The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1917, Page 1

ONE CENT ALL EDITIONS All the Time THE ONLY PAPER IN VOLUME 19. SEATTL WASH., SEATILE “THAT DARES| 10 ‘PRINT THE NEWS LAST EDITION folks, We're The weath. Same old story, not dry yet in Seattle er man says Tonight and Saturday, rain.” FRIDAY, MARCH 23, 1917. ONE CEN AISER’S MEN SLAY YANKEE Tp OAR AR NAD AAR RAT ADT ANDAR ANANAARAAR AAAI f _TOO MUCH IS ENOUGH _ BANK ROBBERS! =. EDDIE METSDORF, F. J. Dusky, 50; Al J. Rounds, 60; Oscar | Lowe, 25, and Walter MacDonald, 30, held up the Bothell bank a few weeks ago for about $4,000. Dusky was sentenced to seven to 20 years in the penitentiary, hav- ing been mixed up in a Renton bank rob- bery, too. The other three were given terms of FIVE TO TWENTY YEARS W.L ern Bank & Trust Co., $30,000 which to buy stock Collier, 38, president of the North- confessed to taking of the depositors’ money with He was arraigned be- fore Judge Everett Smith yesterday in the superior court and was sentenced to ONE TO TEN YEARS Evidently there are bank robbers and bank robbers. For young Lowe, newly wed, and for his bride, there were no maudlin tears shed by the judge. For old man Rounds, to whom the prison may mean the grave, there was no word of sympathy. MacDonald—Dusky—five years—seven years—it was all in the day’s work! But now the defaulting bank president stands at the bar of justice. Behold the judge. It is no longer all in the day’s work. The warm blood of humanity now surges thru his veins. The “young man” had taken the money to buy stock and gain a stronger position in the bank, the judge observes. He didn’t squander the money for some other purpose. Ah! Noble bank president! Carry the news to the 2,000 bank depositors of the Northern bank, who, today, two months after the failure, are still wholly in the dark as to whether they'll ever get a cent back. Tell them the gladsome tidings that the bank president did nd their money on foxy women. It will make them rej to know their bank president didn’t take their money for jpagne suppers and chorus girls’ parties. It may make their mouths water with joy, even tho they may lack bread to feed them, to know that the bank president didn’t gamble their money at the roulette wheel. They lost their emma 7s but listen to the learned judge: “I have sympath y for a young man tempted the way you been. * * * The demands of the law must be mct. * * * feel sure you will win back the respect of the community after you have served your term * * * and in saying this 1 BELIEVE I'SPEAK FOR THE COMMUNITY.” Speaking for the community, judge? The community is not going to make any distinction be- een the rascal who robs depositors for more bank stock and the one who steals to get more “joy rides.” '_ If the community is going to make a distinction, it will be this, judge: The bank robber who betrays a public trust is infinitely worse than the safe cracker, and the maximum sentence is due the first class rather than the second. Speaking for the community? Great God! not Not yet, not even ve done, » I speak for the community.” Socially Prominent married prominent ained that tracted to b of Northern Bank and Tr 0 and had 1 for ov of it with the 10 he took “aTe) L din didn’t learn n what tr booke, for which Collier Is -e- {dividual or individuals Collier got sponsible. His bond, mean his while, is $5,000. ¥ False entries, which led to Col lier's being summoned before Pro« ecutor Lundin, where his confe sion was made shortly before Was sentenced, were discove: two weeks ago. At the time Ccl Her was called in by Lundin, evi dence of the full amount of his de. ations had not been un de. by the examiners, He was his |panied by hig attorney Morris. Collier home: | Collier ally is and Lundin said he had co: shares sto Colifer y 66 ng that he stole from $25,000 to $35,000 from his own depositors and purchased stock with it, W. L. Collier, 38, presi- nt. of the defunct Northern ink and Trust Co. was sen- fenced by Superior Judge Ev rett Smith late Thursday to irom one to 10 years in the ‘alla Walla penitentiary. Tne Ific charge was making fajse ent commitment was fefeed for a month on to help state b untangle a the Northern Bank and Trust Co. was cloved two months ago. Its Ha bilities were $1,600,000, and its as sets $1,100,000 So far Lundin had been in |formed by state bank examiners no other employes or officials of the were concerned in the false jentries Collier is now helping heck up. Judge Shows Sympathy | W Collier told Judge Smith that he had taken the money to buy stock | later trans‘erred accounts to cover when examiners came bank ban will prom: aminers faise entries in ADVERTISING MANAGER'S DAILY TALK Saturday Will Be a (Kdito comedian, at the tre, this weel the Gill trial, than | article yourself? | rte—Billy Hallie Alhambra. thee has been “covoring and this ia his built for laugh purposes.) as this money used for any other y e the purchase of stock for n gambling? honor,” replied Collier I don't know | Collier,” said ympathize take.” 1 took BY BILLY HALLIGAN Eddie Metsdorf, waiter, “spilled the beans” then disappeared you very well ‘ee the judge, with you in you Mr mut 7 nis. he La- | ley ent! ‘ling got a tip fron Lundin _Interruote Or perhaps some one Lundin interrupted tell the after a New \judge that he understood that Col . Mer had taken the money to fur Yesterda ther his own personal ends, empha-| forced W. 