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

THE SEATTLE TAF JOHNSON YoL. 12, NO. 104. HARLTON CAUGHT ADMITS MURDER on Liner Princess Irene As it Arrived at Ho- 3 From the Meditterranean — Denies Hi Identity at First, But Breaks Down and Tells All. United Press.) —Capt. Scott, U. S. A., brother Scott Castle Charlton, today attempted to shoot Porter the murdered woman's husband, as Charlton had the confession of his guilt to the local police. “As Chariton finished his signed statement he added a of immorality cott jumped to his feet, drew a revolver ad} d it at the soner. Charlton fell on his knees beg-| uethe captain not to shoot Detective Weinthal and other grappled with the infuriated army officer and wrest- gun away from him. (By KEN, N. J Porter Charlton, the the police of two continents stle Charlton, was he North Ger- + Mediterranean today d the murder, young KEN, college ' ihe murder of In as he stepped di eyd finer Princess Irene He admitted he was Cl asevere “sweat a tos tn been under sur ance on the Princess Trent + notified of this by wireless, and a num Tee were on hand when the veasel docked Trapped by Signature. fhe state department notified Capt. Scott of Chariton on board the Princess of the New York police and Detectives Garrick and Weinthal, trene at They opened as “Jack Cole Omaha, Neb me Scott Wentified (! as Chariton. The suspect denied his ) He was hurried to police headquarters and there masiied to write bis assumed name. The handwriting closely vas the signature of Porter Chariton, Then he confessed rideatity and made a detailed signed statement of all he exonerated Con off, the Russian ar the Villa Legnazzi os feamurderer. He said temper was ungoy that she frequently Statement. statement follows is Porter Chariton. I t West 55th st, New Dam 21 years of age, and ime 6 Omaha, Ned | am aj| i clerk Wy, profession a with my wife, eva the | t woman in the soy y Mary wn confess the 1 and of the suspected Trene. He notified partment, and with of Hoboken, boarded the cabin of a man and found Chariton aor she had an ut r, and we had tly. She used vile) meaning of which I did not know A killed her she cursed Paola her that if she did/ would fix ber. Again} at me. | was in a daze,) her with a mallet with/ been fixing the couch | Owe bad been lying I was dead the body into a trunk} the mallet in after = }— SHOOT, THEN BURNS HOUSE day 1 left Como PORTER CHARLTON. and boarded the Prin four days later. signed the statement | Be saternenth he wrote that N. C. Ispola charged with the} After threatening the L. Darst, proprietor of store at Seventh av and yesterday, D. M. Thorpe, tempted to burn the store 2:30 o'clock this morning Thorpe is believed to be derang gd mentally. During the past year Darat bas employed Thorpe at different times. He says Thorpe kept get ting drunk and abusive, so several | Weeks ago Darst threw the old man out of the store. Yesterday Thorpe over the telephone Is this Charley Darst?” he said Yes? Well, I'll be at the store at 6 I'm going to kill 2” Darst recognized Thorpe's and thought nothing of it Darst and his 14-year-old son Howell, occupy a three-roomed liv ing apartment in the rear of store Darst was awake match struck. He odor of kerosene | kitchen and found & closet As he rushed outside to extin guish the flames he saw a man hur- rying out of the yard into the street. When Darst had put out the fire he rushed out on the street after the to be Thorpe. arrested the Neville If the fire ments’ st tet beaten district |been a serious conflagration, The ? iy - tore fi der a two-stor: resi eae eae 0 a lt is under a >atory all constructed of Midis Day Topay. nm buildings adjoin the store the closet was a 20-gallon la */ can full of kerosene and in the le *| building in the rear wa */ jon can full of gasoline. & Bbsolutely guiltless. | B defense to make, and| make pone.” | Hegged for Life. | C was calmly mak-| Capt. Seatt | Silence. Almost ab-| life of C made a serious & grocery . his dead wife. Marion st (@rew bis revolver and/| 62, at )St the prisoner Sprang from his chair} itis knees begcing the to shoot. Detective, policemen 4 army weapon called their honey moc on the been inarried Bhe was 1 finding of her bo n shores vole o'clock this morning ed by heart a noticed a strong He went Into the a fire blazing in i, Roclety an. well kn coat in Patrolman old man had got but a few mo t it could not have but Farley H ttorn + * May today at with the horr P kane. Dug a A grass widow can give reference but she hardly ever does «| mettre eevee! SHINGTON HAS 331,069 (By United Press. GTON, June 23.