St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 10, 1915

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PRICE ONE CENT, NIGH ITION FINANCIAL MARKETS eee ot PROSERUTOR PLAN EARLY ARREST FOR DEATH OF WALKER Finding of Man Who Over- heard Wilkins Telephone to Unidentified Person Be- fore Shooting Expected to Result in Warrant Being Issued at Once. ASKED IF THINGS WERE ALL RIGHT Louisiana Man, Who Coron- er’s Jury Says Shot For- mer Mayor, Refuses to Comment on Report Wife Has Left Town. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. LOUISIANA, Mo., March 10.—It is probable that a warrant or warrants will be issued within the next 2% hours in connection with the death last Thurs- day of Col. Alten M. Walker from a bullet, which, according to the Cor- oner’s jury, wae fired from the revolver of Fred Wilkins, two night before. This action will be in consequence of the discovery that Wilkins, according to William Roberts of Buffalo street, Clinton, a South Louisiana suburb, asked someone over the telephone about three hours before the shooting if everything was all right. This new evidence, it is said, points to an under- standing between Wilkins and the per- zon to whom he telephoned, following his purchase of a railroad ticket, while with Walker and his presumed de- parture for Clarence an hour before the telephone conversation. This sug- gests a different motive than has here- tofore been supposed to have prompted the shooting, if it was intentional. Prosecuting Attorney McGinnis had been disposed to wait and lay the case before @ special grand jury ‘next month. He had before him but two theories, that of accident and of great provoca- tion. He foresaw great difficulty of obtaining a conviction on either theory, but when he was informed of the tele- phone conversation, suggesting concert of action between Wilkins and some other person, he was unwilling to incur the Gisadvanatage of several weeks de- lay em4 decided that it was best a war- rant Or warrants should be issued. Wants Citizen to Act. He came from Bowling Green, the county seat, to Louisiana today to see if there is not a citizen of the town who will take the necessary preliminary step of swearing out . warrant. The prosecutor takes the position thar under the law he cannot do -so, but that any citizen can. A bit of test!- meny at the inquest, which passed al- most unnoticed and which was consi‘1- ered standing by itself to lack signifi- cance was the starting point of an in- vestigation which has quickly given the mystery a new phase and has affected pubiic sentiment. This bit of testimony was given by Frank 8. Schroeder, proprietor of a small grocery on the Prairieville road, south of Noix Creek. He said that be- tween 656 and 6 o'clock, the Tuesday evening that Walker was shot, Wilkins entered his store and asked if he had a telephone. Schroeder told him there was one at his home next door, which W’i!- kins could use. Wilkins departed. Schroeder did not notice from which direction he came or in which direction he went. The Prairieville road, half a mile south of town, is.close to the Bur- lington tracks. The Post-Dispatch correspondent, con- necting Wilkins’ appearance at the Schroeder store with his disappearance about half an hour earlier from the Bur- lington depot, began an investigation at the Schroeder store. It was found thet Wilkins had not gone to Schroeder's home to tel one. The next nearest telephone was at the Chicago & Alton depot, south of Noix Creek. Wilkins, it was learned, hed not gone there. Near the Schroeder store is a wagon bridge across the creek. On the assumption that Wilkins had crossed this bridge, search was made in the south end of town for a telephone that he might have used. Morrison McNelly, proprietor of a grocery at Third and Delaware streets. was moving that day to a new location at Fourth and Georgia streets, between 5:30 and 6 o'clock. Witiikins Called Semeone by Phone. Wilkins entered his store and asked permission to use the telephone Mc- Nelly told him to go ahead and paid no attention. But William Roberts was sitting behind the stove. He says he heard Wilkins call for a three-figure number, one of the figures of which was “(." His call was answered. ‘Is every- thing all right?’ Wilkins asked. The engswer seemed to be in the affirmative. Bre said “all right,’’ and hung up the receiver and left the place. Nobody can be found who ew him after that, until 8 e’clock, when he went to the home of Guy Rudd and ordered him to take Walker’s automobile from Third end Georgia streets to Walker's office. Later he was scen seemingly assisting Walker as they walked south on Third street from the directioi of Wilkins’ home and went to Walker's office, from the announcement was made Pama been shot. The number of ISKIES TO CONTINUE FAIR, TEMPERATURE UNCHANGEC THE TEMPERATURES, Y esterday’s Temperatures. High. .47 at 4p. m. Low..30 at 7 a. ™. Official fore- cast for St. Louis and vicin- ity: Fair tonight and tomorrow}; not much change in temperature; the lowest to- vight will be about 30. Missouri — Fair in east portion, partly cloudy in west portion to- night and tomor- row; not much change in temper- ature. Illinois — Fair tonight and to- morrow; not much change in temper- ature. Stage of the river, 18.2 feet; a fall of .8 of a foot. LAW SCHOOL DEAN SAYS THERE 1S NO SUCH THING AS ‘SEX WAR’ New York Women Lawyers Are Told Differences Are Explained by Individual Temperaments. NEW YORK, March 10.—George W. Kirchwey, dean of the Columbia Law School, told the Women Lawyers’ Asso- ciation here last night that ‘‘there is no such thing as a ‘sex war.’”’ His statement was made in a debate in reply to the assertion by the Rev. Percy S. Grant that a male and fe- male class consciousness existed and that essentially the two sexes are at war. Grant advocated the extension of suffrage to women and the placing of women Judges on the bench of the in- ferior criminal courts. “So far as differences exist between men and women,” replied Dean Kirch- wey, “they are explained through dif- ferences of individual temperament. I do not believe that the male Judge is willfully unfair to the woman offender. “TI believe women have their rightful place upon the bencn of the juventie courts because my knowledge of child psychology compels the belief that a boy or girl will confide his or her se- crets to the mother rather than to an equally loving father.’’ FERGUSON MAN'S ARREST IS RESULT OF GAME OF POKER A, S. Henderson Is Taken to Police Headquarters on Wire From Memphis Authorities. Absalom S.- Hickerson of Ferguson, secretary of the Worrell Manufacturing Co., 212 North Main street, was arrested last night on a telegram from authori- ties at Nashville, Tenn., saying he was wanted there on a <narge of larceny. When taken to potice headquarters, Hickerson told detectives he believed the charge grew out of a poker game in which he was a player in Nashville last April. He was a loser, he said, and on leaving the game he gave a check for $300 to cover his losses. Later he stopped payment on e check. This, he said, he believed the basis for the larceny charge. Hickerson at first said he would go to Nashville without requisition. Later his uncle, F. R. Jesse or Webster Groves, visited him at police headquarters and advised him to resist extradition, on the ground that the charge against him was based on a gambling debt. Jesse and Joseph Rodes signed a bond to cover a charge of being a fugitive from justice, and Hickerson was re- leased. MEN QUIT NAVY TO JOIN POLICE Former Petty Officers to Patrol Beats at Chicago Suburb. WASHINGTON, March 10.—Patrolling a policeman’s beat at Lake Forest, Chi- cago’s fashionable suburb, evidently ap- pealed with much more force to Clyds M. Spradling and Walter McGuire, pet- ty officers at the naval training station at Great Lakes, Ill., than perhaps pa- trolling the decks of an American war- ghip. Consequently they have quit the navy to join the Lake Fotest police force. In an announcement the Navy De- partment said the men had been reconi- mended by the commandant of the sta- tion In response to the request of Lake Forest’s Mavor. 200 PEORIA STUDENTS STRIKE Pupiis of Manual Training ‘School Rebel Against Principal. PEORIA, Ill., March 10.—Two hun- dred pupils of the Manual Training High Schoo] today went on. strike against the authority of Principal Wil- liam Brown because of the expulsion of members of the school basket ball team following the playing of a forbidden game with the Peoria High School. The pupils at noon marched in a body to the Peoria High School and met the student body of that institution. They planned to hold a mass meeting this afternoon to decide upon further action. NEGRO RESCUES 6, W. PERKINS Partner of Late J. P. Morgan Near. Drowned in an Inlet. PALM BEATH,: Fila, March 10.— George W. Perkins, partner of the late J. P. Morgan, was rescued from drown- ing yesterday @hen his fishints smack capsized in the Saint duucie inlet, near Stuart, Fla. A negro fisherman battled against heavy waves and succeeded in landing him on a sandbar at the inlet. Perkins was teken to his house, after his es- THE GOULDS ARE. OUT OF THE. . uaciortiess Le He ‘aps fe j int : LAWYERS HINT AT | SENSATION COMING IN CAMPBELL CASE Suggestion Made When Assur- ance Is Given That Million- aire’s Widow Will Take Stand TWO HEARD FOR DEFENSE}° Porter and Hotel Engineer Dis- pute Testimony Offered for Will Contestants. By Leased Wire From the New York Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, March 10.