The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 11, 1917, Page 1

THAW CUTS HIS THROAT: DYING The weather man says: “Fair to: night and Friday,” but it's pouring at the federal building. it's coming down in torrents, one may say Looks quite stormy for a lot of chaps. Aren't you glad you're not phine from the job in polities? "THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS | draft in ut 1 EL IN SEATILE ‘“ ee LE, WASH., THURSDAY, Moe shaft 11, 1917 ONE CENT ON en NEWS ~ VOLUME 19. SEA ANID Da, gan Billingsley Tells The Star + How He Received “Protection” Noted ee 4 s tempts ai im Putnam Named as Vital Witness 8 | } PHILADELPHIA, — Jan. |] Hi & Near End] wi drammrsiestpaine il Backing UD Gralt Charges kK. LONDON re, 11.—Premier 41.—Harry Thaw, slay- nproall 1. —Premier Per of Stanford White and ousands in Guild hall that the al now wanted in New York Tto answer an_ indictment * charging that he flogged Fred Gump, cut his throat Mm) 8 a West Philadelphia J ; rtment today. He was} rushed to a hospital, but the seriousness of the injury is unknown. Thaw also slashed his} wrists. His doctors, who were} summoned, said he had slight & Wl aed? Wadcnce whe eeini' deeds Evidence expected to result in indictments revealing the most astounding conditions mination to rid the world of “on Of graft and corruption exposed in Seattle was ready for the federal grand jury today. speakanie despatian” “with vert The Star is informed that indictments against Mayor Gill, Chief of Police Becking- ae ene wil close the road to, am and a few of the more important police officers have been outlined, if not actually uring 1917 |perfected, so that no time will be lost after the grand jury has acted. Cee eee eee s| , And, for the first time, The Star is able to give to the public those high spots in hin recent speech in Commons, | What federal authorities believe is one of the clearest cut circumstantial cases ever built Idoyd George declared President | on confessions by admitted beneficiaries of a system of protected beotlegging. Wilson had been informed that a When Logan Billingsley and his brothers, Fred and Ora, pleaded guilty to federal eee ce) sentens domsnenien j|indictments before Judge Neterer late yesterday afternoon, they took what they de- | aker clare is the first step to tear all the pillars from under the temple. of graft, they say they Punish Peace B 1 helped to build up here. The best security for pea lent a vietor chance of recovery | > 3 ‘ |the future,” said the premier, “wi At St. Mary's hospital at ' = a Dd come hen name are ev etcce| All the maze of details of their confessions will be confined to the secrecy of the 2:10 Thaw’s condition was} said by attendants to be Se-} rious. They would not admit} he was dead. | weeTe Tad terribly mutilated) himself with a razor and beg-| ged that he be sent to St.} Mary's hospital in preference to any other, a few mint | before he lapsed into uncon-} sciousness Thaw’'s sensational attem at suicide ught to a ¢ a natior arch by the his indictme kidnaping year-old Fred ( Kansas City on Cl tma Thaw was t i breaker, grand jury room. This statement may suggest an |iedorsement of the American idea One of the sensational charges is that the alleged alliance between the Billingsleys and other hootlegssnd eT pr bide y sett b —N and conducted behind a surface ax-smashing crusade ie T-The ed 10 vents since the earliest raiding of Billingsley drug stores down to the climax the grand jury is preparing — are being used to forge the chain of guilt. Until the latter part of July, when Sergeant John Weedin was killed in a duel with the Japanese watch- ones Bh gh gpg Breen man who was guarding the Billingsley warehouse on Westlake ave., Logan Billingsley and his brothers were Peace Not Rejected _| given a run for their money by the police department. BOA Dada emygy < Largely thru the dozen or more arrests of the Billingsleys and the smashing of their Stewart and Pike sts. eed. We ly atrap,| drug stores did they become the kings of bootleggers in the public’s eyes. ha bie’ people. the “WE'LL MAKE TOWN TOO HOT” sag el ter, They