The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 24, 1912, Page 1

STARK, FATHER OF MRS. HODGE, VINDICATES BOB HODGE OF ALL BLAME “Jennie and Bob got married without consulting me, and parted without consulting me. The members of my own amily did not know my opinion about their troubles, but I will say this, that if Bob Hodge needs a friend he n command me, if he needs money, | will borrow it and give it to him, and if he is sick I will be the first one sit by his bed. The only trouble with Bob is that he is too good.”--Allan Stark, Sr., father of Jennie Hodge The Seattle Star c=: i eS HEE oe nme false coin. Fred L. Boalt tells THE ONLY PROGRESSIVE NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE HOME EDITION ROTHER OF MRS. HODGE REFUTES EVERY CHARGE AGAINST ROBERT T. HODGE J. Stark, being first duly sworn upon oath, deposes and sa I am the brother of Jennie, Hedge, formerly Jennie Stark, and formerly Mrs. Robert T. Hodge, wife of Robert T. Hodge, the re candidate for Governor of the State of Washington; | am familiar with and know the facts of the domestic troubles between Mr. and Mrs. Hodge; I have read the stories concerning the divorce Mr. and Mrs. Hodge, appearing in the Bellingham and Seattle and other newspapers of the state, and particularly in the Post-Intelligencer of October 21st, and I know of my own personal knowl- THAT ALL OF SAID STORIES WERE AND ARE FALSE AS TO EVERY MATERIAL FACT, and the same being a great injustice to all concerned. ALLEN J. STARK. ibed and sworn to before me this 21st day of October, 1912, EDGAR C. SNYDER, in and for the State of Washington, C ounty of King, residing in Seattle. a? RS. TAFT would like to stay in White House four years more. Read story by Idah _ Gibson on page 4 today. ARRIGAN, burglar, stole silverware, and Doris, “VOL. 14. NO, 204. ON THAINS _ Niows eTAN fe WHOLE FABRIC OF SLANDER AND LIES FALLS TO GROUND The rotten fabric libels, perjury and scandal, built wp by the standpat gang in a final desperate effort to keep its clutches on the state government, today, crumbles to the ground he fiendish plot to discredit to do so they» had to sacrifice is exposed Sof the falsity to, t gang would ge to discredit Bob we candidate for wn when the dls d out of Mrs. t of the gang is this sworn state- Lindsay ion, County of) the Post-Intelligencer of October 21 and October 22, 1 know to be ab- solutely false. | have volunteered this state ment, and make it of my own free will, because of the unjust and un truthfal charges made against Mr./ Hodge. whole of lies, THOMAS LINDSAY Subseribed and sworn to before me, this 22nd day of October, A. D. IN 8. CORKERY, 1 in and for the State of Washington, residing in Seat tle. Lindsay, veing first duly oath deposes and says pthe Thomas Lindsay re) Mra, Jennie Hodge in) s-scice: BECKER FATE WITH JURY year 1896 Robert wife and baby, lived fented from him in his Tesaquah. That Hodge By United Press Leased Wire) 0 NEW YORK, Oct .~~The fate Bis family at all times.| of Potice Lieut. Charles Becker, ‘was more than ordinarily charged with having instigated the Job Hodge, even thotigh a woman and four childrén, . The fact that the Hay plunderbund put up the money, amount needed, to enable the slanderbund to fabricate despicable slander, is revealed The despicable attempt of the gang to scare the family, of Hodge's former wife into silence is shown. That the crooked tactics and-lies of the slanderbund worked Mrs. Hodge into an hysterical state of mind and that the slanderbund’s agent himself wrote the so-called affi- davit, is known as a fact. That the father of the former Mrs, Hodge and that her brother also both staunchly defend Bob Hodge and absolve him from all blame is the smashing answer of the Stark family to the poisoned slander hatched by the standpat gang- sters to blacken two families in their effort to defeat Bob Hodge and keep their manikin in the governor's chair. Every single charge made against Hodge is conclusively proved to be false Sworn affidavits from members of the family and from scores of persons who have known the Hodge family for years disprove in every particular the slanderous pack of lies so desperately and cunningly framed up by the looters of the people in their last ditch stand against the on-marching army of fearless voters, s In addition to the affidavits printed today the Progres- sive party managers have in their possession a score of others refuting every charge made against Hodge. The Star dislikes to use its space to reply to the ridiculous and plainly false charges hurled at Hodge by his desperate op- ponents, but in justice to all concerned and for the benefit of those few people who might be misled by the unrefuted slanders, this paper will print enough of the truth to .clear up the whole miserable plot. Other affidavits will follow tomorrow. any its the mine at Issaquah. Keown to me. In ad-| m of Gambler Herman Rosen- fo the mine, he/ thal, now rests with a jnry. Jus- tiee John W. Goffs charze was . 