The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 10, 1921, Page 16

AND POLES __ IN FIGHT! Strife in Silesia Has Queer ; Angles; Germans Facing Crisis at Home COPENHAGEN, May 10.—German armed forces have disarmed a French detachment at Koenigshutte, Silesia, According to a Warsaw dispatch to- day. Polish insurgents were reported in contro! of half the city, the Ger Mans holding the other part. Germans, driven from Kanarsin After costly fighting, were reported again in possession of the place Ttalian soldiers drove the Poles out the dispatch said, and handed it ‘ver to the Germans. eee Opposition Voted Against Demands BY CARL D. GROAT BERLIN, May 10. nexpected op Position to acceptance of the all Ultimatum developed among reichst. Jeaders today. All night sessions of party leaders failed to bring the dem @eratic and volkspartei leaders into nt with the majority social was to meet at 4 on the allied de- candidate for chancellor. believed he would pick his o the French foreign office indic: pd Germany will accept the allied u! ing men the bor- ‘Wednesday noon at luncheon at ‘Washington Annex. in Business” 1s THE SUBJECT OF H. L. KNOX Instructor in Salesmanship and Business Efficiency TONIGHT oi O'CLOCK Social Service Room Y.M.C. A. ‘This lecture will help you to see the quickest, best and most efficient way to get bigger results. Don't you believe that your present business methods might be improved? DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION ¥. M. C. A. Fourth at Madison who favor accepting the de | [to do it again. THE SEATTLE STAR | (Left to right) Sergt. George W. sal Filion Tuesday afternoon confessed.—P. HERE'S MORE STARTS ON PAGE 1 THE SAWYER TRIAL houseboat Hydah, on Lake Union.” “Did you have any difficulties at the Lincotn™ “Yes, Three times. He rushed at me once with two guna, I was sit ting on the bed. Hoe said he would kill me, and I threatened to leave, putting my hat on.” ABOUT before the marriage. did he want you to do?” | Here Mrs. Sawyer's voice choked. She struggled to speak. Tears streamed down her cheeks and in broken apeech she accused Sawyer of and his aunt, Mr. E attle, sat among the spectator. “He promised on his honor never 1 would have sacrt | miner ficed my life for him—I loved him! Mrs. Sawyer neard it and wep! | apron.” “Did you fire at him? “No, at the bulkhead.” “Did he come back?" “He crouched behind an automo- bile, swore, aimed his gun and eaid: ‘I'll get you now! * “What did you do?” “I fired twice to save myself—to prevent him from killing me, I ran back toward our boat. I was excit ed. I heard him yell, and for the first time I realized that maybe I had hit him.” “What di then?” om Ge ore laid sak ae. NS Won eee Ae Sneee ran back to the body. I begged them | “rain. to get water. I told them that he| %P* she remarked, simply: was my husband and I had shot him, Then they took me away. I don't know how they ever did.” Attorney Fulton then asked her if She had not on one occasion gone | lout for a police officer, and she an | swered: “Yes. Eight days before the shoot ing he had threatened to kill me. When I returned he said’ he had| taken his guns off the boat.” TOLD HER HE BEAT | HIS FORMER WIFE “Did he ever tell you how he treat ed his former wife?” “Yen; he said he had beaten her.” Attorny Fulton then led back to the incidents of the shooting, and | Mrs. Sawyer testified she and her | husband had quarrelea and he had| | refused to give her money to restock her larder of potatoes, canned | tongue and coffee. She corroborated Mra. Lake's tes timony concerning the twisting of her ear, and said Sawyer refused to eat with her the meager meal she prepared, Just before leaving, he remarked, she said: “I'll have to leave before I kill you.” Deputy Prosecutor Patterson be- gan his cros-examination shortly | before 11 a. m. | His first questions concerned the |length of time Mrs. Sawyer had |known her husband before she mar- lried him and her own activities while she was single. Mrs. Sawyer said she had known Howard Sawyer one year before her marriage and that she had | worked for a Dr. Whiting and for a Mr. Berger, a real estate man. Mra. Sawyer fired to frighten him. repeated his threat to kill, ahd Mr Sawyer fired twice in fear and left. | mine.’ * testified the man had died, | tobrifie out of his hand. thrown it, Mri bor, explained: mine.” shots she had heard. “jt was just that crazy husband.” to” from the testimony by Judge ward C. Mills, of Walla Walia, Attor conducting the examination of wi clared it was an argument the wi ness had with himself. Detective Charles J. Waec! tified to arresting Mrs. Saw: made at police headquarters, At this point Attorney George | day morning. Tummens, associated with counsel! * — for the defense, asked the court 2 to withdraw the “Jury trom’ the| Plans Shaping for |courtroom that he might argue a point of law. The request granted, Rummens declared Vatterson was seeking (o mvolve Mrs. Sawyer in Sawyer's previous divorce 1n4 added that the purpose of the examination was “most illegitimate.” Patterson replied that he had a right to attack the credibility of the witness and he intended to show that Mrs, Sawyer was once a ward) lof the juvenile court. }LAVED WITH HiM GLFORE MARRIAGE Judge Milla ruled that Patterson could ask questions concerning Mrs, Sawyer's relauionships with Sawyer] to raise funds for the relief work. shape. Tho Ladies’ auxiliary, Raine Noble post, American Legion, relief work among soldiers and sat tate, * of the American Legion ts p particular aid, Beginning before her marriage but could not refer to the juvenile court incident The jury was then recalled and Patterson drew from Mra, Sawyer the statement that she had decided to live ax Sawyer’s wife two weeks In the courtroom attending Mrs. Margaret Prather, of Walla Walla, Miller of Be ‘Thru the opening addresess of counsel on both sides and thru the improper advances. examination of six state's witnesses! 5). “when I refused,” abe added, “be! Sicnaay atterncon at the ‘trial ot] Pace! them under arrest would go into a rage, strike, beat,| Suggs ann Sawyer for shooting her}, TB® murdered man's car was knock me down and kick me.” hustend int May 10 ran ane ore.| left in charge of a gang of road “Why did you go to live in the] MmaeG Dieu said to have ben|men and the four prisoners houseboat?” taken from the lips of the beautiful | OToUsht tn. “1 WOULD HAVE 2hyear old defendant tmmediately| Questioned about the bloody cap. | “It's just that crazy husband of “It was then,” said the attorney, “that Sawyer threatened to kill and sHle flung his suit case in the air, | | crouched behind an automobile in/|}) the road, pointed his pistol-rjfie and “Bhe didn’t know she had hurt As she passed curious per. “It's jus that crazy husband of Coroner W. i. Corson described Sawyer’s wound in the shoulder, and Patrol man Daniel J. Hart, first to reach the scene, said he took Sawyer’s pla Patrolman Fred Mills said he exam. ined Sawyer's weapon and also found the weapon Mrs, Sawyer had used after she had told him where she had | Margaret Thompson, a neigh tified she heard a scream and thought some one had killed a dog. | She hurried to the scene, and upon | coming near Mrs. Sawyer the latter “It's just that crazy husband of Mrs, Thompson could not judge the time that elapsed between the E, F. Curtis, who had also come running, said Mrs, Sawyer told him to “keep his nose out of it,” because He meditated, he said, exclaiming: “My God! What's this world coming The meditation was stricken ney George H. Rummens, who was | nesses for the defense, having de- er tes. rand to hearing alleged statements she The trial was adjourned for the day at 5 p. m, to be resumed Tucs- Disabled Vets’ Week Plans for observance of “National Disabled Soldiers’ week,” which be- gins May 29, are taking definite an- nounces a tea to be given at Fred erick & Nelson's on June 7, the pro: | ceeds of which will go for special | ores still confined in hospitals of the | The state hospitalization committee poppies will be sold on the streets HERE'S MORE ABOUT did not have more than $19, accord. ing to Harry Rogers, his partner. His watch and personal belongings of value were taken by the slayers. ‘The first that was known of the murder was yesterlay afterndon, when the body was found by Will fam Fortner, a farmer, A state “What did he do?” Sawyer were her mother, Mrs. P.| wide manhunt was becun. Last “He begged me not to leave, id | Wrighter, of Vancouver, B.C. and| night Deputy Sheriffs Herb Beebe | he couldn't go on with his work, and/ Mrs ©. EB. Lake, who mld she|and Frank Anderson went to Ta that he might as well blow out his) acted merely In the capacity of “aj coma, identified the boty of the brains if I left. He promised faith | ¢rieng” No other relatives of the| slain man and obtained a descrip } fully never to offend me again.” accused girl were present. tion of his automobile. “How had he offended you? What) Howard 1. Sawyers mother, Mre.