The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 16, 1920, Page 1

WSS BRAINERD 10 BE FREED On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromi: ipo , x ¢ {{{ll The SeattleStar £4 VOLUM THU RSDAY, DE CEMBER 16, 1920. cos = ]STAGG TO SURRENDER AND TAKE TEN YEARS FOR KIDNAPING BABY Askren Roasts Strickland | Askren and Girl’s Lawyers | for “Over-Zealous” Atti- Swell Plot | Put Deal Thru; Strick- tude in Case f ° land Protests or Movie ? — . 4 16 Lawyers for Miss Retty A > I e N ? and Prosecuting Attorney W! s it Not! SEPT. 14—Bobby Stage kid |D. Askren, of Pierce county, have |compromised, according to a state. ment given out here last evening by 4 from home of his mother in coma by ree Stage, the father, drove away in a ptain of Detectives John S. Strigke ji in which be said he was “clear cloved car driven by a woman, SEPT, 18—Officers pick tp |ing-his own skirts.” George Stagg is to be current trail of Betty Brainerd as Stage’s accomplice or assistant in the kid- Weather Tonight and Friday, rain; strong east to south- easterly gales. Temperature Last 24 Hoar Maximum, 47. Minimum, 39. ‘Teday noon, 47, Entered a» Second Class Matter May 2, 1899 to $9 Wash., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 the Postoffies at Seattle BATTL KE, WASH., COMMITTEE TO CALL ( ON GOVERNOR TO URGE CLEMENCY FOR WHITE | | | | Far re) Wanted: Young Chaps. For Trips North No Fortune in Arctic. Good Experience. |Dr.Matthews, ‘Boy's Parents ; and Author of Capital Punishment Bill to Go Isom White's ag year-old father wil pla with a committees next and ask ¢ #iart to comm death sentence of their 19-year-old to life imprisonment Ansar of The Star’s campaign to gain executive mency for the ondemned boy befe hrigtmas, Dr. M. A. Matthews today ¥ red to go with a committee and upon the governor personally in young | White's behalf, | COMMUTATION AS CHRISTMAS NT FOR MOTHER wad | “Ciet the reat of the be glad to go any time,” committ together and mn Dr, Matthews. what can be done to get a commuta: | j tion of sen to give the boy's mother on Christnaa morning | It iw not because I look upon cap. | | ttal punishment with disfavor, bat! | because I think society is to blame for this crime Tvorm White ie & boy who never had @ chance and his pat ents owed him that chance. We can't SIGN THIS: MAIL TO GOVERNOR The Hon. wed ell laws = *< Hertonecimt, rd inboard & Swenson schooner Kamehatha, out of ttle, bas for 30 yom, boon, eee i end “welrasiog Aictie scant Mia stories reek with romance om the frosty tep of the world.) Louis F. Hart, Govérnor of Washington, Executive Mansion, Olympia Relieving that the execution of a human being, particularly a minor child, is against the public interest, and betieving that the Christmas | | season will be made happier for thousands If the sentence passed by the court is not carried out, I most respectfully petition you to com- mute to life imprisonment the death sentence passed upon Isom White, and to act in time so that Isom White's mother may know on Christmas day that her bey is no longer in the shadow of the gallows, and #0 Oolym 4 4 mother Prosecuting Askren today / ot Detectives statement TACOMA. De Attorney Willian confirmed Captain John &. Strickland eatule that agreement ha made for the return of ¢ | Stagg and the release Brainerd. Askren added 1 Ned ptain Strickland to my office and told him of the agreement, advising him that our conversation was absolutely confidential. I told him I had entered into the agreement with Lawyer Scott Hender lson because the Tacoma and Seattle police had been unable to learn the whereabouts of Stage. | CONSIDERED STAGG | REAL OFFENDER “I maid 1 thougirt It a better move | on the part of this office to get Stage and let Misa Brainerd go than to prosecute Mises Brainerd and take chances on finding Stags. | “Stagg was, in my opinion, the real gator of the crime, but, of course, that does not relieve the guilt of Miss Brainerd. As long the police had prospects of capturing | Stucg. I didn't feel Uke extending Immunity to ber. | “Bat 1 believed, and I still believe, | that it is far more important to! sword Stags than to prosecute the woman, and when Attorney; eatin offered to produce Stage, | have him plead guffty and co to the Tues v in BY CAPT, JOHN J. BERTONC INI oYs « read the a Wot 4 other romantic books keep climbing aboard chatka at the wharf in ing me to sign them northern voyage And my friends ask me, “How do J you pick men for Arctic sailing? > 1 don't want old-timers; harde ned | i mdventurers and that kind. Boys are) The best. Young fellows, full of spirit | and gameness, who are quick to “learn and can be depended upon In ~ emesgency. o have who Se untee Name Address ...