St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 8, 1924

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“OKs eS ta C8 RE Se NRE te 1 | vada : : ag ; 1 ox Christmas Suggestions : WF SSE . H See them—today — | y > | Connection With Brew-| Miss Alvira Korte, 21, by ; | ‘much. Why don’t you get good ' ° Walkout — Carmen | ki!!ea with his teeth, was almost/clothes? Why don’t you laa up| ery and Liquor Cases. Coroner’s Jury. DRUNK (IN AY |merry in sharp contrast to his ab-| well-dressed men, not such . . . > His Testimony Given in ’ . i . Willin g to Yield Part of | ject terror during his trial, now in| t™amps”’ | : ee eign e3) “Yes, and he sold the clothes— | ANOTHER Di. LOUIS Form of Answers to Ser- session, and before that in jail. and the meat. tea. ane tn | Demands. | The man smiled slyly as he |. Why 1 Bema Saye | FIRM MENTIONED ies of Questions Asked by One of His Attorneys. E CHEST y.| oo: eee A CONGRESSMAN INTO TESTIMONY Haarman Declares Grans, Who Bought a — ) WHOOP? SOMEONE IS GETTIN Gay 1 WITH OUR BONNETS BOYS e WITNESS SAYS SHE SEEMED CONFUSED | wants to put all the blame on me. ‘paced his cell, rubbing his sweat-/|I have no use fora man of no char- ing palms together. His jailer who/| acter. Am I right?’ ONLY TWO DIVISIONS | stood by with a correspondent of Physicians have called Haarman | Mortimer Tells of Giving Machine That Fatally In- ithe Post-Dispatch and New York/the ‘‘Untermensch,” the less-than- Forbes Money for Con- STILL IN OPERATION | World, asked the cause of this mer-/| man, the direct antithesis of the su- cern Seeking Veterans’ riment. |perman. He looks it. It is the Hospital Contract. jured Smoke Commis- sioner Did Not Stop After Accident. « ss ee es Pigty 3 ‘oot a £ } Se — | I am happy,” Haarman ejacu-/| fashion now to ask murderers what : a 350 Workers Out lated eagerly, “for Grans is going} t ooks they read and then comment , » with me. on the mildness of the unfortunate. m it uti Hage | Hans Grans is being tried as|Haarman is mild enough in aspect, | ; ’ > Demanding Wage In- | Haarman’s accomplice. He is Said but asked about his literary taste, to have bought the clothes of the he said: : | , , ‘ A Coroner's jury today held Miss crease, Pay for Overtime yampire’s victims, perhaps to have 4 By A ee LY. Popeye itt Want a fee @ ORs | prompted some of the crimes, and, eas ees OFF Post- a ae oe eo and Closed Shop Con- | #¢cording to Haarman, sold some _No, f never have time for A aang gy Keokuk street, for criminal care- | of the sausage meat the killer made | 900ks."” He rubbed his hands, | CHICAGO, Dec. 8.—A flood Of | seasness, following an inquest into ‘ ‘ are e rj spi d ‘sensations st ’ involv . - Lae | from the human flesh. Grans ad-/| 4 iin wet with perspiration, and beeen uaieee ul testrmony, involving |ine geath of Robert H. Karl, 52, of ditions mits he bought secondhand clothes| returned to the subject that inter-|the names of several Government | } . 14244 Arsenal street, Smoke Com- este st. ' : from Haarman but protests he/|¢sted him most (officials, resulted today from the | fy the Associated Press. knew nothing of the manner In “Grans will die too, won't he? | a. | missioner for St. Louis, who was Asserts He Was Called a SPRINGFIELD, Ill, Dec. 8.—|Which they were obtained. That pleases me.” He was still |°'05S-examinaton of Elias H. Mor- | fatally injured Friday night, at) Pogi4. \ 1 ae Pe ale * n ‘“ , . 