The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 23, 1911, Page 1

CITY EDITION. . fighter named Rinse has been he ONLY a. Sert of a white man’s seap, jonea VOL. 13, NO. 229 BEATTIE IS READ DIE, SAYS FAR INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER SEATTLE, WASH 0 Truth i tranger tle Star Sea t but it never get hap THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 23. sell Clever Robbery |WOMEN IN A RIOT TO Plot Is Exposed) HEAR MURDER TRIAL Fourteen Men Accused of Systematic Scheme to Rob Gro- Beulah Binford, Girl in Case, Gives Interview Saying She Was Not to Blame. (By United Press Leased Wire) NI YORK, Nov, 23. Reulah rd, the girl for whose Henry Clay Beat tie, Jr in the clectric chair at Richmond, Va., to morrow for the murder of his wife, gave the United Press to day the last interview she will ever give. “If said right Henry drawn course any pers could | but if the he I sake s to die is done, all for was being “it justice Miss Binford, But T am sorry 1 am sorry I to thing. Of to imagine ually knew thir is this ave ne such a mvieted hi ailty.”” Again.” the mur ye m ¢ been “1 Want to Be Ge “1 knew noth @ér, When Ht trie chair with to be born 4 row, my connection ase dies, too, Tam going ain into a new life, [ never want hear of the case again. And | shall never mention ft. I am going to bide myself > Bind another name and try to for is suffering from will be operated pon next k, arrangements al ready having been made for it Protected by Famil: Under fictitious name, Miss Binford is living bere, with the fam fly of Isador Hornstein, and she is) constantly under the eye of Rev Madison Peters. Upon being asked several, additional questions, she Binford She appendicitis “For God's sake, let me alon IL know nothing about the case. Don't drag me down again Beulah Binford is dead. | h been given a chance to save myself. | have a good position, a good home, and all | ask now is that | be left alone. The only real friends | ever made are taking care of me. Says She Was a Victim “I was the victim in the "aa ease.” They. picked me out of a dozeqy others who were Beattie’s victinms, and they made me the cause of his crime—hecanse I was | heipless, and had nobody to protect} me. |} was Beattie’s cast-off. If they would have taken his other vietims, there would have been a scandal. I pity Beattie, bat he did nothiste good tor me, and he turned me away when he was tired of me. I forgive him, though, pray that the past be blott leave town at noon today tomorrow night. I want to be away when ‘Beattie dies. I haven't the heart to go to work, and they have agreed to let me off for the day.” Beulah was » she was asked, if she thonght Heo guilty, She said How can I know? I haven't heard from Henry or communicated with him since the murder. I didn't attend the trial. The jury knew more than I—they found him au 1 am sorry that he must die, but there ts nothing I can do, There Ro use of spoiling my life because -of this.” d out. 1 to return nit DEMOCRATS. MAY dt only} Beulah Binford, Who Says She Was Made the Victim in Beattie Case Death Chair Prepared to Exact Law’s Songd “I Want to Die to End Father's Agony,” Says Beattie on Eve of Fateful Day—Bids Family Good-bye. {By United Press Leased Wire.) Va. Nov, 23.4-Some dime’ between 7:20 and o'clock tomorrow, Henry Clay Beatth Will expiaté bis crime tn mur. dering his young wife by dying th ectric cbalr, according houncement coming from the privon.taday. The doomed man ariée ‘at 5:30, o'clock, breakfast. “Two clergymen, prequmably Rey, J jamin Dennis, who have-been constant in thelr attéhdanée upon bim during thé past two weeks, will escort Be le tot deaih chamber one on each side, while two guards will hold bis hands The father, sister and brother of the doomed man bade-farewell to the prisoner today. When,the members of the family arrived, all knelt tn prayer in the death cell. The ministers report that Beattie is much more cheerful since hé accepted tor Expressing bis tlesire to evd bis father's agony of suspense, Henry ay Beattie, fr. condemned to die in lectrie tomorrow for the urder-of young wife, issued a statement yesterday, through Rev J, Pix, in whiech~he dectared Bis readiness to di 1 am ready to die,” declares the young man. just as soon die on Friday as 30 days later, because it will end my father's agony. I don’t know but what It is better to dle now than to have him suffer for 36 days longer. 