-~--~---~--~-+-- - the wo ac ncecrwns oveveceeecererecseeeecs will plead guilty and take a minimum sentence of ten years in the penitens ~ tary for the kidnaping of his babe ‘ioe | boy, Bobb: |be released and the charge of kids ~ |naping against her dismissed, Stricka Hand said. | STRICKLAND WOULDN'T BB on for | City .-..-- ASSAULT TRIAL LITTLE GIRL'S | ONINFRISCO, NAME CHANGED 29—Robby, completely spirited out of Seattle by two women, one said to be Miss Brainerd, the other Nurse ndith Nicholson; party speeds to |) PARTY TO AGREEMENT Vancouver, B. C., thence east via || “I told Prosecutor Askren P. R. | wouldn't be a party to any | 4 OCT. 11—Rett . |) aereement,” said Strickland, id to New. Yat Brainerd arrest: || won't. I think Betty : | should be prosecuted. I told OCT. 21—Stagg baby returoed || way poh. get in the clear. I to its mother in Vancouver, B.C. || yim if I kept my mouth shut by newspaperwoman who brought |) 1q be explaining in vain for him across continent from ow next ten years.” York Stagg has already been ft OCT. 27—Retty Brainerd ex- || by telegraph that a compro tradited from. New York state, || been effected and is em ae starts across country in charge of ‘coma now, Strickland said ‘Tacoma detective with Mra, Ada told him. It will take him Cunningham, baby’s grandmother, || days to reach Tacoma from his & as matron, ing place, it is said. NOV. 3—Miss Brainerd arrives we'll see nee / WANTED FORVW Green hands are what I want | U gorward. ‘Poe Arce wil make imen Wife and Mother of Accused. She Becomes Ag Again Child of ‘of them in short order. The sailor W Court j ‘he signs on merely for his wages | | ‘and without any keen enthusiasm | leep in Cou | Her Own Father e r —— —_—— , co che ene eee pe Big | SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 16--Wit| Etizabetfl Kooken, 4, in once | punish society, the real offender, by TACO A WOMA ogame. Old whalers and men| his aged mother and his wife sitting) Retty Quient and the child’ of her | BARN om, Therefore, you ae lowe niith ioe are all inelined to |** #Pectators in the court room, faces | own father, John Quient, Aocording | derstand, I believe nociety should pay cay |hid behind tearstained handker-| to « decision of #uperior Judge King | UY Keepine hin for life | chiefs, Ed (Spud) Murphy went to| Dykeman Thursday morning. | JOSEPH SMITH ARKANGES ltr today as the first of the #0-| ‘The chikd’s mother, Edna Artee| TO TAKE PARENTS TO OLYMPIA called Howard st, gangsters charged | Kooken, who was given custedy after} S@pator Joseph smith, of Ry@reth, | with unprintable crimen | her divoreé from ot, married Bk Who was the father of the new state Grocer Murdered by Rob- Amend ge Boog ANE 5 o'clock interurban train“to ‘h ' Of course, my advice to the lad ving a life of adventure is: “Lay off.” For every one who} a “air living, bundreds fall! No one cleans up any for-| in the Arotic. i Siberia is a treasure house, but) treasure is pretty safe up there} the present. Permits to trade | prospect are not handed out | ly. Equipment for reaching requires heavy capital But a voyage or #0, working one’s y, won't harm any young man of | right sort, j WAYS CHANCE OF TING STUCK IN NORTH here is always the chance of get ¢ stuck in the North for a winter The whalers used to winter in the, Arctic, as a matter of course. I have} Been a fleet of 15 vensels, each with a crew of from 30 to 50 men, laid up | off Herschel island. | There would be concerts, theat-| Ticals, bunting parties, games of gil kinds and frenzied baseball con-| tests, with heavy wagers of tobacco land coppers. The whalers would| carry regular baseball outfits and the Whale’ Fleet league would thrive. Imagine baseball at 50 below zero played by moonlight, with the play ers in fur uniforms: The North is 1 things to all i _men | “w"CLUBTO ADVERTISE U: To advertise the University of | ‘Washington, members of the “Big| ‘W” club, composed of persons who} have made a letter in some branch of sport, will deliver talks before all the igh schools in the state This is the first attempt at organ. | fazed advertising ever made by J campus organization SCREAMS FOR HELP; FAINT when Mrs ave w any her Ro for in help lames, 29 1ith