'T. sizing the point that the theft was,admit he bel clear, and that the to which| orld “fraternity.” |stolen funds were put didn't enter|‘I-Tapa-Keg” frat |into the case thea The judge, however, proceeded Attorney Fulton, “I feel sure that you will be able|amining, bell |to win back the respect that you! proverb, “Soc have heretofore held in the com ¢ munity ou have served your sentence in the state prison. The |demands of the law mast be met but you are a young man and know that you will do all t« amends sent him ongland boiled dinner To Prosecutor Reames Berry, a witness, to to the under Evidently the . when cross-ex in the Latin to-Um.”" ee when According to the defense, part of | Logan Billingsley's early fe was pent in seclusion, owing to a Alf I ference about a horse your | what MORE THAN 61,000 COPIES DAILY —— —SSSS in powe make for Mayor Gill smokes a corn-cob 25 PASSENGERS TAKEN OFF WHEN Liner GROUNDS [S SUNK tueas signals place the i) pass tugs at Prin of and in saying this 1 Goes, VANCOUVER, 8. ‘c, March 23.—The Grand Trunk Pacific steamship Prince Rupert, Cap tain McKenzie, which left Prince Rupert at midnight for Seattic, is ashore on Genn island, one mile erst of Law. yer isjand flight and it reported to be extensively dom. aged. The steamer heavy ran ashore (ur snowstorm and ¢ time eh m. Asai nee Rupert taken off t cident at 8 sent 1:40 a om P: ers were light and @ Raper icholson, man ager Regi th Boviston | tion has|\age steame th eorge Ss w w ares we @ Salvag and they dispatched the in morning The G. T. P whict steamer =P. t und overhaul n service Typical Spring! ain fell Friday morning than all the rest of combined, according ather Man Salisbury are having typical sprir More i ttle weather to|of rain had fallen ling report showed aiter Spilled Beans at Gill Trial, Says Halligan third | @ ° morning but Friday's mor Until Priday and r k yard 6, potatoes ‘ in Hi Gill ve, HEC Wrong John Webb Gets Right John’s Booze; Big Squawk The right John Webb has his booze and the wrong John Webb languishes in the city donjon, so justice is satisfied, Both Webbs are gentiemen of color, One is old, the ather isn't. The old man was ill in the hospital and when the noti: fication that his liquor ship: ment had arrived came to his the wrong John Webb d possession of it. He lave gotten by except for the fact that he couldn't write, He was pinched. Then he went to jail for 16 days in lieu of a $50 fine. Now comes the right John Webb, limping on a cane and searching for his “likker.” He fixed it Brinker's court. up in Justice ne returned tc rince now at Prince Ru the He de 17 inch satel WANTED IN CRAFT TRIAL, GIVES UP (BULLETIN) At 2 o’clock this afternoon the long miss- ing witness in the Gill trial, Eddie Metsdorf, surrendered himself to the marshal. United States deputy ttives combed Seattle toda witness in the booze-graft trial, the man whose testimony defense attorneys declaré would upset the conspiracy case against Mayor Gill, Chief Beckingham and the four detectives. Metsdorf, according to United States Marshal Boyle, bas not been in his room at the Hyda hotel for | the last two nights. Wednesday noon he made a sworn Statement in the presence of Defense Attorneys Tucker and Fulton that Logan Billingsley had bribed him to testify falsely and further entangle the already involved “TAKE STAND IN EVERETT TRIAL - Two men who were wounded im — the battle at the Everett dock, Noy. 5, when the Verona arrived — there with a load of members of — the Industrials Workers of the — World, were among the six witness- es called by the state Friday morn- ing in the trial of Thomas H. Tracy, who was a passenger on the boat, and charged, together with fellow members of the organiga- jon, with the murder of Jefferson Beard. The two men examined Friday, James Mather and Elmer Buehbrer, ut, | were members of the company of | citizen deputies who met the be |to keep the I W. W's from (Continued on page 2) = NO REVOLT IN s in a never end-| eggers to smug-| BERLIN, eae —There is no | revolution” in Germany. London, Holland and New York ors that trouble has been brews in Germany are merely the re- sult of the entente’s wish being father to the thought marshals and police detec- for Eddie Metsdorf, missing but were unable to find the meantime. other monk wrench was ash into the ry of fe E. J D and bootlegger king, and compet-| Inst the Billings to the witness stand by the defense Friday and asked if | Fred Billingsley had approached | | him to establish testimony for the | government, Margett refused to j answer, declaring it might tend to incriminate him He stood for his constitutional rights, while defense and prosecut ttorneys argued hotly. Finally erer dismissed him tem , , saying he was pre. pared to rule off hand Reporter Delays Putnam John Evans, ex;Times reporter. ‘who, the defense declares, worked with the Billingsleys, was again vrought into the case suddenly this morning when Dry Squad Officer tanker |(' 13. Peterson said he believed was Evans who delayed Serst nam from seizing the shipment of liquor, taken by deputy sheriff: Fred Billingsley in October ans a ked Putnam to wait un fimes photograp her dr officers te: raband liquor was sent ral court procee Margett, @x-policem LDTON Y DIVER LONDON, March 23.