The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 28, 1920, Page 1

‘ Eg Weather Tonight and Sunday, fair; strong easterly winds, Temperature Last 24 Hours Today noon—52, lA —— ! —— |Begs Deputies to Let Her| —_ AE, | AS IT SEEMS | Shoulder Blame for “Cohen Job” H | TO ME ‘ohen ere a After three days ne nights| of continuous work without DANA SLEETH | sleep, Deputy Sheriff Matt a Starwich said Saturday he ROBABLY the atreet car [had safely nigh - pets |cel e two highwaymen who P| wr nday inaeaged wai [robbed Cyril C. Cokes, hd | be non-existent 19 years jing picture theatre magnate | from now. jand his two sisters of $20,000) Practically every privately jin gems on the night of Feb- car system tn the country is |ruary 10, including the great “in the red” oF te scrateh- 1 desea i to break even. And there seems to be no solu . QI - The two men, Merritt Hig- by and Charles P. Brown, ex- soldiers and overseas veter- ans, confronted with the evi- inting costes, and the decreased | dence gathered by Starwich of the dollar, the average car and Deputies Herbert Reebe, R. C “eerporation makes no more out of Scott Asa Lee, after first deny- ing « knowledge of the robbery WPcont fare than it did six years | nosy broke down and made @ com | from a nickel fare. | plete confession of every detail of the | But whenever a 10-cent fare is | holdup. | d, the business of the com- Elhteen of the diamonds, half of drops off, auto busses ap- | which had been sold by Higby to » More flivvers are bought by (5 kK. Fronk, 4126 First ave. N. W..| suburbanite, and the short-haul | were recovered. | ided the Phe eating So the Mra. Myrtle Higby, an actress, “ who was posing as the wife of one| more . or 8 rua <r of the robbers, herself under arrest | as a witness, begged the deputies Some fortunate cities, like Seat- (1, permit her to serve her “hus may, by good management. BY sande” sentence a pig mn Fas Bd sagen “He has an aged mother living in| ‘a shifting of certain charges to | Missoula,” she declared. “If she x ‘municipal departments, | Mears of this, it will kill her, I have ’ |no parents. If I can serve his sen intain the Scent fare. But every Geta feel, ad sou wie oad Eaneation ‘s that orery see — }loose, IT tell everything I know alle yd ogathe «ud = losa, about this robbery. It waa the first and that when pond 9 Him comes | ‘ing of the kind he ever did.” ‘B serious condition wil be faced. | FOUR OTHERS : or HELD IN NET T LOOKS now as tho the Fide ota een ire arvéates in entire street raiiway |i5 dragnet epread by Starwich ‘ scheme had been started |They are: Clark Wilson, Georg: 4 on the wrong basis. It | ,4ams, Joe Shotilekorb and Fronk : was about the only pri- jin, man who purchased Higby’ |) ¥ate business that took no account | iin. stones. Fronk was later re ‘Of conts in fixing the sale price. It | inased, after Me had explained he sold a 10-mile ride for the same |).44 bought the diamonds, not know ypune er © anced accounts with the profit e $20,000 in diamonds were from the short haul, In time the mae Po the Cohen home, 716 23rd short-haul profit was gobble® by ave, about midnight. February 10 Hoag haul remained. pega qeuch Miss Ruth Cohen and Mrs Brief and a frantic cctv capital lyeaeph Dans, reached their garage to wet from under and unload. One man was Hidden Inside the ga Uncle Sam has managed to ell |rage, and another around the cor Mali service on thie plan and get | ner, When Miss Cohen got out of away with it, because the drop let- | the car and opened the garage door ter business is big enough to pro- |the man inside, Higby, covered her ‘ Vide fat profits to cover the loss on | with a revolver, and the other ‘man | ‘letters carried 3,000 miles. But | prawn, suddenly appeared at the q Unele Sam has no competition, he |rear of the car, giving orders to the Pe fixer the ratew so that on the | other occupants ¢ whole he gets o profit, and if he | ay were quickly stripped of their Bpesses wrong he doesn't have to | yainables, Miss Cohen was wearing Worry about dividends, He has @ /+the famous big stone known as the Geficiency appropriation bill | anor diamond, formerly the prop: | Passed, and that ends ft. erty of Senator H. A. W. Tabor, of | Aa @ public service, cities may | Denver, Colo., which had been sold Renerally maintain the 5-cent fare |at auction, and purchased by the At 4 loss, but it looks as tho pri- | Cohen family two of the men who trapped Vate capital waa going to get out iqogg NERVOUS TO them, ©f the street car business as fast |tooK FOR