Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 132, 20 March 1909 — Page 1

T BICHMOM) FAI AND STTN-TRTGHAM. RICHMOND, IHlif SATURDAY EVENING. 31 ARC II 20, 1909. VOL. XXXIV. NO. 132. FEEMSTER CASE IS SET FOR TRIAL WOMEN VICTIMS RICHMOND CROOK OFFICIAL LIO TO REMAIN Oil CITY STATES STAUBACH L BROKE ALL ITS RECORDS Snapshots Taken of Taft During Visit to Panama UNDER TERMS OF TARIfTMEASURE (I0W III CUSTODY To Be Given a Hearing Monday. on Took Five Minutes to Approve LAFAYETTE, Board's Bonds.

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Mew Chief Says That It Has f Been on and Will Remain ,

So, Without the Slightest Kind of Tilting. POARD SELECTS THE NEW POLICE OFFICERS George M. Little Appointed First Sergeant, While Ed. - McNally Was Selected as The Second Sergeant. "The laws are to be enforced just as they are and without any discrimination. The lid has been on and it will be kept on and not allowed to tilt even just a little bit." GEORGE STAUBACH, Superintendent of Police. George Staubach Superintendent. George M. Little First Sergeant. Edward McNally -Second . Sergeant. New officers, of the police department, as named above, were selected Hy the new board of police commis5 loners at its meeting last evening, nse A. Bailey, former superintendent, retires' from the force. Daniel (McManus, former first sergeant and cott Winters, former second sergeant, jare reduced to members of the force Ifor the present. Their permanent retention has not been determined upon. J"o action was taken relative to the resignations and applications of other members of the force. West Side Benefited, it was decided to place an additional patrolman on the West Side. This action was taken, upon the recommendation of the new chief, who Is a resident of West Richmond, and for a long time lias appreciated the need of. another officer aerossrthe river, - Citizen, of that part of the city have been demanding another officer, for years. They advance the claim for better protection jiot so much because of violation of the law as the interests of property and homes. At present Officer Menke is on patrol duty across the river. Every member of the force has pre sented his resignation, but no action will be taken by the board before next Wednesday evening. It is believed quite probable that two or three of the present officers will be dropped and jiew men appointed to the positions, peculation, ampng the members of the force is rife, as to those who may receive the official ax. McManus and iWinters are reduced to the ranks to take the positions of Little and McNally. A Veteran Member. Staubach was a member of the police force for fifteen years. He reelgned about a year ago to succeed C. W. Merrill as president of the board of public works, when he was appointed city clerk. The new chief has hundreds of friends, who rejoice at his appointment and anticipate a continuance of the law enforcement policy. As e. patrolman Staubach became thoroughly acquainted with conditions in all parts of the city, and the experience gained in this way will prove valuable aid to him as superintendent. There is no doubt but that he will have the co-operation and assistance as well as loyal support of all members of the .department. - When the board appointed George Morton Little first sergeant, It chose as capable a man as there is on the force; Little, has had several years' experience as a patrolman and during all of that time his name has not been connected with-any scandal of any kind. He is a thorough . gentleman, amply efficient and a man in whom the public as well as his superiors may have absolute reliance. He has executive ability and will be able to act as secretary to the board in a competent manner. He is courteous and affable, quiet, unassuming and has attributes of other kinds that his friends believe Will make him a model officer. . Officer Are Popular. For popularity, it Is doubtful if the board could have found a man in the department more widely known as a friend to all than Edward McNally, the new night sergeant. McNally was - not an active candidate for the office, but his fitness prompted the board to . choose him. He has been serving as roundsman and has a wide acquaintance throughout the city. Jesse A. Bailey, retiring superintendent, has served three years In that ca- . pacity.' - He was appointed as the succesesor to Alex Gormoo, following the " reform wave that spread through the city demanding a change In the police , department. During his connection with the department. Bailey has done faithful duty. He has tried in every way; to advance the department to a hither plane. He has endeavored to smooth out the complications that ex Isted when he took charge and at the time bring about a reform. He ' has succeeded . In each - undertaking. Following an era In which the city had been "open" and acting upon instruc-

