Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 36, Number 290, 26 August 1911 — Page 1

IIICH2IOXD, IND., SATURDAY EVENING. AUGUST 26, 1911. BYRQII KIIIG GAVE OFFICIALS REPORT WRECK HORROR DUE TO DEFECT 111 RAIL TO PLACE BEAHiE Oil THE STJIIID TO RELATE OWII STORY Crowds Viewing Victims of Boonville Tragedy HEW COIIFESSIOII IS EXPECTED FROM WM, LEE Ally TIME VERY HITERESTIUG CHAUTAUQUA TALK

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Defense in the Murder Trial at Chesterfield Is Plainly Worried Over Prosecution's Victories.

PROCEEDINGS WERE DELAYED BY STORM -Members of an Automobile Party Testified Today to Seeing Beattie and .Wife on Night of Crime. -(National News Association) ' CHESTERFIELD. Vs.. Aug. 26. ; "Henry Clay Beattie, Jr. will be put on the stand to tell the story of his wife's death his own way some time before the trial ends.' : This announcement was , made by '. Attrrnv Smith Inat hofnrA tha trial of the banker's son for the murder of 'his wife was resumed today. The de- ' fense Is plainly worried over 'the telling points made by the state and has woviuvu tun v iinbti. vctu ucif uid tano materially by testifying. The defendant will thus be made subject to one et the most terrible grillings that a 'witness ever received. Proceedings were delayed today as I result or yesteraay s storm, rne ,'rain turned the roads into a sea of jmud, which was almost impassable for automobiles in which most of the (Richmond principals have been going 'back and forth dally. Autolsts Witnesses. ' E. K. Mosely ,and W. B. Snyder, members of an automobile party, out rlriinir nn thm nlcht ftt tha mnrtor to.. waaaM vv hot iiiq faaaaww aa .H S . lltv h car standing still. A man was at the front of the car looking under the hood. A woman was standing on the 'running board. She wore a tan coat. , previous testimony has shown that Mrs. Beattie had on a tan coat the night of the murder. The strangers offered to help the man, they testified, VS vi wa saw wviy w two uwuvvii Oolden Lassiter, a member of the nuto party, strengthened the evidence of the others by sweating the car was a Buick, and that it was Just before 111 o'clock when they passed it. STRIKE IS IMMKIEIIT Officers of Harriman Lines Won't Recognize Union. r ' (National News Association) ., CHICAGO, Aug. 2$.T-Wlth a strike rot approximately 26,000 men looming before them, officials of the Harriman tsystem of railroads today steadfastly .refused to consider the conference P""f'Jhe, workmen with a view to reeling the union and granting Inicreaaed wages. President Lovett has jdeclined to hold any meetings with 'Iboada of the onion and for that reason . jit la considered almost1 certain that a (strike win te called and called soon. The men have already taken a strike Note, tie result pt which wj.s favorable Ho a wtlout. ' ";; lUlnoil Central employee have taken M. Tote and It waa slad today that the taasjoiit was overwhelmingly in favor ief a strike.''.!. CDZLTA TAU DELTAS " WllXBOOM (National News Association) . ' ; CHICAGO, Aug. 26.-One thousand Stalta Tan Deltas,-fraternity brothers iof Champ Clark, speaker of the NaKnal house of representatives, will unch Clark's boom for president at e NaUonal banquet of the society latere tonight. The fraternity has on its roster thlrEeen congressman. Democrats and Rekubllcans, and these men, it is said, ill have been pledged to support him. ' "We want to hold the next biennial (convention In the White House,' they declared. TICKETS ON SALE FOR CLARK BENEFIT Tickets for the muslcale and benefit to Alvin Clark, the aged violin maker, which will be held at the coliseum on tho evening of September 14, have been placed with many of the music lovers of the city. They are meeting with a ready sale. It Is expected to raise, a large sum which will be given to Mr. Clark In recognition of his work. The program is only tentatively arranged, but not in such 'shape It can be announced just yet. - It ' will , include vocal and Instrumental solo numbers, chorus and orchestra work by local talent and possibly by a few well known violinists tn other cities, who have long used Mr. Clark's violins. " THE WEATHER STATE AND LOCAL General I. -U

