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LAST CITY EDITION BT. LOUIS, SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1913. 31 14. Fink, Under Arrest. Pleads for Leniency NDERS SELF ON EMBEZZLEMENT CHARGE, ASKS CHANCE TO MEET OBLIGATIONS James G.

Arbuckle Welcomes Arrest FflRFR mm IEGROPISTORIIEISCLEVJ ooo ooo Jessie Wilson to Wed November 25 Wife, of the I-reslde-nt Announces Ceremony Will Be in White House, Hut Other Details Are Withheld. jWants the Chance to Explain Deaij i If '1 BY Iff GONE; MM 111 HEADLESS Holding Cash to Protect Himself sunn JAMES G. ARBIXKLE. FUilSSHOBT GIRL MYSTERY WINDSOR. Sept.

Mrs. Woodrow Wilson today announced the date of the marriage of her daughter. Jessie, to Francis fj. Ha re. as Tuesday, November 2.

and that the ceremony would take place in the White House. Other details in connection with the wedding were not (riven out. GIVES BOND i I I UMIV WUWBfl US WWW Milliners Is One of Few Bits; Rev. J. L.

Cohron of the Tabernacle Baptist Church Has Departed for Africa, Detectives With Warrant Are Told. Belleville Financier Waves Pre- liminary Hearing and Arranges Bail After Four Hours Wait in Offices of His Attorney, j- of Evidence' Which May Lead to the Body's Identification. Deacon Joseph Brookes. Joint Custodian of Money, is Held, Charged With Being Acces Authorities of Two States Search in Vain for. Other Portions of Disfigured Body Found in Water Near Cliffdale, N.

J. Officers Search Home of Stepbrother in St. Louis While-Banker' Fink Is Enroute to Home Town to Surrender Self. a Ma-f'ttas Intermediary tfcrcan President, Uje United States. ill Be Scene of Bring About Can Be Republic.

l-snt Thinks Other Js Be Easily Set: YA War Is Brought I mediate Close. i ISABEL VALLE'S TROTH SURPRISES BARONETS FAMILY Brother of Beautiful St. Louis Girl's Fiance Learns News From The Star. sory in Alleged Embezzlement. Congregation Had Raised Hugej Autopsy Reveals Torso Had BeenJ Sum to Defray Expense of Re- Mutilated After Death, and modeling Edifice and Believed That It Had Been in the Signed Statement Blames Shortage to Desire to Aid Friends Losses Exceed $125,000, Persons in Case Assert.

All Bills Had Been Paid.i Water at Least Thirtv Hours. HOPE-NELSON CALLED LUCKY I 11 '''i'Mk 'J I HOBOKEX, N. Sept. 6. A-wa-tersoaked pillow slip, a faded sales label, part of a torn sheet and several feet of pliable steel wire comprise the clues by which the police of two States hope to trace the identity of the young- woman whose mutilated body was found in the water When Detectives Cooper and Wallace called at the home of the Rev.

J. L. Cohron. nefcro pastor of Tabernacle Baptist Church, Saturday niirht, to arrest him on a warrant charging embezzlement of a lare part of a $50,000 fund collected by the congregation for church repair. Expert Polo Player Is Thirty and Will Enherit a Huge English Fortune.

Henry .1. Fink, banker, litinn- cier and real estate dealer, left St. Louis and returned to lelleville, 111., Saturday niprht, for the first time since Tii mysterious diap- pearanee from there ten days a so, and surrendered hiniKHf to nn- tept This city es ef negotiations A tt the bloody facing tlut has exacted 4riSht the United tlreilwrii neighbor to tn4 canted damage of millions of definitely tors of Manuel Zam-gtr ii to bring about the contending BY CHESTER OVERTON. Special Correspondent of The St. Iouis Star.

Spei-ial Cable to The SU Louts Star. they were told that the pastor is far, under the Palisades near Cliffdale last far away, probably on his way toniht. Africa. The detectives then went to There is slight hope of identifica-the home of Joseph Brookes, 4367jtion from the horribly hacked and Cote Brilllante avenue, a deacon in the slashed torso that lies in a lloboken church, and arrested him as an ac- morgue. The head and both arms LONDON' Sept.

