The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 12, 1919, Page 10

SAYS ASSISTANT CASHIER CONFESSES TO BANK THEFT | CHAMBER ASKS END OF STRINE _ Approves Demand for Ad- i justment Board Urging the appointment of a Tocal adjustment board to settle grievances of the employes against the company, the Cham ber of Commerce and Commer- elal Club Friday afternoon wired to Postmaster General Burleson that Seattle demanded an imme diate settlement of the local telephone strike. ‘The telegrams sent to Burleson after an investigation of the of the telephone strike by a Subcommittee of the chamber. No ‘Mention was made in the wire to the : ter general of wages or work- Ang hours. é chamber also sent a wirt to company officials at San Fran- demanding an immediate set-) it of the Seattle strike. Com- Munications were sent to commer. oy organizations throuout the state r them to take the same steps the Seattle body. adjustment board Is one of the of the strikers which the ly refused to grant. for an increased confidence the part of union leaders as to he outcome of the coastwide tele- strike, the situation in Seattle unchanged Saturday morning. leaders expect to hear word the day from Elizabeth Gilley Jack Quinn, union delegates to San Francisco wage conference. Exposition of Methodists Ending BUS, ©., July 12—The centenary exposition is in a blaze of glory. Col. Al- C. York, famous Tennesseean, as the “greatest Yankee sol- ” and Lieut. Commander A. C. of the NC-4, arrived at the ex- grounds today, and were A @ reception involving the en- re centenary personnel. This after- they were presented, by high officials, with medals, iting their achievements, i day also is being celebrated » with prominent leaders of the and national grange as speak- _ Consecration day will bé cele ‘tomorrow, the last day of the n. The services will culmi- in a great evangelistic mass in the grand stand Sunday IN EAST GROWS 200 Vessels Are Now Tied Up in Atlantic Ports YORK, July 12—(Unit Officials of the United States | NEw | Press.) representatives of shipping unions | here toc in an effort to avert the threatened strike of all union ship workers. Continuance of the dead. lock, after today's session, will de- velop a general strike, union leaders predicted, Estimates of the total number of men now out, varied to day, but union heads said there were 10,000. Approximately 200 vessels were tied up In Atlantic ports. Announcement that shipping board officials should confer with union leaders here followed an ultimatum |to the board by William §. Brown, international president of the Marine Engineers’ Benevolent association, threating a general .strike of en-| sineers if the shipping board stands lby the American Steamship associ- |ation in its refusal to give prefer- ence to American and union seamen over non-union aliens and to grant the wage increase demanded. ‘The strike was spreading today. Reports indicated that shipping was tied up as far South as New Or- Jeans. Frisco Clearings Show Big Decrease) SAN FRANCISCO, July 12—No significance can be attached to the record of San Francisco bank clear- ings for the last week, showing a} decrease of $1,303,681 under the cor- responding week last year, it was ex plained today at the clearing house. The “corresponding week" last year | did not include July 4, altho that holiday was included this week. | Many thought prohibition caused| the decrease. The United Press obtained the clearings for yesterday—$23,125,228. These, added to the total for the week of five business days, gives a| six-day total of $145,580,686. This is an increase of $22,161,286 over the corresponding six days of business | of the year previous. The clearing house explained that clearings fluctuate so much that no| accurate estimate of the effect of | prohibition on this city can be ob-| tained in less than a month's dry period. The Best of All Sunday Trips There is not a prettier short boat trip on the Sound than the trip to Tacoma on one of our fast, reliable steamers. and kiddies over Sunday. Take the 9 o'clock boat, arriving in Tacoma at 10:30; then out to Point Defiance park for lunch, and come back on one of the afternoon boats. Everybody will say the trip was the best ever. STEAMERS Tacoma and Leave Colman Dock at 7, 9, and 9 p. m., returning from Running time, one hour and 30 minutes—just long enough. ROUND TRIP FARE $1.00 Including Puget Sound Navigation Company Take the wife, Washington and 11 a, m. and at 1, 3, 5,7 ‘Tacoma on the same hours. War Tax Main 3993 TEXCURSION TOMORROW HOOD CANAL There i# no prettier cruise anywhere than that up the Hood Canal. served on the boat. Dairy lunch at city prices is The excursion will go to Union City, at the head of the Canal, and the entire trip is made in day- light. BROOKS’ WHANGDOODLE ENTERTAINERS AND JAZZ ORCHESTRA WILL