St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 29, 1912

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g had been monly tall I think his appearance would residence, and to be Celaying the buri.l 3 ies san Week’s Count: : St. Louis’ ONE BIG Want Medium IS Only Evening Paper in St. Louis W an the Associated Press News Service. —_— oo ee MAN AT HOUSE OF DEATH DAY WOMAN WAS SENT THERE Woman Next Door to 2307. Locust Saw Him Examin- | ing Entrance to Cellar— | Told Her He Wished to Rent Shed, Which He; Hadn’t Inspected. | oneneneentesinneeneenenennel GIVES POST-DISPATCH DESCRIPTION OF MAN Clerk is Coliseum Drug Store : Tells of Man Who Used Phone Excitedly, Saying “‘I Have Hired Her,” Then Walked South. Two developments in the Locust street murder mystery in which Miss Bridget Calnan was strangled to death, came to light Tuesday when 4 woman, located by a Post-Dispatch reporter, told about a mysterious man whom she saw prowling about the house at 2307 Locust street al- most at the hour when Miss Calnan was lured there, and when a clerk in a drug store at Jefferson and Washington avenues, two blocks away, recalled that a man telephoned irom there the same morning. This message is believed by the po- lice to’ have been one of the three sent to the Young Women’s Christian Association employment bureau by the “Mr. Allen” who had Miss Calnan sent to the house. Saw Prowler at House. Miss Eithel Prather is the proprietor of the rooming house at 2309 Locust street, next door’ west of the house where the crime was committed, She told the reporter that she had thus far kept si- lent because Department had questioned her the murdered woman's body was found Monday, the day before the Veiled Prophet's parade, she says, she saw a gman prowling about the house nexé door. This was the day on which Miss (alnan was lured from the aero ron sinee no member of the Police! States Marine Band at the Coliseum. / ) ; will be free, beginning at 7 p. m., at the ‘also be free, but preference will be giv- ‘erence will not be carried to the point of Between 9 and 10 gbock in the morn- g ing, Miss Prather says, she looked fro.a | A window and saw. the man yard. He seemed to be closely inspect- ing the ‘house at 2307. “Than 6 Feet Tall. Was busy with her house- hold duties. “Three times at intervals of abeut ten minutes she looked ae the window and saw the man he seemed to be inspecting the rear cellar door. She says'the man was more than six feet tall and powerfully built. The feature that most impressed her was his large hooked nose. She thinks he had a brown mustache. He wore dark suit and a black soft hat. Miss Prather stepped into the yard. When the man saw her he walked to in the’ ‘ pape of the seventh and eighth grammar the fence separating the yards and said | to her: ° “T want ‘to rent that ehed.”’ ‘Miss Prather says that up to that time he apparently had not leoked at the. shed; She told him he would have to | mee the agent. She then went into the. house and did not see the man again. | Heard Man Telephone. Leon W. Feldes, clerk in the Coliseum drug store, told a Post-Dispatch reporter that about three weeks ago a man hur- riedly entered the drug store, which is only two blocks from the place of the murder, and asked permission to use the Bell telephone. Teides does not remember what num- ber the man called, but heard him say: “She is engaged,” or “I have engaged Wer.” He recalls this distinctly, he gaya, because when he heard it the thought passed through his mind that somebody had got a Job. Yan Abont 40 Years Old, The clerk does not remember anything | about the man’s appearance. “From his energy an@ apparent vigor when he entered the store I should Judge he was about 4 years old,” sata PFeldes. “If there had been anything ‘wnusual about his appearance I think would have noticed it. I presume he. wore dark clothing and was of medium of their brother, height. If he had worn light clothing or unusually snort or uncom- have made a ' on me.” _ Met by Man After Phoning. Veldes at first sald he did not recal)' more lasting impression Which way the man walked when he {°° bodies to be held for several months left the store. -... fad an indistinct recollection that after telephoning the man was met by anoth- --. @f man on the corner, and that the two for several years, _ Walked south on Jefferson avenue to- " —s- Ward Locust strect and in the direction _ @ person would