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SILO SPATCH The Sunday Post-Dispatch Circulation IS MORE THAN 7 1 N. A EDITION TTze Ony Evening Paper in St. Louis With the Associated Press News Service VOL. 72. NO.

204. ST. LOUIS, SATURDAY EVENING, MARCH 20, 1920 -16 PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS 1 MRS. THOMAS H.

WRIGHT KILLS HERSELF Fl SENATOR EWB MY ami ED" TW YEMS FQUR HIGHWAYMEN Daughter of Late William J. Lemp Who Ends Life at Hortense Place Home SELF AFTER SHOOTS HIS BROTHER, MANAGER, GERMAN REDS TAKE ESSEN; ROB SEVEN MEN IN '14 14 OTHERS AR ATTACK OF INDIGESTION AND ACUTE DEPRESSION saloonjf Proprietor and Six Customers Lined Up Against Wall at 4823 St. Louis Avenue at 12:45 A. M. EBERT MAKES CONCESSIONS General Strike Is Called Off, FOUND GUILTY ALSO fthv-V -Jib Former Elsa Lemp Fires Shot When in Bed at! According to Reports Re-j ceived in London, in Con- Others Acquitted of Conspiracy tt i t-i tt a-j.

i i Seven men were held up by four Hortense Place. Home After Chat rn me drink saioon Allowances Made to inde- Charge None Guilty on Sixth Husband Got Divorce Feb. 1, 1919, and Was Remarried to Wright in New York CitjTl2 Days Ago. pendent Socialists. Count Penalties Range From Limit of Two Years and $10,000 Fine to $1000 Fine.

of Edward Telthorst, 4S33 St. Louis avenue, at 12:45 o'clock this morning, and robbed of $6S0. The roh-bers escaped in an automobile driv. en by a fifth man. Telthorst was the bar, counting the day's receipts, when four men with revolvers entered at a side door and ordered him and six customers to line up against a wall.

Three of the robbers kept the group covered, while the fourth searched them. Thomas Hefternan, 4760 St. Louis avenue, was robbed of $140: Georg FIGHTING REPORTED IN LABOR CENTERS In Mrs. Elsa Lemp Wright, who was remarried 1- days ago in New York City to Thomas II. Wright, ended her life at 8:30 a.

m. today hy shooting herself through the heart with a revolver, while she lay in bed in her home at 13 Hortense pJace. She was i 14 1 jUUSSClUOIl HI UK IVnco the daughter of the late William J. Lemp, the brewer, and was Kemper. 5037 Spalding avenue, $250.

Martin Finke. 225S Cass avenue. $56: 37 years old. Francis McKenna. 4S48 St.

Louis Industrial Forces Mining) GRAND KAP1DS, March 20. Senator Truman II. and Manufacturing Re-jNWbrry and lfi of his SI co-defondans wore found guilty of gions Scene of Renewed criminal conspiracy in the 1018 senatorial election hy a jury in Fighting Lt'le United States District Court here today. Senator Newberry was sentenced to a two-year term of im- At the inquest at the Wright home Vrie-ht hrealhed several times ft- 1 avemw, J-'O: George Wachli. 4.11 St.

Louis avenue, $48. and Cliff Wal- tills afternoon a verdict of suicide er entered the room, hut was lron. 4775 Leduc street. $26. The unable to speak.

She said. wh-n iras returned. The Coroner jury did not hear the testimony. After questioned, that she had never heard I robber then got $140 and a chert fo- $10 from the cash register. 1 prisouinent in the Federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, and to pay The a fi11 $10,1100.

This is the extreme penalty which could be in- viewing the body the jurors signed a Wrights quarrel. By the Associated Press. LONDON, March. '20. verdict blank in which the verdict The four robbers backed out of the saloon and jumped into the auto- After the conclusion of the inquest i Deputy Coroner Dever said to a was written iu later by Deputy t'or- general strike iu Germany has fj't-ted under the law.

oner never, who said this procedure Pod-Dispatch reporter that Martha i mbllN driven west on St. a not unusual. "Weston had told him before the in- lMUis avel11 on Euclil Mrs. Wright 111 LaM Night. quPst that Mrp.

Wli-ht had had the avtnUP- A man waiting for a street Wrleht testified that his wife was at Euclid and St. Louis avenue told the police that he observed a been called off, according to Berlin advices received here this! afternoon. The Government, it is stated, lias accepted the work- i ers' demands, includinp far- 111 last night, that she was restless when 8np Vi-as in the house I 1- IU. MRS. THOS.

