St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 24, 1896

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E PRINCE OF ICE AT LOGO How a Christmas sermon in the Wild West failed .of its mission, and how mene Travis turned the other cheek. IN IN NEST SUNDAY'S POST- DISPATCH =m HUNTING PAGE All the latest news, inventions @ VOL. 48, NO. 137. THURSDAY EVENING-ST. LOUIS-DECEMBER 24. 1896. PRICE tir Te - pi ™" zz POST-DISPA TCH EXTENDS A MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALE THE BLUE GUT TRAIN ROBBERY CHICAGO & ALTON PLUNDERED TRAIN REACHES ST. LOUIS. BANDITS MADE A RICH HAUL. Got About $10,000 in Cash From the Safe and a Lot of Christ- mas. Packages. = > The Chicago and Alton express, which was held up by masked bandits in the fa- mous Blue Cut, near Independence, Mo., Wednesday tight, arrived in St. Louls on Thursday afternoon at 1:6 o'clock. J. D. Frier. the messenger in charge of the looted express car, two trainmen and Pullman car porter and conductor, were the only ones of the crew aboard, the others having changed at Slater and Roodhouse. The, story, as obtained from these men gtaimps the robbery as one of the cleverest and boldest piece of work done by road a@gents during the year. At least $10,000 is thought to have been secured in money, besides a number of valuable Christmas packages. 1. a shot was fired, not a safe blown. e robbers were as polite as courtiers, although always apparently ready to use their weapons if they thought it necessary. The hold-up took place a mile and a quarter this side of Independence about 9:2 o'clock in the cut made notorious by the James gang’s job years ago, and agair brought into prominence last Oc®sober by an- other daring attemp.:. The train was pounding along at a ter- rific rate. Engineer James Wetton had his eyes out the cab window, for they were ap- proaching a curve. Fireman Post was busy shoveling coal. On a sudden the engineer saw a red light flawhing across the track. He Instantly slowed up, thinking that there wag a freight ahead. When the engine stopped instead of a Jone trainman the engineer and his fire- man saw three masked men. They were standing by the track—a little fellow in front with a revolver, a big fellow to ofie side with a double-bar- relied shotgun leveled ut Wetton and Post. ‘To one side appeared still another fel- low, gun in hand. * “Get down out of that cab,’ commanded the little fellow, who was the leader. The men hesitated. “Get down, now,’ was the command again. “We don’t want to kill anybody, but you must do as we say.” The engineer and fireman obeyed. They ‘were lined up against the engine under the lowering barrels of the shotgun. The train having come to a stop, Con- ductor E. 8. Nichols hurried forward to find out what was wrong. He was followed by Trainmen H. D.’Matthews and Dan Mc. Grath. The little fellow met them as he had met the others. “Throw up your hands,”’ he called. Nichola was inclined to rebel, but he thought better of it and put up his hands. The others, having no weapons, followed euit. Then Brakeman Chas, Jones came up, and he got a similar order. Together the men were all ined up against the express car, while the little leader delivered himself on the virtue of obedience. “Now,"’ commanded the leader to Brake- man Jones, ‘“‘cut that car loose." He pointed at the express car, the door of which during all this parleying had re- mained closed. “I've got no wrench,”’ said Jones. “Go get one,"’ was the order. Jones obeyed, and avhile he was gone Trainman McGrath suggested that some- one had better go back and signal al trains to stop to prevent a collision. ‘That's right, my boy,” said the jovial Iittie leader, ag he patted McGrath on the back. “Do that, but don't go any further than the telegraph poles, or you might get killed. There are two men stationed back there.” McGrath followed this advice. Jones appeared on the scene with a wrench. The express car and engine were cut loose. The three bandits climbed aboard. “You'd better let me go with you,” sug- gested the engineer. “Oh, I can give you the grip,”’ was the leader's reply, as he crawled in, indicating that he was an engineer. He pulled the throttle. The engine start- e4. The man with the shot-gun kept the trainmen at bay and they went off, leaving the other coaches stalled. During all this time the passengers had mot been much frightened as there had been ne shooting. A few of them hid their val- uables in epittoons and were then obliged to fish them out. The bandits pulled the engine down about @ mile to within e short distance of Glendale. Then they. stopped again and getting ou? » pounded on the express car door. It