The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 8, 1917, Page 1

MORE THAN | 61,000 Persons buy The S Dy, it me y € ns that 244,000 are Star aT HODGE PLEA IS witness. noon court buying protecti liquor gov operati mment | Mz expe t yor Hf abauent Statement to the by At terncy Walter Fulton, on be half of the chief, in which Bil-| lingsley was described as el ing manufactured the” whole! network of evidence on which the prosecutio based. Ful ton went the limit in excoriat ing the Seattle otlegger de} luxe. Bot! Billingsley stages of | thrilled ™ its way space room ury of opening nunciats and =the s remarkable story | rowd that jammed every inch of the court- before the m inte ilable in 45 trial began minutes at 10a m., with head tilted sli he side, he walked In a soft voice, hard answered the pr tions asked by As: General C. L. Reames. He told first of his early days and then launched into the story of | his past in Oklahoma as a drug store liquor dispenser. to the ary ques Attorney tant ] Gill Enters Smiling pear to be red the 1 did not a He ente Mayor ¢ worried T court antero Good m my legal ngha the j “How Chief Be > ininutes later, toc sauntered 1 the cigar i adv . arr ft by o murtroom s hand rowd which e courtroom 45 ed | an unlighted He looked had packed minutes re co Hodge one Gill Don't Speak H have not spoken room -« the cc sing Statements of Unit States Prosec R ¢ Judge Frederick B attorn Mayor Gill, Ope stor ed and man are o 4 opened, altho they feet apart ° since the it only tr a few Brands Billingsley Murderer Walter Fulton's state ment in behalf of Chief Becking ha in whb he branded Logan Billingsley as having been “convict ed of murder,” and the motion of Attorney Willi I for a a et verdict of “not gull in behalf of Hodge, consumed most of the morn ing session “Slow old are Attorney ?” asked Reames you ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK ‘The beat otter tngn of Seattle's best stores ap pear ree MORE THAN 61,000 COPIES DAILY | [The Men Who nting four to a fam readers dally, VOLUME 19. ‘Logan Billingsley, | * * ARTS BRIBE STORY Have Micra Gill’s Fate in Their Hanas| Hard 0 Get ve ° whe | promise.” “Were you convicted?” “Yes, of manslaughter, but o the following trial | was acqui ted.” Were you ever in Canada? “Ye sales manager drug of Billingsley. “Thirty-two,” answered Logan Where were you born?” “Tennessen From Tennessee, where did you go" To Oklahoma. How long did you ive there? the second was a sort of acom- | THE GILL JURY W. B. FONTAINE, clerk to eminent domain commission, Seattle. REV. C. L. PERCY, retired Baptist minister, rancher, Quill cene. ROBERT CHALMERS, traffic man, Lowman THOMAS D. PARKS, farmer, Renton HENRY C. McGRAINE, retired blackamith, T. H. BENNETT, farmer, Monroe Cc. H. VAN BRUNT, contractor, geles. CHARLES G, HEISERMAN, farmer, Auburn, JAMES MUNN, farmer, Jefferson county. JOHN MONTGOMERY, farmer, Bellevue. A. T. McCREIGHT, farmer, Clinton, Whidby J. D. JONES, city light department, Seattle, (Continued on Page Ten.) & Hanford. Seattle city councilman, Port An and, The Seattle Star THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS | SEATTLE, LAST EDITION “Puta he'll fool Man Sage reau's forec hat and Old bu ght and owbrow lots of The U ast is in a high em,” says S. weather nan PRARARAARAARIRADAAAAAAAAAAARAAAAAAARADR ARAL PAA DDS Rain tor Friday TRAINS WS SPANDS, AND WASH., THURSDAY, MARCH 1917 ONE CENT 2} Photo by Jacoba Jurymen 60 jurors Thursday in the attempt to The venire of was exhauste: morning draw two alternate jurors to | jurors thruout the trial of sit with the regular { Thomas Tracy, the first of 74 I. W. W's, before Judge Ronald, charged with the murder of Jeffer- | son Beard at Everett