St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 4, 1913

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—23 years with aten, 8.5 the next ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 4, 1913—22 PAGES. Man Who Slashed Car aR cally t Wife and Girl They Offended “VOL. 66. NO. 76, „ eff BREAKS. VENICE BANKER'S NECK IN FALL ON | HOME ROBBED OF STAIRS AT HOME] CASH AND JEWELS W. E. R. Kemp Is Found by] Financier Reports Loss of $100 Wife After He Makes Trip Cash, $700 Jewels and to Basement. $40,000 Securities. — C il il il il P 8 Temperatures. High. .64 at 3 p. m. Low ..49 at 5 a. . “Well, I see the weather man says it is going to get colder,”’ said Jiggs. ‘Ich soll gen,“ Riggs. ‘What's that?“ “Quare dolendum est “I don’t think I get that.“ “Yo me agita- ria.” “Say, do you mean Isch ca bib- ble?“ es. worry.“ Witt iT Be W YORK WN. OR TAMMA Nix sor- replied 2 N * * re Cen EN, 5 ae BG Pate ae ait . . N b * ri e 5 Pu Phe RET eh 2 Bak Pave 2 Pas, ref J 1 Bes ake 8 a, Ss . N A Ss a at > “ * * 1 1 a ants ~y TO HUERTA 0 qui Secretary Departs From Rule x Silence in Such Cases to Declare f 5 Ultimatum Report Unfounded. ~~ af n CAN’T LIVE, DOCTORS SAY BLOODHOUND TAKES TRAIL Emptied Japan Box Is Found— Daughter, Hearing Thief, Not Suspicious at Time. Although Conscious, He Is Un- able to Tell How Acci- dent Occurred. 5 | genic $700,000 Steer Says Property ant Who Died in Was Divided in Trust. own 3 C. Steer filed suit Tuesday to ; as the will of his father, F. A. Steor. which | disposed of an estate whose valve je son places at $700,000. He namen det. te his three sisters, Mrs. Tha 8. Leahy, Mrs. Edward W. Bent- i ‘Mrs. Frank H. Nay and their Fred Kohl of Venice, president of the Granite City Trust and Savings Co. and vice-president of the First National Bank of Granite City, reported to the Venice police Tuesday that 4 burglar had robbed his home, taking about $700 worth of jx«welry and securities valued at $40,000. In a subsequent report to the St. Louis police he told only of the loss of the jewelry. He did say that some value- less papers had been taken from a safe, but that he had found them later scat- tered around the house and yard. When a Post-Dispatch correspondent later asked him about the St. Louis, report, he said the worthless papers he mentioned were some receipts that the thief had culled from the box and thrown away as he ran, but that the man kept the securities. Robs Daughter’s ‘Room. According to the report at Venice, Kohl, his wife, four daughters and a sol. were at dinner Monday evening. when the burglar climbed upon a porch ard got in gt a windew on the second floor. From the room of Kohl's daugh- ter, Miss Frieda, he bock three diamond rings, a diamcnd set bracelet, a pear! necklace, a bead necklace, » old * bag. From Kohl’s den, which adjoined the daughter’s room, he took a japan box which contained the . papers, 31⁰⁰ in cash, a $20 bank note, the firtzt signed by Kohl as president of the First Na- tional Bank of Granite City, which he had preserved as a souvenir. W. E. R. Kemp, an attorney. 24 years old, is at the point of death at the Dea- coness Hospital as the result of a fall down a flight of stairs at his home, 5063 Von Versen avenue, Monday morning. His neck was broken in two places and his collar bones were fractured as was shown by X-ray photographs. and at- tending surgeons say he cannot possibly tecover. Kemp was found lying at the foot of the basement stairs by his wife, Mrs. Nellie Sands Bright Kemp, shortly after $ a.m. He was conscious, but unable to tell how the accident occurred. He said he believed he tripped on the top step. One of his house slippers was found on the landing above. 3 * Wife Heard Him Fall. Kemp’s wife and mother-in-law, Mrs W. W. Bright, heard him fall, but be- lieved the noise was made by the laun- dress. A minute later they heard Kemp calling feebly to his wife and found him at-the bottom of the steps. Mrs. Bright and Mrs. Kemp carriea Kemp upstairs and placed him on a bed while the laundress, who had been at work in the yard, ran for a physician. A brief examination showed his condition Was very serious and he was removed at once to the hospital for an X-ray ex- amination. The photographs showed his reck was broken in two places. The young man, known to his friends as Bert' Kemp, graduated from the Washington Uniyersity law department in 1911 and later became associated with the law firm of Lewis & Rice. Later he went into partnership with George Lo- gan and established offices in the New at ae Bank of Commerce Building. I should Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Fair and colder tonight and tomorrow; lowest temperature tonight will be above the freezing Stage of the river: 5 of .1 of a foot. Missouri—Fair tonight and tomorrow; cold- er tonight. Ulinoise—Generally fair tonight and tomor- row; slightly cooler in south and east por- tion tonight. HUSBAND'S BLACK EYES WIFE’S DIVORCE EXHIBIT He Appears Just After She Tes- tifles He Drank to Excess and Decree Is Given to Her. Just after Mrs. Ethel Lyons of 1932 North Broadway had testified in Jude Cave’s court Tuesday that her husband drank to excess, and while the Judge was pondering whether he should grant her a divorce, the husband, John J. Lyons, walked into the courtroom Both his eyes were discolored. Here is an exhibit in this case. Ycur Honor.“ exclaimed A. A. O' Hal- loran, Mrs. Lyons’ lawyer. “I ask per- mission to put him on the stand, if there is any doubt of my client’s right to have a decree.” The Judge assented, although Lyons’ appearance had been a surprise to all, the case having been on the default docket, in which defendants do not usu ally appear. Jour wife charges that you drink to excess, the lawyer began. i hat's not the question,” Lyons re- torted, but the Court him that it was the quéstion. 80 Md u he drank occasionally, and that the bruises on his face were inflicted in Kansas City. He said they resulted in some way which he did not make clear;: from worry over his wife’s di- vorce suit. The Judge then granted a decree to Mrs. Lyons, with custody of her two children, and $5 a month alimony for their care. MONKEYS TEAR ORCHIDS AT STOTESBURY DINNER. Parrots. Also Are Turned Loose point. "tear: a fall Interest in Washington in. His Meeting With Diplomats— Air ol Confidence in Attitude of Powers in Ac ministration Circles Wilson Goes Home to Vote. charged that Leahy, who was Steer’s counsel, used, undue in- fluenc ‘to get him to execute his will, : ack ve dated Oct. 2%, 1906. iny ither Was Incapabie. 2 alle 1s that Leahy caused the pur- wi’ to be prepared and caused r to execute it. He says his father at that time, of sound mind, or —4 of making a will. 5 «dog will, he states, the estate was ivided chiefly among the three daugh- Tue son's only share, he states . life interest in a fund of 360, %. ‘ by the terms of the will, was 0 his mother, Mrs. Margaret Steer. se for his benefit. The mother the father, and the 800, %½0 thee trust tund in Leahy’s care. clared unfounded the 2 8 dispateh ‘from Mexicé City which ai id that Washington had sent an ultimatum demanding that Huertas 4 resign the presidency without loss of time. | 77 Discussing this, Bryan said: 855 I have made it a rule not to discuss newspaper reports concerning international matters; but the nature of the dis- patches from Mexico this morning ane a e trom the rule at this time. . MRS: ALICE JACKSON gad HER DAUGHTER MAY. CUTS 3 MEN WHO REFUSE Jo QUIT cd fron nds ne pee yg SMOKING ON CAR ments in rofurd to ternational matters mag’ lead u. gte Edna, another of the daughters, was in | : : 2 . „„ N consequences, I feel Joatibied in making the above dei legal adviser for the Resp Water- her room on the second floor. She heard Vv. | President Wilson let the Mexican sif- 7 He is lega 2 = ee. st be evi’ e e bot sunpousd Robert Jackson Wields Knife uation simmer a few hours today n it was a member of the family. When Passengers Give No Con- he went to pone Ver 2 to yote. sideration to Daughter. peter ey: Was Recently Married. thar e. we married den- n, 40 Misa 4 Abandoned Box. War Nele Sands Bright, daughter of W. W.. jeda dtsebvered the robbery Bright, a civil engineer in one of the when she went upstairs after dinner. ! a city. departments, and a niece of G. W. The police were notified: and a blood-] Robert Jackson, 43 years old, a shoe- Sands, president of the Missouri & hound was put on the trail. Following] „orker of 4322 San Francisco avenue, Nerthern Arkansas Railroad Co. the track taken by the dog, the police | came mpon the empty . pan box,’ which who, a ig wife and 99-year-old daughter, ay, was going nome on a AUTO FROM WHICH HE SPEEDS CARRIES SHERIFF had been thrown on the ground. The trail led into Madison, where a chamois| Wellston owl car at 1 a. m. Tuesday, case that had held ae oi" the 8 slashed two young men with a knife sto watches, was found. 