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

EDITION He NEW TRIAL FOR Oh. HOE Tailed Frew Leased Wire Direct to April NyEFFERSON CITY, M = (Builetin.)~—T? state su og sed the fpeme court today reve court's decision of C. B, Hyde the murder of Col Thomas H , and remanded the case for The opinion which grants Dr fiyde a new trial is words in The reversal of the low eis based ot many errors, fn ‘duding =the sion of testi to the deaths of members er than Col whose ~ al was con others Swope fam H. Swope poisoning Hiyde | of the illness of typhoid, of ea aymptow of Crisman Swoy practical though th was no eyt that cyanide had been given in Swope, and because of ferocation of Hyde's bond dur ag the prog ot his as to} jal evi risoned | to hold that the ¢ ot autho: he ithat question to a jury con Hydé Disappointed. KANSAS CITY, A In- | upreme trial of nvicted omas H bad ord in wh poisoned Co! Dr. B.C. Hyde much disappointed that he Mad not been freed "The conviction should outright,” said Hyde. “I $0 far been sustained by the of countless the believed in my innocer as pall as by the idea that under our of laws, while mistnkes by and juries may temporarily » In the end justice is to prevail. 1 look forward tonfidence to full acquittal on Bett trial. I have learned that €an stand anything with a Ike mine, believing in and ing him.” Hyde said I know the iaw will give my back to me, not because him or because be loves me, sp Pecanse he is innocent.” Tere eee * ** LOSES SATURDAY ‘The guessing contest, with feason ticket for a re Pward, ends Saturday. Send We your estimate on how Many fans will attend the ‘Opening day's game at Dug's Park on April 18th. A sea itom ticket for the guess that the closest. Address ing Editor, The Star. the \ Leitalleliaiialtaleialialaltel IT’S A BOY fee fabled stork brought joy to Atewspaperman’s home today ‘The lucky peo- a ‘ate Mr. and ee Hugh Al ‘ C ad the Z is a formed today tar editorial f, and just At present, the se- we are he Pink calling the FB—Allen is not with “us to B but he dropbed in long Bb to break the news HUNT FoR BOY'S uy MURDERER CISCO, April 11—| ting on the theory that Guy M.|¥ burg of Alameda was mur- Pinkerton detectives today | Searching the Barbary coast for | clue that would lead to the tity of his siayers. Robbery, Bay the detectives, was) Motive for the crime, They Out that it would have been ible for the link euff but ¢ to have slipped from the safety | itches in Lansburg’'s shirt, and 4 that they were removed by ers before the body Was m into the bay. i BERR Landsbure, mother ot the Ae Man, ig con nt that her Was murdered, and says she pare no expense to run down murderers hae ee ee aed * tarvet YOU BLAME +4 THE GOOD JUDGE? ea Poiee 18, Ind., April g, Police Judge Collins * made unique ruling to fay when he refused to fine GA Man arrested for swearing S88 crowded street car, The said he was a “strap Peereree ae aae tinted trial. The} Jenee | qbmission | declared | have | friends, | ndlaa dn nnn tintin tn tn hal ONLY INDEPENDEN VOL. 13, NO, 41 WASH., TU SEATTLE EXTRAK JLzared Wire Direot to tice ) EW YORK, April 11 rrand jury this afternoon indicted Max Blank and Isaac Harris, owners of the Shortwaist company, for laughter in the first a result of the recent fire in whic 143 lost their LOVE LEADS TO SUICIDE Triangle man degree as people lives The Seattle Star IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. NEWSPAPER Ox, TRAING AND S STANDS be ESDAY, APRIL 11, 1911. KILLED BY SHOCK; PLUNGES 70 FEET Young Man Meets Instant Death on Ledge of High Building; Was Sole Support of Invalid Father and Mother and Two Young §& Twisting and turning through the air for 70 feet, the dite! body of Harr¥ Qiltis, 21, 2642 W. 64th St, fell with a thud to the pave ment below rday afternooh, after he had been instantly killed; by coming In contact with a high A TRUST lo NEAT | (ity United tree ed Wire Direct to eatin Oftiee | NEW YORK, April 11.