The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 29, 1915, Page 1

1@ SURPRISE B COMING! gTAR NEXT MONDAY We'll give you thle much of a hint, It's gomething that’s going te make you laugh Keep your eye on this apace tomorrow UNDER ARREST investigation into the recent peligious and domestic adven- teres of Mrs. Dorothy A. Ger. ber, philandering wife of Dr. Rudolph A. Gerber, of San | Prncisco and Berlin, Thurs Gy, drought out facts which her in a startling man- ”" Raiph De Bit, Mrs. Gerber and De Bit, who, it would appear from consult- ing the city directory, are wife husband, are awaiting a statutory charge, out of prison only by of their having fur it In the sum of $1,500 Were arrested on a warrant toby Dr. Gerber, who found wife, with their S-yearold Jormit halt way around the globe. Saw Her in Movies Gerber told the sheriff he Bothing of her whereabouts be saw her {mage and that of Meture screen in Berlin Months ago. The scene| @oved 4 San Francisco street, he| He foliowed her to that eity,| to Seattle. @ftired a writ of habeas corpus Judge Dykeman and had the Girl placed in the custody of officers. doined the Yoga Cuit “Then he set about to straighten the domestic relations of Mrs. Tt was first learned that she has suit pending In superior Meanwhile, the husband she has joined the Yoga and had been cajoled into as the wife of De Bit, its Mrs. Gerber declares her hus- ‘Wat bas a motive back of his ac- She says that by obtaining legal custody of the little daugh- he will participate in the dis- of the estate of Mra. Ger. Wealthy grandmother, Mrs. Gordan, of 1631 Laguna st., Francisco. Quarrel Over Daughter Pome claims to have already custody of Areal in a cot fh Berlin. His wite she was - coraliend little girl by a San} court. De Bit is nelther embarrassed | Worried, he says. He occupies Randsomely furnished office sulte| bee headquarters of the Yoga,| reste building. lives in a beautiful home at Peanx Arts, across Lake Washing- Nine other persons live in the "Only Nine in the Same House __Strely there {x nothing to war- & charge being made against | he said, “because nine of us fn the same house.” Mm. Gerber received the conse. _ of the Yoga several weeks .'T took her into the faith,” said Tit, “and gave her the name But few People in Seattle been #0 honored.” 4 of the honored ones is At A. J. Speckert, former list leader, who changed Teligious views to become af- With the Yoga. He |s now charged with grand larceny Yoga, Speckert is called Gthers who have heen “brought #8 the light” by De Bit, are Mra B. Haney, Albert W. Fornier Mrs. Eleanor M. Rininger. Would “Burbank” Soule f Gerber, according to her i. adviser, was to huve it inspirationa) dancing and Aesthetic subjecta at the follege, established at Beaux for the especial purpose of Ss fouls, number of “igloos,” or homes, Toga at Beaux Arts ses to prosper. and the village WATCH THE \ FINDS MISSING WIFE IN HOUSE OF YOGI Nine Living Together; “Doctor” Says It’s O. K. , Areal, it is said, after a| daughter flashed on a/ ‘Locating her and the child, he| Pe Peing built for disciples of the| ; Yoga teaches the rhythm of| project of a new southeastern bat-|'\ 44 together the first two figures | protection against possible violence.| gituation In the capital Is | ‘Three thousand 8 AST EDITION WEATHER FORECAST—Falr TIDES AL SHATTLE High Low. ie VOLUME 18. NO. 132. SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, JULY 29, 1915, ee? Oe a. tos 184 th 19:00 we, 34 opm t Spm. 2.6 ft BECKER PREPARIN G TO DIE Wife Pleads With Governor Rats Hearty sreakfast and Says He Will Go to Chair Bravely--- Mrs. Becker Goes to See Whitman. The Becker Case, From Murder to Chair | REMARKABLE FLASHLIGHT PHOTO TAKEN INSIDE CAPSIZED EASTLAND! | July 16, 1912—Herman Rosenthal, gambler, shot within a few hours of time he was to have told grand jury of alleged connection between Lieut. Becker and gambling HERE is honor among ome thieve | } | syndicate } But for downright | 24'ly 18 “Bald Jack” Rose tells district attorney of alleged murder conspiracy and names of those implicated. reacher mean fespic- 4 | treachery, lean, despic July 21 “Bridgie’ Webber