—The first ‘official bulletin of the census rie 311, today, shows that the population of the city of Wash- M8, The population officially recorded in 1900 was down at! Darst | the | stranger, who turned out | wood. | 50-gal- | BURIED ALIVE (By Untied Presn) PORTLAND, June 23.—William Johnson, the Kent farmer murdered by J. P. Webb and Mrs. Carrie | Kersh, of Seattle, died an death of suffocation the in which he had been thrust as al ready dead, this afternoon. in He was beaten insensible with a brase door knob, then doubled up and thrust into the box A piece of his shirt was wrapped about his | neck and mouth. Until the autopsy was performed it was believed that Johnson either died from the beat ing or the cloth strangled him. It jis known now, however, that death came siowly from suffocation AS OUTRAGE SUSPECT " & foreign miner, in held today suspected of being the man who dynamited the home of | Leslic Williams, foreman of the | Elkhorn mine, while Williams and his wife slept. He strenuously de jnles knowledge of the crime. The house was dynamited Tuce [day night, but owing to the dyna miter’s lack of knowledge, only « portion of the nine-room structure was damaged Kt bas been learned that pounds of the explosive was placed under the house and let go. Williams and his wife are badly injured. | Labonni here hal: ccihavciaes Seddon. BOY'S FATHER CAN NOT BELIEVE IT (tty United Pree) WASHINGTON, Jude 11 Tefese to believe that the boeken marder sumpect is som,” eried Judge Paul Chariton today, The judge then . lapeed And could nay no more Judge Chariton t# the fat of Porter Chariton. He tx em ployed in the by affairs in the war department my reau of ineular eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee HHRAKAHARAAR KD DAYS SHAWL WORTH $30,000 WAS STOLEN Alleging that Mra. A had stolen a shaw! me years old and valued by he 0), Mere. Ann Wert, aged yesterday swore to a against the first named Mrs. Kruse is supposed to be Skagway, Alaska. A warrant | her arrest was lesued and Pre ing Attorney Vanderv the authorities at Skag arrest the woman and hold her for extra dition. . | According to Mra. Wert, the shaw! has been in her family, an heirloom, for 200 years. It came to her from a great aunt when Mrs Wert was but 16 years of age promised the aunt never to dispos uniess she was in dire , and now when she has be old and really needs money that might be derived from the sale of the shawl, she jbas been stolen from her woman in for | -Salialiahaielaliehaliohatelalaialy rai + POINDEXTER MEN TO MEET & * * A meet & porters wi * night at * Rainier Beach > ee 2 awful | trunk! according to physicians | MINER HELD Toni | See eee ERR Re She} the | HOME EDITION— —véip, WES —— YUM BOSS SEATTLE, WASH JUDGE WEBSTER WILL PU CHESTNUTS FROM THE FIRE Men Who Want to “Get” Hodge Are Glad to See Him Tried Before a Judge Who Doesn’t Have to Answer to King County Voters. THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1910 Judge J Webster Judge Mitchell the men who would Webster tw the for the politicians who office King county Innocently or willingly a party to the Job, from Spokane to do that which certain politicians ench of King ¢ afrald (0 dO. not dependent upon the people of King ep bin in hia position quite willingly ac ponsibility of trying Hodge case, in whieh the sher being sued for money expend him from the “profit fund the feeding of outside pri for the payment of the sal of matron and of other neces ary expenses in the sheriffs of flee, which the county commission ers declined to Didn't Notify Attorney. case has been pending in r ors « rt, and in the or | Grew Ralnply ee eee ing between life and death. Gradu rn Se ee talk jally sinking, the feeble pulse beat at which time John W, Roberts, |20a.the scarcely perceptible breath Y mh ling alone indicate that the patient Hodge's attorney, was preparing to | Hods ie still living. All hope hae been ry it. Without informing Mr. Rob- | aahad Pei vt | orts, the case wan transferred two | SBeBdone Se ee days ago from Frater’s court to | =eee CORT AND He SHUBERT place, Webster, again without in forming Hodge or his attorney, the case for trial on June 28, next | Toesday The fret information Medge or his attorney, John W. Roberts, had of this proceeding was yesterday | This morning Mr. Roberts appeared | jbe fore Judge Webster and protest jed against the action of the Spo kane Judge. No change was made, however, by the court in the date of the trial, but Roberts will renew | his protest Tuesday (iy United Pree) Frater Not Anxious. NEW VORK, Jun 3.