The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 22, 1910, Page 1

Si eee eee ae eee t! TA 12, N ie TELLS AWN 3 ADE a Negro, But Not, Robbery, Says Con-| / Letter to the! | eB Uelted Press) duly 22.—Corener announced this after he had received a letter stating that “‘Rawn, president of the whose mysteri- has been variously pte the work of a in and suicide, by a negro. The ‘te letter says, was does not divulge the murderer. Coroner Shout receiving the & conference with @f Police Schuettier Hately, of the coro New Jury. tem compan amounting to $105,- of Raws. today = coroner's jury, a to Rawn's beneficias- what may be the Jury. | ‘of the raliway presi- ke) ama SPENDING | i M, July 22—The royai ere given a tighter Wee Barner, laborite, house of commons Stacked what he ances of the Barnes opposed the fn the civil Hist and the Prince of Matrender to the house Weaeury the revenues of Lancaster and Income in excessive,” “The expenses of the d are enorme the fe honeycombed with the system conceals a fattening upon the the shadow of the Met asked for a total of The revenues of ARE Cornwall in 1968 123,000 pounds, and Teached a million former Premier Balfour the root of Barnes’ objec- fo be that royalty was peer expensive, it in " erled a laborite from Up oF Fire King. led, saying that te know that ‘the laborites ¥ Immoral, and added nd were able to} S Monarchy property, it to alter the system And tind another that the unt house asked in ce the This mo te of 206 laborite ston for Kier Hardie to omit the prov eh except the Prince 884 to provide for the it ve the king & vote of 26 Gefeated ty a 22. Yiee president of of Hibert Jas the today President of the organ ans, Joseph W. Folk, democratic pres ; idential possibility in 1912, former governor of Missour and foe of the | “gang” in politics, came to town) this morning and was welcomed at) the station by the King County / Democratic club. | Mr. Potk is the guest of honor at a banquet this evening at the Se-/ attle Commercial club, given by the King County Democratic club. He will also speak tomorrow at by. e Northwest Chautauqua Assem ‘Whether or not Joseph W. Folk! will be the democratic candidate in 1913, Joseph W. Fotk refunes to jeay, but he did aay this morning that « great tidal wave of de |mocracy was sweeping over the country, and whether the demo cratic party rides to victory on this wave depends on the party living |p to its democratic principles. Mr. Folk sees a genutne crisis in the Hfe of the republic in the thievery and corruption in public office. Midd) nor. West,” said the ex-gover- Eee Mieihiet ics thant Gann! bler Shows Woman's Eyes Were Black Every Day for Three Months. © | With witnesses declaring that | Mrs. Mildred Rogers had not been without a black eye for three months past, as a result of the brutal beatings administered to her by her paramour, Robert Mc- Sherry, gambler and race track sharp, the coroner's jury invest gating the death of McSherry to- day returned the following verdict “Robert McSherry came to his death as @ result of a gun- shot wound inflicted by a gun in the hand of Mrs. Mildred Rogers, which act we believe was in the defense of herself, we exonerate her from all biam Witnesses told at the inquest to day of how, last Wednesday evening, after a quarrel, Mra. Rog ers met McSherry coming from their apartment in Pine Court and shot and killed him as he leveled a pistol at her head. In addition to this they told of the troublous days lived by the Court apartment Neighbors and friends of both McSherry and Mrs Rogers told of the fights that oc curred in thelr apartment and of the beatings administered the woman by McSherry. He kept her eye continually black. Her body was bruised, and cute on the leg tn- \fiicted by him are just now heal , they said. Gut ‘ne continued to live with him, and at times to exhibit a strange passion for him, they add ed. Even after she bad slain him, one witness testified that she bent over and kissed the face that was drawn with the death struggle As a result of this testimony, the jury returned a verdict exonerating her of blame in the killing within a very few moments after the case was submitted to it, The witnesses testifying were Pa trolmen G. C, Humes and W. E. two as man and wife In the Pine! Carr, who were called after Mrs Rogers hed fired the fatal shot; H. Lowery, the expressman who was in the hall below; Harry L. Miller, who