9 shuffling up and down his cell. eves /timer, Star prosecuting witness in ‘qr ey . rsenal street. ; UP ENOUGH EX CITEMENT- E FOR HOME Booming from the closed conference | Harri sen- Cary, ADVERTISEMENT. griking Illinois Traction System minmen at noon today, A. Mc- Guire, international representative of the Street and Electric Railway Employes of America, declared the men were willing to yield their de- mands for a 10 per cent increase if te company would grant them and a half for overtime work. Passenger and freight service on Illinois Traction System (Mc- inley lines) remained tied up to- Way following a strike at 12:01 a. m yesterday of motormen, con- ctors and brakemen on all main More than 100 towns and villages Southern and Central Illinois are without interurban = service. ot a car lg moving on 400 miles of the system's total =mileage 600. The St. lLouis-Granite my and the Joliet-Princeton di- are the only ones still in on. About 350 Men Out. About 8350 men are on strike. mey are demanding an increase of |most glowed as he repeated with i|manifest satisfaction: “Yes, he will die with me, the! liar.” Then catching sight of «he Strange face of the correspondert, the man became loquacious. murdering young boys of 10, 12 “I never murdered a young hoy. why should I? I remember older men and the police know I have tried to hide nothing. But it ‘s so taxing. They show me photographs. ‘Did you kill this one?’ How can I remember? ee ee ILL-FATED FORTUNE - i + + | William McClintock, 21, Said to Have Left $5,000,000 for “Doing Good.” By the Associated Press. CHICAGO, Dee. 8.—Childhood You know, they accuse me of | of them. I don’t like young boys.) ——_——— ee ———e OF THE MILLIONAIRE ORPHAN TO CHARITY hopes of William Nelson McClin- | (tock that the great fortun2 of his cents an hour in wages, extra | family should ta usea in “doing twisted into a smile when the cor- | respondent went to visit Grans. The accomplice isan entirely dif- ferent personality, painfully polite, shifty of eye, well dressed. zy never knew,” he insisted. ‘“Haarman was so strange. Yes, we had an understanding: I was loyal to him, but I rever knew of his murders. It was always a mystery to me where the clothes came from. but you can see he is an insane man. He accuses me, but no one will take the accusation seriously. i have never done anything crim- inal in my life.” Eee _ LL LLL tt eet ta - SHOOTING IN HOME OF VICE CONSUL MYSTERY Improbable That Girl Killed in American’s Apartment Com- mitted Suicide. WASHINGTON, Dec. 8.—The i'mer director Charles R. Forbes of ‘the Veterans’ Bureau and John W. ‘Thompson, St. Louis contractor. Mortimer testified that Congress- ;man Edmonds of Pennsylvania had ipaid him money to appear before ' ‘the Bureau of Internal Revenue in behalf of a brewery, and that he ‘had returned half of the money to Edmonds as commissions. He tes- tified that Congressman John Langley of Kentucky had been ac- itive in obtaining whisky with- i'drawal permits, and that Frank | Gibbs, secretary to former Attor- ney-General Daugherty, had aided in efforts to obtain a pardon for a notorious bootlegger. Mentioned as Lobbyists. Sidney Bieer, Washington attor- ney, and A. B. Messer of Chicago were mentioned by Mortimer as lobbyists who received large fees for their services In appearing be- fore executive departments; chiefly before the Bureau of In- ternal Revenue in liquor and tax cases. Much of this testimony was un- but every time Col. James Easby- Smith, Forbes’ chief counsel, tapped Mortimer with the rod of cross - examination, a torrent Korte. Karl was in a group of persons waiting for a westbound Tower) Grove street car, when the auto- | mobile, owned by Emil G. Rieser, a | carpenter, of 5551 Labadie avenue, | and operated by Miss Korte, wags driven among the waiting persons, | striking Karl, who stood on the’ outer edge of the group. The automobile did not stop, but was pursued and when overtaken in Tower Grove Park, Rieser was ‘at the wheel. He explained, when tlaced under arrest with Miss Korte, that he was preparing to | , : drive to a police station to surren- cer, “Driver Appeared Confused.” Mrs. K. R. Adams vf 3903 Juni- ata avenue, who was in the group with Karl testified she saw the automobile, with Miss Korte at the