St. Louis Post-Dispatch
August 1, 1912

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a Lou: 3 woman made and wears it. Described in : “St Sunday’ s Post-Dispatch ur oir SELF N ROW WITH HER y WIFE'S 'S DEFENSE GANTA, Ga., Aug. 1—Lawyers for Opie Grace will try to prove that ene H. Grace accidentally shot him- When in a fight with his wife, Alch was caused by a dispute over the wer of attorney she had given to aim to dispose of her home on Spruce street’ in Philadelphia. This is the theory of the defense in the case, out- lined today at the trial, which has been : here since Monday. | When’ ‘court opened today Attorney James A. Branch, of counsel for the de- fense, ‘explained to the jury what they would attempt to show by its witnesses. Although no list of witnesses for the de- fense Was called in court many new appeared in the ante rooms. | defense expects to prove its theory e it puts*the accused wife on the tand in hier own defense. The whole ¢ a ig expected to be consumed by tes- imo of other witnesses and Mrs. will not take the stand until some i y. ee Threats to Kill, i Breach said that Grace had,: eons ne beige pies @ their mart fortune left to ities by pt Grace, it was con-’ repeatedly begged her to es her home on Spruce bs os but she had re- fl shortly prior. to the shooting n Pr cerresice of the Grace-Law- ) Building Co. had telephoned on of March 5, the day Grace to. leave for Philadelphia, the ,»and had told her that a a large payment and its were looking better. It. was at she had alréady given to » power attorney to dispose of Iphia home because he said ¢ ini foney to keep it up. ne atory of the defense was that ; ace telephoned, she ‘pleaded | not to sell her home, but pce if he couldn’t make out ey Fapelved by Lawrence Paharged that following her Grace cursed and abused her. d her to hurry away and that’ a coat and took from his. er of attorney and .was ng it into the fire from bed, grabbed her | a twisted it untit she let the-pa~ i to. the Hoor. aide . “ér alfeged that he then caught, oat and ashe choked her he A to the diesser drawer with his land drew the pistol. ont! imor to Tell of Scuffle, | ; defense is that he tried to strike fth it; Dut she prevented him, and | was in this seuffie, in which the , was trying to prevent n shooting her, that the pair | the bed and fell over onto it. went off and the bullet en- ne"a side. + Branch ‘explained then why ed man.was found alone in - Iteis the defense’s thedry re hid the -seriousness of his. wR @ only a scratch dress it himself. It was as- he Was afraid if she did not ne neighbors, would find it tae a oe vt it eyo wht Thy ahh eg re fre mm. the “ ent ‘etvia vehi, {Cast Off by Mother, It Grows facturer of a washing compound, was jee pleased with the efficiency ¢ | compound, that shé married him. Wednesday, after a week's engagement.

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Alton Farmer Who Loses Case Must Pay $60-in Court Ex- penses Alone: George Lohr, an Alton farmer, pas- tured a stray horse belonging to Mrs. Ella Culver Vorhees. His bill for the service was $1.25, and she was willing to pay only $1. Lohr held the horse, Mrs. Vorhees replevined it, the case went back and forth with appeals and rehearings, and both sides kept paying costs, until it is estimated that, in- ‘cluding the county’s part of the bill, $1000 has been spent over the 25-cent controversy. As the 90 days’ ase period has elapsed since the latest decision, and Lohr, the loser, has filed no notice of appeal, it is supposed the case is over. His bill for court costs, amounting to $60, has just been sent to him, but his lawyer’s fee and’ other expenses in the long Iitigation have been much more BLACK LAMB GETS FAT ON BEER DIET

Faster Than White Brother. The merit of a milk diet has been discounted by that of a beer diet as far as the appearance of twin sheep proves at the home of Henry Greve, a St. Louis commission merchant, whose sum- mer home is just south of St. Charles, at the Crystal Spring farm. About two months ago the twin lambs were born—a black and a white sheep. The mother was fond of the white lamb, but disinherited the black one and cast it off: It grew slim, while the white lamb fattened upon its mother’s milk. Mrs. ‘Greve came to its assistance and placed it on a diet of two bottles of beer a day. Greve says the black lamb has grown faster on the beer diet than any lamb ever reared on the stock farm. It is now much larger than its white brother. WEDS AT 60 TO GET BUSINESS PARTNER | Mrs. Annie J. Rawlins, Washing Compound Maker, Marries Her Employer, 65. “y Mrs. Annie J. Rawlins, 6 years old, of 2270 South Jefferson avenue, manu-

