The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 19, 1920, Page 2

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They chose 00 worth of alcohol from the u Beverage company’s plant. tering a ticket, they say, himself a possible candidate, be obtained, he sa/4, 19.—With the opening of the national prohibi tion convention but a few days dis |tant, delegates to the very dry feat are slowly drifting into Lincoln to at tend a jubilee and jollification over |the 18th amendment and solemnize a wake over the body of John Barley. Delegates on the ground are not} Slow in expressing their dissatistac- tion over what they term the “treat ment received” at the hands of the Had either the Chicago or San Francisco convention insérted a dry plank, the prohibition ists would probably not consider en. One of the first presidential booms | was Jaunched Sunday night, when Clinton N. Howard, Rochester, N. Y., nounced he would probably present the names of W. J. Bryan and W. A. (“Billy”) Sunday to head the prohibi- BRYAN, SUNDAY (COURT HOLDS UP | ON DRY TICKET? Prohibitionists Are to Enter JIT ORDINANCE Injunction Issued by Judge Smith A temporary injunction, prohibit ing the city from enforcing its jitney- regulating ordinance until July 28, was granted by Superior Judge Kver- ett Smith Monday. ‘The injunction was granted follow. ing n agreement of attorneys to try the case on its merits a week from next Wednesday. ‘W. R. Crawford, legal adviser of the jitney thterests, announced that he would ask leave to withdraw the writ of mandate issued by the su ‘breme court of the state last Satur. day. If the city’s legal talent wins when* the case is heard on its merits, the jitneys will be forced to comply with the city ordinance which ruled them off the streets, If the bus operat ore are successful, their next step will be to convert the temporary in to @ permanent injunction, When instinct governs some men's for a wife | | Get Tickets for If you haven't yet obtained your tcket for the benefit dance at the Hippodrome Tuesday night to raise funds for the widow anc children of Deputy Sheriff Rober! C. Scott morrow one: restaurant, where sale: they are on night at the Hippodrome box of. flee. There will be dances for all, dances, not including the “shim mee.” ‘There will be top-notch vaude. ville between each dance. All the mi and children of the bandits, and whose alleged mur derer is under arrest at Vancow ver, B. ©. Don't judge & man by the clothes tion ticket. Their consent will first| actions instinct is only another name! he wears. “pparel of his wife, Scott Benefit Call at the sheriff's office in the county-city bullding today or to Or ask any deputy sheriff for Or call at any Chauncey Wright Or buy your tickets tomorrow from the old-time square dance and quadrille to the new-fangled ney derived from the mule of tickets will go to the widow man who died gunfighting with a party of HERE’S MORE ABOUT told him afterward that when nion saw Turt hin face blanched and he kept signaling to Murt to keep mum. After the identification by Burke, Starwich wan allowed question Seanion. wits in which Starwich attempted to wring « confession fram Scanion, but failed PRISONER D) i) BURT'S STORY ENTIRELY Starwich, “He denied he knew Burt,” Star wich naid today, “He denied he had been piaces that Burt nid they went together, He mid he had never been in Fairfax and knew nothing about the murder of Scott or the kil) ing of Cady. “Put tripped him up once. Burt said he had stopped at a hotel in Vancouver, cohversation they had with the bell. boy af that hotel. fo we went down town and got the bellboy, He remem | bered Burt and recalled the conver | mation, and said he would know the man that was with Burt if he saw we him again | “Then we took the bellboy to the jail with us He couldn't plek out Scanlon, ponsibly because the pris |oner was dressed in prison overalls, and had &@ week's growth of beard. | “Hut the boy recollected Seanion had worn @ pecullar pinch back sult when he was at the hote |with Burt, and when shown the clothing taken from the prisoners when put on prison toga, pointed out ® pinch-back sult as the one he b ween before, That sult was Scan