—The defense in the Campbell will contest had its first inning in the offices of Austin, Scott & Merritt this morning, before a notary. Only two witnesses were ex- amined. They were William H. McAvoy, “who, from Dec. 5, 1888, until June 5, 1911, was chief engineer of the Grand Union Hotel, where, acéording to the contested rosition of the defense, Lois Campbell Burkham was born. March 7, 1898, and /ohn Fitzpatrick, who testified he was the head porter at the Grand Hotel at the time of the birth of the infant. McAvoy’'s testimony was designed to offset that of Ann Mahoney, a third cousin of James Campbell, who saw Lois at the time of birth, and Fitzpat- rick was brought in to prove that Mrs. Campbell and the child were not brought into the Grand Hotel the day after the baby’s birth, another contention of the defense. Big Array of Legal Talent. That the defense looked upon today’s hearing as bearing promise of being vital was indioated by the array of counsel present. Mrs. Campbell and her daugh- ter were represented by Morton Jour- dan, William Nelson Cromwell and Clark Rosencrantz, a member of the firm of Nelson & Cromwell; the Mercantile Trust Co. by Frederick N. Judson and Benjamin Schnurmacher and St. Louis University by E. V. P. Schneiderhahn. The contestants were represented by L. Frank Ottofy of St. Louis and Scott Mc- Clanahan of New York. When, after the completion of Fitz- patrick’s testimony, Mr. Ottofy an- nounced a postponement until tomorrow morning, Mr. Cromwell complained that he had expected a lot of sensational testimony. and had been disappointed. Mr. Ottofy.quickly rejoined that if the defense produced Mrs. Campbell on Fri- day, according to schedule, the defense would get all the sensation they wanted. When the hearing of Mr. Ottofy out- lined, “‘not for publlaction,”’ the ground over which he proposed to take Mrs. Campbell, he showed plainly that if he follows out his plan there will be sensa- tiéns and to spare. Cromwell, in reply to Ottofy, told him he would have his full chance, for Mrs. Campbell would certainly appear. Hotel Arrangement Described. In Ann Mahoney’s testimony, she said that the room in which Lois was born was directly over a kitchen, and the kitchen could be seen from her room. McAvoy described the plan of the first three floors of the Grand Union as it was arrangéd at that time. According to his testimony, the kitch- ens were in the basement, the first floor was given up entirely to offices, and the first bedrooms were on the next flcor above, and were arranged in the same order on the floors still above that. He swore that it was impossible to see a kitchen or to be seen from a kitchen from or in any bedroom in the hotel, and that there was no Wway in which a@ person passing from the street fioor to the next floor above could see or be seen from a kitchen. Fitzpatrick testified that he neither saw nor heard of any woman with a 1-day-old infant being admitted to the Grand Hotel on or about March 17, 1893, that he certainly would have remem- bered such a thing if he had ever Keard about it, and that ho would have heard about it if it had happened. He Was cross-examined by Jourdan just enough to admit that he could not posi- tively remember what he had done on any particular day in 1893. But he added that he was never ab- sent from his post except through iII- ness. Then he brought a hearty laugh from the staid counsel for the defense by adding in the rich brogue which is his by right of heritage, that he was seldom sick on the lith of March, any- how, and if he was he could always re- member it. I! O'CLOCK SALOON CLOSING BILL PASSES MISSOURI HOUSE Measure Carries Clause Preventing Submission to Veters Under Re- ferendum Vote 86 to 46. JEFFERSON C&TY, March 10.—The 11 o’clocg saloon closing bill passed the House today by a vote of 86 to 46. As passed, the. bill carries the con- stitutional peace and health clause that preven.s it from being submitted to the voters under the referendum. There was no debate on this bill and a number of wet members voted “aye” without knowing what bill they were voting on. greeted each wet vote for the bill and the wet members changed their votes | before the ballot was closed. BREAD PRICE RIOT IN LISBON Many Hurt tn Clash Between Police and Workmen. LISBON, March it.