The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 24, 1921, Page 7

MONDAY, JANUARY 24, 1921. TION IS SWEPT BY THUGGERY Survey Shows East Hardest Hit but West and South Also Crime-Ridden A survey of the ve the THE SEATTLE STAR POLICEMEN’S SLAYER He did admit that he had been living by for the last several ye | Photographs and fingerprints of | Schmitt have been sent to the police | f all the lar cities of the country to nee if they have any record of him, | ry Previous to the fatal shooting Fri Behmitt conferred for|day night, nine policemen had been Then, ariving,| slain in the line of duty since 1897, | We plead | but at no time had auch a large num: | ber been killed in such a short time. STARTS AT 9:30 In 1911 three officers, Davis, Cun liffe and Harris, were killed within | court, “the| five months. morning *e MORE POLICE | 'TO BE ASKED |OF COUNCIL Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell and} Chief W. H. Searing are to} appear before the elty council Mon day afternoon and renew their plea| aware that| 0" funds with which to employ | vt iynen | mere policemen in Seattle | hn pretty | There are 48 fewer men on duty nat now than were on the force a year| Kun had| 8% according to Searing, whose uate hh request for funds to remedy the was refused by the coun cll when the last police budget was made up. The decision to the council Monday Caldwell and Searing at a conference “PHOTO BRIDE” MISSES MATE | Here's More About Starts On Page 1 FREDERICK & NELSON | FIFTH AVENUE AND PINE STREET however, | robbery | him what nal career “Very are his rights” Ronald officers well,” waid the audience will be seated, the will remain stan¢ Silvain then led bis client to the jury box, where they conversed in low tones Siivain and five BSilvain a gullty TRIAL THURSDAY MORNING Very woll,” mid the trial will Thursday at 9:30 Owing to of other tria | time, Prose asked that a a the 4 |names be drawn t also | 3 . L. of these the hmitt | ~ drawn. | Sehmitt | Juty wherift th |there had been held ing him, He th the crimtnals. . |nervous the } THAT laxity and nien . . ‘ | “I wish to rts have led f | Jammed ihe law. THAT potitical int interfered with copin bs. about nute punced A Disposal of Broken Lines of Women’s High and Low Shoes at $4.85 Pair HERE are not all sizes in each of these groups, but there is a good range of sizes in the offering as a whole. Women who can supply their needs from this reduced-price offering will make very attractive savings. Included are: 50 Pairs of Patent Pumps 46 Pairs of Patent Pumps 48 Pairs of Kid Oxfords 17 Pairs of Bronze Pumps 58 Pairs of Kid Pumps 73 Pairs of Kid Shoes begin the great number weing held at this uting Attorney Douglas) 1 venire of 160 w afternoon, Out} jury will be| post-war crime thruout United today by The Star shows HAT the wave has it hariest but is prevalent the West and South THAT criminal crime in the struck Police enid to have county atl told a dep lay © organized | inves East t he was es of the larre ome talk to cope ald he had bee at f God m Schmitt is adequate condition: deputy 1 1 wouldn't be here,” he ing t . < . | "That wan the be carried. They never jammed 7 I have been a fanatic on guns with crim appear before was made by Sunday night following the mur THAT civilian organizations are} Working with police } THAT criminals have found tn and Net) Carman, a | Schmitt, —all in a clearance at this very low price—$4.85 pair. —THE YOWNSTAIRS STORE very much ital, where he ately for life urred | for his recov. will be the third 4 by Schm waa k the b n Se Pat n Angle fter the shooting has been fig! Very Low Prices on Children’s Bloomers 35c and 50c OUGHT under very favorable circum- stances and priced on an equally attractive basis are these Bloomers for school- girls and their younger sis- ters. 100 Women’s Wool Sweaters Reduced to $4. 