The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 2, 1921, Page 12

INMATE OF PE TALKS ~— ONHANGING” It Creates More ineiendess|" He Tells Star Man in Interview J, BENJAMIN Mareh 2.—The BY RALPH WALLA WALLA, @lanting rays of oon sun Played thru the sarred windows | Of the cell and brought out in sil houette a giant, tousled head, He pated » and clasp © him, have two | " he de my The prisoner sm his chair up to the tar Bia hands nervously b “Not since time ‘Wrongs ever made @lared. It was his answer t Question: “What do you think of @apital punishment? MAKES NO A POR HARDENED MINAL “The law says murder is the de Mberate, premeditated taking of an @ther hurhan being’s life. @rime. It must be pu Hives of people must @oclety ix to exist. “It is not a plea for the mur that I want to make. I do not wan % make sympathy for the hardened | ‘eriminal. I know he muet be shed for his mi ds. But, Rot escape conviction that society's Method is mostly wrong. “When the murderer takes a life, | he is guilty of a terribie crime against society “The courts ation if he had a gun and used it < The possesion of the gun is delib-| eration, and time elapsing between the pointing of the weapon and pull ing of the trigger is premeditation. THINKS LAW ALSO 38 GUILTY OF MURDER “Then, if the law condemns him to @ie, is not the law guilty of murder, @f deliberatin and premeditation? 4M commits a crime against itself, it Undermines its own morais, it under- the very machinery it has it for its own protection. “There is nothing so brutalizing as the deliberate, premeditated, care fully prepared and perfectly hanging. “On the men in the penitentiary the effect is demoralizing. These Mmen think. Many, many of them are Bighly intelligent. On these men the effect of a hanging at the prison is ferrible. It takes away respect for It stamps out respect for the Fights of others, It doesn’t make them afraid to kill, It makes scores _ Wart to kill WOULD KILL To AVOID BEING CAUGHT “Picture the man who has killed Smother. What is his feeling about arrest? $ He would kill many times| Father than be arrested, for ho fears | if be ts arrested he will be identified @s & murderer, and he will be hang- ed.” That was the philosophy of John Schmitt, the man who killed the three Seattle policernen. Capital Punishment made him a man dan-| Berous, not only to society, but to | bimmaelt. “I wonder why society doesn’t do} fomething constructive in the hand. Ung of criminals? “Would it not be better to set a murderer to work for life at some Paying industry within prison walls? And sell the product so the widow| @nd children of the murdered man Might live on his earnings? ‘The state of Washington legista- g@ure voted to reestablish capital Punishment after John Van Dell had| Murdered Mr. Olson, the industrial insurance commissioner in Olyrapia. Hf there had been a hanging law then, John Van Dell would have hanged for his crime. But, what is the fact about John Van Dell? HOPELESS MANIAC IN “SIBERIA” “He is suffering from a disease that drove him insane. He has been Insane for years. how that he is locked up in Siberia.” Siberia is a little corner of the Prison where the insane prisoners who are dangerous to their fellow Prisoners are kept. “Would society be prond of hang. ing an insane man?” asked the’ pris oner. “No. And yet it would have done that if the hanging law had been in effect then ‘Then I found a Killed aman. He tenced to life imp “I don’t thi men for killin because I'm » > anse it has a It doesn't help. Know it. “I am sorry I did what I did, but it is more punishment to me to be here all my life—if I am here that long—than to die. It isn't so b that. You can eat the ut that's about all. You work, fat, sleep and read, That's all. WOULDN'T BE THERE If HE'D HEEDED MOTHER “There wouldn't be so many fellows getting into trouble if they would Ii 1 would be maki coma youth who young like I did had listened to mine ign’t much use to tel to stay home, but dope.” John Kneip i¢ g in the jute mill, and stud mobile me chanics. He ¢ from the Ubrary and spends his idle time studying them ‘There’s another boy In the prison now. When he arrived he was der 16. The law wouldn't permit being locked up with he was house the court. He ts hoy with a pitif sion on his fe eyes. He was with an old killed a man. term Joe ing, but I asked the warden about Joe, and he shook his head “He's just a bo: bright at that, y now, a 1 expre brown boy who He is serving Morton isn't co and not very (More opinions from