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"l' Ho'is survived iby, the young =tfo bis father, and atep-mother. a alster .. Mrs. Ethel Chrison, of Strafford; and two heit-sistera. Edna and Inez Bialr. of the home address.
Funeral services will held Thursday morning at 10 o'clock, from the Alma . Lohmeyer funeral home. with Her. Wrightel officiating." In- terment' will be in Basstil' .. cemetery.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, MAY 4, 1927 -- DAILY NEWS
Page 1: Ruth Warf Shoopman sues to divorce Forrest Shoopman .**
Page 2: Mrs. Emma Lingsweiler died .**
Page 3: Minfred Locke and Marie Vinson, both of Springfield, were married yesterday. Page 9: Emmett Glenn Blair committed suicide .**
Lena Clark sues to divorce Albert P. Clark. They were married March 4, 1927. Page 13: Theodore R. Bell sues to divorce Myrtle Bell. They were married November 23, 1925.
Page 16: Marriage license: Winfield Locke, 40, and Marie Vinson, 25, both of Springfield.
Another Name Used -By- Holdup. Witness+ In Divorce; Petition
"STATE your name' to the Jury." E. A. Barbour, Jr .. asisstant prosecuting ; attorney. requested a young woman, pros .. ecuting witness in a case against Warren Street, as she took her place on the witness stand In the criminal court yesterday aft- ernoon. ,
"Ruth Warf." she replied at once. .
A divorce petition, however, on file in the office of Guy C .. Gibbs, clerk of the circuit court. gives a different legal name for the prosecuting witness. Ar tha young woman gave her testi- mony, the petition was reposing In a pigeonhole in an office on the same floor of the court house as that on which the trial was in progress.
The petition is that of Ruth Shoopman Against Forrest Shoopman. It was' flied on April 16. and the care will be docketed for hearing at the May term of circuit court.
The wife.' who aske that her maiden name of Ruth Warf be restored. alleged that her hus- band was quarrelaome and abu- live. that he drank to excels. and at such times called her vile numes.
They were married on Aug- ust 29. 1924, and the husband is alleged to have abandoned hia wife on November 16. 1926 to gu to California.
DEATHS
MRS. EMMA ' LINGSWEILER, · Funeral services for Mrs. Emma Lingaweller, 78,- mother . of Mra, .181 Washington ave- aus : who died at; her,; home 'in Lebanon af 5 o'clock yesterday morning. will be conducted at the family home In Lebanon at 2:30 o'clark Thursday afternoon.
Mira. Lingeweller's death resulted from a . hemorrhage following a severe coughing spell. She Just had returned to her home in Lebanon after a' visit "with" Mrs."Lee here during the past month. Mra. Linga- weller was the widow of J. G. Lingsweller, for many years a lead- er in the business and civic life of Lebanon. She is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Lee and Mrs. George Tayman of Shawnee, Okla .: : one son. C. E. Ingsweller, and a brother, Frank Ostrander of Den- ver .. .
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PALIH TAILS
Hotathe Man for Your Fas Straws Farewell to Bridd, Halting on Way to Work to Take Another- Trail
SERVED PRISON TERM, THEN WENT STRAIGHT'
Feared to Die, Widow. Tells, Convinced Only New Attack Sickness Inspired : Act; Relates Romance
DREAMS. of a, new home for the pretty : child bride" he married Saturday fading into despair. as an old Illness wracked his body again, Emmett Glean Blair, 24. sent a bul- Jet: through his heart at'7:30. o'clock yesterday morning as he· paused on bis way to work behind the Shrine mosque, near the Missouri-Pacifio railway tricks ...
To the 16 -year-old- rich ifo. Blair's tragic death, meand the end of an all too brief period of cheer: happiness. - Two monthsago, while she atill was a student at Jar; ritt Junior High school they, bes together "dreaming dreams of a tiny new home, "the purchase of a new car and a merry trip to California this summer for Blair's health.
". At & o'clock Saturday afternoon they' were.'married by a justice' of the peace In the county courthouse here""Mr., and Mrs. Ram Brasuell. 1022 St. Louis street. Ifked the youth their daughter had married.
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HE FEARED TO DIE
"Until you can build that now home."; they said, "you with. us:". Blair and his bride went to the Brasuell home.
