The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 14, 1910, Page 1

ee ae vol ! NO. 69. Ligp GRIMINALS. SAVE J WwOgENT MAN FRON ING TEAM W PRISON Harry Dewey, Sentenced to 25 Years in Penitentiary, Js Cleared of Crime He Was Convicted of by the Men Who Committed the Robbery—He Will Be Released. Bact aoe Dewey, sentenced to ~ony Be to 25 years in the for a robbery of c store 2 fast month found in ig an innocent man information to charge him euting Attor ¢ informa thy conte sand ghtened nm his “2 ty of Edwin Bush r os and said Crawford saved “Your Honor, | plead guilty mm feng term in 1 am ready for sentence, but at will be released in this time | want to from the county jai! few words. Marry Dewey, con. we he has been held await vieted of this crime, is an inno 1 tion to the pen cent man. He never had any thing to do with us. He is inno cent—abeolutely innocent. You have nothing but my word. A criminal’s word may not be much good in this court, but be fore God | am telling the truth. Dewey is innocent just as cer- tainly as | am guilty. | don’t want any leniency. | don't want any favors from this court. | am satisfied with any punish ment you give me, but | want you to know that Dewey is inno: cent.” Judge Ronald told Bush that bis statement as to Dewey's Innoce fand his anxiety to see an in man freed did credit to him ya b a deputy to the county jail in charge riff Crawford's Story. Harry Crawford, 23. years old, was then called to plead to the Lyppes robbery. Crawford said 1 am guilty, your honor. Bush job. The police knew the othe two men. Dewey is innocent. Any ment implicating him in thts ry made by any one is false ean Dewey is as Innocent as you are. When I got through making my statement at police headquar nt and Vande eved Dewey was ot man. Ronald said that under New Trial. “at his trial that he ail the day of the new trial, stating} bring men b fm Portiand that . of Dewey was % tthe trial that Judge the motion and sen t0 serve not lees than 25 years in Walla Sentence Dewey stil! Was Innocent pr to Dewey’s sen Dolice arrest ‘eriminals iF Spoia told of many crimes ory al gang were 9 larry Crawford ~ had been search associates in th of Lappes’ “= Brocery store a EDDIE BUSH the law he could not send Craw ith two|ford to the reformatory. He gave him the same sentence as Bush Crawford, like Bush, made no plea tor any one but Dewey Will Free Dewey. y in holding up Lyppes| are ntenced to se @ than) ; 15 nor more than 1 years in the/| ; | penitentiary ‘Thank you, your! 4 hesor,” said Bosh, and he hobbled r both} The coroner’s jury, which to- day held an inquest over the | by body of Bert Harbin, found that | Thursday he seemed to be he came to his death by knife and said that {f Blanche would only wounds inflicted by R. M. [let him have b * * * * * * duced at the inque: * the killing was much the same trouble when he went out there * as has been printed. Mrs. Har | think he just wanted to have a talk) #@ the bin told of the fight, as did Mrs. and » * Faulkner of the part of it that Rollie te * she saw. Faulkner himself took of jail for (wo weeks, and had been | ® stand, making the plea that | working at the ( * * * * * the killing w said he did not intend to kill any one, but in the scuffle with |the man she war living with. He Harbin, the latter fell on his jasked Although not yet 21, Mra, Faulk-| According to ber sister, Mrs. Wil Wilke husband a’ Faulkner was married in a rune Washington girls car ruttalk | the match when sh A week after they were mar | ried Faulkner told her he only mar. | in for spite, and soon they , exenting the University of | quarters quarreling. Several timen| cure a divorce. A month Ia was again married to Faulkne second divorce was secured | not to be a deserter from the Un Prosecuting Attorney Vander. eer, who personally conducted the ecution of Dewey, said ‘Capt nnant is absolutely convinced at Dewey i# innocent. I doubt mngly if Dewey gutity I have a doubt that I could not be a to sending him to the pent ntiary, Dewey will bp released The robbery of Lyppes'’ gr ry ore at Interbay was a daring 4 ore n Lyppes was making up cash, They gagKe und bound him, his wife, and an as ant who was in the store, Cus mers who came in were also ted Hkew!se te hh hhh WATER SHUT OFF. er will be shut off in the ject between Fourth av. ‘. KE. and Tenth av. N. EB, north of 77th st, tomorrow from 8 a. m. to 10 p. m Water will also be shut off oy ‘ Western ay., from Union ithe crime «, had nothing | st. to Bell st., and on Virginia a an and ne Was * st., from V ern ay. to First ¥ #ang they be-|* av, and on First ay., from Vir * ginia st. to Pine st., tomorrow, eee Edwin Bush, 24|% from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m nee OM crutches into # Gourt room to plead kw kk kk kkk tk ttm Ben. They is tre. Ramed the men SU Stiatee. They mad. 4 ¥ convinced the see eee ee » plece of work. The robbers enter: | Wilkes this morning denied | The ever busy stork brought sister was living, She says that} |he came there a couple of hours be- | fore the tragedy, asking her if she would help him put his former wife | Faulkner that Mr. Wilkes sent her | a telegram asking her to come here, and signed by Willia says, is from Willlam Lewis, in her {0 “4 know it was not from my hus: | {et band, for they never got along, and it was only on my account that he} ‘The Seattle National bank and | neighbors SESS EEE ERE EEE EE HE SEATTLE ~.