The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 25, 1907, Page 1

ENS. 1. and ex ery see and | exbibk ontioge 4 —The rill uit Tate |. 2 WEATHER FORECAST SEATTLE, WASH., WED HIND PLACE WHERE TRUNK WAS THROWN IN SOUND Covington and Burilson Took Trunk, With Murdered ‘°v'"#'0" snd Burilson to reach, The lack of a good picture is one drawback in securing aid from the Woman, to Parker's Private Wharf at Eagle Harbor) sw:i:0. belt Giitliguliblie ted —Was Thrown Into Water at That Point. tures of the two men will make their id ntuification, SDAY, sir, 25, 1007. ee 1S AFTER FISH (By United Pre CHICAGO, — Bept United | pace Attorney Healey be [gan the = Invent the eet me by President Hara mm of the Iilinols Central against | Stuyvesant Mish, former @ the road, with the rmining whether or ble under the president view of de not Fish Miinols laws for Misappropriation of the funds of the road while president The Sharce made by Harahan t# that ri loaned himself $1,500,000 of Minois Central funds on unmar jetable securities even wi it |} ure a comparatively Simple matter eee RRR EER Ee | lice expect be in ‘ i on'sy ® witl hor me ' copies o 4 At the request of Chief of Police Wappenstein, Prosecut. # nim a ve t | pie f this} ® ing Attorney Mackintosh will recommend that the governor * tine ection to aid in the capture ® offer a reward of $1,000 for the capture of the murderers of # Most of the preliminary skirmishes, which must | tt Mrs. Covington. * } j i * ‘The offer of the reward was desired by the chief to stimu # ys be a ed a murder mystery where & late the officers of other cities and towne in the search for # | the motive is lacking and the eps taken to accom # Covington and Burilson, suspected of having committed the # Heh the ex ne wits « bakin’ th a : _—— % murden, The Pequest was made this afternoon and Mr. Mack. « | P!!S! the ne . AV 1 Tinished up, | ; ) eee the be ay ot ne of « ract omplet bie Smith, who te supposed to te intesh agreed to make the recommendation, : * 1 i ‘ lly complete jtiave committed suleide yesterday * The county commissioners were aleo requested to offer a # ie : | *P¥ealed carbolic acid in the stom # reward and authorized an appropriation of $500 for that pur. « | Only Arrest Remains. i 4 } ’ ] Friends of the dead girl were io . * 4 ined to disbelieve the suicide the OT ee a a a believe ri case com i despite the fact that an empty ci sii A . hat ' pitie that had contained the pote re t re 1 « that a vi b wae found on a eb near the The trunk é; itained the i a iy é eidl: taal mek * by Deputy Coroner Arnold. Ages True McCombs Covington t] fession } but the discovery of the Parker’ h t : ” from ti steamer polson in the stomach is taken by Florence K. on ¢ er her Sept. 5 or Sept ‘ ‘ ‘ that she took her own life & This fact, wi was developed today by investi ; ’ n Re - “ , og always mor rl t unl gw * gations conducted at Ea another link} oe ace ee NeeD ted BANK CLEARINGS * to the chain of eviden police Ma ineundkk: ahaehae | aE NSS ER . 4 i mo . the tl m ate ape ' : ® Cleara £9.53 * tracing op : r the plice in the act g of ted in disposing |# Bais 70.47 mission of the murder fot R é . ‘ me * - * ‘ : . . ‘ el t tthe Tacoma * iemed the officers that he re bers the tr ® Balances * i n a on : u er the uit } ; Orone which exactly tallies with the picked up 7 Portiand * at South Alki P. . ‘ . Hot On the Trail ig Clearings today 1,190,661 # Sou AUK ome mt rom « ' Ralances m ‘ 9 “e ' hot on ¢ t f Frank Coving steame! in the he d n re I . ’ . ving: '® * ® carly in nm rik es , Steere SR ciact tx ich tir puta tare ec s coote vag,(WILL HAVE VOLUNTEER i : ' Nf ec of detectives left tl