St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 12, 1912

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oi 2. X * J J ee % - ah. é — bi ‘ 3 ¥ me 8 * * * * L | . Lo Broker Tells Senate Com- | - mittee Scope of Day’s Busi- | ness in Wall Street. ee BORROWING BY *PHONE nquiry’ Brings Out Stock Ex- : ee Rule Against Trades : jibe the Consolidated. J BS. J {By Assoctatea ; — Dec. 12.—Half a doz- ‘@ members ‘of the Consolidated Ex- “4 e+ change, including President Migue] de Aguero, told the House Money Trust Committee today that under the rules o the New York Stock Exchange they - absolutely prohibited from doing any business with members of that or- + bE , and charged that their busi- * pes haa been curtailed by the prohibi- “The ‘committee also heard several (paved brokers, operating in the “loan - growa” on the New York Stock HEx- - @hange, who testified that an enforced 0 rate of interest would prevent the movement of money toward New York roe country banks, when the money _ Was needed at home points. ~, Samuel Untermyer, the committee's 3 counsel, next called to the stand Frank ) XK. Sturgis of the New York Stock Ex- > ‘ehange. He was the fifst of the wit- : — from the exchange, and was to ng, and as to the speculative —2 said. J. H. Gries«-) of “Griesael & Rogers, New York, ‘‘S% 500,900 or $4,000,000 is loaned’ within 15 cr 10 ** this volume of transacti ns as a basis for rates on ronewal , I have lent sometimes $20,'00.- * $25,000,000. a day and »orrowel ~ $15,000,000 on a single cay. I rt ix, high as $35,000,000. I repre- — er, father than the — I get te, dere· J⸗ Sear or, =, “Tie ert ‘n't A eee | * at * — — ams dream last night,” said Mr. W. at the breakfast table. ‘What was it like?” asked Mrs. “Well, I thought I saw a very stout lady, dressed in dark red velvet, all ‘trimmed with of a bonnet. she wore ¢ funny lLit- tle cap,. trimmed with fur. She got out of a sleigh, drawn by six reindeer, and she walked dowh our street carry- ing a big banner.” “That was funny. What was on the banner?’ “VOTES FOR ETTES.”’ Official forecast for St, Louis sad vicinity: Fair t and Friday; rising temperature Friday; lowest tonight about 20 degrees. Missouri—Fair tonight and Friday; ris- ing .temperature. Illinoise—Fair temperature. SAFE CRACKERS FAIL “TO ANNOY WATCHMAN Work on Empty Strongbox in Grain Office When He Re- ports “All’s Well.” When the nightwatchman employed by the Luehrmann Hay and Grain Co. was making his rounds of the warehouse at 101 and 107 Monroe street Wednesday night, safe crackers with hammer and chisel were busy in the office trying to pry the hinges from the big money vault. ‘ The watchman, unaware of the pres- ence of the robbers, continued his rounds, and at 7 a. m. Thursday, sound- ed his final “all's well’’ signal and went home, tired after a hard night’s work. At.8 a..m. Thursday, George Lang, bookkeeper, went to the safe to, get his books and discovered the attempted rob- bery. The combination had been‘ pound- éd and: the tops of the’ hinges. had been ‘battered off but the big door was in- tact. SANTA CLAUS- tonight and Friday; rising He}. after an expert safe’ handler” had Nik SRO e bond issue. gn sips and the’ Morgan company,” be , . * 20,000,000 at.20 Per Cent. _PAny ‘record as to how much money i lent. ‘on Nov. 2%, when call money me ae 1 for thé Chase National Bank?” that — would accept Central than Steel com- He said that k banks loaning for out-of-town 11): h they are lending. bat Would be the result of fxing| —— sald that the bank he * sents never charged more than 6 or nt on loans no matter what the’ X eget ex- make known the banks ty| Gpened the door the contents of the safe nd were found to be intact, No metiey had Som lett: in: the’ pate. — — SENATE TRYING TO KEEP ‘WOMEN WITNESSES: OUT: | tt Typists in Archbald Case Tes- ) tify Tradition of Chamber — Would Be Broken. WASHINGTON, Dec. 12.—House man- agers today announced they would try to make out their impeachment case against Judge Archbald of the Com- merce Court without subjecting Miss Mary Boland and Miss Anna Black- more, stemographeérs, to the ordeal of testifying befcre the Senate. -. Should either take the stand it. would be the tirst time—in recent: years at least—that a woman's voice has been heard in the Senate Chamber. Quick ee a of the remaining * regard td the part : is alleged to have had in the lease of the Sneriandoah culm his trip to Europe and the discounting of the “Honduras note.”’ FROST-BITE SEASON OPENS ' Charles Green, # years old, is the ‘first patient to be treated for frozen toes at the city hospital this season. He said he had been working in Litch- field, Tll., and that on his way back to ‘St..Louls he slept Tuesday night in the open air. His toes did not pain greatly, he said, -until after his return to his lodging house, 322 South Second street, the fol- lowing evening. Thursday he went to ‘the hospital. — —— white fur. Instead : also’ Lank from the Lehigh Valley Coal Co.,~ ST, LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 12, 1912—24 PAGES. es ü— |MAN UNJUSTLY- ACCUSED OF BIGAMY, SECOND _ |i} WIFE, AND ACCUSER WHOM HE DIVORCED)” BERNERO BOY * LOSES WILL SUIT FOR $1,000,000 Judge Muench Dismisses It Bas- ‘ing Decision of Hammurabi Code, 2185 B. $e POINT .NEW: IN. MISSOURI Court Says Son of Adopted Son Cannot Inherit After Death of His Father. The, legal code of the great Babylon- ian King, Hammurabi.’ who died 2185 Bb. C., is one of the authorities on which . Judge Muench of the Circuit Court based a decision by which, Thurs- day, he dismissed the suit of $-year-old Louis Bernero to set aside the will governing the disposal of the $1,000,000 estate left by Mrs. Theresa L. Bernero, who died July 15, 1911. The boy is the son of Emanuel Berne- ro, adopted son of Mrs. Theresa Ber- nero and her husband, Louis Bernero. ‘The sult was brought by his mother, Mrs. Larraine T. Bernero, of 5049 Ma- ple avenue, as best friend. Judge Muench’s. decision is that’ ine child of an adopted child has no rignts as an heir after the adopted child is dead. The relation of the gran ‘icniid to the adoptor is contractorial, rather than a blood: relation, he holds. This is the first. tims, he says, that this precise point has been adjudicated in Missouri. Arguments in the case were made two months ago and Judge Muench has been consulting legal au- thorities ever sincs to get a'‘basis for his decision. The defendants in the suit were Mrs. Theresa Bernero’s sister, Mrs. Clotilda Longinotti, and Mrs. Longinotti’s 11 children, to whom ths bulk of the es- tate was wiled; several charitable insti- tutions to which minor bequests were made and the St. poms Union Trust Co:, executor. To. little A Bernero wins be- | queathed $10,000, to be used in educating iim in, Catholic schools, Anything re- maining dfter his education was com- pleted was to be turned over to him. The boy's attofneys contented thal Ke, as son and. heir of Emanuel Bernero, whb died about two years ago, Was en-' ititled to the bulk of the estate. — They ‘alleged that Theresa Bernero had a hallucination that complete. contro! of the estate would’ fall to Mrs.’ Lorraine Bernero, and that the testator was in- fluenced by her sister; Mts: Longinotti. An adopted child, says Judge’ Muench itn his: décision, ig an heir onjy on condition that he survives the adoptor. If he dies before the adopt- or, his descendants, not being related by blood to the testator, cannt claim any of the adoptor’s —“ the Judge holds. Plea in Abatement. The defense, with its motion for dis- missal, filed a plea in abatement,, ar- guing along the line of the present de- cision. If the will were set aside, the attorney’s pointed out, the boy would lese his $10,000, besides being unable to share in the estate... .This is. the view held by Judge Muench, The Sypreme Court recently decided against the boy in a suit against the same defendants to quite title to prop- erty at Ninth street and Washington} avenue. 400. CADETS ARE PUNISHED ANNAPOLIS, Md., Dec. 12.