The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 7, 1919, Page 1

era ce eee nn . STATE SCORES IN POISON CASE i ERMANS HANDED TREATY eee CHARGE ALLIES WITH INHUMANI RUTH GARRISON’S SISTER (Treaty Flashes 0! MIT WRONGS Bl TRAPPED BY PROSECUTOR) For Versailles ELGIUM, FRANC ange We y morning, when, during his eross-examination of Mrs. Clara Rice, sis- DURING' THE WAR THAT ter of Ruth Garrison, accused of the murder of Mrs. Grace Storrs on the afternom of March 18 in the tea room of the ee larche, he cleverly contrasted the words of Mrs. Rice with the demeanor of the defendant Tuesday afternoon on the witness stand—a Miplauter dha’ Ve heuna to as demeanor which because of it very lack of emotion and wealth of detail will live long)] cept any agreement reached BY FRED S. FERGUSON With her former allies. United Press Staff Correspondent etn ee ae .VERSAILLES, May 7—The Germans received | peace treaty at 3:17 this afternoon. in the memory of those who heard her. Carmody’s blow—the first to be struck by either prosecution or defense—was not Pa lost on jury or spectators. Dansig permanently Mra, Rice, under direct examina: Presentation of the treaty followed a brief a |Premier Clemenceau, chairman of the peace cont i which he welcomed the delegates. The manuscript of the treaty, translated into OU know that it is accurate: | fon under the guidance of A. R. ly descriptive. The More | titien, of counsel for the defense, deine 46 Frases Aptailed provisions for interna- was. handed to the enemy representatives by Germany accepts internation. “nalization of roads and rivers. |) Dutasta, & fellow writes about this | renearsed Ruth's life history. she The alization of the Saar basin tem- | oS hapmais high . i After receiving the treaty, the Germans Victory Loan, the more oid of Ruth's babyhood nervousness disgusted he is to think | ana of her father’s fits of ungovern porarity. esented Germany renounces all her | written reply. It was read in German and interpreted i |English and French, two sentences at a time. able temper, during which he beat Ruth, the youngest of 11 chifaren, territorial and political Aghts outside of Europe. livering other violators of inter. The reply admitted the wrong done Belgium, national law. clared Germany’s willingness to make reparation. It and other members of the family: Germany recognizes total in. | Germany to accept the league of nations in principle, but with- | that so far as the conduct of the war ‘was concerned, '¢ told of Ruth's altwent-mindedness and her periods of blanknens; related Gependence of German-Austria, Ceccho-Movakia and Poland. out membership. “4 alli Interpational labor ‘body on@- | nay WE a8 humane as the allies.” Ruth's “dbiue spells,” but, above all, the witness, in Hilen's effort to lay Army Cut to 190,000 German army reduced to 100, ated, Various international bodies be © provisions of the LATE EDITION ed TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE by Mall, $6.00 to 59.00 An American Paper That Fights for Americanism The Seattle Star at the Postotficn at Seattle, Weed, ander the Act of Congress March 8, 1879, seheeonesy WED. DAY, MAY 7, 1Q)9. in Seattle Fugnenay Tides WEDNESDAY | Low Tite adam 6 t and Miah Tide AL: Tham t n ted Low Tide O88 pam, Re Per Yonr, Bntered as Becond Clase Matter May 9, SEATTLE, ea t-e probably therly winds might and Thur rain; me VOLUME 22. NO. 65. rate #6 mer acre -PHEN Alexander the Great was ~—e make mince- meat of the armies of Dartus in a night attack old Alex drew himeelf and proudly orated as follows: Klepto Ten Niken!” It means: “I wit not steal the victory! Say Mt aloud in Greek, Then hop into ’ flivver or municipal electric. who quits in - this Victory Loan is steal ing victory—stealing victory bought | . With the bicod PROVIDES tion commission. Germany must pay shipping damages, ton for ton. Germany must devote her economic re sources to rebuilding cevastated regions Germany must revert to pre- war “mont favored nations” tar. iff, without discrimination. | Transit for Allies Germany must allow freedom of transit thru her territories to allied nationals, Germany must accept highly of Americans, Such That, to be interna. Gerfnany agrees to territorial changes toward Beigtum and Denmark, and in East Prussia. Germany cedes most of upper Silesia to Poland, Germany restores Alsace-Lor tieally the same story as related by feet ee cet eae ge Rath? s, Eyes ve — a = ‘thelr | Sh St Sa’ sess| - Shoda Sivon how Str g Wild Passion of the case of the defense