The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 6, 1914, Page 2

FOUR BOYS WHO MUST GOTO on nee: CHAIR NEXT WEEK MAKE A LAST PLEA FOR THEIR LIVES By Nixola Greeley-Smith| Wo NEW YORK, April 6— “We are all innocent and we three Jewish boys— Leftie Louie, Whitey Lewis and Gyp the Blood —say to you now as solemnly as we were at our last hour, that that Italian boy over there ‘wasn't with us at the time Herman Rosenthal was murdered.” Tk was Louie Rosenberg who spoke to me, a slender Jewish boy “With black eyes and the oval face of & poet, yet Louis Rosenberg is NOT ‘A POET, BUT A GUNMAN, who, ‘with his three companions, “Gyp the Blood,” otherwise Harry Horowits; /“Whitey” Lewis and Dago Frank F) Cirotici, must die on April 13, the @ay after Easter Sunday, for the of Herman Rosenthal, the 3 aman, in front of the Metropole hotel. Becker Gets New Trial Becker, once police czar} the tenderloin in New York, eon of inspiring the crime, has | granted a new trial, but the Tefused to review the death of the gunmen was seated in the death of Sing Sing, the FIRST ye M. JOHNSON. | CHIROPRACTIC to 5p mi even- attendant. Veal 18¢ for U. 8. ig eg Stamp peal getisd and quality jsunmen are typical products of a jjon Broadway, we realized that we || by Jack Rose, so that he would have || Somebody ‘to lay the murder on. AN NOT A RE CONDEMNED MURDERER WHO] HAS EVER BEEN ADMITTED TO THAT GLOOMY CORRIDOR. At the end of the long gray aisle of| death were the four cells of the gun-| men | Grasp s of Cell | On my right were Dago Frank and Whitey” Lewis, On my left stood | “Leftie Loute” and “Gyp the Blood Hardly more th the oldest, | Dago Frank, being 28, the youngest, Leftie Louie, but They stood, feverish hands clasp ing the grim bara of thelr cells. Just around the corner from us i ATIVE OF A} I t oye | NIXOLA GREELEY Nik STAR—MO NDAY, APRIL 6, 1914, -SMITH TALKS TO DOOMED GUNMEN IN SING SING was the little green door, the dread ed door that leads into the throne room of death, or, as I vi it, the throne room of legal murder, where these four young men will die. Later IT passed through that little green door and sat in the grim elec tric chalr, Within reach of my arm was a concealed panel, holding the death-dealing apparatus and a print ed card of directions. One bell, turn on current! Two belis, more current! Save for Louis Rosenberg, Harry Horowitz (“Gyp the Blood") YOUNG JOHN D. IS SUMMONED AS A WITNESS, WASHINGTON, April 6— John DB. Rockefeller, jr, was handied without gloves here today by the congressional sub-committee, which has been investigating conditions In the Colorado coal fields. ' He was called on the strength of information in the committee's hands that the Rockefeller fnter- ests dominated these fields and were back of a campaign to keep unionism out of them, What he told amounted to very little, for he had never been close enough to the details of manage ment of the mines with which he was connected to be thoroughly tn-| formed, he said This, how , did not prevent the committeemen from asking some very pointed questions. His father, the junior Rockefel ler said, owned 40% of the stock in| the Colorado Fuel & Iron Co. He himself held only Just enough | to qualify as a director. He did| not know much of the company's methods. Asked If he ever wrote, as re ported to Manager Bower, of the corporation, that he would sand by the latter, whatever he did, Rockefeller denied it emphatically TACOMA TO PICK the big city's streets, They look like overgrown newsboys. Makes Last Appeal “We are delighted to see you,” said “Lefty Louie,” with a bewtlder. ing courtliness, “Through you we boys MAKE A LAST APPEAL TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, All we want is Justice. “Lieut. Becker has been granted a new trial. ust we go to the chair without the same chance Beck- er hai “We claim that Becker was ’ just as we were. We tell you, as we would tell it to you on our last day, that the murder of Herman Rosenthal was committed by Bridgle Web- ber, Harry Vallon and by a strange man whom we had nev- er seen before. “We saw all these men fire at Rosenthal We don't know which shot killed him, but as he lay dead had been ‘framed up,” brought there “But that Italian boy, Frank, wasn't near there. “Since we boys came to the death house, 16 months ago, 14 men have passed through the little green door to death, “We have prayed with them all night! “We have sung hymns with them as they went to die! “When dawn came and they were taken from their cells, we called out ‘Good-bye’ to them! “Dago” MAYORALTY MEN FROM LIST OF 9 TACOMA, April 6.