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a Killed, More Than 20 Hurt In St. Louis Area Week Auto Accidents Hit-And-Run Driver Accounts For Death Of One St. Louisan; Other Dies In Route 40 Crash Four persons were killed and more than a score injured in traffic and highway accidents in the St. Louis area over the week end. The dead MRS.

LUCILLE BAILEY, company executive, of 31 Kingsbury DANIEL A. DuBOIS, 52-year-old intendent, of Waterloo, Ill. DONALD FINN, 18, of 328 JOHN GARNER, 40, Negro, Mrs. Bailey was killed when an auto driven by her husband, W. Bailey, president of the Bailey Auto Body 720 S.

Boyle ran off U. S. Highway 40, a half-mile east of High Hill, and struck light pole about 10:30 a. m. yesterday.

Bailey, 78, suffered chest injuries. The accident scene is miles west of St. Louis. DuBois was the victim of a headon collision of an automobile he was driving with another auto about 1:50: p. m.

yesterday on Illinois Route 3, a mile north of Columbia, in Monroe County, Ill. Superintendent of operations for the Gulf Transport Co. of St. Louis, DuBois was en route back from the scene of another collision in North Dupo of a bus belonging to his company and an automobile. Three persons in DuBois' car, including his 13-year-old son, Herbert, and Harold Nobbe, 22, Waterloo, operator the bus involved in the previous accident, were hurt.

Also injured was the driver of the other car, William J. Eckert, 45, Columbia. In the previous collision of Martin's bus with the auto, four East St. Louis men in a car driven by Herman Stockman 21, of 3135 Belleview were injured about 10:30 a. m.

yesterday. Finn was injured fatally when his automobile swerved off a road on the outskirts of Glendale Gardens, northwest of Wood River, last night, struck a stump and landed in a ditch. He was crushed by the steering wheel of the car. A passenger, John A. Underwood, 22, of 175 St.

Louis East Alton, was thrown through the windshield but escaped serious injury. Garner was killed instantly when hit by a maroon station wagon on Page blvd. at Taylor ave. early Saturday night. Two drivers of following cars said the driver of the station wagon did not even slow up after striking the pedestrian, Garner.

In another East Side bus-automobile accident, four persons were injured when an O'Fallon Bus Co. bus collided with an automobile at Lebanon ave. and N. Belt Line, Beileville, early yesterday. In St.

Louis a Broadway streetcar was derailed, tore up the curbing at Broadway and Clark ave. and came to rest against the building of the U. S. Rubber 305 S. Broadway, a collision with a tractor trailer at 3:45 a.

m. today. Both the streetcar operator and the tractor-trailer driver were injured slightly. Morton D. May To Marry On Wednesday Morton D.

May, general manager of the Famous-Barr will be married Wednesday to Mrs. Margie Gerow, it was announced today. Their engagement was made known at a party at the May home Friday evening. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.

Willard Wolcott, formerly of St. Louis and now of Dayton. The marriage Wednesday will take place at the home of the sister and brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Marcus S.

Rice, 205 N. McKnight rd. ALL STORES a OPEN TONIGHT Hampton Village HAMPTON AT CHIPPEWA 65-year-old wife of a St. Louis auto body pl. bus company operations super- Grand East Alton, Ill.

of 4529 Newberry terr. Baby Sitter Continued From Page One about 11 p. m. and Mrs. Romack might be frightened.

He said she became worried ed that the child called the Romack home but the line was busy. Mrs. Romack hung up and did not call back again. Hears Wife Scream He also said that when he and his wife reached home, Mrs. Romack went into the house and he ran in after her when he heard her screams as she found the body.

The telephone, a cradle-type instrument, was off the hook and was lodged between its base and the wall, he said. The coroner's jury. found that the Christman girl died "from asphyxiation by strangulation at the hands of a party or parties unknown." The inquest was conducted by Dr. Harry M. Griffith, Boone County coroner.

