The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 4, 1908, Page 1

LAST vol NO = r May Have Come to i fim While in Drunk- en Stupor. of Wife Fail to Credence From Officials. tan t | FG STUART COSTELLO, 0 De Was deliberately stupe Hquor by his wife and alive in revenge for Of fibtreatmest and wrongs white almost continual the influence of drink, & which the officers. are q ing om to explain the ‘@f Edward King, the Olalla tm her cel! in the King Mre. King, who has since last week, of murder, denies that her husband, but she ied cenfticting stories, and partial confessions, each pt. x ra do not believe that fold the truth, except as of disposing of the , The evidence speaks all too ef how 4 human body was ‘Por bours in a fire pot 10 the ranch house, in which had resided for eight arty pect 88: Aid the Cremation. ie ons of kerowene and & S cord of firewood was mt pliish the horri @ Blankets were saturat the infammabie material ‘eter the corpse In order the terrible heat neces- reduce it to ashes. Néarly blankets and rage in the Were used to consummate crime. of the farm has been by the officers, and every Which would possibly hide has been combed thorough- | developing any actual 4 Would support the wife's @f beving found ber husband $ almost investiga. house and of the prem- ty surrounding would that King did. not die tn stated by bis wife. The left fs that he was nd that his death was iv a manner which Me crime the most revolt ‘Me history of the North Further investigation, Deputy Sheriff William ®, of Olalla, who are work the case, made a farther «SOURCE NTS RRR ENE fm the ranch house the orchard nearby, tal of the charred bones Giscovered some days handful of charred b Mle two pieces of partiality | Stependers and the fire i which had been on Man's trousers, were pick-| Of the dir: Bivte testimonials to the @nd of the rancher were Preserved and will be we ince in the fortheoming Anaypection Bouse fo light some interesting seemed to disprove woman's story of how and add to the argument pWas more than likely that B Bot only been murdered, burned alive Not Credited. in story that she found 4, sitting tn chairs, is hardly for.an examination of all fe Kitchen chairs leads fable conclusion that a tould not have remained MRE position in either of ut heing held there. The low-backed and straight King died a natural death Would have fallen te the Pequired very slight 10 pert one of the men Pied the experiment of sent Mi Rimself in one the ohatea het a man af the the = tad ad eo badly ef Wheelin: the burnes fact hee at lenet King red, walk som t and aged S¥en Mads it aiffcut w ane of EDITION Alleged Murderess | of the intertor | one} 87 WHILE HE © LIVED S BAND STILL ) EOWARD KING. (From an old photograph.) walk any distance. That she could | have picked up his body and car ried it through the room and to the edge of the porch, where it must have been loaded in the wheelbarrow, were ber story true, ia thought by the officers to be F Justice of the Peace J. E.| practically an impossible task for| | her. The wheelbarrow, in which she claime to have carted the body through the yard to the alleged }funeral pyre, Ie a dilapidated af. fair, almost fallen to pieces. It could hardly bear t weight of [a sack of flour without smashing down. The officers look askane= jat any story of @ 186-pound corpse being wheeled any di in this fremarkable affatr Believe Murder Theory. There tla n lof the # jag murd | the minds that Mre husband and thori red her that she consummated bis death tn &@ manner which stamps the crime almost passing belief. A resume of the facts now In pos session of the offi makes a remarkably strong chain of clream stantial evidence against the wom an. That she was demented. is | conceded, but ft ems to have been a form of insanity which was based on a maniacal desire for re- | venge, accurnulating a» the result lof 30 years of cruelty practiced by a harddrinking husband. As a result the final culmination was | marked by the atrocious deed with all its grewsome and shocking de tae. | Aw the | gether, the chapter the crime begina with Friday, May 22. For several days the couple had indulged in violent quarrels. and neighbors speak of several oc eastons on which the man and wife | threatened to kill cach other. On |thie Friday, however, Mra. King | mate a trip to Seattle to dispose of a consignment of eggs. She was warned before she lett