—The primary campaign for a mayor and two com- missioners will be brought to a close tonight, and tomorrow the toters FRISCO WILL AID SEATTL will march to the polls to decide one —_—_— of the most Interesting fights in the Seattle Elks are claiming success | city’s history. | is practically assured in their ef-| Nine candidates want the mayor-| forts to obtain the grand lodge ses-/alty, but it {s generally conceded | sion fn 1915, following announce-| that the fight is between A. V. Faw-| ment that San Francisco Elks have |cett, former mayor, who was recall- abandoned their fight for the ses-|ed because of his anti-treating bill; | sion and will ald their Seattle; Rey. C. F. Stoever and Homer T. brethren. Bone, socialist. /@ were brave as we hope to be If we go through that green door. were not brave, but don’t ask us to tell you about that.” | Judge “Whitey” Lewle MY, BUT IT'S A TOUGH OLE JOB THEBOYSHAVE Twelve candidates for office, 18 former candidates for office, 10 members of the county clerk's of- fice, three publicity agents, two ex public service commissioners, eight state, county and city salary collectors, one attorney for the Puget Sound Traction, Light & Péwer Co, were in attendance at the Young Men's Republican club's annual meeting Saturday night, 23 Ordinary Voters There were also 23 ordinary voters present, W. M. Whitney was elected pres- ident, defeating Former Deputy Prosecuting Attorney H. M. In gersoll by 65 to 22. Reeves Aylmore, former presi dent of the club, discovered that the constitution had been changed #0 as to permit public officials to hold office in the club. Elect Officers Accordingly, the following were elected on the executive commit tee Cc. R. Maybury, clerk of the house of representatives; Rep. FE. H. Hurd, Deputy County lerk Burtis, Deputy County Clerk Grant, Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Ed Wright, Council Clerk Matthys, ‘arroll, Rep. Walter Mesa, wo 6=James A. Wood, Wyllie it, W. H. Lewls, James A H. 8. Frye and L. EB. and Hemph' Dougan, Shelle. The age limit of 35 was removed #0 as to increase the membership There were aix present under 35. COEDS IN WATER Untrersity of Washington co-eds tn @ variety of water sports are ex- pected to furnish the feature attrac tion at the Junior day celebration on Lake Washington on May 9. High diving, underwater swim- ming races, water polo and class re- Iny races are some of the stunts be ing planned. MILLION OF ’EM . According to the report of J. H. Stine, director of playgrounda, 1,072,832 children attended the au- pervised playgrounds during the i last year. LAS eee RRS R ESSE ESE SD AARRKRAKKERRKKKKAH “Lefty Louie” Rosenberg CAPTAIN GONE PALM SUNDAY. ON EVE OF HIS ARMY TRIAL The police of the Northwest and United & army offl- cers are searching today for Capt. J. H. Griffiths, who has been reported as missing on the eve of courtmartial pro- ceedings, which were to have convened today at Fort Law- ton to hear charges that the officer ie $9,000 short In his accounts, Since his arrest by Maj. Hugh J Gallagher, following an investiga- ton of his accounts, Capt. Grit: fiths has been technically confined in his quarters at the Perry hotel ite was seen at 11:80 Saturday night near the Seattle-Tacoma in terurban station, Since then trace of him bas been lost According to army officials, the possibility of his showing up tn Ume for the court-martial ts “de- eldedly remote.” Hie violation of arrest subjects him to dismiswal from service. The missing captain ts 46 years old and weighs 155 pounds. He was property man and disbursing offer | of the quartermaster’s depot