95 | C is an occasion for worth- while savings when such desirable Sweaters are quoted at this low price. $name, Pennington of on kil t's gun. jen 1 ab Mur of easy money curred almost every Saturday ders have been frequent , Public demand for resignation of , tx for a Director of Safety has not | compar 14 murders With) PUNERAL FOR O'BRIEN been complied for all crimes in 1919. TUESDAY, AT 9 A. M. NEW ORLE Funeral NEW ORLEANS. ‘The | O'Brien, slain detective, will be held h has os 1 the worst of the|at St. Edward's Roman Cath New Orleans an-|church, in Hillman City, at 9 a m n erime dur: | Tuesday. Four polloe sergeants ommand of Capt. KE J act an escort. The hon be Detective ant, Detective and W. EK. crim a r - der of Detective James O'Brien, the the automobile an ally that enables | a life, Whenever I robbed a| er of Detective James O'Brien, th Attacked from within and without| carried placed h eroad ana Mange ot Safety Sprosty Das) society found her in the San Francisco Ferry building wait-| wory« Anchorage Into an near Sev iS under way tn an attempt to cope| arg trying to find him ing Saturday night The robbers approached Penning The city is rapidly becoming an in to defy pursuit | \ % “ ¢ about the only thing I cared fatal punding of Patrolman W. | Police officials have felt the lash | ’ about stealing waa a gun. I learned , mate me . hooting oO be sf public opinion. In New York Po. that a certain caliber wan the beat | trolman MoMillan and Dead} i tementestener Hnright has been | sora and most reliable, and that's what 1 laborer, by Pl 5 Ry = Repertment; in Chic niet Marie trapec 4 Patrolman Nell N. McMillan, who | | Police Garrity has been replaced This is Strapec, quaint Szecho-Slovak “picture | with Angle waa the first to meet Charles C. Fitzmorris; in Cleve-| bride,” as she appeared when officers of the Travelers’ Aid| Schmitt Friday night, was r d Director of Safety Sprosty Mon day afternoon from some of the large cities: | ing for her husband-to-be. Thus far he has not arrived, altho) NEW YORK he sent to her pargnts the money with which she came from |* NEW YORK, Jan. 24.—Reorgani.| her native land, Hi she says, is Martin Knapp and he Marching 11 Sation of New York's police system | was supposed to have a ranch near Arcata, Cal, Authorities ong enth ave. and Columbia et, early| outlaws moh > Monday the point of guns, two| Police Commissioner Enright is manked tits robbed him of $16 | eee — men, saying the in cash and $200 in travelers’ checks. force of 10,700 ts totally inadequate —_ “ . Sprosty ton from behind, stuck the guna in armed camp, bankers, brokers anc his ribs and ordered him to keep Merchants conforming with Mayor eaten nad a Po he was told. they | Hylan’s Tequest to arm toate mes treatened to shoot to kill if he re| sengers. spite this, the toll of ‘crime in lives and property mounts higher daily. Mayor Hylan blames “a great crim fmal army riven as a result of the War, who care not what means they use.” CHICAGO CHICAGO, Jan. 24.—Almost ao kill img a day is Chicago's record for services for James BOSTON, Jo x lice are most conce rease in| So bootiegsing the arres*s women hie r, or ¢ Because of the derby hat worn by one of the bandits, they are believed to be the same as the two robbers 1.| Who jumped on the running board of C. L. Raymer's auto at 320 Maple Laat Place Saturday night and forced | him to hand over $2 Unmasked, two Danatts held up| crime wave, There are coat styles with roll collar, also Tuxedo style as sketched, which may be buttoned up if desired. neanon nd 44 pa was some increase | trolmen, tn c nd holdups in the| Hedge Bloomers of firm sateen, with band top and elas- tic shirring at knee, sizes 2 to 6 years, 35¢. 4 took $1,000,000 loot In the ht times o# much as was | rere will nes Jus Colors include Peacock, 1920, just comptle< During the past yeer committed 13,000 robberies tion police strike. In al! 92 pe 4 in has been felt criminals and got roved or reaugne under fire were re 42 month SAN FRANCISCO FRANCISCO, J Mason, Mike olphin will be De ntgomery, comrade rers Frank Apostel in the Cherry phar- macy, 701 234 ave. Sunday night. | They took $5 from Apostel’s pockets | and $15.90 from the cash till Brown, Tan, American Beauty, Turquoise; also Black Rose, Bloomers of sturdy cotton serge, with band top and elastic shirring at knee, —sizes 36 to 46. Reduced to $4.95. —THE DOWNSTALLS STORE $4.5: 3 loot. This was an increase Of 4,000 robberies over 1919 H. B. Chamberiain, director of the Chicago crime commission, sa “There is no crime wave; it steady, well organized business.” | Already