The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 22, 1921, Page 1

BS 2SPEED TRIAL OF | THUG WHO SHOT | THREE OFFICERS On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise TheSeattleStar xe iiil Entered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to §9 we 3 , SATURDAY, JAD A , ayor Caldwell’s Suggestion FORTY MORE POLICEMEN Let's Try It, City Councilmen ~x@ Weather ynight and Sunday rain; warmer tonight; strong southeasterly winds. VOLUME (UARY 22, 1921. ‘TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ ---at the End of the Week ONE p OLICEMAN Innocent Bystander and Gunman Also | Shot in Affray That Resultsin Outlaw’s Capture 23 RANK WAT was located Mortheast half. acr the Central build! He wd the Blassed-off rc rectors’ me fers in Hongkong, C Soerabaya, these being among th places where Frank Wate ©o., of Seattle, maintain off: First he sat in arm-chair @ then he got up and paced back a forth the length of talked. “Business in parity with b World—no better and no worse,” he said. | “We are passing thru a period of @ifficult but tion, and it depends on the courage, c of pur-| pose Tat we people of Seattle dem. onstrate, as to what the future bh: for Seattle DIFFICULTIES INCREASED * BY PESSIMISTIC THOUGHT “Conditions here are nets bad ax they seem to be—our d © heen greatly creased by thought that Mien indulging in | Because, when a thief grabbed Because, when he entered his | Because she didn't lose her Because, as executive seeretary Because, by ali appearances, he fatally wounded; MeMill lan | | | A charge of murder in the first degree was filed Saturday in superior court against John Smith, gunman, held Satur- ~ day in city jail, following the killing Friday night of City — Detective James O’Brien, and the wounding of two other policemen and a civilian in two spectacular gun battles. The battles occurred in two different parts of the city, | one at Broadway and Harrison st., at 9:15 p. m., ‘and the second in front of the Hoge building, Second ave. and Cherry st., at 10 p. m. " The first battle was between Smith and Patrolman W. A pessimists i ee " * ‘ . T. Angle and Neil N. McMillan. Smith opened fire when i rat pena st | MRS.S. VAN BRUEN | HARRY W. CLARK | MRS. HARRY W. CLARK |H. L. KIRBY WILMON TUCKER Angle and MeMillan wtsppaat him. Aegis was Perhaps — « IN | her purse this week, she got mad home late one night this werk nerve when she and her hua c a 0 ee, se xz ho con- © THINK we are down and ani * of the Seattle thrift commiter, | 4 the “mystery man” vl AR agteg Mainly BE down and| i*atead of frightened, held om, and found two burvlars con band found armed gunmen in was wounded badly, but Hot Central station was notified of the out, we shall o he haa successfully driven home ducted Mayor Caldwell’s street atally. Tho they fired sev-| double shooting by City Electrician “It wéuld be a good plan for all The thief ran, “But I was TER- pitched into the one nearest him attacked one, she drew the at- the gospel of intelligent spend- car probe, and has, until now, eral shots at Smith, none | Cl@rk. who said two men had beem ing, during the Thrift Week Been able to conceal the fact | shot at Broadway and Harrisom, few min.| RIBLY frightened afterward,” and gave him battle-royal, altho tention of the other one fram | pon | fought with him, and screamed. fronting him with guns, he | their home. While her husband Of us people to spend a | tutes each day in counting Off bless | Mrs. Van Bruen admita the gunman fired at him. him, summoning the police campaign, which closes Sunday and keep the town guessing. took effect. OFFICERS TAKEN TO —— FICERS ACCOST HOSPITALS BY AUTOISTS ings. | “We have been wonderfully blessed ‘TwNMAN ON STREET A. few minutes Jatec Anata arcives im the past and we shall be wonder A ti G t | The second battle came after a/*t city hospital in the auto of fully blessed in the future, providing viation Grea general description of the thug! Biemsaia. 1265 Empire building, Mes we ere grateful, receptjve and deser had been sent out Detective lby tc was taken to Minor hospital toe |O'Brien and his brother detective, | >¥ 1+ C. Buchman, of Fenton court, Sronemmns: ARMY CURFEW) NEARS BRINK) Stuff, Declare’ IN SUB SINKING, ROBBED BY TWO "sz -S ss sm @uty to Sgattie in endeavoring to do} | ibandit was ‘flashed to every officer and accosted him. He immediately : in an unselfish at: jon duty. He was described as short, anything that will nen, kilbed Montgomery and|heavy-set and wearing a red mace 5 gstgelle Military Order Causes Con-|Direful Happenings Feared| Two Grandmas British Diver Goes to Bottom! Thug Jumps on Running) down, killed. Montgomery and | Henvy.ses and *eriticism and pessimistic thought| ‘ ini | CHICAGO, Jan. 22.