The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 17, 1912, Page 1

6 s bl The Pink It’s the best sport edition in Seattle. Don't miss getting’ it on the streets to read on the cars going home in the evening. * All Over 8O Party in Seattle this week at- tended by women guests, each, of whom is over 80, See story on page 7. T he Seattle Star ‘eae HOME EDITION OW IS FOUND NOT GUILTY ON TRAINS AND SEWS STANDS be SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1912, | ONE CENT ACQUITTAL VERDICT y, Defendant and Wife, and Spectators Weep as Announcement Is Made—Dramatic Close of Famous Trial—Darrow Makes Statement. (By United Press Leased Wire.) HALL OF RECORDS, Los Angeles, Aug. 17.—Clarence ow was found not guilty of corruptly influencing Geo. a juror in the trial of J. B. McNamara, at 9:55 The jury was out just 37 minutes. Hutton immediately declared Darrow discharged i] released. At 9:50 the jury rang for the bailiff. cil; his wife, trembling like a leaf, was holding her handker- this morning. to her mouth. MR. Williams was foreman of the jury. ' “Gentlemen of the jury, have you agreed on a verdict? ¢ Hutton. judg 4 ase have, your honor,” replied the foreman. “You may read it.” There was a tense delay while the court waited for Clerk and District Attorney Fredericks to arrive. *] waive the polling of the jury,” said Dasrow. “Not guilty,” read Foreman Williams. Cheers and applause broke out in the room. Down the cor- flew the news. Mrs. Darrow embraced her husband, who merely sighed | him committed to jail on an “open” charge until #uch time ax they and looked around the room, Ir. Clerk, as you are here, you may poll the jury,” Hutton. "Clerk Smith did so and read the verdict. | “Gentlemen of the jury, is this your verdict?” asked the clerk. " “It is,” said the 12 men in chorus. | The verdict was: “We, the people of the state of Califor- find the defendant in this a Spectators Cry. of tears Darrow to congratulate him. ‘eter, many in the court room crowded The sitting near Darrow and was forced back Ball to kiss them. District Attorney Ford, she a seat by the bailiff. around the jurors, the hugged and even at- Tepresenting the district office, left the room im- Biter the verdict was ion Johannsen, the San Fran- z leader, unable to con- after court was ad- whooped a! ihe top of his _ “t Am Too Happy!” can’t talk, | can't talk!” Darrow. wonderful. on of “1 am too 1 knew ft! joy streamed down her Hold Reception. time after the verdict Dar unabi frat a le to compre happened, then he and started shaking hands of friends who surged bh. Juror O, M. Dunbar grasp fs hand he slapped the lawyer on the back and Mr. Darrow, this is the hap- wt moment of my life.” in the box, the jurors 8 reception. shaking Hundreds ch man by the filed faror shook Darrow’s hand ily. He said little to them, bis face was wreathed in a that seemed to become more every minute. 7 photographers rushed “Look wi my yelled and “Look this tan’t look all ways at once, ff amiled Darrow, amid constan’ ' booming of flash- “Last of This Case.” S Asistant District Attorney Ford| enigmatically and said that is the last of this Holds Wife in His Arms. a weeping wife and surrounded te jorors, was swept by the back against the wall near Hutton ham bers. you, thank you, friends,” as the people cheered The Bain Case. asked whether he would Darrow ee, Assistant District Attorney propriations from other on the Bain Speaking for his chief, said le are undecide yet whether Darrow chewed a SUGAR-COATED PILLS The Strange Case of Seattle Man Who Recovered Health and Strength in County Jail, Only to Return to Drug- Inspired Debauch When Deception Is Revealed. BY FREO L. BOALT. A physical wreck was committed to the county jail a month ago on an “open” charge. He was released, strong and weil, early this week. He Is today once more a wreck. The facts of the case are so extraordinary that they have attracted the attention of alienists and given a fresh impetus to the-otd con: troversy among scientists ag to whether “the power of sugyettidn” can be carried beyond nervous maladies into the realm’ of physical disorders. The man is a morphine siave. No useful purpose could be served in giving his name. Those who know him and recognize his deserip: tion here already know hie story, Prominent 5 He is a