The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 10, 1920, Page 7

\ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 10, 1920, — ADECIDEON 3-F OR-25 CARFARES | Increase to Be Made Effec-| tive Within Next 80 Days Effective ‘deanery &, Seattle street car fares will be raised from 64 to have been 55 years ont today day has been sloganed “Il Friday” and the phrase is on the lips of thousands of peopl | Hanging from a the bodies of Valento, ewung in the breeze and a light drie zle of rain Boyd, the slayer, his arms pinioned to his side by a rope, hung from the left. Fitts was in the center, Valento Jon the right | DEATH TREE NBAR | SOLDIERS’ MEMORIAL Groups of grim-faced men hurried to the rcene bodies shortly afterwards 19/ Women made thetr appeara and 1 ; canes 6 led hysterical cents, of three fares for a quarter, { SPversl cases wer y Transfer privileges will be allowed) phe death tree of vengeance t# the new fare, and no change within a few feet of the center of the be made in the rates for school Veterans’ memorial and the big gun soldiers attending vo rele mp and surrounded the Later in the soldiers’ plot was potnting dt rectly at the bodies of the dead men Sheriff Boyes arrived at the scene will be discon) shortly after 2 k this morning, | fare goes into in company with Coroner Frank Phil- | may be ex-| lips, who cut down the bodies and re. for the 8 1-3 cent tokens af) moved them to a downtown under the rate of four for three, taker's, are “I had no chance,” said Sheriff | ‘These are the provisions of Se\t-| Boyes, “Six guns were poked In my fa new street car ordinance, which | face by the mob and two men rushed | Was passed at a special session of around the counter and grabbed my | the council Thursday evening. The! arms, They slammed me in a chair) DIM as passed was in regular form,! and one man went thru my pockets. Becoming effective in 30 daya. | They found my moater key, hustled | Employes of the muny lines were| me into the sheriffs office and kept Paid in full Friday, as the re|me there, Just as I wan leaving the | sult of council action in borrowing | telephone bell rang and with a pair} money for the railway fund. War-| of pincers a man cut the wire. } Fanta aggregating $137,000, issued tn! Reyd and Fiya|« “very man of them was masked | HERE’S MORE ABOUT CALIFORNIA LYNCHING STARTS ON PAGE 1 jot Portland, tor waning | story . nat them | y was lying on e whack, almost toc DANCE ¢ girls told the officers on lured Inte an automobile @& public dance they had at the nlght before, to the kreen shack, which stands back from the sidewalk on How ard et. near Ninth—once the abode of & Lutheran minister There, they sald, they plied with liquor which, to thelr story, their throata, their clothes had been torn from their bodies and they charged they had been out raged by eight men in the shack in an amazing and unnatural man ner On hearing the girte’ «tory, the police placed under arrest Edward (K. ©) Kruvoss pugillet, and Allen McDonnell, pool hall employe. whom they found at the shack Searc for six other gungsters followed. | Edmond (Spud") Murphy, pugtlist, and Jim Carey were arrested in «| thrilling chase over the roofs of buildings, a few days later, Thomas Brady also was taken Into custody These five men were indicted by the grand jury here on charges of a» sault, attergpted assault and abduc tion. They are still tm jail here, in weparat and heavily guarded little had beer according was forced down Pafment of trainmen’s wages, were And muffled until I could pot DAVE) aeie pail wan set at $120,000 each. cashed by the city treasurer out of told whether or not my best friends) the borrowed funds, were In the bunch. They were too _|finely organized. | CAR TIE-UP AVERTED “When they rushed In, one man Possibility of a tieup of the trac | Cried. "Where are those key#l and I) fusa. told them I did not have them, but Ser men to work for noneashabie SCY, Hininted on srarching me Warrants is now averted, SHERIFF SAYS MOB ‘The Thomson ordinance, increasing | MOVED SWIFTLY fares here, wax passed by a vote of, “The men were wild and one five to two. Counclimen R. H.| threatened to shoot the lotks from ‘Thomson, A. F. Haas, John FE. Car.'the doors of the cells if the keys Toll, Philip Tindall and W. EH. Moore | “id not fit. ¥oted for the ordinance, and R. B.| “All of us in here tried to argue Hesketh and T. H. Bolton against,| With the men, but they only pointed A. T. Drake, absent in Californta,}“ & picture of Jimmy Potray and and 0. T. Erickson were absent. said, “Don't argue with us; you look ‘The ordinance was signed by} *t that. Isn't that enought Mayor Caldwell immediately after) “The whole thing happened bike a passage. streak of lightning, and almost be- Tt is believed that the biN can not/f0Te We could realize tt they had Be subjected to a referendum vote,|@rered Boyd out of the cot he was} the law vesting sole authority for |" and hustled the other two men Prescribing rates in the city council. |@ew? from their cella Due to the quick action of the T had heard a rumor that the raid mayor, the serious situation existing Would come off tonight. and I had tm the rallway department because | Deen informed that I would be given Of the deficiency of the