The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 21, 1914, Page 1

a ere Are the Clues of Catherine Winters’ Disapp earance Special Dispatch patie < ; ‘ - i When the gyi | was entent, < FOUR wagons were r “NEWCASTLE, Ind, I 21.-The Neweastle FA UNDREDS of persons in Seattle and King county are devoting much time to searching for found. The fitt ‘ ; a ‘ , ; city council at its weekly meeting adopted a resolu Catherine Winters, spurred on by The Star’s offer of $300 reward, to be paid to anyone who Nae dike ona the 60 odd American afternoon news will produce the girl in this office. Patrolmen are keeping a sharp watch throughout the city, while Py De Wistard. 5d ment of ix dex ne 7 The Seattle Star, which leagued sheriffs are chasing down and searching gypsy bands in the country. nown who could have any conceivable motive at all, either to a nation-wide hunt for 10-year-old eatlety 6 ude or for blackma wee the ; The ers, the lost or stolen daughter of Dr up from them some theory that will ald In the aucceseful ter | A traveling man, B, L. Pickering, took the noon train north woh Bard arden would eucely Have n revealed city mination of the nation.wide quest for little Catherine? and noticed a woman in black and a Mttle girl answering ver u . Nie ce ae eae : nate Wipe eee clonely the description of Catherine Wisters, who came aboard ‘ci ‘i, hina oe of Neweaatle, Ind, After nearly a year of patient work upon her father | jerked the little girl away from the window, as If she wanted 1OORLEE LOFLR WOR Rat Whe maee sie dows 1 = macula them, the detectives have thrown up thelr hands In despair. Now A great number of people saw five gypsy wagons leave town her to be unseen by people in the station, — Saks a ted country doctor was nes ¥ A Ppa ite YOUR chance to do eome detective work, n't YOU bulld at noon Catherine, on her way ho must ha ed both the | a RAIN TONIGHT AND SUNDAY, HIGH SOUTH ST SHIFTING TO SOUTHWEST WINDS PT TTULULLULLLULLLLULLLLLLLLLLLLCcLLLLLLLLA CLE co ET Soon aon = = More Than = =| z zN 43,000 | | = 2|— N= | Paid Copies Daily |= aie senaes =| EDITIO | r SI Y PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT 2 NE = eee acta SMA AAAUULAAUUGAUU ANU EUAN AANA A THE ONL STU HNNAANUUNGAADENUALOUAIANGAOUUAENAANOANUOONAAUIOEENUUAE VOLUME 158 NO. 308. ON TRAINS NEWS BTANL $30,000 REWARD, DEAD OR ALIVE! Offered for Train Robbers Who Murdered Three Passengers Near Bellingham Last Night “HANDS OFF, EVERYBODY! |F OUR SUSPECTS | “Hands Off!” Says the Supreme Court to the City of Seattle. “Hands Off! It’s Not | G ATH E R F p | N ! Up to the City---It’s Up to the Public Service Commission to Prevent Overcrowding on BELLINGHAM, Feb. 21.—Four suspects were arrested today in connection — ATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY BRUARY 21, 1914 Street Cars!” Hands Off! The City Was Told That in the Four-Cent Ticket Case, Too. And the ~— Soe ee Ge ek ae brig Northern City Kept Its Hands Off. It DID Go to the Public Service Commission. And the Public were alesittnes custody ai Alger and two at Se dre: Woelley Orficer an Service Commission Ruled for the People. And Then Along Came a Court Decision Mi tke thee ee Ot eee Which Again Said: “Hands Off! It’s Not Up tothe Public Service Commission. It’s All possible means of escape for the bandits are being guarded by a dozen _ or more posses of armed men today, and it is the hope of the officers that the des= peradoes will be caught before night. The reward of $30,000 for the bandits, offered by the railroad, many men to join in the man-hunt. aoe Early this morning Dave and Moses Henry, veteran hunters Of ~ Skagit county, took their hounds to the place where the bandits left the train. PRESIDENT HILL 19 up over the hiliside, with Up to the Court.” : It’s “Hands Off!” if the City Acts; It’s “Hands Off!” if the Public Service Commis- sion Acts. The Courts Are Our City Council, Our Public Service Commission---the Whole Blamed Shooting Match. ‘Hands Off,” Everybody Except the Courts! GYPSY BAND AND +0, Ho! oo vou -) LITTLE GIRL ARE i] The dogs took a trail at once, trailin: the strong-limbed hunters behind. Another posse is scouring the mountainside from Blanchard, and — still another posse left the city and is searching the woods in the vicin+ ity of Alger. 3 Sheriff L. A. Thomas of Whatcom county and Deputy Sheriff Ste venson of Skagit county are both out with posses. J. J. Davis of Seattle and E. J. Keith of Everett, detectives for tl ee Great Northern, arrived this morning with a number of men and if | | ‘arching for the bandits, The combined forces make a form! } For the captare of the twormen, @rmy. |gullty of the robbery and murder jat Samish last night, whether |dead or alive, the Great Northern Tracks Guarded by Riflemen; Bloodhounds Will Be Put on Trail. GEORGE'S WARD? Rall Co. will pay $20,000. The railroad tracks for five miles about the scene of the ho | L. W. Hill, president of the road, 4T¢ guarded by men armed with rifles. 