The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 14, 1909, Page 1

SIXTEEN PAGES. LAST E D iv! O ‘| SIXTEEN PAGES. THE SEATTLE STAR [EXTRA | IDAY, MAY 14, 1909. PRICE ONE CENT DAYS MORE UNTIL THE A.-Y.-P. EXPOSITION OPENS ‘VOUNG WIFE ENDS LIFE: JOYAA | | ‘ LEAVES BABIES HUN STEAL Cane 1 x ELLEN STEWART . amc ACD. VAND Ay f SD) NLY CITY AND STATE ARE HOUSE CLEANING inixc Ronny 1s : _ | } ; 4 ra BREMERTON. Post Office Visited by Dare — ing Thieves, Who Pred of the urea Have Escaped. domentic tc | Ss SM of her husband to pee | One of the most daring crimes fod foreed upon her tled in this section for years “dine Ap Waa —_ ed early thie morning, when w» ovnee/PROSECUTING ATTORNEY JUMPS INTO THE oh Manes Of Doemertes 35 thelr way into the at fat place, blew open purchased | LIMELIGHT IN VICE CRUSADE NOW da a, BEING WAGED HERE. to commit and stole thousands of worth of stamps and sev- eral hundred dollars in money, and then made their escape The robbery was not discovered until 7 o'clock this morning, when clerks in the postoffice went to work The interior of the room | where the safe was locuted looked jan if a cyclone had passed through | it. The safe door wax blown half way across the room. Papers in the safe were scattered about, and the doors of the private compart- ments were broken and the con- tents stolen It is estimated that between $5,000 and $6,000 In stamps were | taken, and between $250 and $200 in money secured. | There is not a clue Officers are doing everything pos- sible to make arrests. It is the general belief that the robbers landed here in a launch be- tween 3 and 4 o'clock this morn- ing. They then entered the post- office by a rear door, forcing the lock, blew open the safe as only experts at the business could, and th ted. No one near the dressed and cal — Special Deputy C. B. Peyton and, or how they were conducted, until om until it was} "sea yy ie She |cight deputy sheriffs raided five 4 new restricted district could be a few miputes later, | immoral houses in both the old and | es aaa care uate Pa . J, Davidson, who hap | new tenderloin districts last night, | * ee the store at (hat /arrested the landindies and the in pemres will be allowed to con te, administered an antidote, and | mates, and confiscated all the stock | § " Pres harried to the hoepial All /of lquor found on the premises.|,, The bik structure at Pee 8 | to sare the Woman Were |The raid was ordered by Prosecut- salto enrages ae she died soon jing Attorney Vanderveer. | Smee ber arrival ac the hospital, | In the new district, at Bighth av Husband. | and Plummer et., the landiadi¢s and p~ *y faa ot Tom,” | tbe walters were arrested on | tite “eomsrany oo fied te tne | Mie aha the mother /°RATK of harboring tiquor for un-| ‘Mis Company were filed In the [irs Marsha on abe @¥ful sale, The inom: Of the | SPUR, SuEKors cstes | mmrtanate girl, when be }1, 1906, and the Incorporaters Ap | morning of her daug | places outalde of the district were! . . i Tell sobbing to | KON UP Of & Charge Of condueting | CMe WH. Mand, John F. Tengey | h, and she fc disorderty houses. In both cases | jand M. Teukuno, The trustees) Bers and sister of the) the ultimate charge will bo main | Same. Brunk does rien tt ar Tom Stewart, # team | MAYO Miller declined to say to-| \Ane and Mi ilrade, | Te ies Tom Beware cause (day whether he had ordered the shut cok he ‘Seana tot ct cae entle. raid, or Bad sanctioned uch 8|torview this morning, and Jobst Mae ere wald: “Tom | Move on the part of the prosgeut | was out of bie office at the times tee und eare and worry |! attorney. Progecuting Attor | the reporter called maa work, were too much for|Pey Vanderveer nald that he had \ pe eblidren ; Thia immense structure, repre} j taken the Initiative in the rald him | senting fn outlay of $70,000 for] g |) self, without any suggestion from ¢ ildren, aged 5. 