The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 29, 1916, Page 8

BAD LITTLE MAN DID IT, HE SAYS Tells Detectives He Thinks “the Other Fellow” Lives in Egypt JEKYLL-HYDE CASE NEW YORK, March 29.—It wae not the mind of Or. Ar » thur Warren Waite that con- der of Mr. and Peck, It was a } } A GRADUATE WITH HONORS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN he was the victim of a dual per- sonality, The story he tells rivals that of “Or, Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.” Attorney Swann says Waite has {admitted feeding live bactlit of | rious diseases to his millionaire father-in-law and the latter's wife. This was done, however, Waite de <_Waite’s defense will be that lelares, when the “wicked litthe man \from Egypt” controlled the mind land body of Dr. Waite. The germs were secured from 4) i medical laboratory in Detroit | | Waite used the stationery of well-| known physicians in writing his or ders, and also had other persons represent themselves as reputable | physicians and secure the bacilli tn! Now York A search is on today in an effort | }to find the whereabouts of the un-/ \dertaker who embalmed the late) Mr. Peck, Swann declares that/ | Walte stated he had agreed to pay the undertaker $9,000 to awear that jhe had used arsenic in the embalm jing fluid with which be had em. |balmed the Peck body. Mrs. Peck | was cremated. | Tt also was discovered yesterday }that Waite had drawn a check for | $9,380 which he had in the bank man who came _ from Egypt.” Following a visit with Dr. : Waite, District Attorney Swann declared Waite says _ that for the first time he is fr 7 from the “wicked itt ~ who was, he says, his alter As a Character Builder The savings habit has no equal. And it builds for- | tunes, too, We can aid you. Interes! 4% UNION SAVINGS TRUST co. OF SEATTLE — JAMES D. HOGE, President. N. B. SOLNER, Vice President and Trust Officer. HOGE BUILDING tm the Heart of the Financial Otetrict FIRST TIME IN CITY and LAST TIME IN CITY BROOKLYN’S NOTED EVANGELIST MR. AL J. | } | | Most Interesting Human Document Story, in Six Parts A Bandit Story | For Respectable Audiences | Chas. Weakley at the Keys of our New “Orchestral Pipe Organ” | Fla. |shipped to Alaska, they have at jhonor of Frank P |president, at the Hippodrome Tues- |Standard Grand Opera Co. |nesday with mA an DR ARTHUR WW. WAITES Mra. Margaret Weaver Horton, who shared a “studio” with Waite, in a hotel, was questioned, and her y bank account gone over in an rani to locate the missing sum. Waite is 26. He was born ta} Grand Rapids of parents of moder ate means, went thru high school, then was graduated from Michigan university with honors | He went abroad and fs said to [have returned with stories of great wealth he had earned thru practice ot surgery in South Africa He had known Catherine Peck tn Grand Rapids, Last winter he met Miss Peck and her mother at Palm Reach, acquaintance were married Waite was popular In society and one of the star indoor tennis play- ere of the country. When sought connection with the Peck death mystery, Waite was found in bis apartments. The police say he was tn a stupor as a result of drugs) he had taken. PORT CHARGING DISCRIMINATION —— Wires Protest to net os oo HURTS PORT BUSINESS Robert Bridges, president of the port commission, wired Senator Miles Poindexter Wed- nesday advising the charter of vessels by the government to mash what he deems a com bination of traneportation com- panies to discriminate inet the public docks here and ruin the port’s Alaska shipping busi- ness. He hae been advised, he in- forms the senator, that the principal steamship companies between Seatt! a have combined to raise it rates end absorb all charges at their \ This, he points out, fs an act of discrimination against Seattle's $5,000,000 system of public docks, 4 will result in financially embar- rassing and discrediting them !f not | remedied. While the companies have wiped out thelr former wharfage charge of 50 cents per ton for goods the same time raised freight rates | | approximately $1.50 a ton. The public docks of the port com- mm must continue to charge a which is shipping its the port commission Bridges states, must either pay dou- ble wharfage bills under the pres- ent system of rates or stop using the public terminals. “The government directly char- |tering vessels for the Alaska rall- |way commission,” says Bridges wire, “could prevent such discrim- ination against these munictpal and federal enterprises. ‘BRIDEGROOM JAILED