——Henry That Judge Frater hax no desire | Mawage te the latent of the bie lto try the Hodge case (# welll rics} producers to sien the known He is the one man 00 the |doer agreement whereby } county bench who has been most! send his productions to the theatres |, controlied by rt and members of Northwestern Theatrical « ation, and under the contro! of the National Theatre Owners association My the terme of the *tened with Mr. Cort | productions are not jplaying im the Kr theatres, Mr, Sava with Mr. Ce hin attract! hétines, ten Stanley a Spokane county judge sitting In Gilliam’s court in King county, in the latest tool of Sheriff Rebert T, Hodge man who is to pall the chestnuts out of the would punish Hodge fot “spoiling the cet fire best in Webster aitting comes on the yunty are M’GRAW SINKING John H. Me he the re ed by | pay The Former Governor Judge dinary cours by lx re w open | « b t ndependent . th action producers up with the and thetr | pe | muat Judge unusually numero Mr tregoer the to ed IDAHO THE CHAMPEEN. 8 WASHID fi The battleship Idabo the best target r American navy at practice performances, will hold the honor for the ensuing year, The Idaho's score was 46.126. The South Carolina was second with 42.696. | Mh MMctialiaMiataMaMalialeitel AUTO RUNS AWAY SMASHES WINDOW Hotel Sor IN, June 2% made |tending friendship for Hodge fol lease from bis court to that court | tined P was burned to death, another rh |eusceptibie to the demands made by certain county officials tha’ lowing the latter's election, he was the first man on the bench to asno- j ciate himeclf with the anti-Hodge | clement. Healizing, however, the | strength of Hpdge throughout the | county, and notwithstanding bis de- | etre to eliminate Hodge from coun }ty affairs, he bas bad no desire to} jappear ax the judge in the trial of the Hodge acee |the former tru Por thix reason he haw secured! fp addition t presided over by an outside judge | policy who has nothing to fear from the! pounced ir ple of King county. With what; The Bava have been the sanetion of | will be Frater and the prosecuting }a igh degree y, the case in tal out of |amberte that the com r order in the calendar | beothe best for th« set for trial that will }migny a long ¢ Hodge's attorney suffi-| clent time prep his case, | | Hodge's attorney was not even con KILLED In EXPLOSION (By United Press.) ously injured, and 15 passengers, several of them women, had a nar | row escape from death when a gaso- « line tank exploded tast night on the ,, steam yacht Columbia at the foot tof Randolph st. Burning oi! shot the entire length of the ship. The sudden reversing of the engine as j the prow touched the landing caus | ed a stream of gasoline to spout out from the tank. It caught fire and *\ Hodge must be destroyed. Pre or permitted, the transfer of the | other sulted CHICAGO, June 23—One man the explosion followed. ete ete eee ee eee 8 it} f the nto, | touring car, crashed plate glass Furniture n big big Standard eo * WATER SHUTOFF NOTICE * a window Water be the district north o' at... fron Washingtor from 9% « and taking eeeteteeee * * * . * . * * ee ee me be elected ne run he 1908. in RUN AGAINST CARRIGAN New Anti-Gang Candidate Man With Is Business Many Friends——Not Politician. Ay DAVID M'KENZIE Kenale, a reside ‘ thin firnt intrtet hteh arrigar McKenzie no, but sced = to ind enter never been In polities In said Me. McKenzie this } thie thing is new ¢ that I have agr be however, I ar candida make an honest effort AN! of my energies here fore have been devoted to onm. 1 have felt that t usinoss of 4 city or a just as Any pr and if ing ving te busi alwayr of the asl r the county Is a Hardy Scot. M MeKe e . a ailing fr Dunt « birth of Robert T. Hodge here he nm August 1860. came 1 States Waver 8 rton ttand ted in farm then went to ing the Ral MeKensle re t Ne Junction and then rth Hitor a wt J ffered and ac iatant gen ily want later tear A ral ntl ship that w year agent, and March 1 ate how pany made gene wition when he left to with the Sand led if and and ¢ 1 company Mr. MeKenaie t saintar umong bu stands high in the com nity AIRSHIP FALLS-- AVIATOR DYING (By ALDERSH( nited Press.) Eng, June en ay rt d to ental and nachine, The and intor, was pr He flight today HUMPHREY GOT $75--- OUGHT TO HAVE BEEN $100” On the stands written “WILLIAM E. HUMPHREY books of the Merchant The William £. Humphrey so written of is the republican congress. | lman from this district, behaif of the ship subsidy bill, | expected to help pay the running e one of the whe further the Interests of th of his voluntary donations at line of bis | and paid for by the | In the the Merchant man Humphrey sum should have for line voluntary donations of ople of the congressional investigath Marine League $75. Further been $100 expense he This congressman se am us who sent Mr oF tion * the naught else, in