The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 3, 1908, Page 1

XTR VoL. Kiteap county Jail at Port Mire. Baware King ts © g cell, waiting fo with the be form murder Sahesket io the custody of the vt ot Kitsap aty are of charred bones, all that ef the bod) dead story of the death and die the body of King ta sim te ber guilt . Bhe Found Him Dead. ted her husband dead in gays, and being angered of his conduct to- er, she dragsed the body ead there with an ax ‘Mt tmto smal! pleces and Wd of a fivegailon can spent a wight aod a day K, until al that re &@ basket of charred ot lived for eight years in Kitsap county, at Seattle and Te P@ight years prior there- ved ui West Seattle, where -. keown and where davgh Mre A. M Ow resides, at 1654 ¢4th From Home. May 24, King disap m bis home. On the night iy and on the following bors noticed. that a buraing in the yard ty of the home. As the ‘eccentric people, how- was thought of the @ neighbor came to to borrow a plow to meet the man phis miseton. He asked mand it was givén to as not permitted to the house than was 9 secure the desired im- le the netghber left he Mra. King returned to that she was attending ey told of the crimes | from the house. 1 took hin body | EGa Forte, Ind, murderess, OUt into the yard and chopped it} I up with an ax and burned it up| Ghat she destroyed the | 4nd threw the domes away and gp mest Dorrible manner, bu | the wife and alleged? Then the woman, who has for! that she killed '¥o years past been slightly affect. | although everything ¢¢ mentally as the result of a stroke At 10 NO. 86 disposed of the body band Woman Confesses. Appeared greatly edd, | and shartly alter (he dis covery of the » De. Pry ment and then ex i trou however boner She walked over hesitated a mo med Doctor burned the old man and found him | | dead ta his chair 1 was mad be of the he had t pated | He had beat me and drove me up. I came home cause way me of paralysis, broke down, and noth ing further could be seoured from ber. Placed Under Arrest. | Men wore left to guard her dur ing the sight, and others went to Port Orehard to notify the officials of Kitsap county. On Sunday morn ing Sheriff H. PF. McKay and Prose | cutting Attorney ©. D. Sutton went (Sy Untee Prem) |to the King ranch and placed the} PORTLAND, Ore, June 3— | Woman under arrest, taking her to | PM™Hed Into bis seat by the steer | Port Orchard, where she is nox con-| 8 Wheel, Wm. Folberth, prof fined in the county jail | atonal automobile racer of Beattie, After ber arrtval at Port Orchard, | "** Mtally Injured when his car Mrs. King told Sheriff Mckay thar] TU@d completely over three thmes Hit he Would go back and séarch-in last wight. He t# not expected to jthe orchard near the house he! "ve through today pwould find some more of the bones Pg won "anedite | This was done, and the gruesome | is expected to live. | Temains of the husband already in| Folberth and McCartney were hands jrunping over the course of the je Of the aharift wore added Oremon road races which are to be held tomorrow, when the accident Believe Man Murdered. occurred. Folberth had driven over the | The officials do not heltete that! course three times and was run | King died « natural death. Cireum- | ning at @ 66mile clip when he at |wtantial evidence of murder was| tempted to make & turn onto the | given them by a neighbor of the |S to the i2unile roadhouse. | Kings, one J. T. Stevens. On the | | Friday preceding the disappearance | ‘of King, Mrs. K had visited the! | Stevens home ind wat Stevens she j Canted some poison. She axkrd | where she could get it, and what [ne ees Oe a eee Seattic for it. Stevens told her she would } require 4@ prescription from a physt- | ofan. | Later on Friday or Saturday Mra | King purchased a gallon of whisky | King an excessive drinker, and | it ts thought that he was induced | |to drink himaelf into stapor by | | his wifé, and then killed. The jug Non-Stop Run in Seattle, another sate injured, but of Money and Other WIFE KILLS HUSBAND AND BURNS HIS BODY Fdward King, of Olalla, Accused of Terrible Crime—Denies the Charge of Murder But Admits Having Chopped Husband’s Body Into Pieces, Afterward Burning It Until Nothing Is Left But Charred Bones—Couple for Eight Years Lived at West. Seattle—Woman Now in Jail at Port Orchard. | William Folberth, Who Was Fatally injured in Portland Yesterday, Ie Shown at the Wheel in the Above Picture. The Four Men Are | hori and barely escaped death yew | * Seated in the Oldsmobile Car That Recently Made a 1,000Mile VICTIMS OF MURDER IS ROBBERS | ATTEMPTED ‘Several Complain of Less Boy Tries to Kill Council: THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1908, PRESIDENT CLOSE T0 DEATH His Horse Falls and He Escapes Only by a Miracle. In Two Bad Accidents in the Same Day ee | | “~~ RACERS CRUSHED UNDER AN AUTO (@y United Press.) WASHINGTON, eo ott bee Just become known that President Roosevelt was thrown from « wild ferday afternoon tn Ke.k Oreck) path, where he wae trying the Worbmen bad been putting thip| Mited auienal in leaping over 8) course into shape and had plowed] TP burdie. The president wy ap the ground, Intending to roll it}¢@ Ble tte by turning quickly to} into shape and reduce the danger/GR# side as the horse fell. Mr.