The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 13, 1921, Page 1

‘COUNTY COMMISSION ACCUSED TH LATE EDITION ) x 6 lil ‘ BY SAM B. GROFF (Police Reporter for The Star) This is the complete story the state’s star witnesses in the Mahoney trunk murder case are expected to tell the jury when they take the stand before a courtroom thronged with people here September 12. It is the story the court reporters will be writing for their papers that afternoon. It is the story of how the trunk, with the body of Mrs. Kate Mahoney in it, was taken from the Mahoney apartment at 409 Denny way to the houseboat operated by Howard & Son, at the foot of E. Northlake ave., the night of the murder, April 16. It is the story upon which James E. Mahoney's con- viction and life admittedly hang in the balance. The complete story was learned for the first time today and was corroborated in detail by Captain of De- tectives Charles Tennant. Here it is as it is expected to be enacted in the courtroom: e SUDGE—Call the first witness, PROSECUTOR—Call P. C. Pfell to the stand Witness takes stand. 4 PROSECUTOR—Mr. Pfeil, what is your address and business? Seattle Transfer Co. PROSECUTOR—You answer phone calls at night? ” WITNESS—-Yes, sir. ARPA ARAR AAD LLP A WITNESS—Address, 4 Connecticut st; business, night man for the PROSECUTOR—0n the night of April 16, do you recall a man phon- Botered as Second Clase Matter May 3, ~ SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, AU On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise 1999, at the Postoffice at Beattie, Wash., GUST 12 ing for an expressman to move a t WITNESS—Yos, sir, The man expressman to move @ trunk from He called twice after that, asking said he was in a hurry. WITNESS... Yos; sent Mr. Jorgen: ¥ orgenson takes stand. ROSECUTORMr WITNESS. at 409 De WITNESS... Yea, sir, WITNESS Well just before midnight quite taf—big man. PROSECUTOR—Where was the WITNESS It was in the hall, BROSECUTOR—Was it open? WITNESS--No, sir, PROSECUTOR WITNESS—No, DEFENSE CO I went to the sir, NSEL—Just doesn't know whether it was Mahoney or not. PROSECUTOR.” man as “a man.” WITNESS—Al! right. The man there was something in the trunk t It was a man. PROSECUTOR--What did you do? j WITNESS—Well, I got hold of © got hold of the other, and we carri truck PROSECUTOR—How heavy was WITNESS —Tolerable. ROSECUTORThat will do, Bailiff, call Mr Jorgenson, what do you do? I drive truck for the Seattle Transfer Co PROSECUTOR Are you the expreseman who went to move a trunk ny way the night of April 167 | PROSECUTOR--Tell just what you did and saw, There was a man there in the hall He said he wanted a trunk moved. it wasn't, It wos closed and roped. You didn’t see what was inside the trunk? Mahoney seemed— runk? phoned three times, Wanted an an apartment at 409 Denny way. when the expressman was coming ISECUTOR—You nent an expressman? won, * Alvin Jorgenson. place on Denny way and it was He was trunk? moment! I object. The witness Mr, Jorgenson, just refer to the seemed nervoun, hat wasn't right I got suspicious booze, I thought. one end of the trunk and the man | jed it down stairs and put it in my the trunk? ome ‘Bank of * * i\Little Seattle | * * * * \ ri3 lee ANDY, YOU SAID A TWO-HOUR SPEECH RIGHT E form: about a meeting of club jeter pavidiog. the principal tople ‘conversation has alw thing concerping ivi Pigovernment. When he ‘of men at their club either talking a D excellent record as @ home-run maket.— Paulding, (0.) Republica ee A number of scientists are trying to organize an institution to spend $100,000 a year to make a count of -ealories that workingmen should car- ry in their dinner pails. Iirst catch your calories. Count ‘em later, eee See story on inside page. Pennies Looted Girl | Destitute F amil * % * 8 Real Philanthropist * * * * * y Aided |that the murdered man was Russell, | expected him to get to Canada, how- Caught by -( | Bore Children; Wife Took ’Em Feminine Clothing Love of Women’s Finery Is) Undoing of Oregon Den- tist, Murder Suspect | CAPTURED IN CANADA: PORTLAND, Aus. 13—Dr. R. M. Brumfield, wanted in Rose- burg, for the alleged murder of Dennis Raxseti on Jaly 13, has been captured in Calgary; ta, Canada, according to advices reoeh ved here by the Portland po- ‘ The dispatch stated that Brumfield at first attempted to conceal his iden- tity under @ heavy beard and by‘ wearing the ‘rough