The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 10, 1914, Page 1

Was Dorothy Arnold C Of 20 Girls. Cremated i in Pittsburg Murder Factory? Chicago jury has set free the 14th woman, in two years, who killed a man. They're gradu- ally working up a terrible warning to Chicago men. MORE THAN 44,500 Paid Copies Daily VOLUME TARTLING TALES OLD BY WOMEN IN. MINISTER 16. TRIAL OF Witness "Declares He d Up When He Found Her in Kimono. STORIES OF KISSES Defenders of New York Pas- tor Say He Will Be Vin- dicated in Hearing. NEW YORK, Apri! 10.—*is it wrong for a pastor to kiss the fair members of his flock when he ed himself alone with . pias SS question bids ' fair to confront the highest authori, of the Methodist Episcopal WOMAN SAYS BIBLE BADE HER TESTIFY “He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shali abhor him: “But to them that rebuke him shall be delight, and a good blessing shall come upon them.” — Proverbs, xxiv: 24:25, “TL opened my Bible at ran dom,” said Mrs. Hilma Dohl, “to see what guidance [ would get, when I was in distress over whether I should tell of Dr. Price's ac tions, Those are the two verses upon which my eyes fell, and they decided me in my course.” ag the result of the trial of | Jacob Embury Price. pas-| ot Washington Heights M ehurch, on charges of improper conduct preferred by several women of his flock, Doesn't Look Like Siren ' Mrs. Hilma Dohi is the leading "witness against Dr. Price. She scarcely looked like a siren who would tempt a clergyman from the path of rectitude. Little and gray-haired, with big spectacies aiding the viston of a pair | of pale blue ey he grimly waited | her turn to testify before the 14 min- isters who heard the evidence. Says She Was Shocked “1 have been a Methodist all my| | New Jersey florist was awarded $2,300 be- cause his orchids were destroyed by fumes of leaking gas. Children made sick by leaking gas are not reported to have received anything. SHOWERS TONIGHT AND COOLER; SATU What would Jesus do?” his return to Palestine. has just granted franchises for street railways, electric lights and waterworks. RDAY FAIR; MODERATE might be asked of The Palestine council Paris women fond of outdoor life are adopt- ing the knee length skirt, says Fashion. They'll adopt the fig leaf skirt before Frenchmen begin to holler enough. WESTERLY BREEZE The Seattle Sta NIGHT EDITION THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS NO. WASHINGTON CREWS TO GET FIRST TRYOUT Conibear, at Oakland, An- nounces He Has Superior of Last Year's Aggregation. BIG RACE TOMORROW California, Stanford and Seat- | tle Varsity Declared to Be | Evenly Matched. | 39. SEATTLE, WASH.,, FRI A GROCER AND BANKER VIE IN OAKLAND, April 10.—8ix crews, | two erch, representing the Blu and Gold of Californta, the Cardinal of Stanford and the Purple and |Gold of Washington are eagerly ‘awaiting today the starter's gun ‘for the big intercollegiate regatta tomorrow on the Oakland estuary Each eight had lgbt practice to day The freshmen crews will be th firet to test thetr merit. ‘This ra lover a twomile course, will start fat 9:20 a.m. The varsity, at three lmiles, will be sent away at 9:50. Watch Race From Train Special trains will be run paral « the estuary birds Are All Made-in- Seattle Product ALL WALKS OF LIFE The crews are remarkably evenly matched , acco! a mee Stenographers and Shop Girls with Washington the favorite. The| Rub Elbows With Society freshmen eights are at best unce tain quantities Buds in Chorus. | California Chan | Coach Stephen ¢ nia stat [ed that, in spite of the fact that bis | men bad been rowing only since Feb. ‘12, they had thoroughly mas tered the new stroke and no longer tended to drop back to the old one when exhausted The new stroke is longer Jaat year's. Conibear fe pe eae Coach Contbear of Washington, although he started out with but two intercollegiate veterans Inst }fall, has developed two. eights which he declares are In every way equal, if not superior, to his won derful aggregation of last your Stanford Is Heaviest Stanford's representatives are | the heaviest of the three crews, the varsity averaging 1 and the |frerhmen 175 pounds, California's average for both crews is near 172) pounds, while Washington's men are midway, ranging from 168 to 194 pounds Stroke “The butcher, the baker and the candiestick the bone and sinew, #0 to speak, of Seattie’s Standard Grand Opera Co., which is to give the opera “Carmen” as ite premier production at the Met- ropolitan April 20, and 4 a tne feilowing... In the cast of the b! Soaseioche represented nearly every pro- feasion and business. Folks from all walks of life will sing in the background for the more distinguished stars in the stellar roles. Girls from department waltresses, stenographers and #0 clety buds have minor roles and chorus parts A grocer and « printer and a banker will vie with each other in Faust” and “Carmen it's a Home Product | Funny {dea for grand opera? } Not a bit of it This Standard Grand Opera com pany is a strictly “rown-in-s j product, but it isn't one of lhome talent shows used jcheer back in ‘49 in the “old red maker” form Enough