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LAST EDITIO vol i NO, ¢ SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, MAY 12, 1908 THE SEATTLE STAR WEATHER ONE Boats o ENT Conte ODY AND @DS d Tre TONIGH C HOW IAND RIFLE MAIL SACKS BANDITS WORK AS TRAIN LEAVES DEPOT | |) TBSTINONY SUGGESTS INSPECTOR HAYWOODGREAT NORTHERN TRAIN | FAVORS GENERAL HOLDS UP ISNOT IN | STATE = PROBE WORK | Sratton's Companion Says Mayor Miller Favors In- Construction on Skyscraper Will Not Be Candidate for (ar Was Exceeding —__vestigation of Entire Tax Stopped by City President on Socialists’ | Legal Speed. Matter. Official Ticket. | A, Pe AR at That the two men who held up Great Northern Seattie Van Taker of Girl Tells His City, County, State and Old Permit Apparently Not Issues Formal Statement 30 37.0.0 Soe School Expenses Should Recognized by the Declining and Thanking (Sct wie mening ene we Sriert saw two men crop a grip at the feet of the stairway leading ‘from the railroad tracks to the top of Queen Anne bill, near Kinnear Version of the Accident. Be Scanned. New Man. Friends, ‘ park k 5 reer “ hat By United Press) oe Stratton deine The ion of & representative On the grounds that applic (By si AW. Pre body of taxpaye to investigate had pot been made for a permit,| CHICAGO, May 12.—Wiliiem pn! The men then mounted the stair 4 ™ t p reeutr 4 Haywood will not be the socialists’ | SY 8nd climbed to the top. Smart Hl ‘Pree coert om 8 charue fouy wancher of expense as required the new build on - trator am a Maar, Was driving bis city, county, state and sehooh—vw age requt which recently | e@ndidate for » nt of the Unit flowed and ple up the grip ‘We hom 15 to 26 miler the suxgestion offered by Mayor Went into effect, Building Inspec: ed Sta He declined the hanor 2M@ 9 It found $200 worth of " sane , K mptorily stop 1 ® #tatement which he tenaed to nickel Smart had no idea that vlad head) 1 her poe, Seeneps Frye hotet the delegates atiending the party's @ erime had been committed, but Minis Margaret Johaso Herman Cha . shweat national convention in this city tO: nevertheless notified police head ‘Tile was the testi ttt local property heide the way day : ree, vee presi: b ti t Haywood been advised pot! Marters of his find. A short time 8 4 a ; : ctor were (© inake a bid for the nomination | aMterwarde, about 9:30 o'clock, the Mii Ce. today, who is considered ¢ oses. . by former Gove David C©.| getice department was notified of ne for the state i Chapin, who t* a me _ Coates of Calarate, iw wald CD8L fieially by the Great Northern of Was with Bere t a the f his name did ge fore the con: ' ia figiale, thse of the whieh ‘Chamber of Cow ew ion & sh would be started tadved : ge ; I py : be be by the Debs’ forces, resulting in} Word was sent out to all patrol i petted in the deat ° © | the aame : eo on ¥ - ro dissention among the delegates. men and every available plain % Who Wis returning b from | " and * ides as aywood's statemer to! i a ae ne he matter could be best under a ae at eae ' print 1 cinthes man was at once put to om the o n cause ends felt ald : hs r ims A Had Proper Permit permit m © to go before the: Were A cop, worn by one of the amet ‘ Mayor Miller's Pian - : : wocialiats vention for endorse. febbers, and later found to have Pd . iragl asked me out 18) weyor Miller's reply in « I a hee cee ge ag nt for presidential candidate, f teen stolen from the Union depot, Saute 8e Claimed was BOt stance was that the investigation | 20) permit t is best to make & statement) ang the grip in which the nickels fteeuing very well caid He | should he undertaken by a body of Delidian > a to right my comrades in the United that 1s dies taktey senate Misied me to help him ¢ find men who represented the rario so States. 1 feel that at the present | ere found, were the only tang! Whal was che je with it business and commercial interests hich bod notation 4 ; time I can best serve my cowork | clues. The grip, it wee discovered, Was Speeding Machine of the cit at the city 4 myself and abov all, our “We Goming dow ade at) mould “ divided into fea Mr. Place also appeared the raz For what my comrades ree Mies an hour when | told ranches, in my extimation.” ex. the board and sald that have done for me | am naturally aeeee down, and he did. 1, 4 the city’s chief executive. er permit bad beea pre grateful. | ask my friends to cease | of Ite contents and had used it to thongh we wer mg too ta ; mt ee Sted, but as the board felt that the th f " MUMENEEE io slow down some) O™* anch he cor 7 0S | Coasiian tine Gin te bettie ance fe © * to force my momw-| carry away