The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 6, 1916, Page 1

‘YOU JUST GRAB’ —eays E. A. Peters, reporter-convict, telling about how the convicts eat in the dining room at Walla Walla. Read his latest ar- ticle on his life in the penitentiary. It appears on page 5. VOLUME 18 ANY AAA AAA AAA AAA A AAA AAA AA AAAA AANA AA AAR AAAAAANAAAAAAAAAARAAARAARAARAARAL THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS PAPAL PPP P IP OPP LLL LLL PLP PDP LDS The Seattle Star on N THAING 4 STAND! SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, APRIL ONE CENT casters we know of. fair and warmer.” AND iM, fe LAST EDITION You've got to hand it to George Salis- bury. He’s one of the best weather fore- “Fair tonight,” says George today, “with light frost; Friday, IND CLUE IN AX MURDER SISTERS KILLED IN HOME: SAVINGS ARE STOLEN AVE. HOME WHERE SISTERS WERE BRUTALLY MURDERED AND AX AND HAMMER WITH WHICH DEED WAS DONE sisters were killed. ‘They | when they saw a man peering into the window, according of the house. The ide the body of Mrs. Swi Mrs. Wheeler. The photo- *. to neighbors. On another night, jrooms for a few seconds. | Five weeks ago, Margare’ saw a short, slim young man | the sisters’ door. } WV APARTMENT WINDOW? Police Hearof Man Who Had , Been Spying on Victims From Building Close by; Murderer Takes $2,000. | i Sie ER Who was the man in the apartment house! Wei, tint it 807 Not that we! window? Sent watig tig ierabrs oc at ol | Police investigation of the brutal murder |,..°52m.rm7,13,/088 9 ha Wednesday night of Mrs. Carolina Wheeler, 2000.0 om oor a that 71, and Mrs. Kate B. Swift, 53, in their little jon feiters’ ny “your tavorte a. home at 508‘ Westlake ave. N., revolved |'"3',7% “owd.set at the library Thursday about this question. Tiinomh ‘Mein 4600 CAA rhe he Mrs. C. E. Smith, 509 Westlake ave. N.| paper delivered to your home, a nei » told city detectives Thursday| that sisters had called on her Tuesday. | | They told her they had been worried over the| actions of a man who had been watching! them from a second story window of an t house at Westlake ave. and Har- R | Suppose you are a regular patron of the ic library and live at any great distance from it, and suppose you read one novel a week—did you ever stop to figure that you are pa: Ing out 40 cents in carfare to get them, not to mention your MAY BOOST RATE ON TACOMA BOAT Th Puget | Sound Navigation Co., according to weill-verified Information reaching The Star, is planning to raise fares on the Seattie-Tacoma run. Forty. cents for a one-way and 65 cents for a round-trip ticket are the rates decided on. The company will seek to dem- n st. “We think he is trying to see where we keep our money,” the sisters told Mrs. Smith. Detectives immediately shifted the scene of their investigation to the apartment house. An unknown murderer beat in the heads of the women with an ax and a hammer. The blood-stained weapons were found near the bodies, which were discovered i in separ-| ate rooms of the house, lying in pools of| blood. Secret pockets in Mrs. Wheeler's waist were torn open Police were informed the sisters had approximately $2,000, which they kept hidden on their persons. They atid sd banks. It is believed the murders were a result of a care- fully planned attempt at robbery. The money was gone | when the bodies were found. oe tragedy was discovered by a nephew of the women, S. King, 426 Boren ave., at 12:30 a. m Thursday, when| 7 went to the house to stay all night. He had lived at their! house for the last three weeks The sisters had lived in mission that the prices of fuel ofl find other necessities have gone up and that bigher wages must be pald to employes. | These facts will be made the basis for the application for an in crease. It is probable that the earnings during the last six months—the period of lightest travel between | the two cities——will be cited to back the )_betition for ‘the ) raise, ROB BANK OF $16,000 | PITTSBURG, Pa. April 6.— Masked auto bandits entered the First National bank of Houston, near here, today, held up the cashier, and escaped with $15,000 in cash. Posses are on the trail, terror since two months ago,| later, a flashlight lit up their dingy fe left when she asked him what he was | doin King says he has been staying with his aunts, sleeping lon a couch, because they were afraid to be alone. He had given them a revolver. loaded, beside the body of the younger woman. onstrate to the public service com. | WB LR oa } and CHE TL STING Whe ore »oO oO 1 a a 7 Ss ny ry 4 at ¥ — Beeson ot, £08 Westinhe ave. N. Jie Sire Sotene ie fa ee Weare of ch the Intruder firet at the right chews tne eerior i the room which kitted Mee wheter ‘NEPHEW TELLS (WITHDRAWAL OF ABOUT TRAGEDY U.S.ARMY ASKED |Spends Evening Downtown; Carranza Official Declares It Returns to Find Has Accomplished Bodies * Purpose SISTERS WERE AFRAID|TALKS FOR CARRANZA| Howard 8. King, nephew of April 6.