the tree top and climbed into it. After they had been there an hour George Weiss of Belleville picked them up in his skiff. He had heard their warning shots but had kad great diffi- culty in finding them on the broad ex- panse of the swollen river., Weiss took them back to their hunting lodge two miles away. They returned to Freeburg Monday. ert, ’ Co.,

Collar Batton Kills Child, COUNCIL BLUFFS, Io., March 2.— After suffering intense agony since Thursday from a collar button that had lodged in the windpipe, Alma Francis Winkler, the 5-year-old daughter of Mrs. Joseph Winkler, is dead. The but- ton was found in the lungs.

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Globe-Democrat Republic The count yesterday, Sunday, March 24, was as follows: Post-Dispatch, 305 Cols, . 197 . 119

Over Republic . .

Post-Dispatch Globe-Democrat Republic ; POST-DISPATCH COMBINED... Over Republic . . Over Globe-Democrat THE REASON: “Feb. 11.. 301,465 | Feb. &%.. 303,083 Feb. 25.. 303,124 An increase of 24,34] Sunday a

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88 Columns 42 Columns 23 Columns excess of Want Ads over the Globs-Democrat and Republic ioe . 23 Columns 65 Columns 46 Columns Sunday Cirestetion: Mar. , 305,020 . Mar. ‘0 -. 312,597 Mar. 17.. 308,204 Mar.24.. 307,277 over the corres, onding year ago. SRI “SEREREECIRG * .

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3 PACKING FIRMS HAVE AMUNOPOLY, SAYS PROSECUTOR Armour, Swift and Morris in Ef- | = fective Control, His State- ment Made to Jury.

CLOSE EXPECTED TODAY

Says Government Has Only to Prove Restraint of Trade, Not Excessive Profit.

By Associated Press. CHICAGO, March 25.—That Armour & Co., Swift & Co. and Morris & Co. have today just as effective a monop- oly of the meat business in this coun- their proposed “bil- had been cre- try as though lion-dollar combine” ated, was the contention, in sub- stance, of Attorney Butler’s closing argument for the Government in its anti-trust suit against the packers. The recovery of Juror Bucklin per- mitted the resumption of the trial today. It is expected the case will be in the jury’s hands this afternoon. “The witnesses called by the Gov- ernment were for the most part em- ployes of these companies and were menifestly unwilling to aid the Gov- ernment in the discovery of proof of all the facts as they exist,” said At- torney Butler. “Their manifest evasion, their lack of candor, and their perversion of truth as they Knew it, fully justifies the jury in believing to be true all that these employes said which tends to support the claims of the Gov- ernment and in rejecting all that they said in opposition to the Govern- ment.” Speaking of what the Government had to prove, he said, “there is noth- ing requiring the Government to prove that the defendants made ex- cessive profits, or any profits. If they combined to restrain trade. by eliminating competftion thenisives or by fixing the. prices, they are guilty, whether they made money or lost it.’’ Refers to “Twilight Zone.” Turning to the question whether, if an offense had been committed, did the de- fendants commit it, which he declared was one of the controlling facts for the jury to determine, Attorney Butler said: “In this case if there is found a com- bination, the responsibility of the de- fendants is plain. Counsel made no sub- stantial argument to the contrary.”’ At another point Attorney Butler said: “Brother John S. Miller seemed to prefer in his argument to express the defense for which he contended by point- ing out a ‘twilight zone’ of considerable width between the daylight of innocence and the black darkness of guilt. From his argument we glean that it is his idea that even though the defendants do not walk in the daylight of innocence but in the shadowy Zone between abso- lute darkness of guilt and the daylight of innocence, they should be acquitted.” Plain English of Case. Attorney Butler declared that the the argument of Attorney Payne for the defendants was an attempt to justify rather than to deny the existence of the combination charged. “The plain English for that,” said, “is this: “In prosecutions under the Sherman act, juries must place’ themselves above the courts and determine what the law is and, if economically un- sound, repeal in the particular case.” Juror H. I. Bucklin was declared by his physicians fully recovered from his ailment and took his place with the remainder of the _ panel when court ¢ convened. DOCTORS TO EXAMINE THE KIMMEL CLAIMANT Chicago he

Goes to Ann Arbor for Possible Operation to Relieve Pres- sure on Brain. March 2.—The Niles ‘man of mystery,’ who insists that he is George A. Kimmel, missing banker, went to Ann Arbor today to undergo an examination and possibly an opera- tion relieve an alleged pressure on his brain. There are many persons here who still believe the claimant is the missing man. POPE HAS SLIGHT COLD NILES, Mich., to

Audiences Suspended Because of Cough and Catarrh. ROME, March %.—Pope Pius, although he received Cardinal Angelo Di Pietro and Mer. Laurenti, secretary of the Con- gregation of the Propaganda, this morn- ing suspended the general audiences for today and tomorrow owing to a slight cold. which i& accompanied by a cough and ts catarrh. The Vatican doctors hope to be able to allow the Pontiff to continue his pri- vate audiences after tomorrow.’