city early this Covington and Burilson went to Eagle Harbor F Completing the chain of idence of the actior ‘ " ‘ ‘ whereal 1 t mer othe two men before finally throwing the trunk int : “ » 9 ‘ ; 1) Chief H. W. Bringhurst, of the the sound is the statement of Parker that the next he f e are known to have received informa Reattie Fire department, and Cou 4 ‘ : = Maine a sen tenent of a pair y answer the #liman Hines, of the Twelfth ward morning he saw the tra fa trunk floating near the | *' r Aitended a meeting of the South t descripti ( ingt nd h yal Park Improvement club last night dock. The tray had « ly been taken out to make | @eSe™pt f S pal it where the first * for a volun : \ oO lesti ti ‘ 1e ¢ cers a the st © ¢ ‘or that pa foom for the rocks which the men expected would ms Z ” ss oy bl eee : - gh ig antago ae an Mo cause the trunk to sink posed locat ! tugitives Chiet of e Wap night the organtfation will be a dinbintes: iit Sill w snvthing Perfected by the election of offi At Private Wharf. : ; . were Parker’s W! ' 1 e are rel itisfied with the progre Of || Bringhurst proposes that the yor arker s tart 1 iT nd ts wsec Uhteer firemen shall be paid fo ; t he state nnd believe we will have | aetna! k at fires, as is done in enerally for shipping gravel el ‘ Big: | Columbia City dom that trunks are left there that Mr ‘ i eters ; } tive about the facts he narrate In Seattle Last Week ‘BARBER co. GETS The man who operates the expre wagon at I ty up to within the past week. It is known that Ce oe VN Harbor js positive that he did t handle it. He i gton w n Se I id Pike st. on the The Bart t compar the more emphatic in this statement be 1 he ob t n ep contract f “ y © Janu i } th t | re w rking | at ! Bott b are fi “ fains $0 very little business fron r { that The rmation on e are working [O07 ana t hago Meta Br he insists he cannot be n ke ece lat an t 1 i her # aspha Two young a ly with the de-1 uest but have ‘a Sfiption of » Bvitams led in at} men located i l McDonald I le Har r the me ¢ a," ci and purchaved a Hk o! BOVINGTON'S MOVEMENTS ARE pak away 2 cach in the direction of TRACED IN SEATTLE | 3arbee at Eagle Harbor Det i bor tgating the P information | | f bartender + ¢ 1 1 the me i Who are belic } he f ‘ Obtained ' the belies ; in: ae ; ner ale t it from ¢ : bh " . F out ‘ i ; ington ‘ ‘ ‘ in thi 1 that Covis tehed ns Petts ton at t! 1 face and nn ( came t , ’ ive ' , no exp - A cottage 1 A« ent to ev ad tx | bar gar Mc { LATE GOVERNOR By United Press nm who ha to the wit star a the nor and f ci T. M t F K te agal nat he r Sten * s onl la wud t , M of th hroug 1 Ask For Commission B re r BB fc Y tert GOES TO WEST SEATTLE 1 He 1 Nght . THE SEATTLE STAR - SMOWERS TONIGHT ANG THURBDAY; LIGHT BOUTHEAST WINDS. ~ VOL. 9. NO. 83 PER MONTH. MYOIERY WHISKY! PRICE 25 THATS ALL! It Robbed Young Covington of His Manhood, Made Him a Murderer, Nerved His Hands as He Choked Qut the Life of His Wife and Kept Up His False Courage Davng the 0 Orded of Secreting the Body. | BY FRANCI® R. SINGLETON. montha before the tra Driven | was between de and fe in the Whisky was undoubtedly the | out of one place ft | Tends a ae Gir Cavan GH druhkon quarrels, they went to the| That the unfortunate woman did cause ¢ Covington e Keswick apartments where the t appea her relatives for pro- Throughout the entire story of closing scenes of the tragedy took| tection is explained by the. fact the troubles of the young couple, | place. P 1 cut her off and never ending in the murder of the wife At the time of moving to the Kes-| took th e to hunt her up and wick in June, Covington was far| find out how she was faring. She and