TACOMA, March 29, — Henry Miller, 50, is in the city hospital here with three bullet wounds in |his chest, and Fred Thaut, 30, a bridegroom of a few hours, is in jthe city jail, charged with shooting him. A quarrel, alleged. to be over Mquor missing from Thaut's house, nd an alleged attack made by Miller on Thaut and his wife, are said to be the causes of the shoot- jing. 2,000 ‘ATTEND BALL| 2,000 persons attended inaugural ball in Goss, the new More than 2 the Press club day night. E. V. Jahn, secretary of the J. H. Jahn Co., was awarded $10 in gold for “detecting” the iden- tity of Mile. Masque, who turned out to be Miss Elsie Scherpf of the |GET 393 NEW NAMES Municipal leaguers their member have ended rolls. Luncheon to the new mem bers and the teams who conducted the campaign was eaten at Washington Annex Tuesday, and after a short courtship! 4. Waite and the girl of his childhood i| SPOKANE, March 2! ,| military training for all youths was ship campaign Wed: | 93 new names on the! the | PRIS DeTRCT ANTY FINDS MERESS DR WAITE In STUPOR INTERVENTION | PERIL PASSING | Difficulties ‘Beaween Mexico | and United States Are Smoothed Out MEXICANS KEEP COOL | BY E. T. CONKLE | United Press Staff Correspondent €L PASO, Tex. March 29.— | A peqceful solution of relations | between the United States and | Mexico seemed nearer today than at any time since Pancho Villa raided Columbus. Failure of attempts on both f the border to make the “Rumor factor and elsewhere had started stori of threatened genera! Mexican uprisings and racial | antagonieme with the abject of inflaming the United States toward intervention. Those officials pointed to the very friendly reception the Mex feans gave the American expedition as proof that all rumors of enmity ere baseless ‘articles in Mexican newspapers near the border were alike unsuc ‘al. Villa told the peons that [Americans were coming to mas ere and burn, and wd the negro troops ate little chil Some of the peons fod, but later | by detectives in| returned, reassured by the Amer-! feana’ friendly attitude, and by their, ‘habit of paying lberally for all food | | taken. Practically the only converts tq Villa’s cause have made the muzzies of rifles Carransa’s co-operation is - ing more pronounced. Tho many problems remain, jetpally that of Americans Mexican railways, both confident of a speedy adjust: jal Getieuttion. | it of U. 8. ARMY HEADQU. | Near Dublan, Mex., chine gun practice one, | most significant elements rout! Day and night # the rapid-fire Weapons / here. Piatoons of infantry are becom- jing expert in handling the guns. tains Night practice has become a fixed policy Villistas after dark, There has been no report of vu! ia'n position since he was located) plies are steadily being sent south. expedition's vai Brig. Gen. Pershing comm irs, claiming their great scouting and Nights. He has praised their brav-| ery highly. e WASHINGTON, March 29.—Geo, Hudnelt, saddler of troop B, Tenth cavalry, died March 24 from tn- Juries received in a railroad wreck in Mexico, the war department an nounced today, cogfirming rumors of his death. His home was at Fort | Huachuca, Aris. ~—Universal | advocated by the Northwestern Pre. paredness conference, which ended yesterday. Other things urged by the conference were: Sapient y nayal bases on the Pa- \eifie cor Co} Preston of roads for national defense. Sufficient ships to guard Puget sound, the Columbia river and other vulnerable points along the Const. Indorsement of the Chamberlain army senate bill. BLUEFIELDS, W. Va, March 29. An explosion, believed to have been caused by a shot from the solid, in the mine of the King Coal jand Coke Co. yesterday, killed three men and Injured 20. HAVE SPECIAL TRAIN Special coaches will convey Se jattle delegates to the sixth annual jeonvention of the Washington branch of the National Mothers’ |Congress and Parent-Teacher as |soctations at Centralia April 5, 6 and 7. SLOMEN PAYS FINE Barney Slomen, bridegroom of a | week, paid a fine in federal court |for having contraband drugs in his possession, and is out on $1,500 ball on a second similar charge Wednes. day NELSON, B, C., STORE ROBBED NELSON, B. C,, March 29.