The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 2, 1916, Page 1

mA “DISCOVERY”! ON FEBRUARY 4, AT THE SBATTL OF SE 1915, GEORGE LEE DERATED SOMMERCIAL CLUB IN FAVOR 300. NOW HE “DIS A LETTER AGAINST R JONES, HIS OLD VOTED FOR THIS IN THIS ROTTEN BILL TO SE PAL AND HIS OLD PAL IQUITOUS MEASURE )BBED 100 SEATTLE HOMES After admitting that he had burglarized more than 100 ttle, Jim Thomp- jemie for fish bait | Police Judge G skin, and ft sta tear better than Says. and entertained Chief Beckingham and Capt. of De- tectives Tennant, Wednesday, | with the story of his opera- | | | fish jones. He was captured at 9:30 p. . Tuesday, when he walked Into a trap set by Detectiv: Bergstrom and Cochran, after they had waited two days and two nights for him. “I broke out of San Quentin pen itentiary about four months ago,” he told them, “and came up here. T got rooms and a jimmy and start- ed out.” Pretty Soft, He Says “It was pretty soft for me, be cause I can pen a window without making a sound. It's all in the Way you use tue tools. Jewelry and money was what I wanted. | didn't bother vith silverware.” Detectives, searching his room, found dozens of watches and rings hanging on nails But most of the loot, valued art more than $1.500, has been dis- posed of. Dieguises Himself Detectives, checking up in the, rogues’ gallery, ‘iscovered Thomp-. son, under the name of Carl Ma tina Peterete, had served time in a school in Ajaland, Denmark, native country. He is 29 years old and weighs” 140 pounds. “I wore a different suit of} often as 1 could,” be ex- vould stip off my shoes at the thra & house without any one. Lots of times I'd see the family sleeping «hile I went thra bureau drawers.” Starts Thefts In May He said he coult “beat anybody fm Seattle in a foot race. ROSTON, Mase. high price of beans favorite food is 2 and housewives are Men ment and tell me about It.” KISSIMMEE, Fia., May. Bergstrom and Cochran were de tailed to the case. After weeks of fruitless work they learned that a man answering the burglar’s description had a habit of passing the corner of Sev- enth ave. and Olive st. with bundles under his arm, nearly every night. So they waited for him. Tried to Pull Gun At 9:30 p. m. Tuesday, from their concealment behind a clump of shrubbery, the detectives saw their man, with the bundles, coming upposedly on the way to his) Seattle women are gu hair, these days, to Vhen he brushed past them thev mped out and clamped on hand- reutts, before he could get his gun, j altho he made a quick move toward | his hip pocket for it. At police headquarters, Peterson, alias Thompson, was found sock- less, altho he wore shoes. first he would not talk. Detectives questioned him several hours. Finally he broke down, they and admitted his profession, told them he was an escaped viet. for snug around the ears. “Why not use shellac?” suggests Henry Blake, the paint man. and con- NO GA NS---BERLIN BERLIN, Aug. 2.—Repulse of all allied attacks along the Flanders’ front, except on the high road be tween Maricourt and Clery, where completely demolished German trenches were occupied, was an- nounced in the war office state- ment today. In this gain of destroyed German trenches the statement said the enemy lost heavily. “English patrols were particular- ly aetive in the Ypres sector,” the atement asserted, “but were ev- where repulsed.” ing ice. BAYOU Casper Whiting, Fairy Was Second She was the second daughter of five born to the minister in “Prudence | parish, But Isn’t It Tough? “Cropples like to bite at chamois on uses chamois de the wear and worms, Boston Is Beanless! August ton faces starvation because of the This town's quart, buying beef. steak because ts cheaper, cents a And He Tells Putnam women and children flock to police headquarters to tell Chief Beckingham how to run his ¢ “That's how we find out about] p Hots of the bitnd piggery,” he sa: |The old with 2 t wervice, here. eclaring that. the family finds out where he took! jease day came it on, and then they come down] Bathing Suit Church! August The barefooted burglar started|Lots of churches allow worship in| Prisoned worrying the police department in|ghirt sleeves and peekaboo waists, Ice Punctures Boat! KAMLOOPS, B. C., August 2— Three men narrowly escaped drown-| ing north of here when their zoat | was struck and punctured by float Horse’s Tail Sings! TECHE, La., August 2 farmer, of has trained his horse's tail| that suffr over his buggy’s dashboard in such| ment of t a way it hums when the wind blows. | ~ Bos. this VOLUME 19. The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN 1916. SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 2, NIGHT EDITION “FAIR TONIGHT AND THURSDAY,” CHIRPS THE WEATHER MAN. STILL NO ONE HAS YET MADE ANY OFFER FOR