JEWELS pe st can, | he Tabor diamond and And with the paving of the [other stones were dropped by t ~ Wighways, and the interurban |robners in their flight. Brown, t truck coming to the rescue, It younger of the robbers, was ner seems likely that steam roads |” nis hand shook #o violently he was Would, within the next decade, unable to hold a lighted match to| Dane dividends and ultimately ¢- | hunt for the jewels, which were | - ther be taken over by the govern- /found next morning, two in the) of serve his term in prison, Deputy Sheriff Matt Star- )—Deputy Sher- was seon|iff Herbert Beebe, who work- diamonds | od three days end nights with- Ment or subsidized by it, or go OUt | Cohen yard and several others, In Of business leluding the huge Tabor, beside the |” Gy time of it for 20 years, but the | doned after their flight. Public is certainly getting even | Several days ago High Row. It may be an open question | displaying nin |) whether the public will finally gain | to prospective yers nope” the bankrupte these utili | Sibley pool room, The r ties wri St é | ported to Deputy Sheriff Scott, who |highwaymen (Turn to Page 2, Column 5) ' (rarn Page 13, Column 5) their confessions. ON THE ISSUE OF AMERICANISN1 THERE CAN BE NO COMPROMISE The Seattle Star 7] Watered as Second Clase Matter May & At the Pontoffice at Heattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March %, 1879 Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1920. MOND HIEVES CONFESS PRINCIPALS IN DIAMOND ROBBERY C AREALMAI That’s Why Men Who Fought Und Booze Nooze Gicl Students for king Moonshine Brew smoking {9 tolerated at Kemper fashionable woman's sem- inary at Kenosha, Wis., but “crap shooting” and “moonshining” still | iscated by Police Fourteen thousand dollary’ worth wttled-in-bond whinky was locked | “up as evidence In the public safety | vullding Saturday sgninat three men held in the city jail and « fourth man who escaped in ® funillade of oMowing a police raid late Friday | While Rev. Alfred Griffin, reo tor of Kemper Hall, today refused to explain the expelling of four students and two faculty mem- bers, student gossip had it that the offenders bad found a new brew made by putting raising in cider and cooking the concoction. The expelled students and teach- ers also were reported as discov- ered “shooting craps for money.” W. J. B. Pans New York when near the} Demos’ Whisky Platform MIAMI, Fila, Feb. 28.—New York democrats, by inserting a plank in their platform opposing prohibition by federal amendment, have reopen-| od the question of state sovereignty | versus national supremacy, and have & paramount is sue, William J. Bryan deciared here ‘Two men, Cecil and Elihu Heath, were arrested earlier in the day in an auto carrying 15 casen of ‘They gave information leading to the arrest of Patrick Mo- Grath and another man, M. Palmer met at fist ave, and E. Spruce st, with eight more cases. With MeGrath, and the other man in the police car, for headquarters. Palmer fired half a dozen ineffective shots. McGrath was captured by Irving Brown at Fourth and Jef. Talks on Moonshine; Can’t Remember Name | “The New York democrats,” Bryan maid, “have given the country a new Friday |Dred Scott decision and made proni- bition the paramount issue until the| Hquor traffic ceases to menace the | ight at Second ngton st. with more Nquor in his ystem than the law allows, failed |omes of the land.” » come to bat Saturday morning | be Makers of 3 1-2 Per Cent Beer Will Be Punished WASHINGTON, Feb: it was reported was suffering a slight head *| the gauntlet next Monday *| Wakes Up to Find He Heads Cuspidor Squad the jitneys, by rising costs, amdthe |i Gonen and the two young | ran foul of a bootlegger Fri jcourse if the New Jersey legislature |Paswed a measure permitting 3% per Lovell was awakened by the arm] f the law from his couch on the ; floor of a hallway in the Yukon 661 Yesler way, \Mesh Purse So Are “Pretties” | New York, took the young Deserted Mother Offering Unborn Child to Family SAN FRANCISCO, found, but knew nothing of the miss: The cops were let in on 'Woman Gets Quick Sentence to Cell |Cohen diamond robbery, and mother here to offer her unborn (1) — Charles me|Brown, who participated in the holdup and was caught |with nine of the stones sewn \in his trousers. Higby, the other robber. yrtle Higby, “wife” jon Army captain | on arrested, con ‘L want it taken as soon as I'm afraid to love it vecause then | might not be able ed to five years in Corporations had a fine and dan- |Cohen