The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 3, 1917, Page 1

inter. + mous ¢ 0. ; ASED WIRP SERVICE PRESS ASSOCIATIONS VOLUME 19 oe * &©* &* & & ) ISL irl of 18 Bound _. and Gagged; Left Basement and Mother of Victim Warns 5 Women of Danger; Intrud- hat “i {| Head Against Chimney. Seattle’s ednesday, after successfully attacking a new victim, Tuesday afternoon, and escaping © The latest outrage was committed while the girl, “who has been in ill health, was alone. Her assailant eluded the police r. i to after his attack, idth 0a shoe. : fe The girl, whose mother is mesponding secretary for the W. Mrs. G Thayer, in the » LATEST VICTIM WARNS WOMEN All women should keep doors locked, daytime and night, the woman-slugger is captured, and use precaution when to knocks or bells. This is the advice given to B E. Thayer, corresponding éaughter aga age 13, is residents today by ny of the W. CT. OU, latest victim to be slugged Mrs. Thayer, “if someone open the door and leave nart | _ at her “Switch on porek Nehts,” Weeks or rings after dark. 1 the porch dark. “Keep screen doors locked ag an extra precaution. This prevent a sudden attack upon opening the inner door.” ‘ind and rw. building, declares that the fiend tried to dope her hypodermic needle. Police detectives say they found no needle wound. _ But the girl is bruised and hysterical after her ex- by the man, who carried her to the basement ra fierce struggle in the kitchen. of poor health, Miss !———————________ has remained at home late |iag strugeied up the basement Her grandmother left the siairy 3 dazed. Most of her clothes about 1:30 p. m. to call on ® hag been torn off. ; . | Neighbors and the police were i Makes Switt Attack jealled. Patrolman E. V. Davis red She girl heard a knock at the /from Georgetown station, reported door and answered. to headquarters after Investigation, SA sender, smooth shaven youns and roads and cars er Cruelly Pounds Girl’s| womaf-slugger fiend continued at liberty s Esther Thayer, 18, of 1056 Sullivan st., in South} ing her bound with stockings and gagged with an} Her head was pounded against a brick chim-| The Seattle Star | gree: 3 | | were covered |handle the matter It ‘DIRECT ACTION The Greatest Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest SEATTLI * * 8© » © & “LATEST G GIRL VICTIM OF SLUGGER" —.. Mise Esther Thayer, “1086 Sliven SEATTLE WOMAN AGAINST FIEND THREATENS W, ‘STRONGLY URGED WILSON IN NOTE Threats to blow up his | Wilson, because of Dts war policy were included In letters written to local pastors by Miss Anna McEach: President Direct action against the woman-| has slugger, practiced fiend en without molestation Wednesday by D. was advocated C. Millward, 626 East 7ist st, injern, 40, @ stenographer, who was the fe er to The Star bound over to the grand jury by "I s high time some-| 1! 8, Commissioner A. C, Bowman thing was ¢ at once | Bail was set at $1,000. to stop ing of helpless A postal card, addressed to the women and I person editor of a local newspaper, telling ally ar ect action him to “call off his dogs. and re “If our ities cannot |ferring to war editorials, was intro is up to the | du dark complected, and ween by extra details of police. law-abiding citizens to do some It was charged that the woman suit, cap, and tan button Police Have no Clue thing mn iy I be ie aa bee also wrote letters to Dr. M. A. Mat | ‘The police conciuded that the|bave my wife fall a vietim of such|thews and Dr. Hugh C. Ross, both slugger aped when heard | barbarous tre tment he eee T} local church pastors flaying them the grandmother return, and that|S4vocate the inte deputising |for their vigorous anti(erman ser he went out by way of the kitchen - a seca tient ‘wilt rodianr bares Ree acai peat Tiel ke Pao on f ; ce department, who will patrol ohn eEachern, contractor, do you want?” the girl) Det on | oToves-ai gama sills had | ie residence sections of the city |the woman's brother, says she spent . er 4 m not a physieal | ¢¢ «in Europe and is suffer Police detect Pt ay. | att dark. Iam not a four years in of c Struggle Is Desperate , detectives were immedi | iane, but 1 can shoot, and | would | {ng from ill health, having spent + » ately assigned to the case a falta minute and you'll see. The aah tae atill outter: pate not hesitate to shoot a man If || eight months in a sanitarium. She maid, as he stepped quickly in| The sir, fering from | Cooght him attempting to harm | struggled fiercely when arrested by »,|nervous breakdown Wednesday Srappied with her. A struggle, Yl my wife Postoffice Inspector C. M. Perkins More realistic than any shown in |*%4 !