The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 30, 1915, Page 1

BLOOIE! | The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News Circulatior 2400, and our carrier boy The Star. Main 9400. Remember the | German Fleet in Action; France As Britain to Send Ships to Protect $15,00 DAMAGE IS GIVEN Former City Engineer Thom-| son Wins Libel Suit Against Col. Blethen. VERDICT Is U! UNANIMOUS | Jury Out Only an Hour and a] Are You Going to Move? F YOU move, telephone The Star's Department, that you do not miss a single copy of tered the Main will see number, Bride founded [Bride Hounded by | Detectives; Quits | | | | Half; Returns Finding Thursday Night. A sealed verdict of $15,000 In favor of former City Engi- neer R. H. Thomson against the Seattie Times was read at Friday morning at the opening of court in Judge Mitchell’s department. The jury took the case Thurs- day at 4 o'clock At 5:40 they reported a verdict had been reached and Judge Mitchel! document sealed, to be reopened Friday morning. | Eight women and four men com- prised the jury. A. J. Olmstead was foreman. } Lawyers who gathered in the} courtroom before the verdict was) read laid wagers on the amount! they anticipated would be named by the jury. A bet of $1 worth of Cigars ‘was made that the verdict would be under 10 cents. Another! attorney offered to wager a new hat it would be not less than $50,000. No notice of appeal was given, nor was any mention made as to whether any of the remaining three suits pending against the Times would be tried “Slander Machine” The greater part of the day Thursday was taken up with argu ments of counsel. Attorney Will H. Thompson, now an old man, held the jury and the throng that massed the court room in breathless sus- pense. « He referred many times, when speaking of the Times, to “that in fernal slander machine Attorney Bausman argued, wav.) ing a page of the Times, that “it was a loud call to Mr. Thomson,” but emphasized that suit was not brought until over a year had passed. MORE DAIRIES APPLY 10 CITY FOR COW TEST Chief tuberculin tester, Dr. Smith of the city health department, is busy Friday in the Cedar river ¢ trict, examining the cows whose milk is distributed in Seattle. App fons by dairymen for the tests continue to pour Int e of. fice of th health commissioner In addition to those already men. tioned in The Star, the following have applied M. ERICKSELL, 2901 13th ave. S., 24 cows A. BERGH, 7604 Pleasant ave., one cow. JOHN A. FAY, 3010 W. 73rd at., 25 cows. S$. JOHNSON, 7031 five cows. | THOMSON BROS., Renton, three cows. 16th N. W., ordered the} land 1% to } | | | | | Mrs. Merrill Cushman, who says she is being shadowed b; father. in-law and five. ainateur detective because she married the boy she loved. Mrs. Merrill: Cashman, of 11, W Republican st., has gone to. Tacoma to throw her father-in-law, J Cushman, and his bat detectives off the tra!) Cusho she says, is ahgered be cause she and his son, Thomas J Cushman, ran away and were mar ried after three weeks” courtship She declares her father-in-law and other men he hired to help him have been dogging her footsteps for sev eral weeks to get evidence by which her husband can secure a divorce She says the father made a gr tesque picture on a recent nicht when, after he had been discovered he vaulted the fence and dashed down the alley back of her home The elder Cushman {s a well known tobacconist, being cashier of M. A. Gunst & stores here The young husband is a university student, football player and oars man, and popular in university s¢ cle the plain litt Iveater The girl is ter of a sawyer, 8» daugh Scott Frank Dally, a pharmacist, who is alleged to have been one of the amateur aleuths put on Mrs. Cush man's trai rrested April % ar for trial In justice ve trled te company of Kear were return ged to bi f into the n and Miss Alm 4, aa tney vening. hrewsbury holds war rest of the rest of ney, her frien ing home on Constable rants for the the “detectiv |MINISTER TO.CHINA MAY GET U. OF W. JOB The Universit of Washington re gents, who have been combing the East in search of presidential tim yer to fill the v ney at th tate iniversity, return Sunda P, 8 Reinsch, United Ste minister to China, is said to be one of poss bilities for the jo! Forest fire on south side of Grays A German shell explodes in the midst of a group of French magazine ar Bill Shepherd tells about it on page 10 today in the first of an intensely interesting series of articles from the British front in Belgium. You are missing something if you aren’t reading ‘Shep’s” | Tells How She Forced Deadly 7Can a wife become no Se ts, sketching in the dreary ruins of Neuve Chapelle. Correspondent war stuff. Read how the German gunners have ripped open the cemeteries and scat- Read what the soldiers thought of the Johnson-Willard fight. IGHT EDITION Light frosts tonight bones of persons long dead over the green lawn. Weather—Fair TIDES