St. Louis Post-Dispatch
March 26, 1915
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; DE OSE He Om RT ae ee a | ee ed BE (Hs WE ~ $5000 ON SITE DEAL Testimony at Board’s Public Hearing Reveals That Sheppard Netted $4000. by Transaction in Which $34,000 Tract—Grand Jury Was Paid for $22,500 Investigation, Prompted by Facts Brought Out, Begins Today. 1 @ The grand jury. this afternoon will hegin an investigation of the transaction by which the ne w northwest high school site was sold to the Board of Education for $34,000 a week after it had been purchased by John M. Sheppard, a real estate speculator, for $22,500. Revelations made at a public hearing before the Board of Edu- cation yesterday afternoon prompted the grand jury inquiry, the purpose of which will be to learn whether August H. Kuhs, a mem- ber ‘of the board, had any connection with the deal or made any profit from it. Witnesses thus far summoned to ap- pear before the grand jury are bankers and real estate men whose testimony, it is thought, may throw light on the financial transactions which preceded and followed the deal. Finances of the Deal. At yesterday's Board of Education hearing this testimony was brought out as to the finances of the deal: Auguat J. Kuhs, s0n of August H. Kohs, received $7029.50 of the $11,500 profit on the sale of the site, of which ke paid $2000 toe Charlies W. Dependahl, his busi- ness partner. John M. Sheppard, who has desk room in the real estate of- fice of A. H. and A, J. Kubs, re- eelved $4470.50, of which he paid #425 to David 5S. Stahl. Charles W. Dependahi, busi- ness partmer of A, J. Kuhs, re- cetved $2000 from A. J. Kuhs and a check for $2000 from the Lafay- ette bank, which was not ac- counted for. A check for $500 to David S. Stahl was paid to Peppendahl. The purchase «. the site by Sheppard was financed through the Lafayette Bank, which loaned $20,000, taking as part security an check on A. H. Kuhs & Son for 2000. It was presamed Dependahk!l used the bank’s check for $2000 to recompense A. H, Kuhs & Son. Sheppard testified he heard August H, Kuhs tell his son in December that the School Board was in the market for a school bite in North St. Louis, and that young Kuba replied, “Well, why don’t +ou get busy.” Witnesses Summoned. The property was owned by the Rickr National Bank of Quincy, If.’ McNair & Warris were the St. Louis realty “agents for the Quincy bank, which was a correspondent of the Mechanics-Amer- ican National Bank. Witnesses summoned to appear before the grand jury are Fred Hahn, cashier of the Lafayette Banx; Arthur O. Mein- inger, assistant cashier of the Night and Day Bank, where A. H. Kuhs has an account: Charles I.. Allen. assistant cashier of the Mechanics-American Bank; Fletcher Harris of the McNair & Harris Realty Co., John M. Sheppard and Charles W. Deppendah!.~ The investigation yesterday was con- ducted by E. M. Grossman, attorney for the School Board. The oath was ad- ministered to each witness by Charles P. Mason, secretary-treasurer of the board, who is a notary public. The board has no authority to compel the appearance or testimony of witnesses, but none who was summoned declined © appear or to take the oath. A few questions were asked by board mem- ters, and Marion C. Early and N,. P. Zimmer, counsel for August H. Kuhs, questioned Kuhs, Mason and a few others. ‘A. J. Kuh’ Testimony. The testimony of August J. Kuhs, son of the board member, was that he had received a net profit of about $5000 from the deal, which he financed through the Opportunity Realty and Investment Co. and Charles W. Deppendahl, its vice- president. Young Kuhs said the firm of August H. Kuhs & Son was connected with the financing of the deal only through the use of a check for $2000 drawn on the firm, for which he de- posited his own note with August H. Kuhs & Son. August H. Kuhs, his father, denied having any interest or knowledge of the transaction until after it was closed, and said he did not learn that his son was the one who financed the transac- tion instead of Sheppard, unfil told so yesterday morning by Theodore Ras- sieur, attorney for the Lafayette Bank Says He Will Produce Books. Kuhs senior said he would produce the book’ of the Kuhs company and his deposit and check books, and would attempt to have his son produce the pooks of the Opportunity company, which young Kuhs had refused to pro- with an- school buildings one Sunday, Kuhs and Charles J. Lammert, other board member. Kuhs and Lammert are members of the Build- ing Committee. Milligan said Lam- mert whispered to him that it would not be wise to grant Kuhs’ request, when Kuhs proposed that they iuspeet the high