| at 9 o'clock this morning, Sher |itf Starwich’s posse overtook the| |automobiie, standing at the side| of the road abowe North Bend, with | engine running. Deputies Beare) and Loveall held up the party and/ the four soldiers mid they knew nothing about it. At the county jail each man was stripped and search: t,|¢d. None of them had money. Timbs | - when Deputy Prosecutor T, H. Pat-|!* believed to have had about $10 .| in his pockets when he was killed. There was no money on the body. I didn’t want to be left alone.| COUNSEL REPEATS IT bert Beebe, and Frank Anderson I saw he had left one of his pistols.| More bitterty still Mra Sawyer|and Deputy Coroner Frank Koep- Longe bf gy of lpg opt torn wept when her own counsel, Walter | fil. gone back ire at Tincoin |. Fulton, tenderly repeated the| Perrin, the first soldier ques hotel and saved nothing else. 1 pick-) words in bis address to show bow| tioned at the jail. was saked “How ed it up and followed te attract hin| the defense intended to prove the| many of you were in the car when attention and make him come back. young bride did not intend to Kill] you started out?’ I called out, “Howard, come back? and did not believe she had done so “Only four.” he naid. “He turned around, pulled his gun | after it happened. “What did you do with the other and commanded. 5. Sawyer had beaten her, spoken tn! fellow, the fifth?” asked Sheriff “*Stand back there now’ merciless tones, refused to furnish | srarwich. “You go to hell,” soldier. “Take this man out and put him h in the ‘dark hole’,” the sheriff or dered. The four suspects are mere youths. Sharp, 21, hales from Texas; Filion, 18, is from Michigan; Starks and Perrin are both 19 Iinote. snaried the and both from} Private James Sparks, Private Edward F. Filion and Private Carl Perrin. oto by Price & Carter, Star staff photographers. THE TAX! MURDERER STARTS ON PAGE 1 Timbs was part owner of the MD POLS a a z | TheBonMarché BETTER BUSINESS | Majestic Taxicab company of Tacoma. He lived at 415 E. Morton st, Tacoma. He leaves a widow, | Mrs. Blanche Timbas, and a 14-month- | old baby girl. His father and mother and brother live In Tacoma. Starwich and his deputies kept up an all-night search for the murder party. Had the party of suspects reached the pans they would have been stopped by snow. They were Uterally caught in a trap. Three other similar taxicab mur-| dors are still unsolved mysteries. On January 10, 1919, John R. Fowles, rentear driver, was shot in the back of the head on First ave. & January 22, 1919, Raymond Ostrom, rent-car driver, was shot and killed and his body left on the Canyon road, off the Pacific Highway, near Auburn, by a man who rented his car. July 1, 1919, Thomas Ryan, driver of @ forhire car, wan shot to death by & passenger on the Duwamish }tiver bridge and the body thrown into the river. TWO GIRLS, FRIENDS OF SUSPECTS ARRESTED Two giris were arrested in Ta coma following the arrest of the four soldiers by Sheriff Starwich. | They are Lillian Spencer, 19, and Nellie Killman, 2%. They are al leged to be close friends of the tioning them Tuesday afternoon. They are said to have refused to Answer questions Posed as Officer; Must Serve Term J. A. Russell, former timber in- spector at the Bremerton navy yard, will have to serve his sentence of three months In jall for impersonat ing a federal officer, mandate of the circuit court of ap- peals. his inspector's badge to impersonate a deputy U. 8. marshal. WALLA WALLA.—Marion Hoge, 31, dies from injuries he received in fall a few days ago. THE BON WARGAIN BASEMEN _ The Bargain Basement Is Showing Values That | Are Truly Amazing in Silk and Cloth MARCHE = the fabrics and trimmings garments themselves. At each price you $5.00 group’ a Dresses will be no t. it played in each group—and ir 1. | clever woman can quickly proud to wear. They certainly are barg Practically the same materials are shown at each | price, the great differences being in the quality of Taffeta and Serge Dresses, while in the aoe of Jersey The colors are dark—mostly navy and black— although a few grays, browns and blues are included. 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