politicians are trying to! “get” Chief of Police Fitzmorris, who has started to clean up the town, CLEVELAND ‘There were 133 murders !n CLEVELAND, Jan. 24—Members|as against 109 In the past Of the Loyal American Legion are| Highway robberies decr ©O-operaring with the police to drive|the year. Housebreaking, out criminals. fallen off. Outlawry for months has exceeded | all records. Political interference | with the poll made Cleveland| crime wave Denver elected a tives Tom Hayden| Jim Mitchell, 19, and EB. Johnson, | and Patrotmen|21, are held in city jail, alleged to John J. Hayes and | bave confensed to the robbery, Satur Interment will be|¢ay, of Mr. and Mra, L. LaLonde, [569 John at. Patrolmen Charles Anchus and J. E. Prince arrested the |pair at Eighth ave. and Blanchard jmt. an hour after the robbery. De. | tective Lieutenant W. B. Kent said they confessed A. Magawaka, proprietor of Maple ST. LOUIS LOUIS, Jan. happy 8 —THE Dow? wave off an eight wh on a 12hour roportions. effect of in-| Jn > there duty one nat 81 in hour basi AL AT basis. This had the lereasing the force on third. TUBSDAY | Services for Patrolman W. T. An | gles, Schmitt's second victim, will be held at 2p, m. Tuesday, at Eagles’ hall, Seventh ave. and Pine st. Pall | Ivaf farm on the Bothell road, HERE’S MORE ABOUT bearers had not been named Monday | 1 sumed a door in the face of « rob-| ¥ sergeants and 44 patroiman | ber who demanded money Saturday : “apt. J.T. Mason, will act ax |Peht arial will be in Lake View| &mil Pfeiffer, 27, and Q. B. West, STARTS ON PAGE ONE | come | 25, were held by police Monday, al Wide open. Crooks swarmed in.| world war veteran, Col. Ph Van cre will be no downtown parade | lesed to have admitted two burglar Prosecution was lax and courts were | Cise, 5 cuter on a law Jat the fur Ia, it was decided at |! Sunday night. They were arrest Jenient. The parole system was|ment platform that smacks of the being ruthlessly | central st sine, joa by Patroimen F , Covel and 0. abused blue laws. ANGLES MOTHER |M. O"Bannion before the victims had Robberies—particularly payroll| Police blame c ANT ‘COME TO FUNERAL | Fes rted to polic Fobberies by auto bandits—have oc- wartime “easy Pepe vs ‘The home of O, L. Bjde, at N. 97th r arti y Arrangements, MeM-/ .n4 Rurke ave., and also a house at oe department tele |! mother, Mra. I | 87th st. and Woddiand Park ave e's mother, } aura er ed by ° . Police Muscatine, Towa, an invite-| Were Tansscked by the pair, poll |tlon to attend the funeral at their replied that she Sieaiee tin deme Many are At both services the police band | 6 5 will fur music and city and po-| © ofc with members of the| t make the trip. ng from hate., | department, friends and relatives wil were 24 murders, |? P. 1919, 800 Yards o. Printed Scrim Reduced 25c Yard HOICE of three patterns in Scrims at this very low price—one with blue dots on white ground, especially effective in kitchen and bathroom cur- tains—another with bowknot pattern and a third with conventional design, in pink. The two latter are attractive in bedroom curtains. Thirty-six inches wide, reduted to 25¢ yard. Bluebird Voile, 35c Yard A blue floral border with bird allover pattern is featured in this low-priced Curtaining Voile—36 inches wide, 35¢ yard. 1919, year. DENVER DENVER, Jan. 24.—-To stop the has arers Aluminum Coffee Percolators $1.65 he pictured, Percolator of pure seamless aluminum, with substan- tial ebonized wood handle and hinged cover with glass top. Six-cup size, ex- tra-good value at $1.65. —Housewares Section, THE DOW NSTALRS STORE to} tl ner had been sentenced says Smith, “the others ght have thought twice.” re Cleveland hadn't sen to death in #ix years hree men awaiting execu state penit Oklahoma, Fi its first doub trocution Not all the death house rp however the crime wave money” and after bruary the body be not SECOND AVENUE AND UNIVERSITY STREET STORE HOURS—9 TO 5:30 Among 14 under death sentence in Arkansas are 12 negroes who were | siteng Savved- ie & enee se | Special orders to rid Seattle of alt | 13 Alleged Di Disruptionists Special Price Basement | -2222:i-2.0scc22 ee 8 ee AN ested Patrolmen were warned by Chief gun for years with the avowed pur. |LStrolmen = Mores es pose of killing anyone who interfered | 5°8"'8 a ‘ } | ‘Two of the condemned men in Mon. | & —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE neer PORTLAND, Ore, Jan. 24.