The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 16, 1915, Page 1

GILL’S TESTIMONY) TESTIMONY GIVES THE LIE TO CHIEF LANG’S FRIENDS PPP PLD PDP LDP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP PPP =| TheSeattle Star simon EDITION The Only Paper in Seattle That Dares to Print the News cf, om WEATHER FORECAST—Fair VOLUME 18. _ NO. 175. SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPT. 16, 1915. | “ONE CENT Siws"$!Xtoa® "ita fms, tft 600 pms OM ITNESSES IN BAD! FULL REPORT OF PRINCIPALS IN LANG CAS | Lang? 's Friends Sadly Mixed on hoamatieaiet ‘Ouaetian of How Many | Were Drunk at Cafe Party. One Witness Says None Was Drunk, Chewing Gum and Hair! They don’t go, but almost Anything else does at the dance where they trip the “honey snuggle” in all the 57 varieties, See what it’s all about on page 5 GILL’S TESTIMONY Another Witness Says Only One Was Drunk and Gill Says Lang Told Him That Two Were Badly Overloaded. ‘The following is Mayor Gure tee _A—T ‘as tes. A—THER REASON WAS THAT HE MAP GONE THERE TO KIND oF 2 an MAD GONE THERE TY KIND OF How many were drunk? Lang’s friends are all mixed up on this important OMINENT CHPTIZENS t question. Their stories don’t jibe at all. Lang told Gill that two prominent citi- zens of Seattle, who were members of his party, were badly “overloaded,” and that jhe was along to take care of them. George Miller, auto man, and also member of the party, swore yesterday that | nobody in the party was drunk except Redpath, who is not one of the two promi- |nent citizens Lang told Gill about, for he is not a Seattle man. | Jack Williams, Lang’s chauffeur, swore that none of them was drunk, and Redpath, in an affidavit, swears that the party was lively but not boisterous. Mayor Gill was the chief witness at the Wednesday hearing. Others who testified were George Miller, a member of the wine party at Tate’s; Abe Hurwitz, Chief of’ city editor of The Star; Al Smith, a policeman, who said he did not spy on the a te whethes / chief and didn’t even know he was in Tate’s that night; and Sergt. A. J. Wilkes, om that of any other Police Louis whose beat covers Tate’s-cafe. [don't think he aid. 1 ti M.L | Sergt. Wilkes also said he wasn’t spying on the chief; didn’t know the chief eB lon , fi was in Tate's, and that there was absolutely nothing unusual in his being in that ames E. Bradford | al stenographer, M 4 AN 8 Read it. You will r THING sO rivy As NED. it highly tnteresting, and it Lendy—Den' yeu think W would give you a fine chance to judge been more commendable if he had Lang case from what Lang him. tken them home? fold the mayor The Witness —If they would have gone I have ed | Taher preliminary introductions, that you raat et heme, Mr handy the testimony s follows, the @—That wee the reason which the *A” standing for tl mayor's an he wel Have you a few days after that ; ‘and the “Q™ referring to the My. se ines | by Corporation Counsel 4 the was the reason, | thet wee confined solely to Lang's attorney falling! happened in Tate's cafe at that mayor any questions heard of this thing next morning; & that part of it concerning bis fring fa the cafe. TF @—That was the next morning after AmAfter he had been there, 1 did mot beer anything aboot the woman tn the Toes ur that ti 1 paid no further Mieation to it fatied myself that eye fe that he bad been there with bef, les guatirara. whe were in a hilartoos [Getitien, himscit. Then after the wews- staff beeen te come out ‘That was in August? Ves, sir district for it was his duty to be there. GI testified he never heard of; ——-— woe ee _ Lang's “hide-and-seek” alftt until two prominent citizens with him were drunk” before that day, it | was on the day of the publication lof the story in The Star that he |heard for the firet time from the | chief that he bad made a date with the girl, had accompanied her to her room, and had partaken of a) couple bottles of beer in her room with her and another girl Milter tentified he met the chief }at the “entrance of Tate's cafe | There were three others. He re fused to name any one else ex jcept L. V. Redpath, former special Q—1 jest call yoor attention to the lthe dey The Sta . nd the ‘That was on August 25. (Showlog |t was somewhere about Auguet 2 when vd ay" ihe ors a are Ta 6 = s 5 he told you about what ty outside ory « e chief's vis al pop nll ” mepanes epee cafe and then to a cabaret girl's A Ve ir, twee subsequent—qulte room at en early hour of the mort i ‘ : — ae te os atk before Ing While be had heard of the 5 anything about thie ww lef t 1 cafe and tha } sar tting ebeut thie womne, chief being in Tate's cafe and that ad first publication ea) ime with the letter which Me. Kitehir ia , being shadowed and that he with the girt ; i F S Friends Lie? WHAT LANG SAID TO MAYOR GILL: “Two. prominent citizens of SEATTLE who were with me at Tate’s were overloaded. I was looking after ' : Fisad ; v! elie ft pe mes that he went Cub the airl for the | purpose of seeing who it was that wee shadowing him or followieg bim wp. 1 didn't understand thet the girt wes any 5 | Eagle, 80 thet oust of we. but be did tet! hat that was the resem that he ih ber. nt he was using the girl te help Lt BS Jove ag nigen jadvertising employe of The Star ” shadowing him? Redpath waa employed on The them. Star for about six weeks. He was ar employ at that ngs to the same se WHAT JACK WILLIAMS, LANG’S CHAUFFEUR, SAID: “None of ’em were drunk.” WHAT L.