St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 14, 1912

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The slayer is the son of Mrs. Wil- liam H. Van Sickler of 5916 Von Versen avenue and a nephew of George H. Au- gustine, vice-president of the Carleton Dry Goods Co. The mother was too 111 to be seen by visitors, but members of the family denied the Honduras affair tad anything to do with it. The news ame to St. Louis tn a dispatch frm New Orleans, where an interview was given by John Rip- linger, president of the American Fruit and Steamship Co., who ar- rived in New Orleans Thursday night. Riplinger is the father of Mrs. Van Sickler and attended the Coroner's inquest at which the fachs of the killing were developed. This testimony showed, .he_ said, that Shaw and Van Sickler quarreled over possession of the plantation house on the banana farm of the Central American Commercial Co. Shaw went to the house the night of June 3 and became abusive, it vias testified, but was pacified and in- duced to leave the place until the next day, when an amicable settle- ment was to be reached. According to Riplinger the next day Shaw again became a) ‘ve and once leaped to his feet wit. nm angry ex- clamation and reached for a belt at which he was carrying two revolvers. Mrs, Van Sickler screamed at this, and her father says, Shaw, turning to her, addressed her in offensive language. At this Van Sickler stepped into an adjoining Yroem, procured a gun and shot Shaw. The wounded man stag- gered out of the house and died 45 min- utes afterward. St. Louls relatives of the slayer. re- fused to discuss the affair further than to say they had not heard from Van Sickler. : Van Sickler was furmerly employed in the stockroom at the Carleton dry goods house. He went to South Amer- ica 10 years ago to leok after rubber investments of his uncle. MISSING MAN’S BODY IS FOUND IN RIVER Fred Kaufman Had Not Been Seen Since He Went Fishing Tuesday. The body of Fred Kaufman, 3143 North Eleventh street, who had been missing since he went fishing Tuesday, was found in the Mississippi River at Madison street Friday afternoon by Hienry Bieser, a fisher. It was identi- ‘fied by policemen to whom relatives had given accurate descriptions of the missing man. Kaufman Was apparently cheerful when he left home and members of the family believe the drowning was acci- dental.. His hat and coat were found on the river bank at Penrose street by William H. Rocklage, 1120 Angelica street. Kkaufman was 42 years old and lived with his wife and six children, the olda- est being 19 years old. IOWA BROTHERS | SHOOT EACH OTHER HAMBURG, Io., Sune l4.—T wo broth- ers, John, ®, and James Hunter, 3 years old, in an altercatiqn shortly be- fore noon today shot each other and the condition of both is regarded as serious. _ Either or both may dle. . They have not been on good terme THUNDERSTORMS TONIGHT OR SATURDAY THE TEMPERATURES.. , Yesterday's Temperatures, High. .Si at 11 a. m. Low. .69 at 5a. ™. Take; your um- | brella with you when you go out Friday night. May be it wili ra'n and may be it will not. The weather forecaster took a squint at the clouds and made a prediction that is ansoluteliy certain of at least partial fulfillment. He prophesied thaf it might rain but qualified this with the prediction that it might not. That is, he stated the weather was unsettled. How- ever he promised that if we didn’t nave thunderstorms by night we would get them Saturday. Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Unsettled weather with showers and thunderstorms, tonight or Saturday; not much change in temperature. Stage of the river: of .3 of a foot. 17.2 feet. a fall Missouri—Unsettled weather with showers and thunderstorms tonight and Saturday; cooler in northwest portion tonight. — Illincie—Unsettled weather with showers and thunderstorms tonight or Saturday: warmer in extreme northeast portion tonight. WRONG ROGERS FINDS DEAF ONE IS LUCKY William Answers When John Is Called, Latter Gets $5 Fine and Former $100. When the case of John Rogers, ac- cused of disorderly conduct, was called in the East St. Louis Police Court Fri- day Jailer Keniley went to the doer of a cellroom and called, “Rogers!”’ “Here!” answered a man. Keniley led him to the bar, but was amazed when the prosecuting withess said the prisoner was not the right man. The prisoner said his first name was William, while the name of the man wanted was John. The jailer went into the cellroom again. After calling the name several times he discovered one of his charges was a deaf mute. In reply to a writ- ten question, the mute wrote that he was John Rogers. John was tried, found guilty and fined %. Then William was tried, convicted of stealing two chickens and fined $100. “It’s the first time I ever knew it was lucky to be deaf,”’ William grumbled as he was led back into the cell. AIRSHIP TOURIST’S AID “Lucky” Baldwin’s Heir to Car- ry “Plane” in Private Car. LOS ANGELES, June 14.—A part of E. J. (Lucky) Baldwin’s many millions is to be devoted to the construction of a i,0vel private railway car, which is to be built for Mrs. Clara Baldwin Stocker, one of his daughters, who re- Ceived $10,000,000 of his estate. Mrs. Stocker left today for Chicago to ar- range plans with the car builders. The principal novelty consists of. an apartment to house her aeroplane. On the roof of the car will be a ldnding stage that can be extended when the car is on a siding. Recently Mrs. Stock- er placed an order for an aeroplane, which is now being built. “I am anxious to travel,’’ she Says, “Wut travelers all see the beaten paths only. I want to stop and go where I please, away from the tourist trail, and I shall be able to do so with my aero- plane. Naturally I have to take the plane with me when I travel, so I shall take it on my car.”’ WASHINGTON ROTEL EST ARRESTED, CALLS SELF BARON Richard Von Breitan Is Charged With Being a Fugitive From Justice. BOGUS CHECKS PASSED Man From New Orleans, Where Bad Paper Was Cashed, Ac- cuses Him. Protesting that he is the Baron Rich- ard von Breitan, son of Baron L. Wei- man von Bermer of the German nobil- ity, a mysterious prisoner who had spent the night on a4 holdover bench, indignantly denied at Police Headquar- ters Friday that he was @ confidence man and a passer of worthless drafts. A strange coincidence led to the arrest of the Baron at the Washington Hotel for a crime committed in New Orleans. Von Breitan for more than two months had lived at the Jefferson Hotel and had been a somewhat spectacular figure in commercial circles and in the after-dark cafe life of St. Louis. He boasted a large income and had many women friends. Business men who had met him were also impressed. Meeting in Hotel Lobby. The arrival in St. Louis of Joseph S. Otis of the Otis Mahogany Co. of New Orleans spelled disaster for the Baron. Three months ago a man known in New Orleans as Baron Richard von Breitan passed a $250 draft on Otis’ brother and business partner, Harry Otis. Joseph Otis came to St. Louis on busi- ness. He had no thought of trailing the Baron, and it was a coincidence that he went to the. Jefferson Hotel. As Otis was-registering, a tall. man clad in a cutaway suit and wearing nose glasses walked through the hotel lobby.... Otis looked. up.and saw him, For an instant the eyes of theimen met. Guest Changes Hotels. Looking over the register, Otis found Von Breitan’s name... When he sent: fils card to Von Breitan’s room, the answer came back that Von Breitan had left tho hotel and had ordered, that his mail. be forwarded to the Washington. Otis telephoned to Police Headquar- ters, saying that he h&d found in 8t. Louis the man who had passed a bogus draft for $250 on his brother and a simi- lar draft for $25 on the Gruenewald Ho- tel in New Orleans. The police had little difficulty in trac- ing Von Breitan. They learned, they said, that he had been cutting a wide swath at hotels and restaurants and that for several weeks he had been a salesman for the Marshall Bros. Auto- mobile Co. In this capacity he had demonstrated cars to many prominent citizens. and in nearly every case had attempted to establish - other business connections with his prospective customers, having an especial fondness for asking new- found friends to give him letters of introduction, the police say. Goeg to Station in Auto, Detectives arrested Von Breitan, Thursday night, as he was about to drive away from the Washington Hotel }in a big. touring car with a chauffeur. He was indignant and demanded that he be permitted to go to headquarters in his automobile. This request was granted. Otis confronted the Baron in Chief Allender’s office Friday. Shaking his finger at him, he said: “You tried to sting me, but you couldn’t. Then you stung my brother. Now I’m going to sting you.”’ The Baron admitted that he had been known under different names. Asked why he used the name Von Breitan when his family name, as he says, is Continued on Page 2, Column 38. “a week carried more St. Louis three out of all four of its of 4 columns. Wednesday Thursday ....... Total for the four The above figures show ~ 5 le age « or days of this week..222 columns , They beat us Wednesday The POST-DISPATCH has on three out of four days this merchants’ advertising than competitors added together, and only lost on one day, Wednesday, by the small margin Here are the figures for this week thus far: —, POST-DISPATCH alone Monday .........38 columns Tuesday .........61 columns 3 out of all 4 of the other St. Louis newspapers added to 30 columns 46 columns 44 columns 54 columns 174 columns the St. Louis merchants know where to spend their money for ad- ' vertising to the best advantage. Follow the leaders. St. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. Cireulation : average Sunday, 302,220 Circulation average Daily, 170,833 _ First in Everything. 8 AUTOS BURNED INDELMAR GARAGE: DOGCALLS MASTER Seven Customers’ Cars and 11 Phillips’ Automobile Co. Machines Destroyed. STRAY ANIMAL GIVES AID Awakens Owner of Supply Store Near Blaze and Latter Helps Save His Building. Eighteen automobiles, valued at nearly $30,000, were destroyed in a mysterious fire in the garage of the Phillips Auto- mobile Co., 5033 Delmar boulevard, at 3 a. m. Friday. 3 Of the lost machines, seven belonged to customers and 11 to the company. Only four cars were saved. | The customers whose automobiles ROOSEVELT STARTS FOR CHICAGO LEAD FORCES AGAINST THE “ROLLER® ’ ee pins [ ere 3 gk ae ial * es at oe eee Cs eee sha after : 4 p.m. tomorrow. ©4y AnERICAT PRESS ASS '- Showng the Roosevelt fighting face which will be on view in Chicago burned were J. B. Chipman, 6107 Wa- terman avenue; Dr. H. E. Wyers, Kirk- wood; B. F. Horsting, 4608 McPherson avenue; John A. Bruner, 6976 Julian ave- nue; J. 1. Maher, 7154 Manchester ave- nue; Jerome Phillips, 4718 Delmar bou- levard, and the Charles A, Sweet Pro- vision Co., 800 Spruce street. Supply Store Threatened. T. F. Kirsch, president of the company, said he could give no expl.nation of the fire. No gasoline was kept in the garage except in the tanks of the automobiles stored there, he said. A private watchman made his rounds at 2:30 a. m. and no indication of fire. Neighbors say that the entire rear portion of the building seemed to burst into flames at once. No one was in the garage when the fire started. The automobile supply store at 5037 Delmar boulevard, conducted by Fred H. Stock of 5011 Delmar boulevard, was threatened for a time. Dog Gives A dog which Stock. mr ag up as a stray several] months ago ran from the building, went to Stock’s house and scratched at the door and howled until he awakened Stock, who ran to the fire = helped the firemen Protect his build- Stock says the same dog two months ago saved him from being robbed when he was counting a large sum of money in his office at night. The dog rushed behind the counter and routed a man who had concealed himself there. Stock pursued the ve intruder, but he escaped. BAND CONCERT 7( TONIGHT Fairground Park, 7 Fisch- er's band. ps ae eel cant houses, apartments and filets’ in the locality that hae — GIRL DISAPPEARS For the most complete Mist of the va- Wilt JEWELS, 1S FOUND IN ASHPIT Mary H. Green’s desire to sleep in a Cook avenue aghpit caused her quick capture after she had taken $125 worth of jewelry and a suit came full of china- ware from the home of Mrs. William M. Porteous, at 4541 Morgan street, Thursday afternoon. About the same time someone tele- phoned to the Deer Street Station that a young woman Was trying to climb in an ashpit in the rear.of Mrs. Albert 8. Moise’s home, at #408 Cook avenue. Mary Green formerly worked there. Patrolman Archbald went to the Moise home. Mary demanded that he help her get into the ashpit. She said she was sleepy. In the pit the policeman found two suit cases containing all the arti- cles taken from the Porteous home. Are You For, or | Against Roosevelt? F either, you will be inter- alae ee saat REASONS WHY : ibe no third candidate. | tory OR FAIRBANKS FHECANT WN President Would Oppose Cum- mins or La Follette as.a Compromise Candidate. .WASHINGTON,; June 14.