The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 17, 1911, Page 1

the man haunted by the Black Mend. While this The Star photographer in hurted some threat in Italian at him. Cosen- had been posing for the camera, started like tudden biow. Very much agitated, he rushed to the grated win- dow, wh:re the voice cams from, and shook his hands wildly. Mere is a man, booked at the} King county jail as a witness, who | will never enjoy liberty as he does "his present incarceration. For the fear of the Biack Hand is upon him. However mythical that organiza- tion may be, to him it is real, alive, attive, an octopus with a million arms, reaching out toward him) wherever he goes. | And it is this organization, as he Delleves, which has doomed him to) death, From the moment he steps out of the jail corridors he will be| haunted by a thousand phantoms. | he is Joe Cosenza, the man alleged, was bar- Only that sym. nd which is occasionally even the most desper-| ate and debased criminals, saved) ‘his life when he was at the mercy of Tony Arena, whom he accuses of | being the hired assassin for Tom Wind. Pade! Vella. Casenza has known and heard of Many of his countrymen meeting sudden death A stilleto had been found in many of them. Others bave Been shot in the darkness of the might. And the assassins would dizappear just as surely aa the very shadows of the night. } | FIVE SUCCESSFUL MEN SPANKED : - IN YOUTH; FIVE LOAFERS WEREN'T 322505." ast YOUNGSTERS WHO MISSED THIS TREATMENT Well, maybe that gazabo knew what he talking about—th: chap who got off the old one about “spare the rod and spoil the ehild.” Painful th be, the truth Must out Five succ viewed by The they had attleites, in admitted that panked, tanned whipped, taken to the woodshed by pa or and felt the parental slipper on their juvenile jeans Five other loafers of various) kinds, told Star interviewer that they “spared the rod.” “Did | get a spanking?” said J. P. Gleason, president of the Amer- jean Savings bank. “Well—" and he laughed reminiscently, “I got| plenty of them.” “You look as though you might | have enjoyed them,” the interview: | Fr rewarked, The were | Tony Arena, who, ltkgehimself, ean CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION TO VOTE FOR THE EXPRESS MONOPOLY OR A PARCELS POST SYSTEM? IT MIGHT BE MONEY IN YOUR POCKET TO WRITE 'EM ABOUT IT. The Seattle Star VOL. 13, NO. the county jail man hit by Cosenza had pardonable offense Black Hand. He “knew too much. And he was lured into the woods and told cold-bloodedly, so his story goes, that he was about to be killed. committed an un. against the hardly speak a word of English, he accuses of consent murderer for the rec He begged so earnestly pleaded so anxiously, that Arena’s heart was touched, he says. Arena took back a handkerchief to the alleged framers of the con spiracy, to prove that he earned the $50. The proot was not sufficient, | Arena arranged to get Cosenza’s coat and hat, Cosenza, with the | fear of impending death, agreed to furnish the proof that he was killed. If Cosenza at any time thought that he could gain for himself as-| surance of future peace by telling | his story to the police, he has changed his mind since. he | For the fear of the Black Hand is written | indelibly upon his features. And \his nerves are so desperately shat- tered that even In the county jail, where he knows he cannot be harmed from fhe Vellas, a mere epithet directed to him by the iat ter causes him to shout forth a de fiance which his looks belie. WHILE “SPANKED CHILDREN | ARE USUALLY HUSTLERS ~ lt ING FoR RABY CHAIRS ~ | . 1 wasn't looking forward to those occasions with any visible signs of delight,” Gleason said, | “but they came pretty regularly. I guess there were more spankings on the market when I was a boy than there are now. And I got my share all right.” “| guess most everybody got some spanking.” said R. 8. Fringer, manager of the Eilers Piano house, “I've bad to face the music in my day.” 1 had to take some of that id W. L. Ferard, man- of the Bartell Drug store, “You bet I did-—and quite a few [Mmes, too.” eeeeeeeee eee eet 8 84 | CANADIAN | clerk i? ONLY INDEPENDENT . 99, ‘LAFOLLETTE ADMITS HE’S ~ 2. WASHINGTON, June 17.