The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 23, 1910, Page 1

ESTAR HAS THE LARGEST CARRIER ROUTE CIRCULATION IN SEATTLE AND CAN PROVE IT ‘THE SEATTLE . THE SEATTLE SlLAF: S TAF WASH,., MONDAY, MAY 23, 1910. ONE CENT ON TRAINS AND NEWS FLANDS Be 2 ee 12, NO 16 SEATTLI THE HODGE SUIT PROSECUTION ADMITS CASE HOPELESS uf, WHO WROTE TAFT'S Be BANDIT PROVES THE PLOT 10 GET SHERIFF MARS, |S PARTNER. OF CONFESSES THFVERY AUT WN 6000 SP, WM CRIME SUGAR TAUST ~FAILS WN OPEN GOURT Inside Story of Young Man Who Jumped From One of Three Men Caught Convicted Superintendent, Taxpayers Save $40,000 in Court Costs by Judge Main’s Decision—Suggestion of Dismissal Made Hop at Los Angeles Club to Law Clerk, Then| in Portland Tells Story) Pardoned by Taft, Con- by Prosecutor White—Hodge Congratulated on J, §, District Attorney, Then Assistant U. S. At-| of Holdup in Seattle—| fesses All and Takes y General and Proxy President of U. S. | New to Police. Trust by Surprise. Fall-Down of Political Plot Against Him. (By United P s.) Roy Cobdu . following his arrest (Dy United Preew) . or on of th ee ANGELES, May 25.--1t may Interest the reat of the United im Portland with two companions, YORK, May %4.—Oliver chad dies Ci a of the tax fe Brow that Frank F Lawler are law partners, | William mm and Frank Ford, ack au tendent of th paye ‘ e needless and f e expenditure of their money States Senator Fiir r of the committee which | coufe that he, with his two Sugar company, #en-| nt proe 1 of € } < r -§ Special Prose- r whether Ballinger secretary of the intertor. poor yes es in the Portland jail,! tenced to serve two years at the At ut H. Whit ade tate tt rning that result- Flint’s partne { man whe wrote for Prest-|42d another man who t# yet wn-|janta federal prison, went upon the| oe Yuden hh 3 : ok eck” Lanter, yi n right Glavie all wrong |CAught, held ge Main fg st Sheriff the opinion that Ba the Georgetown / stand today and made a complete | ast week anxwering the charges stat and South pay -as-yor nm of suger frauds, Bis teats | cay the president turned anot spot Hght on | °F on 7 sete os es contradicting tha n by | Judge } nter the order that brought to an end v « he first one on when he charged ° On the night o ay 12 nim t bis own trial last Decemty the se t { e t tt iirat going hay Saghlrny which Taft based his whitewash | i# (he informatic ven Capt. Ten-| when he swore that he knew noth. a : a pe Br & ae daa eas ‘ h, ERE OMS ae . Taft in bis etatement said: “t therefore requested Mr, ant ‘by long di phone from) ing of apy frauds pita i that | US ff pin htigation oe : te an opinion (on the Glavie charges against Ballin- thie he had been «iven an tonal Sere “In this case I am thoroughly convinced,” he said, a IF WERE PRESIDENT.” was one at daring | pardon by Preaident T J “that a conviction of the defendant is not probable—I being the only time in recorded history that a subordinate ro awe ever committed tn this Signal Lights to Warm Them. been handed the presidential proxy, everything about Law- | city, and Cc in making his cor ing if hor old he robbers made ii Lawler? What is Lawler? Why is Lawler? are a few | double sure ting their loot quest which millions of Americans have been won-|*!¢ getting away, or at leant of may ine how they pla to wake sure of might go further and say that I do not believe that a con- viction of the defendant in this case under present circum- stances is possible.” At 10 o'clock Judge Main entered|to prosecute a man known to be Spitzer said that bags of lead had been used qu the scales by sugar trust employes to make fal weight, and that when the scales wate ebdere’ boarded ba - far Judge Ronald's court and took the | innocent WHO LAWLER IS AND WAS. queaps fe case there - wae seslet| is the sugar checkers with bench. He immediately called the} Morris continued: “Four out of fean assistant attorney general assigned to duty in the |*"°* famall springs, which + placed | case of the Mate ve. Hodge. The | every five taxpayers in King county at the faterior. Lawler has held this position during the Made Doubly Sure. lunder the beam to the court room was crowded with spr are objecting to the trial of this tators, jurors and the 150 witnesses | ca subpoenaed by state from all expenditure of the public money parts of King county necessary to a trial would not be as benefic to the taxpayers