5 “LT have observed with much tn Jarrived in Seattle this morning and Every bridge, crossroad and railroad station for miles about | jmade the announcement that the | Closely guarded. Pe ee ee ation | reward had been substantially in It was expected that the bloodhounds from Monroe would be on - Trenholme's support,” said Hi Gill creased scene this morning, but the man in charge failed to connect with tl SUPREME COURT REFUSED A LOAN CITY HELPLESS SHOOTS } HIMSELF n an opinion written by Judge Main|death in the Providence hospital and concurred in by the other Jus-|from a self-inflicted wound in the ' abdomen, made after he waa re This is the famous “strap-hang-|fused a loan of money by ©. K ers” ca » decision further| Takahashi, former hese con emphasizes the helplessness of the| sul, in the latter's private office at city to exercise a lative pow-| 212 8. Fifth ay who I# president of the Trading Co, immediately hooting to the police. ers ove Migato, Oriental reported the AS? ubile service corporations until the legislature should grant it home rule. The cit ance cil had passed an or a schedule for #0 as to avoid the operation OEAK crowding. election cam s ght for the final ant a “Tne ono helA he WANO 16 ALWAYS A held both for Ht IG WE IY; enholme. The lat egos te pporters will meet at the iin e Gill will speak chool and Olt nd Lane CEFALO SENTENCED st Lo efalo, who killed his « a quarrel on Jan. 6, plead . t to manslaughter today Judge Frater. He was sen ed to one to 20 years at Wal citre Ja Walia. DECISION SHOWS |TORETURN HOME, | Until the public service commts-} “I am too old to work. I sion prevents overcrowding in street | $1,200 to get me back to Japan. cars and prepares a schedule forthe | If you don't let me have the; operation of Seattle Electric Co.| money I'll kill myself.” cars, the city has no right to inter-| So spoke Kunijo Migato, 46, a fere | Japanese laborer, living at the So has declared the supreme court| Nippon hotel, who is lying near | devote the balance of his time to | supporting my candidacy } Where did I get my votes? I carried every ward in the city ex |cept the 10th and 13th, and these p were carried by Judge Winsor. I was second and Trenholme a bad baw i - TROUBLE! BERLIN, Feb. 21.—That as a re- | sult of the Benton affair, European | governments were exchanging [notes with a view | | action to concerted in Mexico or to a demand that America act, was reported |here today. The rumors lacked | confirmation ASK INJUNCTION The Kyres petition In day, asking tion inst to prevent Transfer Co the supertor a permanent the Teamsters’ union Assaults on non-union men and destruction of transfer property, which the declare has been in progress since the declaration of a strike last December. THEY'LL MARRY TODAY PORTLAND, Feb. 21,—Le gal obstacles to the entr nto the United States of Bernard Dillon ager for Marie Lloyd, the h comedienne, having been pt aside, the Jockey rmer Was expected to reach thia city at 4:30 o'clock today, where all is in read) ness for bis marriage to the actress, | complainants | @bitter want, dead R. W. HAMLIN, drowned at San ta Barbara J.C, ROCKWELL, drowned at Carpentiera. - - MISS GRACE SPRAGUE, drown- ST, LOUIS, Feb. 21.—The ed at Victorville. Greatest depths of mother-love GONZALES, Mexican, A MOTHER'S LETTER Ed. drowned in Los Angeles. were sounded when Mra. Other reports of fatalities were | ward Harte, a poverty-stricken | OFFERING HER LIFE} ..ccivea here, but. up to 11 am mother, offered to end her own . ’ Fecotved :tiare bat Mf life that her body might go to President Medical College: a % cca rd a the dissgcting table, to keep her Dear Sir:—I am badly in between here and Pasadena little 3-year-old girl from starv- need of money for my hus hed away by the flood " y | 0 | “The me! ust be positively | train eee scents Satan: Sette elton ioe ma tae ot yar e wtbscryeaeaearngd eS. xi: identified” sald Mr. Hin It The bodies of R. L. Lee of Bremerton and Thomas F. Wads turned to Seattle late last night | been ayia nae Bethel! De. makes no difference whether they | "od H. R. Adkison of Vancouver, B. C., killed by the holdups, are after an all-day hunt around Both- | Josep’ oye ee age =e “The wail of George Cotter- are brought in alive or dead.” in a local morgue, awaiting word from relatives. ell and Kirkland, looking into re-| pa may hed we arn ~ # re. lil over the sources of my vote A description of the two men, Mrs, Herbert Vanderwerker and her six-year-old daughter, of B¥- ports concerning the lost Catherine} am ag oe Porte Winters near. are pathetic, in view of the | |sent broadcast over the Northwest | ¢rett, were on the train, sitting in the seat nearest where the three pas- Winters. Serer Ace’ Gaaa Ga" tae: Baattso| tase thak-1 eaeeibe’ tai. oieak |today, giver the age of one as|Sengers battled with one of the bandits and were shot to death. 