The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 5, 1917, Page 1

VHO’S IRVING GREEN? SOME BOY—BELIEVE US—HE AND “TINY” BURNETT—TURN TO PAGE 1 TheSeattleStar its. The Greatest Daily Circulation of Any Paper in the Pacific Northwest sits Bie le r; moderate em Everywhere VOLUME 19 Bites phbnes “IRS SBR ERs SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1917. PRICE ONE CENT fn’ entitle SLUGGER ATTACKS 2 OUR PLUM-PICKING POLICEMEN TOmENs AID N ia} lice, in questioning her, seemed 1S In no mood to have adopted the theory that HE PEOPLE OF TI 11S asi elas to stand for any her daughter was “wild,” and CITY DO NOT WANT had sicher planned the eoky OF THEIR POLICE DEPART- Volunteer Posses Scour N é perfunctory po- : lice investigation he attack herself, or else tha MENT, IN A CRISIS LIKE. |[Hl ie lata had inthicant’ ie THIS, TO WASTE THE | 83 St. District With Po of the activities of scratches found upon her PRECIOUS MOMENTSIM- | lice and Sheriffs Afte Seattle’s woman ~ ING ONE OF THESE AT- Hi New Attacks Today. slugger. breast, while in a_ fainting MEDIATELY FOLLOW- A member of the city detec- TACKS IN TRYING TO tive department told a Star re- FIT TO THE CRIME /@ Woman-slugger renews depredations Friday after ate” a porter yesterday that the SOME FANCIFUL’ THE- tacking four women Thursday. Eeeeeere of the police de- Thayer case “didn't look good ORY OF THEIR OWN, OR |Hf/@ Mrs. G. W. Murray, 1130 N. 83rd st., was attacked partment, almost to a man, are pen) . ' SDN] 1i°:.60O TU but frightened the slugger away Friday forenoon by r > : : to him. His reason for so IN. SPENDING THEIR iting raaltin ‘ said to be anxious to come to es ? : “ Ape rane firing a shot thru the ceiling when she was thrown . Rah tits fied whe h thinking, he said, was because rIME PICKING PLUMS. on a bed. z & Pb h . ny ae, of the girl had permitted The Individual members of the @ Mrs. P. Carlson, 6211 Sycamore st., was attacked = terrorized the city. ‘Any one o Star’s photographer to take her department are willing to go shortly after noon Friday by a man who caught her ~ them would, The Star believes, in the cellar of her home. He fled when her screams, picture. The detective said he any le ; is . f gladly take any sort of a des- rn | i ig d - ag wd : ery lengths to get this brute. aroused the neighborhood. perate chance to capture this thought she must be looking It is up to their superiors to |@ Mayor Gill wants council to offer reward of $2) ! fellow i for publicity. give them a free rein. Don’t |for capture and conviction of slugger. Sheriff off ‘ § . This, people of Seattle, is doubt. Don’t start out by dis- |$500 reward and ex-Councilman Way offers $100. ge erga oe — the attitude which our po- counting stories told by victims (a pe Mitte as prose boat and many citizens of- . * rr - i“ + e oO iC Sete chan the ‘dld-fashioned lice department has taken or witiesses. Take these cases |@ Mrs. Thayer, whose daughter was attacked a. second : ete : : concerning the repeated at- as you find them. So arrange time Thursday, charges"police insulted her daughter and | police viewpoint, which seeks, tacks on. Esther Thaset Face’ eorees” ‘Phat’ ‘W " first of all, to discredit. It isa A yer. your forces that you~ can spent their time eating her plums instead of hunting for : congeymaey Peni A Star reporter talked today throw into any locality, in the the slugger. viewpoint 0: iy pe oo to Dr. J. A. Fleming, of the least possible space of time, an iG Slugg ger hunt in progress near Murray home, . “4 ig 3 2 Ye woman elu a yam It ve ies ie sa Cobb building, who attended army of officers to run this de- tue Sanitic. Gen in thar «legis oe ae > 4 . : * Friday, h ine “ —_ our po - t ag oops. the girl after she had been generate down the next time he scanseh. sae ieigntenee, wuayl | broek year tenen) Delman ore we can hope for any ag- knocked down yesterday. shows his lustful face cereane, totere he theenters ap ee ee ) ) s Ss s a . screams, before he had been He was evidently a fore gressive action. 