Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 31, Number 296, 21 November 1906 — Page 1
OL. XXXI. NO. 296.
Richmond, Indiana, Wednesday Morning, November 21, 1906. Single Copy, One Cent.
TRUSTED MAIL CARRIER CAUGHT
STEALING MOIIEV
'. Dan Engelbert Detected in
Act of Opening a Letter and
Taking Money from it by an
Inspector.
RRESTED AND HURRIED
AWAY TO INDIANAPOLIS
vidence Shows That He Has
Been Pilfering Mails for a
Long Time In Employ o Government 16 Years.
On the charge of rifling the United
tates mails, Theodore Daniel Engel
;rt, a prominent mail carrier in this tv. and who has been connected
ith the local office for more than
xteen years, was yesterday arrested
United States Secret Service In
bector A. It. Burr, who apprehended
m in the act of pilfering a decoy
tter which had been sent through
he mails.
Englebert has recently been the
botman in all that territory west of
le river and North of Richmond At
nine, and it was tnrougn me many
bmplaints from patrons in this see-
on that suspicion turned toward En-
elbert. This section alone had not
een the only one that has suffered
bcording to the inspector, but where
ver Engelbert has worked in the
ast two or three years, a train of
ndelivered letters has followed him
A few footman in the city have
een changed quite often to ascertain
here the known shortages originat1. Invariably it hits been found that
ngelbert was the man who caused
le shortages, but owing to the fact
lat he had never been caught in the
ct of pilfering the mails he has been llowed to stay in the service until
bme definite and incriminating evi-
ence could be . secured against him.
he inspectors worked upon the the-
ry that he would some time reach
he end of his rope andHheir expeeta-
ons were realized yesterday, when
decoy letter was sent through the
ffice and into Engelberts hands iu rder to test him.
Inspector Here But a Day. Inspector Burr arrived in the city
esetrday and at once set, about lay-
g the trap for Englebert. The let-
pr was addressed to a person living
Engelbert's route , and when he
as sorting his mail, in preparation
p making his afternoon trip, his eyes ell on the letter. Inspector Burr,
ho was closeted in a secret passagay in the building watched Engel-
ert closely. Unhesitatingly Engel-
ert tore the letter open, regardless f the fact that he was yet In the ostoffice and subject to probable' def
ection, extracted the money which
mounted to five or six dollars and
hen tore the letter up and threw the
craps into the lavoratory near by. It was at this time that Inspector
iurr confronted Engelbert with the
vidence which he had just secured.
mt when Inspector Burr told him
hat he had used the secret p?ssag-
vay In order to watch his (Engel-
ert's) actions, Engelbert broke down
knd confessed his guilt.
Cried Like a Child.
Inspector Burr hurried him out of
he postoffice after securing the ser-
ices of a substitute carrier and took
him to the Arlington Hotel. Here
Ingelbert began to realize the force
nd awfulness of his deed, and he roke down and cried like a babj.
uoaning all the while.
Engelbert was started on his jour-
ley toward Indianapolis yesterday af-
ernoon at 4:53 where he will have to
ace the Federal Grand Jury, and
vhich will indict him, before he faces
he United States Commission on the
harge of pilfering the mails. He
as taken by the way of Anderson
order to save time between Rieh-
nond and the state capital. I
Before leaving the city Inspector j
iurr stated that to his knowledge J Cngelbert had secured three or four !
undred dollars by his dishonest
nethods. Owing to the fact that all
omplaints from patrons of the Rich-
nond office are sent to the Postmas-
er General at Washington, the mem-
ers of the local force were unaware
hat the funds had been disappearing
rom the local office- Even Postmaser Spekenhier was dumfounded at
he arrest of Engelbert. as he had ut-
nost confidence in the man. The
deral officers knew that the short-
ges in the office were caused
y some carrier, and .they set about
xing the , blame although they had
ery good reasons to believe that En-
elbert was the man they wanted.
nd the decoy was sent directly
hrough him, owing to the many
osses which had been reported on his
outes.
Was Unusually Brazen. Inspector Burr stated yesterday.
hat the work of Engelbert in robbing he mails was the most deliberate
hat had ever come to his attention.
nd the very fact that Engelbert went bout it with such coolness, in the
THE WEATHER PROPHET.