6. Tne announce- have leen severed and the lower por- ment of the engagement of James cessory in the case. Hrookes told the officers that Hev. tion of the body has been cut off at rr fnhmn lpft the citv several davs the waist. swer a eharce of embelinj? i from Joseph liier, one of his nuuv erous clients.

After waitint; for more than four hours in the ofTice of his'at. torney, W. Itopiequet, in then First National Iiauk litnldinp, ha was released at 12:05 iSua-i t'vjBttlon was given ho declared aa Is not only an In Water 30 Hours. Coroner's Physician Oeorge King of Hudson County added to the mystery today by announcing that the woman had been murdered some time before ago and is on his way back to Africa. Warrants charging the pastor and the deacon with embezzlement were issued Saturday afternoon by Assistant Circuit Attorney William Baer, Sav Shortage Large.

the mutilation took place. The body had tieen 'in the Haerta but is also pf4a administration. 4 tVj official, "that J-a Wilimn and Genii ttiere can be no i is armistice. Interested in 1 1 iisu-oiiA are ail water not longer day, on an bond aiirned by Fred Zippenhein, a furniture dealer of East St. Ioui-, and son of than 30 hours.

The autopsy established that the woman was under of age. the fact 25 years HWh to make an While the warrant against Cohron specifically charges that $1,800 of the church fund was misappropriated, members of the congregation, in their statement to Mr. Baer, charged that the shortage was greater and that but a small balance of the $50,000 fund remained in bank. Last Monday members of the congregation obtained from Circuit Judge Cave an order restraining Cohron and There it no doubt former Zigenliein of St. Ixiuis.

Hope-Nelson to the Jovely Miss Isabel Valle, daughter of Dr. Jules T. Valle of St. Louis, vastly surprised some members of the lucky young man's family and all his friends here. In fact.

Hope-Nelson had kept ths engagement a secret even from his brother, Hugh, who knew nothing of it until told today by the correspond-ent of The St. Louis Star. Hope-Nel son is son and heir of Sir Wllam Nelson, a millionaire shipowner and chairman of the Nelson Line of steamships and of the Nelson Steam Navigation Company. Admits His Hdrothal. At his home, Batsford Park, More-ton-in-the-Marsh, Gloucester, Hope-Nelson at first would not admit he had won the young St.

Louts woman whom Mrs. W. K. Vanderbtlt called "the most beautiful girl in the United States," but when pressed he con-firmed his engagement to Miss Valle. -I first met Miss VaIe early last summer, when I was at the Wash-Ington Hotel in St.

Louis. said he. "I was on a three-months shootini? More than drnten telephone rati; The shore in Shadyside and Edge-water and down as far as Weehawken was searched today, in the hope that other parts of the body might be picked up. Nothing was found. Police Captain Marshall said t.Uy that he believed the woman was murdered in New York and carried across the river In a launch or dropped from f.U be received with -t-ir90 of this mis- 3 wide open fr the finances of In Mexico and a wly Incidentally, new Mexican Deacon Brookes, who was trustee of the fund, from withdrawing any mere i money from the bank and asking for an accounting.

Disclosures said to have been made in auditing the" church led to the application were sent to former friends and buet -ness associates In Ilellevllle, asking them to sign the bond. It was said, but none responded. Make Plea for Lenienry. While he was waiting for a bonds, man. Pink prepared a signed state, ment, in which he sld that hl f.nart-cial embarrassment was due to moneys spent Sn paying Interest and buy-Inr tin mortrirca to t.rotect his cli a ferry.

He sought other parts of the body in vain today and has organized a searching party that will scour the for warrants. beaches tomorrow morning. Sales Iirand Clew. Tho Tabernacle Baptist Church is at Ewing and Washington avenues, Coroner Schlem described the things Recently it was purchased from Hi found with the body a the half of white congregation that had moved an ordinary sheet, a red and blue nnd fishing tour in the T'nlted States. ents.

In the statement he said liJ believes ha sufficient property toT meet all looses. Jf It Judiciously handled, and pleads for a chance to make good. fi Kink reached rjellevliU nt p. In company with his epbrther. Knoll striped pillow slip bearing the marking "Restwell Brand.