18, daughter of Mrs, E. E “ * ” ‘ b igner i * Viaaed eotentunding aseretery of the WC. T. There is no doubt, | able to complete hie fiendish was dressed in a blue sult of U, Seattle police say ae ; aid Th ti h purpose, smooth material. He wore agp Bh oes ra Dr. Fleming, “but that she e l1me as The woman-slugger attacked Mrs. cap, which gave him a yop ; ; ; aes slugger Girl and her mother, G. W. Murray, 28 and handsome, appes vas Vv ' HE story of Esther Thayer iva nconscious today at her = Was attacked and badly Sard st, at 108. m. Friday. |yery tall, He wore ©, blood points the lesson. home, as a result of a second attack made upon hurt. I have known Esther come when our po- pao pati a desperate struggle, in. ring.” ws her yesterday. - i * which his intended victim fired two . Yesterday Esther Thayer, 18 es since her early childhood. 1 lice department Wr ne rhalthg apt e Seting years old, was attacked at her daughter run with?” one of the lived next door to the p {to the bedroom, he made Mis @s: trip near North Yakima with home in South Park f h detectives asked the girl's Tha family f. Shortly after noon. Mra. P. xd ts call eff the tip 6 a en South Park for te err ee eee eee hasgot toget upon Olson, 6211 Sycamore st, was | SF tne depredations of the wome second time in three days. mother. : and watched Esther grow 2 ° | hit from behind by a” man an slugger. Hie subordinates Police and detectives “Did the officers comb the up. She is a girl of irre- its toes. The peo- ment to get esme canned frat. | creee auncauam Money. a were sent to the house. neighborhood for the slug- proachable character and . - P ort tan the tou’ rac tantne, | Many reports reached The Star Their first questions indi- ger?” a Star reporter asked the _ reputation.” ple of this city de- Relghbore, to give the alarm. thought to be the Women Sail cated they believed the girl mother, later. Inquiry at the Thayer ° arrived. was arrested in the US ng.) os mand rotect Police who had been scouring |tFict, but investigaion by police abe ; victim of the slugger was No,” said Mrs. Thayer, home today revealed the p ection the north end of the city for Mrs, |f01Ved him from responsibly foe : : cea algae ay * he crime wave fi “faking” on them. “but they combed my plum _—fact that the girl is still un- =f), their women froshImpetasIn thelr weareh for, "OC blanket of fo and Ail ‘ “What gang does your trees in the back yard.” conscious, and that the . the man who has terrorized the neary nah ee ee It was an hour and a half after the woman-slugger, by Motoreyele Officers G. E. Reynolds and Wik Mrs. Carison was attacked before jthe central headquarters was nott jam Dench, in the Rainier Valley fied, tho officers from the, Dens-| ‘strict Friday morning. more station had been promptly |. fusillade of bullets was fired at notified. This delay kept motor. |'"f Tor ace alle trom excited: Bear eye officers from getting on the ple is hampering the work of the police, Within five minutes Friday morning, the police received calls that a man answering the descrip: | tion was in three different parts of SEE WORLD’S SERIES PLAYED AS 5 _ MOTHER OF SLUGGER S vicTIM. GUESTS OF STAR ON SECOND AVE. bi ; : nounced daily during the baseball classic by Piper & Taft, ganized man-hunt for e regained consciousness su Second ave., between Seneca and Spring sts., thru the courtesy An: orgenize Iticientty Friday to say that, wh of The Star was In full the woman-slugger standing underneath an apple t In this way The Star will give its readers the Hvest up- scene promptly Would Pay $250 for the Woman-Slugger otticers found Mrs. Carlson's forehead bruised and her hair pulled out by the slugger. Mrs. Murray notified the police Mayor Gill announced Friday | Yolved in any labor disputes.” that he would take up the mat- | The plan to vtilize off-shift fire ter of offering a reward for men for patrol duty has been adopt-| in person of the attack and seemed the city. The persons who called men convicted of slugging and | ed by the mayor. cool when a Star reporter arrived S#!d that a man was seen im the” assauiting