St. Louis Post-Dispatch
April 4, 1912

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: No. 1, Sporting Events in Colors, by Robt. Edgren | Next Sunday Post-Dispatch (OVER, 300,000 CIRCULATION.) EDITION FINANCIAL MARKE SPORTS Only Evening vie in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING; APRIL 4, 1912—24 ‘PAGES.

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— : aay a wz CITY TAX DODRERS CAN'T HIDE BEHIND HS, GREENBACKS No. Law Can Be Found to Bear Out the Seme Residents That Country’s Legal Tenders Are Not Assessable by the Municipal Authorities. CONTENTION MADE BY MRS. L. B. MEYSENBURG

Wealthy Woman Drew Eighty-Five $1000 Bills From Bank Thinking They Were Nontaxable — Other Persons Hive Followed ‘Same Practice. a U. S. Law Which Says All Moneys Are Taxable ECTION 35838, Revised Statutes S of the United States—United States legal tender notes and other notes and certificates of the United States, payable on demand and circulating or intended to cir- culate as currency, and gold, sil- ver and other coins, shall be sub- ject to taxation as money on hand or on deposit under the laws of any State or Territory, provided, that such taxation shall be exercised in the same manner and at the same rate that any such State or Terr- tory shall tax money or currency circulating as money within its jurisdiction.

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‘Inquiry Thursday showed that the meipractice..ot converting bank balances & temporarily into United States treasury notes, commonly known as greenbacks, in the belief that such notes are not subject to taxation, has been a common one in St. Louis. The City Board of Equalization got its first official information on the sub- ject when Mrs. Lucretia B,. Meysen- burg, of 5 Westmoreland place admitted Wednesday afternoon that she had con- 4 * verted $85,000 into greenbacks, to avoid

fe Ee: : 5 ee Bi Bore Sa > © ‘the Equalization Board Thursday making a personal property return on the amount to the Assessor. Assistant United States District At torney Daues said Thursday, in re sponse to an inquiry, that there was no foundation for this belief as to treasury notes, and that under the United States law, they are as tax- able as gold or silver coin. , ani Had SS $1000 Bills, George M. Willing, teller of the St. Louis Union Trust Co., appeared before and told of providing Mrs. Meysenburg May $1 last with 8 $1000 greenbacks, at her request, for what she said was a spe- Gial purpose. He had only $50,000 of guch currency on hand, he said, but Sent to another bayk and got the bal- ance. Mrs, Meysen»urg took the notes and put.them in a safe-deposit box, and ‘two days later put them back on her ~ She made her = 6 a nenhdherney Gilbert, burg, said he unders Jersey court had decided Packs were not taxable. The board told m. to produce his authorities on the euéstion. 'Former Judge R. E. Rombauer, who has served in the past on the Board of Paqualization, told the Board that the fame question was raised a few vears ‘ago, and that the Board then ascer- tained that greenbacks were taxable. Opinion on Dod«era. He further said that City Counselor Pates gave an opinion that owners of tooney could not escape taxation on it by turning it, temporarily, into United States bonds., which are ad- itedly not taxable. The vital ques- tion, according to Bates’ decision, is whether the transaction was for the urpose of avoiding taxation, and if so, we form tn which the money has been ily placed can be disregarded. * A bank teller of long experience told . Post-Dispatch reporter that he had ' frequently known men with large bank _ gecounts to convert them into treasury ‘notes for a few hours, so as to make : tax return without including their holdings under the statutory head of ey in bank or other safe piace.”’ n have often come to the bank. just before making their tax returns, ' ie said, ‘“‘and have presented their books asked for the balance due them, s Treasury notes, not bank notes. They the bank to hold the Treas. for them, eometimes not even | receipt for them, would go and ke their tax returns, and would the. back to the bank and turn the + back into their account. % my understanding thot % “oe Seams said they was Boy in Firs Long Pants Marries

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Alt Single Veniremen - Examined Say They Oppose Hanging for a Woman.

Six jurors were accepted Thursday morning out of 21 examined.for the. trial at Hillsboro, Mo., of Mrs. Anna Hun- ning, being. the accom- plice of Joseph Seidl, conVicted Wedues- Gay of the murder of the woman's hus- band, Martin Hunning. They are mar- ried men. Every unmarried man of the 15 venire- men who were challenged, said he was opposed to hanging a woman. A few -had formed opinions on ithe case, and six said they would not hang either & man or a woman. The conduct of the veniremen gravated Judge Dearing who began demand of each one: “Why will you not If it is the law of Missouri evidence shows a woman guilty of an atrocious crime, why not hang her?” Mrs. Hunning Interested, The attitude of Mrs. Hunning while the veniremen were being examined totally unlike ‘that of Seidl. Seidl seemed to have no, interest in the out- come of the case. -Mrs. Hunning is all attention to everything that goes on in the court and in constant consultation with her attorneys while examining jurors. Each time a juror said ‘e would not hang a woman, Mrs. Hunning smiled and nodded her head avprov- ingly. Mrs. Hunning, was dressed all she had a shawl, chin. The edges of the shawl fathered low over her forehead almost to hide her face. Her eyes, peering out sharply from under the hoody covering, as she turned her head from side to side, lost nothing that went on in the courtroom. At the sound of every footstep she would turn to who was eé6ing or coming. TWO OF ALLEN GANG ARE REPORTED KILLED Vi T- charged with ag to woman? and the hang a. slim, her head under the were as whois tall and in black. On tied tightly FO hrown see