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BIBLE STUDENTS ti ''It'' , . . ACCORDED HOI Local Y. M. C. A. Contestants Placed on the International Honor Roll. ) . . . r ( ' Progress made in the work of the Boys' Bible classes of the Richmond Young Men's Christian association is reflected in the notice sent Boys' Secretary Herbert Pettljohn that the Richmond institution had been placed on the honor roll again this year for high grade work done by the boys in Bible study. The examination papers sent to the international committee at New York, graded high above the local Bible classes. The Richmond association was one of the ten which were placed on the honor roll. More than 200 associations competed. , The names of the boys who secured certificates are" Herbert "Adams;Eugene Bowman, Brandon Griffiths, Silas Horn, Daniel' Thompson Benjamin Harris, John Miller, Clifford Noss, Guy Oel, Clarence Porter, Leslie Sinex, Robert Smith, Edmund Sudhoff, John Van Horn, Wlllam Weed, Wilbur Ball, Kirk Bly, Charles Curtis, Philip Edgerton, Clem Ferguson, Clarence Holy, William Huber, Logan Keeler, Alfred - Laning, 'Russell Noss, Horace Parker, Clifford Plummer, Carl Sperling,, Alfred Sudhoff, Robert Weed, Eugene Quigg and Edgar Lawrence. The last named youth secured two diplomas, signifying that his work was of a high standard. , A Large Membership. ; Frpm a very small enrollment, the Bible classes of the local association have grown to a large membership, 184 boys having attended the - class meeting during the last winter. Al most every member took an active part in the classes, which were organised Into ten groupes. '' ' These facts are due largely, Mr. Pettljohn believes, to the fact that more employed and working youths haye been encouraged to take up the work of the association. Secretary PettiJohn is working unceasingly in the ef fort to get shop boys and other employed boys to join the Bible classes and he believes that the coming win ter wil prove more than-ever that this work brings good results. "The class of boys who are obliged to work in the shops and factories is the class which needs theY. M. C. A. and the Bible classes," declares Mr. Pettljohn. "I have done a great deal of 'street work' and I am sure that my efforts have not been without the disired results because the membership of the Bible classes has grown with leaps and bounds and next year will bring in additional members. "The - home environment of the employed boys is not usually of the best kind and they need some place to spend their time in good healthful enjoyment. Of course, the Y. M. C A. is for everyone but this class of boys, of which I am speaking, have a tendency to believe that if they are not wearing a white collar and their clothej. are not quite as good as those worn by others, that they have no right to the privileges of the association." Banners will be awarded at the annual banquet of the boys' Bible classes in October. The Iriquois class which had the best total attendance for last year, the T. T. class which had the highest average attendance of the number enrolled and the II. B. E. class which had. the highest average on the examination for certificates will be awarded banners at that time. FINAL REPORT MADE IN HENLEY ESTATE M. C. Henley, administrator of the estate of the late Charles F. Henley, his brother who was fatally Injured while working at Eastern Indiana hospital in 1910, has filed final settlement report in the Wayne probate court. The total value of the ' estate was $1,953.90 which has been distributed in meeting indebtedness incurred during his last illness and the remainder

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MAY DISINHERIT A LOIIGJST SOU Henry Posther, jr., to Lose Share of Father's Estate if He Stays Away.

