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

“Tragedies of Childhood,” as pictured by Cory, the great car- toonist, will be found on page 4. Fred L. Boalt, dress ; “Bum,” left The Star office this afternoon to try an inter a THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE esting experiment He will VOL. 4. NO. 167. SEATTLE, WASH, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1912. QNE CENT &32!4189,439 HOME EDITION so epee ts pais homie: Ws STANDS Be | AMATE UR DE TECTIVE CAPTURES BLACKHANDER oF. WYER HELD (|THE Altecep BLACKHANDER, HIS INTENDED VICTIM FARM HAND SUSPECTED his is the first of a new series, ; AND THE SHERIFF’S DETECTIVE WHO CAUGHT HIM vit Se) (ey United Press teased Wire) | Gives Himself Up. : NEW YORK, Sept. 12—Boldly') Gibson expected to be arrested, , 5 ‘ preciaiming his Innocence and as and early today went direct to the} Detective Employed by Sheriff, Who Worked with Suspect a hat he is a victim of cir Office of Deputy Sheriff DeGraw of for Ten Days Digging Potatoes, Finally Solves Myster BE tarting tha oftice. ys Digging y ystery qumatances which he can explain, OCanee County who took him into Which Kept Wealthy Rancher and His Family in Terror ' ttorney Burton L. Gibson was ar. “N° for Month ¢ aos haa teday and formally 1am sure the warrant is a mis | ‘or Months cae : th the murder of Mea, take,” said Gibson. “There was no PRE Rees wi ee suave petty Aus: leRal evidence for ite tasuance, 1 BY FRED L. BOALT tan, who died while boating with have not been worried since the Arthur Quincy Hoffman, “Black Hand” suspect. arrested Ts Gibeon at Greenwood lake, N. Y., first allegations were made j yesterday noon on the farm of August Fisher, a wealthy ranch- Lf about a month ago Boggs < oe Bn Diag tage ie | er living on the Bothell road, a mile and a half north of the city Witt Arouses limits, was brought to the city and lodged in the county jail & : Srabo's wind pipe displaced was un-| & Returning to Ne yr He said many untruthe had! | by his captor, J. W. Sampson. the amateur detective, last ‘ cspianat ha jars. Saas a mitahed about the cas » and | night Ee pee; wines name bas not been dis-|“raltrond” him to the electric chalr, | — Sampson was employed by Sheriff “Bob” Hodge to ferret ¥ dosed, strugele lesperately to “{ can prove my innocence before out the mystery of the “Black Hand” letters which Fisher had § save ber Bus ny court in the land,” asserted received, threatening dynamite and death if Fisher did not pay ‘a poset feel how's When he. surrendered to Deputy | the author $2,500 f I 7 he surrendered to Deputy , age ee Bea ei nes entire $100 Pov og vm Rey 4 HIRED MAN gUSPECTED His suspicions centered on Hoffman, who for three months wiaie to him. Austrian authori 0 call the members of his fam-| ties here interest hemselves in ily on the phone. He talked with had been employed by Fisher as a farmhand. Sampson went te coe, he as exhumed his wite from Lieut. Floyds private| to work for Fisher 10 days ago, and he and the suspect dug t 3 » 0 otatoes together showed conclusively Mra. Saa He was the coolest man,” said Pp be died from strane 2 and not Floyd, “that I have ever seen ar-| Yesterday Fisher's barn caught fire, and Hoffnian, who. Seow ald rewnine rested for murder j | was seen running from it, was immediately placed under arrest | by Sampson. If a criminal, Hoffman is a new and curious type. Like \criminals, he has a grudge against society. Discontent seems jto have driven him to crime, | A slight man, and of less than medium height, he has small, sharp. features, a lor cinted nose, and small eyes set close together—eyes |that dre peering, furtive and melancholy WARNS DETECTIVE. nged plan, Sampson, when he ar- » a bed in the barn alongside Hoff. e going to bed, Hoffman said FIVE JUDGES GIVEN MAJORITY:: ELECTED! The Election of Judges Frater, divided by nine, which each voter/ " Beeald, Main, Albertson and Dyke- | was allowed to vote for, gives an man Without an ner contest, estimate of 22,000 votes cast, so fe defeat for nomination of Judge that 50 per cent would require at) MA. P. Myers, and the strong least 11,000 votes. It is more than | h Mackintosh probable, however, that the vote sir ran higher than 22,000, for many voters voted for less than the limit} of nine candidates, It is probable that 25,000 votes were cast, and) rhaps more than that cordance with the ranch, was The first night, w 1 ought to tell you that this is a dangerous place. No one’s life is. sate