The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 8, 1921, Page 1

,GIRL IS HELD AS SUPER-THIEF! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise TheSeattleStar 7 iii Entered Weather Tonight and Wednesday, rain; increasing south- easterly wind. Temperature Last Maxi m, 50 Mink ‘Today noon, 44. Hours , at Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 SATTLE, WASH, TU EBRUARY 8, 1921. i ~'TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE _ STAR WITNESS AGAINST THOMAS MOONEY «= (CONFESSES LIE! =. CONFIDENT |She sin‘Who’s Who at 18 WOMAN IS SAYS STORY! Bessie Darling | ARING! See Burns to Death — ae . |Poses as Housemaid to Loot FRAMED BY In California! | Home of Jeweler; Sells || SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8— His Piano VW ste ccc CARS WILL Plans to Go on the Stage ATTACKED $183,000 IN THE RED “It would be on a cash basis today | | rw : 4f it were not for the fact that the } acclaimed the country over as 8 Alice Beggs, alias Mrs. EB. y Fallway fund was behind $183,000 | favorite of the stage, was ended | Evans, alias Alice Riley, 22 at i A ea IS pea today, whose oceupation is a housewife, bs whe ree een srascion, ave. | It came to — close when fire || cording to her admission, but who ‘. was | | | destroyed her little bungalow home |! really spends her time cleaning out the raliway department spent ; at San Bruno Inte yesterday. She | other people's houses, according to ut of its revenues, probably a i an 7 ie | — | re, 4 ion dolta 01 er | burned to death. police, was held i @uarter million dollars for better Councilmen Sure Municipal Try to Snatch Purse, but/John McDonald Will Go to was Warned te dente an relearn ae Mant. These betterments ie} System Will Succeed; on She Fights, Screams and | San Franci: ‘0 Appear s fnened for her work ae Lady || Dating, Giver, Asta charged up to additional capital in y: gnts, a isco t ppea | eae pet weds FH ian oe S Modlin ontahingti Vestment. Nevertheless, the ash Cash Basis Soon Runs; Chased 2 Blocks Before Grand Jury —|| exine. | raid or mistress, all depending om | he carfares paid in ie pe gage ot rede at 5 —, a But with advancing age she || woac there was in it for herself, | feements or extensions were not| With City Treasurer Ed L. Terry Beating off the attacks of two rob-| NEW YORK, Feb. §—John Mo || faded from the spotlight and for | nished police today with one of Made, there would be cash on hand | *"nouncing that the city street rail | bers and outdistancing them after | Donald, who as witness for the prose- seven years has been living a lone. | most unusual stories of high fi today. ways will be on a cash basis by June} | being chased for two blocks, Mra, J. cution, identified Tom Mooney as the|| ly existence, reported to be in || “cold deck” dealing, and ——---— ~ ——~ fan Francisco preparedness day pa-'| poverty, at San Bruno. tangling of the strings of o Let it be understood that better City Comptrotier Harry W. Cat Ments are not the same as main 1 expressing the expectations that |rade dynamiter, has contesned that She was aged 70, that has been uncovered bere in his testimony was false. Attorney cenk yeane: tenance charges. etterments are) the & will happen May 1, and Second ¢ SSDAY, ——] [aaa 3) ped | | ar | J Paying ‘Dividends. No Interest Default. oo = ‘additions to the railway property.| Mayor Caldwell still finding reasons rank P. Walsh announced today. SAYS SHE'S TOO Maintenance and equipment charges | fT pessimism, members of the city According to Walsh, McDonald | TIRED TO TALK are In the nature of costs for keep: | COUNc! Monday vo! their entire) made affidavit that be was not able | Alice Beggs, at least 22, Gea property in good shape and re-| °hfidence in the city's car tines. | to identity Mooney and that he did dvesntt ia ne on. | “The mudicipally owned railway ts wo in his teatimony at the trial only oe iA wee. & municipal necessity, and {t will be} at the instance of District Attorney | Sewn, primped, pcwdered and Had the city pursued the same pol “ tan | Fieheré Ur Gan Pranct fyfly manicured, wearing a fey an the traction company did for |W" by the municipality,” said Coun-| Fieckert of Ban Francisco. fathered bat, stepped oat Aan MpeDevasa plane to leave comer itn station early Tuesday, swept row for San Francisco Yo tell the | ¢, td nose in a curving half circle grand jury that he perjured him ‘Cowboy Plans 20,000- in a piquant upturning at the self in giving testimony against! Foot Jump This Afternoon |°! * bevy of newshounds, | ten.