The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1910, Page 1

-HOM == | EDITION og Hl KS Som SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1910. On Robbing the Dead GEA IS FLAYED j After ich as the St. Louis cyclone, the Gals veston fl an Francisco earthquake and the like soldiers are stationed cene of the catastrophe Pheir orders are to kill on sight any person who attempts ff to rob the dead ae Despoilers of the dead ind gh« - are held in such horror, disg repulsion Secretary Is an Irresolute, Shifty, Un- th ey are universally der by jury I bl ey are blown out Several Other Kinds of an Official, Been Tried in an Office of Public Trust Wanting. Seattle having experienced no death-piling disasters, has somehow bred a class of ghouls who strip the dead remorselessly down to the last penny. They are not the skulking type of ghouls who prow! hyena-like among the bodies, but business men who lay claim to some position By United Press.) in the community. But no cringing brute ¢utting off the : ieee : oe fingers of a dead woman for her rings is any greedier for SHINGTON, May keen and critical an hi th i F \ Rall or. iwhoun tie chat the spoil of death than these, our fellow citizens and corpse ntert \ alling how ch Be iate and “wnethical,” a public of-|f Tobbers as tres am rire AA State Tax Commissioner J. EB Frost investigations and found war wa e me into the disposition of the ° ren of King county ff} Brandeis, cour for s R. Glavis, before who died without heirs, bas + da cold-ble ghoulish mys fl investigating commit today if tom in which undertakers, doctors, administrators and lawyers “ fuga » hal } ylog lv is have played a disgusting part. The syste ie simple; the entire } dealt. in fa haled chronologicall as emehinal tha waneis estate is devoured by “funeral expense re is one instance up was cold, c : + A stranger who die le When the estate Who He Says Helped Him. ‘oratory. Waa settled it was found that funeral administrator's described the Cunninghar laims dec laring expenses, and doctor's expenses came exactly to $1,900. At the ae esfit b ce. He declared that one time of aettloment, however, {t waa discovered that the esta Bailing ye sncvetery " te an to $1,970. This discovery of an additional §76 wd main essentials in t af the in the administrator's hearing to be postponed for one wee , to resist aggres apsic or otherwise a bill for $70 for “caring for grave” wae presented and dant Ballinger exhibit 1 lack of this quality Mr. Frost has found vouchers for “$80 for « band,” spring of 1907, he sal a t is reperted in favor of flowers,” and other like expenses, being obvious efforts to grab with "mecretar ya he interior department the very last cent left by the deceased. se investiga: « reating a new department of This ghoulteh condition hae prevailed in Seattle and in King | pl Jaims should be public works, to embrace the recia- county for years. When the stranger was suddenly stricken with Fis tee Seattle land service, the Panama canal death, the well-plumed and respectable vultures flocked to the | He wes! a continued, far | forestry and conservation * ub bedside to pick his financial bones clean; they scurried about : Washington, where the ting construction and public looking for real estate, burrowed in the banks for bank accounts @ the claimants undoubdt. nr nagement and when the undertaker and the administrator consed their car | Ustton Secretary ls Shot it ad he w pe the rion labors there was hing left-every morsel had been de — echeme at Beverly this summer and |— voured. Without Chance to Hold a Vielded. recommend it te congress In De The loss in money to the state through these charnel thefts vg * aged o™, Seis | comber perhaps amounts to a considerable sam, but, whatever thie lous | Up Hands and Records ee S) it exe approves, Ballinger may be, it is a secondary consideration hey don't hoot a t nar APP nk p shoot || Are Stolen. De stiorney declared! 11) be out of a job without resign- |} ghouls down for the value of the rings they steal, but because jen. tae tore Pius i. ' warm-blooded human beings, with human minds and human ated hearts, cannot and will not tolerate their putrescent existence. Shot dow h t last Paad ergee the resump The fact that these cadaver pickpockets abide with us, moet us fl pigs Silt ov. nnd pate . 