The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 22, 1919, Page 1

q fe Ny An American Paper That Fights for Americanism Tides in Seattle Today Fiest Low Water an 2:40 p.m Second High Water 2:38 pm VOLUME 22. NO. 2 JTH GARRISON HELD UNDER ASSUMED NAME Saturday Developments in Poison Case Ruth Garrison cloistered at House of the Good Shepherd. Intercept Ruth’s last love letter, written here Monday night. Mother of dead victim identifies handwriting of suicide note. Sheriff arrives to take Dudley Storrs back to Okanogan. “I Am Yours, Always,” Ruth Garrison Writes Dudley Storrs A few hours after Ruth Garrison reached Seattle from Oka nogun last Monday, and before ahe had called up the woman she poisoned, the 18-year-old girl wrote a letter to Dudley M. Storrs, which reveals her devotion. It was intercepted in the mails by order of Captain Charles Tenn nt. The letter follows: e-. . “Beatle, Wash.“March 17, 1919. “Lover; Here I am, in the rookiest city ever built. Oh, how I do hate it, and everybody in it! “I'll have to hand it to Clara, tho. She's a peach. Met me at the train; loved and kissed me like I'd been away for years, She hasn't said @ word #0 far, except to ask how I felt, ete, and tel! me all the news of what has happened since I left. She's here in the bedroom with me now—waiting patiently tll I fintsh this, so she can talk. IT rather dread it, but, thep— Aunt M. an@ Uncie Qfr, and Mrs. Thompson) are worse than 12 feet of enow. “Boy—they"lt hardly speak: but Clara wanted me-to come.eut . night, so thought I'd better, Tomorrow I'm to have Ruth Gar brought from the House of the to the county jail. | Jooking up the law regarding | Girl's status. wey wire you; but I know it won't be home acd in misery without you “Oh, lover boy! You locked so lonesome there this morning it hurt me worse than the fact of my having to I had a wonderful talk with Frank on the way over, Nothing real personal concerning between you and I, but just gen- erally, He's a peach of a fetlow, “Listen, sweetheart. Frank met the banker, Whitworth, on the train today, and he says he has a little five-room house just back of the schoolhouse; and, altho there's a bachelor living there now, he said he would make him move out for Frank. So Frank All they want ts for me to rr > When asked if there was a deputy om guard at the girl's room, String Ae ways if Thayer will pay afiying. lover. don't go to live with them, just hie own from\the time he leaves here, that he'll bri For the love of Mike take him up on it transportation and wages his wife and come Only, please, wil you? “It's @ shame I stayed and «pent all your perfectly good, hard: earned money for board bill; but with you. “Please write just as quickly Camano, Wash. ‘Miss’ again jood night, yours—alwayn. Okanogan and, her. It wan one causes leading to) lover man, maximum penalty for Storrs} year in the penitentiary and) fine. the transfer of the sini! Don't know how and 1 surely had a wonderful time as possible, and send my mall to Il ever get used to being a don't ever forget I'm all “SWEETHEART GIRL.” Good Shepherd home, Sheriff Stringer said Baturday morn. | that his action was a “disgrace,” or | words to that effect, and declared that the Garrison girl should be placed in a dungeon “We're humanitarians here,” all that Stringer said afterward. W. C. Gresham, the prosecutor from Okanogan, will accompany | Sheriff Stark, of Okanogan, with Storrs Monday. The prosecutor feels strongly for the girl and is embit tered against Storrs. A letter, written to Storrs by hie wife while he was living with Ruth Garrison at Okanogan, {« in their hands. They belleve that they may shake some of Storrs’ stoicism with it, or at least gain some point by making him explain some of the | passages. They refused to divulge 4 4 . | the contents of the letter. woman called him on’ the “ | Immediately after her arraign: | this morning and declared) mont yesterday in Judge Boyd Tall man’s court, Ruth was taken to the county jail, where a half-hour's con ference with her attorneys resulted in her removal to the other institu tion. Prosecuting Attorney Fred © Brown is not entirely satisfied with | the arrangement “She is no better than any other woman prisoner,” he asserted, “and I shall object to her being accorded better treatment than any other.” “She is a murderer, not a martyr,” sald Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John D. Carmody, “and there is no sense in trying to make her one. She | belongs in jail, and she should be | there.” Sheriff Stringer, on whose order Ruth was taken to the House of the Good Shepherd, told a Star reporter that he wanted her to be away from | everyone. Wants Her to Rest “1 want her to be out there where she can obtain all the rest and quiet she needs,” he said. “I don't want her in the county jail with those women up