The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 11, 1921, Page 4

AUGHTER CE TRIAL ‘Charged With First Degree | r Following Probe | . foto Husband's Killing | LEY. PLAND, ©, June 11 ‘Mrs. Eva Catherine Kaber daughter, Miss Marian on a charge of first de-| rn connection with the killjng” Dan F. Kaber, vealth) BA icewood publisher, today far June 38. a acd vor and Miss McArdle mol. guilty when arraigned pleas court today. aR WOMEN ACCUSED mort) women were to be charged with munier in emje today. One woman, fas the Sandusky midwife, has been in custody ald to be charged with mur Ni acceysory before the fast. 2 that she provicid jel Kaber with the “mcxti-| “which was put in the fpal @ “cure” him of stabbed to death the July 18, 1918. An autcmsy he had been stabbed tm and abdomen 24 tifmes, arsenic had been fed hnw This food for a period of weeks fore he was murdered. after the murder had ymitted Mrs. Kaber was ‘was released after the cor- Gnquest. After two years it as ir ihe murier of Kaber rer mystery. ‘ATHER U] ‘last iat Kaber’s elderty father, Moses ber, Yowed vengeance on the of his son, and worked on ‘case for two years. ) grand jury returned a secret of first degree marder irs. Kaber, who was liy- York. Mrs. Kaber’s mother, Brickel, after contipuous for 12 hours, broke down ‘a signed confession, said daughter had planned the of her wealthy husband, hired assassins to wield & Ne tto. Bricke! and Miss McArdle n indicted for murder. Miss was arrested in New York Ing her mother im jail. detained in New York, attempted suicide by POLICE TO MEASURE LACK OF SKIRT ON BUDAPEST DAMSELS BUDAPEST, June 11.--Roman:- tic Budapest, known @s the "City of the Most Beautiful Leg to have is morals measured and judged by a yardstick. The League of Women's Suffarge Societies has demanded that the government arm the police with yardsticks for the purpose of establishing wheth er the high-water mark of skirts worn in public is above the moral Aine. ‘The police yardsticks will be di vided into centimeters, and the women whose skirts are found to be more than 25 centimeters 49.8425 inches) the heels, Hungarian above qwill be reported for “violation of modesty.” Officers Hunting Murderer of Four LOUISA, Ky, June 11.—-A posse cit 50 farmers today searched for a man suspected of murdering four persons of one fumily, and the wounding of another, The dead are: Mary Sparks, shot t Wesley Sparks, Sr, death. Wesley Sparks, Jr, death, Daniel Sparks, head. Hugh Sparks, 18, t# at Kis home suffering from gunshot weunds in the left leg and hip While the murders were commit ted last Sunday, search for the mur derer was not started until late yes terday, when first word of the kill ing reached here. The Sparks family lived at Willow Pole Creek, Elliott county, 35 miles from here. fhru the heart. beaten to stabbed to 1, shot thru the Youth Is Guilty of Slaying Pal WARSAW, Ind, June 11.—Ac cused of killing Leroy Lovett, his chum and “double,” Virgil Decker, 19, farmer boy, was found guilty of murder in the first degree last night and sentenced to life imprisonment. The state claims the deed was done that members of the Decker family might identify Lov as Decker’s and collect $24,000 in surance. Virgil, Calvin and Fred Decker, brothers of the condemned man, and Mrs. Lydia Decker, his have all been indicted for awaiting trial ee Sleeping Youth Is Killed by Father DES MOINES, Ia, June 11.—R. M. West entered the bedroom of his} 1§-year-old son, Myron, early today 2 shot him dead with a .22 rifle while he slept. The father, 50, was temporsrily ingane. He had heen suffering from lung trouble and fear- ed he would die of tuberculosis as several of his relatives had done. RR ene yith murier today will be charged vith administering poison on Mrs. Kaber’s statement that this woman gave the “medicine” to Kaber in his food. Graduation exercises held Friday F night by Holy Angels academy, Rt. STARTS SUNDAY A treat for love: compelling drama—a picture s wide-open places of Rev. Bishop Edward J. O'Dea presid- ing. LEAVES TUESDAY rs of stirring action and red in the the West and tight-closed homes of the Four Hundred. lae GPA ( the fla mmle nr: CE DARMOND rrushing diama of life and fo \ /e Oni ming frontier. BEAUTIFUL GAMBLER H —Also— bed Brownie, the Wonder Dog, in “PLAYMATES” FIRST PICTURES OF BIG PUEBLO FLOOD LAST TIMES TONIGHT—“CHEATED LOVE” t's body | mother, | murder | in connection with the case and are | BY JACK JUNGMEYER FRANCISCO, June 11 Mr. ad is marshalling 4“ further to tight the bands of prohibition, sun and sol] are storing alcoholic content In 160,000 acres of growing California wine grap A deluge of over 40,000,000 gal lons of new vintage from the ex pected crop will thus be injected into the dry enforcement problem this year. Por it t admitted by growers, distributors and prohibition officials that practically the entire product will go into home made intoxicants thruout