St. Louis Post-Dispatch
February 3, 1898

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Tate —_* e ‘ . ‘ i“ 2 a Pus " om . ~ ’ > * . : oe - | . “VM«LETE mAnabl kelwuiiay : ‘¢ 2“ i —— ee “VOL. 49, NO. 178. THURSDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—FEBRUARY 3, 1898. —— PRICE eee a Mysteries May Be Solved by Keen, Industriotuss Men. Now there is the baffling mystery con- cerning the identity of the man who tried to rob Judge Madill. Read the next Sunday Post-Dispatch. — Ss THIS BURGLAR S 14 YEARS OLD ~---——— Johnny Kileullen Makes a Full Confession. HE CARRIED A_ REVOLVER. GIVES A LIST OF STORES THAT HE AND HIS GANG HAVE ROBBED. NOW HE IS IN A CELL. ‘Drew a Revolver on Mr. McKinney When Found Asleep in That Gentleman’s Bakeshop. John Kilcullen, a 14-year-old runaway, is under arrest at the Fourth District Sub- Station, charged with carrying concealed ‘Weapons and trespassing on private prop- erty. He was found lying in a rear room of the McKinney Bread: Co.’s establish- ment at Sixteenth street and Franklin av- enue, Thursday morning. Kilcullen refused to when Mr. McKinney attempted to eject him ‘the boy drew a revolver and flourished [t in a threatening manner. Policeman Roach was notified and took charge of the daring youngster. How he gained entrance to the bakery is unknown. The pistol was empty, and Johnny said he merely pulled it as an act of bravado. While being searched at the station the young prisoner became nervous and fright- ~_ - —_—_ — JOHN KILCULLEN, The Boy Burglar. ened. He seemed to think that he was locked up for stealing. “I never took anything from no one,” he said, tearfully. ‘‘But I can tell you a whole lot about jobs that other boys did.” The lad then made a confession which may lead to the arrest of another organized ee of young th.eves in the Fourth Dis- rict. He stated that severai of his companions pPlifered provisions from bakeries, grocery and dry goods stores throughout the city. ¥ I was with them," continued Johnny, but took no part in the robberies. They copped four horse blankets from the Me- _Kinney Bread Co. and have made a rch haul of buns and cakes there almost every tight. Three other bakers, whose names I cannot remember, are also victims. “Last Sunaay, about 7:30, two of the gang Went to a store at Fourteenth and Papin Streets and carried away about $50 worth of cigars, candies and other good things. understand it was a dead easy burglary. They slipped in and out without being heard. “We had planned to take in North St. Louls next Sunday. The kids had their eagle eye on a store run by a woman up there. It would be a big thing, but the ay is queered now. My companions ave tackled places all over town, though I sometimes didn’t get in on the eecret. On the strength of the information fur- nished by young Kilcullen the police ar- rested Thomas Fitch, 15 years old, residing at Tenth and Carr streets; Ernest Crim- mer, 99 North Fifteenth street; Harry Ad- dermy, Seventeenth street and Franklin avenue; Preston Ansiym, 1214 North Twep- tleth etreet; Melton Houthton, 214% Frank. lin avenue, and Julian, alias “Duck. Buckman. All these boye are in the hold- over. Not one is over 15 years of age. Johnny was seen in his cell by a Post- Dispatch reporter and asked for his age and address. “None of your business,’ he replied. with @ string of oaths. “I know you, and if you write a line about me I'll blow your scalp off. If I-can't do it, I've got a big uncle who will.” The boy's parents live at 1214 North Jef- ferson avenue. His father is a teamster and a hard-working man. When apprised of her son's arrest by a reporter Thursday morning, Mrs. Kilcullen burst into tears. 7 knew it would come to this."’ she walled. “John left home a week ago be- cause I chastised him for running with bad associates, I had him in the House of Refuge for three months last year, and supposed he was cured of his vicious. hab- its. Older companions are responsible for his downfall. What will my poor husband aay ogg he sent ry awful news?" ound that all the boys were run- aways. They have been living in a little iteocare ae qirenkiin avenue, between meen tion Sixteenth streets, for two The windows were out of the house and there appears to have been no fire. Cigar stumps were scattered about. The stolen horse blankets were used as coyerings for three mattresses lying on the floor. AFFECTIONS WERE CHEAP. Husband Got a Verdict for $1 for Alienation. Brerial to the Post-Dispatch. , Ind., Feb. 3.