The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 7, 1907, Page 1

Only Pair in Seattle That Dares to Print the News h Service.) Jand was in conference with his at: | The woman | torteys until midnight, Me tomned Nesbit Thaw, to|about on hie bed, muttering and K. Th m- | mumbiing to himself, pla indt the star witness |oating the effect of the trial upon trial today, Barly this | hia nerves, in the Presence of court Advises the Jurors. | the youns woman talked) While the ‘Thaw jury wax march fame slayer of Stanford White,|ing from the Broadway Central fend earnestly. Thaw sought] hotel to court this morning, Thomas iat hie wife ané“give her! Palmer, @ stfoet cleaner, stopped for the terrible ordeal| shoveling anow and in a loud voice she ts parsing on the | yelled, “Hey, fellers, here comes the Thaw jury The jurymen con opening of the court, when| tinued their walk and when they | was called to the stand, | Came abreast of the group of shov Pace took on @ ghastly hue,| clera, Palmer yelled ow go to Grembled Vike a child, being|!% boys; Ket together and acquit | ly unnerved at the thought | Thaw | Demillation brought upon his Captain Ly commanding the ifs, The skin was drawn |Court squad, ordered Palmer are | Be cheek bones, there were | rested, | ves about hix mouth, and his} He was. taken into court where | ‘and dark-circled eyes but | Judge Pitegerald administered a se. | ite the worn and haggard ex- | Vere reprimand and discharged Kim the “tL Call Evelyn Nesbit Thaw.” which Scores of women present ve the | ; room the appearance of a women's} . but litte last night,/congress, The preliminary beta | y Hall Excited Over the Rumor That Street intendent Fight Has Been Carried to would be there today to help his chief in the move. Mutlen i# said to have the bill al- ready framed. [t will provide (hat in cities of the first-class where the mayor and council do not agree that a bill ls to be pre- the state legisiature for Of nettling the street "s fight at Seattle has pensation at the city halt While the law t* expected to neta | goed for the future, it ts tntende directly and primarity to beat he yor In the presfnt com the office atreet tendent M erening the fire and water Was to meet In an im- feteion to receive and con- the report of Chief Bringhurst and Pine et. th WEATHER FORECABT—Rain Tonight and Fri ayii Moderate Southerly Br SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, THURSDAY, FEB, 7, 1906. THE THREE WOMEN IN THAW of the Slayer of Stanford Wh White Tells the Jury the Terrible Tale of Her Relations With Dead Architect--Sensational Session in Murder Trial This Morning--Appearance ot His Wife Upon the Witness Stand At- fects the Prisoner and He Trembles Like a Leaf. completed the judge rapped for or ler, _ Attor Delinas, in a idud votes, auld: “L call Mes. Evelyn New bit Thaw Through a wide door the figure of Thaw's wif was dressed mm durtng Ner time trembiing. She In the same blue dress we days of the trial lifted for the firet was almost firm an she Nesbit the earlier vell war Her voice sald her name waa Evelyn Thaw and that she was born in 1684 “Where were you the night of June 25, 19067" asked the attorney At the Cafe Martia, with my husband, Mr, MeCaleb and Mr Reale. I mat on the Twenty-sixth at ride” Whese did you go after that? To the Madison Bquare roof gar | den ‘ What tt “I don't re ow Gid you first see Btanford White that night?" asked Detmas. "I saw him enter the Cafe Martin at the Fifth ay. entrance, and go out am the baleony, I Could not see hier (Ce ntinued on. . Page Seven.) [AYOR’S ENEMIES GO BEFORE LEGISLATURE TRUSSIANS TO SUE FOR WAGES Lieutenant Mark Markison, to- gether with Rev, M. GO, Andresite, ave decided to place the of he Russians against the contractor for the Milwaukes, Chicago @ St Paul Railroad in hands of At tormey J. Henry Denning. Tieu- tenant Markison ajieges that one of the Russians employed by the con the Mutien ts in the cap. | Within 30 days after ys potnit tracer received ® broken lea and ip ._| ment of a department fa im the | Seine the company in additien to tg) anta, wn Oe efty government, the city couneil| hie wages for 14 dayg for which, it ie view, and Councitman ZbIM~ | nay hy @ two-thirds vote, select aj is alleged, he only received @apected to be there this | man of ite own choosing to fil the | Markison says that if the case le not saa Be was to have left for | position | wettied by th 1 auth that during the day Neo Salary for Walters. jit will be t © the United “WILL MODIFY Today the mayor signed up aii the | _ Bbinden at Olymp' general fund warrants save that} RE temmitee could not meet, too | which pays the salary of the super Members being absent. At intendent of streeta This Mayor M war said Mullen and/ Moore threw out as the suditir Were in Olympia, and a ormmitiee threw out hie warre — me whispered that their| for the men he appointed in Wal “| (Star Special Servies.) Presentation of a bill) ters place. The councii knows that] or yupta Pet sag err Mayor Moore of some | the mayor at present halts , te ie dan” Kubsceteiinen Me rights as an executive | hand, for all warrants must bear ae ray ture. It is to outwit him an pega x vee DFWEs the story of their object then deprive the mayoraity of the x Tignes a Rls tga | on grew even stronger. Whi of appointment that ; ‘ Harned that Zhinden did not | bi id to have been 1 an y. & wee said that he | hurried to the state capital t ROAD LABOR BILL [the rewalt of th te feet tn 20 days and SENATE 22 (Star Special eS ae proval is practically assured = A, Wash, Feb. 7.—The{ Senator Williams, of King, made) thie morning passed house |® Coarse attempt this morning to} ,, ed tor i, by Rhodes, of Spokane, = house bili No. 24, the eight lr taxing é : our mining law, without # roll call.) Oot. ear com B Unlawfyi for any com) When the bill came up for pas | or’ or railroad to work tts sage he moved for its indefinite |" "7°", than 16 consecutive |postponement. Ruth and severei| ">?" § Per me OF 10 send them out before others demanded a roll call, and NO COAL—MINE CLOSED. Rave had eight hours’ rest./the motion was withdrawn. The Miorsey general and the rail- | bill was then referred to the com-| N. & Clirk, who a gold, sit Stumission are directed to mittee on mines and mining. This| ver and copper mine at Grant the law, and the penalty is the Dill which Engineer James! Falls, is in the city and states t Ms vidlation tw fixed at a fine Anderson, of the Pacific Coast{he is without coal and is using IM to $1,000. The bill now company, has been here lobbying| wood, however, just to keep the —* wo the governor, whose ap-' aguinat |} shafts clear of water. | ¢ Special Service.) } OLYMIFA, Wash, Fet Sena | tor Knickprbocker, of King, has in trodueed In the senate a bill known | as senate bill No. 172, whicl? seeks to legalize the long list mmts - 700 men are at work near the Cas WITNESSES sions ae deputy sheriff d by Mattle Faces Worst. Railroad Tie-up in Its Mistery! cade tunnel trying to clesr the} : [Sheriff Smith, of King county. In tracks and relieve the strain. the last campaign ft was disclosed Ks sf James Fullerton, whose charges], * had en out col is Transcontinental Trains Lost in Snow-Mails| .+.+¢ or waswnoron | asuinet. the moved fient, made tw ras] at pip had siven out commis Cut Of. ON PORT ORCHARD ROUTE. | inarine inspector, has nroused ship. | | ping eft today declared that he! Sound steamer State of Was! would prove by John F. Bugrue and | Beattie, 80 far as 1 t jth ‘ hat line a |ton has been tho Pr Moorberg, both of Manaanita, | ; i great trans-jthe service over that line duringland has come off Moran that proper affida to at least} )Gatinental tines are co in| the last six weeks has been the| dock Monday she will be place ne of ? ninte ide | "s in its weer? ‘ jon the Port Orchard run in place Inag Whitney, dems “ poe a aawenger traffic on the Great! of the steamer Port Orchard, whic atter's ir ati to th trains on the Great Northern | Northern and Northern Pacific, ex-| wit) be withdrawn and converted | The affidavite referred t Satarda th | « vure! ir a 4 pure ul traffic, drop into a scow. The State of Wash-| Fullerton were re _ Of any for several days.|over 50 per cent during January.