The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 27, 1916, Page 1

‘) ent of feeling among the delegates | eal" of Roosevelt and Hughes. Both will get a considerable num EVERAL thousand amateur sleuths are scheduled to S go to the Arena Saturday night In quest of T Star's girtin-the-red-mask,” and the 10. DO IT NOW. $50 which |e the reward for For more than a week she Each time o worn thé h ne , Secon picking her out of the crowds pee! uring the eran sb gsi red mask, the red dress and at the Northwest Food Falr distributed envelopes contain the red hat, In which she was Housefurnishing exposition Ing prize coupons. also ween at the Arena even VOLUME 19. SEA ‘LE, WASH., (312 FOURTH AV. Just drop a card to that address if you belong to any organization which will par- ticipate in the preparedness parade on June SATURDAY, MAY 27 ings The red clothes are to be ded Saturday night t what The Star girl will lan't generally known 19 16 The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS ON NEW It's @ cinch she won't put on crowd about 9 p. m. and stay on the fioor until some one thi hi hel. h anything that will help the pointe » finger toward her and folks tell who she Is exclaims, “You are The Star's She will mingle with the Girl-in-the-red-mask.” Get yours out, bathing suits. office or Alki or ONE vet J THAINS AND 8 RTANDS, be WILLBE IK CONTROL By Gilson Gardner WASHINGTON, D. C,, In these words Mrs. Margaret Horton May 27.-—-There will be the so-called “stuc compans of Dr, Ar fewer instructed delegates |thur Warren Waite at the H Plaza, sum in the republican conven- | med up her attitude toward the confessed tion than uninstructed del- egates. If all instructed delegates were for one man they could not nom- inate him. They are di- vided among eight candi- dates. The number necessary to nom! nate is 493; the total number sit- ting in the convention {s 985. Approximately 925 have been en. The list will not be fully made up until the day before the conven- tion meeta, for on June 6 West nia selects her 16. Other states are Texas and South Dakota, Instructed sheleontes number ap- Proxzimatety 309. Uninstructed delegates, which will sway the convention, will take orders from the republican bosses. The instructed delega however, in many cases will Prepared to leave their “favor. Ite son” candidate and the prospective winner, o third or fourth ballot. Candidates who have delegates {instructed for them are: Cummins. Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska.) Yowa, 73; Sherman, Illinois, 54 Brumbaugh, 50 of Pennsylvan! Burton, Ohio, 48; Fairbanks, Indiana and 10 of Kentucky's %,/ 40; Ford, Michigan, 30; La Follett North Dakota and 15 of Wisconsin's 26, 25: Dupont, Delaware, 6. { These figures are no indication of how the votes will fall on the aid | ballot. The favorite son candidates wit! get, in many cases, many more Yotes than those specifically in structed for them. There will be a strong undercur-| ber of votes on the first ballot Delegates are in every way sub Ject to control. They are mostly handpicked, old guard representatives, whether from | South or North. Southern delegates are anxious to select a candidate who wil! put the! party back into office, and insure distribution of some jobs thruout the South. Barnes will be present. | Whitman and his friends In New York are using the Hughes | boom to stave off the Roosevelt sentiment, and other anti-Roos- evelt elements in the Empire state are booming Root for | similar reasons. The first roll call will be a hodge- podge, and will indicate nothing. | The second roll call is apt to be much the same. The destiny the convention will be worked out in the back room councils, among the old guard lead-| ers, and when the word is given,| the delegates will fall in line and nominate the man selected of | should, of course, be punished severely in jin the doctor’s apartment | New York |the Rainier club. Is Answer of Wife of “Dr. Jekyll-Mr. Hyde” Who Confesses That He Poisoned Her Parents ‘View of Woman im the Case | NEW YORK, M of revenge in my heart. see Dr. 27 —“I have no feeling I have no desire to Waite sent to the chair. But he some way if he is guilty.” poisoner of his wealthy parents-in-law, John and Mrs. John Peck of Grand