the country. BIG PROFITS EXTEND VINEYARDS With increased instead of dimin ished acreage under cultivation, the | 600 members of the California Grape Growe: Exchange expect this sea son to market 275,000 tons of wine grapes—over 100,000 tons more than in 1920, Valuation iy set at 000,000. The vineyardist 1s assured from 200 to 400 per cent higher returns |than he ever got. during the wet heydey; an amaging turn for the in dustry that expected prohibition to ruin it “The California grape grower was never so prosperous,” says E. M Sheehan, president and manager of the agsoclation. “This is not be use Of prohibition, but despite “Last year our organization ship ped out of the @ate 12.000 carloads of wine grapes—-160,000 tons. This |year we are preparing to ship 200. 000 toms, with 75,000 tons for home consumption. 150 gallons of light wine, such as claret. “Leaky prohibition has increased the grape acreage and stimulated demand. “The great part of this season's crop will be marketed outside the more, Bosfon, Philadelph land, Cincinnati, Toledo, | Kansas City, St. Louis, hs and | Bast, | Detroit, New Or Washington and Oregon. HERE’S MORE ABOUT DOPE STORY STARTS ON PAGE ONE his eyes, ears and tongue missing the tong way. ISS DULAC ASSIGNED ‘ROBE CHILD RING Well, the Seattle White Crows got wind of this children’s ring here, and No use reciting all the minor events, false clues and fake tips-that were run down before I learned of the house at 521 Jefferson st. And it will always have to remain @ secret of how and from whom I got the tip on the Jeffernon st. house, It's a policy of mine never to divulge the name ef the person who gives ne such. isformation, - I set to work getting the “low down” on the Jefferson st. place the day I got the Up, and in another week knew all about the joint, who operated it, when the operators were at home, selling. Then we struck. door and made a buy, salesman a marked bill. Ordinarily that would haye been the moment for me to hold the sales- man up, eall the policemen who were I went to the handing the prisoner red-handed with the marked money in his possession, But there were two men in that house, and we wanted them botf I knew their habits. PASSES MARKED MONEY ON TO HIS PARTNER The moment I handed the sales- partner, who was standing out of sight back of the door, the object being to get rid of the bill as quick ly as possible to avoid the chance of being caught with marked money, you see. 4 I knew that was exactly what had happened, because that was their practice. I knew, too, that a mo- | | the house, go to a grocery nearby and change the bill. So I waited. The partner left the house. My policemen aides were watching bim. I heard their signal that he had reached the grocery. Then I pulled my gun and up went the salesman's hands. He tried to kick the door shut in my face, but I was ready for that, too, and was inside in a Jiffy, backing him up against the wall. Right behind me came a po- liceman. Meanwhile the other policeman had gone to the grocery, arrested the partner, recovered the marked money from the grocer’s till, and our case was complete. That broke up, for a time at least, |the ring that was making dope ad- dicts out of children. But if I were the man who sat beside me in the street car and |scoffed at the idea of children's |rings I wouldn't be sure that the Seattle ring is completely stamped out, because, frankly, I don’t believe it is—yet. | School Attendance Here Shows Decrease Seattle has 65,949 cnndren in the schools, the number being 1,370 less than last year, Reuben W. Jones, secretary of the school district, re ported to the school board Friday. Only the Fremont and northeast. ern sections of the city fgtl to show a decrease. The ral district is the heaviest loser. The northwest Hern section still has the greatest ‘number of school children, altho \there are 216 fewer names than last | year. Logger Hit by Tees Is Instantly Killed ‘Hit by a falling tree, M. Pearson, logger, employed by Allen & Nelson Mill Co. at Monohan, Wash., on th east shore of Lake Wash ington, was instantly killed Friday afternoon, The body ig in the King county morgua it. | “A ton of grapes will make about | the larger cities of the | as well as in the states of fornia vyaileys would considerably | raphers. | sent me out to investigate, There's how much business they) were dolng and to whom they were | waiting for my signal, and catch the) man the bill he passed it on to his) ment Igter the partner would leave [ ©THE SEATTLE: STAR Grape Crop to Make Country Wetter By 40,000,000 Gallons “Much of the crop has already been contracted for, and wild com petition for small lots {# anticipated th the larger ters, especially New York where last year the most heo- tic scenes featured the marketing “California's 160,000 acres of wine grapes comprise about 90 per cent of the total in the United States, And, because of the shortage