Unconfirmed Account of ginia Fight Says Two De- tectives Were Wounded. Bv Asegociated Press. RICHMOND, Va., April 4.—An uncon- firmed report has reached here that Sidna Allen and Wesley Edwards were killed near Volunteer Gap, and two detectives wounded, in a fight this morning. ° No corroboration of the rumor was ob- tainable, but the first story of the battle was told to a Mount Airy, 8. C., rura! mail carrier by negroes on his route. Efforts to confirm the story convinced the authorities tha. the negroe’s story is

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EMMETT COLLARD

He Outwits Six Sisters and Three Policemen in Family by Trip to East Side.

old, trousers, wearing out- Emmet Collard, 16 years his first pair of witted his six sisters and three police- long men, who are members of the family, when he eloped to East St. Louis with Ernestine Duncan. 17. and was mar- Mag and girl were neighbors, Em- at 5603B North Icrnestine with her They abode going tied by ristrate Williams. The living with a and Spalding avenue. their separate both sav they soon. boy met sister Market street, parents; 564! Were stiil at Thursday, but housekeepiug Ernestine says keep house. - + ae are to can cook = and Both admit it was the bright silk which Ernestine cro- cheted for’ Emmet that won his heart. Three Relatives Are Policemen. Emmet is the telephone operator at the Deer Street Police Station. Police Sergeant William FE. Harrison, § for- merly connected with the I xcise Com- missioner’s office, and Patroe L,. Lake are ‘married to An alder brother, Oscar is also a patrolman. Emmet was the ‘‘baby”’ of the Col- tard family, and presents from. out-of- téwn members of the family stfll come to the home of his sister, Mrs. 7race Lake, ‘for baby.’ Mrs. Lake referred to this in telling a reporter how Emmet escaped her eve and was married. “T was married myself when I was only 16, but I married a grown-up man.” said Mrs. Lake. “So I was not sur- prised when .Emmet asked me ‘Satur- day: *“ ‘Grace, how did you manage to get married when you were only 16 years old? “I told him it was easy, that we had sone to East St. Louis, and that we didn’t have the Jeast trouble. I thought no more about it, Girls Father Angry at First. “Then someone saw the Hcense in the Post-Dispatch. Ernestine’s father was very angry at first and Ernestine had te go to a neighbor's house for one day and then the father relented and we all decided to help them out as best we could.’”’ Mrs. Collard told a reporter that the license clerk looked at them “queer” when they told him they were of age but that they didn’t have any real dif. ficulty getting married. The motorman on the street car going across the bridge told them how to get the license. She says she has no fear they will be able to get along all right on Emmet's ee palary of $3 a month, ant she ties > ~“ man G. sisters Collard, 3, in ts am ; own

t. G. LEWIS WILL BE HIS OWN SIAR WITNESS TODAY Lawyers Announce They Will Put Publisher ihe Stand. TO

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They Tell How Rural New Yorker’s Attacks Damaged Women’s League Work.

