The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 5, 1915, Page 1

ENE RSE gs ALS HILEMAN CITY MAN i RESIDENT WILSON tells nation about his plans for war de-* fense in a speech at New York Thursday night. What. he says is told on page 14 in today’s Star. VOLUME 18. SEATTLE, WASH., ‘ATHERS! Mothers! If you have a child at home you'll want to read the first of Mrs. Sackville Stoner’s articles, written for The Star, telling how she brought up her clever daughter. First article appears on page 11 today ON THAINS ANU NEWS BTANDS, be FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1915. ONE CENT IGHT EDITION Weather—Oce jonal light rain dives AL ehALILE ™ lew. 5:00 om. IRA ft AAA om, 00 218 vom, 18.7 ft, 8k om, OO tt BUTCHERS FAMILY WITH AN AX Girl Reporter Plays Fly’ to Expose Seattle ‘Spider’ Scenes and Principals is the Hillman City aA ‘MYSTIC MEDIUM’ IS KILLS THREE; 2 ARE DYING Fears He Is Going to Die, Takes Loved Ones With Him; Blind Daughter Among Victims. George Roberts, 45, a plumber, 4237 Lucile st., Hillman City, at 2:30 o’clock Fri- day morning, killed two members of his family, fatally wounded two others, and then hot himself thru the heart, dying instantly. Believed to have been affected by __ despondency, Roberts first crushed his wife’s : ead with a hand-ax as she was lying in bed. He then stepped into an adjoining room and struck his 16-year-old son, George, in the head with the same instrument. His oldest child, Ella, 22, who was blind, was groping her way in the parlor down- stairs, attracted by the noise, when her father started from the floor above, where his own |Booth building, on Pine st., ' HOME-WRECKER, SHE FINDS Professor’ Overton Special- izes in Finding Soul-Mates for Credulous Women; $11 Per Soul-Mate A woman visited The Star the other day. She had been to see a “man of mystery” in the she said, and had been told that her husband was unsuited to her, that for $11 he could be made to “pass out” of her life, and a new soul-mate found for her. The “man of mystery” infor med her she must receive his “vibrations of power,” and tried, she said, to administer the current by contact w ith her flesh ~ The man was running advertisements in the newspapers. The Star learned that hundreds of women were among his victims. So The Star sent a girl reporter to him as a client. She has written what she discovered. By a Girl Reporter and son’s rooms were. 166 ALK into my parlor,” said the spider to the fly. Be attacked her with the ax and | This is not a fairy tale, but a story of facts about she dropped, dying almost t ly.| | enue dadahiet Wilaat’ teaoot | ja new kind of spider, a human species lately come to Seattle, jarly known as Villa, 17 years old who has spun his web for women in the Booth building, was just climbing from bed in the, 905 East Pine st. ihe ng For spores ag yee where | William Overton is his name, “the Great William Over- ing. when her Gather eutare bot ton,” if you take his word for it, “ordained and endorsed drawing a revolver, fired, mortally grand master of the world-famous mystic brotherhood. ULGARIA 10 STOP TEUTON —Tw0 divisions @f British ‘troops are.en route from Salonika to Bulgaria. 40,000 men to resist the advance of the Teutons driving to Constanti nople. Other troops are entraining. By a short overland movement they can enter Bulgaria near Strumnitza or by continuing by rail they can reach the eastern border near the Aegean sea coast, in the vicinity of | Mantht Inasmuch as the French are al ready operating about Strumnitz, it is deemed more likely the Britith will go to that section. It ia believed the plan is to di vert the Bulgarians ‘trom Serbia by a form invasion At the ime {t is surmised * have arranged to have ns to strike the Bulgars > north. news that Ru German requ his means mingly borne out by ania has refused the t to intern two Rus. sian te oats in the Danube This the part of a na- tion nated as pro ally is as good as permission to the Rus to croas Rumania because fle journey up t n by a » Russians can land tn Bul ube t garia ft is thought they will lose no time in taking advantage of this sitnatior ATTACK MONTENEGRINS Th wounding her. ullet entered the front of her head Attacks Wife Second Time | Roberts next went back. to his own room. From indications, his! wife was still alive when he re turned, and he again attacked he with the ax. He then turned the gun on himesif and shot himself thru the The boy he younger daughter | were rushed to the City hospital,| after the police ar and at noon were lying unconsctous, fight ing an uneven fight with death Break Into House Cc. L. Chan 35 Lucille street heard one ® a cry and broke |into the house, to find the family }dead and dying | It is b that George, the! |boy, strugg! wi his father befor wn, as there bruises on Roberts’ ‘neck and| arms | | The mother, however, is believed} to have bee ruck as she slept. | From re rks made several! {times to ne by Roberts dur-| ing the past few weeks, he was wor-| ried over a growth on one of his} hands, which he believed was the} forerunner of paralysis rmined| | He is thought t several time ife but worrled appen to his famil & gor 1s presurr last night he denly m up his mind to kill them all, so they would not suffer with want Roberts fell |months ago and e then he has , and he off a ladder broke his spine. been out of em grew more de Pp | t each a day that he woul better off Was in Good Spirits 6 gy even aye al Waters says that Roberts declar hs have attacked @¢ he was feeling be and he some pede ned to be in fafrl irits . ae '@ drom his occdsionally morbid da Ser inet cri sult of the Greek ca a BULGARS DEFEAT FRENCH SERLI Nov 5.