The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 24, 1911, Page 1

THREE FALL IN FATAL PISTOL FIGHT why The Star is the best home paper in Seattle e ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE VOL. 13, NO. 2 S$ WASH.,, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1911 an I S 0 peta . » is ONE CENT. fitwi"AiMos We STAN INSURANCE pumnce of Scenes and Actors in the Tragedy WA2?Y, TRIED 10 secs i nie dl Ford, the wounded band a a our this after noon, He has a fighting chance to spital physi- ne have little hope for b CO. QUITS PATROLMAN JUDSON ° JOHN FORD AXEL NIST, 27 1 PATROLMAN HERBERT SMITH, uninjured, ona idence dly duel eee ee eee ee the hot, but BOUQUETS FOR cops. : te ‘ id ed his ounding ! ‘ist AXEL NIST ef s onte hy A at in Captured after chase by Patrol 1 r ; 1 ae. man Smith, who shot him in the € ip J ’ Nay OF, hip. Photograph taken from police * rogues’ gallery N ° r m from him as he fell ied to the fe back AERIAL TAXIS NEXT By United Press PARIS 1 to the reseue of i'm a T can Telephone heads help out my partner shafts of the ma the amount to be paid Pe eee ee eee ee ee (Pee eee eee ee eee ee The Bonner cottage, 605 Denny Way, beside which pisto! duel « White cross on picture shows where Officer Davis fell. Whi U . The encounter took place at the svi TH’S ie = shows where Bandit Ford fell. <. spe ata hs ; : dee corner ston a benny Wane sTory Girl Eye-Witness OAAVZB-. v1 wn to heb SEER E ERR ER RR HE $ several times | > ; as t and photographed for en | e d is known ttt cee oe bells of Shooting! the rome lery, Fords aaa ordeal again,” said Pat an | ; : i Smith, the hero of | night's} Sta x & fow feet away ; rm = on the Bellevae Say beitle with the highwaymen, this | Miss Clara Carlson, of 426 Boylston : t et and od were thea morning. “When the danger was all |#¥. Sa two men fall in the exet = ) 3 followed red, or CTT over I was limp as a rag ast night mee = r er home fre Orpheum y night held them up “However,” and Smith n tt nm, who was in con \ bis fighting spirit. “I'm ready to| pany with H. E. Bilderbach, an em in on their own doorstep. ‘ue police take my medicine the next time. iceh- tana d = j believe ey are responsible for He then described the encounter. | ?!° pentane: Os, wae on many « hold-ups recently. “Two well dressed young fellows |her way to town, going down : Bianchi and Hayden, detectives, bad passed us, then came Fi y Upon passing Denny think they are the men they bad a ist as if they were t , esenes of Beginten ev bing battle with at 2is¢ and I nudged Davis as they pase Parsenge pt , ‘ dison a month ago They looked suspicious to him too, Jounsrgbatgoar ag tamgnnn ry of Battle. #0 we followed: When they saw | ¥4Y, Close ywed by two other ‘ | Smith and Davis, detailed to we were following they began walk-| ™€n. all in * |patro) the Broadway district, saw ing faster. | “When about 20 feet from the 4 |Nist and Ford ahead of them on “I slipped my gun into my out-|/eaders,” said Miss Carlson, “the - | Boylston, near Olive. They looked side coat pocket and had it ready | men in the rear circled toward the }suspicious. The patrolmen boar fm my hand. Then I called out to r ed of the sidewalk, then daft them. When 20 feet them. one exclaimed, ‘Hold up your away they called to the two men Ford Opens Fire. hands; don't you budge an ipeh.” | | to stop “Ford turned like a flash. ‘Hands Iinmediately the firing began. 1} PATROLMAN HERBERT SMITH | The two policemen were walking up! Hands up!’ he shouted, pointing |8"¥ Officer Davis reel and fall in - x Hero of last night's desperate bat- with their hands close to thelr his gun first at me, then at Davie | bis tracks on the grass. Ford, the tle, who shot Ford and brought Fe wa : sides, ready to shoot if resistance He fired as soon as he spoke. He | bandit, recetved his wound at abou : down Nist after chase. ‘ i) i jWas offered. But Ford was too Was just turning his gun on me|the same time, staggering a few : quick. He wheeled and blazed when I dropped him. steps, then falling. The other jaway twice As the second bullet “Poor Davis was just. turning | bandit, Nist, took flight across the = nded, Davis staggered and. fell, afound to get bis gun out of his | street, followed closely by Officer | while Smith had returned the fire, belt when the bullet caught him | Smith, both men firing as they ran MISS CLARA CARLSON, 4 4 | sending. Ford to the ground vaca lle ama ‘ee fay : . | Then Nist turned and ran, Smith moved a step, ; ‘ 4 ae ; 4 Pa. Ran Towards Him } A a lonly stopped to take Ford's gum “As Ford dropped, Seiad utarted “ “ 7 . from none The pursuit lasted for a . vy tg dene ; ‘ block and a half, Smith firing foaling vey seks pinyin o f < t J | steadily and Nist replying. Then something that I was running 1) # As pes arn turned from the him like a race horse. Then he | | f . ys f ne a ptw peti oy = turned and started to run from me. | HPSS. fir | ‘ i . . pp ge agai germ Nit | Seattle Electric Ready to Spend Thousands to Beat City-Owned ” fi N | tadpea, tt ckctiuenn ti cae 1 fired five shots in a jing. ohibaesr nag ~ pained 2 - jridges, but continued to follow til cb my fat Wille” nan he lost his man. Then he returned USaitt it sdent appearing man Onna to help his partner. The police giving the impression of being all] The Seattle Electric Co. has opened its fight on the $800,000 bond |time cad Si get in to kent. fer dae coiled spring and muscle. He has | issue for a city-owned car line from Rainier Beach to Ballard. jee ed kaegsan ae & strong jaw Last week the Furth monopoly gave orders to a local advertising by von Boar for 70,000 anonymou ars t mailed all over the city was found a few minutes later CRORTLAND, Or, Feb. 24 TUT Gesnssts duis Ga eee at nied a hole about four feet deep, where ‘aught between the carriage and) Jake Furth is going to spend a lot of money to beat the municipally- ‘ |batiet had tateh tine 2 Gee Ghent coe bt dates Saree some |, fate going p y to be unicipally : t had caught him in the hip, W. D. Keezar, 42, an en joye, was There were wm confe nce Sec Webster-Furth ei had exhausted his bulleta, crushed and instantly killed. He 18 | o¢tices about this Ratnier valles « They fina Jed that the | ; H nade no farther: Fasiethheaaal crushed and tnetantly killed, He is] offices about this Rainier valley cari nally decided that the , ie made no further resistance, survived jtraction trus ny The dead and wounded were re So the S. E. Co. has started t ‘ , t . moved. Davis’ body was taken to 66 the 8. E. Co. Butterworth's, the two injured nighwaymen to the city hospital, I, wa: rted this morning that J ‘ A Ford had a fighting chance to re ' cover ‘4 4 | Davis and Smith took their exame |inations together ih the latter part of 1908, and have been roommates at the Barker hotel since the death Jof Smith's wife a short time ago, | Davis, the dead policeman, wag a If the city can make this a fit, what will they be doing 4 Srred tote Forre ta next? How long t ne ‘ npete with them ae 4 | corpa tn the, Philips in other parts of the ci nag . : ; an exellent aa Selfish interests—the fear that they won't be able to gouge as mucif . : nded. by Chie? money in profits and dividends from the people of Seattie as they have Commended by Chief been—that’s what is behind those anonymous circulars. / er ‘mite ‘ Sioald have to ite . vis should have to give his itp his work of cleaning up the city,” Sener ‘ ! ‘ | pletely Wi Li) I) 1; Se i a tei ie TO ELECT JUDGES. time, the circular will tell the peor ng about any extra taxes the propose (By Staff Special.) OLYMPIA, Feb. 24.—Ser ator Metcalf brought ap his bill in the senate today to re store judges to direct pri maries, It provides that there shall be but one judicial elec tion, instead of two, as at present, for all judges, su perior court and supreme cour eir taxes, anyhow, till they want to. They can go ve done that re, in Tacoma and in other places. The 8. E. Co. is afraid of the people. And afraid of municipal ownership, SESE EE EE EEE EE SESE E EERE EE EEE EK nahh hhh th same time Seattle Electric is starting this fight a group a aad : oe ; len ne en have issued n nt, signed b: os pe gh 3 ad Chief Bannick, who was hur NEWS ITEMS FROM sn" nent, signed. by mgr, - Eee 3 4 : aoe tied to the scone inthe