—Punish- ment, consisting of demerits and de- privation of a]! ~.tvileges for the rest of the academ* year, was assigned today to the #00 midshipmen who were -found to have violated Supt. Gibbons’ order for bidding betting on the recent inter- service football game at Philadelphia. It is understood the youths practical- ly confessed to having “participated in the information of a $2000 pool to wager with the West Point Cadets on the re- sult of the garne., . Here is what’ advertisers in the — Post-Dispatch get for their money —⸗ (sunday, October 20 301,067 i TT DRAWS CUPIDS: AS WIFE TESTIFIES AT DIVORGE TRIAL Artist -Who Wants Reconcilia- tion, Hears Her Tell About His Being Intoxicated. SHE DENIES IMPROPRIETY Humiliated Her at Times When They Had Guests. + Artist Ralph Chesley Ott, with his evercoat thrown artistically across his shoulders, sat penciling tiny sketches of cupia faces, while his wife, Jane Schaufert Ott, testifisced in her divorce suit against him in Judge Hitchcock's division of the Circuit Court Thursday. He asks that her petition be set aside | if she will change her ways. The Otts were marmed Feb. 5, 1910, and separated Aug. 14 of this - year. Their two children are with Ott's parents in Springfield, Mo. . Mrs. Ott testified that her husband turning with her and the children from Beaver, Ark., got off the . train at Springficid, taking the children. with brim. she had not seen the children since, she said. . Tells Story of Drinking. petition, which is that Ott drank to excess, Mrs. Ott said that on one occasion when she and her husband visited her parents, intending tv spend only the evening, they were compelled to pass the night there, because Ott was so intoxicated he was unable to go home. Three weeks later, when. on another visit’ at her parents’ home, Ott refused to drink the wine served at dinnér, she’ said; but called for whisky with the result that after dinner he. had to go to sléep. One evening in April 1910, he returi:ed the eoffee percolator from the tabie, spilling hot pores on her gowa. told ‘ter a was trying to get him to his feet. Ars, Ott gaid the man was her husband and that she induced the policeman to heip Anitm into the house, instead of taking — ‘to the station. ii April and May of 1910 Ott frequently gave money tovhis wife to leave aiin, she testified, but always -took it back. He gave a diamond ring to hev. for Christmas that year, she said, but made her return it to the jeweler, as he wad ‘not paid for it. Says She Was Ordered Ont. On Jan. 19, 1912 when Mrs. Ott and her sister returned from a walk, she said Ott was stretched out ‘on a bed and under the influence of liquor. When she remonstrated with him, she said, he ordered her and her sister from the house. In March, 1912, while they were enter- taining friends at dinner Ott struck his wife in the face with a napkin, she tes- tified, and threw articles of furniture about the house, much to her humilia- tion. When her attorney asked Mrs. Ott if her husband ever helped with the house- work when they were keeping house at 1363 Semple avenue, Ott’s attorney ob- jected, telling the Court he did not be- lieve housework on the part of a hus- band was part of the hymenial contract. Under cross-examination by Attorney Douglas Robert Mrs. Ott denied that her father had ever put her out of the house or that she was in the habit of frequenting cafes ond dance halls. She said she went occasionally te some of the high-class cafes and that she at- tended a dance about two weeks ago, but that she did not make a practice of indulging in that sort of pleasure. In regard to John Austin Burk of Ok. ‘ahoma City, who was mentioned ag “Pinky,” Mrs. Ott said that she went herseback riding with him at Eureka Springs, but that her husband was along. She last saw ‘‘Pinky,”’ she said, at Mo- nett, Mo. He rode on the train with her ind Ott from Beaver. She called him “Pinky,”’ she said, because others re- ferred to him by that name. She de nied holding his hand on the train and said it was not true that her husband bad remonstrated with her for doing so. ‘Plaintiff is Vetied. Mrs. Ott was attired in black broad- cioth and a small hat set off with a white feather. She wore a veil. In his answer to his wife's petition, Ott denies that he ever drank to excess. He contender his wife was not affection- ate, and that whenever they quarreled she would threaten to accept attentions from other men to disgracs him. DRINKS ACID AND LEAVES SCRAWL OF FAREWELL Wiliam ———— 48 ‘years old, ‘a peddler’s héiper, wag found dead Thurs- Gay Morning in a shed in the rear of } 2837 Indiana‘ avenue, with an empty car- bolic acid ‘bottle by his side.. On a piece of paper was scrawled: “Third and Ex- - Tchange avéndes, East St. Louis: Motb- er ‘rid sisters, I am bidding you gene: { Declares He Upset Furniture and | and offers to become reconciled to