here. He was a bonded officer. The bond of $10,000 covers the alleged shortage. No word of the whereabouts of the missing captain bad been re celved at noon today by the police or army officers Interested {n find- ing bim. Friends of the accused officer expressed a foar that he may have committed suicide. Maj. Gal jer says Capt Grif. fiths admitt iis guilt in a signed confession. BOOST LOCAL GRAND OPERA Committees from the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial Club met yesterday and planned an organization to draw all civic bodies together with the one alm of boosting grand opera by Seattle singers. “Dago” Frank Clrofict IS OBSERVED - IN CHURCHES 1 Unusually fiopressive services| were held in all churches yesterday | jin observation of Palm Sunday, and| marking the beginning of holy week | The sacred exercises also marked | the beginning of the second week of | the unity revival meetings at the| First Methodist chureh under the! |direction of four prominent minis-| tors. | To Continue Services Relieving that great good has been done, the pastors have deter mined to continue the meetings. It is planned to outdo the work of last eek in the services during the next seven days | The lack of bombastic appeal and |nolsy counting of converts is con. sidered a sign of the real worth and depth of the meetings. The noonday meetings at the Or. pheum theatre will be continued |from Tuesday until Friday by the Seattle Ministers’ Federation At the Bunday evening service at [tte First Presbyterian church Rey Mark A. Matthews preached on/| “Commercialism Without a Con- science Is a Crim “If men’s bearts are not right jthelr hands cannot be trusted,” he said. “You merchants ought to be |God's practical agents. You can be Just as honest behind the counter as 4& minister In @ pulpit delivering a sermon.” In St. James cathedral Rt. Rey Edward J, O'Dea, bishop of Seattle, presided at the solemn mass, and dlessed the palms before they were dintributed. Dr. Ernest Vincent Shayler, rector | et St. Mark's Episcopal church,| blessed the palms at a communion service. TO MEET HERE juty sheriff, was instantly killed Sun-! | ther arrived from Aberdeen to claim |¢. |send me to the Fulton hotel.” SPOKANE, April 6.—The next state meeting of the. Daughters of | the American Revolution will he! held tn Senttle. Mrs. Henry Mo./ Cleary of Tacoma wa: re-elected | state regent. | Don Johns won @ 100-miie motor-| cycle race in 96 minutes 60 seconds at Phoenix, Ariz. breaking state record. TANGO LESSONS ARE CAUSE OF BRINGING A ReeKkhhhen Kekkkake TACOMA MINISTER INTO DIVORCE COURT TACOMA, April 6—~Tango les, The tango lessona, which were! sons at $1.50 per lesson culminated the immediate cause of their latest | the breach between Rey. Arthur H. separation, according to Rev. Barn- Barnhisel, former pastor of the hisel, were taught by a popular so-/ First Presbyterian church here, and clety teacher at Grayeliy lake last his wife, according to the testimony summer, and caused Barnbisel to in the sensational divorce case, leave home permanently. which was climaxed Saturday after- “He charged $1.50 for lessons. At) |noon by Barnhisel’s applying the that time I was tled up in business) short and ugly word to Maurice affairs so that I was exceedingly! Langhorne, his wife's attorney, who pressed for money. | | cross-examined him. “My wife suggested that Kathryn! Women in the packed court room and Howard, our children, be given applauded Barnhisel. lessons. I protested, saying that it | The interruption was ignored by would be inconsistent with my| |the court, and later, in detailing his finances. But she insisted on it, {marital unhappiness, the former! declaring that she would pay for the minister broke down and cried like!lessons out of her own funda, and \a baby. the children were sent. | Another tragedy that occurred Wife Takes Lessons the severe} “This, incidentally, shows |simultaneously with | cross-examination of Rev. Barnhisel/ my wife ruled the household, and what small influence I had over the loecurred at Attorney Langhorne’s| home, where his wife, alling for} care