The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 21, 1921, Page 1

I x —E——E “VOLUME 23 =| Our Pet ll ee ‘Peeves: His Stoves Act Up. Burn Lots of. Paper. Pipe C Apart. Card Garles Halted. BY DEAN W. ANDREWS THE FIRST PLACE, I am renting a furnished house, suffi- clent cause for a peeve right there the peeves (there are two of ) occupy two separate and dis positions in this, particular : ‘They are two stoves. At least ‘they resemble in appearance those jonalty displayed in downtown stores labeled “stoves.” In fact, on examination one would unhes! ly pronounce them “stoves.” FUT IN COAL AND IT ra BURN WOOD 0. K. | ‘The one in the living room ts a eross breed of wood and coal stove. | Put in coal and it will burn all » Tight providing you use a half cord ef wood and half the dally circula of one of The Star's contempo- to start it, Then, after it i well under way, you can — + 4 m, to this add one match, pul) a chair, sit before the fire, scow! into the chimney has @ inopportune momenta. could get two fists white fist of half way between And seot—eay, this stove has & Motto, “Ils ne passeront pas.” You the same that the French not when the Clown Quince was eo hot on their trail. All thé little Particles of soot are feverishly held Every few days I have to get @ Stick about 15 feet long and scale the porch to the roof to dig into the stove's neck and start the dirty from its insides I extract great quantities of the biack dust, filling a half dozen pails each time For then the same process has to be re- ted. The fellow who was “going to murder the bugier” never cussed as 1 cuss these stoves. The next time I move I want to burn gas, coal oll, electricity, or something equally artificial Still it's a mighty fine thing to Bve way out of the city and try to beat the grasping landlords But, on after thought, I coincide with Cynthia Grey; wives should build the fires. They are warmer blooded ives Last Bottle to Save Man’s Life WENVER, March 21—A friend Who would part with his last bottie of champagne probably saved the life of Hugh O'Neil, newspaper man here. O'Neil, after an operation for. biccoughs. Physicians were unable to stop attack, and declared champagne was the only known remedy. Leo Low last bottle. O'Neil will recover, Likes New Name So Well He’d Keep It Claiming: that he went into the woods to work as Karl Friedrich ‘Wurzbach, and that fellow woods men rechristened him Fred Martin, Wurzbach petitioned superior court Monday to confirm their judgment He is 66 and is about to be married Filipino Caught by Dog Given 30 Days Thirty days in jail and $100 fine was the sentence imposed on Greg urio Billoios, 22, by Police Judge John B. Gordon Monday. Billolos, ae Filipino, wag captured by “Never gieep” Duncan and his dog, Utah, Saturday, after -~stching a Jap's purse. Qeather Tonight and Tuesday, showers; moderate easterly winds. Teurperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 52. Today noon, 52, | Mother Minimum, 43, <=> RETURNED ‘FROM DEAD, IS STORY! Says Luminous! Being Laid It Beside Her on the Bed 21.—A spirit baby is the inspiration for a spiritist colony to be instituted here. ‘The spirit baby is the 9-month-old daughter of Mrs. Ada May Robbina ‘The mother mys little Vivian Con- stance ts a child resurrected from the grave. forget |interested spiritists ft—for five minutes, when the sud-| work. clicking of teeth draws atten-| those departed restored to Mra. Rob- to the fact that the stove has bins an infant who had been dead guddenly gone on a strike. Bundle! seven months. Others suspect some to the ears, face the elements, | hoax. Bie to the woodshed after more MEDICAL MEN WRITE ‘wood, more coal, more paper, etc. FROM MANY COUNTRIES and say “Burn, ¢——| ica) tacts on which to base scientific habit of parting at the neck./ Mra Robbins gave birth to a daugh- | great clouds of smoke at (ter in the hospital at It) | trucut the Some believe the spirits of Medical written mep,/too, have rom many countries to obtain phys conclustons. It was on October 1, 1919, that Dysart, Ia Within five hours the ehild died and was buried the next day. The mother collapsed completely and for three weeks lay between life and death. Finally she recovered and return @d to the home of ber husband, a prosperous faricer, a few sniles from Dysart. ‘There she met Mra James Otis Wheeler, a spiritualist medium, whose hustand was employed by Robbins, and Mra. Wheeler converted her to spiritualism. The following March the Robtinses and the Wheelers attended a lecture by Sir Oliver Lodge, and the