Three months ago Henry Martin, aged 30, and his reputed wife, Lizzie, anchored their house boat in the river at St. Louis. Tuesday afternoon her corpse was found in the boat with her skull beaten in, the boat floor covered with blood and a bloody hammer on the bank. Martin had disappeared.
[Date: 1894-12-27; Paper: American Nonconformist submitted by Barb Z.]
Arrests on Warrants
The warrants were returned executed yesterday in the following cases:
Emma Gillmore, grand larceny. She is accused of stealing some clothing belonging to Amanda Watson, No. 419 North Seventh street.
John Campbell, riotously disturbing the peace. The charge is preferred by Sam. W. Dicks, of No. 1006 Chestnut street.
Emma Hudson, petit larceny;
Duncan Mc-Kenzie, petit larceny;
Barney Malone, assault and battery; Bridget Kean, same .
Pat. Duryer, assault to kill; John Brennan, same.
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, MO., Thurs. Morning, June 17, 1875- Transcribed by Candi)
Singular Case of Alleged Outrage.
E. Levy was brought up In the Criminal Court yesterday on an indictment charging him with having outraged the person of Mrs. Hannah Isaacs, wife of Mr. Benjamin Isaacs, of No. 409 Franklin avenue. The parties to the case are Jewish people. The defendant is a dealer in hides, and does business on Main street. According to the evidence, it appears that the defendant went to Mrs., Isaacs' one day last December, when her husband was away, began to take liberties with her, and, despite her resistance, threw her on a lounge and violated her person. On the return of her husband she burst into tears and told of what had happened. Evidence was given for the purpose of damaging the credit of the prosecuting witness in the opinion of the jury. In some respects the case presents features as revolting as any that has undergone investigation in the Criminal Court for some time. The case was laid over -until to-day. Mr. L. B. Beach and Colonel N. C. Claiborne prosecute, and Governor Charles P. Johnson defends.
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, MO., Thurs. Morning, June 17, 1875- Transcribed by Candi)
Lightning-Rod Transaction.
John Chariton and Levy St. Amanda were examined in the Court of Criminal Correction yesterday on a charge of burglary and larceny. Evidence was given to show that on Sunday, the 6th inst., a burglary was committed at the store of Messrs. Cole Bros., manufacturers of lightning-rods. The defendants had been in the employ of the firm, and the stolen rods were found in the possession of Charlton. The other man was said to be his confederate. Charlton was held to answer in a bond of $1,000. St. Amanda was discharged.
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, MO., Thurs. Morning, June 17, 1875- Transcribed by Candi)
The Bogus Potato-Measure.
Joseph Reither, a peddler, was tried in the Police Court, yesterday, on a charge of using a half-bushel measure which was not in accordance with the city standard. This is the case in which the wooden measure had half a dozen large potatoes nailed down 60 as to serve as a false bottom.
Mr. Smythe appeared for defendant and contended that the measure was stamped and constructed according to law. Judge Cullen remarked that defendant might have committed a grevious [sic] offence, but he was entitled to the protection of the law, and must be prosecuted on a proper charge. The case was taken under advisement.
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, MO., Thurs. Morning, June 17, 1875- Transcribed by Candi)
SAMBO IN PETTICOATS.
The Case of Florence Smith.
A singular case was tried in a singular way it the Police Court yesterday. A negro named Florence Smith was tiled on the charge of wearing apparel unbecoming his sex in a public place. "Florence" is a full-blooded negro, and had not a very feminine look. There is a scar on his left cheek, and his countenance does not give a favorable impression of his' disposition. He wore a dark blue coat and pantaloons of some coarse material. "Call him out," said one officer. "Call her out," said another, and the creature of the indefinable gender came forward. Colonel R. C. Claiborne had demanded a Jury, and, with a sort of poetic justice in view, Mr. Adams, the deputy, had hunted up half a dozen gentlemen of color - good and lawful men, of the same race as the accused. The city was represented by Mr. P. Curtis, a rising young lawyer, lately from Louisville. The jury was accepted by both parties without any challenges being made. It consisted of Messrs. J. S. Brown, Chas. Torsie, Geo. Taylor,
Joe Smith, M. Arnold and Joe Thornton. They were respectable-looking citizens, but most of them were several shades lighter complexion than the defendant.
