The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1907, Page 1

in Seattle That Dares to Print the News L SACRIFICED ew in the Terrible Defense Of - o Keep Constantine From Going to Prison : Branded as Moral Leper--Effort to Im- x Youth's Testimony This Morning Fails. te the trial of this morning »dot * * * * Wt) | lam Constantine, who will bare the feutire story tn order to save him- to disqualify | self fram prison, As Attorney Mor Remmony of Jerse [ris told the story of degradation ahiet wi i} the court room was crowded with - Dr & M Rin | hard, cold faces, staring at the girl Aeemd physician, | wife of Jesse Hall and daughter of defense Constantine, where she sat by ber SB thie morniox, but) mother's aide, veil thrown back} fy Judge Mor-jand handkerchief pressed to her eviience was in-|tearstained eyes. had to be ex Father Sacrifices Girl, r two or hPC@) 4 few faces softened as they a . thought of the sacrifice this gtrl aa yesterdiny (hat DF) iy making to save her father frou him of offefS! ine penitentiary. While her story to pay Hall contains no whit of odium for her Attor | tte muek Detng heaped on the bead he evi | of Jowse Hall, the gir’ still suffers be would Prove lrrom the laying & of her sad that the latier) sory, an does «fer who bas femme? tO HAL) coremitted He. soon aMlire, he was author | Hack im the court room Jease to offer DIM Hall, the victim of Constantine's Mate, seitio (he | bullets, Ustened to the tale as un to assist 18) folded by the lawyer, He had an tetpated it by telling from the wit none atand that he had been threat ened with such an attack if be to sisted on prosecuting Constantine Many think that, if such « tale as Myra told her father be true, Jesse Hall would never have returned from California to hear it told on the witmess stand Jesse tial) stands tn the position of Stanford | ma White, but unlike the New York architect, Hall is here the story to be told against him, and that he will do so, and Mercely, there can be no doubt Testimony Today. In support of the tneanity de fenss, attorney Vince H. PF ben, | who has seen Constantine every) day, according to bis evidence, for | sit years, and who ls not only 4 warm personal friend, but also hiv Hall, told tim of jantorney, swore that Constantine Sat the bends of) was not sane when he saw him « Bushaod. rushed to/ short time after his arrest for shoot tnd of last Oc-|ing Hall. Attorney Paben described Gown his son-in-law) the condition of the defendant at what be was dO} that time “His head waa very hot, the cords in his neck raised. the reine in his * ite wt POTTLT LITT TTT TCE TTT TTL tiffed to Preef. the offer of Because proper t had not deeanse the on @ Hall in regard to buy Dim off was case of Constantine aiterncen, Attor tte ts, in bis opening ad teid bare the if on which the The defense. Willtam Com temporsrily mad ich bis daughter, A CURTIS PICTURE OF MYRA CONSTANTINE HAL Mayor and Points Out Alleged tion May Result. Bared. the crust story | Seed swollen alnest to bursting,| State Land Commissioner Rost | will Become the actual owner of the her father will be | MS eves <a a and his| met tn conference today at the city | Shore fanda whole attit u ® man in ~ os 4c Under the bill, Mr. Ross arguet The girl-wite ot umes Wanae al dap eet be te Maer Be and. CHYT the owner of « tract of land 4 Engineer Thomson for the discus- ston of the Piper taw retating to the} Lake Washington shore ands which | the witness stand tic ~=thisery out- fd by Evelyn Thaw. tell be trae, Jeane young map, with in this city, proved | 40 low that this|tine’s appearance reserve to hirneelf # «mall of the water front wan certainly iat wane, | made no attempt to talk to him.” Jailer and Sheriff. Jailer Tom Smith and Sheriff 1. Smith testified that Constan at the county leged perk purposes, white Nadews, of! not by even a tar atretey exposl legisiature. Director General L the Alutka~Tokon- Pact tic A ago eloped with } jut on the day of the shooting ¥8* | tion, was present ‘The owner of ‘the upland, the oath bim as «| that of » man under a grest mental) The real objects of the conférence | commiasioner declared, would still | wold her father | strain that his head was 60 hotiwas to hear the protests by Mr. be able to use the water frontage mona! relation with | that they applied cold towels te It; | Rows on behalf of the state against | passing th and out over the city's drive any father| that his eyes were red and that he! the exercine of the right by Uke city | sauatic pt and , driven to desper | would not sleep and Would not eat.