there, It is no place for her. And 1 don't want her to be where she can be bothered by morbid and curious people, who would come to yisit her.” | Stark Arrives Here is being kept in a Stringer, there you have ever seen the condi- at the county jail you wouldn't at bg sending her out there. is use in punishing her placing her in that ward and i her in contact with the of women that are confined ” deputy classified conditions at county jail as “unfit for any Says Action “Disgrace” back his head and laughed “the men out once in a and give the women a he said. locked | with | Ruth room, according to 80 is county jail “The law does not designate where a prisoner may be kept.” he said. “The sheriff may keep her anywhere he wishes. so long as she ix kept safely. That is the only require- ment.” Another development in thia sational case was the arrival last night of Sheriff Harry E. Stark, of Okanogan county, with a warrant charging bduction for Dudley M. Storrs, The warrant was not served Friday night, but the sheriff stated that Storrs would be taken to Okanogan Monday Sts ht with him the letter from Ruth Garrison to Storrs, which sen | was intercepteg in the mails. To Plead Friday County prosecutors expect a of not guilty on an insanity charge next Friday by Ruth Garrison and her attorneys, The M. Askren and A. R. Hilen, when she appears before Judge Tallman in superior court to enter her formal plea “By pleading ‘not guilty,’ she nothing to lose,” Deputy Prose Carmody says If the girl enters this plea it will mean one of the most sensational trials of recent years. The fight of her attor will center about the impulse which resulted in the poison ing of Mre rrs. The state's argument will that the murder was executed with deliberate intent The testimony of Dr. Donald A has utor Nicholson, alientist, who examined the girl Thursday and pronounced her sane, will be one of the features of the state's cas The fact that T. M. Askren, attor ney for the defe asked for more time Friday, “as other lawyers will be associated in the case,” indicates that the girl will not lack for mentors. Trial in Three Weeks According 10 Prosecutin ney Fred C. Brown, the ent that a plea of entered by attorneys for the girl, whl be set for a date approximating three weeks from next Friday Mra. ©. B. Glatz, mother of the Attor trial, in the not guilty ie plea | legal | barred windows, no | murdered woman, identified the sui chance of escape. She is under the | cide letter, purported to be from personal care of the mother superior. | Storrs’ wife, which was found in his Judge Tallman, before whom the | handbag. It was taken to her home girl waw arraigned Friday, naid that at 611 B. John st. by Detective Dan he had given no order that the gir! | McLennan, where she declared that be taken anywhere, other than the! jt was her daughter's handwriting, SATURDAY, | | Photo by Cress-Dale e Seattle Sta THE GREATEST DAILY CIRCULATION OF ANY PAPER IN THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST Ot of Congress Marcu 5, 1879 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Your, by Mall, MARCH 22, 1919. might fair: Sum erate easterly Mrs. M. A. Magee, Whe Christened the Eldena Friday. Lasty cheers of overalied workmen, and the glad music of the Skinner & Eddy band jehip Eldena giided down the ways at 7:30 a. m. } | marked the event. Mrs. M. A. Magee, wife of Capt M. A. Magee, manager-elect of the (ANNOUNCE TERMS OF TREA |The Macy Scale Not | Fair to Low-Pay Men| FLEET OF The Macy scale has NEVER been satisfactory in Seattle nor in Tacoma. And it is not sa’ This ought to be evident to Ship- Examiner Henry Mc- Bride, representative of the national board for the Northwestern district, who, it is today reported, has tele- graphed from Washington, D. C., that a conference of shipyard managers ping and international tisfactory NOW. Germany Will Be Li Force of Only 100 . n officers has PARIS, March 22.—The decided to continue the Macy scale in force till October 1. It should be apparent to local ship- yard managers, also as it no doubt is to local union men. ba? ramped sess may be fair when reg as offering an average wage thruout the country. But conditions in | The terms of the treaty military, naval preme war counefi are, the best information, as Germany to be allowed a the Northwest are not of the average type. The scale may give a fair living to the , or.in ly, it is fair But in It repeats it today. | the low-pay workers: in local | First of the big steel Skinner & Eddy freighters to take the water | since Seattle shipyard workers returned to the yards, the 9,600-ton steel | yards have a grim battle for exist- workers in the San Francisco. Undoubted- enough Seattle—and the wage of low-pay men in Tacoma— is not suf- At $4.60 per day, ship- and aviation tions finally agreed to by the @ The allies retain the right of ~HUNS CU Soldiers and Officers. SURRENDER SUBMARII € ence. It is a most heroic task to sup- port a family in this city decently on North Pacific district for the emergency fleet corporation, christened the | || $25 to $30 per week. Eldena Friday's launching marked inauguration of the new afterstrike steel shipbuilding era in Seattle Girl Reporter Today Sees Ruth Garrison in BY HELEN SPAULDID If the story of Ruth Garrison were told in a movie drama, her sojourn | t the House of the Good Shepherd would make a distinct and unique | reel. The bleak March morning wai just breaking into sunshine when the deputy sheriff's machine drew up in front of the big, somber look ing institution in the Meridian dis trict, where Ruth Garrison was plac ed Friday afternoon, awaiting ber trial We, the privileged few who had of ficial permission to see the 18-year old prisoner. involuntarly shuddered an we entered the high-ceilinged hall, | for it had been a cold rid from town, and the stiliness of those big white-walled rooms. ranged and scrupulously a aid not impart the recurrent warmth of coming indoors. Scene Is Impressive | The mother superior entered #0 softly in her flowing white robes and | black mantle that we were hardly aware of her presence. Her benign. spectacied blue eyes studied her morning callers—was it disapproving conjecture?—then, after a few softly spoken words with our deputy sher iff guide, she moved noiselessly out jof the leaving the half door open « and the images of the # inely arranged, the utter qui place, except for the momentary interlude of a soft voiced bell or the chimes, made it all seem like a ceremony, and put pro saic conversation out of the picture In silence we sat, almost reverent: | ly, watching the open doorway A few soft steps and the mother supe rior returned, ushering in ber charge Ruth Garrison, whose bright fac and pink sweater struck a sudden | warm note to the scene. She looked | » ever in this high-cell: | but she smiled a brave | Her white crepe ints, wispier tha inged room. morning greeting, waist had been displaced for the plain middy of the institution, for Ruth has entered into the routine of » wchool as any other inmate of the od Shepherd home, She com ined a little of lack of sleep, | She substantiated Storrs’ state }ment that she had never seen the letter and was of the opinion that} | Storrs had kept it from her deliber ately. She believed that it undoubt- edly had some connection with the time when Storrs found his wife overcome with gas in one of her at tempta to commit suicide. Weeping softly, Ruth Garrison ap- (CONT'D ON PAGE FOURTEEN) | rest | knows her secret her New Environment “Oh, 1 only slept a little last night I wish they had given me some thing. “Besides, I had to get up at 5 o'clock this morning, just like the of the girls.” “Ruth and I are the only ones who " the mother superior explained to Ruth's callers, nd Ruth herself responded with a amile, but when her white-robed cus todian had withdrawn from the iroup she spoke deprecatingly of her difficulty in getting into this new routine in which she found herself. “They asked me to play plano this morning-—and then said, ‘Don't play ragtime” Why, ragtime ix the only thing I play! She shrugged her shoulders and smiled ruefully I would love to read and have visitors, I wonder if they would let me.” Then she lapsed into a dreamy quiet in which we knew Ruth Garri- | son was thinking of other things be- | sides morning callers, From time to time, as a friendly question was put to her, she looked up, courteously alert, but often with a little frown creeping over her brow. “My mother? Oh, I guess she is here now.” Even the mention of her home did not lift her from her grow ing apathy. Eager for Newspaper When she chatted about her school life, her island home or the people | whom she had met since she came to Seattle, it was always in an easy but & punetilious manner Any mention of Storrs, of her trial or the comments of the press she “ d to regard instinctively as taboor newspaper in the lap of one of her callers, she appropriated it eagerly and deftly opened it before the moth er superior had reached her side, “Now, Ruth," the mother superior took the paper gently, “you know you are going to do just what I say Ruth is always a good, obedient ." whe adde noouragingly trace of resentment, a long look of appeal as the lit tle prisoner surrendered her find Then she broke into quivering sobs and hid her face in her hands, When she looked up again, Jt was a sad, tear-stained face, on which @ little smile flickered fitfully Outside, in the hall, her attorney, Thomas Askren, and his assistant, | Rueben Hilen, had just arrived from |town to confer with the new inmate of the Good Shepherd home, Both are old friends of Ruth's family. Rueben Hilen knew her when a child in Skagit county, on Camano