St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 13

Post Dispatch Wantc Sell Horses and Vehicles i POST-OISPATGH i i OST-D I PATCH 1 prints more Agents Wanted1" ads regularly than its Four Competitors Combined. Olive 6600 Central LAST SUNDAY COUNT: Of Hrw ana Vehlrle aafa A4.t POST-DISPATCH 349 .241 Tna TIIEEE others combined. Olive 00 Cent rL PAGES 13-22. ST. LOUIS, THURSDAY EVENING, JUNE 26, 1913.

PART TWO. PAGES 13-22. nOACTIPII I All i MACKAY SECRETLY unnoiiuu. o. Lnii Pullman Car Names dispatch et $ay the Pullman company ha to quit giving mythological, historical and portic namrt to tipping ran, and ttituting the names of staffs and torn along the line to vhich the cart are assigned.) Three-Ring Mystery Is Being Developed Out of Jk Jf Miss Ella McClendori's Claim Against Two Estates IN EFFECT OCT.

1 SAILS FOR EUROPE TO PROTECT GAME 3 CHILDREN WITH Where, When and Mot) She -Met Her $133:000 Benefactors Is Puzzfe Closed Season of Five Years faf Same nirJs; River Nes-tinr CrounJa Safeguarded. Detectives Guard Auto on Trip to Pier and Imperial Suit He Occupies. Whereabouts of Ed Elders and Elsie Whittaker, Who Figured in Her Check Transactions, r.y AeciiiM rK i WASHINGTON, Juna -Regulat ni Unexplained Letter Says Elders Was for ,11. 'i for the protection of migratory "hlrJS In tha United States have Just iDMk completed by tha Department e-f culture and will become effeetl-ea Oct. 1.

or as anon thereafter as Prenldftt Offered $1000 by Bankers to Kill Her, and She Shot at Him When He Tried to Earn It By Leased Wire From the Hew York Bareaa of the Poat-DUpatch. NEW YORK, June 25. Clarence H. Mackay. millionaire telegraph company president, and his three children sailed for Europe In the imperial suite on the Imperator under the name of Armore.

The departure was without tho knowledge of Mrs. Mackay. It took place after an automobile trip from Spring Lake. N. where Mackay and tne children have been living since the first Wilson approves them.

A bill to pro i J-1 tect such birds was passed V.arch 4. By a Staff Correspondent of the Post-Dispatch. A clod aeason of almost flvw years, STURDIVANT, June 26. The curious story of Ella McClendon, until Sept. 1, 111 has been rabllHBs' on certain game birds, "nrfrh ha TV of June.

the Sturdivant storekeeper -who has presented claims mvolvjng tnousanos been hunted beyond tha marfot of safe ty." Along the routes of tha of dollars against the estates of two wealthy old men who died in widely separated parts of the United States, has resolved itself into a three-ringed mystery. Each mystery is represented by one of three questions: How and when did this country girl become involved in the affairs of John Bohan of Colorado and George M. Nichalos of Virginia! Who and where is Ed Elderst i Ohio and Missouri rivers Jan. 1 to OL SI Is closed aeason. Breeding and win- With the utmost secrecy they left the Jersey resort at 8 o'clock Tuesday night, boarding the Hamburg-American ship at 2 o'clock in the morning.

Mackay surrounded himself with 12 private de-tecUves, who were under the most precise Instructions to permit no one to stop the automobiles on the trip to Ho-boken and to keep all strangers away from the private deck of the imperial suite. terlng tones are established, but th regulations make few changes In eUt-ing hunting seasons aa provided by state laws except In the elimination of rprlng, rhootlng. Who and where is Elsie Whitakerl No migratory game or Ir.aocttvnmne birds may le killed anywhere between sunset ar.d sunrise. Mlgratnry nsectiv orous birds. including tha roMn, Isrt.

In a 'triangle of roughly speaking, bounded by lines from Cape Girardeau to Bloomfleld, from there to Toplar Bluff and back to Cape Girardeau, there Isn't a town pr hamlet or log camp In which these questions are not discussed, wherever two or three persons assemble. Woman Haa.Her rartteaaa. The young woman la not without her case has been taken to the St. Louis Court of Appeals, where it is pending. Difference With Another Bank.