# under a physician's care I am willing to do my Morle thrillers, followed, and fur- z patro? work free and will slaty MADE OWN BOOZE: 4 to get her to the floor, that thousands of other men I] Sette her ‘arms and” logs with Jou to sucha cattand eive| FINED BY THE COURT) \ Workings from the kitchen Ine, MEET WITH UNION their services entirely free to auch | 8 > | Se oe ete e heir s | Joseph Sinkovieh and Jonn Priga Gordon C. Corbaley, executive |* C8” tel, residents of Cumberland, were > The girl's screams as she fought ,_ executl " < business t 5 Hl ‘ : us : secretary of the Seattle Chamber This ng yusiness hi: fined 50 and costs Wednesday by algae | ghee fa Oe Conner ee at Conte eter | been going on for months now, and | ustice Brinker when they pleaded Te unavailing, because |i, heading a committee of busi-|!t 1s time it should cease, Let us) guilty to having an excessive Was alone in the house do it quick “The Me i. ness men which will confer with|®° something and do iuicK. | amount of intoxicating liquor in i girl remembers \jttle more | Don't wait till more of our wives | thet aesaion * whe: eRe Mia the fact that he picked her |22!0M leaders in an effort to bring | Dont wee ee eipiess by such |reosdal might se SA aah P gpa about redumption of operations in|have been mace he pee ny oan sony, Ment ih carried her down a narrow | fi snipynrds pending’ png hn hells h acts. No punishment can| County authorities surprised the W to the basement, and| ont of wage differences made too severe for these cul-|two men, in company with two : et, Pounded cher head against | Corbaley hopes to, persuade the brite others, in their shack near Cumber. z mney until she was uncon-| en to return to work until such| “1 hope your paper will continue |jand, The men made their wine out | i. ‘ a ‘ AJustments may be effected to give publicity to this thing until|of raisins, and are sald to have! ys he weighed about 130 the m e is abolished,” Ibeen bootlegging it Pomds, was 24 or ears old, and Bieet 6 inches in | F ¥ Mort, stubby fingers \U. /OXMAN CHARGES Finds Girl, Gagged By United Press Ledeed Wire Mayor Louis Molnar, of Redondo len minutes after | the WASHINGTON, Oct. 3— | ARE THROWN OUT Beach, | Cal., inspected | Seattle's ht, Pandmother returned. She saw! Lieut. G. H. Howe, medical of. | ater front facilities with Mayor id te evidence of a struggle In the ficers' reserve corps, was killed | fy United Press Teaned Wire ; Gill Wednesday. His olty bas Midhen, and looked upstairs and| in action on Sept. 28, while on SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3, launched construction of commer duty with the British forces in of perjury filed against) ejal water front facilities rts aon feternine to the kitehen, she | France, the adjutant general s bie Lidar a DARI Gell dccmaden hay * e girl it 6 sh “ss His emer trial o' 1omas Mooney, were ARIS, Oct. 3 den has been lin girl, with as a| announced today. is 9 Soir Judge Griftin| bombed by French aviators, today's 6 in her moutt ‘in ency address ip care Marion Kk uneonscion B. els, Edicott How in, Mai Mound the yard tor Esther i] | official statement announced vidence. , WASH,, | |members, I WEDNESDAY, OCT. 3, 1917. * &©& &©& & H & U-Boats Lying NV 4M VATERLAND’ | ; in 4 Now for MUST 60, SAY j U.S. Transports ? ORD mE rareper { L famous Gritish pub. lisher, now In this CITY PARENTS mission knows country on a war for his government, Municipal League Joins In perhaps raped ney any — ’ er man in America just what Attack on Kaiser's this nation Is facing In the Pet Textbook problem of transporting its a ek armies to Europe. FEW WOULD KEEP IT Lord Northcliffe, in a talk with J. W. T, Mason, of the United Press, tells the sig- nificance of the recently transferred activities of the German U-boats to the ocean Raus mit “Im Vatertand.” That's the prevailing sent! ment among Seattle parents who have children in the public schools. routes followed by American They don’t like the id of transports. using text books like “Im Read what Mason writes today in his daily analysis of the war situation, on the ed- Itorial pay Vateriand,” which puffs up love for Prussian systems. The Municipal league voted Tues day to investigate “Im Vaterland,” | on the char made by Richard | Mansfield White that it is subtle propaganda. The league's educa-| tional committee will make the re-| port. | Because members of the | echoo! board are not sure that “Im Vaterland” should be ous! ed from the high school cur riculum, or that Seattle people really want it eliminated, The Star took a little telephone poll of opinion today. The phone book was opened 2 MEN KILLED | BY SHOTS HERE; WOMAN SLAYS Two men met violent deaths In Seattle Wednesday morning in quarrela which resulted in shooting scrapes. They were Knute Herlitz, a sallor aboard the steamer Stor- viken, and Lonnie Burnett, 30, of the Yesler Apartment an- nex, Yesler way and Maynard indiscriminately, and parents asked to express their view on the matter. Their opinions follow: MRS. LAWRENCE WOOD, 1 Third ave, W.