St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 3, 1912

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ee 9 Sah te ey, / Next Sunday Post-Dispatch [ ENO — ee LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 3, 1912—24 PAGES. PRICB ONE CENT.

—— — — MORGAN CATE 160.0 00. INSURANCE COMPAN Ud. P. Morgan Testifies bs “In October of 1904 I Gave $100,000; I Gave Another $50, 000 on Nov. | IW s _ Were Especially I ntert ted in the Campaign of 1904—The Only Contribution I Made in1908Was $30,0 706 00". row aro Mon TWIN,6,ISKILLED DR GRADWOHLIN |“, Never ein This Connection" ' ANSWERSIN GLOBE|1:= 7a «BY MOTORCYCLEON GERMANY, BROTHERS * GREAT OE TANARUPTEY CASE" HS WAYTOSHOOL) WLLUGERETIRN, gummy |DO WITH CORTEL he Beeeoeres pee (ere, || DURING CAMPAIC

: Street Wife Makes One. Author Won’t Tell About reet in Webster ife Makes One

Borrowing From Banks—| | , "omg en. |HIS PLAYMATES NEAR BY|PHYSICIAN SalLEb AUG. 25| ° | — oer rere | 1% J | ae Says He Fears to Incrim-||/Q°Q57Z7()) tec — ; Le eo Wall Street Financier Replies Re inate Self. , ; — His Mother Shopping in St. Louis} Was With No Woman, Declares} © I Qae"_ Ff oe a ak. : i= —Father Butler Bros. Offi. | Brother, Who Asserts He - : As Ne hl ly td Questions Concerning SALARY CONCEALED \Wwa | * “cial and a Ginger. Gave Sister-in-Law Money. 7 : Mt gg Connection With Contribu iC — * al a — — ae - i Ss 4 gt =e Donald Grant, one of the ¢yearoia| Dr. Rutherford B. H. Graawoh! RAE fee i Declares He Gave for Weliare: ) now in Germany, according to the state-

a — PES twin sons of J. D. Grant, whose chubby , : ee ye eae Se — Bo EER — — Pp bli $ Got 500 a : y —— pe — [| faces and good nature made them fa- ee ne, See ee eee notte he i j : | a es : — | Bae — - * afm : — Showed $250, and Th : have it. You ard] vorites in Webster Park, was killed at patch reporter by his brother, Harry C. Sa Re Go Bes oo ee ee | Gtaawohl “sala the physician sailed ¥ oo : D psig gee * fae — Denies Roosevelt by Telephone Demandetl i Leckwood avenue, Webster Groves. “Forty-six, forty- iin s0- a ££ PF fes Pie 3 fo 9 ae $18,000 for Overdrawing ing to buy a ith areen rut for the| Donald was on his way to school from |‘7°™ Baltimore for — Aus. 3, fey eee dee ee, soe 8 sot se He Give $100, 000 to Aid Republican’ Par J and that before that time he was liv- Is lained. Velled Prophet ball.” . +i the Grant home at 217 Spring avenue, | ; 7 me ge . ; 3 . of . Offici : ng at the Manhattan Square Hotel, gas ee Mme eee ee eee —— ee. eee | 1 forecast for St ‘Loats and! Webster Park. He was playing with |New York, and was. doing research Px! woe es — — Believes $50;000 of Amount He Gave ) Leo A. Landau, former manager of es 1 ——— * — other children, and as he started across | Work at Rockefeller Instigute. No wom- CA de 5 a oo Globe nd Clothing Co.; ana] Att "a aoe = the street he ¢id not hear the whinekig } Oe TS Bim ty Mow. Fork, oar ge. ee sg ee Bes for Harriman $240,000 F und—Says He sot ke ace ag iar : ‘elties:. New. ¥ {hewts f the ap hi 1 *|no woman has gone abroad with him, ‘: tii Ss ee a 7 : ’ — author of “The Big Cinch,” a k | — motor of the approaching cycie. the brother said. anaes e ° : ee os Os TORS , purporting to expose local politi cal and! se: Portland. a: pr hood m = as motor —* — ——— J. Bock- Will Ask Him te Return. a. oe — #3 — x a Ss Used — G. Q, P. Requests for — ténio, 62; Indianapolis, 59; Kansas examp, an employe of the county gas] He said he would send a cablegram Re I es ree — atl * Dusiness corruption, refused Thursday. | 0 Ooity. ao ee ccmpany, bore'down on the child with|to Dr. Gradwohl at once, advising him Be Ss 2 — | ‘before Walter D. Coles, referee in bank- Missouri—F air tonight and | | 7 terrific force. The handle bar struck to return to St. Louis and set right J me 5 —— Bey — By Associated — _ guptey, to answer a number of ques- | tonight. ies the boy’s neck and he fell unconscious/| matters which have been disarranged = ; te —— s, sae oS bo kiok _ tons asked him concerning the tran-|,i. tonight ana at the roadside. by: his unexplained absence and his fail- a ee WASHINGTON, Oct. '8.