St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 30, 1903

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LLL AL AL LE, Aa BURNING HOT ROOF Little August R. Schultz the Victim. of ) Brutal Treatment at the Pestalozzi School. MEN SUMMONED TO COURT. HUSBAND THANKS DEFENDER HER TROUSSEAU IS MISSING Promised Wife Carefully Arranged for Transfer of Baggage, and Two Young Men Are Now Sought. ew ee THIS GIRL RAN AWAY ' FROM A BRIDEGROOM. Age, 20 years. Former address, 4427A Easton avenue. Height, 5 feet % Inch, Weight, about 110 pounds. Complexion, olive. Hatr, dark brews. Eyes. black. Dress, when last seen by her pa- rents. buff and white striped waist, light xray woolen skirt, white lea- horn hat trimmec with biack satin ribbon, black eateat leather low- quarter shoes. Ornaments, set ring of 3 rubies, The Crying Child’s Head Etruck an Iron Cornice and He Was Jerked on the Roof Unconscious. August R. Schultz, Jr.. aged 9 years, was tied about the waist with a icoisting rupe of roof Stranger’s Troubles Commenced When He Touched the Sleeve of Mrs. George Diel. John Dugan, proprietor of butcher's gtall $2 In Union Market, knocked down an uni- dentified man who had been following Mrs. George Diel of 1216 Biddle street, and who attempted to take her arm as she passed out of the market building at the Broad- way entrance. Mrs. Diel first noticed her annoyer 12 blocks from the market. Whenshe went to Dugan's meat stall, she told him of the man. Dugan, who is known to his friends as “Little Johriny’’ Dugan, asked that he be allowed to accompany her from the mar- ket. Mrs. Diel thought it would not be neces- sary. Dugun watched her as she left the building, and saw the man she had de- scribed attempt to take her arm. mae ee and drawn to the roof the Pestalozzi School building. Slate who were working on the building at the time have been summoned workers > into police court. The boy was made to walk in this bare feet over the burning hot roof. He fered great pain. suf- ‘The men hoisting the slate cn the roof did not know that their burden was a boy. They pulled him with a@ bump that left him The police are following out cleews to find the person who tied him with the rope. up to the cornice unconscious. Diel's blow Immediately Dugan was at Mrs. side and struck the masher a severe in the face. The man sank to his for the police. Dugan turned to his place of business and Mrs. Diel Went to her home. A crowd gathered about the wilted mash- er and he escaped. Mr. Diel calied at the butcher shop later and thanked Dugan for his service to Mrs. Diel. knees and called WILLIAM P. Sketched art Jefferson City by a Post-Dispatch artist. SULLIVAN. STILL FAIR, STILL COOLER Neither Rain Nor Hot Weather Will Vex St. Louisans Before Friday Night, Says Weather Man. Hot weather is locked out of St. Louis. The key was turned during the heavy . rain, while the public was trying to get home unmelted. This morning the temperature was down to 71. {t's not going very high and Thursday night we are to have cooler SULLIVAN TRIAL SET FOR AUG. 19 Attorney Jourdan’s Illness Named as Reason for Continuing Boodle Case. — breezes than last night. Here's the § fore- cast: “Fair ‘T'l.urs- day night and Fri- day. Cooler Thurs- day night. Frosh, northerly winds.”’ The precipitation Wednesday nigut OBJECTIONS ARE OVERRULED The Hearings of Farris, Smith and Matthews Will Follow in Order Named, Attorneys Agree. By a Post-Dispatch Staff Correspondent, JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., July 30.—Foal- The City’s 850 Stalwarts Are Accred- lowing the disposal of preliminary motions and the overruling for a demurrer and; plea of abatement, Judge Timmons , ontinued to Aug. 19 the trial Ww. ty, charged was 1.4 inches. Showers and thunder- storms were prevalent Wedneaduay all over the sections east of the Rockies. There was rain in Missouri, Arkansas and Texas. Cooler weather is the order of the day in the Ohio Valley, lake region, upper Miasissippi Valley and the North- west. At Bismarck, N. D., the tempera- ture was 40. of Senator with having solicited a bribe of $1500 from Whitney Layton, an inde- | pendent baking powder manufacturer. Attorney General Crow announced at o'clock that he was ready for trial and de- sired to proceed at once. Attorney Norton Jourdan stated that in view of the postponement taken in Farris, Matthews and Smith bribery cases, and AFTER DANVILLE LYNCHERS} Eleven Persons Have Been Arrested . Judge Timmons would be willing to make and Sheriff Gets Warrants for |. similar concession to his client. The Every Man He Suspects. prosecution stated that it would not ob- DANVILLE, I1l.. July 30.