The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1914, Page 8

1914. PAGE 8 STAR—FRIDAY, DECEMBER 18, A: Stubborn Man Is Jack Reynolds, Who Chose Death at Rope’s End to Playing the Hypocrite By Fred L. Boalt “Jack Reynolds, ex-convict, to The Star today and said *T want to be set right the world” Jack Reynolds shot and killed William McNally at Wellington 12 years ago. He was found guilty of murder in the first degree, and Judge Nel! ———— Tremendous Half-Price =—=Woolen Sale—— YOUR PURCHASES INSURED wrong man.” Johnson blinked Th 3 « Walla Walla penitentiary. He was) “It was Johnson's testimony that 2 a fair prisoner, but stubborn and| convicted — moe, Reynolds, cranky wht Johnson gring That's #0. Governor Lister He was a friend tered nolds recently thought he was h » t *¢ * tifying the way he did. The other| Johnson up side got hold of him and told him | he in what to may The whole thing hinged on whether I had got the man I was after or bis pardner The prosecution said I got the sentenced him to be hanged by the neck until he was dead Twice he was reprieved in the last hour He still wears as an ornament a wisp or rope taken from the noose which was to have strangled him to death. Reynolds’ sentence was muted to life tmprt t li years he was a “lifer ‘9 80," he mut-| came pardoned Rey-| Reynolds, “1 hunte before when I got out and He brought Frank Johnson with o he him to The Star office, Johnson com: | amount to much, He's and appeti r drink For in the has been his undoing The many money-saving opportunities offered by the Wrecking Co. shouldn’t be overlooked by any one, Remember, this is the last Satur- day until Xmas. We’re open till 10 p. m. Remember the number—1422 3rd Ave., near Pike. A store full of useful gifts at prices LOWER —MUCH LOWER than you expect. Open Sat- urday night till 10. The Real Joy Gift— Something Useful That man of yours will owe you an everlasting debt of Qratitude by giving father, husband, brother, son or sweet heart one of those handsome Suits, Raincoate or Overcoats which we are selling at ONE-HALF TO THREE-FOURTHS OFF REGULAR PRICES. WE BELIEVE THIS 16 THE MOST EXTRAORDINARY OFFERING EVER MADE Man’s Suit, Overcoat ‘oat $10. 05 or Raincoat i You may choose from Sults, Overcoats and Ralncoats, made by the best makers in the United States. You ct from the finest clothing made in the world—6u and Raincoats, that sold from $25.00 to $30.00-—finest cheviot: worsteds, tweeds and silk mixtures, including full dress, black and biue. The price is the same, $10.05. You pick out what you [ik sregard the original price, disregard everything but pleasing yourself and hand $10 95 ‘ A Raincoat, Slipon or Crave- $7 05 nette Garment, Up to $22.50. 4» Every garment high-grade, and all of them Registered Crav. enette label, not rubberized. Many are heavy tweed, chev. fot Overco: cravenetted, high-class workmanship. A perfect fit guaranteed in every $7 95 ee “But,” he wont on, “It ain't that I'm kicking about tt, I shot a thief in self-defense, ‘The jury belleved the prosecution, that I shot #ome. body else in cold blood. Now, | wan guilty of firat-degre murder, or | wasn't, I should have been let loose or I should have » hanged, Whenever I think of] how they didn't hang me, but kept] ap in the pen for 11 years | and made an ex-con out of me, it} nakes me mad They said I didn't know which amiable, an Henvy Vine Mer- corised Stik Une Gerwear, values 66 —at, per autt— $2.45 mo shut 8 for $2.76 XMAS SALE Men’s Neckwear 25¢ Four-in- 14c Hands Men's Fancy Knitted Fourin- Hands, 250 quality Men's 500 Four-in-Hands Men's Four-in-Hands, fancy effects; all 9c colors XMAS SALE Men’s Trousers Divided Into Three Lots Cheviot, Tweed and Casel- mere Pants, worth up to pore $1.45 pair .. Better grade of Tweeds, Cassi- ALL Whatever you buy here, from the highest priced article to the lowest, must be satisfactory to you, in price and quality, or your money back. THIS IS YOUR INSURANCE AND OUR GUARANTEE plate Pants, vinbakeds serges and caseimeres, made of fine suiting, values $4.00, $5.00 and $6.00, $2. 