Rapids, Mich., R on erside drive, “When | remember how sincere he always seemed to be in his professed devotion to music,” continued Mrs. Horton, talking with a Star cor respondent yesterday, “it is hard for me to be- lleve that Or. Waite is the kind of man he has since shown himeeif to be. “I Invariably found Dr. Waite a considerate, and, as I always felt, a sincere and disinterssted friend. “He talked always of music and of his work as a surgeon. In fact, he asked to be allowed to join me at the Berlitz School of Languages, because, he said, he wanted to improve his rman, # he might be better able to read the works of German authorities on surgery. “I saw only one aide of Dr. Walte—that side which included his wuppowed sole Imterest tn art und hie pretended work in what he always maintained was his profession “What I now know of the other Dr. Waite I have learned from newspapers. As I have ady mid. I cannot even now fully realize how this man has so deceived me as to his true character “1 sometimes fee! that Dr. Waite must have been insane to have done the things he nas confessed. It is mainly for this reason | cannot say that | want to see Dr. Waite pay the extreme penalty for his mis deeds, altho | don’t think | could ever say, under any clroumstances, that | should want to see the life of any man or woman taken as a means of inflicting punishment.” Mrs. Horton's husband, who was present during the tn and unequivocally defined his attitude in this way “Margaret has always been a good little girl to me. Never, t has she ever really done anything at which I could take | to Dr. Walte’s studio solely to practice operatic music. that that was an awful mistake. “But it seems to me that if the Lord can far; least, could stand by and help one poor gir! ance in her troubles.” MRS, MARGARET HORTON, WHO SHARED STUDIO WITH WAITE. clearly view of his wife, »y look, sign or erious exceptior We can all see now, « course, ive all the world {ts sing, then, I, at nobody to whom to turn for guld who FIGHT GUN DUEL LIST OF MARCHERS IN WORLD PEACE IS STAR’S BUSY DOLLAR — SEATTLE’S BIG PEACE FOLLY, HESAYS BRIGHT AND CHIPPER | WITH A HOLDUP Five shots, exchanged be tween Officer J. J. Kush and @ PARADE IS NOW 13,288 By noon Saturday, 13,288 citizens, preside, Speakers will include fleeing thug, aroused the neigh had declared their intention of|Hulet M. Wells, Mrs, Emma An borhood near the Rainier club, arching in the Seattle prepared on - . Fe Ba * Fourth ave. and Marion “tty &t jess parade, June 10 {Mra Cr s, Samuel Koch 12:30 o'clock Saturday morning. | im, mark set by the committee|Anna Louise Strong and Warren Kush took up the trail of two when the demonstration was first|D. Lane thugs who were reported by Al Paulsen, 721 Columbia st. considered was 25. Recruiting is going on full blast They held him up at Seventh now ave. and University It is probable that there will be| He described them as about [more than 25,000 ¢ 25 years old each, and of light [the cannon booms fc eh dart complexion | The latest announcement at pa-| They ran into the alley between! rade headquarters is the formation| Sixth and Seventh aves. and at/of a division of short men under the Marion st. Officer Kush almost | generalst of Sydney Smith — ght up with one of them hort” story writer and advertising All records In the export and The man turned and ran toward| man, who is about four feet tall import district of Washington Of course he doesn’t insist that were broken during the month As Knah neared he fired once./the marchers in his division be The officer returned four shots.|short as he is. The requirements| f APril, according to the report None took effect have not been definitely outlined,| lesued today by Roscoe Drum The thug then jumped over a| but five feet will be about the limit heller, customs collector. fence and the officer lost track of| ' Already 300 men over six feet in The total imports for the him h een signed At-| month were $14,165,874, and the Paulsen reported that the thugs torn Bruce ort fort ade. total exports $25,495,374. 9 were Appar: experienced in the tee in charge of the! Both these figures are more th WASHINGTON, May 27.—Co1.