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September 27, 1908 HOWARD HAS A HIGH FEVER.
Congressman Accompanying Hisgen Party Taken Suddenly Ill.
Melford W. Howard, former congressman from the Eighth Alabama congressional district and a member of the Higsen party, was taken ill at the Hotel Baltimore yesterday afternoon. It is probable that he will be unable to fill a St. Joseph speaking engagement Monday night. Dr. J. R. Snell, house physician at the hotel, was called into consultation at 5 o'clock. Dr. Snell said that Mr. Howard had a very high fever which might not be reduced in less than twenty-four hours.Labels: doctors, Hotel Baltimore, illness, St.Joseph, visitors September 11, 1908 WILL DEDICATE THEIR MAGNIFICENT TEMPLE.
CEREMONIES BEGIN AT B'NAI JEHUDAH THIS EVENING.
Tomorrow Night Clergymen of Other Denominations Will Be Present and Speak -- Distinguished Visitors Here.
Dedication ceremonies of the beautiful new temple of the congregation B'nai Jehudah, Linwood boulevard and Flora avenue, will begin at 7:30 o'clock this evening and conclude tomorrow morning. Tomorrow afternoon there will be special children's services tomorrow night at 8 o'clock a fewllowship meeting, to which all clergymen of other denominations, and the public are invited.
The interior of the temple will be decorated for the occasion. There will be special music by the choir and individuals, and addresses by well known Jewish clergymen from other cities, included among them are Rabbi Henry Berkowitz of the Temple Rodef Shalom, Philadelphia, Pa., Rabbi Louis Bernstein of the Temple Adath Joseph, St. Joseph, Mo., and Rabbi Joseph Krauskauph of the Temple Keneseth Israel of Philadelphia. Many prominent local men, members of the congregation, also will deliver addresses pertaining to the wonderful progress made by the church since its organiztion in 1870.
This evening's services will consist of "Depositing the Scrolls in the Ark," with Nathan Schloss and C. J. Wolf as scroll bearers; invocation by Rabbi Henry Berkowitz, presentation and acceptance of the keys of the building, reading of the scripture by Rabbi Samuel Schulman, dedicatory address by Rabbi H. H. Mayer, pastor of the church, and special vocal and instrumental music. Tomorrow morning's services will consist of addresses by the visiting clergymen and a closing address by Rabbi Mayer.
Rabbi Mayer will preside during the children's services tomorrow afternoo, and visiting clergymen will address the little ones. The service will be brought to the conclusion by the singing of the national anthem, "My Country, 'Tis of Thee."
During the fellowship meeting tomorrow evening importand addresses will be delivered by the visiting clergymen, while Rev.Dr. J. C. Schindel, Rev. Charles W. Moore and Rev. Father William J. Dalton, all of this city, also will address the gathering.Labels: churches, Father Dalton, ministers, St.Joseph September 2, 1908 SPIRITUALISTS MEETING HERE.
They Want to Convince Public It's a Religion, Not a Science.
Many prominent spiritualists from various sections of the country will speak during the present mass meeting being held in the Psychical Research church, Twelfth street and Brooklyn avenue, making the event one of the most important of the kind ever held by the church in this city.
The meeting, which opened Tuesday, will continue until Thursday, September 10. Last night was devoted to an address by Rev. Mrs. G. C. Stephens, pastor of the church. Every afternoon a bazaar is held, and thus far the attendance has been large.
George B. Warne of Washington, D. C., president of the National Spiritualists Association, will lecture next Tuesday evening, and it is expected that spiritualists from all over Missouri and Kansas will attend on this occasion. Other speakers will be A. Scott Bledsoe, ex-president of the Kansas association, and Thomas Grimshaw of St. Joseph, one of the state officials.
The meetings are being held for the purpose of endeavoring to convince the public that spiritualism is a religion rather than a science.Labels: Brooklyn avenue, churches, organizations, St.Joseph, Twelfth street, visitors June 25, 1908 ARMY GETS $5,000 BEQUEST.