THE HUMPHREY DUCK POND, PERHAPS THE “RELIABLE” MORNING HEN 18 MIS- TAKEN WHEN IT SCREECHES THAT IT’S “A VALU- ABLE PIECE OF BUBIN PROPERTY.” ON TRAINS AND NEWS #TANDS. fe QNE CENT ERMAN ZEPS SHELL LONDON HELL TEST ~-AABITUAL LAW r whi ® convicted three nt to the peniten-' he tlary for life Hammond is 37 The shadows of! seven penitontiarios have bleached his thin features white His eyes! are sunk In their sockets He “fell first in Michigan, where, one after another, three big | prisons swallowed him up for} sbort terms of rears. Next it was Bridewell cago, then Canyon City big house” at Leevenworth in ous] then the He Is an Enigma r that Hammond drifted to s He found a good fob at more than ilving wages—and “fell” again They caught him at St. Louis, brought him back an MeNeil Island “He Got Religion” nd sent bim to Kan Harry G. Hammond was back | here Wednesday from MeNell Island federal priron preparing to test, If necessary, the constitution ality the habitual criminal law, un THEN = r§avNCaRY 19. 1915 COMPETING LIGHT || AND POWER LINE eee PalOt d as Protec: to fav ited WS 11S CAL TIME. | | DEBATE \P | Many Franchises}. | | Upon Last Year of Duration, Says Entering \ Temes B. Howe, and Present Laws Give No Aspurance of the Future | Ho has served his term and tx} back in th county jall, charged with grand larceny, for the checks with which Le bought the tickets for his “prisoners” were drawn against an account which did exist, it is said If Hammond may then be « 's found guilty, arged as an habit ual ¢riminal and “sent up” for Ute While Hammond was in the |Island prison he says ho “got re Higion,” The authorities doubt his sincer. ity He wrote a letted to Thomas Poste chiet of the se | Shower Penitence | Im the same letter he made a | complete confession of his long series of crimes, naming the pent. | tentlaries !n which he had been im This was the information that t# necessary a man hebdite ally a erimisal, end Foster turned it over to the prosecuting attorney with the recommendation that | Hammond be “habitualed.” Hammond has engaged J. J. Sulll van of the law firmof Beeler & Sul- livan, to attack the conetitutionality to prove carry | Its constitutionality has never before been tested. Therein lies his hope p Writes Book on Prisons So thoroly is Hammond “going after” the habitual criminal act |that he is writing a book, “Prison | Reminiscences,” which he hopes to |have published serially—and Ham |mond ts a clever writer of purest English—to show the unfairness of the law and the awfulness of prison life, ‘HUGHES COMES HERE AUG. 15 Charles E. Hughes, republican candidate for president, will spe in Seattle the night of August 15, according to the official announce ment of the itinerary of his West ern trip, late Tuesday Hughes will begin his tour in De troit August 5. He will speak in |Spokane August 14, and in Tacoma |the afternoon of August 15. After visiting California, Hughes will go East by way of Nevada, Utah and | Colorado. WILSON STANDS PAT ON WOMEN’S VOTES w ASHINGTON, “Aug. 2.—Prest dent Wilson today dissipated any hope suffragists might have that he might try to out-Hughes Hughes on the suffrage question. He au |thorized an announcement at the |White House that he had not changed his attitude. The presi position is still should be a develop. ates. |TO HANG CASEMENT of the Parsonage” (next novel-a-week in The Star). THURSDAY MORNING Prudence was first. She | LONDON, Aug. 2—Roger Case Swi 6, Vtele futty, 0 pay lite «| ment will be hanged tomorrow tl thi It wit SGeale | morning, it was definitely announce og 1 ‘ ed tonight to name her Prudence. So EL PASO, Aus Captain Wil - when the second came, |liam Kelly, jr. commanding the % Pe Oe she was named Fairy cavalry troops, rushed from Fort! WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE The v ak % «| Bliss to Finlay, Tex., reported to Water will be shut off in [hat was mistake No. 2. |Gen Hell today there was abso-|| Rainier Beach, in the district | + Fairy®was serious. She | utely no truth in the report that| | between Sist ave. S. and 60th « wanted to be a college |150 Mexican poling invaded th ave, &., south of Renton ave, 3 PR United States near there. The re and Norfolk st. which is sui i 3) professor. Imaging any | ports of the bandits’ presence wax| | piled from the tank on Gaz yp one called: Professor |received by Bell late Jast night| zeile st. tomorrow from 9 a. Py Wairy.” from militia officers at Fort Han-' |) m, to 6 p. m. | ta innit of the habitual criminal law and to! the case right to the United] & a local congregation is to vote | States supreme court on whether it will attend next Sun day's services in bathing suits. It Would Stick Them ming thetr | ake it set | not} | he! Legislature, Br 3. W. GILBERT OAM Correoponton’ of The Foes. inisiitgrn<er. OLYMPIA, Jan it —Reproventatives of Nght and power sompaniog today ted argument to jelat legis Dudlic euilities commitions tn taver Of necessity from eommission on © company eiready to furnisn adequate ing vari ae | Merits and Demerite of Senate Bil ~Ho. @, Which ls Bow Before the Commercial Clud Luncheon Caught With the Goods - AND = moccccncnoes THE POSTINTELLIGE Io HELD ete, Olympia, My. Deer Jeane: Upon my retera from Olympia t hove serutintced more Bil) Ne. 44, whien yesterday end whieck 1 tietoos ther reading of the measure con- firms my critictom. viece the Dill might etherwmice peoaces. Abe you, 1 nm wi Certainly the lengeage tm section 10, to whieh I entled 7 Ase Disoused at « were applauded vigorously. Ciale of other states to show that trol of musicipal utilities by « bees leston here through one not served, Trecton Compeny States the proposed bill. Frank | and A Lewis, of the com- nee, of Arlington several jokers. of Port Town: Has reached « point where it was no longer possible to attract to the stato pital needed in further development Caught with the goods—again! The above are three reproductions from the P.-I., p E. Lee, handpicked candidate for the republican nomin they stated that Lee had been against Senate Bill 46. The first item from the P.-I., dated January 19, 19 Howe, attorney for the Puget Sound Traction Co., an peared before the joint committee of the senate and th torious measure, which has been properly designated by Attorney General T by any legislature.” The second item from the P.-I. of February 5, 1915, ford debated, before several hundred people at the Sea Lee defended it. Bradford opposed it. The third item is from the P.-l. of this morning. 1 ported to have been written by Lee to his old pal, Sen. atretened .o cov yet en ire ouffictent te pe a tater. He eaid it might municipally roving by its own columns that the P.-I. and George ation for governor, lied knowingly and deliberately when 15, shows that George Lee, together with James B. d Norwood Brockett, lobbyist for that corporation, ap- e house at Olympia and spoke IN FAVOR of that no- anner as the “worst steal attempted shows that George Lee and Corporation Counsel Brad- ttle Commercial Club, the very same Senate Bill No. 46. of a letter by Lee, which is 16, 1915—TWO WH ur- LE t shows the “discovery’ Jesse Jones on January DAYS BEFORE HIS PUBLIC APPEARANCE IN FAVOR OF THE BILL. This letter to Jones was never heard of until yesterday. printed by the P.-I. and by every newspaper in the stat why he did, two days later, appear publicly before the 1 Senate Bill 46 attempted to give perpetual franchi Seattle Electric Co. The Seattle Electric company att But the fact that Lee was FOR the bill was e. If Lee was secretly against the bill on January 16, egislative committee to lobby FOR it? ses to existing public utility corporations such as the orneys drafted it, as they later admitted. It proposed to prevent any city or any other private corporation from ever competing with an existing utility corporation. The bill was so “rotten” that it was apparent it could n synonymous with “rottenness.” So the scheme was adopted to drop “46” and late And the funny part of it is that “Dear Friend Jesse,” t q voted for Senate Bill 300 and for all its rotten feat FORGER’S SHOT AT OFFICER GOES WILD WHILE HIS WIFE LOOKS ON Fleeing from arrest Wednesday) guilty to the crime, for which morning, Larry © MaclLane, «| Judge Ronald sentenced him to the |clerk at the Bon Marche, dashed |reformatory, but suspended sen into the alley back of the store, |tence on the young man's proval fired a wild shor from a revolver | to reform and report to the pros at Detective C. M. Gibbons, stum-|cuting attorney orce a month bled and fell, was captured and| He failed to report and vanished. taken to police headquarters man-| Later he was picked up at El Paso, acled | Texas, and brought back. Judge He will be taken to the state re) Ronald again showed clemency, to serve years a and MacLane was for chance. formatory at Monroe given another sentence of one to 16 stealing $229 from C, A, Slatten, a He is now married and for some confectioner, in 1912 time has been employed at the At the time of the theft, Mac-| Hon March Ho is 23 years old Lane was known as Larry C. Out-| Deputy Prosecutor Helsell made} law. He was arrested and pleaded | a criminal charge agalost him of ot pass the legislature. The number ‘46” became r the same bill, practically, appeared as Senate Bill 300. o whom Lee “wrote” the letter he “discovered” yester- ures fe on which gery, arrested Wednesday Helsell obtained the ald of Pri | apse ‘CALL RESTORATION vate Detective Giobons, employed | at the Bon Marche, in making the arrest | THOM: hue $i {| MacLane was