here told of the letters Fisher bad received, and of the barn. destroyed by fire, from which he had narrow escape.” er you do,” he added, “don't stick your ad out of the window at night. You might get shot if you do. For the firet three days after 8 l s arrival Hoffman was taci- turn and morose. But Sampson rstood farm work, and Hoffman, evidently, concluded th what he pretended to be—an or yries, new am « were tisan el h the ‘AR but two precincts @ad two from the country The vote received by the various Were tabulated unofficially this candidates for judge follow inary farm hand. He be sue hg 2 Judges elected: Frater, 16,078 LAST “BLACK HAND” THREAT. The last “black 2d fourth—came Monday. “Some night Through a serious blunder on the Ronald, 14,832; Main, 14,188; Al} part Of A. J. Quiztey, chief deputy bertson, 12.994 Dykeman, 12,904 auditor, who had the fon Those nominated: Gilliam, 10,/ fg charge, no provision w Tallman, 10,563; Mackintosh, Obtaining the tote! numb Who participated in the non Sinith, 7.534 George twenty pounds of dynamite will be exploded under your new house,” it aid Hoffman, the discontented, discussed with Sampson the threatening. letters. It seemed to quiet him to talk I've told the old man he'd tter pay the money,” he said. “They will get him If he doesn't mphries, S411; Everett 5; Haw electio jal candt #, 6,629; Griffiths. The picture at the top is of Arthi U ho cies mig wy Those defeated 6.300; |"blackhander.” opts oF ur Quincy Hoffman, the alleged Another time The next time they will strike in the daytime, the total vote cast ar et Brown, 6.208; Cart 06: That beneath it to the right is of J. W. Sampson the amateur de- iota tey po ee tee ee tere WOR ee ‘andy, 5,829 jure |e fl | he da one was caugh @et further contest Casey 28; Lawler trey. tective, who arrested Hoffman j And still anot Why shouldn't he pay? He's rich. He's Ingersoll The photograph beneath the black hand is, 2. rancher, the intended victim. 967 ~ MAINE GOVERNOR-ELECT, tal vote 6,381 of August Fisher, wealthy ot boxes 4,495; Morrison, 4,019; Stef gain. 3,518; Wilshire, idictal Herald, 2,912; Talbot, 2,834 This berse 80 Way now to learn the >) gitept by opening the ba tad counting the ba total votes for « aspirants rons © worth a hundred thour All they ask is twenty-five hundred.” GAVE HIMSELF AWAY. Again and again he went back to the dangers of working on the sher ranch They're all around here,” he said. “Several times I've them out the barn with the shotgun. he had a with “them.” Four shots were fired in the ht, and Hoffman, with bullet holes in his slouch hat, told of the shots he exchanged with “them.” There were four of “them,” he said, | They ran away But, while Sampson was at the ranch, a son-in-law of Fisher's vis- | ited r nized the bullet-riddied hat as one which he had | discarded months befo | I shot those hdles myself,” he said. “It was while I was trying my new rifle BY SUICIDE OF WIFE (Ry Vole Frese ent Wie CHICAGO, Sept. 12-—Jack Jobo | chose the onl out, as she PORTLAND. Me., Sept. 12—“I a believe’ in the! ie negro heavy ght cham-| saw it square-deal policies of Col. Roosevelt.” I anf a Roosevelt re | So, link by link constructed the circumstantial chain. Sam pete i a . “ pe a ae publican.” his was the confirmation given here today byj s now on friend Sena: aetis: thie hiaeant.. toh view nae gs ing when his wile, Etta John 75 SCIENTISTS TO Gov.-elect Haines when asked as to a report that ort the night) ae ether, grew vehement in his protests against a world in which : ome men are very rich and some very poor. if r | i ded jn neg hosp of the recent election he had come out for Roosevelt. the pao-} _ . " veg ” burl x p : fi v € y get ere’s e old an e's yi M wea ihe we t The 15 bers of the American The progressives of Maine declare that Haines declagn| | won't pay 00. It isn’t much. He noua t wee ae, ge 5 ie sd he t 75 members of the Amer : ' 0 héré over Jobnec st st. cafe.’ Geographic society are making | tion of faith, following his election, will aid greatly in swing-| On Tuctday he said: “Something's going to happen tomorrow. It ay will be in the daytime. Maybe it will be the house.” | At noon yesterday, the family and hands having finished the mid~ jday meal, Fisher's son and another hand went to the barn. Sampson loitered in the house for Hoffman to go. The suspect announced that Ghe @ied five hours later. Reports|q grand tour of the United States|ing Maine into line for Roose velt and Johnson. seonfiiet a4 to the motive of Mrs.