opened and Messenger Frier looked down the muzzle of the shotgun. He was ess. They ordered him out and he obeyed. Then two of them got inside. Frier says at this time that there were three all told. j ; the other crew, showed up at the express ing reforms in the administration of Porto «Rico. : had taken from the ®ther one, for they de- sisted, They climbed out of the car, got into the engine, cut her loose and plunged away into the dark, leavirg Frier alone with his troubles. They killed the engine a mile down the road and took to the woods. Before long Wetton and Post, with some of car. They had walked down from the coaches. Finding the engine dead they were in de- spair. Conductor Nichols walked back to Inde- pendence and wired for another engine, which arrived about 3:30 a. m., and took the train on its journey. Frier is in a bad state of mind. He feels terribly broken up over his predicament. The first thing he said’ when the train crew asked huw he had fared was that the company had been hard hit. He now says he canno? tell how much was taken. “T have heard nothing of the robbery,” he sald to a Post-Dispatch man. “] was busy. especially so this trip, and thought we had stopped on account of a break down or something of that sort. I heard no voices outside. ' “When the knock came I supposed it was a brakeman and opened the door. Then I wae helpless. They threw my shotgun out of the car and broke it all to pieces. They certainly knew their business and were very polite, but it would not have been safe to have resisted them.”’ The politeness of the robbers impressed all who saw them. They were well dressed. The leader was a little under the influence of drink. He was so jovial that when he took $4 from Conductor Nichols he gave $2. of it back. The other $2 he presented to Frier as a Christmas gift. Frier has been a messenger for the Pa- cific Express’ Company for twelve years and has been e¢onnected with express com- panies for over twenty years. He is mar- ried and lives at 6820 Michigan avenue. Fner had a good view of the robbers, and describes two of them as being quite taH, and he thought smooth shaven. They were about 25 years of age. The third man, the one that attempted to blow open the safe, was about 35 years old and had a small mustache. Marshal Keshlear of. Kansas City is after the robbers with a posse. They dre supposed to be ra‘lroad men. Trainman McGrath isa brother of Detec- tive Tom McGrath of Chief Desmond’s force. ALL DEMOCRATS. ' Tae 2 ~~ Four Boys at a Birth in an Indiana Family. SHELBYVILLE, Ind, Dec. &4—Four healthy sons have been born to Noah Scott and wife of this county. They have been christened William Bryan, George F. Wil- liams, Arthur Sewall and Claude Matthews Scott. March 4, 1892, a son and daughter were born to Mr. Scott and wife, and were named Grover and Frances. The father received in return a letter of thanks in Mr. Cleveland's own handwriting. ALIENATION SUIT. Mrs. Burton Asks Ten Thousand Dam- ages of Mrs. Klugel. DANVILLE, IL, Dec. 24.—A sensational suit for damages was filed in the Circuit Court in this city this morning. Mrs. John S. Burton of th's city sues Mrs. Jennie L. Klugel of Nashville, Tenn., for $10,000 dam- ages for alienating the affections of her husband, John 8. Burton, now of Murphys- boro, Tenn., formerly of this city. Mr. Bur- ton is a large manufacturer in Murphys- boro, and while engaged here in the same business it was alleged that the intimacy began. When Mr. Burton engaged in bus:- ness South, Mrs. Klugel, who is the widow of a former prominent citizen of this city, followed him. Mrs. Klugel’s property here to the amount of $10,000 was attached by Mrs. Burton's attorney to-day. SPAIN’S CHRISTMAS GIFT. Decree of the Queen Regent for Re- forms in Porto Rico. LONDON, Dec, &4.—A special dispatch from Madrid says: The Queen Regent on Christmas Day will sign a decree introduc- s. BRUTAL ASSAULT BY FOOTPADS. YOUNG WOMAN ENOCKED DOWN AND HER JAW BROKEN. | WER NEGRO ASSAILANT FLED. Crime Occurred on One of the . ‘fost Crowded Thoroughfares of the City. Another daring outrage was perpetrated by one of the many highwaymen on a crowded street Wednesday evening. The police do not figure in the case, and have not, as yet, made a correct report of the affair. Miss Minnie Szabrowske, of 500 South Jef- ferson avenue, was held up and brutally beaten by an unknown negro shortly be- fore 9 o'clock Wednesday evening. The hold-up took place at Nineteenth street and Chouteau avenue, a crowded thor- oughfare, where street cars and pecenrians are continually passing. The young.woman lost $, some articles of minor value and sustained a fractured jaw as a