St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 11, 1912

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ROLLS PEANUT 2 HOURS WITH HEAVY CROWBAR Charlies \Dunham, Maplewood Butcher; Diverts 500 as He Pays Election Bet. The freak election bet had a hilarious inning Sunday in Maplewood when Charles Dunham, a butcher, dressed in a gingham Mother Hubbard and wearing a pink sun bonnet, managed by the aid of a heavy crowbar to roll one peanut down the street for two blocks. A crowd of 600 men, women and children followed him. Dunham had nursed the delusion that President Taft would be re-elected. Dan- jel Gregory, proprietor of the Maple- wood loop store, being a Woodrow Wil- son supporter, differed much and often with his|townsman. The result of thir many arguments was the making of a wager that the one who failed to pick the presidential winner would roll a pea- nut with a crowbar for two blocks It took Durham two hours to pay his bet.

RUCTION OVER TIN CANS Policeman. Exonerated in Con- troversy With Owner of Lot. Tin cans in a vacant lot at 1907 La Galle street caused a controversy be- tween Patrolman Walter H. Strother and Julius W. Koch of 207 Victoria Building and resulted in an investigation by Sergt. Logal of Central Station and lengthy police reports which exonerate the patrolman. | Koch wrote the police relative to the tin cans, saying he believed they came from the Strother home. He said the lot was made to look like a dumping eround and he did not care to have any property belonging to him appear a nui- sance, It appeared that, Strother formerly oc- cupied the premises, 1805 La Salle street, belonging to Koch, and that he was per- mitted to use the vacant ground adjoin- ing. Recently he moved to 1809 La Salle street. He said he moved his property from the lot and was not responsible for the cans which had been thrown on the ground.

More city salesmen or men to do the house-to-house work may solve your problem for bigger sales—and a Post- require. VOL. 65. NO. 83. HOCKIN HELD OUT suit cases, departed for Cleveland, reach-.

Dispatch want ad wil: bring the men wr EXPLOSION FEES, SAYS. MPMANIGAL Tells Jury Union Official Didn't Give Him Within $500 of What Board Allowed: POINTS OUT PAYMASTER Indicates to Court Defendant, Who, He Swears, Had Money for Him in Detroit. Br Associated Press. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., Nov. 11.—Going | PISTOL, NOT LOVE MADE HER PROMISE T0 WED, GIRL SAYS Insists Business Partner Who Caused Her Father to Shoot, Exerts Peculiar Influence. WON'T MARRY, SHE SAYS He Is Locked Up in Clayton— Both Father and Daughter Appear Against Him. that Bratton exercises a strange pow- er over her, compelling her to admit that she loves him, although she does not love him at all. Bratton was arrested Sunday at Nor- mandy after he had fled from the Hei- .™man home on a motor cycle. “He says that Jacob Heiman, the girl’s fathw, saw him passing the house and fired two shots at him with a revolver. > Heiman says he fired in the air to at- tract the attention of Constable Miller. caused Bratton’s arrest when he ap- peared there on his motor cycle. Bratton was locked -up.in-. jail at--Clayton, ac- cused of disturbing the peace, Heiman, Miss Heiman and Justice Get- termeier went to Clayton in the after- noon. after Miss Helman’s affidavit Gettérmeier issued a warrant charging Bratton with flourishing a deadly weap- on, a felony, and set the preliminary hearing for Saturday. Girl Says She Fears Partner. Miss Heiman was pale and trembled violently as she affixed her signature to the affidavit. she was mortally afraid of Bratton. She feared he would be released on bond to confront her before she could leave the courthouse. “Mr. Bratton has frequently asked me to marry him,’’ she said. ‘I had writ- ten him not to come to see me any more, that I was determined to break off our acquaintance. On election day, after he had gotten this letter, he came to my home. He drew a revolver and said he would kill me if I did not promise to marry him. I promised and then he in- sisted that I ask my father.” “She was trembling and excited when she came to me,” the father broke in. “She said: ‘Please, please let me mar- ry him.’ I said no. I told Bratton he had no job, no position, and. couldn't support her. But I said if she loved him she could marry him whenever he could make a living for her. “My daughter has an addressing com- pany downtown, All he has done is to let her do the work, and he takes what money he can get. She shall never mar- ry him, now.” “I never, never will!” the young wom- an added. While waiting Monday morning for a reply to his message of inquiry for a bondsman, Bratton told a Post-Dis- patch reporter his story sf the trouble with Heilman. “I am going to marry Miss Rosa Hei- man of Florissant,” he said. “I am going to marry her, whether her father likes ‘itor not. All the same, I am not going to take another chance on being shot, for the pregent “TI met Miss Heiman last winter, skat- ing on Lafayette Park Lake. We be- came engaged, and four months ago she went into my business with me—an ad- dressing business in room 45 of the De Menil Building. Under our agreement the business became known as the Hei- man Addressing Co. She did the active office work and I went outside and got -| business. “T went to seé her father a week ago Saturday, and learned then that he ob- jected to our marriage. I offered to give him an interest in my business, and he sec ‘ed satisfied at that time, but on election day he sent me word that Rosa was sick, and when I went there to see her he refused to let me in, and said it was all off. Denies Disturbing Peace. “Yesterday I went to Florissant on business, and rode past the house on my motor cycle. I wasn’t trying to see Rosa, but Heiman saw me, and be- gan firing at me. Of course I got away as fast I 14." Bratton said he did not know why he should be charged with disturbing the peace. He declared he had not lost his temper at the time of his last in- terview with Heiman. The office at 45 De Ment .pullding was vacant Monday. It was siated that no one had been there since Wednesday. A sister of Rosa Hieman used to help her with the work, it was said. AUTO JUST BOUGHT RUNS DOWN PEDESTRIAN A few minutes after Mrs. E. N. Wal-