| will arrive in Seattle at § tonight. } . . Johnson in ending her life. The They will be met at the train by &| | WASHINGTON, Sept. 12.—The declaration made by Gorernoriiéet the | Haines, of Maine, that he is a Roosevelt republican has caused a pel theory generaily accepted ts that reception committee fron Dthe #uffered an attack of nervous !Chamber of Commerce who will|of gloom to settle over the Taft managers here, It is genernily con: fost st = re. = ie the house, went to the barn, and the ; Prostration, brought on by the real no el ceded here that the republicans won in Maine only because Haines was | younger Fisher and the farmhand saw him peering at them through a eae take them to the Sorrento hote wiadow in a partition. oy Nae ee was forever barred LT 3 as a | known to be a supporter of Roosevelt Sampson started for the potato patch. He saw Hoffman running from world which st t when | conan amaciosing Sam d he pot 2 unnte She became the wife of the negro SELLS BAD FRUIT | Col. Roosevelt, at his Armory speech here, announced to the great from the barn. He joined Sampson and together they went to the field, | Twenty minutes later smoke was ning fn _ pugilist. T. BE. Henenbery, of the Pike! audience that he had just received a telegram from Governor-elect| “It is just a question of the toilers| —— r lied the He 1 moke was seen coming from the barn. Hoffman aq Place market, was , fined $10 in| Haines announcing his support of the colonel. Roosevelt said this was ing back the earth.” Fioas vo eorgetown, arr nid ues e ra e helped to stamp out the sparks after others, nearer aa. Johnson was the divorced : : yen Prd bap sooth rg scievant ie “ye Saas ts eit to|day on a wh slave charge, we had put out the flames. s Of Clarence E. Durrea, mil-| Judge Gordon's cour pis morning |in keeping with their previgas understanding “It ahould not be a privilege to © bag be 2 rs $e Fam ai? 8 a eye F © Wonalre turf man. Close friends of for gelling decayed fruit. He ts the | . “ 2 ieee does a job, It should be a right.” released t ne $5,000 bond.) — aor ap sear pee in the charred straw and found a partly burne@ | “The time is inevitably coming The bond was fixed after @ talk bo phase Pa sal hisky bottles of the brand which Hoffman drank. ates Commissioner y she sickened of third one to be arrested from the ’ a vcuia i eto whieh her | same on the same charge in ] when the man who works will get/with United and that she | A United Prese dispatch to The | Hoffman refused to talk at the jail this morning. Then he talked pe Clarence Darrow, foremost advo-| Star from San Fracisco states | rapidly and excitedly for 10 minutes. But he didn't say anything. Was. 3 jgate of labor rights in the United It took the federal grand jury |'* bi hod 8 apiaity ; : : States, arrived about noon today at| just 10 minutes today to return in-|. ie has a peculiar dialect. Fisher, who is a German, says it-is not (By United Prows Leased Wired | ihony a German dialect. It may be Danish, Hoffman will not tell where he Je addressed ten: chonang ) » He peak 0 st es $0} » counts Seattle. He will speak on industrial dictments on six separate counts | 0 trom or where he has tived LA GRANDE, Or., Sept. 12--"T)y te in the big Gypsy Sovth 14)! questions at the Dreamland rink/| against Arth Ward, Seattle sa-| -TRY YOUR KAND came ont for the presidential nomi ernacle ist night and was wildly tonight akaeoer poi hte yy nab "at Locking back upon it, his plan seems hare-brained. Yet it almost |nation only when those whom I be 4 wed when he attacked flve|” Darrow ts a stocky built individ-| politics, and Bernice Bailey, who worked. He had Fisher, his wife and their seven children in a state of ved would carry the ci » delegates who refused [O/ yal and is a bandle of energy He! * fear bordering on panic. He made a mistake; it may have been the mis~ ise of the CONTEST IN BRIEF t—for, like the street cars, there is) yo “ posed as his le, 0 harges Hist “Commandment of Love"—|another always coming."—F. A. C.,|fecple forward had turne! wihdruw from the Tat: ChictG|is 64 years old today, but in spite : ane fhe 2 i ‘ — * ne ‘ “hi take of an under-cautious man rather than a fool. That is, he used the One box, any night Seattle. | ward and deverted the people,” nten of the harrowing McNamara and|°OM*Piracy under the white Slave | old hat of Fisher's son-in-law as proof of his “battle” with the “black Second prize—Six reserved seats.