St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 8, 1895

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A sad story is behind the tragic death of this woman. On the night of Oct. 17, 1892, >. c 7 her daughter, Mrs. Alice Printzel, aged 22, was murdered by her husband, Theodore Printzel. The crime grew out of domestic trouble. The similarity of the manner in which Krueger was waylaid and shot and the killing of her daughter, renewed the shock and overbalanced Mrs. Maundrich's mind. In both cases the victims were as- sailed from behind. Mrs. Maundrich was well acquainted with Krueger and his assailant. She drew com- sons between the crimes and worried or fear Krueger would die. If he did she ald the case would be exactly similar to that of her poor Alice. The murder of the latter was one of the most cold-blooded crimes in St. Louis police annals. The young woman eloped with Printzel and marrie him. A few weeks later Printzel, who was a worthless character, was sent to the Work House. Mrs. Printzel returned to her parents’ home at 718 Biddle street. When her hus- band was released he endeavored to per- gsuade her to live with him again, but she re . He threatened to kill her, and on the night in‘question haunted the neigh- borhood of her home armed, with a revolver. A friend advised her of the fact, but she paid no attention to the warning. and started out in company with her 16-year-old ster, Daisy and two other girls to go to a wake. They were followed by Printzel who sneaked up behind his wife on Nineteenth street, near Wash, and shot her in the back of the head. He fired a second shot which took effect in the wrist and then fled. His victim fell to the pavement and died without uttering a word. Her companions fied screaming for help. Mrs. Maundrich brooded over her daught- er's terrible fate and the shock seemed to thorough er nervous system. She never appeared h n. She had five children living, young ladies. One ha continually cantioned them not to follow their sister’s mistake and marry a worth- 2 N en Harry Emil Vorhauer, Maundrich’s heart was re-opened and she made constant inquiries as to the condition of Krueger. The family noticed that she be- came flighty and her condition grew worse. They were worried, but her condition was not thought to be dangerous, and they neg- lected to consult a physician, supposing it would pass away when the shooting of Krueger was forgotten. No member of the family ever heard Mrs. Maundrich threaten to take her life. Her melancholia never seemed to take the sul- cidal form. She was not morose, and talked a great deal about her troubles. When she abored under some hallucination she in- ted it was true, but when she became ra- al she had no recollection of it what- three of whom are s since married. She en Tudgsday morning she seemed in good spiri and her husband, August Maund- ch, a npaperhanger, went to work as usual. One of the giris also went to work and neither knew that Mrs. Maundrich had taken the poison until word was sent to them. She must have swallowed the stuff about 11 o’clock. Half an hour later she called to Mrs. Burns, her next door neigh- bor, to come over as she was very sick. Her married daughter was in the house at the time, but knew nothing of the presence of rat poison in the house, Mrs. Maundrich suffered intense pain and finall said: “Oh, rs. urns, you wouldn't believe it, but I took poison.“ She then pointed to the box from which a spoonful had been taken. When she beran to suffer she became rational and regretted what she had done. She begged the doc- tors to save her. Drs. Langan and Hill were in attendance. They administered emetics and did all in their power to save her life, but late Tuesday night the patient was seized wi a smothering spell, to which she was subject, and died. She STOCKS HAVE GONE UP. And the Holders Are Some $300,000,- 000 Richer Than Before. to The Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, May 8—Two months ago the Post-Dispatch said everything indicated @ approach of an era of higher prices. | prognostication was founded on a sur- vey of the conditions of trade all over the country. Now, te verify this, a group of than 100 stocks have been tabulated, amount outstanding of each yielding d to of over 38,000, 000, 000. Then and low prices of the stock since ven. The low were in Feb- arch, the high prices quoted of yesterday, indicating that still on the rampant. Sugar, common the public are willing 0,000,000 more than it was a while 2 more thought of closely bela, h : wal oe ; as had a . say better on Traction scores $7,500, 00 trials have been similarly ad- or, and the two classes have * oye Ag forward the tune of tens we who were in the t bulge move of 1373, d ran not enthuse so thé present jumping market Thane. withthe peat we ket h 4 Arke as market, and here the trans- ng a different class of pur- is in value, and could be con- 1 1 ef bling at the market. good, hearty bite, and and the heavy total of tra cate that the public is in the market. Who- ever may be the men holding the stock of the properties enumerated, they are about $300,000, richer than they were earlier in the year. . : PORBIGN-CAPITAL. Large Blocks of American Stocks Sold to European Capitalists. NEW YORK, May 8.