6) % building and ground alone, has! Mie iat motherioss by the | the mayor, a |been oceupled by the women Iittle d the explosion. Mall i Stewart. They are! Wilt Not “Butt In, jmore than a week past, and sacks were strewn about the room, ite zs ; “ . mother and are all “Within whatever restricted div | enforced closing uy ptedly | | showing that these were piled realise what this ‘er trict the city may designate juside means @ big lons to the .owners | jagainst the safe to deaden the mean to them. j the city Mmits,” explained Vander. from a financial standpoint | xbt against the alleged evil has mn centered, was built by the de Investment company, eap we ore | sound, “ The only intimation leading to a Woman. veer, “thie office has no concern | ‘You need not be surprised at | rad eentitel ign beautiful |e8eeD4 that the houses shall be run/any raids hereafter,” said Mayor boyy Rod Me La aoe heer wavy biadh hatr and |!) an orderly manner. The clty/ Miller during an interview. SEARCHING jont ¢ beach, shortly after 3 o'clock, We Bho was about 27 Must look afer the restricted dis-| will deal with this problem, and $$. as heard the bottom of a boat serap- Be ee ct | A SAMPLE OF BAD LAW Her domestic | 80 bawdy houses will be allowed to/ tory manner, although at times the The law which compelled Judge Main yesterday after- o ; | : hing this may ¢ e operate, That is the fixed polley| manser of accomplis! eens awe lot thi# office-—not to interfere tn | seom strange and come unex was the immediat the city’s management of the dis | pectedly.” noon to declare invalid the mortgage held by James A. Mur- ray covering the Sullivan block in this city, is, from a finan let set aside for the existence of| “Why was the rid made by the Set wie eadostanly | Sas snenments om “t'cannot answer that question,” |THE HOME OF MUR- ir cial standpoint, and the standpoint of an investor, ROTTEN LAW. Murray purchased the Sullivan block mortgage in good faith, and stood prepared at any time to accept the amount of the obligation and discharge the mortgage in cach of the houses raided the | he replied. coe a the deputies gathered a large amount! “Are your office and the prosecut- DERED WOMAN Pens however, was | Of evidence in the shape of liquer|ing attorney working together on RANSACKED. identifying her, aa she (Of all kinds. The pronecuting at jth cleaning up of these places? name and address | torney’s office was littered with this) wi nother question. He declined to accept tenders of the amount of the mort- age, contingent upon its sale to the Mercantile Invest ment Company, for the reason that he believed the Mer- eantile Investment company, if they secured the mortgage, plunder today, | “I cannot discuss that either,” . ec ectier,| All of the women argeuted wore |he replied, weal, two brothers, George | taken to the county jail “and a num The Beatle Commercial clab has aad & sister now in one | ber of them who secured ball were | completed arrangements for Ite in| evita! immediately released. A fow oth-| vestigation into vice conditions and of Tom Stewart ers had to while away the time in alleged graft in the neers ot would not treat fairly their co-partners in the ownership He baa been away durance vile until this morning. EN we ti, alate oberg of the Sullivan estate. The Irish owners of one-half of Same iep months. Wheo | nove ioday nine women were still | at neon ‘The Investigation : the Sullivan estate were willing that the mortgage should i said was that | behind the bare, having been un-/ wil! be taken. \l all he hen he got |able to Ket together enough money | will be conducted behind lowed he es and discharged so that the estate could be at once be bes not been | 10 deposit ball. | doors, the witnesses will be neal divided and their half seoured by them. ‘They so con Two Raide Made. ioe thelr entimony transcribed aad) ie Aended in open court. James B. Howe, for himself and The raid directed trom the office | #saed. | dhe other Seattle “heirs,” fought to have the mortgage | ing on the sands, The engine must ‘WILL BE FOUGHT TO be been bag rag Bond rd sound THE LAST LEGAL was heard. An hour aft this sound was heard, another indicated that the boat was being pushed DITCH. joff, ‘Then the puff, puff of @ | launch was heard beating it down the bay. The effect of the decision of! Officers at Charleston, Port Judge Main yesterday afternoon in ey ge Mewes Tacoma, ae jthe matter of the James A, Murray | 2"! omer one were. pate th mortgage on the Sullivan block | e rented yo: Sere | will be to prevent a settlement jof the affairs of the estate cnt FQ L S$ j#uch time as the mortgage matter jahall have been heard by the su-| ARE LOST |Preme court of the United States. | | An appeal from the decision of Judge Main will be made to the jsupreme court of the state of | (Ry Unites ) Waslington, and then, if necessary, a ailie “ Pree. to the supreme court of the United! | VANCOUVER, B. C., May 14.