St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 4

ST.L0USS POST-DISPATCH PAGE 4 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH MORNING, SEPTEMBER 5, 192B Zinc and Led Friers TTnrfined. JOPLTN', Mo, Sept. 4. Ziac and lead ore prices remained unchang-ed in the tri-State rinc and lead field during the week closed today.

Zinc ore brought a basis of $50 for ordinary grades, and lead ore basis of $112.50. the same as for the last several week. The g-eneral situation is considered a favorable for the industry. Metal prices are holding- bp firmly and while there aro more mines in operation la this field by 10 than were operating a year iro, production Is no-was larre. Dlanlie'G Prize Maze Puzii POLICE CAMPAIGN AGAINST PARKING WITHOUT LIGHTS Captains Instructing them to begin a vig-orons campaign xraint aato- mobi'e drivers leaving their ma- ADMITS ROBBERY OF THREE WOMEN Chief Gerk Orders ILsrk-t Captains chlr.es parked withost light.

to Pot a Stop to the An Informant complained to tne Practice. Chief In a letter. that he took a Orders were issued yesterday by short -walk one evening- and count-Chief of Polio Ork to rfirrtct ed 61 cars parked without lights. 0 MAN WHO ROBBED WOMEN IN VACANT UdD Down HOUSESARRESTED John Sexton, 29, Escaped Convict Under Life Sentence in Confesses to Police. Will Re-Cow Your Old SAVE 33i Save 334 of your fuel by using soft coal, smokeless, in our National warm air Furnace, thereby eliminating 75 black smoke.

ESaDaDif The daylig-ht robber who lured three women to vacant houses last i s-4. Now Is the Time Before the Rainy- Season Asphalt Shingles Bird's Tleponset I month and robbed them of their jewelry, brutally sing-gins1 one who I resisted, was arrested yesterday at Fourteenth and Market streets near a pawnshop where ha had grone to seek an additional loan on some of I the jewelry he had pawned there. He is John Sexton, 23 years old, i of 110 3 South Eighteenth street, i an escaped convict under a life sentence in Mississippi for a crime 1 against a girt in that State. He has admitted, in a written state-j merit, the robbery of the woraen in St. Louis, and he also has coa-' fessed he held up and robbed eight filling- stations and garages in St.

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Louts newfpapm COMBINED. Lmitwui Boa. Hanr Daily, S.S to iPhon--; 3Lia 493. GAr. S506 ring- two cays prior to the robbery of Mrs.

Car'in. Miss FYenz yesterday identified Sexton. Police were "without a clew to these crimes, except for a vag-ne i description cf the man. TTatches it kours-n minutes were kept on two pawnshops, one on Market street, ths other on Broadway, where some of the stolen rings had been pledged. This vigil was rewarded yesterday near the Market street pawnshop when Sexton was seized as he was about to enter the place by two detectives who recognised him from descriptions.

Admits Mississippi Record. Sexton at first declared his nam was Edward Rice and not the man wanted. when Chief of Detectives Kaiser confronted htm with his own robes' gallery picture from Mississippi, sent around the country as a circular advising- of an escaped convict, he confessed. He said he -was sentenced to tang In Mississippi two years ago last Jure for an offense agaicst a 17-year-old girL whom he and others abducted following-'the holdup of a vocational school near Jackson. Miss.

His sentence was commuted SAY, "BA.YHR genuine Prescribed by physicians and proved safe by millions for Headache Colds Neuralgia Lumbago Pain Toothache Neuritis Rheumatism DOES NOT AFFECT THE HEART Accept only Bayer" package which contains proven directions. Handy boxes cf 12 tablets Also bottles "cf 24 and 100 Drcrists. to life imprisonment. He later es- caped from a guard while being transferred rem one prison to an- other. wife, calling- herself Mrs.

Marie Rice, called at police head- Quarters yesterday, carrying their APlrta 1 th tr3 nark of Brrr SirafmBr cf cf Eonm-oia car-y. sae satd they were married at Houston. IS months ago and had lived in St. Louis seven months. She has two children by a previous marriaee.

She declared she did not know her feusband was wanted as an escaped convict In Mississippi and did not know he had been living- a life of i rime in St. Louis until his arrest He was her sole today. means of support, she said, and she. being- an orphan with no relatives, bow has no -one to lock to for aid. Sltxssfd Mrs.