the house that oniess she brought back whip cireumstances piece to- which tells of ky fer her husband, it would be the werse for her Brought Back Brandy. Mre. King made the trip, sold fle exes, and bought a large jox of brandy—not whisky. This she gave her bhushend, and while there o no viniters at the hease on * Gaterday or Sunday follow toe, i ie preeemeg that King tol lowed bie F jar habit of imme Mately mturating mat with quer whenever the longed-fer jus eatue to the premises On Gaturday the husband te be Heved t have drank bhimeelf inte the aeual ctate of drunkenness, On ouch encesions ke invartably quar. jrwied with tie wife. She herself i Aceused of the Murder of Her Husband. THE SEATTLE STAR SEATTLE, WASH., THURBDAY, JUNE 4, 1908 RS. KING IN THE | Take any French woman of the| Peasant type, stout, robust and self. | Seeorting, and you have Mrs. King. @9 xoare old, charged with the mur. | GaP of her husband, Edward King, | jand now in the woman's ward of | e the King county jail. | | it Ie always @ pleasure for such women to have their pictures taken for it fiat their vanity, That Mre. King hae @ good deal of van-| j ity wae shown as she. faced the Newspaper camera today. She jen't much over five feet tail, but heavy set enough to! make her weigh nearly 200 pounds The features of her face are well jformed and forceful, dominated by large dark eyes that impress one with motherly kindness, That she is & murderess veems impossible. Her hair hae nearly all turned @ silver gray, and is combed back from her forehead and gathered to ner in a knot at the top of her ond. “You will give me one of the Pictures,” said Mra. King to the \photographer, and seemed pleased when he assented Then she asked for some sugar, ind went back to jail to prepare hor breakfast, where she is already dominating force among the wom prisoners. Whenever she wants ything she aeke for it, as if she mever even expected that it would fhe denied her. An inveterate coffee | ldrinke: toun her fellow, isoners by drinking at least a} ‘Pozen cups before noon. Lowy wyers told me not to sey ything,” said Mre. King this fore . and with that she refused Ho speak about the case. “it will a come out “1 have many and | don’t like the advertising.” MAY BE LATE ~ AT NOME Steamers From Seattle Like- ; 1 ly to Be Delayed ? by Ice. : i MRS, MADELINE KING, g ed fy The two steamships which salled Thom Senttle today for Nome, the Atorthwertern, of the Aluska Steam. med » company, and the Pacifi hopped wp a int oft fey company’s Umatilla, each car » | eaid to have been in the habit of erwards she | drinking wine, often to excess, and wood and ple it along the sides! |indulging wt such times in a gen- of the pile, Over it all she poured | Bed pe hyve of eyo apap Jeral wordy battle with her quarrel. the kerosene and then started these" '” SD Se Te: OO | scans Deshend tems ve In the north this season There ie & possibility that these Quarreied Bitterty. With the husband drinking. declared to have be noth lusual for them to start quar | bitterly over even « trivial cirew Jatance. The condition of the he i itself Indiestes that she paid abso- | lutely no attention to her @utios during this time Her Success Surprising. pore steamers will get into Nome e Boon the five others which ihave alrekdy satled Cables from is “the | Nome upen the arrival of the Cor Win there yesterday say the captain But the accused wor : 7 AN Flot the latter veusel reported that wtatement tbat she kept ap y | plying kerosene and @dditional, te? fe* bAd not yet begun to move wood to the fire at frequent tnt How it was possible to #0 com | an | 5 destroy the body almowt marvelous by read officers “aut toward Bering ses, and he be | Heves that tt will be about July 1 | The vals explained the almost absolute}ion, “hn. ‘él ue al ; jture is ali askew, the dishes uv-| demotition of this human body.) 2P'Or® the Dik steaniers can ge washed and everything looks as if Everything that remained whee an y ‘ It had been neglected, It does not |the incineration was finally sceonr| > Both the Umatilla and North appear to be the neglect of mere plished could be pet im a lithe tern carried large cargoes. The | carelessness, but a condition re. |cigar box and the strangest featare| NOTtwestern carried ab son sulting from the absolute lack of of it ail is the fact that the lace | PAm*erRers And the Umatitia 300. jaay attsation to the