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

“LIFE IS CHEAPEST THING IN SEATTLE,” SAYS JUDGE “Human life is the cheapest thing in Seattle today. You have aided in” the killing of a kindly old man. You took a chance—and lost. The sen- tence of this court shall be that you spend the rest of your life at hard la- bor in the Walla Walla penitentiary.”—Judge Calvin S. Hall, sentencing” Frank Weaver for complicity in the murder of William Uren. ia Tides in Seattle WEDNESDAY | NOY. 5 | First Migh Tide 2:20 a m., 10.0 ft First Low Tide | » 42 ft Second High Tide My 11 i pm, ft. ow Tide } Second Low Tide Per Year, by Mail + 00 t | 9:33 pm, —1,3 ft. $5.00 to $9.00 it May 8, 1 SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1919. WHY DOES MAN KILL? For money and jealousy, principally, but “for most any reason at all,” says Deputy Prosecutor John Carmody. the floor below, a man accused of murder anger prompted him. And Lonnie Sanders, who was waiting the jury’s verdict. In the pleaded guilty to manslaughter, was also drunk next court another accused murderer was being and just naturally ornery __ Weather Forecast: fini’ outhwerted q VOLUME 22. NO. 214. " AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH Firm Stand) WHAT IS HER NAME? Is Taken in Girl, Held for Murder, Carefully Conceals Her True Identity Coal Strike } | T THIS tme it. appears | A! advisable to extend the | remarks recently made in this column regard * ing the Pacific “high- Fatal Effects Are Pre When Husband Disee Wife’s Condition in [DENIES HER GRIEV NC While she and her huss ;Government Rebuffs Sug- | gestion to Vacate Walk- out Injunction IS REPLY TO GOMPERS way.” This may save a few dozen _ Wrecks; it may some time wake up fi} Somebody enough to prevent a petition of the disgrace. ‘What I am about to say I would ist believe if I read it: it docan't arraigned. Outside in the main office, the prose “Kanada, who shot another Jap, was another BY RALPH F. COUCH S Beem possible, in a civilized state cuting attorney had just drawn up two murfer naturally mean character, He wan freed here (United, Press Staff Correspondent) and another young co in this era of improvements, but charges, but has been arrested since in California on an- w, GTON, Nov. 5—The | were playing cards % i anybody doubting these remarks May take & seagoing flivver and demonstrate to their utter satistac- tion. Also, by way of preface, I here In the sheriff's office, a widow sat, while sheritt ther murder charge and prosecutor were deciding who should go “Deaver was jealous and so wan Roselius, The East after the alleged murderer of her husband shooting of Cicoria and Ludwig was the result of Down in the morgue, @ deputy coroner had just %"*r and fear, Tirite also is in this clase, The left to hold an inquest over the body of a mur. ©@Faham woman, who shot her two. babies, must ft government today flatly | ‘apartment in the thant the teal etre might | |hotel, Sixth ave. and | be ended if the Indiapolis Injune- ‘ : Wednesday + mo tlon against it were vacated. } s ae Pauline Douglas, 24, _Femark that the road superyisor in dered vee hospital, ™ have been crazy. Then the Bryan murder, What fhe strike as a . Seas st Che Beinn Gietrict showta girl had died, murdered by her mothers band.” Was the motive in that case, Patt” f law,” Assistant At. ¥ ; i herself from the game De fired. “Presumably robbefy, she had $4,500 which Ames anounced zie ; enough to enter the b An insanity complaint against the mother of spam dbanagg ally, arm the baby was resting in a basket in the county ™meone got.” Patterson answered i ernment’ ination | pe and swallow ten bichlo fife for the murder of another. Saturday a wife i! “ —a would be sentenced. “And there's one more.” Carmody added. “Pmil the desk in front of Deputy Pronecutor geseny cut hie wife's head off, out. of joslouay. John PD. Carmody tay notes In the murder case That about winds up the tis of a marine sergeant, who will go on trial, No- “Which makes a total of 21," said Brown, who vember 10. In the county jail, weven accused aq heen checking them off. “Call it two @ or convicted murderers are confined. month. ‘Oil for two hours, and then hang r “You're forgetting the murder of