—At Farm- of here, Bill Zinch, who be disturbed, and DAN CUPID'S —— Marcus Lyle and Agnes Miller Refused Marriage License. LOOK YOUNG TO RECORDERS. MRS. MILLER OBJECTED TO THE MATCH, BUT LOVE LAUGHED AT HER. BOTH OF FULL LEGAL AGE. ~_>—— Mr. Miller Is Superintendent for the Wiggins Ferry Company .and Lyle Was a Vandalia Clerk in East St. Louis Office. Miss Agnes Miller and Marcus Lyle, the East St. Louis couple who were refused a marriage license in St. Louls Wednesday, returned to the East Side and spent Wednesday night at the home of a frien in Winstanley Park. They took the first train for Belleville this morning, where they again applied for a marriage license during the forenoon, but Clerk Hilgard refused to furnish the docu- ment because he thought the applicants were minors. Both are known to be of legal age, how- ever. Miss Miller is a daughter of H. G. Miller of 6382 North Sixth street, who is night superintendent of the Wiggins Ferry Co. Mr. Miller said this morning that his daughter was 18 on her last birthday. “I didn’t know Aggie wanted to get mar- ried,’’ Mr. 4Miller said, ‘‘unti] one of our Sympathetic neighbors ran over this morn- ing and broke the news to my wife that our daughter was caV¥orting around with a chap in St. Louis Wednesday and tryin’ to get harnessed up. When the kind neigh- bor finished tellin’ the wife the story, she (my wife) said to me, ‘Send for the police, quick.’ “| said, ‘Police——! It’s too late for the police. Let the gal go.’ “And I meant it. If Aggie is determined to marry that fellow (1 don’t know him, though), why the courtin’ has progressed so far that there is no use in objecting. phi are old enough to take care of them- selves. Miss Miller’s mother its violently opposed to the match. She refused to allow Lyle to visit her daughter at the house. Clandes- tine meetings were the result. Agnes and her lover have been taking moonlight strolls for two years. Tuesday Agnes told her mother she was going out to Mrs. Burns’ on ‘Winstanley ave- nue to visit a day or two. She had arranged to meet Lyle in St. Louis. The would-be gropm,was formerly a clerk in the Vandalia freight office on the island. He has been living with his brother Thomas at 420 Converse avenue, His brother’s family say they did not know the couple was plan- ning to get married. Mark was at home to lunch Wednesday, and was supposed to be visiting relatives in Kirkwood last night. The lovers will likely succeed in getting married before the sun goes down to-day. Mrs. Thomas Ly!e, Mark’s sister-in-law, Said this morning: ‘‘Yes, Mark is over 21 | years old.”’ Mrs. Miller was at the St. Louis court- house Thursday looking for her daughter. Mrs. Miller said that up to 12 o’clock Wednesday night she thought her daughter Safe and snug in the Convent of the HARD LINES. Wy THE IMMIGRATION QUESTION IN IOWA. Through a blunder the Revising Committee left out all mention of the crime and punishment for bigamy in the new compilation of the statutes of Iowa. The error has just been discovered. The population of the State is rapidly increasing. NS ee ur Bi Se S YY 7 ANN MY WW I want to go to Iowa, To join the great procession Of eager men who yearn to stay The race’s retrogreseion. All bail to Freedom’s blessed dawn, That shines within the border Of States where men get married on The shortest kind of order! Tiere, porter, help me pack my arip, And fill my trunk and boxes; And hurry up—rush things! This trip Of mine will rival Coxey’s, And take these notes to Lil and Kate And Rosalie and Bella: If you’re a half a minute late, They’ll meet some other fellow. And notify sweet Clarabel, Evangeline and Fannie, And Edith Snow and Bessie Fell, And Sadie, Mae and Annie; And bid them all to chase along, And fail not, to their sorrow: We go to join the merry throng— We'll all be wed to-morrow. J. GETCHER GUNN. Precious Blood, near East St. Loulfs. She had gone to bed when da neighbor knocked at her door with a copy ot Wednesday’s Post-Dispatch with the story of the eiope- ment in it. Mrs, Miller had ne more rest Wednesday night. First she went to the convent and found that her daughter had not arrived there. She had left her well on her way there, but it was evident that the’girl had turned back as soon asS her mother was’ out of sight. Thursday morning Mrs. Miller hastened to St. Louis and telephoned to Clayton to intercept the couple there should they apply there. Then she hunted up her brother-in- law, George Grassmuck, and got him to help her in her search. She said that if she ever. got hold of Mr. Lyles, the would-be bridegroom, she would make it hot for him, as her daughter would not be 18 until next month and that he was a worthless person anyway. Mrs. Miller says she will lock her daugh- ter up good and tight if she ever gets ‘hold of her again. EX-EMPRESS DYING EUGENIE IN ENGLAND. LONDON, Feb. 3.