St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 1, 1913

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X © pirect,. _ crushed. © Moses and his friends were returning ¥ “It amounts to many millions of dollars. a a eee | _ after you read - Broken, Stove Torn From Fastenings. Seven men were injured, three se- ly, when Louis Moser, president of Moser Box Co., drove his auiomo- |. pmile at high speed into the side of a Fy ower Grove street car at Caiifornia “Shenandoah avenues at 1:3) Sat- aay morning. Moser and his three. Sengers were hurt and the other ims were car passengers. - THE LYJURED. f In the Automobile: \ Louis Moser, 33, 2313 South Grand avenue, president Moser Paper Box o., nose broken; chest cut and ovuised. p Jultus cS cider. 32, 2815 Vie- or street, treasurer Generel Under- Ee akere Co., lacerated scalp cuts and bruises over right eye. George Laux, 2316 Salena* strain i. skull ‘fractured, two ribs @: broken, bruises. . ‘Henry Miller, 35, 1815 South ‘Eight- . Moser, ' eenth street, salesman for ‘three ribs broken, interna) injuries,” orained left leg, ‘head, face, hands, © {Says He Gave One to Each of : zt feet and legs cut and bruised. in the Street Car: 4814 Juniata right foot Abe wasting 21, cut on face, @ party given in celebration of the hg marriage of a friend. © automobile was completely ed, and $100 damage was done to , the windows being broken and teve jarred loose. . The ‘a injured ers averted danger of a fire. r hospital physicians who treated : a men reportéd that Mosef, ‘alspse driving the machine, was suf-. — 9m ‘alcoholism. Two of his pas-. -Jdullus C. Stevenson of 2825 Vic- r street, treasurer of tlie General Un- ~ rite Co., and George Laux, .a” man, of 2316 Salena street, also had » drinking, according to hospital re- | lll Stevenvon and Laux were seri- , hurt. iu a is fractured, that he has two n ribs and is esate bruised and luctor, and George Suhre, motorman, bid the police that the automobile was inning so fast that they could hardly it. :- he street car crew, William Mulvihill, Aiteenses Tell of Speed. 4 von A. Armbruster of 3116 Sidney street, jwho was driving in the vicinity of the -—accider said that a moment before he automobije crashed into the street it passed him at terrific speed. He ald the machine went past him like x oF and a few — later he heard i, crash, very window glans in one side of gt ear was broken. The stove loose and sent spinning in the aisle of the car. Three > were loosened and the 10 pas- were thrown from their seuts. d Three P fers Hurt. ames A. Jackson of 2804 Lafayette nue, a painter; Walter Flear of the address, also a painter, and Abv sky of 4314 Juniata street were ~ passengers who were hurt. Jack. a's face and head were cut atid Flear was thrown up again-=: ) side of the car and bruised froin ) to foot and Goldowsky’s face 5 Re ane his foot bruised. 9 > passengers in the street car. mong them Frank Badger and Her- lan a Schaeffer of 18 South Highteenth meet, J. F. Randolph of 4012 South Urteenth street, and Warren Tollack 2166 Rutger street, escaped. without rious injurtes. | _ “Going Very Fast,” Moser Says. "We had attended a party at Man- avenue and King’s highway,” _ eee? told *« Post-Dispatch reporter. We had celebrated the evening with “friend who is going to be married. driving the automobile, and was ee he car. boa _ suppose the speed must have been fidded: I lost control of the automo- D _ then came the crash.” Ont hone Paper in -POST-DISPAT St. Louis With the Associated Préss News Service. a a ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 1, 191312 PAGES. ore eeeeees ceseseence eee eeeeeece w, 9 at 11:55 Well, we're in for it now, if che weather forecast- er reads the signs correctly. As if it were not bad enough for 5 de- Brees above zero to be rushed in 4of a story that I had left seven — The doctors says Laux's very. fast when the machine hit | Suddenly, ‘after the balmy weath- er we have been having, the fore- Caster says it wil! SO us one better —or worse — to- night and fall to 4 degrees above nothing. No relief 3 promised for Sun- day, either. On the contrary, ‘Are looked for and the low ten- ure will stay. at, however, will give the Oldest isslbstine the first chance he has had this winter to tell us how much colder it got "way back in the ’twenties. The 5 above zero was the lowest .tempera- ture of the season. Official forecast for St. Louis and ai Fair tonight, becoming id@y on Sunday; continued cold; Towent temperature tonight will be 4 degrees. Migsouri—Fair tonight and probably Sun- day; continued cold. “Hlinois—Fair tonight and Sunday; proba- bly increasing cloudiness: not much change. in temperature. LEY TELLS ABOUT 7 DOGS HE LEFT BEHIND His Colonels as Long as the Supply Lasted. KANSAS CITY, Feb. 1.