—Bulgar mowed down the French t t northeast of Prile it is report S@utherr Watch for The Star * erbia arks Hillman City “was shocked and tusaed Friday morning as news Of tragedy spread, The Roberts ly were one of the oldest in » in the comm They have been living there years, scores of friends were known aa a happy loving famt and R ts was re- ted a steady, industrious man, and a good provider Had Considerable Property ' lie had accumulated conniderabl }a five | | property house in which Outs: today, there ts no indi cation of the tragedy that has been enacted within Several large rab- bits were ho 9g around their |eage when a Star man visited the | house T appealed dumbly for food There are several large frit trees jat the rear of the house. House Is In Confusion Inside, the wildest confusion pre led. A bed-lounge was in the middle of the living room, as if it had been hastily dragged there by the girls as a barricade. The bed clothing in the girls’ room was piled half on the floor, and was blood-spattered. F] room of Roberts and his wife, th 1 the boy, upstairs. The house ts comfortably, but sim furnished orge, the boy, until two weeks delivered The Star in Hillman City POVERTY LED MAN AND WIFE TO STEAL SALEM, Ore., Nov forced to # Declaring thru pov ¢ Clarence Mason, and hie ¥ confessed to many thefts in the last few months Woodhouse-Grunbaum Furniture Co. te. 116 to 424 Pike St. ar disorder was apparent tn SELECT GRAND JURY ON NOV. 15 County Clerk Sickels will draw a panel of 50 names Monday for the King county grand jury In compliance with an order Is sued Friday by Presiding yerlor Judge Gilliam, those whoet names |are drawn will report to the presid ing judge at 9:30 o'clock, Monday November 15. Seventeen will be drawn to act! as the grand jury. Prosecutor Lundin has a mass of evidence pertaining to alleged lice graft and wide-open gambling to submit, besides other important , matters being held secret OLD MAN DEAD; MAY BE CASE OF POISON A. Deselm, 68, his room, at 1912 i} | (At top), the home of the Roberts family, at mitiman City, in | which the father killed and injured members of his family; (below, at left), group showing George, fatally hurt, at left; Ella, the blind girl, next to him; George Roberts, the father, indicated by arrow, and Violet, the daughter who is dying, at the extreme right. The picture next to that of the group shows Ella, the biind girl, seated at the or. gan. She was a musician, At the bottom Is shown a picture of George, the injured son, at play. . was found dead in Seventh ave., early Friday. He complained of being {| ——————————————— Thursday afternoon, and, according to volice, told the landlady of DEPUTIES PLAN A VISIT the ancouver hotel, 196 ave., that he belleved he led. A post mortem will b 2. 2&2 zee ee IN FORCE TO ROOM OF | wh we ® ~e ee * Are offering extraordinarily liberal terms and low prices'on home furnishings. For example, the fol- Rene Davies, the utifal Or lowing is ah excerpt from their ad in today’s Star. pheum sin. lose her|ager of the Orpheum Une Your Credit These Eas} Phat We Want You Turn to page 5 of this paper and read the com- plete announcement of store. Terms Will Surely Gonvince "You might tell that deputy out-| side,” sald I've gone waiting any more So Friday morning the deputies decided they're not going tO be fooled again. They'll beard] the lion in its den, so to speak They'll enter the singer's dress knickerbockers at 2 o'clock Friday afternoon So the sheriff's office earlier in the day Thursday afternoon Deputy Sher iff Billy Rodgers waited outside the stage entrance to serve a writ of achment on her obtained In the We Charge No Interest Rene, “that determined sheriff's You to Use Your Credit ® superior court here by tl Frances ing room at 2 p. m., they decided, | Co., Inc, of New York, who claim | before she gets a to Ko wea $ for pantaloons, on the sta They deter. xint thers, etc mined to annex the aforesaid knick- ra waited and Miss Davies erbockers, together with all hats,| P lal ; omy 2 calmly passed him by as she left| gowns, powder, powder puffs, fur this progressive furniture |) imiscte. Rodgers Keot.on waltifurbelows, rouge, eau’ de. cologne,| ing for her to come out J When 3 Mise Davies and such other things as they can| got to her lay hands on it will be first on the street with comp!ete account of Washington-California football game at Berkeley ar Pink Saturday. | like Jopened the door and Jon him. I I played the role of fly for t his spider for two days. You will find his door at the head of the first flight of stairs, to your right. —__—___—_— o WILLIAM OVERTON PSYCHIC | ° —— ——————) That's what it says on the glass panel over the word “enter.” I opened that noon and walked into the * I was but of myself, two of them men the arlor or fe fir one sev Women Are Lured by Mystery It was the mystery of the 1 “flies,” thing that lured st time last Tuesday after- five of them women Overton in his advertisements characterizes his “awe-stricken” tests as “wonderful, strange, but true,” and says if ill in mind or body, you owe it to yourself to help yourself. “In the parlor | waited. Several “flies” went into the inner chamber while I sat there for my turn Once or twice a middle-aged man wearing a skull cap glanced into eyes that chilled me Once I heard a gruff “fly,” “Oh, write yc voice ur other name it but us.” I was next The door opened and the man me inside another room He took my umbrella. I didr | nervous He tapped my feet with the on the ankles. Ugh! But I wa aded him by Iking to the would have given ev w m this slate He handed it to me and behind the window anything to have SINGER AT ORPHEUM ie “Sit down,” he invited, “and write two or three questions the “parlor” with narrowed door say to an- ly is going to know ne with the skull cap motioned vt like him. He made me umbrella, then touched me there for a purpose. I and turning my back slapped his as hotel she rang up “Pa” Burton, man-) Agks If Her Husband Is True I sat down With an unsteady hand I wrote “Who was my husband with yes “Is he true?” erday afternoon?” “Is my sister well 1 am an unmarried girl, and I have nq sister. Something |made me almost afraid. Could he read my mind, 1 wondered, And would he denounce me as ® trickster, and laugh at me for my pains AnotHer door opened, and there stood William Overton, the Great He is short, dapper, alert, and a dresser, He gave (Continued on Page 8) S ‘