—I've read about t book in the papers. I'm just Amer fean enough to think that this book should be discontinued, for the present time at least.” MRS. HERMAN WORSER, 116] apartment house. W. Bist st—Our family is of Ger) Mrs. Hicks told the police that man origin, and, altho I can't s¢@)she entered Burnett's room Wed- Burnett, a negro, was shot by Mrs. Anna Hicks, 22, from whom he rented a room at the jany harm in studying the German | nesday morning and saw a revolver litying on the table. She picked it up, and Burnett made an attempt to snatch it from her hands. In the tussle, the gun Was accidentally dis- charged, sending a bullet thru Bur- |nett's abdomen Mrs, Hicks informed the police of ave. S—I'm willing to leave the the shooting herself. Burnett was matter to the school board. Its |taken to the city hospital, where believe, will prove |he died almost immediately. capable of taking care of it Herlitz was shot bet os rent r 58 by Robert Cole, 35, cook aboard the Pike preg Se MO UIAMS, 4068 Or | Storviken, which is at thé Seattle and I read and write German. I'm | Construction & Dry Dock Co, ship- os “t wight ser. | yard t going repairs going to teach my chfidren Ger wae crew of the ship had been Janguage fn the schools here, don't think we should teach chil dren over here to look up to the lkaiser. It all depends upon how this particular text book is pre pared. MRS. H. FE. WILSON, 3130 34th man, and I don't, of course, see any » of ; demanding better food, and Cole v0 Acid the use of this text recame angry when he was ordered ZIMME - seas |by the steward to enlarge the bill MRS. ORA ZIMMERMAN, 4615/07 7 a daughter | soon, and that any text Fremont ave—I have who'll be in high sch for her sake, I hope books that contain any trace o' German propaganda will not be used when she gets there MRS. J. C. YOUNC W. 59th I say put it out! We don't] need to use text books that contain | such stuff as I understand this | Witnesses said Cole became ugly this morning and fired a shot at Herlitz when the men came on the in deck for breakfast in the gal. ley. Herlitz was taken to the city hos- pital, where he died at 9:30. Cole and members of the crew} Jare held at the city jail | book does. | MRS. M. J. BEAUMONT, 1024 Tay-| lor ave.—Any school board member | | trance to the who would not take action to elim! nate this book sent the people MRS. C. M. WYSS, 118 Eastlake ave—I wouldn't pass judgment un tl I knew mo about the book MRS. M. F. WRIGHT, (Continued on page 3) JUDGE ALBERTSON | ‘AT POINT OF DEATH) weanceasy. rhe ent to Superior Judge Albertson, of the}, 7M ae eaatas King county court, is reported to| at 6 cer belag be very low by friends who are|wtes AUNT ore him at his bedside in his home of acquittal, sral ave., Wednesday eeiey pa they remained Pee hpneans, Ge y, when they sent word His physicians, Dr, | Wednesday, wh ibe ye to Judge Tallman that an agree more eochester,| ment could not be reached ate Mason, of | "Assistant Prosecutor Helsell cannot recover, 2 m fused to discuss the case. He has been alling|).. gid not know whether Benja min would be given a new trial immediately or If another of the co-defendants would be placed on trial s Leased Wire F.C SAN FRANCISCO, Oct, 3.—Naval|neys for officals today investigated a report surprise at made by Capt. E. D. Parsons, of the “T expected an tug Tatoosh, that two mines are|he said adrift eight miles outside the en-| , a+. cERY FIGHTING GOES ON oo LONDON, Oct Mutual lerying east of Ypres during the night, was all Field Marshal Haig reported today from the Britigh front is not fit to repre TO CONVICT COP After 15 hours’ deadlock, the jury which heard the case of | E. W. Benjamin, the first 0! 