The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 29, 1917, Page 1

TURN TO PAGE 4 No one seriously objects to extending water service to ommunities outside « The how! comes when it is pro ed to extend the light and power service. See editor lal on page 4 VOLUME 19. 4 BABES THE CASE OF HI GILL Mayor Gill and Chief Beckingham should be given a speedy trial. They are asking for it, and they are entitled to it. Moreover, it is only fair to the city to have this affair over with as soon as possible. Out of a bad mess, this now seems to be the best course. And it is a bad mess. Whether Mayor Gill is guilty or in- nocent of the criminal charges, the results are the same. The Star hopes he is innocent—sincerely hopes so. But at the same time it cannot hold him blameless for the situa- tion which made a federal probe necessary. The mayor’s compromise with the Billingsleys may have cea due to criminal conspiracy, as charged, or to pure olly. Whatever the reason, it could have worked only harm and it did. It appeared peculiar to The Star at that time, and The Star said so. It is a moral certainty that police graft went on to a greater or less degree during the operations of the bootleg- gers’ syndicate and the numerous little bootleggers. Gill, the individual, may have been innocent, Gill, the official, how- ever, cannot escape punishment. Police. grafting.deserves.no mercy or sympathy of any kind. “Nor ‘doés any situation which makes it possible de- i | Hunt npany and the Billingsleys serve extenuation or sympathy. : er day following a quarrel with her husband. | s:artea_ 011 systematically ¢ M Gill, and th alked into the coum E knows The Star does not th t of ill will |! . ue, We broke the in business | SVSRYOR Nanny BEC CCR We a ae veryone 8 s say this out of ill wi Th d of ; ‘+a rd Gill. t has tak i ise hi e crowd of curious spectators, eager room and a few minutes later pleaded “not towa ill. ‘t has taken every opportunity to praise him t li f the ch 1 am not surprised a kan fe dese it o get a glimpse of the charred murder room | jjcment— was vane to wee that it * guilty.” rved “Gs oe where the four tots had their skulls crushed |"*! "0" panned. Hor it's an out No attorney stood with him at the bar It helped him to “come back” in 1914 as mayor. He ib: h 1 that an indictment ix had on jo y . ‘ : y a hammer, grew so large that the HOGA [ine statecsente of Mayor Gilt did not take off his,iM& from the sensational indicts wanted another chance and promised not to run again. He li th f d o feders! anti \ int raincoat, He frowned sternly, |ments, returned Saturday, charging . , |police authorities were forced to station a Pledged to Get Him ! eld his hand to his ear » mayor, his police chief, Hodge should have stuck to that promise. Gill was not the type of d f of fi bout the h rele grane Gan wlodaied " Frgeeaige sh 1 reg re of others with plotting Se eeded MH cordon of officers a fu ome. get me e id e etar i mar h ship liquor to Seattle, mayor Seattle n when the dry law came into effect, Deputy Prosecutor Helsell, Sheriff '« © semver ot u ; as peat euaier Je peste, 9 Ready in Two Weeks . 7 . . . , i < 4 e aoc - Ton Attorneys who were in th just as The Star pointed out in the 1916 election. The city Stringer and Deputy Sheriff Matt Starwich Pleads in Low Tone |eadittomes® who were in the eo and its problems have outgrown him. h . fae fe. ty to y the mayor Te-|Taetthe soaucet of the Tae spent the entire morning in the house and fe val AL CU le ther aded “not guilt chief t r a trial P in the homes of adjoining neighbors, in a sii eee voae upeie | bean § it is option: t who were | hether or not MAYOR HEADS IST Judge en Oe HCE eg gaged one : t npr apo 0 t i hy me ta i 1 {nv gation a hamn hort time. He said he ate a piec the 4 etic charge be tried a e same time or — L Defend Mayor Gill | jexs, round peneath the bed, failed! of pie and came home yon i {not Voluntarily; Is Dem. ‘°.’ ree 54 wipehithe ehiMMEN were clescian, ba bane inthe | odes, the date OF Gil aan Sus ‘ ‘- after|and, after covering ther p, walk Chief Loses Faith * lably be set udge Frederick Bausman, ed around the blo for halt ve alwa elie that a ma ‘ »red| It has not been definitely deters former member of the state su Upon his return, he s stuck by | and tried 5 & second Of WaleRere tn othe: 7 maul After more than a month of [head of the bootlegging syndicate preme court, went to Mayor dev on bis bea th hia|e edtirialy te a0 vase 4 ‘tank | Conversation tT sth re detectives naa + the tederki brand Jury Fred Bellings! Logan's brother Gill Monday and offered to de | s on d do it honestly would never Ask Saparate ges ? k the indict manta probing, the / cull aniee ectenant | fend hi magainst the govern- | © blood Hewitt says he was awakened aid the chief. “Rut We phn Poles sa > Sie. was being determined Mone reported indictments, at 3:40 William H. Pielow, transfer man,| ent conspiracy charges. once when one of them got sick. It that the Hiram C. GI and Charles 1. K Saturday afternoon, which nam- iitins Weactas, ot aamess The mayor, after brief delib Jer-| Wan then he took a light with him have Mayor | ‘ngham id Frye. sided to later,*| United States District Attornen ed high officials and a score of | ‘Transfer and Delivery Co Fee ay sineanoen St esti ed it on a chair bexide the seciiet Juhu tear Allen announced he would ready to The above were named on one in @ had accepted the offer. witt told one neighbor that led Juag Sree try the. cases y time ethers as alleged conspirators || ent and. charged on three| Judge Baueman is a democrat t » light must have exploded, but after Chief Beskingham pl vets ee to bring liquor illegally intothe |e or conspiring to violate the} Nd does not ordinarily practice any mo-|l doubt this, for the chair, on which eh (the Indge announced to Assist ise j state. A Star extra carried the | sauoral code ; | Criminal law. He told the may the lamp was sitting, shows that t botany ies : ttacks Grand Jurors ; first news of the jury's action | Another bill of indictment named:| OF he believed he had been un au. Mente apsed there was no exy There ie i overni ne ras While waiting to arrange bond, E. D. Baker, of the Jesse Moore justly victimized ae eed svery | round ed spot on the cha «Mate . , | Gill denied his guilt, denounced the — Hunt Co. His entry into the case, cou ad the Showing where the lamp remained : be hotified to) Billingsleys and attacked the pers Those i were Swatd J. Margett han. Sa pled with the fact that Clarence disturbed t mer pr re ftion quite as “y ; sonnel of the grand jury which*im fh |. Mayor G. Gill Iton, former police patroiman | 4. Reames will co-operate with Find Hammer Hodge Mystified wanes sree re comme thi eren tant f aie Charles L. Bec “ee ¥ , | District Attorney Allen in the tt adie A heriff Hodge said I don't i yant these cases: 39-00 It's all a frame-up by the t Chief of P« harles L, The Jesse MooreHunt liquor deal-| é e story told The children’s names were Stew : trial before t tter part of F | Billingsleys said the mayor j Bicham ng corporation of San Franciso. | tion, assured a keen le , at a burning lamp explod-/art, 10; Arthur..8: Myrtle cad stand i : 4 v rh AAAI 2c beam £ a chaveed at iia attle, attorneys who heard fin Penh * Ree I'm not worried over the m a HA | The nothing to it. I'm mot Me Ex-Sheriff Robert T. Hodge | ‘They, too, were charged with con-| 99) battle, attorney: i. ¢ t e fire Clarener Stewart's head wa ont” * nis announcement was noted | worryi | oii Bake ger of the|*P'zing to violate interstate com 8 predicte They w ut a loss, however, to! crushed the most. ‘The other chil. |Meat Hoe 1 do! by the flock of attorneys who were| “I've known for a month that E oy Edward D. Baker, mana nerce laws relative to the shipment 1 ct manner in which |dren’s skulls were crushed, also,|i¢ Will Ndcinagatcne gga TE TE Jwas to be indicted, I know how TM Jesse Moore-Hunt Liquor Co, of [of liquor {DEAD ADMIRAL IS the fir |but they were evidently hit only a wnat J wae adver sven. an) con-|""Mayor Gill has announced that] pistrict Attorney Allen asked eer Be Piancieco Patrolman Charles J. Mullen was| Hewit e, remains | couple of time ts asp lll donpecentd hae Pag 1 appeal for an early trial.