The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 20, 1919, Page 11

FE am gag -TIHURSDAY, NOV. 20, 1919. eh ee dag * * * ® eae eS Lived Happily With Wife for Years, Says Deaver BY JAMES R, DEAVER I shall say nothing derogatory of Mrs. Deaver; she is the mother of my child. I feel, however, that I should state that the statements she is making are tncorrect The facts are Mra. Deaver and I had known each other from my boyhood and her girlhood days, and I was also well acquainted with the family. My particular chum in the service, a Mr. W. T. Phillips, had married her sister at Bremerton. I was always very fond of Minnie and I know that she was of me. During our younger days she exhibited every evidence of be- ing particularly fond of me, and desiring to be in ‘my company, in fact, as we grew a little older I had to insist that she stay away from the office, not because I did not love to have her there, but because it was place for her and was against ¢t orders and I knew that my superior colonel would not submit to it; so I requested that she stop her visite which for a few months or a year before our marriage were almost daily ALWAYS LOVED HER It seems that my action this matter led her to believe that I did not care for her, .nd shortly afterwards she informed me that since I didn’t she was going to get married to her cousin This man I knew was unworthy of her, and I took the matter up with her family and tried to argue her out of the notion, but she insisted that if I did not marry her that she would marry him. I told her that I had always loved her more than any other woman and would have asked her before that hac I thought she cared enough for me to marry me. She wanted me to marry her immediately and I remember that I laughingly told her that it was customary for young girls to wear engagement rings before they placed a wedding ring on their fingers and that she would have to wait and wear our engage ment ring at least a month. BECAME E> iED we became engaged and I gave her @ solitaire diamond engagement ring and | gave her and her mother money to buy her wedding clothes and later we got married. It is true that the first marriage was a civil one, but later we had the religious cere mony performed. At the time of our marriage I was about 38 or 39 and she was between 15 and 16, but a very matured girl for that age. We lived as happily as two bugs in a rug and then the child came to add to this happiness, which continued without interruption until & few years ago when certain urrences happened on a visit of hers to Anacortes. In the heat of the excitement that followed a divorce action was begun. But these things were all forgotten and forgiven and the action dismissed, and we again lived together as happily and contented as could reasonably be wished fer until Mr. Holt appeared upon the scene. What happened since then need not be mentioned nor detailed as the newspapers have already given publication to much of our troubles, which publicity I both regret and deplore. So After nearly two months spent nny im jail with a charge of first de- gree murder hanging over him, ran away from the shooting after GG at cr cccnea Be Pewaig | Holt had fallen to the ground tae nes Deaver was in the White House * enjoying freedom Thursday, ac- aoa ae the com of we | poot hall when the crime was com- |” mitted, at $:20 o'clock, defense wit-| Clay Holt, Alki grocer. Forse 24 It took a jury in Superior Judge |™*™*** Mitchell Giliiam’s court just 32 min: | ) utes Wednesday night to decide + pis, cteaoentay, niente sete | WAS NOT FORCED Beg) ist to that effect. MARRIAGE, SAYS Except for a slight pallor, Deaver dd showed but little effects of his weeks HER STEP-FATHER ) ) of incarceration when the verdict} Denial that Mrs. Minnie Elaine He smiled slightly, as he! the ‘was read. had done many times during three days’ trial. Mrs. Elsie Wiseman, into an unwelcome marriage the only | Deaver in the vicinity of the crime} | shortly before #t occurred. Two wit | nesses identified him aa the man who Deaver was forced against her will| to Sergt-Maj. James R. Deaver, as she declares in the story of her life, now Discovered | Driver * * * * * Mysterious Murder Is Found With Skull] Crushed on Detour Road a Mile From Everett TWO BOYS ARE SOUGHT ‘Two lads, clad in fur caps, are be Ing sought by police and deputy sher. iffs thruout the Northwest today in an effort to solve the mysterious murder of Lee Linton, 35, Everett taxi driver, whose body was