The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 10, 1920, Page 1

100 MASKED MEN LYNCH 3 SLAYERS! PPP PPP PPP AAI PAA AAA ante Tonight ram; @ st westerly gales, Temperature Last 1 Hours Pod Maxtimam, Today noon, 43, nd rong Saturday: south- Minimum, 40. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Mattor May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, “SE ATTLE, Ww ASH., Wash F R IDAY, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. The Seattle Star Per Year, by Mail, $5 "1920, DE © MBE R 10, LATE ITION “TWO Cc ‘ENTS IN EATTLE DOG ATTACKS BURGLAR Sh ipwrecked ea! Bonanza’s Hoodoo. Fj A March Over Tee. Living on Leather. (This is the second of « number of Stories written eapecially for The Star by Capt. Joha J. Bertonceini, Seances Arclis qdventurer, ond. ohip- pee, detailing bis experiences and observations in the sone which Kip- ting mee “wae beyond all taws of God man.” Capt. Hertonceint, | master! of the Hibbard £. Swenson | trading schooner Kamehatha, out of § Bonnsie hae for 30 yours been trad whaling aad “walrusing” in th: le stories reek w fromiy top of . JOHN J. BERTONCCINI J.T MATCHING of wits and hua: man endurance against the piti- testing of the North which I had d was not long in coming. At the close of my first whaling | sBekeon in the Arctic, our veswel, the za, battered by ice, wag stove ‘im and had to be abandoned in the van of winter on the delta of the Mackenzie river. | ‘The whaling Meet was ready for | jthé winter at Herschet istand, only a , few days’ journey away, and most of ur" crew elected to cast in their lot | with the other whalers, but five of ur > started off afoot for Point Barrow, Miles’ to westward. ' n DEMONS CHUCKLED | 1T “MERRY MARCH” eying each a packload of provi-| al 4 depending on our rifles for | im a land teeming with game, | Peet out with laughter and jibes what-we looked forward to her merry march. And the polar | mons, riding ice and snow, must ave chuckled, too! For the first few days we pressed 4 in high spirits. ‘Then, with ly two or three meals in our packs, decided to shoot some meat. Tam not superstitious. Nothing I) ever experienced on the ‘polar ice in wild tropical islands had ever Me to belief in the supernat- Pr But dogxing our footsteps on st ghastly march there certainly & hoodoa. I would stalk a fat, basking seal, brain shot, to gee « fat gas ning scraps of food, and we kept ing on a few mouthfuls of meat 4 biveult and quarts of weak tea. fpresentiy our last mouthful was) one. We plodded ahead. Always, | 4 geotmed, we bucked a head wind. 1 FAt night, a mocking campfire,and| ad d, restless slumber for a few ‘As I read of MacSwiney’s fasting, | I wondered how many could under-| stand What he went thru. Miss) and Juncheon and you| think that the gnawing feeling of SEATTLE’S LATEST HERO work fa hs his master’s home last basement ” Seattle's latest hero. GRIEF KILLS PREYED UPON AGED SQUAW Oldest Indian Woman in N. W. Dies at Age of 109, Grieving over tne recent death of her husband, Mary Sedwang, 169) years old, mid to have been the old- est squaw in the Northwest, died in | one of the seceral Indian huts on the | West waterway, south of Riverside, | carly Friday. The body of George Sedwang, her husband, was cremated only last Thursday, Since that time the old Squaw has failed rapidly. She wae found dead in bed this morning. Her Bedy was taken to the county banger, multiplied a hundredfold, a er the sensation of starving. You are wrong. A starving iia! fe not hungry, in the sense comfort. able stay-at-homes understand. hun He has, instead, the symptoms ickness. There is a harsh, metal: | Mie taste in bis mouth. He is drowsy | Fand filled with strange dreams ed visions. We cut strips from our parkas za mukluks, scraped off the hair, boiled | the leather and gulped it. | A SCAFFOLD— UNATIV! E'S FOOD CACHE Then we sighted a scaffold on the! h-—a native cache! We had been| Igeven days without food. We tore Hit open and feasted on polar bear) nat. For the first time, harsh words/ ‘Were called forth. I had to threaten the boys'to keep them from stuffing themselves. They crouched like| Ives while I made soup and then| oned it out in spoonfuls. | The human animal certainly ough. Within a few hours we were transtormed from tottering wrecks