The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 19, 1921, Page 4

DY SAYS HE KILLED HIS CHUM! Officials Believe Older Men! Directed Slaying to Col- * lect Insurance WARSAW, Ind, March 19-—The “master minds” behind the kilfing of Leroy Lovett, 19, were still sought by county officials today, altho Virgil Deoker, 18, has confessed he mur @ered his chum Plans for convening ® special grand jury next Monday to investi gate the Lovett murter were not halted by the confession. Shériff G B. Moon and other county officers be Heved the grand jury would find evt dence implicating others. The motherly ways of Mra Moon wrung the confession from the lir of young Decker after the tron meth oils of grilling by the sheriff and de tectives had failed repeatedly since he was arrested last Sunday According to the confession, Virgil his friend at the shack on the Saturday, After he awakened to find p. He said bh WP & piece of iron and str Youth across the head with Went out of the cabin. Then he did some chores at the home of Fred Decker, the brother with whom he Stayed, and returned to the cottage in the dusk of evening f Leroy was still alive, Dut In delirt um. Virgil took off Leroy's outer te and donned them hin ft Leroy in the vestments > had taken off. He led Lovett to « Borse and bugey whieh had been Maken from his brother's barn. Driving to the railroad crossing. said he watched three or four trains pass, and finally, when anoth @f Was still some distance away, he the buggy across the tracks, ed the horse and left Leroy in ‘the bugsy, hoping that, in view of thelr striking resemblance and the that Lovett wore his clothes, the boy would be identified as Vir. , and that rio search would ited for him. Decker was arrested Sum | pias: might at the home of an uncle! Marion. It was thought at the he had ha Lovett, but that he was aided by some one who w nied : ers @urance he carried after the dea ! ‘Son Implicates ; Father in Murder) | £08 ANGELES, Cal, March 19.— Smith, 22, in & dramatic con. here yesterday afternoon, how he and his father, C Smith, 42, murdered Peter Schure October $. in a rooming house Ohte. @ statement that he expects | return, Smith fell ‘The father today denied any share ‘the murder. ! Under Arrest in Oregon Murder) Gervais, with a bullet wound in Bile head, on Maroh 6. hs of Police Harley has request. | several citizens of Woodburn to te Oregon City and decide | or vot Guettel te the man) they saw Yoder drive from | ‘The Woodburn “morder car,” miss at the time Yoder’s body was r, Wash, Creditors Made * . | “I won't! said Elizabeth, firmly. Man End Rant * 28s octand ner and tora her taurerep [CAGO, March 1%-—-Creditors|the door. She fought him desper “Pounded George J. Kubler, presi | ately. | of the International Mutual Fire ce company, to death, in the! of his fiance, Mra Della Miller. Kuebler wan killed he plunged from the window the 10th floor of a biliding A ver containing one discharged . was found in his pocket. | she wife recently. He was to have Mrs. Miller, of Salem, Ore., writer and musician, within a/ Mrs. Miller wa# staying at a when musheer met death. SAN FRANCISCO, March 19.— (fling the San Francisco police. Late night, Tom Jéw Yee, a Fort! Chinese, was shot and killed bullets of a Jung 1 Jow Yee ts the secema victim | 'h® fall since the hostilities last | ‘The first victim wag Chong | Guk, killed at Locke, near Sac to. year ago, found asphyx swung around into position. Tta tune on who responded to an re nee =e an puttered, it roared. The Indians Investigation revealed the woman | ”\?' ei bas i ‘ “ roche gamed on two gas jets, lit only one, | jue rpoih opened the down een BNA when the room became fWled with | parca ir : ith ; arg phi gas an explosion followed. The wo-| iia hip and seven arrowe wttnng pore: 1s hip and seven arrows aticking | amen was dead when found out of him like quilis Yor three days and three nights. Palifornians Ask without food oF water, the iittic group in the blockhouse fought off Stronger Wines, Beer | fie iusck Kyle, Murphy and Mot CAPITOL, Sacramento, March 19, | fat The Jack Badaraceo resolution | wializing congress to modify | the Volstead act in favor of 15 per| went wine and 4% per cent beer Pasned in the a @fternoon, 43 to 30, I ndians, She is one of perhaps t She moulded bu wars of the } She thinks girla, nowadays, live en- to have Virgil collect $4,000 life inj | Urely too fast. Tomorrow Mra. Elisabeth Gillett Fe youth had been identities as Decker. | witt celebrate her T§th birthday an- nivermary at home beth was raised have come! She seized the hand of Annie Gris | wold and darted swiftly up the bill | Her mother followed, with 