INDIANA Rain, colder in south, rain or snow in north Wednesday; Thursday fair, fresh to brisk north winds. OHIO Rain in south, rain or snow in ! north Wednesday; Thursday fair in west, rain or snow in east, colder in south portion; fresh to brisk north winds.
$6,000 ALREADY RAISED
WORK IS MOVING AHEAD
Secretary Brown , Encouraged by First Two Days Canvass for Y. M. C. A. Building Little Contnbutions Now Coming In.
First Day ...$5,594. Second Day..'.. .. .. .. .... 780.
Total.. .. ..$6,374. "The outlook is very flattering, if the final results are to be judged by the first two days," said Secretary
Charles II. Brown, last night, when asked as to whether or not he was encouraged by the first two days receipts toward the Y. M. C. A. fund in Richmond.
At noon yesterday, the time set
by the executive committee to close
the days reports, $780 had been rais
ed, making a grand total of $6,374
raised up to date.
One of the chief donors to the
cause yesterday, was the Sunday school of the United Presbyterian church, it being the first Sabbath school In the city to make a donation. The amount turned over was $200.
The school has set a worthy example for the other Sabbath schools of the city and it is proT.ble that many more will follow in their, footsteps
and give amounts to their financial ability.
The soliciting for several days will
be confined to the young men's industrial committees, as it is the idea
of the executive committee to give
every man, woman and child, of limited means an opportunity to contribute, before the men who are expected to give large amounts are called
upon.
Sharon E. Jones one of the leading
spirits in the work, stated last night
that the work was moving in splendid shape, and he expected that as the grand total of amounts given to the
causevincreased, the interest In the work would also grow.
DEGREE WORK PUT Oil BY LOCAL TEAM
Whitewater Lodge Exemplifies First and Second Degree at Indianapolis.
ODD FELLOWS IN SESSION
W. H. TABER OF TERRE HAUTE, NAMED GRAND JUNIOR WARDEN AFTER SPjRITED FIGHT AMONG MANY CANDIDATES.
NJURED BY BAD FALL
John Morris While Intoxicated Falls
Main Street Cutting Gash . . Over His Eye.
on
John Morris, 'a carpenter residing
at 433 Main street, while intoxicated, fell on Main street near Fourth last night with such force, that a
large gash was cut over his left eye, while his face was bruised very badly. The patrol was called to the scene and he was taken to his home, where a physician treated his
wounds.
Bank Cashier Suicides. 'Publishers' Presal Springfield, O., Nov. 20. Alexan
der R. Cobough, former, cashier of
the First " National Bank here, committed suicide tonight by ' hanging himself. He was widely known in
financial and business circles in this section of .the state.
Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 20. (Spl.) Before a great gathering of Odd Fellows, who are in attendance at the annual state convention of the Grand Encampment, the Whitewater Lodge of Richmond, and a selected team from Shelbyville, tonight made the
floor of Tomlinson Hall a scene of beauty with the pretty maneuvers of first and second degree work. Spirited rivalry for the office of grand junior warden marked the
opening session today. This being
the only competitive office in the or
der and the stepping stone to all the
higher ones, there were sixteen as
pirants for it. The successful candi date was W. II. Taber, of Terre Haute.
He ran away from the other candi
dates on the first ballot and was elect
ed on the second.
Other offices were filled by promo
tion, as follows: Grand patriarch, I
G. Akin, Indianapolis; grand high priest, L. C. Helm, Decatur, and grand senior warden, J. H. McSheehy, Lo-
gansport. W. H. Leedy, of this city
was re-elected grand scribe, and J. M
Lang ,of Sullivan, acting treasurer
was elected to that office. John B
Cockrum, of this city, was selected grand representative to the Sovereign
Encampment. Candidates for Junior Warden.
