The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 27, 1921, Page 1

BANDIT, SHOT IN GUN Weather Tonight and Friday, rain; fresh southerly winds ‘Temperature Last 11 F On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Class Matter May %, 1899, at the satoffice at Seattle, V VOLUME 23 ——— brio21i\ City to Go Ahead. Lumber Outlook Good. More Building Due. So Says Banker. 1S hard to get a banker more than conservatively enthusiastic Over anything It's a banker's business to be con- tive—he's the safety valve of . . Homer W. Bunker, vice-president} ‘@nd cashier of the Guarantee Bank & Trust Co., said flatly that he could Think of nothing optimistic to say of} the city’s outlook for 1921 MOTHER OF LUMBER BUSINESS But before his chat with The Star | Interviewer was finished he had ‘Pade these predictions ‘That the lumber business will show a revival during the year. ‘That the price of other build ing material will join with lum- ber in going down. . ‘That this will stimulate consid erable building activity, already noted in Seattle. ‘That at the end of the year Beattie will be no WORSE oft than it is now,’and that it un- doubtedly will be SOMEWHAT better off. Get that? “Somewhat!” LURED AWAY So Declares California Brok- er, Who Offers Reward for Clues | S, Jan jing he is certain his wife, ‘That's |W kidnaped for ransom, O. 8 With- ‘danke: t | erill, investment broker, today offered it ir yor “Yes, Fie chest ‘Tor the lumber|® Feward of $500 for Information as ” }to her whereabouts. Bunker said. “It has tak-| is fame time for the lumbermen to| Mrs. Witherill, who ts 28, vanished ‘ the new freight rates, but, fom her Hollywood home Wednes- Reduction in the cost of opera-/48¥ night in company with a man lad the shipping by water is| "DO i said to have, lured her away to offset that. with A story that one of her woman . " friends had been seriously burt in an OF ORIENTAL TRADE ” . isk FOR GLOOM accident The missing woman is the mother ty no reason to gloomy of a 1émonthsold baby ‘the loss of Oriental business o- b h been k for d during the war, It had} glee m kignaped for wer} som. I have dismissed all other mo-| down when the war stopped a : oe aan Gwe net m pur-| “ve* for her abduction,” said With- ol oo ane jing, was reported to be in critical condition at the city hospital, Thurs sheriffs are evening brother erill. ia Sete themes. pps or ad Withertll’s father is vice-president " in turn are not buying from °f th? Hollywood Savings bank. The ri Seog oi pd Poesccor 4 with) six years ago from Chicago. Both said that reduction in trade) tier and.sen were members of the this. port’ is natural enough, | Chicas Athletic qapociation, are.plenty of shipping board! available now, and Eastern 3 MOTOR INN THUG rail rate, to Seattle, then | r thelr freight to ships here, | Uf handling charges, when they iS NE DEA eae as well load them on ships | East and send their freight} er: the cana! at a much lower ata at a “LE bave no sympathy.” Bunker Brother of Wounded Bandit gaid, “with this hue and cry that is| Is Jailed being raised over our port handling} charges. Somebody must pay these — Charges. If the port absorbs them| Ernest H. smith, 6, the bandit the taxpayer will have to pay more| wounded by A. Marco, of Tacoma, taxes—and Seattle's taxes are too in attempting to hold up the Motor) high now, LOSS OF SOME SHIPPING DOESN'T HURT SEATTLE “If we do lose some shipping by | 4 refusing to absorb the handling charges the city of Seattle will not suffer. If loos amare moves thru His brother, Robert Smith, 35, ts in} the port, fewer longshoremen and the county jail, accused of being an) fewer railroad men will be employed, ; accomplice, as the result of an but otherwise our payroll will not be | leged confession, late Wednesday, appreciably affected.” | the wounded bandit It is time, Bunker said, for every-| Police and deputy body to work and save money—if| searching for Roy Miller, they can. ee to beethe third bandit. Money will be hard to get this! After refusing all day year, he declared. Banks will be| Smith is said to have r chary about extending credit | plete confession toward “Credit was so easy to get for a| Wednesday, involving