railway fund | !f an hour to determine whether was averted Thursday. or not I would give over the pris Seattle bankers, at a conference in| OneTs without a fight. I rushed to the mayor's office, flatly refused to| the Jail and phoned all my depution handle the warrants to be issued the | THY were all on their way, and got trainmmen for wages. On the suggestion of Caldwef, the %", Who was held up and stepped decided to tide over the crisis | *t the point of a gun. by transferring money from the bond| “All I can sty about the thing ts interest fund to the rallway fund. that the organization was toe well transferring $127,000 | Planned for any hitch tn the pro ceedings.” evening and was form-| District Attorney Hoyle ait: ata heid| “The. lawieesness of the thing ts special meeting ; o erste tl [ vestigation here of one phase of at- tacks by gungsters on girls in San Francisco. Three girls who had Sis.neeaee | a an attempt to identify rma: emp’ the traction sys nanny ‘The girls were left tn the sheriffs office. Sheriff Petray accompanied Trad ob frnes conn | thé two Setectives to the house where Valente, Boyd and Fitts were stay- ing. The officers entered and asked the three men to step outside. It was then that Boyd rose from a couch and begun firing, Aa Jack- son fell, he fired, wounding the slay- er of the three officers. Boyd, who said he was a former Seattlette, was identified by the young women ar one of the princi pals in an attack. He was an ex- convict, having been sentenced twice in California for burglary and rob bery. Valento served term in fan Fire, believed to have started from | Quentin for robbery and was also the kitchen range, caused damage, | identified as figurigg in one of the early today, to the home of Robert |@ttacks on firis. W. Grandy, 808 E. 75th st, amount-| Fitts served a term in the Wash- VACANT HOUSE Old Green Lake Home Is Visited by Flames here with the exception of Bob Dick. | ing to about $1,000. No one was tn | ington state penitentiary at Walla the house when the flames broke out.) Walla in 1904. He was later sent to Tenants moved out recently, and|® California ftnstitutten on an as | “hs werner. who is 85 years old, had| sult charge. In 1914 he was arrest et completed extensive repairs. ¢4 for burglary and while serving ssterday he built a fire in the range | time in San Quentin was declared in | te-arive out dampness jeorrigible. He was transferred to| Folsom prison, where he completed | his term. Captain of Matheson, of San Francisco, in 4 telephone message to Sheriff Boyes before dawn this morning, said he would be present at the inquest. | Coroner Phillips said that the tn quest will be held on Capt. Mathew- son's arrival | One inquest will be held for the three men. Dorothy Quinlan, of San Francisco, who was taken into custody along with Fitts, Boyd and Valento Sun-| day, but who was held only on a| charge of vagrancy, was in the fail when the lynchers dragged her three companions out into the night and to their death District Attorney Hoyle said to day that she would now be released as thére was no evidence against her. | “ee CALIFORNIANS START CLEANUP OF VICE GANGS | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec, 10.— Lynching of Terrance Fitts, Chartes Valento and George Boyd by mob of angry Santa Rosa citizens early today, in Santa Rosa cem- etery, marked ‘another climax in| the sensational expose of the so-| called “Howard st.” gang of Han Francisco. Valento had been identified as an | alleged leader of the gang and Boyd and Fitts, according to the police at Santa Rosa, were con nected with it, Existence of the| gang came to light Thanksgiving | morning. when in response to a telephone ‘call, a squad of police | drove to a shack on Howard When the flames broke out, at midnight, Grandy had been asleep for hours at the home of his daugh-| ter, Mrs. J. D. Trenholme, two blocks away, He had not been informed of the fire at § o'clock this morning. | Battalion Chief 1. © Kinney re-| ported that he saved from the burn-| ing dwelling an old clock that had been in the Grandy family 200 years | The home is one of the oldest in the DRY ACT CAN'T TOUCH THIS ONE He Broke Dry Law Before It Was a‘Law | | One of the few cases of the kind that rémain was disposed of in fed @ral court Thursday when Adolph Granda}! pleaded guilty to operating a still with registratjon and sentenced under the «M4 internal enue > Thirty days in the county jail, a fine of $109 and a penalty of $500 was given Crandall by Federal Judge Neterer. This is the minimum sen- tence under the revenue law «The offense was committed a year | and a half ago. | Similar operations now come un- der the Volstead act His Warbling Was | Very Appropriate TOLEDO, Ohio, Dec. 10—John Car. rot, an onion grower, was pinched for getting drunk on hair tonic Detectives Duncan} viee as st. | Hejand there found Miss Jessie Mont- | cation, | from San F Last Sunday Polloewoman Kath erine O'Connor, Detective Serst.