— "he tncrease in the price of bread was responsible yes- terday far violent clashes between the police and workmen at the nava! arsenal. The police used their weapons freely and many persons were injured before the disturbance was ended, 4 — ot re oe Laughter from the drvs GERMAN CRUISER PUTS SANK AMERICAN SHIP CARRYING INTO NE Poaeee Cruiser That Reaches a, S. Port After Ravaging Enemy Commerce on Seas for Six Months as she looked in the days when she was in the North German Lloyd passenger service between Hamburg, Bremen and Far Eastern ports. Tsingtau at the outbreak of the war and sailed from there Aug. 4 after being armed with heavy guns by the German naval authorities. She sailed through the vast T « photograph shows the Prince Eitel Friedrich | ben emma le Se 7 She arrived at jern coast of South tive career. extent of the Polynesian archipelago, destroying English, French and Russian ships wherever she found them. many months she annoyed enemy commerce off the west- Horn into the Atlantic, where she continued her destruc- She was reported cornered several times by British warships but she invariably escaped. For America, finally passing around Cape FOUR QUT OF 13IN ASSEMBLY GET Uf OF VOTERS’ LEAGUE Other 9 Who Are Aldermanic Candidates Not Indorsed; De- feat of Four Suggested. The report and recommendations of the Municipal Voters’ League “on the candidates for the Board of Aldermen was issued today by the Executive Committee. Only three. of the 13 mem- bers of the present Municipal Assembly who are candidates for aldermanic nom- inations were recommended. They were Julius Hailer, member of the City Coun- cil, who is a candidate for the alder- manic nomination of the Twenty-fourth Ward, and Taylor B. Wyrick, member of the House of Delegates from the Thirteenth Ward, who is a candidate on the Republican ticket for the alder- manic nomination from that ward, and Barney L. Schwartz of the Twenty-fifth Ward, who is running for the alder- manic nomination. In every instance where there is a contest between the Democratic candi- dates brought out by the Democratic Business Men’s Conference and those backed by individual members of the Democratic City Committee, the con- ference candidates were indorsed. The defeat of four Democratic members of the House of Delegates—fdward Deffaa of the Seventh Ward; vames J. Ford of the Eighth Ward, John R. McCarthy of the Sixteenth Ward and Charles Stuart of the Twenty-seventh Ward, who are candidates for aldermanic nominations, is recommended. Only eight of the 28 members of the Republican slate were recommended for nomination by the League. A. H. Fred- erick, former president of the Board of Assessors of St. Louis, was recom- mended for president of the Board of Aldermen on the Republican ticket, be ing selected over Louis P. Aloe, mem- ber of the Board of Freeholders, which wrote the new city charter, and Henry W. Blodgett, former United States Dis- trict Attorney. Francis M. Curlee was recommended for president of the Board of Aldermen on the Democratic ticket. The League recommended only one candidate from each ward. A statemen: was issued that the Executive Commit- tee endeavored to select the best candi- date from each ward, taking into con- sideration the qualifications of fitness and character. The league also said in its statement that it wished it under- stood that where it had not suggested c particular candidate, this did not im- ply that the candidate not recommend- ed was not a man of integrity and abil- ity. ‘The selections,’’ the report adds, ‘‘are in no respect indorsements for the April election. In each instance the selection has been made solely on the basis of the relative merits of the candidates of- fered by the particular party for the cffices in question, as a guide to the pri- mary election only.” The report of the league was signed by all the members of the Executive Committee—Luther Ely Smith, Fiint Garrison, Dr. M. A. Bliss. Ernest W. Stix, Fred J. Herzog, Charlies J. Fox, P. J. Wielandy, John A. Meisel, E. A. Rii- denbrandt, Thomas H. McKittrick, Frank P. Crunden and Benjamin A. W ood. The full report and recommenda- tiens of the Municipal Voters’ League on the candidates in the ceming primeries will be feund on Page 4. | Recommendations of the Municipal Voters’ League OLLOWING are the recom- mendations made in the re- port of the Municipal Voters’ League regarding candidates in the aldermanic primary election: BOARD OF ALDERMEN. President, Frederick (R.) Curlee (D.). Ward, Rep. Dem. ..Rudolph Becherer ..No recommendation..No contest ..No contest Kersting contest contest contest contest ..No recommendation..No ..Bohlinger ..Ssommerich <I hin os Senta sias tee 1 °0..Schwartz contest Schenk contest contest contest contest contest contest Waechter eeuebds erences Bromschwig No contest 5..Schwartz 26.. Deibel GOVERNOR WANTS CALIFORNIA 10 BUY WESTERN PACIFIC Johnson Announces Scheme to Purchase Road Nowin Hands of Receiver. SACRAMENTO, Cal., March 10.