The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 7, 1921, Page 1

‘ Paste this mail it to your sweltering friends in the Bast, attle’s highest temperature Sep- tember 6 was 63, At noon September 7 it was 61. and Thursday, fair;, moderate wester- Tonight ly i Go with dar! But not with biendes, on, no. Bat who wants @ girtie with drainet? ot E ‘Don't and little blond: i: a g SPORT STUFF ‘Bily—You should have seen Lily | fun the quarter-mile. ‘Milty—-What did she run it tn? ‘Billy—Darned if I know what you “om. don't ery. shall not pass” is a poor mot- @ Motorist or a school teacher, eee VILLAGE WIT present the celluloid piston to small town displaying this sign: Go slow and see our town, Go fast and see our jail.” | The giknart, 1nd., Truth felier can bet the days when human peo- i used to insist on straw hats for eee LL THY NEWS FROM HICKSVILLE HCKSVILLE, Sept. 7.-—Uncle Mort in and Grandpa Whetstone resymed croquet Match last Tuesday, hey the score standing . Last week and Grafidps Mort winning score, Grandpa 15, mole Mort 16. Thirty im ail are to be played, and the Unele Mort can do is to win one and tle, This game will be played y ana if there in a tie it will be jed by bent two out of three, to be Tuesday. Quite a few | ciga 1@ been wagered by th porting ot our young folks. Phe sews that Germany had signed the @ treaty scarcely crested a stir sin Hekaville, tho there 4 all ; oe general satis er. ‘The general recent war, and It is to be hoped that has profited by it, It i ra will hesitate @ Jom anything again, to merican people, Puie Gid Skidmore, who received a from Philadelphia medical tion of their Kid- ‘and liver cure, 4 received » fetter from the extablishment, asking to furnish hie pleture, and ‘in none, 10 have one taken, they (the rit a. 8 Earl Duboine, the barber, was in Forest Pity last week, and had the godd fortune io be at the game at which two of the came near having @ fight. Karl t many of the professional otwit! rious Black Sox of Chicago ce MeMartin, the cymbal sototst, red a cymbal solo at the band con: Vast Saturday afternoon. It was io an unusual number, and created meh favorable criticism. Only a few ona realized that the cymbals could Masel a0 effectively. The title of the was “The Sultan's Dream.” “7 talk I cannot understand— sa hoarse, is Oswald Rusky: Mrank # lot of corn juice and hat's what made him husky. -¥ 8 f Motto for henpecked husbands: A thing of beauty is a law for- ever, on a postcard and Tell them that Se- Lowest was 56, winds, <> To achieve disarmament, build battleships by popular subscription. Gardner is almost as elusive as the low cost of living. @ The British seem to have dropped salt in the Irish peace dove’s eye, instead of on its tail. @ If you want the last word, you'll find it in the dictionary—“zyxomma. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise Entered as Second Cla Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice t Seattle, w The Seattle Star under the Act of Congress March 3. 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 TH EW 0 iil ee , WASH., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1921. ‘GRAND JURY PROBE. OF TWO ASYLUMS LOOMS NEW DEVELOPMENTS IN “HELL-HOLES” PROBES OFFICIALS ‘ARE READY TO PROCEED Society to Be Asked to Sub- | mit Evidence Against | institutions evidence to be submitted to them seems to warrant such action. ], Prosecutor John Seldon, Pierce county, say: “I will take up with the ‘ judge any evidence submitted, and if the evidence warrants, a grand jury will be called to probe conditions at the Western state hospital at Steilacoom. 2. Prosecutor W L. Brickey, Skagit coynty, says: “I will be glad to go over with the judge any evidence in regard to the Northern state hospital at Sedro-Woolley, and if the facts warrant, a grand jury will be called to probe.” x 3. Humanitarian society to be asked to present its evidence to prosecutors. 4, New system of handling insanity cases inaugurated in King county supe- rior court. 5, King county judges point iut need of observation wards, and recommend appointment of psychiatric commission. By Hal Armstrong “ &@ long hike,” eaid Bill Cochran of the Ford Cen- tral agency, “but when you get | tmaremboy!' Couple neighbors of the Northern State hospital at Sedro- Woolley, E = myself, who said. “Right ‘@ grand jury here in a animation. At vet, to ie that is broush Sedro-Woolley in their possession, which details at- leged beating of patients and even of murders, alleged to have been com- mitted by brutal attendants, The evidence includes the so-called “red. lighting” of inmates—the system by | which, it is claimed, helpless persons | are dumped off the train in a far. away state and left to their fate. While the matter of calling grand juries was being taken up Wednes day Presiding Judge Everett Smith, of the King county superior court, announced a new routine in handling insanity cases that is calculated to re duce to a minimum the possibility of sane persons being railroaded to an asylum. ONE JUDGE TO