The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 8, 1905, Page 3

Preise eRe: : i SHE WAS SOON TO DIE AND A TROUBLE, SO HE KILLED WIFE OLD, DECREPIT MAN, WHO SLEW HIS FE TELLS A TERRIBLE STORY QF HIS CRIME—ONE OF THE MOST REMARKABLE MURDER CONFESSIONS EVER MADE —_—_~— CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 8 Rugust Otto, an elderly, decrepit | man, killed his wife with a mallet She wa old and feeble, The couple had several grown-up chil dren Old Otto, after the crime, at tempted to hide all evidences of his guilt. He sald that she had fallen | down stairs, causing the terrible bruises on r head. But in hours the Chief of} Police K r secured a confession from him. This is the story the old man told: “Yes, I killed my Wife. She had only a coup'e of months to live any Way, so I thought It would make no difference. Besides, the rent was due the 18th and we were going to move, It would save trouble and expense to have the old woman out of the way “The old woman had become a terrible burden to me, She was so helpless that she could mot even dress herself. The only work she could do was a little washing, and even then T had to get the tubs ready to help her to them. And then she upbraided me for not) Working, and I am paralyzed and} unfit for work. The children sided with her, too, until I could stand tt no longer. So I decided to make away with her. “T had decided to do the deed sev- eral days before. How to do it with- out directing suspicion to myself was the question. I didn’t want to g0 to jail. To kill her was easy She was old and helpless and could | make no resistance. But I wanted to make her death appear the re sult of accident “How I thought and pondered over it all, I could not sleep nights for thinking of It. Her breathing at night made me mad. “You must stop breathing,’ [ said aloud. She heard me and asked me what I was say f T tol’ er it was nothing. Her Words aroused in me a passion of hatred. 1 think I must have been mad al! the time. “It was the morning of her death, about’ S o'clock, that I hit upon a plan. Then nothing held me bac! AH, IT WAS A CLEVER PLA) WAS IT NOT?” The aged murderer turned to the officers with a touch of pride. He wanted their admiration. “after dinner I helped her to her Dig.chair in the next room. She ‘Went to seleep, she who never had to do ‘work but slept, slept, slept all the time. And they scold- ed me because I wag too weak to work. “Mm the woodshed 1 found a car- We guarantee Adams’ Java Blend Coffee the best 25 Cof- fee Roasted. Your money cheerfully re- funded if not pleased. Your money cheerfully re- funded. ADAM TEA & COFFEE CO. 921 SECOND AVENUE. Near Madison Gtreet “Try Before You Buy” PIANOS EASILY BOUGHT AND AS EASILY PAID FOR ‘The D. & Johnston Co. is making} it easy to select a firm's original r fa particularly accommodating. You rent a piano, paying say a matter| of $4.00 @ month, You get to itke| i. You decide to keep it. The money paid as rent is applied to| the purchase of the piano. Not a penny {# lost, and the balance In payable at the rate of $6.00 or $8.00| @r $10.00 » month, just as one can! best arrange. In this manner folks who are buying new hom or using} all their capital in business can| pay for a plano without missing the money. The D. 8. Johnston Co. offers by far the largest variety of fine tn- struments to choose among, and that prices are fair is shown by the great volume of business the firm foes. D. S. JOHNSTON CO. Geattic’s Leading Pia 903 SECOND . Burke Building. House |should she cry out LE OLD wiht, penter’s mallet With tte 1 crept k into the room. Th her face upturned, her in sleep. Now was my timd. Ther was no one In the house to hear her “Onee, twice I struck witheall my on her face. » woke ery and started to weep, Blood was streaming down her cheeks and over her chin. The sight zed me. ‘HAVE YOU GOT ENOUGH, I cried, meaning was it enough to do for her, She made no reply, but only wept. Then I struck again and again, how many time I do not know, But I did not stop until I knew she was past scolding “Her blood was streaming down onto the @rpet, Some of it got on my hands, This gave idea, I held my hands under the stream and filled them with tt Then I went out end threw it on the cellar steps and on the floor. It would make them think she had dropped it when I carried her from the cellar My clothes were bloody and 1 changed them, I threw the wet garments under a sofa, The mallet | 1 washed and hid tn the attic over | the kiteh: Then Ptelt safe, IT} WAS A ¢ R PLAN, WAS IT] Not?” MONSTER SHARK CAPTURED AFTER FIERCE STRUGGLE VANCOUVER, B.C, July 8.