across Grand boulevard, at a high appeared to be confused. which the responsive to counsel's questions | I iwas knocked about 35 feet. Mrs. | Adams testified. The speed of the the group jumped backward and a> car moderated for tne next 100 ———_ ee ee eee ee wheel, approaching from the east, | rate of speed and that the driver | witness judged from the manner) in which the car was being steered. | Karl was struck as the others in COLBECK'S ATTORNEYS TO ‘ | TAKE AN APPEAL FOR HIM feet or so, Mrs. Adams testified, | Erfort to Be Made Also to Obtain LEM MOTLOW. MILWAUKEE BANK Cheek When He Asged About Berth. Lem Motlow, wealthy Tennessee distiller, went on the witness stand this afternoon in his trial for mur- der, before Judge Hamilton, to give his version of the circum- stances under which he shot Clarence T. Pullis, Pullman con- ductor, on an outbound L. & N. train the night of March 17 last. Motlow was dressed, ag he has been since the trial began last Tuesday, in a black suit and white shirt, with open collar and no necktie. He walked to the stand in agile fashion when one of hia lawyers called for him. At that time, the standing room about the walls of the courtroom, as well as the seating space, was filled. Motlow looked directly at his lawyer, but his first reply was in such low tone that the questioner. Patrick H. Cullen, had to tell him to speak in a louder tone. The story which he proceeded to tell was nvurpric . , - ! COT Pavan — Sew” | arty any | 44h EF a ke big enough to plow, and that all Vice President D. W. Snyder of |t® Charitable enterprises W. D./ton, American Vice Consul at Bel- | c,,,; ny ee ee aon Car. | erty on $5000 bond. day conferring with Edmund Burke : . Smith was furious and Judge Car the echooling he ever had wash Minois Traction System issued |5*ppard, one of McClintock’s| grade, and the killing of a young penter labored heavily in his ef- | Funeral Tomorrow. | 1ocal attorney, regarding the filing Satement from Springfield last | ¥@™d!ans until he became of age,;woman, Anna Ousoupaitais, at his! forts to ke. p both lawyer and wit | Karl died at City Hospital/of exceptions before Judge Fitz- little, when he was 8 or 10 years | in which he asserted the said the youth long had held hopes/home, are stili a mystery. The | ness to the main track, Easby- Saturday night from internal in-/| henry in the Staunton mail robbery Five Men Enter Northwest- old. thers’ committee of five had | the money might be used in chari-|police have completed their in- | Smith frequently showing a dis- |Juries. The funeral will be held |case in which eight gangsters were N £ | d T He said he worked for his father, e | ee ‘ lg 9 , Pe. ; eavenwor oF Also ak then hired t unfairly with the company | *Y quiry and sent their report to the| position to stray in'odd directions |#t 2 P. m. tomorrow from an/sentenced to Leavenworth for 25) CFM ational an e ! out at $8 a month, and . A : "on a : ae fase: later went to work fo le the public by giving only. six McClintock, who was 21, 4 ed| Judge, who has begun an investi-|of his own. ; | $10,000 e Cash F on | on t k for his uncle notice of the intention to | last week, but a few months after! gation. Mortimer said he once gave istreet to Valhalla Cemetery. | The exceptiong will be filed this ; In ro the late Jack Daniel, a distiller. He ike. receiving the money, which had/ An autopsy and careful exami-| Congressman Edmonds $1250 tor | His duties as smoke commis-| week, attorneys announced and will Cashi said he became manager of his Tidon E. Goddard of { passed on to him at the death of|nation of the scene of the tragedy, | p; 4ces in obtaini ermits,|Sioner of St. Louis have been/be followed by the filing of a rit asnier. uncle's business. . - Goddard of St. Louls, a |, | h a. a 3 MB SOEVICES IN COLAININE Perms, |... ae ee Ditenet 45, Oe CLGOSt