1 accepted religion and am preparing for the end ev. Mr. Fix stated that to the chair with the Arrangements we urday beside the RICHMOND, 7 ir to an shave ami then have | J. Fix and Hev J pomed, have Beattie has become converted, strength of religion in his heart today to bury the body of Be: wife for whose murder and will go e compl grave of the ithe on IP is to die BACK STEEL PROBE y’ Know Our Women Walk Wrong, ‘By United Prees Leased Wire) PASHINGTON, Nov Repre- | sentative A. O. Stanley of Ken- fucky, chairman of the house con: mittee wh is investigating the steel trust, announced today that he will demand on the flor of the house that the democrats ba’ the steel probe when congress sembles. Stanley D. Rockefell thropic agent convinced that John and h { philan nd financtal manipu lator, Rev. F. T. Gates, should be enlled personally before the inves tigating committee explain a story told by Leonidas Merritt, the grizzled old backwoodsman miner, of how the ofl king mulcted him ont of millions in mining prop-| erty, The work of the Stanley commit-| tee may be nullified by a technical ity in the resolution which created the committee, according to attor. neys for the who argue that the United States dissolution suit against the trust f ther inquiry by the comm MILLIONAIRE — SOBS IN COURT (By United Press Leased Wire) REDWOOD CITY, Cal., Nov. 23. J. J. Moore, millionaire coal mer chant ain displayed the “emo. tional nature” attributed to him by his divorce-secking wife when be left the courtroom here in tears to day. K, Miyashita, a servant employed in the San Mateo mansion, was tes tifying that Mrs. Lillian L. Moore, the plaintiff, handed him a box of gin bottles and told him to get rid Of them without letting anybody know that she nad given them to him. As Moore's emotions began Working, he wiped his eyes savage: Wy, finally arose from his seat and Started down the algle, Before he Teached the Over the chamber. oi plain hadin de Dn Dadinainale ¢ ® WEATHER FORECAST % = Rain or snow tonight or Fri. ‘% day, moderate southerly winds. & Temperature at noon 47. ie ee ee ee *! * * * * eas | and} bide fur-| door his sobs echoed | | B’ Jove; Just Listen to This jeuse. They should with shoulders back deeply It's no improvement they're sitting, either. They with a locket, fase with tressex or tap their chair arms. jan't pretty. It inn't healthful. Women everywhere need grace and poise,’ says Miss Miller right about that and know anybody who needs viee worse than her a sisters. “They stand and prect when must stray It toy too, I don't her ad English ne o lot, but — th they walk w the clumsie: seen were n walk a |doesn’t mean that In fact some of |women I have ever tives of London.” So we are right where ed out Still, we jlection of Venus who didn't ‘up straight when she had statue taken, And Venus was considered some. thing of a looker by beauty experts, HM. we start have a lop-sided recol stand her No PERFECT LAOY STANOS LIKE THIS Now comes Miss Christine Miller of London and, y'know, | jto our shores with the allegation | |that “American women don't know how to sit or stand. They droop. They slump. They fidget. ‘They fuss,” asserts Chris tine over her beloved teacups. “They are charming when they walk, however,” was the final sop the vanity of stars-and-stripes femininity But maybe she's right about it? Miss Olsen, head of Faurot acad emy of dancing, says she is. “L agree with her in every par. ticular, except one,” says Miss Olsen. “I don't think women even walk gracefully “Why, take a stroll down Second avenue any day, How many wom en do you see holding their heads up? “They hunch over at the shoul ders, and lote of them simply | waddle. “Seattle women may have ac quired the forward droop trying to Jat which exhibits of all protect themselves from the strong the United States will Bound gales. her efor the first time, But even that isn’t a good ex.) ©. Loviy, renresenting the union sof Boston, will speak, Dow POSTURES Under the auspices of the Boot and Shoe Workers’ International union, a free entertainment will be |given tonight at the Labor Temple, labels In be shown 1 would | breathe | She's | 4 I: cery Firm—Six Arrested—One Confesses. A boid and clever get-rich quick scheme, alleged to have been conceived by employes of the Sylvester Gros. Co. wholesale Grocers, on Second 8. eulmi nated in the arrest of six men thus far on an indictment for grand | larceny conspiracy, returne: by! nd jury Tuesday afternoon # one of its last official acts. indictment names 12 others whe were in on the game. It is claimed by B. BE. Lawson, & Burns detective, and Deputy Prom ecutor Crawford> EK. White, who wade the investigations, that about $15,000 worth of merchandise bas been pilfered from the company during the last three years. Prominent Fry Caught. Among those arrested this morn ing wan J. 8. Almquist, agent for the Seattle, Renton & Southern here for 19 years, He is alleged bave shipped the goods to Columbia sending them free, for bin brother The others are Harry urbridge, checker the Natlonal Grocery Co, Alvin Almaquist, grocer of Colum. bia. for d Gustafson, of the Cedarburg hotel, BU Murphy tle Transfer Co. RK. K. Pugii, proprietor of a Japa hese restaurant All but the latter were