The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 5, 1919, Page 1

Tides in Seattle MONDAY TURSDAY . ways tet Law Pie MEAN B. V. B’s? An American Paper That Fights for Americanism The Seattle Sta Becond Class Matter WHY, ‘BUY VICTORY BONDS’ &3| LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Per Your, by Mall, $5.00 to $9.00 at the 2, 1899, under the Act of ee hk To VOLUME 22. 4 OW-—this week-—or never must Seattle gifd up her loins, tighten t 1d belt and buck up if she is to pull the cord in this Vic tory Liberty Loan affair. Six days > left, and $10,480,980 to gol! Can Se ttle make good? WILL she make AN and WILL-—or she ang her civic head in shame. No excuse | é R ALIBI will explain or | 3 'O} condone if this fair town: | ship does not step right out this week and pile up her Liberty Loan quota of +. $19,000,000. We've tooted our trum pet as go-getters. and tooted it long and raucously, hut we'd better back down, WY RAP our béx00 up and lay It) WV a where the moths | down’ on the Victory Lib £ Atty Laan, There are too | any pedple itt Stptite like the wom an Mrs. J.T. Munsicker, one of the hard naleswomen. sR. F. Weeks. en- ¥ Yhap : | RSE. Mrs. Hunsicker ¥ reason to | be- Bind of a First Hill residence. the front door ‘A Mra, Mun ¢ — from somewhere within, at the fropt door?” confused ICH tones, but tones lac: j quered. with ong-way, fil- : tere! down to the maid as follows: "Mary. how ‘often have I told you to held conversations with ped- Pushing right past the Mre-Hensicker Tay EVER taiteret until she | ) | faced the Mistress of the sed Mansion. Einsued a pithy | Monologue which was re-/ freshing for its clarity and j for tt brevity. Mra. Hun-/ wound up in these words: “T| “have you know that I am not} & peddier, but an agent of the Unit. ed States government.” INSUED a complete reversal of form on the part of the havebty lady of the man: | ingly unpartiamentary grammar | anent “peddlers.” And, before Mra. Hunsicker faded into the scenery, «the lady, with « jammed crosswise in Uke a purchaser. In oth. | “€r words, she signed on the dotted | a i line and became the owner of a $100 ¥ietory Liberty bond. lot like her in Seattle, and to come in, and otherwise XCAVATED. They will be, too, if it is necessary to unlimber the rude but ef- fieacious sandbag and gas pipe, according to Victory Saturday afternoon Anna Litendre, fresh {R] when from Alaska, OLLED in with 15 $20 gold | Pieces, and asked for $300 Worth of “V" bonds, Up to Saturday the buyers gave checks or bank} notes. The arrival of Miss Litendre with clinking coins wax a novelty at which every person in the shop lined up and took @ brazen but admiring perk Irish Delegates to See Peace Meeting DUBLIN, May 5 —Official represe: Irish republic will Ko to F Frank P ber of the Irish-Ameri: gation, told the Unit ‘Col. House inform conduct to Paris will be granted offt- | cial Irish delegates Ww | “But first Premier Lic ah sires to interview us.” th w Press.) of the permitted to Walsh, mem- ar tatives ‘aris. peace dele. | d Press today. | d us that safe Pi . B. Wells, member of the signal a U. 8. army, stationed at Camp Lewis, was brought to the cit y hoe: Pital Sunday night py _ Fred Ivey, ad been 4: | rinking heavily of dena- tures by DRINKS DENATURED Atconot| % wor get at it if we tat | THE BELGIA ” *.*% *& STAR MAN PARIS, May Wress)—Marquis Imperial, Ital jan ambassador to Great Britain, will attend the first business WASH., MONDAY, MAY nd Tu gentle 2 Weather F¢ re na ing Machine; Then Jumps to Safety NS WILL SIGN HE WRITES EXPERIENCE Editor's Note—George St a member of The Star reportor. ial staff, enlisted in the American meeting of the league of nations alr service and received his avia- this afternoon, according to au tion training at Riverside, Cab therttative information. ifornia. Sunday afternoon he leaped 2,000 feet from an air. BY ED L. KEEN (United Press © PARIS, May 5.—The Italian Foreign Minister Pichon that | Premier At the same time it was learned sion. She not only ciut-| that the “big three” is considering 4| tne tered up the parlor air |Dlan.for making Flume a free port.