St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 18, 1912

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WOR Talks to Gov. -Hiram Johnson and Says He Is Anxious ' ‘to Be Back at Armageddon.

MEETS CRISIS TODAY IN BEST CONDITION SINCE SHOOTING

Doctors at Mercy Hospital Keep Closest Watch on metient for Indication of Bicod Poison- ing—Mrs. Roosevelt Stull in Command.

CHICAGO, Oct. 18.—Col. Roosevelt will leave Chicago for Oys- ter Bay on Monday or Tuesday of next week. He will travel on one of the slower trains over the Pennsylvania Railroad so that he may enter New York at the station from which the trains to Oyster Bay depart. This program was decided upon today with only the qual- ‘ ifieation that-it depended upon Col. Roosevelt’s continued and unin- - derrupted improvement, which his Attendants assisted Col. Roosevelt to his feet. this. afternoon, Sindghe sat in ‘@n easy chair for an hour. He said it rested Him.so much ard so relieved him from the monotony of lying in bed, | he was going to ask his physicia.:s to allow him to rePeat it later today. ‘This was the critical day in the re- covery ‘of Col. Roosevelt from the wound inflicted on him by . John Schrank in Milwaukee, Monday night. It is on this day, his physicians be- lieved, . thixt indications of blood poison-. fing Would appear, if such a condition should result from the bullet which .s imbedded in the fractured rib. The . t watch was kept on the wounded ‘man throughout the day. Dr. Lambert . #ald evidences. of, tetanus—may. appear, within an hour. No one in the Colonel's following had physicians now confidently expect. plied Dv, Murphy, ‘bia we have only fvine’ concern: Wi.en You go out we want you to go to all purposes a wel ran, Or so well on the way to recovery that no setback will be possible with reasonable care. We believe you might better lose a day or two now than a Week -or a month later.’’ Mrs: Roosevelt agreed with this and Col, Roosevelt, said: .“Well, you’re all against me, I see; 50 I guess all I can do is protest vigor- ousiy-everytime T have an opportunity. I will admit I am doing famously with such breakfasts as [ had this morning.” He asked about his running mate, Gov. Johnson and when told the Gover- nor had arrived in Chicago and would come tothe hospital after a neon day méeting he was pleased. Cal” Roosevelt awoke at Mercy Hos- pital today. shortly before 7 o'clock full naa POKER AND POLITICS STORY IS STARTED IN COURT Wife of Saloon Man Tells Enough of It to Win $10 Weekly Alimony Award.

Denies She Received Pay, Eith- er From Newspaper or Poli- ticians -for -Her Story. } sila

Mrs. Nellie’ J. Weeke; author of the now famous story of ‘‘Poker and Poli- tics, repeated in open court Friday some of the things she has charged against her husband, Henrv L. P tanto’, Weeke, Republican. politician. Her testimony was given before Judge Homer upon her motion for temporary #limony in her divorce suit. Homer awarded $10 a week temporary alimony tc her, $50 for court costs and $150 for attorney's fees. t Dressed plainly in a light brown jack- «t over a black velvet dress, with a black hat and black shoes, Mrs. Weeke made*an interesting figure on the stand. As she told her story, those in the courtroom leaned. ferward to hear, Not the Teast ‘ifitehested was Weeke, who sat near his attomey, George B. Web- ster. Tells of His Lid Ojubs. She first testified that since her sep- aration in August, 1911, Weeke had given-to her only $155; that she’ had a son by a former marriage and that she lived with a sister onthe charity. of friends. “What John P. “He is is Mr. Weeke's ~ business’ Leahy, her lawyer asked her. a saloon keeper, a politician plied. ‘‘He also ran a poker game. He runs six or seven Hd clubs with Cap Troll, another politician.’ “How much money has he made off the poker game?” “There was usually one game a week and his rake-off on a game is about $65." ! Mrs. Weeke then testified that Weeke owned personal property worth © $9000, a «saloon at Thirteenth and Market streets and that he owns real estate at 2308 Cass avenue, worth $3500,.which his brother, Frank, occupies ‘as a meat shop. She then said Weeke had given $10. a week to her unttl tWO'etks ago. “On cross-examination by Webster she Was asked where the six or seven lid Clibs she s#id her husband owned were. She replied she didn’t know. then asked how she knew he has them: DETAILS GAME’S PROFITS distance sufficient to lend the. proper fevery detail of the robbery. Once a ‘tors, and the proprietor of lid clubs,” she. re- She was}operator. at. a_.telephone..board ..on the PRACKSMEN ROB A POSTOFFICE WHILE OFFICIALS WATCH Postmaster, Marshal and ak Others See Half-Hour Per- formance at O'Fallon, Ill. BOOTY IS WORTH. $700 Watcher. With Shotgun Invited to Get in’Range—Brick Wall Punctured by Safe.

