St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 29, 1924

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ON BUT AN ‘THEY Capy TTT, MR. CHUCK- SOLVED To THING BY JINKS!) 1 HOPE \ HES HOME Pie he itt ; i ' +f wef ot | aes ns Abert? et Wud LL BUT ESOLUTION GHTY POPSY- OLUTION AND INE SAID BUT MY. ACHE HS NATO -boulevard and - Sunday Ee thine forcing » curb 7 menin the machine and there may » Which the safe stands, x curred to pe and Carry the sack to the machine ~ ™ Grand boulevard. ; *0d returned with them to the the- Pater. A 3 Chine was found in front of 6124 , ¥ : Cardas, because his cap was drawn > © low by p Me the criminals and was unable ‘to | @yIng th ey | Central ites ., Pentinued on Page : S. Column 2. tnd YOUR COAL ORDER ~—is solicited by dealers who are advertising in the For Sale columns in the POST-DISPATCH WANT AD PAGES The Only Roening St Paper in Louis With Associated Press News Service eee + oe ge ee ne eee on we wee ewe eee 3|.LOUIS POST-DISPATCH the re D @ (Complete Market Reports) ITION > 77. NO. 113. ST. | OUIS, MOND. AY EVENING, DECEMB ER 29, 1924 23 PAGES, -_————— es eee — ++ ee re THEATER ‘TREASURER . AIONAP TREASURER OF THEATER, GET 64010 FROM SAFE oo eee For First Night in Several | Weeks Spiros Cardas Left New Grand Central| Without Police Escort. SAYS MAN, SHOT ‘(Had Nothing Against Me,” Asserts Anthony Horst- FORMER ROOMMATE _OF VICTIM DETAINED a FORCED TO ( OPEN SAFE IN OFFICE | Witness in Action to Re- | Adver- | ~—-- Dumped Out of Holdup Men’s Machine and Told; 9 ff © Wher e to F ind His Own ee a : fee Be SS | A customer was being —Murillo photo. jthe confectionery at 2101 Auto. _SPTROS CARDAS.— : a i voke License of tising Physician. served in North | yester- -;Ninth street, at 5: | ae when five shots were fired out- To guard against highwaymes | | man- | ‘him and then stamped on ager of Theater, “Why don’t you die—why don't | you die—you 1] dark,’’ the assassin cried, ran out and escaped. Dies on Operating Table. The wounded man, Anthony Horstdaniel, who was principal wit- ness in a pending case against an each night several | before he died on an oper- hospital at 8:15 shot seven and ab- defrauding him, ating table at city p. m. He had been times, in the head, chest domen. He was 47 resided above the confectionery. Regaining consciousness’ before sleeping rooms of | his death, Horstdaniel said his as-, at 604-608 Ar-| sailant was ‘Fred Wagner,” who, 1 he added, sane caused the death of | without provocation. Joseph J. Bollwerk, 62 and Wagner formerly president of the H. Bro. Yehicle Co., eight other gas which last night | the house liscaping penetrated the senal double He were said he years old, room- Sollwerk & affected in the Wagner, had been Sanitarium at been released 2. box factory. to Horstdaniel, mitted to the city one time, but had after five months. “He had nothing and persons living house. Bollwerk. whg 'was found dead in lived at No. 608, bed at 8 a. m. against me,” Five Witnesses. fae Roll 100 vards at him. forcéd to return to the theater to the Saturday and Sunday and par* Cardas started to his home from ar eet eg | | by a nephew, Henry Bollwerk of | Porstdaniel said. jumped f the bi Bs q 2, and Mrs. umped from the big machine an , firing. When Horstdaniel was Flowers, 31, consisting of Flowers,j] rested in his third-floor room | side and a wounded man staggered who have obtained more than $16,- | lin and fell to the floor. He was) 000 here in the past two months | ‘followed by an excited man with | in kidnaping robberies, Spiros Car. | das, treasurer and assistant E the New Grand Central. has been accompanied tv } : = by ° CF VERAL PERSONS weeks by a uniformed policeman | | charged with the duty of seeing | that Cardas was not held. up anda a open the safe for robbers. "hast night the policeman was Joseph Bollwerk, 62 Is off duty and Cardas went to his Asphyxiated in Double home at 1045 Blendon place alone. On the way he was held up py foue | House at 604-608 Arse- or five men who kidnaped him, | took him to the theater at Grand | nal Street. Lucas avenue, and | made him open the safe, from | which they took $6300, comprising. of the Iriday receipts. The robbery preceded by only a few days the installation of a time lock sufe which already has been ordered by the- theater manage-)| ment. Such a safe, once closed 9n night, could not. be opened until a tixed time Monday morning Unless explosives were used. Relates His Experience. eter : o0 Yeclock las Be aeveine cadens oat Pe be sage ath sect wae Peer bs | crazy.” in Lindell boulevard. As he passed | the house to see wh} his uncle hac | De Baliviere avenue, a large tour- passed ashy valores bie pete mysrooerS Vive poem ing car pulled up alongside his ma-! peony cn ip tl coe Pager 9 ee esr eee Se eae conte him to stop at the In adjoining rooms were romne, | tionery, and a customer, witnessed west of De Rali-| unconscious, weres s son-in-law, | the shooting. Police were More. Benjamin Pippin, 30; nie wire, “e- | Horstdaniel was passing by outside ae wikis en em celia, 28: their daughter, sernice,| when the assassin walked up to , Pippin’s mother, Mrs.