| of the sharp curves. Hownevelt sustained severe brulses | ‘The Seattic driver knew noth: /amdt war badly crushed. The presi ing of the newly ploughed ground ect biniseclf said today: “It really and dashed into it a mile p minute, did not amount to much and |x The wheels on one aide of bis hardiy worth printing, | am not chine sank into the soft earth and) serigusty Injured.” the big Oldsmobile turned over! horse became frightened as three times Folberth was crashed | !t woached the jump at top under the heavy car each time it spend i staggered and fell) rolled. Me@ariney was crushed ly Mr. Roosevelt tekly once Pasiized the situation and ~ bis) Three of Folberth’s” ribs are/ experience ae @ bronco: | broken and he Is fatally tojured on the great plat come, internally inte play. He turned instantly in McCartney's arm and collar bone | the saddle and plunged head are broken, lone into the water This course is even more dan | Horse Dashes Away. gerous than rier CM, and tt te it feared many accidents will mar the | Fd 4 Lge eo ge ? fg cece race tomorrow, |neck speed, but Sergeant MeDer- | mott, the orderly for whom the | prewident was dreaking the antmai, suceeeded in capturing It and re- thraing it to the scene of the pres dent's tall. The president mounted the ani-| mal again, declaring bis Injuries were of no consequence. He rode) the animal half an hour afterward | and Went through another experi. man of Salem Over Love Affair. df belly felt the cold stream, ahied and gave & sudden Sump. Roosevelt Carried Down. ‘made an important capture and tn- PRICE ONE CENT (By United Press) built at the Bremerton navy yard, ? chief of the navy yards bureau. completed 18 months from July expected to be started. June 18. with dispatch, and it is thought t be permitted. . young horse thief escaped by sprinting wp the alley HORSETHIEF CAUGHT Team. Sager also admitted to Captain Tennant that he stole thre Watches from the vests ef work city in men in different parts of the The prisoner was arrested April, 1906, by City Deter Charles Phillips on a char | larceny and was fined $60 and He served bis time in the aunty jail. A month later be was ed for stealing a wateh Sager told Captain Tennant this morning that he stole a horse in the Hood Canal country about 4 month ago and sold it w @ party COLLECT ALL THE Appropriation Makes It Possible to Keep City Clean. With tne arrest of Thomas Sager, alias Antone Sacker, who says he this morning shortly after 9 o'clock, the officers cidentally cleared up several mye robberies which have puz- paltce department of late. Sager now cecuples a cell at the city jail and will froe a charge of Garbage Will Be Collected in Districts Not LARGEST DRYDOCK IN WORLD AT BREMERTON WASHENGTON, June 3.---R tions for the largest naval dock in the world, to be were completed today by Rear Admiral Holliday, It -is expected that the monster dock will be Bids for the construction of the dock have been asked, and it is announced that they will be opened The preparations are being carried on The need of the big naval doc has been made clear by the visit of the Atlantic fleet. SOOCOSOOOEESOSSOOOOOEEEE SEES SOTSO OSE E HS OOESEESOSOSEOETOOUOD® THE WEATHER TONIGHT AND THURSDAY CLOUDY, POS. SIBLY WI TH SHOWERS; WEST WINDS. evised specifica- on: Puget sound, 1, when work is hat no delay will k on the Pacifie i iii iti ty i ! Great Opposition to His roused. Other Candidates Getting Busy on His Utterances. of Grant. (By United Press.) CHICAGO, Jone 3.--Sudden Ife has been injeeted inte the presk dential beoms of all the favorite sons by the belfef that Secretary Taft can be beaten on the issue of |his Memosial Day address at | Grant's tomb, in which he referred (to General Grant's drunkenness. The fight is on today in « dozen different quarters, and plans are being laid to win the nomination Valuables. Arrives. in which the whisky had been se noticed King’s | Cured Was found by the officials to | be empty. was thought of ie} " a } . Had Much Walter Willarton, a young man wee the foughter, Much Freutie. who is stopping at thé First Avenue | Roosevelt leaned forward until) horse stealing preferred by C. M his head wan beside that of the! Jensen, of 1137 18th ay. south, from howe. The animal staggered in witom Sager admits he stole two See Swe & es oe on 3.