The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 3, 1921, Page 2

Pilchuck Julia’s Rain Guess Wrong, Says Weather Man By Wanda von Kettler Ite all right, people, you won't Dave to carry as many umbrellas as You supposed. George N. Salisbury, Seattle's Weather man dhd meteorologist, says ‘Pilchuck Julia's prophecy about a “foursquaw,” or é-inech rain, for the coming Winter doesn’t apply to this part of the Northwest, fe’ve never had 96 Inches of * says Salisbury, “and we will, Over in the Quinisult =" to ae gg Sg | but we won't xo over 45 ‘or 50 inches around Seattle or ‘Tacoma. aI YY PUTS TH IN FIGURES Heve in real figures and a little con- sideration of phyatcal conditions. | And I don’t believe that In this part of the country weather can be based on the thickness of » squirrel’s fur.” “We haven't got the mountains here,” Salisbury goes on to say, | that makes ft possible for 96 Inches of rain to fall, Most of the water lan average of perhaps $5 inches a year, Tacoma receives about 10 por |cent more, on account of rain-bear ing southwesterly winds that come her way,” So its all right, after for us on Puget Sound, Accordi Balls. bury, provided that we're not spend- ing the winter tn Quintault or plany ning @ little trip to the Olympics for | November, we might just as well has fallen by the time It passes over | the Olymple range, and Seattle gots | TAX REDUCTIONS MAY NOT HAPPEN Late Requests May Spoil Cuts; City Makes Good Laat minute fights | by reactionary officials and department heads threaten to disrupt the program of retrefichment forced on the tx levying bodies by indignant voters. The hoped-for reduction of 10 or 11 milly ts believed to be impossible of attainment wnlese a yiserous battlé te waged to keep avaricious | department heads from aneaking tn last-minute appropriation Items. Members of citizens’ volunteer tax | reduction organizations are prepar | ing to combat any rt to Increase | estimates already dedided upon by the elty, county, port and school districts. | AN prottminary budgets for the next year are now tn, except that of the state, As matters now stand, one go Much on prophecies, | cancel that omer for the family gon- | the port comminsion t# found asking ‘“ Salisbury continues, “I be- Se lols, and the extra rubber bogts | for 1.25 mill lev when they “| promised last «pring not to make & Romance Broken in Seattle Is Mended; Couple Start Ane OUP one of Seattle's #t familiar characters, and his When Alexander Pantages openod | Vata big theatre at Los Angeles three levy this year, The levy was made necessary, port authorit!-» declare, decause of $387,000 needed to moet bond interest and redemption that cannot be raised becaune of present siackness tn port business. The county will ask for $111,396 lems than Inst year, altho little ef: [fort to reduce operating expenses | has been made. The county officials | are pledged to reduce the levy by at leant three mills, Carrying out the promise of Chatr. man C, wife, Lelia Maud Dollman,| years ago, he told Manager Eddie reduce its levy this year by approx! Married again August 24 In Angeles, according to word re- | here. first marriage was {n 1903, uver, B.C. Townsend wi hand in the old Sullivan and on ve . theatre Bere. 17 years, when both had @uccess, they met in Los ‘and, after a few months of concluded to re-marty. . he the stage force Milne of the Seattle Pantages that he wanted the best stage manager on | the duties named Townsend and the latter was immediately ordered south, Townsend, with his big, white bull dog and elaborate hurness, familiar figures, left Seattle streets. Mise Dollman, & singer, returning from &@ concert tour in Europe, met her former husband 4nd wedding Delis rang for them again. Auto Plunges Off Bridge; 2 Drowned FORT COLLINS, Colo., Sept. 3—~ Clyde Douglas, 30, and W. G. Nelson, 33, both of this city, were drowned near here last night, when the car In which they were riding plunged off Coast to take over tho in his new house, Milne) | mately 4.5 mills, the most eubstan tial cut of any of the taxdevying bodies. ‘The state budget will be practically | the same as that of last year, despite the promises of Gov, Hart to make | drastio slashes with the aid of his |new clvil administrative code. The 1922 levy of the school board will be 13.6 