FUR NISH THE MUSIC ALL DAY Round Trip Fare $1.50 Children, 5 to 12, 75 Including War Tax 8. WHA Leaves Colman Dock . M. PUGET SOUND NAVIGATION CO MAIN 3993, COLMAN DOCK, THE SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, JULY 12, 191: | | “IN PROBE ‘] Dowsey's body was found at 11:40 . m. on Friday, May 2. Twenty minutes before, he had left John Y. ® | Continued From Page On jit atten oad hit litt. | shipping board were to confer with| Richardson, traveling auditor for the | Washington Annex “ death was reported a secret service | Emer leet Corpor offices of P. H, | for the fleet. Dr. A. M, MacWhinnle, specialist, with offices at 202 Securities Build ing, was the first physician to reach Dowsey’s side after his death. He was called to the scene by Charles Clise, son of J. W. Clise, owner of the building, who was informed of the death of Dowsey immediately after the body was found. According to Dr. MacWhinnie, Dowsey'’s face was discolored and congested, the most impressing feat ure being his lips, which were terri bly swollen, Dowsey was pulseless, and there was no sign of heart ac tion, and altho five tests of death were administered, Dr, MacWhinnie found life was extinct. Dr. Mac- Whinnle then felt the arteries of Dowsey’s wrists and temples, but found them soft, and not hard as ts usually found in examination of vic- tims of an apopletic stroke. Believes it Murder “It I were called to the stand,” de- clared Dr, MacWhinnie, “I would say that Dowsey was struck with some heavy instrument and did not meet death from a stroke of apoplexy. I examined him and found that the ar- teries were soft and that his skin was smooth and white. Dowsey was comparatively a young man and it was hardly possible that he died as the result of an apopletic stroke. wey, local auditor | Rigor mortis had set in when I was called, and the body was quite cold.” According to Coroner C. C. Tiffin Saturday, he knew at the time of Dowsey’s death that apoplexy was not the cause, but had been request. ed by government men not to ad- vance the murder theory at that time, in the interests of justice. “I was not satisfied that Dowsey died of an apoplectic stroke,” de- clared Dr. C. C. Tiffin, county cor- oner, Saturday. “I have been work ing on the case constantly, but have been unable to establish anything. Publicity was withheld at the time of the post mortem because the fed- eral agents from Washington city requested it. The United States operatives who came to Seattle to} investigate, also have been at work. | Secrecy Has Ended “Personally, I believe secrecy was wrong, and I said so at the time, because the publication of informa- tion about crimes of this kind often helps in clearing them up. I have received word now, however, to tell all that IT know about it. Secrecy has ended. “When I examined Dowsey’s body, I found a wound about three-quar ters of an inch in length over the right temple, It was deeper at the top and under the topmost point a hemorrhage had formed on the brain, causing Geath. “I believe this wound was inflicted before death, and was not caused by | fall after Dowsey died. “It Dowsey had fallen after a stroke of apoplexy, he would not have received such a deep wound s0 high on his head. It looked to me as if Dowsey had been struck from above, probably by a man who reached around the edge of the door of the lavatory. The hemorrhage was not typically of the kind caused by apoplexy, altho there have been some similar to it. The skull was not fractured, but the highest point of the wound caused death, I believe. “From my own investigation, I be- lieve Dowsey was struck down and papers taken from hie pocket. There was no way of determining what weapon was used by the murderer.” Dr. Tiffin is at Camp Farwell, with the Third Washington infantry en- campment. He is a lieutenant in the medical department. Would Have Seen Head The solution to the mystery, ac- cording to federal officials, hinges on discovery of the two men seen leay- ing the lavatory by G. H. Douglas, the clerk, who found the body. Ac- cording to Douglas, these men left the place hurriedly as soon as he en tered. Federal men advance the the- ory that a lookout was posted outside and that he might have warned a confederate of the approach of Doug- las. An investigation of the washroom revealed that it would be difficult for any one to leave the lavatory without seeing the body of Dowsey on the floor. “It is not possible,” declared one of the secret service agents Saturday, | "because Dowsey's head in contrast | to the white tiling of the floor would have attracted the eye at once.” On this basis the federal agents have concluded that Dowsey was ly. ing dead on the floor, with his head protruding from under a swinging door, at the time the two unknown men hurriedly walked out of the room and down the hall