Officer Wall testified that he arrested the defendant on Seventh and St. Charles streets. Defendant had on a woman's clothes, a skirt, two or three petticoats and other articles of female attire. A huge bunch of black horse hair was handed in, identified as having been worn by defendant on his head, though it was then ornamented with flowers. Witness took the prisoner to the Chestnut Street Police Station, where he was searched, and found to he a man.
Captain Burgess testified that he had examined the prisoner, who was a man.
Michael Fortin, ex-Deputy Jailer, testified he had assisted two physicians in making an examination of the prisoner. He was a man, and nothing else.
The two physicians who were expected to testify did not appear.
Mollie Brown, a colored prostitute, was sworn, and testified that defendant was on the door-step, and not on the sidewalk, when arrested.
The case was ably argued for the defendant and for the city. Colonel Claiborne urged that the sex of the "'gentle Florence" had not been established beyond doubt, and that she was entitled to wear the clothes of either sex. He claimed that' 'she" was net on the sidewalk.
After retiring for a few minutes, the Jury returned a verdict of guilty, assessing a fine of $50.
Smith went to the Work-house in the afternoon.
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, MO., Thurs. Morning, June 17, 1875- Transcribed by Candi)
Mistaken Identity.
Sr. Louis. Mo., June 16, 1875.
To the Editor of the Globe-Democrat:
I wish my friends and others who saw or heard of my arrest on Third Street, Monday, to know that it was a case of mistaken identity.
I bare the misfortune to resemble a swindler, of whom the officers arc in search. By publishing this you will oblige.
Very respectfully, Peter Fullerton.
(St. Louis Globe-Democrat, St. Louis, MO., Thurs. Morning, June 17, 1875- Transcribed by Candi)
Louis Segerman murdered his wife in Grant county about the time of the opening of the strip. He was adjudged insane and sent to Jacksonville. Recently he was discharged as cured. He went to St. Louis and started in business, but not succeeding, he cut his throat with a knife and died.
(The Langston City Herald, Langston City, O. T. September 21, 1895. Transcribed by Dale Donlon)
Killed with an Ax.
St. Louis, Mo., May 29. - Matt Gibson and James Timmerman became involved in a fight on the skimmer John A. Scudder last night. Timmerman picked up the hatchet and buried it in Gibson's brain. The fight grew out of the dispute about work. Timmerman charging Gibson was beating him out of a job. Gibson's skull was split wide open, and he was taken to the hospital, where he died in a few minutes. Timmerman was arrested.
[Source: The Quincy Daily Journal; May 30, 1884; Page 1 - Transcribed by Debbie Gibson]
A sedative given to the patients in the St. Louis insane asylum, recently, killed four of them. It was a mixture of various narcotic poisons, conium predominating. The coroner’s jury in the case found that the sedative was prepared according to the prescription of Dr. Howard, the resident physician, “and that the blame, if any, attaches to the nurse, who administered overdoses of the medicine.”
The Medical and Surgical Reporter, Philadelphia, Sept 4, 1875. D.G. Brinton, M.D., Editor. Submitted by Linda Rodriguez
Convicted of Registration Frauds.
St. Louis, Mo-Late Thursday the Jury found Henry Exnicious guilty of false registration and sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 16, 1908 Page 2 - Barb Z 2009
Greek Boys As Slaves.
St. Louis, Mo. - That more than 300 Greek boys who work In St. Louis, bootblack stands are held In practical slavery by patrons who pay them $1 a day for 18 hours' work and search their pockets for tips every night Is the information on which warrants were issued Tuesday by United States Commissioner Morsey for Peter Anagnos.
John Mavrakos and James Chilfers.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 16, 1908 Page 2 Barb Z 2009
ACCUSED ARMY OFFICER IS CRITICALLY ILL.
Was Ordered to Government Hospital at the Request of Mrs. John A. Logan.
St. Louis, Mo.—Col. William P. Tucker, assistant paymaster of the United Slates army, on whom a warrant was served at Decatur, III., early Tuesday, charging wife desertion, left St. Louis for Hot Springs, Ark., on an Iron Mountain train at nine o'clock Wednesday night.
