The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 13, 1920, Page 1

% _ SECRETARY OF LABOR COUNCIL ENTERS RACE. nnn AR AR PAAR AR ALAR DR ARALAL. RRA AR ARR Arn On the Issue of Americanism There pa Be No iieiatas Tides in Seattle —, TheSeattleStar |2== ather Fore crate, southerly Sia sir =e At 15~Bound for the Gallows? |BOY IN KNEE PANTS ——s FOR MAYOR zee (ON TRIAL FOR LIFE ple Last Night thought And Som life, white water boiled | ofc’ ceutrnt Naber Goeel, . . : Sits Sobbing in Court Room | éépy 9 i vashet, cod thought I woe guts will make the race for mayor , ’ as Prosecutor Reads Con- ; sap Duncan filed after a stormy ses a - " : eas 9 s good twenty miles per, It par- Pie mecdvaies pony fh 9 owe fession Detailing Murder iat no epecd boat Lever saw coula | Ser, Temole, guring which “poll A of Everett Taxi-Driver; Says Boy Condemned to Death do with such ease Sa ; Former Sunday School And t b ages ge i ‘ Youth Was in His Class s just came scooting back wi ose Peat ing > y knowr t f EVERETT, Jan. 1 (Spe- BY HAL ARMSTRONG ]men, and they always remembered eidenty debwe Aide that thet camt ot cial.)—-A kid in knee pants t the gallows, I won't|If I had done anything Wke that - a vit walked across the road here t get it thru my nut| looks like I would remember it, today from the Snohomish led a man. I don't remem: | it? Bent GEe Gn ‘aeroplane, and that a he thie r county jail to the courthouse /*" ie rst I dor ane | did 45 m. p. hb. if they felt like it ‘ . = to go on t 1 for his life. “ aa t think the] That's it what I say. F Caldwel A slender, graceful, slim speed ses shi ht to sentence me to hang | think I was in my right senses af boat does not sury you wh n be to the “red” wing He i Jo Fee at Mc cli i gaat verry ane | ‘They tried Gan cuts thru the wa rn , He wae ons ton, 15-year-old alleged ac if ther @ian't ce right eome |i Was ins and I think T waa, es train, but whe e e general strike complice of Isom White, 19, ; their time will come. And then|®#4 fits when T was a kid) t try } . “ease who was found guilty of the | they'll pay ning befors thie murda aia pers . ° cou ast Fe x ) « went black in front of me P While 2 reseed, at vari killing of Lee Linton, taxi Isom White is a believer in 4 ything foe (ae nsored by driver, November 19, and is @. He fe an enigme. He iit, lots of times." condemned to death, yet he smiles Ok hes geri I v.. he t enied he in a now awaiting execution of the | ite pas big blue eyes that look you! “You mean you had Later I found that these were sea sleds, a cross between a speed It seems so," I confessed, edge takes ¥ afternoon may remem- | membe« t ualantiosl Nitec. ber that some months ahh ‘hu Cae dikaae ta death sentence, square in the face, yet he killed a | *Pells _ a i 7 man he had no grudge against, a| “Yes, that's it. Have a d : ago in, thie columm 2 | ation of Labor convention in Bal Young Morton sat between t I ha ; man be a pack of a weet ponent Bren acamee [timore, Dimcan led the fight to | his step-mother and his!in cola bh tort ene tan in you > Presider pers, father in the court room and back without warning and without | pulled them back into the oell § there was every. indication that Ss auaeainahe #puds would be high, sky high, be ingly de : cried bitterly as his alleged |?