The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 14, 1914, Page 1

» ‘ . : : eae . ‘XPERT o Kic affaifs sz very a with air v4 b) GIRLS knew how well a fellow likes to walk with them when they're MILLIONAIRE in San Francisco and one in Cincinnati have ite 2 nial “ sy Ate us i / ‘ sch tag ‘ pe: a see + . . , of shoe and a elluloid collar 8 firec 1 amb 7 to ber a t B hoppiig along, three steps to the yard, they might soon go back to been arrested on white slave charges. All chickens don’t go Well say ai siypais fi 4 adits sp aye psig «. mp § the old-fashioned wide skirt home to roost, then. They're “ani them to run for seaal lent iia ¥ - H P : eT TU AALUERLRLLLLLELLALLLLLLLLLLLLLLALL Lone More Than || | 43,750 Paid Copies Daily Sav AUAUULAMELSAUAAS NET PIM MT THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS | VOLUME 16 NO. 16 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, MARCH 14, 1914 ONE CENT 03,2Ha1ys ane <TANDS | SCAFODS TEPS (UT DOWN OUR DIVORCES! The SeattleStar [Missy SOUM UTNE MOM By Fred L. Boalt. are equally severe, Divorce in British Columbia is expensive and t | One thousand and twenty-one divorce suits were filed in King county in 1913. But one can come to W ngton, estab esidence by re ling one 9 D Of these 75 per cent were uncontested ° aaa t divorce on any 1 grounc And 99 per cent were granted ‘compatability of temperame ' meat 1 not It popular The proportion of < es to marriages in Seattle is 1 to 3 ground 4 In Kansas City they have a Divorce Investigator He has been in office one year A nae, Sad . ee < os age write: : pu a face 1 “A to Phe Fi q and s reduced divorces in that city 40 per cent : : eidtper ' Mice alt apie» Mpa pee ee te pert Sk a : In other words, he has found that in four cases out of 10 divorce is preventable a Aes ave : as to chile ‘i ; piye pap - . idee I New Evidence May Save Factory Divorces cannot be abolished, but they can be greatly reduced in numbers. They mar OREO: Ee rae leg ete. ewe Pe yy did it in Kansas City, WHY NOT IN SEATTLE? f ih : Pe sees ere ey tee ee Owner From “Blood Atonement pisce it . “The ides . The idea of a Divorce Investigator,” said Judge Dykeman, who tries more divorce “Oe M vi | 4 f Gi ] E | : ¢ divorce laws of the state of Washington are not loose, Seattle runs) sits than any other of the superior court judges, “is sound. Even if he brought about only for Murder o lr! HmMploye. Reno a close second as a refuge for those seeking escape from marital discontent. an occasional reconciliation, the existence of the office would be justified. In New York state divorce is granted on one ground only—infidelity. Other state “The Investigator would have to be a person of much tact and sympathy. The act |of filing a divorce petition marks the crisis in the lives of the unhappily married. I am inclined to believe that the Investigator should not be a lawyer. Perhaps it would be a good idea to have two—a man and a woman.” ATLANTA, Ga. March 14 I am being made BLOOD SACRIFICE! The state of Ge life be taken who was r a a wills that my atonement for the poor little girl 1 by another.” This is the dramatic declaration of Leo M. Frank, well-to-do \ lawyer who specializes in divorce work said to me: “An Investigator probably Jew, who is sanvernse to die for the murder of Mary Phagan, a would put a crimp in my practice, but if he could reduce the evil I would mind B girt employe in his factory here. » io ennkanhen Eien Ara aag ; hick ata : tS 5 Five persons whose evidence was most incriminating to The u ested ca I ne to which would nee al attention. Frank, have just made affidavit that their original statements It is not long before a knows the real ins facts of lf he is anything of a student of human nature, he n discovers that ghty or the le of Georgia ure now asking themselves If they husband is surly or the her-in-law has been interfering 4 Rot about