Mrs. Mary Greenand, the Donor, Was a Colorado Colonist.
Colonel Thomas Holland, national colonization secretary for the Salvation Army, was in Kansas City yesterday. He is on his way home from St. Joseph, where he went to arrange a bequest of $5,000, left by Mrs. Mary Greenand of Amity, Col., to the Salvation Army. Mrs. Greenand was a settler at the Salvation Army colony at Amity.
"Besides the colony at Amity," said Col. Holland, "we have also a colony at Fort Romie, Cal. At Amity we have 300 persons and at Fort Romie 200. We have been established ten years and are meeting with success. Our plan is to take penniless people, mostly from the cities, and furnish them land, rent free, and allow them to pay for it as they wish. They are allowed twenty years to pay for their land. Each family receives from twenty to forty acres. It is irrigated land and the settlers have been uniformly successful. Mrs. Greenand, who was a widow, became interested in the movement and bought a farm in the settlement. When she died several days ago she left us this handsome bequest."Labels: probate, Salvation Army, St.Joseph, visitors June 17, 1908 MISSOURI RISING UPSTREAM.
Continued Rains Delay Expected Fall in Flood Waters.
OMAHA, June 16. -- There was no fall in the Missouri river for the past twenty-four hours, but the fact that it remained almost stationary encouraged the weather bureau to believe that no higher stage would be reached It stood at 18.3 this morning, the same as Monday morning. It is again raining in the Missouri valley.
ST. JOSEPH, MO., June 16 (Special.) -- The Missouri river at this point at 10 o'clock tonight is receding at the rate of one inch an hour and promises to keep it up tomorrow. The Platte and 102 rivers have shown a more rapid decline and will soon e beyond the danger point. A slight rain is falling tonight, but it is not expected to affect the river conditions. All trains out of this city, north and eastbound, can make schedule time.
LEAVENWORTH, KAS., June 16 (Special.) -- The Missouri river continues to rise at this point. Great logs are coming down and quantities of fine drift indicating rains above. The river rose about an inch today and is now nearly six miles from bank to bank here. Great slate piles at the coal mines are exploding and resemble volcanoes, owing to the sulphur which burns.
ATCHISON, KAS., June 16 (Special.) -- The continued rising of the Missouri river at this point is just beginning to be serious. The water has reached the stage where it is spreading over the fine Missouri bottom land. The river has risen three inches here in the past 24 hours and is still rising slowly.
JEFFERSON CITY, June 16 (Special.) -- It is believed that the worst of the flood will be over in this stretch of the Missouri by this time tomorrow. While the river was stationary for a time last night it began rising again and fully six inches has been added. The rate it came up today was about half an inch per hour. This morning a big body of back water come over the bank of Turkey creek, west of North Jefferson, and inundated many hundred acres of the bottom that escaped.Labels: flood, Jefferson City, Leavenworth, Missouri river, Omaha, St.Joseph May 25, 1908 BOY'S HEAD CUT OFF BY TRAIN OF CARS.
Either Rolled Onto Tracks or Fell While Catching Ride in the Burlington Yards.
Mangled beyond recognition, and the head missing, the body of Martin Pretzel, aged 17 years, a son of Joseph Pretzel, and employee of the C. H. Conklin Ice Company, residing at 1657 Washington avenue, was found on the Burlington tracks, directly under the Fourth street viaduct, at 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning by Louis Hommold, a laborer. He reported the discovery to the No. 2 police station. Patrolman James McGraw was sent to make an investigation but could find nothing by which to base the identity of the body and ordered it removed to the Eylar Bros. undertaking establishment.
At noon yesterday the parents of young Pretzel became uneasy about their son's absence, and hearing of the finding of the body investigated. Harvey E. Bailey, a son-in-law residing with the Pretzels, identified the pantaloons as the ones which he had given the boy a short time ago, and the father thought the coat and vest were the same as worn by his son when he left home. Beside the body as it lay on the track, was found a hat which belonged to Lee Ganders of 413 Landis court, the dead boy's companion. The two boys, who worked at neighboring grocery stores, left home after work Saturday night, saying they might go to St. Joseph on a fishing trip.
