The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 12, 1912, Page 1

you remember how your | € r Z J Oe ee ear REIS UST Tn He used to “wood” engines, s beau looked? Turn to so eiiateab itn ‘ Tee for a jog to your mem. _SEATTLE’S ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER | ONE CENT — and now he’s president of the . 5 SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, AUGUST 12, 1912. IURDERERS N. Y. C. See story on page 7. (0U FORGOT, HAIR - INJUST 1 HOUR et Number of Legal Killings in History of Great New Penitentiary—Five Died Crying Their Innocence. Preas Leased Wire) N. Ye Aug. 12.—All were broken here seven men, five of their Innocence, in the Sing One of the men wad was unconscious when @f the victims of the the death chamber at and was pronounced am. The seventh the chamber at 6:04 and md at 6:14 o'clock, The pronounced the execu me “most skiliful and fea ‘aver held.” > First One a Negro ‘of the legal killing Collins, a negro, who ~ Peliceman Michael New York while drunk, who cut his wife's maase she refused to lead ‘of shame, and Angelo Guiscs, me Cali, Filipo Demarco, svt é reo and = Vincenzo participated in a series fa the Croton aqueduct ting in the murder Mary Hall in her isolated me xear Croton lake @Micials and witnesses of : gichered at the daylight and the was tested @e death chamber. Col. m, th was first to enter, aad muttering prayers. Mr. Baumeyer, a Lutheran Mcompanied the murder ehair and knelt, praying fie Collins’ lips were petitions to God current flashed his soul Had No Chance” next to die. Three EFERENTIAL soon as they | Jpriests accompanied bim march .to the chatr. firm jaat in the chair he mumbled, |never had no chance,” and, an the on his 9 hed strap was adjusted, he shriek ed that he was innocent and had jhad no fair trial, ‘The current cut jshort his protestations. Died Smiling | Salvatore Demarco died «miling, praying and protesting hin inno- cence. Three contacts were re jquired to end his life | Fillpo Demarco was next. Then a Mere Boy Angelo’ Guista, a mere boy, fol- lowed. His voice trembling with terror, he cried “Jesus Christ, I hope" but the lightning shock of the current ended his cry, and sent his soul out into the Beyond with jthe petition still unsaid | Vincenzo Cona, crying “I never jhad a chauce,” was supported into [the death chamber on the verge of lcollapse. When he saw the chair the fainted. In that condition he was forced into position ant jshocked to death while his fntelli [gence was absent from the supine body. Three contacts were re quired to loose his spirit | ph Perrone, the wife slayer, was the igst to die, He was known jto be a desperate man and had Doasted he would not die in che chair, The guards were ready for }a last struggle, but Ferrone en jtered quietly, shouted, “Good-bye land good luck,” walked firmly to the chair, kissed the crucifix and |prayed silently as he died | Official autopsies followed the ex. in due form the gre: lever he PRIMARY BY IRD PARTY MEN POSSIBLE compromise among ves upon the question of arty full state and county patill in effect today. The et held in abeyance, the ival of the Washing- on fram the Bull Moose with this informal & the third party central meets at the Gut- €. C. Snyder, chair. Y rs to the third party tion at Chicago are expected (ram from Clileago, “explicit as to the plan by them which has al- | ed the sanction of Dixon, Col. Roosevelt's Manager, encourages pro- on all sides of the ques- ie Believe that all differences them will soon be wiped Of the latest suggestions to forget. You read the an- In the newspapers. feed it in the cars. At the Me you told yourself that the was for the better. It made a’ . Bit you forgot. You stood on the ‘@ as usual, and though your hand to the motor. went past. Mad as a you chased it a block. The at the “near corner,” Prepared to give the that car «2 piece of your mM You're not as young as you ‘Mid you've been taking on past 10 years, and it Stan puff to run a block ete going to take the number Ge car, and the conductor's aid the motorn * num: Aad you were going to write a CLUE TO WOMAN'S SLAYER Aug. 12.