at the ap- | proach of Douglas, r Hear of Threats Before coming West on his investi | ations Dowsey was examined thor- oly by his brother, Dr. G. H. Dowsey ot Greatneck, L, I., and found to be et health. When Dowsey's received in the East Dr. Dowsey, in company with two other |physiclans and the county coroner, performed an autopsy and concluded that death was due to a blow on the head. According to information received here threats had been made against Dowsey’s life and he was in constant danger every moment spent in mak- ing his investigations, Secret service men today advance the theory that Dowsey was evident- ly struck from an adjoining toilet, the murderer standing on the toilet seat and with a swing of at least four feet struck the terrible blow that caused death, Dowsey's glasses were found lying unbroken beside him ‘They were attached to the coat by a black, silk cord. A long cigar that had only been smoked about half an inch was found tightly clutched be. tween his fingers. Experts Sent Here The three most interested secret tion, in the | MARINE STRIKE CHARGES VAST FRAUD OF MURDER | Game (in charge), Edward Blaney, a criminologist of note, and H. A ch, the latter a finger-print and Rertillon expert of national reputa uon. | Dowsey registered at the As soon as his was | man made a thoro ch. None were | permitted to handle his belongings, instructed to maintain secrecy. Dowsey waa 44 years old and one of the best government operatives in the service. He had been a govern | ment sleuth for 22 years, connected | with the customs department, later with the secret service. a member of the Mecea Shrine, New York City. He had a country home at Manhassett, Long Island, a short | distance from Roosevelt's home at | Oyster Bay. been a close friend of the late Theo- dore Roosevelt. Besides his wife, Genevieve, and two children, his other known rela- tives are Dr. G. H. Downey, emin ent in Eastern medical circ Dowsey & Parsons, lawyers, of 66 Broadway, N. Y. operative, and under his direction was shipped to New York. PLAN T0 BOTTLE | | G. 0. P. Strategists Hope to Prevent League Tour BY L. ©, MARTIN (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, July 12-—An at tempt to prevent President Wilson making his cross-country tour in be: half of the league of nations, by keeping him in daily attendance with meetings of the senate foreign rela- tions committee, was being discussed taday by league opponents in con gress. Senator Moses, New Hompshire, a new republican member of the com mittee, said today he plans to offer a resolution in the committee Mon day, inviting President Wilson to at- tend the sessions of that body, be: ginning at 10 a. m, each day, while the peace treaty is being discussed. “I think the president could more effectively serve his country in this way than by making stump speeches thruout the nation,” said Moses. President Wilson already has ex pressed a willingness to give all in formation possible to the committee. Want to Hear Him Other republican members said today they favored having Wilson meet the committee to inform it fully on treaty provisions about which there is controversy or doubt. Borah said he would vote for a reso- lution inviting Wilson to appear, » Many democrats also would like to see the president's offer of his services, made in his speech to the senate, accepted at onc: The view generally taken was that the committee cannot refuse to in vite the president to appear, in view of his clearly expressed desire to do so. If he should refuse, no claim ever could be made that the senate was forced to act on the treaty with out proper information from the president, it was pointed out. However, Wilson's friends want him to attend only a few sessions, Another development was a per- sistent report that President Wilson has decided to ask Senator Swanson, of Virginia, to handle the fight for the league in the senate, displacing Senator Hitchcock, who has been the administration spokesman, Color was given to this report by the fact that since his return Wilson has not conferred with Hitchcock, but spent nearly an hour talking with Swanson in the capitol Thurs- day; that Swanson, not Hitchcock, will deliver the first speectt on the league Monday, when the senate re sumes business, and that Hitchcock left Washington for his summer home in New England Thursday night. Car Service in Denver Resumed DENV R, Colo. July 12.