St. Louis Post-Dispatch
November 14, 1923

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OMIC TUESD NOVE MBER PAGE “3 1923. i mm) | i een Buia || tf a aS ~ if COTY NO, \ Ve WORN THIS CLOWN EVERY DAY FoR A eee tt Aen ee Wright, 1923, 289 Mark Rew. U. by Nw.. C. Fisher. S. Patent Office.) | "Declares Treasury Depart- Bas Saag ; —— : te ; = tiles so it could select ' taid he met Mrs. a eeward was introduced to Mortjmer. Ee %e denied that Mrs. Mortimer was at | mying she was there to visit a wom- ' gn employe. _ nicte”’ with the Mortitaers and found _ them “agreeable companions.”’ ' ing then to the famous Pacific Coast E: 1922, Forbes said it was Mortimer | who suggésted that he and Mrs. Mor- | - continued, i“ A ‘ E of a ship. é party ; claimed, : ' turned Forbes. ; Without paying a bill of $27.50. : Was along I gave him the money to Upating " Magh @unsel and exclaimed: este West, as Mortimer never had | asked Easby-Smith. onnection with a claim against the . tracts. 4 | *ncouragement,” he added. _ Excelsior Springs, Mo. WASHINGTON, Nov. 14.—Piecing gut details of his denial of the E shares agains: him, former Director Charles R. Forbes of the Veterans’ Bureau put new thrills into the Sen- te vejerans’ investigation today by flatly eontradicting the testimony of the witness characterized as ‘‘ab- giutely false” the testimony of Elias | H. Mortimer of Philadelphia that the Thompson-Black Co. of Chicago, ehich Mortimer said he represented for hospital the one on which it preferred to build. Questioned about his relations eth Mr. and Mrs. Mortimer, Forbes Mortimer first at and soon aft- list of proposed sites the Veterans’ Bureau, ‘he bureau on soldier welfare work. '.He said he became ‘‘fairly inti- Com- trip with them in the summer of timer accompany the Forbes party beeh to that section. No Talk About thsinedenen, “T stated that there would be a lot of men in the party,” the witness “but that I did not see any objection to their going if they apse ss Porbes said there had been no Edenvérsation with Mortimer about expenses of the trip. “Why did you stop at Chicago?” “To inspect the Speedway Hospital and to visit patients in the Marine ospital,”” was the reply. The witness said he Thempson at Chicago, but not by ‘prearrangement. Before that he had seen him in Washington, | Thempson having called on him in met J. W. Government growing out of a seizure Forbes testified as to the arrange- ‘tent of the rooms of his official at the Drake Hotel, where Mortimer testified he loaned Forbes $000 in the form of ten $500 bills. Says He Paid Mortimer’s Bill. Up to that time, Forbes said, Mor- ter had been talking about con- “But I never gave him any Asked Mout the testimony of Mor- timer that Forbes had stated that While he was in an official capacity in Hawaii he had “fixed things so nobody lost money,’’ Forbes. ex- “Again Mortimer lies!” “Try to restrain yo&rself,’ warned | Easby- Smith. ‘Iam restraining myself,” re- Questioned about Mortimer’s claim » that he had paid Forbes’ bil! at the ead Hotel in Philadelphia, ' Forbes said the reverse was the case; that he paid $27.50 for Mortimer. He ' explained that he was not well and had asked Mortimer where he could $end a juliet week end. Mortimer 8Uggested the Ritz-Carlton. Forbes denied that he attended any party there. He said he retired early. ter, he continued, a man came to room and said the party had left “I paid the bill,” the witness said. Pat seems Mortimer had left the ho- tel for a short time, and they were om about the bill. I never per- mitted Mortimer or anyone else to | Day my expenses. If my secretary y bills and if he was not along, I Paid them. ? Forbes passed the lie direct to rlmer, who had told the Inves- | F Committee that under teed administration confidential apap was furnished certa'n ractors regarding proposed hos- “Dita sites. z : , "If Mortimer states that.” said the ‘ena director, “he states that as “Absolutely a Lie.” | 5 then he turned to Mortimer, who a5 weated at a table with the com- “You (ee Reed of the committee d. “You are testifying to - Sontinuea on on Page 8, Columa 2. John Cottingham, 17 Years. . culminated | John | 1114 Grattan street. i en >, of t 1 street, durin face and took some chewing gum ~ MOTHER SEES SON STABBED TO DEATH BY ANOTHER BOY STABBED TO DEATH IN PRESENCE OF MOTHER Old, Slain by Gilbert Brooks, 15, as Result of | Neighborhood Feud. Rowdy tactics of street-corner | groups of boys in the vicinity of | Fourteenth street and Park avenue | fatally last night for : Cottingham, 17 years old, of | while his | looked on by Gil- | 15, of 1301 South Four- | He was stabbed to death, mother in horror, } a trivial alter- | cation in front of the Cottingham | Loy’s home. | Brooks, turned over to the police Ly his mother, used a hunting knife with a blade six inches long that he purchased yesterday, for the pur- 4 pose, he told police. of learning to | } BOMB r PRES BOK KILLS MAN, AND SON | | Corpus Christi (Tex.) — Real| Estate Dealer Blown to Pieces | Opening Package at Home. become a knife thrower, such as he lad seen in circus sideshows. He was hela at the House of De- tention and others of his associates in a neighborhood gang were arrest- | } | ct: | ed in the,investigation and held for the Juvenile Court. Slayer’s Version of Trouble. ‘John’s brother hit my little) brother and took his chewing gum,” the Brooks boy plaintively told po>| lice in answer’ to questions, ‘and when [ went to see John’s’ brother about it John came out and slapped my face and knocked me down and I got up and swiped at him with the knife.”’ The Cottingham family, John, his brother, Vincent, 15, and his mother and stepfather, were at supper about 7 o'clock, when Gilbert Brooks, from the sidewalk, called at Vincent to come out. Vincent went to the when he observed Brooks, member of an enemy gang, he ran back in the house, ‘‘to get something to de- fend himself,’”’ his mother later said. John thereupon left the table, went outside and ordered the Brooks boy to go away. A few hot words passed and the stabbing followed. The Brooks boy told police that Cottingham first slapped him and then struck him a fist blow on the jaw, knocking him down, whereup- on he drew the knife and struck nimlessly in self-defense. The knife entered the lower abdomen of Cot- tingham and death resulted in a few minutes. Mother Sces Son Killed. Cottingham’s mother. said ‘she went to e window when John went outside and saw the Brooks boy on the sidewalk with the knife un- sheathed in his hand. She said her son merely ordered the Brooks boy to go away and did not strike him. The wounded boy was placed in 4 passing automobile, but died be- fore reaching City Hospital. Brooks fled from the scene, but said he returned latef out of curiosity and when he heard that Cottingham had died. went home and told his mother, who telerhoned the police to come and get her son. Policemen found the bloodstained knife in its sheath on a lot where it had been thrown by Dorothy Brooks, sister of the vouthful glayer. Questioned at length, Brooks said his brother. Watter, 12. and another lad were returning home from 4' nicture show Monday night when Vincent Cottingham, 15, and several ather hovs held Walter. slanped his By the Associated Press. CORPUS*CHRISTI, Tex., Nov. 14.! —A bomb believed to have been | sent from San Antonio, exploded, shortly after noon today in the home of J. A. Barnes, real estate dealer | of this city, kiling Barnes and his! 12-year-old son. Mrs. Barnes and! a servant girl were injured, but not fatally. The explosion blew arnes to pieces. -The boy lived about 20@/| minutes- Parts of Barnes’ body were found | in a tree, and one of his shoes w as | found in an adjoining house, having, been blown through a window. The | explosion wrecked the rear part door and of | the Barnes home and blew the win-| dows of residences for a distance of a block. The. infernal machine was deliv- ered by express to the Barnes home between 10 and ll a.m. It was ad- derssed to Barnes and was from), San Antonio. Mrs. Barnes said that) the box in which the machine was} delivered bore a return address of| “Cone, North Flores street. San An-/ tonio.’ When- Barnes arrived home, ey 12:15 he took the box onto the back | porch, accompanied by his son, and) started t¥ open it. Mrs. Barnes and | the servant were in the house. Short- | « Brsesecadigapunke the ii ae occurred. AWARD FOR WORK TO KEEP MAN OUT OF EARLY DRAFT CLASS Lawyer Allowed $350 Fee by Jury for Wartime Efforts in Behalf of Son of F. A. Stiers. For his good offices in trving to } in a deferred classification under the | draft iw 1918, John E. Turner, an at- torney, was awarded $350 fee by a/'| jury in Circuit Judge Davis’ court today against F. A. Stiers, a centract- or of 5333 Lindell boulevard: Turner testified that from July to | November, 1918, he worked firs’ to | faave the call for Harold Stiers Po layed and then to get him in the! naval coast defense reserve. For this work, which was unavailing, he| asked $500. Young Stiers was called and served in the Medical Corps, but did not go to France. His father contended | }that because Turner was a member of a legal advisory draft board, he should have worked for nothing. CAPTAIN'S TRIAL NEARS END ‘Naval Officer Questicned on “Follow the Leader” Doctrine.” the Associated Press. SAN DIEGO, Cal., Nov. 14:—Con- | clusion of the trial of Capt. Robert | Morris, one of the 11 naval officers facing courtmartial as a cosequenc: of the wreck of seven destroyers off | Point Honda, Cal., Sept. 8, is ex- pected today. Yesterday's testimony in the tria! of Capt. Morris who was jin com- ‘mand of a division, concerned the | m6 the Ammoctete? Press. ‘doctrine, of “follow the leader,” the 'destroyers’ maneuver, the relative | NEW YORK, Nov. | 10.