the inside of | Walla Walla about —_— ish ment in an early issue. RAL FUN’ SERVICES for Mrs. Rose Suess, 57, who died Friday at Columbus s#anitarium, have postponed until 2 p, m. Thursday, at the Bonney-Watson parlors. have ruled that he ts/ guilty of premeditation and deliber-| | “Every time society bangs a man legal | He is #0 insane} Clarence Kolb Apricot Expert; Dill a Realtor arence Kolb, comedian at the bes t this week, has one hobby, and that is apricot. From his large ranch at Centerville, Cal, come the cost apricots of that state, It ix eally more than a hobby with the I, eceentrio funmaker; it is a He also hag the distinction of being } th ly rancher in that part of the land who raises turkeys succes fully Max Dill, the smatier of the two | funmaker known in Ala | Cal, as one of the town's leading real estate promoter A atring of bun | galows in the most beautiful part of the city were constructed under his guida) Alameda as yet does not bowust levator, It i# Dill's ambi tion to install the first one EX-YANK HELD; _ CARRIED PISTOL | “The army ruined me and I was ¢ Jing to get even James Murphy, 38, G. W. Cristy and E night They arrested him at Seventh ave. in company with Murphy had a leaded pistol and a sack of . Guasick had a flashlight “We were going to stick up a |Greek gambling game,” Murphy is alleged to have admitted, Neither would tell where they lived. They Ja are held on open charges. Murphy came here a week ago from California and Guasick arrived | from Ida ording, to their story Harry Yamada, 32, was charged | Wednesday with carrying conceals weapons, following his arrest Tues day night at Tenth ave. 8 and Wash ington st. by Patrolmen ¢ | Vallet He carried a 38 ¢ Deate im gt liberty MINERS FIGHT with told Valiet, 1 woMeor ne at. » three days ago, acc $100 bail Coal miners of the state will fight | any attempt to enforce the proposed 23-per cent wage cut which operatorh want to make effective March 15, it was announced Wednesday, after a meeting of District No. 10, t “t Mine Workers of America, held T day afternoon. | Operators proposed to return to the October, 1919, wage seale, and agreed to reduce the prices in mine |stores and hotels to the same basis. Miners, on the other hand, declare they will not terminate or alter their contract for the present wage scale, which, they state, does not expire un- til April 1, 1922. Mine operators have dectared they will close down if wage reduction is jnot accepted. President Approves Deficiency Bills) WASHINGTON, March 2.—Preai dent Wilson yesterday approved the first 1921 deficiency appropriation bill, the postoffice appropriation bil! and the rivers and harbors appropri ation bill. The firet deficiency bill for 1971 provides $276,000,000 e expenses of | the government which have been over the wrual A a io The postoffice appropriation pint | | carries over $575,000,000. These two bill# are the largest of the appropria tion bills before the president yet remain the Indian appropriation and the diplomatic and consular ap | propriations. “No Conflict” in Anglo-Jap Treaty LONDON, March 2.—The Angio- Japanese treaty has been arranged #0 as not to involve any the United States, of Foreign A in the house | plying to a question. ‘Phere haa been | munic: mation with the United States | regarding the treaty,” K ‘aa there is no reason to believe ¢ \t jnited States authorities doubt true position of the British govern ment.” Wickersham Seated as Alaska Delegate | There Kellawny declared WASHINGTON, March 2—Ap-| proximately 5,000 will be paid James Wickersham, of Alaska, for a territorial delegate for weated | 8 to 109, after it de | George B. Grisby was not entitled to |the seat. Under house rules Wicker j#ham draws a | penses for two years, \426 Russians Are Sent From America WASHINGTON, March 2. hundred and twenty-six Russian an and office ex ar ists and communists have been | deported, the labor department an | nounced today. This number includes 55 who sailed from New York Satur. | day on the Zeeland for Libau Approxt 1¥ half of tho#e order. ed deported as the result of whotesale | Taide last year have left the country, | labor officials said. Suzzallo Aids Plan The 600th annive of the Italian poet I served national! Jin ¢ xe cist whic Henr | versity ary of th nte wi ath be ol rran Mitton and ments of pi public on methber nt of the ip Uni uington. Volunteer Autoists Wanted for Relief Three or four are being ist in a the Axnsocta room %, Labe is Elliott 2424 motor car owners nteera