The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 14, 1912, Page 1

Is America’s ™< far - Time is almost ready to be toonist today, and he's working a A Re : “ ” pe : for The Star. Look at today’s ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE vi IPO ch oI fer Isn't it a dandy? Se URE 2 ‘ - eth Star for the best special stories, yeartoca. VOL, 14. NO. 90. SEATTLE, WASH,, FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 1912. ONE CENT 23.2 tis ane HOME EDITION cartoons and pictures. NEWS STANDS Se URLEY DYE, ALIAS ALIBI KID, HAS FALLE fil|_[ Look out! He's Comingt|MAN WHO TRIED TO BE GOOD eT — > \\ gg} LETS ‘DEVIL’ GET BEST OF aeeeteene BY FRED L. BOALT, “I DIDN'T KNOW.” Lawrence “Curley” Dye began being a Curley,’ ” said Chief of Detectives Tennant, | “tough kid” 10 years ago. He “trained” with pig “why did you do it?” a “tough crowd.” He became “wise” in many é “I don’t know. Honest, chief, I don’t know.” | things that boys ought not to know. He drank . 7 : Some years ago “Curley” was arrested with | a little, fought frequently, stole a little. And : , Clyde Brownfield in connection with a robbery finally he sampled “hop.” Pop ; on First av. The police failed to convict him, Despite the life he led, “Curley” grew up a but they kept him under strict surveillance. VISIT TO STAR OFFICE. DEVELOPMENTS Roosevelt this ion bis way to ©! personal charg for the presidency that the New is swinging to friends admit be nominated on or be will lose i "i ie emrtves 7 : ; | fine, up-standing man. He is today a muscu- ‘ HIS iogaas | lar fellow, close on to six-feet tally weighing ‘our me jabout 165 pounds, with fine, even features, & : and tal persecets The | clear, blue eyes, a'well-shaped head and a mop ‘ ] | of curls which give him his nickname, He is 23 | “Curley” is an énigma. Nobody understands Press Leased Wire) fs dune 14.—Theodore | him, He doesn’t understand himself. "im person, ret oe j ‘ | Hevhas been in trouble many times. Now he ee on Chicago. This was “ \ t is in serious trouble. hen th ;: “c m gat here en oe ; “ane | fies 4 | Last night “Curley” tried to rob a grocery from his political | FY f | store at 1311 Sixth av. The attempt was de- he would feave for Chicago fe j » SS, mj : | liberate. He went armed with two revolvers e “BEST MAN IN PLACE.” me, for several days had My é . . jand a “jimmy.” He held up the proprietor’s “T know bout ‘Curley rouble with the ee ; pa <3 | son, Carl Kruger, 18, and robbed the till. police,” he said. “I know they have arrested was being burt “ : 4 Thinking, perhaps, to escape by the back him time and He can work here as ‘ eet oe, mane ge og sat | door, he drove young Kruger to the rear of the P long as he wants to. He’s the best man in the ms, they pointed ont 2 La |store. Pluckily, the boy grappled with him, place. He does the work of two I refuse to © fagabared ot ' jand “Curley” fired, the bullet making a flesh . believe he is bad.” : dy | wound in his neck. The proprietor, Charles R. The police held to it that “Curley” was a | Kruger, hearing the shot, went to his son's dangerous citizen. Only Tennant had faith in |rescue, and “Curley” shot him thrice before , him overcome, twice in the arm and the third bullet i “When they pick you up, ‘Curley,’” Ten- | creasing his skull. The police came, and “Cur- CURLEY DYE. nant told him long ago, “send for me. Come ley” was taken to the city jail. e ‘round to see me often. Let me know how | you are getting along. Then, if they arrest you, I'l! be in a position to know if you're getting a square deal eee eee ene® that committer r ago “Curle came to The fy to seat Tat © p this state. gahterenerne *eneee | — os : | “Gurley” acted on this advice, and Tennant’s faith in him increased. So it was a sorrowful and disappointed chief of od whe the " . re checked |clared in the states where they lane who questioned the enigma this morning. “Curley” didn't know why he di | “Was it the hop, ‘Curley’?" “Curley” nodded affirmatively. paar had an opportunity to express sisacser"" [NOT AS BLACK AS PAINTED | “The states where the rank and file of the party declared for the urged principles | represent include those BUT FAR FROM LILY WHITE he had received | which cast about twothirds of the “Qurley,.1 can't make you out. I knew you when you were knee-high and running the streets. You were a ‘tough’ boy, from dele-| siectoral vote that has been cast at = a . 