. The candidates for grand junior war
den included: W. H. Hodson, Martins
ville; Ed Cunningham, Lafayette; A
D. Mohler, Huntington: C. L. Bur
roughs, Shannondale; W. F. Wells
Clinton; W. I. Hughes, Alexandria;
W. A. Breining, Rockfield; E. H. Brew-
er, Monrovia; F. H. Seward, Colum bus; S. O. Sharp, Indianapolis; F. E
Lambert. South Bend?-D. V Helms,
Carlisle; J. F. Orr, Bourbonr E. E Kelso, Vevay and J. S. James, Linton
Reports were read by J. M. Baker, retiring grand patriarch; W. H. Leedy, grand scribe, and James M. Lang
grand treasurer. These showed the
order to be in, prosperous condition
gains having been made during the last year, both in membership and rev
enues. The net gain in membership was 494, making the total membership in the state, 17,384. This makes the
Grand Encampment of Indiana the
largest in the country. To Settle Building Question. r
The Grand Lodge of the State will convene tomorrow morning for a two days' session, during which the question of erecting a large office building
on the site of the Grand Lodge hall at Washington and Pennsylvania streets.
will be settled. More than 1,100 dele gates will participate.
Tomorrow afternoon the visiting
Odd Fellows Vill go on an excursion
to the. home of the order at Greens
burg. i Return will be made in the evening in time for a night session of the Grand Lodge. Officers will be elected Thursday. For the office of
grand warden, which is the single competitive office of the Grand Lodge
there are fifteen candidates.
Always Wears Highly Becoming Gowns
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MRS. MERRIOTT W. WALKER, AN ALABAMA BEAUTYOne of the most beautiful of southern women Is Mrs. Merrlott W. Walker of Alabama, who spends half of each year in New York. While in the metropolis fhe lives at the Waldorf-Astoria. Mrs. Walker expects to be in New York the greater part of the coming winter. She is tall snd stately and always wears highly becoming gowns.
Dissatisfied Cuba One ofdese days I'm goin' to land on dat Intrevention mart.
IS ARRESTED FOR ASSAULTING CHILD Mrs. John Fitzsimmons Rudely Knocked Over Little Miss
Leona Druley. -
WITHOUT PROVOCATION
FATHER OF THE CHILD BRINGS CHARGES AND NEIGHBORS SAY FITZSIMMONS FAMILY HAVE LONG BEEN ANNOYING.
Mrs. John Fitzsimmons, living at
220 North 20th street, was arrested yesterday on, the charge of assaulting
Leona Druley, a small child, also living on North 20th street. The charges were brought by H. E. Druley
father of the little girl. According
IT STILL WORST
REMAINS
L
A GUAGE
Rev. Byrne Declares Roosevelt's Reform Don't Begin to Touch Spelling.
MAKES SPLENDID ADDRESS
TELLS AUDIENCE IN ST. MARY'S HALL THAT PEOPLE OF IRELAND HANG - STARS aRd STRIPES ALONGSIDE "GREEN."
"If President Roosevelt should re
vise the spelling of the English. language, it would still remain the worst
spelled language in the world." Such
was one of the most significant statements of the Rev. Joseph F. Byrne, in
his lecture on "The Tie that Binds,"
THIRD REGIMENT
MEMORIAL HERE . : i Uniform Rank K. of P. to Pay
Annual Konor to Their Dead in This City.
IS HELD EARLY Hi JUNE
IN ADDITION TO MEMBERS OF
THE REGIMENT, FULLY ONE
THOUSAND KNIGHTS WILL BE
IN ATTENDANCE.
At the meeting of the Richmond Dl
vision, No. 14, of the Uniform Rank f Knights of Pythias, Monday, night, .. : ' ....
a committee was appointed to maice arrangements for the Memorial day of the Third Regiment, which will be held
in this city in the first or second week
to his statement, his daughter was delivered at St. Mary's Hall last of next June.
passing the Fitzsimmons home about
30 o'clock last Friday evening, when
Mrs. Fitzsimmons rushed out of the house and rudely knocked her over. The child was greatly frightened by
what happened and was also injured
by her fall.
Supt. Bailey said last night, that as
f as he could find, the story told by
Mr. Druley was correct. The case will come up in ( the city court this
morning.
For some time the neighbors of the
Fitzsimmons family on North 20th
street, say that the family has been a source of great annoyance. They say
that indecent language has been used
by all members of the family and that
all that prevented charges being brought sooner, was the fact that no one cared to get the notoriety connected with such an affair.
