The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1916, Page 1

men who have made * * the north? Jack Jungmeyer t-lls who they are, in a series beginning today, on page 5. “The stranger ley Shaw, to appear complete in six installments, beginning in Monday's Star. A clew leads him into the wilds of Canada. Monday. It is one of the greatest tales of love, intrigue and ware if ever written, gang of counterfeiters. Reporter Tells of His Experiences as a Convict MEN OF ALASKA What do you know about them—the bi " the big country to OFF BY i gas They escaped thru oa TOINSIST THAT KAISER: ar HIS ‘SUB’ DECREE BY ROBERT J & BENDER United Prees Staff Correspondent WASHINGTON, March 29.— Not only a complete disavowal and punishment of the offend. ing submarine commander, but absolute abrogation of the kaiser’s decree against armed merchantmen, will be demand ed by the United States If Ger- many admits that a Teuton submarine torpedoed the chan- steamer Sussex without The alternative will be sever- ance of diplomatic relations. if it Is proved that a sub- jonsible, even to admit it, the same action will be taken. be the American This will attitude in rine developments, clared today. President Vilaon desires a co plete settlement of the underees oat issue, including the Lusitania incident. It is known the administration is / prepared to go to the length of breaking off relations, not angrily but for the purpose of obtaining | positive assurances with regard to) further submarine operations. “Germany must pay handsomely if guilty,” said one official today He explained that, if Germany were guilty, nothing would be ac cepted from the imperial govern ment unless it would “entirely pease the frritation and wrath! which has swept the country as a result of thia latest trifling with | American rights and lives.” WOUNDED AT FRONT VANCOUVER, B, C., March 29 sualty Mst from the front today contains the name of Jesse James of Walla Walla, Third battalion pioneers, wounded in France ap: | BANDITS ARE FRIGHTENED CROWD ; Two auto bandits made a bold attempt to ‘rob the King County State bank, in the heart the University district, at rag 14th ave.) E., at 12:20 a. m. W acrowd of bewildered | students after Asst. Cashier Norquist sur-| eetiously: — an electric button and Hike robbers held & revolver oi ts Dien f. 's head while he drove them away. The machine, carrying three men, stopped in front of the bank. ~@me-of the men, about 40 years of age, walked in and ‘pulled his | gun on Assistant Cashier Nord | quist, who instantly ducked ben: | the counter and pressed an alarm | button. ng wg or I'll shoot,” ordered Tiaeeat kept crouched. He grasped a gun but did not wor because he feared the robber uid open fire and endanger a rir! employe of the bank, who stood nearby The bandit heard the alarm bell |ringing in Dressler’s hardware | store next door A crowd of students began to | gather outside. Prompt: by a sudden attack of the lone robber dashed 4 plac head “cold feet,” | out, Jumped into the auto, jing a gun against the driver’ jordered him to The bewildered croup machine and robbers \ down the road. “get out of here.” saw the | As soon as the alarm was re leetved at police headquarters, a cavalcade of motorcycle officers atid police autos raced out to the | University district in pursuit of the robbers It is belleved Bothell road. INVADING ARMY ESTABLISHES A BASE AT MADERA EL PASO, March 29.—Col. George Dodd's flying cavairy is | reported to have reached Ma- dera today, developing a new phase of the hunt for Villa Dodd is understood to have shifted his headquarters from El Vaile to Madera. Co-operating with the Carranza force, Dodd will throw out detach ments to form a ring around the |territory in which Villa is suppos ed to be hiding. This ring will made smaller until the bandits are forced to come out and fight Reports that Gen, Pershing again using the Mexico Nc western railroad south of des indicates rapid mov being made {n furtherin to surround Vill they took the be gradually asas nents the are plan | ACCUSES NEW MAN Another Sensation in Tong Case finger acc usingly, Judge Frater's Mock Foon, Pointing his across Superior courtroom Wednesda a Chinese canneryman, identified Wong Chung as the man who, he tified, fired two of the pistol ts that proved fatal to Y. L Park, a Korean, in Chinatown here, on the night of February 17, when a tong war was at its height Chung 1s an educated young Celes tial, who was a spectator at the trial Foon was called as a witness in behalf of Yew Bow, another Chi who is on trial before a jury ight women and four men, ac cused of the crime of murder He told the jury he walking on King st vetwe enth and ‘ighth aves, when suddenly he pard a revolver crack a few feet behind him, He turned, Two mer were shooting at Park, he sald. The But the second man? wa asked. “Could you identify him? 1 have known him since he wa. a little boy in Portland,” said Foon to an interpreter and, glancing About the courtroom, which was filled with Orfental men to the doors, he fairly sbonted Ther ihe is now—Wong ¢ hung!” VOLUME 18 |PASSENGERS MAIMED e Seattle Sta The wraps UP BUNDLE 0 CLEVELAND, 0., March 29.