The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 26, 1920, Page 10

| OF 13 1) Sheriff Guards the Child Witness of a Swampland Crime Charlie Mars crouches in AMORY, Miss., Jan} 26. the brutal murder of four, two things— A lynching party “And a girl. e stage has been get for the lynching of Charlie Mar- Moonshiner and backwoods beau, ever since they| into graves these four: ANNIE GREEN MILLER, Marshall's former sweetheart, Y, her babe of eight months, said to have been Marshall's pedentr te, Kv 1 be ne and trive to pay the made for traf on made cate the ter wate eople thar afer CECIL L. | en | hall, charged with Aberdeen jail and NEI N Our tram If a cop laws are not enforced. | would stand at Second ave MILLER, Fanoy's father | ARD MILL zn. her brother, 16 girl Charlie fears is Pearl, 13, who says she watched) he slaughtered the other four members of the family. E HE PLANNED TO OUT SWEETHEART’S FAMILY belief of the countryside today is that Charlie Mar-| | | facing trial shortly for an attack on Fannie Miller, | ed to dodge this trial by wiping out the whole Miller} family, and that the escape of the 13-year-old girl upset this| Miles about, the lean and swarthy dwellers of the in the boxes of the lumber wagons, to discuss in ed whispers what had been done in the blackness of a y night. There were ominous bulges under homespun | there were well-worn shotguns and rifles under the} ‘Seats. reriff John B. Lewis fled from Amory with his prisoner an automobile and saved Marshal! from the vengeance of Seotintryside. Pearl Miller is under the protection of Chief of Police Cal of Amory. The officers suspect that the man who the four members of the Miller family had an aide. d they are fearful lest harm come to the only witness of massacre. COMES HOME AND iS UP MARSHALL'S PHOTO “There was much talk in the Tom Bigbee bottom about Miller family and Charlie Marshall.‘ Fannie Miller had n Marshall all her life, but started “keeping company” him three years ago. When he “saw her home” from a ireuit rider's meeting. She was 15 then, and Marshal! ce her age. About 18 months ago the girl returned one evening and up Marshall's picture, scattering the fragments in the di mother died 12 years ago, and in the lonely farm Fannie had no one in whom she could confide. she was compelled to tell her father what had hap- She said that Marshall had seized her as she was with him in a field, and had dragged her into a e, smothering her cries by pressing his hand over ARRESTED BUT FANNIE’S CHARGES Miller had his three motherless children to care F, one of them needing him more desperately than ever, so) d ed to let the law take its course. He had Mar. ‘Arrested. Marshall said he was innocent of the girl's and his trial was to have been held at the next of court. pie’s father and Charlie Marshall went armed after d no word Was spoken between the two families. | has no reputation in this part of the country as a man; he was famed for his conquests among the | j@nd as a moonshiner. ding to Pearl Miller’s story, which she tells with the| gntrol of a strong-minded adult, Marshall entered her ter her father, brother and sister had been shot ‘and the home dynamited. He clubbed to death the wling on the floor beside its dead mother, soaked with oil and set fire to it as Pearl fled, thru the and ran, with a sprained ankle, over a mile of floode« to the home of a neighbor. ‘AINED BOOTS FOUND SHALL’S CABI tshall was arrested near his cabin, where he lived his father. He denied that he had been out the t ‘before, but his koots and overcoat, mud-stained and were found. ety of moonshine mash, sugar and sprouted corn taken from his shack, together with several gallons the “white lightning” which the Marshall family was | d for producing. iN HORNSBY Is_ READY FOR BIG SEASON :: BY FRED TURBYVILI Rogers Hornsby, famous infielder and slugger of the Cardinals, is SNA Pra ta Pa os York City ght harness on- | want « half-mile track jm Van Conrtiandt park, to re- the Harlem speedway now be- tased by autos, jhome