The Fitzsimmons have a police
court record and it is probable that
the woman will be severely dealt with
in court today.
DR. HENRY H. MOORE DEAD
One of Three Oldest Men in Union
County Passes Away Retired Ten Years Ago.
Liberty, Ind.; Nov. " 20. (Spl.) Dr.
Henry H. Moore, who . was ninety
years old October 16, died at, his, home in this city last night of a complication
of aiiments. He was born near Lex?
tngton, K, in IS 16, removiing to
Brownsburg, Ind.. when a young man.
fc-here he began the practice of medicine, removing after afew years to
Indianapolis, where he remained for a
number of years. He came to this
place about thirty years ago.
He retired from practice ten years
ago, and he has since made his home with his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Hughes. He was a member of the Christian
church and highly respected man.
His home formerly was known as the
Seminary," a famous school In the
early history of the town, which was presided over by William Hautbn, a public educator of great renown. Dr. Moore was one of the threeoldest men of the county. .
night. The lecture was largely . attended and was the source of much en
joyment as well as instruction. Rev.
Byrne dwelt upon the ties that bound
the people of the earth in closer fel
lowship, among which were fraternal-
ism, strong national spirit and indus
trial education, and last of all, but not
least language.
Rev. Byrne is a young Irishman, and he paid an eloquent tribute to America
as the leading nation of the earth, and stated that the Irish people turned their faces toward America, as the land of freedom, although they did not look on it as a foreign country, owing tothe many Irishmen who have gained fame in America and since the Revolutionary war, when they fought under Washington, have been among the strongest men of the land. Hestated that the Irish people of today,. in the home country, although still under the British yoke, hung the flag of green and the stars and stripes together, in the face of British au-
ANOTHER TRUST IS GUILTY
VIOLATED THE ELKINS LAW
United States Court Finds American Sugar Refining Company Guilty of Accepting Rebates from New York Central Railroad.
The memorial day exercise - is the most important celebration during the year, and as a general rule over, one
thousand visiting knights are enter
tained at each event, In addition to the members of . the regiment. Members
from many counties adjoining Wayne, will be present, while Knights from all over this section of the country will
be in attendance.
The majority of the exercises, con
sisting mainly of the memorial ser
vices, will be held at Earlham cemetery, and it is said that some of the most
prominent speakers In the Knights of Pythias Lodge,-1 will be here on that date. In addition to the regular memorial exercises, the grand review and
drill will be held by the regiment. George Williams, colonel of the regiment, will select the date and speakers in the course of the, next few
weeks. The committee appointed by the local company to look after the ar
rangements, is composed J of the fol
lowing knights: Frank Neff, T. J. Golding, August Schroeder, Walter
Lichtenfels and Daniel C. Hill.
PARALLED ONLY BY KARTJE CASE
Third Suit for Divorce by Millionaire Lawson Collapses at Brooklyn.
PERJURY IS NOW CHARGED
PLAINTIFF HAS NAMED EIGHTEEN YEAR OLD YOUNGSTER AS CORESPONDENT SOCIETY AGHAST AT DETAILS.
TO CELEBRATE VICTORY
Knights of Pythias Will Jollify Friday Night Over Winning the Palladium Piano.
New York, Nor. 20. The American SugarRefining Company 'was found guilty "of receiving rebates from the New York Central Railroad by . a' jury here" late this afternoon in the United States District Court, The trust was tried on two counts and the verdict appied to both." " "If 'thefuirpenalty should be inflicted It would amount to a total fine of $40,000. The charge is the violation of the Elkins law. Counsel for the trust asked for a new trial and Judge Holt, sitting in the case, announced that he would tak the motion under consideration and render a decision probably tomor-
The Knights of Pythias will cele
brate winning the Palladium piano Friday night with a program of speech making, music and a dance. The program which has been prepared for the occasion follows: Music Taggart Glee Club. Short Address Chas. E. Shiveiey. Short Address Will Converse. Selected Recitations Mr. Crivel. Vocal Music Pfafflin Sisters. Piano and Violin music ilessrs Woods and Hicks. Dance. ..... ...