—‘"There will All the informa- tion I. get is that I. will be nominated on the firsy baliot with votes to spare.” That was President Taft’s answer to- day to a visitor who asked his opinion in regard to a compromise candidate at the / fpublican national convention, FF s of the President in Washing- jay said that if he were not nop / ted he would decidedly- oppose fe i f Senator Cummins or Senator La Foli tte as a compromise candidate. His opposition to these two Sen- ators, his friends said, would be based largely on.their attitude toward the courts and the recall of judges and de- cisions. . Some of Mr. Taft's friends declared today that if he were confronted with the necessity of naming his preference for a compromise candidate they be- heved he would turn to: some man like Senator Root of New York or former Vice-President C. W. Fairbanks of In- diana. it became known today that Mr. Fairbanks is the President’s choice for chairman of the Committee on Resolu- tions. “ ELECTORS ARE FOR T. R. IN MARYLAND CHICAGO, June 14.—“Regardiess of where or when Col. Roosevelt is nomi- nated, Maryland electors will vote for him in the electoral college. That point is settled definitely.” That statement was made by Col, Ed- ward Carrington of Baltimore, chairman of the State delegation, which arrived on a special train today. ‘The biggest surprise of this conven- tion to the Taft forces will be the way the majority of the Southern delegates will go,” continued Col. Carrington. “I now hold sufficient dependable assur- ances to state chat the Roosevelt strength with those Southern delegates has been vastly underestimated by the The West Virginia and Maryland, dele- “S. G. Smith, one of the West Virginia delegates who is strongly = myn York, Buys a Take the Senator Dixon and other leaders. Col. Roosevelt said that he was go- ing to Chicago in’ response to the unanimous demand of the Roosevelt delegates. He will be accompanied only by. Regis,-H. Post, former Gov- ernor of Porto Rico. “Is your decision the result of what you have heard’ from Chicago today?” the Colonel was asked. “I have heard g good deal,” he re- sponded. “All I’ve got to say,” he continued, by way of explaining his action, “is this: Several delegates have been in to see me today and I have received countless telegrams. The absolutely unanimous demand of the delegates who have already reached Chicago is that I go. They say that the action of the ‘National Committee in the California, the Arizona, the Indiana and the Ken- tucky cases is such as to make the the people have the right to make their own nomination or whether @ small knot of professional politicians is to be permitted to steal that right from them. “The Roosevelt delegates demand that I go to Chicago, not as a candidate, but because, for the time being, I stand as representing the principles for which the rank and file of the Republican party have overwhelmingly decided in the states where they have had the oppor- tunity to express their wishes at pri- maries. Cites Taft's Primary Vote. ‘These states where the rank and file of the Republicans have declared for me and for the principles which I rep- resent, include those casting abeut two- NNOUNCEMENT that Col, Roosevelt would start for Chicago today was a bomb in | the headquarters of Director Me- | Kinley of the Taft bureau. The reception to arriving delegates was | interrupted while Boss Barnes and — Timothy Woodruff of New York and other Taft leaders, with Secre- _tary Hilles, gathered in» ee issue absolutely clear as to whether f ley's room for a conference. - ng Mighty Hunter Rushes Into New New Ca Hat, and Grimly Says He ° Field —“He Will | Need Me” Says Dixon. | Pirst ‘Bouth Giicllan trea Second and | Ni were seated by the Republican committee ti NEW YORK,. June 14-—Theodore Roosevelt snnounced this afternoon that he had decided to go to Chicago to lead his fight ~ for the nomination. He will leave New York at 5:30 this after. noon over the New York Central. ee Col. Roosevelt remained up until a late hour last night ‘Keap> ing in touch with the contest going on in Chicago and being ad- vised frequently by telegrams and by long-distance talks with Another conference with Dine: fice, the Colonel purchased a new eaitipaian hat. clans, newspaper men, photographers in such numbers that the corridor ot the building was thronged, pressed 4 him, each one asking the same question. The Colonel achoen to 1 his private of- ssadleiitet te FS TMs ee: ee oe we Ss Tee oltt pele) agi EEG ah eed : * hee ae - eck : * Ras ee a