66, distri! agent for The wedding took place at Clayton Mrs. Francis told a Post-Dispatch re- porter the washing compound business had grown so that she couldn’t manage it alone. She thought Francis would make a good partner, and for that rea- son accepted him when he proposed. FAIR WEATHER AND IT WILL STAY COOL THE TEMPERATURES. Ticeveneds ss ee 10 a. m. ere er eee ans 8 mee ents fh =n 3: m,. beeseset.¥a Ecccenecdeoes noon wehbe ome ou Se a O07 ay SS BEE 2 pv. Mle ccecovwvwesr 48

was suffering and he need- :

2 bk /mournful knell? The Southern closed?

1 The — Southern closed? What, the hotel? That good old house we loved so well, with cor- ridors a full block. long, with ban-} quet hall where speech and ong have , he our hearts beauty’s spell?/The South- ern.,closed? What, é hotel? The Southern closed? The house where stage and states manship have filled the page with ‘names of those whom na- x — | tlons cheer, whose > happiest retmem- _brance here has been, perchance, that , house of rest; the home beloved by many a guest; must Fate now ring. its ‘BAD THE SOUTHERN HAD TO GO

What, the hotel? ofr 1 forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: os fair tonight and Friday; not much change ‘in tempera- NO, 347 (SUIT OVER 25 CENTS, “Tn COSTING $1000, ENDS |f it he eet

FIGHTING * Attorney ‘Angrily Protests at’ Policeman’s Methods Amid Crowd at Fourth and Pine. TYPIST CALLS THE POLICE Prisoner Decjares He Struck C, J. Anderson Only When Threatened in Office. en A crowd of hundreds, surrounding a patrol box on Pine street, opposite the Planters Hotel entrance, Thurs- day afternoon, heard the excited pro- test of Attorney Paul Dillon, who just had been arrested as the result of a fight in the office of Charles J. And- erson, room 608, Laclede Building. Dillon at ‘*the patrol box objected vehemently to being required to ride to police headquarters in a patrol Wagon, and declared the policeman who insisted on making him undergo such humil n would suffer. The wagon was.Called, however, and the attorney ‘was taken to headquarters in it~ Persons in the crowd took sides in- Dillon’s argument with the policeman and passersby on Broadway and Fourth street turned aside to see what the trouble was about. Dillon Strikes Anderson. The policeman who arrested Dillon was called by a girl stenographer in Anderson’s office after Dillon had struck Anderson in the face, causing the blood to flow. Dillon is the son of Daniel Dillon, one of the best-known St. Louis law- vers. He is a graduate of St. Lotiis University. Dillon went to Anderson’s office with a client, I. G. Emerick of 3923 West Belle place, a boarding house propfie- tor. The Ozark Land Co., for which Anderson is attorney, had won a suit in Justice of the Peace Luce’s court against Emerick for $172.50. According to Anderson, Dillon .pro- posed to settle, the verdict for a small- ‘é@r sum than the amount of the judg- ment, and said that Anderson had promised to take less. Anderson said he denied thisassertion. The word “liar’’ passed between -the two and Dillon’s blow then was struck. Dillon said afterward that Anderson threatened him with a paperweight be- fore he struck Anderson. Anderson'‘ad- mitted he had a paperweight in his hand. At this juncture the stenographer ran for a policeman. ‘ Dillon got a friend in the crowd to telephone to his father to ask the lat- ter to arrange for a bondsman. Ander- son went in the patrol wagon as a com- plainant. As the case will result in nothing more serious than mi8d@emeanor charges, the patrol wagon ride might have - been avoided had Chief Young’s identifica- tion card plan been in force, and had Dillon had such a card. At the Central District Station, Dillon made a cross-charge against Anderson, and the’ latter made a charge against -Emerick, who, he said, abetted the at- taek. The three will be heard in ape Clark Aventie Police Court. GERMANS BAR BOY SCOUTS j Fifty Lads Will Not Be Allowed to Land at Hamburg. . LETPH, Scotland, Aug. 1—-A party) of 50 Boy Scouts on board the steamer Coblenz sailed from this port for Ham- burg tedey for a trip to Germany. Tel- egram®. received from Hamburg state that the. authorities there will refuse to allow the boys to land, apparently re- garding them as part of a military or- ganization. BAND. CONCERT TONIGHT 7 PP. M. te 10 P. mM. Fairground Park—Waechtler’s band. - Forest. Park—Maddern’s band.

