The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1920, Page 1

EATTLE CADET HELD IN HORROR JAIL CALDWELL INDORSES DOUGLAS Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell is behind Malcolm Douglas for prosecuting attorney. The mayor’s indorsement, made public today, is significant because in the spring election Douglas had campaigned AGAINST Caldwell. Ew {iit Tonight RLEM. Mra. Fink had dropped into ‘s flat one flight’ below. “Ain't it'a beauty?" said Mrs. Ca» bei She turned her face proudly for & friend Mrs. Fink to see. One eye ‘Was, nearly closed, with a great. 4 oruise around it. bleeding a little Mrs. Fink capitulated. The formal it in her eye softened to envious admiration. She and Mrs. Cassidy |4 . had been chums in the downtown paperbox factory before they had one year before. Now she “Don't it hurt when he You?” asked Mrs. Fink, curiously. “Hurt!"—Mrs. Cassidy gave a n0- prano scream of delight. “Well, say —did you ever have a brick house fali on you?—well, that’s just the way it feels—just, like when they're digging you out of the ruins. Jack's got a left that spelis two matinees and a new pair of Oxfords—and his right!—well, it taken a trip to Coney and six pairs ofopenwork, dilk lisle threads to make that good.” “But what does he beat you for?” inquired Mrs. Fink, with wide-open “Silly!” said Mrs. Cassidy, indul tly. “Why, because he's full. It's fnerally on Saturday nigh But what cause do you give him?” Persisted the seeker after knowledge. “Why, didn't I marry him? Jack comes in tanked up; and I'm here, Pain't 1? Who else has he got a right to beat? I'd just like to catch him once beating anybody else! Sometimes it's because supper ain't ready; and sometimes it's because it fs. Jack ain't particular about —— He just lushes till he re inbers he’s married, and then he makes for home and does me up. Saturday nights I just move the furniture with sharp corners out of the way, 8) I won't cut my head when he gets his work in. He's got a left swing that jars you! Some times I take the count in the first. sound; but when I feel like having a good time during the week or want fome new rags, | come up again for more punishment. That's what I ‘done iast night. Jack knows I've been wanting a black silk waist for f month, and J didn’t think just one black eye would bring it. Tell you ‘what, Mag. I'll bet you the ice cream he brings it tonight.” Mrs. Fink was thinking deeply . “My Mart,” she said, “never hit me a lick in his Ife, It's fust like you said, Mame; he comes in grouchy and ain't got a word to say. He ver takes me out anywhere, He's chair-warmer at home for fair. He uys me things, but he looks #0 glum (Turn to Last Page, Column 2) Weather and Friday oc- casional rain. Moderate to fresh southwesterly winds, ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 63. Minimum, 51. Today noon, 55. Bloodhounds Pursuing N. P. Safe Crackers at Enumclaw ‘The rough country In the vicinity of Enumciaw is being scoured Thurs BABY IS FOUND MORRISTOWN, Tenn.. Sept. 9.— Spee delightedly in the home of Neal, a business man, a biue- yall baby boy tried to contide nid name to the man who is caring for him, after his rescue here yesterday ony from a strange, dark wo- mpherit? Carrington said today he had information that convinced him the boy is Blakely Coughlin, Norris town, Pa, baby, who was kidnaped in June. He has wired authorities at Nor- ristown. The baby was found yesterday morning in the courthouse yard. The sheriff said the child apparently had traveled some distance and was worn out, for he slept most of the day. From the dark woman who found and tried to comfort him, he fled in terror, but when Homer Long ap peared, all was well. “The baby evidently had been well cared for,” Carrington said today, “but evidently he is not familiar with negroes. It was that that caused me to think he was not @ Southern baby.” No clue has been found as to how the baby came to be on the court yard lawn BOY VICTIM OF POISON NEEDLE Stabbed in the arm by what the police think was 2 “poison needle,” Eric Okker, a school boy, living at 105th st. and Woodland Park ave., staggered into the police station late yesterday and said he “felt queer.” He was rushed to the city hospital, where marks of @ pin prick were found. ‘The pin was thrust into his arm, the boy said, by a man who sat next to him on @ Green Lake car as he was coming down town from his home. ‘The car was almost in the buxi- ness district, he said, when he felt something sharp enter the upper part of bis right arm. He became dizzy and his tongue got thick and “tingly.” ‘The sensation left him, he said, as he got off the car, but returned a half hour later. The police have no theories as to the motive of the “poison needle” wielder. The boy said the man did not try to talk to him, The mayor made it plain On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Bniered