13 patrolmen to face trial on a charge of failure of duty during the recent street car strike, failed to agree and were dis charged by Judge Tallman Twenty min locked up, the seven to five in it is said, There until 10:30 a, m It is not vive the day J. M. Blackford, Minn., and Dr. J say he Albertson last August since MINES IN PACIFIC? Brown, one of the attor. the defense, expressed the disagreement early acquittal,” United P By Parent-Teachers’ first meet of the The Hawthorne association will bold its Ing at the hew auditorium ward school, Monday Its chambers | artil-| LAST EDITION WEATHER WORKCAST! | Tong Thureda Joderate souther ywhere oattle PRICE ONE CENT 2" . 9. BEGINS NEW BOOZE PROBE es + 6 & HH UGGER ELUDES POLICE AFTER NEW OUTRAGE ‘Indictments Predicted by Federal Men Books of Liquor Firm Are Seized in San Francisco by Government Marshal; to Be Used as Evidence Here. jo The Star ted Press Wire Direct SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 3.—Simultaneously with a raid today on the office of Tom Brothers, Japanese liquor merchants, steps were taken to have the federal lgrand jury at Seattle investigate charges of shipping large quantities of whisky and other liquors into pro- |hibition territory. Following the raid, in which the books of the jcompany were seized, Deputy U. Marshal Mulhall ‘announced gon shipments of liquor from this city to |Seattle have been watched for weeks. ~ The cases and meen were mis- labeled, said Mulhall, Examina-|and all members of this committee tion of the books showed that all/concurring, except two, who have entries referring to Seattle ship-|enlisted and are in the service of ments had been written in Jap-|their country, and their present ad anese, and interpreters are now at|dresses unkgown, I appeal to the work on the books. United States senate to impeach According to Mulhall, indict-| and expel Sen. La Follette for trea- ments in Seattle are expected. [sonable and seditious utterances |and disloyalty to our government. |ALL NEWS TO ALLEN | men tn ti case and will ip her | BUT HE’LL PROBE in te"Ssatea ‘ether hoatiation That federal authorities in San|!" having Sen. La Follette misrepre- | se: Francisto had found evidence | "nt, the state. “Please see that this appeal |which may result in wholesale in- |dictments for violations of the U.|Teaches the prover committee and |my committee, if called upon, sh; |S. Iiquor laws similar to those re-| | 4 turned against the Billingsley | ™dertake to supply what evidence is necessary to prove that Sen. La brothers and former Patrolman E.| poiette’s utterances have had J. Margett last winter, was news 4 \to U. S. District Attorney Clay Al-|Po!sonous influences. }len Wednesday. “It is all news to me,” said Al- 138 KILLED IN will take whatever < essary.” Last December the Billingsieys!| - SWEEPS JAPAN |and Margett were indicted for hav-| |My U | jlen when The Star read him United | Press dispatches. “If the authorities in San Fran cisco have found evidence of ted, 1 ling violated federal laws in ship-| ping large quantities of whisky to BY RALPH H. TURNER Seattle. When arrested, they con TOKIO, Oct. 3—The death fessed, and charged ‘they had! toll of the typhoon which swept | brought it in under police protection. Toklo Monday was placed to- |The indictment, trial and acquittal] day at 138. of the mayor and the chief of po-| More thar 100,000 are home- |lice followed | less. Enormous damage was done by | the typhoon, The death list may be greatly in- jereased. Latest reports were that 217 persons were missing. Scores were caught in houses which were | destroyed, and the known list of in- | jured today totaled 183. The storm broke Monday. It struck first in the vicinity of Toklo bay and over the eastern FRIENDS SEEK IMPEACHMENT | OFLAFOLLETTE Pacific. The whole shore line q United Press Leased Wire was inundated. A small tidal | MILWAUKEE, Oct. 3.—Men wave accompanied the wind who worked and helped pay for and rain. At Yokohama ha Senator Robert M. La Follette’ bor four cargo boats were election last November today swept under by this wave of demanded his impeachment water. and expulsion from the office | to which they elected him, A complete estimate of the dam- age or of the loss of life will be Every active member of the impossible for several day The executive committee of the | official estimate is at least 80 dead Wisconsin state central com- |in Tokio alone. Newspapers pre- mittee concurred in a telegram urging such action by the United States sena' Chair. man West of the general com- dict this figure will be doubled The telegraph system ig utterly demoralized and reports