The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 15, 1920, Page 1

The Star's Phon MAIN 600 Get the Habit! ered as VOLUME _ PUFF, PUFF, PUFF! _ a | AS IT SEEMS TO ME DANA SLEETH x = 6% match | @ Mechanically I reached S port vest pocket, the one wh keep the switch key to the p. the rent A neil stub, the ticket and the matches, ¢ if any; but there were no matche I tossed bang mute de nial of on reading, I noted the gruff v ® ° rounds of the young men in ef that match. Ow the I The Seattle Star Second Class Matt —oe || sue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise 99, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash, under the Act or May 8, 18 THURSDAY, JANUARY 1920, TTLE, WASH., 15, INEW IS FOUND GUILTY x! ‘YANKS AND “Life in Pen!” JAP ANESE. Sentence for 15. Year-Old Slayer IN CLASH! Morton Smiles CENTS Late Edition Mai! $9.00 2 Per Yeu $6.00 to tay, cloudy; terly win Weather Fore SWEETHEART SLAYER IS DECLARED i Jury’s Verdict After Two Days Is | Trouble Between American, | and Nipponese Troops Reported in Siberia | NEW LEADER IS OPPOSED LONDON, Jan, 15.—A dispateh from Harbin today made obseure reference to a reported clash be Japanese and American in Siberia | communique the troop Bolshevik wire! Then the smell of a perfumed t h ar pendent Siberian re cigarette smote my astounded pul between Obl ar Aivostok.) nostri I gianc up, and by The Ha Hispateh declared that heck it was a woman American sold captured an ar Yes, sir, a woman, in a blue mored t from Ger semenatt, by 4 new anti-olshevik le r in Siberia. : serce mannish sult, smoking « » ant F cigaret with her gloves | | Two Americans were killed and ai ad hess »-~ + three wounded in the. encounter, the) j a | diwpate id not give any rusque lady, of determined : rf Y pateh maid, It did oC iggartcen Os stride. casual Here you see Mra. Sanford Bertrand Ricaby, candidate for roanon for, tive fahting, which oe . manner. mayor, and the cigaret with which she surprised Dana | curred atone aes Verkh aan cain i 7 . * : “oo » the ake on After her departure I inquired | Sleeth—see his article at the left. ol ee ae sug ores | of the office know-itall as to her : r " : pew yeenitng, Sok, eeeey Ores: ed | status, her business and her na a Pee PTF eer ' ® bate 4 , path ahh 4 € LOOK, LOOK! rae on ep ail Ger ft was re-| ee a || LOOK, “eR ay rt So, as 1 agid before, I'm proud | %# ~~~ Mj anti-t by Ma Bcreet ge to have lived to ove this day PA DENA, Cal., Jan. 15.- The “No-Tobaceo leaque ah ff has been accused f Solomon is & liar and we're cer- | Gasped when Rev. James Walton said he knew some women ot want ty in butchering the ainly tra ome , , : t : 4 he ge had cigaret cases on their garters, because he'd seen them.|»a ylation 9 HAT was an interesting He explained the women were wearing half hose at the beach. CHINESE COOPERATING IT story from Washington — WITH SOVIET FORCES D. C., about the work of A eviat communique Se Commissioner Roper in | regunged to red” victories In digging up the delin | thé FraneCs n an of great HS quent income tax figures, and col- Jimportance, pointing out they 1] lecting some §100,000,000 from strengthened the soviet influence in | y t dodgers. | Turkestas | i tego Pics p cer col | Capture of the important town of Joseph Darwin Morton © need not journey to Washington, | 6 } wodsk, the starting wiiah ot fe ' | D. C., for human interest of this | rane4 — pe ine) EVERETT, Jan. 15.— ‘OUR F ULT , { t nsiderable of | of the Caspian sea, ins tthe a A ean of “British imperiaitem” in| (Special.)—He must spend ’ cp llggyset ecto Ee ma | Ce chevikt claimed. the rest of his life in prison, who was not very good at figures, | The lonely spot in the One io _ ber anes but Joseph Darwin Morton, SAYS JUDG E recently paid $30,000 more than | one mile south of — me in Perda and 15-year-old convicted —mur- he figured on paying to Uncle Heights, where the b - A derer of Lee Linton, was hap- “Heredity and — environment, Sam's revenue sharps skeleton of a man was found : «,'pier today than at any time | 84 net the child himself, is gen + Another Seattleite is reported to Tuesday within 200 yards of th . Was acannon i erally to blame. ‘Guilty,’ says the have been assessed ‘something | place where another skel he ., | Since he was arrested on No-|] jury. lity,’ says the judg ore than $120 r losing out | was discovered November Chine ent* vember 