The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 7, 1919, Page 9

‘This is the letter written by Douglas Storrs to Ruth Garrison the day she left Okanogan. He told her to read it after she boarded the train, It w nine duced as evidence by the de fense. The letter; “Lover Girl “Thin i all for your precious self when you feel like crying cause you " from your daddy 4 are just gol ‘cause I can’t let you stay away from me at all, You'll know, sweetheart, how happy you have made me the past week, How natural it seems to tell people that you my wife. I think of you ually, not just as my #w but just as absolutely little gtrt wife. “You don't know how proud T was of you or how I compare you with other women, and they all lack something that only you have. If I could just prance around you the rest of my and show you off I would be perfectly happy. You know I love all your little mannerisms, your smile, your walk—I love to hear you talk; and when you y¥, ‘Daddy, I love you,” I'm in paradise Don't Cry, Hon” “The most wonderful thing to me is that you love me; me only @ roughneck mechanic, when you could have your pick of many men, who could provi you with so many things that I will never be able to give you All that I have to offer ix just a lifetime of love, and you would get plenty of that both hereafter, if there is a hy “So don’t ery, hon. Smile the little smile § love #0 when y Blue eyes twinkle and the dim ples in your pretty pink eheeks—just honest to-God smile fer your daddy “You're asleep now. lover lady while I'm writing this, after cry ing in your hapky ‘till you're all worn out—a hanky that I'll never send to the lauhdry “Always remember that. no qmatter what goes wrong, your lover man loves only you, and that maybe it won't be long till “Good bye, my blessed baby. for a little while, and smile and love your daddy. A millien lows I might have had. That is — on, but T guess there inf limit all very true, but, oh, lover, All my love, sweetheart, and don't you wee that what I want just billions of kisses; and, is love, and you're the onlg ene daddy dear, I te you, love you on this whole big earth that can ull the t every minute give it to met It just seems as “YOUR OWN GIRL WIFE.” the you and IT were made for eld each other, cause you seem to On the night before the murder, understand me so perfectly, Ruth wrot the following letter to While T am moody and crabby, Storrs, which was introduced by the why,, wonderful lover, you just state go right on loving me, regard Lover leas, T am in the rookiest Doesn't Crave Money built, Oh, how I hate “I don’t crave a lot of money it and everybody in it, I'll have lots of clothes, ete. All I want — to hand it to Clara, tho—she is 4 is you, lover, and just enough to peach, Met tne at the train and keep me looking the way you loved and kissed me like I'd want me look, It's always been away for years, Bhe hasn't such & pleasure to put on new said @ word #0 far except. to ask things around you, because you me how I felt, ete., and tell me aiways appreciate them so, an most important, you let m know that you do. I don’t be Weve that there is another little girl on earth that te as much wonderful loving by auch a won derful lover, but Tim just afraid all thé time that I'll do or say something that you'll not like. Wen't you tell me then, sweet heart? Because | Just want to be exactly as you want me to be Oh, what @ wonderful week s has been. I never dreamed that there could be so much happiness crowded into one small, wee week as this. “But you see, dearest daddy I kpow that I am al! yours now and nobedy can take that away from me, so why shouldn't I be most awfully happy? You said you were proud of me, Dud, boy Can't You just it sticking out all over me that I'm the proudest girl in the world to be with you? Why, when I used to walk thru the lobby into the dining room and there'd be @ lot of these boob traveling there, I just wanted to strut and why? Jus be I was with an honest-to @ peacock cause i man! And not only in Oke nogan, either; it was the same in Seattle ‘Ob, In Wenatehee we had to wait about 45 minutes for the train, and who do you suppose I saw there? Fred Dudiey’« ft ther; the one that is in Prance Of course, he fell all over him self to be nice to me. and I ently broke the news to him that I was married and had been up to see my husband. He looked terribly pussled and fi nally gave me a grudging con gratulation. Bothered on Train “The Heutenant came to talk to me, but I pretended I was asleep, and he went back to his own seat. Oh, yes, you remem her my telling you about the bis oid Jew that bothered me at the hotel. He was on the train and pestered me for a long time at regular intervals until finally I told him in « few brief words te call quite, while be could do it peacefully. “It's 4 o'clock and IT know you're working bard, but, boy lover, I Just know the same time you are thinking of me, You've just got to all the time, “I don¢ know how I'm to sleep without my daddy’ around me, but I expect I'll just have to get used to it, Well, my own daddy, I could write on and Details