The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 4, 1909, Page 1

AUTIKE THE WORD OF HARDENED GRODK WAST MINE,” SAYS CRETAIN. TENNANT foster site | MILLER VS. TENNANT id Degree” Charges BY K. C. BEATON. Peter y for The sensational charges of F Miller, convicted burglar, Mleverest Crook '] concerning the systomatized course of physical torture he under Is Wasted, | *°® # the hands of Captain of Detectives Charles Tennant, have been been blazoned forth to the ctive Head. tyr ir world In the largest practicable and with the utmost journalistic ingenuity for startling effect The personality of Peter Miller, the contrast between his intel lectual endowments and the sordid crime of which he bis graphic and the romantic spectacle of his handed fight against the many hands of the law, have all contributed to give his accusations a wide credence beyond the bounds of common sense In the light of cold reason, the absurdity of most of Miller's charges becomes plain. That he suffered somewhat at the hands of the police may be believed, but such man-handling as he under. wert was in the nature of a personal altercation, and in no wise @ part of any organized scheme of thumb-ecrew cruelty to extort @ confession. That he was repeatedty beaten to unconsciousness by Captain Tennant, armed with a bludgeon, will not be believed by any fair minded person. The same can be eaid of a score of other details which Miller invented to controvert the state's evi dence againat him. In the p was ac cused oratory single ation of al admits ite share of the Captain Tennant. Miller's loud voice of accusation has been per mitted to drown out whatever protests Captain Tennant might made; Miller's hysterical pleading struck a morbid chord where Tennant’s blunt and emphatic the inherent sympathy for the the Instinctiv it typified by the resulted in the Miller Into a hero and the wholesale condemnation of a ge capable officer. TALKED WITH TENNANT. I talked with Captain (and The fanit) has done grievous wrong to the press of Seattle have of sympathy denials met with no rosponse; under dog” and opposition in every against authority as ” PETER MILLER : by the Police. ie has heard at length of Peter Miller against In of Detectives this morning than proper that from me. [ am ms of Seattle to and as 1 should police uniform have making of i and police mnant in my home last night, and I saw tears in his eyes as he told me how terribly thie whole thing had affected him. He didn't come to plead. He ask If his word was not as good as that of Peter confessed and convicted criminal ideration at least | “Why,” I sald to him, “no sensible man believes the things & seifconfessed | this fellow has said.” as. to the} “Indeed they do,” answered Tennant. “I can see it in the Fann t have ever | Way people look at me on the street. I feel It wherever I go, and it's gotten to a point where I can't stand it any longer.” Ptmao and a cunning) @f undoubted physical Here was a man over six feet tall, athletic, facts in Miller's case and came simply to Miller, self i and with a phys ' ileal courage that had never yet reached the breaking point, worry. {I ing about what « convicted criminal had invented to say of him If in an effort to escape the penitentiary. It was something I had never seen before in any police officer, and for the first time since this Peter Miller riot struck the court house, the thought came to me that Captain Tennant was just an ordinary human being, with sensibilities not unlike those possessed by the rest of us. Facts in the Case. he was iret arrested for) burglary, and shown | we'had that he/ the crime, he readily rather admitted the Bdmission was made | and without any re-| hard language. It} We began to suspect & band in the kill. MeMahon that he be ‘aod uasty. I honestly Miller was {mplicated and it was fear of Mhat impelled him to ory about my tortur | ni TENNANT HAS GOOD RECORD. And ,I realized that, perhaps, there were those who would take the word of this criminal, Miller, against that of any police officer, and if there were, that Tennant was not getting a square deal. I had known Tennant since the days when he had worn a patrolman’s uniform on a beat, and recalled that never had bis name been associated with stories of cruelty at the city jail. I recalled, also, that I had known personally