AT SEATILE High. aM 6:43 p. Gre r Coast Kaiser’s Fleet Hurls Shells Into Dunkirk 300 Miles From Its Base; Paris | Fears Naval Attack on French Coast. PARIS, April 30. struck from the sea! Their warships, operating 300 miles from their base, have shelled the fortified city of Dunkirk. Nineteen shells are known to have fallen in the city. Twenty persons have been killed and 45 wounded. Whether the bombardment is being con- tinued or the hostile fleet is steaming south, to shell Calais and other points on the French m., WRK ft 118 a om 14.2 ft, 10027 pom, SEATTLE, WASH.,, FRIDAY, APRIL 30, 1915. ONE CENT ON Th OLUMF 18 WW © Ao ft [LITTLE GIRL AND THE STEPMOTHER WHO! KILLED HER BECAUSE SHE KISSED FATHER KISSES ‘LEAD TO MURDER Jealous Stepmother Kills Child Because of Father's Love. CONFESSES HER CRIME Poison Down Girl's Throat MUSKEGON, Mict April 30. us of & daughter—a step-daughter—as a rival for the affections of the hus band and father that she will mur der? Mra mitted the — killin Evelina 8§ le, whose found In an alley b Albert Steele. on arrest, ad of ibyearold! & body of her home was and revea! he horrifying details. | i nm She told of stripping the little The murdered girt, Evelina coast, * not yet known, the wie ent girl of every bit of clothing in a at right, and her step limiting the information so far made avail- wood shed In the rear of her home. MM Albert Ste who able to a brusque statement that German |warships are off the Belgian coast. It is believed a demand already has been |made on the British government to send ‘ships to protect the French coast. ‘and up until today’s announcement, —| Most of the new French warships e aiding the British forces in the “CITIZENS JAILED BY Jeveryone believed the French coast | safe. j . She told of binding her arms | poisoned her, and a pen picture of tightly at her sides, of blindfolding| how the little girl was poisoned. her, and then, having the little} —— girl helpless, pulled out her tongue} and forced a spoonful of meas acid down her throat Describes Death Straggle She described bow the cna guiped down. the poison. and her death struggles. Acid burns over the body of the girl testify that she knew what was happening to her and in her fight for life spilled several spoon fuls of the poison before the fatal was administered The step-mother then thought here that the Germans would take the chance of operating |8o far from their base of supplies Dardanelles. It has not been | was entirel decided to} bury the child | SAN FRANCISCO. ts believed the German war- the yard, but on later tho Eighteen hours ere were sent south to co-oper- cided to throw the body anxiety Was felt for the My with the German army in the alley, whe new drive against the French coast. e it was found sylvania, which VANCOUVER POLICE: Father Near Madness Heved to have run Into last night's The eucoses of the Britain Gal Albert the girl's father,| gale while route here from the ships last fall in checking the first s on th » of madness t coast of Mexico. ie Ea ae German drive with light draught He curses the woman—his wifé| The 8 8. Y¢ te, which salled VANCOUVER, B. C., April 30. latter the personal servant of monitors and cruisers is believed” who killed his daughter that none | Astoria yer day with 40 pas The police late yesterday raid- Count Alvo Von Olvensieben, to bave inspired the latest German other might eb his affections, |* rs, returned to San Francisco ed the house occupied by Baron | now in Seattle, move. It had always been my custom,” | today Von Luttwitz and Dr. Otto Gru- Dr. Grunett claimed American | It Is believed the warships now said 8 in a calmer moment,| The captain w * jonsed fuat. hi nett, prominent Germans, on | citizenship on being brought to [off the Belgian coast are fast little “to kiss my wife and Evelina when|*>'p Was damaged by the Immen Marine drive, Point Grey, ar- | the police station. He demanded (cruisers of the type which raided leaving for work and when return | ¥8ves | | fested both men, and searched | that the American consul here |the English coast during the ing. ae | the premises. be telephoned for. | winter. In the evenings the child would | Letters. and papers, it ie ru- The consul came soon after- | The official communique tells of of her day at schoo lead to the arrest of other Ger. | both the doctor and the baron. |states that 19 shells fell in the Afraid of Woman a man residents of Vancouver. All four men are held as prison- | city this all changed ers of war. With Baron Von Luttwitz, and | % Dr. Grunett, were arrested Paul | Moppe and Fredrich Stritzel, the | Austrians is everywhere intense and destroyed several houses, Then sudden but that no damage was done to When the three of us would be to Feeling against Germans and the fortifications. gether in evenings the girl The Germans are again bombard- would rema by he and re . today. Point Grey, a suburb, ing Rheims. More than 500 shells fuse to