The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 6, 1909, Page 10

GIGANTIC MURDER PLOT (Concluded.) asked the cop if he could come along with him, The cop didn’t care, bs “Then Miller kept pinching me and digging me in the ribs, but I didn’t know what he wanted Then I felt his hand in my hip pocket. He took out my revolver and jimmy, and then reached into my front pants pocket and took out a couple of keys I had. THEY TRAP MILLER. “The next day, when Capt. Tennant was talking to me he asked me who the fellow was I was with when I was ar- rested. I told him he was my uncle, The captain then asked me what my uncle’s name was, and I was up against it, be- cause I didn’t know what name Miller wrote in the book. I stalled the best I could. I was clean when they got me to the station, and they turned me loose, “Miller had told me that if I was ever pinched to watch out, as they would have some fellow trailing me. He told me to jump on a moving street car and ditch the fellow that was following me. That's what I did when they turned me loose. “I got away from the cop that was following and went to our room on Terry av. The room was almost empty. Everything was gone. “I was getting ready to take a bath when I heard a whistle outside, and it was Miller, He made sure that no one had followed me, and then came in and asked me what the police did to me. HE SWEARS REVENGE ON TENNANT. “I told him that Tennant caught me on the name, and he began to curse Tennant and tell me what he would do to him. He did not know Tennant, and had me describe him thoroughly, what he wore. The next day we went down to the library and looked up Tennant's address in the city directory. Miller left me, saying he was going out to Ten- nant’s house and look the place over and see if he could get him. He came back and said that there were some trees in the front yard that would make it easy to get him, and some bushes in the back yard. He thought it was a fine place to kill a fellow. He was sore at Tennant, and told me half a dozen times if Tennant ever arrested me or laid a hand on me he'd kill him like a dog.” THE PLOT AGAINST MANSFIELD. The boy told how Miller and Williams followed Herbert Mansfield, an aged rich and powerfully built clairvoyant, of Spokane, around the south end of Seattle for several hours one night, waiting for him to get into a dark place where they could kill him. The Mansfield incident began in Spo- kane, before Williams knew Miller. Miller, Smith and Rose were then working together. Miller told the story of the affair to Williams, and the Spokane police confirm the Williams account in de- tail. Smith, Rose and Miller went into Mansfield’s of- fice, in the Golden Gate block, ostensibly to have their fortunes told. They had it planned that Miller was to ‘sit down in front of Mansfield and let Mansfield take his hand. Then Smith was to grab Mansfield around the neck, and Miller would strike him in the stomach and lay him out. Mansfield was supposed to have about $10,000 sewed up in his underwear. MANSFIELD ESCAPES MURDERERS. Smith and Miller went through the program, but Mans- field put up an unexpected fight, and Miller was forced back lagainst a glass partition, which broke and arovsed the other people in the block. Miller got away, but Smith was arrest- ed. This much Miller told Williams. The records of the Spokapg police show that they were unable to convict Smith lof anything more serious than assault, and he was fined $100. SEES NEAR-VICTIM IN SEATTLE. “We were walking down in the south end one night kere in Seattle,” said Williams, “when suddenly Miller jumped into the street and made a run to the other side. I didn't know what was the matter. I followed him. He told me: “If that guy saw me he'd holler loud enough to wake the dead. He’s the fellow Big Charley and I tried to get in Spokane land made a bad job of it.’ “Miller then told me about how much money this old fellow had on him, and he made up his mind to get it. We followed him all over town that night, but he would never go any place where it was dark enough for us to get him. PRACTICED “STRONG-ARM” GAME. “Miller had showed me how to work the strong-arm business. He worked it on me, and showed me how easy it was to choke a fellow so he could not make any noise. We used to practice in the room. The scheme was, when Miller got his arm around the fellow’s neck I was to hit him in the stomach as hard as I could. That would knock the wind out of him. Miller would drop him then and we would light into him with our feet. We figured we could put this old fellow out and take his clothes off of him in no time, but he never gave us the chance. “Miller was always planning something, but we | didn’t get around to many of them. We were out robbing houses every night and didn’t always have the time. He had a great plan to rob Finck’s jew- elry store on Second av. last Fourth of July. About the first of July he went out somewhere and came back with a suit case full of dynamite. He took a couple of sticks, stripped the paper from them and dissolved them in alcohcl. Then he planned for me to get a lot of big firecrackers. He was to get in- side the jewelry store and I was to stay out in front. He would give me a signal when he was ready and I was to touch off the firecrackers and keep them going until he came out. He figured that no one would hear the noise. Something happened, how- ever, and we gave that job up. “After he had dissolved some of the dynamite he gave the rest to me ard told me to hide it some place. I took it out to Kinnear park behind Butter- worth’s house and found some soft dirt back of a log. _I dug a deep hole end thought I was doing a fine job. The next day I took him out to show him where it was, and he ‘ro: sted’ me for a fool. He said the whole town could se it there, and that it was a _ wonder someone had nt seen me digging. He dug _ it up and took it over inthe park and cached it | somewhere. I guess it’s out there yet.” i ISN’T A BAD BOY—WILLIAMS. * Williams is a bright, clean looking young fellow, the type of a boy who gets in with a bad crgwd around pool — THE STAR—SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1909 rooms, and goes from bad to worse. He got in trouble Héme because he would not go to school, and ran away to Seattle, c to Miller last spring him to his room. and showed him a lot of money, and finally broke the news He said ht had robbed banks. He ran across “Big Charley,” and was Introducéd _Williams was broke, and Miller took At first he told Williams various stories, to him that he was a burglar and houses all over the United States, and had never beqn in jail; that it was a “cinch” to beat the police; only fools gat caught. Williams was broke and susceptible to this form of argument. He started in with Millery and once started there was no drawing back. IN TERROR, at any time, and & was never able to get away from him. He told me many times what he would do to me if | ran away from him or ever told anything about him. He told me how he had followed a kid that did him dirt for eight years and was after him yet. He had me where | couldn't get KEPT BOY “Miller never gave me more than $2 away. “1 don't know how many hou we robbed last summer.. | did something nearly every night. Once In a while there would be nothing worth taking or we would get scared away, Our acheme was to look for houses where the people had gone away for When we spotted one that looked good we began watching it. “Miller had a fine scheme to tell where the people were out for some time, He would take a short plece of string and stick a little ball of chewing gum at oh end. He would then stick one end of the string to the door and the other to the door jamb, and then we'd go off and leave it for the night. The next night we would come around, If the string was still where we put it we would know that the doors had not been opened, because if they were one end of the string would be pulled out, Sometimes we used a match in place of a piece of string. some time TELLS ABOUT BURGLARIES, “While we were looking for houses whose owners were on vaca tion we kept our eyes open for something el Miller read the papers and was always on the watch to hear of rich men, was for me to go up to the front door and ring the bell, If anybody came | would ask if Mr. Somebody lived there. If not | went to the back door and tried to if there were any servants in the house. “Lote of times we saw people leaving thelr houses, going out for the evening, and we worked the same racket. We jimmied up win dows, unlocked doors, or went in the coal chute—whichever was the t. | always went in first. “The first thing we would do would be to look over the silver ware. If it was any good, all right; if not, we left It alone, Then we went upstairs to get the sult cases or satchels to carry the stuff away in. Most of the time this was as y as telling about it. No one bothered us. THE OWNER COMES HOME. “One night we were in a house up on the hill and we heard someone coming in, near the head of the stairs. We pulled our hats down and Miller got his revolver and put it in his side o on it. upstairs and went into the front room and lit the light. 