St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 15, 1913

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w me = _ aks ‘ & * ¢ — eS Ss Va. el LS le ee ee. eS oars f sway VOL. 66. NO. 26. _STsLOUIS, “MONDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 15, 1913. —18 PAGES. = - “PRICE ©} ONE CENT ——— ba a A at “EDITION ~ PINANCIAL MARKETS — SPORTS REQUEST NOW - 4 Stains _ That Manu ’ Rail- way Will Not Reintroduce - Special Assembly Ses- sion Bill for $750,000 Bridge Connection. FUTURE RIGHT TO | ACT IS RESERVED ‘Declares His Terminal Can Do Without the Approach, put Asserts That South St. Louis Needs It; Thinks the City Ought to Build It. Mimaat »*. Siben ‘speaking throuza his attorney, Daniel N. Kirby, ‘Monday, in the latter’s office, said the Manufac- turers’ Railway Co. officials would not reintroduce in the spécial ‘bridge Ses: sion now convoked the bill for a spe- * cial southern approach to cost $750,0%), whieb- “was. introduced —at ~a. tae session of the Assembly. “Mr. Biisch does ‘not need a Tree bridge approach to assist his railroad, “9 declared Kirby. glancing at Busch for ‘approval. ‘‘He still believes that South St. Louis needs the southern approach and that the city ought to construct but he will not ask his associates m the railroad to present the bill to the} Assembly at this session. : “Mr. Busch will say nothing now to close his mouth 6n the subject of the approach, but reserves the right to in- -fortn St. Louis at any time as to the _mecessity of a southern approach. I want it understood that nothing in this interview is intended to commit Mr. Buseh or to tie his hands so that he cannot take any action in the future that he deems wise in regard to the free bridge and ‘ts approaches.” Kirby's announcement ts ne em ELIAS MICHAEL STRICKEN AT GOLF IES SUDDENLY President of Rice-Stix Dry Goods Xo. Rallied at Time, but Ex- pired Monday, , LIFE | Worked Way From Clerkship to Head of Concern—Identifi ed With . Other Enterprises. LEADER’ IN_~ CIVIC Elias Michael; “tix Dry president of the Rice- Co., and one of e workers pf St. Louis, died at 1 a. m. Monday at his home, 4383 Westminster place, after an illness which began with a cold last He collapsed when playing golf at the Westwood Country Club Saturday afternoon and .was confined to his bed Sunday. His death was not expected, and is believed to have been caused by the sudden rupture of an artery of the heart. The funeral will be held Wednesday, with services at the home and, prob- ably, also at Temple Israel, of whose congregation he was a leading member. Death Was on Anniversary. his death was the forty-fourth anniver- sary of the day when, a boy of 15, he en- tered the employ of the Rice-Stix Dry Goods Co. in Memphis, as a stock clerk. It was 10 years later that, because of yellow fever, in Memphis, the firm re- moved to St. Louis. Two weeks ago he returned from a vacation tour in. Europe. Since that time, his relatives say, he had worked hard in the office. Mrs. Michael was formerly Miss Rachel Stix, and is a sister of Charles A. Stix, president of the Stix, Baer & Fuller Dry Goods Co. Selma Michael, the only child’ of Mr. and Mrs. Michael, died in 1894. Michael was a School Board from a director of the Jewish local ard national charity organizations. ani a trustee of the Provident Associa- tion and of Self-Culture Hall. He was a vice-president of the Business Men’s League, and a former president of‘ the National Wholesale Dry Goods Associa- tion, and was a director of the Louisi- ana Purchase Exposition. He was president of the Premium Man- ufacturing Co., and a director of the National Bank of Commerce and the Commonwealth Trust Co. He was a member of the Mercantile, Columbian, Noonday, Glen Echo and Westwood Country Clubs. ' He was born in Echau, Bavaria, Sept. 28, 184, and was brought to the United States spy his parents on child- hood, His father died when he was 7 years old, and his mother supported him and his three sisters by keeping a little store in Memphis. Story of Business Career. The story of his business career was told by Walter B. Stevens in one of a series of articles on “Self-Made St. Louisans,”’ published in the Post-Dis- patch early in 1912. His first work, as he described it to Stevens, was that of a bundle boy for a retail’ store in Memphis, making deliv- erles by foot in the days before that city had street cars. After two years of this ‘work; young Michd@el thought himself lucky to get u job with the Rice-Stik whdDlesale house at $16 a month. He had to work at night in the busy season, and this interfered with his 7- fort to educate himself in night schox}. When he was obliged to give up *te night, school he began making evening visits to retail stores which kept open at night, showing to them samples. of his house’s goods and learning what they’ had in stock and what their cus- tomers were demanding. — When he was 19 years old he was making .