Lee Ganders reached his home at 4 o'clock yesterday morning, and explained to his mother that he had gone to the Fourth street viaduct with young Pretzel, that from there they had intended catching a train for St. Joseph. While waiting for the train the boys stretched themselves on the ground beside the track and fell asleep.
"About 3:30 o'clock in the morning," continued young Ganders, "I was awakened by the noise made by a passing passenger train. As the cars passed by I missed Pretzel, who had substituted the hat he wore for the one worn by myself. Thinking that he had either caught the train or gone home, I started for my own home."
The inference is that while asleep young Pretzel may have rolled on to the tracks and was run over or he might have attempted to mount one of the platforms of the moving cars and fell under the wheels. No part of the $1 given the deceased by his mother was found in his clothing.Labels: accident, death, Landis court, No 2 police station, railroad, St.Joseph, undertakers, Washington avenue August 10, 1907 NEGRO POLITICIAN WAS HERE.
W. T. Vernon to Deliver Speeches in St. Joseph and Topeka.
W. T. Vernon, a negro, registrar of the United States treasury, spent an hour in Kansas City last night. He went to St. Joseph, where this afternoon he will be the speaker at the Tri-City exposition.
The Tri-City exposition at St. Joseph began Sunday and closes tonight. It was organized to show the progress of the negro in the West. The Washington politician will speak on the negro question, but said last night at the depot that he will also have a great deal to say about organized labor.
Next week Vernon will speak in Topeka at the convention of the Business League, another negro organization, which closes next Friday. He said he will remain in Kansas about two weeks before returning to Washington.
Booker T. Washington and other prominent negro educators will speak in Topeka during the week.Labels: race, St.Joseph, Topeka, Union depot July 28, 1907 FORGIVEN IN DEATH
BODY OF MRS. INEZ YOTHERS IS FINALLY CLAIMED. MAN WHOSE SHORT HONEYMOON WAS WRECKED ARRIVES
Married in May, Bride Soon Fell in Love With Another and Deserted Home -- Ends Life in The Street With Acid.
The first tear to fall on the bier of Mrs. Inez Yothers since her suicide June 26 was yesterday -- a tear of forgiveness that gave her her first friend in death. With bowed head and strained lips, Walter Yothers, the husband whose home was wrecked when she deserted him for another, stood at the coffin, the coffin that had been shunted back and forth across three states without a claimant.
Somewhere Frank Palmer was, yesterday, released by a suicide's death, from the paramour's claims. Taking the best of her life, he deserted her in death. It was the husband who came with the final recognition.
"Yes, that is my wife. Poor Inez. She couldn't have realized what a great wrong she was doing when she deserted me and our home to run off with another man. She has paid dearly for it all and I forgive her."
Thus spoke Yothers, of Chillicothe, Mo., as he stood in the morgue of Gibson & Porter's undertaking establishment in Kansas City, Kas., yesterday morning and gazed upon the body of the woman. Tears slowly crept down his cheeks as he looked into the face of the woman who a few months ago he had led to the altar only to be deserted by her scarcely before their honeymoon was over.
Mr. and Mrs. Yothers, were married at Troy, Kas., May 3 last and directly after their marriage went to St. Joseph, Mo., to live. While there Mrs. Yothers fell in love with a young man by the name of Frank Palmer and they eloped to Kansas City, Kas., where they lived as man and wife. Palmer secured employment at the Fowler packing house and Mrs. Yothers in her devotion daily carried his dinner to him.
At noon June 26 she appeared at the gate of the packing house as usual with Palmer's dinner. He was displeased with the meal she had prepared and after scolding her emptied the contents of the pail into the street. Mrs. Yothers burst into tears and with the remark, "that is the last meal you will ever throw away of mine," she walked to the middle of the street, gazed once more at Palmer and then swallowed the contents of a two ounce bottle of carbolic acid. She died in great agony before she could be removed to a hospital.
