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Show I gave him some times Walter would burst Into tears laudanum, and he slept again, but it aud ran away. a nut enough to keep him asleep. Saturday night Edward Martin, a He woke again and thought 1 waa try- barber living at 615 School street, received an envelope that contained ing to leave him. Then he opened hla coat and shirt three letters. The tuvelope showed that it had Hji pulled them back with hla hand, showing me where to strike, and been posted at Lake Bluff May II at opened my clothes so I could kill my- eight a. m. It contained three letters, self. too. He showed me where his one from thi hoy and one from heart w ss, and begged me not to misa Ainann. and a third for Hermann Fiedthe place. Then he lay back on my ler, saying fa? ewell and telling of the arm again and went to sleep. purpoa- - to ccuunlt suicide. 1 Amann said in his confession he also and him at looked there and lay my head went all in a whirl. It seemed mailed letters to his relatives lu Gerthat my brain had turned to water and many. After the !i tiers to Martin were was surging all around in my head. 1 mailed the pair kept close to the woods picked up my big hunting knife, which and remained in biding for fear a 1 had would be made aud they would opened before. 1 reached over and felt for his heart beats and then be arrested. felt for my own. I had located the Boy's Mother Feara Blackmail. Mrs. Knobel thought whi-- she first places, but I stopix-again. My nerve waa leaving me. heard of the letters thut it wss only Pushes Daggtr to Heart. another attempt ou tbe part of Amanu "It sec ins that 1 went crasy, but I to get mouey from her. She did not officers of the post, and the man, who was double placed tbe point of tbe knife over hia suspect that he had actually killed her was then unidentified, heart and pushed it down. Then I son. trapped to hia bqd for fear he would turned it aud plunged it twice Into my Amsnn Is said to have relatives in escape. own waa who are of the wealthier than which harder breast, Germany The story of the murder and at- the and hoy's. frequently got money from class, was details tempted suicide In all its He saw blood awoke the and the earlier years of his them spurt during told by Ainann first to Lieut. Frank ing from my wounda. He drew hia career in Chicago, hut for the past to later and Griffis, hospital surgeon, handkerchief and it over my breast six or seven months has lived In abthe coroner's Jury. He begged for a to stop the blood,put an that waa all 1 ject poverty. knife that he might fulfill the suicide knew until In the hospital Amann said he had they found me." compact. Ainann was still holding this baud been injured in being put off a street 1 was up against It and aick and kerchief to his breast when found by car by a conductor four years ago, and discouraged and determined to end it the guard at tbe army post 12 hours brought a suit against the Consolidated all. The hoy would not leave me and after the time he glvea for the stab- Street Railway romiiany for damages, wanted to go with me. We wandered bing. Officers at the he think in which he waa given a Judgment post two days in the woods and along the might have been deceived by the amounting to $500. The case was beach and finally agreed to die to- clear moonlight and thought It waa and pending the appeal he appealed, gether," he said. condition. day in hia has had practically no means of liveWe wandered and talked about the The confession was made aa tbe lihood except charity. Hia attorneys In Men and women prisoner lay people we saw. strapped to a bed in one the case were Gormann and Ruben seemed happy and walked to and fro of the hosnital wards. Coroner J. L. tela. and we watched them. I had talked Taylor and hla deputy, Edward Conrad Federal Authorities May Act. about leaving the world and told tbe of Ijike county, and States Attorney the autopay and when the inAfter boy to go back to town, where be Hanna were present aa Ainann told was resumed State's Attorney quest would find friends. his story. Hanna announced that it waa probHe said, T will go with you and Jury Gets Whole Story. able that the case waa one for the where you go,' and I tried to allp away A coroner's Jury waa formed, with federal authorities rather than the from him aa he played in the sand. He John Congdon aa its foreman, and be- state because It had happened on aw me and followed me. gan the investigation into the boya military reservation. The inquest waa We watched the people going by In death. As Amann grew stronger ia adjourned for two hours. the hospital they agreed to wait until Investigation