10-yearold | Phillip, Philitp wae stek | that day. |%, was taking F jtwo miles & ae 1 is Van ORDERED INTO BLOCKHOUSE, Was Jater discovered in Van: |QRDERED Is An army blockhouse door “Hurry int Kuebler was divorced by his for | away rifles, Inside, besides the famfy of Mrs. | Snook, was Secret soldier, a German named Kyle, settiers named Murphy and Moffat, _ Another Chinese tong murder mys-|%t the Upper Cascades. tofmy was on the long Met bag. | le@rned that he horses to Fort There w ond story away Quickly the bi dier bal toppled over only the sergeant embly yesterday | hole, Kyle, F ast Mrs. Elizabeth Gillett BY HAL ARMSTRONG or three the oe as early as ‘44 let one of the for her broth bitterest Indian orthwest, in 1306 Howell st, her Sixtyetx years ago this month March 26, | Playma |ing together on the doorstep. LIVED % YARDS FROM BLOCKHOUSE It was at the Lower Cascades of the Columbia. widowed mother, digning the confemsion, I” | sng three brothers, lived in a small home 50 yards from the government blockhouse. Her father, Snook, had died three years before, Trappers and rifles! were a common sight to the Uttle girta such a rifleman, early in the morn | ing, | to clean the barre] of damp and keep | it from rusting. So, when @ man came suddenty | Into view, and reloaded it again, young Eliz | not frightened. But he| it wae-—she and her girt » Annie Griswold, were play Little Elizabeth, her her three sisters Phillip eottiers carrying It was a usual thing for to shoot a charge thru his gun raised his rite and fired the rifle to his shoulder again, took more careful aim, and some G ITY, March 19,—Albert a Edo today in| ‘DINE whistled past mabeth's ear ney aevent bare % close she could feel the wind she cried. “The Indians Run to the blockhousef* n her arte and little Tommy, who was ip’s place driving urn in the latter's for-hire lle Seay: eae tees ee On ‘the eve of the murver. | brother,.was at work on a rosé some tant, sergeant stood at the he commanded. Her one thought was to rescue Iit-| tle Thomas ne windlaas. with the struggied neriges Thomas came running in and darted thru the block! * One use door, by one others arrived. The door was cloved and barricaded. In-| were all around, peppering at the thick log walle with Howard, one other two a the Griswold Mrs, Eben Hardy, ‘Frisco Tong Men who was Elizabeth's married sister, and four other pioneers who ha Kill Another Victim | en wounded on the way tn. Hardy way with a team of horses Jancouver, a commotion In the see. the blockhouse, where were popping Indians, The women in room below Could see little of soldiers and Kyle at the tiny that was going on outalde, but Sergt y night between the rival | How ard informed them that Samuel | nook was coming. | CAME ON THE RUN, BADLY WOUNDED ——- He was on the run. He had been punded. The ti: ere 00 Woman Turns on Gas| rows from ambush trom all en | Rerors the trunk in which were con.|*"arm of In titel tail tes Rh gges-anai woods and were bearing down upon nim »ckhouse cannon was were wounded. The private sol Of the men remained unhurt Out on the hillside, on the first morning of the attack, from a port a boy Was seen. It was Jakey 15-year-old nephew of the Ger- But as/ —Photo by Price & Carter. man tnside the blockhouse. Jakey had been at Yakima the day before the attack. He had followed the In | dians’ trail and had reached the Up per and Middle Cascades in time to warn them. He had tried to reach lerept closer, They had the Lower Cascades settiement, and had been wounded 100 yards from his Gegtination, where he had fallen. EVERY TIME HE RAISED MEAD ROCK HIT HIM The Indians were pelting him with rocks, Now and again those tn the blockhouse would see him raise his head upon his arm, and each Ume a stone would strike him and his head would drop. He lived until sundown On the third night the Indians lighted « fire and were preparing pitch torchea, Their plan was apparent They intended to fire the blockhouse, The women and the girls got down on thelr knees and prayed. While the savages outside whooped and | yelled, and ignited thetr Cares of| | pitch, while the hail of tron bullets continued all around them, the wom | en prayed Cod to send the rain. | | | make a run for the river and th | | | “Some prayers people don't believe that are anewored.” sald Mra iUlett today Ido. Before the In dians had finished making their torches to burn our homes and ow blockhouse, the rain began to fi It poured. It continued all night long. They threw their burning pitch onto oyr roots in vain But there were in the bi only a few rounds of ammynition left when morning neared. Seret Howard descended from the firing room. He