The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 8, 1911, Page 1

_& employed shall The Seattle Star VOL WOMAN ° Four Men,and Girl Arrested CAU t. WITH SUSPE Following Attempted Hold-up Foiled by Officer—Three Other Robberies. Following an attempted holdup atatempted holdup Thomas st. and Nob Hil! av. early this morning, four men and a girt were arrested. All live at the Strand hotel, 1422!) First av. They are: Anthony Baker, Emil King, Wm. Swedin, Tom Kelly and Mil dred Harrington. Patrolman J Standing in the sh phone pole about midnight when he saw two men come out of the darkness toward a pedestrians Wal trip putled his revolver and forced the two men to throw up their hands, Though they insisted that Intended no harm, three guns were found on them. Just then they broke and ran, Waltrip shot at them and the bullet struck one of them, who proved later to be Emil King, in the shoulder. King fell, but Waltrip let him Ie and fol lowed his partner. He finally found Anthony, Baker about two blocks from the scene of the at Waltrip was dow of a tele When Wailtri turned to where he had left King he ¥&s nowhere to be found It was learned, hoyever, that Baker lived at the Strand, and go- ing there, King was found in room 14, which is being rented by Sweedin and Kglly, the two other Suspects. The two latt@r claim know nothyg about King Baker, Girt Arrested, Too. At 6:30 this morning Mildred Harrington, a girt the Strand, was arr had postcard pictur four of the arrested suspects. She admits that she knows all of them quite well. She says that Kelly told her that King had come into their room ask- ing for some peroxide to wash his wound, and had told them that he and Baker had been out on an unsuccessful stick up trip. | STORES OBEY — THENEW LAW First Eight-Hour Day for Women—5,000 Helped by It in Seattle—-No Wage Reduction Expected. RARKRARRRRA RAE * * ® “No female shall be em # & ployed i% amy mechanical or * mercantile establishment, ® laundry, hotel or restaurant in W this state more eight ® hours during any day °# “Every employer in estab- % lishments where females are provide suit ® able seats for them and shall # permit the use of such seats %# by them when they are not ® engaged in the active duties & for which they are employed, ® and every such employer shall ® keep posted in an open and place in room where such females are it work a copy of this act tinted fn such form ag may Prescribed by the commis. of labor.” (Extracts from omen's eight-hour law, © today Rkkheankren i i eeteeere * =e Pel 31 “ie eeeeeeeteeeteteeeeeeeeee This morning the Stores of Seattle O'clock instead of § department opened at % 30. It was the Deginning of the eight-hour day,, fm compliance with the eight-hour law for women passed by the re cent state legislature At least 5,000 women in Seat- tle are affected by the new law. The department store: furnish 2,500, the laundri 1,200 and the restaurants, can- dy factories, paper box factor. jes, dressmaking pario, gar- ment workers, etc. make up the total. °Miss Blanche Mason, assistant State labor commiswoner, is busy every day, answering inquiries from employers aud employes Sbout the workings of the new law Bhe has a desk in the V Free Employment office, Liberty building, across from Pontoffice, where she may be very day between the hours of 2 and $ o'clock No Trouble Expected. “I do not expect a great deal c trouble,” said Miss Mason today the Ach, Louis! After the Third Round With That Dog, Louis Didn’t Ha After mastering dogs with fight fing proclivities for r, Louis Maw fon, city sanitary inspector of Bal lard, yesterday met his Waterloo Louis’ duties cali for a house to house inspection, and during the years he has worked in the Ballard district he has enc®mtered fully Varieties of beliggerent canines, but Up to yesterday he always finished strong. According to rumor, an hour after Yesterday's batt) arrived at the stfl game station in @ val police barre! and borrowed Capt. Powers’ | long coat for the rest of his journey eward It all happened down by Interbay at the edge of higgdistrict Louls entered the yard with all the abandonment of a boy going to} For payday was but! Ris first cireus & short way off and Louis was hap By. He whintied a few bars from Der Wacht Am Fhein” as he closed the gate He Was Some Dog. What appeared to be a large patch of brown lay at the corner of the house. As the gate banged, the patch became