St. Louis Post-Dispatch
January 20, 1905

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- = el 5 a h \ Ege | “ ae ve , y ? rs nd e * ) nent ; a " ob nN es ult until } ey , counts, PAGES | TODAY. } VOL. 87..NO. 152. “FIRST IN EVERYTHING.” ~ FORMER LIBRARY OFFICER NOT TD BE ARRESTED? Probability Is That Joseph F. Langton, Who Confessed Short- age of $4429, Will Be Given a Chance to Rehabilitate Himself. WIFE COMFORTS HI MIN ANXIETY OVER FAMILY. Library Loses Amount of Shortags as Langton Was Without Bound —He Says He Would Plead Guilty and Ask No Mercy. There is a probability that Joseph F. Zangton, former assistant librarian at the St. Louls Public IAbrary, who has con- fesed to a shortage of $4429 in his ac- may be given an opportunity to rehabilitate himse!t. Librarian Crunden, when asked by a Post-Dispatch reporter, Friday, upon whom the loss would fall, said: ' “Me. Langton was not under bond. He was directed by the Library Board in his duties in nandling the funds of the insti- tution. Personally, I am_ not responsible for any shortage. The library fund will be the loser, but Mr. Langton has ex- p an earnest determination to maker restitution if he lives and is permitted to so. He is unfortunate in not having any relatives able to assist him in this. Hie has been the support of his parents and his mother is the only one left. “I heave secured a situation for him if he will be permitted to fill it. The men who have expressesd a willingness to give him ree orc will s0 place him that he will from temptation and where his cst executive ability will find ample op: unities to advance him. merousnly believe that if a vote could taken of those most nearly concerned his 4 Te eathon, and of all the people of ‘city, he would be permitted to go free ‘earn a living for his family and pay to the city the money he has used. f rod need his services greatly and ury may do with his that he eye for the present veral ‘at .once, Th ra the spirit ho know most about his case. that for all punitive purposes = the has been satisfied.” iabeery ie a city institution, | by an é4 fund from the moreys. It is governed by a board te directors, appointed by the may- who appoint the working officers. It self-supporting in a measure. The rooms by it are rented from the Board ‘Bducation at a rental of $10,000 a year. Picaenet by his disgrace, Langton awaits in his pretty little suburban home in Webster Groves the arrival, of an of- ficer from St. Louis with a warrant for his arrest. He has announced that he will pay the penalty of his wrong doing by pleading ullty. “fT have no money.” he said to a Post-Dispatch reporter, “and AR felt that my family would be well pro- vided for I could brave this ordeal with a much lighter heart." The oldest of his six children is hardly’ 10 years old—the youngest less than two years. None of them is old to renlize the great shadow that has been cast on their lives. The home is at 117. Maple av- » Webster Groves, on a strect of neat Poe cottages. I ath not ‘asking for public sympathy,” Mr. Langton, ‘‘for I have deter- _ bear my punishment and make BRAY mistakes. However, it I took the money wan- oe pk ore that Langton was sorely fofe he began his peculations,’’ mh. “He spent little on bo expensive habits a too big a load ant =a under it. . tory of Suffering. | the last 18 mun bas tcid on the former assistant librarian. Thoug). Only 4 years old, he looks careworn ana worried. » *¥ou have no idea of the terrible wirain ve been subjected to,"’ said Langton to set-Depatoh reporter. Was seated in a chair in the reception hia home, while ‘iis wife stond be- m with her arm affectionately over hig shoulder. could not stand it any longer. la ear it worried me so that my ected. Severnl Umes 1 started Crunden's home to contee® anu secret off my mund Hut failed tr me before [ reached him » | the house _ and dad not force myseir Is placed too much trust er examined our balance at ade it ible for me the total amounted to Chae 1 could hope to repay. first I intended to repay. but at 20 need. — it was only on salary was a ay ag ne hounded me until I i, t complaint to the I knew wthat f the board ‘owed so ¢Ach I would probd- yharged: i that time I was —~ father and sister. and eh 2 . Dee ’ with. the inci ts of His up to or and THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. Be / ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, JANUARY | 20, 1905. Se: ae + ene I“COINACKER FREED BY ROOSEVELT WANTED gThe arrest in. Chicago of Stella Davis, Khown to secret service.men as the “‘Coin- acker Queen,” pardoned from the Missouri penitentiary last July by President