milis instead of the 12.5 as previously announced by the school board. An overlooked bond ts sue of $275,000 will cause the levy to be raised a mill. Practically no re duction# have been made in the op- erating @xpenses of the school dis trict, That ft ts difficult for the aver. age citizen to understand when @ real reduetion tn expenses ts belng made, is polated out by officials. LONE SCOUTS of Washington will hold & meeting at Woodland show, we'll go to Holdt’s | a bridge into a creck. The machine} park, Sept. 9 and 10, Vistting scouts) pinned the men beneath the water. are invited. |ton, and heard the fateful B. Fitegerald, the city will) THE SEAT | Judge Long Trial Follows te—Attention today te The Star has induced Walter 8, Pult of articles dealing with famous ctrow juation, These articles, however, are sentiment regarding any of the murd ia the fi/th article of Fulton's series, By Walter Shunned and disgraced and with ® family disrupted, a wreck of bin er gelf, George H. Miller in 1887, stood in court here before Judge Richard A. Jones, chiof justice of the territory of Washing words sentencing bim te be hanged until dead, This was at the end of the third trial hd had faced for the munter of George M. Colman, who, with a boy named Patten, had been shot while rowing across Lake Washington on Monday, February 8, 1886, Miller and Colman were net bors living on Mercer taland an ench was the head of hin reapective faction on the island, For @ num ber of years prior to the murder between the families because Mrs. | Colman, wife of the deceased, had accused Miller of stealing, and! Miller Mra, Colman of the same offense. SON'S ARREST FEARED BY MILLER On the Saturday before the mur der, pear before the grand fury Beattie at 10 a. m. Monday, deputy marshal dlaclosed to at The Miller {son Tho defendant was to have his son at Seattie on Mon day The deputy marshal then man's house and left. From state ments made by Miller to #ome of his neighbors, lof his son indicted by the grand jury and he made the statement bors wore meddling in the matter, Miller knew that Colman had been subpoenaed af a witness against young Miller, About 6:30 Monday morning, Colman and the boy Patten left Colman’s house in a rowboat. DEAD BODIES FOUND |BY WOMAN'S DREAM About 7 o'clock shots were heard) from the direction they had taken. Colman and Patten not having indicates that clroumstantial evidence ts often unreliadly and dangerous to) there bad been unfriendly feeling byetwoen the Inland and the main had retorted by accusing | Miller waa subpoenaed to ap-) that he had a subpoena for Miller's! unusually upright tn his boat when asked! rowing, and it was next attempted it appeared that ho| apprehended an effort to have one) that he thought some of his neigh-) TLE STAR Not Hastily “Murder of Colman on Mercer Island riveted on the great number of otr- lence murder cases about to go to trial on the Pavcifto or ‘on, Beatle attorney, to write a series matantial evidence cases. Tha aertes| not intended in any way to influence | ler cases about to come to trial. This| ) S. Fulton Sunday evening. it wes shown that Miller had a black boat, It was shown that Colman was killed by a bullet which might haye been fired from a 40-40 Winchester rifle, and it was shown that Miller owned such @ rifle and that he had it with him at the nelehbor's home the day before, when he com platned that neighbors were making trouble for him and his son. SUSPICION POINTS TO MILLE | There was evidence from two wit | hessen who were on the opposite! wide of the Island from where the) Murder was committed, at the time of its conimiasion, who testi fied that they saw a black boat Out in the middie of the channel lland with a person in it whose! {face they did not recognize; the | person had a shaw! wrapped about [his head and shoulders and mat uprigat when rowing. The boat | was going north, which was the direction a person would row in onier to reach Miller’a home frotm | the scene of the murder. It was attempted to give the clr cumstances narrated strength by rove that Miller generally sat jto nhow the whereabouts of ever? other boat on Lake Washington, inquired of Miller the way to Colj «ave that of Miller's on the Mon Gay morning of the killing. Miller wan arrested four days before the discovery