The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 7, 1909, Page 1

HE SEATT i SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1909 ONE CENT SIS THE STORY OF AHERO WHO HunCH BREAKS (NTO. ‘THOUSANDS IN © pees TE SNOW FE—WANTS NEW JOB ~ THE AIPLINGER CASE’ TOILS OF i as a Matter of } ie Vv , a lerveer’s Agent Makes Bi ccusations Against Ve- Hae he crew of nireman Which Court pest a Refuses to Believe. (nes FINA iil tha vith ee ploy —_—_—_— bit Irina “Pit make considerable money ST " Hast ste by being on the December jury. ahd all fixed for me to get on aod 4 DILLON. the Riplinger jury. Vl make Interest at the Rate of 180 Per Cent Per Annum Is ae . money enough on the jury. That eauiitiasaiens _ A Bis im, able seaman le why | do nof want « job as ts et Collected From Working Men Here. ‘if orm, sunk at se detective in the prosecuting at- ft ° es today, ready to sign torney's office.” } _ —- i ship to any corner of i i Hee " ‘ eeamnce m0 be This statement —Vanderveer’s The salary loan shark is one of the worst 4M MNITS hero. has never agent, I. K, Chureh, swore Frank P enemies the poor of Seattle, as of all cities, have j bard, practical Norwe BreWer made to him three weeks today. With cunningly written documents which i this m: halt ago, Brewer was called to the jury h . . ° Peri 1 ed & boat load of com box thit morning to be examined, e persuades his clients into signing, the loan i 38 fare ta the teeth sk Mile fineie to Mk on n Usial agent gets hold of the weak and unfortunate, 1 up. the fight juror in the John Riplingor case, | holding them in a viselike grip, clenching tighter i aa Moye declare Brewer had just seated himself and tighter day by day. i Weir lives today to Einar whew Church rushed into the court! d v4 y a imrme noenets that f room whispered into Vander Many people in Seattle know what these loan r af course. - - . * 7 ; Mis pire saved they Tee wet, 7é. prostouior asked sharks are—know by bitter experience. But @ sourt to be excused a momen . ete ives to some CRIME ale “Vanderveer went into there are others who do not. It is for these—the i igh ell be the corridor. unsuspecting——-that The Star has sent its reporters | Fa Terrible Fight. a. Offered Him Work a out to gather evidence against these people, to ex- i eon sen" * nderveer, upow ble return to! A ‘ 2 ees oe the eaurt room, asked Judge Yakey | EDNA MAY NELSON plain their methods, to cry out a word of warning. 1 -teld— : eo he 1 4 « " . | ite were forced to | Soni ar dak Brower | 2 fre, Net Week Wir Jun. The article below will be the first of a series q it avccen Gite } Churety then took the witness stand | Edna May Nelson, county Jail, Is on the loan sharks, their system and methods. ‘aad hour after hour and @Wore that three weeks ago|"The Woman Who Can Hold Her h wind and wave, while Brewer, who was an intimate friend | pong, ' of tila, asked him to get him work . % seicienthincichabinimnmepetigiiaiie Snow beat down upon x " " For over a week this enigmatic id to the bone and feet age detective in the prosecuting at d mall thes most burst his torney’s office. young woman has waged a battle Ten thousand wage earners, men and women, youn; | ‘ al ure Chureh teatified that Prosecutor | of wits with the police, and today : . : oe ny: eae Vanderveer delegated him to hire thd Silas Sighs ba Dhitie Shout hee and old, are working day in and day out in all kinds of fednesiay morning Fate vod at a salary of $100 @ month |her name, antecedents, place of or-| €mployment in an almost helpless effort to free them- oa | gener — Brewer he had a job for him in| iin and intextions as they did selves from the clutch of Seattle's score of loan sharks. ated pity dee = Mins Soa beige a said) when she was first taken to the | In a moment of temporary need they borrowed money 4, he hot want the job. leit f . 0 ion. Unls Einar fiwas then that Brewer made the | nit aig ag! MEO their salary. Now the salary is week by week be- Mei world to him. He ns ie —— ve” oe wep gee gee eo Vander-| aneo, with every indication speet.