Robbins REDONDO BEACH, Cal, Maren | ‘The advent of the spirtt baby has) On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1479. Per Year, by Mall, Dazzly. First day of spring. Carpet cleaning time in Seattle Apple blossim time in Normandy Kid baseball teams warming up on sand lot, Nacvy airplanes fall—bdut it's only in price. Teasle,” ex Sheriff J. Stringer’s dog. lost. Outside of county<ity building needa a bath. Office boy's gramma dies, first time this year Hock near beer signs appear. But not very near, Burned up. R. HL Carter's auto, on Cheasty bivd. Plan extension of Americantzation servicn Y. W.C. A Alley. st Robber. $140. Prune brandy Seventh ave. Jal. | tow, No—just a bird, Memorial for year's dead. Seattle Eagies, Sunday afternoon. Getting well, O. C. Graves, prest dent Cheasty’s haberdashery Sten of xpring. Frat members at U take to frent porch serenades. Burglars scared. EV. Walker, 212 Lith ave. Leave jewelry on floor. Improved at Virginia Mason hos pital County, Comminsioner ‘Tom Dobson. Thieves cut phone wire, take $45 register, Arctic Batha, 316 Jefferson n Fure and clothes worth $200 taken from BE. C. Reynolds’ auto, Second ave. Hot stova Damage of $100 to home of D. W. Baker, 3467 62rd ave. sw. also consulted Mra Elizabeth Thomp. son of Chicago, an authority on spir. itual phenomena. EXPRESSED WISH FOR RESTORATION OF BABY “Anything ls possible, if you have |qreat enough faith.” is what Mra | | work of loosening the soot. Then! a few days it behaves spiendidly—| appendicitis, suffered an attack of| enheim, friend of O'Neil, donated his | meal Robbins says Mrs. Thompson told Wke &/ her, “So,” Mra. Robbins continues, | “I expresned a wish for the restora- tion of my baby. Mrs. Thompson told us to fast and to pray.” Mrs. Robbins says that tn June Mrs. Wheeler went to Chicago, where she received a message that the baby would be restored on the night of | June 14. myself to continue fasting and pray im the most secluded parts of it#/ing.” says the mother, “and on the patomy until the smoke just pours night of the date set to rote our: selves in white, fill our bedroom with freshly cut Mowers, and wait” They followed these instructions to the letter. “It was between 3 and 2 In the | morning,” says Mra. Robbina, “that suddenly a luminous ficure appeared at the foot of the bed, and in its larms was a tiny baby. “In the sweetest words I ever heard, this figure said to me, ‘T am my Father’s son and have come to restore your baby becatuse of your great faith in my Father,’ REMATERIALIZED BODY | LAID ON THE BED | “The figure then laid the rema terialized body of our dead baby be side me on the bed, and then van ished.” But the child, she sexys, was wagm agninst her breast. A little gaxp for breath startled her. She turned on the light. “The baby.” she says, “had the ap- |It was identical in every way with the baby that had died. “Immediately we took the Infant \to doctors whom we had warned of its expected arrival, and they pro nounced it perfect. I, too, was exam- ined and the doctors said I could not have borne it.” But now it nurses at its mother’s breast, the same as other children It has many of the facial character. istics of its mother and 5-year.old brother Harold. Shortly after the arrival of the baby, Mrs. Robbins and Mrs. Wheeler came from Dysart to Re dondo Beach, with the announced in tention of forming a splritist colony as a sign of faith and thanksgiving. Clara Hamon Now Member of Church ARDMORE, Okla, March 21—~ Clara Smith Harmon, acquitted Thurs day of @ charge of murder in con- nection with the death of Jake L. Hamon, last night was baptized in the First Christian church by Dr. C. 8. Brooks, its pastor. Mra. G. J. James of Los Angeles, a sister of Clara, also waa baptized. Accompanied by her family, Clara Hamon attended the morning serv fee, after which she approached the pastor and asked the baptismal serv ice. After her confession, Dr. Brooks announced that Mra. Hamon would be baptized last night. There was an unusually large at “‘endance at the evening service, he instructed Mr. Robbins and | pehrance of having just been born. | Erie Ericson, 819 Hbwe st, told men the time. They took it and chain Hopscotch! Scotch Gaelic league | to dance March 25) K. P. hall, 1929% Third ave. Crash! Burglarsrock-window. 