of the bodies, ‘When the sheriff arrived at Millers house he told him that he came there for the purpose of arresting him and his boys for the murder of Colman. Miller sal, “What Colman?” ‘The sheriff sala, “You know very well what Colman. G. M. Col }man, the man you murdered.” j After the sheriff had Miller aboard the steamer bound for Be attic, the sheriff asked him where ho had firet heard of Colman’s death, and he replied, “When you | Just told me.” DEFENDANT ADMITS SATU BDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1921. KG nis) r A ul way ial ai isi i rt, er PI |i!" be eT CP i vn il ? “= é Sl HT ant Now— | Ms iV ie Ly ad TM (WJ, inl Wm “nt il e 1s i jonny, TINA J) \ My A i pay * ‘BETTY COMPSON Ct the End of hE Wold” All tffe men she has ever known are the guzzling, gambling rabble that drift through her father’s den in Shanghai. And when she is left the prey of three who love her—a wander- lure of the East. A melodramatic film sensation of underworld, wreck and glorious regeneration. Suffused with the sea and the Unknown been heard from, search was made) and on February 12, four days after, the boat Colman and Patten | ing writer, a sailor and a thief— Another heart-filling Come see the rivals’ primitive Betty Compson triumph like that * “The Miracle Man.” HE LIED TO SHERIFF Tt was ahown that this was false Decause a neighbor, Conway, had J) G & EXPERIEN —with— RICHARD BARTHELMESS MARJORIE DAW and KATE BRUCE A Vy life of Broadwa; Fools,” one of Gayety Comedy e biggest scenes of the cabarets, where is staged First National Kinograms ly colored and lavish play, glittering with the night the “Dance of the ind ever filmed! Burton Holmes Scenic STRAND ORCHESTRA Under 8. K. WINELAND, Playing “From the Land of the Sky-blue Water”. . _ “That Old-fashioned Tune”................0, M. Watson, the Seattle composer ARTA VRE HOY bad werd wan found pulled up| jon the beach, filled with rocks, and lin the back part of the beat wae Colman's coat anf faine teeth; @ eager hed pair of oars were near tireless search had been | matntatned for the bodies of Col jman and Patten following their dis- appearance. Much publicity was giver te thelr @eappearance end a woman woe peo ge on the shore ef Lake ‘Washington, whose name I do not recail, had @ dream in which was dinclosed the location of the bodies Jot Colman and Patten. Sbe def- initely described this location and, the members of the searching party going to the place described, the Dodies were found, about three miles south of where the boat {oe found. The body of Colman had been robbed of money and a |gold watch. Nothing had Psa |taken from Patten’s body body had two bullet po a (MILLER ARRESTED, SHOWS AGITATION Suspicion immediately attached to Miller, He was arrested and charged with the crime, He dis- played much agitation. Thie be came more marked s he wie quiazed by the sheriff, the late Governor John FH. McGraw, touch ing his movements and actions, and when taken into the presence of the dead’ bodies at the undertaker’s and asked, “How do you feel in the presence of your hellish crime?” he was excited and overcome. Miller was promptly indicted. At the first trial the jury dinagreed He was tried again with the same result, and at the third trial he was convicted After showing the motive far the murder, and the fnots above reinted, the prosecution showed that the defendant, Miller, arrived in Seattle a little after 10 on the ming of the murder and that on the Sunday previous he spent mort of the day with nelghbors, friends of* his, to whom ho men- tioned the fact that he and his json had been ‘subpoenaed before the grand fury next day and that he thought it best that his son not be there, that he considered the Investigation of his son an out rage, that they had taken up land and were trying to make homes for themmelyes and that they would succeed let alone, but that they had bad neighbors who were giving them trouble. MEN IN BLACK BOAT SEEN ON LAKE | In making these statements was shown that the defendant evinced much emotion, and that similar declarations had been made by him to others. It was further shown that on the Sunday evening previous to the murder, a person in a black boat was seen rowing on Lake Washing ton southerly around Mercer tsland, the course belng close In toward