HEAR ALL INSANITY CASES “I have arranged to have all insan- ity cases heard by one judge,” said | Judge Smith. “Hereafter Judge King | Dykeman will devote three days « | week to insanity hearings. He will | sit.in with the allenists at the hear-| ings, and thus will see and examine| personally each defendant, I believe; this will eliminate the practice which | bas occurred in some courts occasion ally of the judge signing commit- ment papers without ever seeing the accused person. } “There is another matter in thix/ connection that 1 have thought of for some time,” Judge Smith said. | “We ought to have a sort of half-way house—a detention and observation | ward—in which suspected inaanity | cases could be studied and treated. As it now is, I believe that many of the persons committed to the state | asylums do not belong there. A few weeks’ rest and quiet and good food | are practically all they eed | ULD BE CUR | ITHOUT ASYLU | "At such a half-way house they | often could be entirely cured and dis- | charged without going to the asylum, We have no such place for those! cases now, The best we can do is} send {hem to the county hospital for 20 days. That is not long’ enough, usually, But the county hospital cannot keep them indefinitely. “Another matter is this: It some times happens that an insanity sus- pect cannot be brought into court at once, 0, for lack of a proper place, he is thrown into the county jail with common criminals for a day or| a few days, This should not be. (Turn to Page 4, Column 5) ! .|place of Mahoney's trial be made, decision. f E FINES ’EM, mine just got back with 200 fish." i the flivver. Bill_drov: Dobbin, United Press operator, and I smoked black cigars in the back seat to keep awake. Rain drizzled. Fog fogged. Bill rubbed the windshield with Star tobacco. That cleared it and made driving safe. ‘e Md 20 FIGHT MAHONEY VENUE. CHANGE Prosecutor Files Counter Affidavits One hundred affidavits have been secured by Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Dougtas to the effect that James Mahoney, alleged wife slayer, can be given a fair and impartial trial by an unprejudiced jury in King county. This follows the demand made Tuesday by Lee Johnston, gttorney for Mahoney, that a change of the alleging that King county is preju diced. The matter will be argued in open | court Thursday at 120 p. m. by| Prosecuting Attorney Douglay and Attorney Johnston, A petition for letters of adminis tration in the estate of Kate Maho- ney, believed to have been murdered} by James Mahoney, was filed in su- perior court Tuesday afternoon by Everett C. Ellis, a Seattle attorney. Ellis sets forth that Mrs, Mahoney died April 16, leaving no will. Her estate he estimates amounts to ap proximately $10,000. Her helgs he names as two nieces of Mra, Maho. ney, Carrie Hewitt, Vancouver, B. C., and Kate Stewart of Wenatchee. Hearing on the administrator ap: pointment case ix set for September 17 before Judge King Dykeman, Navy Department Asks Large Sum WASHIN'! ‘ON, Sept, 7.—Despite the disarmament conference, the, navy department submitted _.u-| mates to Budget Director Dawes, calling for expenditures during the fiseal year beginning July 1, 1922, which équal those of the present year, it was learned today. Total appropriations this year were about $410,000,000. " Landis Cuts Wages Chicago Workers CHICAGO, Sept. 7.-—-Wages of 60, 000 building trades workers in Chi cago.were cut from 10 to 40 cents an hour in a decision handed down by Wudge K, M. Landis, arbiter, to. da Forty trades were affected by the BY TELEPHONE PHILADELPHIA. “Telephone court" for auto speeders is held by Squire Leech. The constable calls him up and reports the offense, hands the motorist the receiver and the judge souks him ten dollars. didn't THE HUGE FISH MYSTER Why Is It the Farther Up You Go the Bigger They Get? miles an hour to North Bend, out" for Pratt river, a tributary of the Middle Fork, seven miles distant, ag thé crow files. I am no crow, “It's a pretty rough trail,” said Bill, “but couple neighbors of mine came back with 200 whop- pera. Yhave to go far to get the big’ ones." Two chaps were whipping the rifles near where we left the car. “Any lick?" queried “Dob,” “Not @ luck,” chorused the two fishermen. “River's too high and muddy. Better fishin’ far- ther up. But it's a hard trail.” It was. Seven miles, not counting detours around mud puddies, straight up, straight down again, takea-step-and-slip- back-two, You know that kind of a@ trail. We dragged weary, mudcov- ered feet across the log that spans Pratt river at 10:30 a. m. A forest ranger was just jerk- ing out a fiveinch trout. “Good fishing /here?”