—Ben | hen full length In the water, away from the secretary of war, | whe last week was looked upon as being almost certain of success. News comes from Indianapolis this morning that an effort is be- Visited Before. (By United Preas.) SALEM, Ore, June M. L. Pletcher, arrived from West Se her parent« for the fnquired for her father, by her mother that wed on the previ- SY and had not returned. inwisted that the he? father be reported, of Thursday the daughter visited Otalla t Gisappearance On peveral resttents of A search for the miss L Among the searchers Hf Bwanson, br. Pry and « of ~ a ‘Phrough Woods. in the vicinity of the thoroughly seasched all but ne trace of King On Saturday morning ‘Spent his time about the He was followed al by Mra. King PAld particular attention @ug up and where were remains of the fire kept BE by Mrs. Swanson on the fms Sunday night and Monday BO use looking around Mite. King is reported to have Bvanson, “that's just where amG Up some of the old man's Human Bones Suspicions b * and he t 4 over Me earth with hia heel. A protruded through the this time ally by Mrs. DE Pry was calied and he " the bone as that + being March revealed other Pitied but a fow inches be oe S0fface, Mrs. King pro Wie ef tbe orixin of rd whe not ae ¥ with having During the eight years the Kings | hotel, 905 First av. told the police Where the carth seemed | 8nd he picked it up all} Ce a have lived near Olalla they are known to have had considerable trouble, King was of the azar chistic type, and was not well | thought of by his neighbors. Prior | to her attack of paralysis Mra. King, | however, was respected in the com. | munity! Her fitness left ber in an unbalanced state mentally, and lit- Ue attention was afterwards paid to her by her neighbors. | Only a few days prior to the dis | ited the home during one of the | family quarrels and arrived just in } time to prevent King from throwing fa bucket at his wife. Threata to Kill. “Ti kiN you yet,” King te de clared by the neighbor to have exclaimed when the bucket was taken from him, “And I'll Kill you; see if I don't,” Mrs. King is reported to have an- swered. The house in which the Kings | lived is a one-room shack, with an attic. It is upon a tract of 120 acres of land, 40 acres of which belonged to King and 80 acres to Mrs. Fischer, the daughter, who lives in Went Séattia At the residence of Mrs. Fischer it was learned this morning that the daughter is now at Port Or | chard with ber mother. Mrs. King and Mrs. Fischer came through Se | | }iast Sunday morning, Mrs. King being in the custody of Sheriff Me } Kay | State Grange Convention. VANCOUVER, Wash., June 3— Reports of committees and voting on resolutions occupied today's nes- jsion of the Washington state grange, which opened ite 20th an lnual convention here yesterday. Master Kegley'’s annual addres: | wan a feature of the session y terday afternoon. onwe ° | appearance of King a neighbor vis- | 4 this morning that his roommate, Edward Johnson, thoughtlessly extracted $5 in cash from his grip and left without say ling good-bye. ‘The pollee have been | asked to locate Johnson. Ninth ay, New Home hotel, lentered and a 38caliber Smith & Wesson revolver ana two goid filled watches taken. City Detectives Jeff McClurg and William Peterson detailed to investigate. The ectives say that Abbott misin formed the police department and his room. machine shops of the Moran Com pany, reported to the police last night that- his solid gold watch, pre- serited to him by the employes of Puget Sound Navy yard, wae either stolen or lost some time yesterday Attached to the valuable timepiece was a fob, a present to him from the Ship Fitters’ apprentices of the Union Iron works, San Francisco. Mr. Rodgers is very anxious to re- gain the missing timeplece. ——— (By United Press.) DES MOINES, Ia, Jw 3.—A statement was given out at the Allison headquarters today that Al- liigon's majority over Governor | Cummins for the sénatorship will be from 16,000 to 12,000. Returns i from the state primaries held’ yes terday are still Incomplete but tn Ptight. | Cummins refases to concede the vietory to Allison and it may take an official count to determine the result ROSSMAN 18 IMPROVING. | _ ‘The condition of Roy G. Roxsman, | who was {njured in an -antomobile | race at The Meadows last Saturday, lis reported steadily improving by attendants at the Minor hospital It is said that danger of blood pols oning no longer existe. | Stanton, the M-yearold bey, who | eee 19 years old, Robert Abbott, who lives at jhere. | Howell st. reported to the