The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 9, 1921, Page 1

(|THE TRUNK OY, if you are thinking of crime as a career, consider the They found it.. With a flimsy clue to work on, a whole large lake to baffle their efforts with a skeptical population to ridicule such an absurd attempt, they went doggedly ahead— AND FOUND THE TRUNK. The trunk con- Mahoney trunk! and 1s 5a game you cannot win at—for long. Sooner No mi Crime Capt. Tennant, who was laughed at for his persistence, has the thanks of the community tained the body—damning evidence of murder. There, boy, is the material for some thought. It proves again that organized society is more clever, more certain than any criminal. or later the guilty will be found out. deed can be committed so subtly and so care- rie but some little telltale clue is left. coming to about and tice must ; { law will be him today. He knew what he was he did not permit the jibes of the marshmallow minds to divert him from his purpose. A characteristic of genius. It’s now for a speedy trial. Swift, stern jus- follow this relentless pursuit. A clear-cut demonstration.ef the Anglo- Saxon’ Ss salutary. Pou CL UBL ciciiiiiitiiianietiiiitisns ictiecstrecect ie rise liriiiiisenicistiieccieaineercireecerectineccestss Mttreectemsemttestereettereentesettecsrseretraccrstesrsesetsensstests aN nnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnanponarnpnapmpprrprrpanopaanmbbipaabann arp papa Paste this mail ib te you in the Bast attle’s highest gust 8 was 77 At noon August 9 it wag 62, and Tonight fair; mor erly winds, on a posteard and r sweltering friends Tell them that Se- temperature Au 7. Lowest was 58. Wednesday, erate west- ‘Greetings: It’s a cool day that _ Gentleman’ released from SpAnish SEATTLE VESSEL ADRIFT! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congroes March 3, 1819. Per Your, by Mall, $5 to $9 SEATTLE, WASH., TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 192 Rest Dx ¢ Oe iil SISTER ON State Tax on Income Advocated Senator Rockwell Says It Is Solution of All Tax Problems TO HELP REAL ESTATE THUGS BRUTALLY ‘ATTACK WOMEN i | Two Pretty Victims Are Dragged Into Brush, Beaten and Robbed Mystery surrounds the case of two pretty women whe. were at- Mah | oney’s Face Study in Emotion | Reporters Visit Accused! Man in Jail; Queer | Changes Noted ~ |GIRL FINDS HIM BLASE| TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE RILL CONFESSION Fal Prisoner Bridegroom Sweated Tennant, Refuses to Tell Mrs. Delores Johnson, sister er of Ji James E. Mahoney, was tacked shortly before dawn Tursday on the Everett highway, néar for six months for kissing maid | ordered by Captain of Detectives Churles E. Tennant at iting. Humph! We know a fel- ‘who was held for life after doing game stunt. coe Party of 13 home brew drinkers says news item. We judge another ian wmeoeibie.t0.find ae has became of the old. ee 6 oe the board» strat car? . goose JOSH th’ v ming th’ th’t laid me ead ‘Lily Pond and Ide Claire live TODAY'S QUESTION em gringt oft whose head? many ‘friends of Miss Lotta the film alleged star, will be to know she is convalescing her recent nervous breakdown. acting out a scene in her ming post-war ae a ot " the director’: eimai erate a balf, and Miss Weeps was d to do her own thinking for period of time, The terrific ‘ ieee yt va we recall, trust magnate sentenced to the intiary and is among the many d@id not go. . Here lies in pieces my brother Lew, He put too much yeast in a batch of home brew. eee HO, HUM! a swinging bough sat a little bird, And he twittered away in glee, as I listened the thought oc- curred What a lucky bird was he! gladsome song thrilied me thru. and thru, But 1 thought to myself, “By jing. 10 wouldn't be happy if he’d noth- ing to do But sit on a limb and sing?” eee FAMOUS CROSSES Criss Iron ——. Washington ——ing the Delaware. Come a——! ———ing the bar, Grade Peet 5 ‘There are three big questions con- with taxes—how to reduce to pay them, and how to ‘The power behind the “Thrown” is lly a bad debt. . 7 1¢ any woman hed the clothes she | The easier ’ 5 ranted, the rest of the women ould have to go around in bar- . . reformers make the k of being good the less many of weem to care about trying WHY BLACKBERRIES ARE SCARCE Berry pickers are now making hay jle the sun shines.