The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 29, 1919, Page 7

“F ROBBERS PLY Slugger Gets Woman's Jew- * ‘els; Cripple Loses $114 Taking advantage of the heavy fog which hung over Se- attle during the past 24 hours, yurglars, foot-pads and highway nen of every description plied heir trade successfully and dis- wpeared into the mist. _ Mtacked at 39th ave koa Miss Ella Young. Ran, Eighth ave. and Union st, Suffered a lacerated neck when a 4 peer snatched a gold chain from # neck after threatening her life the made an outery the lone man approached Rat 2an S. and Da Miss Bunt. “Sood evening.” he sald. Ste drew away from him, but he graded her and told her to keep quit. Then he snatched her purse, fonaining $4 and a «mal! amount of Jewiry and snatched the chain from hermeck. After relieving his victim Of jer possessions, the slugger slip pedaway in the mist. q Cripple Robbed AXfew moments before Miss Young robbed, W. B. Knox, a cripple at $04 Virginia st. fell foul of ® mir of footpads in the fox bank his home. He was relieved of © Pildin cash and did not even see the ‘obbers. Koox told the pblice he was stand ‘Wee in the curb trying to see if any les were approaching be Crossing the street. Suddenty rms were pinioned to his side a@pair of arms thrown about his from behind. A hand steaithily thru his pockets. The robbery fompleted in a moment and the menwere gone. Asks for Match, Gets $30 Stpping out of the fog, a man suddniy stepped up to R. B. Brad > Wey, 6506 First ave. N. E.. shortly afte: he alighted from a street car, meat his home, and asked for a mate. Brdley, who is a gas station at- it, started to hunt for the woceeded to hold him up, ob- ig $30. Bradley was instructed “tat it” He did. _ GutJohnson, 721% Dearborn st. wes eld up by two men on the @orne in front of his hotel at Bevenh ave. S. and Dearborn st. hort? before midnight. The foot- ‘Pads otained $7 and walked into the ‘W. >. Crandall, an employe of the “ Crescat Manufacturing Co. 215 Oc- 4 tl ave. discovered a burglar wok in the plant Sunday night tief made his escape thru a Mndow. It is not known or not anything was stolen. ‘Thives stole a quantity of candy 4 store at 1101 Jackson st : was made thru a screen | door. P. Sanders, 1404 16th ave, her house robbed of $4 in Hd two suitcases filled with if during her absence Sunday night. ——_____ TWHSKY POISON DEATHS NOW 247 P17 Mei Placed Under Arrest in Pobe of Drink Sales Repots from various cities to- day showed that at least 247 per- died from wood alco- . the “blind death,” bition went into ef- ject, 1 i ln scores had been st blind and others are still iq a serious condition. Following are the reported casual- tes of be new plague New fork, 52 dead, | seriously ill, Chicam, 60 dead, 6 ill. 45 dead, 5 100 blind. Chicopee, Mas: Log | riously &. Clevel@d, 15 dead, 3 blind, 16 11. Holyole, Maas., 10 dead, 3 blind, 7 jt. im. Hartfow, Conn., 13 dead, 7 serious ly i Jamestewn, N. Y., 7 dead Newark N. J., 5 dead St. Pau, Minn., 4 dead. Springfield, Mass, 3 dead, 5 se riously ill. Hadley, Mass., 4 dead, 1 111. Syracuse, N. Y., 2 dead, 2 51 Emiperium, Pa., 2 dead Des Moirfes, Ia, 6 dead, 12 iI! Augusta, Ga., 16 dead Greerfield, Mass., 1 dead Pottsille, 2 dead, 1 seriously Little Falis, N. Y., 1 dead 7 NEW YORK, Dec. 29.—Seventeen Men werd under arrest tods nection with "blind de already bad claimed more . in con ch than 100 the ath” wh victims of 1 alcohol poisoning since Christmas Five of the arrests were made here, six in New Haven, Conn.; th in Chieoper, Mass.; two in He Mass, one in Thompsonville Conn, Three of the men taken here were rounded up by Internal revenue agents, Among them was Adolph P: unar eli, wind and liquor merchant, who. the authdrities believe, shipped most of the poisoned whisky into New England that resulted in scores of deaths and cases of blindness. Mont Of the prisoners have heen charged with manslaughter, Those taken in New York were to be arraigned to day. CHICAGO, Dec. 29 id nine men in conn le of wood colored to re “¢emble whinky. ‘Tin-lined suit cases filled with whivky were found in a hotel room occupied by the gang. Tom Gary, former prize fighter, headed the ring which sold the booze, police wtafed. Ten deaths have resulted in drinking wood alcohol last week. Police today etion with the aleohe TRADE IN FOG Hotel | Yotng in the heavy fog late Sunday | when the man pulled a gun | ®& BSHIP RAMS BARGE: CARS GO IN SOUND Five car loads of machinery and Jother material for Bremerton and |Puget Sound navy yard, valued at $100,000, lie under 600 feet of water & short ways off Alki point Monda following a colli the steamship Queen Co Jand a bi Sunday Capt. Don Inman, on board tt barge, narrowly escaped death, and after the careening barge had right itself, applied blocks to a s car, keeping it from following the other five to the bottom of the sound | He also started the pumps on the |Darge, and in this way Kept it afloat ; Until ft was beached, despite the gap |ing hole torn in its port bow by the | prow of the Queen. | Collision in Fog The five cars and thetr ¢ may not be mivaged great depth of water at they submerged. The collision occurred tn |fog, which hung over the |day Sunday The Queen, undamaged by the c« ie mn, ls on her way to California Monday, She sailed from Seattle |few hourw after the accident The barge was being towed + | Bremerton by the tug Arab, Lill Tug & Barge Co. It waa the barge 967th voyage to the navy yard p< | Contained Propellots | ‘The Arab was proceeding cautic |ty in the fog, sounding her siron at frequent intervaia according to he of the point aune the a dense bay jeaptain, Cart Foss The Queer rounded Alki point, missed the tus and hit the barge, says Foss, The barge listed and rolled from the im | pact, and five of the cars slid into the bay. Capt. Inman ts given cred for saving the sixth, containing coa for the navy yard. | The barge was beached municipal bathing beach. The lost cars contained ship pre Pellors, machine toola steel plates fire brick, coal and sand. on tt PUGILIST KILLED | _ BY TAXI DRIVER | Shot When ‘Me Attempts to Attack Ex-Soldier ——____________x || Continued From Page One And at's the gun and here I am fellow that stuck the back,” he added, pointin “It wasn't a gun at all,” said the man on the floor, “It was only my finger. You're a coward, to shoot a Man like that.” “Well, some of you fellows have been shooting up a lot of us drivers lately,” exclaimed the other. “We're | carrying guns now, and it tm't going to be #0 easy.” “You've been acabbing on us, Martin argued. | Morse, in whose house the wound ed man had taken refuge, put an end to the argument. The driver ex plained his name was Harry Erick son, and was turned over .to detec tives, who arrived later. Martin was taken to the hospital, where he died lat 4am On his death bed Martin asked that Harry Wolfe, of the Excelsior apartments, be notified of what had happened. He refused to tell the names of his two companions “1'lt die game,” he said. “Nobody'l! ever know from me who they are Served in Army Erickson was released from cus tody before Martin died. He ex plained that he had served 19 months in the army, having been discharged last March. He ts 26 years old Captain of Detectives Charles Ten nant declared shortly before noon Monday, Erickson would not be ar rested until after the coroner's in quest, which will probably be held after nuary 1 “We are working on the case,” de clared Tennant. “and I hardly think we will order the re-arrest of Erick son at this time.” Deputy Prosecuting Attorney John Carmody held a conference with Cap- tain Tennant concerning the shoot ing this morning. Erickson also ap- peared at the police station attended by an attorney for the Seattle Taxi cab company. Two of the bullets from Erickson’s gun, discharged as the three others were leaving the cab, were found bedded in the car Martin had been living at the Barker hotel old Police and detectives began search He was about 23 years (United Press Staff Correspondent)|lieutenant’s hesitation to condemn ing the city at any early hour for) oNnpoN, I 29 overn: | muc tn has made the situation | the two missing men, a meager de-| ment should go “steadily forward” | worne, the jon of this news scription of whom was given by ||. to force Premier Lioyd| pat Erickson he me rule plan for Ire Detectives declare they know the| jin degpite yeaterday : Papers Suspicious identity of Martin's companions and | i00. GOepil® even of terran’ ti The newspapers were inclined t have been ordered to round them up. [yyy Aachaseh sohen ‘ nh me suspicion the re No arrests had been made at noon. [77 Cure tage encreuia that latent shooting affra Rumors reaching police station in-| che iataat aa easultod n Irish or dic that one of the occupants of] Ne Honnt