|9"4 fo : aly nite hour for the! “rhe nearest approach to this tre fouse does not intend to visit ate ane Veteesnowt Peta eidis ats mendous business ix the record of Europe in the near future on a et eel rs og : p He e oe pel {D-| Mebruary of thia year, when the im. peace mission. Officials today ex-| VICE PRESIDENT _Lewis|‘luded the Tilikum drum and tram-| ports amounted to $i and pressed interest in Berlin reports| HARDENBERGH, of Carnation |Petvorhe of #1 mon. 10) mombers | the exports to $19.3 that he was going, but stated they| Milk Products Co, {ll In Milwaukee | 2000) cin 900 mambore af the fie| Not only has the foreign trade in were false. Jof appendicitis nitive trade, 86 cernlonce of rie wg jcreased. tremendously, but the ex —_—_—— lola pried A pee contol t Vani {ports to Alaska in April were the Jattle Lighting Co. mounted and unl-|)O0 0 in Seattle's histo formed members of the Knight HOLD BILLINGSLEY | UPON NEW CHARGE ::... Dec arcical Logan me Street pharmacy, by the police $2,000 bail fugitive fror He aid hastily after being fined nent lating the dr file ne Sherman bad liquor of the wrecked recently is | Saturd ov need to 30 days in ja ar Fre Billingsley, alleging tho to sell. | of Phe total amounted to $3,857.38 Pythias and King county dentis I Sethe weavioua raced wae giate PEACE MASS MEETING June, 1 with $2,375,87 tizens who oppose big army A large quantity of materials for na expenditure ¢ pre. the government railway, !n addition to hold a blg mass meeting |to natural increases In business, ac t Dreamland Sunday at 3 p. m count for the tremendous leap in the Rev, Hugh Elmer Brown will| Alaskan busines They are brothers of Logan, who In foreign exports, the Washing was dismissed from a chagre of| ton trade with Asiatic Russa ex ceeded all records in April, the maintaining a public nuisance Fri READY T0 START being a total export trade of $18 day by Judge Frater | 482,882 J. J. Eckel, clerk in a drug on | In February, 1916, the next high enth and Union, has appeal-| WAUKEGAN, Ill, May 27.-With/est month, the trade with Asiatie entence of 20 4 and 00} hopes of the jury to try William H,!/Russia amounted to $12,514,769 violating the dry law, im-|Orpet being completed today, Prow Japan, next to Russia, gives posed in Justice Brinker's court\ecutor Dady said he expected to, Washington its biggest export a d Frida afte Deputy Prosecutor) place on the witness stand Monday, |import trade. Palmer urg the jury to “get|the first person to testify against} The Imports amounted to $5,960 rough” after the fashion of Mayor|the co outh accused of mur- 605, and tk xports to $3,782,391 Gill and Chief of Police Becking-| dering his sweetheart, Marian Lam 7 district of Washington in ham. Joert ‘cludes all the ports in the state No! went w from, Dr ery, but my WASHIN( creasing iTON tion o! Wh sity eeting Peace dent toda Wile May the League n's spe mother and fath Indeed, th of course, for them, na ch ARTHUR WIFE oO he wrote me a letter that was as sweet in sentiment as any love letter | had ever received from him Waite, but it was his kindness to my mother that led me to care for him. My parents were all the world to me. If he had only spared my parents! Ww he could have had Mrs, Horton and @ number of women if he had spared my I de him 1 care nothing abe On July 1 had changed her life f Waite In- | ton insp > En this evening in which he is expected to » what voice his ever is dele willingness possible in world peace is eag to de the cause of awaited by | ARE SHATTERED can a Tuntue pire? NEW YORK, May 27.—On the question of whether a snapping turtle can really snap hangs a $5,000 personal damage suit | here teeth, bite. and mai Defense lawyer nifestly ay it has no cannot Counse! for the plaintiff retort by citing the mosquito. HEALER ARRESTED } Los Charged defraud, ANGE! with wu Aug. Sch May ing the mails to| rader, who adver. tised himself as a divine healer, was d und®r arreét today by the | al authorities here, ST. PAUL, May 27.—Dr. Wm may operate on James J. Hill mily physician admitted to It may be possibly nec ry to open an intestinal carbuncle Hill passed a perfect night, tt was announced, and physicians are) awaiting developments FAIR CLOSES sunoat A chicken dinn cents ward Parish uve, between Pib This will be the the fair, which benefit of the fr jat Hillman pity for er will be ser inday at Kd. | fair, 1 closing event of was held for the parochial school Says Beautiful Singer Who Is Called the “Other Woman” in Most Sensational Case Since Thaw’s View of Wife of Dr. Waite } NEW YORK, May 27.