The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 16, 1921, Page 18

TILE TO. AUTO THUG Attacked on Lonely Road, | She Flees in Woods and Wanders Half a Night Attacked by an auto thug on the Sunnydale highway near White Center, Thursday night, W-yearold Kitty Barnett, 1705 finally making way home at 3 a m She was hysterical and is con fined to her home. Her father notified police, ‘Bre searching for her attacker. Miss Barnett answered an “ad” “Por work in West Seattle Thursday | @vening and was employed by @ Tman who told her she was to work | @b a farm. He put her in his auto And drove toward White Center. Ho pretended to have engine 4 ‘trouble, and when Miss Barnett left Fhe car suddenty seized her and tried to drag her into the bushes. Bhe fought herseif free from him, escaped in the woods. For an hour she hid while the “man searched for her. ‘When he gave up the chase, she “Went home. WOMAN BEATS OFF ATTACKERS Attacked, beaten and robbed of by three thugs in a hotel at M9 Sixth ave. Mrs. A. Anderson, escaped by smashing the glass Jin the front door early Friday and Crist Frank Mills, J. A. and F. Berthrand) who ted police. ‘Patroimen cht Donald Pettit, 26, shortly af- the alleged attack, and he was) fied by Mrs. Anderson as her cipal assailant. When arrested, his face was bad ut by glass from a beer bottle! a by Mrs. Anderson in the/ gle in the hotel room. } Mrs. Anderson told the police she Pettit at the Clifton Hotel and with him to dinner. He took to the Sixth Ave. Hotel and phe heard him ordering dope to put) tm her beer. When a bootlegger arrived she re to drink the beer and three attacked her. They seized her containing $100, and tried to her into another room. She ! herself free and seizing a buried it into one of the men's i 20 bottles of beer and nearly) 4 empty bottles. | Pettit is held in city jall on a oe of disorderly conduct. His ‘ has been fixed at $1,000. Police searching for his two alleged RAILROADS WILL ar went so far as “insisting”| it be granted the right to deal with its employes instead of tside” labor officials. Added significance was given this r titude by the fact that the Penn- heed for months has been fight- the battle of all the roads be- fore the board. _ The ruling, when it is made pub Ne, will have little effect on the ‘critical railroad situation, it was be Beved in railroad circles here. | | | TO COWEN PARK Ag 4 result of vigorous protests on the part of Cowen park residents ‘who were deprived of all transporta- tion when the jitneys were ruled off the streets this week, the depart- Ment of public utilities has decided to issue permits to 25 jitneys on the| “Cowen park run. | These buses, which were- expect- | @4 to begin operating late Friday, ‘will be under more or less restric tion. In addition to running on a Prescribed route, they will not be ‘milowed to pick up or unload passen- | ¢rs south of E. 63rd st. About half of the buses will run to Cowen park only and half to K. 85th st. Wrote Fiction on Checks; Is Jailed Saul J. Christian, 23, salesman, Made a good living with his pen Writing fiction on bank checks, ac- cording to Detectives R. R. Herbert, W. A, Fuller and M. J. McNamee. Christian was awakened early Fri- day und taken from his nice, warm bed to finish his nap on the stone Mor of the city jail. 4 IGHTA CALLED y SOMEBODY ELSE} ¥ Boy! Page Diogenes, or anybody) ‘who wants an honest man! Four quarts of bonded Canadian whiskey and one quart of American Whisky were found by the manager of the Right hotel, 710 First ave, in & vacated room Friday. The man. ger, who declined to give his name, called the dry squad and turned the Whisky over to ! OLYMPIA—Decision of depart Ment of public works in regard to Proposed motor bus line between Beattle and Portland delayed until ag frora both sides are submit- GIVES { BOOKED FOR MURDER Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle being booked af the San Fran- cisco city prison on a charge of murder in connection with thé death of Virginia Rappe, motion picture actress, inset. HERE’S MORE ABOUT STEPMOTHER STARTS ON PAGE ONE song-and-dance at the old Unique theatre in San Jose, then with the Ferris Hartman stock com