The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 11, 1911, Page 1

SMILE A while every and kibosh the pills that you take to drive away the blues. A crack-a-jack amile section on page 4 of The Star every day Don't miss it ONLY NO. SEAT" TLE, WASH,, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1911 The Seattle Star INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE ON TRAE NEWS #1 AND AXDS fe CENT. GILL ,WAPPY AND ARMS OUT © DILLING TAKES STRANGE POISONING CASE MAY NEVER BE SOLVED DID NOT Finds Them Dead He No trace of the bottie or the capex whatever the which te pe etacestacietacetacin containes, from 80.0 was taken Grace Elosser and her fiance, Char-ies Twigg, found dead arm in arm, on day before prospective wedding Grim Riddle of Fatal Embrace in Which Grace Eloser and Charles Twigg Were Found Baffles Every Theory of Sui- cide or Murder. BY ROBERT WILSON. CUMBERLAND, Mf, Feb. ‘Weeks have passed, Hut th bined efforts pf local detectives and hired Pinkertons only more baffling the fiinous Elosser poison tragedy, discovered on the afternoon of December 31, when a hysterical mother found her daughter Grace and the daughter's fiance, Ch ‘Twiex, seated side by sid touch in the parlor—dead o of potassium. . Rat there was no evidence cide. No evidence of murder and sul cide No evidence of a double No explanation at all ‘They were simply seated there, side by side, his arm around her shoulders lovingly, for the next day was to be their wedding day The inscrutible conundrum their death has become famous gmong American criminal mye teres. Some have sought in the Listory of the courtship of these young people some motive that might explain the poisoning. But that history {!s an open book Though there are certain unusual features of thrift. His mbles that « t Method ss. The sdminint One w ond dor ist. The religic wo May in chureh and ¢ had but May, aged was as yet fam welally are active now dea m married 26, a handsome girl won. Grace's marriage had been unha ending in @ scene at a mountain hotel near Cumberland Another woman figured in the case Grace mred @ divorce and sumed ber maiden name. Carrie's marriage was happy During county fal tober, Twigg went Grace and May, and the races. This is point, for the Bloas Methodists frown upon hors teac rk Grace ath t how ¢ 4 couch? bodies e sulcide? Th her evidenc Every hypotnesis meets a fatal ob- jection. The authorities agree that the dead pair couldn't have conceal ed the evidences of suicide But there has been found no motive for murder, nor a reasonable explana tion of how fhurder could have been done. The demeanor of the family precludes suspicion. All is mystery, blank walls, scrutable riddies. The genius of Poe or Doyle could scarcely have framed a better setting in which to exhibit the brilliance of Dupin or Sheriock Holmes. But this story is grim life—and HOUSE FAVORS | CANADIAN BILL : (iy United Pres.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 11—The house ways and means committee, by @ vote of 12 to 7, today decided to report favorably on the Canadian reciprocity agreement sions un |» aval Ye " alanced atten Did wh: i com Fr week to © last Oc land them unusual being e rae ot sul ot after was a nd often took the put in his automobile inds recall that Twigg at the start paid the greater attention to May. The likeller thing is that he paid them equal attention, but by November he was commonly known as Grace's accepted suitor. Mother Opened Letters: The mother is a sweet-faced. woman She s fiance frequ two girls nurder paar ie Suspicioux accepted But now Mrs. 1 at the inquest that steamed open nd read} afte ter-of-tyst | » knew they comes anoth Elosser testif frequent g's letters to sealing them | wards. This was her ma BO lexplanation of how Twige’s attentions w should be The three girls chums. But there se been a sort of touct Grace and May. Mrs of several spats, usually ar from some trivial thing, and ending in a kiss and a hug. Yet here comes another unusual