of P Poison Case. occupied the witness chair until aft- er 4:30—almost three full hours. In that time she told the jury every de tall of her life from the time of her meeting with Dudley Storrs until) "Continued From Page One || | tia, a leila dae”) tremor in her voice, the girl gave the minutest description of her every | move on the day of the crime and continually emphasized tho ‘ack of any feeling—“a kind of numb senea- tong ld me all the time,” she said. On direct examination torney, Thomas Askren, she had confessed to Detective Cap, | told her story of her actions on the tain Tennant. Cool at all times, with never a START FIGHT AGAINST 6-CENT CAR FARES CHICAGO, May 7--A move to have the city go before the state public utilities commission and seek view of the decision of the commis: ot refusing the surface lines an) foot by Alderman John J. Touhy. 6 cents on the elevated lines when it | only has to pay 5 cents on the eur-| fage lines?” questions the alderman. | BUYING A HOME Buying a home, are you? Splendid! Splen- did! The home owner is our best type of citi-? zen. But, when you buy that home, demand of al seller that he fur- na a policy of INSURANCE, whole burden 34 ve about the land title falls on this Half- Million-Dollar Title In- surance Company, and you either have —a Home or your money back. Washington Title Insurance Co. Assets More Than Half a Million | | morning of the day of the death) Juncheon in the tea room of the Bon Marche, Tells of Crime In answer to the question, “What time did you get up on the morning of March 187" Ruth launched upon the story of that day “I got up sdout § o’clok, and Uttle later went downtown to get my) to have the 6-cent fare granted the suitcase I elevated lines reduced to & cents, in had left at the Great Northern station the day before, when I returned from Okanogan,” | she said. “Riding downtown in a jitney, I increase in fares, hag been set OM | decided to call up Mra. Storrs and tell her I had decided to go to Alas “Why should the riding public pay a; that I would not see Dud for six) were happy not months, and if they when I eame back, I would bother her -any more “[ got out of the machine at Sec drug store to get some pictures I had left a long time before. From there I walked aimlessly down the street, wrapped in thought of Mrs. Storr and seeing ber. Wandered Around “It seema that I just wandered I had no object, I into a department | store—it may have been any of | thenj—-and visiting the music depart iment, where I just listened to the music, I felt poorly. “[ mailed a letter at Galbraith |dock for my sister and brought a) package back and left it at the Quaker Drug company in her name. and told her what I wanted and we made an ap- lunch, | She said, ‘Yes, Marche. “In the conversation over | phone, Mrs, Storrs said, ‘Why don't you leave him alone?’ about. | telephone, I had no idea of what I was going to do later. jme all in a flash. I was eat wath Mrs. Storrs and cou 4 put Refused Poison Ruth told how she cA peepee tbiniee pointment for 1 o'clock at the Bon| the And I told her that was what I wanted to talk | “Wren I called Mrs, Sturrs on the It came to going to Here Are the Garrison-Storrs Love Letters Introduced by Defense and State in Big Trial ond and Pike and went into, Swift's | “phen 1 called up Mrg, Storrs. 1t/ was about 10 o'clock, I guess “{ asked her to meet mo for pe a in what she was going to| | eat *Fiem, that time, nothiv unéer | the sun could have stopped me!” first visited Bartelt's @rug store at Second and all the news of what has hap pened since J left “She's here in the bedroom with me now--waiting patiently until I finist: this £0 she can talk, T rather dread it, but then, Aunt M, and Unele (Mfr. and Mra, Thompson) are worse than 12 feet of snow, Boy--they'll hardly speak, but Clara wanted me to come out here for the night, so thought I'd better, To morrow Tam going down to the island to get things straightened out down here as best I can Just as you thought, that letter I think, was mostly bluff—the boys aren't worrying much ene way or another, as near as I ¢ find out. If anything happ dawn home, I'll manage one way or another to wire you, but | know it won't. All they want is for me to be home and in misery withoat you Laoked Lonesome “Oh, lover boy, you looked #0 lonesome there this morning when I left, it hurt me worse than the fact of my having to leave you, J had wonderful talk with Frank on the way over. Nothing real persons! concerning you and I, but just generally. He's a peach of a fel low, Listen, sweetheart. Frank met the banker, Whitworth, on the train toda and he says that he has a | fir just of th and altho there’s a bache ing there now, he «ald he would make him move out for Frank Frank says if Tha will pay just his own transportation and wagea from the time he leaves here, that he'll bring his wife and come a-fiying, For the love of Mike, take him up on it Only, please, lover, “don't go to live with them, will you? “It's a shame I stayed and spent all your perfectly goad hard-earned money for board bill, but I surely had a wonder ful time