jon's. “Everything that Burt hag told jme I have been able to check, and | 1 have found he has been telling me | the truth, 1 convinced he is tell- ing the truth about Scanion.” SAID HE FEARED CADY WOULD SHOOT HIM IN BACK According to the story told b: Burt, Scanlon came to Burt’ room at Ninth ave. and Pike st. the morning of April 3, about 3 o’clock,| they would turn Scanlon over to the | * and told him he had killed a deputy | state of Washington in two or three’ in three months, sheriff and then shot Cady, whom Hurt knew well, because he was afraid Cady would “squeal.” | He says Scanlon told him Cady trying to get a chance to shoot him | eanton) in the back. | Seanlon showed him Cady’s gun and the other loot taken from the * 6 # * Blame for most of the highway robberies, burglaries, safecrackings jand other high crimes, Including muréer, committed for mapey in the Northwest during the past year was laid today against the ‘Flying Squadron of 52," an alleged organtza- tion of ruthless criminals made des- perate by “dope.” In @ series of remarkable confes- sions, in which he minutely describes ing Squadron,” Volney Burt, coun ty jail prfoner, implicates himself and gther members of the organfza- tion in more than 100 such crimes. |OPERATIONS CULMINATED |IN SCOTT-CADY MURDER | Their operations in this vicinity, {turt dectaren, culminated in the |double murder, last April, of Deputy Sheriff Robert C. Scott and Bandit | Eimer Cady. Burt's ‘confessions, said by depu- ty sheriffs to be the most extensive “ghow-up” on record here, would fil many pages and in a history of ma. lrauding, gunfighting desperadoes likely seldom to be paralleled any- l where Cruising tn @ high-powered motor car, Burt says the Squadron” went from city to town and town to city, blowing safes, burglarizing wealthy homes, holding up pedes- trians and automobile parties and, if necessary, shooting or otherwise jdispatehing their victims to prevent ja “squawk.” | All told, |counted for jhe saya, by a two thus far, Burt has ac five murders committed, members of the “Squad near Seattle, one near neouver, B. C. and twe negro |murders in Louisiana, done before |the “Squadron” came to this local | ity. | So many robberies were committed lby the “Squadron,” he says, that he has trouble remembering where they took place and what became of the }loot, but, by taking Burt with them, |detectives and deputy sheriffs have |been able to recover thousands of jdollars worth of stolen diamonds and lother gems and jewelry, and a vast |quantity of stocks and bonds, here jand in Tacoma. If given time to recollect, Burt says he believes he will have little \difficulty in taking deputies to other |eaches where, all told, considerably |more than $100,000 in valuable loot jis hidden Some of the valuables already re- covered, including nine or 10 din monds, have not been reclaimed by lowners whose names and addresses | Burt anys he has forgotten and can [not recall. In every case the crime was committed to get money to buy cocaine, morphine or other kind of “dope.” “It comt me $26 a day to keep my- self supplied with morphine,” Burt said, “When I needed a ‘shot’ I was NO MORE n Bibbs—I used to be a regular vis itor to that doctor's office, Bubbs—I didn’t know you were sick Ribbs—I wasn't, but I started a serial story in magazine I found Form your opinion by the}in the doc's office and I went every day unui | finished § SCOTT CASE There followed a battle of | Burt remembered a} thet ‘Flying Squ 52’ Commits Many | Crimes to Get Dope the extensive operations of the “Fiy4 STARTS dena bandit, Murt says, and bemmed | f@ belp in making bis escape from | Beattie. | Yor three hourn they remained| hidden in Burt's room, the latter says, then we to the Interurban Gepot where they look an auto stage for Tacoma, and went from there| to the house in Fairfax, where for! 10 days before Burt kept Scanlon | concealed by day in the attic Atl night, he saya, they usually took « walk together. | | BURT ARRESTED IN © | CANADA AS DOPE FIEND At the end of 10 days the furore | \of the hunt had somew died down | and they emerged from their hiding Burt says, and made a dash for nada, reaching Vancouver without | detection