| “Thou shalt not keep a girl wait-| the assection of Col Rooreve't he Replies to Roosevelt |his own trial which he had under Valter’ Bt = gg ee “in wi we ween _ fer at ee plan might have worked. Third prize—Four reserved 6. ing—when she’s dying to be love today as he ecarted a spin tl A bitter reply to the attack made gone at Los Angeles there is hardly 5 Py vee eee eerrneres, & ast night the Fishers enjoyed the first good night's rest in weeks, ur reserved sea o— ying ‘and Idaho, whict on him by Col. Roosevelt in Pogt:(a gray hair in his head John I. McNab, following the arrest | A bizarre feature of the case is that, if the theory of the sheriff is —F. W. McC., Seattle. | Oregon |night will take him to Huntin land is made here today by bier ef His face {is strongly lined and | Nampa and Hcise. McCusker, Independent republi ‘there is a pleasing glint in his blue While che big crowd which hea!) candidate for congress. MoCushet eyes. Darrow has been attorney for seats, M. C., Seattle. him speak appideded Sipraety, says he was justified in voting for/iaboring people in their greatest |ley. Bail was fixed at $6,000 each Tee two reserved céets.| You will adinih. that these gre) NoCeUvers IntrUbaCle tee ee | een Ten te he CRASS Soe eee or, Se teens mater 18 Pending the decision of United | Ninth prize—Two reserved seats.\clever and br But you wilt | epigra nh nol ’ € TER att the colonel had asked dele | note as well as a brilliant orator. | States Commissioner Francis Krull} ‘ennsylvania s instructed for him not toldo| Darrow willingly admits that Col,j)of Bernice Bailey's preliminary Tenth - ot ‘ vannot do bet-| (2 Senator Penrose of : ar adage ter, +0 send In your commian hbold of Standard go, as he had been instructed By| Roosevelt ts doing Immense good| hearing on charges of alleged at | on t eg! ect t e pportunities jand Jobn D. Ar 0 se our commandmen Peay " ; ter, #0 send in your commandment’ | Oil, he said: “The Lerd heth de-|the people of Oregon to vote for Ggl. | with his speechmaking on industrial) tempt to place the two girls in a of the woman as she was leaving | the corre for the Orient in company with Helen Heath and Mrs, Mabel Kel Fourth prize—Two reserved seat Fifth prite—Two reserved seat “Thou shalt not ask thy sweet Sixth prize—Two reserved seats.|heart for a kiss; steal it—stolen h prize — Two reserved | sweets are the real candy stuff.”— t one, the “battle” with the “black-handers” was fought with, he shotgun which Fisher had given Hoffman so that he might help, defend the Fisher household 4 Each “commandment” submitted |t? the Comtest Editor and win your livered them into my hands. I will! Roosevelt | questions which are touched in: the| notorious Yokohama resort, she has | ° ° seats for any performance of “The|, t io ane th now that ‘ ’ ME Glen on o poctcard ana, (ne, os | how at. them ip and thigh, now that) Speaking of the “Judas kiss” Cpt.) progressive party platform |been at liberty on $5,000 bail. She ered In onl t s ant Ads r, peg Bs : 2 i can get as them in an op eld Roosevelt says MeCusker betrayed “Discussion of these questions is} wi) > a e - | Addressed to the “Contest Editor e are the ten commandments ill be immediately rearrested on oe ontes ~ - him with, McCusker says it was/of untold benefit to the laboring |the ne 1h “a | he Seattle Star. now in use by the Saxons of the 10,000 Hear T. R. « dtntwateral h b | ; : ne the new and broader ccusation | Thi ek ae ” . . ‘ All Contributions must be in the|play. You can beat them Ble a ree more 2 7 asteful to him than ifo| man,” said Darrow, “Thinking ts! Ward, on whose alleged confes: | nis evening's Wants” are simply alive with op- jore Wednesday noon, Septem- ovary”: tm. order’ to make" irl Wer a Gavaln?, hinted, unites Dimple (0 think... 114 aboimen aides Bailey woman to send Helen Heath chase of a home site, or a farm, or acreage, you réally her 18. Y I jand Mabel Kelley to Japan and his : ff ‘ i ioht’ ‘f Each epigram must ta sentimental BO this morning. Bight more .