Palmer witnessed the act without making any attempt to prevent it, and then quickly ran away. No trace of him has since been obtained by the local authorities.
At the time of the suicide no one could be found who knew the name of the woman. She went by the name of Palmer after coming from St. Joseph. Upon a description furnished to the authorities, David Hurst, of Muncie, Ind., decided that the body must be that of his daughter, and it was sent to him. However, when he viewed the body he discovered it was not his missing child. It was returned to Kansas City, Kas., and a couple of days ago a letter was received from Walter Yothers, of Chillicothe, in which he stated that he believed the suicide was his wife, who deserted him in St. Joseph.
He arrived in the city yesterday morning to identify the body and arrange for its burial.Labels: Kansas City Kas, romance, St.Joseph, streetcar, Suicide, undertakers July 27, 1907 TRIO BACK TO ST. JOSEPH.
One Is Accused of Having Stolen From His Father.
Fred Folk, 23 years old, H. A. Barnes, 25 years old and Mrs. Cora Searcey, all of St. Joseph, were arrested at a rooming house at 516 East Eleventh street by Detectives Orford and McAnany at the request of Detective J. T. Frans of St. Joseph, last night on a charge of grand larceny. The trio, accompanied by two small children of Mrs. Searcey, came to Kansas City yesterday morning, bringing with them, it is claimed, personal property belonging to J. R. Barnes, father of H. A. Barnes.
The police say Folk is a paroled prisoner under sentence of three years in the state penitentiary on a charge of burglary and larceny. Young Barnes, it is claimed, had robbed his father of about $60 worth of property of various descriptions, and the woman is charged with having fraudulently drawn her husband's pay check from a packing plant Thursday and eloped to Kansas City with Barnes.
The prisoners will be taken to St. Joseph this morning.Labels: crime, detectives, Eleventh street, penitentiary, rooming house, St.Joseph, streetcar July 26, 1907
SHE WAS HIS FIRST WIFE.
Body of Suicide at Last Identified by Chillicothe Man.
Coroner J. A. Davis, of Kansas City, Kas., received a letter from Walter Yothers, of Chillicothe, Mo., hyesterday stating that the woman who committed suicide here on June 26 by drinking carbolic acid and was his first wife, whom he married at Troy, Kas., May 3, 1907. They went from there to St. Joseph, Mo., where she formed the acquaintace of Frank Palmer and eloped with him.
Palmer, the young man for whom she left home, disappeared the day of the tragedy and has not been heard from. She had just carried dinner to him at the Fowler packing house when she swallowed the poison.
The body is at Porter & Gibson's undertaking establishment, being returned to this city Wednesday from Muncie, Ind., where it was sent to Edward Hurst, who thought it was that of his daughter.Labels: Kansas City Kas, St.Joseph, streetcar, Suicide, undertakers July 24, 1907 STAGE PICTURE IS DIMMED.
Lieutenant Kennedy Gives Inquisitor Some Sound Advice.
A girl entered police headquarters last evening, and calling Lieutenant Michael J. Kennedy to one side, confidentially informed him that her mother had threatened to send her to the reform school if she went away with a summer theatrical company. She told the lieutenant that she was past 19 years old, and had contemplated becoming an actress, but her parents objected so strenuously that life at home had become unbearable since her artistic inclinations were so hampered.
She asked if a young woman past her majority could be sent to the reform school by her parents, and was apparently relieved when told by Lieutenant Kennedy that such would be impossible.
"But if I were you," continued the lieutenant, "I would not disobey my parents in this case. They know what's best for you."
With this bit of advice, the lieutenant supplimented an outline of trials and tribulations of young girls who leave good homes to enter that army upon their own resources. When this discourse was concluded, it was apparent that the lieutenant's story had had the desired effect. With tears in her eyes the girl arose, and as she started away said that though she had signed a contract with a company that was being organized in St. Joseph, declared that she would give up the project and remain at home.Labels: arts, police, reform school, St.Joseph July 19, 2007 BEHIND ANOTHER'S BODY.