3000 gga and talk to us makes our flesh creep and makes ux sick with aad bd of his grip, Arthur Cas pausea. to Glavis. But ‘ theton, sdtretary of the Iron Mould Sak Washing Mr. Frost owes it to the community to publish broadcast the ff o-y Unidn, ie at the city hospital names of these graveyard rate, that all may keep to the wind. ward and avoid infection from their ie) ON STONE AVE, — ~ BRIDGE PLAN OVERSTREET, 147 CONVICTS FORMER M.C., ARE HUNG {N | QED TODAY — SHACKLES today with a dangerous wound in his breast The case has purzied the police The highwayman gave Castleton ne chance to throw up his hands— just jumped at him from the shadow of # building after trailing him to a fonely spot, and fired. All the booty was contained the grip. It consisted solely of union records. The robber made no attempt to go through Castle ex: clothes, or to stop his flight. HAD NO ENEMIES. { Neither Castieton nor his wife knows of anyone who would have any motive in attacking him. The . Moore, the tempt- _ Now Glavis is 3,000 and the Cunningham later Glavis pro. Ballinger, free) of both Moore fm mind the re The clear | suspended that Ballinger exhibited (he Fight Is Now Faisly on Be- store fore Board of Public avon think of dubbing Works—Three Proposi tions Up — Holt ‘rT the at He read from Hal THE SEATTLE Coburn Has # Derby On TWO HOLDUPS LAST NIGHT; ~—WNSTERY IN ONE OF THEM | Coburn, Who Confessed to Holding Up South Park Car, and Wilson, Electrician Cashes Check and Is Soon Afterward Found Unconscious and Money Gone. Hit $s6 sell ploye found in 4 on the head Taylor, 25, d by and in gold and a gold watch, electr Stone & Webs seml-comatose ¢ at the corner of Bighth ginia by Patrolmen rey Ta Cong and hin home, in} thought the saloon at at. at 2 o'clock this Terry and G ylor reas saloon at portly 121 the that cashed a ¢ abe ay eck ut 1 an in a.m of Rus em was yndition and Vir morning | Humph wtarted for was cashed and that they follow j him « he was found later men Taylor was taken to pital, brute wher mut and up te orner the the city he wh police on NEWS (LANDS Be TRAINS AND R ROBBER MAKES A FULL CONFESSION | LAUGHS AND SMOKES A5 HE TELLS GRIME oT ORY Amazing Tale of Amateur Robbers—Met at Saloon and Followed Proprietor on South Park Car— One Man Lost His Nerve, So Others Held Him Up, Too. b 3 j the suffering with al head where he is © ob the back of his e the robbe hit him with Eight nold-up victims were called in to Tennant's office this afternoon and identified Coburn and the others. DeRy picked out Wilson as the man who threatened to shoot off his finger un- less he took off his diamond ring McCann at noon admitted the truth of wouldn't talk much about the robbery, but “went along and saw the fun.” Coburn's he story. He admitted that he witchmar rdmaster fie yards at Pa he told * morning, of his plunge when he led gang which held up and robbed the a South Park car on May 12 Tt was to laugh,” he said, laughing himself, “to see the way Frank McCann, one of our gang, acted. He didn't have the nerve to go through with us, but came along to see it. So we made m stand in line and we went s pockets with the rest of ‘em.” through Coburn, w the men he names Frank Ford, 33, as accomplices ‘ William ¥ on, 24, and Frank Me- Cann, alias Belfast, 24, was brought to Seattle from Portland last night, by De ectives Barbee and Hayden. JUDGE AGUGCENTEIM Smoked a Cigar. Coburn was taken Into Captain Tennant’s office this morning and puffed contentedly at a big cigar as he told his story That was a mistake, raid, about McCa being armed. Me- Cann didn't have the nerve. He 5 just paid his admission, one street and went along to see us up artists at work.” |Wickersham’s Char ges| spin srtists ot work” oe his companions until a few days Against Faulkner, Rust-| ihe roubery. He met Ford gard and Lyons Promise | #t Tacoma and Wilson and McCann 7 in Ballard to Start Things. Saw Good Watch. | | He was | sendin in Emil DeRy’s saloon, The Horseshoe, at First av. and (Dy United Press) Cherry st, when he-“piped off" WASHINGTON, May 27—- | DeRy's fine watch and diamonds. The charges of Delegate Wick- |The thought struck him, he sald, ersham of Almska before « sub- that they would be a good haul, and committee of the senate jv- jhe decided to turn the trick. The diciary committee that the /night before the hold-up he fol- Morgan-Guggenheim syndicate /lowed DeRy out to his home in caused the appointment of T. R. Lyons as federal district judge, the nomination of John Rustgard as United States dis trict attorney and of Herbert Faulkner United Stetes mar- | shai in Alaska, if sustained, to- | day promises to start a move- ment in