to fulifed, grinning, greasy-faced optl- mists. ‘A tew more miles of travel and we were among ine most hospitable folk fn the world—the Eskimo. We were D to spend a winter with them and be- hold further workings of the Bonan- 2a’s hoodoo NO ONE Has Lost Money on Real Estate Investments in Seattle years values have been increasing. ‘Practically one who chose wisely today increased For steadily every in buying has his investment That which a few years ago was the suburbs of tle, to- day is practically down town. So, as the city expands (which it certainly will continue to do) ‘our. property gets (technically) Meloser in.” A the a size of Seattle in population. It must incr You will make no mistake by buying real estate bere. On Classified Page of to- day's Star you'll find some good “buys.” on the left hand at 1136 a. | of rolled | crackers, | 20 pounds of butter, She was blind ¢ and deaf. YOUTHIS KILLED BY AUTO TRUCK Crushed when he slipped under a delivery truek after jumping from the running board, A. 8. Ivana, 23, of 5657 4ist ave. 8. W., received injuries jat 4p. m Thursday from which he | died in City hospital Thursday night Fred B. Brown, 126 Yale ave. N,,| was driving the auto, a parcel post delivery truck. Ivana was helping him deliver packages. At Westlake ave, and Stewart st Ivana leaped off while the auto was in motion. He slipped on the wet | pavernent and was caught under the| rear wheels. Ivana resided with his sister, Mrs. | I. A. Ogden : BADLY BURNED BY GAS TORCH Frank C. Vestal was badly eertied m. Fri-} day, when a gna torch he was ad-| justing in hig tin shop at 1014 F’ ourth | ave. flared up unexpectedly, The fire department waa called to extin guish the blaze that it started, Dam age was $100, GROCERY STORE ROBBED OF $100 Groceries, valued at $100, were! stolen from the Co-operative store, | 5601 Rainier ave, early Friday by thieves, who entered by a rear win- | dow and used an auto to cart away | the stolen goods, They stole five sacks of flour, two cases of canned milk, two sacks | 6, two cans of graham 25 pounds of cube sugar,| 20 pounds of| Nucoa, two slabs of bacon and some, sardines, figs, raisins, coffee and cigaretes. t BOOTLEGGERS? Alleged Member of Enter- prising Gang Caught Richard ¥. Morehead, alleged | member of an enterprising partner ship that has been making war on the spoils of leggers, was ar. [tested Thursday night by Deputy U 8. Marshais Colligan and Rooks Wiliam Emch, the other man, was arrested several days now held for the federal grand jury, on a charge of impersonating a federal officer. ‘The men are sald to have repre- sented themselves to be prohibition | officers, and under that guise search jea the baggage of suspected bootleg: | gers, “confiscating” any liquor they might find. Morehead was about to leave for | California when caught, the arresting | officers said UCKS SHOT AT NIGHT COST $50 Being accused of shooting ducks after sunset was probably more ex pefisive to Tony Piano than being convicted. | He forfeited $50 bail Friday by not} appearing for trial in Justice of the Peace O. W. 1 ‘8 court. | Wilson Accepts Nobel Peace Prize WASHINGTON, Dec. 10.—Prest |dent Wilson has accepted the Nobel peace prize for 1919, it was an nounced at the state department to: day. HIS SHOULD BE INTERESTI Featured with frequent © portraits of harem girls and Far Eastern snake charmers, the Orien. tal number of the Sun Dodger, college comic monthly, made its appearance on the campus Friday Steele Lindsay, senior in journal- ism, is editor of the magazine. |Germany Will “Upkeep” Ex-Kaiser BERLIN, Dee, 10.—The German government is not disposed to discon tinue its payments for the upkeep of the former kaiser, it declared today ago and ia! Saves Master’s Home From Robbery RIPS PART Douglas | Names Staff oi Lawyer, 23, Deputy Prosecutor Old Men Reappointed CLOTHES OM THIEF |Intruder, Yelling With Pain, | | Escapes After “Hand-to- Hand” ‘Struggle “Topper,” «& Russian wolfhound jowned by Norwood W. Brockett, | | 2402 Fourth ave, W.. Jast night chew: | ed and routed a burglar from the | Brockett home while the family was| away Brockett, a tax agent for the | Puget Sound Power & Light Co, re |turned home from a company dance at il p.m. As he stepped in the | front door he heard & loud