St. Louis Post-Dispatch
October 6, 1905

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Ps : > ~ 9 7 S a > : > ‘ >. ” - ~ . “9 ' : . 4 - [- | - ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING NEWSPAPER WITH ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCHES. “FIRST IN EVERYTHING” ACCUSE ST. LOUIS DOCTOR OF KILLING GIRL I HIS HOME Dr. O. B. Hart, Son of A. B. Hart of Portland Place, Under leged Attack on Arrest in Chicago for Al- 10-Yéar-Old Adopted Daughter, Whom He Gave Morphine. WIFE LADY BOUNTIFUL TO VICTIM’S SISTERS Mrs. Hart, 15-Year-Old St. Louis Girl, turning From Pleasure Visit With Them, Found Doctor and Police Working Over Husband Who Took Poison. Dr. Oliver B. Hart. 26-year-old son of A. B. Hart of 19 Port- land place, and until a year ago a practicing physician here, is un- der arrest at his handsome home in Rogers Park, a Chicago suburb, accused of causing the death of adopted daughter, with morphine. which he had loeked himself and taken a quantity of morphine. Irene Kldkow, his 10-year-old ' He was/arrested in a closet, in He was unconscious and his condition was so precarious that he was not removed to a cell or a hospital, but is kept under guard by two policemen in his home. Physicians say he may die before night. It is alleged that he gave the child morphine, not with murder- ous intent, but to make her submissive, while his wife, a 15-year-old St. Louis girl, home acting as ‘‘ Lady Bountiful Whom he married 13 mopths ’* to two little sisters of Irene. ago. was from | | away 1 CHILD WIFE PROSTRATED. Dr. Hart’s wife, who was Vera Kriegesman, a pupil in Marshall School, St. Louis, when he married her in St. end of a river excursion Aug. 28, 1904, with grief at the Rogers Park home. John Paul at the is completely prostrated She has beenehysterical since she returned to find her little adopted daughter dead and her hus- band in the hands of police and physicians. and Mrs. George Kriegesman of 4719 McMillan avenue. pect to leave at once for Chicago. istry division of the Postoffice. Dr. Hart’s father, a wealthy the son is a morphine victim and that no member Her parents are Mr. They ex- Her father is a clerk in the reg- said today that his family real estate man, of would go to his assistance, but that he would be provided with am- ple funds for his defense. Murder, Probable Charge. Dr. Hart regained consciousness for a short time today, and after asking where he was, remarked he was g0- ing fishing, then lapsed into insensi- bility. An examination of the body of the child shows, say the doctors, that she died of morphine polsoning and choking. Dr. Lewke, Coroner's physician, con- ducting a post-mortem examination on the body of the murdered and meanwhile Assistant State's Attor- ney Barber remains in the house await- ing a chance to get a confession from Hart if he should revive sufficiently to talk. As yet there @gainet Dr. Hart, but as soon coroner's jury reports it is likely will be charged with murder. Attack in Dining Room. News telegrams to the Post-Dispatch gay the attack with which Dr. Hart is accused was committed in the dining charge as the he ie no formal foom of the Hart home between 2 and The furniture evidence of a ter- which must have lasted for several minutes. Chairs are over- turned, rugs are thrown about, curtains are torn and the heavy dining table Is pushed to one side. When Mre. Hart lefi the house p. wm. she had with her Edith, 13, and Hagel, 6, sisters of Irene, who had fome from the Llinols Industrial School, from which Irene had been adopted a few months before, to visit her. Mrs. Hart had entertained the chil- dren. the eldest of whom was so nearly her own age, for two hours, and then @ecided to take them into the city for an outing. But Irene became ill after luncheon, and it was decided she should remain at home with her foster-father. When the party left, she was asleep on a couch in the dining room. The pohce say Dr. Hart, soon after awoke Irene and induced tell- m. Thursday, rvom gives > ®. of the rible struggle, ” at. her to take a dose of morphine, ing her it would ease her pain. Then, they charge, he attacked her. She wtruggied violently, and her clothing A torn from her. To compel her sub- it is charged, he forced more - morphine down her throat. Phoned for Ald. The drug, the fight and the of the struggle caused the child to