The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 1, 1908, Page 1

Sj EDITION You. 1_NO. 239 ‘ EXTRA EDITION. SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1908, Judge Gordon, as attorney of record in a suit brought against the Great Northern and appealed to the supreme court, the decision which Justice Root filed as his after the decision had been approved by the legal department of the Great in St. Paul. Judge Gordon promised Justice Root $300 for his campaign expenses at the last primaries. The money Set came and Justice Root wrote several letters to Gordon, asking him to send the money and complaining about the delay. Saeneys for Judge Gordon have in their possession all of the documents and papers bearing on these transactions. They ’ the original opinion prepared by Justice Root, in the case mentioned above, which was sent to Judge Gordon, and ith failed to meet with his approval, and for which Judge Gordon substituted, with the sanction of his superiors in St. Paul, an jon prepared by himself, which is now a part of the supreme court records at Olympia and which is now the law of the state points which it covers. Judge Gordon’s attorneys have in their possession various letters written by Root to Gordon, } Root became a member of the supreme court, all of which are construed by Gordon as implicating Root in transactions feeping with the integrity and dignity which should surround a justice of the supreme court. Judge Gordon has stated he paid to Justice Root, during the latter's term as supreme justice, upwards of $20,000, Root’s modest home ' manner of living, however, give the lie to this charge, and those familiar with all sides of this disgraceful scandal ho means convinced that Root ever received a dollar from Gordon. This much The Star has learned after an investi- th has led along many trails to closed doors and sealed lips. The men who know all the details 6f this scandal are bit by bit the story has been gathered. Today Kenneth C. Beaton, editor of The Star, picked up the last threads of skein in Spokane, and the result is that The Star is the first paper in the state to publish any definite information test scandal in the history of Washington. poate. VEILS ASSAULT (KAS 10 , GLARE | IN BAY ORDER TO CLOSE UP)/WHETHER ACCIDENT THE DISTRICT IS OR SUICIDE IS ENFORCED. NOT KNOWN. |Women Scatter Widely, Tras . gic Death But New Location iia: Priece's Bay. Is Proposed. 4 _ By United Press.) NCIS Deo. 1-—Wil- As the bands of the clock on the| "4% FRANC " ‘item 2. Bite of police of King st. depot pointed to 12 last this efty, was drowne Bight the alluring red fights of | sisee white returning i vice that have sparkled for years bay fp the police patrol inunch Pa- jlo the old restricted dintrict went | iol? Ghiet Biggy had heen at Hel- lout. All day long and late tnto the vo@es, a ddbure, to call on Con.- night the crimson exodus was un miter Kell, who resides there. der way, a caravan of Naucting | Hoy “ded the itineh to return to Women, in hacks, atitos and OR ine # y ehout 1-o'dledk, and when | foot. ae bag ge: bo. oe | the Bhat was out on the bay oom | hew haunts, for the mayors w AMO | pain’ of fediing cold to Engineor | eviedng them from their old dig Murh 2, the oly other cecupent of te iy into effect at midnight) theteeneh. Murphy advieed Biggy } nig | AH day long transfer wagons i the ‘eat. | backed up to the doore for the) j trunks and finery, and by nightfall! the work was dove. Nothing re-| Murbhy then went below to at- mained but to lock the doors. | tendagie engine and did not see the lohief Again, He came om deck as Men Watch Migration. lthe Ghat neared the city and noticed A big crowd of men and boye,| thet the chief bad disappeared. A welltodo and bums, gathered fn) Sere of the boat failing to locate the district last night to witnenr| him, Murvhy made at! speed to the | the migration, expectant of stirring eek. Where he reported the acot- scenes, but in this they were disap, |Gent Ad Went out into the buy |pointed. There was nothing but|ae@eliete search for the missing of | the garish display of shame, inj figer. Numerous boats wete hurried j#ilk, sation and furs. Hacks and |'® the scene and careful wearch of ' jAutomobilos packed the streets and ee Oar Wee teen struggled for exit Policemen | ere rib ‘s the suicide ol lorrin {sional order to some Inggard (0) Saas the man who attempted to hasten hor preparations, and oné|tili | Awasistant District Attorney “iby one the lights went ont and|Prancie J. Heney, and who later it when « second #hot waa fired | 4#tkness, which has been unknowg! (ooW"se own life at the county Jail in for many & night, once more re |the relations between Chief Magy Ke. Atwood vas inte the street | ite sway tion have been there came a third shot, and an-| Where these wothen of folly dt So the Arenking. petmt other ax he reached the opposite|Pereed to is not known. They|Charges and counter charges have curb. He was running around the Wert to the various