The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 28, 1921, Page 1

DEATH VERDICT IN 5 MINUTES! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Weather Tonight and Saturday, occasional rain; moder- ate southerly winds, Temperature Last 24 ximum, 46. Minit 37. qetay sion 40 Be TION Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Powtoffice at Seattle, Wash., under the Act of Congress Marell 3, 1879. Por Yoar, by Mall, $6 to $9 I, FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 1921. TWO < SE Business Nornal Now. C. H. Black Cheerful. NIEATTLE and the whole North P west is up on its toes, prepared | go forward rapidly within the}, few months | | 1 H. Black, sr., president of the) | tle Hardware Co., sizes up the 7 tion in that manner. | He says he'd rather put It thus} 2 tively than be accused of overoptimistc. i ed Schmitt Laughs Over Com- ics in Newspaper While . Women Jurors Weep ACTRESS INHERITS $60,000 J AP AN IS 4 nd Elim a | “omen rors Wee As a matter of fact, Black sys business revival is ly at *Our sale department.” he said f noted a substantial increase in ‘Yolume of business thruout our ter ‘Titory within the past 10 days “And your territory | } ‘The president of the big wholesale house smiled. } “The whole Northwest— Washing paar Idaho, Alaska,” he said. The president sits at a desk beh! ind ‘partition, just as you go thru the Terhace. Beyond and facing | ‘on the ather side of a glass} is another executive—a Dusy executive. ” CONFIRMS PREDICTION ABDUCTOR! Hollywood “Business Men NIGHT ing of Detective Jimmy O’Brien Friday night was first Gegree mure der, as charged, and that Schmitt | should swing for it In five minutes after they recog at 405 o'clock, their verdict wall |ready, But it was not until 50 fnim utes later that the customary knoele was heard on the jury room door, New tea for valentines. jury of eight men and four women, New use for rouge in the case of John Schmitt, to am Send him a kiss, gtrist rive at the conclusion that the kil — [Charge U. S. Visitors on|Bandits Continue Raids; One at minute, id the pres. Py 4 . ere’ : seen raising his voice signtly.| Rally to Aid of Stricken Island Are Investigating of Them Shot by Rouge your Ups swell indicating its members were ready to Press them against @ white |, come out. €alled over the partition | " oe sas Oh, Chariey.”- The bony exec | Husband . Military Conditions Householder wa “IT'S A HUNG JURY," Bee ccuarley, gent you! - a There you have it~a real hon- || SOME OF THEM THOUGHT Retice a general upward tendency| LOS ANGEL Es. Jan, 28.—With a BY HENRY W. KINNEY | Police officialn were desperately || est-to-goodness ki | The delay caused considerable live: im all lines, lately asked st st business man under surveillance, po. } TOKYO, Jan Striet surveil! framing steps to combat holdup men Now a drop of perfume on the | ly comment in the court room Sent, and he hitched his hands. Up-| ice and private detectives investigat 3 J [lance Over Americans in Japan bas) weyay, following one of the worst || © corridors outside that were thi ‘ in short jerks to indicate his been decided upon a6 tt t, th . if pople. Th re q ‘ ” jing the mysterious abduction of Mr«. | ded upon ag Urgent, the ‘ ape with people. ere were ¥i Tose. “Charley” nodded. He i newspaper Asahi deciatéé today. The | ™ y nights the city has experi. | conjectures. & &, Willis, vice president and credit |Gladys Witherell, predicted the ar Hf Asahi statement has been confirmed enced in years, | “Its a hung jury, sure as I'm ma i | rest today of a man suspected of hav jax substantially correct Nine robberies were reported to po-| ; nding here,” said one wild guesser. ‘As I sve it.” President Black con-|ing tured the young wife from her i 1} The Asahi quotes ax authority for joe “No.” said another. “The jury's oN gered og thene a m atement a icading foreign af Starting sb duck Puisitnth deans 5 ci - as , irs authority and the metropo! ¥ oe ie even tions.” : that the mills, railroads,| Witherel! late yesterday received J pare ‘edad ame