—Eleven persons| Jct to @ continuance, in view of Mr. have been arrested for alleged participation Jourdan’s physical condition. in the lawless outbreak of Saturday night! She positive agreement between the o when the jail was attacked in an effort to) ‘’TMeys for the state and the defense is Iyvnch James Wilson, a negro who. it is to try Senator Farris Aug. &. coma og alleged, assauliied Mrs. Burgess at Alvin } Smith on Aug. 26, and Matthews Aug. 31, | The grandjury has been ordered to recon-| YEfere Judge W. W. Graves of Buller. vene Monday to indict the leaders of the! Judge Hazel, who -presided over this | mop. Of those arrested today only one gave circuit, Was disqualified in all the bribery ; ' today ! P. Sullivan of Billings, Christian Coun- | | $1,3986,500 was used in paying salaries alone. 50 i oom as 579, 238. $1 556.000 KEPT UP THE POLICE FORC Bluecoats Found 104 Abandoned Ba- bies During the Year and Did Other Things. SECRETARY’S REPORT APPEARS ited With Good Behavior and General Activity. It req@wires $1,555.00 to maintain the St. Louis police force during the fiscal year ending April 9, according to the figures compiled bh the annual report of Secretary Thomas J Ward of the police board, printed copies of which reached headquar- ters Thursday morning. Of this amount The report estimates the city’s population at 68,000. The census of 1900 gives it as The department arrested during the year 25.564 persons, as compared with 23,666 ar- rests made during the preceding vear. Stolen and estray property to the value of $229.338.3, was recovered, together with stolen money to the amount of $1,696.21. Of 80 patrolmen, fewer were tried before the board for violation of the manual dur- ing the past year than in any other in recent years. Of the arrests made during the year 19,- 845 were men and 5719 were women. In covering their beats the patrolmen of Sr. walked 32,919 miles during the vear. The poiice turned in 1346 fire alarms and made out 2,124,877 reports, 10,916 of which were in regard to sanitary nuis- Louis August R. Schultz, the father. complained of the treatment of his boy to Assistant- Prosecutor Dalton Thursday and the root- ers will appear Soulard street The at the Sta- tion Thursday evening. boy will be present. August and his Knots, aged 13 years, of 1020 South Seventh companions, George Street, and Edward Horn, aged 10 years, of 107 South Seventh playing about the yard of the schoo! building dur- street, were ing a recess of the vacation schoo! tn prog- ress there. One of the the and ties the hoisting rope about the bundles workmen stays in yard of slate. Two men on the roof, who can- not see the bundle, hoist it. A fourth boy, whose name is not known, asked the workman on the ground to send him up. was playing in the yard, and He ran uway. later, a man caught ‘Au- gust, and. in spite of his protests, tied the rope about his waist and gave the hoist signal. The men on the roof worked rapidly, and soon fhad the load to the cornice. An extra pull to bring the bundle of slate clear of the cornice, struck August's head. A second later he lay unconscious on the roof. , They worked with August for some time before he was able to stand. Then he was shown the way.up the steep roof io the stairway. The slates on the roof were very hot, and Mr. Schultz says August's feet were blis- tered when he saw him Tuesday morning. Monday nigitt August was very — sick. About his waist is a deep red mark lieft by the rope. His overalls are also marked. Mr. Schultz, who is a painting contractor und treasurer of the Pestalozzi Schoo! Pat- rons’ Association, was away from home Monday on a short vacation. POLICEMEN LIN PATHWAY OF LOVE Alton Boy Arrested for Eloping, Then for Failing to Elope. A few minutes Arrested because he wanted to elope, and Tuesday Thursday on