by the coroner and he could give evidence, in the hope post officers determined that it waa that Lieut. Griffis could obtain a con- outside of the post that the body was fession in the meantime. found and the coroner's inquest was Shortly after noon Ainann offered continued. to give his name and tell the whole Coroner Taylor took the body of the story ir he could see the body of tha hoy to Waukegan, where the inquest hoy. It was brought Into his room and will he continued. Amann waa also he asked thnt It be moved closer. He taken to Waukegan in an antnmobllo touched the body and kissed the cold to await the verdict of the coroner's forehead and murmured Good-bye.Jury and subsequent action on Ibe part Then he started in and told the of the grand Jury. tory, Incoherently and with many State's Attorney Hanna said he waa Wenntt Wilnmgilly ttflD Beattlfo wflttDn Mm Ruler of the Republic of Panama Must Not Permit Frauds in Is Advised by Secretary Taft That the United States Stands Ready to Interfere in Internal Affairs of Panama Should Occasion T h 1 s Is tbe strange story of the love of a man and a boy. The man was a musiclau and hopeless invalid. The boy was no kin. But the Doy loved the mau so that he forswore hla own mother to run away with him. And when the moment came that the IUCAGO. that can not be mistaken, the president and Secretary Taft have notified the Panama government that elections In that republic must be conducted fairly. The circumstances attending this warning were given out for publication aa In preparation for active intervention on tbc )art of tbe United States by the use of whatever force shall be necessary to make it effective. Secretary Taft, In a letter delivered to President Amador in person and dated May 12, suggests that two years go, when charges of fraud were made concerning the congressional election at Panama, It was not thought beat to do more than to urge fairness in the administration of election laws. In one jiortion of this letter. Sec- I goes without retary Taft aaya: saying that the United States will be moat reluctant to Intervene in the in-terns! affairs of the republic of Panama, hut should the occasion arise, I do not see how it can be avoided." 1 man could aland hia jiain no longer, alone In the woods beside the lake the boy lay down, hared hla breast to a dagger, and waited with closed eyes while the man sought hia heart The boy died. With shaking band tbe man plunged the knife into hla own breast, but hla stroke failed to find a vlial spot. Hours later soldiers at Fort Sheridan found the man, wandering and gibbering and clawing at hla bloody breast They took him to the hoa- I pltal at the fort and strapped him to a cot It was not until daylight came that they paid much heed to his mutter- 1 -lugs KILLS RACE TRACK BETTING. New Laws Passed by New Yorkere After Long and the writing that he acrawled upon a slip of paper. Then, when they followed hla vague directions, they sought in the woods and found the body of the boy, cold Struggle. Albany. N. Y. After a great strug-gle- , anti-rac- e the famous Agnew-Ha- rt track gambling hills are now laws of the state of New York. The bills In no way affect, so far aa their face provision go, the state racing commissions In particular or horse racing in They relate solely to tb general. penalties for gambling, pool selling and bookmaking, which, aa before, are declared by the law to be a public nuisance." Chapter 506 amends the racing law by repealing that provision under which all exclusive penalty of ainiply recovering at civil suit the amount wagered was incurred, which was applied to gambling within a race track inclosure, thus exempting such gambling from the penalties operative elsewhere In the state, and it ia also provided that this general penalty shall be imprisonment liTThe county 'Jail or penitentiary for a period of not more than one year, without alternative of a fine. Chapter in like 607 amends the penal code manner and, in addition, changes the grade of the crime from that of felony, which any gambling was until today, to that of a misdemeanor, thus bringing the offense within the Jurisdiction of the minor criminal courts. SMOTHERED TO DEATH. POSTAL OFFICIALS Pouch Stolen Between Lee Angles and Kansas City Which it to Have Contained Over $50,000 U It la believed that the disappearance of a registered mull pouch somewhere within the Jurisdiction of the Kansas City (Mo.) postoffice last Saturday night will rove one or the biggest hauls in the M story of the pnstnflice department. From private sources it was learned ou Wednesday that a package of at least liiO.OOO In currency waa among the cnnlcnla