St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 19, 1924
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t » — ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH MONDAY EVENING, MAY 19, 1924. ST.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ET ER CHA MUSTICE. AGENTS ~ FRAMED Joint Amnesty Committee * in Letter to Wheeler Ac- «@uses - Government of , Using “Agents Provoca- - teurs. SAYS CHARGE HAS =* BEEN ADMITTED hpi. Pardon Lawyer, However, “Declares Statement Re- “garding Case of Fritz bs » Bischoff Was Misquoted. Post-Dispatch Bureau, °0-23 Wyatt Building. 19.—Mem- _* sie | "WASHINGTON, May bers of the joint amnesty tee which sought suecessfully for release of war-time political pris- ohem have filed charges with Sen- ater Wheeler (Dem.) of Montana that Fritz W. Bishof’, sentenced for*alieged destruction of war ma- teMais and subsequently released 16%be deported, was “framed” by avehts of the Department of Jus» tits: commit- DASE “PRESS LORDS’ BY EX-PRE Says He Would Not Allow | Rothermere and Beaver- brook in His House — Calls Birkenhead a “Lia- bility” to Party. Special Cable to Post-Dispatch and © New York World. Copyright. ublishing Cos.. the New York World and the Post-Dispatch. LONDON, May 19.—Former Pre-. mier Baldwin in an interview vio-| lently attacks Viscount mere and Baron Beaverbrook, press lords’ whose papers, with circulations of lions, knifed him at the December “the mil- elections. “The Daily Mail is dead. It has no soul,” Baldwin says of the Vis- eount’s chief organ. Then, refer- ring to both newspaper owners, he adds: “They are men I would not have in house. I do not respect them. . Who are they? my I often wonder if my silenr contempt -irri- tates them than if I were) to speak out.” | The former Premier then refers | more ‘pretty Aformation of the case. accord- ing to the authors of the letter, was oltetdned from Pardon Attorney Jegnes A. Finch at the Justice De- partinent, who, they said, frank- ly admitted Bishoff was convicted through the activities of “agents prevocateurs.”” Finch denied he had made any such admission, sating: “The statement is distorted amd inaccurate.” aie letter to Wheeler, signed by Imevinia lL. Dock of Fayetteville, Pai..and Ellen Winsor of Haver- ford, Pa., was written to call at- tention to the Bishoff case and to th@;; continued imprisonment of Nigholas Zoggs. the one “political prisoner’ left in prison after Presi- dent ( ‘oolidge’s grant of commuta- tions last December. President Cgetidge is being urged to liberate ZORE. Pardon Attorney Quoted. their letter to the Montana * the amnesty workers said . Finch admitted frankly to delegation, composed of a up of 11 women interested in speech, that the Department Justice had secured a long tern risonment in the penitentiary aman name! Fritz W. Bishoff, gh the activities of two .ef its ‘acting as ‘agents provoca- rs.. In other words, that Bis- f was framed by the depart- nt. and then sent to the peni- tlary for a long term. Our delegation called on Mr. ch, May 6, to talk with him ut the case of Nicholas Zogg. © was convicted in California in 8, and has been tn prison ever e. lie Was sentenced to 19 re under the espionage act and years under the draft act. for osing enlistments and atlding soners of conscience.’ ZORR. © is 69 vears old, is 111 with tu- culosis and has already served years. “Agents Incited Violence.” ‘In reply to our questions as to y Zorg had not been given his rty--he was accidentally not luded among the I. W. W. pris- rs granted an unconditional re- e by President Coolidge § in ember, 19823—-when the Presi- t had commuted the 25-year tences of Fritz W. Bishoff, sen- ced in New Jersey in 1918 for mpting destruction of war mu- yons, Mr. Finch stated in sub- ce that Rishoff was to be re- ed and deported because he had ually not commmftted a crime. Mt, he had heen Jed by adiness to perform an act of Fuction of war munitions: these ; S had incited the act of vio- i 2nd then anticipating the act. pprehended their victim and r him to jail.’’ Mestice Department officials merained their agents followed mff when he Was about to ac- Plish his purpose with the mu- ms, detected and arrested him declined to amplify his de- ] that statements in the letter € inaccurate, e~-S8 artes sas eS: ee ‘MEN AND TWO WOMEN ASEE MAN BLEED TO DEATH ad Out His Arm in Striking at nother Man Through Glass F Pane in Door. Meminick Cazegiia, 45 years old, brietor of a rooming house at Past Broadway, y bied to death in ** the front lof his place yesterday morning | two women | apparently helpless, | waited for physicians and the | ENOL CHEMICAL CO., Chicage - New York “ vote of 441 to 151 lle four men and od around, ice. e had severed an artery in his) tarm, the witnesses said, whea | swung hie fist through the eluss of the front door in an effort rike Delbert Wiggins, a room-. The broken glass cut a jagged near the elbow. gins told police that Cazegiia. ng to be under the influence wor, started a quarrel with about hie rent. They were in the doorway at the Garegiia tried to hit him. he and he dodged broke the glass. are held for the Coroner. to party.”’ Churchill, cise the other Ministers Lloyd George fell. himself to the strings of Austen’s no illusions as to Lord Birkenhead. If his health he will be a liability to the party.” two of | Gepartment's agents to express | to an article in English Lite signed | “Ex-Minister,”’ and attacking his | administration. He calls it ‘a’ dirty piece of work” and) continues: | “It is written by a Conserva tive ex-Minister and I am pretty certain that if it is not written by the man I suspect it was certainly inspired by him. It was a stab in the back. It attacks my officials, the heads of the Central Office, and that I will not stand. Besides al] this intrigue, this Churchill plotting is bad for the party and for all the young men who are looking to Toryism for the salvation of the' country. What do all these _ in- triguers want? Simply to go back | the old dirty kind of polities. | while I am leader of the Not thus attacked Winston Baldwin goes on to critf- two principal Tory stood by David when the coalition Having who “Lord Birkenhead has attached | (Chamberlain) apron. I am under does not give way The interview in which these re. marks appear is published in People. Tory whips are greatly concerned at its bitter tone and have been trying to find Baldwin all day to get confirmation or denial. MAN UNABLE TO WORK KILLS DAUGHTER AND SELF Tragedy in Suburb of Memphis Follows Walk to Gather Wild Flowers. Ry the Associated Press MEMPHIS, Tenn., May 19.—-- Martin D. Keith, 63 years old, a plumber, while walking with his daughter, Marie, 28, in Buntyn, a suburb, yesterday, suddenly gehot her through the head, killing her, and then turned the pistol on him- self, inflicting wounds from which he died 30 minutes later. Keith had asked his daughter to go with him to gather wild flowers and the tragedy occurred while they were returning. After killing his daughter, and before firing a bullet into his own head, Keith wrote the following note, which was found on the pave- ment: “She never knew why I hurt her. I write this message be- cause I-had to take her out ahead | of me. I cannot go on this way.” | The family moved here from Kalamazoo, Mich., last year, and Keith had been ill and unable to) work for months. Relatives believe | he became mentally deranged by | worrying over his troubles. | After Keith had shot his daugh- ter, he prevented several perabne| who were passing by from interfer- ing by threatening to kill them. | He tried three times to shoot him- | self in the body but each time the, pistol failed to discharge. Keith, then fired a test shot into the ground and, placing the pletol to his head, sent a bullet through his skull. 1924, by the Press and Pulitzer | * | Rother-| - Tory news-| | a ry} | pavement, 'a mileage of 31 | cent. ’ ASSAILED MIER BALDWIN STANLEY BALDWIN. ey — — B 7 ——_—_——— so as second-class fr ered 1878. at the pcenesties ' under act of March 3, 1 Bell, Olive 6600. 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McNally, Division Passenger doen, 1495 Beilway Exchange Bldg. —Phone Mein 4000 _ ‘ Bible that a idl of these was open so ie baie . 