Henry Posther, Jr., who several years ago was well known here and the son of Henry Posther, Sr., who died at his home on the Boston pike on August '5, will be disinherited unless within a year he, is either hearrd from or shows up in this city, according to the will of the father which was filed for probate in the Wayne probate court on Saturday. y In the will, the testator declares that his estate' shall be divided equally among his children, "unless Henry, who is of a wandering disposition and whom we have not heard from for sevenor eight -years, and who , under, the provisions of tay will would receive an equal share, it is; my will that unless he reports or is heard from within one year that the share, hereinbefore devised to him shall be equally divided between his brothers and sisters." The decedent and his widow,, Mrs. Henrietta Posther, made a mutual will, exactly similar ; in context of course with the exception of the witnesses. The wills were drawn np on July 31. The value of the estate left by the decedent 'is not approximated in the testament, but it is understood that he and his wife possessed several good rental properties in this township. Appended to the wills was an agreement entered into between the husband and wife, explanatory of the wills, each of which was filed.- The will of the decedent creates a life estate for the I benefit of the widow. Upon her death the property goes to the children, unless the son Henry is unheard from or does not report, in which event he will be disinherited. The only special bequests made In the will are that Emma, a daughter, shall receive $200 and that a monument not exceeding $200 in value shall be erected. The missing on is supposed to be living. He formerly was an agent for a tea or coffee company as his friends remember. It is now believed he is a traveling salesman. . JEWS ARE ATTACKED Welsh Burn Property of the Yiddish. fXallonal News Association) CARDIFF, : Wales, Aug. 26. Race rioting against Jews broke out with redoubled fury in the valleys - of Southern Wales yesterday. Shops owned by Jews were pillaged and burned and the police who attempted to protect private property were driven off by the mobs. In the Gilfach district many were injured in fighting between police and rioters. . . Mobs tore the doors and shutters from two Jewish owned ' shops and looted them. When the police tried to dislodge the vandals a fierce battle ensued.. ';' At Senghenydd mobs burned two shops , after they had looted them. Many Jews are leaving the district in fear of their lives. - ' FAILED TO LOCATE MISSING BOAT CREW "(National News Association) , MIDLAND, Ont, Aug. 26. Efforts to find the bodies of ten persons who are believed to have perished in Georgian Bay during a storm Monday night have been in vain thus far. A' score of boats are scouring every nook of the bay for the steamer C C. Martin, in which they started from here, but no trace has been found. The barge Albatross, in tow of the Martin, sank during the storm and the crew escaped to the French river lighthouse in a yawl after being on the open wa-

All ACCIDENT MARS THE ELGIN RACES

Several Are Hurt When the Grandstand Falls Driver Buck Is Injured. (Natlona News Association) ELGIN," Aug. 26. Five spectators were seriously injured when a section of the grand stand containing five hundred, collapsed five minutes after the natonal automobile road race started. A panic was prevented by the militia. The seriously injured are: Mrs. Graham, daughter of Senator Lorimer; John R. Delancey, Mrs. Robert Noble, of Elgin; Mrs. Mary Collegan, Chi cago, and W. W. Norton, Elgin, . Men, women and children were hurled into a pit beneath the stand and a moment later panic reigned as fright ened women-add men fought with each other to Escape. "-v ( ' The big race which had just been started was stopped by the order of the judges. Field ambulances at the track for the use of the racers were immediately summoned and the injur ed carted to a temporary hospital. Despite the crowd and the narrow quarters comparatively few were se' riously injured and none was killed outright. The fact that the stand at its highest point was less than 15 feet from the, ground undoubtedly prevented a catastrophe. The majority suffered only bruises. A special examining committee was sent to inspect . all stands before the race was resumed. The Elgin national . road ' race was resumed at noon. At the crack of a pistol Harry Grant in an Alco dashed across the line and was lost in' a swirl of dust. He was followed by the other nine racers in quick succession with Mulford in a Lozier, who won last year's race, bringing up the rear. The accident at the grand stand was speedily forgotten by all but its victimsA second panic was narrowly averted at 12:08 p. m. when a big refreshment tent which had been used for the care of the Injured, collapsed, and fell on its occupants. Qutck work was done in raising it, and it is reported there were no additional injuries. ' Dave Buck in a Pope-Hartford plunged into a ditch on the third round. He and his mechanician, Jacobs, are reported to be injured, although not seriously. ' : , Buck was formerly connected with the Richnf ond, Ind., Manufacturing company, superintending construction of a machine which the company never placed on the market because of the failure of the company. Buck married a Richmond woman. A SUIT IS FILED TO QUIET A TITLE - - . ;. . Eight and , a halt acres of land on the Elkhorn creek," Including the mill ; site have" been purchased by Frank L Braffett of this city who has brought suit i In the . Wayne circuit court to have the title quieted against the heirs of , 'the late ' Samuel - C. Brown, Benjamin Hill, and William Fouts. It has ; been rumored that a stone crusher would be located there and the almost unlimited quantity of limestone rock crushed for use on macadam highways. However, Mr. Braffett said he would not discuss the proposition as all plans, had not been definitely determined upon. ... CLUB WOMEN AROUSED (National Ncvra Association) KANSAS CITY, Mo, Aug. 26. The Kansas City Women's Athletic club has taken up arms in defense of Harry Kemp, the Kansas City poet, who is accused by Upton Sinclair, author of the -Jungle with capturing the affections of Mrs. Sinclair. The club women declare that Kemp never, was in love with anybody hesays bo himself and acts the part, they are certain that Jthe poet would not violate the friendship he had lor

