St. Louis Post-Dispatch
July 29, 1905

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=. F avored Workhouse Sentence. week t Exceeding the NEARLY 1000 WOMEN And girls were placed in good Paying — last | Duss! Disdetch | Wants record of al! the other St. Louis newspapers combined. ~ VOL 57. WILKINSON 1S FINED $200 ON GUILTY PLEAS Young Clubman Admits Steal- ing Two Fishing Reels and ~ Judge Moore Quickly Imposes Sentence on Him. NOT ALLOWED TO HOLD LEVEE IN COURTROOM Prosecuting Attorney, Appeal- ed to by Wilkinson’s Friends, Said He Favored a Work- house Sentence. eee ane eee A rather dramatic scene was wit- nessed in the Court of Criminal Cor- rection Saturday, when Wiliam Tudor Wilkinson, society and club man, plead- ed guilty to a charge of petit larceny and was fined $100 and costs on each of two charges, alleging theft of fishing -reels from the Simmons Hardware Co. Wilkinson, in his ultra-fashionabie clothes and with his general appear- ance of a gentleman, offered sharp contrast to the whites and negroes ar- raigned at the same time on other and the same charges, He appeared In court accompanied by his faiher, John C. Wilkinson of Kirk- wood, Judge John Woods, his friend and attorney, and several other friends. He had been out on bond over nignt. With his friends he waited until those -who had been held in the holdover Were arraigned. The court heard the Stories of many human derelicts, white and black, and passed judgment before he took up the case of. the waiting clubman. ; Before Wilkinson was arraigned his friends gathered around Charles P. Williams, Prosecuting Attorney, who is acquainted with Wilkinson, and ap- peuled to him to recommend as light punishment as possible. They argued that the prisener's social connections and the humiliation that he had suf- fered should be considered in fixing the _ punisiiment. : : “The @avantages ne has nad, accord- ‘ing to your argument,’ Williams an- gswered them, “makes his conduct all the more reprehensible. I am in favor of a Workhouse. sentence for him.’ When his case was called the young athicte stepped up in front of the Judge's bench. Clerk Tom Stanton be- gan to read the warrant. Wilkinson cut him short. “IT plead guilty,” he said. Judge Moore looked over his spec tacles and asked if he had anything to gay for himself. “Only this, your honor,” Wilkinson began, talking with some agitation, “tnat in a day-—yesterday—my whole moral and physical being has received _@ thorough cleansing. In my arrogance 1 was blind and in my blindness I failed to see that the sorrow, humilia- tion and disgrace was a burden that my relatives, my parents and sisters must bear. I now clearly see my folly and I believe’ — The court interrupted, saying: “Most anyune who comes here with a Workhouse sentence staring him in the face sees that.” “Well, I piead guilty and. am ready to take my medicine,’ Wilkinson an- swered. “Mr. Clerk,’" said Judge Moore, “‘en- ter a fine of $100 and costs in each case. Call the next.” Judge Woods went into an adjoining room to write a check for the amount of fines and costa, $230. Wilkinson stepped to the lawyers’ table, where his friends were sitting, and started 1. NO. 34 Situ ous : -*) . ¥ . a & “ ; ti 2 = ore o .* Aa ae % wt ’ Be gE oT a ae a ‘ : oe ; ‘3 J f rt . NN : a | yey ‘ " ' “+ c ea 4 . . ¥ . 4 a R z . a? 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They. crowded about him, and the scene had the appearance of a smal! levee. “Mr. Bheriff.”’ Judge Moore called to Deputy Sheriff Weitz, standing across the room, “that man is im your cus- tory.” Weitz walked to Wilkinson, took him by the arm and led him to the prison- ere’ Th’s # an apartment abcut 6x10 feet a sige, and was occupied then by a men. As the door of the cage shooed: on Wilkinson, he, by reason of his size, seemed to almost fill it. ‘Through the bars he could be seen shaking hands with Constant Melancon, the younger brother of Millionaire Jules Melancon of New York, held here as a fugitive from justice, having admit- ted at he took jewelry from his sp org was in the cage about one- hal fhour, when the fine having been paid and all details settled, the door was unlocked and he was released. His friends waited for him and he ieft Four Courts In — company The fine imposed was the heaviest hat could — been given by the court r petit larceny, although a Work- house sentence as long as one year coud have been added. Wilkinson not pleaded lity, he would have been prosecuted, the man- agement uf the Simmons hardware store said. There were no witnesses for the company in court, for the reason that the trial would have en set for a later date had he pleaded not gullty. Two Sue for Divorce. Emily Peale Brockman filed suit Fri- day in Circuit Court for divorce from Arthur Benjamin Brockman. She asks for a restoration of her maiden name. Kodly P.ai . acd for allnony, alleging that her husband has property valued at #700 and that he earns a salary of a month, Lewis sued Lily F. Lewis A. ee _ charging desertion. rBISPATCH is the only with Asseciated SVU ANAT an. Mi, he, hn. dh —Photo by_ bt WOMAN ACCUSED F STEALING. RING Mrs. Letitia Huthsing, Who Followed Filipino Scouts to Kentucky, Arrested. VISITOR At. RACETRACK Man With Whom She Went to Delmar Says He Missed Jewel Worth $300. Mrs. Letitia Huthsing. 3864 Windsor place, who, with her daughter, gained considerable notoriety several months ago by following the camp of the Fuli- pino Scouts from the World's Fair to Fort Thomas, Ky., was arrested Satur- day on complaint of George Arnett, a racehorse owner, who charges her with stealing a diamond ring. Arnett alleges that she accompanied him to Delmar racetrack Friday after- noon to see the races and that when they found the track elosed they spent the grounds and together for dinner. he says, he missed he had had in came downtown After he left her, a diamond ring which his pocket. Mrs. Huthsing was arrested today and taken to Dayton Street Police Station. Arnett says the ring is worth $300. Mrs. Huthsing denies having taken the ring. She says that she met Arneit Friday because he asked her to see him and talk with him about her daughter, whom he wishes to marry. They dis- cussed his proposed marriage with the girl, she says, and then took dinner to- gether. Mrs. Huthsing left her husband when she and her daughter followed the Fili- pino Scouts to Cincinnati and Fort Thomas. When her husband brought suit for 4ivorce and made that part of his complaint she declared that she had merely gone with her daurhter, who was preparing to marry one of the scouts. Ice Cream Oo, in Bankruptcy. Officers of the Purity Ice Cream Co. filed a petition in the United States Dis- trict Court Friday asking that the con- cern be deciared bankrupt. An assign- ment was made Thursday for its credil- ors. Liabilities of William A. Zemblidze, who was a grocer ai 388 North Market street, are given as $933.23 in his vol- untary bankruptcy petition. No assets were stated eet gi Oe ee ee WILL GREET YOU Tomorrow Morning at the BREAKFAST TABLE The People's Popular Sunpay Post-DisPatcu Want DIRECTORY CONTENTS: Offers of Service Offers of Employment “To Lets” and any wrote . 00 Musical Mat - 100 Muracs, Toulasec. Automobiles. 250 Miscellaneous— For Sale—- The Rich Man's Directory, The Poor Man's Guide. I Can YOU Afford to MISS it? MOTHER TRIES 10 T JOCKEY-SOi She Contends He Is Unlawfully Restrained by Race Horse Owner by Indenture. ALLEGES ILL TREATMENT In Action in Court Seeks to Prevent Taking of Appren- tice to California. Reginia Betz of 110 South Sev- street, mother of Lawrence Capel, a jockey apprentice who has been riding at Delmar racetrack, insti- tuted habeas corpus proceedings in the St. Louis County Circuit Court at Clay- ton Saturday against Harry Mack, own- er of a string of hurses at Delmar, in an effort to secure her son's release from the terms of the indenture bind- ing him in apprenticeship to Mack. The papers were filed by Attorney S. Bur- nert Capel’'s mother alleges that he is 16 years old, apprenticed to Mack, and that