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| ‘Afor the LETTERIN RED A LOVENOTE 10 MAN SLAIN BY HUSBAND Missive Found on Bommarito’s Victim Signed by ‘‘Angelina Bommarito.”

“I LOVE YOU UNTO DEATH”

Slayer Says Wife Confessed, Though She Declared She Re- sisted Admirer.

The strange letter, written in_ red, found in the pockets of Frank Palazzolo after he had been shot and killed in a Domenico Bom- Saturday vacant storeroom by marito of 718 Biddle night, was deciphered by the police Mon- day. street, Bommarito, after his arrest, had told that his wife had confessed an intimate friendship with the slain man, who was a boarder in the Bommarito home. The scrawl, as translated, reads: I, the undersigned, do solemnly swear that I love you with all my heart and will as long as life lasts. I will never deceive you or think of leaving you at any time. My Frank may command me at any time. Yours, that loves you unto death, ANGELINA BOMMARITO. I swear I iove you more than my husband. IDA HAUPT, ANNA HAUPT, witnesses. Sewed in a Packet. The note was found sewed in a blue satin packet, which was pinned to the inside of Polazzolo’s purse. When it was shown to several Italians at the Carr Street Police Station, Saturday night, all of them _ professed’ they couldn't read it, but said it appeared to be some sort of a love note. Among others, it was shown to Mrs. Bommarito, wife of the confessed slay- er. She was asked if her name wasn't in the note. After. looking at it curious- for several minutes, .ehe said there were words there which appeared to be her name and she supposed Polazzalo had written her a love note. Mrs. Bommarito’s version of the rela- tionship between her_and Polazzolo was that he had been a persistent suitor and she had resisted his advances. Last Wednesday, she said, he threatened to kill her and her husband and blow up their home if she continued to repulse him. Frightened, she said, she told her husband, and he ordered Polazzolo to leave their home at once. Siayer Says Wife Confessed. Bommarito’s own story was that his wife Wednesday confessed undue friend- ship with the boarder, that he ordered the man away, that they met Saturday and went into the vacant building to talk it over, that Polazzolo started to draw a weapon and that he then shot the man twice. Police Sergeant James J. Moran was on a street car in front of. the bui:ding, 930 North Eighth street, when he heard a shot, and saw a man come out of the place with a revolver in his hand. He arrested Bommarito. Polazzolo died in an ambulance on the way to the dis- pensary. The slain man was 29 years old, 10 years younger than Bommarito, and several years younger than Mrs. Bommarito. WARMER, AND TWO DAYS OF SUNSHINE TEMPERATURES,

THE Yesterday's Temperatures. High. Bn at 5 p. mm. Low. | at Ss a. m,

While Weather predicts fair and warmer weather, for Monday and Tuesday, the moil- eration, it is said, will not be suffi- client to melt all the snow within that time. This is regarded as good news in river bot- toms threatened with floods, gradual thaw will minimize the dan- ger. Monday night !s expected to be much warmer than Sunday night. Official forecast for St. Louts and Vicinity: Fair tonight and Tuesday; warmer tonight; lowest temperature tonight about 2S degrees. Stage of the river: 24.2 .2 of a foot. the Bureau Witt THERE BE A SPRING SERIES OF SNOW STIRMS ¢ |

feet: a rise of lilinocia— convention four delegates at large will be chosen. Other district conventions are to follow. The district conventions each choose two delegates to the national convention and the State convention selects the four delegates-at-large. Unofficial returns township primeries or meetings show the Taft faction will have a majority of about 150 in the State convention and will carry eight of the 13 districts. But margins are so narrow in many dis- triets. certain decision must wait on the results of the conventions and the Koosevelt managers are claiming eight districts and the State convention. In the Third District convention at New Albany today 47 Taft delegates and 4 Roosevelt delegates will fight for con- tro] of the district delegation. In the Fourth District convention, at North Vernon, the Taft element is cred- ited with 57 29-42 votes, and its oppon- ents with 48 13-42. In the Fifth District convention, at Terre Hiaute, Taft followers have 65 del. egates to Roosevelt's 31. In the Eleventh District convention. at Wabash, Roosevelt willl have 6423 votes, to 531-3 for Taft. District meet- ings are to be held in Indianapolis to- night to choose members of the creden- tials and resolutions committees for to- morrow's State convention. TO_MAKE GAS IN EARTH a itetemeee NEW YORK, March 2%—A proposal. which, if adopted, would revolutionize the coal mining business of the world, has been launched by Sir William Ram- eny, the noted English scientist. He suggests that much of the expense of mining and handling might be avolde? if the coal was turned into gas in re- torts within the earth. The gas thus generated could either to from ward and

