St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 28, 1903

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Police Station. o'clock with One effect of the withdrawals was observ great increase in the payment of taxes. ie ee Many large mercantile houses announced to their employes that the * firms would cash any and all checks on the trust companies. ae ST. LOUIS GETS $2,025,000 FROM SUBTREASURY. — NEW YORK, Oct. £8.—St. Louis continges Another installment of $615,000 was t .to make demands on this center for cash. ferred by the sub-treasury to st Judge Adams overruled the demurrer in the case of John MecGili'cudhy (Cuddy Mack), who questioned the jurisdiction of the United States court” on the same norunion laborers was settled. he Laborérs’ union c.aims to have the irdorsement and support of the Central Trades and Labor union. SAYS SON PRAYS [00 MUCH It is understood that Judge Adams fs Mother Asks Magistrate to Proceed determined that the defendants in the nat- uralization fraud cases shal! go to trial at Against Him for Excess in Re- ligious Devotions. once. ‘Unless there ig mighty good reasons Special to the l’ost-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Oct. for it,’’ remarked an official, ‘‘there will Lueftier of Maspath, not be a single continuance and the guilt or innocence of all the men now under indictment in cennection with natura iza- tion work will have been established trate O'Reilly in Brooklyn today for a summons for her son, Henry, to show cause why he should have anything to do with Seventh Day Adventists. within the next 6 days.” , McGillicuddy, | She said her son was breaking her heart Barrett, Morrow, D gn, Weissam and Fein are among the first te by attending the church of the Adventists. Up to three months ago, she said, her be tried. ‘ Pt " son attended a Methodist church. He was " i to have been mariied two weeks ago to Miss Kate ‘Travis, and pretty Grandjury Will Ask Explanation of Retention of Excess Fees by Flynn and Tracy. a youn woman, of Newtown, L. L., broke the engagement in order to devote his time to the principles of his new faith. “My son,’’ went on Mrs. Loeffler, weep- ing, ‘“‘spends much of his time with the Adventists, and he has tried to induce hig elder brother: to join the soctetv. Henry refuses to eat. He is really starving him- self. When he goes to the place where the Adventists worship he throws himself on the floor and prays all the time. When he reaches home he does the same thing until he is exhausted."’ ; Magistrate © Reilly issued a summons for young Loeffler. BOY SINGER HELD FOR THEFT Stock ex- the substan- have the sit- Private advices received by the sub-treasury Include $500,000 to Chiee* 28.—Mrs. Catherine’ : change houses agree that and $200,000 to New Orleans . . « ee ee - Ine ae L. L, asked Magis- tial interest f rests of St. Louis Up to 2:30 o'clock there has been $2,025,000 transferred to St. Louis today. MERCANTILE’S BUSINESS ONLY NORMAL TODAY. 2 app ne Mercantile Trust Co., at Eighth al} who wished to withdraw _ their and lacust streets, opened it ociock Wednesday morning the ey -— lbp tether Scala a pada, m , e sons waiting to gain admittance extended o “ from the entrance at Eighth and Locust sons called after that hour, but they were not 'n large groups. ee streets down the north side of Locust st ust street! At 10:30 o'clock Festus J. Wade. and Seventh. . A platoon of fiftten policemen under the absolutely certain of the condition of this statement to the Post-Dispatch: command of two sergeants were stationed a te at ihe doors and were separated into two [ have stacked all my chips in this game, and wouldn't do that unless a: uation well in hand. . s ‘a r g: — *e: aa " SIEBERT WILL BE SUMMONED/HE PLEADED ON HIS KNEES PEDESTRIAN HOISTED ALOFT Bullets From Bluecoated Marksman Have No Apparent Effect, but Lasso Wins the Day. For a half hour Wednesday morning a divisions, one controling the entrance door and the others keeping the crowd from ee certain of the condition of ank. blocking the door through which persons] , ‘ ‘The fact that the directors have pas out. Such depos‘tors as desired to withdraw | #!ly pledged their entire wealth to the their moneyand had accounts subject to| ment of the depositors is answer ‘Weer check were promptly paid. Those that haq|‘° @ny question that might be asked ag @ 2 savings acounts were served with blanks,the financial condition of the antile : which were a formal thirty-day notification tv the company that they wished to with- draw. First Quarre] Results in Separation, Which Almost Had a Fatal Ending. The attempt of Silas J. Lingo to end his life regulted Wednesday morning in a re-| Texas stecr stood guard on the corner of