St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 4, 1912

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SX DELEGATES AT LARGE FROM Oni0 % Ir, ARE WON BY TAF] President Has 34-Vote Mar- gin on Indorsement of Ad- ministration, but 3 Go Over to Roosevelt on Dele- gate Question, Cutting Ma- jority to 28.

COLONEL SHIFTS; ‘WILL OPPOSE ROOT

Consults With Perkins and Then Dictates 1800 Words Explaining Others, Latest Flop—Progressives Demand !t.

COLUMBUS, O., Tafi won in the fight for Ohio’s six Celegates-at-large to the national Re- tubican convention at the State con- vention today by a vote of 390% to 362%. The first actual test of strength be- tween Taft and Roosevelt came earlier in the day and resulted in a victory for the President when the majority report, indorsing his administration, was adopt- ed by a vote of 393% to 359%. On the minority report, indorsing Roosevelt, Cuyahoga County (Cleve- land) voted 465 for Taft, 8 for Roosevelt. Montgomery County (Dayton) gave its delegation of. 29 for Taft. Lucas County (Todelo) gave its solid delegation of 22 for Roosevelt. Immediately after the election of the Taft delegates and alternates, the con- vention recessed until July 2, when a state ticket will be named. These. ‘Taft L j-at-large were Senare MT 80% adore BE. Burton, Harry M. Daugherty, Warren G. Hard- ing, Charles P. Taft, Arthur I. Vorys and D, J. Cable. Taft's following in Cleveland and his strength in the cities gave him his vic- tory. Col. Roosevelt had a majority of delegates in 51 and President Taft in 34. Warren G. Harding, former candidate for Governor, who addressed the con- vention for President Taft, was hissed by Roosevelt supporters when he de- clared that in supporting the former President “they were driving their Ti- tanic full speed ahead into the ice.”

T. R. CITES 30,000 LEAD OVER TAFT Points Out That People Did Not Want President to Have Delegates. NEW YORK, June 4.—The only comment Col... Reosevelt would make today concerning the result at Co- lumbus in the selection of six dele- gate. at large was this: “T will refer you to what I said in my statement last night about the Ohio situation.” In this statement the Colonel said that notwithstanding a majority of 30,000 against Taft at the primaries “the Taft managers in Ohfo are straining every nerve and using every means to upset the people’s verdict and give the delegates-at-large of Okto to the man whom Ohio, by over- whelming majority, declared ought not to have them.” COLONEL CHANGES MIND ABOUT ROOT

Progressives’ Demand That He Oppose Man He Formerly Praised, Heeded. Special to the Post-Dispatch. GYSTER BAY, N. Y., June 4.—Col, Koosevelt will fight against the naming of Senator Root as temporary chairman of the Republican national convention. Forty-eight hours ago he indicated that no contest Would be made against Root. In 1800 words, dictated by. him upon the porch of his residence at Sagamore Hill, Roosevelt now stamps Senator Root @s a mere tool of William Barnes is attack on Root was made after velt had been in close consultation ‘eix hours with George W. Perkins, ator Dixon, William L. Ward, Gir. ford Pinchot, Medill McCormick, Trux- ton Beale, Andrew Rahn and Frank R. ogg. Beale is a delegate-at- -large from California and Rahn is a delegate. irge from Minnesota. ticlans here express the belief that oF ce It was driven to sudden “about by the storm of protest that has his announcement Saturday t he had been advised to drop the against: Root, as the.