which Hilen is building, Carmody gained BY CYNTHIA GREY Have you ever observed an in-) an admission from the witness that Ruth was considered “headstrong 4 ‘This fact will be used by Carmody |if, as the defense contends, the de | lfendant was of such a weak mind DOURIAS terested xpectator at the moviea? | 45 | That" ‘# the way Ruth Garrison fm- | pov to Premed me as she sat thruout the | which existed to | teatimony at her trial this morn- | Republican st. apartment houre, wasjing fiuth’s placid countenance to extradite the ex-kainer. Germany 1s responsible for de- plea, which will be elaborated bY | story impelled her to m the present hour. ‘ va nity for the It was an opportunity concerning the Gefendant’s first trip | ay ner mother, her sister and other « the ground work for the insanity ing: her infatuation for | allenists, dwelt upon Ruth's absent) yp orraing Danks, briefly questioned by the defense cyirensed not the slightest change 000 men, including officers. to Okanogan, and George W. Exary.| members of her family recited in- | mindedness—a condition of mind, the vse |mate for several weeks in an pees within German nephew of Mra. Harrison and @ COU | cidents of her past life. She is ™ sin of Ruth, told the’ Jury of the x" 2 FEE : 5 Hf i 3 4 i z i | ™ |e questions, Carmody has brought URCHASED like a patriot ‘These peppery lads arow Victory Loan headquarters | seem to have an answer in, assistant chairman of the Seattle and King county Victory Loan com- mittees, and pulled another one of those leaky excuses. He objected: “Makers of munitions are wealthy men, and defendant's fainting Emily Claire Goldenberiger, Math ave., nd testified that she met Ruth on} ,{the morning of the murder in Rhodes’ department store, “She looked older, and wasn't a bit sunny, as she umually i,” Miss) Goldenberger said. She also aid that she was employed in the coun |ty auditor's office ‘and was well “Was Ruth ‘extremely nervous,’as|@cquainted with the defendant you testified?” Carmody demanded. Carmody asked the witness if she| “No, she wasn't,” admitted the realized the girl had been traveling | jtness. for 12 hours on the train the day Stir in Jury Box | before. The witness sail she did was a perceptive stir in the | Mot know it at the time, pronounced in ‘detail how she Grace ores?” Carmody inquired. iH the details of her fatal meet: ‘wite of the man she loves, must have risen fe ee Slept After Deed The next witness called was Mra. James PD. Esary, wife of Mra Garrison's brother, She said Ruth often Visited their hore, at 523 16th ave. “She was nervous to the verge of a the into vivid contrast the picture of | Ruth's “extreme nervousness” as | painted by her sister and the spec- tacle of the defendant's demeanor | Tuesday afternoon, signal because of | its absolute lack of nervousness. / Preceding Mra. Rice, Mra. Lithia Garrison, mother of the defendant, took the stand and continued her | story of Ruth's physical and mental shortcomings, which she began) Tuesday afternoon. In her effort to) ness, save her daughter from life impris-| Arville Blair, 4223 Aurofa, with onment, Mrs. Garrison summed up| whom Ruth lived from May to Octo- textified to Ruth's sound sleep on the afternoon of March 14, after the pol soning, No crossexamination. James D. Esary told of Ruth's ar rest and corroborated evidence given by his wife of Ruth's absent-minded: | | | Her | aroused, for Ruth evidently has a passion | 1111} for clothes and she knows how was called to the stand to wear them. Her modish navy to her blue suit clung prettily slender figure. The severencss was 4] relieved by a taupe vest and turquoise blue windsor tle, whi was knotted In a girlish be \her throat. Her small feet |shapely ankles were clad n in the characteriatic black kid pumps and} mitk hose. But Ruth's features—to one who! has studied human nature deept: they present the solution to hi crime. In her bright blue ey: ¥. er on the gleam of passion sort of con- fures one, and has a tendency to mask another expression of Mlank- ness, which denotes mental pacity Her stubby little nose one of & stubborn little lips, altho gracefully are prominently thick inca- reminds bulldog. curved, They ex- press an ungovernable animal pas- ‘Thin passion once thorol with no fine mentality might easily sion. cheek it, jly revert to madness 91ST WELCOME ty to and natural- a4 nearly all Soi, of war materials stopped. B Altted. ——— of parts of aration made. ne Any German. violation of con- ditions pertaining to the Bhine zone