—Gov. Johnson has initiated a movement for the purchase of the Western Pacific Railroad, now in the hands of receiv- ers, by the State of California, it was announced today in the Governor's office. MAN, FINED AS SPEEDER, SENDS POLICEMAN STATUE T0 JUDGE Gift hm Filled With Whisky and Marked “Slow and Care- ful.” Judge Hogan of Police Court today received a small statue of a traffic offi- cer, with right arm upraised. A card attached read: “J Arthur Anderson, Slow and Careful.”’ Upon investigating the figure, which is about two inches high, the Judge found that it was filled with whisky: He took the statue home without comment as to the ultimate con- sumer of the contents. Anderson, who lives in Normandy, Mo., and is a laundry proprietor, was arrested for speeding on Washington boulevard between Pendleton and Wal- ton avenues about 6 p. m, Monday. He was fined $10 and costs yesterday for speeding. The Judge, from the stand, asked An- derson if he wasn’t violating his busi- ness motto, “Slow and Careful,”’ and Anderson replied that he didn't think he was going as fast as the policeman contended he wags. ST. LOUISAN BUYS TOWN IN ILLINOIS IN A“JUNK DEAL” Thomas T. Brewster, Coal Com- pany Manager, Owns Entire Village of De Camp. Thomas T. Brewster of Webster Groves, manager of ‘the St. Louis office of the Mount Olive and Staunton Coal Co., in the New Bank’ of Commerce Building, Is -now undisputed owner of the town of De Camp, [ll., dn the Mc- Kinley line north of Bdwardsville. Brewster bought the town last fall, in a bankruptcy sale, for $5000, being the only bidder. Objections were made that the bid was too low, and the matter was taken before the Circuit Court at Ed« wardsville. Judge Hadley decided yes- terday that the sale was duly adver- tised, was regular, and would have ty stand Brewster told a Post-Dispatch report- er today that the town of De Camp, which has been deserted since the clos- ing of the coal mine there, consists of 10 houses. These are ‘riow his property, along with the mine, the+purchase of which he described as ‘a junk proposi- tion.’’ The mine and the town belonged to the De Camp Coal Co., and were adver- tised for sale after the company ‘went into bankruptcy last year. Brewster was familiar with the property, which adjoins some of the mines of the Mount Olive & Staunton Co. When the sale was advertised, he went to Edwardsville and bid the prop- erty in, without opposition. - After ob- jection was made by the former own- ers to the sale, Judge Hadley cppointed Thomas Williamson as Special master to investigate, and it was on his report that the court confirmed the sale. Brewster said the 10 houses would probably be moved to the nearest mine of the Mount Olive & Staunton Co., and that that would be the end of the town of De Camp. The machinery, he said, would be examined, and the best would be put to use, and the remainder sold as junk. METER INSPECTOR ATTACKED AND BITTEN BY BULLDOG Gas Animal Breaks Its Chain When Company Employe ‘Starts to Emer Basement. William Young, 30 years old, of 02% Hickory street, a meter inspector for the Laclede Gaslight Co., was badly bitten by a bulldog owned by Robert Nelson of 3141 Locust street in the rear yard of the Nelson home today. The dog was chained in the yard. When Young started toward a base- ment door to read the meter the dog broke the chain anad buried its teeth in Young’s right leg. ..Nelson ran out and beat off the dog with a club. Young was taken to St. Mary’s In- firmary, where, according to thé police report, it was found that a large quan- ‘tity of flesh had been torn from his leg. NO COMMISSION ON WAR LOAN British Chancellor Tells Hew $1,625,- 000,000 Issue Was Taken. LONDON, March 10.—David Liovd- George, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, revealed in the House of Commons this afternoon that no under- writing commission whatever had been paid to issue the British war loan of CHIE Auxiliary L FRIEDRICH, AT. SEAT MONTHS, ENTERS. PORT FOR REPAIR Cruiser Grain Vessel, Sank American Wm. P. Frye, in Atlantic Jan. 27. 350 PERSONS TAKEN OFF PRIZES, WILL BE LANDED Warship, ‘ By Associated Press. 