The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 12, 1911, Page 1

SEATTLE WILL NOT COMPROMISE WITH ALLEGED CROOKS — Wappenstein is being prosecuted. He is not being persecuted, despite the frenzied wails of his frightened friends, composed of dive owners and their ilk. Ww of profiting off vice in its most despicable form. IGHT| EDITION VOL. 13, N EHIND BARS Bill Byrd, Desperade, Caught Without a Battle by Big Posse Near Spokane—Sacrificed’ Freedom for Breakfast. | BULLETIN. (By United Press.) SPOKANE, June 12.—William Byrd, thrice murderer, arrived Jn this city late this afternoon, and was escorted by a strong guard to the county jail | When the posse came in sight of him this morning, he simply raised hie hands above his head and surrendered. He was stiff and wet as a/ result of lying in the hills during a rainstorm, “1 was about ail in anyway,” said he. “I knew the bloodhounds would pick up my trail easily on account of the dantp ground. resolved shortly after not to kill anyon: fired upon. That is why there are not several more dead men on my Viet.” SPOKANE, June 12.— * Byrd, desperado, and slayer of thr men, who was trailed by three posses through the Saltese district, 20 | miles from Spokane, since Friday, was captured without a fight by/ Geputy sheriffs today nm Mica Peak rd had no gun, having concealed it in some bushes when he started for a farm house to get breakfast. Heavily manacied and under guard of 35 men of the sheriff's pos which surrounded him last night, the outlaw was bundied into an gutomobile and started for Spokane. Byrd's boldness in making himself known and his utter disregard for his own safety is looked upon as responsible for his bicodiess capture. HIS THREE VICTIMS. Byrd's victims were G. H. Whipple, 28; John Manski Justice of the Peace C. W. Metsner, who died. Saturday nig' bullet wound fn the lung, sustained when he, as a member of a gave chase to Byrd, a few minutes after Byrd had shot and killed Whip. ple and Manski.in a building at Dishman, a suburb of Spokane, Thurs @ay. Whipple was employed on the bullding and Manski was a coo tractor. Byrd was « carpenter. OLD STORY OF JEALOUS Jealousy of Whipple's wife, whom he lor nd a grudge agalost Mansk!, is said to have been the cause of Byrd's running amuck After shooting Meisner, Byrd eluded the posse and took to the hills @rmed with a Winchester and carrying & large supply of ammunition. A posse of over 106 men uhder Sheriff Stone started out Friday morn | fing and trailed him into the Saltese distriet. . SACRIFICED FREEDOM FOR BREAKFAST. Until yesterday his real whereabouts was not known for 3 tainty, Then Byrd came down from Mica Peak and got breakfast at the home of ¢. Mackay, a farmer, who lives a mile from the home of J. W.| Best, from whom the desperado had commandeered supplies the day before. | 32, and from a cer BOASTED OF DEEDS. | While breakfasting Byrd boasted of his prowess with a rifle, ex-|8nd was preparing to have her| stokes owned said Manski and Whipple he could have killed four| shot Meisner, and stated that Pressed regret because he ‘deserved what they got, deputies Saturday. “I watched the pose all day from the top of a hill.” said Byrd, “but | 1 did not want to hurt any more, because I had already got the men I wanted. That's enough, isn’t it?” | JOHNSON KNOCKED OUT BY KID NEPTUN PLYMOUTH, Eng. June 12.—Seeking a good dinner that ~ would “stay by him,” Jack Johnson debarked today from the liner Kron Prinz Wilhelm and started at once for London, Johnson showed plainly the effects of seasickness, an enderlying palior showing through his dusky complexion With « sorrowful Imitation of the golden smile, he ren “I don't feel much like a fighter, but I expect a few b land and a good dinner that will stay by me will fix me iene —<—<—<—<—$ $< — TAFT'S SILVER WEDDING. (By United Press Leased Wire Direct to Seattle Star Office.) WASHINGTON, June 12.