conciliation with his wife, Mrs. Maud . Tenth and North Market streets, in front Lingo, whose departure from home, 4s the Of the North Market street police station, result of a quarrel, caused Lingo to take , and refused to permit anything but street |cars to pass him. In the course of a half Complaints Have Been Heard Against Manner of Administering Ex- cise Statutes. Subpenas to appear before the grandjury were served Wednesday afternoon on Coal Oil Inspector W. J. Flynn and his predeces- sor, Judge Daniel O'Connell Tracy, against whom suits were recently filed to recover a feust Co. The decision on the part of directors to demand 230 days’ notice je f tended to give depositors time to see h which may be recorded, or any certificate of the filing or recording of any such deed er instrument * * * with intent to de- fraud, shull be guilty of forgery in the Police Station Is Filled With Notes of Youth Who Has Been Behind ‘otal of $12,000, the amount of inspection fees which they admit they retained, in excess of the regular sum of $7000 a year allowed by law. earbolic. acid, Mr. and Mrs. Lingo reside at 2922 North! Broadway. They have been wedded for. two years. Monday they had their first hour the animal stopped no lees than 200 persons, every one of whom was refused permission to pass the corner on their way Big Customers Make Deposits. While money was being paid out to small foolish théy are, and at the end ulated perioa aj} ‘those that ale money will be peid dolar for dollar.” Shortly before nean the gnrwd about’ company’s offices began to Yminish, a within an hour there were not rsons standing about the doq@-« e last of the depositors’ deme been fully met and there was ness at the receivin teller’s ay - the payies tellers’. ew policernén still remained neighborhood, but they had nothi It is said that similar service will be se- cured on R. B. Speed of Nevada, Mo., who was coal! oil inspector in 1899, -when the law regulating the fees of the office was passed. To defeat this law, Speed confessed to Circult Attorney Folk that he paid $800 to Senator W. F. Lyons of Kansas City. The inspectors have contended all along that the law governing the conduct of the St. Louis office ‘gs unconstitutional, al-) though no test case had ever beén made in the courts, The grandjury, it is understood, will en- deavor to ascertain why the inspectors in- terpreted the law, which the attorney-gen- eral declared was constitutional. to suit themselves; ané whether the Standara Oi! Co. made an agreement with the inspectors whereby it dictated the appointment of a deputy with direct supervision over the inspection. It is suld that the Standard Oil Co re- fused to pay the fees required by law un- leas allowed the uppolutment of an epector. Excise Commissioner Siebert's office next be fuvestigated, to learn whether Mr. Siebert hus also construed certain statutes governing the issuance Of dramshop li- cenraer to sult himself. He will be sum- moned before the grandjury probably Thursdey. LODGERS BODY TAKEN AWAY Landlady Says Women Claiming Lodge Membership Also Removed Dead Man’s Property. Mrs. Henrietta Cullegan of 916 North Theresa avenue applied to Prosecuting | Attorney Dalton Wednesday morning for warrants against a number of women who she states broke into her room while she was away and removed there- from the dead body of a former roomer, A. W. Hubbard. The request. was such an unusual one that Mr. Dalton deglined to issue. the warrant until after he had made a more eareful investigation, both of the facts and the law. Mrs. Cullegan states that Hubbard died several days and that a day or two a his death she went gerious quarre’, and Mrs. Lingo went to the| to work. home of Mrs. Belle Holiday, at 1731 North; One man, more venturesome that the Ninth street. | hundreds of others who watched the steer’s When Lingo returned from work, his: maneuvers, attempted to walk directly in father-in-law, William Emigh, who has been front of the animal. The steer charged visiting his daughter for the past two| and the man’s daring was repaid with a weeks, told Lingo that his wife had left. | ten-foot lift toward the trolley wire. This information appéared to greatly dfs- He was not seriously injured, but his tract Lingo. He went at once to Jook for) clothing was torn. his wife. The steer took his stand on the corner After some inquiry, he learned that she/at 6:30 o'clock. He had escaped at 3 o'clock had gone to the home of Mrs. Holiday. He! from a packing plant at Warren street and went there, but was repeatedly refused ad-! Broadway, while being unloaded from a mittence, although he pleaded to be per-j car mitted to see his wife Shortly after he decided to guard this Goon after leaving