The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 20, 1919, Page 1

‘Ruth Garrison Calm After Making Confession Knotked down and run over by an} ng - Wateh for the First Article by “The Girl of the Golden Apple’—in The Star Tomorrow Tides in Seattle Today Piest Lew Water— ‘ 299 5 25 VOLUME 22. ME An American THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF nd Clans Matter May 2 D ATTLE, ed ae the 8 W ‘AS THURSDAY, What Cynthia Grey Thinks of Garrison Gase By CYNTHIA GREY Today Seattle is shocked and bewildered over the strange case of Ruth Garrison, self-confessed mur- derer of Mrs. Grace Storrs, whose husband she be- lieves she loves. How could an 18-year-old girl—a child, almost deliberately plan and execute such a deed to which she. confesses? * What peculiar type of mind could urge her, budding into womanhood, to such a shocking act? Why is it, and why should it be so? Especially are friends of Ruth, who knew her as hk quiet, kind-hearted, modest girl, nonplussed by the rapid-moving phases of the tragedy in the lives of . these three. Ruth, the girl-woman, sits stolidly in her cell, unableto grasp the horror of it all—almost defiant of sympathy. Stunned, dazed, she fears only for one thing, cares only for one thing, and that thing is THE LOVE OF DUDLEY STORRS. I have never seen Ruth Garrison, but as a type I am well acquainted with her. The years I have spent as confidential adviser to thousands of young girls has brought me close to her. I have heard her “T love him even if he is married. I can't help it. What shall I do?” 1 have-had-an opportunity to observe the out- just come of some of these cases, trous as this one. Ruth Garrison did not confide in any one. which was not as disas- She was self-willed, and possessed of a marvelous courage. She thought she was capable of handling her own affairs. Alas, that she did not have the guidance, the love, the protection of some one truly interested in her welfare, who might have turned her wealth of affection, her abundant courage, into the channels of good. Sex magnetism, aided by blind, unreasoning, pas- sionate youth, compelled Ruth Garrison to commit her deed. Dudley Storrs was not one one-hundredth as attractive as many of Ruth's boy friends. Yet, he and she were on the same plane of mentality, which created a common bond between them, a sex affinity. Ruth was feminine, younger, weaker, con- sequently she was controlled by this unseen, unknown sex powey which she mistook for love. Dudley Storrs, instead of nipping this girl's devo- tion in the bud, encouraged it. In my own mind, Ruth Garrison is not alone responsible for the death of Grace Storrs. She had dwelt upon her love tragedy until it became an obsession. She was sexutized, hypnotized—INSANE temporarily. 3UTTERWORTH TRIAL BEGINS MAN KILLED | BY JITNEY CAR Over; Dies Instantly | | Up in a amatt, itated poisoning of Mrs. driven by Fred Smith, 34, | Palatine ave.. a jitney driver, | Eig@th ave. §. and Jackson st.,| BR Miller, 65, a street sweeper. | instantly Killed at 9 o'clock | y night. th declared at the police sta where he had taken Miller aft- the accident last night, that he} coasting down Jackson st. at a of about 15 miles an hour, aft ‘Making a run out to 11th ave. and st, a that Miller, who was ing a street flusher, stepped in front of the machine. The Man was taken to police head by Smith, where « doctor the city hospital asserted that had been killed instantly. ith was released on $250 ball E. L. Hedges, who investigated accident, declared that if the does not bring a charge against b, a charge of reckless driving be filed by the police. j is survived by a widow, at lith ave. 8. He had been in the of the city for the past 25 child—an impylsive, doubt—but still a wilful one, was willing to take another's life her whole thought is and to have him for her own “I love him,” she said, simply would marry him if I were free.” Then she questioned abruptly, note of alarm in her voice “There isn't anything they to him? It is not his fault net blame him in any way,” added, statinchly When asked if though it improper Storrs, a married man. her attention, her ideal and refused to utter plaint against him “I only knew that 1! It is not his fault; him to go away.” dry and hopeless. well-worded answers. fexsion keen in mind she had that *b They day morning she had But, for tears. oh! the suffering in her Only onee did they dim suspiciously bie—when she was asked concerning: her crime I'm sorrow wnat it “{ know I did wrong. That was all she would say her conscience could only be guessed. she In the last six months, the one great interest in her since life “Pm Sorry Now,” Ruth Garrison Says, “and I Know I Did Wrong” bare-looking room on the fifth floor of the police Station Wednesday afternoon a slender girl lay the door opposite with dazed, expressionless eyes. and pretty and are meant to zo with smiling lips! For 1%yearold Ruth Garrison, despite her cold-blooded and premed. Grace