—Thir- teen alleged members of the Union | Liberty league were arrested here RMANENTLY CRIPPLED | last night by the police, who refused Dean Carman, the laborer stopped |to permit a scheduled meeting of | by one of Schmitt's bullets in the | the organization ssulted fatally for Detec-| According to a circular which wns | Brien, may be crip-| circulated Sunday, the meeting was/| perman He received a@|to have been held “in memoriam of fracture of the left leg.|the ‘Bloody Sunday’ in Petrograd, | ver, however January 22, 190 | jections were being| Ragnar Johanson of Seattle, well taken Monday for Schmitt's victims. | known\as a radical, and Elmer Smith | | Inspector Hans Damm said that a|of Centralia, one of the defendants | ‘Caldwell Gets a T may be held and proceeds di-|in the armistice day murder. trial,| Ride in Patrol ‘ among the families of the slain! were to have been the main speak: | n. A collection started by | ers at the meeting. | Canght in Port turday | the brother detectives of O’Brien net-| City ef'claly announced they would | night, Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell was /ted $180 in leas than an hour Satur-| permit no meeting of the I. W. W given a ride in the police patrol | day afternoon vmunist party, the Union Lib: | wagon. Four Iren and a widow survive rue or any organization hav | He was the guest of Mayor George en. The children are John volution or governmental dis L. Baker, of Portiand, who ca Lawrence, 9; James Thomas, 7: Wil | ruption as ite er | the patrol wagon to take himself and | frig Martin, 4, and Baby Mary Jose | Caldwell from the Imperial hotel to a Shriners Cald phine, 2 months old. | well is chief rabban of Nile temp For Quick Action and Dependability Count Upon The Ohio Range HE Ohio oven is ready to receive the breakfast muffins eight min- utes after the fire is kindled—and be- fore breakfast is ready the Ohio has heated an abundance of hot water. Because of this quick action, the Ohio is sparing in the use of fuel. To quick action and economy the Ohio adds another virtue—fine ap- pearance. In its shining simplicity it is an ornament to any kitchen. —Stove Section, THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE dered their victim within sight of the RMAN MAY BE scene of the coming execution. | | B eight men under death | sentence ‘ennsyivania there are with him. approach suspicious characters = Jes . 1 urge Utah will shoot two men who mur. | @rawn Kune mpow | tana k ed a man who caught them —The Special Price Basement was organized for the | stealing whis | one purpose of giving more for the dollar in actual merchandise—not in complete stocks with full size and color ranges, but in special lots of new, desirable fj) apparel, which we are able to buy §}| much below the market, because of some manufacturer's necessity or because the assortment of styles is incomplete. and, Ore Hed out Harding E: ‘oye Southern Outing ROCK LEDGE Jan, 24—The presence in President-elect Harding's | vacation party of Henry Fletcher former ambassador to Mexico, led to} the impression that he might be un-| initiation ceremony | Mrs, O’Rrien will receive $2,000 | Hlife ineurance, a permanent pension of $58.50 as long as she remains sin |Explains Cisse of |gle, and funerat expenses. It was] |also reported that she would receive | Salmon Surplus | 1.000 trom 1 fraternat organization | hat there is in reality no surplus-|. Policemen pointed out the par. e b ys Mie misfortune of the O'Rrien ag put only a piling UP |. nity in that all the children are|der consideration as secretary of| bec legitimate market was | ‘*™! very young. None of them is old|state as a compromise between elirninat the government dur.| YOry FOUnm. se Charles B, Hughes and Elihu Root ing the and must be built up te had no Fletcher entered the diplomatic | | gain the proposition an ex ice A 0 service under Roosevelt. He is re plained to 150 members of the Trans ii Apri, dare lated by marriage to Henry P, Davi-| portation club Monday, by Fred J.