The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1919, Page 1

Bassst? Pasar ¢ Intimate details of the under. | + insisted that the note he UTH GARRISON in Seattle Today Tides Miest Lew Water— 12:34 & mm, Firet Miah Water Second Lew! Water VOLUME 22. _NO. 26_ he Seattle Sta TEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER ID THE GRE ed an Boece ond Class Matter May 3, ATTL E, Ww ASH., 1809, at the F "RIDAY, BUTTERWORTH FIGHTS INTRODUCTION OF HIS IN COURT “Do you still regard it in the light “Gaking business were revealed to {of an obligation? Py ded im the trial 1 ae Be nreich hesitated, _ Of the United States government Gilbert M. Butterworth, undertaker, In Judge Neterer’s department Mf the federal court Friday. the first time since hie ap | vicinity ce Wednesday, Butterworth, to the himself thru three attor- grams, and was sustained. pagainst government charges Of Steven M wier, Western Untor ing on coffin sales to par-| mail clerk, of Seattle alled to of sailors and Marines, appear the stand. the pro: produc Mervous. He twitched about in duplicate telegrams ur Wekair and conferred frequently (jurialx represented to have been se Wilmon Tucker, one of his lw cver the wires by the Butter company to different parts of ccuntry. Interrogated by Fowle? was unab | actual sending of th | the defendant or r Identify Wires B. Ridley and Miss Anna M. Stahl, embloyed by the Butverwerth — compa identifi several telegrams aa being went out by the company, and denied know! edge of others and said, Inspector Testifies *, Fitch, Tacoma told how he had in rworth, October 15, grams received in Atte regory objec introduction of these viewed Bu’ ative to t ney tele K exper worth the @efense scored in suppressing ® introduction of some evidence @ apparently rendering other evi ineffective. Seven Witnesses n witnesses took the stand in Interval between the opening of at 930, and 11 a. m. | telegrams introduced purport to be from the Butterwerth com to the parents and retatives of f soldiers and marines, whose were in different localities’ Attorneys for the defense attacked the United States. Four! witnesaes by attempting to demon pees. were reed. Ov the | atfite tHAt the Putterworth com pn, the others being Te! pany, ax represented by the defend ‘on Motion of the defense. Explains Burial Price told the parents that the t burial contract price insufficient an adéquate | Oo o | Pe that $2 _agiheosond beg ra Parents taking the stand, testified u for proper shipmen' }that they were partially shamed from Seattle. — aa’ ye | (tO making funeral arrangements ~ te — over = Bye in excess of government the grams by Assis | tract price; representations States District Attorney Ben! potierworth that it would not Ae pha F ackeeed on the vide a respectable burial dete: . *. G. Gerham, whose son in-law that the i argh such | 4 chief electrician at the naval train a eee a 4 ing camp the University of » as it was not pose Washington campus, died October 6 any one had been “argon claims he was shown thra the But BGeceived by the telegrams 1M) worth establishment a few days pation. after, and a variety of 7 objected to a numer; shown him, without referen legrams, ns ernment casket were duplicates, not originals or |" *°° Pht : by the defendant. He was, ses appegh edad 4 in several of his objections,| Polnting to a red-white-and-blue ‘aad the prosecution required to! casket, Butterworth ss the relation of the telegrams | to Gorham p the defendant | “Here's just the Mother on Stand Ps de ge George Heidenreich, of Friday | fompine’: , took the stand as the first) 1). in her husband ae te 8%) tt was explained that the oo Reloogaal in the case ThUre| ment paid $100 for “certain ~ tials.” told how she and her husband) The defense, interrogating the d a funeral of $172, on rep-| witness, asked why he didn't refuse tation that the government {u- | to sign the r for the $285 burial, Gwaen't sufficient” |when informed of the government . Butterworth explained the na) contract price. of the government funeral to gpeen i. wan just. the @idn't he?” inquired Attorney) my feelings at the time,” , for the defense. replied, after hexitation. aid.” Do you still regard the bill fou purchased obligation?” Gregory demé and above the the to identify defens Mra, Bessie fant, explained to parents of dew |mailors, the full terms of the gov ernment contract, and afterward a |lowed them to use their own judg |iment in the matter of a more elab con by pro- according thing pitt govern state the ot man the remainder, government al ded “{ do not!’ declared th “Not after what's happened From Thursday morning, at 10:10 until 3:40 p. m., examination of ven (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) witness in Storrs’ Suit Case : Coming as an anticlimax the murder case of Grace Storrs fs the discovery of a letter in fal anguish, and 1 suppose fam insane, whi is what he will say, and if f am, it is he who | has made me so. } | j in | } Dudley Storrs’ suli