The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 5, 1920, Page 7

BANDIT IS RECAPTURED Man Who Escaped From Roof of Courthouse Is ka California Pen Joseph Lanik, highwayman, rob- der and gunfighter, wh¢ was cap tured here more than 4@ year ago after a desperate battlg with police and who escaped in June, 1919, by crawling thru p hole the gourthouse skylight, las turned Up serving a term in Fokom pent tentiary, California, it wa learned today. Lanik entered Folsom if Septem der, 1919, under sentence to serve one year to life imprisonpent for the crime of robbery in tt state He was not known there by the mame of Lanik, having wed the @lias Seheo, but the “long arm of the fingerprint system" préved his Mndoing. WAS TRACED BY FINGERPRINTS Yesterday Deputy Sheriff Ralph | Hammer received from Foltm of: ficials a telegram with the news that Lanik, or Seheo, was alput to) Bo before the board of pri@n di- rectors there on a petition for a The) its had been taken in this @ty. Hammer wired back that he was ‘@ fugitive from this state, where he is wanted for alleged robbery and for breaking custody. This hfor mation, it is belleved, will hal ef. forts looking towards his reltase. -§ & iF the record here to Walla Walla (p 191| te and a half years to 10 . After his release he k to this city and was the act of robbing a jiw- 1.2 z be aa § i > a ; j Policemen Claude Rix and FE. B. Oaks surprised him at the job, itis aid. Lanik resisted arrest by firt) @ fusillade of revolver bullets at @fficera, but was captured. ‘Taken from the county jail to tip for hearing before b ourt on June 28, 1919, Lanik Placed in a cell tn room 317 and left standing outside the door the case was called and the a the door Lanik was had raised a section o: it, crawled onto the root his way to a fire es Search was still being made’ when word came that he Folsom. CITY LINEMAN DIES IN FALL Live Wire on Pole iene a Ernest O. Marsh, 49, lineman in/ employ of the city light depart t, was fatally tjured When he fell from the top of & tele Phone pole at 40th ave. and E. Olive! He died tn city hospital from | ot fractured skull several hours later. Marsh is believed to have received | & shock while working on the wires at the top of the pole. He lived at 3007 ave. W., and ix wurvived by a wife, Mrs. Jean Marsh, a 7-year- 014 daughter, Bonnie, two brothers, Ivan and Harry Marsh, all of Seat- tle, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. Marsh, and a sister, Mra. 8. itney, of Puyallup. the} he will be brought to Seattle} inday | | Frances Denton, a demure) school girl of 17 years, is one of the central figures in the mystery of the murder of Ja-| cob C. Denton, wealthy re- tired mining man. his first wife from whom he jwas divorced, His second wife died. Frances and her mother, Denton’s first wife, were re- | sponsible for the search which led to the finding of Dentan's body. The girl had attorneys at Phoeniz, Ariz., where she was in school, investigate father. FIRE RAGING IN GRAND JUNCTION, Colo., Oct. 5 —Fire which originated in a lumber yard here late last night was still raging early today, and the entire west end of the efty waa threatened All available fire equipment was in use, and volunteers were aiding fire- men, Several railroad cars loaded with coal were blazing in the yards, ae were the coal piles along the tracks. Two large lumber yards were de stroyed first, the fire starting: in one of these, immediately following two | Police believe the fire | explosions. was of incendiary origin. ests at Dinner; Thieves Get Cash \ While guests were eating dinner fi the hothe of Mre. er, 162 Newton st, Monday night, cou éntered the house and stole tvo pocketbooks, One belonged to a Mrs. Richardson, 4230 Bagley ave., aad the other to Mra. CS Calquhoun, 6207 16th a i two purses contained $24. Prosecutor Hunts for Attell et al BEW YORK, Oct. 5.