Weekly Press, The (Newspaper) - July 16, 1908, Saint Joseph, Michigan THE WEEKLY PRESS EIGHTEENTH ST. MICH. JULY 16 1908. NUMBER 17 HIT BIB III fllE mm mm m 101 SUCCEED EXECUTIVE OF NATION MADE OBJECT OF TER ATTACK THREATEN ROOSEVELT Secret Service Men Visit Twin and Investigate To Be Harmless Although Under of the Lives of Demented Whose Tragic Ending Brings There was in the history of the life of August and Fred the two demented brothers who died yesterday in revenge of a fancied a varied which dom comes to men during a the feature of the case be- ing that neither one of the brothers bad reached the prime of In the life of August Gross is this For many years he lived in this city with his parents at the head of Lake and at tbat probably twelve years he was employed in the law office of Valentine He was a ic and thoroughly competent and his familiar figure could be seen at almost any time in the vicinity of the court where he was often employed In taking Dissatisfied with the stenographic he announced his intentions of leaving Jor the where he hoped to make his At- Valentine and Ellsworth tried to dissuade him from bis tended but to no J and the young man left for the The winter prior to his de- parture for Alaska was spent in he termed the hardening and dally he could be even on the coldest days of without an overcoat mittens trudging his way from Benton bor to St. to the home of bis August Gross went away and for a long time nothing was heard of his until one day it was reported that he never reached the gold but was stranded almost within sight of his He then came back and went to the home of his ing his had moved from ibis city to a fanr in Pipestone He went to work with his on the place and with his mother and sister lived a quiet life until about six months when both of the brothers began to act and were closely watched by the er and The father of the on count of hta demented was sent to asylum at trot through the efforts of the boys was released and brought back to his where he having never fully recovered his The strange actions of August and Fred caused the sister to enquire of Judge Ellsworth the proper mode of of caring for her and although the young lady did not attempt to have her ers committed to tbe she started Monday for the probate of- fice when the shooting of pioneer Kirk but the delay waa fatal and Miss Gross went back to her home yesterday in company with her prostrated mourns for tbe two young men who are row cold ii secret came to this city on trip of They de- termined that the writer of the letters waa a harmless but left instructions to have the Gioss brothers kept under and should they leave the county on any to immediately notify the department as they might have an Insane notion to go to Washington attempt to inate the as one of the letters sent contained a cartridge which the writer declared would be type that would put him out ot the The boys were but they never left Berrien The officials visited this city In the month of A marked turn in the insanity of the brothers came one day last when August fired shots at some farmers of the who were looking at a line fence in the vicinity of the Although no one was harmed by the the neighbors were considerably wrought up over the affair and declared the men were dangerous to have at large in the August seemed tc have a mania for guns and invented a sight for a rifle which he claimed was not accepted by the and through its alleged that the government had defrauded Both of the meu were August was about 34 years of age and Fred 30. They were apparently quiet and peaceable and Fred visited several citizens and merchants in this city the latter part of last week He is well known here and his friends are astounded at his insane In the Gross home was found a peculiar kind of a It was made of a shell such as is used In lan breech TWO CANDIDATES BACK FOR SEAT IN 18LATURE July legislative district in Ot- tawa county promises to furnish aa interesting political fight as to who will be his says he is not out of and could and re-elected if he saw fit to get into the but he has good naturedly aud of his own volition decided to let some ot friends take a whirl at state When it became known that Whelan intended to transfer his mantle to a. Cornelius B. Van dcr Meulen and D. B. K. Van MIT OF IRE SHEW WILL BE HMD TOMORROW AFTERNOON MADE BY SON TO SECURE FREEDOM OF HIS FATHER HIS EFFORT SUCCESSFUL IN MM UK Haalte announced for the although Mr. Van Raalte is twice the age of the young attorney it is believed that the scrap will be a lively Was Turned by fudge worth Declared That Mr. Gross Would Have to Make Application For Father's Release to the Asy I lorn Succeeds la Bringing Father GOVERNMENT WILL TRY OUT BALLOONS 4T FORT MYER his colleagues in the practice of the medical profession In our have Former St. Joseph Citizen Will En- ter Machine in the Competitive Tests For Herring's Machine Will Not Be Tested Until Next and was filled with highly explosive and a solid piece or cap of resembling a large used In the largest make of revolvers The house was i a regular arsenal and the deliberate shooting of James Kirk was un- doubtedly