St. Louis Post-Dispatch from St. Louis, Missouri • Page 28

28 ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1920. ST. LOUIS P0ST-01SPATCH 200,000 Unemployed In Michigan. the garment In front.

Detective-Serpreant Harry "Walker testified that he found the revolver. Identified as having been owned by STEAMFITTER HELD IN FATAL SHOOTING houses here decided to close theli doors and stop tobacco sales. The refusal was in answer ta spokesmen for approximately 500 growers, who, after a mass meeting, marched to the floors and r- quested that no more tobacco be accepted for 10 days. Tobacco Growe Ixwe Fight. Br the Aesoclkted Prasa.

OWENSBORO, Ky, Dec 10. Tobacco growers of Green River district lost their first fight against low tobacco prices yesterday when managers of six loose leaf ware reached at a meeting here yesterday of managers and secretaries of manufacturers and employers associations of a dozen Industrial citieA Resolutions were adapted calling on the Governor and Mayors to at once start work oa contemplated public improvements. By th Associated li-esa. JACKSON. Dec 10.

Half of the unemployed men In Michigan, estimated to number nearly 000, are "In actual need of work to avert suffering." was the conclusion tjlio. in a nay cnuie, la icei iromj him, and then said "I don't know why I shot him," the witness paid. All witnesses testified that Otto was Intoxicated. Walker said he asked Otto if he was drunk, and Otto replied ho had drunk nothing but straight whisky. The men had no quarrel, and were on friendly terms.

The Coroner's Jury returned a verdict that Erhart was shot by Otto, and that the motive was undetermined. where Erhart was shot. He paid he questioned Otto, when he arrested Hunttncr for Oil in llonrtnras. TEQL'CKiALT'A, Honduras, Nov. 22.

The flowrnnicnt of Honduras has granted two concessions to British representatives by which they Acquire rights to search for and exploit any oil fields found by them within the territory of Honduras. One of the British the British Consolidated Oil Limited, has already sent its engineers to this country, and they nro now searching for oil in various departments this country. I him. shortly'after the shooting, an! asked about the gun, to which Otto replied: "I have no gun." Later he asked Otto whyhe shot Krhart. Ha ftrst replied that he did not shont Coroner's Inquest in Death of Man Killed in East St.

Louis Fire Station. Your Credit Ds Good Your Credit Is (Good COUGHS bronchitis or other ailments are ear-marks of broken resistance. Jesse Otto, 36 years old, a steam-fitter, of 1913 North Nineteenth street, East St. Louis, was held by the Coroner's Jury last night as responsible for the death of George Erhart. 50 years old, a.

car inspector, of 1814 North Nineteenth street, who was shot and killed Tuesday evening in ITro Department headquarters. No. 7, at Nineteenth street and Lincoln avenue, Ea.st St. Louis. Scoffs Emulsion taken regularly imparts I new entrgy, increases Otto did not testify at the inquest, but statements he made to the police, and the testimony of members of the Eire Department, Indicate an effort Is to be made to show the shooting was an accident.

It is said. Members of the Fire Department and several others testified they were playing cards when Otto entered the building and displayed a the powers of resistance and helps drive out the cause of weakness. arouses CD in revolver to Erhart, and when Erhart ltft tho table and Went to the Scott Bowne.Bloomfield.??. J. 20-J7 Ynvv No.

3 on the Begin Xmas Try Our Credit Plan W3 07 Buying mm rear of the building, apparently for a drink of water, Erhart followed him. When tho report of the revolver was heard everybody fled from the building except James Summers, a fireman, who went to Investigate He said he met Otto and asked what had happened, and that Otto replied. "Nothing." Summers and Otto went to where Erhart law, and then Otto said: "I must have dropped my gun. It must have an accident." according to Summers. Says Sliot "Wan in Iia-k.

John Kreels. Assistant State's Attorney, at the inquest, qualified as an expert on bullet wounds, through experience in the army, and he testified that an examination of Er-hart's body revealed that he had been shot in the back. the bullet passing through the body, making a larger hole In the front than was In the back, and that the bullet wis found Inside the front of undershirt, no hole being made In Generous Credit the Easiest Terms try Hoyle Rarick's "different" sort of Credit Account, and you'll always buy your clothes here. We advise that you come in this week and select your new Christmas outfit. On $20.00 PURCHASES Pay $1.50 Down and $1.50 a Week On purchases of $35.00, $45.00, $50.00 and up the most liberal terms will be arranged- Find this lady in next Sunday's Post -Dispatch for full information that will save you money.

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