naturally go to reach 4 the house where the woman was mur- ‘The time when te man sent the tele- message tallies closely with the - oc - time when the Y. W. C. A. employment ~bureau, at about 16 a. m. ce cond on October 7, se the message from the myster- fous “Mr. Allen” that he had engaged Mise Calnan to work for him. ‘Feldes says he je quite sure the other telephone messages to the employ- he would have remembered it if the same man hed used the telephone ee fis hours. “VOL. 65. NO. 70. ery ! PRICE ONE CENT. en elections. Preference will be given to women 10,000. for overflow crowd. pictures, The Post-Dispatch Will Give Election Returns Free at the Coliseum OLISEUM, WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON AVENUES— Free concert by United States Marine Band of Washington. Complete up-to-the-minute bulletins of city, State and national Moving pictures in intervals between bulletins. 7 p. m.; concert begins 8:30, lasts until after 1]; pictures wil] continue until long after midnight. public officials, party committeemen, invited clergymen and educators. All balcony and gallery seats free without reservation. WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON AVENUES, in front of Coli- seum—Bulletins and moving pictures, same as within the Coliseum, BROADWAY, BETWEEN OLIVE AND PINE STREETS, in front of Post-Dispatch office—Bulletins and moving pictures. EAST ST. LOUIS, ARCADE BUILDING—Bulletins and moving Doors open bulletins and moving Boxes reserved for with escorts in filling arena seats. Hall seats ee ee PUBLIC TO HEAR RESULTS OF ELECTION AT COLISEUM Post-Dispatch Issues Invitaticn end Arranges to Have Moving Fictures and Program by the United States S atintemenemetienl Marine Band. _. The Post-Dispatch, in carrying out its plan to give the public the promptest and most complete bulletin service on election night, Nov. 5, has arranged for & grand free concert by the United No tickets will be required for admis- sion to the Coliseum. where election re- turns will be given throughout the eve- ning, and where the band, one of the world’s most famous musical organi- zations, will play for two hours and a half. Moving pcitgres also will be shown,! Admission to the balcony and gallery Washington avenue main entrance. .Ad- mission to the arena, or main floor, -vill en to women with escorts. This pref- holding arena seats after other of the house have--been - filled. se boxes will be reserved for public officials, party committeemen and in- vited clergymen and educators. Free Concert for Young People. The announcement of the free concert, moving. picture show and election news display, was greeted Monday by Post- Dispatch readers, and by none more en- husiastically than the thousands of high school, seventh and eighth grade pu- pils, for whom a free matinee concert by the Marine Band has been especiaily provided. This concert will begin at 4 p. m. Tuesday. At this matinee the puplls of the St. Louis high schools, public and parochial, parts grades of public and parochial schools, with their teachers, will be guests of «he Post-Dispatch at the Coliseum. It has been found necessary to limit the .endance to these higher grades, as the street cars could not carry. and the ~oliseum could not contain all the ci'>’s school children. The Post-Dispatch, seeking severe! weeks ago to charter the Coliseum for a display of election bulletins, learned that the United States Marine Band, now on a concert tour of the United States, had engaged the hall for an election night concert. The Post-Dis-. patch then decided to take over the concert for the free enjoyment of thse public. It also took over the matinee performance as a treat to the higher grade schoo] pupils. Those who do not get into the Coli- seum—for the police will not permit overcrowding—can see-the sattie™ bulte=1 tins and moving pictures outdoors in front of the Coliseum. Bulletins and moving -pictures also wi!l be shown -n front of: the Post-Dispatch office on Broadway, and at the Arcade Buildiny. East St. Louis. The United States Marine Band con- sists of 60 pieces, and is known as the “President's Own.”’ It plays in inau gural parades, at the most important White House functions, and on the White House lawn and the Capito! grounds on certain afternoons in sum- mer. The band last was heard in St Louis at the ‘‘official’ opening of th» World’s Fair in 1903, a year before th- fair actually was opened to the public DISLIKES 10 PASS UNDERTAKING Srl? BROTHER UNBURIED Frank McEwen Will Ask Order for Interment After Long } Delay by Widow. Because he finds it uistasteful to pass daily the Olive street undertaking es- tablishment in which his brother’s body unburied, A. Frank Mckwen of tA Waterman avenue, will wobebty | ask the Board of Health to assue an ,order for the burial. His brother, C. H. McEwen of 4659 Morgan street, is .n Sympathy with him in his efforts to bring about the burial, which has been delayed for four months by their 3is- ter-in-law. Mrs. Nellie Bromwell McEwen, widow Ralph McEwen, is visiting in Buffalo. She is said to be uncertain as to her future place of lies have the decides for that reason, that she may body near her wherever she to locate. .t is not uncommon, undertakers say, The brothers’ have not been on cor- dial terms with Mrs. Ralph McEwen She and her hus- band lived In the Euclid Terrace Apart- ments, Euclid avenue and Suburban tracks. Last June Ralph McEwen and his wife went to Denver, and he died there of cirrhosis of the liver. Mrs. Me- Kwen brought the body here, and E. H. ‘MeEwen met his sister-in-law at the Marquette Hotel and asked that she notify him and his brother as to the time of the funeral. She said she would _ do so, but that as she had some affairs to settie, and wished to buy a cemetery lot, she might delay the burial a short Peccsagteiang did not object to this at the but he and his brother now sav Intend to see what can be done to , about an early burial. 8 is the only evening mt. Leute we. peeves. oF , Son, BOY, 3, KILLED B CAR AS HE HUNTS MOTHER IN DARK East St. Louis Lad Eludes Cousin, Ventures Forth, Then Is Struck as He Turns Back. When Mrs. Roge Laws returned to her home at 710 North Sixth street, East St. Louis, late Monday night, from a theater, she learned that her 3-year-old Aubrey, had been run over by a street car in her absence and had died at St. Mary’s Hospital, where both legs had been amputated in an effort to save his life. Mrs. Laws. who is separated from her husband, left the child in the care of Geneva Hendricks, his 8-year-old cousin, who lives in the same house. When it? was time for him to be put to bed the boy’s yearning for his mother became £0 strong that, when his cousin was not Watching, he slipped out of the house’ and started out to find her. He lfad crossed the street When the darkness appalled him and he started back home. An Edwardsville car Was approaching. The child ran on the track. The motorman did not see him until it was too late to avoid running over him. The car knocked him down and the wheels passed over both legs. The crew, aided by firemen of No. Engine House, who had geen the acci- dent, took the boy from under the car. As a firemen held him in hig armns, the child called for his mother and then be- eame unconscious. He was put in a Fire Department buggy and hurried to the hospital. | HOLD UP A TRAIN, FLEE WITH BOOTY They Detach Cars, Take Them Across Blazing Trestle, Get Several Thousan4 Dollars. PURSUED BY rOUR POSSES Robbers Have No Trouble Stop- ping “‘Katy’’ Train After Set- ‘ring Fire to Trestle. By Associated Presa. MUSKOGEER, Ok., Oct. %.—Three youthful robbers held up a southbound missouri, Kansas & Texas train south of ufaula today, compelled the engi- neer to detach the express and baggage cars, and then run them ahead, and then blew up and rifled the express safe. Company officials believe the rob- bers got several thousand dollars. By setting fire to a trestle near Wirth, the bandits had no trouble in flagging the train. Although the flames threatened to destroy the trestle before their work Was accomplished, the robbers moved deliberatelw™ Covering the engineer and fireman with their revolvers, they or- dered them from the cab. J. A. Dolan, the conductor, leaped from a coach and was lined up beside the enginemen. A porter also fell a victim to his curiosity and was made to stand beside the con- ductor. While one robber held the line of em- ployes, the other two uncoupled the en- gine, baggage and express car from the coaches and forced the trainmen into the cab and ordered the engineer to open the throttle. The engine, pull- ing the two cars, shot across the burn- ing bridge. What remained of the struc- ture fell into the water a short time after the cars had passed. Robbers Escape to the Woods, Half a mile on the other side of the bridge the bandits