Alleged Slayer of Father,

Mother and Brother May . Admit He Killed All Members"ofBi Family, V IS IN EVANSVILLE V JAIL NOW SECLUDED Sheriff of Vanderburg Coun ty Bastile Intends to Take No Chances of Mob Capturing Prisoner. (National News Association) EVANSVILLE, Ind., Aug. 26. With ... i the removal of William Lee, self-confessed murderer of 'his father, "; and generally believed murderer of ? his mother and brother, to the Vanderburg county jail, the interest of the Boon ville tragedy ' shifted to Evansville Lee's confession while not complete, is considered as the final link in the chain of evidence that already; was complete so far as the fundamental elements of the crime are concerned His inability to give any reason why his father, a heretofore harmless par ent and husband, should in the night time conceive the idea of killing wife and son in itself is conclusive against tho only survivor of the family, Wil liam Lee. The confession on its face is con vincing that it is an invention thought out for the purpose of relieving the murderer's mind of the tragedy. Sher iff Davis has positively refused to per mit anyone to Jsec Lee in the Vander burg county . jail. He Indicated, this morning his fear that a Warrick county mob might swoop down on the jail at any time and he is taking no chan ces. Damaging Statement. One statement made by Lee to a reporter before being taken to Evans ville last evening, is considered dam aging. Just : before posing in his cell for a picture he was reciting the detalWTOf fhm'fWIlTrHe wa asked why he did not run when he found out what he had done. "Well," he said, "I have ' enough sense to know that if I ran they would know I was guilty, : so I decided to stand my ground," The admission was considered 1 important by Prosecutor Ora Davis and Sheriff Raymond Stales since it showed Lee's state of mind when the fire was discovered. Lee's semi-confession, made to Sher iff Scales,' was as follows: During the night I was aroused from my sleep by hearing moans and other strange sounds. I got up from my bed and went into mother's room only to see "dad" fighting with Clarence. Vv' I was scared and yelled at "dad,' who rushed at m with an ax raised ready to strike me. 7 I rushed at him and caught the ax by the -handle. After an awful struggle I got the ax away from, him and then killed him. I hit him twice, both times in the head. , . After I killed him I broke -down and cried and then I realized what an awful thing I had done.- ' I realized that I would be charged with the murder of all of my folks and I decided I must find a way to hide the crime. . I went into the kitchen, secured the coal oil and then came back and poured it over all of the bodies. I did not seem the least bit scared then. After I poured the oil out I set the beds on fire, and you know what happened after that. .This is the. truth if I ever told the truth. I am not guijty of cold-blooded murder. I thought about that after I had killed "dad." That is why I set the house on Are. - .,- Ugly Rumors Heard. ' Warrick county has a criminal record replete with murders, lynchings and mobs. The saloons are in full operation and there were ugly rumors in circulation today. . Hundreds of people gathered In the streets of Boonville, yesterday afternoon,' to witness the departure oT the Lee funeral procession. The body of the' mother was borne in a black funeral carriage, while the bodies of the father and son were : borne in two spring wagons, just behind the hearse. The two sisters of Mrs. Emily Lee, the J murdered woman, and their, families. followed. The bodies ; were buried in the Salem cemetery near the home of Mina Taylor, who Lee was to have married Thursday afternoon. Will Lee did not attend the funeral. Before leaving for Boonville Lee said he would like to see Bliss Taylor but be said it was her place to come to see him without an invitation Lee win be held in the Vanderburg county jail, pending ' his " arraignment " for the crimes in Warrick County. A complete confession is expected at any time. CASE IS APPEALED The case of Henry S. Lowe against Charley Mohler, both of Henry county,' on contract, which came to this county on change of venue and in the trial of which some rather peculiar legal constructions arose has i been appealed from the circuit' to the!