clothes of a farm laborer, | When taken by Northwest mount- ed police, he gave the name of Nor- man Whitney, and his profession that of a farm laborer. He later ad- mitted his identity, however, and, ac: | cording to word received here, will| — not fight extradition to the United) States and will return to Roseburg | to face murder charges which have been filed aguinst him. “Dr. Brumfield will be brought here to stand trial as soon as we can| get a man to Calgary to bring him back,” Distriet Attorney Neuner told the United Press here today. “There never has been any doubt and Brumfield is the man we have! been after for a month. We hardly| | ever.” under the Act of Congress March 2, That she bore him two children whom he gave to his legal wife, was the charge made late yexte: against bile dealer here. Miss Phillips al of Stoffel and that the latter's legal wife took the two children because whe had none of her own. ver’s first instance of a husband dividing his time between his wife and his “love mate” by mutual consent of the women, police said. Rive her children up, she said. before the juvenile court and laid the case They advised her to get a divorce so Stoffel chuld marry Mise Phillips and legitimitize the birth of the two children to do this, it was stated, because ot her love for Stoffel. will attempt to straighten out the tangle. Wounded — “Buddies” OF MISUSING FERRY FUNDS : The Seattle 1879, Por Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE THE STORY OF THE MAHONEY TRUNK AS THE EXPRESSMAN WILL TELL IT ON THE STAND PROSECUTOR— How heavy? WITNESS—Pretty fairly heavy; tho not so heavy as some I've car ried, About 190 pounds, maybe. PROSECUTOR—Then what happened? WITNESS—1 got in the seat, The man got in beside me and told me to drive to Lake Union of KB. Northlake PROSECUTOR..Did you do sot WITNESS... Yes, pir. PROSECUTOR—Thet@what? WITNESS—We got down and I helped the man carry the trunk down to the lake shore, PROSECUTOR...You helped him? WITNESS——Yen, sir, 1 didn't like the {dea, but I did it, it wan whisky in the trunk, that’s what I thought, PROSECUTOR—What bh ned then? WITNESS—There Was a boat-—a little white rowboat—and the man said he wanted to put the trunk in it. So I helped him put the trunk in the boat, near the buck end. PROSECUTOR All right, what next? WITNESS—Iie rowed the boat out Into the lake He rowed out and that was the until DEFENSE COUNSEL—Just a minute, now! PROSECUTOR—You did what, then? WITNESS—Oh, then I went back and got on my truck and drove off. Howard & Son's canoe factory, at the foot ave. I thought It was dark. last 1 saw of him or the trunk, Whether Jorgenson will be able to identify the found in Lake Union this week, with Mrs. Mahoney's body in it, as the trunk he helped move, is not admitted by Tennant, Whether the expreasman can pay, poritively, that Mahoney is the man who rowed the trunk out into the lake, Tennant does not ray Upon. Jorgenson'’s testimony hinges the entire case against Maho “Love. Mate”’ Charge Is Heard at Meeting trunk that was DENVER, Colo, Ang. 13 day by Miss Nellie Fhillips, 2 George Stoffel, autom levue to Discuss $25,- 000 Item \INJUNCTION IS SOUGHT lexes that xhe is the “love mate” The case brings to light Den Miss Phillips does not want to Recently Mra, Stoffel appeared before court officials. She refused || More than 200 citizens crowded | the hall and “panned” the commis sioners individually and as a body. |The docks were built, it was charged, (to enhance the value of property owned by certain commissioners. The new ferry lease resolution was bitterly attacked, because under its terms no ferry is provided for Bellevue. * A sum of money was votedto cov er the expense of an injunction guit to be brought against the commis. sioners to stay them from enforcing the terms of the lease. M. A. Reese presided at the meet) ing. Abong the speakers were Wm. Raine, W. K. Hall, Mrs. Emma Bige- low, Mrs. Nelson, Mrs. Sarah Rog ers and R. T. Reid. The juvenile court probably Hobble In Two Hundred Gather in Bel-| mmenpsens: memati steer ener _ heh tet tS IR te RO ORR NN WOMAN REVEALS ~ DEATH THREAT © Talked to Alleged Slayer of Belton Ken- nedy en Route West; Said He’d “Get” Certain Party if He Didn’t Treat “Friend of Mine” Right Mrs. Madalynne Obenchain, held as material witness in th jambush murder of her france, J, Beldon Kennedy, while the | two were searching for a “good luck” penny she had pre | viously buried near th: Los Angeles broker's suburban | tage. Left—Arthur C. Burch, “good pal’ of Mrs. O | chain and former college chum, also held. Right—i | Obenchain, her former husband, who divorced her so that | might marry Kennedy. He is now hurrying to her defet | *# * * * & e # Bh History of Tragic Kennedy Myste LOS ANGELES, Aug. 13.