case, Fri day morning, in his room at the Withard hotel, which is address- e4 t “Dearest Mother,” and > signed “Grace,” and which if Ruth Garrison had not made her con. fession Wednesday, would repre- | gent strong evidence to the sui- _ ¢elde theory. ‘@iorrs, when called in by Captain lof Detectives Tennant Friday morn been by his wife when she at ted to commit suicide by taking, some time ago. ‘The envelope was addreswed “My ) ‘Darling Mother,” and was unstamp- ed. The hid been torn from the top of the letter, which was written Hin pencil, and ix as follows: “Dearest Mother: When you goad this, E hope that I'M be past _ ail the misery that I have suf- wince Wve been married to I have “God bless you and papa, and my sweet little sisters; and try and not feel bad over it, because I believe God forgives me, be. canse He knows how I've suf. fered. “Now Dud can go with that low woman that he ts so crazy over, and I! wish him good luek. IRACK.” May Not Be Hers The letter may or ma uine If it were actually written by Mra Storrs, Misa Ali te, or sister says she would ha She | powitive that the letter was never re ceived by her mother “If my mother had ever received such ‘a letter from Grace, she would ave told me immediately.” Storrs ing 4 natchee K the tr u ttle time } ious in 1 he is possible, t nt be gen ve neon I in is quoted before th rr We tor for one and came it Wave found thi that time, and carried it with him evidence of suicidal intentions on part of his wif If not, why didn't immediately, with hcomments on his neglect and of his wife? Storrs ma 1 low degenerate. thought it all over fro: ' side, and I can't see any way out, altho I know it is a 4 1 haven't the the Tae reg ith hi ih to put wp with his any longer, He certainly been the cause of much men- he destroy it depreeatory abuse » | don't want to Struggles _toKeepUp Her Poise Ruth Garrison Loses Calm Which She Maintained in Early Stages Ruth G ing down under the strain of her son ix obviously break or deal, direct contrast to her early de at a Th during the first In sh seems bewtl Liffide terized bh ot mea dered poise that had chara two arceration is She | days her ir now lacking from time to time. re .|gains the grip upon herself, but only for intervals skirt of grayieh pink-« is wearing & brown and a modish sliared green sweater Extending inti: her arm ture ariness, 7 t talk any more—it Her voloe broke—elight of w snot ftecesma ry Ity Gets Flowers and Candy ‘The dazed look at times vanishes from the girl's eyes, leaving them alinost se ©, and her smile comes spontancously. The gifts of Mowers and candy which fill available space on her little table have somewhat |cheered ber. spirits. | “1 don't know whom they are al! \trom,.” she said, “but I know y are from frie and it helps a jot know that I have so many 1 aleo have received many sympathetic notes,” She spoke of her visit from her sister, Nan Garrixon who spent sev eral hours with her Thursday “| feel better today, except for a weakness when I get up. It's nice to have my friends come in to nee It's ™ interesting to le to me. here When mention was made Storrs® prese in the ity lapeed into the reserve which had distinguished her attitude toward that subject the day before If she vaguely did not come to see her, visitor no hint of her pieion She has had plenty of time to think in the days Ute have followed the fatal lunch in the Bon Marche tea room, but stil! she doe ot seem | Ito realize her crime. She only ex sreavex wonderment at the train of nts which has browht her amon wondered why he she gave her growing sus prison walls. | I can't realize is plac keep tm county ail thie But 1 here, or put n in the jail?” She summoned a brave smile, but it was evident that she shrank from the prospect of tact with older, hardened women criminals Ruth has ¢ vent ahe wonder—wi they ter city little #inee her ad ail. And wher sleeps at night, it is only with the help of the doctor's sleeping pow ders she says was called into Detective Cap tain Charles Tennant’s office, A wo: nd accompanied her to the Garrison was smiling and | Consider Neutrals | for World League PARUS, Mar 2 of recommendations of neutral qualified veer of nations. {# under Consideration coun the le ses the possibility that a com te agreement may be reached on | covenant by tomorrow Switzerland t tion by the of inviolabil it f in ope consid Bu will pave the that the remain in force doctrine of und it jeved it nee of wish of the United State Mon. Predicts Ancther German Struggle IAW, Maret trine Germany ly m a pre mre herself fi nother migh n eault a peace leas Poland ened to Ignacio F declared ntly uinst the wor un in strength aggression Polish premier jew revent their iderewaki. Prepara ons to resist the threat ened asion are w Plan Private Rites for Victim in Case Par of Mrs. Gr the doad fur undertal ee MMaabeth polwon- ed for rs tctim in th have murder arrar private Wat Th mn time has not Bonney-Watson Friday, yet been determin: | attendants said