BUNCO MAN FOUfID

VICTIMS III CITY Many Women Who Subscribed For a Magazine Learn They Were Swindled. HE IS NOW SERVING TIME OFFERED SUBSCRIPTIONS TO PICTORIAL REVIEW AT CUT RATES THROUGH A CINCINNATI CONCERN. Local subscribers to the number of several score, who engaged . copies of a publication called - "The : Pictorial Review,, have been swindled by the agent!. The entire city was canvassed In the early part of this year and the agent, who gave the name of P. M. Fuller, secured a large number of orders. Also, he secured the money. He represented that the Mabley & Carew company, of Cincinnati, had come into possession of the company publishing the review and was closing out the issues at reduced rates;: . Merely a Bunco Game. Everything in connection with the affair Is branded a misrepresentation by the Mabley & Carew company as is indicated by the following letter to one of the subscribers: Dear Madam:' .' We received your letter and in reply will say" that ' we have received quite a few of these complaints,' but wish to inform you that we have no agents of any kind representing us. On receipt of the last complaint, we wrote to the Pictorial Review regarding the matter and their reply is as follows: "Replying to your communication of recent date, would state that Mr. P. M. Fuller, to whom you refer. Is a. swindler. He has taken numerous subscriptions throughout the country for various magazines, for "-.which he has never made returns. We have received information to the effect that he is now serving a term of ninety days in jail for having secured money under false pretenses." Assuring you that we - regret exceedingly that you have been the victim of fraud, we remain. Yours respectfully,

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SGLONS TO GETTHEM

Sweeney States That Copies Of His Report Go to Legislators. ARRANGEMENT DIFFERENT Commissioner Sweeney has notified County Clerk Penny that copies of his last report will net be placed with the clerks for distribution. The state has ordered the printing of 10,000 more volumes of the edition and these have been apportioned so that each representative and senator in the legislature secured Co volumes. These are to be disributed, so Instead of writing to the clerk or to Sweeney, the applicant is to ask his representative in the legislature. ': The clerk has been notified, also, by Sweeney that' the hunting laws have been amended so that wild duck's can be hunted up to April 15. The former law made a closed season after Aprfi i.- The change in the law will be welcomed by all duck hunters. Cigarette" Baker May Now Return to Indiana Without Fearing Arrest. CHIEF WITNESS NOW DEAD . Indianapolis. March 20. Governor Marshall today recalled the $3,000 reward offered by the state for the ar rest and return of "Cigarette" Baker because Ananias . Baker ; whom it is charged be tried to bribe in, the legislature to vote against the anti-cigarette law is dead.' Offer of reward was made by Governor Hanly. "Cigarette Baker Is supposed to be in Canada. There is an indictment against - him here for bribery, but it is probable he could not be convicted now, since Baker is dead. THE WEATHER PROPHET.

REWARD

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The case of the state vs. Alonzo Feemster has been Bet for trial in 'Squire Bowermaster's court at Cambridge City, Monday. Feemster is

