The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 30, 1919, Page 1

GANGSTER SURRENDERS AFTER PLOT TO Tides in Seattle TURSDAY DEC, 30 First Low Tide Piet Wish Tide Second High T WEDNESDAY DEC, 8h First Low Tide saa tt Virwt High Tide Oa m, 122 tt Second Low Tide eM DR moran On the Issue*of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Bntered as Second Clase Matter May a, 18 KILL PROSECUTOR CENTS RRA ARR Re Late Edition Per Year, by Mai! 16.00 to $9.00 the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Co ome March 8, 1879 99 NO. OLUME AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH ITIES are like men; when they loaf they get flabby and peevish; when they get busy at something useful they become cheerful, sleep soundly and have @N appetite for breakfast Beattie is beginning to indulge in setting-up exercises again, and it sounds good to hear the rattle of the air hammer, the roar of the steam shovel, the clang of steel on fron, and the resounding roll of hammers on wood I like to fall over building mate Fial, piled in the street without a light. and to tumble Into a new batch of mortar, and narrowly Miss a falling brick that some fourth-story mason decided he didn’t need any longer The efficient hum of a city at Work: a city full of fotks building for the future: a city of folks too busy to grouch over theore troubles: this sort of a city Seat fs becorning once more. the sort of a city that belongs in P this country Everywhere else in the world. except in the ravished war rons. and it is the buliding, the pioneering, the exploitation’ and the exploration has been about completed, and cities are etald, conservative, tomb- like. But we, ever «ince the Pilgrims oozed out of flower, have been doing ry minute thru the @leness, drifting in @rab . backwaters of dreaming, does not belong * . 7,000,000 © May things ev years, and the slack, leisurely AYBE you think I have the figures wrong about the number of Pilgrim fathers who came over ‘on the Mayflower But I figure 7,000,000 tx the tow. est possible number, based on the lineal descendants of said May- flower granddads. How many hundred men and Women have you met who prompt- ly told you how their family ran Fight straight back to the three brothers who came from England on the Mayflower? One of said brothers settling in New England, one going to the Southern colonies, and one ventur. ing to the wilds of Ohio or Ifidiana. Always it was three brothers, al ‘ways they came on the Mayflower, and always they separated, by mu tual consent, and with glad cries of relief, imme te after landing. I personally have met more than ® thousand unreiated fc who trace their ancestry to th May flowering brethren, and I have no Teason to believe that these est mabie not know their family - about it So Iam fo «i to be or all the leviathans the the Mayflower was the and that wide reacties « tinent of Europe were ¢ when the good ship depart: ed greatest, the con ulated 4 isn't it are ‘host proud of ¢ things we had nothing to do with that we I can concetve of noth ing farther reme from the guiding hand of t mt com tent among us than this task of picking your own grandf. and yet most of us w nd mor words and time remarka nt we in being born into our p family than we will ayed n our fortune our children or the health all is a psycho! and gone mined the for the bound aves on the wheel of carnal, cark ar to let our minds soar to the kingly estate of ov ce Ir threadbare hand " the pur feal bar FIVE SAILORS ALIVE ON SHIP ST. JOHNS, N men continur the little Spotts ear wrecked hu Anton therm to death At least 20 of the Meved drowned, AL crew were be aad "Five Men, PRINCIPAL FIGURES IN D “POT HOLDUP 2 Women ~~ s Involved His Gang Pulled Off Sonal | “Fat Jobs” in Seattle, Says Confession CAME FROM CALIFORNIA! TACOMA, Dec. 30—A_ bold robbery and murder of Tom Ray, deputy prosecutor of Plerce county, was prevented st 