SOR BE- Srike was served at 3 p. m. 12, 1922 | ly after 10 a. m. today, held up the |i. 26 Two sons are in Vanderbilt , he paid Forbes $1000 fur- net ' esp nished by the W. M. Sutherland ve emoke Conbusteaiaior Seace ae MOTIONS FOR NEW TRIALS cashier and escaped with $10,000 | University, Nashville, and the wife, (* ) ~ 4 - ( i 2 rp | . , o. + t. pare t $ induce Fort eS x9 I attended a meeting of coal men | arrest of Judgment Sought—Dec. |!" cash and $284,200 in bonds, all| daughter and eldest son are in "The strike will be absolutely . ine aie ial award a roundcation contract at Thursday. the dav before he was | ‘ : ce . ut tia? . court. Second, blood stains found on Tupper Lake, N. Y Forbes said . 19 Limit for Disposing of Cases. negotiable. eiul on our part,”” Goddard COLD WAVE WITH ithe door handles and soap in the ithe $1000 Fe 5c wate sa wri). | -atally injured, held at the Cham-|! INDIANAPOLIS. Dec. 8.—Five Harry A. Dizgman, cashier, was Came Here Frequently. | was given m by . a ; | |bathroom came from the hands of ber of Commerce to discuss MeanS8! more of 16 persons convicted re-|struck on the head by one of Motlow said he was accustomed “During the 1918 strike not 2 : | e liam M auley, a VW ashing on rep- | ‘ut ee i 4 cent rort et y’s TEMP RATURE DROP | pavton. resentative of the Sutherland com- ito abate th amoke nuisance,’ said cently in the Hawkins mail fraud ithe robbers and knocked uncon-ito come to St. Louls three or fou Toys and Autos —e tty was damaged and we can| TO 20, TOMORROW |,,2 riety Bresence of Maire, 37 pany, and that he gave it to Forbes) pnristoPal “and after the meet: conspiracy case in Federal Court|aclous when hevattempted to re-|times month om business. sad nw mMutee the same now. If nec- é $4 ——_— se ; angen be — eld yet ge wag o> |the same day in Forbes’ Wardman | rote ree Hall with i e pane ip | filed motions for new trials and/ sist them. Three other tellers on/|that he came here March 17 last. > -“ our men will volunteer to THE TEMPERATURES. . face _ mage ra eee eS 7 wane | Park Inn apartment. eer Oy ; . m sti arrest of judgement with the clerk duty at the time were covered by He told of his day's movement, in- aoa 4 : the properties.” coset 0 , = ; «acne at me erhnes cate fired “IT gave him $550 the next day ony, 4 ‘ined - of the court today. They were pistols. cluding a visit to a sick friend in SF, at om —F, P Workers ites Seine’ ae he, it by , we§a — ease took came ee of my own pocket or make | nae nn eciine eee that he di William Sacks. millionaire Sr Louis | It was the first bank robbery in | St. John's Hospital, and of a din- of striking. Goddard said, and oe > ee “am ol tases said ain >t iiiteaiadl him feel good and keep him com-| muse } . sep ute ne — for the iors politician; William Webb of 5St./ the city’s history, police said. Ths; ner from 7 to 8:45 p. m. in @ mar- vote was it teh ane 16 we oe ay : a | forearn tC not : "ling along,” he added. Fevnad reli gg Te wn bensvaghr ie ag: milo Louis, formerly " minister He Texas; robbers were in the bank building | “% street Ee re a voting. Goddard 4 p. m. : }ihands or sleeves : John T. Sutton. vice president, and | more than 35 minutes. Three per-|of whic e ; > Sea 0 of the strikers are Highest yesterday, 57 ¢ .-| The police further affirm that 3 y - eS ere ‘Sa fand no blood was found on her Mint aeaifies thie wan o seenteal : 'transaction?” asked Easby Smith. ' sagereet> mat riding epiasarmene Carl RB. Anderson. treasurer of the! sons entered the institution during “Any liquor served there?” Cul- iets of the Amalgamated As-| - lowest, 41 at 8 a. m iwhile the position of the wounds _Abeciutely, and so did Fornes. Fe! has egg ~ ‘ge 7 sig ar Hawkins Mortgage Co., both of) the holdup and each lined up, fac- len asked. Mation of Street neal Electric] owesi, a. , Aap - eceeaaidad pied a