The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 16, 1910, Page 1

— you. 1 ve 4 NO? —— SP eERSS Ea PaSRS a TAPES E RE FE - o VERDICT oLMLY ur Wi SUB WILDLY Little Woman,” Says Judge—Hyde's Sis- ded, Then Hysterical—* ‘rag Other oot aa = (By United Press.) MGAS CITY, Mo., May 16.—Dr. B. C, Hyde today wa ed of murder in the fi and was given a life “the penitentiary r Ned C T H anes City mi fiction and sente g and popular phy asa climax t € tional murder history of Missou t in the had been out since} it appeared likely that th and that Ju Latshaw would dec is from the Hyde }in murder trials fixes the sentence ye which is later the judge that the imposed by Bhed. All sor Hin cireaiation. it was) stood 11 to 1 for i rumor that wns jlater declared (he 1 for conviction great excite [Toom, and a large bear the verdict From Start med the following o'clock: defendant guilty of first degree, as Indictment, and as jure ight for a New Trial. Hyde's attorneys will fight for a new trial and if it is denied will appeal the cai They will fight the case to the limit Dr. B. Clark Hyde was convicted on the indictment charging him with the murder of ‘Col. Thomas H. Swope. There are 10 other indict ments, one charging the murder of Chrisman Swope, nephew of Col Swope, one charging manslaughter for killing Colonel Moss Hunto: named as administrator of Swope's sal soon after the| fm that a ma with having attempted to inoculate other members of the Swope fam Sood for convic| ny with typhoid germs the first ballot _ t Hyde Hyde began April|_, The evidence against Hyde was circumstantial in character almost without ‘Bntil today Calm. eee eee eee eee eee, his wife his) # * ‘fp court by the time * WEATHER FORECAST. * m | ta. Dr. Hyde was * + lm and upparentiy * Fair tonight and Tuesday; # Verdict of “gullty| *# light east winds. * B the first degree’ was * *| RE R Ree has expected an tears at the and was led, sob- bom. The jury, fo fix punish Hyde to life im Conkling, discussing Fesult would ™@ the administra TEOOY MET BY THE ROYAL CARRIAGE The ver was ‘Tealize it. said them Roosevelt Reaches London re and a Lord Dundonald she had , declared her hus tence of her that she had n Yerdict with + n-| LONDON, May 16.—Colonel The the jurors if the re R elt and party arrived gone at 7:80 this morning. He wa Was taken to the met toria station by offi Wife was waiting. | cia inietpality and repre 4. G0erd of a special sentatives of the British govern NWR stood by while the | men King George sent a rt to comfort riage to convey the Roosevelts | sobbing co Dorchester house, the home of Sly in the court|American Ambassador Reid. The morning papers here print imns He to Jail Without Bai. |of praise of the former American president. poet Pa Who were wait-)” Official courtesies having been Congratulate their| exchanged, Roosevelt proceeded to me matt an v = Buckingham palace, where he| momen © Ver-| viewed the body of the late king t they sat mo-| Then the colonel went to Marl , too, gave way audibly He declared are, tbe allowed to vinit her @B regular visitir where Ambassador borough house, Reid presented him to King George The new was King meeting between the and the recent president brief and cordial %\ George expressed his pleasure at the appointment of Roosevelt as Provides itt bit | npocial representative of the United me * fev tes at the funeral of his father tshaw said, ‘The king appointed Lord Dundon allowed no lux t be is to ld and Commander Cunningham be Graham to take charge of Roose for Mrs. Hyde clt’s entertainment and serve him ferry for the poor| ax permanent suites | during bis he added, r+ sorrow powe "I will give th« time Mmit in y in England, This was an un ial mark of royal distinction “ at her el * * and prep * THIS 1S TO REMIND YOU * nee will * * in open * That The iN take your ® WH be prox * ad at no cost by t * Waday « * phone. Main 9400; Ind. 4 - * Jaw the jury |i tk kk tt RR KR THE SEATTLE STAFF at imprisonment | ™ | , “ it. It ts alleged that Hyde bled mary during O18! tiunton to death. The eight re-| maining indictments charge Hyde and a Commander Take) Him in Charge. SEATTLE, WASH., DE GUILTY ¥ FIRST DEGREE GIVEN LIFE TERM Or. B. C. Hyde, convicted of the murder of Col. Thos, Swope, and tain of an attempt at wneeate murder of the Swope — RESUME OF THE HYDE CASE