Roose- velt, and the alleged accomplice of George Turner, arrested in St. Louls Monday, and Frazier McDonald, arrested in Chicago with her, is regarded by operatives as the early ending of an extensive new counter feiting scheme devised by the woman. It is believed that the “Queen” made the gold-plated $5 counterfeit coins which Turner is charged with passing in St. Louls, and thet she made them from molds which used in former operations with her husband, Charlies Davis, who was ar- rested with her in 1901 and sent to the penitentiary for six years at the time she was sentenced to four years. These molds were never diScovered by the secret service men. It is believed she hid ‘them and, as soon as she wes re- leased from prison, brought them out again for use. The St. Louis officials hope to bring the woman to St. Louis, as they be- lieve she was the director of the work which they charge Turner with doling. Stella Davis and McDonald are held she under $2000 bonds for thelr preliminary fearing, set for Jan. 27, in Chicago. This | is the date when Turner will have his hearing tn St. Louls. Stclla Davis refuses to talk to the Chi- cago operntives. She is non-committal as | a judge. Cross-questioning brings noth.img | {froin her. MeDona!d, however, according to the Chicago operatives, has talked’ freely and confessed that he made counterfeit $5 goid coins in St. Louls and Chicago with Tur- ner. Turner has not admitted that this ts true. but the St. Jaouls operatives believe they have now accounted for the missing} week in his life. Since his arrest they have! been unable to find where he was for seven! days prior to his arrest én “Hop Alley’’| Monday. He said he had been driving al team for his brother; his brother said he} had not seen him for «ix months. ‘Turner! denied that he had been in Chicago, but it is now belleved he was there with Turner and Queen Stella, making coins to pass in St. Louis. The Chicago operatives, when rested the Davis woman and McDonald, found part of a counterfeiting outfit. It is belleved this is geome of the old outfit used by the woman and her husband, Charles Davis, in making the spurious $ gold ploces which they passed before both were sent to the penitentiary [tn 1902. This outfit was not found at the time of their arrest. Woman Was Pardone.l. Stella Davis was pardoned from the Mis- sourt penitentiary July 1 last by President they ar- Roosevelt. on recommendation of Attorney- General Moody, Judge Adams and District Attorney Dyer. Col, Dyer said Friday that he did not recall the circumstances that led to his recommendation, but his in- formation was that the woman had shown herself a model prisoner and sincere in her promises to reform. It is believed now that as soon as she was released she unearthed the hidden molds and began the formation of a new “gang” QUEEN” IN ST, LOUIS Man Arrested with Stella Davis Implicated Her and George Turner, Who Was Arrested In St. Louis— She Was Pardoned by the President. »* Y ot Her system was..s0 nearly complete that rhe operated for two months before being caught. Only women were chosen as victims. Three persons onerated at a time. One acted as a scout, who would enter a place, andif he found there was no man in charge give a signa!. The second man would en- ter the place, pass the coin and get the change. The third pérson was Stella, who carried the bogus coins, giving only one at a time to the man whose work it was to pass them, and taking from him the great- er part of the change he secured. If the second man should be arrested, he could show that there was no counter- feit money about him, and that the amount of change in his pockets was not. the amount which he got from the victim. The Davis woman is small and slender. She has only a common school educa tion, but is remarkably bright, quick of word an’ acticn, and. witty. .She is 31 rears old, and was formerly very pretty. She has a wonderful power over criminals. Turner, when confronted with MeJocn- ala's confession Friday, refused to talk. — Results ‘at New Orleans. Brecia! ta the Mest ifispateh. ORLEANS, Jan. 2. —Results: NEW >RLE Ave furlongs—MIss Gomez % First (race, (Aubuchon), rs Flying Charcoal 98 (W. Hennes second Ghats 98 (T. Meade), third. Time, 1:05 meme St. ouls ha# more Post-Dispatch readers —— ‘every day than it has homes. “Firat in everything.” Post-Dispatch Sunday Magazine Jan. 22, 1905. CONTENTS: Page. A Talented Girl in St. Louis Society Adopts a Professional Career Fortune Tellers of St. Louis...... A Great Exploration Work Begun. Two Romances of Two Beauties From Illinois..... Girls Who Have Received 1000 Proposals Greatest Romance nf the World's Fair Prettiest Girl in St. Cuts Wins Queer Fight of a Minister Complete Novelette on New Lines... 