St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 2, 1915
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i, ee fee i ak aa ERISA yn ny enemy win, =) a 10 TESTIFY BEFORE GRAND JURY IN BURTON INQUIRY Water Commissioner to Be Questioned Today About Con- | versation as to Owen. | bias FOOTE AS AOE DS Sh ont he Saag “TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER. 2, 1918. LEELA MEE PO GO LE MO TIROE BEER AC ST. LOUIS FEDERAL RESERVE. DISTRICT Washington Report Says Job- bing Business ‘ Has ‘Made Substantial Gains, a et RS > PE 3 TRS SAD BUSINESS HAD BEEN “TORN FROM” HIM Wife Tells Coroner’s Jury of Efforts to Reassure Him as to Associates. - |BOY WHO Was KILLED | es ane SAWANT: ACCIDENT ; 4 > ore MM Sipe FETED Nas yop eo Fe ee) : 3° : ‘ i gn 2 Saal we oe 2S aa £e ays oe . a 7 tee " Mm ‘ : P a ae ic / Se ss ; Ra 3 : MES ©: ise ee ae ic xe en a vsiners. | ms. bs fe THAN : s ) ‘ rat 3 1 . oS 7 * 7 he ‘ i : j es ’ ‘ : q Grocery: Business Flourishing — Other Commer- cial Lines Show Big Improvement—Build- ing’ Revival Expected Soon. The revival. in boots and shoes, dry goods, millinery, hats. and railroad transortation, which began two} months ago and has developed into remarkable proportions, as deseribed in the Sunday Post-Dispatch, is. being J felt.in-many other Mnes of industry ’ gains, and a marked feeling of confi-jand business. “ata, gia! Pgs ay ullding dence is shown among merchants. T La 0 ull loyed & merchants, The bor ts-being more fully employ that 90 per t of the trades WASHINGTON, Nov, 2.—Continued improvement in busThess is reported from St. Louis i. summaries from Fed- eral reserve agents made public by the Federal Reserve Board. The jobbing trade at St. Louis has made substantia Mrs. Edward L. Preetorius of 45% West Pine boulevard, in a statement to- day to a Coroner's jury, gave fuller details than she and the family phys- iclan gave to reporters yesterday, of tha illness and mental depression which caused her husband, the president of the German-American Press Assocla- a to kill himee}f yesterday morning. The jury,met atthe Pregtorius home, and after the return to the city hall, Coroner Padberg said the-verdict would be suicide, while suffering from mental abberation. Mrs. Preetorius told the jury that her husband had been downcast for several weeks, arid had repeatedly said there was no use of living. He told her, she said, that his business had been “torn from” him, that his associates at the office did not want him there, and that his friends had gone back on him. She tried in vain to reassure him as to his business and to stimulate his interest in their child, a giri1 br go old. ‘Hid Semething tn Drawer. ‘She said that last Saturday evening, as they were preparing to go to’a Sunset Hill dance, she saw him seé- creting something in a bureau drawer, which he locked, and that when she asked him what it was, he answered, ‘Water Commissioner Wall will be a witness this afternoon before the Grand Jury, in its Investigation of the office of Claud B. Burton, recently dismissed assessor of water rates, who admitted having taken cash from the department funds in exchange for his personal. check while he was head of the combined assesment and col- 3tion divisions. Wall will be questioned ar to a con- verasation he is said to have held with Burton, shortly after the dismissal of John B. Owen as head of the collection division’ of: the office. An official of the Mechanics-American Bank has also been called to appear and is expected to show records of the trans- action between Burton and Owen when the former is said to have taken money from the city funds to lend to Owen at interest. The grand jury will also resume its in- vestigation of the Sheriff's office. Five saléon keepers have been called to tes- tify as to how they came into posses- sion of unused jury warrants cashed by them. Sheriff Dickmann will be ques- tloned as to the conduct of his office w learn how it was possible for his reports show a general improvement in/in 8t. Loujs than at any time since ber and the pioture presented ig pthe outbreak of the Evropgan war, regarded by officials as. the most favor-fand In some trades every.skilled man avle received in many months. and woman is employed on full time. Uhicago says that thé large centers in| The employment of labor is s0 gen- Michigan,. Wisconsin,. Illinois. and. lowa|eral that Oscar Leonard, manager of report affalfs seemingly are gradually |the Jewish Educational Alliance, said gaining ‘in strength from day to’ day.