The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 21, 1920, Page 2

— aaey celebration of occupancy of a 3 ‘at MONDAY Noon—Reoom 5000, — Arcade bullding—Professor KC, Poin eharch, 15th ave, N. FE dexter speaks on “The Indian B. 47th st. —Kighth anniver & p. me —Workers’ College Play peat “Arms and the Man 8 p. m—Meany hall, univer. sity campus—Seattie Rympheny plays “pop” concert, Spargur string quartet plays. 8 p. m.—Carpenters’ hall, 1618 Fourth ave — “Spider web” social to raise funds for a home deaf, under auspices Sound Association of nite. Two misslonarios China address evening con conteal democratic porimit ten meets, 2p. m—-Women's University club—Dr, Ida Smedley MacLean, Kinglich scientiné anid secretary of the International Federation of University Women, will ad dress the club. 7p. m.—Maaonio club, Arcade butidingg— Roeland Martley ad remade state rican Re .—Woog's hall—Dunean f Puget Deaf 8p dames MCORMICK SOON TO LEARN FATE | california Murder Case Now in Hands of Jury MARYSVILLE, Cal, Feb. 2 \'rhe fate of Frank A. MoCermick, on lertal for bis life here for the murder of Charles A. Brown, wealthy Yuba 330 p. m—Y. sing, led by WU Elwell, talk on “Unusual "by Rev. W. m.—Co-operaters’ hall— Dunean campaign com —Volitical Koss Improvement club. She Traps Burglar CHICAGO, Feb, ot K Sun Georke “iilly it he moved, Mre sister-indaw of him Shoor fim company at bay In the basement o' , wan given into the| While the family ohwuffeur hande ef the jury this morning |moned the police. The ‘Special Prosecutor Carlin had tin) Harry Fisher, explained ished his closing argument an hour) thirsty and thought after court convened and the casc| friend's collar then waa submitted to the jury. | qonamnene McCormick's sister, Mra. Fred J.) Wilson, recently was aoquitted of Brown's murder, It developed at her trial that she had fired shots into Brown's body after the latter had Deen killed by & bullet fired from a rifle held by Mi ment to “dry” law. sum he he was In BUTTE Women charge low wages to store causing increase in immorality. sir The lovely star whom you saw in “The Th THE BEAUTY MAR rd When the human race dwelt in caves, man stalked his mate with club or stone hatchet—clipped her on the head and dragged her off to his lair to be HIS woman; to fetch and carry and bear his children. __ What about woman today? Does man still stalk her—not with club necessarily-——but with the lure of gold and position? How many Seattle women have been crucified on a cross of gold? See the play. It has the solution to the question of mar- | riage for gold or love. 4 SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA $1 Artists under Reginald Dunn, playing Victor Herbert's 3¢ “American Fantasy” i MALOTTE on the WURLITZER “Danse Oriental”... ; - « aaborninnlige Nowhere” T1380 SUNDAY Anathema” , “You're a Mill CONC With Can of Fruit Holding & can of pineapples ready to heave at} wre day and wife of the president of & today held @ prowler her home| been committed by intruder, | waa|the a a | heree investigators | charges groundless. jg of mother love, simply told and filled WASHINGTON —Beer and wine permit introduced in bill as amend: HERE’S MORE ABOUT EALY CASE STARTS ON PAGE ONE jin due to the third degree tastion enrployed by Patterson and Detective t. Tennant ‘There Waa more oy U Dreiver than against Mee, New me Are dineredit her if they idence against he wajd « Mra, Netnite wan eatimony, ‘They thought a ink Mow, Nemits with the crime, they could loawen the eredibil lity of her testimony when #he took the ntand to help free her son ‘There ie Not One veintilia of evi dente against eh: He pointed out that everything the atate had proved hud been admit | ted by the defense without proof be jing demanded. He » nothing to arouse «uw | walk taken by the defendant Mrs. Bryan on Sunday afternoon. That the ate had followed a lead in r the mur derer, was hin brought out the fact that $1,700 of Mra. Bryan's money was unaccount- ed for, as indicating the crime had someone other jthan the man on trial The y of Mrs. Anna Nemits, ed young painter's mother, & codefendant until freed by the judge, was the last stroke of the defense to prove the state's It was @ story with pathos on the witness stand Friday afternoon. The defense rested at 340 p, m. Several witnesses were called