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Heiress, Rewed
2 Weeks Ago,
Kills Herself
Mrs. Elsa Lemp Wright,
Daughter of Late St. Louis
Bcewer, Fires bullet Into
Her Chest at Her Home
Second Marriage Here
Divorced Little More Than
Year, Wife AUeging Club
man Had Grown Cold
Svaekjk Diepateh lo Thc Trihune
ST LOUIS. March 20.?Miss Lemp
Wright, daughter of the late William
J Lemp. St. Louis brewer, and one of
the heirs to his $10,000,000 estate, com?
mitted snicide in her home, 33 West
moreland Place, shortly before noon
to-day by shooting herself in the chest.
She was dead when physicians, called
by her sister-in-law. Mrs. Charles
Pettua Parsons, arrived.
After being divorced a little more.
than a year Mrs. Wright remarried
Thomas H. Wright. prominent St. Louis
clubman and manufacturer, in New
York two years ago. After procuring
s marriage license at the Marriage
License Bureau in the Municipal Build?
ing, ihe couple, accompanied by Mr.
Wrlght's lawyer, Archibald A. Gulick,
of 120 Broadway, went to the cham
bers of Supreme Court Justice Edward
J r.ch by whom the marriage cere?
mony was performed. This was Mon
day, March 8.
After a few days Kr. and Mra.
Wright returned to St. Louis and made
their home temporarily with Mr.
Wright's sister, although his residence
ia at 5330 Pershing Avenue, and Mrs.
Wright owns a $100,000 home at 48
Portland Place, where she and her hus?
band lived r.rior to their separation
late in 1918.
The Wrights were married first in
June. 1009. The wedding ii St. Louis
was one of the social events of the
vear, tho families of both being so-;
eially prominent. The ceremony took;
klace in the home of the bride's;
->-other. Edwin A. Lemr>, with whom i
-he resideri after the death of her.
iarents.
Their separation, Deeemner 20. 1918,:
ras a surprise to their friends. Mrs.;
'?Vright ob.ained the divorce decree;
Febraary 1 ef the following year on
the ground that her husband had ceased
to love 'ner, and that he had destroyed j
ner peace and harr;:iess. She alleged i
he had treated her in a cold ar.d in-'
different manner and that in conse
1
; nuence she had suffered a nervous
; breakdown. The couple had no chil?
dren.
_ On the. day of her wedding, Mrs.
Wright received a $100,000 bequest
j trom the Lemp eatate. Sho was to
1 have a large share of the Lemp mil
? hons when she reached the ago of
| tlurty years. In taking out a license
? to remarry, Mra. Wright gave her age
j as twenty-seven years and Wright as
forty-three years. He is president of
l the More-Jones Brass and Metal Conv
j pany and a director in several other
i laTge bt. Louis corporations.
1 Ldward and Charles Lemp, brothers
?* M?: Wright. survive her. Mrs.
. Alexander Konta, of New York Cit
, and Mrs. Louis Pabst, wife of the
| preS1dent of the Pabst Brewing Com
! pany, of Milwaukee, are sisters.
During the war Mrs. Wright was ac?
tive in chantable work, assisting the
Red Cross.
! Mr. Wright would give no reason
i for his wife's taking her life.
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Oergy Believes Church
^an ^?pe With Unrest
Remedics for Reconstruction
Problems Discussed at Repub?
lican Club Luncheon
The Church is able to eope with social
unrest and other reconstruction prob?
lems, guests at the National Republi?
can Club luncheon were assured yester?
day by three clergymen who addressed
them and in a letter from Archbishop
Patrick J. Hayes. ft was the last of
this season's nonpartisan luncheons the
club has been giving on Saturdays.
The Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor,
presiding Bishop of the Episcolal
Church in the United States; the Rev. i
Henry Emerson Fosdick, of Union The- !
ological Seminary, and Rabbi Nathan :
Krass, of Central Synagogue, were the
speakers.
"The war showed the absolute need
for religion,'' said Bishop Gailor. "I
am not greatly disturbed at the feel- ;
ing of unrest that exists, because it \
is a sign and a hope of progress."
"If there had been enough of the
spirit of Lincoln in the government j
at Washington. from the White House
to the Senate," declared the Rev. Mr. j
Fosdick. "the country would not be !
'n + he distrraceful condition in which j
it finds itself to-day"
"Without religion," asserted Rabbi |
Krass, "men would revert to savagery. j
It was due to the influence of religion !
that all that is worth while in the
world has come to pass."
Archbishop Hayes wrote: "The ex- j
traordinary service of high character
the churches rendered the nation dur- 1
in the war should be a splendid guar
antee of their equipment in post- I
bellum days for reconstruction work."
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Fireboat Turned Into Tug
The Seth Low, which has been a city
fireboat since 1885, was turned over to
James Shewan & Co., Inc, Brooklyn
shipbuilders, Friday, and henccTorth
will serve as a tug. The boat was sold
last August. When new it cost the city
$36,850. Since then the price of fire
boats has gone up to $350,000.
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Court Learns Stud Poker
With Deck of Readers
Waist Manufacturer Who Says He Suffered in "Last
Card Louis's" $350,000 Pastime Shows How It
Is Done; Facility at Naming Pasteboards Praised
With Chief Justice Kerpochan, of
Special Sessions, sitting as committing
magistrate, the hearing of the caae
against Louis Krohnberg, sometimes
called "Last Card Louis," started yes?
terday in the Criminal Courts Building.
Krohnberg, waist manufacturer, is
charged with violaiing the section of
the penal law reloting to fraud in a
game of chance. His arrest grew out
of a Broadway stud poker tournament,
in which, it is alleged, marked carda
wero used and New Yorkers lost more
than $350,000.