| iy donate shore lands to park ond Om the other hand. if not gtven to acts of vile It was announced this noon by At | aquatic purposes the «tty, some business interests Mito tive with btmjtorney Shipley that William Con Land Commissioner Rose wanted | would purchase the property, be ak her father’s ald|stantine will take the witnes#/ to know what the city contemplated | factories, ete. and the state would u an nh ot ‘imagination be taken sertously nly we SARA ARH R ALARA RRA EE EEE EEE ENED unt and dowd. to the city that part.of the shore innds ‘was paseed at the lost seeston of the | tying further inte deep water for al. could the wo {t ahs affitiated i Sabie 2! ondbiaaabalbmestpke nas Sakae Pe Sede A, TO SAVE FATHER sas: inom SESE EERE EEE EERE ERATE; ROSS FINDS A FLAW IN NEW PIPER LAND BILL State Land Commissioner Has Conference With|: Rptt eee eee eeeee Defects in the * Lake Shore Lands Measure--Corrective Legisla-|; “ but definite sot her free| stand in his own defense to tell | doing in the matter, as under such | be getting good returns for the pub ~~ tar worse |that he remembered gothing of the | transfers the state, be said, uid | te heritage . by slaves|shooting of Hall an hour after it| be. euchored aut of a good dea ‘The cduterencs tesultes © end sold oceurred. This will be part of the | valuable property general Interchange of vie defense of Wil-' temporary insanity plea Mr. Roms, however, will make nol it le expected that some * va protest to a transfer where the elty poliey Will come out of it ETO BE AVERTED county imsiets that the city 68 GIVE GOV. ft wae Later the strike board ratified a oath for the bridge i hens FO MEDIATE 'the leaders’ decision ; siume thet Gate AVOIDED. | Chairmas Martin A. Knapp, of Tho bridge must soon be placed. (Scripps Telegraph Service.) the interstate commerce commis probably with a steel structure, at} CHICA AR age: tevin es OM ston, and Charles P. Nelll, com the city’s expense. Aw the county | #rrest John Edwards, a « saat etiee | tmorrow from Washington. > the ity counct! feels that it should jergeet residence burglar SR I9.—"No strike | Conservative stand of the un {POLICE COURTESY SEIZED] wary without a number. It de-| pay the ratcbman — past year this elty Ewe give the £O%- ton leaders has reassured the pub: UPON BY AUTO COMPANIES) veloped that he had been given a onfession implizates: Gam Sliver- ity to medi- | lic AND PRIVATE OWNERS TO| temporary nomber by H. P. Grant, sad © of the wealthiest of pawn snd Mor| it is believed, if the radicals cnn} pODGE $2 TAX FOR LICENGE | Of the Beatle Automobile company, | on la tats | be reatrained until Monday, } wntt) such time as he procured a The e are arching § r atrike will be averted RENEWALS —ONE ARREST) Of nie own oo be eee cael Ten. pation ate eumehtne. Bitver. MADE TODAY. fegular number, and this morniag jewelry Edwardes is accused of CARDINAL MACH! DEAD. -_o the number was lost and Mitchell stealing from the hor of Robert Macufacturing licens numbers, | arrested uM nm and George Castle A (Serippe Telegraph Servic abusing courtesies extended by the In granting temporary numbers it carding to che pols } 8 sold M lis understood that the applicant liverman the loot for ROME, March 29.