the Holiday home, | eorner people began coming from all di- Lingo met a friend, Albert Johnson, whom rections. They were going to work. it ne informed Mat oie vase putting Rnsclc |@® also nearing the time when the police- out of her way men change watches, and the officers were Tuesday evening ae senen semper headed toward the station house. eee Mek ge Be mh be se ioue if she out an avappes when they reached the did not return home. She promised to re- corner. If they desired to continue on their way to work, they went in some rounda- bout way. While the steer stood guard not turn Wednesday morning. When Emigh returned te, ee Lingo home. Jingo. ohneon was also he could not find Ling aman, woman or child passed north or south of North Market street on Tenth or east or west on Tenth on North Market. there searching for him. While they were If anyone approached too close to suit hunting through the house, they heard! the steer his head dropped ard he started moaning on the back porch. Hurrving there, they found Lingo lying on the porch, without further warning in the direction of the offending party. A hasty retreat was a bottle of carbo'lc acid in his hand They summoned an ambulance and had Lingo taken at once to the d’spensiry, where he received the necesrenry medical attention the invariable result. The steer would chase the invader a distance of 2 feet and would then return to his position in the middle of the street. to insure his recovery. Mrs. Iie showed no more respect for police- Wednesday morning. when Lingo heard of her husbend's attempt on his I'fe. men than for private citizens. Several of ithem/walked a couple of biccks out of she immediately put on her hat and jacket and hastened to her home, where the re- | their way to get to the station. | There was no rifle in the station, so the cone! lation took place. animal could not be killed. One officer FOUR PERSONS ARE MISSING ified of Strange Disappear- Police Not x PP took effect, but they apparently did not ances and Asked to Aid trouble the steer. in Search Finally as suddenly as he had come, the bovine guardian departed. He went Four disappeirances were reported at the/ slowly toward Mroadway on North Market Four Courts this morning and the police street. At the ner he encountered a were asked to aid in the search for the fret degree."” Other grades of forgery, in the second, third and fourth degree, are aleo defined in the statute. ‘The punishment for forgery in the first Gegree may be fixed at imprisonment for life in the penitentiary. The section of the etatute imposing the penalty fixes no max- imum limit of years, the ‘‘dateless limit’ imay hence he that of the natural life. The gptatute, section 2024, thus provides: ‘Per- gons convicted of fergery, as herein speci- and declared, shall be punished as fol- Sowe: (i) Those convicted of forgery in the .fifet degree by imprisonment in the pen- itentiary for a term “not less than ten years." The minimum limit is “not less than ten years’; the maximum may be for This is the only rational construc- an It is demonstrated by the following of the same section, which fixes minimum and maximum limits, as: Those in the second degree, by like srisonment, not less than five nor more n ten years,’ and so in each other de-, - “not less than * * * and not ex- * the limit stated. Forgery in the therefore, may be punish- | ife imprisonment, and the s.atute wf limitations not bar a prosecution ‘any time after the crime. ence, the jury is not hampered in its investi- ons and from returning indictments in case by the date of the alleged of- Bars Frequently. The North Market street police station is the present abode of a boy whose singing has become the subject of neighborhood comment. The lad is charged with burglary and larceny, but he is the happiest person about the station. He sings cont!nually, and ballads are his favorites. His voice is strony and clear, a sweet baritone, and it mav be heard ringing through the station at almost any hour of the day. The singer is Charles Vance. He is 15 veurs old, and he says his home its at 2232 Market street. The police say he is a “natural-born thief.”’ He has been arrested for four thefts in the last year and is suspected of others. He was convicted Oct. % of a theft and sentenced to two years tn the House uf Refuge. The same day he was re eased on parole, givingk a promise of good be- ha vor. That evening he was arrested on com- piuint of the St. Louis Stamping Co.. for stenling squabs out of their warehouse at Second street and Cass avenue, FEW REALLY HEALTHY WOMEN . Chadwick, M. D., Tells Mother’s Convention They Are Almost Ex- tinct in This Nation. Special to the Post-D.spatch. SYRACUSE, N. Y., Oct. 28.