H.C Hyde for the murder of ¢ 4 two lending families of Kansas City The trial of Dr Bwope invol H Thomas Colonel Thomas H. Swope was a mii re philanthropist | who had presented Kansas City with the most beautiful of Its public | parks He was the uncle of Dr. Hyde by marriage The convicted man, a populur young physician, had Incurred the enmity of Mr an OF Bw n-law of he by marry aughter agai * | the trial Mrs. fy ally by ber husband | trangement betw © mother and herself never | bridged j Pwo days before Colonel &w< nton, hin life | mpanion and named as exe y. Cireum- | oe in at he had b Dr. Hyde | The le eficlaries ted an in ] tigation a Arthur Swope es tate, aawinte n wnurual feature was that Co Bwope's wi sromecution and | defense, Mra. Logan Swope being beneficiaries | eece = = = = | that Faulkner was running away when Harbin caught up with him and seized him Harbin is @ giant npared with Faulkner. Faulkner would have made hie on jcape from the house had not Har | | bin, in his night shirt, given pursuit If Harbin had been in his street | clothes the small pen knife which | Faulkner carried would probably not even have pierced the clothing Lewis says that Faukner was running away when Harbin seized | in as does Mra Faulkner Information again M Faulk-|\* *e# eee KRKRA RHE ner, who stabb kith Hert | * * Harbin Thurs will be filed |® Scandinavians to Meet. & this afternoon in the superior court | ® * charging murder in the first degree.) * The Scandinavian Progres- © hie was decided upon by aaty |* sive Republican club will & Prosecutor J inch this noon. meet tonight in the assembly ® Finch, alt helleves that | room in the Henry building. # Faulkner kit Harbin in seif|® All Scandinavians are cordial: # defense, will put the entire matt |% ly invited to attend * up toa jury. It is doubtful whether | ® eek | Feukner can be convicted Tacoma. — Walter Hoff Seeley His Story Corroborated. general representative of William . | Morris, is due tn Tacorna today te Faulkner's story 1s practically | (Aorcet the plane form | $100,000 | corroborated by all of the with vaudeville house which local cap | Mrs. Harbin and iMiam Lewis, | italiste will erect an a by for the himself slashed in the struggle, say Morrie attractions Henceforth we must appraise President Taft as purely and simply a politician in the current acceptance of the term ‘o longer may we look upon him as a good-natured, easy going, amiable man, the victim of loyalty to false friends The light deceptions of the craft, willing to tiade on the confidence the wler memoranda the cold-blooded, cynical politician, not above the petty people blindly place in the office he holds. No matter what denials in part or in toto, no matter what explanations may issue officially from the White House, the fact remains that President Taft did not con- sider the Glavis charges in good faith. He listened to Glavis with his mind already made up to “exonerate” Bal- | linger and then led the public to believe that he had. weigh- ed all the evidence carefully and came to his decision on the merits of the case. If there was any one equipment of the president that we had reason to be assured of, it was his “judicial temperament,” Even those who felt most bitterly over his failures ecutive were confident that, had fate placed him in the judicial branch of the government, the nation would have profited. He rded as an excellent judge who made but an indifferent as an ex was reg | president. But instead of the scrupulously impartial judge, jeal- ous of justice, and concerned only with facts and the law, HOME EDITION -~ . TD Pr MONDAY, MAY PRESIDENT TAFT’S SIGNATURE IS NO LONGER HONORED) * has presented him in a new and startling] 16, 1910, CHARLES FIRST DIES Million - Dollar Smothered on Train) Last Night While on! Way to Portland. Monkey Charies 1, the million dollar monkey which astounded thou CHARLES |. { sands of Orpheum patrons last week, is dead The simian wonder waa suffo-| | eated on a train some time after 3 oelock this morning while en route to Portland The monkey was riding in the baggace car with an attendan | The attendant left him this morr ing at 3 o'clock and was gone bu ja short time When he ret |he found the monkey dead }focation. The steam had bee tumed on in the car after th tendant left and Charles was «i STENTS. ing