found at 9 a. m. in a diteh along a detour! road near Home Ac about a mile! and a half from Everett He waa killed by a blow on the head with a blunt instrument and) ot $40 | nton had been engaged by two} boys at 5 p. m. Wednesday to carry! them to Rnohqmish The body was found tn the ditch by & passerby. Sheriff James McCul- | loch, of Everett, was notified, and deputies were dispatched to try to trace the murderers | The two youths, about 17 years old, approached Linton at his down town stand in Everett, between 5 and | 6 o'clock Wednesday night They requested him to take them to Sno homish. Not wishing to take his bie | car there with only two passengers, he drove them up to the offices the Healy Taxicab Co, where he ts employed, and took a Ford taxi, Heense No, 115519 Car Is Missing | “Punk” Healy, one of the pro-| | prietors, noticed the two boys while} they were waiting to start in the Ford coat, vice He noticed they drew thelr cola: up about their ears, He did not get! & good look at the boys’ faces. | | Linton had about $49, Healy says. | This is missing and #0 in the automo: | bile. Sheriffs and police in every} city and town in the state have been | given a description of the two youths Linton lived in Everett has been employed by company for some time. married last summer. ‘The body was taken to the Everett | morgue | Six Drivers Murdered | long black fur had on @ ser-| One wore « while the other where he the Healy He was | King County Deputy Sheriffs Matt Starwich, Stewart Campbell) and C. H. Beebe are scourtng King county roads for trace of the Ford taxi and the two young men who rented it. The taxi was marked Healy No. 2." Motorcycle deputies are also on the lookout | Two youths, William T. Bailey and Spencer Snow, 16 and 18 years, din-| appeared from Burley, Idaho, Sat urday night and are said to have auto, Six Seattle taxi drivers have been murdered in the last two years, ac |cording to Sheriff John Stringer. The common belief that taxi drivers | carry large amounts of money and/| can be lured easily to lonely roads | | accounts for this, Stringer says & matter of fact they seldom ower |much money, according to the sheriff. SUGAR PRICES — WILL ADVANCE New Crop to Retail at 13 Cents Pound | Next week gar crop comes in when the sugar will # new beet 13 cents, cording to the calcula: tions of the King county fair price committee, which met in executive | session Wednesday | woman on the jury, who was chosen|“ppearing in The Star, was made | forewoman, handed the verdict to the | Thursday by Samuel Jewell, her step- | clerk of the court. It was 8:15| father, 8412 Eighth ave. W O'clock, the exact hour when Holt) “The first I knew of the affair.” was shot down at Hanford st. and| said Jewell, who ts now 70 yea ia) "Walnut ave., West Seattle, on Sep-|and crippled with neuritis, “was tember 27. when she came to me one day and | Audience Applauds vn stg she was going to Mrs. Wiseman smiled. The clerk!" .. ok nie it I haa objer- took the verdict and handed {t to] 90 cee ee ee ee eae an cota | Judge Gilliam. Glancing it over, the a it pe ‘a Judge returned it to the clerk. When| tig man's. darling ee a cae | the latter had finished reading it ' 4 man’s slave. She got along well fh Sloud, wild applause broke out in the| with Deaver until about five years| audienc ed 00m. | reo, | The jury was then dismissed.| “At that time she went to Anacor.| Deaver stepped to the end of the/ tes, and I had to go and fetch her jury t and, as each member of| pack.” that body stepped down. grasped his hand, shook it warmly and expressed his thanks. } Mra. Minnie Elaine Deaver, young wife of the acquitted man, whose Jove Deaver still maintains had been alienated by Holt, had remained tn the corridur outside the court room most of the day. Earl Deaver, 12- year-old son, was not permitted to attend the trial. Sends Word to Son | At the conclusion of the case a telegram wa sent to Oscar Denver, | a son of the .ergeant-major by a for-| for Salary Raises the state university and their mer marriage, announcing the out-) frugal wives and numerous kid- C70. prosecutor John D, Car-| les may not have to swallow Deputy Prowscutor John Car’) their pride and seek salary in- Bee, earer ta the mate, and was| creases from the beard of re io the jury for the state, and was 4 followed by Attorneys H. A. Martin| gent and Walter B. Allen, counsel for the| A number of alumni are pre pasing | defense. Previously Judge Gilliam | to represent them. Furthermore, the