emis | the robbers continued their activities 5 A third advised: “There's some and yarjous construction ac |a note demanding $50,000 and telling ? } | It de charged that Americans who) until early Friday morning. Loot to-| body weakened at the last ties are king preparations now | him that hiv wife was safe, H | [have come to Jnpan, recently on taled §: Just a line o° love, Somebody's on that jury start tions within the wee REWARD OF $2,060 " | sight-seeing tours are busily invest) ry on thie ben |] You mait it, against capital punishment But or few months. IS NOW OFFERED gating industrial and military condi.|__' 4 case the robbers beal their || Ap, pow hie heart will palpl- jthe> "ve got to find him guilty of first are getting everything in} tions in. victim, . ' Coincident with th develop t, concert with American reai-) tate! He admits that himself, now... Thex..are. getting | nee wedag donne fom | TWO BANDITS INVADE Do you Know what they cay by ete lawyer.” to normal again, with the rest{JoWN"C. Krata, wealthy former De- . social 4 | WOMAN'S BEDROOM “ ‘ome DIDN'T 3 ing reedyu.in short, to|trolt shoe manufacturer, added his! pate "Carmine Kisses— ite 1 korg ie bern personal offer of $1,000 for informa: | JAPANESE. PLAN oe reat mecmacione! sylinery esl ed aiiillliess * | But none of them, had guemed this time “Charley” Wills had} tion as to the whereabouts of hia [thet th which Mre, Ethel Partridge, | sett ‘& wack moment In the day’s/daughter. This brought the rewards | ‘REVISION PACT wife of the president of the Western : hpetsotts batvbinn ‘aiken baie the of business, and had drifted in| offered to | {WITH ENGLAND Grocery Co., was terrorized in her \ {co i a ” pe oak : care jail, a member of the Jury the president's office. hans cee aelas deeds wate ogg Miss Dorothy Lucile Whiteford, actress, was left the| TOKYO, Jan. 24 ~The Japanese | bedroom at her home, 923 21th ave., Oo plengy etal | sala ya oni aperee Rang yagi me bulk of the estate of Joseph. J. Ryan of New York, son of | government is planning a revision of shortly after midnight by two ban A | ve all knew what our verdict — 3 mance a * 1,| With Mra, Witherell’s busband, O. 8. | Thomas F. Ryan. It will probably total $60,000. The will * AntoJapaness alliance in such, dits, one a negro. { |Was going to be when we got into j Baniness with us is very £004.) Witherell, investment broker. It} cut off Ryan's wife with $100. & way as to free Japan from its obli- gn» wakened and heard some one {tie oy oo ee ee i —. he said, “and we are looking | was considered possible she may |——— of gations, according to the newspaper > We decided Schmitt must hang, and constantly growing volume of | have heen kidnaped with revenge as | Kokumin. on the first floor of the house, She we made our verdict. Our foreman ieee aa the. year wears on. In ine motive | The paper waid thin action followed | thought it was Partridge returning You have plenty of time to || signed it, and we were ready to gO UMareh of in April. 1 believe the busi}| 4, grayhaired man whose descrip & statement from Japanese Ambas| home. When the door was opened || ?7actice z jout and have it read—and then some _ fess rebound from the after-war re tion {ailies with that of the tall sador Hayashi to England, interpret-|, few minutes later, ane asked, “Is Valentine's Dey + February 1+: }/0C the- women broke down. We alum ing the British view of article four come out until they had fin 4 mt period, will set in. | stranger who was seen leaving the pes | "We are doing a normal business | Witherell home in Hollywood with of the alliance as leaving Japan ivo-| ‘Pat you, Daddy their ery.” Be mow! By normal, I mean compared yirs Witherell, appeared late yester.