1 guess he must have been drunk for he sat down in a chair and let his head fap ‘he first hunger wirtke in the) forward like he was 1p. We sneaked out and crept down the stairs and made tracks as soon as we got out. “Miller did hie burglar work like a busin man. When we brought home the stuff to our room he immediately sorted it out, He took all the gold and silver sterling stuff and put It to one side, and all the plated and Rogers stuff and threw it into a corner, This stuff | always took down and threw In the bay. Miller eaid he couldn't get anything on it, and it wasn't worth while having around and might be weed as evidence. “He hed a little pair of scales and weighed everything and made a note of it, He said he never stood for any crooked work by & fence—that they had to pay him what it was worth. The gold stuff he always put to the acid t He had a little file and when we got some gold stuff he would file a nick in It and put the acid on. If the acid made it green he threw it Into the discards and | threw it into the bay. “The next day after a job he would pack the stuff into a suit case and we would start down town. At Fourth and Pike he would tell me to go to the public library and he would fence the stuff. | never knew where he fenced it or how much he got. He kept telling me that as soon as! learned the business he would introduce me to the fence, but that | had to get a whole lot wiser. MILLER WOULD MAUL THE Boy. “Miller gave me two or three good beatings. He was bad when he was drunk. The night we did the Young job we both got pretty drunk in the house. We found some fine whiskey there. 1 couldn't stand much, but Miller never fost his feet. When we were coming away | wan carrying two suit cases and he an alligator skin bag. | was staggering and heitold me to stop it. | could not and he beat me over the head with the grip. “Another time when we were weighing some stuff he gave it to me. The scales were small and hard to handie. | was using the file to hold the scales up, and he put a piece on that was too big. The scales slipped off the file and the piece of silver fell to the floor. it made quite a racket, and Miller was scared that the fellow who roomed next door would get wise, and he gave it to me. “One of the best hauis we made was at the Fisher home, 1628 Union st., and we had to make two trips to get all the stuff. We were prowling around one night, and saw a man and woman come out. Miller said that was a place he had his eye on for a long time. 1 didn’t think there was much in it, beca the house is smal! and not very swell looking. Miller said that didn’t matter, that he knew that they had a jot of fine stuff inside. When we got in we found the place just shining with silver, and it was all good stuff. | guese they had been cleaning it, because it was around everywhere. We filled three suit cases pium full of solid silver stuff and another case part full, It was all we could do to carry the stuff away, it was so heavy. HE PLANNED A SECOND BURGLARY. “When Miller came back from the fence he showed me $100 he had got for It, but | know he got more. There was over a thousand dollars worth of stuff in that haul. Miller said we had done a poor Job, as we did not get all the pieces of one fine set. The fence was awful sore about that, and wanted Miller to get the rest of it, and and Miller said he would. “| tried to get him to change his mind, because | was a little leary of going back the second time, but Miller was determined. We went on for a couple of weeks getting what we could, and al! the time had our eyes on the Fisher home. One night we saw them go| away again, and we went In and got the rest of the set. wasn't much else for us to get, as we took it all the first time. Miller took the rest of the set to the fence, and | guess he was pretty Glad to get it. The stuff was all marked with an ‘F,’ and ‘F. V. F.'