1 * when fellow passengers refused his re- Joseph Pulitzer Ir. Trying to quest that they quit smoking cigarettes. Escape Dust Is Fined for Fast Driving. Joseph Pulitzer Jr. of 3836 Lindet! bou- at a saloon door. Marks of dirty hands and muddy shoes Jackson angrily protested that the smoke was making the little girl ill, levard, president of the Pulitzer Pub- lishing Co., pleaded guilty to a charge é * nate that the press should give credence to such a oun The 3 harm done by speculation or even inaccuracies in regard to “A domestic questions is limited, because the people are acquainted Ae with the subject and can make allowances ; but as misstate- een of Mrs. Julia Leahy, 1 awy wife, is larger than that ny y other heir, Steer alleges. 6 are Steer’s at- mete ter the ume or F. A. ee ee placed ot the estate at 3800,00. y” Steer, as the plaintiff is gener- 2 to his friends, has been em- a 13 the haberdashery founded by * touch with the aftuation * ete | every hour during, the day and veyed. to — 5 to return to Washington tonight. The — — — President left here at 10 bcleek this ‘ morning expecting to arrive in Princetoa at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon, cast his . ballot, leave Princeton at 4:20 Q’clock ‘gener Rabago pi and. arrive-back in the capital at % aum to his chief late tonight. | Attitude of the Powers. FIGHTIN NSA An air of confidence in official circles taken to indicate that the United or BUSCH. IS ED BY W. C. T. U. * sntion at Asbury Park, N. pe Its Resolution to Congress. PARK, N. J., Nov. 4.—The } Christian Temperance Union, ~ session here, unanimously and wired to Congress today oa oe on a pillar of the porch gave a clew as to how the burglar entered the residence. and then, in rage, drew a knife. He was cutting a third man when a negro Kohl said most of the missing securi- detective disarmed and arrested him. ties consisted of bonds, stucks, mopft- a The car was crowded. Jackson was States is satisfied that practically all gages and notes. He said he believed the great Powers have agreed to support nh denouncing Congress for the An, in the Congressional Record logy of Adolphus Busch, deliv- Amid Orange Trees in Belle- vue Stratford. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 4—The d- of “careless and reckless: driving“ and was fined $35 and costs in Justice WII- lecken's court at Clayton, Tuesday. most of them were nonnegot.able. Other members of his family, at the time he was in St. Louis, said they feared at sent to police headquarters. Mrs. Jackson gave her version of the affair to a reporter. Her husband was BOIL CAUSED IT ALL the administration’s policy, at least to the extent of observing a strictly neutral attitude and allowing the United States Sheriff Bode made the arrest Sunday and was the prosecuting witness. The warrant charged that Pulitzer ran his automobile # miles an hour on the Lu- cas-Hunt road, near Wellston. Pulitzer appeared in court without an attorney. After he had pleaded guilty he told Justice Willecken that after turn- ing south into the Lucas-Hunt road from the Natural Bridge road he found another machine in front of him. Not wishing to take this machine’s dust he increased his speed from less than 15 miles to about 20 miles an hour and passed it. | Later the other machine increased its speed and to prevent it from passing least $20,000 of the securities would be ann STATUS OF BON DS UNDER INCOME TAX PUZZLES = 2 t the brewer's funeral. The res“ es as follows: : 2 National Women's Christian Union, in a convention as mt Asbury Park, N. J., repre- ntir over $00,000 women, earnestly sabe — placing in the permanent on Record the funeral ora- to test its own plan for restoring peace jin Mexico. Ses Senator Racon, 8 of the For- eign Relations Committee, after a con- ference with Secretary Bryan, said: 1 consider the situation to be nearer a conclusion. We are very hopeful that things will turn out well.