—Street car service was resumed here yester day afternoon, when striking ‘car men returned to work at their for. mer wage scale, with a provision that their dem ds for an increase be arbitrated The return of the 1,200 strikers was assured when the principal mass meeting of strikers accepted this solution at noon The public will pay 5-cent fares until an ordinance is rushed thru the city council, legalizing 6 cents, a matter of 10 days or two weeks. Within the six months perioa pro vided for arbitration of the em. ployes’ wage demands, the city is ex- pected to hold a special election on the fare question, |PARIS RIOTERS FORCE CAFES TO SHUT DOORS PARIS, July (United Press.) Striking workmen swept down the boulevards yesterday afternoon from the Rue de la Paix to the Place de la Concorde. Stoning the restaurants and cafes which had not joined in the strike, the rioters forced them to close, HOLD “RED RUPERT” LO8 ANGELES, July 12.—M. A. Clifford, alias “Red Rupert,” who was arrested in Imperial, following escape from the Oregon state peni tentiary, was brought to Los Angeles yesterday and held here pending de- parture for Oreg SHIPBUILDER IS HURT m Maki, 27, of 2011 Ninth aye. S., a plate hanger at Skinner & Eddy shipyard No, 1, is at the Se- attle General hospital with a frac- tured left leg. A plate fell on Maki The clerk on duty at the hotel was|* and) He was He was said to have resides at Great Neck, Long Island, and James Dowsey, of the firm of Identification of Dowsey’s body was made by John ‘Hill, a brother WILSON IN EAST JAMES SHEA IS ARRESTED HERE Held Post in National Bank of Commerce Reported by federal to have confessed to thefts amounting to $16,046.74 in the last seven or cight years while in the employ of the National Bank of Commerce, James Shea, 36, assistant cashier in charge of the exchange of the bank, is in the county jail waiting the Septeomer session of the federal grand jury. ‘The unexpected appearance of Martin McLean, national bank ex- aminer, and the finding by McLean| of irregularities led to Shea's down |fall, Mclean discovered three re- Jeent items—a $14,040 draft, |July 7, another for $1,400, and a $400 travelers’ check item that had not been posted. Find Irregularities This discovery led th an investt gation of Shea's books and resulted in regularities. officers | Shea's method, the cept drafts and appropriate al! or part of them to his own use and not post the {tems until the next draft came when he would send away the amount that should have been remitted on,the first draft. Shea's alleged plan was very sim- ple but demanded his constant at tention, The National Bank Commeree is fully protected against Shea's alleged defalcations by his bonds, according to Manson F. Backus, president of the bank. Shea went to work 22 years ago in the bank as a messenger and worked his way position. He was one of the most popular men in the employ of the National Bank of Commerce. Just last August he was advanced the post of assistant cashier in charge of the exchange department. Confession Reported When confronted with the books, Shea is alleged to have confessed to Bank Examiner McLean. The two men then went to the office of Assis- tant United States District Attorney Moore, where a stenographer was led in and is alleged to have taken "a written confession. Tho in custody in the narshal's of | fice all morning, Shea was not for |mally arrested until United States Commissioner McClelland issued a Deputy Mar shal Tobey served the warrant. Shea -waived his preliminary hear- ing before the commissioner and he was immediately bound over to the grand jury under a bail of $5,000. Altho friends offered to put up the bonds, Shea declared that he would prefer seclusion and was taken to the county jail Friend on Jury Altho apparently near a bres down after his interrogation by Attorney Moore, Shea was calm and collected when he faced the United States commissioner. Moore, however, would not give permis- sion to Richard P. Callahan, as- sistant cashier of the bank, and Shea's friend, to bring Shea his personal articles for fear that he might attempt to harm himself. A peculiar coincidence in the case is the fact that Richard P. Callahan, Shea's friend, is also foreman of the grand jury, sched- uled to hear Shea's case, A fine of 00, five years In the penitentiary or both, are pen- alties to which Shea is liable for each offense. Shea is unmarried and lived at the Arctic hotel. LIFT BLOCKADE AGAINST RUSSIA Council of Five Also Frees Germany of Net y (United Press Staff Correspondent.) ARIS, July 12—The council of five began issuing instruc- tions today on the cessation of the blockade against Germany. The council also started con- sideration of lifting the blockade against Russia, its maintenance being regarded as most difficult by the official decree abolishing the barriers around Germany. American delegates also held it was not legal. Italy filed a claim today, asking that she be granted the Austrian roncession in Tientsin, China, the e treaty now providing that the ssion revert to China for inter. national use Tho blockade against Germany was to be raised today, according to the decision announced yesterday by the council of five. Exeperts advised the council that they