John, ever since we've been married you've never seemed the same. What did I do to you? “You married me. life.” said Mrs. Dohl. “tf had joined) the Washington Heights church} only about three months before the) things happened that I am here to tell about. I never was so shocked in my life.” Mrs. Dobl’s story was that one day when she called at the parson age Dr. Price sat down beside her| on a sofa, put his arm around her| and kissed ber, she alleges. } Charges He Hugged Her Then, she said, he made improper suggestions to her. She rebuked him, but he contin ned to caress her, and finally hugged her so violently that she fled from him in terror. Still another witness was Mrs. E J. Leger, a handsome blonde, who testified that Dr. Price had on one visit to her embraced her and kissed her twi The next time he called, said Mrs. Leger, she happened to be wearing a kimono, and his dem- onstrations of affection became startling. “He pressed me tightly against a wall,” said Mra. Leger, “and said to me, ‘Now what are you going to ov” Dr. Price has many staunch de fenders in the congregation of the Washington Heights church and | under the Hinky Dink charter, to among the Methodist clergy who in-|create an art board similar to the sist that he will be vindicated. | park board. The art board will ad DIANA DILLPICHKLES IN The pink tea mayor, who will get a salary of $2,500, in case falla for the Hinky Dink plan, must no spend over $500 to run for office That amount is not to include the cost of printing circulars and the cost of mailing or the cost of hall rent The 30 Hinky Dinks are to limit their campaign expenses to $100 each The elections committee of the lcharter commission, consisting of | Kellogg, Thorgrimson and Calhoun also recommended that an elective official may be disqualified if he pays cash or gives any material in ducement to workers at the polls on election day T commissioners Thursday agreed to authorize the city council OUR HINKY-DINKS == CAN'T SPEND MUCH: schoolhouse.” It's a real opera by eal singers. Theo Carl Johnson will take one of the major pa and her. world re ns Campanini n and the others. American Caruso. He and is recognized as hav ing a wonderful future He Works In a Bank A banker and a sold is Walter FP. Paul money in West tle and ain in the National Guard rick Grabam is a kkeep. National o., and at Plymouth found vise on building and other construe 1 andles - FAVOR MOVE FOR : IMPEACHMENT WASHINGTON, April 10.—A fa} qell_known in Seatth vorable report on the resolution) This is what providing for the impeachment of | stars (do > Justice Daniel T. Wright of the|, Madame Hemocprerts District of Columbia supreme court |) Mn en was returned today by the house judiciary committee. The next step in the proceedings will be a vote in the house which it is antic- ipated will call fo tion of the charg | against the juris Se in a Groce nda the Congr ional church Albert R. Cod mous detective the advantage ears Europe. His musical er tn th sings ays of the fa head, has of study tn talents are son genes few of the just a is at the April 10. Mrs. SOUTHAMPTON, Eng Boarding the Impe full investiga. Charles W. Morse carried a small of misconduct glass-lidded box containing myriads lof ants, of which she has made pets or OPERA ROLES Standard Grand Opera Song-, stores, | ANTS HER PETS | DAY, APRIL 10, 1914, PITTSBURG, April 10. hospital in the suburb of Be Dr. C. C. Meredith, the Snyder, were sweated at pol It is believed There naturally the unlawful operati were a to ns basement Bodies Are Cremated police believe there were 20 bodies disposed of in this The or more way That Dorothy Arnold, mining New York girl, for whom her family scoured the country tn vain, was among these victims, de tectives said they were re oly cortaln } Agai Meredith the specific charge was that of performing an t} legal operation on Miss Myrtle son of Wilkinsburg, a year ag Miss Arnold Cremated? Luts said be got this case hospital, and, noticing one day that she had disappeared, asked Mere- dith what had become of her, to which Meredith replied she was) | dead | He anid be asked, too, what bad} |become of Dorothy Arnold, where- jupon Meredith made a motion with | his hands toward the sky, indicating one she bad Peon cremated. the long | #0 Ba 01 | concerning the Tepoatiion of Mies Allison's body, anwerted the doc tor made a similar gesture. Late des ed Meredith to revel in others At the time h son to the hospital, for exampl: he said the doctor literally threw her into the ambulanc addressing her by the vi nam seemed | | “YOU'LL SEE YOUR MOTH | SOON ENOUGH.” Meredith was held tn $12,000 bail District Attorney R. H. Jackson and Chief of Detectives E, E. Clark had charge of the case GIRL’S FATHER | DOUBTS STORY NEW YORK, April 10.