|tain men, politically unfriendly to HCity Detectives J. Doom, Dar ingle indictment, which | HONORED IN CITY calm and coun-| A small hammer, with a ch eines the citee wan eterer has ently made|me to serve on the jury. 1 know McLennan, Meyer M. Peyser trying to intima ty jail en that he struck |handle, was veneath th strats 9 apg ill gain Gucted mind that there shall be no|how Jim Davis, proprietor of the Pe Poolr ay | Memorial services in honor of Ad-| his chil w hammer, an Authorities » this is the in Pi te. cieareé jn. | URMEcessary dela Was ton Annex, said, after the 4 minor indict , charg-|milar George De and ¢ w yntinue 0 » periods of | strument of The size and dictment e f Attorney John F. Dore, associat-| police ided him, that it had been ‘he Oregon-Was Erz, Edward Crewes and|F. Cody were at th t) melanche hape of the hammer's head fits ee eae 4M / eq in the defense of ex-Sheriff} fixed to get me. Na tion Co. le with se iquor with-| Presbyterian church yeste tor Lundin mnnounced to 1 Getectives charged in thi Hodge, said his client would prob- | retary of the grand jury illingsley, alias Joe Bush ing paid the vernment rev-lernoon. Re M. A. N n-| di 1 Wo proba ile a learned at a late hour | cananlons Antichmee ss il declare |#bI¥ delay pleading until the in-} of the Employers’ as- at Pi were also] d d the while at rs inst Hewitt until Ties: | Supday that Hewitt had insured all | (porPiney pm Cmte eet er ie |dictment had been stndiec nother juror had prop. lrende 600 rm ntil after he had | ¢ is children 1 April jn’ the | cose ana denied that popes a 2 No Others Ap Jerty destroyed by me and the fore. d with h who | Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. Cone ae Sere eee nes Weld No other defendants had signi-| man isn’t the sort of a man who investigating . | Neigh that the Hewjtts | Pald @ per cent for every barrel of| req to the district attorney's office | should be allowed ADVERTISING MANAGER'S I Tom CAMPBELL GOVERNOR OF ‘ARIZONA Hewitt’s Story had canaidarabie trouble? Mi (ugior tet was’ ellowedito aH | nec Unies ware anzions-tp pial and. bey allowed to serve on @ DAILY TALK |. . PHORNIX, Ariz., Jan. 29 ported by the ourt decision| “Hewitt told me coming in from| Hewitt, when told of the fire, faint. |Past tem when stationed on the) vonday, Because the bonds were|. “Tho Billingsleys are trying to that he is de facto governor Ge ateade, Tor ey ll, republican, took| Auburn Sunday after his arrest,” |ed. She had another child with | ¥#te! shai oh Be not fixed up until late Saturday,|save their necks at my expense,” | possession of the executive's offices today d n at once said § Sheriff Stringer Monday, | her She said that her husband, | |those indicted had not been noti-| | Monday L. Colman and J, Wy thre the mass of correspondence that has accumulated during that he put his children to bed/|who, until recently, has been a PORTLAND'S AUTO show open- | fied that they might plead Monday.| Efaw, dry committee leaders, said * 4 H]| days the business of the state has been tied up by the contests over the) about 9 o'clock and went down to| brakeman on the N. P. railway, bad ia Saturday night with 120 cars} Monday mor court ac tion | they intended to see the mayor ceptional Offerings ff :o'crn: pe hie Sop ery Bi pepe t Dees |agteaaey,TaraIMr cour, stim | hay nteadeg to oss oa in Furniture The U. 8. grand jury will recon-) Eddie Baker, man of the;phone and then slept at a friend's] Logan Billingsley loves books Northwest for the Jesse Moore-jence L. vene Feb. 13 Jesse Moore-Hunt Co f San Fran-| home Christm eve, when ex-|history and psychology, he s Hunt Co,, Indicted Saturday It cost the government $2,495 cisco, coming to ttle under | Sheriff Hodge allowéd him his lib-| Sports around the St. neis ho-|couspiracy by the federal grand for the grand Jurors and w indictment and also under his real|erty without gu He says Jailer |t in San Francisco, y that aljury. Hi who returned the booze-graft in-|name. He came a few weeks ago|Madden walked with him from the|1 handbook on the raees that I | dictmments under the name of Burke. At that | jail to an auto, go that If any one} he conducted prior to his arrest 11] Giier peckingham's indictment | time he gi testimony that re-|saw him, tt would appear be was mber also made a great hit came almost two months after ho} Four detectives indicted on Ited in the indictment of the | under guard. with him, was married. His marriage 0c yjooxe-graft conspirac charge Billingsle curred Thankagtivi nornin Poolmar Doon McLennan ar Auto trucks looking exactly alike Police records show that be-| yim: sd good record hief a ore used by the Hillingsleys toliween Ang 28, when the mayor | bathe \ i ‘ catche nd Peyser was the hero | qjet t t hrow dry squad officers off the |compromised with the Billingsleys.