to as liet supplies by Unemployed, | mple. VALUE OF RHODES echolarehips Tained £50, abcording to announce ment coming from President al lo's office at university Total an nual value of a scholarship is now £300, PROPOSED CUT ommons today in re no official com. | Your for Dante Birthday | The telephone | THE SEATTLE STAR ‘PROBE REPORT '0, W, FISHER'S OF JAP LABOR] WIFE IS DEAD Legion Post Asks Mill Co, to Passes Away After Hliness | Substitute Whites of Three Years Alleged employment of Japanese| Mrs, O. W. Fisher, wife of 0. W in the Duwamiah Mill company's! Fisher, president of the Winher plant at Davia, Wash,” while ex! Piouring Mills Co, died at 6:30 a m service men walk the streets Wednesday, at the family residence lin vain for work, was being Invest} 1059 Relmont pl, She bad be gated today by Seattle post No, 18, | invalid for the last three yours, dur American legion, the greater part of which time On February 12, Don MeRwen,| she had been confined to her bed. chairman of the labor and Japan 1d been @ cripple for many committee of the post vod Was 74 yours of age at the otter the mill com courte | time of her death ously asking if the reported hiring | Mrs, Fisher was born at Kamoka of Ja labor at the mill wax] Ontario, and had lived in Seattle for true | the last seven years, She is survived MoKwen waited until today for a| by her husband, O. W. Fisher; tive} 6, Meliwen | sons, Will P, Wisher, Burr Misher, 0, | th the post to] D, Fisher, D, R. Fisher and O, W “4 can be taken to! Fisher, jr, and one daughter, Mrs | pany to substitute ex-| W. W. Warren, all of Beattie | She was a member of the First M F. church and was keenly interested the Japa tter to the com | Mewen's inchureh work Paws | ©. D, Fisher was en route to Call fornia at the time of his mother's death, and Burr Kishor ia in Low An: | goles. Both were immediately sum: | moned, and no funeral arrangements | will be made until their return, \Veiled Prophets to Revel Tonight snor of the visit of Dwight 2 : of Fall Ft Mass, grand] monareh of the Mystic Order Vetle Prophets of the officer of Ang amd their wiv will give a banquet | n the Masonic club rooma Wednes | ay night. Mrs, Cone ts accompany: | « her husband will be 4 in the Thurs evening, prophets of Be atte and Tacoma attending House for Army of Only 150,000) WASHINGTON, March 2%—The! by @ vote of 240 t agree tO an arr North Side Bank’s | Assets $140,819.40 * Liabilities of the North Side State ), am pre army appre bank, whose emberstin, eller, Paul ltentlary for 6 to 15 years, cannot | be accurately ecetimated until all . . | outstanding claime are presented, | Debate Championship} accorting to the report of Claude of Coast Up Friday Pr. Hay, bank examiner, on file Wednesday In superior court. | Hay nays the bank's aswets total $14¢ 819.40. Baptist Churches to Start Revival Drive Twenty-two Baptist churches in st the Wiewt haptiet cnaren, rrr Charles Hebberd and Wife Are Divorced | wening. This will be the initial ing of the sinvult sevangel-| gnoxANE, March %—Charles Hebberd, republican etate chairman, | campaign to be ¢ by all Baptist churches § and his wife, Alice Hebberd, hibiting strikes in tries, constitutionally were | sinning Sunday, continuing for two | Fronted a joint decree of divorce * | Theaday by Superior Judge Huneke | Their only child, Mary Louise, waa given into the |Searched for Bocas ‘Insult’ Worth $1,000 King Nicholas of Accosted, he claima, by a deputy | | marshal of Auburn February 97 and} Montenegro Dead ANTIBES, France, March 2% marched to the railroad station, where his grips were opened and no| King Nicholas of Montenegro t»/ | liquor found, B. J. Carr wants $1,000 | dead here tod He was born for the “insult,” according to his sult|in 1841 and ascended to the throne | in superior court against Nathan/in 1910... H ueht with the allies Page, Sr., marshal o arn. ‘duting the w war. | Ba || Selling Without the Frills That's the Bargain Basement idea in a nut-shell! No expensive fixtures, no excess salespeople, no charge accounts, no free alterations to garments and no free delivery. Just good, honest merchan- dise at the lowest possible price! custody of the mother THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMEN Style After Style in | Silk Georgette | at $2.95 | || A Remarkably Low Price | It’s all too seldom that we are able to get such a bargain as this for you! The colors are flesh, navy, white, old gold, black, ocean and |}! brown—in plain shades and combinations , | They have long