The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 17, 1921, Page 14

THE SEATTLE STA! PREPARE TO QUIT HUNT FOR BANDIT Warden Maloney Concludes | Gardner Is Either Dead or Has Left Island By Hal Armstrong M'NEIL ISLAND, Sept. 16.— Concluding that Roy Gardner ts either dead or has left the island, Henry Crowl, last of the Northern Pacific detectives, quit the manhunt today. Uniess some unmistakable signs of Gardner are found within the next day or two, Warden Thomas Maloney said this morning the entire search on the island would be aban doned. Twéhty-two guarts are still pa- troling the waters. The force In Jand on the island has been re duced to 10. Maloney said he had investigated humerous reports that Gardner is being sheltered by farmers. None of these reports was verb fled. Search for the fugitive’s body on the theory that he has been mortally wounded in his escape fram the prison last Labor day has Deen positively given up. Maloney sald be had many letters signed Roy from various parts of the country. One letter was from Calexico, Com parison of the handwriting with that of Gardner at the prison Proved, the warien sald, that none of the letters was written by the escaped bandit himself. CIVIL WAR THREATENS ON ISLAND Civil war on the island threatened today as the latest phase of the man- bunt, Sympathy for the bandit has al- Teady resulted in serious altercations Detween island farmers and guards. receive! | Another picture of Virginia Rappe, famous model and killed. | Beautiful Dead Fi | | JUST glimpse of a fareskirted Life Appealed Gardner| movie actress, whom Roscoe Arbuckle is accused of having to | Virginia, lm Actress trip north.” | insuffi * tempting to Residents of the locality are not Jacket, snug-fitting to the wairt Mra, Joseph Hardeback, 504 North | trying to conceal their hope that /4 tailored pair of riding breeche Wilton place, who stood if, the re! Gardner will get safely away, if he|drat-colored silk encasing shapely | lation of a fostermmother to the] has not already done so, and have | i¢#—high black vicl-kid riding boots d girl, also says t Arbuck openly many times criticized guards bd a small joekey’s cap with a long) was an unknown quantity in the | for “robbing the government” at tho Visor to protect the eyes. | Young actroan’ life. | Fate of $4 per 12-hour shift. How many residents of Hollywood, “She never mentioned his name} Several guards have abandoned the | have seen the familiar figure of a| 20°*Pt In connection with his plo | hunt, efther satisfied that Gardner | beautiful brunet gir}——just emerging tures, and no one who knew her | has given Warden Thomas Maloney |from extreme youth, dressed as COUld picture her receiving the at the slip or not caring whether he is/above, headed for a hike in the | tentiona of this man,” said Mra. caught or not. hilla, Hardebeck, who professed herself! ‘The most serious altercation of the} “Isn't she a beauty? many a per-| completely mystified by Arbuckle's | war” thus far occurred yester- | son would exclaim as Virginia Rappe| reported remark to Miss Rappe, | he farmer's teeth plainly visible in Michaelson’s and he was otherwise black blue. J. McDonald, another guard, at- a farmer's barn for Gardner, was ordered to produce te Henry Crow! and Jeff Hamitton, guards, thought they had Gardner ack of a barn near the center of| the island yesterday afternoon. With guns drawn, they crept up ‘igure of a man asleep in They found their quarry ‘was not the hunted fugitive but a logger who had been working in a nearby lumber camp. Another day passed yesterday ‘without a shot being fired at “the phantom.” Warden Maloney admits Gardner might easily have made his getaway from the island in the dense fog that has covered the sound the last two nights and morn-| ings. eee McNEIL ISLAND, Sept. 17.