In 1911. Miss McClendon had a dispute with the Bank of Puxlco on other Kinder checks. One of them, for $S0, she made good at the bank, John Hickman, its president, told a Post-Dispatch reporter. Later another for $250, declared to hava been a forgery, was cashed by the bank. Miss McClendon reed birds and rice birds altrady protected In many statea may not be kllltd except reed and rlca birds In Detawtro.

By Carlos F. Hurd. I find It a delight of travel (And 80 do you) To read the names on Pullman sWpers. "Popocatepetl," "Iguazu." When bound for Memphis or Chicago 1 In lower three. It gives the ride a touch of romance To look and see -That I am In the "Andalusia- Or "Zuyder Zee." Full many a merry chorus lady Has found a name On Pullman doors, which she has borrowed And raised to fame, Like "Ysobel" or Or "Jevousalme." Bnt now the company prosaic Gives us a shock.

When all this' list of words poetic It starts to dock And use such names as "Jackson," "Scranton" And "Little Rock." Now, if they're bent on disenchanting The passenjalre. We'll probably have to keep on traveling And pay our fare. But we'll forget to tip the porter. Now, will they dare? Maryland. Virginia.

South Carolina, and tho District of Columbia from Sept. ,1 to Nov. i u. A. r.i II also pleaded that she had acted In good faith In this matter, and her contention was upheld.

The Justice of the Peace to whose Hearings will be held If asked fw, before the regulations go Into effeo. Dr. T. S. Palmer of tha Rlologlra! Suf.

vey was chairman of tha committee which prepared tha rules. Aaheo' Friday Bargain attention this was called. received two letters, according; to N. A. Mose- ley.

Kinder a attorney. One was postmarked Chicago and tbe other New Chocoiates and Bonbons, S9c 11 Locust. York. They bore tha name of James Fielding and both declared Ella Mc BURGLARS IN AKIN HOME Clendon had nothing to do with the alleged forgery. The Bank of Puxlce also insisted it Houso Is Tlansacked In AbpnCe of Family on Summer Trip.f' Burglaia equipped with skeleton keja i- i0 had returned the canceled forged check along with others' by mail to Kinder.

Kinder denied It was in any batch of ranacKed the residence of Thomas J. papers his company naa receivea Akin. of the Laclede Steel Co through the postofflce. at Washington bpulevard Wednesday right. A housrmald discover the Elsie Whltaker Introduced.

Ed Elders and Elsie Whltaker first came Into the mystery through trans actions In Cape Girardeau In 1911 and THIS THIEF WAS A FAN 1S1. Samuel Carter, cashier of the robbery when aha returned from a visit and found clothes acattrred about tha floor In alnrwit every rcom. The Akin family la away for tha summer and Mrs. Akin of boulevard, a relatlvo, said she wss unalile to say what waa stolen. Mrs.

Hubert found a new 14 catcher's love behind her counter. Sha suspected some one had been there during her Southeast Missouri Trust said tha one day he got through the mail a latter from WUUamsville. containing a small check, saying that the writer. CLlNDON, elia temporary absence snd then discovered that tha thief had taken the money from the cash drawer and dropped the glova while doing so. Tha glove ha-l A thief who pilfered $2 In small change from the till of Mrs.

Charles Hubert candy store at 315 North Illinois street. Eellevllle. Wednesday, was poorer whtn he left tha shop than when he entered. Ed Elders, wished to open an account Ready to Arrest "Dlernrbera. 1 Further precautions were taken by which Hoboken policemen were held lr readiness to arrest any man the private detective might fear might be "disturbers of the peace" as regarded by their employer.

The ship steamed away from her pier without any untowari incident, and it was not until late In the afternoon that the truth about the passengers called Armore became known. Mra Mackay told the Post-rvjpateh correspondent that there was no truth In the story that she had made an attempt or had even contemplated an attempt to stop the sailing. At first she would not credit the that her husband and children had sailed. When it was found positively that they had gone, she said that Henry W. Taft, her lawyer, would make a statement In her behalf, but he had nothlnff to say.