Screaming home was Matieson, of buret a biood vessel in her throat Thursday morning and collapsed wi n the fire engines arrived on the Mrs. Matiesan Mrs and were in the house at the time of the fire. Both women were sick. Mrs ‘ Matieson had just returned from a hospital, where she had oper. ated earl ay Ss throat trouble. pHE BROUGHT IN 7 ALIENS; 30 DAYS Charged with bringing a the line from Canada, Andre Miawkins, of Sumas ed land was sentenced to 3 [Whatcom county jail Thursday, Bederal Judge Neterer. with her mother, Cooper a i-year-old son been jens over w John guilty ys in the by | | gangsters to | Murphy | hands of the | corporations. jelally he Opening, of the trial was marked) mer Ralph K first by an announcement by Attor- new Ernest Spagnelti for Murphy that he would-offer an alibi as a de fense, and then by a second attempt | to secure another continuance of the | cane. TRIES TO PROVE AN ALIBI Spagnelli declared he would pro- duce evidence to show that a was not at the Howard st. shack the time Miss Jessie Stanets charged he assaulted her, but that he arrived after the alleged met had taken plu The attempt to secure a continu- ance of the case failed a] argued that the court should time for public feeling against the cool before bringing to trial, He also mid he bad not sufficient time to pre his case Judge Ward, presiding, would not consider the request, however. Murphy was brought into shackled to a bailiff. court |Last Payment of Income Tax Short WASHINGTON, Dec. 1 imately $650,000,000 should be in the government today as the fourth installment of taxes on in comes and excess profits earned in 1919. Most of the money was duc from millionaire partnerships and Instead of $650,000,000, the collections really totaled less than $500,000,000, it was estimated unoffi today British Discussing Trade With Ru LONDON, Dec 46 While tra — negotiations with Russia continued it was bel ed the conference might be ded at any moment Sir Robert Horne, representing Britain, was understood to have formed the soviet representativ failure to release Eriti#h and cease propaganda could not be yun te nan if commerce is to be prisoners | resum TING 0 OF y THE Protective Le ington will be held y in the assemt Chamber of Commerce in the What Would You Do With $100,000? $10.00 for Telling be awarded Underwriters this AM of the Arctic room to by Life jation for essays on t “What I would do with $100,000 cash.” Eeenys must be oe ow by December office or by Northern Life Fourth ave are limited to 125 be received elther at ‘The Dobrin, with Insurance Co., are to 30 § J the 1118 The promote interest thrift week, January The prizes will b committee consisting perior court judge the Chamber of Comn resentative of the Rotary und a member of the of Washington f The winning published in The First prize will be $10, third $3. to be used to in national 17 to awarded by of a mu member of a rep. club University second 6.—Approx- | -|know where “? Mra Ranging Wie) and who wan the lads vant ak lawyer at the trial, a year ago, maid bo would be glad to #érve on the committee and to arrange for the transportation of White's aged par- | ents to Olympla Tuceday. “Inom's father and mother are In my office now,” he said over the long-distaney this morning, “They came from Btanwood to have me pre- pare petitions’ for them to circulate around thetr home town. “L am including in the petition the statement that Joseph Morton, who helped Isom kill Lee Linton, the taxi iriver, was given a life denter also fas xtatement of Dr. F. R. Hedges, one of the witnesses at Isom's trial, “— the boy is not a normal hoy.” upon Ff s urging the gov ernor to exte printed in | Kooken adepted Betty and changed | her name, | By the decision Thursday, the adoption proceedings were eet amide. Quient won on a plea that he did not | have proper notice and that no court | | in the land had a right to divest him | of his fatherhood without his con went, #0 long as he was neither a common drunkard nor inmaine HIT BY A COW; TOT ASKS COIN | Winifred Frances Brassington, | years‘old, wants $800 for being nit| {by & cow, He jon against Perry |'The Star for ume yeuter | Stiffler, owner of the animal, is be-| Gay, were being maiied today. | ing tried in Judge Boyd J. Tallman's| Of them were sent direct to the gov leourt. She says the Stiffier chil jernor. Some were received at The jdren teawed the « ready vicious, and ft attacked and in, jared her at 89th st, and Third