women, and would | Deputizes Citizens ae the deine, Green Lake district, Interbay and 4 y “ll swing by citizens, firemen ané she heard a man's volce say, tothe-minute dope on the series at a convenient downtown recommend that the amount | y, f. ; Rainier valley, pe Friday, following the | kill you this time,” but says she ineeting snes. Whe Star ted ah ecuipetitnes tast-aeerte ter: At: veule probably be $280 for |, Volunteer civilians already made| “I was working in my nite hen PibieasnsdeNn series of four brutal attacks, | does not remember anything after nishing the fans with the world’s series ser y having the each case. | special officers are ibe ” Tea ey one Weg : Metiewed in quick uc |¢nat |] games called off, play by play, at Piper & Taft's, and being This was made Friday after |. ! A. Wool 4607 Juneau st.; | Sony ieee’ Sak nian: ae meen Teetey, Dr. J. A. Fleming won ented first on the street with the box scores after the games. the woman-slugger attacked " a creer tpg 1225 E. Jefferson | iat tis Sintineds ah aan cession | four women Thursday, one of | St! jockley, 1503 14th ave. S.; | hal Leh Sept | Men of South Park, indig- “1 found @ lump on the back of fone, wena Tierenay hk cheeks tatanen ak I have come to fix your phone second attack | ing girl's 4,” he said, “and ] and J. E. Dixon, a city fireman liv Tihs : - a w something was wrong, warning note ‘araceed the ecrntches i bruises | “The resolution passed July ing at 3014 Alki ave. because our phone. has been taken found on Esther Tha The man evidently remained only Soy tne cnumell, ausnerizing | ' ne Green Lake Bisiness Men's| ou Baie Meme a BB When jn 48, 1056 Sullivan st. Th a short time, and the second at me to offer $1,000 reward is no v « cer bre . atrolied the brutal as the Geod the way It stands," he {Association will meet Saturday | toward: me, saying " fave eet fon day afternoon, pi tack was not as brutal a id. dt will ask th Me | night at the Green Lake branch It ’ 1h re : is Gietrict during the night. There | yi ru¢ Oe re cai wer anet the | brary, to organize ani money be actually appropriated. , to organize a volunteer home Shots Frighten Him nant over th and the ‘ag attending her. It said: ‘This fa the second time. Death next vf time, 1 am an 1. W. W'” The girl had walked out into the back yard with her grandmother, Mrs. Lavina Cowley. The phone Word has been received from the woman-slugger. | 1 wage adjustment board, which t# . jrunning down the woman slugger.|and ran out of the front door. I wage adjustment boa . Se Bets F. Chi Won't Deputize Strikers | He said that he had a wife and baby | followed as quickly as I could, but he members ets Favor wcago Mayor Gill said he would not followed a jand was willing to patrol for two he had disappeared « 6 feet 6 ashes Usually he wears a dark cap and suit, and tan button shoes. et ee te mounh. * Slare not expected to begin work un-|} Nt First Series Mix} rer es eattic Conettoetton | Of, three nights a week “{ have been alone at nights Special praise was given al units engaged. They were rep- ntatives of all sections of the British empire, The Anzacs, English, Scotch, en route to Seattle. urday, but are expected here | recommend that 500 shipyard strik tion in 1 ” eclared that the | ig never police protec’ | Mrs, Thayer ¢ a du guard patrol South Park at night. | police tried to infer that she, her- | |. “The reward, in my opinion, Masclaiitne A eae _| “My husband works out of town, | BY, WM. PHILIP SIMMS Miss Thayer was still uncon- (Continued on page 5) | Hope was held out for a tem-yernment building proceed. should not be too high, because) piictt Hay camp, fiaBe iced {and I keep a revolver in my bed-| Tilia’ bres Meade Correspondent scious Friday and in a serious : | 1a.