St. Louis Post-Dispatch
December 28, 1910

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_ dustice of the Supreme Court. es - thon that it has been practically wiped : Eine Rabin, Frenzied Fi- “mancier Who Started on a ‘Shoestring, Tries to Kill Himself When the Bubble Bursts .and, at the Age of , 38, Is Hopelessly Insane. BIG BANK IS CLOSED, OTHERS ARE IN PERIL # @ > _Former Immigrant Cleared $500,000 in Sale of Power- grabbing Company; Then ‘Began the Manipulations That Brought His Ruin. By Leased Wire From the New York _ Bureau of the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, Dec. 28.—Josepk. G. Ro- bin, once a penniless immigrant, lately one of the best known bankers and financiers in the ‘city, vainly tried to kill himseif when his Northern Bank, bullt by himself through his pe- culiar genius ‘for frenzied finance, was closed by the State. He was sent to a private insane asylum as a mental wreck. Three great financial institu- tions are badly damaged, if not wiped out, and others are said to be in danger. Summing up Robin's activities so far as the available evidence goes, he start- ed on a shoestring, made a million, wrecked or partly wrecked three finan- lal concerns, lost his mind when his manipulations were exposed, and now is @ paranoiac, at the age of 8, with no hope of recovery. ixpelied From One Asylum. 2 Robin was sent first to the private ; ‘ganitarium of Dr. Carlos F. 'Mc.Donald “5 g Central Walley, N. Y. He was ex- elled. from that. on within a Py — “Tt is “policy to ad- ut rsons against whom there are charges,” Dr. McDonald ex- tees “Robin has been, removed the private insane asylum, he is 1 legally insane in the eyes of the law, for he has been committed by a Roget If it 4s established that he is insane he can- : not be stied individually, and no lunatic Se can be thrown into’ bankruptcy. --—“‘wséiBank Closed by State. His Northern Bank, which at the time of its last published statement had de-- posits of $6,912,582 in its nine branches, ha Is in the hands of State Superintendent i O. H. Cheney and has been es “for the benefit of the deposit- : ors.” Still another institution, the Aetna ee Indemnity Co:, is said to have suffered Severely by Robin's stock manipula- : _- Still a third, the Title and Guaran- : has contributed $125,000 State Superintendent of inv "he sixty-day w. drat 1 notice was today at the Washington Savings “on West Fifty-ninth street, of | Robin is the president. This in- stitution has deposits aggregati:g $1,410,- 26, according to the report made to the mate banking department in July. A ia run teok place at the bank yes- day afternoon after the Northern Supt “Hotchkiss was drawn into the se ‘through the fact that Robin held ‘controlling interest in the Aetna In- : Co. of Hartford, Conn., capital- d at ‘$250,000, which does business in { lons of the Aetna C the subject matter of a ie by Supt. Hotchkiss. : camer of this manipulation fol- ws and the atatement continues: a vesult, wher the present in- | ) began, the Title and Guaran- | é Co. of Rochester, instead of assets onsieting of approximately $180,000 and racti : a no Habilities, now owes $60,- -had been carrying suddenly stopped. Only Evening Paper in St, Louis With the Associated Press News Service. ae. GIRL WHO, DYING, GAVE CHRISTMAS GIFTS AWAY SSABEL FERREN BACH. - HANDS THIEF $55; $30 IS RETURNED Confidence Man Finds Stran- ger From Oklahoma So Ea:y That He Divides. Erastus R. Simonton of Caddo, Ok., thinks he has met a thief who is at least half honest. Traveling from Keys- port, Ill., he made-the acquaintance of @ man on an M., K. & T. train which arrived in this city, Tuesday night. “If you’ve got any money you'd better change it for a check,” said the fellow traveler. “St. Louis is a mighty dan- gerous place after dark.”’ Simonton was so impressed with the man’s warning that he gave him all the money he had, $55, and asked him to get a check for it, After leaving the train at Union Station Simonton was told by hfs new friend to wait at Eighteenth and Mar- ket streets while he got a check for the money. A few minutes later the man ‘returned and handed Simonton an envelope bear- ing the name of the Adams Express Co. in the corner and sealed. “Don‘t open this envelope until you get out of*town,” vised. After the Stranger had departed Simonton became curious. He sought a secluded spot and opened the envelope. It contained $30 In ten dollar bills, . “The thief was half way honest any- how,”’ said he as he reported the loss of his $25 to the police. KANSAS CITY MUZZLES HATPINS INSTEAD OF SCREENING MEN Women Who Fail to Comply With New Ordinance, Must Pay a Fine of $1 to $500. KANSAS CITY, Dec. 28.