—A gang of store robners believed to be from Spokane last night robbed the Meagher & Co. store of $800 in silks and dreases, Police are hold ling one man, Villa's inflammatory speeches and | the |The cavalry advances guard con- | veral machine’ qun troors. | In expectation of yeeEH 175 miles south of Dublan. Bup-) been proven by daily) Gispatch - bearing | Veiling Lengths 15¢ Vetle in one. vard lengthe, black and col ora, at he each Hanoment Salen HESE in five smart new me ufacturer finished all-wool tweeds, suited for motor, travel, eral utility wear. There are 40- and 4 Coats in plain and half- | full-length Coats, half- Sizes 16 to 44, fects of .blue,, gray, mixtures. / Table Cloths Each «7 at abil | an exceptionally low price j for these Full-bleached Mer- cerized Table Cloths measure 56x56 inches and aré heinmed, ready for use. Spee yi at 65¢ cach Basement Balesroom ==: They Ly Women’s Sample Low Shoes a At [ $2.15. Pair HREE hundred pairs in this attractive offering, all this Spring’s styles. Included are Plain Pumps, also One-, Two- and Three- strap Styles, in Patent and Dull Calf, with high and low heels. Sizes 3%, 4 and 4% only. Unusual values at $2.15 pair. WOMEN'S VELVET SHOES REDUCED TO | $1.65 PAIR Gi Seventy-five pairs in the | lot. Button and lace styles. Sizes 2% to 7. Reduced to $1.65 pair. Basement Salesroom. | | pictured, Thin-blown Table Tumblers with i} Old English initial and gold | band, exceptionally low- i priced, for the set of 6, at 25¢. —Basement Salesroom. Coats were tailored to our order surplus lengths of heavy, soft- The Tweedy are in various pleasing ef- brown, Two of the styles are pictured. [FREDERICK @NELSON ydels, from a man- and are steamer admirably and gen- 2-inch Balmacaan belted styles, also and full-belted. tan and green Basement Salesroom NEW arrived Chin-chin Sailors, Tricornes, isaell Salesroom 100 NEW TWEED COATS Exceptional Values at $9.50 Boat effects and other modish shapes. plenty in Blac Light-blue k, also a good selection in Greer{ and Gray Very interesting values at this low price: 75¢. —Basement Salesroom 200 Hemmed New Untrimmed Hats, 75c Very Attractive Styles and Values shipment of smart Milan-Hemp Shapes, just in time for Thursday’s selling. Included are particularly pleasing styles in Sailors, Mushroom, Elongated There are Navy-blue Tan Rose New House Dresses NUSUAL fered in Dress sketched. It is serviceable gingham check or stripe with large roll collar plain percale trimmed w band of white pique. T vest effect is trimmed wi value is the of- House of in pattern, of ith Ay Phe ith plain color piping and pearl buttons. Choice of gray, lavender or blue and white checks, and lavender or blue and white stripes. Special $1.00. —Rasement Salesroom. 600 Prs. Window Curtains Specially Priced in Two Lots: HERE Specially priced at 6O¢ and 95¢ pair. Basement Salesroom. are twenty-six patterns to choose from, in Scrim, Marquisette and Etamine Curtains. Some are trimmed with plain hemstitched border, others with edging only, and others with both lace insertion and edging. White, cream and beige color. Dust Caps 2¢ Gingham Dust Caps, orted colors, trim rie k-raek 2¢. «lestoom d, specia Bungalow Aprons, Special 35c A practical Cov erail Apron, cut amply long and full, and made of sturdy per calo in white J with black polka y , on dots or fancy figures, White | pipings trim the neck, sleeves, || pocket and strap. Special B5¢. Circular Fitted Band Aprons in washable prints patterned with black figures on white ground and bound with plain white, — Special 10¢. Large Aprons of blue and white checked gingham, with strap around neck and patch pock- ets, special 194. —Banement Salesroom. Dress Silks Reduced to 35c Yard NCLUDED in the lot are Messalines, Foulards, Kimono Silks, Plain-color Japanese Silks and Fancy Figured Silks. Suitable for dresses, blouses and linin, Exceptional values at yard. ~-Basement Salesroom. Boys’ Union Suits 25c OYS’ Porous Mesh Union Suits in knee length, with short sleeves; also Athletic Union Suits of fine barred muslin; sizes 6 to 14. The excellent value warrants buying now for summer needs. Price 25¢ suit. ca —Basement Salesroom Dinnerware Reduced DISCONTINUED pat- tern in high-grade ie Austrian China Dinnerware, 9 consisting of a dainty pink floral decoration, and in- eluding the following pieces: Four-inch Plates, 6-inch Plates and Sauce Dishes, reduced to x 10¢ each. Soup Plates and Dinner Plates, reduced to 15¢ each. Cups and Saucers, Pickle Dishes and Open Vegetable Dishes, reduced to 25¢ each. Sauce Boats, Covered Butter Di . Sugars and Creamers, large Meat Platters, reduced to | 5Oe¢ each. Covered Dishes and Casser- oles, reduced to $1.00 each. —Basement Salesroom. Silk-Boot Stockings ff 35c Pair OMEN’S Black, White and Colored Stockings of a popular make (second quality) with pure silk thread boot. Berviceable and stylish. Sizes 8% to 10. Three pairs for $1.00, or pair. / ba —Basement Salesroom E CONTINUED REPORTER TELLS OF | 3 DAYS AS CONVICT knowledge of the authorities. 