ave. N. W., Ma 199 STOLE TO AID HER CHILDREN) Pleading her motherhood of sever. al children, who needed her atten tion, Hella vatia, charged with stealing a sweater from a downtown store, Was sentenced to only one day in jail by of the ¥ Otis W. Brinker Thursday morning, The | sresman maid she the garment o it was sorely needed, ed to ite owners = SEEK BROTHER _ OF DEAD MAN brother was killed | ay © Gold Bar, Wash |and now Earl Dickinson, Monoha | is trying frantically to find | Brotan to tell him. He maw Protan Seattle Wednesday just before he| of the accident, but doesn't | jrotan is living. The} betng taken to y | Gev. Louis F. Hart, Olympia. ‘Music | Failure as Soother of Taxpaying Ills CLEVELAND, 16. Ohie, Dee for a tax-paying operation, County reasurer Boyle announced today, after experimenting on some hun dreds of tax-payers. Boyle said sev eral days ago that he would have a band on hand to play for the tax payers at the windows and make sep- aration from their money painlers. Unable to get a band, Boyle se J cured the services of a violinist and | pianist. When the doors pened the pair started off with Beethoven's Minuet.” It pleased the crowd for a moment, and then they registered | displeasure because it was found taxes had gone up. ‘The musicians swung into merrier strains, running the gamut from ragey, Jazzy, shoulder-shaking tunes to light opera stuff and thence into the classics. Boyle confessed that the music failed to soothe the savage heart of the tax i that from now on he will operate without the aid of anaesthetics Cedar Chest st Stolen From a Store Room Theft of a cedar chest contain ing woman's wearing apparel and household goods was reported to the police Thursday by Dr, N, Sykes. The chest wae in storeroom at |1619 Westlake ave, which was ¢m ‘very by @ pane key. 00D SAMARITAN WASN’T SO GOOD assisted Her- 60th st, to Justice race took bee it waa a yan's d in brother's Lasaquah, ‘SEATTLE STILL IS 13TH CITY Seattle postoffices posits of more ing to the month of No posite are $1 for the United $22 on July 1 had ae body was remaing 13th on the list of with savings de than $100,000, accord compiled for the attle’s de postal a report atom were On November to $162,993,006. GETS 5 MONTHS ON DOPE CHARGE Ww was wentenced to five months in the Whatcom county Jail ooconnansnenemnenipn when pleaded guilty dor Thuraday before | Federal | FAIS Suit Goes Away oe. fon ad While He Slumbers ns inspectors on December tempted to I Steve Ryan went to sleep in his nada with (acl tins}room in the Chariton hotel, When valued at ap-|he awoke Thursday morning bis suit opium, $2,400 was BON 20 they | increased A 00d Samaritan man Gamrath, 311 navigate from the Juneau Bar to Jthe Avon hotel late Wednesday ning. Now Herman suspects the i, 8. and the taxi driver of know: Jing something about his diamond jring which disappeared during the | voyage. + Rance he to charge Judge by 12 he sel from, ¢ of smoking proximately erer was cust ve as ves 9 Most | w, which Was al | Star office and will be forwarded to} } | Music i# not an effective anaesthetic bers in Store pepitentiary f for 10 yearn, thu mving the costs of prosecution, I agreed mish more| that, if he did so, Mins Brainerd sew rere [would be treed. SAYS STRICKLAND OVER-ZEALOUS IN CASE “There is a good deal of friction in the Tacoma police department Pet this office does not intend to take a case into court merely be TACOMA, tea) murders were added |rime thet today. | Albert Scurry, a Barber, was | found dead in bie home earty today and police allege he was «lun by hie wit Carrie, who, following @ quarrel, struck ber husband over head with an ax A. J. Upton, a grocer, was mur dered in his store last night by two men supposed to be robbers | Following these two additions to j} would organize at once a “shotgun | oer Ge eres Ss See } oad protect itizens§ fr ng precgeth «i compromise was that people would acouse us of getting money on the | ATTACKS HUSBAND, Proposition. He said, ‘It would be; HE DIES IN BED all right if she was poor; no one ‘The murder of Scurry was dis-| Would suggest that then.’ covered when @ physician answer| “I told him the mere fact that Mins ing @ call at 2 o'clock this morning, | Brainerd had influential friends | was cuteh Guniey dnd bed with | reason why she should not get a wounds in his head. square deal Mrs, Scurry told detectives who| “Thin office has never attempted | were called, that she bad struck her |‘? make any