—District At torpey Swann said today he was still huating for Abe Attell and other | gastblers he wants to question with regird to the 1919 world series, al legal to have been “fixed.” Vi. J. Fallin, Atteti’s lawyer, said his client was not in hiding, but he saw no reason he should call on Swann. HAVING SI SERVED his 15-months’ sentence for forging the name of August Lucht on a $20 postal sav Bonney‘Watson Co. is making! ingt certificate, Herman Lucht was funeral arrangements. —————______________ released from’ McNeils on October 3 She is Denton’s daughter by | when she failed to receive) shews,! regular remittances from her GRAND JUNCTION Eugene Web-| Murder Disbovery for Three Months LOS ANGELES, Oct. 5,—This city has produced the nation’s first lquor | cellar horror! The body of Jacob C. Denton, wealthy retired mining man, and fig | ure of mystery, wag found tn a crude vault of his own mansion, the more | intimation that it housed liquor hav ing been sufficient to keep curious | eye or prying hand from the cellar | chamber with {te ghastly tenant for three months after his disappearance, The Denton murder scheme was based on the assumption that a man's Uquor vault is generally accepted as an inviolable sanctum, The fact that members of the household, tenants | and workmen did so regard it, tests fies to the killer's comprehension of \" “cellar” ethics, In attempting to solve the mystery of Denton's death, the police face a | new and clever idea, made posible by | the prohibtiion act, a new and clever born in the brain of a real think er, a new and clever idea which the police in all parts of the country will now learn they will have to consider In ferreting out crime, The liquor cellar, the butt of many ljokes, the pride of the millionaire who cached away rare old vintages, | also the boast of the just-well-todo man who was able to get at least a little liquor stowed away—thin same liquor ‘tellar has meant to the mind | of the criminal a new place in which to conceal his victims. | The body of Denton, hidden three months, was in such condition that difficun, but no trace of violence could be found; the cause of death could not be determined, and as a re sult the police were sreatly handicap- ped in tr clues, The murder raises the question, what other grim secrets may be seal ed away in liquor cellars? What may persons going to their Wquor caches for the first time ina long while expect to see there? Ghastly sights #uch as was pre sented to the detectives who broke | into the “liquor cellar” of the Den: ton murder mansion and found a hu earth? The Uquor cellar ts the hiding place de luxe. Neither federal agents nor police are allowed to go Into a collar without definite evidence of bootlegging, @nd in many cases the location or existence of the cache ts net known to some members of the household of servanta, on account of the value placed on the contents. In the Denton house, workers of. ten went into the cellar to fix the water heater and make other repairs. | but it was seen to that they did not | tamper with the “liquor bin.” || Co-Eds to Take Long Sleep Now || ‘There is much kissing and many tears of happiness Tuesdhy on sorority row at the University of Washington, Sixtéen sorort ties pledged 185 new sisters and now for the first time since col lege started last week, the coeds can get some sleep, do a little studying and resume routine col lege Ufo as near normal as it is poagible under present-day trying collegiate conditions, PARIS.-Sadi French aviator, Lecointe, famous and winner of James Gordon Bennett airplane race at Etampes, coming to United States to race fliers here. NEW YORK Patrons of Lennor cafe robbed of $5,000 by six masked men. Touring Car or Roadster $1385 Delivered to You! Appearance SHIELDS-LIVENGOQD MOTOR COMPANY Phone East 100. SEATTLE YAKIMA a 1024 East Pike St., Seattle. SPOKANE |“Liquor Courtesy” Delays) not only was actual identification | man foot protruding from a pile of| THE SEATTLE STAR BY GEORGE B. WATERS WASHINGTON, Oct. b.