1. W. Wall's store, 4531 Fremont place. Get nothing. Second-hand “ponies in demand. Registration at U. of W. March 29, | Clothes missing-—Mohawk apts | Frank Green and William McDevitt, negro boys, in jail Burglars, Ladder. Window Drop $23 in front yard. Fu 3630 nney ave. | Cop's shots don't stop France FE. |Reed. Mud does. Driving while drunk, charge. Stara Jim Donovan, Stevens ho tel, saw them and lost $20, when he met two thugs, Free chicken dinner. But J. A | Franklin, 6200 Carlton ave. paid for }it, and thief didn’t. H. Fall, but got caught. Lew Fook Kee, Lew Gong Hin, Chinese. Cut glass, Thieves tried to do it ave. §. Scared away. Farmers want demonstration trains. state college and Chamber of Comme to respond " Six second joules sing “Silver bars instead of gold." Take test for pro- motion, W. N March 29 Bashful man, refusing to give name, told cope he was held up at N. 45th st. and Brooklyn ave. soll taken. Kiddies at Mother Ryther home playing Robin Hood in forest Mon. day. Trees worth $2,000 planted over week end. “Prof.” RR. C. Pondexter may or may not be a “prince of India,” |Deputy Prosecutor Patterson tells court in dismiasing charges. Mrs. Mary F. Roberts, 63, sues for $12,300 from Seattle Bakery Co., whose truck is said to have killed her husband, A. L. Robergs, 70. BY AILEEN CLAIRE WAS a dark and stormy night on the 18th of March, and the big clock in front of Hanson's jewelry shop was almost invisible thru the rain. Dr. C. D. Shannon stepped out of the Burke building, crossed the gleaming sidewalk and jumped into his machine. “Home, Dobbin,” he muttered to his car, and put his foot on the self. starter, As the engine sputtered and choked asthmatically, a shape loomed out of the dusk and resolved itself into the dripping figure of a man. “Walt a minute, Doc,” he gasped excitedly. “My wife—twins—expect ing—tive at Georgetown!” He paused for breath and wiped his brow. “Jump in,” Dr. Shannon exclaimed “I was just going bome, but I pean you need me more out at your place.” James Mitchem, 1410 Plum | Audubon society discovers ewal-! starts | $26./ ‘They sneaked across Canadian line, | at Phoenix Jewelry Co, 119 Second | Inger ‘TTLE, WASH., MONDAY, MARCH 21, 1921. GOV. HART SIGNS THE POLL TAX | Recall Movement May Be Instituted by Seattle Enemies of Bill Governor Hart Monday at Olympia attached his slenature to the poll tax bill panned by the legislature, aasens-{ ing each person, male and female, be tween the ages of 21 and 60, $5 @ NEW ATTACK ON DRY LAW BEING MADE | Validity Is Question in Brief Filed With U. S. Supreme Court WASHINGTON, March 21.—A pro- vision of the prohibition amendment, | originally proposed by President Harding while a senator, makes it tn- | | valid, 1t was claimed, in a second year attack on the conatitutionality of the| ‘phe bin contains an emergency dry law, in briefs fled with Ue 6 | clause, making the law effective at Dreme court today ones. Thin clause also makes it im- |ARGUMENT MAY | possible to have the measure submit- COME TUESDAY | ted for referendum action. — The new attack On the validity of| Approval of the bill, confity offi the amendment will be argued in the | ¢lals maintain, means that the coun court elther late Tuesday or Wednes- | ty assessors will be obliged to engage | day a big force of clerks to take a census The section of the constitutional | of city and county from which to amendment which, {t ts callmed, in-| make up a list of persons subject to | validates all the ratifications by the) tax. state, provided that the amendment | A Movement to recall Governor) would not be operative unlems rati-| Hart because of his activity in fath | mitted to them, Manning, Beattie man, who has been) | The claim tr that congress had no | leading the local fight on the tas. power to place such @ time limitation] Others, however, advise a court at- the ratifications by the states | tack on the legality of the emergency he brief for the wet interests a» | clause. If the supreme court should | werts that the supreme court, in up | hold against the emergency clause it on holding the amendment and the Vol-| would then be possible to start a |atead act last June, did not pass on | referendum against the measure. this phase of its validity. It le confidently believed by leaders | | President Harding, while in the}im the anti-poll tax movement that a senate, proposed the time limitation }referendom would win cantly. on the ratification, saying his ap | Manning bas been besieged by hun- proval of the ution submitting | dreds of people from al pafts df the jthe Amendment to the states depend | state during (he past week, offering jed on such a provision being added. | their help in circulating referendum | He originally propowed six yearn, but | petitions and in financing the under later it