explained his plan At « given enal the women and children were to open the door and khouse khous row themarlves in. He would keep the Indiang back with his rifle and the cannon. Then he would £0 as fur as he could, It was the only way BARGE LOAD or SOLDIERS TO RESCUR He went up the steps. An hour passed. Down the river came a tiny steamer, towing a barge, The barge was laden with sol |diers. They warmed up the bank It was later | ewcaped and rode his! | |, part, | voting The woods wore silent. The In |dians had gone The intended maneacre had fatled tho the settlers buried ome grave at the Upper 24"men and one woman. tack was simultaneous mile front kitates Cancades The along a ‘The Yakimas and had jotned are different they were when I was young,” m Mrs. Gillett. “They were not fant in thone days. We danced, we had no public dance halls “The way they drews this spring. I don't think much of it. When I look back and see how nice and |lovely my dear old mother was, 1 think girls nowadays would be much better off if they had the same hardships we had to face, “I don't like this idea of women either My mother 10 the their forces, Girts now but 5th and Pine. FOR NEXT WEEK With a Matinee Sunday Wi A in TONIGHT— than tayed EVENIN MATINEES—-27e to 50c. “THE CAVE GIRL” | Plenty Donated to Jobless, but No Way to Move It With only limited transportation facilities at ite command, the Arsoct ation of Unemployed has collected and distributed more than food during the last six wee! cording to a report Saturday from A 11, Courtney, secretary The aswociation has a membership | With their these men represent $8,000 unemployment, never know where their next meal is ot Camilies, persons, 7,000 Beattle men thru who, coming from. man can find a job of nome ae No Jazz, in 55 CAN'T GET FOOD Women in Blockhoute Siege Had No Time for : pa T0 THE HUNGRY Girls of Today Too 100 tona of hn It) FIVE TRAINMEN | probably die. | mlcull tra The purpose of the association is to Ude these people over until every HURT IN CRASH Crane and Grain Car Plunge) Off Bridge | -- } PORTLAND, March 19.—Ive men are in Portland hospitals today, two of them injured past hope,of recov ory, as 4 result of a spectacular crash late yesterday when @ wrecking crane and loaded grain car toppled off @ high line trestle in the Albina dis trict The injured: | John Skoko, engineer, scalded; will I | | Olaf Olson, foreman of the crane, ured; will probably die. | Martin Chutuk, internally injured, woaled dition serious George Bradvice, injured about the is backed by the grange and works! jead and back: condition nerious, In conjunction with the Soc fare league. Thru the efforts of v Vel the various | grange lodges and the work of two fleld solicitors, farmers wit hin 60 miles of Beattle have donated many | tons of produce for which they have| fo market get the stuff to town. The bie difficulty im to The truck drivers who have donated thelr time are kept busy, moved. Whole carloads of food have been | with ir but contributions are | piling up faster than they can be offered in the vicinity of Centralia, but the aamociation is without funda! And to pay for transportation. every ounce of the food iy needed today temple. Packer Employes to Enter Mediation | «« Packer em | CHICAGO, March 19 Headquarters are at room 9 Laner| | ployes will places thelr demands be fore the mediation conference meet ng in et called. This was = here hey are not met, @ strike announced by today, when showed a favoring rike vote 44,000 m nearly a out The union will demand restoration day and arbi of the basic eight-hour tration of wage demands King George Wishes Carpentier Success LIVER Retore oh. King England, Ma George, the the Prince of Wales and many other Georges Carpentier showed | tabl last night how he knocked out/ Battling Lewnsky. The perform-| ance, in which Julee Lenaers, his sparring partner, was used as Lev wky, followed three exhibition rounds at the Dig estate of Lord Derby After Carpentier knocked out “Levinsky.” King George entered the ring and shook hands with the th enohman, wishing bim of luck when he meets Jack Demp | sey this summer Washington on Monday tuntor count ¢ » reh au ” Alleged Jumper of Bail Is Rearrested Alleged to havé Jamped bail here February 19 tefore his trial en a charge of opening a bank account & forged check, William P ancy has been arrested at Sprague | with and will ffs office has been Clancy was arrested, it while he was attempting into a house at Sprague at home and took care of her farm Ar divorces | DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO | THINK ABOUT BOYS 4 we didn't have #o “We girls were raised to be neat! land nice and polite and never to be! be returned here, the sher- | informed. | in claimed, | to break | At & meeting of the nafety committee m uw een, | bent any forward. We were taught to spin! yarn and card wool and cook and| sew our own | “Rut the « ry rots. the more atyle more style, the faster it jhave time t t in} he early daye | | “Why, } knew enough to wash! dishes before 1 got married. 