IL WEIGHT. and elept very Utile, that she suf during the period of the separation. uui 101 tap ol .1, if in Aror- a i rh HU tOlllOblle. FOKER GAME WITH MARKED i MAYOR OPPOSED TO TAXING table, beside her bed. Husband battel With Her.

Samuel W. Fordyce. an attorney, i reaching concessions to the inde-; i a nrnnnniiAPn ill nrtnnT fered from nausea and got up several times in the night. When he arose this morning, he raid, he asked her how she felt, and she replied she was very tired, nd said she believed she would remain in bed. GERMAN ENEMY ALIEN LEAPS FROM JAIL WINDOW, ESCAPES 1AnUo HtMUlJUUtU IN UUUHI GOLF AND TENNIS PERMITS I pendent Socialists, which will be and friend of the family, speaking for Mr.

Wright, gave the Post-IMs- made public shortly. patch at 11:15 a. m. the first stafe- he "I told her that was lugusl Kdiultz Sailor. Chased to Fifteenth and Poplar Streets, i i STl'TTGAItT.

March 19. The omplainant Shows How New York Su.h Action Would Be Contia-Mamifaeliirer -Head-' )pKiient i rv to ivim-iple on Which r.roimds Hand and V. on $5700. Are aintaiiuHl. Hv til1 As-fn'iH til PrKS.

NEW YORK. March 20. A stud! Mayor Kiel said to a Post-Dis-poker game with marked cards was patch reporter today thnt he would Heads for Railroad Yards. I Ruhr district is aflame with Bol- I Jshevism. according to official le- i ports.

Essen has been taken by red Newberry May Still Hold Seat in Senate, Republicans Contend WASHINGTON, March 20. Conviction of Senator Newberry by the Grand Rapid jury does not invalidate his seat in the Senate, Republican leaders said today. He will be entitled to retain office, they declared, until the Senate itself acts on the charges filed by his opponent. Henry Ford. A subcommittee of the Elections Committee, headed by Senator Watson, Republican, Indiana, now is awaiting a conference with counsel fot Newberry and Furd regarding procedure in the Senate investigation of the charges.

Whether Senator Newberry, in view of his conviction, will continue his duties in thu Senaie pending a final decision of hi8 case by the courts i. a matter for his own discretion. Senators said. men of the circumstances of the tragedy. He said Wright had told hiii that he arose about a.

ar.d. after chatting- a few minutes with his wife, went into the bathroom to bathe and dress. He had been there i onlv a few minutes when he heard August Schultz, 31 years old. a mid turned on the water. I remembered I had forgotten to take a change of underwear, and went into our room and got it from a closet.

"I went back to the bathroom and had just closed the door when heard a noise. It was a sharp noise. sailor, and a Germany enemy alien, escaped at 11 a. m. today from the I reproduced in court today during the veto any ordinance providing for a trial of Louis Krohnberg, a shir tax of 1 each on municipal golf per- manufacturer, who is charged with i 't-s and 50 cents each on tennis) obtaining money in a game of chance Permits, such as would be assessed by fraud.

under a bill introduced in the Board .1. M. Silverman, one of half a of Aldermen yesterday by Alderman) a noise which was partly drowned city jail, where he had been held for: out yvy the noi'e of the water run- the Government pending deportation. army and uen. von watte.rs local troops are awaiting reinforcements.

Thurlngia is said now to be under control of Government troops. The Ruhr district includes the coal mines along Ihe Rhine near Essen.) The Baltic troops retiring from Berlin have intrenched themselves i I though my wife was trying to at- Iniiifr into th tillv i TTa iai! lin to thp livin'r tract my attention. I opened the Ht. j.aid ie oppne(j the bathroom apartments of Jailer McCully to The other men found guilty and their sentences follow: Frederick "legislative agent, two years in Eeavenworth and fine. 1'aui King.

campaign manager, two years in Leavenworth and fine. Charles A. Fioyd. Grand two years in Leavenworth and $5000 fine. William J.

Mickel, Oshkosh, two ears. Allan A. Tempk-ton, president Detroit Hoard of Commerce, one year and si months. Roger M. Andrews, Menominee, publisher, one year and six months.

Milton Oakman. Detroit politician, one year and six months. Richard H. Fletcher, State I-abor Commissioner, one year and three months. James F.