« slA HALF A STEED, HALF A STEED, HALF A STEED, 1 would allow her in the house at all. he mea: Alleged Murderer Takes 7) 0 in) gisolutely forbie it, | whe om Stand and Insists That. °°4 says that if f have her her will go ried him th Stabbing of Harbin Was eck Wile Ween. all turne Accidental. | Re but I felt rather Hie and Blanche have never! did w mg wel er one of « done just ht. and I gotte them } t know which ts the more to ame. When Rollie. was here I right, baby he would| don't believe that or have any | I The evidence intro leave her alone. concerning | he intended to kill hi if he could get Beasie. ft" he had been out liege Inn. He said the ache a numb of she lived, and accidental. He t had seen Bis w whe me if William Lewis, the one | tae | had an eventful career. | who lives with her 23 Sixth av. N., Mrs was not yet|Oregon « last night Thit was proven | fc in the firat women’s | d debating contest, the | busine ton defeated the 1 nity him and came home, but |each time the trouble was fixed up, | jtoryun 1h, Respimel of She Heweert have year ago last December, | when her father helped her to 8| James B. Boyd, an Siiand she | offices at 211 Bost and | of cor was de a few weeks ago | States army. Boyd served in the | ©? Fauikner last night broke down, | Federal army tr Civil war and admitted to Captain of Detec hen t ende to ar tives Charles Tennant that he vis- |” acl wed erve ited Harbin’s home Thursday night : |but he says that Harbin fell on the| , William D. Gue ¥, enttot ot ths a scuffle, which resulted yer Se 6 Agel when Harbin threatened to kill him Panna says Lewis then appeared and United Snoqualr Harbin in the back. He|matis for advertising a months | etill sticks to the story he tells of | Hardy i» accused ining the | Walk being struck by a street |drawing of a bathtub rernsey oe Charged Perjury. inate ght girls and five boys to Seattle yosterday. Pay told Faulkner where her Waylaying them just after they a highway penitentiary for perjury |; ot during the divorce action. This she | Miss Helen Forney, 417 21st av. se-|he was refused to do. Then he wanted to} curing about $7 Miss O'Connor | first that he know where Mrs, Faulkner was, and | threw her handbag behind her when | Mihere the child was. Mrs, Wilkes | he appeared, and this ts all that was | Four marriage taken sued, five divorce complaints didn’t know where either was, and couldn't I tell him, statement made by Mra. 1 in town yesterday | tion. ‘ning, in time to be tried out on This, she | yesterday aftern: nite Steamer # horse power chemical engine, » other a combination hose and |to 1 wagon. b ft fore HOME ——. EDITION— SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MAY 14, 1910. AWKWARD ~} ANOTHER OVER JURY FINDS THAT HARBIN WAS KILLED BY FAULKNER 9 eas was not the he | I told bim yes. re PROGRESSIVE Th sive moot Henry publicans Washingtan tend es ef of Police Ward and id- |1!ke Rosenthal of the Newport have on Former C and Clarence Gerald and James Mc ownership. had left a Yesler way car on 22nd | hoapital from the ay an held up Miss him in nnor, 921 26th ay, and |loms of land ene decree in divorce granted Daten she ihe : Eight deaths wore recorded in Se-|in King county yesterday, © * plains why § but he claimed to know anyway atte resndey: } Mrs. Wilkes also takes exceptio ‘ines w automobile fire | bell is here of nervous prostra n’s fire at the! WASHIN( age. One ts an|Couden, blind chaplain of the house, nd | yesterday prayed for divine guidance lead nding to the litter in front of their ON TRAINS AND NEWS #TANDS Be \AFT LETTER EXONERATING BALLINGER DICTATED BY BALLINGER AND LAWLOR CLERK WHO TOOK DICTATION MAKES STATEMENT TO STAR h I (0 M Ph NY Tells of Ballinger’s Return to Washington After Presi- | oke dent Had Written of Glavis Charges and of Prepa- ration of Famous Letter of Exoneration in Private Office of Ballinger. (BULLETIN) | WASHINGTON, May 14.--When the story of : ct Frederick M. Kerby, Ballinger’s stenographer, appear- Rails All Ready for Electric ed in print here today Secretary Ballinger hurriedly e on Madison St., So! left the room in which the congressional investigating committee was in session and rushed to the White | That No Time Will Be) frouse President Taft had started on a golfing trip about 15 minutes before papers containing the story were on In addition to refusing to re the streets and he had not then learned of its publica- voke the permits for the elec tion trification of the Madison st cable line as ordered to do by Lost. th c ' hy board of * al 1 . > ca | public works yesterday further (SPECIAL TO THE STAR.) | aided and abetted the Seattic | WASHINGTON, D. C., May 14.