and Newspapers in Court. Ito the county as a @iemieent oe this m H. White, who has had | cage charge of the Hodge case from the! “juage White believes, and 1 be beginning, and who, at the dicta-|jjeve, what every other honest tax- tion of Prosecuting Attorney Van-| payer believes, that the best inter- r, induced the grand jury to) ests of the state and county would The uncaught fourth man of the | scales ecause in their opinion the y to that time he had be United States district attorney tor | gang, says Coburn, was on the car The witness declared that he istrict of California. | 88 &@ passenger. He got on up the| bored holes for the springs, and ar @ this district attorneyship In California is sufficient | tine, got the lay of the ground and | ranged a system of signal lights | was prepared to give any signals| Which would warn the checkers that | necessary in ¢ane anything might| they were being watched by govern be wrong when the actual stickup| ment agents , Proxy President” ™.: ate Ae a ig yn SS: armed with two guns and stood/tles in weighing were made to a ready fn ense there had been any| Mr Leroy was stated by the wit Hodge, arose and addressed |». iw resistance, to open fire from an un Spitzer aid that he made the aourt, He stated that he do-| cess' yas suuhe dectaranan aces expected quarter on any person oF Of these reports. He added CUSOE JOHN 'F. MAIN, sired to submit to the court a copy | case be dismissed. Ae a taxpayer persons king the trouble that he did not know the position . Prete ty James & Bushne of The ttle Star of May 21 and/1 want to stand with the ‘arene Everything was propitious for| Leroy held with the sugar trust - ae aaa nn ene eem of the Daily Times of the same | other taxpayers that are demanding the boldup when the robbers board. Their Pay Continyed. | date |that this man be not prosecuted. ed the car, and this fourth man! gpitxer then related various con: | | He stated to the court that the | Hodge Wants Triat gave the signal agreed upon and) yorsationx he had with Cashier | purport of both articles was that o ¥ Hodge was being persecuted dy | Hodge wants to be tried. His lcontinued to pose as a passenger. | Bonde je and th ex-Supert » B herateuy sad CER os-Superte} |Commissioner Carrigan, and that | honor is at stake. I consequently He held up bis hands and stood for nt Gerbracht, who are among | fovams Jieeabgyponf so ioF of the | the defe Hie said that after | Judge Main: “Mr. Clerk, you will make this order in this | tbe taxpayers’ money was about to| Will not ask ‘for the dismissal of assengers and continued on the | ne and t had been dis-| ease | be exper her the political | this case. I ask your honor to con- jear after the robbers bad left, tak-| charged t met him once @ “I asked the counsel representing the state and the counsel ot Carrigan against prepa tess Bowes Hae - beled he ing note of all that was done to | week and gave bim a package COM] gepresenting the defendant to cos with the court In chambers, saamevag Bioe j ne public an ward effecting their capture. Later,| raining their weekly wages. Thowo! for the reanc t the court desired to ask a question of counsel | Judge White intimated to the | Juli th Melena: lea into bh by | prearranged plan, he com! payments continued until Pobruary for the state which it would have been improper for the court to |court that the newap r articles Sati n a <4 7 muniented with them, aiding them! i919 when he was sent to Atlanta.| have asked The court asked the attorneys for the ead. jfirly represented public opinion uf. hltsloy axa r in thelr excape and getting SWAY | according to iteer ani to accompany the attorneys for the at into chambers for | He then called the attention of the ae M Perea Fepenban yf °g sr said this Ourpriced the Defense the reason that to have asked the attorne tate the que court to sect 62 of the crimes ; with a Ate 3 oe? a + at the same time ‘ tly ¢ tion Im the absence of the attorneys fc t would have | act of 1909, that ¢ he superior estant 4 hey General Lee an " sre safety in| The defense ently taken un-} Hon es court judges the powér on their | Deputy Prosecutor W. H. White of operations, never was seen | prepared by the appearance of Spit 4 understand the situation to be, and been advised by [own fative to dismiss criminal | ‘he prosecution. After a consulta the stand, asked for an with them