there is a dignity virtue in elphers, an entirety and complete attach to $76. That Congressman Humphrey's devotion to the merchant marine Marine that the Stars and Stripes may float over all the seven United States | testified volunteered the incideptal Humphrey to congress there secretary's statement that round numbers, United States | di@ not be a matter which bring eurcease It ping than if he table but the of the tually r of a amo that League pach the status of poignant the regret time and knowledge may be that, realizing the Congressman Humphrey bent for the traint in his expenditures that of the merely most industrious.in the capital reby the Nebraska farmer would be xpenses of the allied shipping inter seas. in} trust were on duty books league in their ¢ bill Congre which of course | which of course e ship subsidy seman time time mention of thi harsh figures purchased the moré elucidating secretary to say is purchased It Cor sman Humphrey | the Mereh: Marine | the first to congratulate the | if the selfsacriticing paid to recompense the | It is a well and widely known fa the ship subsidy jehant Marine League of the United & sive with the interests of the commo ervices of ve has of the league nt age the career of Congre under the secretary of the ion now way that ague pald Congross information that money was to spreading consola- | i8 a joint ownership in the If| people, pay his annual sal is some nm $100. A sort of a cireular not it should have b | such banquets as may be eaten for th An equitable arrangement without sincere sath about $100 that does be contemplate cannot but lament softly that Will did weak re Inited Sts $100 exper ng his it should account will constituents, a regret to $100 have been may financial condition of the traveled ship more cireumspectly nation; that he exercised a chart would ill become a public servant ‘old, in the that appreciative way sum of $ it should have make no leaving jt for been $100. ndered $100 worth of service tes for $75, we uch circumstance to should be being rare, even ssman Humphrey et that the interests of the Mer. tates are coincident aud coexten nN people, and on this b Congre: asis there man Humphrey—we, the r Sy. and the league pays his railroad fare to good of the cause, h sfaction on respect this, one that both sides, it $100 even, cannot Sul we n't make the | in which | always | ONE CENT MPKENZIE WI TRAINS AND STANDS be on NewS BUILDING FALLS; Machine Shop of Little Fa Collapses With Disastr Injured May Die. ENUMCLAW, Wash., Jur jand five others injured when | Falls Clay Co., jcollapsed this morning Water weakened the found. Johnson was pinioned under two he was seriously injured, jmame unknown, | hurt. | Seattle officers of the company are |trying te get details as to how the accident occurred, Deputy Coroner Borthwick got the t word of the accident here. “Many dead and injured in cave in of buildings and mine here,” was the word to arabe ax The ri etd ONE KILL Ils Clay Company at Bayne ous Results—One of the (STAR SPECIAL) 1¢ 23,—J. M. Johnson was killed the machine shop of the Little at Bayne, between here and Palmer Junction, ations of the building and it fell. y beams. Another man, and four others slightly official immediately got into touch with Sheriff Hodge, who assigned Deputy Hill to accompany Borth- wick to the scene of the disaster. Bayne is a smail place between Enumclaw and Palmer, off the old line of the Northern Pacific beyond Auburn. TWO ROBBERS CAPTURED BY | In the and Tom police as steamer arrest of W. B, Thom Hayden by the Tacon they stepped from the Fiyer yesterday, the two men who, with the boy Ed Hanson jalias Bloxam, were found ransack jing @ room in the Shamrock hotel on | First av. Tuesday morning, were | caught | The police of both Seattle and coma also believe that they ha caught the men responsible for sev eral burglaries in both cities, With the two men were seized two sult tases full of clothes and jewelry estimated to be worth $2,500, Chief of Detectives Tennant is in |Tacoma today trying to identify some of this loot as articles stolen from {He spotted Hayden the saw him: as an ex-convict who jrerved time in San Quentin | burglary and who, as a known thief, jhad been arrested several times in | Seattle The two men were caught on the descriptions given by young Han- son or Bloxam as his accomplices in the Shamrock hotel robbery. Han son knew the men as Thompson and Davis. He claimed that he had met > two men in Ogden, U and | both had told him they were wee. lars and stick-up men dha moment he |forced him into a life of crime with | jthem by thre ning his life. It was learned today that the Shamrock hotel robbery