Skip to main content
The largest online newspaper archive
A Publisher Extra® Newspaper

St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 3

Location:
St. Louis, Missouri
Issue Date:
Page:
3
Extracted Article Text (OCR)

FK1DAY, APRIL 22, 1932 PAGE 3A! ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH PTE'S ALIENISTS iimmnnmni if 1 1 I rf Mixed -Race Jury in Hawaiian Murder Trial MLWYWHVA ri 1 WOMAN DETECTIVE SLAIN IN CLEVELAND IMVVIVUII I fc. InHMT Ml IL II II IV IS NOT THE LIE RECEIVER SOUGHT OF UI1IHUJL OIUUI IF LIEUT. MASSIE Texan Alleges Insurance Com pany Is Insolvent, Charges Failure to Pay on Policy. ST.

LOUIS POST-DISPATCH ABY FOUND ON HOLDUP SLAYER POLICEMAN LINDBERGH CHILD GETS LIFE TERM Suit for a receiver for the Mis Police at Syracuse, New rial for Murder of Ha- fir-ll TT 1 Hubert Harvey Unmoved as Verdict Is Returned in Killing of Patrolman Kreidler on Bus. sissippi Valley Life Insurance 3207 Washington boulevard, al York, Question Pair Who leging insolvency, was filed In Circuit Court today by William James waiian Win re Resumed Tomorrow With Their Testimony. Say They Are Grandpar ents of Infant. Moran of El Paso, Tex. Moran as serts the company has failed to pay.

him the $1190 cash surrender value of a policy he holds. By the Associated Press. The company has about JjjiE OF THEM HELPED SYRACUSE, N. April 22, 000 insurance in force. It is tapi- Hubert Harvey, slayer of Adolpta Kreidler in an attempted motcibua holdup Sept.

talized at $100,000. The Syracuse Herald, after two CONVICT MRS. JUDD An accounting for $15,000 alleged hours of investigation, today an to have been carried by the com 29, was found guilty of first de nounced that it had proved to its Jr i pany in a Eureka Springs (Ark.) bank until April 15. an audit and Oarence Darrow Declares own satisfaction that a child picked gree muraer last mianignt by a jury Id Circuit Judge Beck's Court. a marshaling or assets aiso up near Brewerton today and de asked by Moran.

scribed as a "dead ringer" of the Punishment was fixed at life 1m prisonment. Unsatisfied claims against the He 'Never Saw Anything Like' Dramatic Appearance of Mrs. Massie. kidnaped son of Charles A. Lindbergh was not that child.

Harvey, husky 210-pound furni company exceed $478,000. it is asserted. The suit lists the alleged Doctors who examined the child ture mover, received the verdict without outward show of emotion items as follows: Unpaid death, claims, default on cash surrender values and policy loans. communicated with Col. Lindbergh's representatives and received the reply that "absolutely it and declined to comment.

The Jury in excess of $180,000: unpaid court is not the Lindbergh child." a- Press. April 22, Two 'r-nists todav contin- judgments. $6000: Federal income reached its verdict of guilty within a few minutes after it began its deliberations but spent more than The baby boy was brought here MRS. KATHEHTN MASON JONES, enervations of Lieut. tf, taxes, for which it is said the tov-ernment is threatening to issue distraint order, in excess of $3000: by officers today from a farm near Brewerton with two persons who three hours arriving at the punish yiTHO was beaten and kicked to death following a drinking LAWYER ENDS LIFE, ment.

Some of the panel held taxes due the State of Missouri on said they were Mr. and Mrs. Harry Scott, farmers. The Scotts, who Massia in the to prove that he was he allegedly killed Jo- out for the death penalty. e'--e 'Ah-.

party in an of a friend. premiUm income, in excess of two weeks ago purcnasea a iarm In defense, Harvey had pleaded Three men and two women were nnn- citv and county- two miles from Brewerton, about questioned, and police charged one taxes, for some of which suits have that he did not know the 56-year-old officer who grappled with him BROTHER liS BODY 12 miles from Syracuse, put under of the men, bol Levy, 4l years old, been filed. $60,000. atop a South Grand boulevard bus rigid questioning, said the boy was with the killing. The victim was I Moran alleges the company Is un was a policeman, since Kreidler grandson and that his mother.

employed by a private detective able to meet its obligations or to Lieut. Massie and his co-i-endants was in ad- -t until tomorrow while prepared their testi-State experts are Dr. was in civilian clothes. He denied Mrs. Frank La Tulip, was a scnooi agenc'.

teacher at Burlington. Vt. HOWX leaving the judiciary building in Honolulu on their way to their hotel to be looked up overnight. They are to decide the fate of Lieut, Thomas H. Massie, Mrs.