his umber of years that a lot of fellows | and Miller. fooled themselves into beilevi ng that; Robert Smith was arrested by they were entitled to it,” he added. | Deputy Sheriffs C. H. Beebe and ©. ‘The banks this year will tell the|S. Campbell when he visited his business man seeking money that he | brother in city hospital dgexn't need apy. If he has a small! According to Ernest business, he will have to continue) story, he was nearly broke. He said doing a small business |that he stole an automobile from SEATTLE FAR BETTER OFF the Hoffman Brothers’ garage, 4410 THAN EASTERN CITIES | Rainier # Tuesday night, and Seattle is in far better tondition | went to Tacoma for the purpose of than the big industrial -cities of the| committing several robberies, He Hast — Pittsburg, Cleveland, Detroit,| persuaded Miller and his brother to fand the New England cities where| Join him. They did not get a chance hundreds of thousands of men have|to rob anyone in Tacoma, and start been thrown out of employment and|¢d back for Seattle. are walking the streets. It waa while en route that they “Business is quiet here now,” he| tried to hold up Motor Inn, according said, “but there is littie indication of |to Ernest Smith. Smith said he and| ft on the streets, as there is in the) Miller walked into the road hou East.” [and commanded Marco, another man While Seattie may not be growing | and two women, the only guests, to now as rapidly as some would like|throw up their hands. to see it, there have been times,| Magco fired, wounding Smith. The Bunker said, when the city grew too |other two bandits escaped in the auto. rapidly. Robert Smith denies that he accom. “And anyway,” he concluded, smil-| panied his brother on the robbery ing, “I don’t like to live in TOO| trip. He said that he left him late Maree 2 cits a Ra: 3. ees SE Tuesday night BY THIS TIME it must be quite apparent to mem- bers of the legislature, as it is to the general pub- lic, that the governor’s code is not the sacred “don’t- touch-me” thing it had been touted to be. In several _ places a “‘t’” has been crossed and an “i” dotted, de- spife the monumental effrontery which called for the swallowing of the code without even time for proper mastication. Upon what has this our Caesar fed that he should | thus demand revolutionary powers and be impatient) of public or legislative counsel? If he rears up now, what shall we expect when we clothe him with ex- tyaordinary prerogatives? 7 "THE CODE i is hela ‘railroaded” thru. Why? Let not the legislature be a party to the gross , evasion of the people’s constitutional rights, tanta- % % + INFANT IS, | Declan Gladys, | Smith's ATTI ‘ WASIL, Hy THU RSDAY, JANUARY 27, 1921. KIDNAPED, HUSBAND FEARS Train Eyes to ‘Picturize’ Then You'll Never Forget Witherill family came to California} } GaY* MacLA: Raa £3 }Inn, near Auburn, Wednesday morn-| ight relapse during the| who ts! The girl with the camera ‘mind, and her mind’s eye thru | which she pictures whatever she'd remember. BY ZOK BECKLEY 1 The NEW YORK, Jan. “Pieturize” | ren what you want to remember! Gay McLaren, with the camera mind, sees a play five times exact pleture of it, bit by bit with All the nd all the stage business be 7 ps vividly me. the girl comes a part of the picture. I bel one can develop a photogr that will record on the brain anythifig one wishes to re mem That is training the real mind's eye 1 asked Miss McLaren if she ever had to write a shopping list or ph r friends, then reproduces the whole thing-4 | characters, exact lines, action, every | thing 1 When ecienti#ts tear their hair in wonder, all she can tell them im “I/ | pic it. I think in pictures, 1 j can't forget a single de until the picture fades from my mind It is an if a little stage were in! my head. 1 simply act out what I nee there. The words auto. I matically, as tho dictated to me by @ thread. | phonograph.” shopping Mins McLaren supposes this super mip memory of hers springs fro same combination of mental ual senaitiveness that enables a ch prodigy to “ser upon the board | pl out ture imbers of to remember them nny part of it minded lady the thing first down: ‘Shirtwaist pers, cold erean my list, it