St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-07-05
A Case Where True Love Didn't Run
SmoOtS-Ths Trouble That Game
Of an Alley Pogtofice.
The Peculiar Predicament of a Young
Widow With Quarter of a Million
and a Lack of Discretion.
Plunger Walton Reads the Riot Act to
n st. Louis Boniface, and Offers
TO Fight the Crowd.
Enormous Dividends Declared by a
Gas Company--RouGh Expert
ence With Suicide.
An Artists Love.
Correspondence of the Globe.

Correspondence of the Globe.
ST. LOUIS, July S.-We have had
veritable case of true love gone TO seed in
St Louis this week, in which well-knOwn
artist, very pretty girl and a cruel parent
all figured, as well as an alley pOStofiice.
Mr.. Wellington W. Gardner is widely
known as the sculptor of the Blair statue
and monument at Forest park in this city.
he Is young artist of great promise and
we are all very proud of him. i will let
him tell his story in his own words as he
poured 1t into my sympathetic ears the
other day:i'I love Kate McDowall dearly"
he said, Il know it isn't the sort of con-
feSSiOn one often makes to a newspaper
man, but do love her. / dream of her by
night and think of her by day. l would
not be able To pass the time at all, if l did not
either see her or hear of her every day. We
were engaged TO be married with her
fathers free consent, but Katie and had
lovers quarrel one day and the old
gentleman has never spoken to me since.
lie sOured on ME completely. He
ordered ME from the house, and will not
permit me to come in. What could do?
Nothing but what / did. / found slit in
the alley fence behind his house and told
Katie about il, and every day we have eN-
changed notes through that crack. Well,
last night as l was going there as usual to
get my letter, a great big brute of police
man rushed at me and arrested me, with
deal OF unnecessary violence, and was
hauled OFF to the calabOOSe. OF course they
didn't prosecute because I've goo right to
stick notes through every fence in st. Louis
if want to, but think of the outrage which
has been committed upon me. Think of
the violence to my feelings and the shock
10 Katie There will be runaway match
out of this affair yet il gossip amounts 10
anything. Mr.. NIcDOwell's family are
well known. and Miss Katie is one of those
blue-black eyed blondes with pearly COM
pleXiOn and face which is admirably cal
culated to make an artist commit all sorts
of fOllieS. No prosecution followed the
arrest.
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\ prominent citizen was gathered to his
fathers in st. Louis about year ago, leav-
ing a very pretty widow and a very pretty
estate, the latter was fully $3.50, 600, the
former was not quite -, brOwn-haired, full
| Tipped, with q dainty foot and u figure
modelled TO perfection. The p. C. who
died was fully go. This was his second
matrimonial venture, although he never had
any children. Now, the goSsips say that
when Mr.. c., the attorney who is attend
" CSl<tlC- WIS
he came upon bundle of letters gathered
by the dead man, written by his wife to a
very well-knOwn wholesale grocer here,
which breathe Il love as hot and reckless as
anything 10 be found in the history of Abe
lard and Heloise. The lawyer has, it is al
legged, taken these letters and shown them
| to the widow. with result which has had
all the effectiveness of 4 dynamite explosion.
| She is 10 longer the cold and naughty
/ mourning dame that she was, but she has
conceived a sudden and most violent affec-
ton for the lawyer. Rumor has it that she
will marry him-rumor has it that she is
paying him the most enormous feeS-rumOr
it has that the loving grocer, who is the
proud husband of a most jealous little lady,
has offered fabulous price for the cores
pondence. 1t is probable that all three of
rumOr'S stories are half true. At any rate,
people are talking, while the fortunate
young attorney has set up very nice horse
and buggy in which he occasionally takes
the sOrrowing widow out on Page avenue
for q spin behind the thoroughbred.
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Talking about rumOr, people who pass
the Mercantile club now-a-nights say that
the rattle of poker chips is the most audible
thing in the neighbOrhOOd and all kinds of
stories are afioat about the size of the games
played at this club, which is one of the
most fashionable in St. Louis. In
deed. have heard that some of the play
ers had due bills for several hundred dollars
| in circulation aS the consequence of one
nights game, and seeing that the Mercan-
| tile was established chiefly by church mem
berS, and gentlemen VINO only get their
male help from the Young Mems Christian
association, the stories now afiOat are rather
singular.
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The many st. LOuiSans who are in the
Minnesota and Wisconsin summer resorts
will be more than sorry to hear of the arrest
on a charge of embezZlement of James c.
Mcguire and Robert p. Scott. They are
charged with getting away with about -, 600
from the firm of Shapleigh * Cantwell,
where they We're employed. Mcguire is a
nephew of the Very Rev. p. J. Ryan, Cath
Ollie archbishop Of Philadelphia, and it
was upon the request of this prelate
that the young man was appointed
/ to the position of trust which
he held with the firm that he is said to have
robbed. The archbishop is said to be al
most Frustrated by the affair. Young Ma
guire was his favorite nephew. and he had
again and again used his influence when
cOadjutOr bishop of st. Louis in his behalf
| Archbishop Ryan, it is said, has notified
| Shapleigh II Cantwell that he will make
good any loss sustained by the confidence
repoSed in the young man. Both men
were held in jail for some time before they
were bailed out.
The st. Louis Gas Light company on
July declared dividend of 500 a share
| The par value of the shares is $50, although
they sell in the market for S3SO04OO.
| This dividend ends the first chapter of the
| litigation between the company and the
city of st. Louis, and records the division
of the sum of S973, 930.47, paid as a judg-
ment by the city to the company. 1t is.
considering the par value of the stock, one
of the largest dividends ever declared by
private corporation.
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Elijah Odell, who lives at 1911 Market
street, had an experience on Tuesday night
which he will never forget. His brother
| in-law. David S. Gardiner. who has been
| living with him for some time, has been I'M
able to find work, and was as a consequence
very Respondent. He finally made up his
mind to kill himself. Odell discovered and
cOnfiscated several drugs which Gardiner
had bought. and finally caught the latter as
Lhe was about to apply razor to his throat.
Odeu seized him and q desperate struggle
| followed. Finding that he was not going
to be let cut his own throat, he tried 70 kill
Odell. The two men wreStled about the
room. and finally Odell was thrown to the
floor. He is a man nearly sixty years of
age. Gardiner then slashed his own throat
at discretion, and as a consequence he will
die. Odell has been in business in ST.
Louis for thirty years past, and his ex-
perience has brought him the coincidence
of hundreds of old friends.