The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 3, 1920, Page 7

1990. TuRSHAyY, avovst > TO EXWIFE Treatment of Children Drove Him to Give Her Drug, He Says in Jail SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. % r James Singleton, whom the police} 4 apnour t night that 4 he placed p a bottle sup oe od headache Posed to have powder, which caus his former wife Mo K watched closely the death of was belng his ¢ in i at the city prison following * threats of suictte. During fhe grilling, Singleton de clared several times he wanted to kin himselt. His diverced wife, in his confession, drove him to the act by her treatment of their two M chikiren and her alleged mis conduct with “I bought the p Singleton said other men. mn for myself,” he said, “but she c to me and complained of a splitting hes Then I guve her the bottle and told her it contained headache powders She her when she of her death.” Convict Umpire Is Dying of Injuries 3 Aug. left. Later I heard WALLA WALLA, Newcomb, con at a ball game in the pe » is dying today as the re sult of a blow over the head with a bat, administered during a row between rival prison teams over a ruling. The “tears” of the distressed heroine in the movies are usually manufactured from glycerin. Some 600,000,000 pounds of cotton are grown in Peru annually most always Telieved by it Gleases examine your eyes. Prices Wet her ptox Glasses. . the only invisible bifocal for far and near vision. , Broken lenses duplicated WEGHER OPTICAL CO. KR RB. WEGNER, 237 UNION STREET 30x3% “Montana | | Continues Bootlegger ence took the bottle with | 30x31 Goodyear Double-Cure Fabric, All-Weather Tread. Goodyear Single-Cure Fabric, Anti-Skid Tre GOO Jack” Tells How He Became and If you met Valentine Reynolds on the street you would see a heavy wet rather slovenly dressed man with gray deep beneath |shagey brows, and a stolid, serious Jwet of features, He walks with a | slight ambie. Should you accost htm, you would pression light up eagerly if a friend, but an interro: eyes set x t of the eyebrows with a hi ostility would be the only & g if you were a stranger. If you chaneed to be an enemy of Val entine Reynolde—weill, few of us re. tain a normal attitude In the pres of a foe, UNOBTRUSIVE APPEARANCE FITS HIS BUSINESS, Hut the chances are that you would not take a second glance at the man, were you to meet him, for he seems to fit unobtrusively into his environment. And that, of course, no mean advantage lo one [in his business. ! Montana Jack—for that is the name by which he is most generally known—will tell you frankly that he is a bootlegger. He feels that he has [been the victim of circumstances, and does not really believe he ts com. |mitting any sin in violating the pro- hibition law. “The saloon businels is the only Jone I know," he says, “and it isn’t |my fault that they made my busi- [ness Miegal, I'll be 59 the 12th of | next month, and that’s too old to learn a new trade.” But the “real story in Montana Jack's life Hes not in his bootleg ging, but rather in the events that preceded and led up to his peddling hard drinks under the guise of soft. ONCE SENTENCED TO BE HANGED. For Montana Jack once killed a man, and was sentenced to be |hanged, escaped the scaffold by a years in the penitentiiry at Walla Walla before receiving full pardon. But this was after he had lost his wife and baby girl in Montana. Then there was little Ollie Doane, Jat that time court reporter for the Star. “I want Ollie to get all the leredit you can give her,” said Jack, “for she was the best friend I had aj! during the trial and afterward tilt she died in Boston on her wed ding trip.” | eee | “I don’t know where to begin my | story,” said Montana Jack, “unless it is at the very beginning. “It was born in a small town tn Connecticut in the year 1861. My father worked in a woolen mill When I was 11 years old both my parents died, and I was adopted by a family named Harvey, who took me West with them. We crossed the plains in 1872. My new found parents opened up a general trading store at Bannick, in Beaverhead county, Montana. Of course, we kept booze, and as I grew up and helped So-called sizes, is b: ingly low If $2350 $2139 30x3 jmatter of two days, and served 10 | sensational lously low prices, do not attract careful buyers. They are far more concerned with what they get than with what they pay because they know that in the end it is performance and not price that delivers actual tire economy. The popularity of Goodyear Tires, of the 30 x 3-, 30x 3% and 31x 4-inch on the fact that the deliver exceptional mileage at exceed- jim the store | naturally drifted into selling the stuff. ' AT 22 HE ‘NED A SALOO: N DILIAN, “The Harveys died when I waa 22, jleaving me a hotel and $12,000 in }eash. I sold the hotel, and with my Jeombined capital opened a, saloon in j Dillon, about 60 miles from Butte. I called it ‘Montana Jack's Place,’ and that ts how I happened to pick up the other name.” He paused in his recital for a mo- |ment. Then, tn broken sentences, jand really only thinking aloud at first, he told of the girl he had mar fried. The girl who had never liked [the saloon business; who had kept him straight in spite of it, and then had died, to be followed in a few months by her baby girl “She was an old childhood sweet jheart of mine,” said Jack. “For 11 years abe lived with me and was a pal to me. Then, coming home from @ dance on Christmas morning, she took pneumonia. She got well of that, but consumption set in and the baby—it was a girl—caught it from the mother, the doctors said. I guess they were right. “A few days before my wife died she asked me to sell the saloon and take up a homestead, for the baby's me to. She died happier for it, “That waa in the fall of ‘96, 1 Valentine Reynolds sake. I sold out the day she asked | THE 1 POISON Bootlegger Says Game Doesn’t Pay DOSE FATAL Knows No Other Business, So Sticks LG cared for the baby all winter, but she died the next spring. JUST ABOUT RAN THE TOWN OF ALTON. “I didn’t want to take up a home- stead then, so I started a post tra- der's store on the Piegan reserva- tion, where the Glacier national park in now, It was being opened up as a Umber and mineral reserve. I had $27,000 left from the sale of the m loon, and just about ran the town of Alton, what with being banker, postmaster, and justior of the peace. The mines did not turn out very | well, and I advanced money on all aiden. “At the end of two years every body In the place was in debt to me, and in a r two years I was 4,000 in the hole my So I had to get out « about 1902 I drifted tnto Sound country. I've always |been a saloon keeper, and that |means a gambler, too.” Again Montana Jack paused, as he came to another chapter tn his ca reer, But not for long. “It was in January, 1903," he con tinued, speaking as tho he were be sinning a new story. “At Welling ton, one night, I got toto a poker game at Seotty Ferguson's miocon— the same Scotty Ferguson that ran the Monte Carlo tn Seattle. A fellow [bankrupt « wolf, The Economy of Using Goodyear Small Car Tires b es and offered cost. you own a Ford, Chevrolet, Dort, Maxwell or other car taking these sizes, go to your nearest Service Sta- tion for Goodyear Tires and Goodyear Heavy Tourist Tubes. Goodyear Heavy Tourist Tubes cost no more than the price you are asked to pay for tubes of less merit—why risk costly casings when such eure protection is available? Vy size in waterproof bag. ain tires, made up for at ridicu- $450 SEATTLE STAR To Hunt Whales From an Airship LOS ANGELES, Aug. 4. Whale hunting from a blimp ts to #tart here soon. A harpoon, at tached to a buo® will be shot from the airship the whale, When the whale to the surface for alr the buoy will be picked up by a t and the mammoth of the ptured. named McNamara was running the place for Scotty, “{ knew they were playing marked cards. I knew that the jer knew my hand, but he did not know that 1 knew his, Bo 1 cleaned up . winning $400, And then 1 up the crooked joint and told MeNam him, told me to « n what I thought of He didn’t start anything, but a gun.” | started at the card jed to worse, and the two men k to carrying weapons. | lite, whose hus vent me an invi he | band ran a hotel, tation to come over for dinner,” went on, “I started down the rath road track with the little boy who brought the message, but at the foot of the bill Mra, Baylit's little grand daughter came running down the xteps and maid not to come any fur-| ther, that & man with a gun was | looking for me and her grandma said to go back. | “1 went on up the stairs, and there was McNamara. He pulled his gun, and 1 fired with 45-70 rifle I was packing with mo Yes, killed him instantly. “One bullet hit him tn the chin | and another somewhere about the lower part of the body.” AFTER KILLING, AE STARTED FOR SEATTLE. ‘Then, says Jack, he wired Sheriff | Ed Cudihee at Seattle that he had killed a man and would be down on| No, 13, He bought @ tcket and boarded the train, but at Skykomish there was 4 landslide ahead and they had to wait there until another train | pulled in from Seattle. On it was Coroner Hay and a deputy sheriff. At the trial which followed, Attor- ney Tom Page of Seattle defended Reynolds, It