her, | when re- | Concerning the main charge in her ) home intoxicated, she said, and knocke/] i thé back porch ana that a — at the : ] mobile. Mrs. Wallace and Mrs. — ee res — —— 8 MRS.MARIE WALLACE. ABS “BIGAMIST” ONLY TO DISCOVER SHE'S ADIVORCEE Mrs. Marie Wallace Traps Man she Once Wed, After Waiting Hours at CFRIARS. — — After Mrs. Marie Wallace had trapped Willam R.. Wallace in a De Baliviere avenue — and had caused Hit to in, & pole. ‘station, ie bigamy,” it was © estab- lished Thursday afternoon that he law- pfully was.divorced from :her. — patch from Wichita, Kan., in reply to a message of inquiry, says Wallace ob- tained a divorce there Sept. %, 1911, on allegations of extreme cruelty, threats, neglect of wifely’ duties and intoxica- tion.. Service in the case was by publi- cation. Wallace was married here Oct. 12, last, to Miss Irene Swanson of Galesburg, Ill. They ‘live at the Rappahannock Apartments, 714 Clara avenue. The printing of Wallace's name in a marriage license list started the first wife’ on the search which ended when Wallace drove his automobile Wednes- day evening into the garage where she and a detective were awaiting him. . At the Page Boulevard Station he de- nied the chargé of bigamy, and said that, being divorced,. he did not see how he could be held for wife abandonment. He gave bond, Thursday morning. The second Mrs. Wallace, when seen at the apartments, declared she would make the first wife “look like 30 cents.’ “She came here yesterday with a spe- cia) officer,"’ the second wife said, “and the officer’ said, in a very. theatrical way, ‘Mrs. Wallace, permit me to intro- duce’ Mrs. Wallace.’ .He ‘may ° have thought I: would! faint, ,but I- didn’t,’ for I rather expected to hear from her fn some such way, I told her I had noth- officer to the Circuit ,Attorney’s, office, and Mr.. Rudolph said that.if what I said was true, there:could be no bigamy case.” Y %2 , The first wife is 22 years old, and lives with her mother, Mrs. Margaret Manion, at 3641 Rutger street. Mrs. Manion told a reporter of the marriage, of. Wallece’s ceparture and of the search. The wife later told the same story as she waited, the charge. Assistant Circuit Attorney Rudolph withheld issuance of a bigamy warrant, pending investigation of Wal- lace’s divoree story, but issued a war- rant charging abandonment. Mrs. Manion said her daughtcor wes 18 years old when she married Wallice, then agent for a picture-enlarging cun- cern. He used to: travel through coun- try districts taking orders. At ftl.e Liine $600 from the mother-in-law, ut jater paid back $40. There was trouble bet ween huabant and wife, Mrs. Manion sai, and’ the wife once sought a: divorce, but. Judge Withrow refuecd to grant a decree, and advised the pair to become -reconcile(, and they did. She later filed another suit, but withdrew it. f In June, 1910, the mother said, Wallace went out, ostensibly on one of his ular out-of-town trips, and aid not re- abandonment ——— him, but the’ paliee did not find him. A sister, Mrs. Irene Linders of oan Alice avenue, learned that Wallace hs — eta ome Sa that he Rappahannock: and bad an visited eight garages before they f So oe shoe Sone tot ae at ee eee oe A dispatch received by _ the Post-Dis- | : ing to say to her, but. I went with the. in the Circuit Attorney’s office, to press of the marriage, she said, he bo¢rowcd | 6: INCH CIRL LICENSED TO WED Giantess to Be Matron of. Honor at Culmination of Romance of the Sideshow. f A romance of the circus sideshow reached its climax, in St. Louis: Thurs- day when Jack W. C, Barnett of Rox- boro, N. C., 21 years did, 38 inches high and weighing % po Wis, got a license to marry Miss Do “David Warfield of 2938 Pine street, 19 years old, about & feet 8 inches in height and weighing 13 pounds. Mrs. H. L. Morrisp 7 feet 4 inches tall and weighing 126 pounds, was to be ma- tron of honor, the couple announced, and. her husband, a man or ordinary size, was selected as best man. Bridegroom Lifted to Window. Barnett had to be lifted upon a high stool when he was called on to sign the j application, for a license at the city hall. With the stool beneath him, he stood with his head about on a level {with that of his. bride-to-be. Since Barnett was 16 years old he has traveled with the sideshows of