scuffting, frowling, cursing and general com. | motion in the basement HEARS THREATS AND DOG'S JOYFUL GROWL Rushing to the basement door, Birockett opened it. As he 414 so he heard several thrents, a man’s ory of pain, and “Topper’s” joyful growl. | Brockett peered Into the darkness | and deseried. “Topper” hanging to the burglar, who was struggling violently to escape, Dog and bure jag had just tumbled down the ently considerably chagrined joning his victim, yelped and aped out by anoyher way. The butglar out- | distanced him in the chase that fol- | lowed, while Brockett was summon- ing the police. Brockett autd got nothing. Tattered bite of the thief's cloth ing were awarded to “Topper,” who | chewed and mauled them with great Pleasure, his master said “Topper's” neck ie stil bay swol- Jen from the effects of being choked, | The hound had been {ll several days, | Brockett said; and had been left in | the basement to recuperate. | “Topper” was born 14 months ago at Index. His parents are in the | movies NEWS HOUNDS NO CRIMINALS It was a question of identification. Two newspaper men in the county: | elty building were asked by the judge to line up with other young! | men and give a young woman an op- | portunity to prove she could pick the culprit from the crowd She passed up the newspaper men. | ‘TWISTED HENS’ | NECKS, CHARGE; With two chickens whore necks he had wrung, aleeping in death near | jhis head, ‘Tont Gaines was found |snoozing Friday morning on the | premises of Mra. W. C. O'Brien, own. jer of the chickens, near Lake Bu- jrien. Arrested by Deputy Sheriff William Sears, Gaines was lodged in the city jail ‘SAYS HUSBAND SPIES ON HER)? | To keep her husband, Michael | Donovan, from climbing on a neigh- |bor's roof and spying on her, Mary | Donovan asked for a restraining or: der in connection with her divorce suit filed in superior court Friday. Mrs. Donovan says Michael slap- ped her face on the second day after their marriage. Twice she left him |and twice she came back, but never jagain, she declares in her petition, FINE CAR MAN . FOR ASSAULT J. W. Huntington, street car mo- torman, charged with third degree assault on J. D. Zahrt, was fined $26 land costs by Justice of the Peace O. W. Brinker Friday. Huntington was accused of aasiet- ing the conductor with a piece of iron when Robert Klanert, a f y passenger with Zahrt, was bargain- ing with the conductor, R. H, Boyer, over their ability to give each other @ black ey* i today the burglar lL, TWtee These two young “lawyer- |‘ ettes” were appointed today} by Maj. prosecutor-elect, to help him charm juries and convict criminals when he takes of- fice in January. They are (above) Miss Esther V. John- son, L. L. B., his assistant law clerk, and (below) Miss Cor- delia Thiel, L. L. B., deputy prosecutor. \Think Mrs. Hamon Will Give Self Up ARDMORE, 10. Belief prevailed today that Clara Smith Hamon, wanted in| connection with the death of Jake! Hamon, “empire builder” Oklahoma, Oklahoma, Dec. here and politician, will sur- gender or be apprehended within the next 24 hours, She is to be hiding in or near Bi TF Accused Slayer Hangs Himself MARION, IIL, 10.—Frank Bi anco, accused murderer of two boys at West Frankfort, 1.7 whose trial in progress, committed suicide y hanging himself in jail early to day. The murder of the two youths was the cause of riots which broke out in West Frankfort last. summer, resultin in the deaths of several persons and looting of many places of business, Malcolm Douglas, | of | S. F. PRIZE FIGHTER SOBS WHEN TOLD OF “PALS’ ” LYNCHING BAN FRANCISCO, 10,—It was with varied emotions that Kd (K. ©) Krv and Ed (Spud) Murphy, prize fighters, ; nection with the & n cor ng cases, today bh of their “s tts w of the lynching Boyd, Terrance varies Valento, at Santa Murphy professed not but Kruvosky broke down to care and “That ain't nothin’ in my young Murphy mid. “It's Just the lynching down in Ten r I'm concerned e guys friends of as weren't Spant” (meaning Valento) “was my pal,” sobbed Kruvorky. “He the only bird I knew in that Miles Jackson was my wa layout friend, too.” Jackson waa one the San Francisco detectives killed Sun- day at Santa Rosa Murphy was much interested tn how the men died. “Boyd was game, eh?" he com. mented, when told how Boyd went to hiw death. “Boyd had a fightin’ heart. The rest of ‘em were weak.” Murphy then shook his head a little and thought, “Bootleg, rotten whisky is to blame for the whole thing. That is what got me in wrong, and it got the rest, too. Damn those bootleggers!” CHOIR BOY, 19, "HANGED IN EAST ot \Nick Viana Executed on His Birthday CHICAGO, Dee. 10.