The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 28, 1909, Page 1

| ol 11, NO. 108, TEN PAGES HOT DOWN WOM TAEET ics of Hundreds Is Shot by Wife of He Is Claimed to) — ie Murdered. —— Valted Pree) W YORK, June 28.—Driven to by the thought of her! Mrs. Loulsa Versiga, fain 25 years of age, to-| ‘xd mortally wounded | Versagia, whom she ac ‘of murdering ber husband a ‘The shooting took place today and was wit factory employes on their way to Work who fe a l¢yearold shot four times by the woman, who Was pre ‘a bystander from firing | into her victim u Woman encountered ing, she drew a her apron and) the face of the | Teached for his as though to draw a re) Phat the Woman was quicker | be and he fell to the pavement through his abdomen penetrated the third his back and left band made no attempt to gurrendered = herself achat Without resist told ber story very calm der husband was Black Hand and by Versaxia. ind her child of starvation. wo she shot Ver would die removed to a hos es BY LOUIS CANTELYOU. are belng made 1 feel that | am indeed fortunate There is little | Your exeellency tho M recovery and sur-| Hay, has called an emergency see his death ts but| sion of your aw makers during my stay tn your country Surtalsing that | would view your exposition only, | have also the ON HELD pleasure of viewing your chamber of deputies at work. Which I en “aera Press) Cal, June 28.— Soy greatly 63 years of her own act, the used governor, be SCHINELY MAS HOLE OF WhiP Legislators Now Asking Him to Resign, Fearing He Will Make Good on Threat He Has Made. if HUF THE STAR OLYMPIA, June 28--Tho latest turn in the Sehively tangle is a con \certed effort brought to bear to pre vail upon him to resign. Beaton, 80 mixed up and Interlaced have) with opinions grown, and #o violent the fn connection with | pposttions engendered that Schiv. Of matter relating |°!Y, sppears to have the whip hand, of Corwin g |#0d legislators are now begging him Me Sullivan estate |‘ resian On several occasions, when Scbiv- thie morning in | ’ court, and upon mo- ely has been pressed hard, cal ofa ition she ee gine AGAINST he will take several other persons ot heretofore respectability to the depths with him. in the great American card game, | but of late the \picion that it is not all bluff, Palmer Bill in Air, been | ternoon have the charges complete by morrow and they will be presented to the senate. In the meantime, every pressure that can be avalled of will be direct 1 toward Sehively in the hope that » will condescend Yo quit hia of iting attorn hs the ealen fendant a J for trial, Sodany ease will po Bay er A. . ) Meth es rt. onto of Palmer bill, abolishing the office, Bt the heed of a committoc | but if they have a chance {t is not Ministers of Seattle {x {n.| Visible to the naked Adminia- the uptown cafes anq| tration friends have looking | , ald this morning that the | lonsingly and lovingly at Senators Et Would not be able to| Cotterill and Nichols, but neither of | Proprietors for some | these King county men will wtand | Selling liquor to minors, | for such an evasion i cee they bad evidence| If the administration could by Of Witnesses but |#ome chance get the desired major. oll to make sure of|ity in the senate for the abolition c he went any fur.|of the office, the state would be the matter, treated to the unique spectacie of | waiting th: months for the office | AT BREWERY. to be abolished Charges Up Tomorrow. re It requires a three-fourths vote to ce which pared In the paint|sttach the emergency clause to an Wilson, em.| measure, and by no stretch of hope depart. | can the administration see 28 votes, Brewing @| Both branches assembled thia at company’s plant at Goorge Attorney General Bell wil led the entire south 0- of the bullding shorty atter irday night. The ment Shout $60,000, v's BREAGURY Y RECEIPTS, . | . * * rox ino 28.—~The Y shows: Ke + dis en) + disbursements, FIGHTING WHITE PLAGUE, #.