—Like a “iy to hop on a mouse, the al revenue bureau is all set, ready to nab not only Chicago base ball players found guilty of crooked: but also the gambiers alleged ve bribed th “Confidence and defrauding tame charges compared to those the Internal revenue bureau may make, “if the things charged in Chi- en are true. \« RAVE POSSIBILITIES TAX PRODE Wiltally ment of its conspiracy are all 10m, suckers,” defraudiag the govern: evenues, making falxe income returns, willful failure 40 report income at its source, al! these grave allegntions are awalt- |ing the principals in the baseball |neandal, The indicted players are, Cleotte, Jackson, Weaver, Risbers, Gandil, MeMullin, Felsch and Will | tans. | For | gave K. instance, if Abe Attell Vv. Cleotte, the Sox $10,000 as a bribe, he | that rher, id have reported directly to Daniel ©. Roper, former revenue commissioner here, that he had paid the bribe. William M. Williams is now the comminsioner, Up at ¢th and B, building A, | wing 6, im an office called the “sorting division.” To that office j|the revenue commissioner sends || HERE’S MORE ABOUT CAR LINES STARTS ON PAGE ONE operation of the municipal railway lig endeavoring to do something that |no privately-owned utility corpora |tien could do, was amwerted by the | mayor. | WILL OWN SYSTEM WITHOUT INVESTING IN IT "During the 18 years we will have charged off the entire value of the lines and at the past and present rate will have put back into the lines jin upkeep and maintenance $21,8! 552, and besides this will have re tired our entire capital «tock of | $15,000,000 (or $17,235,000) and the corporation of Seattle will then own and be operating a completely equip tem and will not have a dollar tn vested In it, the same having been ped and rehabilitated street car sys | paid for and turned over to the city by the car line patrona” Caldwell declared that the charge of $12,000,000 for depreciation, as computed by state officials, was far too high orros OF JIT: PROHIBITION vs as being opponed to their total prohi bition. “I consider that the welfare of the | city cannot and will not be served by | stifling all other forme of transpor | tation for the next 18 years,” he said " “Unless the city can offer some form of rapid transportation tn Ieu | of the jitneys, it should not abolish | them merely to increase the revenues | of the street car lines.” BRITAIN SENDS SOVIET ORDERS LONDON, Oct. 6-—A seven-page ultimatum containing certain de- mands with regard to release of war prisoners held in Russia and cenna tion of Bolshevik propaganda, has been sent tp Mosdow by Earl Curzon, foreign minister, it was learned to day. An answer in asked before Monday Continuation of relations between the British government and the Krassin trade mission now in Lon don is said to depend upon accept ance of the demands RUSSIANS RIOT AGAINST SOVIET LONDON, Oct. 5. —More anti-Soviet demonstrations have broken out tn Russia, according to dispatches. to| the Post today. Advices from Riga said there were riots in Tamboff, Saternoff and Kazan. In sending soldiers to quell the roters the Soviet government was) embarrassed by the shortage of man | power, due to the continued pound- ing of the enemy on the Polish and Ukrainian fronta. Leon Trotsky, head of the Rus- sian war department, is trying to lash his men on, according to quota- tions from the Soviet paper, Isvestia, “Big Bill” Haywood Conviction Upheld CHICAGO, Oct.456.—The United) States court of appeals for the Chi | cago district today upheld the con viction of “Big Billi" Haywood and 93 other 1. W. W.’'s on charges grow- jing out of alleged violation of war- time acta. Inqutring Reporter. y TODAY’S QUESTION What ts your favorite ag ANSWERS CHARLES P. MORIARTY, L, C. Smith building—Just at present I) favor “The Wearin’ of the Green.” MISS BETTY M’MICKEN, 1107 | Denny way—What an odd questio {1 think I like “Just Like a Gypsy” as well as any of the popular songs. PETER LEWIS, 128 Harvard ve. —‘The Star-Spangled Banner” makes an awful hit with me. EDWARD 8, FRANKLIN, 1126) 19th ave. N.—How'do you get that Ks Have you heard the new song called, “Oh, Mother, I'm W—ild?" “B. TROUTMAN, 1427 B. Pike st— What? I don't know. “Bill Bailey” is @ good song, | posed to give him. | Chicago bookmakers ‘COL. ROBINS U.S. Tax these reports called “returns of in- formation.” If Abe didn't repdrt $10,000, the fact can be de termined by looking thru @ card index for his name PENALTY 18 8T FOR VIOLATORS The law says: “All persons mak ow ing payments to another person of | fixed or determinable income of $1,000 or more in a taxable year, must render a return to the com missioner for the preceding calen dar year on or before March 15 of each year.” Another article of the regulations says: “If the failure ls willful, or an attempt is made to defeat or evade the tax, the offender is liable to imprisonment and to a fine of not more than $10,000 and costs, and the tax and 50 Guilty Ball Players May FaceCharges of Dodging BORAH WON'T QUIT HARDING Wants to See G. 0. P. Can-| didate Win BY RAYMOND CLAPPER MARION, Ohio, Oct. 6.