former employes of Sylvester Bros. How tt Was Done. Goods, when hauled from the pler, were, according to the agree driver for the Seat Went of the alleged thieves, left |= manding in the alley at noon | There ypart of the goods would be foaded)into the rear of an old res thurant. | They were then sold to members {8 the Weal, grocers and restaurant | Keepers, nmonk whom are Alvin Almauiet and Fogti, Others # being hunted for by the sheriff's officer today | Detective Lawaon secured a con:| fension from one of the gang and | then bid in the garret with Deputy Prosecutor White, to get evidence | by overhearing their conversation ‘This was about ten days ago. One time, last December, the Jap, | Fogil, ran away with the “poo! amounting to $50 or $60 each for thone jn on the deal Business Very Profital | ‘The business got so profitable, } fe claimed, that several of thone in the + became entirely satis | fed with their share after a year ar two and left for the east. Japan ore drizers apd merchants were profiting by the conspiracy as well ap the hers. It seeme that a rogu- ler seule of prices was maintained with the retailers, Sugar, for ox ample, worth $6, would be sold for $4, This made a clear gain of $2 te the grocer, and also a net gain of $4 to those in the conspiracy. Manager Thayer of the local branch of the Burns Detective sociation, directed the work which resulted in th ure of the robbery plot and the arrest of the} men rexponsible Poisoner, That’s W Som pbody polsor hough he y And so he is through wih And his’ wagelety tal He crawled to my feet « And then with & gas And—though some peop! I patted bis bead-—an | | | Girl Te'ls How Doctor Kept Her Prisoner; Had No Clothes My United Prese Leased Wire) SAN BERNARDINO, Cal, Nov. 23.-—Holding her own under a piti less crosmexamination at the hands of Former Superior Judge John Campbell, regarded as one of the best criminal lawyers in the state, Mies Jessie McDonald, high school girl, today stepped from the witness stand with the story of he alt McDavit, former prominent unshaken. McDavit will probably give his version of the affair this fternoon. All during her cross examination Mise McDonald kept her eyes riveted on those of her mother, not once looking in the di. | rection of the accused man. Several times she pealed Judge Bledeo to bare = ee «A BUNCH OF 37: | PETTY THEFTS Not a single hold-up was report last night Chief Bann’ n working the patroln hour shifts, and the bh f the residence districts, together | with the improved street lghting| situation, evidently pat the brakes lon the yexumen A number peity thefts, how. lever, have occurred throughout the day as well as the night, beginning when F. L. Kershner discovered the lose of his watch from a locker im the Seattle bh Co.'s plant gx J Anderson, 710 Olive at shortly afterward reported the loss of his motoreycle A mink neck fur was | Mrs. C. BE. Purnsman lav. N. on the steamer “Sioux” yesterday afternoon, She Jeft it on a seat and thinks a woman got away with it H. C. Ford, 1109 Seventh ay. N jmissed bis handgrip full of cl@thes Jand tools in the King street station, where he left It for.a few momenie. before taking the train THEATRES PROTEST ‘i re owners are still protest nat the board of censorship 1 for by the ordinance which | the counell Monday, and they have asked a hearing of Mayor Dilling before he attaches his signa ture to the bill to who Ben. | d 12 vier patrol stolen from | 919 Boylston | it stands 1s a good thing, but t# will |ing to hear the eheatre men. Seven] |cetiwors are provided for in the bill,| | | WOMAN FRIGHTENS BURGLAR A burglar, who entered the room of Mrs. Taylor 17th av., was frightened away at 2 o'clock this |morning, when the lights In the hall were switched on, Mrs, Tay called Patrolman Veitch, who across the street, but the had evidently escaped in 15 lor was | burglar |the dark. Your Chance Is Here Every now and then you hear some one say that if they lived somewhere else they could do so much better, be so much more prosperous and happy. It's not the troth, The man or woman who cannot do well in Washington in all probabili ty would fail anywhere. The opportunities are all around you. You simply do not grasp them t busy and buy a few North End acres, on easy terms, between the Sound and Lake, and in a few years things will look brighter for you, Only $10 cash necessary to make a start. OLE HANSON & CO, Third Floor New York Block ick hag} ® Mobile overstepped the speed | White House | which (The dini (CHEWS AT logainst the establish The mayor believes the counci! as |" jchew right now, kept tin eyes fixed on his accuser, talremove bis gaze. “I can feel that hin x are upon me,” she maid, “even when he is miles away This request seemed to appeal to -MeDavit's sense of bumor and he broke into a broad smile, “Why, if you were treated