| cilman William Hickman Moore, em- mei toe coe not | Phatically, when asked to give his have been undertaken. opinion of the situation. Now, this ie true: That while the | LINES WILL MAKE GOOD tity railway is paying dividends on | / ITY $18,000,000, it is not yet paying off} “I mean,” he said, “that the lines ¢ part of the purchase price. are going to make good, and I'm sure| Mooney gingerly into a police auto, sank After voluntarily making a con- 3 nes |a seat, sighed languidly and fession in the form of an affidavit| T¥an DevVilliers decided Tuesday | tided in Detectives John HASN'T A NICKEL they will be rum by Bo one else ox] to Frank“P. Walsh, labor attorney, noon to attempt hs 20,000-foot para-| Den M. Blaine and Chad Ballard P INVESTED IN THE ROAD cept the city.” 2 | MacDonald, returned to. ‘Trenton, | Chute leap over Elliott bay at 4p. m.|*she was-ah-a-hum-tooab-tired Sawever, this is nothing serious.| Councilman Oliver T. Erickson) IN. J. where he is employed as a|_ Pater in the day he had said he/|taik to reporters—completely would not attempt it because of| nausted.”* The city hasn't a nickel invested, in|*™led broadly when the question | waiter, to make preparations for | Was put to By rc “thick” weather, The auto popped and el road. It has paid nothing for | ¥%* Put to him: “Do you expect the the trip. r = syaiem. If if should make Mes to make good % lesesbontansee aneina ves The start in an Aerial Tours plane|down the street and thru the & enough money out of the earnings) “There's no doubt about it.” he an- ¢ 7 " was to be made at 3 p. m. from Kent, | window could be seen the | SENT TO SAN FRANCISCO and the leap was expected to follow | Alice's hat. She was on her’ | McDonald's affidavit, Walsh sald,|/an hour later, directly over Seattle. | and scratched. | Was telegraphed to San Francigeo,{ DeVilliers, who-is making the leap] For after sending police, a p where a special grand jury is investt | to boost the police relief funds, hoped | ent jeweler, a realty firm, and | ating the Mooney case. Mooneylto establish a new record for para-|eral other lesser personages, | was convicted of murder (nine per | chute jumping. ated men, !wons were killed w! tr iripoolist swered, “I am, of course, against mtis the ae to <n oily an |@ny further Increase in fare, but I'm road, gare paralleled usually | %fe that after a year or #0 no one eee ‘Snidincen. There. te aj wit think of asking for it, In fact, that the city may do it, i| 1 expect it to be entirely posuible to the present revenues are any cri-| duce the fare f the coun en a bomb was —_—— y ferion, and. if the revenues are not| A. &. Haas, president o! | in whirlpoolish circles, where *" | oll, unhesitatingly expressed. his o7 exploded during a preparedness day bs oe oe ee vate parade in 1916) and was sentenced Stop Enlistments par de ap ther and cs effici ors. s 7 oe . If the city cannot do it, what| “TELL THE PEOPLE TO | $e: Glew enahtank. Wy abe intanesded for Camp Lewis} tre darkness of ner ms then? QUIT KNOCKING.” SAYS HAAS commuted to life imprisonment. TACOMA, Feb. 8.