interior of the bones and pe mae of the humad Arrived at 7 o'clock last night, | | Tha, the officers eb one structure were absolutely Ob) ie standard Ol company's steam ‘ claim, indicates literated or have been hidden with st “ }that the couple , probably started wn mmnsmennemes OF HE. 1. Drake, from Ban Fran their drinking and quarreling on ( cm) cisco Friday night, continuing Saturday and Saturday night. They undoubt edly reached a climax, it is assert ed, some time early Sunday morn DE | No Signs of Scuffle. Just how the actual murder was committed, or the exact movements of the man and hie wife dering this time, is largely a matter of sur mise, There ts nothiag to show thet the two engaged In a violent seuftic. Probably the most suspi as clreumetance, outside of thy ! burning of the bedy, Is ti fact that King did not follow Mra ber « nt custom of drink er husband was whisky Thies leads the officers to the conclusion that she hb finally comniitted herself to ber often expressed program of killing her husband There in not the least signs of blood anywhere about the premises, whe the body was burned. ements about the house which might have been used for the purposes of murder have been examined They are said to be in thelr usaal places and do not ap pear to have been disturbed. Believe He Was Burned Alive. | In the abeence of any blunt tp atrument or wheapon which ap strike officers pears to have been need down the drunken man, t are strongly of the opinion that the wife burned him while he was actually alive She could have stunned him, they claim, with a skillet or almost any heavy article about and while he was in this besotted and unconscious condith have built the fire in which was slowly ine wa the ranch a exarminati does not indicate that ste washed blood statue m a ax oF other haphe | ment The fire te whieh the roasted wis unaeul v Sunday, most Wkely in the mor Ghe selected a apot about stx feet from the house. This apot te be than 15 feet from the re the ranch, alow amber the neigh travel. It te screened off, t by « clump of brush and @ and would be alm ipviaible to any one passing by The wife was andoubtedly deli. erate and moved by more than a fragment of reason in the entire tion of incineration placed the body on the grow first 1 and then covered it with blankets. Aft | STANDING IN FRONT OF THE HOUSE WHERE THE AGED COUPLE LIVED AND WHERE i JUSTICE OF THE PEACE J. E. GREEN (SEATED), CHARLES FISCHER, MRS. KING'S GRANDSON, AND DEPUTY SHERIFF WILLIAM THE WEATHER TONIGHT AND FRIDAY CLOUDY, POS BLY WITH 6BHOWERS; WEST WINDS PRICE ONE CENT ATTEMPTS TO KILL THOMPSON MAJOR DREYFUS — FOUND i Newspaper Man Shoots SS aioe tame 3 SANE Famous Frenchman : tua or 3 , ae sa —— Twice in the Arm, Swi iy von Uregor"wuis eon Jury Returns a Verdict im righted by the United Press Aw Hatred for Dreyfus Minutes. sociation, 1908.) (itary editor of his PARIS, June 4.—M Gregor! was brought In close touch —_———_ itary editor of La Ga wie the affairs of the army, and been standing by folle 1 the Dreyfu ane ca minut wien mwatnion were all againet Dewy Sayer Of Judge Emory vo Rnd be hatred was particula ay an ene Bal or Will Not Be Public fired point blank at him twice with | OT the “ee He consid ot u A revolver transfer of Zola’s body to th Hoth baile took effect in the right to & sacriege, and M OF tne took attest In the sight | Sosniy ‘denounced, the “goveraiine enace. Sense the earth Chan he one ac officials for permitting it, He wa dar @ trennon Ghatee, afierwand looked upon a being almost fanat omen proved. joa! in his views. His pa enter: | Major Dreyfus, though sur | 4ay print & bitter cle, in| (By United Press.) by the sudden attack, uttered no| Wich it was charged that the Pi TACOMA, Juse 4-/The jury eb 6b declamaiion of nie bind theon was delux tarned into a Chester Thompson sanity case, Satiaectins odin sewer by putting the body of Zola r being out 23 minutes, yester- Gregori darted into the crowd in Zola le Praised. fay aftermpon st 4:90, SeNNERE.S A attempt to make «hasty escape,| ‘The exorcixes began at 9:20| Verdict that the young man was but M. Mouquin, head of the mu-| o'clock this morning. After the|S0W sane. Only one ballot Was nicipal police, war near at hand) singing of the “Marseilials: Min-| taken. The full verdict ts as fel- and pounced upon the fleeing editor. | ister Doumergue delivered an ad.