-—-A ghastly description of the collision in which three trains were wrecked near Amherst, O., this morn- ing, and many killed, was by G. W. Hershaw, nger in the second which was emashed to kindling “It was a terrible sight,” he said. “As! left the car | waman pick up a severed eg. Another man, haif- dazed, was carrying a bundle wrapped in a sheet, and ask- ed a train man, ‘What shall 1 do with thi The train man asked, ‘What's in it Whereupon the man replied, ‘Arms and lege.” CRACK TRAINS SEATTLE, WASH., desperately ill and in his delirium tosses a number of $20 gold pieces about. They are spurious.” the best story, we think, that The Star has offered thus far. This re he meets the ren. 1N COLLISION; 27 FOLK DEAD | Twentieth Century Limited Crashes Into Wreck t in Ohio CLEVELAND, —., March 29. —With a crash audible two away, three trains piled near Amherst, O., before up dawn today, killing 27 persone and injuring 43. Moat of the casualties oo curred In the first section of GIVES BIRTH TO CHILD CLEVELAND, O., March 29 Mra. Mary Maiston, pf Indt anapolis, was unharmed in the wreck at Amherst and gave birth to a child in the day coach immediately after the crash e ° tbound Lake 86, which wa Shore train roceeding slow: ly thru a dense fog when the second section dashed into it. The shock threw both trains from their own rails to the westbound track and a moment later the Twentieth Century Limited plowed into the wreck- age. tinetly } } | 6 two miles away could dis hear the terrible nolses of the horror—the shrieks of dying and mangled victims, the roar of escaping steam and the shouts of trainmen. In the atiliness of early mornt the sounds carried far thru mist It was so dark that the engineer | of the second did not seo the red lantern which a brakeman, fent back to warn him, swung fran-| tically before his eyes as the loco-| motive flashed by The Dead D. FIUCHTMAN, Toronto. ng. the section B. C. ASHE, Cleveiand, negro porter. REV. GUSLAR WASLY|, Detroit. DORA ROSEBERG, Toronto. J. H. HEARN, Gallipolis, O. GEO, OJONTA, Indianapolis. FRANK GALLAGHER, Brooklyn W. EASTON, East Philadelphia. ARGARD HELTAI, Cleveland, MALINCA BENNOR, iIndianap olin, RAISIN OBBAH, Indianapolis. MRS. JENNIE HADDAS, Cleve land. CHARLES NELSON, Indianap- olls. Three coa were complete! demolished. All we the rails hurled from GB ptte of the Amherst fire department said ‘Masses of wreckage piled in every direction met my eye Coaches had been overturne The firemen pulled 20 victims, including a number of women, from the windows R, D. Turner, fireman of the lo comotive on the first division, de clared the fog was impenetrable. Legs and arms were picked up among the debris, lying mingled with torn wearing apparel It was impossible to piece to gether some bodies The remnants of a man and a woman were found driven into the teel bara of the second locomo tive's pilot Going at High Speed All casualtie occurred wrecked Lake Shore train T ran first niles an hour It thru the buffet car and day coach before ita boiler ex ploded All are declare in the section® into cond at 30 plowed e section the hes of all three trains to have been of steel | ter's Following his rel WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29, Read the first installment. from the Walla Walla penitentiary, E. A 1916, *_/* * Peters, reporter, THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE z NEWS : } ax tease ONE ee News +} *_ * ;/ REPORTER IN GARB OF A CONVICT! HUMAN ARMS AND LEGS} Peters Photographed With Guard After His Release! induced Warden Hen- ry Drum to permit him to have a photograph of himself taken in prison garb, with his guard beside him. The picture wi taken in the pen itentiary yard. as te So reads a line in “A Siren of the Snows, i i inatic the only paper in on. RY TO HOLD UP SEATTLE BANK RRA AAA AAA ARAL Anne LAST EDITION Spring bones. here. The editor feels it in his (Read the editorial on page 4.) Weatherman