—Vigures il- ased notivity the | * + YORK, June of the iner SSITION AT. land growth of the Boclety for Btudy and Prevention of Tuberculo NEW | lustratty ae rays PERK RK ay oe aL ® made #16/134 #| that $000,000 persons are enrolled | * wie were alles, and deputies groups and make efit of the chors coneitoyens. receive his daty bench. a the Gilead tree Clark ti which pany m ad but. P fr. Every man ls expected to as every ma stands bis duty in a differ the divers We caric greatest pleasure lals Bourbon to attend Le re or Chamber dos Dep ah number pe ney of turtate and In Paris it has always been my the press our matertale 5 SENT 10 AISON AND lawe fo r diem »pinton 4 Or r the be and | te INED TOD The ur in y t We irnaliate of of Joseph Masoero Scathing- ly Rebuked for Assault on John Cicoria by Judge Gilliam. Acting upon the Prosecuting Vanderveer who pleaded guilty to the charge of | | asaault with Stiomiet to KIN tn the} jshooting of John was a desperate character iam this morning gave the maximum sentence two years and a fine of $5,000. t Attorney hat if Joseph Cleort jeorge statements of F Masoero, a on Mi of one jay Judge | Masoo ro to Judge Gilliam scored the defend Judge GIllt am from ant In a scathing « He said that he had b informed that Masoero was ver he has} fai, quarrelsome announced that when he goes down | bad man ech from the} ce | and a thoroughly came t wit advised feek different companion They are still trying to pass the | {, ek the pent he o & tt h an ut Ma tentiars That he had attempted) to kill his wife three times | down Francisco and Yor @ long | since the couple ime this threat was looked upon] He said that Masooero had attacked | jas one of the tricks Schively learned|q man at Second and Washington sts. a short time back, and had tried » is growing & 8U#/to jab his ayes out brella q je 0 ro after | Masoero took hin sentence quietly AUSTORIG TREE AAS BEEN WASHED AWAY (Hy United Press.) VANCOUY neouverites lows of th dd th landed ER, historic which ir canoe marked the y fur traders of the Hudson Bay 1824 on the of the Columbia river, now the foot of Main street undermined yesterday waters of the in the water, bark and hunters, in river being branches Wash today In ot The old by by Lewls June 28 mournt 805 wh a t ban relic the ¥ souvenir | Se Al BANK CLEARINGS, eattle, Clearings Balances today + $1,046, 211,165.19 Tocoma, Jalances , Portland. Halances * % Clearings today public today, showing | * Clearings today © BLLT9,147 129,808 + $979,118 116,743 ng old Baim of SEATTLE, WASHINGTC [ARTIST CANTELOU TAKES IN | THE SIGHTS AT THE CAPITOL when addresses another thing like it is cor Occasionally able gentieman aa a “pot of wine boodler” tr ur tongue ducive to due 4 Your greatly aor cha. and I w reasod =mo nothing dur he typ the laws for this KE lh | Police Promise Something Is Now Advanced. ST. MICHAELS, Md., June 28— It is hinted this afternoon that one or two arrests will be made by the police in the Woodill j Eastman tragedy. It is further | intimated that the arrests will not be made here or at Balti- more. Tha police are now firm in the belief that Eastman’s le ter regarding hie part in the crime genuine and that the were others in the party when Mra. Woodill met her death, MICHAELS, f the t East wht ot Mr in aw Ma Ntor who ti pursued tor the Edith wn uy June f Robert Haate sulclde urder bungalow near here |neanion « TT) n hie und taking p | An firm attach ent w Md wy to Eastman remo the red it pract true Ww night when Mr M f the nd} ks aa} high and Is now lying atrippod of tte Se eeeteeetes ee? +lo the fight agalnet the white plague. |e kk RR RR RR KR RK mation | The bunga th heriff t Theory There ina tt Woodill waa lonely bun le Advanced, ry ‘that Idith Nred to East Ithout kno ing and that d detained th A tt re » small ntained t wa again | Dlace bottle will terday that tle drugs a grave of the was ald undertakers noveral new morbid pers at the grave. ping 12 miles away at Easton preased no desire to attend the poral, ure narec In soene not erim 50 feet from the away thelr n the Bastman, and assistants, ma were only ones Mrs atoy ex fu ng | nd the} that I Cat Doing in the Maryland) Tragedy—New Theory of | i IN, MONDAY, JUNE 28, BY BONNIE WHEELER Past the of life aged, in his own eyes a failure | Vietor ©, Colby, of 4123 Forty W,, Went Seattle, gave struggle adversity Inet Saturday and hi for him prime discour wocond ay, & up the agatnat afternoon ent & bullet crashing through brain Thus ended the Hut the him must be carried on t The wife of the auleide aided, tak Alone » that w husband's shoulders Colby, whose attempts to make & living at real estate were unsuc aeful, lout heart. He was unable to make @ good living for his wife jand, somehow, he must bave fig j ured it out that she would be bet | j struggle battle so terminated for y another must now up the unequal strug le she an bur her must bear the too heavy for " ter off without