°V. REDPATH, OF PORTLAND, ONE OF THE PARTY, SAID: “The party was lively but not boisterous.” it le what he told me you at that time that he went to her room hotel, or wherever it DRANK IN 1 not in The he Fairmount t He be ime je be oi “wiltett Oliver T. Erickson ALMOST SURE cowwess cuaunges CHAIRMAN OF THE i ada NEW YORK 16.—The finan cial commission appeared today to ne |e on the road to making the most “THEY'RE BUT TING | gigantic “touch” In history, the pro- Jnosed — $1,000,000,000 loan from EA | American bankers IN ON MY B T,” Gossip in Wall street was that y ed in getting the oom A—Ves, sir, he told me that he went fiom more than anything le to the room. De wes there he learned Q—Did he tet! you how long he stayed tf these policemen were there? tat that he had made this date A don't think he did. 1 THINK with the woman for the purpose PD THEY HAD A COUPLE BOT low = it on of that time, or did it come out what time he left there, he need not resign on my ae-|f you rerall? was about all the converse. A—Yes, sir, I think he told me, Mr. . The thing came on them, | Bradford, bat I could not give you that Seve rakew that position ever since, to tell you the truth about ti, don't— Q.—De you reeall whether of not it! lone in the morning? was somewhere near the time when | A.— Vee. “Bis first publiention appeared, which Is) @.—<Getting slong pretty well in the Augnat 707 | morning? “AI twink that is the first time, Mr. | that he told me the part con- | WHAT GEORGE MILLER, AN- OTHER OF THE LANG PARTY, SAID: “The only one who was drunk was Mr. Redpath” (of Portland). Which Proves: 1. Someone Lied— Either Lang Lied or oh, yen. y statement that you in addition to what I have jthey had succe SAYS PEEVED THUG jeading men of the money world to | pledge a large part of this enormous Thte te the age of efficiency. sum, and that other pledges appear- Two men Wednesday night led likely | held up H. G. Sandel of the Ros- eR lym hotel, 432 Fifth ave. They | COpeNHAGEN, Sept. 16--Ger|massed on the Bulgarian frontier| LONE. BANDIT HOLDS t $6, b erlooked ¢ got $6, but overlooked two-bits |) newspapers have received|and that Bulgaria has demanded| th: cket. With ' In another pocket. Within halt | Tague hinte that Rumania will aid an immediate and definite expiana-/ JP INDIANA TRAIN Up again, and get the two-bite. | the allies. The reports, however, tion. Q—Is there any fact of anything you think the council ought to be advised on? A.—No. told me about being in the Lundy—One question I did not Melain and these other people. He * that this article was goln In the paper; then he | AsHere is why 1 © toll you ox rt of it and the part did not indicate the reason for this The Sofia messages were the : . te Healford: The morning after gict_ because he thou Sandei rene fk for tne small || move first intimation of ‘any cencentra:| INDIANAPOLIS, Sept. 15—The Lang’s Friends Lied carne) a ra | oraeeee® ae ol ening wnat had Dispatches transmitted from tion there and were regarded as| American Express company early . pA on fr ty eed boa poh “eTney're butting In on m Sofia early today to Rome significant in view of German hints|today had not ascertained the in A VERY The Witness—No, aa I remember it, ¥] Greek and Rumanian troop’ that Bulgaria may Join her side. t of the haul made by a lone | 2 S WwW Ss CONDITION when be first talked to me about it he | beat,” growled the thug, and - = cies Bei — bseirry pm held up 7 Lake Erie ro omeone as run S—That was one of the parties with simply narrated It, that he bad been on | hurried away. be last night t 1% stiet that evening at the windnp of this ban VON BERNSTORFF ing” has been reached with Secre-| and Western traip: last night be O M b T ir. oa hate icero, and es _ ies, sir. Mr. Drake told me wae quet with these men. I di fat jtary Lansing is merely an under gen Arcadia and Cicero, and es. r ay e wo or ped, tho they probably be over The and told me the chief was ti anything with it Set I asked him if the chief was im Star wae taking 0. Authori-! Three or More of ’Em or drinking. He sald he wae then I began to « le: Intoxicated, and I think he sald he then it was that he told me of the disavowal of the Arabic torpedoing| ties gave an acc Gescription Seow whether he was drinking or | women and of the rensune that he went SHIPS ARE SUNK ARABIC AFFAIR ° as the only condition under which{of the bandit and hope to capture eee, the same or the next day, Mr. Landy—Were you at the banquet? he will continue diplomatic inter aa Regie —- : in ang’s ar y ere ! a 0 the ene —No, } roperd into the room and | The Wits PARIS, Sept. 16—Two Austrian! wagHinc TON, Sept. 16.—Am.| course Miss Bessie Fishback, daughter Drunk were sunk by an Italian This today was the White House|of state insurance commissioner, . ones! Willett in the Adriatic, accord-|bassador Von Bernstorff's announce: interpretation of Von Bernstorff's| weds James Earl Butler, of Waits part! 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