be- come unconscious, it is said, and Dr. Mart saw she was dying. He rushed to the telephone in an adjoining room, and galled his friend, Dr. Paul Mullhors of North Ashland avenue, telling him ebiid had swallowed two sugar: angel a pills, thinking they 7. se iborat promised to come imi- ately and Dr. Hart rushed back to dining room, But when he left t 40 fix the spring lock to the watch | he had previously released Blocking & meelf in the room with the he door ae balk closed and locked, exertion es land pr. Maart began desperately to try ' Dr. Huilhorst strived. & Dr, Mart weoutipe insanely e bea L the door, gy Ag ts Koon child, | it, of Dr. Hart and the door was forced. As he saw the child's con- dition Dr. Hart ran from the room, up the stairs and into a elothes closet his bedroom. Dr. Hull- horat, working with Irene, heard him close and lock the door. Dr. Hullhorst cathe “id the police. They forced open the closet door and found br. Hart, unconscious, huddled in a corner. He had tried to kill himself with morphine Irene died soon after Dr. reached her, and he turned his to Dr. Hart. In the midst of his efforts to revive him, Mrs. Hart and Irene’s sisters returned from their visit to Chi- cago. Az the truth dawned upon the child-wife; she became violently hvyas- terical, and all night long she screamed and moaned in uncontrollable anguish. Dr. Hart remained unconscious until this morning. Then he partially revived. Assistant State's Attorney James Barber had joined the policemen guard- ing his room, and immediately sought a Statement from him. He denied that he had been guilty of any offenge against the child, but was unable to make a lucid statement. Fears for the life of his child-wife are entertained. She {fs a frail girl, but a few months past 15. Ider long hair is of the lightesi gold her eyes, eacept now when they are swollen with much weeping, are big and blue and innocent; her cheeks are of velvety softness, and have the eolor of rose leaves She is siender, and but little above the height of the average 15-year-old girl, and the long dresses she has worn since her marriage seem out of place upon her child'sh form Weooed Girl Aged ". marriage to Dr. Hart was His courtship of her’ be- afternoon when she was 9 years old. With her schoolmates. she was returning from school, and passed his office, which was then at 1923 North Taylor avenue. “She was a child tention of all who dren,”’ said her aunt, Mrs. A. §. iams of 178A North Taylor avenue, to a Post-Dispatch reporter this morning. “She was merry and with all the vi- vacity of childhood, “Dr. Hart was attracted and found where she lived. He became a frequent caller at the Kriegesman home at 1A North ‘Taylor avenue. and showed Vera all the attentions that a child could be shown. He gave her many beautifal and costly presents in the course of the next five years. among them a watch, a set of furs, sey- eral rings and various other things. “In the summer of 196% she was l4 years old, and loved her grown-up suit- or with all the affection’ that a child could give to a father or a big brother. Dr. Hart urged her parents to let him marry her. “They protested for awhile, but in August they consented. It was deemed best not to have the marriage in 8St. Louts, and in Auguet Dr. Hart and Vera and Mre. Kriegeaman went on a steam- boat excursion up the Mississippi to St. Paul. There Dr. Hart and Vera were married, with that opening from Hullhorst attention beautiful lier strange gan one a one. to attract the love beautiful at- chil- Wil- to her Married Life Happy. They did not return to St. Louis; they went from 8t. Paul direct to Rogers Park. Vera seemed very happy in her married tife: it went’up there a few months ago and she told me she had everything a wife could desire. Her parents did not return, after the ~ VOL, O85. NO. 46. ROOSEVELT ATTACKS BRIDGE MONOPOL| Re- a > ST. LOUIS, FRIDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 5, 1905 PRICE (outsids Pn “FIRST IN evEnyTHING” _—_ oe ' — = * PY: " bal i a? 7 Attorney Lehmann Urging Claims of Deposed President. Ramsey in Suit to Retain Control of the Wabash P-W.DEHIMIANN. oa = President Directs Attorney-General Moody ote to Begin ‘‘Appropriate Action” Againak St. Louis Terminal Monopoly on Com- ~ “* “ne a a : : 1 4 rine oF ay ®. 