A number of persons with peeping tom or molesting records who might have been in the neighborhood at the time of the killing are being questioned. Bloodhounds were brought here early yesterday from the Algoa Intermediate Reformatory, near Jefferson City. to aid in the search for the killer. It is believed the killer fled on foot to a wooded ravine which runs near the Romack house. No definite findings were reported, however, from the use of the bloodhounds in trying to scent the trail.

Janett was a student at Jefferson Junior High School. She was a quiet sort of girl and did not engage much in social activities, investigators reported. Her chief interest was music. She played the piano. Her father operates Ernie's Steak House here.

Her relatives said she was not.a regular baby sitter, but infrequently sat for the Romacks and one other family. Romack is a certified public accountant. The Romack home, where girl was killed, is situated in a neighborhood where a recent wave of sex offenses has been reported. Police say a half dozen or so cases of criminal assault or attempted criminal assault have occurred in recent months in this vicinity. At the time the Christman girl was killed, a 26-year-old Negro was being held in the Boone County jail here, charged with committing two previous sex offenses in the vicinity of the Romack home.

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Cox of strangled to death with a piece of electric extension cord. A 34- year-old Negro rubbish hauler, Floyd Cochran of Columbia, admitted killing Miss Jenkins and subsequently was executed in the gas chamber at the state penitentiary in Jefferson City. Account of Slaying As the pieces of the U. S. MILITARY var, convicted by kidnaping sia for $500.

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He took her to his home to sit with Gregg. Then Mr. and Mrs. Romack left about 8 p. m.

to attend a bridge party. Apparently Janett was in the living room of the Romack house when the intruder approached. She was playing the piano either before or when the killer came. Sheets of music on the piano rack were different from those Mrs. Romack had last placed there.

Police also found the living room radio turned low when they went to the scene of the killing. There was some indication Janett heard the intruder prowling around the outside of the house before he attempted to enter. The front porch light was on when the Romacks came home. Prosecuting Attorney Sapp said Romack considered it unusual for the light to be on. This led to the belief the jigsaw are placed together, from reports by investigating authorities and interviews with relatives of Janett and neighbors of the Romacks, here is what happened to the girl Saturday night: Romack drove to the Christman home, which is on the second floor above Ernie's Steak House, and picked up Janett about 6:30 or Insurance Rates For Young Drivers To Be Hiked Here Cost of auto liability insurance in Missouri, Illinois and other states went up today autos driven by persons under years old.

Reason for the increase, approved by the Missouri Insurance Department, is the growing centage of accidents in young drivers are responsible, cording to insurance men here. Also effective today is a tion in the rate on autos more than 7,500 miles a year not by anyone under 25. Cost of a minimum liability on a private passenger car in souri driven by a person or under 25 is $71 a year under new rate schedule, worked out the National Bureau of Casualty Underwriters. The old rate $58.50. man Roy McCowan picked up frantically ringing telephone at lice headquarters.

"I was in the station, reporting an accident, when the phone McCowan said. "A girl's voice said, 'Come She was screaming and too," McCown recounted. "I Quiet down. Give me an There was silence. I didn't any more.

I waited around, ing there might be another But none came in." Apparently the assailant Janett and caused her to nate the call to police and the futile struggle for her life. Blood marks on the walls floor indicate the killer bludgeoned the girl as he pursued her through the dining room and kitchen into a hallway. Apparently knocked her down in the hallway and went into a sewing room, he used a pair of scissors to the cord off the electric iron. was the cord used to strangle Janett. The girl's clothing were under her as though she had dragged from the hallway into living room.

She was attired a grey skirt and sweater, bobby sox and low cut shoes. was criminally assaulted in the ing room and there she was lying by the piano, when the macks returned home. Dr. Griffith, the coroner, and Neal were then summoned later performed an autopsy. determined the girl had died strangulation and had been inally assaulted.