—Demotion of| She finally stepped into the Let us look at it from its severest | “The council} will handle this mat- Aspect. Suppose the city went into|ter, and handie {t well,” he said. its pockets for $15,900,000 to pay for| “Just tell the people to quit knock the system. This amount would be! ing, drop their pessimism, and expect | its investment. On that investment, | success. They'll get it | how much should the city have in| “I was opposed to the acquisition feturn? Five or six per cent, if the| of the lines, but now that we have average public utility return is con-| them I'm going to help see that the Warren K. Billings also is serving | Maj. Gen. Charles H. Muir, com. |4"ms of detectives Monday aften |e life term for implication in the = |manding the Fourth division, and/and found herself viewing the plosion two other generals on March 4,|from the fifth floor of the Pu McDonald’« statement says that|and discontinuance of recruiting for|¢tY building a few minutes his identification of Billings also was|Camp Lewis, is the first result of | Only several stout iron bars falne the reduction of -the regular army |the view. McDonald, in his affidavit, accord-| by congress. Gen. Muir goes back| APPLIED FOR WORK ewtes Bagi ing to Walsh, said that he saw ajto his former rank of brigadier} AT JEWELER’S HOME Jexperiment is successful. Teil folks man with a suitcase near the scene| general and Generals George B. start rvish Well, that’s what the city railway|to stop bothering us and to start) - of the explosion just before the| Duncan and Henry D. Todd to that PR cab: tes srekae the 4s doing now, or approximately so.| helping us. A sympathetic attitude | Winifred Sackville Stoner, Jr.,at 2 and 18 bomb was set off. He mentioned this |‘of colonels by reason.of the senate’s|tective force soon after New ¥t If the city had the money invested | on the part of the entire city will see| / —| later and he was then taken before| refusal to confirm President Wil-|day, thusly: fn the railway, the city would be| us thru in fine shape now.” ee 8° Vek a & 2 a = Fickert for questioning son's nominations, It was a demure maid, at least entitled to all the Interest we are| City Comptrolier Carroll's entimate | BY DJUNA BARNES ment; nevertheless it's a true state-|Glinn. 702 234 ave. 8. saved her) Officials took him to Mooney’s cell years of age, who answered the now paying out, which Is more than| that the lines would be on a cash) wow yoni —an peat ori puree, containing several dollars,/and said “there is the man you saw ’ ; ST & fear. But if Bae no in-| basis by May 1 was based on the av-| N=W YORK—(By Mail)—Winl-iment. Let me explain Monday night . h the suitcase.” McDonald said Horace W. Hall’s She MAN thas Mire. See ee nt at all. So why kick up a|erage daily revenue of $14,560 since |fred Sackville Stoner, Jr., the young-| “Mothers like to hear a child talk] ghe was going home about 6 p. m.|he was r diy told that Mocnay Chest Is Expanded ant aie <<: oe Buse because it isn’t making loads of | the $ 1-3-cent fare went into effect. | est person in Who's Who, has a new | broken English—what Iq called ‘baby | when the first robber ped from | was the man and that he must so . Money? Why all this hullabaloo? | Claiming that he, as a taxpayer, is|*™bition. It’s to be an actress. At | talk They are captivated by mi*| behind a telephone pole and snatched | testify the trial. Billings also was| Horace W. Hall, secretary and|Papers. Mrs. Tipp gave the 18 whe is noted for having pronunciations and mistakes in gen-| . sdinted ot i he|law clerk to Federst Judge Jere-|&t least 22, the glance upwards NEARLY ALL THE TIME being damaged by the continued . . at her purse, She clung to it and/| pointed out to him as the man he e . ON A CASH BASIS operation of the wireet car lines by| Witten a book of poetry at the|eral. It's no ‘cute,’ so ‘adorable, | battled with him as he grabbed her,|must identify as having been with|miah Neterer, was displaying Tues. no dlgray hummed in doubt, The city railway, -{t should be| the city, E. E. Rhodes, local loan|*#e of 5 | “It's the same love for the ridicu-|and finally broke away, screaming. | Mooney near the scene. day a diploma entitling him to Loseatioee ning tae. i ‘ . “ansed her colle; | lou a y dis en: | , - ct aw J a pon borne in mind, has been on a cash | broker, asked the superior court Mon- | Passed her college entrance exam-| ious that humanity displays in gen-| Ay she started to run down the) FAILED TO G practice law in the United States) Sey Or tWs Mee tur