—The sary of the wedding! of President and Mrs. Taft, accurring June 19, is to be the occasion Of one of the most brilliant social events in the history of Washington @ociety. Several thousand invitations were sent out today. TWO GIRL SARRAIGNED. NEW YORK, June 12—Ethel Conrad and Lillian Graham were today arraigned on char; tempted murder before Magistrate Freechi and held in default of $25,000 bail each, as a result of the shooting, o¥ W. E. Stokes in their apartments Wednesday night. No testimony was taken. The attempted murder charge was insisted on by Terrance McManus, attorney for Stokes. Stokes is still in bed at the Roosevelt hospital. TWO POLICE CHIEFS FOR FRISCO. SAN FRANCISCO, June 12—D. A. White is the pélice chief of San Francisco today in the eyes of the district captains. Chief Seymour sitting in hie office, issued orders which the captains ignored. The daly reports were made to Chief White and Chief Seymour suddenly found himeeif without a force. Both chiefs are grimly holding on. SAVE WOMEN FROM DROWNING. CORONA, N. Y., June 12—Four women, who were passengers on| & gasoline launch that caught fire in Flushing bay early today, are in| 8 hospitet suffering from severe burns, and it is almost certain that| they would have perished had it not been for the prompt and heroic Bction of their four male companion Each man seized the woman Pearest him and jumped into the water. TRe men succecded in keep ing the women afloat. PEACE IN ONE MONTH. ® LOS ANGELES, June 12.—Peace will be established In Mexico Within one month,” was the prediction made by Former Governor Diego (Redo of the state of Sinaloa, who arrived in Los Angeles this afternoon jirom Mexico. The fact that he was forced to resign his governorship ; St the point of a bayonet, and his comrades at arms were executed after the. capture of Culiacan, he declares he has forgotten. 8NOW IN THE EAST. BLOOMINGTON, II1., June 12—The weatherman had his little joke today. Answering last week's frantic demands for relief from the \Slzzling weather, he pushed the cold weather lever way down and \Sprinkied a little snow over the state. A cold drizzling rain with snow lurries was on the program today. penstein stands indicted by a grand jury of 17 men, |that forever. 1 [take his own life lemands ONLY (0. 94, accused of the vile betrayal of his trust, accused | that . Grand jury indictments have been returned against these men. LEGALLY GUILTY, but it does mean that they will be BROUGHT TO TRIA The that those men responsible INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JUNE 12, 1911 WIFE LEFT HIM, HE TRIED 10 SUICIDE “Never Go to Trouble of Looking She Wrote—Gobelman for Me,” Slashes Throat Picture of Girl Found in Would-Be Suicide’s Pocket. “Well, Harry: “Your box of things leaves tomor row night for Ocean Falls. You need never go to the trouble looking for me, for 1 am done with you and wish you all the good luck fn the world, but do not want to ever see you again. You arried me for love, but all sion HATTIE The above dated Van couver B.C. May 22, « red with blood, was found in pocket of Harry Gobelman, who attempted to terday by ting bis threat from while in a box car stand! road ay. near Holgat found by Charles Bain, N. Inspector. He is now at pital, where he ia expected A number of other letters from his wife we f 4. They showed that he had left her in Vancouver in search of work. He had secured employment at Ocean Fails, B.C letter, cut ar to en: ing on Ral He was P. freight the how 0 live. come to live with hi When he received the above quoted letter he evidently lost all ambition Firat Letters Affectio The first letters sent by “Hat tie” were extremely affection ate. She addressed him as “My Dear Husband Dolly Blue Ey and “My Darling Boy,” etc. | a letter dated May 12 she has suddenly changed the tone of her letters. She intim that perhaps he doesn’t love her fter all, and, if 0, they might ie well settle it. He sent her a letter, dated Ocean Falis, May 19, which she refused to receive, This letter was found among other papers in his pocke and read as follows ‘Come as soon as you can. | am in the store, I sent you $20, regis tered, care of Mr. Cameron, at 106 Water st. I also sent a note down with a fellow, notifying you that I had sent it to you and want you to come up. Have got a house O. K This fellow will take the note to you at the Yale hotel, and Mr. Cam eron should notify you that the money 1s there for you “HARRY.” Freight Inspector Bain says that when Gobelman wa: ed why he tried to take his life he wrote on piece of paper, “White slavery.” WIFE BURST HIS EAR DRUM LOS ANGBLES, June 12— Richard Bennett, actor who is starring Plains” at a local theatre, fering from a bursted ear drum today, sustained when his wife, Mabel Morrison, was called upon in the play to give the too: gay French Canadian a resound- ing smack on the ear. In