| lated and unprotected. “Uh-huh!” was the unfamiliar re-| And while those women re . with our own prea eye ot ae: day at the office of Fred Erwins — | ply. She saw two robbers framed in sobbing in the jury room, Schmitt uble with a people 18| Witherell’s business partner, He “ | the doorway. The robbers warned stood in a little room off from the ~ they compare the present com | announced he had important infor Precaution Is Taken Against} Die When Home me Is Wrecked | Minister Prepares je to keep quiet, ransacked the court, looking at a “funny paper? with th the " } g 01 s Wrecke ome of past tWOl mation regarding the case, Erwing to Defend Himeelf | room, and hastened down stairs. | laughing. ” |oetzed a telephone and put ins call Mob Action by Explosion artridge arrived home as the foot. At 5 o'clock he was led back ” Hie desk again claimed him at that | for the police. The gray haired man | 2 le Ree Er apr y wes bi se wid — pads were going out the back door. the courtroom. He seated hi “tgpeen : , ” ye: —— imself of charges which threaten|’ ‘rhey stole a» ae coath ba ne - m | jancture, eg nin {Decanfe alarmed at Erwing’s action) MARION, Ark., Jan. 28-Five ne-| “TACOMA, Jan. 2 —Firo afd police | to lead to his untrocking, Rev. Baker| two rcveivere and it iu teake Ernest Smith § Suffers An- pres rut: he ee cna eai ag ene confidently ‘ ‘ . sroes were rushed from the jail here | officials were conducting an investi. | P. Lee will Journey to the little town | Hs ¢ INNECESSARY firm believer in Seattle,” FRIENDS CARING to the state penitentiary at Little | gation.today.to determine what caus | of Custer, 8. D., he announced today, “ By Blaeage SR fig Bird | other Relapse BOoBES DEAT {, |FOR HER BABY j a ae {to obtain wMdavite and documents in| ©; *: hotel, was invited to a room Sorin ant DEPENDANT | by two men and avas beaten and| fandit Ernest Smith, shot when he|_ Herbert Munter, aviator and fore: I think it is the best city! yere We bei late yesterday “when it was|ed the explosion that last wight de. you can't | oe etneree hes been missing | Oe, . nak last WEHE Ce) the divorce case Of Alfred f. DuPont And—you can't ed they might become victims of | > ~ Ont. \ robbed of $20, Brown said he met & noid up the Motor Inn, |™*?_f the jury, handed the verdict . | molished the Caster home on South | seeprriged yf multi-millionaire powder king. Ri . d t bailift handed The negroes are suspected of hav. | Steele st., killing Mrs. Cora Castner, | Records of that suit will-be brought foe amar, Caually on the atreet and) Wednesday morning, suffered anoth- to tne eee he Seder Ge a * are suspected of hav. | * 2 ormed an acquaintance w hem bees tn : Fs ; 4 Ing aided in the escape of Henry 55, and fatally injuring her son,|back to Lon Angeles by Lee for his! Detectives who investigated Brown's | quays ne” Oy hospital carly Fri-/ nis clerk and ordered it read. All | | Lowrey, negro, following his alleged | Melyin, ag who died in a hos | defense in the threatened trial by the/ report could find no one in the room|. 44; # re this was the prescribed legal method. suneter 6.4 hit 4 ad Episcopal church. The divorce in His condition is very grave, r of two whites and wounding | pital early today al cod » than 10/12 Which he said he was beaten Meanwhile, deputy sheriffs are|! delivering a verdict.’ The expres: question was granted more than 10 a > ¥ ‘sion on Schmitt's face showed plains : of two othes whites at Nodeda, Ark., The oe te . n cI band, who i# on the ree of @/ Ch ctmas 6 oe oe ne ho house Is a complete wreck, NO | youre ago. ARMY TRUCK HALTED searching for Roy Miller, said to\1y what he thought of I A jbreakdown from lack of sleep; his|~' ee Gop part of the ruins being left more!” m.. Tey, Lee te accused by the NEAR FORT LAWTON | have been one of the wounded man’s | thought of it—that it wag “wry was taken fro ma train in| than four feet above the level of the | An armed masked man stopped a) companions. juanecessary red tape, bosh, bunies a Missiseippi Wednesday and trans = Jit nettled him. DETROIT, Mich, Jan, 28.