The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 9, 1911, Page 1

QNty . 92. | FOUR ARE: MURDERED Man, Wife and Two Children Victims of Fiend Near Port- land. ° United? ty wed Wire Direet to (By Cale atte Sear Office.) PORTLAND, Or., June 9.—Mur dered with an axe, Wm. Hill, his wife and two small children were made the victims of some fiend at their home near Ardenwald, a small station six miles from Portland, someotime during the night. The bodies were found this fore- noon by Mrs. C. B. Matthews, a neighbor, and she informed the po- lice. The bloody axe was found near a bed where one of the chil- dren's bodies was found, The head of gach victim had been horribly beaten. Hill's skull bad been split wide open. No cause for the deed is known. It is believed, however, that the murderer, or murderers, had some other motive than rob- bery, as nothing has beea taken as far as could be ascertained Hil was employed by the Sell wood Gas Co. He worked yester day, and last night the family were seen about. They retired at the) usual hour. according to heighbors. | terday. é k } The Four Pattison Children Made JIM CORBETT IN 1931. | | | | | : Wage War on PORTLAND Or., June 9.—Adopt-| cording to a repogt ing the motto “open shop,” busi-| here today W. R. Rus®, president and man hens men representing open SbOP) ager of the Tacoma, Washington, made public Advomtes from every city of Im gmetter, was elected president; 1) Portance on the Pacific coast from P, N. Little, of the Founders asd! San Diego to Vancouver, B. C., met| Employers As@vclation and Mer-| chants and Manufacturers Associa: | tion of Los Angeles, vice Mesisents| and Bruce Gibson, president of the| chamber of commerce of Everett, Wash., treasurer. count of Mrs. Dodge, disagreed late this afternoon. It is probable that! a new trial will be asked for. Dye? claimed that he @mply gave Mrs. Dodge spiritual advice. | at Tacoma Wednesday and organ ized the “Federation of Employers Associations of the Pacific Coast, with the avowed object of waging & war against the closed shop, ac The jury in the case against Rev. | ‘Theodore L. Dyer, who was sued for $10,000 for alienation of affec- tlons by Sherman W. Dodge, on ac- TWELVE BOYS [TO FIGHT IN LOWER CALIFORNIA EL PASO, Tex., June 9.—Sixteen |hundred troops under General cuedero will be dispatched fom Juarez over the Southern Pacific to| Tiejuana to wipe out the Lower! California Magonistas, Francisco Madero today telegraphed Gen Twelve boys, calling themselves| Juarez. the “Capital Hill Development| ‘The five suspects—four men and club,” were arrested this afternoon|a woman thought to be members| near the Brodway high school. They| of hold-up gang, are still held in were tearing around the neighbor- jail, No further developments bave ehood in automobiles and disturbing| taken place since yesterday morn-| People. Six of them are over 18) ing in the defection of the numer. Years of age. ous hold-ups night before last Pattison shot his wife, ther? himself, in their home near Renton yes- y Father’s Rage | Orphans by Their Father's Rage. INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. NIGHT. The Seattle Star SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JYNB’9, 1911. LIMITED WRECKED, ot KILLED ifornia Limited in Collision With Tie Train in New Mexico. (iby United Pree Leased Wire Direct By Ualted mile Mar Otfiee | ALBUQUERQUE, N. M,, June The Santa Fe passenger train No. 3,| known as the California limited, was! in collision with a tie train near Domingo, 30 miles north of her 10:45 this morning. Six persons re-| ported dead and a large number im jured. ‘Among the known dead are A. W. Green, engineer, and the fireman of the limited. A mistake in orders is said to have been responsible for the) wreck, Relief train of nine car carrying surgeons and hospital sup- plies, has left for the scene of the wreck, WHEN CHILD IS BORN | eeeeeee eee eee eee P| F MU Little Roland Pattison Gives Graphic Account of Double) Tragedy to The Star The story of how a little boy watched the murder of his mother} by his own father, and of how he then tried to prevent the suicide of hie father wae told in direct, child- lah manner by Byearold Roland