| “We feel the government work it’s apt to result in too many at-) Wooden of mp, » Modern! room. 80 he grappled with me WITH THE BRITISH AR- condition. | nrrnnnnnnrnnnnnnannnny |porary settlement of the shipbulld-) srouiq continue without unneces:|tempt# to frame-up on innocent| ordmen of ety offering || began ng toward the bed-| MIES IN THE FIELD, Oct. 5, The note, found tucked beneath é Tt heels ing strike Friday when a second gary interruptions j parties.” | hight guard duty, and pesteg 12 gig | room, and he rushed me along 88) —The most important British the girl's upper under pon yt If You See This ng between the Metal Trades! “we have always pald our men| Sheriff Offers Rewara | reward for the capture of the wom.| ast, 2% he could victory of the war, was how Suanded over to the polive ty Mz Tell Police committee and ship-|liberal wages, but the margin of] Councflman Bolton introduced a/an slugger. As he forced me back on the | Ee ei ee ee noe irl's mother, Mrs. BE. & mi ivan, called at the office of profits now are so small we can't |resolution, which Was passed.) fen were gol bed, I reache under the pillow gs @ / eprresponding secretary of the 5s the description of the Rhodes of the Seattle afford the demanded raise, How-/ pledging the council to appropriate ; dee ce to police head-/ and got my iver, 1 fired the stroke of yesterday morning ic. T. v. ee ee Ce eee orally voce e ecco. and Com. ever, we will be glad to meet the|$1,000 reward for any man conviet nan? all day, requesting permits first shot directly at him, but it) appeared today. 5 jencil |} woman-slugger that is gene ree . ’ earms berins” bal ee ae nd I} accepted by the police The first meeting, men and discuss the propoaltion ot ed of assault to murder or rape Offers to Patrol Pekar cr Hes EL Latest reports at headquare ni 4, look e cnt a temporary scale, pending a final | women. | | kno found it afer my daughter had He I dark featured, looks Ike . voluntary commit: | temporary v "Sheriff Stringer has oftered a{ ,,4,ma Whe did not want tor give/ bullet went into the celling ters as this is flled give every brought into the house, when yg te Tuesday Vii lleat | $500 reward for the capture of the | DiS, Mme called at The Star office) “The shooting evidently frighten-| Indication pointing to com ds abou |last night and wanted to enlist in|ed him badly, for he released me| disorganization of the h ? “I think any one who refuses to} much of the time for eight years, til the follgwing Monday By United Press Leased Wire and Dry Dock Co, be made special | Fang gd the grandmother return i agper coer t nite ie C. W. Wiley, president of the Se: SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 5— }| officers, following their offer to Patios right now is a slack-!and I will not be frightened to-| trish and New Foundlanders to the house to answer |t. pct pace ag tag 0 attie Construction & Dry Dock Co.) Betting on the world's series {|help catch the woman slugger he said | night all participated. They can ip minutes ister, Mise Thay-|) carried # te on ver, us { has issued the following statement |} was brisk, even money prevall “1 don't want to permit this mat-| ’ Mrs. Murray is a large woman) claim their share of achieving ee 2026 snconscious in the iy gosanbe the on }\in part ing. Many White Sox backers, {| ter to become involved in any la-| Printing and publishing together|#nd she feels sure her strength) a victory which, as its magni. Woodshed, her clothes stripped |) us some’ worden ave gall “We agreed with the committee |§ however, were offering slight | bor matters,” he said, “but 1 will} form the third largest manufactur jsaved her, where a weaker woman | tude appeared more clearly to- to the waist, and her breast } alike. Some womel hive kill | out into effect a temporary |) odds that Chicago would win }/be glad to recommend that stars! ing industry in the country, and| Would have been easy prey for the atined to be one eeimeck bruised, lacerated and |{ od the Impiest an eort wage seale that would permit our!) the first game. and permission to carry arms be produce $800,000,000 in material an-! 8!uRBer. test marke of the b apparently scratched by #){ —others that De © Sidr \inen to return to work and the gov- given to responsible citizens not in- nually, She gave an excellent descrip- whole great war. ei ttt sharp trument j y ‘