28 ip ‘a } re boy, it continued: |tne last two presidential elections | A Brief Analysis of National Committee's Work—"Strong- |} but not a bad one. You got into trouble, but not serious trouble. My own men got down on you, and called you the ‘alibi ne oornemra re for the repubiican candidate, — _ Arm” Has Been Used Only Twice so Far. kid.’ They said you were a wrong one, and IT wouldn't believe it fornia, Art| tuese primary states President Taft . f 7 « " S 3 > aed Kentucky con-| has only obtained between one-sev-| py Waited Press Leased Wire) [methods made by the Roosevelt AND CURLEY NODS AND HANGS HIS HEAD. fas to make the issue onth and oneelghth of the dele-| CHICAGO, June 14.—Out of the managers. | “Many crooks,” Tennant went on, “ dope to give them nerve. Curley doesn’t nee anything to brace his nerve. Mie Whether the people yates.” rs ; > : F sak ‘ ' j , Make their own masse of charges and counter jut an unbiased investigator is) He's got too much nerve le goes ¢ re ard, don’t you, Curley When he works, he works hard; when he plays, he herp remarry We ag “statements,” denials and forced to the conclusion that while} i! a it Of whether lee ce eee eee “* charges, “state the national committee le a Taft) Plays hard; when he fights bed | h which the air fair har to. steal WEATHER FORECAST See eek Callndases where eer: Fr meny Snitind 00 90 $0. the THOSE TWO MORPHINE PILLS. @emand that 1 come Showers tonight, Saturday bins tay ag limit of strong-arm methods in seat-| E , but because fair, warmer except near the w# | the national committee is hearing ing Taft delegates, a very large) , F stand as rey coast. Temperature at noon, 6 of contesting delegates, majority of the contests have been | nee uy, before you pulled hi ‘ a “ht h end n murder, you took two morphine for which the the classic language of the decided on their merits. in Be of the repubiica 4 | day, @ flerce job to isolate the germ) The fact is, and it is admitted in “a ” of truth. private conversations by many of ) Ww ; I nh ' t aC ff a trest ! at Snohomish once. sme, everwhelmink! > RRR ERREEER AER ER Guo big fact that stands out|the Roosevelt men, that a largé! ry 11. : mF : hind 3 “ . paar in Se ee ceommmmmomams |i, et iy tint m large majority number of Roosevelt contests so| | hey tho wi " rt speak or move, | nea Te, OS ; + ee ES of the national committee are Talt|far decided have been absolutely| well, but he'll n his Hoht mind 4 ' © partisans and that the contesting without merit and would have been | “A raat WP 3 le ak , . ’ awe : ; ‘ 9 Roosevelt detegates are getting decided in Taft's favor by any body | nd it we d, me y ti I some : a ‘ mbe ctor mighty little consideration Up to of fairminded men. and ¢ ing d ] ‘ : Ig at's *” ] \Thursday night but a small per Up to now strong-arm methods yi a patathalinigst {| L setae of the Roosevelt. con-|have only been ‘necessary in the I DIDN'T WANT IT. ! testants had been se d California and Kentucky cases./ 1 “ figad i nnar “It's booze and the dop Rut wh 1 S | On the face of things this would|One Taft delegate was seated in Fi vets ; ae Par’ Pres Lenned Wire) r to the Roosevelt’camp. Th! seem to show a rank unfairness on Kentucky and two in California dune 14.—"Theodore wledee that the New York dele-|the part of the committee and to|seemingly on general princtples,| all, and went craz how ji t vasn retting a a 1 that tl orl as against m And to get Mm when he reaches C on roken is reaching al!| justify the charges of steam-rolier|and contrary to tpe evidence M take personal charge of (h« felegates, and we are get bs ag Be, residentiat nom r from Northern and “You al ‘ Cu 1 1 7 or on here ad not counted on I've tried Sut I did it 1 jt . au to shoot v ve li, chief, tl hen I start a M. Dixon of “Fir atiot or Defeat.” } SEs iievs } Ant r t kee 1 Me Rocsevelt's cain pa seve gd gee Taft leaders 66 thing I always try to go through w i user ap wht cic ked ) € was no quit- » 1 4 this afternoon that unless ting half-way. You know ! Sestinued § Dixor was nominated on the first) acy, ” said the chief, ' 6 +} Epi \ our ¢ n pals ¢ 1 : Clyde some t that he would lose, Sen . < w W \ t I Se 8 Sighter and t ndextet of Washington ar-| Brownfield’s a wreck and i ‘ 1 hace I ee Wi see the reporters + » tod will appear} them in the end m arrives, » the as counsel % aFe comple. or t elt delega in the} Sed ali their w hington contests, Poindexter] ense, They needed the dope; you d courage } Rolse of the “1 suppose | will be forced to ‘be ox ath. . . mitt " — “4 ‘i . e was led back to cel Kid be vain) WE snls"te we bealonine ot WIFE SHOT BY = |DELEGATES eT oe? cdaciwnk veins, *t Webive tila a ; 7 a York delega: the fight. We will take the rest ‘ oo oo in of it into the convention.” é BAND MIX IT IN complaint of Ciara B. Johnson. fil 2 | prod Riemer] BIST FIGHT| Sam ls Only One fortarcrteyct sryuuan g*e**e7"********4) Turtle Causes Injury Bo ports from Burson, Calaveras co | SAWTELLE, Cal, June 14.