The double tragedy occurred near) Renton, and the reporter saw the) errible crime happened when Pattison came home with half a bottle of whisky and a volver. According to H@de Roland's story, his father wanted his mother | to drink some of the whisky and| when she refused he started to} quarrel with her. Then; the boy decla he wanted her to sboot| him, and when she refused they} quarreled again. “And after that,” sald Roland, “papa put the revolver up to his head and said: ‘Here goes,’ mamma grabbed th and, in pulling it aw her finger on the trigger and dropped the gur on the floor. Papa wanted to where shi re + WEATHER FORECAST. = */ # For Seattle and vicinity: */ #& Showers tonight and Saturday, */ # moderate. south to southeant #] ® winds * ee ee ee eel LLS |: two shots and ran in, Mamma was lying on the floor, and papa stooped over her and shook her and said: ‘Mamma, are you dead? When she wouldn't an- awer he sat down on the bed 4 pulled the trigger, but | Grabbed him, so he let it down again, then looked down and saw mamma on the floor, and ANGELINO NAPOLITANO IN HER PRISON CELL BY HONOR D. FANNING SAULT STE, MARIE, Out of four children ht 28, is under the death of ber husband, Pietro Napo! no, The murder was committed last Easter, Sutday Angelino Napolitano, a niother entence here for the murder June 9 morning, April 16. eaid he would whip me Ht | aie een Uy acheated woneteted be bs i didn't get out of there and oly hen yp arres nvicted and wer at hanged i him alone. But | didn’t je death penalty would have been executed immediately, but the proud ye majesty of the law recognized the majesty of motherhood. Only one 0, and so he stood up, and | 9 ¢ had been ta umtlce de ded only Srad'to grab hie arm. When | |tife had been taken. Justice demanded only | Napolitano's execution is set for August 9 one life in return @ month afta the expected Mrs. reach high enough | furPesn hie watch’ chain with {Ot of another baby iif July Following the retiring of the jut¥ against the public morais in confede the other hand. It broke, and At her trial the woman made a startling plea for mercy today, Will H. Morris asked that | erating to protect blers and opi jag then it was too late, because he She had murdered, she confessed to the court. But she murdered | Wappgnstein be arraigned today on |erators of bawdy routes, : ‘4 had pulled the trigger and al- |D@CAUBE she wouldn't become a white slave, She killed her husband | four other indictments against him ef rather than sell her honor The court condemned most fell me. Then | picked up the revolver and laid on the self-confessed murderesi but her plea fe on the table, but when Ed, a |AfOused wide sympathy. Women especially became Interested. They man who boarded at the house, | didn’t condone the crime, though they realized how great was its came home he told me to put |pForocation. Quite aside from her guilt or her tgnocence, they felt it back where it was jtiigt womanhood And motherhood would be outraged if this woman ; ut 2 o'clock in! e's ing the shadow of death that a child may live, shall pass is pieuticon hem we cee Ss trough the valley only to. stand upon the gallows home till 6 o'clock, hut I took Myr-| {It isn’t easy to interview a prisoner sentenced to death under CEnadian jaw. But, prison rules notwithstanding, the doors of the old wtay prison fat back in the park on Queen st, swung open, and for half an hour I sat with Angelino Napolitano in her cell. I heard her ntary recital of the events that led up to the Easter crime. The facts are repeated here, practically as she told them, in her tle and Ciiford and Frances down the road. And we sat in the gra: and waited for bim = “We don’t know where to go now, | “°™! home, [ use we ain't got any hurt herself, but she wouldn't | wouldn't gare #o much for myself, |OP" married Pletro 12 we pong Baga agcinne 8 ; : show him, so he picked the re- | ‘cause I could stay with Ed, but belsy, Wy Uidae Wo came to thie eeantre te a, “in Italy. I was 36 volver yp and followed her into | couldn't take care of my two little /7oe ae clear. We came to this couttry—to New York-—10 years ago. the bedroom. Then | heard | sisters and little brother fee year ago we come to Canada. We were at Thessalon, Ont., 8 at ath where we had a farm with Pletro’s brother, Two years ago we come a aD — Sto the ‘Soo,’ We live here with other Italians in Little Italy | “Until last October we were happy. Then trouble started, Pietro was away three weeks in October. Before he left me he say: ‘Now {I leave you, here is $10, You can make more.’ Pietro would make | ANOTHER CHICAGO, June %&—Anotherhet was mounting higher. A co9! fake breeze, however, | | | (| SI lin Chicago at 2 o'clock thigeafternoon the thermometer stood at 96 and @ bad woman. me I never tear from Tim while he;she had said, or anything Me had he Is away. I think he leav® for|done, made’ me understand the| iT WAVE, jal! the time, One morning he/|fear that rested upon her, the ter wave struck the middle west today,|come home again, Again he tell/ror in which even the radiant June me them bad things. I say I will|sunshine must seem a black cloud rved to relieve the | not on account of the children. All| It seemed a pity not to be able Situation here. Reporte from other citles show,record-breaking tempera.| {bat day he stayed, and I @ive him/|to tell her then that women in " ts meals, After two or three days | Sault Ste. Marie—her neighbors {1 tures. In St. Louis street-level thermometers this afternoon registered | M* meus O/tt Ih tbenect “Latte Tears’ thenes 2 jaan te In Mibwaukee the temperature stood at 94 and several |! ari0. “invy hefore Easter Sun-|Toronto, the women ‘ot the W. rt prpstrations were reported. ° ay he say ‘You must get $30 for|T. U. in many American cits were . Caster. If you don’t I make you|that very hour working to save he: MISTAKEN IDENTITY CAUSES TRAGEDY jrethember,’ I thought meant | from the gallows, and that after ain GENTRY, W. Va. June 9.—Victim of a case of mistaken identity,| hoa kill me. He say he put my|unless she gives her life for he Fohn Wilkes i# dead, his companion and fanoes, Miss Loulsa Berry | oyex out and stab me. ‘T'l! bother (unborn child, that child may be the is in a critical condition from shock, and John Adkins {# in jail here| °%y uch you'll go to the river, {means of her salvation, But priso today, charged with murder. Adkins shot Wilkins last night when he} ss you do what I tell you,’ he|rulesewould not permit sae mistook Miss Berry for his wife bes poorer Oa Sunday morning he came} ALMOST SEVERED) HEAD [home from work; he had worked FRESNO, Cal., June 9-—-Blood dripping on the heads of occupants] si) night in the steel mills, And SLASHES THROAT }on the first floor of a Japanese lodging house today caused an invest!-|he way the same thing aga’ I gation, which revealed the fact that T. Oda, a Japanese laborer, had} gay no, on account of the children IN HIS SLEEP almost severed his head from his body with a knife used in pruning} "age say he kill me. But he say grape vines. Se aia | yet ber ag erie A A 0 LOB ANGELES, June 9.—While geet hi Kill you because : . TAKE TROOPS FROM SAN DIEGO 4 (gave me end the children ee i seep plahinals and sound | WASHINGTON, June 9—President Taft this afternoon auth 1 way afraid, 1 felt hot. Ho|seleePs Anthong Menge, 25, arose jned Secretary of War Stimson and Gen. Leonard Wood to proceed | went upstairs to bed, That” was|thront frome eae shed his at once with the withdrawal of troops from Galveston and San Diego.| meq, The children were out at|raxor. Meng tes with: 8 y. I was mad, Blood was hot é cans’ Gece r IROQUOIS CAPTAIN NOT GUILTY R No place for me to go. No friends, |hebame enrered ce beeen he VICTORIA, B. C., June 9—-Out only five minutes, a jury acquitted) 7 could not stand it.. P was crazy./awakened by the warm blood Captaty A. A, Sears, master of the amgr Iroquois, which capsized|y go to the kitchen Yor the ax. I|trickling down his boas: mali oon April 10 near Sydney, B. C., with a loss of 21 lives, of the charge of} go npstair I think if bh iS | aition ip’ eerious, * ’ ' manslaughter. The charge was filed because it was alleged that thelawake he kill me. I did not care. | p Basses vessel Was not loaded properly: I was sick of life. He was asleep. _ ———- ° I struck him, 1 kill him. It had PACE Ore RECAP HON, ® WOMAN OFFICIAL ACCUSED to be,” A farewell reception