$75 a month. His mother had died, and he was supporting his threc sisters. Two years later h¢@ became manager of the notion department, -ana was sent to.New York to buy goods member of tha 1904 to 1910, was i When he was 30 years old he acquired an. interest in the business. , on re | ~omeunea Eee _ For qver 6 full years 337 consecutive Sundays ' the Sunday POST-DISPATCH has led all other St. Louis newspapers in the volume of business ca “ed. This is an unparalleled reeord. No o.her metropolitan Sunday newspaper in the Unitéd States has ever ap. proached it. On last Sunday, September 14th, the count was as follows: ‘Post-Dispatch, 271 Cols, - Globe-Democrat, 202° Republic . ee oe THE REASON: : Average circulation first eight months, 1913; 191,005 Sunday .. . 304,867 at, Louis’ ONE BIG N ewspaper. He, was 59 years old, and the day of, | GIRL ARRESTED ADMITS CASHING | ARCHBISHOP RAPS CITY'S GRAND OPERA WORTHLESS DRAFT,‘GRAND COMMITTEE Miss Marye Burton, Taken in West End, Tells Strange Story of Mock Marriage. ACCUSES A SODA. CLERK Says He Induced Her to Sign Paper for $50 in E. St. Louis After Drugging Her. Miss ‘Marye Burton, 18, * dark-haired, brown-eyed and gifted with an elo- quence which she says slie . acquired through elocutionary and literary train- ing in a fashionable finishing, school, was arrested, Monday afternoon, at the home of FE. P. Zimmer, 4120 Westminster place. She is charged with havin; passed a worthless $0 draft on the li- linois State Trust Co, Bank of East Bt. Louis. F Miss Burton, using the softest Southern accents, admitted that cashed the draft, and told story of being drugged 3 a man, to whom she had been married by a’ mock ceremony performed by a bogus minis- ter. of she Tella of Soda Dispenser. The name signed to the unhonored draft was “Mrs. W. G. Adams.’” Miss Burton says Adams was the man who had 2 mock ceremony performed in an automobile to make her believe she was his lawful wife. According to her account, she was a senior at the Blackstone Female Insti- tute* near Richmond, Va., and. was to have been graduated this year. in April, she said, the school was closed because of smallpox there and she retiirned to her home at Wynne, Ark., where her father has a hardware store. Later she went to visit a mar- ried sister at Paragould, Ark. There she met Adams, a soda fountain clerk, 'she said. Describes Auto Wedding. After a two-months’ courtship, she said, Adams proposed marriage. They went in an automobile to Newport, Ark., There, she said, Adams left her in the automobile at the corner of one of the principal streets, and when he returned he had with him a young man who wore a black coat and tie and‘whom he in- troduced as the Rev. Mr. Douglas. The clerical-looking young man went through a ceremonial on the street corner and pronounced her and Adams man and wife; she said. Adams asked her to keep the marriage a secret and she said that if she couldn't tell her parents about it she would’ not live with him, she de- clared. Miss Burton said they separated and she went on a recital tour for the benc- fit of the Methodist church. A month ago, she said, she received a telegram from Adams asking her to Louis, but she could not and was about to retur when she met him at geome to St. find Adams, to Arkansas, Union Station. Suspects She Was Drugesed. He induced her to accompany him to East St. Louis, she said, and while there he took her to a drug store and bought her a glass of limeade. When she complained that it was too sour, she said, he took it to the rear of the store. and put something in it which she now believes to have been a drug. She alleges that Adams then persua- ded her to give him her jewelry and to sign the draft. When she recovered from the effects of the drug he was gone, she said. be She then came to St. Louis and ob- tained a place as maid in the Zimmer home, though, she said, she had nefer done such work. MORE RAIN FOR TONIGHT, CLOUDY TOMORROW THE TEMPERATURES. " Veaterday’s' Temperatures. High. .73 at 2 p. m. Low,.52 at 8 a. m. “Well;'my dear,”’ am Mr, W., “I suppose you will stay at home to- day.”’ “Just because it looka like rain?"’ said Mrs. W. “Yes. I can’t seg why anybody THIS If THe LAST STRAW J of werther.”’ “Why, John! rainy day is best day for shop- ping. All the oth- er women stay at home and yon have all the bar- gains to your- self.’’ A And all the oth:- er women thought s0, too. Consequent- ly, when she arrived:in the shoppin; district, she found it crowded. (Offictal forecast for St. Louls and victnity: Cloudy weather tonight and tomorrow, with rein tenight: not much change in the temperature. Missourt—Unsettied tonight with rain the in portion: Tuesday wrebabiy fair. Tittnote--Uneettied tonight with rhin in the south portion: Tuesday probably fair. ‘Humidity; At 7 p. m..Sundax, 42 per cent; at 7 a. m. Monday, 99 per TO per cent, Presipite- a strange Don’t Let It Think for You, but Know What You Are Paying. For,”’ Prelate Advises. G. W. SIMMONS REPLIES Says Committee Corisulted Sub- scribers as to Selection of Operas to Be Presented. George W. Simmons, a member of last season's’ Grand Opera Committee, re- fled Monday to criticisms on the grand opera management made. by Archbishop “lin Father Dempsey’s Glennon Sunday in:an open-air address before the Holy Name Society on. the Visitation Conyent grdunds in Cabanne. The Archbishop referred frequently to the committee as the “grand commit- tee,” and declared that it catered partly to decent people and partly to people of another sort in selecting the operas. He urged his hearers not to contribute to the support of.a grand opera season ‘until they were assured that operas presented wowvld be acceptable. The operas presented at the Odeon April 17, 18 and 19 last by the Phila- delphia-Chicago grand opera company were “Jewels of the Madonna,” “‘Lucia| “The Juggler of “Die were Olive di Lammermoor,’’ Notre Dame,’’ with a ballet, and Walkuere.’’ The principal stars Mme. Tetrazzini, Mary Garden, Fremstad and Carolina White. The committee in charge consisted of John L. Mauran, E. A. Faust, Charles A Stix, Daniel G. Taylor, Alex Hilton, George W. Simmons, James KE. Smith and Guy @olterman. Several of these are at present out of the city. Subscribers Consulted. Simmons, when told of the Archbish op’s remarks, sald: “The grand opera committee has never taken the responsibility of selecting operas for St. Louis opera-goers. We have alwavs consulted the subscribers, the usual method being by a ballot of the previous season’s subscribers. “It was in that way that ‘Salome’ was selected two years ago, it receiy- ing far more votes than any other opera. I think the Archbishop must have had ‘Salome’ in mind, as there vas nothing last April that would seem to invite censure. “In the 1913 list, the only opera I can think of that may have seemed improper to the Archbishop was ‘Jewels of the Madonna,’ because of the sug- gestion, in its title, of something pos- sibly sacrilegious. Those who saw the opera know that it was not in any way sacrilegious, but rather that it showed the great power of the church for good over the Neapolitan people. “There was a ballet, it is true, in connection with one of the other op- eras, but it was an. old-fashioned :bal- let, and there was none of the modern esthetic dancing, in which clothing is abandoned. I heard no unfavorable criticism, at the time, of the baliet. “The list of operas has always been announced in full \before any money has been received by the eommittee. Rejected Dates in Holy Week. “Archbishop Glennon may be interest- ed to know that I have lately conferred in Chicago, with the opera company management regarding the next St. Louis grand opera season, and that the committee first rejected a proposed se- ries of dates early’ in Lent, and that when the company then offered dates in Holy Week, I replied, in behalf of the committee, that such dates would not even be considered.” Financia! loss attended a grand opera series given in Holy Week a few years ago. Holy Week is known as an. un- ‘profitable week ‘in St. Louis theaters, and some of the houses are usually dark in. that week. The Archbishop's talk.at tke convent grounds followed a parade of the Holy Name Society, itn which business men living in West End parishes and lodgers Hotel marched, wearing the badge of the society, whose members are pledged to abstain from profane language. “Every year,’ said the Archbishop, “we have a grand committee which ar- ranges for grand opera performances. I am not so sure about the grandeur of thé opera, but any rate, it is expensive. And this grand committee sends around letters, asking for your checks to guaer- antee the expenses. “And after you have sent ¢n your checks this grand committee announces | would want to go | the grand operas that have been selected ‘out in this sort |for you to see. They usually select one | good opera, ealculated to please decent A people, and at least one bad opera, which meets the wishes of the other sort of people. And you say, ‘Oh, well, we have paid our money, what can we do?’ “Do, Your Own Thinking.” “What you can do is to insist before you send in your money on knowing what operas are to be produced, and if indecent operas are chosen, then keep your money for some better purpose. Don't let this grand committee do your thinking for you. Some of them mav not be any too well fitted to judge be- tween the good and the bad. ‘The grand committee makes the ex- cuse that it has to provide what the people want. Show what you want. | Don't tolerate barefaced, barelegged in- Gencency.”’ The Archbishop prefaced hig talk on the grand opera with seathing words about obiectionalte productions in the indecent , theater presents one PR EST TEL % —_ P “ ¥ / HOW HE KILLED HER BODY TRACED BY. A PILLOW / SLIP all the}. Pliiow slip in which part of body of Anna Aumueller was rorapped before being thrown into Hudson river and by which Hans Sohmidt, ” th: priest who confessed he hes her, was one , : How He I was attracted by’ her beauty. I loved her. : “I killed her because I loved her so much. She was so beautiful, so good, I could not let her live with- out me. “TIT made up my mind that she and I could not live together. I was a priest and must remain with my church. .1 could not let her go away from me. So I opened the door of the flat. I awakened her. I told her I had come to fulfill my threat. Then I drew the knife across her throat. “I cut the body into six pleces. I made trips, to the Fort Lee ferry each time with a part of her precious hody in a bundle. When the ferry boat reached tlie middle of the stream I would throw a piece into the water, and when the boat ‘reached the other side of the river I would regrn and go back to the flat. * Priest’s Confession, Telling ‘‘T met Anna Aumueéller two years ago at the parish house ‘oe confession, which the police say Hans Schmidt signed, follows: of St. Boniface Church. She was employed as a servant there. Murdered Girl NEW YORK, Sept. 15. became I infatuated with her. { “After I had disposed of the body I wanted to destroy all evidence of the crime. I took the mattress on which I had slain her and carried it to a vacant lot, and there I! burned it. I am guilty; that is all I can say. I must pay the penalty. There is nothing else for me to do. But I loved Anna Aumueller. “She wanted tne to marry her and I procured a marriage license. She trusted me. “T am a priest and ordained to perform the marriage cerémony, so when she insisted upon a ceremony I married myagif to her. There was jo need of any other priest doing it. It was just as absolute as if | had called in another person. with authority to perform’ a marriage ceremony. She was my wygfe.” ds —_ = _— WILLS $9,000,000 TO MAN FRIEND, TO FAMILY $500,000 Miss . Julia Garrett Remembers Snub, to Her Ancestor, a Snuff Maker. PHILADELPHIA, Sept.. 15.—A* snub of 131 years ago was remembered in the will of Miss Julia Garrett, one of the wealthiest women in the United States, which was filed here today. Miss: Gar- rett. who died at Villa Nova several weeks ago, Was the last descend&nt of Jolin Garrett,.who i3! vears agovstarted with ° $100 capital- the -manufactnre of snuff, which established the fortune which Miss .Garrett’s will. disposes of. Members of the Dunn family. cou- sins, looked with contempt on Garrett. when he started the snuff business. The descendants of those Dunns are remem- bered in the will to the éxtent of only $500,000, while $9,000,000 or more {8 left to Isaac Tatnal?l Starr, for many veac; a close friend and fiscal ‘agent of the Garrett family. ee The will values the estate at “up- ward of $600,000," but observers sa: the property is worth more than $10,000.