The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 1, 1921, Page 3

Y, APRIL 1, 1921 BEC SRAANID SECOND NEAR SENECA “BEAU REVEL” Leaves Friday Night SATURDAY BRINGS A massive photoplay of style and luxury with the same cast as “While New York Sleeps”— The passionate yearnings for that have the breast of womankind 2 the world began are vividly Bown in this tumultuous drama of a modern woman! . STRAND ORCHESTRA Under . K. WINELAND We Feature Our Music First National Kinograms Throws Acid | * say in Girl’s Eyes > JEROMB, Ariz, April 1—Mrs. € "¥. Hopkins of San Diego. wife of a ; Wmieht engineer, was arrested 4 hurried to jail at Preseott yew 4 after it was eharged Bend ‘Purled a quantity of carbolic 4nto the face and of Lucille Gallagher. | Feeling against Mrs. Hopkins grew | aft physicians announced | that the victim probab will lose sight. Miss Gallagher is an in or in social science in the Je : Junior high school | school Fric ‘The attack ix said to have been the outgrowth of a trivial feud of Jong standing. Mrs. Hopkins, it is ‘charged, returned here a’ month > Drmed with a revolver,and uttered “Chreats against several prominent} — ineluding the teacher 1 cin The acid throwing took place in 4 | Capt Genes fn the Connor hotel. Mrs. | Thursday night fing carried the acid in a tumb- nits iathaee, ler which whe had concealed in 4) entertainer, to perform | muff, it is said. geese yal tac: ag Good n in Seattle for best Electi Date to Be arate Lg ll a: says N. Fortin, in Farmers’ asso ia May Hereafter «ston ; AN ¢ity, %chool, port and other! Merchants, your mailing lists up municipal elections will hereafter be Postoffice official Hing held on the first Tuesday after the iness men weed out dead ad. first Monday in May, cording to an interpretation of the new elec-| George Sprague, stabbed by tion law, recently passed by the leg-| wife Wednesday night, will pro! ) islature, rendered Thursday by Cor-| recover, it was reported at city “<p smte Counsel Walter F. Meier. | pital Friday Ram New job EXPLORE FAR NORTH ith Ur ‘The blood of the sourdough pulses agent of Missouri Macific thru the veins of A. ©. Nicholas and|¥. L. Maher A. B. ¥. Richard Morris two,| “Trad former soldiers from Cashmere, are A planning a trip to unexplored parts | stitute of Alaska, to jaxt from two to five ciated years. “wturday ews in Tabloid sas 8t Terry Teresa home moves to forme: hotel. Community dinner at a y night. Let's work t Ramsay ther,” Claude C. says to Young Men's Repub n club. Sergeant hursday Frank Carter re hight to go in the| auto war experien Frank Hubbell ces recounted by at Armory known M. C nationally at Y ket |to date to help. bu dresses formerly now local freight succeeding id Storey Speech by Dr 1 of Dunwood Nis, before at Masonic c in Industrie club night, SEATTL l Evidencing the terrific crash of the two vessels which col- lided of f Point Wilson early this morning, the starboard bow of the freighter West Hartland was smashed in like an egg shell. Only the heavy steel plates of the shipping board ves- sel kept the bow intact and prevented the West Hartland Gatewood | from following the Governor to the bottom. (Inseft) Cap- tain John Alwen, master of the West Hartland. —Photos by Price & Carter. MORE TROOPS PARIS, April 1 regent of Hungary favor of former cording to a Buday |aay Carl was reported advancing on |Pudapest with monarchist troops, Junder Gen. Lehar. ullus Andrassy, former pre was waid to have been named nt of a council of ministers to the 41 Cart |formally resumes hin th | Leha army Jreach Budapest tonight jaon was reported to be The me was flamir jist t has abdicated nperor Carl, eat dispatch to- ac government « was expected to The garr ready to go existance at spirit The progress thru Hungary 2 Hungar of ro narch The 1 Bu eat re great # to Carl's advance of Ls |dapest was the | joicing | Small | Mocked y tow signal for the emperor's isons way te eg along ne mer e Here’s Another Version of Coup PARIS, ‘Cart ha Cart of hours. declared Carl and repr Former Emperor » Hungary Bon April 1 to the wapaper arture is only a matter paper tod: It ntatives of reached an agree inamanger *|Regent Horthy to Report} Resign, | LONDON, April 1 |tion of Regent Horthy of Hungary of former Emperor Cart, ried here today by the The in favor was rep |change Telegraph | Allies’ Warning Sent to Hungary April 1.