had instructed the jury. | University of Washington Alumni! Attempted impeachment by Dep. | *##oclation is preparing for action. uty Prosecutor Carmody of his own} Plans have been launched for a ’ witness, Mra, Ruby Latham, 4234fTousing alumni reunion and dinne! Alki ave., neighbor of Deaver, en-| to be held the University Com a jivened the Wednesday afternoon | ™0Ms. on the campus, next Wednes bs Gassion ‘ day night—on the eve of the Thanks-| When Carmody talked with her,| Stving football game between Call-| {s| fornia and Washington a few days after the shooting, she said to have told him she saw Deaver | enter his house at 9:30 the night of September 27. Deaver’s alibi was that he was in the White House poolroom, Green building, between 9 and 10 o'clock that night. It takes 45 minutes to reach his home from “Wee” to Pat It Up At that time President meeting of the utive board Ata ox the alumni sociation’s night it was “We Coyle will put the proposition up to|the streets at such Outat-the-elbow professors at as HUNGRY PROFS /Plan to Back Up Campaign last |chisels when arrested. agreed that the faculty! members should not haye to beg for| “We allow the retailer a profit of | 1% cents per pound over the whole-| sale price,” explained Miss Ethel| Dean, secretary of the fair price committee “The new beet su is expected to bring a wholesale price | of 11% centa, which, allowing the re-| taller his profit of 1% cents, will) make the retail price 13 cents per pound.” The committee also took under ad visement an increase in the coal |price. Coal dealers aver that they jare.selling coal at a loss of 13 cents a ton under the present fuel control | Price Arrest Brothers for Investigation | J. H. Hageman, 23, and his brother Julius, 18, suspected of holding up Josephine Nicholas, of the M. Eighth avenue and Westlake, ‘uesday morning, are in the 11 pending investigation. The youths were arrested at Boren and Pine st. by Officers J, O sland R. C. Watson. They were at a loss to explain their being on n early hour. They had a hacksaw and ‘al | Yale Faculty Will | downtown adequate salaries. ; | a On the stand, Mrs. Latham great-| The alumni will be asked to deter | ly surprised Carmody by saying she| mine whether or not former students | Get Salary Raises | heard some one passing her house| cannot lp out the faculty, and pre-| NEW HAVEN, Nov. 20.—Yale| " that night, but did not know who it|sent the situation to the powers| professors have been granted salary | was or what time it was. She ad-| that be increases that will make them the | MS mitted being friendly to Deaver and| Cards are being mailed out to the| highest paid university faculty in| unfriendly to Mrs, Deaver | alumni, and every formmer etudent| the United States ‘The court ruled the state could | ia urged to attend the reunion. The normal salaries of fulltime not impeach its own witness, unless Following the dinner, the alumni | professors who drew $4,000, $4,500) her testimony was prejudicial to the| plan to attend the annual Glee club| and $5,000 have been increased to| \ptate. | concert, in Meany hall, which will! $5,000, $6,000 and $7,000, and in al State witnesses claimed they saw|be followed by a dance, few cases $8,000. THE SEATTLE STAR LSON FEARS NEW WAR THRU TREATY FAILURE headed toward the coast in a stolen) SECOND £ * s * OH * * + % + % * 4 EAVER IS ACQUITTED IN 32 MINUTES SENATE DEFEATS _ PACT FOR PEACE History of the Treaty istice Signing Read the Letters Roosevelt Wrote to His Children { Since Arm Nov. 11, 1918—Armistice signe Jan, 18, 1919—F May 7—Treaty handed to Ger servations. dopts cloture of three allies to Nov, 15—Senate time in history Nov, 1%—Senate sitting in com of drafting resolution of ratificatio 19—Resolution of ratificati first (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Nov. 20— ‘The nation's attention was rivet- ed on the White House today for | = | BY HUGH BAILLIE | the next move in the peace treaty battle. Friends of President Wilson could not believe he would swal- low defeat on the treaty and the league of nations, in the inter- ests of which he has already sacrificed his health, The president, it was understood today, is working on a statement to the people telling them that chaos confronts the world as a result of the treaty failure, that it is @ victory |for Bolshevism and Germany, and Theodore Roosevelt and one of his grandchildren HE STAR has obtained permission to publish the intimate and delight opposition in the senate. | Expect