The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 23, 1921, Page 12

HERE’S MORE ABOUT PROBE ‘LEAK’ STARTS ON PAGE ONE With the report in his hands, after bia raid on the tavern last Friday, the sheriff was enabled to place #e- rious charges against the alleged proprietors—D. N, Schoonover, for. mer policeman, and Aaron Mo Sparen. The sheriffs raid was occastoned by the complaint that a young girl, the daughter of a prominent family, had been lured to the Black Cat, drugged and mistreated. This girl, known as “Ruth,” ts today safe in the home of relatives, Before the girl's father knew she ad been at the Black Cat, the com mittee’s operative on the “tappped wire” began to record phone con- Versations regurding her, While her relatives were searching the city for her, “Ruth” was in com munication with the Black Cat, and the operative on the “taped wire” was making strenuous efforts to got in touch with the earchers to in form them of her whereabouts, that they might reseue her, FURST TELEPHONE RECORD OF “RUTH” The conversation regarding “Ruth,” as he recorded them, began ‘on January 22, when, at 445 p. m. the record shows, a girl's voice called the Black Cat, Giri—Hello, Ie MoOall there? hin te MeCall, Girl—-Do you know who thts tet McCall—Sura Ruth Are you coming out. Ruth—CT see you tomorrow afterncon. T got $10; all_ne bad. Mesipar: jello, deartea, Ruth—Hello, papa MeSparen-Did you follow tnatructions —SAYS OLE HANSON. "Political Future Depends on System’s Failure, Former Mayor Tells League Four things can solve the street ar problem, Ole Hanson, former Mayor, told the Municipal League Puewtay noon. He did it with plain Statement and sarcasm, ridicule and ees, And these are the things ° ‘Bane: _ “[ propose first, that not one single shall hereafter be taken from general fund to carry on any utility; second, that one of the and most experienced transpor- experts in the United States aBtained by the present city gov. ‘@rament and told to make geod on the ear line; third, that the city street railway department immedi ‘Ately put into effect the economy of n cara, and fourth, that the utilities be removed from With these four things ac our troubles are at an end.” ON RIDICULES id TION FIGURES - Hanson found his audience, which yguthered at Blanc’s cafe, eager his words. He talked fully an and reviewed the car situation | tart migh(? st angie. Yea. Shere is no business man tn this nity,” he said, “who will agree c after you have spent $1,200,000 $ maintaining the street car lines have depreciated in addition $673,000 plus $236,000. “The fact is that money has been and charged to maintenance should have been charged to | investment. The fact is, there t hs th Been waste. The fact is, “Tm | two DAYS LATER ’| AGAIN COMES “RUTH™ | ‘Two days later, January 24, at 3:08 The fact is, everything has| P.M, a man called the Black Cat. done that could have been done| Many other conversations inter. vened, This was the first mention of Ruth following her conversation of the 22d. Man—Is Mefpair (Mefparen MeSiparen—This ts Metipair. Man-—This ts Joe. McSparen— Hello, Joa Jow—Mac, is Ruth there? MeSparen —No. pretty well cleaned. mueh did you get? Wants to speak Will you go to the Tavern te- ith me and then we can both go Ruth—IM be at Bifoett 2287 tin 9 o'clock, #0 YOu can get me there, MeCall—fiay, call me tomorrow before ut, as I may go to town in INTO CAR SITUATION a eae? ““It aeems but fair to me that with mayor who says the city entered a8 impossible contract, who ap- it with a feeling of antag-| Joe—Well, I don't knock, but don't and hatred, whose political fu- |r es ome fog you can help Gepends cy = failure ated | "\ Jaoaten Well, ate utility, io street car ines Joe—That don't ma! be placed charge of some | Tou know who she is, Mesiparen—N. ‘who is competent and able and} tS*Paren Ne. | sa taw te — will run the lines free from to make them pay, and not make them fail. you I wouldn't as she will close you up a sure as bell. MeSparen—All right, Joe; much odliged te you. Call me up Joo—All right, Mac. RUTH CALLS UP THE BLACK CAT On the same day, at $20 p. m, Ruth called the Black Cat Ruth-—-Hello, Mac; you. I think that's = made-up ition of oJe's. McCall-—Well, I'll ese you tomorrow. ‘Ten minutes later, at $:30, Marie called roadi use. Marie—-Hello, how are you? What are McSparen—Nothing. Schooney ts here eating pork chopa I heard you bought a new hat. Marie—Who told you? Jest called up a while ago. you going tonight? Marie—i'm going to call Clara. MeSparen—Cail me up before you come ont. ’| KATE BROWN HEARS RUTH WENT TO