| coming more and more the property of the loan sharks. e of the jatterhorn Disaster. veet at once challeng rewer for y fon bs fr rama tens ro ee ren Tas atl a te —cacnctomesme [Oane Me aaserted that it was | “ation “> pars = = epic tt Theré is no escape but to pay. And with wages just sul- nest and prosi- good luck at being alive against alj|comes for starting on the long last | yesterday turned over to Sheriff egy « ont pl naga the Jury, |Jall, while detectives from the proa-| ficient for current expenses, and interest of 180 per cent per, | didn't think) Bis bad luck, and considers him-|crutse, whether he go down in | Hodge @ number of subpoenas for! Vuuiguane that he had. been a{°CuUng attorney's office, depart-| year piling up beside the principal, the borrowers’ hope of | bh land—it was/ self the winner. | canvase shroud with a shot, or amid | service. The work of serving them | ner and a chief of police. | ment stor hotels and the city |; i. be See ere big. They Hie Second Wreck. jthe wild dirge of tempest, Einar} was delegated to Deputy Sheriffs eee ee tae oe ee that..tho| Bolice department lay traps for her, | reedom is not encouraging. SMeht ship. That's the - | Johannssen will have the satisfac: | Zimmerman at. Rogers. Ne refused to work for she TM€Y have spread their bird Mme Employers are helpless to stop the loan vampires feeding Mf sdventure this man} |, This Is Johanpascn's second long tion of knowing that he lived and) The jury this. Moriing again | "Am! he refused to wort for she). 4 thousand alluring ways, but heir help. Every step yet takeit to break h i of the slow, drag chance game with death | it #88. | died « man, every inch of him. heard testimony upon the story tol | ee aid hak ane Ap iat. te, the; #!Ways In vain; they have rieg | *Pon their heip. .wery step yet taken to break up the practice torture, of numbed | Once before, off Port Elizabeth, | oo by W. K. Thayer that $500 graft , ~ jthelr crude paychology, fear, greed,/has immediately been turned into an engine of persecution to rebellions ac-| South Africa, his vessel went down, | money was pald by the Pyro One [A Sedervest row that ofl nope, aiid she continues to smile : , but he managed to be one of the ldght Electric company to aet ite | ttt nates Chuieh to. get hima | 204 discus literature. And in the | PY the loan agents. The amazing extent of the salary loan survivor Maybe he was « hero) ordt of site e the ale Loffices’ siness a . ersevering ing y eti nothing of the pitt-| there, too, but not according to his TY C. Rel barter parsed }job, He denied that he ever made | labyrinths of aterature the sloutha | office business and the persevering ingenuity practiced by, | ring of the naked bodies| Version. He just did the best hi was before the jury to repeat atorion | Ai eekee ie oe decane Sar wel Pay ly ps a these modern Shylocks in wringing money from their victims ; t. of the ceaseless bail-| Could, the same “best” that he did} about grafting dot advantage to be -Cornven Soges tis vaste are too well kno oe arge ¢ we in S. inable task. when the Matterhorn turned turtle, ia that i te "aula te re re Paget connate emg tioteriom ae ee ath oe mien te toate eae ae se Andliay Wabi: | leaving him the one strong man | narrated. The examination of Kei.| Church Is Puzzled. jtton about her from magazines A man with no friends in the; month. He does not stop to figure sedi oleh tarinieans biniah fit to fight the fight i | loge was long but the jury learned| Church isla: rapeinaliamalaatiin MagazInag have no record of an|community is suddenly compelled that the interest he is paying is y' Five feet nine inches tail, With | few facts + “th Edna May When the police | by sickness in his family to raise, 180 per cent a year. The propos: from this particular) q chest like a flour barrel, thewed IN MPPs 4 ‘The slot thachine. cases that bave "a gh ey _ Mt was that tell her so, sh y replies that | $10. He bas had steady work, but tion is put up to him in such @ sea going Johann. He! hike a bear, square of jaw, pale bi Siders the tated lore tae ote (tanen 0b RAE beige tims foe tas be ay dlc id daily conferences she wrote under a nom de plume. |a salary not proportionate to the! manner as to keep him from think- Bore interested in getting | placidly smiling eyes, and a nonde- oon thn ilca ” tiecaton AMEE Week S00 Gt Gn 00k a fenln He § unde eds ae had ed {0 Further questioning receiver the | increase in the price of necessaries ing of the fact. snug forecastie. He'd | script collection of clothing. That Sree ime the exiamen apn Ather witnesses will bo called an | seer” Of the converse: |indylike bat detérmined reply that{has left him without any surplus Sessing bis tin plate on} a quick sketch. of Johannssen.