LEWIS OFFICIAL REPUDIATES “AD” BEARING HIS NAME

L. B. Tebbetts on the Stand Declares That Many of the Statements in the Adver- tisements Published Over His Name Were Untrue. Denies a Committee of Bankers and Business Men Devised Debenture Plan as Stated in Paper. District Attorney Says Pub- lisher Had $500,000 in Personal Debts When De- benture Plan Was Started. Testifying Monday, as a Government witness in the trial of BE. G. Lewis on charges of using the malls to defraud, Lewis B. Tebbetts, chairman of the Board of Trustees of the People’s Save ings Trust Co., and director of the Amer ican Woman's League, two Lewis ene terprises, repudiated his signature te advertisements of the Builcers’ Fund Debenture scheme printed in the Wom- an’s National Daily of July, 1910. He de- clared that Lewis had used nis name in the advertisements without autherity, and that he protested against it. Tebbetts testified that many of the statements in the advertisement over his name were untrue. The advertise- ment stated that a committee of Dusi- ness men and bankers, after examining the books of the Lewis corporations a | the property owned by them, had 4 gested the debenture plan as a 86 t. i . ot the amen a“ er asa a Denies There Was oon att Tebbetts testified that no such con mittee &%tsted. The advertisement state : ed that each member of the Board of Directora of the Lewis corporations, a8 en evidence of their faith In the sound- ness of the debenture scheme, had sub- scribed for $10,000 worth of the deben- tures. Tebbetts testified that he did not subscribe for any debentures, and that to his knowledge no other director had ever done so. Tebbetts denied also that he had any knowledge of an article called “A Per sonal Appeal,’ which appeared over his signature in the Woman's National Daily of Apri! 9, 1910. He objected to this use of his name, he said, and per-. sonally complained to the Board of Managers of the American Woman's League. No action ever was taken on it at a board meeting, he said. He tes-. tified also that the debenture plan was not discussed at a board meeting, 80 far as he knew. He said he did not authorize the use of his name and did not know it was being used as a trustee of the fund. The board. he sald, was composed of Lon V. Stephens, E. W. Dickenson, Theodore F. Meyer, F. L. Cramer, L. B. Tebbetts, W. E. Miller, E. G. Lewis ané F. V. Putnam. Tebbetts was Introduced as @ witness by United States District Attorney Houts on the fourth and last proposition on which Lewis was indicted. Test mony has already been given on the vale of the 7 per cent notes of the Lewis PubHshing Co., the stock of the Lewis. Publishing Co. and the 6 per cent Hotes of the University Heights Realty and Development Co. In Lewts Enterprises. In his preliminary statement of the fourth proposition to the jury Monday, District Attorney Houts said that the - Lewis corporations have become heavily involved in debt as the result of the sale of other securities, and that Lewis evolved the debenture scheme asthe@o- — lution of his financial problems. Hesaid — that $1,158.48) of the debentures were issued, some of them in exchange for the notes and stock of the other corpor+ ations. About $223,596.55 in cash was re- ceived for the debentures, which, the — District Attorney sald were merely the 10-year promissory not@ of E. G. Lewis. Tebbetts, formerly an official of the Mansur & Tebbetts [mplement Co,, was for several years identified in Mere ; capacities with the Lewis enterprises. = “When did you first see a copy of this advertisement entitied “The tion,” printed in the Woman's National Dally — of Juby 27, 19107 District Attorney Houts asked Tebbetts. “I Gret saw it in the hands of BG. Lewis in his office at University | | It was then in proof form, and BE. Lewis’ name was signed to ft.” “When did you next see it?’ : ‘When it appeared in the Woman's National Dally over my name.” eH “Did you give Lewts authority to 1 the advertisement over your “I did not.” Objected to Namey Tebbetts testified that strenuously to the ure of b that he went to see Le

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