—~The Hungary that will result restored 8. allies today dimaustrous if former to PAF warned consequence Emperor Carl throne. The the The note tolerate recognize warnin il of declare 4 Hap was dispatched by allied ambas dd the Mie will not burg re such government . . \“Redeem Nation,” Proclaims Carl LIN, April 1 Thru work hall redeem th tion,” read former an ur na toda The dispatet Horthy had re His proclamation wa aid A Budape counc wlors toration nor God help ust we na d by wceording to from Vien * proclamation 4 Emperor Carl firmed dispatel d that Regent or of Carl aid to have for their loyal report 1, dispatch last night de Admiral Horthy, | brought | resigna- | Ix the | (CARL GAINING — [RECEPTION FOR WITHERSPOON A big planned in honor of John T, Wither spoon, national commander of the United Spanish-American War Vet reception and parade are erans, who is returning to Seattle his home city, after seven weeks on 4 tour of Inspection of camps thruout the t Witherspoon will arrive at 11:45 a. m. Saturday, at the OW depot Spanish-American and the Ladies’ auxiil amwemble will form an escort of honor for thelr mander will parade up Sec to Virginia st. Veterans o War Veterans ary, who will to other wars are Invited to partictpat CAR LITIGATION IS THROWN OUT All litigation concerning the Seat | tle munic federal court was day in a decision by Neterer wrried on in thrown out t Federal Judge MANY GET FREE SNOOZES More than 5,500 wes and 2 warm meala have been given by attle post No. 18, American Legion, in the last three months to war vet erans out of @ job, The post's hotel waa closed Thursday, the acute need for its existence having passed. clared Horthy still was in control bis ume \France Would Fight Ambitions of Carl! PARIS, April 1—-France has in formally assured the nations of the little entente” that she will support necessary military movements against Hungary if former Emperor renounced, it was re 500 at | Carl t jported here | At the Cz }was stated a will be sent the ment if Carl is no’ e- Slovak legation threeday ultimatum Hungarian govern t disminsed. . BUDAPE! April 1 between monarchy and the Hungarian partia- today, Monarchists 7 « the claims of former Facing aj choice de ment racy met pared to pres | Emperor Carl A monarchist alternative was the |declaration of a regency J oldest son, Prince Otto ALL ALTIES FOR TH PARI Allied bassadors have been instructed to prep plans for futher penalties to be inflieted Germany, the am hassxador aid “today The penalties, to be drafted by the ambassadors and their to be submitted tomorrow The decision was reached following | Germany" fal to complete dis Jurmament by April 1 as demanded. on communique experts, are at the depot at 11 o'clock, | bal railway which has been | it} for Carl's | am, | STEAMSHIP GOVERNOR, RAMMED AND SUNK EARLY TODAY Diagram shows where the freighter West Hartland, out- bound thru the atraits, rammed the ‘passenger liner Governor, inbound for Seat- tle San Francisco via Victoria, off Point Wilson, in the Straits of Juan de Fuca, early this morning. The Hartland’s bow hit the Gov- starboard side, for- ward. The Hartland had just left Port Townsend, Here's were, SCHMITT ly private execution. , An the hood was dropped, a lark |nottied on the wall nearby, periously | clase to the electrically charged barb ed wires that surmount the wall, and burst into song. The morning sun glowed pink behind a cloudbank in the eastern sky ‘There was « sudden thud. Father Buckley will conduct requiem high mass for the dead man at 10 o'clock tomorrow morning in St. Patrick's church. There will be a short service later at the grave “I told him,” said Puther Buckley “that he whould have as fine a fu neral ae any man's. I shall keep my promise, He was gamer than I, I | couldn't «tand it like he did. Schmitt's last thought was of the woman in Seattle grieving in the | mistaken belief that he