™everation. | ghted one deliberately. amg Insues Statement confession was read by the|,,.That,bor." a deputy sheriff told} While he was doine 0, Be aces a | i cae pr rage: va ‘ Snohomish county at|that his bunk was neatly made At that gime you 4 have . prosecution. It had been !tvorete yesterday, where White, the |The floor was carefully swept. stocked up"at $2.35 @ hundred: + eye OF . written down in long hand by/19-vearola murderer, is confined, | the walls of the cell were piet day you will payyfrom $ »$ ‘gp . wn poe Deputy Sheriff Thomas! “3¥t bad to kill somebody some time. | not two or three, but scores of ti per bundred os Stat oe e's @ natural born criminal. The |—clippe: = n : thighest t suffere c Ss ay »¢ , 8 al born ¢ inal ne clipped from newspapers and Did I take my own ad t it reds m™ Steiger, in the county jail at quicker he hangs, the better off the | azines. I did not : m sian the poapti Everett in the presence of | worla will be There were pictures of at — e slight cuse urs than from any other cause “| % pada ue r But I had som ht exeu heriff McColloch, after the) “Lee Linton, the man they killed. | tim fayorites, prize fighters dm I had an acre of potatoes of my s has been largely due to weak : wis ts en coe, p Paces own: 1 continued to have them | ness and ignorance in the mayor's two boys had been arrested | SS) The Tae aan Amat and half a dozen comics until the cold spell, then I didn't |office, and before Seattle can hope at Bellingham November 20.) any other taxi driver would have They di have them any more; likewise A artnth the: mest a fryers ypreereeng Only an occasional sob of|met the same fate BP orale « 46 a here. hundred boxes of ,app was ©! possible of attainment by the united 3 $30 ame d jafter my al,” said bb fered on the altar of Boreas by | determined efforts of our people, the the boy on trial, and the slow ; His Appetite Good |his lungn clear of the clean myself at the mime time. office of ma must b 4d by reading of the document, They planned it all out in ad-| “Before I was downstatrs, in the! ¥ let pa De a ati, 5 a aie Siislentiy: eeih as broke the silence of the court | %@"°*: ‘© hire « car, drive out a ways |¢r tank. They kept me down @ I have never been broken of th oe wt mnporngcreadghec nit : € the court | ji, town, kill the driver and then |and the kid up There's the foolish habit of try ns Be - a kore . vga a mers room. 0 on to Florence up the road he ng now and every #0 of asian pe : . “My name is Joseph Dar-|*"4 rob a store. ‘They intended to| I listened. A faint whimper 6 grace 4 turn producer & ad © ; ° : Mort and I 2 15|#° to Mexico and join up with | from somewhere back in the “tll Goncumer. ece io! win Mor on, anc AM 15 vg A whimper and then a sob, Tt And, like most city fellows whe te mir ' tograph shows Joe Morton, on his way to the courthouse at Everett in custody of Sheriff James| years Old,” read the confes-| ‘hls much, the deputy said, } unmistakable, It was. the cry Sie ae chew anaaet With ROAD y McColloch, Young Joe is on trial for murder, His accomplice, Isom White, 19, was convicted last week and) sion, “My mother is dead.|becn learned. from White's contes. Joseph Morton, the 1syearold always lose and sneak back into et ot Si -| sentenced to hang : ___|My step-mother is Ida Mor-|#2 White did the killing, shooting | of White, who had first been selee town for a job th ill pay my next mayor shall be erin Linton twice in the back to kill Linton, but whose nerve rural debts: c to the utmost of his 7 . ton, and my father is George| “-want to talk to him?” he asked. |failed him when the showdown wey siten to tw mane | Mother to Give 'NEW’S F Wi L D. Morton. I live at Stan-| “That's what 1 came for,” ; Poor kid.” said White. “He . . fe aiiaedl nh iadlie t ? to the same I wood, where I graduated’ Piied takes it awful hard. Cries a lot; AIT what 1 started to say . ther rich or poor, stror Unborn Babe to ; The prisoners in the Snohomish! specially since I got—got mine” | was that here is ther ze 4 " from the eighth grade last t ‘ ad MR ee tele a ‘ county jail had just eaten dinne White hid his f nd brushed little hunch about future . fringement upon the Officer’s _ Wife year. I ran with White for] white's appetite was go: Ay yon PM it. It wan his ae mark hale ie 7 ¢ others in strict accordance CHICAGO, Jan Pll about a year but Saturd&y that he had been told|of emotion. When he looked 3 ou ny b | . peovonina gy 8 pana P ; suggested one morning 2@ W8 to be hanged. The jailor led | again he was smiling. kane. I wanted to | UP & winding flight of steel stairs. Ever go to school?” I asked. 