—The law should exact the full penalty from Dr. Waite if he is found guilty, as he has confessed, of the murder of my father and mother!” hat is the stand of Mrs. Waite, who is) here attending the trial of her husband in al murder case so sensational that even war- racked Europe is following it, day by day, in the cable dispatches. “1 do not believe in capital punishment,” contin- ued Mrs. Waite, to a Star correspondent yesterday. but death seems to me the only just punishment for so horrible a crime as the poisoning of my father and mother “And | was to have been the third victim!” “1 do not thrill with horror at a realization of this. In view of all | have suffered, | wish Dr. Waite had succeeded in his plan to murder me. | I have lost everything.” said the slight, blue-eyed | young woman, with a tremor in her voice life means nothing to me Dr. Waite took ev erything in life from me. And yet he ie the man who, just @ few months ago, when we moved into the apartment on Riverside drive, wrote to my moth er I have found a little corner in heaven, instea of a corner apartment.’ “! might have been able to forgive Dr. Waite for his association with Mrs, Horton, But that—what is that to the loss of my father and mother? “Dr. Watte never really loved me. I know that now, for he never would have made me suffer as I have beon suffering ever aince we haye become con- vinced he had poisoned to death mother and father. They had been so kind to him, and he had shown kindnesses to them, too, but for what pur- WARREN ot F ACCUSED pow “Now | know that there never was a day that he did not deceive me and my family. Even aft- er he had been arrested, charged with murder, | And there never was @ more devoted suitor than Arthur » not even think of her now. She knew Dr. Waite was married She imply to get what she could from him. Mrs. Horton Waite, speaking again and unflinchingly of the man who ym happiness into tragedy, “I shall have my decree of divorce Even now I consider myself free. The trial of Dr. Waite is a mock the law scribes it. The memory of my mother and fath and rompt 1 entity said M ON JOB AGAIN TODAY e Star's “busy dollar” had a a . od night's rest, but it went to | as chipper as ever, | DON'T FORGET TO CALL US May mornite Call up The Star, Main 9400, Mrs. c Downs ight it | @8 s00n as you get the “busy downtown to buy some millinery dollar,” untess it's after 6 p. m. from Miss O'Donnell, 524 Union || OF Sunday. In such cases, call a up the following morning. In Miss O'Donnell, in turn, took |, this way we can keep check of | the “busy dollar” two doors north | every move the “busy dollar” and bought some photographic makes. The Star Is asking for supplies from B. Hopkins & Co. | Your Co-operation in making at 528 Union et | this interesting experiment suc Tomorrow's Sunday, you know, | | cessful and the weather man threatens to | be real nice and lovely + | Hopkins, quite neighborlik 1. Manheimer, one of the pro- took the dollar to the Real Lace | prietors, took {t along with him shop, at 526 Union st. and the | when he went for lunch yester Hopkins home will have one more | day, He bought a 35-cent lunch dolly at Rippe’s cafe, Pike st., between In some instances downtown | Third and Fourth aves. Rippe merchants received the “busy dol bought some socks from Mr. In lar” twice during its travels Fri- | graham at MacDougall - South. da | wick's The Tailored Ready Co, at Ingraham got two-bits worth of Fourth ave. and Pike st., was one | cigars at Keiter & Bernbaum’s of these places | Second ave - busy dollar” next trav 4 eled to Richmond & Graske’s cigar stand, H. Pody bringing the coin to the latter place om i om C Oy There “Happy” got it. Every % | body knows “Happy” at Rich mond & Graske's , ; st Tike “Happy” was so tickled that he It's pronounced just like spent the whole of it at the De pigeon | Luxe drug store, Second ave. and ; i University | But it’s not a.b Frank Solars of the De Luxe dollar tie at | lanc 2, It's an island pcond and Senec A : it saat . and dland of Prager's I in island where