to commit. in the name Of Justice, © second murder, as brutal “The true facts scarcely ever come out in an uncontested case. The wife doesn’t like and base as the first the way the husband pa his hair. Or the and doesn’t want t \ The solemn conviction that Frank !s innocent fs moving the minds wife to go to moving- of thousands of his fellow citizens. picture shows. Or something equally ivi It is asserted that enough new and suppressed evidence has been ob- | “They agree to separate. The man usually ‘plays the game’ like a sport. He tells ee tained by the defense to acquit him {f given another trial | n < his wife to go ahead and the divorce and sthat he won't contest so long as she doesn't make the grounds too raw “The wife g into court with one or two witnesses—relati or bosom _ friends. They prove ‘de on’ or ‘incompatibility,’ and the court never discovers the truth—which us vat they squabbled, said hard, bitter things which they instantly regretted, and were too proud and stubborn to ‘make up . Five affidavits just mad» publ are claimed to prove that the trial | of Frank was a hounding and persecution Mrs. Nina Formby solemnly swears that her original affida- vit, which was one of the most potent of the documents that in criminated Frank, was aboslute- ly false, and that it had been PETITE CECILE made at the instigation of the prosecution, after she had been plied with liquor. Albert McKnight, a negro, FORWEART BALM| eis eernzs | break down Frank's alibi, and — told heavily inet him, now declares upon cath that he lied, ally t lhe Star would like expressions of opinion from readers concerning the suggested jremedy, or a other, for the divorce evil “{PAID $100 TO HAVE MY HUSBAND KILLED™ —Reported Confession of Mrs. Werner. | “How much would you want to put my husband away?” “Oh, it ought to be worth $100.” #4 | In order to obtain part of the re- | “ : : ward promised him by the pros This Photograph Shows What the Breaking Dam Did to Houseboats on Lake Union. This One Is ecution. on the East Side of the bake oe » ene oe C. M. Brittain and William McCausiin. George W. Epps, jr, a news- boy, whose story on the witness stand also told heavily against ‘ , Frank, admits his story was un- a frameup which detectives ew him into. "BROKEN DAM LOWERS LAKE Woman Says She Was Forced to Wed Mrs. Myrtle Anderson, in her suit for divorce from A. R. Anderson, declares she was forced to marry him December 29, 1913, by thr ond floor of the factory, w that of the murdered Frank's office was on thy js Giri’ Berse Recerm, | This conversation is alleged to have been held between Mrs. Henry Werner and ond floor, and the presefice of | Svicrticet would bring unpleasant Frank Picont, alias Roderigo Rocco, according to a confession said to have been made © svee ents againet him. * | When the Fremont dam in thejof life. An {t wax, lowlands along|| prosecution against her [| by the woman shortly after her arrest in connection with the murder of her husband, father, George Nelson, if she refuse She says the outrage of the | The story'of Frank's ‘awyers is Lake Union-Saimon Bay canal broke |the canal were flooded. that the murder of Mary Phagan | Yesterday, lowering the water of Maj. J. B. Cavanaugh, who Is In | came as the @lmination of 15 homi-| Lake Union six feet, several score charge of t anal work, has Henry Werner, a rancher near Issaquah, last week Piconi was lodged in the county jail this morning by Under Sher mick, who brought him from Cle Elum, where he was arrested late yi McCor- terday afternoon, — of houseboats, mostly occupied by stated that the dam will be rebuilt wedding 90 worked on her po 2 . fs . T7ei bates bat cvtaiaad on oovie poor people, leaned lakewgrd on although the exact location has not mind that she tried to kill He refuses to talk. The story, as told by Mrs, Werner to the officials, is alleged. to con=~ tions in these