red. inations at 9. Jeral when the clown at the circus RE OF REWARD district court. He was admitted to Been the master of seven lan-| stumbles over his own feet. federal bar Monday upon motion street, the second robber appeared, | 8! }and both gave chase, After pursu MePonald told Walsh, it is said, Basis nearly all the time. And this| day to restrain the city from further | ds more than can be said of most) operation of the lines, to force the indeed, departed—to return, An hour later, Alice’ : <9, gy ona Maga ore | Puget Sound Traction, Light & Pow. }#uases at 12 “And that has been, so far, the|ing her for nearly two blocks, they | that he was promised a share in the | Attorney Lane Summers, r : oe the (Rpereiperoags apr lag po Go. to take them back, and to ap.| Been the author of 15 books | nadintonsertuch’ siost: chiiangy grow |abandoead ‘tha chase. whee her|$it.see sevusd eltared tor the Ginn Hall finished his law studies at | sme? vom py warn ak poe * county as a whole. | point a receiver for the lines while| WANTS TO | up. | screams frightened them, miters, in. exchange for his testi-| Georgetown university, Washing | 0 vont mccept the job. for 646! Does it not appear rather strange | the court hears the matter argued. | ASSUMED NA. If you insist on accuracy trom | |mony. After the trial he said he|tom. D. C, in 1914. He has been) oth instead of $40, “as. she Sm that the railway should have been | Mins Stoner wants to go on the | the start, your neighbors are going | to col but has never been |i Seattle for the last 18 months] 414+ in jove with the children,” MEM! ¢ alleges {4nd was admitted to the state bar 4 or, Case ‘oadaek: Holling abl to get the money Tipp still doubted, Made the butt of such unjustified at stage under an assumed name, to| to say, ‘You are robbing t Renato -| Snohomish Hotel Man ee Ore ES Does it not se prove to the pub r she can/its childhood’—my mother heard | that the case against Mooney was a| Some time ago, f ) peculiar that some of the men na | Puts Up $1, 000 Bail | make good without the help of her| that on all sides | Ordered Dismissed |"*\,., up” and that many of the sears: ate nO ee a F gome of the interests who h Bail bond of $1,000 was deponited|Teputation, or despite it she ex-| “Or people will say, ‘What did the} SAN RANCISCO, Feb, §.—| Witnesses were Instruct 4 as to what Complaints Filed and said that/“Alice Beage Saal 7) Swing the deal, should now cast pes listth the-eleck ef the tellerel court plains other children think of you? Were| Charges against Carl (“Babe'’) Hol. | they should ony on ¢ ) stand the best maid that ever was, sinuatipna upon their own comrades | WIth [ne cle it ann, hotel pronel.| “have been overestimated. 1 am | they not jealous?” ling, baseball player, were dismissed | SAYS MOONEY SOON Against Jitneurs | tear.” Mes. ‘Tipp doubted not A mo py iP Action? Does vit not smell like) (iY grohomish, to guarantee his |*im™ply the outcome of a very aimply| “No. they were not. I never|here today when Mra. Ira Went-|TO BE FREE MAN Complaints against seven jitney| ment more. When Alice rang | fotten politics? | appearance before the next grand | cone ved theory of development—| thought I knew anything—there's) worth, whose property he is alleged! “phere should be little doubt! that |drivers, accusing them of operating | Mrs. Tipp told her that she was ae a 1 ey to answer booze charges, mental and physical too much to know to away with | to have taken, refused to prosecute.) MacDonald's confession will com-| their business without a license, were | the Tipps’ maid, t , pen picaaeh: dooms meee, “I have been so trained that at/|® thought like that.” : ]_ Holling was charged with having| pletely crush the case ngainst|filed in Justice of the Peace C. C. “Oh, dear; how delightful!” : Attempt to Save where commissioner's hearing was|the age of 18 I make more money ee what doos Miss Stoner think | stolen money and clothing from Mrs.| Mooney and the latter will soon |Dalton's court Tuesday by the prose:| gurgled over the wire, “I'll be United States Mar.