The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1912, Page 1

Now that you are back your vacation, or from summer camp, phone The your <home address so is Mains 9400, ‘HORROR ROOM GENE OF 20 MURDERS Alleged That Deadly Poi- son Was Injected Into Victims — Murder of Wealthy Contractor Starts Investigation. WEST HAMMONI® Ind, Sept. 2 A terrible chamber of death, the gcene, according to investigators, of More-than 20 murders, has been @isdovered in the of a dive closed by order of the elty coundll > Se I ie A, rear the paper can be delivered to you without delay, Star phone the of ministers and women of the town, among them the widw of John Messmaker, who was fatally stricken with a mysterious malady while visiting the resort.) Tt te declared (Hat the atrocities committed in the place have been _@ven more terrible than those of notorious Gunness “murder farm” at Laporte, Ind. Horrors enacted tm the “death Will be fully fuvesticated by authorities of Cook and Lake counties. The two coroners have Samounced that every person who ean be tmplicated In the more than 20 murders that are believed to Dave occurred in the dive will he criminally prosecuted. A startling development in the inquiry is the that a young woman was the last victim of the place where Messmaker was stricken and was Instan x Lg seeretiy removed from the room : and at midnight buried in the West Hammond cemetery ‘The fact that part of the town is is and part ix in Indiana made the work of investiga- Rich Contractor Murdered. Jobn Messmaker was a wealt Hammond. It ed to the resort. person he carried several Gollats. He was ‘induced heavily and fell into a . it in declared, the to tts use and Mexsmaker was with the injection into his Of 3 poison. Needle pune on bis arm gave the first fm the gathering of evidence. examination of the blood that a heavy amount of some polson had been injected. » The mystery of Miss Esther Har- fieon’s disappearance from her Several months ago finally been explained. The young who is said to have borne) & good reputation, was lured to Hammond on a. false promise ‘Work and taken to the resort. her body was removed from Brave it was discovered that arm, like that of Messmaker, the markings of the needie. A test was made and poison of Same nature as that found in of the slain contractor was Secount of this second mur- to the authorities the of 18 others who have lost Hives in the same resort. A delving into the history of case brought out the fact that of all Dore the same symptoms. All of the 20. its of West Hammond _Satert, were murdered in the ewash Plan, Says McKenzie ; ing the proposed invest!- of county offices by a semi- body as a scheme to “white certain offictais whom he with having been derelict their duties to the public Chair- jto him. from your Star tha abi VOL. 14. No. 159, SEATTLE The Seattle St ‘THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE WASH., TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1912 ONE CENT THE LOVE, ROMANCE AND | TRAGEDY OF ANNIE RAFFLESON ANNIE RAFFLESON CHICAGO, Sept. 3.—The other day a little Jewish girl, with the FACE OF A MADONNA, meeting her lover on the street, DASHED VITRIOL invhis face. Why? “Hell hath no fury a woman scorned.” “An old story!” you say. but read the sequel When she was arraigned in court for her act, a crime that might have sent her to the penitentiary, THE JUDGE SET HER FREE. For she told a story of love and sacrifice that brought tears to the eyes of judge and prosecutor, and appealed to & higher law than man has made. This is her story Annie Raffieson firat looked Ro- mance In the face when she was 16. To her father’s farm in Sheboygan, Mich., came a Russian peasant boy named Abraham Milzenmacher. He was bungry and penniless. Annie gave him food and her father gave him employment. He wore old, tbfitting clothes, and had the slouch of the peasant, but the ro- mantic girl looked deeper and saw strength and fineness and uty, “Ah, he WAS beautiful,” she told Judge Himes. “Afterward I called him ‘my Apollo.” Then began Annie Raffieson’s six years of ifice. “T low him the moment I saw him,” he said, “and I gave my life like Yeo— “He could not even speak Eng- lish, I taught it to him. I taught bim the A, B, C's. 1 tahght him to read and write and figure. When his day's work on the farm w done, we would sit together by lamplight, far into the night. “He was eager to learn, and I was so happy to help him!. We went through the primary school books, and soon he was able to en- ter the higher grades of the coun- try sehool. I still helped him with his lessons at night, and he made id progress. ‘He loved me then. The lee