* shouted. Not here." he answered, cheerlly. “But I have to stay here. ‘There's fishing farther up seven miles up the Pratt or cight miles up the Middle Fork. Take your choice, then fish down, You have to go far to get the big ones.” “Well, as for me," said “Dob,” joining up his pole, “right here's where I fish, I'm not forget ting we've got seven miles fo walk back to where we came from, before night,” Two hours later we rejoined each other, ready to start for home. We compared creels. Dob's was empty. So was ‘ils, Mine contained 14. My largest fish was eight inches long, the rest all shor: “Well,” said Bill, “couple neighbors of mine caught 200 fish, but they must of went much farther up. You can't ggt gthe big ones unless you do, ‘Course, they took two days to make the trip.” Seven miles back—long, weary, leg-sore miles—in the drizzle, Few words spoken, but much thinking. “Fourteen fish in 14 miles. That's a good average, at that,” consoled Bill, “Only trouble, we have time to go far HE truth about King county’s ferry system will be told in The Star, begin- ning tomorrow, by W. E. Chambers, newspa- per man and resident of Kirkland, who has_ been closely associated with the development of the ferry system during the past eight years, Chambers, in terse, well- written articles, will give the inside, tangled history of the system, we enough.” We stumbled down to the fily- ver, wrung the rain out of our coats and in, we only went seven miles up stream. Have to go farther to gatch ‘em big.” ; The fisherman ined. “I used to Taiak that, too,” he sald, He opened his basket. We looked in, It contained the limit of 14-inch trout. AUSTRIANS AND HUNGARS FIGHT Attackers Are Reported Re- ‘ pulsed / VIENNA, Sopt. 7.—Fresh fighting between Austrian regular troops and, a force of about 2.000 Hungurians near the border village of Kirschlag Was reported here today. Determined attacks by an {Pregh- jlar Hungarian force was reported to have been repulsed with slight cas- ualties to the defenders, U. S. WARSHIP RUNS AGROUND Destroyer Morris Reported in No Danger SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7.—The United States destroyer Morris ran aground on the west end of Goat island in San Francisco harbor, dur. ing heavy fog today. i The tugs Sea Queen, Sea Fox and a United States naval tug soon arriv- ¢d to offer assistance and were stand: ing by during the morning. It was expected the destroyer would be floated at high tide, about 4 p.m. The destroyer was said to be in little danger. Japan Labor Asks : Gompers to Visit TOKYO, Sept. 7.—The Japanese Labor federation announced today that it had invited Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federa- tion of Labor, to Japan. Next April wag suggested as the time for the visit, Huss ED HER; RIBS ACHING CHICAGO,.—-Because he loved too much, Mrs, Mildred Hedin sued for divorce, She charged her husband kissed her until her lips were fore and hugged her until her ribs ached, IGS’A WELL; AND GETS GOLD PORTLAND. — Joe Keller. pur: chased a farm near here to raise jhogs. Yesterday, while sinking a well for water, he discovered a rich gold pocket, He's considering turn- ing out gold “pigs” instead of swine on the hoof. Audrey Munson YRACUSE, N. ¥., Sept. 7.—Two hundred and fiftyone American men have applied for the. honor of marrying ‘Audrey Munson—to date, and more are applying every min: ute, ‘The avalamche of applications fol- lowed her announcement that she would welcome a perfect man as her perfect mate, the father of her per- fect children-to-be. While the artist's model, who is especially celebrated for her poses in the nude, is examining applications, she has decided to let all her suitors know about her past loves—so none can accuse her of concealing any- thing. She has had six, her own language: No. 1 “A man old enough to be my | father. He asked me to marry him |that he might protect and safeguard my beauty. He had been my bene- factor and had guided my feet along the pathway of art. I was on my way to tell him I would marry him when he died.” No. 2 “My first real love—a boy of 17 He proposed, I accepted. We were to marry when he was graduated from college. But pneumonia claimed him.” The rest is in No. 3 “He was @ railway executive, 1 met him in an-artist’s studio where he had become. infatuated with a sculpture of Circe for which 1 had posgl, And he became infatuated with me, But he was Insanely jeal ous. I knew I never could be happy in the mansion he had built for me, So I introduced him to another model, who, with my aid, won him away from me." No, 4 “A conceited blond, 200 pounds and a fgt face. Despite all that, 1 fell hea’ over heels in love with him,’ for he had a kind heart, We were enguged for two years. But he never could earn enough to give evi dence of being able to support a wife. He objected fo my posing in the studios, and wanted me to take up nursing. I broke the engage- ment.” No. 5 “A movie director. But after he had made a good start in his profes sion, he met financial disaster. Our love sank in the wheckage.”” No, 6 “A Britisher of title, temporarily down on bis luck and gelling automo biles in Canada, He loved me to distraction, Over and over again he bemoaned that he couldn't marry me—a model and movie actress mak. ing, large salary—on his meager earnings. ‘Then I had to return to the studios. He was called to Eng: land by his father's death, ‘The will commanded him to marty a cousin or forfeit title and estate, He mar: ried the cousin,” ~ ‘TWO CENTS IN'SEATTLE mail bandit, was seen in an PICKS APPLES ing Fruit in Night; Warden Sure of Capture TACOMA, Sept. 7.