— Search for Roy Gardner on McNeil Island was virtually abandoned to- day, when Warden Thomas Ma- loney recalled the 40 prison guards who have been picketing and pa trolling the interior of the island. * Today it was learned that Gard mer had made a previous attempt to gescape from the penitentiary shortly after his incarceration here. | He was caught with a coi) of rope, it is said, with which he intenjed to ascend from an excavation in the prison grounds at some opportune time. One of the latest “Gardner” cas- ualties is the pet cat, which a farm- @r's wife found riddled with shot. In the meantime, agents of the Southern Pacific railroad are look- ing for Gardner in Oregon and Cal- ifornia, CRASH KILLS MOTORCYCLIST Clarence Slaight, living at 1109 N. 91st st., died short- ly after his motorcycle crashed into @n auto at N. 63d st. and BE. Gr Lake way, Friday night. gla 24, mechanic, ht ‘was hurled into the air and thrown 20 feet. skull and internal injuries. L, B, Nelson, 1505 16th ave. a newspaper man, who das driving the | automobile, picked up man and rushed him to Lakesdie hospital. The accident occurred as Blaight was on his way home after visiting friends in Fremont. Accord ing to Nelson, Slaight wag driving at a high rate of speed. Suddenly turn- ing a corner, Siaight failed to see the automobile and crashed head-on the injured into it, The motorcycle was wrecked and the automobile badly damaged. Siaight waa hurled over both ma- chines, Nelson wag unhurt. Slaight is survived by his widow, Mrs. Paul- in Blaieht, "| striking He suffered a fractured} —~with her raven tresses pulled back boyishly from her forehead—would look up from under the peaked cap. Even among the pretty girls of the motion picture colony, Virginia's exquisiteness stood out above the dvernge. “MY DI EAR, PM "| REDUCING,” SHE'D SAY Maybe she'd meet a friend. “Off for a hike, Virginiat’ would be a form of salutation. “My dear, I'm reducing.” would be the rejoinder in mock dismay. Her svelte figure, supple as a child of 10, swaying with the grace of youth, In her form-fitting clothes and stout walking boots, would give a humorous touch to her remark. If Virginia were trying to cut down weight, she was enough of the eternal feminine to keep the tragic truth to herself! Her constant com- panion would be with her—Jeff! Jeff is one of those big, plain-spoken dogs—and when he talked he meant business, Anyone wanting to bother Virginia would talk first with her rep mtative Jeff. But Virginia will never hike again. The modish flare-skirted fficket; the pair of tailored riding breeches of drab colored silk—her riding boots lare but a few of the remaining evi- |dences that Virginia was a viva cious, warm-blooded young girl just a few short days ago! EVERYTHING IN LIFE APPEALED TO HER And how she was interested in life —in everything! One day it would be motoring— then perhaps ocean bathing would [be the absorbing interest in her ex. istence—then the sewing or cooking bug would devour her entire being. Virginia Rappe was an average girk—had normal desires—and fits jof impulstyeness that control maid ens, “Why, I saw her only three days before they started for San Fran |cisco," said Miss Helen Hansen, 41083 N. Oxford ave., another screen actress—referring to the weekend j trip to’ n Francisco which result led in the death of Virginia F “Al Semnacher had asked me to and Virginia seemed insistent.” | go, | Miss Hansen was stunned by the |report of the girl's tragic end—and |the unfortunate incidents surround jing it. NEVER WAS HEARD TO MENTION “FATTY” “L was making some crepe de chine underthings, and Virginia was |so interested in how I was making them! You know, she couldn't do anything like that, but she wanted to learn—she was just determined to learn how! ss in the afternoon she came over, and we cut out a lot of stuff, but she made such a botch of it and finally she became disgusted jand threw it aside.” She was never known to mention atty” Arbuckle—the man held in an Francisco for her murder, mong her friends. | “I think the only man she cared anything in the world about was Henry Lehrman,” the chum contin: | ued. “She was awfully fond of him |ry back from w York.” He was never out of the girl's |thoughts, the acttess maintained. You know how girls will thoving picture girl put it, ing all our conversations she has never mentioned liking another man Ik,” the SAYS VIRGINIA DIDN'T ATTEND FILM “PARTIES” | “She was a girl who didn't go |around much. In fact I never knew |of her being at a party and I'm | pretty certain she never went out with another man. “Except that Mrs, Delmont and Semnacher’s son were going, 1 don’ think she would have gone on that i ginia Rappe, whose investi- and kept wishing that he would hur-| “but dur- | ieee murder of J. ‘I've been waiting five years to get | you." “Mr. Arbuckle never came to me house to see her,” asserted the girl's fostersmother. “I am certain he never made any advances, and if | he had any designs on her she didn't know 1t.” Such was Virginian Rappe’s char acter that any low or common act was impossible to her, agcording to Mrs. Hardebeck, with Whom she