of the jmiich which carried, In addition- - an unusually - large number of letters and packages containing money and other valuables to-aamount which can only be conjectured. hut which may reach $50,0(10 more. The pouch waa in trsnslt from this city to New York. The missing funds were placed In the poatofllce the evening of June S, their destination being New York City. line Angelos, Cal. d n It Is admitted that the registered pouch that has disappeared left here over the Santa Fe railroad the morning of June 4, and waa due in Kansas City on Saturday. In the shipment of registered packages through the mail pouches are sealed with a rotary lock at the initial point, with no opportunity of being opened without being mutilated prior to reaching their destination. For this reason, it Is argued, none of tbe jioatal employes was In a position to secure knowledge of the contents en route. post-offic- d MURDERS FISHERMAN. Ddperado Mistakes Pleasure Seekers for His Pursuers and Begins Shooting. Okla. Two prominent Wllhurton, cillxcns were killed, a woman barely escaped with her life, tho county Is aroused and pickets are posted every fifty yards for a circle of alx miles about the town, as the result of the reappearance of It. H. Johnson, a negro who last September shut and klllea Oliver Swan, deputy city marshal. Johnson was seen In woman' clothing, the alarm given and a pose formed to capture him. Learning of the Impending attempt to arrest him, Johnson armed himself heavily ami fled. In making his way across tho county near this place, he suddenly came upon a fishing parly, and, mistaking tbe fishermen for a party of hla pursuers, opened fire. Those 1 died were: Waiter Roberta, who died Instantly, and Roliert Mounds, who was mortally wounded, dying within a short, time. Mrs. R. Hlnkeley, who was nearby,' only Htcaped WyJ fuge behind a tree. REPUDIATES C0NFES3ICN. Declares Detectives Persuaded Mm to 8ay That He Dynamited Tuin. Butte, Mont. Mrs. Margharlta Ferrari, mother of Louis Ferris, on Wednesday testified In the Ferris dynamiting case that ahe had heard Archie Raynolde, the detective, offer her sun a line position" If he would confess the Burlington outrage. A sister Walter Knoble We were hungry and and stark, the little tenae fingers still automobiles. clutching at the shirt that he had turned away from there to go into the woods. I was tired of life and discour bared for tbe blow. and could have gone into one of waa: The aged boy Fall River, Maas. After a long 12 years old, son the bathhouses and killed myself. Knobel, Walter, search the bodies of Joseph and An- of Mrs. Mary Knobel, 755 Racine avePluck Flowers in Woods. drew Beaudry, 8 and 5 years old, re- nue. In the woods and away from the spectively, were found locked in a man: The we gathered flowers and I told people trunk. In which the children are 43 years him tbe Latin names for tbe flowers. Amann, Rudolph, Henry to have hidden themselves In old, 1012 Otto street I found a specimen of Trillium order to escape going to school Thursman are the letters Here that tbe Grandiflorum, and explained how rare The trunk baa a day morning. wrote during the period it is, and compared it with the other and the boy medical examiner spring lock. The of 36 hours that they wandered to-- ' and more common trillium, which decided that their deaths were due to suffocation. The interior of the trunk gether through the north woods, pluck- grows in abundance. We had had nothing to eat since and the clothing and bodies of the ing flowers, eating roots and nuts, and children gave evidence of ttae strug-- talking of their resolve to quit the Tuesday and pulled roots snd shrubs to stay our hunger. It came night and glea which the little ones had made to world together: escape before death finally overtook From Walter Knobel to his mother we slept in the woods until it began them. and to Edward Martin: to rain. Then we went down to the , Mr. beach and curled up under a wide, Claims That God Told Her to Prepare Chicago, May 15, '08. Martin. I want to be with my father. cornice of one of the houses. for Death. We lay on my coat for a pillow, but Tell mother. Farewell. (Not signed, Faaaaic, N. J. Waiting patiently We the in but boy's handwriting.) boy woke up and was cold. snd cheerfully for death, which she to went and walked until morning From Amann to Edward Martin: declares God haa told her in a mesmailed and wrote we Lake where no haa me In Bluff, faith Fiedler Mr. any sage will take place next Bun day, Mrs. our friends Anna Klsclcia, a widow 27 yeara old, more. I am going to end it all. My three letters telling all. would end In will brothers all Germany my