—It was reported last night that J. P. Morgan & Co. had complet- ed negotiations for placing American se- curities Burope. A sale of 20,000 shares of Southern Railway common stock has been made to a foreign syndicate, and the ah will probably soon be listed in Amster- am The corapletion of negotiations for the sale of a large amount of 4% per cent general mortgage bonds of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railway to a syndicate of London, „ New York and Boston firms, was also reported and had the effect of raising the price of the stock. her. sales of se- curities have been made by J. P. Morgan & Co., and it is the general opinion among well-informed bankers that they represent the entrance into American securities of the big foreign syndicate which made such enormous profits im handling South African mining shares. A large part of the Chesa- peake & Ohio 4% per cent bonds just con- tractec for will, it is believed, be handled by a New York banking house with important Paris connections. THE PROGRAMME Will Endeavor to Form a Coali- tion With Silver Democrats. CHICAGO, III., May 8.—A special to the Record from Indianapolis, Ind., says: The Populists in Indiana, acting under instruo- tions from Chairman Taubeneck of the Na- tional Committee, are now maneuvering for a union with the free silver wing of the Democratic party. One of the Populist leaders said that a union of the Populists with the free silver men in both the old parties is inevitable. “We think we see the breaking up of old political parties, said he. The contest next year will be be- tween the gold men on one side and the silver men on the other. The contest will be one in which the South and West will be arrayed against the East. The battle ground will be in Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota. If the South and West ae together for free silver, they will Ww mn’ “Do the Populists stand ready to unite with the Democratic silver party?” “We certainly do. If the party should win it would be a victory for the Populists. It is fmmaterial under what name we win, The free coinage of silver is the central doctrine of the Populists and we are ready to make any sort of a union if we can gc- complish our object.“ The — en State Committee has ceased the work of organizing Populist clubs throughout the State. The leaders have been instructed to do nothing but agitate. The leaders have suggested that free coinage clubs be organized and that members of both the old parties be invited to become members of the clubs. The newspaper printed here as the organ of the party has undertaken to circulate silver literature among the farmers of the State. TWENTY COUNTIES. Illinois Conventions Declaring for Free Coinage of Bilver. Special to The Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, III., May 8.— Secretary of State Hinrichsen, Chairman of the Den} ocratic State Committee, said this morning that twenty counties have so far held con- ventions, and without exception they have declared for free silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. a “These twenty counties,” said Mr. Hin- richsen, “have 463 of the 1076 delegates in the State convention, so that the gold men stand a very poor show of making any fight at all in the convention. Only one County Committee so far has refused to call a convention. This is the Lee County Committee, and it now turns out that five members of that committee are postmasters and the sixth one is an applicant for the Dixon post-office. Nothin rther is need- ed to explain the action of that committee. I am ex ng that the State Convention will declare for free silver without a dis- senting vote.“ Senator Stewart to Cleveland. Special to the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 8.—Senator Stewart is out with another open letter to President Cleveland on the silver question. The Senator sarcastically praises the {- dent for his letter to Gov. Stone of Missis- sippi, pronounces the discovery made there- in as wonderful,“ and asks the President to define what he means by “sound money.” “It is right,“ the Senator declares, to eject the publican party from the plat- form of sound money, which you have res- cued from the ignoble security: of clandestine use by timid and unwort 2 — leaders, who secretl — 2 the bene - factions of the g combination until you appeared as the Moses of the scattered Democracy.” The balance of the letter, which is a long one, is in the same strain. WRECK AND DEATH. Ten Cars Smashed, Two Men Killed and ~~ Others Injured. CELINA, O., May %8—The eastbound freight, No. 124, on the Lake Erie & West- ern was wrecked one mile west of this oity at 10 o’clock last night. Ten cars were smashed into splinters. Ole Bierely of St. Mary's. O., and Peter Finch of Portland, Ind., were instantly killed. Geo Ander- son of St. Mary's and William Depew of Portland, Ind., were serlously injured. An- derson probably fatally. These parties were * os ri 5 0 e wreck was a the engineer — putting on the air “ers while 0 own a steep grade and ng an oil tank car clear off the track and the Gane nine cars were thrown in all directions. Devastated by a Cloudburst. ROCHESTER, N. X., ka terrible cloud of ty. railroad from Middlesex to les is washed out most of the way. furrowed Tie have been ARTER HUBBY IIIA A REVOLVER. Comedian Karl Witt's Wife Is Hot on His Trail. . : DESERTED FOR A SOUBRETTE. * Dashing Tillie Eckelman of the Ger- mania Separates Husband and Wife and May Cause a Tragedy. A soubrette, a runaway husband, an in- jured and enraged wife and a revolver ars the ingredients of a tragedy that is now brewing and may culminate within a day or two at Baltimore, Md. The parties are all from St. Louis—at least they have resided here for two years and the occurrences leading up to the an- ticipated denouement took place in this city. Karl Witt, the favorite comedian. of the Germania Theater for the two past sea- sons, has disappeared. His disappearance was as sudden as it was singular. The company of which he is a member under the direction of Mr. Theodore Bollman has been laying star engagements in the city of Zelleville. Monday morning Karl Witt told his wife and mother-in-law, who were in. Belleville with him, that he would go to Evansville, Ind., to prepare for a season of German drama in that town. When his wife and mother-in-law returned to their home at 195% Wash street two hours after the husband’s ostensible visit to Evansville, they found his trunk gone, and the family pictures removed from the wall. On the table Mrs. Witt found a note addressed to her, telling her that her husband had been suddenly called to New York to fill an en- gagement there at the Germania Theater. Mrs. Witt was heartbroken, and suspected at once that her husband had deserted her. Since last January Witt, who up td that time had been a loving, devoted husband, changed, so his wife says, into an unfeeling, cross-grained domestic tyrant, who treated her with indifference and finally with con- tempt. The cause of this change was his growing fondness and admiration for Miss Tilly Eck- elman, the dashing soubrette of the Ger- mania Theater. Miss Eckelman evidently reciprocated. The two were fond of each other’s com- pany, and held loving confabs in the little room back of the Germania bar. Mrs. Witt became jealous, rushed into the room one day, and pointing a revolver at her husband threatened to shoot him down if she ever caught him again in company with Miss Eckelman. During the last four weeks Witt's . changed, if possible, for the worse. Miss Eckeiman left two weeks ago to accept an engagement in Madgeburg, Germany. Witt evidently contemplated following her, and on last Sunday took his mother-in-law to Belleville with him to get her out of the way and do his packing undisturbed. Mrs. Witt followed her husband Monday night, and arrived in New York this morn- ing. A postal card was received at the Ger- mania Theater this morning which will give her definite information of her husband’s whereabouts, and precipitate the tragedy, for which the desperate woman seems pant- ing. The postal card is addressed to Herr Richard Wagner, a member of the company. It was signed Karl ——, and is in the hand- writing of Witt, addressed to 826 South Ninth street, where Richard Wagner board- ed. While he was absent in Belleville his landlady moved, and the card was forward- ed to the Germania Theater, It reads as follows: Dear Wagner—Have waited in vain. By Do not tell them our friendship, silence! where I have gone. I have written Bollman that a telegram called me to New York. Will write the same thing to Wurster. Write me everything immediately, please, that I may know what has , Gen- eral delivery, Baltimore. Farewell, love. I will write you immediately from Balti- more. KARL The tenor of the postal card would indi- cate that Carl Witt had at least a confi- dant in Richard Wagner, although the lat- ter, when seen, denied that he had any idea where his friend was going. He received a note from Witt asking him to meet him at the depot om Monday, but arrived too late to see him off. Mrs. Starr, Mrs, Witt’s mother, when seen this morning denied that there had been a farnily disturbance, the sequel of which may be the 1 of Witt by his en- raged wife, who took a revolver with her to New York. Mr. Wurster had sent for Mrs. Starr and communicated to her the whereabouts of her son-in-law. She has celearanned her daughter to go at once from New York to Baltimore; where she will undoubtedly catch up with her hus- band before he can