The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 9, 1914, Page 1

\- t it GUARANTEED PAID CIRCULATION 90,000 COPIES DAILY Former inmates of the city stockade have filed a complaint with Chief of Police Lang in which they charge atrocious cruelties practiced upon prisoners by Superintendent Owen Roberts, Night Guard Rory McDonald, and several of the guards. An investigation has been demanded. Stanley Jackson, a 23-year-old boy, tells of having been beaten | Sunday night with a club wielded by McDonald, He bears several ugly welts on his back. Jackson also asserts that last Thursday Superintendent Roberts kicked him he lay on the ground. Jackson's story is substantiated by Miller Gunther, another prisoner, with whom Jackson was confined for several days in the cell known} te prisoners as the “black hole.” on a bread and water diet Gunther says Roberts struck him several times after he had been) summoned to the latter's office. Gunther further charges that while working in the field last Thurs day, one of the guards seized him, put handcuffs on his wrists, then beat him. Gunther had talked. This is against the rules. Jackson Is now out. He completed his sentence Tuesday. Gunther has seven more days to ve. He told his story to a Star reporter at the stockade Tuesday afternoon. Both Roberts and McDonald denied the charges. They stated that 1. W. W. troublemakers. id he did not strike Jackson. He accounted for the marks by saying that Jackson atumbied into a bench after he had been taken down from a chair upon which he was standing. Closely Questioned, McDonald admitted that he “might have hit him once.” The assault on Jackson is said to have occurred in the “black hole,” where unruly prisoners are kept in solitary confinement. Gunther and Jackson say the trouble started when Roberts seized a hose and drenched them with water. Gunt! he tried to grab the hose and that McDonald then got a club and attacked Jackson. ONE OF THE GUARDS, A. McKINNON, COMPLAINED THE RE. STRICTIONS GOVERNING TREATMENT OF THE PRISONERS) HANDICAPS THEM IN DISCIPLINING THE MEN THE ONLY PUNISHMENT ALLOWED UNDER FORMER CHIEF GRIFFITHS’ ORDER iS SOLITARY CONFINEMENT. “WHY, | WOULD GIVE THEM A GOOD, SWIFT KICK,” RE PLIED McKINNON, WHEN ASKED WHAT MODE OF PUNISHMENT HE PREFERED. The Star believes an investigation should be made No matter who those men are, or what offense against the rules they committed while imprisoned, their offenses certainly do not merit such brutality as they complain of. THEY CERTAINLY DO NOT MERIT HANOCUFFING THE OF. FENDER, THEN BEATING HIM RULER VIOLENT; HAS HEADACHES, DISPATCH SAYS BERLIN, Dec. 9.—The kaiser has pneumonia, it wae learned today. His iliness was deciar ed to be serious Tuesday it was announced he was suffering from bron chial catarrh and that his in disposition was delaying his departure from Berlin for the « fighting front. e to the extreme exertion he ha from a cold, due to filled trench. majesty’s traveling “ ven by auto 4 staff doctor accompan his condition was ag vate ne 18 Early today it was stated the Im gone perial patient's condition was sat-| He was end. 6: be wet isfactory fering from OF coveted haul When {t became known later aches reme violence characterized toward his adviser itt His doctors were re was umonia that he had pn much anxiety His fliness was attrit posure. He has 1 Stantly with the tre the eastern or western fr gainst his ating lines U.S, ARTILLERY “RESOLUTION IS SENT TOBORDER LAID IN GRAVE en with ¢ resolution ines and the Se was laid to rest fternoon. EL PASO, Dec B and ©, Sixth t left here early tod to handle any arise in con across the Amerlean borde Mexican territor Maj. Gen, B from San A charge of the situatior Villistas in Juarez, across the R Grande from here, were gre elted toda lery mover not interrupt the nd he will take the field ney that 1 ction with the peep at it and noed it as deal # has been orde onlo to Naco to ta ust was needed ars, no mourn peian prince — PLAY GAME HERE KNITS MUFFLERS tsco.s Jobie of the University has opened PARIS, Dec. 9—During his con-| negotiations with the athletic au valescence fro dicitis, Prince thoritle of the Universit of Ne Albert, King # second son,) 0! ka for football next knitted a dozen woolen mufflers for e day in Seattle geldiers. The Neb authorities can give no definite rep until after WOMEN IN VIENNA the governing board of the Mis sourl Valley conference take action wed re SCAN’ PARIS HATS fice cr itatneivtne day toot | ball we VIENNA, Dec. 9.—It is an offe against social et for © woman to w man to wear English cut clothes.' fully burt in New York. M@Z~ KAISER SERIOUSLY ILL OF PNEUMONIA The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News sober cainid lL i | UME 16. SEATTLE, WEDNESDAY, ONE CENT \City Prisoners Say They Are Handcuffed and EATEN BY GUARDS Did YouKnow Dolls Wake Up and Talk While We Sleep? BOALT TELLS OF A NIGHT : IN TOY STORE : jo wet & Christmas story, Boalt made » round He saw many strange Then he wrote wonderful things. By Fred L. Boalt night watchman stut- and for that re: ent he might make, matter how remarkable | have always found persons who stutter to be truthful do not know why this it may be that mind which strives to direct It has to ponder. an old proverb man has plenty > thinks before aks ts bound | which you would find it h and a truth had not been drial kit ago it waa said he| The City Dump on Lake Indicates the Effiuvium ‘Great Discovery Made on Shores of Lake Union; Rich Deposits of Effluvium F ound stayed In {t was startled out af have been exci hich Is disagreeable and ao disgrace to beouthful eity The dumping « This was followed by the same volce 4 clieve artage os where rats 4 clothes on his side org and Carrie L, Have teither! There were sounds of a struggle. jand some one ye A woman's voice pleaded Upon consulting Webster. thereof that the themselves into | Invisible, subtle emanation; from decaying matter.” and Charlie clined to admit the existen: ull discover claim they're as the voices in Women's Ctvi » members of the was not astonished curious of dolls! committee of| signed, members of the Civie club of Seattle, (Continued on Page 2.) | EVERY WOMAN SHOULD, FiOURE ovT HOW | MUCH SHE SPEN OH, NO, THAT TOM | CANT MAKE | THIS THING COME ovT RIGHT, I THINK You UST KEEP AT IT | | OW SHooT! DEAR, JUST KEEP] | \ TELL You THis MV DEAR, | PAYED TWO ) BILLS BY CHECK AND DREW # 10°" OUT OF THE WISH YOU Wou.b | | PRACTICE FOR Dec. 9.—Coach| quette in Vienna! Julian Hawthorne, author, knock. | Paris hat or|ed down by automobile and al | PIPPI PPPS PPP PPL PPL IP PDIP PPP PLL PLP PLS IGHT EDITION SAT SEATTLE “Why My Husband Left Me’---a Series by Cynthia Grey From Out of Her Confessional,Miss Grey Produces Experiences of Women Who Realized Too Late How They Failed to Hold the Man’s Love; Today’s, the Wife Who Pinned Her Faith to Domesticity. ADAM, why did your husbar Grey, in whose womanly br d leave you? Cynthia ast many tragic secrets are locked, has written a series of articles, in which she » analyzes the causes, from the woman's standpoint, of matri= monial infelicity which lead to separation and divorce. No names will be give but the stories are all true. Cynthia Grey knows her subject we usands of unhappy for th wome ave come t The Star prints the articles, of which the first is apper , in the hope that other ives and wives-to-be will avoid the mistakes so often made, and f only tranquillity and happiness in wifehood and oie ie i . By Cynthia Grey Not long ago | chanced to be one of a party of 10 or 12 women. a little afternoon social affair, a nd, as women always will, we fell to ta ajority of women present were married, and the conversa aturaily drifted to domestic joys and sorrows. ul were divorced women. The question was put to a woman of scarce 30, whose matrimonial bark had recently drifted and struck on the rocks of the divorce court; “Why did your husband leave you?” ~ Why did my husband leave me?” she repeated slowly, as if pre paring to pass a verdit upon herself. ; The hum of yolees died and the silence that followed seemed @ foreboding of tragedy. ; “1 lost my busband,” she said, “because IT didn’t fealize—unti too late—that a husband is only an over-grown boy | was ignorant of the fact that a wife's interest fo her husband must be just as keen, even more so, after marriage; that she must cultivate the power to please 1 loved, I attracted and I won, and I thought the game stopped there I had the erroneous idea that an ideal spouse was one who laid aside her girlish finery and coquetry on her wedding day and waded into the matrimonial sea armed with cook book, broom, duster, ete. So, at the age of 22 I ventured forth, We were happy—for ® while. I was a conscientious girl and my heart and soul were wrapped up completely in my household du “My home was spotless and in apple-pie order; meals were on time and were all that the art of cookery affords Li I tickled his palate, but failed miserably to replenish his fam- ished brain. In my little kitchen, shut away from the influence of the outer world, | became alarmingly narrow Gradually _ our sts grew far apart I suppose my d was not different from the ordinary mat, tion «4 “(Continued on Page 2) $36 DONATED BY HANNA’S OFFICE FOR XMAS SHOW County Treasurer Will H. 7 one would make the largest Hanna came into the office to- contribution to The Star's day and handed us $36 from Christmas show. the people in his department. The commissioners’, the It's for the little-chimney auditor's, the clerk’s, and the kids’ Christmas tree at Dream- other departments may not lana thank the treasurer's for hav. The folks at the county ing set so swift a pace. treasurer's office are hereby In the words of City Comp- elected to full membership in troller Harry Carroll, “Thank the Empty Stocking club. you. Oh, thank you, It is There has been some rivairy much more than we had any among the various departments right to expect or even hope. at the court house as to which And so we thank you. Thank Thachish eg ——| you. Thank you,” and so on. AVIATOR’S BOMB ER SOLDIER CAN'T GET HITS LADY DEGIES "+9 see DEAD SISTER LONDON, Dec. 9% — The Westminster Gazette an- PARIS, Dec. 9.—So strict is ‘ nounced that Lady Decies, for. | French discipline, Charles Dak | merly Miss Vivien Gould of | mores, the grand opera tenor, serv- New York, who has been doing | ing as a private, was not allowed to Red Cross work at Dunkirk, | leave his post and see the body of was recently slightly wounded Ihis sister, who died at N 20 by a German aviator’s bomb, miles away \PANK BooK 1s UNBALANCED | 1, SRAZN z i