300 prisoners taken from prizes. China, Aug. 4. the following day. Surgeon Knoneck called on Customs Collector Hamilton, as representative of Capt. Thierichens of the Eitel. While details of the conference were not given out, it is stated that ourgeon Knoneck told Collector Hamiiton that the chief reason for the cruisers’ coming to port was to land those taken from the ships sent to the bottom by the cruiser. He is sald to have stated that the cruiser had enough fuel and provisions to last two months. However, Capt. Thierich- ens is eager to make repairs if the nec- essary arrangeemnts can be made. There are 350 persons in all in addi- tion to her crew on board the Prinz Eitel, 200 of which are seamen and offi- cers from captured ships, while the other 150 are men, women and children passengers from sunken liners. There are French, Russians, English, Portu- guese and Turks. All on Board Happy. Dr. H. W. McCafferty, Quarantine Of- ficer at Old Point, who visited the Prinz Eitel Friederich, told of his trip to the German vessel. “When I boarded the cruiser this morning,’ said he, ‘I found all on board well and kappy. The band was playing German nationa! airs. food supply was good and there was a feeling of good fellowship among the people on the ship, many of whom were taken from destroyed merchant vessels. “Among the prisoners was the captain of the American ship Willlam Frye of Baltimore, who, with his wife and son, was picked up by the Elite! after the Frye had been sunk. “There were also a number of French people, who were passengers on the French liner Floride, sunk by the Ger- mans off the coast of Brazil. The list of prisoners included also many English people, who were taken from vessels captured by the Eitel. “The Eitel has a crew of 13 officers and 356 men, including six Chinese stew- ards Priseners te Be Released. “All the prisoners will be given liber- ty in Newport News but four, if they went to leave the Friedrich. Those four declined to sign papers that they would not take up arms against Ger- many and will be kept prisoners on that account. Three others will be de- tained. One has a wooden leg, another is suffering from tuberculosis and the other is deaf, That will naturally force them to be classed as undesirable im- migrants. £32,000,000 (approximately $1,625,000,000), | “The commander of the Eitel Friéd- a i ee a SO , = ©. —— i BREE OL 8 oo. NEWPORT NEWS, Va., March 10.—The German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, another of the elusive German sea rovers which have been destroying commerce of the allies on the seven seas for six months, slipped into port here today, presumably. eluding the British and French cruisers along the coast, in need of repairs, coal and provisions for her crew and with more than The Eitel sailed from Tsingtau, The captain of the American sailing ship William P. Frye and his wife are on board the Prinz Eitel Friedrich. The Frye, com- manded by Capt. Kielne, sailed from Seattle, Nov. 6, for Queens- town and had not been reported since she passed Tatoosh, Wash., | Surgeon Knoneck of the Eitel, in a conference with Customs Collector Hamilton, told him that the Frye was sunk in the South Atlantic, Jan. 27, after the EHitel had taken off Capt. Kiehne, his family and all the crew. The Frye was sunk because she was alleged to have been carrying contraband ot war. Collector Hamilton has made a full report to Washington. Wanted to Land Prisoners. [DEVELOPMENTS IN WAR IN BRIEF German submarine U-20 was rammed and sunk by a British de- stroyer, after the crew surrendered, Fleet continues to make ‘progress in the Dardanelles. Germans are reported to have fallen back generally on the North- ern front in Russia except at O#% sowetz. A violent battle is in prog- ress in the Argonne in France. rich told me that he stopped at Valpa- raiso, Chile, where he took on provi- sions and also a few more prisonéfs, ard discharged there some English and French prisoners. He has asked for vermission from the authorities in Washington to be allowed to enter the shipyard at Newport News for repairs. . “Dr. Kinger Knoneck is the surgeon in charge of the cruiser and every one con board was satisfied that they had received the kindest treatment the officers of the vessel. Left Tsingtau, Chima, Aug. 4. ‘The Prinz Eitel Friedrich left Tainge tau, China, Aug. 4. and made only the {| one stop, at Valparaiso, since that time, © having on several occasions narrowly — ercaped capture. “A queer thing is that the British steamer Daleham, with Capt. Taggert, — bound for Newport News for horses, i also came into Hampton Roads this _ morning. Capt. Taggert sald he wen. prisoner on the Prinz Eitel five months ago after having been cap- : tured off the Chilean coast. I waa impressed with the good appearance of the men and women on the cruiser.” After dark last night the German yes appeared off Cape Henry, but « from Which Left Tsingtau Aug. 4, Nara’» [i -rowly Escaped Capture Several Times in — | - Notable Careeras Commerce Destroyer —Put Into Port Only Once. t, é iy Bs ee ys J, . i 2S sh ‘ ee i dies ah eee es, PEN Th” a - ‘ ; NE ey I ee Se Oe O e aye ay bee fe MORONS Ded LA Ee Ts a Oy oe ' #2 j : : PNR Blige tah ets A Oe Se es viet ' ” EE CRSP OO OR LMA ED eee toe? 2 EF a i Shee: tthe, ‘ Apres _— 4 cas ea oe en 7 he my wit PAR Pp en 2 RAR MOTE IR HIN RNa IIS aR » a = —