—Empress Eugenie 1s physically breaking down, and as she has no constitution to withstand a long _siege of sickness she is believed to be near the end, She suffered from severe chest troubles early in the winter and lately has been a martyr to inflammatory rheumatism, For the first time since the death of Na- poleon IIL. she is unable to @ttend the me- morial mass at the Rieviera mausoleum, although she begged tobe carried on a The ex-Empress was Eugenie-Marie de Guz- man, Countess of Teba, when she was seen and loved by Napoleon III. Her mother was Maria Manuela Kirkpatrick, the Countess- dowager de Montijos, and Eugenie's beauty ond education, both of which she got from oot, was i than mother, were therefore more English Spanish, The Countess took Eugenie having been thwarted in Sy pt ". has ¢he visited the continent ing France, and has even spent a few days in Paria without being disturbed by the au- thorities, Four years paid her a visit during his stay at Aldershot. EX-EMPRESS EUGENIE. From a Painting Finished Soor After Her Marriage to Napoleon ITI. to the French Court in 1851. The future Empress was then 25 and in the full bloom of her beautiful womanhood. Napoleon, his desire to wed i Princess (arola Wasa of Sweden. turne: his attention to Eugenie. When he an- nounced his engagement hia Couneil of Ministers resigned. The marriage was cel- ‘ebrated Jan. 29, 1853 at Notre Dame. By \degrees the new Empresse won the love of | people, and on the outbreak of the Franco- (German War , tive September revolution tn She was made the regent in absence of the Emperor. the the France, (oy After ‘aris she ieft Pullleries and escaped from IN7O. whe Hes at Chiselhurst. Since 1870 the Mmpress has made England her home. Many times Often cross- Emperor William June | station. drawing the trigger with his foot. ayin oa aiet vat er than ruin his wife's life. THE FATAL NUMBER 1, — STRANGE FACTS CONNECTED WITH THE DEATH OF YCUNG WILLIAM A. SOLARI. a ‘THIRTEEN IN HIS ‘97 CLASS. There Were Thirtecn at the Banquet and From That Day Disease Fastened Itself Upon Him. Those persons who believe in the fatality of the number 13 will have their supersti- tions strengthened through the = circum- stances of the sad death of Wiliam A. Solari. He was one of the class of '97 that was graduated from the St. Louis University last June. The class numbered 13. After the graduation exercises the 13 graduates sat down to a banquet at the Hotel Beers. That was the last time the young man ever appeared in public. Disease fastened on him and at noon Thursday he was laid in his last resting place in Calvary Ceme- tery. Willfam A. Solari was 20 years old and lived with his parents, Augustus and Louisa Solari, at 2919 North Grand avenue. He was tall, handsome and strong. He was devoted to out-door sports and was a noted amateur athlete. He possessed an intellect above the ordinary and when he was 19 years old he was graduated with honors from the St. Louis University. W. Brantner, one of the graduating class that numbered 13, tendered his classmates a banquet at Hotel Beers on the night of 30 last. Father Kinsella, one of the instructors, Was present at the banquet. The fact that the class numbered 13 had given rise to many jokes, and on the night of the banquet the “‘unlucky 13" was dis- cussed. The young men were all strong and full of life, and no one anticipated that death would claim any for years to come. A few days later young Solari took his b'g Newfoundland dog to the river for & swim. It was against his mother’s advice. He caught cold. Pneumonia developed and consumption resulted. His classmates were his pallbearers. The active pallbearers were;.J. Henry Bracken, William A. Dillon, John P. Lynch, Vincent A. McGrath, Bradford Murphy, Louis R. Padberg, Francis J. Schreiner and John N. Straut. The honorary pallbearers were: Julian A. Gehrung, Ambrose J. Riley, Mark A. Staed and W. Brantner Finney. WERE OUT WITH GUNS. The Parents of a Runaway Couple Were Foiled. Special to the Post-Dispatch. PADUCAH, Ky., Feb. 3.