on November 5 A “hurried up” call was sent to Department No. 1 for five extra jurors. The court was adjourned at 11:50 awaiting the arrival of these extra talesmen. Attorney Cooley v make t & address » state. The 8 pr & a large map of the Everett yor, which will Y bia fot extend across the whole end of the a couttpoem, Lacw. of khe judge chair, and around the «fe of tly oe to the end of the jury box. Judge Ronald was forced A severe denouncement of the de fenre’s attempt to inject questions REPORTER HATCHED n to jurors which had previously t- been overruled Judge Ronald stated in the cham- er that he was going to be severe an mith th attorneys until he got them bro! n in I can't say exactly—most of my| Violated Booze Laws The press table {s becoming such life.” Then where did you go | & popular resort, being overrun In what business were you en-| “Virginia lwith representatives thruont the \gaged there? What bus i 1 state and nation, that Judge Ronald Senator Wesley L. Jones Had Many Jobs Liquor business for a while, in} pig RARER oy has called a special meeting of the | First in the wholesale cigar and violation of law Mayor Gill's fight to prove him-|reporta were heard to the IMME epresentativas Sor. 1:86 rT 6 tobacro business, andthe drug busi-| "When did you come heer” | git innocent ef the charges upon ‘a, thia wae got the real Thnrdayattercoon to sete the reason against the ness, | business, government farch o Dr " any * t at for hf mines dispute for seats at the table. ser ce business. 1 think What business wh rs se? ° Phas ale pe try Stole Billingsley Booze Attorney Cooley being a ° e my first job was as a grocery clerk court is to be irec . Logan Billingsley tc reporter | sent all aay y t t, t t anergy - eettat veges matshinations of cor |tus Tee thar that Sean Mensa eens eat a May | Wetnsatay, nite ates shall consis surance business? ae CH tain newspaper men, which he will whom, he said, he became quite! «phe state used its only . e ° i Gade’ late ager of thelr, her, Frage contend are an | tant factor in| chumm: iring Evans’ “investiga [tor challenge on the two ly ] t my 0 I her, Pear | mond re ee chur qluims Ruane turers |r caglenge on devo aterm Ht OLY in levying war agains of Oklahoma.” And © brothers? This is indicated by the attitude e qu ty of booze shipped | | Reynolds, 3832 Interlake av ° e oo ry , er brothers in the to the Billingsleys and then dis-| < mayan hed Tell about your drug and liquor coresul a ae of counsel for the defense in t Mrs, Sara pomer, of Bothe business in Oklahoma.” ti ° “ fy te te oe ans opening hours of the trial, and by sed of it to other bootleggers and| are gory 3 me husband ote f em or in a erin Asked to Talk Louder rr ature ttcinere nt 10% Stowsct Hints which have been dropped con-| kept the proceeds ae ree eet busban " : i s hai Judge Neterer admonished him . * A‘) cerning the witnesses subpoenaed According to Logan Frans er t th qa lttge Neterer samen fin anary, Gee |S iah iea "errec easter ars | wees le uate ar ee Soy aay in eir enemies or in giving Tl try,” oni Loean soll ape lila 1 UX Frederick Bausman, representing 1 of bis from California, This| yrs. Room ” i, J re °. 