—Nick Viana, the choir boy murderer, went to his death here today on his 19th birthday without showing a trace of fear, and protesting his inno cenee. He was hanged for partici- pating in the murder of Andrew Bowman, a saloonkeeper. “Tt is no dingrace to die for my mether and sisters,” the ‘would. came iv made against his family's lives he turned state's witness. ‘The trap was sprung at 8:20. His neck was broken and he was pro- aes dead five minutes later, BOMB KILLS IN | | | Unexpectedly today, Major yn colm Douglas, county prosecutor: | elect, announced that two young wo- | |men lawyers will be included in the |personnel of his staff of assistants | when he takes office on January 10. Miss Esther V. Johnson, popular |untversity sorority girl, residing in the Arcade apartments, will be as-| sistant law clerk in charge of the in- |formation desk. | Miss Cordelia M. Thiel, former pri vate secretary to United States Dis |trict Judge Neterer, and more re lcently an employe of the law firm laf Roberts & Skeel, will bé one of a |battéry of formidable criminal prosé | eutors. BOTH GRADUATES OF UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL Miss Johnson and Miss Thiel are graduates of the University of Wash-| ington law school, This is the first | jtime a woman lawyer has been ap-| pointed to the position of deputy | | prosecuting attorney in King county. The complete roster of Douglas’ appothtees follows: Chief deputy—E. I. Jones, in| harge of the criminal department. Chief civil deputy—Colonel Howard A. Hanson Criminal deputies—John D, Car. mody, Thomas H. Patterson, Major | Bert C. Ross, Chester A. Batchelor, Mies Cordelia M. Thiel Civil depuities—William Parmerlee, Arthur Schram, jr. Divoree proctor — Eugene M. Meacham. | Law clerk— Assistant law V. Johnson | Special investigator mer. Chief clerk— Stenographers and Estelle Fitts. PLAN TO REORGANIZE INTERIOR | Major Douglas said today he and | Chief Deputy Jones are making a thoro study of the work of the office as it is being conducted by retiring | Prosecutor Fred C, Brown and plan to reorganize the interior administra. | | tion in a number of particulars. | “It is the intention,” Major Doug: | | las said, “to create two departments, | civil and criminal,” Four of the deputies and the spe. clal investigator are former service men. and members of the American | Legion. ‘These are Messrs. Meacham, lng and Hammer, the stenographers, served with the military forces overseas, ‘The list shows that Major Douglas ig retaining six deputies, chief clerk and two stenographers now serving under Prosecutor Brown, WOMAN DEPUTY ONLY 23 YEARS OLD Miss Johnson {s 23 years of age. R. L. Bartling. clerk--Miss Esther Ralph Ham Christine Lestie Sdna Droppleman Batchelor, Bart Miss Fitts, one of Major Ross and|, RUMAN SENATE BUCHAREST, Dee. 10.—An infer-| nal machine was exploded in the Ru- manian senate yesterday, killing one and wounding several others. Bishop Oradiaradu was killed in- stantly, Others wounded by flying | fragments of furniture and fittings | were the minister of justice, the pres ident of the senate, a senator and other officials, wi The planters of the bomb were not| 25 VILLAGES PARIS, Dec. 10.—Twenty-five vil- lages in the Albania district of Jugo- slavia have been destroyed by earth quakes, according to American Red Cross reports from Valona. The |tremors occurred in the Tepeline dis- trict. BRAINERD CASE MAY BE MOVED TACOMA, Dec. 10-—Arguments on @ motion for a change of venue in,the case of Betty Brainerd, alleged kidnaper of Baby Bobby Stagg, will be heard here Monday, The motion was filed yesterday by Miss Brainerd’s counsel, who‘ al- leges she could not be fairly tried in Pler yunty because of adverse public opinion here. WHO OWNS THIS KEG 0° JUICE? Ten boxes of shoes and one cider) keg partly filled with third-rail apple jack were found on a muny car Fri day The shoes blong to Mr. Turrell, a shoe keg