J. M. Silverman, dress manufacturer
and complaining witness, who alleges
he lost $7,350 in a single sitting in the
poker series last December, took the
stand and showed Justice Kernochan
how easy it was to read the backs of
one of the decks of cards said to have
been used in the games. Silverman
went through the fifty-two cards and
called all but one of them correctly
\ou read well, Mr. Silverman," Max
Steuer, counsel for Krohnberg, told the
witness.
"Well, it cost mc enough," Silverman
rejoined dryly.
"You gamble a good deal and go to
thc races. don't you?" Steuer asked
I go to the races sometimes on Sat
urdays and holidaya," the dress manu?
facturer said "I B0 there to get the
styles, and take my designera along."
J__l^i_iLiL0_I_Lver ,:,Pt more than $500
at the races. t
''You, bet on almost atything?"
bteuer hammered away.
"I bet on a baseball game with you
once," Silverman came back. Said
Steuer:
"Oh yes, it cost me $500 to meet
vo,u -t dinner one evening, didn't it?"
It should-have coii you $700"?
silverman.
. The dialogue r.ontinucd, Steuer ask?
ing the witness:
"One of the reasons you brought
comp aint against Mr. Krohnberg was
that he holds a $3,000 check of yours.
wasn t it?"
"Yes. The check is for $3,500. I
stopped payment on it when I found we
were playing with marked cards."
?n Silverman told how he lost
$2,700 in one stud gamo in vhich two
lawyers were playing. Steuer, sur
prised. asked:
"You say lawyers were in the game
P a<vng such stake9 as that?"
f,s^.t,hcy must have been good law?
yers, Silverman smiled at Krohnberg's
counsel. b
Later Silverman dealt two hands on
the stenographer's table and showed
how the last card off the deck came to
the rescue of "Last Card Louis," gave
him two pairs against Samuel Lewis's
two aces and won him a $15,000 pot last
December.
Assistant. District Attorney McGrath
impatient at Silverman's excursions
into first principles of stud, told the
witness to cut them short.
Everybody_knows the game,? said
McGrath. Whereupon Justice Ker-.
nochan confessed that he knew nothing
about atud.
Steuer .asked it anything was saiii
after Krohnberg outdrew Lewis ar.d
won the $15,000 pot. Silverman said:
"Nobody said anything, but every?
body thought a lot."
Silverman told also of the night hc
went to a Turkish bath with Krohn?
berg with a deck of what he believed to
be marked cards in his pocket. They
had been taken from one of the games.
Krohnberg shunted through the busi?
ness of the bath in record time, long
befort he did, Silverman said.
Next morning, the witness declared,
he reached into his pocket and was
startled to find that the worn and
thumbed blue deck in there at night?
fall had ehanged to a shiny new red
deck by morning.
"Selznick, the motion 'picture pro?
ducer," was identitied by Silverman as
a player in ono- of the games of the
tourney.
Anna Fabre, a nurse employed by a
jchiropodist in the McAlpin Hotel, was
j another witness, and declared that
i Krohnberg on two occasions had left
! packages of cards in her employer's
j office.
I Justice Kernochan adjourned the
; hearing until next Saturday morning
j and announced that he would sit that
I afternoon, if necessary, to tinish the
i hearings.
?
House Orders Inquiry Into
Vocational Education Board
WASHINGTON, March 20.?Investi
I gation of the work of the Federal board
j for vocational education in training
! war disabled soldiers and sailors was
i approved to-day by the House, which
I adopted a resolution giving the House
i Education Committee broad pdv/ers for
j conducting the inquiry.
The investigation was requesied by
j the board after charges against its ad
; ministration had been made by a news?
paper, Chairman Fess, of the Educa
tion Committee, told the House.
Capt. Bleyer's Father
To Assume Son'a Tasks
Will Provide ^or Widow and
Children Neglected for
"Vampire Woman"
Special Dispatch to Thc Tribune
CHICAGO, March 20.?Tragedy haa
awokened ambition in thc aoul of Col?
onel Charles E. Bleyer. The father of
Captain Clifford M. Bleyer, basking in
his latter years in a life of restful com?
fort bejpre' his son'a ignoble death, will
now s"et himself to the task of unrav
eling^ the tangled skeins of his boy's
life Dy assuming the latters responsi
bilities.
The wife and two children, neglected
by Captain Bleyer for Ruth Randall,
"the vampire woman," who killed him
and then turned the pistol on herself,
will be amply provided for, Colonel
Bleyer says.
Although broken in health and aged
by the tragic eventa of the last fow
weeks, Colonel Bleyer, who hurricd
here from a pleasure trip in Cuba, an?
nounced to-day he would take his son's
place at the head of the Bleyer Adver?
tising Agency, and carry on the busi?
ness.
Bay State Offieials Join
Employees in Bonus Demand
Special Dispatch to The Tribune
BOSTON, March 20.?More than
eight thousand state employees, backed
by a number of prominent state offi
coals, are joined in a" demand that the
Legislature pass a bill to give them a
bonus of 25 per cent of their annual
salaries to enabie them better to meet
high rents and high prices generally.
The cost, it is estimated, would be
?1.000,000 or more.
The bill before the committee would
give the bonus to every state official
and employee, from the Governor to the
office boys, who was a permanent offi
c\a\ or employee in 1919.
Thc Orieatol S.orc 1
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These additional original Paris
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The TAILORED MILLINERY
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Especially featured.are exquisite
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Russian Sable. 225.00
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. 59.50 to 295.00
Severely plain as affected by one type of
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45.00 to 165.00
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The typical Parisienne is recog?
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French Couturieres translate so
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Also an interesting assemblage
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Smart Lines & Individual
Touches Lend Charm to
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Accordion pleated capes are one
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New Fashion Developments
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