|)44, with apologies, but begged a lot of under control of the le@gue of na The Italians pardons for the use of the distress. | tions, for period of three years. While the Italians and Jugo-Si | thus would enjey equal commercial | privileges in the disputed city during this period, work would be hurried on construction of another port for and comment | the Jugo-Slavs on which some way became | coast. should be «moked out, dug up, made | of the apparently acceptable compro mise formulated by the ) together with the spirit of concilia- | “Jumper tion evinced by both the Italianwand|of the “F | the allies in the past few diiyx officially announced | their temporary withdrawal the At the expiration of the three the years, it is assumed Fiume would be fiue, made a distinct noise | formally annexed to ltaly Effect Compromise While this does not postively as | eure Italy's immediate resumption « There are &@ her place in the peace conference. they | ig believed thin will foliow ave Daimatian in view |More like th ce conference April 23, following | but walt both [mon basis that Italians to come signing peace treaty. ‘These negotiations were given ad: | ditional impetus the arrival of the Austrian peace det egates, now unofficially reported to be set for May |To ime for PARIS, May reparations a COPENHAGE Loan. officials. Speaking of pelf and | publication of the statement by Pres things—the first gold coin to hit Vie-| ident Wilson, in which he declared! case in which the big para fory Loan headquarters was seen|that he would not consent to Italy| ried on the sbip, was strapped into Miss }paving Fiume, inasmuch as such 4) place concéasion would be in violation of| beneath the rear cockpit, in which | the armistice terms and the 14 prin-| Barnes sat to drive ciples. | Returning to Rome, Orlando laid! nook me onto the chute hin case before the | ment and wan given a vote of confi dence. Since that time unofficial re ports have been received of over Italy and \toward getting together on a com-| would permit the back to Paris in|German newspapers, the former kal- | on of the German|ser has asked the government for| wolves, 12. Receive Turk- Bulgar Delegates (United being made today | to receive the Bulgarian and peace delegates examined the housing fa lthe St. Cloud. and Bellevue hotels, th the idea of establishing quar for them in thone hotels DENY HUNGAKY SURRENDER | May Patrolman| press.)—A dispatch Wells admitted that he | pudapest today denied that the Hu m soviet government had a ; He was in a verious| cepted the allies’ demand to surren: Freneh arrived, The canvas is car He finally under the fuselage, directly I donned the harness that was to after deck PAGE TWO) Italian partia (CONT'D ON Kaiser Would Like to Live in Germany BERNE, May 5.—According to the allies permission to return to Germany jand live on estates near Kadinen. imminence of | y YORK, May & Fire today, {United which damaged N Press.) |the transatlantic flight, will not de lay the start tentatively scheduled |tor tomorrow morning, it was stated lat the office of Commander Towers, in charge of the flight Repairs @ damaged machine: ‘Turkish | It was stated at officials | that two wings of the N. © lites of | destroyed, and the tail of th C4 slightly damaged. Ignition of gaso an electric spark started the Press.) line by bia: $1ST IS RELEASED WASHINGTON, May 5.-»(United Preas.)--The 81st national army di ision was released Friday to pre- ve for its return to the United item, (United | from received al f If anybody ever arke you if [there's a big kick in jumping 2.000 jfeet from the wing of an airplane inte « lake-—tell ‘em po! They'li probably call you reven different kinds of a Har. I would have myself, up uptil about 4 o'clock Sunday afternoon. Now 1 know better. For somewhere around that |hour Percy Barnes, from the cockpit fof his big Martin biplane, shouted jaboye the roar of his motor | “Are you ready?” | And 1 dropped from the butt of the left wing of the ship to test « new “double-decked chute*—a varia }tion of the recent “Foul-Non” para lebute Invented by F. W. Watkins lof the Waldorf Apartments, Seattle Relow me, shimmering in the late jafternoon sun, lay Spanaway lake located on the outekirts of Tacoma. lA high wind and lack of a more suitable landing place had caused jus to néek thie body of water as test” spot in the neighbor Two minutes — at leext I judge it was about two minutes, tho |] didn't give the time much thought —after Bar had waved me fare well and stuck his ship into a dive #0 that I wouldn't foul in his tall irigging, | slipped into the water at the south end of the lake so clore to the shore that the parachute rested In a tree. Sut to start at the beginning: SMrapped to Cockpit According to schedule, I was Imake my descent at 2 o'clock it|erything is getting to be more a railroads, tho, when it comes to sechedules—we were