The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 9, 1917, Page 1

MORE THAN 61,000 Persons buy The Star day. Counting four to a fam- fly, { means that 244,000 are Star readers dally, Chief Witness in Graft Case. Tells of Compromise “The chief left his office. ; I reached into my pocket, took out : $4,000 in currency and laid it on the desk where the mayor was jtting. He picked it up and put it into his pocket.” Thus did Logan Billingsley tell the jury and a breathless, strain- ing crowd in federal court shortly before noon Friday that he ribed Mayor H. C. Gill on August 30, 1916, to dismiss city cases nding against him and his brothers and surrender incriminating | evidence which had been seized July 26 in a police raid on the Night and Day drug store. It was the big moment in the story of the government’s chief | witness in the booze-graft conspiracy trial of Gill, Chief Becking-| . ex-Sheriff Hodge and City Detectives Peyser, Poolman, | ‘om and McLennan. But Billingsley told the circumstances of his alleged bribery she same matter-of-fact manner and voice he has used in conver- ions with Star reporters since his indictment and arrest short- ly before Christmas. The Seattle Star THE ONLY ‘PAPER’ IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO. PRINT ‘THE ‘NEWS a, VOLUME 19. SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MARCH 9, 1917. ONE CENT °* ina Nrason, se is cold tonight, “I PAID MAYOR 34,000 LOGAN BILLINGSLEY TESTIFIE “A bird in the hand than it used to be,” Sage The U LAST EDITION worth more ys Old Man Even a spud is worth more, S. weather bureau forecast ‘Tonight and Saturday, fair; frost oo — Rew Scene Shows Gill Trial Crowd Lester Beard, 22, son of for- mer Deputy Sheriff Jefferson Beard, who was killed on No- vember 5 at Everett in the er- counter between |. W. W.'s and armed citizens, was the first witness called to the stand Fri- day morning by the state. He described in detail the hours he spent with his father before the latter's death. He identified his father’s bullet punctured clothing Prosecutor Roy Black sumed 1 hour and 20 minut in his opening address to the jury. His statement was inter- rupted by the court when two the be This photograph, taken by Jacobs, shows how the crowd packed into the federal court room today to | hear Logan Billingsley tell his story of municipal corruption. men were ejected from 18 barrels had been confiscated AAA | wot back Into business. On Av; court for laughin On July 17, Logan wrote to “ex }19 I wired Baker I was coming to The laughter was the result | plain everything” to Baker. He eel Soocom see him.” of a statement concerning the | sald some ¢ from San Francisco, “How far had negotiations for a Beverly Park incident, previous 6 ¥as “tipping” the authorities here, | who had caught some of the staff. “I'm sure we can recove? for the to November when 41 |. W. W.'s were beaten up by a mob of masked men. This incident |settiement proceeded when you | went to San Francisco?” asked Lo- | xan, | Practically Agreed { | fooda confiscated,” sald Logan, admitted by the state. “We must file a claim to give the! “It was practically agreed. ate Counsel Cooley said |raitroads reason to bring action | Logan was asked if any court |the second witness would probably | {against the city of Seattie.” TODAY suit was brought be Chester Beard, twin brother of} Logan told how, on one occasion ? “Yes, Mra. Weedin, whose b |the first witness. ‘a motorcycle officer chased him to mre | band had been killed—she brought | In his opening statement Prose-| f Tracy Murder Trial Tells of Dad’s Death that| deputies had been in the ware-— a | MAY LAST TWO MONTHS That the trial will be a pro- ted one is the opinion off concerned with the case, er said that the case} 7 would last for six or eight 3 weeks at most The state, on the other hand, in the person of Prosecutor Blac said he would not dare hazard a guess as to the culmi- nation ext the state will show the tory of Everett's trouble. It 4 |show the I. W. W.'s history in er cities. f “Everett is a city of 30,000 lation.” He pointed out the city dock on - a map. 140 Deputies at Dock » “The evidence will show that 140 houses, and that they came out of | the warehouses\ and lined up to ” prevent any of the L W. W's @p- tering the city. = Who I Leader? “The evidence/ wi Donald McRae~steped out and ask- ed, ‘Who is your leader?’ “We are all leaders. “You can't land,’ he said. &: “*The hell we can't,” was the an-— swer. “This was followed by a fusillade of bullets. a by three bul — “MeRae was hit lets.” “Beard was mortally wounded by a builet. Beard’s revolver was — in its holster. One of the first shots fired was from volver, and Tri firer. Tracy's re. y was a persistent Continued to Fire “He continued to fire as the” steamer steamed away from the dock ‘ “The evidence will show Beard © was killed from the upper deck, | because the bullet took a dow! ward course, and that Tracy veal é on such a deck. “It will be shown that about half the deputies were armed. In Military March “There were 260 men started to } Everett to violate a city ordinance (Continued on page 14) his warehouse, and aroused the| ‘The star hax a lot of “goodies” | court action for $5,000 cutor Black said the state would | H ‘ suspicions of Putnam, concerning | tor you i in addition to the Had you talked personally with |show that the defendant, Thomas He leaned forward and talked directly to the jury. He used fe nine gt Fee Satancietee| the mayor? ireker’ Was Kdelsler We ths’ choot the index finger of his right hand to motion in emphasis as he Peyser Talks to Putnam ries on the Gill and Tracy trials,| | “I had not met the mayor person-|ing: baliet from his gun was! H 4 “Peyser told me.” said Logan,| Which you will finds on pages 1/ ally jamon, he first fired, that resulted talked. Once a defense attorney asked him to take his hand (2°35. iy, en eee et to, prineipall <hitie' Win asks in Beard's killing. He pointed out away from his mouth. fam that hé had no right to inter You will find these other fea- | He said Gill, Hoyt a Rte 1 WO Wek Beet ae Bvarete “I felt ince the th of August that m ith | "ioran salt he took some ot the| “Us ot'w nge Rao gar m made to. “wet” Everett of ince seven u cas Logan sald he took some of the fW. co-ed works as cho: [tion She was the y ade to 2 D th Yaey sald be why d,” he testified “Me ahs Alaska shipments, emptied the| nia tie aha ea lice officer kilted at th fidlals, Ho said ag ce mom e city wou compromised, he testined. Y attorney, |booze, and sent on tho barrels,| Story ef Attorney Tucker for | gun fight [would show ‘that ‘the f W. W.'s m4 ; . 1 rit er | money was tied up by | Were unfriendly to labor, and . George Vanderveer, had discussed compromise with the mayor (yee en com tneftense| oem oy cha E. Rue | thi etathamoney was ted uP DY | purpose in. visiting Everett. Was to nd told me that they could be compromised. Hunt company said they | sell, page 9. ed rybody was trying to [breed & sore by ndvocating sabot | he lows” for ec ‘ See youl ; se in Bveret : “{ went to San Francisco to ar-! ser }the money,” said Billingsley bee tha Sictana “peed See eee tee oe oe eee eg ee oe ere trina | BinGh-Gleo’ stated: that: the 260 range for carload shipments of| “‘You have been paying the) The trouble with Oklahoma sh tthe tient bebtie’ ot SP Renetes Auheriad tasers” \ia Puaawe wha made the trip to E on liquor as soon as I got the cases| wrong conductor, he told me. ffs, he said, prevented him from |ehis end : | sul Wélteh tn Teocy triah, | "On the Seth or 31th of Auguet.”|the steamer Verona practi ad dismissed. 1 returned to Seattle! Tolle. of Beibe paying-the claim money to the de * ye gaia at og yore <All hp Re mitted their guilt by throwing away ust 27. Before that I had dis-} «1 can't remember the exact | tectives. | |. “doe Bush” Another Altes bee 2 eet oe eee catia} sop ge el the com.{thelr weapons on the return trip to jed with my attorney the prob| words [ used, but I gave him t Reads More Letters Some ts me WG MIRO SOC] seey Mldst Fab a, Th lnrcmaion 2. talking the plane we |wentule fe cost of getting the understand that I wanted to know) Prosecutor Reames then took . a Pag : “Confessions of a Wife,” laiscumeed the amount they might| When’ court opened, Prosecutor geopped. Im fact, | had agreed tO} wing the right conductor was correspondence of “Fred Adams, Who was Joe Bush?" asked} page 11 J cake ’ Black first read the information to $7,500, | “I took $4,000 in currency out of| who was in reality, Logan, and | Reames | wT figured on offering or giving|the Jury His opening statement N even tried to get him to &t-| my pocket, laid it on the desk | read a en Ch cohuas ta thane Myself,” said Logan. “I changed | PE oe Ma : 112K | followed tedd to the details, only bothering| where the mayor sat, and he put it| shipments to be consigned to| fem ‘Fred Adam se = The evidence will show that Jef. ; Lame tended. focused. ot tt | My brother didn’t want to do it nye to pay the cost fe refused] in his pocket Alaska dealers ean y ma He didn't want to come thru. But|ferson Beard was killed by one of a i said that any such personal! Neither Mayor Gill nor Chi Business is good,” he wrote in|204 stways d od his answors to| Hy aia amet “hien 40 aly bo tut reat number of ‘bullets fired by énse I would have to attend to.! Rockingham changed expression ot | one of them ph ahi ir eran Dy ph a cml ft ie the anfe of the’ Washingvon (one of the great number of persons Told Time Had Come | position at this stage of Billings) These inet.