— Newport ‘k.) Independent. ‘Is Helpless Off Reef; Another Liner Ashore; | Fygencers Land SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 9.— ‘The steamer Multnomah, bound. eee een adrift 5a, * of Blunt's reef, of femabolat county, having broken Its pro The vessel ts not in danger, ac cording to a radio received’ by the Merchants’ Exchange. The steamer Quinault, en route from Tacoma to San Pedro, which fe reported to be 68 miles north of Blunt's reef, is’ proceeding to the disabled Multnomah's aid, according to a radio. Tho Multnomah is a vessel of 969 tons of the steam schooner type. She ts carrying a crew of 20, and about "20 passengers, according to reports, SHIP HITS ON BARREN COAST The San Jose went on San Pablo reef yesterday while enroute from Balboa, Canal Zone, to San Fran- cisco, She carried a heavy general jeargo, 66 passengers and a crew of {33 According to the meager advices received here this morning the ves- sel started to shift her position on the reef and was evidently in danger of breaking up or sinking. In an effort to lighten the ship and keep her afloat cargo was be- ing jettisoned from the lower hold, the advices here said It, was believed here that the passegbers were ordered ashore in small boats but that the crew will remain aboard awaiting the arrival of relief shige which probably can- not reach the scene before tomorrow morning. Shipping men pointed out that the situation with the San Jose le not much different than that of the reef, Cal., | slipping from the reef and sinking jas did the Alaska. Landing on the barron shores of Lower California, contains no pleasant prospects for the pas sengers. The country surrounding for » distance of several hundred miles north and south is barren and practically » desert, It abounds with tales of wierd experiences of shipwrecked crews who have wandered for days in search of food, water or signs of human habitations, Many have perished in these wandering». | \WIFE TELLS HOW | | ) { BY M. D. TRACY (United Press” Staff Correspondent) EUREKA, Cal., Aug. 9—Re- sponsibility for the wreck of the steamer Alaska, Saturday night, with a loss of 45 lives, must be determined by others than the local authorities A coroner's jury holding an in- (Turn to Last Page, Golumn 5) steamer Alaska wrecked at Blunt's | Saturday night, and that | the San Jose may be in danger of | HER HERO DIED. That the state of Washipgton | should adopt an income tax of 1 pet | cent In addition to existing revenue measures was proposed by State Sen- ator T. D. Rockwell, speaking Tucs day morning before Gov, Hart's tax investigating committee. “The income tax, I belleve, is the solution of our taxation problem,” Senator Rockwell declared. “Real entate is the very basis of security, id always will be, and it must be Protected. The time will soon be here, i¢ it when a any real estate because of the high taxes on it, “I propose an income tax, with cer. tain exemptions of 1 per cent as a feeler. Even at that low rate it would lower the rates on taxes from | 20 to 25%per cent. When we see just | how much revenue the 1 per cent tax | brings in, ye can then increase the rate to raise the amount of money need.” The senator declared that real es- tate must glways be taxed, but that in time he believed other forms than the income tax would not be neces sary. Only six of the nine members of the committee were present. Ab wentees were Frank D. Oakley, who wae called East; Alex. Polson, of | Spokane, and Robert H. Harlin, Se attle. athan Eckstein presided. Members present were D. W. Two hy, Hoquiam; Geo, M. Elliott, Taco- ma; Peter McGregor, Hdoper; 8. B. L. Penrose, Walla Walla, and W. WY? Robertson, Yakima. A score of citizens, some of them representing civic organizations, were present. Jay Thomas spoke in favor of a state budget law. “With such a law in force.” he said, “we would have saved $70,000 last year in the sheriff's office alone. They exceed ed their quota by that much.” ‘The meeting was to be resumed at 2 p. m. JAPS SURVEY PHILIPPINES: Whee to be) with the Philip. problems that ay Washington. The the Fil ready for seif-gov- ernment? Would we cudanger ourselves by abandoning our most strategic Pacific base bs ‘commission to survey and report on Philippine conditions. William Philip Simms, famous as istands, making » similar survey for The Star, The results ure to you in the following