their booty “Benme, and be did chould tans ae ee GMy sively with the building depart. | Wallon. | Incidentally, I never wat! Aan efter to secure blood hounds 1 ‘ nd Pangani = pr at of the coum | nent, they referred any action to|* “8% nt ‘streer, hird e the slate . = — & i im the hope that the scent mig’ « and the fourth might| Mayor Miller's newly appointed wise Wing In Conversion ‘be picked up from the cap or the "i ra » acho! | Buliding Inspector The credentials committer recom. , ne: See bs, . sot At @ late howe today work had mended that the Titus delegates | OfP preved fruitiess. There is lit ee been resumed on the building and m Washington be seated, refus (tle hepe, however, that even if King Pays One-Fourth the only statement that Mr ant ing to recognise oe faction. Keunds could be secured they would King county pays approximate | would make was that the matter/{t also recommended that the na! nefourth of the taxes of the in process of settlement with| tional executive commitice decide | Wee! t© ost from the cap or grip st atate, and « of in his office on the questions of divpute in| the scent of the robbe 1 of I mene The Frye building is one of the! Washingte Titos declared that! . The money carried away by the > De s of this ett w skyscraper type, of wteel and| much @ move would disrapt thé] popbers amounts té $5,800, and le ived division sug- conerete construction, and th n-\party in the northwest. George} i, currency. The nickels were hour 4 that tn ough (tractors insiet that they have fully Goebel, national organizer from) 4 ¢ tehed in and ' nt of financial mplied with the law. They ex. New Jersey, termed the Titus fol:|“@iehed” because of their weight. | en broken |conditions of the civic departments plain the difference the per lowing as “irrationalists” and de Sergeant of Detectives Tennant im this and ecomn mit to a perhaps unm searily manded - ir « ren ; Other | Believes that the robbers, after fied to tions made as @ resalt would be | vere interpretation of the recently speakers denounced beth factions nh on dines tires A Yo sed upon a view of the condi-| promulgated building laws by the and demanded that the national wage weer : riya = from ne made from every possible di w man in charge of that depart-|executive committee investigate | pom the Kinnear Park car into the . reetion ment them Gity, and are now in hiding here. PANORAMIC PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GUNNESS “MURDER FARM” AT THE Lert anc AT THE RIGAT, SURROUNDED BY SROWD OF PEOPie, THE CHARRED RUINS OF THE MOUSE IN WHICH THE VICTIMS WERE DONE TO DEATH THE j 1S THE “PRIVATE GRAVEYARD” OF MRS. GUNNESS, WHERE BODY AFTER BODY HA® BEEN DUG uP. a The di meager and because of this the po Nice are greatly handicapped in their eription of the men is very work Street Car Conductor Swinn, em ployed this morning on Kinnear Park car No. 291, reported to the police thie afternoon that at 8:30 this morning two men boarded his ar at the end of the Kinnear Park line. One, tall had a package under his arm wrapped in peper. The second also carried a Package wrapped in leather. When the car reached First and Pine st and tim, the tall man, whe ecoupied a seat behind the shorter man, left the car without the knowledge of the sho As the car neared Union st tall men for the first time noticed the absence of the other man and inquired anxiously of the conductor where he had got off. The conduc told him he had left the car at Pine st. Thereupon, the man jumped from the car and was last seen by the conductor running in the direction of Pine st The police believe there is no doubt that the two men whe came into town on the Kinnear park oar or man the tor are the men wanted for the rob bery. Planned to perfection and exe cuted with a daring which stamps them as trained criminals, two train robbers ente the ex a8 ear of Great Northern train No. known as the Vancouver Local, just out of the union depot at 8:10 o'clock this morning, clubbed Ex press Messenger Joseph KE. Perrine into insensibility, and looted the strong box of between $6,000 and $6,000. The robbers made escape and Great Northern special agents who were upon the case within an hour after the commission of the crime, have such meager deserip tions of the bandits that their ulti escape Bound and Gagged. is probable Perrine, bound and gag and bleeding from two savage welts above the right ¢ ion the back of his head, was found unconsciow in his car half a mile beyond Ba lard, Conductor B ck onde the train backed int Hallard sta tion, from which point news of the robbery was quickly sent to Great Northern