pany as comedian, later to the money. But I will not touch it. I feel it would not come to me unprompted, and I should return his step-mother, tho there was Bo antagonism. Other members of the family show some resent- ment, at fate rather than at their kinsman, for the queer twist that brought him opulence out of slothfulness, while they have but a mere living for their steady plodding. This feeling the step-mother shows no sign of sharing. altho there is striking contrast between her humble estate In Santa Clara and the sumptuous $100,000 home of Roscoe Arbuckie in Los Angeles, with its creamy $25,000 auto in nence with a loaf and a laugh, her days have been a battle and @ march. When she married Ar- buckle, she says, he.was manag- ing a restaurant in Santa Clara. She helped him there, as well as doing the home work. She paid the home rent, she avers, and all the family expenses—and proud- ly treasures the receipted bills. She feels she was born to toil, and for her husband's vagaries, as she recites them, there is no resentment, Only she resents and indignantly denies reports that Arbuckle, the father, was @ drunkard, Unlike the palatial home of her famous stepson, Mrs, Ar- buckle’s house is lighted with kerosene lamps and has few modern conveniences. She car- ries the water from a well for her wash tubse—still her method of livelihood, supplemented by aid from her other sons, now all grown. On the clean floors are rag carpets of her own weaving. One of her two daugh- ters helps with the housework. They are not blind, as has been reported. PROUD OF TOIL Mollie Arbuckle is proud of toll, gives much, asks little for herself and has battled the way for her brood without com- plaint. “They are afl poor,” she says of her family. “And t have all helped—except Roscoe. Tolerant of his other charac teristics, whether she approves them or not, Roscoe Arbuckle’s step-mother resents only his re nunelation of the family, That pricks her wubending pride and neli-respect. If his former admirers are veering in his hour of trouble she sees in that a sign of retri- bution, Thus the “cut back” fades, the reel again picks up the frowning comedian in the cell of San Francisco's city prison, and proceeds to unwind thru gruesome inquest details and grand jury testimony toward trial for the death of Virginia Rappe with which Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle is charged, “NICHOLAS NICKLEBY” wil be the subject of discussion at the meeting of the Dickens’ Fellowship Sept. 22 at 8 p. m., in the ¥, W Cc, A. building, it is announced, Visitors ave welcome, | TWO KILLED IN TRAIN SMASHUP The Los Angeles Limited! Goes in Ditch CEDAR RAPIDS, Towa, Sept. 16.) Two are dead, two badly injured and three cut and bruised as the result of a derailment of the. fast | Los Angeles Limited of the C, & N.| W. railroad, which struck a wash:| [out three miles west of Helle Plaine, | Iowa, while going at a high rate of speed at 2:30 a, m, today, The dead are: John Johnson, Clinton, Iowa, fire | man An unidentified tramp, Tom Lee, Clinton engineer, was | badly wealded qbout the head and shoulders, and a tramp named Grant was badly cut about the head. Engineer) Lee and Grant were brought to St. Luke's hospital in this city. Nathan Folgeman, travel ing salesman, is also in the hospital Three baggage cars were derailed | | but did not turn over, The engine rolled completely over and tt is be | lieved Fireman Johnson was buried | under the wreckage and drowned in| the scalding water from the boiler. | Four tramps on the blind were also caught in the wreckage. IRELAND AGAIN | THINKS OF WAR) DUBLIN, Sept. 16.—-Prenident |Bamonn De Valera summoned the | Sinn Kein cabinet today to consider the situation arising out of Lloyd George's action in cancelling the proposed Inverness conference, Lioyd George's telegram came like & bombshell to tile Irish people, It shattered the optimistic outlook that) had been steadily maintained thru HERE’S MORE ABOUT ARBUCKLE - STARTS OF PAGE ONE until Thursday was then reached. Before leaving for court, Arbuckle received a telegram from the Rev.