so badiy, did you remain with this map?” thundered Judge Campbeil “| had to remain,” responded the wiiness. “I had no clothes and Dr MeDavit would buy me non: Before stepping from the ) Mies McDonald turned Until she faced McDavit. “To- day,” she said, “is the fifth an- niversary of our meeting. Do you remember?” MoDavit hung hie head but ae ie no reply. mes 3 eeeerenrteneenne ‘ SAN FRANCISOO, Nov. 22 & Mra. Grace Hamilton, wife # of Millionaire Alexander Ham © 110, and a daughter of John & D. Spreckels, was fined $10 { % police court today, Her auto seeeeeee ® limit |\e#eeeanaeenenn se Dinner by Taft WASHINGTON, Nov, 2 dem Taft will be host to all the members of the Republican Na tions] committee at a dinner in the December il, for fuyitations are out today rded as the ac of the real president's campaign for reelection in 1912, and is con sidered as a love feast for the purpose of solidifying the party The dintier is expected to draw a sharp line between the insurgents aid the standpat factions of the re publican party. Picture above is Rondell Bekins, who saved his poisoned dog by giv. ing him warm milk and sweet oil. Below is Eari Harmon, 4, who is [mourning the loss of “Dutch,” a jfaithful little fox terrier, which |feil victim to the dog poison. Preal Little Dutch is dead Dutch was just 4 years old. same age exactly as his little ter, Earl Harmon, 1121 27th a through their whole lifetime and Dutch have been constant an |happy companions sterday, af ter a frolic on the stre the bright little fox terrier crept slowly and painfully home, the look of b already in his Later Earl found him lying ¢ Dutch had aken the poisoned bait laid by the enemy of dogs and of little boys, the mas. And carl tive comme work of th 4 t rgan, another youngster, 923 27th av., knows how sad Earl is, because “Tige,” Jack's doggie, also a fox terrier, fell vic« tim to the same ruthless slayer dogs. MAN’S ARM trac Bam Thompson voiced an ear hest protest at 1:30 this morning 4 meal hours T. Byrne, a sober him ‘an unsympa- | q— This peeved Sain ex in fhe city jail ! drdpk, loaned thetic ear. inahy ve orter “Tar Case” G get something ter he proclaimed, why “well, whatchermatter, don't you eat now?" carelessly plied Byrn “Well, jast keep your peepers on he efaculated, and lunging | forward, he sank his molars into Byrne's left arm, When Jailer Carbett pulled him off, Sam had teaily teken a bite of T. Byrne. (By United Prese Leased Wire) LINCOLN CENTER, Kas., Nov. 23. — The testimony and closing] arguments were concluded today in| WRITES THE MAYOR [the trial of Sherrili Clark, N.S. Ip 4 communseation to Mayor Dul-| Simms and John Schmidt for the! ling, Clty Comptroller W. J. Bothwell | tarring and feathering of Miss Mary | makes it clear that he will refuse to| Chamberlain. The case went to the draw the warrants for the transfer | jury at 11:20 a.m. Only a small) | oe-water funds to the general fund, | crowd was in the court room for the aw provided in four ordinances pass-|end of the trial. The teacher and ed by the council) Monday her parents were the first to arrive, The comptroller states that he| Miss Chamberlain and her mother | will refuse to issue warrants and|being clad in black and heavily bring the matter into the courts. | veiled. ‘The mayor has not yet s! ordinances, verdict exE ndants and prose are confident of a favorable re Declaring that the case “thr ens to blot from the Star Spang! Banner the fair name of Kansai leave only the stripe behind, a fit emblem of her degradation,” Attor | ney McCandless made an impasston appeal to the jury for the prose eution, DEMANDS SEVEREST PENALTY Branding the tarring of Miss Chamberlain as barbaric, cowardly and brutal, a thing almost unbe lievable in @ civilized community, Prosecutor McCanless, in a ringing address to the jury, demanded that the severest penalty that it was pos- sible to inflict be meted out to her defamers. To think,” he thundered, “that a crowd of men should attack a de. fenseless girl. Even a dog deserved is PIO repr! con treatment.” Dutch Is Dead, a Victim of Cruel Dog Girl Stays in Court Room Fate of Men Who Tarred and Feathered School Teacher in Brutal Manner in Hands of Jury. | center of civilization,” == |Mrs. Patterson, on Trial for Slaying Husband, Is Big Attraction for Denver Women. (ar Teves Frees ‘Besees wire) Wor hy Little Boy Is Sad at as court court for contin- Gibson Pat for her life on the d her ly door nal th his canine play here 1 in still }room uance ter nd he licked my hand dle » he died he t understand nd cried! charge husband Women in Riot. b gathe A od ward, mor= They, ostled, kn ed pled up- and acted woman's t, and m en » hear t rial insane other. down nfallen aniacs. One nearly torn badly injured. the defendant, sual , and tran hair was ther Mrs. witnessed sh made wa Patterson this was calm ho expr