The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 6, 1909, Page 1

SEATTLE, WASH., SATU ANTIC M NTS ARE. NEGLECTED FOR Ho AT GEORGETOWN HOSPITAL Dunn Tells of Superintendent Corson’s Con- — ed Absences From Duty and of Patients Who | for Him to Operate on Them—Of Man h Fractured Skull Who Had to Depend ‘on for Operation—Gives Day-by-Day Account at's Time on Hospital Floor. SPENT BY SUPT. CORSON ON “HOSPITAL FLOOR” TUESDAY, Oct. 12—Did not make rounds. WEDNESDAY, Oct. 13—Did not make ‘THURSDAY, Oct. 14—Was absent again. - FRIDAY, Oct. 15—Appeared for a few min- tes between § and 6 o'clock at night. Failed to DAY, Oct. 16---Did not make rounds. Wered an operation on patient named M. J. but did not appear. There was no oper- NDAY, Oct. 17—Failed to make rounds. DNDAY, Oct. 18—Was not at the institu- the morning. Watchman Travers im to attend dying patient, but he could Toward evening made brief rounds. DAY, Oct. 19—Was absent again. Drs. and Wardell operated on one of the pa- SDAY, Oct. 20—Came on hospital before 10 o'clock; made hurried in- DAY, Oct. 21—Made rounds of hos- in morning and spent short time in in afternoon. once in the afternoon. things over. TURDAY, Oct. 23—Made rounds of his t in morning and was on hospital floor twice Last time he mere- DAY, Oct. 24—Made morning round. At that night a diphtheria patient arrived, {Re was nowhere to be found. ONDAY, Oct. 25—Was in ward in morn- walked through twice during afternoon. AY, Oct. 26—He was there about the fumber of times. DAY, Oct. 27—Made usual exami- of — in the morning. Failed to show BY ARTHUR W. L. DUNN. table above represents the time that Dr. » superintendent of the county hospital, Spent on the “hospital floor’ of the institu- the 15 days Iwas at the hospital. In that “hospital floor” were all accident and Cases—cases actually under treatment by a In every hospital I have any knowledge sician in charge of such cases is supposed is patients every day. No wound is supposed until the doctor has. seen it. number of patients who should have been & physician daily varied ftom a few up to 50 My stay at the hospital. 1 was on the floor all uring that time. In the above table I am tell- ‘ Ba what I actually know per WERE CORSON’S PATIENTS. son’s name was signed to the medical of about half the patients. That meant that me his patients. The other physicians were a to Pay any attention to Dr. Corson’s pa- (Continued « raat on Page Ten. —[e ° wad ARTHUR W. L. DUNN, GLAS WILL TELL STORY: Lewia KR. Glavia, was dts | missed by erder of President Tatt j trom bia position as chief of the | Seattie fleld division of the federal | land office, will present hia aide! of the Ballinger-Pinechot contro. versy in Collier's of November 13. In announcing the publication of the Glavis article, Collier's of this week says | “Mr. Glavis gives facts which can be proved, and these facts go much jfurther than to demonstrate that Mr whe | man to be entrusted with the great | public interests, They demonstrate | that he has already taken steps which deserve not only condemna. | tlon but punishment. | President Taft Misied. Taft ie good natured and He has been outengeousty He is at the parting of the “Mr trustful misted. came into office, has ted to him for @ de cisive stand in favor of a square deal. Other quest which have come up to him hav cated and have sides. This is a fr proposition of public morality is a question of being for the people or against them ented many they are intended to give every hu man being a fair and equal oppor. tunity as far as may be. Oo gov ernment and the laws exist to in crease human inequality, or do they exist as far as possible to limit it? Who Glavis Is. “It is known who Mr. Glavis He was the confidential invest! gator of the land office who was thrown out of his position because he was too thorough. His facts have never reached the public, Next, week the people of this country will have an opportunity, by a little care. to know precisely what ons have been between ger and the Cunningham | Guggenheim crowd. They will know how, in order to help his friends, | Mr. Ballinger has gone express regulations of partment. They will realize more | fully the degree to which Mr. Bal. linger misied the president Into ex tremely essential misstatements of fact. They will have an opportunity to realize the extent to which Mr. Ballinger is willing to go to prevent justice being visited upon a states. man who has been occupied in de | frauding the people of the United States.” NEWSIES WILL CANCE. will dance k from tonight the functions Seattle ade ball, and or the moat prettiest co o, as well ae prizes for a hont of other things Ballinger ia a grossly unfit) been compli. | It is a qiestion of saying! that the lawe are intended to work | only against the poor man, or that | *| who plunged to his “WNWAITTEN LAW" TO BE. HER DEFENSE Killed the Man Who Had Wronged Her in Irresist- ible Impulse of Primeval called opinion. The pale, childfaced ¢ fendant sat quietly through ti Session thie morning, ently not realizing the fu nificance of the proceedin hae a most decided AUBURN, Cal Nov, 6.