antmated and, rising on four legs, assumed the propor tions of « young horse. Louis stop- bed whistling and looked toward the found | ee ee eee ee }“Nearly all of the stores will adopt the eight-hour rule today. We j may have a little friction with some of the laundries, judging by the past, but I look for no serious violation of the law. We Intend to keep a close watch on the dress making parlors and all other places where evasion of the law will be more difficult of detection Shoppers Can Help. Sheppers can assist a great deal in carrying out the law, If shop ping is done early in the @ay, there should be no need of the stores keeping open in the evenings “Da, you think the shorter hours will mean a permanent reduction in wages?". Miss Mason was asked "Quite the contrary,” came the reply. “The law will mean are duction averging over one hour a day for over 5,000 girls in Beattle. This is an aggregate of about 6,000 hours cut off the day of the Seat- tla working girls. Unless the same jnumber of girls do more work per hour, it will necessitate the em ployment of 700 to 1,000 more girls to do the same amount of work. Now it is a well known fact that wages are not governed by the number of hours one works, bug by the competition in the labor mar ket. The eight-hour law will there fore bave a tendency to increase | Wages of women.” ‘OKUMU'S CLOSE ESCHPE VICTORIA, B. C., June 8—News leas brought by the steamer Kama oq @ Maru that Count Okuma, the ured politician and head of Wa seda college, had a narrow escape | from death in @ runaway accident at Byoto. He sustained but slight injury, the runaway horses having been arrested by some pine branches at the roadside RR hth * * * Like to laugh? If so, don't ® # overlook the cheerful smile * *® column in page 4 today * * * * t = | | After the Battie Louie, ired But ime, Walked Down the Railroad Track Minus Most of His Uniform. 13, NO, 91 ve’ Much Uniform Left ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY [PUBLIC DRINKING CUP IS. BREEDING PLACE FOR GERMS Photographic Reproduction of Germ: From One of the Every public drinking cup in Se-|m attle %& covered with from four to] fected son may have a drink eight million disease germs. from the cup, five minutes before The pleture above shows a cul-| your child trips up to quench ite ture of germs numbering 6,006,000,/ thirst. Warn your children to of them ea) and ready | avoid the public cups, and ase your fect some person with disea influence to have the disease Every ‘public cup In Seattle Ix a Spreaders removed from Seattle. BOY TRIES TO on Public Orinking Cup Taken tle Fountains, to health. A disease-to- to mae But Weak Little Hands Only Reach to Father's Watch Chain— Man Kills Wife and Tien Himself. With his three children clustered) woman's body and Pattison then about him, terrorgtricken, Ora Pat-| turned the weapon upon himself. tison shot and killed his wife and| The frightened children ran from committed suicide in their little|/the house, where they met Ed shack at Cedar Mountain, near Ren- Ruggs, who boarded with the fam. ton, y y afternoon. Roland, ily, and told him of the crime. the oldest, aged 8, made a frantic Ruggs immediately notified Cor effort to prevent the murder, but oner Pathel! his small arms only reached to the’) removed to Pathell’s undertaking man’s watch chain, which w parlor at Renton, The ward found broken on the fi were turned over to neighbors. According ‘to the tiny witnesses,|tison’s brother arrived from Mon Pattison came home in a drunken|roe this morning to get the chil condition and began quar ren, The desd woman had a sis Mrs. Pattison retired to er in Monroe, She was notified of room In tears and Pattison f the tragedy and arrived in Renton her, shouting. Roland followed,|this morning. Mra. Pattison was 6 tugging at hie fat 8 coat, beg- and Pattison was 10 years her ging bim to leave his mother alone.