The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1911, Page 1

ere HOME EDITION ae Being a good neighbor is a finer and thing than being a national cel. |i tH VOL. IS REVEALED - Pranklin Trial Brings Out Details of Jury Bribery in McNamara Trial—-No Evidence eee Darrow, he made it clear that be had tipped off the distriet attorney of the at- tempted bribery as soon as Frank lin approached him. In telling of the direct bribery transaction Lockwood sald: Thought Meant Darrow. “I went to El Monte with the dis trict attorney and called up Frank Darrow, chief for the McNamaras, w into the Franklin bribery Yoday when Geo. Lockwood, chief witness told him he would have to co kre Darrow before he could |iin 1 told him to meet me at m: SS eae tency. for paying house that night. He naked me if jhe would “bring the big one” out, ae, ee Cates: jand 1 told him yes, He came owt “Cap” ©. E. White was the first /to my house at 9 o'clock that night witness tn the He sald vo (one 1 asked. him where Darrow gaw Franklin on Nove mber 27, — M and } o'clock Preuaa |” is place of business, he jp, apa said to him “] want a private talk with you “He then tolt me.” owt, “that there was “He asked me it I hed thought aut Darrow was ‘the big one’ and jwhen I sald I certainly bad thought he sald: ‘Oh, no, it was Cap. et White 1 meant Petey nN ot) “Then we talked the matter over eee se the Malis ined again and be arranged to have me a few sauna — out Lockwood then confirmed In de ta handy in ‘9 old age~ THIS | tall White's story of what bappened Tan was close to the district at | when the arrests were made. He office and was sure 10) nositively asserted that the agre , and al! that was wanted /ment was that he was to secure was that | —_ —— fa lelther am acquittal or a disagree. to = ae sane . Poy ment. After the money was paid event Ot the McNamara jury, |e walked on and met Franklin oe het thin would be par He also swore that Franklin told Anh : teenie hae |him they had two permanent fur lor me as they already | ors, a prospective third and “there twe accepted Jurors who would |Wong be mare.” Won't Prosecute Darrow. Bribe Money. District Attorney Fredericks r “cig —dly ee that they were tol when asked whether he would Mest the next Monday at Third! prosecute Clarence Darrow for sd ee eee 7h ee LAS |bribery, stated bluntly that be had ais Gna thd Mie thes (=? evidence oe which to base any - such prosecution. fo to Los Angeles and Third | ""1 ckwood's statement,” sald the [district attorney, “is oaly hearsay and is in no way proper evidence is‘nime quae CONGRESS RECESS juror in the McNamara) WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—Lead- an acquittal or a ers of the house and senate today him he was to agreed that congress should recess on account and that i from Dec. 22 to Jan. 3. popes age kA eee TREE Pee | was arrested and taken * WEATHER FORECAST * district attorney's office, # Rain tonight and Tuesday, # I turned the $3,500 over to # brisk to high southwest to # Attorney Fredericks.” | west winds. Temperature at * Told District Attorney. }® noon 48. a ee teeta en anenees meet Lockwood. Frank. 1 the street wood come Bag ” said Whi put the nn oe my id ENATOR WORKS HAS 5 BIG ALASKA PROGRAM WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Immediate development of the Alaska ‘teal fields, along the tines recommended by former Chief Forester _, Gifford Pinchot, was urged in the senate today in three amendments Senator Works of California to the Alaskan bill introduced by La Follette of Wisconsin. The amendments provide for ataking out coal claims for a period years, after the method used in placer mining, for the govern- construction of a railroad from the Matanuska or Bering coal & cost of $3,000,000, using the equipment discarded in the ‘of the Panama canal, and for the survey of a route for an- rnment railroad from the interior of Alaska to the coast. a “TAFT INTENDS TO FIGHT TO LAST DITCH.” | WASHINGTON, Dec. 11—Reports that President Taft is to withdraw from the presidential contest were today pronounced a malicious fake at the White House. An anti-Taft leader said “We thought three days ago that Tait would with- draw. But we don't now. Everybody on the inside be- fieves that Taft intends to fight to the last ditch. He wants a renomination than he ever wanted anything in his life and is lining up every bit of power he has to get it.” mor THS TWO BEEF PACKERS SMILE AS _ “THEY WALK TO TRIAL—DO THEY THINK 13, NO. 244 he Seattle Sta ONLY MASo 0 LAMES Great Amusement Resort on