$ For several years young Blair had suffered intermittently from' dia. camed lungs. His trouble had be- come almost an obsession; he. fear- edithat it might make support : of
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his new wife impossible. About ·midnight Monday night. Mrs. Blair was awakened by her husband. Ills body; twitched convulsively. and het Gasped for : breath." There :was " stabbing pain'in his heart. he whis" porta,and bts lungs sched fearfully, the groaned to ble bride. "If I should die : DOwc.
| LLAVES FAREWELL NOTE -
He alept, but little during the rest . of. the, night .. but yesterday morning' appeared in good spirits. .At.6:26 :O'clock: be left bame "to go to work:" . . '
... An hour later, F. A. Brashier, 627 Hast Photos street, beard a shot be- kind the marine zooque and .now ... .mas. toppki" +Blair hed tired.a Mi-
of acardboard bearing .. .. #crawled message'to ble bride' ".
: As if. wavering'on the threshold of death. Blair bad begun a note to .his .: wife, then - blotted it out and written the final message:
"Good by. Mabel, my sweet little "wife " I am not the man for you. I gon a way. Emmett G Blair."
HE DREADED SUICIDE
Dry-eyed and resigned, the 16. year-old widow talked calmly of her husband's death and her shattered hopee at the home of her fatherin- La w yesterday evening. 1 8he didn't blame him. sbe said, for the knew how he suffered, though he should have known that she was willing to suffer with him --
"His health just drove bim mnd for a few minutes. I guess. ile didn't want to die-I know, because ·stories of suicides always worried him. He read of a suicide just a few days ago and laughed and said. "If I live until I do a thing like that, I'm going to live for a long. long time "
.There wasn't anything bealdes. his poor health that could have caused him to do-that." She smiled wistfully-"we'd never. dur- ing all the time we'd been going to- gether, hed a cross word with each other. I told him the other day that we ought to have a little fung, just for a change, and he only laughed. Everybody around here liked him."
WHY DID HE TURN!
The girl'a mother recalled that Tong Blair acted strangely as bij
He started away onre, she said, and then wheeled . suddenly, and walked slowly back toward the house . She
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called tu him.
"No. I'm not coming back." ho murmured, turning away again.
Opening his atore at the corner of 81. Louis street and National boule- vard about 7 o'clock yesterday morning. Sam Brown noticed Blair standing on the street corner. very pste and apparently worried. He Mood there for several minutes. glancing up and down the street. and then walked off toward town. Where Itlair obtained the pistol that ended his life Is nut known. He had no such weapon when he 'left home. his wife said, though he had enough money in his pockets to buy one,
HAD "GONE STRAIGHT"
Nearly three years ago, Blair was sentenced to a five-year term In the state penitentiary for the rob- bery of a street car motorman here. He was released January 8, 1927.
Al Sanpey, chief of city deter- tives, sall the youth had "gone wiraight" aince hla return from the
penitentiary. He had been working ! un a mechanic. carpenter and com- mon Inhover.
He is survived by his wife. his! father ale stepmother and three!
nisters. Mrs. Ethel Chrison of Straf. ford and Edna'and Ines Blair of the home address. Funeral services win be conducted at 10 o'clock Thum- day Morning at the Alma Lohmeyer funeral home, with the Reverend Wright officiating. Burial will be In BARAville cemetery.
Coroner Jewell E. Windle an- nounced after an investigation of the shooting that there would be no Inquest.
Charging that her husband curs- ed and abused her as well as made false charges agathat her. Lena Clark yesterday filed suit In the circuit court for a divorce from Albert P. Clark. They were married on March 4. 19:7. and separated yesterday.
WEDNESDAY EVENING, MAY 4, 1927 -- LEADER
Page 7: There is a poem in memory of J. M. Killingsworth .**
Page 10: Emmett Glenn Blair died .**
0- In Memoriam
In loving memory of our dear bur- i band. father and grandfather. J. M. Killingsworth, who passed eser one VẬT HEO TODAY MAY 4. 1920.
Many years he lived and loved us, Left ua memories pure and sweet And we're looking forward, daddy .. To the time when we shall meet lime may heal the broken beer :. Time may make the wound less nors. Dut it cannot etill the longing ¡ For our loved one gone before.
A darling husband and father. A grandfather sweet and deal. . How sed is lue without hidi. 'Upon this earth so drear.
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Rest in peace, -dear father. . For your work ;on earth is done,' You have gone' where those who love! you Wili meet you. ane by one
Sadly missed by wife, children. : : grandchildren and; elsters.
DEATHS
Emmett Glena Dialr.
