St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 19, 1912

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** 4 ¥ ? — ark. — ; R 4 part of @ plan on the part of Johnston's es "should not recover. ee Open says Mrs, Johnston has for : "petition ‘that shé was assaulted and _ Stenographer for Former ‘plaintiff, was held incommuni- -eado in the Clayton Jail more — of St. Louis County, and me - Miss Kurtenacker asks for $50,000 ac- tual and $50,000 punitive damages, al- “ir @ cell with two negresses and finally ‘réleased with the information that there ‘were no charges against her. ‘Was filed by William J. Grodski, mitorney who occupies offices jointly ‘with Johnston and George B. Webster. oe said, also might be of advan- “which he did not reveal to his wife. —* refused. to say whether Miss Kurte- ; Bode «war @ Warrant charging Miss Kur· € 72* the ag seced refused to ad- 16882 ae ~ JOHNSTON'S TYPIST SUESFORS100,000 FOR HER ARREST Prosecutor Brings Action Against Two City Detec- tives, and Constable Bode and Prosecuting Attorney Mills of the County. George B.. Webster Terms Arrest ot Miss Kurtenacker a Shame, and Says Family Was Trying to Seize John- ston’s Will. | Estranged Wife of Lawyer in Sanitarium Said to Have Been Jealous of Girl, Who Is Held 5 Hours in Jail, Then Released. | A suit for $100,000 damages was filed at noon Friday in the ), Circuit Court as the result of the * arrest, Thursday afternoon, of Miss Mildred Kurtenacker, ste- hographer to Rowland L. John- ston, former Prosecuting Attor- ney of St. Louis County. Miss Kurtenacker, who is the than five hours, with two ne- , prisoners. The defendants are Robert Kaiser and John J. McCarthy, St. Louis detectives, _ Edwin W. Mills, Prosecuting At- leging she was arrested as a felon, held Her suit an Saye Arrest Was Wife's Pian. The arrest, Webster declares, was to get possession of four deeds by her and her husband, con- real estate to a third person. deeds were the preliminary, he to a divorce settlement which and his wife planned to make, t this plan fejl through and the name f the third party was not inserted, the being left blank. Possession of _ deeds would, therefore, he said, possession of the "property. on of Johnston's latest will, to members of the family in case on, now in & perious condition, } years shown jealousy toward Miss r, resenting the fact that confided in her in matters ol Sn erry although the St. | Bureau officials say with grand larceny. — ‘Kurtenacker alleges in her eibly locked ‘Yn a reom of the gett Building and foreed into an bile and taken to Clayton. Hewes the officials took her got her keys from it and a her dvak, containing her private AS a consequence, she al- , she suffered poth in body and + in we her of the nature of the charge her, and addressed her in “‘vio- i abusive, ——— and obscene lan- Lak Mase 7 agi be L Bort Diego in all the other St. Lins , At 7 a. m. these temperatures were report- Only — Paper in St. Louis With the ‘Assotinied Press News Service. “Hello, Jones; where are you go⸗ ing for your vaca- tion ?’’ “I wish you'd tell me. None of- your crowded re- sorts for me. Doc- tor’s orders.”’ “What did the doctor say “Said I must go to some place where I could find’ absolute solitude; some place, if pos- sible, where I would not see an- other human be- ing.”’ “I know just the thing for you.” **Yes?’’ “Sure. Go F the mass meetings against the free bridge bonds.” Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Generally fair weather with rising temperature tonight and Satur- day. ed in the following cities: New York. 70; Chicago, 62; Boston, 74; Atlanta, 72: De- troit, 56; Portland, 66; Los Angeles, 54; San Antonio, 74; Indianapolis, 69; Kansas City, 64; Atlantic City, 74. Missouri—Generally fair tonight and Sat- urday; warmer tonight in the north and west portion and in southeast portion Sat- urday. Illinois—Generally fair tonight and Satur- day; warmer in the north and central portion tonight; warmer Saturday. STOCKINGS OF PURE GOLD Metal Thread and Silk Woven Together at $25 a Pair. NEW YORK, July 19.—According to a fashion paper, women’s stockings made from real gold thread and silk are to be the proper thing abroad this season. They come from Vienna and cost $25 a pair. 7 Another novelty will be black or white silk stockings, which, above the ankles, will be worked in elaborate de- Signs such as a peacock with its tail outstretched, in gorgeous colors. To en- able these embellishments to be visible, shorter skirts are to be insisted upon by the dressmakers, it is announced. VOL. 64. NO. 334. ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, JULY ULY 19, 1912—16 PAGES. - OWES $163,785, “SAYS HE HAS NO WEARING APPAREL Arthur Jacobson’s Debts Include $100,000 Notes to Bank of Commerce. $ioo0 ARE HIS ASSETS For Hat Company Official Now Traveling Salesman, Has Two- Oklahoma Lots. Arthur Jacobson of 5598 Bartmer ave- nue has no wearing apparel, according to his statement in a voluntary petition in bankruptcy filed in the United States District Court Friday. Jacobson declares his assets amount to only $100, while his liabilities are $163, 785. 65. Of this indebtedness, he says, $101,- 000 is represented by his indorse- ment on notes pr'ven to the National Bank of Commerce iff St. Louis. The | other indorsers on these notes, he Says, were Max Stern, A. Bernd and F. J. Guyol, representing the Stern- Bernd Hat Co., which is now in bank- — acobson formerly was vice-president of a hat company. In his bankruptcy petition he says he is now a salesman. His only assets, he says, are two city lots in Welletka, Ok., worth $50 each. The notes held by the Bank of Com- merce range in date from Nov. 11 last to the present month. Other notes indorsed by Jacobson are held by the Hanover National Bank of New York, the Waring Hat Co., C. H. Tenney and the Ferry-Weber Co., all of New York. One of the Iliabilities listed is a $4000 note said to be dated Sept. 12, 1912, and payable the same day to Dr. and Mrs. Henry Jacobson. There is also a $6500 note payable to Dr. Jacobson and dated April 29, 1912. BAND CONCERTS TONIGHT Fairground Park, 7 o’clock, Fisch- er’s band. Soulard place, 7 o’clock, — — — — — Maddern's band, — — — —— — — our withers following: the same period last year, Post-Dispatch...68 1 Globe-Democrat ......371 Republic .............814 Mocs cogs oes vee een MN Cie n oc be s'w es dkee the rest of the table which ‘*The POST-DISPATCH did True. in this table? on Thursday printed SRS: — ee Average for First 6 1912 Columns Columns ———— Dally Average, 169,514 Bt. Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper. ; Lemp —— 4 “Let the galled jade-wince, are unwrung”’ On ‘Wednesday the POST-DISPATCH printed the “The St. Louis merchants bought display adver- tising space in the St. Louis newspapers during the first fifteen days of July this year, as compared with as follows’’: 1911 333 Gain 348 437 357 431 312 On Thursday our YOUNG AND INEXPERIENCED contemporary printed the top line of the accompanying table showing the POST-DISPATCH GAIN, but omitted shows how our ‘‘ YOUNG AND INEXPERIENCED” NEIGHBOR LOST 100 COL- UMNS IN THE SAME PERIOD, during which the POST-DISPATCH gained 348 columns, and proceeds to explain this gain of the POST-DISPATCH by saying not print one lne of depart- ment store advertising in this period last year.’’ But why did these merchants, after remaining out of the POST-DISPATCH in July last year cut the advertising given the other papers during that period, and come back this year to their first love in the volume shown BECAUSE—these merchants found it more profitable to pay the increased rates asked by the POST-DISPATCH for real service THAN TO ACCEPT THE CHEAP UNKNOWN QUANTITY offered by its competitors. _ Advertising that pays comes back To add to the discomfiture of ‘‘OUR YOUNG AND INEXPERIENCED NEIGHBOR,”’ the POST-DISPATCH 60. columns of local nierchants’ advertising, while its three nearest competitors, the Globe-Democrat, Republic and: ‘‘OUR YOUNG AND INEXPERIENCL® NEIGHBOR, ” added "58 columns Sunday Circulation: Months This Year, 909 4 WEINBRENNER SAYS TROLL TRIED 10 TIE | ¢ HIM UP IN DEAL |= Candidate Says Cap Offered to Finance Campaign if He Would Favor Harry. FUND. DEPOSIT Administrator Suggested That if Elected He Retain Hender- son as Attorney. a An interesting political story revolving around the Public Administrator’s office is being widely discussed by politicians in the local primary campaign. The public administratorship, with fees pur- ported to aggregate from $10,000 to $20,- 000 a year, is the richest prize to be awarded by the voters of St. Louis at the November election, and there is a | bitter fight among several Repubiican candidates for the nomination. : The story relates to efforts purporting to be made by Harry Troll, incumbent, and his political associates, to retain a hold on the office under his successor. The fight for the nomination is said Sy politicians to be principally between George P. Weinbrenner, City Marshal, and Frank Slater, chairman of the Re- publican City Committee. A Post-Dis- patch reporter interviewed Weinbrenne: and got from him his story of the af- fair, and also saw Harry Troll, who de- nied emphatically many of the statc- ments made by Weinbrenner. Weinbrenner’s Story. Here is Weinbrenner’s story, as told in detail to a Post-Dispatch reporter: “About two months ago Charles (Cap) Troll, a half-brother. of Harcy Troll, came to see me in my office, then in :he old Four Courts Building. He said: “ ‘Weinbrenner, I want to run you far Public Administrator. I want to beat Eddie Lee with you. He is goirg to be a hard man to beat, but I can beat Lim with you.’ ” “At that time I was considering the advisability of running for Sheriff,”’ continued Weinbrenner, ‘‘and had no thought of running for Public Adminis- trator. ‘Cap’ Troll proceeded to unfo!4 his plan to me, as follows: “Now all that Ibkhave to ask of you, if you are nominated and elected, is that you deposit the funds of the office in a, trust company of which Harry will be vice-president, after his term expires. To make. the campaign I will furnish you $4000, $2000 right away, and $2000 later, as you need it.’’ “Tt told Troll,’’ Weinbrenner said, ‘“‘that I had no use for that much campaign money, and that I had made up my mind to run for Sheriff. Despite that fact, he went over to Weeke’s saloon and spread the report that he was going to run me for Public Administrator to beat Excise Commissioner Lee, who was then thinking of running. Receive, a Call From Lee. ‘Tt was not long until Lee came to see me, and said he heard that Cap Troll wanted to run me for Public Adminis- trator to beat him. ‘I said it was true. ~.. then asked me if I was elected if I had any intention of appointing Harry Troll my attorney. I told him I had no such intention. ‘Lee then said that he had consented to run for Public Administrator, not be- cause he wanted the office, but for the sole purpose of forcing Harry Troll out and restoring confidence in the office. He said: ‘As you have no intention of appointing Harry Troll for your attor- ney, I am going to keep out of the race, and I want you to file for Public Ad- ministrator. As Cap Troll wants you to run to beat me, I want you to run to beat ‘Cap’ Troll. “T again met ‘Cap’ Troll. He told me they wanted Henry Kiel to have. the nomination for Sheriff, and me to have the Public Administratorship. ‘Cap’ Troll asked me to go to see his prother Harry. I thought I would see what the game was, and went to see Harry, and told him ‘Cap’ sent mé. “Troll told me the details of the of- fiee and finally said he would leave on expiration of his term $2000 or $3000 of unfinished business. He remarked that I would need the services of an ex- perienced attorney, and told me I would have no trouble if I would appoint Judge W. W. Henderson, his present attorney. H» advised me to see Jeptha D. Howe: “What About Attorneyship ?’—Howe, “T went to see Howe. The first ques- tion he asked me was: ‘What did Troll say about the attorneyship?’ “tf told him Troll suggested Judge Henderson. ‘ “'Oh, h-—l,’ Howe exclaimed, ‘that would mean Henderson, Dee Becker end Troll for your attorneys. That's too many. MY advice to you ‘s to stay in the race for Sheriff.’ ‘A few days later Henry L. Weeke came to me and said he had been cum- missioned by ‘Cap’ Troll to tell me to keep out of the race for Public Ad- ministrator and run for Sheriff. “ ‘Cap’ wants to run Frank Slater for Public Administrator,’ Weeke added. “J told .Weeke that. ‘Cap’ Troll was as 1 pleased about running for Public Administrator; Next day I met ‘Cap’ Troll in the Collector’s office. I told hirn I had come to the city hall to file for Public Administrator. He asked me to walt a few days. He said he wanted to see his brother Harry. “YT then sald to him: ‘Cap,” we might as well understand each other. I will tell you now that if I am elected Public Administrator neither Harry ASKED }. not running me, and that I would, do! Weeke, George W. Reichmann, Nick Po- ithat this was not true, as “there were Committee PRICE ONE CENT — — — — Votes to ——— oS St. Louis Republican, Whose Father Spent $12,000 for Him, Loses by Strict Party. Vote of 6 to 3. WASHINGTON, July 19.