The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 18, 1920, Page 5

\ } Plunges 45 Feet to Ravine; Seattle People in Wreck Near Puyallup Two men were seriousty Injured when their auto plunged 45 feet off ® bridge on the Rothe highway, y this morning. Tn addition, a man and a woman re badly out Mm another auto crash, | fend two boys and a girl were struck | | By autos Friday night and earty Sat urday. Four Seattle people weer injured, one seriously, In an auto accident on the Puyallup highway earty this Morning. Plunging 45 feet off a bridge into a ravine on the Bothell highway a quarter of a mile this side of Lake Forest park, C. Finley Propst, of the Propst Sign & Decorating Co, and the Propst Tire Co. and Herbert M. Matedorf, 18, student, of 723 Beknont | ave. were mriously crushed at 2:30 &. m, today, The auto ts wrecked. They are m St. Luke's hospftal, 201 y Mth ave. N. H. M. Ramey, 636 New York block, Yeard the screams of the two men after the auto had dropped from the} bridge. He notified the county jail and Deputy Sheriffs A. E. Merrill and Walter Kerr brought Propst and Matzdorf to the hospital. ort is believed to have been . The bridge is on a turn in road. The auto ran into the rail- for a reason unknown to the @eputies, crashed thru and plunged @own into the ravine. Propst lives at 1204 Fourth ave. Fhe Propst Sign Co. ts at Fourth ave. /@nd Pine st The Propst Tire Co. @t $15 Howard ave | SEATTLE PEOPLE HURT _ EN HIGHWAY ACCIDENT John Cutta, of Seattle, was in the General hospital today with @erious injuries, suffered in an auto B @ccident on the Puyallup highway ‘@arly this morning, He was uncon @icous, Cutts and three other per- Bons from Seattle were in the car. ‘The other occupants were George Bebert, member of the sailors’ union; |} Zena Layford, Manhattan apart. ‘@ments, and Agnes Maw, 1717 Minor ON m their auto when it another at Eighth ave. Stewart st. Friday night, J. J. 2002 BE. John st, and Miss ‘M. Belden, same address, were d so seriously that they were d to city hospital. iam Kerr, 24, of 628 BE. Toth i, was the driver of the other auto. lies Margaret Adams, 20, 1818 Yale was riding with him. They uninjured. | Arnot received multiple scalp nds and Miss Belden scalp , & cut over one eye and somewhat on the following meditation upon the part of either of | these people in the taking baby, nor could we show that Mis* | Git sox ON KIDNAPING HERE'S STARTS ust’ STAG CASE | okt ABOUT ONE “Your honor is probably advised | when state of facts. I filed an affidavit practically setting forth these facts in connec tion with the case “Investigation which the prose cuting attorney’s office has been | "i @ able to make bas never developed ‘ anything which showed to our minds pnelusively that there was any pre of the Brainerd knew the child was to be taken other than the fact saw Mr. Stagg running to the car] with the baby and telling her to |). drive. that she “Of cours, fiat conclusively tablishes her guilt as an ac in the case, whether it was tated or not. I will say a the witnesses we have in 5: contplice premed! that dno claim that Miss Brainerd told them she did not know the court b ad made & final deeree disposing of the baby but that Mr. Stagg had told the court had not made any tion of the child. MUST HAVE KNOWN SHE DID WRONG her that dixpost. “We did not know whether these facts were true or not, but that if ashe helped him in it was wrong, and that was # asrunied the way [that ahe did she must have realised uffictent to combat it in court before a jury “Mr. Stagg has never been arrest ed and both cities were u find him, The case was set on Tuesday of this week. ‘Thursday I was in consultat: Mr. Henderson. I told Mr son I believed Mr, Stage real party in interest and I nable to| for trial | On last jou with Hender- was the claimed he was the only one to profit in any way by the kidnaping; | words, it was his child and ehild, that if she did anythin, t assist him in committ crime, but since he n other not her} ie it was ing the was the guilty party he was the one who should re cetve punishment. “after consultation I agreed with Mr. Henderson that if it would be possible to get Miss Brainerd to cause Mr. Stagg to deliver himeelf— I understood at that time he was be-| yond the jurisdiction of the court and beyond the extradition the United States, altho I laws of had no knowledge and I do not know now what country he was tn—I told Mr. Henderson if Miss Brainerd would get Mr. Stagg to return, not for the purpose of standing trial, the purpose of pleading guilty and| but for saving the county the expense of a trial, and take the sentence imposed | by the court, that I would not press the charge against