St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 6, 1914

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ee Laure eons. 1 * —— sears ye Nate Vork A terrific storm was blow- ‘was very cold. ve e one x t to within W yards of din Pode dived, bear- By this time Roberts were almost as exhausted he sufvivors in the boat. It had zed for the last time and six men ee ee ee it. The hands of mw. 3 10 a. . „6545 „„ „ 56 — . 11 A. N r ett ee. “Hello! Is this Jefferson City? Connect me with the Penitentiary, please. Hello! Is] the Warden there? 3 The Wagten’s ‘busy just now, sir writing a eulogy on Thomas Jef fer- gon. Le “Can I speak to him later in the day?“ —— 'm ‘afraid not. Hes going to start an ode to the Spirit of Liberty as soon as he gets through with what he’s doing.”’ ~ “How about to- morrow ?"’ set of Plutarch’s get here he'll be essays about the Mm COME’ THE INCOME Tax COLLECTOR. He's sent for a IAves, and if they busy writing some ancients.”’ Official forecast for St. Louis and vicintty: Cloudy weather tonight and tomorrow; not much change in tem- perature; the lowest spent will be about 28 degrees. 3 Missouri—Generally fair tonight, and to- morrow; moderate temperature. ‘ Iilinois—Generally fair, but with some cloudiness tonight and tomorrow; not much change in temperature, ae ag WIDOW’S: CHIMES CAUSE A SUIT Neighbors Seek to Enjoin Former Nurse From Having Them Rung Every 15 Minutes. NEW YORK, Jan. 6—Because Mrs. Julia Gertrude Lyle, 82 years old, who last July inherited the bulk of the $20,- 000, 00 estate of ber 96-year-old husban‘4l, John S. Lyle, insists on havirgz: memori- al chimes rung every. 15 minutes, day and night, on her estate near Tenafly, N. J., some of her neighbors have ap- plied for an injunction. Mrs. Lyle will have to respond Mondav and give some reason why she should not hush the bells, at least during the sleeping hours. Mrs..Lyle had the chimes placed on a 60-foot stone tower as a memorial to her husband. There are nine bells on the . the highest weighing two tons. The memorial Mas completed a month og pe and since then either Mrs. Lyie's caretakers or one of her associates has played the chirnes night and day, every quarter of an tour. Lyle was the last surviving . of the firm of Lord & Taylor. Two years previous to his death on his nine- ty-fourth birthday he married his nurse, Julia Gertrude Hannon. SUPREME COURT SAYS HEAD IS PART OF BODY Jasper Webb, Sentenced to Die, Gets New Trial on Prosecu- tor’s Improper Argument. JEFFERSON CITY, Jan. 6.—The Su- preme Court reversed and remanded to- day the case of Jasper Webb, who was sentenced to death for killing Archa Whitwell at Oak Grove in Jackson Coun- ty. The reversal was based upon im- proper argument by the Prosecuting At- torney. When the case was tried the informa- tion was attacked on the ground that the prosecutor said Whitwell “died as a result of mortal wounds on the body.“ when the evidence showed his death was due to a shot in the head. It was as- serted the head is not a part of the body. The Court found to the con- trary. | HABIT OF EATING BITS OF STONE KILLS WOMAN — u—ͤ—ũ— Mother Says Daughter, Dead at 30, Had Strange Craving From Childhood. KANSAS CITY, Mo., Jan. 6.— A habit of eating bits of stone is held to have caused the death of Mrs. Grace Smock Albino, 80 years old, who died at a hospital here. An autopsy revealed a condition of her stomach and lintestines probably induced, the Coro. ner sald, from eating rock. Mra, Albino’s. mother said that from childhood her daughter had had a craving for bits of stone which she — ald. f Mrs. — knew Ruedi as Walter : chewed a swallowed. “ST. LOUIS, TUESDAY EVENING, JANUARY 6, 1914 —18 PAGES. “Who' 8 It to Be? Me or Him?” Cries Jilted’Suitor as Bride- groom Toils at Furnace. HELD ON. TWO CHARGES Walter Ruedi Aceused of Imper- sonating Detective and of Selling Fiancee s Heirlooms. a en be Bridegroom of . days in the base - ment feeding the furnace. Bride in he: boudoir. Enter, hurriedly, the reject- ed suitor who