had lived since the death of her} mother 13 years ago. From the | time of her mother's death she re mained a girl of 18 in disposition jand spirit, eaid “aunty.” | MOURNS _ | | Hollywood, | Henry Lehrman, the movie |producer and fiance of Vir- gations by long distance tele- |phone led to the arrest of Roscoe Arbuckle. eee |Sends Dead Girl LOS ANGELES, Sept .17 floral, tribute of one thousand tiger lilies ‘today lay next to the casket of Miss Virginia Rappe, as a result of whose death scoe Arbuckle | comedian, was charged with murder It was the offering Henry Lehrman of New York, Miss Rappe‘s | fiance, who wired “she died fighting | }a woman's batt | | “To my brave sweeheart,” r Lehrman’s card on the floral plec Miss Rappe’s body arrived here from San Franciseo early today for | burial a Hollywood, | | | Alleged Kidnaper |. Isa Yelm Rancher | TACOMA, Sept. 17 WwW. D. | Schincke, a farmer, was held in | the city today charged with | being the man who Wednesday even: | jing kidnaped Mrs, R. H. Biehn and | jail |her baby from a street in the resi } dential section and later released | them after driving 16 blocks in an| jautomobile, with the remark that | he had “made a mistake.” Schincke, who maintains his inno. | cence, has been identified by Mrs. | Biehn, the police say. He was: ar | rested on his ranch near Yelm | i ws | 108 ANGELES.—Hail denied Mrs adalynne Obenehain, jJointly| pharged with Cc. Bureh for Belton see Arthur nedy, 1,000 Tiger Lilies | hotel. | | SHE DIED AFTER PARTY |(RECENT PHOTO OF ARBUCKLE | ‘HERE'S MORE ABOUT ARBUCKLE STARTS OF PAGE ONE of Virginin Rappe, actress, a guest at the party Brady declared the to obtain © he desires $1,000 will be the prosecut | He said he for more money when Monday. ng ev would appe the supervisors m: be impo for the to complete tts case additional funds, Brady! | said. | “The defense has an unlimited} amount of money to be spent,”| Deputy A. Golden declared. “With- out sufficient funds the prosecution | spectal section of the criminal code. | will be defeated before it begins.” Hirady did not give any details of the probe he expects to begin but tt) was believed it will center about! the home of the Call- fornia movie tars where rumors of | “wild parties” have been brought to} police. ‘The body of Miss Rappo was be ing taken to Los Angeles today, un der escort of a representative of an undertaking establishment. The fo neral will be held at Hollywood | some time Monday, it was believed. ae Threaten to Close Big Frisco Hotel) LOB A? cLES, Cal, Sept. 17.— “There will be no immunity for anyone in this case,” Aasistant United States Attorney Robert Camarillo declared today, discussing the investigation of how liquor came to be at Roscoe Arbuckle’s party in San Francisco, which pre ceded the denth of Virginia Rappe. Arbuckle is now charged with tak- ing Miss Rappe'’s life. Camarilio announced he had de cided not to call Lowell Sherman, movie star, before the grand jury. altho. Sherman was subpocnaed yesterday. “If he were permitted to testify before that as to the source | of the liquor at Arbuckle’s party, | he would undoubtedly seize the op- portunity to claim immunity for himself,” Camarilio said. Camarillo declared closing of the body San Franciseo hotel where the party was held under the abate ment clauses of the prohibition law onsid be will trea humble said. the mme as most bootiegger’s | Camart Hotel Manager Ready for Inquiry SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17.—“We ee the most rigid inv ation, uid Manager Harry Coleman of the | today, commenting fon under way in of how the famous Ros coe Arbuckle party of Labor day | ume to have liquor, " St. Francis hotel did not fur. the liquor to the Arbuckle We do not furnish Uquor to y of our guests. Ve have welcomed the fullest tn- vestigation and are anxious to find the source of the liquor furnished the Arbuckle party.” vee Wuxtra! Fatty and Gardner Are Here! Roy Gardner and “Fatty” Arbuckle | are both staying at the Nord Hotel in Seattle. At least, the clerk at the Nord Hotel declares that Friday night, | Gard ot Tacoma afl Arbuckle of | Los Angeles, both signed up for room, and the hotel register pro | his statements, | For some reason or other, deputies | from the sherjff's office who have | been called to investigate the visit | of the notable guests, believe al couple of people are enjoying a little Paderewski to Go on Concert Stage PASO ROBLES, Cal., Sept. 17, Ignace Paderewaki, famed