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Se margin— Again the St. Louis merchants demonstrated their pref- erence and faith in the pulling power of the advertising columns of the Post-Dispatch

>on Wednesday, by using 2 7 columns in the Post-Dispatch and. being contented with only - '26.columns ‘ti thtep outvof four of its ‘competitors all added together, me eto) big cand effective cireulation— ee kind. iest six'months of 1912: y.4

'reom. Mulhall ie {Man’s Altered Name Gives In- surance Sleuth Clew to Miss- ing Clyde Sims. TRAIL GOES IN 3 STATES t Prisoner: Not Expected to Be Prosecuted on Insurance Fraud Charge. After Clyde Marcellus Sims, now a prisoner in the Central District Hold- over, had concealed his identity for 10 years, he was tracked down. by F. C. Shoemaker, an adjuster for the Trav- furnished by a five-year-old St: Louis city. directory. Sims is held on«a technical charge of conspiracy to defraue the insurance company, but authorities say there probably will be no prosecution, as there is no evidence that he wrongfully tried to create the impression that he was dead, so that his $5000 life insurance policy could be collected. Sims’ wife, who: had been. searching for him eight yeafs and who came to St. Louis and identified him after his arrest here, has departed for her home in Atlanta, Ga. Shoemaker for many years was a Police Sergeant in the Carr Street Dis- trict. In tracking Sims, in less than three months he did the work that lawyers and shrewd detectives had spent years on without result Directed to Leok into Case. When Shoemaker opened his desk one morning early in April this’ year he found a memorandum saying a suit for $5000 had been filed against the company on a policy issued in 1904 to Clyde Mar- cellus Sims. A brief note accompanying the memorandum instructed Shoemaker to learn whether Sims was still alive. Deciding to do his own detective work, Shoemaker turned to old city directories, begining with the year 1904, when the ‘policy was written. Searching for the ree} Clyde Sims, he went # wt directories issued from Se to 1912, The name was not ig them. 7 From long police servicé; Shoemaker knew that it often hapnened that when a man alters his name-Me agually either lops off a part of it or & Spts a name closely resembling his real one. On this theory he started through the bulky directories again. But this time he looked for the name Marcellus Clyde. This search also was without result, But Shoemaker gid not give up. There was still the chance that in addition to dropping his surname, Sims had re- versed the order of his given names. ‘The directories of 1904, 19% and 1906 did not bear out this theory. Shoemaker persevered, and he was rewarded. In the 1907 directory he found the name Clyde Marcellus, whose occu- pation was given as an employe of the Fred Harvey lunchroom at Uniofi Sta- tion. The next car took Shoemaker to Unton Station. There he saw Mariager Mul- hall of the Harvey Juhehroom, who told him that @ man known as Clyde Mar- cellus had worked there th 1904 again in the fall of 1806. Mulhall recalled that Marcellus visit- ed the lunchroom in 1907 and told em- ployés there that he was working for the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad. Stops at Towns and Camps. The M, K. & T. ig a big system operating in several states. Shoemaker didn’t mind that. He just got on a train and started west. He stopped at every important town, and at many grading and construction camps. In his pocket he carried a photograph of Sims, which had been sent to him by Sims’ wife, who wrote that. she would rather find her husband was alive than to collect the insurance. Though the photograph had been taken nearly ten years before it was recognized at several points along the line as that of a man who had worked for the company and had been variously known under the names Marcellus, Clyde and Sims. Shoemaker learned that this man had worked at Sedalia, Parsons, Kan.; Muskogee and Shawnee, ~k. In each of these places the picture was recognized. At Miiskogee Shoemaker lost all traces of Sims, but he believed that the man he Was hunting had doubled back to- ward St. Louis. Shoemaker felt confident that if Sims should return here he Would go to the Harvey Lunchroom. So confident of this was he that when he arrived in St. Louis he went to the lunchroom and made an arrangement whereby Manager Mulhall was to call up a certain private detective agency if Sims should appear there. Man Walks Into Lunchroom. Tuesday Sims walkéd into the lunch called the detective agency. A detective at once was sent to the lunchroom to shadow Sims. A ot a vib “rn to Shoemaker, who in turn, red rs. Sims ‘to st. ‘Louts at once. ries | At the lunchroom Sims’ told Mulhall in the hearing of the detective, that he intended to leave town on a night train, = agency to aid in detaining’. Sims his wife arrived. ae While walking With ‘one of the de- cea whose occupation he aid not was taken in custody by