first aia last night THE HICKTOWN BEE J) gentcim fame, ©. F Biaine, mniltionaire la rrigation man, and ¢ A Ra 0 SK “—s \a at night, “but it Is a change statement was issued, it was stated, by “a committee represent i go or The hole into which Bandit Nist big ness interest hy don’t want the people to have The old Keystone garage and stack beside it on Denny Way and Harvard street. dropped had b formed by the | t - . la street car line of their own, either f r jremoval of s 4 Nanks } They say it's going to cost a lot of mone and will surely give bad White arrow in picture points to hole In rotted platform where Nist fell and was later*captured. aa voted patina 7 - Tonk ervice, and that municipa ip in ot cities was not ¢ ol otted platform over the fro! [red outer aceuinents aibhar io those in the aponyiious Beattie White star indicates point at which Nist was shot. He then darted off the sidewalk, falling into St the lot, whieh is four or five a the hole felt below ground lectric circulars | The hole is between the old Keys |stone garage and a frame shack, shown in th ure A companying. The st ve both The Seattle Electric and som Me ness Men,” are lined Only one witness was called be-| been condemned a idents in It all emphasizes one thing—that Seattle must choose a council which COFFEE DROPS * * Hank McKeown, restricted district | the hborhood have rg is free from the 8 E. Co. influence, The bond election and the WILL HELEN WED? 1 election come the same day—March 7, * eernen oe a (Spectal to The Star.) \% WASHINGTON, (By Freddie, Our Office Boy.) BUCKLEY, Wash,, Feb. 24.—A) % 24.—M Helen Hank MeKenow, restricted district |ing their removal for w rhe, saloon owner, who figured in the | sarage has not been occupied sine council committee's investigation, | it was damaged by fire some tir * * * * * * eee haven, Cotten: tas i@iconen man giving his name as Ed Ken-|® obrated Washin, * : polly ib tte |nedy, who came © three days! ® and caused a lot * LENT IS HERE Somebody sicked the Federal Gov-|ago looking for work, gave up the|% her young friends when she | “During. the early part of the | Ago. ernment on the Java Trust and then|fight this morning when he was|% appeared at a tea wearing a %| morning no witnesses were called.| Miss E. Kekert, a dressmaker It The Lenten season is at hand. For (By Staff Special.) |milis, drew his razor and cut his|~ questions the daughter of-the # 8 be * * * * * *| NEW STATE HOUSE * * * * * * cutor’s office, for the grand jury to| turbed often by men who she be- vote on | tie lived in the deserted garage, Prosecutor Murphy was in ar quantity of food was found tn the out of the grand jury room sey which leads the neighbors times daring the morning. WI © believe that Nist and Ford aad he refused to talk, Murphy w eonfident and satisfied smile, ened, says a dispatch from|tumned down at one of the lumber) % monster solitaire ring. To all * | Some 40 indictments, it is rumored, |ing in a house adjoining the shacr * Nev umbe "8 ltorty days, commencing Wedne OLYMPIA, ti 4.—The % |New ¥ throat from ear tg ear |* president simply laughed and 7 | have been drawn up by the prose-|on the west, says she has been dis a barber in v day, all observers of t yeriod Will) * house this morn passed a &| Reports that Congre ‘as adopt-| Temporary bandages were ar Seamed her girl chums to “wait The Kagie i) have @ temper forego many of their worldly pleas-|% bill appropriating $350,000 « a resolution to investigate the | ranged and Kennedy was put on 4] % and see. Washington society pros di yaad hele weakly smoker | 7c” regulate their diet in accord-|% for additions to the state cap: ffee Trust caused the drink to|train and hurried to oma # is asking who-is-the-lucky-man Wilbur Tidds te running the ,¢ nee with the rales of the Catholic|* {tol. The vote was 72 to 19. wn 20 to 40 point how] “I did a bum job of it,” he gasped| * today kine at the shingle mill now. Me hurch, and attend all special Len-| % I wish some one would sick the F.}as they took him him, away. "I'll | # S. vemanehin.. over ten devotions, AO OR |G. On the candy trust, \finish it up yet, le MMM ME RRR ERY