McGregor. Detroit, one year and three month. Fred Henry. Flint, one year and three months. Hannibal Hopkins, publicity agent, one year and one day.

E. V. Chilson of National 'Republican Headquarters, one year and one day. John S. Newberry, Senator's brother, fined $10,000.

Harry O. Turner. Detroit, fined $2000. H. Frank Emery, office manager, fined $2000.

George S. Ijtdd. ShMbridge, fined $1000. cw Trial Overruled. Judge Sessions overruled motion for a new trial pending on appeal.

All other defendant were acquitted on lh first charge and none was found guilty the alxth count. uoor ana saia: im jou tan ine. lading directly into their bed some cleaning. He and another pris- dozen complainants, laid before the I 1 dell. Magistrate two hands from a deck! Commissioner Pape and i-which he said he took from Krohn- I dor of Public Welfare Schmoll berg's home.

These proved to haveisaid were strongly against the Did you throw something ronm. nnd saw his wife lvins in her nnr vvr in chre-e nf Jnhn Hf-rkrJ There was no reply. She was 'y- one of tTvin lie spoke to guard. As Becker was taking lnp on her back and seemed to be at the zooloeica! gardens and at Charlottenburg. on the west side cf Berlin, according to reliable reports received here this afternoon.

her, and. receiving no answer, he them back to a cell the oth.r went to her bedside. He told Vov- prisoner was between them dyce her eyes were open and she Schultz. The latter made a dash for looked at him and was conscious, a window, which had been opened looking at me. As 1 advanced I saw revolver at iter side.

Perhaps I picked it up and tossed it on a couch where it was later found. She tried to speak to me. but could not. "I nevet heard her threaten to take her life. She alwavs seemed hapy shadings in the flour de lis design on proposal.

They said the theory upon the backs which indicated the nature which the city golf links and ten- of the cards. nis courts were established was that Illustrating with the marked deck 1 roe creation would be afforded to Silverman testified that Krohnberg citizens, and hat a license fee ould saw that the fifth card a stud I be contrary to this principle, hand would make him have two pairs one pair for his op- PASSENGER SHIP GROUNDEO ponent. and thereby won Jottnj. Hold Msseii After Rattle in Red but did not answer his question. to let out the dust, jumped to the when he asked what was the matter.

I lawn, and ran toward Fourteenth Wright noticed a stain of blood on street. Becker jumped through the jthe front of her gown and found window after him. and chased him to SCHENECTADY POPULATION 83.723, GAIN OF 21 PER CENT except when she had sick spells such ift reVolver lying beside her. In a di- Fifteenth and Poplar streets, where as she had last night. She had statement to a policeman fn knepran.

Whrn Which 300 Wore Killed. Bv th 1'reM AMSTERDAM. March 20. The battle for the control of Essen, home of the immense Krupp arms and industrial-works, lasted 24 hours before the Communists finally won possession of the city, according to nausea and ate scarcely any dinnvr. Wright said this revolver was his iast seen Schultz was headed toward I did not know she had a revolver.

wife's property and that each night the railroad yards. SMALL BOYS SMASH SI 000 LIGHT BULBS AGAINST WALL WASHINGTON. March 20. Pop- 1 never saw it before. She left r.olsne jaiJ jt on a table between their! Vessel on Way From Seattle to Alaska Aliorc in lVg.

VANCOUVER. C. March 20. Reports reached here today that the Pacific Steamship Alaska passenger steamer. Admiral Evans, grounded last night in the fog between Cape Mudge and Seymour Narrows on the Inside Passage.

The Evans was bound from Seattle to Alaska with passengers COMPULSORY TRAINING I BILL ORDERED DRAWN note. Scrgt Michael Burke and Patrol-nan August Klein fa id they were nt to the house by the desk serj. feant at the Xewstead avenue police Nation about 11:20 a. m. They twin beds as a protection against burglars.

Iocs Not Answer Questions. While Wright was standing beside the bed, he told Fordyce, two maids entered. Mrs. Wright was Nine boys between 8 and lf years I old. who thoujrht a good way to make a noise in the world ws to throw electric light bulbs against a a dispatch from Muenstern to the i ulation statistics for 1920, announced Telegraaf today.

During the battle today by the Census Bureau, in-Essen was shelled by artillery in pos- eluded: session of the working-men. I Schnectady, N. 8S.723. an in- The Government of the city is now crease of 15,897, or 21.8 per cent in the hands of a "committee of ac- over 1910. tion," the dispatch reports.