would not «tay in a moment longer than in have a mental picture of the slip: this cam % oS come wrote sl o my anyone L mo the exact shirtwaint I want, ere whether of gold or black satin. take I» think that interest simply stays in my mind, with everything accompanying it place, time—until a play. | my en the pieture,” all possible moves before they t is difficult,”, she insists am conscious of no particular con centration when | memorize words, @ mind diem mount to fraud, which declares an “emergency” in be- half of the code. There is no real emergency, and ev- |erybody in Olympia—everybody in the state—knows people out of their rights of referendum. The lawmakers of this state should be the last to make sport of our laws. They should be very wary of | declaring an “emergency” unless there is a real emer- gency. "THE PEOPLE have a right to voice themselves on the matters of policy involved in the code. It] | was heralded as a copy of the Lowden plan in Illinois. But the Hart code is not the Lowden code by any means. It merely has the frame, but not the substance of the Illinois measure. It takes in more territory. It ¥ * * * ** * DELAYED BY ABSENCE OF PRECEDENT Slayer of Policemen Not tol Proceed to Gallows With Proposed Speed Crowds of people rivaling the throng that gathered at the famous trial of Ruth Garriso: were jam-| ming the corridors «6 the court lhouse and the courtroom of Judge A. W. Frater when John Schmitt, slayer of three policemen, went to trial before a jury this morning. At 11.05 o'clock, 12 Jurors had been Paneed for cause, Four of them were women. ‘The pritoner’y face, am he mat look ing directly at the judge, war a study in gray shadows, He had targe, black blotehes ander doth | Once or twiee he emiled wry: | ¢ Pronecuting Attorney Mal- ly w com Douglas was examining the when they stopped me, One ofabem pry ger og a bandit, jonly wh jurors. WOMAN DOESN'T BELIEVE IN ENFORCING THE w Douglas asked each one whether he considered it hin elvie duty vote for the death penalty,’ if the| facts showed the case flagrant! enough, One woman, Mrs. Ilizabeth Murphy, 2605 10th ave, W., Was ex:| cused permanently from jury duty when she maid she did not believe the} criminal laws of the state should be enforced Answering the question put by h., under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879 The Seattle Star Per Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 SCHMITT TRIAL ON “I Shot Policemen Because They Were -- Says Murderer BY JOHN SCHMITT, MURDERER (As Told to George B. Channing, Star Reporter, in County Jail. Today) Rough’’ TOOK MY CHANCE and lost. Now there'll be no squawking, I am going into the courtroom without expecting to axk for anything. What ever they decide to do with me—4t's I have operated as a and their business robber for the last three years, I've always done it in the open. 1 always picked the lighted por tions of the town to work in. I hate wbady work, and I don't want to be called a sneak, This is the first caught. times, but never before hit, ASSERTS HE NEVER KOBBED LABORING MAN ‘There is one thing you can nay for] me. I always tooke money from men who had taken it from others, I never robbed a laboring man, I shot they were overbearing and rough reached in his pocket a# if he was about to draw a gun, and I pulled) firet Then I ran. liceman because I figured 1 could to | lay them both low and not be caught. | day on which I shot the three police They had several good shots at me and minsed, and they only got me aft- or I had become dazed by the excite- ment and had fallen in the ditch. Then they beat me up. 1 was born in Menz, Germany, in 1895. My mother and father both died when I was an infant, and I was taken by my grandparents, ‘ time I've been | I have been shot at many/] was an American citizen, those policemen. because / OPERATED AS A BANDIT I shot the other po-) of chance to fight back it, knows that the code plainly intends to trick the| UEL, CONFESSES! Ze EDITION __ TWO CENTS SEATTLE | FIND LOOT IN HOME OF NORTH END. SUSPECT! Three Men Arrested After Gun Duel in Fremont; Wanted “Easy Money” — On the heels of Wednesday night! gun battle in the North End between” gun