St. Louis Post-Dispatch
September 4, 1902

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Z e rh ‘. ‘. q 2 Rr ; TRS er wear ametie Wee ag) aR THE ONLY er. LOUIS NEWSPAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS: DAY DISPATCHES. SIXTEEN PAGES. re ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 4, 1008. PRICE} Saisie vii = SFSipan * ico Saeed $i Ti ta a FBOTPADS COT DIAMONDS mg ts ee ee ee) ; Piokaninnies. Will ‘Help to. Build a (| ‘hureh.” These aoe ee See ee ee ah ah ~ SIS SMOTWE2 pal Z wt Zs ia a Robbed Man Within 50 Feet Most Plausible Theory of the|| i ~ 23) of Hotel Veranda. Murphy Murder. a i a TOOK HIM BEHIND OR OLD AND BITTER a ; he | PORCH WAS CROWDED. BUT eee, ai Sa a naive HIGHWAYMEN WERE NOT |\|| “GRAPPA Ge). °c’ 4). ea : are = sath HEARD. ‘ Wx ot . & 5 ae ; Cy a oS Sees Se : .* eS ; rs ."a | & Says Car - Must . Have- Running ng Rapidly. WAS THROWN FOURTEEN FEET ENEMY “yrorm SEEMED TO THINK HIS pel laaman _& . Be OF ili BN ae A RVG a eS /? Executive Says That but for Fatality . ‘ . > ee . ; DEEP WISTEM atu eyes ¢ ximus’ wand know that—near hé net She is related ta many of Ken- = biinmened families, among them rh that ‘of -etnd hohe ta0n. man BASEBA 2 ree ‘SCORE Found Wednesday. mit. regret Bexcest NATIONAL LEAG UE. England. tr fof ofopol of of 0] fol | Poeep2 SER. eg oe A Sees ace of eagh he- migh & ¥ ”" , 7 4 han - a it it. was born in Macoupin County. a father’ Was a wealthy farmer, and er Murphy followed him in a suc- eéastul career. At one time he went into poll- Se -—— : = ‘ Body of Well-Drossed Man Mi dayt gs cot ‘the information in his possession rapidity, and already is able to read the \ d to the detection of the man who had language to some extent. a certnrin Chicago & Alton train left. the » Smurdered Murphy, an old and bitter enemy, m, nan, who saves he tabenss. te telay Station. ao pnt he would not, at this time, give any cng ty Rk pel ge pamela Aahy Aer ‘“] don't know anything about the time » Bint as to his identity. enrolled him There was some question as |°f the trains, replied McCabe, walking Tt is believed that Murphy knew that at/| toghis color. ahead.- The other man then. passed around Bome time an attempt would be made to} 27°, a soreraen re Se comme to the other side and both drew revolvers. in question is a study. pickaninnies, enh EA” —g A cage be =e ent takes p! "an toe murdér him. He told no one, not even his/ticn, and by that :ommittee to R. E. Rom- THREATENED TO KILL HIM watermelon and donkey; -donfe in off. hibition in a downtown oe lh pw ty Ang a wife, what the reason might be. Some- paper. its aeemeg., wae —— that 7 . Sha of we -pickentanion. nar ooking taken from s a citizen o e Unite tates an ‘Tf yo say a wo re’ ll "ou.’’ straight out o 1e picture,.while | thing in his early life, some quarrel, either anos’ m teamed a i fend nah are nee kill you, one | ® anion his observations from the heart * ; physical or civil, undoubtedly disturbed Consequently, young Rosallo is entitled . ’ . . ul nough to be under- of a most luscious- lookini slice of. melon, nee ‘him. This theory only can account for the} to me nee & ee oem and to| stood at the hotel. The COREY, after the fashion’ of his kind, attend school with white children. McCabe was marched aroun . is just looking. Pally armed condition of his house. There The boy is said to be an apt student and! pijjpoard by one of his capt = Spee te The face of her pickaninnies, “especially 48 not a room in it that has not its armar| very desirous to learn American ways. He s captors, while the} o¢‘the one’ with the metor até most ‘amus-} ‘ment. Even thé two stairways leading to| says, he wants to be a soldier, in the Inited other remained on the sidewalk as a look-|ing and oxprgsalys. rer hetibict a States Army S parents are dea one } out. One wou ney in.loo ng at.the. pictur aE pte upper stories had loaded ,wéapons on} OP 7nts relatives, he says. were engaged inj. The young man wore a diamond ring. | that something start! ng had just oceurr.d ‘ot , ready to repel. invasion. No enemy | the Filipino struggle for eas. arate Deftiv he ripe cA S-|—perhaps the sount‘of*a steantboat wh stl® | enter any room in the house in which wi A vy he turned it on his finger so that the | the first approach of a itomoblie. The “he | was that Murphy would not have had W T giwayman could not see it shine. sudden arrival of an automobile &x* | ott ént has taken the attention of: the. twe hie hand a joaded revolver, shotgun or WARMER FA HER IS COMINE The ruse was unsuccessful, however, for. aliilurén. who’ took: whe atrAal of %2 ca her took Tha He. book aan die the anusual, but it is pot wurriclent, tu go i ee 7 = early life is not well known here, ana | . , e + Bhisn be (_——_ “a ys very reticent in. talking wr. maentoreme ct a ity Ris- vtec Step. te ts Oe tegne ‘sitet. The sen The-saen f g Temperature ursday ; a twoner, pf won't hart you if you'll be good,” Night and Friday ; : 1 : said the spokesman. “You just walk two For Thursday night and Friday Dr. Hyatt [piocks south on this street and don't make E gts i are way, End was elected town promises ve balmy ite aE Say an no he ee a4 hos ce ed w e Tair, ard prophet, isen. He asked the man 3} anyone was tel- ee one term and went back to business ms with gradually |lowing him. Being told that he was not fol- wits 2 was his one ambition in life. rising tempera- | lowed, he went to a telemhone and called up | ‘He was naturally a very reticent man ture. Dont be)the police. No arrests had been made in Pittsburg... an “ie event spoke to no one his innermost thoughts. ne Bow *) 1% Sy fie wy 5 ee i a, ?, 2 aa toe te | A} #4) Kins 3h Ms ck: pais Wy wht 4 * eh . n 4 x ‘oe iis wife is as ignorantiof any bitter quar-| that might have made a murderous en- y for her husband as anyone coroner's inquest that was to have finished yesterday afternoon, was post oned nutil today, on account of the funer- al. All the county followed the bady of Sy!l- ) Vester Murphy to the grave. It was one of ‘ame, largest ever held in the county. > ¥esterday | a force of men began to drain pond near Murphy's house, expecting to the gun with which the murder was ted. It is believed that after the the murderer fied towards town, | ed one of the trains lying at the ‘rossing, where there is a station it is thought that he would not carry with dq Dim the weapon with which he had com- the crime, and that he threw it y. A party of men searched the route by the bloodhdounds from the farm, could find no weapun. The road led the pond. It will take a day or two the pond is thoroughly drained. - Three times the dogs went over the route the verandah from which the fatal was fired to the Wabash station, and is no doubt in the minds of the au- ties that the murderer fled along this te in his escape. ¥ | Tuesday night Sheriff B. B. Casseday of omery County was summoned from *,2 mishboro to this city to investigate the Pe a] tye, ‘a Tt is said that Mrs. v wi 1 of a man whom it avas reported had a@ that he would “get even’ with Mur- y for some real or fancied wrong, ‘‘if it k 50 years." The sheriff departed for iiisboro several hours later without hgv- arrested anyone. Murphy will offer a Substantial reward for the arrest of the outage and will make every effort to dis- him. MGS SET ON YOUNG TEDDY iprecitents Son Had Exciting Experi- ence When He Called at Farm- house for Drink. 1 to the Post-Dispatch. | ARLINGTON, 8. D., Sept. 4—The action of farmers of Arlington in posting notices #; a miles in the neighborhood of the pri- of Marvin Hughitt, Jr.. and velt, Jr., preventing the par- “Theodore ty ‘from hunting ° chickens, compelled the ‘Tallway Officials to move the train last . Ag soon as the farmers heard ¢t ‘A son was here to hunt, wo telephened all along the line and mes- were sent out advising landowners for post notices and of house ose. = —oomovent tT) t e dogs fm. 0 ate oe neated ted great at ind gna ft ttempt 10 4 out . ie will eet ARE AT WORK AGAIN. | the Massacre of For- | fog Vv J. It is ssoribe ‘nie. ip : \which was afraid; it’s not go- ing to frost.” W ednesday night the temper- ature fell to 55 de- grees, which brougat into use many folded quilts and comfortables. At 6 o’clock Thureday morning the recor’ was 5, elicht degrees cooler than Wednesday morning. Dr. Hyatt says that a in from the Northweat, slightly warmer weather ‘There are “highs’’_in the central part of the country and “‘lows’’ over the Ohio val- ley and the. lakes. The rain area centers at Atlanta, Ga., ex- tending into Alabama. There was frost in northern Iowa Wednes. day night. WANTS HIS FATHER AT HOME Charlie Kunschner, Eleven Yedrs Old, Asks Aid of Chicago Police Chief. ® The pathetic letter of an ll-year-old St. Louis boy to the chief of police of Chicago, asking aid in locating