the bier of the bride. all riod betwen F. Olmstead and Stella Brown and pronounced, “until death do you part,”’ lowing hour when the same minister said, “The Lord giveth, and the Lord taketh away.”’ ried Tuesday afternoon in Miss Brown's room in Centenary hospital, when it was seen that tiorfs of the man who loved her and who scarcely left her” bedside could much long- er mony be performed then. the two betrothed had waited, with w@at patience they could summon, for the ill- ness to pass and for health to return to the hours been could 5 Propped Up by Pillows on Her Deathbed at Centenary Hos- pital, Stella Brown Married Louis Olmstead, Then Passed to Her Long Rest. The bridal bouquet that to a dull hospital lent fragrance room, rested It told, to pitifully, of the brevity of the pe- the hour when Rev. William McMurry joined the hands of Louis and the fast fol- Mr. Olmstead and Miss Brown were mar- not even the tender ministra- ward off death. it was the woman’s wish that the cere- For many weeks girl's fadimg form. There had been of darkest despair, but there had moments of brightest hope. Tuesday the doctors told them they hope no longer—and the woman placed her hand upon the face of the man, as he knelt by the bed, and bade him call the, minister and take her as his wife. She signed the application for the mar- riage license that was brought to her as she lay against the white pillows. A few moments later she said the words in which her troth was plighted. A few hours more of pain. Then came the peace of death to the sufferer, and the an- guish of a great loss to the brid m, It was the. ending of a dream Of happi- ness that had begun when Stella Brown had come from her home at Carrollton, Ill., to visit fri€énds in St. Louls. She had met Louis Olmstead of 3300 Lawton avenue. Their first fancy had grown speedily into love, and they had become . engaged. Shortly before the date that had been s#t for the wedding. an abscess developed in Miss Brown's lungs, and, despite the pride of science and the eagerness of love, the disease would not yield. The funeral services will be conducted by Dr. McMurry. pastor of the Centenary Methodist church, and the husband of a day will take the body of his bride vack to her homA€ in Illinois for burial Friday. BRIDGE MONOPOLY. Secretary of War Not Likely to Con- IN ROOT'S HANDS sult Any Other Depart- ment. Dispatches from Washington say that HICCOUGH VICTIM IS WEAR TO DEATH John Clark, Broken by the Strain of Continval Spasms, Now Wast- ing Away. John Clark, who has been treated for 8 pearia; 1 small diamond: plain gold ring, flat on top with Initials “*—p. DY’ emall locket and chain containing pictures of two babies. her neices; heavy chatelaine bag. bp en ee eee Leonard G. Sargent, @isappointed fiance of missing Dolly Douglas, Who disappeared on.the day set fér her wedding, said Thurs- day that he would return to Indianapolis Thursday evening unless he should find his sweetheart before that time. Sargent arrived Wednesday evening, onx- ious to forgive his betrothed wife for the disarrangement of their wedding plans. He was even more anxious to persuade her to reconsider her determination not to become Mrs. Sargent and to return with him to the home that had been fitted up for her. He failed completely in his mission, for neither he nor the parents of the girl have been able to find trace of her since she so suddenly left her mother and sister «t Union Station Tuesday. The puzzle of her disappearance was ing when the returned to her mother the letter which Mrs. Dauglas had mailed in the envelope sent by Miss Dolly with the statement that. it would find ter. This envelope had been addressed by Miss Dolfy to her parents’ home, 427A Baston avenue, but it was supposed that she kad left instructions with the posteffice authort- ties for it to be forwarded to her present address. The letter conveying the envelope was mailed Tuesday afternoon at the main postoffice, while that which was returned to Mrs. Douglas Thursday morning bore the postmark of Station 5, a substation in the neighborhood of the Dauglas home. Anxions Search Proves Fruitless., The search by the parents and the man who expected to have been the husband of the missing girl has