schoo! sites, but he followed Kuhbes’ request and dreve to the site at King’s highway and San Francisce svenue, as well as at Union boulevard and: Natural Bridge avenue, ‘and King’s highway and Spalding avenue. Milligan said he paid absolutely no attention to what Kuhs and Lammert said while they were looking at any of the sites. and therefore could not repeat any of the conversation. Lammert followed Milligan on the stand, and testified that the Sunday trip which Milligan placed in January, real- ly occurred about the middle of De- cember. “When we arrived at the site at King’s highway and San Francisco,” Yeaid Lammert, “Mr. Kuhs discussed its good points ang said he thought it was a good site.” Mason and Superintendent of In- struction Blewett testified that Shep- pard at first proposed to sell the site to the board for $39,000. Blewett said the Sites Committee had under consideration three sites in the nofth- west section of the city. After some discussion, he said, the site offered by Sheppard was unani- mously approved by the Sites Com- mittee. Later it was approved by the board by a vote of 6 to 5. The five dissenting members preferred a site at King’s highway and Spalding ave- nue because of better street car facil- ities. Bank Cashier’s Testimony. Fred €. Hahn, cashier of the La- fayette Bank, produced records at the hearing showing that the $34,000 check of the School Board to Sheppard was distributed by the bank to A. J. Kuhs, J. M. Sheppard and Charles W. Depen- dahl. The bank kept $20,000, Hahn said, to cancel a note for that amount given by Dependahl along with a “blank warranty deed to the 13 acres,’’ which the bank held as additional se- curity to the collateral deposited by Dependahl. The blank warranty deed could be filed by the bank at any time, A. J. Kuhs explained on the stand. Depen- dahl had referred to it as a blank deed of trust In which the amount was not stipulated. Hahn said the bank loaned $20,000 on Dependahl’s personal note secured by several deeds of trust, which he could not describe, and by a deed of trust for $7000 against the 13-acre tract to be purchased. To make up the balance of the $22,000 which was to be paid the Quincy Bank, Dependahl and A. J. Kuhs furnished a check for $2000 which Hahn said he believed to have been drawn on the A. H. Kuhs & Son Realty and Investment Co. Dependahl paid $100 to the bank to cover the interest for 30 days on the note, Hahn said. Tne pre- liminary arrangements for the loan and the certified check were made by A. J. Kuhs, Hahn testified. Young Kuhs Defiant at First. A. J. Kuhs and Charles W. Depen- dahl assumed a defiant attitude on the witness stand and refused to answer many questions put by Attorney Gross- man. Kuhs junior consented to answer some of the questions after Marion C. Farly, counsel for his father, A. H. Kuhs, called him off the stand for a whispered consultation. "The affairs of the Opportunity PE BEE 20 I OTTER > eee ant een RE re WO otbings: se All RI Eee nas See x » # FRIDAY ni sins MARCH 96, 1915. 7 A itil Oho ~ ‘ wet ey ae mt wad 5 Ww - . LT en an ee 5 ee wes, IF ery, ~ : +, yee Ls : me * rice “a i a eae SS & 7 ep ine A eee > = ~ “ . 52 SM ¥ os [> bo! Gaines Wat i % 3 McD ter ON EE IRD DMO RONG IGOR RECS vate RAE ee IndianThan rn |Scott : Says: He ee ae! Ray ae a - ’ £. e ; poe inne inagteainganctinte i ate ] hiteF rien General Pays Tribute to Savages and Asks for et Fair Treatment for Four PiutesHe Brought From Wilds. By Associated Press. SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, March %— Gen. Hugh L. Scott, Chief of Staff of the United States army, guest of honor at a banquet of the Bonneville Club last night, paid a tribute to what he termed the primitive virtues of the Indian and besought fair treatment’ of the four Piutes he brought from San Juan Coun- ty to Salt Lake City last Wednesday. He said the Indlans were simply grown up children, with a child's keen sense of justice and injustice, stunned by a civilization to which they could not adapt themselves. He said he had always found that the Indians kept their agreements. “I have more real, true, trustful friends, friends who are willing to lay down their lives for me,’’ he said, | “among the wild redmen of the plains and mountains and the wild Mohamme- dans of the Philippines and the islands of the Pacific, than I have among the people of my own race. The man who would deal with the Indians is the man who proves truly their friend, the man who will not had better keep away from them.”’ He told of the. misfortune of the tribe with which he had just dealt. He said when the hostile Indians came to his camp, after having been convinced that no weapons, shackles or traps awaited them, they were “timid as wild horses, ready to stampede at any alarm.” They told him how they had been dis- possessed of the country of their fore- fathers, mostly by cowboys, who treated them harshly, and were made desperate by a situation they did not understand. They told him they were innocent of any intentional wrong and only asked for fair treatment, which he said he promised them in the name of the American people, and sincerely hoped they would receive it. Gen. Scott will leave for home today. Tse-Ne-Gat, the young Piute whose attempted arrest precipitated the trouble, said through a Navajo inter- preter that he was innocent of the murder of which he ts accused. He said he frequently visited the camp of the Mexican who was killed to obtain food, that he and the Mexican were friends and that he did not know how the Mexican met his death. —_ McKelvey had sale the bids must be] in by noon that dav. What Recerds show. Kennah had a frand telephone Mc- Kelvey three hours tater, Schaefer said ; and McKelvey stated the contract had been awarded that day to Ryan. The city hall records, later examined by. Schaefer, showed the contract was awarded to Ryan, March 1, the day be- fore Kennah offered the city $250 for permission to do the work. McKelvey, in his statement today, said he notified several wrecking firms on Feb. 20 that bids were to be in March 1, and that on that day he opened three bids, varying from $400 to $1800, and that, at Comptroller Player's direc- tion, had awarded the contract to the lowest bidder. He said the Kennah’s offer came the day after Ryan got the contract and he told the Kennah firm the city could not cancel Ryan’s con- tract without being liable for dam- ages. City Counselor Baird, after an in- vestigation of the contract at Schaefer's complaint, reported the legal depart- ment found it was properly awarded to Ryan. LADY PAGET, OF BRITISH RED CROSS, REPORTED DEAD Dispatch Declares Head of Mission in Servia Succumbed to Typhus Fever. BERLIN, March 2%.—Lady Page’. chief of the British Red Cross mission i: Servia, is reported by a Servian daily newspaper to have died from spotted typhus fever, according to a news item given out today ial the Over- seas News Agency. NEW YORK, March %.—Lady Leila Paget, who was.° granddaughter of the late Paran Stevens of New York, was in this city when the war began. With her husband (and cousin), Sir Ralph Spencer Paget, Assistant Under-Secre- tary of State for Foreign Affairs in the Asquith Cabinet. They returned to En- gland, Aug. 11, Lady Paget's brothers, Arthur and Reginald, going with them. Since that time Lady Leila had been active in the affairs of the American women’s war relief fund, of which ans mother was president. Lady Leila Paget was introduced to society in 1900, while her father, Sir Ar- thur, was serving in South Africa as commander of the Scots Guards. Shs married Sir Ralph in 1907, when he, at 43, was much her senior. Sir Ralph aad his wife had no children. GLASS COMPANY MANAGER I$ FOUND DEAD IN BED Telephone Message to Coroner’s Of- fice Says That William R. Bayka Took Acid. William R. Bayha, 61 years old, cash- ier and acting manager of the Oriel Glass Co., with offices in the Inter- national Life Building, was. found dead in bed by his wife at his home, 4314 Washington avenue, at 8:30 o'clock this morning. The Coroner’s office was noti- fied by telephone that Bayha hed killed himself with carbolic acid. Charles L. Bayha, his oldest son, said his father had suffered severely from stomach trouble and had been despond- ent over business conditions. Bayha is survived by his wife, two sons, Charlies L. Bayha, an employe of the Wabash railroad, Wilson Bayha, a student at the Rolla School of Mines, and two daughters, Nell Mary, 22 years old, and Jane Bayha. Of Interest to Meving Picture Patrons. The next Sunday Post-Dispatch MAG- AZINE will contain the story of Mr. A A. Campbell of Cincinnati, who found his missing wife through seeing her ‘n a Moving Picture film: ahd an illus- trated, descriptive article of a ‘Movie City” with its population of #00 mov- ing picture workers in the San Fer- nando Valley of California: while on the first page of the big Real Estate and Want Directory you will find under “Moving Pictures” tne announcements of the neighborhood theaters giving the features they will show during the com- ing week. Don't fall to read these and to map out your week's amusements 60 as to include some of the shows. Bey Accused of Stenting School. JUSTICES DOUBT = STATE'S RIGHT TO POUNCE ON THAW Two Members of Court of Ap-|* peals Raise Point. at Hearing. NEW