looked like @ clear case of welf defense, but to the astonish ment of everyone in the court room, except the jurors, a verdict of mur-| der in the first degree was returned Motion for a new trial was denic< by Judge W. R. Bell, it ts said, and} Reynolds was sentenced to be hanged, for tn those days there was no option of life imprisonment. It was at this tUme that Ollie Doane, court reporter for the Star, did all she could to have Reynolds’ eentence commuted, “ghe martied another reporter and went to Bo n her wedding trip,” mays Reynolds, “and was there but a short time when she died.” The next mtate legislature, ever, made life imprisonment option al with the judge in a case of first degree murder, and thru the con tinued efforts of Attorney Page and other friends Governor McPride was prevailed upon to commute the sen tenoe to life. This was accomplished how- February 10, 1904. Reynolds was to have been hanged two days later, ETS FULL PARDON IN 1914, Friends of the prisoner then kept up their efforts for full pardon, and finally, on May 1, 1914, they were successful, and Montana Jack stepped out of Walla Walla a free man, Deputy United States Marshal Albert Rooks of Seattle was a stew jard at Walla Walla during Jack’s in carceration there. For two years Jack waited and watched, to see how prohibition was |gotng, working in the meantime on Page's ranch near Renton. “When Gottstein lost his case in the courts in 1916 I saw it was no use to buck prohibition, so I went to Spokane and started bootlegging.” “When I got enough money ahead at that I opened the Orpheum bar, 1 went straight on soft drinks for awhile, But the war come on, and I was opposed to it, and said so, I am as loyal to the United States as any one is, but I did not think that war was any of our affair. “So I became unpopular, and one day the police came and broke up |my place. Then I went to bootleg ging again, but soon fell. For that I served 15 months tn jail at Spo- kane. “Along before last Christmas I came to Seattle and opened a little place at 705 Dearborn st. I bought it on time, but after six days’ busi- ness was able to pay $180 on it. I |didn't make the money off the soft |drinks I sold, elther.” | AGAIN SENT TO COUNTY JATLL Again Jack was caught, and spent | days in the county stockade, He | was treated well there, Jack says, jbut the food was not what it oug |to be, and he was not furnished with | Jenough clothing in the cold weather jof April Having served his time, Reynolds 1gain began to ply bis tra “I had no money,” he says, “but a friend staked me to four gallons} jof good corn whisk: I got it at} |noon Sunday, That evening I gave |away two pints to advertise it. One! of the fellows I approached was a colored man, and I m a deal with | him to sell the whisky to his own} | people, which he said he would do jfor a profit of 50 cents a bottle | “tn my room he gave me a $10} | bil for two bottles of it, and when| | 1 operied the door for him to go, two dry squad men stepped tn.” | onvicted and fined $100 Jack w in Judge 1. Gordon's court, but was unable to pay the fine and served 33 days in Jail. Upon his rel » a few days ago the federal officers took him over to prosecute a charge on violation of the national prohibition act Once more Attorney Page c the defense of Reynolds. Pleading that the defengant had been convict ed and punished in the state court for the same offense, he secured Reynolds’ freedom upon payment of a $10 fine, which was Imposed by | ume to! | Does bootlegging pay? Valentine Reynolds says it does not. And it | would seem that he ought to know. | ught soon too many nd some “You are bound to er or later, for there greenhorna in the @ one will give you away, js the way he puts it. Reynolds still carries a watch rhain into which is woven a lock of baby girl's hair | ‘or a long time I had a splinter) from the top step—number 13—-of| that seaffold, too," he says, “but) that is lost now.” FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET c= ‘ A Featured Group of New Tailleur Suits $59.50 HIS early-season offering of Women’s and Misses’ Suits for autumn is interesting for the distinctive styles which presage the smart vogue, as also for the moderate price quoted. The Suits indicate the straight-line style for autumn. The long coats are distinguished by novel pocket and belt effects, silk floss embroideries and stitcheries, and smart new collars of self material or fur. WOOL VELOUR TRICOTINE TINSELTONE are the fabrics in the new shades, Pheasant, Rust, aig Chinese Blue, Chou, also Navy, Black and reen. 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