“ ‘ In the absence of any official state- ment, but on the basis of expressions of opinions by competent observers, it is believed that Huerta has been informed that practically all the Powers diplo- ; matically represented in the Mexican capital are disposed to defer to the | United States in the task of restoring Mrs. Anna Canavan, 28, Tells on Stand That Man. Jostled Her on Street Car. arrested when the car, westbound, reached Cardinal avenue. ; Cirl Suffering From Cold, She said they were returning from un undertaking establishment at Thir- teenth street and Franklin avenue, where the body of Jackson’s mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Jackson, who died Sun- day evening, was awaiting burial. Jack- son took a seat behind his wife and daughter and a few minutes later re- quested two young men to quit smoking vigarettes because, he said, he feared ine smoke would have a bad effect upon his daughter, who was suffering from a severe cold. She was coughing ward T. Stotesburys gave their first epectacular entertainment of the seasop last night in an after-supper at the Belleyue-Stratford, at which chattering monkeys entertained the guests by pull- ing to pieces priceless orchids with which the rooms were literally filled. There were two real attractions—the over the remains of] monkeys and the trimmings of the ball- © Adoirhus Busch, a brewer ot room. a: é There were orchids and more orchids. 1 | There were also large orange trees with "TER IN. PARK IS : real oranges growing, which the guests BY WATCHMAN 1 : 2 EIA SRR I 2 . N pe 8 esa e 3 * * Mrs. Anna Canavan, 28 years old, who gave her address as 4217 Delmar boule- vard and said her husband was businesr agent for the Moving Picture Operators“ Union, wore a picture hat, a black char- meuse shirt waist, a .tailor-made. skirt, and dainty silver-buckled shoes when she stepped from the prisoners’ cage into the Dayton Street Police Court Tuesday. Mrs. Canavan had been 8 a holdover Washington Authorities Con- sider Question Raised by Belle- ville Improvement Securities. The officials of the Treasury De- partment at Washington have not de- cided whether a city improvement bond is to be classified as a munici- pal bond. Recently the banks at Belleville notified City Treasurer: E. nne plucked when they felt so disposed. To Age 4 First at Kansas City Offi- make the tropical effect more complete talking parrots were turned loose to ay vee 1 ee Forbade Him to 3 4 — at a Squirrel. AS CITY, Mo., Nov. 4.—4 ho refused to obey a com- i that he cease shooting in the ae shot and killed instantly ages Frank Robinson, a special » in Bwope Park. There were 10 means of identification ® hunter's body. on Was attracted to a distant region of the park by the or shots. He found the hunter s act of shooting a squarrel and The hunter keep the monkeys company. PRIEST FOR 30 YEARS Declines to Accept. Bounty of continue to accept $50 a month from a benevolent society for pensioned priests, the Rev. Michael C. Pyplatz, for 30 years pastor of the St. Joseph Polish Catholic newspapers on Chicago streets. stand at State and Madison streets: TO SELL NEWSPAPERS Benevolent Society When He Is Able to Work. CHICAGO, Nov. 4.—Rather than Church, will sell This irscription will hang above the H. Gay of Blackinton, star player of the Ursinus College team, died in a hospital here today from a broken neck suffered in a football game Saturday. him and giving him its dust, he said, he algo put on more speed, but did not realize that he was running 40 miles an hour. The machine whose dust Pulitzer was trying to escape was Sheriff Bode's. STAR ATHLETE, TACKLED IN FOOTBALL GAME, DIES PHOENIXVILLE, Pa., Nov. 4.—George Mass., former Gay was playing fullback on the Union P. Leuschner they would not pay in- terest on city improvement bonds after Nov. 1, because of the income tax law. At Leuschner’s request, City Clerk Beineke wrote to Washington, asking whether improvement bonds would be considered municipal bonds, and thus exempt from taxation under the in- come tax law, and whether the City Treasurer should deduct the income tax when he paid the interest to bond- holders. The Treasury Department instructs the City Treasurer to refrain from deducting the income tax for the present. The department says it has not been decided whether city im- provement bonds would be exempt. and the smoke aggravated her condi- tion. The smokers paid no heed to the re- quest, Mrs. Jackson said, and Jackson appealed to the conductor, who told him he could not interfere because the company’s rules permitted smoking on owl cars. Then the smokers, according to Mrs. Jackson, began jeering Jackson. One of them remarked, ‘We should wor- ry.