lives in Pine Court and who knew of the fights In the Me ® Majority of 12 votes Sherry Rogers apartment; Cather. HOW BRUTAL BEATINGS WERE WOMAN'S DAILY PORTION apne Costello, who had heard ye | Sherry threaten Mrs. Rogers’ life Mrs. Joseph O'Donnell and George Davis, who knew of the troubles of MeSherry and Mrs. Rogers and who had heard him threaten ber, and Dr. H. A. Shaw, who performed the | autopsy. i i ie i ie i ead WEATHER FORECAST. Showers qhis afternoon and probably tonight; Saturday fair and warmer; moderate westerly winds. eeeteee eee sete eee eee ee ed MOTOR CYCLE SPEEDER HURT While training for the motor cycle races to be held tomorrow afternoon the Western Washington Fair wciation’s Madison park track Clarence Hamilton, 1801 Fourth ay N., was painfully injured yesterday evening. He and Harry Tousey were speeding their machines on the track. On the turn they were going at about 50 miles an hour, the high ent speed the track would stand, Touney shot ahead of Hamilton, and the latt his front wheel into Tousey’s rear wheel, throwing Hamilton to th ground and Into the fence at the # of the track. He skidded along th wack bumping against the fence for about 60 feet He was unconscious when help reached him, and remained so for about 20 minutes. Later he was able to walk out of the grounds, He suffered a severe scalp wourld and painful bruises, The big gash in his scalp was sewed up at the Seat- tle General hospital. ‘TSee cece eee ee 2 SATURDAY’ rar’ * | company to build its new 40th st.| been Gordipelied to support herself. STAR. * Read Saturday's Classified * * Columns for bargains in Real * w® Estate ¥ * Lostwankawnnwe al “Mr. Poindexter is considered a | strong and promising man in the in trying to turn out, ran | SEATTLE, WASH., DR. CRIPPEN IS FOUND | AGAIN This Time He’s in Andorra, and If It’s True, He Is! Safe From Police. (My United LONDON, July H. Crippen, the whom the Haw rican dentist with hay at thei hiding in public, im the; jing to divpatches | If these reports are | aay, their chances | arresting Crippen | The Andorra | practically no} | and criminals | | Who have fled to its faxtnesses sel-| jdom have been captured, #o long as they remained within the con | fines of the republic. The whole republic covers an area of only 175] square miles, but practically every foot of the territory is sulted for hiding. The republic has been tn-) dependent since the regime of| Charlemagne. Communteation with | the outaide world bas been limited, and the inbabitants always have shown an unwillingness to surren- der foreign criminals It ts believed that Crippen fled directly to Andorra after jeaying | the Hotel Vernet at Les Baines, France, where his presence was re- ported, Ame charge is today , the police finding and reduc jrepublic obs rules of extradition, rves AUTO TRUCKS “ARE USELESS, SAYS CLARK That two automobile fire trucks recently put into service by the city are practically worthless and) will be on the junk pile within a year is the emphatic statement jmade by Assistant Fire Chief Clark |before the finance committee of | the city council thie morning. The machines cost $10,000, and the council {6 planning to inclide large tems in the next annual budget for farther motor equipment for the department | Clark's statement was called for jin the course of a discussion over an ordinance to purchase for the police department the second-hand jautomobile the use of which dur |ing the recent primary election lwas loaned to Councilman Joe Schlumpf. The ear was buflt as a touring car, and it is proposed, aft jer purchasing it, to transform It} into a police patrol at a cost of | 3300, The ordinance was once favora bly reported by a special commit tee, of which Schlumpf is chair. man, but referred back to the finance committee this morning ow motion of Councilman Bullock. Op posing the bill in committee, Bul lock argued that automobile equip ment is being purchased for the city without proper regard for its quality or fitness, and that $60,000 worth of such equipment glready purchased js already chiefly junk Councilman Goddard declared that jit cost more to maintain the city |automobiles than to keep up the | streets for them to run on Sehlumpf defended the purcha: of the machine and the committe divided on recommending it, Bul lock and Blaine joining in a mi nority report FOR NORTH END An effort will be made at a Dig | masa