—Mrs. Mara L. Pratt Chadwick, M. D.. of New York, author of histories and stories for chil- d.en, a handsome and stately woman with snow-white hair, told the 0 mothers at- tending the seventh annual convention of the state assembly of mothers, plain truths concernirg motherhood, Mrs. Chadwick figuratively placed a child on the dissecting table. There wag the tooth-cutting period. the growing tal! pe- riod, he prewing stout period, the mem- ory perind and the veriods of imitation imagination and reason. P Bringing him throvgh childhood to ado. lescence, Dr. Chadwick said, was a great task, ‘“hut,”’ she went on, “the ado'escernce period is the time upon which all the fu- ture depends. “America is a country full of invalids. The real, eplendid, healthy woman js aq). most extinct.’ ATTACKED BY YELLOW Dos. Sixteen-Year-Old John Lnutdke Severe. ly Bitten on the Hand. see the public administrator to make ar- John Lutdke, 16 years old, of 302% South ——_ ts for winding up the de Seventh street, was bitten by a stray dog eer te whose While she was gone she names she gave while tting timber from the alley in the Dal rear a wagon company yard at which the ‘to be held in the par'ots of the public li- her home and he is employed. brary fp Kansas City Nov. 6 ané7. Among ton, to body of Hubbard and also took all The boy w ttacked by 1 ro= Shy at oe aie bers e boy was attacke fa ye : n gta sa were members | which fastered on his left hand, and whit ‘ot a lodge to whic lubbera bel those © will attend are Dr. Edward Cc. was only shaken off after @ severe strug. | n. has red Runge, pres w. Whe and to secure the Ed | - and was Sromes at the dispensary | arg. Cullegan cnable. to » them . : ""e ies | erm ne s . ? to. him ‘ ; #* % depositors heavy deposits were being made at the receiving window by the regular customers of the company. More and larger deposits were made than is usual In one day. There was no excitement while the crowd of small depositors were receiving atten- —— to think of the eyciting tion. All transactions were conducted in oe PF wily - a calm and orderly manner. By 10:30 nearly ion they had figured earlier in the MISSISSIPP] VALLEY HAS NO FURTHER DEMANDS, When the Mississippi Valley Trust Co.) within 10 to 15 minutes, and immediately opened for business a few minutes*after 10/ ancther block was admitted. a o'clock, the regular hour, Wednesday morn- As was the case on Tuesday, most ot ; ing there was a crowd of men and women | those who sought to withdraw thelr 0 on Pine and Fourth streets, on the two/| counts were women. who struggled with sidee of the buliding. Speeches, made by/the men to retain ther place in Mme. fue two or three directors and the quiet argu-| s'de the bank President Walsh, Vice-Prem ments by men of influence, had considera- | dent Jones, Hugh, R. Lyle, James B. bly quieted the fears of the depositors,| Samuel KE Hoffman, James Cam and the excitement was less intense. |othere sought patiently to explain The depositors were admitted to the build-| fallacy of the run. ing throvgh the door at tie corner, in| The crowd remained at about the size it blocks of 2%, a@d were placed in lines; had attained at the open'ng hour, until formed undef the direction of a squad of | after didigent work by Alanson D. policemen. Ex-Gov. Francis, John KE. Davis, The firet man to draw his money was, others, coupled with the rapid work of Safford Scanlon, a former policeman, Scan-)|clerkr In settling the accounts, began lon had $1000 denosited, subject to ewig ed gy ysis the size of the gathering. sig The morey was hurried over the counter to! Shortly before the bank was opened for Scanlon and was all in gold. The ex-police- business, and while the excitement of the man gathered up the 50 $20 gold pieces and | crowds In the street was at its height. Me dropped them in his pockets without wait-| Davis mounted the stone steps of the bulla ing to count them. ing and addressed the crowd. He sald: §— Scanion said the money had been given| “The anxiety expressed here by so to him by the Police Relief Association, | of you is entirely uncalled for and and his future depended wholly on this reason, Not one person will jose any xum. ij through this trust company, and we Clerks Work conduct our business In our regular With Rapidity. —~ As rapidiy “n ty. three or four clerks There is no change in our firancial dition whatever. We have always pf back of the paying te.ler's window could | whatever should have been check up accounts and count out the |‘ o™ all demand from customers with . J IT u's rr a By ced ead = » Signature .......... te eebeseedeoseenses Address Their passvocks were then stamped to ene eee ee i ee i 7 ™ Se # r %, i Fah SINR FF et, Syne ei Re ek Me oe ee