| ington will remain on the run until | !e«ed dlaregard by me Special ts Northern Pacific the serv-| Hundr of cars containing ship-|the new st er Tourist goes into | ™ eo Gistrees 4th OL PIA, F mw Ce HS sich shape that nothing| ments for Seattle and other Puget| commission. which will te ge Joouments were forwarded, he al- | trill Game fp the front in anot Can be predicted | sound points are scattere er thelthe next four weeks egen, by registered mai | fight Mgajngt loot yesterday when CPLR. Trains Late | Great Northern and Northern Pa-{ Furthermore, Mr. 3 by an able Gnd effective argument Canadian Pacific officials re.| cific tracks tn Minnesota, the Da-| bring forth in the“senat@, he ed the defeat Morland trina re-| otas and Montana | N STER ELECTED : aasio. bun of Beas tdr Ruth's bill to diswipat ~ ’ Pp en Handreds of firma are unable to} | the eh SQuicy with $1,006 n ¥ has t cause stocks ordered in New York nd fleet service la by | TWELFTH ANNIVERSARY ‘ other | Chicago, Minneapolis and other nt ws ee WELD TOMORROW NIGHT from Portiand eastern points, which were shipped! po. » & Chivers. a- Open, but an O montis ago, are stuck im SOW) oat asionaries 1 ae ‘ Torbrrpw night the twelfth anni stuck in a snow arit . — where between will | try member of th : But th ary Gf ‘Wilaon’s Modern Bus Wille, 41 miles « ‘asa he Rockies I the miasionary titut 1 made are true a age will be celebrated. Day ~ | Freight Meld Up. | neid fi , bee : eponsty herd In the | cinamee will be in session, begin |p nallter side of the Cas No perishable freight for the east | chief of the ( w Indiana, wh ve | hearts of a A ” A 10 he @ had ad OCO&- | ning at 7}9¢ o'clock, for one hour, lew ea! rrupted; | is a received by any of thelin the Mont f ' the to une the fon the und un anniversary program will the hern Pacific is running tta| re At the Northe Pacific | scene of th nen be given aturday night the ! between | freight office the first wire from| Eng f ew me niversary ball will be given tn any eastern point In three days was|is “FE er fim college roome. eived this morning from Leste | h NOVEL VERDICT | cocoa HAS BEEN | The Burlington people are trying | APPOINTED COMMISSIONER. to relieve the situation some by an| | arrangement with the Northern Pa-| — (Serions Telearanh Service.) nneth Mackintosh ne madian Pacific cifie, under wh freight for the} pack UR, I, Fe 7 Death r yne, a sand wagon driver] for King 1 bee aon a Puget Sound try f hicago| from swallowing his own brains the grade of Third] apr a *b 1 nt fo win oh rh hipmer t if orone ‘i t nau er | t rae of scattering dirt| porath sel § eft Bning fre Calg to ator er its | the on at k home 5 orme McDonald, | for Cant thie afte is also Bilt ‘ g the | titnste Central brakenias, Who ® ne the charge, d 1 the - ol out of ¢ ka n und Minne | fy i pum had j at it BILLIARDIGT FINED. lo Mail for Days ' " " nee and th wo days fastern ma tor! Growl ern ngor train lw ken ft hod tehed by an officer) J re, charge ri 8 id | th ent per hearin ourt yesterday CITY COMPLETELY CUT CRET SINS LAID BARE _ BY EVELYN NESBIT THAW) CASE-AS T OPIUM GELLER FINED, Chin Loy, a Chinaman, was yer terday fined $10 and sentenced to 20 day# on the chain wang for selling oplum to a minor, Judge Gordon, who heard the case, ts co-operating with Chief Wappenstein fn his era wade against the ile 1 wale e drugs. TUG SINKS OM FRASER RIVER (8 Special Service.) VANCOUVER, B, C, Fel, 7.-—- The tua Stranger, towing pontoons and scows of the government dredge ing outfit, ray inte a huge plece of floating ice near the mouth of the Fraser river thie morning and sank tm leas than two minutes. The crow were Jubt in time to sayé their lives by jumping on the fee be fore the vessel sank, All were waved SEALED REPORT fo FILED Fire Chief Bringhyret hae filed a sealed report on the Pine at. engine house with the committee clerk of council) and this will be nd discussed at the next f the fire and water com There was to have been @ the city hall last night to consider the report, but it was called off during the afternoon account of no quorum. It te Known that in bis investiga tlona, Chief Bringhuret has given the comunitioe all the facta, making up the complete history of the mat- | ter from the authorimation of the buliding to the present time ‘NAME BALLINGER’S SUCCESSORS mittee meeting at on The resignation of Judge R. A Ballinger from the Chamber of ; Commerce