—J. Pierpont Morgan pre rod be wile sactions of his company. His reason Stage of the river: ra 4 He was carried to Dr. Howard Carter’s| ure to communicate with his wife. : J. a * bs oy oe ing witness today before the Clapp committee ‘investigating | cam- : . 3 office, where he died. The physician’s wife suffered a nerv-| | J eee tase ea — ‘ flor reflisal, he stated, was that he of? of-e foot. | 3) | Davia; nis twin and nig*almost con-lous collapse Thyraday ahd was unable | — oe | paign expenditures, and testified he had given $150,000 to feared to incriminate himself. — Se. | stant*companiop, was hagrtbroken over|to'leave her ped. She js at the home of : oh EC eee? eee Republican’ ¢ampaign of 1904 and $30,000 to the — 2am 7. ⸗ ‘Globe company went: into bank- PUSH PENNIES ic: — the accident, though no | dared to tell | her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Leder- as jf i RE oe Bee Sire ; paign | of 1908. 3 —— —— a Se Sih Reel ee: — Ban” os | him, that Donald never d play withier, 5024 Vernon avenue. | — * — Paes eee " — Ta for the creditors, conducted NOSES ON CIND ERA bi again. , | “My brother hag not abandoned his | Oe ke ree ieee ree oe a | _ In an hour's questioning, Morgan denied emphatically the "ate ' ‘ 7 The boy's father is assistant treasurer|-wife, or separated from her,‘ said Harry eee ef : —— re , tha sid BS “mer — and ‘autnor, was ‘tault-| So Loudly That Col ; * m- a. well known tenor singer. He wag atjiess she chooses to make one. They — . — (} — Roosevelt had once telephoned for a campaign contribution; de- in gray, and carried a plain They Can't Sleep ne Lemont not Bere. —— “oti! ie ts nie = — * —— J— — NE Ser clared he never had any communication with President Ro — t of ls style. Stern & J ery ae Of es. Gracwonts jeaiquey. Site wees bre = * ‘3 —* * and — i. Fauntieroy | * teen . freshmen p shied pennies|city shopping. Neighbors located her/has been jealous, without cause, of hae By. oA and asserted that he ‘knew ‘of no vonferences among financial: meh a : around a cinder track with their noses| by telephone at a department store and | nearly every woman patient the doctor J a : J —2 y in 1904 or 1908 to agree on supporting Republican or Democratic — yore present as his counsel. at Washin * | gton Universi Sdmescayitold her of the accident. ever had. Won't Tell of Borrowing. | | | , presidential candidates. oe ol night. After the freshnem fad clected| Spectators said it would have been| “My brother gav f at- ? — "Did the & thing — © me a power of at. . A 3% Ss — * 6, a mas —2 officers the sophomores “a a= them} difficult for the rider of the motoroycle/|torney, it is : a but it was not, JV x J pas ar ee | His first appgarance on the witness stand for many yea 5 | — of Commerds, the Central Nation®| 1° Soaium= whore ther MIMIC ol tee een NInE the child, who ran | hae been stated, for the purpose of clos-| [a tew Mg. 2. aa , i ' |Morgan appeared willing to answer fully all questions. He ¢on | , CY “me sorce tojinto the middie 0 e road at closé/ing up his affairs. “It was only for the Ta) Ges S see — — — 3 : 2 —_ —— ———— Bank St! take part ine burlesqte Mimmthon with| range to the advancing machine. Hckel-| purpose of keeping his aftairs going. 