bandits on one side and and citizens on the other, came a se ries of startling disclosures at nooa % ‘Thursday ; Willard Wren, wounded in tin ol | duel, partially confessed as he lay badly wounded at city hospital. Wren and Binar Sorenson were ~ partially identified as the who robbed Harry W. Clark, man, in his home at 126 N, 40th st. LOOT FROM CLARK HOME RECOVERED The Clark loot was recovered in sack in Wren's bedroom, and dence was cinched against the cused pair by means of a cuff Wren also is alleged to have identified as the bandit who a party of three men at N, 73d st, Aurora ave., the first week in Ji ary Wren was shot by Patrolmen H. J. Rush and 8. E, Jennings, of ae more precinct, near N. Woodland Park ave. weandeanie i night, Sorenson was arrested Thi morning on a tip given by younger brother, while sleeping his home at $23 N. 44th st, “We. had. all..the ammu masks and_a ‘sap’ for a little fun @ last night,” “We intended to get some money, but I guess I was not smart as I thought T was, It like they have it on me for sure, maT at the ad of tad oP ‘my punis “When I was. shot, thay would have found out my real had T not been dazed.” FATHER GETTING OLD; 4OB DIDN'T PAY ENOUGH When asked why he intend commit robbery, Wren said that father was getting old, and the he had as a driver did not enough money. About ten days ago Clark b with two bandits in his home, managed to snatch a cuff i from one of the robbers, The iN an My grandfather wag principal of a school in Germany, When I was 14 years old I decided to cut loose from Germany and come to America I worked my way overseas, In New York I attended night school and worked a» a laborer during the day. At night school I learned English, Then I struck out across country alone and came West, stopping at Billings, Mont., for a time, When the war broke out, I figured it was to my advantage to register for the draft, I did so, telling them altho I had only taken out my first papers. They called me in the draft and kept me at’ Camp Lewis for eight months, finally letting me go because j of bad teeth. Then I returned to Montana. © FOR THREE YEARS HE | When the war waa over I began I did a job needed Seeee three years I got away with it, ways giving the other fellow plenty I came here on the morning of the men So far as religion ie concerned, I don’t feel like knocking anybody's faith, but there are too many hypo- crites in the churches for me to be mixed up with them There may or may not be such a thing as immortality, That, I think, is the thing for me to find out. Prosecutor Douglas te whether | yoo believed in the enforcement of | the criminal laws Mra Murphy | maid emphatically - The question was repeated. the same answer’ given. Frater said, to a woman bailiff, this juror to Judge Ronald and tell him is permanently excused from jury duty, so he can send her home.” | Douglas explained, after reading {the Information to the ury, charg: | ing the prisoner with the crime of! firet degree murder, that altho Sehmitt had pleaded guilty, there |was no precedent in this state by which to be guided. Therefore, he) said, the case would have to go to jtrial in the same manner as if the prisoner had pleaded not guilty. | This threw a new light on the situation. The trial will last longer j than was originally presumed. | yune CAUGHT ROBBER; and Judge “take she Monroe’s City Marshal) Loses Chance at $5,000 eral Judge E. | Thursday, J lat Monroe, ¥. Cushman's court is denied a reward of 4 train robber a year ago. Upon the alleged fe rested Arthur Howard, alias Jack and Seattle, James sought to collect the standing reward of $5,000 said to have been offered by the railroad | Action was brought inst the di- rector general of railroads, Police Autos May Carry Machine Guns Possible arm 3 of Seattle pofice- | men on police automobiles with auto. matic hand machine guns has led} Chief of Police W, H. Searing, In spector of ice Hans Damm and | Capt. of Detectives Charles Tennant to decide to inspect an automatic gun | at the Fort Lawton target range | Thursday afternoon. IT IS THE PRISONER” At 9:30 Judge Frater agcended his neh and called out in a loud voice, | ing in the prisoner!” | Schmitt, under