the, shore of the island, and directly opposite the point where the mur. derer or murderers were probably hiding when the shots were fired which killed Colman and Patten, Two persons testified that this person was Miller. One of these witnesses George Colman, # son of the murdered man, who testified that he positively recog nized Miller as the person tn the black boat, met by him rowing around the end of Mercer island | { was been at Miller's house previous to the sheriffs arrival and had in- formed Miller that the sheriff was coming to araeat bim for the mur. de? of Cotman. The sheriff sald to Miller, “Miller, don't you knew you are lying? | Don't you know that Conway had been at your house for fully haif an hour when I got there and had }informed you of the fact of Cot man's death and that I was com- ing to arrest your’ Miller then admitted that he had led and that Conway had told him that the sheriff was coming to arrest him for the murder of Col- mah. After being taken to Senttia, Miller was discharged by the magi« trate for insufficient evidence and returned to his home. He was arrested a second time after the bodies were found, but before the fact had been disclosed to him. T! evidence showed that at the time of the second @rrest Miller waa put in a boat which was run to the point where the bodies were found and that just as the keel was touching the shore the defend ent jumped from his seat, raised his elbow against the pilot house and rested his head on his hant trembling violently. Tt was shown that the defendant, seeking to calm himself, made an attempt to Might his pipe, that his hands trembled so violently that the mateh would go out before ho could light his pipe. It was shown that the prisoner was taRen to the undertaking establishment and was there asked to look at the bodies This he declined to do, the de fondant lifting his eyes and looking in the direction of the wall, At thia time he refused to make any statement, but his breathing was heavy and labored, It waa shown that the Winchester rifle which was In the possession of the de fendant on the day before the mur der and which he had on the day of his first arrest could not be found at the time of the second ar rest and it was never produced, SUPREXIE COURT MAKES STATEMENT In holding the evidence Insuffi cient to warrant a conviction, the supreme court sald: “The system of fixing a sus picion of crime upon a man, be cause It cannot be coneeived who else committed it, is darurerous, To do this, a clone scrutiny of each} person who might have done the deed should be made, If this ts not done, and an accusation is made before it is dona, then the innocent and gullty combine against the man accused; the gullty, most eage® for convictton, mislead the innocent. Even the innocent are interested in averting suspleion from themasglves. In this way an Innocent’ man “may fall the victim of the popular clamor of his neigh- bore If this hasty clamor ta as sisted by the press, the danger is greater. ‘The presumption, hastily indulged 4n, that defendant was guilty, prevented investigation as to the gullt of others, The fruit of the robbery bas not been found, nor has the probability that some one else has done the deed been in- vestigated with that scrutiny with which it ought ta have been. In the meantime, the certainty that the horrible erime had been com. mitted by some one, and the sus picion being upon defendant alon has caused each man to exagrera every innocent ciroumstance into proof of defendant's guilt. Tho supreme, court pointed out that the man in the dark boat was not identified. It laid stress upon the fact that if the defendant had been»at the place of the murder and find gone where the black boat was seen going, he must have trav- eled # distance of three and halts ies, towing Colman's struggle that ends—how? s- 8 & Cast Includes Milton Sills, Mitchell Lewis and Casson Ferguson Toonerville Comedy—“The Skipper Strikes It Rich” oa s & COLISEUM CONCERT ORCHESTRA Program for Concert Sunday, Sept. 4, at 12:30 p. m. taken time to have robbed Colman, | which would have taken In all at! Yeast an hour of an hour an half; then from where the Cotman boat waa left he would have to go about eight and one-half miles to wet home, taking not less than two and a half or three hours, so he