—Robert Mar republican nomination for president of the and consent La Follette’s friends say that he t* prepared to b consin » br is certain third of the delegates at the next nat the convention with the slogan, “La Fe and a chance to win, or La Follette will defer making any mal statement are giving more serious attention to cand! he announ expected that he will outline bis fight against special privilege in vention the progressives plan a demonstration, Which they hope wil belief that Taft is not the popular chot instructed against supporting Taft for ¢ Wisconsin ited States. Thix renomination. as have the results of the PN. A games at Madixon park up to press time, The we ditions are almost track is fast, a bunch of athletes are entered. As a result some world’s orda may be broken Star Pink tonight and what's doing. It will also have some remarkable action pic tures of the men competing RARER ERA AeA eeeeeeeeee (By United Prese Leased Wire Direct ve Seattle Siar Offier ) ROSEBURG, Or, June 17.— Probably the first instance on record where the recall was in voked against a judge occurred to | day, when petitions for a special election directed at Judge John 8. Coke, of the second judicial dis- trict of Oregon were circulated on the streets of Roseburg. it is not known who are behind the recall, which is being managed by Attor. ney E. L. Cannon. The petition was first sent to the attorney gen LIMITED WRECKED TORONTO, Ont., June 17.—The International limited on the Grand Trunk Railway jumped the track at Newcastle late last evening, one being killed and halt a (Ny United Press Leased Wire) VALLEJO, Cal., June 17.—Telling of robberies and attempted robber jes, Fred Melville, the dime novel boy bandit, who for 48 hours fought off three posses trailing him and who was captured yesterday In Benicia made a complete confession toa correspondent of the United Press and to District Attorney Joseph M. Raines of Solano county who is held under a charge of as sault to commit murder, lost bravado, and after being que \for hours, finally agreed to detail career since his escape from the reformatory at tone. Melville, who is nearly | looks 18, told of a startling series ‘exploits in various California cit is a commercial trave' Toronto named J. Madill. He was standing in the vestibule of the train when the accident occurred, and had his skull crushed like an| eggshell. 01 cars were com pletely smashed. The train was running fifty miles an hour, and it is marvelous more persons were not killed. CINCINNATI, June 17 S. Cooke of Chicago, for Charles local treasurer of the Big Four, was today acquitted of embezzling $24,000 alg [sparkle and fill up good humoredly | when they mention them But it happened to be loafers the re The} one of the found of summer's afternoon at a bur-| lesque theatre matinee, or tilted! |back in a chair in front of a hotel,| ogling passing femininity He |wears nobby clothes, boisterous | |socks, and has no visible means of | support | | “Me spanked? Well, 1 should |say not.", He said it boastfully |My old “man wouldn't ever have dared to do anything like that to ME The loafers have to remain anon ymous. It wouldn't be polite to mention their names A tattered derehet blotched, next. He suns bin |public square by da jon the floor of the | night I didn’t get any beatings when| was a kid,” he said, I ran away |from school when I was a wee mite of a boy. MY father was for giv-| ling me a tanning but mother stop. | ped him an-|" The fifth a chorus + Wel arrested for father, we all And Carl new thea with bleary bloated face elf in the and. sleeps Highball by > At the Orpheum theatre, the swer came in all got whipped by got ours from mother Reiter, manager of the tre, sprang this: loafer fightin had just been on Wash Can that stuff, can it,” he sald, “There wasn't anybody could fick | |me that 1 c'n remember. | wuz “Pather oft, in the woodshed,|the champeen of the town. | wuz would shed some clothes--miné,| fired when | wuz a kid by my boss not his, He believed in getting| once, but he had to take me back. down to bare facts.” |! challenged to lick any other ki And George M. Holloway said) who took my job—that's what I did, he frequently was “tanned"—| see? tanned. mind you, not chastised, or | spanked. Holloway 1s president of] (iy Unitea the Seattle Saddlery company, and| SALT LAK June 17 they've lots of leather goods, you) Yeggmen early today entered the} know—whips, and such like. Bennett Paint and Glass company’'s| Of course, these men don't ad bound and «a the watch-| vocate flogging. Far be it from|man, locked him in the vault, blew] such, But they evidently think of \the safe and escaped with $1,000 in those olden times with some relish, here are no clews to 4he * Lonned Wire.) SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, JUNE 17, 1911. tatement attle Taft to the end. Taft and sur until the campaign dev that he isconain and its results La Follette’s supporters areuph SERRE E EE HEE EH! WATCH THE STAR * PINK FOR TRACK MEET RESULTS The Star Pink