Ryan, the j ae him up to dry in a brick kiln. clerk's office. The insanity commission had rent car driver,” chimed in Brown, “he was “ne ‘ mercury tablets in an eee few hours previous, adjudged a woman ineane peutatiy killed for money, But they didn't wet « 4 . a to destroy her life. “ FR LESTERDAY afternoon, from brooding over a murder. cent. And also Edin Siltanen, the who | < 4) , é Returning to the room wi LY. [come six: mies this side Judge Calvin Hall had ventenesd & man to am abot in that hotel, where the yeut §@, buy sj others. : eration of TARE, who dectared that) if the {injunction were vacated he had an “abiding faith” that a negott ated peace could be arranged be jtween the strikers and operators. Amen’ utterance was considered an indirect reply to the hints which have come from other labor leaders Intimations that abandonment of the government's injunction suit would lead to arbitration. It had a thattering effect on the “peace talk”) which has been going around Wash. “maid: “Road Closed.” A bit farther smal! cave-in was in evidence; quer in 20 minutes with a shovel. I trekked back for a shovel; this fs the main “highway” from Port- land to Seattle, mind you. Campers told me that the super- ‘visor was by a couple of days fhing was wrong, asked her: | ‘Have you taken poison?” Helped Save Her’ She replied, he says, that not, but almost in that instant B frothing at the mouth. He ‘ HY do men kill?” Carmody was asked. 6Q\UT of the 21," Carmody continued, “seven “That's what I say,”.declared Prosecuting killed for robbery, five were jealous, and five Attorney Fred C. Brown, as he stepped in the © angry. Two were ornery, one was insane door, “why do they do it?” and one was out after revenge. There was liquor “Wouldn't mind knowing myself, {f anyone mixed up in three of and had told the farmers to should happen to ik me,” reiterated Deputy “Man killed man in most of the cases. Five times ol the road if it washed out. Prosecutor T. H. Patterson, as he followed Brown a man killed ® woman, once a woman poisoned ington for more than a day. | pace vo 9 os A farmer informed me that no in the room, “why do men murder? another woman, and only once was man a victim “The coal strike is a violation of | ohana xe Pe oA —— work had been done on the road “Well, let's find out,” concluded Carmody. of woman jaw.” anserted Ames “As long as it| 4 Ttormied by pv rn ot fin years; that it had been known “We can run over the list for the last year * Thirteen of the crimes were committed at continues, we are going to proceed | y hi currence, the police rushed Douglas to the city emergency against it in the courts, for months that the first rains Yow sthere was William Gottstein. His case night, and eight in the daytime; two at high noon. ‘would take out the road, and that involved a money deal. Then came Sam Pulaski. A gun was the instrument 15 times, a knife four “This dispute between the mine- 7 pump the county REFUSED TO AI- who shot Peter Buchinski in January His times, poison was used on and one murderer owners and the workers is an en-| & povertal antiaean te aa ; LOW FARMERS TO REPAIR motive was robbery. And Ruth Garrison. I sup. adopted strangulation y different question, which they sured her recovery. THE ROAD BEFORE THEIR pose you would call Ruth jealous because she “Seven victims were friends of the murderer, in gettie in their own way. The “I was iota 2 hu OWN FRONT GATES. poisoned the wife of the man she claimed to love.” = six were of alight or no acquaintance, two were government cannot tolerate contin Nora Edwards to another woma! BP told He advised me that there was “Don't forget John Miller,” broke in Patterson enemies, three were sides of the ‘eternal triangle,’ wed eceation iar, aw Cuenta the) a Unable to persuade her to reveal|cept a vague hint that her father | attaches. strike consitutes,” @nother road that might get me | : i % At the White House it was learned | h¢t true identity, police today locked | Hves.in Portland, Tried Twice Before “he murdered Burkhart for his money. Got tw were wives, and In one case a mother killed . thru. 1,300. That was a brutal crime.” her children Y So much for the first chapter of WAGottetsta, $4800, Pulachi $5,700 and | Miler “Dismissing the robbers, who got $12,000 for | the Kovernment ia standing firmly on | "Nora Edwards” away in a county |, age" Suid to eon pry tice Seen later at the hotel, Dow the Pacific highway and the Kelso $1,200," continued Carmody. “Three lives valued taking seven lives, one man shot another from | ‘8? Proposition that the miners must jail cell to await the day of her trial|over §3 room rent last Saturday | (°clared his wife had no ‘ supervisor. ‘ at exactly $8,500. jealousy over who should drive an auto, another | Fetirn te work before abandonment | for first degree murder as the al-|night, in her lodging house, 606 12th | S*#lousy. Be es “Then James M, Smith, the shell shocked Cana- killed a woman becatiae her dog chaned his chick The Cont atten nak Geadlock exists. | ieged slayer of Thomas C, Ludwig, |ave. 8. The girl asserts she shot in| The woman she refers te HE detour road proved to dian veteran. For a wonder he was jealous of ens. One man slashed a fellow man to death be- COMED ON Bante uced by tWo- | her admirer, They are certain, they | self-defense, after Ludwig had at-| Very ear friend of « brother be mostly corduroy; his own wife. Frank Weaver killed Andrew cause he thought he was cheating at poker, an r - ; pool say, that “Nora Edwards” is not the | tacked her, member,” he explained. * sharp pitches, with sog- Uren, in an attempted robbery other shot a peacemaker in a union quarrel, a girl's real name. | “The truth of the matter is that| knows a lodge man would not sy logs, half of which Harry Kittoe shot Leo Price, his father’s lawyer shot a political bows over a divorce suit, and Capt. of Detectives Tennant said|he was her disappointed admirer,”|‘¢™pt to make love to his were gone. chauffeur for revenge. At least that's what the twice men murdered wives who would not live with |he had tried unavailingly to learn|said Capt. Tennant, “He had paid|>rother’s lady friend. My > ~The roadway for miles was #0 charge sald, Kittoe was acquitted. There was them. |the name and whereabouts of | for his room, then changed his mind |¢*tTemely Jealous, She has Marrow no one could possibly pass. liquor in that case “So it is my conclusion that a man who has babied all her life. Twice before. ‘Four cars of us were stuck In “Swiger, the carman, shot a man In anger murder in his makeup i# Mable to get it out of his é ‘one pitch, and only by everybody | poset Tate dhoving enon car, |). TO® Perkovich, since acquitted, wae ér ing out and shov: | nk and system for no reason at all.” “Nora's” relatives, that they might| about remaining, and demanded his = [be notified of her plight, but that she|money back. That led to the fracas has tried to end it all. ag | had refused to tell him anything ex-! in which he was fatally wounded.” a | anseta9 Abr Bees! stscanlt nnd «sonatas tes ote o- AEP up the grade did ahybody get thru. HARTLEY SLA = Another farmer testified as fol- | —— wn nn ee | obks Like a Finish Fight, ezeomsic= WEAVER SENTENCED “'Srv25vtuce | cm inte _ | Farmers Call Mass Meeting to | LOSES ELECTION the road, The supervisor has not “It looks like a fight to t * ° ° From Speaking} fin, |]. Opp J p C I t Pl 0 eacntaktor tame ae Ose Jap COLONIZALION FLAN! Voters in Everett che F a an ailms - )», Lane, Seattle, was barred fro This HITE LUFF: 7 ae! ‘f oa Praia MMII Geen thru tor three days.” D Lar . Be ee we Borage a ‘a Ente was the statement togay WHITE BLUFFS, Wash., Nov. 5. Adopting New Commissioners . o Meantime, for a hundred miles, mmereta ub a | Sent othe wueiee ebecor hua stringent anti-Japanese resolutions, a well attended ec: ‘ ‘ ¥ ‘ # scheduled address on “Social | om, ers ‘aie sag a 1 [ee Butos were oe i both die Life Imprisonment at hard Have you any reason why pe Be oy ah Mo Church” before| When shown a United Press dis. meeting of farmers and business men in White |} eveRert, Nov. &—Capt ¢ ut sae gach posted: the. |. Inher te the penalty demanded [YOU ‘should not be sentenced the Connnenwealth club, under| Patch stating the government Bluffs went on record as favoring the employment || A. Turner, who recently cond Ricctaste roa con cally be traveted of Frank Weaver for the part Weaver's lips moved. In a voice | whow auspices he had been invited| ment Intends to stand by the fed- of every peaceful and lawful method of discouraging — || the autocratic attitude of officers ‘alterniate road can only be ‘ re. | that showed little emotion, he re-!, : el od eral injunction issued at Indian- 2 “ = ‘ ry “i | ward enlisted men on the Mexi by ight cars, with chains, only he played in the murder last Fe! | plied: » Kpeak, was undeliver apolis, Japanese settlement in this valley. There are no border and in, the. sgrace 4 Beg the driver for a load. ruary 8 of William Uren, white | “I have none, except what my law.