ordered the engineer to stop. The safe in the express car was dynamited and the robbers fled to the woods with their plunder. Posses were sent immediately from Crowder and Eufaula.. Other pursuers started an hour later on special trains {from McAlester and Muskogee. According to the descrip eacht of “the bandits, was less years old. . Two Armfalis of gecetbineted” One of the trainmen says he saw one of the robbers twice make. trips from the express safe, each time with his arms full of sealed packages of currency. erursuers found the outer wrapper of one of these packages which had contained $3500, consigned by -he Southwestern National Bank of Com- merce of Kansas City to the National Bank of Greenville, Texas. ne of the robbers made Conductor J A. Dolan turn over his papers and purse, which contained $10. Later the money was turned back to the cn- ductr with the assurance: ‘‘We don’t wish to harm any of you train boys.’’ SCARLET FEVER FOUND; SCHOOL IS FUMIGATED Dozier Teacher Discovers Pupil With Light Case and Classes Are Dismissed for Afternoon. Discovery of a mild case of scarlet fever at the Dozier school, Goodfellow and Maple avenues, Monday caused th school to be closed for fumigation in the afternoon. It was reopened Tuesday morning with a normal attend- ance. Osborn Cutter, 10 years old, son of George F. Cutter, 6146 Kingsbury ave- nue, was the fever patient. The chil: had not been feeling well for several days, but did not appear.sick enough to remain away from school. A teach- er noticed a slight irruption on his face about noon and called attention to it. He was sent home and a doctor diag- nosed his illness as a light form of scar- let fever... The school was dismissed about 1:30. Dr. James Stewart, super- intendent of hygiene, notified the Board of Health. The rooms were closed tightly, all desks, closets and books were left open, rand the building wa« filled with the fu- migation gases. After five hours the windows were opened and fans started They were kept running all night. By the time for school to reopen the build- ing was again warm and the air was free of any taint of gases. DETAILS MORGAN ROBBERY NEW YORK, Oct. 29.—John Bernau- er, the youthful Bavarian who robbed the residences of J. P. Morgan Jr. and other wealthy persons of thousands of collars’ worth of jewelry, related in court the story of his burglaries, de- claring he was under the hypnotic spell of an old “pal.”’ Bernauer was sentenced to from five to ten years in Sing Sing prison. He Loasted in court of how he stole into the very room where Morgan was asleep, and ransacked the financier’s RAE A ee te a te dresser. ——— oe ee foreign display advertising in the St. Louis papers Monday POST-DISPATCH alone 26 Columns papers ee All the other 4 daily added together ‘Circulation last Sunday : — stn a tt Se ee ie ei, eee a a ee Si inhi nat Deets [BOYS BUR IROGE l MRS c SHERMAN SUFFERS |: RELAPSE AFTER A RESTFUL NIGHT Kidney Trouble Again Weakens Him, but Doctor. Denies Im- mediate Danger. A 4% LIGA, N. Y., Oct. 29—After a. rest- ful night and a generally tmproved con- cition, which continued well into the forenoon, Vice-President Sherman this afternoon suffered a recurrence of the Gistressing conditions which marked his case yesterday. Dr. Peck, Mr. Sherman’s attending physician, just after he had left the house today, was hurriedly recalled. He found the Vice-President again suf- fering from an aggravation of his kid- two hours. When he left he admitted the ex- tremely critical condition of Mr. Sher- but he gave assurance to the family that there was no danger of a serious termination in the immedi- ate future. The Vice-President passed a restful night, and Dr. Peck stated this morning that his patient was in better condition that he had been at any other time in the last four days. He could not say that the critical danger had passed, or give any assurance as to whai might follow in the case of %ne so weakened by, and suffering with the complica- tions surrounding the Vice-President. However, he felt some encouragement. “The Vice-President may live a day, a week or a year,’ declared one friend, who has been in attendance at the bed- side. Dr. Peck admitted that his distin- guished patient has entered the shadow, although he is now quite comfortable. He has been suffering from a heart af- fection, a softening of the muscles of the organ. Besides that, he has been afflicted with