St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 27, 1913

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REAL ESTATE MAN SAYS THIEVES GOT HIS $730 ON CAR + Josua Risch Tells Police H: Had Withdrawn Money From Bank arti Had Boarded Fourth Street Car to Go Home When Rob- bery Occurred Josua Risch, a real estate dealer of 1126 Chestnut street, Sat- urday reported to the police that he was robbed of $730 in money, a bank check for $1000 and a promissory note for $1000, Saturday, at 11 a. m., rear platform of a southbound Fourth street car. near Fourth and Market streets, as he stood on the Two men who had jostled him in the crowd leaped from the car and ‘escaped. Risch has only one arm and was unable to hold either of the men as they struggled to get off the moving street car. He grabbed the legs of the man whose hand he felt in his inside coat pocket, but he was pushed away and knocked down by the man’s accomplice. Risch told the police that the rob- bery took place so quickly that the men leaped from the car and got away before other passengers knew what had happened. He said he did not get a good leok at his assailants, and could not identify either of them. He could give the police no descrip- tion of the hizhwaymen except to say that they were youthful in ap- pearance, Risch went to the Bank, Fourth and Olive International streets, about 11 o’clock. He drew out 111 and placed it with the check an note in his bankbook and put the book in his inside coat pocket, he told the police. He got on a Fourth street car intending to go to his home at 2801 Indiana avenue. After he had ridden about blocks Risch felt himself being jostled by a man who stood at his right side. He next felt a hand in the pocket containing the bankbook and money. As he tried to grab the hand, he was pushed back by an- other man who stood at his left, evi- dently a companion of the thief. Risch felt the hand take the bankbook : the pocket as he was pushed from | back by the second man, and grabbed the legs of the man at his right. The other man gave him a hard push, Risch said, and he lost his hold on the legs of the robber and fell backward to the floor of the platform. The two men left the car and fled,.one of the men stepping over Risch as he leaped to- ward the steps of the platform. The platform was crowded at the time the robbery was committed, Risch told the police, but none of the passengers seemed to realize that a crime had been committed. Several told Risch they thought the struggle was simply a con- troversy between the three men as to the amount of room each should occupy on the platform. isch returned to the bank and sif~ped payment on the check, and or- Aan the net canceled. Bank of- ficials called a patrolman and Risch told his story. He could give no clew by which the robber could be traced, and said he could not aid in their identification in any way. He said sev- eral passengers on the platform of the. car told him they had not noticed the men closely, and could not describe any of their features which might lead to the identification. $50,000 TO $100,000 ‘LOOT IN TRAIN HOLDUP Five Persons Held for Robbery in South, Bloodhounds Search Swamps. TUSCALOOSA, Ala., Sept. 27.—Five two | | body of Mrs. Rebecca P. Gay, tian Science practitioner, was found in CHRISTIAN SCIENCE HEALER MURDERED Woman's Body Found Covered With Religious Newspapers in Her Office. LOS ANGELES, Cal., Sept. 27.—The a Chris- her office this morning, where she had been murdered with a piece of gas pipe. There were evidences that the murderer bad tried to hurl the body of his vic- tim. from the window of the office, which was on the fifth floor. The police discovered no evidence of a motive for the crime, which apparently was committed early last night. The body was covered with copies of relig- lous newspaper, and the woman’s mon- ey was in her purse. Mrs. Gay was the divorced wife of John J. Gay, a wealthy San Diegan, and was between 40 and 50 years old. A brother, Lemuel Conner, is an attorney in Natchez, Man. NATION WIDE TOAST FOR PANAMA OPENING San Francisco Suggests Plans and There Whistles Will Blow When Dyke Is 3 Torn Away. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 27.