the figtt of Rep hustand 204 / 5156 in degredation. He sent his|had no one to appeal to, nowhere his friend, Burilson, rune the fwd | wite to rent the apartments and led|to go. One ht she did try to trail of the debasing intoxicant, [har to t he landlady the stor ef her Hfe at the Keswiok Without whisky the ¢ sation that Burflson, his friend the | She ra the street, but was ; ‘aiq|unele of the w motive | followed by Coving who in Whim led to the tengs would | of this was ¢ Nay | duced her to come back after she have been imposait Without | the susp © of the , had gone a few blocks whisky the tragedy itself would not| house for what Covington d T shunned the other have been committed. Whisky ut ned to follow > iilding. Evidently fermined manhood of the man Was in Hard Line a te Whisky drugged the mind and| Evidently Coving n ha here ti sereains of the woman. Whisky in | agg Re .be e charged a t ti ked 4 the passions and nerved the} i) ao such sat artme aid f the man who finally str ness was a total loss to the . ke he life from the slight He “o s ens woman and k ap h = wite ; k courage during the ordeal of ewe . a ting the body and t re ' bo - where it was thrown « sag inkenness a hae eans of livelihood ® Different When Sober Fitees Wile wate: evechiane These facts are testified to by | during their quarrels indica | everyone who has been inst Burilson wa er « ne al in supplying @ link tr rding to neigh-|the gt . of degredation and indicated that Whose life was evidently so hard who knew Covington ing to foree wes of the pitt he ts not hing that t to the would eve women is but they hesi wife © hea hei to attempt to most gentlemanly and entertaining, | screaming through which barred considerate of everyone @p-| ually the quarrel wo from publie arently attached to his wife, but/sounds of scuffling and choking | 682 body was thrown je adds that whisky was re/cries from Mrs. Covington. y the tide. @ for the troubles of the On one occasion, when the qu trunk containing the ol was at its height, Mrs. ( a clue to the cause of the me to Seat-|ton was heard to crs he ¢ of the whisky eare ago, he wa I won't, | won't, I Will } you|h which Covington repre according to! both before 1 do 1 < ee “4 Ry Scuffie is Heard. | Returned for Whisky. for a liquor house.|, The next moment there were! Covington’s love of the whisky notties of whisky he| heard the sounds of @ scuffle and Which was his downfall was strik aarieh Sete as uanadt Sanne eams from Mrs, Covingtor wn in his return to the ation and hie busiesds caning Mi, | Which died down ia s gurgi k apartments after the mur into the haunts of other and worse |C&me the voice of Coving Ha the hasty Sight, twa, Bete sky had been left behind was necessary to keep him drunk whisky on the boat when he accom: expressman who car k containing the body teadied his nerves with sat on the trunk nee K. on the al in drink tles of wh Will you do what I tell you to,| Whisk now?" it wnid. ip. He had from | Way to the vices. A few months of this found him as the accepted lover of a woman of the Tenderloin Some seven months ago, Covington married the murd woman reputation was gone that his wife's rela d the marriage very sma was no more notse that night and the ¥ oppe irl was t short dresses, She was , 8 drinking, t ried him and was cut off f weer was tles the of t the #. Covington to get her to leave teal He When M GALLAGHER GIVEN: =.°* BAD QUIZZING uae (By United Press. Abe R ‘ eh ire FRANCISCO, Sept fect tha ; a Beda ‘ he al of T L. I . « ed I erhea A I INTRACT AWARDED. \ ‘ " An ¢ 1 w that |t $7,284. he i 1 - between nted Detwiler Case Continued. YORK, Sept As the ) i ssh isp iia