McMahan Farm Sold. Milt(it Ind., Nov. 20, 4SpI.) Henry McMahan has sold his 70 acre farm" south of Dublin to Frank ' Sutton, of North Dakota, price $3,500. 3r. Sutton " will soon come with his family Snd. make the place their future home. :
Publishers Tress J New York, Nov. 20. Paralleled by the famous Hartje case which recently threatened to disrupt PittsburR high societj-, is that of Mrs. William M. Lawson, of Brooklyn, whose husband has unsuccessfully sued her three times for divorce, the last casa collapsing yesterday through the admitted perjury of a witness, if theallegations of counsel for Mrs. Lawson are to be believed. Edmund L.
Mooney, attorney for Lena Lawrence Lawson, went before District Attorney, Clarke, of Queens" county tonight and informed him that he had absolutely conclusive proof that tea - j persons who testified at the former trials committed perjury and that they did .so because they were well paid for It. Had Picked Her Up. The Lawson divorce trial has attracted much attention in the aiiet city of churches. William M. Lawson is a millionaire1 jute manufacturer and about a year ago he first brought suit against his wife for absolute divorce, naming as corespondent an 18 year old boy, Allen Stanley Carmichael. Carmichael proved the chief witness against the woman, he testified that he "had picked her up" through a flirtation on the street and that he had become a member of her household after she had separated from her husband." He swore to having had illicit relations with Mrs. Lawson in her home and in a hotel in Brooklyn. Other witnesses gave testimony which was intended to corroborate the corespondent's story, but Mrs. Iawson, taking the stand In her own defense, swore that her husband had conspired to get rid of her and denied in toto all of the stories told against her on the witness stand. " Nine of the twelve jurymen in the first trial believed Mrs. Lawson but three others held out for the divorce and the jury was finally discharged. The same evidence came out at the second trial, the youthful co-respondent unblushingly endeavoring to swear away the good name of the fair defendant she is one of the best looking women Hhat has appeared in a Brooklyn divorce case in several years. As on the first trial, the second resulted in a hung jury. The third trial was begun this week and had not extended very far until it was positively priven to the satisfaction of Supreme Court Justice Marean, that Lee Haimewich, a witness for the plafntiff who testified to seeing Mrs. Lawson and young Carmichael in a room in the Clarendon hotel, had committed perjury. The
court Immediately ordered , a juror withdrawn and declared It a mistrial.
Haiemwich was arrested for perjury
and Is now confined in the Adams
street jail, awaiting the action of
the grand jury,
Were Drilled by Plaintiff. Edmund L. Mooney, counsel for
Mrs. Lawson, after investigating the case, announces that he is going to
have all of the conspirators punished.
He alleges that he is In a position to
prove tnat ten persons oi those so
far testified against Mrs. Lawson, in
cluding young Carmichael, flatly perjured themselves. According to his story all of the witnesses whose evidence he ; holds was manufactured.
were kept at summer resorts along the Long Island shore for weeks at the expense of Lawson; that th' were thoroughly drilled In the stories they were expected to tell on the wit
ness stand by a member of the Kings county bar, whose name Mooney is keeping secret; and that for months past all of these witnesses have been
drawing a stated weekly stipend from the millionaire jute manufacturer.
The allegations in the case have
stirred the King's county bar to its center and it is reported tonight that a special grand jury is to be asked
for to investigate the charges.
Mrs. Lawson Makes Statement. A reporter of the Publisher's Press
Association saw Mrs. Lawson in her Brooklyn home tonight and asked her regarding a report that she would re
fuse to defend the suit further on the ground that Bhe had no funds with which to proceed. She said:
'That is not so. Although there Is monstrous conspiracy against me
which has for its object the dragging
of my good name in the dirt, I will not rest until I liave cleared myself.
Mr. Lawson would kill me to get rid
of me if it were not. for the penalty of
the law, and he himself is part of this
gigantic conspiracy to besmirch me. Carmichael was a servant; nothing else and I will yet be exonerated." An effort Is to be made to have the case go to tial for the fourth tiaia next week.