Burt went to New Westminster, he says, and was ar | rested there as a “dope f back to Vancouvey and 5 | Jolty jail. | 4," taken ed in the While there, he says, Scanlon was | brought in and locked up on a burg. lary charge. Later the charge of | murder was filed against him. Burt, released from jail, return ed to Beattie, went aguin to Fairfax, where he got the letter maid to have been written by Scanlon to "Red Swede,” pd left it when he came! back here and was arrested by the police for burglary, a month ago. Thru the bars of his cell in the} county jail Burt sa Ww Deputy Sheriff William Sears, who had ar rested him some years ago in Ta-| coma, called Sears aside and told him he wanted to talk. “He said be wanted to see Star wich afid me,” Sears suid, “and he! told us the whole story about Scan fon and the Beott murder. I believe | he is telling the truth. Parts of his story I have checked up and know to be true.” | CANADIAN POLICE MAY TURN HIM OVER Starwich said today he had the promfke of the Canadian police that | weeks if their case against their pris- oner seemed likely to fall thru, He said from what he had learned while lin Vancouver, he believed the evi with the Scott murder is more con vineing than that of which the Do. minian is holding him for the other) murder, * 8 & adron of ready to kill a man to get it, if neo) esnary. I go all to pieces if I can't get my ‘dope.’” BOTH GO-BETWEEN AND TRANSPORTATION, AGENT Burt mys he acted as the go between” as well as the transporta- ton agent for the “Squadron,” mo- toring them from one point te an- other in hie big touring car, taking as many as six or eight at a time to the scene of @ proposed crime, then| \lying back im waiting with his car |ready to pick them up with the loot jand make a swift getaway. It was also & part of his duties, | he sayn, to look after the “nquad-| ron's” arsenal of revolvers ana pis-| tols, to see that the guns were kept jin good repair and that each man had one, and to dispose of loot. The “Squadron,” he says, was di rected and fathered by a “dope fiend” and master criminal called Red Swede,” a product of the un-/ derworld back East, who had as much a# $10,000 “fall money” at his command at all times to bail out of jail any member of the gang who “fell.” | After the arrest of Burt, a month ago, several other members of the “Squadron” were picked up by the authorities here and in other towns jand two gent to the penitentiary for burglary in Tacoma, Others are still being held to be questioned con- cerning various crimes. YOUR TEETH X-RAYED FREE | | | De. L. R. Clark each morning between the hours of 9 and 10:80. No cost or obligation whatever. We. have a fine, brand new X-Ray Machine which we are placing at your dis- posal without charge be- tween the hours men- tioned above. Please come as early in the morning as possible. REGAL DENTAL OFFICES Dr. L. R. Clark, Manager 1405 THIRD AVENUE Northwest Corner Third Avenue and Union Street Diagonally Across the Street from the Postoffice Lady Attendants on Duty at All Times |to France, | squadron,’ | Was acting queerly in the auto, ae if/dence against Scanion in connection car, and 1 took them around from ‘Burt Says He Won't See Innocent Man Die for Scott’s Murder What nort of man in Joseph Scan. | lon, alleged murderer of Deputy Sheriff Robert C. Scott and others? Here's how his former pal, Volney Burt, describes him “A Killer-——a murderer at heart Big, brawny, beartiosg crafty, treacherous coward. | “He's got a jaw that sticks out viciously, hard as iron, but he's yel- | low when he's cornered. | “He's brave as a tion up thtre in the fall at Vancouver because he} knows they haven't got the evidence to convict him of kicking that poor devil of a logger to death. But fetch him ‘back here and he'll weaken. He'll come clean when he sees that noose aswinging. The noore—that'll get him He'll talk then, sir, Then he'll tell how he killed Scott and his own pal, Cady.” BERT I8 NERVOUS FOR LACK OF DOPE And Burt, what sort is he Tall, nervous, sick for the want of his fill of “dope,” flercely determined to tell what he knows and go to the penitentiary or to a government how Pital where he says he wants to stay two