—All doubt as to treaty irreconcilables standing | behind Senator Harding vanished to day with publication thru headquar ters here of a m from Senator Borah of Idaho pledging himself to work for election of the republican ticket and defeat of the league of na- tions. “In view of reporta, I wish you to know my speeches in future will be ‘along same lines as at Daribury and in the wenate,” Borah wired. “I jwant you to win and I want to see the league scheme"defeated. In my own way I shall devote my time to the achievement of beth proposl- ona,” | This telegram was designed by Borah to set at rest rumors that he intends to desert the stump, Senator Hiram Johnsonaccording to his lat per cent additional may be col- lected. There are other ad valorem penalties.” Every bribe given shonid have been reported twice, both by the giver and receiver, The ball play- erm who received the bribes should have put the amount in their in come tax returns, Of course, there is no way for any one outside of the internal revenue bureau to “know whether this was done, If a highwayman reports an income from his trade of “robbery by firearms” it remains secret as far as the Internal revenue bu- reau is concerned. The procedure in a ease like the Present baseball scandal is for Com- missioner Williams to orter the “returns of information’ and “in- come tax returns” of all the gam- dlers and ball players audited, Or a deputy collector in Chicago or Washington may ie veutigate. | DELINQUENCIES ARE | CAREFUL TRACE: When the commiasioner takes such a matter up, he refers it to the “delinquent tax drive” officials. ‘Their first move is to go to the sorting and income returns di- vinions, At the latter place the duty of telling ther whether the gamblers had filed returns, and for how much, would it to Deputy Commimioner G. V. Newton. If thelr incomes are more than $5,000 for 1919, he would have on file each return as they were made by the men personally in Chicago or wherever they call home. In less than five minutes he can do termine whether Cicotte reported that $10,000 Abe Attell was sup- But if the incomes of the gullty mon were leas than $5,000, or for any reason happened not to be on file In Newton's office, the cases of the ball players would be re Touching upon the question of Jit-| ferred to he revenue collect neyw, Mayor Caldwell went on record| tne district in which they lives * Of course, if the question of where they had filed returns was involved, a deputy collector Renae | fo to the ball players in perso! to find where the return was filed. In the event no return had been filed, the players and gamblers would be in worse than ever. The law specifically provides that gains from Mlegal trans- actions must be reported and an income tax paid on them. Losses In illegal transactions are not deductible from taxable income, but gamblers may de- duct losses from illegal transac- tions from gains from illegal transactions and report the net gains, but they cannot deduct the net losses from other legiti- mate income. The procedure, after it ts learned that falve returns have been made, is to try to collect the tax and penalties, and if they are willful errors, such as these in the base ball scandal, if any, prosecutions would follow, both criminal. and civil, by United States district at torneys. . aia “ Chicagoans Wary of Betting Today CHICAGO, Oct. 6.