—Nebraska’s| lbut he was not overcome untii| ©'Brien, Montgomery and Carman] with a determined, combined effort. | sternation by Officials |flying grandmas, Mra Dri smith | of Channel Board, Hits Him on Jaw | felled by a blow from Montgomery's |Were the next to encounter him, backed by « stic confidence that | — } — and Mra. H. Wheeler, arrived in Chi a i 4 ES i hae | They were walking in front of the © make Seattle the great city! CORK, Jan. 22—The new curfew! LONDON, Jan, 22—Baron Frank-| cago by train instead of airplane to-| LONDON, Jan The British} ‘Two bandits halted N. Hayes, 2853] fist .|Hoge building when O’Brien sii operative w arted firing 4 O'Brien went helpful to Se é - Smith {s said by police to have| at world port that nature in-| regulations imposed upon Cork by|enstein, Austrian minister to Great | day with a crew of #ix| Ww. 6ard st. in his auto at 145 a. m.| 5m <aeghpase Raa shootings, | “Well, look who's here!” tended she should be. | the British military are causing the! Britain, declared in a state 50 mon, was lost in the = Montgomery turned and looked at P~ filing of the murder charge consternatior day that 1 1 Thured: . can Gh ae evra’ today. Details of the ac-|0f his car, aksaulted him and robbed | within more than 12 hours bre man Wie eae ans Se jin the A per him of $2 jafter the battles ga indication } sagen t made publi j | dy trial for Smith will] “It's him, all right,” O'Brien said, | Both had instantly recognized Smith The women were no less enthust antic about aviation because they nt cred-| were compelled to give up the air 1| its to Austria, “no one can foresee | plane flight, by which the elector Saturday, fired a shot thru the top it was supreme ¢ BUSINESS BETTER Fores ; rad already haw been | its Paris meeting fails to TN TH usiness will better in the | Pr ; it will be much better next | hours, which are the longest inflict zed. The reatri | that vote . | Hayes tried to drive his auto away the consequences.” carrying Nebraska to Washington, at Des Moine fall, both domestic and foreign. The}! martial in Ireland, have ont res lHauidatic st rove wkward from a business VIENNA, Jan. Reopent "y o ni present process of liquidation is try-| > a1 @ | J i 4 of f weather. sos ing, but it is absolutely necessary, | point of view the Austrian. parliament hag béen| “sorry we couldn't have made the Not Divided R: and the sooner we are thru with it, Workers’ wages are paid Saturday | postponed until Ti ern ! ight fired at him, the other jumped on! wi ao everything in its power to |PTeached, the officers moved toward entire journey by air,” said Mrs Irregularities in the payment of|the jaw. Hayes 3 th but we had to d and hit him on| fem speedy. trial of the case,"|tim. He fired without warning) jeaid Prosecuting Attorney Donglas. “This office believes that titled to under the| Because L. H. Waite, 24th ave, |'9 this particular onee speed is es rdinance, were ch 4 by Civil]S, kept his money in his sock he|"ental” us, they sald. | Service Commissioner Chauncy Bax- | lost nothing to a lone hold-up at 23rd |4UST ONE WE the finance committees of |ave. and E. Jefferson st., early Sat-| OFFICER STEV WAS bout our trip| the city council Friday | urday Friday night's tragedy fo YTON, Jan, 22.—Henry than we did,” Mra Wheeler mld. It was announced that a resolu} P.M. Olson, Sixth ave. N., was|just one week another batt ny had a net gain of 2,101 thorizing a eheck of the pay | held up by two men at Sixth ave. and|of a similar nature between ban. |"¢ dropped the gun and gave Smith y credit: over Truman would be the subject of a pub | Blanchard st., at 8:30 p. m. Friday. |dits and policemen, in which Patrol- |® Sehea ik blow on the jaw. Smith 7 1 1,461 precine in hear befe the judiciary and| They got nothing [man Voiney L. Stevens was kil dropped to the street unconscious, enate recount of the 1918 sen fipance committee Tue y and two bandits wounded, one of| Louis Marks, 808 Second ave. 8) ‘ Ww torial election ~ nem Creighton Dodge, fata | was driving up ‘ond ave. in hi Former Soldier Held |... ius rl sli pont PRISON Aut ue cor [Kerensky to Form |" ath now Sto ne ne nea in U. S. Arson Plot : Su day evening church #rv-| Salt