“ she said, and another celiberately turned in his seat and blew heavy rings of smoke at the little girl’s face. Mre. Jackson said she was about 0 tell her husband not to pay any atten- tion to his tormentors, when he sud- denly sprang from his seat and began slashing with his knife. Each Cut on Face. cell nearly eight’ hours before going to court, but she was cheerful. She smiled |, broadly when Martin Gahan of 4647 Page boulevard was brought in from the men’s cage. i They were charged with disturbing the peace, having fought with each other on a Page boulevard car at midnight. Boll Caused’ Fight; She Sars. Mrs. Canavan's defense was that she had a boil on her knee. constitutional government. “den — teed eae ee to the ‘Huerta s conference with the resident members of the diplomatic body is taken but for aan to bear out that theory. The opinion bere is that it would naturally follow that the de facto President would call on the diplomatists to make sure that the positions of their governments had teen correctly stated and that they were aligned with. the United States. . ‘the. ot Huerta was lthe Tundamental principle ot the admin- “you can ask Dr. Mook if 1 haven't got a boll on my knee,“ she said on the witness. stand. I had been to East St. Louis to see my sis- er and was going home on a car when that man; Gahan, whom I had never seen, sat down beside me. He jostled against me and hurt the boil istration policy has been admitted al) along, but beyond this the successtv>| steps taken or contemplated are not dis- closed. * * 0 + rn * n Nen r n ee : . D Tat a ) r e * et a * e 4 — 2 mes E. Club team against the Pottstown eleven and was running with the ball when he was tackied from behind. He was | thrown heavily and became unconscious. Gay was carried from the field and the game was continued. An examination “This is Father Pyplats, who for 30 ‘years served his people in St. Joseph's parish at Armitage avenue and Forty- eighth street, in South Chicago.” The retired Polish father declarea that it is not just to the bene volent society to take the money when he The wounded men were taken to the Central Dispensary, where they said they were Oscar Nelson, 18 years old, of 3526 Market street; Frank McCamis., W. of 4128 Cozens avenue, and John Rob- ertson, 26, of 5206 Garfield avenue. Each was cut on the face and neck. Nelson on my knee. That's why 1 fought him.” Patrolman Buchanan's version was different. He said he was on the car when Mrs. Canavan boarded it in a happy mood. She had pleasant SLAYER OF WOMAN PUTS FINGER PRINT ON CHILD Marks on Crying Baby’s Fore- Not Too Busy to Han- of Applications. is able to work. Payment of $26,650 Completes Sum, Said to Be Largest to Feminine Attorney. * . 4 9 ＋ 10 5 Hiri: revealed that Gay was paralyxed, indi- cating bis spine had been injured. Gay was an allround athlete. He for- merly was captain of the Ursinus foot- ball team and was captain of the base- ball nine last year. He was coach of the soceer team and this year was assistant coach of the Ursinus football squadron. He was to have graduated next June. He was N years old. ULSTER TO PAY NO TAXES head May Aid in Idéntify- ing Stiletto User. CHICAGO, Nov. 4—Mrs. Samuel ‘Cito, 2 years old, was slain today in the kitchen of her flat in the Italian quar- ter. The alarm was given by her 6- year-old child. Police found her lying de ad on the floor, the stiletto which had been used still piercing her body. A year-old baby was splashing and Crying nearby in 4 tub of water. Mrs Cito had been bathing the child. slayer was said to be a young man wearing a brown sweater and gray trou Sers. At Mrs. Cito’s side was another of her was the most seriously wounded. Jackson uses the shoe knife in his work at the Sunlight shoe factory, where he has been employed as a vamper. . Grief over the death of his mother and the death May 930 of a daughter, Sarah Jackson, II yeers old, greatly depressed him, Mrs. Jackson said. An effort was made by friends tz: get Jackson out on bond so that he could attend 1 mother’s funeral in the afternoon. ROOSEVELT IS IN URUGUAY things to say to the conductor and the policeman. a Hite Man With Purse, At Ninth street and Washington avenue Gahan got on the car. He was in a happy mood. After he had exchanged pleasantries with many of the passengers, Gahan was’ induced by the conductor to sk down. He took the seat next to Mra. Cansvan. In a few minutes Gebgn and Mrs. She_ struck | ¥** Canavan were fighting. him on the head with her purse and beat him with her fists. Buchanan arrested them. “It never would bere happened uctor en a 3 > Sg po Fine ; ae Pie i by t . ak «ee rat ae. * — ‘the th: wg 2. oe