Thompson and Hayden went to the home of William Bloxam, a meat dealer in Youngstown and Hanson's | and stayed there from o'clock in the morning until 5 in the evening, until papers arrived announcing arrest Then they hid ~d their loot and were trying to get away to Portland when they were caught in Tacoma. . Bloxams knew nothing of the identity or profession of the rob. bers. They simply stated that they of Ed and had gone at his direction to William Bloxam de for his step- has always | stepfather. FT o'clock eve Hanson's giithe |to wait for him Inies all responsibility }son, whom he says | been incorrigible | The Tacoma police think will be able to hold the two men 4 account for robberies in Tacoma. they cannot get a good case ainst them there they will turn jthe robbers over to. the Seattle | police ee RR Re + * * Probably fair and * |® Friday; light * * winds * |* * ee tonight southwesterly nt ttle residences and hotels. | had | for | after | the! they | THCOMA COPS Patre | chargec pile ay court Property Clerk Drew of the police 9 artment, testified that Wal & .38 caliber, while th {Dullet found in the lungs of Porti- was from ea 41 caliber gum. also testified as to the general jconduct of Walsh | The main witness of the day was | Mise Florence Davis, who, it is al- leged, was bothered by the young jItalian, to the extent that she be- came frightened and applied to the police for protect Mins De. testified that on the befory: the killmg the Italian became very of- fensive and had threatened to kill with Italia Judge mas Waish, ng Antonia Port is on trial to- Ralph Kaufman's k an in was y | her. During the afternoon former f of Police Irving Ward and two owners of the Nikko thea- testifying: The case is ex- to go to the jury Friday are ected | morning KILLED BY HIS ENGINE Robert iving was k Giffin, a with his fi av ck of an engine Mining Yash. Giffin was operating a new engine, land started up a steep grade with it. The power gave out, and the brakes wouldn't work, and the gine ran back down the gra the bottdm, where it was wr The body was brought to the Abner Giffin placed charge the Bonney-Watson dertaking establishment. The dead engineer widow and five grown ch brothers and three “GOLDEN HAIR” WILL BE PLAYED AT THE MOORE This is the night of the presenta- tion of the operetta “Golden Hair,” which has been anticipated for sev- eral weeks. Ninety young people will give the production with elabo- rate staging for the benefit of the Church of the Sacred Heart. Vari- colored electric lights will enhance the effects. Margaret Doyle, who sustains the role of Golden Hair, and Frederick Kasten, who pla the part of Ico, have shown talent in other productions. company near by un- leaves a en, three sisters “ CONGRESS WON’T ADJOURN IF BURTON CAN HELP IT (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, June Hopes of early adjournment |from the |when 8 ‘gan a sy | creating which, it 23 flitted halls of congress today, Burton, of Ohio, be yech against the bill mountain forest reserves is expected, will last for two days. At the same time Rep resentative We (Rep., Mass.) threatens to begin a filibuster un- less the bill passes the house. It was arranged to push the bill right through, Burton, who is op: tposed to the began his filibuster in that the | threatened much time would cause to post | pone action Planned to Quit Saturday. Adjournment by urday was expected, but with a filibuster al jready under way in the senate, and one threatened in the adjournment day now maiter to be guessed at The bill on which Burton speaking is one which proposes that the government maintain re serves at the headwaters of rivers nator 3 measure, the hope loss of the senate house, is only a is Jin the mount ate has ure, and the house, but got through same Appalachian ns, Three adopted once and White times the sen- a similar meas- such a bill passed the me both hous session of congress. was recommended — by and Roosevelt, and the recom mendation was reiterated by Taft. It appropriates to en- able the secretary of iculture to protect forests against fires, and provides that the appropriation be increased next year to $1,000,- 000, and after that to $2,000,000 May Hold Night Session The fight which it has started caused a hasty conference of ate leaders, It is possible that the senate may hold a night ses- sion tonight to allow Senator Bur- ton to complete the few remarks which he estimates will ume bout 20 hours, If a night session is held will, probably be completed tonight, and unless the house filibuster is begun, com> gress, by working at high pressure, may yet be able to reach adjourn- | ment by Saturday The bill McKinley