—Consul representative of Gen. Mre. Wh r and Mrs. Swift, murdered at their home, 508 Carranza, favore withdrawal of Westlake ave. N., Wednesday the U. 8. army from Mexico. night, and who lived with them In a statement issued today for the last three weeks. told what the police say straight story.” He faced a porchful of re- ore at his home, 412 Boren Thursday morning, and teaone his actions on the after- noon of the murder. His gray haired wife stood at hie side and helped him explain detalis. King is 56 years of age. a have been staying nights with omen for three weeks,” he |enta “They have been afraid since |the big snow, when some one looked jin the window. Another night some one flashed a hand light thru the window Found Footprints in Snow ‘They found footprinta in the } snow next morning, and had been afraid ever since. They kept say ing some one was watching them |for a chance to get their money. “I gave them a revolver a couple lof weeks ago. Mrs. Swift sald she | would use it If anybody ever tried | to hold her up.” He says he spent Wednesday morning with the women, and helped them do some washing Went Downtown “T ate with them at noon and| then told them that I was going downtown to look for work You take the front door key,’ they told me, ‘and we'll take the) back door key because we may go downtown.” Kigg says he spent the afternoon downtown and on the water front, os talked with several friends, ate | ‘ASK $6,000 DAMAGES :: a chile parlor, and went to a show before going home “It didn’t surprise me so very To recover $i 000 damages for al- much not to find the women tn the leged violation of an agreement to! living room,” he says. “I thought jwithdraw from the same line of |they were out walking. When Mra, business for a year, H. Y. Biack-| Wheeler couldn't sleep, they would well and the Farmer# Commission | take walks. Co, of Portland Thursday filed suit “But after an hour went by and against ©, 8. Fulton. didn't come back, 1 started) | Fulton was until recently man ing around, I opened the door jager of the Seattle branch of the\and felt a draft. Then I noticed commission company He then|the rear door was wide open 1 | sold bis:int interest to Blec kwell believe the murderer got out that way.” | He saw Mra. Wheeler's body as CITY TO BID ON SARS.) no iicsted a maten and peored then | the door, Then he went Into the next room and found the second body, he sald He aroused Mrs, W. L. Murphy, te Jorgensen, a girl neighbor,) at midnight, standing close to! This was found, fully! The murderer is believed to have gained entrance to the house tn the late afternoon, and to have hid- den in a blind closet in the rear. Believe Woman Heard Him The women lived in one room in| the front. j The other rooms were used for storage and were unfurnished. The closet opened off a room! used for chopping wood. It was here that the murderer obtained| the ax and hammer. The younger sister, according to the police theory, heard a noise,| and, taking the revolver, started (Continued on P 2) | ‘ZEPPELINS RAID _ ENGLAND AGAIN accomplished its purpose Francisco Vi strength and scattering his men. le no doubt here that statement reflects the views of Carranzi | ARMY IN FOR. LONG ,; STAY IN MEXICO BY H. D. JACOBS U. 8 ARMY HEADQUAR.- TERS, Dublan, by Aeropiane to Casas Grandes, thence by Radio to Columbus, N. M,, April 6.— The con et of opinion at army headquarters Is that the American expedition'’s object is still far from being accomplish- ed. A long stay is forecasted, un- lese the unexpected places Francisco Villa In the hands of American and Carranzista forces hunting him. That the Villistas are between the Americans farthest south and the border was made evident by Col, Brown's fight at Ojos Calien. tes Saturday Ojos Calientes is 15 miles east of Fl Valle, which the American van guard passed nearly a fortnight ago. Col miles thru San tering them. Maj, Evans heads another force which is protecting communications around El Valle. VILLA APPARENTLY HAS DISAPPEARED EL PASO, April 6.—Villa appar ently has disappeared. Both Car- ranzista and American officials de- clare no soldiers of either govern ment had seen him since he was re. ported wounded near Guerrero The American pursuit ts belleved | BERLIN, April 6—Zeppelines | . raided Engiand last night, the war office announced today. | Iron works, blast furnaces and extensive military estab- | lishments Whitby were de- stroyed, LONDON, April 6.