and Sam Paul arrested. able, cheap, dirty trickery |] July 23 Harry Vallons, gangster, surrenders to police. July 26 Dago Frank” or Frank Cirofici, arrested P lece ha Ga 5 ps go ’ i and deceit, — the eattle |P yuiy 29 Lieut. Becker arrested {Lighting compan takes] Sept. 14 “Gyp the Blood” and “Lefty Lou” arrested rpg pe Oct. 14 Becker found gullty of murder in first degree. jhe grand pri Oct. 30 Becker sent to Sing Sing | Iwo or three months | Sept. 12, 1913—Mrs. Becker resumes former occupation, school teaching }ago, when the city’s case jagainst the gas company jcame up before the public service commission, — the company’s attorneys and of-; ficers entered into a stip- ulation with the city to re- duce the minimum rate for gas from 50 cents to 25 Feb. 24, 1914—Becker granted new trial by court of appeals April 13 Four gunmen, “Gyp the Blood,” “Dago Frank,” “Whitey Lewis” and “Leftie Lou” electrocuted at Sing Sing May 22 Becker found guilty a second time. Sentenced to die July 12, 1915. June 4, 1915—Gov. Whitman grants Becker 14-day reprieve. duly 12 Mrs. Becker begins desperate two weeks’ effort to save her husband's life. Becker to be electrocuted at Sing Sing. July 30 ( INING, N. Y., July 29—“Tell the world Charlie ents a mont It was ple ement of Charles F. Becker today, | faith. The gave their f wing the announcement of Supreme Court Justice Ford words of honor And the! last night 1 to deny the appeal of Becker |city’s representatives and ‘"" * ™ “A of instigating the murder of rman R the public service commis- This means that Becker must die in the electric chair sion believed the gas m0-|tomorrow morning. Becker is resigned to his fate. The fight nopoly would keep its word. | for his life is lost. But with their client even in the shadow So the case wasn’t push- " of Sing Sing, lawyers are still work- ed to a conclusion. And ‘hor ne, that the chair-may yet be cheated. : . : B. 1 1 the public service commis- Lagi ts tees | sion issued no order. For the gas company had given its promise. The gas barons promised, but they omitted to live up to the promise. The 50- }cent minimum is still being grabbed by the company / - . . ~ |And it will keep on grab- LOOK AT THE PICTURE THIS WAY FIRST |bing the double charge un- It shows half the dancing deck submerged In the water and divers raising bodies of drowned victims. As the ship turned on its side ait | til the public service com-| , the merry dancers slid down into what is now the water-covered part of the deck and were drowned. No. 1 is the roof of the dancing deck, | mission issues a formal 8 all prisoners wear who are now a side wall. No. 2 is the benches where those not dancing sat. No. 3 is the dancing floor. No. 4 is the i of water in which 200 | i ‘ . taken to the chair. drowned. Now turn the picture sideways and you see the dancing deck as it was before the ship tipped over except—you only see half of order to top it. Sate Hoarty Breakfast it, the other half being covered with water. | It is up to the state com-) joc... Recent | } rs. Becker, whose nerve has three fight to save her husband, oday when told the last faltered during | a short time visiting 1 in the death house and to the vagy last to buoy him up with ve that Justice Ford aring of his lent Half of the Dancing Fleer as It Looked When Right Side Up ared for ens gave He was shower ba dof his civilian clothes and ed in the plain black suit, such rte a he this mo WHEN WILL THE SIX INDICTED FLYNN-FLAM Steet ee | be issued without delay. death cell was stripped of his belo except a picture WAR END? WHAT | Let’s have no further) or iis wite 4 morning and clipped his hair. A T0 EASTLAND EN LA thief without vestige of | round spot was then shaved on the a aye | honor is the veriest scum ib his head where the metal One year ago the serrithe: Wa war in Europe began; a C SOR FOOD iof the aanth, ele rode will fit e convicted police officer sat! e s ‘4 non calm and cool as the ork | year ago today the first shot was fired, Austrian can tanokdo. Tay) wee with dl © inares Eee Safin) ped pol aa the | Yor ot| | throwing the first ball against the fortress guarding Bel-| men neta to the county grand jury) Yippity, yip, yip, Yap! bagel pi | | 4 yip, yip, D | Serbian ca ital. on charges of manslaughter by the Banzat! é Hoch de Kaiser! | weg ho se 7 babe jury, as a result of the| L& France MRS. BECKER wi | When will the LAST shot be fired? lthe overturning of the steamer| Next, Monday! | PLEAD FOR HUSBAND en will the LAS! s pid sh det : Who? | ALBANY, N. Y., July 29.