». The Town Marshal, the Postmaster | and a would-be ‘‘posee” of three resi-, dents of O’Falion, Ill., witnessed a 30-| ‘ninute demonstration of .expert safe- blowing and robbery from 1:30 until 2 a. m. Friday; the door of the O'Fallon Postoffice safe out through the front of the biiliding, took $700 in money and stamps, delib- erately walked out at the rear door and disappeared in the darkness. Fascinated, but not to the point of in- discretion, the officials and their com-" panions stood about the building, at a_ enchantment to the view, and watched member of the posse fired a shotgun into the air, thinking to cut the performance short. In reply one of the robbers walked to the front of the postoffice and invited the. would-be captors to come within range of the bandit’s re- volvers. The invitation was spurned. Several attempts were made to in- crease the number of would-be cap- but the request for reinforce- were answered with: “Get out. We're going out there to get shot.” ‘ Charles Schuetz, a baker living across the street from the postoffice, saw the robbers after they fired a blast that broke all the windows in hig house and almost threw him out of bed, Schuetz looked out and saw lights burning in the postoffice and the men at work around the wrecked safe. He notified W. A. Koenigestein, the post- master, who, in turn, called F. Mc- Nulty, the Marshal. Then McNulty hurriedly assembled his posse and the descent on the robbers was determined-., ivy. begun and just as determinedly ended. i While the citizens were hering around the postoffice, two” Me roby} bers stood guard, and kept warning those who got too near to keep back, or be shot. Miss Ethel Willhite, night ments second floor of the building, but not Cirectly over the postoffice, was one of “when four”burglars’ blew ~

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WW A wer : Lyhee ¥ ret my a 5 — — nan ene * ‘ eB the life of Pr gir! by a ae bag cnt Moe 1a. Pp Morgan & Co. .... | operation, dted heroically here ‘this 1 morning mumbling at the last: “I guess Paton Lewisohn. prem ‘2 . Hyde OS eee _ — mes ora: — i ~ SoM ai erer cs . , » Seligman. ..+.++- *neumonia was~given by the’ attend*? sy" ~ ** , - ing ~ physicians «as the cause of- niet 2: & N. ~ Wy Hrtgiin, pas Stillman: hlembcece = death.: -Fhe-disease resulted direetiy+ TIin6i 000. YE. H. Harriman. fectae from his self-sacrifice, having been. oe-} casioned by an irritation of the lungs, BF. ae Williams, New fL. C. Prick’ “cneeesee: due to the ether that was given him Sew chee es ; when his leg wan ut oft. .D. QO. Mills . 2s LPG A NES Miss Ethel Smith, the girl whom Rugh | Hawaiian ‘Sugar. Piant. had never’seen ti:he went to the hosg- ers’ Association pital to give his leg for -her, was. ‘on | the eve of marriage to Chief of Police} G..V. L; Meyer... ° Martin of Gary when riding on the rear} ;; : ae af her. filance’s motor cycle she was Clarence H. gate frightfully burned and her life was de-t Isaac N. Seligman. . spaired of. - Physicians declared” orly the drastic means*of grafting new skin J. Hi. Schiff. Los on the lacerated spots of her body eee A. D. Julliard is 02.6 Bee possibly accomplish a cure. Whi : ~ 90,000: itelaw Reid ... 200 Inches Needed. More than 200 square. inches of healthy Dover testified his list might be inaccurate, ¢ py om needed to give back to Miss! -opying or for éther reasons. Persons who heard ite mith the bloom of hér beauty, and the} 5 * 46 mean Mafvin Hug doctors hopelessly announced it was im-} & ON. W. Hughiin, $25,000: sa im possible to secure such an ‘amount. } board of the Chicago & Northwestern. **H. H. Rs Billy Rugh, who some four years] way supposed to be H. H. Rogers and John_D. eer to tad ooh O livian aslitce oabare, | Rocketeer. “*<C. N. Before Po re np it now ng out a liv selling pa ’ feller heard:ot. the girl's plight, and he, volin- | Cornelius N. Byias‘for Perry Hoc teered .to supply: the skin needed. ; The list-totalhs $2 ,280,918. a pa. pam exactly Bs smh or cicagsaper? bey this world,” he remarke: ¥; show that even a tramp is a man for] up a sensation before | “tas all that.’’ ; when. ay the first witness at the On ‘adjoining sabies in the hospital ’ watt, he read a Fae touching: npét. the ve ton of Col, - ro ee 2 ee been’ Aneieh ’ ods «

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