attor ‘ the that poe Hmcab this case would | Cases in which they were convinced ment of the cross Popeyes hb » that « coavi it ase Ww ald ttle tik bability of a | “(Continues on Page ress Find Pawned Watch. ton he witness pot he question which I desired to ask the | Unit : * atiorneys ore mt further, in view of the ements VeCtion, The capture of the gang in Portebood r left the room, accom C bate I | land was due to the prompt sends y Chief Filan of the seeret and arguments en made to the court in this cause Has Power to Dismiss. WITH MONEY TO ing out by Captain Tennant of t who refused to allow any-| Mace = ba +> tang alan ST ; ; | White, in concluding, said: “Un descriptions of the men and of thapone eak with the former super : Ehie ¢ our ken mre got ng of the facts in this case other than | 4. tnis jaw the court has the power in the ntry. One of the articles nt Ix prepared to prove| #nce ¢ iS morning. ae, Dre Ming Offloees Co Rot mov ure has been brought to bear to] , pitzer and the} dismissal of this case. The statute provides that the prosecuting |)\'\,, stolen was a Swine wate 2h, valued} that wives of to state what evidence 1/ “ t éficers may so move, but they have not the power to dismiss a at $500, and of p far make and] checker have received their hus - oa 4 4 ; | willing design. This was taken from Emil} bands" adlaries from the sugar trust ease without the sanction of the court. The statute also provides [yiye 1 will 1s At ordite. oc te! DeRy of the Horseshoe saloon. since Spitzer went to pris that the court has the power of its own motion to dismi tion | writing, whichever the court pre-| This wae wes foand eeakal c in ite judgment, a conviction of the party char not | fer In one of these articles the| After having wandered about . ble. ithe streets of attic aimlessly for ting attorney Is quoted ay a | several days 4 iging policemen un- der the hallucination that she was nh ex-convict and was wanted by in @ shop at Portland by Captain probe im N ; lthe pros Moore and Detectives Coleman and G F ik ie neere + Oe mueemenry comventae, cat -6. goavietion “af |ns saying he has washed his hands jant is not probable—1 might go further and say that I do | 7 of the P ‘ ) m of this Hodge case la mly a Snow, of the Portland pol 4 uk & convietion oF te ndge ca m ¢ not believe tion « the present circumstances is possit defendant in thie case under partment. They secured a descrip ity. I want to put the respon: | ¢ _ wa | e, Edith C. Nelson, former : e ho t Isponsibility for acting upon the oe tara ragga! A ales ‘On the court, by the legislature, has been imposed hone ss: ae the home of Mra M. P. : and this court does not hesitate to perform its duty as it sed " . 21 Broadway, walked into 1 , 0 proved to be aving wrenched his bac ) William H. Morris, attorney for ? found this man, who proved te After having wrenched his back} §4 taking this action, or in making this ruling ‘ cts upon | and gave herself the | Sheriff Hodge, followed White. He one giving the ed upon the ¢ ; ‘ | tts own initiative. The duty being impc & by the- line tne ¢ : : § ed over to the ma- epee, Assistant Attorney-General for the Interior Depart: | burn, in » room Legh oa Sl, lapse a half hour later. Kimil Kruse lagisinture, the court has no right and no disposition to attempt to | non iha pays Mat Hote “aia | tre mn as an insane person. She had Wrote the Letter, “Just as if He Were President,” Ex- | Wilson. They lay in wait for the) on the James st. cable avold the duty which the legisiature ha» imposed upon t ie $740 and a bank book, show- Ballinger. third man and. when he came ok hin car to the down town Foal Malik eran] (AG GH aa date one & poor, wanes proce Eg Sher are: Jing of $319, in her pocket * ». Each wae armed R 1 to _ ’ M any case—and th © Ithat Hodge nfed that he be|'™S * f pocket~ nabbed all three. Each wae armed ma and back up the 1 to} @igterent, in the mind of this court, to any other case, and is en. ''"* odge. Cetanees . be! ook, With this on her person she iain is es nd the police be gine put on trial before a jury, and tha with two guns and P aw owe house at & i i aan “ Sa , titled to the same consideration and no gre than any other case men pass upon his guilt | park one night, fit anyone tasciliar w California political conditions, that the Heve they we planning 3 §P | o'clock this morning Byery case is