Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1898-02-03

) Emil A. Steger and wife of East st.
} Louis, and the attempt of the husband
t to kill his better half in a rooming
house on South Broadway in st. Louis
that day at noon. 1t seems that Steg-
er and his wife had not been living to-
gether for several months past. The
husband recently heard that she was
growing fond of the attentions OF other
men and Monday left his home in East
St. Louis to go to St. Louis where his
wife was stopping and make an inves-
tigatiou. He found his wife and would
probably have murdered her had it not
been for the Intervention Of a Mrs.
Lewis, the landlady, where Mrs. Steg-
er was rooming. As it was Mrs. Steg-
er received several bad cuts with
knife. The husband was taken to the
| police station; the wife's wounds were
dressed at the dispensary. Local in
terest attaches to the story because Mrs.
Steger says that &c. T. Talbot, mil
linery merchant of Ironton, No." is
the cause of all the trouble. Mr.. Tai
bOtt went to st. Louis Tuesday morn
| ing. Following is what the Post Dis
patch of~Tuesday says in regard to the
matter, together with Mr.. TalbOtt's
version of his connection with the
women in the case: about the most
surprised man in old Missouri was c..
p. Talbot, a merchant of IrOuton, who
boarded train at his home for ST.
Louis early Tuesday morning. About
the most indignant woman in all the
State was Mrs. Talbot, who got on
the train with him. Their mingled
surprise and indignation came upon
them as they made themselves COM
Portable in a seat and opened the morn
ing paper. They read that Emil A.
Steger of East ST. Louis had discovered
G. 2. Talbot and Mrs. Stager in a
boarding house at 200 South Broad
way Monday and had wounded Mrs
Steger with a butcher knife. while G.
p. Talbot had escaped out of rear
door. 1t was all right convincing
Mrs. Talbot that her G. P. Talbot
was not with Mrs. Steger, because Mr..
Talbot has been in IrOnton since Sun
day, but to explain the acquaintance
which he confessed having with Mrs.
Steger and to put different construc-
tion upon certain remarks which Mrs.
Steger attributed to Mr.. Talbot o.
Ironton, Mo-, was task which made
drinking the Mississippi River the play
of baby i know Mrs. Steger,' said
Mr.. Talbot to a Post Dispatch report
er, whom he sought directly he.arrived
in st. Louis, and my relations with
her have been solely honorable and
solely those of man who felt sorry
for woman in hard luck Mrs. Tai
bOtt sat by and listened to her hus-
bands protests. but she didn't say any
thing. Then Mr.. Talbot continued: |
i am ready to have every one know |
precisely in what light stood toward |
Mrs. Steger, and if my wife doesn't be- |
lieve me | can't do any more. | am a |
frequent guest at the Lindell, and on |
one of my visits to st. Louis Mrs. |
Steger, who was waitress in the Lin
dell restaurant, brought me my dinner. |
1t happened that she waited upon me /
several times subsequently,, and, like |
many another man would have done, |
talked to her, and in harmless CONVEX
sation learned that Mrs. Steger was
living apart from her husband and was
dependent upon her own efforts for a |
living. Not long ago l was present in
the restaurant when Mrs. Steger was |
discharged. The cause of her dismiss
al was a trivial difference of opinion |
with one of the other dining room girls
whose part had been taken by Buck
holtz, the head waiter. My sympa-
tiles were aroused for the woman who
was thrown out of position by which
she would make an honest living. She |
fnla Oho hoH o1o 70
money, and to save her from what
seemed an inevitable step, l went
down into my pocket and gave her
money. l also asked Buckholtz to
take her back, and though he refused
her said he would use his influence to
find her employment elsewhere. Last
Friday l received a note from Mrs
Steger. asking me to call at her rooms
at 200 South Broadway. The note
said she was going to Texas and want
ed advice. / called and was introduce
ed to man who was in Mrs. Steger's
room. This man, / am told, is head
waiter at the St. James Hotel. Mrs.
Steger introduced him as her brother.
Immediately | became suspicious and
wondered if there could have been an
Interior object il asking me to the
room. To get him out of the way, so
| could speak to the woman, sent him
for the drinks. As soon as he left the
room l said to Mrs. Steger: See here.
that man is not your brother. What
does it mean?' Then she confessed to
me that he was going to give her work
at the St. James. She promised to
leave him and go back to her husband
after had reasoned with her and
pointed out the consequences of what
she was about to do. / then left the
room after making an engagement
with Mrs. Steger for the next morning.
She met me at o'clock at the Lindell
on Saturday and we had breakfast to-
gether in a restaurant on Sixth street,
near Olive. | urged her again to go
back to her husband. When left her
on Washington avenue, at $50 o'clock,
she had promised me to go straight to
East St. Louis and to see Steger. If
they could not agree, she was then to
bring her trunk back, and we should
try again to find her work without the
degradation conditional upon her en-
ployment elsewhere. / have not seen
Mrs Steger since then. If my name
was used in connection with the at
tempted murder of Mrs. Steger by her
husband yesterday it must have been
given by the man who was with Mrs.
Steper. | shau't say who that man