Funeral services for Emmet Glenn Blair. 24 who shot and killed himaelf ! yesterday morning at 7:30 o'clock. one block north of the Shrine mosque. will be held tomorrow morning at 10 walk from the Alma Lohmeyer Fu- neral home. with interment in Bass- : ville cemetery. Nair bad been Uving with his father-in-law, Rass Braswell. ; 1033 Bt. Louis street, since his mar- ringe Saturday . afternoon to 16-year- old Mable Bresuell. No further dis- closures concerning the motive for The aulcide have been made and It i has not been learned where he se- cured the .32 caliber pearl handled revolver with which he shot himself .!
THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 5, 1927 -- DAILY NEWS Page I: Mrs. J. A. Vernon died .**
Page 6: Marriage licenses issued .**
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FUNERAL SERVICES HELD FOR LEBANON PIONEER
MARRIAGE' LICENSES .
Tipgoa Ayers, 26, and Agnes Jen - hlasu, 19. both of Strafford: Arthur :: Graves, IL Chicago. 111 .. and adora Griffin, 21. Springfield.
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Funeral Services Were held Jes- terday for Mrs. J. A. Vernon, who died Monday at Lebanon. . Ma- : Vernon was one of the pioneer ch- İzenımı! Lebanon The following served as pallbearers: J. E. M .- Kesson. J. E. Milsap. E. B. Keller- , man. Robert Herndon. A. C. Huper land Ralph Hurley.
THURSDAY EVENING, MAY 5, 1927 -- LEADER
Page 1: Dr. R. L. Pipkin died .** Page 2: Divorce suits filed .** Page 4: Emmett G. Blair died .** Mrs. Emma Lingsweiler died .** Mrs. J. A. Vernon died .** C. R. Cardwell died .** Marriage licenses issued .**
Page 14: Marriage license: Winfred Locke and Marie Vinson, both of Springfield.
DEATHS
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EMMETT O. BLJI
Funeral services for Emniett Glenn Blair. | 24/ who shot! and ikilled him-
clock /:'this i mornin Alma Lahmeyer funeral Rev.'| Wright officiating.
MRA, ENNA LING Funeral"services for Lingsweller. 73. mother o 8 .: Le. 1224 Washington av dled : at 'her home in Lebeanon o'clock : Tuesday morning. | Werp con. ducted 'at the family home at' Late. bon vat : 3:30| o'clock . this afternoon. Rer. D. 8, Frazier," pastor l'of the North M. E. church of Lebanon, och.
Raymonod Sona Richard Lee. Frandsons of Mrs. Ling- weller: . Fred| Ash |" and | Clarence" ..! tbe .widow | of "J.l.a. Lingweller, lipioneer Lebanon: business man, prominent 4"bullder." miller;"and " lumber dealer for many years. I'Mfra.' Llogweller' charter member of the Methodist hurch' In Lebanon-
MARRIAGE LICENSES. Recorder Jack W." Mckee today" Las qued marriage licenses to the follo
-- il Arthur E. Granes of Chicago and -- Ethiyn Griffin of Springfield. ii | | Vincon Ayers,and. Agnes Jenning both of Strafford. l
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MRS. J. A. VERNON.
Funeral services .were held yester- day for 'Mrs. |J "A. 'Vernon. who died Monday .at Lthanon. ; Mom Vernon was one ' of the pioneer citizens of ) Lebanon. The following served as pallbearers: J. Z. Mackewson, J. E .. B. Kellerman, Robert Herndon, A. C. Draper and Ralph I Burley. itt =
CARDWELL
[' C. R. Cardwell. 80 years old. & res- Ident of Greene county for the past 85 years, died this morning at 11 o'clock In a | local hospital following a brief Illness. He is survived by hisl widow, one brother. Frank Cardwell .. and one sister, Mrs. Eliner Bouriand. both of Madisonville, Ky. Pending word from distant relativea, funeral arrangements ; are Incomplete, but probably will be held at the Starne mortuary, with Interment in Hazel- wood cemetery. 1
TWO ACTIONS FOR DIVORCE ARE FILED
Two'setlane for atvores 'were' filed In circuit court yesterday as follows. |Theodore!|'3' Dell' against Myrtia Ball! They were married in November. 1036 and lived together until January, 1920; 'The| plaintiff 'alleges general indigniles as this cause of action.
).Alleging that ber husband was un. resequable and meanely jealous with- out cause, Lana Clark saks divorce from Albert F. Clark." They were mar- ried ! in ' March. 1927. ! and lived to- gether until yesterday.