—Cardinal| police department and, in some tn-| shall lose no time Im obtaining per Machi, secretary of apostolic briets, | stances, operating without Heenses,| manent numbers. How this cour died here of apoplexy today. Helsre a Yow of the many dally, of-| tory ts treated is ehown by the|, Durham J. Hall, the #-year-old H SPITALS sas born in Brazil in 1832. i fenses of private auto owners and|fact that the Broadway Automobile | Poy who journeyed noroms the cor automobile concerns of the city company now hes 18 mporary| sent from Mancherter, N. H., to gato licensé, or @ renewal for old] some time, apparently no effors| A%t Might gent to his uncle, Robert . ° — cars, the police have granted tem-|having been made to sec are | Hall. 3 & sane s Whether the porary numbers. Many who re] licenses mother is in that city or not i« un ‘ nisi ey : coived this courtesy have Since March 12 the Northwest] eee heh agents be why tes: 4 hisk 41 n wot aera § : aaeer it to run autos in the etty unde Motor company has been granted|pe wet te nin * "| ments for hospital tents, under the numbers permanently without se-|three temporary numbers, whieh! is management of the Red Cross so yo ome yg are still in The Capitol Hilt ciety at the convention in July Presumably they don’t care to| Puget Sound and Eureka Attomo iv 'the plea $4 t have a. hospital pay the sam of $2 for « renewal,| bile companies are in the same po tent nied “haat ‘the " thinking themselves secure in an | «ition roe Rigg age gp i Ml nM effort to hoodwink the police Many private owners have at shane 62 1h Gy caahow toed This morning i. 9 Mitchell, of | tempted to use temporary numbers aid in gency canes, as the jit PARK CONCESSIONS labtic debate from the t j ted of Washington and Ida t _ Oregon + jefeating Washing the Park . Be ta at Pugene, Ore, and the other t t teip . Mf Web-foot debaters beating Idaho | w land park two yea t at Moscow lJ. P. Weilna, v holds th Washington suffered t forly $1 "| - - beth of F ® team | y . ° “ Midet tt nught appl t t I bet ur. | Dentin W at that state, | "7 16 lor - Grand | tate ' . me. he| amd tt 1 apt th | the tola at he thought ha | debate . ght «| ts ave vor} REVOLT SPREADING « i J « t ke the nes | at P that : * r " ripos Telegraph Service.) Miss 3 too crt, on weet TES CASE AGAINST) wrsntsiror beer RA QUEEN, WHO N NEW YORK v i than | ff had HSCHEFF, com LY 18 DANGEROUS. |" ' . bes Mars Exclus . YORK, Com‘ op » he Rave ras W serio) AUTO OWNERS WORK THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER FOREOAST—OCCAE! ONAL RAIN TONIGHT AND BATURDAY; SOUTHEAST WINDS. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON, FRIDAY, MARCH ag, 1907. WAY REJECTED Thee Piece co e mittee yesterday afternede, with but half th om bers voting, rejected John May, t 686 atest appointee for super ANOTHER BASEBALL PLAYER ON LAST BASE. ‘The Perro-Conerete Construction | company, of Cin atl, has taken | (Beri Telegraph Service.) contracts in this city for building) LOUIBVILL, Ky. March 29! matesial which will amount to $1,| “Coty” Donlan, « player of the Hom. | 126,000, or nearly 10 per cent of all| ton National league team, died be | th ornina of typhoid fever ARREST HOTEL PROPRIETOR the eanstruction done in Beattie lust yore, Tyler Field, president of the cuimpany, left for Cincinnati last aight COSTA RICA ACTION (Berippe Telegraph "‘Bervice,) MANAGUA, Hondures, Mareh Conte Rica organized the pr vistonal gov nt in Honduras which was ecatabliwhed here Feb W. J. Runsell, who says he wae ruary 3° and is beaded by Hoanles night a guest in the Ohio oquell and Ignace ing house, Washington and Oc tantro. ON DEMAND YOUR CHANGE VOL. 9. NO. 28. PAY ONLY E CENT 25 CENTS PER MONTH. [FOUR STREET RAILWAY ACCIDENTS IN ONE DAY Tapia Succession of hatlistiie on S. E. Co. Lines Culminates in Smash-u Four Victims at Hospit ur street car 1 persons, two perhaps fatal t, in the record of the Beatt! Electric company for the past 12 hours Between 9:30 last night and 8:40 thie morning two men w sent to hospitals with fractured skulls two others received serious wounds and two were taken to thetr hom badly brulved, cut and bleeding, as the result of mishaps on street cars The Inst and most serious acel dent occurred at 8:30 this morning| at Broadway and Pine sts, when! & crowded Broadway and Ptke st soendaterenceeetenane pr fai, reported to the police thin! morning that he had been robbed This mornin the Ohio house was raided and Lombard and his wife} beth arrested on a charge of setting quer without « Ileense, Two huge derijohne and two bottles of wine were taken as evidence. STATEMENT ear, bound for the city, missed it switch at that corner and crashed) } into an outbound car that was just