Miss Brainerd. SURRENDERED HIMSELF ON THAT UNDERSTANDING “Mr, Henderson notified me later promise and Mr. Stagg bas voluntar- ily delivered himself in court this out the hearing, he simply Stagg and his attorney thru ridor and down to the jail BOOKED, LOCKED UP; BABY NOT IN COURT followed the cor. Stagg wae promptly booked and locked up. He said he did not want d hands. B A taxi driven by H. E. Bell, 3456 ave. N., was sideswiped by anoth- unidentified auto near Second ave. and Pike st, Friday, and knocked to the path of a northbound street ‘The taxi was damaged to the it of $1,200, Bell said, DRIVES AUTO ON PARKING STRIP; HITS GIRL Altho he drove his auto onto the ing strip to avoid Arbutus Cor- | yell, 12, of 4533 36th ave. S. W., at f 40th ave. S. W. and Alaska st. Fri- ) day, the auto hit her and knocked | ber down, G. W. Austin, 416 28th ave. B., reported to the traffic division. | Bhe received a slight scalp wound, James Boody smith, 8 of 427 Broadway N., ix in Minor hospital, with one rib broken and severely bruised about the body. Hurrying | home from the Aloha school, Friday afternoon, he was struck by the auto of Stephen E. Mills, 6819 W. Green Lake way, at Broadway and Repub Hican st. Special Program at Y.M.C.A. Sunday Beginning with an orchestra re @ital at 2:15, a special pom program will be given at the Y,.M. C. A. Sunday afternoon. At 3 p. m. there will be an illustrated lecture Harry L. Wilson, superintendent court. If he had been, It is doubtful if Stagg would have seen him, for be did not look around or recognize any one. There was nothing of the debo nair, carefree man of the world about him. It was evident he real tzed the situation and had gone into it with full knowledge of what be faced. He appeared resotved to go thru “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” was Stagg’s greeting to Scott Z. Henderson, his attorney, and the three newspaper men who met him on his return. RIDES UP MAIN STREET UNDER GLARE OF LIGHTS Stagg was not molested on his ar. rival in Tacoma, tho he rode up Pa cific ave. in Henderson's auto under the glare of the street lights, without an attempt to avoid being seen. He spent the night at Henderson’s home at Lake Steilacoom, The train bringing Stagg back to Tacoma to face punishment for his crime was delayed about two hours jumped the track and tied up the St. Paul train while the rails were being cleared. As Stagg left the train at East Au- burn to transfer to the local North ern Pacific to Tacoma he was met the First Methodist Sunday|»y Henderson and the newspaper St discussion groups ere|™men. Henderson had wired to Stage led to follow the lecture,}on the train, taking precautions to use the assumed name.under which Stage was traveling. Both Stagg and Henderson refnsed to may what alias Stagg had used. From East Auburn to Tacoma the trip was completed in Henderson's automobile. WEARS SMALL MUSTACHE AND HORN-RIMMED GLASSES Stagg wore a smal] mustache and large horn-rimmed glasses, which dis ards the Friendship supper, ‘at which Frank 8, Bayley, local at- torney, will be the speaker. The Program will end with the Fireside hour, ied by Arne 8. Allen Will Resubmit Bill for Irish Home Rule LONDON, Dec. 18—The Irish home rule bill was to be resubmitted to the house as a result of an in-| guised him so well that he was hard sertion of 4 minor amendment by the|ly recognized on the railroad plat- house of lords. The lords made no| form. . ttempt to pass the amendments re-| It had been reported that Stagg ed. by’ commons. had dyed his light hair black, to fur It is understood that royal assent) ther disguise himself. But if he had to the bili will be announced next|done this during the time he was a week. fugitive there were no traces of ar- » Is Robbed M 2 pny gg on his blond head Fri al lay night. - Charge; $1,500 Bail ‘An soon as the auto was on its way toward Tacoma Stagg settled back in Charged with robbery of the mailg,| his seat, lighted a elgaret and an- iat Blackeston, 20, is held ns nounced he was ready to answer fed grand Jury on $1,509| questions. 4s, following a hearing Friday be-! SAYS HE'S “NOT MUCH United States Commissioner | FOR PUBLICITY Robt. McClelland. Blackeston was| “During the eight years T have arrested near Juan de Fuca, Island, been in the newspaper business. T county. | have interviewed lote of people, but SD I never thought I would be inter JERSEY CITY, N. J.