The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 9, 1913, Page 1

Y POLICEMAN { ; A 24 per cent gain in circulation since the boom times, wh Seattle papers have, accor own boasts, only managed own, fndicates The Star the people want. ile the other ding to their to hold their is the paper VOLUME NO, 87 B CITIZEN PROTESTS ) TO CHIEF AGAINST COP’S BRUTALITY Patrolman No, 105 arrested Jac on Washington st ck Smith a boy, Saturday afternoon | | | | | Jack Smith, offieials at police headquarters je a “erack” that he was going to “get” an officer on hington st. deat Patrolman No, 105 didn't take the boy directly to the patrol box, | as is ordinarily done, to call the wagon. Instead, he led bim Into an alley between First and Second aves. A fellow policeman followed them in Let A. D. Puckett of 711 Seventh ay. tell the rest. Puckett saw! the arrest. He was curious to see why the policeman took Jack Smith into the alley. So he stood by and watched. Later in the day he wrote a hot letter to Chief Bannick “The poll the collar,” says Puckett. eman was twice the size of the young man he had by He hiked him along into the all 20 feet or 80, then suddenly turned and slugged him with all his might In the face. drew back his fist and hit him fast | couldn't count how many and out. The other policeman enjoy it. “Then they took the boy across the etri and called the wagon. when they loaded him in, and he A telephone conversation with “Guess he'd been fighting,” the all bloody.” The young fellow staggered. The policeman again, then again, and times—until the boy wi stood looking on, and box Hie face was like a piece of raw beefsteak was bloody from head to foot.” the desk sergeant at headquarters Tevealed the fact that a young man had been booked as Jack Smith. The charge was disorderly conduct. it to the patrol desk sergeant said. The case was to be heard before Judge Gorcon this afternoon. It was absolutely the most saw,” wrote Puckett, the looker-on, brutal exhibition of cruelty I ever to Chief Bannick GRAND JURY PROBES WOMAN’S ACTION IN LAST MILLER TRIAL Investigation of the charge that Mrs. Jennie Morrisey, one of the Jurors in the Peter Miller case, was pre-prejudiced against him, was taken up by the grand jury this morning. A number of jurors were PREPARING FOR BIG CONVENTION Some of the most prominent charity workers in the country will visit Seattle during the National Conference of Charities and Cor- rection and allied societies, to be held in Seattle, beginning July 1 and ending July 12. The program has already been received here. At least six differeht organiza- tions will meet here next month. The number includes the mvetings of the American Association of So- cleties for Organizing Charity, Na- tional Children’s Home society, American Red Cross, Wastington State Conference of Charities and Correction and American Federa- tion of Sex Hygiene. Jealled who are alleged to have ‘heard Mrs. Morrisey express be opinion of Miller’s guilt befor® she ‘had been drawn on the jury which | recently convicted him of burglary. | According to affidavits filed by |Judge Glasgow, Miller's attorney, Mra. Morrisey’s husband and Hugh MeMahon, the bartender, alleced |to have been murdered by Miller, |were intimate acquaintances. To her fellow jurors, Mra. Morrisey is alleged to have repeated her firm conviction that Miller killed Me- Mahon. With this phase to thrash out, It is rumored about the courthouse that Miller's oft-repeated charges that he {a being persecuted Instead of prosecuted may also be gone into, Prosecutor Murphy has retatn. led Attorney Ellis as special prose- cutor, whose duties are entirely lconfined to work connected with |the Miller case. For this, he is re lcetving $260 a month, or the same amount as Prosecutor Murphy him lself gets. That this shows an un lusual eagerness on the part of the ‘police and prosecuting attorney to “get” Miller, that {s not justified by the mere desire to perform their lauty, is the contention made by Judge Glasgow. U. S. SUPREME COURT HITS EXPRESS TRUST WASHINGTON, June 9-—The Un States supreme court today decided that the Adams Express Co. may be prosecuted for violation of interstate commerce laws. The depart nt of justice and the inter. state commerce commission have been fighting for ruling for years. The Ohio ral courts held that because the company was a “joint stock tion” and not Real Est 806 a corporation, {t could not be pros: ecuted. 