member of a family father, a businessman to his fingertips son showed no aptitude for busin Rarly of a highly emotional temperament. And he was musically inclined. On being graduated from Yale be returned to Seattleybat) re Hed against the suggestion that he go to work in his father’s office, So the father gave him money to return Bast ‘and complete’ Bis musical education. years the ttle Family. prominent {n Seattle soctety, His was disappointed when the the boy «am evidences young man played the pipe organ in New A few months ago the father, making a trip east on bum visited the son and disc ed that he wis a victim Of the drug it, He brought hin home, employed the best medical talent that money could employ, but the appetite could not be orercome. Y In Jali on Open Charge | said | ction not guilty.” or not we will prosecute the Bain case.” Capt. Fredericks said later “I don't see why we should not! prosecute Mr. Darrow on the Bain| charge. It is really a stronger case than the one on which he has just been , acquitted.” What Darrow says. When asked Clarence Darrow sald: “It's been a terrible ord | feel a great sense of relief. body who knew me could believe | 1 was corrupt. The indictments) could only have been returned un-/| der the stress and excitement of the dramatic end of the McNamara trial.” “1 will go on doing all | can to help the cause of the e When told of District Attorney Fredericks’ statement in regard to the Bain indictment still pending! against Darrow, Earl Rogers sald: | ‘Let them come on with the Bain| charge if they haven't got enough) already.” for a statement,! t Sorrow and a feeling of humiliation impelled the family: to, bide the young man from public view. Then, about a month ago, he be came suddenly violent, and, in despair, the family arranged to have could have him sent to a sanitarium. He was under the influence of the drug when he arrived at the gall. A box of white morphine pills were found in one of his pockets and taken from him. hankering for the drug temporarily stilled by the pilie he » he w first happy and hopeful of a cure. But when the rug died in him he grew restiess, pacing the narrow cell and ex citedly gesticulating and crying out “Juat One Pili” He had been taking 10 grains a day, and now every Jangled nerve in his body cried out for the deadening drug which alone could sooth bis agony, For three days and nights he did not eat or sleep. Visions haunted him, At but suffered. physical torment ‘or God's sake,” he cried a thousand times, “give me a pill! Just one pili!” He clung to the bare and screamed his one desire, He sank to the stone-flagged Soor and moaned it. When a guard passed his cell he knelt to him. * A guard went to the jail medicine chest and selected a white pill in shape and color sinitlar to those taken from the drug-alave, The SugarCoated Pill. He approached the cell door, pretending secrecy, and whispered: “If I give you a pill you mustn't tell, It would cost me my job if it was found out.” The fiend eagerly promised, the innocuous pill was slipped through the bars, and the prisoner swallowed it The change was instant, almost miraculous. : Ite Effect. “Thank you, sir,” said the man in a steady voice. held out much longer.” He shuddered at the thought of his suffering, then smiled and stretched himself on the bunk. He slept the clock around. Every day after that the same guard slipped to the prisoner a white pill containing no drug of any kind, or, for that matter, any medicinal virtue. And each time the prisoner's hankering was atilied. He slept soundly, Appetite for food returned. He put on flesh, and the glazed, dead vell was lifted from his eyes. other times he was mentally sane, “1 couldn't have BIGSTEAMERSUNK | (By 4 Press Leased Wire) | SAN FRANCISCO, A 17.