in Fort Worth, Tex., his chiet im in this off-season being to add yut 15 pounds of weight. I would be tickled if I could re- port 15 pounds heavier than I was at the close of the 1919 season,” Rogers writes, “If I can take on | Orleane Mardi Gras seven-milé| ie scheduled for February i4. ia will be the center of In hockey, a eer bated t on in the Quaker get and Princeton wili|like @ toothpick next season, hore kamen there, | that means a lot more hits than I got oe in 1919." or, thorobred stallion, Hy in England was io Argentins | ne ig looking after his mother's oll |interests about Fort Worth. she lowns several hundred acres of prom. ising land in the heart of the big ol |field, and it may be worth hundreds Me # of dollars ere long Jdom hits in the spring. | [Since his entrance into the big show |he has always come with a rush at indup. ‘The season of 1919 was |no exception, as he hit close to an verage of 450 during the last six weeks of the campaign “If I could start New Y¥ ‘s day, I would bh top f April,” commented some unknown reason, I hit ke a bush leaguer in the spring, but have is weak or out kilter, better eat less use |always been fortunate in getting lot of blows after the halfway mark and o-mol05 |has been reached.” the new aid to better || - — ion. Pleasant to || arrive in this om ange pavers wit) —effective. Let Ki- 7 Hampshire charges #1 help straighten out ||"! © hr tem and tran th digestive troubles. Harvard's first eall for track athletes | |brougnt out 130 varelty and freshmen a DE. BY SCOTT & BOWNE OF SCOTT'S EMULSION few days ano. 9 Hornsby. For for « per- held in Waldort- A: New York ity, country drove in, with their women folk seated in| spending the winter at his-mother’s | t poundage the old bat will feet | and | And while Rogers is fattening up, | training about | In tip | wells, Nev. \e _ DIME, WOULD DO m when the season opened in| | | Crowds at the Lake Placid club have been thrilled by the| clamed aa murder and stunts of Ernest Berger, famous fancy skeater. man caught him just as he cleared a pile of three barrels. Suggestions on How to ) Make Seattle’s Streets Sate for Pedestrians Jor end ance for traf of all drive 1a dotlar q 16 by holding « Ionfor examination: “ACHAN a8th at tt MACK I Miller Hiver, nd off Jed for per day yment of which Edueate the corners, out eut Hehts more t pe it MITH, Wash in aft tall 9 districts, get WEL Hagley sand ma MISS AGD RAKI Impo ting care tof day 4206 or ave prov tion precedent t H. 1. Hamilton “ee Every driver caught @ traffic given a jail wentence at to p for his board triver cause the death of he should be tried for mu not exonerated. MA Et . Why not hare all traffic ay on each street downtown? T all traffic t and any ordinance STELSNER, 26th . ave . fo one go uP “1 so on, uF up law violat ¢ them je for Double the speed ¢ the limit to 15 miles oduce per GLENN, 20th ave. y the penalty have them and for the city. SELL, jewett st, M. MUN 600 I eee Life imprisonmen on the t for thone who INBAD, i The reason there eaded to y crows MRS. FR re so many ac nts auune re too rat Do away with the give every v i] nente A Jat pedestrian who viol fine system and ffle rules every ator of t fine CARL Lx Lander Mali, t . . License every after they have pasyed a good examination as to their knowledge of nafety zones are for, has the right of way at corner, etc “HITNEY ° . Killing people ue auto should be INARD, of W. ver DRIV should be five to 15 onment. To stop | would be a fine ¢ years’ imprin speeding $100 for the first | The camera | | Manager Melmest's arrangement for a football game here b r for Rocky 0 teama, With one mar the losing col shooters are pw won and another tn b # basket ng themnelves tn for their next meet with the Webfo in Eugene on February ¢ and | "s next Interee! comes with 0. pps gym. A see held Saturday. made againet the Coach — Allison more optimistic about the outeome of future games. ame inden n number in due for « | Maanger M arrangements for a trip to o for the first year men. thia