St. Louis Post-Dispatch
June 24, 1922

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C PAGE 23, A938. _ That There Is iE — ) F (Copyright, 1923) 0.65304 NRL's He rains NSS NP (Copyright, 1922.) . ' Mander of the Thirty sT. LO The goocess will mean 100 per cent UIS. FORWARD OR BACKWARD? | proposed bond issue represents only 8 ; per cent of f St. Louis’ assessed valuation. [ts ip the city’s LOUIS POST- W ith Only Evening Louis in St. Paper th e “VOL. 74. NO. 293. -_ —e eee —_—— — ST, LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 2 LLL LLL PS HELD FOR - 10 HERRIN PROBABLY WILL ~ BE DEMOBILIZED a by Gov. Small Ex- pected to Follow Rep.-t - From Head of Military In- E westignting Commission : No Need “Militiamen in Rot fo. Area. MINE GUARDS STARTED “TROUBLE, REPORT SAYS General Declares Company Established Road Patrois, Who Killed Two Un‘on Workers Who Went to Mines Wednesday. By the Associated Press. WAUKEGAN, IIL, fowing receipt of a Major-General! Milton Herrin, that troops are there now, Gov. Len Smal! an- nounced this afternoon that } e prob- ably would order Adjutant-General ' Black to demobilize the 1000 men being held under arms at Chicago. The order will not go through June °’.—Fol- report Foreman, at not needed from for | afew hours, the Governor said. National euardsmen will be in- structed, the Governor said, to hold themselves in readiness to be called ' agiin, if needed. Gen, Foreman, who headed the in- vestigation board sent to Herrin last night by the Governor, reported, ' through Gen. Black, that no further trouble is expected unless the min- ing companies try to resume vopera- tions. The trouble started last Wednes- day when two union men who had gone to the mine to induce the non- union workers to leave, were killed by mine guards, Gen. Foremcn said. The mine compary, he reported, had established road patrols and halted | @verybady approaching the property, | State’s Attorney Duty, of William- son County was the guards, he said. stopped by FEDERAL ils caraway. They said they were Rob- ert C. Howie, 37, a showman, of De- troit, and Thomas Sterling, 39, en actor, of 1424A Olive street. Heil’s version, as given porter, follows: “My father, who died four years ago. was founder of the chemical company. He left me one-eixhth of t’ . stock in the company and I be- came the secretary, at a salary of $300 a month. I had $200 a munth other income. My father gave mea Willvs-Knight car. The Peericesc was the sixth car I had since then. I bought it last August on notes. cf which I still owe $150. Heil’s eVrsion of Deal. “T’'ve been going to the Almac Ho- tel. Fourteenth and Chestnut, rather frequently in the last few menths, especially Thursdays, theatrical night. I met Howie there. tie wanted to drive my Peerless away, but I wouldn't listen untii June &, when I had been drinking. Howie and another fellow drove the car AWAY. “T want to assist the Government in fixing this business up now. Ten minutes after I gave them the keys, I was sorry. I didn’t particularly need the money. I had been staying at my mother’s mostly in the last few months because my wife and I quarreled about my going out. I hadn't been going to the office regu- larly, either, so I wasn’t drawing my pay regularly.” ; Howie declared that Sterling was responsible for the plan to drive the Peerless away. He said he and Ster- ling and a man who joined them in Alton took the car to Springfield, Tll., and sold it. and that Sterling gave him one-third of the proceeds, about $33. He said Sterling got him into the plan for getting more cars, by which they were trapped. Sterling asserts that Howie suggested the Peerless plan to him. The man from Alton has been arrested and the ma- chine has. been located. Federal warrants under the Dyer act are be- ing sought against Heil and the other three men. MOVEMENT REPORTED TO MERGE 4 RAILROADS OF 3401 MILES he Associated Press. OY ROCHESTER, N. Y., June 24.