The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 24, 1919, Page 3

CIRCUS SEASON'S ON MILLER TRIAL CLOSES TODAY POLICE ARREST (50TH LAUNCHING NINE AUTOISTS IS A GALA EVENT Defendant Tells Confusing) Speeding, Reckless ‘ies! Whistles Toot, | Band nla of “Masked Man” trial of John A. Miller, | Baperior dudge John 8. Jurey's * Following the closing during the after. it was scheduled to go to Illegal Parking Charged as Vessel Takes Dip | With the police “carrying on” Reaalling the first launching by against speeders and ordinance | Skinner-Eddy, when all Seattle took violators, nine men were booked a holiday and watched the Niels Nel in quick succession before noon | son go down the ways September Saturday, charged with speed- 1916, the 9.600-ton steel ship Edmore. ing, reckless driving, obstructing | 50th veewel in 30 months turned out traffic and standing their ma (by “Dave” Rodgers, manager of the chines in prohibited areas. They | loca! yard, was launched In the East are: waterway at 1 o'clock Saturday aft-| J. F. NePage, 28, charged with go-|ernoon. Thousands of employes of | case is admitted by deputy! tors and attorneys to be the strangest that has ever tried in a local superior court has told several conflicting He is alleged to have made different confessions to Cap-| of Detectives Charles A. Ten following his arrest ity Prosecuting Attorney T. ing 20 miles an hour on Jackson st.|the yard whe quit work at noon| F. S Haines, 34, charged with | stayed to see the launching, and with leaving his car more than a foot! Mre David Rodgers ax sponsor, the from the curb at Second and Madi-|Skinner-Eddy band providing har son, wit the engine running |mony, and the tooting of boat and/ Charles Gebbler, 25, arrested at! shop whistles along the waterfront, | Fourth and Pike, charged with oper-|the launching was a gala event ating without a license. The wives of the different depart Phil Bronson, charged with mak-|-nent heads of the big concern| ing 30 miles an hour on Whatcom | formed Mrs. Rodgers’ party and sev-| jave. Jeral gifts in recognition of the ser |_W. C. Horton, 42, charged with| vice she rendered helping her hus Patterson tried to pin Miller|making 30 miles an hour en Stone/band to establish his record were | to the confession declared by | in of Detectives Tennant to; Roy Bunstine, 27, charged with ob- Not satisfied with reaching the truest—that he, Miller, was itely in need of money, and r 4 Burghardt for $1,300. On/ other hand, Defense Attorneys | D. Page and W. R. Bell combined attacks on this , and introduced several Miller has also brought in| of stories tinged with his peculiar individuality—irration nervousness and suppressed | ism. it there is a third man con with the murder, is the as of Miller, and it is main by his defense that this story substantiated in several respects. , Miller spoke disjointedly of ed man who tied him to al immediately after Burghardt | struck with the hammer. Miller the bedroom, says he heard sound of repeated blows, and) inference is that the man killed hardt. Miller was decidedly at the telling of the story. admits he was fighting with #ghardt when the “masked man” | " Attorney Paige asked the jury to beget aside consideration of a verdict first-degree murder, in view of | fact that there is too much ubt connected with the case to nt such a verdict M. Fowler, Weetern Union tele. ph clerk; Captain of Detectives ries A. Tennant, and the de dant Miller, took the stand Sat y morning. Their testimony relatively unimportant. Miller, 4 by his wife, clasped her hand tly during court proceed. Home Breaking M Seer Failed to ¥ See Own Future) "Rev. Myrtle Shannon, medium, of University st, saw with the eyes seer, but she didn't see her fin in Judge Otis W. Brinker's court, turday, when she was fined $100 seeing too much. The technical charge was vagrancy Mrs, Maude Fuller, employed as a waitress, was the principal witness Against Rev. Myrtle. Mrs. Fuller epresented a couple nearly es it is eged, by Rev. advice, , according 4 the complaint and testimony, vis d Rev. Myrtle, who forecast trou » if she remained with her hus Shand. It is also alleged that the Rev. Myrtle recommended a good lawyer. “Bhe latter matter is still being inves Migated by the authorities ‘According to allegations in the ‘complaint, Rev. Myrtle fiendishly eialized in breaking up happy es, by advising wives to leave ir husbands. -FOOT MOTOR ROAD TOKYO TO YOKOHAMA) “Bpecial to The Star by N. E. A.) TOKYO, May 23.