cunningly planned by August Gross as be beckoned to the old man to enter the farm yard the morning of the shooting told him that he had a message for him the aged meat peddler drove into the August approached him and without a word of warning shot the old gentleman in the holding the revolver so close to the left cheek that the skin was fully burned and a portion of the law bone torn away by the leaden the bullet passing up toward the An edict had been sued by the Gross brothers that no strangers were wanted within the confines of the and the bors were warned to keep off the The tragic ending of the Gross brothers over the shooting of James Kirk will forever live in the criminal history of Berrien July 15. With arrival at Fort Myer this week of the dirigible balloon of Capt. S. there will be ed the first series of aeronautical tests held under the patronage of the When proposals for bids were August who now cold In death at the lonely farm did four years ago make application to have his father re- leased from the asylum at where he had been sent during his son's absence to the He filed his petition with Probate Judge who informed him it was not his province to the and that tion would have to be made to the authorities at Mr. Gross pushed with his claims and before the state was successful in ing his father's release and quent return where he died a few months after living with his wife and The following application ahd tition was filed with Judge showing the ability of Gross in wording a August being duly sworn says he Is a resident of township In said county and that he Is thirty-two years of age the son and guardian of wig now confined in the lum for the Insane He further says that In A. D he went to Yukon in the Dominion of Canada and has been absent from home July of Dr. Simeon will place from Trinity Episcopal church I tomorrow at 4 WHILE Rev. R. H. of FATAL former pastor will I conduct the assisted by the present Rev. C J. The pall bearers have not been but the pall ers Drs St Benton Berrien j South Business houses in general will close during the funeral hours A meeting of city physicians was held last night at the office of Dr. J. and the following resolutions were in the wise sation of his suffered the sudden removal by death from our midst our brother and Dr. Simeon therefore be it That in his SEARCH FOR 1 BODY Friends of the Man Declara Hart DM Not Come to face of Lake After the Drowned Mau Alone la of DR. SIMEON lost a valued and a wise and the profession a hard faithful and honored advertised by the war department last January for a dirigible Inventors who have been ing to solve the problem of aerial navigation were encouraged to er as this was the first by any branch of the ment of the importance of and the part that airships will probably play in future The tests of both heavier-than-air machines and dirigible balloons ing the next two months will from that time until the beginning of A. D. 1904. He further says that after his re- turn home at the time mentioned he was Informed by his mother and nearest relatives that soon after his departure instances of mental ration began to manifest in the rase of his the said Ludwig the most prevailing symptoms being a very keen morbid anxiety about the welfare of which as time went on That we unite in ing to our departed that measure of praise which belongs to him who has fearlessly mat the sues of and has faithfully and conscientiously served his fellow to Dally July cago resorter was drowned in Little Paw Paw Lake yesterday while in bathing and the body up to noon today had not been The whose name Is Charles 31 years of has spending several days in the of the and came here fiom he is employed in the Riley Clothing Store at South State in that In company with a number of friends he went In bathing the and procuring a boat rowed out Into the middle of the He was alono and was seen to stand up and dive into the water He was never seen again and it Is presumed that in making the plunge his head came In contact with obstruction and rendered him un- causing the Hart's friends immediately mada for the row but were to locate the missing as never came to the surface after ing the Searching began the quest for the butt Here and the task waa given up until this morning the search waa again Friends of the joung man scout the suicide as there could be no motive for the Hart's friends will not give up the search intil they have found the body of their unfortunate tSKS 1 PRESIDENT BIDDER OF PIPERS MAKES APPEAL mand the attention of throughout the Their importance will in the effect they will have on congress An effort was made by the war department to secure an appropriation last winter for aeronautical but the request was not and it is hoped by the signal under whose direction the tests are to be that the results will congress of the necessity for funds to carry on The cost of the tests to be made at Fort Myer will he paid from the funds of the board of ordinance and Tf Capt. win's balloon fulfills the The first dementia in tbe though August has been acting rose and sullen ever since he ed from his northern was when Fred wrote a