tonight wil! DIME NOVEL HERO TELLS OF EXPLOIT) Melville, Folsom by judging from the way their eyes | perpetrators of the robbery, IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. NEWSPAPER on A CANDIDATE - TOO ITALIANS ALLEGE } OWINDLE | Angry Italians Swear Out! Warrants Against Em- ployment Agency Men. | One hundred angry Italians | peared at police headqua’ t morning. They claimed they had been swindled out of $1.50 employ- » | ment office fees and $2.85 railroad |fare each, They had been sent to Westminster, B. C., to go to work railroad laborers. When iched there they found no jobs. On the advice of Desk Sgt. Ter. they visited the employment of- Wastington st. Here y me nderson, who claimed ‘oprietor of the Northern A candidate tor the! py with his knowledge fic¢ insurgent, Is made th they say, the Wit | to } ention, They enter defeat and the ed the Already tonal cou will roo! Henderson voter® | Fox, who hi race, it 18]! ager In the con: | od delegates with the that > get many delegates told them that F. G. 1 been conducting the mysteriously disappear wid that he was certain was honest but that it was the man who had sent in the order for the men who was crooked. Then he told them to be patient and come » time next week and per found the oth has ente | tmp would have er man The men took it all in atid then | proceeded to the office of the pros: ecuting attorney's office, whe they swore out complaints for th Fox and Henderson SIX YEARS TO TRY, eral at Salem ana he approved of the form of the petition. The recall is based on the action of Judge Coke in giving ateuctions to the jury in the of Roy McClallen, who was acquit | ted of the char having mur-| dered B. Mahan, The petition as serts that the instructions favored | the defendant and aided material-| ly in bringing about hie acquitta Should a sufficient number of | names be secured Judge ( will be compelled either to resign or stand for election Under the re call’ he automatically becomes a candidate. THREE HOURS TO ACQUIT and towns. His state 1 was sent to the re fone under the name ville, I was born in Texas and will be 21 on July 26. In May, 1907, | was @ent from San Francisco to Tone | d and in nine months I escaped and/ See way caught in San Francisco on a BOB CELESTING. burglary charge and sent to Ion oneanonth, then back to San Fran-| “Gentlemen of the jury: 1 thank cisco for trial. 1 was given one year! you yery much for your consider. Judge Cabaniss and) ation of my case. You have cleared b out Feb. i999. 1 picked an innocent man. I shall always up with Henry Babar, a life termer|remember how kind you were to from Folsom, and we were both ar/me, It will make me a better man, rested for a robbery In San Francis-|and 1 promise to let whiskey co in February. Babar got a life alore.’ sentence in Folsom from Judge ars stood in old Bob Celes Dunne. probated April 26. tine’s eyes as he addressed these 1910 ery day for seven | words to the jury, which had just months nwood. I was in acquitted him of the murder of Gan Francisco and at the Burgess | Maty Chialco on the Tulalip reser ranch at Walnut creek for several! vation on August 30, 1906, for s. I worked in Los Angeles at/after it had taken five different places. 1 left Los Angeles | him, it took the jury only and went to San Bernardino, |hours to find him innocent three FUTUREGRAPHS NO. 8&.—MAYOR DILLING IN 1930, Ox. mame ttwi eLanDe oe ap his | they | (By United Prees Leased Wire.) HIBBING, Minn., June 17— Charged with arson and being robberies where safes were biown, Dr. D. F. Dumas, mayor of Cass Lake, tod made on wa: rants sworn out by Fire Mar- shal Fullerton and Pinkerton Detective Joseph Fielding. The state officers are eng: rounding up others who are re- ported to be members of a fire ring that has been engaged in whol | The officers allege that Dumas was the leader of the ring, and |planned all the crimes committed. Last night the officers, lying in wait, caught two yegemen in the act of blowing the safe in the post- Puposky rk ago the officers learned of a plot to dynamite the Puposky |postoffice safe and burn the build- ing. They waited last night until the men began their work, then closed in upon them, Simultaneous- ly they raided Mayor Dumas’ office, and assert today that they found nitroglycerine, fuses, drills, marked maps, magazine pistols, Colt revol- ‘vers and incriminating letters. | NIGHT et BULLETINS | PLEA TO LAURIER TO SAVE WOMAN | Wil wallop the Pippins just ax frequently as Seattle and Victoria play SAULT 8T of Mrs. Angelina Neapolitana and doomed to execution a attorney, Uriah McFadden, today Wilfred Laurier, who