—Women here must muzzle their hat pins or they will be liable to a fine of from $1 +o $500. ; The upper and lower houses of the City Council passed the hat-pin ordi- nance last night. Mayor Brown has said he will sign the ordinance. How the hat pins shall be muzzled is not stated in the new ordinance. But the womep must figure out for them-’ selves. Dr. C. A. Jackson, who in- troduced the ordinance, said the pin points must be protected or the men will have to wear screens over their faces. HUMAN MAGNET STOPS WATCHES -—- ooo oer Every Timepiece He _ Carries Goes Wrong While With Him. OXFORD, Ind., Dec. 28.--Thomas Carr Jr., a farmer, is known as. the human magnet who stops watches. This pe- culiarity of Carr's temperament devel-. oped about a year ago when a watch he Tt was taken to a jeweler. Before it was examined the watch was running again. In two hourg it had Stopped again. Carr is full-chested, weighs 200 pounds. has curly hair ‘and impresses one as a man of magnetism and vitality. In the last year Carr has owned 10 watches, two days being the tongesit any of them kept time for him. SNOW BALLS EXTINGUISH FIRE Handsome Residence Saved by Farmers Pelting Flames. WASHINGTON, Pa., Dec. 28.—Snow. brought into service when the water sup- ply failed, handsome, large Spe the tresidence o Hi, Ramsey here today, when fire whavted: by. Neighboring farmers were called over in a warehouse near }the rural telephone and almost three- score volunteer fire fighters subdued the flames with large snowballs and buckets PR Seer ah retya on: the flames. ES LEAVING 201 DESCENDANTS [Dress vine es Fire } From Sparks =| VOL. 63. NO.'130, DYING GIRL GIVES - CHRISTMAS TOYS | 'Sleepily Kisses Mother Good- AS REMEMBRANCE Night After Monday’s Merri- ment; Dies Tuesday. SUMMONS FAMILY AT. END Knowing Death Is Near, Isabel Ferrenbach Distributes Pres- ents She Got. Fourteen-year-old Isabel Ferrenbach played so merrily Monday about the Christmas tree in her home at 5441 Bart- mer avenue that no one suspected she already was entering the valley of the shadow of death. And when she kissed her mother good night .she apparently was as tired and happy and as well as any other little girl in St. Louis. .. But the Christmas holly in the house- hold has been supplanted now by the symbols of mourning. At 8 a. m. Tues- day Isabel complained of a pain in her side. She died of pn jumonia six hours later. Isabel was the idol of the family. A Simonton * was ad- physician was summoned just as soon as she complained, but he could do [nothing. The little patient did not lose consciousness until a few minutes be- fore she died. She knew the end was coming and she called in each member of the family and said good-by; and.to each she gave one of her playthings as a keepsake. She wasn’t afraid, and she bore her pain very bravely. Isabel was a pupil at St. Rose’s School and she was a great favorite with the other pupils. The nine girls who were in her class will be the pallbearers at the funeral at 9 a. m. Friday from St. Rose’s Church and many of the chums who used to play with her will be present. She was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward a ‘ Ferrenbach. WIFE FOLLOWS HUSBAND “WND-HERYSON'TO GRAVE She Lived Alone With Dog in House Visited Twice. by Death. ¢ Mrs. Lily F. Philbert, who for seven months lived in her home at 3721 Cam- bridge avenue, Maplewood, with only a dog for her companion, after death had twice invaded the household, was buriad Tuesday. She was the last of her family. While others were celebrating the glad feast of Christmas she died Sunday night of grief over the death of her husband and her son. Mrs. Philbert’s husband was Paul A. Philbert. A year ago they purchased the large Maplewood home, believing the fresh air of the suburbs would aid in the recovery of their son, Edgar, whose lungs were not strong. They had lived there only a few weeks when the husband became ill. He died in May. Grief for his father’s death weakened Edgar and he went into a quick decline and passed away in July. Though urged by relatives and friends, Mrs. Philbért