pleking out for the big foot tionily every including North. try, Harvard, Center and Dartm: neon chosen by the dopesters. The is only one man in town who kno + | what tear the Purple and Gold will I! |up against next Turkey day Man. aged Darwin Moleneast—and ty much up In the alr as any one. Kearns “Answers” “Slacker” Charges| LO8 ANGELES, Jan —Jack Kearns, who does the talking for Jack Dempsey, te answered puby shed statements attributed to Max ine Demy the champlon’s di orced charging Dempsey ts a “slacker Kearns declared in a signed state ment that the charges are and absurd,” and that it te the duty | of npaey’s former wife either to | prosecute Dempsey as a slacker or |to retract the statements attributed | Mra, Dempsey is at ridiculous | to now WHAT A ot Time was when one thin dime would | Buy “c buy Three fingers of well-mellawed rye; ‘Twould make a bellhop show the apeed And service of a Ganymede |'Twould buy a jitney ride for two, A pair of foaming mugs of brew | A quart of milk, a pound of meat Or six bananas for a treat. |" "Twould get you in a movie how, | Additional Sport | ‘Star Soccer Suits Fail to Arrive and Mix and | next Wednesday, | HERE’S ANOTHER HUGE Georges Car | ‘Twould | Or pe A Or if you rolled your own, Oh, Keen ———| offense, for the nec months’ imprisonme OLIVER D. DUNN, § Donovan st. . . Stop running street cars on FY Second and Third aves, from at. to Yesier way. Run them | Western ave. Have a termina xe ave. and Yesler way. nd $200 and six men should keep their pockets full of jaywalker tags, teem vat. North End, and pans ae a terminal in the Go Postponed | Second Time BEN HUGHES, 4149 38th ave. 8. one Compel autos to slow to wniking pace when crossing Intedsecti This law ts enforced In Austr B. DOHERTY, Sixth ave. ns Is Called Off BY ALEX €. Twenty the . Noticed a policeman chatting tn ment market while autos speeded up Fremont ave. on the tneline from Blewett st. Gtve us efficient police. policy when | ncn. they arrived at Woodland park yes-| | | . . | a ROSE wo soccer players adopted “watchful waiting” MRS. R. F. LARSOD terday 3641 Aurora st. ternoon to take part in the! but they watched and waited in vain, Somewhere lwetween and Woodland the . If a person 1 driver, that dri Id be hun away. annual Scotiand-England match, . killed by a reckless ris A murderer and Second ave. Take their license park baggage contain- ing sweaters, MRS. MERKLE, pants, stockings hoos for the “watchful waiters” went astray and the result was that | for the second t thi big event of the soccer to be postponed. If the “lost yet see the do battle, The humiliation of 10 to 60 days in jail ardor of the most co |The danger automobile reason the had re drivi the For an ywed to b and speed moerr Duthies, Black Diamond and Car-| yunishment bonado have strong elevens lined up Pyiap on the ready to start the McMillan cup The directors, trying to get Tacoma on the circuit und final action will be taken on the matter in a few day Chartie lenough, the | president will visit the City of the Living Dead “found” and the F third time is we may glint lucky, nolved by fine ina prese ominal fir maybe. y »wl ove ra pedes ly on hit Tr meted out is merely wrist way F. SILL, 1530 Elizabeth ave. . league however, 1 Why pass roing his geared down an hour and have a police department MRS, FRANK E not hav an ordin over car city any an he to 15 eal put on council person 20 miles by PE 8, 75th st. OFFER FOR BIG MIX LONDON, Jan. Harry Wil Hams, London theatrical producer and fight promoter, today asked the United Pr transmit to Jack Kearna an offer of $162,000 for Jack Dempsey's # fight with » held cate cars driven without M- them and ato a se injured in auto lents. Register foreign cars ¢ tering and leaving. Enf so that pedestrian has right-of-y ings and autoists betwee Punish violators Wake the judge He offers a pur throw the bool the fight, and if it i . TON he ask# Kearr his lowe , intone a terms for the champion “ae suarant of faith, he a forfeit of £10,000 ting Lite ” . cre fund