and testified for the state—one to show tliat the “Mysterious Mat." A. J )Dretver, did not leave the city af hurriedly after the murder as the Getense had intimated in ita forts to connect him with the crime in stead of aly. J. 1. Barton, commercial agent for the Pacific Steamship company Drought to court the way bille of the| steamer President, which sailed for| San Francisco on October 22, three \days after the murder. STATE SCORES IN REBUTTAL TESTIMONY “Waa there a passenger on that [boat named A. J, Dreiver?” asked Deputy Prosecutor Patterson. | Burton consulted the way bills, and anewered: “Yes, air. Room 124. To fan Francisco, The boat left here at ‘ta m.” ‘The defense had sought to show | Frank Koepfii were recalled to the! Routh the evening after the body of the murdered woman was discovered ‘and before it had been ilentified, having firet told acquaintances he guessed “Fay would be arrested, as he was running around with that other points were scored by te Friday noon. Deputy Howard MacDoriaid and) |Frank Koepill were recalled to the lstand and identified two gray silk |gloves aa those of Mre, Bryan. They had been turned over for safe keep: | jing to the coroner's office, the wit neanen mid, by Patterson himeeif ‘Thix cleared up the mystery of a glove of the same sort that defenne | Witnesses testified they had seen in) the home of 8 W. Unsworth after the murder ‘The other point was made on cross examination of Eaiy. He had said the first he knew that 4 woman's body had been found was on Monday) evening, when he and his mother re) turned from Bremerton to Seattle and he bought a copy of The Star and read an account of the mystery HAD “NEVER SEEN” | MURDERED WOMAN “The paper did not have the| woman's name, did it?” asked Patter son, Baly replied air, They hadn't identified |the body.” “About all there was in that story, then, was a description of the mur dered woman?” "Yes, a description.” He was Arrested later that night and quizzed about Mra. Bryan, but, he mid, did not know why. When Mrs. Nemits took the stand, the crowd in the bénches strained | their ears and sat in rapt attention, | eager to hear each word. An elderty woman who had come to court on! crutches, and was unable to get thru the press of people at the doors, wa suddenly recommended by the judge. | He called to Major A. J. Jones, the bailiff | “Major, go out! and wee if that old) ‘crippled lady is out there. If #he is, let her in, Sho wants to hear this trial, and [ guess she has as much right in here as anybody.” “Mra, Nemita.” asked Walter Fulton, “did y Bryan?” | "No," she réplied, in @ volee that |was little more than a whisper, “I/ never met her } “Gpeak louder, please. Did you! ever see her?’ “Never.” { {SAYS HER SON DID NOT LEAVE HOUSE “T enll your attention to the eve- ning of October 19 last. What hap- pened at your home?” (otober 19, about midnight, Mrs. {Bryan was murdered) Mrs, Nemite replied: “1 had been downtown or 10 I came home. My son came home between 11 and 11:30, We were sitting at the table, my hus- band and I, He was reading; I was knitting. My son came in and chat- ted a while and went to bed. lknow he was not out of the house that night. Our rooms are across | the hall from each other. The doors! are always left open between at night.” On the day following, Monday, she testified, she and her son went to; | Bremerton to look at some property | there, They had been talking of selling it, It was property she own-| od before her marriage to Nemity, | |she said, and #he always had consid ored it as belonging to her son “What did you do when you got back home from Bremerton that eve- ning?” “My son and I played cards, We were both in bed asleep when Sergeant Comstock and some other officers came and took my boy away, He kissed me goodby. I didn't know what was the matter, but the firet thing T thought of wan to go to the deposit vault and get some money to bail could.” SHE LIED TO B] LD HER BOY What dia you do at th: 1 got the box.” Mer Guavered “Then what?’ | “1 opened it. 1—1 box," Hore, for tho first Attorney | u know Mra,} About 9 him out if 1} vault?" voice time since [the first degree. |ison st. it was announced Saturday, | Wright, SEATTLE STAR—SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 1920 a Now Here—The timeliest comedy of the year. and down to February, 1920—a laugh for wets, in a home-brew pantry— Seereret a ULL Ll a: .uU ¢ It’s good to see, no matter how you stand on pro- hibition! It’s something you can laugh at;without seruple. And the ending is left to the audience itself! she took the stand her speech failed her. She bent her head and pressed her handkerchief to per | face QUENTIN QUIDNUNC DAILY HE ASKS A QUES TION OF FIVE PERSONS PICKED AT RANDOM “Now, Mra. Nemitz, tell what! happened when you opened the| box,” said her son's attorney. Re | raining her composure partially, | she said “1 opened the box and saw some thing there, And then I knew there was something wrong, and my boy was mixed up in it somehow. All) that mor I picked it up and/ money fell all over the box, That's why I was #0 long in the booth. I placed that money in between my papers, like they found it, #0 they would think {t wan mine, And 1 made up my mind to tell them the money wae mine—to shield my boy.” Later, when she herself was ar. rested, she said, she wan questioned repeatedly by Captain of Detectives Tennant and Deputy Prosecutor Iatterson, who told her she knew her son had committed murder and was a thief and murderer as well, TODAY’S QUESTION What is your favorite book? ANSWERED MARY PLAYTER, 4 16th ave. N. B.—I couldn't think, right on the minute, We like William Allen White awfully well, MRS. J. B. REYNOLDS, 4310 Lin- den ave.—That's a pretty hard ques- tion to answer, I like Burrough’s nature essays, I believe, about as well as anything I read, MRS. B. C. RHOTON, 2563 Fifth; ave, W.--Well, I haven't had much time to read during the last four or five years, so I’m really not familiar with moat recent fiction. But, in flo- tion, I believe I lke “The Garden of Allah” as well as anything. MRS. LENA PARKS, 817 30th ave, 8.—"Ivanhoe" is our favorite} book, In fact, we like all of Scott's! works. { ALICE B. MURRAY, 507 Pine ast. | —Well, the book I read the most 1s| the telephone book. Motorcycle and Motor Car Crash W. Peterson, Berkshire hotel, driver of a “Wor Rent” car, reported diision between his automobile motoroyele ridden by A. Meas: , 1626 First ave, W., at Fifth ave. 4 Friday night. “Mesenier got up amiling, so I guess he waan’t hurt much,” Peter. son told the police. Man and Girl Are Arrested in South LOS ANGELES, Cal., Feb, 21.—H. A. Cobey, 29, and Miss Goldie Abott, 19, were arrested in Long Beach carly today and brought to the county jail here on a charge of vio- lating the Mann act | It is understood the couple recent ly came to Southern California from | Medford, Ore. | Assault Charge for Shooting Shoemaker Information charging assault in will be filed direct by the prosecuting attorn next Tuesday against William Cole, who, on January 26, shot Luke Sucevich, “uy. $. S. Recrui Original, unique, funny, drys and neutrals—laid STRAND ORCHESTRA Under S. K. Wineland, playing Kreisler’s waltz, “Love’s Joy.” Xylophone solo by Charles Fisher, “Bonnie Scotland.” —— Sunday School and Bible Class at 945 a. m. At 8 p. m. «| HL A. IRONSIDE ee { Author, Editor, Teacher, to Scrap) to discuss subject entitled, “THE CLAIMS OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST’ Iso every evening during week. ‘his is the chance of your life. Must Now Move On! NEW YORK, Feb. 21.—-The U. S, Recruit, the miniature battleship | anchored” in Union Square, “move on,” park department dered. She may Heap or another city s must | cruise d as a op TIVE BROMC Look for BE. W on the box. 3c. REV. M. A. MATTHEWS will preach a sermon Sunday morning entitled, SAINT, SERVANT, SOVEREIGN In the evening he will discuss the subject, CHRIST MEANY HALL JOHN SPARGUR, Conductor Featuring the Spargur String Quartet IN vs. PHARISEES PROGRAMS OF EXCELLENT MUSIC A WELCOME FOR ALL FIRST PRESBYTERIAN A VERY Brilliant Program Take either Cowen Park, University or Ravenna car Concert Begins at 8:20 FUNERAL SERVICES for W. It Orcas st. who died of influenza, were held under auspices of the Red Men at Georgetown Un dertaking parlors at 2 p, m, Satur| day, a shoemaker, in his shop at 616 Mad. | Sucevich was shot thru the head. He lingered between life and death for noveral days, An operation saved) his life a \ ’ A Abe inh d cess rs Ware PLEASE BE PROMPT if you wish to be seated before the program begins, CHURCH Seventh and Spring