dramatically exclaims: “Well, which is it? Me or him!” This scene, full of moving picture pos- sibilities, was described by Mrs. Lil- lian C. Heistand, 3 years old, of 1419 North Park place, after Walter Ruedi of 2906 McNair avenue, the discarded fiance, had been arrested twice in one day on complaints made by Mrs. Hei- stand and her stepson, William F. Lam- brecht. a druggist at 2911 South Jeffer- sou avenue. l Arrested by Federal Officers. Ruedi was arrested py Federal officers Monday on the charge that he had rep- resented himself to Lambrecht as a United States Secret Service agent. Aft- being released on bond he was ar- rested by the police and held pending an application for a warrant charging him with wrongfully obtaining valuable heirlooms from Mrs. Hiestand and dis- posing of them. Investigation by the police showed that the missing heirlooms, consisting of a grandfather clock, a gold clock, a set of silverware, rugs and jewelry and several pictures were at Ruedi’s home where he lived with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Ruedi. The goods were placed in a police wagon and taken to the Magnolia avenue station. Ruedi’s fether said his son sold the heirlooms to him for $40. Mother Pieads for Sou. Mrs. Ruedi pleaded with Mrs. Hiestand and the police, begging them not to b erer her son. . 485 got the best of him.” A. Rowland until Dec. 23, when Ruedt's parents visited the Hiestand home an! revealed the young man’s identity. This visit, as described by Mrs. Hi“ stand, was dramatic. The doorbell rang. Mr. and Mrs. Hiestand, who had been married only five days, went to the door. An elderly man and woman were there. “Did you sell some furniture to Wai- ter Ruedi?“ she was asked. J never heard of him,” said Mrs, Hie- stand. „Why do you come here and bother us?“ asked Hiestand. Mra. Ruedi Identifies Herself. The Hiestands say that in reply to this question the woman visitor threw back her jacket and displayed a star- shaped Christmas tree decoration and said she was a secret service detective. When she became calmer she made her- self known as Mrs. Ruedi. The Ruedis told the police they went to the Heistand home in an effort to verify their son’s statement that he had bought the goods which he sold them for $4. Mrs. Heistand says that early in Oc- tober Ruedi, under the name of Row- land, went to her home and asked ques- tions about her stepson, Lambrecht. He told her she was a shrewd woman and would make an ideal secret service de- tective: He agreed to coach her and two weeks later he proposed marriage and was accepted. Later he suggested that Mrs. Heistand place her heirlooms in storage. She alleges that he had the things removed from the house and then disappeared. She married Heistand Dec. 18. =, When Ruedi rushed into her home, Dec. N, and demanded that she choose between him and her husband, Mrs. Hiestand ordered him out of the house, she said. Before he departed he went tu the basement and shook hands with Hiestand. Ruedi’s parents say he was away from home for two days after his visit to the Heistands ana that when he re- turned he said he had been stabbed in the chest in @ desperate battle with moonshiners in St. Louis County. In rroof he exhibited a towel with which he said he had stanched the wound. Circulation Average for Full a “confirmed” drinker. CURE DRUG HABIT RY AND RE-WIN WIFE Millionaire’s Son Divorced by ‘Former Acrata von Schrader ies Is in Bay State Hospital. °° fee ee CHOPPING BRUSH © DAILY His Fall T hrough Ice and Restue Reveals Effort He Is Making e to Come Back. * Special to the Post- Dispatch. BOSTON, Jan. 6.— Because the ice was thin on a pond down near the Foxboro State Hospital for Dipsomaniacs, there has come to light the story of a man's fight to come back.