The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 22, 1914, Page 1

IT’S A NATION-WIDE HUNT Medal for Fattest Man ! All these papers have combined to find the largest man in the United States. Enter that corpulent friend of yours in the fat men’s race. There are some pretty hefty citizens in Seattle. One of them may capture the national title. ‘Who Is the Fattest Man in Un you like to know, wouldn't you? He may be in this town. EVERYBODY LOVES A FAT MAN! MORE THAN 45,000 PAID COPIES DAILY WEATHER FORECAST—Uneet- tled tonight and Tuesday; probably showers, light northerly winds, yan \ " Nn é N AR MH port | ee bh he There hasn’t been a tin-horn since back. Do you want them? STANDARD OIL CO. “VOLUME 16. NO. 102. gambler or divekeeper in Seattle’s city council the ward system was abolished. The Hinky Dink charter will bring them BIDS CHEERFUL GOODBYE AS HE ae SEATTLE, WASH., JUDGE BROWN GETS TIP ON. FILES THEFT. Light is expected to be thrown upon the mysterious disappearance | from Justice Fred C. Brown's) court room of the papers in the J.| E. Brockway case, as soon as the in touch with the letter recetved this! morning by Justice Brown, In which she alleges she saw the papers tn the case passed and mon- ey paid for them. The writer says she was stand ing at First and Cherry et. on May authorities get writer of a 28 or 29, when she overheard a/ conversation between two men, one| f whom was short, dark, and/ , About 50 years of age, She states }the short man delivered a parcel) f papers to the other man, and] called particular attention to one] document, “ h he said was in} Brockway's writing.” | w a Lawyer She gathered from the conversa- |tlon he was a lawyer, as she claims she heard him say that he would not deliver the papers but for the fact that he was badly in need of money and would be disbarred if it were found out. She says anoth- er woman heard the same conver- sation, and that the name of} Brockway and Vashon island oo curred several times. Gives Her Name The writer of the letter, while giving her name, failed to give her address. She expressed a willing hess to tell what she knew, but did not want to be drawn into the case. A letter will be sent to the writ- er through the general delivery of | the postoffice, and officers will make every effort to get in touch with her. WOULD PUTANAD “IN THE STAR FOR 'NOTHER MAMMA Getchell, Wash. ditor The Star: My little nephew of six, while sitting on my knee recently, was calling MONDAY, JUNE The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News 22 22, 1914, ONE CENT SHE FIGURES IN STRANGE POISON-PEN MYSTERY Mise Kathieen O'Brien, the Girl Who Wrote Polson-Pen Letters to Her- if and Didn't Know It GEE, WHILLIKENS! EXPRESS WAGON WORKS SPEEDERS’ GAG ON AUTO! ited You'd like to gaze at his picture, imagine his discomfort in the summer time and laugh with him at his elephantine bulk. Nothing is quite so humorous as a fat man in hot weather—unless, perhaps, another fat man. Well, you can help and at the same time boost Seattle. If we find the champion fat man of the country in Seattle he’s going to get a gold medal, worth $50, acknowledging the honors. To- gether with sixty other newspapers from coast to coast, The Star is looking for him. Look him up and send his picture to The Star. AST EDITION FATHER OF direct prima says Hinky Dink charter Is a lem on, You becher, and It's no use to make people swallow It. ON TH NEWS N® AND ANDE fe GIRL AUTHOR OF “POISON” PEN LETTERS LONDON, England, June 22.—A poison-pen case has just startled England into a realization of the untrustworthi- |ness of circumstantial evidence and of handwriting evidence, |From April 28 to May 9 anonymous and malicious letters fairly rained into a house at Brunswick Place, Hove. The joccupants were Col. Gardiner, an elderly army man living alone, and his tenant, Mrs. Woodward, who occupied the ground floor. Col. Charles Henry Gardiner, re-| lishing a defamatory Mbel. tired, a well-preserved man of 70,| The colonel vehemently protested has ived in Hove for several years. | the proceedings as a nefarious plot. He is highly respected and the au-| Circumstantial evidence and hand- thor of several books. Mrs, Wood-| writing evidence were against him. ward is living apart from her hus-| The Hove police court sat for three band with her little daughter. The|sessions taking testimony. Miss only other person in the house, ex-| O’Brien in the witness box was self- cept the servants, was Miss Kath-| possessed and lucid, obviously um- |leen O'Brien, the child's governess. | willing to prosecute, only ane Miss O’Brien { yretty girl of defend her character. Mrs. Wood- Meena ae a pretiog hale, | Ward was frank and convincing. NO remained of the prisoners 22, with blue eyes and yellow hair , |The daughter of a naval officer pm who died 18 years ago, she lived | suit. until recently with her widowed| Col. Gardiner came into court for mother at Plymouth. There Mra,|Sentence. Instead he heard such & Woodward met and engaged the|Jekyll