-The plea of wronged young American womanhood and the unwritten Jaw are to be placed on trial before a a jury here. The defense Alma Bou te i a er paying the » Alma Bell shot Joe Armes did not argue with obeyed the tr of primeval killed, and expected to end | her « own life } The proseeution ia making a bit | ter fight to bring about conviction. Armes’ relatives are weslthy and | they have hired one of the beet | lawyers of the community to assiat in avenging the mans } death They have framed a hypothetioal question which they put to each |Juror. It runs something ike this “| Would Kill Him.” Suppose a man had loved and led astray a girl under promise of marriage and refused’ to keep that promise. that girl. What junder those conditions? Three of the talesmen examined | yesterday, sturdy Americans, one a Tennesseean, in their turn promptly replied with emphasis "I would kill hum.” They were as promptly for cause by Judge Arnott Joe Armes, aged 24, was the son of a wealthy rancher. Alma, barely is a pe 1 with a widowed | mother in ve declining years. The |mother lives three miles from | urn with the one sister and he four brothers of Alma } The Old, Old Story. | She had known Joe Armes sine childhood. To use her words Inst evening, she had “gone with Joe” jfor four years. She had trusted him implicitly. He took her to all ¢ dances and parties. She says they were engaged. She still wears the ring which she says he gave her Last February J rmes’ father died. Then Alma went to live with his family. Many times she says ehe had asked Joe when he tn- j tended to acknowledge ber as his wife, He always promised her it | would not be long, she says. | At last marringe became a neces sity if she were to keep herselr re | spected and her good standing. Joe made his promises again, Then Another Came. young excused Th ame fore the with a few days be night of J moon and sta mute ee. A beautifu ame visit the Armes fan Jo d this newcomer so; » and Alma’s torture b acute, On Decoration Day took the rival to the events of the day, It had formerly been his cus tom to devote all his time to Alma. Shortly after this, it Is declared that Joe and his brothers went to| live in a cabin on some of thelr land. On the night of June went to the capin, and, after a scene In. which her lover tried to make hér leave, he finally went | with her tent The Killing. A shot heard, then another. When the heriff found Armes’ body, shot through the heart, the girl was crouched in the bushes nearby. She said she had intended to kill hersel STILL A MYSTERY, body of thé man death off pler 6 ago has yet been found the man was the thief leaving the Arcata, of th |revenue service, . probably ne |will be determined, A watch fg being kept for the appearance of the body Ne trace of the two nights Whether who war Put yourself in place of | would you do} f, and appeared dazed. | RDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1909 DER MILLER PLANNED | ASSASSINATE FOU ROBBER LAY IN WAIT - FORE. A, BUTTERWORTH PAT SULLIVAN, CAPTAIN TENNANT AND A | RICH SPOKANE MAN WERE ALSO TO HAVE BEEN MURDERED, TENNANT FOR REVENGE AND THE OTHERS FOR MONEY AND DIA. MONDsS. MEN PETER MILLER INTENDED TO MURDER E. R. BUTTERWORTH, 512 Olympia place. P. E. SULLIVAN, 1910 Fourth av. CAPT. CHAS. TENNANT, 712 Warren av. HERBERT MANSFIELD of Spokane. BY T. J. DILLON. Peter Miller had it all planned to murder E. R. Butterworth and P. E. Sullivan to secure their dia- monds, Herbert Mansfield of Spokane for his money and Detective Captain Tennant for revenge. This was the startling story told me this morn- ing by Roy Williams, his 16-year-old accomplice in ps ed For two hours this morning young Williams talked to me freely and confidentially, unfolding a tale of criminal operations in Seattle last summer al- most incredible. And I believed the boy. No man on earth could sit and imagine details, dates and locations like that boy did. It would have overtaxed the abilities of a professional romancer, of Miller himself. And young Williams is just an ordinary boy of 16. “I’m glad I'm arrested; I'm glad I'm in jail,” he said. “Another month and we'd have got Butter- worth and the rope would have been waiting for me. Miller had me and I couldn't get away from him.” STORY HARD TO BELIEVE. The story of the paving to kill Mr. Butterworth