congress for an open | South Park trying to get an oppor- |tunity. He was just ready to do |the job when DeRy made a motion | toward his hip pocket 1 decided this fellow had a gun,” said Coburn, “so I figured that the mly way to get him was to hold him up on a car before the com j he a, aes roar om Coburn returned to the city and aT scaretnry Jeff. A el Ee , j junion man got a goed look at his/blackisck. There w rulses on investigation of Alaskan affairs. | met Ford, Wilson and McCann, and red . ery | esaliant. The face was strange to his body where the robbers kicked Siaeaiiem, ‘vihdieh.tn’ ton told thems about it and. eobed thems felerence to the him }him after be was down, His in-! ingens ty ee oe cae : » wee é shad by previous developments, | if they would help him. Wilson hich |, Bits were opened for the ‘West (ty United Prem) (hy United Brews.) The police this Perens ore fol} Juries are not serious be confined to any and Ford agreed but McCann was Bee ee en {take av. tmp by the vane INDIANAPOLIS, May 27-Ex- COLUMBUS, O.,. May 27.) ee eee eee en. - «| phase of the land situation, 1 afraid. They arranged the deal, zeal ff public works this morning. and LU . = t ta whieh fe chareed - C Prederich M. line fight is now between the| COMgreseman Jesse Overstr —With their arms in shackles iron moulders’ strike is impending, ihe aradicne yet wrt ed 1a sat gen ms x Anan Be “3 © agra a = Fremont people, protesting against sores many _— stig hung up so that they were held me lbp most of the pa 24 probed, and the probing would be|the car. The signal for the hold- mg the tion of the Stor @d Marion county, which in 5 . Th n to the public | up was when Coburn should get wu ©, and the Green Lake, Meri Cludes Indianapolis, in con- | above their heads, 147. con Castleton had attended : The off alicked by to get out the front end . vg er bes Glavis an and Wallingford car line pat grees, aoe coty pe a victs in the Ohio penitentiary the » and tod har syndica | The Game te Os. r duty to t ns, who want it was for a long time the chair ‘ t caine hee t ~ t the ¢ hago 7 People, and were not! The figures submitted by the tw man of the house committee | decided that work is not such ' cesniglins thet ; rere wine he d a. mS immediately é ecor Wilson covered ¥. The saloon- though Ballinger and Land contracting ng gives the nM postoffices and post road: |a great hardship, and today the " ernment keéper was the only one they were Dennett. regarded | Fremont ple = th advantage He was defeated for congr His aseatiant, whom | Goes to Hospital kas 1 oo cae, bok oak a Jr < The the oveme with | Le 0, hen mar | penitentiar 18 | he de ribed a dark com toned pepit ' that h t , ? __talled th me & bridge ay & vert ot the republicans in the state |over. The men struck because = wae on the same car, and | paint . Castleton Lyor e of the at-! might just as well go through the t t at ¢ than either of the| were retire j Alightod just ahead of hir te the car track uaht a ho de Edward Hasey | rest tee!” said Brandeis. “So other two propositions Overstreet served a number | they alleged the food served) ; ber paused just jong/ihe cit ire ves for r Coburn said there was no trou- Mid perverting, so potent Three Different Bids. | of terms as secretary of the re them was not good. When the : leaving ¢ AF to Ser 1 City b eotlape ey puty fee ble in escaping. They left the ce of these men,| Each contractor was called wu publican national congres- P . what direction Casticton was taking Hu ning th he b Mu ey city, McC. mt fa the simple and ke bida on. three different| slenal committee and teok an | ®ddition of 25 convicts to those|and then proceeded on ahead of « ¢ put up bis] ing anion: commit peat = “ar Fepocsaery ee Prfomance of hin @ ropositions. No. 1 was for the con active part in the congressionat | already on strike brought the | him f r tor the robber * Guebenteln The or teicdivaie ot tanks before the pres f the entire & ent.