| conceming the exietence of a 110i W tau wi. he. salted to | Hop with Brewer until this morning. | she does not care to have her pen| fle ready the seductive advertise They Look Him Up. B seven sens than be 4/ Twice cast up by the sea, he's ready | peer ge Bg one. we Shine’ whe c — a He pet bre 20 oe reg Aa name known at present | ment of a sAlery loan company. He He does not, however, get the This hero business /to tempt fate again, merely as a| earcle prises te bn aoiecnet [Sek ieandinns. AY: the arand fury, |ovonerntad Brewen comet Ket | he apparently has no friends in| goes to its office in. a down town/ $10 at once. He must write-out an fo om: repeats Pret Cran mph nage mee ee gat Se ee ia at @ loss what to do. He notified |held-that it was host for all cenceen Seattle. Nobody knows’ her here,| business block—they all pave of-) application blank. Upon this blanie ve creatures jer wit ; he expects sooner or| manner. the jury that og * “ ways or if they do, the police are ignor-! tices in business blocks he states among other things the his easy going miind jater to die at sea. Thus the end! Special agente of Prosecutor ach & Geog Sree pa ed that he should not alt on the Jury ant of the connection, She is not} He asks for a loan of $10. He) name of his employer, the length j Setting bis name )came to his father off the coast of | Vanderveer will no longer be ak) ire ae aim city eiticlan tae eee cmuireh's accusation. 4 woman given to exchanging con-| is told that the company loans $10/ of his employment, the nature of is nothing. tt is| Norway, and his father’s father be | lowed to use the grand Jury to} asked toe festructions. The Jury | per we of the best ane fidences. Women detectives have | for fout months in return for the it and hts wage. He is asked to will ever see it, and fore him. Johannssens have fol-|harass Sheriff Hodge. At a meet-| (0°, 20° jtmrucl further. dunn | roctanaritt ot hater Mngton. He been put in the same quarters with | payment of $16, in installments of call the next day. In the interval Hiss no friends who wil! lowed the sea since the viking days, | ing of the grand fury yesterday aft: | selty bim that Grondahl Mies hiet of pollen ot tha wy, 'Md| her as prisoner for the purpose of | $4 per month. The prospective vie-| the loan office's “ranners,”. as its So he calmly refuses | and few of them died in thetr native | ernoon the jury decided that in the| vie "he compelled to come tack Whateom, tow known ae Deltine earning her story, but all they] tim is deceived by the apparent) victims call them, — Investigate although he would | lands. | future it would have nothing to do Bi . Bs I he = oy nd PP ey oo ba *y ~ tearned was her appreciation of!ease of paying but four dollars aj whether the statements on the ap- a decent ion of | PN on Johannssen will go back wich Chareh, any other Agent Of ey ex EERE SERN YEN MS linemen that han the tere et Conan Dore Monsieur LeCog, Poe] | pileation are true, Hla, place of oth good : «| the prosec ” . * THE WEATHER, Pa & 7 sags ani die ing Brady. .S a re employment is visited and Inquiries they had to cat well. The winds may bring him| The jury decided that the proper!) warmer; rain or snow to- 3) Tau een, Soll with the desy ore Has One Explanation. ' made of other employes. i His feet still trouble | back to Seattle again, but he will | person to serve subpoenas and write! $ ype wen’ Wotnoedge nity eae 4 : by exaifiiaa ; ‘ More Shopping, _!f the man has told the truth ie ; bie aa) KMNed at his side in the Tracy} Wer explanation of her rather im- Me numb, but, philose-|come unheralded, just as a sallor|of al! kinds was Sheriff Hodge.