PORTLAND It was five days before Ruth's name was again mentioned in tele- phone conversations at the Black Cat. On January 29, at 12:20 p. m., a woman called and McCall answered the phone. The woman was Kate Brown, occupant of room 18, Burn- side hotel. Kate--Did you hear Ruth went to Portland? MoeCali—Yes. Goodby. Fight minutts elapsed, and McCall called central. McCall—Rallard 4532, could I speak to Rath? Ruth—Hello. McCall—Hello, Reth; this ts Mac. Hew are you? Ruth—Pretty good. McCall—Do you want te go away to- d off for obsolescence, in ad- to a heavy charge for de- in my judgment, the car lines of the city of Se. can be operated, maintained all interest charges paid on ‘imately $15,000 per day. “This. jeaves $3,000 plus per day the retirement of the bonds as due. It is my belief that inauguration of one-man per cent of the lines another $450,000. This se, shorten and reduce the payroll and not only reduce the faster but, in time, re- the fare to the car rider.” In the course of his address Han- | yon made tyo offers. He promised to pay 3 a year for five years “foward the salary of an expert Manacer of the lines, if the city ‘maid it needed it and he offered to ‘debate the question of the car lines | with Mayor Hugh M. Caldwell any evening at the armory. In connection with the latter pro he said he wanted the mayor's ry to act as chairman of meeting and to have charge of “the distribution of the tickets so that none of his (Hanson's) friends * might be present—“if,” he hastened to add, “I have any friends.” FASTERN YEGeS STEAL $60,000 AUBURN, Neb. Feb. 23.—Yeggs gome time Tuesday night robbed the bank at Howe, Neb., south of here. Bnd excaped with the contents of 40 _ mafety deposit boxes. The boxes con- Taina Srincipaty Linerts gocon | GET RUTH ALL THE TIME “Bank officials could not estimate the| MCCall called central again at 7:10 4 but admitted it might reach | P-,™: 4nd asked for Ballard 4532, oy ose eh | MeCall SHello, hello, “Mazel? 000. en. Police are looking for three men, 4 ‘all wearing red sweaters, who drove | ‘'® ing hi Vi get into Howe in @ touring car Tuesday | me over thers. 'Did_yow tell Hace the and loafed about town all day, reason you came out there? Ruth—Yes. McCali—-Well, T see you after @ bit. Goodby. A. few minutes after this conversa- tion, Ruth phoned the Black Cat, asking for McCall. McSparen ro-| plied: “Ho's on his way over there, Who ts this, Ruth?” Kuth—You Te Stanley with him? MeSparen—Yes. Ruth—Ail right. Hella, Haret; h—t don't know. ‘They want me to Was there anyone looking for last night? i—B Ruth heard there waa MecCall—-t just was talking to Kate, and Lillian told her that I had another girl, but thet ahe had ne to Portland and that she had better not. stay in town. Vil t and see you if T can get in, and if I don't why, it's all nt for you to stay there tonight, anyway. XK AM right. McCall —Well, goodby, sweetheart. “BILLIE” ALSO HEARS RUTH IS AWAY February 1, at 3:25 p. m., a girl, Billie, was in conversation with Me Call and MeSparen. Billie—Did you hear Ruth had gene to Portiand? Mi ee ‘ell, tts funny she aian’t come =p us. Her old man was looking for her last night, Mac—Well, (ll have Mac call you when he eomen tn. Rilly-Ail right: goodby. Within an hour, 4:20 pm, Ruth herself phoned the Black Cat. Mi “Hello, Mac; when are you eom- ing ove’ MeCal = Mae (MeSparen) atn’t back come over a# soon as he gets ii me up again, honey, All right, honey. McCALL IS ABLE TO is McCall. Can I speak jo Ruth. Stanley is com- eee CHICAGO, Feb. 23—Four safe -@rackers early today blew three safes at the John Magnus Co., mall order house, and escaped with’ $50,000, Second Infantry to Organize Thursday sf Former members of the old Wash. | jAngton National Guard will complete May Bannerman LONDON, Feb. %3.--Mins May Bannerman of Glasgow, Scotland, has been decorated by King George for services in the world war, She had charge of all British tele phones for three years. Marshal Haig cited her. HERE IS MORE ABOUT | 3 ROBBERS STARTS ON PAGE ONE one cuff. The cuffs were passed thru the bedbars, Peterson went into the next room. LAYS GUN ON DRESSER; LIGHTS CIGARETTE The robber who stayed in the room a ciguret case and lit a cigaret. He smoked slowly, but «aid nothing. while Polson and Conley eyed him, pazgied. Then from the next room came the) yoice of the unseen robber again “Go ring for the wagon,” he said. “I've got this fellow searched, We'll take them all to jail.” The robber, who had flashed the star, dropped his cigaret in a waste- basket ang lett Fifteen minutes later, Conley and Polsen