45 XMAS SALE Men’s Shirts Since November 2nd, our immense wholesale stock of wool- en goods, consisting of men’s flannel shirts, mackinaws, clothing, pants, underwear, hosiery, sweaters, gloves, mittens, blankets and comforts have been offered and sold at half the retail price. ite ig Bat a8 Thousands of satisfied purchasers have provided their entire winter’s supply of these necessary articles at wonderful savings at this sale. Many people have been unable to attend this sale and get the many bargains offered. As this sale will continue for a short time only—now is the time to buy. SEATTLE WOOLEN C0. 1117 First Ave., Between Spring and Seneca Two TWO EMPLOYERS SHOULD BEAR FIRST-AID COST PORT #S BASE FoR © Featuring the session of employ) | Ez at the “first aid” conference jareday, in the Chamber of Com ee rooms, was the appearance of two employers who declared the and not the workingman should be made to bear the expense ‘of “first aid”--medical and hos pital fees—in cases of injury They were J. W. Efaw, of the Seattle Mattress and Upholstering @ompany, and Nels Nelson, a con tractor + This idea, however, was stren fiously opposed by Charles E. Pat fen, secretary of the Atlas Lumber Co., and sccredited representative of the manufacturers of the state Patten declared that the cost of Mirst aid” should be borne entirely hy the injured workman and that the employer should not be re Wired to pay any part of it = He also recommended an amend Ment to the present industrial in ®urance act which would require a injured employe to walt two weeks before he should be allowed collect any compensation for his jury. Beautiful In All the New We Each in a Holiday Here You Will Also SAY INDUSTRY | Prttsa strongly objected to the administration of a fund by the tn dustrial insurance commission § t« provide “first aid” in the same man: ner as industrial compensation to workmen {s now furnished. Under this plan, the employers would be required to contribute a certain amount of their payroll for the fund A. B. Ernst, a member of the fn dustrial insurance commission, gave his opinion to the effect that such a fund should be contributed to b. employers and workmen alike. Clarence Parker, another membe of the board, estimated the cost o administration at about $10,000 year Patten, however, things were all right os they are now, except that the state might take such action as to prevent the collection by employers of more than 50 cents a month from their employes for “first aid” purposes. insisted a Contracts for extension work on Sunnyside canal awarded to Wash gon contractors Neckwear and Colorings, at Cc Jington and Or 30% a Find the Better Grades at 75¢, $1.00, $1.50 Both Silk and Knitted A Large Assortment of New Patterns at 25c¢ See ‘Wind low Display TailoredReadyCo. 401-403 PI —————————————". IKE STREET | ENGLAND REPORTED TO WANT NORWAY | ARAID ON GERMANS | | eat Britain of Norway for the tiansand for use the significance of it has been of the greatest shocks of the The England Christiansand, the souther point of Norway, is believed to be because of a determination to f the Germs et out of the Kiel canal for a gigantic naval battle The advantages of the Norwegian port to Great Britain are As the accompanying map shows it would cut palf the distance warships would have to tri England or Scotland to attack the por asa naval base many | from) canal ans on the Kiel canal The water tlansand to Kiel ts Newcastle to Kiel Posse: of th the Brit cet as this is 400 miles f English por ristiansar tn addition to tion 0 surface craft les; from would put nd of Kiel cana om the near and only 300 mile at, Christiansand ideal base for the ibmarines and small n swift Is near th German warsh he ps LITTLE. GIRL! BiG VOICE! A TRAGEDY! NEW