| campaigns. He resigned as /total up to 147, Warden Jones | Lay in Hiding. X nt had given agent tr t Ing itemized |are being questioned this efter ia made him Chie ing temporary ° ecenies sk akaeaan ot | decided it was time for drastic | Castieton th nothing of it | chan He t few t ente ent of wit-/ noon. Neither Wilson nor Ford Wt well, Gla mprovement, inet the National Monetary Com action. He ordered the con- | 0"!!! he a: re prea The pot aK te 5 ni wrap Ngee ee eee and condemna s bri and ox mission at the time of his | vVicts hung up, but instructed! be wae e had hidden mo-|of the r thank tes phn, oy evi gs Is Cause of People r temporary: bridges death. He died at his home (the guards not to allow the r ahd without a word of| " PAULHAN BREAKS ther , tare » in t 7 lake i ‘ i ‘ oe — Welared the inve . ia ' here of a complication of dis weight of the men to be lifted | warning, without yren a command] Wight stela and six boys were born in Coburn says the loot secured Bot only a str allow eases from which he suffered | ¢ he fl Hold sede leveled a | Seattle yesterday | i $35 1 esis attend bs act te dae make ae rom the floor. i | EI HT RE ORD was n money, three watches vty & aoe) | er Seon Cree: monree tol at Castleton fired | and two diamonds democracy. He ‘ mt}; Overstreet was an Indiana The men agreed to go back : rrying & gf : t , e of Gl , ’ as & 8 | Two More Burglars. Gavia ause congressman for eight years. | to work today. ing tt a is. When the | bustr wer it . MON people Ph ‘ | « ' sais anne Mtns Caught breaking into a cigar of the harpies, waiting Holt a4 | RONA, It May 27.—Paul. | and 11 Second av. 8. at an pay Brant: Ss 284 | , rests secure In posseasion |€&tly hour this morning, Roy David 7 foe WHO BECAME A CIRCUS MAN sins eh Sana N 1 jrested by Patrolman Volk “ a he aviation meet here the}. The two young burglars refused “ . © be arrested and started to make H are west on a thee teen e ; Fret y ascended | ¢ ; « bla ae Fommpsttye 1 Mr. Tam-|ecireus haseyer made a penr Jetr " : 4.600 feet, Thin | tt fearing that he could 4 the flat Rei ae eee ar ee No Longer a Joke. nout tay fae me eters hig than hig | ot ha two of them, fired 7 unethical, r ¢ 1 those opposing nauneader Wr | Thus he ceased to be a joke t tt th epiie qn - c . vaio ‘ made Los Ane his adi yee the air several aad secrete “els at te gs ; 5, ae ; rust, and immedia gs - 1 han will make an attempt se and another ee egrnay rush- fi regard to the “ Jot _ was on. The trust put ite | Ways Ke ' ing ‘ ng Bh ag ‘ew record before the | @4 to his assistance, just in time to oth, oa S ly he has several miliioy dollars at jag Baan” car on the rails be- |* lit c body but myseit | td Detter ae nen vce re the | prevent the escape of one of the ot claima: te “* . ew hind the Gells-Floto advertising car f I'm going be , thieves. hen Ballinger resig ‘ ” Dog and Pony Show | Every time @ Bellx-Floto bill show ! POPES opr ag age argc ex gia a Fesignec Ten years ago Mr. Tammen| tng a denwety tod Jungle ‘ t ent gooey ne mh densely popul « . * aw fle ast gg A STOLEN HILL bought @ dog and por w, for no {up on a billboard K Ta heek | @ STOP DRINKING * i the interior’ particular on except that he had | s bill followed a oor n "| OR GO TO JAIL *& yr he has pre: Having the show on his hands, he|He bought the Show World, a|. Tammen ts immensely proud of|y * oe he w se called in Otto Floto from bits sport- | Chicag publication, Everybody | hie clreus, If him the Den- | 4 , re “4 ing before it for ‘ the ¢ of Seattle hav ing desk on the Denver Post one |thonght he did It to roast the trust. | Yer Post is a fine paper he will admit] yo, * h M. Faulkner and Wallace is Bitore « ‘ earching vainly for @ bronze day and told him to take the at Instead, hé prints all the good new we © Sore mt him |e of 1 & | A. Bussell were both arraigned upon vey ree missing from the statue o mut on the read. Floto kn yout the seucce f the tr and |pamething nice ; sand) ye hogs } *| murder charges in Judge Ronald's Bega Ii on the campus of the eral prize fighters by sight, but his|in addition prints the roast» about |Ne'll all but « ¢ Ne Le morning. Andersor ded to {court this morning. Faulkner {s iKned ity of Washington, the cus experience was not large nor|himself, clipped from the trust's |/Papers are all right ir w sippioines x. and his sentence * | charged with the killing of Bert has been in the possession of profitable, and Mr. Tammen spent |papers, He never loses his editorial |e thin mney nancy ¢ * jal w * | Harbin . Horace G. Byers, head ot. the | considerable of hix time writing out |tempor; he “kids” his enomies, and} money to keep a « going, but) ye tor *| Bussell shot and killed Joseph f 1 tment of chemistry at Wash checks to cover dog ony def- | thin is always Gisconcerting j the re mportant thing In life, | 4 * | Bonner, manager of the Monte Car- 1 | icit#, Having plenty checks and| Last year after a bitter. campaign | 4ccording Fammen, te the kaka aa Raa a eK KK & &/ lO saloon, two Weeks ago. a hue and ery now being