for th on cro street n in ry London tate thi up and of $271,500 for not satisfactor to cable “ie Street ther side ure cars should treet, top on far beeat utes n to po » editor of fas drive te viol driving ator car for 0! H. A, ZIEBARTH 1913 Main St e- ht a feo and” for some poor | "bo; . | Every auto should be fitted with an which when more make a waiter man your apparatus it strikes anything than 20 pound MRS, ANNA B 1138 . will register for one head-barber shave. | good old days, ere wo were broke, dime would buy a dandy smoke, that jack Would buy for you a mammoth sack gosh, it makes a fellow blue ling what a dime would do, weighing in McRAK, Broadway o- As great many accidents cause¢ when machines turn cor ners, couldn't It be possible for all a ‘ the rentence | there | traffic to ¢ ad on the treet 1d the a card bearts rO OTHE THEM ens driver thereof, po uD WOULD HAVI you As DO that 4 fault eo tall front of ¢ ©. DAVI Spring You UNTt o drivers a Jail sen consideration ac for women Ww. . T. ry Building. LA P, COLLINS 614 BE. Marion uld deprive every of violating any of the Steps on Button and Saves Bank < + MARIE BROCHMEIER CINCINNATI, Jan, 26. —- Mins | Marie Brochmeler haa a dainty foot. When a gang of bandits entered the First National bank at Lockland, Miss Brockmeler, the bookkeeper, held up her hands obediently, but nothing was said to her about her feet Bo she found an alarm button on the floor with her tapering right toe | and pressed it down. | A big gong started to ring vio lently, The gangsters scrambled out and fled in an automobile | The gang was variously estimated jas numbering from four to six, Em |ployes of the Lockland bank are good at figures, but they can't agree jon the gun count. “The place seemed full of fire artna,” said one young woman, “and they were all pointed at me.” ockmeler said it was more a moving BRYAN FAVORED IT BACK IN 1906, Was for Government Owner- ship of Railways Then {tun than Polition plays strange tricks, It is by no means impossible that Bryan, whose speech favoring government ownership of railroads, |13 years ago, brought down on his head a storm of criticism, might be nominated in 1920 as the democratic standard bearer on that identical platform When Bryan returned from his trip around the world in 1906, he | recetved a tremendous weleome Madison Square Garden. The coun. try recognized that he would be the next naminee of the democrats and A for what he would say with | attention. an threw his bomb of the following reached the con. said, “that partake so much of the mon became — public managed by public nterest of the whole community in acoordance with the that public ownership is nec ary where competition is im possible, * * * I prefer to see only the trunk lines operated by the fed and the by the several state governments.” Next day and for weeks follow. ing de waite breathless Br in the eady nature of a be property and eral government the rd about the head of William un r after paper m B wore posterous,” the ed his plan r accused 1 himself 4 fit of state socialism He has “determined,” said w York Journal of Commere ke out for himself in a vlism a rou which already nceused him of the democratic “Frankly pre New York World| The Philadel him of having the “fantastic en bitter ar out to new that failed lange va demoeratt defend Br he sald tion papers endeavor pointing ultimately” an by out govern But ment oper would come most condemned him. And confronted by the ined his to any views should be clearly | understood, I have never declared that I in favor of government ownership of railways unequivocally When it has been determined that | kovernment supervision not solve the then it is time to discuss government ownership as A practicable propositic That is Jat that T wish to way at this time.” All of this was in the fall of 1008, Bryan of in th criticism, exp view Ty that am does question he tolat should ne |pass each other poly that they must ultimately | officials in the | well-defined | local lines | storm of