—The mysterious murder of J. Kennedy while tn her presence brings to tragic conclusion the cycle of handsome, fascinating, divorced Madalynne Connor Ob one time belle of Northwestern University. Of the three men who have played prominent part in Mrs. chain's heart history, two are involved in the tragedy; Kennedy, avowed first love, to whom she was affianced at-the time of hig der, and Arthur Bureh, her college chum and admirer, who wags and interrogated by police, The third, Ralph B. Obenchain, her former husband and pi Chicago attorney, rushed to her aid and comfort when she as material witness to the shooting of her sweetheart trom at his subarben cottage here. Tare - ‘The thfeads Of various affection which the thrée men ‘wound mi Mrs. Obenchain’s heart while all were in the college town of Ill, and which from that time on were interwoven, promise to” entangled in the aftermath of Kennedy's slaying. | Madalynne Obenchain had expected to become the bride of J. Kennedy, 26-year-old insurance man of Los Angeles, who, while: Evanston, had paid her ardent court, but “for somé reason,” as says, she married Ralph Obenchain. She says she found she still loved Kennedy, and because of importunings secured an uncontested divorce from Obenchain in cago. Objections of Kennedy's parents delayed their conten marriage, after her arrival in Los Angeles, OBENCHAIN, THE HUSBAND WHO GAVE HER UP “I still love Madalynne above everything or anyone in the says Ralph B. Obenchain, who, when his wife told him she co happy with no one but Kennedy, consented to free her thra after three years of wedded life. ‘ Obenchain, then president of the senior class at Northwestern 1 versity, met Madalynne Connor at a fraternity dance. “He said he would always take me back, after we were 4 Mra, Obenchain asserts. Folks, meet Seattle’s youngest philanthropist, Miss G Anna Lustig, who gave the entire contents of her penny bank, $7.17, to The Star fund for the benefit of a destitute family. Dr. Brumfield risked his ih erty and drew himself into the shadow of the gallows for—a box of feminine underwear, The box, shipped to Seattle, was later returned to Roseburg and was regarded a5 a ruse to throw authorities off the track. } | ace (Turn to Page 4, Column 4) WHOOPEE! IT’S @rought in England has eed an increase in food prices in hotels, We recall that both food and room prices went up in the ho‘els when the drought hit this country and closed the bars. oe IRLS, IF YOU avs p in the ra that Henry | ™ust be returned, Judge ‘ord’s profit js $199 a car. And no Soubt everybody in the United States except the other auto makers and old | Ben Karr is sorry it isn't $200. eee ling. Johns Hopkins-hospital has decid ed that no surgeon shall charge more | nm $1,000 for an operation ‘per- | ed there. Going to make doe-| who cut patients cut fees. } eee Another of the many things we can’t understand is why mer- chants have fur sales and fur- niture sales at the same time. Why not furnaces, too? | o-* office. the great man. ‘A New York company that has a) chain of candy stores haa cut the) price of candy 50 per cent, saying | the profit was 200 per cent, Grew! tired of counting the money. | ee A FLIMSY SORT OF A REASON | Wednesday was the regular meet-| ing night for the Farmers’ union, but | no meeting was held because no one came—Lawrence, Kan. Journal: | ‘World. Mink > “gay,” postcards J. 8, brickmason and I want to tell you ‘that our union has the greatest re- | Cleveland.” Tay team in Cleveland | Republicans in Washington ‘ky | they wili abolish all’ the “nuisance” taxes. What other kind of a tax iy on my face,” she said. | “I'm al | JILT, YOU LOSE} CINCINNATI—A Jilted woman ol entitled to keep the engagement ring, but if she does the jilting the token | Jill longed for wealth and worldly experience. want to go out to sea and feel the winds of the world Her poor little heart beat wildly when the haughty Tallentyre began showing her attention, realized in what cruelly different worlds she and a man like Tallentyre