—At least a score ! perished in the unwarned sinking by a Ger- man U-boat of the Standard Oil Healdton, according to latest information to- TANKER HE not wh iday. The ship was torpedoed five miles north of Terschelling, Holland, Wednesday afternoon, in the middle of what has hereto- fore been announced by Germany as one of the “safety zones’ in the barred area. Thirteen survivors have been landed at Ymuiden, Holland, of a total of more than 40 on Sond. Ho three * ne J cont Seattle ¢ pianos ered with shr ing effort by gle contraband Other witnesses were Dry S Officer R. S. Kendall, r retary of Detectives J and ex-Policeman E. J. Margett, in (Continued on page 2) etn GIRLS SHOOT EACH ‘iwc, OTHER AS REVELING IN CAFE GOES ON which sank the vesse PORTSMOUTH, N. H., March e first intended to go back to the 23.—Mystery today surrounds college is indicated by the fact that the double suicide of Ethel a return ticket to Wellesley was Stanton, of Cincinnati, and | found in her pocket. Margaret Spalding, 18, of New- It was learned today that Miss ton Center, Mass. who shot Spalding was a physical culture themselves shortly before last teacher in Boston midnight in a popular restau- from Newton high school last June, rant here. Not a word as far Miss Stanton’s father and mother as the police could find was are divorced. The father, a left behind to tell of the disap- r agent of the Rock Island, points and trials that led up to lives in Los Angeles. The mother the suicide pact. lives in Cincinnati Only a note addressed to C — Malsbury, Johnson building, Cin BANK MESSENGER cinnati, 0. was founc on Miss Stanton. Another, intend for Mrs, G. F, Spalding, 38 Paul St, $19,000, 19, One land dispatch today ted survi the qu s declaring sinking tanker » of h 13 n 21 men, i left these, second wit were ntai atche were ¢ vf the Ur ate > ¥: not whet mis me a dozen had been rpedo ACTUAL WAR MAY | BE HEALDTON REPLY BY ROBERT J. BENDER aff Correspondent March Ger ‘s latest affront in the torpe g without warning of the Amer- tanker Healdton will be an d by continued speeding up of all preparatic ties, now rege wider the exple the t in to ir firm con. sinking of sources to have held the | Viction—even before tt the Healdton—that Kaiser's gov- | ernment is determined on forcing a declaration of war from this coun- try While the navy department bends every energy toward making that| arm of the service more effective | President Wilson and Secretary |than ever before, the war depart Lansing are convinced that Ger ment continues its more or less se many’s present course is merely /cret steps toward calling to arms “Thastoning a clash, The president every regular, reserve and National and Lansing are known ‘rom the Guardsman when the moment ar- highest and most authoritative irives: |—— idea NORTH ENDERS TO (/,500 DIE IN BLAST | BUCK TRACTION co. J OF MUNITION SHIPS, far dis better’ r Newton Center, was in Miss| -|Sraee pocketbook Revelry at Its Height Revelry was at its height cafe when both girls entered ed a meal and caimiy hen both stood up, f | other and sent bulle thru their brains from revolvers, They had amall stall, facing directly on jmain dining room | Diners leaped from their seats at the sound of the shots. The lay across a table, each bolding the Man | revolyer that had ended their lives, |Miss Stanton died instantly, and | Miss Spalding a few hours later, in a hoapita al in the The: Carrying t Haden, left not Leen heard of He was on office George Lind- bank mes- Friday and has since, sey age senger, last time not and Declaring the: tant when “larger transportation will the north end, the F nd Commercial Club has se a etter to the council demanding | jthat the city retain absolute con {trol of the traffic on Fremont {bridge, and facilities for running} eananged | SAY GRIMINAL HIDES |: |be arranged | | The note to Mrs, Spalding was |WAR ORDER GIVEN IN U. OF Ww. DISTRICT brief. It told of the agreement of | The | the two girls to die together, It then said WASHINGTON, Mareh Persistent rumors reach the Do not feel bad, 1 will meet you immediate elevation of Allegheny | sheriff's office that W. A, Coatz,{in a better world and will wateh river bridges at Pittsburg, as convicted habitual criminal, whojover you and protect you.” Jessary in the national inte: ncaped from the county jail March Father on Coast ‘was today declared imperative lsecretary of War Baker. BOSTON, March 23 lish steamship British Jarriving here today, Jof having been In sia, when two ors from New posedly us the plot—killing 1 The brit| Transport, brought a story Archangel, R ammunition. st York blew up—si result of a Ger 100 people. way to the local po! the last time he was the the National bonding compa instigated a country wide find the young fellow, believe, has either fell victim to trickery He lived at Alki point and was not arried, according to repree sentatives of the bonding come pases No warrant has been is- * Haydon, according to the ing attorney's office. was employed at the National Aet na and ies e ch to who, they absconded or First is hiding in the University dis-| | Miss Stanton is believed to have Neither cur virtues nor vices are t jbecn a student at Wellesley. That dle ic | our own.—Johnson, Gain She graduated —