| Lane made the trip all the way) ee Japs here now and the meeting was the result of a || yesterday was dlected comm : ie NOE yoohodty, 1¢ fhe vee Solah? haired, aged keeper of an oil |yers have alreddy sald. 1 am not | from Seattle, was met at the door ofl evidently misunderstands the psy report that a colony of them were planning on coming || of public safety here, He 4 ' cos sal gta mes oa thr fect | station, by a trio of bandits j sulty and a dn’t set a fair seta ma ie sina’ ae Si cha Go warmit him chology of the mine. workers’ of in here from Yakima. ' | Newton Jones, superintendent of a fi " | Attorney George Olson notified the DI | erica,” We 1 agg . : ry *, ¥ I clo , wide, will tie up everything be- while trying to rob his place of | cite that, as one of counsel for the| t0 speak, and returned at once with-| America.” Farrington declared. “He The meeting organized itself into a permanent Sian an ert ak ae by ‘i ‘a . yarently is unfamiliar © * OU Z | . cl tween Puget sound and the South business on Beach drive, near | defendant, he would appeal to the|0Ut further = ado. Mr. Lane wie) or conditions under Weak Sire society to be known as the “White Bluffs Anti-Jap- | of police, fire and health adm Ppnk one man with d.sbovel (x: 20 Smith Cov bt gre ai ee ea ‘i SS ot ta os me ln! body, | miners work, else he would not make anese Association.” In effect, the resolutions passed oo me man with & * - Ane Weaver's motion for a|his clien nour action o' co dy 3 4 rebated he hate tinantial " : 9 0 7 R. B. Williams, contractor, 4 E minutes can open the road | Deueine en pk ge San tee Olson had previously asked for a| President James H. Davis of the| "Ch ® defiant declaration urge practical ostracism for “any one who sells or led Mayor D. D, Merrill for eal 4 months, as any one who ecadi y yentence Wednesday morn-| new trial on the ground of alleged| Commercial Club, presiding at the Pigott igi will never settle leases the Japs land in this valley.” The member- sioner of public works, John Ro tentify, it “a a Dig a lr ling in a court room quiet as a tomb, | {rregularities in the jury room, He | meeting, fanaa, og vag meecrid an aan nabeat Siu’ in tooling ship list of the association is being circulated and is |secretary of the Elks, defeated Wy me tentify, has bee rogaine commanded to stand up.| pointed out that a woman juror, aft-| the club had decided to permit “no) p were aj signe snerally by e residents ; cube: isoner known that this bank would cave | Weaver was commanded to sind up. |e verdict was returned, Septem. | one who was not 100 per cent Amer-|8P0ts, but this procedure ts bound to being signed generally by the residents of the: dis- y, Inoumnbent, 20r one in when the rains started. eee, life” said Judge Hall, “is|ber 20, had three times declared in ican to speak in its rooms.” | fail in its effect on the general situ: | trict. Plas are under way to extend the scope of ‘The election -returna cami Arkansas in its muddiest days a cuanaunt thing in Seattle today.| open court that the verdict was not morvee| SOD. Be eo CE the anti-Jap movement to include all of Benton coun- |upset the so-called “Hartley ‘ never exsoiled this bit of back- | {ne “rave aided in the killing of a|hers, She had twice admitted it was, isles $0 Mate igaed ab Posy Mngt ty—White Bluffs members of the grange taking Hartley is a candidate for go woods laziness | You have & of and Olson's motio ie as . Th nie desire to de! ne gO" ec * & af, A ry - Minasibenicttiatniith vo st a indly old man, a useful citizen, |and Olson's motion was lost Get the Christmas |jare all good Americans and will the matter up with the county organization, ] Bl