refused’to depart from her desolated home. With only her dog to cheer her she remained there. A few weeks ago when it was ap- parent that her health was failing, he- father, Elliott C. Bennett, went there to nurse her. until the end. He remained with her i EGGS-IN CATSUP- COSTS $40 10 TRY Diner Resented Suggestion and Refused to Eat When Bottle. ful Was Poured on Food. FOLLOWED BY A_ FIGHT Three Exponents of Gastronomic Innovation Are Arrested and Are Fined for Fracas. It was costly catsup that was spilled eggs at Mrs. Sadie Boehm’s restaurant, 1815 Wash street. Tuesday night. Judge Pollard charged $45 and costs for it in the Dayton Street Folice Court. Wednesday When Papas, who lives at 102 Wash street, called for eggs and beganh to sea- son them with salt and pepper, Frank Nellis, Jesse Kelly and John Walsh, who were sitting in the restaurant, thought they would have some fun. They told Papas it was no longer recherche to sea- son eggs with salt and pepper. Catsup Was now the proper caper. Papas de murred. He said salt and pepper were good enough for him. The others in sisted that he try catsup. He refused. One of them emptied the catsup bottle over his eggs. Then they tried to make him eat the mess and the real trouble began, Salt cellars, pepper boxes and catsup bottles flew thick and fast. , One of the men wielded a meat cleaver and another wert outside and threw a brick through the window. When Judge Pollard heard the testimony Wednesday he fined Nellis $5 for destruction of property and $5 for disturbing the peace; Walsh was fined $5 for disturbing the peace and $56 for hitting Papas twice in the face, and Kelly was fined $25 for striking Mrs. Boehm if the back with his fist. EACH SAYS OTHER WON FIGHT Conductor and Passenger Mod-; est; Judgé Fines Both. , Charles Malouf of 1020 Papin street was fined $15 by Judge Kleiber in the Wyoming Street Police Station Weda- nesday for fighting Leroy Wilson, a United Railways conductor, and Wil- son was fined $10 for fighting Malouf. Both appealed to the Court of Crim- inal Correction. Malouf boarded a Fourth street car at. Tenth street and Chouteau ave- nue, carrying a table. Wilson. sug- gested that he pught to hire a wagon. Relations were strained on the way uptown. Malouf wanted off at St. Charles street. He did not speak in time. When the car did not stop he pulled the bell cord. He says Wilson beat him with his punch and kicked him. Wilson said Malouf ee most of the fighting. Malouf told the Judge that when a policeman came the bluecoat shook hands with the motorman over what looked like a victory for the con- ductor, over Joe Papas’ Children Misspell Many Words. SPRINGFIELD, Mass., Dec. 28.—In 83,000 attempts to spell words given out in a recent spelling match between the grammar school grades of the Lee (Mass.) public scheol, 14,000 errors were made. Spinach was missed 86 times and the pupils had an equally hard time with macaroni. advertising as Can any one — doubt such evidence as this! Just think of one daily newspaper in the fourth city in the United States, with 700,000 population, carrying for its home merchants as much legitimate _ display All four of its competitors added together on the same day This is just what often happens. For instance, yesterday, Tuesday, December 27th, the St. Louis newspapers carried advertising of the local mer- cliants, under normal conditions, as follows: POST-DISPATCH - - 95 columns Stas combined Globe-Democrat, Republic, Times and - = 95 columns If we were to preach for years on the. merits of the shown in the above figures. is oer POST-DISPATCH as an advertising medium, we could not present more conclusive evidence of its value than is | daughter _ ST. LOUIS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 28, 1910. INEW WAY TO EAT ee SS [YOUNG BOXER AND POOL PLAYER - WHO WHIPPED NEGRO ASSAILANT (ODD FATE KEEPS FAMILY AWAY AS UME TS BURNED Husband Remains Downtown and Wife Accidentally Locks Herself Out. BEDROOM IS’ FIRE-SWEPT Another Blaze Routs 15 Persons; Fires Started in Axle Com- pany Plant. Like a warning from some unseen a strange combination of cir- cumstances kept Joseph Walpert and his family away from their home at 4108 source, Page boulevard Tuesday night. When they returned Wednesday morn- ing they found that fire had destroyed most of their belongings and had swept through the bedrooms which they would have