HOW WOMAN HOPED TO CONCEAL TRUTH FROM HER FOLKS.
Allowed the Body of a Suicide to Be Indentified As Hers and Sent Home for Burial.
"I did not want my people to know of my circumstances. I preferred that they should think me dead, and that is why I said nothing to prevent the dead body of another woman being sent to my home as mine."
So Mrs. Ina Ford, 529 Walnut street, is said to have confided to a friend, Mrs. Blanche White, her reasons for not notifying her father, Edwin Hurst, of Muncie, Ind., that she was alive and well in Kansas City, notwithstanding the fact that Kansas City papers had informed her that the body of a suicide had been identified as hers and forwarded to Muncie.
On the afternoon of June 27, a woman who had been living with Frank Palmer, at 928 Genesee, went to the Fowler packing house, where Palmer was employed, and, after a few words with him drank carbolic acid from the effects of which she died soon afterwards. Palmer left city that night, and the authorities were given information leading them to believe the dead woman to have been Miss Ina Ford of Muncie, Ind. Mrs. Ford's parents were notified, and under their directions, the body was shipped to Muncie.
Mrs. Ford's father discovered the mistake as soon as the body reached Muncie. He notified the Kansas City police of the error in identity and sent the body of the suicide back to Kansas City.
When Mrs. Ford learned that the mistake had been detected, she at once wired her home. But she does not deny that she knew that the other woman's body had been sent to Muncie as hers.
Attempts to locate Mrs. Ford at her rooming house last night were ineffectual. Patrolman Larrabee and a newspaper man obtained an inverview with Miss White, an intimate friend of the Ford woman, in which it was learned that Mrs. Ford had left Kansas City. She is said to have told Miss White that she did not notify her parents of the error until she knew the secret had been discovered, as she was in poor circumstances and preferred they should think her dead than to know the truth about her. She avers that a former lover is responsible for the mistake in identity of the dead woman.
A searching inquiry last night developed the fact that the dead woman was Miss Ines Others, who had eloped with Palmer from St. Joseph, where her husband, Walter Others, resides. There was a slight personal resemblance between the two women.Labels: Genessee street, police, rooming house, St.Joseph, streetcar, Suicide, Walnut Street June 27, 1907 DRANK IT LIKE A TOAST.
Woman Who Forsook Husband for Another Man Takes Poison.
After warning Frank Palmer, of 920 Bell street, Kansas City, that he would never again receive a dinner from her hands, Mrs. Inez Others, of St. Joseph, Mo., at noon yesterday raised a two-ounce vial of carbolic acid to her lips and drank it like a toast.
The tragedy happened directly underneath the front entrance of the Fowler packing house, and just as the laborers were filing out to receive their lunches from the hands of children and wives who were bringing them. A dozen men where standing about Mrs. Others when she took the poison, but none of them noticed anything extraordinary in her action. They said they thought she was only joking.
When Mrs. Others reached the center of the Fifth street car tracks, however, she was een to fall. A policeman who happened to be riding on a westbound car had it stopped and an ambulance was called to take her to No. 2 police station, where she died a few minutes later. Her body was then removed to Porter & Gibson's undertaking rooms.
Mrs. Others four weeks ago left a husband, Walter Others, in St. Joseph, Mo.
Palmer is now being held at No. 2 police station pending investigation. He said yesterday that he, like the other men who were standing about when Mrs. Others committed suicide, thought the act was only to deceive him, and that the contents of the bottle was water. He said they had quarreled in the morning, and that she had then declared her intention of killing herself, but that he had not paid much attention to the threat as she had once before drank what she claimed to be poison, but which had no effect on her.Labels: Bell street, Fifth street, No 2 police station, poison, St.Joseph, streetcar, Suicide, undertakers May 6, 1907
SHRIEKING HIGH SCHOOL BOYS.
One Hundred and Eighty From St. Joseph Invade Union Depot.
High, Ho! Mm Oh!