was Increased to seven. j aking. | ATTACK IS MADE | BY FRISCO MAN | The new attack was made in the case of J. J. Dillon, of San Fran cimco, who sought arrest to test the law. He was employed by a dray: |age company, and transported a cask jof wine thru the streets without permit from prohibition officers Levi Coke, for several rears coun in the! eee Municipal League to Report Poll Tax Report of the Municipal league | special committee on the poil tax bill | | will be reported out Tuesday, at a noon luncheon of the league at | Blanc's, State Senator T. D. Rock: | well wil] addroas the meeting on re cent legislation, The public is in vited, Cabinet Trio Hears Packers’ Dispute WASHINGTON, March 21.—The Harding administration today tack led its first big labor dispute—the | one between the big packers and their employes. The packers and their employes to- day went before the commission of three cabinet officers to lay the foundation for their opposing claims. Secretary of Labor Davia Secretary of Agriculture Wallace and Secretary | of Commerce Hoover compose the commission. The employes claim that the pack ers, by giving notice of a wage cut, | violated am agreement which was to last during the period of the war and which is still in force because the war has not yet ended technically, |aet for the liquor tntoresth, |leading attorney in the attack. The law will be defended in areu | ments before the court by a woman, Annette Abbott Adams, assistant at torney general Man and Wife Are Murdered in Bed ANTLERS, Okla. March 21 Sam Hall and his wife, living near Cor. rine, 25 miles from Antlers, were murdered in bed early today. A emall child sleeping between the couple were uninjured. Shots were heard by a friend of the Halis who was sleeping in an adjoin jing room, but when he reached the room from which they came, the murderer or murderers had es caped. | $1,500,000 Fire in British Columbia NEW westminster, B. c,| Detroit Bank Is March 21.—Property worth $1,500. Robbed by Bandits! 000 wae wiped out in a fire that de stroyed the concentration mill of the} DETROIT, Mich., March 21.—Stx bandits held up a branch of the Com Howe Sound Mining Co. at Britan. nia Beach, according to advices re | monwealth Federal bank at 1:15 this | ceived here, lafternoon and escaped with several | Wo lives were reported lost. | thousand Soars, The fire broke out Saturday night ———__ and burned all day Sunday. Leaves One Water Job for Another! Frank Burns leaves Puget Sound) Navigation Co. to go into milk busi. | Two U. S. Soldiers Killed in Accident compl , March 21 ‘Two Amer. nem. jean soldiers were accidentally killed | es aa and a third seriously injured at) . ,’ Wveismenthurm, according to reports | Spring’s Here; Now at headqt af here today The} eat AON nan automonie| 9e@ What Army Does men were which collided with an express train,| How to save sole leather: Beacon Army officers were checking reports | Hill Car Extension club, Christen- of the accident | sen's hall, 8 p. m. Wednesday. “The old bus is Jumping along like a He opened the throttle and the ma |chine leaped ahead over the slippery | leaned | pavement His passenger back in the snug seat of the coupe |srunted the stranger. “If there was \and breathed a sigh of relief lever a time when I wanted to get | |home, it is tonight.” | The doctor smiled sympathetically |Severa) years of rush calls had not 4 his heart against the anguish and worry of his patients | | | “gure, it will come out all right,” | lhe said. “I've had scores of these | cases. There's little danger, as a| ule. Don't worry.” “Thanks, Doe,” said his passenger. | elep on ue, woe,” he urged. bat be certainly am obliged to you.” | guess the cops won't stop you.” The two sped along in silence. The Down Second ave. the car dashed,|Union depot was passed, and they | | narrowly missing several belated pe-|flew out on the long boulevard over destrians and grazing @ Capitol Hill|the tide flats. They passed the for lwtreet car that had incautiously got|mer plant of the Rainier brewery, in the way. the lights of Georgetown gleaming | “Lucky I got these valves re-|mistily thru the drizzle, | ground today,” the medico muttered.