was ten BOISE, Ida, June 9A reward of $300 has been offered by Gov-|~ Large, strong, of youthful vitality, |dered Mrs. E. Christensen and her ernor Hawley today for information leading to th rest of Miss Grace] she speaks now searcely above a| daughter, Marie, at Zion Norwegian Loughran, superintendent of schools of Bannock county why te ac:| whisper. Her volce ig faint and|Lutheran church at Ballard © this cused of forging school w nts by which it is alleged she obtained) hoarse, as If she were truly “sick |afternoon, prior to their departure between three and five thousand dollar he is the first woman of-| of life for the Bast ficial of Idaho to be accused of malfeasance in office since equal suf-| ‘The freshness of youth still] Mrs. Christensen has made her frage was granted touches her sun-browned cheeks,|home in Ballard for ye nd is = 2S NES STS. cal and her full red ilpslips that nev-|the wife of Rey, Emil Christensen HE INTRODUCED WARFIELD. ; dead at his home here today. Davis}er smile now |who came to the coast years WHITE PLAINS, N. Y,, June 9.| introduced David Warfield to the very timidly held ont her}ago, and was the first an Thomas H, Davis, well known in public when Warfield made hand. Its fey coldness, its death-|Lutheran minister in the North circus and theatrical circles, 1#| debut in “The Nutmeg Patch like heaviness more than anything | west Niws "erased Se, JURY STILL ARGUING ~ WOMAN CONDEMNED T0 DIE EXTRA Goes Home | BULLETIN Judge Main has gone home, leaving word that he will not return to his court until the jury notifies him that a verdict has been reached. in the meantime he will stick right in his house. At 3 o'clock this afternoon the Wappy july is still deliberating. q At noon the jurors ate a.good luncheon, rested for a few minut and then plunged into discussion of the big case again. The sound of their |woices can be heard outside the jury rooms, where groups of een are eagerly waiting for news of a verdict. The jurors are findiig plenty of things to argue about, and bets are being offered that no decision will be reached for hours. Jugde Main. © 10:43 this morning the Wappnstein Jury had the case in its krosecuter John F. Murphy concluded a brilliant closing argu = at 10:42, and no time was ¥ ted in getting the Jary to its room Main’s court ros JURORS COULD BE HEARD Sapsed before a beated argument could be heard " Adjoining Judge Hardly a minute from the en ne jury room | ALL DOORS LOCKED ° Judge instructed Bailiffs Morris and Hensman, in charge of the jury, to , except for those who have been directly connected wit e the courteroom w as the judge’s cham bers, will be closed the jury is deliberating % The court even ordered the door which leads to the garret above the jury's room locked, ° AKE ALL EXHIBITS ailiffs gathered up all the exhibits in the case, which include both Wappenstein’s and Tupper’s bank ave chart of the pollee headquarters, showing the location of the Gid Tupper’s card found in Wappenstein's desk, and took them to the jury a minute % retired JURY GOES TO LUNCH At noon Judge Main instructed the bailiffs to take the jury to lunch, At 1:30 this afternoon the jury in met to take up the consid. be ration of Wappenstein’s guilt 4s to receiving bribes from Gid Tupper fe jand Clarence Gerald. SECOND INDICTMENT a } Wappenstein was on trial on the second indictment returned against jbim on March 17, 1911, charging him with accepting $1,000 from Gid 4 Tupper and Clarence Gerald on August 5, 1910, as a bribe for permits |ting them to run the Midway and Paris houses. SEVEN OTHER INDICTMENTS is under seven other indictments, two of which are up this month. The first of these charges Wappy with extorting $300 from the Pacific Coast company for protecting its piers, and Js on the calendar far June 15. Wappenstein’s attorney, Will | H. Morris, has asked for a continuance. ° $2,500 BRIBE CHARGED The second case set for this menth is on the indictment charging the ex-chief with obtaining a $2,500 bribe from Tupper and Gerald for Mare of the Northern gambling club. This case is to come up | June | Wappenstein betrayed no emotion when the jury retired to deter mine bis fate, He rose with his attorneys, and