|than my mother (who also is in|f men and love, and marriage Woodworth: He was a star pitcher a man,” Walsh said today. jcuting attorney, presently to enter upon the duties held, by Deputy a Albert Rooks. Cann is said to| Who’ T am independent; every other t fun to romp with—j|on the Oakland Coast league ball | club gre Who). | Men ar to observe Steamer Klamath|! SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 8.—Altho| have $1,000 bonds posted on state S soon as MacDonald's affi-| The men are: EB. A, Graue, my new State in life, Yes; my fal ently WAS) davit is presented to the grand jury | Healy, J. B. Smith, Frank ( has a car, He'll bring me, bag and t season, and given up as a total lous by the un-| booze charges also. normal girl could be independent at Something to be sere cer to the Detroit Americans | Governor Stephens should feel free J. McCurdy, E. R. Morton | baggage, pretty soon Gerwriters, efforts to float the wreck 18. In other words, I was equipped " * Swell, th enieae mane? Kaan ye esa - to pardon Mooney MacDonald *. Bittack. The prosecuting wit- Enter Alice to the Tipp domicile, #d steam Klamath have not been en. to fight before the battle started, not rriage ell, there's plenty will leave for San Francisco to-|ness is B. J. Eakin, “Father would bring the baggage to ay ‘ghantouell secur |Street Car Strike After, ax most young people are. | ime to think about that Germany to Submit —[Miirow it te Is able to get feady (nn 2 Pai peony ‘The tug Sea Lion was standing sy “Any parent can put a child in| in time. Of course, we will see ° JEWELER DOUBTS the ett this’ morning with ons _ Riot in Troy, N. Y.| whos who, if the parent wutticient-| |Appropriation for to Reparations| that Ne is, closely.” guarded—just |Eealth Chief Asks THE NEW MAID line aboard the Klamath, and dur-| TROY, N. -¥., Feb. 8—Disorder}iy endows and properly rears the PARIS, Feb, 8—First indication! to see that he gets there all right for Schoo! Ding the day was expected to make| broke out today shortly aft the! child | Army Is Passed | that Germany wit! submit to allie “I expect to be ted up for sev-! 1. ay at Read pa Nurses An attempt to pull the fastbreaking| United Traction company, which is| “I owe everything to my early! WASHINGTON, Feb. &.—~The| reparations demands was seen today | eral days with the railroad hearing |, ith, sent a communication te the | ‘ i | ting a strike, put cars in opera a ot allowed Ouse today passed y > e c nnouncement Chicagd 3ut as se s I get] '° st. ps Rall from the beach. | fighting r P training. T was not allowed to waste | house today passed the army appro-|in the official announcement that| in Chicago. But as soon as I get | {VY Out) Tuesday morning asking | ter Tipp late at night, after handling many stones and precious jewels, ‘Tipp knew that even the most perfect stone has a flaw, and ~ jo ed by strikebreakers, One| an hour. jation bill, ing $328,681,000, legates will be sent to the allied) away I a willing to go to San that perfect maids have man: He | tion mann priation bill, carrying $328,681, | San | tee eee \ ‘| that 4 r ye Teacher, 7 Pupils car was 1 by a crowd. A| “Most children are kept back by| after rejecting an amendment to re ence in London, March 1. The| Francisco to do what T can in the |@0 8PPropriation of $3,000 ‘s employ | doubted , strikebreaker was knocked senseless. their parents’ lo f the ridiculous | duce the number of commissioned of. ation was handed the charge | Moone ‘ase, providir SIC) <saetibeyireg veut os = il “end Tipp saw Alice the next morning | One arrest made, that sounds like a azing state. | fic iow goes to the ate afta. « ck Pi 2 otra BAe . aaipe ore, fc ., Killed in Explosion | 0 est was ma hi inds like an amazing state-! ficers, It now goes to the senat Vaffaires in Berlin (Lure to Back Page, Column 2) [MN Aton, children ate atwent { £0" the first time, and, alas, for the peace of the Tipp household, for the ~ LAWR VILLE, ll, Feb. 8 Eee! uit er The Episode of the Blue Auto; or, Why Two Men Hurried another