“ The man is Ar- thur Hunnewell Shaw. who bears the mame of one of the great generals of the Civil War. Arthur Hunnewell Shaw was divorced recently. His wife was formerly Acrata von Schrader of St. Louis, the daugh- ter of Otto von Schrader. He married her two years ago. She divorced him because he was a “confirmed” drinker and used opium and other drugs. But he is making a fight to prove he was not e is buoyed in his efforts by the love o. «is mother, Mrs. Robert Gould Shaw. He entered the hospital voluntarily and began his kight for freedom from drink and drugs, and his friends say he hopes to win back his wife. ° His presence in Foxboro became known when he started out from the hospital to ‘his work of chopping brush and broke through the ice of a pond in Making a narrow cut to the woods. He fought for 15 minutes in the icy water to keep alive before he was res- cued. | 5 Confided Secret to Bride. Shaw is a young man. He was graduated from Harvard in 1908. Al- though his father is a millionaire, the boy went to work for his living. He supported himself and went to Chicago, and from St. Louis in 1911 came the word of his marriage there to beautiful young Acrata von Schraeder. He took his bnde to Europe for a honeymoon then returned to Boston: Those who welcomed them here say they appeared the happiest of cou- ‘ples, but already the young bride was nursing a sorrowful secret. Upon their honeymoon Shaw had confessed to her that he was addicted to drugs. With her support he fought the habit. but his will was not strong enough. In the language of the psychologists, he had not received the mental “kick” which would give him determination to fight. In April of last yé¢ar—1913—Mrs. Shaw went to her home. Shaw went to Europe. And two weeks ago she was granted a divorce decree. Decree Gives Him the “Kick.” That decree gave Shaw the kick“ he needed. He went to his mother for help. They took counsel together add afterward Shaw resolved that he would go to Foxboro—take the rigorous: treat- ment there—cleanse himself of the crav- ing for liquor and drugs. purposes strongs and unbroken. At the hospital Shaw arises at 6 o' clock every morning. At 6:30 he is breakfasting. This is his breakfast: A coarse cereal, eggs, coffee, bread. It was not so long ago that Shaw's breakfast—taken perhaps at half past nine or thereabouts—was something like this: Grape fruit, a taste of ce- real, a chop—perhaps an egg—coffee, toast, marmalade or honey. After breakfast Shaw has an hour free. At 8 o’clock he goes to Dr. Neff’s office for consultation, for ad- vice, for strengthening counsel. Half an hour later, with the other men, he takes an ax or brush hook and goes into the woods. There follows three hours and a half of hard work. It was torture at first to Shaw’s mus- cles. Now he can hold up his end with the best. Not Lunch, but Dinner. At noon, sharp, there comes a respite —dinner. Dinner! Not lunch, but dinner! Not a salad or a trifle of this and that, fit only to whet a 4aded appetite, but a man-size dinner, for a man who has been putting in his best licks at good, man-sized work. That's what Shaw gets at Foxboro—and he isn’t the man these days, to leave his plate unpolished. Corned beef and cabbage, hamburger steak, boiled ham, potatoes, carrots, bread pudding—whatever they set be- fore him—he eats it, with a voracious appetite. BANK WATCHMAN DOESN’T REPORT, IS FOUND DYING German Savings Guardian Lifted From Floor, Expires Later From Apoplexy. When Horace Johnson, night watch- man at the German Savings Bank, Fourth and Pine streets, failed to sent in his hourly signal at 3 o'clock Tues- day morning, operatives from the head- quarters of the Missouri District Teile- graph System and policemen hurried to the bank. The investigators were admitted to the bank by Albert French, house de- eme nema 82 Shaw for three weeks has kept his souls Unitarian — — E . LORENCE ROSSER. SCHENCK 79 MEN DROWNED IN CANADA WHEN BOAT IS SWAMPED * od 5 Thrown in Praꝛer River Are Dashed on Rocks ‘or Swept Away. By Associated Press. WINNIPEG, Man., Jan. 6.