—Officials of the Panama Exposition suggested to- day that a toast to “The Panama Canal and the 1915 International Exposition. whiea celebrates its completion, be of- fered throughout the nation at every dinner, luncheon or banquet held Fri day. Oct. 10, the day set by the United States Government for blasting the last dike to allow the water to — the Panama Canal. San Francisco will celebrate we occa- sion with the blowing of whistles and general rejoicing throughout the city, the signal for which will be the firing of an aerial bomb. Phone your Want Ad to the Post- Dis. patch, Olive—6600—Central. Your credit’s god if you rent a phone, or * drug · gist will phone the ad. NO. 38. BLE LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1913—-12 PAGES. LAWYER ARRESTED: WARRANT FOR MAN WHO SUED DOCTOR Train Auditor and His Attorney Acused of Attempted Rob- bery in Third Degree. $5000 DEMAND CHARGED Alleged Money Was Asked Be- cause Dr. B. Shanklin Went on Trip With Auditot’s Wife. — ed a Warrants were issued, Saturday, against Cordell C. Simmons, a train auditor living at 1419 Missouri av- enue, and Pleasant P. Mason, a law- yer in the Lasalle Building, by As- sistant Circuit Attorney Baer, charg- ing them with attempted err in the third degree. The warrants are based on the com- plaint of Dr. Benjamin Shanklin of 1514 South Jefferson avenue, accord- ing to Baer, who asserted’ that Sim- mons and Mason demanded that he pay them $5000 under penalty of be- ing prosecuted for alleged violation of the Mann Act by accompanying Mrs. Simmons, wife of the train au- ditor, to Yellowstone Park in Au- gust. Refused to Pay Amount. Dr. Shanklin refused to pay the amount asked, he told Baer, and a suit was filed against him Sept. 29 by Simmons for $20,000 for the al- leged alienation of Mrs. Simmons’ affections. Baer told reporters that he con- strued an effort to obtain money from a person hy threats to be an at- tempted robbery, and issued war- rants on -that theory. Simmons says in his petition in the damage suit that Dr. Shanklin used his position as his family physician to win his way into the graces of Mrs. Simmons, ‘he doctor was warned by him to cease his attentions, the petition asserts, but ignored the re- quests, and on Aug. 25 last he and Mrs. Simmons left St. Louis together for Yellowstone Park. Couple Marrieg 25 Years, Dr. Shanklin is a single man, and is about 50 years old, according to Simmons. The Simmonses were mar- ried 25 years ago and lived together until Mrs. Simmons departed on the alleged Yellowstone Park trip. Their grown daughter lives with her father Mason was arrested and was released on bond for his appearance to answer the charge. He told the police that he represented Simmons in a legal capacity, and that he made efforts 0 settle the alienation suit before the papers were filed in the court. He said that if trying to settle a proposed law- sult is attempted robbery, he is se- riously mistaken in his i@eas of law. In conferences with Dr. Shanklin, he said, Simmons offered to accept $5000 in settlement of the proposed suit, and Dr. Shanklin offered only $2500. Failing to reach an agreement as to the amount, the suit was filed, he said. BOWNE GETS A DIVORCE Decree Against Actress Who Eloped With Mott Granted in Trenton. NEW YORK, Sept. 27. Walter Bowne, whose wife, formerly Fran- ces Hewett, an actress, eloped ir May, 1912, with Jordan Lawrence Mott, scion of the millionaire tron foundry family, has been granted a divorce by the court in Trenton, N. J., on the grounds of desertion. The Biggest Toad in the Puddle! Here is overwhelming proof of the stupendous pulling power of the POST-DISPATCH as an advertising medium when compared with the other St. Louis newspapers. Look what has happened this week on four consecutive ISABELLE VALLE AND ENGLISHMAN ARE MARRIED Archbishop Glennon Performs Ceremony in Home by Special Dispensation. —— | COUPLE DEPART AT ONCE Is Called “Best-Looking Girl in America“ and Met Fiance Last May. She Miss Isabel Valle “the best looking girl in America’ and one of the 10