police | grandd last night that his room had been of Hepner, to the Goode home inst that nothing had been taken from) David Rodgers,*foreman of the) jof Stanton since her wedding. the shipbuilding department of the) | jattle from Olalla to Port Orchafd dicated that Allison leads in the | Everywhere can be seen the white | severe bruises about the head land purple of the order ink Mr. Roosevelt down with | president released his feet last night fired three shots into) tragn the etirrups and sprang from | Counctiman J. F. Goode, wounding | the saddle, landing In the oreek bim seriously, was captured at 6 30) rt He managed thé horse! o'clock this morning. Stanton was | that in a masterful fashion. | found asleep at his bothers home sone driving In the park in) a jarriage saw the accident and) toMl of it today. In this way it be-) cafe known. White House people hall been rigidly fnetructed to let) bo word of it get Into print | Roosevelt was with the) t and saw both accidents. | br Is an expert horse-woman and) weld have aided the president, but coded not reach him in time. | Mrs. Roosevelt Excited. ir McDermott was closest. | M welt was greatly exeited, | bet is today none the worse for) the experience. President Roosevelt today tried | in every way to belittle the ex perience and denied that he was suffering any inconvenience. ‘Those who saw the horse fall) say that Roosevelt's life would have been at an end if it had not been | for his dexterity in shifting his position, The animal went over in hoch a way that it would hate| Crashed the life out of any inex-| pevienced bh 0. Stanton followed Goode and his agtter, Mre. Jeaste Reece, night. He was refused admittance. He raised such a row that Goode telephoned for the police, Stanton shot Goode three times while he was in the telephong booth. Mra. Reece lived Here when she was a small girl, Stanton swore he Would shoot her if she married any other man than himself, Mrs. Reece was recently married, not- withstanding, and last night's en- counter was the first she had seen Counctiman Goode is father of Lalu Goode, one of the girls who recently fignred In the horsewhip- ping of Rev. W. N. Coffee, of the! Portland Free Methedist church. ELKS HOLDING FORTH AT EVERETT FROM CAR (By United Press.) Herbert Bireh,. a Iaborer who EVERETT, June J.—Hundreds of | lives at 2129 Fourth ay. fell from Kiks are here today attending the|Raard street ear No. 642 near fourth annual convention of the! First av. and Lenora st, about 1:30 Washington State association. | o'clock this morning, and sustained | When picked up Mirch was un H Seattle, Ballard and | conscious. | Pacific hosp! | Birch was in a semtconscions state, | but this morning he was reported | Rellingham, Tacoma practically every city in the state where there 1# an Elks lodge ts rep resented. The convention was eal} ed to order at 11 o'clock this morn. | better At 12:89 adjournment was| Conductor A. J. Young, who was jand concerts were given |in charge of the car at the time of| noon, and at 3 o'clook| the accident, in his report to the! the big parade was held ‘onight | Seattle Electric Co., ste that the the minstrel show will be given at|aceident was unavoidable. Tne ear the theatre, and from 11 o'clock on| was slowing down to allow pas to the small hours of the morning|sengers to leave when Birch fell) a soctal session will be held. The|off the reat platform, according to) convention adjourns tomorrow Conductor Young 1 of M. LL Fletcher & Co,, contrac | tors, with offices; at 629 Burke building, yesterday morning and) inquired if Fletcher wished to pur chase a good span of horses. Filet cher replied that he did and a bar) gain was struck whereby Sager was to take a horse belonging to Fieteher and $65 in cash for the two horses which the would-be p chaser assumed were Sager's property. In fact, Fletcher thought nothing was amiss as Sager former ly worked for him and was con aidered chy Makes y Bargain. It developed this morning, how-/ ever, that Sager made the bargain | with Fletcher before be is alleged | to have entered Jensen's barn to steal the horses, Fletcher was to have paid over the $65 to Sager thie morning at % o'clock at t former's office, in the Burke build ing Last night, however, Jensen re. ceived Intormation that Sager was responsible for the disappearance of his horses and that he was to meet Fletcher this morning to re ceive the money. Jensen appear ed at police headquarters this morn. ing about 8:30 o'clock and told his story to Captain of Police John Sullivan. Detective Corbett and Truant Officer Ketchum hurried to the Burke building, arriving at Fletcher's office just as Sager went/ in the door. Sager was about to accept the $65 when