| “We turn up here,” the stranger |the daintiners and shyness ED. HAGEN MUST GO TO PEN! Tt En Sto LATE EDITION TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE SPIRIT BABY PUZZLES DOCTORS GEE HAD always adored him. From the first mo- ment he came to the house-- an overgrown, good-looking schoolboy, and had started to bully and domineer over her, Marie Chester had thought him the most wonderful person in all the world. She waited on him hand and foot, she was his willing bondslave; she did not mind at all when once, in an unusual fit of elo- quence, she had confided in him that she thought it was the loveliest thing on earth to’ jhave a brother, young Christopher answered almost brutally that she “talked rot, anyway, and that sisters were a bally nuisance!” He looked at her with a sort of contempt for a moment, then added: “Besides, we’re not brother and sister, really!” They were not; but their fathers had been lifelong friends, and when George Chester’s wife inconsider- ately—or so her husband thought—died without pre- C. A. Beck, 1007/ fled by threefourths of the states | ering and signing the bill was being|senting him with a son, and almost at the same time young! Russell and Patten to two within weven years after being sub- | considered here Monday by Joseph I. |Christopher Lawless was left an orphan, George Chester |< promptly adopted him. * Miss Chester protested to Maris “Christopher is ruining her; now! She is quite a different child since he came to the house. Marie's father chuckled. He was not @ particularly refined man, and of his Uttle daughter had rather embar-| reseed him He was piensed to think that under Christopher's cutd- ing hand she wae what he chose to call “improving.“ “Do her good™ he said bluntly. “Where's the harm? They're only children.” ‘Then, later etill, he went to Cam-| bridge and forgot al! about her. She was still at school herself, | and her soft brown hair was tied | in a pigtail with a large bow at! the end. “You'll soon have to put Your! hair up if you grow so fast, Marie,”| Mins Chester said to her rather! «adly, When at the end of one term she came home. Marte glanced at herself in the| a8. Am I ike mother, Auntie} Madge?” she asked, and Miss Ches ter smiled as she answered. “You have your mother's eyes.” "s father in vain. This Is The Star’s New Serial Story: ABachelv Husband By Ruby M. Ayres (Coprright, 1971, W. J. Watt & Ca) coat her heart was beating with love for him, deep and mncere. There were many things she wanted to say to him, but she was tongue-tied and shy. It seemed all too soog that they reached home and | | | Marie looked at her reflection | Christopher handed her over to Miss again. Chester. “Mother was very pretty, wasn't she?” she asked, and Miss Chester CHAPTER IL. said: “Yes—she was, very pretty.” ‘There followed a terribly dull week, during which Marie hardly went out. Christopher came and went. Marie sighed. “Of course, I can’t! be like her, then,” she said resign: | edly, turned away The following year she was sent| “There are a great many things to a finishing school in Paris, and|to settle, you know,” Miss Chester while she was there her father died |told Marie, “Your father had large properues and much money to leave.” It was quite late one evening be- fore she saw Chris again, and then he came into the drawing-room, where she was trying to read and trying not to listen for his step, and, crossing to where she sat, stood looking down at her. “How old are you, Marie?” She looked up amazed. Surely he ought to know her age when they suddenly A wire came from England late one night and Marie was packed off home the following morning. As she sat in the stuffy cabin on the cross-channel boat and listened to the waves outside, her chief | thought was, should she seo Chris? Had they wired for him to come home from wherever he was? He had left Cambridge now, she knew, but what he was doing or how he spent his time she did not know.|/had grown up together? But she All the way up in the train from|answered at once: “I was 18 last Dover she was thinking of him, won- | May.” dering how soon she would see him,| And then—quite suddenly —the can do nothing with her} but she nevergdreamed that he would meet the train, and the wild color flew to her face as she saw him com ing down the crowded platform. He looked very tall and very much of @ man, she thought, as she gave | hi ma trembling hand shake. ~about “Its rough luck Uncle George,” he said awkwardly, and Marie nodded. He looked now at Marte, and) thought what a child she was! He/ would have been amazed could he| have known that beneath her black maid. The road whs muddy and slippery, up, Dr, Shannon hit the high spots. One—two—three miles they contin: | ued. Then the lights of a white | stucco building loomed up on the aide of the road, “This is the place,” said the stranger, He stepped out of the ma chine and reached in his pocket “How much