11 o'clock Monday night, when a member of a desperate gang of thugs, recently from California, lost his nerve and warned Ray, after calling him to the front door of his home, at 2974 N. ot st. Five men and two women were in the gang. This statement was made to poll © Lenal, 21, who surrende after warning him. cording to Lenal's at out KR 's home Monda “i the robber re only a man, wom in the place. by to Ray A gang picked afternoc because there w jan and little gt y, the | Woman on Guard | Lenzi «aid he was given an auto- | matic pistol and a biackjack and told to go to the front door of the Ray home, ring the bell and, if a worman appeared, cover her with the gun and warn her to keep her mouth shut. If a man answered Lenat was to beat him over the head with the | blackjack. He was to kill if neces | sary. | A woman member of the gang was }to stand guard as lookout and si¢-/ | nal the others when Lenzi had car ried out his part of the plot. On leaving the auto which took the | gang to the Ray home Lens sald he dropped the gun on the floor of the | car because he did not like the looks of the scheme, He rang Ray's front | door bell and when Ray appeared rushed hurriedly past him, whisper ing the warning: “Look out. There's a gang outside | that’s planning to rob this house and | maybe kill you . | Gives Up Blackjack od his blackjack to Ray 1 for the police to ar irive. A policeman stood guard out | side the Ray home the rest of the! | night, } | The woman lookiut saw Lenzi en j ter the house and «1 the warning. Lenai surrenc The other members of the gang took flight have Mp police have wate aro believed to of town. Seattle n notified to be on the tor 7 from holdups= and once in a wh Pulled “Fat Jobs” He said he grew tired of the gang anned his capture daring robbe because of plotted. Ht on they rs in R SEATTL E, WASH., TU ESDAY, DE MBER ‘30, 1919. Wednesday probe northerly winds. Girl Is Held ~ Up at Depot ~ in Everett © Bandits Get $800 and Motor Off Toward Seattle Early This Morning Be | LOCAL POLICE NAB THEM Two masked men walked into ee Everett Interurban station af 7” shortly after 5 a. m. re Tuesday, held Miss Nora Vatray 22, a tieket clerk and only oo K cupant of the place, at bay with] a revolver, rifled safe and money > drawer of $841.79, climbed into #” waiting automobile where a ae n sat at the wheel and it of town headed for Just they were motoring into the city at daybreak the e captured at 65th ave, road by Motoreyele P. Anderson nolds, armed ns, and taken to the ‘ Weather Forecast: night, rain or snow ably fair; moderate ‘Shimmied First Time in Her Life,”’ She Says How did she feel when the bandits held her up at the Everett interurban depot? This is how Nora Varra describes the sensation: “I shimmied for the first time in my life.” verett t uffed. The ar men gave names s aimer R. Fosse, Arnold Fosse, 42, his uneléy Verle Burr 18, chauffeur. third of the - ee They nto the depot a their m m and the older ti carrytr ven,” said Mime Fe inter, “Me stuck the gun against a ‘ ribs and tickled me time in. my life I a “Where's the money? he asked ™ (ga. Safe Door Open a" The younger man, looking be found the cash drawer open. tracted é Mins Varra took desperate ¢ safe. While the robbers and threatened her life, “ai !laughed and bantered, telling @ — they should be content with the ¥ Come on thru,’" she says elder highwayman demanded, ing his gun tighter against her significantly oa Meanwhile, however, the other covered drawer and ‘ open. The money was quickly ered up, including a box of p representing war taxes from the of tickets. The men then backed of the door and climbed into thelt waiting car outside and sped away. Pedestrian Is Stopped While the depot was being held vp a pedestrian half a block a | was stopped by. a desperado, ~ jto have been the chauffeur of the car, and relieved of a watch. short time previously a safe had Miss Varra quickly