—Airmen today are all “at sea” over the statement of Claude Grahame White's lawyer that he bad advie the English aviator not to de’ the sult brought against him by the Wrights fo } ment of their aeroplane paten | Aviators contend | permits the the Wrights will be Able to secure injunctions against nearly every | flyer in the United States, giving them virtually a monopoly of the | alr STAGE RECRUITS FROM PEERAGE | | | | EDNA PURDY AND FRANK SMITH. tention to the Purd often aroused the « family since the daughter Last Thuraday he called Mre Purdy over the phone to bid her Today he is a suicid good-bye. When asked the nature | Despondent and grieving over/of his going away he replied that be | the lows of his bride-to-be, Frank | he was going where © *, an | Smith, a bartender in the Hillside | th nothing bere for bim. saloon, residing at th M ‘oe ho | Th ine at the tel, 609 Yesler Way, ended bis life | phone, mpted. to divert his yesterday afternoon by drinking a| mind from his worry and cheer him bottle of carbolic acid lup. They evidently discouraged him Smith was engaged to Mise | temporarily, ae b med in fairly ina Purdy, daughter of G. A.|good spirite wh visited the Purdy, of 968 Harney st., George-| family Sunday town, when the latter died, Feb.| Mrs, Purdy said there 19, last. The couple were to have}a marked change in th been married as soon as Smith |aince the girl's death tained a decree of divorce from | seemed almost delirious his present wife. He would have| Smith belonged to the Interna |recelved the divorce tomorrow tional Union of Bartenders and| Actions Suspicious. was a member of the Fraternal Smith, who had continued his at-|Order of Eagles “Life is not worth | that Edna is gone That is what Frank Smith, 26 years old, told his friends in Georgetown last Thursday now family, picion of tl death of the living, had been | man eve At times 1} arse THE HON. HELEN CECIL MON. JOHNSON DEAD,* = TOM JOHNSON—HIS LIFE LONDON, April 11—While it fs Born at Blue Spring, Ky., July 18, 1854 Jno unusual thing for young and Worked in rolling mill in 1869. |pretty women of the stage to join Started to learn the busir in 1869 |the ranks of British titled folk Acquired interest in Indianapolis street car system in 1876. |by the matrimonial route, of Entered Cleveland field in 1880, and engaged in memorable fight | course—it remained for the daugh Hanna inte ts. jter of Lord Montagu to turn the In 1890 sold out to consolidated company |tlde stageward. Under the name} Disposed of all street car holdings in 1898 and famous | of Mise laine Ceecll she has | fight for Scent fares. [made a great hit in the English Member of congress from 1890 to theatrical world mete $25,000 IN CIGARS UNIVERSITY LEGACY NEW YORK, April 11.—In Beattle Star Officer.) cluded in Gee Crocker’s CLEVELAND, Ohio, April legacy of $1,000,000 to Colum | In honor of Tom L. Johnson, famous) - bia university, it s learned former mayor of Cleveland, — today, there 1 $25,000 in died here at 8:15 o'clock last night : cosets arrangements were completed to-| y fine cigar The university -_— , |trustees are puzzled about the | ANERAASEBE ERY EY if A |cigars, as they don’t know what This is Johhson’s estfinate |disposition to make of them of himself, as set forth in one A lawyer will be consulted and if the cigars are classified as of his speeches, delivered long ago in congress household goods and furniture |they will be sold. street car with started 1894 Elected mayor of ( 1901, and forced through the |t-cent fare. Defeated for governor in Re-elected mayor of Cleveland by 1902 | 1 helming majority in| | 1905, | pa (iy United Press Leased Wire Direet to 1— some pioiodelndoddetdrtniededotes “Tam a free trader; I am a «ingle taxer—that is to say, I am a Democrat of the Jeffer: sonian school whose political ereed is summed up in the phrase ‘equal rights for all And. special privileges . for none.’ But I am as well a practical man and a practical politician. I would accept * half @ joaf rather than no * bread.” [kh hhh [EFAS PERE YD OY IF YOU MISS THE PINK EDITION YOU MISS A WHOLE LOT. SHEE EE REE EEE EEE TOM L. JOHNSON. from unions and sociological work ers who admired the constaficy with which Johnson stuck to his single | tax and municipal ownership ideas. Estimates today are that John son’s estate will be found to be worth less than $100,000, When firat elected mayor of Cleveland, Jobn son was worth millions. Most of this he expended in his long fight to munieipalize the street railways and to obtain three-cent fares. |day by which all business will be suspended during his funeral, which | probably will be followed by a great memorial service, The body will be taken by train to Brooklyn, N. Y., hwhere it will be buried in Green- wood cemetery. Prominent men from all over the nation today are flooding Johnson's family with telegrams of condolence and many messages are benenried BALLOON RACE. AREHKEEKERAKK KR * | * WATER SHUT OFF ed Press Leased Wire Direct to | (BY Unies cite Mar Oifice) lt Water will be shut off on SAN ANTONIO, Tex, April 11.—|# Ninth av. 8, from Washington fm an attempt to lift the Lahm cup,|* #t. to Yesler way, and on Yes ero} loney we! niland|* ler way from Ninth ay, to Acronauts Honeywell and Tolland )% ir ter" ay., today srom 9 today are sailing in a balloon to-|% ain. to 6 p,m ward St, Louis and the Northeast, | Oe ee ee ee HOT SPRINGS, Ark., April 11.— The balloon St. Louis, which started | The “funeral of Chas, A Will from San Antonio, passed over here | jams, the well-known Seattle news: this morning. It was 1,200 feet| paperman, will be held tomorrow high and was sweeping northwerd | at 4 o'clock from the Unitarian at 40 miles an hour. | efferch. Don't go home wight without in vesting one ied cent in a Pink edt tion of The Star. It covers, thor. oughly every line of news—much of it the late variety that you will get in the morning newspapers, 18 hours later. Don't miss the Pink tonight! DO YOU LIKE "EM? The Amertean daisy will be the official Golden Potlatch flower. Every one with a garden ts urged to plant this golden flower. SES EEE SSH | |height of the b | morning Ross ordered the | senate [siding officer of the tension wire carrying 35,000 volts. ‘he wire wae strung about a foot and a half away from the ledge of the buliding on which young Giiyie was working. He was helping in the cornice work on the Goon Dip building at Maynard and Kink ste. Shock Dazes Others. | When the accident happened he waa tacking sheeting on the very corner of the building. The shock went through him and passing into the metal cornice dazed half a doz en bricklayers who were working several feet away. None of these injured. A more experienced man might bave objected to working so near the danger line. Gillis, young and inexperienced, didn't realize that be Was so near death. Gillis bent over to do his work As he raised his head he evidently touched the wire in some manner Instantaneous death reaul the shock down the ullding and plunged City Not Notified. "Ht we had been ed construction of the buldi near our wi says Superintend ent @f Lighting J. D. Ross, “as is usually done by contractors, we would have d them Has Pederson of th Dullding is the contractor wires re | moved Supported Entire Family. Giilix tread near the danger bor det which older hands would have avoided because way back in Wir nipeg his father lies helpless with spina) tuberculosis, no badly strick that U, 8. immigration officials wilt wot permit him to come to this conatr, He took the chance that brought death because at his home in Bal llard hie mother ts a bed ridden in-| valid, ‘because his 16-year-old sis ter Marguerite must stay at home to take care of her, and his i-year old sister Frances is too young to earn anything. Gillis, despite his dangerous work, was drawing onl,,} $12 per week “It's aw tragic case,” says Deputy Coroner Borthwick » criminal negligence can be shown.” | dadedndadndndndnindadniainine * *% The story of two men and * & the law. Bee page 4 today, * GMOERE EER EEE ES! SENATORS ARRESTED (My United Prews Leased Wire Direct to | Meat ‘ar Office.) 