2 . from father, no he couldn't And He Smiled | “Only to the Seventh grade,” guments in behalf of Harry 8 : i nee ted on “an © down. 1 wanted to shift Whites’ he shouted, answered. “My folks had a big fame” New, on trial for murder, were on of @ hu , work in Spokane. On| Far back in the end of a “tank”|/¥,204 were not weil off, . brought to a sudden halt today pattie e sag vember 17 went to Spokane | filed with prisoners came the cheery |"? Ca7ned My way from Eve sal when Lecompte Davis, chief of newer, “Yes, sir I, after a brief ad- ouncen ok thel . u 44 Colt. I # Someone to see you, Come seennel unced he would leav urtroom entire oF evo) White bought it for me | to your cell hands of the jury 1 1 ected that torney |" We went to the Wis:| Out of the shadows came a broad ‘ohr coe? ie * |consin hotel. I went by the name of | shouldered wn. haired youth. His argument from Dan Hard Whit t by th are oO we ny e a a » neck. He! NOGALES, Ariz, Jan, 13.—(United name of C, B, Gunderson, We plan: | sm P r river . \ ress.)}—-Fioods on the Fue ned to Ko up to a store at Florence.| “Good morning,” he said, looking | have wrecked the southern . We planned to get a car and rob, and | Me in the eye ‘Sit down , a | of Mexico's $100,000 bridge also to kill, 1f necessary. I didn’t] He motioned mo to a steet bench | the river near San Blas, Sinaloa, Same Sah 10886 ; f s ne gn th © te I suggested we hold up| in the corridor, where I could chat | porer and with 7 £ ‘amen Sg - Bs yuledSogs hel. pad 7 ‘ : Bibb gag d Writs Sint are tae aes porarily tying up traffic, a ir extra bushels « e 1 coset 7 ‘ | eWliat Ge par eis eet to a dispatch reaching here todays doesn't a m r e pet ce " Planned to Hide Body | 4 —_ ne Ver Oh bridge was finished h dict?” T asked him cee tee ne an abcouaisine E ‘ came back to Everett. I was months ¢ A temporary struetul wheat 1 : . : Well,” he said, smiling ag . 41 ; What happened ee : ; CONF SSION IN | ) Ret out of the back of the car and|don't think it's Fight. T cxw't re { Wil Be finished in about two weeks Ww " M eK shia 7 » waa to shoot the driver, We ; ‘om some funny page. He's For Skagit Power J - bags wien Matha LOS ANGELES, Jan, 13.—Ar- 4 de neanit th the effort of man a red-handed member killing anybody ‘| Enlisted as Well as at DEATH DENIED sp Bre phan Prnngy Cap E p ak dy ey ray wet oe Hey Sl Mag n today we ater ence store and then drive to Se-| “Do they? Well, I don’t remember Mi n en of uttle and then go to Mexicc soying anything like tt Maybe I| p ee Charmy, When we got out on the road T/did, but I don't remember, — I’ve . piece 8 See iminary hearin tend, Ind . she had one Mond ; echbaimer reve he robb told the driver to turn off into the | known men who have killed a lot of like . te Monday: 3 Home Acres road. 1 said I wanted A ‘mien onganto, te Aina to see an old friend, The idea just| blood on the seat with a shirt was sick," she snag oO popped into my head right there. We| got another shirt and wi th and wiped the| the telephone to alice of 1 fought them off had gone ut 100 yards when! piood from myself if Stinnett Truseday da Realty Broker Is . roc | confession, impll y one. One man was sho! White nudge © to go ahend as) wwe then drove back to the at ie ~ . . - fr at > ‘ ow J planned. | " > Council Candidate he ae . \ ed sal F T stopped the car and told the|"t Florence. We saw Heberly I gave him $3.60 for & ring ; capaggellasipesiice: ; ie of the | “ ' “et Light-Fingered driver hie tail light was out proprietor) and were afraid to go|T discovered it was phony, {legal operation wa und [e We went on in the « wnd it} The man was slim and light ind said Mra, Virgo ded from| [Laura Boarding | White Fired Shot tuck in the mud, We walked to| Shabby un overdose of chloroform | at County * ail |," said: ‘IT don't think so, get|Mt. Vernon Joshed a woman into the car.’ B a cigar store, White said AM Daas aura Jackwon in| “ts got-into the car and White|was on his way to Texas x ond Balmy Weather lain rap senty. fant | nudged me to shoot. 1 whispered:|we went to Bellingham to rigina . » ig Do it yourself.’ | “White registered 3 cause the of | Promised Here ; eae » de-| “EL opened a grip and tried to get| We tried to get work from vutherly br sl lghly M out a shirt. I wanted a shirt to|an employment office, The man . ree Beige f Mar ae r | the er > ee : _— ¢ a wh ‘ > i ; Sse Mgeanvenghheyi . ‘or the next y wrap around his head, Then White| there noticed the gun and the blood | ane e5 rious malady which thing . " \ " Wednesday, ac shot. The first shot went thru the|on our clothes, White said he had . pergons at Skiat JOHN D. WENGER IN t ording to the best Judgment of | ' ate . roe eos ; glans into the driver's back, He said,|Just come baek from France anc A Sela. has spread to two other cites | sae that J. was eating te ee that time Q he I ‘4 ‘ —Muskogee and Shawnee. Physic Veathe f yh, you © driver's head slipped | got the coat and the ° Ap 1 COUNCILMANIC RACE V ; Ye cent dell axe + eee: tanta a ye, | ‘Oh. you. any r he ad ag 74 pen at and the gun from the Feinne ¢ at Skiatook disagreed with the _ Jover, ‘Then no the Je ‘ mr bury "ada Matteo La shot again 2 Rigs wen ; D. Wenwés, deemer ct .» BURGLARS GET COIN pany warm breezes, he announced, ht Wingered Laura Matin Sina ie eek | EEE | ing nosis of the state health depart. | “oaegenp known amon the profession ; , ie poy : sends bi bed arts ment that the disease was pr bly: rig Hint ga bale esr jh : OF vine _SOUNTAIEE pleaded guilty to petit larceny for| 4 bila agomaby peamade th Bi sn) eNext we went to a rocrulting| typhoid fever. Some aoctore ta i dents straigtit, when the filed pice rlpenicoroigy or Pi + jou | LIPPY NEW PORT HEAD ine shopiitting of goods valued at a ene ee j station, W ite passed the examt-| vanced the theory it was a “hams henge ; a aval 3 see co a aslo ea * §, Lippy is |$17.50 from the Bon Marche Janu , : [nation, but T was too short. | We] over” from fu Be aan < ; . : way — / pbs the now preaiaent af the(iane ree before Justice Otis W.| Joshed” a Woman went to a hotel and slept n| Some Muskogee physicians said fe was elected | Brinker, » pronounced sentence] “White went thru his pockets| We got UP and bought a paper and | wag dysentery; others called it “game Tuesday, Laura was in the county|and got $8 in silver, I held ajread about the murder, We went) tric influen a sure, and who will never admit his Ver wide v or as Canadian, Swe and | Christensen was re-elected pa ep for a similar offense several] flashlight and White rolled him|to @ pleture show and then back} Water taken from maine be © |months ago, records show, linto 4 ditch, We mopped up the (Duran to Page Two) took was given to 19 bh OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla., Jan. 4 ort: Comminxsioner for confidence vutui t c ¢ ‘ t 10tk ! didn't rea et much," | port commissioners. He Durn a fellow who is always coc | late ef t Id the police r « the|at the meeting Monday, Dr, W Tors, some such we have with us. democratic circles, de money.” jtry, . ) FS m }