moved. How Jill finally entered the exciting social whirl and what strange experiences befell her there is won- derfully told in Ruby Ayres’ great novel, “WINDS OF THE WORLD,” which will be published in ‘The Star. This story will move you deeply. Read It in The Star, a Chapter a Day, Beginning Wednesday \ lili onlin Nie sli to show up for his exhibition boxing | Yeatman |Mateh with Jack Norman. Alderman | ruled in the suit of George Graham John Lyle substituted for the miss to recover a ring from Hilda Sick: |ing pugilist. lout the referee with a wild swing. Jill’s Poor Little Heart Beat Wildly Jill was a humble stenographer in a great. man’s Tallentyre, wealthy club man, was a client of IS PUNCH WAS WILD BUT HARD CHICAGO.—Tommy Moran failed) “Gosh all fishhooks, lookit that boy’s mouth?” “Jiminy crickets, lookit Tubby eat.” “Oh, gosh, lookit Skinny dive into that huckleberry pie!” ‘These wer echoed for nearly The alderman knocked a mile \nual ptenic of The Star carrier boys. races and tugs of war ‘Three hogsheads of lemonade dis: appeared down the gullets of vo! lelous boydom and then it necessary to replenish the barrels. |Ham sandwiches, 30 hunks of beef, |q million or 90 peanuts, a wagon “y the on. Yet she of pie, disappeared before slaughts of the newsies. Ernest Swartout, carrier at 85th \by rolling a peanut on the groun¢ |50 yards with a toothpick held be tween his teeth. Parris, Star was the generalisaima, « ' A few days ago a man who gave his name as Norman Whitney wrote NEWSIES’ DAY! few of the cries that around |Madrona beach Saturday when the | | big ple-eating contest opened the an | When John Cole, route 309, ab |state, only two of the disabled vet {gaged in wheel barrow, crab, shoe was | the doughboy. lload of ice cream cones, 1,157 pounds | and Greenwood, won the peanut race circulation manager, convention, ,% sli aneciiiilitiaienhaaccgaps sicbat DEMAND JAPS BE DECLARED WHITE Full American Citizenship to} With Song on Lips, Men| Crippled in Battle Gather Here STATE CONCLAVE OPENS Be Asked On crutcnes and with canes, 40 “ war-scarred buddies limped into city| WASHINGTON, council chambers Saturday, singing | United Stat of Eva worker she ms Aug. 13.—The supreme court will be thelr song of songs, “Madelon,” and|*#ked to declare the Japanese al} in Nev began the second annual state con.| “tte Face and this entitled to s -{ American citizenship. vention of the Disabled Veterans of} A request will be made, in the - the World War. case known as Takao Ozawa versus # Councilman Pniip Tindal, athe United States, in which the pe. Los his| defers naturalizea| ©. Bu chain, titioner is seeking to establish rights to become a American, wounded veteran, decorated and a member of the D. V. W. W., made an jdespite the handicaps brought back| the Japanese race are white; that |from the battlefields, the inhabitants of northern Japan| would Of the 40 delegates, representa-|are mostly descendants of the Ainus tives of 16 chapters thruout the|and in the south of the Yamatos. gonne, St. Mihiel, Chateau-Thierry|are Mongolian and Malayan types| —The and the Somme. among the Japanese, but will con When the roll was ealled none|tend that the race as a whole is were A, W. O. Lima the lif previo was ™ today. The w ‘e thing for | white. HE FOOLED ’EM ALL AND LIVED CHICAGO,—Mrs, Ella Levy should have been dead within 24 hours after she swallowed a hatpin, doctors said. seven-inch pin was removed anths after she swallowed it will recover. | ‘The convention will plan a definite , | program for the year of 1922, seeking -fogislation for the benefit of the dis- bled war veterans; the betterment of hospitalization, “and co-operation with sister organizations, including nthe American Legion and Veterans \of Foreign Wars, of which many are 4} members, -| F. W. Woodbridge, adjutant of the state department of the D, V, W. Wa banker, Mrs. with E All the returned from his vacation, he spent motoring thru California, reat wore khaki, 4 i ala phi ie er abate dnb eid Lantitaaieninn dnntipninorn Arthur C. Burch, 25, is the son of Rey, Wm. A. Burch, retired m Ill, and is the divorced husband of a well-known cht He alsd“was attentive to Madalynne ‘Connor b nstgn, of that city urried Obench n, Burch came to Los Angeles, as he avers, in resporise to a from Mrs, Obenchain, who says he has never been more than @ ‘i and that their relations were entirely platonic, Burch assumed the name “Mr. Obenchain” after his arrival in Los! and left the city the day after the murder. brought back to Los Angeles and was held during p investigation, ada * ¥* ES, Ang. 13.