St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 7, 1910

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MILLIONAIRE Wid AVE AWAY $7000 IN BEER [5 HURT J. Morrison Fuller, Eccentric Philanthropist,- Suffers Fractured Skull in Fall. J. Morrison Fuller, a millionaire of Glasgow, Mo., who achieved fame by giving away $7000 worth of beer in a year as a protest against local option, is at the city hospital with a fractured skull He fell on the icy sidewalk in front of 18 North Sixth street Tuesday evening and was taken to the hospital unconscious. It Was not untif Wednes- day morning that he was able to make his identity known. Fuller’s wife and daughter are stay- ing at the Washington Hotel. For the last two months Fuller has been living most of the time at the Southern Hotel, preferring to be downtown. When, Glasgow voted out saloons Ful- ler maintained that local option could not be enforced. By way of enabling visitors as well as residents to get a drink whenever they wanted it, he hired a storeroom, stocked it with beer and invited everybody to come and drimk as much as they wanted without price. , Starts Bank and Newspaper. His free saloon enjoyed such a heavy run of patronage that at the end of a vear, after having bought $7000 worth of beer, he closed it. He established a bank, in opposition to one that had been in existence many years, because he felt he was not wel- come to lounge around the other bank as he liked. He called it the Morrison Fuller Bank and conducted it three or four. years, and it afforded him a-place where he could loaf to his heart’s con- tent, When the editor of the local paper in- curred his displeasure, he started a rival! newspaper and conducted that for sev- eral years, but finally suspended publi- cation.

Verdict No. The big jury of St. Louis advertisers who have been trying the case of the advertising merits of the POST-DISPATCH vs. All Other St. Louis Newspapers have rendered their verdicts each week for several years past, unanimously indorsing the POST-DISPATCH as a greater result producer than its three next best competi- tors combined. The advertising of this big jury shows that the POST-DISPATCH completely outclassed all competition for eleven months of this year, and the records thus far in the month of December indicate a bigger victory than any other December for 32 years. Yesterday, Tuesday, the showing of St. Louis mer- chants’ display advertising only was Post-Dispatch, 85 iskeuias Globe-Democrat, Republic and Times, the next three best ait adda tenetee_ 79 Columns ‘s Advertisements placed in mediums of unknown actual : ev > oliapenoy oem egepaeteneekaness ST. LOUIS,’ WEDNESDA ¥ | EVENING, DECEMBER 7, 19410.

(CARPENTER ACTS AS OWN LAWYER AT MURDER TRIAL Accused of Killing Neighbor, He Ignores the Attorney Chosen by Court.

QUESTIONS WITNESSES

Shooting of Alfred H. Hunt2r . by Austin Greaves Result of Feud.

Rejecting the aid of the lawyer -p- pointed to defend him, Austin Grea es, nd made motions and objections Wed :es- day in his trial for the killing of his a carpenter, questioned witnesses

neighbor, Alfred H. Hunter. The charge s murder in the first degree. Greaves, it is charged, shot Hunter in the back as Hunter was walking near his home at Macklind and Northrup avenues on the evening of Sept. 2 last. The men had been friends when both lived Cuba, Ma, but had become enemies through fam- ily disagreements. Hunter had ac- near house. Judge McQuillin named August Walz as Greaves’ counsel, refused to allow Walz to act for him. By the Court’s instruction, the lawyer | motions and ask any questions he might think advisable. Greaves heaped the table: with notes, taking down every question and-answer in Assistant Circuit Attorney Farrar’s examination of witnesses. Frequently he’ peered over his spectacles at the jury. , Questions the Witnesses. When it came his time to question the first witness, Henry A. Bickel, Greaves spoke of himself in the third person. “You either know or do not know,” he said, “that Austin Greaves murdered Alfred H. Hunter. Will you say to this jury that he did 807’’ “TI dia@n’t see you fire,’’ replied Bickel. “T heard the two shots, and saw: Hunter carried away, and saw you’ go irto the house with your revolver.” “Did you see the mob pursuing Aus- tin Greaves?’’ “You couldn't call George Pittmah and me a mob,”’ rejoined the witness. Didn’t you see Pittman draw a’ bead on Austin Greaves with his shotgun?’ “Yes, he had it pointed at you.” “And you saw Austin Greaves make him put that shetgun down, did you not?” ‘‘Well, you ordered us to stay back, and we didn’t know what you might do.”’ “Do you know of any motive for this murder—any trouble between Alfred H. Hunter and Austin Greaves?’’ “Only what I heard from the neigh- bors.”’ “We don’t wish to have you relate hearsay. Do you know of your own knowledge that there was any trouble?” **No.” Photograph of Scene Shown. A photograph of Greaves’ house and the adjoining premises was introduced in evidence, and the prisoner admitted its correctness, but only after he had asked of George Baker, the photogra- pher, the question: “What did you photograph? A house, or the scene of a murder?’ “I photographed the house, as I was told to do,” said Baker. ‘“‘I don’t know anything about the murder.”