ty and others to come. It's foal | inside stuff, aod full _* timet BY WM. PHILIP SIMS Written Expressely for The Star MANILA, Aug. 9—I am able to state on eabsolutely reliable authority that Japanese have re- cently been seen visiting Fuga, Bataan and other islands of the Phillippines, ‘That in some cases they car ried survey instruments and when. questioned by the natives, replied they were “looking for gold.” “That the points visited by the Japanese were thinly populated and of little or no economic or political value. Fuga is between the Philippines and Formosa, belonging to Japan, GE WOOD VISITS SAME PLACES; COINCIDENCE? What constituted the real motive behind these visits can only be con- Jectured, but that the Japanese are intensely interested in the islands’ defenses and that they consider the Philippines th American vanguard | for whatever Far tern contingen cies that may occur,” ix admitted. Altho Maj. Gen. Leonard Wood now in the Philippines, ie keeping (Turn to Page 5, Column 4) !. Bothell, by three armed and masked thugs, one of whom broke the wrist of Mrs. Jessie Smith, and injured her companion, Mixs Plor- ence Boyd, When taken to the city hospital for treatment later, both girls told a thrilling story of the holdup and the rescue from the bandits, According to Miss Boyd, a nurse, they were driving alone on the highway in s small auto. The thugs stepped from the densq under brush along the road into the path of the auto, flourishing guns. “Stop or wo'll kill you!” said one of the bandits. All three men were masked in black handkerchiefs that bid thelr’ rough treatment, Mies Boyd being bruised Gnd scratched. They struggled desperately with the highwaymen and succecded in freeing themselven, ‘ As they ran to the roadway, screaming, an auto approached, they wad, In the glare of the headlights, the bandits stood for a moment and then ran. At the hospital both victims gave fictitious addremes, Mrs. Smith claiming to live at the Central hotel, and Miss Boyd giving 732 31th ave, N. E., as her address, Pros ovens vs, relrmeses ig ayer Ap mamacenioaes GIRL SEIZED; FORCED INTO MEN’S CLOTHES Clara Newell, 17, a nurse girl, living at Auburn, who was reported attacked Sunday night by four heboes on the road one mile out of Auburn, was found tn the woods late Monday night by Deputies Campbell and Beebe in the company of Thomas Long, hobo, suspected of being one of i the girl's persecutors, She was dressed in overalls and blue shirt, with her hair done up under a cap. She wes frightened beyond expression. The girl is said to have been going to the home of hee uncle in Auburn when at- tacked in front of a hobo camp. She was taken into the woods, robbed of $18 and jewelry and ordered to don the man's apparel provided for her. Two men, also hoboes, reported to Auburn officials Sunday night that four men were attempting to murder a girl in the woods three miles from Auburn. Monday morning Clara Newell was reported missing? Three of the men escaped before the girl was located Monday night. Long, who gives his native state as Illinois, declared he was pro- tecting the girl from the other three. Clara Newell is now being held at the ¢ounty jail with Long as the prosecuting witness. She has not yet recovered enough from her fright to testify. JOBS FOR |, 000, 000 UNEMPLOYED LOOMING BY L, C. MARTIN (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Aug. 9.—Jobs for 1,000,000 idle men will be provided if congress passes the administration's railroad crédits bill, Eugene Myer, head of the war finance corporation, declared today, before the senate interstate commerce commitice in opening hearings on the bill, It would put 200,000 men immediately at work making railroad equip- ment, he said, and by creating a great demand for fuél and other ma- terials would gradually result in reopening of industries at present closed or operating on a reduced basis. Interwoven with the bill's effect on unemployment would be, Myer said: 1. Improvement of the market fo rfarm products. 2. Releasing of “frozen credit” in great amounts for the help of gen- eral business, 3. Advancing of the time when railroad rates can be reduced, 4. Increases in government revenues by reason of an increase’ in general business. MARE ND, Cal, Aug. 9.