Hiritiah ase tod raid the the taxicab was wounded in the leg | a . sce Gare av fee, presumably for during the shooting. A person, the stat isit T ea a tempt on t life af Lord I t name of whom the police are said |“ oA siuaar aa" t ‘ a sees timated a ¢ 1 of the to know, reported that a man was|“'* eee ie at Dulis BS al be rain and seen limping from the vicinity of the | '°* i oe ee abs pe thi the k of both shooting ty iggy secre By 1 nd Carey was a fatal The police declare that Martin had |" “1 Buen sdunah th ' was one story that been instrumental in beat BD Aes gates : Ca h @ pert an number ¢ e cab company’s | Cle? sg ‘x ‘ seisuteer depts oen |x |number of the taxi pany's | ine ll ee ck ; drivers in the past because the agit th Lanes ; my | not le a be : Pockets of Suspect = [1 ). « ‘ 4 ’ The Tim ! 1 Ide A 1 ther 1 Care Bulge With Jewelry | .°)°.°""";, fe ad Hoast | oat and Frank Martinez, arrested bya in Fein leader The lord ed the fight Patrolman T. Wright at Post ave. | land Spring st. ea unday morn. | & s, was charged with burglary in| ] f T Cc rng Bo pe pagpahtg Ml ye \Proposa $s ror reaty ompromise the second degree Deputy Prone bs . cutor John A. Frater in Justice Otis | Pl d W h L d d H h k qourt Maitay. Mar-| aced With Lodge and Hitchcoc | ti er i , rpg sad '0| WASHINGTON, 1 ).—Defi- tion, to eliminate language objection | at he robbed the Foge \ eaty compro:| able t en son and the | Rally Jewelry store, 921 Firat ave, | nite proposals for a trea mpr to F t Wilson and th Wright said Martinez’s bulging pock. | m have been placed in the hands | democrats | nate, and to mak ets attracted his attention, and when|o¢ genators I HW 0 ear that the United States is not he investigated found them loaded] 1). 4, arty eaders (ald ing to avold any obligation which with watches, bracelets, rings, chains | °° ce cd daha ae hauls ascents jand other jewelr: | 4 third is modification of the nls have received the indore orvation, to make it less NARCOTIC SMUGGLER nt of mild reservationists and of | ony. St fade SENTENCED TO PRISON |“™.""""*' i | The uln are three change N.Y, SUBWAY TIED UP Thirteen months at McNeil tsland| jp the reservation sens Wane” Chur as mhieas way the sentence imposed on Mo} ‘The first Js alteration of the pre-|is ic. of the Interborough Rapid Kim, a Seattle Chinese, who was|amble of the ratification resolutions. |nanit company were tied up for a found guilty of smuggling narcotics |to eliminate requirement for affirm: | Transit company were tid Nal tos & into the U. 8, by Judge Jeremiah| ative action by other pov in Setitare eaticed io, shies uation Neterer, in the federal court here|cepting reservations wlowin Monday. Kim had already been|them to accept acquiescence fined heavily for havine ovium in| The second change proposed 1 Fook out for dark days when the 1 his possession, | ve AR—MONDAY, DECEMB: HOMEWARD BOUND WHAT NE THEY SHOULD DROP A DEPTH Bome! THIS 18 MO PLACE FOR YouR. UNCLE MEPTUNE! 29, 1919. Two Killed in Shooting Near Lord French’s Home DUBLIN, Dec. 29 {United Press.) ALLIES TO ASK A number of guests were in the Yesterday's shooting affray near | vice regal lodge when the ehooting | the lodge of Viscount French, lord | occurred. Women were panicetrick-| PARIS, 1 Neutenant of Ireland, was not an at-|en, believing it was an attack in| Paris said tempt attack the vice regal lodge, |force on French's home. it was stated semlofficially today hurriedly prep 4 to defend the|®#k for ex Police said the affair, which stil! | lodee. fearing shooting on the| kalser ax was shrouded in mystery, could be| *TOunds was a ruse to draw the | the Verena explained by the military |®uard away, #o the main body of | [ut Lieut to be Laurence Carey were killed the clash which occurred yeaterda A doen stories of the fight we: being collected toda There were | lodge was denied toda jer guilty of war crimes and had strong indications it was not an at-| ¢ ng econ & the recent at-|¢xchanged complete lists of those tempt by radicals to kill Viscount |tack upc Loré b wh al who would be punished. The form French, but prot a mintake caus amber f inen £ his motor|¢r crown prince was mentioned a ; od by the activities of over-zealou sno he was f from the rait|@mong the gut who must fac . cards way ‘nation’ to.