Salisbury says today: “Fair tonight and Thursday; heavy frost.” the new book-length novel, by Stan- It tells how a secret service man is put on the trail of a What happened after that—and things did happen thick and fast—you will read in the story beginning You'll hardly be able to wait for the next five. Mi SERVES 3 DAYS AS INMATE OF WALLA WALLA (Prison life—the gray, drab, somber existence of human beings within the walis of the penitentiary—w. | A. Peters, a reporter on the Tacoma Tim he experience sought by E, Pretending to be a permitted to travel to the prison without a guard, he lentered the Walla Walla ever an observing young man could. Warden Drum discovered he was not a real convict. Today The Star” |publishes Peters’ first article on his strange adventure. ttle which will publis By E. A. Peters A newly arrived prisoner at the Walla Walla penitentiary Many years ago had just been stripped, convict clothing and placed in a cell to await further exam- “What're you the motion For three days I have beer ‘sucker to get caught,” Well “T was “Highway robbery was the dejected answer. , you sure were a sucker to get a fish institution. to learn “from the insid a poor fish, Not because I was a I have been a prisoner in a penitentiary. | {self a a “ft Wall ish,” | the phrase I new worn ve pr by | Ever since that day wher bo? " what He stayed three days before The Star is these articles.) © bathed, attired in A trusty slipped silently to the cell door. in for, moved so imperceptibly no» guard could. have detect he whispered, between lip and didn’t have sense enough to get caught.” came from the cell a “fish,” but because n the new prisoner called him- a Walla prison has adopted and nurtured new convict mers are cc a new inmate are a fish. The special cells in which are called “fish cells.” The clothes “fish clothes.” A convict remains a fish until he has passed medical examination and been ace |cepted as a “regular prisoner.” | Reporter Tells How He “Broke Into” State Penitentiary as a Prisoner The | 1“ “fish” broke into” an established prison last Thursday morning feature of the penitentiary, I remained jinside Walla Walla until Sunday night officia And al during uspected t hat I all that time was single prison ordinary fish not a anything but prisoner an jwho had been punished for one of the many misdeeds which | socie [Pane SHIPYARD GUN DUEL MOORE oPPOsEs ma HAS DRAMATIC FINISH Cornered by pursuers after he had probably fatally wound- ed John Holmes, foreman at the Seattle Construction and Dry Dock Co., John Ross, a ship joiner, jumped into Elliott bay Wednesday morning, after being wounded in the hip, and deliberately drowned himself. William F. Donlan of the department reached the wa edge @ minute after Ross jumped and yelled: “Keep your head up.” Ross ignored him With business-like precision, de termined on the exact course he wanted to pursue, Ross opened bis mouth and took in great gulps of salt water. Before any he sank, His body covered Argues With Workers Sorat police one could reach him, was quickly re Holmes Hes in the Seattle Gen ral hospital with his spinal cord severed at the neck. He has no chance of recovery In a dying statement to the po Hee, he said We had an argu ment over an_ apprentice in the joiner's shop. Ross wanted me to fire the boy because he ‘deviled’ Ross. 1 said, ‘I won't fire the kid I don't know anything about the trouble. Ross has always been troublesome himself. He went out The next thing I knew IT was shot from behind Ross left the foreman's office st lently, according to James Dalton and N. J. Pulton, who were in the room In about 15 minutes he return ed,” says Dalton, “All | saw was the flash of the gun dropped to the floor.” The shooting occurred about 8 ‘o'clock Fulton and 1) Ross is survived by a widow and who live at 616 employed for | six smal! children, W. 88rd at. He had bee: by the shipbuilding comp: the past 12 years. Officer Fire: As Rose fled from eries of “Man shot!" followed him, and Sergt. Donlan, who happened to be in another office of the Seat tle Construction and Dry Dock Co rushed out into the yard He saw Ross dodge behind a lum at Him the building, er shack, Ross and he exchanged a couple of shots. The gatekeeper, Reginald Holmes, joined Donlan, and five more shots were fired at the shack Ross reloaded his gun and made a dash for the water Donlan raced after him, 200 feet away, firing as he ran Just as Ross reached the water's edge, a bullet bit him in the hip, | He paused a second, threw his gun into the water first, and fol lowed