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THE WEEKLY TRIBUNE AND CAPE COUNTY HERALD. FRIDAY MORMN&, NOVEMBER 24. 131S, 5 CoLDave Harris, Walking In Sleep, Peddles Clothing Anti-Ham Apostle Eats Over dose of Pork and Prowls at Night "Isch-ga-bibble!" He Chirps When Awakened Before Dream of Sale Is Finished. '1. Dave Harris is one of the few men in the city who lo not forget business even when asleep. Bargains for customers are constantly on his mind, whether he is behind the cash register in his store or merely "pound ing his ear in the hay." z To a close friend yesterday, he re lated a story told on him by his wife. A few nights ago, the Colonel ate sev eral ham sandwiches before retiring. Mr. Harris was taught as an infant to .-nub pork, and he has never quite outgrown the prejudice, yet he ad mits that swir.e flesh, if properly cook ed, isn't a I ail bad. Instead of digesting, the ba n ap parent'; "jelled"' on Mr. Harris' stom ach. The family were sleeping sound ly, .vhen shortly after midnight, the wifo of the clothing merchant was awakened by someone walking in an adjoining room. Hiie listened for a moment 'and her fears we.o ailayed when she heard a familiar voice say: "This coat and pants for Sf.!)S. It's a bargain." SiV" recognize-.' the voice as that of lwr husband, and as he frequently walks in his sleep, she was not alarm ed. 1 Jut while she was attempting to enter slumberland again, her husband hurried from one room to another, ad dressing imaginary customers and at tempting to dispose of some suits at "Tiro escaped sale" prices. "Kverything guaranteed," remarked Mr. Harris when he had apparently induced someone to purchase. "If they ain't what I t-1! you, then you bring "em !:i. k and I'll refund your money. Hut if they wuzn't what I say they are. I wouldn't say they wuz, would ? "Here thev are, wrapped up in a nice little package. Six ninety-eight! Wo sell strictly for cash. The next t'ine you come in, bring your papa along with you. Oh, yes, we have ladies ready-to-wear! Su-u-u-r-r-ee!" As the Colonel was about to tackle another customer, Mrs. Harris, who had become irrtated, said: "Oh, for gorvbvrss sake, Dave, waka up and come to bed!" "How'd I git out here?" remarked the oKrchani, as he emerged from the t ranee. "Walked out, as you do every night," snapped his wife. "Oil dat ham! Never again! Isch-ga-bibble!" he muttered as he loosened the puckering string of his pajamas and inserted him.-elf between the blankets. Gordonville News The Misses Edna Siemers, Marie Medley, Alma Bangcrt, Virginia Hays and Bertha Toe motored to Oak Ridge Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. L. Steinhoff of Jackson visited at G. C. Siemers Sunday. Mrs. Hanschen and Mrs. C. Stein have returned home after visiting a few days at Foinfelt, Mo. Mr. and Mrs. John Luhring and daughter, Helen, Flora Schoen and Ernest Telle motored to Leemon Sun day. Mrs. Geo. Hanschen and son are spending the week with Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Eggemann. Jacob Gluckshertz and wife and Mrs. Will Rose made a business trip to Altenberg Monday. Mrs. Clarence Rose and daughter, Virginia, of the Cajic, are visiting Mrs. Rose's mother, Mrs. Kate Sailer. Mr. and Mrs. Gruneberg of the Cape visited their daughter, Mrs. Robert Volkcrding Sunday. Miss Nona and Imogene Ford enter tained the Misses Marie Medley and Alma Bangert, Edna Siemers and Vir ginia Hays Monday night. Mr. and .Mrs. Gurley Davis of .St. Louis and Miss Gertrude Kocher of the Cape visited several days with Mr. and Mrs. Christ Gross. The bosket ball game between Pop lar Ridge and Gordonville High School was well attended, the score being 23 to 22 in favor of Poplar Ridge. A. M. Meyers, agent at the Iron Mountain depot, has moved his family here from Glenn Allen. A. G. Hink has his house wired for TALLEY IS FREED BY CITY COUNCIL VOTE IS 5 TO 1 Crowd in Council Chamber Cheer Policeman When He Wins Acquittal. MANY WITNESSES TELL OF COURT YARD ROW Patrolman Says He Holds No III Will Againsi William Kocher Stories Disagree. ENGINE BLOWN FROM INUNDATED BOAT ! Device, After Being Under Water for Weeks, in Perfect j Condition. i A portable gas 12-horsopower en jgmo was blasted yesterday morning j from the steamer Cape Girardeau which was sunk several w?eks ago J I near Fort Gage, 111. The eagirie, weigh- ing about 4fM)0 pounds, had been sold j to William Snyder of Dutchtown and j was on its way to its destination when jthe boat went down, j The engine was perfectly intact. Not a sign of rust was to be found and I not the least damage had been done to !the interior works of the engine, dc i spite the fact that it had been in the water for several weeks. The company that sold the engine offered to replace this engine with a a new one, but owning to the fact that the machine had stood the test so well, Snyder declined the offer. The cargo of the inundated steamer is being brought