1 Dipl teas ko firmed the testimony, yesterday of George R. Sheldon that he ene. en tse — 8 24 dl pee pam was Funning about # miles an] have looked after the proceeds and ex- 4 eee 3 = * > 3 * given $100, 000 to the Republican national fund of 1904 and man our _- *“T pefuse to reply,” said Landau : , ? penses of the office, and in the last \ Bee Pas ee $3 y a ‘6 * — — —— Thursdays) cask £ tached over 44 sacchie ie ay , re ss _ | that he later gave $50,000 to the so-called ‘‘Harriman’’ fund meni ee ee sister-in-law. & aa . E240,000 raised for the New York State Committee. tend to incriminate me.” paddle. This made so rauoh Hulse that TRAIN KILLS 3.IN AN AUTO Says Wife Has Taken Money. Guided by Nation’s Interest. ee: He repeated this answér when Levin- the girl students sent a watebhrann fom é i asked him, von March 30, 1911, did McMillan Hall to ask that the spanking ‘This did not seem to satisfy ‘Mrs. — i ‘ss Be % es ; : f a make a statement to the banks, |.be stoppéd as it kept them aweice. PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 3.—A Pennsyl- | agpeehgi and she a been coming J set cr Morgan asserted no contribution had ever been given by. your signature?” The freshmen were thei taken out] vania\ Railroad train struck an automo- o the office every day lately and in- are i of securin favors there "Landau, in answer to another line| into the woods, -tied to thes end left|bile at Wilkinsburg today, killed two} tins on taking all the money re- . Ch ee ——— wns al of questioning, testified that for six [there until morning. They ats planning} men and one woman and seriously in! ceived, leaving nothing to pay runaing : was especially interested in the 1904 campaign, — r seven years he had received a sal- revenge. — | jured a woman and three children. expences. er he lam: vee. weeks T tor the welfare of the country and the people at large. —— —— — * —28 ye have paid the salary of the stenograph- © made in the books to show that : | er, Miss-Kitty Martin, out of . my The testimony of Morgan supported that of Sheldon 8 Br Touseved only $800 oe 6200.0 month _ | — EROM J. P. MORGAN’S TESTIMONY || cay that the so-called “Harriman fund” of 1904 had been | “My brother goes to Europe nearly —— : lie igdas Wier tele he Semin cae an emergency fund to help the New York State Committee. ie pata, Bor "con sida ign Soak tke — meee, I have his cable address in “My relations with Mr. Bliss were of a very close yan said he understood that to be the fact when he gave #50, 008 ae, ee ed : W — || character.. When ‘whey wanted anything they always |/+. the fund Nov. 1, 1904.’ Harriman had said it was raised at eelf until I hear from him.” sent Bliss to me. ithe request of President Roosevelt. eat ak eh Bice Ce From the\Bliss letter of resignation to Hary S. New, The committee adjourned after hearing the testimony of | brother at the Rockefsller Institute and - said Dr, Gradwohl worked there with|| referring to campaign contributions: gan and Judge Duell until 2 o’clock tomorrow, wie Col, 5 ay Phe Pooks; tanten wait, seem tol For many years the POST-DISPATCH has on three or | pu, netushh © noted Japanese bactert- ‘ -onsi — ho * gist. I have consistently refused to make these reports ve® is to e first pues oe Senres.the company: $15, four days out of week printed more of the St. Louis v Absorbed Im Research Work. public, because I regard the relations of campaign Judge Charles H. Duell, who was ——— trearurer x bat in reality, he said he does : —T * Gradwohl said his brother's inter- ” prenirrsrrocld — ad he geen ae ———— ‘est and ambition were centered in his|| contributions to party committees as confidential.” Republican National Committee in 1904, testified that three i bacteriological research work, by ance companies gave $50,000 each, that Whitelaw Reid gave $ ‘em Monday, Tu lay and Wednesday, three days in suc- — th bid tb. iene ; — cession, with lively prospects of du Cactiaities athens»! Tecmsraimne tects ok eee ; — —— |000, the United States Steel Corporation $10,000. ment today (TI a 7 ) and tomorrow (Friday).. profitable