and Hyde story as modern gently mannered girl. Some weeks | Science cannot explain. later Miss O'Brien became {ll and|_ The prosecutor rose to express went home to recuperate, return-|@eepest regret that he should have ing in March Two weeks later the anonymous letters began to arrive. Their character prevents publication. Libelous and salacious, they grew | threatening. The first, addressed to the unhappy girl, rea Miss O’Brien had better be honorable man. “I hold in my hand,” acknowledg- |ed the solicitor, “a letter similar in character to the poison-pen letters jin this case. Yet the letter I hold was written at Brussels in June, 1909, written, gentlemen, by Miss Kathleen O'Brien to herself. I call wrote defamatory letters her- self. Her state of mind fs such that she would not be conscious of doing That fact focused the suspicions |¥f0ré in writing such letters. It of the police on Col, Gardiner, In-|18 ® case of dual personality, of hys- vestigation indicated that several|teria and self-persecution, of cun- circumstances pointed to his guilt.|2!ng only described as demontacal The colonel exhibited fixed antipa-| The victim ts an invalid, not a erim- thy toward Miss O'Brien. On the| inal.” advice of postoffice Inspectors, Miss| , But what of circumstantial evi- O'Brien wrote the suspected man a] ‘ence? trap letter: HI ATE BERRIES character, many of them pushed beneath the door of the flat or left on the hall floor, Col. Gardiner—Sir: Miss O'Brien Surely been instrumental in persecuting aa advised to leave Brighton. 2 Notice of her character, thiev- pis Dr, Nethersole Fletcher to tes» frien Brighton and Hove. Patient for some months, red Other letters followed, ‘all vile in | the altenist“Whilesir she le not living in your house. Should not Mrs, Rah-Rah-Rah! ed at the wagon to stop, but ‘ ; 9 for his mother. | asked him what he would do if he did not | have a mamma to call for all a) of the time and he replied, | < q By ns ise In The Hurray! nothing doing. Woodward be informed she is a More than 1,000 visitors from Ta- Evidence that the Standard Oil! The two companies now operat-| Charles Hopkina the “tattooed ~ mma te hel- At last somebody has gotten George Surprenant, 924 Raven- demi-mondaine? coma and Seattle, including Co. is trying to gain a monopolistic |ing in Seattle are exempt under the| murderer,” convicted of the killing ler at.’ "James K, even with the automobile. na boulevard, did the yelling. In That letter, posted in the presence | Gill of Seattle, ate their fill of lus hold In Seattle was developed this| i nrter trom putting upelaborate|Of Tony Olson, spent the night in| nth ag Saturday night an express the auto were his wife adn two |/0f @ detective inspector, was an-|clous strawberries at the annual morning, and when the council the King county jail on bis way is youngster the right| wagon dashed into an auto and children, But they weren't in- swered within six hours by a com- strawberry festival at Lisa this afternoon, will be laid|!mprovements required under the} from st Vernon to Walla Walla,|“e4 and knew how to say what then dashed away again, with- jured. munication which referred to Miss| Vashon island, Saturday, listened to meets it law. New companies come under| where he will enter the peniten. | 80° his mind. If the cute thing out stopping, just as the autos It injured the machine $40 O'Brien as a demi-mondaine. On aj enthusiastic speech making and wit- ‘An ordinance is now before the|the charter. For that reason the council to allow an independent of] |indepsndent company has asked) company to use a steel ship in the |for permission to use the oll ship. | harbor for storage purpose. Fear of active competition has| It is claimed that the Standard /|led both of the other companies, | Ol Co., joining forces with the|who, it is said, have a working Union Oil Co., have been sending |agreement on the price of ofl in| their agents to public offictals with | tne city, to fight the proposed ordi- | false stories concerning the danger |nance desperately. | of having such an oil ship near| The matter comes up this after- th terfront. noon. | CHRISTOPHER HORR, DAD OF DIRECT PRIMARY, SAYS HINKY THING LEMON Editor The Star: In consider-|cure or rotten foundation, would ing the charter proposed for Seat | you place a building on same? tle, we must not take into consid-| So let us forget about these eration the fact only, that the elev-|eleven “good and true men” and en who signed the charter are all|consider “the lemona” they have “honorable men” and “served with-| handed to the citizens of Seattle, out pay” and “gave months of | that is to say, let us examine their time to the preparation of said| work (1 ¢, this porey charter), charter.” for it is said, “By their works ye Suppose any article was offered | shall know them.” for sale which was defective and CHRISTOPHER W. HORR. the argument was used that good —_——- men made it, would it sell for that A STAR WANT AD will reason? | F ; | Suppose good men built an inse- Sell it