real- ity, she is supposed to strike on the neck, but in the excitement she struck him upon the ear— the left one—and burst his ear drum. Bail Reduced The bail of F. J. Wolf, accused of criminal attack on Mra. Rose McGilvra at the Stirling hotel on May 21, was reduced by Judge Gay this morning to $1,000. He had been placed on $3,000 ball by Justice Fred C him over to the superior court The trial of Mrs. Ida T proprietress of the hot orderly charge, comes Judge Gordon tomorrow. up before Want Some Tips om Good Things to Eat? See ‘Favor- ite Recipes of Some Seattle Chefs,” on page 4. Brown, who bound | ‘These Women in Turn Have Loved SEATTLE ONE CENT. Millionaire Stokes, Recently Shot in Actress’ Room MRS. W. E. D. STOKES. NEW YORK, June 12 women played important part the tife of Millionaire W Stokes, mysterfously rtments of Miss L actress Two of these beautiful women were led to the altar by the mil Honatre, while the third claimed to be the mother of his child. Stokes! ts » cousin of E. §. Stokes, who sh Jim Fisk because actres# years ago. Fle was Rita de Acoata, wh 1910, and who later Phillp Lydix In 3906 Miss Lax tal an t married to cod him In ¢ Mra Ryley, then going the name Mra, Lucy Randolph,” sued St to compel a | him to support a child which she claimed was his. The ca: ™m upon a legal tech | On Feb. 11 of this year married Miss Helen E of the most beautiful of Denver. She wa } groom over 60. They | fashionable Anscnia p was dis Stokes | wood y | W. E. D. STOKES WAPPY’S | accused Boodler Faces Seven More Indictments Besides One | | Saturday. Next Trial June 26. {ease before the jury, when it failed to show evidence of bribes paid t Wappenstein by other owners ot bawdy houses Tupper. he itself impr planation of ‘appenstein’s heavy bank ac for 1910 was concerned when It showed an alleged trans aetion between Wappenstein and his broth¢r-inlaw, Ed Benn, that was 80 absolutely confidential, as to allow no loophole for contradic tion by third parties. | Throughout the trial, all ence to the gambling situation | under Chief Wappenstein was elim inated. The defense had attempted throughout to show that Tupper was actuated to make his confes- jsion of bribe giving in order to Jescape prosecution for gambling. | of $200} The state had attempted to place on the}the blame for the opening of the calendar for June 16, may be con-| restricted district upon Wappen-| tinued at the request of Will H. | stet It may be easier to show | Morris, counsel for Wappenstetn.|that Wappenstein was responsib! |The other trial 1s due to come up/for permitting gambling, for Gill | June when Wappenstein will/had promised to n the district have to defend himself against the | when he was a candidate for mayor charge of receiving a $2,500 bribe| but had specifically ridiculed the from Gid Tupper and Clarence |idea that he would, allow public Gerald for permission to run the | gambling. | Northern” gambling club. | ‘There may be some significance | State Has Hard Task Jin the relative importance of the While a disagreement of the jury | gambling bribery charges as oppos lin the firat Wappenstein trial was! ed to the bribes related to the oper- not wholly unexpected, it proves ation of bawdy houses by the fact the difficulty which the state must| that, indictments have been re- meet turned against alleged gambling The prosecution met a serious | house own but not against own-| handicap in ita otherwise strong! ers of houses of shame SPEND $16,000 ON WIFE IN THREE YEARS; SHE WANTS DIVORCE. NM ee! Hie wife Is *| “She mad@ herself pleasant and A house costing $5,000 , X| agreeable, and I rfurried her,” says furniture valued at 1,700 * x 4 IMngford after relating that he Monthly pin money,” $70 * =a met her ata hotel where he Pry sakiie tehoa *| was lending a bachelor's life, Mrs : " Wallingford told him, he alleges, Costly Jewels. | thatvalso was divorced from only one Sealskin cont *| man. «He discovered later, he cem- | * plainse that she had been divorced BRR RH EHH) twice” He bought her a home at AN in all, in three years John N.