20, the day after the | ‘Guilty’ say we all, Yet if a child more than $12 | wai Bie _ ) y on his lite gamble that he could believed by Sheriff John Strin newer * the | tragedy. crows up to be a crimina make figures lie, and several ger and his deputies to be ” = For the firet time tn weeks he slept | Blame is really and truly ours men have ated from $10. “murderers’ cemetery.” Pome . voy aa ni w bbing in his | West Washington t attent The 5 ted for suct preg tery ech yee gdlbonad |e He this morning | Stitation for the fe t eat Se ; , t Tra alka “4 Juver Judge as ed ¢ a purpose. Hidd ad ted y oe saninah” Gemenete | « an at a ty breakfast } 1" ‘ me t re tha from a ; — 5 “ 19 1 companion in | man, ad g the re t rdad, and w e hum e u t i . rin Isom White, who occupies the me taxes be due, TI mer b ¢ murd m in ve with him in the county ‘m , ; re 'Di B ! Slip d on Grape, h prisonment.” The youthful defend ebody son Stringer points ¢ pe pe orisonmen. The youthful defen¢ 4 @uch is Both the s#ke fic" tons | ee eres mage a:° ck last, night, after three/ant was taken from his cell to the 8 5 either ingle Sam are those of 1 at least a Pay Your Alimony pping on ® grape on the side-|4ays’ trial, tt ry of twoewomen|courtroom looking very grave. His ened ¢ its, considers ar, in the opinion of the coroner John Sutter, Ic horeman, was | walk in front a fruit stand oper-|47d 10 men brought in a verdict of |father and step-mother accompanied missionary work has be quietly , aunty Aaa “teintisad county jail|ated by Sgm G 1517 Firet| suilty, with the sentence, “life im-| him @ spot where the two skel s ’ Hall |ave., on September 20, Mra, Mary When the verdict was read, the boy And as a general theorem you been found is not in King roscoe beat seloda, Was : and his mother broke out crying v that it ig safer and and Deputy Sheriff tained in ich But it wa. ) such scene as accom an 1 t sing) ¢ ) mber 2¢ ' r per court Thursda Mr White verdict in the same courtroom @ lot arever hat 1 the grour f on alleges her knee was injured QUIDNUN(¢ last week. ‘The lad quickly recov t was nothing at all he noe inna » badly she was confined to her bed ered his composure when they heard | ome tax thing eine |, her $20 a oh for a month ~- the ntence s since changed any ad-| eniseared’ betore Judas Today He Asks a Question of He smiled wanly at the jury ou can take it p found,| szail Thureday, charsed that Mutts Five Persons Picked and at his y as he ex tip that there boar Nes dot ala ovr aca ad Su" Brother Is Lost, at Random P they. were i accountant in @ letons were not) ordered him confined in jail going to have hanged.” } if he would oe ee Fears Foul Play Morton and hie wife took the sen: ‘ t Sam will be arg Menai * y 55 Fearing foul play, F. F. Johnson TODA TION tence less calmly than the young de. 1 than a wigs Had Opium “Store 02% Spruce st. has as MOAT yo gees CRE tovear.(fendant. Mrs, Morton continued m k t 1 police to begin a search for his) yp it eee uid be hanged? weeping softly. Morton was plainly , Police Arrest Him brother, F. 1. Johnson, 60, who di nould be hanged onized, but did not break down t t n rect measure 4 with a trust Dan Raymond r, was eared last Saturday from the ANSWERS | They went back to the jail with the ur personal ta a ix gu humble brick shrouded ne th an opium pipe and a Je's cafe, on lower Second ave, | eis | lad. : pat ahi, “Cermindd,” th Muy Gt ode fi hie cbdadneion missing man had $125 in his|, MISS CARLOTTA DEAN, 3843 At ot better than I expected,” Ta vi te tent Chis re yes to donat in a room in the Federal hotel, Third| possession when last seen, the cn, pl—t , my Shanks Wwe should) he shouted at the jail attendants, "t t Uncle fam feo And then, © rse, there e. and Pine st., early Wednesday.| brother told the police. kill anyone, I don't believe in capl-) ay he burst into the outer office, re to pay, bu on — ° bois An¢ ot Pr ol aiemnan ‘ " si | tal punishment in any case, “I thought they'd hang mo sure. Hace secu Dealt hiaad Pant ike aoa anaciie ¢ GEORGE P, WILSON, 711 B. 45th] But F only got life.” with ake 9 ou ° S "gD de st.