quickly. | WHATITHINK ABOUT IT Being Just One Man’s Opinion This is about a judge—a federal judge to be exact always read whatever the papers have to say about this par- ticular type of judiciary critter. I acquired the habit at the time we of The Star were having our little affair with one Hanford From my rather extensive reading of judicial doings, 1} have come to the conclusion that when federal judges aren’t| committing tragedy they’re usually Seen pected One| of the funniest things is the recent decision of Judge Dooling in “the billion dollar oil case” in California. In 1909 President Taft withdrew from entry 3,041,000 | acres of Western oil land, largely in California. Now, Judge | Dooling decides that Taft had no right to do it. | The matter goes to the United States supreme court, but I am going to laugh until I hear whether Taft favors recall of Dooling or recall of Dooling’s decision. ‘To over-rule the president of the United States, especially when that presi dent has fatty degeneration of judicial temperament, shows | spunk. I wonder if Cousin Bill is going to quietly submit to being whacked in this way? | 1} tlary for a life term Hopkins was brought into Seat- tle Sunday by Guards Corson and Horton, In company with three other prisoners. He was heavily chained and carefully watched dur. ing the stay here. In spite of the facing, Hopkins was cheerful “Good-bye, boys,” called out Hop. kins a» he clanked his chains along the cement floor of the jail corri dor this morning on the way to the railway station. “Good luck, and may you all come out better than I did. I'm a long time gone, I guess.” PORT BONDS GO FINE; $35,000 ALREADY SOLD Approximately $35,000 of the $75,000 of $100 port bonds offered by the Seattle port commission to small investors have been taken to date, while a number of application blanks taken out have not been re- turned yet. Wednesday ts the last day of the sale. Gilt-edged security 1s behind the bonds, which draws 5% Interest Application blanks are obtain sentence he ts lable at The Star office or port com mission office, in the Central build ing. DOG WAGS TAIL AND KILLS MAN LOS ANGELES, June 22.—The excited “switch” of a dog's tail is responsible for the death of BH. A. Allen and the injury of Thos. L Woods, who were crushed to death beneath Woods’ overturned automo pile The dog, on the driver's seat ith Woods, barked at a passing automobile and switched his bushy tail in Woods’ eyes, blinding him. In his effort to halt the car, Woods overturned it. Allen, who was in the tonneau, was killed instantly, Mra. Woods also was severely hurt. OH, SO STINGY! | Dietrich, in filing | Mra. Emma M. sult for divorce against George C Dietrich, senior member of the firm of Dietrich & Co,, declares that he refused to support her, although he has accumulated a fortune of $50, 000 on $5,000 she loaned him, They were married October 13, 1891, at Philadelphia temporarily | YOUR youngster sald 1s the best of the bunch recetved at The Star office on any certain day, it will appear in The Star the following day. Let us all laugh with you at | the cute remarks. FORFEITS LIFE TO SAVE HAT TACOMA, June 22.—-Mike Kae len, aged is dead here today, having forfeited his life for a hat. Kaelen was riding on the running board of a dairy automobile yes- |terday when the wind swept his hat off. He leaped from the ma- chine to recover it and was killed when he struck the pavement on his head. “THE JINX” BURNS TACOMA, June 22.—Known as “The Jinx,” the old Savoy theatre building, erected 25 years ago, ie today a ruin, following a fire of un known origin that gutted {t late yesterday. Originally a hotel, the building, which had known the varied fortunes of housing such theatrical stars as Bernhardt and Blanche Bates and had later fatled to support even stock and bur lesque companies that tried their fortunes there, was unoccupied. BALLARD GETS BUSY FOR 4TH One of the old-fashioned judilees and celebrations on the Fourth of July is the plan of Ballard citizens. They have raised money to carry out their program, the details of |which are now being arranged. A balloon ascension, or an aeroplane flight, and a grand parade are two features planned. CLOSE MOVIES OLYMPIA, June 22.—That a city has a right to close moving picture shows, pool halls, roller rinks and other placea of amusement on Sun day ordinance, is held by the supreme court, in refusing the writ of habeas corpus upon the applica tion of J. B. Ferguson of a Wenat chee theatre, closed by a city ordi- pane usually do. The auto driver yell- worth, warrant sworn out by the governess, Col. Gardiner was taken into cus- tody, charged with maliciously pub- nessed snappy athletic struggles, which added materially to the pleas ure of the day. The balloon is wrecked and drops into the ocean with its human cargo—one million dollars disappears—what becomes of the $1,000,000? You'll be able to tell soon— THE MILLION DOLLAR MYSTERY is coming soon $10,000 for 100 Words! © See Saturday’s issue of The Star -