Hot Shot | His hottest shot may be reserved for his message to the regular ses downright lovableness of the man, and fathers and mothers and children will read with sympathetic understanding ful letters which Theodore Roosevelt th casted. “catethital cactae’ sion of congress. December 1, Xe g , hese animated, mi ul missives. which he intends to submit the wrote to his children, treaty. One of his first moves was These charming letters were not writ- ten, of course, for publication. The op- portunity to read these family letters is a rare privilege which Star readers will appreciate, expected to be formal withdrawal of the treaty from congress—where it | has been laid on the table—so that it may be presented again. President Wilson himself is | known to believe that, with =~ i 4 United States standing aloof, Eu- First Installment in The Star Nov. 24 Beirserosceng sypige deere} another war, worse than the one Just ended, in which this coun- try will again become Involved. | Those close to him say he re- | | Love of children and family and home was one of the outstanding characteris- tics of the former president. His letters to his children reveal the garded the league of nations as the only safeguard against this. Therefore, he is expected to con- tinue his fight. If the league should hold to gether without the United States, the president fears the United States and Germany—being the two important countries shut out POSSES SEEKING BANDIT HOLDS — WAR DRY LAW 1. W.W. FUGITIVE) UPSTREETCAR — UP FOR TEST Reported Surrounded Near Kinnear Conductor Hands! Three Cases Are Before the; | | from the league—would be Independence Over Cash Supreme Court Today | thrown ‘together In_an_entente, Pt # —- et CENTRALIA, Nov. 20—Ole Han-| A lone youthful bandit held up WAs ast Stee. obi” | So Oe attasian ae | nen, believed to have been on Semi. |Conductor J. C. Atkenson on a Kin-| (United Press.)—Attorneys for | working. nary Ridge, overlooking Centralia, |MCAr Park car early ‘Thursday morn-| the liquor interests and the gov- | Failure of the treaty knocked the ing and obtaining $27.70. ernment began their legal battle | ground from under hopes that there at the time of the Armistice day| ‘The youth, wearing & long dark| over the constitptionality of |‘ould bee “wet” Christmas shooting, was reported surrounded jovercoat and a black slouch hat,| war-time prohibition before the Peace thru treaty ratification is early today in the woods 12 miles |Pulled well down over his eyes.) supreme court today. ‘earther away than ever before, it from here, near Independence. boarded the car at the end of the The opening move was a re- | seemed, The only chance of the wets Bert Bland, captured Tuesday, in| line. He was the only passenger. quest of Wayne B. Wheeler, | was that the president would issue a said to have told Prosecutor Her He rode for several blocks before! counsel for the Anti-Saloon | proclamation of peace and lift the man Allen that he last saw Han. |demanding the money. The transfer! league, to file a brief in support | war-time prohibition ban, regardless sen Sunday night, when the Iatter/Of cash was hurriedly made and the| of the government, of consequences, but this seemed was preparing to turn back to Cen. |Tobber continued riding for two more} That was granted by Chief | hardly probable tralia. Search of Hansen's home | blocks when he ordered Atkenson to| Justice White, The administration today was anx is reported to have revealed a rifle Stop the car The court was crowded to capact-|jously awaiting the world's reaction jand large supply of cartridges The car was stopped at W. Wheeler ty. Outside a throng lined up for a to the treaty defeat. Government These articlen were not there when |st. The youth warned Atkenson not | block, waiting to gain entrance, officials believed it would be a severe posse members searched the place {to follow him, and disappeared into ihu Root, Levy Mayer and Wm. shock to other nations which partici before. |the dark Marshall Bullitt were in court be- pated in the peace conference, point: | The rifle ix anid to belong to|_ Motorman G. W. rmele, 218 hind @ mass of papers, to make the | ing out that America took the lead Rert Bland. Bland was grilled by | Fourth ave. N., did not know of the|@rsument for the liquor interests. !thruout and now refuses to accept the prosecutor until a late hour |Tobbery until after the youth had left | Assistant Attorney General Frierson | the document or be a party to any