Bickel started to point out to the jury, from the photograph, the scene of the shooting, but Greaves objected to his leaving his seat. The prosecutor then showed the jury what Bickel had indi- cated. George Pittman testified to having heard the shots, and said that Greaves threatened him with “If you don’t get back I'll do you the way I did Hunter.” “You have stated several inaccura- cies,"’ said Greaves to Pittman. “You know you are on your oath in a murder trial, and you ought to realize the aw- ful consequences if you lie.” ‘I haven’t lied,”’ said the witness, an- grily. “Didn't you call Austin Greaves & cur?” oy phe Witness Denies Running Away. “Well, Austin Greaves chased you back into your house, didn’t he? And when you got inside you gave your wife your shotgun, didn't you?’ i | walked home and gave my wife the gun.”’ “Will you be responsible under oath for the statement that you did not run, but walked?” Pittman said he would be. “Don’t you know that my witnesses saw all you did?” said Greaves, for- getting for the first time to call- him- self by his full name. “T don’t know anything about your witnesses.” “What do you know of the motive for this murder?’ Pittman replied that he did not understand the question. ‘Don't you know what motive means?” Greaves “] suppose it means that when a man is charged with murder, he wants to come clear,” sald the witness. . “No, no,” expostulated Greaves, “it means a man’s reason for comfnitting a murder.”’ Pittman said he knew noth- ing of the motive. “You don’t know that Austia Greaves killed Alfred Hunter, either. do you’

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INU MANIA CHARGED IN SUll TO BREAK A WILL Relatives Object to Bequest to’ One Who Could Prove to Have Been Kindest. Mrs. Sophia Striewe’s desire to get married is assigned by some of her lega- tees as an indication of unsound mind in a suit they have brought to break her will. The case is on trial before a jury in Circuit Judge Fisher’s court. According to the plaintiffs, Mrs. Striewe, two weeks after the death ot her husband, Bernard Striewe, began talking of matrimony. She induced a man to come from Santa Fe, N. M., to marry her, it was testified, but he re- turned without doing so. Miss Celeste Bour, a niece of Mrs. Striewe, testi- fied that her aunt constantly thought of marriage. ‘‘I heard her say that un- less she married the man from New Mexico he would kill her,” the witness said. “At the same time she discussed marrying. other men.” says She Drank to Excess. In his opening address to the jury, At- torney Dwight D. Currie, attorney for the plaintiffs, said he expected to prove that Mrs. Striewe consumed from 48 to 72 pints of beer and two quarts of whis- key every week and that on the day of her husband’s funeral she was intox!- cated. He said also that he would prove that Mrs. Striewe kept a large bar of iron in her home for protection against persons she thought were trying to harm her and that she frequently went about the house at night hammering on the floor with the fron bar. The brothers and sisters who are con- testing the will are Joseph, Henry and Ambrose Neu, Annie Niehoff and Amelia Baur. The defendants are Mr. aad Mrs. Albert Winkler, Frances Jobsky, Albert Striewe, Elizabeth Hurka, St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum, Archbishop Glennon, The Rev. Frederick H. Schulte, Herman Westhoff, Herman Schulte and Henry Bergjans. In willing her property to certain of her relatives and practically excluding others, Mrs. Striewe sald it was her wish to name as her heirs those of the relatives who had been kindest to her. Money Goes to Charity. After leaving $1000 for masses for her late husband, Mrs. Striewe divided her $7000 estate into 14 parts, giving one part to each of eight relatives. She then directed that the remaining six parts should go to the person who can prove that she or he was most kind to her. Mrs. Striewe lived at 2329 Bircher av- enue. She died last March. She was % years old. UNION PRESIDENT 1S KILLED Laborer Shoots Head of Scaler’s Union. SAM FRANCISCO, Dec. 17.—Domingo Navarro, president of the Scalers’ Union, was shot and killed today by Augustine Arevillo, a member of the union.. One hundred scalers Were hold- ing a meeting to organize an opposition union.

| Navarro protested and a riot followed, ‘during which he was shot.

