The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 21, 1920, Page 4

NG OF ROY WOLFF "PROTESTED Entire Pacific Coast Aroused Over Proposed Execution of Boy Murderer BY MAX STERN SAN QUENTIN, Cal, Sept. 21.— Roy Wolff, former Seattle boy . is hanged on October 22 Will have been the youngest felon executed in the United States, ing only Chas, Osman, 17, of Angeles, hanged in 1916, Governor Stephens of California the power to halt the hanging, commuting the boy's sentence to for life From the four corners of Califor and from Washington, where his its live, storm of protest the coming execution in pour tm upon the governor demand that the state ehall not hang a boy. PROTESTS BAKERSFIELD Out of Bakersfield, where the of Elmer Greer, taxi-<triver, young Wolff a year ago caused passion of indignation, it is true, comes no plea for clenrency Attorney J. R. Dorsey has the governor that the youth d the mind of a depraved ani is entitled to no pity from sentimentalists.” But in Los Angeles the case has such reaction that an in fs being launched to wipe punishment off the state's coee |, To get Wolffs story I was sent Star to San Quentin prison, he is spending what may be Jast days of his youth. Young Wolff is the son of Ger and French farmer parents in Wash. one of a family of chikiren. He is stocky, blunt, ‘ and slow of speech. His passion is for mechanics. “Just | & tough kid,” the guards said as walked across the prison be interviewed. He may be pg for he has a court But there no bravado << his speech. He ted me frankly in the eye when told his story, and when he te of the dally letter from his his slow amile was not at iM “hardboiled. “I didn’t murder Greer for his ns” he said. “I didn’t mean to him. I meant to beat him up. ‘3 came down from Yakima to work my brother at Taft in the oil [ie Caltersin. “I got a job in a garage. A spe policeman of one of the of} com. had me arrested for stealing Suto. I didnt steal it, and I adquitted. _ “But his friend, Greer, was sore time, and got me fired. I got an- Job, and he got me fired from He was always picking on “Finally I got so sore I decided to him up. I dressed up, and got to take me out in his car to bly thought I was a Mexican. was sitting in the back seat, and awfully nervous. Three times I dropped my cap out of the to make him stop and get out ater beat him up. He didn't I got wild then and hit the head with a hammer ir the seat. stumbled out of the able to stand up, and I thought I had only way down below the left the car in plain sight I took the train for and when I got home my showed me the paper that told of the murder. I went to the 4m the road and refused to give him ‘water when he called for it. Greer’s Widow has joined Dorsey in urging ‘the death penalty, _GAFE DANCER IN COLLAPSE As Elsie Merters, 20, entertainer the Breakers cafe, First ave. and Cherry st., was dancing with Robert ae sailor, at 12:30 this morn. she suddenly collapsed and fell that some enemy of had put poison in her Moffat summoned Patrolman Charles Whiting, who had her re Moved to city hospital. Hospital attendants who pumped out her stomach, branded it alcd- hholic poisoning from too much ‘booze. She will recover. ‘The girl lives with a married ais- ter at 1411 Boylston ave. Moffat is seaman, first class, on — U. 8. & Mississippi, at Bremer- - Norwegian Consul Back From Europe Thomas H. Kolderup, Norwegian vice consul at Seattle, has returmed to his home after a trip to Feypt and European countries with his wife and child. He attended the Olympic games in Ant Ported living expenses than in the United States in spite of the advanced prices there, Coast Guards Seek - Body Dead Woman MILWAUKEE, Win., Sept. 21.