Granville Forfescue and two United procure new capital, and that its condition has been withheld from the policy holders. The assets, he tays. have not been conserved but The Herald announced hat it too. that he had attempted to hold up the bus conductor. Instead he declared he was setting out to look E.

Louis Klobasa Who Had Been in Poor Health, Shoots Himself. WOMAN'S SENTENCE REDUCED had succeeded in locating the pa States. Xavv enlisted men accused of the murder of Joe Kahahawai, on of San Francisco, for a job. although the hour was ternal grandmother of the bov at Hawaiian. The jury includes five men of American descent, three Chi nese, one Dane, one Portuguese, one German and one Hawaiian.

have been dissipated. The $15,000 in the Eureka Springs bank was FROM F1YE TO TWO YEARS 11:30 p. m. Essex Junction, and that her He admitted he was carrying a description of the lad tallied per Judse Reconsiders Mrs. AdHine not used to pay creditors but to met obligations of directors, he al c-.

recently helped to -v: y.rs. Winnie Ruth Judd of of tw women in Phoe-; An- ur. i Dr. Paul Bowers of fectly. revolver, and offered no explana tion for it.

The weapon, he as The Associated Press found that leges. He charges the officers AVIATRIX STILL HELD Giles' Motion; Plea Chanjrcd From Kobbery Grand Larceny. "SHORTS BURGLAR" CAUGHT, ADMITS MANY ROBBERIES serted, was discharged accidental and directors with mismanagement. the birth record at Port tienry, not far from Essex Junction, In 1920, Moran sets forth, he iy when Kreidler and he began to Both arrived yester-j It. Powers readily stated the rnminsr.

Dr. Catton Mrs. Adeline Giles, found guilty scuffle for its possession after Har showed that Arthur Vernon La took a $5000 policy in the Two of robbery Feb. 3 by a jury which vey had argued with the bus con Tulip was born there on Oct. 25, Continued From Page One.

KILLING OF RANG -o comment. Republics Life Insurance Co. of El Paso, but this was assumed by Mis ductor over payment of a fare. 1929. and that his parents were fixed her punishment at five years in prison, received a new trial to The State, however, showed that Frank and Edith White La lJlip.

sissippi Valley Life in taking over the El Paso concern. Moran ay day, and immediately pleaded Harvey had tried to hold up th Meanwhile, county officials 'iere conductor, that Kreidler had inter continued to question the Scotts Mother Doubts That Son, Shot guilty to the reduced charge of grand larceny. Circuit Judge Pcarcy then sentenced her to wo he paid the premium of $150.80 a year and on Feb. 25 applied for his cash surrender value. The com fered.

and that Harvey had first shot him in the leg, then spun him Lindbergh Returns From Myster E. Louis Klobasa 25 years old, an attorney, was found dead, with a bullet wound near the heart, in his room at the home of his parents at 7S Arundel place, Clayton, last evening. He had been in ill health. The body was seated in a chair, and on the floor neur by was a revolver. A note found in the room will be turned over to the Coroner.

Graduated from Washington University Law School in 1330, Klobasa was connected with the Maryland Casualty Co. Funeral services will be held at 3 p. m. tomorrow from his residence. In addition to his parents, Klobasa is survived by a brother, Alan, who found the body.

The father is local representative for an Eastern insurance company. at Mrs. Keith-Miller's Home. Ended Life. years in priscn.

ious Two-Day Trip. By the Associated fress. r. M.iv-ie's Testimony Kecalied. testimony of Mrs.

-a wife of the accused icxim of a criminal Kahahawai allegedly before he was fatal-' v- a pistol in the hands was commented on by aged chief of "I never saw any-i." Darrow said. r. pretty good court nothing lilfe that one. Judge Peurcy had previously re pany failed to pay him and at times failed to answer proper in quiries or gave evasive and dilatory- HOPEWELL, N. April 22.

fused a motion for a new trial, but reconsidered today, he sale, be By the Asr-oeialed Press. Back from a mysterious trip. Col MIAMI, April 22. Mrs Charles A. Lindbergh conferred Jessie M.