—‘‘A. great in- jury to my reputation was done in my ®bsence in the East by the publication behind me when I moved out vf Executive Mansion at Jefferson cies Herbert S. Hadley, former Goverror of Missouri said on his return. “! have! always been a friend of dogs, and to charge that I would leave seven of them, to the mercies of a Democratic admin- istration is holding me up to scorn and ridicule, and tehds to lower my stand- ing a citizen .of Missouri. “7 ties Several dogs,. while L. was Gove r, but I had more c»ionels When I was preparing to leave, I felt that I ought to do something for these colonels,.as a mark of my appreciation of my respect, so I gave each colonel @ dog, as long as the supply of dogs lasted. Not a dog remained homeless.’ Gov. Major was credited a few days ago with a complaint about the seven dogs. Ae om CURFEW > “ON EAST SIDE Unescorted Boys and_ Girls, Under 13, Will Be Arrested. Boys and girls under 13 years old, un- escorted by elders, on the East St. Louis streets after 9 o’clock p. m., will be ar- rested, according to Police Chief Over- mire, who has issued an order to that effect. In residential ‘districts many com- plaints havé been made by families against mischievous children, and Chief Overmire decided to enforce the curfew law. POTATOES IN A CEMETERY Ohians to Try Tlan to Lower Cost of Living. UNIONVILLE, O., Feb. L—As a means of fighting the high cost of liv- ing, citizens here propose raising po- r NESS ‘OR GILL BEATEN ON STREET BY 2 STRANGERS Charles H. Fish Jr., Who. Testi- fied Friday, Assailed on Way to Work Saturday. KNOCKED DOWN, KICKED Three Witnesses Saturday Say Votes They Cast for Gill Came Out for Dyer. Charles H. Fish Jr. of 184 Locust street, a witness Friday in the Gill- Dyer congressional election contest, Was attacked and beaten by two men Saturday morning as he left his board- ing -house to go to work. He told the police that he believed the two men at- tacked him because he had testified in the contest case. Fish is a wire worker employed by the Smith-Davis Manufacturing Co. at Twentieth and Locust streets. “I started to work at 7 a. m.,” he told the police. “I had not gone half a block when two men. suddenly at- tacked me. I did not see where they Came from. Before I had a chance to defend myself they had knocked. me down and were kicking me in the face. I think they are members of a ‘gang’ that @id the crooked work in the“ elec- tion and resented the testimony I had given in the contest proceedings.”’ Fish went to the city dispensary and had his injuries treated. Both eyes were blackened, and his face Was swollen. Fish testified that he voted for Gill for Congress, but the investiga- tion by Gill’s attorneys disclosed the fact that Gill's’ name had i. been scratched from his ballot. The police think the assault made upon Fish wags for the purpose of in- timidating witnesses in the contest. Ninth Preeinct Under Fire. Witnesses from the Ninth Precinct of the Fifth Ward were called at 9 a. ‘m. Saturday, when the taking of evidence Was resumed ‘in the Gill-Dyer contest. Three witnesses testified that they supposed they were voting for Gill, but on the recount thelr ballots showed Gill’s name erased and. Dyer’s writ- ten fff. 1425 Linden street, and Theodor: Brown, 715 North Fifteenth = street, negroes, swore a judge of election fixed ballots for them, although: both were able to write and neither made an affidavit in the: polling place to warrant. the judge in marking ballots for them. ‘Joseph Flannery of 1420 Morgan street testified that he called for a Deriocratic ticket and voted it straight. His ballot now shows Gill’s name marked out and Dyer’s