ts in London. | Women throughout America ernor general or with the king to tence of Mrs. Neapolitana was under a great n conv tal strain, MARIE, Ont., June 17 Her provocation was great In an effort to save the life leted of the murder of her husband r the birth of her expect@d child, her cabled the Canadian premier, Sir petition you to intercede the gow pardon or commute the death sen- The woman You are asked to spare her for her | four living children and her unborn child,” the cable read BELIEVE RECIPROCITY BILL WILL BE PASSED WASHINGTON, June 17 ceded that Pi senate . Senator Reed Smoot (Utah) today con- ‘enrose’s prediction that the reciprocity bill would pass the and the Root amendment would be killed was probably correct, MILLIONAIRE CHURCH PASTOR IMPROVING SAN FRANCISCO, June 17.- First church, New York, who ts confined DELAWARE, Ohio, engaged consel to fight the former husband, who {s burried at > Rev. Charles F. Aked, pastor of the Congregational church, former pastor of the Fifth Av. Baptist to his bed with a esvere cold that has settled oy his lungs, is reported much better today WOMAN WILL FIGHT GRAVE PRISONING CHARGE. June 17. rested for the alleged poisoning of her step-daughter, Merle, Mrs. Jessie R. Way-Henkle, ar- today proposed exhumation of the body of ber Caldwell, Ohio. PLAN TO INVESTIGATE U. 8. ARMY. WASHINGTON, June 17.—Representativ troduced a resolution for a committee composed of five members of each house to conduct a sweeping investigation of the army. resolution carried an appropriation of $5,000 for expenses. Kahn .Cal.) today in- The WHO SHOT — CUNLIFFE? | Woman Tells Police They Can Find Assailants on | Ninth Av.—Nothi | Thugs. | | years to try | PATROLMAN CUNLIFFE. |_ Are the two men who murdered | Patrolman W. H. Cunliffe early to- \day being shielded .y a mysterious | woman, who, after informing Jagainst them, changed her mind |and wouldn't give them up? | That is the question confronting | the police this afternoon, after a ten-hours’ chase for the slayers of | the policeman. | Just before 1, o'clock this fore- noon the unknown woman tele. phoned to police headquarters and iAsisted upon talking with Chief of Police Bannick in person. If you want to get those two men who shot the policeman you'll find them at 1410 Ninth av.,” said the woman's voice. And before Chtef Tannick could make a reply the woman had sever ed the contection over the phone. Rush Police to Hous A squad of policemen>headed by Detective Griffith, was rushed to the address given, It was found to ee ee ee ee WEATHER FORECAST * * For Seattle and vicinity: * Fair tonight and Sunday; light * * westerly winds, * RARER RRR REE |e * Found at House—Police- | man Dies From Effects of Wounds in Battle With be an apartment house of small pretentions, Every occupant of the building was closely questioned —especially the women. But all denied having any knowledge of the mysterious woman who had called up Bannick. Whether Bannick's unknown in- formant was a woman companion of Cunliffe’s slayers who was later dissuaded from her purpose to give them up is a matter of police conjecture. Every available policeman and detective in the department is working on the case under the per- sonal direction of Chief Bannick and Captain of Detectives Tennant. Policeman Never Spoke. Cunliffe was shot down by one of two men whom he had evidently attempted to arrest, before 2 o'clock this morning. He was found lying at the corner of Sum- mit av, and Columbia st. by Police Sergt. Fred A. Ribbach, who was attracted to the scene by the sound of five revolver shots, fired in rapid succession. The wounded policeman never spoke a word. He was rushed to the city hospital, but died within an hour. j Held as Suspects. | Those held in the city jail as |suspects are Frank Ryan, an ak leged thief, who has been in trouble before, and the four occupants of a jlodging house at Madison and Boren. These latter are Mrs. Wells and her husband, a Zetterburg and Mrs. Sarah . The latter were arrested after 3, L. Crawford, of 1114 BE. Marion, had reported that he saw two men run up the alley near the Wells house Just after the ting It is supposed that Cunliffe was shot in a pistol fight with — his slayers, He had fired three shots from his own revolver, One of the bullets fired by the murderer entered the policeman’s body near the heart The dead policeman lived at 119 W. Smith st. He had a@ family, Drastic steps are being taken to | stamp out the dreaded hog cholera which has been ravaging the swine in the vicinity of Portland, by State Veterinarian Lyue. ee. é MAYOR LEADER OF YEGGMEN SENSATIONAL CHARGE MADE