Keith-Miller, Australian cause he became convinced that Mrs. Giles was acting under the early today with persons helping him in his attempts to get his kid flyer, faced further questioning to dominance of her hi'sband. John day in the fatal shooting of her around and shot him through the back of the head. Afttr the slaying of Kreidler the police traced the robbery gang through a cleaner's mark in a hat thrown away by Harvey as he fled from the bus. The other defendants are Marion Stephens, William Davis and Thomas Colby.

The three, according to confessions, were following the bus in two automobiles intending to pick up Harvey after the robbery, but fled when they heard the shots. naped back. son C. Giles, who Is serving ten fiance, Haden Clarke. Both Mrs years in prison.

answers, he asserts. G. E. Burson, secretary of Mississippi Valley Life, declined to comment on the suit before receiving a copy of it. H.

H. Fuller is president of the company, which is incorporated in Illinois, according to the suit. Burson said it was established in Shelbyville. 111., in 1908 and moved to St. Louis several years ago.

when it was all r- in'T slpen when I went Keith-Miller and her aviation part Together they held up James A The Colonel, absent two days during which he apparently tried to establish contact with the kidnapers, drove into his Sourland Hill ner, Capt. w. Lancaster, were Mowrcy last Dec. 12 his dry kept in custody last night. State goods store at 2710 St.

Louis ave ing down his story. After they had shown him that his finger-prints tallied with those found on a window sill at the home of Miss Mamie Rentiers, 4025 Lindell boulevard, when a "shorts burglar" entered there April 1, he readily admitted a series of such crimes since last October. He wept throughout his questioning. Police experts identified marks left in four other burglaries as his fingerprints. The homes robbed were those of Schantz Zela, 726 He-man avenue, University City, a year ago; Joseph W.

Besler, 2249 Klemm street, Sept. 9, 1931; L. Lannan Benoist, 4946 Buckingham court. Dec. 22.

1931, and Isidor Mathes, 5521 Waterman avenue, early Wednesday. A Veiled Prophet maids tiara valued at $500 and Christmas presents were taken from the Benoist home. Why He Was Seen So Often. In rooms where the burglar found women in bed, he invariably sat on the edge of the bed or touched the occupant, awakening her and jumping out of a window if she screamed. This accounts for his presence being noted so frequently.

The automobile in which detec Attorney N. Vernon Hawthorne said he was convinced the woman home about mianigni. nue, robbing him of $449. Giles pleaded guilty. Immediately lights shone from manv windows in the house and was not connected with the shoot ing.

but that he planned to question her and Lancaster further to activity was apparent. An auto mobile owned by Edmund Bruce try to determine if Clarke commit ted suicide or was slain. of Elmira, friend of John H. Cur "While many things would substantiate a theory of suicide." Haw MR. BARNUM'S thorne said, "there are a number stocks in question.

The witness' memory was not improved, and Gray desisted from the reading. Rockefeller said he had once been short on Standard Oil of Indiana. Echoing what Whitney had said. Rockefeller declared the recent sag in prices was due to general liquidation. He said the tax bill had caused great alarm among the people.

When he went short in January, 133-', Rockefeller said his short interest was about or 12,000 shares. of facts which, taken either sepa rately or together, hinder the final acceptance of that theory." tis of Norfolk, drove into the grounds. Witnesses said the driver resembled Bruce. Two men sat ori the rear seat. Curtis, one of three Norfolk intermediaries assisting Lindbergh, has conferred frequently with the flyer.

A man traveling under the name Ptarson" but believed to be Dean H. Dobson-Peacock, colleague of Curtis, arrived last night at Newark Airport by plane from Washington. Mrs. Keith-Miller was released from Jail under guard last night to attend private funeral services for richt." John C. Kelley, who i some temper after s.

angrily destroyed a ha i handed her allegedly her admission of differ-. v. ith her husband a few before the attack, grinned embrance of his actions. delay obtained by r-ro- cation indicated the trial jd rot be finished before next Killey previously said he i aire one day to present Then must come the of counsel and i'j "irles S. Davis' instructions Mrs.