—By strict party vote of 6 to 3, Elections Committee No. 2 of the House of Representatives today voted to un-f seat the wealthy Republican Repre- sentative, Theron E. Catlin of the Eleventh (St. Louis) District of Mis- sourt, and to install in his place former Representative Patrick F. Gill, Democrat. Catlin’s campaign expenses were so great that the committee held his elec- tion to have been corrupt. It also held that Gill would have been elected but for the use of money by Catlin’s. man- agers. Catlin’s majority in the 1910 re- turns was 1200. The resolution unseat- ing Catlin will be reported to the House at once for action. The House is: ex- pected to uphold the committee and un- seat Catlin. The committee has had the Gill-Catlin contest under advisement more than five months. The vote of the — — was as follows: For Gill—Representatives Hamill of New Jersey, Korbly of Indiana, Brous- sard of Louisiana, Linthicum of Mary- land, Allen of Ohio and Jacoway of Arkansas, all Democrats. For Catlin—Representatives Switzer of Ohio, Anderson of Minnesota and Nel- son of Minnesota, Republicans. Following the vote, the committee instructed Chairman Hamill to write the report embodying the history of the case and the facts that led to the decision against Catlin. This: report is expected to be filed in the House in about ten days. It probably will be followed by consid- erable debate on the floor. Gill Says He Is Vindicated, ‘Needless to say, I am delighted at the action of the committee,” Gill said to the Post-Dispatch correspond- ent. “From a strictly personal stand- point, I feel that my political career has been vindicated thoroughly and I will go into the forthcoming cam- paign with renewed.vigor and with every prospect of being returned to Congress. | “The Elections Committee in no uncertain manner has let the country know that Congress will not toler- ate the use of great sums of money in elections even.if-the expenditures are made under the guise of ignor- ance of the man who is to benefit from the use of the money.’ Testimony taken in the Gill-Catlin contest in February, 1911, revealed novel methods used by the- family of the wealthy young St. Loulsan to promote his candidacy. When Theron Catlin’s candidacy was first suggested, a dinner was given at ‘the .Catlin ‘residence, 21 a place, at which Nat Goldstein, Hank lito and other politicians were enter- tained. Miss Irene Catlin, the candi- date’s sister, supervised the preparations for the dinner, and in testifying later, was asked if it was true that $10 bills were put under the plates. She replied no plates.” This statement she ex- plained by saying that the plates were taken in with the food. — — Daniel Catlin, the father of the — | PATRICK F. GILL ‘that neither was dead. WATER WAL 15 TOWNS; 30 DEAD Ney., Destroyed by Cloud- burst; 23 Bodies Recovered. RENO, Nev., July 19.—Searching par- ties from Lovelock and _ surrounding towns are scouring the flood-swept can- yon and hillsides near Mazuma and Sev- en Troughs, in Humboldt County, Nev., for bodies of victims of the cloudburst which washed out the two mining camps yesterday. Late advices from the scene of the dis- aster state 23 bodies have been recovered and it is believed the death list will numbr 30 or more. At Seven Troughs no loss of life has been reported, but the town practic- ally was wiped out. At Mazuma a wall of water 15 feet high swept down the narrow canyon without warning. It carried everything before it. Rescue work brought gruesome evi- dence of the tragedy. The. finding of Mr. and Mrs. John Trenchard was fol- lowed by a surprise when it was found John Tren- chard is expected to die, but hope is held out that his wife will recover. Seven Troughs is situated half way up on the mountain side and Mazguma is at the base, with a canyon three miles away. The wall of water swept down the canyon carrying buildings before it and overturning the Mazuma Hotel. Those in the streets were carried down the gulch and many were cast to safety along the sides of the canyon. A revised list of dead is: Mra. Mc- Lean, Mazuma; Mrs. Reese, Mazuma; Edna Rundell, postmistress, Mazuma; Mrs. Con Cannon, Mazuma; thrée chil- Gren of Mrs. Kahoe, Mazuma; Mike Whaleng, Mazuma; Perry Gillespie, Ma- zuma: fourteen unidentified. Mrs. Ka- hoe of Mazuma is missing. PRICE OF CLOTHES GOES UP NEXT YEAR Shortage of Wool Clip, Higher Wages and Shorter Working Hours Cited as Causes. NEW YORK, July 19.