|¥ MRD) nl Nv el al nett orieee } c a icad aaetion ot coe han jon his application and the office is, he balances his! before the mast. But when his time' Acting upon this opinion the JUry| Agana tht RHR RRR eek uTewer has lived In Beattie Sol Greuh Gente if unk ae went “Days Before.s considers from {ts investigations ——— « peasant " - — = plac ethers es . ~ 7 | that he is a good risk—or rather nets — _ ‘ . .|seeking local color for a novel. | : AVERAGE SUNDAY SCHOOL MOST OF THE YEAR— This {8 her one declaration to| # Christmas + veg risk at all—be gets the $10. a | which she clings persistently. | There is no risk in the salary reamno PB L—] || HEROIC RESCUERS RISK LIVES TO SAVE N n bane her ses te aoe { tons busine: an = aes s bedi |! |i) — ¢ is a novelist, and] eep one position until another ts : PAPIER MACHE “CORPSES” FROM FIRE piling up Hterary treas- | is obtained. if a change is | of experiences that she will | made a tracer locates the bor- | GUICAGO, Dec. 1h oer, some day dispose of for fame and | rower. » Dec, 7——When acompany of firemen entered a riches, } Our spectmen » hav’ smoke-filled factory on the West Side today, threo of them {| Of course all this is a baffling dotad setlatecnen cpa manana |f, came out trembling mystery to the police. Those of tion, is asked to sign his name | They're lying dead in heaps, bdys, For heaven's sake call them who do net look upon novel three times. He is told that his |f the ambulances. writing as a crime akin to larceny ng the papers. is just a mere A general call for ambulances trought half a dozen clanging believe that it rightly comes un formalit This. mere formality down the atree The flames had apréad. A crowd had gathered the vagrancy statutes, In the first consists in the signing of a promis- Policeman Sullivan decided to be @ hero. He walked in to [| place they cannot understand why | sory note, an assignment of wages jf, take out the dead, A Gozen voluntesrs followed she wants to write, and second, and a power of attorney, H ,.. Bive thinutes later the rescue carps walked out, grinned can't quite grasp the abstract prop: | He then gets his $10. For three | Slieepishly, and vanished into the crowd. ‘They had found a osition of “lvcal color.” | = months he pays $4 monthly. The dozen wax and papier mache trunks, arms, heads and legs | So Edna May Nelson has them Ree Oy fourth: qventh bia Race ane } The factory was owned by the J. H. Drake Co. manufactur. guessing, and all because she has we UK * penses eat up every cent of his ers of surgical supplies the unusual gift of holding her)/{ THE PICK POCKET “ ante, ' | tongue | (Continued on Page Seven.) GIRL OF NINE IS MOTHER OF FOUR BECAUSE OF THE LAW’S FAILURE BY MARION LOWE. tered, and there live the wife and| keeping him still. There comes my} Violet sleeps on the cot with the, pended jail sentence of six months. “Mamma lan’t at home, but come | bables of William Soderberg other boy,” and the 9-vear-old house-| baby, but she pulls the covers off} For a little while Soderberg did 't lin, I’m keeping house.” That little house of a home is| wife smiled out the window at Har-|the baby, so mamma thinks it’s | better, until he thought the court 4 . & hous |apotlepaly clean, and every yellow | old, running home from school better for little Hilda to sleep|and the law had forgotten about | Little yellow haired Myrtle SoM@t~! hatred youngster is bright faced| “There are five of us children,| lone |him, and then this brute of a man berg thus greeted me when I/and lovable. William Soderberg’s| Violet ts 11, 'm 9, Havold is 7,| “Come again. Mamma'll be sorry | Went back to his devilish ways, He : knocked at the door of the house | Wife ioe oaileren never “drove him | Robert 5 and Hilda is 18 months | §he — here aes likes nk all ute maoiey or arin’ aoe i} at 6053 Sixth av. N. B. late tor. | 00 deta But to the story old; she's pretty near 19, though. | to at home when folks come to/80 abused his wife she couldn't j ws steghd yen er Phpiiktie Mother and Her Charge.