island, subjects, but when she spied | The cause of the low-pay men in the yards is the most pressing. THEY of the industry as well as from dic- tates of fairness, the shipyard man- agers should bend their energies to- ward a more just readjustment of the scale with regard to low-pay men. It is up to them. ‘AWAIT WORD ON BURLESON FIRES WAGE REPORT POSTAL CO. MEN Message Says Macy Scale | Mackay,, Cook, | Deegan Will Continue | Metal Trades council officials in Seattle were awaiting definite | word Friday concerning « report | that shipyard employers and their international officers, in | conference at Washington, D. C., | had agreed to continue Macy | award wage scales and working Jitions until October 1 them in management, | In relieving the Mackay Henry McBride, examiner for the | ¢rom connection with their com Northwest district, is reported to) Burleson asserted that they have telegraphed his assistant, Ar-| failed to carry thur W. Jones, at Portland, that in- instructions of the postmaster |dications pointed to such an agree-|eral, und have conducted jment selves before the public and wit A boi senting the owners and five the | workers, shall be appointed to have | terests of the government.” geferal control of the industrial re- Burleson's order also includ WASHINGTOD master General | moved Clarence H. Mackay, | graph and Telephone system. lations of the Pacific coast shipyards, his removal from control and opera. | | tion “the owners.” jadded the telegram, | ‘The result of the recent coastwise | strike vote taken by delegates to the : coast shipyard workers’ con. | held in Portland in February, | have not been made public, owing to| he fact, labor men say, that they did not wish their representatives at Washington to have any strings tied jto them | J. P. Martin, president of the Boil. |ermaker's union, local 104, announced |that the organization would hold a |meeting at 230 p. m, Sunday, at Dugdale’s ball park, to discuss the War Council Will PARIS, March 2 | resented by Col, House, owing league of nations confer he is to preside as chairman on reopen discussion frontiers. tired by Postmaster March 22.—Post-|armed and returned to Burleson today re- prest- |dent; W. W. Cook, general counsel; | William 8. Deegan, secretary, and | for war or commercial purposes, § the board of directors of the Mackay company, operating the Postal Tele- | He | appointed A, F, Adams to supersede group pany, “have out the orders and gen- them- hh the of ten men, five repre-| operating force in such a manner as to disadvantageously affect the in. led in Discuss Frontiers | n When the su | preme war council met today Presi- | |dent Wilson was expected to be rep: | |FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT to his more necessary engagement with the | nce, where | ‘The aerial passage and landing {many until complete |terials to be su Six Battleships | United Press’ information, | limited to six battleships Deutschland or Lothringen ty] |der the terms arranged. Other naval maximums Six light cruisers, 12 12 torpedo boats. | In replacing the fleet | vessels constructed will not 10,000 tons for armored ships, tons for light cruisers, 800 destroyers, and 200 tons for boats. Can't Replace Shipa | Except when ships are lost storm, etc., no battleships nor ru rs can be replaced until they |20 years old, according to the posed terms. Destroyers and % fore they can be junked as ob and replaced by new vessels, The navy personnel to be I to 15,000. This number ii | 1,500 officers. | Warships now under const jin German navy yards to be b | up under allied supervision. All auxiliary cruisers to be | ship status. | AN submarines to be sui to the allies. Construction of submarines, bidden. Advance Clocks on Next Sai Daylight saving time is here Just one more week is left snooze while the sun shines. @ next Saturday night, March a week from today, ,hands on clocks will be advanced an by most people, when they go |] bed. Orders to operate trains the daylight saving schedule, ginning a week from Si have been sent out by the railroad administration; body else is expected to oll suit OFFICES CLOSE DOO WASHINGTON, March supreme war council is expected to | proximately 500 federal Germany's | service. offices closed their day for lack of funds, pedo boats must be 15 years. old be ys: 6 a "| matter of going out on strike April 1. The men who returned to the yards agreed to go back until that date, he said, and a decision must be made as to what course will be followed after April L Yesterday the council discussed} Many states are prey transportation of Polish troops thru | over the work which the f Danzig. This is considered signifi-| ernment was compelled to cant, since it was reported that | Ohio already has Germany would refuse to allow the '000 to continue 19 Poles to land at Danzi¢ sf of the 37 te