practice, he said; was val- | pe ; ) Morgan reached the committeeropom before the hour’ wet | Here is eer ble proof that in the estimation — ragiioeet w Eons agen hea’ Rt DESTROYS MISS HELEN GOULD the hearing, accompanied by his son-in-law, Herbert L. & In¢ vert: : ng means for ese researches. | of the St. Louis@inerct: ides he POST-DISPATCH, Ts , —** of all, he said, would he have | The financier tugged at his mustache as he took hin sea, it-cets ee. * owing stronger and stronger every permitted a love affair to interfere | watched’ the members of the committee closely, | : 3 a day. J ay — ei ra ‘i week £0 , “Give the — your name, pleass;”’ 4 said ** * irnuan

Harry C. Gradwohl has been out Just glance ¢ e records— Clapp. - — theee ree vith donc red gynumrenaype grag NET IN WRECK: | HURT (John Pierpont Morgan.” " ) t-Dispatch alone, 43 Cols. his brother’s affairs. ? “Your address ?t’’ Mrs. Gradwohl believes that fame * ¥y rs * —8 of the 4 St. Louis fe toe readily won, success in all hia &n- ‘Two hundred and — Maidison evan, Now Ye rk,” ‘all added together 42 ‘ . dertakings. too easily achieved, have The bungalew home ay Sa A Rv Henry Al. ‘BUFFALO, EEE Y., Oct. 3—Three! ‘** Your business ?’’ is her : é been the undoing of her talented 2 babi — A at Di ' h al on 72. Cols. young husband, The hope that a Cornet, on the grounds of the Algon * “si age mt fatally SAL Ape F ispa c e, — little unbiased public judgment may— quin: Golf Club at the outskirts of | an = 2 * —— hurt n f 4 St. Lo serve to discipline him, and at last was destroyed by fira,|a@ collision of qa West Shere passenger “a 7 ont 0 the wis 71 6 make a man of him, great as his abil- ih paca Aenea aft train and a freight train at Wende jlicle by Charles Edward Russell, charging that P, ‘Papers all added Lat with all ite contents, Thursday ex ES - gal ull_added_together Jities deserve, is Mrs. Gradwohl!'s ex- _. | Station. 20 miles east of this city, this ‘had demanded that Morgan raise $100,000, tor hs pa cuse for revealing what she calls his | noon. : merning. * }’ost-Dispatch alone, 46Cols. shortcomings. While the family was at lunch, about] pight of the injured were brought that Wayne MacVeagh * been — when out of the. 4 St. ‘Lonis “I have protected: his reputation|,.o . m., a neighbor, Mrs. Williams,|to the Emergency Hospital here, and ver (44 — — ——— noticed that the bungalow was on fire. 10 were taken te Batayla. e fe » all together Gradwohl to a woman reporter for amil All rushea}| Among the passengers injured are: the Post-Dispatch late Wednesday —— che Se: Mrs. Catherine Fiynn of San Francis- 3 OST-DISPATCH is growing aftefnoon. Outside, ce had gained such headway | °% Whose:condition Js serious, and John day is that its circulation is “But ‘now ince he has made thle to save the fur-}5ens0n, of Des Moines, Io., who “was that it was imposs : — an object of public curiosity niture, "The: volunteer fire department bruised’ and cut. ; * it reaches } tically — * by his unconventional disappearance. Miss Helen Gould and a part «¢ S@ Louis and_its suburbs. ~An an- ~~ rcumhk a iiveey abeen himaeif ana {ot Webster Grove * ————— * * » olumns — seen by —— in this aisappointed his best * friends, the| reached the scene ————— arn — It ‘is _ [truth must be served at last, and} . The loss is estimated at $15, r- They. a od whi es a much. as it hurts me to remove my|net is @ retired St. Louis merchant, were badly shaken. TRG 23 ‘protection from this dear boy, I do formerly of the Cornet Grocery Ce: ae j a0, hoping the Jndgment of the world Mrs. Cornet lost all her jewelry and may bring him k to sanity, whole- | Mr. Cornet’s, valuable library was: de- somen -apprecta | stroyed. Mrs. Cornet rushed :into the — bets * wes ‘burning house several times, ane, final- un “The — —— I have vuttered| 1 of the