do I owe you, Doct” he queried “Why, my charge will be about miracle happened. It was one Sunday evening—a golden Sunday in June, when Lon- don seemed sunbaked and breathless and one instinctively longed for the sea or the country. Miss Chester had had friends to tea but they had gone now and Chris was prowling around the drawing. room with its heavy, old-fashioned furniture, hands in his pockets as if he did not know what to do with himself. Chris swallowed hard and ran a (Turn to Page Nine) five dollars,” was the reply, as the doctor observed the other's some “You can't go too fast for me,”/but with little attempt at slowing | what frayed appearance, The stranger pulled out a bill and tendered it to the medico. “Here you are, Doc. I'm sure much obliged,” and he turned and walked toward the house Dr. Shannon scratched his head “Hey, there, come back,” he shouted. “What's the idea? Where's the patien ?” “Patient?” the stranger looked puzzled. “My wife and twins are out here all alone. I had a late business engagement, and I had to get out in @ hurry.” “But why call a doctor?” Shannon queried. “Well,” the stranger grinned, “I knew I could get a doctor to take me out here cheaper than I could hire a taxicab” U.S.COURT SUSTAINS SENTENCE TO PRISON Former Officer, Rearrested — Sunday on Booze Charge, Fights Policemen ‘The conviction of Ed Hagen, for mer patrolman, charged, with: theft of lUquor, to two y. at McNeil's island federal fine of $1,000, has been He was indicted by a federal jury, May 16, 1919, was later | vieted and was sentenced 8, 1919. He appealed to the court. Ed Carey, Dick Russel! and F. Patton, codefendanta, cl with the same crime, all of whom § ceived penitentiary sentences, and of whom appealed, also lost. Carey was sentenced to 15 mont ch. y Benth warrants were issued for afl four Monday forenoon. Hagen was held in eity jail day, following his arrest Sunday police after a spectacular battle them, in which he wrecked two and defied a score of them. | Yakima ave. & they spied him driving |born st. The officers |auto across the street at 28h j blockading it. | Trapped, Hagen speeded stead of stopping. and crashed into the police auto. Anderson was slight ly hurt in the crash. Altho covered by Anderson's gun, Hagen threw off jhis coat and challenged the officera, — He struck Hunt on the shoulder and |Hunt retaliated with two sharp blows to the face After the patrol wagon and a cam load of detectives arrived, Hagen submitted. 9 Two cases of King George whisky. were extricated from the wreckage of Hagen auto. Nothing was found in a search of his house, . |Booze Is Taken in Raid on Boathouse In a midnight reid Saturday night on the Can't Agree boat house, one |block north of Madison st. landing, | near the Kirkland ferry, Sheriff Matt Starwich and a party of his deputies seized six quarts of beer and a quart and a half of whisky, and arrested the proprietor and four said to be assistants, Those arrested were: Jess O’'Com nell, released under $500 ball, and J, P. Turner, G. H. Hughes, Mrs. O, M. Brown and W. T. Jamison, each released under $50 bail. Starwich and his deputies mingted with a crowd in the dance hall com nected with the place before making the arrests. No specific charges have been made. Deputy Is Dismissed Pending Booze Probe Phil Yolt, special deputy sheriff, was Monday temporarily dismissed by Sheriff Matt Starwich, pending investigation of charges and coum: ter-charges between Yolt and Pa trolman Edgar ,Barr that they caught each other Saturday afters noon trying to “knock over” Paul St. Clair, an alleged bootlerger, for his liquor in return for failing te arrest him. Starwich held a lengthy confer ence Monday separately with Yolt and Barr and with a federal ary law aggpt, after which he stated that because of the fact that the federal agent corroborated Yolt'¢ story, he had doubts as to Yolt's guilt but decided that he should be temporarily dismissed in the in terests of a thoro investigation. Yolt’s story was that he and the federal agent accosted St. Clair at Terry and Pine sts. Saturday after noon and while investigating a | sack of liquor, which St, Clair” had taken from his machine, the latter hopped into his automobile and escaped with three cases. He threw the sack of liquor in his car and gave chase, leaving the fedy eral agent on the spot, At Pine — and Westlake he claims he met St. Clair, in company with Barr, and that Barr expressed his willing. ness to allow St. Clair to go if he could have the sack of whisky which Holt had in his possession, be