5 The decision in the Adams Ex press case was unanimous. The opinion was reaa by Justice Holmes. It said in part “It has been notorious for years that some of the express companies were organized as stock companies for the purpose, {t seems, of evad ing the law.” ate Is the Basis of All Wealth It is a fact that more people make more money out of real estate than almost any other line of business and th: is especially prolific of opportunities. is section of the country Among these opportunities is the new townsite of Priest Rapids, which i: market. , Full details of this in the large display ad 6 in today’s Star. Rail facilities make great v the fact that Priest Rapi s now being put on the new town will be found which appears on page roads and transportation alues in real estate, and s townsite is located on the Milwaukee line and is very accessible, should be an inducement to prospective in- vestors. 4° “His face was! | | | | jin particular, as they said | AVIATRIGE. ALYS. [Popaaz WEATHER FORECAST FOR SEA TTLE AND VICINITY: SEATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, JUNE 9, 1913 |THE NEWEST 1 COULD DIE DANCING THIS WiTh you !! SOLVES ~RIDDEE-OF TPAT MYSTERIOUS JAG M’KEE MARRIED Husband and wife will furnish he # fon attractions during the Golden Potlatch, for it is no longer Aviatrice Alys McKee, but Mrs Johnny Bryant It happened tn Holse on May 29. | The aviator and the aviatrice stole| a march on Fred A. Bennett, presi dent of the Bennett Aero Co., and | on the rest of their friends, They quietly took a little stroll, nowhere But it} happened to lead to the office of a|"* om Our Spec respondent justice of the peace, and he did the| BOTHELL, Wash, June 9 Con Fae oe tne in “seattle on buat, (stable Nathaniel “Irontreo has ness, has brought the news {@ivea the problem of the mys terious Sunday jage For three months frontree has been worrled by having to lock up various Jingled persons, Yesterday he searched the premises of Pete R, B, RICE TO BE 'Snark and found the cistern half full of hard cider. On being put m through a searching examination, Snark admitted that In cider season Hyas Tyee, RB. Rice last year he poured 16 barrels of. By a vote of 306 to apple juice Into the cister The | Sears, the Areti town chemist announced just before night elected R. B. Ric noon his test showed the cider was of the Ford Automobile Co., 58 per cent proof. for E. 8 Satu manager as Rice's chief duties will consist of | LAUNCH BURNED BLY FAIR TONIGHT AND TUE The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS ON THE SOUND TACOMA, June = 9.—L than ten minutes after she had landed 20 passengers on Vashon island, the passenger launch Mignonette ¢ fire and burned to the water's edge, midway between Point Defi- ance and Vashon. With his vessel enveloped in flames, A. J. Bachelor, m. of the Mignonette, sent launch ahead at full speed to the beach at the Point, while large crowds of plenickers lined the shores to watch the spec- tacular race. When the boat grounded on the beach the fire had eaten its way to within a foot of the gasoline tank The boat is a total loss. She was 54 feet long and was val- ued at $4,500. | ODD ITEMS KID BWALLOWS CANNON CHICAGO, une = =9.—-Coleman O'Shaughnessy,"3, swallowed a toy “|which were kicking and fighting. BDAY; LIGHT WESTERLY WINDS milk kind of Star. lation steadil years. The : foundation o HOME EDITION ON TRAINS AND NEWS STANDS, fe ONE CENT WOMAN FACE TRIAL ON NEGR “Color prejudice and pol I reckon that about th {They tried first to take my cl n trom me failed \if they could, or send me to prison, on the ‘co: ofa | will fail again. I'm not afraid | Mrs. Lorena Matthews, quoted above, is a guest at t central figure in the sensational Lawrence Matthews murder the courts of Oklahoma and Canada for the past six weeks Accompanied by her son, James, ja boy of 16, and her attorney, Mo- | man Pruiett, of Ok oma City, | Mrs Matthews