occupied, had they remained at home. Walpert, his wife said after the fire, never before had remaified away from the house ‘at night. Mrs. Walpert was greatly surprised when, Tuesday morn- ing, he said to her: ‘I will not be here tonight. The strain of holiday business is telling on me and I am going to re- main downtown and take a Turkish bath.” . Locked Out; Visits Relative. Mrs. Walpert says that ordinarily she does not go out in the evening, but that, in order to pass the time in her hus- band’s absence, she took her two chil- dren to a moving picture show. When she returhed home at 10 p. m. she found that she had forgotten her latchkey and she was locked out. She went with her two children to the home of a rel- ative for the night. At 1:30 a. m. Mrs. Louise Ellison of 4106 Page boulevard, next door to the Walpert home, was awakened by bark- ing dogs. She saw smoke pouring from the second floor of the Walpert resi- 4 dence. Believing Mrs. Walpert and her chil- dren were there, Mrs. Ellison awoke her son, C. KB. Ellison. While he was_ turn- ing in an alarm Mrs, ENidon made’ i desperate effort to get into the burn- ing house, Unable to force open the front door, she broke a rear window with her hand, cutting it badly. The smoke was so thick that she could not enter. Search House for Family. Until flames and searched the house neigh- bors believed that the Walperts haa perished. Mrs. Walpert wept when she returned to the house at 7 a. m. She said she could give no explanation as to how the fire started, as she had left no lights burning. There was a fire in the base- ment_ furnace. Firemen reported that the blaze ap- parently started in a closet where cloth- ing and bedding were stored. The dam- age to the furniture is estimated by Mrs. Walpert to have been $1,000. S& > a I5 PERSONS ARE ROUTED BY FIRE Blaze in Haberdashery Men- aces Occupants of Ad- joining Buildings. Fifteen persons ran barefooted and thinly clad into the cold rain at 1 a. m. Wednesday when fire broke out in Isaac Arenstein’s. haberd: zhery at 800 Frank- lin avenue. Patrolman Hatcher of the Carr Street Station roused the occupants of adjoin- ing buildings. South of the furnishing shop, on Eighth street, and West of it, on Franklin avenue, are three-story brick buildings, occupied as dwellings by a score of families. Hatcher gave the alarm on the second and third floors of these buildings. Arenstein and his wife were among those present in the barefoot congrega- tion. Mrs. Angelina Garlanda gathered her small son Primo into her arms and fled into the street with her 14-year-old Angelina clinging to her night dress. Frank and Frederick Giunta, brothers, did not wait to don clothes, but ran out of the building. The fire started from an_ overheated stovepipe. .It did about $500 damage. No one lives over the haberdashery. ,' 2 FIRES STARTED IN AN AXLE PLANT Incendiaries Declared to Have Attempted to Burn the ‘Factory. An attempt made to fire the plant of the St. Louts Axle Co., 262 La Salle street, was frustrated Tuesday night by Willlam J. Lesher, the night engineer, when he extinguished a blaze of in- cendiary origin. Police of the Soulard ‘Street District, investigating the fire, suspect former employés of the com- pany. A few minutes later Private Watch- firemen had extinguished the ~~ pelaee _. PRICE ONE CENT ere HALTED BY NEGRO. PIRL POOL EXPERT GLEARS THE TABLE ~~ Runs 15 Balls to His Faw Then Tries to: Pocket Him, but: Misses: Miss Pearl Roberson, pool expert and athlete, made a gooa defense to the attack of a negro at Twentieth and Eugenia streets Tuesday night and saved herself with a short stroke to the negro’s jaw. Then she took the ag- gressive and tried to pocket him, but missed. Miss Roberson is 17 years old, daughter of J. J. Roberson, and lives at 2119 Eugenia street. She is 5 feet 10 inches. tall, weighs 155 pounds, has taken physical training and even knows a thing or two about boxing. All this in addition to being a pool player of un- usual skill, having learned the game at her father's poojroom when they lived in Memphis, Tuesday evening Miss Roberson went to a nickelodeon. On her way home she cut through the midway at Union Sta- tion. She noticed a negro following her and stopped to face him, and he slunk away. Threatened to Choke Her. “After I turned south in Twentieth street," Miss Roberson said Wednes- day morning, “I again noticed him