| and Herbert Booth Smith, pastor of Inr manuel Presbyterian church, Los Angeles. “My prayer is that, i¢ Innocent, you may have the peace of a clear conscience,” the telegram said, “and out the country, It was believed Mkely when the Sinn Fein cabinet met today that it! might recommend a plebiscite. ‘This would mean a long delay and | would give the Irish leaders reapite/ from the predicament tn which it/ was admitted they found themselves | today, faced by the important choice between withdrawing from their po- sition or bringing on war. The Irish preas today tnslated that the manses of both British and Ire |land demanded peace and reiterated the belfef that mutual statesmanship | would avert war. Every effort was | made today to keep up the epirits of an Irish people bewildered by the suddefh turn of eventa. Many preparations for war were in evidence in different parts of Ire- today, according to reports reaching Dubtin. While the Dall cabinet, at fts meeting today, was to decide on the next stop towards peace or war, it! | wan recognized here that a crisis had | not actually yet arim.. Licyd THE SEATTLE STAR SCENE OF DEATH PARTY Front view of the St. Francis hotel, site of the wine orgy where Virginia Rappe, motion picture actress, is alleged to have received injuries resulting in her death and a murder charge against Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, film comedian. The diagram inset shows the room plan of Arbuckle’s suite where | Heayy Union-made Overalls, the party was held, and the course of Virginia Rappe’s fate-| ful footsteps as described by tee witnesses to police and grand HERE’S MORE ABOUT GARDNER STARTS OF PAGE’ONE water in the world It paralyzes the stoutest swimmer within a few minutes. Wade knew that he had to keep his head above the water to avoid drowning. He secured a salt pork barrel from the prison kitchen, and with the ald of trusty accomplices, smugegied it to the water’s edge He made his for liberty amid a hall of bullets. won guards who rushed to the end of the island found his foot prints, But there war no sign of life on the surface of the ff guilty you may seek the forgiv-|George’s telegram, while {t flatly |channel—only a salt pork barrel bob- ing mercy of God in Christ.* refused to treat with the Irish pleni- At the same time District Attor-|potentiaries in the manner they ney Brady received a telegram from/ wished, did not close the door. the Rev. Smith saying: “The case sets a precedent for the|‘® find some fresh wording of their If Justice miscarries now,| Position which would prove accept future, law loses dignity. you for duty. people follow you.” ce ee God strengthen De Valera and his colleagues had only lable and it waa believed the confer Prayers of Christian | ence could yet be held without fur- ther difficulties. eee GAIRLOCH, Scotland, Sept. 16— “Fast Set” in Movies | Premier toya George was today Will Be Banished LOS ANGELES, Sept. 16.--A drive to clean up the Hollywood motion picture colony was started here today as a result of the Fatty Arbuckle disclosures. Robert McCormack, federal pro- hibition director, sent 10 “dry” de tectives to Hollywood to probe and spirits among the movie people have been getting the liquor for their mittee was reported ready to make Public an expose of conditions, This committee was mid to have placed a number of women as extras in the studios to inveatigute the treat- ment and temptations of young girls. The movie producers themselves have started a quiet “clean up” from the inside. Bohemians whose prtvate lives and spectacular booze and dope parties have long been a scandal to the respectable motion picture actors and actresses, will be quietly dropped from their com- panies under this plan. By “gentlemen's agreement” other producers will refuse to em- ploy them and they will be driven out of movie land. J. H Pelletier, head of the morals committee, here today, was putting the finishing touches on his report on orgies in the screen cok onies, Hollywood Tense, Strangely Quiet 108 ANGELES, Sept. 16.