St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 20, 1924

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"wew YORK, Sept. 20.—Gov. menit jas yielded to the fates and wil.be @ candidate for Governor ain the New York World says Ths evident yesterday when ts meee Democratic leaders at the ™ Biltmore, although he deé- ined to announce his plans. "Ii-wag reflected in the general Ber sD surrounding the Gov- ! rno jess than by what he said his talks with newspaper mer. Beave every evidence of one who ad fought as hard as he could to have public office but who had scided to listen to his party's call pa go forth once more as its ‘happy warrior,” as he was dubbed in the national convention. The Governor, during the weeks ‘ince he publicly proclaimed his ‘State leadership in Madison Square “Garden and pledged himself tc the election of John W. Davis, had Fshown plainly that he was labor- " ing under a tremendous strain. He » Wanted to leave office and devote P himself to putting by a competen:e, Yet he desired to\show the Demo- erate who had supported him at . the Garden that he meant every- )thing he said in support of the Da- yis-Bryan ticket. : | Leaders Call for Him. » His closest friends advised him ™@ot to run, but to devote his time Muring the campaign to speaking wor the Democratic ticket. On the ther hand, every State and na- Mona! leader told him there was mene thing his party needed most— mimself as a candidate for re-elec- >. = WHATS MORE. “THAT iL MOUSE IGnar2* Must Go WIth It — + Two weeks ago he went. to Syra- peuse to be honored at the New | York State Fair. He met a group eet his closest political advisers, who 0d him he must accept a renom}- /mation. He protested. They in- ; ed and when he left Syracuse peich of the determination he hai , ane to run had been under- ed, | On Wednesday he received Nor- man E Mack, National Committee- han, at the executive mansion, and erin he was told the Democracy} = the nation, as well as the eemocracy of New York, demand - @that he run again. Mack stayed this side until last night, wher. Governor, after finding every who had advised him to get on P the fight had joined these wh» eed him to stay in, threw up his ——“S and said in substance: mat can I do?” 2 s Pled : George ged to Smith _ : ” a .. | , sie’ - ae W. Olvany, leader of ipa y largely by virtue of - "8 Support, called on him at Biltmore yesterday and told wa €very delegate was pledged to = Omination, with or without his : t, and that he must accept. refusing to commit himself, m Governor went to Coney Island, we it was the old Al Smith of a — red joyous combats and not harassed combatant with a a fate that left the hotel. _ His buoyancy, no less than his ure to say the word which sm ld have killed the hopes of his erly, Was accepted as evidence of 8 decision, although it is said no = encement will come from him mei after the delegates: have ac- med him again the leader of York State's Democracy. WILL BEAR NEXT ENT’S NAME—PERHAPS Would Prevent Honor— =eep One Named La Follette,” - . Wires Senator's Son. i. Associated Press. ; pi eal SHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Mr. and or «ty See Ae ete. Roy Lee, of Aurora, IIl., have a | Set oe serephed President Coolidge, —- Ws ee ees . W. Davis and Senator La "ey Sa ia a PRESI * of our triplets for you. One _ in to have the name of the et President." g at you can’t be certain of the answer was wired in be- * Of Senator La Follette by his n, Robert Jr. “The election may } thrown into Congress and a t Mamed after a deadlock House.”’ _. Suggested that “no matter Mis done with the Coolidge and ms boys, the La Follette young- i be kept and raised.” _ ette that they “have named r Dies After Returning $300,000 in Stolen Gems “Fence” Who. Handled Jewels Stolen From Mrs. Hugo P. Schmoellkopf Kept Vow He Made When Stricken With Disease. By the Associated Press. TRENTON, N. J., Sept. 20.