D believing that one good turn de went fishing for bas serves another, took t busy met dollar” back to the De Luxe store, | buying therewith some shaving Well, let Harold Mac | cream, a tooth brush and Grath, the author of sev | Some soda water eral of the “best sellers” in recent years, tell you |GITY VOTES TO PAVE : about her adventures pe : The council will be asked to vote Pidgin Island the | g950 to pave between the tracks of name of the novel, will ap- |the municipal car line at Seventh pear next week in) The ave. and Broad An ordinance yroposed a ciln wile and Mtaccin sik installments, ||Obehoees 27 COREL man els em recommended by the city utilities be ginning Monday and committe: will come up for vote ending Saturday ‘Monday, | |self denounced | crimes. eri | really | declar ; that POT STAR’S GIRL IN THE RED MASK TONIGHT AT ARENA AND GET $50! Whoever first finds her will be escorted to the office booth of the food fair, and given the $50 in gold, PARADA ARRAN) LAST EDITION folks. It’s getting warm enough to go in for a plunge at Humphrey’s post- We mean your somewhere. Forecast: “Tonight and Sunday Fair.” MUST OIE IN CHAIR FOR POISON CRIMES NEW YORK, May 27. Dr Arthur Warren Waite was found guilty of first-degree murder today for killing his father-in- John H. Peck, with poison and germs. The jury reported at 2:45 p. m., after being out little law, a v will be sentenced to die in the electric chair at Sing Sing. He was remanded for sentence Thurs- day The convicted murderer received the verdict calmly. Two bailiffs brought him into the room, his face firmly set, when the jurors filed in. The foreman’s words, “Guilty as charged,” were scarcely audible. The jury w polled while Waite stood unflinchin, His only sign of emotion was when, in reply to the usual questions regardin 1 age and birthplace, he spoke so low it was necessary for a bailiff to re- peat his words Walte'’s father was overwhelmed with emotion, weeping wildly. His other son tried in vain to comfort him over an hour. Attorney Deuel completed his closing argument at 11:45 a. m, Assistent District Attorney Brothers then summed state. Aske Life Imprisonment Deuel reviewed Waite's career of crime and asked the jury ff he could be called sane in view of his remarkable record up for the Even the state's allenists sald he was a born erled Deuel. “They say never had moral sense.” Deuel asked for life i{mprison- ment in an asylum for Waite. Waite gazed at Prosecutor Brothers steadily as he heard him- the state's at- torney as a cruel and cunning mur- derer. He was similarly ing Defense | dress by unmoved dur- Counsel Deuel's ad- Declare Him Sane Three state alieni today de- lared positively they believed Waite sane when he committed his and sane at the present moment. They mal admitted he was not_nor- and classified him as a “born inal.” Deuel, in his closing seized eagerly and declared argument, on these assertions the state's experts believed Waite deranged. Juror Trent significantly asked lienist if he could positively Waite sane in view of his alant demeanor on the wit- and. Thaw Reference Stricken Ridiculing the insanity plea, Brothers said: “Is this the kind of a man you want sent to Mat- teawan, where some bright morn- ing, when the milkman comes around, he will walk out to free- dom? The defense objected to this ref- erence to the ‘Thaw case, and the remarks were ordered stricken out Brothers charged that Waite ruin- ed Mrs. Margaret Horton's life and lured her away from her husband, Mrs Waite was in the court: room yesterday when alienists, tes- tifying for her husband, said he had told them he married her only for her money This was in line of their opinion he was a “moral imbecile” and had only an insane knowledge one none ness § Jof right and wrong. This opinion was offered by (Continued on page B2} : GAR RUNS AWAY Dr. An automobile delivery wagon, left standing on James st, near Third ave. broke loose at 12:30 Saturday, crashed driverless down the hill, and ran over Samuel Fisk, age 9, of 1011 Taylor ave The boy was taken to his home badly bruised The machine belonged to J. & Preston, 912 Western ave It hit another car and was stop. ed after crossing Second ave, which was crowded with noon tra fic The brakes were defective,