Storrs Tuesday afternoon in the Bon Marche tea room, is just a romantic no little dreamer who idolizes Dudley M. Storrs as the one man in her life, for love of whom she Toward him she holds no matice; to shield him can do I do she ever Dudiey uid show she doggedly clung to com loved him. 1 could have told But her lips were were calm, without a trace of hysteria. Ruth Garrixon’s composure was still ax when she first faced the deputies who arrested her Her body was tense, but her appearance was as trim as when Wednes passed smilingly She still wore her dark brown suit and white georgette crepe waist and her feet were encased in neat black pumps. “KNOW I DID WRONG bright blue “1 did not care for anything elee good times. My boy friends THEY HAVEN'T HEARD? But she looked up eagerly when her girl friends were But r about what 1 She closed her eyes wearily and brushed her wavy “Y would like to see them. slightly—“they haven't heard- her forehead. “Oh, For a moment her transgressor grasped the grim m “There is one ony way that Garrison's toneless voice eyes: were 1 only cared for 1 wonder when they will have aning of her crime 1 can there wa# no ray . the walls back of the r CROWDS PACK COURT ROOM Charged With Defrauding Service Men’s Relatives The trial of Gilbert M. But- terwerth, undertaker, charged with defrauding the govern: ment and parents of dead sail- ors, formally opened in Judge deremiah Neterer's department of the United States district court, at 10:15 a m. Thursday. The courtroom, on the third floor of the federal bullding, was jammed. on & couch watching Eyes that are blue & long line of people forming around ar eats i by Attorneys Wilmon wKe W. Gregory and Day Butterworth seated himself at the table facing the judge's bench, from where he observed proceedings with composure Moore Represents United States Assistant United States” District Attorney Ben L. Moore explained the specific nature of the $i-count indictment to the jury, following which he examined the jury for fit ness in detail, Counsel for the de fense interviewed the jury after ward One juror Repre: Tucker Karr, Edward® Pearson, was unable “to determine whether he would be able to weigh vidence without prejudice against the de fendant, and was discharged. An other, at the conclusion of the ex amination, com of a cold and fever, and said bh in bed. He was ret Asked More M indictment, District that Butterworth R. Bu rth & Sons ce with the government to bury sailors and ma rines in the 13th Nava district for $100 per burial, using a hermetically »d metallined casket, The in at the defendant told parents of dead soktiers and ma rines that the government outlay was insufficient, and that between $100 and $200 more was necessary for proper burial ‘This involved the use ed States mails for the defrauding, the indictment char The ndent also alleged to have attempted to defraud the gov ernment by burying dead soldiers j and sailors in plain wooden coffins fter contracting to a of the sing in metal-lined and hermet sealed caskets. Ruth Garrison gE after her con intact and she was as into Capt. Tennant’s office The Assistant charges ager of E. undertakers eyes—too har dry As man. and her red, girlish lips trem for How w my folkw sake it had pierced ha# known Storrs, he has been I was not interested in an “kid y other them in a way of the purpose Unit of mentioned voice Capt ant? brown bair from de the trial filled what they will dot with foretoding as this girl pone nd said of hope And in Ruth teally Says Hohenzollern Ukrainians and Poles Get Order PARIS, March the supreme | war council hax again ordered the Poles and Ukrainians io cease fight jing immediately, it was announced today. |\Spartacans Urge j BERLIN, March 19.--(Delayed.) Field Marshal Von Hindenburg to day issued a statement defending the kalser's flight “He chose the best course to serve the fatherland, save us from fur ther losses and misery and | peace," Von Hindenburg said New Berlin War ' March 20. ure beginning agitation general strike March declaring that “this time victory i certain,” « Berlin dispatch reported today. Spartacans for a new At the Postoffice at Heattle MARCH Took Wisest Course. restore ANY PAPER IN w THE the Act of Cor * Followed Spurious Lodestar So Declares Girl Reporter Who Taiked to Ruth Garrison TRIPS OVER FALSE GOAL BY HALEN SPAULDING ‘The case of Ruth Garrison is a peculiar one in newspaper an nals—but, as a human story, it ix not peculiar, IM is the story of the hopes and aspirations of any ISyearold girl, but with « tragke ending. Not that any Ityrarold girl might seek to commit murder to attain her own happiness, but any gitl of those years might have the same misplaced ideals, the same reckless spontaneity, whieh, If not checked, might flow into wrong channels and wreak similar ruin. “Ruth was always liked, a jloving, cheerful girl.” There are the | tributes paid on ali aides by forme: | clasemates at Queen” Anne high, by her girl friends downtown, by