1— SPRINGFIELD, Mls. April Half of the members of the state were ordered under arres today by Lieut. Gov. Oglesby, pre-| senate, when | that body convened today with one léss than @ quorum present. That the members of the senate we playing horse” was the curt com: | ment Of Oglesby when he ordered senators “brought In.” The ar | 4 men will have to explain] their abse nee Photo showing bullding from which Harry Gillis plunged to 7; ew death. WOMAN GIVES UP $1,000,000 TO WED (By United Press iii Wire Direct to Seattle Star Office.) PHILADELPHIA, April 11—Despite the fact that under Will R. R’s Ps Escape Pe corinne f her husband's will she will sacrifice a princely case of remarr Mrs. Kate Felton Elkins, Judge Hanford k| widow of Wm. L. Elkins, Jr., ounced her engagement under advisement the a to Wm. D. Neilsen prominent z ’ club t levy of 1907, as it affects the| of philadelphia 4 Great Northern and Northern Pa Peapod Ee ifictneye for the railway Mrs. Elkins is a daughter of former companies argued that the county elton of California. It was stated had no right to raise the levy from) Elkins marry Neilsen she will be $60,690 to $106,208 on N. P. prop-| ¢1 000,000 , and from $21,833.67 to $39, , — — iscsi ty dees WIFE TRIES SUICIDE WITH POISON AFTER A QUARREL other property had been raised 60 per cent while that of the rail roads went up only 30 per cent eee KA RAK EA RHR Drinking a mixture of carbolic, saving her life acid, strychnine and morphine, The trouble arose,” said Mr. Mrs. Bessie Rolfe, 30 Ife when my wife went out wife of William Rolfe, a carpenter |"CSterday under the assumed name emptoyed by Aldrich and Hunt on of Miss Dyer and secured a posi the Bon Marche job, made an un-|“0®- T being a man of skill in my successful attempt to commit. sui.{YoCation, considered myself cide in her. apartmonts, 224% |le of supporting the family Minor av. N., last evening. She|*he came home with the had been quarreling with her hus-|/ObJected, and the result band, It 1s said quarrel.” Deputy Prosecuting Attorney} The couple had Rw eR AKA RAR A KR |Louls T. Stlvain, who resides |Only nine months, across the street, heard the frantic |reled often, BOY RUN DOWN erles of the*children, who were! bor BY AUTO DIES erying that their mother had tak-| The woman was taken en poison,” He hastened to the|Municipal hospital last night, Leland Pynh,. the 7-year-old lad|Rolfé home and administered an|where she is resting easy today, that was run down yesterday by anjemetic to the woman, undoubtedly | with all the chances of recovery. — auto owned by Dr, EB. M. Rininger = ei and driven by Harry Johnson, died | * kk kk ke Aw WORK HK torday by jumping from the fire last night in the Munteipal hospital.|% TarT MAY REVIEW escape off the fifth floor of the Johnson, who resides at 1517 12th TROOPS ON BORDER *| Winchester hotel av.,was arrested and later released | (By United Press Leased Wire on his personal recognizance, after|% Direct to Seattle Star Office an Investigation had been made, WASHINGTON, April 11 According to Johnson, the young-|% Unless the work’ of the con ster was riding the back of grocery gressional session should wagons, etc, as they would pass/% make it impossible for him to his house. In making a rush from] leave Washington, President one wagon to another the boy ran aft plans to review the fn front of the machine. troops now encamped at San “4 Antonio, MAKES NEW RECORD OOOO Backed by a strong southwest . : wind, the. Governor arrived yester- JUMPS TO DEATH. day afternoon, clipping nearly four} United Press Leased Wire: Direct to hours from her previous record,| SAN FRANCISCO, April 11.