written in. Says Judge Lived Out of Ward. Mrs. Mary Schlazer of 3715 Marine avenue testified that E. J. ° Mauer, judge of election in the Ninth [Precinct of the Fifteenth Ward, does not live in that ward but has been living in a house owned by her at 3615 Marine ave- nue since Septembef, 1911. He is regis- tered from 1408 Franklin avenue. Mrs. Schlazer says he has lived in the Tenth Ware for eighteen months and is still her tenant at the address named, The Rev. John McGuire, pastor of St. Elizabeth's church, living at 813 North Fourteenth street, testified that he voted a straight Democratic ticket and did not scratch a candidate. His ballot shows Gill’s name scratched and no other name written in. In each precinct so far investigated evidences of irregularities committed or permitted in Dyer’s favor have been found, the indications In some cases be- tatoes in a cemetery. | Continued on Page 2, Col. 4 ae of woods’’ with the and eager Friday, and only ° together. they have in store for them. % > i ihe oe A SEE RE | mci Advertising that pays grows, Advertising that grows. pays. St, Louis’ ONE BIG Newspaper Circulation last aie ‘ Booming! If there 1 1s any lack of speed in business in this “ it does not show in the advertising columns of the POST-DISPATCH, which are booming day after day lums that are being offered by the merchants y picked by the people. To illustrate, the St. Louis merchants bought | 75 columns | of display advertising in the POST- DISPATCH alone ‘neck 63 columns or nearly 20 per cent less in its three nearest competitors —the Globe-Democrat, Republic und Times—all added In fact, we came within 4 columns of beating all four of the other St. Louis newspapers combined, and we did the same thing Thursday of this week. If you will drop into the stores of these merchants who advertised in the POST-DISPATCH on Thursday and Friday you will find them thronged with eager buyers. This is the one reason that all the POST-DISPATCH to tell the people of the aor, things ts select the a Two of th, witnébses,-Jai:cs Thomas>” Zs C. A. STUEVER If REMARRIED; BRIDE EAST SIDE GIRL Wedding te Lucille Sullivan of East St. Louis Follows Issu- ance of Secret License. THEY ARE IN NEW YORK Foyner Wife, After Divorce, . Was Shot by Admirer Who Later Married Her. Charles A. Stuever, on. oe UA oC. (Tony) Stuever, of St. Louis, and Miss Lucille Sullivan of 722 Pennsylvania ave- nue, East St. Louis, got a marriage li- cense secretly in St. Louis, Jan. 23. A friend of Miss Sullivan told the Post-Dispatch the marriage took place Monday. The friend said Stue- ver and Miss Sullivan were comrades in childhood and sweethearts before Stuever’s first marriage, which re- a ») ym CORKLING roRTRart._™— Mrs. THOMAS H, MEKITIRICK COaxtING ernore. A.BENOIST.. }as cashier, her parents, fence for Memphis, Lk sulted in a divorce. New ber eloped and were married at Clay- ton, objected to the match and disowned the young man, a moving picture show, with his bride vorce, with restoration of her maiden name, that her anq@ that times, once being away three months. shot ana C. Whitehead, an admirer,’as they stqod In woman's parents, highway. on himself, inflicting a slight wound in recovered. Whitehead said Miss Kliaub* er had begged him to kill her. she implored him to shoot her. sequently. was dropped. His father is.a millionaire, being a The couple is in York. Stuever and Miss Beatrice B. Klau- 1909. Stuever’s father May 4, who then established using money furnished by it was said by relatives. | The voung Mrs. Stuever got a di- August, 1911. She alleged husband failed to support he left her several in her Miss Kliauber wags wounded by Julius In December, 1911, seriously the home of the young 2727 South King’s wie front of Whitehead then turned the revolver the head. Both he and Miss Kliauber All af- ternoon, preceding the shooting, he said, Whitehead and Miss Kiauber were married Jan. 14, .1912, and departed at to make their home there. The charge Placed against White- head, ae a result. of the shooting, eub- Charles A. Stuever is 24 years old. bank director, a manufacturer and. owner of Farest Park Highlands. Miss Satlivan is the Daniel Sullivan, -whose famiiv | Sing. | mnrder of Herman .Rosentival, daughter of4 Chinese Ball at the St. Louis Club! ADA, Mrs. J. i Davis Oriental Hostess Society In a Gorgeots Masquerade Members of, “Foung 2 Married Set’’ who were prominent among guests at Mra. J. T. Davis’ Chinese Ball at St. Louis Club. WILSON CHANGES POSE FOR GIRL PHOTOGRAPHER Gets Out of Sun So That 12- Year-Old Miss, Who Was Hav- ing Trouble, Could Get Snapshot. PRINCBTON, N. J., Feb. 1,—Presi- dent-elect Wilson arrived here from New York shortly «before 2 o'clock this afternd6én. When he was stand- ing on the platform at Newark, a lit- tle girl was observed making efforts to photograph him, but conditions were not just as she wanted_them. “Wait a minute and I'll get out in the sun,” said the President-elect. Then the;camera snapped and the 12- year-olq miss thanked him and went away happy. LIEUT. BECKER A FATHER NEW YORK, Feb. 1—Mrs. Charies Becker, wife of the former Police Lieu-. tenant now in the dath house at. Sing awaiting .clectrocution for the cave birth to a baby girl today. She has been. the hospite! for near ly’a month. The news Was rar 'stone to rominent.in East St, Louis are e is 21 years old, i —_— =... sRieithe Deitinn taeeteicdietiel: adhe cade had iun > edited aideenandihdahetiiiee aetna ep PtH us 4 | Becker at’ Sing” Sing F MRS, OLIVER, F RICHARDS Guests, Announced’ by Strange Sounding Names, Wear Flowing Garb and Clogged Shoes, but’ Ex- change Footwear Before Attempting Hesitation Waltzes. cutee A bit of Orient was transplanted into the heart of America, Friday night, in the form of the Chinese tall given by Mrs. John T. Davis at the St. Louis Club. From the moment a guest stepped in he was in.the atmosphere of the old China, which is passing with the establishment of /a new repub- lic. The usual furpiture and furnish- ‘ings of the club were hidden and in their places were inlaid teakwood ta- bles and stools, gorgeous silks, Ori-' ental tapestries and scores of decora- tive features common to China alone. From the. standpoints of novelty and splendor, the ball was one of the truly notable events of this year’s social calendar. In exclusiveness, also, it was remarkable, less than 200 persons—debutantes, young men and members of the so-called “young married set’—being present. All the guests wore Chinese costumes, even to the clogged shoes and “coolie” slippers and every class of Chinese society Was represented. “Mandarins” and “coolies’” mingled freely in the democracy of Occidental carnival with- out the slightest regard for “caste.” Some of the costumes were gorgeous, while others, faithfully, copied after the garb of Chinese peasants, were inter- esting from the standpoint of realism, rather than of beauty. Every couple entering the club were] | met by & —_— in Chinese costume. and to whisper their names to ‘pim. . He “translated” the names into and announced the arrivals. Mra. Davis and her niece, Mrs. Chureh!il Humphtey of Loulsville, Ky, yeceived the xucsts }n the library of the bib. Perause of the iyfotmal nature arnt ohne etre at Poors acts unless the contrary is he ad tas ih ETT a ARNOLD CONFESSION BARRED IF BROUGHT QUT BY PROMISES. Fire Chief Testifies He Found No Evi- dence at Berlin Supporting Repudiated Confession. BARRARA ARNOLD GOES IN STAND IN REBUTTAL Physician Says Swingley Is Too Ill to Testify, Court Wants to Finish Case Today, ‘If It Take; Until Midnight.’ Sends to Home for Deposition. Judge Kinsey at 2 p. m. Saturday gave his instructions te the jury in the case of Barbara Gladys Arnold, 16-year-old nursegirl charged with first degree arson in Ae tamepting to burn the Winder- mere Hotel. The Judge told the jury that if they found that Barbara set fire to the hotel with the intention of destroying it and did destroy, they should find her guilty of arson in the first degree. If they found that she set fire to the hotel intending to destroy, but did not destroy, they should find her As the hotel was not destroyed this instruction was understood by those in the courtroom to mean that if found guilty the girl could not be convicted of any cirme more serious than attempted arson.