him, or, perhaps, he tired of the struggle, well which; but just became no one can aay este UARR One Man Dangerously Wounded and Two Oth- ers and a Woman Pain- fully Injured. led slashed on }the head and back and a woman forehead when two Were cut and was gashed on the Herbert Mateee, an Italian, a knife his at town Inst night, Mike Jononoviteh is at the Pa cifle hospital suffering from a dan stomach at home gerous stab wound In the Nick Stoaik cuts du the head and back, and Mrs Mary| Matese, the knife wielder's | wife, was cut on the forehead Steve was slashed on the arn The | arto ja nursing several Joe cutting waa the ng bout. It was shortly be fore 10 o'clock that Mateae, who ts sald to have been indalging in ‘Gage red,” ma ® grab for tty Mary Plety, who essayed to elude his amorous arma Mateae’s actions angered Mr. Sto- sick, Who Jumped ween man and maid, This angered Mr, Matese, who drew a knife and proc to light Into the gathering After sticking the knife into Gtoslek, Matese started to carve |Jononovitch. Steve Joe then took & hand in the melee, and for his rm. In the meantime the women ted from the room. Matese started after them caught Mra. Matese on the porch, The enraged Itallan at long enough to slash hie wife on the forehead, and then fled from » bloody scene. About an hour later Matene turned to ine house and took in cash and three wateh Sin |that time he has not been seen, al though police patrolmen of the Weat Seattle station have scoured the neighborhood The knife wielder, according |the poli¢e, was in trouble a years ago, when he is alleged have shot a man. ‘TWENTY-SEVEN ARE REPORTED KILLED and front re to few to |CROWD GATHERS AT BUTLER HOTEL TO FIND THAT 3 CATS ARE DEAD. n lives ffed morning When an ar tank in th kitchen of the tel exploded and filled tt the pungent fumes. The report that than dosent lives had be fi to the street wal filled the alley between Jam each neck being n the ¢ f nla » he with kly . Cherry ste 1 to pane a bodies fighters f, and charge m7 xodu a by aided d bravely into the fume itehen, ‘The ble waited with a the prospects of s belng an attraction not LAeut, ¥ by smoke he crowd morbid finally @ basement with merged nd then the joker port be ywd diapersed. explosl ho spread ond dama rd § The m was nomi at it towa y The er incident to the nal ee ed WEATHER FORECAST, Showers tonight or Light south winds, Tuesday . . lo * * Ong man was dangerously wound: | 1909, HUSBAND DIES WHILE THE WIFE MUST LIVE | tion tn a vain wielded | Youngs | | THE SEATTLE whatever the Colby chowe oblivion He sought the Butler hotel and while the distracted telephoning in every direc attempt to locate her| husband, Colby, with the fixed pur pose of ending it all in hie mind. wrote four letters, which show in a} measure the strain under which he was laboring. Then, seated in a big loather chair, partially screened from he placed the revo to his temple and the flash that fol lowed carried his soul into eternity reason, lob by wife was view ver That flash cut away the last eup port, weak as it was, and left Mary Colby, the wife, alone, facing life with the complex problem of many | debts and a liviihood to be earned Who can say whether the rash act of the discouraged man was a! That's a and per entirely ike remain brave one or cowardly? Question ae old as time haps no one can view it impartially, and so it will question of the hereafter, unsolved } GUTS FOUR NEW YORK DURING A) POLIGE WN THE DARK Sigel Case Has Baffled the Sleuths and They Admit) They Are Now Without | Any Clues. (By Vatted Presa) YORK, June 2%-—On the the discovery of and presumably NEW th day after Riale Sigel's body the nineteenth day after the crir mmmitted, the York po Hoe are obliged to admit that they are further from a clow to the whereabouts of Leon Ling, the Chin who is thought to killed waa ¢ New have | her. lthe fact that the right) climax of a j ene palne received a thrust in the right | the trunk but did take the sult cases | to obtain | |laundry keeper refus BY’ AN ani x | Waal *\the city, *| most every saloon was visited, * | sulting in the above number of § a KR ROTOR KK Rm reals, Leon made more than one desperate attempt to din- of the body of Blsle Sigel was brought to light last night Chunk Bin, hie roommate, has established murder was com- mitted about noon on June 9, Takes Body Away. Witnesses Evidence that now have beon found by the police who declare that before Leon Ling