in | France and the difficulties of ship ping, grape imports from abroad are practically prohibited. “As long as it ls permissible to crush grapes for juice, they will’ be converted into wines, It is certuin that the bulk of the California crop will be used for home made vintage.” Wine grape prices this year will be from $5 to $20 per ton higher than last season, Cost at Atiantc seaboard cities will range from $113 to $153 per ton, Including freight. On a basis of clar: this will bring th pat of grapes alone to from 50 ts to $l per gallon, according to the grade, with heavier wines more costly in, pro- portion. PROHIBITION JUMPS PRICES Prices F. 0. B, at point of sbip ment have been fixed at from $60 to $90 per ton by the growers’ | change. Prior to prohibition wine grapes sold for ag low as $15 per ton in California, with the better bringing from $40 to $50 per just before the dry decree. “Shipping wig are high,” ex plained St n, “Freight per ton to the Atlantic is $40. To this must be added $8 per ton for icing, and $15 for stripping and bracing car. The shipper is thus under an lexpenge, added to the cost of pro- ‘auction, of $63 per ton or $820 per | carload “The grower has no legal handl- leaps in marketing the wine grépes, because, as long as they are grapes, |they are legitimate. But everyone ton chasers.” A holocaust which would wipe the vast vineyards from the sunny Calb simplify probibition, HERE’S MORE ABOUT CHASE BANDIT STARTS ON PAGE ONE -jafter the train pulled out, and as |soon as the guards were able to ‘tree themselves they returned ;Castie Rock, where they summoned |the sheriff to thelr ald, and set out along the suppased trail of the | two men. | Word has been Mashed along both wides of the Columbia riyer and to all points on principal roads lead ing to Castle Rock. According to advices received here from Castle Rock, @ poswe of citizens is form. ing there to ald the sheriff and his deputies to locate the man. United States Marshal Thomas Mulhall, of San ‘Francisco, who had Gardner in charge, is leading the poste into the hills east of Castle Rock In an effort to retake his pris oner and Pyron, who aided in Gard: ners escape, Morirs Cotturrl, chief special agent for the Southern Pacific, is heading ope division’ of the posse, while Sheriff Hoggett, of Castle Rock, heads the other, According to a member of the posse ‘and Fred Tastor, night agent at Castle Rock, Gardner and Pyron escaped without outside aid. Gardner used the same methods in escaping this time as he did in March, 1919, when he escaped while being taken over the same route after Kav: ing been convicted of a mail robbery in San Diego. The deputy marshal on that occa. sion had removed the handcuffs and leg irons from Gardner, and was jabout to take him into the dressing |room so that he could wagh up fol | lowing his night's journey. THREATENED TO KILL MARSHAL Gardner suddenly snatched the marshal's gun from its holster, slam- med the door of the compartment, and taking the marshal’s handcuffs, handcuffed him. He then proceeded to abuse him for about ane hour, beating him, spitting in his face and telling him that he was going to kill him before he left the train. The marshal was.said to have been “hard boiled” with Gardner while en route, which was the reason for Gardner's ire. Gardner failed to make good his death threat, however. Just be fore the train got into Portland he took the marshal's keys, unlocked the handcuffs of two other prisoners and all three of them escaped thru the window as the train was slowing down in the Portland yards. He left the marshal gagged and handcuffed to the berth. Altho the other two prisoners were recaptured, dner made good his escape, stealing a motore: and £0 ing up the Columbia highway, then stealing a motor boat and going a number of miles further. Abandon- ing the boat, he went ashore, stole an automobile and escaped to Canada, later smuggling himself aboard a freight vesvel to Australia, HE WAS ONCE AUTO MECHANIC previously been an Je mechanic, having been in the garage business in the San Joa- auin valley before going to San Di- ego. He sold out his garage, said to have been in Merced or Modesto, and went to San Diego, where he resum- ed his career as a mail bandit, hay- ing once served a term in San Quen- jin for burglary. Gardner, altho he does not look it {s @ man of herculean strength, be. ing able to bend a nail, holding it In his teeth, and double a bar of iron He blacked himself up as a negro in the San Diego robbery, and leaped aboard a night mail truck just as it was leaving the San Diego postoffice tor the station. He then slit open 30 sacks of mail until he found the reg istered sack, to { | DALLAS, Tex.