FOR PHYSICIAN
Stricken by Apoplexy on Re- turn From State Med- ical Convention.
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Un R. L. PIPKIN
Dr. R. L. Pipkic. 58 years old. pron- Inent Springfield physician for the !
'night at 10:00 o'block of apoplexy at his home. TTO Last Walnut street. Jusi an bour after his return from the meeting of the State Medical as- cociation at Dedalis. " 1
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. Dr. and Mrs. Pipkin. In company with Dr. and Mrs. T. O. Klingner, had been In Ordalla attending the mert- ing of the State Medical association. ' Yesterday they had lunched with Dr. . W. M Breuer, of St. James, president ; of the association, and in the after- noon Dr. Pipkin had attended the i ! meeting of the Women's Auxiliary of the association.
At 6 o'clock all started on their re- : turn to Springfield In Dr. Klingner'
car. Dr. Pipkin saying as they left , the hotel that he wanted to get back : on account of several patients he was anxious lo Rec.
A D. Pipkin and his wife got out of the car at their home Dr Pipkii
expressed his appreciation of the trip. saying that he had enjoyed it.
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1. Plod as with Phones Tor. Declar The couple, then " went In house and Dr. Pipkin Impurilately went to bed." complaining that be was very tired. Mrs. Pipkin : cat up nearly an hour reading and. as she went Into her husband's room he told ber that the back of his headwas | hurting him. She called Dr. O. a. Lemon. only two doors away, but as the returned to her husband from the telephone he was dead.
Dr and Mra Klingner were called. Just an hour after they had left Dr . Pipkin's home.
Dr Pipkin was born near Fatr Orove. Mo. January 7. 1009. Hla I father was Jeser Pipkin. « prosperous : farmer, and W. H .: Pipkin, after whom Pipkin Junior High & hool .... . named, was a brother,
Began Practice In Bols D'Arc.
1 He was a graduate of a St. Louis medical school. And returned to Bots : D'Arc to begin his practice ue e puy- : 1 alcian in 1897. He then married ! Miss Anna Evans In 1808. Nine years after starting at Bols D'Aro he moved . to Springfield, where he. continued hia practice until his death.
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He has been a member of the Bt. Paul M. E. church einco coming to Springfield 31 years ago.
Dr. Pipkin was aimember of the the Missouri State Medical association. and the American Medical society. He formerly was president of the Spring- field Baptlet hospital and was a di. :rcior at the time of his death. He also was vice president of the Queen ing bank. 1
Prominent In Masonry.
Prominent In Masonic circles. he was a inembar of the Blue Lodge of Masonry. the Boottish Rile and the Shrine.'
Dr Pipkin la survived by his wife. 1 a son. Hubert Pipkin. now a student In the School of Medicine of Harvard I'nitersliy:/ two sisters. idra! Janle Mullin, Emporio." 'Kan .. and Mre. Frut.cen Hayden. Fort Ogden. Fm. ant eight brothers. John L. Pipkin. 1124 Last Elm street: Ed. Pipkin, Fair Orore; Emmett and Lee Pipain. Redwool. Cal .; James and Charles ¡Pipkin of fakeroville,' Clay: William Pipkin. Enlel, Okla and George Pip- kin. Fort Ogden. Em.
Funeral arrangements are Incom. plete, pending the arrival of rela- tives, but probably will be held from the 8t. Paul church . Bunday after- noon, with Rev. John W. Pearson, of- ficiating. Burial will' be under the direction of the Klingner Funeral home
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FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 6,1927 -- DAILY NEWS
Page 1: Dr. R. L. Pipkin died .** Page 3: Mrs. Emma Lingsweiler died. C. R. Cardwell died .** Mitchell infant died.' James M. Roberts died .**
Plans Not Complete For Burial Service For Dr. R. L. Pipkin
Funeral arrangements for Dr. R. Pipkin. veteran .Springfield physician, who died ' suddenly. of apoplex, Wednesday night at his hume. "", East Walnut street, had not been completed last night. pending arrival of relatives.
.He Is survived by his wife. a con. Hubert Pipkin: two aleters. Janie T Mullin'
Fort i Orden. A brothers Juhn L" Pipkin,
of" Fatt Grove, & Familie !! Pipkin's "of " Redwood. L'at. - James nnd \'haries"; Pipkin of : Rakoravine. William Pipkin of Enid, Okla, and Beurre' Thinking of . Fort Ogden Fla.