—“I| left her in October, 1911, | * SAN FRANCISCO, June 14, #/ REDDING, Cal., June 14.— § i, Ca une he r ctobe jess the 7 3, Cal, June 14.—Rather 4 ADVERTISING PAYS ty, are that Mrs. Harry McGinn, who) CHICAGO, June 14.—Firat bleed | sont ny friends there wasn't |seven months after marriage The * —A letter from the “old folks * 4 waa shot twice by her husband last) of the republican national conven-| nan on earth | would marry, but I) couple have one child * at home” today caused Luciile * night, before he blew out bis brain’) tion was spilled just outside of the) qaidn't know Sam then This was! Pe ; v fot only the ad tisers but the readers of ad with a revolver, will live sinn 4 hePublican national committee room | the post-nuptial statement of Mrs.| Re Sis well A few months ago Moging today in a fist fight between two! samuel Prior, 76. The groom is 74.| * tainer in Spider Kelly's Bar- %/ the road, injuring Merchants or - P - brought bis wife to Stockton ane Oklahomans, one a Rooseveiter and | |; wag the third time for each | * bary Coast resort, to swallow *| friends, har 4 " f who use the col forced her to go into a local GANC® the other a Taftite, the Roosevelt be Star to t the ne of their stores and hall. She rebelled and returned (| man receiving the worst of the en 4 nar so a . ® at the gilded life surrounding POR AND, Or June 14 (| : t fte r., June Me do so that a an they may benefit [| her home at Burson. Shortly after) counter, It Made Him Swear * her. She was rushed to a *|thlef stole a suit case from Mr | WHEN CURLEY WAS A BOY. gd ain he addressed the prisoner, “you didn't take ) r you nerve; a husky lad like you doesn’t | pills leven I t always gets “T can't explain it, chief. I'm sorr than hurt a mud turtle which wasn’t speedy enough to get ont of his way, W. H. Bergh. ran his car off * Pearson, a pretty cafe enter imself and three * poison in a fit of repugnance ty. m3 ’ she filed suit for divorce at ag The trouble started when L. G * hospital, where vigorous ap Frank Cotterill’s residence. Wh ! best ney ; { The Star Andreas. This led to the shooting.) pignay of Oklahoma voiced his ws iti . lumns of The Sta - Jopinion of United States Marshal | oyer by & londed one-ton automobile) * placed her out of danger. nothing inside, so threw it back MAY to one perso: on in price on a cer NTANT {Grant Victor of Oklahoma, a mém-| truck; two wheels passing over his) * *| through the parlor window and es- 710 another it nformation as to where U |ber of the Oklahoma delegation, | chest, Chas. Kraft arose and hurled| Le kok Rt ke! caped i ‘ \ vie ER oar | after the driver beca - , @ goods may be d: or the arrival of new + QUENTIN, Cal. June 14 Victor swung a hard right to the|anathemas after th r | : 1 LOF a spc trat! " pi nationally ad cceeadintias Mit onflinehing to the|mouth of Disnay, who went down, | throe cigars In his breast pocket . , . : Hieted and| the blood flowing in a stream sre ruined, Witnesses bought him| foods last, John E, Rogers, convicted and)" 1 Hore, a Roosevelt man, took|y b : $1,000,000 COULDN’T CURE HIM " : sntenced to be hanged for the mur-| " a box, ‘ . A : that night The Sta a diversity of advertising ieee Benj. Goodman, a jewelry|Disnay'’s part and planted a hard COLUMBUS, O., June 14.—Dr. L. M. Early is dead it j , +s ay ee li knowl-|right between Victor's eyes. For a ; sass aoe “re to ‘ caveae i a res > Pays mer I! you and that it will pay | salesman, dented today all, aoe scgnttonthe Mae GMAW dlat css March to October | DOCTOR—I find your nerves are here today from cancer after repeated offers of $1,000,000 [OO Ot ne enero ee vart. of tho|aide the committee room dwarfed |badly shattered. ‘Ten dollars, |} for a cure. When the X-ray was first discovered, Dr. Early yr eed ger yg many [the main performance inside. ‘The|, Married In March and separated pines \f effected many cance? curesy but later contracted the disease | 5 for which ‘ i 40,000 . $6,000 worth of Jewelry for wh be ia afin 4 in October—that is the story oj MR. DUB—Well, there's nothing t PAID COPIES DAILY Goodman was siain on the Barbary | police interfered before the fight tarital infelicity told in the divoreé4 the matter with yours, himself. Coast in San Francisco, became general, * LOS ANGE , June 14.—Run} * plication of & stomach pump *| he got outside he opened it up, * = = = : = -