6 Most Astonishing Flower in the World Now in St. Louis...........7 Sermon by Rev. Newell Dwight Hillis Newest Midwinter Hats Novel Menus for Sunday Dinner... Care of the Cost of Rearing a Well-Born Girl. . New and Strange Things In and - About St. Louis ee St. Louis Stageland.:..............10 FUNNY SIDE: ert ene at Lo Sram on v Rid Yas -. see eee a eee © PS OS eS 2 eee 0 db be ct 2 eae ve ae oe apes SHOT AT COR MAYBE FIST H REVOLUTION / All Europe Aghast at Magnitude of Crisis Revealed by Yester- day's Attempt to Assassinate Nicholas and His Family. —e CL MEMBERS OF NOBILITY INVOLVED IN DARK PLOT. Officers of Battery Which Fired | Fusillade at Muscovite Ruler Prove to Be Aristocrats Deemod Main Strength of Despotism. TROUBLES NOW FACING THE CZAR WITHIN AND OUTSIDE RUSSIA. Threatened revolutien in Russia. War with Japan. Uprising brewing in Finland. General strike in St. Petersburg. Secret rebellion, open rioting in Mos- cow. Smoldering revolt tn Poland. Recruits attacked in provinces. Consequence of firing on British trawl- ers. Student riots. Attacks on governors of provinces. Nihilists active at it home and abroad. Special Cable to © the Post-Dispatch. (Copyrighg, 1905; by Press Publishing Co.) ST. PETERSBURG, Jan. 20.—Practically all the St. Petersburg correspondents of the London papers agree in regarding the incident at the blessing of the Neva as a deliberately planned attempt on the Czar’s life. “It is now admitted that the occurrence was the result of a conspiracy among the men of the battery of horse artillery who were charged with firing the saluie,”’ says the Daily Express correspondent. ‘Instead jot a blank charge. the third gun of the battery was loaded with case shot and this gun was pointed directly at the pavilion where the Czar was standing. The whole battery is under affést “and an inquiry is proceeding. “All the officers are noblemen of the highest rank, but the police admit that they had received warnigs that something violent might happen and it ts well known that the ranks of the artillery include many nihilists and revolutionists. The sit- uation is extremely serious. Hitherto it has been that the strength of the Russian autocracy depended entirely upon the army and police.’’ ‘In .the midst of many confusions, con- tradictions and uncertaintities,” adds the Daily Mail correspondent, “the one plain fact seems to be that at least one of the eight guns of the horse artillery battery which was to fire a blank salute was load- ed with case shot, and from a distance of forty yards was disch@rged with sO close: aim that five bullet holes were piefced im} the regimental standard carried in thes procession just above His Majesty's bead: “It is stated that the Czar had hetn” plored not to invite the danger ‘that was belleved to be threatening his visit’ to the city, but no one suspected the quarter from \which the danger actually came.” Nothing better illustrates the condition of Russian journalism than the appearance of the St. Petersburg newspapers with but the briefest references to the attempt on the Czar'’s life. The accounts of the cere- monial of the blessing of the waters of the Neva are long and rich in detail, but the comment upon the nearly successful effort to wipe out the Romanoff dynasty is made only in the most guarded terms. LONDON, Jan. 2.—The London papers CONTIN NUED ON PAGE Two. “PRICE are Too Conte, t Psa 8 How Porch Climber Entered West EF; End Homes While Families Were at Dinner inte : POLICE FIND. HER BOUND 10 FLODH While Son Ties E His Sistor writ Clothesline Father Calls ‘ for Policeman. After permitting his son to tie his daugh- ter to the floor with a rope while he called a policeman to arrest her, John B. Calvert of 8210 Minnesota avenue went be- fore Judge Kleiber of the Wyoming Street Police Court Friday ‘morning, refused to prosecute her and procufed a dismissal of the charge against her. The daughter je Mrs. Clara Sage, 37 years old. She was found on the floor of her father’s home Thursday afternoon by Pa- trolman Clisse, with 100 feet of clothes line wrapped many times around her body and then tied to a beam. He released her «nd took her to the Carondelet police station, where she was released on bond several hours later. + Bhe was in police court Friday morning, Tut was allowed to go. after her father had refused to prosecute the charge ageinst her. The policeman told how he had found her tied. with a rope. Mrs. Sage was married three months ago and six weeks ago her husband died. After his