— John W. Mahan, central figure in the sensational Schoellkopf jewel robbery in New York, died at his old home here toduy after having made good his promise to a priest that he would restore all of the gems, with an approximate aggre- gate value of $300,000. Mahan was a warped and shrunken little man who looked 80 although he was only 50. Twisted grimly by a stroke of paralysis that brought him close to death last summer, he gave up his long ca- reer of crime and vowed to a clergyman and to the New York police that if death would spare him long enough he would recover the last gem of the loot which he had disposed of for the theleves as a “fense.”’ He was released on bail and assured libert to search where he pleased. That was on Jan. 14. Within four days he came limping back with the first of four strings of pearls. Again and again he went out, and each time returned with a part of the loot, until all had been restored. On one occasion Mahan met Mrs, Schoellkopf in a New York hotel and dumped on the ta- ble $125,000 worth of diamonds, pearls and rubies. The robbery of Mrs. Schoellkopf occurred at a gay New Year’s party in 1923. Shortly afterward one of the thieves, Eugene Moran. who is now in prison for the job, took the loot ot Mahan, then operating os- tensibly as a Broadway jeweler, and sold him the lot for $39,500. Before he disposed of it all he was stricken, and, seeing that the of- | ficers were on his track, fled to Miami, Fla. When arrested there last January, he told the story of his part in the crime and his fear of dying with his guiét still un- atoned. With his mission accomplished, Mahan returned to his old home here and remained in his bedroom until his death today, ROBBERS COME TOO SOOM AND MISS $3000 PAYROLL Flee From Painting Co. Office When They Learn Money Hasn't Arrived From Bank. Two highwaymen, who visited the office of tha Busch & Latta Painting Co., 4366 Finney avenue, at 12:30 p. m. today, were just a few minutes too early to get the firm’s $3000 weekly payroll which was already on its way to the of- fice from the bank. Miss Dorothy Meyer, 17 years old, of 4565 Newberry terrace, stenographer for the firm, was alone in the office preparing en- velopes for the money’s distribution when the two young men entered with revolvers and ordered her to put up her hands. “Where is that payroll?” one of them asked. “Well, you are just five minutes ahead of time,”” Miss Meyer re- plied. “It hasn't got here yet.” Without further words, the in- truders fled from the office and disappeared in a touring car, in which a third man had been wait- ing a short distance west on Fin- ney avenue. TWO RIDE CHEAPLY AS ONE Ohicago Taxicab Concerns Abolish Charge for Extra Passengers. By the Assoctated Press. CHICAGO, Sept. 20.—Two taxi- cab companies here today elimi- nated the charge for extra passen- gers, following the example of a third company which revised its rates three weeks ago. The three companies comprise the largest fleets here. One company announced plans of expansion, saying that dropping the extra charge wowtld be fol- lowed by an increase in business as has been the case with every fare reduction in the last six years. Razor Wins With Barber Up. By the Associated Press. BATH, Eng., Sept. 20.—Razor, with T. O. Barber up, won a hair- raising race this afternoon -by a close shave, nosing out Polyanna by hardly more than a hair’s breadth. In Tomorrow’s Sunday Post-Dispatch Rich Folks Would Adopt Him, Bat Jimmy Wants to - Stay With Dad in Tennessee —Touching story of little boy whose club-feet were straightened through the aid of benefactors and the decision he and his father made concerning his future. The Duke Got Peeved When the Duchess Sued for Di- vorce So He Locked Her Out —The odd twist in the mar- ital affairs of a rich BEn- giish peer, and how a Span- ish dancer and her clothes figured in a divorce case which may arouse the King and Queen to efforts at mediation. True Fairy Story of Rich Winthrop Giris Who Mar- ried Poor Men—Recital of the events which led up to the most etartling double elopement that has stirred New York’s society in many years. Rusiness Man by Day, Lanatic at Night—As strange as R.. L. Stevenson's famous story is the predicament of this American, in a big Eastern eity. And it’s true. Further details of the dis- covery announced recently by a college professor in Germany. With prediction that some day gold will be cheap. BROKER, SHORT $1,000,000, WAS MAN OF MYSTERY G. R. Christian, Who Rose