The Seattle Star Newspaper, August 17, 1921, Page 12

WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER CONFESSED Man Reveals 16 Murders; Members of Assassins’ Club Being Sought NEW YORK, Aug. 1 New York detectives took up the search today in a dozen cities for members of “The Good Killers.” The search be gan after Bartola Fontana, a barber admitting a murder committed by himself, implicated a band of six ab Jeged bired assassins in 16 killings. Seven victims fell in New York and nine in Detroit, Fontana said Unfolding the plots and machina tions of the gang which he said earned the name of “The Good Kill ers,” Fontana said its career b with a murder in Brooklyn i5 years From that murder sprang a line of stabbings and polsonings which made the gang all powerful in the Italian underworld and brought it hundreds of thousands of dollars. Wealthy Italians with enemies they wished put out of the way have given the gang valuable commis sions, Fontana sald. The usual method of the gang, he @aid, was to obtain control of youth ful Italians before they leave Eu rope. In various ways they worked on the unsuspecting immigrant, Fontana said, telling him that “the gang owns the United States,” and he must obey orders. In a matterof-fact way Fontana @eclared that the immigrant then was the tool to commit the paid murder. If the immigrant objected, force was used. Whether he obeyed or not his life was forfeited, Fon tana declared. Six other Itallans were arrested on Fontana’s story and were held today on suspicion of being connected with the Caizzo murder. | SIZES 2'/2 to 4 HERE'S MORE ABOUT | which he ts charged | Rrumfield has admitted his iden tity to Sheriff Starmer and professes to have completely forgotten the use of his alias, Norman Whitney, accord ing to the officers, The real or felgned attitude of “in sanity," tho apparent as Brumfield was led thru the gaping crowds at jthe Union station here, waa not much in evidence ag the mild-man. nered man sat at a table in the din ing car and ate what any one would consider « hearty breakfast. Other diners were scarcely aware {of being on almost intimate dining | terms wtih the alleged author of one of the most sensational crimes which has stirred police annals in this state Jin years, Leg irons and manactes, } od holding the prisoner secure: }ly against eseape, were not in evi {dence in the diner, altho Brumfield wore manacles as he alighted from the train at Portland, | WON'T TALK ABOUT CRIME Brumfield was willing to talk about everything except the crime, and ap- peared to be in edimmand of his fac ulties, When a questioner touched upon the crime, the prisoner made no attempt to indicate that he was | puazied, He merely Mashed a glance at the questioner from his opaque black eyes, smiled a sardonic smile and retired behind the almost impen etrable mask which officers ay he has worn since his capture, His smile seemed to say: “I have a secret—a big secret. But you needn't think you are going to get It out of me,” Or perhaps the smile meant that the questioner was foolish to imag: | ing him guilty of such a crime. Asked directly if he had any state | ment to make regarding the crime, | Brumfield replied unhesitatingly: “None whatever.” ‘Then his lips would lock tightly again. When Brumfield took his seat in the diner, the train had Just passed Hood River, “We're in Oregon now,” volun- teered the former dentist and Rose. burg social lion. It was the first glimpse he had had of the country along the rondside since leaving Spo- kane last night. BRUMFIELD IN IRONS to the commission of the crime with ° | his vo THE SEATTLE STAR ‘ALLEGED TIRE | THIEVES CAUGHT) ATHER WINDOW FIVE ARE DEAD STARTS ON PAGE 1 Superficially, there was nothing tn his manner to indicate what a mo mentous change of scone this was for him. He appeared not at all shaken to find himself back in the state from which he fled #0 precip! tously and where he will face crimt nal charges which may threaten his | life, Sheriff Starmer, who was sitting | opposite the prisoner, mentioned the | ! soenery. courge of the Columbia river closely The railroad follows the along this part of the route, and the trip thru the gorge Is noted for the beauty of the scenery “Yes,” agreed Brumfield; “it's beautiful, I always have been fond j of the Columbia river valley,” Each word wax uttered with pro: fessorial diction—recalling the time when Brumfield was a high sehool principal in Tilinois, But the tone of se was low, One had to strain one's ears to catch the words the man uttered, A railway advertising posteard, showing one of the Yellowstone gey sors, was lying on the table, “That's « waterspout, ten't itt ventured Deputy Webb, to draw his prisoner into conversation, “That's not a waterspout,” correct: ed Brumfield. “That is a geyser Waterspouts occur only at sea.” Brumfield said this queerly, as tf It were only an item from a vaat amount of such items hidden careful- ly within his mind. Far from ap pearing deranged, he gave the im- pression that he was striving to ap pear @ little intellectually aloof from the men who were guarding him, PRISONER LAUGHS AT DEPUTY'S SALLIES Deputy Webb and the prisoner en gaged in a conversation about In- diana. Both hail from that state. Brumfield laughed at several of the deputy's sallies, “Par away,” ho finished when Webb quoted “On the Banks of the Wabash.” Chicago was broguht into the con- Yeraation because Brumfield attend ed dental college in Chicago. But the prisoner retired Into his enjoyment of the big eeeret again, Chicago apparently led into that re gion of which he does not care to speak Je! - P ANNOUNCEMENT! 