—Dashed to death on the rocks in the treach- erous Fraser River, British Columbia or swept to their doom by the swift current was the fate of 75 laborers employed by the Grand Trunk Pacific Railroad, according to Angele Pugli- ese, one of the 25 who managed to escape when the flatboat in which they were being transported across the river was wrecked on a rock. He reached Winnipeg today. Pugliese says that the 2% who escaped were alt more or less injured. The tragedy oc- curred in British Columbia, West of Fort George. For a time, the only survivor to reach Winnipeg says, they were kept in the immediate vicinity of the fort. A change in the location of the work necessitated the crossing of the Fraser. The 10 laborers put away from shore in 2 frail craft, which became unmanage- able. It was dashed to pieces on a rock in the middle of the torrent and the meh were thrown into the water. Swimming in the raging waters was next to impossible and but 25 of the 100 reached shore, battered and bruised. Puglisse reached an Ed- monton hospital and after recovering sufficiently came to Winnipeg and applied to the immigration officers for aid. OWN FUNERAL PLANNED BY PORTO RICO JUDGE Order of Services Arranged by Justice McLeary Will Be Car- ried Out Wednesday. WASHINGTON, Jan. €.—Recogniz- ing that his death was inevitable and near at hand, James Harvoy McLeary, Justice of thé Supreme Court of Porto Rico, who died here yesterday, made all plans for a funeral. This fact came to light today. This is the service as planned by Justice McLeary: Hymn, “Face to Face.” Poem, “After Death in Arabia,” Arnold. Ramerks by the efficiating clergy- man. Poem, “Old Man's Funeral,“ Bryant, Hymn. “Nearer, My God. to Thee.” Masonic ceremonies. The services will be carried out, except as to the Makonic rites, at An Church tomorrow afternoon. Burial will be at Arlingtor National Cemetery with Masonic and military honors. PRESIDENT ro END HIS VACATION ON SUNDAY Will Arrive in Washington Next Tuesday From Pass Christian; in Excellent Health, 1 - WASHINGTON, tion and leave Pass 8 * — been — roel was 18 years old, Wilson induced her to of her marriage to Wilson she thought tive Committee of the Union P Jan. 6.—President} | ‘Wilson win end his southern eee * Woman Who After aach : fon’. : Right to Sue Vanderbilt Horseman ME TO VINDIGATEN Suit Against Vanderbilt Horses man Held to Be Actionable Few Hours After Her, Death. NEW YORK, Jan. 6—The Supreme Court handed down a decision’ here ven- terday permitting Miss Florence E. Schenek to prosecute a suit’ for $60,000} against Charles H. Wilson, manager of stables for Alfred Gywnn Vanderbilt, to vindicate her good name, While Miss Schenck lay dead in her une nome in Norfolk, Va. Miss Schenck, who had been suffering from tumor of the breast for several weeks was taken to her home in Vir- ginia last Friday against the advice cf 05 Edward P. Teague, who. had been ttending her in Miss Alston's private Sanitarium, 26 West Sixty-First strect. She died yesterday morning and the, de- cision of the court was ‘made late in the afternooon. é The young woman’s suit was based upon the allegations that when she leave her home in Nerfolk under rom- ise of marriage and that they went {through a ceremonial marriage in Lon- don, but that she later learned Wilson had a wife living in England. She ask- ed damages for breach of contract. fraud and deceit, Miss Schenck alleged that at the time he had obtained a divorce from his for- taer wife, but learned that only an in- terlocutory decree had been entered. The final decree was entered in Jan- vary, 1911, and Wilson married Jane Delehanty, 19-year old daughter «f Thomas Delehanty, a wealthy resident of Boston. Miss Schenck alleged that this marriage constituted bigamy. Wison’s attorneys. entered objections} to the suit, but the court decided that it could go to trial before a jury. UNION PACIFIC TO MAKE _ Baltimore and Ohio. 8 * $82,000,000 to Be Divided, in New Plan. NEW YORK, Jan. 6.—The — ee — dynamite illegally. victed men did not wah Seng All — six of those who appealed are at lib- erty under bond. Among those whose cases were af- 11 man | on over Flore’ „ r * ve a wees ft — a MOB LE ee eee eee ere * Nun — ‘ ö