—Mrs No one man, or any set of men, can tell with any/| were opened here today by the fed W. Earl Flynn, “the world’s great- | pie Recker, wife of Charles F. Becker, Ide f acy when the war will end. But some) °"r, 000 yng est health lecturer It was a most gorgeous night whose exeotition ta set for tomoridw egree of accurac ne e a Those held to the grand jury as Who says #0? | The Moore thea was packed hse : be oe oF tome % se Reais : oa > 4 #0 r = iorni ll meet Gov. Whitman men—men who have studied this war every day since & result of the coroner's, Inquest) Why, Flynn says so bimselt. trom pit to crow's nest Wedn aeay Ih 7 o'clock tonight to plead | SQ Saaaeerreres are '. eas shad tt to] Risht. the first night of the 1915] e008 po ae tite She it started, studied it with eyes on battlefields, eyes on|""Wintam 1, Hutt, general man abt tes Seaake tee. DAA for You to) icirmess, and the big crowd of so-| Or her husband's life. She will be jh ; ; a: fichti ces of | ager of the Chicago & St. Joseph arp ciety folk enjoyed itwelf to the nr. 2ccompanied to the executive office} The photograph of Charles Beck- |financial resources, and on the fighting resources o And he sells books. F by Attorney Johnson er and Mrs. Becker was taken Steamship Co., owne every nation involved—these men have been asked by liand; Capt Sy esinich ote \the editor of The Star to tell The Star’s readers what Eastland: J. M. Erickson, engineer: | \they think about the probable length of the war. rt Reed, “COvOROERL Sekt f the East most It is impossible to obtain a stay | Shortly after Becker had been ‘i Spe ies pol tl chin Na et 1" | from any court now, and should the | sentenced to death. antastic, graceful steps it depicted | governor refuse to grant the appeal, | ———— [the history of America, reaching| Mrs, Recker will hasten to Sing WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE back to the Spanish court tn the And over in Tacoma they ray he} kicked at his hotel because there wasn't enough breakfast to eat So they named him “Flynn-Flam |ship inspector, who Issued the If 4 r ° Sing to be with her husband until We have not asked the opinions of diplomats, conde permitting the steamer to ee “I-you-can'tgive-a-dottar.| een, of Queen Isabella E/the last minute she is permitted to] Water will be shut off on 10th carry 2,500 passe J. C, Eck owcan't-give-a-dollar-| Ferdinand, and skipping remain with him in the death|@ve. from E. Madison to E. Pine, military men and such because they have proved in this) iifr steamship inspector, and W. G war that they know the least on the question considered. | Greenbaum, general manager of the Indiana Transportation company, give-four-bits,” | swiftly to the modern pre house Whereupon, Fly Flynn | ing to pay enthusiastic homage to| Attorney looked around for other worlds to|15 venerable veterans of the civil appeal for a stay of execution be-| l0th to 11th, Friday from 9 a. m conquer, and he's going to put up| war, who appeared on the stage re Justice Hogan of the court of |to 5 p.m a tent at Lenora st., between Sec-| Oxher features of the evening|appeals, now at his summer home on 11th ave. from B. Denny way to s considered making an|E- Pike, and on E. Pine st, from | BY GEORGE 8. VIERECK i A combination of the neutral na-| lessee of the Eastland Ardent | tions, headed by the United § As the search for bodies in the Watton of The eee German-American | might have ended it when Belgium | Bastland continued today, the death|Ond and Third. It will seat 2.500.| were roundly applaudec Jet Fourth lake, but this plah wna OFFICER DIES AT SEA Point of View |was invaded, and again when the|tol] was placed at from 1,200 to| He expects to be here three weeks.