- The document will be contested. Qne of Mise Garrett's cousine filed in the Montgomery County Court ja4¢ Satur- day a caveat asking that en to the petitioner before the will was probated. Instead of being probated, iu that county, it was filed here. The co:)- gins are remembered for amounts. rang- ; b Ban ae mn ’ m 4 . eaetiainitie LABORER DIES, LEAVING. $8000, GIFTS TO CHARITY Man Thought to Be Poor Calls in Father Timothy Dempsey ; to Make Will. — ee ee Thomas McCarthy, 52 :years old, 2 freight handler for the St. Louis Trans- fer Co., who had lived for several vears at 613 Carr street, and was supposed to be poor, mage a will disposing of’ prop- erty valued ‘at $8000 at the city hospital Sunday afternoon shortly before his death. : McCarthy's leg was crushed when a roll of paper fell on it Sept. .12. Blood ‘poisoning developed and when he was told he could not recover, he askedithat Father Timbthy Dempsey of St. Patrick's ®hurch be sent for. At his request Feather Dempsey drew up his will His property, he said, was mostly in cash and certificates of deposit issued by St. Louis banks. McCarthy died ‘at 6:26 “a. m., Monday. His will was filed at naon by Attorney Vincent Dempsey: In it,;MeCarthy be- queathed $10 to a nephew, Daniel Mc- Carthy, and $1000 toa sister, Norah Spiliane, living In Treland. He-left $500 to ‘Edward Hammill of ‘Twenty-third and Carr streets, and $509 to Mra. Dante! Mufphy of 403 Evans avenue. .To the Little Sisters of the Poor he left 37m and to St. Patrick's conference of the St. Vincent de Paul Seciety, $500. ani a third $500 to Father Dempsey for masses. It was provided that $500 shou | be spent for the funeral, and that the balance of the estate should go to GIRL KILLED AS SHE SLEPT IN FLAT He GOT FOR FER Hans Schmidt, Accused of Fraud, in Germany and Banished From _ Trenton Diocese, Shows No Emo- ' dering Anna Aumueller. | BODY THROWN FROM BOAT We Slayer Continued to Sescciss Functions in Church After Crime and Had Head Confessions Just Before His Dramatic Arrest. ~ By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispateh. NEW YORK, Sept. 15.—The latest river murder, in which the headless and lmbless body of a woman was found in the*wa- ter, has been tleared of its mys- tery by modern detective work of the highest class. The detec- tives followed back their only obvious clew, and not of the scientifie ‘‘indue tive sas methods» employed in literature was used, Inspector Faurot and his men have established that the victim was Anna ‘Aumueller, 22 years old, and that the murderer was the Rev. Hans Schmidt, a Roman Catholic priest, 33 years old, why -had obtained a marriage license and had himself said a marriage ceremony purporting to unite them. He continued to exercise his clericai office, after the murder, and had been hearing confessions a few hours before* he was arrested. He made a full con- fession of his crime. In his cell in ‘the Tombs, with his coat as a pillow, Father Schmidt alept soundly through the night«and arose this morning to partake of a hearty break fast. ‘ He. had little to add to. his confession of last njght. in which he told the polfee he killed the girl as she ley in bed. en! up herbody in the bathtuh of the apartmetit where he had established her,. Wrapped it in five dundles an! dropped the bundles inte the Hudsor River. To the Rev. L. J. Evers. the Tombs chaplain, Father Sehmidt wa-« said to lmve made the following dec- laration: “IT was directed to kill her hy Elizabeth of Hungary, who ts my tron, as a sacrifice to be consummated. as was the sacrifice of Abraham. in biood,”’ To the police Father Schmidt «aid: “I killed her because I iwved_her.” The police believe, however, that he killed her oecause she Was soon to be a mother. They believe the girl aec- cepted as genuine the marriage cere- mony through which she went with her alleged slayer last February and in which he was both priest and bride- groom. Schmidt's defense at his trial~if he makes a real defense, probably will be insanity. Alphonse ‘Koelble, his lawyer, 80 announced this afternoon after a wee talk with Sclimidt in the Tombs, ‘I shall move to have Father Schmidt'«_ case brought to trial at the earliest ino- ment possibile,” sald Koelbile. “Tf I then think that he is Insane, 1 shall ask «. have a commission appointed ta deter- mine his mental status. Tf I think he — is sane, I will tell him that the only thing to do fs to pay the penalty. “When I saw him today he sald, ‘1 don’t need your services. Let's @ot talk about that mow. Let's wait till Ged and Abraham have spoken. God and Abra- ham will communicate with you and tel! you when to come to me. Don't do any- thing till that time.” | Koelbie said his client was fully aware that he faced the electric chair. With a view to clearing the mystery surrounding the murder of s-year-old © Alma Keliner, whose yee md body Sf. ’ ee roiat Uidinins anata. saee aman ean SO b oe.