their mothers and sisters, who. Wednes: day, flocked into Gaptain Tennant’s office and begged to see Ruth, only for a moment. Was Baby of Family Up on Camago island, where Ruth lived until eight months ago, with her parents, there ix a picturesque sweep of the sound and wooded, rocky shores, but little human re sponse for a young spirited re She was the baby of the family md petted a great deal by her folks She had an independent way with her, which assured her folks, no doubt, when wanted to leave them and come down to Seattle to attend high Thus spoke the mother of one of Ruth's chums, who also knew her folks distantly Ruth was known generous lively girl among her friends at high school, but the routine of study and school pleasures did represent the bigger activity whieh Ruth had come from ber home to find tn the big city. Without waiting to graduate, she accepted a position downtown. the county auditor's Office, as typist At this time went the home of « former chum school, but the monotony of suc working days and few oft od no outlet Ruth's impulsive, buoyant nature ed the Piano She was a clever girl plano well and was a But she went out very litthe—much less than most girle of her age These are the comments of the chum with whom she lived. “I did not care only Dudley Storrs first.” In her own words, Ruth Gar- rison shows that she accepted her ripening friendship with a married man as her lodestar, for lack of « truer mark, Ruth Garrison had missed the guiding toreh, and, stumbling, had found this spurious goal on which she blindly heaped all her pent-up youthful devoti w and she school in she to live at at high os ng to She played good mixer lor anything— from the Storrs Wanted to “‘¥ivec Mine Russian Gold M of and is ume hanes n worked Storrs was on the Auto M said to have Later, he Dudley president union, of its organizers. in Everett Af chanic there } Noi r leaving bee ™ for the ter company, Pike and Belmont was from there he of Sheriff John Stringer ff and me me a western Mo ave, It entered the service as a driver chanic Storrs fellow and cording to to Si great dream, workers, was te dig gold. Mrs d made considerable money at mining, and it was from him that he got the mining fever. He was notified of his wife's de a telegram sent by his law to Okanogan Tuesday, whieh said died this afternoon while talking with Miss G He told newspaper men in We chee that he bell his wife had | committed suicide, and told of an | alleged attempt she made to kill her self with gas. ac his beria father h Storrs by rrison. "i nip SEATTLE BANK © Clearings y Balanc -aper That Fights for American The Seattle Star | PACIFIC NORTH WE creme Mare § Year, n, § NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE 00 to $9.90 Tonight fair gentle vriay sole easterly ALIENIST SAYS GIRL IS SAN Developments in Case @ Ruth Garrison confesses that she poisoned Mrs. Storrs. € Dudley M. Storrs, man in the case, cannot be located. G Ds. Donald Nicholson, alienist, called to examine Ruth. @ First degree murder charges prepared by prosecutor. Ruth Garrison is not in- sane. This was the report made today by Dr. Donald Nichol- son, alienist, to Prosecutor » Fred Brown, just before a | first degree murder charge Life Term May Be Fate of Girl Who was filed against the young ‘girl, who confessed y afternoon that she poisoned the wife of the man she loved. Grim details of the crime were bared by the girl her- self, when she finally admit- ted to Deputy Prosecutor | Carmody and Captain of De- 'tectives Tennant, at 3 p. m. Wednesday, that she had pur- chased 35 cents worth of strychnine, and stirred it into the fruit cocktail for her guest and rival, Mrs. Grace Storrs, at luncheon Tuesday in the Bon Marche tea room. Dudley M. Storrs, husband of the dead woman, and lover of Ruth Garrison, is being sought thruout the Northwest today. He was scheduled to reach Seattle at 8:30 a. m. to- day on a train that left We- natchee last night. It is known he boarded the train. But he could not be found when Investigators searched thru the train at the Union depot today Prosecutor W. C. Gresham, of Okanogan punty, has arrived in Se. He went into conference with ecutor Brown C8harges of il living with Ruth Garrison r placed inst Storrs, ac cording to the cuting attetney Slept Soundly Dr Nicholson, the nerve and alienist, was called case by Prosecutor Brown. viewed Ruth at the city jail fhursday morning, and this after. noon is preparing a written report In a short verbal report he an nounced tha she has “a normal mind and is not Insane. * Th girl had ppt soundly her nfession, and dis. played gerness to see the hus. band of th woman she is alleged to have murdered as soon as he ar. pro: expert into the He tn ® after Dryeye: made he calm, Ruth Ga confession of murder. had matched ber wits with Prosecutor Carmody and ‘Tennant with deft abandon. Knees she sat at looking her questioners straight in the eyes. At times she even became jocular and philosophized 6n lov During an intermission in the cross-examination, an important bit of information percolated to police headquarters. A woman who had dined at the Bon Marche ‘Tuesday noon had noticed Ruth carefully stirring a fruit cocktail be fore Mrs, Storrs arrived, The girl then pushed the glass aeross the (14-Year-Old Girl on Murder Trial in N. Y. Court NEW YORK, March 20.