Corbett placed him under arr Ketchum took a loaded revolver from the coat pocket of the horse thief and the trio left for the police station, Sager says he came here from North Yakima several weeks ago. He has been seen in Seattle on and off for the past year. The prisoner says his relatives reside at Portland, Ore, Confesses Other Thefts. Sagi ‘Sacker,” as he As soon as the ordinance appro. priating $66,000 from the general fund for the establishing of a sys tem of garbage collection and de- struction becomes a law, which wili be within the next three weeks, the members of the counci! committee on health and sanitation and Health Commissioner Criebton will immediate operations to get the col |Iection system under way. According to the plan of the city officials, there will be between 50 and 60 teams and wagons pur chased, and these, it is clalmed, will be enough to practically cover the entire city. The wagons will prob- ably be made in this city and the horses purchased here. The money is available in the general fund a8 soon as the apprb- priation ordinance a into effect Many Localities Neglected. -There are many portions of the residence districts not now cov ered by the private garbage com panies. In other districts the col lection is trregular and very un- satisfactory. All the councilmen from the outside wards are anx |fously awaiting the inauguration of the municipal system as a means of removing the garbage from their districts regularly It has developed that there will be no further opposition to the scheme covered in the Murphy or. dinance, which passed the council Councilman Hi Gill gave the im pression at one tinte that he might appeal to a referendum vote from the people on the ordinance, but he has reached the decision that this would probably not be advisable. Oppo: Meldrum Plant. Howev said Councilman Gill yesterday, “you ean bank your last dollar that there will be no more of these Meldrum incinerators pur chased for this city if I have any BAY They are not as satisfactory calls | as others, and before the him: confessed to Captain of| summer is past the people who live Detectives Charles Tennant this} the present incinerator will morning that he was the thief who! ede the fact. This plant has no stole two horses from J. A. Morse, direct drop to handle refuse from a horse trader, at 4122 Madison st.,| the wagons, and the consequence is on the night of May 24. Sager at-| that all this rubbish is piled out tempted to dispose of the animats to M. T. Joliffe, of the Jolliffe} be Stables, on Post st., and was caught | is whe tn the act of attempting to dis-| not fre of them by Morse, but the! many sup near yveled into the Thi » the bad odor con from incleerator stack, as 8 ovens. pose start | |side in the open air until {t can| ing made there to form an alliance ‘of candidates against Taft. Frank H. Hiteheock, Taft's manager, see- ing trouble ahead, left Washington hurriedly and arrived here today to |take charge of the headquarters |and direct the fight. Cannon on the Hustle. Speaker Cannon, who was on his way home in a touring car, sudden- lly abandened ft and took a limited train for NMnots. Senator Hemenway, of Indiana, who has charge of the Fairbanks campaign, also was in the auto- mobile, and he, too, left it apon advices received at Pittsburg. Hemenway will rush to Indianapo- lis, Where he will hold a consulta- tion with Fairbanks, and then will come here at once. The Hughes boomers and the Knox managers also are using every means of making the most of | the sitaution, All have new hope | and the tension fn the situation has | more than doubled in the last 24 hours Costly Remarks of Taft's. One of the Fairbanks supporters |today said: “The remarks made |by Taft at Grant's tomb will be mentioned at every opportunity on |the floor of the convention. It was the most damaging statement | that a presidential candidate ever made so far as I know, just be- | fore a convention when he seemed sure of nomin&tion. “Members of the G. A, R. all jover the country are furious that | Taft should have seen fit to drag |up the only thing that was ever said to the discredit of Grant and take occasion to refer to it at | memortal exercises at Grant's, own tomb. It was such a display of |bad judgment that it will weaken the confidence of the people in him This thing is going to be used to beat Taft and it will beat him if we can make it. There is no way to hush it up pow A story that Is thick In the air about the national headquarters Is that Roosevelt will be nominated if it appears that Taft has been defeated |. In spite of Roosevelt's repeated }etatements that he would not ac | cept a nomination, the “second eiec- ‘tive term” men are vusily at work,