Derteate was after all he could get.” Morti-| re ot a me saa poi ac Sad | Portland Ind and Le Pr. Har-/|ine the wall with the bank em- “Yes.” the witness said, “whisky hh. Peice Qattuesed sillway Employes of America and ceding > args erty: pres The witness said *§ -' Se were repeated | -ington of Dunkirk auditor of | ployes. was served in teacups. I had two Official fore- ls ; f 7 } was shot hat } } >| f ; (head confirm that he was sh Canley also gave hi irtimer ;°/:at he had ‘no use for automobiles’ |, , "ye. | rh 1S in. $3.25 rest are new men. [Jee Scnoon | Gaetor St. Touls |... pehind, the position of - the|ennn en ave Rim (Mortimer | ind that he made i int to bed aca ae }eageeeeesemnonmnmenngumeee bey : nger | ANG] ded Proust s Sagi ($2500 for getting another founda-|°*"'* *** : made it @ point to be | Judge Geoger of Milwaukee nae | . ° » ‘i filled.” but, in reply to er Ma men are asking time||FOR G very careful, and so he walked back | 14+ today as the final day for fil-}} Believe in Yourself ‘| question, he said, “No, I was not j » + » ** - ‘ } | to the city hall. ing euch motions and Dec 19 ait ‘ drunk.” and vicinity . woman's body and other indica- | half pay for more than nine! |HUNTIN@ | Christophe! said he and Ridley ithe time for disposing of the cases. | ( and Read the He told of going to the station undertaking chapel at 4449 Olive | years. the hospital with a license for their;jthe wall. The shot apparently was : et . ~~ se « i @ . ‘ +) No Propert D marriage. fired at a certain distance, as the pe amage. mite | Pee ae em i Steam Shovel No. 110 _————— |mer retorted . ‘tion contract but he did not divide Partly cloudy to- tions make the theory that she|,, Atte Marhen hee e they had work / night and Tucs- oe 4 ot ay pit wits orpes because they nad a ork daily and freight men committed suicide highly improb- breaku g the same f . day; much colder aio | wnt Pal? or more than | would continue the duties of Karl's Caterpillar Tracter Ne. 44 —e saute. um. The reason for this. ac-| to Goddard, is not BO | - te obtain extra pay as it is mate lengthy working peri- Contract of crews on trains | ™ St. Louis and Granite City | wth the St. Louis Electric Ter-| Rallway Co. a subsidiary | 7.8. and they are not af-| by the Strike. Workers on! Joliet-Princeton division like- have & separate contract. pt to Break Strike. Bo attempts have been made by ofthe 1. T.S. to break the 80 far as could be learned, Ro trouble at any point was re- today. The company con- is financialiv unable to the demande of the strikers. eneral interurban situa- Ughout the country is far | “tisfactory.” Vice President fald. “Great inroads have made by the private automo- on Page 3, Colamn 6. with a cold wave; ture will be about 20. ly overcast to- in east and south portion tonight: cold wave in east above. today at 4:39. St. Louis. 4.5 feet at 7 a. m., @ Charles, 9.8 feet, a fall of .5. , lowest tempera- Missouri: Part- night and Tues- | day; much colder portion, with low- est temperature 10 to 20 degrees Illinois: Unset- |\tled tonight; rain in extreme north portion, turning to snowflakes; | | Tuesday probably fair, much colder | ‘tonight and Tuesday; cold wave [to- | | night. 5 ises tomorrow at 7:09, sets | wag I cruisers of approximately 10,000 | Stage of the Mississippi River at} rise of .5 feet. Missouri at St. able. Assumed Names Used. The condition of Dayton is still grave. He recovered consciousness yesterday, and the Judge desired to take his deposition, but postponed ‘this action in deference to the wishes of the American consulate, which feared a serious effect on the wounded man because of his extreme weakness. 12 NEW WARSHIPS PROPOSED Ry the Aseociated Press. BUENOS AIRES, Dec. 8&.