sons were mixed with kisses. . For both of us life was full of sunshine. my beautifel dream. Abraham grew cool, and began to shun me He seemed ashamed of me. He did not love me any more. He wan not grateful for what I had done for him. And then-—1 learned that he loved another giti—m@ wealthy girl —in Sheboygan. “1 did not think. | am all health. And now | hated him. | took some of my trousseau money and bought vitriol. If my Apotlc was net for me, he should charm no one else. WOULD DESTROY HIS BEAUTY. “So | threw the acid in hie fa My arm = trembi though, a nearly fainted. |to vote | It must be underst@od that I de | from el a UMMINS. T FIGHT FOR T. AQOSEVELT (BY United Press Leased Wire) DES MOINES, la., Sept. 3 —Preferring Theodore Roose- ¢ ‘The Toddlers Were Glad, Scart, or Both’ velt for president over Wm. H. Taft, Senator Albert B. Cum- mins of lowa announced today he not in the and that, although was éympathy with new pro gressive party dissented from some of the doctrifies in its platform, he would vote for Col. Roosevelt because “the Taft administration not made goo Cummina also announced his op position to the nomination ofa third ticket In lowa, which ip a } pected to be put in the field when the progressive state convention meets he tomorrow. Roosevelt delegates and ie expected to urge the nomination of @ third state ticket What He Says. In announcing bis det for Roosevelt, ie to address th mination Cumming sald: © protesting against the organitar tion of a new party, but dissenting 4 © of the doctrines contain ed in the platform. But the repab- lieans of thie country are opposed to President Taft because ble ad ministration has not done the things which the people belleve abould have been done.” Open charges that the republican! national committee “stole” dele) gates from Arizona, California, Washington and Texas for, Presi- dent Taft were also voiced “By lowa senator, “L shall vote for Roosevelt he cause I believe he desires to pro mote the common welfare, It doce [not Indicate, however, that I look | |upon the new party as a wise and} enduring movement." |MAYOR BOTHERED BY HIS INJURIES Mayor Cotterill spent a restless night aa the result of his injuries anetained last Friday from the fali wy “They say he is not hurt much. 1 don't know whether I care or not My scars are deeper than Abra ham's. | am #0 tired. 1 don’t care about anything. | just want to for get—and to rest.” Now Annie is going back to the farm, and her mother. MY Discovers That It Was None Other Than “Our Hero,” Lately Returned FROM Congress Who Hurled the Ewe Lamb and the Suitcase Into the Dark Alley. When I entered the office this morning. | found that T. Ombstone Bones had arrived before me. “Have you seen Inst night's Star?” I asked, and, spreading a copy before him, I pointed to a marked advertisement in (he want- column, which read: “REWARD—I will pay hand- somety for information leading to the recovery of a Suitcase loff a horse while inspecting the Sultan lake power site. The mayor. |dexpite his injuries, left his bed to| vaguely wonderful experience—thie |be present at the memorial exer-| Gut when the time was at h jcisea In honor of Gen. Williama| ered. She gue after all, she'd Booth. This effort has weakened | But big sister coaxed, and mother | [him considerably, and he will be letting go of big sister's hand for a ‘The fittier girl is very close to | joy when told she might start school this fal! id her spirit wavered, omaze, HOME on TH Wh NTANDS Be I TWENTY VICTIMS OF A STRANGE POISON PLOT : Your chance to help put a real man in the governor’s chair will come next Saturday at the progressive primaries. If you turn out then and vote for Bob Hodge, his nomination will be assured. With Hodge nomi- nated on the progressive ticket you need. not worry about the pink tea and the standpat candidates. Hodge’s nomination on next Saturday means his election next November. BUT YOU MUST DO YOUR PART AND YOUR FIRST OPPORTUNITY COMES NEXT SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7. Look up the polling place in your precinct. The polls will be open from 8 a. m. until 8 p. m. tears, Weeks ago she danced with It was to her mind a going to school. Her lip quiv- rather stay at home with mother. jaughed away her fears, and, never second, she went timorously, tear- | forced to stay at home sevoral days, | fully, emilingly wonderingly, upon the great adventure. STERIOUS MYSTERY IS SOLVED: T. OMBSTONE BONES, CELEBRATED DETECTIVE, UNRAVELS PERPLEXING PROBLEM man recently retarned from grees, who wears a worried and weill-trimmed whiskers con look As if jo rest his marvelous brain, | Bones stopped