Later Mrs. Mackay supplemented her first utterance with this: 'No papers of any sort have been served on me by Mr. Mackay, and I have not personally or through any representative served or attempted to servo, any papers on Mr. Mackay." Mother Seldom Saw Them. Since last February the three children-, have been wlU Their mother saw them Infrequently.

Thty lived for a time In North Carolina and afterward at the great Harbor Hill estate at Roslyn, L. where Mrs. Mackay Is now. When the children were brought back from Jameston. the Mackay shooting box In North Carolina, the father too them to Spring Lake With the party were many servants and detectives wno stood guard abcut the house day and night, working In eight-hour shifts, so that there are four men always on duty.

Mackay and the three children Catharine. 14; Ellen. 10. and John William 6 took their meals at tha Essex an-! Sussex Hotel. While they ate the detectives watched.

There were two automobiles In the Mackay garage, an-1 when the family went riding one of the cars was used for the conveyance o' the bodyguard. Friday Mrs. Mackiy visited Spring Lake and, after a star of several houis at the cottage, took dinner with he-husband and children at the hotel. He Took Wife to Station. Mrs.

Mackay was driven to the station by her husband, Friday, evening, and returned to this city. As soon she was gone, preparations were hu -rled and the quick rush to Hoboken be gun. It was not until the lest gangplank was about to be lowered that the detectives quit their posts. Two malned aboard' and are making the trip with the party. partisans.

They are In sympathy wttn her' because they believe she Is fighting, single-handed, against a powerful group of bankers, aided by the machinery of the United States Department of Justice and the Postofflce Department. They argue that she has lived In Southeast Missouri all her 32 years, that she could not know how to devise daring financial plans even If she were so minded, that with the exception af the recent act of a United States Commissioner binding her over to the Federal grand Jury on a charge of using the mall to defraud, she has won every In which she has been Involved. The announcement In the Post-Dispatch that she claims a bequest of J12S.0OO In the Harrisonburg (Va.) estate of Nicholas has caused an amazement throughout Bollinger County which has thrown discussion of the Rohan affair Into eclipse. In this county a man is considered affluent If he owns J15.000 worth. pf.propertx ana rich if he is worth $25,000.

Miss McClendon's statement that ahe supposes Nicholas remembered her his will because she was kind to him when he was injured In a street car accident In St. Louis, is beyond the average Bollinger County comprehension. One probably could buy the whole town of Sturdivant with $125,000, and have something left over for a rainy day. Danker Greatly Intereated. Certainly every banker in this section of the country is interested; The most Important of these are the Southeast Missouri Trust Co.

and Sturdivant Bank of Cape Girardeau, the Bank of Advance, the Advance Exchange Bank and the Bank of Puxlco. These, however, are concerned principally in the Rohan case, in which, along with Miss McClendon. the mysterious Ed Elders and the equally mysterious Elsie Whltaker are chiefly Involved. If Ed Elders and Elsie Whltaker can be produced when the proper time comes. It Is believed the Intricate affairs of Miss McClendon will be cleared, but aa yet Elders and Elsie Whltaker are most elusive.

Miss McClendon first came Into fcn-eral notice through her connection with ith him. Carter said he wrote to Welpert Drug open all night. Ninth and Pine streets. never been used. Elders asking him to return a signa Clendon, unless she would sign an affi FEDERAL INQUIRY INTO ture card for the identincation oi checks, but the letter was returned un davit that testimony she had given In court was false.

FREIGHT RATE INCREASE called lor. Then one day a check appeared at the Say She Shot at Him. It went on to say that the writer tried Bank of Advance. It bore the signature of Ed Elders and it directed the payment of $150 to Elsie Whltaker. It was drawn against the Southeast Missouri to poison her.

Failing in this, the letter continued, he tried to compel her to make the affidavit and Miss McClendon Trust Co. J. W. Garner, at present shot twice at him. Hodge and Sheriff months record of advertising t.J cashier of the Advance Exchange Bank, Interstate Commiirion Adopts Amended Orde.r.

on. Action, of Eastern Railroads. WASHINGTON. June 26. An amended order in lieu of that rescinded last Saturday was 'issued today by the Interstate Commerce Commission for an Investigation Into an increase of freight, rates by the Eastern railroads.