— It was reported, in railroad and financial circles here today that a movement was on foot to combine the Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad with the Western Mary- land, the Wheeling & Lake Erie, and the Toledo, St. Louls and Western Railroads to make @ system of 3401 miles in length. The new system would be headed by John D. Rocke- feller Jr., according to reporte. to a reé- was ar- | on a charge | |smiling group 2540 in- ; his statement to a | AAMC D —_— = ——__— WRY ACQUTS GOV. SMALL Ot MISUSE OF FUNDS Returned Springfield Charged Ex- ecutive With Holding Back Interest on State Money. TRIAL LASTED NINE WEEKS Ste, a NSE TEST FROM ME DESIRED BYMIRS.OBENCHAIN at Felony Convict Testif'-s at Oil Magnate Had Been Sick Woman’s Third Trial for Murder That She Tried to’ Bribe Him. AFFECTIONATE NOTES TO HIM. IDENTIFIED A ssociated Press News Service ty» oe 16 PAGES. JOHN D. BROTHER, IES AT AGE OF 8 | i } } of Pneumonia at Home in Pocantico Hills, N. Ye Since Sunday. | PATIENT'S CONDITION | | KEPT FROM PUBLIC) | Case Involved Loan Said to | Code and References to Financier Had Just Com- Have Been Made to Pack-| Through Fictitious Banking Institution. Ry the Associated’ Press. WAUKEKAN, Il, June jury trying Gov. Len Small him not guilty at 3:38 this afternoon 24.—The in charges of conspiracy to defraud | the State. The was out one hour and thirty-five minutes. [E:- corted by friends, the Mrs. Small, his sister, Small, the shook hands with the jurors, thanked them. The jury and Governor and his family formed before the jury photographers. When the verdict, which “We, the jury, find the defendant, Len Small, not guilty,”’ was read, men and women stood on benches; chairs and tables. A mighty cheer leader with lungs like lows lead in a yell. Men whistled and women cheered. jury 7overnor, Miss and Governor's children and posed for Against Gov. Small Nearly Year Ago. The case agairst Gov. Small start- ed nearly a year ago, with an inves- tigation by the Sangamon County grand jury at Springfield. The rand jury was caled on July 9, began tak- ing evidence on July 11, and on Ju) 20 retursed indictments against Gov. Small, Lieutenant-Governor Fred E. Sterling and Vernon Curtis, a banker >of Grant Park, Ill, and brother of the late Senatur Edward C. Cirt:s There were originally four in¢.ci- ments. The first charged the ‘hree defendants jointly with embezzling $700,000. The second charzel Gor. Small alone with embezzling $500,- 000 while State Treasurer. rhe third charged Lieutenant-Go. Sterling with ema&ezzling while State Treasurer. The four-h charged the three defendants jointly with conspiracy and operating a con- fidence game involving $2.0u" State money. On July 21: the Governo:* at nounced he would refuse to sub-nit to arrest and claimed immunity ve- cause of his official! position. Th? following day the indictments vere returned in court and the Goveravr and his fellow defendants were given three davs’ grace, after his ‘ror: neys had presented a plea for im- munity, claiming, among other things, that the chief executive was exempt from prosecution during his term of office under the old mon- archial doctrine that the King can do no wrong. Overruled Immunity Plea. July 26 Judge Smith overruled the immunity plea and declared the Governor must stand trial. Gov. Small went to Chicago that night and his attorneys sent a telegram to Sheriff Henry Mester of Sangamon County inviting him to come to Chi- cago, Cook County. to make the 4r- rest. Suspecting a move to start habeas corpus proceedings in Cook County courts, the Sheriff refused. The Governor tien went ona road inspection tour and did not return to the Capitol until the night of Auc. 8 The fololwing dav the Sheriff besieged him in the Capitol Build- ing by stationing a guard in lower corridors. He refused to make the arrest in the executive office and finally, after a conference, the Govr- ernor agreed to surrender at the ¢x- ecutive mansion. He was arreste‘4, taken to the courthouse and gave bond. Testimony Stricken Out. After two days of argument court struck out testimony relating to the purchase by the Governor, Senator Curtis and Louis L. Emmer- son, Secretary of State, of interest in the Ridgley National Bank of Springfield with money which the prosecution claimed was taken from the State this year, The final ar- guments consumed the rest of the week. The Governor's defense, as out- lined in the closing arguments was that arrangement with Senator