following me, and at Twentieth street I stopped to again confront,ghim. He had been crouching along the side of a building. He ran forward and threat- ened to choke me if I made an out- cry. He attempted to gag me with a piece of white linen. ‘I seized it and jerke@ it from his hands and struck him a short-arm blow on the jaw, knocking him down. There was nothing else for me to do. My first impulse was to run away and nry second was to follow up my advantage and deliver the negro to the police, I acted on the second. He Decides to Run, “Seizing him: by the coat, I jerked him to his feet and called for help. He struggled from my grasp and I fell. By the time I regained my feet he was running away, but my cries had been heard and several persons pursued him.” Miss Roberson was cared for at the Railroad Y. M. C. A.. She was covered with mud and on her face were scratches which showed the struggle ghe had been through. She still clutched in her hand the linen with which the negro had at- tempted to gag her. She retained a purse which the negro had attempted to wrest from her, but one of her earrings had been torn from her ear. POLE SAVES MAN FROM RIVER Wharf Watchman Fishes Him Out of the Water. A pole in the hands of Wharf Watch- man Charles Burns saved Robert tee ton, 5% years old, from drowning | i Miseissippi River Tuesday the | Burns hooked Burton's trousers =" PRISONER SAYS AS HE FLEES GUARDS it adn oe Gives Holiday Oriesnins to At-In tendants as. He Leaves a: City, Hospital Ward. Scene, City Hospital. Time, Tuesday afternoon. Joseph Degnan, workhouse prisoner, under treatment for a scalp wound, sits in the prisoner’s ward surrounded by other patients and steel bars. He listens. Aha! Stretcher bearers are ap- proaching. Attendant Quinn is prepar- ing to open the door. Degnan moves so that he stands be- hind Quinn. As the _ stretcher-bearers come in with a patient Degnan turns and says: “Well, good-by; I'll come and see you again.”’ He walks through the door saying to Attendant Quinn: ‘Well, I guess I'll be going. Much obliged for letting me visit my friend.”’ ‘Don't mention it,” says Quinn. year by.”’ Degnan walks out into the corridor} and rings the elevator bell. “Is this the elevator that goes to the entrance nearest. the Tower Grove line,” he asks. “Sure,” right in.” Degnan rides to the basement cor- ridor. He walks to the outer door. As he passes the telephone operator he bids him a cheery good-by, which is as cheerily returned. To the attendant at the outer door he says: “Happy New Year.”’ “Same to you,” says the doorman. Degnan steps out to freedom. NOW FAIR AND COLDER WILL TRY AND LAST AS LONG AS THE YEAR DOES -.49 11 a. m........29 ..44 12 (moon) ....40 2 Wi Mes. sews 2 p. MM. see ee Oh says the elevator man. “Step “Please pass me the sodium chlo- ride,”’ BOARDING HOUSE HASH ISN'T 4N ECONOMY — IT'S A CALME! ZI... a ; Gangster With : f nee. Awaiting Arrival of F men Whom R 3 | - ee About to Call; Fired as H Tried to Escape, | ee INTRUDER CAUGHT | RIFLING’ LETTER E Woman and Man Who r ; Her Revolver Fled Ven paras of Egan’s R , Injured Man Near Deat ie The mystery about the Walter Costello, gangster. and of the Jolly Five Club, was Wednesday, Special ster ofthe Street Station found that Mrs. Klutz, housekeeper at 1331 Franklin av | nue, fired the shot, which may yet Costello's life, as he was —— e a being caught in a hallway phn s Costello, atthe maintains pos he shot him. The ethics bids giving information any 0 ter to the police. Retribution 0 | Forse —_. Tacs cy yea knew much of hie’ irae. Bh saloon at Fourteenth lin avenue. Inquiry mt reat the tee ie Saas a Bischoff, and for the woman, Bisth finally was found rooming at- 109 'N Market street. He said he had m to that address to hide from Costello's gang, because he had taken art in- directly in the shooting. +. Bischoff’s story, which thes ficers credit fully, is as says that he was awa the ev ing of Dec; 2 by @ noise fi ‘ ‘ ond-floor hallway of the os Getting a tevolver, he ‘went t. found a man, who wo } to be Costello, sorting the. a cigar box used for Bischoff asked the man the revolver and told her to. eep 1 intruder covered while he dressed a went to call a sapere i ning, and did not did not know the whether she had hit bim. A little iater in the evening a ti phone call — sent to the St. In Taxicab Co. for wrence, on It was said 7 day that cay? K 538 oe a Ry