pianist and first premier of ¥ J, an nounced today. that he will return to the concert stage as his last| means of helping the new Poland. A week ago his estate here was auctioned for Poland's cause, Paderewski said he was now leav- ing Paso Robles to arrange a togr, the proceeds of which he will devote to his native lang »| | fense, lthe Murder In First Degree. Why Charge Brought. In Arbuckle Case. “Fatty” Arbuckle charged with first degree murder? Why was the manslaughter charge | dropped? Why waa Or, why was he not charged with criminal assault, or rape? The answer lies in information in the hands of District Attorney Matt Brady, information not yet public. eee Arbuckle will face trial under a It ts section 189. Under this section murder to be Girst degree need not be perpetrated as the rewult of malice. A man may commit first degree murder while engaged in or attempt ing to engage in the perpetration of another felony—such as arson, rape, robbery, burglary or mayhem. eee Bays Sec. 189: Degrees of murder: All murder which is perpetrated by means of poison, or lying in walt, torture, or any other means of wilful, deliberate and premeditated killing, OR WHICH 18 COMMITTED IN THE PERPETRATION OR AT- TEMPT TO PERPETRATE arson, RAPE, robbery, burglary, or may- hem, is MURDER OF THE FIRST DEGREE! and all other kinds of murder are the second degree. eee Had Miss Rappe's death been caused by accident, Arbuckle could | jonly have been charged with man- slaughter. From the fact that Distric Attorney Brady, after a thoro invesi- gation, had Arbuckle charged with first degree murder, it being taken im legal circles to show that he has in- formation that Arbuckle either per. petrated or attempted to perpetrate criminal assault upon the girl, the act or acts of which resulted in her death Dr, Wm. Ophuls, who made a post- mortem examination of the dead girl's body, gave out a statement that “there was absolutely no evi been attacked in any way.” District Attorney Brady evidently ha» information to the effect that either the girl was assaulted or that she was killed in an attempted as sault. eee First degree murder carries two alternatives—death by hanging or life imprisonment, the jury to deter mine which. With no malice motive it may be difficult to find q jury that would fix th fixed by the judge. ° ote Arbuckle Defense Maintains Silence 1LO8 ANGELES, Sept. 17.—Dead silence closed to y over the move. ments of the Fatty Arbuckle de now temporarily centered here. Frank Dominguez, chief cow 1 for the accused comedian, arrived in Los Angeles with Lou Anger, Arbuckle’s manager, Both declined to comment on the case, “We decided at a council of those interested in “defending Arbuckle that none of us should talk about the case at this time,” Domingw said in reply to questions. “When the time comes we shall have some thing to say—plenty of it.” Anger made the same statement. “I cannot say anything without authority of Mr, Dominguez,” said. Dominguez is In Los Angeles, he said, to try two cases in court Mon. day. “Don't you he wish to say you ex pect to prove Arbuckle innocent of murder?” Domingvez was asked, “No; I reserve the right to say nothing,” the attorney replied. Convict Children of Killing Father| COLUMBIA, 8. ©., Sept. 17.—The son and daughter of Marcellus Cook, who was murdered several weeks ago, were convicted in Judge Zeahe's court Friday of killing their father and sentenced to life imprisonment. ‘Two male friends of Cook also were sentenced for life for assisting in the murder, of Fatty, WIFE STANDS |\death of Virginia Rappe, movie actress. wife separated some time ago. Charley Murray, Pal BY FATTY Minta Durfee, of New York, wife of Roscoe (Fatty) | Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, film star, charged with murder| Arbuckle, states that she will help him fight the charge of | | in connection with the death of Virginia Rappe, actress, fol-| murder placed against him in San Francisco, following the | l-wing a booze party in Arbuckle’s suite at a San Francisco Arbuckle and his Says He’s 10,000 PERSONS FLEE FROM GAS \Choking Fumes Harm 20 in New York | NEW YORK, Sept, 17-—~Two b |dred persons were “gassed” in Ne York early today when emmogi furnes ead over an area of blocks on the upper East side, ing thousands from thelr homés, When the choking fumes roll over the neighborhood, crowds |men, wornen and children, many them in night clothes of haf | dressed, swarmed into the streets, i choking and “ping. ° | Many fell unconscious. At time police said there were “yy t 60 people sprawled tn streets overcome, Police imated fully 10,000 were forced to flee fi t rt homes, 16 fas wave resulted from blowing out of @ cylinder head an ice machine at the Knieiay | bocker Ice company. 