hotels, some to|been filed by b« parties to the honse to which had fled for| the best in the city; protection when the sixth and last into the residence sections to awalt|the blame for the fact that Haas |ahot was fired. This buliot pene-| the time for the coming roand-up, |had or seoured a pistol while in fail }trated the door of the Seatcherd | Wha they will be once again herd. | Changes of incompetency and dere residence ed together in a new restricted dis-|liction of duty have been fi Atwood told the startled occu. | trict againet the chief, and in arn he pants of the premises to send for New District Proposed. fied 5 " ns ‘ ae P eyyee oe & doctor, and within a few min-| ‘ rT tte eka nee ne | t A new location for @ restricted | tung in the court room, and against | utes a crowd of excited uwighbors | aigtrict has been proposed.to Mayor Defective ergeant Thos, F, Dirks had gathered about the scene Of/ witier? including that . property |whe was.in charge of Haas at the the shooting. south of Yesler way and west of | jail, Several of these people are! First ay. S,, and on doth sides of authority for the statement that the alleyway. It is the idea to they saw & man, undoubtedly the| have all entrances lead from this fay gd cpg y atte SARE alley, and to close up all entrances ’ m pee &y from First av. §. been decoyed, in a quiet and de| ‘There are a doxen big bulldings liberate manner. No one thought along the thoroughfare south of hr paca to hold him at the | yosier w: which, under the r , to have lelw- ivsgucuedbdecaniy | Atwood declares vigorously that | Fankemant contemplated, would be the house and| Vietim of Mysterious Assault: ne knows of no enemy who would Coeur the rather cosmopetiven san the street aaa have conceived this plan of @t-| ulation’ heretofore located in the le Story. actually to complete the purchase | , tempting his life for revenge. He | King gt, dintrict fS there was only one! of the lots. has recelved no letters of a nature Md in the assault upon which could be construed as at to have been Assault Is Made. tempted blagkmat! and he reeme to MM ® cleverly conceal-| After taking what Atwood says| be utterly at fea, not only a» to &| urged that there will be no glare | murder or raw) was a ggg course, the stranger motive, but as to. the identity of} and nu unbecoming sights to shock | 9 pete him through the front dour |th€ parties who were concerned in| the respectable element. Thow-|ot the late ehiel vf police, today Mt the assault tells| of the house, and immediately | the plot | Sands of people pase along the! gave.out a statement in which she Mory, He says that| threw off hia overeoat, The room Relatives Are Questioned. aide streets bisecting this alley lo- | gaid that she believed her former oe Strange man calied| was Mghted but dimly, and Atwood! In February last Atwood's wife | cation, however, coming from and! husband's mind had given way # the telepho and! had his own overec ff and threw | obtained a divorcee trom him in the | %°!ng to steamers and traine, and under the strain of his work. Her Property which! it on a table about the same time! jocal superior court, on the grounds | this Wil) be a welghty objection to. statement follows Chief Disappears. is /4M9 TENTH AV. NE, IN WHICH AN ATTEMPT WAS MADE TO ASSASSINATE | stood around and gave oa ovem | Hr sinc FRANK ATWOOD. ® lovely house, at N. E., last night) Of effecting a sule| | Prank Atwood, pro-| Art company’s thy man, was mur by a stranger. | with bis tfe is ee Mm on the head) instrument, the Fevolver and fired pod. The iatter| by the blow on eut into his scalp half blinded with he staggered Managed to open| made bis way Where he entered Scatcherd, Suicide Theory. This morning the commissioners, D. Caller, acting chief of police, exonerated engineer Murphy from all Blame, and he was released from subvelllahoe. There has been no new light thrown on the accident. Many be lieve that Chief Biggy suicided by Jumping into the bay. Before he went across lant night he compiain ed Mitterly of being hounded to |death, and was in a state of great Would Be Objectionable, | perturbation as the result of news With the alley entrances it ia} Paper attacks Divorced Wife Talks, Mee. W. J. iggy, divorced wife Tevolver at Atwood, | Wer: »ple who had to a beens by the} Bear the shore of as the stranger. | of neglect, abuse and failure to prp- | ‘*¢, plan | "Nir Biggy was too goo? a me. The stranger Atwood ahd taiton a step through | wde rhe suit was not p Sard 4 Those who are advancing thie Oathpic to commit suicide. He Was going away,|a palr of hanging portieres at the! and the wife is now living in a| 2@W location say that {t will elim-| was pot a drinking man and I don't Bim agai talk| the request of the stranger when | jocal hotel | inate criticism from the people in| thim\ there Is any possibility of his lhe was hit on the head, The blow! A brother of the divorced wife, | the south end of the city, who have having been intoxicated at the time. wame ma led| did not render the man uncon: | who réncled this city from Chicago | tated that they did not want the In the-light of various occurrences 498 the teleph., ain! gelous, but he half staggered and! four weeks ago, was questioned | strict placed east of First av. 8.