talking and sat with eyes closed for an hour. But bis brain had not been resting as T well knew, when suddenly leaped from the chair and said “Come with me, maybe there will be something on the lost articles which will identify the owner.” Wonderingly, 1 followed Bones through a dozen city streets. We crossed and recrossed our course many times, but I asked no ques tions. At last we stood on the step of a humble cottage Is Some Detective. exclaimed Bones,” is the Cop’ Jones who recovered the lost articles.” Completely bewildered by show of intellectual superiority, this ' ar Bones | Story of vaudeville star who could play in the big league with Muggsy McGraw if he wanted to is told on page 4 to- day. Don't miss it; you'll like reading) about his career, EDITION GREAT EVENT FOR SEATTLE CHILDREN: SCHOOL IS OPENED BY FRED L. BOALT School opened today. It is vorne in upon the minds of about 28,000 Seattle school kids that “the melancholy days” have indeed come, “the saddest of the year.” Vacation’s over. School's begun. At 8 o'clock this morning, or thereabouts, 28,000 kids left 10,000 homes and journeyed sadly to 61 grade schools and seven high schools, That is, most of them journeyed sadly. A few went gladly. Here isa mystery which the psychologists would do well to ponder over. A few always go gladly. i Some girls—indeed, many girls—actua ike to go to school. But, jthen, girls are odd. ‘Teacher's pet likes to go to school. The toddlers, | going to school for the first time, and hanging timorously to the hands | of older sisters and brothers, are either scared, or glad, or both “WE'RE ALL GLAD” , 1 “1 am sure,” said a thonsand teachers this morning, with that gentle frony of which only teachers are ble, “that we are all glad e together again Play-time's prer Now this with bogus enthu- for good, hard work! That new little boy—I don’t know your cally mustn't cry. There on! You mustn't shuffle who is crying And children, chil but I mean one you is nothing to be afraid of your feet. I yotice, too, that some of you have been careless in wash- jing your faces and hands this morning. You should always come to [school with faces and hands clean and your hair neatly brushed. ° * © And, now, when I give the word, you will please march past the desk and get your registration cards, Now, then!” MORE YOUNGSTERS THIS YEAR | “We look for a slightly increased enrolment this year,” said Su | perintendent Cooper today. “Last year there were 22,394 grade schol- and 3,830 in the high schools. ar we are increasing the industrial classes from three to ‘¢ is a demand for less academic instruction and more prac There is much in the old-fashioned academic curriculum which is superfluous, much that does nothing to develop us or add to our ears jing capacity in later years | “In the industrial clas |the academic course tical wes, the children devote half of their time to and half to shop work or the domestic sciences and }art. Personally, | favor encouraging the industrial classes. | “We are also inéreasing the kindergartens from three to six. The |new kindergartens are at Colman, Pacific and the Irving school, at Ballard | CHANGED SINCE DAD'S TIME | Schools have changed since dad's time. Not all the chang |the better. For one thing, the geographies are much sm | should be corrected. When dad was a boy the geographies were so big that he could hide behind his and read a “Nick Carter,” and teacher | could not catch him at It unless she was the sneaky kind. When she did suspect him, she would say: “Henry, what have yop behind your geography?” And dad would slump down In his seat and get red In the face, and | erin sheepishiy. Then teacher would march down to him and confie eate the prize “Nick Carter"—“One Against Twenty-One,” that was | worth any other two in-a swap—and dad would have to stay after school and write “Virtue is its own reward” or “Honesty is the best | policy* a hundred times itis hard to believe that boy nature has changed with methods, buat |@ teacher of a Fourth-grade room at the Queen Anne school said today, without batting an eye, that her boys never carved their initials ip their desks, never drew pictures on the margins of their books, and scarcely ever whispered, while the pernicious practice of throwing pa. per wads was practically unknown. | One must conclude that either boy nature has changed or that boys are slyer and more adept at sinning than they were when da@ went to school, And as for passing notes—— “FATTY 1S STUCK ON SUSIE” Dad would write a note—Fatty Smith is stuck on Susie Jones”—= and pass it on. And it would go all ‘round the room. And teacher would wonder what the snickéring