he ts unlawfully restrained and de- prived of his liberty by his indenture, dated June 29, 1904, assuming to bind him as an apprentice as jockey for five years from that date. She asks that he be relieved of the contract on the alleged grounds that Mack has faljled to comply with the same, that he has not paid to her the money agreed upon for Capels services and of which she is in sore need, that he owes her over $190 and has failed properly ‘to teach her=son the business of a jockey. Recause of this lack of proper teach- ing, plaintiff alicges, the horses ridden by Capel have won no races. Defend- ant also failed, she states, provide Capel with a suitable “tack” or jockey's equipment. Her son is well adapted for the business of a jockey, she clai and wouid attain eminence in that ‘but. ness if properly trained. Defendant has aiso tried to teach him; he alleges, to be untruthful and disrespectful to her and now proposes to take him to Cali- fornia. Iiis wages during the term of his ap- prenticeship, plaintiff states, were to be $i per month for the first year, in- creasing $ monthly each year until the maximum of $20 per month is reached. The petition alleges that the mother is now in ignorance of her son's where- abouts. A writ was issued returnable in 24 hours The defendant Mack apvearrd n couri Saturday afternoon by Prosecuiing At- torney Johnston and made answer that he knew nothing of the present where. abouts of the boy. Mrs. enteenth is to WADE TO GRDER WEATHER} St. Louis to Continue to Be En- vied by All Other Big Cities. Cool and refreshing weather is evidently to continue in St. louis for some time, making this city the envy of all other large cities of the Union and the delight of all St. Louisans who have been wise enough to join the stay-at-home forces this summer. It is in order to look for a Sunday which, while having some rain, will yet be pleasant and bracing in its weather conditions. The official forecast: “Increasing cloudiness, with showers Sunday and possibly late tonight. Tit. tle change in temperature. Variabj> winds."’ From the West and Northwea: fair and cooler weather its revorted, but gst. Louisa is in the front rank of American cities for steadily maintained ple’sant weather. There is nothing yet tn sirht indicating a change of such conditions. The POST-DIBPAICH is the Summer-resort JAPS REPORTED BLOCKADING PORT OF VLADIVOSTOK ‘Tokio Hears That Fleets of To- go and Kamimura Have Closed Harbor of Russia's Far Eastern Capital. PLANNING A TRAP FOR GENERAL LINEVITCOH Gigantic Movement Expected to | Result in Hasty Retreat or Overwhelming Defeat of the Czar’s Manchurian Armies. Special Cable to the Post-Dispatch and New York World. 1905, by Press Publishing Co. (New York World.) LONDON, July 29.—A dispatch ceived here this morning from Tokio states that Tokio has information that the recent naval maneuvers of Admiral Copyright, re- Togo’s and Kamimura’s fleets have re- sulted in the sweeping of the Far Wast- ern Russian coast line from the north- ernmost point of Sakhalin Island of all Russian craft and wound up in the com- plete blockade of the port of Vliadivos- tok. For ten days Seguneen warships have been clearing the eoast, says the dis- patch, preparatory to investment of the capital from the sea, At the same time, the report adds, that the attack is made on Viadivostok by sea a concerted movement of all the land forces is reported as beginning in Manchuria and Northern Kofea. For a long time the Japanese have been preparing for this movement and they believe it will result in either the erushing of the army of Gen. Linevitch or its hasty retreat and the fall of Viadivostok. It will take several days for the move- ment to develop and when it is in full swing, the belief here is that it will re- sult In a complete. coup Whitn #17 leave the Japanese in undisputed con- trol of Manchuria and in possession of Russia's only seaport of consequence. DEPUTIES BEST MAi.KSMEN County Peace Officers Defeated Detectives in Shooting Contest. St. Louis