to accept the position of }commissioner of the general lsod joffice at Washington, D. C, has | made the following changes tn the hamber: The position of chalr af Bab jman of the commitiee on city faire, formerly held by Mr linger, has been given to ©. E. Pow ler; Alfred Battle appointed to jthe committee on harbor and har | bor improvements, to rep! Mr Ballinger, Joseph Blethen succeeds } Mr. Fowler on the coranilttee on city affairs, and George C. Congdon jie also appointed @ member of committee on city affairs, ow! ina to jthe promotion of Mr. Blet! 1S SWEATED T0 DEATH Matt Olson, a fisherman, was found sick in his little home in| Elliott av. yesterday, and died as} from the am he was being f < Seattle Gneral how bulance at the pital Dr he f that when both hw to have To the A O. Loe declares * found ne bedding appes irenched with « the man and n physician's amazement he fouad the ondition of the bed clothing due to perspiration, Olson, who was suffering with an unusually acute jform of aleobolism, having Mterally | sweated to death | WOMAN BURNE i (Seripps Telegraph Bervice.) COLUMBUS, O., Feb, 7-<Pour ing coal ofl over her clothing and j be i, acd jching 4 match to them. | Biza Gayler, 66, a spinster living | alone northeast of the city lattes. sought death In a terri | There are no hope lery, her body aving cooked by the flames. | With the arrest of A. G. Krebs former bagasgeman for the tt Transfer company, and Fr Witkin, a train messenger of the same company, the police believe they have secured two of the mem pbers of a gang of baggage thieves who hare been commitiing many | | ' (Séripos Telegraph Servi MRS. WM. THAW. LO@ ANGELES, Cal, Feb. nitedon Balt Dake and Sante are @llod upon to an ber of charges preferred them by shippers The the Officials and former em ployes of (ese three rafiroads have commerce com Sotthern = Pacific, ‘ot panles a nun against government and by been subpgenaed that in éddition to the offictals bf the railroads, numerous, 4, employes, whose sired. ity teat in fodnd it convenient to be ou j of the ¢ fe oi An Investigation of the railroads wos started fn thin city this the interstate morning reported number of ELYN NESBIT THAW His Wife. THE SEATTLE STAR VOL. PAY ONLY ONE CENT DEMAND YOUR CHANGE NO, 298. a5 CENTS PER MONTH. HE JURORS SEE THEM COUNTESS OF YARMOUTH. His Sister. MRS. JACKSON HELD BY CORONER'S JURY “WIGHT sTiLe IN cueroev. W. HB, Wight, beld by the lice at the request of the San Fr authorities, for the murder of Young tm that city, t# st ty, Sergeant of Dete ant today wired the Bar - slice all the umata ase am he ” examination of Wight instructions have yet been r garding the intention of t In CHARGED WITH BAGGAGE THEFTS: resta, and hea found a nom pieces of stuff in the occupied". by the pri who apcuge each other of the it ia:thonght that the prose attorbey Will file et both men in the today, charging them bderion at Detective Brows the grand lafeeny WOULD LEGALIZE LIST OF SMITH’S DEPUTIES Uaion station made both informations superior with Although night befo: wterday a reba wan arrested last, and Wilkins ernoon, the know of the affair has been secret today, in order to locate the men wanted The tm use of the ar reat was furnished in ja letter from + Morrow, of Tallapoosa, baggage was Union station about Kreba av, and Wilkin hav. N The latter came Into the city yee terday on the North Coast Mmit-| ed. Many of the stolen articles are of great value, and the police say they not yet through with the linvestigation es of the Pacific pi pany, the and other comminsions authority tn are attle entirely the law by corporations timidating emplo: Knickerbocker's ation e company These without and are w spying on this morning ks Jeputios some legal aut arm them with the powe officer and 1 in eed one and noe T verdict Is Returned That John Jackson Was Stab- bed to Death and Widow Is Sent to County Jail Pending Charge of Murder. A co ‘s jory this morning {nied that she had told the landlady brought er t that Jo! ack-| that Jackson had taken poison. She bastigae + ‘ ay: bs “0% = 5 | Bald that the knife examined by son, found dead im the Nicholas|i Cots was not. Jackson's, apartments Jast Friday morstog.!put one