became aware that they had not been arrested but robbed. It waa three hours before they could give an alarm. “Do you think these men could have been officers?” Conley was 4 asked Wednesday ROOMS RENTED ON TUESDAY, CHECK SHOWS “Weill, I don't know,” he replied. “I think tho they were bootlegse: It was @ pretty frameup. And we didn’t get our bottle. The two rooms were rented by three men at 2 p. m. Tuesday, in- quiry at the hotel office showed. An excellent description of the two rob bers were given by the two victims, Conley an auto saleaman and lived in the Martinique apartments, Eighth ave. and Union st. Poisen fs an engineer, until em. ployed at Independence, lives at 2104 Sixth ave. = EVERETTS IS_ “It's not he," said Chief of Police G. & Dean, of Aberdeen, Tuesday, when shown Jean Everetts, held here suspected of planting 26 sticks of dynamite under the American Legion hall at Aberdeen February 2, while more than 100 ex-service men were within, “He's too dark,” in added Sheriff Elmer Gibson, ‘ays Har- bor county, also declared that Ever. etts was not the bomber. Everetts | has maintained his innocence of thin charge since arrested by Sergt. P. I Keefe and Patrolman E. E. Darnel! | Saturday night. charged in superior court with high way robbery. Fred Bay, 1134 Broad- way court, identifies them as the rob- bers who held him up at lith ave. and E. Terrace st. Saturday night. - X-Ray Is Undoing Age . of Leo; He’s in Jail DENVER, Feb. 23.—-I. Bloom mised a valuable ring. Leo Price, a negro, waa arrested, Lao denied any knowledge of the jewelry. His #tom- ach waa X-rayed, the ring showed in the photograph, Bloom has his ring and Leo is tn jail | Six Soldiers Hurt in Auto Plunge ASTORIA, Ore., Feb. 23.—On their way from Fort Stevens to a dance here last night, six soldiers were injured when their auto skidded and dived over a 40-foot bluff. 9 Guardsmen Held on Murder Charge HAMILTON, Ala, Feb. 23-—First degree murder charges filed against nine Alabama National Guardsmen, held in connection with lynching of Willlam Baird, coal miner, at Jasper, last month, These Seattleites Will Hobble Awnile A lot of Seattleites will be hobbling around stiff in the Joints for the next few days! Last of the mountaineers who took part in the four-day hike in the Cascades returned to Seattle Tuesday night. in not connected with me any mora. He jx ‘thro and going to Portland with « Jane. He is no good here; he keeps too many people away. At 10:45 Mec#paren again phoned Kate, calling Main 6153 and asking to speak to Mrs. Brown, At 10:15 o'clock the same eve. ning, Kate was in communication with McSparen. McSparen—-Mac (McCall) has left He ‘the organization of the Second Wash- r ington Infantry Association at the | } Armory Thursday evening. ¢ MeSiparen—Hello, honey. ‘Thin ta Mac. Hay, 1 want to got in toueh with Mo- Cail, Get him out at Smithy's now. Get him to call this woman—it in thin wom an from Vancouver, She has a bunch of dope to deliver, and I think tt ts his Jane—May, She ix out at Bmithy’s and Ruth is there with him. 1 would not let him stay here with her. She went to Portland, but she got off the train at Ta coma and back by boat. If this woman is his Jane, May, hell will pop when she finds out Mac has Kuth on the suring. Lanta penitentiary, will be called to laid bis gun on the dreaser, took out | NOT BOMBER Everett and George Roberts are! sis THE SEATTLE STAR English Pone Girl Decorated by King George JEALOUS WIFE. SHOOTS SPOUSE DEBS ISOLATION I$ UNDER PROBE Mrs. Debs Unable to Hear From Husband WASHINGTON, Feb. 2%.—Depart ment of Justice order® to hold Bu Debs incammunicado at At Says He Was Paying Atten- |; tion to Another - | ne “1 have a husband of my own. What would I want with him? if 1 had wanted him I would have| — taken him, for this j# @ free coun:| try.” Mra. Sophie Pekun, mother of two children, unburdened herself of this | lindignant denial when confronted | with the charge of Mrs, Alice Cha | ban that she had been, trying to mteal | the love of Chaban. | Chaban is in city hospital, shot twice in the neck. He is not in seri geno V. the attention of President Witson to- |day, it was announced at the White House At the sume time, White House of: ficlais denied that they were respon sible for the order, or that they knew of it, untl they read of it in newspapers. TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Feb. 23—|ous condition. Mrs, Chaban shot} |Mra. Kugene V, Debs, aged and| Chaban in their home at 1429 Seat broken in health today, has been | te blvd, Tuesday afternoon, during what detectives say was a