—That Roy i } orchard on the west side searchers Gardner, McNeil island at 2 o’clock this morning, ported to Warden Thomas Ma! they spent hours rom ty the he was reported to have trace of the missing convict. The dark form of a man, said to answer the d loney today. neighborhood in : of Gardner, was seen by a rancher’s wife while in the of picking apples from a tree, the searchers reported. When the woman lighted a lamp and awakened her hus band, the prowler disappeared. today their search for Gardney to six square acres of. brus land in which they | believe they have him trapped. Meanwhile, local authorities within 100 miles of the island, were conducting a wider search, basing their conclusion that .Gard- ner had reached the mainland on the statement in San Francisco of Mrs. Gardner: “I believe Roy swam across the channel. ‘ The fugitive was reported as seén in Seattle Tast night, rdner must have worked mighty fast if he got off the island after he escaped,” Maloney said | Wednesday. “I have only a small force to use, and we are trying to make sure that the bandit is not on the island before we do any- thing else, If he did get to the main- land, the sheriffs will probably pick him up. | “I don't take any stock in the re- port that Gardner was seen in Seat- tle. 1 don’t think he has gotten that far.” The report that Gardner was seen in Seattle was made to police by a salesman giving the name of C. L. | Harris, who stated that while driving into Seattle Tuesday night, he gave ja stranger, whom he now believes to have been the bandit, a ride into the city. DESCRIBES HOW MAN WAS DRESSED “He was dressed in a flannel shirt jand brown pants, and I carried a bundle," Harris said. ‘J let him out at First ave 8. and Main st.” “At his hotel Harris saw a picture of Gardner in a newspaper, and at once became convinced that it was the fugitive whom he had brought into town. On MeNeil island WWarden Maloney has a posse of 20 prison guards. Contrary to earlier reports, they have no bloodhounds on the trail. “We have no bloodhounds at the prison,” Maloney said, “and we can't get. any.” i When asked why he did not, bor- row some from the Pieree county authorities, he said’ that they had none, either, In the meantime Dynamite and Lightning, King county's famous man hunters, are loitering in their Kennels, Sheriff Matt Starwich has not been asked to send them out. Lawardus Bogart, seriously wound- ed by prison guards as he made the break Monday with Gardner and Ev- erett Impyn, Was reported to be very low Wednesdiy at the prison hos: pital Funeral arrangements were yet completed for Impyn, who shot dead, not was TACOMA, Sept. 7.—Armed guards combed the dense underbrish, of MeNeil Island for Roy Gardner, elusive mail bandit, who escaped from the. prison Monday afternoon, \ ‘ without success last night. their efforts to locate the cont Warden Thomas Maloney maint a that Gardner gtill is hiding on island, and has ordered the #earch continued, found to substantiate this theory today, the hunt will spread to mainland. Re How Gardner enticed Impyn and Bogart, two former soldiers, to company him on his dash for free: dom for the sole purpose, it is be Neved, of shielding him from fire from the guards’ carbines, to light today. SAID HE HAD GUARDS FIXED of the public towards her, h band’s escapades. said, “I do think that if he would freedom by good. conduct and not | by breaking away, he would settle down and be a good citizen, I know he wquid. But I’m his wife, | ary you bet I wish Roy all sorts of luck.” E Despite. If some clue is not be “T've got it all fixed. When slit the wires you birds follow and we will beat it for that patch of woods,” Gardner told the two for- mer soldiers. when the guards open fire—they'll be shooting but they won't try to hit us. You fellows just keep running right behind me.” “Don't be scared I got the ‘whole thing fixed. Lying on @cot in the hospital at the penitentiary, Bogart told a “trusty” ipfluenced himself and Impyn, who was killed, to make the break for liberty. nurse how Gardner had “There js not a doubt in my mind © but that Gardner worked these two fellow; protec! Dr. Charles Jento, prison physician. to act as his rear guard to hithself from the fire,” said Jento was one of the first to reach the two wounded men follow: ing their escapade. & cupable fellow,” said Jento. was rather close-mouthed, tho, and I don’t oners were taken dence. “Gardner was “He think any of the other pri into his confi. “It was an easy matter for him to procure a pair of pliers in. the new cell house where he has been employed MALONEY SAYS GARDNER A FOOL on construction work,” How Gardner ran across a strip of clearing with guards in seven watch towers pumping bullets from (Turn to Page 4, Column @ ON FARM NEAR seen, guards found o