a steamer for Europe. Karl Witt belongs to a large family of prominent actors, and is himself the most talented comedian ever seen on the Ge stage in St. Louis. He was the pet of the Germania audiences for the past two years, and was always received th great. favor in Belleville, where he payed under the direction of Theodore Bollman. His place, however, has already been filled, and the Belleville engagement will continue with- out interruption. O'DONOVAN ROSSA AGAIN, He Makes a Protest in the House of Commons and Is Ejected. LONDON, May 8—There was an exciting and unprecedented scene in the House of Commons this afternoon. Just as the Chief Secretary for Ireland, Mr. John Morley, had finished his speech discussing the bill of Mr. 2 F. * See, ted for vee Savan, another arn » to a ag e 4 e well- New York, arose ’ gallery and ex- crimes act, O' Donovan Rossa, known Irish agitator from from a seat in the strangers claimed: “Mr. Speaker, an assassin’s blow has been g at me in this house and a stain has en put on my name. . remarks were greeted with loud shouts of Order,“ — * The Sergeant-at-Arms summarily ejected Rossa from the | the time of the interruption the ane did 1 know into insensibilt rr TO LIFE IMPRISONMENT. Sentences of Hense and Kaiser 80 Com- muted by the Governor. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May &—Gov. Stone to-day commuted the death sentences of Hense and Kaiser to life imprisonment. Taylor, the negro barber, is given a commu- tation to ten years. é The first notification that the Governor had commuted their tences was con- veyed to the condemned men by a Post- Dispatch reporter. Taylor was the first to approach the in anewer to the 2 summons. When informed that nstead of hanging next Sa the ernor had fixed his punishm — 2 ten — * * W penitentiary he at once became jubi- My conscience alive,” he exclaim 2. am thankful for that,” and the next instant he pulled off his hat and wavi it in the air gave vent to a. hu That's better than „ he con- „ “but if I had just dues I would be turned out on the. plain, though, as 1 Hense and Kaiser - screen and were info their sentences, Inst age; te of being overcome Taylor, the news depressing effect on “My God! that is terrible,” exclaimed Kaiser. „Well, it's better than hanging.“ ventured 3 a “No; not for an innocent man,” he re- plied, “it is just about as bad a shock to seemed to have a v both WORKING FOR ADJOURNMENT The Lobby Fears That Its Pro- gramme May Fail. PHELPS TAKES THE FIELD. The Test on Fellow-Servant Legislation Will Come To-Morrow in the Senate. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JHFFERSON CITY, Mo. May The lobby last night and to-day devoted itself to trying to work up an adjournment. Sam Byrns came back last night, and he, Phelps and Flanagan are working industriously. They have discovered that Russell, acting under Filley’s orders, cannot control all the Republicans, and that the ournment scheme cannot be forced as easily as sup- sed. 1 is arguing with R blicans that move to ad- it would be a good — journ. He is letting the men whom he con- trols alone, and working on those who do 4 * \ ¢ THB » POST-DISPATCH'S CIRCULATION Is Larger Than That of Any Other St. Louis News- paper, and Its City Circulation is 50 PER CENT LARGER Than That of Any Other Morning or Evening Newspaper Published in St. Louis, v me as though they had placed the death watch on us. “I fully expected the Governor would grant us a free pardon and,” he continued, “allow us to go free. This sentence shows that he still considers us guilty. If we are gullty of the crime with which we are charged we deserve to be hanged and if we are innocent, we ought to be set at liberty.”’ Hense said that he fully agreed with | Kaiser in the above statement, I think it is an outrage the way we have been treated,“ he said, to keep thrusting us into the jaws of death and then d ng us out again. I fully expécted we would be set at liberty. While I am glad of course that we are not to hang, still the news you bring us does ve me much comfort. I suppose our only hope for justice now is that at some future time the persons who really did commit the crime may be found and then our innocence will be established. We both go to the penitentiary as innocent of that crime as unborn babies.” USED REVOLYLRS. One Striker Shot and Four Offi- cers Hurt in a Chicago Riot. CHICAGO, May 8—Four policemen were injured and one striker fatally shot in a riot at Tills Steel Company’s plant at South Chi- cago to-day. The riot followed a mass meeting of the strikers held in Highty-fourth street. About 600 men were present and the speeches be- cume so violent and the men so demonstra- tiv that the leaders forced an adjourfiment. The crowd would not disperse, however, and a riot call brought a detail of fifteen police officers, headed by Lieut. Wagner, to the scene. The police ordered the crowd to dis- rse, but the order was met with ts and