— wedding presents, | guess.” The police record shows that over $1,500 worth of silver was taken from this home, Robbery after robbery young Williams reeled off to me, not by threes or fours, but dozens. He gave details characteristic of each one, how they only got cash here, platéd silver there, until he be- lieved what Miller told him about only fool burglars being caught. After Williams was arrested the first time Miller wae frightened for a few days, and they decided to live apart. Miller lived at the Livingston hotel, and he and Williams met at the library, MILLER A GREAT STUDENT. “Miller went to the library every day. He read everything and certainly knows a lot, and he knows that he knows It. He won't let anyone else know anything. th all there is to it. He told me a thousand stories of robberies. He said his regular business was robbing country banks. That on his neck, which he si is from tuberculosis, he told me came froma rifle bullet fired at him as he was jumping a train after rob. bing a country bank somewhere. He showed me other scars on his foot, where he sald he had been shot. He never told me anything about Germantown or about his people fighting at Lexington, He said his father was a banker and that when his father died he cheated his mother out of all the money. CAPT. TENNANT HIS BEST FRIEND. “Miller lied when he said that Capt. Tennant beat me to make me confess. He never laid a hand on me, and when It comes to picking a friend I'll take Capt. Tennant every time. As soon as | got in jail | got wise that | was lucky that | was stopped before | helped to kill somebody and hang for it. 1 told Capt. Tennant every. == (0N “HUNGER We were upstairs and backed into a side room |ers it pocket and kept his hand) He said he'd fix the feliow if he had ta The fellow came jand water twice dally because they There | >~ Everything he says is right and that's | scar | and bive spots thing. T low t ' where the captain beat me with an Indian club, never saw me for a month after wae arrested and three weeks after | had confeesed. CRACK CAFE } Bumpe don't stay on a fellow's head that tong and neither do black | “i'm only 16 years old and Capt. Tennant says I've gat lote of f time to make good and he's going to that | get my chance. That's a f all | want, There's nothing in being a crook. They always make ‘ some mistake sometime and then they get it.” ° | When young Williams went back to his cell he looked like a - ; young schoo! boy without a care in the world, The fact that he | has escaped committing murder is so great a relief to him that he! is not worrying about hie future. | believe every word he told me, newspaper work | have listened to not a few accomplished liars, Robbers Blow Up Strong)’ Box of Seattle Varnish In a good many years of that no law against murder was in existence at the Ume the crime | the \the mov tion erin, adie: thn Vor lwith soap the safe blowers poured |in more than a sufficient charge precip oe taken by Thomas |% , Bitroglycerin. The explosion Horner that owing to the change | Which followed aroused the entire Fee ha ald te the new criminal {neighborhood but before any one » that 5 oem ene of the safe blow |reached the code that no punishment for mur » robbers had escaped with der existed at the time the mur-|!2 the robbers bh 7” ] their loot 5 |der took place | H. J, MeDode, manager of the George shot his wife on May 18, goattie Varnish Co,, says he knows and gave bin self up to Capt ot | of no reason for the plans taken ihaatives “Craries Vesnans |by the robbers, as he never places The motion for a change of) ash in the venue to elther Kitsap or Plerce|® large mount of cas t SPOKANE INDUSTRIALISTS/ county was denied. The motion icioideelaehicnaniih - ADOPT METHODS OF ENG- was made on the ground that Fred SitidinSobnny Gate jek what FFRAGETTES. H. Peterson, George's former attor-|)6 is toid ney, in a public statement declined] RKocker—He wil) grow up to be — to. serve in the case, declaring & congress The Sun that he believed George to be! at: guilty | Do you want to buy a home? See & — A hunger! "the court held that the opinion | of one man would not carry mach | T° Stare aginsienanieeth tence eames fragettes in England war begun by| weight with a King county jury. | eolumne. 