‘ dge, the. ney [tral but no mention waa tande Children’s Coats Reduced According to the story obtained at | 4, pilates A in|the former kaiser. the yice regai lodge, shota were |). Latest Paris dispatches tndicate | heard near the home of Lord Frer and Lieut. Boast, who was the lieutenant’s guest. two men to investigate While pri ceeding thru the inky darkness : the grounda near Phoentx park, th aon ren Rees: | ede: Oat Drive” C ol on # urbe of The dead officer, it is said had soos : Senteniy caehe week & peseber. at] | The ead) etriow, If le ais, Stl ston erivers of oties operation he Coats of Bolivia Cloth, Corduroy, Egyptian Velour, . girs = pw orm ey tween Seattle and Tacoma were ar + o F EE en ig Si fer ge LD a Broadcloth, Chinchilla and other popular materials inin, © iy od u ela an ¢ ne 8 ¥ y Sheriff G. M. Stanley, as ¢ re - shrubbery and escaped. Jcured his commission for conapicu-| ie ah ahenbe ees tenth be " to 14 n wt mult oF ne te ‘death drives — Oo ears. pin ase Aareskce im bravery in France. He was 20|ctong' ue auth hiohwss ‘i sizes 2 y' Police later arrested four civilians 1, the fon of a major, WhO) Stages running between the two| near the vice reg@ gates, but these |*!*0 rose from the rank a in| citie# are in the habit of driving at! men were sald today to have been wan little Inclination 19!high rates of speed along the hig unarmed, No weapon was found on : ording to Stanley, and it is B e the dead civilian, whose name has Fein, altho| int@ntion of stepping this Broken Lines of been given as Laurence Carey, or that the unger radicall, practice that he arrested Kennedy, it Is said. He wore mill Aaterent upon a “reign| Louis C. Smith and J. W. Freeman e tary puttees and civilian clothing ‘ ued, | They are both charged with speeding Police aaid today t ly Satur it was said, are power to opp pers | = ns " eens \ day night a man whom they believed |the radicals, who plan a series of Says Murdered Man | to have been Carey came to head: |poradic outbreaks at widely sepa-| i | ; 1a und Growing Gitte’ High Shoes reduced to $8.08 gair quarters and said he had been beat-| rated points in hope a « | Killed for Money gerroitasee : a : is en at the military barracks. He |continual harrassment event | MOUNT CLEME ea,'z-9.| Women’s Low Shoes reduced to $4.85 pair Seca Masived th teat ratarmes te| Sevens bs |Stanley Brown, wealthy clubman of Women’s High Shoes reduced to $6.85 pair be revenged upon the soldiers, who,| ‘Tho radicals are going about their) Mount, co ee a nee, oe —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE. he said, had mistreated him, and the| work of organiza and Popa lice here were convinced today, shooting Cirgdl fo ten pees ‘ anda openly in ma par i» of Ire) ‘They are convinced this actuated oe A 6.5 yocas ty Me eft ig ; those who waylaid him along thrown on what really happened at|one man v wor db ager er tatg doer gl wet “woihoones the coroner's inquest over the body |Lord French” was mentioned of ; . : ; 200 S t 100 g tt ve [morning and shot him to death Wi of the dead civilian, in Dublin | Gladys Summitt, 24, arrested in Rat ea ers eor e e British Press Boast and a civilian believed lord rushed out with y re port that several \. | the scene of the latest shooting yes | terday, The ground was stained! with blood where Boast and the ‘© |clvilian fell. Comment in bullets struck kers could reach the lord Hew thru Are of people visited) | the ver punieMment f e Versaliles treaty Dec today Th the tradition n s treaty hand Briti nin ox jeffective early in 1920. | Two Arrested Here ltuec | tie ¢ jan inti ened to get had to kill th own's me KAISER ARREST Feho French are Officers | Britiah governments had decided to of the former an the provisions of carried Saturday an —in Poplin, Serge, Velveteen, Silvertone — sizes 16 German lead will be made ek Saturday as a witness, said ate friend of hers had threat “it » to et it” Irish Trouble Is Guarded Miller on Way to | modification of Article 10 reserva: | weather man predicts light rains. Washington Post Congressman John F. Miller, ac-| ral Sweat EADED, tucked and lace-trim- | con ied by Mr Miller, left &e coat and slip-on swea’ ers 1 : The s, . xt tho national capital” Sun They are in Turquoise, Rose, Salmon, ~ ot in White, Flesh ay ¢ «, after a-stay of a month. | b i |Hefore departing. Miller announced Buff, Brown and Oxford. color, League-blue and Bisque, re- he would be a candidate to succeed Reduced to $2.95. duced for clearance, to $2.95. epee oN ; aaat Greer THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE. THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE. next June to open his campaign for | renomination, | int | W | tes h | jout a mandolin and we kept ourselves warm by dancing. At ithe same time I was sorry for the five children who were }with us, knowing that a country simultaneously suffering war, blockade and revolution, is not a good place for children, porter jof the par ourselves hot water, a short we k. —_———_—_—__—___* | Continued From Page One | - a9 once laden with caviare and other zakuski, were bat ; ried| was, however, a samovar, and we bought tea at 60 kopecks a glass and Jumps of sugar at 2 roubles 50 each. We took our 1 into the inner passport room, whe ve been burning the day before, and there made some |sort of a meal off some of Puntervald’s Swedish hard bread. When at last the train came to take us into Petrograd, and jwe found that the car ag | It was dusk when we reached Petrogré \tion, of course, was nearly deserted, but here there were four who charged 250 roubles for shifting the luggage » from one end of the platform to the other. There was a long time to wait while rooms were being allotted to us in the hotel. that no food was to be had in the hotel, but they could supply Then, to get an appetite for 1 went round to the Regina, which used to be one of the best hotels in the town, but those who had rooms there were complaining so bitterly that I did not stay with them, but went off along the Moika to the Nevsky and so .|back to my hotel. The streets, like the hotel, were only half lit, and hardly any of the houses had a lighted window. FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET The Annual Garment Clearance In the Downstairs Store —the occasion for greatly enhancing the regularly-good Down- stairs Store values by deep reductions on remaining Win- ter Suits, Coats and Dresses — many of them appro- priate for wear right through the Spring season and others that will serve another Winter. Women’s and Misses’ Coats Reduced $14.25 $19.75 $29.25 $34.25 $42.50 Cloth Coats in Brown, Navy, Green, Taupe, Black, | also Black Plush Coats. Silk and Cloth Dresses Reduced $12.65 $15.75 $19.75 $24.35 $29.85 Dresses in Georgette Crepe, Messaline, Satin, Vel- veteen, also Serge and Tricotine. de and Women’s and Misses’ Suits Reduced | $17.75 $24.25 $29.75 | to 42. | $3.75 $6.95 $14.75 $8.45 $19.85 $11.35 | For Misses and Children Reduced to $2.95 IRLS who can wear sizes 28 to 34 are offered worth-while savings in these she Waists Reduced to $2.95 N RUSSIA, ANYHOW? the old sheepskin coat I had worn at the front, and in my high fur hat, I felt like some ghost of the old regime a town long dead. There are, — _ Idea!” Says Wife When She Hears Her Husband Is “Engaged” re I think a stove must es were unheated, somebody got ithe De Wittinw from his be hospit Grey} make my home in Brooklyn, with @ din the Cum- on by former mat srooklyn, still PROB PY & Fe rene, today, Mrs.| Mrs. Vermilye said she had not” William Grey Vermilye, who says|hurried to her husband's side be- is his wife, expressed herself | cause she had been told there was forcibly when informed of the doc-| nothing serious about the illness. After spending a night and a day ‘s “engagement” to Miss Ruth M. | ney, of Monson, Mass inder the same roof with her alleged Miss Keeney berland st 5 had “nothing to say she . The Finland sta- The doctor was scheduled, accord: | ivnandtohave-beon, We ing to Misa Keeney, to marry her A ry Ss s practically re ¥ loaded it into the motor lorry sent to meet us. Christmas day in Monson, but ject [Was pre , ae pr ag ge Jher “waiting at the church.” He | DYSra ‘ m ye's refusal to see her, and was dis- charged from the hospital late yes terday, Accompanied by her father, " she returned to her home in Monson, “The very idea!” sald the woman, | Mass., where the family was to de- ims she was Married to Dr./ ide what they would do about the © 25 years ago, talking over | affair, the telephone from Harrisburg, Pa “Of course, the doctor couldn't mar- ry anybody else, Tam Mrs, William | was located the following day in the | | hospital, awaiting a minor operation, | which will be performed today I inquired for a meal, and found sleep, [ went out for ‘The man who owns a paste dia- mond isn’t necessarily an | | In “ visitie — Ae YORK, Dee. 29.—(United, time at sea, and when he is away 1