—A! verified report by wi effect that the Pacific Mail |company’s passenger and freigyt steamer Newport had been sunk at midnight by the collapse of a large government shed on the dock ai Balboa, Isthmus of Panama, was re- ceived here today by Gen. Manager R. P. Schwerin in the local offices of the company. No word has been received of any loss of life. STADIUM SITE Mayor Cottegill, the city council, the park board and the Tilikums are the guests, this afternoon, of the| Women’s Improvement club of West | Seattle at a luncheon on the site of the proposed West Side stadium. The Guests were taken by autos to the scene of the luncheon. The | hosts will show their guests the ad vantages from a scenic viewpoint of the West Side site. | | HAMILTON CAN’T OVERDRAW .FUNDS | County Treasurer Hanna this morning refused to cash warrants presented by road supervisors, working under the direction of County Commissioner Hamilton According to Hanna, Hamilton has allowed the supervisors to over tree the appropriations for road work. Hamilton, it t claimed, has tempting to divert the ap- funds for that pu bat Hanna refused to become a party to this proposition. PAFISHING TRir AT Loot Lake [ Go To TRIP LAKE, THAT 6s THE REAL iM EITHER GOING TO LOOT OR TRIP LAKE, BOTH GOOD PLACES [ | LeT me TIP YOU OFF WHERE To Go. THERE iS AuTTLE LAKE CALLED GRASS LAKE THAT HAS IT ON ANY The family was in on the secret. As stated, early this week the man was released from jail and returned home. “For an entire month,” said the father to the son, “you have gone without the drug. The pills you thought contained morphine we harmless sugar pills. It proves you can get along without morphine Wf you t to.” Without a word the son dashed from the house Forty-eight hours later he was found and taken home in a taxi, He was unconscious, and a box of morphine pills, partly consume was found in his pocket. TAFT SIGNS "/MINIMUM WAGE > PENSION BILL’ DOESN’T APPLY WASHINGTON, Aug. 17.—The pension appropriation bill. carrying approximately $160,000,000, was signed today by President Taft More than 200,000 veterans and their dependents, whose pensions have been held up since August 4, will be able to cash their wouchers Monday. CANDIDATES SPEAK The regular meeting of the West Hill Improvement club will be ad. dressed this evening by Andrew J Quigley and Paul K. Mohr. The meeting will be held at 2839 14th av. W. John C, Lawrence speaks at the Chautauqua this afternoon. Judge Main this morning decided that the $2.75 minimum wage law for city laborers adopted by charter amendment in March does not ap- ply to the “Jahn Construction Co. bid for the building of the first seo- tion of the municipal car line. Judge Main did not decide the con- stitutionality of the minimum wage, but gave his opinion that since the bid was made before the minimum wage went into effect, it could not be enforced against the construc tion company now. Doesn't your choir sing at the prison any more? “No; several of the prisoners ob- fected on the ground that It wasn't included in their sentenc OXNARD, Cal., Aug. 17,—Joe Martinez accidentally discharged a shotgun he was cleaning today and blew to atoms his 17-month-old baby sister, whose mother, hold ing the child, was watching the process. The woman was uninjured. Martinez and his mother, on the verge of insanity from grief, were taken to the hospital. It was feared the wom an would not recover. GRASS LaKe *| HA-WA-HA-E| MY DEAR MAN, | THE PLACE You | WANT ToGo 15 LAKE BASS. * VoL Ter. You Now HOLD On, IF YOU WANT TO CATCH SOME FISH AND PLENTY OF EM, SLL STE YoU RIGHT. “SOME ONE WAS TELUNG ME BASS LAKE IS WHY | THovanT MAY BE f(D Go UP HERE TOA LUTTLE LAKE CALLED GRASS To Go {GIRL BABY BORN TO LADY DECIES, ONCE LORD AND L | (BY United Prem Leased Wire) IDON, Aug. 17.—Lady Decies, ly Vivien Gould of New York, birth to a baby girl at the town of Lord Decies, Beresford » Birchington, Kent, today. it the child is a girl is a dis th disappointment to the family, Decies was anxious that the fit born should be a son and heir title and vast estate: borate preparations had been fade at the various estates—the HE ION ANE NER TOHELPWIE | Which of these two. was the braver? Thomas Thompson and his wife were incompatible. They quarreled over jittie things. They tried to Co their differences, but failed A x years of unhappiness to- gether, Thomas Thom ‘hie wife, two months ago, leaving her to support their three children, ajlunder six years of age. ; two months the wife strug gied against unequal odds. Her earning power was email. She cbuld not make ends meet. For her children’s sake she wrote her hus. band, telling him they needed him. | Thursday alght Thompson came \home. They planned once more to }take up the burden of life together. |Each acknowledged 4 share of the }blame, They would do better. 