—The finest sister of them all will officially join Uncle Sam's naval family when the battleship “Cali- fornia” receives her commissioning here tomorrow. At 1:15 p. m. the Stars and Stripes will be run up to the top of the California’s flag mast, the vessel's maiden watch’ will begin pacing the decks, and Captain Ziegmejer takes control on the bridge. It is expected that the vessel's mabden, cruise will take place in October, with either Magdelend bay or \Monolulu as the destination, of the two re- BY S. B. GROFF As soon an the body of Mra. Ma honty had been found, Mahoney was | taken to msolitary cefl in county jall For the first time since his arrest, | Wleetha showed fear. » his cet!. Ww when pe ae and stared nervously thru the bars. The jailer unlocked the door andj told Mahoney to come out, which he aid. “Where are you taking me now?” he asked. The jailer indicated they barred “solitary” cell. Mahoney | staggered, his face going white. Mahoney knew something had| happened. Thruout the evening he paced his cell, his hands gripped tightly behind | hi He was not informed of the finding of the murder trunk until Sheriff Matt Starwich and Jailer | Barr told him, found your wife.” Mahoney's lips twitched spasmod feally; then he recovered his bravado. | “They can’t do any more than hang me!" he said. } A Star reporter went to his cell. | Mahoney continued his pacing, Without looking up, he sald: “T) won't give any interviews tonight.” | “Would you like to know what we found in the trunk, Maponey?" he was asked “No,” he replied, dully; “I—* here | he stopped, and a momentary smile | player over his features. Thruout the night he alternately | paced his cell and sat ‘on the edge of | his bunk, staring thru the bars of his cell. ° BY WANDA VON KETTLER James Mahoney ts feeling fine, He told me so this morning. He sat in his sbirt sleev of bh cot, in the 3 suming his and beans « milk, ike a man with a clear conscience and a healthy appe tite. He glanced up coolly and dats | when I told him I wanted to talk | with him, and said he had nothing to say Then he arose to his six feet, three inches in height, tool a few small| articles of clothing from the steel] bars of his cell and strolled leisurely into the corridor reserved for prison ers in the East Tank, As his 210 pounds of portliness and | his bald head, fringed with brown | fuzz, disappeared from my view, I supposed h 1 gone to escape pub lic Kaze and ‘would not return, But Mahon did return — al! dressed up in a clean white shirt, and decorated in a tie and stickpin He again looked thru the bars at me, coolly ‘and unconcerned, almost | haughtily, and it occurred tome that honey might have been culled a ‘-looking” man, He ts yo ver in appearance than his years-—37—and shows no trace of worry or regret. Lighting a cigaret and adjusting | his tie, he laid down on the cot, then glanced casually over his shoulder thru the t f “I'm feeling fine,” puffed blue smoke “Just fine.” Outside in the corridor a how! and a rumpus broke thru the quiet of the | n in the tank for “des: | abbing at each other with their fists and shouting some- thing about sugar rations—-one tak ing more than his share. “What's all this?” demanded Jatlor Johnse approaching the cells “What's all the racket? Is that man bleeding? . And Mahoney turned to the wall in his blaze attitude and answered “Mahoney, they've | ‘6 and air, | he said, into the " he said, with disgust, “just uuple of boobs having a falling ed again. | 12:30 p. m. Tuesday to be brought to his office for in | view in connection4vith the murder of Mrs. |body was recovered in a tru Monday. This sudden calling of Mrs of Mahoney for an ney, whi nk found in Lake Union . Johnson followed the “e our and ia half in Tennant’s office i an effort to bredk him down and get a confession. For the first time since known positively Tu that Mrs, Mahoney’s diam necklace, mond were oor] in Maho! session when he was_ first jailed. They are valued at $25,000. Pale as a spectre, trying to appear nonchalant by puffing at a cigaret that almost dropped from his lips? Mahoney was led into Tennant’s of- fice at 11 a m. Tennant declared: fesnion!” and closed the door. Inside with the prisoner and his nemesis, the detective chief, were Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas and | Deputy Prosecutor T. H. Patterson. ‘The body of Mrs. Mahoney was re- covered Inte Monday afjernoon. It, was contained