| 1622 B. Mercer st., but she opened Wallingford spent $16,000 on his! up homse for her adult children, wife. So he states In his formal] whomeshe said were “her first con answer to his wife's divorce com: | sideration,” and that her husbandd plaint, Wallingford is 78 years old,| was only second fiddle on Which Jury Disagreed Charles W. Wappenstein, accused grafter on vice, will have to stand jtrial again on the indictment |charging him with recetving a $1,000 bribe from Gid Tupper and | Clarence Gerald on August 5, 1910 | The disagreement of the jury in the bribery case Saturday after noon leaves the case just where it was before the trial, The jury was hopelessly divided, seven for acquittal and five for conviction and they stood that way from the first ballot until the last Prosecutor Murphy will have Wappy's second trial on this tn dictment set for July or early Sep ltember, but in the meantime two other of the seven indictments lagainst the accused grafter will up. Next Trial June 26, The first, for extortion from the Pacific Coast Co., |p w counts refer: come | oat * * * * | * * * * * oes LUCETTE RYLEY (MRS. LUCY RANDOLPH.) MERE RE RR E EEE * * WEATHER FORECAST. * Fair. tonight and Tuesday, * light westerly winds. * Rekha eth henee SECOND GRAFT TRIAL THIS MONTH $50,000 PRIZE (By United Press Lensed Wire.) PARIS, June 12-—-A prize of $50,000 for an aeroplane, capable of carrying in addition to its own equipment 2,000 pounds of war*am- munitions for 300 miles without stopping, has been offered by finan. | cial agents of France in the French colony of Algeria, The prize, it is announced today, is offered in mem ory of Maurice Berteayx, war min: ister of France, who was killed re cently at Issy in an aeroplane acct dent WOMEN CONTROL IN SUGAR TRUST WASHINGTON, June 12— That the American Sugar Re- fining Company (the alleged sugar trust) Is in the hands of 19,000 stockholders, more than half of ‘them women, and the vast majority only small hold ers, was the admission on the stand today of Acting Prei dent Edward Atkins, who ap- peared before the congressional committee investigating the sugar industry, COHN TRIAL Alfred G, Cohn, once convicted of procuring false registration of “floaters,” is on trial on the sec- ond information charging the same offerise. This time he is accused of having induced Adolf Schmelzer to register from the Wayne hotel on the promise to give him free room rent during the Gtll election. Cohn was proprtetor of the New York house, but his hotel was already filled up, it Js alleged, when he secured a bunch of “floaters and registered them from other places Cohn has not been sentenced yet on the first convictions He faces a third charge after the present trial MONROE.—The first graduation class was sent out ofthe Union high school this week. ‘The bac. ealaureate service was held at the Congregational church, ° on recall |] That not mean that they are eople will presume them to be innocent but the while the people will demand most emphatical the whole bunch of alleged grafters, conspirators and dive keePers take advantage of their chance T' Wappenstein may be innocent. He is presumed to be innocent until proven guilty. But Wappenstein is | PROVE THEIR INNOCENCE. being prosecuted because Seattle—the decent part of Seattle at least- og disgrace, the vice and the violence heaped upon Seattle be brought to justice. The Seattle Star | ‘THERE WILL BE NO DODGING AND NO WHITEWASHING. SEATTLE WILL NOT COMPRO- | MISE WITH GRAFT AND CRIME IGHT EDITION TRamné We elanpe DETECTIVES ON Why did one juror tn the discuss it in the jury room? with me tein's | These are Ifind out. That one IR the jur room. jougbt to look at the de by Wappenstein case absolutely refuse to Why did he say There is no use arguing fter the first ballot showed that he had voted for Wappen- quittal? questions which the prosecuting juror absolutely refused t turning a deaf t exhibits and acquaint b counts of Gid Tupper d ly learned this morning BURNS MEN ON THEIR TRAIL. ives have been on the trail of sev they were dismissed by the court with other bas led attorney Is seeking to take part in the argi the suggestion that he elf with the showing Charles W,. Weppen- nts in bank has been post! Burns det from the minute Thix, together pering One al of the jurors urday afternoon, incidents mors of jury ta to r . tified with the they went to @ e is sald to have uror was accompant Vappenstein defen y and had owed l by aftern on, Together A Burns detect! man them clo “MYSTERIOUS HEIRS” STORY. finding of mysterious heirs back for many of * is again revived | Prosecutor Rummens has asked of the Jurors if they have not been notified that somehow they jbave mysteriously fallen into some