Attorneys for the defense in the trial of E. G. Lewis, accused of using the mails to defraud, announced a short time after court opened Thursday that they would call Lewis himself to the stand before the day was done. As Lewis was expected by his neys to prove the best witness in his behalf, interest, which had begun to flag through the multiplicity of testi- mony, Was quickened in the courtroom. His introduction to the stand is fig- ured as the trump card by the defense. His personal knowledge of the compli- cated University City enterprises and his known ability to express his views forcefully are counted upon by his law- vers to do more than anything else to’ offset the Government’s charges against him. Between 50 and © young women, all of them wearing new spring millinery, ap- peared at the courtroom in the after- noon. A young man who seemed to have charge of the party, told the doorkeeper they were Lewis employes from Uni- versity City, who had come to hear Lewis testify. They were admitted and seats were found for them in one sec- tion. Their light clothing and gay straw hats perceptibly lightened the grayness of the courtroom. Woman Helps Lewis. Margaret Tucker of Schenectady, N. Y., New York regent of the Amer- ican Woman’s League, was the first witness in Lewis’ behalf Thursday. She testified that the league has 3500 mem- bers in New York, and that it was pros- pering until the Rural New Yorker be- gan its attack upon E. G. Lewis, fol- lowing the fraud order against the Peo- ple’s United States Bank and the with- drawal of the second-class mail privi- leges from the Lewis publications. Mrs. Claudia A. White of los geles, Cal., regent for her State. fied that the Rural New Yorker's at- tack upon Lewis proved disastrous tn the league. She said that her own chapter in Los Angeles has 700 mem- bers and that there were 70 chapters in California at one time. After the tack by the Rural New Yorker found the ieague’s progress greatly peded, she said. Before the attack, her own chapter members a day, enthusiastic over offers. attor- Mrs. An- testi- at- she im- in 1910, she said that Was adding 30 to 4 that the women were the Lewis edurationa!] Paper in Evidence. She was stopped from testifying about a Postoffice circular attacking Lewis which she said she read in 1910, by an Objection from Attorney Houts. Then Attorney Cullen for the defense showed her a copy of the Rural New Yorker of June 18, 1910, which she said she had read. This article, which was headed er Peoples’ Names—Mr. Lewis Borrows Respectability,’’ Cullen read to the jury. It told of the fraud order and the withdrawal of the mail privileges. told how the American Women's League was organized and attacked the Peoples’ University plan. It told the correspondence courses offered and gave the list of teachers from various colleges who were called members of the People’s University faculty. It published what purported to be letters from some of these profes- saving their names had been used Lewis without their authority: GENERALLY FAIR AND SAME TEMPERATURE THE TEMPERATURES a. “Oth. of sors, by

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“Aha, what is this?’ said the deep sea diver as he came to the surface holding a piece of ancient parchment which he had found {Tn the wreckage of a Spanish ship. ‘Why that,”’ said his partner after deciphering it, ‘‘is a charter granted to the master of the ship by the King of Spain in 1468."’ “O. well, guess it pired. well away.” AFTER THE. SNOW , THE DEL UGE 4

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“T should say not.’ “What good is it?” “Why, we can take It to St. Louis and start a lid club with !t.’ Official forecast for St. Louls and vicinity: Generally fair weather to- night and Friday; not much change in temperature. Stage of the river: 30.4 feet; a ia FLOOD SCENES IN MEMPHIS AND A RIVER MAP SHOWING TOWNS WHICH ARE MENACED

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Mrs. Etta Nelson, years old, was overcome by at 4 a.m. Thursday, possibly turned on by a dog, in a room at 1402 Pine street, where she was sleep- ing with Archie’G. Nelson, her husband, while HTloward C. Hitehcock, a _ friena, slept on a pallet. The men thought they succeeded in reviving the wife and they went to sieep again, but when Nelson awakened again at 8 a. m., Mrs. Nelson dead, The fumes came from a gas grate, the valve of which is loose, and Nelson told the police that believed a pet dog turned on the gus. The dog opened the valve once before in the night and the Nelsons narrowly escaped asphyxia- tion on that occasion. At 4a. m., Nelson and Hitchcock told the police, Nelson was awakened by gas fumes and found his’ wife unconscious beside him. He awoke Hitchcock. The gas was turned off, the windows opened and the men revived the woman by forcing her to walk up and. down the room for half an hour. Apparently was entirely revived, the men thought. She talked to them and said felt all right. She was very drowsy, but Nelson attributed that tc the fact that she was sleepy. All three went to bed again, and Nel- son slept until 8 o'clock. | He tried to arouse Mrs. Nelson and found her dead. He called Hitchcock and they summoned the police. The woman’s body was tak- en to the morgue and the men were tak- en to Central Station, where they were questioned. They were heid for the Coroner. The police are puzzled to understand how the escaped gas in the reom was sufficient to kill the woman, while neith- er of the men were overcome, nor did Ras back was he she she

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Warrant Prepared Charging Miss Davis With Practicing With- out a License.