result of her encounter with the high- wayman. ‘ ’ Miss’ Szabrowske left her home about 8 o’clocksin the evening to purchase some Christmas presents on Chouteau avenue, For protection she was accompanied by Fred Reimler, a 10-year-old boy friend. The young lady bought a few trinkets in a jewelry store at Eighteenth and Chouteau avenues and etarted home. When near Nineteenth street a tall, well- dressed negro suddenly ran out from a vacant lot and stepped in front of her. Before Miss Szabrowske could scream the man struck her a blow in the face. His hand was reinforced by a pair of brass knuckles, and the blow fractured her right jaw. Miss Szabrowske fell to the ground un- conscious. As the young lady reeled over the negro grabbed her pocketbook from her hand and started to run. The little boy, who was acting as Miss $zabrowske’s escort, grabbed the man around, the legs and attempted to prevent his escape, at the same time crying out for help. The boy was not strong enough to grap- ple with the man and a kick in the shins made him release his hol. Freed from the boy’s grasp the man ran and disappeared in the darkness. Several men who were in Bdler’s saloon, near the scene of the hold-up, heard the boy's cries for help, and ran to his assist- ance. They picked up the young woman and carried her into the saloon, where she was revived and sent home in an ambulance. The police did not learn of the affair un- til some time after it was all over. Thursday morning Miss Szabrowske was suffering from her broken jaw, but her in- juries are not dangerous, CAPTURE OF DELGADO. Correspondent’s Friends Claim the Government’s Protection. WASHINGTON, Dec. %.—The State De- partment has been requested to interest it- self in the case of Enrique Delgado, an American citizen, reported to have been captured by the Spaniards while lying wounded in a Cuban hospital and believed to be in danger of summary execution. A representative of the New York Mail and Express waited upon .Secreteary Olney to-day and claimed the protection of the Government for Delgado, whom he described ap a legitimate correspondent of that news. paper, and in no sense a combatant. Tele- ——_ also have been received by Secretary iney_from some of Delgado’s relatives in New York, notably from W. E. D. Stokes, begging m to act at once te rescue the man from the peril in which he stands. The department has so far received no of- ficial news of the arrest, but in compliance with these requests instructions have anon cabl to acting Consul-General Sprin at avaee bn ae mqulries into the facts also happened tha de Lome, the Spanish Minister cere, called at the State Department and Secretary O}- ney took advantage of the opportunity to bring the matter to his attention with a view to preventing snap action in ‘the case, LIKE MOST OF US. immediate) r/der figured out that unless expenses were ediately in the hole at the end of the year, and re- _ An Irresistible Force and an Immovable Body. —From the New York Evening Journal. Loore OUT FORTHE LOCOMOTIVE a = 4 NO MORE MONEY FOR THE POLICE THE OOMPTROLLER HAS SAID IT WITH MUCH STERNNESS. THE EXPENSES MUST BE CUT. He Thinks This Can Be Done Without the Discharge of the Threatened Sixty-Four Roundsmen. The Police Departmerft will not get an additional appropriation Pts fiscal year ~ Comptroller Isaac. H. Sturgeon is a mi'ld- mannered man. He does not often set his foot down hard. But he makes this state- ment with the greatest positiveness. He does not think the Municipal Assem- bly, with full knowledge of the views of Mayor Walbridge, City Counselor Marshall and himself, will pass an extra appropria- tion bill, but if it does, its action will amount to nothing more than an empty formality. He said: “The department will not get the money. There is no money for the de- partment to get.”’ The authority upon which the Comp*roller stands is Section 12 of Article 10 of the State Constitution. It reads in part as follows: “No county, city, town, township, school district or other political subdivision of the State shall be allowed to become indebted in any manner or for any purpose to an amount exceeding in any year the income and revenue provided for such year with- out the assent of two-thirds of the voters thereof voting at an election to be held for that purpose. Mr. Sturgeon was asked what would be the effect of the Munic.pal Assembly pass- ing such an appropriation bill and the Mayor signing it. e became a trifle irascible. ‘“‘They are all sworn,” he said, speaking rapidly, “the same as I, to uphold the State Constitution. Your question sup es that they will vio- late their oaths. cannot suppose such a thin Tie Police