— Coast guard crews today were searching the lake off Milwaukee harbor for the nude body of a wo- Man sighted late yesterday by @ fish- erman’s tug returning here. It was thought the body was possibly that - wg Anna Mitchell Jones, wite the president of the Chicago Dill Pickle club, drowned near Racine re- | conttgh Wan thelr sailboat capsized. MiracleC ops Quickly Cure ‘Deaf Mutes’ Money-Getting Pair Talk Before They Think to Detectives STUNG! ‘This means Howard J. Kelley, John McDonald, H. L, Mead, 1H. B. MeGowan, Ora D. Bull, Carl Olstad, O. A. Penny, Earl C. Johns and sev. eral persons who signed only their initials when they contributed to the campaign fund of Earl J. Wilson, 18, and Bart Lynch, 26. Wilson and Lynch proposed to raise funds to start a cleaning and pressing shop, they alleged. Hore is their circular: “DEAF MUTES “Would kindness prompt you to assist me, as I have lost both speech and hearing by # bad at- tack of scarlet fever and fu. I am trying to raise sufficient funds to start a cleaning and pressing shop, and would kindly appreciate any help you may give me as I have an aged mother and «mall sister to sup- port, as my brother was wound- ed overseas, “I thank you. Ear! Mils.” “What you fellows doing?” said Detective A. A. Brown, as he and Detective 1. C. Harris saw Wilson and Lynch getting subscribers. “Nothin’,” replied Wilson, and a man who had just subscribed 60 cents and signed himself J. A. gasped and nearly swooned to note the deaf hear and the mute speak. Wilson and Lynch's scheme brought them many dollars to buy Rarcotica, the detectives my, SHIPYARD CASES ARE DiSMISSED ‘The four remaining cases tn the/° | United States district court agninst Northwest shipbuilders were dis missed Monday afternoon upon re ceipt of telegraphic instructions from Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Saturday « federal fury acquitted the seven defendants In the first of the shipyard cases, that against the Grays Harbor Motorsntp corporation and Capt. W. A. Magee and A. R. Hunt, former officers of the United States Emergency Fleet corporation. After the verdict waa returned, Ben L. Moore, special representative of the attorney general, and associate prosecutor with Bert I. Schlesinger, wired a report and request for in- structions to Washington. In his reply to Moore, Attorney Geperal Palmer expresses regret at the outcome of the case, and adds i} atance of the shipping board has re- that “the department is mtisfied that Schlesinger and yourself did all that could be done by representatives of the government, and your faithful efforts are highly appreciated.” After the order of nolle proequi had been signed by Federal Judge Neterer, Prosecutors Moore and Schlesinger stated that “when view- ed from a mere dolla? and cents standpoint, the Investigation under taken by the government at the In- sulted In a net saving to the govern- ment of large sums of money.” They declared further that dismia sal of the pending cases in this dis- trict “does not mean that the gov- ernment will relax its efforts to pro- tect itself against payment of false claims.” The siate te now wiped clean as far as the following men are con cerned: Phillips Morrison, president of the Seaborn Shipyards company; Capt. W. A. Magee, former official of the Emergency Fleet corporation; H. F. Ostrander and C. N. Seaborn, officials of the Seal company, and Capt. John F. in, former Northwest district manager for the Emergency Fleet corporation. Attorney Schlesinger left for his headquarters in San Francisco Tues day morning. Hubby Throws Wife’s Lawyer Down Stairway Attorney Jack Sommers filed one suit in superior court Tuesday in which he certainly had his heart in hie work. The complaint was for the divorce ot Mrs. Helene Hedrick, a client, against Zanoni J. Hedrick, husband of Mra. Hedrick. It is because of Hedrick that Sommers !s peeved. The Hedricks did battle last Satur. day night, and the wife, after being beaten up, according to the com- plaint, was thrown out of her home. She sought the ald of Sommers, who went with her the next day to her home for her clothing. Hedrick, con- siderabiy heated, awaited them. “What's what?” he scowled. “We've come for Mrs. Hedrick's clothes,” explained Sommers. Hed. rick is said to have made several un- complimentary remarks as he threw the good attorney down the front steps. warrant charging third degree as sault issued against Hedrick. Hedrick is said to have a terrible temper, Seattle Woman Flyer Off With Wanderwell Miss Elizabeth Lewis, Seattle avia- trix and one of the few women holding a flying license issued by the Aero Club of America, left last night for Vancouver to join the Wanderwell World Tour as corre spondent for the party. The pur- pose of the tour is to take trav- elogue motion pictures, and after two weeks in Seattle they have gone to Vancouver and will sail for Sydney, Australia, in about a month. Connecticut Senate Ratifies Suffrage HARTFORD, Conn., Sept. 21.