point. May did not give Grace a Christ mas present this year. She explain ed that some friend sent Grace an identical present and May was ashamed to show the one she had on bought The wedding was set for the after noon of January 1. The pastor was HAS BILL TAFT aged. ‘The announcers [| being engraved. Grace was deer GOT THE GOUT? } ticwsecs and iingerie with ter a maker esl tt was ke Twigg’s mysterious) { | disposition to say nothing of his ap Prépi-| proaching marriag home. Per was ashamed to explain in ond marriage after bis his first wife's every prepara. | confiding to a was * hap | Man of Mystery. ‘Twigg was an attract Bad fought himself up from poverty to affiuence, at K W. Va, a few miles from Cumberland. There he owned a large peach orchard and the principal store. He from $75,000 to $50,000, Tr men who “sold” him sa times he was morose go his first wife metanchol ive all were alw ms te ys ve en told ini worth aveling that at Se died was LOOKING FOR SUCKERS? Feb.-11.—I 6 than 61 of i cer EDMO the I ITON, 4 hour Alb. The fathe girls, Gr grocery store in (By United Press.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 11 dent Taft has the gout. He 1a Mrs must | haps he Eliza Ice A BE beth Cherry, pas of grief at ‘or of the Divine But he made hurch of Science + the wedding of Baltimore, Md.,| Close friend that he says #0. The plest man in the world,” and took ‘ormation sur{ the ccommodation” to Cum-| 2d the ch be December 21. There he| seutive. He hasn't | bought the weddl ring, making | had even a/sure that it could be exchanged Sf It winge, and he | didn't fit sn’'t convinced, He telephoned yet. «In a@ letter,|the Elosser house. Grace at Mrs. Cherry coun-|dinner with the family whén the dent to seek r call came, She came back from the healer and “have |telephone enthused. with happiness. | She didn't expect her lover #0 #001 ‘Charlie's coming out,” she said of it. But it ent|“He has something important to from that of Mrs. Cherr that | tell me hed to be n took a car to was we from a faith The { president has faith is ant” prov He led ‘something 1 the wedding po’ ring. with They one Here is a legislator that won't come off. Pete Why? No not even himself, Hi Elmer Ellsworth Fisher, county. He may agree with you or may not, his answer Is the Whi ver is right, you Over in Port Angeles quite popular, notwithstanding that } he runs a drug store. They think All named show a b®avy gain in population over the 1900 9) so much of him that President Taft census, lreappointend him postmaster only | this last week. call him knows real nan of Clallata POPULATION OF SMALLER CITIES MAKE BIG GAINS. u today towns of census bure cities and ASHINGTON, D. C., Feb. 11—The nounced the population of the incorporated the state of Washington. These include: Anacortes, 4,168; Chehalis, 4,507; Cle ish, 3,244; Roslyn, 3,126; Colfax, 2,783; Puyalinp, 4; South Bend, 3,023. same know Snohom- “Pete” is 4,181; Elum, 2,749 Pt. Townsend, In| REPRESENTATIVE E. E, FISHER! a smile DUMPED “=: Hillman Bought Land at 7.50; Sold It at $100 had received a j known party W. A. Howe Wash., testiti & contract from a erty purchaser ferred to w ae ot cross-examine R. 8. Nash of T at he had come o und July, 1910, from Oklahoma City that he bad gone to Birmingham on the Venus, and that f Hill man's agents had attempted to sell him two tive tracts at $900 each, later reducing the price to $800, and that he had finally taken an option on some property for § Hillman Gave Up $5. Hillman bad promised to charge of the sawm he was looking for him, he dee! He said that mifl machiner boiler and an evidently worn that the $6 had him C. D. Hillman paid $7.50 an acre for the land in his Birmingham ad. dition, according to the testimony of George B. Kittinger, a real est man in the Hillman trial in the federal court today. Previous testi: mony showed that Hiliman later re sold the land at prices near $100 per acre a teacher of Cai he had ingham pi son testified J. Dobrenty, whose text yntinued from * that he had kept up his pay |ments promptly until he heard the time testified be grand jury another pa ought the tract He said t his money | refunded ¢ but that Hillman had refused to pay him. Walter Virgin of North Yakima | test ified. that he had traded some for Birmingham property and had rece r pur be wrting t be from one F.A. Ander Wrote to F. G. Reed stated | mailed inquiries to “Mr Bond st., E rday de he that same to yntract acr ve him may that stock a man just Ike the there was no saw except an from a mui He testified refunded en out be “Janitor.” that Bu n to ‘or, 29. 