spread ‘the slarm and word flashed to Seattle sent Motoreycle Policemen Anderson. ind Reynolds speeding out to Bothell — road route Reynolds picked up — ja red lantern, Standing thelr mime” cines alongside the road, the two | policeman halted every car that passed on its way into the city, » first two machines con’ en and were allowed to |s nd came to. Washington, working ne Te ae ee jas a logging camp cook for several Set ue potnell motor stan gc said they e ted t 7 Here are the actors in the melodramatic FE rbim depot robbery early Tuesday; Miss Nora Varra, rm t) is the heroine, who bantered with the masked bandits | *ierly man ane Ms youth, esata ty Baath onlay dive ge the Pras |as they cursed and threatened her. Motoreycle Potic rge F, Reynolds and N. P. Anderson (upper right) rode out to the city limits, halted the flecing robbers with a sawed-off te stage, were ordered down into | robber aid the tere | Shotgun and took them enptive. Be are the bandits, held in the city jail, (from left to right) Arnold Fosse, 42, who cd ated attempt the he bad been given | ‘he staestir ‘ po: peri police: told hire ter’ } . " Niquor by two younger companions; Verle Burnell, 18, who sat in the auto outside the depot as a lookout, ready to carry the bandits away; Palmer R. Fosse, 20, nephew of the elder |™*? « Ss. 1 t 1 eve bandit, who, with his nee the money from the cash drawer. (Photos of men by Cress-Dale.) topped by Poliee : . . — The old man trembled and pleaded ~ VISCOUNT GREY TINY SLIPPER IS GOING HOME) MURDER CLUE ‘Cinderella’ Is Sought in Will Report to Lloyd George Michigan Crime Mystery Mother of Baby Shain! Here Is Woman Who Offers Home go, saying he would lose his job in 1 shipyard if he was not on time, | He was speedily searched and re. r | leased. The bus was then allowed ta | continus into the city : A fourth machine contained @ | party of women, who were passed Month Term by the policemen, | with the officers to be allowed to j YOUTH SLUGGED, |Pickpocket ISROBBED OF $54 to Serve Six to Both Bobbie and Y ourself |", Ynconscious AN Night) au sine eas 0 mot ea" el cng { a ceny for picking the pocket of Jane | three men in it a pane George, 4811 Third ave. at Second “Come down onto the road!" ie | on U. S. Peace Attitude Mother of Baby Shain, wherever you are, read this és 5 a sne |ve. and Pike st., in the noon Christ-|manded Reynolds; “let’s have a Took % CLE Mich., De ) Lere’s a woman in this town who wants you to came and make After being slugged by ; 1006 nse fa h of December 28, Theodore | at you.” ount Gr Brit r, on|of the murd j 1 Brown ape wale yO8 Ber ene oot ike wand she will bee mother tof ground all night, J. H, Williams, 17, |Sntenced to serve six months in the| the description phoned trom & itt neva : ; ‘ i Presi! wn up—or as los T ecdaxtatthdladar: (ch eke aeeIAaiD sonal Jail by Justice Otis W. Brink-| and the officers were about to permit a 1 t you Amanda 1 Admiral Sampson, was found near |°" MOpeAY the machin~ to go on when youn iiaE oday for Yor where } « I aleht need know but you and she man ‘ > Seaek : Jane George was shopping and had} Fosse reached into the bottom of the all for London I I f | re 1 nen iperintendent of the Pacific Coast epphate cee Atanas O ms loaded ‘with Christmas| car ‘ ma ‘ , ine tt y ‘3 pr ts, In her left ¢ pocket None of that!’ ordered Reynolds, © . on es ae : aid rn Many other women are anxious to give your boy a home, as you Williams was rushed to the city! was her purse, At Second ave. and| and looking into the car, deel “f 1 before the Bri ek vp eagle Ihave already read in the paper But this woman believes you ought hospital, where he regained con: | pike st. she felt it being withdrawn.