|today, that his organization probably. Trade is giving some evidence, of be-|WoOuld have no problem of the uném- ing on the increase, according. to the| Ployed to deal with this winter. report, and a noticeable spirit of re-| %™ the boot and shoe and clothing turning and increasing activity appears | !Pdustries every skilled man and woman to be abroad. .A. few lines are operat- has or can get employment. Shipments inz below normal, but there is more evi-|°t D°ots and shoes from St. Louis for dence of generally restored confidence| CStober totaled nearly $6,000,000, being ind more activity in most Aines. approximately $3,000,000 ir excess of the; Farmers in the Kansas City district}®™pments the saime pericd last year, are said to be still inclined to hold their}®"4 representing the greatest business grain, wheat, corn and oats, apparent- in the history of the local shoe manu- ly believing that higher prices will pre-|‘#cturing companies. vail later. Hope is entertained for a} 22° imerease In the sales of the dry bumper corn crop. Trade generally is }&00¢3 houses was approximately $3,000,- " ~ a 000 for October and September, the busi- that about @ per cent of carpenters and painters was at work. According to Lammert there has been much improvement in condi- tions during the past two monthe. Only 35 to 49 per cent of craftsmen was employed until improvement began in late August and early September. — ers, who were behind last year, have; paid thelr old bilis, One customer] who said he had about $25,000 out- standing reported that he had. collect- ed nearly all of: it and would lose} practically nothing.” Implement Trade Recovers, The implement business has com> pletely recovered from depression, WG tesco: the deake top ond. denly and the car skidded off. the road and overturned. They had been de- monstrating the car for a saloonkeeper and had takeh nim on a trip through the county... Wilson, T. R. Pickett of 342 Parnell street, and Peter ‘Bohn of 156 South deputies to obtain the jury warrants alleged to have been cashed by them when they should have been can- "You will never know until it'is too late.” she told, as she did yesterday, how Preetorius went at 6 o’clock from his said to be active, with fair. collections. DRESS UP rets for the two months in this line be- ing the greatest ever known. Clothing manufacturers are rushed with orders and local houses are selling as much goods:as, or more than, at any pre- vious time, and are operating thelr f:ctories at full copacity. 7 Grocery Businesg Flourishing. Wholesale grocery business is flour- ishing, according to Carl Schlapp, president of the Krenning-Schlapp Clothing; doesn’t’ make the man, but it helps our social ahd commercial standing to be well dressed; therefors, watch the merchants’. announcements in next Friday’s Post-Dispatch for the very Paul R. McCoy, manager of the 7Parlin & Orendorff Co., one of the large distributors of agricultural] im- plements here, said that busine: « was never better. | celed. A. M. Harrison and J. F. Casey were suspended as deputies at the be- ginning of the investigation. Grand avenue were Anjured. t roor: to hers, and at her request, went for milk for the baby, ard how, a few. minutes later, she heard shots in the bathroom. Preetorius is known to have had finan- Boy Killes on ‘the teenth Street - Clarenee Braun, 7 ‘years. old, of 101 South Fifteenth ‘street, who was struck i, vo: he ne 8 : ~ a “es ; ® ' “ 3 £ e . a tai : fa : we er a Se ; *. | = - . Fi b % ia ; 3 “ ss * 4 ~ —_ . b a vat of ey : , o ** > ee e 6, as ay te " _ ar ans : n> " - . ab - ~ * 4 “ ate Pe A J Sa - rs very ra ~ re F. : _ . 4 ‘ ¥ % . ; e . . 3 iy m Fe '« Ve . ' ‘ian Oe ~ : 4“ rere > | ‘ : , en. Tae ¥ « SS. . ad | — “ | i ba, ee ; 7 ee a 2 Ss a BY a ee >” te 4 7 Bt, Li diy 4 (Stee ‘ ~ - T I y ie if ie : * ‘ ie Ss % ~ ay ee > i by-an automobile owned and driven by Jolin 'H,/ Botiné, 670 Papin street, on the Bighteénth ‘street: viaduct about 3p. m., ‘died yesterday. — ‘The Braun boy was struck and killed while: playing on ‘the viaduct with sev- eral other boys of his ‘age. Bohne, who Was arrested,. said. the boy ‘dashed from bebind a. girder ‘nto the car and wagon road of the bridge, directly in the path of his machine.’ He was too close upon che boy’ to swervé and avoid hitting him and the mudguard knocked ‘the child against | the «iron railings. Bohne‘ took ‘the boy to the central dispensary in his machine, ‘ay at the boy ‘was dead when he urrived there. FS > J =
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