meeting to be held at a date be named later at Woodland | Park, to decid m ways and means to secure the construction of the projected Stone av. bridge across the north end of Lake Union. The mass meeting was decided upon at a meeting of Wallingford car line patrons held at Niblet’s hall last| night Resolutions were adopteed ing the city council to arrange for the construction of the Stone ay bridge and provide a temporary outlet for teaming from Albion | place to Stone way, on Blewett st., |during the Ewing st. regrac and | requesting the Seattle Electric | ask- iline within seven instead of 6060 days, 80 as to provide immediate relief for street car patror Sixteen deaths were recorded in Se aitle yesterday FRIDAY, JULY 22 MASS MEETING eines | age Hy , 1910, THE SEATTLE “STAR ONE CENT. The Anonymous Circular SEAT SEAT TLE end a@re*from ¢ dnterests of potronsge thet mi “frienic; ond ¢. The "Dd ily Stc existonc join with Zing County candid the rest of ASKING HOW CRUEL IS A HUSBAND WHO COMPELS WIFE TO SPLIT KINDLING? This Is a Question That’ ;f. to Settle in the Case of Mary M. Miley. Is & an guilty of cruelty who compela his wife to split the kin dling and carry the wood and coal upstairs? This is one of the int esting questions raised in a divor complaint filed by Mary M. Miley in the superior court this morning against Luke A. Miley. This is one of the aete that Mro. Miley says en. titles ‘her to a divorce from ber husband. ” Shot a Man. While this question is being set tled the husband was ordered to keep away from his wife and six year-old child of the marriage Miley shot and wounded Ethan Morrison on the street, when he acegsted him walking with his wife and ebild on May 8 Morrison was in ‘the hospital for some weeks, but recovered Miley contends that Morrison vanged al! his domestic troubles. Miley is now out on bonds await ing trinl on a charge of assault in the first degree Besides compelling her to do the chores, the wife charges Miley, who is @ draftsman, with a catalogue of She says that she married him fm Dublin, Ireland, in 1903, At thmt time she had much money of} heriown, and that when her hus band had succeeded in getting pos ammaion of all her money he desert od ber and came to the United States. Cruelly Treated. Fhe wife says that she followed and that since then her husband hau treated her cruelly. Shooting Morrison in the presence of his six | year-old son is given as one of the grounda of divorce, The wife also charges that her husband jealous of the consideration showed boys of 10 and 12 y T wife says that caused her much mental torture by accusing her of murdering a child |that died in Ireland, of sanses, while hé was in two years, she says. she s of America oF she has Wife Arrested. Because his wife was argested and confined in the city jail in June for } drunk and disorder Her Wickers this morn. was | alno| nateral | ing asked for a divorcee from her. William A. Roberts wants a di The complaint charges that Bella | voree from Dora Roberts on the A. Wickers .told her husband that! ground of desertion. Bee Sharp t life. The wants her maiden name back and a | court is asked to give the husband ; divorce from Malivern C. Sharp the custody of a three-year-old child | cause be beat her twice while 't they of the marriage. were living in Canada. eee eo POINDEXTER'SPEAGEMAKER CAMPMGN IN. TAFT CALMS KING COUNTY, BAR HARBOR Will Spend Ten Days Here . Smile of the I President Getting Personally Ac-| Ends the War of Villa- quainted With the Pro-| gressive Republicans. | ers. (By United Press.) BAR HARBOR, Maine, The immer properly POINDEXTER MEETINGS. Grand Opera House, Seattle, Saturday, July 23. Auburn, Monday, July 25. Renton, Tuesday, July 26. Ballard, Thursday, July 28. Redmond, Friday, July 29. Kent, Saturday, July 30, | Opening his campaign in county with a meeting at Grand Opera House tomorrow night, Congressman Miles Poindex ter will spend 10 days campaigning | in this city and the nearby towns. All of the dates for his meetings have been fixed except for the one Wednesday night, and there are|ousies faded under the warmth of the several communities demanding |Taft smile, and when the oratory that one, among them being Went} was ended, good feeling was so ram- Seattle, Bremerton and other cen-]pant that the natives | ters | willing not to charge the Most of these meetings are being} more than the standard arranged in the