discrimination between husband in a moment of anger with | "ich or poor. I told Strickland that) an ax after they had quarre over | Miss Brainerd would get the same they woman's daughter, Amy Hard-|S@uare deal anybody else would away, who had been refused per- | &*t mission to attend a social function} “The reason T asked him to keep | lby her step-father. our conversation to himself was that Scurry had fallen stunned I had only Henderson's word that maid, and she had then helped Stagg would return. Should he ne lito bed It was not | return, it would be much betfer that |later that she became alarmed when |the public had not known of these POLE ROBBER BELIEVES UPTON \KUL BY ROBBERS One suspect of the oma y Mrs. 'T. Jitodal, a Jupanese woman living at 511 King st. was held up and robbed in her room early Thurs day morning by a roughly dressed |man, who relieved her of $1.50 and jat k overcoat, The bandit stated that if she had not been a woman he would have looked further for loot, Detectives are investigating, ‘STOWAWAY GIRL IS IN HOSPITAL Authority to treatment Anna to | in it “Strickland has been over-zealous in this case, He even went so far aa to Insist that to Tacoma to give himself up he to she him until two hours was arrested In the Upton’ store on ave shortly after the murder by a the place The later released. Other arrests expected today That Upton was murdered by rob bers is believed from the fact that of the $54 registered on the cash regist only about $4 in small] hange rematr ed. From blood spat tered vn the floor and the disordered condition of the room, indications were that Upton fought with his as- sailant before he succumbed. A cleaver with bloodstuins on was found in one corner of room. Upton evidently had been surprised by the bandit as he was eating supper in the room adjoining the store. vicinity }south ‘7 disce of who ntered was | boy suspect the admit Lapina, to one hospital eee of the VANCOUVER, B. C., Deo! 16.—Al bert Scurry, who way murdered in Tacoma last night, was a member of the best-known colored family of Vancouver, His father the|bor by Immigration Commissioner first barber here, 33 years ago, and] Henry White, Anna is afflicted with was a pillar of the church of the| trachoma, Decision upon her appeal c ed Baptists, Albert was quite} to be allowed to enter the country is an athlete, became a lacrosse player | pending. and played in one British Columbia | KILL, IS CHARGE in the 133-pound class - John Woodhouse, former propri etor of @ motion picture house in Georgetown, is charged with thre | United States by two sailors on the steamship Cross Keys, was received Thursday from the department of la TACOMA, Dec. 16 Craft today stands blame in connection ath of 8. W. Hamblett, shot and killed ‘Tuesday Hamblett ran when accosted by the officer and refused to halt upon | ening to kill, in a complaint filed by command, Craft fired low. One| the prosecuting attorney Thursday of the bullets glanced from the pave-| morning. Woodhouse, ment and struck the fleeing man | the complaining witness, attributed At a hearing before Prosecuting | bis business difficulties to a commu Attorney Askren, Coroner nity meeting in own, and wae and Police Captain Gardner, heard by a physician to say he would was cleared. He will be reinstated | kill W. A, Carle if he had the money on the force, [to buy a revolver, " all with the whom he cause some officers have an imterest | two Russian girls smuggled into the| in Tacoma, NOV. 4—Sho pleads not guilty; trial is get for December 14, DEC. 13—Trial of Miss Brainerd postponed one week; Prosecutor Askren reported confined in home too {Il to try case. DEC. 14—Prosecutor Askren ap- pears for work at office, as usual. DEC. 16—Agreement announced whereby Stagg will return and plead guilty, in return for Miss Brainerd’s release. when Stagg came | ARREST MOTHER | AS KIDNAPER \Seattle Woman Held South for Stealing Girl After a country-wide search insti- twted by the sheriff's office here May 15, 1920, Mrs, Julia May Flynn, 34, | wanted here on a charge of kidnap- ing her Syearold daughter, Lillian, has been arrested in Eastland, Tex. | Circulars sent broadcast among the | schools of the « fully for the kidnaped child among their pupils led to the apprehension of the mother, according to Sheriff Sam Nolley, of Eastland, whose com- munication reached Deputy Sheriff Ralph S. Hammer, clerk of the eorre office here, Thursday morn- in ro eer FEEDING: mer ART