4 With important clues obtained | Bothell! tn eT tie) | ee a . about 23 or 25. | Mrs, Vanderwkerker says a small man, dressed in a brown suit, yonatteay, Depsty Smith took an |Bighw out 16 youre old aaa) ‘Pe precinct, a0 well a6 the He has dark hair and dark com- face covered with a handkerchief, stepped into the front door of early morning train out of Seattle girl wa ean Sek bebesd Eke whole of his ward, and | beat plexion. He we a brown suit! day coach, fired a pistol and called in a loud voice for every one to put | pee ge gs me oe tif A py cinaie of the Wintars girl Mr. Trenholme in his own | and a cap, and when he bought a|up his or her hands Ba) ments. le wou not say ” ° joke ‘ore gray overcoa e intended to go iar tee ccemme’ hs a vageul ss € AA I \{x or stout build. and’ has a tui, Woman Passenger Tells the ni was given the hey were ve s to the statement that Mr : lay eer oben M. E. Ander- and had camped at the side of the Pigott has aligned himself with | orNe roa man fs smaller and Story oF Robbery Aan Mice: ‘ eon, a retired contractor, liv: |jroad. They were working a pair s é “roi rs Loe ante hiked Instantly he ran the length of the car—my seat Was the next to — | las with hie daughter, Mrs. of bay horses Mr. Trenholme, | will say I am a blue su nd “| the last, on the right-hand side of the car,” she said. “Waving his pis Bs tal Mallet, at 5227 12th av. I saw them first In camp thr disinclined to believe it | tol, he sprang to the door of the coach and turned the key. © { offered an additional re. | miles north of Bothell on the Pa I have personally heard Mr. At this juncture a man seated in the rear seat, on the opposite i ward of $50 for the safe re- (cifie highway the 10th of the! Pigott in the recent campaign ac side of the aisle from me, leaped to his feet, struck at the bandit and j turn of the girl to The Star |month. They passed my place the) cuse Mr. Trenholme of the moat | F UR DRO jattempted to imprison his arms. \ office. }next day, six miles north of Both-| base personal dishonesty, and 1 | wo men seated immediately behind me ar to the assistance ? Anderson formerly lived In New-/ell, going toward Everett have heard him state that Mr q | of the passenger ( | castle, Ind., the home of Catherine Adds $50 to Reward Trenhoime had expended $26 i ’ q The three grappled with the robber, who, when bent partly over Winters, and has known the little, “f want to add $50 to the reward|of money contributed by the - * Bouse the seat on which I was sitting, twisted loose his right arm, and with girl all her life. He is deeply af-|offered by The Star,” said M. E.|tle Electric Co., and o' corpora rs. Edward Harte and Her Daughter ja fust ade of shots from an automatic pistol struck down his victims. fected by her mysterious kid-| Anderson, “I have known the little| tions. 1 have also heard him at oe eee ea | It happened so suddenly that I was paralyzed. ' naping. girl all her life, and saw her not 14 tribute to Mr. Trenholme the most LES, Feb Four “My little girl, seated beside me, never uttered a word. The blood Further evidence of the pres-|months ago. My daughter, Mre.| corrupt of motives in his candi were known to have met/from the wound in the face of the first man shot spurted across the ence north of Seattle of a gypsy Lulu Mallet, saw Catherjne a few) dacy, and have heard him state in y in the storm which | back of the seat and struck me in the face. } wagon and a little white girl re-'minutes before she was kidnaped. |City Hall park that, should Mr. n raging in Southern Cail-| While the murderer was doing his deadly work, his partner, stan@- J | Trenhoime be nominated he would \fornia for the past 48 hours. The} {ng at the opr site end of the car, continued to fire his pistol over the | heads of the terrified passengers, and in order to avoid the danger te | | himself from any stray shot fired from the smoker, stepped in from the. aisle, alongside of a woman who occupied a seat in that portion of the | coach é Remembers Object of Visit |After Shooting Three Men Down. | “The three murdered men dropped in the rear end of the coach, and the robbers ordered us in that portion of the coach to hand over our valuables. oe | “I had just dropped my bag upon the floor and had placed my feet upon It. As the robber stepped over the prostrate form of one of his victims, I handed him my purse, with $4 in silver in it Occupants of the seats ahead of me, seven or eight of them, I 8 is