County is boasting Over the victory of two county deputy sheriffs in a plstol-shooting competition with De- tectives Gratiot Cabanne and Lee Kil- liun of the St. Louls force. While the two St. Louls detectives and Deputy Sheriffs Campbell and Older- worth of the county were walting at Delmar ractrac# Friday to see if the gates would be opened they began ban- tering one another as to their respective | they Del- skill as pistol marksmen. Finally reprvired to a shooting gallery at mar Garden to settle the question. They shot at the figures of the ¢mita tion ducks In the gallery. WVeputy Sher- iff Campbell made a score of eight ducks straight. Cabanne hit four out of five. Olderworth scored with three out of five, and Killlan came in last with one hit to four misses. Then Cabanne tried his own revolver, but found that it fired with too great force to be used in gallery practice. This left St. Louls County winner over St. Louls city. _—_ —— ~---- PUST-DISPATGH SUNDAY MAGAZINE JULY 30, 1905 CONTENTS: — Page. Boat (in Revival of Old-Fashioned Race on the Mississippi colors) Raffles, the Amateur Cracksman, “An Old Flame” A St. Louis Boy in Chains True Story of a Kiss “Missing in St. Louis” Grace Van Studdiford as Farmer Impositions St. Louis Citizens Patiently Endure.............. Things of Interest for Women... . New and Strange Things In and About St. Louis Entertainers at St. Louis Summer Gardens THE FUNNY SIDE. The Terrible Twins and the Bust- Romeo Back From House Mr. Buttin Loses His Long-Lost Brother The Newly-Weds Fish.. The Kid Saves the Life ot U iti Dudley Panhandle Pete Mars the North Pole Foxy and Funny Comie Story Out ‘ie White 2 2 e _ =~ - + ' ' ! i | ers-in-law, | ously, do not have the evil them that comes from ; whose , comic | that believes ail young husbends to be ‘heap coals of fire on the ‘bachelor Judge I'll only /mMay some time come to know the worth him and his wife through their earlier | , less and save'it from the thousand and 'one dangers : , too much mother-in-law: , interfering with their affairs. , court, ' matrimonial difficulties, to take care of 8 —_— ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY E EVENING. G, JULY 29. _29, 1905. PRICE ( Outside &t. nm St. Loule, One ae One Cont. Louls, Two Cents eee ee ee ee. — SN neta neste Mother-in-Law De Y oungh Declares Judge Bishop, Bachelor, Was Wrong in Blaming “Too Much Mother-in-Law” IX eS ee AO - } WHAT THE LTT f ONES THINK OF HER. ele» To wiF's ), MRS. DE YOUNGH AND SOME OF HER IDEAS OF MOTHERS-IN-LAW. - She Says That Young Hus- bands Owe Much to Their Wives’ Maternal Parents, Who Are Welcomed as Long as They Give Financial As- sistance. Trusting that he may not be in con- tempt of court, the writer would se: forth the interesting views of a moth- er-in-law upon an opinion rendered by Judge Bishop. It is, in a way, an answer to a re- mark made by the Judge from the bench, but it is, primarily, a defense of the much-slandered, constantly laughed at, institution of motherhood-in-law. The remark was Judge Bishop's final word in refusing to grant a decree of divorce, eiither to the wife or the hus- band. He said: “It seems to me that this is a case ef too much mother-in-law.” . ‘ The case Was cilds Of pousle Theresa Broderick against Daniel J. Broderick. The mother-in-law is Mrs. Rene De Youngh, 2625 North Sarah street. Mra. De Youngh not only answers the but speaks for mothers-in-law in all parts of the land, or, indeed, the world over. “Is Judge Bishop married?’”’ Youngh asked the porter. “No? I thought as much. Mark this, young man, men who really have moth- when they are taiking seri- to say of the mouths of those who have no reason to know of what they speak. Good Wishes for Judge. “So he i8 not married. Wes, I can only wish that he may obtain a wife mother is of the sort that the Supplements picture; the kind Mrs, Post-Dispatch De re- unfeeling brutes and acts accordingly. “That's mean now, isn't it? Well, to head of that hope that he of a real sweet little woman to help the baby when he and his wife are help- that they will subject it “Do you know what I think? My | daughter's case has not been that of its been teo Her husband charged me with That was There was almost a year when see her, because he did not “There are times when the most un- grateful of husbands will not speak of ‘too- much mother-in-law.’ As long as she pays the rent for him and renders him financial ald in other ways; as long buys the baby clothes just to be; | giving the baby to object. “When ‘presents,’ he is not apt her resources are exhausted he may begin to talk of ‘too much mother-in-law,’ though what he means is just the opposite. bé "9 Ill Go Home to Mamma. “The comic writers delight in having Wives say ‘I'll go hame to mamma!’ It’s one of the blessings of life that they can go home to mamma. Man once looked on his wife as his s ave, they say, and even now some of them fall into that very wrong belief, or, at least, act as though they had. How much of an advance toward independence and equal- iiy would women ever make if they were bound forever to their husbands; if they could never assert their liberty; if they could never ‘go home to mamma?’ “Young man, you have or have had a mother-in-law and you loved her didn't you? Never married? No, of course not. ' But listen, that dear old gray- haired grandmother of yours, who lets you do just as you please when you go to see her, who thinks more of you than ariyvbody except your mother herself, .is a mother-in-law! She's your father’s mother-in-‘aw. “Next time you laugh at a mother-in- law joke—not that we mind those jokes, for we never iake them to ourselves— but next time. vou hear some awfully funny store about a man’ s wife's moth- be and I er, remember that ‘gran’ma’ is a mother- in-law. If you'll do that, I'm sure some of those stale funnyisms will lose their flavor. “Let me tell you that in most cases where the young man has been for- tunate enough to get a wife, he can thank her mother for it. Saved From Indigestion. “Men who consider their stomachs so much should think of the countless di- ~estions that have been saved by the intervention of a mother-in-law. How many young husbands have to be thank- ful that their wives’ mammas ‘inter- fered’ in time to save them [from hope- less indigestion! “It sounds funny to me to hear my- self defending mothers-in-law this way. Until this happened, until the Judge made that remark, I had forgotten, al- most, that I was one of that awful, un- desirabie class. And I did not expect the Judge to make his decision and ren- der an opinion on the colored comic supplement definition of a mother-in- law. That's all I've got to say. “No, wait a minute. I want to tell you that I'm only a stepmother-in-law! some is not my own child, but I've —s for her since she was 3 years old. love her just as much as my own ‘I love her too much to see her live with a man that's unkind to her, no matter what any bachelor Judge may think of mothers-in-law.”’ ee a ee — ------ BURGLAR OBSERVED DVINES’ PRIVILEGE Gave Alton , Preacher. “Half Rate,” So to Speak, Escaped With Stolen Half. The Alton police are looking for a burglar who, in robbing the Rev. M. W. Iiwers of the Firet Methodist Church, of his clothing, linen and money, to have observed the time-honored’ custoni of exacting only haif rates from | a minister in the matter of the money taken from him. The circumstances of the case tindi- cate> however, that this was unwitting- ly done by the burglar. The Rev. Mc- Ewen's trousers contained a total sum or $10 In one of the pockets. & being in silver and $5 in the shape of a bank bill. The latter was found on the floor of the minister's room the next m> n- ing and Dr. McEwen is still wondering if the burglar intentionally left this even division of the money behind or if it was an oversight. The police hoid tu the latter theory. The robbery took place ‘i aurseday night, but its victim was late in re porting it to the police for the good and sufficient reaso.. that he had nothing to wear immediately after his disc. very that he had been robbed. His stock of clothing was so thoroughly looted that he had to negotiate for a new supply before repairing to the police station with his story. There is no clew to the identity of the robber, as no one Was awakened “by his midnight visit. Noth- ing besides the Rev. McEwen's clothing and hie % in silver was taken from the HEIY HURT IN ULARK WRECK St Louis and Kansas City Pas- sengers Shaken Up by Smashed Car. Special to the Poat- , Ark., Dispated FORT SMITH, Ark., July 2.