auto, which the pair aban-|—~ - os wich and (5 Mrs, Luhre is working in a fac. || V4 P The great Australian marine neers’ strike, which ted up @ jter million tons of shipping, has been settled and traffic resumed, aéebrd- jing to advices here today out dioned by the hus ‘ather New Year's day, “THE LONG LANE’S TURNING,” BY HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES, STARTS IN MONDAY’S STAR. Sn TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE eel Him Are for Phil Tindall Now MAN’S mettle will show itself under fire. A man’s natt will be revealed to his comrades in action. An officer in army can seldom fool his men. Army regulations may require) salute from them. But genuine respect cannot be commane by army rules. It must be felt at heart, just as genuine love. And it is genuine respect—and love—which the men w fought with Philip Tindall have for the man. They are all outo: khaki now. But they are again as one, pulling, tugging, plug ging for the same cause, just as they pulled together’ amid deac ly fire in the Argonne. For there, in the shadow of death, th ry. got close to the man who led them. There they learned the true. heart and the worth of Philip Tindall, the man. And Seattle now has the opportunity to show its pride, as we as to serve itself, in the brave men who fought in the r g#nt wi For Philip Tindall typifies the finest traits of the Yank. Hey unteéred: for service. He turned down swivel chair berths to into real fighting. He fought: He was wounded. He fought¢ He was given up for dead. He recovered. He’s back home —only three or four months out of uniform. Back home to city where he practiced law for 15 years. Back home to the pli that knows him as a clean-cut, courageous, able young man. what will his home do for him? TO THE VOTERS OF SEATTLE: The undersigned enlisted men who served with Lieut. Philip Tindall in the recent war earnestly urge the voters of Seattle to elect him to the city council. We you to elect him because of our knowledge of his character and qualifications we have acquired thru long association with him in the military service. Lieut. Tindall volunteered as an enlisted man at the outbreak of the war. was promoted to lieutenant on merit alone. In the Argonne drive he commal a company of infantry, was severely wounded and was decorated for refusing leave his men. From the standpoint of his regimental, battalion and company commanders, Lieut, Tindall possessed a gift for obtaining the maximum of cheerful effort from his men, yet was tireless in his attention to their comfort, health and general welfare. To the enlisted men Lieut. Tindall was a friend and counsellor, a leader whom they enthusiastically followed and a commander in whom fair play and justice were the dominating qualities. He shot square with all of us. Lieut. Tindall’s long residence in Seattle, his standing in the legal profession, the soundness of his judgment and his capacity for decisive action eminently qualify him to serve the people in the city council. His record as a soldier entitles him to recognition. ? Fred C. Wells Edgar C. Fleischer Henry J. Hack Horace Scott Edward W. Greenway Chauncey Graham ail Fe Chauncey P. Robertson Ronald Horne Gordon W. g@gers Verne J. Todd Otto B. Lewis Roy H,..Lyle Frank E. Weimer James MacCormack Levi J. Merrill Edward J. Tracy Henry J. Cadden Harold T. Woodward Jolin W. Robertson Kenneth G. Fish Lyle F. Tracy Frank C. Galloway Ira Brandrup Newton Wing Harry H. Lewis Arthur Anderson Ralph D. Switzer John Graessner Frank Gleason Orvis V. Wolfe Henry M. O’Brien Clifford C. Hammond Chas. L. Harris Paul Revelle Samuel W. Kunz Chas. H. Newman Elverne M. Porter Orilo Little Chester Hampson Fred W. Rooney Merle W. McCaull Russell E, Fleischner Marion F, Warner Clyde A. Miller H. E. Woodbridge Ted Blake Lew F, Holmes John W. O’Brien Roy E. Darlington Al Ruth Gordon N. Randall Joseph L, Freemen Jack Wyatt Voters of Seattle, how are you going to reply to this appeal? — Are you going to turn down the men to whom you made such lay= ish promises when they left? They are asking but little—asking that YOU, voters of Seattle, take advantage of the knowledge they had gained by close contact with Philip Tindall, and place him in the council, where he might serve YOU just as loyally and efficiently and humanely as he served them during the war. ° When you go to the polls Tuesday, the one name above all which SHOULD command your attention is that of Philip Tin- dall, candidate for the 3-year term for the city council.