Granville 1'ortescue, r-in-law, and E. J. Lord I rt O. Jones, navy enlisted charged with second de- the penalty for which :) years to life imprison- die SMiety I'lans Action. i'e a resolution was ex-to be introduced tonight at t-f: of the Territorial Medical i'y to put the society as favoring a law i orrespondence between and students as privi- Clarke.

est on Clarke was fatally wounded in his bed a few hours after he and Mrs. Keith-Miller told Lancaster of their plans to be married. The announcement was made, the flyers said, in Mrs. Keith-Miller's home where Clarke was a guest, in an exclusive residential section here. Mrs.

Keith-Miller said she and W.arth Clarke fell in love as the two worked together on a story of her tion the theory that her son, Haden Clarke, took his own life. The mother, a journalism instructor, at first expressed the belief that her son shot himself. "When Capt. Lancaster ran out of money during a recent trip to Mexico, he telegraphed back that he was going to pawn his pistol, and Haden told me he hoped fervently that he wouldn't bring the damned thing back," she said. Lancaster's pistol was found undei Clarke's body after the shooting.

life. Lancaster hurried to Miami tives found Eaves seated was stolen from 525 Clara avenue last November, and bore a pair of license plates stolen from another automobile. In it were Eaves' clothing, the purse and a bankbook stolen from Miss Irwin, a $1 bill, two revolvers, several empty men's wallets, a watch with the initials a memorandum book, a pawn ticket and a brief case containing a felt hat. One revolver was identified as having been stolen last November frcm the home of Prank Steuter-man, police turnkey, 5212 Idaho avenue. t'oniianlon Arrested.

On statements made by Eaves, police arresteu an unemployed railroad clerk, who said he was Cyril Schaub, 20 years old, 4025A Lafayette avenue. According to the from St. Louis by plane after re ceiving letters from the couple that He said he suffered a "terrible" loss in 1929 and sought to recoup. "What do you mean by a "terrible" loss?" asked Senator Couzens. "A good many millions," said Rockefeller.

He added that he had sold short because it was a "necessary insurance." He repeated that his losses since 1929 had been Some of the corporations in which he was interested were a "total loss." Gray wanted to know whether his actual losses had been in millions. "I would say that is the net loss," Rockefeller replied. He said his losses had been in the Cuban-Dominican Sugar Co. "What of your stock market operations?" "The net loss has been very considerable in addition to depreciation," said Rockefeller. Short Profit SooO.OOO.

"What has been your largest individual short position?" "About they planned to marry. The Daily News today quoted Mrs. Ida Clyde Clarke as saying she no longer accepts without reserva COULD APPLY TO THE VALUES IN THESE Wc Give Eagle Stamps action was the attempt by Prosecutor introduce a psychopathic on. which Mrs. Massie evidence in the trial.

tre paper she destroyed. Strode, president of said, however, it was would be any action while the trial was He sail it might be "5 contempt of court to prejudice the case. i'. Kelly, who gave the to Mrs. Massie, is pro-; at the Univer- .11.

officers he admitted aiding Paves Saturday Specials! t. in the theft of three automobiles. including the one in which Eaves was found, and in several holdups. Genuine Australian The other two stolen automobiles were recovered in front of his 25 BLACK OXFORDS OR HIGH SHOES SUITS TRADER TELLS KCW MARKET CAN BE MANIPULATED home and Eaves' homo. Schaub was asked what he knew about Eaves' activities In "shorts, or if he himself had ever gone about unclad.

"No. I never went out in shorts," Schaub said. "I drove him several places but he never let me in on those jobs." Eaves told police he had two relatives who were a police Lieutenant and Sergeant and that he was distantly related to a Circuit Judge. Records show he was sentenced to two months In the Workhouse by Judge Butler in the Court of Criminal Correction in 1929. on a charge of petty larceny.

iiiii. .1 i roni J'rece dins Page- Combination Lasts Sizes 5 to 15 shares." ''Have you made money out of your short position?" "Yes, while the market was going down," Rockefeller replied. He said the total he had made on the short side in the last two and a half years was about Rockefeller was excused, and William B. Cravath was called. He said he was from Arizona, "where the sun shines every day." He was a member of the New York Stok Exchange from 1S26 to 1D29.