June 4—President

SURPRISED

AULL SPENT WIFE'S FORTUNE, BILL FUR

Alleging her fortune has been dis- sipated and her husband is dissolute, Mrs. Helen Cook Aull has filed suit for fa divorce from Robert Aull, former Park Commissioner and one of the best- known men in town. Aull for many years has been known as a “good fellow’’ famous as.a story teller. Mrs. Aull in her petition filed late Monday afternoon uses a different term in describing him. She calls him a habitual drunkard. ’ Mrs. Aull’s father, the late Isaac Cook, made a large fortune through the manu- facture of champagne in St. Louis. In her petition» Mrs. Aull says that when she and Aull were married Nov. 8, 1886, she had a large . income which she turned over to her’ hus- band’s control. By the spring of 1906, she says her property, had been dissi- pated, although Aull had held positions which paid good ‘salaries. Aull, she charges, mortgaged their home at 4442 West Pine boulevard, ani it was sold for the debt, she and her two children es: being set adrift. Aull, she says, at anttenint times con- tracted with the Harhilton, ‘Usona and Buckingham hotels for board and lodg:- ing for her and; the children, but they were compelled to leave these hotels because Aull failed to pay. the bills. When.the West Pine boulevard resi- dence was vacated, Mrs. Aull alleges, the furniture ‘was placed in storage. Her husband; she says, disposed of the fur- niture and applied the proceeds to his own use. ‘Mrs. Aull alleges that her husband with the greatest contumely and con- tempt in the présence of the children. In Aprti, 1908, she left him and moved to Chicago, but at his solicitation, she says, she returned to him. She again left him Avge. 12, 19009. The children, Helen and Robert, are of legal age. PARKER WILL OPPOSE WOMAN SUING PIERCE Former Presidential Candidate to Argue Motion for Reopen- ing of Case. NEW YORK, June 4.—That Henry Clay Pierce of St. Louis has realized that the suit of Miss Alice Royercroft, which he first let ¢€o by default, and succeeded in getting permission to move a reopening only after a hard fight, is a serious matter, was shown when he retained Alton G. Parker, the Democratic nominee for the pres- idency in 1904, to argue his motion in the Appellate Division of the Su- preme Court. No date has been set for the argu- as it likely. that before it “gr oh By both parties to the

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[BRIDE OF OIL MILLIONAIRE BY UNUSUAL GIFT

* ee eee TT IT SieH HUSBAND WILLS rtd MILLIONS 10 ER NEW YORK, June 4.—‘‘Lady” Betty Chapman .Pierce,, who last: Tuesday nig became the bride of Frank Clar- ence Henderson, the millionaire oil man, received an unusual wedding present under” extraordinary circumstanées. A few hours after the marriage, when the ccuple ‘boarded the Lusitania to sail to Kngland, Henderson made a new will, leaving his entire fortune to his~- wife and giving her the immediate incon 1e from a number of his properties. sefore the marriage Henderson had meade a will leaving her only a compara- tively small part.of his estate, -which is estimated at $3,000,000, and giving her a slight income. This, his friénds be- lieve, was done to make.a test of her atfections. ° When he -discovered that she made no ‘objection to the manner in which he had disposed of his prop- erty, he then decided to make it pos- sible for her to get every dollars’ worth of his property at his’ death and a large current income. Henderson is about 50. His bride is 15 years. younger. This was her third marriage.

ARMED SUITOR OF ANOTHER’S WIFE BESIEGES FER Charged With Aiming Revolver at Everyone Who Risks Peep at Him From Window. POLICE COME TO RESCUE

Mrs. Gussie Kasselring Says She Can’t Convince Jesse Farrar She Is Married.

The most uncomfortable predicament in the world, Mrs. Gussie Kasselring, pretty and 20, of 3103 St.. Vincent ave- nue, told a Post-Dispatch reporter Tuesday is to have a young man refuse to believe you are married and stand in front of your house pointing a re- volver at any member of the household who peeps through a window. Mrs. Kasselring charges that Jesse Farrar, aged 26, 4323 Swan avenue, be- sieged her in her home in this manner Sunday night. Farrar is under arrest and a warrant charging him with ex- hibiting a deadly weapon has been is- sued against him. Young Man Arrested. He was arrested in front of the young woman’s house by patrolmen of the Sou- lard Street Station after Charles Pahler, Mrs. Kasselring’s brother-in-law, had slipped out of the house by a back door and telephoned an alarm. Farrar’s own story is that he was go- ing to leave the city, Sunday night, to take a railroad job in a small Missouri town, that he had put the revolver in his pocket to use in guarding the railroad company’s property, that he got toe drinking and went to the young woman’s Lome and that he doesn’t remember what he did next. He declared he knew Mrs. Kasselring was married and that she had promised tc. divorce her husband and marry him. About a week ago they quarreled over « trifle. he said, and she brome their ene gagement. -— <4 i a oil Mrs. it annateie said she was married two years ago at Ponds, Mo., but that she left her husband after seven weeks because ‘“‘there was too much mother- in-law.”’ She was going to a dance with a girl chum last September, she added, when she first mét Farrar. Since then he has called upon her twice a week. “He asked me to marry him,’ Mrs. Kasselring said, ‘“‘but I told him I couldn’t, as I was already married. He wouldn’t take this for an answer. and kept coming to see me until] I final- ly had to refuse to receive him. “Sunday afternoon he called at the house for me. I wouldn’tsee him. All Run Into the House. “Mrs. Pahler persuaded him to go away. He returned at 9 o’clock. Mr. and Mrs. Pahler and I were sitting on the porch. Mr. Farrer drew his | revolver, but we all three ran into ‘the house. He stood outside for a long time and when any of us would look out an upstairs window at him he would point the revolver at the window.” Mrs. Kasselring said she would prose- cute Farrar.