to the surface with dynamite. Several valuable automo bles and some farm implements are still in the bowels of the steamer. Miss Audrey and Lydia Colmey of Sikeston are here visiting Mrs. L. B. Hnuefc and their sister, Miss Margaret Harris, a student at the Normal. T Mrs. Henry Meyer of Rural Route No. :! spent the day in Cape doing some shopping and visiting friends. Safety First!! THIS company is the largest banking institution in all Southeast Missouri and is fully prepared with ample funds, effi cient management and fair treatment to pro vide you all the banking and trust service you need. With this guaranty and the his tory of the company you will make no mis take in dealing with SOUTHEAST MISSOURI TRUST CO. RESOURCES $1,800,000.00 !'. .1. !J,A'J( S. M. CARTER, i resident Secretary .JOHN H. L'JMMELBEKGER, S. 15. HUNTER, Vice-President Vice-PrrHdeut Policeman George W. Talley was ac quitted last night of the charge of slugging Win. Kocher without provo cation, after the City Council had heard the testimony of" tho witnesses for the plaintiff and the defendant. Of the six councilmep. present, five voted for an acquittal afid one lor convic tion. Congratulation.; from all sides were extended Talley following his dis charge. A large crowd attended the hearing as the charges had aroused general in terest. The verdict agreed upon in executive session of the council was received with a loud applause. The charges were the result of an attack upon Kocher on the eve of the election. There were about eight wit nesses on each side. Most of them were eye-witnesses to the incident and thev corroborated each other's state- j ments. ! The first one to be examined was Kocher, who was represented by the City Attorney Whitelaw. He went in to details as to his encounter with the policeman. He was put through a rigid cross-examination by Harry E. Alexander, counsel for the defendant, after giving his version of the rumpus. Kocher testified that he was on his way home from the Republican rally I which had taken place i". tho Common Pleas Court at the Courthouse. As he passed the croud t'r.il had gathered oil the Courthouse lav. n, where the Democrats were holding a meeting, some one shoued in tavor of President Wilson. "Hurrah for Hughes," tin: ! witness said he shouted. "How about Wilson and his politics in Mexico?'' Kocher yelled. I was then approach ed by Mercer Wilson, who asked me to keep quiet," began the witness. "I answered him, that I felt at lib erty shout all I wanted to. I also added that the Democrats had made so much noise when the Republicans were htivir.g their meeting in the courtroom, that the windows had to ho closed.." ! Objection on the part of the defend ant's counsel eliminate;! this feature of the incident relating to the inter ference of Mr. Wilson. In describing! the attack jnade by the policeman, Mr. Kocher said: "Talley came at me with his club raised over his head, and told me I would have to go with him. I asked him to explain why and he hit me with such force that I went down. I got ui) again, only to be slugged twice more. The blows stunned me for a while, but when I recovered Itold Talley that I would have gone to the station with him, had he explained why, but that I objected to being treat ed like a dog." He then told of being taken to the police station: having his wounds washed and dressed later by a phys ician. He also said that no charge jhad been placed against him and that Talley himself declared when his par ty reached the station that there was nothing against him. On cross-examination Kocher ad mitted that he had drunk two glasses of beer but repudiated the charge th.1t he was under the influence of liquor. He admitted that he tried to gr:b the policeman's dub when he approached him. but denied that he offered any resistance when Talley asked him to come with him. Attomev Alexander then asked him j if it were not true that he threatened to beat the policeman to death, and he witness replied that he had not. He also denied that, he said he would give Talley five dollar?, if he would take his star off and fight him like a man. On further questioning he made the concession that he had used one vile word, but sa;d that no ladies were near when he did so. When asked who irot no the peti- Jtion signed by a number of citizens, ! asking the removal of Talley from the police force, he answered it was gotten ! up by a citizen on his own initiative and that he had nothing to do with this petition. The defendant was the main witness in his own behalf. He said he asked Kocher, whom he heard using profane language in the presence of several women, to step aside. "My reason for this was, that I wanted to settle the matter without any further argument and wihout any disturbance. Kocher, however, replied in answer to my re quest, that he would go nowhere with me, that he had never been arrested in his life, and that he' would