or short sleeves, knife- |}| plaited collars, and are trimmed with beads, |}} floss embroidery, tinsel, pin tucks and hem- |}| stitching. | | Sizes 36 to 44—but not every style or color in each size. Girls’ Crepe Bloomers | 39c and 59c | In white and flesh, made with elastic knee ||| and waist. Sizes 3 to 16 years. || Smart Styles in Women’s High Shoes at $3.98 | Black and brown vici kid, with Louis or |}) military heels and solid leather soles. Sizes 4 to 8, widths AA to D. Bought at a bargain to \f] sell at big savings. BLOUSES | TheBonMarché fF ESTA) Hi 1690 260 Babies’ Hand-Embroidered White Coats on Sale Thursday } At Makers’ Original Prices At $4.50 to $12.50 All Samples—All Marked With= Makers’ Own Price Tickets In White Crepe de Chine, White Cashmere, White Crepella, White Corduroy and White Grosgrain Silk Each coat was personally selected by our buyer with the definite idea of getting just the sort of coats that Seattle mothers wanted. Sizes 6 months to 3 years, in belted coats, cape coats, half-belted coats, hand-smocked coats, flare-backed coats and coats for boys. And the Prices Guarantee Unequaled Savings INFANTS’ WEAR SECTION—SECOND FLOOR A Sale of Girls’ Gingham Dresses at $1.95 DELIGHTFUL IN STYLE, ESPECIALLY APPEALING IN VALUE! Gingham dresses that have been carefully made and designed for the girls from 8 to 14 years. —Eight attractive styles—and in such fetching colors, with high and normal waist line, fancy pockets and sashes. —FPlain colors, checks and stripes, in two colors or color combinations, with trimmings of white organdy, repp and contrasting colors. DAUGHTER'S SHOP—SECOND FLOOR Picturesque Garden Aprons and at $3.95 YOU RARELY SEE SUCH VALUES AS + THESE FOR THE MONEY! Lovely crepe garden aprons—assorted colors, with shirring at waist, finished with sash tie— and plenty of hand embroidering. Same style also in black sateen and unbleached muslin— slipover models. —Another style is of gingham—slip-over style, hand embroidered in contrasting tones. —Several other styles in all the colors of the garden flowers, $3.95. APRON SECTION—SECOND FLOOR You Can Still Save on Cretonnes Nets and Scrims THEY’LL FRESHE DRAWN-WORK CURTAIN SCRIMS, 17¢ A YARD In cream, white and ecru, for bed- room or kitchen windows. COLORED BORDER SCRIMS, 19¢ A YARD Mired colors — finished “with drawnwork edges. HEAVY CURTAIN NETS 35¢ YARD White and cream—with neat all- over designs, 78c hangings, ies and patterns that can be cut out and appliqued. Drapery FOURTH FLOOR New Ties at 95c Wrinkle-Proof Pin-Proof Wear-Prooft Of fine Ripple Crepe in fig- ures, conventional designs and cobweb effects in handsome col- orings. And cut on the straight so they won't pull out of shape. MEN'S SHOP—IAWER MAIN FLOOR LAS NUNIT 4 Appetizing Foods at Tempting Prices Layer Cakes 13 bars White 80c each Bear Soap 50c Our Regular Price $1,00 ‘ > Fine laundry soap— = rolls, 20¢ at this price while we —Green gage or plum have it. iat 5 horn, * —Blackberry juice, 70c. —Full weight loaf. ae PEMA Nae —Alaska red sockeye —Pan Rusks, 9¢ dozen. salmon, 31e. 40c Luncheon —Finest Brand crab, 50¢ can. —Soda crackers, 16¢ 4b. Hardshell Ibs. ur —Tenderloin steak, po- tatoes, green peas, cake, ice cream, coffee or milk. walnuts, 4 R MAIN FLOOR CH COUNTER— 2k MAIN FLOOR 36-in. Cretonnes, 36-in. Madras at Forty different patterns and colors—wonderful for pillows, draper- cheerful Spring colors such as blue, green, tan and rose combinations, UP THE HOME FOR SPRING AND EASTER FILET CURTAIN NETS 47¢ YARD Neat allover designs —schite,.cream and ecru, 36-INCH CRETONNES, 35¢ YARD Chintz and tapestry designs, best of colorings. DRAPERY CRETONNES 55¢ YARD Chintz and tapestry designs— Spring-like colors. a Yd. madras’ in Time to Start Gardening HERE ARE THE TOOLS AND SEEDS With Plenty of Dependable Tools You Can Do a Good Job —Garden rakes, 70¢ to $1.45. —Garden hoes at 50¢ to 95c. —Spading forks at $1.19. | —Planting trowels at I5e to ‘ T5e. 7 —Garden spades and shovels, $1.75 to $2.00, —Fine pruning shears, $1.35, —*‘Lilly’s” tested flower and vegetable seeds, 5e to lhe. UNION STR BASEMENT All Kinds of Seeds for Garden and Lawn —C. C. Morse garden —Lawn grass seed, 25¢ peas, 15e a pkg. pkg. —tLilly’s garden peas —tLilly’s garden seeds, and beans, l5ec pkg.—6 5e pkg. pkgs. 85e. —Morse vegetable and flower seeds, 10¢ pkg. —Kentucky bluegrass seed, 40¢ pkg. FOOD SHOP. —Onion sets, le a Ib. —Spencer and Burpee’s sweet peas, L5e, —Lilly’s assorted flower seeds, 12 pkgs. $1.00. UPPER MAIN FLOOR