wi |should judge, handed over their purses. In the center of the car sev i , band, a railroad man who | eral women, hysterical, were proferring their purses and jewels, calling yard ‘her heartbreaking otter of [lost his job because of be- | DONT DO YOUR) sy 00 tue danaits to come and take their valuables regard her heart-breaking offer o : " “Then the bandit entered the car, and when in the middle of the the sale of her life as a sacrifice fing in a wreck and who is coach, his nerve suddenly deserted him, With a shout to his compat — at all unable to find employment I wouldn't have wanted to live. SHOPPINGEARLY eis maid. it my little Bettie. ba mt ao not get money soon died of starvation, and so, you see,|Jmy baby and I will be put Stes baieher shade tn Gentle onal |{t wouldn't have been a sacrifice. I\Pout in the street and starve. |) not going to observe Washington's knew if I didn’t get the money, right [| would like to know if I | birthday by closing half a day Mon-| that ba 1 y would die. jay quick had no food in the house, no coal| Can sell my body to the f/day. | This was ge te men ha ad no foo adored - Se A a was found e pw store: | for the stove; not enough clothes to }medical college for $300. }! ihe city will remain closed @ thal keep Dottie warm. She was fll, get Please let me know as soon | holtday | tin worse each day I loved bh - as possible Respectfully, EDWARD HARTE, 1023 Armstrong Av too much to let. her die. 1 worried until I was heartsick “She shivered and cried for food. [iT MUST COME | filed a court t injune MRS and I made up my mind It only cholee of which one Of Us | ee Patt pats ive. Harte him It w tgnor t of th WASHINGTON Feb. 21 Dis. arte himself was fgnorant of the " ‘ote the letter to the cussing woman suffrage in the Pv ak Alb the letter to the tact that his wife had offered to die. | house. today, Representative. Kahn Mrs. Harte doesn’t have to die for her baby now Her husband has been given em You mean that you would have committed suicide?” Mrs. Harte | was asked ' of California said that equal rights was inevitable. : “We might as well capitulate now | | : eres ve pe. Ployment; food, clothing and fuel rte said | “1 offered to die!” the mother re Reads ma nhilanT ate chat te (ae later ae: I know [ could have | beem Paid; a physician attends the | h, ye Kno ould have | bean pe } t Dottie to an orphan asylum; |*!¢k baby ROGER IN THE COOP]! lots of charitable people told me . | that, But 1 would rather be dead DIAZ IS IN NEW YORK “Sin nancisco, Pep ni than have to live alone and have my Batet Willkoetaheeaid venue ae De ae aaylum, from which It; ew YORK, Feb, 21.—Fellx|gan's automobile: and rode about The colle couldn't acept the Piaz arrived here today from Ha ae rote betas - poe Bally was $2 ‘ollec ‘om mothe mother’s rab ition On | vana, on the lingr Morro Castle.) gown in Santa Ana, She's ch," | a the ‘mot int be ed over! Diaz would not say whether he will] said Wilson. Ninety days. o the people of St, Lous ; ; * | They Investigated and found Mra,|8° to Washington and discuss the! wWasiINGTON, Fob, 912-Prési Harte, her baby and her husband tn peas situation with President | gent Wilson shook hands with 1,700 | Wilson, visiting Knights of Pythias, | the robbers, was 35 years old, had ion, who was ahead of him, he dashed for the door and sprang off the train “When the bandit entered the car, the train was traveling at a fair rate of speed, but within an instant after the fatal shooting, some one gave a signal and the train came to such a sudden atop that my little girl and myself were almost jolted from our seats.” The robbers boarded the train at Burlington, Robert L. Lee, the first vietim of Thomas F. Wadsworth, Canadian Pacifie conductor, lived at 299 28rd been an employe of the Puget + sound navy yard since June 30, “Ys Vancouver, B.C. He was re 1912. He lived at Bremerton, He turning from a visit with his wife was well known as a worker in the and daughters at San Diego, Cal. Methodist chureh H. 4%. Adkison, the third vietim, As time clerk in the navy de- lived in Vancouver with his wife partment, he had established aland two daughters. He was fore fine record, He was on his way) merly a member of the contracting to visit friends at Bellingham ana Mount Vernon, His parents live in Ackerland, Kas. PASS TREATIES WASHINGTON firm of Adkison 47 years old attle on & Dill. He was and had gone to Se business. TOWN, Feb, 21.—Four Feb. Arbi-| QU tration treaties with Spain, England, | teen life savers perished in the surf Norway, Sweden, Portugal, Switz-|{oday while attempting to reseug the crew of the Norwegian schooner Mexico, ashore off the coast of Wex ‘ford. The crew was saved. erland and Italy were day by the senate, ratified to LIFE SAVERS DIE WHO VICTIMS ARE