the shoulder and sald good-b; waiting of the a cheery t ond ahe it and s« [to her that shou wife and the other \M. Storrs? in her tear down she had arrest? atotticg at Beattie MARC Ht BREAKING DOWN N An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Wash, under the Act i THE PACIFIC of Congress March 4, NIGHT EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Your, by Mail, $5.00 to $9.00 NORTHWEST 1879. ear 1919, and Saturday, rtherly Storrs’ Statement Here is the statement of Dud Storrs: never had any agreement with Ruth Garrixon that she was to come back here and even talk to my wife, She left there because she had learned wh 1 told her in the first piace—that Okanogan was too small « place for us to live and not be found out. She came back here without any plans on my part, exeept that she woukl write when she got here and tell me what the situation was.” her friend ¢ with arefree, and patted on a smile. Two women friends her in the front department with met them with mi kine other were office yest hay the the interview tive captain she amile. One erly, Fe med to} with er te the ve res Itps supp emotion juickly regained her balance and told the vi » that they would have t ve @ permit to come “up- tairs” and her The two women had just left when 4 Star was shown to he was then that her luck of poise wan evident two women to say 1 batter a loophole mental defenses; that would the structure of will that built about her since her Had it to do with the third of this sordid triangle of @ man and woman, Dudley Or was it an unexpected nmed quivered reporter confidence What had the sympathy that bad flaehe@ thru some loophole in her hitherto impregnable fequantinity? At any rate she had shown in the apace of @ second that the terrible ordeal of quextioning, of t ors & the blueur by loves, looks hour. 8 prh The « the sou’ frie has been to her bed. the peing stared at by curious bystand she panson thru the halls of station under the guard of a rmed officer, and perhaps inevitable, constant thought erime and of the man sh ix wearing her down. She oer, more haggard, every has lost some of her plens vivacity and nelf-confide ime te beginning te ish on of Ruth Garrison Sister With Her has been iving mostly women. Her with her moat of the tween S and 9 o'clock brother visited her. When he was obviously broken up. was plainly visible. Mise swiftly walked—almost ran Whether she was weep: cannot be said. ut when a little later the f her She ds rec many sister last night ing Or nk matron visited her she was fast asleep. that I am of thr ness friends have parture tears in her a qua the sa and high-spirited as ever to the euperation he by wanton by Send Her Flowers She is in the women's sittin the ja and the table big bunches of flowers card on one of them from the building Her bust. forgotten her Wednesday afternoon, at the de of her fri the were troubled blue ¢ of an hour later xhe was bright, cheerful Ruth. jolly according powers of re velous and yet ricken, whether lization of the of her rime friends oom punty-City” not yet matron. are composure the gradual + peceancy or he visits of her | times time. | tup Not Happy Bef oreShe Knew Ruth Even Before She Learned of Rival, Mrs. Storrs Was Not Content BY HELEN SPAULDING nent to make man in the cane t the “1 have Dudiey st re > take 1 for him. Mt KOOrn, when s 4d to meat and speak about curtly cane wnewers were either short or carelessly evanive “1 had ne to do much of such the t Ruth intended I never dreamed until f in pemda y in » thi thing w naw it papern morning curled scornfully Dudley § ures might be termed except for of hin eyes, which" ix cronsed ch orre regular large hazel and together with his lack of bearing and cxre- lens attitude, gives him a shifty took, He i» mmooth shaven, of mplexion, and would class younk man. He wore « @ray- belted wuit, and a bright blue te and walks with a careless swagger Did you wife ever threaten aul cide?” he wax asked. “Beéveral’ times,” he mediately, “She not hi even before she heard about Ruth.” Did you and Mra. Storrs ever taik about a diver “Yes, we talked about It sev But I did not want to any action, You see, Mra. 8 was a frail sort of a woman, fraid the shock would be hy In time she would have gotten the divorce affirmed and } too probably herself.” Ruth was not the your home, then?" ‘No. not happy before that was sbort and companied ok of re ment How long Storrs before then jarring note we His reply with a were known Mrs married had you 4 were thoughtfully responded briefly the Five at Bitter Against Publicity wider ing — dingy accepted these out in a ve tack on the police offices reporters, and the prese It’ simply rh finally bur in 1 that they © much of thin mess 1} had enough culous making disgrace, There 4 » wa sign of interest of the girl had colossal sacrifice for And when he was point concerning his regi the question in light its forerunners, answered ly and feelings for ber, he the to evaxively Shortly after Dudley