thrown out of her cell by can jeath by a hemorrhage | 3 an who wanted to get even with her for some trifling misua- de She admitted that she the note given to Mra. ha beet 2 only pe m in the Were Happy Together. room at the of his death Jackson and 1 were happy and An informa arging Ruth | had no trouble,” she said. “I wrote Jackson with murder of her th er to him at Tacoma, when husband will filed by Deputy he was living with another wom- Prosecuting Attorney Miller this an, but we made up afterwards, afternoon, and the woman will be) aithough I didn't forgive him.” taken to the county jail In the letter she used the name Mrs. Jackson today gave Mr8.\of Ida Thienes. Mamie Corbett, a fellow prisoner Chemis Cornelius Osseward who was released from custody, a | stg hat a chemical analysts of note for pub iu which she the contents of Jackson's stomach says the knife in the ward. revealed po trace of poison, but she was ped, and said that the stain on the pocketknife e the weapon with which she was that of human blood stabbed Jackson, belonged to an in Dr. Neville, who was first called sane woman by the name of Sadie to attend Jackson, said Mre. Jack- Glimore. She deseribes the knife|son told him he had taken poison as follows because Mrs. M. A. Biliott, the land- Not the Knife. lady, offended him. There was no ete & teem ty knife, | mace of poison in the room and there were no blood stains on}, Dr. C. EB. Cummings, who _ per it The one that belonged to | formed the autopsy on Jackson, de- Jackson was a new one and bad Clared that death bad been caused a very small biad it was nev by the stab wound, on account of "possession I never had one ‘2 hemorrhage on the inner breastplate Admitted Stabbing Husband. to blame for his death | The police have no. record of a! The strange and startling state Sadie Gilmore at the city jail. Aj ment that Mrs. Jackson told Mra. Dora Belmont, who may have been Elliott that she had stabbed her the woman meant, was released yes: hushand was made by the landlady lay under bonds to keep the and Mrs. M. McLean, a roomer in peace. No knife was found the house. This was the first time Jackson's body by the undertakers. it w e, both women conceal- Mra. Jackson appeared cool dur-' | e fact from the police at the ing the inquest, but it was evident time of his death. she was holding herself in chec The general testimony given by Only when Jackson's blue all witnesses was the same, and was sed around to the bore out the fact that the woman with the knife hole in it di and her husband were intoxicated show noticeab xiet After the at the time of the latter's death, inquest she broke down complet Evidence showed the knife exactly naintaining that she was in-/ fitted the wound In Jackson's body and the slit in his shirt, and that n told that she could make | Mrs. Jackson had made conflicting RUTH BILL FOUGHT BY SENATOR COTTERILL {the oyster lands tn Thurston, Ma ad Pacific ec es. He ad ‘ 1 the senate 40 minutes, bowing up the true character of the measure and what state inte proposed to sac e. The bill was ated by a vote of 2 to 1 ‘STAMP SUPPLY |teday relative to the. shipment ot} t which ording to tele graphic advices, left Washington D.C, Jam. 27 The supply of tamps at the local postoffice ts getting very low GOES TO ASYLUM AT HIS OWN REQUEST | ] 1 a, & Black Diamond min ry 1 ik \te lock him: Postmaster ved no wo GETTING SHORT Colkett, dup until noon | =a TACOMA CARS IN COLLISION TACOMA, Feb. 7.—Six persons Ballard, Spanaway, back ine were injured, but not seriously, in| ju 4 collision on the Spanawily divi Motorman Marshall, of car 117, sion of the Tacoma Ratlway & Pow- | face cut er company, at Armour, late yester F. A. Soule, knee injured | day afternoon The cars were in fall view of The injured are each other at the scene of the F..J. Ward, 201% Pacific av., leg| wreck for a distance of two blocks, bruised Officiais are conducting an investh Peter Smith, Parkland, leg in-| gation | jured One of the was running slow- |” J. B. Rosenfeld, 1202 Pine st., Se but the other was traveling at ls arm bruise ‘s; high rate of speed | BROTHER SAYS CHESTER IS NOW INSANE ey Mackintosh t time Prose nec- was k ffort , y and ting Atte y r M