been thorough but frujtiess in every way. None of the com- panions of Miss Dolly wil) admit that she ever gave hint of a distaste for the ap- preaching marriage, and all of them say she seemed happy and talked of the ap- proaching nuptials as though they were to be the climax of her hopes. Her young men friends profess entire ig- norance of her whereabouts. , Miss Douglas’ bridal trougseau has dis- appeared with her, and it is supposed that she has it safe. There is an interesting feature connected with the disappearance of this trousseau, which was the baggage that Miss Douglas said she was going to try to locate at Union Station. She had given the crder for taking the baggage, rendered more intricate Thursday morn- hiccoughs at the city hospital during the past eight days, is now suffering from ner- vous exhaustion of such pronounced char- facter that his recovery is considered doubtful. Since Tuesday Clark has not hiccoughed, but his température has been rising unti! it stands at 104 degrees. Wednesday night he was delirious. From his long struggle against the spasme, Clark gradually yield- ed to the nervous strain. Since he was first seized with the hic- coughs, Clark has lost 3) pounds. When he went to the hospital he had taken no food for several days,’ but his condition soon improved so that he could eat. No symptom of disease, other than the nervous breakdown, has been found and the physicians are at a loss for the cause of his attack. Hiccoughs is caused by a lack of co- ordination between two of the respiratory nerves. One of the nerves acts out of time, causing the convulsive’ movements of the diaphragm. The main nerve of respiration is the pneumogastric. which sends out branches to the vital organs. Diseases of the stomach, heart or other organs that are controlled by this system of nerves are the usual cause of prolonged hiccoughs, though a simple irritation of the stomach by drinking something too hot haa been known to set up an attack that ended in the death of the patient, while excessive laughter is one of the common causes. To Hold the Breath May Make a Cure. Holding the breath is one of the common and usually efficacious treatments for hic- coughs. The cessation of breathing com- pels the nerve that controls the to wait until the pneumogastric trolling the lungs, can get in inces., During the year the police discov street lamps which were not lighted. rescued 24 persons from drowning and killed 42 mad dogs. They found 14 aban- doned babies and frustrated 250 attempts at suicide. They extinguished 408 bonfires and frustrated 377 burglaries. They suppressed 1471 disturbances and reported 324 fatal accidents. They escorted home 1,421 intoxi- cated persons and found 724 lost children. The police have not vet captured Ru- dolph. The report says nothing about this. POLICE TAKE AUTOMOBILIST Negro Arrested in Darkness Operating Machine Without License. Roswell McElroy. a negro chauffeur, was arrested early Thursday morning for op- erating an automobile without a license. To the bewildered policeman, who made the arrest, McElroy exp!ained that he was employed, by an automobile firm at 3914 Olive street. He sald it was his duty to operate the machine for persons who rent- ed it and that he was on his way home from a trip with customers when arrested. McElroy deciared he did not know the automobile was without a license. THE WEATHER INDICATIONS. St. Lonte and vicinity—Fatr; cooler. Missour!—Generally fair Thursday night and Friday: cooler in east and south portions Thure- day night: winds becoming northwest. Tilincis and Indiana—Generally ‘air Thursday | night and Friday. except possibly local fhowers to extreme south portions Thursday afternoon of night; slightly cooler Thursday aight an4 in south portions Friday; weet to northwoast winds. lowa—Cienerally fair Thursday wight and Fri- day; northerly winda, hecoming varia'le. bond . cases, the defendants alleging that he was A guard has been placed around the hos- prejudiced and would not gjve them a fair pital where five men, who were members trial. of the mob, are receiving treatment for|Same Objection thelr wounds. Which Farris Made. oo oo ee sgh scare The defense offered a plea in abatement, | . , “lsetting