DEATHS
MRO EMMA LINGSWEILER
:" Funeral 'services for ' Mrs. Emma Lingsweiler. 78," mother of" Mrs. Bort 8. Lee, 1124 Washington, ave- nuo .- who.died .. at her home in Lebanon Tuesday morning,' WM conducted at the family home In Lebanon at 1:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, with the Reverend D. 8. Frasier. - pastor of the North Madi- son . M. E"church of Lebanon, of- ficiating.
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C. R. CARDWELL
Funeral services for .C. H. Card- to resident of Greene county for the past 30 years, who died yes- terday morning in a hospital here. willbe conducted at'ithe Starne mortuary : at 2:30 o'clock; Saturday afternoon. Burial will be In 'Hasel- "wood& cemetery. Mr. Cardwell ' is survided. by' his wife. a brother. Frank Cardwell, and a winter, Mrs. Elmer Rourland, both of Madison- ville, Kentucky. -
MITCHELL INFANT
"Funeral services for the infant son of 'Mr. and Mrs. William Q. Mitch- ell' 701 North Fremont avenue, who died at 11:15 o'clock Wednesday night. were conducted at the real- dence at 2 o'clock yesterday after- noon. Burial was in East Lawn cemetery.
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James M. Roberts, 76 years old. Led In Albuquerque. N. M., yes- torday morning. according to word received to friends here. He ex- pired at the home of a enn. R. E. Roberts. The body will arrive here Sunday and will ( bo :buried at Hazelwood cemetery ...
FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 6, 1927 -- LEADER
Page 26: Alexander Inglis died .** Mrs. Eva Fisher died .** Dick Harvey died .** Dr. R. L. Pipkin died .** C. R. Cardwell died .** Mitchell infant died.' John Tracey died .**
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DEATHS
ALEXANDER INGLIS. Aexander Inglis, father of Mrs. A. C. Daily. 825 Eust Walnut street, died this morning at "Tarpon Springs. Florida, according to word received by his daughter. He was found dead ' in bed at 7 o'clock. Death is believed · to have resulted from heart trouble. Mr. Inglis hatt made his home with Mr. and Mrs. Daily since the death Hội hàn vito in 1917. Ho went to Tay pon Springs early last winter and was Wlalted In February by Mr. and Mrs. Dally. who found him in fulling health, but he appeared Improved when they 'returned . a few weeks later. A letter was received from her father this morning by Mrs. Daily three hours after the telegram !!!- nouncing his death. Hle bald In ) :. ] letter that he was' feeling better.
The body will be shipped to Spring-
; the Alma Julimeyer Mimerat home. :. ! Is expected to arrive Sttt:duy afir: . 2000 and the funeral will be Mond .7 afternoon nt St. Paul church, .In Rev. J. W. Pearson officiating.
Mr. Inglis was a member of all &i .:- sonle bodies and pust master of the Blue lodge. The lodge will have charge of the services at the grave at Mupile Park cemetery and pail- bearers will be past potentates of Ahoy Be :: Ad!a. teu le.
le ;; ; ned by only the o:o daughter. Mrs. Dally.
C. R. GAARDKELI .. Funeral services" for. O. R. Cardwell. O, a resident of Greene county for, the past 30 years, who died yesterday morning in a local hospital. will be conducted at 2.30 o'clock . Saturday afternoon at the Starne' mortuary. Burial will be in Hazelwood cemetery.
UTCHELLIINFANT. Funeral services"for the infant son; of Mr. and Mrs. WHilni Q. Michel !. 701 North Freeman avenue. who died :at 11:15 o'clock Wednesday . were conducted at . the resliterr an. 2 o'clock westerday afteri.e. was in East Lawn cemetery,
MRS. EVA FISHER.
Mrs." Eva Fisher. 69 years old, died this' morttter at her home., 631 West Chestnut street. She is survived by a son. Roger M. Fisher, Milwaukee. Wis, and daughter, Mrs. Bridger, St. Louis. Funeral arrangements are Incomplete, but interment will be in the National cemetery, under the direction of the Klingner funeral home.,
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DICK HARVEY. R
The body of Dick Harvey, 53. who died yesterday in St. Louis, will arrive ¡ here Sunday morning for burlal. Hu is survived by the wife. two brothers.' John' Harvey, Springfield, and Joe Harvey; two half-brothers. ' Willlamı Harvey, MoMuntain Grove, and Tom ['Harvey, Fair Grove; and n sister, Mrs.) Dave Nash, Springfield. Funeral serv- Ices will be held at 2 o'clock Bunday afternoon at the home of Mrs. Nas !! 2065 .Howard street." Burial .will be in Greenlawn cemetery under the' direc. tion of the Klingner funeral home.