—Bottle al a Lac viewed,” he said with a laugh. Seotch whisky placed in corner-| “I am not much of a hand for pub stone of First National Bank, of|licity myself.” which Gov. Kawards is president. | “Were you with Miss Brainerd near Cle Elum by a wreck. Two cars| HERE’S MORE ABOUT GOV. HART she was arrested in New York?” Stage was asked “It I had heen, T would have re tu here sooner,” he replied “When did you make up your mind | to return? “1 don't bellewe T ean fix a definite date,” Stagg answered, Then he add ed, emphatioally, “There was never any doubt about that.” Stage sald he preferred not to tell | where he had been. |or BOBBY Asked when he decided to kidnap | in baby son and why he did it, he jtated a moment, then replied | 1 would rather not answer that right now, T would rather tefl the judge first.” “When did you start wearing glnases?” one of the Rewspaper men axked. “Oh, my eyes got weak looking for cops.” Stage anwwered, Stage jonhed about Capt, Strick land's strenuous efforts to land him) in jatl When Henderson's ear stopped at the corner of Pacific ave, and 10th| st, Stage remarked: ANXIOUS TO SEE HTS OLD PAL, STRICKLAND “Let's go look Strickland up now, I'd like to see the old boy.” Stare said he knew Strickland well; that he used to sit in Strick land's office with his feet on the desk many a day when he was writing for the old Tacoma News. “There is one cop back tn New York city who is awfully sore jabout me," he laughed. “This cop only mimed me by about five minutes.” Questioned as to the leading points in the kidnaping case, Stage refused to answer, tho he willingly discussed his trip from St. Paul, and asked many questions about old friends and acquaintances in | newspaper offices in the North. | vee, PRAISES LOYALTY OF NEW YORK NEWS WRITERS | He prained the loyalty of New | York newspaper writers. “L don't know of a bunch of people I would rather trust with everything I have or hope to have,” |he said. “They surely went down | the Mine for me.” Stagx appeared thinner = than when he worked on The Seattle Star a little more than a yrar | ago. | Fils face, once tanned and health ful, was very pale. Tho he appeared |under questioning to be very ner | yous, he still retained his charac teristic cool and jaunty manner. aid he mention the name of Betty Prainerd. He shied at questions about ber. . “I am here, isn't that story enough?” he sald, with a careless laugh. “I prefer not to answer sume questions, but I know how It is and I don't mind if you ask them. I am not offended.” Stagg sald be bad a big lansh indicated that he had not left that city. It was learned earty Friday that Stage would arrive during the night. After first attempting to deny this, Henderson admitted that he was ex- pecting Stagg, and offered to take the three who had learned the news to Bast Auburn to meet the train. Thia wae a part of Henderson's plan to defeat any effort Capt, Strickland might have to arrest Stagg and jail him in apite of the fact that there was No warrant for his arrest, SORRY HE DIDN'? GIVE THE BOYS A THRILL “I was not afraid of being picked up.” said Stagg. “Until I received Mr. Henderson's telegram on the train, I planned to go to the Tacoma hotel for the night. Say, if I had known you fellows wanted a big thrill, I might have grabbed an air. | plane that I saw at Wenatches and flown across the mountaing to Ta coma.” As Henderson turned his car for home, after dropping the reporters in Tacoma, Stagg said, in a broken voloe: “Good might, boys, See you in court. Give my regards to Strick land.” Tom Gurand, who shot Oncar Ro- in @ quarrel over land, was charged with assault in the first degree Fri day in an information filed by Dep. uty Prosecuting Attorney J, D. Car. COLDS Grip, Influenza, Sore Throat Hamphreys’ Homeo. Medicine Co., 166 William St., New York, and at ail Drug and Country Stores, Freed Erom Torture Eatonic Cleared His Up-Set Stomach “The le who have seqn me ouffer res from neuralgia brought on by an up-set stomach now see me perfectly soand and well—absolutely due to Tato, writes R. Long. Proftt by Mr. “J keep your 1 cecah Se hechiy soot tion, fresh and cool, and ailments that come from an acid con- dition. KEatonic brings relief by tak- |ing np and carrying out the excess acidity and gases—-does it quickly. Take an Eatonic after eating and seo how wonderfully it helps you. B'g box costs only a trifle with your drug: aist’s guarantes. i STARTS ON PAGE ONE fire committee of the Parent-Teacher asnoctation. | Senator Smith was called on the! phone at Everett and told of the gov ornor'’s‘ntand, Ax attorney for the condemned boy he urged that Dr, | Mark A. Matthews, women's organt zations and others interested in the| case redouble their afforts to infly ence the governor to commut White's sentence to Ife imprison ment. | | “I will go to Olympia during the holidays,” said Senator Smith, “to file petitions in the boy's behalf. [| wish Dr, Matthews and all these in-| fuential women's