—The price of clothes is going to be advanced next year. This increase to the already high cost of living is indicated, merchants say, by the prices named by producers of cloth, which are from 7% cents to ® cents a yard above those which pre- vailed Ust year. | Cloth prices are higher, agents say, because of conditions over which the manufacturers have no control, notably the fact that the domestic wool clip this year is about 30,000,000 pounds small- er than a year ago. The price of wool has also gone up abroad... Mill . say that the high scale of wages and us 4 )) Continued on Page 2, Column 4, Leentenced to serve four years. After Raferty's conviction John A.j: ST. LOUISA N,INEAST ,| 10 COLLECT $8900, DIES FROM POISO — ⸗ — J Embarrassment if He —Had $4000 in Bank and $30,000 in Notes, Failed to. Get Money Pa hs mee * + — PHILADELPHIA, July 19. here as Israel Gottesmann, said company in St. Louis, was found The man who is said to have owed the money came into the hotel shortly after the body was found and when he learned that Gottesmann was dead he became hysterical and a physician was called. Among Gottesmann’s effects were found a bankbook of a St. Louis insti- to Be Open At 912 North Ninth street, where Got- tesmann is interested in a wool house, a reporter for the Post-Dispatch broke the news of his death to his daughter 4nd son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs, Samuel J. Rovies. They said at once they were con- vinced Gottesmann had killed himself; that he had told them before he left St. Louis that he might do so and had left with them papers, written in Hebrew, which he said were to be opened only in case of his death. “Mr. Gottesmann has another son-in- law in Philadelphia named Nemcov,” Ravics said. ‘“‘Nemcof .got in trouble with the authorities over a bankruptcy proceeding and was accused of giving Daughter Says He Left Papers ed Upon His Death. $1100 to get another man, named Grav- A. aa wes pighatioadl tn Wi to be connected with a woolé dead in his room this afternoon. ee In the apartment was found a bottle that had contained poison. - An investigation, according to the Coroner, had led to the com) clusion that he came ‘here to collect $8500 from a Philadelphiam. Gottesmann had declared, according to friends, that if he did not get the money he would be financially embarrassed. — tution showing a balance of more — $4000, currency amounting to $66 and promissory notes amounting to $30,000. —- Deputy Coroner McKeever found it Israel Gottesman of Manchester iA | oe Company Found Lifeless a Philadelphia Hotel. = tae Grottesmann Reported. to Have Feared — the room a note written in Hebrew, ; which is believed to contain an explana-— tion of Gottesmann's death, although — he had not yet had it translated. ich, to leave the state. He was and asked my — to by out with — “Gottesmann sent his — worth $1000 which were to be uséd in getting mail. Also he bought some wool from Nemcoft for $600. A week or so ago the wool hadn't come and my. father-in-law found out he couldn’t get it or the note he>.. / had given: for it. “He was all broken up over it and - decided to go to Philadelphia and see~ about it. He Bald if he had been — — * ceived in his son-in-laW he would feel th=« “ clined to take his own Hife."’ S40 Mrs. Ravies said ‘she had writte her brother-in-law in —2 ging him to be considerate of hia ea — and warning him, if he did not, of what — the —— would be. FIFTH MAN FOUND GUILTY IN 310,000 GYPSY ROBBERY — —— Edward: Raferty Guarded After Verdict Because of Rumor He | Would Kill Himself. In a sealed verdict returned in Judge Rassieur’s court Friday, Edward Raf- tery was found guilty of complicity in the theft of $10,000 in gold from Melish Vido, a Gypsy chief, and was sentenced to serve two years in the penitentiary. Because of a rumor that Raftery would attempt to take his life with carbolic acid if convicted, two deputy sheriffs stood behind his chair and closely watched him when the verdict was re- turned. Raftery seemed greatly depressed when he learned his fate, but said noth- ing. He was taken back to jail after his attorneys had announced that an appeal to the Supreme Court woute be taken. A band ‘of conspirators last March stole the money of which Vido had been the custodian for a tribe of Servian xypsies. William Powers, a saloon keeper at Nineteenth and O’Falion i 4 Kennedy and Ben Shaw to setve two-years each for their part in the crime and John Burns was Gernez, attorney for Burns, asked J Rassieur to reduce the sentence to two years. Judge Rassieur refused to eater- tain the motion. At his trial it was charged that Raf- ARCHBALD BEFORE. All Answers in Case —— Judge Ordered in by AUß —Early Trial Favored. e WASHINGTON, July 2.—The im- peachment court which will try Judge Robert W. Archbald of the Commerce Court, after a brief session today, fixed Aug. 3 as the Iimit for all formal an-. swers In the cage and then adjourned until July 2% without deciding if the ital Saar Oe. or: Sle, Ce te over until fall. Judge Archbaid reached the