— The Connecticut senate again‘ today ratified the federal woman suffrage amendment. This action was taken because the legality of the first vote of ratification at a special session last week was questioned. The house today also again ratt- fied suffrage, 194 to 9, Sommers tmmediately had a/ CAR HITS HIM BOOZE SPILLS Terrible “Casualty” as Ma- chine Bumps Alleged Toper The most serious casualty, when the auto of Nicholas Bogoiaviensky, Russian consul general, hit Abra ham Lundquist, 45, at Bighth ave, and Olive st Monday night, was 4 loged to have had in his pocket was broken and the precious fluid wasted on the pavement. Paasers by lingered long at the acene of the accident Tuesday, it was reported to police, Another sensational angte of the accident was the admiadon of Lund. quit, “It was my fault, IT am not hurt,” he sald tersely, in making hia report of the accident Mr, Bogolavtensky reported that Lundquist paid no heed to the auto and allowed himself to be hit. Nick Zanidin, 1100 Third ave, Witnensed the accident. “Lundquist was very much under the Influence of liquor.” he report: et “The auto knocked him 20 feet. He Ut right on his face, I am sure surprised to see him here unhurt-- expected to find him at the morgue.” The report closes with the brief remark, “Lundquist t# still decidedty stewed.” Bogoiaviensky lives at 2623 Roylgton ave, Lundquist at 1925 Boren ave DRY OFFICIAL DIES IN AUTO LODI, Cal, Sept 21.—Lering A Handiey, federal prohibition en forcement officer for California, and pool be = leading democratic poll the state, was instantly willed Bay midnight last night when an automobile in which he was riding rofied Into a ditch near Lodi Handiey was en route to Sacra mento to preside at the democratic — Repotiomory today when the ac- Handley had been premiere a po Mental and moral phili- osophy at Emporia college, Em- poria, Kana, and later was profes sor of philosophy at Occidental college, Los Angeles, CALDWELL KILLS 2 ORDINANCES ‘Two ordinances were “killed” by Mayor Caldwell Tuesday, when he returned the bille without his signa ture. Roth pieces of legislation called for deficiency appropriations. One of the ordinances authorized the board of public works to pur- chase an ambulance for the city hos pital. It involved an appropriation of $7,000, The second bill appropriated ap proximately $2,000 from the general fund to pay state industrial insur ance premiums for members of the engineer's department. A penalty of 25 per cent is provided for the delny- payment of the insurance ac count, according to according to oity offict officials, Pershing’s Nephe Nephew Weds in St. Louis! - ST. LOUIS, Sept 21—Captain R. D. Haddock, of Dallaa, Texas, nephew of General Pershing, and Miss Doris Johnston, daughter of a Prominent St. Louts family, were married at the bride's sume here a | yeaterday. Husky Men ire "Eating Salads ‘They Ave Also Eating Rich Pastry and Highty Seasoned Feeds ‘That CaN for Stuart's Dyapepata Tablets. In the bie palatial reataurants of ee citien, thelr princ’ t ronage comes visitors. | rom the out-of-town No lunch counter sand- pat A4 wiches for them. They like the entrees, salads, rich pastry and a |cup of black coffee with rich cream. | This combination in likely over- crowd the stomach, to caus seldity with sour risings. tresses due to in sia. Wherever you se the U. or Ci Dyevepe @ box. ry an th at the same time help Your Eyes Ezomined and Glasses Fitted—Broken Lenses Duplicates A Credit to Seattle To have Optical service such as we give to our patients. Drop in any day and have your eyes axam ined—it may be the day that will save your eye sight from future trouble. J 1404 Third Avenue SEXTON BROS. bottle of moonshine Lindquist ts ab | it) Soya? gag THE SEATTLE STAR -|Rust and Dust Settle Down on Police Station Sabbath somnolent atilinens steeped Seattic Tuesday morning.) had tintypes and chowder with such episodes, Coney as we loved it, and Nota settled on the boltter, The wheels of the patrol wagon began to cake For from 2 a m te 0:15 a. m, not ap arrest was made in this populems eity