pay apparently in good health and the best debts. Friday we walked to Lake Forest, of spirits, la preparing her funeral arand then back to the beach by Fort to Amann Hermann From Fiedler: rangements. She haa Informed her We saw people and they My brothers in Germany will pay all Sheridan. neighbors that she will leave the aoora unlocked, so that they may be I owe you. Good-byI am going to were well dressed and happy. They able to get in after ahe dies. She la end all. H. R. Amann. rode In automobiles. We were hungry & Slav. Ever since her husbands In Amann'a pocket. In two hand- and went from the beach into the death, five yeara ago, ahe haa been a writings: woods again. Walter wanted to go student of religion. down to the lake and Jump In, but the ua in the same grave. .Please bury waa too cold. water Senator Bailey Under the Knife. Everything waa against us. I do not without live to want I Talk Over Good Timea. my father. go New York. That United States own with free wllL my W. of Texas, talked it all over again and We (Signed) Senator Joseph Bailey talked about all the good timet we had who haa been ill with throat trouble Walter. On matchbox In woods: In this city for several days, haa subhad together in our travels. We talked It ia hia mother's fauIL She la a about, Pennsylvania and Colorado, and mitted to a surgical operation on hla throat and Is now recovering there- calumniator. gait Lake City and its big lake, and In tbe morning about two. o'clock California. from became known on Thursday. His condition wss reported to be far Amann waa found wandering as if de"Then we went up to the rifle range vorable, although he waa suffering mented near the officers' quarters at where the soldiers were practicing. from a alight fever. Senator Bailey Fort Sheridan. He waa challenged by We hid in the bushes and talked about waa unable to leave hla apartment at Private Sage of Company D, who waa we dying. I told him if he would lead to attend the on picket duty. the Waldorf-Astori- a out In bushes from the run would meeting of the monetary commission The guard advanced, to find blood front of the targets when the soldiers of which he ia a member. flowing from the man's breast. He fired and die there, but he would not. A Fourth of July American. hurried him into the hospital and I don't know Just how long we Lincoln. Neh. Charles E. Towneof called for assistance. The man waa wandered after that, but It was night at the unable to speak because of weakness and we kept hid. It came daylight New York was the orator from loss of blood, and motioned for again, and we heard voices of men and annual commencement women near ua, and I thought they on paper. Thla la what he wrote: nf the University of Nebraska, were hunting us. 200 northPlease Wattcrson Colonel get my boy yards Henry Thursday. It was warm and we were tired and end Mr. Bryan listened to the oration, east of the post at 8herldan. He whispered Incoherently about lay down to sleep. We talked i efter which Mr. Towne waa a guest at 1 leave Falrvlew. Declaring that he was a killing the boy, but no one believed over again, and urged him to Fourth of July American," he said the story until morning. Private Sage me and go to hla friends. He threw cried, that he waa glad to renew and reiter- determined to investigate and went to his arms around my neck and me. and said he would never leave ate hla vows to the republic. He de- be spot designated. Barca Breast; Asks Death. Here he found the body of a clared that It was the mission of ths nstlon to solve the problem of social, old boy under a tree, lying in a pool of He said he would go to his grandindustrial and religious liberty. blood. He immediately notified the pa, and that 1 could go to nr father in Bodies of Two Children Found Locked in a Trunk. aup-po?- PUZZLES h Was Attached Arise. In language Lwsdl Boy Cheerfully Yields Life Rather Thai? Be Separated froro Conjpaoioo to Wborn Approaching Election. Washington. H the next world. d Good-bye- thirty-sevent- h 12-ye- to Ferris swore to the same interview Both women said that Wednesday. waa told Ferris, who la that if he confessed the detectives would clear him and get him a Job driving a wagon. Ferris himself took the stand in the afternoon. He dented absolutely any knowledge of the wreck, and declared that he had confessed only because the railway detectives told him he would he acquitted and given a fine that they bad to arrest pauses because of emotion and partly merely a visitor at the Inquest and position; and that he would be the somebody, because of weakness. would, take no action .toward prosecudeeel t. Ferris thus corthe by gainer He said he was