—Theler, and her own father hold | ground. Mrs, Castner’s body was 8. army truck driven by C, Burn. Robert Smith, broth m 7 . ported ore r o lies to ne! — . brother of Ernest, is ed Motor company's Highl@hd| ferences with police and private in-|DOTted more than 100 miles to the ifound in the ruins, Both her legs muta nent the south gate Of Vert | tela in ecanty fall allaaed to be ela eee Schmitt scene of his crime, where he was - ” “ ys ange ne | grinned. had been b n off. Melvin Castner st Saturday of Du Pont and Mins Park plant has been reopened. vestigators whenever a clew is un. 3 Lawton Thursday evening, ordered | third bandit “4 | chained to qa stake and burned to) was found about 20 feet away | | Burnstein to throw up his hands, Come on, sheriff, let's go,” he sala Many heads of departments, steam jearthed which might prove of value. | 4,. wie B. Ball. Meremen and millwrighte were| ‘The 23-year-old wife's retative’s|(°*™™ A preliminary inspection of the ” a }looked the car over carefully and to Sheriff Starwich standing beside) 7 fitters, | ‘apt of Detectives the chauffeur to pro. him. And he walked out of the court: since Tuesday evening. Investi gators believe she is being held by | }kidnapers in a mountain hut not far from Los Angeles. Friends are caring for Mrs, Witherell's 16 months'old baby, while her hus father, ‘a retired Hollywood bank local diocese of the Eplsco} {of having violated an canon by officiating at th called back to work. By Monday, it}heatedly denied that she might be premises led Captain |then ordered . 4u said, the big plant will be operat-| remaining away of her own volition 6 ’ Albertson to bell that the explo® RE DRINKING cose room as if bound for dinner, which, : capacity.| tier home life had been b te | sion was caused by an accumulation THE EVIDENCE ringly snatching Miss Ruby] indeed, he was. He went to the — er home life had b appy, they | | | } mr } eg of ’ the work. ‘ rT h | of gas In a combination wood and gas ‘ase all's mesh bag on Cedar st., be unty jail and ate a hearty meal. Bchedule at present sii bn tical aaltepet! raure in. the kithhen of the héoae. . |, CONGIUNAST, dan. S8A7THS Good | ne ett Genoed aves. at si 2 man of steel ie, Beumne, an mg schedule at present. |eniid : i Taser ‘melvin Castner’ regained {Citizenship league asked Mayor Gal-|tWeen First and Second aves. at 8 to bang, and he is glad of it. He is than ie sauath ay sain who tee Anti ete evurred today | | consciousness in the county hospital | Yin to drop certain of his dry ag nita tf ona wi arrived. Mis Mecen,| With 74 cases of smallpox report: | thru with life. - no were lin their hunt for Mrs. Witherell or| al | recncne they 2 eeagedt : pefore police a Miss MeCa . J : galled back to work today will get! her abductors by a man that threats | late last night he wax unable to give | because they drink ¢ vidence. | who lives at 2624 Western ave., said |¢d in the city, according to Dr. H.|“I WAS BORN TO : Arrested January 1921, on &/ any explanation of the accident, The} the bag contained $145 in cash, a|M. Read, pupils at the Beacon Hill | HANG,” SAYS SCHMITT the plant into shape for the resump-|+, iti her unless $50,000 ransom : Re eecoaction, “The first Jobe fo | oe ea tne ee reat | charge of grand tsroesy and lodged | force of the explosion br » windows | Army Appropriations |. and a pair of screw ear-|4nd Longfellow grammar schools| “Some people are destined to bo the reopening are being given tolang in a note to the hustand, is|.. the county jail, Erwin Prairte in homes near by. Bill Is R ted |!" ued at $25. have been given their choice of be-| Killed by autos,” he said. “Some are © men, who are notified by! paid J sep Fad Touneey ia : vg offic vagtinre a “ 1 8 Neporte | Harry Haskell, 2418 N. 65th sting vaccinated or showing they | born ig ey ae hag window, ) McCumber, city marshal o' der under the house caused vA GTON, Jan. 28.