Cur- tis was made when Chicago hanks refused to post collateral to secure State deposits and objected to tak- ing State money on demand certifi- cates. It was necessary, the de- fense argued, that the State funds be in liquid securities so that large sums could be quickly ob* ined to meet expenses incident to war-time preparations. Not one cent of the profits of the Grant Park Bank ever went to the Governor, the defense contended. Case found | Sue | 'sertion by and | the | box | Said, | ' teemed ‘tion voice | a bel-| (county jail | been Began | | you with me, | blackmall 1OF | $700,090 | |'was a the | the | ing) Put Before Jury. By the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES, Madalyn June 24.—Mrsa sought to per- Roman, now a convict |on a felony charge, to give false tes- Obenchain , suade Paul 'timony for her at her first trial fur the murder of J. Belton Kennedy | Roman testifi third trial. * late yesterday in her He followed identifying of letters as those up his as about a score written by Obenchain from Angeles jail to him “olsom peni- tentiary, where he is serving a sen- tence for grand larceny. The letter: with and also referred to a Remen was to tell. The last missive. which said was handed to last May after he had brought from prison:to testify f- Arthur C. Burch, in the Kerinedy case, lows: “Paul, my sweetheart: “I love you believe me. me up now. If you do I so help me, There was no signature. Rome, eaid the handwriting was Mrs. Obenchain’s and that the noie with a $5. bill was brought to him ty a jail trusty. The “Ragged Men” Story. “The false testimony” ag ory”’ him in read as fol will take heaven. heard kill “two ragged men” Kennedy after having him. Mrs, her first trial testified when Kennedy was shot in Beverely Glen. she saw “two ragged men” tried to disap- pearing in a clump of bushes after | two shots had been fired at Kenneéy. Noman did not testify at the pre- vious trial regarding this angle. but defense’ witness in both Burch’s trials. His testimony that the story of a thorn been cut from to a species found a frameup. Roman testified he was placed in jail here July 19, 1921. He said pre- viously he had met Kennedy and was acquainted with Mrs. Oben- chain. They had conversations in jail, while he was on duty in the medical clinic there, he declared. which resulted in his “rehearsine” the story about the rageed men. story. he said, R. Obenchain, former husband of the defendant, who was one of her attorneys at her first. trial. “Make It Hot for Him.” Roman was taken Dec, 23, in the Glen, was from the jail to San Quentin penitentiary and later was transferred to Fol- som. He said he saw Mrs. Oben- chain the day he was leaving the jail and told her he had “changed his mind about testifying for her.” and that she told him if he did not she would “make it hot for him.” Previously, he said, they had ar- ranged to correspond and Mrs. Oben- chain was to refer to the testimony he said she wanted him to give as though it were a story he had writ- ten. He said references to “A” to mean Burch, “Martyrs” while Mrs. Obenchain “heroine.” A juror asked Roman why he changed his mind about testifying. “I never did change my mind,” he replied. “I had never intended to testify to a falsehood.”’ He then identified the letters which he said Mrs. Oben¢éhain wrote to him, having them mailed by friends in Los Angeles. letters referring. Roman said. to ITennedy this passage occurred: “To Find You, My Paul.” “No girl in the world more thoroughly disillusioned in a man than I wasin him.” “I wonder what Martyrs would think if thev could read your letters to me and mine to you.”’ was another passage. “What a mess he made of things.” In another letter appeared: “You ask me if I have forgiven him. * * * he deceived me hideously and why? No matter what he did and was, | could have forgiven everything if he had not deceived me.” ~The writer referred to her first trial as “going to school.”’ and said she was nearly dead, after passing two days on the witness stand. Later she wrote: “All this suffering wae ~ Continued on Page 3 Coltam ge was to be “Two Ragged Men” Story) Relating to Kennedy Slay- | William 'and brother of John D. een here today of pneumonia, short- Mrs. | her cell in the Los | i} when the end came. expressions of affec- | Roman | the last | building a co-defendant | | mausoleum ‘ing to his own plans and under his | personal Don't give | | yesterday other sinking spell. | fight. Roman said | he was to give was that he had over- | plotting ‘to | Obenchain at} Aug. 5, | _ bearing on the was | having | 3urch’s knee similar | |of his health, ‘abouts became a matter of intense, ‘asa witness. This |; was repeated to Ralph | ‘idle throng for days; ‘fo answer were | Kennedy, ; | death. In one of the | 'mitiod he was suffering from a can- | ieer of the throat. was ever | ‘America, pleted Mausoleum Sleepy Hollow Cemetery— | Most of Family at Bedside. ' By the Associated Presse. TARRYTOWN, N. Y., June Rockefeller, oil magnate Rockefeller, o'clock. Rockefeller had been sick at his home in rlills in North ily before 7 Pocantico NY WOKE, _—, Tarrytown, since Sunday, but word | | of his condition was not made pub- | He. Five doctors, under the charge of | tockefeller’s personal physician, Dr. ; W. J. Robertson, were in attendance | Practically the | entire Rockefeller family were at the death bed. vo Mausoleum Just Completed. tockefeller cold during week-end, had contracted a | the rains of the who heavy just completed $250,000 mausoleum 4n} Hollow Cemetery. The was constructed accord- the Sleepy direction. Rockefeller began to sink rapidly | morning, but rallied about | In the evening came an. | Physicians and | fortified with all the re- of science, kept a night but it obviously was a losing 6 p. m. surgeons, sources watch, Stock Exchange Not Affected. John D. Rockefeller remained at | his home in Pocantico Hills, but was | kept constantly informed of his! brother’s condition. He reached | Rockwood Hall a few minutes after | the end came. At the death bed, were Rockefeller's two daughters | and two sons. | Mrs. Rockefeller years ago. It is said hfs death will have no, action of the Stock | ' died about two) Exchange. Government Sought in Vain for F'it- nancier as “Money Trust’ Witness. William Rockefeller had been in ill health for mary years. The sta‘e | in fact, and his wher-- public curiosity in 1912-13. when the | congressional committee investigat- ing the “‘monevy trust” desired him He coud! not be foun’. | For months the Sergeant-at-Arms| of the House of Representatives led | qa search that was fruitless. ror financier’s Fifth avenue house _ in| New York was besieged by subpenn servers, detectives, reporters and an | his residence | at Tarrytown, N. Y.,. the Standara | Oil offices on Broadway and nis cPubs were watched without avail. When attorneys representing him finally capitulated by accepting the subpena for him. it was disclosed that he was at Nassau, Bahama Is- lands. but his physician emphatically maintained that to ask Rockefellor questions on a witness stand was to invite his death. He wus subject to such spasms of couging that speech above a’ whis- per was likely to strangle him. Questioning Stopped. The Pujo committee, still deter- mined to get his testimony concern- ing an alleged manipulation of jhe copper market with H. H. Roge:s several vears previousty. arranged a special sitting in the financier'’s cot- tage at Jeky! Island, but had pr>- ceeded with less than a dozen ques- tior’fs when the witness was seized | with-+ larvngeal spasms and palsy The committee was unable to con- tinue without fear of causing his It was then that his phvsician ad- The subpena-servers’ search for Rockefeller. which, it was estimated. cost the Government many thousands of dollars, was the most conspicuous | feature in newspaper history of his latter life Although the active head of the Standard Oi! Co. of New Yor"’s from its establishment in 1865 to *911. and one of the richest men in his prominence was over- shadowed by sat of his elder brother. John PD. Rockefeller. the founder of the Rockefeller interests in oll, and for many years the head of the parent company. They were both born at Richford, Tioga County, New York. on their father’s farm: William on May 31. 1841, two years after the birth of Continued on Page %. 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