The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 5, 1917, Page 1

f the weather man hits it right tonight ought to be one of thone ts when a fellow would like to legs over the fireside and smoke his pipe in peace. Forecast Tonight and Saturday, unsettied weather; probably rain; cooler to night "VOLUME 19. L TALKS OF GRAFT “THE “ONLY PAPER. IN SEATTLE ‘THAT _DARES" TO PRIN’ T TH E SEATTLE, WASH,, FRIDAY, JANUARY 5, 1917. ONE CENT LAST DITION Argue with the law? It can't be Read the lead ed. | f torial on page 4 |% today Brands as False Report He Protected Billingsleys WALL ST. LEAK PROBE BASED N “HEARSAY” WASHINGTON, J §.—Names of men high in Washington offic i New York financial circles were brought into the house “leak to Wall st.” probe by Rep. Wood of Indiana. * Basing his charges on “hearsay” reports and fable informati Wood, the author of the probe reso- 1} ula today lution, men tial Secretary Tumulty, Otto Kahn, of Kahn, | : Paul M. Warburg, of the federal reserve Bolling, a brother of the president’s wife Wood became for supported facts. He failed to mention one fact he would vouch for. A state-; ments. confused when demand was made Secretary Tumulty shot 8: ment to the capitol post haste, de Aaked frequently for facts, Wood manding an apology from Wood repeatedly said all he has ts “ru Wood Sought Secrecy t He was ainly ; rvous, bu hour Wood was * pecame posed at ine Frites committee cross ¢ nation, he said r no Information that any one Peat Into executive session Atter being worn, Wood made # Wrong effort to .be permitted to connected with profited by th the administration @ leak His me officials, he sald his teatimor bot =. Unsuccessful in his effort “Oly meant knew about the note, or might possibly have prof an executive session, Wood told ited if they could—and would Ind. Ma om sn Wie. ates Doesn't Charge Profit a sr eeg - you charge Mr. T feeived confidential advices to De you are thort before stock market)’ ‘ He mentioned that F. A. Connolly # Co. who do an extensive busi- er of thetr a brother of Tu had Mr. Baruch t with him? Bolling Haven't you found whether A. Curtis, your informant, is a reputable man? flably inform = had » “No,” with Secreta Doesn't Know Tumuity i the Biltmore hote Haven't you done Mr. Tumult fe of them ‘tlormation c free days befo was sent. Wo then asked that Otto Kabn Dornaed, “Lam informed.” he said, “Kah Teeired information and advisec friends to sell One was a railroad president “Only Hearsay” Wood's whole test was ad-|were told in Bitted|y only on and rr atk be Bor The co had day.” Hadn't Heard of It said he “had not tb Wood s bis|the leak talk “was nc state-I retard the presi NMULTY DEMANDS AN APOLOGY : WASHINGTON Jan ment declared ee worn ne Seoce | publicly apologize for bringing | his name before the house Tumulty’s name into the pro- fules committee today, Secre- ceedings on information based lary tothe President Jos. P. Tumulty, in a prepared 1 Wood should “solely on hearsay and rumor.” te Tumulty sent the ement that I did » ence of the of the exist nt's note on *% know Contain to the ¢ with the request | that it be r 1 before the commit EPEVERTICOINNG MANAGER'S [I °C. cutty anld he would appear BAILY TALK lI | before the ttee “gladly and . |] | without a subpoena.” q Tumulty’s statement follow The Ads Today fam very glad to pay p ly pre eooe until the newspapers were linformed. Very frequently tbe |president, who Ynows that | am men and oth-| sovK me em wombarded by ery for informstion new harrassment hy keeping such mut tera absolutely vecret from me In fact, T have often suggested | that thin le de t the Filtmore » talked about peace with Mr. Baruch} efore or after the peace note was ent, and never lunched with him ti life I have met him, as I have « great many good men from time to time in hotels, at the the elsewhere. A president's many peo meets a great wholl THAN 60,000 COPIES DAILY ment name at all merely on hearss Chief Beckingham Joins Mayor in Denying Billingsley Paid Him Rumors to the effect that Logan Billingsley, in his confession to United States Dis- !trict Attorney Clay Allen, charged Mayor Gill with accepting graft money from him, were freely circulated at the city hall Friday. The mayor, with characteristic emphasis, declared the reported charges of Billings- ley were “absurd,” when questioned by a Star reporter. At first Mayor Gill said he was not sure whether he ought to discuss the rumors of |Billingsley’s alleged confession, said to implicate him. “In the first place,” he said, “I’m not! MAYOR H. C. GILL ready to believe that this fellow Billingsley ever said I took money from him. “If he did, I say it is absurd_—ridiculous. “On