Chicago, 20x27-89; wir such as used ty mtliiners and florists, and a piece of cloth resem-blinsr a part of a woman's lingerie. Another le was reported tonight by F. li. Sharp, who saw a man he thought ae a llnatic on the read Fri-day nlKhr. Consul for Spain Says His Indictment as Embezzler Involves S3, 820 He Retains to Force Mexican to Make Good Losses He Caused.

1 Zimscons was i nd alw ays has 'iVUJwiit He repre-ri which sre op-7 swthodt but nol himself. Huerta -sworn because of that states- MnW and he has a-fir because he and to who ran ap-" iealenj with less than Zam.icona. armistice 7 h'ajqiiartors of H'ierta ar In thi- thji the sinews of for this op. Wr the Consiitution- I'ernlus, 14 7 9 Stewart place, S. Ioils.

with whom he ha been Slav. Ing since he left They nr. 1 met her again at Dawson City. Alaska. It was while we were with a party of friends on a boating trip down the river to Vaju-ouver thai I proposed and was accepted.

That in all I have to tell." concluded Hope-Nelson, "except that I shalU return to America at the end of this month. Our wedding is arranged to take place In St. Ijouis toward the end of Nieoe of Titled St. I.onisati. The bridegroom-elect.

about "0 yeprs old. is 'a good all-round sportsman and an expert polo player. He delights in hunting anS shooting and im i.a v.iT-t,t -ifH a roi? and line. rived on an lnerurban car and werf to new quarters in the West End. Fund to Remodel Church.

The fund of $50,000 had been col-! lecteU and turned over to the pas-; tor to defray the cost of remodeling, the editice. and until recently the con-; gregation believed tnat all the bills for this work had been paid, and the! allseed shortage was revealed when it came to fight that larre claim" against the chi.n had not been settled. Pastor Cohron has been in charge of the church twenty years. He lives at Finney avenue. At his home Saturday right his wife aid he had directly to Hopteo'iet's offce.

Tis attorney notified Justice of the Teace) warrant was Wangeiin of Kinks presen ei; the mediately after i Justic War.gelln went to Ropie- THIEF TAKES GIRL'S PURSE WHILE SHE IS IN DENTISTS CHAIR quet's office and explained that tbi After being served with a Grsnd Jury Indictment, charging him with embezzling from Alejo Ar-che-dena, a merchant of Teh -is ran. Mexico, following a lone life of public service and promoting of iarse busings James G. Arlmrkle, president of the Arbuckle Export Association. Saturday evening wer.t on a boat warrant had been turned over to th Sheriff's office for service. Viuit then served on him.

He Is the father of May-Myn Ar. buckl-, the actor, who for seven years has starred In "The Round-I'p." "Colonel" Arbuckle, as he, is familiarly known to his many business associates in Ft. Louis. Is also president of the Arbuckle Railway Supply Company. He a onspicuous figure A handbag containing a with waived both the frvlr of the war-f I itt iv.rif a fortune and i left on a vacation, ana hocj noi rant and a pr liminary hearing.

J' trUn.uUrne I Urge estates. know present whereabouts. an5 jweiry vaiueu at lib'), stolen from Miss Nellie IjaughMn. 2o tice Wanrehn Ti'd his bond at TVi'son Mis? Valle a niere of Kidy Lceth excursion on the Mississippi ti.er. 00.

Search Hon-ve for Fink. b. i nnnrtf' he Wf COraImnnr nfd men in if'il When Fink appeared in liellevlllet of Fyvie. a leading hostess In A r.g ARREST OF ALL I HL having her teeth treated by a Amerkan society here. She was Ma-, onv rHAUFFEURS IN d-ntist Saturdav afternoon.

Jhr IC nnnrirn According to the report made by of St. Iu.s. Miss alle CO UN IT lb ORDERED lv Dr. L. O.

the dent's, was Lady Leeth's guest when she last -1 handbag on a to app'ar in nis manv anun'-'i. involving the is Consul for Spain. ant opport unity explain th the and In Iier.itv Fheriff ftichard Sit2 and he Mexican mrchant $3. $20 which 150 was de -orated the King of Spain for an historical essay on "Th Napoleonic Kra and Its lcvnC Martin tvhnlpper were in St. Iu searching for him.

