The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1906-12-29

st. Louis.-The violent death OF I
Robert VI. Snyder. a Kansas City mil. |
lionaire, has written fms after the |
worlds most remarkable crusade
against bribery The death q Saydsr
Is the climax &C L series e uLsto-
times ant rrl-edi,As tint has pI-sue,.
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Of asEeInt.T-g-- ldlFl.r-alue ,G F.ma
kind--desth. iasErgtT. WIN II ami -
fogtune-has visited -.E tEu.-IsG &c e
of them. Three q ihe- Are 1s:lt
Snyder, whose case WAS 5grdt.sr
the most celebrated Q. al was u-5s-
indictment In st. Louis wae1 L. Ezs
thrown out OF his automobile within
few blocks of his magnificent hone.
on Independence boulevard, Kansas
City, on the night OF October 81, and
killed. When the circuit attorney OF
st. Louis few days later entered a
nolle prosequi In the case the docket OF
the criminal courts was cleared Of all
the Doodle cases which Folk instituted
during the two years that he had brib-
cry under investigation.
But seven men we've sent to the pen
itentiary for bribery. One other is
under sentence, but his case Is pending
in the supreme court. But not one Of
the men-even those who escaped the
penitentiary by turning states evil
Lence-would pass through the ex-
periences Of the last four years for all
the bride money that the wealthiest
corporation of the country could put
UP to buy votes. The lawmaker who
Is tempted to sell his vote may learn
something to his advantage by study
ing carefully the unpleasant expert.
ences Of the men who gave and re.
ceived brides in st. Louis.
Began Doodle Crusade.
II the st. Louis boodlers sowed the
wind they reaped the tornado. Next
to Snyder, Charles II. Turner who
died broken-hearted In New York last
summer, virtual outcast from st
Louis, where he made fortune
amounting to millions Of dollars, was
the most lavish bride giver exposed
during the fight against corruption
He was the first man caught. When
the late Red" Calvin, veteran news
paper reporter, walked into the Office
of Folk early in January, 1902, and
told him that Charles II. Turner ant
Philip Stock, his legislative agent
had placed $147,500 in escrow in two
trust companies vaults to bride the
municipal assembly to pass a fran
chlse bill for the Suburban Street Rail
way company, the Doodle crusade be
gan. Two days later Turner was vir
tually on his knees before the circuit
attorney begging for mercy. The only
alternative to the penitentiary was to
so on the witness stand and tell the
whole corrupt and shameful story. He
chose the alternative. At the time Of
his exposure he was president OF a big
trust company as well as OF the street
railway company. He was promptly
retired, and pretty soon the stock
holders of the trust company decided
that they needed another man at the
head of the institution.
Turner found that he could not re
main I'm business In st. Louis, In spite
OF his big fortune. He went to New
York and was almost forgotten In his
old home--save for his perfldy In brib
Ing the city's lawmakers-when he
died, of. broken heart.
snyder.s last days were full OF
troubles Within the month of his
death the bleaching bones of his son,
Cary NJ. Snyder. were found In a lone
Iy spot near Hillsboro, Ore. The
young man, fugitive from justice for
two years. had probably been muir