entitled to be administered absolutely as the law re ’ | wonder is that she was not Pacific interes ‘ friendly to Lawler | similar to the Seattle robbery, In| As the car was going down the} guires it. Every jon ght before the court in cane, it Taxpayers Indignant. From the Southern Pacific, with its alliances, through common pio noroe oti seasitied: ot i a ga Fe gh: } fe the duty of the court to Jer that case and ab y ad Morris pointed out to the court sessilis cs with the Morgan-Guc heim power trust, to District te * , eed broke oe at nh? law as it understands it that all of the pressure brought to|y yyy RRR RR EEE EM Lawler, was but one step at the time he held that job. oe aan i vp paras | either 4 te. “‘That being true, the court is clear in its mind as tothe duty (bear to have the case dismissed | y x the Southern Pacific and those alliances to Oscar |? } * tuifered | ef this court at this time, and that is, there being mo probability |came from indignant taxpayers—|% | WEATHER FORECAST. *& h law officer for the interior department, who wrote Seore- | "0? 0 of a conviction, the court of its own motion will dismiss this | from the citizens of King county | ® * ~~ 1 € on , Millinger’s exoneration, “as if he were president,” is but one Strangers to the Police Pe oe at who knew that Hodge was being|% Showers tonight and Tues- % x All three men are new to the po . os . J, F. Mi I presume the same order will in the case perseouted result of a political | day; light southwest winds. * THAT ce They are str ers to « ne he indictment conspiracy, and who objected to} sr RNIA. | I They are strang to the} . : Ane sak ee : * * “bed 18 SENATOR P. FLINT OF CALIFO! leriminal records in the police de-| The pa' ntinned and " nt W. H. Whit That can be dismiased having the taxpayers’ money used|l & ke kA RAKKREEKEER urd of Flint betore he was sudden! announced jon | Partments on Pacific const. reached the jy a ne 2 = California's chotcs for the United States senate? Los Angeles Capt. Tennant will go to Port-|/#6 , wes cs PRS AAS aici eit <S MARION LOWE TALKS WITH BEN REITMAN, KING OF HOBO te ne? of 1 P knew o' hat was al itheir extradition to this state ul re ts ¢ Flint was junior member of a firm| y got to Seattle it will be} Kruse lition is D . handled Southern Pacific railroad | / 4 tively. fix: thelr. identi jeaay to positively fix their iden t tating it blunt! The Southern Pa tle e robbers, as he eliing you that he sean’t bel . i th t 7“ ony, -s s a wy ets ne’ Bo thorn | jon as the robt Aon t y Madison Street People Meet p BY MARION LOWE It ng you that he 4 n't bellewe | rulers and eat little children. The! with them? asked Shaw. ‘Nothing, ‘ or: sol A f rats v. Parke wore no masks at the time of the ; Here's an anarchist said the|in a God, that there ts no such | truth is, we are the most peaceable they are normal,’ replied the ocu- Angele eaded by alter ‘ar mae 1 peor t I city editor 1 want you to talk to|thing as religion, yet when © people in the world. We don't list, ‘mo peo) 8 are defective.’ . od. if there was any doubt — : t bad condit n | him.” wants to be emphatic he says: |incite to murder nor riot, but we| ‘Oh id Shaw, | , ; , © be emphatic he sa ine : h,’ said Shaw, ‘because I didn't Te Aesles head. sir Be gc be . apecch | , s“ 99| the cable line on their street 9 “Pm afraid of anarchists,” I sa Never in God's world,” and uses |feel, and feeling sometimes impels see things lke other people 1 sup- ngele of Commerce, Flint said at ‘KILLS WILD BAR hold @ big masn ‘meeting ¢ but he brought him up, and the damn” and “hell us to overthrow a ninjustice. i I w q r , . n 1g n an r rc i pose as wrong, but I find I aa to say | e statement may be rpreted @ night at the Renton Hil! clubhouse, | wag no escape Wait a minute,” 1 How do I make my living am right all ‘the world ts Sime Pessible to 4 that | owe my election as much to There will be speecc f en| Dr. Ben Reitman, king of tramps,| haven't any right to the the darky whom I once aske wrong if a8 to all other men and influenc combined.” ho } ete 1 ‘ fe t mor h of the hoboes, czar of t There isn't any God o same question. When I can't get Meet” Flint may have owed to Parker, he did not owe jally, and @ general. di ion of | bums, millionaire tramp, anarchist, | belief, Be consistent anything else to do, I work. Then Calls Self King. Siteess at the polls t outhern Pacific machine leader the Meon st. tr ¢ | Emma Goldman's advance man, wa Oh, well,” he said, “I can't re-/I have an income. But you aren't consistent, You're Bed three ver ale enants during the campaign for| A. Holsington, 47th st 8. W alt | preagnted construct the whole language. Those You're a pretender SE Sire Te yen and Motley Flint, a brother|W, Graham av., Seattle, doesn't] ® #& * FOI eee at frightened — glance irrent words, you know, and Has An Income. 