YORK, Dec Bennett, the Webe girl, only weighed pounds But she doesn't. That's why she's the chorus instead of In grand theatre show a8 in opera Miss Bennett has a big contralto ‘olce, 80 big and musical a voice that she’s sometimes called the Schumann-Heink of the chorus but she hasn't got the Schumann Heink avoirdupols She “weighs in” at 90 pounds and that’s about 100 pounds too light for grand opera roles Miss Bennett spends all her spare time now the 1 cubits to her height and p her weight. adding nds to | She'd rather sing in a gr opera tha a Spear at We er’ is win WALLA WALLA BEETS GROW ON FRUIT TREE WALLA WALLA, Wash Oliver T ; Deo, 18, of upper Klickitat valley ed in his orchard recer on a T-yearold Ben tree appearanee of skin to an impert it was tasteless and was of th color of the garden red beet, It re that the freak discover: tly Davis a puzzle apple | ap but fro t seedlons ¢ some boing pol Z n # patch of red beets growing near by jsent Reynolds to the te stool | encoura Stump, a wheat grower | | mend ap-| I'd been originsted by |eonduct had been Above, Jack Reynolds Frank Johnson, who cell. was which ly was a dresser neat It was McNally I got. 1 know? revolver burnt weartng gl a marked deck with them a gambler then . . That ain't so. MeN man anda ai big Don’ hin coat 1 want to register @ kick, : Hin pardner waa little H44 below, | timony conden:ned I was so close to him my 1 was en 80 strong I could 1 too, against the reformers at the pen Kincald wae Then Reed is a good plays the its worth the first of Now it's Drum. man, and religious string for a them. Drum wise, and he n Hut T ike the old kind better— men Iike Dryden and Keyes. They treated you square. the + all right Jod help yout pigeons. The reformers right If you didn may some of them do snitching. If and mean a you're good actor, and b get out But if you're a bum actor, an ck If you obeyed They had no use n will get religion, | a good tool-pigeon, you cai fave been hanged a) won't pretend to be religious, you ntay te ee 1 remember, ‘Jack, Kincaid me and sald to be here, thing for you take the inf have any friends What the ’ maya I, « got to do with tt? aod ought to hang, or I ain d ought to be let go. ut sooner if I fve. ‘hav Va got c jon When I was tn the ell, McAndrews come to me. Andrews was the hard man, You won't find ex-cons saying a good word fe McAndrews, Rut I liked him. k,’ says McAndrews, ‘the of church Do T hav I says M steward and to see them people You don't have to-if you don't says McAndrews n I won't, I ext day i he says oute Will e down in the book want to And Jack wa oc the They had no right, 1 down a Catholic. em I was a Catholic nything. I'm nothing Well, Jack,’ says either, but ther For why?’ I says. I've a notion lrews, ‘they'll not hang 1 priest would be a goo¢ have when out McAndrews,’ I says. yet double-crossed a man not. going to start now by crossing a Catholle priest You're a stubborn fool, Jack McAndrews, ‘but you sha'n him if you don't want to,’ says, ‘t McAndrew ») Catholi you'd best th says Me. riend t I've neve and In double says And so I stayed good pe and } their eyes, shuddered on, rked ot mo with pity i and fear of me, an when I come near t The fruit on the tree had the | the om “And when the a pardon at last they not set down the right reason punished enough, od not goor 1 wanted in the pardon that T wa Twas fet dow let go because I was not gullty of | I told if I was you're wanting to ge But I don’t like to Now if you I'm t condemned many or 8 you see him? as a Cath-| ov m t and the ple came from the outstde board did recom. would }in the paper nt they | folks outside | | t d my} JEWELRY Several hundred pleces— Scarf Pins, Cuff Links, Beit Buckles, Combs, Brooches and Novelties, vaives to $1.00, cholce— 15c and 25c me 91.50 © with — getd~ plated ban dee $1.45 murder in the first degree, and be- cause the law, in trying to compro- mise, had blundered