— The strangest and most vicious ani mal that ever came out of the sea in | the waters adjacent to the British Columbia was killed at the mouth of False creek by Harry Dusenberry at § o'clock last night. The elreum stances connected therewith savor of the Kingsley stories of life in the} southern seas Little Harry Mensties, the §-year- old son of Ed. Menales, foreman at the Hastings mill, was wading in the water around among the shingle bolts just below Cotton's mill, near the mouth of Falee creek at high tide. Another little companion was playing with him at the time, but | was on shore throwing stones into the creek and paying little attention to what was going on, Ed. Dusen berry, who Hives nearby and has several small boats for excursion purposes on shore, was standing idly looking on at the boy's playing His attention was suddenly at- tracted to a wave approaching the small boy, as though some other boy was smimming under water to grab the wader by the leg. Tak-| ing more careful observation as it approached—slow at first and then taster and faster—he saw @ dorsal | fin sticking above the muddy waters of False creek and immediately con cluded that the boy was in dangor of losing his life. With a yell to the boy to come ashore, he grabbed a pike pole and made for the beach. The boy ran: | the shark followed, and in three seconds was bard and fast aground Mr, Dusenberry lost no time. He! grabbed the sark In the flank with | the hook of the pike pole and tried to pull {t ashore, Enraged by the pain the shark opened its mouth | and showed the moat formidable set of dentistry he had ever seen something like a man would expect in a horrible nightmare. Without hesitation, Mr. Dusenberry jammed the pike pole down the animal's throat and tnto Its entrails. After. ward, when measurements were) taken {t was found that the pike | pole had gone eight feet down the shark's throat. EER * For two hours and a half # a dozen street cars filled with # rate track patrons from the # Meadows were “stuck” on the * interurban bridge over the # Duwamish river. * Something happened tow something. and as a result the unfortrnate 300 passengers * | w obliged to admire the * surrounding seenery, while ® their suppers got cold at home. * * PEEREEESEREE SHEE LAWSON ROASTS eteeetee eee tees KANSAS CITY. July &— ——— T. Jerome, district attorney of New York, got @ roasting at the hands of | Thomas Lawson of Boston at a din- ner given by the Knife and Fork club last night. In the course of his| speech Jerome spoke jestingly of Lawson and bis writings. Lawson replied passionately. He said “It is my misfortune and your good fortune that you do things and) I can only talk. 1 would ratherbe| you and have your position than| to be president of the United States or Jobn D. Rockefeller with bis 9500,000,000. I have as much re- |spect for your honest Intentions, Mr. Jerome, as any man has, but | am not going to apologize to you, or to anyone else, for my efforts to teli the American people about frenzied finance. “Mr. Jerome, the people of New| York are going to give you a second | twelf—the jhang en to |wreatle with the vic j eating jcarnival being held here this week |has been destroyed by fire term, and it is your good fortune, | and my misfortune, that you and not I can put 52 directors of the Equitable Life Assurance society in atripes—and you will do that. 1/ am sorry you did not see fit to give! me a send-off. Tonight I am in the most embarrassing position of my life. Your words struck me to the heart on this, the first o« jon on which I have addressed a large body of my fellow citizens.” HELENA, Mont., July %.