—A wreck on the Little Rock & Fort Smith at seems | vats injured 5. F. Gant, a Memphis traveling man, is RAR hurt. 6. Louis and Kansas City people aus- tained injuries. 2 KILLED, 7 INJURED IN DIAZ, ARK., WRECK. Two persons were killed and seven in- jured Saturday morning near Dias. in the wreck of the Iron Moun- tain passenger train which left 8t. Louls at 8:2 Friday night. Details of the cause and manner of the wreck have not reachéd the general Offices of the road in St. Louis; it was stated there. | William Horton, , and A. Doolin, fireman, were the two men killed. Of the injured, one is serious- ly, and perhaps fatally, hurt, while ¢ extent of the injuries of the others not definitely The other injured are two mail clerks and five passengers. A rellef train has been sent from Little Rock. ALMOST STARVED, TWICE STARTS TO TAKE LIFE Says He Took First M Result of Robbery and 1 He Gradually Fell H Behind in Accounts. Fred Angelbeck, the tailor, in charge — of the Wabash postoffice station at 38 Laclede avenue, who disappeared last Tuesday, surrrndered himself to Post- office Inspectors Reid and Stice at pe Federal Building Saturday. He is sald to have confessed to a shortage ip Kis accounts of $411.93 and he js now under $1000 bond, admitted by United Commissioner Gray. Angelbeck tells a graphic story of almi- less wandering since Tuesday, of com templated suicide, the dangers of star vation and, finally, a determination to 4 return and pay thé penalty of his ee leged misdeed. : When the Poétoffice Inspectors an i . covered last Monday that he was short tn, hie aoneuaie tae haneaiaas ae mt them at noon Tuesday at his place of ~ business and make the shortage red = He failed to do so, and now at his failure was due to his ee & borrow the money from his povert Determined to Take Life. — He feared to meet the Inspec , ty says, ang left about 1§ minutes” a noon Tus@Jay. He had but 16 ¢ determined to take his life. . He ‘ca downtown and spent 5 cents for at t On the bank he whom he talked for a while and realizing that the fisherman would p cue him ff he attempted suicide in & vicinity, he wandered farther . He reached what he considered a venient spot for self-destruction began to walk out into the river. the mud was so deep that progress difficult and he abandoned the a After that he walked west and roamed — about until nightfall. He slept in «@ haystack that night. Sunday ing. hungry and despairing, he again to the river, intending to suicide, but again changed his Wednesday night he slept tn the a Thursday. with nothing to eat, he dered about the country west of city. Once or twice he tried to beg but was repulsed. Then he made | ¥ his mind to die of starvation. | day night he slept in a barn, and | day afternoon he was so hungry he was compelled to ask for ioe woman in a house about seveg westward from the river and blocks distant from the E car line gave him coffee and 7 . to eat. Her kindness and the feed] and drink, he bays, made him resolve te come back to St. Louls and give Ah self up. =| Robbery Caused First He walked to the city and night at the home of a friend, Steipel of 2210 Cherokee street, vised him to surrender to the Fr authorities, and gave him | reach the Postoffice. He surrendered himself Saturday Angelbeck says that gh : of d was ness cringe. taking, sone} account with the Redetliet w ing the shortage $% ily or near relatives, he Pes t @ years old. — 4 é aod worn and telis his story in & ¢ome = vincing manner. af? 2, . 7 ASSESSOR’S CLERKS FIGHT.