of the children. years, suddenly began to siak. | “Shen Mrs. Barnhisel arranged to Shortly after Langhorne returned jtake tango lessons herself, still maintaining that she would pay for! now| Have you seen the latest Talking Machines and attractive combination offers at the many EILERS? All makes of hornless ma- chines in genuine mahogany or fancy figured oak cases. Records by the best ar- instrumental, tists, vocal, opera, vaudeville. Machines from $15.00 payment plan. From no other source of amusement is it possible to obtain so much intrinsic money. The latest Edison, Victor and Columbia Machines tmark the pinnacle of achievement in sound reproduction. TS] mem TET? home she died of heart fatlure. them from her own resources, And| she suggested to the tango dancer that I might be influenced to take lessons. He Was Not Interested “I am not opposed to dances, I might say, although I have been a minister. I have danced, although poorly, and do not object to proper dancing. My wife argued with me| to take lessons, saying that the #v-) clety teacher was a moral reformer that he was teaching the real, es. thetic tango, and was eliminating the vulgarity of the common tangc |dance. 1 told her that f was not in |terested in the moral uplift dancing. Goes to Live in Hotel “Ther s Tacoma Sunday paper came ovt with a big article saying that Rev. Barnhis d James |Ashton end others at the Gravelly |lake coieny were fostering the prop- er tango. | “Coming out at a time when | could hardly pay my grocery bills, it was demoralizing. “1 left the summer home and went to a hotel in Tacoma, where | lived thereafter.” one simple sentence Rey. Barn fieel summarized the entire cause of the divorce proceedings Tells Secret of Trouble | “There was a different attitude etified, “on the part of both of arding our domestic econu:ny to $450.00, sold on our easy value for so little anted to live within my in |cowe ond bring up my children in a | practical way, so that they could be useful after they grow up My wife could not see things practically, wanted everything to be elaborate, and absolutely refused to permit the Jehildren to do anything useful.” | “ Calls Attorney “Liar” “Explain to the court how you came into possession of the letters you introduced in this case,” de- manded Attorney Langhorne, re- ferring to letters written by Mrs. Barnhisel. Barnhisel stated he found them tn an old clock while moving some fur- niture. “You got them out of your wife's trunk,” said Langhorne. “I say that’s a lie,” replied Barn- hisel, ristug to his feet, “I say you got those letters out of her trunk, didn’t you?” repeated Langhorne. “You said I did and I » reiterated the former Minister in Tears Proceedings were stopped by gen- eral handclapping Later, in his cross-examination as to his criticism of his wife's ex- LESS MEAT IF BACK | AND KIDNEYS HURT Take a glass of Salts to flush Kidneys if Bladder | bothers you. | Wating meat regularty eventually produces kidney trouble tn some form or other, says a well-known authority, because the uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they be come overworked; get sluggish; | clog up and cause all sorts of dis- tress; particularly backache and misery in the kidney région; rheu- matic twinges, severe h 08, acid stomach, consttpatian, torpid liver, sleeplessness, bladder and urinary trritation, The moment your back hurts or kidneys aren't acting right, or if bladder bothers you, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good phaynacy; take a tableapoonful in & glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts Is made from the acid of rapes and lemon juice, combined with lthia, and has been used for generations to flush clogged kid- neys and stimulate them to norms! activity; also to neutrelize the acids in the urine so it no lonyer irritates, thus ending bladder dis. orders, Jad Salts cannot injure anyone; makes « delightful effervescent | lithie@water drink which millions of mon and women take now ond| then to keep the kidneys and url- nary organs clean, thus avoiding serious kidney disease. travagance, Barnhisel spoke with great feeling. ‘For 10 long years” he sald, “I never even allowed my attorney to hear any criticiam of my wife from my lps. I always figured that if thero was any method, by God's will and my own determination, I might | yet help to keep her as she wanted. and we live happily together.” And with tears streaming down his cheeks, Barnhisel added: COMMERTATIVE CROUCH TO BE ABLOLUTELY sare. LURERAL (ROUCA To SATISTY Falk wemED PLOPLL. 