200 members of the Industrial Work. 36 re SPOKANE strike Itke that of the woman suf ft the World in jail this morn ing. These have been convicted |disorderty conduct for atrest speak- e. and are being gtven only bread fuse to work out thelr fines, It United States The strikers de PR RET REI are they wil refuse to eat vnth| tients, Only after the superintendent had failed to | given wabstantial food. The police! appear for several days in succession were the pa- | may try stomach pumps ? A eeid Saltinen a vevotwtiortien | tients under his charge cared for by Dr. Wardell or | eakened thi morning and volun-| Dr. Dawson. | tfered to work on the rock pile for After | saw Dr. Corson the Monday morning | got the position, pod food. He was kicked fr the Mthers and denounced an! 24 Not see him again on the hospital floor where | was assigned of “akuak esi@ traitor” juntit Friday. Then he appeared shortly after 7 o'clock at night. He Habest corpus proceedings will] walked through the wards at this time, speaking to different patients, tp started In the remainder of the | but did not ask any of them about their condition during his absence, H by the i ME. W. Chote, Se rdance WIth | oF treat or examine them, | |alivice recetved this morning from | Vincent #t. John, general counsel in When he finished his trip around he told Orderly Blucher to pre-|f ch htcago. Bt John declares an im-| pare a patient named M. J. Fortune for an operation in the morning. ito mense fund te being raised ai the | Fortune had an affliction on his hip, It was badly swollen. Blucher |ff [% aid of the Spokane 1. W. W. Three! mage the damage suite have already been meccaeary properaiione, | CORSON DIDN'T SHOW UP. | Saturday morning came, the patient was ready for the operation, but Dr. Corson did not show up. The nurses and the poor patient became uneasy. The hours passed, the day passed. Corson did not started against Bpokane by persons ontined in the jail POETIC LICENSE “N. G.” In This Massachusetts Burg You *PPear. | Have to Have a Peddier’s Sunday came and went, then Monday, without the doctor's ap- License. pearance. Finally on Tuesday, when Fortune's hip was swollen to an | alarming size, Ors. Wardell and Dawson operated on him. Or. Cor- EVER BY io + | would fled ¥ tones dedéing in thin} It was not till Tuesday, shortly before noon, that | saw Dr. Cor- |community, that ts, if they pursued | #0n on the floor, | asked his patients if he had called on them in the meantime. They said he had not. NO ONE IS SURPRISED. They did not attach any importance to his absence from duty. “There have been times when he stayed away for 10 days in suc cession.” Where Dr. Corson spent his time when he was away | could) not find out, One Thomas McMahon died while Dr. Corson was absent from) the hospital between the night of October 17 and the next morning. | MoMahon appeared to be in good physical health when | first) went to work at the hospital. He was under the care of Dr. Corson, and during the latter's absence was unattended. Sunday afternoon | saw that he was in bad shape, and told the | the ancient custom of hawking thet | prodyown me chute 5 ed cae night watchman, John Travers, about it. He had had a hemorrhage, been made of A. A. Belyea, a bard | #4 was growing weaker. from Boston M'MAHON DIES HARD. Belyoa was peddling poetry from Monday morning at breakfast John Travers, the watchman, said: house to house. A groundiing In “Well, McMahon has kicked in. An’ he died hard, believe me.” = “Did you call the doctor?” | asked. form of @ cop halted him fave you got a peddier's Ii conse?” he interrogated. No, the “1 tried to get Superintendent Corson several times, but he [poor fellow only had a poetic Ii-]| was not in.” cense “Wasn't th hysi hy i rege RAST ota ae oy ere any physician at the Institution at all Sunday formed he had to have a license bad ouety morning™” | asked. |from the board of health to peddle “Not one. poetry, but his sensitive soul re “Well, who attended to him?” ae vetigg tnd thought ——— he “Oh, the night nurse, Mrs. Wanamaker, did what she could | Protests, he doesn’t write that kind) tor him before he died. Then | laid him out in the basement.” th of p THERE WAS NO OPEN ing in his left foot, and Jack Downey, a patient with a fractured skull. Kiement was admitted to the hospital September 20. Two weeks|f 7 later his foot was operated on by Dr. Corson. From that time till | left, the doctor did not see the wound. It is still in bad shape, Be-| theory that there was an/fore | left the hospital | learned that another operation would be| necessary, and possibly the foot would have to be amputated. | MAN HAD FRACTURED SKULL. } Downey's case was far more serious. He was admitted to the! | hospital October 7, suffering from a fractured skull and numerous! | bruises about the head and body. He was out of his mind, and for |a time slight hopes were entertained for his recovery. Shortly after| ry OTHER CASES OF NEGLECT. Other instances of Superintendent Corson’s neglect of unfortunates A LITTLE COLD, a little cold That was all So the nelahbore sadly said As they gathered round his bed He caught When they