\in the last month or #o, I really we to come sup inetinetively looked up, thinking /about his movements last night, , "south of Yeuler way think that the work imposed on aby @ on Tr av.|that something had fallen from the on the supposition that he might|, At Present practically all of the| Mr: Iggy was too much for his P00d Arranges |) to! ceiling and bit him have wome knowledge of the at-| Pulidings In the section outlined are | nervous disposition and that he has ~ndl a7 , As he balf unconsciously turned! tempted murder, but Captain of De- | ted on long-time leases for busl- beew mentally deranged to look to the rear, Atwood #4W |tectives Tennwut explains that the | 20% And hotel purposes, and it ia) “Lt iave heard that the police SFrangernent At-| the stranger with a gun in his hand,|man proved an alibt, showing, ac-|¢xtemely Improbable that any oth-| boat da very prone to rocking and Wallingtord ay. car,| and almost at the same moment | cording to the officers, that ho was |e &trangement could be consum-|1' think it is quite possible, Il as Mt Twelfth ; .,\ the first shot was fired at bim-|at the theatre at the time Atwood | ™te4d Mr. Miggy was, he might have been fd, and | The wor i man doea not remem: | was assaulted | “ thrown into the water by a sudden , wget v= paelyagigll ts naga ; a8 ase | Steamer Humboldt jn due to ar F ag one ly to ¢ r which one. of the six shotel” The detectives who visited the brit. rea a it cane jo i" | Mirehing of the boat, Murphy could . re the ; k him to the Jeg, but he ran liowing Monday on her return y net have heard him, owing to the Br the one «1 14 was just opening (Continued on Page 3.) at | tthe engine > . “ ‘ THE SEATTLE STAR EP MYSTERY _ 4X0 LIGHTSCHIEF BlGGY DROWNS Headiof Police Department| to gi te the cabin at the stern of} others went /contfoverty in the attempt to fix] PAIR TONIGHT AND WEONEGDAY; LIGHT PRICE ONE CENT EAST WINDS. | ORDON WROTE ROOT’S OPINION IN VERDICT FOR GREAT NORTHERN RAILROAD FIRST | E SANCTION AOI PAE "Couns Orie Before “a mittee of the State | charges made against Milo A. I who one week ago today re- rumored signed from the supreme bench of the state SPOKANE TESTIMONY | tcii it, there will be a clearing MAY RESULT IN EXPOSURE. find the truth and ere so far as it re- lates to other justice than Root, and will be involved ina scandal of large proportions the names of Judge M. J. Gordon jof Tacoma, former supreme irt justice, and of one or more Closed Doors Bar the |S" Paul officials of the Great Northern railway Public From All TOOK NO MONEY FROM GORDON. } Information. The committee w ll not find that Judge Root ever took ja collar from Judge Gordon or any other source to the end [that the court should be influenced in its decisions, but it will isconduct that—to use the at once as too weak (Special to The Star.) SPOKANE, Wash. Dec. 1.—~ L. ©. Gilman of Seattie, the G. N, attorney whe took charge “of Judge Gordon's affairs when the latter resigned, was closet- ed with the State Bar commis. (Of Root, in order to protect himself j find that Judge Root is guilty of 1 most charitable term—should stamp him to occupy a place upon any bench It will find that Judge Gordon, for many years @ friend ssible imprison- tien all the forenoon, He spent nt on the charge of emt ent ken ad®antage of much time last evening with Root's friendship and weakr t ing documents and cor- the members of the commission. } session solute evi- secure al respondence in his J. J, Lavin of Spokane, an at torney and former secretary to | Judge Gordon here, went before the commission after Giirn, | Neither of these nor Frank jdence of the fact that there is in the records ai the | supreme t of Vashington at Olympia an opinion na case in which the Great Northern was one of the principals, Post and C. P. Lund, Who were [that was written and sent to Olympia by Judge Gordon, then | examined yesterday, will say a ° = word as to the nature of their attorney at Spokane for the railway company examination. The Spokane at- torneys are quiet as mice, but DETAILS ARE KEPT SECRET. | at lowst one is known to have | stated that Post told him that he (Post) had seen letters ai leged to have passed between Gerdon and Reot, and which | committee learning of thes the Nusume-are believed to | th¢ have possession of. 1 Post wee called to testify on this point yesterday. A court official whe refuses to allow his name used declares that N. €. Nuzum stated to several | persons in hie hearing that | - , j Jucge Gorton was charged e and Attorneys Ronald and Kerr of Seattle, who, while they with @ $100,000 shortage by the [are jot attending the sessions of the committee here, hav / Great Northam. gna that Gores [Uit NOt attending, the se t