2 TTY For BY: WELLS veg Brovetrr ITTY FOL WABAIUZ, Letters of Business plained Need of COCHRAN TY FOR TESS OURT PACIIC TPP President Roosevelt today monopoly at St. Louis, enjoyed tion, which enforces the bridge June, 1905, at the instance of th of St. Louis, at the suggestion (‘abinet, ment: pending in the Department of tifies Government action. en ee a ee MORE OF SAME WEATHER DUE PACHAC an --— - - a ee ee ee — ae ee eee eee WOMEN WANT FOLK COLISEUM | TO SHOW tAAMPLE, 79) BE MOV Attorney-General Crowe last June at Manufacturers’ Association and the minalis Association. the combination of the Fair and Warm Is Forecaster’s Pro | gram for Saturday. And there St. still more of the same kind of weather in. store Taft to have the violation of its Federal War confiseated for ran | Temperance Union Member DREAMED 1 the ease at today’s Cabinet meeting. ~ familiar with many details of the case and the report of District A Be: torney Dyer was the only phase of the case diseussed. | ; Efforts which have been made in the arbitrary abolished and Men to Roosevelt E : ‘ a Action, Making Him ~ Familiar With Facts of Case— Form: of Proceeding Not Decided on. hs attacked the bridge and by the St. Louis Terminal arbitrary, in an order to Attorn General Moody to begin appropriate action at once upon thé ae Yr} ete constitution that prohibit a competing and 1 proceeded Rallroad Association Court of the State by nature of the Supreme he was called on to just before forces tion of we are ‘for which Emmett New- | “ Springtield has reached of the State the ry. | railway, against re in ton, | tana. over the on the Coast. There is unseasonably high tempera- ture in nearly all sections of the West- ern Mississippi Valley, the rise in the past 24 hours being pronounced in the Missouri Valley and the Rocky Moun-. tain region. There is cooler weather on the the Northeastern § states, Michigan. news of that that work has misht Say, hewever, been quietly progressing for the remov- al and reconstruction of the Coliseum, but to aunounce its present location at this time would defeat the object of our plars, the location of the building and its re-crection at the least possible cost and at the greatest corivenience to all | =e au isans. apleigh's remarks we Cochran Temperance resolutions in- were introduced the city. declared not in They ask him wished to | rante, July last, that how sé cured, 100 shares of Wabash They de- clared that he held no stock at the time of his election to presidency or for some they in stock he alleged violation of the provisions the State constitution. “The consolidation lines was not denied i admitted, but the Supreme ' opinion said that although Railroad Association 10 ~=miles railroad, of the and the (*ourt the followed a time thereafter. Im the Missouri the Wabash, lron Mountain tw the Ramsey petition, it is stated that George Gould owns 19,80 shares of Wabash preferred stock and 100 shares cf common stock, and that does not Missouri Pacifie control its jt ts also déclared that the not control the who expr is answers filed by lakes Pacilic and with nal in in and frost TRUST CO. ON LEWIS. Thomas H. Wagner, vice-president of the Missouri-Lincoln Trust Co., says that the injunction suit brought against that institution by E. G. Lewis, founder of the People’s United States Bank, has not been discussed at a meeting of the trust company's officers. The directors of the afissouri-Lincoln Trust Co. are to meet next Tuesday, but Mr. Wagner says that he sees no reason why the Lewis matter should be dis- cussed. “Our trust department,” said Mr. Wagner, “acted as a medium for the transfer of publishing company stock for bank stock. After the Federal in- terference the Government sought the paper that we had and Lewis brought an injunction preventing our giving it to them. And we are still enjoined. It is not our affair.” CRY Ma po AT FIGHT. Mas*., Oct. 6.