hardening of the arteries, a complaint of the kidneys and a ge- vere attack of gall stones. Must Delay Operation. An immediate operation for the latter ailment is necessary, his physicians say, but the Vice-President’s condition will not permit the using of the knife at this time. “Mr. Sherman has been very sick al! summer,’ Dr. Peck said, ‘and about four days ago he suffered a relapse. Mr. Sherman had an attack in the Adi- rondacks at Big Moose in June, and I expected him to die. He got out of Big Moose safely and improved steadily and very satisfactorily, until the latter part of August. Since then his condition hay been aggravated and he has been steail- ily failing. “For the last three weeks, since he came back from Connecticut, where he went to rest, he has been dressed only once, and that Was a week ago Friday, when, against my protest, he went out to the polls to register. “Mr. Sherman is now in the condition which that sort of trouble leads to and is very seriously ill, but there is, I be- lieve, no immediate danger of death." Text of Morning Baliectin. The early morning bulletin frum the Vice-President’s bedside read: “From midnight until about 5:30 o'clock Mr. Sherman had a quiet, undisturbed sleep. He is now resting quietly 7” feeling very much better; in fact: physically and mentally much improved. 7] ‘The serious symptoms of the last few days have disappeared and the patient now ts very comfortable.”’ © PAID ctrentation ete Louts im St. EI, PROPS eR es 28° Tt a oe we ney trouble and remained with him for. 4 ' : ' | VICE BRELIDEDS WHOSE ILLNESS CAUSES ALARM, HIS WIFE AND UE Savnonre . LINEOINST WASH EY aS THEIR THREE SOAS eet Fant. SHERMAN To Fill Sherman’s Place Would Be a Problem WASHINGTON, Oct. HE illness of Vice- esti T Sherman and speculation over the. possibilities of his with- drawal from the Republican ticket. because of the precarious condition of his health, aroused discussion here today over the probable meth- ods of filling his place. The gen- eral opinion expressed was that the Republican National Committee or the Executive Committee possessed power to fill a vacancy upon the ticket. Should a vacancy, occur on the Republican ticket, either before or after election, some Republican leaders here today argued*the elec- tors would have power to vote for any candidate for Vice-President they might: choose, Precedents were admitted to be lacking, but it was declared that only party dis- cipline and honor had in the past bound electors to vote for their party nominees. No one suggested, however, that a choice by the Re- publican National Committee or its Executive Committee would fail to receive the support of the Taft electors. Ordinarily, should Vice-President, the President pro tem of the Senate would preside _ over that body and the line of suc- cession to the presidency would be to the Secretary of State. For the last several months, however, the present Senate has been unable tv agree on a President pro tem and that office has been vacant. there be no a _ ~~. FAIR TONIGHT AND TOMORROW; COOLER TEWPERATURES ES eae mm... inoeon) THE Yesterday's Temperatures. High. .75 at 3 p. m. Low. .54 at 6 a. m. Something ap- peared to zo wrong in the of- ficial forecasts for Tuesday. Accord- ing to earlier pre- dictions, a rain- storm was headed this way and was scheduled to break over St. Louis Tuesday aticernoon or Wednesday. A revised predic- tion hiter sent out is that the weath- er for the next & hours will be fair, with lower tem- perature. Frost and fair weather | are predicted for most of Missouri ABDUL HAMIO JUST SITS BACK AND FOPPISH BURGLAR, HUNGRY, CAUGHT IN “GROCERY AT 2A. ML Night Police Clerk at: Page Sta- tion Captures Robber, Neatly Dressed and Gloved. John J. Burke, night clerk in the Page Boulevard Police Station, was sent out to catch a burgiar at 2:3 a, m. Tues- day, there being no patrolman availabie at the moment. He caught the burglar. The burglar. whom Burke found crouching behind sacks of flour In Con- rad's grocery at 1121 Union. boulevard, was Paul Lemke, a bartender, two weeks out of work and hungry. He said, when he was fed at the station later, that ft was his first meal since Sunday morning. He said he called on Pauline Tulman, a cook, at her place of employment, 5081 Raymond avenue, Monday nigh, and that he sat starving near the pan- try door, being too proud to tell her that he needed food. Sergeant Takes Clerk. A