turning the corner onto Broadway Motorman Hurt. Motorman J, EB. Medley, of the down-bound car, was thrown! through the glass windows of his| own and the other car, and struck his head severely. He wae cut and lacerated beyond recognition by broken glass His conductor, W. B. Drury, was Lombard and his wife were ar- wiiadidhy rested several months ago on the Vi Jacobs, of 622. Dexter av.,| mame charge and fined $76 each whe Was recently mentioned ae be ing Gmnected with Lieut. Martin Markineon in forming « Russian so clety, Penies that he ie in any way competed with such a society either as meniber or of- fleet, and de all knowledge of the @Bietence any euch soclety. “I Know that Lieut. Markinaon t# or ‘ wort came) works” said Mr the @reantaation with whieh he ts CONBRCIOS Ie not the one with which Only $14, a8 10 of the ¥. MC. A} building fund remains to be raised. | The business men turned in $13, 770 more this morning which brings thetr fund close to the §200,000 mark, The canvass ends at 9 o'clock Mondsy night and confi dence is expressed on both sides that their amounts will be raised I hardly know the man at all” = ARN Oe a by this time. The latest report is as follows Already reported $191,748.90 Business men Bentors ° . opr Students .......++. 17.00 | * panel nstt a $208,711.90 / BANK CLEARINGS. a Total amount being raleed| & | $220,000. }& March 26, 1907... 9118700076 @ , 106 1,946,984.25 @/ * i ee SEATTLE FIRMS REMEMBERED. CHIEF IGNANT: LIGE INDI (Btar Special Servive) OLIMPIA, March 29.-The tor- do Reattic firme “were eu cen. ful & "in contracts for muppites for: the state ton! tiene for the font oeks mouths, awarded by the Chief Wappenstein te very in- staterbaard of control, Schwabacher}aignant over the declaration of Bree. @6, Washington Broom and of argetown. Waebdemwars Co, Pacific Coasi| the effect that he must im the Syrup Co. Crescent Mfg. Co, W. J.| futtre keep his “bum out of Georgetown, which would be a clear ity but for the people coming from Rergard and the Natio cormgany, al Grocers ne Beattie” Georgetown han long > Mecca for gumbiers, loafers persons of a most undestrable type CINY 1S HEI | Btates thrown through a window by shock and badly cut. Both are at Providence hospital, A passenger on the car was seriously cut about the face. He went home without giving his name. The outbound car had only « few Passengers, and none were seated aceldents and six, the} p at Pine and Broadway als, on the side of the ear strock by | the wreeked car Failure of the switch on Broad- way to work properly was the ap | parent cause of the aecident, the car running down Broadway {n- stead onto Pine at At ening the first of the night's series of aceldents o¢ curred when an unknown man was struck by a car at Seeond and | Pike, He had become confused tn |the crowded traffic. He secured 4 carriage and went home, refusing he aid of an ambulance. At 11 o'clock ®. A. Owen, a real | estate dealer, living at 2002 K. John was thrown from a Madison st. at Third av, and fell on bis head some six feet to the regraded | level of the street at | car Condition Serious. He was taken to the Seattle Gen- eral hospital in an unconscious con- | dition but was much better today M. J. Cavanaugh was the third victim last night. He is an em- | ploye of the 8. BE. Co. and was work- jing at Second and Madison when a car struck him, bruised his hip jand shoulder. He was taken to Providence hospital but was din charged this morning, going to his home at South Park These accidents were followed with the wreck at Broadway and Pine this morning. ‘DAKOTA HEARING FINISHED The the wreck of the in progr yesterday before United Murine Inspectors Whitney n4 Turner, war finished for the present this morning after the state ¢ ¥ Assistant Engineer had been taken, Kragt's ten- or prated the statements investigation of ver ment arth Kraft imony made by other officers on the -wit- pens stand ye day afternoon. Kraft said he went on watch at and in the engine o'clock « Dakota, which was| | room when the boat struck the reef, He told in detail of the work of cloe- the doors of watertight kheada, No new features were brought to on the wreek by Kraft's state~ and the investiqation has smpleted until Capt. Francke, the bridge at the time, and the balance of the crew of the fil-fated steamer Dakota arrive | from the Orient, which will prob- jably be several weeks and possibly } months | bear | ment, been « who was 67 | FLORENCE ROBERTS A _ REAL LIFE HEROINE (Star Special Servies.) LOS ANGEL |, March 29.