was about. Andswhy was Fa’ Smith so red in the face and mad? And why was Susie Jones so Bie And by and by teacher would pounce on the note, and make the boy whe was passing it tell the name of the boy he got it from, and then that boy would have to the name of the boy he got it from, and so on, And then wouldn't dad catch it! Dad says he guesses that Queen Anne teacher _must be easy. } It’s pretty certain that kid nature hasn't changed much, anyhow, | If you'd been at any one of the grade schools this morning, you'd have | seen a lot of kids carrying bouquets and big, rosy apples “for teacher.” DON’T LAM BAD BOYS NOW There's one change in method that meets with dad’s approval, They don't lam bad boys now. When dad went to school they had one man teacher who got all tae terriers. He was more celebrated for his rough-and-tumble scrapping than for his erudition, Every bad boy who was assigned to that man’s room thovght he had to fight it out with him the first day. If a single boy had licked him, his usefulness would have been coded. But no boy ever did there are a lot of school kids in this town. You put 28,000 on paper, and it doesn’t mean much, somehow. But string 28,000 kids in & row, in marching order, allowing three feet for each kid, and—wow! They'd reach from Kent to the New Washington hotel. They'd stretch out 15 miles and 4,800 feet. They'd stretch from Yesler way to Pike, on Second, 31 times! It gives you sort of an awed feeling. 28,000 kids! All studying and playing and de’ bad, that will stick with them the ry M: All growing up? loping, getting notions, good of their lives. It’s a big job— “Together we planned for my| and a Ewe Lamb recently lost. could mot help but ask the great! teaching 28,000 kids. It's a big responsibility, It’s good raw material. es ee Apollo's future. He was to be a|, The owner has no use for them. detective how he knew it to be the| There may be a future president of the United States in the 28,000, es be. wollh retese to put | DRysicise: But I had taught him : — ‘4 ore, id see ey 4 it in the] === EEE = ——s all I knew. We decided that he| finder may keep the suitcase. sates sy mtet >. 7 SAFE BLOWN OPEN charges before any body other “PROTEST MEETIN: For further particulars inquire city directory,” replied Bones, in @ grand jury Will not be a witness before an ing committee composed part of men against whom there be charges,” sald McKenzie “whitewash” scheme, accord- to McKenzie, is to have Com- Hamilton and Ruther. together with Prosecuting At- torney Murphy, examine witn Rot under oath, to determine wheth. fF @ grand jury ought to be called Be investigate charges of misman- o~— of the county hospital and 4 aud the road district appropri- Stions, all of which have- been un- £6 be jurisdiction of Hamilton and PRKRHKHAK KKK “| WEATHER FORECAST ers tonight or Wednes- light westerly winds. rature at noon, 55. * * * * * * * PRRRR Kae Hy H VOTING IN VERMONT K. a Press Leased Wire.) M ELIER, Vt. Sept the The strength of the republican Progressive parties in Vermont Under the “acié’ test today in State election held since me the new party headed e 4, THO early voting wag the heaviest the Distory of the state. At noon Was estimated thmt 75,000 voters ide between the five candi- in the race for governor AUTHOR DEAD should go to Chicago, and stidy in the night schoole—then he was to enter the University of Chicago. “He found Chicago lonely and hopeless, 1 was the inspiration of his life, he said, and without me he could do nothing. I had made of the poor immigrant an American gentieman, and I must still be at his side. ‘ “So 1 left home and went to Chi- cago. He met me and took me in his arms and covered my eyes and lips with kisses, and we talked of the time when he should be a pbysi- cian, holding up his head in the face of all men, and I should be his wife, “I had to earn my living. By day I worked in a department store. By night I sewed, “For six years I gave him every- thing. And he told me that the long time of waiting would soon be over, and we should be married. Hecently I have been putting away nickels and dimes toward buying my trousseau, I wanted my Apollo to be proud of me when I became his wii “Then, all at once I awoke from Kkkhhn wthhhhh KKhhh * * If your paper is not deliv- ered regularly to your home every afternoon, and if it is not delivered in good shape, please phone the circulation manager, Main 9400. The Star subscribers are entitled to per- fect service. They are enti- tied to an early and a regular , Sept. 3.