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Whiteley also speculated that the killer may have waited to enter the Romack house until the Whiteley family went to bed, shortly before 11 p. m. Shortly before bedtime, the Whiteley's were drinking coffee in a room which has a window facing the Romack home. At any rate, the killer took a wooden sawhorse, which sat at the southeast corner of the Romack home, and carried it to the west window of the living room. This window, incidentally, was the only one in the house which did not have storm sash.

When the Romacks ordered storm sash, the order was one window short. Climbing on this sawhorse, the killer smashed the window, presumably with the pipe or whatever he used to bludgeon the girl, and crawled over the piano to get into the room. Hearing the window smash and seeing the killer coming in, the girl apparently ran to the telephone, located in a recess between the living room and dining room. It was at this point that Patrol- LAWSON SOFA Regular 129.00 Value 98 A large, comfortable sofa in the popular two-cushion LAWSON STYLE. Sturdy, well-built frame, full innerspring construction of fine materials.

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Koerner's court today by a dispute over which one of the cases would be tried first. Assistant Circuit Attorney William S. Bahn said the state was prepared to go to trial on a charge by a 10-year-old girl that Crenshaw had illicit relations with her on May 10, 1949. Crenshaw's attorney, Morris A. Shenker, objected, however, pointout that Judge Koerner had told both sides when the case last came up that he wanted them to be ready to try a charge brought by an 11-year-old girl charging Crenshaw had illicit relations with her June 20, 1949.

When Judge Koerner indicated he would side with Shenker, Assistant Circuit Attorney Bahn announced he was ready to nol pros both the other charges against Crenshaw in order to try him first on the case involving the 10-yearold child. On his own motion, Judge Koerner this afternoon continued until 9:30 a. m. tomorrow all three cases and expressed hope that attorneys for both sides would be in agreement by that time on trial preparation. Crenshaw, now living in Illinois and at liberty under bond, pleaded guilty last December to two charges of criminal assault growing out of cases involving two of the girls.

Public outcry later caused the court to aside a two-year parole granted Crenshaw in the cases and they were reinstated for trial. Name to Remember For FINE PHOTOGRAPHY MARTIN SCHWEIG 4927 Delmar RO. 3000-01-02 Court's Attempt To Speed Robinson's Trial Frustrated Circuit Judge culties today when M. Robinson, 46 murder charge. When court two-week continuance, Court in denying him by surprise.

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and They of crim- adtwo Cheryi ARE ALWAYS Washington Avenue Eugene J. Sartorius ran into insurmountable he insisted upon hearing the case against Willis who has been held for five years awaiting trial on opened, Robinson's attorney, Cecil Block, asked for saying the quick action of the Missouri Supreme a motion to free Robinson last Saturday had caught He had expected the court to take the case under 293 Judge Sartorius denied his plea heatedly, saying there had been too much publicity about "this poor man being unable to get a trial in five years" and added, "Every man is entitled to his day in court and this is your client's day!" He did grant a continuance until this afternoon, however, for Block, who vigorously denied any "responsibility" for news stories about Robinson case, including speIcifically its mention in the recent Richard S. Lewis, StarTimes staff writer, dealing with weaknesses in the administration of criminal law here. Within an hour Robinson and his attorney were back in court. This time, Robinson told Judge Sartorius he wished to discharge Block as his counsel.

The judge turned him down. Robinson then demanded a change of venue--the second time he has made such a request during his confinement this was denied, too. He then asserted that he could not stand trial immediately as he had 42 witnesses he wanted to summon, some of them in Arkansas and California, who would come voluntarily. Somewhat wearily, Judge Sartorius, who was assigned to handle criminal cases in January, nounced he would give Robinson until Wednesday to get the witnesses he wanted. As the defendant, accused of slaying a truck driver and once declared insane by a jury since then, left court he told Block, "Go into federal court and get me an injunction against this judge!" 400 Hear Dr.

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