tried to dispose of th body in Newark the following day he firet employed a large tourin, Automobile in which he placed the trunk at 2p, mon June ® From the Bighth ay he rode with the trunk in the motor car to 4 yun dry in Harlem, conducted by a frie of his who is a p nber of the Chin high treason society known the Gee Gong Tong, of which Le r & memt With htm he ale had three sult cases, fa which It te belloved were Elst Trunk te Refused. laundryman refused to house The keep and the pollee expect them. The trunk was kept In this laundry until 11 o'clock when Leon Ling t# said to have em ployed @ taxicab to take him and the trunk to Newark e of about 18 miles f Harlem. In} Newark, as had already been dis covered, the Chinese friend of Leon, who conducts a there Aino refused to accept the trunk, The fact that this man and the Harlem 1 to have any- thing to do with the trunk has led the police to belleved that they had knowledg of ite grey con & distanc restaurant some Takes Trunk to Room, in the morning of June loyed a Newark hackman « him and the trunk back to rk. The police idence that Ling attempt the trunk at several places but fatled and took it the room where the murder mitted and it re than a week later have ad tonal ‘ where wa und ty These t th the m verte police the who ngton ' mpletely up ry that Ling was sent the telegram from June 10 to Biale urents in thie city lid send that te ston and that Leon Ling inity on that date f the body n on Big Chinese Wa legram fr nvinee ho trying had at least “m the in te polls wa thie vi a Raid Chinese Mission, CHICAGO, June Chinese students gr ymen teacher 28 Twenty | ut ped abo ng W by the pi sion that eral we Sid » sisters, The police were t fee yesterday fro: been o¢ ks In the t apartment has nd roused to complaints of person: : mission, The police inform ed the sisters after thelr raid that under the building law ment could not be used a ind hinted that it might be we entirely wore near the A it up SALOONS ARE RAIDED, During & raid made Saturday night upon saloons found violating |the new code against selling drunk-| en men lquor, 26 arrests were | made by @ posse of deputy sheriffs. One posse took the north end of | the other the south on the | Bigel's clothes. | at night,| But a} TEN PAGES ONE CENT HORSE, WAGON AND Th DRIVER TAK A PLUNG INTO DEPTNG OF LAKE WOMAN 1 BEATEN T DEATH BY ROBBER IN MOST FIENDISH WAY HOUSEKEEPER 16 KILLED IN HER EMPLOYER'S HOME AND | SON 18 ARRESTED AS THE ABBASSIN, (Dy United Press PORTLAND, Or,, Ju 4 on & street corne yeaterday warrant him of murder, George Robbins, who father’s housekeeper, Mre. Emaline Casto, was killed late Sat urday afternoon in the Robbins pome, near Hood River, Or., ie to day a prisoner in the latter town. Constal anger of Hood Wver and Deputy Sheriff Morse, who traced young Robbins to Portland urned with him on the Jast train last night #o as to avoid any dem onstration at the depot In Hood River. The prisoner refuses to an questions, preferring to con } sult a lawyer first. That the mur der of Mra, Casto was premeditated is now the belief of the Hood River officials, Robbery was the Ar here late accusing ewer county motive woman was killed by a large with which the murderer erushed her skull, Mrs, Casto was working about the house when Wil Ham Robbins, her employer, left for town, Upon his return he. found his housekeeper dead on her bed The fiend had taken from his vic tim $60 in cash and a check for $75. SHOTS FIRED BY oTRIKERS PITTSBURG STRIKE-BREAKERS ARE TREATED TO RAIN OF BULLETS BY MOB. | (My Vaited Press.) | PITTSBURG, Pa June 28— Fourteen strike-breakers employed by the Pittaburg Railway company were driven from one of the c pany’s car barns by a mob of arm jatrikers today. In a fusillade |shote that were exchanged | Detective was wounded The affair was the first rioting of the strike and Sheriff Gumbert is distributing forces of armed dep uties throughout the city, fearing |further demonstrations. The fleeing strike-breakers were pursued by the angry strikers. Three hundred employes of a con struction plant near left work and joined in the pursuit. Not a car of the Pittsburg street railway system is running today. |The various lines apparently are |tled up effectively the striking employes, Who today reaffirmed their Intention to hold out for their demands, of seriously MOTION MADE. 10 SET ASIDE INDICTMENTS ATTORNEYS FOR CALHOUN BE- GIN BATTLE TO SAVE THEIR