trump card and ‘won, |i a detectives. Shoemaker had played es i | For ft i si Nt Save elers’ Insurance Co., through a clew’ and. Other detectives were detailed by the!

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a rs is Ni, ae a> o be ara ae ry ria bene “meant ented stituted the greater part ofthe estate} Bi of Mrs. estate is being aSiainlatonyn in phis. ey of I been for yeas . Miss Strong, who he & nurse, and has s times of need in the ization, nursed Mrs. an attack of yellow leans’ in 1905. -She late fever herself, and was near. death.” The epidemic of that summer Ree orable one, and men and bed all stations in life were among tims, the venerable arene being included in the hum After Miss Strong’s wealthy Mrs. Boulock, who had then been a widow for only a shots .. time, took the nurse into. her, ho cand | called her ‘‘daughter.”” Miss br lived at the Boulock home, but com ved her work of nursing. She tgok cases in other cities, and did mieh +, cael

| ‘contracted | the | a Stella L. Boulock, who. dled} Re ee | Oct. 3 last, in New Orleans, but og a recovery, the] fish work in Chicago. There, in 1910, ish { x] married Charles W. Ley of Michigan City, Ind. He lived only four month after the marriage, and since his dea she has resumed her maiden nam finding it more convenient for profe sional use. Almost Sole Hetr. When Mrs. Boulock died, last fall, o heart disease, it. was found that het will made Miss Strong almost her solé|'' heir. A daughter, long estranged from the mother,/was cut off with $6500. Fot the administrator $100,000 was left, the greater part of which-is to settle claims against the estate. : The remainder was bequeathed to Miss Strong in these words: : “T bequeath to my friend and ‘called’ daughter, Iola Jeanette Strong, who ee me during the yellow. fever epi- demic, my homestead in Memphis Tenn, | on the Racetrack road; my winter home in Jacksonville, Fla., one mile from the city limits; the beach cottage, on Lez- ington street, in Gulfport, Miss., and in St. Louis, Mo., property at 1431 Spruce street, and all my cash, stocks» and. ponds not otherwise disposed of here- in. * } Missi Strong told. a. Pont-Dispatoh re- porter Thursday that the Irene Morris of Chicago, hed telked contesting the will, but had decided to do s0.. Bhe said ive, See ee

(toons got’ tonde Tuto aah .fo the settlement. ‘Strong will take a high graph:and find wut abe So Whitney sent the & ving. dt (3 patch to his fiancee, Miss Elsie J. Gib-|% son “of Burlington, Vt., who was attend-{ ing the summer school for ‘Watters at Dartmouth College: | “Have offer for good scatéitne posi- tion for you at St. Paul, Pribiloff Is- lands. Salary twelve hundred, matri- mony prerequisite. ~nswer paid.” ; Twelve hours later Whitney. received this answer: | “Leaving for Washington, arrive Sun- , PO rescula ray, day morning,” P : Whitney went to the Bureau of Fish- on satates eo aed do x the future | eries: and told Chief Barton W. Ever-; if the people At. t6 pow Pp men ee ee el oe ee th at’ other on adhe

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