—Jimmy of ove COMBINE EXPOSED is he in own the or movements. Missouri Pacific does lron Mountain, It was admitted souri Pacific and the Irén Mountain own Wabash bonds and stock, and that several of the directors of all the lines her amendm Post-Dispatch of State icarly im 1908 the rected the attention tional authorities to the St. minal combine, the conditions which it was fostering a monopoly violation of the Missouri statutes, tled the | Mississippi Valley | barge on every pound of freight tined to and from 8. Louis. hy that both the Mis- are identical. The statement that A. Bird, traffic anager of the Missouri Pacific is also Wabash official, was brought out after a controversy in which the attor- neys for the defense declared that the | plaintiff was trying to show yiolation by the Wabash and the Missouri Pacific © of criminal statutes relating to the con- aolidation of competing railgoada. “We are only trying to show their identity of interest,” paid Attorney Fred W. Lehmann. “if ewidence of a crim- inal nature ie brought out, we cannot help it.” ™ The injunction application is one of the two legal efforts made by Mr. Ram. sey to regain control of the Wabash, nila cotter te founds’ ot a majority of whose directors. Thursday pee. of quaditions by ti A tual pe ‘he bes tamed Saha: t crow con’ . ; bh yes Peei.. 9 be ae ee A a FR Bey e euo wa o _* ¥ ; we aie: sabes Ata! f ee "9 vues *y ve as Ps ; ? a es : oe > é Pa 3 ee ge Pig a. ata “ * bt * Z Pa ee 3 ce -. Ea Sk eee ae Vy - -*.. : yee ria — st ey . ae ees pe . io ©. sod Ap. i FS Wade 4 . aor Pee _ , . tig > ee = ; < ny evi- George Mathis, eX. by trade and commerce of were presented the showing Facts boca h th onan were the same, that tion. In Hoffman, the president, says the reso- | a possible c mtender for the honor. Grand ave acgetepeinte tan sie snadtind the present Battery A ar- VERDICT IS SUICIDE. | | during the it adaptable for use as a rooms s ; : dence in th ©case of date ror the beginning of that she had come to St. Louis with her “He jeft the house last Monday and we| ping until Thursday night at the lodg- motive for suicide tis lacking. I be-| ter came to the door. She agreed to go . Mrs. Mathis says that her Waltens kept Eye & udmittance Crow, taking ¢ vention this evening and Mrs. Clara C./{ and adding that the new Colis¢um was € by : ut, said Mrs. Hoffman. nue, near Hickory street and visable and 1 course of its reconstruction ’ sufficient the coroners jury which heard the or early in Peon his wife, Minnie Mathis, who stated committed suicide,”’ said Mrs. Mathis. | who left home & wee ek ago and was s ‘Op- pect that my husband was dead. The | address T hursday night and his daugh- clothes.” ran out the rear Way. husband a 4 phe apt oF Fi at me push? % of presenta- monop- former Attorney-General of the State to the fact Termin: violation of the provisions of the State consolida- and parallel lines of the the filing an 1 Quo war- (court ! dissolve the consolidation because of the of competing facts were in its Termi- controlled yet it Was BY POST-DISPATCH. di- umd Na- Louis Ter under in and Federal! and showed how it had throt- the and placed an ©m- des- Post- that the officers of Merchants’ bridge and Eads bridge the stock of the two companies was pooled, and the profits dimected to the improve: | ment of the terminals of the 14 raliroad lines embracing the Terminal Assocte- Ocieber, 1903, Attorney-General cognizance of ane ae CROW TELLS STORY OF. FIGHT ON ARBITRARY t- not a railway such as was contem ed by. the Constitution of the State, @ therefore refused to oust the Te company from its control of the ldated railway lines. Kad, Bridge History. ‘For several years prior to 1888, was but one bridge spanning thé at St. Loule, which was then and is Known as the Kads Bridge. It» built and leared to the Wabash 4 Missourl Pacifie railroads. This lease ft perpetuity was esesigned to the Ter nal Ratlroa@ Association, which since its organization operated this perpetual lease this bridge. “In 1889, and prior thereto, | terminal factitttes provided for people and manufacturing Int Loulsa and Bast Sf. Las il a of St, under the ecomplete contre! of Terminal Railroad Association cept the business that was nducted — by boat by the Wiggins Ferry Co. 36) is stated now that within the last Game h¥( are the Terminal Railr tion and those who control come inte possession . also of . etock of the Wiggins Ferry Co. - ings to annul the charters of the FT minal Railroad Co. St. Louis, St. Louls Merehants’ Bridge a Railway Co., and the WI Co,, the three conoerns Terminal éombine. Working on information by the Post-Dispatch, t General alleged that the of St. Louts terminal railir contrary to the constitution utes of Misseurl, which solidation of-competing line | Monopely Asked Me fur At tdosin the city, on the Fair needs without paylny he franchises were ¥ Three ordinances known Te ie | arestat