is on her way from | Vancouver, B. C to stand trial at Guthrie, Okla, for the alleged mur- | der of her husband, Lawrence Matthews, in 1907 | HUSBAND FOUND | DEAD IN STABLE Matthews, a wealthy rancher, liv. ing near Stillwater, a college town, | was an invalid, His wife, physical-| lly a fragile woman, though en dowed with an indomitable spirit, ran the farm, plowing and baymak- ing with her men fn the fields Matthews was found dead in his barn almost under the heels of a kpan of mules. A coroner's jury,| after a post-mortem, returned a verdict that the deceased had died from natufal causes, The doctor's evidence was that Matthews’ kid- neys, liver and heart were en-| larged, the heart being two and a/ half tin the normal size, and/ clotted with blood Matthews, it was testified, had gone to the barn to quiet the mules, | “The day after (he funeral,” anid | Atty. Prulett toda Mrs. Mat-| thews recelved a letter from a law- \yer named J. M. Springer, asking for her legal business. She won his enmity by refusing. | “Shortly after a dishwasher in a resteurant, an old man named Baker, complain to juvenile | court that Mrs. Matthews was not| ja fit mother for her children. NEGRO FOLLOWS | WOMAN TO CANADA “The prejudice against negroes {is strong ta Oklahoma, as you) know. The Matthewses employed an {literate Black man, named Jim Campbell, as servant and farm hand. Mrs. Matthews, defying Io- cal prejudice, often ordered Jim to hitch up and take her to town on shopping and business errands Mrs, Matthews shipped her entire stock of farm implements and all her horses and mules to Edmon ton, Alberta, where she took land The negro followed her four months later. You do not, perhaps, know the nature of the Southern ro farmhand, Campbell's name been coupled with a white woman's, and he was mighty proud “He asked Mrs. Matthews for a i Mrs. Carl Axel Westman, al- though charged with murder in the/ first degree, may be allowed to go} on ball, pending her trial, a privi- job. She refused, and when he “a d her, she complained to the !ege that is seldom granted in such Police, who arrested him. Then it cases. ‘This was indicated today when the matter was taken up be- tween the prosecuting attorney and Mrs, Westman’s attorneys, Gay & Olson of Seattle. Mrs. Westman was arraigned at | Port Orchard before Judge French | this morning, and entered a plea of “Not guilty.” The bail is to be fixed | was that he ‘confessed’ that he and Mrs, Matthews had smothered Mat thews to death in the house, clothed his corpse and carried it to the; barn, and that he had been living at Edmonton with Mrs, Matthews as man and wife riding in royal robes in all the pa-| cannon, The stomach pump saved MRS, MATTHEWS FREE [at $10,000 rades, issuing pronunciamentos, his life. Mrs. Westn w ted Sat- whatever they are, proclamations, | ON BIG BAIL. | Mrs e man as arres ed Sat-| edicts, ete., etc, and wearing paint SAVE STRANDED SLEUTH “Extradition proceedings at Ed-| "day on information secures | oy | on his face. | WINDOW IN RAID CHICAGO, June 9.—Firemen ran|Monton failed, the authorities re) it nile she and 2 5 ‘Nowe | |up ladders and rescued a city de-| {using to return Mrs. Matthews (0) no ieay, her neighbor, who testi: | a i |tective marooned on a roof ~ Oklahoma on the ground t hat Camp- Darvon Bar Nelee ee. Moe ae, LOS AN' June 9.—Right| Ut 19 climbing knocked down the| iS a ahen he anid he and Mrs, der was committed, were detained Fs. whose ‘aneezeawe fro 14 OS eee Matthews had killed her husband, | iy etapa vy Bee Eimer ria 8, and seven men are under ar-|,, ABET . * uck to it that there had been |tempt to gain a confessto! ‘om | rey Tavern, near Venice According | UNIONTOWN, N. Y., June 9.—|he told the murder story in the|Phone placed In thelr room, proved WASHINGTON, June 9.—The U. to the officers, one of the girls was | After walkifg a mile through the|/hope that it would frighten Mrs. fruitless. $. supreme court denied to the in-|captured after she had. leaped|town in his pajamag without being | Matthews into marrying him According to Mrs, Westman, she terstate commerce commission to-|through a window, while another,|seen and jumping into the Hudson|” “Mrs, Matthews moved to Van.