cases, and were) thelr front porebes. been determined. It is probable} herself, then escaped from tain the statement that she paid Rocco $100 to commit the murder. charged on afl sides with Mcompe-| Gas, electric, water and sewer|that @ new site for the structure } Mer husband the day after Admitted All to Star tency, They arrested Frank and |connections were broken when the| Wlll be chosen and Efforts to. secure the apprehen-| jeoncocted the whole case against houseboats, straining at their moor To Build $10,000 Dam sion of Picon! were redoubled after him, his Attorneys charge, just in or- ings, slid down the incline as the) The ruined dam was built of {Saturday night, when Mrs. Magda-| der to regain credit for efficiency ater fell piling and-brush about 11 years ago lina Werner, according to officials, won your honor's presence, and | Reconstruction of the Fremont av.{by the government at a. cost of MRS. PANKHURST lgontégees thet be th the tan To | in the presence of the Supreme — bridge began today under the direc. about $4, The new dam, to meet sponsible for the murder of her} my | Judge of us both” Franx dra tion of Supt. Case of the street de-| present conditions, will cost about | husband | F | matically proclaimed to the (partment. The water rushing intos $10,000 | In an exclusive interview with a| We . | court when sentence was pass = the canal swept away the wooden The tide was going out at the | Stur reporter Mrs. Werner the cole } ed, “I assert that | am innocent |*pan in the center of the bridge. crest of the accident, and that fact |day admitted she had made, a full £ CLEVEL March 14.—This| f Mary Phagan’s death! This was the temporary part of the made the flood a less serious | confession to the authorities, and i is pretty p ’ Cecile Harris, who “The law says that when one = Structure. The 5 anent portions menace. The channel widens near |told the reporter that # man named| There will be no fireworks i when | Job, 1 job, Mayor- elect Gill told a Star 4 "aviator Harry N. Atwood| human being has lost his tify [Of the bridge were not badly dam-|the Northern fic bridge, and | Frank had killed hey husband as| Hiram C. Gill strolls into the may- reporter that he simply intended oe ss aren through the violence of anoth. “ed aided in decreasing the effect of protection to her. ors office. Monday noon and to “walk into the office at noon. ” worth of rt ba | . ; Other property in the vie the hin the t - y = a, , Harris eave t Atwood| @f, the perpetrator of thd deed = Dee ee ah pal Inity au n ina on, mS Ee Cree LONDON, March 14.—Mre. Pank. Hoped He Would E .,|ts down to his task of running’ roll up my sleeves and go to work. wooed and propor: to her and| ust answer with his own. But et 9 ye st ‘tne’ toga WASHE Wad taleened: trom: Holloway It had to come,” she said. “I| Seattle. 1 have already qualified for the the law does NOT say that ‘l#re that the channel freq when one human being is killed, i#ke, built to carry off 2 BLOOD SACRIFICE chal! be Waters, cared nicely for the gre made of the next convenient Part of the flood, and prevented a|prevent further loss in case of Ment of imprisonment under the asked for protection, but didn’t} So both Gill and Cotterill stated office and there will be no fuss and dream it would come as it did. I| today Cotterill is glad it is all feathers of a formal and public in- who did it at first, for T)about to end, he said. auguration “Th rict is being made today, and ;Jall again today gineers will take precautions to| It concluded her seventh install at there | then spurned bh Mi wood's attorneys say t fs no truth in the char Ltn wn TI hen Bh rel would escape | Gill ts anxious to get to work in first thing I shall do will 7s mg. Pa whose encsgement to| individuall | am the victim of |*erious damage, with probable loss |emergency fame sentence for acts of suf) Eugene McGuire, a Milwaukee|the mayor's office and proceed |be to give a receipt to the former pl gs Ne ee ee ca eet ana.