—" Strength of the Weak,” is the weaker sex, was never more dramatically iustrated than at the scene of the Southern Pacific rath road wreck yesterday when Flor »nee Roberts, who nightly portrays nder & mass of paint and powder nd behind the footlights, the suf. ferings of a wronged woman, played upon a stage set with the ruins of ® great railroad disaster, a pert stronger ar more dramatic thao ever given her by any playwright Execaping injury of any sort, she was among the first to recover from “The said the chief, “and Mueller's re marks are uncalled for, We do not allow these men in this city, but they are allowed in Georgetowr coming, of course, to this city ve easionaily. We pick th Noaters 1p whenever they come to the city Jand th are the called “Beat | The city has a white elephant on| tle bums, who are in reality noth fiw hands in the shape of the Du-j ing more or ir n orgetown Wwamish river draw bridge, between | eemblers driven back to their old South Park and Georgetown. haunts Seattle fell heir to the old bridge and the decayed approaches to It slang with: the annexation of Southeast Beattie last fail The BIG. ROBBERY DENTAL BOARD s: from Bcharent 1 eta * ANOTHER ROYCROFT CAN THIS BE TRUE Telegraoh Ser srrible confusion following the Everywhere she went ug the injured as they were re moved from the debris, ordering | cushifned seats placed beneath the heads of suffering men and women, binding with portions of her own garments and (he garments of other women injuries that required ur gent attention and qui¢ting through her superior strength the erying the te wreck if woman pone moaning of frightened women and children. Miss Roberts and her company were in one of the coaches derailed, Both ends of the car were crushed in the wreck and the occupants |thrown about. None was seriously | injured, however, and following the example set by Miss Roberts all of the men and women of the company were soon hard at work with the rescuers John Cort, manager of Miss Rob- erts, received @ telegram from the company manager last night stat- ing that ali of the members of the company had escaped injury but the entire production was lost. The company opens in “The | Strength of the Weak’ in San Fram cisco on Easter Sunday,” sald Mr. Cort to The Star this morning, “and wil] have to go on with such prop lerties as can be secured on short Pnotice. Our loss will amount to }about $10,000. The "Frisco engage ment is for | four weeks and will end {the season.” “THAW WILL EVIDENTLY BE ADJUDGED SANE (Scripps Telegraph Service.) The NEW YORK, 2 neel for H Thaw ar n < th . tion “lay Their « t passed through two and half hours of examination yes rday t he lunacy mm is sion and acquitted himself admir bers of the sa Thaw in raational Mt ynsed several lette ten to his neet 4 ng the § s of the trial k adjournment was the commission could than convinced « such that t be otherwise is onsentet 1 that Thaw answered + a rational manner every question put to him. | Jerome admits that there was }“much coherency” in Thaw’s con- | versation | Attorney Peabody this morntr niafter a visit to Thaw, announced | that prisoner was looking fine. The lawyer said | “t never saw him looking more Ite for any kind of an emergency.” ie intimated that if the case lis resumed the defense will rest in sb-rebuttal Immediately without Jan examination of more witnesses, In reaching this decision Thaw's at- rne¥s are guided by the beltet Jerome, if Thaw is pronounced 1 be handicapped in making eal for a first degree verdict, “THAW SENDS AD 10 FLOOD VicTIMS — h.u. lear m* Cythrie E> olomands oat ony § “een 46 / Ue, Bacntile | Aunfgrrind Un FACSIMILE OF LETTER WRI MAYOR OF PITTSBURG, INCLO HIGH WATER REFUGEES s Telegraph Se ° Aturc) yy rhe rilieh ov tha Um ‘hb PRL THAW TO RELIEF OF HARRY K FOR 4 BY SING CHECK