—Texas soldier ac- |costs girl on street. Sentenced to dig trench and replace earth with table- | Spo0n, grades the} or light wine, | Above—John A. Boatman, self in his home Saturday. Below—Mrs. Hanna Reef, HERE’S MORE ABOUT ~ SUICIDE STARTS ON PAGE ONE word." He went back to his own house. He was seated at bis desk when Mrs. Reef called him to come to breakfast. “I was just finishing dressing the ehildr she said, “when he came into the room. He said, ‘Put that baby down? "I looked up and sw the gun Ip his hand. I dropped the baby and ran for, my life. I ran out the door. He came after me. I ran to the stairs that lead from the front of the house down to the street. “Just as 1 got to the top step I stumbled and fell all the way down. I heard two shots. I got up and ran as hard as I could for the cor- ner and into Mr. Learn’s, About a minute later we heard another sbot. I wanted to go back and get the children—1 was afraid he was shoot- ing them—but Mrs, Learn wouldn't let me, We lstened. Everything was still. “Mr. Learn went to @ telephone and called for the police. hen they came we went into Boatman’ house again. We found the children all right. They were playing as if nothing hud happened. “It- wats quite a while before the police found Mr. Boatman. He had fallen back of his bed—all humped, up jn a corner, They carried him out.” The Learns, whp had known Boatman for several years, eid he had the reputation of belng @ crack shot. He was formerly a raember of the National Guard and was known in that organization es an expert with Grearms, Mra Learn said. “Mrs. Reef ts lucky that she fell wn those «teps,” sald Mra, Learn. “That fall was what saved ber.” Learn said he was sitting by hig kitchen window eating breakfast when he saw Mrs. Reef burst out of the Boatman home. “I knew right away there must be something terrible happening,” he said, “by the way she ran. She's pretty well along in years, but she ran like a deer. I saw her stumble. I saw Boatman’ run after her and raise his gun and fire. His hand went up and he brought it down and fired again. “T didn't wait any longer, but ran out of the house to meet Mrs. Reef. When I saw she was all right I went for a phone. I had gone about 10 steps when I heard the last shot.” Bontman'’s body was taken to the county morgue. Learn and Mrs. Reef, after she had recovered from her fright, went to a telegraph of- fice and sent telegrams to Boatman's relatives. He was the father of five chil- dren. Freda, 12, the oldest, is with Mrs, Boatman's sister, Mrs, Hetirt etta Williams, in Yakutat, Alaska. Chris, 10, and Willie, are with other relatives at Taku Harbor, Alas- ka. Boatman's father, Andrew, and a brother are somewhere in the in- terior of Alaska, where they haye been prospecting for gold for 18 years. Mrs. D. J. Burch, a sister of Boat- man, is the only relative Uying in this state. She resides at White Bluffs, in Benton county. Mrs. Reef is 55. She came here to care for Mrs. Boatman during the latter's illness, from a farm near Hartford, Wash. She said she would remain in charge of the two Boat- man children until some of thelr relatives arrive here. “Boatman got religion, that's what aja it,” gaid Learn, “He wag cragy on religion, poor fellow. He was the best man to his family and everybody else you ever saw when he was right. Never heard him speak a cross word in all the time J knew him.” either of the Boatman tots real- ized what had happened. Five min. utes after the police found them they were playing happily on the floor of the Learn kitch: But “Wolf,” Boatman's balf-mala- [mute dog, tugged at his chain near the top of the steps, softly moaning. Boatman’s housekeeper, state, in New York, Chicago, Balti-|knows that most of them will be] whom Boatman attempted to Cleve-|turned into beverage by the pur-| shoot before turning the gun on himself.—Photos by Price & Carter, Star staff photog- IN TRAGEDY JASKS END OF CARLINE SUIT Dismissal Claiming that the furore of the ¥treet railway controversy, instl- gated in February by 8. B, Asin and 13 other taxpayers against the city, has spent Maelf without result, Charles T. Donworth, representing the corporation counsel's office, asked Judge J. 'T. Ronald Saturday to dismiss the whole matter, The motion, however, could not be reached before adjournment time and was carried over on the motion calendar. Efforts will be made to have it heard early next week in de partment No. 1 of the superior court, Th ers’ city argues that the “taxpay- have not yet made Stone & ster defendants to their suit, in spite of the fact that Judge Ronald jhos ruled they should do #0. MARINE STRIKE? "NONE SUCH HERE Ships Sail Fully Manned by Non-Unionists That the marine strike does not exist as far as the port of Seattle local steamship operators. The steamship City of Seattle was fully manned by # non-union deck lerew, 4t was announced by the Pa jeific Steamship company, and was weheduled to sail for Alaska early jin the day. No difficulty ts being experienced by the shipping board in getting men ’ to man their vessels, it was declared. who, crazed with grief OVEF In o Wire to shipping