—Yes, I see no reason why he| On entering the “tank” after the . cl es le org ag i Ears in your precinct if you want to have a vote shouldn't be punished. We've got to]door had clanged behind him, he HERE being quite a num- |traveling public tn ho ¢ I in the senintotnas put @ stop to this killing somehow. I| walked over to White, who was ber of folks in the world |way stati gira ri ST He. r i eedn > Chet think he's the kind that would do | standing back in the shadows smile. who consider it neces tribute from the pa fer poets BM TION on Tuesday, March 2. Take a tip from Ch’ the same thing over again if he had| leas, and abook hie hand, The older | sary to have regular |when he provides omens ov 4 Registration Clerk Coffin and the chance. boy turned away and went into his meals, and places to ce Re ctksinaeiead Yeas 10 to ft instanter, Unless your name is on the books by 9:30 L. V. vo H, 6412 Highth ave, |cell, live, and clothes to wear for com- /(o an Slee oe and too lasy to ¥ o'clock p. m. January 27, N. E—Hanging is too severe, accord:| ‘The date of the White boy's execu: | ’ adornment, there 1s a cor. | When I s¢t 00 one ee ’ looking in. Don't bo a | {ite to what other criminals get/tion ts expected to be set this week re large assortment of |peck at a typewriter, | i fy Ii'be &) ones of you on the outside locking am - around here, ‘The boy's too young.|'The hanging, the first under the new Jo! to £ Job valetir bs tami tration He had no bringing up. He wasn’t ro-|taw in this state, is to take place at | And find all the regular jobs | window in Unel ; wind tans vse Ditch that loungelizardy feeling and do a sponsible for what he did. I believe |t ate prison at Walla Walla. | taken, ambitious fellows who have and when ay . i soy - in hanging, but not in this case, White's attorney, Joseph H.! ‘tan x o hand them to you, mean. . . " formed . the abit of eating, de | going t é : , a Ps ’ MRS, J MUNSON, 8806 Sunny-|Smith, who was one of the state vise new while filekir ery eA FPRAIPSE head-on toward your proper registration book end side ave-Yes, I think he should be |legislators to vote in favor pf re meme 3 me pre ome |o lint off your lape}, and smiling demand action. |hanged. He seems so tough-hearted.| storing the capital punishment law,| bray, and some run for office actously wher ‘ ; ALSE how are you going to explain to your neighbor and his He should be made an example of. | has filed with Judge Ralph C. Bell Others write more or less clever | quarter f Jobe, just to pro My neighbor why you CHARLE SENGFELDER, 98| the trial judge in both cases, a mo things for the s; and other: All mhnner © , dust © pro al logadignn wt ‘©. I wouldn't want to|tion for a new trial, It is expected | solicit advertising occupy the |mote this silly habit of eating out? In the words of the port, “Shake a leg and do it hang him. I believe in hanging men,|a lke motion will be filed hy Wil nice white space alongside this |food at frequent gig o em j Rees not boys He's too young. I know/|liam Keller, defense counsel, in the Classy reading matter. Se eee” eee | a lot of men who ought to be hanged, ‘caso of Morton, Some take suevler and more di |chore of living. “Second Degree Murder” Ir LOS ANGELES, Jan. 15.—Harry S. New, © 4 2puted son of United States Senator Ha S. New, of Indiana, today was found guilty 4 murder in the second degree. At 11:35 a. m. the 12 jurors who had de erated on his case since 4 p. m. Tuesday fil into court and announced that they foun New sane and guilty of the murder of fi Moscow referring to Pare hy Deen Roy pretty 18-year-old sweetheart, Frieda | socialist revolutionaries in —___— | According to Evan Lewis, & junction with the Czeehs ber of the jury, the vote had . The movement, according to | nine for acquittal on the ground the Bolshevik communique, “was insanity and three for second 1 isted by an American fleet murder, thruout nearly 44 hours whieh left the Philippine islands deliberation ‘ 4 for Viadivostek to prevent the Finally, all agreeing New dapanese = fr landing fresh 6° to an institution, where there: troops to assist Gen, Semenoff.” he mecond degre cthees te © Rael aie 4 hasdite Contends Slayer was decided Upon years to life imprisonment. New sat like a man of stone Has Mind of Babe th y came in and announced TACOMA, , Wash., Jan, 15.) ba bean found guilty. He |—ANOTHER BOY is on trial | t0* bis eves from the “No |for murder in Tacoma. sign on the desic in front of Bis on which bis gaze had been He's John Kneip, 16. | thruout the trial, He never | muscle, + The charge: He killed a man to get his auto. The defense: Kneip has the mind of a babe. Mra. Lily Burger, New's bowed her head. Miss Edna © his