charged with assault and battery on the Rev. William Walters, pastor of the Methodist church at Cambridge. The two engaged in a street fight and Walters was severely injured. BERTSCH CASE TO BE HEARD IN MAY Will Be Investigated by Fed eral Jury. P. J. Freeman, federal commissioner for this district, said today the trial of Mrs. Bertsch, of Centerville, for misuse of the mails will not come up until the federal grand jury makes its investi gation and report next month. That means that trial is not likely to be held before May. worn PERMIT A PEST HOUSE AT REID HOSPITAL Trustees of the Institution Sit Down Firmly Upon the Pet Scheme of City Health Of ficer Bond. MAYOR SCHILLINGER GETS A PROPOSITION Contagion Ward for All Dis eases Except Smallpox City Gave $6,000 Annually For Two Years. The trustees of the Reid Memorial hospital have informed the city author itles that a pest house will not be permitted on the hospital 'grounds. Dr. Bond, city health officer, has been advising the construction of a contagion ward at the hospital so that the smallpox patients might be removed there and placed in confinement, instead of leaving them at their homes in the city or taking the other alternative and removing them, to the West Richmond pest house. Dr. Bond has declared that to place the small-pox patients in a contagion ward at the hospital was the best way for treatment of the disease. He has advocated the erection of a contagion ward for this reason. He states that the hospital nurses could care for the smallpox patients ,as well as the other patients in the hospital and that there would be a saving over the present system. He states that there would be little danger of the nurses transmitting the disease to the other patients in the hospital, as they could disinfect their clothing very easily. Dr. Schillinger, mayor of the city, has investigated the proposition and has been told by the trustees that if the city will give the hospital $6,000 a year for two years at the end of that time the board will erect a contagion ward. But in agreeing to erect the contagion ward under these terms, the trustees make the provision that smallpox patients must be excluded. Only persons suffering from scarlet fever, diphtheria, measles and other contagious diseases could be placed in the ward. They give as a reason, that the disease is too contagious. The trustees say that it is very probable, the disease would spread to the hospital and every patient in the place would be liable to contract it. - Such a proposition does not meet witb the approval of the city authorities. What they want is a satisfactory place to care for smallpox. ASK LUTHER AtlS TO r ASSlSrUMTHE VORK Synod Committee Wants to Secure Accommodations. At the meeting last evening of the general and the entertainment committees, having in charge the preparation for the meeting of the general Lutheran synod this summer, it was decided to send oat letters to the Lutheran families asking them to furnish accommodations for . delegates. Those who promise to entertain dele gates are expected to furnish sleeping apartments and breakfast. The other two meals will be served - at - the

Unequal Imposition of Duties

On Family Gloves Attacks The Purses of the Gentler Sex. WORKMEN WILL HAVE TO PAY THE HIGHEST Cheap Grade of Necessities to Be Raised to a Tax Which Is Equal to the Most Expensive. Washington. D. C, March 20. Ex tremes meet in the Payne tariff, bill quite as much as they do elsewhere in the world. The people are just beginning to realize that the women of the country apparently have been singled out for attack bv the tariff framers. isoi onha., most of the things whicn they buy in the stores been left sevroiv alone, so that they must con timiP to nav the prevailing nign prices in the face of the reduction on almost all other articles of personal wear in which women are always most particularly interested, which for some mvsterious reason not yet maae known bv the dignitaries of the ways and means committee - actually have been subjected to an increased tarinr. which, of course means, 11 iariu means anything at all. a largely in creased price. Already it has been announced about the extraordinary increabe m the rates on cotton hosiery and this naturally leads up to the fact tnai without any rational explanation whatsoever the tariff revision bill al so has increased the rates on gloves of all kinds, and the most astounding advance made oh the cheapest grades chiefly worn by women and children of the poorest class. It scarcely is believed that a majority of the members of the house will be willing to vote In favor of these two increases, provided the women of the country use their influence to prevent it. Gloves Made at a Loss? It: mav be that gloves have been mA in the United States for at least twelve years under the Dingley tariff law at a direct loss to the manufacturers. If this be true, the manu facturer ought to have more duty. It does not seem right, however, that he should be given such an enormous ad vantage as is handed out to him in the Payne tariff bill literally on a golden plate. The rate of duty on some of the cheapest grades of gloves actually have been more than doubled, while there is an advance all along the line from the cheapest grade to the high est. Not an item in the glove line was overlooked, and there are simple and compound duties of a character to stagger a tariff student The glove schedules of the Payne tariff bill, if passed by the house and senate, and approved by the president in their present form, will raise the price of gloves to every man, woman and child in the United States, and in many cases the rate of duty imposed will become so absolutely prohibitory that imoortations will be stopped en tirely and the American manufacturer will be enabled to dictate his own Drice. All this Is at the so-called "mini mum" rate in the new tariff bill When the maximum rate is in oper ation 20 per cent is added to these increased fieures. so that if there should happen to be a tariff war with France. Germany and England, gloves really would be articles of luxury, as the ways and means committee now class them. Theory to Increase Luxuries. The theory of this committee on revisintr the tariff was to increase the rates on articles of luxury. It is not known that .members of the ways and means committee do without either socks or gloves, but they will pay more for those articles, whether they be luxuries or necessities, unless the people take the matter into their own bands, put a stop to tne increasea tariff nn those articles and then re duce them as well as all manufactures of cotton, wool, and silk, according to the general principle of revision down ward -which has been successfully apnlied to steel, lumber and other arti cles not a specialty in New York and the lower half of New England. There are gloves and gloves, just as there are stockings and stockings All kinds of cotton stockings, and all kinds of gloves of any leather mater ial whether sheen or kid. are sub jected to this radical increase in price. The unfortunate thing seems to be that the cheaper the article under normal conditions and the more likely it !s to be a necessary article n- vmf vv , the noorest classes, the more stupendous the unexpected adnnn in Hntv under the Payne bilL In tie case of gloves the committee seems to have reached the climax of protective idolatry; because the doty is made the same upon cheap giove as urwm expensive one. ' TTnder the present law the duty is