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MOTHER IN. WILD PURSUIT OF CHilLD IN Tht GITY RALL Runs After Woman With Whom She Left Girl, but They Finally Get Away. Dragging 6-year-old Fay Jourdenn by the hand, Mrs. Myria Klippert of 6912 Waldemar avenue fled through the ‘first floor corridor of the city hall at 9 a. m. Monday, hotly pursued by Mrs. Annie Jourdenn of Springfield, Il., the mother of the child. This chase was an unex- pected prelude to habeas corpus pro- ceedings brought by Mrs. Jourdenn against Mrs. Klippert which were set for Judge Allen’s court, Accompanied by Mrs, Lilian Stephens of 6665 Mitchell avenue, Mrs. Kulip- pert got off a Manchester car at Twelfth and Market streets and started for che Juvenile Court, In which she has filed suit to.have the child given to her and to have her mother declared unfit for her custody. Mother Catches Sight of Them. The two women and the child were crossing the street when Mrs. Jourdenn, who was standing on the corner, caught sight of them. With a scream of ‘‘My baby!” the mother started in pursvfit. Mrs. Klippert and Mrs. Stephens, holding Fay by either hand, started to run. Half carrying and half dragging the child, the /two women fled up the stairs to the main entrance of the city hall and raced down the corridor. They dart- ed into one office after another, shriek- ing for a policeman. At last their turn- ings and windings threw Mrs. Jourdenn off the trail. Before she could recover it, a city hall employe directed Mrs. Klippert to Pol Headquarters, where she apfealed to Sergt. Joseph Alexander. He detailed Policeman John Shehan to escort them to Judge*Allen’s court. Mrs. Kiippert told a Post-Dmetch reporter that eight weeks aku Mra. Jourdenn, stating she was separated from her husband, a Chicago abys)- clan, was unable to provide for her child, gave Fay to her for adoption. She bought clothes for the little girl and grew to _ her, she said. She and her husband, she stated, were preparing to adopt her legally. But last Friday Mrs. Jourdenn ap- peared at her home and demanded that she surrender Fay. Mrs. Jourdenn was repulsed and departed without her — * —— — ⁊ * go. Rea —* Rene oe — [not in a gambling room. | > mi Wao mace: on 20} a ee a re ae” CREED eat

FAY” JOURDENN ONE MAN HOLDS UP d GAMBLERS, Gt 15 AWAY WITH $#000 Staunton’ (Ill.) Robber Rakes Silver Off Craps Table and Goes Through Pockets.

A “gun man,” wearing a handkerchief over his face as a mask, walked alone into a gambling room where nine men were shooting craps at Staunton, IIL, 50 miles northeast of St. Louis, at 11:30 p. m, Sunday, lined the players against the wall and got away with nearly $1000. — He took $750 in silver from the gam- bling tables and about $20 from she pockets of the players. The game was at fies hetght whats the robber entered through a rear door. He was quick. tae his revolver, he cried: ‘*Faces to the wall and hands up.” As he moved forward the players re- treated to the wall and turned their backs to him. They heard the robber raking the sfl. ver off the tables and dropping it into his pockets or a sack, they are not sure which: - Then they felt his nimble fin- gers going through their clothing. Ho took only their money and did not seem to eare for jewelry. “Now where is the paper money kept?” he said. 2 “One of the gamblers replied: ‘It's al- ways kept in the saloon, downstairs.’ “The robber did not visit the saloon, but crept down the back staircase and bery from becoming known, but the details were taken to Edwardsville by in Staunton Sunday night. he had obtained statemen ts from sev- eral of the craps | -* = — —————— whites. it is said, are white. Forty-two have serious injuries and 50 are slightly hurt. railroad company placed the blame of, the. wreck on a brakeman named Cun- iningham, who was charged with failure to signal the freight train. : Tue excursion train, hauled by ne engines, left New Orleans at ll p. Whit: and Negro Rescuers Badly E ing Feopte of Opposite’ Race, Mood

By Asenlabie Press. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 11—A wreck, in which at perhaps 30 persons were killed and more than 90 were curred on the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroa La., 27 miles north of New Orleans, early today, vhen 1 freight train erpehed into the rear of an excursion t ognchen: — “Five of the — of the passenger train were | Pose: | some persons may have been cremated. Fourteen be p covered soon after the wreck.

Of the 14, nine were negroes‘and five Of the injured, the majority, Brakeman Is Blamed. An official statement issued by - the be nt from New Or-: Relief trains were ; Thirty of the Passengers Were Missiasippians. The majority of the persons on the Virtually every occupant of the rear White men risked their lives to save from the rapidly

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