@ntse. a | i aboard the Verona. ‘ pos ing up Logan |Annex hotel, I talked to Vander. |@000 ’ ee” $ “Finally, when he had assured |ley's recital had to t shipm srt Se me The state will show these men 4 nub that the chahees of settling the| Called for Papers poe bar ames finally —_ discontinued BULLETIN veer three or four times, and finally | || T00 Ste aad that they one ; ies were’ good, L.went to 'thel “The ohief returned and lan.” | reading the documents | WASHINGTON, D. C., March 9. Iron Ba ee Ar Oe: Vay eee SP and all are responsible for Beards ge BA ve rhs 4 hedthes Pradluavor ted * that t! vagal 4 Were all these transactions|__¢iggh: An extra session of con.) {sed to offer the mone: Anesocdianshr Rho Yasin’ ad chief's office with my brother Fred.| mayor told him that the ere divert-| seior to the wrecking of the Day “He said I'd have to do it myself | We had previously quarreled over| ing to be my friends ahd for him ands Of |jang Night Drug store July 262" | Sreee was today called for April 16) ww, nag a mix-up with Lundin the amount it ought to cost to get ‘my papers er asked Reames 26°" by President Wilson SEI tae pte pall | “We couldn't talk to the mayor The chief told him that there Vanderveer Mentioned Ye aid Logan It 1 “Now, on the 30th of August we and lett ft sate vege gh por sponge tg hae oad name ~ _ Vanderveer, | .aners two files, which walked into our drug store and went to Vanderveer’s office. He Ve saw Ceorre Vanderveer and| ‘o hell with that,’ the mayor former prosecuting attorne confiscated by the police. 1 had|had myself arrested, I was put in|told me to go to the city hall my ee Coed we ‘to “go hae poe — ee ‘ eS into play with the correspondence |, em behind the prescriptions. | Jail, and for 30 hours didn’t even self and get the papers. If I had in aming the papers. ‘If you have any The chief sald Prosecutor lun-| read : Nearly all of them were the orig a drink of water. Finally we |any speed, to show it—to stay until os, woes, 3 ne ae ce ae ee in a st a. erred ve inals reed with murder I got them. I put two and two to: went to the ashington n- | cnse. of O ermitag for Mr ” - ~ Mayor Returned Them us on gether. and got $4,000 from the safe “To Hell With Lundin’ eer nd send the bill of ‘ We r , 1 we Where did yo hose pa-| Sh e rrested until we Got Money in Hotel there and returned clone between To’ bel ehh Lael the| lading to 815 Hoge building ion in? chi : P*"\ had posted about $20,000 bail I went to Prec hand got the mon: 2 or 3 o'clock to the police station ayor said. Then an officer, who Pyjose court m red and The mayor gave them to me in| “We were arrested on two or the Washington Annex, and The mayor was there. It thin named Sullivan, was of the attorneys chuckied. the chief's office on August 30. jthree liquor char nd two forg-|other money we had available Paying Wrong Conductor called | 1 told to get the papers. or was 14 Goes to Police Jery charges, beside the murder) Wuen we counted it, it was be- “We all had a visit The mayor} “tHe orted later that Sergt Logan said t en He told how he went to police| charge, which was dismissed tween $7,000 and $8,000, We argued. Mtreated mo mighty decent. He) putnam had them and refused to 9 cael Patan ie x tO headquarters the night the two po-| Trouble Over in 10 Days I picked up four $1,000 piles. Mr didn’t show any of the fe surrender them. He was sent back | remember” what became of all Of jicomen and Japanese watchman} yogan finally wired, “We have |Holton and Fred were present.” vard ie he hown d finally came with them , he gun fight, and fe 3 fol 3 Logan's bookkeepe! ward ime he had sho’ an wiidiinms: ihsateree were | in the gun fight, and|soq worlds of trouble, but it's over Holton was Logan keeper. Weedin shooting, ce |p the Mayor's attorneys, Judge} Putnam interferes | wan af d told by Chief Betk-|oe0." This wan Auguat 7 The money was counted out in Finally, the chief left the | Rausman and Wilmon Tucker f ner road Md) ingbam he could go out home, and} “one repson 1 sent thie was to |T0oms 115 and 117 of the Planters » mayor told ‘ue Bp Serr 1s. contervace with Betgt: ‘Putnam sence © Eddie’ Bayer, man | would be called if wanted them know I was coming out | hotel ad been py | at noon a ager of the Jesse Moore-Hunt Co.