tn putting me in prison in the first place. As T sald before, I did tt or I didn't do it. But they would not set it down an I wished. And so I come to you oe. ‘What are you going to do now?" I'm going to Alaska. I've been a frontiersman always, Put this was the front 11 years ago. Alaska is the only frontier now. and soon that will be like this—all cities and people. Understand me, he rose to go, “I’m not whining. | regret nothing I've done. | am not penitent. | simply want eo- clety to know that It did me an in. justice when it shut me up for 11 |years. | should have been a free man these past years, or | should by the neck sald Reynolds That's all.” Own your own home, It's jeasy. Read the offerings ir came to|STAR WANT ADS—then you ought not! and I'd like to do some. choose. Women's 69c 90c Xmas Slippers, $1.25 Fancy Feit Slippers Fur-Trimmed $1.50 Slippers Xmas Silppers, Men's Imita- tlon Alligator Slippers 49c Men's $250 and $3.00 fine Slippers, all $1 .45 styles Jobbers and Retailers of Bankrupt and Surplus Stocks PROGRESSIVES Any Man’s Fiannel Shirt, about 200 to choose from; navy, brown, tan, gray and Maroon; values to $3.00, at Men's $1.00 Golf Shirts, in white corded effects and tan figured: & good dol AQ lar Shirt at Large be tia Flowers, Tih tel a Nevel- 5c “Municipal Ownership.” Mrs. Emily Peters presided. ARE ADVISED TO |[RESwENcE w ony STAY WITH SHIP That the progressive party Is to| continue in the ring as a separate and will refuse to amalga-| mate with either of the older par | ties, was the sentiment brought to! the King county progressive meet- ursday night at the Good entity, ing T Eats cafeteria by Austin E. fiths and James A. Haight, KALAMAZOO, Mich., Dec. 15. William Derry must spend the rest of his life in ry” terri tory or serve out a jail sentence |} in Kalamazoo. When up for sentence he pleaded for mercy from the judge and declared that ff he was not sent to jail he would take a pled to spend the rest of his life in a “dry” county, The pledge brought freedom. who at- tended the Chicago conference aj} few weeks ago. The party was greater than Theo-| dore Roosevelt or any one issue, It, was declared. It almed for sane progress, de- clared the speakers, and if it should) fail, socialism would be the remain- ing alternative. Councliiman Erickson ny This “¢ Saturday furs and | $10.00 s | $15.00 $15.00 $20.00 Bl $75.00 full-le $100.00 a Mink $12 $10.00 Bath Robes $10.00 made) Pacific fancy $5.00 $6.00 fancy Blouses $4.00 Jersey and Sweaters Incompara Shop early, I 3 $10,000 stock of | $10.00 Red Fox pieces 5.00 Civet ¢ English ngth Leopard Cloth Coat Collar. 5.00 Hudson Seal Long Coat Sweaters -$2.95 and $3.95 ble values ristmas Sale” of uset compare the le Fur pieces $3.95 lack Croan pieces $4.95 . $3.95 pieces $5.95 Hare pieces $4.95 ack Pony Muff $7.95 ? $125.00 at -$32.50 $42.50 ! s200.00 ies aieing, $62.50 | west, cut $12.00 (Seattle- | $15.00 Silk Chiffon Alaska Furs, including mink, fox, muskrat, m sale at 1-3 to 1-2 of regular price values with those offered elsewhere $20.00 Alaska finest exhibition set in the North- Punic Tailored Coats 0.00 Tailored Coats and Suits. . 5,00 fancy MUSIC votce, violin, mandolin, guitar, theory and harmony. 3 PEOPLES BANK BLDG. Floor. ‘Mata 1 spoke on We Have “Cut the Prices” For Christmas Gifts Il be given to each and every customer. ful gifts will be the record-breaker. and be among the first to get the “bargain thrillers” etc., Note these prices. See the imported Coney pieces 5.95 $40.00 Jap Mink pieces $19.50 $30.00 Jap Mink pieces $14.95 $35.00 Black Fox pieces -$14.95 Coney Coat Brown Brown Marmot Long Coat.. $62.50 Black Fox, full-length Skirts Coats and Suits... : $12.95 $35.00 ‘fancy Novelty Coats and Suits. . Ce EXTRA SPECIAL—To ~ our tailors working, Hoffman System Suits or Coats made to measure. -:$20.00 HOFFMAN CLOAK & SUIT COMPANY BE SURE TO NOTE THE LOCATION m> 1316 SECOND AVE,