Hamilton, 39.675. increase 14396, or 12.5 per cent. 20. March WASHINGTON. airs.

vrigni aeau ana conscious ana they also spoKe Chairn)an Kahn of the House Mili brick vail were arrested yesterday after the EJison Camp Co. had reported to the police that bulbs valued 1o her. but sne did not a nswer. try Committee yesterday selected 'Quiver iing on a cuuvu -huuul wen feet from her bed. It had one BE RUN.

Friday. March 19. wngiu leiepnoneu lor i.r. m. subcommittee to frai le legislation CSt iSTX I FAIR.

RISING TEMPERATURE Essen surrendered this afternoon to loaded cartridge and one had been Clopton and for 'Fordyce. Before providing for compulsory universal military training. a majority of which is considered favorable to the 'red. The wound was on the left irtde of the chest at the heart. they, arrived Mrs.

Wright was dead, Fordyce said Wright told him TONIGHT AND TOMORROW fighting in which itvis estimated that 300 persons were killed. Mrs. Wright recently had seemed t)ie of a training plan Four Servants Testify. llarth. Minni.

nii nappy, tnougn sne nao. Representatives Dent, Alabama. Kate RueckeA. maids, and Elizabeth been in poor health for several years. and Quinn.

Mississippi. Democrats. THE TEMPFP.ATmES 1 ni "'6 11 a. 7 a. 1 d.

m. a. in .17 i h. 41 Sparlacans Prot-lalm SovU-t Rcpub-i lie in heirdiand na 'iat' recurrent attacks of are the only selections egarded as I the, neighborhood of its warehouse 'at 2224 E.igenia street. i The hoys arrested said they found i it great fun to take bulbs from the warehouse and smash them against the wall.

A bursting bulb makes a nois like a pistol shot. One of the boys had 36 of the bulbs at his home. He said he was I saving them for future "bombard- I I ments." fc'nuer, cook, testified they r.nd went to the room acute indigestion and nausea which vmaUerably opposed to compulsory training. I ont on rase Column 7. iHE.

UNION SCALE BRCSSELS. March 20. The rap-i lure tf Essen was effected on Friday Official fore-j oy a Spartaan army equipped wiih oast for St. i cannon and armored automobi's. and vicin- cording to advires from Aix-le-Cha-4 pelle today.

The Spanacatis pro-ity. lair to-! Or WEIGHT. OEMPSEY PLEADS NOT GUILTY night and Dur.ng last v.ig'rt, the af'vic-s nd 1, morrow rising Ihe manufacturing city of Dussel- temKM ature. dorf. on trie Rhine norm ot t-Oiogm i u-h r-intnred bv Snartacan forces.

TOMORROW. You May Read the Opening Chapters of "Identified" by Richard Washburn Child I The penalties' is a fin of or less and two years or less prison. At the afternoon session. Dalley moved for the dismissal of nolo contendere defendants, also Elmer White of Travel ae "ity. was granted separate trial becnuse of illness, and Jnif Dailey, a Muske.

gon contractor, who was never ar-l rested because he went to Ijout lj (America a few days before the ini Jillctments were returned. Thiw --i tion clears the Court reeord of nil the 135 men indicted except the i 'convicted bv the jury this morning. Senator Newberry announced thW afternoon lie would "mntinti to represent in the Fulled States Serial th people who elected me." The Senator said I "I am proud of the f.i-t that tb" record In this ciuie contain nothing of which I need be afliamed "No proof of fraud, bribery or other despicable cr ime was produced and 1 was convicted under a ta'W that is not thoroughly ui -ttcrstood ptnl whose interpretation by tht Couit is oiK-n to further adjudication, I'nder the Charge I mad a conxpirator If ixnt now led that my campaign to co-t others than myself more than $3750. That, lo my mind, i Ihe nub of th whole Ihlnr. "Being coi-M-lou of lio erimiti4l conduct.

fter -tint with my wnsitot ial awwUitiw, thev deem It Inadvisable. I will 'to represent In the tiltel Sta'e the people who elected me. 1 have io lfr)iiiil wittt to crowd atr4 I'sae Z. twnta a. In Tomorrow Sunday Post-Dispatch American Culture to Dominate the World.

