The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 15, 1921, Page 13

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SEATTLE, WASH, FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1921. Pages 13 to 24 B0Y DEFIES JAILS TO HOLD HIM MD ONLY 14 pu HURLS (CHALLENGE i JUDGE aping Under Rain of Shots From Safe Job, Is Found Crying for “Ma” eg cal, Apr April 15.—The most | D oe boy bandit in all crime is “Wee Willie” Clarke, the earcla desperado “that no jail hold. | Beven times has this “bad boy jus" walked out of privons under Very noses of watching officers. And yet he is a weak, undersized, ¥ lad. He weighs but $0 pounds, his mother supplies the informa that he was the “favored child se of his state of health. » [RINES RAFFLES | 1D JESSE JAMES B Nevertheless this lad has a record Garing that few desperadoes can ; he openly boasts to judges: and ce officials that “No jail can hold n he combines Raffles and Jesse ms in his operations. In jail here after his seventh jail this strange case of dual-per ity is being studied by lead: chologists of the West. But a ys ago he escaped, alth Is, knowing his pa: closely watching him. How do it? The officials wish the | When sentence was tmposed on fim he told the judge he would be @ut in a few days. And he was—with | poase of armed officers on his trail ‘Trapped ina small lumber yard, he Mipped thru their fingers and man @ged to board an outbound freight, only later to be captured. By f fleThother has supplied paycholo with the Information that he shown an amazing ability to r Out mechanical problems, and the age of 13 boasted that he would any lock that could be made, or duplicate any key. ‘He has since used this io good advantage in | She adds that, not eirtieaiae enough to tackle heavy work, pored over detective tales and. 4 mtly, has sought to duplicate \ feats of herves of the “yelidw in the pofice Mapalig of 12 when he robbed a sa. - and was sent to the state reform oL Three months later he had caped. He found a hiding place in camps of the Northwest. but, ht stealing — lumber jacks, returned to the reform school ‘hea out again in three weeks. A ber of robberies in Sacramento _— back again, and again he Ck TIN SPOON 'A tin spoon was the key’ with ch he picked the lock of a jail at n Luis Obispo, Cal, and so it has) h this undersized lad al appearing in a daring role. “Hardly had he made his seventh pe here than he attempted his | Job—the looting of the North ern Pacific railroad office safe. covered at work, he escaped, a shower of bullets, in a stolen P@utomobile, abandoned it when the grew hot, and hid tn a lumber Please, Mr. Prince, What’s a Wallaby? | LONDON, April 15—Among the t arrivals at the zoo is a black i iby—a small species of kanga o—presented by the Prince of ‘ales. ¥ at 10 cents a dozen, Emery points | Municipal Hen| to Solve Egg Price Problem? | | | | | | ] pod FRANCISCO, April 15.— Municipally operated hens? WERLad, ashe A. J. Emery, pouk} |try expert, who is figuring on giv ing this city the first municipally nducted egg ranch in the United | ay city can Ra into the chieken « bes siness, be declares, and xpectana ent in being made jin California cities, an a bi = ty needs to Insure eggs | out, ts to. gather together 12,000 persons. If each person puts up $5) and forms a cooperative exe rais-| ing company, an initial capital of| $60,000 would be available which would Insure @ 30acre ranch of 40, 000 hens capacity. Eggs would be delivered dafy to each shareholder, under the plan, and the entire city could get in on the scheme. Emery, who is heading the exper. iment, was state dairy expert for Oklahoma for a number of years) and is an expert of national reputa- tion, Parson Didn’t Like View Beyond Grave GENEVA, April 15.—The case of a man officially and reasonably de clared dead coming to life again was reported here when Rev. Joseph Baudenbacher, whose heart had ceased beating, “came to life” again 14 hours later. A Geath certificate | had been issued, preparations for the funeral bad been made and pa- pers had published eulogies concern. | ing him. He may live many years, it ie _ Wise is the man who is as at- tentive to his wife as he was when | she was his sweetheart—only her re- lationship to him has changed, not her nature, Daddy, ‘bring home some of Boldt's French nah pemty— -Advertisement. geceacoaag a Do You Know Sy pe ee ia FLAKES? 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