G. C. Mariner Wants . ‘the other floors for offices.

PLANS f- SKYSCRAPER ON OLD COURTHOUSE SITE Erect. 15 or‘20 Séory Building Around the ‘Historic Dome. ee i A plan to convert the historic St. Louis Courthouse into a skyscraper is embod ied in a bill introduced in the Municipa: Assembly Tuesday ‘night by Delegate Taussig, acting upon the request of Guy | C. Mariner, an architect. Mariner proposes to cut away the four wings of the present structure and erect ai around the dome and rotunda a fifteen or twenty story building. The dome, regarded by experts as one of the best examples of architecture in the United States, is not to be disturbed, but, is to tower upward through the court of the skyscraper. The bill provides for a structure cost- ing not less than _ $2,500,000, to be com- pleted within three years. The top floors of the proposed building are to be set apart for the courts and other of- fices now in the Courthouse. Rent Free for 35 Years, The city is to receive no-rent fori the land during the first 35 years of the 99- year lease, but after that it will get all of the net earnings in excess of six per cent. While the building is under constry; . tion the promoters of the skyscraper ar, to furnish other quarters for the courts, paying ail the excess cost above $17,500, that being the present annual expense of maintaining the courthouse, accord- ing to Mariner. The Municipal Assembly would have to pass the bill leasing the Courthouse square to Mariner before his pvians could be carried out. Delegate Taussig said he knew nothing about the scheme. He said Mariner handed him the bill and asked him to introduce it. Mariner-says the taxes and water H- censes on the new building would ag- gregate $43,000 a year, and that the sav- ing of the expense of maintaining the presént Courthouse would amount to $17,500 more. This would be an indirect compensation to the city of $60,500 a year for.the use of the Courthouse site. of an estimated value of $2,000,000. 7 The ground floors of the proposed building would be leased for stores, and The plans provide for eight elevators to serve exclusively the courtrooms in the upper stories of the buildings, with 12 other elevators for the offices on the other floors. : Mariner says that the project is a plain business proposition, which he has spent a year in working out. He de- clined to say who was backing him financially. The criminal divisions of the Circuit Court, now occupying quarters in the Four Courts Building, the courts of Criminal Correction and some of the police courts, will be provided for in the new Municipal Courts Building now under construction. None of the civili divisions of the Circuit Court will be in the new building. Other city offices that will occupy the new Municipal Courts Building when it

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HISTORIC FACTS ABOUT THE COURTHOUSE AND ITS SITE OURT’ House site was 4do- mated to St. Louis in 1822 by Col. Auguste Chouteau and “Jade J. B.C. Lucas. First court house erected on the site was completed in 1833 at a cost of $14,416.16, Cornerstone of present, court house laid Oct. 21, 1889. Present building completed in 1862 at a total cost of $1,199,871.91. ' ‘Court house figures prominently in Winston Churchill's “‘Crisig” as the auction market for St. Louis slaves before the war. The height of the dome is 198 feet: height of flag staff, 240 feet. | The historic paintings in the panels of the dome are the work of Charies F. Wimar, a St. Louis artist. — PARCHMENT in the corner- A stone of the court house con- tains the autographs of Mar- tin Van Buren and Richard M,. Johnson, who were President and Vice-President respectively of the United States when it was laid.

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In It the Girl ‘Admitted 7 She Was at the Lat the Night Her Was Killed but. That She Had Fired | Fatal Bullet. = IN DYING STAT : Accused Told Police She H Hidden Under a Bed in t House for Days . and I Not Even Know the F al Was Being Held. 1. oe ot eteini ema acknowledged being in the dark la with her employer, that he had her and threatened her with a but she declared she did not shot that caused his death. Miss Zella A, Gallant on.the day. It was Mise Galant whe's answers at the Police Station — and Miss Gallant said that she t it was correct. “Did you see anyone present : kare a, = : bea eee at J we 4