as Becond Clase Matter May 2, 1800, at the Pomoffice at Meettia, Wash, ander the Act of Congress March 3, 1619. Por Yeas, by Mail, $6 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1920. Won't You Please Wire to the Governor of California’ DAYS JON KILL THAT BOY YECGMEN | SEN. JONES ERRED, NOT FOR |PEACE, BUT FOR A LONGER AND MORE TERRIBLE WAR Wesley'L. Jones today. How true is that? Jones did not vote for peace. HE VOTED FOR him flip-flop? playing’ politics even on so momentous a question? The truth is that he erred in March because he had not yet been advised of the wrath of the people, of his state over his pro-German attitude. But thousands of protest telegrams and let- ters gave him the political scare of his life—AND HIS “PRINCIPLES OF PEACE” WENT SMASH, were dashed to smithereens, and he voted for war! A fine apostle of peace, indeed! He erred “in behalf of peace,” as HE claims. when he believed it was to his po- litical advantage to do so. He voted for war because he thought it was of politi- cal advantage to do that. Does the state of Wash- ington want a_ political chameleon, who will change and shift, and back water, and dodge, and flip-flop all over the place even on so fateful a matter as peace and war? Nor is this the first time that the senator flip- flopped. He played the chameleon also on the question of keep- ing the United senate free of barter and sale. He voted to oust William Lori- mer and then he voted to him in the senate, aes es debhion teaches had purchased the office. He erred then, too. And he erred on the side df cor- ruption, on the side of crookedness! ing a 1912, to Pontius Pilate. on what side did Jones err then? Does he still regard Roosevelt as a Pontius Pilate, or does he admit error? Does he still defend the theft of delegates or does he repent the error? Erred? Ah, yes, Jones “erred,” but it was not on the side of peace. There couldn’t have been peace until the kaiser was van- quished. Even the German- born in this country very quickly saw that, and they, in common with the rest of the American people, gave of their blood and of their means to down the’ kaiser and Prussianism. SENATOR JONES’ ERROR WAS NOT FOR PEACE, BUT FOR A PROLONGED WAR, IT WAS NOT TO AVOID BLOODSHED, BUT TO MAKE IT MORE TER- RIBLE AND MORE PRO- TRACTED. It was almighty neces- sary, when he erred, for no United States senator to err. It was necessary to show a decided front against the kaiser. A weak front and a vacillating one only en- couraged the kaiser to greater viciousness and to greater contempt of Ameri- can opinion and determina- tion. It was because of Jones’ tactics, and others of his ilk, that the kaiser counted upon a_ divided America, on an impotent and “contemptible” Ameri- Dy You remember that! yer not? HEN REMEMBER JONES! ROY WOLFF, 17, PRAYING FOR PARDON Birthday Draws Near as He; Sits in San Quentin Waiting to Hang SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Sept. | Roy Wolff, former Seattle boy, wik have a birthday on Wednesday, Sept. dangling at the rope's end with a broken neck. Wolff spends the time, as his birth- day draws nigh, reading his Bible and praying, and answering letters from his relatives and from others interested in hix case, and working for commutation of his sentence to life imprisonment. Hundreds of letters arrive now, in the course of a week, all offering en- couragement and comfort. Some of these letters Wolff shares with fellow prisoners. He has giyen a man, a cefi mate, the little Bible which a relative sent to Wolff, and taught him to read it and to pray. “He eaid he had never had a Bible before, but now he has one he is going to know it from start to fin ish,” Roy explains, ring Roy comfort, but the one ng te ae not yet received would bring him more. It is a letter from the gov- ernor of California, W. D. Stephens, offering him commutation of sen- tence, so that he need barge die on October 22, but may spend of his days at toll in oct expi ating hie sin. Wolff's execution date originally was set for September 17. The Seattle Star that, despite their differences in the city campaign, he recognizes the ability, the fighting qualities, and the clean citizenship of Malcolm Douglas, and for that rea- son will support him for county prosecuting attorney. LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Telegram: Seattle, Sept. 9. Hon. W. D. Stephens, State House, Sacramento, Cal. Believing that capital punishment, morally wrong in the case of a man, is doubly criminal in the case of a minor child, The Seat- tle Star, on behalf of Roy Wolff's former neighbors and acquaintances in the state of Washington, re- spectfully requests that you commute the boy's death || sentence to life tmprison- ” ‘The Seattle Star. IN RAT FILLED PRISON. Training Ship Commander Is Accused of Cruelty; Probe Ordered Sensational developments are em just “What Will YOU Do? the sorrowing COPS TESTIFY IN ‘RED’ TRIAL Members of the police “red squad” testified Thursday to finding “red” pamphiets in the possession of Wil- But on}Ham Cunningham, alléged radical representations that Wolff had not! leader, now on trial in Judge John received a fair hearing before the|H. Jurey's court for criminal syn- juvenile court at Bakersfield, Gov, | dicalism. Stephens reprieved the boy until Oc tober 22, to give time for an impar-| Murderer and Pal tial investigation of the facts sur- rounding the shooting. The revulsion of feeling regarding the case has been remarkable. Escape From Cells SAN React. Sept. 9.