1 be Ned by Gill's jur n Tell about 3 4 had s lot of expe Gist sloeys an mei : vis altering th AID d f t I sold whisky f ‘ ‘ to whow t there news. st Induced Logon Billings-|amination was pe she Ps * b ‘ men, angered at Gill, ur ‘ jend of his a fob, his, Wah abit to t wa Baton gor cats | qhimane ormtta in $08 Lote wd in making jovsibie a Logan traneter him mee --Article IIl., section ‘Then I went back into the liquor and| » would 1 shine Gok on ATC OE te oe hace, where |b6 (army: aid her oldest child was a ears citi yes r Evans Leaves {nm Hurry mes e i I was an iron molder until he sta ons i u ion fe) e ni Had Lot of Trouble ‘ Se tail I Evans, former reporter |the a yore Hunt Co. farming, a short time ago H SEMA elas 6k tte stilling talent walag hem. F on the Times, and — popularly be | ot Allen Chased Him next child, a daughter, 29, is doing S 2 o rouble simila and ng them ove eae te » enjoyed the cle hen Evans’ friend, for , 4 : Pipa? tnt Sad hr forint ao name ieved to bane enioed the comet | Toon Ha end fF 4 pared housework ac kirkand. she was || ATES, | ‘The city was run on a liberal) fied gtr OF Bis OBOE RS tert atk eared ii t cafore we | passed by tho state H fi of the witnesses summoned by the | discovere dlvérte OS an sat plan—an open town 1 it was the ald, “wae tol oicoss it le not believed, how oe Part) She said she never reads The ————e custom to pay a $26 week ed to Alaska, and er, that he will appear. He {a got it here { o - th Se J Y Sometimes some would any would deliver oe ey in Chiokée” ‘ihe ce ou formed an opinion ‘SEN. JONES SCORED | ition to Senator Jones, who lives 1 ¢ ie h her ported to be now In Ch ? aw Jeoncerning the I, W. W.? Vander. here. start a lot of | ation | warehouse here dbfense has authority to compel veer asked vention aE lias SBE arn senate abr cae Sa tat wmael he BY ROTARY GLUB 5, cr0c¢ Gb Wi etinement of vetimony.” We-| fide the borders of the state. Ev { Hqnor worth prob: { TSBPGW, Badiaile | Everett Club Wires udge Neterer ruled it proper. | : he mayor is reported to be the Seattle quota-| « eM A AS i Not Wanted for Murder | Chief Beckingha Teme uiok a axun bel Hom Mota! “Do you believe them desirable?"| Resolutions expressing disapprov-| EV oRETT, March 8.—The as ‘It has been said you came here Had Booze Hidden stting the goody on Gill" at th Evans, a few days before the fed-| «4 &:,! 40." al of Senator Jones and the 12 sen-| ret: Commercial Club has wired from Oklahoma as a fugit They threw every drug bottie|nenest of his paper eral grand jury reported the firat |. TB defense passed Mrs. Roomer| ices who blocked President Wil-| SoUSt0r Jones that his course Of justice on a » of murder. How] on the foot anid, “but found » mie f the reporter's | batch of indictments, went tc and excused W. H. Triggs on i pin | Be armed ship bill “in no Waar n z In the midst t rep r nt to At son in the armed neutrality bill| resents the sent tor about that?” asked Reames Jno liquor. We had it under a secret |campaign of evidence-gathering |torney John J. Sullivan, according |@8t Reremptory challenge I | feces tae sentinneS e “That is incorrect,” answered | penel, w+ ructed for the pur-|centnet OIU, Ivana hurr iia to: & ethataaet Gh\4) rant oe aw, 117 24th ave., a| were passed by the Rotary clut {She Dec maa py he ey and has 4 Logan |pose. Th stuck pick axes intoltown. It was announced in news-| informed him that he (Evans) ex (Continued on page 2) Wednesday, as follows We re. witlation ea he ge oh oa and hu” Attorney Fulton Jumped to the soda fountain” paper circles that Kyvans had| pected to indicte — | pudiate the expressions of Senato: pr feet ely pane yt ay tie He then left stand wh faked” an article published by his | He bidet over some papers to ¢ ~ W. L. Jones in the senate March 3/ Ww t Hi R . idn't eay that, and you know | court adjourned l2pr ago, purporting to| me at the time,” said Sullivan, “but | | being in our judgment unpatri an Im to Re it, | sald he came as a fugitive Fulton Pleads for Chief he mystery of the dy- (later came to me and got them|| Complete list of jury and otn. | /28 DeIne © wun sista) ime CHEHALIS, March 8.