St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 4, 1913

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By Associated Press. | PLYMOUTH, Deo. 4—Wind and sea today helped the police to evade the posse of suffragettes who had planned to prevent the rearrest of Mrs. Emme- fine Pankhurst under the provisions of the “cat and mouse act.” A heavy sea was running in the har- bor when the steamship Majestic an- chored. The waves, while they did not affect the powerful police tug, were foo much for the little motor boat which fhe militant suffragettes had engaged to head off the policemen. The occu- pants, who included “General” Mrs. Nora Drummond and other leaders, were @renched to the skin before they reached the liner. The Majestic, under police orders, had anchored outside the breakwater. The gea delayed the little suffragette war- ship so much that it did not arrive at the side of the big liner until the police were leading Mrs. Pankhurst down the gangway. The militants shouted to her through their megaphones: „Don't land! The cats are after you!” Protests Are Unavaliling. Mrs. Penkhurst protested against her arrest and asked to see the warrant. It was explained to her that no war- rant was necessary. At her request, ‘Mrs. Rheta Childe Dorr, an American suffragist, was permitted to accompany her. * N Six policemen and a wardress boarded the steamer to prevent any of the pas- sengers interfering with the officers del- Two motor cars were waiting in the ‘Women who took sentry duty in relays outside’ the jails at Bristol were at- tacked by a. hostile crowd and several ons were hurt in the struggles. Pankhurst was lodged in Exeter ail. After she and the officers landed from the tug 0 their rou Comptroller, Says Election - Bhowed Futility of Third ee ae Party. n NEW YORK, Deco. 4—William A. Prendergast, Comptroller of New York, formally announced his withdrawal to- @ay from the Progressive party, which consider, his statement says, “that 12 8 E 33 L * 8 * 5 — ‘ ‘ M. J. Hurley Sued Bolts Doors Service Against St. Louisan on Breach of Promise Ac- tion Prevented by Sten- ographers; He Says He’s Wrong Man. The Baroness Ursula Barbara von Kalinowski of Wiesbaden, Germany, filed a suit for $2,500,000 in the United States District Court, Thursday, against Michael J. Hurley, secretary of the Central Paint and Supply Co., with of- fices in the Railway Exchange Build- ing, alleging that Hurley failed to keep bis promise to marry her. a After the suit was filed Hurley re- mained behind locked doors in his ot - fice suite while Deputy United States Marshal Fickeisen vainly tried to serve the papers on him. A man who said he represented Hur- ley, but refused to divulge his name, kept watch in an outer office. This man told reporters that the Baroness had tracked down the wrong man and that it was not Michael J. Hurley who jilted Baroness. Stemographer Locks Door. When Deputy Marshal Fickeisen went to Hurley's office suite to serve the pa- pers he was told by two young women stenographers that Hurley was in an inner office and could not be disturbed. When Fickeisen started toward the door of the inner office one of the stenog- raphers ran past him and taking a key from her apron pocket locked the door. Fickeisen was then told he might wait in an ante-room. When he had stepped into this ante-room the other stenog- rapher locked another door leading to Hurley’s private office. Fickeisen then notified the Marshal that he had been unable to serve the papers. Deputy Marshal Watson in the Federal Building then called Hurley on the tele- phone. Hurley told Watson that he would voluntarily go to the Marshal's office to accept service if his attorneys advised him to do 80. Hurley Recently Moved Office. Hurley recently moved to the Railway Exchange Building from the Third Na- tional Bank Building. Attorney George E. Fleming of New York who filed the sult in behalf of the Baroness Kalinowski told reporters that he had deen in St. Louis about three weeks gathering information on which to base the suit and that he believed Michael J. Hurley to be the man sought by the Baroness. Fleming said it was the Baroness’ original intention to sue Hurley for $5,000,000. The Baroness, Fleming said, told him that the Hurley who jilted her was very wealthy and that on a recent trip to Germany he spent $1,250,000 with cer- tain German officials in the hope of obtaining valuable railroad concessions in South America. #100,000 Spent in Traveling. The petition alleges that the Baroness met Hurley in Paris July 30, 1912, and that since then she has spent $100,000 in traveling and preparing for her wedding. | Against U.S. $2,500,000 Is Askec : by Baroness Deputy ' 7 BARONESS KALINOWSKI. The Baroness sets forth that she is only 20 years old, but that this is the legal age for women in Germany. If