From Messenger to Firm Member, Gave Partners False Address. Speciai to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—George R. Christian, whose alleged defalca- tions from his partners in the 53- year-old Stock Exchange firm of Day & Heaton were estimated yes- terday at “probably close to $1,- 000,000," is revealed by disclosures since his disappearance last morth, as a man whose life, outside the office, has been veiled in mystery for years. His rise firm’s messenger to partnership in 28 years, was s!0w compared with the rapidity of his descent, after his partner’s alleged discovery that he had, since last May, at least, been operating ac- counts in the name of some of Day & Heaton’s oldest and best cus- tomers. Christian's alleged conduct dropped the firm into bankruptcy, and caused its suspension from the Stock Exchange. At the offices, 42 Broadway, where Alfred C. Coxe, receiver, is in charge, it was said yesterday that, while examination of the books is not finished, it now seems as if the firm’s assets may not exceed $750,000. The number of securities held in trust, which have been sold, may bring the to- tal of defalcations to $1,000,000. Did Not Know His Adiiress. Not until the discovery of tne defalcations was Christian consid- ered by his partners and business associates to be in any way pecu- Mar. For years his partners have not known where he lived, have not been able to reach him by telephone or telegraph, and have never been asked to call on him, although Christian was entertained at dinner by’ William W. Heaton, senior member of the firm, in Ais country home near Mamaroneck, a Five years ago Christian told his partners he lived at 790 Washing- ton avenue, Brooklyn. Yesterday residents at that address said no persons of that name had ever lived there. Christian was asked by Harry, V. Day why he did not have a home telephone. He re- plied, according to Day, that “the thing would ring so much and dis- turb me. You know I work hard, and when I leave the office I want rest.”” Last summer, Day went salmon fishing and told Christin he would send some salmon to his home ad- dress. Left Word on Departure. ‘Don’t send them there,” was Christian’s reply, according to Day. “Send them to the office and I'll give some of them to the boys.” Christian’s actual residence for three and a half years before he moved last month without leaving a forwarding address, was 1265 Bedford avenue, Brooklyn. The building is a “walk-up” aparf- ment, owned by Dr. J. T. Carrier. Christian, his wife, a semf-invalid, and his mother-in-law, Mrs. Louis B. Prout, occupied six rooms on the third floor. Christian left word that circum- stances over which he had “nto control” caused his departure while Dr. Carrier was out of town. brokerage a junior the boy from 4 ford Sweetin and told him to look NEIGHBORS OF PASTOR READ! 10 TAKE STAND State’s Attorney Will Have No Lack of Witnesses at Murder Trial of the Rev. Lawrence Hight. PLENTY OF RUMORS HEARD AROUND INA Nothing “Elusive” There, Correspondent Finds After Questioning Many of the Residents. By a Staff Oorrespondent of the Y Post-Dispatch. INA, Ill., Sept. 20.—A county of- ficial over at Mt. Vernon, which is a cityfied town and too large for real gossip, had described the ru- mors at Ina as to the alleged af- fair between the Rev. Lawrence Hight and Mrs. Elsie Sweetin by using the adjective ‘‘elusive.’’ He was wrong. There is nothing at all elusive about the rumors in Ina. Big, black, tangible rumors lurk in front of Alex Bumpus’ general store, nlongside the Ina “Observer” of- fice, in front of the Ina State Bank and in every back yard and kitch- en. Indeed, every Ina citizen rep- resents a rumor. And he makes no effort to conceal it. Ina, for a month past, has been talking. It was this talk which led State’s Attorney Thompson and Sheriff Holcomb of Jefferson County to exhume the body of Parson Hight’s wife, Anna, who died Sept. 12. It was this talk which led to the discovery that Mrs. Hight had died from arsenic polsoning and not from eating spoiled ham, as her physicians re- ported. No Lack of Witnesses. It was this talk which caused au- thorities to exhume the body of Wilford Sweetin, who died a month