years and come out cured of his habit and go back to his wife Burt went with the “Devil Dogs” He wasn't a morphine addict then. He was with them at Helleau Woods and Chateau Thierry He was shell-shocked. He was taken to the hospital, screaming and quak- ing violently in every limb. Morphine soothed him; he an addict. Returning to the United States he was sent to @ hospital by | the government and paid $95 a| month pension. He continues to} draw bis monthly allotment. After three months in the hospital they turned him out “cured.” But I wasn't cured,” he sald. | ey can't cure an addict like me As soon as I got on the pavement I became nervous. 1 went back to the ‘dope.’ | “I joined up with the ‘flying sir. 1 had’ big touring one town to another where were ‘pulled,’ CADY AND SCANLON BOTH DOPE ADDICTS “I knew Cady well—he was & de) cent chap, in his way. You'd have lked Cady. He was a morphine ad- dict, too, Scanion—'Mack,’ we cailed | him, for his name is McGovern—he | wax ® cocaine sniffer. Cocaine is| different, but it all egsts money. “Ninety-five dollars a month wasn't enough to keep me in ‘dope.’ My morphine cost me $36 a day, on the average. “To get ‘dope’ 1 would do anything, | kill a man if necessary. That's why I became afraid of myself. I don't want to get out on the street. I'm afraid I'd kill somebody, the way I am. That's why I've chucked this being & crook and sent my wife back East to wait for ma ‘ “If I go to the penitentiary, I won't kick. All I want is a sure cure, I'm young—24 years oldé—and got a long time yet to live I want to'get cured; then I can go straight If I get out of this without going to prison, I'm going to @ government hospital for two years and get fixed up, and the government's got to take me. They can't turn me down. I've got their contract.” Burt hates Scanion, he saya, be cause he killed Scott, and Burt had known Scott's reputation for being a “square shooter.” But mostly he hates him because he killed Caddy, HE KNEW CADY ULDN'T SHOOT A PAL “He told me.” said Burt, “that he was afraid Cady would shoot him, or squeal about the Scott murder. But he knew Cady, the same as I did, and he knew Cady wouldn't shoot a pal “You've heard about honor among thieves, Well, it's bunk, so far as Mack’ is concerned. He tried to frame with another crook to blame the Geott murder on a friend of his ‘Jobs’ MONTAY, JOLY 19, 1928. 7 Volney Burt fit the description of the murderer, But I queered that game. “Cady was up to my home in Fair. fax with me a week before he was killed. He met my mother and sie ter. “Then, when “Mack’ went back Pes there with me after the murder, and! I hid him in the attic, he got sore because I told bim 4 didn't Uke his shooting his pal. “He said, “Why holler about a dead crook, He's janted and can't holler” ‘That made mad. I got ‘aMck’ safely out of the country, but he went against my grain. And when he tried to frame another friend to: fall for the murder, that was more than I could stand, and I turned bim up. I'm going to see that no inno cent party swings for that “I WANT TO GET OUT OF THIS MESS FOREVER® “Why do the authorities befleve! me when I say ‘Mack’ did the mur der? Because they know I'm telling! the truth I've got everything to gain and nothing to lose, I want to come clean and get out of this mess, forever. them so far—about the burglaries and holdups and all the rest—is tru, because I've taken them around and and jewelry and other plunder was “ cached or pawned. “Just Uke the evidence against ‘Mack’ that I've helped them recover, They know I'm telling the truth about that because I found it for! them, the guns and Cady’s stickpin! and ciguret case, and the witnessed that saw him and talked with him after the killing. 1 “And when I identified him there in the jail at Vancopver as man, I waa still telling the truth, “They'll find it out when they get him down here and he weakens. When he sees the noose. That old rope noose, that'll make most any- body talk, sir, most of all a yellow coward.” 5 Burt is scheduled for arraignment |{n superior court Friday on a seo jtheft of clothing from the home of F. C. Deven, 4545 52nd ave. 8. 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