'Phey would be more tolerant of leneh other's faults, They had one lthing in common at least—thelr Hove for their children |" But on the first evening a dis pute arose——a trifling matter, but ‘aminiscent of old quarrels. True to their new-made bond, they met eabh other half way and sald: “Af ter all what does it matter Thomas’ reputation was not that ofa bad man. But,was he brave? N@ one will ever know the work lings of his mind. Perhaps he re vigwed the old Dickerings. Per haps he told himself that their na tufes—his wife's and his—would be | change, and that in a little | while they would be quarreling as before. And perhaps the prospect appalied him fe rose from his bed, when the of the family were asleep, and his home at 5691 Montgomery At noon he was | rel | ef stgpet. Tacoma RLEY IF YOURE 6 FISHING, | CAN TELL You OF ALITTLE STREAM WHERE TRovT ARE AS THick AS SARDINES IN A BOK VIVIEN GOULD ADY DECIES ,town house, the Craig, at Winde mere, in Westmoreland, and Sefton Park, Lord Degies’ place in Scot land—to celebrate the event in cane the child was a boy. The marriage aroused a storm of protest throughout the country, prin- cipally because of the extreme youth of the bride. She came out of school and within a few months was wooed and wed. Lady Deci still in her ‘teens, while Lord Deciee is about 45, DISAPPOINTED. W LOVE, SHE TRIES 10 DIE Mrs. Marion Stevens, widow of 34, early this morning attempted to jend her sorrow by taking her life. jIn her room, in the Quinn hotel, |708 University st., she jabbed her- elf in the right arm with a hat pin, with the idea of severing an artery and bleeding to death. That met! od of self destruction not seeming, fast enough, she tied a towel |around her neck in an effort to cheke herself. | The sounds of her struggles for jDreath as the towel cut her wind |pipe awakened other roomers, who ran to the room and saved her. Bhe |was sent to the city this afternoon is In no danger. Mrs. Stevens came to Seattle |four weeks ago, going direct to the Quinn, After getting there, and |paying her room rent she went to bed. Asked if she was sick she re plied that she was sick from grief, that the man she loved had mar. ried another and the shock was too | much for her. During the four weeks she was at the Quinn, Mrs. Stevens never left the bed. She was urged repeatedly }to get up and dress, and go outside \for a while, bat she always that her grief was (oo great asked today for a reason for attempt at suicide gave the same reason—that her disappoint ment in was such that she had no further desire to live. declared When her " she love found dead, and the coroner, at the autopsy, found in his stomach enough carbolic acid to kill six men Thus easily he sluffed off the re. sponsibilities of husband and father, and today the woman is at work again, bearing her burden alone, THEY ALL FALL FOR IT--THAT “BEST FISHING SPOT” GAG lee Tere You ‘THE PLACE Ty - epee, hospital and | PROGRESSIVES OF — STATE WILL O. K. NEW PARTYTODAY Complete State Organization Will be Formed at Con- ference Here Today—Congressman Warburton and Congressional Candidate Durham Both Withdraw From Standpat Ticket. The conference of progressive leaders from all parts of the state to be held here this afternoon is expected to put the last nail im the coffin of the standpat party and to remove the last lingering excuse for any real progressive to stay out of the new party. LA score progressive didates, among th A. V. Faweett, Tacoma, lidate for lieutenant governor, have announced thelr, ation of rawing from old party just as soon as the con- “ from whole state have approved the official call for the party this afternoon Spokane Progressives in Line. The hope of the standpats that the east side to join in the new party is fast vanishing. A telegram from O. C. Moore, Pc xter's former law partner, says the progressives there{ are rapidly completing their organization. Another message from! Spokane the withdrawal from the republican ticket of * Ww leading progressive candidate for congress in that trict, of new ounties might refusé anno Durham, Biggest Jolt of All, of all re d by the standpats today, however, yuncement of Congressman Warburton made in con- join the progressive party. Warburton is now om where will assist county Th is the gress that he wil his to Tacoma sives in