—With a ‘obbed at Green Lake bi a have recently been vaccinated or}! was born to hang.” frail. Gradual expansion will bring i ‘. y Fr Cumber r | WASHIN | Was ri at Green Lake blvd. and y r thousands back to work. BUSINESS a Auburn, ax the man who shot him| explosion. The police take a differ-| requction var department esti-|Latona ave, at 1 a. m. by a lone|soing into quaranttme for two| Louis Silvain, attorney commanded | RAISING $25; b ‘ ie ae ae ent view, suggesting that dynamite,|mates of $699,275,502.93, the army|robber, six feet tall. ‘The robber car- | weeks. by the court to defend Schmitt, said Si 1k I | A guard has been stationed a Prairie had been brought in by! cached In the house, exploded. appropriation bill, carrying a total of gun and relieved Has-| Dr. F. Smith, of the depart. | #fter the trial: Eastern i Mi 8 Peace where ne why 2a os pon Freda 3 pepe coe pe! ont A R ti $31 612,62, was reported to the| ke ment, is said to have Just returned |, ate is os Faye? man tee aw Y ept to prevent the possible the fe was accused of stealing shotguns house ay by the appropriations vo robbers stopped o's from the Firlands to’ where | * couldn © get say tae Resume Operations ("t»:snisn! i votnee tor ine antthor envon gree on Reparation |row: io tng, reer stopped H. O'Shea, of from the Fulands sanatorium Where] Sot of. tasked Mme where bis fami SHAMOKIN, F 28.—Five |fallure to pay the ransom demand-| | McCumber’s wounds, since the Teday, Says George The appropriation is based on anand Cherry st., at Fifth ave. and| weeks with the disease was. He looked at me 4nd grandis mills of the J. H. & x. Maat tit: |od shooting December 14, 102 vel PARIS 28,—An agreement on|army of 150,000 men, exclusive of |Cherry st, shortly after midnight al T asked him if he had any relatives corporation will resume operations | Hollywood business men are rais be m healing slowly. He was shot/ German reparations must be reached |the Philippine scouts or the flying |'They searched him, but got nothing. | : ya Monday after a shutdown of three/ing a fund which is expect to| when he went to investigate ©*- today or allied negotiations will t adets, Provision is made for 14,000) O'Shea ,said neither robber had % a, Ba ner robber had a “T said, ‘Schmitt, you have some months, it is announced by officials | exc $25,000 for the purpose of | plosion which had cracked @ safe in| broken off, Premier Lloyd George & | commissioned officers, or one thou an. ights t’ And} of the company. About 0 em-|financing the hunt for Mrs, With-| Auburn at Britain threatened. Geor 1d more than are now in the ser | ROBBRI ‘ ee et ee ployes will return to work at a re-jerell and her abductors ne of # unmoved by the plea of the| vice oan anae cone ‘other Weeks Stee eae “a Guction of 25 per cent in wages. tie money be used to meet ench premier, Briand, that altera wae Get it over with as quick SE the ransom. | | tion of the French demand for im-| J d Two white-masked highwaymen can. What's the use of stalling?) a k $15 f | ANOTHER } ‘ | j tion of ‘the French demand for m1 Ts Bound Over for stuck up R. C. Curtis, 4243 Juneau| Deputy Prosecuting Attorney C. A.} Silvain said he had been sharply | Ask $ 000,000 Or | RECHIVE " demnity would cause the collapse of Attacking Officer“ st, near Harvard ave, and Seneca} Batchelor returned from Olympia| Criticised by some for appearing aa early in the evening, as he was| Friday and announ that the com.-| Schmitt's attorney, and by others — H Witherell hag received a no | his cabinet a Rivers and Harbors) | \v"! Fe er lisa witbincitn tome oe iM Sahananic deadaed wiih ub leclda to. tie Mialnels Ce cere mittee on public health of the house|Who accused him of “railroading that WASHINGTON, Jan. 28.—Approl-| |, rding to & sault ona f al officer, was bound ning school, Broadway and Mar- of represe re o " poor devil.” y, according to @ well-founded ra | | J of representatives had reported favor- priations for rivers and harbors work | ior in circulation here Walter Hare, chargea with viola | MRS. MARSHALL FIELD |jover to the grand jury on $1,000/lon. Curtis said that the bandits ably on the antinareotie bill, spon-|SCHMITT'S ATTORNEY FRIEND 4 bonds at hearing Friday before |resembled Kolb and Dill, one being | sored by the White Cross. OF MAN SCHMITT KILLED @uring thé next fiecal- year were! mig report was given credence|tion of the narcotic laws, is sched placed at $15,250,000 in a bin re-| 70M nad “Gakatitved \Giod. to tdeaavio dadesey ebm