had been the marks of police activity, and the mayor's bitter denunciations. } The Weedin killing and the raid on the Night and Day drug store apparéntly landed the Billingsleys in a net from which there was no escape. “We'll make the town too hot for them,” the maj Ile explained 1 aying that the city w om a ia the gathe for the “win and Lioyd-eorke tunity to reiterate Eng and’s deter announced. » whole city got a big start late e important thing te me them nat I was acknowledged as friend by them, and that from n I frequently visited them without fear of arrest. Had Putnam Moved records show I wasn’t i from that day to this by? police of Seattle. And the ree of the Jesse Moore-Hunt Co, neisco, and those of the that I imported an ever called the mayor (Continued on page 10) apartment Walnut sts self as ing in my him « W New York. Hand Bandaged jeutenant of Detectives Wood firat in the room. Thaw © GILLAND GHEE SEATTLE WINS” BILLNGSLEYS = - DENY CHARGES ANOTHER BIG PLEAD AND ARE Wanted to Trap Mayor as to trap him so that have to deal with me ld think of wa ll forces dittic Arrar Harry K. Thaw bto deal wit nest rec that nts ordered t and the Iw na for use|in Seattle pushi lropped, 1. Chief | part of th y that town on ing the re ny i ation : by Dr. Matth me to confess u nm and mn t day I can now ae leys t leave the cit have fig r the mayor mally & , : Y er 1 T used to a V f Ris gray f HIS RECORD nore effectively to trap mo in 4 ind Federal investigation into toa 1 where I would have to f liquor syndicate operations con tell I know 4 oC cherie renewed vigor Saw Him Twice That Day n the snatch and he w na reca Whispers “ Thaw slipped fro a faint as he w St Mayor Gill and Chief Beck- | WASHINGTON Ingham flatly denied Thursday les new details of the Billingsley = ffom the scene of the attempted confession that they had ever suicide. T ambulance reached St moved Sergt. Putnam of the Mary's hospital shortly dry squad about at the dicta p.m. Thaw 1s tion of Logan Billingsley or the result of » to the any one else ho Atal ral other hospitals) The mayor's statement follows: | as Wd.© passed on the r I talked to the Bil (were to-| The Blilingsley brothers and | TTHEWS TO in other words, I've been stuns cr ing W. H. Plelow pleaded to feder. my own scheme ominercs coue.| al aeand suey Ineleneante (bb logan paused to relight a cigar n in fa or of Portland, Ore.) fore Judge Neterer late Wed tha ding similar round pfares| nmesday, clearing the way for : 1 tot destina District Attorney Allen. ‘ ig*- | from Portland to the same see Aas tee al Sergt. Putnam Thursday put in @ deposit vault a personal record movement e head of the squad so that he'd be sure have them if called on by feds aw the wice in the|of office on August 29," he con Dr. Kirby, who {| ieys over the phone in my Iife. }| tions They failed to plead guilty ; , ef I had my brothe ubstantiate k from the scen st never positive! id Putnam to gol g¢ J. Wettrick tt the! to all counts against them, as " witt a i it 4 physician to reach Thaw and ren-|anywhere. I did tnam tips | tra tector occeuans had been predicted. Dr. M. A. Matthews, 5 pasion @ of the First Presbyterian ee eh ve alow pe ne t how ) dered first aid whene ver they were sent to m tle Chamber of Commerce, term But pleas “i vege sey 4 church, kept the federal probe of the Seatile liquor TING | aian't ge mayor wouldn't and Chief gham furnished —— ee Wine would get a letter !the decision as an important vic | tered by each o’ em to a talk protection for his bootlegging oper- least one count, and unless | from going on the rocks Wednesday. Later I returned to the chief" turned it over to Putnam. About| “tt means that a touriat may vis-| they are changed within the | It was upon Dr. Matthews’ word that Logan Bil-lorrice alone, The chief left. the ten days I told him to go out | 4, East and return by the way| next 24 hours, plans of the ||. Il { { gree advise his|room. Aft h ave., and he did get some 4 ed,| government will proceed ac- | lingsley was finally induced to agree to advise . his) (0m. tow and gered at ihe econ |since I have headed the dry squad,” b