could not have gotten home before 11 o'clock. Then he must go seven miles to Seatt! and he could not get to Seattle before 1 o'clock. He waa, in fact, In Seattle a little past 10 ©'clook. NOT PROOF ENOUGH BAYS COURT The court also pointed out that none of the articles of which Col man was robbed were traced to de fendant, none of defendant's prop erty war found near the piace of the murder, no marks of the affray, such a® blood stains, were found upon him, Altho the theory of the prowecution was that Miller killed for vengeance alone, yet Colman was robbed. “No white man mur- ders for vengeance, and at the same time robs his victim,” g@aid the court. “When a mumier ts for ven. geance the man scorns to rob.” Tt wag pointed out that many men had Winchester rifles capable of inflicting the wounds upon Col- man, and that Miller's rifle was not concealed until after his arrest, and then by his wife and ghter, As to the defendant's actions when taken to the dend bodies of the vic- tims and accused by the sheriff, the court pointed out that a prisoner, thus treated should breathe hard is not at all unnatural, and an inno cent man would breathe as hard®as a guilty one under such treatment It also pointed out that there was no evidence that the defendant blamed Colman for the complaint before the grand jury against one of the Miller boys, more than he did many other partios, or that Col man was a material witness against the boy. Indeed, if he was aware that Colman had been subpoenaed, as is probable, his inference ought to have been that some one other than the witnesses subpoenaed had made the complain’ ‘tf GUILTY,” BUT HE'S BROKEN MAN In conclusion the court sald: “No cluster nor chain of ¢iroum- stances point to defendant's gullt. The verdict must have been ren- dered upon suspicion and passion merely, and not from a@ delibérate weighing of the testimony in the scales of reason.” Following the reversal, a change of venue was obtained because of local prejudice, and the case was sent to Port Madison, then the county seat of Kitsap county, for the fourth trial. The verdict was returned not tity." Hiller fur. ARTHUR KAY, Conductor a ns rH 1 i MANY CHILDREN DE IN RUSS FAMINE ZONE: BY JOHN GRAUDENZ MOSCOW, Bept. 3.—"Twenty-five ber cent of the children in the famine region will die. For them relief comes too late.” Anna Haines, a Quaker, who has been in the Ri famine region for over @ year, ai who has seen the terrible death roll mounting inexecta- bly, today assured me that her state ment above was not exaggerated, “And what is more,” she added, “if the food isn’t here within two or three weeks, more than 50 per cent of the children will die.” Miss Haines has rushed a cable to Herbert Hoover, “Speed up. Every minute ts precl- ous.” The Russians are maddeningly de- liberate at times. “Sichas” (in a moment) they mur- mur constantly, But the American relief workers are not wasting even that moment. Several of the Americans left to- day for the heart of the famine coun- tr, They will go to the Samara man, Innocent In the eyes of the jaw but not in the eyes of his neighbors. He returned to his home, which had been broken up as & result of the prosecution, where he hecten broken and alone. country, passing thru Kagan, and te. Saratow and down the valley of the Volga to Novoreastk. ‘The hustling Americans have tonished the Russians here and they have made a “hit” as well, ~ Here the gorgeous, gilded rooms are like stage settings, with high canopied walls and frescoed ceilings. Before their departure the A. R. A. workers sent for me and asked about conditions jn the famine regions. I told them of the thousand fugi- tives I saw camping on the crest of @ hill near the banks of the river” Volga as our steamer slid up to the Stavropol landing, and how they were living beneath poorly construct. ed shelters of twigs and leaves and logs, the luckiest among them hav- ing tiny tents in which whole families: huddled, This miserable half-famished horde had come from the distant villages of Samara, where hunger competed with disease for ,the highest death roll. They were “waiting for trans. portation to Siberia. 1OS ANGELES.—When they |could not open safe at a Hi home burglars carted {t off to pry into at leisure. 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