rather die than submit to an arrest," began Tal ley. "He made a rush at me and tried to grab my club, and for that reason I struck him on the head. It was for self-protection. He fell after the fitst blow and I gave him one light tap on the head as he went down. As he hit the ground I struck him on the left hip." The policeman then related how the crowd gathered and how he and sev eral men assisted Kocher to his feet. They took him down to the station, washed his face and assisted him in every way possible in administering a stimulant as he felt very weak from the loss of blood ai d the walk from the Courthouse to the police station. "When Kocher, after having his wounds dressed by a nearby physician, left the police station, I shook hands with him and offered him my sympa thies. I told him I was sorry that the incident had happened and we de parted evidently with the best of feel ing for one another." Taller was cross-examined by Whitelaw. He declared in reply to frequent questions that he had hit his prisoner solely because he haft resisted arrest. He said he never had any trouble with Kocher before and that he had no ill feeling against him now. Material testimony was given by Henry Rrunke, member of the City Council, who w as an eye-witness to the affair, and who had started to leave the Courthouse yard in company w ith Kocher. He said that Kocher had used some improper language, but that the policeman was too far away to have heard these words. Talley came after Kocher had used this language. Rrunke said. In describing the beating of Kocher, Rrunke said, Talley hit him a severe blow en top of the head and that this blow rendered Kocher unconscious for a minute. When he regained consciousness he snatched the policeman's club from his hand, but handed it back to him with out offering any resistance. After re peated questions of the City Attorney, he finally said that the first blow wsu-s the hardest and that this one caused Kocher to bleed profusely. After the attack, Rrunke, Talley and several men took Kocher to the police station. On the way to the station, Kocher col lapsed and had to rest for a while be fore he was able to walk. When they arrived at the station, they washed Xocher's wounds and gave him a stimulant which was pro cured from a neighboring saloon by Mr. Talley. Kocher was then taken to a doctor. Basel Pearson, a drug clerk, was an important witness for the police man. Pearson testified that he was only a few feet behind Talley when the latter started over towards Kocher. He said he heard Kocher curse ami used other words, just as an elderly vvoman and a young girl passed him. It was for this reason that Talley ap proached and reprimanded him, Pear son said. He could not hear the words that were exchanged between Talley and Kocher, but he said he saw Kocher try to grab the policeman's club, and that' Talley then struck him on the head. He could hot see any more as a crowd flocked around the policeman and his prisoner who had fallen to the ground. Hugo Krin, a witness for the com plainant, admitted that it was he who drew up the petition to have Talley removed from the force. He was put through a cross-examination by the counsel for the defendant and admit ted he wrote the petition on request of the complainant, but denied that he circulated the petition. A round of laugher went through the room when Elam Va.-i Gilder tes tified that he heard Kocher exclaim that he would offer Talley .$5 if he would take his star off and fight like a man. This question had been asked of several witnesses who took the stand, before Van Gilder, but none of them could renumber having heard this challenge. Van Gilder also corroborated the tes timony of a previous witness, namely, that several women were passing Kocher when he used bad language. He 'aid he was so near Kocher that he could hear these words, and he im mediately turned to see whether any one had paid any attention to them. He also related the details after the the beating of Kocher. He said that Talley had offered Kocher an apology on the way to the police station; Tal ley expressed sorrow that the incident had occurred and asked to assist him in any way possible. Talley declared then that he would not prefer any charges against Kocher. Theodore f Henne, a disinterested party, who knew neither the police man nor Kocher, was another witness for the complainant. He said he did not hear anything that was said, as there was too much noise around him he could only see the policeman beat Kocher. The latter was struck twice as he lay prostrate on the sidewalk around the fountain the witness said. Previously to that he had been hit once on the top of the head and col lapsed from the force of the blow. . J. J. Green testified, that "Kocher resisted a little" after the policeman had grabbed him from the rear and had paid something to him. Talley swung his club as if ready to strike, and Kocher