1 4 t have chert tte and ed stockings and hh evening gowns, J didn't know about the! divorce laws; we didn't have any.| | But my husband thought I made a| | pretty good wife. And I'm et to do all my own housework air, “T saw the first this part of the cc let tn the dining room of a in The Daties ry me seein Jap andf/aat him atymy table. I got up and left. 1 wouldn't eat with him | “But, say, you know, T like the indians. They are not bad people} | They were fighting for their living.”* PORTLAND, Ore.— Martin Chutuk and John Skoko injured, perhaps fatally, when steam crane falle from railroad trestle Capital punishment prevails: in 38 | ata ten, WILKES THEATRE Elliott 2: STARTING SUNDAY THOMAS WILK Presents JOSEPH McMANUS —IN— “THE OTHER FE” big idea handled a big way. iS—25e to $1.00, ia Jap that came to It wan in I was eltting restaurant ‘They Mrought in the Laura’ Arnold and the Wilkes Stock Co. George Granich, foot crushed. The men were pinned beneath the | mans of wreckage when the two oan toppled from the trestle, and tt was necessary for workmen to use axes to free t a. The wrecking crew was sthlingties | to drag into place the grain car, | which bad rolled half way over the breaker at the end of the line, Just as the heavy oar was being swung back ft toppled, fell from the treaties dragged the crane equipment Restaurant Patrons Are Nearly Gassed Ammonia fumes filled the Interng tional cafe, 811 Jackson st, Friday | night, and customers narrowly os caped asphyxiation when an am monia cold storage pipe in the re ating plant burst. Miremen, equipped with gaa maske, shut off the supply of vapor ea “Tasty & diack kitten, wna! rescued from certain death in the cafe by Lieut. C. M, Ureh of Truck No, 7 “Blue Sky” Veto of | Governor Is Filed OLYMPIA, March 19.—<lovernor Hart's veto of the “blue sky” law waa filed yeeterday, | The governor gave as his reason for dimapproving the bill the fact that mining and olf companies were ex- cluded from the provisions of the act. Such companies, he asserted, ould obtain licenses from the state, and could use such certificates as an indication that their schemes were in. ormed by the state “It would be difficult,” he aid, “to imagine a more serious or obnoxious proponition.” Brother of Navy | Secretary in City Charis Denby, brother of the re contlyappointed secretary of the navy and a former adviser to Tuan Shih Yai, first president of China, was & visitor in Seattle Saturday. He ia one of the bestinformed men in the United States on Chinese affairs, and has just returned from a bust hess trip to the Orient. “Safety First” to Be Driven Home Here By meana of pictures, porters, lee. tric wien and unusual atunta, “nafety | first” will be imprenmed upon the Seattle public during the week of April 4, according to plans discunned the in yber of Commerce as. I Friday night | jeant acts and mode of living, | that the | mony and counsel fees, scheduled to be heard before Judge Morchauser tn | Boy Is Rescued From Damp Prison; Trapped During Pigeon Hunt 108 ANGELES, Cal, March 19—Imprisoned for 12 hotrs in an alcove in concrete work 20 feet beneath the North Broadway bridge, 1A-yeurold George Dun: bar collapsed from exposure to day, while he was being reacued by detectiven, George had cried repeatedly for help. Autormobiies and street cars croming the span overhead drowned out his voles, Ile tried to sleep, but the damp fog made him shiver, so he could not lie aul, When revived at his home after his resous, George was asked how he happened to become a pris oner under the bridge. “Huntin’ pigeon nesta’ he ex plained, “I lowered myself on’ a rope. I got so cold: I couldn't climb up again,” ‘STILLMAN GETS |: STAY IN COURT) Escapes Testifying aeterel Divorce Suit Is Tried NEW yor, “March 19.