editorial criticism | the} fense he * 1 une for at be dey ived of Requi A wtrict armir man sh irivers every have @ permit THOMAS ‘ | 7 th ave In bre walk rig ad dn it reema people They arelens cronsl Th int should ure } at rh more frequentl corners Mit ELLA POYEN, cee Enforce present laws. Impone ee penalties MAURICE SHARKEY, 0 léth N. Fines should be imposed on e one, ¢ if it be the m Yor th first offense a fine of $25 and 20 days in the workhouse, second offense $ and 60 days $100 and 90 days. ery ‘Thereafter the be allowed to drive y limite ar F. J 6416 14th N . au his car in the cit more w. Maximum per speed limit moving six miles S vehicles to ¥. 3 7340 Wi City traveling rules |tlons should be everybody respons driving, and such sted on all traffic and carried by al! ible, walking | rules should 4 |be p ce streets, as may not know or care | regu! L. C. LAWRF :, 1314 Marion st, . nd pedestrians at traf t miles Ww | | . | und intersections is heaviest, a , and a speed per hour within A. DRESBACK, 606 Beventh ave. I suggest for streets wh penalty for Umit of eigh I‘ ity Limite. ui passages ot 8. Build tunnels under street corners !and the problem is nolved forever! ANTHONY A. MARAS, eee | Autos should stop 10 feet behind jstrect cars with gates open, should |wtop at all car lines and boulevards, |should not be allowed to park or stand in the Loop between 4 and 7 Pp. m., and should turn corners at} not more than five miles per hour, MRS. F. W. SIMONSON, 3615 Woodland Park ave. ove Never forget there are mothers and fathers, you .xpeeders! Never forget | there are people half blind and half deaf! Never forget to blow the horn, Never forget little children may spring out from the curb! Resolve to be careful and not to run over any one. Better to be a little Jate than sacrifice a life. Pedestrians, too, | should be more careful! ELLIE PARKS, 206 W. 50th at. . oe ‘There is room for every one on the streets, All we need ts obedience and lenforcement of the traffic rules, and punish the violator. R. BE. WILSON, 1415 Boylston ave. eee Autotsts should slow up when a lit- tle child crosses the street. They oe not cross an intersection when a street car is within 50 feet of the jcorner. If a pedestrian is accidentally hurt, the autoist should stop and pick up the injured part. If he doem't do that, he should go to Jail BEULAH FLETCHER (10), Baley school. eee Every speeder should be fined $50 and sent to jail for 20 days. Double |the fine if they hit any one. If they | kill, give them five years in the pen, and for the third offense’ © & warning to those who| jand, above all, cut out the speeding’) TO AVENGE MURDER OF FOUR |} L “LIFE SAVERS” FIROM IREADIERS a STAIR ret nd never allow t ‘again, 1UsOM. ok and 1 obey ate, vA. jer ave, lating iATION, islands n. At all a smell od and ie ich pede preparatory to at @ ©.” A person has 4 uffic coming from s time and even w the roadway, @ & fer for pede le on FRANCIS Route 8, City. Pa fines vert paper a down the # nement heavier. Ade r in every Seattle mple Dd. an ex: Cc. GALE, Bremerton, . imprisonment or murder or maiming 7 © causing accidest : 10 miles per hour, WILLIAM SHAW, Sth ave. 8. W. . stantial fines, to fol oe ve all policeme jany person who » [miles per hour in the main streets $100 and send him to jail for five © days without taking the case to MRS. LEO FRELICH, Winlock, Wash. eee F Bulld a “pump” at each crossing 0 automopiles would have to slow down or get a jolt that would re- |mind drivers that there is another “pump” on the other side. R. W. BELI, | Kirkland. | eee | “Fine or tmprison the who allows himself to be hit. En- = |force present ordinances without | fear or favor. Make parents respo jsible for acts of children. every driver of any kind of vehicle, including street cars, pass an ex- |amination on traffic laws. | E. L. HOLLCROFE, 907 Leary bidg. eee | Fines and jail sentences won't llensen accidents. Arrest the = |chine, not the driver. Ww. & 110 Vine st, . . 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