5,000 Pairs of World-Famous | “Queen Quality” Low Shoes FOR WOMEN All First Quality—Just in From the Factory Vici Kid, Patent Leather, Calf skin, Pumps, Oxfords, Theo Ties, Spat Pumps All Have Full Louis Heels BA THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEME ‘DEFENSE MOVES FOR MADALYNNE | Would Restrain Sheriff LOS ANGELES, Cal., Aug, 17— | The “offensive defense’ of Mada | sing) lynne Obenchain opened today. A. F Ralph Obenchain, chief counsel for his beautiful ex-wife, now defendant in one of the West's most sensation. al murder trials, planned to appear in court and demand an injunetion to mC stripy ave., |Prevent Sheriff Willlam Traeger [from seiging a trunk belonging to| untii Mrs, Obenchain. in tt | ‘The trunk has just arrived here from San Franciseo, consigned to Mra, Obenchain and addressed to the loca! hotel which was her home prior | to the Kennedy tragedy. Traeger notified the hotel author tes that he Intended to seize and open the trunk. Obenchain notified Traeger that he! piom: intended to apply for an injunction “to prevent seizure without a search warrant * It was intimated that officials of the sheriff's office would have diffi culty in obtaining a search warrant BA ery man 28 Styles in Black if they did not know definitely what they were searching for. The substance of the testimony given authorities by Charles Sum mar, the “mystery witness” in the case, was made public today for the firet time, Summar clatms to have met Arthur C. Burch, alao indicted tn connection with the murder, while Burch was driving a rented roadster away from the vicinity of Beverly Gien, suppose edly shortly after the midnight as sanatnation. “Bureh’s headlights were so bright that I blocked the road and made him Summar sald. “I told him to dim those lights and we had quite 4 tte argument, I saw him plainly during the course of our altercation, and recognized his photographs as soon as they were published in the Lon Angeles newspapers. “The argument between Burch and myself took place on the highway near Santa Monica.” { | | | { ig NT |Ex-Husband, Chief Counsel,| Covered With Gun by Pass- longing to J. A. Mead, 1122 Harvard He covered them with a revolver 4 state complaint. |Disarmers to Hear stifled at Versailles by Japanese di- }ament conference,” republic of Korea, today. to be admitted as a delegate to the Washingto: SEES BURGLAR NEGRO AMUCK; IRISH REFUSE BRITISH TERMS Woman Wakened by Crash-|Ran Crazed Thru Streets;/De Valera Says Proffer yf er-by, Arrested . ing Glass, Routs Thief Race Clashes Feared Impossible Two alleged thieves were caught| Awakened by a burglar who at AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 17—When i BL CLYDE BEALS je-handed early Wednesday by | tempted to force an entrance to her|/an apparently crazed fegro ran| DUBL N Aug. 3 We . home by tearing the sash from her|amuck yesterday thru the main dis-/and will not accept the British gag isher, 040 Harvard ave, bedroom window, Mra. George Cx trict here, five persons were killed | ernment De Valera tig Fisher said he saw the two men,|inan, 2311 Siet ave. By fright n the ensuing disorders. Dail ~ Mayton, $3, and H. Wilkey, 26,]him away by calling “Police!” early| Patrolman W, W. Moore, an un ping the tires from an auto be- | Wednesday led white man and a negro © republican y ooting affray that | of the crazed | Two uniden: | alno reported Mra, Coleman was alone in the Her husband, a carpenter, neems to be some today after my speech In front of Fisher's flome, 4 absent from the elty. | negroes were t She was awakened by the crashing police arrived. They are held | ping . ¥ he clty Jail pending the filing of | She went to the window, and, find ing the burglar at work in the rain storm, she rushed to a telephone and Armed crowds were dispersed with |difficuity by the p . who feared Jan outbreak ashen, po the man ran “ | hotel, Jackson st., suffered only | term Police failed to find him. | minor injuries | ’ re is an Indian proverb Hyves told pollee he had been! ‘Foo! me once, shame on yg fom standing on the corner of Rainier! fool me twice, shame on me! ave. and Norman st. with a friend,| “The Irish people are not going Mrs, Mary Law, when he stepped | be fooled this time * OR G into the street to board a trolley car.| “1 would willingly suggest that! He was attended at the city hosp! | Irish people give up a good | tal for slight cuts and bruises: | free themselves fro mfuture extermas | - ——e |trouble,” De Valera 9 Knocked down ang dragged 100| Seasoning wood is a process of | There is no enmity felt in thess feet clinging to the axle of an auto| bringing Into the same space 10 per | towards the people of the driven by Wiliam Harris, 7529 Alcot | cent more fibers than when the wood | are ready to give them every ave., Tuesday night, A. Hyves, Busch was green, ble safeguard.” ; ? Korea’s Pleading N FRANCISCO, Aug. 17.—"The of Korea for inde pendence, acy, Will be heard at the disarm. said Dr. Syng. Rhee, former president of the He hopes STORE HOURS 9 A. M. TO 5:30 P. M. 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