It. differs In phraseology but not in principle from George' Barham' of Bloomfleld went over to Sturdivant and Interviewed Miss McClendon about this. forwarded it to Carter. He called Carter's attention to the fact that while the figur-. on the check called for the payment of $150 the written words called for only They, told a Post-Dispatch reporter thst Miss McClendon confirmed the es- The letter which accompanied the cheok said it 'was in payment of a debt rventlals of the letter; She told them, according to Hodge, that she met Elders while she was horseback riding, that he asked her to sign the affidavit and tried to seize her when she refused.

the maker owed Elsie Whltaker. On the back were written aa endorsers the that rescinded. The decision to Investigate was reached by a bare majority, three of the Commissioners Clements, names of Elsie Whltaker and Ella McClendon. The check was sent to Elsie She declared she shot at him twice. Miss McClendon told the writer that Whltaker at Rombaur.

from wnlch in St Louis Newspapers The agate lines of advertising Cess cheap dtj contract legal) carried by the St. Louis newspapers for the first five months of J9J3, were as follows: POST-DISPATCK 4,719,400 lines McChord and Marble dissenting. Each dissenter wrote a brief opinion hold he believed Ed Elders would be found, sooner or later. She said all she kne.w pla It apparently had come, but the letter containing It was returned to of Elsie Whltaker was that she was through this country some time ago ing In the main, that the commission, having nothing concrete before It. was without authority to establish minimum rates.

the Cape Girardeau bank unclaimed according to Carter. Eldera Cloaea Account. Elders' account at Cape Girardeau was closed subsequently, according Car with a band of gypsies, who camped at hamlet near Sturdivant. She intimated she believes she is ter, by a check made to Elsie Whltaker Women to Petition Congreoa. WASHINGTON.

June of the Bank of Advance. At that time her father was Postmaster at Sturdivant and she was his chief assistant Her general store usually cashed checks for sawmill workers, because there Is no bank at Sturdivant. Most of these checks were given to employes of Kinder the object of a conspiracy. She says she has been harrassed by spies and Government agents. There are at least two business men in Southeast Missouri, she said, who would do any the National Women Suffrage Associa tion have completed arrangements for and Indorsed by Ella McClendon.

June 14. 1912, the Sturdivant Bank at Cape Girardeau received a letter from Sturdivant signed Elsie Whltaker. It Inclosed two checks, one for $1891, drawn on the Institution for Savings at New- another demonstration at the capitol thing in the world to suppress her. Globe-Democrat Republic Times, (no Sunday) 2,934,000 lines 2,127,000 lines 2,038,800 lines Monday, when peUtlons will be presented to the Senate urging it to pass immediately the proposed amendment to the A Son. sawmill men at Kinder.

About three years ago James Kinder, 2000 TURNERS COMPETE buryport, Masa, and the other for 12147.88. drawn on the Institution for Bsty Bee Canny Banrala Friday Fine Chocolates, Cream Stuffed Dates. Rolled Gold Molasses Candy, 15c pound. head of the sawmill firm, received no Constitution giving woman the vote. FOR PRIZES AT DENVER tice from J.

H. Jenkins, cashier of the Bank of Advance, that Ms account waa overdrawn. Kinder went to the Contestants for the First' Time Are Under the Rules of the Amateur Athletic Union. DENVER. June 26.

Rules of the Amateur Athletic Union will be follow bank with his check-book stuba to Investigate. Declare Caecka Were Ralaed. After a comparison of notes. Kinder declared that five checks which had Savings at New Bedford, Mass. The writer said the checks had been given to her In payment for some mining interests.

It asked that a check book be sent to her as "I may go away from here day and may want soma money." H. L. Machen, the cashier, forwarded the checks for collection. Both of them came back. One of the banks, that at New Bedford, wrote that there was an account there In the name of the purported maker of the $1831 check, but that it was for only $100.