Helps Woman's Case. Police Surgeon Mudd, first ness for the state called toda etin y that b ped the He id that the tra Mrs. Patterson to the station While on the way there she sald that h dying husband struck her, and handed her the re volver with which she had shot him, saying yw, damn He sald that mark of the wite gave defense, ou, kill yourselt* her cheek bore the w. Mre. Pattersom shoved the revolver under her hus- nd’s prostrate body after she ed the second time Shot Him Twice. Dr. T. S. Parson, the first physf clan summoned, described how Pate terson lay. He said there were two bullet holes in the back of Pattere son's coat. In Patterson's hand he found a clipping telling of his aliem ation sult against Emil Strouss, the Chicago clothier, to whom Mrs. Pat- terson claims her husband sold her for $1.50 Deciaring her composure only the veil of an inward tumult that requires all her will power to re pres Gertrude Gibson Pat- terson, on trial here for the mur jder of her husband, gave today an |unusual interview on the feelings of a prisoner on trial for life. Just before going to the court today she said: It seems to me that | will choke if 1 cannot speak out, if this sh lence continues much longer. Yet, from all accounts, the public is |holding my silence and composure against me. Why is it that during the three days I have been in court the newspapers have contin ually dwelt on my ‘cold, stone-tike expression and apparent indiffer- ence,” when it all I can do to hind my attorney quietly and is “Nobody Knows!”” i Nobody knows what this ‘com posure’ sme. I wonder if any- one could imagine what it would mean to be sitting in my place, \hearing the details of the tragedy. and listening to the false reports |made by witnesses to things posl- In all, killed by five family pets were} cor the poisoner, who placed the deadly meat in the vicinity of East Union and 27th av other dogs saved chance Bu. Rondel! Bekins, another young. | {vely untrue ster who owned a fox terrier, dis-| "Ob. 1 tell you covered his dog in time, and, with | SOMPi [em epedhtak feduabouae the aid of his mother, saved his}..¢ it seems that there is but one pet by giving him warm milk and| ‘1, ‘to nay—silence. I sit. there, sweet ofl, Rondel is the | keeping all of my feelings within only happy boy in that nelghbor-| Hyver because T must. Something hood today jin the air tells me that the very One of the other victims witencs. le. Shanta cantabt hae oe handsome and valuable dog be-|thirst for fresh air, for a chance to longing to Mrs. Ross, 1125 27th av. begin over again. I am anxious i of the dogs were known to ev every bit of evidence to be put ery one in the neighborhood. They |pefore the jurors. I 'want to know were friendly With everybody and/at the earliest possible moment w fensive and harmless. whether they intend to give me my. - life, or bring in a verdiét requiring me to pay the highest penalty of oes to Jury; were you want to in to stand up and tell about ne was a the law SEIZE SCHOONER PORTLAND, Or., Nov. 23. steam schooner Washington, which 5 rescued by the tug ~Tatoosh, lCaptain Bailey in command, on Now vember 13, was seized yesterday libel suit brought by the Sound Towboat Co., owners ‘atoosh. The com ny puts claim for salvage without spec- ifying any amount forts have been made to adjust the matter jamicably, but without avail The “During my men to the penitentiary nies, but I haye never had a case |sy g that could equal the one at the dar! in enormity of cowardice and bru tality “I regret, indeed, that our laws | are so lame, our legislatures so lax, | that find it necessary after an | offense of this nature has been per MEN’S t in our midst, that we must be content to send the offenders to |. jail or heap upon them an insignifi cant fine | “Tar and feathers! A.relic of an- cient times! Tarring a girl. Think | of it. One of our own girls; one of our own citizens; right here in the practice I have sent for felo-|of the we VERCOATS ECIAL 5 These high grade coats are made of good quality mate- a in browns, grays, mix- y Claimed Her Character Was Bad. Attacking the claracter of Miss Chamberlain yesterday — Sherfill Clark, one of the defendants, sald, | in answer to a question as whether he had ked to Chester Anderson about the girl: “Yes, we talked about her ac- tions—how she had been seen at | night coming from a tent seas by a gang of bridge men. We also| talked about her relations with two | young men.” tures and plain bla $ me have convertible col Rist Overeoats special A et assortment front which to select at this price. Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex Funeral services of Nelson Lewis, president of the Swedish club and a prominent Mason, were held from | the Scottish Rite temple this after- | noon, Which would you rather earry— ton of feathers or a ton of coal? }