—Attor neys for James A. Stillman were re- ported today to have obtained a stay | of proceedings tn Mra, “Hifi Potter Bullman’s motion tor increased ali mony and counsel fees, pending trial of the multimillionaire banker's db | vorce ent, This action was taken tn an ef fort to prevent Stillman being forced into court to testify regarding his financial condition, Should Stillman take the stand, be could be questioned not only about his income, but regarding all hin re includ jing alleged relations with Mra. Flor ence Leeds or any other person. His attorneys apparently are determined to prevent his appearance in court before the divorce sult comes to Meantime, Mra. Leeds wag reported to have been found tn Miami, Fila. ing at the cottage of a New York fiend of Atiliman, with her Infant von, Jay Leeds, Btillman's yacht, the Modesty, was sald to be anchored off the coast in that vicinity, Mra Leeds and her son were reported to be temporarily ahem from the cot tage. Should the sainhes may of pro- ceedings be confirmed it would mean action for afditional al)- White Plains on Wednesday, would be postponed. ‘The impression appeared to be growing in financial circles today that Stillman soon would te forced to resign ae president of the National City bank, one of the most powerful institutions in the world, The po. nition carries a mary of $100,000 a | year. |Hits to Avenge His Mother; in Court Now 1c 8 ing, 18, of Tacoma, was charg ith third degree as- anit Friday for an alleged attack on J. M. Caribrath, 59, at Fourth ave. and Olive at. Thursday. Sweep. ing # alleged to have maid that he came to this city to settle matters with Carlbrath, because the latter had written insulting letters to his mother drama. WOLFENDEN Soprano Singing “Down the Trail to Home, Sweet Home” PricTUnes Wirt ACTION—mUsIO WITH CHARM NOW PLAYING— An unusual mystery How a woman’ love triumphed where the third degree failed. COLONIAL ORCHESTRA A. K, WOLFENDEN Director INTERNATIONAL NEWS a MUTT AND JEFF in “FYROM FACTORY TO CONSUMER” 5 “HER CIRC Comedy MAN” SENSELESS GIRL ELLIS ISLAND _ FOUND IN PARK) MAN IS RAPED. Boys Stumble on Her in} Pest Is Fighting to Oust | Rain; Attempted Suicide Inspector Three boys, playing In the rain) ny FF. M. THIPRRY lin Mt. Baker park, Friday after.) NEW YORK, March 19—Inveath noon, stumbled onto a girl, lying gations made by Mre. Hele i unconscious and drenched under an dollarayear federal welfare ombrelia. y director at Kllia Island, into the | An empty bottle Iny benide “her Jen of immigrants and into com Saturday Anna Park, 19," of 2300 ‘ at this largest immigration Mth ave. #., wan in city hospital, een coun nave coal slowly recovering from an attempt) |. San poe’ Gabe Oe a |to take her own life, Neither she to n a fight to cuss » Comminstoner Freder- nor her mother will give any hint ick Wallis, She charges: of why whe attempted suicide Sink’ ie 4ai0 ears ate to <n | The bottle found bewide her 19! number of 900, barred an -physically jthe park contained dichloride of | yntit by the public health servic, |mereury tablets, physicians say. Sours tat tate: the eomaien | The «iri was taken to the home!” , That many mentally and physteal of. Hemrich, 3818 Shoreland yy Ancien pee Bega ty. and removed to city howpital | jy rned on the arrival of police. The three! ”. 4 : That immigrants, etricken dy boys who found the girl are John| wien four of seportation, often — Wilkes, 407% 37th ave. 8; Burdett! weeks and even months at Ellis. Nairs, 4003 $8th ave. 8, and A. G.\ieiana thru the fault of carciena Andervon, 4043 39th ave. 6 oe péglectted, officiate sarge That mistakes and neglect caused the “lors of more than 600 berlain May Be |" I f more than 500 affh davits, each one meaning the re arene: to Low lease of an immigrant LONDON, March 19, — Austen total of $4,000, éeponited Chamberlain, chancellor of the ex y by immigrants while jergolng inspection, has mysters chequer, was being mentioned in po litical circles today as the probable |!ourly dieappeared wuccensor of Andrew Bonar Law,| rs. Bastedo urges a congresston when he resigned as #pokeaman for nvestigation of conditions at Bh Inland |the coalition government. His desig |nation for that office was raid to be have coples of hundreds of af. loon tingent t only upon hin wishes. | fidavite | that will show gross inef -_—_—— | ficten y.”" whe ys. Pleads Guilty to Booze Running; $400 \3 Suits Started on Bank President Three suits, totaling $162,748, | against Ole 8 Larson, former presi John Olson, arrested tn January _ dent of the defunct Scandigayian | for booze running when the coast American bank of Tacoma, were filed |by Claude P er, guard cutter Arcata picked up the Hay, bunk commission: | motorboat Cisco, plewded guilty in in superior court Friday after-| federal court Friday and was fined hoon } $400 by Judge Neterer. 2ND & UNIVERSITY - HERE NOW B. WARNER “When We Were Twenty-One” (First Time in Seattle) ) Nat Goodwin’s famous stage success, by Henry V. Esmond. The spirit of unrestrained joy and fiery romance that are a part of the heedless age when youth makes merry, all heedless of the cost! DE LUXE COMEDY “TANKTOWN FOLLIES”