the courts here do not admit her claim to gue as a person of legal age she asks permission to sue as a minor, through a best friend. The Baroness, in her petition, alleges that on the night of July 22, two days after he met her, Jimmie“ Hurley gave a dinner at the Continental Hotel in Paris, and announced his engage- ment to marry her. The Baroness alleges that Hurley agreed that the marriage should be per- formed at her home in Wiesbaden, Ger- many, Aug. 1, 1912. On the wedding dey, she says, she received a telegram from Hurley saying that business re- quired him to go to South America, but that he would marry her on his return. Goes to London, Then New York. On April 26, 1913, the petition alleges, the Barones received from Hurley a telegram instructing her to go to Lon- don and prepare for the wedding. When she arrived in London May 1. she says, she found awaiting her a telegram from St. Louis, signed with Hurley’s name and advising her to go to New York and await him there. On reaching New York, she alleges, she received an- other telegram in which Hurley said he was ill and that the weather was too hot in St. Louis for her to come here. At the same time, the Baroness al- leges, Hurley wired to her from St. Louis $2500 to pay her hotel expenses in New York. She says the same mes- Sage said there was $10,000 on deposit in a New York bank for her. She went to the bank and found there was no money there for her, she asserts. CHINESE. JAILED FOR SWEARING AT POPS IS SET FREE Judge Holds Policemen Didn’t Understand Language, There- ‘fore Could Not Know. Although two policemen testified in the Dayton Street Court Thursday that Long Wing, Chinese laundry proprietor at M Clarendon avenue, swore at them when they arrested him, Judge Sanders freed Wing, because he did not believe the policemen understood Chinese well enough to know whether Wing was swearing at them. Testimony to the effect that Patrol- man Matlock swore in very plain and very profane English at Wing, also in- fiueficed the Judge in reaching his de- cision. He said he would suggest that — * PRESIDENT WILSON I) KEPT IN’ BED WITH SEVERE COLD Exhausted by Reading of Mes- sage to Congress; Suffrage Committee Must Wait. WASHINGTON Dec. 1.— President Wilson kept to his bed this morning. in an endeavor to break up the severe cold which he caught Monday. It was made worse by playing golf Monday afternoon and reading his measage to Congress. Yesterday Dr. Cary Grayson, the Pres- ident’s physician, insisted that his pa- tient “lay off’’ for the day, and cure the cold. The President made no engage- ments. fer yesterday and today was still in bed. Mrs. Medill McCormick and Mrs. Desha Breckenridge, a committee of two ap- pointed by the National Woman Suf- frage Convention to ask President W- gon to see delegates, called at the White House offices today and laid their re- quest before Assistant Secretary Forster. Secretary Tumulty had gone to Jersey City to attend a funeral. The committee was told the President was abed, fll from a cold, so they asked to be received tomorrow. They were informed that if the President had suf- ficiently improved tomorrow he might be able to receive them. | BOY, 10, FALLS DEAD IN HIS BROTHER’S ARMS Frank Heuer, 10-year-old son of Fred Hever cf 3823 North Bleventh street, died suddenly Thursday and fell into the arms of his brother, Oliver, in front Gus Hoeneman of 2015 Penrose street, a driver, got off of his wagon and helped cary the boy into a grocery store. Two physicians who were called said the boy of heart disease. The parents later WOMAN: FREED, TO. ADOPT BOY WHOSE Miss Hilda Foster Would Make Reparation by Rearing Mrs. Magie Taylor’s Son. — | MURDER CHARGE DROPPED Prosecutor Decides Killing Was Accidental; Authorities Ap- prove Adoption Plan. Miss Hilda Foster of 181A North Prairie avenue, against whom charges of second degree murder had just been dismissed, announced Thursday that she considered herself morally responsible for the future care and education of Marcus Ornan Taylor, the ll-year-old son of Mrs. Mazie Taylor, who was killed in her home, 3002 Locust street when a revolver over which Miss Foster and a man were scuffling was accident- ally discharged on June 2. She said she had made application to Public Administrator Newell for permis- sion to take charge of the boy. He has been living at the home of a woman in Valley Park, and this woman moved lately, but Newell will try to find her and to get the boy. Murder Charze Dismissed. The charge of second degree murder against Miss Foster was dismissed, by Circuit Attorney Harvey’s order, in Judge Kinsey's court Thursday. She was indicted and placed under bond after the killing of Mrs. Taylor last June, in spite of the woman’s dying statement that the killing was an ac- cident, and of a Coroner’s verdict to that