guard of Sheriff Matt Starwich and several deputies, had been waiting in an adjoining room, Sehmitt ed the court | room first, his jaw firmly set. Star. wich followed and then several depu- ties. | A small portion of the crowd that had been standing in the corridor |was then admitted, filling the ‘i and standing room, Every available (Turn to Page 7, Column 4) KILL THE CODE! CANT T COLLECT BANK BANDITS | Washougal By a jury verdict returned in Fed-| L, James, city marshal | 000 for the apprehension of an al-| with citizens in which many shots t that he ar-| | Lane, who was sentenced to the peni-|bers were frightened away from their |tentiary in 1919 for holding up al/Job after they had blown open the passenger train between Bellingham | | posse, and it is thought that at le | Tremont theatre. to this button was found in V bedroom Thursday. : A Gillette safety razor, several rings and beads and other jewelry, stolen from Clark, were found in a bag hanging in a closet of Wren's ” bedroom, Detective Capt, Charl Tennant sajd. Clafk identified Wren and son as the two men who ro him, according to Tennant. After the Clark case was disposed of John E, Jones, 1903 N. 82nd at, {was shown Wren and he said : jhe was certain that Wren was * POSSE BATTLES Citizens Foil Early Morning Robbery WASHOUGAL, Wash., Jan, 27.—| Five bandits attempted to rob the Washougal State bank here early to- day, and escaped following a battle |Of two bandits who held up other men and himself in an at N, 73d st. and Aurora ave, first week in January, Jones said that Einar Sores |was not the other robber, Jones was also held up the week before vault door, Christmas at N. 82nd st. and Wék The bandits, who apparently were |lingford ave. * amateurs, are being pursued by &|NOTICE SPEEDING AUTO; * |CHALLENGE OCCUPANTS + Patrolmen Jennings and Rush — were searching for the two bindits who held up five persons in L. A. Thom’s store at 3700 Interlaken ~ ave., when they noticed a speeding — auto go by them. They gave chase, |As they drew beside the auto Rush © leaped out. Two men in the auto started firing. Jennings replted. jOne man dropped. This was Wren, | |who was brought to city hospital, Jennings, aided by citizens, ‘with guns, pursued the other man but _ he got away. Sorenson's cap was _ (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) were fired. It is believed three of the bandits were wounded. The would-be rob: some of them will be captured. AIRCUT 25c; SHAVE FOR 20c BOSTON, Jan, 27. Frank V, Bruno, ber, hasn't raised his prices for hair cuts and shaves in 24 years. The prices in Bruno's shop are | Hair cut, 25 cents; shave, 20 cents. Bruno's barber shop is over the Bruno hasn't an automobile or a} big fortune, but he had a great num ber of friends and a big reputation. ' | (Turn to Page 7, Colum SURROUNDED BY TOO MUCH SUSPICION jchanges the policy of government. It does not merely consolidate offices. Is it to be the policy of the state to deny labor a voice in the administration of the industrial insurance | fund, to which labor contributes one-half of the mon- ey? The people have a right to be heard upon that. In October Gov. Hart publicly declared himself in fa- vor of joint representation of labor and employers on industrial boards. a the code eliminates labor —and the governor's chief spokesman, L. D. McAr- dle, chortles with glee. It was to have been expected from McArdle. The “consolidation” idea here is negligible. The question of policy is paramount. | Should not the public be heard on questions of policy? ‘THE TRUTH of the matter concerning the code is this: % It is resting under thick clouds of suspicion, because. it was represented to be merely an attempt to consoli- | date offices, while in fact it attempts new legislation, — new powers, and new policies of government. It was) drafted in secret, its authors are impatient of criti- | cism, it is afraid of the light of day, and it is siven all the earmarks of being “railroaded.” It sorely needs amendments. In fact, it needs drafting—redrafting ,on the plans of the Lowden code. Unless it is amended in several vital respects, The Star has no hesitation in saying: KILL THE CODE!