—Anoth- er picture star is “thru.” This was the Hollywood film col- ony’s comment today on announce ment at the Famous Players-Lasky studio that Lowell Sherman, member of the tragic party in Roscoe Ar- buckle’s hotel suite in San Francis» co, “had been released” from his contract, Sherman was to have played oppo- site Gloria Swanson in a lavish pro- duction, the plans and cast for which had already been completed. “Sherman is following Arbuckle,” one indépendent producer said today. “And there are others who will fol- low Sherman when the entire perwon- nel of the Arbuckle party becomes known. They are finished, as far as pictures are concerned, and they know it.” While the Arbuckle sandal Is the sole tople of discussion in Holly- wood, few members of the picture colony would voice their opinions for publication. Hollywood, usually nolsy and gay, is strangely quiet, tensely awaiting the fate of the once beloved “Fatty” at the hands of a law unswayed by his popularity. The movie colony does not regard the pending crusade of the morals commission seriously. The general feeling is that the commission may check, at least in part, the channels thru which liquor is alleged to be purveyed for Hollywood's “parties,” but that no foreign agency can change the tenor of the “inside life” of the picture people. ‘The picture folk are not watching the local morals commission. They are watching San Vrancisco, suffering from a further chill and a severe attack of facial nouralgia. Lord Dawson, the king's physician, was summoned to Gairloch. A dentist arrived from Inverness to treat the prime minister. HERE’S MORE ABOUT ARMSTRONG STARTS ON PAGE ONE “Sure,” I sald. “That'd be pret- how far this tricky guy, Gurd- ner, would go with his stall. “Well,” he went on, “before I could get home one of them guards seen me in the woods with my blue overalls and Jumper on and he up and lets fly at me with both barrels. I ain't been able to get home since. You know how it is.” pah,” I answered, “I know. You're giving me quite a kick, Roy. You run up and tell that stuff to the warden. If he don't shoot you first, and you tell him, and he believes it, Vil giveyou a suit of clothes you can get home tn. You're pretty good, Roy, but you ain't fast enough to kid me. I'm a reporter.” “Quit calling me Roy,” he says. “That ‘drives me wild. You go on up and tell the war den who I am, so’s he can come and rescue me.” “Not me,” I declined, “Oh, no. I kind of like you, Roy, and don’t want to see you get shot or anything. You're doing fine. ‘Try to bear up, Roy; we got to have something to put in the newspapers.” And I left. Roy's pretty slick, all right, but be can’t kid me, bing up and down, Submerged under that barrel was Wade, When the coast was clear he Ufted himeelf out of the water #0 that the upper half of his body was out of the freezing rip tide. The bar- rel drifted with the current and in a few hours Wade had reached the mainland. GARDNER MUST HAVE KNOWN OF ESCAPE Prison authorities are stil search. ing for Wade. Bulletins may still be seen on dusty files in sheriffs’ and marshals’ offices, offering a reward for information leading to the appre hension of Wade, But Wade will never be captured and authorities may be surprised to learn that he Was shot to death two years azo in 4 little gin shop he was operating across from Nogales, Ariz Roy Gardner is a brainy crook. He asked, without a doubt, during his brief stay on the island, whether any prisoner hal ever successfully es caped. And from the old “lifers™ he must have heard this story. What more natural than to sup pose that Gardner said to himself: “If Wade could do it, I tan, too.” At any rate, the romantic tale is betng told that this is how Gardner foiled his pursuers. Had he re- mained on the island his hiding place would soon have been ferreted out or hunger would have driven him into the open, With the ald of ac complices, fo ft is rumored, he se cured a mit pork barrel from the prison kitchen and drifted to the mainiand. “If he ‘t fight his way to the peninsula,” say the speculators, “then he was drowned. But Gard ner ls not on McNeil's island” ee Gardner Is Believed . . to Be Resting Now BY HAL ARMSTRONG M’NEIL ISLAND, Sept. 16— With the dawning this morning of the 11th day of the man-hunt for Roy Gardner, posses engaged in searching the island for the famous escaped convict train robber