— | Stacen | Four fatalities occurred late yeater- ‘ The hope entertained by the Cor. | i} neat Prince Rupert. All of the a }coran interests that the matter of traction of the Grand Trunk Pa- |the Murray mortgage might be set- | St" adit swe \s: tied within the next few weeks, | “fc of the ee gard geen ! bag ted Pern mpaae ee ; eclared invalid, And Mr. Howe won. Such law as that | and that the property could there. Maer. et Sete oe eee be Teambere of the police department RE- | N 0 ; CIM E NT compelled Judge Main to so determine would make {Pelee staae ie nae fasted gh near Aberdeen, 25 miles. east ot a } % “oh! }of estate made, ts elim ; | wore ordering the women to vacate | possible for lawyers to “job” half of the mortgage hold- }/{/,, “itis, made, is de Main. 2 | Prince Rupert, Alex. Watts, of ers in the state of Washington out of their property, just J A, Murray has been “jobbed” out of $68,000. | For this reason, it is not im | Maryeville, Tenn., and A. ee as james A, Murra’ a6 jo! oul A 3 | Ps . | were blown up and Instantly kil | probable that the Mercantile In-/ Two Montenegrius were drowned a | Yewtment company, holders of the t Salvus camp, 60 miles the ‘ HiewHowe half of the estate, may | ® bay Phys . i jthe rooms in the big butlding at A | Eighth av. 8. and Plummer st, and { i } | two or three other structures In that | district harboring this class of peo- | ple. fee) pemessermt oo eee — a meceed in inducing the Corcoran |>*¢e"® They were bringing a boat- joe tteay wee made ty srrest pod ¢ { EE clutched ip her band, although cold | interests to accept one of the of. | 0nd Of powder down the river when Tid pee) jong excess {be walters aad pro] NEW YORK, May pati Au: SG actin Dataset evidenne cat POLICEMAN FIN D§ | ters already made to them for thelr safilng tds teak tes eet cee r er 14.— | Drietora by prosecw Gustue Heinze was re-indisted ' died ting to the last half of the estate. With the pros. z Bed einen god a3, | ney's depaties 1h the buildings tn today by the federal grand jury ; we yt ger ty BOY IN SHOP pect of a settlement of the estate |i, He Mi. Walle tying to get it ; “a ratt'in the Hoquiam | this district. The police were left) OONtl oof misappropriation foo, GL was standing in the doorway be- far removed, thore is the probabll-/2N¢ te pen. wate throw tet ke * @elock this morning, and |*0 deal with bee aon ea oh wn; | of funds of the Mercantile Na- sis, : Teed Tas Hitchen” and the bea _-—— fty that the Irish interests may : The body was re- tional bank, He en' pi room. The officers found her| As Patrolman Johnaton was pass. |™&Ke up their minds to take what | SW! water, carried away and lost, 4 erouched way over in the corner, in ing the Sunset Collender works, they can get and go home. & place seemingly inaccessible to) Hisliey ‘of Meitanns LAWY CHARG 0 & person mortally wounded. Coup-|1021 Pike st, last night at 11 y ‘gag jo’elock, he noticed a man back of} J8mes A. Murray purchased as an the show case. The policeman at|!avestment the $75,000 mortgage, | WITH SERIOUS » turned his searchlight on the executed by John Sullivan during | his arrests In this district on the Bt Tan ibe | tact that Hquor was being sold with | Lumber company at |OUt @ City license. The houses rn Laspett the had taken out a Kovernment license, | plod Seis | Reduen, Hils | but the charter requires in addi- The indictment retu tee Agel ogy * tion a city Meense within the dis-| day is similar to that on wi Basisted In the re e+ fixed inside of the city| Banker Charles W. Morse was t guilty, and was released IS ie original bend ot ARTHUR GEORGE, Whe Confessed to Killing His Wife. The eight thousand dollars it on caerrereny | | his lifetime, and covering the Sulli- | j gold which Mrs. Elizabeth George, Mini clt Intruder and saw him ‘craw! back | D8 lifetime, and covering the Sw boty. Himite, convicted. Noe Be ten 0 Ee lake tele of Avie George, 6116 MAM |to the rear of the store on his |V@0 block. John Sullivan died, and, | 4 | Will Close All Houses. charges Lingo rly big A et Holly av, 10 gelato Meee Ria hands and knees, Running around | #fter holding the mortgage for 10 " 9) Mayor Miller announced Jast funds with in hae lolly av., to the rear, the officer found the | Ye@ts, Murray a few months ago in- salt night that he would close up all) [t enumerates a long awny in her home, nas not been man working