Taft Is Back in Washington. WASHINGTON, June 4.—The yacht Mayflower, with President Taft and his party on board, reached Wash- ington this morning at 7 o’clock from Hampton Roads, where the President yesterday welcomed the visiting Ger- man fleet.

COR OS oe sae eee 2 _ Gladstone said: ‘‘Publicity.is an. enormous power in business, d nothing makes money without, save a mint.’’ The suceessful business men of St. Louis learned this long ago, arid they have also learned from years of experience that publicity pays better in some publications than in others. This is the reason they buy more space in ‘the advertising columns of the POST-DISP ATCH than in three out of the four of its competitors, and often al] four, added together. As everybody knows, the St. Louis merchants, on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday of each and every week, year after year, practically concentrate their ady ertising in the POST- DISPATCH to a greater extent than in three-fourths of its competitors all added together. For instance, yesterday, Monday, they bought 43 columns in the POST-DISPATCH alone and only 39 columns in three out of four of its competitors combined. It looks like the Monday link has been forged into the chain to stay. St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. Circulation average Sunday, 302,220 “ireulation average Daily, 170,833 First in Everything. iments upon the place.

ON SWINDLED ON TRAIN SAYS FATHER: HE SUES GUMBERTS Jefferson Bank, Where Draft for $400 Was Cashed, Also Defendant.

TELLS OF CARD. GAME Young Man Was on Way With Money for Parent in Wyoming. | Ques

Peter Wolff, a Sullivan County, Mo., farmer, who says his son, Henry, aged 24, was swindled out of a $400 draft by sharpers on a train last October, filed sguit in Circuit Court Tuesday to recover $400 from the Jefferson Bank and M. Gum- the berts Jr. H. W. Kroeger, cashier of the Jeffer- son Rank, told a Post-Dispatch reporter that the Gumberts named in the suit is Mark Gumberts, well known about town and in St Louis County. Kroeger satd the draft was cashed in the ordinary courec of business at his bank. Tellw of Threats. The petition alleges that two men, J. C. Adams and “Richard Roe,” en- tered the smoking compartment of a passenger coach, and by threats of killing Henry compelled him to en- dorse and turn over to them the draft for $400 which the youth was taking to his father in Gillette, Wyo. The next either of the Wolffs saw of the draft it had been cashed at the Jefferson Bank and bore the en- dorsement of Gumberts. The petition declares that Gumberts could not have been an innocent purchaser for value and that the Jefferson Bank should not have cashed the draft, which was drawn on the National Bank of Commerce, without investi- gation. They samy a bear the endorsements either “Richard Roe” or of Adams. Alleges Confidence Games Although the petition does not go into the details of the alleged swin- dle, Max F. Ruler, the attorney who filed it, told a Post-Dispatch reporter that he was prepared to present tes- timony when the case comes up for trial to show the draft was obtained through a sort of confidence game practiced upon an innocent country youth. The elder Wolff had obtained a Gov- erument allotment of land in Wyoming and had directed Henry to bring him the $4 to be used for temporary improve- The draft was made out in Henry’s name and the young man left St. Louis on a Burling- ton train Oct. 6, 1911, on his way to Wvoming. In a smoking compartment he was ac- costed by a well-dressed man whose hair was beginning to turn gray. The man told Henry he was J. C. Adams of Joplin, Mo., and that he was a dealer in real estate. Vanity prompted Henry to exhibit the draft, according to Ruler, to say he owned a ranch out West, and +hat he was going to buy cattle for it. Lost on Three-Card Monte. The man described as “Richard Roe” in *he petition came into the compart- ment then and, Ruler says, although ne knew Adams, pretended to be a stranger. He told Adams a-tale of woe about row he had lost $200 in a three- card monte game in St. Louis. This game, as practiced by sharpers, is a simple one. There are, say, two hlack cards and a red one. The dealer shuffles the three and invites the player te pick out the red one for a bet. Dis- honest dealers ‘‘palm’’ the red card so it isn’t there or otherwise impose on an innocent player. ‘‘Roe,”’ who -declared everybody knew him as Bob, produced three cards and began demonstrating the game to Adams. Finally Adams made and won a few $% bets by picking out the red card. Henry looked on and soon ob served that Adams had marked the red card so he could tell it. “After a little while.”.-Ruler de- clared, “the sharks got Henry. to turn over the curd which Adams should pick out. Then Bob “detected” the mark on the card, declared he was being fleeced and said he would kill them both then and there. Gets I, 0. U. for 8400. “Adams pretended to be. greatly frightened when Bob reached back as if to draw a revolver. He begged Henry to indorse the draft and give it to the man, promising to repay the money in two days. Henry did as requested. Bob got off at the next station. Adams gave Henry a pen- clled I. O. U. for $400 which he wrote on the back of a business card. Adams made Henry belleve that if the he shoula tell the train crew of the affair they would all be arrested for gambling. Adams disappeared just outside of Kan- sas City. “Henry kept quiet about it until he got to Wyoming. When his father wired back to stop payment on the draft it was already too late. It had been cashed at the Jefferson Bank.”