—After round i BUT WHEN YOU TRIED TO STOP CAR YOU REMEMBERED juntte all progressives fe to submit jthe candidacies of all third party men to preferential primaries Thie can be done under a special jprimary law at the sanie time that | delegat to the state and county conventions are elected. The dele- gates to the convention will be then morally bound to nominate as the third party candidates, those wuo have received the highest votes from the people. In this way the severest objection to a full ticket—namely, the convention lsyatem of nominations-—would be jremoved, it is urged. } Such preferential primaries can be held, It is ‘pointed out, before September 10, the day on which the conventions are required to be theld ander the law. The costs of jsuch primaries would have to be borne by the third party instead of iby the state, Progressives on both sides of the third party question are Inclined to look with consider: able favor upon this plan. Among these are Thomas F. Murphine, | Judge W. H. White, W. T. Beeks, Lorenzo Dow, Tom Revelle and C. +. France. {red-hot letter to the company and |met those fellows fired—doggone Vem! | But all the passengers were grin | ning. | And then you remembered. So lyou grinned, too, though sheepishly jand you laughed outright minute) later when you saw another man lfatter than yourself, chasing jcar, mad as a hornet. | The new “stop on the near side” lorder fooled lots of people yester- day. Before the innovation th cars stopped most any old pla |The company says the public will like the mew rule when they get used te it. It's uniform, for one thing. For another, it is likely to le the danger of accidents, as the motorman, starting up from the |“near side,” can see traffic ap- | proaching on the cross street. here after being attacked, the po- lice admitted today that they have jno clue Olga Keiser, aged 12, who says she saw the murderer shortly be- =P ten suspects in the murder|fore Miss Carlzen was slain, con- Signe Carizen, the who was found mur-|in an effort to Identify one of them, | ima clump of bushes near fronted the suspects this morning } but failed seen in Sing Sifg in one day. | seafarers | } the PORTLAND, Or,, Aug. 12.—-Never be an old man’s darling. Further more, never glance otherwise 4 shyly at a man over 50 years of age whether he be married or single. one on, but most of all, never accept) he attentions and presents of one.) Mrs. Alice Brown, who is in jail here with Robert Montrose, charked with swindling 60-year-old David Napping, her supposed fiance, out) of $3,500 and then disappearing, ves this advice | “Stay away from the old men,” she said. “By an old man T mean one over 60; over that all of them jare dangerous. | “We were not engaged, and as for that I'll say quite frankly that I! never had any intentions of marry ing him, Why would I want-to mar- ry an old man? He spent consider. lable moneys on me, as he spent con- | giderable money on other women, | and he gave many presents, as he gave many presents to othe _ Pnever had reason to belleve that Daddy Napping had any great) amount of money, so there you ar “He was just a silly old man, He thought that every woman that look Never coquette with one; never lead) , ) MRS. ALICE BROWN te@ at him was tn love with him, yours truly included. *Napping doesn't want to prose. cite me. All he wants ie me, ‘le told me as much. Well, he'll be t fooled. , As for the money, if be expects to"get that from me, he won't get that, either, for I haven't Jt. He gave me some money, but Yer¥ little. All this is jyst a scheme } fq get me buck to him.” A’year of courtship on the part of David Napping, a wealthy retired farmer of Farmington, ML, culmin ated fecently {n the arrest of Alice J. Brown; a cloak model, who waa to have heen his bride, but whom he now. claims wheedled him out of | $17,000, Napping has gone back to his I- Mnols home. In the complaint she is accused specifically with swindling him out } of $3,500, an amount which he says, she promised to invest in a hotel, but which she is alleged to have pocketed, Me says that at various times during his courtship he gave her $14,000 besides. apping is past 60 years of age. The Woman is 26. She is six fe tall and weighs 175 pounds. | ENOUGH FOR HER NeWton, Massa- 6, is the best little town in the country. So thinks Mrs. Florence Cutting. At least that is the best reason she gives, ac- cording to her husband, C. T. Cutting, for not joining him here in ttle. She has stead. used to come here for the three years. Cutting says has a good job in Seattle, has been providing generously for her and their two children, but wants them here. So he filed) sult for divorce this morning. |DODGES BULLETS BUT DIES FROM HEART FAILURE | PRTOSKY, Mich., Aug. 12.