the other hand, if he has made such statements to Allen, you'll see that it’s a bootlegger’s effort to cover up’ on H. C. Hunt, of San Francisco, the millionaire liquor dealer from whom records show he bought booze.” Hunt is a member of the Jesse Moore-Hunt com- pany, which is alleged to have conspired with Margett and Billingsley to make illegal shipments of liquor into the state. According to the information which has reached the mayor's office, Billingsley has also claimed to have paid money to Chief Beckingham. I've heard the rumors,” Beckingham said. “They are not worth discussing by me. All I ask is that the federal grand jury keep going and land Hunt.” The rumors affecting Gill chiefly concerned the “clean slate -ement between the mayor the Bil- nesleys, by whi he city dropped prosecutions against n on their agreement to quit the tlegging busi- ss and not to sue the mayor and the city for damages for.destroying the Night and Day Drug st and other proper On August 29, when this agreement was rea che i papers and documents { in a raid on the Billing e were returned n “The insinuation that there w in ft con- nected with t said the mayor, ‘ itterly absurd. We had brok Billingsleys Their | wa smashed This fone la thru. the of Sergeant Putnam “:' MAYOR SAYS ALLEN | . e SHIELDS HUNT; ASKS SPECIAL PROBER Seattle's bootlegging prosecu. | tions may develop into a feud REFLECTION ON PUTNAM um t ay the ¥ ington for And I'll pecial prosecutor.” », he said threatended to “send to Wash. Je between Mayor Gill and focal \ Ha Lewis federal prosecutors which will 1 was clerk in Lewis’ of. reach the national capital he ears ago. The mayor, after hearing ru What I want explained,” said e mors today that he was involy- Gill, “is why the government offi th ed in confessions of Logan Bill- cialis lald off of t H. Cc. H ingsley, bootlegger, to U. 8. prosecution, months ago r District. Attorney Clay Allen to H. C. Hunt of § il le TODAY'S VESSEL | ay a rach z 1 pr ng a ey had already t ined he the 7 r ed | the lice, t ne over up Hunt 1 neh open to th nds of raCer CUTOR WAS PRESENT ars in fines, We turned over felsell “ ARRIVED AT SEATTLE a carload of beer in 200 separate ’rosecut I [ wher aAPCTS) Steamship Umatilla, from San! packages, which we seized in the i er,’ the mayor d all lists} Franc a.m.) Itsukusl raflway of mers, and afterward iff they }ma Maru, from Tacoma, at 8:30 a.| 1 an violatian 2 ‘ ots n. Jan, 4—Motor ss Wakena, from ; cot back was of little value, a ce 4 icf s, and the ship 8 C, ports, at 2 p.m were subject to $75,000 llingsley did get ond il sentence thru |! a6, n A ; SALE FROM SEATTLE FRIDAY | fines the deal, but the case pending ar e judges were Steamship Governor, for San Die The case w n open and shut already throwing off the jail sentences imposed by the lower /go, via Victoria, B. C., and San Fran-| affair. The pment conclusively courte ciseo, at 11 a, m.; Yokohama Maru, | {nvolved this fellow Hunt in a con " t c had nothing t t ¢|for Hongkong, via port t 20 spiracy. Later I saw printed no. The settiem ad in a the} qm: Admiral Farragut tice of a decree of condemnation mayor said ma at Salt Jan ) for this evidence. | want that - ———<<—$—— ybius, for Manil plained. We had turned it o nd Japanese at ' was real evidence | What Does New ; Half 6. YEAR BOY DROWNS | |m BROKER FRIEND OF MODEL IS DEAD BY SHOT PHILADELPHIA, Jan. 5.—Bernard Wesley Lewis, Yale graduate and scion of a wealthy Pittsburg family, reached the end of the primrose path today. His body, disfigured by a bullet hole thru the center of his fore- head—self-inflicted—was in an Atlantic City morgue today. She who trod the same primrose path with Lewis, Mazie Colbert, of humble birth and beautiful until some frenzied murderer crushed her delicate features and body into gross flesh 4 a simple grave in Philadelphia. Mazie Colbert was murdered. And Bernard Lewis, all but confessed murderer of his beautiful paramour when he committed suicide last night in an Atlantic City hotel, as officers were about to seize him. The | primrose path led the rich man to death as it led the |poor girl there& Search of Lewis’ effects today disclosed two im- portant items: First, that Lewis wore a woman’s pink silk undershirt; second, that the bloody shirt and col- lar found in Miss Colbert's rooms after the murder are }of the same size as that worn by Lewis and are of the same make. Efforts will be made to identify the pink silk undershirt as one belonging to the dead girl. The strand of black hair clutched in Mazie Colbert's hand when the police found her body may prove one of the most significant factors in the case being worked. Police declare