10] concluded at 1:55 o'clock this aft- + 40d) ernoon, and the jury immediately day's! revired. Recker lounged idly in a chair during the reading of the court's | instructions to the jury. He only | showed Interest in Justice Goff's Of ' charge when the court, before send- ing out the jury to deliberate on the hese case which meant so much to him,|, e : Hodge fam-) “1¢ you find that Jack Rose had state that) Rosenthal killed while acting un may have! der instructions from Becker, you was due in nO’ must find the defendant guilty of of Mr. Hodge. der in the first degree.” house with Mr” me tin eeerntllinntpeemen | von | AWFUL STORY IS TOLD IN COURT SAN DIEGO, Oct. 24.—Interest have seen | unequaled in local court history was mnder the in-|evident here today following the and know him to/tragic story of Mrs. Habert G. unreliable. Lewis, whose husband is on trial is made by me/here fo rthe murder of C. H. Tol- following reference iver and his wife. of Mrs. Hodge:| Mrs, Lewis, after telling of her Worked but a month. to Iseaquab. H and we were com-| Lewis after he was informed of Tol- if the charity of Tom |iver's alleged acts. The letters in- ‘ dicated that Le was at least Ia other material state-|boring under a terrific mental to reflect upon Mr.|strain. Lewis’ counsel seeks to im the affidavit of|show that Lewis was insane at the in the articlea in|time of the shooting. = ES a 1 ‘STILL HONOR _ WITH THIEVES LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24.—That there is still honor among thieves was illustrated here today when fel- low prisoners of Antonio Garcia, sentenced to four years in San Quentin for grand larceny, paid his Bellboy insisted on Changing Sweethearts (By United Frees Leased Wired SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 24.—Be- cause he insisted on changing| sweethearts with Jos. L. Neary, a beliboy at the Grand hotel here,) without even consulting the feeling | that Mrs. Toliver aided in her be- trayal, identified letters written by , ROBERT RANDOLPH OF Chicago was jilted 'y Miss he didn’t grieve himself to death. He married her HT ONLY DID LINCOLN BEACHEY and Lieut. Brereton shoot hydroplane, but they made a retriever owt of their down to the r to get the ducks. ACKERMAN, A NURSE, sues the owner of a Chicago for $75,000. She says her left leg shrunk one inch aft- accident. STUDEBAKER, THE Chicago wagon maker, gave a birthday telebration of ini 79 years to 24 guests whose ages aggregated SHIR NATH KAPOOR of Calcutta, India, where he owns a Stores, likes America. He is here on bis first visit. td 100 salesgiris in 4 Philadelphia department store a post 4 Photograph on ft and urged them to write to him. Gente) chanffeur had him arrested, complaining that he thrust both A the front windows and kicked the chauffeur to make him Yes- Later TO AVOID—A man was shot trying to break into the Mich., county jail. g ALL LIES,” SAID NAT GOODWIN of the allenation of affection against him “| didn't know the lady had a husband,” IDS FOR SEPARATION—WIFE of a garage manager says her up all one night, and whenever she sat on a chair her to get up and sit on another one. ANEW YORK WOMAN tried to kill herself by gas ion” bit through the tubing, which fell to the floor, This When uncon- =3 The standpat gang sent a man, with his expenses paid by the Hay boodle fund, to California in search of Mr. Hodge's former wife, and there, by soning her mind with most deliberate falsehoods, induced her to permit them to use her name in their attacks upon her former husband. Tried to Hide Family Fearful that Mra. Hodge would _AND BY FOUL MEANS she could not be reached. “Why do you want to get my daughter out of the way?” asked the father. “Because there said during this campaign which | will embarrass bh said the rep- resentative. “There may be charges made and she should be kept out of the