'CHARGE GIRL WITH MURDER OF BABE and was formal dering the tn th of the ch to at the nity home, About the girl left the to 10d, ts live. urt this cha t child 4 of|tion Army ‘ three weeks Jeity and ¢ where he COLLINGWOOD, Ont., Fet Salva mate look police | BOXER UPRISING The Gazette cables that I throughout all taking advante dhist priests tricken district of the situation han uprising. They blame “foreign devils” for the plague and are urging @ war of extermina | tlon (By United Proms.) ONDON, Feb. 11 »bability ther Boxe ng in China dd to the he of the plague famine, is asserted here today patches to Pall Malt the ting part of the home. Many men and women were to work this morning jeable wasn't running expected that the company lall night to get the break .« would have {t ready for this ‘morning But they had “It's a new cable,” sald General | late for work Manager Edgar this morning, “It} Tt raining last night |was only installed last I mber bi had to walk in the I suppose there was a weak place | set home in it " nd it gave way. It was re-|. “It ms to unavoidable paired as rapidly as posstble,” |4aid General Manager Ka The break came at the worst pos-| But if it cost any considerable sible time of day. Just as the busy | amount of money to the company, nd tired people down town were | instead of merely inconvenience to starting for their homes, many of |the people, how many breakdowns them laden with marketing. | would be recorded in the course of Working men, working girls,|a year? Madison cable broke again way night For the checkered ¢ the cable last night till | morning And the people ‘And cusse late because the in ite “ Every end of 99th time or more the low broken from 6 10 o'clock thi about aired, operation walked, to walk—and be too, and rain to old) having | | but tired women—all had to walk or| if, when the cable broke, cars seek long, roundabout ways of get-| would run away and get broken up, The Recall, People’s Dras Bannick Acting Chief STIRRING CHANGES 10 A, M—Pe 10:30 A, M.—Su Arma resigns 10:30 A, M.—City Electrical charge of lighting department 12M. 12 M—Mayor 1. 30 P. M.—Po! chief of police 12:30 P, M way to Joe Smith AT ntendent Eng C. Gill steps a ce Captain Cla R. W. Boyce GILL WINDS UP BUSINESS Weapon Ross ¢ Chief Wapp: of City Li Mayor elect George W. D' private secretary to FFICE AT NOO Wipes Slate ¢ Place. in Arms CITY HALL resigns. ghting Department THE TODAY R, M. ineer J. D. Ross assumes temporary ng takes office jown and out ude G, Bannick is appointed acting Mayor Gill, gives ree nd up Judge, ered ndidate Shortly ef Boyle, personal the induce Mayor bond saiti GIN. 1 to leave ee ARCHBISHOP DIES. PHILADELPHIA, F Archbish Patrick died here afternoon. . * * * . * * . * ee THREE BROKEN HOMES. THEN DIVORCE suRT In her morning that he Knight since t kne and wn to fear TETTON for divorce th — Marion McKnight husband, Jay Pearl has failed to port eir marriage, In 9; that) drunk most of the time and that he repeatedly threatened to throw her out of the house R. A. Smyth wishes a divorce from Alice Smyth, whom he mar ried in kane 1891, on the ground that for 12 years she has persistently nagged him, charging him with being attentive to other | women, which he dentes, and which | he alleges” has c wed him great mental anguish, The couple se a arated two years ago, he states, | Attorney H. 8. Frye Helen McFarland states that her|of ex-Mayor (iif husband, Charles L she|J Main this morning in ans married in him with 1910, complained that the right kind of a Cia she wanted to keep a portion of the and ata ge she earned as a a falsely ress, and that, be king to money ates he alse $32 hoard her ‘say for ye for div Mc her clock — this aud Ar ms to Mayor rtly after ning Wappe - nded their re in H partner who B. ndge ‘ was not Vancouver. she woman in \to informs arging aiding prisoner to escape rald being the mplained that he had t sked the court tter before mak he indignity of fac trial replied when prisor thi presenting Sh ore sides t a ing 8 that it was on the g ipport WHIPPING POST e Kicks on Being laa Like Prisoner you luck, George rt in ting de ning was witnessed the city h Police ittle seene except for Chief Ban- Acting Gill eng lighting hour and chief electrical of the for an of police D. Ross, ehief assumed charge department, and a half the office was tenant! Ma Dilling upon aphointn nianent head of the 1 ment not settled of a per nting depart. the ent last } electic night can- ote. To comptroller issued a election to Mr. Dilling. was found to be: 31,919 25,705 4,690 ay uncil The official Ditling Gili Brown vote the duty of the court to pass on evi- submitted, and at if Frye wus dissatisfied law it was a matter he ake up with the legislature. is charged with having aided in the escape of Gerald, who was arr by riffs for added th s it was gnment was tation ng from esterday post pon that an rformed operation “SENA TE PUTS 0.K. REMAINS A LAW ON FRISCO EXPO SAl ai mous which ment fo: he O We TON, Feb, 11 By HING By vote the senate today = ed the San Francisco expo ernor to the pplied the the . TWO BANQUETS 10 HONOR LINCOLN at two) tonight club Arctic Repub New aling law NEW oring I the hi board of change MMe ORLEANS, Feb neoln the first of this city trade and t will adjc birthday next He time in both the cotton ex in Monday | AGAIN! and Republicans will gather Lincoln birthday dinners he Young Men's Republicar will give a dinner the club, and the Progressive Hean club will dine at the Washington Mayor Dilling booked to speak at the Arctic club rong programs of progressive kers have been arranged for both gatherings SOCIETY WOMAN GOES TO JAIL | & NEW YORK, Feb. 11.—Convicted of having attempted to smuggle a sable coat valued at $6,000 into the United from Paris, Mrs. | Roberta ngis. Corwin Hill,| wealthy y woman, is in a Tombs cell today. Mrs, Hill, tn addition to a 100 fine, was sentenced to 3 days in jail damage suits ay people killed and there be so many Wouldn't the company have al system of inspection of its cables 80 searching that it would be all impossible to have a break down—that nothing but an extraor. dinary convulsion of nature would bring about a broken cable? But it doesn’t do this A broken ble mean imply some night work for the repair crew 8 pas senger receipts from the Madison | line, correspondingly more receipts for other lines which adjoin or cross the Madison line, and some fares lost altogether, The inconvenience of the people, the discomforts of the patrons of the line—these aren't counted, or even recorded on the company's books. result from the| injured, would breakdowns George Jamme will speak tonight} Jat the Y. M. G, A. on “The Geologi-| ca) History of Alaska With Ref- erene to Specia) Conditions.” ition making the complete Gate MORE RECALL (By Untied Press.) SACRAMENTO, Feb. recall of enator-elect John D, Works is urged in a resolution pre- sented this afternoon by State Sen- Sanford, for Works’ stand recall of the judiciar olution, New ) opposition. world’s fair victory for Orleans This action fight with the Golden city 11.—The ator THE HICKTOWN BEE panies is « tre in. Hicktown. Weil) be having Y next. Bert Burns of ademy of Music says it won't thea- has come Grug store Welcome Hi with @ mntatn init young man support eome re Miss is wetting so Dig we can al estate agents pretty eo Tyler has Whits of Willer Creek. ye town, a steady Lidye t en= rw but