-0ehe responsibility of squadron and di- stewards accompanied each of the | vision commanders an: the, latitude six men And women who comprised ‘allowed for independept adtion by | the complete passenger list of the | panior commanders. national Greek liner Gladstone, for- | SPERRY TRAVELS ONLY BY AIR) merly the Themistocles,, when it | } Even Goes to Golf Course In Flivver ' and a book from him. This occurred at Fourteenth street and Park ave- nue. where the rival gangs occasion- ally congregate. Prenared for an Emergency. This nrompted Gilbert to go to the Cottingham home last night to “see about” the attack upon his brother. He stoutly Geclared he purchased the knife to Jearn to be a knife thrower, and not ‘to attack the Cottingham brothers, remarking that he took it with him last night for “an —" cy in case of trouble.” . | The homicide squad took two oth- | er boys into custody as witnesses for | the Coroner’s inquest. They were present when “the gang’ took Wal- ter Brooks’ chewing gum Monday night. be ONLY 6 PASSENGERS ON LINER Greek-Americans, Al) Third-Class, Each Have Three Stewards. By | six, all Greek-Americans and each a third~ class passenger, had the big avesse] to themselves with the service pitrrer ytd accorded a passenger list of 2000 concentrated upon them. The passenger dearth was due to the fact that Greece’s immigration quota has been exhausted for this fiscal year. —-——~- U. S. Sending Experts to Geneva. ; lated Press. GENEVA, "Nov. 14.—The United States Government has informed the League of Nations that it is sending technical experts to the international conference on transit and communi- cation opening here on Thursday. docked from Patras yesterday. The Plane to Prove Practicability. Pulitzer (Corrright. 1922. by the Press and or shine Cos.. the N*w York W Publ and the Post-Dispatch. LONDON, Nov. 13. — Lawrence | Sperry, New York airman who ar- rived at Southampton last week with | his flivver airplane, flew from there to London today in 25 minutes. The trip takes two hours by train. After making arrangements for a garage for his, machine, he flew to! the Harewood golf course for a round. He said he ‘will travel tn’ | England only by plane to prove the | practicability of the air flivver. —— 'bag, the messengers boarded a West ‘mortally ‘shackled the cashier’s arms behind place the defendant's unmarried son,/c i but recovered half an hour later by Hartwig, Bruhn ily igiven a temporary release Oct. shortly bel ‘awarded to William Butler Yeats, | HOLDUP MENKLL 2 MESSENGERS, ROB THEM OF $43600 Bank Employes Slain in. Crowded Brooklyn Sub- way Station at Morning Rush Hour. SERIES OF CRIMES IN 24 HOURS Shot in Holdup; $18,500 Payroll Stolen; Subway Cashier Bound. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Nov. 14.—Two bank i'messengers were murdered by two ‘robbers who stole $43,600 from them in a spectacular holdup today at the Fifty-fifth street station of the West End subway line in Brooklyg. The station was filled with persons on their way to work when the rob- bers opened fire, later fleeing with their haul an automobile which the police sent out a alarm within a 69-mile radius of the in for general city. The messengers, who were shot, were William S. Barlow and Wil- liam H. McLaughlin, both of Brook- lyn, and employed by the West End bank. They were taking the money to another bank. Met on Stairs by Robbers. Carrying the money in a black End train at LBHighty-sixth’ street, where the subway trains run on an | ‘overhead structure, getting out at | the Fifty-fifth street station. | As they were descending the stairs | they were met by the two robbers. Passengers on the platform heard several shots but could not see ex- actly what happened. Persons on the street, however, | saw the robbers snatch up the bag, jump into the automobile and dis- | appear. Pedestrians were unable to get the ‘license number, for the robbers had | ‘adopted the latest device of burning | some compound which emits aj) smoke screen through the exhaust. | 24 Hours of Crime. The murder of the bank messen- | gers was the climax of a 24-hour | period of sensational criminal ac-| tivity. | Late last night a robber shot and | wounded Jacob Bankhoff, druggtst, after he had found’ only $20 in the cash register. The robber got away. | Farly today two young men en- tered a downtown subway station, him and, while one made change for passengers, the other emptied the cash box of $650. They kicked the ashier under a shelf and escaped. A motor truck carrying $78,000 worth of woolen foods from Hart- ford, Conn., was stolen in the Bronx, men the Two with policemen. charged motorcycle were arrested, theft. Two men yesterday held up an employe of the Ward Baking Co. in Brooklyn and fled with an $18,500 payroll. KRUPP DIRECTORS REPORTED PARDONED BY THE FRENCH Baron Krupp vo Bohlen Had Been Given Temporary Release on Promise to Reopen Works. 