—Aft er being chased two miles by the | police, successfully dodging 17 bul |lets fired at him and eluding blood. hounds, Jas, E, Ramedell, a mysteri- ous burglar, is dead here today from jheart failure. Ramedell was chased from a house here and took to the open country, Soon the police were aft er him with rifles and dogs. His | body was found in an open field. They All Fall for It--That Lazy Summer Bug Jag ITS GETTING | TYPEWRITING 4 WHAT IT'S cKED UP To 8 I Too SLEEPY TO SLEEP NEWTON GOOD — [CANDIDATE “TALKS Ous Brinker, of the city attor- ney's office, went up to Carpenter's hall, 4th ay. and Stewart st., to tell the association of deaf mutes why they should vote for him for justice of the peace. Otis spoke, and an interpreter conveyed his words to the audience by the finger method In spite of the fact that they could hear nothing, they applauded at various times. GALLS DARROW A BENEDICT ARNOLD” Prosecuting Attorney Delivers Bitter Summing Up of Tes timony Against Big Labog Attorney. 1 DARROW INTERRUPTS ing comparison between Clarence 8. Darrow, accused of jury bribing, and Lord Francis Bacon, the fa mous English statesman of the Eliz abeth era, who pleaded guilty to bribery before the British house of |!ords, Judas Iscariot and Benedict Arnold, Assistant District Attorney Joseph W. Ford opened today m stirring arraignment of the accused | attorney before the jury which will | decide Darrow’s fate. | “Bacon's rine was magnificent un- |til he beeame lord chancellor of England,” thundered Ford. “Yet |he accepted a bribe—he was bribed, Like Darrow when he told Guy Bid- |dinger to do bis work boldly to javold detection, #9 Lord Baton boldly accepted a bribe, pleaded |guilty before the bar of the house of lords and was deprived of his | office. | ‘Judas was a brilliant man, & great thinker, yet he was bribed—~ | sold his Lord for 30 pieces of silver, “In revolutionary days there was a brilliant young captain in Washe ington’s army. He planned many, successful attacks. He saved the | whole American army at Saratoga, | Yet this man, Benedict Arnold, was | bribed. | “History is filled with stories of great men who have gone wrong? | Previous reputation does not keep, |men from committing crime Billy Mason testified for Darrow jin this case as*to Darrow’s charac Mason is one of the many pok |itictans who have testified in this lily Mason was Lorimer's | seatmate.” Darrow Interrupts I object, he was not,” interrup® ed Darrow. “He misstates facts, Mason ran against Lorimer. Ford retorted: “It’s immaterial any way. The act of the defendaht in this case—the act of the 4 briber—is worse than that of Bacon, Judas or Arnold, for Dare row's crime hits at the very foun dation of government,- law and order.” ; ALLEGED COAL —~ FRAUD TRIAL TACOMA, Aug. 12—B. D. Town- send, special proseentor “for the government in the “Alaskan coa} fraud cases, is in Judge Cushman's court this afternoon — battling against a formidable array of the leading lawyers of the Pacific coast headed by ex-Senator Piles of Se attle, in the preliminaries of the prosecution of the coal fraud come spiraey case. Chas. Houston of Seattle an@ John H. Bullock of Portland are the indicted. tk k * KERR * * * WEATHER FORECAST * * Fair tonight, Tuesday fair ® * and warmer; light easterly ® * winds. Temperature at noon, ® * 67. * * * Rik ee eee HOUSE IS ROBBED The house of Chas. H .Morrison, 8720 Greenwood a was entered by a pass key Saturday night and several articles of jewelry stolen, including a diamond ring, gold locket, gold watch and a pair of opera glasses. WATCH AND MONEY GONE A shack occupied by T. Soura, at | 4246 Brooklyn av., was entered and !$24 in silver and a gold watch, ivalued at $50, taken. 200 White Leghorns for Sale 8; Acres For Sale, $10 Cash, $5 Monthly 5-Room Bungalow for $1,900 $100 Cash and Terms Are you interested in poultry? Are you in the market for a home or a piece of acreage? The above three ads are being run in the classi- fied columns of The Star tonight. There are many such bargains every evening. No matter what you may have to sell or want to buy, advertise it in The Star Classified columns and you will get in touch with the party you are looking for. Star Classified advertisements bring returns, for the reason that The Star goes into over 40,000 homes every evening, and the majority of these readers read the classified advertisements. Yes, that’s the main reason why Star classified ads pay so well. THEY GO INTO OVER 40,000 HOMES. EVERY EVENING