considered ratification of the peace treaty by the German national assembly was sufficient, without awaiting action by the Prussian and Bavarian parliaments. The council concurred in the opinion. May Enter Hungary Intervention in Hungary by the Rumanians, Czecho-Slovaks and Jugo-Slavs, was being considered to day by the allied military commis sioners and representatives of the three powers, which will undertake the action. Marshal Foch was asked yesterday to state the amount of supplies, munitions and other mater- jals needed. Unity of command also was dis- cusged. Representatives of these countries were instructed to ask their home governments to submit reports in response to Foch’s inquir- jes within eight days. A decision on the intervention proposal will be reached soon after these replies are received Dispatch of British, French and American warships to Fiume was a surprise, tho apparently such a course wag deci upon least two days ago, as the ships now on their way. It was hoped today that the presence of the vessels would help to stabilize the sittation, P cone service operatives who have been as-|as he was at work at 7:30 o'clock! but the Italians consider their dis. signed to the case are Major M. 8, Friday night patch was wholly a French move dated | the finding of other alleged ir- bank examiner charged, was to ac: of to a responsible | to) BAND CONCERTS ARE ANNOUNCED ' Musicians ‘Play Saturday Evening at Jefferson Jefferson park will be the scene of the first of the evening park con certs, when Kirchner’s will play from 7 o'clock 10 o'clock Saturday evening I to 9 On Sunday, three concerts will be offered, with Adams’ band playing at Woodland Park, Carabba’s Band at Alki, for the afternoon programs, and Wagner's Band at Volunteer | Park in the evening. | ‘Three band concerts will given on the University of Washington cam- pus this summer under the park | board direction, ‘The dates have been announced as July 31, August 21 and August 30, FORD PROFITS LARGE MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., July 12,—{United Press.)—Profits of the Ford Motor Company for nine months ending last April amounted to $54,000,000, Edsel Ford testified today in his father’s million-dollar bel suit against the Chicago Trib. une, \DEAR FOLKS: I HOPE you will have as | pleasant an outing this summer as the 1,400 wo- |men who work in the Wil- son & Co. plant, Chicago, are now enjoying. These 1,400 women, some of whom are married and are mothers of young ba- bies (the babies are al- jlowed to go with their |mothers), are sent to Camp Wilsonia, located about fifty miles from |Chicago on Lake Michi- gan in the famous sand |dunes section of Indiana— ‘Where they can bathe at will— Where they sleep on wide, sereenedin porches that are con- nected with two large dormitories constructed especially for them— where they can roam through grounds that are beautiful with wonderful foliage and flowers— where they dine on the fat of the land—eating Wilson & Co.'s Certified’ Food Products— where they have a royal rest and good time— ALL WITHOUT ONE CENT OF EXPENSE TO THEM- SELVES and, in addition, they receive pay while away. | This is not charity. It is merely a mark of appreci- ation and consideration on the part of their em- loyer, Wilson & Co., who lieves that the health and happiness of its co- workers are essential to theirs and to its success. The Mutual Service, one of the many constructive subsidiary organizations connected with Wilson & Co., plans all the year round to help these 1,400 women workers in every possible way, but one of its greatest services is ar- ranging the details for these summer outings. The talented young women —GOD BLESS THEM—who have charge of the Mutual Service, prefer to do this kind of work to any other in the whole wide world. They say their reward is greater than if they took positions with commercial angles to them only \It is a great thing for the |happiness of working woman- {hood that young women of this type like to do things for their sister workers that bring roses to the cheeks of tired mothers and their ba- bies and gives them a chance to see the moonlight and the starlight and the sunlight un- obstructed by tall buildings and narrow streets—to give them a chance to hear the birds sing and to inhale the |pure air that abounds in} Camp Wilsonia—to give them} ja chance to dig into and to play in the soil of God’s coun- tr Do you wonder that happi- ness abounds among the workers in the Wilson & Co. organizations? {Don’t you see how these lit- ‘tle, thoughtful courtesies help to uphold the spirit of loyalty that is the bed-rock of the Wilson & Co. success, and why there is so much mean-! jing to the slogan, “The Wi son label protects your table?’ Sincerely yours, WILLIAM C. 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