| )} at 931 W. 62nd at. The|son of J. P, Morgan & Co. Wettrick, president of the ndard| cies had been married Just seven| The voyage of the houseboat Vie n Pack Co months. Angle had served in|torla was halted here while Harding iduals 22 months joined in a golf game on the Rock Ledge links. ‘The president-elect's | face was taking on tan today under the Southern sun. He appeared | much refreshed. The Disposal of Women’s Winter Coats OFFERING REMARKABLE SAVINGS — " ' Ind were urged by Wet-| eee tor —The entire stock is grouped in trick to get these facts before trans-| (Tae | tary y four lots for quick disposal at portation men thruout the country. || ‘ < greatly reduced prices. At $10.00 At $19.75 chm as 10" o th th Any Lawyer Want _ | aiive toren stone with numer. Learn How to Argue? —80 Coats, plush trimmed. ous other prisoners he was paraded | there lawyers in the to $10.00, between two files of silent brother who would like to learn At $15.00 officers of O'Brien how to argue? hi —50 Coats, plain and fur Limping and sullen he appeared, head bowed He is wounded ai ‘og 7 . A course in argumentation said | three plain and —30 Coats—velour, some to be particu ted (a the |of a minor nature university music department for its trimmed. Mostly full silk lined. times, but all his wounds are Reduced with fur collars. needs of Revie 4 bi ad and glared with his | annual spring opera to be held at the —Reduced to $15.00. : ticular almor the 4 b war children, but al urrive at the Lulu Angle was Is Doing Today SENATE Will vote on Kenyon-Kendrick packing bill beginning at 4 p. m. Manufactures committee - continues coal bill. Jary committes considers codl- “The Enchantress” a Ee ? ’ : 5] |] evcttion' 2 eetrat twa : ¥ id ¥ ilitary affairs committee ia to Be “U.” Opera ore ers nomination of army officers for promotion. “The Enchantress,” by Victor Her a bert, was the vehicle chosen by the Are wudie any nee HOUSE Ways and means committee con- tinues hearings on agricultural tar+ “orelgn affairs committee considers Once or twice he —Reduce $19.7 fered by th eyes at the officers. It| Metropolitan about the middle of Reduced to $19.75. fered by tt y repolitan a to authorise purchases of Amerl- Cla of fear or of rage Jean MeMorran, prominent In cam: —66 grade at 64 not a narcotic | pus dramatics, will the leading cloth and plush. Henry ph role. Dean Irving M, Glen, head of —Reduced to $25.00. on hington. and =Wednesday extension office impossible to tell whether it was a ic Schmitt cording to When hi addict, ae The inventor of this remarkable instrument is Walter C.| aitona Soneuler ARoCaen Chambers, a U. S. soldier, stationed in the Philippines. It} is the latest addition to the strange instruments of jazz, and lbut later explained to Captain | is called a bamboo saxophone or nose flute. It’s made of bam- Charles Tennant that he was born in | - ea BL vel IT boo, and anybody who can hum a tune can play it. A cap fits abeat Dan—An Germany and that bis real nam D mum, I “ col post to Rumania has been| schmitt. He said he changed his|'ad money to burn, An’ that wus the| OVET the nos: Then n the player hums ba pith the mouth closed. nded, it is announced at the lo-| name when he came to this country | trouble, mum—I burnt it ffice, Limit on parcel post | 12 years ago | The Lady—You burnt it! How? The potato ts said to have been) The members of a curious tribe in| }to France will be raised from 11 Altho Captain Tennant questioned| Deadbeat Dan—Wid an old flame} discovered by Spanish or Portu |New Guinea, called Agmambu, have pounds to 22 after Febru-| him mereilessly, Schmitt sullenly re-'o' mine, mum,—Sydney, Australia,|cuese explorers in the wilds of | web feet, whose skin is as tender as ary 1, fused to give any details of hig crim Bulletin, | Chile, blotting paper, Hace iclans Constdera the Wick -Grigeaby: wag first booked Friday | tho fine arts college, is directing the conteated election case Seon ADU night he gave the name of Smith, | production. Suspend Parcel Post . TT WAS SUGGESTION Service to Ruman “So she refused you?” “That's the impression I received,” “Didn't she actually say so?” “No, she didn't, All she said wag Ha-ha-ha!' "—San Francisco Chrom jic ley high Coats, once, pounds