outlying towns by | the necesraries of life. jthe local Poindexter clubs, and Although the president retired | there ts every assurance that they | ter midnight will be largely attended. Reports|and out on the golf links Aft }from the rural portions of King | tune! nm with Mrs, Mark Hanna, he jeounty are to the effect that the | went on a 10-mile coaching trip this farmers are not to be caught by|afternoon. This evening the the political molasses spread for}dent will dine with | thenr by the reactionary candidates |Tower, Tomorrow opposed to Judge Poindexter, and | goes to Bangor are enthusiastically anxious for an | uled to speak opportunity to show their loyalty for the Spokane candidate July 22 exclusive st colony is humbled today, Smarting monopolizing of the Bar Harborites ealed to the [under society's Pr Taft rebel ay King | dent to spare th the | time while on the island. As a |wult the president stood for 15 min- utes on the vilia green and deliv ered an address that delighted the hearts of the inhabitants. An Harbor was there, including some of the would-be exclusives, All jeal- dent , and presi- n & little even were exclusives prices for | at he was up early tc Charlemagr President Tatt where he Five girls and two boys in Seattle yesterday were © Heenses were ay i Fifteen marvin Bix 4 ie Aivoree somplatats were yesterday gers and Summer Board- | of his} ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS Ge. MAKE CHEAP ATTACK ON POINDEXTER: STAR ADVERTISERS ARE APPEALED TO FOLK OF MISSOURI COMES TO SEATTLE IRE. ASK TOWITHORAW ADVERTISING Alleged Club Sends Anony- mous Circular to Busi- ness Men to Try to Force This Newspaper to De- sert Candidate. King ” 400 sycott on this porting Miles 1 156 newspaper States the United enate. rday circulars, a re- | production of which appears on this sent through the 1 business firms are | patrons « f The Star, requesting | the to with- jdraw their patronage from this }newspaper. The circulars were mailed in blank envelopes and bear the names of no individuals. The Star has been unable to dis- | cover by whom they were mail- jed, but understands that one lof the King county candidates | for the senate is responsible for | them. The Only Candidate. | To the gentlemen to whom |they were addressed The Star desires + say that it is support- jing Miles Poindexter for the United States senate because it believes it to be its duty so to jdo. It believes that Of all the candidates in the fight, Miles Poindexter alone is the repre- sentative of all of the people. There has been no thought }in the mind of The Star of any financial gain or loss in connec- jtion with its attitude in the senatorial fight. The Star gave its support to Congressman Poindexter as a matter of prin- ciple and not as a matter of business, and it will continue to do so, The advertising de- | partments and the editorial de- partment of this newspaper jhave no connection whatever, (rs whatever action or course of conduct the editor elects to j pursue is decided upon without any consultation with the ad- | vertising department. If any | anonymous club, “400 strong” jor otherwise, has any idea that it can change or mold the edi- torial policies of this newspaper |by attacking its advertising columns it is egregiously mis- taken. page, were s to various in Seattle who firms addressed | | Value Received. | Furthermore, advertising space in this newspaper is sold on the basis of value received, li there be any advertiser who jis not getting his money's | worth for The Star advertising j columns, good bus sense }demands that he cease adver- tising | Financial returns are all that the advertiser can expect to |secure from advertising in The | Star; he can have no share in the dictation of the policy, |political or otherwise, and this | goes for all circumstances and for all times. The Star sells ad- | ve! space but never under any lition does it sell its editorial or news columns. Ex- | perience with other newspapers than The Star may cause this statement to be read with astonishment, but it is mever- theless an easily demonstrated fact The Star done its best and will continue to do its best » try to Congressman the United pective of wher he lives what he ‘stint of the bin theorem. The Star believes that he is the and that ~ tising co has elect rt to , irres lt j te e| Foinds xte tates senate mia ily fit candidate, (Continuea on Page Ten.)