--Mose Kanuel, a wealthy Helena mining man and discoverer of the famous Homestake mino in Deadwood, 8. D., was killed in the Minnesota, mine at Corbin by the explosion of| & gasoline ongine. | thousand for fir logs and will stand When a shark fs held head on to the land it {s powerless to release more it thrashes the water the faster it goes ashore. Mr. | Dusenberry knew this and he was) content for a moment or two to} the pike pole and * monster | as beat he could. The boys tn the) meantime had given the alarm and help arrived. Three or four other men grabbed the pike pole and un dertook to pull the shark ashore, but they.only succeeded in disem boweling it Ite struggies were weakened instantly but It continued | to thrash and quiver for an hour! and a half after it had come ashore. Eye witnesses say that it must have bled nearly a barrel of gore. When tte struggles finally ceased | a line was attached to its tail and} the monster made fast to a timber. | This morning they undertook fetch ing it hore, but it was quickly found that it was no easy job. Finally, by a Mne around its body 20 men managed to get it up onto the grass a few feet above high | tide, Mr. Dusenberry, who fe a/ man for an emergency, Immediate ly recognized the Barnum ponsibilt- | tlea and improvised a tent out of old salle which he cast over the shark and on the door of which put “10 cents to see the big shark.” During the day many hundred sited the tent to gaze and the man has) not come forward yet who has been able to testify to having seen & | bigger Shark. Capt. Anderson, who | has had opportunities of seeing the | animals in many seas, ways that it! is undoubtedly the genuine man-| Hawalian variety. native waters, which are 3,400 miles from where it was caught, it would be known as a mud shark, a apecies | of the white shark, but larger and | more vicious. Such animals are| not native to these waters and | probably another such was never neon on the Pacific coast of North America; certainly not on the Brit ish Columbia coast. In order to! get here it must have followed the salmon or some vessel all the way from the south seas, NEWS OF THE STATE SEDRO-WOOLLEY — The street is @ great success. OLYMPIA—The state tax com missioner has advised the county assessors to use their best judg- ment fn the matter of taxes He says the assessments should be uni- form rate regardless of any classi fication by state board of equaliza tion. OLYMPIA—Governor Mead and Governor Johnson, of Minnesota are having trouble over extradition papers of Mrs. Ida Johnson, want ed in St. Paul. The two governors have clashed before. POMEROY—Henry Owsley, an ol4 pioneer of this place, died Fri- | day WALLA WALLA—More than 200 men in the Fourth cavalry regiment | Will be discharged soon CHEHALIS—The $50,000 mill of the Luedinghaus Bros, at Dryad, WALLA WALLA—The wheat harvest fs on here. There are many men on the streets looking for work | in the harvest fields. OLYMPIA—State Highway Com missioner Snow {fs attempting to straighten out the tangle over the road between Bellingham and Sam |ish, @ part of which has recently been sold to a railroad BELLINGHAM Rev. E. A. Er- iekson, of this place, has been in vited to the chair of pedagogy tn the Minnesota normal school. ABERDEEN — Logging camps here may remain cloned for some time, an they have demanded $7 per firm until the mille give in. 4 You Don't Get Ineulted. Just call and look at the new atyles in and Stiff Hate, It will pay you . N. Brooks & Co, 1841 24 Ave, *** | pelea watis aa HEALTH AND PLEASURE. Alki Natatorium ts all ander Warm and comfortable. me a new) In ite} “The Brooks” $8.00 font | c*) ts A gy ‘Gi:HolmesFurnitureCo- U0)-1103-1105 SECOND AVE.. [MPORTANT JTURNITURE PRICE SE REDUCING * DURING THIS GREAT JULY CLEARANCE The second week of our July Clearance Sale starts Monday morning with GREATER OFFERINGS, with ADD- ED LINES, with DEEPER PRICE REDUCTIONS. This is an earnest sale—one with a definite purpose—that of selling many thousands of dollars worth of desirable goods, It is not the ordinary clearance sale held simply because it is the mercantile habit to have such a sale each July, It is more than that—it is a great business house, with a well-earned reputation for reliable dealing and responsible methods, saying to you and every other home owner in this city and state, “come now and buy, at prices shorn of profit, the very best furniture and home furnishings offered in this market. Come now and here. Come and save money on everything in this store; not on old goods, but on bright, new, fresh furniture and drapings; on carpets, on kitchen ware, on everything which crowds the eight large floors of the G. L. Holmes Furniture Co.’s Store.” It is unnecessary to say that the prices prevailing are the lowest special prices yet made in this city on reliable and modern