forth that the defendant was indict- | ed illegally because of the appearance of | the attorney-gencral in the grandjury room, together with Mesers. Cosgrove and Dunlop, grandjury stenographers. After a brief argument by Mr. Jourdan and the attorney-general, Judge Timmons overruled 2 motion to sustain the plea. Then came a demurrer similar to those filed in the Smith and Farris cases. Attor- ney Pope, for the defense, argued the points of the cemurrer at length. In overruling the demurrers of the de- fense, Judge Timmons referred caustically presence of Stenog- ithe @erandjury room. Maj. Thomas L. Casey's report on the Ter- minal bridge combin in 8t. Touts is ready for transmission to Secretary of War Elihu Root. The report is now in the hands of Gen. Davis, judge advocate general of the army, who has considered it and prepared a rec- ommendation for the secretary of war. He would have turned the matter over to the secretary Wednesday except for the fact that the latter remained at the de- partment only two hours, being engaged with other matters. ) Gen. Davis is understood to recommend that the department take no action under the facts as presented in Maj. Casey's re- port. This is not consi consisting df an imitation alligator skin sult case, an alligator skin grip and a hat box, to two young men, ostensibly to be taken to Union Station. Mrs. Dougias says Miss Dolly told them to deliver the pack- ages and she would pay a balance remain- ing due for the delivery at that time. No check was, given, but the young woman said she would be on hand to receive the d 6634 Charles They then he didn’t, Miller, 18 years old, and a resident of Alton, arrested because is willing to make his oath that the road to matrimony is nothing less than a highway lined with men in blue coats, brass but- tons and helmets. Miller wanted to elope to Quincy and marry Mrs. Mary Bayers, a widow who has seen 32 summers, or almost twice as many as have come into Miller's view. He and his would-be bride were waiting at the Alton station to take a train, when Chief of Police John Maxwell, substituting a lignum vitae club for Cupid's bow and ar- rows, stopped the journey. He took the ardent youth to the lockup, and would have put him inaede but for the pleadings of Mrs. Maxwell and other mem- bers of the Maxwell] family who have more sentiment about them than has the head of the Alton police force. The chief finally allowed the young man to go; extracting from him first a promise that he would go straight home and not “try any more of that eloping business.” Miller had hardly ceased himself or his release from this trouble, however. when another officer of the law owe upon the scene. Hie had with him a warrant for Miller's arrest, and it had been sworn out by Mrs. Bayers. She said that Miller was guilty of breach of promise of marriage ,because he nadn't continued on the elopl journey. Miller took time to remark: wouldn't that ‘ar you!’ Then he with the man who had the warrant. he was released on a SW bond. ae HUNTING GOWN A NEGRO. The Man Who Assaulted Miss Hess Near Kahoka, Mo. DES MOINES, Io., July 3%.—Shepitts Hiunolt of Knox County. Misscuri, ana Davis of Apanoose County, Iowa, with a pesse of well-armed citizens have gone to Brazil, a small mining town five miles from Chrnterville, where it is repcrted Clarke, the negro wanted at Kahoka, Mo., for assaulti Gertrude Hess, is In hiding. Hunelt encountered a negro w ively asserts was Clarke, near - last night, and commanded him to ! a shot in re belleve aided in the attack on the jail. Every one now denies that he took part in the outbreak of Saturday night. Before any warrants were !ssued many gioried In the part they took in the riot. The direct charge is the defacing of a gublic building. The following are those already arrested: Mince Bodaker, Adam Murray, Ed Hart. Charies Devore, Thomas Bel]. Cicero Da- vis, Jacob Walton, Willian’ Pettis. Rich- ard Roberts. Henry Van Cun¢y, Sherman Cundiff and Isaac N. Siade. —_—— : . ; wm, : ee aoe ee Net Niet Ot ae “ ce . oa +S Nn hy 2 : ; os ay ae wri Eo, « aes ic aiott af eae hr AT ; ae PNA ik | aac Tei ‘ ; : : S Fee OM ; ‘ +e recetved -en- ; % > RE ss (“I COAT wens WEN ER 4: = PE 4 eee p KS i a g Te 8 a we a +