hreats, the women among the s ing the officers to shoot. The police finally charged with drawn revolvers and were met with a volley of stones and s t. Wagner and three of bis men fell, and the other officers opened fire, sending about twenty-five shots into the crowd. At the beginning of the firing the strikers filed, four of the leaders being arrested. The wounded are: JOHN WILKOSBKI, striker, shot through 215 ; Nas head cut stones. N ICER CROTTY, clubbed ICBER JOHN M’CAFFR¥, badly bruised. OFFICER WM, WALSH, head badly cut "von of the officers seer t6 be hurt. one 0 f After the shooting the rioters gathered in ps threatening vengeance and not wear his yoke, with all the he can conjure, Phel Flim-Flan } Mana- gan and Byrns were all at the Capitol this morning. helps has not been in the lobby much before, as depended upon Flan- agan to take charge of the forces in the field. This morning he took his stand in the rotunda, between the two houses and sent instructions to members of the House by his force of clerks. He called tor Drum out for a short talk. When the House, by a viva voce vote, adopted the resolutions asking the Governor to send in a message on school book legislation Both- well disappeared from the House in the direction of the rotunda. In a few min- utes he returned and moved to reconsider the vote. He thought action had been hastily taken. Senators Wurdeman and Ballard were the only absent Senators to-day. Ballard had been reported sick and Wurdeman was re- . as called away on important busi- 4 Senator Lyman, Chairman of the Railroad Committee, had announced that he would — — — 8 1 orning, but he mind, an — not decided when he will have 1 g. Lyman is the Senator who led the the Appropriations Committee — 4 caster held the bill for three Lyman d bills in his Senator Walker’s bill t have been any fellow-servant fore the Senate. The Filley cuckoos of the themselves into a fix-this mor which they extricated themselves after — had pe themselves in the most ridicu- Kyler of St. Louis introd calling on the Governor 9 — 3 — — reported Thursday morning and a new committees will be named. Whether election bill as an hold it until the time ripe 3 5 — ad thea try to e: the if, through ce may be able to report FIRST REAL TEST. On Fellow-Servant Legislation Will Come Thursday in the Senate. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May &-—The legislation friends of fellow servant are getting together in the Senate and to- morrow afternoon, when the special rail- road bill reported by the Committee on Labor is a special order, there will be the first real test of the session. So far as the House is concerned, it showed its hand yesterday when it prac- tically announced by the vote tabling the Davidson resolution calling for a report on a fellow servant bill, that it would do nothing until it was forced to do so by the Senate. The Phelps-Filley combine be- lieve that with the assistance of the ttle four“ it can hold up the Senate. To do this will require a solid Republican vote against the committee bill, and it is not be- lieved that the entire fifteen Republican Senators wear the combine colors so tightly that they will make the defeat of the com- mittee bill a party matter. Senator Peers is still determined to — his general bill with its insurance features as a substitute for the committee bill. He | has prepared a set 2 and he will en- dea vor to line up all the opponent's of a 1 bill in its support. It is not thought that he can force the adoption of his bill, but it is certain that every Senator wh votes for it can be set dawn as op to an effective fellow servant bill. Phelps gave it out publicly last night that the Peers bill would be satisfactory to him. He also offered to let the Committee bill go through if an insurance clause was at- tached to it. Phelps still talks about the Senate as if he owned it, and the Filley cuckoos in the House evidently believe that he does. They talk of the Senate with the same confidence that they do of the House, and boast that whenever they are ready to take the initiative on anything the —·1 necessary the Senate is ready to follow. The Senate didn't take any action toward electing the election bill conferees because such a protest was rai when their plans became known that it was decided to defer action for a time. The combine still insists though, that the Senate will recede from its Safety bill amendment whenever it is necessary. — — —— — The Cadets Get Back. Special to the Post-Dispatch. JEFFE CITY, Mo., May &—Du the last few days some of the members o the Legislature have been ex their wit at the expense of the State University cadets, who have been in camp here. Last night the cadets issued the following official document: CAMP THOMPSON, Missouri State 2 JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 7, 1595. The M., S. U.,Battalion of Cadets, assembled in the resolutions: Deen giving to the people tion 2 fellow-servapt bills, and . tntroduced a resolution giving e 0 Cadets the freedom of all roads leading from the City of Jefferson, and Whereas, The Battalion of Cadets baving now performed its duty, is about to accept the invitatiou of the lower house; be it resol 1. That, in pa 5 Thirty-eighth General Assembl } 10 the example set by the Battalion of Cadets. t we extend to Gov. Stove our sympathy afMfiiction. of these resolutions be filed ony F 5 JAMES A. DAR MOND, DAVID W. MAY, T. W. THOMPSON, Committee, LAID ON THE TABLE. A Petition Asking for the Passage of the Safety Committee Election Bill. Special to The Post-Dispatch. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., May 8.— Mr. Spencer offered in the House this morning the petition sent him last night by sixty-four members of the St. Louis Safety Committee bly to pass the election bill . committee. He also pre- from W. H. — — stating . D 5 SENSATION. Startling Developments in the Gordon-Brown Case. A FOUL ASSASSINATION." The Prosecution Will Try to Prove That Young Brown’s Death Was Due to a Plot. Pins LOUISVILLE, X., May The Couriers Journal to-day says that the prosecution to-day will attempt to prove that Aren Dixon Brown’s death was due to a deep- laid plot to assassinate him; a trap fostered and planned by one, who for reasons best known to himself, was afraid to do the work, and used Gordon as the tool to carry out his designs. These statements come directly from the prosecution, Brown has reason to believe that his son’s coming to Louisville on the da of the tragedy and ation wit Mrs. Gordon was known to a man in Louls- ville. This Louisville man, the prosecution claims, notified Gordon that his wife was to meet Brown, and “actively assisted in a foul assassination.”’ The prosecution further says that the name of the man who “acted the spy” ig known to them, and that he will have to be produced in court. In a private letter last night Gov. Brown insist that the man referred to be brought into court on an attachment. The man who, as the prosecution bellev pilot- ed Gordon to the house of Lucy Smith, is a college chum of Gordon and married, Mr. James A. Scott, the Frankfort attor. ney, employed by Gov. Brown to prosecute the case, was seen last night at the Willafd Hotel. e is a fearless, capabie lawyer, and has the reputation of doing what he 8 to be his duty at all hazards. He said: “Gov. Brown sent for me about 1 o'clock yesterday afternoon. He explained his views and position in the matter and em- ployed me to prosecute the case. I want to say that Gov. Brown never authorized any statements that he would not prosecute the. case, nor did he ever dream of granting a pardon to Gordon, as has been stated. “Before deciding on the step Gov. Brown took counsel wi a number of intimate friends from all over the State. He came to the conclusion that it was due the mem- ory of his son that there should be a full and fair investigation of all the facts; not necessarily for the . of prosecution, but for the 27 dg, i of enabling him and e officers of the law to determine — 4 ved at t that the must have known that his wife was dissipated, reckless and imprudent, if not unchaste. “Gov. Brown is now firmly convinced that a well-planned trap was laid for his son, that the you man was selected for the sacrifice out of a large number of like of- tei ders, and that information was furnished of his coming by some one in Frankfort to another man in Louisville, who, for some motive, advised and actively assisted in what Gov. Brown considers a foul assassina- tion. We have good reason to believe that we know who the man is who took Gordon to Lucy Smith’s house. This man must be brought into court. We will demand it. There will be some very interesting develop- ments when heis brought up. We will push the matter to the bottom and bring out all the facts. In regard to the others who were like offenders with Arch Brown, I will say for the sake of Mrs. Gordon's relatives, who are all excellent people, and highly esteemed by Gov. Brown and his counsel, that the Governor would shrink from any attack upon her character, bat would prefer to throw the veil of charity over all her act especially as she is dead. The future wil determine whether it will be necessa to further blacken the character of Mrs. r- don in order to show the defendant's thor- v of it. We do not know as fense will try to prove, and ow, I will be unable to answer that question. If necessary, we will show that others were equally guilty, but I do not think we will have to do this. I think the en will be surprising to some people.“ WORSE THAN CIVIL WAR. Judge Bailey’s Severe Scoring of Chi cago’s Board of Trade. Special to the Post-Dispatch. EAU CLAIRE, Wis., May 8.—Judge Ballen to-day sentenced Embessier Harry B. Mo- Master to State prison at Waupun with . 2 ve . r ce accom — = sea Be SSE RT, PPS vs * a 2 4 Beets ep 3 teas 4% g N — . 2 KENTUCKY'S MURDER a ble oy