mitted resentfully to an interview in the & room at the police t blue-eyed, bright-looking little girl, in w room se 0 feet xreeted th gracious, dig made it Ruth ernoon ca Walks Gracefully There bright out side, the room was well orde and ‘on the table were vases of fresh flow Ruth hervelf looked “dre d in a becoming blue and g striped silk dress, and patent leather pumps, ‘The sta away with a nified manner, which for all the world lke n Was receiving an aft kame er rei was sunshine eyed Ruth Gi the more I deplored that had no trained for the She walked with queenly grace into Capt. Tennant’s office and met ager es with a calm hau more T sur ri beer tage curtous ey } teur not very well today i little plaintively, “I ‘Oh, T am little 1 something to make me For a moment she had the patiént air of a martyr ed to her courte us they gave me sleep. then she with a turn: questioner bored as if to say what more do you want me till feel the you same toward Inudley we lowered es wearily, then 1 quiets her ¢ respond wut that continue eurefully rel just no « she her we The here hen she leveled her hhue a » you know he on this floor Ruth G now ‘Tell me w this urrison forgot her he said about The words Itingly, and Ruth Garrison's blue those iuspired blue eyes—-look ed at me with an infinite appeal, vbout me came olive !M. Storrs, the man she loves, sat in another cell, and later |xave himself up | wife ‘TS PL HER ATTORNEY ASKS EXTENSION; STORRS HE { Friday’s Developments in Poison Case G Ruth Garrison is arraigned for the murder of Mrs. Storrs. @ Thomas Askren, her attorney, asks extension of time to plead. @ Dudley M. Storrs, held in jail, insists he did not plot crimea @ Suicide letter signed by Mrs. Storrs found in husband’s grip. “Ruth Garrison is only a baby! She realizes what an awful thing has h pened. She sleeps only because doctors administer drugs. She is not as as a cucumber,’ as some of the newspaper interviews would indicate.” This was the viewpoint expressed this afternoon by Thomas M. Askren attorney who will defend Ruth Garrison. She appeared before Judge T: at 1:30 p. m. and was arraigned on first degree murder charge of ph strychnine in the fruit cocktail that killed Mrs. Grace Elizabeth Storrs as 1 two lunched together in the Bon Marche tea room Tuesday noon. Askren is an old acquaintance of the Garrison family. He spent an interviewing the girl at police headquarters this morning. Attorney Askren asked for an extension of time in which to enter her p As Ruth talked with her attorney this morning, Dudley % man Of the auto repair shop, spent an hour = so closeted with Captain of Detectives |iy after that he met & Be Tennant and Deputy Prosecutor John Carmody. | Ynth ine latte tne ie” had surrendered to’ the police shortly after 7 Thursday | search of a mechs ape ing, thus be oy - — that began goog ia $ pate te lori cagt y morning, when he failed to arrive at the King st. station on the train from Wenatchee. Previous to his sur- ra wy 2 creat any a render he telephoned to Deputy Prosecutor John Carmody officials, either by sight or by and said he was in town and ready to give himself up. | O88: moat of them sscnaeie Storrs communicated with police {Garrison girt at Okanogan, he de-| He was necity aut aaas headquarters by phone befor he |clared that he had never sent ed ad askew. fitting suit. and his hat was James Doom, act | her to come to him, that the first Smooth ahaven, atures an, ing hight captain of detectives, an-| time she came he-received a letter | f tures are lean, his lips thin kwered the call one Friday morning, stating that | ightly pressed He is about 4 |feet, 10, st “Hello.” « | she was coming on a night train. While prayed Doom ered “There was nothing to do but meet | against him, he was ordered department? jher. She stayed four or five days |investigation last night, ‘The that tim In Okanogan, he said was given by Deputy he said, he and the |Carmody and Capt. Tennant Garrison girl corresponded constant, | thelr examination of him. ly. But his wife received few let “pe POLICE QUIZZ “The said, “I | town. Did Dudley M. Storrs o with his youthful affinity, Garrison, to kill his lawfal 30 o'clock. The train got in at 830. It was around 10 when I got who stood in the way of happiness? home and Ruth was in my room She left that time because she got) @ letter from her telling her that the family would take action | ‘ jagainst me if she didn’t.” | Questions about the intimate love This is the question most in the minds of Detectives Charies Tennant Deputy Prosecutor John D, mody, today. Ruth Garrison has shielded D of th girl he refused to answer. He wowld not compare his love for torrs from the derinning a 1 with the police. his wife with that for the girl who gave her all for his affection. | “Did you care more for your wife | than you did for the girl?” was asked I don't care to answer that ques-) tion,” replied Storrs. | . eft your wife te Oe. No one else had anything with it.” she insisted, time and again. “The idea never struck until I had reached Seattle. It some time Tuesday morning.” Captain Tennant points out to’live while she was there?