—-Francis Arnold, Dorothy Arnold's father, ex pressed entire disbelief today inthe story that his daughter died in Dr Meredith's maternity hospital in a Pittsburg suburb, “I believe my daughter is dead. he said, “but am convinced she died the day she disappeared, or immedi ately after. Arnold's John Keith, id he had heard the girl was in Pittsburg and investigated He expressed bimgelf as postive she at the Meredith hos pital, as that was one of the places he watched BOTH WILL LIVE Mrs, “Esthe ngEren, 22, who was shot three times by Victor | Hammer, a cook at the Savoy hotel, 1s she walked along a dark path toward ber home at 2436 Elghth av N., early Thursday morning, was pronounced out of danger at the Noble hospital today Hammer will also. recover his self-inflicted wounds lCity hospital authorities. tl abet 3 = was not from port the “MAKING IT EASIER FOR PAR” "LISSEN To THE ORCHESTRA, MAR. THEY'RE PLAYING THE ‘CONCERTO IN B MINOoR’.” « CISSEN TO TH’ CHA OSTRICHY, DAD— (T'S TEARIN' OFF A CONCERTINA "NOW INTERMEZZO PRON CAVELLERIA RusTicanal” WHY DON'T THEY'VE NGED TO THE "Now SHE SAYS THEY'VE RUSHED TH! CAVALRY INTO TH! MEZZANING = "APPLAUD, Yous — THAT WAS TH “HUNGARIAN | RHAPSODIE!" Give ‘em A HAND —IT!s BY A HUNGARIAN NAMED RAP Sopy!" he involved good perfor OFFICERS CAN'T HOSPITAL RAIDED More Nev head arrests were in prospect today as a sequel t illegal operations, according to police, the institution; Dr. H. E. Lutz, his assistant, headquarters, until Lutz, the police said, broke SEVERAL DOCTORS INVOLVED Pittsburg doctors, who “feeders” the hospital Lutz saaid told his questioners, where patients succumbed and invariably cremated in the furnace in the last night's police raid of a maternity were performed as a regular business. and Nurses Lucy Orr and Mary and confessed uc, where of ice down several 1 acted for to corpses as many have med cases them, was on their were iT ALL DEPENDS ON WHOSE OX IS GORED | eg Jacob Furth’s interurban car line charges 15 cents for the round trip. It is four and a half miles from the city limits to the end of th city-owned Lake Burien car line. The city will charge only 1214 cents a Po trip. poe Fags traction hog is not satisfied. Jacob Furth’s mouthpieces in the kept press are en- Pasties out what they say is a high rate of fare on the ien city line, in an attempt to discredit municipal to th slg. Lov 300 and 300 per ‘i nm to raise their own n rates cent. The hearing will be held in Seattle next Wednesday. eo ay Furth succeeds, the rate to Riverton will be 34 cents a round trip, 40 cents to Tukwila, etc. their And Furth’s glib lawyers will argue that posed WHICH ARE 550 PER CENT HIGHER THAN THE MUNICIPAL RAILWAY RATE, are “fair and equitable!” = COURTKN s RESERVE CLAUSE GIRL DANCES MONTH WITH A BROKEN NECK SAN FRANCISCO, April 10, —Her life hanging on a thread for 50 days as a result of a trivial accident, in which one of the vertebrae of her neck was fractured, 17-year-old Sa- die Lynchner lies at the Mount Zion hospital, recovering from what physicians say is a broken neck. Since March 9 the girl has remained practic- ally motionless, with heavy weights suspended from pul- leys holding her head and {] neck in place. She ha: id ily gained in strength, fractured parts are knitting to- gether, and, according to the attending doctors, she will be well and strong within a few months, More than a month elapsed between the accident and the discovery of the frac- tured vertebrae, and dur- ing that time si went to dances, did housework and took other forms of exercise. FIND ADJUTANT OF VOLUNTEER Adjt. C. W. Brooks, of the Vol- unteers of America, for whom offt clals hold a warrant charging him with an attack on Mrs, Amanda on of Seattle was reported missing today Officers sent throughout the city last night and today In search of the resene worker failed to find him at any of the meeting places of the Volunteers and feported him as having disappeared Armed with a warrant for the ar rest of the adjutant, Deputy Sheriff John W. Roberts went to the offi home of the Volunteers, at dd ay, at 2:30 o'clock this and made a - thorough th premises. Adjt Brooks was not there. OFF ON VACATION WHITE 8t LPHU R Va,, April 10 GRAND RAPIDS, } IDS, Mich., April 10. Catcher Wm. Killifer is the prop. erty of the Philadelphia National League club, but the res clause in organized baseball contracts Is not worth the paper upon which it iv written This was the down here today Sessions in the suit filed by the, ederal league to prevent Killifer from playing with Philadelphia The Federal league lost the case Judge Sessions held that into court with unclean opinion handed by U. S. Judge it came hands the court ruled, not entitled to an injunc pee pall court however, that erve clause could not be en held. the re forced This means that the players of both major leagues will be free to| sign wherever they please after| this year's contracts expire Half the world may not know how the other half lives: but if so. it is not because of a lack of curiosity. SPRINGS, President Woodrow Wilson and several members of his family arrived here today to spend Easter. The president will spend | his brief vacation playing golf and | wt motoring. He expects to return to Washington M nday, nably the beat fs unquest sala NS Clothing Hats Shoes Will be found in pro- fusion in the large ad of the Palace Clothing Co., which appears on page 2 in today’s Star. This store makes a strong bid for your patronage tomorrow. See their ad on page 2.