St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 5, 1904

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- “ \ - WANIGER a perfect in every respect, so | ,@limination of danger in case of fire is con- earned.” * ' - MAYOR SAYS THEATERS . . y ha i . ( cap ek ‘ a rT ; , vi a ¥ : P a tel i vl 7 ° , THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH THE BY ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. oa F we nets “Mas = , jg al a a a 4. ; wt; -v 4 ee : 5 A . Rid.4 baa a ay . ‘oe ae a ae ete S , eal . . £ 2 ‘ i. s bid “ . P J ee ees: ¥ ‘ hee 0 Ns a ba Po es +, * fae 4 i. mn FL “ 1e ‘ ' “aN Me i et - fa ‘ » Dee * Ls 7" 4 5 . © Loire IR 6D Reem x owen ye, ba CU ee Ve a Oe : hes ye 4 As James W. James W. Corcoran Appointed by Cir- cuit Judges to Succeed the Late Col. Prather. James W. Corcoran of 1917 Bacon street was notified Tuesday of his appointment by the judges of the St. Louis circuit court to the office of jury commissioner, to suc- THIS MAN WILL SUMMON ST. LOUISANS TO JURY. DUTY Corcoran. ceed the late Col. John Griff Prather. Al- though there were 2 applicants fer the oftice, Mr. Corcoran was selected on the firet ballot. The new jury commissioner was born in St. Louis 48 years ago, and was educated at Christian Brothers college. He has*been in the ae business for more than 2% years, e ts a member of the Jefferson Club, but says he has not been active in politics. Pi Ww. A ll + roa ‘* ‘ . w y 3 ea. a yin. er Te A ee ; é; 5 ; COS | Tie a, ae tial ae = ane. ae : ue ne > 7 he f Pag Ms -o%, r ‘ ; > te RR et aout Ce a ee ee ee ko eae ee eens ah elf: PEEL LE IER i ity: ie ’ . “: 72 nt * - oe =: > e . — ae . a . . - * oe ey > ait 1 CATHERINE ELEONORPE YELAPLA/ GE va\\ Sah A YS WN : Zo = “by Uj YS DR RUNGE BEFORE THE GRANDJURY Inquisitorial Body Investigating Charges of Mismanagement at Insane Asylum. : SALOON CASES ARE ALSO UP Excise Commissioner Seibert, His Deputy and Chief Kiely Sum- moned as Witnesses. Dr. E. C. Runge, superintendent of the St. Louls Insane Asylum, who has pre- sented his resignation to Mayor Wells, went before the St. Louis grandjury at noon Tuesday after a half hour’s con- ference with Circuit Attorney Folk. The grandjury is understood to be in- vestigating the management of the asylum and other St. Louis institutions and is ex- pected to hear about the effects of political influence upon the efficiency of these in- stitutions. This was the subject of Dr. Runge's statement exclusively published in the Sunday Post-Dispatch, in which he charged that politicians manipulated by Health Commissioner Simon, had intro- duced such entanglement’ into the asylum that its work was crippled and the safety of the patients even endangered. - When Dr. Runge arrived Excise Com- missioner James M. Seibert, President W. G. Frye of the Board of Police Com- missioners and Chief of Police Kiely were waiting in the ante-room. Seibert and Kiely had been waiting since 10 o'clock. having been summoned to ap- pear at that hour. Mr. Frye spent only about ten minutes there. R. P. Thomp- son, deputy excise commissioner, had also been summoned. These officials are understood to be wanted to tell about Sunday closing of saloons and other. saloon regulations After Dr. Runge arrived, however, they were excused from further attendance and left the ante-room together, none having been before the jury. FORTUNE TELLERS CAN COLLECT PAY Judge Dismisses Case Against Woman Who Broke Window Trying to Get Money. Fortune tellers must be paid and not ejected by persons whose fortunes they tell, according to Judge Tracy of the City Hall Police Court. Otherwise they cannot be punished for destruction of property in collecting the bill. Marie Adam, a Mexican woman, Was ar- rested on complaint of H. H. Brooks and Gus Breitt of 113 North Bier saih_sizeet. They sald she had broken @ in their office after they had g her out. The woman said they. her 10 cents each , after she one and, oi) ordered her to leave y dismiased é > Se petegek tints chit, he 3 +3 e tA. ey. ee: igh cae. = Egy s vig, F ™ * be LFD OFFICER 1 AUSEAND'S AR What the Police Conlé Not Do Mrs. L. Crowell Could—Find De- serting Spouse. eo HER SEARCH RELENTLESS ONE She Alleges He Was Cruel and Left Her—Determined He Should ‘Be Punished. From June to January Mrs. Lillian Cro- well, a pretty young woman living at 2207 Howard street, pursued her husband, George Crowell, who had deserted her, she says. She was bent on his punishment and when she found him Tuesday she insisted on taking a deputy sheriff with a war- rant to his quarters. Once before she said she had trysted a sheriff and he had failed. This time she wanted to make sure and would help serve the warrant herself. Mrs. Crowell says her husband abandoned her last May after treating her with cruel- tv. In June she secured a warrant for wife abandonment, but the deputy sheriffs could not find her husband, although she gave them instructions as to his where- abouta. The warrant was pigeon-holed in the sheriff's office. but unaided, Mrs. Croswell kept up¢the search. She followed clew af- ter clew the vain hope of finding Crow- ell until uesday, six months after tne search began, when she learned that he had just returned to St. Louis. She found where he was staying and then obtained a second warrant, the firat having been long since lost tn the sh . office. Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Dalton asked for her husband's address when he issued the warrant. “I won't give it,”’ said Mrs. Crowell. “I will go with the sheriff and show him my husband.” AcqorSasty, a noon she left the rT. Courts wit puty Sheriff James Duff. re- fusing to tell where she would take Duff, but sure that they would find her husband. ARTIST WINS HIS $30,666 CLAIM Judge Crew Upholds Charge Made Against the Judge Madill Estate. Judge Crews, in the probate court Tues- day, upheld the claim of Gifford Dyer, a Chicago artist, for $30,666.66 against the estate of the late Judge George A. Madill, and ordered the amount paid in install- GRANDSON OF NAPOLEON HERETO. AID IN CELEBRATING EMPEROR'S GREATEST “DEED OF THE PE + Louisiana Purchase s. Fa ily History to Son “of 4 Man Whose Birth Cans tan * Josephine’s Divorce = & Still Cherishes Hope’ @ Second Restoration Of © ae French Empire. a he an ee GRANDSON of Napoleon Be rte, A a son of the man whose birth decided Napoleon to divorce Josephine, and thus—so say believers in the just ot fate—caused the waning of his ant st of destiny and the loss of the empire which — te had gained, has come to live in St. Louls __ during the World's Fair period. — ae ae He is Comte Fernan Leon, second ‘iz Comte Charles Leon, who was the son of Napoleon Bonaparte and Mile. Louise Catharine Ellonore Delaplaigne, beautif femme de chambre of Princess Card Murat, Napoleon's sister and the wife: his famous field marshal, whom he to the rank of prince. Comte Fernan Leon came into the the death of his elder brother, who # Comte Charles Leon, in: V 2 years ago. He is in St. Louis is and has taken the old O'Fallon s 2313 Pine street, where he will French visitors during the Worid’s : “I have come to gee the great Fair” is to be given in celebration of the r) which my grandfather sold to the Ur States,” said Comte Leon to the t-D patch. * ae “If matters had turned out ' was suggested. ; a The comte smiled and shrugged bi a J pens tae # “SP * * > Ke peas Pe