—Bert Barnes and M'ss Heien McElrath, aged 19 and 16, of Callaway County, eloped to Tennessee yes- terday and were married. The parents of both objected on account of their age, and met the train with guns to separate them, but the couple had left the train at another There is great excitement and trouble is feared. FELT HIS MIND FAILING. Why a Newly-Married Georgian Com- mitted Suicide. | Special to the Post-Dispatch. VALDOSTA, Ga., Feb. 3.—James E, Varn, 1! sal y anter of this s8@c- P a at Ryde, on the Isle a well known young pl ) t i F of Wight, and later joined the imperial ex.| tion, killed himself last night, Just 12 days after his marriage to a popular young belle. ‘tte borrowed a shotgun and going off into thé woods placed the muzzle to his temple, He left that he felt his mind failing , an Sait 4 it He MEE OS me Os Ma Rae iii My i A AEE OH OS Pc hE: “with WARM WAVE 1S. COMIN. Skaters Must Improve the Hours of Thursday. The delight of the lovers of skating, Dr. Harry Frankenfield gays, is to be short lived, They must crowd all the fun poseible into Thursday night and Friday morning, for then the weather man is going to ring | in a warm wave that will melt the ice with @& rush. e < In fact the first installment of the doctor's balmy breezes came ‘Thursday morning. | They were not much in themselves, but they are of great promise. From a temperature of 6 degrees above zero after midnight, they gently fanned the mercury up to 8 at 7 o'clock, then to 9, 11, 15 and at noon it was 21. Friday it will get into the 30s and Dr. Frankenfield says it will go higher before Saturday. With the rising temperature will come cloudiness and snow or rain, with the chances favorable to the former, There is no indication of a storm of any severity. KNOCKED OUT BY REED Last Chance to Save the Government Seven Million Dollars. épecial ta the Post-Dispatch. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.—The reorganiza- tion committee of the Union Pacific Rail- road will not be hampered by Congressional restrictions at the sale of the Kansas Pa- cific Feb. 15. It will be able to bid in the road for $13,000,000, or $7,000,000 less than is necessary to protect the Government. To-day Speaker Reed refused to give rec- ognition to Mr. Fleming of Georgia, who wanted to get through the bill compelling the successful bidder at the sale to give a sum large enough to cover the first mort- gage of $7,000,000 and the government lien and interest of $12,600,000. The bill cannot now be passed in time to cover the sale. GALES ON THE ATLANTIC. Incoming Steamers Report Very Rough Passages. NEW YORK, Feb. 3.—The White Star Line steamer Teutonic, Capt. Cameron, ar- rived to-day for Liverpool and Queenstown after a very stormy voyage. For three days after leaving Queenstown the Teu- tonic experienced a succession of fresh southerly gales with heavy cross seas; on Jan. 31, the gale tacreased until it blew cyclonic farce. After nearly twenty hours the storm subsided into a fresh south- east gale, then shifting to.a westerly gale and lasting up to the time of the steamer's arrival at Sandy Hook. The Atlas Line steamer Alps and the frutt steamer Douglas were the only arrivals from West India ports this morning. Both ships experienced very heavy weather after passing Cape Hatteras. Their decks, rails and sides were covered with Ice. THE WEATHER FORECAST. PARTLY CLOUDY—WARMER. For St. Louls and vicinity—Partly cdouody Thursday night; Friday, cloudy, with prebable snow or rain; wartner. For Miseourt and I!linois—Partly cloudy and warmer Thursday night and Fridays. The cold wave extends from the Gulf of Mexico to Canada and from the Mississippi Val- ley to the Atlantic In the Northwest and Central West there has been a rapid rise in temperature, due to a low pres#ure area, which There ta alsao Supertor. with the crest in ian central in Northern Montana a Slight depression over Lake Fine where high pressure prevails, the West Gnmlf States With the exception of light snows. ip Lake Region, fair weather waa general. POST-DISPATCH THERMOMETER. the a an Perererrrere SD 3D Gi-Piccibcckntice ] BG. GT. cccocescese Oe i Oa i es De © G. Biccecccccece 4B... 3. Re Giscccscoccece 10 a. Th. nceeeeeeeee 17 . | wo.” . : ~ go companying him i | THE MAN WHO BORROWED 4 UUARTER OF A MILLION Francis Cato Grable, Who Caused the Downfall of the Chemical Bank Cashier, Is in St. Louis. PREPARING A STATEMENT OF HIS FINANCIAL AFFAIRS. Has Enjoyed Friendly Relations With Railway Presidents and Financiers and Was Backed by Capitalists of National Reputation. Francis Cato Grable, the most surprising ee _) The Post-Dispatch’s informant read thé financier of recent years, the man who/| wording while the Western Union telegraph borrowed a quarter of