right after it Foreman Holmes lives at 510 James st. and has a wife and three children in Belfast, Ireland For the past two months, a strike has been waged by union men in some of the departments of the Se attle Construction and Dry Dock {Co. The trouble today, however, was not due to any strike contro. versy ‘USES A NEW ENGINE COLUMBUS, N. M, March 29, In an aeroplane propelled by a new engine, the most powerful yet used by the American expedition, Lieut. Jos, Carberry flew from Co lumbus today, carrying dispatches to the new base far south of Casas Grandes, RENICK LAW; ITS... REPEAL IS ASKED In spite of the strenuous op. position of F. R. Singleton, secretary of the taxation bu- reau of the Chamber of Com merce, the judiciary and de- partment efficiency committee of the council is on record Wednesday unanimously op. posed to the Renick law and demanding its repeal. Councilman Erickson’s resolv: tion to place the council and the mayor officially on record against this measure was adopted at the Tuesday meeting of this commit t after the preamble was changed It will go to the council as a whole Monda It not only resolutes against the Renick law, but finitely in structs the president of the coun cil and requests the mayor to at tend coming state conventions for the purpose of having planks in serted in the its repeal orickson's platforms calling for resolution originally recited in the preamble that (he Puget Sound Traction Co. was re sponsible for the Renick law This was changed by the com mittee at the suggestion of Judge Moore, chairman, to read as fol operation of the Renick resulted in financial loss eat inconvenience to the of Seattle, Such a law is a \trespass upon the right of local self-government guaranteed to cities of the first class by the con stitution of the state of Washing ton In. discussing the Renick law Judge Moore criticised those who |fotsted it upon the city, tl tinder in to punish f Punishment ty ¢ re re I kr onsiders able to give crimir called of the could that me NOW t to the individual the judges i om the } al pul punishable side the hic thru a is by imprisonment in steel and reporter who ever obtained at Walla Walla inside in such a manner that T new insight into the minds rst criminal courts of the state of single day's experience as a@ ey would put a great deal more thought ses of men whom they are crimes that crime called upon calls felonies Penitentiaries the law necessary are necessary. But imprisonment is a terrible punishment | The mere deprivation of a man’s liberty, regardless of any other indiginties which he may suffer in prison, is the \bitterest penalty that |Gives Name as “Peter Wilson”; any man can pay for his wrongs Talks as Prisoner With Murderers and Burglars Reformers of men will never succeed so long as judges continue to give long sentences for comparatively trivial offenses. In Walla Walla my name was “Peter Wilson.” T wag officially photographed and registered by the Bertillon opera tor I was given number, but as the record has ‘sineé been tched from the books, and my number will go te the next “fish” who enters the prison, I have changed the fi figure of my prison classification to read No. 0047, for purposes of articles In th c f Peter Wilson I talked with murdet burglars, safe crackers, bank robbers and men of every et inal distinction, I ate with them, worked beside them ¥ the jute mill, smoked their tobacco. And those three days will always stand out as the most interesting period in my entire life > For the benefit of the convicts /a ruse who may read this, | wish to say I falsified to Mr. Drw just as that the confidenc which they posed in me and the prison secrets which they told me, thinking I was a fellow prisoner, are wrapped in my own breast Nothing which they said to me of a pature which = might injure themselves or any other in mate will ever be repeated lam nota tool pigeon. Apologizes to Warden To Warden Henry Drum, 1 have extensive apologies to offer, Many of them I presented in person, aft he had discovered that 1 had [gained entrance to his prison by | ( did to the inmates with whom T came in contact. | had to originate not only my convict name, but a watertight story about my erime, my plea to the court, my sentence, my family and my life. But I firmly believe that my crime—falsehood—has been fully justified by the result of my invems tigation. How He Made His Plans Some time ago I read the ag count of an Eastern reporter who claimed to have been admitted to the Ohio state prison without the (Turn to page 8 column @)