What's the matter with St. Joe?
One hundred and eighty high school students from St. Joseph were at t he Union depot yesterday afternoon, advertising their presence by a conglomeration of shrieks, which, when analysed, proved to be the foregoing yell. They were on their way home from Columbia, where they had attended the state interscholastic track meet, and were proving to Kansas Cityans that not even the failure of their team to carry off more than one event in the meet ha dampened their school patriotism.
"Had a great time down there!" yelled one exuberant athlete. "Greatest place ever was, and they treated us fine. The meet was all Kansas City and St. Louis, but we had a good run for our money. Stopped at the Eta Pie Frat house and got enough provisions to last a week. 'Rah for Columbia! Whooppee!"
The excursionists were under the charge of Professor R. H. Jordan, principal of the St. Joseph high school, and J. H. Bentley, athletic director.Labels: sports, St Louis, St.Joseph, streetcar, Union depot March 22, 1907 SWOFFORD BROS. MAY SELL.
Possibility That Syndicate May Purchase Their Business. President J. J. Swofford, of the Swofford Bros.' Dry Goods Company, said yesterday that negotiations were pending with St. Louis, St. Joseph and Wichita capitalists for the Swofford plant at a price close to $1.000,000. "The matter is merely being discussed in a business way," said Mr. Swofford. "We have set our price and the others are considering it. I do not look for anything definite for some weeks, and the whole thing may end in talk." The capital stock has been increased from the original $300,000 to $1,000,000. It succeeded the Grimes Dry Goods Company in 1891. Labels: business, St Louis, St.Joseph, streetcar, Swofford Bros March 2, 1907
ADDS TO HADLEY'S BOOM.
Banquet of Tenth Ward Republicans at the Savoy.
"Hadley for governor" was the slogan of the Tenth Ward Republican Club at its annual banquet at the Savoy hotel last night. Homer Mann, who delivered the nominating speech at St. Joseph when Hadley was named as candidate for attorney general, proposed the name of Hadley for the gubernatorial nomination, which was received with hearty cheers by the 200 or more Tenth warders present.
A four-course diner was served, following which was the evening's programme, Captain Charles A. Morton, retiring president, was toastmaster. The speakers were: E. F. Halstead, Alderman George H. Edwards, Homer B. Mann, Alderman E. E. Morris and George A. Neal. Mayor Beardsley was a late comer, and he made a few remarks.
Following are the officers elected for the ensuing year: Martin J. Ostergard, president; Howard Lee, vice president; Samuel R. Halstead, second vice president; J. C. Barrette, secretary; William H. Gardner, assistant secretary; Flournoy Quest, treasurer, and William Newland, sergeant-at-arms.
Labels: Herbert Hadley, politics, Savoy, St.Joseph, streetcar, Tenth Ward February 22, 1907
WOFFORD HOLDING HIS OWN.
It Was Said Last Night That He WasImproving Steadily. Judge J. W. Wofford of the criminal court, who has been severely ill for the last two weeks, had a sinking spell yesterday morning that was serious enough to alarm his family and friends. Clarence Wofford, his son, who is stenographer of the criminal court, was sent for in a hurry and court was adjourned. Judge B. J. Casteel, of St. Joseph, who has been sitting in Judge Wofford's place during the latter's illness, dismissed court till Monday morning, after a short eulogy on the sick jurist. Judge Wofford rallied by noon, however, and improved a great deal during the afternoon and more during the evening. His physician, Dr. J. V. Kinyoun, said late last evening: "Judge Wofford is very much better and has every symptom at present of improving steadily." Judge Wofford is 69 years old. For a good many years he has suffered with stomach trouble and during the last few months has suffered greatly with acute indigestion. He is sensitive about his condition, and often insisted on holding court when his friends in the court room thought they could see that he was suffering. He "pooh-poohed" any reference to his illness and insisted that he was very well indeed, or that he was at most having a slight attack of indigestion that would soon be over. Judge Wofford has served on the criminal court bench here for about fifteen years. He was re-elected two years ago for another term of six years. He lives at 1012 Vine street. Labels: criminal court, illness, Judge Wofford, Judges, St.Joseph, streetcar, Vine street February 6, 1907
FINDS A WITNESS.