3y the Associated Press. BERLIN, Nov. 14.—A _ dispatch from Essen says Baron Krupp vor Bohlen and the Krupp. directers, and Oecesterlin, who were d@onvicted of opposing the French occupation and given long prison terf™ms, have been provisional- released and it is assumed they | have been definitely pardoned. A was 25. Baron Krupp von Bohlen While at liberty he signed an agree- ment with the French authorities | ‘and posted a forfeit to assure the.| ‘reopehing of the great Krupp stee) | works at Essen. It was reported after his parole that he | he definitely released date, re eee » ~ would at early IRISH AUTHOR AWARDED THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE | William Butler Yeats Announced as Winner—Physics Award Went to an American. —_——— ER eg a ee Speen a - — i a i 1 Ry the Associated Press. 14.—The No- has been STOCKHOLM, Nov. prize for literature ithe Irish author, it was announced | ; today. Yesterday the snail of the Nobel | prize for physics to Dr. Robert An- | drews Millikan of Pasadena, Cal., Was announced. NEW INFORMATION WITNESSES TELL OF SEEING PAIR SCUFFLE. ; across ‘friendly manner, | kiss. | Bowers. never / IN BOWERS CASE INQUEST CONTINUED Police Investigating Fresh i? Lead—Youth Who Was With Girl at Time of Kill- ing Released on Bond. IN TO GIVE UP RHINELAND; EXPECTED TO DECLARE THA EPARATIONS CAN’T BE PAI GERMAN CABINET DECIDES T0 HA “Cows and Chickens Are Things for Me, Not Politics,” Says | New York Druggist F ete Mother of Murder Victim | Says Daughter Had Ex- pressed Fear That Fiance Would Whip Her. The Coroner’s inquest iftto the mysterious murder of Marie Bowers, 16-year-old telephone operator, was continued today for the second time, to give the police homicide squad an opportunity for further investigation, along lines of information newly ob- tained. The hearing will be -e- sumed Friday at 9 a. m. At that time it 1s expected that Clarence Level, the girl's fiance, will testify. Level, who has been hell by the police since the girl’s death Saturday night, was released after today’s hearing on an $800 bond furnished by his father and uncle. His story, as told to the police, that an armed negro took the girl from him, dragged her into an all3v and shot her: The Coroner's office was crowded at the second session of the inquest today. Witnesses were persons who were in the vicinity of Twenty-first street and Chouteau avenue at the time of the shooting, about 9:30 p. m. Saturday. The girl’s parents, Mr. and venter avenue, and Level’s parents, who live at 1230 Missouri avenue, were at the hearing. Mrs. Bowers said she and her husband probably would not grant Level’s request that he be permitted to attend the girl’s funeral, at the Bowers home tomor- row. Negroes Testify. The first of the witnesses heard today’s two-hour session of the were a negro man and who saw a young man and “walking ahead of them the Twenty-first street via- duct, and who thought at first that the two scuffliag in an uo- but then saw them The two witnesses loitered on and heard of the shoot- they in ‘inquest woman woman were the viaduct, ing when avenue. The girl’s mother, Mrs. Louise testified to the engagement between Marie and Level. She said the two often Quarreled, and that Marie expressed the fear that Level would ,whip her. Once, when she went out with another youth, the girl remarked ‘Clarence will kill me if he finds this out.” The girl, however, mentioned any actual threat by Level against her life, and never told of seeing him have any weapon, and the mother had no knowledge *e to possession of any weapon by him. Last Friday night, the night be- fore her death, Marie returned home with her sister, the mother said, and said she and Level had had another quarrel. The mother said Level would some- times take Marie in his automobile. and that when they went by street ear, he would put her on a car and would* not accompany her home. Level drank, the mother said, and thie resulted in one automobile acci- dent, in which Marie was hurt. Hieard Shot and Scream. Mrs. Lillie Vocker of 1930A Papin street, who, with her husband, was near the scene, testified that she heard the shot, and then heard a scream. Level, in his story to the police, has related that Marie | Continued on Page 3, Column _. wwe Interesting Facts for Prospective Home Buyers The “Real Estate” columns over in the classified section of the Post-Dispatch are of compelling interest tu every reader of this newspaper. KPPLALPLOO I ~ They have peculiar interes§. however, for the man or woman who is considering home ownership. te ce At such a time it is wise to consult the dealers and own- ers advertising there. They know real estate values: they willl give you expert opinion on locations and fu- ture pogsibilities. i i i Turn to the “Real Estate” columns and read their con- tents carefully. Talk with those who are offering ne ‘ > he “if eg Che ae Pak: BS" + oO | NER Foe ieee