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|CONFESSED BRIBER AND NOTED ATTORNEY HE ACCUSES ON STAND.

Vv BERT FRANKLIN, LORIMER LISTENS 10) ARRATGNMIENT

Accused [llinoisan Sits Near as Indianan Argues That He Be Expelled. --— --—-— -—-— - e By Aseoctated Pres WASHINGTON, o 4.—The second trial of Senator Lorimer. of Ulinois, on the charge of having been elected by corrupt methods, was begun in the Sen- ate today with a speech by Senator Kern of Indiana, a member of the In- vestigating Committee who signed the minority report against Lorimer. Senator Kern gave especial attention to the plea that the case had been set- tled the Senate's vindication last year. That plea, he said, had been raised only at the last moment. He said he would not admit its validity, it had come too late and that the plea it- self was “‘res adjudicata.” Reminding the Senate that under the Constitution 4t is the judge of the qual- ifications of its own members, Senator Kern contendéd it was competent for that body to proceed at any time in any matter involving the integrity of its membership. “There was no suggestion by Senator Lorimer or any one on his behalf, that the Senate had not ample power to di- rect a reinvestigation of his case,” said Senator Kern. “He tacitly acquiesced in the Senate's action. He appeared in person and by counsel, before the com- mittees, during the examination, cross- examining all witnesses called by the committee and examining scores of wit- nesses in his behalf.” Kern declared that if any of the com- mittee believed that questions being in- vestigated were “res adjudicata,”’ they were ‘‘strangely reticent in not men- tioning it,’”’ while permitting the contin- uation of the investigation at a cost of more than $50,000. He refused to con- cede that the proceedings was analog- ous to a civil action at law, but argued that, if it were, the granting of a new trial, even on the sof ground of newly discovered evidence, opened the case for a complite reinvestigation. “It is now too late for Senator Lori- mer to be permitted to urge this re- markable defense,” declared Senator Kern. The speaker said he believed the first investigation had been utterly incom. plete and had failed to develop facts which must have been accessible. Refers to Gravity of Charge. Serator Kern praised the personal rep- utation of Lorimer and said that but for his convictions regarding the grav- bv ity of the charges, he would not bel fcund engaged in the disagreeable task of a prosecutor. Senator Lorimer occupied a seat near Kern, giving careful attention to his ar.

JC. JONES MADE PRESIDENT OF Tite CARDINALS: Law Partner of Hocker Succeeds Steininger—Mrs. Britton Elect- ed Vice-President.