born in Germany tion until tho verdict of the coroner's mother and sister. his roborated and came to America 21 yeara ago. Jury was given. He la 43 yeara old. He waa a tanner Young Mississippi Woman Avenge by trade and later a flute player, and Ruler in 6plendld Health. Murder of Hie Father. In lived St. Louis for eight years. Prince Lultpold, regent of Bavaria, Tunica, Misa. J. T. Lowe, a promiWhen hla wife died he came to Chi- celebrated annithe nent attorney here, waa shot and cago. versary of his birth recently amid a probably mortally wounded on the In Saloons. Flute Playa brilliant gathering of the Bavarian no- street on by Mrs. Jacob He used to play In saloons and bility. The effects of hie many yeara Weinstein. Wednesday On March 31 last, Lowe about the streets to earn money. He are almost unnotlceable. The vener- shot and killed Perry M. Houston, went to board at the house of Mrs. able regent looks much younger than of Mrs. Weinstein, In a street father Mary Knobel, 755 Racine avenue, 12 he la. He la In splendid physlclal con- duel growing out of Houston's election yeara ago. Mrs. Knobel had come dition. His limbs have retained their aa secretary of the Yaxoo (Misa.) from the town of hla birth, Klrchhofen, elasticity, hla muscles are still hard, levee board. Mra. Weinstein, who Is In the province of naden. Tbe two and nearly every day he defies wind 19 years old, was married last Februwere friends from childhood. Mrs. and weather and undergoes the hardto a merchant of Charleston, Misa. Knobel had three children George, ships of the chaae, wearing always the ary She ia under arrest. who ia now 17 years old; Amanda, 16, greenish-grashooting and Walter, who waa nearing bis costume peculiar to Bavaria. The BaActor Hitchcock Acquitted. varian people seem to have forgottten twelfth year. New York. The trial of Raymond After Mrs. Knoliela husband died King Otto, the mad ruler of their Hitchcock, the comedian, charged with Amann continued to live at her home country, who haa been Interned in a attempted assault upon young girls, and erged her to marry him. The chil- suburb of Munich since 188G. The was concluded late Wednesday in the dren had learned to wait on him and Bavarian parliament would have supreme court, the case being given liked to be with him after he had made Lultpold king In succession to to the Jury at 7:30 p. in., and a verdict Otto had he not refused to arcept the returned at 2:30 a. m., been stricken with paralysis. acquitting the post. As the two eldest grew they revertactor. The greatest part of the day ed Heir affections to their mol her, but waa taken up with the submission of Given Double Meaning. Waller clung to hla "Uncle Henry." evidence for the defense to controvert Chancellor Kirkland of Vanderbilt the charge that Hitchcock mistreated Two yeara ago Amann ran away with the hoy, taking him to San Francisco. university, like others of similar of- either the complainant in the case, From there he wrote he would return fice, Is known to his students by the Helen Von Hagen or Elsie Voecke. If Mrs. Knobel would send him $2D0. briefer name of Chance." Besides being the university's chief Brewers Believe in Temperance InMother Refutes Her Hand. Uae of Fermented Beverages. executive, lie Is also its head profesFearing she would never see the boy sor of Latin, and the boys say Milwaukee. WIs. The promotion of again she sent the money, and Amann prize At chapel exercises. temperance in the use of fermented returned and again asked her to marry One (lay. after a discourse, leverages, the meaning of temperprotracted him. She refused, and he left her while a class in Horace, he ance being neither abuse nor disuse. home and went to live In the railed on n certain student to read, Is favored by the United States Brewof a house owned by Herman who did so In utter Innocence and ers' association In a lengthy act of 11edr, 1012 Otto street. The hoy as follows: "It Is principles which the association accuniey went with him, and they kept bachelor kcil for us to endure the blows of adopted at its rloslng session on Wedluartera In tha one room. chance." nesday. They also favor the elimiHnce they moved there in Jnnu.vy The class burst out In n roar of nation of the objectionable features the boy wont to the Hawthorne school, laughter, and hs the Chance" Joined the retail liquor traffic and pled,: and has not been seen by Ms mother in. the dumfounded student perceived pf toward tt.elr fullest in that time. His brother frequently the modern heir extinction. significance of ancient nrged him to come home, but at such words. weak-minde- eighty-sevent- h - - long-talke- base-nit-n- r t e I |