Prominent Orator and Lyce

um Lecturer Proved Interesting Attraction at Assembly this Afternoon. FINE PROGRAM WAS """"NQiy LAST NIGHT Lincoln McContSaMt0-- 1 a Most - Brilliant ..JSPsr on tntorcement or r.w Law in This Nation. BY ESTHER GRIFFIN WHITE. Byron W. King,' head of the School of Oratory in Pittsburg gave the first - . of a series of two lectures this after noon before an appreciative audience, Mr. King being one of the best known of the lyceum and Chautauqua lecturers. 1 His subject, "Eyes that See Not, and Ears That Hear Not, was treated in an entertaining, if somewhat dls-" cursive, fashion, the speaker's theme J being the loss to the individual of much of the beauty and wonder of life through density, perversity, lack of continuity, prejudice, snobbery, ignorance, insularity, and the thousand and one mental and physical habits both natural and acquired, due to heredity and environment. Mr. King is a typical Chautauqua lecturer and gave his audience much enjoyment. . Mr. King's lecture was preceded by a band concert and the first appearance of the Virginia Jubilee singers, the latter giving a program of popular airs and old fashioned melodies, with all the Inherent musical grace and charm of their race. Mr. King will appear again this evening in "What Fools These' Mortals Be," and the Jubilee singers will close the evening's procedure. Battis' Impersonations. "London was Dickens' library," said William Sterling Battis last evening while making up for his imporsonation of the great novelist before introduc.agv m nmr s repertoire 01 , cnaracreT, Mr. Battis, going n'tojsay r that Dickens had an entire encyclopedia to refer to. This was a happy characterisation of the great English fictionist's sources of supply , and served as an epigrammatic foreword to the presentation of his : personality, Mr. Battis taking for his model the popular notion of Charles Dickens in the flesh based upon the well known profile picture seen in editions of his novels and otherwhere. Battis lent this an effective illusion. So steeped has Mr. Battis become with the spirit of Dicken's philosophy that his depiction of some of the most typical of the tatter's , creations and which included "Pecksniff," Captain Cuttle, from "Dombey and Son,' "Uriah Heep" and "Micawber" f rom N(Aiolas Nickleby." "Bill Sykes" from "Oliver Twist. "Rogue Riderhood" from "Our Mutual Friend," the "Grandfather" from "Old Curiosity Shop," "Mrs. McStinger," and "Sidney Carton," from "The Tale of Two Cities." and so careful has been his study of the contemporaneous 1 illustrators of the writer, as well as the descriptive text, that his 1 impersonations take on the character of reality. It is the imagin ation , of the creater visualized. . Has 8erious Rival, v Jnlian Eltinge has a serious rival in Mr. Battis as a "feminine impersonator," for Mrs. McStingle was made to live; and this without caricature although Dickens himself was , somewhat given to caricature by .the way the fine line of artistic restraint not being over-stepped. - Mr. Battis has the type of countenance that lends itself, in make-up, to the gentler : and nobler emotions, as seen in "Sidney ' Carton" and '; the grandfather of "Little Nell, and yet his interpretation of the characters of "Bill Sykes" and "Rogue Riderhood." were convincing, his depiction of the whimsical rascality of the latter being notably good. f. Mr. Battis. stated,, and, with ; this there could be little dissent that certain qualities Were so accentuated In Dickens' characters that the latter had become synonyms for the former, and that many persons who do not know the novels of Dickens : are familiar with the names of their principal characters because of this fact." , f . i "Djckens was fond of depicting the hypocrite," said Mr. Battis. "Pecksniff was the keynote of his whole philosophy." ' The pleasure Mr. Battis gave last evening was in his intellectual appreciation of his subject and of ita consequent unerring and symathetie treatment. ; He was not lost in his make-up, as js too often the case, with actors of this class. His make-up was subordi- ( Continued on Page Six)

In Sunday's Palladium The Story of the Sixteenth Indiana Infantry; Organ-, ized at Camp Wayne at the Outbreak of the -Civil War Be Sure to Read It!