T T dd R It loved by = who yrer arg tg He Got One Year spirit early this yea tand by the government as long as . ‘ és |Prow ers eddy Nooseveit, aay’ ane ° ne ine aetoa kiting: Weaver, it ia said, once verved, a'l thru. Star Classified fs stands by them. an they ak is | | a aoa oy for Four Thefts one “ ae. »| term in«MecNells island prison for negra ne same tr J ccorded other rs Jr., Has New Son but the law makes you equally BUIIEY | violation of the counterfeiting Iaws|| PA&CS: citizens of our country, and the fact | DY. Copntiner oe \Interned German __Rrowiere stole two sults of loti Y Wi 4 with your ¢ i . of the United States. It was to this Th # ted that the government may attempt to $. | * and vo . . FF and Wins Office, Had Served Before the judge referred in pronouncing || yy siticiakam, yooe free dor ||deny that consideration will only Train S| Will Be Witness | starre's r00m in the Right hotel, «a ic Oe ho “faving already served aterm {n| sentence Aig hci make them rjore determined to carry! ATLANTIC CITY, Nov. §—Rev.) Gustave Pricsner, who hag been | Feported to pollos Wednesday, Pe ge pong. SR 0 aon, you should have known what| ‘The sentence was in one sense || “For Christmas presents I wilt |) on the strike,” d J. HB, Crowther, of the Methodist /held asa German alien enemy at| Joe Hellety, 5 % § xth ave ng Ry y 70 : wet | ae pat ted of you, and what would| surprise. John Ozek, who pleaded by Farrington declared the strike sit-| purch, Seattle, Is a delegate to the yort peeaies, l fansite b ight | ost a re and a quan’ y swevelt the greater a as expected of you, and wha f bry en ~ oil, 4 |here Wednesday ia a » when his room was ente! r sie i hag mg poo ypen if you took such a chance. | guilty of manslaughter and admitted Everything that suits my eve uation in Tilinois remaing unchanged. | | tional Jeaders’ training conference narpt witneey resales ated We \inesday, Dantel “saleedo, | | Royal hotel, lost a suitcase conté att Tjosevig Copper Co. | ing clothing. ancis Rowe and Christian| Harry Dimitre, Cleopatra ho ig, both of Seattle, indicted by | 200 Third ave, S., reported the al grand jury in New York | of a red and white striped silk : a 4 lor 6 was one of the three bandits who|| In Star Want Ads I am sure ||, You took the chance—and lost | he was one of the th Jot the interchurch world movement | irregtilarities in the sale o ‘onan me ended leniency, | participated in the Uren murder, had to find i le of steck of he Sury recommends 2 fit 1 nave in mind» ||FRANCE SENDS TACOMA sr wort america, which convened |the K but if I were inclined to be lenient | previously been sentenced to serve * ie: became cneey tie Sine Fare Ae Pees | ees ene Geek's tiret ottones, and he For particulars about {GUN TAKEN FROM HUNS)| "re today. ; 9 | Tios alty and leaves me no discretion, 1} a , ‘An a compliment to Hugh Wallace, | _'Th® Purpose of the conference 181 4° gq Assembly candidate in this dis- triet yesterday, a son was born to Mrs. Roosevelt. The newest Koovevelt will be named Quen- tin in honor of its aviator unele, Roosevelt, running as republt- |/lentencys and full itr ito do thelr| well, who is said to have actually | the Classified Section— |) povernment today presented Taco-| ous Protestant denominations to tour | force United States Commissioner R,| PARIS, Nov, 5.—Tho supr can, defeated Elias Raff, demo ||for having the courage tired tha abot that illad the old ott ‘ ma with a German 160-millimeter|teh country to explain the inter-|W. McClelland on November 7, at|council today decided the first rat, a returned soldier, by |) duty. f this court is that| tion tender, escaped and has thus far TODAY! howitzer captured by the French, | church world movement and its pro-|which time Priesner js expected to|ing of the League of Nations will b 2,600 votes, It Roosevelt's “The sentence ie reat-of your lite | successfully eluded efforts to apbre- DON’T DELAY! United Press wire advices state, Ta:| gram to local and state church lead: | be a strong witness for the govern-|held in Paris immediately after the maiden political race, yO ay abor in Walla Walla pent-|hend him, coma iy the home of Wallace, ers in all sections, | ment, _ [peace treaty becomes effective.