close to the ply The « ing steam blew over the monkey re |mostrils and bis delicate lung No Danger of Cashing in were quickly congested and deat! ue aos ee . Your Checks Day After Charles 1. was the mot famous Tomorrow, They All Say monkey in existence and was ing 6 per cent on a million dollars. | Hila owners were drawing down $1,000 » week for his performances} pw ad bey Ps and their contract was for 7 weeks. He filled the house wh will ox the & of the ever be appeared, and was one n Wedr Astron the best drawing cards on the} omers disagr er t vaudeville stage. His intelligence) .iuiner the comet's tall » pes fell but « little short of human. He} | tend through, space for a wufficten wre human clothing with ease and oven a degree of elegance, At the | drtance table he ate with knife and fork.) Muy 18 at He was at home on a bicycle or | Semmrige the roller skates, ecuting difficult | evolutions with grace and we, | ta! a He could do everything but speak ced a Had Human Vanity ja ry ) the These were his profeasional re-| be semblances to human beings, but | of in addition be had many um ™ traits not noticeable on the stage i He was intensely fond of admira tion and applause and would wil!-|rible effect up earth ingly stay on the stage all day ax| but there Is likely to be long as there was anybody to)* Experts dec that watch and applaud him. there will be odor Monkeys are extremely delicate A Few Opinions. and the most minu' precautions! yp) a view pr were taken to protect the b h| entint of Charles 1. He was always warm. | m P ly clothed, carefully fed and no shore é ‘ |drafts were allowed to strike bim.| "ty, Pitas’ edteas warts When he was on the sta the rth jatage was boarded tn. His owners | prog Michael Gla | would not permit anyone to touch | seryvatory It : }him for fear they might communl-|ine earth wil! pass t leate some disease. No mother)! yt anyway the ‘ ever watched more carefully over|tenuated that no injury : her first babe than did Charles’) instead of fear at th pproa owners over him, for he was worth | ti. als: ailk “Siaaine- ta Hanctsa ts | $52,000 a year to th | ourselves that we are going to have Jao magnificent a specta No as tronomer, I believe, rea thir 6-YEAR TERM FOR (econ oa om the earth. At the sa © we ‘PORTLAND CASHIER On Se eee. / in the history (By United Press.) David Gill, president of tt PORTLAND, Ore, May 16 ist Royal Astronor a > Judge Gantenbein, of the circuit) ciety it 4 btf arin ihe | court, today senten tall will reach th art he only Morris, formerly cs yeeult posstt il be a faint fl Oregon Trust and Savings bank of | min. m of the sk Portland, to six years in the Ore-| prof. E. FE. Barnard, Yerkes ob | gon state prison. Morris was con! ser at o The ymet will have viet of having embezzled $75,000)| no effect on the earth in notes from the bank. He ts un Pr t J. M. Shaeberie, Ann Arb jder indictment for other alleged |All predictions are purely spe \shortages in the bank's cash. Hiative we have a politician trimming his sails to the expediency of whatever breeze happens to be blowing, and carelessly designating to insignificant officials and an accused mem ber of the cabinet the duty of deciding the most important | question that has come before the president in years. No excuse of custom will avail, for nowhere is it an hon | ofabi le custom for a judge to allow the accused to write his own | vindication. And the result of the Ballinger hearing, so far has not made this particular instance an exception to the rule It may be that the president had implicit confidence in the in | tegrity of Ballinger, but even this is no excuse for turning over the writing of his decision to him and his subordinates, It was an act of bad faith toward Glavis, toward Pinchot, toward the It does situation in the least that the president re-wrote alter the { the Ballinger ver Roosevelt policies and toward the people not most o decision: and only used Ballinger's laudations of batim. The only thing that matters is that the fused to give proper attention to the president re lavis charges, and gave the public to understand that he had done so, | Humiliating as it may be to admit it, from now out we shall be obliged to scrutinize carefully announcement from | the White the real author, It has come to pass that the signature of William