nmittee here, have, it | don immediately went to st. | Pau! and showed the letters he | asker!” that every bit of evidence had implicating Justice Root | 1“ | and J. J. Hill, and told the | | Great Northe?n legal depart. | ment that if they prosecuted | he would make the evidence I say, if the committee finds the and tells it, these is little likelihood of the The men who know of The best jlegal brains in the state of Washington have hold of the sean- ate the things it will tell 1 will not lend enlightenment to the mnmittee, | dal- Attorneys Post and Graves of this city representing arn, to produce any 1Gordon, and declining, so far as I evidence tending to show that Rx V ever paid any money is understood, advised with Root 1! as frierids of his have ainst the former justice should be laid-before the committee FEAR EFFECT ON PUBLIC. There are men in the state of Washington who know more | public and commit sulci | ‘ batons A mater os - lof this scandal than 1 have been able to ferret out after three ave wn rdon a A i 2 Justice Rost $27,000 In caiece, | Weeks of investigation, good, clean, honest men; and if their tion with faliroad litigation. wishes were consulted, the whole affair would be brought to Nuzum denies the possession | of such evidence or the making | of any statement regarding it. ja sudden end, and with the resignation of Root, it would be it would soon be forgotten, They are fearful of the effect upon the public of the telling | allowed to die, with the hope th Sil le ie i i ie ie ad BANK CLEARINGS, hould lose faith in all rof nt. They are fearful lest the pub of its courts, and they have a right to t although, as I see Seattie arings today lalances it now, there is m rm, for the court under need of $1,949,900.59 suspicion 147,866.66 has been purged of its greatest weakness Tacoma. Clearings today... 802,627.00 *® Balances 34,884.00 eee tenes Forget their relative positions, and Judge Gordon stands out so much the greater culprit, that one is impelled to sym- seeeeeeeeee * Pett ova.tt3.90 4| Pathize with, rather than to severel 84,096.00 &! ing Judge Gordon out of it, howeve blame, Judge Root. Leav- # Clearings today * Balances le (PRR and Root stayds out in the light as a terrible example of the weakness of man, and as ** a disgrace to the proiession which—t tly or wrongly—we | jand our libert | OF NAVY ROOT KNOWN AS A POOR MAN. (By United Press.) It may be, of course, that Root has received money from WASHINGTON, Dec, Truman | Gordon H. Newberry of Detroit became sec- | ‘ retary of the navy tote reed-| tO have made the statement that he has paid to Roc ing Victor H. Metealf, resigned. | of $21,000 since the latter has been on the bench Newberry was promoted from the} c position of assistant secretary, Soon | ever having received a cent after he was sworn in he attended | affjuence on the part of Root | his first cabin ting apat : | Herbert L. Satterlee of New York | much more modestly than his high position warranted today accepted the appointinent of) buying a house at the rate of $40 a month, and he ha | aesistant secretary of the navy [Ee eeE EEE EERE H YE ent plan * WATER SHUT OFF. ® since he t \* No knows but Gordon and R¢ The former is said ipwards Root denies And there are no indications of i He lives, and has for years lived, He is bought this furniture for the house he is now living in on the install He has paid several thousand dollars in old debts k his place upon the bench, These thir 1 : * lw Water will be shut off in #/ 4nd they ame told in justice to the man }® the high service mains in the * Judge Gordon, and his own weakness, are responsib! Ts * Fort Lawton district, weet of * } ine I sd fall {® 20th av. W,, from 9 a.m. to w| JURE Roots downta is 5 p. m., tomorrow, December 2, #| Judge Gordon or his attorneys, Graves and Post, today * \ * {hold in their possession letters written by Root to Gordon, eee ee | hold in their posse ‘ | which may be easily construed as referring to the expected pay }ment of moneys to Root by Gordon, The latest of these letters a / relates to the payment of $300. The correct story of the oe casion for the writing of these letters I believe to be as follows: CAMPAIGN MONEY DIDN'T COME, During last summer Gordon visited Seattle. As was his custom, he called upon Root, and in the course of their con versation he told Root that he, with some friends, was raising / ‘a sum of money, amounting to about $1,000, to be nt in the interest of certain candidates for the supreme bench, ‘Three hundred dollars, Gordon said, was to be sent to § to aid Root in his campaign. Root suggested that the money be not sent to him direct, but to E. B. Palmer, Root's law partner, and this Gordon agreed to do The money was to come upon a certain specified date, ibout two weeks lat It didn't come, and Palmer so informed Root. Root thereupon wrote to Gordon complaining of his fail- You CAN \ ure to send the money ! hat em SHOP IN PEACE — ° ~ ANO_COMFORT «C ) THE WEATHER | args <a 1 Sta Bes