| lows he officer quickly subdued the | dreas, in which he praised Zola and We, the fury Im the case of prisoner, te pistol and turned | eulogized him as one of the great| Chester Thompson, petitioner, ve hf over to a gen darme who hur | thinkers of France. He laud his | the state of Washington, res ried him away to Jail ‘ literary and political career, and| el, answer the interrogatories as The sensational affair took place| said his body hud been given {ts | follows near the clone of the exerci 10 | rightful honor 1. Whether the petitioner bas eclebration of the tras afer of the| | have mixed with the crowd and me sane since bis sommit # of Emile Zola, the famous!) find that the general temper is t Yes Int and defender of Dreytus,| good and the persone of various 2. Whether the petitioner is from Montmartre cemetery to the |ciasses with whom I talked ap |20t lable to a recurrence of quathens the French hall of fame peared té be inclined toward pleas |™ental unsoundvess or relapse.’ emendous crowds were present ure and celebration, rather than | Yes and trouble had pean feared in ad-| mischief %. Whether the petitioner vance cause of the feeling re y a safe person to be at large.’ Yi vived by the remembrance of the Z Editor's Statement It fe the intention of the jury Dreytus case by which France was| Editor Gregori, when questioned fing in favor of the petitioner im tor under by tne ee, wad _ answering all these question. Dreyfus’ Presence of Mind De . Fee ni ¥ Dreytne d fired Dated at Tacoma, Wash, thie a ‘eytusia se revolting to) 4, 0 e, vot After the shooting Dreyfus die-| see the noble army of France mixed |"? “*” of hall ¢ ” played the most remark oe H. W. HALL. acomnem pret \in an affair of this sort, which, at! ‘The trial came to » sudden end He benged the peo-| heat, concerned only the govern-|apout 3:30 o'clock. The ve ple about him to be gulet and not! ment and the Dreyfus family came tn és suddenly as Pra | let It become get ly known what) Dr. Poursl, who attended Dreyfus or the trial bad happened. He then walked, un-|at his home. announced this after Ro Prosecuting Attorney assisted, to an automobile, which poo soll ~ 4 the |e he entered and was rushed away toler = on Bo ype: ag aig Fo waived bis right to argue, thus his home. After an examination, injury. The second penetrated the ed = agg gee + poses the surgeons announced that Drey- | forearm deeply, a few inches above| mega anther hy hester. fus’ injuries are not necessarily se the wrist, but did not touch the | rie nen the tes ct was read, j tows, bone. He maid bis patient was) mer ne tee, ogame the 7 Gregori stood within three feet of | quiet, had no fever and was in no| 22% is father and brother President Fallieres. As a patriotic | danger congratulated them all pong wen being sung, Fallieres co etn va Young Thompson w closely followed by Dreyfus and #*&*** @ ee ee eee eee Mee Until after an Minister Doumergue, started down * # *Upreme court is decided the steps to review the parade * BANK CLEARINGS, *) saapepacneene an As they passed the preas table * oo. js Gregort arose with the others and, * Seattie. * THIRD POLICEMA as Dreyfus approached, he «x.|@ Clearing» today... $1,431 * imed ® Balances * zh ‘rion "2 SURRENDERS ve , tela Baan A oer a @ Clearings today $ 668,565.00 « Here's for the parade © tenons peitene 2 ick Thereupon be stepped up tol, Portland. - a Dreytas sad fired. & Clearings today...$ 902,377.00 # |, German measies” captured @ The coolness of Dreyfus and the |» halances 112'862.00 * third member of the police force pres’ alone raved « disastrous ‘ today scene, All the officials deserve: * **********¥*¥*** Patrolman John L. Jackson, of great credit, including United States NINE DAYS’ PRAYER. the Seattle police force, succumbed Ambassador White, who calmiy to the ailment after feeling badly walk on and reviewed the pa At the new Good Shephard Or.| fer a few days. Mrs. Jackson called rade, showing no signs that he phanage, Sunnyside av, and 60th 4 the police «tation this mornti knew anything had happened, st. a Novena or nine days’ prayer’ #24 announced that her husl though he was nearby when the (started to in honor of St. An-| ¥4% possessed of a cherry red -coun- shots were f thony of Padua, whose feast wili| ‘ance, and that a physician pro- It was a few minutes before the!be celebrated June 13 j pounced it “German measles.” HADLOW, OF OLALLA, THE MURDER IS ALLEGED TO HAVE BEEN COMMITTED.