—The voungest girl ever to » charged with first degree murder in this city is under arrest — here. She is Felippe Gambino, 14, who shot Tomasso Troya, a boarder, in her mother's home, the night 31, She pleads self. . alleging Troya attempt ssault her, rison Deputy Captain ease She | rrison | table, arose, looked about, then walked around the table and tipped a chair against it in anticipation of | her guest. Nods Her Confession “We have a witness, Ruth, who & saw you mix the cocktail and tip the chair to the table,” Carmody said. As he talked, Ruth shook her head from side to side in a deliberate negative -reply “Now, Ruth, don't say no,” Car mody insisted, “because that is what happened.” The girl's eyelids lowered. She appeared dazed for an instant. and then—her head nodded a silent \"Yea.” “Why asked. “I wanted him.” In an instant she was again alert, almost eager. When did yo mind to do this “Not until Tuesday morning, after I had arrived in Seattle.” “To Kill Cats” “Did any one conspire with you to do this thing?” No Where did you get the poison?” “At a drug store on Union st.” “How much did you get?” ‘Thirty-five cents worth.” “What did you say you wanted it did you do it?" Carmody e up your for “To kill cats.” “Did you sign for the strychnine— t name did you give?” ireen-~and I gave an‘ad- dress Summit ave., 1 believe.” “Did you put all the poison in the used part of it. I dumped into 4 sink.” “Ruth, isn’t it a big reef to get this off your chest? t wres.” Points Out Store “Is there anything else you want to tell us? “That is all.” She consented to accompany | officials in a police automobile to the drug store, where she said she pur chased the poison, | That's the place,” she indicated, |when the party reached the Cut Rate drug store, 308 Union st, Captain Tennant entered the store, and there found the record of the sale with the slenature—“Ruth Green.” | The clerk who had made the sale | left the employ of the Cut Rate store Tuesday night, but was found | working at the Quaker drug store, | First ave. and Madison st. Driving ‘to this place, the clerk was found jand asked to identity of the day before, He glanced at Ruth Garrison, and | jsaid: “That's the girl,” according to} Captain Tennant The rest | the} his customer It was the canny Ruth Garrison that forced © to keep asking questions. toned thet this strange atti cate an abnormal psychology. | calculating woman, he Her uncle, J. D. Esary, and torney, T. W. Askren, Capt. Tennant’s office after { ty had returned from the trip. The uncle had seen late noon papers, telling of the hia 4 j “Is it true?” he asked. | ‘Then Ruth Garrison |face to the wall. Just the |tion of a sob vibrated thru her. body. Suddenly she turned, her chin poised high, |her sacrifice for love. | “Well,” she sighed, “what suppose will happen to me? one replied. The jail elevator bore her to. top of the public safety Her uncle followed, and there |taiked alone, Later the girl nd tried to read a magazine, & short rest she willingly the matron to the jail studios § quietly submitted to the ordeal police photographer. During the afternoon William Dehn, university , had reported to Coroner C. C, that his investigation lethal dore of strychnine in the ach of Mrs, Storrs, | Preliminary to Ruth Gi jgonfession, she had been ti tripped by questions from the in¥ | tigators. oe | She first denied she had to Seattle Monday after ; Dudley Storrs—the man in the | —at Okanogan Later she admitted visiting | there, but insisted her relations piatonic. Later she admitted tering at the Bureau hetel, @ gan, as Mrs. Ruth Storrs. On day shopping trip to Wenate had registered as Mrs. Storrs hotel. Her return to Seattle, she said, fe lowed receipt of a letter from fi who warned her she would’ trouble” if she did not quit Bits of information, cone tea room tragedy, continued to to the police as the investi progressed. Slipped Out of Sight One woman, who had there Tuesday, told how Ruth rison suddenly disappeared the confusion when Mrs. Storrs w stricken. She was absent for J jminutes, Other women were look for her. Ruth then stepped 3 |the ladies’ rest room. in possession of herself. She left the scene with the inten! jcommitting suicide with the der of the strychnine. leve she slipped out of sight te | composure. Ruth Garrison's father is a ber operator at Camane, Her jlife had been normal, acquaint jSay, and Ruth was regarded as @ Jol Jable girl, possessed of grit and 9 tally alert. She has two bro \French Enter For | More German Tow GENEVA, Switzerland, ‘French troops have | Karlsruhe, Mannheim, ‘and Rheinan because of “ pel