HELD ON MAIL CHARGES : WELVE men indicted by the | T Federal grand jury Saturday | on charges of selling a New Jersey bog to physicians and preachers as high-class town lots at the gateway to New York city were: Thomas H. Smart, Ben H. Lange. Harry E. Davia, H. L. Graham, Fred Graham, Max A. Jacobs, Carter Jacobs, August Levy, E. W. Enderle. C. C. May, L. N. Phillipson, F. A. Chopin. 1 — z=. : New York City. Now, as @ matter of fact, the “indictment gravely sete forth, there were only six tunnels. District Attorney Houts has not figured out unt how much the lot owners will gain by the loss of eight tunnels, but the prob- lem will be put up to the jury whee tries the case. Smart is said to be in st. Louis 5 give bond for himself and his agents He learned that the investigation of the land deal was being pursued by Post- office inspectors and came to St. Louis ay to endeavor to prevent indictments being | = issued. , “4 St. Louisans Are Witnesses. Among the witnesses who appeared | before the Federal grand jury tified that they had been Gefra the purchase of the lots were Priesser, 2612 South Jefferson av ; George H. Sherteve of 2656 Russell ave- nue and Thomas M. Naughten, 17 Franklin avenue of St. Louls: M. Lawless, Joplin; George . E Dr. L. W. Foster and ö “a Moon, Indianapolis; Miss L. P. bei, John H. Young and Fred Crosby, Kan- sas City; Dr. Peter H. Spiron, Cong ville, III.: Dr. Charles B. Horrell, Galess*’ burg, III.: Thomas N. Long, Columbus. O.; Isabella N. Andrew, 464 Washing, > 3 ton avenue, St. Louis; J. D. Faéhett 7 Cleveland; Rev. George Allenbach, Lin- Christopher Trapper-Lomax, stopped here for a visit while on their way around the world. Trapper-Lomax had been here twice before, once during the World’s Fair, when he was the guest of George Ingram Drew, with whom he and young Nelson had been classmates persons were held in the Tuscaloosa County Jail early today, suspected of having some connection with the Alabama & Great Southern train rob- The persons to whom the lots were of- fered were led to believe by Smart and his agents that they had been spe- clally selected ag favored purchasers. The agents flattered the victims with the statements that they were men of influence, whose names would be good coin, Neb.: Charles E. Dunbar. Dan ville, III.: Fred Lindsey and A, J. ou. meyer, Keokuk, Io. Several hundred lots were sold in 8 Louis and scores of the purchaserm com- plained to Federal authorities days—namely, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Fri- day—when the POST-DISPATCH on each day carried more advertising than three of the other four St. Louis papers all added together. Here are the actual measurements: demanded that Hurzan step into the hall. Hurzan's answer was three shots a; from a revolver. Collins returned the | fire, two charges from his shetgun | striking Hurzan in the abdomen. | The wounded man staggered into the hall still firing his revolver. He fought THE TEMPERATU RES, Yesterday's Temperatures. bery. Several officials, however, believe High. .67 at 3 p. m. Low. .50 at 6 a. m. the actual robbers have not been cap- That French- tured, and the chasg, through the swamps was continued. Bloodhounds led the searchers to a stained hat in a swamp, which is believed to have ‘been worn by one of the three rob- bers. The mail clerks assert that one of the bandits cut his hand on a broken light globe in the mail car. Chief Bodeker of Birmingham and other officers estimate the booty of «the bandits at $50,000, but say it may be double this amount. It is known that three bags of money were taken, and a large ship- ment of currency is said to have been billed to a New Orleans concern. Of- ficers believe the robbers were aware of the unusually heavy shipment of rapney. JAP ULTIMATUM IGNORED Three Days of Grace Expire, but China Fails to Apologize. N. — The three days LONDON, Sept. ee - allowed to China by Japan in its ulti- POST-DISPATCH alone. .67 columns . 47 columns Tuesday .. b eas Wednesday .. Thursday ........95 columns Friday ...,......85 columns 8 out of 4 of the other St. Louis papers all added together. 55 columns 42 columns Globe-Democrat, Re- 22 and Times, its —— — eae petitors, added together. 84 columns 77 columns To do more business any one day than three-fourths of our competitors all added together would be something to be proud of, but to swamp three of them added together on each of four consecutive days is astounding. All of the business of the POST-DISPATCH is legiti- mate and bona fide and not worked up to make a showing. It comes to this paper only because it brings people into the stores of the advertisers. * St. Louis ONE BIG Newspaper. Average circulation first 8 months 1913; Daily Exclusive of Sunday), 171, 845 Sunday, 304,867 at Stonyhurst. Nelson's world tour was never fin- ished. He joined the party of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Riggs Jr. for a trip to Alaska, to be with Miss Valle and on completion of this trip hastened home to complete the arrangements for