—The admiral | ty announced that three were kill ed in last night's Zeppelin raid | Forty bombs were dropped A single Zeppelin dropped bombs | on the northeast coast. Its ap- | Proach was reported in advance, land batteries of anti-aircraft guns gave it a warm welcome. | Fifteen minutes after it reached |the const, the sky crulser was fore jee to flee. Antonio pass, scat th loc Guerrero, owing to the danger of extending communications farther without adequate railroad facilities. WASHINGTON WILL NOT CONFIRM REPORT WASHINGTON, April ports are true that the administra tlon is disposed to consider the American expedition to Mex accomplished {ts purpose by scat tering the Villietas without actual ly capturing their leader, no con. firmation of it {s obtainable here, The war and st departments would not discuss the rumor, At am eoting « the ntilities | 6.—If re committee of the council, it was de- | cided Thursday to have the Jud. | | clary and finance committees act | ® neighbor. with the utilities committee tn as. Mrs. Murphy telephoned King’s certaining conditions upon which | wife, at their home, Boren ave. the city could undertake to bid for; Their son, Earl King, aged 21, the Seattle, Renton & Southern | dressed and met the police at West line when it comes up for sale un-|lake ave, and Harrison st. and der a court order May 1. ducted them to the house. on Brown chased the bandits 50) to have halted temporarily south of} house. The door by which the murderer is belleved to: entered. The door by which he entered le ehown by the evidently had encountered the robber and been slain before she could offer any resistance. ‘The number (2): indicates: ADOSEVELT TELLS TERM UPON WHICH RE WILL AU Says If G.O. P. Wants ee It Must Take Him on I sue of “America First.” NEW YORK, April 6.—Col. hat Is in the ring. The campaign to land him the republican nomination is about to be formally launched. This interpretation was al- most unanimously given today to his lement to a group of visitors at Oyster Bay yester- day, in which he defined the program the G. O. P. must adopt if it wants him as standard- bearer. It was agreed the slogan should e “America First.” | Politicians speculated on the pos- |sibility of Roosevelt now reconsid- jering his refusal to enter the presi- | dential primaries. | It was thought the colonel's sup- |porters might try to land delega- tions from several states, around which to rally the uninsttucted dele- Rates, Takes Definite Stand Before the cdlonel’s statement was permitted to leak out, his friends in the Far West and Middle West told him that those sections would support a candidate taking a} stand on foreign policies. This probably led him to declare that he would not “pussy-foot” on jany issue he had raised “Don't you nominate me,” he said |to his visitors, “unless you are pre- pared to take the position defend his rights, every one of his people, wherever strong unless he prepares in ad-) vance, | He Is Not for War “Tam not for war, trary, I abhor an unjust or wanton | war, and I would use every honor-| able expedient to avold even a just! war. But I feel that you don’t, in the long run, avoid war by making | other people believe that you are afraid to fight for your own rights."| Col. Roosevelt went on to say that}! America must never wrong the| weak or insult any nation wantonly. He added that every citizen of this antry should be prepared “in| his own sou! as well as with the | army and navy, 80 that when he said anything “the rest of the world} will know that he means it, and! that he can make good.” Star Want Northwes! sailed | with barley on October 24 last, has that been se Uncle Sam is to be strong enough to} off the and to defend) pe those people are, and he can't be/ fag | leaving here. seized because it was understood jher cargo was ultimately destined On the con-| to German: tacking Verdun | during the night in a series of ‘ters Theodore Roosevelt BRITISH SEIZE SEATTLE CARGO The American bark Dirigo, which from Seattle for Sweden ized by a British man-of-war British isles, and is being Id in a prize court. The vessel had a huge Americad painted on her bows before Reports say she was WATER SHUT OFF Water will be shut off on — Holgate st., bet 2tet ave. S, and Lake Washington, in the Mt. Baker park district, and-on Brabner place, on 28th ave. S., between Massachusetts and Holgate sts, today and | Friday from 9 a. m. until 5 p.m esp GERMANS REACH HAUCOURT . PARIS, April 6.—Germane reached Haw ate rific assaults northwest of the citas Ads cover the eotie | de it was officially admitted toe day.