at a printing presse |#tituted legal proceedings to fore- | (By United P claims amounting to $2,280,00. COLUMBUS, Ind, May = found, although the police and the “=======3 | coroner's deputies have heen ing ever since the kitting y: ina. Mra. George was known to have been of a secretive nature, and to IPE a MOT hit fone ot Be retiee serrescrss| [Cetattbone tates bee's een eheh| the Seoratton _feomtise | Realising the fact that people, cided it was porter proper far ot ple ek taaes obey calife enaeah: hase him to take his medicine and Bet) Wien the officers first appeared fo take entire charge of who wanted to pure! cows #0 square by stinging someone else. on the ph m4 after George had gira m of the streets and they could have hice, creamy milk Negotiations with Morris opened |i seit up to the authorities, every MBA Guring the progress of the with their meals would not buy and a date for the sale wee The | srawer in the place had been ran ' a | er w , dechted : ponsios with skimpy milk reser. worst cow in Freddie's ked, and the Woman's trank war tga capri abnnge vate "yred my Mt O'Brien, just picked for Mr. Morris. A visible esi Wik the tray pects aan By in the rome oe pelor to making a sale to Seth Mor- lamp in the milk tank of the cow | and tad contents sahesld Abate @¥, Aid Marion at. was chos-|Mix, Also of O'Brien, Inflated the didn't look good to Freddie, #0 he| sone pave every appearance of ‘with the Hghts turned on, and ap-| close the mortgage. The ofercantile | ,, ‘ parently unconscious of the trouble | !avestment compat thereupon ae- | Charnes Cwldwell the attouney whe he had caused j cured an order from the court pre Knox from office, was: atreated to- The lad, as he proved to be,| Venting the satisfaction of the day, after being pursued lst night explained his actions by saying that] mortgage, or the disposal of itm ls" sokee of 100 men, bearing & tho store belonged to his father, | any other waxthanothosteh the | roo. ‘and headed by two bloods and that he was looking Yor some:}sabrogation of his (Murriy's) rights | younds, held,in leash by the father thing. He gave his name as Lee | to the Mercantile Investment com: lof Bema Ren y, & 16-year-old girl, Parry of 1821 I4th av | pany | Whom he ts accused of attempting to entice away from home. | Tonders of the amount due on| ao = t jdrigage, amounting to $68,000, | we then made to Murray's attor |ney and Seattle agent, but were ? declined upon the ground that} OF TOBACCO ; | Murray would not be a party to} any proceeding which might give! | y jthese resorts, regardiens of where! CH HERE - BOY ACCUSED OF Siti st, wien the word| UNIQUE SWINDL ‘emblazoned In large let | ' Tenders Deciined, ‘ heme for fixing that, . to the Mercantile Investment co e i traftie on ™milkgiving portion of bossie’s devised a #0 having been searched for hiddew Twenty cents fs all two holdup} to the Me m mee of ete m o ps anatomy with a bicycle pump, The and the bicycle pump was brought | eoney, and when the officers dle men got from E. D. Samples, of 747 | pany a club to fdrce a settlement The cigar stand at pler 12 was WF Obchaloned during the con- | 5ae wan made Into action action | Covered that the woman was a bor Seventh av, S., last night about 11| with the other heirs to the Sulli-| broken into at about § o'clock last Hon Wouldbe slight. | Agcording to Deputy Sheriff! Morris has taken though that | trader, who was constantly either o'clock, at the corner of Seventh | Yan estate night and a quantity of clgars and f Mark Freenian, to whom Morris against Kopp as yet, alt ena his | buying or selling, the opinion be ay. N, and Broad st, Samples re These, tenders were, of course, | tobaceo taken, Five boys Were seen poured out his tale of woe, Kopp, bleycle pump was the > thet won't|came more rooted than ever that ported the hold-up to the police. contingent upon the injunction | coming from the place by C. Mann- CLUB ELECTS who ia a youth under fifteen, td oa beg 0 op et pesos vg {ahe had money hidden away 2 | order nea by he court The | ing = gn et ay, and ny - le several cows at an auction, give tha 4 P |Mercantile Investment company | furnished the police with their de- DELEGATES |ceny to find that they were worth milk in as a Reheat Sd “ee swims ty jai,| MRS. ELIZABETH GEORGE, ROBS A HOTEL | thereupon abandoned its clalm to | geription than the price of their appearance. Deputy Sher ee ee