CLIENT FROM TRIAL, (By United Press.) | SAN FRANCISCO, June Motion to set aside the indictme against Patrick Calhoun was made today by Stanley Moore, of the trol-| ley magnate's defense forces € motion was made on th that the grand Jury dictments upon the cis J, Heney, who employed as General Kr condition: Mo Heney's appointme | district attorney Judge Lawlor fof going into th Jand will e his dec convening of the ¢ * AREST PROPRIETOR * OF PRINGESS ANGELINE iu the Princess Summit ay \ raid by police of on a charge of conducting a dis orderly hov Four women, who | gave their names as Winnte Fraser, Florence Salyards, Mae Lewis and Florence Brooks, and Joe Fos ter, Albert Fowler, Louis Stabbe and Joe Carlyle Mrs. McLean gave bonds in the sun of $100, while the others put up $25 apiece ints had been coming In frooly against the house for some time, and last night the officers a watch on the place for a long time before making th rald, returaéd the in ivice of Fran t that time was ant to Under an # the that noy a r detail, on upon the irt Wednesday McLean Angelin was arre proprietor of hotel, 1412 ted during a this ning were Compla set thelr} Attor- | intention | also arrested. | |Marion Zimmerman Has a | Narrow Escape, While | Wagon and Horse Go ta Bottom of Lake Union. lunging down the steep ‘hill om Brace-Hergerg e of thd a horse belongs | Newton st near the mills, and over the ral La Union trestle, ing to the drowned tn | Union driver, Marion Zim- merman, of 1129 North 84th st., thig morning narrowly escaped the same fate. Ae it was, he jumped just before the horse went over the bank and fell, striking his head on sorte pile ing, which partially stunned him, He was able, however, to swim ashore and make his way back tq the dairy Zimmerman was making bis firat trip delivering milk. He had just finished his work and was starting home down the steep hill which leads to the Lake Union trestle, when the brake on the wagon gave way and the heavy vehicle bumped into the horse, causing it to plunge forward, across the viaduct and thro the ratling into the water, which ts 40 feet deep at this place, Zimmerman’s escape was almost miraculous. The Clover the and the Leaf dairy was waters of Lake horse was dragged down with the wagon to the bottom of the lake. The wagon was recovers ed by means of grappling hooks at noon today, Nick Federsiel, the driver whose place Zimmerman was taking, had just left the wagon at the top of the hill, HER LOVE FOR “AN AFFINITY ~ CAUSES CRIME Minnesota Woman Kills Her Husband for Love of Farm Hand, Who Is Forced to Betray Her, County | | (By United Press.) | MANKATO, Minn, June 28.— Charged with the murder of her husband, who, it is alleged, stood in the way of her love for Frank Smith, a farm hand, Mrs, H. J. Led- better, wife of a wealthy farmer who lived near this city, was ar rested today. Smith, who is ak jleged to have had a hand in the crime, is held under the same | charge. Ledbetter has been missing from his home since May 4. Yesterday his dead body was found in a shallow grave on the farm. The head was crushed to a shapeless mass, apparently by a blow from a blunt {nstrument, | During hie examination by the |county officials today, Smith ts al- leged to have stated that Mrs. Lede better murdered her husband in | cold blood because of a blind Infatu- ation for him. He claimed that the attack was made with a heavy axe, After the examination of Mrs, Ledbetter and Smith, the police ar d William Schwant and his the woman's sister o od with helping to | Ledbetter’s body from a temporary grave in a barn to the place where it was found Sunday, Ledbetter was a resident of this | vicinity for years, and was promin- ent in county affairs. Smith been fn his employ for several months, SUNONY PERFORMANCE / DF SHOW CALLED OFF order that the ao } of his y for once B. F. Wallace, k- Wallace next ean- employ ireus may 1b holid during the st of t h AVE ¢ of the Bund. nager {rous, W k, toe cellation wee # for the Anco ven tho 1 to visit exposition mploye at the big sh grounds The clr here Sunday ever ng July appeared and on will now | ‘ » days J the t show on This is pany to WILLIAMS ON TRIAL The trial of F. C. William led with the embezzlement funds of the Poultry Producers’ union, to the amount of $ was begun this morning in Judge Gib liam’s court. While acting as seo tary of the unt n, Willams fa 1 of using ali the money ree f this big charg. of the joelved. <<