ioe ENTERS COMPETITION || Unitea states Commissioner McBow: |tall and slim, and the other short |” Ratchelor’s bill makes the sale of{ “But what was I to do,” he ex ported by the house appropriations | woring on the case went into secret | day z AS SPORTS PROMOTER }|/0):;: Johanson, with John J./and stout. Curtis lost $22.50 and | narcotics a felony and authorizes a| plained, “when T was instructed by committee today. Government de |v iporenc masiaitne .. daladmank Tiare dede.dabheed ty 4: talical O'Brien, Is alleged to haye attacked |some street car tokens. ‘They both | system of quarantine for addicts, | the court to take the case? If Thad : Mrs, Mar- || Capt. Lonsdale, of the guard } ¢ 1 guns. refused, I'd have been in contempt ‘The sum allowed is about ; ry development and|apprehended. A few days he || shail Field threw down the gaunt: | /cutter Arcata, two weeks Two negroes robbed K. Tsukro, of | of court. It was no pleasure to me _ more than for the cu year. oe | gave himself up to police in Kverett, || lt to Miss Anne Morgan today | gies | the Midway hotel, at Highth ave, 8 yet I wanted to do the best I could partments had asked for $57, ine previously had been in-'|grand jury last year, but was never CHICAGO, Jan. 2 een : | jand was brought ttle Thura.|| a2 announced she had entered |) C gah Hold and Washington st, at 6:30 p, m.| for my client, Jimmy O’Brien was Is ‘ ugh Je Thur ophers to Ho |" ey obtained $8 | ¢ \ d selhcieailg mental innate —s | by United & ty ad Bek the field of sports promotion my good friend. I had to defend his ~ No Decision Made on Fig me | | contfean -apsohe Marghel, Freak “If Miss Morgan can raise $70, Social Saturda | Roy Debritz, 11. of 1120 Lakeside murderer. I got some solace from P ific Naval B. | WATER SHUT-OFF NOTICE | | " BS a 000 for devastated France in N Y | ave. S., reported to police at 7 p, m. the thought that, had Jimmy been ac oni ASE! | Water will be shut off on Hol- | | Sanit’ ses York, thru a sporting event, then All persons from the Gopher state | that three youths, two of them carry alive, he would have told me to give WASHINGTON, Jan 4.—The gate st, from Third ave. 8. to HIEVES STEAL we should raise more than that requested to attend an indoor} ing guns, held him up at Day st, and King county's grand jury, which | the best that was in me, Jimmy was foint subcommittee selecting the site ith ave, S., and on Fourth ave FIRE ALARM || 1° the peer children of Chicago,” |}basket social, to be given Saturday | Mount Baker bivd., and took $20| has been investigating the city's pur-| always for fair play.” 2 of the Pacific naval base adjourned| | g and Sixth ave, S. from Hol || 4 - said Mre. Mield jnight at Collins playfield, 16th ave.| from him. The oldest of the bandits | chi of the street railway lines, ad Silvain is allowed by the court $10 % foday until tomorrow morning. Mem-| | gate st. to Forest st., on Sunday, | LORAIN, Ohio, Jan. 28,—Lorain’s Mrs. Field sald she was spon. || 4nd Jefferson st, by the Minnesota | was not over 20 years of age, Debritz | Journed its sessions ‘Thursday after-| for his unpleasant task, bers of the committer said no de January 30, from 8 @. m. to 6 | | electric fire alarm system was out ring three championshi os jolub, uid. Of the amount taken, $10 |noon to resume Sat y ” $ | y . #01 ‘ pio! p wrest 0 was|noon to resume Saturday morning 1'll put it in the fund for OB: cision had been reached and th D. m. | [of business yesterday Thieves || ting matches to be held. here Blection of oficefrs will be “er he had collected from hig! It is generally understood that its} children,” he said. Bess “new discussione” on the site had | |#tripped it of more than 1,000 feet of | | Washington’ ‘ by dancing ewspaper route, G > ne . e e ashington’s birthday Ny n route, George Smith, 10,| report will be made to the supertor] ‘Th awyer's only plea for @elayed the completion of the revort. we] wire, municipal officials found, “Kats” at seven, was with him. court either Saturday or Monday, (Turn to Page Fi column 4) es