Claim for Rohan Batata. ed In Judging the performances of the come through the McClendon store had Is Your Lawn Parched? been raised and that two had been forged. He said that a check for $14.60 to James Reagan had been raised to that a $3.70 check to William Rea gan had been raised to that a $6.04 check to James Davis had been raised to $66.04. that an $11.94 check to Then came the Rohan case. Rohan Alva Davis had been raised to $70.74 was a farmer, more than 70 years of and that a $17.89 check to James Field age.

After his death at Gower, Ing had been raised to $77.59. He de last February. Miss McClendon filed with the Probate Court as a claim against his estate a note made payable clared that a $250 check to James Field- Star I 1,228,500 lines Why stumble, flounder or experiment The right course for profitable advertising results is charted as accurately in the above figures, as the seas are charted for the mariner. The rocks and shallows are exposed. The POST-DISPATCH will carry your store news into the channels where your, customers are located.

The circulation searchlight of the POST-DISPATCH, which penetrates every home In St Louis and suburbs, has guided others and will guide you. Average circulation first 107 ORR five months of this year luljZuU Sunday 316,533 Ing and a $150 check to Charlea Kaster to her, and bearing the name, John were forgeries. Of all of these, only one, a small raised check, could be found, although Rohan. It was for $9000. About this time Elders wrote to the Clear Creek bank at Georgetown, contestants at the thirty-first turnfest.

now In full swing In this city. This is the first time a turnfest has ever been conducted along these lines. Wand drills and marching exercises began at 7:3) today, opening the program of gymnastics and field sports at Lakeside Park. Nearly 2000 turners took the field, divided into six groups. Tomorrow apparatus work will be taken up.

Each entrant must perform four exercises, one each on the hori-sontal bar, the parallel bars, the side horse and the long horse. Perfection In any one exercise counts ten points. Field sports are set down 'on -the program for Saturday morning. Each entrant must participate then in the running broad Jump, shot put and three standing Jumps. While no business sessions will be held during the turnfest, the next meeting of the turnerbund being scheduled for 8an Francisco In 1915, the repre sentatlves of St.

Louis turnverelns have already begun to boost for the next turnfest, which In accordance with the rules of the AssoclaUon will take place In 11. Jenkins declared that. In accordance Inclosing a check for $1000, purporting with the bank'a custom, all paid checks had been canceled and re turned to Kinder monthly. Jenkins Dry, hot days will ruin any lawn, unless you water it well. When you buy Garden Hose buy ELECTRIC, the best, hose money can buy.

It's made in one piece can't kink won't burst wears a Whether it's Hose you want, or Bath Mats, or Water Bottles or Boots come to headquarters. TV A RUBBER UlA i COMPANY Largest Rubber Dealers in America 415-417 North 4th St. to bear Rohan's signature. A blank check of the Southeast Missouri Trust Co. had been used.

The name of the Cape Girardeau bank was scratched out and that of the Colorado bank substi aid he had sent them by mall to Sturdivant along with other checks. Kinder declared that all bona fide tuted. checks he had made had been re turned to him properly. Jenkins In slsted he had sent the bad checks In A decoy letter sent back to Ed Elders at Sturdivant and watched by postofflce itj-pectors resulted In the arrest of Miss McClendon, and the action of the com- consignments with others that Kin der got. When Jenkins told Mlsa McClendon mlasloner holding her to the grand Jury, and her father of the situation, she Ed Elders' most spectacular epistol ary appearance, however, waa a letter gave him the money to cover the total discrepancy! Later she brought suit against the Bank of Advance for the purporting to bear his name which waa sent to John Hodge of Bloomfleld.

Pros Phone your Want Ad to the rost-Dls- "Fast in Everything" amount, on the plea tliat she had cashed ecutlng Attorney of Stoddard County. It declared that a banker had offered El rll patch. Olive Central. Tour credit's good If you rent a phone, or your druggist will phone tha ad, the checks in good faith. The Jury Lava to her a verdict for Tbe dors $1000 to make away with Miss Mc- V4 f' ,.4 7 5'i a mu.m- naoiwantat.