organizing Pierce ty is running neck and neck with King county im welcoming the opportunity to break away from the standpat party. lly all of the leading progressive candidates have already, wn from t old ticket, and several new candidates, including Senator Paulhamus, for governor, have filed with the prop wives. nt Jolt bigge mal a way the Pierce progres- Headquarters Busy. the progre in rooms the jer hotel, there has been a constant stream of visitors from other counties, Nearly every coun |ty ts sending representatives to get | | first-hand inf ation and pointers George V. Smith, former city at torney of Seattle, now living in | Port Angeles, repudiated the repub- jlican party and will probably be- come a candidate for attorney gen. jeral on the progressive ticket. C. N Hunt of North Yakima sent a tele gram to Senator Dixon, Roosevelt's mpaign manager, asking that the colonel stop over for a brief speech at Yakima, on his way to Seattle to address the progressive p: con- vention on September 10, as it is now planned {United States attorney general of Seattle, who made one of the argue ments for the Roosevelt delegates | from King county at Aberdeen, may also throw his lid into the progres sive ring for attorney general. Four Days for Withdrawals. In King county, the auditor will take care of withdrawals for the next four days, so that they will be eliminated from the official stand- pat primary notices which must be! put up by August 26. In Yakima county .a full county progressive ticket has been agreed upon ready. Similar action will undoubt- edly be taken in every county, fol- lowing today’s conference: M. EB, Field of Stehekin, state senatorial candidate from Chelan and Kittitas, counties, yesterday wired the see retary of state his withdrawal. Im es the numerous withdraw-| Lewis county, Thomas Crawford, King county, including, late | state senatorial candidate, and Dan- day afternoon, the name of |fel Dupertius, house candidate, have! Forrest L. Hudson, candidate for| formally withdrawn. | county engineer, a keen, lively in-) Other Withdrawals. v terest has been aroused in the new! Following the indorsement of the filings that are to be made in the| progressive party call at today's progressive party between Augus »nference, every leading progres, 19 and 24, ve is expected to withdraw front the standpat party immediately. These will probably include the fol! lowing: W. C. McMaster, for Neu tenant governor; John FP. Dore, for attorney general; W. H: Kaufman, for land commissioner; Josephine Preston, for state school superin- tendent; Norman 8S. Richards, for congress, Second district; F. Good- win, for congress, Third district; d assistant | Otto A. Case, for governor. At ‘eacher to File. Mary Simmons, high her, has announced that she will become a candidate for county superintendent of schools. Only the standpat party has a can- didate for this office so far, both the democratic and socialist having al K. G. Mills, a former me: Wisconsin legislature, a Miss school teac ———— = SEEMED EPR mpnonpmpiepaspenecane 2 P.BUCHANAN | DERAIL EXPRESS |_ NORTH BAY, Ont., Aug. 17.~ WITHDRAWS rie cwinsisee Foros Att "ic |4, east-bound on the Canadian Pa Representative H. D. Buchanan citic, was derailed today near Care of the 47th legislative district, and | tier, 100 miles west of here. All H. L. Klock, progressive candidate| wires are down and details of the for the legislature from the 47th dis-| wreck as yet are unobtainable. trict, this morning filed their with-} drawals with the county auditor|\* * ¥ *¥ RRR RR EEE from the standpat party ~ * Repfesentative Victor Zednick of |* WEATHER FORECAST * Probably fair tonight and & the 43rd legislative district, Dr. J.|* Tate } andidate for coroner,|* Sunday; light variable winds; #& westerly. Temper % * and § other candidates will) * mostly not take any definite action until|* ature at noon, 57. after this afternoon's meeting of) * * progressives, in Eflers hall. Li ik 20 Acres, $700—Good Term 9-Room House to Rent at Rainier Beach Nice Rooms for Rent-—$1 Per Week TELL THE STAR’S READERS OVER 40,000 PAID COPIES DAILY These three ads, taken from to- night’s Classified Columns, serve to emphasize the variety of offerings to be found each evening in The Star. 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