At a record breaking meeting of

council in the amount of time con sumed to transact the business, the bonds of the members of the new po lice board were approved. The entire session required only about five min utes. The names of the members of the board and their bondsmen were read and the bonds approved, after i which adjournment was taken. The bonds are for $5,000. The commissioners and their bonds men are: Jacob IJchtenfels I. S. ' Lanning. John Schultz, J. H. Menke, Clem Gaar, and Richard Sedgwick. Pettis A. Reid Sam Gaar, Georgo Eggemeyer and E. G. Kemper. Albert Ford John Bayer and J. s. Harris. COOPERS GUILTY WAS THE VERDICT RETURNED TODAY Great Excitement Reigned in The COUrt ROOm When the Jury Makes Its Report; New Trial Is Asked. MPRISONMENT FOR TWENTY YEARSGIVEN Attorneys for the Defense I I Claim Mistrial Because the JUry FirSt Returned VeraiCtl Of Disagreement. -Naahvflle.-Tenn 3Iarch 20. TM urr In the case of Duncan Cooper and his son, Robin Cooper, cnargea . a with the murder of former Senator Carmack, today found the Coopera guilty of murder In the second degree. affixing the punishment at twenty years imprisonment There was great wf th rourt-room when , . the verdict was returned. Immediate - ly the defense moved to set asiae tne verdict because ot the verdict of disagreement, attempted by the Jury yesterday. The defense asked tne court to declare it a mistrial. Judge Hart said he would listen to argu ments on this motion later. He fixed the defendants' bonds at 123,000, which was acceptable to both sides. Took it Cooly. The defendants took the verdict coo ly. Two married daughters oi ioi. Cooper also restrained their emotions Willi UOOie CllUU, " a -- .90-.mt a. hAonranninf suspend. ' CS fZTyZir ana iue juugc " " n Jl.gnsamenl paueurc. bad caused the court room to be crowded all morning and the -.erdlct caused considerable excitement, because lue lurmau ui iu juw j u.... day reported little hope as to agree ment as to the Coopers case. Jury -Left Quickly. As soon as discharged the entire twelve men sprang from, their seats one man and hurriedly left the court room. Defendants ana weir counsel remained to complete bond preliminaries and motions for a new trial. As soon as Judge Hart entered court and even before he removed hla coat, be ordered the Jury and the de fendants brought Into court. "I understand they have agreed, h remarked to the press table, "and am sending to see. In almost a moment the twelve men entered the room and took the same seats they have occupied for nearly nine weeks.' "Have you agreed upon a verdict, gentlemen?-said Judge Hart. "We have." replied Foreman E. M. Burke, hoarsely. "Advance Mr. Foreman and read the verdicL "We, the jury, find the defendants, Duncan B. Cooper and Robin J. Cooper, guilty of murder in the second degree and (Continued on Page Two.) CASE ADJOURIIED 1 1 fl T 1 1 IIYT YlllM