—Police and deputy sheriffs today are hunt- When Wolff murdered Bert Greer |ing for George Lewis, a convicted in the desert near Bakersfield the| murder, and Ernest Shafer, peculiar cruelty of his methods caused great indignation in that sec tion against him. This is now balanced by a steady propaganda fostered by those who believe he was not given the benefit of the juventle law of the state, and by others who revolt at the thought of hanging a 17-year-old boy. Wolff was riding with Greer across the desert, Under some pretext he went to the rear seat. There he found a hammer. With the hammer he struck Greer repeatedly over the head, fracturing the skull, Then he dumped the dying man out upon the hot sand and left him. He later said Greer begged for water, He explained he wanted Greer’s automobile and so committed the crime. Those aiding Wolff urged that he was not given proper hearing in the juvenile court at Bakersfield. It also is maintained that he was mentally irresponsible at the time of the crime, and perhaps has not re- covered. In Bakersfield the feeling still is strong against Wolff. Mrs. Greer, the widow, and District Attorney Dorsey, together with one of the jurors of the trial, have joined in sen- tenced for burglary, who escaped last night by “human fly” fashion from the sixth tier cell of the branch county jail No. 1. AT IN FIRE r STOPS TRAFFIC DENVER, Sept. 9.—The fat was in the fire last night, when traffic was blocked for an hour while four hose companies extinguished a blaze in a@ restaurant. An overheated grease flue had exploded,” Seattleites Go Bail in Dope Law Case TACOMA, Sept. 9.—The names of Warren H. Stetson, wealthy Seattle !umberman, and his wife, Mrs. Dor- othy L, Stetson, apepar on the $1,000 bail bond filed in feedral court here today for the reelase of Frank H. Adams, of Seattle, who is facing a charge of violating the opium law. The Stetsona also filed an affidavit asserting they are heavy stockhold- era in the 8Stetson Post Lumber company and Stetson Machinery works, of Seattle, Information charging operation urging the governor not to commute|of a still was filed in the federal the sentence. court Thursday against P. Mazzone, Mra. O. B, Lockwood, Los Angeles|his wife Mary, and J. Giordano, clubwoman, ts one of the California A similar charge was entered persons working for young Wolff's] against the names of George Ringer, (Turn to Page 8, Columm 3) Art Ringer and Ronald Woodruff. a suit for $26,000 damages against Captain Eckhard. Another ods used by get food into his cell. “The jail was located in a large building,” the cadet explained. “Full. ington had the run of the building. the five days he spent in jail. Fruit was passed to him thru the bars. We saw the natives carving up two dead dogs which were used in thelr native “cow cow” dish.” Eight cadets resigned trom the ship in sympathy with Fullington. Four were persuaded to return to the vessel. The rest are still in the islands, FOUR CADETS THERE AWAITING TRIAL The four cadets still there are Ed. ward Haasman, Seattle; B. Henly, Tacoma, a ‘cadet named Whitehead and Cadet Fullington. The four who returned to the vessel were, Ed Henry, West Seattle; H. F. and H. E. Rowland, both of Zilla, and Joseph Pregent, Seattle, Attorneys E.°H. Guile, 703 Leary building, a member of the state legis: lature, and Thomas Swale, state president of the American Legion, have taken up the case of the cadeta, “There certainly were many dis crepancies during the cruise,” ex- plained Attorney Guie Thursday, “that need investigation. I have been requested to take up the work by the parents of a number of the cadets. They all,ask for the removal of Captain Eckhardt. CADETS SAY LIQUOR WAS ABOARD “This cruise wasn’t a naval af- fair, as the cadets each paid $155. They were privileged to resign whenever they saw fit. They should have been treated like gentlemn, Then there is the little affair of two cases of liquor, labeled “English Jam,” taken aboard in Rritish Colum- bia waters and deposited in one of the officers’ rooms, which needs in- vestigating.” Several cadets told of seeing bot tles of liquor aboard, Captain J, F, Gibson, chairman of the commission, declared that there (Turn to Page 8, Column Q