The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 18, 1915, Page 1

That's what vises, Ernest Ca Mr. Carstens is enjoying sert” of his career now. the story on page 3. Battleships Pass Review Today “Leave Dessert Till Last” He is the first Seattle man in The Star's series, “Getting There.” You'll find rstens ad- the “des- | Amoriens Biggest Before Pr s-Wilson | at New York } DRUNK, IS MURDER DEFENSE The Seattle Star The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News Vv OLUME 18, NO. 71. SEATTLE, W ASH. ‘BEST OF ATLANTIC FLEET AS THEY LOOKED WHEN REVIEWED TODAY IN NORTH RIVER, BY THE PRESIDENT Left to right, the battleships shown in the picture are the Wyoming, flagship of Admiral Fletcher, in command of the fleet; the Delaware, Michigan and the South hting ships of all kinds will take part in the review. Carolina. Seventy-five fi Just before noon today John C. Hindle, a barber, 23, intro- duced his first witness to show that, if he killed hie 11-month- old boy on the night of Febru- ary 26, it wae during a fit of He will attempt to prove that he had been constantly using liquor for a period of years, and that he had reached a point where he was neglecting his trade and his persona! appear- ance and borrowing money from friends in order to satisfy his thirst for whisky. Mrs. Anna James, his mother-in- law, was his first witness. She w called when Deputy Prosecutor Hi sell announced that all. the state's testimony had been submitted. Say He Had Tremens Former Chief Deputy Prosecut- ing Attorney Hugh M. Caldwell was the | witness for the state. id he had talked with Hin-) @le the morning after the murder The barber seemed in a drunken stupor even then, he said. His face} | his arm, hard, the baby you, you little Lays the “Then he | the kitchen. | ta noise. aby on the bed, himself, without clothes. mouth and sald, then remov iby on Bed sot up and walked into. I couldn't see what he | did, but all at once the baby stopped He came out and laid the lay down his ing holding the baby. He looked drunk, and he was squeezing the baby with He put bis hand over rn fix “Two minutes later he was snor- like a drunken man ing out loud, snores. The door, and still I baby's gasps I suspected. to the police. police station ok with me. | door. jing fainter. He “I couldn't sleep. see the landlord, and told him what} id if I thought | there was anything wrong, to report So I went to the) A policewomen We listened at the! The baby's gasps were grow | Says Door W: | “The policewoman I went down to} baby was gasping. went to my room and closed the could bear Bolted told me she the! came was pasty and his hands shook. He| ould come back and investigate| could recall nothing of the incidents of the night before. Subsequently, the defense will try to prove, Hindle suffered an at tack of delirium tremens and was under the care of doctors for many days after he was taken to the county jail. ~ edy Thru Keyhole O'Neil, a lJongshoreman who lives at the Munro. apart ments, 609 Yesler way, gave most damaging testimony against Hindle O'Nell told what he had heard, ae he paced the hallway before Hin. | die’s apartment, and of what he had| feen thru the keyhole. He couldn't sleep, he said. On the night before, when the Hindles Moved into the Munro, late, he had} been awakened by the cries of the two Hindle babies He had opened his door, he said and looking out into the hall, Hindle holding one child, and heard him say, “Shut up, you littl ——.” Squeezed Baby With Arm Recalling this, greatly worrled when he heard Mrs. Hindle leave the house the next night, leav- ing one child with Hindle, alone. “I came up the hall, past their door,” he said. “It was about 10 o'clock, The baby was crying, and I stopped to listen. Hindle was talking in a thick voice. “l heard him say, ‘Are you going to shut up?’ Then he used an oath I got down and looked thru the keyhole. ‘Hindle sat in a rocking chair. WHAT DiD You SAN Tom! | DIDN'T HEAR saw | |next day couldn't. | hole place to do it, |the door. key, | halls. ing, Mrs. Carrt }sonia hotel, of Mra | fd late at n er she left her T thou hu night Hindle ueht, “I tried to get a little sleep, My friend, Walter Latham, came in, and we listened at the key 1 was worried Sev had ¢ Her News Alexander of the Wil sband 1 Columbia st., Hindle’s visit with her aft and bet It wAsn't my but I tried | I unlocked it with my own but Hindle had it bolted on the Inside, and we could not get in “I stayed up all night. jtimes I tried to sleep, but couldn't |I smoked and read and paced the| eral | “When I finally got in, next morn after Mrs. home, the baby was dead Husband Te’ ome told the She came to the Wilsonia and borrowed my heavy coat,” It was a chilly went to her parents’ home, night with her older child Next morning she while she coat, and Hindle came in in a stupor. the baby was wiggling its hand, like that.” Mrs. Alexander waved her arm| in short jerks We hurried up to the Munro. | The baby was lying across the bed breathed twice after we got there, two short gasps that you could seareely hear Its head was bruised and so was its side she wi 1 th th ald Then she ink returned the was ere, n. He seemed dazed, “WHAT'S THE MATTER WITH YouR EARS FOR THE THIRD Time! _Now — -ARE ee He told his wife that You see, HEAR YERY GOOD WHEN I WAVE MY NEW HAT ON | I LINER TRANSYLVANIA ATTACKED! ny Americans Imperiled by German Torpedo TUESDAY, MAY 18, 1 IGHT EDITION Weather Forecast—Showers TIVES AT nhATTLE HENRY SUZZALLO, SPRY YOUNG MAN OF 40, | IS SELECTED BY BOARD OF REGENTS AS | NEW HEAD OF UNIVER SITY OF WASHINGTON | | iE | Dr. Henry Suzzallo | | | | Dr. Henry Suzzallo, since 1909] President Taft was casting about professor of philosophy in the! for an educator to appoint commis-| teachers’ college of Columbia unl-| sioner of education, he sald that he and one of the best known ved more letters from all parts tors in Amer th country recommending Dr. ed in Seattle | Suzzallo than any other man | Monday night, and Tuesday after-| Dr. Suzzallo did not get the ap noon was elected president of the pointment because Taft, wishing to University of Washington by the/|foster education in the South, se regents at the Hotel Washington. /lected a Southern man, Dr, Clax Dr. Suzzallo is not quite 40. He/ton, of the Knoxville university was born at San Jose, Cal, aud ed-| Dr. Suzzailo is not pedagogic in ucated at Leland Stanford Jappearance. He {s of medium He was graduated from the Call-| height and sturdy build, and has a fornia state normal school {n 1895,| crisp, brisk, pleasant manner. was princi 8 in San| He is better known in the East Francise 7; then went to} and in California than in the North Leland Stanford, and entered Co-| west lumbia university in 1901 | His Rise Is Rapid Returning to san Francisco, be BLIZZARD IN DENVER was for a time deputy superintend ent of schools, and was an in ru: SNVER, May 18.—A_ wintry structor at Leland Stanford in| DENVER, May 1906-7 he joined the fac-| biifzard was raging today, with the ulty of Cc His r rapid When [temperature near freezing | as WHY OF CouRSE 5) A Anat! | CAN HEAR ALLRIGHY WHE You'RE ON THIS | seme 1S THAT A HATE l | Governors the War Seattle Si Session No set program bas been made for jthe conference of governors of | Western states which began at 10 | o'clock Tuesday morning, at the Washington hotel, Six governors and James L. Haw- | ley, ex-governor of Idaho, were pres ent at the first session, and three others are expected at the afternoon of Montana and Ernest Lister of Wasbington, secretary of the con ference Conservation bumped up against military and naval prep- aration, and w lously dropped overboard at the conference Tuesday morning. A long telegram from Secre- tary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane ga conservation a fine start, but while the Jenog- rapher pounded out copies of the message, Gov. Withycombe of Oregon pushed the militant stuff forward, and conservation didn’t have another look in all morning. Withycombe, who looks like pictures of Whittier, the Quaker poet and p e advocate, re: & paper viewing with alarm the unpreparedness of the United Sta and urging encourag ment and increase of the federal and state mill Thereupon Gov. Carlson of Colo. rado, one of the younger of the ex ety eore oe ce aremier oe ea 18— the cause of the liner sinking. An c othe | : seconded the tdeas enunciated by | _, Germany's antwer t0:the Arner. | Sere yaa aaa nee By i the white-haired executive from Ore ican note of protest against | ser it will be claimed, gon, and opened up the throttle sev Submarine attacks upon neu- eerie eral notches wider | tral and passenger-carrying He was for training the boys from high schoo! days on to post-graduate courses in the national guard ay wanbiaed amted a iu rine wi ire. f a Former United States Senator tion obtainable here today | k PI of Wash. @ten sent up reso. from Berlin sources. lutions passed by the