clubs would write to the governor and to me, and that | everyone else interested would do the | same. “T «tif have faith that Governor | Hart will commute the sentence after | the boy is taken to Walla Walla, tf| not before. The penitentiary warden, under the new jaw, sets the date | for the hanging. Warden Drum in very much opposed to capital punish- ment.” Tho he declined to recetve the com: | mitteo, the governor maid he would continue to recelve communications bearing on the case of White, ‘These | would be filed, he said, with other papers in the ease and the matter | taken up “at the proper time.” | LETTERS FOR MRS, WHITE RECEIVED BY THE STAR Thruout the day many letters for Mra, White came to The Star, all exprenaing hope that her boy's life would be saved by the governor be fore Christmas, One communication was a Christmas card. On one aide is thia verne } “I wend to you this [ttle minstve, | that it may bring you the asurance of my fond remembrance of you this | day and that it may also tell you of | my sincerest wishes for a Merry | Christmas,” On the other sido tn written: “To Dear Mra, White: I trust to God your boy will be freed for your make, dear.” It ts signed, “A Friend, G. W Ramage, 11 & I st, Toppenish, | Wash, | One petition, atened by the office | employes of the Northern Life Inwur- | ance company here, left Seattle to day for the governor's mansion. tt carries 26 signatures of men and women opposed to the hanging. PROBE TRAGEDY | AT SOUTH BEND Survivor Is ‘Held After Four Are Blown Up SOUTH BEND, Wash, Deo, 181— Closely guarded by deputy sheriffs, Fred Weich, 40, only survivor of the crew of the diking machine Beaver, which was blown up Thursday night, ‘was today take® tw the coroner's in- quest tn the weltag that he could shed further light @n the tragedy. ‘The Beaver was esmpletely destroyed an@ four of her crew of five killed when she was blown up and then caught fire. Eigel Christen- son, Frank Behnke, Blanche Behnke and Adolph Jarvi were the victims Welch was not on the Beaver at the time of the explosion. He ts! said to have appeared soon after- ward. Welch is said to have had quarrels recently with merdbers of the crew. .A case of giant dynamite is missing from the Beaver’s stare- house, Bigel Christenson ts maid to have stated just before he died that while he was struggling In the water, ter- ritly wounded, Welch appeared and) } THE SEATTLE STAR SIGN THIS: MAIL TO GOVERNOR | Governor of Washington, Kxecotive Mansion, Olympta: (hat the exnentton of » human being, and Bet a minor || child, bs against the public interest, believing that the Christmas season will be made happier for theusands If the sentence passed by the court is not carried out, 1 most respectfully petition you to com mute te life imprisonment the death sentence passed upon Inom White, and to act in time so that Isom White's mother may know on Chriwunas day that her boy is me longer in the shadow ef the gallows, Neme Addreae uy Hero of Five Wars Ends His Life; “?'m a Coward”—O Brien 108 ANGELES, 18,—Ldeut,) from Oakland, He and his wife bad Pat O'Brien, one of the outstanding | PAaration, and had planned @ rec |onciliation, Hoe was to have return heroer « en poe ross of the world war, is dead to) 4 t> gan Francinco last night to day by his own hand, a “coward,” 44 / receive a distinguished decoration he branded himself before he sent | from the British government at the} bullet crashing thru his brain in a| hands of the British consul here, | room of the Alexandria hotel here. he nate westen Oy :C7em beteee pore he ended his life about midnight last] rien, who was 30 years old, WAS) night with a 46 caliber army auto-| & veteran of five wars and gained distinetion in the world war aa « matic pistol follows in part: “Only @ coward would do what I member of the royal flying corps. He Killed himeecif after an unsuccessful am doing, but I guess I am one, With attempt effect Dee. all my war record, I am Just like the) rest of the people in this world—a to & reconciliation little pit of clay And to you, my with his wife, known to the motion| «weet little wife, I go thinking of| picture world as “Virginia Dare.” | you. And my dear, sweet mother, | O'Brien's bride of a year was in| my sisters and brothers, May the) another room of the hotel and heard] just God that answered my prayers the shot that snuffed out his life, in those two days that I mpent in| NEW DECORATI making my escape from Germany WAS WAITING once more answer them Licut. O'Brien cume here yesterday | “Te the five armies I have been in, the birds, the animals I love #0 well, to my friends, to all the world of adventurers—I may good-bye. Please send what you find back