5 aching that all govern ris The other « 0 Lawier have to go far to bag bears. He|* % *| showed that he wae handsome, and mean something to the people Income? What business have|ment is wrong and you go around it Went to the ¥ orth became United States| hunts them in We tle He | * Advertising e the life of ®| roxy tied. No woman need be afraid|I talk to, though they don’t mean | You, an anarchist, with an income?! the country calling yourself ‘czar, . vad broth, tmaster at Los Angeles, and| was shooting Jackrabbits with - ba | we tr It ts the fuel nalices h : fA handsome man, A handsome | anything to mé You haven't any right to be living ch,’ ‘king’ and ‘millionaire Wier, who b a bell boy in the California fle on Graham t about four|#® the e of au usine anity makes him as tra i on money you don’t earn 5 oe en the law office ot § Balbo Hieron district |thacks from California av. Friday|# is kept burn i. Trusting tO */ti0an a spring Iamb. He'll feed out in on gpm aisial es No, of con not yaet ke Gavas att an al § , 4 allt n the nor . f course yo omen hold on , € r knows al WF the Bouthern district lifornia when he heard a rustle end |x competitive daya; trusting to w| of Your-hand as long ae you make |. your religion till the last thing. [thi# most shamelors ‘ot that he’s got handsome Midi tue ceria wn bushes and out stalked a 250-pound | & comp oA him think he has magnetic eyes. yor arrow Ot haven't ng: | with his tmpudent smile staves: Gark eyes: teawar teh , 4 nk bear. an aC ya i of n flatte at's all yc aven nc ? " . Lawler is the 1 own by Frederick M. Kerby's| Diack beer. og ine bear and! & eu nan age ¢ com. #} Just sive him flattery. Tt vanced as much as men have. You|HOld to the right to live as I/and curly hair We dictated Taft r exonersting Ballinger of the| Holaingion ont soomed to have|# pé * Is Not Dangerous jhave t rship something, Wo. | damn ple you know He insists, he r, that the In that he clea 1 the Cunsingham Alaska claims, | o sitect on the bear. He rushed| * Star ad is not only the *| If Emma Goldman's advance man|man has alwa on a worshipe On your selentific knowledge as| portant thing announce that Stoned to the Guy, and then to have assisted |" (rien ow a In gun but the|#* fulerum that starts the ma- &|is dangerous, It's uuse of his|I wouldnt take sway your belief|a physician, do you think you are| Emma Goldman will lecture at the Nd the rough drat ng that he wrote the letter ir had disappeared when he re-|# chinery for laying the founda. #| personality, not his anarchy, for)in Christ or me The difference | well balanced? Aren't you off? Columbia lodge hall, 1414 Sever Fld tn ler moved up tr: hited States district attorney of | PAE Me sii eday he was shooting|# tion of a sful business, #{he's not a genuine anarchist,| between anarchists and other peo. You remember when Bernard | av at 8 p. m., on “Fran a Wee Very capat te during the campaign for} “yt me neighborhood when he|#® but it » keeps it going. #| though he thinks he is. He'll Ike|ple is that anarchists are honest | Shaw went to an oculist to: consult Modern Martyr ted to the re tment, as law officer, the in in encountered the animal. This|#* Phone your ad to Main 9400, #\ that. Every man likes to have a/and open, while other men and) him about his eyes,” smiled the | and evening at the Pixs Angeles waid “Vint Sone he had a $2 calibor riflc and|# or Ind. 441 «| woman think he's the very devil. | women do the same things under|ezar of the bums, ‘the spectailst | same » and hour The Simply Southern Pacific 1 the 4 interests bar 7 “ *| That's where Reitman’s tnconsis- | concealment said, ‘You have a most unusual) White Slave Traffic An admi acific and the allied { Tho bear measures five ~ nes | killed him 12 kha khh hhh the keel tency Comes tn, He starts in by! “You think anarchists murder! pair of oye What's the 1 ri sion W charged (Crotinued on Page Ten.) feet long.