EXTRADITION AT ONC uid preparations for ex- 8 ranean pr lings would begin at once for both Mrs, Flynn and Van Housen, said to have assisted in the alleged kidnaping have accompanied Mra, Flynn. No information as to whether Van Housen was arrested was received rs. Flynn is accused of stealing the child from sehool during th dency of a dive her husband, C. P. ave. here. The daughter had been made a ward of the court in the cus- tody of the father, Police of every city west of the | Mississippi river were notified to be Jon the lookout and others farther east received circulars. Repeated rumors from various cities that Mrs. Flynn was thought to have been seen, lent excitement to | the chase until all of Northwest Can ada had been covered in the search by the Northwest Mounted Police. | Bail of $1,500 in the case of both Mrs, Flynn and Van Housen, if ho is found, will be required, ‘Osage 1} Indians Get “Christmas Gift” PONCA CITY, Okla, Dec, 16.—1Tn. cle Sam gave the members of the wealthy Osage Indian nation a “mere trifle’ for a Christmas gift tods when he spelled out $1,600 to one as the fourth and final 1920 pay: ment on oi} royalties, The total paid the Indians this year was $9,600 each. n \Unemployment Riot in Philadelphia PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 16.—A |near riot occurred near here today when several hundred unemployed men stormed an employment agen advertising for 25 men, Police were’ called to preserve order, untry to watch care- | Ed} and believed to | | Deputy Sheriff Herbert Beebe \of the “gentiemen’s agreement,” | said, and advise the deputy, who been working jointly with bim the case, that further efforts to cate and arrest Stagg are useless, ASKREN CALLS STRICKLAND INTO HIS OFFICE } “Askren called me up _ at | Wednesday said, “and said me at his office u |about the Brainerd case, I got }at 10 o'clock. We went into private office and sat down, “He said Attorney Scott He son, counsel for Miss Brainerd, | made a proposition that Stagg himself into custody and | guilty if the case against Betty | eT thou “I thought be wanted my fame the proposition, so I told | 1 was opposed to it. I argued Ih im for two hours. I reminded that he had told me repeatedly |the case against Miss Brainerd = tight,’ “I told him sooner or later oa | would get Stagg, and that I | Betty ought to be punished the sam@ — jas Stagg, if not more so, becausd |she had no interest in the babyy while Stagg was the baby’s father, THOUGHT CASE OUGHT TO GO TO JURY “I said I thought she should be punished just the same as she be if she had no money behind and told him I wouldn't be a but would insist that Betty be to trial and let the jury whether she was guilty or not. “Askren told me he thought my | judgment was wrong. He then im | formed me that he wasn't asking my advice in the matter, but that it wag Ul settled. “He told me, as a matter of ft that the proposition had been thru several days ago and said he was just notifying me to that effect “I said I was afraid of the conse quences of any deal other than a fail and square one, Such a deal as that, 1 told him, would reftect on our inte rity, owing to the fact that every body knew Betty had so much money at her demand and such influential friends, I told him, moreover, that J considered it our duty to put the case up to a jury, and thought we should put up a good fight. ALL SETTLED BY AGREEMENT WITH HENDERSON ‘He waved all my suggestions aside and told me there was no use talking about it, because it was all settled; he had agreed with Hender son that Stagg should be surrendered to custody, should plead guilty and be given the minimum sentence of 1@ years, and that the case against Bed ty would be dismissed, “T told him I didn’t consider it just to me and Herbert Beebe; I didnt think he was giving us a square deal, I said if he knew where Stagg wag Beebe and I were entitled to the im formation, so we could place Stag@ under arrest, and when we had and Betty both in custody he co do as he saw fit, “Askren said he couldn't do thag his agreement with Henderson wad that they were to bring Stagg te Tacoma. A telegram had already been sent to Stagg, he said. “I protested that Scott Hendersog was not a friend of his, and was only using him to gain his ow ends. T said, ‘Billy, your friends will come to you and you will try to ex plain to them about it, and they'l jgo to their friends and say, do noe wcapoee this fellow Askren iq to Page 5, Column