of men whom he had alded tnto a life of respectability-—-men for whom he had secured positions and had given money. But I knew that the public didn't know of these things. There have been cruelties practiced at the city jail. I have seen men who could, I believe, have been handled otherwise, struck over the head with a bunch of keys tn the hands of a jailer and knocked to the floor, I have seen men browbeaten and bullied and threatened, but I have never heard, in 20 years of newspaper life—a life that brings one close to the police—of any prisoner being treated with half the severity that Miller would have believe was meted out to him by Captain Tennant But in the final analysis it gets back to a question of the verac- ity of Miller vs. that of Tennant. On the one hand we have a orim- dé burglar, thief, highwayman and confidence man. On the other hand we have Captain Tennant, who, in his 12 years of police service, has never been criticised for anything other than lack of judgment, and that on but rare occasions. We may believe whom we will, For my part, I never have given serious consideration to these tales of Miller, Tennant may have his faults, and there may come a time when he will become a just subject for criticism, but up to date in this Miller case has had anything but a square deal = NIGHT WATCHMAN OES IN BURNING FACTORY (My United Press.) PETALUMA, Cal Nov 4 Night Watchman Isaac E. Memory purned to death early today in which destroyed the office Miller once, when we his connection on murder. I did fo make him con he ran around | Mi shook his fist in my | even get out of Bruck him a stiff fist and made him| then became unruly | us : He had pawn ticket for Mc @emond and watch, in Spokane, I @ truth about Hit But Once. Miller made a Young burglary case Whatever to do with not to " “al T hadn't We struck me BM tells of being re © awake with a toe , of being trus Of having bis ris Mis teeth knocy ragged back and bole.’ and ,warehouse of the Petaluma In enbator Co. The watchman’s body was found with the right hand tightly clutching the knob of the front door. He apparently tried to escape building but smoke and before he Man Miller confor Others that he burg). ig been a th a been arrested ‘talking He laugh About the Young t ns congratulated rr foom and the jov Pawn Ticket the ownership POW ticket, put Men BAY him the w pawn. We Mminies, nipper a his Toom. He was overcome by then burned to death ud turn the door knob. The factory is running as usual today. The loss, which is estimated at $200,000, is covered by Insurance fire | FIRST BOUILLON CLUB - STARTS ON BOARD CAR Meridian car line all home hteen men stood at the terminus of the morning, waiting for their car id they discussed street improvements and_ the The name of A. V. Boufllon was mentioned, and the followed finally led to a straw Boulllon a were Mm & member street or foree for n that vote of the eighteen voted for this fifteen pledged themselves to work for both at the Then and there primaries and the elec ion and to vote for him, is the firstsBoullion street car club, and it promises to 1 the job all the tlme. 2} le had | ¥ from the burning | SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, = sD SCHOOL GIRLS CAN DRINK A GEORGETOWN | Arrest of Two in Seattle Restaurant Proves Bars! Still Open to Minors. ‘WILL BE PROSECUTED Deputy Sheriff Now Look- ing for Saloon Men. Two school giris, arrested after midnight this morning In a Seattle restaurant, who testified that they had been drinking in a Georgetown roadhouse on a joy ride party, gave the first new evidence that liquor could still be had by young girls at the Georgetown saloons. The sheriff's office took imme diate action, and Deputy Zimmer: | man is now out with John Doe war-| rants for the arrest of the saloon: | keeper and bartenders in question, | The girls did not know the name of the saloon where they were served with liquor, but Chester Stewart, a chauf r, who was held with them, Is accompanying Zim merman to identify the gullty quer man The girls are Emma Horndy, 17, and Emma Ob 15. Their fath ors were sent for and took them home, Hoth parenta swear they will prosecute the saloon men to the full extent of the lew. The arrest of the girls followed a disturbance in Charlie Louie's restaurant, on Third av, near Pike| a | There were six | Martha Roath, 23, the two girls, jand three chauffeurs, W. A. Frye, Rome Collins and Stewart. After/ | telling the lice officials about the “joy rid all were reiensed ox cept Stewart, who was held to help jfind the saloon men. HE PROPOSES AN EFFIGIENT GOVERNMENT |Bouillon Tells Members of Men’s Club of Baptist Church What Is Needed in Seattle. in the party, A. V. Boutllon, candidate at the republican primaries for mayor of | Seattle, last night told_the Men’s| jelub of the Temple BaPtist ohurch | that he stood for ctvic efficiency He said he was opposed to the | indiscriminate granting of privi |leges to private interests High taxes In Seattle were due to a lack of feeling of responsibility on the | part of the men in power to the people of Seattle, he declared, and [he insteted that the city should require more specific terms and conditions in the franchises and privileges granted, so that the pub: | ie, in ye to come, could have recourse to law to protect its rights, if threatened. He said that any franch that have been granted private interests in the past have been mere gifts of spe- | clal privileges | Burdens have been put on the | people, he declared, by making pub: improvements that they could not afford, and he stood for a safe, honest administration of public af faire oli all taal cpedbelichcs deselect * WEATHER FORECAST, | Cloudy tonight; Friday fair % light northerly winds: |* TOTTORI TOT OTTO tte MEXICAN BANDIT CAUGHT, | (By United Press.) < + * * GALVESTON, Tex. Nov. 4 News reached here today from Frio |eounty, Texas, of the capture of Inez Ruiz, &@ notorious Mexican | desperado, who is said to have kill ed at least 40 men during a bloody career, extending over 10 years Ruiz was a leader in the bloody Garza raids ‘and the San Ignacio Joutrages in 1902 FOR TOTTORI TOT It tok BANK CLEARINGS, Seattle. Clearings today .$1,966,725.%4 Balances 245,488.17 4 SSESES EEE ES EE Tacoma. Clearings today Balances $909,849 66,830 Portland, Cleavings today ....$1,740,8 Balances « (28 * * * * . * * * * * * * * * ee ee JEALOUS MRS. R. H. VAN DEMAN, FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN TO FLY. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 4.— Whenran army officer's wife has a jot of money—and a good many of them have-—it's great fun to put it all over the reat of the army wives with w Yew sensation, social or oth erwise. Bo Mre. R. H. Van Deman, |wife of @ captain stationed here, has all the other Washington army wives jealous. 1909” ONE CENT “LADY JAGK,’ SHE FLEW AND HOW | THE ARMY WIVES ARE! CX-ANIMAL TAMER {6 NUROE IN LAGT HOURS |Reporter Dunn Continues His Story of the Fearful Con How Untrained Nurse and Watchman are AI- lowed to Pronounce Death—Of the Almost Un- believable Methods of Preparing Bodies for —Of Dead Men Left Unwatched Dingy Basement for Hours. ions at County Hospital at Georgetown— Burial in int is hard to be there Dunn wa attendant made the daily nurses neeal ngs as they real that story the and She is the first woman in world to steer an aeroplane, the first woman to fly in America When she came down after Might with Wilbur Wright, she said Now I know why the birds sing Oh, 'm going to buy an aeroplane and fly! fly! fy!” And Mrs. Van Deman has money to fly, and fly high. The fourth installment will appear tomorrow ARTHUR W. L. DUNN. BY ARTHUR W. L. DUNN. Death is a function of little moment at the King the ements ee ANNEXATION QUCCESS IN / SOUTH PARK niidiee Club Dis- ptoves Claims Made by, Georgetown Antis. ‘The South Park Improvement club has taken official notice of the statements of Georgetown ant!-annexationtists, that South Park has not prospered since be coming @ of Greater Seattle This the Improvement club em phatieally denies and sets forth in cold figures the reasons of its de nial. In @ communication to The Star, signed by J y. Lees, president, and John Ander secretary, the club recounts its trial of indepen dent municipal government and ite fatlure, to the extent that three fourths of the residents of South Park voted for annexation Since South Park became the seventh precinct of the Twelfth ward, the club enumerates the fol lowing benefits: Finest Water on Earth. First: Installation of the best water system on earth, the mains being laid at a cost of $2 4 foot, charged to the abutting property owners; the inatallation