cénstitutes an act of war. German navy reduced to six battleships, alx light cruisers and twelve torpedo boats, with no submarines. Destroy Warships German navy personnel to consint of not over 15,000. All other war veanels must be sur rendered or destroyed. Germany forbidden to build forts controlling the Baltic. All Heligoland fortifications must be demolished. Kiel anal to be open to all nations, Germany must surrender her 14 submarine cables. Germany's naval and military alr forces abolished after Octo- ber 1 Germany to accept full respon sibility for all damages to allied and associated governments and nationals, Germany must reimburse 41 civilian damages; beginning with an initial payment of 20,000,000, 000 marks. ‘eteated to govern the Saar basin, pending a ple b.acite 16 years hence. Commissions created for plebi- ascites in Malmedy, Schleswig and East Prussia. Details of disposition of Ger- man fleet and cables left to al. ied powers, Disposition of former Gefman colonies alno left to allies, Land for Belgium Germany cedes to Belgium 382 ‘The German reply figures that the ‘war was not in vain if a real league of nations is formed, in which all | mations will have an equal chance. |The Germans declared their willing- ness to make reparation for the dev- |astation wrought in France and Bel.) sium, but said they would not con-| |went to the use of German war pris equ de ot th * |loners in the work of restoration, tween Luxemburg and Holland, |__ The reply suggested that 2 board Germany's cenion to Poland |,0f experts determine the method of nolates Bast Proseta trom the |{Testoration, The last words of For- remainder at Gauany, eign Minister Brockdorft-Rantzau, Germany's ceasions to Poland || Who read the statement, wore: comprise 27686 square miles: to || “We shall examine the documents France, 6.600 square miles (At. || "ubmitted to us with good will and in anebLéevatnel. the hope that there will be a peace Germany consents to the ||‘? which all may subscribe.” treaty establishing Belgium as @ Premier Clemenceau then declared neihiekh alas | the meeting adjourned. ema» se | ‘The meeting adjourned at or 3 Pp. m. wae fe eee |" Four years ago. Germany chal. . jlenged civilization by torpedoing the Sant veney Thane ‘ine the || Cunard liner without warning, kill: pleblacites will aet under the ai, || 1.164 civilians. ‘Today she learns rection of the league of nations. pes oe _ roe gpd a 9s | territory and tos jie Loan eae wade |tige. Her penalty in blood already without payment. has been exacted. coasen to be a $58) tarift Selection of Versailles as the set- |words, divided into 15 main tions and represents the product of over a thousand working continually thru a of commissions for the three a half months since January The treaty is printed in pages of English and French, are validity. recognized as having It does not deal France gains permanent pos- Subsequent payments in rep: seasion of Saar coal mines, re. aration to be secured by a bond gardiese of result of Saar plebi- issue approved by the repara- scite, questions affecting Austria, garia and Turkey except in so as binding Germany to accept | Jagreement reached with those mer allies, League Is Qutlined Following the pi ible and osition of ,powers comes the enant of the league of nations the first section of the treaty. frontiers of Germany in Euro are defined in the section, Et lting for this world drama is sig- | nificant in that nearly half a cen- tury ago, the modern empire was born here at the conclusion of the | Franco-Prussian war, Germany's | dream of world dominion began and | President Calls Congress 9". ™amnticnseme | to Meet on May 19th ‘The ceremony of presenting the treaty to the Germans took place in the Trianon Palace hotel. WASHINGTON, May 7.4 nited | able, it is said, to begin discussion Preas.)-A call for congress to meet of it and thereby hasten action on it in special session May 19 was made after the president has returned ‘The big salon, in which the dele ; gates gathered, to entirely glass on | OC! Political clnesen Sivan. Be by President Wilson today. jand delivered his treaty message. Receipt of the president's cable, is-| ‘This would indicate, it is believed, three sides.’ .Qreen-covered! tables in| ‘hind and extra’ Huropean: p suing the call, was announced at the | that the president probably will is her own life by saying: “It seems | ber, 191%, xaid Ruth was very nerv that I have spent all my life crying.” | ous, and subject to crying spells, Father Beat Ruth | The last witness heard Wednesday ‘And then she bared family secrets | morning was Mrs. Hazel Dressel, Ar without reserve. She told the jury | Ville Blair's sister, with whom both that her husband was mentally ab- «iris lived. She corroborated her normal at frequent intervals and be- | sister's testimony came #0 enraged that he beat his| The state did not question any of children, including Ruth, without th elast witnesses, and court was mercy. She told of the time when, ve omy at the request of the de at the age of two months, Ruth was |fense. to permit witnesses to arrive hurled from bed by her uncontrolla |from Camano island. ; biy angry father. Tears filled the|, Taking the stand at 1:38 o'clock eyes of the mother and her lips trem [roseaay afternoon, Ruth Garrison | bled unbridtéd at times as she bared | their | the family skeleton and detailed dis- |Radiogram Says They know there | |treseing instances of her husbahd's | believe me, and! nts of anger during which he vented | Petrograd Taken| AMSTERDAM, May 7.—United | gong Jom ge tig subscribe to | nis spleen toward her and her chit | Deke. cont who waa Worrying about the | fee. During the mother's recital of| gen was ying abou! he | tantly ‘history the young defendant | Press)—The Telegraaf today pub Munitions makers seemed unaffected, but paid cloxe at-|lished an uncensored radiogram tention to her mother’s testimony. | stating that the Finnish forces have John H. Rite, hushand of Ruth's | captured Petrograd sister, Mrs. Clara Rice, told prac BELIEVE they should carry the burden of the loan.” Guerin got the range ever so quickly and annihilated the objector in this fashion; “You would refuse to pay your grocery bill because your grocer owns his own home, while you rent. Never mind, you man. Let this bit of NOWLEDGE: seep into your turret: The wealthy men are sweating great drops IS UNCERTAIN Heroes in Portland May Not Stop Here ion is obtained department may not Unless perm! from the wi Wednesday, Seattle have an opportunity to greet the detachment of ld West heroes which will arrive here in the early hours Thursday morn ing. “Present orders do not provide for stop in Seattle," reads a tflegram received by Chairman Frank Gates, of the soldiers and satlors’ wel: | Wednesday morn rive there early 330 men, 12 of XTRACTED the price of a ‘bond from his keck and laid it down, “And tell) Thursday morning ficers.” The message was signed by ‘austland. tely following receipt Gates telegraphed the department urging permission granted the members of the S42nd machine gun battalion and 316th em munition trains, composing the unit to stop over in the city long enough to parade and have luncheon, Parade Manned weleome committee plans the Seat members of eens | A similar rumor was circulated a your friends who doubt,” | “| few days ago, but it ‘eloped that | urged Guerin, as the con: (| the Finns were Finnish Red guards, vert started away. “that many have) Hanson Asserts {| who had come to Petrograd to rein-| all forever; you gre asked to | force the Bolshevik garrison.” The | for a while.” In contrast to the} Story Is False | | Bolsheviki admitted, however CLEVELAND, May 7.—Fiatly purveyors of parlor excuses was the {| that they have decided to r civil ‘act of a trio of bollermakers, who|} denying he advocated public (| jan evacuation of the city because hangings of J. W. W.'s or anar- Daymude, who takes in (| of the serious food situation chists, and declaring | the kale at Victory Loan published (| — oui i fy oheadquarters. The trio the form of a hollow square stand | lasses in the fourth. White House today by Secretary) sue a statement in Paris on the) ways and railway section, the labor Maj ofthat the congress of the United | viding funds, particularly for. war in the middle of the room, with| Next are the military, naval Tumulty | treaty that his voice may be | S SIGNS T0 aVUe covenant, the section on guarane war States should be convened in extra | risk insurance, air terms as the fifth section, .T* eo TW! ns (CONT'D on ish TWO) |lowed by a section on. pi nae ee jof war and military graves and | |seventh on responsibilities. uv | arations, financial terms and The date set for reconvening con jin the discussion here. nomic terms are covered in secti gress probably means that President At the White House it was stated eight to ten. Then comes @ Wilse will not be here at the open: | that the president's advisers felt ing sexsion |that congress should start work im: | The proclamation of the president | mediately on necessary supply. bills. by" eer oo re aie homme pare wna re it — sald, was! (CONT'D ON PAGE TWO) jespecially anxious that congress | Will Join Britain, if the Huns * Attack Again cbr Powe tAegey rage fell The need for /appropriations for made by the executive . [aswel es ring ee ngs sn? ee Prees)—Officla? announcement ade b; , 3 ente—-made action on the ‘ Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wil: |jypent deficeney bill imperative, it} of the. agreement of the United son, president of the United States way xaid, "| States and Erigland to come to |of America, do hereby proclaim and | peril! ES Woh IE, PMA the ald of France in the event declare that an extraordinary occa . of an attack by Germany, was Italian Delegates made thre the committee on IGHT up to Mrs. Elizabeth May 7, 1915—Germany, with success, defied the wh world by torpedoing the Cunard” liner Lusitania, ‘The loss of 1,164” civilians, including women and as mayor of Seattle to lead a aeronautic section, ports, waters “Whereas, public interest requires | should hasten preparation for pro: | campaign against the reds, Ole xion requires the congress of the The it the The bein “ijgates have “Certain stories are dian look like ready money, but they blasted all doubt 4 fishing out $5,500 in clinking coin, | and demanded bonds in the following denominations —$1.000, $2,000 and| $2509. Moral: Don't quit til! quit- ung tne. as } NAMED ON COUNCIL Chas. F. Munday and Robert A. Hulbert have been appointed mem- bers of @ citizens’ council of aero nautical affairs of Seattle, ax repre- |! sentatives of the S@attle Bar anso- |? elation Is Now ) i )) i) ) i )) p » ) } Hanson sald today ) } 5 ) ) } ) ) ) printed in the press quoting me ' ag saying I would resign as mayor and take the law inte my own hands and advocate public hangings of the LW. W. statement published is untrue In substance and in fact. I never advocated lawless acts by anyone at any time. 1 desire this dental to be as sweeping as possible.” The stories Hanson objects to were went out by wire from To- peka, Kan Every absolutely All indications point to a steady Increase in property in and near Seattle. Have you bought the home or the home: site? If you haven't, buy is now. The answer “to your want in the home line can be found in the classified columns. the time to d to Ko to their b train arrive at 2 or the morning. They wi units re should the o'clock tn jin a parade, and will dine at Masonic temple by business men luncheon. Hazen J Chauncey Wright ‘pany, infarmed to Chairman 3 i Restaurants com: Wednesday if the business amen fail to “come thru” with donations for | (CONT'D ON PAGH TWO) | session at the capital, in th of Columbia, on the 19th dy 1919, return to the station to take part) all persons.who shall be at that time | ister Sonnino, the |entitied to act ax members thereof, | arrived, here from if funds are raised | are | after 19 o'clock this morning. provide the United States to gonvene in extra public Information hre today, as follows: the United States of America, Titus, president of the|7th day of May, in the year of Our | “Rig Four.’ Lord 1919, and of the independence Gates |of the United Stites the 1434 y of May, at 12 o'clock noon, of which jotice, ‘weal of | the | hereby required to take “Given under my hand an WILSON.” the “WOODROW The senate, with the text of peace treaty before it, also will be strict | : P Arrive for Meeting PARIS, May 7,—(United Press.)-— Premier Orlando and Foreign Min-| the Italian delegates, Rome shortly or lando immediately went into confor. ence with the other members of the “In addition to the securities af: forded in the treaty of peace, the president of the United States has | pledged himself to propose to thé senate of the United States, and the | prime minister of Great Britain, has | pledged himself to propose to the parliament of Great Britain in en- gKagement, subject to the approval of the council of the league of nations, to come immediately to the assist: ance of France in case of unpro- voked attack by Germany.” 'y Bond and Ly “help | ints baal se baka hoe Fatih salinceeatsce ) ) i) children, changed American puby Ne opinion from neutrality to hatred of the Germans and paved | the way for American interven- tion. May 7, 1919—Germany’s revolus tionary government, which suc- ceeded the kaiser and other ag- thors of the war, received the terms of the peace treaty, which reduce Germany to « third rate | power and forever end the ace of Prussian militarism,