various circuses, he told a Post-Dispatch re- porter. He is now with the Barnum & Bailey show, during the exhibition sea- son. In the sideshow ‘of the same circus, Miss Warfield, until last April a’ high school: girl of Baltimore, does a “mys- tery act.” She is placed in a cabinet but when the curtains are pulled back, Barnett explained, she is not there. Then flowers. begin growing from a vase which stands on a tabidé in and finally Miss Barnett’s 4 shoulders appear, as if erogfing out of the bouquet. They Get $106 a feck. Barnett gets $75 a week and Miss War-i | field gets 330, they said. Mrs. Mortis is the’ “giantess” of tho sideshow her husband is a ticket taker. TF in — — J wi a F hee > r Eg y i ; 7 a g ris’ ks Beds * — = ae: # WB, * 5 PRICE ONE CENT. fiy. wheel at, the plant of the St, E ed Be 4 IRENE ‘ WALLACE MAN ON SPINNING FLY WHEEL SAVED BY HOLDING FAST|=: Victor Chauvanne on Still Ma- chinery When.- It Suddenly Starts With Him. — — — Victor Chavanne, 97 years old, a me ehanieal. engineer, had a narrow 4a from being whirled to death on the | Tire and. Rubber Co., in University Wednesday. He was saved without in- jury by the quick action of J. A.. Swine- hart, the general’ manager, who stopped |’ the revolutions of the fly’ wheel by wrecking the rolls it turned. | . The’ fly’ wheel revolves in a ‘sunken rit and partly above the floor‘ of the engine room. Water had collected in the pit and a few minutes before time to start the factory wheels whirring, Chavanne decided to go down fnto the pit and -dip out. the .waste. water. Instead of descending the stairs he undertook to slide down a spoke of the then still fly wheel. The weight of his body set: the wheel in motion. Chavanne, realizing his danger, instantly slagsped his legs and arms tightly about the spoke as the big wheel began to whir with great momentum. fiundred Men See ecttind A hundred men who had just enter- ed the shop for their day’s work gazed terror stricken at Chavanne clingiag for life to the spinning fly wheel. Swinehart, the manager, was the only one who jumped to action. He ran into the engine room and turned off the. power, but perceived at the same time that the speed of the wheel did not sesm to’ diminish. In the next second Swinehart had con-: nected the machinery of the plant with the fly wheel But still the monster’ wheel with Chavanne hanging to it with a death grip spun on 48 fast as a top. Puts Rubber Cube in Rolla. Swinehart then ran 50 feet to the other end of the plant past rows of mén who stood still in bewilderment of what to do; to where he knew there was a pile of: 18-inch cubes of soft rubber. Seis- ing one of these cubes he jammed it into a set of rolls. The set of rolls was wrecked, the ma- chinery stopped and Chavanne fell in a faint from the fly wheel. He was picked up by fellow laborers, revived quickly and was found to be unhurt. EIGHT MULES RUN AWAY _ ON DOWN TOWN STREET Policeman Sprints, Grabs Bri- dies, Guides Them Through . Traffic—Auto Damaged. Traffic’ Patrclman H. L. MeNall tried | to stop a runaeay team of eight spirit- mules on | by stunts — amusement fer hundreds of spectators. The mules wers attached to a brew- — as he entered: te Va a station, that his hunting « Otis Clements, had been murde oa @ negro, drat rae — Clements’ body in the high weeils; of the east approach of * Bridge. The body was Tow a. m. Thursday, lying face 0 back of the h th —— apparently “fred a 2 gor is being held @ ‘prisoner 4 the Venice police and ‘the Madis6 County Coroner inquire into the str kiliing.. He arrived at the station, gun ‘int late Wednesday afternoon, his story. A night's sleep balance, but -he continuéd to: could not have fred the fatal 9h that he had seen a negro ne 6 —— — Sal a Police Moran spent nearly all lanterns searching for Short was-taken along to show tt where Clements was killed; © poin ut several places, . #0 ex at the time that he ci sonal the exact place. The- found by policemen, more ‘than. pom from the: neighborhood pointed af Short. : When policemen searchéd — found $10.%. ‘Earlier in the | learned, he had said he was going into thet hody was fount his ing from a pocket, a Short says He 5 * —R ek ago — % 4 Bes + tin can. He told of 5 in drinking and * h ng. , what’ Pes AE te —— — —— Sei ¢*. — Ay ae te — a Syl gs *