Car! in. In the robbery cf Mrs. CarHn. Sexton slugged her with his fist when he resisted his conuriard to lie down. She s-jffered a brolre-" 'yhe most remarkable thinp' nose.

He had made an appoint- raer.t wit her to show him i thronch the ho-u. explainir.r that I he was looking: for a buildinjr for an automobile has done mm a rooir.ta? house, and attacked her on the geoEd floor. The pectei arrival of her father, who ing the Uttroia Hi4rwsy across the Gottdaea3S69 was in the neighborhood, caused ta r.ee. The cuae of 83 Boors, 12 minutes is com piece from coast, cot merely elapsed running time, and was checked aw A Wills Salate Qalre Six, drrren hr ha owner, L. B.

MZHer, accompanied br John E. Wether, has trs-relled from coast to coast in 83 hours, 12 minutes- The shortest time any automobile has ever mad die rism continental trip The same stock car sad driver that covered the New York to San Francisco run in 102 hours, 45 minutes in In his statement SextPc he MLss Thompson ar.3 Miss Frer.z on th- street and offered thm emplcyrnent. threatened-to kill thern and they did not rests: th taklne- of their ringa and a watch. He pawned their it authenticated by Western Union and Lincoln Highway rrSi-iala, It lowers the best previous record by 3 hours, 8 minutes. It is not merely high speed that makes such ma figftt.

rii i STo)tSo pusaicuc nitner xBaarer engineering, naziv7 trigger acceleratioa and the super-strength and' snper-sti i na of every working part each fane firming perfectly at all rimes under sustained high speed that constitutes the most "nfrr arrwJ to a pawnshop on Broadway and Mrs. Car'Jn's rinjrs at the Market street pawnshop on the sarci day he committed the erims. wife said Pexton was cf In-f dsrent and was heir ta a Julv, 1925, thea a worias record. The latest schier-eraent of the Wilis Ssiace Qaire Six the most remarkable exhibition of mechanical stamina the world has ever seen establishes the pre-eminence of the Gray Goose beyond the shadow of a doubt. The recoedxan ofWBI Sainte Claire from coast to coast dramatically emphasiaes rrs extraor-diniary vaioe at tae new lew prices.

By all means see and drive this re-mark i hie car! which any machine caa be sui JSS'jO share in tha estate of father, -who died three months ag-a in Oersla. Sexton tells a -ffferni story. He Here then is quality in its fuilesc iu iht Hga-est oualiry through and through the quality that convinces the owner his car is beyond ail comparison with anything he msvsnect oa the soad. 111 AA fmr Cmtf mf Tfce Flight of Am Qray Qoce The Wills Sainre Claire Six, with 23,023 miles already registered on its speedometer, left San Francisco at 9 00 p. August 23rd and arrived in New York at 1 1: 12 a.

August 27th, follow- rlaitr.s LUn.i. as him heme and said his fither owned a cotton i plantation near that town. Onoe RohheJ Ca ri in Home, XMscussin- the robbery cf Mrs. I Cariin. Sexton related that he as! Tickets good for going trip on trains leaving St.

Louis Saturday, September 11, after 7:00 pm, including all midnight trains. Children half fare. Tickets will be honored in Chair Cars and Coaches only. Baggage will not be checked. Good returning from Chicago on night trains of Sunday, Septem-b 12, including midnight trains.

I a companion seven years ag-o r-hhe 1 M'rs, Csrlin's home nd that she intercepted his companion i w-tth th loot, she farced him to drfp. This incident was brne oat by Mrs. hus- who trUi reporters at t.h tisse sh w-as and rchtJ in the Washington boulevard r. can hOTSse that his wife several rears am ri a burz'ar in an WILLS SAINTE CXAIRE COMPANY OF MISSOURI 2835 Washington Boulevard WILIS SAINTE CLAIRE a. -ey near thetr hom -and forcax him to rettrm articles he had stolen fmjsi their SIX Since cmfn- Infs Sxon CHICAGO If ALTON CHICAGO ff EASTERN ILLINOIS ILLINOIS CENTRAL WADASH RAILWAY has worked a laborer in a steel company vmw, BnT wrca'd erf eccasionairy to commit daylight I rebberlea GO ND YEARS AN.D YEARO.