with you. Please write just as quickly as possible and send my mail to Camano, Waah. Don't know how I'll ever get used to being & Mins again. “My ink is pretty nearly all out, xo will have to quit. Please ‘oom house hack nchoo! quick, quick write to your lever girl very one is £0 cold here and I'm #0 lonesome. And don't forget to love ce, sweet: heart “Good night, don't ever, ever forget, yours—always. “SWERTHBART GIRL.” lover man, and Im all eee Union and asked for “polxon to kil! a cat” They refused to sell her anything without @ prescription. | Then whe told of visite to several doctors’ offiges without success, Again Ruth said; “I just had to do it. Something waa using me all the time. “When 1 couldn't get a “present tion, I saw a yellow front drug store, | T asked again for poison to kill a eat ‘How old ix it? the man asked, and I told him it was pretty old, Then by her at-| he anid not to give too much, or it the girt? Would have no effect.” After telling of wandering around wnt 1 o'clock, Ruth told how she went to the Bon Marche, sag at @ table and placed the order for the luncheon that was to be the last for | Mra. Dudley Storra. “When they brought the fruit cocktails, 1 took the little bottle from my sweater pocket and dropped » very little of the pol- son into the cocktail in front of me. I walked over to the lobby and found Mrs. Storrs, When we went over to the table, I took the other seat, and she sat where ate all of the cocktail, Then the ment course was brought on and Mrs, Storrs had eaten about half of her roast pork when I noticed she appeared nervous and trem- bling. We had had nothing to drink, and I asked her if she wanted some coffee, She re fused. “A few seconds later she fell baek in her chair, Some one stepped up behind me and sald, ‘What's the matter, Grace?’ “I asked if I should call a doe- tor, but Miss Glate—it was she— sald; ‘No; I don’t want you to get away from me!’ “1 don't remember them laying Mrs. Storra on the floor, her hat falling off or her hair down the back. |1 Just have a faint recollection of them carrying her away, all stiff ened out.” She told of watching the tiny bot tle in which she ys bought the pei non disappear down a tollet in the | lavatory, “When T eaw Mra. Storrs become nervous, fall back and carried out, it didn't seem to me that it was thru anything I'd done. I eouldn't real ize it.” Subject t# Dreams Mow Mre, Glatz and her daughter objected to Ruth going home with her aunt, her arrest, and finally her confession were brought forth by the girl testimony as she occupied the chair beside Judge Jurey's desk In complete poxsession of herself, Miss Garrison traced her life hivtory up to the time she met Douglas Storrs, last November, while she was employed in the attorneys’ informe tion bureau, county-city building, across the hall from the sheriff's of. fice, where Storrs served, ag a deputy, . * “He told me that his wife could not live longer than @ year,” Ruth Bi GRATTLR EAR WEOERDAY, MAY 7, 1919. “lt Seems [ Have Spent All My Life ‘Crying,’ ’ Says Ruth Garrison’ s ‘Mother Garrison paid, “because she haa | Duatey Storrs evidepce of insanity in her sctior | heart trouble—and that she had at! “Mrs. Storrs walked up to me and|*t @ny Lime tempted suicide and that he wished | sald: ‘Ien't he here yet? I'll wait Mother on Stand he had let her die on « “ i roe ther ¢ t aad : $ ne me mae une wien | hak Aeines Dhioen oat? ! Jthia Garrison ™ her of Ne rescued after he had a le girl, wan next called, She cor tempted to end her own life by| A few minutes later Storrs joined |roborated statements of the defense | taking gas.” them. The three went immediately |ihat Muth in the 11th child in her! How She Met Him to bis apartment to talk over the it: family. Her husband was 68 and , uation whe 48 years old when the girl wa How did you meet him?" Defense | «we poth accused him of double | born, she sald Attorney Awkren asked | dealing,” she said, “but he turned! “Ruth alwaye was a nervoual He spoke first," she paid to his wife and replied, ‘Now, Grace, | child,” the mother said. “She had a =~ evening he said, ‘I'll take YOU! you know that wore unhappy @| will of her own--—she wasn't exactly oon bes at my yor * long time before I met Ruth.’ defiant, but she always had her asked, ‘Wha o wha call? ‘ | a eS ae gime aha Toad not| “Then his wife asked, “Will you | w4 know he was married and did not | Marry this girl if T gave you up? © habits av regards the truth, I foarn Of 1¢ Gatil we had been opt to- /O04 he tented, "think F wl” Guelem say to sey, were never very wether six or seven times 1 catied | Snawered, ‘All right, Fi ge back to|@00d. Bhe often complained of black hie phone number and hia wife an-| S@ther and we'll. gee a lawyer: spota before her eyes and blank! phon mber and h | |epella when whe would throw up her ewered "The next thme we were togeth 1 said, ‘t did not know you wei married "'T was afraid to tell you,’ plied, ‘but anyway, there ts between my wife and mynelf Refore abe went on the stand, At } torney Amkven lod Miss Garrison to) | arauaing (herte, pe ere the jury and pointed