|that the youth had been’ real a. net, it understood, what ; ortant testa to (gto have the opportunity to live with your boy and help raise him clousne He told the police he | ghe reached for the purse and pocket | for a revolver. ‘The men’s pod me e final position. of th , ss ; 7 If you want to accept this offer to in him and keep him forfl| had been visiting friends and was | degpite her bundles. Concepcion was| were frisked, A. deluge of Galmam shoei kudbca ina “olabaraiiue! caraggron : ‘(nacien act our own under the protection of this woman, you should call on Mrs walking to a street car line when | just making his getaway, § ab-| poured into the policemen’s h B. sa cin Mbt teh Sage sera » Hinckley building, or phone her at Elliott 3244, and she) a man approac him and asked, | bea him, but he wrenched 1c and| ‘There was more than 30 pounds ®f © bite deh cy 4 ihe Se awedenaiaiie: tk ists ace SA for you to meet the woman who makes the offer What time is it started to run away | gold, silver and copper in all. 799 4 he . 1@ allies may pti er Williams is unable to recall any William A, ¢ 8613 Meridian) }iandeuffs were snapped onto the % ‘ is ° it the ‘ ~~ sh pes thing following the question, An in-|ave., saw the nino snatch the| wrists of the three men and the a t t ido : nte - Moh Gan ag ar ae ventory of hig effects disclosed the | purse, and started in pursuit. He! eavaleade proceeded to the city jailr a Mn hcemation: ‘veuatdlig’t nurder MEXICO T0 F | theft of $54 from his clothes, captured him after a short chase.|-The older man was taken into the | 7 ¢ thi# country upon the| Other clews found in an examina Williams was found lying face |7 une $94, was Te-| office of Capt. Hens Datei: 7a tion and data on the tour|tion of the automobile were a blood down in the mud by Doorman Brown | tUrned 10 its Owner, a to werve| eis sald to have admitted the whole ra, “president of the|stained feather and a strand of AILORS | jot ‘Frederick & Nelson's, It 19 be-| 40 aie the a like offense March he P “ , ae pd borrmirscrat 1 1 | eved Williams will live fxs ee = o March 38. According to his alleged version, sad ; 119, and wa ed on a similar/the two younger men approached the ca Brown . old w may WASHINGTON, Dec, 30—(United| LOUISVILLE, Ky., Dee. 30.——Dr.] jcharge once | (CONTINUED ON PAGE TWO) again be nto the ¢ 1e-| poy )—Two American sailors, Who| Christopher Schott, held in. connec: | “ omen - eloped t have been in jail at Mazatlan, Mex | tion with the death here of Elizabeth CHINESE INSPECTS HERE) aged age “ a "MARY DIDN’T HATE MEN) ‘sone 1 ‘ ie-linn” cena’ oder Ta) eh the Jen Chow, in charge of the butld-| NEW YORK, De: William FERRY RESUMES RUN LOS ANGELES, Dec, 30.—Mary|sist, told autho t several| charge of assaulting a Mexican, will| ord Griffin, 17, hig office assistant | ing of a power plant in Swechuan | Jennings Bryan has been” asked to % avane, pre upposedly man-hat-| months ago Mrs. Brown t he veleaued some time today, the| Will remain in Jail until his preli-| province, China, inspected the Sno-|fix a date before the April primaries|| The King county ferry Fortuna q a e and film actre vay | prusel id of hir k Cletate departinent waa advise | minary hearing Wednesday qualmie power plant and the electric) when he ean speak at Madison|resumed her run between Mercer She Pie hoch ighred : it |e ovttoved trail at. $10,000 yesterday, |f¥Fhaces of the Vulean Manufactur- | Square garden, it was announced to-|island and the mainland Tuesday Cour le Gu 1, French | ¥ Becau haw the ¢ on If the face of a small boy has a z sclined to eal his triends | ne compeny Monday as the guest of |day by Frank H. W ary | after being in drydock sinee Sunday, a war hero, after a 14-hour courtship, I don't propose to be cut off] set look It's @ wien that mischief is] Dr. Schott dec ee “| O. N. Wiswell, superintendent of the |of the Bryan league of the state of | when her propellor blade was bro - Mrtende of the couple learned. toder, with w pittance,” - 99 rrp about to be hatcheds, copmmer ito furfnish the bond, Jelectric plant, Now York, by. hitting @ “wheel dnspeatent) sl MG ‘iim, at nds "i