letter to President and took occasion to braid the chief executive The letters were of the foulest and were filled with the vilest epithets that man and at the Instance of the Officer of the de- and Chief Porter of the New July can Newspaper through its Herman has sent to President Roosevelt a letter invoking his aid in the association's fight to stop the oppression of paper Mr. Ridder recalls that the bad been informed tbat the courts would provide adequate edies and had submitted its evidence against seven groups of paper The result had been The Fiber and Manila the only one brought to got off said Mr. he such a finish to be procedure is a miscarriage of When a of is imposed for an ex- of it places pre- mium upon and brings vividly to use a realization of the hopelessness of relief under the methods that especially when the United States district while granting immunity to the urges leniency for the corporations which employ ments of the he will receive The trials of the dirigible balloon will excite as much Interest as those of the type of in which the Wright brothers and A. M. Herring will compete in assumed a more and more violent and upon one occasion ordered Fred the brother of to hitch up the horses and go to the railroad station re- turned home This was done and upon being told that he was taken he called the said Fred Gross a and unless closely watched and would try to run away in the direction of the Even without any slothes on apparently with the Idea of satisfying himself as to the of what had been told Deponent farther says that he has been kept in ignorance of his state of mind until the day of hh return upon visiting his the said at the he was recognized In spite of the lapse of time and change of and expressed the keenest desire to get home Deponent further nnd verily That we ex- tend to the bereaved family and our heartfelt and as a mark of our esteem attend tbe funeral in a Homer S. I. A. O. John F. Fred B D. D. A. Van Z. L. Fred N. J. D. Greenamyer and T. mm is MED CREEK MAN AGAINST TREE BY MACHINE FOR STEM SUIT CASE FRANK PLOYEE OF THE O. M. LINE IS IN JAIL Frank an ex-employee I of the Graham Morton was brought before Justice Evans afternoon on the charge of stealing a suit case belonging to a party from while aboard the steamer which arrives in this port at When had opened the case and found tbat It contained lady's and children s wearing apparel and not ing for the he promptly tiled to sell the various articles of HIM MAN MOVES JUST BEFORE CHARGE IS FIRED AT HIM Mich July Matthew not had a pre- monition of impending and removed himself from a at a table directly in front of a window in his home Crystal It is believed he would have been ly if not Instantly A load of shot discharged through the window by unknown son shattered the glass and swept across the table Just where had been So close to building was the marksman that wads from the cartridge entered the It Is thought that murder was The house was dark at the and It Is believed the fact that had just arisen from his seat was not defected from outside the believes that now since the said j clothing to passengers the Gross knows that the said August Gross has returned if The theft was noon discovered and bis own return home Is It before tne As a 01 will not only whatever been goldi and M a result of ly carried on for the past ithe Order of will BROTHERHOOD JOINS ORDER WESTERN ORDER STRONG TO JOIN THE ORDER OF OWLS As a result of chance the said Gross has of lhe investigation Robertson was recovering but constant apprehended The traveling brooding over what he Us contents were valued at Brotherhood ot Battle July sards as an will de- whatever reason he has left Alfred E. former merchant 8t and now a well-known real estate Deponent further says that he was was seriously injured at Lake j Informed by the of being pinned between hU the asylum nt Kalamazoo that the touring car and a tree aud held by I said Gross was not vicious the throat until friends dragged the big car Mr. Poulsen was driving his machine up a when It swerved and was partially ed. In trying to free the Mr. in and would never seek to harm any other that his aa he called were be- coming less frequent and and that as he grew older and lost Poulsen wai caught between of his physical strength Judge Evans set the examination for tomorrow and at the present time Robertson is under the surveillance of Sheriff Tennant's force In the county The Benton Harbor parties who arrested last week for taking gravel from the beach of the Schneering and Knaner homes on the Lake will also be tried tomorrow Read the 8t Joseph auto and a The victim's neck began and he was brought to the city for would probably become his condition If he did not recover his AUGUST Vatt Each day Bank of Alls M Mgers la keeping the itig for and been granted mission to affiliate with the order which has its headquarters The Brotherhood of Owls to strong In the far west and It has lodges in British Manitoba and other All the nests In a flourishing condition hut leaden believe they ran do batter work by affiliating with the larger A. C. supreme i of the Order ot Is sow tattle and will UM