Board will have to bring the expense of the department within the ap- data ot ’ he continued, more deliberate- “They can do it, too, without reducing the force by sixty- -four men, as they threat- en to The same difficulty arose last year. The department began to run ahead of the ap- propriation in June. City Treasurer Scud- curtailed, the department would be $30,000 fused to honor any more vouchers until an understanding should be arrived at. A conference was held, at which Comp- troller Sturgeon, his first assistant, Mr. Gabel, Mr. Allen of the Auditor’s office, and Messrs. Fruin and Lee of the Police Board were present. The city was not particularly flush then and Mr. Murgeon told the ard members that they would have to trim’ their sa‘is. They did so effectively. The men were forced tto take furloughs. The expenditures were not only got back into Hne, but at the end of the fiscal year there remained unexpended of the appro riation $13,393. By consent of the city officials this was used in. building the Clifton He’ ghts Station. The appropriation last year was $807,300, but only $793,907 was yy a fear the approprietion was tfon to which $24,000 was emententehalt on account of the tornado. The department is said to have run ahead of the appropriation about $21,000. Mr. Stur- geon thinks that the Board can get back in line by Dehoees J the men to take vacations. City Counselor Marshall has doubts about the legality A *. such a By But it is not proba ee with the ne Dosaible alter- native of eninal them, any of the policemen woull sane, ie se SUCCI IS INSANE. The Stomach of the Italian Faster Re- bels at Last. — PARIS, Dec. %4.—Succli, the Italian faster, who has given exhibitions of his endurance in the United States, became insane Iiaet night after a performance here and was taken to a hospital. DUNKARD COLONY. Large Purchases of Land Made in In- diana. LIGONIER, ind., Dec. 4.—The religious society known as Dunkards is endeavoring to purohase the entire region comprised within Brown County, in this State, to which ite memhers will emigrate to estab- remove in a few days. The projectors say that neither jail nor court-house will be needed, and that the election of local of- ficers will be held only to comer with the law, as all property will be held in com- mon. Negotiations are also reported to be in progress for the purchase of an im- mense tract of land in Northern Wiscon- sin, where it is proposed to establish an Indiana Mennonite colony. SET A TRAP GUN. A Sedalia Grocer Fixed His Store for Burglars and Then Got Shot Himself. Special to the Post-Dispatch SEDALIA, Mo., Dec. 244.—J. W. Clark, a North Lamine street grocer, was probably which had been planted in the store to kill burglars. The weapon was a smooth bore Winchester loaded with a handful of squirrel | shot and arranged so that a person passing in front of the muzzle would discharge the gun by running against a string. When Clark opened the store he carelessly rubbed against the string and received the whole load in the hip and side. BEATEN TO DEATH. The Fate of a Stranger Near Red Bud, Illinois. Special to the Post-Dispatch. RED BUD, IIL, Dec. 24.—Fred Kearns, a farmer living several miles northwest of here, found the body of a man murdered on his farm. His skull was crushed either with rocks or clubs. After murdering and robbing their victim the robber or robbers placed rails over the y and set fire to them to hide their crime, but the fire went out before gaining much headway. The murdered man was a stranger to the people of this vicinity. TORTURED IN PRISON. Young Turks Forced to Divulge the Names of Their Companions. CONSTANTINOPLE, Dec. 24.—Fresh ar- rests have been made of the ‘members of the Young Turk party, bringing up the total number of prisoners to 400. The names of the men made prisoners were obtained from persons formerly arrested who were tortured in prison for that purpose, THE WEATHER FORECAST. fatally. wounded. this morning by a trap gun,. streets, “north and Mickey kept on towards the river. MICKEY MACK CAUGHT AT LAST. GAVE DETECTIVE TOM WAISH A HARD CHASE. HE FOUGHT WHEN CORNERED. But for a Cartridge Failing to Explode Mickey Would Be in : the Morgue. i | Notorious Mickey Mack, the thief who has given the police more trouble than ail the other thieves in town and who has oftener avoided arrest, was cap*ured at noon Thurs- day on Third street, near Franklin avenue, in a big crowd, after a desperate chase and hard fight. Detective Tom Walsh made the arrest. At 11:45 a. m. Detective Walsh was ap- proaching the corner of Sixth and Carr a block from the Fourth District Police Station, at Seventh and Carr streets, He