St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-31
TRESPASSING YOUTHS.
The Disagreeable Ending Of the ANA
tory Adventures of Two Fresh
Young Men.
Lured on to the Seminary Grounds by
the Ladies They are Sued for
Trespass.
A Medical Examiner for Secret So
cieties Tries His Hand at Grave
yard Insurance.
The Unparalleled Hands Which
Showed Up in a Quiet Game of
Observation-Disclosures Change.


Showed Up in a Quiet Game of
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Change.
Correspondence Of the Globe.
ST.. Louis, May 29.-For several years
Mr., B. Gratz Brown was the only great
man in ST. Louis. 1t will be remembered
that he was the candidate for vice president
on the Greeley ticket in 1872. He has not
done anything particularly stupendOus
since then, but during the present week his
son, b. Gratz Brown, Jr., has achieved
greatness at one fell swoop. The family
lives at Kirllwood, one of the suburbs of st.
Louis, which is also the seat of Mrs. Snead-
Cairns female seminary. The result of
this proximity has been the argument of tho
legal question before the courts whether or
not the defense that young lady had
waved handkerchief at a young gentle
man was valid defense to charge of
trespass, The court has ruled that it is not
good defense, and has assessed MI. B.
Gratz Brown, Jr., 800 and costs, all of
which happened in this manner; The
KirkWOod seminary is patronized by some
OF the incest girls in ST. Louis, and as a
consequence the road running by that insti-
tuition is much patronized by the jeunesse
d'oree OF the suburb Young Brown with
couple of friends was taking his constitu-
tional the other evening when the sweet
faces of Misses Ella Barrett and Kansas
Mckinley appeared at the seminary WIN
dow and fluttered their handkerchiefS. The
young men, led by Brown, crowded through
the fence and made their way under the
window, where they conversed with the la
dies above. did the Romeo and Juliet
act" as one of the witnesses described it.
Now the young ladies were looking out OF
the second-story window, while Fate was
peering grimly down from the third, YER
tically above the billing and cooling.
Fate was the principal Mrs. Cairns. just
as things were beginning to warm up this
latter lady upset a jug of water upon the
Romeos, drenching them thoroughly, and
making them so indignant that they walked
fight off. But this was not the end of it,
Mrs Cairns had the young men arrested,
and charged them with trespass. All of
them pleaded guilty. save Brown, and were
fined IS piece without any scandal or UNI
necessary publicity. He fought the case.
however, and summoned in his defense
Miss Barrett and Miss Mckinley, who adj
mitted tearfully having 1uttered their ker-
chiefs at the young man. The court ruled
that this was not constructive invitation
to enter the seminary grounds, and Mr.
Brown contributed $40. A great deal of
useless trouble was employed to keep the
matter out of the newspapers, but the
whole story came out in all it's enOrmity
to-day.
nv
Sporting men in St. Louis are talking
about game Of poker played in a private
residence on Chestnut street on Wednes-
day night, which is said to be almost, if
not quite, unparalleled in the annals of the
noble game. Everybody in the game is be-
You'd suspicion of crookedness. In one
deal two straight flushes-straight fushes
are played in Missouri-and one set of
fours were simultaneously jostled together.
1t was ive-dollar-limit game, and an ex-
circuit judge, with a king-high, straight
flush. collected $3.50 from his friends, one
of whom rejoiced in Jack-high piece of
deception, and the other, who grieved over
a job lot Of five spots, and who remained
with the procession for 500 worth and
over. 1t is said that the same thing would
not happen again in millions of deals.
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Our courts have been occupied during the
past week with very singular and sensa-
tiOnal case Of which the newspapers have
made very little. Dr.. WhitmOre was medi-
cal examiner for the Knights and Ladies
of Honor and several other insurance socie-
ties. He had a sort of relative and servant
in his house named Mary A. Mudd, whom
he had initiated into enough societies to
make the insurance on her life amount to
$4,000. He paid the initiation fees and
dues for her, and the policies and certif-
Gates were made out in favor of his daugh-
ter, Belle WhitmOre, his wife being named
as the trustee. Mary Mudd died with appro-
pirate celebrity, and the different lodges de-
clined to pay the death benefit. Rumors of
very serious nature filled the town, and
Dr.. Whitmore consented after time to
having the body exhumed and the stomach
analysed. This was done, but with no re-
suit. The lodges still refused to pay and
suit was entered. Several people swore
positively that the corpse exhumed and ex-
amined was not that of Mary Mudd, but of
a different and very much larger woman.
Naturally the inference was drawn that the
doctor had substituted another body for
that of the woman whose death was in
question. By agreement between counsel
on Wednesday of this week, the grave was
once more opened and the dead body once
more dragged into the daylight. Measure
ments were taken and everything done to
establish the identity of the corpse. This
was done beyond the possibility of doubt,
only number of witnesses are ready to
swear, and are swearing, that the body ex-
humed Wednesday is not the same body
as that exhumed last July. OF course the
complication is apparent and the mystery
is simply thiekened. The case will hardly
go to the jury till Monday.
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Mr.. Frank O'Neil, who has been for some
time past on the local staff of the Post
Dispatch, was on Thursday appointed man.
aging editor of the Missouri Republican.
He will begin his new, duties on Monday
next. Mr.. O'Neil will be the best paid
editor in St. Louis. His salary
has been fixed at 81, 500 a year. Mr.. Hyde
the editor of the Republican, who is at
present in Europe, continues to hold his
position as editor-in-chief, rumors to the
contrary notwithstanding. I happen to
know beyond question that there has been
up to the present time no ser ious difference
between the proprietors of the Republican
and Mr.. Hyde. There. is no doubt, how
. yer, that Mr. Hyde is being gradually
shelved. Mr.. O'Neil left the Republican
two years ago, after piece of particularly
small business by Mr.. Hyde, and his return
will be very bitter dose to that gentleman.
1t will make new paper of the Republi-
can, however, because there is but one
opinion about Frank O'Neil' merits among
those who know him best, and that is that
he is without question the best all-around
newspaper man in st. Louis.
AsMODEUS.