board officials his wife's death, killed him-|t Washington Friday, R. M. Semmes, district manager for the shippirg board, reported as follows: “Labor conditions this port pro- greasing yery satisfactorily. Strike amounts to nothing here. “Engineers private companies re |turning requesting positions. “Applications fer positions con stantly reaching Wis office from en- gineers. “Some men who left ships at be sinning of strike now seeking to re fturn. “No further cases of violence. “All departments beside engineers satisfactory ag heretofore.” The Pacifie American Steamship association and the Shipowners of the Pacific Coast have announced that they will not confer or negotiate with the Marine Engineers’ Bene ficial association as at present or ganized. Federal Judge Jeremigh Neterer till has under advisement the gov- ernment’s application for a perman- jent injunction against the six marine anions involved in the strike. Funeral services for Mra. & D. Porter, of Richmond Highlands: Home Undertaking Co. chapel, 2 p. m. Sunday. Burial in Washellj, WATER SHUTOFY NOTICE ! Water will be shut off on Rail | Toad ave. between Vine st. and Railroag aye. and Western ave. and on Elliott aya. between Broad st. and Bay st., Sunday, June 12, from 9 a. m. to 3:36 p. m. | | | i SATURDAY, JONE 11, 1921. Thhe te Michael John Nolan, the “Alpha Wiz” at the University of Washington. Nolan startled the world a few days ago by answering correctly every question in the brain- racking Alpha intelligence test ‘in less than the required time, He made a perfect score of 212, some- thing no man had eper before ac- complished. The Alpha test és the larmy test by which officer material ts selected. It’s the toughest exami | nation known, not barring Edison's famous questionnaire. Nolan is 42. He is a Canadian overseas veteran and member of the American L gion, He ig @ federal board student at the U BRITISH FIGHT POLISH FORCE Push Way Out of Trap and Poles Flee BY CABL D. GROAT OPPEIN, Upper Silesia. June 11.— British soldiers and Foiish irregulars clashed near Malapane late yester- day, according to reports received here. The British detachment was am bushed, but fought is way out of |the trap with oaly “minor camal- | Ues.” No estimate was made of the casualties suffered by the Poles, who fed aftér the British had taken the tnitiative. ‘The effect the incident would have on the general situation could not be ascertained at allied headquarters. Malapane is 15 miles directly east of Oppein, on the river of the seme name, and is slightly to the west- ward of the Korfanty lize. the body of Mra. Courtland Sunnyside, was exhumed amine the vital poisoning. No evidence te support 4 murder was found. Mrg. Leech died 19 days ago. 1 { “NOW PLAYING First Time in Seattle the big of daring in Mexico. HERBERT RAWLINSON Episode Eleven “THE SON OF TARZAN” —e HIGH JAPANESE OFFICIALS HERE |Pay City Brief Early Momn- ing Visit High Japanese statesmen, tn this country on a tour of Investigation, |who arrived in Seattle eartp today, were met at the train by a Seattle welcoming committee headed by J. D. Lowman, who is particularly com reant with the Japanese because of bis frequent trips to Japan. They were taken to the New Washington, where they were enter tained at breakfast. Later they left for Tacoma, where they were enter- tained at lunch by the Japanese as sociation there. Tonight they are to be guents of the city of Tacoma at the Tacoma hotel. They will return to Seattle late tonight Sunday they will be taken for an auto tour of Seattle by local Japanese, ht members of the Japencse parliament and two secretaries of the house, or diet, are in the visiting party. ere Japanese Officials Ask Less Jingoism PORTLAND, Ore, June 11.—“The people of Japan and America need |a better understanding of each other. There should be less jingoism on both sides of the Paéific.” de clared members of the Japanese diet, jon their way today from Portland to Seattle The eight Nipponese legislators are on a tour of the United States, and bave just reached the Nort west after an extended in G fornia. They made only a brief stop in Portland on their way to Puget Sound cities, eee No U. S.-Jap War Now, Says Belgian ‘There will be no war between Japan gnd the United States in the Present generation, according to th prediction of Lemaire de Wa D'Hermajie, Belgian charge d'affaires in Tokyo tor the last eight years, who is in Seattle Saturday. “The Japanese government is sincere in its efforts to promote lasting peace for the Pacific powers,” he says. Shoots Sweetheart and Slays Self CHEYENNE, Wyo, June 11.— cide here Thursday night. Attending physicians stated today that the young women has a chance for recovery. HH ” He bat enllek for v letic star, in i pony Fil fh “Diamonds Adrift” An exciting and colorful story, laid along the California coast and down “THE FAKER’” A thrilling Detective Flynn drama in 2 acts, featuring