—The demand that Arthor ne Oben- % AN’ ‘ad reh indicted for th address of welcome. * Ozawa will be represented before} John Belton Kennedy, be tried He commended them and their or. |the court by George W. Wickersham, | together, it was intimated today. former attorney general Previously it had been thought nizath pr their b viously ganization ial heir brave efforts tol Wickersham will argue that the! probable that each would demand fit themselves again .for work, |root stocks and dominant strain of| a separate trial in order that the verdict In the case of the one not conflict with the other, and that the same jury would not sit in both cases. Both of these are said to be Cauca. rently, \sorbed a huckleberry ple in the fast |erans rank aw ‘“shavetalls,” as their|ian, the latter being of Mediterran a Bit: rid BR |time of 43% seconds, beating the |buddies say, They received respect: | ean stock, Burch and Mad plane ers Sine | world's record, the \ picnic started |ful greetings from their “superiors,” | Ozawa will attack the section ot| *.™ trl yr ‘ with a bang. the remaining 38 buck privates, cor-|the al statutes prohibiting cit-| * COmMOR VEN Freckle-faced, tow-headed, bow-|porals, sergeants and one captain. |izenship for the Mongolian race. liegeed newsboys swam, dove, en There were fighters from the Ar-| Wickersham will admit that there LOS ANGELES, Cal , Aug. 13. district attorn has produced a witness to testify that Arthur C. Burch threate ed le of us to th nurdered, it de eloped here itness is Mrs, James C. War- ren, wife of a Santa Barbara, Cal, Warren became acquainted rch on a Los Angeles bound transcontinental train. “rm going out a certain party we mine right, If he doesn’t, I here to see that is a friend of n go- In the shoe Jacing contest Jean/and Roy Peterson, delegate from| California druggists are using an| ing to ‘get’ him.” Cecearelli won, Stanford Carter came | Tacoma chapter, are slated for the average of 100 gallons of alcohol un-| This is the statement Mrs, War in first in the crab race. commanders’ office to be made va-|der federal permit each three} ren is said to have informed the dis- During the morning most of the|cant by the retiring stage com: |montlis, w Seattle druggists draw| trict attorney's office that Burch kids, while sed in the con-|mander, Frank Quinn, H. R. Lang-|an average of only 16 gallons, accord-|confided in her during the trip. tests, dispe nselves in the|tree will retire as state treasurer, |ing to Sylvester A. Moore, federal] ‘The district attorney's office re. warm waters of the lake. Howard| Langtree was the only “gob” at the|prohibition agent. Moore has just| fused to enlarge upon the evidence which; which Mrs, Warren is known to have laid before the officials. Annoyance * * * was expressed that the substance her testimony leaked out. Sg Ralph Obenchain, divoreed hus | band of the “beautiful Madalynne,’ today jumped forward as the figure in the murder mystery. x Whether Madalynne Obei now under indictment for the der, will make a statement she says will free her and clear i mystery, depends on the advice of | her former husband who is to arrive: here from Chicago tomorrow. Word from the Santa Fe train. which Obenchain is coming here that the course he would advise his wife © follow depended on the o versation had with her on his Obenchain is an attorney and f ts possible he will be associated in the defense of his former wife. With Obenchain was Rey, A. Wy Bureh, of Evanston, Tll., father of” Arthur Courtney Burch, also under” indictment for the murder, Word reaching here shows his faith in his” son's innocence still holds. Re: “Am coming at once, Keep strength.” * This was ‘the simple message of” promise and encouragement recety by Madalynne Obenchain early today - from her former husband, Ralph R. Obenchain, now speeding westward on a transcontinental limited, Madalynne visibly recovered her spirits and poise on receipt of this — telegram, the first definite asaurance: that the man whom she deserted for, love of another was still steadfast, d Bureh, on the other hand, aps | peared shaken and more worried tos day, as strand after strand in net of circumstantial evidence being woven about him.