raised a good right arm, Tammen didn't/in the South, Taromer Hed in his |Uring of the biggest hippotamus or | ‘ Ks ymmewhat delayed, as the plate mind, and his little show went cus men, The circus men were | the smallest pony in existence ee net boon tm fs soxtemetd pan Sumnsiy’ over” tha. eoantsy losing lan We cea aicousiatiae ona | OA Tula peaial warm Where nen | MRS: TELA URE : x The n the base of the statue for money carrying the war into the enemy's |abbut'60 years old, he na vel te HOWE IS 91 TODAY|* STAKE YouR claim. * Teta bin han three months. At that H. H. TAMMEN. | nail as the show was, however, |country. After listening them, |the men In the wepaper a . to me it was removed by © Captain it interfered with the circus trust |Tammen sald and to those ir reu *® Acquire a rsonal holding * afar allinger h Frank H. Lord, curator of buildings} gyvery circus has to have an own-| plans, and one day it came to the Theve is a theatrical war on, |Newspaper me 1 ou PL Ra sper 4 * Heattio. x estate. That # ee sen been de i and grounds, who noticed that the | or owner in as ne i) for 4] ears of Mr. Tammen that ¢ f the | isn't ther My papers are full of it. |how a man might na ne BOSTON, May 27.—Julia |* ty is an income pro- & ing in _ayspeod of what plate was loose ctr 4 a fat lady, the elephants | circus trust h sid he wax a|Klaw & Erlanger and the Shuberts|and a planing mill, but t Ward Howe, author of “The | % i ae Soe ting aa @ interior The “Lupins” on the police force | or a clown. So it happens that th jok nd the Shuberts and Kiaw & E a circus to the business ¢ Battle Hymn of the Republic ® var ma r ices of both *® lared th worked up several clues when the |owner of the Floto eireu N Mr. Tam pesn't take | langer All the papers are full of |ing public opinion seems a bit un is celebrating her ninety-first *® residence and business proper- ® Mection @ policy of was reported. These ranged | wrict billed here for Monday and | himself over but he is/it, But 1 potice when I go toa K. @ |conventional, to say the least, Hi birthday anniversary today. |* ty during the last few years o * Was given a stag- all the way from opinions that It | pyexd: is HT en of Den hurnan, nevertheless, and that “Joke” | KE, house I pay my little $1.60 for a|newapaper employes swear by him, Surrounded by relatives and [® There are scores of opportuni- * en Baling ok of aken as @ souvenir to the | yer, Colo, That the circus travels | remark settled hit hen and there |seat and when I go to a Shuberts I/and every canvas man on the lot| intimate friends, she received | ties today to buy properties * declared that « an « nasertion that it was stolen by per-|under an alias is due to several| he resolved to have a cir He |do the same. They do all their | feels free t ay “Hel Mr. Tam-| seores of telegrams, cable mes \* which will show rapid increase * on had injured the who were politically oppored | cause The soll part the | turned his 1 making newspaper | fighting with printer's ink, I nen,” whenever he comes in sight. | sages and letters of congratula- | during tRe next year or two. * Spree Fyation and the|to James J. Hill title i* for phony; tt to er to his subordinates and start fight with pennies He loves a fight 1 inn't rea in tion, A little procession of mes- | Many of the quotations *® - | ymmemorates a sporting editor buying elephants, camels a mn to my circus her r}fatuated with a dollar, and that 1 senger boys carried the mes | # will be foun lusively in # I ——- a te tt HIM Or ammen's legitimate occupa- | human skeletons for a money losing 5 cents |the reason for the Selis-Ploto ott sages to Mre. Howe in her | the real estate nns of The ® UER’S JOB * Probably fair tonight and #ltion is that of a newspaper editor.|circus. It takes time build up| A Terrible Shock Jous, which has grown from a nice} Beacon st. home, and she emil- | Star oom Y BE ABOLISHED y. Moderate south to €ly¢ owns the Denver Post and the|a circus, and Just how good a loser| The circus men nearly fell dead. {little dox and pony show to a full! ingly opened them and answer. | % Some good ones offered to- ieee > t winds. *| Kansas City Post, both of which|Tammen ts 1 pe judged by the |‘dn. half the towns you play in, if|sized circus with a three-ringed| ed some of them with her own |: lay BS ehh hh th tht ttt kt ttl hoid the red ink championship in! fact that this Is the first year the levery person in town comes to the | chest measurement hand eee ee ee ee OM, May 21—yyeni