furniture. The list quoted herewith shows this to be true, and necessarily only a corporal’s guard of the reduced prices can be given. This stat¢mept is comprehensive—the whole store is in this sale, earnestly in it, attractively in it, making for you an unusual money-saving opportunity on goods that you need. We propose fh this sale to knit our old customers closer to us, to make many new friends and to sell many thous- ands of dollars’ worth of merchandise so that we may effectively carry out certain important plans we have in view for this Fall. Hence we are content to forego profits and in many instances to share with you, this July, a portion of the cost. , Lace Curtains fi°3,2°" $1.25 Nottingham, cut to ......64. ceceeeeee soeeeees- 2O@ || $8.00 Corded Arabian, cut to..... $2.40 Ruffled Muslin, cut to...s2 aececsee eveeres BL.40 | 63.75 Ruffted Met, cut to......00 ecececen ooeeees M190 | $5.00 Marie Antoinette and Cluny Arabian, cut to. . $2.40 $7.50 Brussels Net, cut t0....666 eee $4.00 $15.00 Battenberg, in white and Arabian, cut to....85.50 . $10.50 . $17.50 $12.50 Battenberg, in white and Arabian, cut to.. $18.50 Brussels Net, cut to...... oceevege cooes | $27.50 Battenberg, white and Arabian, ctit to ... There Are Scores More Similarly Reduced in Price Fine Furniture Just a few hints showing how you can save money on everything you buy here— ° 2144~——Crotch Mahogany Arm Chair—cut from $22.00 || No, 3282—Ten-Piece Dining Suite—Suite consists of side- $14.75 | board, china closet, dining table, one arm and six side | chairs. Pieces massive and very highly carved ; solid oak | No. 512—Lady's Desk—A Mission style with elaborate in- with Early English finish—cut from €474.50 to $375.00 terior—cut from $37.00 to. . Innumerable Different Styles and Every one a Bargain, All the Desks Are Marked to Sell. No. 1940—Leather Chair—Highly No. 836—Buffet—Entirely quarter-sawed golden oak. Oval French plate beveled mirror—cut from $75.00 to $48.50 A Big Stock and All at Big Reductions. No. &%o—Mahogany Cellarette—Has large and extra fine and s homes—cut f beveled French plate mirror—cut from $95.00 to $55.00 in our, DOSE =e Seen oe - ae All the Fine Furniture Is Similarly Priced. No, 212—Mahogany Dresser—Highly carved and polished, Ows ench pla , vere-—e: ‘0. 2517—Mahogany Library Chair—Cushions of dark teat eat hon Shee SROs Hope o-CSiiee sae green, genuine leather This piece is an English repro- won. na? duction—cwt from $75.00 to..... ++.» - $55.00 || N Hundreds of Chairs Are in This Sale. No. 1681—Library Sofa—-Mahogany frame. production—cut from $98.00 to ... Every Sofa Has an Interesting Price Mark, No. 1576—Davenport—Crotch large—cut from $150.00 to. Th is Is Only One Sample of the Reductions, polished frame, heavy carved legs—cut from $58.00 to. . golden oak $45.00 No, 530—Crex Settee—Made of prairie grass and is inde- structible, Very suitable for lawns, porches, houseboats . 443-—Bedroom Suite—Two-piece Bed and Dresser of highly polished birds-eye maple. Elegant swell front dresser hold 32x42, shaped and beveled French plate mir- drawers—cut from $165.00 No. 2 Mahogany High Boy—Stands 5 feet 6 inches high and contains 8 drawers. French legs, highly polished and All the Latest Styles and All indie, handsomely finished—cut from $75.00 to. . $51.50 2304—Library Chair—Olive leather seat and back cush- || No. 343—Mahogany High Boy—A Colonial pattern con- ions, Highly polished golden oak arms, posts and base— taining hat box and six large drawer: French _ le; cut from $45.00 to . $35.00 stand 7 feet high—cut from $90.00 to . . ee "$60.00 | Carpets Patterns to be closed out. This season’s goods, but quantity limited. All room sizes. Prices quoted are per yard— Reg. Price. Cut Price. Reg. Price. Cut Price. +» $2.00 $1.05 $1.25 $ Bigelow Body Brussels . .. «+ $1.65 $1.05 + $1.25 $ Bigelow Middlesex Axminster . $1.65 Best Tapestry Brussels . $1.15 $8 Saxony Axmjnster ‘ eee Hofi Fibre Matting .............. $ .75 $ Wilton Velvet’ . . -» $1.75 Sewing, Laying and Lining, extra 10c per yard. Matting Rerfihdtits, 3 to sa-yard pieces, while they last, per yard ....sccsecss sevecsccseseccere secssones weseeeee tO An English re- ~ 75.00 ror Two $210.00 to . mahogany frame extra $97.00 Bigelow Axnfififter ...... Velvet, best grade ... Corona Brussels ...... Every Piece of Furniture Will Be Delivered in Perfect Condition