|the begnning of time so completely | Aimission that he furnished $850 | cannot afford to overlook the offerings in tonight's i daptanee et consist of @/ 2 ‘Thou shalt not put thine arm route, They will guard the border taken up with eking ont an insut-| (oe inG trp, the grand sapy tained Want columns. We believe you wil! find the acreage around . i to ke m 2 , tha a ¢ ott ‘ yy ee Sane J cl ¢ a . Contestants may submit one or “arty thong p=! ih nan te gitt's IS INVESTED; [Guring: the expected engaayaients og) ey pes Mgr Fs ian ments were largely based, is under | offerings of exceptional value, as some that came to More “commandments,” as they |», : ‘ 7 , Jarrest in Seattle. our notice were certainly most i i It will cos Please, fortune in order to hold her hand Let us talk about these questions. |#'Test In Sea Ue n c y Most interesting. t will cost 4 _othony i. wie be written on! 4. Thou sha't not tell any girl TROOPS READY MORMON CHIEFS: IThis will make us think. And when| According to McNab, Wrd will be | nothing to look them over, and in a few years you may will sm Serger ta ° Linas about any beauty who looks like A OGL An Lies Ghat, th | | We et the people be thinking we ne agate at once for trial | want to reach back and shake hands with the little Star eereen. ara halt not use baby talk,|fecting a junction with other nae ARE COMING Nght! ee ee: ree, IS HIT BY CAR | Want Ad that brought you a snug bank account. AND Hehe management of The| geeapt “in Salt NOt te Ee etc ca cade, tat cities, fein *Agual President Joesph ¥, Smuithof Ia faite B. 1. Bratton, 4340 12th av, N, E, | JUST TO REMIND YOU. When you are in need of comet Breakers . a isical Groves to be more than 30, and any| Prieta, across the border from here, Mormon Chureh of Salt Lake City, BRIDE’S FORTUNE hog anghe ep. a Sasine | ateeet the services of a Want Ad, come to The Star's DOWN- fe thes Mo wilt appear at thé member able to prove any Iady| Co}, Antonio Rojas and Gen. Inez) with Bishop C, W. Nibley a - CAN’T SAVE. HUBBY ear on Eas eke ay at midnight | TOWN WANT AD OFFICE, 229 UNION ST 3 ater f for three night per-|more than 30 will be awarded th lazar began their march upon the Ballard, pr iding over the } haar teenies . ; Bratton ant ‘ era’ truck and] (with Souvenir and Curio Shop), UNDER THE BIG ees and a Saturday matinee, | sioh's medal for bravery order town 6% moon today {Wester States Mission, will be tf|.LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12.—A engine died while he was cross pgs, , beginning Thursda ember 19 Thea palt got call a girl bY) The rebel commanl comprises | Seattle Sunday, September 15 though she possesses in her own the track, He got out to crank ELECTRIC SIGN. Should you not care to call, tele- ° caged find ample material to im-| snothef ae name. 14,400 well sripod, men dedicate the branch church name nearly $100,000, the bride of |it and the absence of tail lights on phone either Elliott 44 or Main 9400. Your advertise- mr peceloy ue of love, it will! 7. ‘Thou shalt not kiss a girl who The federal farrlton, under Col Dedieatory pertices at 2p. |laoxd nape, © young. slectrioal oo- his truck prevented the motorman ment will be inserted and bill mailed to you. IF YOU _ of the readers of ig aglee Jegne will not surrende n-} Preachtin: 7p. m. Newton #t! ar, ” oes tO . |from seeing him, He was knocke¢ _ AN A! Eyery mail cc Peowted bring if Thou shalt not tell a girl sh@/ forced by 400 Yaqui Indians, they | and Westlake boulevard, from an Senne avery and Knapp | down and bruised on the face and CAN eee ee bare OF SEATTLE, bunches of eplgrams, andj, the only girl you ever loved are deploying on the plains where - ~ {}|must spend 12 months in San Quen-| right side. a . - Y Bll of them are original;\ 9. ‘Thou ot tell a girl what | they will make their stand | ee ey |itin penitentiary v rae 9. Thou shalt & ¥ | 4 Are clever and not a few are|a homt breaker you aré. Don't tell| ‘The federal troops, including the|* | WEATHER FORECAST Knapp was convicted of uttering THIEF GETS GOLD OVER 40,000 PAID COPIES DAILY itive of real genius. her—show her Indians, now total 700, \* Fair tonight and Fridayy spurious paper to provide funds for A thief tore off a screen at the ? Three of the best of the “Cupid 16, Thou shalt not tell a girl how| Hundreds of persons poured into) * light variable winds, becoming @! dinners at popular cafes with which | home of H, P. Robley, 608 16th av., I OVER 200 000 READERS mandments” which showed up|many girls thou hast kissed, Re- | Douglas this morning to witness vod ie 7 janie Temperature at noom®|to woo the girl who became his|jast night, entered the house and ’ the overnight mal! follow member, it is quality, not quantity, | battle which is now regarded as in wife. Mrs. Knapp declares she Will) siole a purse containing $12 and a “Thou shait not run after a girl’ that counts evitable. Four troops of the Ninth |» * * 8 ee apg etand by her erring husband, gold nugget.