to my mother in Momence, Il.” HIS WIFE HAD REFUSED TO SEK HIM The note, one or five written by O'Brien before he shot himself and the only one his widow would sur- render to authorities, also blamed another woman for “breaking up” his home. This woman has been liv- ing with Mrs. O’Brien and was with her in the hotel room tast night, O'Brien wan author of the famous war book “Outwitting the Hun” tn which he told of hin remarkable es- cape from a German prison camp. His wife, whone refusal to see htm lant night is said to have prompted HERE’S MORE ABOUT SO-CALLED GAS STARTS ON PAGE ONE but would work @ hardship on con. sumers. Many cannot afford to purchase the necessary equipment, and many apartment house dwellers have to depend upon gas whether they want to or not. The spark that touched off the telephone campaign was the failure of @ gas range to boll coffee when a Parent-Teacher association met at Z ok gre Green Lake one night thie week. | Si# 8¢t, was overcome by the shock. The kas flame kept going out] y ohn L. Lewis Is “with an awful noise,” according to one of the women. It was a two United Mine Head hole burner, The women at first . tried to boll the coffes with one| INDIANAPOLIS, Ind, Dec. 18.— burner. This failing, they lit the|John L. Lewis has been reelected international president of the United Mine Workers’ of America, Ellis Searles, editor of the United Mine Workers Journal, said today. Searles based his assertion on tm complete returns from the union's election which was held December 14 Charging that ber husband while tn the army forged her signature and obtained from the government $420 offher allotments, Mra. Kather. ine L. Boo filed mit for divorce from Alfred G. Boe Friday. other burner, Whereupon the Name of the first burner sank down and died—with the “awful” explosion aforementionel. TIME EXTENDED ON QUESTIONNAIRES Responding to a flood of indienant protests from Seattle gas consumers, the public service commission late Friday announced that it would on- tinue to accept answered question- naires or voluntary communications relating to the quality of gaa. This is in direct coptradiction to the commission's stand Thursday when, after recelving 200 question naired, it was announced that no more would be given consideration. “Fiven tho they arrtve too late for compilation prior to the hearing,” mays the new order, the question naires will be considered. “Persons recetving questionnaires are requested to fill out the same and mail them to the commission as promptly as possible.” The Star bas been unable as yet to find anyone who received one of The holiday beverage everybody likes—“Biue Moon"—ask your dealer. Ady. kien on Vashon Island, December 8,/ the questionnaires, Twelve hundred were supposed to have been matied | to Seattle consumers, inquiring what they thought of the present low quality of gas which Seattle is get-| ung. struck him over the head several times with a club, ‘The body of Blanche Behnke, who ‘was cook on the Beaver, was found ALACE HIP Oil VANCOUVER, WN., ASKS FOR HIGHER RATE OLYMPIA, Dec. 18—The Pacific Power & Light Co, which selle-gax to Vancouver, Wash., has petitioned | the public service commission for an | increase in rates, to meet an increase | of 21 cents per thounand wholesale, | which the Portland Gas Co, from | which it obtains tte gaa has assessed | against it. The commission haa noti-| TONIGHT—LAST TIMES “ fied the Vancouver company that its | OVERSEAS petition will have to take the usual | REVUE” course ' SUN., MON., TURS., WED. A NEW Show of “LOEW'S”"— ‘The Best in Vaudeville G. SWAYNE GORDON & CO. In a Comedy Playlet, “OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE” AL. 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It carefully guarded from public action, which would redues to a third rate power in the can be «tated authoritatively that the presidentelect began his|eyes of the three big Huropean Mm Marion conferences with no precon.| tions, is one of the steps designed ceived notions as to the plan which|to indicate the allies’ opposition to he hopes will evolve ultimately out of | restoration of King Constantine, the numerous conversations. - - ——— na Ce It t said that there are only ST. PAUL.—Stxstory Traveller! three math of ivory in existence. tmilding destroyed by fire. Lows,| The Chinese have a peculiar rev $150,000. erence for printed matter. STARTING TODAY THEY ALL FALL FOR LEW CODY The Great Love-maker of the Screen —in— ? “OCCASIONALLY One was even willing to become * his mother-in-law to be near him! A “Bohemian” romance of an artist’s loves. Beautiful models and carefree studio life. 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