his father, has awak- ened the police of the Windy City to more than usual activity in his behalf. The boy is Charles Fréderick Kunschner of 4618 Easton avenue, and the missing father is August Kunschner, who, unti! about a month ago, had a harness shop at 4901 Kaston avenue. Kunsehner the father left home for Chicago three weeks ago. Since then his wife, who has three other children, aged 16, 6 and 3 years, has been taken sick and is now confined to her bed. She has had one letter from her husband, and as he spoke of being in ill health she fears he is in some hospital in Chicago or some other city. In his letter to the Chicago ~ i = the boy inclosed another ,to his fat ing him to hurry home and Seeing” to Be a good boy it he would. RECORD-PRICE FOR arto Foundling bos tenuvtdé eeesen a Satin Coat +, as er! Gy Alice Turper o~— Xrvew nro bandicap: PAINTING FOR MAYOR'S OFFICE One of the New Panels, Allegorical and Historical, Placed in’ Posi- tion. One of the four new decorative panels painted by. Fred . Stoddard for the mayor's office was placed in position Thursday morning. ‘Ht i# atlegorical and to a certain extent historical. A young girl is the central fig- ure of this painting. She a seated and en- in e design she is Fifth race. ohe mile and twenty yards, selling: 643 Palmette po Pete Ha Pre William ¥. 645 Carat ... 544 Tulare ~ 586 Pharaoh .... 65 Anfife Oldfield “635. King Taius 632. The. Phenician 624 Tony Leppling Joe Grady Sixth Flce. mile ‘and one eighth, selling: 628 Red Oak wos Brown Vail Nettie Regent .... ie3.. Lefiare Gi13 Menace Oh Varner une Zarzel C48 Taby | ; ! Tosa SELECTIONS AT DELMAR. iret race--Lunar Doeskin, Tros. Second rate—Kine's Lady, Flash of Night Harry Griffith. h Third race—Barnacle, Pourquoi Pas, Dr. Scharff. Fourth Turner. Fifth race—The Phenician. Pharach. Tu- Nettie race—Varro./) Kitty Clyde, Alice ypace—Taby Tosa, Regent, 7 oS Orn eon SSC —_— | adem, Ag St. Louts: In this the Eads bridge is ond et fat has been placed in the west th tetore office. Pits Sppramsnce -* tive. It is. tinted nyse gold rmonizes vee yan ‘the scheme the newly deco- ete hand cor- wo shiel t sie he coat Fit of the eda ‘ low cut. ‘ * ° oo? 7 %° 7 ° TY PCTCT TOSS ,° o> 0906900006000 The remains of a man, who had apparent- ly lain for'‘at least two months im a corn- field at Doddridge street and Conduit’‘ave- nue, were found Wednesday afternoon by William Kline, a negro laborer, and were taken to the morgue. ipo See pare setite eetwate. “Ty Craig, because na him rugged honesty of SH. that me , a “He was a giant in strength and build, and to see nin with my 4- -old Jog yoo ya eo to the youne “ef the Bia n which * wanla maen ae Soin. humorous it wind not been a a pathetic. i! “This. hearted man with the youngster.. as his ..feet- is what I shall — forget. His heart was as big as the Again I want fe 8a worse ¢t dea through and through,"and him my friend." PRESIDENT NEVER NEVER MORE ANGRY Shook Fist in Motorman’s Face and Told Him He Had Committed Special to the Post-Dispatch. LENOX, Magss., Sept. 4.—Friends of Preal- dent Roosevelt say they never saw him an angrier miood than that that seized ye when the car struck his carriage y day. , | When the nation’s chief executive stag- er to his feet ays offer aati velt's jaw oceaniben tat no man who Decémposition has progressed so far that it is impossible to tell whether the man ‘|was white or black, orchow he met his Geath:--In-the skull, wound appears. In the ‘pockets of the clothing were a package of cigarettes, some smoking to- | bacco, a bottle and a small drinking gifs, and a 25-cent piece. The police are searching their records of missing persons to find if any disappearance . of a man with clothing corresponding to that of the corpse has been reported. Whether tHe man was murdered, commit- ted suicide dr died from illness is another question .which . the. police. will .try to de- termine, though little ts left for them to work on. The negro found the .remains while he was cutting corn in the field. He at once notified Policéman Thomas of his discoy- ery. 3 which is still = no — ip ies. x” * , ’ : Me - e) : ‘ " _. te4 or There apd Kanem mah, © tt | lack of the girl « mon oii . ‘a a oc ees oF me - | BR. « peed - : ‘jee & +s} is mo ee: ae Ab RI Sp ge bgt d ies Ox: eg it is a sce net ; ew a ~~ F ts “ uA Js SBS = i a - , ° _— . pe > + By % ithe a ve b » iia SES ae fa > <