--Samuel Col- Taylor, author of the yon “ which made a grea SOMe-years ago, ix dead here He was 37 years of age. * * * * * * * * a * delivery, Boys who crumple * up or otherwise mutilate the * piper should be reported. * KREMER Pee ee eee eee ee box 863. X Y Z, etc.” The great detective looked up petulantly from the calabash pipe into the bow! of which he was in- dustriously stuffing wade of brown wrapping paper, which he tuvarta- bly smokes when engaged upon work . requiring great mental con- centration. “My dear Nutt,” he began, and just then there was a knock at the door, Oh, You Clever Bon: Bones smiled. “When I open the door,” he remarked, “a small, pom- pous man with a bristling gray mustache will enter. It is he who inserted the advertisement.” Chuckling at the look of bewilder- men in my face, Bones flung open the door, and, true enough, a small, pompous man bustled in, twisting his mustache nervously. “Mr. Bones,” he began without preamble, “a friend of mine has lost a Ewe Lamb which was a pres- ent from me, I am very fond of that lamb, though I suspect that my friend does not care for it. At any rate, he says he has lost it, to gether with a suitcase.” “You advertised in The Star yes- said Bones. the small, ‘And your name {s— Hush!" whispered pom por man in alarm, “I do not care to figure in this publicly, 1 only want my little Bwe Lamb back. Will you take the case?” “T wi the visitor to the doer. ‘When he was gone, I said: difficult case, eh?” See His Brain Work. “Tut tut!” snapped Hones, “Eliminate and deduce, Simple. The owner dropped the Ewe Lamb “” said Bones, and bowed? nodded. 4 Te Omas tone. Sones THE CELEBRATED DETECTIWE —- - Cor Jones — WHO MADE THE DISCOVERY and the Suitcase into an altey from, would fall into a garbage can & skyscraper window. Why did he| “Why did he drop exhibit drop them? Because he wanted! Probably because it them? Nonsense! He dropped articles of which he wanted to be them to get rid of them. Ergo, he| rid, You get the drift?” jdid not want them, I trust you! 1 had to confess I did not follow follow me?” the line of reasoning. Marveling at Bones’ magvelous Bones Has Clue. faculty for unraveling the Sbvious,| “| happen to know,” continued the great detective, “that these articles “For convenience,” continued were huried from a high window Bones, e will call the Suitease|into a dark alley, and I also know ‘exhibit A’ and the Ewe Lamb ‘ex- they were found by one Jones, a hij B.’ Why, now, did the owner | policeman and a worthy fellow, but drop exhibit B? Clearly he hoped|a bonehead. I have reasons for that (t would dash its silly brains | suspecting that they were cast-into out. “He did not foresee that | wala dark alley by a certain gentle- A? contained | * his quiet, caim, matter-of-fact way. We were ushered into the Jones home by “Cop” Jones: himself, who, suspecting the purpose of our visit immediately brought out the ewe lamb and the mysterious suitea: I could plainly see that Jones was a boneh He stood gazing at the two articles “Don't you know whose they be?” asked Bones blandly replied Jones Don't you see this large letter ing on the grip?” asked Bones, “I gee it,” said Jones, “but I don't know what {t means. I can't read,” admitted the brave cop. Mystery Is Solved. With trembling fingers Bones grasped the suitease and held it be- fore my eyes, There in plain, large letters were the words: “I AM A TRIMMER.” The mystery was solved. Bones was right. The articles did belong to a certain worried gentleman, re- cently returned FROM congress. “ jrasping the grip by the handle and the ewe lamb by the tail, Bones strode majestically from the Jones’ home. REE REPERRRRKREE * SAFE AND SANE DAY Labor day was as’“safe and sane” as the Fourth. Not a single accident of any im- portance marred the enjoy- ment of the day. Everybody had a good time and behaved fairly well. The police had very little trouble, and only 15 men were arrested all day and during the night for being drunk or fighting. eeeeeeeeeeeee eee EEEE SEH EE dees RHA A small Phoenix safe, property of the! A protest meeting against the as Brotherhood, was blown|sessment of Nickerson st. will be open in the hall of the Phoenix| held by the Ross Improvement club Temperance society W., early this morning. 2060 15th ay, | tonight, at Third ay. w, and Nicker+ son st Fine Auburn Ranch $1,800; Good Terms Five Acres $350; $25 Cash, $10 Month 4-Room Cottage; $50 Down, $15 Month Do you read the Classified columns? These are samples of tonight's offerings. A great many more offers this evening equal if not excel those above. Star Want Ads pay big dividends whether to the advertiser or the prespective pur- chaser. A careful reading any evening will show you why. 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