effect. She was required to appear in court Tuesday and Wednesday, and the dis- missal of the case was announced on her third appearance, the Prosecutor having decided, after reading the in- quest testimony, that there was no case against her. William E. Fish acted as her lawyer. Scuffled for Revolver. Miss Foster, who then roomed at Mrs. Taylor’s home on Locust street, nd W. P. Miller of 643% Bartmer ave- 2g were scuffling for the possession of a revolver in Mrs. Taylor’s parlor the night of June 2, when it was dis- charged. Mrs. Taylor was wounded and she. died the same night at the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium. CHIEF OF POLICE, WHO NEVER WAS CHIEF, QUITS A. E. Holloway Who Held East St. Louis Office a Month, Never Sat in Official Chair. After being made Policeman, Sergeant. Chief of Detectives, Lieutenant and Chief of Police of East St. Louis, all within three minutes, and holding a doubtful title to his office for a month, without active service or pay, Alfred E. Holloway sent his resignation to Mayor Chamberlin Thursday. He retired from office without ever having for one min- ute occupied the Chief's chair. Mayor Chamberlin promised Holloway to make him Chief of Police, but found he was unable to make good. He re- quested Police Roe and John Shannon to dismiss Chief of Police Ransom Payne and appoint Holloway. They refused, Mayor Chamberlin then issued an order dismissing Roe and Shannon, and ap- pointed Clark H. Way and George W. Brickler to succeed them. The Council refused to sanction the dismissa] of Roe and Shannon, but Way and Brickler held one meeting and went through the formal procedure of transforming Citi- ven Holloway into Chief of Police. That was the only duty they have performed. Holloway has returned to his job as assistant chief interchange inspector for the railroads in East St. Louis. CLOUDY TOMORROW WITH PROBABLE RAIN THE TEMPERATURES. WHOLL START A CAMPAIGN we Py BOARD for you?” asked the automobile salesman. “I want to buy a machine,” said the stranger. “How would a little runabout suit you?" “Not a bit like it. I want one of “A car complete- ly inclosed so that all of the wintry a be exclud- DEC NN ++ he: * N ty, D “NO, thanks. ive deen Tiding } street cars, and I’ve had — ae vs — excluded. Let me see one or those wide- open touring cars.” f W Stage of the river: 6:7 feet: a of .4 of a foot. ti a rise Missour!—Uneettied Commissioners George these vehicles from which the air is. A HEIRS OPPOSE ADOPTED GIRL’ MOTHER SHE SHOT; SUIT FOR ESTATE Miss Edna Amrein Claims Prop- erty Left by David J. Fig- naigo, Fruit Merchant. — IS — She Says She Was Taken From Parents as a Child and Is Nearest of Kin. ADOPTION DISPUTED More than 4 witnesses, an unusual array of legal talent and about 2 liti- gants directly interested were in Judge Jones’ Court Thursday afternoon when Miss Edna Amrein of 1362 Burd avenue began her legal contest to obtain the whole of the estate of the late David J. Signaigo, valued by the litigants at $150,000. Miss Amrein is opposing a brother and sister and 18 nephews and nieces of Sig- naigo who was a wealthy fruit mer- chant. She alleges that Signaigo ani his wife made a verbal agreement to adopt her as their child, and that this agreement made her their sole heir. Signaigo died in New Orleans in 190 while a member of the St. Louis dele- gation which accompanied President Taft on a Mississippi River trip. His wife had died three months before. Miss Amrein was in court during the afternoon. She wore a dark blue tailor made gown and a black velvet hat. She is a blonde and about 2% years old. Miss Amrein’s Claim oR Signaigo, in his will, left all his prop- erty to his wife, but as she died without making a will the relatives of Signaigo. including brothers, sisters, nephews and nieces, claimed his estate as his only legal heirs. A friendly partition suit was filed by the relatives, asking for a sale of the property and a division of the proceeds among them. The pe- tition was granted and Leighton Shields was appointed special commissioner to make the sale. Before the date of sale ar advertised the commissioner was not- ified by the law firm of McDonald & Taylor that as counsel for Miss Am- rein they claimed the estate for her as sole heir. At the same time Miss Am- rem filed @ motion in the partition suit asking to become # party to the pro- ceedings. This move was a surprise te Signaigo’s relatives. As a result, the sale of the estate was called off and the partition suit re- opened. No Adoption Papers Fued. Miss Armein, set forth in her petition that in 1889, when she was a child, she was taken by Mr. and Mra. Signaigo from her parents for the purpose of adoption, the uncle and aunt having no child of their own. She alleged she was treated by the Signaigos the same as if she had been their own