sit on my lap. She seemed ion 7 eeitlen’ adben he he couric ar thin waa inn Bs over largely to well-to-do- | have fallen in the city, it is stated, to be in fear of her step-mother meee ae 3 ermans, is being depopulated. Numerous fires have been started. Comptroller Carroll relative to jdecide the Rénick bill un anette A ‘ 8 i Whenever her step-mother left . ; aos Honal ana of no free 'd effect number of residents left in | but all have been quickly extin: the toom eho would run over to mel’ Seem eer ee | eee a ree ee 24 haste last night. suited : and and hug me—-but eat. 0 ae aes peat ta The police are reticent about eakes! § r ctrl railway division to the lighting If any doubt at all existed in the arrests, probably to quiet the in th of her step-mothe department, Corporation Coun. | my mind, however, | would resol apbila tania, and Wie woflalait The ties are conv se! Bradford Friday branded j|such doubt in favor of the power | ivan out that the fire, which PROGRESSIVES To that Mrs the Renick law as unconstitu: of the city to handle its own fi-| . yesterday morning partially de stroyed Connaught bridge and | the smalier blaze at the Gran ville bridge, in the same hour, through because the mother, and constantly mother of her the way to which it fitted to meet its ow tional and void. nances This means the city will not be prevented from making the DECIDE PARTY FATE rth During my " exchange tenure of office, | “ “ di “and not the | What's going to become of the # for the attention her father gave Incidentally, Bradford takes | shall continue to resolve all doubts ee, eee ee | teat Mi tin Pe = her. a slap at the supreme court in favor of the principle of local| Though nts OF ‘the refe the ® a eonnita. pind sMigeel pat ‘ssenanting little topic will = Pointing out that the Renick self-government—of the right of | endum to dapate, 2) he Brille empire be discussed Gaturéay Bianiaal law allows emailer cities and | the people to manage their own af.| big mass meeting will nevertheless i Setea ee SarOOR, DANe Ore te otde at Tee asting ie SEES ROBBERS; T00 erve t held Friday night at the Labor, filling up, and Germans and Aus- | beginning at 1:30, and lasting un- 9 | villages, school distriets, coun fairs without ee intervention of oe H iM the eon | trians who have not gone to the til the orators get tired, at a big | tles, port districts, and the jan absentee landlord or withou ne to discuss je seve ncnteneas i Ms ane SCARED TO MOVE state ieeeit, to do those things invoking the ald of a ‘carpet bag’ | measures on which the people's «li-| Camps are keeping indoors. neranieese peck ag eee prohi to the five larg: theory of government lrect vote is being sought Chairman J. Y. C. Kellogg. r ht. Ro Aral,| cities In the state, Bradford Some day the Ameri Chairman Whitney of the county NO GOOD; KILLS SELF Ar promreesiven bls or Ht aa eh al, will awaken and send ih republican centra committ nvite e ir a aitting in an| Sn%° ny mind, the Renick bill ia{cratic theory of admitiintrat Thursday informed the Washing pitied to participate in the dig: adjoining room, silently watched) egnant with’ invalidity. It Io-| government, with bag and baggage,|ton State Referendum league that d Sever WSs any G00d, SAG Never) "ae auakek Ohehele Joning the three robbers carry off six suite at) tringes constitution of the |to Bagdad neither he personally nor any of the Will be, so I think T am doing the) The question of aband - the Pantorium Dye Works, 962 Den-| TmE** s.°50 Giviously as void as al at others suggested for the debate right thing T don’t think 16 fe ing ary a ee ae ” y 1 acces e challenge | fau 0. ¥ ny at 3 o'clock Friday morn-| the emergency clause at ached to INJURED BY. CHUGBICE will accept the challenge MAK, fault, tho. sibling the above note| DY the sttitude-of those presenta Tae hans takde Wome in anbband a ng we Sec ehacienthela YaLA Adolph Wild received slight| mittee,” said Whitney, “to enga »| to the landlady of the Erwin hotel, | S@turday’s conference wee scialy 66h ak te bleu | believed and argued before injuries Friday morning when Ray |in such debates 1523% nd ave., Thos. H. Down “e ed sufficient courage that decision, and 1 still believe, | Golaba, Westiake hotel, on a*mo-! C. R. Case, J, Y. C. Kellogg, and|Bryn Mawr farmer, killed himself} Under German patent laws an ee friend. who ‘ite. that’ decision, that the|torcycle belonging to Dr. Swingley,|J. O. Golden will be the chief| with a revolver Thursday afternoon, | inventor is obliged to develop his notified the emergency clause {8 a subterfuge!ran into him at Fourth ave. and|speakers at the meeting Friday! Down leaves a mother in Brynj|patent within three years or suf: and a fraud upon the people at | wight Mawr. \fer annulment | MANY PEOPLE PROFIT TOM, THE MAN OF THE NeW CAN NEXT DOOR |S Our IK THE YARD ! GET ACQUAINTED WITH HiM 5 me : BY READING THE ADS =e - ETE? 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