late. big three,”| W. D. Starkey, ex-profexsional | and partner of the father LNon" apparatus, suf. }fered three blowouts en route from Seattle to Tacoma, And Starkey from the| had the parachute. It was nothing ‘crowd—tried to cram their way into Superior Judge John 'S. Jurey’s courtroom Monday morning when the curtain [life depended upon successful inva | ernoon e being rushed on the | | * * & * * * * * LEAPS 2,000 PARACHUTE Hundreds DROPS HIM INTO LAKE ‘Compromise Being Effected Stands on Left Wing of Fly- in Dispute Over Claims to Fiume Port two of the navy seaplanes entered in | @PP ‘Towers’ office | the 1 were |deputy sheriffs {when a atir in the corridor heralded | ponald Nicholson, the brain special: ithe arrival of Ruth Garrison Pershing cabled the war | gin is " 7 2000 FEET FROM AIRPLAN } Head Erect, Ruth Garrison Faces Crowd as Tussle She Enters County-City Building for T to Get a Glimpse of Ruth Garrison Story of Poison Case April 9, 191T--Grace Giats, Broadway high schoot graduate, married in Tacoma to Douglas Storrs, who later becomes a King county deputy sheriff December, 1918—Mra, Storrs overhears telep learns of mpetings between her husband and Ruth old girl employed in the county-city buikting. March 10, 1919--Ruth Gerrison registers as “Mra Storra”’ in a hotel at Wenatehee, and goes to live with Storrs, who has taken up residence in Okanogan as an auto mechanic March U7, 191%--Ruth Garrison returna to Seattle Mareh 18, 1918—Ruth Garrison purchases strychnine in a local drug store, according to police, and then makes appointment with Mra Storrs to take lunch with her in Hon Marche tea rooms ca March 18, 2:30 p. m=-Mre. Storrs dies from poisoning in depart ment store dressing room, after eating fruit cocktail containing strych nine March 19, 2 a. m.--Ruth Garrisof arrested for investigation. De- clares innocence. _ Se Storrs. 9.3 of May 5, 1919—Final chapter in the story of one woman's love for an- other's husband, and her cold-blooded plotting to be rid of her, opens in superior court when Ruth Garrison goes on trial facing firet degree murder charges, She pleads temporary inaanity one conversation and jarrison, an 18 r ” ae ee Ruth Garrison walked head erect toward the crow@ that assembled outside the coynty-city | glimpre her, after alighting from @ county auto on her way to face trial ou first degree murder | \day, Thi photograph was snapped just before she entered the building. Walking with her is Mrs. Mis | Dow, matron at the Juvenile Detention home, who will attend Miss Garrison during the trial. Deputy | Herbert Beebe is seen at the left. Sheriff Stringer is behind Miss Garrison. Old men, old women, young men, young women, high school girls in sport skirts who played hookey and high} school boys with retreating hair, the butcher, the baker, | the candlestick maker—a straining, pushing, perspiring| will be a feature of the trial when that phase is reached Priater First Juror’ Ruth Garrison paid painfully close attention to the examination of the prospective jurors, gazing upon each with wide, unwinking eyes. Anon she would shift close to her attor ney. and on the point of whisper wal times, but re frained each time. : The first juror chosen—and he will be there when the jury retires to its room to decide Ruth's fate was W. M. Tomli a printer, liv ing at y pl. Tomlin son anew “” put by ¢ poo! and Hilen in a crisp, intelligent manner, and gave the impression of eonfidence to both a defens Tomlinson had ck | "formed an opinion as to the com mission of the crime, but held an open mind as to the responsibility.” Woman Accepted second Ruth Garrison Attentive and Cool as Trial Ope: BY HELEN SPAULDING ! Ruth G old. poisoner of Mrs of her crime, her head fell dej on her cupped palm, but only: moment. . Then she looked. up dry-eyed a composed to follow with alert att tion every stage of the court J cedure, Not a detail of the impaneling escaped her ears, and eyes scrutinized each prospec Jurer as sharply as the council wi examined them. When the o clared and the accompany her to the judges’ bers, she arose almost c and walked erect across the without bestowing a single glance the wondering throng around accused 15. Grace Storrs, | rison, rose on the drama of Ruth Garrison. Long before 9:30 o'clock, at which hour Presiding Judge Boyd J. Tallman was to assign the case of “State vs. Ruth Garrison,” the crowd began to congregate. The .mildly curious, the morbidly curious, blase men with silver in their hair and peace