| that kind of blood sacrifice. | 7 FRA EBA TARA TOSao he ACT. | railroad conductor, —_recognized| with the new policies he has map-| mayor for the bonds of the city 9 See ened lant tne | am not afraid to die. | am not ee, eae On hunger strike, and piconi from pictures on posters dis-| ped out comptroller. Then I shall sign an call. ol tates wth pleading for life. | ask only for Tho tit ete ened the auld aie (tributed broadcast throughout the Cotterili’s Last Day order creating a new chief of | Rabe Gandia Ua Dati waa mae |e fair trial and a square deal!” Lo i h gh | z : “ ob-\Northwest by orders from Sheriff] “1 will be at my desk bright | Police ‘ their marriage this year | 4 UIS u ably would Kill her to feed ber | Cudihee land carly Monday." Cotterill said,|. “After that all the details of my rorcibly y t said, \ ‘ W. ‘ Werner was found, with his head | ready for any business that comes e™™, which I hope will be a good] Bs ” PARCEL POST as Fine Show/| At dawn nix nutfragetter, armed |nacked by a score of wounds, 1n his /up. T suppose there Will be a meeting Be for Seattle.” a with lo ndled hammers, smash: | pacnes DY & score of wounds, ive a lag : ‘ mea i 0 OAKLAND, Cal, March Jed the lower front windows of ret ane NY SOOT BeRe tone oe a maith will Yaquive os 4 — ome Secretary McK i" entios shall have my affairs NEW YORK, March 14—8y |] Siting In. Judge” Brown's {idence in Downlog #t Slayer Used Mattock here ready to turn over ta vem FAD LITTLE wap Ll @ unanimous vote of the board A mattock was used in the crime.|coming mayor and will be on band | of directors, steps are today be- cou ty Sapeted 96 dpplaue.an They did not try to escape, were it is being held by officials, who|with a smile of t E * | Abe 12 Y attorney's argument. arrested, rushed to Westminster A at h a smile of welcome for Mr.) OLYMPIA , March 14.—This am . empt to connect Pico: Sc 8! : ing taken to liquidate the af. “Do you think you are at [police court and sentenced to two ‘il! attempt to connect Picon! with Gill. No one will wish him more week's remittances from the vark 1 counties to State Treasurer Ed faire of the United States Ex- * the crime by comparison of his|hearty success than 1.” l l T a ball game or a theatre? |months tn jail at hard labor. tie Mee ak the ied | y FISH BUREAUS. 0 NOR HWES eoran se Takenteaee the dqmented sudee Grown, erence bead tins F sents h mina was nosy. tote h for taxes have swelled the pa eoblanger a oxen ypieab aie Leimert subsided When arrested Picont is sald to| ranging We eirica ee pers And st. state coffers by approximately $87mm success of the parcel post and 8 i is sa Jranging his office far the new oc- | 999 kinds m dishes,| The final signing ‘of the Alaskan} the recent ruling of the inter ¢ had tn his possession a blood: | cupant % 17 kinds of salmon speeches allway pill bY President Wilaon,| state commerce commission, re- ned knife and a handkerchief He'll Roll Up Sleeves Baby boy arrives at home of Mr, @ or four announcements of import will have immediate effect on locai | ducing express rates about 16 0 Ss RS with blood spots on it 5 - Smiling at the relief of seeing and Mrs. H. J. Lord, 1925 Queen J anee to the ¢ und attendance of eas, in the judgment of Cal-| per cent L | THI Ty. He at first denied any knowledge | someone who was not asking for al Anne av I over 300 packe 1 , from’) houn, Denny & Ewing of the Werners, but when an inter-| ~—--- essa oe th eter aie serine senate atts) ARRAIGN DIGGS 0s, »s0rr ey joy me Tae et ote j I sa ; pe ed he k em, but denied | Salmon ds superintendent of the Colorado In-| The name of Austin E, Griffiths (ee dhe knew then 1H ington F | through congress because the pub-| gan FRANCISCO Mar h 14,—/ dian reservation, awoke, yesterday |defeated candidate for the mayoral-|Any knowledge of the crime giving | ere’ Sa Tale of a Bull Pup’ s Tail Dr. E ic realizes thoroughly that even |«not guilty” was lea made to find 12 barrels of beer stacked |ty nomination, and former counell-|An apparently plausible story of his pointed de the cone tenors work alone Will nore today by Maury I Blaes, Wke| wittia the vesorvation. linia He|man, {s mentioned prominently to- oe Saab and after the date of | marked in he crime. ence upon bur sioner, 4 have f a appeared to plead to a charge of|doesn't know how they got there.