Following an all-morning stockholders’ meeting at Robison Field Tuesday, Mrs. Helene Hathaway Britton announced first, that J. C.. Jones had been electéd president of the Cardinals baseball team and, second, that Roger Bresnahan; manager, :would. have absolute control of the team .on the field and off. Jones, ‘the new president, is a mem- ber of the new law firm of Jones, Jones, Hocker, Hawes & Angert. Mrs. Britton was elected vice-president. W. G. Scho- field was re-elected secretary and Scho-' neld and G. Lacy Crawford were chosen directors Herman SeeKamp was re- elected rasurer. hase, Britton Has Full Sway. Through the decision of Judge Holt- camp, which gave Mrs. Britton right to vote the 997 shares.of stock .in- the American Baseball and Athletic Exhibi- tion Co., which she and her mother re- ceived -by inheritance from.M. Stanford Robison, it was, possible for her. ‘to elect anyone she chose tp the offices. E. A. Steininger, the former president, re- signed. Monday as the — of an agree- ment. Steininger had peas an intention of building new. grand stands at the park. Mrs. Britton said Tuesday no new stands would be built this summer. The withdrawal of Steininger as presli- dent, without a contest, was announced Mcnday after he had wound up the af- fairs of M. 8S. Robison’s estate in St. Louls and had. been allowed a fee of $11,000, with an additional allowance of $2500 for attorney's fees. TWO RARE JUNE DAYS PROMISED THE TEMPERATURES, ad

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connection with the McNamara e¢ the $4000 “by ‘the fact. that be 4 tyr, ae Be ? + ‘eye i co te, 4 7 A Ay Arcs ‘ . ng : By a * " + ‘Ms * t. . x J 2 Wi 4 i ~~ m 3 2 ; ~ ina + - re +, ¥ cae a DARROW $2 000 USED AS BRIBE —Detective F Chief Prosecuting Testifies That Money to Corrupt aia Came Direct From the A F. of L. President. SneeneennnEEEnenEEneee ATTORNEY SURE BILLS : WERE NOT Publication of Story” They Were, Witness S Led to Conversation a to the Revelation: a Source. cc By Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Cal, June 4 vel Gompers, head of the r r Federation of Labor, sent the direct to Clarence 8, Darrow which & Franklin used in the bribery of G N. Lockwood, according to 7 ee der cross-examination today in the’ of Darrow for alleged jury bribery ig Franklin said Mr. Darrow had gf bim this information. |} aS Franklin testified at the same 1 me j that Darrow had told him he need. worry about Job Harriman &t plicated in the case. Harriman, Darrow told the es could account for his visit to the’ fo deposit vault the morning he obtained ~ = — a <— Be $500 to pay a mortgage, said vat

pery* president ot the American Federa- tion of Labor, today sald of Detective , Franklin’s testimony in the Dartow tria] at Los Angeles: Be “That is an absolute falsehood -m of whole cloth. I do not know 0 and I have never had any dealings th him. I did not send money to him OF ages a story. I do not care to give the cor- respondence out at this time.”

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Dreadnaught Arkansas in Mis- ‘hap on Trial Trip, Navy Department Hears. |

WASHINGTON, June ‘Information: 5; that the new dreadnaught Arkansas has met with an accident on her trial | trip off the Maine coast, has he 35 .. the Navy Department. ™ oee The details are not yet available, DUP. it is thought that the ship net Sugai ger. A report to the Navy Department _ says the “skin” of the ship ioe ridge in its course, but that efforts = gardiess of the accident. | The report does not say how cancel eldent occurred,

Commonwealth Trust Comp Buys Joseph P. Whyte The Commonwealth Trust Co. nounced Tuesday that ft has pu a the real estate business of | r. Whyte Real Estate Co, The Busines will be removed to the trust company = quarters within a few days and mate ¢* will Lecome manager of the real esta a cepartmernt of the trust company. | W. H. Moore, the present manag ‘ the rea) estate department, will be ruanager of the new Yr Truat Co. Building, eccuitinath an | fetal. The new structure will be @ ste- riev In height and will probably have 7 ~ ivwer of six-stories above the bulidinge — ‘ StL ew Se oe

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