H. Taft, President, is no longer good at the Bank of Public Confidence. every House with our analytical faculties alert to discover | | the confidential relations of a sten ON TRAIN® AND NEWS ®TANDS Be. ONE CENT TAFT NO LONGER THE JUDGE BUT ATTORNEY FOR DEFENSE” NEW YORK WORLD TURN AGAINST THE PRESIDENT Famous Administration Supporter Leads Newspapers Which Attack Chief Executive Following Letter Writing Admissions—Ballinger Must Go, Says New York Press. KERBY IS FIRED TODAY, T00 See United dares, aft was on the tigants to prepare York World toe ling the did not al- ben tentat “to meet read de- Taft acted not influenced by any the way “The country can no longer believe that this was Taft's ate In allowing Attorney-General Wickersham to tamper with the date of his summary and Assistant Attorney-General Lawler to prepare a memorandum to help in framing his de titude. | cision, Taft has divested himself of his function of judge, and must now be included among the attorneys for the defense.” BALLINGER MUST GO. ne New York Pre reviewing the matter, says think the public will be forced to the conclusion that the president, though he meant to do right, was misled by the secre tary of the interior, the attorney eral and others, whose advice he felt accept. We compelled to believe, without regard to what the jon of congress may be, that the cause of conservation, the ef ency of the interior department and the popularity of the Taft administration would be greatly benefited by separation from it of Secretary Ballinger. Nor can we es cape conviction that Taft could easily improve upon Wicker sh seralehs; WASHINGTON. May 16. — In | AND BALLINGER firing Stenog Kirby, Secre FIRED MR. KERBY Balling ‘Sir: You are hereby discharg ed from the public service because you are unworthy to remain in it Divulging information obtained in (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, May 16.— Frederick M. Kerby, stenogra- pher in the interior department, was dismissed from the govern- ment service today in a special delivery letter sent to his home, and signed by Secretary Bailin- ger. The letter stated that he was dismissed because he was “unworthy to remain in the ser vice.” ographer to the secretary of the interior in a communication giving information to those whom you are bound to know are wrongfully seeking to bring reproach upon the administration and injure me, and in deliberately misstating material facts as to what you did treacher ously communicate, show you un worthy and unfaithful. The fact that your treachery is futile can-| ing that he had ordered Lawler to not mitigate the character of your frame the letter, known as the offense. For the good of the serv-, memorandum, and told him to ice you are hereby dismissed. | write “as if he were president.” “Respectfully, osecution” in the Ballin- | (Signed.) “R. A. BALLINGER.” ger investigation today is trying to My dismissal was not unexpect-| figure out just why = pestis sé ed,” declared Kerby, commenting was not sent to the senate palling 8 Teteee In fact at body called for “all 1 relieved, as I naturally did no nis” in the Ballinger con- care to continue working in the de-|troversy, or why it was not pro- partment under existing conditions. | @uced in answer to a score of spe- I am willing to leave Rallinger's }¢iflc requests made by the attor- charges to the public opinion neys for the “prosecution” before “Whether | acted treacherously |‘ committee or patriotically is for the public to Tipped Ballinger Off. ie the verdict will) 4 new phase of the case came rites ; when Kerby declared that J not linger is an jor departn ot was in- excellent judge : telegraph that his state- 1 consider tter to Ser arding the Lawler letter ms tion of my , put d and Sten- in every ographer Massey, who helped in Saturday Kerby public &/the preparation of the letter, was statement in which he told of the/ sent to him to find out if it were preparation of the Lawler memor|trye, The interior department, dum ollowing tt Wicker Kerby said, had received a tel- m cory ng h ; awler | egraph ummary of the state- o the investigating | ment a tte, and later the president Massey asked him, Kerby con- ook the center of the stage by is be ling a letter of explanation, say (Continued on Page Eight.) 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