Jr.. who is: con- wealthiest woman, will ¢estify in the, Court of Criminal Correction against Miss Susan L.. water cure specialist, when Miss Davis arraigned on a Warrant, her with practicing medicine license, was Mrs. Paul Bakewell, sidered St. Louis’ young Davis, is harging without a The warrant Prosecuting prepared Thursday Attorney Sidener, after had conferred with Mrs. Bakewell her husband's downtown office, and received her assurance of her will- to be a witness. of the Thursday suite at had ing? A representative partment was sent Miss Davis. who bags a at the Planter’s Hotel. Not in Room at Miss Davis was not in the Health Department's and an inspection of her when the chambermaid entered, showed that the room had not been occupied night. Her personal belong- ings were in place, and even her hand- bag was there, indicating that she had not intended a long absence when she left. Miss Davis several days aro in Justicé Krueger's court against Bakewell for $250. alleging that Bakewel| took instruction in the ment and failed to pay for it. Mrs. Bakewell, in an interview pub- lished at that time in the Post-Dis- patch, sald she had made but one visit to Miss Davis, and had declined to take her treatment. She adde! that = she Ainst Miss if the Health- Department should renew the effort to convict medicine li- 1eSs Health De- to arrest of rooms Hotel. her room when called, room, made mah filed suit Mrs Mre. treat- Davis see fit to her of practicing cense¢ without a Agreex to Testify. Mrs. Bakewell), in her interview itn the Post-Dispatch, said she could tes- tify that Miss Davis had offered her treatment, not instruction, as Miss Da- vis contends, and had guaranteed to cure her of the nervousness from which she was suffering. When Sidener read this interview he consulted Assistant Health Commissian- er Jordan, and the Assistant Commis- sioner detailed a man, who went with him to consult Paul Bakewell Jr. Bake- well arranged for an interview between the officials and his wife; which HADLEY ASKS FOR AID FOR FLOOD SUFFERERS JEFFERSON CITY, April 4. OV. HADLEY has issued a C3 statement calling on the peo- ple of Missouri to raise funds for the relief of the flood sufferers in Southeast Missouri, especially in New Madrid County, where many of the residents have been driven fram their homes by high waters The Governor re- celved $500 Trom the National Red Cross Association for the relief of the sufferers. Subscriptions should be sent to Walker Hill, Mechanics’-American National Bank, St. Loujs, treasur- er of the State Red Cross Associa- tion.

Init PURSUED, captured John Schul home near Mehlville, St. a broomstick, finger nails and marched him a quar- Sheriff£ Kerth, Constable Bobring arrived. jail attem

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Marie Moldevan, who is 5 feet tall and weighs 125 pounds, who is 4 inches Aid, weighs 40 pounds more after taller and than she, he had robbed her Louls Coun- She drubbed him with scratched him with her tv, Thursday. ter of a mile to the home of former who held him until When Schulz reached the Claytor later in the morning he § dis- played a badly cut lip as a token of what had happened to him when ‘he pted to resist the angry little woman. “I've been arrested by the police three times,” he remarked. “and I thought they handled me prettly roughly, but give me a po- liceman every time instead of a suf- fragette.” Mrs. DMuvidevtn, at a neighbor's home, saw Schulz prowling around her house. When she returned, she missed two pairs of. scissors, some tableware and her bert-combs. She went down the road looking for the strange man. and saw him at a neighbor's door. Going! to the house after he had left it, she found that he had sold her two pairs of 1000 HINES Weather bureau predicts Cairo and below will conti rise. Waters now are foot than ever befegre. President Taft directe that « rations be served to flood 4 M. & O. levee at Odairo flooding 9000 acres adjoining | which is protected by a cross 4 One thousand Missourt ‘en into Hickman, Ky., which 41 ! we ly flooded. Government ing firm. Many Memphis streets City generally safe, but yet reached. New Madrid, Mo. is @ Ve Groceries delivered in boats. Refugees reported without sions at Columbus, Ky. -~“ateenery river point in- record. Conservative estimates of so far place the losses at $2,01 Value of the Government — dreds of homes have been |

Special to the Post-Dispatch. CAIRO, IIL, April 4—A. feet long was torn in the | Ohio levee by the M early today, and the whole district’ and property weil 000,000 is now under from 6 te ue water. tem of cross levees running at angles of the river and joining th leeve like the bars. of a | a. 7 drainage district lies north of t oe i all available workers are Working i cross levees and the main ee protects the city’s front. Lives of 500 workmen were when the river tore throug) bank levee. After more than 300 fought for five hours to fil a sion 70 feet long and five f Five hundred men were on © Four levee in an effort to stem t : of the Ohlo. The flood at a that the Big Four ot hold under the strain, ania was ordered out with a party ®n board, and succeeded 1 ing in the marooned | od Gates to Subway Clase bs The gates to the immense subwaj der the Hiinois Central bridge, ti gateway to Cairo from the T country, were hurriedly closed tect the city rom the water | drainage district. The last hope of stopping the fi break was given up this mc several boxcars and tons of grav pa sand were dumped inte ! mense opening, away. The levee broke at a point Bridge Junction. The river t flowed the “Y" Levee before | the Mobile & Ohio ptaeharcesi rectly in front of the ¢ rowly escaped death. The wat them from their feet, and its greai éifficulty that pat A, embankment. The territory flooded ts ju Cairo, and comprises bout * The manufacturing | . age district are tF Lumber Co., Greer, 4 Pioneer Coal and & ers’ Handy. w _ &

scissors to the neighbor for a quarter. fee She then borrowed a pe 20k the wayfarer, and took him | rie

tricts. the stage this noon set ae forecast is shown in that ‘oe ce away, the life loss so far is « ite: The city proper is protec By rf . but all were wash Two levee patrolmen who were