resumed their watching with pent-up expectation, For the first time since he and two other convicts broke thru the prison fence during the prisoners’ Labor day ball game, Gardner, or the phantom that is being mistaken for him, remained quiet ali day yes- terday. Not a report was turned in to Warden Thomas Maloney during the day, not a shot fired after 4 a, m. This singular silence waa interpreted to mean either of two possibilities: First, that Gardner may have been wounded by one of the two shots fired before daybreak yester- day near Gertrude, across the island to the north of the penitentiary. Or, second, that he rested all day, after several days of exertion tramp. ing around, with the idea of making the supreme effort'to get off the is- land to the mainland and liberty. The finding of unmistakable traces of blood in the brush where the shots were fired does not neces sarily meaz, according to prison of- ficials, that it was Gardner who was hit, It might have been an animal, they point out, or evem a bird. Cowboy trackers failed to deter mine what it was, They were un- able to follow the trail farther than a few feet into the underbrush, ‘The balance of opinion is in favor of the possibility that Gardner rest- ed all day, intending to make his break across the heavily guarded waters with all the strength possible to command, Search of the bush in the vicinity of the prison for Gardner's body con- tinues, tho, as the days go by and nothing is found to indicate that he was wounded by the rif_e fire from the watch towers, the belict that he ig dead, at first strong, is waning. It was learned today that people on the island are hanging articles of clothing on their back porches with a purpose. Should any one miss any of these articles, it will | prove conclusively, Warden Maloney says, that Gardner is on the island, | and that his theory is correte that the fugitive has only half escaped. “Sweating” of Lowardus Bogart, who was wounded when he attempt- @4 to get away with Gardner, it is | eaid, has thus far resulted in gaining | for Warden Maloney no new infor- mation concerning Gardner's plans. Gardner never had a better oppor- ‘tunity to leave the island than he |had this morning. A heavy fog hung over the Sound no dense that the flotilla of news- |paper launches was unable to navi- gate thru it The Seattle Star boat.was rushed to the mainiand at 7 a m. and was due to reach the prison at 7:45, be- came lost in the fog and get itself coming back at 11 o'clock. The Tacoma newspaper Boat land- ed at Fox island. When the news paper men got their bearings they headed back towards McNeil tsland, fot lost again and were finally over- hauled by penitentiary patrol boat No. 1, after the pilot of the peniten- |tiary boat had threatened to put a shot across their A ‘Warden Thomas Maloney admit ted that Gardner might casily have put off the island under cover of the fog, but said he doubted whether a swimmer could see far enough to get | anywhere. A flight of crows was hover birds with the idea that they may have located the body of Gardner. shooting at Gardner or his phantom last night and early today. Constable Says He Saw Roy Gardner TACOMA, Sept. 16.—“Roy Gard- ner got off McNeil's Island the first night I saw him myself hiking along the road six miles from Eatonville, Tuesday afternoon following Labor Day.” ‘This was the statement of Con- stable W. H. Stidham of Giennis, yesterday afternoon, Stidham re ported his discovery of the missing bandit to Sheriff Morris’ office here today. Gardner, he said, was dressed in @ soldier's new uniform that fitted him perfectly. In his belt he wore a sheathed hatchet and on his back carried a pack from which pro truded a frying pan. The constable said he made no report of seeing Gardner because he thought people would “kid” him about it, He was not convinced un- tl 24 hours afterward, anyway, he said. eee Wants Bloodhounds Put on the Trail Editor The Star: Why do they not use bloodhounds at McNeil’s Island? Gardner is seen most every day and night. Any hound put on his tracks and a man who js not afraid of Gard- ner, will run him down in a short time. Maloney ts not using any Judgment