Lake Robbers | WAS DIVORCE | Anti-Soviet Union offic rs. O'Brien was one of the| “Many people crowded the streets,” Get $7,000 in Gold | | DENVER, Cot. Jan. 22 1 fire to govern BALT LAKE CITY, Jan. 3 Is Sentenced _ as Frisco! char {illan no- | ducked into every available doorway nkiin Lamb, for igned over to his wife $40,000 in| #evernment in Russia will be creat-|tjced Smith sauntering down the|and many ran In a moment, See r at Fort Wayne,|Deputy Auditor to igh fle phtgpntay cocina Gangster Te) ceinte bene. Wiles he teteraca{80: by ©. ebecial, oompatttesiot nite tetraat-at ie in day, bec we in Wash-|salarier to city employes, whereby |The bandit then we his reed to stop. Malcolm | The two detectives replied. O'Brien re dropped, shot thru the heart, but emptied his gun before dying. Smith was wounded three times AFTER but stayed on his feet. Montgomery esc ms will be | a ns, a hoppin the sooner normal cc ays has | the critical political situation restored. Let us liquidate and mark | been time for the next few months smaller shopkee nusiness that rched him, took jay «do their princi-| the conference hts. The | one is anxiou awaiting news from ston by Sunday night. ‘The col-|some receive more and others less lege meets on Monday than they a ing. This cuc It was their first flight, bat the | cit cited by the Ford Gains 2,101 in | women wore not ner which Ino have badly of business. Newberry Contest nusement) wASHTN in the ste and bar. en the clubs money and disap t can be | pé well and | tom has b “Buy nothing abroad th bought In Seattle. 7 speak well of Seattle solutely confiderit, as v reason to be, of the « Seattle, and glad to b i serve her in co-operation with all her | evening, while tob rs.” | bers are hard hit, and 1 unscathed. 10T i" wed by] When Montgomery pulled the trig » jargely |Ser and found the magazine empty n of Nebraska did a whole | ter be her ure obliged to other loyal sons and are restricted, e nded. been wus ans of the forc }h Before} PARIS, Jan, 22—A permanent | he first shooting affray started war he|Oreanization to oppose the soviet}/soon after Ang said, at central station, later, OIT, Jan, 22—Charged with . "rer hots were fired. Men and women vernment and burned in reprisal defrauding the hiring a map to ment buildings, F mer quartermas here, was arr B. Pryor went way and Harrison st, |ond ave, for several blocks each way rence of the “This 18 a suspicious looking fel-|from the scene of the shooting was ti-bolesbvik leaders called by Alex-|jow. We had better shake him | cleared,” n currer Appointed by the con) federal au the sufe and vault of the Wester alleged, | Give Dope on Bonus (1 ‘ana Ncte this morning,| SAN: FRANCISCO Su-|his wife's affections or Judge Ward terday, in the county court n Allen McDonnell, con-| Pryor, in his divorce Pryor found ther man had won thorities tod hired a man to set fi be Lamb is now Loan association here this morning, der Kerensky The robbers une Latest inf bonus 4 world war will be furnished by ormation on the status yments for veterans of paswed 4 specially con. | per | , down,” An aid to his less experi Nsbsabain we One of the objects of the organiza Patrolman H. Mull was a blocs enced companion. away when the shots were tion, it was announced, will be “to fired. ‘sive him a MeMills appeal to the governments and peo: tructed steth: ¢ to listen to the | sentence of the vault and open the|Victed of a felonious attack upon|his wife refuse to She told him he gang outrages | could go wherever he chose, so long rning. as he didn't make her destination n stood about 10 feet be-| When he arrived it was all over. He hind Angie when the latter accosted | aided Montgomery in getting the the ious character, Without | wounded Carman and Smith to elty warnin, mith drew an automatic hospital. O'Brien was dead lef Deputy County Auditor W. R-| combination. The time lock on the | Jessie Montgomer in connection | «ingle thin dime Lumber Mill Orders [firstly in the nied cate, 214 Go [16 War set for 7 a.m. and the| with the J found the heir identity has been discovered. ples of the world to help refugees in contribu yward 9 giving m order to preserve Russi tion to universal culture ’ Among the members of the com. | Pistol and started firing | Other witnesses of the shooting Joor open, No clue | of Thank nee Was the usual term of|his, Pryor claimed, He was granted | Exceed Production |!" *t, Thursday noon. Faris re t tly attended a state conference | nich the law rej|a divoree r milla report production 61.32 per ne to 50 years, w mittee. are Kerensky, M, Miliukoff | WOUNDED POLICEMAN |who reported to police were Leon ber mills report produc cent below normal compilation of on the bonus question at Olympia. | | 61.82 per |°” ae "Nabbed After Three [:uires., Sen Quentin will be the Jand M. Avksienteff FIRES AT F ng to the :| EU CATIONAL Teaister Satan oe ave , Wao FA |Asks School Board | od He shot Angle twi MAN | Venstandig, Smith building; Clarence then dropped | White, Railway ange building, 7 Med fo ade © pullets. |and H. J. Darry, Central build. 