| Violet and Harold are at school |8¢¢ her,” and the little 9-year-old | go out to work. And the little chil- eat day afternoon, and | stepped in ai » |today, and I'm taking care of the|™other cuddled the baby in her | dren—this mother couldn't go away a And I stepped into the home of | eins mot Without any mat) viele ones. Mamma cooked things | m8, while the visitor told her not | all day and leave them to the cruel- | Mra: ‘William Soderberg... It. wes bundle up in coats and T tan od ‘em | to get up, that she could open the | ty of a drunken father. Best to keop it warm, was the|!ast night, and T just warmed ‘em jonce the home of William Soder-| eo sesberg baby, Hil 18 months | Up today |door without her hostess. | 3! |borg, but he preferred going to| Soderberg baby, Hilda, 18 months | UP today Ae You temember a short story of| Preferred to Go to Jail. a Hjail to working. to inaintain that {'4. Who had just waked from her] "It gets kinda cold in here. You) witttam Soderberg in The Star el So whe haa : j itome prefert as pinochle game in |"4P,and waa rubbing her blue eyes. /see, it's all open up there around| roy weeks ago? This is William |court. “1 yee sane - aid : : ‘ ed a pinochle + h Lag - F ’ peste Ks ? 8 | t's 7 siness,”. s ae a county jail cell to getdng out |, gemma wont ye, home till It} the root, and mamma's afrald for Soderbere’s heme and Mitle chit: | Justice Brown “ending man te jand doing # man's work, to provid-| 1) iho uawite. “she's he Iping an-|she’e away. Violet was keeping | aren. jail for non-support of his family, it Pg ey rt age ahs ieee other woman do Janitor work today, |! house the other day while Mamma | Gives Him a Chance. io ade ee ae bi a on Ba am "| She » go to bed a 8 awe ¢ an © fire got | “ conditions. ne e@ you to say hy Thad been told to find out if this | 18% 7 oh ie they stove, and the flames flashed clear |{2@k, abused his wife and chil-| And William Soderberg, brute of } was another evidenge of the inade a tle, the “little mother,” wholup to the ceiling. You ean seo|%2: When he came home from|a man, chose to go to jail rather | quacy of the law. I found a story}, “ere ft a «os. 3 4 ‘ work he brought blows and curses |than support his wife and five little i is oly 9, took up the baby, carried | where it sinoked the boards. S of a woman who is doing both a ‘ j and liquor, but no money or bread |children, So that's where he is Q 1 a woman's work, the |/( Ober bip to a rocking chair and) “Don't make so much noise, Rob- | or meat for his family, Things got| But that’s the law. The man de: mans and a womans , sat Gown to soothe the baby. “No,|ert, These kids do make such a be i ‘ 4 story of a litt )-year-old girl who “ :| " ' js8o bad the wife went to a lawyer |serves punishment, and there is no ning all the caros of a housd. | $e mam be avyj T carry her all the | racket sometimes and Soderberg was taken before | other to give it to him, Can't Beng a ee ahile. the real |timee ‘There, sho wants to go to! |Justice Fred C, Brown on a com-|something be done with the law? wife and mother, while (he reat | sleep again. Hand me a coat, Rob- | Shows a Mother's Care, Epp g rR ol yA Mig sysop ar eg rl a okt sisaitinn Gaderer hertia ert, to keep her warm,” and she! «where do we sleep? You see,|wife and minor children continue to suffer and starve be- burden jtocked back and iorth, her OWN) inat's a folding bed back there.| What could be done? The man cause of an inadequate law? This story wa found In the little | "Al, toes barely reaching the floor.| \aimma and Violet and Harold and|deserved to go to jail, but how| Frail women and little children é r 648 .| Robert Is So Noisy. Robert and I sleep in that and the| would that help matters? Justice ask these questions of men who Ofé-room house at 6064 Sixth ay, N | p - = y W € and a bs » 5 visy, pat » | bab: jeeps on the cot. Sometimes | Brown said, so he gave him @ sus-| make the laws AND THE 6AME TWO SUNDAYS SEfOnc CHRISTMAS. EB. It is wind swept and unplas Robert is so noisy, I have a time | baby sleeps o: Pe |