way until it blows over.” may be things “Then, if that is the case,” the father, “Neither she nor I will go, her place and my place is at learn the truth of the situation here, and repudiate the charges of these newspapers, they went to the 7 father of Mrs. Hodge and offered to | home. supply money to him and to his two| The representative was so inglst- daughters residing in Seattle in/jent that the father finally promised consideration of which they should |he would talk the matter over with hurry to San Francisco, be there | his daughter and telephone an ljoined by Mrs, Hodge and go to|answer next day. This he did, and some quiet place where they couldjon the following day telephoned hot be reached, to remain there un-|that nether of them would leave til after eléction day. Seattle. Tried to Bribe Stark Another Agent Calle It was on the afternoon of Octo-| Two days later, on the night of |ber 18 that a representative of the| Sunday, October 20, David Botting, |gang called upon the father of Mrs.|state mine inspector appointed by Hodge, Allen Stark, sr., at 3802/Governor Hay, accompanied by an- Genesee st,, and made this propos!-|other man, called at the Stari \tion, The first suggestion was that lhome, and questioned Mr. Stark lthe eldest unmarried daughter)about the family affairs of the San Francisco and | Hodge family. When Stark refused 0 to [tae A118 Hodge to @ point where | to discuss the matter, Botting told ‘sald | STARK EXPOSES ATTEMPT OF HAY GANGSTERS | TO GET HIS FAMILY TO HIDE MRS. HODGE him that Hodge was going about the state villifying his former wife d that while he did not go into the matter extensively from the platform he was passing around let- jtere which he, Hodge, had written jfor women to read. Botting stated |that Hodge had done this at a woman's meeting which Hodge had addressed in Arcade Hall in Seattle, about two weeks ago. Stark Demanded Proof “1 know Bob's handwriting,” said Stark, “and I would like to see the letters.” Never Came Back Botting promised to procure one of them the next day, but failed to show up. He evidently reported that it was useless to endeavor to wet Stark to discuss the matter, for that gentleman has received no more visits. As a matter of fact every state- ment made by Botting relating to Mr. Hodge's atitude toward his former wife was and is absolutely false, The women who attended the Arcade Hall meeting know that no such: incident as described by Bot- ting occurred there. Stark's Statement “The publle will understand my position in the matter when I re- fuse to say anything beyond these statements of fact,” said Mr, Stark, when reporting his experience “Jennie and Bob got married with- out consulting me and parted with- out consulting me. The members of my own family do not know my opinion about their troubles, but I will say this—that if Bob Hodge needs a friend he can command me, if he needs money I will borrow it and give it to him, and if he is sick I will be the first one to sit by his bed.” “Will you say that Bob is a good man?" ’. Stark was asked. “The trouble with Bob,” re- plied Mr. Stark, “is that he is too good.” KKK ERK KKH WILL TAKE 15 HOURS TO COUNT BALLOTS SPOKANE, Oct. 24.—It is estimated that ft will take 15 hours to count the vote of Spo- kane at the November elec- tion, The calculation is made on the estimate of counting 20 votes an hour. In some of the precincts it will take from 24 to. 48 hours to count the vote. KKK KR ARE SEeeeeE SEES Seseeeeeeee of Mrs. Lina Boyd, a pretty young woman with whom he ts alleged to have eloped from Charlotte, N. C., J. Grier Love, professed mem- ber of a wealthy North Carolina family, is in jail here today. The police were called into the we when Love is alleged to have tempted to force Mrs. Boyd to agree to the transaction, He is held on a charge of disturbing the peace. Love also is said to be a fugitive from justice, a telegram re- ceived here saying he is wanted in Charlotte for passing bogus checks. BERR EERE ERE EE WEATHER FORECAST Rain tonight and Friday, * high east to southeast winds, * Temperature at noon, 52. \* * * * * 1h, dnd dealinaiindnainain tintin din tinaindinad * * * *| * * fare back to Mexico. | Judge McCormick sentenced Garcia some time ago but stipulat- ed that if the Mexican could raise jenough money to go to his native country to never return, sentence would be suspended. 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