They went Aral to4 i I'olb H'-adfjuarters and were nerom visited l.nglan i. The it-1 -a ul nf.te his taH reception rrKm while he claims. The indictment was served Ar was Co-, l.i treating her in his offices at 810 because of1 wy KM to the s.t- 1 l' th civil la which the Sported to hei nt revolu-I t. irain on the! the town. jrr.go ws feurs in t.

Wtirdeman th: Clayton I'inui In 1 9 1 he was rgaln by' the King of Spain, end made a i I Chemical Iuilding. When ehe a paraed to the liernlua residence by two detectives. They refused to take' Siturday Court. Judge Wurdeman ipstru ted Sher-ff P--de oe the lloya! T'lT of the word of members of I'erniua' fam- buckle in hi ottJ.e. I r.

street. Friday afternoon, upon his return from a vacation trip. Wflromes Arrest. He had been ir.sited to attend tr, steamboat excursion and was glad of deputu to arrest any boy under IS ace fotind dri ine machines. in cite ail outhfu! driv bella the Catholie.

1 He also Consul in St. Louia for 'th F.epubilcs of Columbia and Venezuela He 11 widely known for hU ready to depart it was missing. The purse later was found by Dr. I Crail in a room. It had been emptied.

F.esides the currency the thief obtained a gold watch, vslued at Zl. a brooch set with a small diamond and sixty pear. valued at 1115 nd Miss Isabel Valle is a daughter of lr. Jules V. Vwlle.

Oo5 Maryland avenue. She announced her encasement to James Hope-Nelson, eldest son of William Hope-Nelson, an English l.aroret. and ln trade." last Friday. Sir WU'iam is owner and proprietor of the Nelson Steamship Company of South America. Miss Valle is a noted St.

Loais After her debut in 1912 she '-Mne. years of He said ers arres'e and place ih. of spending trie even i )n afTnlr of tn by Jtode and nis deputies under parole not to nsr on the river. He felt no tn a breast pin. valued at 110.

for attained if 1 years nw shout tn moiamni thos countries. He or- drive until thev ha minimum ase limit "Cls STAR chauffeurs. 0V SEVEX the Mexican merchant, he said, and th. spriih.Am'rl-a Club considered it fortunate that re-, prfrnn trd- relations with South celred the chance to clear "centra! American saUort. publicly of the Mexican's charges Js Mason, a fmtr of the Arbuckle declares the chirr Exchange, Mercantile, based on a technicality growlrg out A mn4 papyms cltjh.

re- ily that Kink had gone voluntarily to. lieiievtlie and searched tha Kink. In the statement which be la-f rued, saya went back to Bella-vIHe-; voluntarily, a aoon aa be learned tm wanted. Kheriff William Icon nery reached. P.oplejueta offlc aoon after Finhdi and remained thera until the bond wasf-furnished.

It soon became kr.owrilj about town that Finlf. had retarnedf' and a large crowd congregated exsiA aide the bujlidir.r. Kink was quite nervotja and emdf tinder a severe mental atraln. A soon aa the bond aigrte-i board ed a street car for Kast fit. Iouls ft company with liernlua and Zlegeo4 hln.

He refused to say whether bf spent the summer season at -Newport, and there became very popular with the immer.se'.v rich New York and society cliques, on ac- bov or 1" yirs nns i- unu business "ruanlr.r an sutomohi thin 4 locomotive." he SAid. "fn Is sn lanc-ro-is as the ether." ALLOWS: SOCIETY WOMAN HELD IN DEMAND ON HEIRESS IS DECLARED INSANE OHIO, Sept Mrs. Margaret A. Carter, society leader. beauty.

order zni owed unusua. otir.t of her W' Mrs Miss at S4I Maple vnu- Sides called William K. Vanderbtlt some business Mexican hat merchant make rood Ar- btirk'e's losse the latter -rioct. looking girl in Amer- alio the the recent lr.dk tmer.t of John J. Mx.ii-ken 15 old.

on a charge of r'kle-' dnvi-g. and the recent re- wilt turn over the it ii he holds Swiss World's being hel here on a rharpe having 1 Shenff Madden tnat I and which he admits belongs to I written a letter demanding port -f he had r-arrow from Wa le. Jr 1 The trovib-' Rifle Champions started wren th ture palm Jeaf hats. i kt- r-! tod in the on exreeted to return to the home of tir vei: The weddirc date has been set ttn-tativelv as October 1. It wsH h-? a verv quiet, simple aftair.