YORK, March 26,—Two Justices of the Appellate Division of the Supreme Court agreed today that there was 4a doubt in their minds whether the State of New York would be within its rights in “pouncing’’ on Harry' Kendall Thaw, after his acquittal here on the conspira- cy charge on which he was extradited from New Hampshire and returning him to the State. hospital] for the criminal insane at Matteawan. They were Justice Ingraham, presid- ing, and Justice Scott. To voice their views they interrupted Franklin. Kennedy, special Deputy At- torney-General in charge of the State’s case against Thaw, while he was argu- ing before the Appellate Division against an appeal taken. by Thaw’s counsel from a decision of Supreme Court Justice Page, refusing a motion to return Thaw to New Hampshire. Counsel, for Thaw had already pre- sented their arguments, which were based upon the contention ‘that Thaw, having been extradited from New Hampshire to answer a charge of con- spiracy and having been freéd of that charge, should be returned forthwith to the State from which he was extradited, Committment Still Valid, Kennedy then began his argument, contending that even though Thaw had been acquitted, the fact remained that he was now within New York’s jurisdic- tion and that as the original commit- ment upon which he was sent to Mat- teawan was still valid, he should be re- turned there. "a Justice Ingraham interrupted his ave Kument to say: state of New York to pounce upon Thaw, following hig acquittal of crime, and then return him to the State Hos- pital for the Criminal Insane at Mat- teawan. I belleve most citizens of this State would regard such action as dis- honorable. “The question involved in this case is whether the State of New York can with honor hold him on the commitment signed subsequent to his second trial, after he was extradited from New Hampshire for a specific crime and found not guilty, when the commit- ment ordered his retu » to Matteawan on a charge that is nov extraditable.”’ Justice Scott agreed with Justice In- graham and informed Kennedy that the question as it was not so much the re- turn of Thaw to Matteawan as main- taining the honor of the State of New York. Intelligent and persistent advertising will “‘sell” any salable Real Estate, and the largest number of prospective buy- ers can be reached through the Post- Dispatch Big House, Home and Reai Estate Gulde. SS OS Eee a RRR am nl, ay = ACRE NE my ¢ i “I am in doubt as to the rights of the alysis of the contents ot thes ) of Amy Tanner, 23 years old, ¥ a ex. pected to be completed today and result made known to the who is investigating the death of Tanner, a follower of the * the Kingdom of God” cult. “Apos S Percy A. George, head of the. ott : in jail in connection with the though no serious charge has | placed against him. Laura ‘Hall and another wom second one being known as the “spir bride” of George, were sought by mp police today ag witnesses wetbre' Coroner. County Prosecutor Snyder and Co oner Douds were notified of the, appearance of the two women | testimony, it was expected, have an important bearing In ing up the circumstances that led | the death of Miss Tanner. It was a af the opinion of officials that the n is ing woman could reveal many wig mysteries that have ru “Brotherhood Home” during. its ence in the past several months. four surgeons in a vain effort to a her life, after girl, but admitted he had not called Physician until Wednesday noon, al though she had been ill since Fev, 2, when she went to the house, Bess. George established his house in Cley land four years ago, but later he | Ww sent to the Cleveland Workhouse. . “spirit bride,” a Cleveland woman, It is alleged that Miss Tanner | dying when officials who had 4 watching the*“Brotherhood Ho the dwelling place. of the cult, 1 d- it and using such force as was ne oe 7 ss sary, removed the girl to the: hoi ital, “If any marriage fs not a ble to | God,” George said, according to ° De- lice, “either party has a‘right to # ie z another mate. It is ‘the dui i, follower of our ¢reed to consequences the iaw sas man tail.” ' » them eo ® CINCINNATI, March %.—A c $1000 bearing the name of Congressman Nicholas Longworth | received oy. Cincinnati branch of the Commission fér the Relief of Destitue rov to be a forgery. ne Siienpe Oa en ‘| made to imitate his handwriting em ne tel ee with which Congressman — ‘ Goes_no_business. RR A ET EE ER OR RRP oR pe «oN 2 es ts ole ae ae OP ea wee Dewveiaiel insensttinlietie a Rubbing with "St; Jacobs C What’s Rheumatism! Always look for that Name | RELA AE SRR MELAS tao Sgt
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