|poine 45. 1. Me oy , = 5 Mre in the da efore he! r¢ ‘ & 4 t. containia ack many time and the present time the jth Eddie Baker and (he edt ollce force. succeeded = en flac ry Moove-Hunt Co and nde MORE THAN 60,000 COPIES Logan Billingsley once escaped «| °At!0ad of Billingsley beose, that.indictment all are fust as liable | OAILY The worst thing f ever did was| Logan Billingsley said he visited |city fine by having his brother, : to punishment as are the eity of 4 ito sell whisky, and I paid for the|his attorney, George Vandeveer,| Fred, impersonate bim success- Forty years ago, Chief Becking- | fictals. r bi | privitene,” said Logan Dillingsley.|talked te Mayog Gill over the| fully. ham’s father used to travel in thy Assistant Attorney General Clar ‘ . : THE ONLY PAPER IN ‘SEATTLE THAT _DARES TO ‘PRINT THE NEWS WASH, oN MONDAY, JANUARY 29, 1917 ONE CENT * FATE Hammered toll AUN \N Death, Charge 'li, sts of Of ficials iy ‘in its history over the murder of the four I've just started to fight His eyebrows knitted and his young Hewitt children here early Sunday ja» ‘protruding, Mayor Gili morning, for which their father, S. A. Hewitt, 7.75.,22%.."aterent nin the face of federal indictments charging him with conspiring with bootlegers. “And W'll be a candidate for mayor in 1918." a Northern Pacific brakeman, is being held jin the King county jail on an open charge. Outside of a few snort intervals of grief, the father, who is being held in the county jail under suspicion of murdering his chil- dren, remains stoically calm. He denies hav- ing had anything to do with the fire or that he killed his children, yet the authorities say ,, they have learned of at least four conflicting stories told by him. Mrs:Hewitt, the mother, is staying with | friends in Everett, where she went last Mon. | ce," 4 the mayor, “The Jease Moore | SIDELIGHTS 0} ON THE U. S. “GRAND JURY BOOZE- GRAFT EXPOSE | se TRAINS NEWS STAN for | District Attorne _NIGHT EDITION How do you like it, folks? Looked didn't it? The “Tonight and colder.” like a real snow, weather man says Tuesday, generally fair; AYOR PLEADS “NOT GUILTY” JUDGE URGES QUICK TRIAL IN BOOZE CASES Mayor Gill walked into the United States district court rooms at 9:55 a. m. Monday and five minutes later had departed for his offices in the city hall, after pleading “not guilty” made in the indictment returned late Satur- day. : He was accompanied by his former law - partner, H. S. Frye, of the firm of Gill, Hoyt - & Frye. to government conspiracy charges, Nearly an hour later Chief of Police — * Charles L. Beckingham, who was n with Mayor Gill in the indictment, walked _ into the federal building alone. He waited in the third floor csrrideea ten minutes for James Crehan, secretary to even help raise funds to defray the expenses of his defense was inth ted ans for defense had not been ndants, Allen denied Monday that he had member of the grand or that called in to help} | asked any Reames, Allen wind up the| Jury to serve on that body, Jcases, Jeft for his Portland home|he had conferred with any mem- before the grand jury made its re-| ber of the jury before it convened. port. “Such a charge is in keeping with the manner in which the jthe Rillingsleys call dec Campaign contribu $1,000 and $500 to ex lons of| mayor has endeavored to obscure real iss * said Allen, “T y member of the wry convened and Deh ite idleah SRP nig 8 any of the members to in attacking three members of CONTROVERSY OVER mayoral-; the grand jury as being unfriendly ty of Charleston, Wash., due to te/to him, Mayor Gill overlooks the |vote, settled by Judge Jurey in| fact that it only took 12 of the 17 favor of W. BF, Linderkugel, who] members of the jury to vote the won by lottery, indictment,”