half-sister, sobbed quietly #6 moment gpg? Pot sty Then the judge dismissed the Dr, Stevenson Smith, psy-| ana every one quietly filed out of tt |chology professor from the courtroom. There was no 4 University of Washington, “0”. and practically no co is a witness for the defense. | most sensation nse ere Smith is called one of the na- into California courts, tion’s foremost experts on Drives in With Dead Girt abnor' children. He has! d It was at dawn on the mo conducted a clinic for abnor-|July 5 that New drove to the t | mal and backward children ern wed police mae jat the university for several) sy .c \inea a girl,” he told | years. | sergeant at the desk. “She's The prosecution was preparing to-| the car.” |day to call its own experts to refute| Detectives went out and the | the “m al irresponsibility” plea. | of Frieda Lesser, New's Mrs, Clara B. Kneip, mother of the| was found lying beneath a pore youth, testified John was backward| the back seat of the sedan, in learning to walk and talk, that he} clotted the mass of curly brown Was difficult to control, that he was|which fell about Miss expelled from school after failing to) shoulders. get beyond the th gr that he} New then made the claim that had a mania for machinery and tools, | father was United States und often had stolen them and hid-| Harry 8. New of Indiana and den them near his home he was an illegitimate child. Al KILLED WORKMAN testimony in court was to the that his claim was true, it was mitted by Senator New. bility and T never will” was the man, had a me hine. John offered comment that the senator has 1 hor well knowing he had n0/ on the case. New’s defense BM wel! financed and his attorneys Jobn, with Bracont passenger, | been the best dr out to the Kneip house, ne New confessed to the police that Dupont and saw mother, Then) he had killed Miss Lesser, saying he | he turned the m nto a lonely | did it when she told him that ine road near ilacoom | killed Bra-| stead of becoming his bride the fol- coni with a steel jack hand He | towing night she would undergo an beat Braconi ae - ” = ti “a = operation to relieve her of aff roadside and covered it with brush, |‘ motherhood. | New sald, Nagas responsible for Miss Lesser's tion. At his trial, 30 depositions persons who had known New, The deed done, John to Tacoma and ate a fried pork chops. drove back big meal of “I gotta have my pork chops—I| mother and United States love them,” he told police after his! New in Indianapolis and six arrest Oklahoma City, were important p The afternoon of the slaying, John | of the testimony took his mother, baby brother a Insanity was the only defense, sister and two neighbor children for a ride to Olympia “He seemed nervous wanting to be on th Kneip testified on th “He drove so reckless! was afraid, His face and his eyes were red.” VER BROKE IWIN; 21D IT FOR FUN Three days lav nd always ” Mrs. Clara witness stand, | nd so fast, 1} flushed Indian Fugitives Land in City Tom Williams, 20, ana Q Durkee, 19, two Indian youths, escaped last week from a ment school at Salem, Ore. ane the city jail Thursday ai transportation back to the schooh Roth boys were arrested at ave. and Main st. late Wi night following telegraphic tion of their escape from the O authorities r John Was in jail At first he denied the He never broke down, as do most m who kill in sudden passion. His fw was not set, He did not worry, nor ery, He told the police plainly what had happened, took them to the body, found the steel bar where he had thrown it into a thicket, all without a quiver. The defense has made no effort to! deny John killed the man, All hopes have been pinned on the plea of men tal irresponsibility AND ANOTHER! PARIS, Jan. 15.—Ame- dee Corillard, a boy of 14, crime Jap Carries Gun} Police Nab Tom Takahashi, 30, Jap, loaded automatic revolver in pocket. A policeman at Firat and Pine st, noticed the handle ing out from under Tom's coat, ahashi went to jail Booze Breaks Tie, Wife Complains shot his father dead. Ame- Alleging her husband was fel dee is a boy of crim. | ‘tually intoxicated before he ¢ i ies, he Ast September, Mra, Mary inal tendencies, whom his last Septem X P ve father, a Belgian water- formerly “of Dawson, Ale brought sult In superior court” cress grower, had only too frequent cause to correct. Thursday to diverce Emmett Keneally, They were married | Dawson, July 3, 1913,