oS eee subrogation and argued that the) Robt. Goss, a teamster, whose ad- ee er! Sov anne Veasher man says the hee haw is on Mortis dented iinet Ba on feet Sis Who Was Murdered Vesterday. Two r mn in the Woodland ho- jmortgage was invalid because of dress is unknown, was arrested by . . ery town from Seattle to »| money hidden A pl, at 2516 Third av., were entered » refusal of James A, Murray to | Patr tsey BEER Gieniy Feiiicas wauas-|_ Fred ned boon tangy andihe Go: KS Overy LOND" campaieansiadh|en we-hes-wot-lived Sik het. Jing thia with the position in which | Sh at 2516 blind ay. we aye | ete refusal of Janes A. Murray to | Patrolman Litsey upon suspicion of by a sneak thief yesterday and sev-| accept any of the tenders made. | having a knowledge of the robbery, ite reg - — held roth) === 2 three years the police do not place | she was found led the Investigating | oral articles of men's wearing &P- |} It was upon this point that Judge i _ Mt the federated ‘ much confidence in his story officers to think that George had parel were taken, Jas, Ryan and | Matin’s decision was yesterday ren 1 dh p.m #, at The plen that George gives about! bnoked his Wife into the corner IN| Fa) startin, the mon who occupled | dered in favor of the Mercantile In oA delegate jelognt | to the 6 | making the trip yesterday to settle | their fight aud then had deuberate | i... ome suspect a former roomer, | ventment conipany mum to be held in Seattio the} the differences which existed be-| ly killed her. Nothing to disprove! wie peoently left the house | Unless Murray sueceeds in his | BME Ih June wore oicctod | tween himself and wife M& soouted| this theory has been advanced ex- | lappeal to’ a higher ‘ogurt, he Will i ites « ed are Mra,} by the authorit as he bought a ——___-_—— cept the story told by George him Eva L. ane, Ethel | peter! rte By i ‘MRS DEVOE GUEST)": unable to collect the amount} gun on the da pre, and because! ge ue on the mortgage. nol for} he made the trip on Thursday in The marital life of the George = thet ee wea b Mrs. & T. Bchott, Mra Pree. Attorney Cleary, ehiet cc os BNOES Trecy, Mrs. Hun-| yumi aries Mey 16—The| ine defense, coniinually clashed with| stead of. Sunday, which was histfamily has always been one of die-| Mrs, Kmma Smith. De woo, preale Miss A, Baffay of 1688 Bovlaton Tyndall, Mra. At-| third day of the trial of Flores Ma-| pistrict Attorney Alexander over the| regular calling day cord and strife, Her divorce wis | dent of the Washington Equal Suf- }av. reported to the police that a r, Helen De Voe, Mre.| go y ° tvera, alleged ‘oduction, of witnesses. A large) Because of the fact that George! secured because In a violent fit of | frage association, will be the guest! STEALS CLOTHES {sneak thief had entered her room i 1 fa Liiey Cane ure [ak tech Bap Mavibettaen. cies loxican cfficialy and #e-| has been out of employment for} temper he struck her to the floor,| of the Young Women's Bducatior 1| Theodore Neppe wee tinted at beta ‘ Lat ag a ia ais or Boriey Mrs. Gordon. | began thin morning with & court|oret service inen were present, aajthe Jast three months, the polloe The neighborhood is worked up| club at its meeting, to be held on| the FE uropean Sram, a hos fy gold brage es be ‘ ee : Mrs. Nellie M. Fick, | room packed to the doors, The work] well as cc rrospondents of p-| think that he went with the expreas|ta a great extent, and it George | Monday night nex ; t the home of] ton reported a he poltee that Seip po) ngs #0 Rio ee pis 3 clo lot the attorneys was confined to! peal to Reason and other socialist) purpose of forcing her to give him| could have been found by any of| Mrs, Mason, 816 Terry av All| vom one haa pets lg ote er sips aes * ait, Fon Bo “ Midress won| identifying wignatures to letters al-| papers, & sum of money, and that when she | the men around Brighton Beach las} | friends of the cause are invited to| terday and had * en * on ante bh | Pa ‘eon at eo Ne. Mtb. Vverrtt Jones | teged to have been sent by the de-} The, trial will probably be con-| dented his request he murdered her, | aight his life would have been en-|be present and hear Mra. Devoe's | @ palr of pants, Detective Griffit “ are in fon 80 ¥ fn Utah.” j fenidacite. cluded this week, The frying pan which she stilij dangered by mob violence, wecount of Ue outlook In Chis |state, 'Mmvestigated the case, clew was fou ‘~ Men f