yenterday, but had little to say. the car, when Atkenson told him was ready to make the main argu: of the arrangements it sets up. Funeral services for John Haney,| Motorcycle officers scoured the|/Ment for the government, assisted If the president does not manifest | the posseman shot by mistake, | Kinnear park district without suc | by Solicitor General King. some strong symptoms of “having were to be held today in Tenino | ss | AntiSaloon league, in its! just begun to fight.” many of his with American Legion men attend brief, claimed that prohibition was | friends will entertain renewed mis- ing. Recessary to the welfare of the coun- | givings for his health, it was learned Threatening letters from an un WOMAN HELD UP ry ae: aaa gh His interests in the treaty and known source are being received A alae CC apeene. eersacmnes| eave axe: icotwn fo nave Wise tn by leaders in the hunt for 1. W. W wr # iates pene ti Paw : pounc tense, predominating over every. Prosectitor Allen sald today he hadlsosermine Nichches ot the Mac hotal fond £000,000 pecrle weet tae; | thing. He felt he was honor-bouad practically completed preliminary hth ave, and Westlake m.| brewers in 1917 used 9,000,000 ra | 02, Liew Gece, Cheagnoenss Bad bie work on the Case to be tried here |phuraday at the corm ave.lot coalasd : As bb eegg! tons ‘other colleagues of Versailles, to se- next month: | * . <4 gi Ml required 13,500,000 teams cure ratification and so make good r jand Pine st., obtaining $5 and cars, including 200,000 freight | iy th yen. pia LEN gd | Miss Nicholas was returning to her | cars.” ee ae . TION Jhotel ftom work when she was held| Irie | Phe Check ep the sence, Sonat BELGL ELECTIONS pais : 8 Frierson made the opening argu-|jeaves the United States still in a BRUSSELS, Noy, 19.—Final ree ie. sf twe men, both apparently | ment Mayer, liquor attorney, | technical state of war, with war laws turns from Sunday's parliamentary less than stepped from the | sought to obtain more time for argu-| remaining in effect, including the | elections today showed the Catholics | Shadows of a doorway, One of the| ment, but this was refused by Chief ver act for controlling food and elected candidates, socialists 68, /YOUths grabbed hold of Miss Nicholas | Justice White. fea eae oe 7 4 . | uel, war prohibition, the espionage | 23 and miscellaneous parties |@%4 held her while the other one! Present circumstances, Frierson | jaw and others. 7 ) for the aned emergency has hands his war-time powers, including ae that of ordering troops overseas, so he can continue to send soldiers to, Europe to ry out the terms of the treaty, even tho it down. youthful holdups. —_— war powers of congress not . ‘ only extend to winning the war, but Three Men Killed; | be Getting the countty bask to a nee Train Hits Auto |"! basis “and that has not been done yet." FREE TICKET: TO THE CLEMMER he said, It’s easy. Only one day left to send LOS ANGELES, Nov. 20.-(United | CG J . Ss a our as i Press.)—Three me: ere killed 5 n your rhymes in. ae men was scictale hia’ | Steamer Roman Is oD Re ee day, when thie automobile. eran Appeals to U.S. Reported i in Peri into a Pacific Electric freight train,| 0 ‘ : JOHANNESBURG. It’s fun at 25th and Alameda sts NEW YORK, Nov Wireless| __«1 appeal to Amer 4 Peggy Perry, 28, pretty motion pic yen from bereraigt Wemas by the hopes of the world thru failure P ture actress, suffered a broken leg|'d"y reported her in distress 35: lopt the covenant e Leag Both rhymes and ad and painful burns, which resulted |MHes off this port, with her steer: 4 Marlena,” “den. rai eee t results. p ie sre o "Gen, Jan Christian ge when the automobile caught fire aft os hares se pa ai ‘ Smuts, British member of the league ; A er the wreck The Roman, a freighter of 2,348) commission, declared in a message | Phone Main 600 and nai jtons, formerly in, service on the | yqdressed to the United States today. see what we can do for Several American authors are hay-|Great Lakes, left here Sunday with ing their books printed in raised let |ters for the benefit of blind Amer. [ican soldiers, a general cargo valued at $1,000,000 for Marseilles, She carried a crew of 40, Silk was first made by Si Ling wife of Hoang-Ti, emperor of China, in the year 2600 B. C. you. | ECTION "eace conference opens in Paris. June 28—Treaty signed by allies and Germany at Versailles. July 10—President Wilson lays treaty before senate in person. July 15—Senate foreign relations committee begins consideration