can't, $100,000 FOR SKAGIT WORK Approximately $100,000 was made available for the completion of the 15,000 kilowatt addition to the Cedar | Falls hydro-electric plant Friday. rhe city council appropriated the money at a special session. Work on the Cedar Falls unit was held up ‘ast week, when the city au- has not appeared — probably diting committee refused to approve | @ payroll allowance of $7,447 because She was graduated from the Univer (Turn to Page 19, Column 4) ' the construction fund was over. drawn, chant, but the owner of the! WORK OF MOB DONE QUIETLY, QUICKLY California Trio in Murder of Officers and Attacks on Girls Sent to Death SANTA ROSA, Cal, Dec About 100 armed and masked raided the Sonoma county jafl today, disarmed Sheriff Boyes and hie deputies, dragged Terrance Fitts, George Boyd and Charles Valente, all under indictment for the killing of Sheriff James Petray, of Sonoms county, and Detectives Miles Jacke eqn and Lester Dorman, of San Frame ciseo, from thelr cells and lynched them on the same limb of an oak — tree in Odd Fellows’ cemetery. | After the bodies had swung in the | gentle breeze, which was blowing @ | light mist around them, for an | Sheriff Boyes and the county | removed them. Boyd, the gangster who fired the |shots that killed the officers, }to his death with hardly a mi | He was dying gradually from a | wound inflicted by Detective Jac before the latter died. Dozens of flashlights and lights from automobiles cast a Mant light on the scene in the tery as the lynchers worked. VALENTO LAUGHS AT LYNCHERS | Valento walked to bis place the death Umb with a laugh for hi executioners on his ips. He in their faces when they took | | The lynchers were organized fectly. Masked guards with rifles their hands and revolvers to the outside of their were stationed at the four corners of the county jail. Pedestrians and autoists | ing the jafl were stopped and in another direction. Sensing was taking place, no one When the band, armed hea | rushed into the jail, they were |by Sheriff John H. Boyes, Jewitt, Deputy Sheriff Marvin inson and Ike Lindley, former man. Guns were thrust against the stomachs of the officers and Ji made to hand over the cell keya, ‘We want those keys, and we | mean business!” one of the party told | Sheriff Boyes. | “Don't do.that, boys," the sherifl | | replied. “These men are to be an raigned this morning and they will | be tried soon, and it is certain they hang. Let the law take ite | course.” | “We're not taking any chances? | the leader of the band replied, Tn the meantime the keys tad Seal and while the officers were held | bay by part of the band the unlocked the great doors of went to the insane ward, where wounded Boyd whs laying on a seized him and took him outside and biles. | Fitts and Valento were, taken from | their cells in another part of the jaf and were rushed out close behind Boyd. START DEATH RIDE TO CEMETERY The death ride then started dows down this, one of Santa Rosa's most beautiful residence streets, to Odd Fellows’ cemetery. The three gangsters were rushed inside a great human circle to the great oak tree 60 feet inside the cem etery gates. A rope with a perfect hangman's noose was tossed ovel Boyd's limp head. LYNCHERS TOLD NOT TO SHOOT MEN The rope was quickly thrown oves an overhanding limb and members of | the band began to pull. Boyd's body | was slowly pulled up until his feet were three feet clear of the ground Some of the lynching party stepped | back and raised their rifles to fire at |his bedy, They were told ‘not te do so. “Let ‘em just die!” the leader of the band is said to have ordered. Boyd's neck was broken by the noose. Fitts, screaming and kicking, was dragged under the tree, A blow from the butt of a gun quieted him and he was executed in a manner similar | to Boyd. | Valento, apparently unnerved, but | game, walked under the tree. He did not move, it is said, while the noose was tossed over his head and | his body was drawn up slowly, | ‘The band stayed on the scene un- | til assured all three men were dead, Then they departed quietly. The slain sheriff, Petray, would (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) handed to other members of the band — into one of the 30 waiting automo — Fourth strect to McDonald ave., and _