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We will be glad to secure you A, P. CHAPMAN, JR. General Agent Passenger Dept. Special Round-Trip Fares ocean ind Safest way to travel East is via the “MILWAUKEE.” These trains carry Standard and Tourist Write NOW regarding any information you might wish, whether concer —|AMUSEMENTS= MOORE a weer ETROPOLITAN ALL WEEK AM Week Matiness Wed and Sw 7 Peg o’ My Heart Nights, 20 to Seats $1.00 CHINESE BOY, 17, TELLS WHY HE KILLED WOMAN VANCOUV Jack Kon ervant Ge Kleine Presents “FOR NAPOLEON AND FRANCE” 2.00 Mat Mut, Wed., thew PANTAGES Our Polley Never Changer’ DOOS AND MONKEYS In fot Time in Dogvilte* y Himond Day's Ite “The JOLLY JOULE 100 and 206 WANT TO HEL INSTRUCT ’EM ea” mR, B. C., April T-yearold ( ard hom » formally charged, It is an ed today, with murder in the firet degree, confession having n ob tained from in t he killed Mr Charles Millard, wife of the ehie ticket agent of the Canadian Pa cific railway here last Wednesday morning, because she had com plained of the porridge he had pre pared for breakfast Kong says new porrid to school marked that ears cut off. This enraged him so that he selz-|, ed a chair, stunned her, dragge her body to the her with an ax and attempted to hide the evidence of his erime by throwing the body into the furnace. niversity of Washington stt 8 have offered their services t8 Chief of Police Griffiths in helping to work out bis plan to give instrue tion to prisoners in the city jail DROP $4,000 IN PORTLAND PORTLAND, April 6.—The grand 4 season in Portland closed 88%, day night with a deficit of $4,000, A call will be made on the loca} guarantors to make up the loss, cause he had to go Mra. Millard re would have his and she Only One “BROMO QUININE” siguature WARDEN KILLED | VANCOUVER, Wash., April 6.—P.| O. Hilstrom, game warden and dep- ALBANY Pain es‘ : Woangodecy OW A LONG TRIP THE FAKE DENTIST SUMAS, April 6.—Arriving alone| 4 Quack Dentist 1s one who claims te from Calgary, 4-year-old Florence 4o things impossible and unknown to the Karstens was detained by the immi-| Penta! Belence, and who may or may not n Dentin wi gration officers here until her fa ral Quacks, ‘whe Calan . Tysterious discovery y with plates and bridge- rk We make $8 and $10 Gold Crowns for halt. day, when his auto plunged 30 feet over a bank into Salmon creek her. She had a card pinned to her, |t» reading: “My name is Florence |” Karstens. Put me off at Seattle and |; $10, $15 and $20 sets of Teeth Gol4. Synthetto for Just halt price. and Alloy y ctice makes ft possible Our large for us to Our prices are sure to please you sult you BALL | MT. VERNON, April 6. George | Ball, alleged train bandit and mur-| r of three persons on the Great Northern train near Bellingham, February 20, will be given a prelim {nary hearing before Justice Crook- ston Friday, April 10. v consultation withe ALBANY CUT RATE DENTISTS Second Floor People’s Bank Building | Second und Pike Take Elevator or Walk Up. Workingmen of Seattle Make This Store Your Store And do not be backward about asking for eredit. It's free and does not cost you one penny more than if you paid cash, yet it makes buying apparel so easy for you. You wouldn't hesitate to ask a butcher, grocer or furniture house for credit, would you? Then, why do you hesitate to buy splendid up-to-date apparel on credit? We won't make any bones about giving you an ac- count. Come in and get what you need for Easter.’ Just pay a little down on it and let the balance go until it is convenient to pay it. It's so easy to buy this way. Have you ever tried it? 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