of it Sept. 3—President Wilson begins nation-wide tour in behalf of treaty Sept. 10—Senate foreign relations committee reports it to the senate with amendments and four reservations. ‘ Sept. 12—Formal reading of the treaty begins in the senate. { Sept, 26—President Wilson breaks down at Wichita, Kan. on hig {|| speaking trip and starts back to Washington { Oct. First of proposed textual amendments defeated by senate, } Oct Formal reading completed in senate. ; Nov. 6—Lagt of attempts to amend fails Nov, 6—Sehator Lodge offers 15 reservations to be included in (|| -esolutions of ratification, including preamble requiring written assent | putting the blame on leaders of the | has been turned | PAGES | ad TO 20° s + cy man delegates motion to limit treaty debate for nmittee of the whole finishes work in containing Lodge reservations, on defeated in the senate. | BY RAYMOND CLAPPER United Press Staff Correspondent)” | WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 7 | %0.—President Wilson is expect ed to submit the beaten peace treaty to the next session of | congress, starting December 1, | in another attempt to obtain its | ratification. | The treaty is dead today, se far as the senate is concerned. It went back to Wilson, follow. ing failure of the ratification votes at the spectacular final session last night. The Lodge resolution of ratification, con- taining reservations, was turned down, 41 to 51, The resolution of unqualified ratification snide de feated, 38 to 53. Senator Hitchcock, who h the administration forces during tf long fight just ended, declared to Wilson would submit the treaty the next session. Compromise will then be nears, on the basis of the Lodge reservati Slightly modified, republican tors of the “mild reservi group said today { Republican Congress Failure to ratify the treaty at the special session marked the end of the first sitting of the new repub- ican congress, which began May 19, | What was to have been the great {reconstruction session struck am arly s in the treaty and all ate tempts to enact a program of domes= tie legislation to put the country | back on @ peace-time basis failed. Pressing reconstruction questions, — on which congress failed to act, ine clude. f reorgant- Return of the railroads, zation of the army on a peace basis, | repeal of war-time luxury taxes, em: _ | tablishment of a merchant marine — | policy, opening of public lands for — | soldier settlement, development of - | water power sites on public lands, _ opening up of oil, coal and phos phate lands, government control of the meat packing industry and re vision of the court-martial system. — | When congress comes back Decem- ber 1, action on these measures will Still be blocked until the treaty is disposed of. Senate leaders expect to push for prompt action on the _ treaty to cle = the way for domestie | lemislation Early next year the | national campaign will be shaping up and the republican congress wants to be ready to face the coune try with some of its proposed domestic legislation enacted. Lodge Again Busy Complicating the treaty fight next. session will the Lodge resolution | |to declare the war at an end, which, was tntroduced late last night, just befort the senate adjourned. This Lodge resolution can carry by a mas | Jority, which can be eastiy obtained | jin both houses, it ts declared by res _ publican senators. Action will be pressed in the sen- ate, and with the concurrence of the _ |house, peace then will have been technically obtained, so far as con= | gress is concerned. Belief in some quarters that Prest«; dent Wilson would call another spe= cial session before December 1, and force the senate to resume considers ation of the peace treaty was scouted by Senator Hitchcock, administras tion leader, ‘The senate’s action in refusing to ratify the treaty marked the climax ‘of one of the bitterest political bate | |tles since the founding of the goys | ernment. For the first time in Americen history the senate openly challenged the president's traditional: supremacy in foreign affairs, |Paris Says Treaty | Effective Dec. 1/ | PARIS, Nov. 20.—The peace treaty | 7 | will become effective by December 1, | the supreme council decided today. Nations which have accepted the |treaty will exchange formal ratifica: — tion in time for the pact to become — effective on that date, F The three ball sign of the |shop is traced back to the coat. arms of the Medici family of Jf the original pawnbrokers world, sik