1 concluded that the man had “faked” hi articles, because they | did not convince one that he had ever really been “on the inside.” IT am now certain that he had not. However, the idea seized me, It would.be a great thing to attempt. I resolved to enter the Walla Walla prison. No one but my wife knew of my | resolve. Last Thursday day which I set for my experiment, Mrs. Peters left the same day to visit relatives in Hoquiam. I took a night train to Walla kh Tella a Falsehood Friday morning | presented my self at the penitentiary, | was alone, Usually prisoners arrive at the “pen” traveling guards. accompanying me was a grip,/pack. | ed with pajamas and clothing. penitentiary wall the A guard direct office of Warden ed me to Dram. occurred, FROM PAGE 1 ge been sentenced in Plerce coun family connections, the judge had allowed mo to come to prison un attended the commitment arrived interview, in son,” \ the sad crime accepted hia story, advised me to profit by ishment, life to sour me towards soctety lieve that society was the /An injustice,” reasons. tences are not commensurate with the offenses which they have com Walla, | mitted, cases, merely paying for their misdeeds in groups, conducted by | son. The only thing | to help you | your own statement that you have go to prison unattended by guards, and for that reason, probably, It was there that my first crime I told the warden that I for forgery, and that because of I could not explain why papers had not Gete Good Advice At the conclusion of an hour's | which “Peter Wil- Tacoma “bookkeeper,” told history of his life, his and his remorse, the warden Warden Drum ndly, sympathetic had expressed a interest. He my pun | and not to permit prison “Many of the men in prison be has done them the warden told me “In some cases they have good Sometimes their sen But in men who the come majority of here are Promises His Help “You should profit by this les: I shall do everything I can “I will take you {nto prison on | es $$$ warden accepted my story. | At 9:30 Friday morning “Peter SEATTLE HAS LEAD — Wilson” was officially turned over to the captain of guards. 1s Locked in Cell captain heavy iron door at one end of the uniformed officer captain The door clang- I heard the key turn in the lock behind me. I was a convict—a fish—ready to initiation into the grand lodge of prison inmates, (In his next article, Mr, will tell part of his firet day's ex- perlences and Impressions as Con. I followed salle-porte. A unlocked it. The thru, I followed, ed shut. undergo the first viet Ne. 0047.) Tuesday Conductor Baker der the wheels, the Tuesday. the BOY KILLED BY TRAIN . jover and’ killed by N. P. and ‘MUST GO TO FRISCO I walked boldly into thé salle-| been commftted here, but | cannot James Marlano, alleged murderer | Cline, missing cashier of the Par porte, which Is the Prison term ap-| officially redeive you until the pa-jof B, Vilardo, who was killed in |eific Coast Co., were renewed Weds ~ plied to the large brick adminis-| pers arrive.” San Francisco 11 years ago, must{nesday after Prosecutor Lundia tration building just outside the Other men have been allowed to|go to California for trial, Gov, |issued a warrant charging him with — Lister granted extradition papers!grand larceny to a strode Peters ¢ train 318 | night in the local yards. Engineer | 8y Kavanaugh reported to the police | the man had evidently attempted to board the train and slipped un — INY. M.C. A. OONTEST With the Seattle Y. M. C. A, still leading Portland Y. M. C. A. in the membership contest two to one, members of the “Y” salesmanship class are out for blood, in the hopes of establishing personal reo ords that will be recommendation for future positions and advance: — ments. George Keith, with the Y. M. @” A, a year ago, now business mat ~ |ager of the university publication, ‘Better Business,” sald Tuesday” night at the rally there were three men in last year’s contest who, he” knew personally, An unknown 1 Itallan laborer tbh Bedi = oa ‘tae 4 | positio y about 18 yoars of ago was ran | Recount ‘ot. thelr” record in’ timid membership contest. The results of the contest Tues night were: Seattle, 155,485 points; Portland, 82. Seattle has taken in 164 members, and Portland 81 WARRANT FOR CLINE Efforts to apprehend Oliver H, He is accused of — absconding with $10,000,