—Frederick M. Kerby, | Electric company in its plan to electrify the fine, whether or | not the city council wanted it | in a statement issued yesterday, decl that the original draft | electrified, by granting permits ; allowing the Seattle Electric ter exonerating Ballinger and ordering the dis- company to place troliey poles | missal of Glavis was prepared in Ballinger’s private office, at on Madison st stenographer in the office of Secretary of the Interior Ballinger, of the Tait | The board refused to revoke | the dictation of Ballinger and Assistant Attorney General Pierce the electrification permit, be Lawlor | cause City Engineer Thomson : said he doubted its legal right letter was carried by Lawlor to Beverly, and was | to do so. Whether this is or issued a few days later by Taft. Taft changed it in some par- | is mot true, the fact remains ; | that the board at all times bh ticulars, and added some views on conservation. But in sub- the right to hold up pole per stance the letter was identical with that prepared in the private mite, but in the face of the council's action and of the | Office of Ballinger. will of the people who ride on the Madison st. line, the board went ahead and granted the per Star in Washington, and is as follows: | mits for placing the poles in My we ‘ h the ge n began he spring of 1905. In the street F ary, 1906, 1 w to the of corporations, depart- iho" : G was commissioner of ate secretary, ffice. On March 4, 1907, Gar- the month Garfield myself over as stenographers in his new ings about our er that we t « e re he € ar d Don M. Carr to be it t vate secret M knew Ca Carr told us Bal- / € 2 st immediately « 1 t fter E awlor was appointed assistant r and th " On June 24, 1909, 1 left t ‘ « etary FE Ballinger’s “ € idea of reclama th « f whethe BALLINGER PARTY COMES WEST. last sum 1g to make @ Denver, ti avis charges, y Ballinger switched his to go to Washi on at once Accordingly tarted back and reached Washington Friday, § e noon, We had been working on ‘8! we Ww t p the work again in the afternoon whes “9 T neerned were tation that after C whil ked hard until S and Lawlor lety M t f Beverly They did urn to the office again until LAWLOR MOVES TO BALLINGER’S OFFICE. t the return Lawlor took up his quarters in Ballinger’s private 1 An , ey and me for dictation. It was obvious from the Agr lateral i pe Pal Raby Hictated the letter what it was intended to be. Moreover, t attempt ealment. Tho letter began ref alling you’ in each ¢ and the per | sonal pronoun ‘I ed throughout. From the context the ‘I’ could ISON AMD FIRES * "ics. rest Pris juestion that Lawlor was drafting a letter for Te eviewing the Glavis charges and exonerating the sec FOR Six FORMER eta w 1 ch that Taft might have adopted ger’s private office 1ade before the final was taken to Lawlor, * ' Everything wa peatedly corrected and rewritten, PITTSBURG, I - A RUSHED THE WORK ON LETTER. Vilsncl x For two days Massey and I did nothing but help rush this work. ' : 4] We droppe he routine ¢ busine Itogether, and a stenographer A was called handle our regular work Lawlor frequently consulted i : ee BE, C. Finney, ai to Ballin ¢ On afternoor econd day a consultation was held be- te , ont Cor yner Fred Dennett of the the ‘ ff ( e Schwartz, and I think, First As hoot and I vale eretary Carr has, on : rh ail and it is my memory that Bal- ; vers } ud th or draft, aloud, and general criticism ear 1 ht months i t ‘ . 9 ved and fined $500; ex-Counellman Hugt my own conclusions upon any reader : post na a tine en [Ott ent, | want {t to be remembered that this was the draft . aN Senger lop of xonerating Ballinger in the charges Glavis has made and a fine $500 ext ine nga 3 pnd. «Be ; ae The rest of: tt afternoon, Saturday, September 11, was spent in oe anne ; ; gt ee this conferer Massey and | were continually in and out of the room FINAL DRAFT FOR PRESIDENT. The conference cut the draft to pieces and the whole thing was re tok ek tk ta tO tO tH) Vamped, By night we were ready to make the final draft that was to * be submitted to the president Beverly Ve all returned th ® REALTY BUYERS INCREAS: #) evening i cae oe | ING. Four coples—an original, and three carbons—were made - | The fact th required to triple space the letter convinces * Many thousands of people me that Lawlor expected Taft to use it only as a ba for his own * are added to the population of letter as written in the first person and addressed to Ballin filed |% Seattle every year. This ex ger thr f real estate Karly the work Lawlor had given Mass nd myself instruc- % increases in value by leap tions that all rough draft copies were to be retained by us. 1 remember * and bounds, and why it pays */ just how they looked that night.. They were all on Massey's desk on the * to invest in desirable property, right hand side, face down in a desk tecause of much pasting | either for a home or as an in hey made a pile an inch thick : |x vestment. Owners and de | We all understood from the form of the letter that it was to be * ers are offering many dc the basis of Taft's letter covering the Glavis charges. It was under % ble opportunities for invest: *| stood by us that this work was of if ante |* ment in the real estate col |* umns of The Star today a letter at the time, and that it is hard for me ‘I read so many preliminary have copied the president's letter so ofter ee . \* FOR OORT OTTO tok (Continued on Page Eight.)