Ciavath took direct issue with Whitney's views on the effects of short selling. In 1929, he said, great amounts of "stupid money" were in tho hands of "stupid people." The inflation was the result. JIow to F.vade Ktilc. "The phrase, 'a free and open market, is the bunk," he said. "When people are selling stocks right and left because they haveto, it is not a free and open market, the short seller then comes in and Widths AAA to Tough as Calf not Smith was a spe stock.

recalled that Smitii -n the Anaconda pool, long side. ool, to be successful, on both sides of know." He said nk he had been in a '-asions, he siiid, he under numbers to dis- from another, but dummy names. 'h i-ier get confidential I tell you how he op- by HART SCHAFFNER MARX You bet they're the Biggest on Earth! The Biggest $25 worth you have ever gotten in 16 years. They are phenomenal, fabulous! Rich Fiji Browns, soft, cool University Gray, Maize, Tans and those always smart dignified Dusk Blues. In hard-finished worsteds that wear oh, how they wear and those smooth Saxony worsteds and Eton flannels that are soft and easy draping the "BIGGEST on EARTH!" Ladies9 Dress Oxford Ties Hand-Turn or Welt-Sewed Leather Soles LOST SKIN TRAPS BURGLAR Bt fie Associated Prris.

CHICAGO. April 22. Roy Carter lost his freedom because Evanston's scientific police saved his skin. Investigating a burglary, police found the robber had skinned his hand on a window sill. The fragment was preserve! in alcohol.

Carter was arrested as a suspect. The patch of skin matched a recent scar on his hand. Walk all day in comfort with these fashion' Ax able Oxford Ties, designed over com' bination lasts, built-in steel Rockefeller. rot making much head- served Chairman Nor- arches, leather Cuban heels. Mllllli Him a Car.

Sizes 4 to 9 Widths A to he is interested in destroying the market. He aggravates th econdi-tion. "When you have got three or four brokers selling stock for a decline, you can knock 3 or 4 cents off a stock so jquick you wouldn't know-it." He said th erule against selling short at a price under the market could be evaded by establishing a price by means of a long sale, and then hammering the market with short sales at the reduced price. John J. Raskob, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, and Jouett Shouse, chairman of the Democratic Executiv eCommittee, came into the hearing room while Cravath was testifying.

Gray said that neither of them had been subpenaed. 4 Rubber Top Lifts ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH Kounaed Jostl'H PUUTZEB TELEPHONE: 'MAIN 1111 Pubttshfd br the Pulttr Publishing Co. Twelfth Bmilrd mrl lir Sur MEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS an AUDIT BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS The A'Miciited Itrsw ich.jivel entitled to the for republication of ali news dispatches credited to ft or not otherwise credited in this ncnapaper and also the local news published herein. All rictus of republication of special dispatches herein are also referred.

Subscription late ky Mail i Advance Pailr and Sunday, one year Slfl.00 lail. without Hiindar, one mt S.ih) Sunday ouly. one Tear 5.00 Daily only. 50c a month; Sunday. le a copy.

Uemit either by poMal order, express money order or St. lvin exchange. Subscription Ratea by Carrier Delivered by city carriers or out-of-tewn dealers: Duly only. 5c a month: Panday. lfc a.

copy. Lutcm! a sccoud. tlaia matter, July 17, 1S73. i he had made efforts Bragg and Smith, success. The witness --n he first knew Smith is an automobile sak-s-! 1 him a car.

said he covered his osition about five weeks short interest was in but the witness said 't recall the names of gract eurprise. call off the names stocks and ask the wit-them was one of thi WOLFF'S 7 OLIVE CdWJlliams "The Store That Reilly FITS YOIT "Rollins" Ladies' Chiffon or Service Hosiery one SIXTH and FRANKLIN Quality Shoes for All that Family. n1.

Get access to Newspapers.com

  • The largest online newspaper archive
  • 300+ newspapers from the 1700's - 2000's
  • Millions of additional pages added every month

Publisher Extra® Newspapers

  • Exclusive licensed content from premium publishers like the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  • Archives through last month
  • Continually updated

About St. Louis Post-Dispatch Archive

Pages Available:
4,206,249
Years Available:
1849-2024