Commercial Tomorrow The note, according to informa vic 7 1M Club of Bremerton asking the gov |tion here, will the hope ernors to urge & greater portion of the United States navy on the Pa cific coast, and the militartsts seem ed to be having it all their way when Gov. Boyle of Nevada, spick and span in cloth-top-patent-leather shoes and cut-away coat, got up and started to talk “The trouble with the national guard,” he said, “is that it has been sed to settle industrial disputes and for police work, instead of military sreparedness, This has been a na in town will be {xing safety at sea to neutral and, Meese charm, The landlady of 3 tonal. error, and it is why the Lit b . |Rritish. passengers, despite the) the hotel found Polti locked in militia does not appeal to the aver talking about it German warnings and declaration | the room at 2 a.m. and rs ; s of a war zone, and with America| ed him, gat Pe " cpt of Washington also} eyes week. for permitting passengers to sail ao ee prophesied there would be no war, on munition-carriers | Bids for bollers for army trane —_ : It will be claimed the torpedo port Warren opened in U. S. quar (Continued on Page 5.) | which struck the Lusitenia wes not termaster’s office Monday SILLY — PUT YouR Discuss ZIGZAGS ~ ger TO ELUDE MISSILES | LONDOD Ma: 18.—The liner} | Transylvania, carrying nearty 900 | w: | passengers, including many Ameri-| }iner, said: cans, narrowly escaped the fate of IT was standing with two other the Lusitania on its voyage, which | passengers on the forward deck © ended yesterday with its arrival at | |e 4p. m, Sunday. One of my Glasgow. fons eudde: f akerigere of the liner arriving! eoup of a nenetenr Fee png our today from Glasgow said a Grama his eins Re: An instant later we noticed a submarine fired a torpedo at the Ivania on Sunday. The tor | mash through the water and saw the hite wake of the torpedo. pedo passed only 30 yards to the Passes Forty Yards Astern stern of the liner. Two of the TransyIvania’s passen- | “It passed, as near as I can esti- mate, about 40 y: gers here today told a vivid story of the appearance of a German submi rine near the liner Sunday after; . “We did not want to alarm the | noon | other passengers, but sent word to | Takes Zigzag Course Capt.. Black, on the bridge. The They saw the white streak in the| Transylvania immediately adopted water made by the German under-| a zigzag course. i |sea ralder’s torpedo, launched to-| . “She continued rushing about in | ward the vessel, | this manner for a couple of hours, | These passengers believe that) at times careening on one side in only the fact that the Transylvania | alarming fashion, as the rudder was | began taking a zigzag in an effort | thrown over for a sharp dash to port | to evade the German prevented the| or starboard.” |submarine from making another at-) Bursten’s story was corroborated tack |by Kenneth Douglas, an actor, © GERMANY’S REPLY TO REFUSE U.S. DEMANE Walter R. Bursten of Kent, who © returning from Arizona on the | AMSTERDAM, May merchantmen will be forward- ed Thursday and will politely refuse to change her methods os express that the United States will not fail to understand that the imperial | government must combat its ene- mies with all weapons at its com-| mand. The sinking of the Lusitania witt | be disavowed, it is stated, 1 WII! Shift the Bla | Germany will declare that re-| |sponsibility for this catastrophe | rests with England and with Amer. }iea itself—with England for prom we’re going to tell you all about him. Don’t miss this in The Star tomorrow. Get in on the ground floor. Every one Otto Polti, watchman on the steamer City of Puebla, was seized by three men on First ave. Monday night and carried bodily into a room in the Sher- man hotel, and there robbed, according to his report to the police Tuesday. Polti declares he lost $22, a gold watch and chain and a A CHANCE TO SAVE ON ALUMINUM WARE Every housewife, no matter how completely stocked Her kitchen may be, can always use a few additional pieces of aluminum ware, especially if she can obtain them at a decided bargain. Such an op- portunity otfered for .Wednesday by the Mac- Dougall-Southwick store. This store is putting a large quantity of aluminum ware on sale tomorrow at per piece, the regular values of which range up to several times this price, Full details of this most interesting bargain will be found in their large display ad on page 5, in today’s Star. Don’ hear | aN is