2 * 4 . ee a os ae - e. ¢ ta we r A 1 ——_ i", i ne ee” ll ' 4 v a et a ee te a ey eo ree , dof i Se ee LDUP OF U. §. RGE LINE OFFICE ——Oore Two Masked Men Lock Watchman and Hostler in | “pox Car at 2 A. M. on * East Side River Front. KNOCK COMBINATION FROM THE. SAFE , Dressed in Khaki « Overalls, Wore Handker- ‘chiefs Over Their Faces —Each Carried Revolvers; -Two masked men held up a watchman and a negro hostler at the office of the Mississippi-War- rfor River Service, Federal barge ine operators, on the East Side fiver front, north of the Free Bridge, at 2 a. m. today, and took $1000 from a safe in the office which they opened by knocking otf the combination. ‘They then locked Hiram Zieblin, the watchman, and Charles James, the hostler, in a box car standing nearby, and escaped. The prison- ers did not attract anyone's atten- tion for two hours. At 4 a. m. the police were notified. The money had been kept in the office to pay freight handlers. Zieblin and James could not give a description of the robbers, ex- cept that they wore white hand- je ehiefs over their faces and were dressed in khaki overalls. Each carried two revolvers. THIN. WHITE STRIPE ON TROUSERS BEST CLEW IN MURDER Continued from Page O1>. reason he Is only in the third grade in school. Story Told by Boy. -He went over the ground today with a Post-Dispatch reporter to show where he saw a young woman being pursued. “T left the house about 10 o'clock Thursday night,” he said, “and went to meet my sister, who had been at a friend's house, but didn't find her, and started back. In the middle of the block on Gamble, nearly opposite the playground, I saw a girl, first walking fast, then starting to run, and crossing the street from south to north. “Then I saw t man chasing her just saw him sidewise and from behind, not a gooa front. view. There was a white stripe down his thousers. I didn't notice the coat. except that it was dark, but whether it matched the treuserg or was any kind of uniform coat, I couldn't say. I thought it was a Policeman chasing the girl, and ee he was trying to arrest er ‘The girl ran into the play- é4round, and turned in such a diree- con that she might have wyne into che alley, but I didn’t see her any further. I walked back to my fouse, and was there in a minute or two. As I got on my steps, I heard a loud scream. Viewed Body of Girt. “In the morning, when I heard &® body had been found in a yard ecross the street, I went over and looked at the body before they re- moved it. and I was sure it was the Sirl I had seen. “The police took me down to look at a man, and he looked, from behind, like thé man that was chasing the girl, but I couldn't be Sure it was the same man, as I Gidn't get a front view of the man who chased the girl.” No one else has reported heay- Ing a scream at the time when the boy saya he heard it, though there were persons awake in the neigh- borhood at the time. A metal badge, with the letter- ing “Special Policeman—26." was found yesterday by a boy—not the Shapiro boy—in an ashpit™hear the Place where the body was found, in the rear yard of 2943 Gamble Street. The boy saw the badge re- flecting the sunlight, and picked it Out of the pit. which was cleaned = lately as last Tuesday. The ty was not an official one of e St. Louis Police Department. Another Theory of Crime. As haa’ been told, the uniformed oo of the Dayton street Station, - — than the detectives assigned vd © case from headquarters, are hay. with the idea that the 4 was killed somewhere else, and — her body was taken, perhaps hee automobile, to the yard Dey it was found in the rear of Gamble street. A night pos- he erk has sald that he saw an Ge nobile in the alley, near the py street yard, at 2 a. m. om day. There is no garage on the *Y. and none of the neighbors “8 a car, but it is coneidered pos- & “spooners” car might *€tk seclusion there. nO Matthews of ihe Dayton Feet Station said today that he oma, the criminal assault oc- vara in a building, and not in the in nti here the body was found, or ® adjoining playground. His — for this belief is the ab- © of scratches on the parts of _ "he body trom which the clothing removed. There are nity, vacant buildings in the but it is not known wheth- so that YOUNs woman could have been in by her captor. - Charles Holzhauer, in whose yard the body was found, . y sa TAKEN Ss enter as < & G \ a “ t) 8 le t) 8.
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