officials and he Seat tle poli ‘evi 1 and.a ong! a fractured skull p out his side of shortly before § o'¢ is morn ing to sort hie va able y for the run to Vancou B. ¢ Commands Hande Up. As the express me er was working ¥ ut 1 ente he car. F ‘ Perrine laughed at the robber. The tall man approached and Perrine grabbed him by the vest. Just at that moment the train gave a larch t started for the south end of tunne! about 75 yards away Perrine Stars to Fight. Realizing that the tall mah meant business, Perrine staried to fight, but before he could strike a blow he was struck with stun ning force from bebind. Until he was discovered by fellow trainmen half a mile beyond Ballard, Per rine remembers nothing more of the effair After they had knocked their vietim {nto unconsciousness, the box while ing through the left th ex robbers looted the s the train was rene tunnel, and probabi the tunnel as all the © car pear north end of trains slow Jown ¢ when from That nsiderably emerging the hole. the robbers are in Seattle is the opinion of those who have investigated the crime. Freight Agent Thomas B, Deg nan, of the Great Northern, stated this morning that it is his opinior that the robbers were well inform: ed as to train movemen Agent Degnan says it is a rale of the that all locked from at Northern express the enter cars shall remain time messengers express hem. This rule is sometimes over looked in order that trainmen may have access to all parts of trains. Door Probably Uniocked. said Although Perrine has not ©, it is probable, accorditig to Agent Degnan, tha he express messenger left his door unlocked. That the robb must have known his habifof Perrine’s is very prob ble The whole affair was plan ned so accurately and the robbers exec 4 their designs with h | boldness that it is probable that Perrine never dreamed of a hold lup while his car was still within the shadow of the on depot it was this ssurance, it is believed upon which the robbers depended so much. Is Trusted Employe Perrine 1s one of the trusted em cording to Agent Degnan, and b seen more th 5 years’ serv railroading. F he pa ar yea Perrine ha kit 1 messenger out of Sea For many years he with We Fargo & ( ! ‘ Perrine's Statement 1 do not believe that the t had entered the tunnel two men walked into the of them wore brakemen's u | 1 paid tittle attention to them u IS SCENE OF HOLD-UP Messenger Elmer Perrine Attacked by Robbers, Who Enter Express Car, Just as Train Gets Under Way---Messenger Is Stunned by Blows and Robbers Go Through Mail Sacks and Express Packages---Then Leave Train on Waterfront at Northern End of Tunnel. one of them told me to throw up my hands, | laughed at him at first, but soon realized that they mean business, The tel! man and { had @ short struggle, and the next ‘thing | knew my gun wae jerked |from my pocket and | wes being clubbed over the hee “One of the robbers stood in front of me with a revolver pointed at my head. The second rebber had hit me once before. This time he struck me three more blows, com pletely stunning me. | have four pretty bad scalp wounds, but | will pull out ail right. | “It Is quite likely that the rom bers boarded the train just as it was puiling out, although | am net sure about it. | did not see them until they entered the ca | dent know how much money they se cured. | didn't know how much coin there was in the box, and if 1 did 1 could not tell you. “This is my 25th year at this bus iness, and It is my first hold-up. For a long time | was with Welle Fargo, and never had any trouble of this sort.” Badiy Beaten. When the train backed | lard station with the biee rine, Dr. C. S. Emery to Bal. ng Per. of Ballard, was called A hasty examination showed that the express messenger was badly beaten, His wounds were hastily dressed and he was taken to Providence hospital in Dr. mery’s given automobile and every attention. Great Northern Special Agents J 8. Delaney and Ed. Walsh detailed upon the case by road of- ficials and called the wounded messenger in an effort to secure were they upon descriptions of the robbers Beyond that the bandits were dress. 4d as brakemen, Per details, ine failed to give many One of a Series of Many. This morning's daring robbery within pistol shot of police head- quarters and a stone's throw of is one of a series s, it is belleved, which angerous criminals have been committing over the country Special Agent this Delaney stated morning that only a few weeks ¢ & train pulled into Denver, Colo with two dead express messengers The circumstances surrounding that im are identical with the rob Within the pa ac SE) |