— Her, time was 61 hours and 10 min-|George P. Egan, an army nurse, utes. died today of injuries received yes: yesterday to sessment and society man Senator Charles N today that should Mrs. mpelled to sacrifice * MAN WHO AMUSED THOUSANDS 18 DEAD * (By United Press Leased Wire je Star Office) NEW YORK, April 11 Sam Lioyd, millionaire invent |® or and puzzle expert, died at % his home in Brooklyn today. * Lioyd, who was 70 years of * age, originated the games of * *Parehesi” and “Pigs in & Clover.” years old, When news I been married and had quar according to the neigh- SEES EEE EEE EEE KARR KK RRR TAFT WILL ATTEND OPENING BALL GAME (By United Press Leased Wire Direct to Seattle Star Office.) WASHINGTON, April 11— President Taft will attend the opening “ef the baseball sea. son here tomorrow, when the Washington and Boston Amer icans clash. The weather bu n predicts fine baseball weather tomorrdw in the east. ern cities where games are scheduled RK SEES EEE EEE E KREREREE EE EEE +e ee EE capa: | was the) to the} SESELEEEAS HEE ES F EDITION EXTRA (By United Pres Leased Wire Meatile Mar Office SAN FRANCISCO, April 11— Mrs. Iva May Henry, children and & Direct to her two Foster Kelley, the banker of Seattle. are in the custody this afternoon of a deputy sheriff. They were ar rested while speeding down Mis sion st Mrs. Henry, whe is the divorced wife of Albert Henry, a Seattle bank clerk, broke and wept while being taken to police headquarters. She refused to make a statement | While Mrs. Henry refused to dis cuss the events leading up to the kidnaping of her two children from the St. Streuver apartments, where they had been left in the care of Miss Pearl Wyckoff pending their in an autcmobile down IVA MAY HENRY. disposition by the court, she voiced her opinion of San Francisco potice in no uncertain terms. “They are certainly a hot bunch of sleuths,” she said. “They couldn't follow a lantern up a dark alley, or |else they would have found us jong jago, for we walked up Market st. levery da: | Kelley appeared to regard his ar rest as a joke. Investigation |couple and the two ct n were forced to undergo many thrilling experiences following kidnaping. Last Tuesday mornix th em- | barked in a fisherman's launch at | Harbor View and started across the jbay. A violent storm was raging jand the party narrowly escaped They landed on Alame- and remained in hiding for ral hours and then recrossed » bay. All Wednesday night they jremained in a fisherm s hut and then moved to an apartment house at Jones and Clay s' | Attorney Metson, chief counsel for Henry, annoumeed this afternoon — | on he would prosecute everyone ¢ « kidnaping WILSON COMING Woodrow Wilson, of New probable progressive Dem- candidate for the — presi |dency of the United States, will be in Seattle next month. Gov. Wik son will be entertained by the Dem- ccratic State committee, the Uni- versity club, the Princeton club and the faculty of the uni- versity The presidential Wilson is attaining proportions, especially progressive dem¢ jer school. While he has not made politics a business, he has made it ja study and has written more on questions of government than the javerage officeholder knows WILL PREFER CHARGES AGAINST PATROLMAN Fowler Cardon who was beaten by policemen in front of the Wash- ington hotel where he was waiting last Thursday to get a glimpse of Col. Roosevelt, has decided to place evidence before the civil service jcommission to show that the attack |was unwarranted. He has eight witnesses to prove that he was struck without cause. The charges |preferred by Cardon are aimed par ticularly at Patrolman Boyd showed that the Gov Jersey, ocratic state boom of Gov. considerable among the rats of the new- NEWS ITEMS FROM THE HICKTOWN BEE ho birthday today half a cord of wood. Hi n Will won a pipe In the bowling tournament last night Emportum sa day ain't’ much ¢ oly week, the n cost pretty windy In Depot Square todi t our Hicktown girls already wearlng thelr low shoes Mise Amber Beede of Willer Creek is visiting Miss Pa It's funny how up @ swell front with notht than a clean shave and a necktie pin, Lafe Watertowe éred this morning 4 SIE ET