—DAttle betting on the world series was reported by today. Prac tleally all were wary of making or accepting bets, as a result of the ex pose of the crookedness of the 1919 world series. Many bookmakers, where a bet could always be placed n a ball game heretofore, said they were not accepting a cent on today's game or the result of the series, involved, | ext speeches, is endorsing the stand of Harding on the league. | Senator Harding was working to- day on speeches to be delivered on the Southwestern trip, which starts | tomorrow. HERE IS MORE OF ROY WOLFF || STARTS ON PAGE ONE He has a real inclination toward mechanics and can mend anything that gets out of order around the ranch | “But he has no comprehension of property rights and property values. | When he wants a thing, he goes straight after it. He makes no ef-| fort to cover up his tracks; he does! not count the consequences. He merely moves along the shortest line to gratify his desire for anything hi covets. “A chum of his might want some- thing. Roy would find out and, for) the sake of making his friend happy, he would steal the thing and give it/ to him, He got several innocent | boys into trouble that way. He} couldn't stand to want anything,| himself, and he couldn't stand to see | anyone he liked wanting anything.” HE'S A MORAL IMBECILE, THEY SAY In brief, Hoy Wolff, according to, the testimony of those who know) him best, is a moral imbecile, } Hin mother told me how she ques-| tioned him about the killing of Elmer | Green, P | “He was kind of knocked out,” ehe| said, “when I showed him the newa- paper that sald he was hunted for murder.” Over and over again he said, “Why, I never meant to kill him. I just wanted his car, I had to hit him to get it.” He seemed to| think that explained everything. I learned of an incident illustrat tve of the boy's utter disregard for possessions, his own as well as those of others. A butcher, who was graz- ing some cattle in ‘the hills, gave to Roy @ buckskin pony, in xeturn for | which Roy kept an eye on the stock | when they yed into the valley. | His mother bought him a saddle and| bridle. He loved the pony, and he was a proud and happy youngster. Alaska Airmen Are Returning Slowly’ VANCOUVER, B. C,, Oct. 5.-The four United States army airmen re-| turning from Alas! continue to} work their way slowly across the north country. The leading plane has crossed the Rockies and is at Saskatoon. No. 2, with Lieutenant! Crumrine, left Hazelton for Prince} George, B. C., at noon yesterday.! Lieutenant Knott's car ts still lying damaged at Hazelton. Knott was not) hurt. Pn wen See Report MacSwiney Shows No Change LONDON, Oct 5.—Lerd Mayor MacSwiney'’s condition was practical ly unchanged, the latest Sinn Fein bullA&in said. Today was the 54th day of his hunger strike. in Crash of Plane’ LA GRANGE, Ind, Oct. 5,—Devon - |Father’s Hopes End |Ask Writ to Allow Men to R King County supertor court | Bartholomew's father mortgaged his) been anked to issue @ writ of farnt to pay his son's tuition at a| damus compelling City Co flying school and purchase him an airplane, Yesterday, the plane col- | lapned at 2,600 feet and young Bar tholomew and Cecil Kelis were killed | , in the crash He lit a cigaret in the choir, When the sexton, Michael Maghotr, Nemar |, an he ran, To bounce the ng than. Wh 1 there's amoke there's fhotr. Harry W. w th Carroll to allow W, n, 61, to register in thme November elections, Registration was denied Brown cause he was unable to prove citizenship. in the country for the last 40 yeura. 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The gl CHALLENGED Man in Crowd: Accuses Him of Untruth in League Talk .Col, Raymond Robins, former lead. er of the progressive party, attacked the ty of Versaillers and the league of nations covenant in two speeches here yesterday, declaring they form “a treaty of force aml violence incapable of enforcement, an alliance for war, and not a treaty of peace, as claimed by Woodrow Wilson.” Robins’ statement was omens by a man who stood up in one of, audiences and declared “That 4 | true.” He spoke before the Women's | King County Republican club at noon, and appeared at the Press club , in the evening. \ Col, Robins has campaigned in 12 states for Harding. He says he feels confident Harding will be elected. | HERE’S ONE TIME MOONSHINE BOOZE IS SOME BENEFIT For once moonshine whisky proved of some benefit Monday in superior court when, as an alibi, it resulted in the acquittal of Benjamin Lege, of Issaquah, on a charge of shooting up the town with an intent to kill. Edward F. 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