and seems incompetent. Our Sheriff Starwich, if given full charge, would soon get him if he is still on the island. we eS Fauntleroy. Seattle Neglecting Big Idaho Markets Seattle has a golden opportunity to market its products in Northern Idaho and Southern Washington, This was the substance of reports wealthy districts made at the last Northwest Products committee luncheon, Black Manufacturing Company, said the trip was an eye-opener to him. Lewiston is the trading center for gregate purchasing power of $30,- 000,000, he said. THIS IS HOW IT WAS Friday's tragedy in federal court: Thomas Roden—"Guillty.” Judge Neterer—-“Thirty days.” The charge wag liquor-making. FRIDAY, $ REE TO YOU SATURDAY [| Last Chance to Take Advantage of Excep- | tional FREE OFFER—Saturday Last Day —Full Particulars Follow. Here is our FREE OFFER to you: Men’s and Young Men’s Suits that sold to $25.00 for $9.85. Over 285 suits to select from and go tomorrow at this ridiculous UNLOAD- ING PRICE—$9.85. And, as an added inducement to force all of these suits to be sold by Saturday night, we make this FREE OFFER: Any $3.00 Hat in the house—and | there’s over 500 to select from, in all shapes and styles— | will be given ABSOLUTELY FREE with every suit sold tomorrow. And here’s our FREE OFFER to the boys—just in time |for school, too: Boys’ School Suits, that sold to $10.00, go tomorrow at $3.85, Another line of Boys’ Fine Wool Suits at $4.98. And Boys’ All-wool Mackinaws, Black Bear m cut to $4.95. And with every Boy’s Suit or Mackinaw | will give, Saturday, ABSOLUTELY FREE, your choice o jany $1.00 Cap in stock. Here is another Suit item: Men’s Beautifully Tailored Suits, late styles, in blues, blacks, grays and browns, that sold up to $40.00, go tomorrow for $14.85. And with each of these suits you get, ABSOLUTELY FREE, your selec- tion of any high-grade Hat in the house. PTEMBER 16, 1921 on thd recent trade visit to those! George G. Black, president of the’ 79 prosperous towns, with an ag-| Over 200 Men’s Overcoats cut to $7.85. Men’s Dress Shirts, worth to $2.00, go at 85c. Men’s Neckties at 23c. And Men’s Hickory Work Shirts cut to 69c. Men’s Wool Socks at 18c. Men's Cotton Socks at 5c. Men’s Collars at 3c. Men’s with bib, cut to 50c, B. V. D. Underwear, Black Bear Over- alls—in fact, about every- thing that man needs for dress or work wear, all in- |cluded in this sale and going at such ridiculous prices as |these. It will pay you to come to this sale. were formerly priced at $10.00, for $3.98. Hundreds of Men’s Dress and Work Shoes, that sold originally as high as $6.00, will go at $2.48, And_ Boys’ $5.00 School Shoes go at $2.49. Boys’ and Girls’ School Shoes at $2.49. Boys’ Pants at 39c. Boys’ Shirts and Un- derwear 39c up. Think of buying your sum- mer underwear (worth to $1.00) for 39c. Men’s $1.25 Union Suits at 68. And heavy Canvas Gloves, knit wrists, while they last, at Migr Pants to $: will Tomorrow we'll sell Men’s| Men Stetson Dress Shoes, that Don’ ONLY—tast day, Note address of MURDER CHARGE DENVER, Sept. 16.—Murder charges will be filed today, officials said, against Dr. E. L. Willis and Dr. N. J. Phelan, both of Denver, following exhuming of the body of Miss Mary Purk, who éled four years ago as the result of an al leged criminal operation the two physicians are charged with per. farming. THE BIGGEST PICTURE IN HISTORY ‘ ab 4 TICKETS ON SALE FOR BACH SHOW BEGINNING 12—3—-6—-9 Deors open 30 minutes be- | fore #ach show starts NOTE: ITS PRESENTATION. TER EACH SHOW STARTS, & Rex Ingram Production THEATRE PRICES—Add 10% War Tax 3 FRONT STORES: Main Store, 1601-1603 First Avenue, Corner Pine Street Red Front Annex, 1415-1417 First Avenue, Between Pike and Union Streets VICENTE BLASCO IBAN 4 HORSEMEN | } OF THE APOCALYPSE BOX OFFICE OPEN 11 A. M ’ Four Shows Daily THE BIGNESS OF | THIS PICTURE DEMANDS THAT NO ONE BE SEATED DURING THERE- FORE, NO ONE ADMITTED AF- BLUE MOUSE Thieves Got $3,000 at E. Stanwood Bank EAST STANWOOD, Sept. 16.— Bank officials of the State Bank that the thieves got about $3,000 in cash or negotiable paper. OMAHA, Neb.—Phonograph to be’ used in postal stations here to im crease efficiency of night crews. THE i