of a 50, 000 gallon tank, costing $25,000, paid out of the general fund of the city ‘The appropriation of Second $6,500 for a municipal lighting plant, pow nearing completion. Third: Becoming part of School District ‘No. 1; the purchase school site at a cost of $5,100; im provement of the present school at the cost of $4,000 Fourth Street improvement in the last year to the amount of $2,500. fth the Purchase by park board of a playground for children | 36 at a cost of $35,000. Sixth: Purehas fire ation, cost $2 Seventh: Police patrolmen being detailed time. of a site for a 700. protection, all two the Beast Schools In U, 8. Highth Streets named numbered, which brought free mail delivery Ninth: South Park children are entitled to high school privileges. In conclusion the club -comyunt cation says “In view of dhe foregoing facts we do not feel justified in sitting quietly by and allowing South Park or more properly speaking—the seventh precinct of the Twelfth ward of the citx of Seattle—to be used as a tapaw for the benefi of those seeking to further their own or their friends’ interests,” and about ONTHE ROCKS. of aj — county hospital. It evokes no heart throbs from the nurses—they are calloused. Nor from the patients— they have troubles of their own. It is a cold-blooded function devoid of sentiment. yes It has one It makes it certain that a man is really down vessels crew sharp ocean IN h FG (}f There is no one to murmur a prayer for the departing spirit. No living hand to soothe the unkempt hair or perform the last Samaritan duties. It is a pauper’s yg s better off,” and “I am glad he is dead— Unknown Vessel Has Been he was ea a bother”—these are the only comments Calling for Help Ali among the nurses when an unfortunate passes away. Night. The only discussion that follows is, who will get ———— his bed. TOMALES, “cal ac ee ANY OF THE NURSES, TRAINED GRADUATE focks off Hodega bay. seven mises | NURSES OR NOT, CAN PRONOUNCE A MAN jes rah ehich meats 'e bay |DEAD. | ORDERLY BELCHER, THE EX-ANIMAL say that distress signals have been, TRAINER, OFTEN DOES THIS. NO STETHO- prouched the signals seow fancy, SCOPE IS USED. WHOEVER IS ON THE FLOOR heart, at reports they were sti WIL LISTEN FOR ANY BREATHING AND TRY tontag aren got hich settied yee FOR A PULSEBEAT. IF BOTH SEEM QUIET, THE prevails, making it impossible to| MAN IS DEAD. Mithun AND WHEN A MAN’S DEAD AT THE COUNTY scene, bit wil be unable ts. sia, HOSPITAL, HE'S DEAD. THERE'S NO GETTING wo boats that Can be navigated os | BACK OF THAT. AND WHEN A MAN IS PRO- 8 eee .|NOUNCED DEAD, PREPARATION FOR HIS Reyes are to the effect that Captain FUNERAL STARTS AT ONCE. te by oclands growls ys Br That preparation is a horrible thing. will have. to row: about if iniiee| $00d Point only. to reach the wreck dead. MAV. HAVE ana Down. | For this, John Travers, the night watchman, is INVERNESS, Cal, Nov. 4—A ‘called in—he’s a former “bouncer” at Billy the Mug’s Tee GAT Eindetiy Ooch oP teen lotorious tough saloon in Seattle—and now working |tncknese at the tag te te.\"°| for $15 a month—or Orderly Belcher, the ex-animal bis (to bee the wreck: Re ports from | tamer. The process is like this: help have been heard from shor STUFF ABSORBENT COTTON INTO THE for the must part, Yor seueh ant NOSE AND MOUTH OF THE SUPPOSED DEAD eka gy eae niw@| MAN, STRETCH OUT LIMBS AND TIE THEM TO- thin viciity tn" recent Sear an GETHER, FOLD ARMS ACROSS CHEST AND TIE none of them has ever been sal-| THEM, THEN FINALLY PRESS AND POUND ON ““the fact that no boat has put/THE CHEST AND ABDOMEN WITH FULL FORCE. iat Sn ue esse nd tte |JUMP ON THE BODY IF NECESSARY. |t0. the Roftom, and thar the THE IDEA IS TO FORCE THE AIR OUT OF rocks which rise above the | THE BODY. IT HAS THIS EFFECT—TO KILL ANY Pe a eet ' CHANCE THERE MIGHT BE THAT THE PATIENT SHORTEN N p MAIN MIGHT STILL BE ALIVE. AE | I watched Orderly Belcher perform this operation LINE FIFTY MILES on a patient named John Thayer—‘Daddy” Thayer he a |was called. Well past 70, old “Daddy” Thayer had Sarna Hana ealiseaL Ne in| made _a living for years selling pies on the streets of on. jee net ri id ya Mies | Seattle. Now he was pronounced dead. route it is claimed will shorten the | Belcher prepared the body for burial as I have described, Pepanes lice, hime te tian ne (Continued on Page Seven.)