was her way | ward son, “My mother ie dead. T am glad,” he said, “that she is spared from this, Tell the poor | thinks I am her boy to set her mind at ense. She is not my mother. I hope she will be comforted by what I nay.” DENIES INFIDELIS: . LETTER TO PUBLIC | To Father Buckle Schmitt gave his jast message to the | world—-a short letter composed by te condemned man during the long from ernor’s yesterday hours of the night before, Father uckley said Schmitt asked that the ter be published, but the origina Kemal by Schmitt, is to be kept by the young priest, a treasured posses. sion. The letter reads: | “1 am in possession of a newspa per clipping which contains the fol lowing: ‘Condemned Man Refuses to Chapla To give the lie to j such an unfair assertion, following statement “1 am not an infidel and I do not | scoff and sneer at life. Brought up in the Lutheran faith, thru tre | and observation, and seeing life as it | really is, it is my belief that we are all one in A sight of God, the Cre I am In my ament 1 was blinded | by hatred and resentment, and I am grieved there were circumstances | that led to my snuffing out the life | of four of my fellow-beings. | “Ther me to me a priest, Father Buckle care what creed I was, He there was a human, soul about He came to my cell | and offered to be my spiritual adviser xd today I am grateful to her | Buckley, for he caused peace to enter | my heart. “I have terests me. k why Catholic knew fear. Death alone in While standing on the threshold of eternity I make this ap: peal to mankind, ‘Throw off the | mantle of egoism and arrogance, “T ask pardon of all whom I have injured and I forgive all who have injured me.”* Schmitt was sent to death at the end of a three-strand rope five xhths of an inch thick, made at Zan Quentin prison of stout Arizona hemp. | Jt came neatly cotled the customary hangn a small express box | Henry Drum, the w | aigned rather than sacrifice ple by hanging a fellow man. |" All day yesterday visitors camo land went, but none was permitted to see the gallows that had been set up in a corner of the, p yard hidden | behind th ndone¢ men's build ling Thruout the day there was talk of little else than the approaching hanging. Inmates marched to and no ) nd tied, with an's noose, in ddressed rien who r x woman who} I make the | He did not} to} a prinel- | } HANGING —..°#1 from the jute mill and other prison buildings an usunl, but it was noth able that none of them pans with little fuss; without annoying look at it. During the early part of the earty afternoon, while the prison band was practicing new jazz music, word was sent to the guards that Schmitt was to be moved from the cell he has occupied since he arrived here to a cell in the death house. | While this transfer was being made no person was allowed to en jter or leave the yard or any of the | buildings inside the yard, except the guards, who escorted the prisoner to his new quarters. The window of his new cell looks out upon the scaffold. The change | was made, it was explained, that he/| | might taken out for execution Ww ithilttle puss; withqut annoying other inmates A .remarkable up during t the hard-boiled friendship sprang lost month between prisoner and ghe| plous young priest, who announced | | with tears of happiness in his eyes | yesterday that Schmitt had accept. @d the Catholic faith. TOLD LIFE STORY TO YOUNG PRIEST | “At first,” said Father Buckley, “1 jdidn’t go to see Schmitt, I thought it best to walt a few days. Then 1 called at bis cell. He was exercis- ing. I told him I had come to have a few words with him, if he cared | to receive me. “He smiled that odd smile that has been called ‘sardonic’ and ‘cynical,’ and told me he didn’t care if I tal with him. J learned after I cam |know him better and got un¢ jcrust that his smile was merely a nervous affectation. His rough ex |terior concealed something within | | that qas kind and tender | “He told me, finally, his whole life |history, His mother is dead. I shall | not repeat his confidences, It would | do the world no good and I would be jless of a man if I did “The story that he had