|senior. The family haa lived tn As Pattison stepped into the room|Cedar Mountain for about a year |he whipped out his revolver, and| Pattison was a woodsman and bis Roland made futile efforts to reach | wife raised chickens. Besides Ro- the weapon. But in a moment ajland, the children are; Myrtle 6. bullet was sent crashing Into the! Clifford 6, and Francis 3, -—= ee ODD BITS O’ NEWS SHARON, Mass—The Pau! Regie to be used in a treat for the 20 vere homestead was damaged in a/xiris who danced Highland fling }fire resulting from an explosion in| for him in the Gentral park fete. | a powder mill built in revolutionary | days. NEW YORK—For assaulting his taxicab chauffeur,*fo ralleged over- charges, F. Augustus Heinze must meet a damage verdiat of $325. NEW YORK—The right of one of the residents of fashionable Sea-| gate to open her house for summer | boarders is to be determyed by Justice Kelly of the supreme court. | CHICAGO—Chief McWeeney an. nounces that the ordinance pro- hibiting the sale or use of explo. HICAGO — Thi Ryan, Lb ws ble srente Kieppner,|sives will be enforced and that Stgeeter and Clarence Kleppner, | *! each 15, amateur burglars, found | Chicago will observe a “safe and a revolver in a house they were | S#ne urth of July robbing. Ryan accidentally shot| . — himself and will die, His youth! CHICAGO—Women will hereafter ful “pals” were held. vote In church matters in the Epis copalian churches of Chicago, ac NEW YORK—Miss Margaret | cording to a decision of the delega- Knox, school teacher, has received|tions to the annual convention of & $100 check from Andrew Carne-|the diacese of Chicaga OPEN SHOP FIGHT CLEVELAND, Ohio, June |fight to make Cleveland an open hop city was Iaunched here at a meeting of the *Clevelaim’ Employ ers’ association, when Gen, Harrl- of son Grey Otis outlined the methods that had been employed in Los Angeles. President Kirby and At torney Drew of the National Bree tors’ association spoke in favor of the movement, Hight of the larg dog | est employing concerns in the city of}are allied in the Employers’ as sociation BULLET PIERCES BACK OF COW With a bullet grazing his neck and piercing the back of his coat, J. C. Ellgnberry had a narrow escape from death last night, about 10 o'clock. He was walking along Seventh av., near Pike st negro ordering him to throw up his hands. When he failed to im. mediately obey orders, the negro fired the shot, burning Eikenberry’s neck. The would-be robber ran up Seventh av. and was last seen by. some small boys, when he disappeared in the alley behind The Star building. gate, but it was too fa There was a growl, a sh teeth and the first round was on The big bear-dog fell into a clinch and shook Louis until, his watch stopped, so the exact time for the battle will never be known The round ended with the backing away with a portion Louls’ trousers Got More of the Uniform. During round two Louis fiddled for time and b < toward th gate but the big fellow wasn't to be denied. He rushed Louis to the} fence, and in breaking away from} the hot encounter the wiry Inspec tor bee rated from mor of} his uniform, | Louls looked tired but was still came As the smoke of battle lifted t a little, however, the big dog show ed his yellow streak by lying down | and chewing Louis’ new uniform to pieces. So Louis encased himself | in a barrel and started down the) railroad track TereeTLaeereee rs * WEATHER FORECAST * * For Seattle and vicinity: * * Pair tonight ayd Friday; light *| * westerly winds. * FOTOS TIO IK STOP MURDER and the bodies were| children | Pat-| JUNE 8, 1911 ONE CENT Cnty EDITION Y FOR JURY MAY KNOW HIS .- “FATE TONIGHT \. | Testimony Finished and Arguments Started This Afternoon— ‘ Each Side Limited to Two Hours—Rumfnens Opens for ‘Bathtub Murder Duplicates Deed of .Fiction Criminal ire. Elizabeth Scheib, Henry A. Scheib, and a drawing at lower right Rand corner made by the dead woman, presumably picturing one of her ind's women friends. | (Special to The Star.) | gulsed as a Mexican sailc ped on a side window and was admitted NEW YORK, June &—Henry A pened by the woman. Schél, chautfour, Is held here on | 77. MON. he flung herdel | euapizien of having killed Elizabeth into his arms, caught bim around O'Grady Scheib, his wife, and placed the neck and pressed his face up | nee Body in a bathtub filled with Close against her cheek. m she sobbed bedi. 11 do love y I can't live | The case paraticis that of OF.) without you! another hour | Crippen in many respects and also) Dick! I do want you so much |‘ tonows in many details Melville much, Dick!’ : |Davigson Post's story, “The Cor-| “The man shifted his right arm Delicti.” Post wrote the story auickly, slipped a great Mexican in thé early 90's to show how a knife out of his sleeve, and passed person might commit murder, and his fingers slowly up the woman's by deing away with the body be side until he felt the heart beat immane from punishment. under his hand, then he raised Since his arrest it has the knife, gripped the handle jearned that Scheib spent tight, and drove the keen blade of hig Jetsure time taking into the woman's bosom ut fer joy rides. He had His actions after that were de letters. from different girlie, Mberate. He carried the body to ot them breathing love. the bathtub, carefully cut it to pleces and closed the outlet pipe P. Story. jwith a porcelat disk to which | Id the Post story samuel Wal-|was attached a long platinum cott, @ rich clubman, is about to! wi Then from the cellar he |marry a Now York society girl.| fetched up case after case of the | Waleott-and his fiance are guests | wine bottles and poured their con }at a dinner. A note is brought to) tents over the remains, The liquid j He reads {t, pales and| in the bottles was sulphuric acid leaves the dinner to} ‘He arranged gas burners under laeek out Randolph Mason, his| the tub to heat the solution, went fi and a man of wonderful ve |out and closed the door, In four knofjedae éf the law's loopholes. | hours he entered the room and ex- To Mason he makes a strange tinguished the gas burners. In the | confession |tub was nothing but a thick, murky Hip real name is Richard War-/ liquid. He pulled out the plug with ren.’ Years before he had met a | the platinum wire, allowed the tub | Samuel Walcott at the gold mines|to empty, cleaned up all traces of of rnia. In a drunken fight } j}his work and went downstairs to he ki Walcott and fled with change his bloody clothing for clean the Jatter’s Mexican wife to New At the foot of the stairs two police | York, @ssuming Walcott’s name | men seized him and fortune . | The prosecution went confident He established the woman in a/ly to trial with a perfect case of jsuburban house, but lived apart! circumstantial evidence. from her, though she begged him} Randolph Mason, attorney for to marry her. All went well un-|the murderer, said he had no evi \tt! his engagement was an-jdence to offer, but moved the jnounced. The Mexican woman|court for a verdict of not guilty Phad |kept the dying statement of|on the ground that the corpus jthe Feal Walcott and she offered | delict! was not proven. And though the neurper his ce tween | even the jury protested, the judge marfiage to her and the gallows./ upheld the motion, A few weeks Mason advised the instant murder| tater Samuel Walcott married his lof the Mexican woman and_ told) fiance Walcott, or Warren, how to"do it r jand esecar the Jaw been much girls ny most lea RRR ee Next day Walcott announced'% Would you like to see the his intention of cruising if his) # most expensive hat in Seattle? |yacht three months, and the yacht * Look at The Star's woman's sailed away as though he» were #® page today aboard. That evening Walcott, dis xe eR AR KARK RAKE One woman, a law student, is a daily visitor at the Wappen- ein trial, and is the only woman witnessing the legal battle. She @tained permission to sit Inside the rail. | Will H. Morris and 8, Shipl@y, his partner, have more than met thelr mateh in the prosecuting attorney's force, headed by Prosecutor Murphy and assisted by Special Prosecutor George H. Rummens and Deputy Hugh Caldwell. Rummens is quicker than @ithor of the attorneys for the defendants, and Murphy is fully as @auve and at ease and polished as Will H. Morris ever was in Handling cross-examination, ‘The early days of the Wappenstein trial, when the jury was Yoing drawn, saw quite a sprinkling of women in the audience. ‘There have n less every day, and two or three days there have been no women present at all except the law student ° Will H, Morris got called by Jydge Main day before yesterday, ad persisted In repeating inadinisst ble questions ‘to witnesses, | ntly for the purpose of letting the jury draw Inferences any- How, even though the eourt would not permit the questions to be answered, Prosecutor Murphy ‘had repeated an inadmissible question on one occasion, and Morris rose gin wrath our honor,” hg said, “I ask the jury to be instructed to disregard thy question, dnd furthermore, I ask the court to admonish the prose. cuting attorney for asking it.” Judge Main briefly replied: “The jury will not consider this evidence, but as far as admonishing counsel is concerned, if I were to begin, I should certainly have to admonish the counsel for defendant more frequently than the prosecuting attorney,” Wappenstein was