learned that he was {| being admitted he was operated on by Dr. Corson, For several days| dead | he was delirious, and had to be restrained from doing himself bodily || ft 1 He caught a Iittle gold | 1 i | That’ was all, }| 'J4°% Puck NURSE HAS TO OPERATE, RRA Aan Day after day went by after that and Dr. Corson did not see the You can break up a cold in 24] wound or the patient. Downey's right eye was puffed up to an ab- poy coe ee Pg, Best tnat 18! normal degree, and when Dr. Corson failed to examine the wound, curable > 0 0 5 ounces of Glycerine, a half-ounce | Mls* Margaret MacGregor, the surgical nurse, lanced it, greatly re- of Virgin Ot] of Pine compound | !leving the patient. pure and elght ounces of pure Superintendent Corson was absent from the hospital Sunday, Oc- uiskey ‘ake a teaspoonful cvery four hones. Por 4nnboentul |tober 24, Fred Pedofsky, 11, an inmate of the Mercer island school, bronchial trouble and to soothe | W@® brought to the hospital suffering from diphtheria. and heal irritations of the mucous Superintendent Corson could not be located, and the boy was surface thle formule is highly rec-|obliged to walt several hours before being examined. When Clerk Jommendet by the Leach Chemical i Co., of Cincinnati, who p > Day got in communication with Dr. Waedell, the latter hurried to the |the genuine ‘Virgin Oil of Pine | hospital and took charge of the patient. compound pure for dispensing through druggists, STAR’S EXPOSE IS ENDORSED - — —|f Editor The Star: TROUBLES Allow me to thank you for the fearless way in which 72, en end careful you have been and are unearthing the uncivilized and un rouble christian way that inmates of the Poor Farm and other moderate. ces have bee sate Jere i SCuVORARG @Psicas, Oo. places have been treated. Were it possible to have a 1207 Bevo: ne thorough investigation, much good would doubtless result MRS. E. T, TRIMBLE, President Federated W, C. T. U. of Seattle. ed hom F ed, the or but young Williams’ story was too long, too involv num Company and Secure ous incidents hinged on and were too reiated to so many others |. that he could not possibly have fabricated them. 1 laid sever Small Sum. what | thought clever little traps to catch him fibbing, but they ° Ss sa all failed, Safe blowers -evidently well] His story brands Peter Miller as the strangest thief that has ever) 1 ine use of nitroglycerin Infested Beattie; a man who would stop at nothing, without fear or| ud ine wate in the office of conscience, yet a well read ma A man with convictions, also, he) a. tte ste Go. ae 1488 lu leans toward socialiem, and even anarchy. Ewing st, Fremont, shortly after He Is the ideal strong, domineering chaarcter to hold a weak |% o'clock this morning, and com willed boy like young William in his power, And, as Williams says, | pletely wree kea the offic walls and fixtures n¢ robbers secured he would some day have put the boy on the gallows. sah taet tow. taste padee, 40.109 ae ——— |uafe contained only $10 in gold and Peter, sitter, tha conviine bes ie tag “wahoo ane ie ties lar, who conducted his own ¢ . : When Acting Detective Charles fense In court. betgre admiring| March 22 until June 20 of this}, iim Sele ee a cked office throngs, was given — three sak | year i# ridiculous,” said Superior |iniy morning he found the longer, by Judge Mitchell Gilliam! Judge Gilliam this morning in|door had been blown across the | the thin morning, In which to perfect! denying the demurrer of the attor-|room. The walls we stripped te) ol iia motion ‘on pew trial, Pp » a the windows | °" evidence that would materially af-|™issal of his case on the ground | "47 seating the door cracks |the intercst 4 GiNY 10 AUT ONT SHAG OWE fA F Inapector ¢, ora nepeetiag the burning o ant Waterway, been given ‘ reanen jas n these tent ale RETURNS TO wate| Rev. Mr. Joseph 1, First Christian Garvin, of \ Church, retary. the centennial founding of celebration Dr, ‘ other meaiiaan rs So ement to place the in Alaska, q k the matter now, church, —is with man and Woman who desires it. Start right 3 accompli both restore read of the deaf ing struck Capital Surplus and undivided profits “Every man, child ought to save. ¢ earnest and hortation of all the good wise men who have lived. - consigned t& his care were Peter Klement, suffering from blood poison. |p learn to save is really the Mi important lesson of homas Burton, per CENT] Compounded Semi-Annually. JAMES D. HOGR, President N. 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