a million dol- | lars from Cashier Quinlan of the ena National Bank of New York without se- curity, arrived in St. Louls Tuesday night, accompanied by his-wife and Mrs. J. M. Latimer of New Orleans, who is Mrs, Gra- ble’s mother. He secured a suite of apartments on the fourth floor of the Planters’ Hotel, retired to them with his wife, bolted the door, sta- tioned his secretary outside as body guard, and denied himself to all callers. Wade Chance, the financier secretary, ar- rived at the Planters’ a day ahead of the Grable party. When Mr. Grable, his wife and mother-in-law arrived Tuesday Mr. Chance did not inscribe their names on the ho'tel register, but for reasons best known to him- self he waited until Wednesday evening be- fore he wrote the names of his party in the hotel book. No one was allowed to see either Mr. Grable or his secretary Wednesday evening, and it was not until Thursday morning that the mysterious gentleman on the fourth floor sent his secretary out to receive the newspaper men who had sent up their cards, Only once was Grable himself seen during the morning, and that was when, at the ur- gent request of his secretary, he opened the door just wide enough to allow a Post-Dis- patch artist to make a hurried sketch of hismelf and to inform a Post-Dispatch re- porter that he would prepare a statement for publication and that it would contain all he had to say ut present. Mr. Chance, the secretary, seemed anxious that nothing get out but what he wanted. He cleverly avoided questioners and early in the day was kept busy receiving and answering telegrams, There was a report tn the hotel corridor that Chance was not a representative of Mr. Grable’s, but a Pinkerton detective, who is accompanying the promoter on an investigation trip. ° Chance arrived before Mr. Grable and wife, and secured room No. @8& Though Mr. Grable is on another floor, he is never out of his room without Mr. Chance ac- operator at the Planters’ was sending it. The young lady in charge admitted that several telegrams had been sent by Mr. Chance, but she could say nothing of their contents. Mr. Chance is a tall, lean, bright young man, about 2% years of age. He has a smooth-shaven face, nose goggles and derby hat. His legs are peculiarly long and his stride rather “‘swingy,” just like an old tar. He arose early this morning, though ft was learned that he had not retired until after midnight. He found several dispatches awaiting him and one or two for Mr. Grable. These he opened, too, resealed and sent them to the latter’s room. Then he bought the Chicago papers and glanced over them from a big cushtfoned chair in the hotel writing room. A few minutes later he was in the telephone room, asking for the Great Northern Hotel, Chi- cago. He asked for some one, and a low- toned conversation followed, “Is there anything in the Chicago papers?” was one of the queries, Evidently the answer was in the affirma- tive, for he next asked: “Was Mr. Grable’s name mentioned?” He then asked: sociated Press?" Part of the conversation was lost. The closing interrogation was: “Are the other boys still in Chicago.” And then Mr. Chance evidentally repeated what came over the wire, he half musing: “You think I had better’ Dring Grable to New York, eh?’ . Then Central rang off and Mr. Chance busied himself in the writing room. He wrote a few lines and directed them te Mr. Grable. He was met by a Post-Dis- patch reporter at the elevator entrance. “Don’t see what I can do for you,"’ said he. ‘‘Mr. Grable does not want to see any- one. He has not left his room all day and probably will not. He is worried and qpn't want to talk. “Who am I? -Why, a representative of his—you know. “Can't you quiet the As- | “Am Ia Pinkerton? No;-Q, no, Nees My ~ FRANCIS CATO GRABLE AND HIS SECRETARY. ee oe He receives numerous letters, long distan®e telephone calls and tQGegrams Wednesday he received a New York dis- patch worded in cipher. He wired back @ mysterious dliapatch addressed! to Mr. Pi { erfon. New York: Watch man carefully. He te tn it something very similar was the way worded. | a os (Sketched at the Planters’ Hotel) Gp Bet. Sai ROE OP oe — eee “lI am a sort of a secretary, you know, That's all.” “Tha whole thing, explained tn a nut shell. is that Mr. Grable le broke-cannot meet certain obligations at present—ell be- cause these vast investments are slow itn yielding returns. No one ts to blame for that. What did we come here for? On businees—merely business, you knew. Can't Twa, sia acs Me als 2 NR at Ge A ~9 Yeo —