Says Vicente Blaaco Ibanez A highly interesting interview with the great Spanish novelist, who girea his impressions of this country and its future after a three-months' visit. Senator Kenyon Discusses the Suggestion That Presidential Candidates Name Their Cabi nets Before Election foa 'a liberal Republican representative in the tipper House of t'ongrens points out the good that would come of this projected reform. An Extraordinary Record of Spiritualistic Communications From the Other World" A review of a remarkable book, purporting to give more intimate details of life in the "Beyond" than have ever teen given before. Philadelphia's Successful Eerolt Against Bent Profiteers The story of a remarkable uprising of oppressed tenants and of the reforms that resulted Spartan Father Helps to Send Daughter to Prison for the Murder of Uer Husband Am unusual crime story from a nearby Illinois town. Order Your Copy Today Missouri: Fair Government troops evacuating it tonight and to-j without a fight.

morrow; rising! Mulheim, southwest of E-ser. T.ot,.r I Oberhausen, to the northwest: the ten.perature. important industrla town of Elber- Illinois: I feld. to the south; and Kettwig. tonight, warmer south of Mulhcir i.

r.re reported to IDENTIFIED" by Richard Washburn Child south and: have twn evacuaten iy tne Bnmu in Bv th Apior'atil SAN FRANCISCO. March 20. Jack Dempsey. world's heavyweight champion, and his manager, Jark i Kearns. pleaded not guilt.v today be- fore Judge Rohert S.

Bean, in the i United States District Court, when' arraigned on charges of conspiracy I to evade the selective draft act. Their preliminary hearing was set for i April 3. The two anpeared later before Francis Krull, Fnited States Com- missior.er. arid famished bonds. bfmpscy for $2000 and Kearns for $1000.

They were indicted by the! Federal grand jury Feb. 27. One in- dictmenl accused them of conspiracy i in preparing false claims of depend- found that Mrs. Wright had 'en KhoT. Tiey saw th.

rucciv hir.g on the Wright was betide his wife's bed. Martha Westin told of Mrs. 'right's illness, but Mrs. Wright never complaireJ or threatened to take her life. In reply to a question by Deputy Coroner Dever fhe said she had nevii- hi-ard anyone threaten Mrs.

Wright's life. Elizabeth Bender, the cook, testified feh" was in the kitchen v.l.cn one the maiH ran in and Mrs. Wright dead. She has been shot." Answering a question by the Deputy Coroner, she said she did n.u hear anyone say anything to Indicate that onieone Bhot Mrs. Wright.

Minnie Stover testified she heard Wright excitedly calling Martha Westin, his wife's maid, and went to he room and found Mrs. Wright had shot. She said she last Mrg. Wright at dinner about 7 "clock last. and Mrs.

Wright "renied nervous. Aked if Mrs. Wright complained, she said: "No. lie never complained. She was the sweetest women 1 ever kne'v.

1 never noticed anything unusud about her. The conversations be-'een t.er and Mr. Wright were pleasant." KU riuetkert testified that Mrs. forces of (iovrrnment trooi.s noiuiri; them after being defeated in ficht- A thrilling, interest-compelling story of a strong man and his quest for vengeance upon modern villain, and the extraordinary and mysterious scene that was enacted in the gloom of a luxurious and richly furnished New York apartment. Human bate and human sin meet in a death jrrapple.

What follows is of breathless interest and overwhelming in its surprise. i west portions; tomorrow. fair and warmer. Stage of the rhfr at 7 a. 1,1..

18.5 feet, a rise 1.3 fet. ing with the Spartacans. The Gov-Krnment troops took refuge in part; in the British zone of occupation, where they wre disarmed, the patches state. The Belgian posts on th right bank of the Rhin. according to the messages, fell back to the lft hanV, without b-ing disturbed.

All possible precautions are being! March 20. em-y for Dempsey and a second Weather predictions for the week in- draft act. Mrs. Maxine Wayne. fpper Mississippi and Iower to be (v7.vr: mi: daily lwo Stories a Week by the Fiction Headliners of Today In the POST-DISPATCH lH-mps-y's divorced wife, was nues- souri Valleys Rain probable luea-j "tioned by a grand jury yesterday in eiay or Wednesday: generally fair i i 1.

.1... 1 1. I Tl 1 1 1 1" March COPENHAGEN. was on foot to prevent her rom atur-a. probably above normal early re.nlc xn bem sueresgfubieJ i lestifying in the draft evasion case.

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