in a trunk taken from Lake Union, HOUR'S SWEATING FAILS TO BREAK HIM After an hour's sweating, “Maho- | ney, was still obdurate but discomp- | posed. “You've got the body. What more do you want? Why question me?” he asked Tennant. “You owe it to your mother and sister and to the city to be a man| and come clean,” replied the detec- tive. Urged by reporters to say something, Mahoney utered an epigram: “Reporters are damn fools.” Tennant got a drink of water and | closed the doors again, Mahoney| was staring sullenly at the floor, Half an hour latgr the doors open Mahoney was seen puffing a cigaret at Tennant's table. |had not confessed “Tm said. have been for a long while, I suppose they'll take me to Walla @Valla and hang me, It will kill my mother? That's all 1 ‘care | for—my mother and relatives, Tt better for me # folks if Vd died 10 yeers ago. Life is cheap!” He turned towards Prosecutor Douglas, an overseas major. “You know that, if you were in ” he added. I don't care to go to the morgue, I don't care ‘about looking at dead bodies. I'm not "he told Tennant, on’t care to discuss ve case at all.” His nerve seemed shattered. *pur ling the grilling he did not once men- tion the name of his murdered wife, nor refer to her. Nor was he asked directly at any time whether he had killed her, Mahoney's attorney,“Lee Johnston, was at headquarters during the |morning, but did not ask to see the | prisoner. “The fact that they found a body not the body—means nothing,” said Joh n, “This must be threshed out at the trial,” Prosecutor Douglas told Mahoney, in answer to a question, that the! state would probably arraign him Thursday. Tennant then sent for Mrs. Johné! son Mahoney will be charged with first | gree murder, Tennant said He will probably mot be tried be ptember, when the Jury seq- ens, according to Prose: Douglas. “L will make a special effort,” said | Douglas, “to have the case placed! at the head of the list. This brut murderer must be quickly tried.” After an uneasy night im hig cell de “1M get a con- i He} ‘ utor | Mahoney’s arrest it became WHO WINS REWARD OFFERED TO FINDER. or part of it? “I was the first one to see the Mahoney trunk,” declares Mra. J. | E, Barnett, 3218 Fuhrman ave, “I saw it floating down Union bay and called the police department immediately. I received no answer, and so I called The Star, I have two women wit nesses, It is true that Mrs. Barnett called The Star—The Star notify- ing the police, A reward of $2,000 has been of. | fered for its find, in the county jail, Mahoney waa taken out at 10:30 Tuesday morning: by Tennant and Detective Lieuteme ant Justice. As he entered police headq ‘handcuffed, he paled and lighted as cigaret. He stared at the floor, — never once lifting his eyes to meet |those of detectives and poll | who stood in a circle—some eres hs them—all about him. In view of the finding of the body, Tennant said he considered a cons fession highly probable. | STOMACH ANALYZED | FOR POISON Professor William M. Dehn, chem ist at the university, is making an analysis of the contents of Mrs, Ma joney's stomach to determine wheth- r she was doped with chloral before. ‘being beaten to death with a hams |mer and stuffed into the murder | trunk | Mahoney received word of the finds | ing of the trunk in sullen silence last night, The body, in the trunk, was found n Lake Union ship canal at 4:30 py esterday, hile a throng of detectives, po lice and members of the prosecuting attorney's office’ gathered in the morgue, the pitiful remains of what had been Mrs, Mahoney were lifted {from the death trunk to a marble | slab. The remains were positively | identified by her wedding ring and | her false teeth, which the slayer had |failed to remove, committing the usual fatal slip of the murderer, | MORBID rye | WATCH LAKE | Water Panes and leaking in every | joint, the murder trunk was taken from the lake to the morgue, While | the crowd stared with morbid intens | sity, Coroner William H. Corson, ag | sisted by his deputies, drew back the | (turn to Rack Page, Column 2) | BELLINGHAM— P. Reilly, farmer, purchases physical property of defunct Journal Publishing Co, for | $3,000 es | The Star Classified Ads ; represent the most con- i] servative, helpful and logical means yet em- || ployed of making known || your desires for buying, || selling and exchanging.