saw a crowd of young men standing on the corner conversing. With them was Mickey Mack (Mike Mc- Namara). key saw Walsh at the same time, ont almost instantly started on a run down Carr street. His companions followed him. Walsh drew his revolver and called to them to halt, but that only made Mickey Mack run faster. At Broadway the other four men turned The detective wanted Mickey most of all, and he let the others escape and kept after the little thief who has terrorized the old Third District. It was hard Roos 4 in and out among the crowds and Walsh took to the middle of the street, where he could better see the fleeing criminal. At Fou street he Wes within 100 feet of Mickey and again called to him to halt. The fugitive paid no attention and fired two shots at him. It was hard to pick porvenee | out of the crowd and the shooting a panic alon pee street Soon there was a crowd following in the wake of the , Bd ve and Mickey made @ wedge in the crowd. He turned the corner of Third street and étarted south. There was a stretch of sidewalk clear from s, and was c upon ack. Mickey realized that a bullet was likely to lit hf®B backbone, and he saw what he thought was a doorway leading up stal into it. But the door was cl , and the next second Walsh was upon “him cher” struck at the detective with his fist and Walsh pushed his revolver up into the thief’s face and pulled the The cartrid age te the — atation at Seventh and Carr streets. ickey is wanted for about seven saloon Se ee eS nn ee is charged with a half-dozen nses. l of Dan O'Leary. who was ar- ednesday night by Detective MINING SWINDLE. Chicago and Kansas City Speculators Bilked. TOPHKA, Kan., Dec. &—Denver min- PUT A BULLET IN HIS BI CRAZY ALBERT MAZTZCKE ENDS A CLOUDED LIFE. A DISAPPOINTED Devised a Street Car Fender and Wer rs. Le as ~ 2. an > MS ‘a INVENTOR. 3 a P “I must kill somebody or kill myself," Albert Maetzcke to his wife Wednesda He has spent the past two his home at 2711 McNair avenug 4 City Insane Asylum. | a Thursday morning at 7 o’clock ns bullet in his brain and died fr | Maetzcke was 44 years of age, by birth. He had a university. After coming to this country he mechanical draughtsman, Eleven years he came to St. Louis. He could find ne. w at his profession and became an er at Wainwright's Brewery. He was.a student and a visionary. He lest one position meee é another because he gave more attention to projected inventions than to business, a Three years ago he invented a street car — fender. He told another man of his Le: in order to have his project adopted com- — mercially. He claims that this man ey design patented in his own name and ng him of all credit and profit. He brooded ‘ this until his mind ve w In the spring of 189 =" tamily bad im committed to the Insane Asylum, Her turned in a few montha. ' In December of the same year he symptoms of violence, and was again i | cerated. In May he was pronounced cur and released. He has remained about the house « since, harmless, seemingly oblivious of f wife and children. Wednesday morning he became vw He raved at his wife and daughters, ing that they had stolen his Prams he threatened to kill some one or own life. He had often talked of but his family kept good watch got hold of nothing by which he himself or others harm, - Where he secured 2eoaliber A. bulldog revolver with ‘h he ki self is a mystery. He ‘aid not leave ¢ house all day Wednesday. a Within the last week he has refused | go to bed, spending the night in an chair before the kitchen stove. oe He wag sitting there in a doze Thuretey & morning while his wife prepared breakfast“: for hor two eldest daughters, ee” off to work. kitchen her husband was sitting up. . held a revolver in his hand. As she en- — 4 tered he pointed it at her. She turned 2 : ran, a” Looking back, as she closed the door, she ple. A shot followed and she ran screaming into the street. s¢ When the police came they found ae lying back in the arm-chair dead. The re ae volver waa on the floor by his side mn & Oe of blood. They notified the family not to disturb the remains until the Coroner came. Several hours later the body was in the — same position. The revolver was gone, but — the bullet-hole in the forehead and the pool — ae of blood on the floor told the story ef the : tragedy. Two little chikiren romped about the while the mother and a grown-up were preparing the dinner, GOLDBUGS SOLD. Bought Postmasterships in Onto, * ut Failed to Get Them. ig ae thorities here and in Cincinnati are gating an unprecedented political During six weeks immediately the recent election two men whose has not been disclosed occupied pa Chittenden. — as Se ind witht