UN III. IILAI WLL!a

Hodgin Will Case to Be Re sumed LSonday. Adjournment was taken In the Hodgin wf?l case yesterday afternoon to Monday morning- An attorney for the defense said this morning he expects! I all ot nsxi -fen wiu ut T-equirea lor

the .trtnL Tne eousest. is one "

R. G. Shriber, of Richmond,"

Agent for Adams Express Company, to Secure the Young Man. J ' YOUNG WEEKS CHARGED WITH BEING A FORGER When a Resident of This City The Young Man Was Employed by Express Company Daring Criminal ""' BULLETIN. . Laffeyette, Ind., March 20. Thre affidavits, charging attempt to pasa fraudulent money orders, were tiled In the circuit court today against a youth known as George A. Week. H ill be tried Monday. la the replevin suit for the possession of f 250. found on prisoner when arrested, the court gave the prisoner's counsel Judgment with the understanding that IL O. Shriber, route agent of the Adams Express Co., gets a portion of thu sum to reimburse the company, which Weeks defrauded. Weeks real nam has not been revealed. One of the cleverest forgers ever falling Into the toils of the Indiana police is a man giving the name of George A. Weeks, who was tarrected at Lafayette. Weeks was employed by the local agency of the Adams Ex press company at one time, and while working here became involved In a difficulty over monev affairs with the company, r. g. schnber. of una city. Lafayette trying to obtain custody of tne prisoner. Tne young man did not work here under the name "George Weeks" and the company's officials at the local office say they do not know the real identity of the fellow. It Is believed probable that the forger is Claude Weeks, who at one time lived here and became Involved In m number of minor troubles with the po lice. Claim of Schriber. Despite the strenuous efforts on th part of Detective sergeant Berwtcn or the Chicago police force and RI Shriber of Richmond, route agent for ! Adatn. ExpreM company, botb of Whom arrived here today. George A. Weeks, the daring young money order crook taken Into custody here Tester day, will not be taken to Chicago or California to be tried, but will be given trial in the Tippecanoe Circuit Court. Weeks Is wanted In Chicago and Shriber would like to have him for the alleged defrauding of the com pany during his employment at Richmond. Today Shriber laid claim to the 1243.50 found on Weeks and Daniel P. Flanagan of this city, who has been I J m. .mmml .1. I made demand to the police depart. (h. .nAV .hlrh l. niw In I " "'"" J f Rhoriff Wfr whom it S. .lT5 endlr m. SZJT. Zit.ZZJL noon against Weeks by CapL Clark on Information rurntsnea oy . -jienc Beardsley of the Pacific Express Com pany, who caused Weeks's arrest. charging him with attempting to pass fraudulent money orders. Shields Parents From Shams. Weeks has expressed his desire to be tried without delay, saying he will plead guilty without making a defense, being desirous of receiving sentence to prison before his parents, whoso name he will not divulge, may learn that be is a criminal. He win bo tak en before Judge DeHart tomorrow and will probably get a sentence of from two to fourteen years. Other cities will take their time In prosecuting Weeks. Weeks Is believed to nave obtained $1,300 on fraudulent orders. C. E. Johnson of Logansport. route agent of the Pacific Express Company, and Fred Enoch, also of Logansport. route agent of the Adams Express Company, were here tnls anemoon and held a conference with tne superintendent of police. Detective Berwick of Chicago. saM be had not had a night's sleep for m week, as he had been In hiding at a residence on West Jackson boule-rard. Chicago, expecting Weeks to return there for a grip which he had sent from Indianapolis to that address. Detective Berwick returned to Chicago this afternoon disappointed over hla trip to this city. John L. Spencer, who arrived few days ago from California, to es tablish an agency for tne rrait imna Company of Kansas City, Ma and who was taken into custody on snapicion of being a confederate of Weeks, was released this afternoon. DEKUPtRER OVERRULED. In the Wayne circuit court this ! morninr the demurrer to tne ,Qint the case of Schneider vs. i prnham was overruled. Tne issue U

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