money con- c somewhere is a myth, He had $8.74 which he gave me to give to some worthy cause or person in need. “His views on life were sound. They were not the views of a radical |by any m He felt that he had| | been roughly treated during his early | life and that his later life was the result of that treatment “He had nothing but pity for those jhe had made to suffer. It was his wish that the $500 reward offered for his capture dead or alive for the kill ing of Schultz, in Olympia, be given to one of the families he rendered fatherless FATHER BUCKLEY GIVES LAST BAPTISM “He was ready for death day I was certain he would go to |his execution without bravado, but with the sweet, quiet strength of Christian resignation.” Father k last several |nights have been sleepless, he said The hours spent ministering to the | condem: man so filled his mind that he was unable to compose him- self enough to sleep. Early yesterday morning he went to Schmitt's cell to begin the final rations. Shortly before noon he ame out of the prison to announce happily that the prisoner was ready to meet his God After luncheon, | black sate |, he returned to er m, and this done, at | Schmitt's , reques' left t nur derer for a time alone with his thoughts. 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Can we show you the many attractive models soon? that did not end until the other man liam Jahns when he dropped # had parted with his life in legal the trap, but ppl 9 fabdenderags tieaime* ati that one of the 15 men “I had rather been a thousand| executed here begged to be t miles awa Father Buckley said, | back and dropped a second time, “but he wanted me with him until| strangled to death before the the last. He asked that he be|man got around to it, burted in the Catholic cemetery, and] Jahns departed this life d it shall he so. I have afranged for | jis innocence. He was convicted the disposition of the remains in @/ killing his housekeeper, Agnes lot that will have perpetual care.” sen, in Stevens county, in 1909. Jiast™ At exactly midnight the warden. ship of the penitentiary passed fro Henry Drumm to William Potts, “I cannot reconcile myself to cap- ital punishment,” Drumm declared. “It in the law and must be en- forced,” said Potts. RETIRING WARDEN IS CONGRATULATED “If the people don’t lke the law, they have the power to change it.” For days telegrams and letters of congratulation have been received by the retiring warden. They come from all parts of the nation, One is from Georgia, ‘The extreme privacy of the hang- ing was the subject of much com ment around the prison and i town. The program of secrecy was probably decided upon because of the @otorious fizzles of the past hang- ings It has been ten years since the head was yanked off Frederick Wil- before he’was hanged,” April 1, he he wrote @ letter in cipher that, he | said, would explain the whole “tmis- take.” The letter is still in the prise on vaults, undeciphered, Thirty-five years ago on the spot — where Schmitt killed Police Detectit ead Jimmy O’Brien at Second aye. James st:, Seattle, three men lynched by vigilantes. The ine! was recalled today by 8. district freight and passenger of the Northern Pacific here, was then a lad of 11 years, “Those three men had been a lot of robbing around Seattle,” Miller. “The vigilantes went into courtroom, threw a sheet over head of Judge Roger Green, kid the defendants and strung them. in a clump of trees right Schmitt killed O'Brien.” ‘Women republicans meet in E green hall, Arcade building. election of officers. INSIST Gently, But Firmly ‘——AND—— YOUR DEALER WILL DELIVER 19601 (2 CASSIDY WELLINGTON COAL You get a full wagon load of heat when Cassidy Wellington Coal rattles down your coal chute. A COKING COAL for Furnace, Range or Grate—and a ton of Cassidy Wellington Coal will last longer and burn cleaner than any. coal you have recently used. IN LUMP, NUT OR STEAM properly your De: ‘wil = pared in our own doesn’t happen to Wellington Coal, telephone us and it be a favor to all three of us. lant. If ave Cas- Arrow Coal Co. F. C. 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