ago, and to send his viscera to Chi- cago for analysis. This talk brought about the arrest of Parson Hight for murder of his wife He was bound over to the October grand jury yesterday. The State's Attorney will not lack for witnesses when the Rev. M. Hight comes to trial. All the per- sons with whom the correspondent has talked expressed themselves as willing to tell what they knew on the stand. They seemed even a lit- tle anxious to be enrolled. Com- petition among the witnesses will be keen, they realize. Constable Walter Carroll threw up an arm as the correspondent’s automobile rolled into town, in the mapner of a man who has waited a long time for a reporter. “You want to know about the Hight case?’’ he questioned: “Well —TI might be able to help you out.” Two dozen citizens who had gathered about looked wistful. Ina, it must be remembered, has been talking for a month. The Constable took a seat on the broken tongue of a sulky rake drawn up near the Bumpus store and with his rumors about him, was ready for the first question. ‘He liked Her Figure.” “What. led the ‘townspeople to believe that the Rev. Hight and Mrs. Sweetin knew each other bet- ter than was thought exactly prop- er?’”’ “*“We-ell, I reckon it was because he’d say things.’’ A series of nods came from bystanders. “What would he say?’ ‘“We'ell, I've heard as how he said Mrs. Sweetin was the pret- tiest woman he’d ever seen. He allowed that he liked her figure.” “Were they ever seen together?” “Yep. They were. Several of the boys in town followed ’em. Yes, sir. You followed ’em didn’t you, Sam ?”’ Sam admitted that he had fol- lowed them, and then he added, “Webley and ‘Hoss’ did, too.” “What other rumors?” Husband Defended Preacher. “We-ell, the folks around here say that several men went to Wil- out for his wife. And he wouldn’t believe "em. He took up for the preacher. Said the preacher had saved his soul, and he wasn’t goin’ to doubt him.” At this, general talk broke up the Constable’s interview and the reporter learned that Parson Hight and Wilford Sweetin had been firm friends. “The preacher saved Wil- ford,” was the comment. Later it was explained that Wilford had joined the Methodist Church at Ina of which Hight still is pastor, be- cause “Preacher Hight was so pow- erful in prayer.” Mrs. Sweetin at- tended the services, too, and the rumor is that people got suspicious because he prayed for her so often. “He usei to visit her house,” the informers said. “Several of the boys saw him wavin’ to her like he was signalin’ before he came.” Continued om Page 6, Column 2. | FLIRTING NEIGHBOR AND STARTLED GIRL SAVE $800 PAYROLL Holdup in Office of Missouri Bag Company Is Frustrated by Waving Hands. When four robbers invaded the second-floor office of the Missouri Bag Co., 814 North Second street, demanding the weekly payroll, at 10a. m. today, a girl stenogra- pher retreated to a window nolding her handg aloft. A man employed in a range factory across the street saw her wavering hands and re- sponded to what he thought was a flirtation by waving his own hands. The robbers, thinking help had been signaled, ran away empty-handed. The robbers, entering from the rear, first met O. L. Hester, the salesmanager. They commanded Hester to put up his hands, but he refused, thinking they were joking. A revolver convinced him of their earnestness and he was marched into the office. Nine em- Pployes from office and factory, in- cluding three girls, also were gath- ered into the office. All were ordered to lie on the fioor, and all but one obeyed. With a revolver prtssed against his head, Charles Sims, the factory superintendent, was ordered to open the office safe. He played for time. Meanwhile, the one em- ploye who remained on her feet. Miss Pearl Bank, 19-year-old ate- nographer, walked toward a Sec- ond street window with hands up- lifted, and the supposed flirtation followed. One robber, seeing the man across the street waving to Miss Bank, slapped her face and shouted to his companios to beat it. They ran to the alley and drove in their waiting automobile, north to Cass avenue and west on Cass. Approximately $800 was missed by the robbers. DAVIS’ DAUGHTER ARRIVES Bays She Will Take No Part in Campaign. By the Associated Press. NEW YORK, Sept. 20.