fit of jealous rage, Mrs, Chaban charges | that she and Chaban have quarreled | since New Year's day over his al leged attentions to Mra. Pekun, Mra, Pekun'’s husband is in San Francisco, / After Mrs, Chaban had shot her husband twiee, the jamming of a third bullet in the barre! of the gun prevented her from ¢laying him on the spot EBERT ESCAPES ASSASSIN SHOT Bullet Fired at President of Germany | RERILIN, Feb, 23-—A shot fired at Provided Priedrich Ebert's house « few days ago narrowly missed killing @ guardeman, tt was learned today. Authorities, made every effort to keep the incident secret. ‘The shot apparently came from ‘ : the roof of former Btate Secretary it y punishment.” she raid : Pelee oe Mra tate peut ft | Kuhlmann'’a house, across Withetm- r | strame fro: , t n jonly an indomitable spirit ghat keeps | On : from the president's res! ene her up, even tho she has been denied ecmimaibeation with her companion | _ Guardsmen immediately rushed the waiting for word from her husband for two weeks, An order has been taeued by the government which forbids Debs’ be- ing held in Atlanta federal prison, for violation of the espionage law, from communicating with the out- wide world. Since his imprisonment, Mrs. Debs had received regularly a letter a week until a few days ago, when the letters were cut off. “NOTHING THEY CAN DO MATTERS,” SHE SAYS “It's all right, nothing they can 4o matters,” she mud today, in her tue home in Terre Haute, she stopped abruptly as a fit of coughing welzed her. She rested her throat a minute, 4nd then continued: ’ “We are no more apart now than We were. We will be in just am clone touch as if the weekly letters were passing between un She coughed again and mmiled faintly, as she grasped the arm of [the easy chair in which she was re-| olining “Gene knows what I would my to him if I could write, and I know! what he would may to me, #0 really } Air Mail Pilot Is And | fared lost on Rainy Pasa trail, ar- | rives safely fre Killed in Crash BAN FRANCISOO, Feb, 23.—W Lewin, air mall pilot, waa killed |B. After Night Flight CHICAGO, Feb, 23—Aviator John | Mail Aviator Lands |Eight Persons Dead in Trolley Cr SHELTON, Conn., Knight swooped down from the | trolley cars on the Bridgeport-hele Feb. 23.—~ wterday when his plane fell atisky in a successful landing at|ton line collided head-on here yeater: ko, ada. Lewin was piloting |Cheekerboard field here today, at| day, killing eight persons and injure of the two planes that left here £42 a m., after a night flight from | ing 25, The motorman of one of the) 7 aterday morning in an attempt | Omaha. cars, and four children, ranging from |) extablish a record for transconti The tor wan carrying the mail| 3 to 15 years, are among the dead, from & ae | the Dr. J, B, Beeson, | flight | Kelloge, | Knight took the mail at Cheynne,|G. A. ht A. francisco to New York in| y and night crosscountry ntal mail nervice, ANCHORAGE. i Iditarod, |Wyo., late yenterds ESTABLISHED 1890 o’Clock Thursday afternoon. A Collection of Inexpensive Suits That Offers a Wide Choice —Modish Suits—excellently made of tricotine, serge and velour checks, favored materials for Jor 26 years | Kuhiman bome, but found no ene “The wife of the nocialist leader in| there except the porter, who ~ Viaibly “thinner than a fow weeks|Clared the shot could not possibly lago. Her face ix flushed with fever, | M#¥e come from that residence. He and her thick cols of white hair, | Suemested it might have been fred | ‘oof |usually mo beautifully made up, were | {fom some neighboring r lin a hasty knot and none too amooth,| The bullet pierced the helmet of | ALWAYS WELL WHEN the Ebert guardaman. It apparently SHE WRITES TO HIM. was nearly spent when it struck The Ebert home sits well back Cynon be pees Knew of her illness, | trom the“street. . trained from pub-| Oh, no; I newer tell him anything |, Newnpapers | re 1 incident. like that; Lam always perfectly weil | U#hing the in when I wrtte to Gene.” | Mra Debs said the punishment of “thunders of ‘wilence” meted out to} her husbagd was sure to be a blow to him. “Gene liked to write to his friends jand have them call on him.” she mud. “The interview wan « out by Gene, in which he was reported saying that President Wilson, and not he, should be the one seeking a pardon, wan the cause of It all.” Mrs. Debs said the last letter she received from her husband told of a visit from Zimbalist, the Russian | planint. Announcement that Debs would be held incommunicado was made last week in Washington by D. 8. 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