| Miles Jackson and Detective Lester! Dorman, of Ban Francisco, went to} Santa Rosa to arrest Charles Valen: | to ax an alleged member of the gang THRER OFFIC SLAIN IN HOUS } They found Yalento, In company | with Terrance Fitts, George Boyd and Helen Quinlan, the latter an em- ploye of a San Francisco @partment store, at the home of Peter Guidottl, | In Santa Rose. to which place Sher | | itf James Petray, of Sonoma county, led them. com: One of the gangsters—Royd tater} fonfemved it wag he-—opened fire. In a twinkling Jackson, Dorman and Petray had dropped to the fioor, mur-| dered. floyd was wounded by Jack-| fon before the latter expired. Boyd, Fitts and Valente were arrested by other officers waiting outside the house as they attempted to escape i} ‘They were taken to the Santa/ Rosa jail, where an angry crowd of | 2,009 persona gathered. Guards re) Puleed two ammaulte on the jal) dur Ing the night, Two days later the three men were Indicted on three counts each of murder—-Boyd on the strength of his! alleged ; Valento, as & re} wult of Boyd's alleged statement that Valento helped him buy the enr- tridges for bia gun, and Fitte on the ground that he, according to Boyd. jhad eed the gun under the couch Petray at Healdsburg. near Ganta Ross, where he ttved and where he ‘wae most popular. It did not devel- op, however, ‘The jail had been kept guarded all | day yesterday and night, STATE-WIDE CLEANUP cleanup of undesirables had been pre. | cipitated by the gang exposes, San} | Francisco put the lid on prize fight- ing absolutely, Modesto ana Kureka followed muit, Sacramento and Onk- land Inunched movements to restrict the fight game. Aa the matter stood today, the fu- ture of the ring on the entire Const | was exoreding!y uncertain. | More than a halfdoren cities have | started rounding up persons in diere- | pate. In addition to the alleged outrage committed by the gangsters, Preat | dent August May, of the Bank of Al varado. was said by police today to} | have identified four of the men an bank robbers, who robbed his bank Of $50,000 about two months ago and seriously wounded him. eee |FRISCO POLICE AID LYNCHING OF THREE MEN? SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 10,—Boliet that San Franciscans bad a hand in| the lynchings at Santa Rosa early today was expreased here during the | morning. 1a Police said they learned that 20 au-| tomobiles, the license numbers ob- secured, cro: during the evening ncisco to Saumilito on a ferry boat and drove off on the road which leads to Santa oan. ‘There were rumors that San Fran cisco police officers were in the party. | cee 5 FRISCO MEN IN | i IRONS TAKEN TO | HEAR CHARGES SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 10, Shackled together with clanking chains, Ed (Spud) Murphy, Ed (K. 0.) Kruvosky, Allen McDonnell, Thomas Brady and James Carey were led into court by a heavy police guard today to hear read parts of the indictments against them. The indictments cov ered the alleged Thanksgiving morn- ing assaults on Jessie Montgomery and Jeap Stanley. iy The clerk of the court called off the names and then called George Boyd, Charles Valento and Terrance Fitts, indicted Kruvosky. «+ “They are dead; hanged by a mob at Santa Rosa last night,” announced the district attorney Murphy, Kruvosky, Carey, Breday and McDonnell raised their eyes and looked around the room. They saw |a small erowd in the court room, | which did not show any emotion. Have you any official notification that these men are dead?” asked the court. “None,” was the answer. The court then ordered the cases put over until tomorrow. MANILA.—In fights agninet ef forts of authorities to encourage edu 30 Moros are killed by con spent the night in jail singing “Sil-|gomery, of Reno, Ney., and in the stabulary, according to report oe yer Threads Among the Gold.” same vicinity Miss Jean Stanley, governor of Jolo. TRE SEATTLE STAR vice gang casen Frisco Playground rae tonyrr grat QO C iPS hen ger Leader Quits Job) «ty siministration trom emu nent « denied the charges agair BAN FRANCISCO tia “ hum Frank Lawler, secretary of the San Mother Is Told of Son’s Hanging 10 Francisco playground and & prize fleht pre signed his official » Lawler had been secured of hay ing attempted to Inter for Wa, SAN (K. QO) Kruvonky, puxilist held tn (bs connection with the San PFranctseo commigaion tor, today re wition, FRANCISCO, Der yomyt you y; what have moaned a T0yearold worear FREDERICK & NELS My| they done t PAGE 7 a —————— as she tay near coll and un & physician's care at her home day The woman was Char Mra Valento, a widow, and the mother Charles ("Bpanio”) V fa I Up to the time y nto, who w hanged at 6 was ne ury to votify her of H's er abe b 4 rou in tre arly today '"Couldn’t Sleep; to Receives Damages PATRUS, Dec. 10 promoters of the ¢ Nue eo, They Have the School Spirit, Too SACRAMENTO, Cal, Dee 10 There's plenty of school spirit Ina Fred C, Nellem, Whittier state ' of the school ganization and lew France The of iit as|ment in the reform school. to for hall! have an ) damages rintendent ol ’ compensation achool, “Or kept him | ret ake athletic rn in @ teams compete WT LN FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET Toytown Is Such a Lively Place! > every turn. : TS streets are crowded with holiday throngs of happy children who find new joys at Here’s the Electric Train, whizzing around curves and gliding through tun- nels, You never tire of watching it. 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