—From Tokyo to a motor road 64 feet wide built, Construction will re- three years ee way Pre wented to her. structing traffic at Third ave. and|half.century mark, Rodgers already | Pike st lis planning to get well on his way | J. F. MoMath, arrested on a war-| toward the century launching mark. | rant for reckless driving. | Three ships will be sent into the W. Gwinn, 40, arrested for stand-| water from the yard in June. the first | ing his car in a prohibited area at| June 7, the second June 21, Fourth ave. and Pike st | third June 27 E. N. Schumann, 25, charged with | ieee leaving his auto standing more tha ASKS ‘LOGEMEN T0 COME SOON 'T0 FIND YOUTH: Northern SI Ships. to Be| | Here Next Week Father Still Sec Searching for) _ we | Extensive movements of Alaska Runaway Boy | vessels will feature activities along | the waterfront the early part of next week. Seven of the Alaska Steam Lioyd Harrison, 13-year-old son of | ship company's fleet will be in port Charles M. Harrison, of Hamilton,| with four Alaska ships of the Ad Wash., has been missing from his| miral Line |home since April 18 When last! seen, the youngster was wan: around in Silvana,April 22, and his name as Jack Jameson The Admiral Farragut is expected | to reach here Monday, returning | from her last trip into the North, be- | fore going on the California run. The The boy's mother has become ve-y| Admiral Watson is due ‘Tuesday iN since the boy's disappearance, and| from Anchorage and Kodiak, and is the father has promised a reward of | expected to bring some word of the to any one giving information| eruption of Mt i, which was leading to his location, Harrison, an| reported active a few weeks ago Odd Fellow, also has asked that his| ‘The first regularly scheduled ves fellow-members look for the boy sel to sail for Nome, will be the Lioyd wore blue bit ralls,| steamer Latouche, of the Alaska turned up four inches, a light brown | steamship company, which will leave short, brown mackinaw coat, heavy here on Wednesday, May 28. She is dark tan shoes, and a brown a freighter and will carry no passen hat when left home. He is 57| gery ¢ inches tall, has brown eyes and hair,| The Ketchikan, Santa Anna, Re and weighs 96 pounds. He has 4| gondo, Jefferson, Northwestern and jdim scar in the center of his fore-| Alaska, of the Alaska Steamship head company, will be in port, and the | 7 City of Seattle, of the Admiral Line, will sail on Monday for Juneau and | One o’Clock Pa Skagway. The Admiral Evans will | Off Ballard Run |*'tive here from Sitka Thursday. The last car on the Fremont-Bal eerie tates teh ee ie | nO Yard Will a going ! Launch 16th Ship) is going to be taken off, and instead of leaving First ave.S. and Jackson| ‘phe §,800-ton steel ship West | st. at 1 o'clock a. m., the final car | Henshaw, 16th vessel to be launch. for Ballard over this route will be at| eq py J Duthie & Co., will 12:45 a.m. Division A will continue | t, | her aquatic dip next Tuesday to have a 1 o'clock car. afternoon at 4:20 ¢ Ar- rangements are being completed } Charge Desattion Jand it 4 ted to make the af- | fair a big event to show that Se-| | From Sea Service ‘te «tee! shipbutiders are not} D. 8. Smith and R. W. Knapp en-| *#cking up in thelr work | Usted In the merchant marine two | » to give it a tr They so to give Ht a trial mney | Japanese Is Held on Whisky Charge! A hearing of the charges against A. De Martini mixed ‘em, say dry |T: tehimara, Japanese, whose resi dence at 414 Fifth ave, was raided squad members, who arrested the . | Wednesday and a 30-gallon still con latter at his home « W. An ‘ a |dover st. Friday night and charged | fiseated, was held before United s Commissioner Rt. W, Me him with selling cider. He's out on $100 bait land Saturday morning. Utehin | was bound over to the grand jury, | but was given his freedom on put uns up $1,000 bail, Watson Saturday, and are charged with desertion. BOSTON, May 24.—"I couldn's | find the combination to unhook it, so IT cut it off,” testified Harry |~ Mitchell in court, telling how he| Let's go buy Boldt's French Pas. j compelled his wife to stay at home|try. Uptown, 1414 3rd Av.; down. by cutting her skirt of* ‘town, 913 2nd Av. ’ THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, MAY 24, 191 COLISEUM’S NEWS SERVICE SYMPHONY TRA—31 Men Under BRAMBILLA | in the moet | ] wonderful America’s success of | Sweetheart | po — | | career A PICTURE FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY A comedy featuring the great prune strike in the orphan asylum. “The lives of us orphans is just one darn prune after another” RSHALL NEILAN made this production, You know his quality. donable Sin.” Now Showing—Come Early—Everybody’s Coming To accommodate the enormous crowds, the showings will start at 10 o’Clock Sunday Morning PRICES Until. 6:30 P. M.—General admission 22c, children 10c, loges 45c—plus war tax. After 6:30 P. M.—Lower floor, 31c, balcony 22c, children 10c, lower floor loges 50c—plus war tax. Mezzanine loges, 68c, plus war tax, may be reserved by telephone, Elliott 25. He made “The Unpar- een eee en