child and she was reared by them in luxury. How- over, papers of adoption were never placed on record, but the girl declared she always believed her uncle and aunt had carried out the alleged agreement. The niece remained at the Signaigo home, 5534 Maple avenue, until after the death of her uncle and then re- turned to her parents. She represents that because she was raised as a rich man’s daughter she was not taught to be independent as to earning her own living, and this should be considered a factor in the case. She is an artist. There are on file depositions from old friends of the Signaigo couple which sét forth that Mr. and Mrs. Signaigo treated Edna as their daughter and spoke of her as such. The relatives of Signaigo deny any legal adoption and have retained an array of counsel, including William G. Carpenter, Leahy, Saunders & Barth and Lubke & Lubke to oppose the young woman's claims. The property invoived in the fight as shown by an inventory of the Signaigo estate includes personal securities ap- praised at $36,153.95 and realty at 1221 Chestnut street, 211 Chestnut, 2234-90-32- 34 Mz rket street, 1800 to 1810 North Tay- lor avenue, 4587 to 409 Cote Brilliante avenue, 447 Kennerly avenue, 5535 Maple avenue and property at Lemp avenue and Arsenal] street. CHICAGO HOTEL HIRES GIRLS AS “BELL HOPS” Duties Will Be to “Carry Ine Water in Morning, Nurse and Be Ladies’ Maids.” CHICAGO, Dec. 4—Not bell hops, but belle hops, if you please. They were put on duty today in the Hotel La Salle. Two of them, the first in the country. They are Angelina Douglas and Eliza- beth Hall. They were seated on their “bench” in the ladies’ parlor. Buss went the buzzer. Miss Hall leaped to her feet and departed. “No. 26 wanted some hairpins,” she said on her return. “I gave her one of mine.” “What will your general duties der the young women were “Generally hopping, I guess,” Miss Hall replied. “We'll carry ice water to women in the morning, do & little nura- ing sometimes, and act as iadies’ maids.” 4 BURGLAR’ BOILS He Eats Six of Them in Blo ington (III.) Residence. “4 ‘EDN R AMREIN, iit. — Hospital Doctors Say Bigamist Suffering Only From Mor- phine Habit. Mrs. Dora Doxey Whitney, who was sentenced at Clayton Monday to three months in jail, on her plea. of. guilty to the charge of bigamy, probably will be able to serve the latter part of the sentence in the Clayton Jail, according to city hospital physicians, who said Thursday there was nothing the mat- ter with her but the morphine habit. On the plea that she was dying, al- though she had married again mean- time, the woman succeeded in getting 12 continuances, and when her case was called for the thirteenth time Mon- day, she Jay on a stretcher, in the at- titude of one near dissolution. She took to her lawyer, Charles P. Johnson, on the understanding that the time should all be passed in the hospi Her latest husband, Fred Idaho ranchman, has insisted that she had a cancer or a tumor. The hospital physicians say she has no organic trou- bles, and that most of her Iliness is a matter of imagination and convenience. The day after she reached the hospl- tal, she had energy enough to give’ an interview in which she protested her innocence of the bigamy charge, though the fact that she committed bigamy said she assented to the plea only n order to end the suffering which the prosecution had caused her, and; she intimated, to die in peace. Dr. G. C. Eggers, who took part in the medical examination at Clayton, re- ported to Prosecuting Attorney Lashly iliness was due to a brief abstinence from morphine, and that after a time she would improve. a IN DES MOINES TO: Rehearing of Case in Which They Were Ordered Closed MRS. DOKEY LELY f TOGO TO AL; NOT | SERIOUSLY SIGK! the three months’ sentence, according | tney, an is a matter of documentary record. She} that Mrs. Doxey’s apparently desperate} 1 Yall | OPEN Novelty Installed by United Railways to Test Its Practicability. A printing press on a street car is the latest novelty introduced by tne United ‘Rafiways. The printing press is not used for is- suing a daily newspaper from the rear platform of each street car, but for the publication of an entirely new kind of tranafer. Suppose a passenger géts on the print- and then brings his hand down sharply upon another knob which operates the 15 Hi es — i I MONS SSI SF Commissioner McK tion of illegal billboards and advise © Building “Se enforce the 19% ordinance to the | unless the companies win their fight in the Municipal Assembly to have the law repealed. | The decision of the City Counselor * 2 4. Direct the special counsel to en- force collection of bills against the companies for any expense to which the city is put in connection with the demolition of illegal billboards. 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