— = from justice.” Instead of Immediately taking) namite explosion m1 Tlliott bay, | back, saying District Attorney Clay|| er mews of Tracy trial on | |r conting the sentiment of the| meeting here toniuht adopted name “Were you Indicted on a mur- |testimony, Attorney Walter Fulton! and that hia guilt having been dis. | Allen had called him tn, and order-| | Page 7 |people of Washington,” | ndaps deansente te tilbustes Me der charge?” ma tatement to the jury in be | covered had been discharged,|ed him to get out of town within || - |the armed neutrality bill and be “Yes.” half of Chief Beckingham After departure, however 4 hour ete - erett mr ps) sp \s ~ Was Acquitted The chiof, he sald, camo here in Bath -| Jones ‘‘Explains” _ | manding that Wesley 1. tants laa “What was the result?” 1891 with his father and npr I F . . . | WASHINGTON, Mareh 7.—Sen-|L. Thacker, chairman’ of the I “I¢ resulted in acquittal. The ipa darrell RON fa rey sryl WILSON Ss CON INED [ V f H ( M ll ators Jones, of Washington, and|county republican central con first trial was a hung jury and | Plained Fulton. His sister, the WO 1@WS O 1 1 | Lane, of Oregon, are: still busy ex-! tee, presided. > plaining, Justifying and denying, TO BED WITH COLD pald Mayor Gill $4,000. Then almost immediately Logan tel- egraphed the Jesse Moore-Hunt Liquor Co. ‘Everything is 0, and ordered a substantial algount of whisky. = fi Gill Ie a poor man, altho “Logan Billingstey will te ]/{e result of thelr attitude on the FAIR AND BAZAAR IS | WASHINGTON, March 8.— he could have made himself you he went to the office of Jones has sent a telegram to the ; rich—but he has maintained ‘Me Chief of police and there i directors of the Everett’ Commer HELD AT SYNA 0H his bed today with an aggravat. ing cold. Upon orders of his physician, Dr. Grayson, he made no engagements for the day, and planned to remain in cial Club, saying that they ought to apologize for their resolutions con- cerning his part in the filibuster. He says he didn't’ filibuster, but signed, on.the contrary, an agree- his Integrity. He is being made the victim of the men he broke The story of the $4,000 is a wicked lie, hatched out of the The Bikur Cholvm fair and zaar will be held im the vest room of the synagogue, 17th | President Wilson le confined to | | bed |] hate in the bottom of the After Logan had been ar |) 'ent to vote for the Dill, vag Sealer as: Senos ae hearte of these black scoun- rested and brought back here : intit Minest, 18, 192%, @koae end SOLONS WILD LAST Greta.” by. the government, Hale Yakima, Too nie raga aa “These clever scoundrels lodged In the county Jail NORTH. YAKIMA, March §—[002? spt manufactured evidence against released by order of Hodge and Support to President Wilson and | DAY AT OLYMPIA) the mayor and held it out as tcld to come back in the morn- Mancinoes to make any sacrifice for) WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE OLYMPIA, Wash., March * bait to the government, which ing. Logan phoned Mayor Gill the principles of individual liberty, Water will be shut off In the Riotons appropriations fc sori has been deceived into en- and told him he was in trouble, and freedom on land and. sea, are|trict supplied by the Columbia barrel” legislators, while {mport-| tertaining seriously these but the mayor appeared not to pledged by resolutions adopted ‘by | ervoir on Friday, and in the d Jant bills are not ven even al charges.""—-From Attorney Fred- want to talk to him.”"—From the trustees of the North Yakima|east of the Duwamish av \chance for a vote, today erick Bausman’s opening state- U, 8, Attorney Clarence L, Commercial Club, a copy of which | plied by the old Georg ment. Reames’ opening statement. has been mailed to the president.| voir on Saturday, March No reference is made ia tho reso-|from 9 a, m, to 1 9, ma the closing sessions of the legisla ture, ‘ Tegiaa-| Pa