prospective fortune. After five or answered “No,” Rummens dropped question DliciiclicliciiciMicticMicdich elicit tht eee ee * * John Randolph | ® ~dollar home, a e of rooms for a nursery |* 290. But he will never run barefooted with the “other tellers,” % he'll never play baseball on the corner lot, and he'll never mow # the lawn so’s he can go to see the elephant at the circus. Poor * Johnnie! * Hopkins, 000 « aged three months, has a million- and @ private * * * * * * * * *« * i ee eee ee ee a 2 ee | TO SEE HUSBAND | DROP THROUGH SPACE Ross De Remer, an old friend of WIFE OF BIRDMAN WALSH DE- { No,’ I said, ‘and don't tell me if looked at him once, but suddenly I saw Ross’ face turn pale and he dropped, his cigar and said: ‘Oh!’ like that 1 looked up and saw Charley fall- ing towards the electric light poles and then he disappeared.” 'NO VAUDEVILLE FOR UNCLE JOE (By United Press Leased Wire.) WASHINGTON, June Uncle Joe Cannon will not en- | ‘ | ter vaudeville. Asked today re- | garding a rumor that he would - | open a ten weeks’ engagement | in November at $3,000 a week, | : proceeds to go to found a model farm near Dabhville, I's, the former speaker sharply tilted j his cigar toward the ceiling and said: | “Will you print exactty what 1 say? “Well, here it is: That's one of the cutest, most harmless little damn lies that | have heard in a long time. Tell the Great iniquitous press for me that it won't do any harm if they confine themselves to just such harmless little things.” mine. I looked away Aren't you going to watch him? asked Ross SCRIBES SENSATION S— WANTS HIM TO QUIT BUSI- NESS. WOMAN MEETS TWO BIG LIONS (By United Press Leased Wire.) SAN BERNARDINO, Cal., June |12.—Mrs. Katherine Harvey today lies at her home here in nervous coll following an en counter in Cajon Pass with two mountain lions. MRS “BIRDMAN” WALSH, A woman's scream rang out at the old Madison st. ball park Satur-4 day afternoon as Birdman Charles Walsh struck an “air pocket,” and| jhis machine began to drop like a great Wounded bird Another scream—another |then Mrs, Walsh fought her way| |from the judge's stand and” ran across the field toward where her} husband had fallen |. Mrs. Harvey was walking down Her two little children, forgotten |the canyon, accompanied by her for the moment, ran after her, pa-| little, daughter and a nurse, when thetically crying for their “daddy.” | She Saw the lions. She commanded Six Fatie in 18 Months. | the nurse to continue down the can- This is only an incident of a| Yon with the child, while she stood birdman's wife, for Walsh has been | still. When the nurse and child hi an aviator but 18 months and in| reached a point of*safety Mrs. Har this time has had six falls, one of | Vey trudged two miles in an oppo- them of nearly 100 Hiis wife | Site direction to make sure that no has seen four of these falls and| harm would befall her daughter, the each time has felt that-awful grip-| ons following not more than 25 ping of the heart as rigidly | feet behind. George Teylor, who and she awaited ,the outcome. |had been sent to the rescue, shot How does it feel to see your hus-| the largest lion, The other fled. reporter with her two little chil- dren at her knees |husband fly. I'm not so nervous as|,. THe Injunction asked by the Se when he first started, for he/attle, Renton ,& Southern Co. me time I never feel at rest until) that they interfered with the oper- he is safely landed, ation of the car company's lne tion Saturday that something j|day. It was also agreed before was going to hap nd for |Judge Tallman this morning that | my eyes. Conditions were bad and that a final injunction instead for a flight, and when he was al- of a temporary injunction may be |band fall?” satd Mrs. Walsh this PETAILIN ion morning as she received The Star “Well, it’s hard to describe, but ‘d rather fly myself than watch my | has a better machine now and more j@gainst the city's making certain jconfidence in himself, but at the| street improvements on the ground “It sounds strange to say it went over to June 21, by agree- now, but | really hada premoni- |ment of counsel on both sides to- | the first time since he has been [the testimony to be presented on flying’! didn’t follow him with |the 2ist shall be regarded as final, wrecked he climbed |granted ff the car company cam above the trees it almost turned show sufficient cause, TRAIL OF JURORS