|” «the next day I met my at-| Teht—l owed. them about| “Leaving the room, I met a man ‘ - ——— - —~| Billingsley took the stand Frida: a gry zona Logan about) torney he told me the mayor “had $7,000. trying to sell me an auto. umes | norning and immediately resum ily 14 to stop certain shipments. |) ri and had ordered myself and “Negotiations the 1 went to the police department — ~ | his testimon: Sergt. Putnam, of the dry squad,| brothers arrested. He told me to! ,, fe rig “1 elf and was taken to the ADVERTISING MANAGER'S “When was the Night and Day |had intercepted « shipment [step out of the way ae Phe pine PN rocieal fr eatin ne chien intendne ug store opene asked Reames, ire the V o return @ y a nyse . segs ere re his ihret honetion acme | goods,’ Wak’ ate, of the, Oc 30 Hours Without Water | expected there would be com-j¢4 me to the mayor, That was the ———$$_$$__— pane ap in econ y by Logan to Baker, after! “I_wasn't guilty of anything, so promise, I was getting ready to (Continued on page 2) Third av answered Billing a ae ae PET GFR The Best Bargains in Protects Others’ Whisky Seat aimee, Seton | BE ICKERS AND FLASHES AT GILL TRIAL $1,000, we had a few drugs and |} } whisky at times. Whisky was de | livered from the Westlake ware-| yiry Wy. J, Margett, wife of tie,the judge arrived. Results of his} Motoreycles belonging to the;group which early began looking house. ex-patrolman who helped dig up ev-| Marksmanship are dark (room) se-|postoffice sor use by special deliv. over reporters’ shoulders and read “I paid Peyser money for permit é crets ery carriers made so much noise in |ing about the trial as it progressed ting whisky to come thru to Fred |!dence on which th Dillingsle 4 ee the court below the open conrt i Cann and Patterson, of the Sound were indicted, sat near the pret’) ‘There were more women among |room windows that Judge Neterer| Ropes, like those used on holi cy.” table. wore a modish gray | th pectator than heretofore.|early in the morning ordered the |days to keep the overflow crowds j said he didn't remember) suit gray hat and gray shoes. Her| They observed movie theatre ett-|balliff to have Postmaster Battle out of the ontfield at Dugdale’s |when he paid Peyser husband chatted with accused de-|quet b removing their hate have the pop-popping stopped park, were needed at 10:45. : | “I got $200 from Cann and called) tectives before court opened those who had s | eee wie pe 5 Poolinan or Peyser over the tele he _ * | aes No objection by any of the six Cs phone. I don’t remember alll sald,| Three women were standing up| Logan Billingsley wore rich tle| nes ane aged hp ais a ae defense attorneys was raised dur but I remember I told him I had| just pack of the railing at the left|of quiet color combinations, in|int som at 10:20 a.m. She lad a (28 the first hour of Friday's ex , side of the court room 20 minutes| which brown predominated | whole flower garden on her hat, |®@ifation of Logan Billingsley Of course you know Tom Duff, i AIDETTES DANCE before court T main $9 | > ica Quite a record when you remember | mous comic strip, “A Married Man's The Washington Aldettes will tained their places all morning Only 12 men stood in the main | _ that one of the best things a law-| The Star, give a St. Patrick’s ball at the o#e aisle of the ¢ t room as the trial | Billingsley, more at ease, answer- | yer does it to object i And of course you know Tom is Knights of Columbus hall, Satur-| rxtra! court room{|was resumed at 10 a.m. The|@d questions ina louder, clearer citi We day evening, March 17, Long'| where booze-graft trial js belng|crowd was smaller than at the|olee Friday Seven of the 12 graf( trial jurors shaver. What do you suggest? peevcersaoe sc a stringed orchestra will furnish the| held was all shot up before Judge jopening of any other session. The pees favor putting their ching In their) Comic Department, The Star, MORE THAN 61,000 COPIES inusic, The Aldettes are a chari-/Neterer arrived, Frank Jacobs, | press table still enjoyed its usual) ‘The ladies didn't neglect the hands and their elbows onthe arms | After the suggestions are considered, | DAILY table organization composed of Star photographer, did the shoot. popularity, tho. Trigl reporters |press tale. By 10:80 @, 1m, feve/of their chairs as the vest metiod name, and the name will be revealed youn« women jing. He kept up his shooting after iwere bemmed in by lawyers, had added their presence to thet! of taking it eas Yay Monday, March 19, Hey, Folks! Come Join Tom is on the market for suggestions for a name for the little Send your suggestion to the Editor Duffs’ Baby the funny little fellow in the fa- Troubles,” appearing daily in the proud father of a baby boy, the baby will be given @ in the Duff strip mone