| him and, without warning, began had me covered almost. before I _— gpg Revived had stupped,” Cardas’ said to a aR gets Riga ts a a Poet-Di: fateh reporter, in relating | . a ple ine godless: hig experience. “They made me got | neighborhood P hens a and | gas outof my machine and into theirs. nde go ae hese * ay ee at‘was found that a man named Asisut down in the back seit they _ ereugm ie ct —_ aah con | Fred Wagner, 45, of 1215 North pulled my cap over my eves. PS, ee teeta at i aaa ndbee: | Market street, had roomed a? oni2 tei) there wera four | riously affected, but is recovering | Horstdaniel at one time, and had | rapidly, physicians say. | been taken to city hospital have been a At No. 604, the family of Thomas | for observation. This man was ar- £et back into , - ee a ; + Aas | his wife, Minnie, 24, and their chil-! shortly after last midnight and is dren, Ray, 2, and Pearl, 10 months | being detained at the North old, were affected by the gas.}| ket Street Police Station. When Flowers said they all became ill! arrested he was sitting in a chair, during the night and thought they] fully clothed, and apparently had been poisoned by food. He | meditating. No firearms opened the windows about 1 a. m.,; found in the room. he said, and, as they revived, he Qualifies Statement. realized they had been made ill by When the confectioner’s gas. Mrs. Smith, looked at Wagner at The robbers fasi, and a few fifth one who did not the car when [ did’ turned and drove minutes later were at the theater. Cardas was corn- Pelled to go to the § front loor. Which was locked, and knock to at- tract attention of the 77-yeir-old Watchman, but the latter it devel- oped later, was in the basement at- tending to the heating plant and did not hear the knoc king. When nO answer came to their knocks the robbers marched Cardas to a side door, which was unlocked, and forced him to go to the office, &t the front of the building, in also Source Undetermined. Source of the gas was not itely determined but gas company ‘inspectors expressed the opinion ‘that it may have issued from a| igas main under the street in front| fied by saying, “I may be mistak- lof the houses. It is thought the| en, but he looks like the man.” ‘main was broken by the recent 'The other witnesses declared Wag- helow-zero weather and that es-/ ner was not the assailant, but he one of them to search|caping gas followed the: pipe and | was detained pending inquiry. me,” Cardas continued “Ons of | issued into the house. Wagner wore a bandage them found a revolver in my poc-| Bollwerk widower. “His; his neck to protect a sore. ket which I had been intending to | company long-established | Witnesses, other than Mrs. Use if I got a chance family concern, and its business | asserted “‘Is this thing loaded?’ on» of|/had suffered from the advent of|daniel had no bandage the men asked. ‘Yes,’ I answered. | the automobile until in recent years | der an overcoat. 3 Well, so is mine,’ he said, ‘and if|the manufacture of automobile | Wagner denies the shooting. yOu don't open that safe in two! podies had supplanted carraiges, jadmitted that he minutes I'll empty it into you.’ ” ' he factory and yard About $600 in change was in the | house. ito the hospital. Mife and the remaindep was in bills. | Sel No record of Wagner as a pa- Cardas was forced to pack the bills |) )jtient at city sanitarium was found, inte a canvas sac k, in which tne | | understood _ that . pate 6 grs ('but the police Jer: Change already had been placed, |? ) OUT Book- )} Wagner had been transferred from | ; .leity hospital to Alexian Brothers’ | keeper Quit ‘| Hospital, and are making inquiry) Unexpectedly? there. The (| was Too bad: but don't let alt} inconvenience you. >| tiea th can get another almost be- before fore the ink is dry in the ¢ dger he left. | s ledge ant defin-| exclaimed immediately, ‘“‘That’s the ';man who shot Horstdaniel,.’ after her husband and the other witnesses glanced at her, she quali- Revolver Is Taken “As we got to the office (Ce was a was a The robbers € west in Delmar and dumped |}> Cardas out at Whittier street, afte- felling him he would find his tour-' NE Car on Delmar boulevard west!) Of the Wabash’ tracks. | Telephones Police. Cardas telephoned the case in which sigggesenaugeyy that principal witness was You Department action tam am, to revoke the license of Dr. Baskette, 817A Locust advertising physician. asserted he paid $1050 for treatment misrepresented to him street, Horst- Dr. police an daniel There's one quick, sure way. Read the “Employ a ms a’ co ins or put a: , be ey em ad in the , | kette the po-| ' Post-Dispatch. ; | was , ad | 5 You'll doubtless have a? which, he said, proved ceore of applicants from (| Dr. Baskette said today that he whom you can select the §\ and a colleague had treated Horst- 0 pal Oe reonell og — saat daniel for months, up to June, 192 sxmatic ce jmpress you Inost 2} and had not seen him since; he con- favorabls sidered his charges reasonable and he knew of no against him before the Health. The physician never heard of Wagner. rT that Horstdagie] had complaint to him, but had given him a testimonial for relief from 2 | piles, but the physician could noi ‘find the testimonial. short time later his ma- and Imar boulevard where, lice believe, the fifth robber | laken it from Lindell boutlevar:l. | ~@ ° — map npnnnsne een ee ee ee — - LR AR op. puke aN NS le y's Mee