when they left shortly after Wappy was arraigned on four other indictments, he went with w netein scheduled to come them. He pulled out a cigar from fis vest pocket, and apparently seemed alm as at any time during the trial, The fact that the jury deli d for over an bour already indicates that on the first ballot they could net agree. The jury is instructed to take a ballot jimmediately upon retiring OTHER INDICTMENTS — Maintaining a pubite nuisance, bee ing jointly charged with Alden J, Blethen, Ludovic Dal Charles. Berryman with the operation of the notorious Arcade dance hall 4n the restricted | district. Other Cfarges. Receiving a $2,000 bribe on July Wappenstein acknowledged ar-| 16, 1910, from Gid Tupper and Clag- raignment of the following Mndict-\ ence Gerald for protection for the ments which charge him with: Northern Gambling club. | Conspiracy with Alden J. Blethen,| Receiving am $870 bribe Septem- |C. B. Blethen, Ludovic Dallagio-| ber 13, 1910, from Tupper and Ger jvanna, Charles Berryman, Mike/ald as protection for the Midwa; | Powers, and the Times Printing Co.| and Paris hous | The court granted the request, and | Wappenstein waived the formality jof having the indictments read to him. He was given until a week from tomorrow in which to enter his pleas | — nny JSUMMARY OF SPECIAL PROSECUTOR RUMMENS’ ARGUMENT | Case simmers down to one question: “Did Wappenstein get the money?” | Tupper told a straight, clear, believable story, corroborated by |cireumstantial evAlence of other witnesses. Wappenstein could not look the jury straight In the eye. Wappensteia could not remember within three years the date of hfs marriage. It does not sound reasonable that Mrs. Wappenstein got a safety deposit box in 1910 to keep wedding presents received 19 years before. Wappenstein could not remember within three years the di when his father-in-law presented him with the $5,000 he claims swelled his bank account in 1910. ° Tupper lied to council because Wappenstein and Col, Blethen told him to do so. Defendant's witnesses were Albert the Whale, a race track tout, and John Dore, who boasted his ideas on the necessity of a restricted district. It is not reasosable that Wappenstein would loan Benn $5,000 in 1900, or prior to that, at 6 per cent, when he could get 8 per gent in probers ° » Italian-Ame n club is composed of “gamblers, saloon keep Wappenstein and Col. Blethen What business was it of Wappenstein if they were running “bar gain counters” in the resorts in the restricted district? | Why did Benn carry $1,200 in gold all morning before depositing jit if it was intended as Wappenstein’s bail m@ney? Why did he go with Mrs. Wappenstein and then with Wappy to the safety deposit vaults first? Wapngnstein first showed Gerald a vision of little “god of gold’ when he said, “There will be a chance fow all of us to make money.” It isgime to clear the name of Seattle of stigma that it is a place where grafters cannot be convicted 4 = e 5 ARGUMENT OF WILL H. MORRIS SUMMARIZED ; q Tupper had been impeached several ways. ° a | here is nobody's word for the state's case except Gid Tupper’s, e 1d-could not testify to persongl knowledge of the bribe charged, 4 although he is named in the indictment as one of the men who gave a the bribe. eo vas the defendant responsible for the establishment of the re- 3 stricted district in view of former Mayor Gill's testimony that ee ordered Jt reopened temporarily? ° | Is it not peculiar that with all the bawdy houses, 15 or 1?in nums ber, whieh operated in that district, only Tupper could be brought in to testify that he gave Wappenstein money? | Why shd@ld Tupper and Gerald, the closest friends, submit@o a $10 graft for chief? telling the story he did was to eseape crim latter one of Mayor Gill's h woman, when no one else |paid anything to th | ‘Tupper’s motive for }inal prosecution himself. | B. Benn, former mayor of told a straightforward ccounts. | Tupper ts “the boss drake Jof questionable characters.” | "There can be no question but that the defense has shown & rea. jSonable doubt as to Wappenstein's guilt Aberdeen, former member of the story explaining Wappenstein’s in a polluted pond inhabited by a lot