officers to whom murder in the first degree and its accompanying sobs and tears are only a chore, began to gravitate toward Judge Tallman’s courtroom, Even as day morning, three girls were hold ing a place in front of the courtroom door, so that they might have front seats in the drama in which diminu tive Ruth Garrison is the leading figure For three hours the crowd grew and mushroomed, until the cor ridor waa thronged with milling hu mans, each bent upon forcing an en trance into the rtroom, as tho his entered the court of her trial Mon-| day with her calm. A morning 9:30 racteristic poise and slight figure in dark blue serge dress and drooping black hat, she slipped thru the crowd so quietly, the escort of Mrs. Mathew matron, and Deputy Sheriff Beebe, that ¢ r specta- tors thronging the corridors of Jurey’s court were “dly that the young defendant aa prosecutor rly ax 6:20 o'clock Mon-j talked #6 much | Dressed plainly in a blued one-piece dress and wearing a bi straw bat, Ruth Garrison more like one of the high school girls who had played hookey in or der to be t The only splash} of color to offset Ruth's rather som her appearance was a collarette of blue. Otherwise appeared to quiet rather than principal a sensational mur-| trial Judge aware had pas At looked of her with in her} resting she right Askren, clasped d feet the tal most relaxed fig- courtroom. Only r head in alert courtroom pro- she sat to the y. Thomas’ nds loosely nd her stipp underneath the BANDIT MAKES DAYLIGHT HAUL Enters Jewelry Store, Proprietor, Escapes Firing two shots to emphasize. nidentified juror to pass both eution and defense was Roy Chambers, of West Woodland park. | wo. probably The first woman and the third Jur |i. in the tense Or to be accepted was Mrs. Andrene wien ene lifted bh Andrews, of 1788 W, 62nd st S attention th Peter J. Winn, of 2517 Tenth ave. |cedure did the deep shadow of her was next 1 ig hat 1 the sad, swollen The second woman juror to be of her bright, blue eyes was Miss Ag irson Ruth Garrison presented the pic- na ev in of a trim, demure Seattle school pha py onat-iea Her new blue serge dress was easily be a the der schoolgirl in sion Those who stormed th doors and preempt were disappoint measure Ruth Garrison was not called upon to be in court when Judge Tallman assigned her ¢ Kept Instead of feasting upon the 18-year-old cused of taking the woman who stood between her and|® friend the man she loved, Ruth was al-| owed to remain in seclusion until} idge Tallman appointed courtroom quet seats Ruth's quiet demeanor was height: | ened by whe was Coming into the shook hands | + with a herself jand « val sur an eyes | VOY of th room and its gax in| ite crowd. Occasionally she bowed | the |and smiled faintly she recognized Ww reve paleness but otherwise 4 calm. room ac $815 nswer he rdir said. to Agtorney H jacquainted with Dr of the state's would be fair testimony of alienists for the de fense. She ix the wife of a grocer and has two married sons attor herself up to a court eys, ve she who She girl. made in youthful lines—with plaited | son ulienints, in judging , is one said she skirt, wide flowing sleeves and broad | girdle formed into a bow at the back. The plaited turquoise blue collar pro vided the one color note to her cos: tu and contrasted sharply with of Des R. J. Logan, 1909 Fourth ave. N..| the pallor of her face and the bright | wan ur | Was the sixth Juror chosen. He is red line of her lips, just showing engaged in the brokerage business. , beneath the shadow of her hat. Many Excused Only once during the morning pro- jurors to be cedure did a smile break the inscrut- | quickly able expression of her face—then The just a momentary flicker parted her H. Tink-| lips, as she greeted a friend as he residing at| Passed by the table | who irl life of Laughed Once It was when M. C. Young Judge | Moines, a prospective juror Jurey to umpire the legal battle|der examination by Deputy whieh will send Ruth Garrison 10) cuting Attorney Charles E Walla Walla for life will turn | pool that RUM gave vent to have staged a death feast « Chuckied and smiled Bor, Marche tea room on the “I had an opinion as to the guilt] or inne of the defendant,” of March 18 iat tea ,| Young replied to question by udee |Pool, “but after reading the news on vila murder |Pavers and hearing the case talked ting |oVer I found another opinion the| The quizaical hunger-maddened | Youns's fa toward his demands, an ut bandit smashed F.C. rence, jeweler, 532 First