—Mrs. Julia Davis Adams, daughter of John W. Davis, will not take any active part in support of her father’s campaign, she said today upon her arrival from Copenhagen on the steamship Frederick VIII. She said he would give her father only her “moral support.” “IT wanted to be as near my father as possible while he is fight- ing to win,”’ said Mrs. Adams, “‘and so I am here.”’ : Mrs. Adams was disappointed when she learned that her father was in Indiana. There was no one at the pier to meet her. MRS, COOLIDGE AT MEETING Hears Husband's Record Praised By Campaign Speakers. By the Associated Press. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Mrs Calvin Coolidge yesterday made her first appearance at a political gath- ering in the preserft campaign un- accompanied by her husband. Leaving the President at the White House Mrs. Coolidge attend- ed a meeting of the Republican Women’s Club of Montgomery County, Maryland. Mrs. Coolidge listened to several political speeches in which her husband's record was highly praised, shook hands with all present and returned to the White House for dinner. She made no remarks. UNSETTLED WEATHER, FORECAST FOR SUNDAY THE TEMPERATCORES., 7 Active Noveruwne SrPPrPP EP m Highest yesterday, 7 lowest, 61 at 4 a. m. at 4p. m.; Official forecast for St. Louis and vicinity: Unsettled weather tonight and Sunday with showers and thu n derstorms; somewhat cooler. Missouri: Part- ly cloudy tonight and Sunday. F probably scat- tered thunder- | showers; some- what cooler in north and central portions. Illinois: cloudy and probably showers th u nderstorms; : somewhat cooler Sunday in north portion. Sun rises at 5:14 a. m. Sets at 6:02 p. m. Stage of the Mississipp!l River at St. Louis, 9.7 feet at 7 a. m., a rise of .2. Missouri at St. Charles, 12.6 feet, a sise of .9 foot. Week's Weather Ontlook. WASHINGTON, Sept. 20. — Weather outlook for the week be- BBERS AND j BOBPERS ARE MILE HOP ACROSS: JIMMY MILES, POLITICAL POWER DIES AT 63 Justice of Peace and Demo- cratic Chieftain of River Wards Succumbs to Com-/: plication of Diseases. HAD BEEN ACTIVE IN PARTY FOR 34 YEARS Quit Foundry Job to Be- come Constable and Later Was Made Committee- man and Peace Justice. Justice of the Peace James P. Miles, a picturesque figure and a power in Democratic politics in the river wards for the last 34 years, died at 6:30 a. m. today at his home, 1617 North Eighteenth street, following an illness of near- ly two months. He was 63 years old. Three daughters, the May, Johanna and Corrine Miles, and Mrs. Mary Lyman, a friend of the daughters, were at the bedside. Miles was seized with a slight attack of coughing shortly after 6 o’clock and when it did not show signs of abating, Dr. W. F. Kier, 3609 Lindell boulevad, was called. Before he arrived Miles had passed away. _ In addition to the three children who were with him at his death, Miles is survived by a fourth daughter, Mrs. Alice Cento, and one son, James P. Miles Jr. The son, who is under indictment for the murder of Charles O’Neal, a bartender at the Washington Ho- tel, returned to St. Louis last Mon- day after seven months’ in hiding and gained his release on $40,000 bond. He surrendered because of his father’s critical illness. Funeral Services Monday. The funeral will be held Mon- day, on the sixteenth anniversary of the death of Miles’ wife. Serv- ices will be at the residence at 9:30 a. m., after which the body will be taken to St. Lawrence O’Toole’s Church, Fourteenth and O’Fallon streets, where a high mass will be said. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. The body will lie in state at the Miles home until the funeral serv- ices. The family will make no at- tempt to restrict the number of visitors and this morning the close associates of Miles and friends of the family arrived at the home early to offer assistance, Two elderly women, plainly of Irish extraction, busied themselves about the home and refused to al- low the daughters to assist. John Sheehan, an undertaker, former member of the Board of Police Commissioners, and a life- long friend of Miles, took charge of the body. Justice Miles had been in failing health for some time, and in the latter part of July was taken to a hospital to undergo treatment for possible curvature of the spine. He later insisted on returning to his home, and an attack of pneumonia followed that left him in a greatly weakened condition, unable to | overthrow the stomach and liver disorders which followed. His friends and close political associates had held a constant vigil at his home during his illness, and almost to the Iast minute his friends were permitted to enter the sickroom, although he was not at all times able to recognize or con- verse with them. Native of “Kerry Patch.” Miles was born in what was for- merly known as “Kerry Patch,” and lived and died there. His friends point rather proudly to the fact that he held only three “jobs” in his lifetime. He was first em- ployed by the old Ferguson-Kings- land foundry, and worked there until he was 29 years old. Lure of ward politics took him out of the fron foundry in 1890, when he was elected Constable of the Justice Court then presided over by Justice of the Peace Man- ning. He held this post for 16 years, and in 1906 was elected Jus- tice of the Court, retaining this) ginning Monday: Upper Mississippi and Lower Missouri Valleye—Showers toward middie of the week; cool at be- ginning and again at end. goon are tN ee ae ey sig Tl ta Pas oe > re a Rea SD ae Spee Ore SING Ses So : ‘ a » an ——— Yet jm eens Shes, Sen | ae eS Ft a Poot ice Pos a aed ah Sage RepMmerter ss oe) Pe ON OER OT, 1 Se hae c= . Sem. SS ey «ee are 74 se nee oh baal inn - 1 Be Beso RD ae ed ee AR atk TES - Misses 1 By the Associated Prem. (was arrested. PICTURESQUE POLITICAL POWER, WHO IS DEAD | : —Photo by Murillo. Justice of Peace James P. Miles. FUGITIVE ENDS UFE ABOARD SHP WHILE N CUSTODY Prohibition Violation, Had Fled to China. ’ SEATTLE, Wash., Sept. 20.—C. A. McCarthy, former Federal pro- hibition agent in Florida, last night ended his lfe board the trans- pacific steamer, President Grant by swallowing poison. McCarthy was arrested Thursday night when the steamer, on which he was third assistant junior engineer, docked here on its return from the Far East. McCarthy had disappeared a year ago after being out on $250 bail for assault on a fellow agent and violation of the prohibition law. After leaving Florida he was traced to Tennessee and then to China. When the President Grant docked, he was identified by F. A. Hazeltine, divisional prohfbition chief of the Seattle division, for- merly in charge of prohibition en- forcement in Florida. On tele- graphic advice from Pensacola he In jail, McCarthy requested Deputy Marshals to es- cort him to the President Grant to pack his clothing. After he had packed, he stepped into a side room and then reappeared. “It’s all over,” McCarthy an- nounced to the officer. “What do you mean?” inquired the deputy. “I've taken poison and will be dead within five minutes,” was the reply. The ship's doctor was called but he was unable to aid the patient owing to the absence of a stomach pump. He then was transferred to an ambulance end taken to a hos- pital where he died a short time afterward. Get a Musical Instrument If you canot play—a talk- ing machine or a player- plano will play for you—any kind of music you like, There's a record for every noteworthy composition. Bomething you heard Pad- erewski play? Yes, and you can play it after him. Such Instruments are both at The _ Post-Dispatch 3 Twelfth Bl. and } ° Mi 8 $ | 4. zF ing of Whistles and Ring- ing of Bells as They Circle Over Fort Worth. FACE STRONG WIND ON LEAVING DALLAS © Juizip Considered Most Dif- _ ficult Remaining Before Flight at Seattle. By the Apsociated Preas. SWEETWATER, Tex., Sept. 20. — The world flyers landed at Sweetwater landing field at 12:40 — : a p. m. central standard time. They will re-fuel and hop off for El. 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7:45 a. m., Central standard time. Before leaving here more than 260 gallons of gasoline were put - world into each of the Army Aero officer, took off tor their home fields. These had come to Dallas to greet comrades of the world flight, Follow Texas & Pacific. i cas Viade, - age aee : i resi re | iw ie.