rarely wilted by his attorneys before Gid Tapper took the stand. After that he was frequently asked to throw more or less Hight to help out his counsel. At first Wap: penstein seemed to be as unmoved as the Sphinx, The drawing of the jury seemingly bothered him little, After the testimony began to come in, Wappenstein fidgeted more or less, tearing up paper and drumming upon the table with his fingers, Prosecution. ee ee ed . The fate of ( and Gide ts ne The ment of cor DK, spec tate, He followed b clude the a will have ments ma ney Murphy Each ing to « erTrrtrcr rss e rere. arrange de thi ee ee oe 2 “Did Wappenstein get the money? That's the sole question for your |consideration. Everything else is admitted.” George H. Rummens jecutor in behait of t summarized in his argon Wappenste were bigger t That's not cont ted, Resorts ¢ running during his adminis om, That is admitted. In short rything is admitted except that the took the money special pros state thus appenstein case jury bank deposite n while chief ave must bel rs story that he gave appenstein the $1,000 bribe on August 5, and that his story is cor ated. If you expected corrob- from kings, — potentates and the president of the 4 States, all of whom might wen gathered at the vorner of Second ay, and Cherry st., and whd would swear that the} saw Gid Topper drive to that place in a big automobile and carried a big sult case and met Wappenstein there and hollered out loudly, “Here | Wappy, I give you a $1,000 bribe for letting’ me run the Midway and! Paris houses,” then you expected more than human nature could afford.” Rummens pointed out that, though Wappenstein swore that he per, he, nevertheless, did not hesi- tate to recommend him to Senator Nichols as “all right” to grant a lease for the Paris house. r Testimony Not Disputed. This testimony is not disputed,” said Rummens. “What happened Tupper asks for the Paris how i ee ry hem to run the the/hands of of Wap Sheriff Seott the d the arg eorge H. Rum yument in behalf of the Shipley for th fens« nd Prosecuting Attor. wr iment rs to pre ning ent its case, accord- SSeS eee eee eeee * eo Nichols sa he hin nough. i n get Gerald doesn't Tupper to recom- 1 me “Nichols sayg he knows nothing about Gerald particularly. “I can get the chief of police,” Tupper then says. ‘All right,’ Nichols says. Tup- per immediately leaves for police headquarters. Does Chief Wappen- stein wait until Nichols rings him up? No. He seizes the phone and then and there rings up Nichole that Tupper is aif right.” The Little God of Gold. - jerald and Tupper had been friends of Gill for many years. Ger- ald supported Gill. It was natural. He was close to Gill as any two men could be, He gave his support for, the friendship he bore Gill. It was not until Wappenstein told him, There's a chance fér all of us to make money,’ that he sold himself to a little god of gold, Politics may make strange bedfellows. But the rays of that little god of gold has brought more men together of var rious’ types than anything else, KEKE * WHAT HE PAID FOR * ‘This little conversation was'# overheard on an Eastlake car-® this morning: * Condustor — forward & there, please. * Good Looking Irishman & (who hes moved along twice) -® Divil a bit furder. O! paid & me nicked t’ ride, not t' kape ® on walkin’ * Move * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * KKK = | | Disclosures partly made by the, department efficiency committee this morning In the civil service de- partment's office indicate that ir- regularities in filling vacanch in the light department are quite com. mon. It was shown that B. M. Bowen| had been appointed on November 25, 1910, to the position of Hneman, following an examination, in which he recetved 87.35, a mark consid- ered much higher than the average. IRREGULAR APPOINTMENTS. A couple of weeks ago he was laid off together with others who bad received permanent appointment, while at least 10 were kept om, though they were working on pro- bation. “Secretary Grout of the civil service commission was not pres ent this morning, but a complaint will be addressed to him, asking the commission why temporary men are kept on while men of long standing and good record are laid off. | FUTUREGRAPHS | | Behold the shining dome, Tw | black locks which now help to mak appeared. So says the Futuregrap OR MATTHEWS IN 1931, enty years hence those flowing @ the subject famous will have die he