called out of the| LONDON, Aug. 2—England re- |store and was identified, it is sald,|8@rds as an essential part of any by three persons whom he had! peace conditions the restoration by asked to cash an alleged bogus Germany of Belgium and Serbia check, Mrs. Maclane was there. |) 0h materially 4 if When —Helsell_ informed tho |P0th materially and economically young wife that he was going to “9d the repairing of devastated lock her husitnd up, MacLane portions of France and Russia |broke from Gibbons and ran down | premier Asquitii today declared in jthe alley &@ speech in the house of commons. | MacLane declared his revolver |was not intentionally discharged, | but that it went off when he threw DRIVE BACK FOE |it away as he stumbled. Gibbons | 8 MacLane fired the shot di | |rectly at him PARIS, Aug. 1—Two German | ¢ surprise attacks directed at the | TWENTY-FOUR MEN of Rat | French lines about Lihous were re. tery A, First field artillery, held | pulsed, {first drill Monday night in Armory. | today, NOW PRICE OF PEACE | BERLIN SAYS ~ DAMAGE WAS Blo BERLIN, via Sayville Wire | less, Aug. 2.—The city of Lon don was attacked in the Ger- man airship raids of July 31- Aug. 1, according to official an- nouncement today. “German airship squadrons, on the night of the last of July and the first of August attacked _ London and E. n British counties,” the statement said. “We dropped bombs successful- ly on coast works, defensive batteries and industrial estab lishments of military impor- tance. All our airships return- ed safely, altho violently shelled by sea forces while approach. ing.” DEUTSCHLAND OUT OF SIGHT Watchers Strain Selveg te Glimpse of Diver on Way | to Sea |MOVES MYSTERIOUSLY BY CARL D. GROAT NORFOLK, Va., Aug. 2.—At noon ing on her way out to sea. Nobody had realized the hope. The Deutschland passed island, 50 miles up froni”Cape ite ed she might not come left her dock at Baltimore late terday. No Virginia pilot had yet been ked for, and this stren the belief that Capt. Koenig int ed to lie somewhere in the i during the day. Some possibili that the Deutschland would on out thru the capes without touching here was seen in the fact that the thick weather of early morning made conditions perfect |for the hazard. The heavy haze lconcealed boats at a distance af two miles. This samé haze has’ hidden the warships of the allies lying some where outside, and caused the com- mander of the U. S. North lina to bring the American neutral ity protector inside Cape Henry, where she waited carly this morn- ing for the Deutschland’to aoe Over in Newport Ne the general expectation boat would put in there ued somewhat dissipated auring first few days because of the fact that no cargo has been | ed there, marine men were con- cerned last night with the behavior of the German prize crew on board jthe Appam. break. stream where sne can be seen for | several miles. The Deutschland, leaving Balti more yesterday, made good prog- ress during the night, not showing ‘any speed calculated to distress |the press boats following her, At times she approached 16 knots, but for the most part was content to purr along with the tug Timmons around 10 knots. At this rate, it was apparent she would be able to reach the Capes about dark this evening by loafing along today, There would be no |reason for her holding back, if her purpose was to run the gauntlet (after dark, without stopping at Nor+ | folk. ‘SUE TO CLOSE __THALIA CAFE — Questionable wom women and unde sirable men have been making @ \trysting place of the Thalia cafe, |where whisky has been bartered jin open violation of the law, ac jcording to a suit filed in superior leourt Wednesday by the W. B. Hutchinson Investment Co. to can- cel the lease of William Hodge, son. of Sheriff Hodge, and R, .E. Van Nostern and C. V, Gray, the propri- etors. The suit also asks against the lessees for $6.50 a day j@ince May 1 Hodge and Van Nostern took the lease February 28, it is said, Hodge liater selling his interest, in violas |tion of an agreement that no as jsignment or transfer would be | made without consent of the owner, | The complaint points out that the fe, which is located in the base ment of the Estabrook building, at was raid- | Second ave. and Union st the official report declared |ed and closed by the police liquor squad recently. at 6 a. m., but had not ard from nearer Norfolk at — In this port it was be-— Hampton Roads until nightfall. She judgment : today Norfolk and Newport News Were nearly blind from the strain of looking across the tumbling wa- ters outside Hampton Roads in the hope of glimpsing the super-subma- rine Deutschland coming in—or so All night long they J kept the Appam brilliantly lighted. f Lights were not doused until day-/ The Appam is now in the’)