| The Kirmess re ta Thursday | abandoned today S. Tukuda, who was quartermas:. I think the war will end In OctO-| 7 usitania was sunk | 1,400, That {s, if he sells enuff books. Pnight beginning | at § o'clock sharp.| There was doubt as to Justice |ter of the Tambu Maru, which dock ber of this year, for financial a8) “Ny such chance is likely to recur. | Ask Federal Investigation | ———— |Hogan's jurisdiction. It was de-|ed here Wednesday night, died and well as for milf tary reasons. For by that time Ger |many will have both Warsaw and | Calais, while Eng land will ~have | broken down un lder the tremen The thing now will go the limit.| The harbors committ of the cided an appeal to him would be|was buried at sea on the trip over | brie | hoard of aldermen today adopted a PRESIDEN | TO useless i from Japan |resolution, asking that President | BY HERMAN RIDDER Kattor of New York stants-zeitwng, ana} Wilson appoint a spectal commis | “Most ¥ 7 Flahling Advocate of the Sion to investigate the Kastland dis. ORDER MEXICO | Tent Canes In America. aster To speculate on the length of| A probe by such a commission ts the war is like buying lottery tick-| desired, it was stated se the 1IOTS ST P A. he ane s. The following trick, while|probe of the steamboat inspection ing to finance her am m~ fm (mere jugsling h dates, in which service, at which Secretary Red @-—--- 1 take no sto is as accurate a/| field presided, “does not merit pub- | — forecast as most of the so-called | lle confidence | WASHINGTON, July “29— |be made within 24 hour j expe: pcler 1 a i f genera a , Strong representations to Gen. | It is believed it may precede tne HAS. EDW. RUSSELL expert prophecies. The last Na-| Wm. Hull, general manages of g rep! "3 1 xual Ane Author, Who Investt-| poleontc war began in 1814 and end. |the Chicago & Joseph S. S. Co.,| Carranza and Gen. Villa, de- | “definite steps” which the adminis gated War pe He-led in 1815. The Franco-Prussian |operating the Hastland, appeared | manding the riots in Mexico be [tration promised with regard to pecially for The Star. | war Wegan in 1870 and ended in|at the Federal building today as a| stopped, will be made by the | Mexico within a short time If Greece should enter the war! ig71 witness in the grand jury investi} state department immediately. | Many of Seattle’s stores put forth especially and the situation before Con AGA th 4 ‘ z sation | é based un , ‘" Write uk abe sitaepios GAA if Thaly, WaTeth BOA eT ee eae [Crate iota co Sette tial cane amet racclOed becake | PICNIC IN SHIFTS tempting bargains for Friday shoppers. “This week * ‘ and the second two together on a dispatch received by the Montenegro should carry out thelr) car 3629 and 3741, respectively, | shal, having asked that he be given! department declaring the food is no exception and full details of these bargains attle Electric peal and, De Bit saya, “ie ate front, and jf at the same time lof the first number and the last is one of the ix men held to| again serious. company workers pienicked — in will be found in the ads in The Star today. Re- @ exposition of religion,| Russia should become efficient, the) ____ ad grand jury on a cha of man-| The di itch wis dated Sun- [shifts at Fortuna park Wednesde . ’ a : Tagloty snd metaphysics, ith}the war might ‘end before snow (Continued on Page 4) ghter. ay Itt lasted all day and unt! late in member, the best bargains of Seattle’s best stores \ tle truths as premises | fails Prompt action by the Mexican|the evening, There were eat her Dr. or Mrs. Gerber will | be awarded the custody of | Geughter will be decided in su court Friday morning. This threefold contingency ts} | Tri-anniversary and midsummer are advertised in The Star daily. Don’t miss them. poasible, but Improbable. fair to be held at First African| Steamship Dante Alighierl leaves | factions to relieve the food short-|sports, a ball game and tug of war ; Without it the war will last into| Methodist church from August 4 to| New York for Naples with 1,000|age in Mexico City will be insisted | (in whic h the construction crew} next spring, at least. 6 inclusive. volunteers to serve in Itallan army, upon. The demand is expected to] won from the fat men) — a