booze coming into town, I |\tory for Seattle ine “T can trace in considerable de little talk I walked to| tail my movements almost daily | ADVERTISING MANAGER'S | DAILY TALK | | to 5 0,” he exp a | ES eee — bes mam hse os rage nd me fare as a { cording to program. brothers to plead guilty to federal indictments. ery. When I returned to the desk| Putnam said, “I have taken pre didn't 5 onally on all these lakd' or Ray Ortl Te Ge Before Grand Jury ed : ; : es )|the mayor called the chief in and cautions to preserve records I have ti had men at the |, ray hin Hack biop WOUEA ib take the It was due to him that they are today ready to old Kim to ates nie the “ personally made of my activities, os dap Ma il ast, Seattle tourists | niningale d Pislow before the before the grand jury with a story of graft and politic: Was Under Subpoena “I do not care to discuss my rela: aney ye from Putnan Be eee aia Vike aya: axceet ; 4 Aa ; he ole? preceeee tion to the federal probe, but I will Chie aid a gebirteh Me ea atientg| Corrupuon which promises to overshadow in extent and) (Phe chiet pr to pr that I have nothing to con All sae e al fs npEN sensationalism the expose that sent former Chief of Po- a state case, But I apers ceal em t| Portland Sr ! : ‘ f und destroyed them latined o een the. 7 » -nste Ss Ss pris: nm a bee laimed | the difference in fare from Ate Slate -atutnl ove been ry | tice Wappenstein, to states prison. The mayor and the chief say that) A GOVERNMENT submarine will and ‘ried | 25 as tacked on to the reg: | MNeN & ee Yeats. Logan Billingsley, the man thru whom, more than) tam a crook and a liar, They say) le launched at the Seattle Con- to pre inat Putnar SN also Mavs, pending {0s arance of the! any other, federal authorities expect to lay bare the|that 1 didn't pay them anything. |etruction & Dry Dock Co.'s yard ell, we won't argue that point January 16. I tnam ud Billingsle d Plelow to plead seen ‘ ge te tears ue. atta dF wan ‘Thal ad Morpreted ux a| Tamifications of what they call a gigantic conspiracy such scheme a * ENTENTE REPLY . more immunity to ship great quantities of liquor into the state in viola- sling: harge 1 would ha ™ u vy and Pe c . . . . aw j » . . ¢ nate suf RoOsIaias a e. 3 an Hingslev and Plelow each tion of interstate commerce laws, says panels sha br.|\ Save the Difference Between wh ild have done as I told ¢ A «false entries.’ Matthews is solely responsible for his sudden change of e 1 sy a Wie: lekk ae ty eaasan tides ARRIVES HERE :: uly pleaded) front shortly after 3 p.m. Wednesday. Six Cents and 1.50 give me order I got all my or a ‘anc Mi . U. S. District Attorney Allen{police officers who were ordered Read the Novel-a-week Appearing i hief nt Sy Ae @. Onan de ti thought that he had the promise of|last July to make the town “too ASHINGTO celvin: ding mail under the Billingsley that they hot” for the E h D © th St : hects|tnofeatte of 1 Didbas [nea sult and then g : hie mrsivsy ac ay in the Otar aT SAP dha es te itaaa oan | Laoeed nies “yah aad | PR: ere pei irik aa te er grat a duty 4 into Seattle ant wold!” No sooner had Allen scrune bi The book would cost you $1.50 were you to purchase it, J ever been convicted of murde Decodir dat once, and! ing false name $60,000 worth of whisky between trap on Patrolman Mullen, and, but you get The Star and the novel for one cent a day. The 4 ORS THEN MLN COPIES | n Chicago, so she might a the note was « ted to be Logan, Fred and Pielow each | August 29, when city cases against charged him with mpting to ob-| novels all run in six installments, beginning Monday and J DAILY well kill me,” Chas. Y. Cree hape for President Wilson and|;leaded guilty to charges of con-|them were dropped, and their in-\ struct justice by trying to get the ending Saturday. | ays abont his wife. He has cretary Lansing to consider with-|gpiracy to make false shipments of |dictment by the federal grand jury | | i . ” | decided to get a divorce, in an hour or two, |liquor, by false billing. without once being arrested by local Continued on Page Ten | Next week: “Bobbie, General Manager. ' i \ pauper st Pea