Coney Island Burning—Loss Will Run Into the Millions, (Ry United Pread Leased Wire) NEW YORK, Luna Parke erick Thompson Amusement Co. are the millio SEATTLE, BRIBERY PLOT \LUNA PARK at Coney Isiand is afire today and is likely to be a total loss. The Fred. owners. The park cost INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER DECEMBER WASH., MONDAY, At 3:10 this afternoon the Coney | Island fire chiefs declared flames were beyond control, GOVERNOR'S ON IN JAIL Visibly under great mental strain, Maleoim €. mer Governoi Patterson, son of for. night, resulting tn Uced law with his father to say nothing. Considerable my» tery surrounds the shooting, and a Pat. terson, who owns a ranch, hired On the way motive seems to be wantin: Sea! to drive him to ft the shooting occurred, Seal is still in a dangerous cond tion, and he may not recover, Pat terson’s fathy will be his defense. He is at pres ent charged with assault In the frat degree. UNCLE SAM’S SUIT IS A JOKE EDWARD MORRIS This picture was snapped at the fede | PMorris and Louis H. Heyman, two of the ten indicted beet barons, were Koing to court to plead not guilty to charges under the f the Sherman anti-trust law. They were smiling LOUIS H. HEYMAN iminal section erfully at the al court, Chicago, as Edward | CAA LINE IN BALANCE A delegation of Rainier valley citizens called on Mayor Dilling this morning, in regard to the city car line, and they will be on hand at the counci! meeting this after noon, when the question of trans ferring money to build the line comes up. The manipulations of the car line enemies to block and deiay the — recently brought to light, have aroused the people, and the whole affatr will be closely watched hereafter. Rainier valley people were led to believe that saysfactory progress was being made on the pre Iiminary work for the line, and the revelations of last week cawe as a surprise, Counciiman Blaine te the active opponent of the project in the couh eft, and Wardall Is rignt with him, Griffiths ie floundering fn tb gal technacalities of the case, and his vote will be lost, apparently, by the people ‘Mrs. Olson’s Trial Today Mrs. Christina Oleson, who horsewhipped Judge Main in the courthouse corridors for setting alede a second jury verdict in her favor, comes up for trial before Judge Gay this afternoon. She te charged with assault in the third degree. The case has aroused much pub- He interest, and considerable diffi culty is expected in the selection of a jury. Harry Oleson, ber hus band, was arrested following the attack, on the charge of making threats against Judge Main. Whea the preliminary hearing was heard before Judge Brown, the state fail- ed to put in any evidence sustain ing the charge and Oleson was re- leased without putting in any evt- dence in defense. A contempt) charge had also been placed against Mrs, Oleson, apparently been dropped, for al though Mra. Oleson was in court on the day set for its hear ing, the case was not called up Headed for Prison SAN JOSE, Cal, Dec. 11.-—Con- feasing that he had passed five fictitious cheeks, John Wilson has passed through trials, is in jaf here today, and the police declare that the penitentiary will claim him at last. Wilson was twice tried in San Francisco for the poisoning of Harry Boas. He was convicted in the first trial, but secured a new trial and quitted, WIGKERSHAM Wel ASHINGTON, Dec & Attorney General Wickersham to day returned to his office, appar ently recovered from his recent at tack of gastritis, g Shore by, stop crying, Mama’x gone buying, your a Patterson of Tennes- see, refuses to aay anything in the county jai! concerning the shooting affray at Port Orchard Thursday the serious woundiits of F. T. Seal, a liveryman, Patterson said that he had prac and that benides, his lawyers now advise him is on bis way here, and it is belleved that self-defense te} | true,” | tonal Dut this has {charges was made, the | closet. the| People’s Chance to Vote. Is Put Up (Ry United Press Leased Wire) WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Waiter Houser, chairman of the progres tive republicans’ league, in a letter 0 President Taft, today puts the leave of nation-wide primaries to name a republican presidential can didate up to the nation’s chief ex ecutive. Much of the national re publican committee’s time tomor- row probably will be occupied with & discussion of this question. Houser's letter urges President Girl Confesses Making False Charge Against Her Father After making @ sensational affi davit against her father, Josephine Primmer, 19, this morning repudi ated her sworn statement equally an sensationally when she was called as the complaining witness in the case of “The State ve. Bar ney Primmer.” “[ signed that affidavit because) I was mad at my father, It ton't } she said, “I was mad at iit | because he would not t me tot Dreamland rink as often as I want- ed to go.” Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Kennedy, wholly astounded at this change of attitude, asked Judge Gay to order her in custody, while a perjury charge was placed against her. The trial of Primmer then) proceeded, while the daughter was) taken below to the county jail, Miss Primmer had testified that she had been motherless since she |was 10 years old when her sensa- repudiation of — previons her affidavit, she had been instru- mental in bringing two policemen to the Primmer residence to ob tain evidence against her father, and when they were to make | signal who two murder | was ac presence known, Receiving the policemen placed Prim. mer under arrest on a statutory charge here was never Pa 10 Acres $600 $20 cash, ments monthly, of good rich, lev south and east of Auburn electrical power balance small pay- | to great at Lake Tapps. Better come in and Last 10 acres tn large dition. jas sold—party traded ger piece of land. OLE HANSON & CO, Third Floor New York Block =e w approve felares that five states have provid. According to had secreted them behind a! She had arranged to cough| their} the ing to continuing his service on the anything| eiimbed down a rain spout at the for | will buy 10 acres { 1 land, situate Clone }} plant ! this | IN SEATTLE ONE CENT. 11, 1911 MRS. ELIZA PHILLIPS, WHO GETS $35,000 FROM WEALTHY WOMAN WHO STOLE HUBBY E DIDNT INTEND 10 WED STOKES: Lillian Graham Says Her Let- | ters Were “Friendship Let- ters"—Insists She Is Only 23 Years Old. (By United Prose Leseed Wire) NEW YORK, Dec. 11.—Declaring that she at no time entertained any Hintention of marrying W. E. D. Sto! the New York and Kentucky millionaire, and denying that ae ever wrote him love letters, M Lillian Graham occupied the witne: 3 chair on cross-examination today in the trial ov hooting of Stokes, in which she is co-defendant with Miss Ethe! Conrad. Miss Grabam insisted that she is but 23 years of age, as she testified in hb story of her relations with to Taft the plan. He de ed such primaries, and a sixth) made legal provision substantially to the same end. He expects oth ore to take a similar action during tha winter “1 eannot forbear to say that I do not believe that any republican ean desire the presidential nomination unless it comes to him through the support of a majority of the repub- Heanein the country,” adds Houser wrong,” Miss Primmer repeatediy asserted, to Kennedy's astonish. ment, this morning. “Yes, I signed ithat paper. I was just mad, that's all" She appeared to littie real ize the seriousness of admitting having sworn to untruthful state-| Stokes last week, and pot 28, as the | ments. | prosecution contends, | |. She declared that she did not know that Stokes was a divorcee | “Had he not written you that he ant District Attorney Buckner. “Did he not tell you in this letter that he By United Press Leased Wire) | Was divorced, adding, ‘A man who CHICAGO, Dec. 11.-It 1s expected | could not make one woman happy is | thit the jury to try 10 Chicago pack }erm indicted here for criminal con a fool to marry another’? * * admitted the witness, «piracy under the Sherman law will/I never had any be completed tomorrow. United | him, anyhow." States Marshal Hoy today {s still] Miss Graham declared that the serving subpoenas for witnesses. letters she wrote Stokes were not Attorney Payne for the packers ts | love letters, but concluding his examination of tales- men today Hyde Juror |WOMAN GUILTY OF CATTLE RUSTLING Runs Away SAS CITY, Dec, 11 Object but idea of marrying GLENWOOD SPRINGS, Colo. Dec. 11.