PIPKIN FUNERAL.
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», Mmeral carvices for Dr. R. L. Pip- xin, '58, who died suddenly' Wednes- day night at hun home. 779 Kast Wal- but street, Will be held Bunday after. poon at 2 o'clock at St. Paul church, with Rev. J. W. Pearson officiating. Burial will be in Staple Park cemetery under the direction of the Klingner fimerul home. Dr. Ppkia has been one of the most prominent phy- alcians In Springfield for the past 21 years. . He ' had . Just returned from the meeting of the State Medica: as- .eriatien nt Sedalfa Wedusesday night .... he was suddenly maken with apoplexy and did beeste Rid could
JAMES M. ROMEROIS.
The body of James M. Roberts, 70 years old, who died In Albuquerque. N. M. yesterday moratey. will arrive in Springfield Sunday :. buffal, m . cording to word received by friends here. He died at the home of his son, R. E. Roberts. Burial will be in Hazelwood cemetery.
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John Tracey, a former resident of Springfield, died " yesterday "at ' his home in Pittsburg, Kas, afier a'lin- kortig illness. He will be buried lo- morrow in Kansas City. Hr Was'a son of the late Colonci Tracey, and is. survived by one sister. . Mlas Tracey. principal of the Phelps school here.
SATURDAY MORNING, MAY 7, 1927 -- DAILY NEWS
Page 1: Charles R. Cardwell died .**
Page 6: Samuel C. Trimble died .**
Mr. and Mrs. Martin Palmer of route 11 announce the birth of a son on Friday, May 6.
Page 7: Allen Stovall and Miss Margaret Forster, both of Fair Grove, Mo., were married yesterday.
Mr. and Mrs. George Witzenbacker of 2047 Boonville avenue announce the birth of a daughter.
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Friends Save C. R. Cardwell,
A Square Shooting Gambler From Potter's Field Bunal
Gambler, Saloon ; Czar' and "Good Sport', He Dies at Poor Farm, Broken : and Broke; Passing · "Recalls Gaudier Days Hero
FHUENDS who 50 years ago cursed hlin fur his relentless: business melhuds and praised him for the square - shouting reAbler and sportsman that he was, have Joined hands to save Charles H. Cardwell from a pauper's grave.
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Like n glittering page from "how boat" or a chapter. of "Sin- for l'arrie' is the story of Card- well's life-a glamorous story of calouns und fine rlube and garubling houses in gaudier days.
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Cardwell it was who established the old Palace saloon here. "the fineet saloon the city ever knew." It was t'ardwell who ' opened picturesque gambling house In the basement of the old Metropolitan hotel and played a square game of quiker there against all comers Hl- made money and he spent tre pace and he died had . owned: mord
other Boringticid man.
DIES AT. POOR FARM
atül dreaming
The final chapter of his Itte Bat- Ing . almost from the' time saloons closed In Springfield,
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washed-out -- colorless. It la s story of one reversal after another. of a mind breaking under the strain and turning from a harsh world of realities to the way. dashing world of his memorles.
.. Hig last yeare saw little more than ... meaningless wandering on . a treadmill of poverty and despair. But i.r is to find peace In Hazel- Wewal cemetery Friends will Il. nance his funeral and his burial
Servicen will be conducted at 2.30 ticlock this afternoon at the Starne mortuary
FROM LOUISVILLE, SIR
when cardwell oam wringfield: Jo unknown. H. H. la mas he came here others recall seeing himi as safty
HE came from Louisville Ky- withLoulaville ideas of what sa- Jeona, and gambling houses,, and horse racco should : be. There he had hwned 's"bir.and fairly successful racing planle He brought's several ofthis fine driving horses and life bautiful young wife with him.
F Shortly after his arrival. Springs Held heard of the opening of the Tur malin, where College street And l'atton alley Internet. .. The place was pornler and Cardwell made money Sat pitalcalls attrac. Ir. he dressed topplably. wore massive diamonds .runversed easily i slou many things and won place among the sportsmen of the rifY. -
SIR THE RAND MANNER
The Top was his fust venture In Springfield the Murder Consin ed lum that he belonged in Spring - i field tuing the sente that fol.i :wed, he left many times lo te. ; turn in the belief that he could. I "make another alle" in Springfield
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