21, accused of| Oa second count in the inaict-| to Help Save Lights "TIE YOUR DOG, Altho "wounded, MeMitlan got his |ing a ae | ment the legal sentence of five years | wee we Coast Lumbermen’s association. Pro duction for the week was 91,450 fect. Orders were slightly In excess | oa) cation of production Semues HARDSHIP} rritz num: SPOKANE, Jan. 22.—Sometimes| having shot and ‘wounded hi hardship brother-in-law, George J. Gagne ounty road foreman|three years ago, was arrested at BY HICKORY!) pistor out ana firea at the fleeing! smith “tough” when searched The | Smith at central station. His wounds bet-| Smith ran east on B. Harrison st, /hothered him little, He argued with a Poor officer® and accused them of cheat. Buffum ing him out of $5 when they counted the by MeDomnell’s attorney and prompt rod to hm. ave, N., came running’ out to see his money. He was hustled up to recently returned | tiad by the jude, Meponneh's|Charge of Perjury Postn Support of the school board in re ducing the number of light globe to life was given. | McDonnell was convicted three bate ' Fi ; ; ALEM, Ore, Jan days ago on an indictment contain- | Preakases by mischievous boy “! owner of the vicious dog had laborers learnedly | A been asked by J. D. Ross, superin- urn Friday afternoon by Sheriff ing two ate charg f HlORY. | enone of Venting ter keep him cha nsid o” probation was made . Sabre the house, if he wants mail deliv. | house ROCKEFELLER GIVES MILLION DOLLARS TO AID HUNGRY KIDDIES YORK rhert rock formation nd ‘soi! | Matt F inste of doing Swedish | charged with exercises with a pick, he fired|degree, Bur h's deputies, I : A motion t, Mrs. the effy jail at once, as superior of, he might meet with ter Huckestein issued an{ What the shots were al ney then announced hs wots in Adoption Fails)‘ taaay tat mail Gait county commissioners toda Bu be denied keepers canines | stood in the doorway violence they're still fired | Charley Mullin to i al. Judge Ward. declared| At a preliminary hearing Friday} which bite, ‘Tho postmaster, in de mith came running down the —- them. They took it up with the|here from ry will|Buffum and her daughter, Bthel, |ficers fe rer, bene a dinner here leat ne acipéak mhodld’ be taken and|suetios of tte’ Pamoa CC) Melfanli cous aha, pointes clit. that : “psy me "2 1/To Represent U. W. | Manage Tacomas | ** sn /appea! should be taken and! Gunmimed the charge of periary| ton man carters were peomcay at-| “Get in that house," he shouted at \Jack Dempsey on or f ss : | TACOMA Charley Mul-| neceauary steps uinst Mrs. Arlee Edna. Kooken| tacked by dogs, one of the men|Johnson,. and fired a shot, which Way to Portland br at College Convention iin, fortner 9 Const leaguer, and) naeemnr’, SEODE t tence cate] Mad her Husband, Miner Ralph Woo |paine serersiy iter |went wild, All three ducked into the i $ - rape Mins Creigh Cunningham will rep-|White Sox and Yanks infielder, has|1y. ehowing little Interes ken, accused by John Quient, Mrs. | AS | hou | OAKLAND, Cal, Jan Jack ality es “ : ent the University of Washington | been appointed manager of the ‘Ta Kooken's former hust of swear BELLINGHAM.—-Bloedel-Donovan | Smith was seen to run across a va: |Dempsey, heavyweight champion, a = se the convention of ¢ Young |coma baseball n the Pacific In Near Thompson Falls, in Montana, | ing falsely in an effort to adopt| Lumber Co. to close mills for indefi- | cant lot a block away by W. R. Hock: left today for Portland, where he a Dp eeer - - Chrint apne ny in| ternational league, it was announced m which is said to issue | Betty Quient,’6, child of Mrs. Koo-| nite period as soon ag remaining | ing, 1528 18th ave. N., who was/will appear Wednesday night in an mall order bruary 6 to 10, [here today, lis a steady stream of als, ‘ken and Quient are filled, | driving home in his auta jexhibition bout with Tery Keller, 4