Col. Tucker is a very sick man, and whether he will survive the journey is problematical. He was accompanied to the Union station by Dr. Louis H. Behrens, the house physician who was called Into the case Tuesday night. Accompanying Col. Tucker to Hot Springs are G. E. Frey of Chicago and his sister, Mrs. Myrtle Platt, a former teacher in the Philippines, who has been nursing Col. Tucker In his present Illness, Mrs. Jennie T. Johnson of Oak Park, Ill., who is a sister of Col. Tucker will be taken to the government hospital at Hot Springs whither he was ordered by Secretary of War Wright The action of Secretary Wright, it appears, was taken at the Instigation of Mrs. John A. Logan, the mother-in-law of the colonel, who desired that he be no longer nursed by Mrs. Platt.
Under the rules of the hospital at Hot Springs, outside nurses are not permitted to care for patients there.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 23, 1908 Page 2 - Barb Z 2009
Nine Hours They Worked on the Safe Robbers Made Successful Escape on Horseback,
It is Believed Former Discharged Cashier had been accused of Embezzling $12,000.
ST. LOUIS.—(Special.) Six masked men entered the National Stock Yards Bank, north of East St Louis. Ill, and, after capturing and gagging the two night watchmen and firemen at the steam plant and blowing open the vaults with dynamite, secured $5,000 in coin and currency, with which they decamped. For nine hours, from 7 o'clock at night until 4 a. m., they were at work on the vault without being interfered with. The entire East St Louis police force, aided by the St. Louis police, are guarding all the avenues of escape, but as yet have obtained no clue as to the whereabouts of the robbers, who. It is believed, escaped on horseback.
About midnight one of the robbers was left to guard the three captives, while the other five went to the bank, which Is located on the first floor of the exchange building, near the center. With nitro-glycerlne the robbers blew open the steel doors of the vault. These doors, of a double thickness of steel, were shattered and the bank's books and papers blown into shreds. Entering the vault, the big steel safe, with quadruple plate doors, was next encountered. These doors were drilled and a charge of the explosive inserted, which blew them off. The explosion destroyed more books and papers, and scattered about $600 in gold and silver upon the floor. This money was not taken by the robbers. They took all the currency and other coin, amounting to about $5,000. as nearly as the banks officials can estimate. The five men left the bank and signaled to the one who was guarding the captive watchman and fireman. This man joined his companions. In addition to the $5,000. the robbers secured $550 left with the bank by Assistant Postmaster Bushnell, of the stock yards. This Is the bank whose officers recently swore out a warrant charging Theodore Duddleston, the assistant cashier, with embezzling $12,000.
The Valley Falls, Jefferson County, Kansas Friday Jan. 10 1902 Page 1 - Barb Z. 2009
Friday the 13th
Cops Overheard Plans
St. Louis Jan. 13 - Three men were planning a big payroll robbery while a squad of policemen sat in an adjoining room listening. Calaboose.
Friday, 13th they said.
The Daily Messenger, NY. Friday, Jan 13 1922. (submitted by: Melissa- 2008)
Reformed Bandit is Being Trailed Again
St. Louis, Jan. 14 – Al Jennings, reformed bandit and train robber, was trailed by authorities once again today.
A warrant charging assault was issued by the prosecutor’s office against Jennings on complaint of Harry Kerr, whose wife was alleged to have been found in Jennings’ company at a hotel.
The Daily Messenger. Canandaigua, NY. Jan 14, 1922 (submitted by: Melissa- 2008)
BOYS STONE PEDDLER TO DEATH “JUST FOR FUN;” TELL POLICE
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 8 – Five boys were arrested in the class rooms in the high school today charged with the murder of William, Wachter, a peddler found with his skull crushed yesterday. The arrests followed information given by Mrs. Mary Goebhardt, mother of the prisoners.
The boys are: Joseph Lao, George Remmel, Frank Mamie, Henry and Arthur Goebhardt. They told the police they had stoned Wachter “just for fun.”
(Source: The Oklahoman 1/9/1909. Contributed by Dale Donlon)
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