Miss Valte shvs on account of the deep mourn-, the Valle family Is in. because of; death of Mrs. Valle last summer S.i Newport. i step-brother In it. Fink's Statement in Full.

mtrr.m.A TriSh I-c- rnie for lHg. NKW YORK. Sept. Ir. Softer Team Wins International Krest fjr lf toe-nth Time Mno- lt7 nite1 Mew la TTilrl.

4- I a ir.forroed th ri-ie r. Ma and had Art-'i'icf him tn Missouri, violated his -trat with Arbuckle snd -d heavy Jos, Arb'jt eve Admit Hatinr Monty. (, Orrick lohop. Assisar.t Circ.ir Attorney, who issued the warrant on the id Ar'h-'lr, came the I 1 ni rvet charre. had be hr-ght Mt'- mi at 'in-law-.

Taylor, had orn to an insanity wirfant against her. "I knew it." she sobbed. "I felt that lve ber, wrorg f'r orr-e tirr.e." Mrs. Carter has refused to partake. fod for four days.

She is very weak. Co vera went physicians are at- tending hr A hearing when her nn-itv will v-e be held e'i had col The wedding will te an aair ar.d will be witnessed only by Mi- Valle-s relatives and the broth-. er of the bridegroom. William Hope-; x- k. he his best man.

1 I i readv to CT? it deemed I 'AMP PERRT, OHIO, Sept- The championship of the world with the free rifle which goes to the winner cf the International Vnion'a JOO-meer fiv men mateo, was won o- When w-afcted cr wnen t'rvl. r.ixt to Tsii to JaiI. heljifol nrjLiui e. Iiui in July and rim to -ost au letters from admitting he sr nation. on des-re.

tw iY MfJifan, I day by Switzerland for the fifteenth if. -T i feel r- more than to rv and right, to week for failure to S'J-p- s. I i. ore- ss' Val'e will have no attendants. T'e cot'" depart withm two davs after th" for a Continental b-neymoon.

returning wtth Hope-Nelsons parents. Sir William aiJ l' Hope-Nelson. their estates in Moreton-in-Marsh. i i 1 ''at ester. had collected fvr Aut- ILa-ev Cnmptnlon to Iteorver.

ho alleged Arbuck le JACKS'JN. Sept. tj. The I ever the m'ney. The 1 every ctra v-- i used to turn time since 1 7.

Th ror cf the ar. ai' inlwinnisg team was 4.57. The Amil'5 s. -oWet n-m tl tt- ft in old ac port their r.f liforrs Pr.eiict si-t-h the money Kranc wsta second with 4.771. an-d hn ae tr.l-nred wben Hirrrl rnrdir.I to l.lsaop.

il a men; nat A iees. 1.u Orown in India. tZ.IPe,wo, that my boldinra for this if prot-r bodied. Mort of yr.y loe-s due to money p-r. In pvr.g b'jyicg up tnort gares'and trying- thus to proteet OmtinoeVI on tage Two.

ws to Hoy T. wr.o. witn racer. ivnti srt. r.e hun- ttiaim, ma auvvnw BaEgerman and otto Karr.

ap-1 The htate lanaei iron in i fftr Aatve men ard worn-I killed here, was practically uncharged ec'srel he -otil pea red t'or the 'jranl Jury. the of seven. Sti (5.., am re- rea freshet t-day. Fhysiciar.s SUNDAY BAND CONCERT Forest Fark. Focrping's Band, from Arbuckle rave r-ond lor i-n- reived "5t rn i m.

.0 to p. GSTOVALL IS FIRED AS BROWNS' MANAGER See Page One of Green Sporting Section.

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