of 315 and some-odd thoumnd peop. 4 Mot @ ceut of ball nor One trickled tnte the city’s coffers, 2-YEAR-OLD IS BADLY SCALDED Falls Into Pail of Steaming Suds Bealied by his mother’s bucket of | steaming suds, Phillip Car, 2, was in serious condition at the home of his father, Robert Carr, 7011 16th ave N. B, Tuesday. Mra Carr set the bucket of boiling water in the kitehen while abe went out in the back yard. A lew minutes later, she heard a child's screams and hastened in, to find her baby writhing In the over turned pail of water, He was badly scalded on the legs and back. He was playing with Rete Mateland, 5, & neighbor's child, at the time of the accident. Lots of them was feedin’ Into the slot machines to see terrupted Courtship’ in the pictures; enjoyin’ the moonlight played and the sea pounded base drum in front. “And directly I got up and waa a alip of @ girl sittin’ aliar she was there, all alone. eryin’ by about itt Denny Carnahan,’ 4 D a \S ) ay <4 § ON of the most surprising reversals of opinion ever known in the history of shaving has suddenly come about. In the past four months—since the introduction of the new Gil- lette razor, the BIG FELLOW— ‘more men have given up the old- | fashioned way of shaving for the |Gillette habit than in any similar period of time heretofore. Many of them, men who had always looked upon the safety feature of the Gillette as its only Canadian Factory: New York 73 St. Alexander St. Chicago Montreal, Norah Miynn sat on that spot Inst summer, “Twas before reform struck the island; and we was bappy. ind the Egyptian Sores of flats and the things she could | cook and the love business that goes And that was hand of Satan was upon it, friendly and noisy and your money's Worth, with no fence around the ocean and not too many electric lights to show “1 mat with my back to the parks where they had the moon and the dreama and the steeples corralled, and longed for the old Coney, There wasn't many people on the beach. and a good many was takin’ the air in the Canals of Venice and some waa breathin’ the mamoke of the sea battle by actual war ships, in « tank filled with real water: A tow was down on the sands and water. And the heart of me was! heavy for the new morals of the old inland, while the bands behind me along the old pavilion, and there on other wide of, half tn the dark, tumbledown timbers, and unless I'm “Tt it trouble you are tn, now, Mins,’ says 1, ‘and what's to be done “Tis none of your business at all, says sho, sittin’ up straight. And it was the voice of no other than Norah Flynn. Gill “Then it's not,’ says I, ‘and we're after havin’ a pleasant evening, Mise Flynn, Have ye seen the nights of this new Coney Island, then? I pre sume ye have come here for that We in the vent. had, I've seen all the attractions self among-the most lnughable moral improvement of the revised shell games I took monelf to the whore for the benefit of the cool air. ye observe the Durbar, Mins F “'L did,’ says she, reflectin’; ‘tia not mafe, I'm thinkin’, down them slantin’ things into the they pretty?’ “They ar eyes shinin’; bands playin’? as the "but to ride ank vam, the sleeve of @ black serge coat | water’ says, to her. Phong of was threatened With | seninst a white shirtwaist, “How ald ye fancy the shoot the chutes” I asks. of madness he wants, “"True, then, I'm afraid of guns,’ says Norah, ‘They make much noise in my ears, But Uncle Tim, he shot them, he did, and won cigars. ‘Tis o fine time we had this day, Mr. Carnahan,’ “‘I'm glad you've enjoyed yernelt,’ 1 nays, ‘1 suppose you've had a roarin’ fine time seein’ the sights And how did the incubators and the helter-nkelter and the midgets suit the taste of yer’ “‘LI waan't hungry,’ says Norah, faint. ‘But mother ate quantity of all of ‘em, I'm that pleased with the fine things in the new Coney Island,’ gays she, ‘that it's the happiest day I've seen in a long time, at all.’ “ "Did you see Venice? says 1. “"We did," anys she. ‘Bhe was a beauty. She was all dreesed in red, she was, with— “I latened no more to Norah Flynn. I stepped up and I gathered her in my arms. “Tia a storyteller ye are, Norah Flynn,’ says I. ‘Ye've seen no more of the greater Coney Inland than I have menelf, Come, now, tell the truth—ye came to nit by the old pavilion by the waves where you sat last surnmer and made Dennis Car Next Sunday, pennies the ‘In movin’ mail San the McGrath, Claude E. on the cisco, John J, walked on the herself m, Tuesday. at $15,000. destruction. shave with a safety razo advantage and one that they did not require of a razor. There was something about the Big Fellow, the Gillette with the longer handle and heavier head, that appealed to them the instant they saw its size and felt its weight and balance. And the men who used to think they couldn’t shave with a safety razor are making the Gillette Big Fellow their particular razor—and the fastest selling razor that has ever been placed on the market uUCa London Madrid Paris Brussels Amsterdam Sydney Geneva Shanghai Cons: Quebec San Francisco Milan Copenhagen Buenos Aires Singapore Port E! nahan a happy man. tell the truth.’ “Norah stuck her nose against me turning my back to the sea—‘ain’t says Norah, with her I'd lke to see it all.’ “ "The old Coney is gone, darlin’ I When a man’s glad it’s not scenes nee the new place from end to end.” To Speed UpM Seattle to Frisco| For the purpose of improving the service between Seattle and) Francisco, held Monday in the offices of Ed- ward McGrath, superintendent railway mail service here. thowe in attendance were Slater, superintendent of railway mail service at San Fran- Burke, chief clerk of | the San Francisco office, and Albert | 8. Rand, chief clerk of the .railway mail service office at Portland, Medina Schoolhouse Destroyed by Fire Despite the fact that the fire was discovered early, the Medina school | ach. house, acrons Lake Washington, was completely destroyed by fire at 1 a The loans is estimated Lack of fire fighting equipment was responsible for the ette Calcutta TUESDAY, SEPTEMEER 71, 1998 Speak up, and Hatch in Darkness Criminals, crooks and cops took | bald dives, y purpose,’ says I. “'T dewpine it, Denny.’ she mays, —— & rest. Indigo ink dried up in the |FeMs of the Nile told Norah out of (PUTO AM we ate mother [Malt cryin’ ‘Mother and Uncle ‘Tim| When he fell down the hatch of woll at the booking office. Dust| her hand, while T was waitin ro seed and Uncle Tim they are waiting be.| Went to see the shows, but I came! the steamship Springfield, at Pier B, door, that "twould be the luck of her | *Ne ees ne a eant evening rye {ion here to think of you. I| Monday night, W. D. Schutt, 40, of to marry a redheaded gossoon with 7 bd couldn't bear the lights and the, 6708 29th ave, 8., fractured his skull. | two crooked legs, and I was over). i.) crowd. Are you forgivin’ me, Denny,| He died a few minutes later. Schutt | runnin’ with joy on account of the |‘ for the words we had? was working as longshoreman on the Jallusion. And ‘twas there that! “‘Right ye are,’ mys I to Norah:| “erway me fault, says 1. ‘I came| ship. The body was taken to the Norah Fiynn put her two hands injand I don't know when I've been) here for the same reason meself.| morgue. mine a year before and we talked| that amused. After disportin’ me|rook at the Hghts, Norah, I says, day morning, will be buried in ‘and do ye hear the|Issaquar cemetery Wednesday af- Oh, Denny, I think |ternoon. Services will be at 8 o'clock. ‘Everything moves. “Tin a greater on Norah dariin’, we'll responsible in most cases. that control the digestive proc is well worth trying if you have on the stomach, sour risings in throat, a feeling of weakness in stomach and palpitation of the a conference was of Besides nerves, whatever the caune. Medicine Co., Schenectady, N. Y. the free: book, “What to Eat How to Bat.” a a can The man who thinks he > Boston Rio de Janeiso tinople Tokyo lizabets LONGSHOREMAN DIES IN FAL Plunges Thru Ship’s Open WILBUR W. SYLVESTER, Isse- quah banker, who died there Mom /EXCESSIVE MEAT EATI Coney we have here, but we couldn't} noo it till we got in the humor for it, eating or defective nerve force is the Cutting down the amount of meat in your dict and taking @ course of treatment with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills to strengthen the weak nerves Vee Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills are recom — mended for thin blood and weak Send today to the Dr. Williame and pe sity rs if il