pupll is thought to be dying, | fy a result of the explosion of a a io: ‘4 leclared the matter | ist time, sad to relate, a * pA ye matter) “That afternoon Mrs, Tipp heard j Urwene I view of Tks nt supreme | the front door softly shut and Allee, a jcourt decision forbidding medical “las ke the perfect maid, enteral | tention in the schools with a note which read; me aes ae | é —)" 1 r 2 “ - ~ Year Lillian: Please meet me at an of nitroglycerine in the school} BY P. CHALORAFT instance, ever dreamed of seeing a} S the ferry was about to slip her|road, waving bis arms and shouting bas kill. ’ a * yeuterd fternoon. One of the|/TVHE voyage from Kirkland to| bandit | ZA moorings at the Kirkland dock for | hoarsely The man who said he was a jewel |Everybody 8 on Good | russn grvsinnthaie oe ie ia Uia6a0 oped thd ean with aa attle on the municipal ferry| Why a yegg or stickup man should | the run across the lake, a loud com-| “Hold the boat!’ they heard him |er , however, had no fear. He stepped | Behavior at P. O,| "2" tenn. Wait and see who tt ax has not, in the minds of the com-|be operating in the broad daylight of | motion drew the attention of all on‘jyell, “Man * * * blue car * * */up and took the number of the car * [le Go aetaye to eye OR. muters, been intimately associated board to the road that leads from the | eee “| It's annual checking time at the| ‘Phree-thirty found Mrs. ‘Tipp iii Si prayer goal pay rie rin | postoffice, Everybody's on best! patiently awaiting her mysterl | <6\{7HO is this man? What has he | done—robbed your store?” the captain asked. ‘Robbed? Not!” the jeweler said But a stone from under his tire| shot thru my nice plate glass win dow!" N. Y. Labor Man Is = Braresge Sentenced to Prison) tie vive wo NEW YORK. Feb. §-Robert p.| Hundreds of men, and even women ha e 5 em ave made the 20 BE Brindelt, “czar” of the Bulaing| “age cd nig gy ‘Tradex council, to was sentenced | to not lees than five years nor more| tence that their tranquillity would than 10, at hard labor in § } ASE: be Alera ped ng Sing | Ne a t yefore the incident Prison by Judge McAvoy, in the| Nor was it—befor : 4 behavior, from Postmaster sar|friend at Puss'n Boots. She called Battle to the last “sub.” n post-| Alice by phone. rm office inspectors are making a de-| “Why, the lady just called and tailed examination of all depart-| said to meet her at the Washington | ments both at the main office and] hotel,” quoth Alice in a smooth voiee, the substations, A peal of thunder sounded over He of the blue car leaned forward the wire, but Mrs. ‘Tipp little sealia “Any insurance on your window?” | Broke Dry Law; Two [1st t was her own plano that was t before the episode ot || Speeding wildly, a blue car with | | red wheels skidded to a stop at the wharf's edge with a shrieking of the brakes. Much obliged,” the young chap at the wheel said ag he eased aboard. | |"I ure had to make this boat.” He looked back up the road anx:| and children minute journ the auto with red wheels 19 . jously, His eyes narrowed my jewelry store!” | ne aatced the criminal branch of the supreme 9 a. m. does not concern us here It ; . “ | ask court h © : sts + Matty |has no place in this recital of events t's go!” he said, nervously. | Passengers and crew stood back} “Yes,” was the reply Months to Ponder Soon after the following articles Brindell was convicted of extortion N this particular morning there|So we shall pass by the temptation Ldn thiod | respectfully, They had no desire to ‘hen why not collect it? * * * Two months in county jail for tn Mre. ‘Tipps wardrobe ele aan carat in connection with building vitier was nothing to indicate the im-|to philosophize and proceed with the B T the captain was waiting for a|cross the will of another mitt ‘s what it's fe he added. | booze law violation ts Nick Vidos’ par. 4!" in New York City, minence of the unusual, No one, for | action, ‘ | man who came running down the| Anyone who would rob was prepared | Let's gol” ticular peck o’ trouble Tuesday, (Turn to Back Page, Column 9 R e