reads like a chapter from a dime novel. “ ‘Butterworth is worth $2,000 as he stands on his feet,’ Miller told me, ‘and he’s worth that much to us dead,’”’ the boy said. | “Mr. Butterworth’s diamonds were what Miller wanted. His plan was to get a Maxim gun silencer through Piper & Taft and wait for him on his way | home. As he crossed an alley near his house, Miller was going to shoot him with the muffled gun. Then he and Williams were going to drag him a few feet to Kinnear park bluff and drop him down. If every- thing was all right they would descend and strip him of his diamonds. “Miller had it all planned out to the smallest matter. He was going to have his revolver attach- ed to a strap which would hang from his shoulder. As soon as he fired he could drop the gun and grab Butterworth. HE WOULD THROW VICTIM OVER BLUFF. “Miller told me that he and another fellow (Smith) came within an inch of killing Butterworth one night. _They had been waiting for him, and as race | he ee the other fellow was sneaking along be- hind him to throw his arms around his neck and choke him. Miller was going to kick him in the stomach. Then they’d drag him into Kinnear park and strip him. Miller said that just as the other fel- low was going to grab Butterworth Miller saw the glint of a policeman’s star across the street and grab- bed his partner just in time. “Miller thought that this was a pretty close call, but he made up his mind to get Butterworth and he | would surely have done so. «x tirst he favored the | strong arm work, but he later became interested in the Maxim gun silencer. He thought that was a great thing for us, and said that we could clean up’ enough in a few months to last us all our lives. / “Pat Sullivan, who has several saloons, was also to be | killed. Sullivan lives out on Fourth av., and there is a big | hole near his place. Miller and the other fellow, I guess his | name is Smith, had talked about killing Sullivan with the | strong arm, but Sullivan was too big, and they heard he was a hard fighter. WOULD USE GUN ON SULLIVAN. “When Miller thought of the gun silencer, he told me how he would get Sullivan. Sullivan has a ring which Miller said was worth three or four hundred dollars, and besides wore lots of other jewelry. We were to get him some night as he was coming home, just like we were to get Butterworth. When he dropped I was to grab him by the feet, and Miller would take his head and we would drag him to the excavation, drop him down and then wait for a time before we went down to strip him. I remember they were moving a house near Sulli- van's at that time; they were doing steam shovel work, and we figured on the empty house.” “Did Miller want to kill Sullivan on account of the Mes Mahon case?” I asked. “He never said anything about McMahon. He wanted to get Sullivan because he had diamonds, and he would have strong-armed him long ago if he hadn't been afraid Sullivan was too husky.” “Do you honestly believe that Miller would have killed these men to get their diamonds?” WAS QUICK ON THE TRIGGER. “You bet he would under his arm. | He always carried a revolver slung He called it his business card. His scheme was that if he was ever caught in a tight place to say, ‘Why, here's my business card,’ reach in under his left arm as if he were going to get a card out of his inside coat pocket and quickly pull the gun while the policeman was expecting a card. “He told me a thousand times he’d just as soon kill one of them as not if they got him in a tight hole. He told me of many shooting scrapes, and showed me where he had been shot. “MILLER MADE UP HIS MIND TO KILL TENNANT AFTER THE ED ON JUNE 22. “That was the time Miller made his first mistake. When the policeman picked me up on the first hill and was talking to me, Miller butted in and said he was my uncle, Just then a woman came CAPT, FIRST TIME I WAS ARREST: along and said I was the boy who was standing out in front of her place the night before. I guess we had robbed a house next to hers. Miller kept talking to the cop, but the cop decided to have some people look at me. “They took me to one house, didn’t think The cop had a notion to let me go, but didn’t want t® take any chances. Miller told the cop that he was a business man down town, and handed him some fancy talk. and the people there I was the man Finally the cop said he'd take mé@ down to the station “Miller asked the cop if he wanted him, The ‘No,’ and Miller said: ‘I'll give you my name, and I'll be down to the station and get the boy out to- morrow.’ too, cop said Miller wrote the name in the cop’s book, and (Cnotinued on Page Ten.) THE FOOTBALL HOT OFF THE WIRE IN TONIGHT’S PINK EDITION—DON'T WAIT UNTIL SUNDAY MORNING © *