—The construction of 12 new warships is recommended in a resolution adopted by the Naval Committee of the Brazillian Chamber of Deputies, according to advices received to- day from Rio Janeiro by La | Nacion. The resolution provides for two tons each, four destroyers of 14490 tons each, one destroyer of 1800 tons and five submarines tween 1300 and 1500 tons each. Fasby-Smith, at the outset. asked Mortimer if he had read the itranscript of his direct testimony, and if he had any corrections to make. Mortimer said it was cor- rect. Adopting an extremely ag- gressive attitude, the attorney then iname. other name?’ “Never, except since this investigation started, I have sometimes gone under assumed inames to keep Forbes and his ‘friends from—— Easby-Smith interrupted and lasked what other names he had used. He drew from Mortimer the ‘fact that he had used the name of |Harvey Schroeder and that he haa ‘registered under the name of G. J. | Allegra, an agent of the Depart- ment of Justice. Easby-Smith fasked Mortimer if Allegra had Continued on Page 2. Columa 5. s “Have you ever gone under any | office until a capable successor could be found. The jury's verdict did not hold the accident and he was released GIRL, 12, SHOOTS HERSELF asked the witness to repeat his full | Carries Out Threat to Fnd Life if Forced to Go to School. By the Associated Press. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 8.—"T'll di or kill myself pefore I graduate. I don’t want to go to school,” Leon, Puckett, 12 years old, told her aunt, Miss Ruby Brewer, today when the latter announced she would take her to school. The | l'aunt had heard Leona make sim- jlar expressions before and paid n>) attention. A few momen‘s later she hear’! 'a shot in an adjoining room. Leona iwas found dying. She had shot her- ‘self through the heart with a pis- of be-| been assigned to accompany him tol taken from her parents’ room. | dicherry and aboard a liner bound The parents were at work. INDIAN RAJAH TO APPEAR Out of $750,000 Expected to Testify Against Hobbs. LONDON, Dec. 8.—Rajah Hurr! | Singh. who was victimized to the ‘extent of 150.090 pounds sterling in| / a blackmalling plot which created ¢ ‘an international sensation, has ar-' ‘ranged to come to London to tes-| tify against William Hobbs, one of | ( the alleged conspirators, if the pub- lic prosecu'or calls upon him, ac- cording to the Daily Mail. The mystery as to his where-j|‘ abouts is as great as that which isurrounded his identity when he ‘was referred to in court as “Mr. A.” The newspapers locate him In a fresh place almost daily, at Lon-|, The Post-Dispatch don. Paris. Monte Carlo, Rome, | ‘Madrid. Caleutta,. Kashmir. Pon- ifor England “Help Wanted” Ads. AT BLCKMAILERS’ TRIAL |: Rieser in any way responsible for | ALT er Singh, Who Was Swinidled | ; Here are sure means of ob- taining a lucrative position » of getting ahead in it. Post-Dispatch efficient men and women in every line of endeavor. of your ability—and believe in yourself—read the touch with the They want com- petent employes as earnest- ly as you want a good posi- One Big Want Directory >The Perfect Market-Place with two friends, and how one, Al Mann, accompanied him to gate 27-28, where he entered, his train being on track 21. He was asked again, “Were you drunk?” and he said, ““No( but I felt that I had some whisky.” He said he did not go near the haberdashery in the station mid- | Way. This la in contradiction of the (| testimony of a previous witness, the Rev. Clinton Cromwell, a passenge?f cn the train. Had Phoned Pullman Office. Motiow related that he had phoned the Pullman office and or- dered a ticket reserved for him on the Nashville train. It was his in- variable custom, he explained, to pay his railroad fare from a mile- age book, amd buy his Pullman. Bellevill® to Nashville, after board. ing the train. At the train he spoke to Coenduc- tor Pullis, telling him he had re- Centineed on Page 3, Colums &.