Public Utilities Commission ers Announce "Piped" Rail, Broken into 17 Pieces, Cause of Accident

TWENTY-SEVEN DEAD, EIGHTY ARE INJURED Defective Condition of Le'Nhigh Valley Track Alleged to Have Been Known r.er Begins Inquest. ROCHESTER The list of dead In thet -C-nc was increased to rweS? "j morning by the following tCw?: ? P, Rundle, Easton. Pa., a mJ siifi'J Harry Beaker, trainman, Waverly, N. Y.: E. M. Bell, veteran, Los" Angeles ; Mrs. Emily Hill, address unknown, Of the sixty-six 'injured, six or seven are expected to die. The report of the public utilities commission gave the cause of the wreck aa being due to a defective rail which was broken Into seventeen pieces. The rail was "piped," a defect occasionally occur ring during the process ot manufacture. Many of the vicUma remain unidentified. V WRECK INVESTIGATION. ROCHESTER. N. Y., Auf. It. With the dead still lying in the Improvised : morgue wt Manchester. N. Y and the hospitals of three cities tilled with lh. inlnr.ri mail af . wjr!.ava a.)m not live throughout the day, officials of the , Lehigh Valley railroad, the pub lic service commission of New ; York state and of Ontario ' county, thie morning began a thorough probe Into the disaster at .Manchester, yesterday . afternoon ; when 27 , persona lost their lives and over 80 were injured. , Most of the dead .and Injured lived In the eastern states. - That the ' wreck was caused by defective rail la admitted by all and efforts -will now lw bent to finer wto iw responsible for the dogeruf -condition of the track. Railroad otfictela insist that the flaw in the mil waa only such as will always come unexpectedly in the steel but several norvivors of the, wreck insist that the crack in the steel was an old one a4 filled with rust. Knew of Defect. .'. 1 It developed this morning that the track over which the wrecked train passed bad been Inspected, bnt two hours before the accident. -Witnesses who inspected the broken rail any that it must have been plainly evident to watchman that it was defective. . . ; Three members of the public service commission arrived at Manchester this morning from Albany. - They wre Areaioua ubiiii, wvwww of equipment; his assistant, James J. Gill, and Henry M- Rockwell, one of the commission's engineers. Coroner D. A. Biseline. Otttuio county, will sUrt Inquest proceQngs today. Water Red With Blood. It was in the Pullman that crashed from the bridge 60 feet Into the little stream and lay a tangled mass on Its side, that the greatest mortality occurred. Not a passenger in that car escaped death or serious Injury. Many drowned; Before they could be taken out. Th waters of the Canandaigun outlet literally ran red with human blood for a distance below, the wreck. The other Pullman was stood dlreetly on Its end. Erery seat and fixture in the car was loosened and with the bodies of the passengers was piled In a hean at the bottom of the car while the waters of the outlet covered the foot of the mass. Persons livlnx were smothered beneath the weight ot dead bodies. The full, horror of (he disaster began to be known today when the tales of survivors began to trickle in. The shock of the catastrophe was so great last night that few could tell a connected tale as to how it happened; Acts of heroism and scenes of pathos were so numerous in the wreck -A(.af fa. aafaM. V WaW uui. UICH. eviuu mm aw vuumj v aa. a ery. A mother was taken dead from the debris while her baby crowed and laughed unharmed at her breast. A 16-year-old girl stood with dry eyes beside the body of her mother, father and brother; her whole family. A little girl lay crushed and mangled with a wax, doll unharmed in her srms Its eyes closed like its mistress. A veteran with a bleeding stump of an-arm cot off at the; shoulder, wept silently over the body of another soldier. The body of a woman shriveled and yellow with age was taken from the water with a complete smile of happiness on her face. The daughter of another sg(Continued on Page Six.)

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