these hairs, probably ripped from the murderer’s head in the girl's terrible struggle for life, seem identical with Lewis’ black hair. In Pittsburg today a wife, father and mother were |waiting for final word from Philadelphia’s police to render final verdict whether or not Lewis was actually |the man who fiendishly killed the pretty model. Their vere Amittedly based on cir st al ev Lewis Visited Model Rut it was Lewis who tool 5 p,ed upon his trail Last night, in Atlantic City’s morgue, the taxi driver who carried a man to the Wilsor vartment on the night Mazie Colbert was mur- must a tax feab to the Wilson nt, dered identified as his fare the man where the girl lived, who w the wh body was then in the last man known to have her mor et thru his head alive, and who rr AY, king) Lewis must have felt the net to lose himself, when police fasten (Continued on page 10) Denied Social Recognition, She Makes Society Pay PITTSBURG, Jan, 5.—Three members of Pittsburg’s exclu- sive social set were paying, to- day, the toll that Mazie Colbert declared, in Warren, Pa., seven years ago, she would exact from society because it refused to accept her. They were Wen- man Lewis and bis wife, father and mother of Bernard Wesley Lewis and the widow of the spendthrift broker, who ended his life in an Atlantic City ho- tel yesterday ch was broken thru the interfer. ibe e of her fiance's parents | Her friends there declare it was |a real love match—on the part of jeach—and probably the only sincere affair of the heart that the Kane |beauty ever h re | mily to p | m: ie declared venge- |ance, swore quietly but emphatical- |ly that she was thru with the path jof rectitude. A few days later she left Warren, went to Erie, and was initiated by They will pay. I'll make them,/a woman notorious thruout the East or die in the attempt," Mazie is said|into the baiting, bleeding, heart. to have told a girl friend tly breaking and home-rending game before she left Warren to embark |that she pursued for the next six willfully upon the course that) years in » Philadelphia, brought death to her and to Lewis | By “they she t society Mazie was a sin the Ex-/ SEN, JONES DIPS There she} change hotel, in Warren fell in love with a young million Jaire, member of one of the weal-| thiest and most prominent families | in Northwestern Henney vania.’ Tee The * ‘Overland Red Red’ W ASHINGTON publican senators, an, 5.—Two re Jones of Wash- ington and Norris of Nebraska, to- offered to the | Hitchcock resolution indorsing the president's note day amendments to iropean na- ; . tions. This brings the total num- n; Bl s np po Collie is 3 Dollar Look Like? IN LAKE WASHINGTON * "°° ' ALLEN MUM .N Hi a an enor a pg opteped peda is pa ficient, deme $8 charged, to fur- Ask Guardian Bank m.; Wilming for Tacéma, ‘at r ther x< area orale Httchoosk 1 dy oF liste Julian trae “45 p.m Near the waterhole in the | resolution don't’ know: whet the new Micons ington by Irving Me ‘» LEAGUE TO MEET ranch a __ prospector is] WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE pieces look like. man, at 12:30 a, m | found dead | Water will be shut off in the dis- ; © child had wande wa rict between Holden s Ro They're going to get $600 worth), % oon jad, man Bg awn The Consumers’ league of Wash-| Clay Allen, U, 8. district attor fsidtacireye Ave chee Race oes sapdb ad Spiden ot aa me A of the new coing at the Guar cag elcher, ogi, |igton will hold its first meetin ney, refused, at noon Friday, to dis eee ee eee oe UAEKInEGEN: ant RAturday Seema Trust and Savings bank, Firat CaN rat |the year at the assembly hall of the! cusk Gill's statement, or the rumors| Harry Herbert Knibbs’| Washington, on Saturday from ind Columbia st., Friday afternoon reported — missing te the |Chamber of Commerce, in the Are-|on which the yor had based hi novel, “Overland Red,” do pats. Tg ¥ The first 1,000 who apply can get hci ohana tice building, Friday night, at 7:20.| interview to” ae é one In exchange for any kind of 50 ree a Rate The ma portion of the pro I may have something to say the killing THE UNIVERSITY OF WASH- en WASHINGTO: Jan ier gram will be oted to a discussion | later he said All Til say Start the novel Monday! ston Glee club will give a con- How do the new coins look the F h requested the United local man " onditions now concerning the 200 cases of % THE STAR and “-, {cert Friday night in Meany hall, ked the bankers. | States to rem Minister Vopicka 1 the problem of « ing a great-| beer turned over to us | they m ‘ S and Mind | which will be followed by an Oval None of ‘em knew, trom Bucharest @s demand for homemade goods. |were ordered condemned,’ i out @lub roughneck dance,