|day as the possible choice to fill | iw) Seattle c of the state generally,” #414) attacking Miss Pearring, 1 They will be auctioned Monday. |the vacancy made by the resigna |, Question Him Today coast fishe ‘ ! ear ot the flea 9 The Bak - es - —— tion of Counciiman Petrce, which|,, The Italian was questioned by tag t rior the hi {t will be @ forerunt an taxaa attent Api | Sheriff Cudihee, Deputy Prosecutor Vs lantic, locate w York cit estment of thousands of dollars eee tLe tast Diacembes |t-mouer Writ ht and deputies today He also state tt ¢ other eapital (ist bas waited the trom the counoll, when he became| Mra. Werner has been in the tor ¢ IN'be pur-|action of the government, Aveandiante for mayor. He had |COUNty Jail since the Inquest 9 chase On ‘every hand throughout the tN coer onee enue 20 paiva then ssaquah a week ago Friday. With Pre f the Universi:| Northwest | new enterprises and |] her is her little baby girl, Agnes ty of announced the|new investment of capital have Hes 9 In a statement to The Star she 7 intent 0 ew |been } g nipon the outcome of |] Today on*page 7 of ‘The Seattle Star is « seabed. | MISSING GIRL declared that Werner iad repented: Lspcoale or waiting, as in the, a nice list of offerings to the RENT YER who is | us of throwing off the landlord's yoke and con- tributing his monthly rent money toward a home of tA THUS ENDETH ‘i | NOW. TS FOUND ir eines isis muses f ; The we! Ps RE Cer : cota Mrs. Verona. Trevidiion Thorn THE JOY RIDE, EIGHT INJURED : Hove argaing conset af various priced Wien daugmer ot ace sures evi! | FERRY WILL BE | homes—any one of which can be purchased for a |fj{on. dauanter ot te : ; it) wight {J} small cash payment and rental payments monthly ||| Mrs. ‘Trevillion, convinced that OURS MONDAY . no gh Hite wher This_is an opportunity of which “renter should |[|there was something mysterious | EL PASO, T March 14—,Another woman-said ft w en to the| an Upland car on the Pacific sie lhe dg sh EON LARS ey Sen Oe Zee Se sacs te sleet cape According to the pl { the ort Wehr ha spate Cieweey gee his Ber a nite ta jude lied lay, | tri reales 1st 240 Mey ar gains over care fully. If ye ut have a couple of hundred |B) rethy asker federal authoritt# to|commisston, the West Seattle ferry |Yide an infant in half when two i tea y c e North dollars, you would better select a place to look over to help in the search for her will become the property of the city | mothers ea@ claimed it. Judge It aval Christian, Congregational, Meth-| morrow, as you'll never get anywhere paying gent | Today it developed that Mrs. |of Seattle Monday The*ecity will}. BL McClintock rendered a new the color nobile fat and United Presbyterian} Every advertisement on page 7 under Renters’ Op- jf Thornton, with her husband. had|operate under the present system] kind of verdict. Margarita Val a when we on, a|churehes, having completed thetr | is a bona-fide bargain J | been living in Seattle all the time,|of charging one fare, good for both | despino claimed a bull pup ad It cut off,” e ned = Mar. R,, . union service, resume regular serv: | g , |Jlexcept for a few weeks spent In] boat ride and car ride up the The dog was produced In court.| ga s she received the dog at ees lice Sunday, | — cms $wouring the Souths ill at West Seattle. Margarita asserted it was hers.| the judge's orders, °