of loss of life and damage in other parts of mittee also concurred in the the empire are lacking. The telegram. Sumida river is still rising, and it W. H. Heinemann, chairman of| was predicted that 20,000 additional the executive ymmittee, signed | homes will be flooded in the Tokio the telegram. The following tele-/district. The hurricane stripped gram, dated October 2, was sent to|roofs, whipped ships from their Chairman Pome committee on one, of the senate | moorings and beat the downpour of rivileges and elec-|rain into a veritable flood of water tlons, and a copy to President Wil-|in the streets. The imperial pal- son ace buildings and other govern- ‘As chairman of the executive|ment structures suffered consider- committee of the republican state|ably. Train service is at a stand- central committee, which was] stifl largely responsible for Sen, La Fol-' The stock exchange was closed | lette’s resolution last November, all day today SOURDOUGH TELLS SAD TALE OF APARTMENT HUNTING IN SEATTLE : exander’s packets, Be d purchased ne f e no troub! sr hejas a sick dog fish to a king sal-)grand, and others more so, with) night Pity the poor sourdough arriv- miles to the next neighbor, and [it on Alexander kets, Ben felt} he had purchased new|he would’ have no trouble, for as a e HH ae eee caiban uapeceee 5 cks | '"9 from the Far N | ften have t 100 miles. |no particular rush about hunting @ sult which had about the! plaka easy to please, and all he want-, mon ike resu rt ext partment Incomes High ' thi ar North in you often have to go ioe aw leathery sniail aad led Ha tant I'd like an apartment,” quoth|and learned all about the call sys-| “Neve; si 4s; © Sarch of a domicile in Seattle to get the mall, an apartment is | road house only that new leathery smell and|/ed was the bes Ld te otek a ; ever mind,” said Ben to his E tag he can enjoy all the com considered the acme of com- We'll check our bags and take not the slightest odor of dog sal Right up the hill he went, due! Ben Aires ion ree the te a paisa ae wife. "lt was on the wrong BOIS | a forts of steam Neat without | fort. in a show,” quoth he mon. He had on 9 regular clothes,| east from the dock, and, sizing up ' re Ful Pp ; the a tor’ bi bees et ry But after supper he unbosomed nes § Mistling spruce to feed the air- | [ist to Ben Simon, of Seward’ Delays His Little Hunt and the little Simons were Immac-|the fine front of an establishment! “Sorry, but we are | full You pigs ars oeely yee Sy himself a little to his life trail 8 F i ve eka with Bis y, early| “This afternoon will be time |which had an inter court, after might enter your name on this) after being asked > st | f | | ers sor hag oy Linh seven enough to find an apartment.” Late that afternoon he started|ihe fashion of a rujah’s palace, he waiting list,” said the party. of the sour old maid If he ed as poor &) “Say, Mrs. Simon"—Ben always | falmon i limaeyy @ ere Se, ele ene Se end spend the| Ben felt considerable axsurance| out alone, leaving wife and tamily | pussy footed in. Meeting a suave| mahogany, thrusting forward a) Writer as reader. He explained cals the wife Mrs. Simon when cht chasers peat ae Punee: | to. tae! Be Cee om e\on th urtment stuff, for hadn't|!n a Second ave. hotel ay oNinpom, he inquired ae to|shect like a page out of the mili-/that he did not get her the first] no's worrled—“I'd like to take & ; from Alaska come |“acenyed overhe from his share|on th B A Nate ri Hen gave it the up-and-' time, and she pointed out the card. few o° the meaut house ame hs i to dodge aut nd lor the ch on a certain er he left his dog teams in the North Will be back in half an hour|the keeper of this roadhouse, and tary draft n gave it the up-an few these apartment house . Rimtorte of the matron 1 ee fault of food and content-|to avold the necessity of locating! and take you out to look at the|was ushered into an office along: down and said he'd be going Six o'clock found Ben back atlers to pieces and see what makes B. lived in the ia anaun: ite ion Cerve four meals a/a roadhouse with a dog hotel in|new shebang,” sald Ben, | side of which the place of business, In the radius of five blocks he the hotel, where he registered, tak-/’em tick, Dogged if 1 ain't going ey It Ie as much as 25 yt ae ‘ite: ‘any time you want| connection, and having a wellfill-| Like other sourdoughs, Ben folt|of the Seward bank presidents was| visited 10 “shebangs,” some more ing the last room at $5 for the) (Continued on page 10) = R jay an z "i