* the girl would naturally p I mean that we couldn't get a | Storrs with the same cleverness house. Besides, I didn't know if my | *he first protected herself. . job was to be Lig nt * not He Couldn't Believe It left her b with her mother untt ‘ ‘ I found out what I was going to do T can't believe that is aaa rein is just a kid, planned and executed. | this thing alone,” he says. “If is not ne in the job, she hold out forever.” After the death of Mrs. Stom the girl In the case was prompt 1 ‘advance the suicide theory, and to Coroner C. C. Tiffin: “She tried it three times before, once the gun route, once with gas, once with lysol,.” When Storrs was interviewed Wenatchee, before boarding train for Seattle, he also was quick to explain the suicide theory, The police are wondering if was an explanation agreed to the pair, Yet, if Mrs, Storrs really considered suicide, it would old 8 when Mr. the de wala is this voice ans This is Who? Dudley me Yes, sure, Where “Lam at my mothe want to see me? Yes, we want see you.” “Well, whag f “We want to talk to you about this case what you know about it Storrs Storrs. Do you want to re you?” igh te second time Ruth came,” he didn't know she was in 1 went to the movies about De | Is it true stator, wife?” That's what she “Well, what do you with me, hold me?” ea, we'll have to hold you until what the circumstances ar » down right away, Where com: into Room 30%and I'll be for you,” was the final word Doom. tly ill into the detective was held by James Doom, acting night captain, until the arrival of Carmody and Captain of Detectives Charles Tennant. Ostensibly keyed up to a high nervous pitch, he walk ed about the room, examining the pictures on the walls, fingering the book the table, and once even combed his hair before a small mir ror that the girl killed my says.” want to do shall I Drop waitin of Mr Appare ey, didn't you “Why you “We could to live Didn't Miss Garrison find a place | didn’t you take her with n't Ket a decent place in. Detrained at Everett When Tennant and Carmody but them. I ered to sit Tennant immediately began work of interrogating bis man petal so yiod, According to Storrs he caught a I think so.’ Seattle-bound t at Wenatchee at still love 1:36 a. m, Thursday, but aware that he would be stopped on his arrival 1 dropped off at Everett, where he Arriving here a 9 Thursday morning, he regist at the Wil hard hotel, Seventh ave, ant Union as J. C. DuStor, of Spokane. At went to his mother at her gy, didn't you? 2434 10th ave. N. ‘Their : De meeting was pathetic, His mother ircorta? Gaui tiers te had to be led to her chair, weeping did she come of her|@ natural theory for Storrs to Here Storrs remained all Thursday | own ac vance, and a Gevet exhianiiann afternoon, talking things “y Ruth Garrlede atte tha his mother, and making all ar bead cnt oe ments before surrendering apimne gpd aye wut avitantts | Discovery of the suicide sea gg nd so | signed by Mrs, Storrs, and found tae ‘at tinedly, Dudley Storrs’ ing arrived in § as he portant ngle If the | are ros was own. the over Says It’s “Too Deep” > to rent a would hay wouldn't you “If you had been house over there you your wife, don’t don't care to answer that que When questioned as to his inten tions with t girl, he said I don't know, It’s too deep for me.” “You had her so wildly in love with you that she would follow you caught a sta little before immediately st noon he vehers can't “Did you Okanogan ord don't “Did you that town?” Went to School Here “Do you know why came back to Seattle? Was it your suggestion “No.” home, at or de know.” try to get her to leave Storrs He talk with evi botn Inter: sin turn talked. Of relations he talked unres married life had never Aid, He had talked tion of divorce many before he ered each ans ed slowly dent ¢ nestne to the case, Twas genuine, why Qi the outeome of the lice investigation, Storrs will © | charges, ats a complaint charging tims” moral habitation with “the girl : already been drawn up by W. Gy) . prosecutor of Okt 27 years old. He was but has lived in earl, 908, when | He went to] his marital i born in Missouri Seattle since the his parents moved here. Central grade, school and afterward Broadway high, but left the latter in his sophomore year to become an} auto mechanic, He drove a “for| hire” car when wa in that line -CP were good i He worked in the sheriff's office | as mechanic in the county garage, | When sky-high shipyard — wages came in he left and went to Skinner & Kddy'’s, where he was made fore- servedly been happy oy the ques with ath G fact that he had not sent his money while he was living in Okanogan he explained by saying he had left her quite a little sum, and because she was living th her father, he thought that she could get along Questioned about living with the nes his late wife met wrrison: rhe