his marriage. Miss Valle was educated at Mary In- stitute, the Sacred Heart Convent and at Briarcliff Manor, New York. Bride’s Family in Mourning, The spring and summer preceeding her debut she and her mother traveled in “Europe and visited Mrs. Jesse Jan- uary, Italy. It was a small wedding, with only the pride’s immediate family and a few closs friends present, as the Valles are still in mourning for Mrs. Valle, who died | about a year ago in Newport, R. I. The bride wore a gown of her mother’s which has been refashioned. It is of finest white net with a design of trail- ing roses embroidered in white Am over a petticoat of white satin. The high-waisted drapery falling like angel sleeves over the arm and down the back edged with pearl trimming. Her veil was of tulle, arranged under a close-fitting cap of the embroidered net and she carried a bouquet of white ee ane ities of the valley. THEY RE TRYING To CRACK THAT GLASS- OWEN Vedrines, who flew 118 miles an hour, 18 % man, the swiftest pro- position ever.“ re- marked Wiggs. "On, I don't know,” replied Jiggs. “I've seen a man make bet- who was Miss Grace Valle, Dr. | Valle’s sister at her villa at San Remo, | ter time than that.” “In plane?“ On, foot.“ Don't believe it: it’s absurd.“ an aero- no — on es, it was ab- surd, I'll admit.“ “Well, who and how was it?” “at was a fellow who owed me a month’s rent and when I went to collect it his stenographer said he was in Chi- cago, though I'd seen him in his pri- vate office, through the glass door, not three seconds before. Official forecast for St. Louls and viciaity: Fair tonight; Sunday in- creasing cioudiness with shewers Sunday night; warmer. Migsouri—-Unsettied weather, with showers ty * „ ee 1 rr ey ERO See BaP eae tartar | with the officers until he was knocked don. county jall. Five minutes later he was in the Mobs began to gather on the streets shortly after the arrest became known and Company F of the Fourth Regi- ment, Illinois National Guard, was as- sembled at the armory, momentarily ex- | becting a call for riot duty. All hardware dealers and merchants have been ordered to sell no firearms nor ammunition. Two of the men implicated by Hur.- san’s confession have been arrested. 'SHONTS IS FOREMAN OF | ANNA AUMUELLER JURY NEW YORK, Sept. 27.—Coroner Fein- berg said today that Theodore P. Shonts, president of the Interborough Rapid Transit Co. would act as fore- man on the jury that will sit at the inquest on the ma Aumueller murder case. The Coroner expects there will de more distinguished men on this jury than on any other that ever served in New York County. Among those sum- moped are J. F. Morgan, Robert L. Gerry, Harry Payne Whitney, Henry Siegel and George W. Fairchild. willing to act as jurors, advertising material and would aid in the sale of other lotsa. They were led to believe, the indictment charges, that they were purchasing the lots at excep- tional bargain prices. Cost Smart 63.50 Each. Smart is said to have purchased from the Assets Holding Corporation 140 lots, each 2% by 100 feet, in the bog for $3.50 each. These lots were resold to purchasers on the representation that they were within the corporate lim- its of Spottewood, a town of 8) peo- ple, and that they adjoined Spottswood Terrace, a beautiful residence district. When the purchasers went to see thei lots “at the very door of New York City,” they found them to be under water and the breeding places of the famous New Jersey mosquitoes, ac- cording to District Attorney Houts, who directed the investigation of the alleged fraud. They were not on the Pennsylvania rullroad, as represented, but on another railroad and were one hour and min- utes from New York City, instead of minutes. Eight Tunnels Retter Off. In just one respect, however, the property had one greater advantage that E N 692.POUND MAN WI HAVE 12 PALL BEARERS John B. Lynch, „Wo — No. 6 Shoe, Dies of Fatty Degeneration of Heart. Twelve pallbearers and a : three times the dimensions of needed for an ordinary sized 1 will be required when the body of | John B. Lynch, 43 years old, d wid-_ ower, of 2339% Clark avenue, ‘Looe led Monday afternoon. * weighed 692 pounds when he at St. John's Hospital Friday 4 — noon from fatty degeneration of the heart. Seo Ten years ago Lynch was an ö nary sized man, but in ae | 1. I — became was his small fcot on a No. 6 shoe, his hands and he was onl * ea 2 height. 3 al cachet was ö be bull it 2 1