ave, Sy over the head with a Me seized $1,200 from the cash drawer, und escaped after fore ing an auto eriver to take him | south on First ave. to the Sears Tinkham | When Deputy Prosecutor Claypool] Roebuck Co, plant, at a fixed opinion as to | rose and read the formal statement | $ re —— = daikon | Monday, innocence and he by Hilen The bandit entered the store ordered Lawrence to throw up. jhands,, Lawrence thought the Bs | was joking, and started to Sadio Adler, 1711 Washington} whe the man drew a revolver st., was excused when she admit-| tired two shots into the wall a ted she had formed an opinion and| inches above Lawrence's’ head. was prejudiced, rence ducked, and the man st Ralph Jabush, 9020 12th aye, &.,) him over the head with a black, answered all the questions satis- the force of the blow breaking or called chal first first ® jury by six box were the defense was George truck driver ave, N. E. juror called ham, a ] nee No ws designated room trial like jaughts Judge Jurey's the stamp ‘Talim: court or challenged the the an of than crowd, frightened « of milled courtroom. Halted in Corridor the fe jostle and trio of school girls ed at o'clock in to obtain first row tekets was quickly of the defense on as he madé this ans Judge | Wer was too much for Ruth's risibil pause of prejudices he had form- | was excused | ed, | Admitted Opinion | expression | Mrs. Julia Bakken of Ballard jalso owned to a fixed opinion as }to the guilt or innocence apd she a and smiled.) was ehallenged for cause, Annie 1 ance alance of the crowd. | | M. Walker of 1120 Ninth .ave.. push, |. Tndieatory of the fight which will cionk, likewise confessed a prejudice who |ensue when the jury is chosen were/ and the defense exercixed its third order |{he auestions asked various Pros) cnationge, I. R. Anderson of 4207 wore |Pective jurors by A. R. Hilen, wi! grooklyn ave., a draftsman in the} factorily, but be ix 74 years old) Weapon " swallowed in the mass of milting| th Thomas M. Askren, will fight|tnited States engineers’ bureau, |and Was excused when he said he) After taking the $1,200 and a men, maid# and matrons, ‘They|t® free the young defendant—ond! sino was excused when he stated |drl not betieve he was physically /erty book. the man ran down managed to crush into Judge that question was: “Would you con'|inat he was prejudiced, uble to stand the strain of a week's King a wi cones oe ae al Jurey's room along with some 200) Vict @ defendant if it should’ develop Grdérn Space Clear trol. > awe, ani teat Send ne tan t Co others, but the vast majority of /that she wax mentally unbalanced | : 1. M.' Gan, Gian’ Latond ave., | Store. where: he: scares this point in the examination. naw be was wearing, He kicked U would-be spectators were halted in|#t the time of the commission of : Prosecutor Claypool com, | WO* excused after admitting he had} 1 the btoken biaé “ corridor by — strong-armed| the crime?" roseautor Claypool com lformed a prejudiced opinion of the] coat, snd the bok Diack inal with strong-arm Refer to Alienist @ in the lobby of {8 | s % methods, Hilen also questioned each pros courtroom and Judge Jurey| Prosecuting Attorney fred C.| Hardly had the ero in Judge | pective juror closely as. to his knowl the space cleared, Mrs./Brown and Deputy Prosecutor Jurey's room settled in thelr seats|edge of or acquaintance’ with Dr.! Hedrick Killner of South Park was| John’ Carmody took no part in. the the fifth juror to be challenged, |*xamination of the jurors, but will after she admitted she would not| reserve their efforts for the main like to sit on a jury in the frame|hatile later, Scores of attorneys of mind in which she was were| “nd a crowd of newspapermon and her own daughter on trial for her|Vomen from ‘Tacoma and or life, cities were @ part of the on Clyton DD. “WHT Prince st Jities and she chuck las did the balance Jurey's ay e In the Burglars Nip $37 . I From His Edward Foss, 308 Roy st, @d to the police that he lodged 15174 Third ave, over Sunday. also reported that between da Ps and 11 a, m, marie someone | list, who examined Ruth Garrison “\ shortly after Mrs. Grace Storrs died gray-haired woman, lof strychnine poisoning and told “Cool and Calm” | Prosecuting Attorney Fred C. Brown raned and men stepped on | that it wax his opinion that the de- toes #o that they might|fendant was Fane. glimpxe of the liltle defend.) Krom Elilen's questions it was pat. hoa had she is," exclaimed ‘phere Necks women Wilgon, who said he ye & fale architect, ‘tie