telephone message received at the station in what is usualy the quietest hour of the 24, gave the information that a burglar had been seen entering the Conrad store. Sergt. Gibbons started out, but there Was no patrolman to go with him, and he drafted Night Clerk Burke, who was more than willing to go. Gibbons took his stand at the front door of the store, and sent Burke to the rear. The clerk saw a barrel under i j}the bars back, pulle the transom and, standing on it, found that the padlock holding the bars over the transom had beenfore-d. He pushed iself up and slipped through the is. om. Lighting on his feet inside the store, he struck a match and turned on an electric light. There was his man, vainiy tryiag to hide behind the flour sacks a few feet away. Burke jerked out his re volver and leveled it at the man, and a minute later had him at the front door. Opening the door from within, he turned his prisoner over to the waiting sergeant. Lemke wore a blue suit of g00d qual- ity and stylish cut. a clean cullar and neckule of good quality, and had a kid glove. on one hand, while fts mate |}was in the pocket of his slip-on rain- coat: “Why didn't you pawn | your good clothes?” he was esked, when he told his tale of hunger. “These aren't my. beat clothes.” ne re pited. “I have pawned my best ones.’ His last place of employment, he Singer, Battiniote manic who stoped” early this month with ‘a street car con- ductor, was robbed and murdered early today in a rooming house at 322) In- diana avenue. William R. Worthen, . was to have married Miss Pinger returned to the rooming house atte midnight. Several hundred dollars cash and jewelry belonging to the here wife who oceupied a suite in the howse appeared. Miss Singer had been bound and gagged and struck with terrifie tore with a “billy,” made of an tron knob wrapped in a handkerchief, the actor, Charles Db. Conway, { had displayed. Her body was - ——— on the bed in the ae v8 as Beatrice Rial’ and May The. Conways, Micnaenegin ing. With the Povevahinen of | search for them. Cénwdy is a diver, whose right leg has been: tated below the kriee. New Garments in Her The police searched Miss trunks and in adjoining rooms Ie through the effects of Worthen. Int girl's tvunks Were some new § which, the flance said, were to ments. “She did not want me to jeave alone last night,” he said, “but T some matters to be looked after | I wanted to have them out of the so’ nothing need interrupt our moon, “T can’t go back to Baltimore This may kill her mother and it will break my father’s heart. He and admired Sophia. We were back right after the wedding W day."’ | Actors Got Couple to Meve.. According to Worthen, Miss was an acquaintance cf Mra... who was known to her as Miss and it was through the latter’s t tion that he and his sweetheart we room at the same house. The moved into the rooms where ¢he murder was committed only yesterday, had previously lived a few blocks f north on the same street. Wi told the police he had paid the xpense of the Conways as well as these oR, | self and Miss Singer at the house since joining them. ay Worthen, who was held by the po lice, declared that before leaving | house last night he handed his then went down town. it Was 1’ night when he returned toe fh house and found the hallway in. order. He aroused others in the b reapeated pounding on the ing that Miss Singer was not “> apartment. A key finally Was furnished by Julia McCarthy, keeper of the apparent. The money he had : the woman was missing as well i several articles of jewelry, | robbery as a probable motive for 4 murder. A stained trail led to the 1 | which the four had the use of 4} there the table and floor bere | dence of crime. A door Knob with @ piece of fron attached for a kno’ the other end, lay of or wrapped in a stained q said, was a saloon at Laclede end Ewing avenues. There, he maid, het, «ents ae ee ® week, and h te ig ea sr —— eee Be atte ied ¥ an _ a ye = y, i ee ¢ oP Some morrow, discovered the body vee the police immediately began « wide. Deer Knop Used as “Bitty.” * the Baltimore conductor, who saye he — ess were missing, and an actor and hig’ é 5 with Worthen and his fiancee had df ne - 25 ag Bc? a See | *@ $48 in the presence of the Conways af ee leading to the Conway room after — and the door was opened. A crime was ea. - Aorseigire ee ney ene ten poe dei rx. Z. A ~ nS eee ph 2) ai vs hcaatig Naa Foe oh eal te sae sain eee