—Mamile Mitchell, convicted of the theft of a steer from the Par riss brothers of Neweastle county, was sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 by District Judge and a motion for a new trial denied The woman fainted as the sent was pronounced and did not rec ees for an hour. KA Hyde. Col idron Jury which is trying Dr. B.C | charged with having poisoti |Thos. H. Swope, Harry Wi a |hotel where the jurors are staying early today, and disappeared, ‘The }) police are scouring the city for the fagitivp juror, as it is atated that new, trial will it| | Waldron should located shortly | 48 Frisco People | Before Grand Jury! SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 11 Sub. poenaed by the United States au thorities in an effort to discover with what labor leaders James B |MecNamara had dealings while he was active here under the name of J, B. Bryce, 48 persons are today preparing to go to Los Angeles to appear before the federal grand jury which is investigating the Me Namara dynamitings. pose summoned are ployes of hotels where McNamara registered under the name of Bry }in San Francisco and San Jose CLEVELAND, Dec. UA Jerential vote taken in Ohio by a | Cleveland and Toledo paper showed | | Roosevelt and Bryan to be favored | as presidential candidates, with La | | Pottette and Harmon ond | pohoices, it was announced today, Cisrleiene Gifts be necessary not be Silk Neckw Silk Knitted Ne Men's Leather Collar F tal, $1.50, Tie and 1.00 chiefly em. Mons Manhattan Shirts, #1 Adler M Dent's M $1.50 ke, $2.00, Shafer Bros Arcade and Arcade Annex Prwwnnonnorenrnnny gprs Set Hd" There would be no such thing as a sroom if a wedding could be pulled off vithout one. $35,000 FOR HUBBY’S LOVE Jury Awards One Grey Haired Woman Heavy Damages Against Another—Defendant Worth $2,000,000. 8 they lived happily. | married John W, Phillips shortly after the latter was left a widower, She took the little orphan boy, whose mother had died @ week after his birth, and raised [him to manhood. A tittle son now lo y otd also added to the cheer fulness of the little home in Spo- kane as he played with his little dog. Then a cloud appeared in the sunny horizon. Jury Gives $35,000 Verdict. Mrs. Eliza A. Phillips sued Mrs Mattie Thomas-Phillips for $100,000 | as she was referred to alienation of affections, and this| “The Hicks girl morning the jury's verdict was read! rayher, the defense claimed, had in Judge Meyer's court. For five! won Phillips away from Mrs. Eliza hours on Friday night the Jury| A. Phillips long before Mrs. Thomas Weighed the value of a 20 years’! entered upon the scene. Mra love, and the sealed verdict opened | Phomas be ernainted with vorning fixed the heart balm | Phijlips in 190 said she saw The case, which began | him several times on purely bus ¥ morning, was replete with | news matters, buying coal from him, fons, The verdict ts believed | Phillips was a broker. the largest ever given in an| om sult | Both Gray Haired. Both principals to the sult were past middle age. Both were gray haired. Both married Phillips. Mrs. Thomas, reputed to be worth $2 900,000, married him shortly after he was divorced by Mrs. Eliza A Phillips. They went to British Co lumbia for the ceremony, to avoid the statutory prohibition sgainst marriages by divorcees within six | months. And both women were in the end deserted by Phillips, for | |Shortly after his marriage to Mrs. | | Thomas he left for parts unknown. | Mra. Thomas-Phillips then secured jan anulment of the marriage on the up son, that sh affections He married me she claimed him because piled No; I don't him very much. Her attorneys argued that Phil lips, who was from all the evidence 4 strikingly handsome man, never had any affections for anyone ex cept, possibly, for “the Hicks girl,” the novel acquired defense Phillips? net up never for my money,” Anked if she married she loved him, she re think I ever loved his stenoge to be alienat Says Mrs. Thomas Wooed Him. According to the Miss Edith Croft, |rapher in Seattle, where he moved | to in 1907, Mrs. Thomas visited bi jevery day, and that she phoned him |from 12 to 14 times a day. Miss | Croft's testimony was that she sat on his knees in his private office, and called him “hon,” “dearie” and several other affectionate terms. Won Him by Wealth. Attorneys for the plaintiff sought to show thet Mrs, Thomas used her Jimmense wealth to win over Phik lips; that she loaned him money, and that she finally gave him ground that it had been contracted wee with which to secure a d& |illegally during the prohibited |period. She says that Phillips took $16,000 of her money when he left She Didn't Love Him. Sitting on op sides of the testimony of Phillips’. stenog- does not make any differ argued Attorney C. A. Reym olds, “whether she won his affee- tion with her own affection, or | tables, t * gray haired women at-| broke up the Phillips home by play- jtracted considerable attention to! ing on bis greed for gold, No third their suit. Mrs. Thomas-Phillips,| person has a right to interfere, by who has been @ resident of Seattle | any means, whether it te property for many years, and bas @ grown “Lor affections, to break up a aaa “FUTURE IS STILL BEFORE US,” SAYS JOHN M’NAMARA AT SAN QUENTIN (By United Press Leased Wire.) SAN QUENTIN, Cal., Dec. 11—“Nations rise and fall, but his tory is written just the same,” declared John J. McNamara, just be fore the prisgn gates closed on him and his brother. “This ap ence, John McNamar prison mill, plant. today wi plies to me. The future is still before us.” put to work on jute loom: James McNamara may be employed in the printing in the | Los Angeles county spent $1,000 to transfer the prisoners from Los Angele SMASHED WITH A POCKETBOOK How would you like to hit up against a bunch of money? C. C. Cothran got smashed with | |a pocketbook loaded with heavy coin, and is now suing for divorce. Dora E. Cothran, his wife, did the money juggling so aptly, he alleges, that it connected with his forehead and hasn't left his memory yet. Be- sides this, he says, she treated him something “crool,” and nagged him continually. WINDEL FREE After having spent three and four months in the insane ward in the penitentiary, following his acquittal of an attempted assault charge on the ground of temporar insanity, Chris Windel this moi ing succeeded in convincing a jury in Judge Gay's court that he is no longer dangerous to be at large and he is a free man again. Win del ran amuck with a revolver Georgetown HE’S WORKED ENOUGH SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. “Wolfson, son of the banana iin of England, is at the here, after’ having removed overalls in which he works as a member of a freight crew haulin bananas from New Orleans. years c ading hotel triendship let Suc JUNK AS MAN’S| Jequipped with sprinkling apparatus | POCKET DISGORGES Shumate | A man’s pocket is Jof a curiosity shop nny’s, police r record of the kept a surprisingly unique, worthle dear to the as pur-ye ords: B bees rs shows jone tion | probably owner. i In the police record, string, screw , nails, 7 es of wire, ete, | “junk.” iene of junk, prisoners | | pockets, t centr: sed as have rendered the following One slab bacon, two pencil butter knife, an ordinary pebble, rasot and fountain pen, rds and Bible, bank book, pane of milk and knife, one car ticket, int n& | determine | Foley and I muel ) contents of pris-| gent sta-| » list} and} hearts of the are In addition to a sur and deck of four’ ‘one cent, $105—nothing sie. the largest amount ever expended for such a purpose. —<— : MINERS DOOMED (By United Press Leased Wire) BRICEVILLE, Tenn., Dec, 11.— Sixteen bodies have been recow ered from the Cross Mountain mine and all hope of saving any of the 150 or 200 unfortunates caught in the workings has been abandoned. The disaster is a repetition of the Cherry and Naomi horrors, with the same growing list of fatalities, the same hundreds of homeless. Not a man could possibly live in the of black damp, “It is like a cyclone inside, and 8 hot-as a furnace. Bodies cam be seen, but it is impossible to reach them. It will be days before the corpses are all removed.” Coal Dust Caused It. That was the statement made by the leader of the government res cue crew when they came to the surface after their first descent to ‘day. Investigation today began to whether negligence caused the disaster or whether the owners of the mine are guiltless, Experts say coal dust caused the xplosion, but the officials refuse |to make a statement. It is as yet nknown whether the mine was or lacked this safeguard. The government rescue crew has returned to the mine and is work ing two miles in When they came to the surface today they brought 8 bodies with them, making a total of 16 so far recovered. Is Killed PORTLAND, Or., Dec, 11.—The body of 16-yearold Harry Ash- worth of Seattle was taken from the roof of a passenger coach of the Northern Pacifie train, which arrived from ttle this morning. ‘The lad was killed during the night, when he struck his head against @ bridge support the train was at full He Was ac ied by two companions, Jo@ sever, both une |der ]7 yea id their homes. were in Sioux City, Ia. NEW POSTMASTER WASHINGTON, Dec. 11.—Presi- Taft today sent to the senate the nominations of John R. Bulger of California, to be supervising steamboat inspector for the First district, and of Alphonso Learned to be postmaster at Port Towns end, Wash. GROUND TO DEATH TACOMA, Dec. 11.—Samuel Bas- sert, lumberjack, 32, was instantly killed at South Tacoma yesterday. It is supposed he jumped from one train in front of another, and was ground to death, He has no rela tives or friends here,