|!8 @ victim of “Gossiping Island, day jurisdiction over interurban|who threatened to commit suicide, |iver, Melville Hayes, somnambu- couver, and then a second attempt |the name she has contemptuously igen Cokie. ap Ln seeneaee Temes Ue pene fovey aunties jist, awoke and swam ashore, was made at extradition. This time|siven Bainbridge Island in a decision continulag the pres.) The raid, which was made in} wu Te auceeeded, and my client return-| Strong featured, keen of mind, ent fares from Omaha to Councll|connection with the antlviee cam-| KING LIKES NOVEL ed to Oklahoma, and we secured a! well educated, strong fn spirit, Bluffs paign, came while, it {9 alleged,|. LONDON, June 9.—A London! change of venue from Paine connty | Mrs. Westman maintains a stoic, Te upheld the ruling of the com-|drinking and “ragging” at the tav.(toller, Arthur Maultby, is the au-|to Guthrie, the emplital of the state. |stolid indifference to Oe conan merce court, which enjoined the|ern were at their height. The of. | thor of the latest historic novel, Now we have been going back over|of her neighbors who have en Interstate Commerce. Commission |ficers claim that liquor was served |“Detained by the King,” placed in the ground in Canada, taking depo-| dissatisfied with the verdict of the from making effective Its order re-| without question to girls barely in ducing (res their teens COUN TD HEAR WY THING a a ‘wv [[ 1) Hearn ix || JusT MB [Pian o£ the royal Hbrary at Buckingham palace SIDE-LIGHTS ON SEATTLE HOME LIFE LPAVE IT j Tomet | | A ors Down pow | sTARS! i a: b | | | . | ~~ ° Pe ° ve which acquitted her. Matthews is out un-lcoroner’s jury thought of her Only when the a a —! Fm sitions. Mrs. ‘der $25,000 bail.” twas vost] Ott tec | Dac and ee | | 4 - THAT SHE SLEW HER HUSBAND _ MUDGES ARE EXPENSIVE ARTICLES-~SOME FIGURES ON THE COST OF OUR HARD-WORKING NINE WILL BE PRINTED IN TOMORROW'S STAR As people tire of reading the skimmed papers, they come to The The Star has increased its circu- y and consistently for 14 Star is established on the f public confidence. BOY IN ALLEY RETURNING HOME TO 0S WORD Now they would me he Sea hotel. She is the case, which has been before Mrs. Lorena Matthews and Her Son James, at the Seattle Hotel. WIDOW ARRAIGNED ON MURDER CHARGE; PLEADS NOT GUILTY children obtrudes itself does Mrs. Westman succumb to a paroxysm of grief. Her entire reserve the! breaks completely, and she is con- vulsed with tears. “The gossips would tear the ba- bies, six beautiful babies, from their mother,” she cries bitterly. “They have no heart at all. They have nothing else to do but to meddle and break up families, Shal- low people with too much time on their hands, they are.” And to the last little old Mrs. Pe ter Barbeau, who is detained as a witness, remains loyal to her friend “What will become of the title ones?” she cries. “They need need their mother so.” Mrs. Westman is confident of her acquittal. She had been separ ated for over a year from her hus- mand, and had entered a suit for df vorce. There was no reason why I could not have obtained the di- voree,” said Mrs, Westman. “The murder charge {s silly.” The sheriff found in the posses sion of Mrs. Westman, when he ar- rested her, warm love letters ad- dressed to her from Peter Barbeau, husband of the little woman who has remained so loyal to her, Bar beau is not now in Washington, and neither of the women would discuss the letters Island gossip has it that the West. mans were estranged by Barbeau. VOLCANOES ARE BELCHING FIRE SEWARD, Alaska, June 9,—The Katmai group of» ‘voleanoes, the eruption of which caused great damage on Kodiak island and the Seward peninsula last year, is ain in eruption, Katmai is belching great col- umns of snoke and fumes, the odor of which was noticeable here last night. The sun is visible ‘yet, but the sky is overcast and copper col: ored, The volcanoes in eruption Include Mounts Katmai, Redoubt, St. Au- gustine, Iliamna and Peulik, the latter overlooking Becherof lake. Tho average bookkeeping or shorthand graduate of Ilyatt-Fowells School, Fourth and Pine, earns back the entire cost of ction the first two montha he nployed ¢