* The penalty is left to the discretion of the Judge no matter what degree of guilt is named in the verdict. Malicious Intent Must Be Shown. Judge Kinsey instructed the jury that it must be shown that any at- tempt te fire the Winder e was malicious, willful and felonious and done with specific intent to destroy the building. If the towel was set on fire without intent to destrey the building the defendant must be ac- quitted, he ‘said. “Verbal admissions must be care- fully. weighed and considered,” the Judge said in his instructions, “The danger of misunderstanding is very great. One or both parties in such verbal questionings may not hear all that is said or may not understand the full import of all that is said. As to Threats and Promises. “Ig the defendant made any state- ments which were procured by coer- cion, threats or fear or by promises of reward or promises that her friends would take care of her, such statements, made with such under- standing must be wholly disregarded as evidence. ‘If it 1s found that the defedant’s confession was not voluntary it must be rejected by the jury. “The court has admitted evidence regarding the Berlin Heotel fire for ‘the purpose of showing intent, and showing that the Windermere fire was not accidental. Under no circum- stances was this evidence admitted for the purpose of the jury arriving at a verdict. “You must believe beyond reason- able doubt that this defendant set fire to the Windermere Hotel with intent to destroy the building, or you must acquit her, Windermere Hotel Fire Sele Charge. “The sole charge in this case is that she willfully set fire to the ‘Windermere Hotel on Nov. 5. “Persons over 14 years old are as- sumed to be responsible for their proven. The defendant should not be acquit- ted on the ground of her youth enly, if it is believed that at the time of the alleged act she knew the differ- ence between right and wront. Fire Chief Charlies BE. Swingley, in a deposition taken at his home, 3890 Wash- ington boulevard, Saturday, testified that the Berlin Hotel fire did not start in the back stairway, where, in the con- fession which the Arnold girl has since repudiated, she said she dropped matches and set fire to waste paper. “I did,” replied the fire chief. “Was there any fire there?’ “No.” “Where was the fire?” “What side of the hotel did you ‘en-| ter?" ————— guilty of attempted arson. ‘Was there any fire there?” “No.” “Where was it?’ “Over the tep of the building.” “Did you go Up the back steps from the kitchep®’ “No. “Have you been back te the note! since the fire?’ **Y es. ‘e “Was the back stairway nepeaenl the first and second floors barneay” “A little at the top.conle..’ men pulle@ down the burning tim- bers of it. But there was no fire there.” Swingley’s deposition was read in court and the attornéys for the de- fense introduced in evidence the coat with the torn pockets which Barbara testified she wore the night of the Windermere Hotel fire, and from which, she said, her match case must have dropped through a hole in a pocket, Wayne Wright, 3% years old, a clerk at the Princess Hotel, Nineteenth and Market streets, testified that he. met Barbara Arnold eight or nine nmionths ago, when she entered the hotel and asked for a Mr. Allen. He told her there was no Allen registered there and they talked for a few minutes.’ She told him her name was Phyllis Murray, he said. . A few days later, Wayne testified, Barbara called him on the telephone and asked for Mr. Allen. Later, said, he met her at Ninth and Olive streets and rode west with her on an Olive street car. She had a suitcase. They went west to 4400, he said, off the car, walked then west to a point | was her home. He left said. Shortly after this, Wright bara went to South Haven, ing him to .write to her : ed him to address the letters to lis Murray and to put the en another envelope eddressed Arnold, he . said. Wright said he got a n cards and letters was in South Haven. she telephoned to tended he could not hear her, and a ephone operator . . | § 5 tBE} 5 and had worked in Milan, Mo. “Who dug you wer asked Attorney “And you don't know who dug you up?” “No.”* “Very well, then. That's all.” Attorney Ralph put Barbara had left it, to deny his statements.._ bs AS Re tet a PSM, AB a A heen‘ a hotel.dleck five-man: meee on the stand immediately after Wright