grabbed the policeman's stick. Some one of the onrushing called to the policeman to stop beating the man an dhe did. He also said that Kocher had used bad language in the presence of some women who were passing him at the time. A few other witnesses were heard, but their testimony was only a repeti tion of what others had said. After all witnesses were heard, a short discussion was held as to wheth er the council should decide imme diately or defer action in the mat ter. Everyone seemed ready for ac tion, and Councilman Black made a motion to go into executive session. He was seconded by Fowler. The members were out only five minutes when they returned with rleir verdict. This was announced by May or Kage, who presided at the trial. It was received with an applause and the defendant received congratulations from al! sides. Before the hearing of the witness, the question arose as to whether the charge against Talley had been pre ferred by a citizen or by the council. The members of the council were of the opinion, that inasmuch as they had concurred in the petition by adopting a resolution to try the policeman, the charge was brought by the council. This decision was necessary as the or dinance states that a charge brought by the council would require a major ity only of the council for adoption, -hcrcas a charge framed by a citizfr. would have to get a two-third major ity before it would be acknowledged by DOMESTIC JAM OF C. B. MILLER AND WIFE HEARD Former Resident of Neely's Landing Says His Wife Was Cruel to Him. arrested on a charge oT child and wife abandonment. He was acquitted of this charge when he proved that he had always contributed to the suppoit of his wife and children, and that she had left him. Mrs. Miller then filed suit for divorce against her husband, but the case was dismissed. Miller moved to Lotus'. Idaho, where he has been liviag for two years. After the divorce petit io i iof his wife had been refused he filed suit against her in Boise, Idaho. The depositions taken here yesterday are J to be used as evidence in the case. HIS RELATIVES TAKE STAND IN HIS BEHALF Depositions Taken Before Vin yard Show Wife Had Her Spouse Arrested. Later during the week depositions will be taken of Mrs. Miller, who is still living with her mother. These also will be turned over to the civil court in Boise. Miller states in the petition for di- ; voice, filed in Boise City, that his w ife I had treated him w ith extreme crucl- tv; that she had left him without any Tnc natnmonial and domestic dif-j ason and that she ha(1 madc fal. Acuities of Charles B. Miller and his jehrages against him when she filed her w ife, Carrie, formerly of Neely's Land- j petition for divorce. These false ing, were aired yesterday afternoon charges were that he had paid atten in depositions taken before Ben Vin- j tion to other women and had neglected yard, notary public in the offices of i her. H. E. Alexander, attorney for the? He also states that these charges plaintiff. The depositions will be filed jhad inflicted unbearable mental suflVr with the civil court in Boise, Idaho, j ing upon him. that they had hurt his where Miller has filed a suit to divorce limitation and injured his social stand- his wife. ling. I- ivo witnesses were heard, all being in his petition he rejects the charges character witnesses. George W. Mil- 0f his wife and maintains that he had ler of Neely's, father of the plaintiff, , always supported his w ife and family, his brother, Oliver J of Egypt Mills even after she had left him and taken and D. E. Scheinemann of Neely's ( the children with her, and that he had were the w itnesses for the plaintiff, ; on numerous occasions attempted a while Postmaster T. J. Juden and Miss j reconciliation. Birdie May Adams, court stenograph- j The couple were married on Dec. er, were the witnesses for the defense, j 22, 1S9S, in Pocahontas. They moved The divorce petition filed by Miller; to Neely's Landing, where Miller en reviews his entire troubles with h:s , gaged in business. They lived happily wife, dating ba"ck as far as 1912, ; until Aug. 22, 1912. Mrs. Miller went when his wife, according to the peti- ; b;u.?c to her mother's home and took tion left him, taking with her their j her tw o children w ith her. It was two children, Helen 13, and Alma Lu- i shortly after her return home that she. cille 1.1. His wife returned to her j filed 'the charges of abandonment mother, who is living in St. Louis. j api;,st her husband and th$ f ubse- In 1912 Mrs. Miller had her husband Iquent petition for divorce. A Drink That Will Build You an Appetite HEN you are drowsy, unable to eat, it is an indication that you need a stimulant. There is no drink as nourish ing as beer. It will restore your appetite, sustain you and give you zest. Doctors prescribe it for young mothers, because of its nourishing qualities. 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