our peeuliar | [ e murder of his ‘ amily 1 should say is very unsatis ved marke on her neck and chest, | Storrs, when he suggested the crime en een nee ee arrison hioh b 4 f ab to Ruth Garrison after he had get), y which he said were e of abnor: | 19 nm ha weakened condi. |"! didn't know anything a mal condition which will be explain | tn her in such @ when I married. b h | ton that she wag me vlally irrespon ny physicians. | eke. jalways very ill-natured and hard to Horn in Virginia | eet slong with. " born in Bristol, Va., in 1900 | On being questioned by Attorney bond Teas bac Hivorett, Wash, by | Aakten, Ruth said that she often had | pf catia pater Kanye ‘+ PY | dreams that seemed so real that It Girl's Mother Weeps hands and say Mrs. Garrison, aged mother of me all dark.’ Gefendant, broke down and sobbOQ| i ie co or, | when Ruth bared her soul and told | Auiekiy, but occurred frequently had absent minded Jot hep final downfall at Okanowan. | iening to yon “T was in the hotel for three days | she wouldn't know before I gaye in to him," she sald, | Crying Al enponsible | ia wae reap “The temperan Mamma, everything lin, when, afte minute 1 you'd sald Mer Life nt of the Garrison he re mor we ed later ling all my life.” her parents when eight years old She sald her husband often had Asies tore pense vee » thee od | waa hard to realise they Were ROE AE | rovers tity of anger, when he would family went to 0 Inland. tual happenings. |beat the children. Then he would In 1915 Ruth to Seattle and| Proseeutor Carmody questioned) nearly always lie down and sleep attended Broadway high gehool |the @irl on hér xchooling, producing | heavily hen she suffered fro mA series |Mmarks she received in Broadway and) pier husband, she sald, has been a of hemorrhages. This wan folloged |Queen Anne high schools, He 4160 | somnambuliat ghildhood. she oy the surgical treatment when | asked her about her treatment for | told how he «at on the poroh of their paraffing was injected into her nose |catarrhal trouble by Dr. Plummer. | nome once in the rain, sound >, to stop bleeding “Pid Storrs jell you his wife would | ang paid he'd be in “on Monday.” He The defense was careful to bring | ‘kill herself if this went on’? the!) hay been “very peculiar,” she con out this angle distinetly, and the | prosecutor asked. | cluded : girl sald she quit schoo! following Left Him Ring | the operation, because her grades * ohm werd wot satisfactory. “yea” came the reply, “but the! Builders’ Dispute Takes an Apartment pemrnongeneng: Fm Fs Near Settlement wanted me host, she would divoree Ruth sald seh left the home of) in ‘ane wouldn't da it. tho There is promise of carly settle her aunt and slone at 504 6. took an apartment | ment betweer Republican st. at the se 49 ; t into the proceed written by of the dispute master tuilders and earpente A letter w lings by the prosecution, and ungestion of Storrs county of @ suffictent number of vot-|of the United States and © Md he liv ‘yi vere?” | Ruth to Storrs the night before the | bricklayers, as the result of on 4 5 u ane he ve with you there?" At’ icder, In it the gif! anid ah had |ference held in the rooms of the|!ng machines to equip ail the Beuttle |H. H. K. Whitney Is in charge “No,” she replied jloft with Storrs her “little ‘Martha,’ | Master Builders’ association in the/ Precincts, ‘The county at t | trip. Bhe sald that they took a trip to| Which would always bring her to his | Afende building Tuesday § hose att precinets and 200 my nv 1 ind tar mod ited to know! A five-day week, instead of sie. elasehaeahe Everett and remained all night at | ind Carmody want 4 4 on r the Mitchell potel ~| one occasion {WHat “little ‘Martha'” war, Bhe said five and @ half-day week, with no : | FINDS DARK PERSON MOTHER DYING; BABE 2 jit was her cameo ring with Martha | Washington on it The state announced it h ished ite crowsexaminatio decrease in wages, ix the disputed | queson. A committee of was appointed to discuss the situ at ach a wet ut cccupled separate roome Register at Hotel “Ho registered me an his sister Ruth Storrs,” phe explained, "Altho n and endeavor to r jhe stayed in my room until 2 p. m.|©- Gresham, proweuting attorney | tlement our conduct wag not improper.” for Okanogan county, was called to apace f the stand. K. OF ©, ENTERTAL She sald Storre often took her to) the room of @ fiend who lived in He stated that he knew Storrs and| The Knights of Columbus enter Beattie at the Plaza hotel, Drinks | Ruth while they lived In the @ | tain | were sometimes passed around. |hotel with him in Okanogan, And|/ and sailors Tuesday night Ruth Garrison sald she fret saw/| that he had found the gir! uncon-|ectub rooms, 1401 Harvard Mra, Stott, one night on a street h the stairs of the hgtel. He whe expected to meet that he had noticed | rtalnment oc These memed to pass awey | Bhe | “It weama to me that I've been ery-| the| County Auditor Norman M neven number of returned soldiers| heard @ noise like @ hen calling to at the|her mate. ave.|he found the dusky chicken fancier hospital. 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