death, it is said, sne tock her furniture to her futher’s home and left it there, for- bidding the use of ahy of it. Thursday afternoon, it is said, she re- turned and thinking that some of the fur- niture had been used, became angry and broke several. pieces, also smashing a mir- ror. After her father had tried in vain to quiet her, according to the police, her brother,: Robert Calvert, 25 years old, se- cured ‘the clothes Hine and wrapped it around her, thus forcing her into submis- sion until the policeman arrived. TT _— —-— ~ meantime] _ a SS “Advertising that Pays Grows.” “Advertising that Grows Pays.” St. Louis Advertised in the St. Louis Newspapers, during the entire Year 1904, as follows: Post- Dispatch, WIFE STICKS 1 ‘MAN WHO STOL! DUAL LIFE Two Women for Whom Elnter Smith Robbed Government Not Present at His Preliminary Hearing Before Commissioner. MAN WHO HELPED HIM PLEADS HONEST INTENT. Saloon Keeper Says He Oashed Orders Fraudulently Made Qut Merely in Order to Help a Good Customer. / Elmer R. Smit#i charged with consp and Jacob Queller, cy to defraud the government by the vance and cashing of fraudulent pos money orders through the branch office in Joseph Mase- rang’s drug store at Leffingwell and Wash- ington avenues, had the!r preliminary hear- ings Friday before United States Com- missioner Gray. Each was bound over to the grandjury in $1500 bond. Smith. who issued the ecrdérs that hée might play the races and luda dual life, was bound over a few days ogof on the charge of defrauding the. g>ver.- ment. Mrs. Smith, accompanied by Mrs. Mase- rang, was in court. She talked with her husband before and after the proceedings. She looked sad and distressed, but did vot give way to her emotion. Rita and Paula Ogden, between whom Smith divided his gifts of money and dia- jnonds, were not in court. Quellier, who keeps a saloon at Channing avenue and Locust street, did not deny having been a party to the fraud Smith confésses, but Jeclared that he acted Inno- cently. He said he thought the orders which Smith-sent to him to be cashed were “ali right.” Smith was a good cus- tomer of his, and he cashed the orders or sent them to the bank he did business with, just to be accomodating. He said he had been cashing the orders for 30 months. Postoffice Inspector Sul- cashed before April, ibe @uoapt ome in casi ore ; Decomber, 1903 . = NEGRO MAKES THREE ASSAULTS} : Burglar Who Visited Wea ' Homes While ey Dinner May Have guised as a Negro. a BOLD ROBBER sEOURED BOTH JEWELS A —_—_—_——————— " et ee se 3- y 6g We & 4 2 Pa On Each Porch Column the ¢ er Left Great. Black F prints—Railroad_ Pee Furnish a Clew to His I cen a, climber who visited two houses 1 West End Thursday night and stole : and sida pir *to the value of about $2 no doubt in the minds, of the committed both r les, and that he was either a with face and hands blackened te There lice that one man ble u negro or a man The two paces visited ' Caroline Vlad of 442% We and Nicholas F. N sei } Washington bou These houses are Metwoier® Taylor avenues and two Westminster place and verd. The’ Flad home faces Niedlander home faces norte, Each house is built on order, and each has a long p front entrance on a ewe floor. The Flad house ; lvach porch is supported by oe The Flad home was 4 o'clock. The gor fo the first course had been went to the second | turned on the _ }ehadow— cia ! bedroom of a man room. She thought | it: was and called, ee ea ae There was no answer, 4 the back stairway to : search showed that the tienes up one of the perch columns, f a screen and a window n sitting room, and passed hand but was not molested, and ed he was frightened soon after he entered the ran downstairs. The Niederlander home half an hour later, also was at dinner. The was made by Mrs. interrupted the she was much in and hurried from the table to sorbing chapter. As she entered the room, ‘ont Of the house and facing on saw that a window was found that a cash box, . lady's gold watch with a’ worth $2, three ‘'forget-me-not” time to remove a handbag lying on in nickels and dimes, he came. On each porch great black finger and ret coal or other similer labor, * ing; the Niedlander va has east ‘we ¢ peng \ The police ate looking for a p ; rh " « e ‘ Olive street beihg the only street b wt Pa aw oe oe _m ihias 06 ie SE he “ eo ply # i a * 4 " ea ae Sante ay _ » on away by wns visited: anges negli es aes a vie" back and the BHN, front, a gold ‘ers oe "Kills Wena babe } 3 '. = “geen! i ounds Man, oaty. ’ nd Is. u : : Z bedroom where he got a pei Him, ! ee $3. anew A handsome pearl necklace was fnin ~0t mgs we > esas “, . - ok. ~ « “ } sik