STATE'S CASE IS STRENGTHENED AGAINST ALBERT CRONE.
FIREMAN YOWELL SAW HIM.
ON KERSEY COATES TERRACE NIGHT OF MURDER.
After Telling His Story, He Disappeared, but He Is Now Ready to Go on the Stand -- Taking of Testimony Begins This Morning.
After a search covering several weeks a most important witness for the state in the Crone murder trial, which begins today, has been found. Rather, he was found several days ago, but the announcement was made only last evening.
He is the man who swore so positively a few days after the murder that he saw Albert Crone on the Kersey Coates terrace at about 8:50 o'clock on the evening of Thursday, July 19, the time at which the officers say the murder must have been committed. Bertha Bowlink, the murdered girl, and Frank Kern, who was assaulted at the same time, went out for a walk that evening about 8:30 o'clock. A young woman in the neighborhood says she heard groans coming from the direction of the spot where the girl's body was found, about 10 o'clock that night. Thus the police declare the killing must have been done between those two hours.
The witness who has been missing for so long and who has now been found, is Roy M. Yowell, a Frisco fireman. He swore positively to seeing Crone on the terrace at the time stated and later identified Crone at the county jail. Before he saw him, however, he described Crone accurately and added that he had on a "lead-colored hat." Crone had at that time a United States infantry campaign hat which is of a dark gray, or lead color.
Yowell went to police headquarters early this morning with Marshal Francis, of Emporia, having arrived here from that city shortly after midnight. He was taken to a hotel and a policeman assigned to stay in his vicinity for the night.
Yowell's statement to the prosecutor the day after Crone's arrest was as follows:
"I left a restaurant at 915 West Twelfth street about 8:35. I started to
my room at 1121 West Seventeenth street by the Kersey Coates driveway.
About half way between Twelfth and Seventeenth streets I came upon a man and a
woman sitting on a catch basin, which is about two feet above the present
grade. The girl was bareheaded and wore a dark dress. It may
have been blue. The man with her sat with his elbows on his knees
and only glanced up as I passed. He was a large man, weighing probably 190
or 200 pounds.
"There are breaks in the bluff along there, where the light from the electric lights above shines through. As I passed the pair I looked at my watch. It was 8:40 o'clock. About 150
to 200 yards to the south of the couple, I came upon a man carrying his coat under his arm and with what I took to be a short cane in his hand. It was about three feet long. The man passed to the right of me toward the edge of the road. I started to speak to him, as I thought him a friend. Seeing that he was not, I scrutinized him closely as he came between me and the light in the bottoms." Here he described Crone, even to the campaign hat he wore: "I saw and recognized this same man in a cell at police headquarters at 11:30 Friday night. In spite of all the alibis he may have, I am willing to go on the stand and swear that he is the man I saw there.
"The man I passed on the driveway had his hat pulled down and walked around me as if he wanted to avoid meeting anyone. Nevertheless, I got a good look at him. Crone is that man. Just as I got to the end of the driveway and came to the walk leading up Seventeenth street, another man,
who was walking leisurely along, stepped from the sidewalk and started on down the driveway toward where the couple sat. Both the men I passed were going in that direction. I have seen Charles Henry, who is arrested with Crone. He does not fit the description of the second man I saw." Crone's alibi consists of a statement that at the time the killing must have taken place he was in a card game in the Tralle saloon at 1125 Grand avenue. He has five witnesses who are expected to swear that they were in the card room with him at that time. The taking of the testimony in the case will begin at 9 o'clock this morning before Special Judge Casteel, of St. Joseph, in the criminal court. Labels: courtroom, crime, criminal court, Frisco, Grand avenue, jail, Kersey Coates, murder, police headquarters, St.Joseph, streetcar, Terrace street, Twelfth street |
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