4 Third Ave. Near Pia ease AT One of the Photodramas v | | | Just Overgrown Kid === | TACOMA, Sept. 17.—“IAquor is to;treme dresser and a beautiful girl. blame for it all. Roscoe is a good) She wore her hair straight back fellow and would never have done over hér ears, and wore most ex- jit if he wasn't drinking the polson-| treme clothes.” ous liquor they are bringing in| “Roscoe did t have all the ad- maximum penalty, Shou) a plea | jot guilty be entered, the penalty these days.” | vantages,” said Mrs. Murray, who/| | 80 does Comedian Charles Mur-\is in Tacoma with her husbahd. ray, who is playing at Pantages’| “He is just a big kid, who drank theatre this week, sum up the case of Roscoe Arbuckle, facing charges for the murder of Virginia Rappe, at San Francisco, “There i# no use condemning the whole profession Just because some of the movie people are mixed up in this affair,” continued Murray. “I ‘dressed’ with Roscoe for yearn. He is just an overgrown kid. He works bard for six weeks, and then Reports on his car are wrong. I know it only cost him $16,000, not $25,000, is home cost him $35,000, not $100,000. “Virginia was awfully young, and & Gar, sweet kid) She was an ex- relaxes by going on a wild party.| too much bad liquor,” Murrays repeated, “Roscoe and his wife could not |llve together. ‘They simply were not temperamentally constituted to enjoy each other, Minta is a fine woman. Roscoe seems very young.” “I am standing up for him,” said Murray. “Of course, he's ruined Professionally. It ty a shafne, but jthis affair wil serve to clear the movies of a fast crowd that is | found there. Directors won't have |them any more. Ten or one hun red people shouldn't be allowed to prejudice people against all those |who do not travel in the fast crowd.” both the UMAN GOES TO POST IN CHINA Among the passengers on the Ad- miraj liner Silver State, which sailed Saturday for the Orient, was Don Burdick, former University of Wash. ington student, who was recently ap- | pointed to the United States consu- lar service in China. The Silver State, which made a record of nine days, 18 hours and 35 minutes on her recent trip from Yo- kohama to Puget sound, carried a |large list of passengers and a full | cargo, | Included in the latter were sheet | steel, iron pipe, tin plate, galvanized | wire, cotton, flour, lumber and can. | ned salmon, | The cotton came from Texas and |dence of criminal assault, no signs | Oklahoma and was consigned to Jap |that the girt anese spinner Legion Day Sunday at Port Townsend American Legion day, a spec event for the purpose of bringin Jcheer to disabled veterans of tl |world war, will be held in Port |Townsend Sunday by members of |the Seattle post of the American Legion. | Special boats have been chartered for the trip and will return Sunday night, Amorig those who will participate in the affair are: Lieut, Gov Mrs. W. J. Coyle, Adjt. Gen. Maurice Thompson and wife, M, Brazer and his mother, orge azer, and Thomas N, Swa! }commander of the legion. | Accuse Mother of Murdering Father AURORA, Ill, Sept, 17.—Acoused } by. her two daughters of intentional \iy turning on the’ gas in her hus. | band's room, Mrs, Frances Balchu | nog is held in Aurora gp a charge of |murder. The daughtérs, Helen, 17, and Frances, 14, also accuse John Petroska, who, they say, was friend ly with their mother, and had been ordered by their father to leave their | | home, Petroska tg also under arrest jon the same charg: 'Salvationists Down | Voices of Radicals When the radicals bound for Rus: sia on board the Nippon Yusen Kai sha lings began to sing their revolu: tionary songs to the passengers and those who had come to see §iem off, they were drowned out Fday b; | the vocal endeavors of 20 Salvation | ists ¢ on board the liner, bound for Manila. and |Horr on Speaking Tour for Veterans Speeches will be made in Chicago, Detroit and other Middle Western |eltie by Ralph A, Horr, national |sentor vice commander of the Dis jabled American Veterans of th World Wer, who hag left Sehttle on a tour in the interest of his organi. zation, and| members of the Hannaford family | , state | | CIRCUS ROBBERS OBTAIN $30,000 PORTLAND, Ore, Sept. 17.— | Three unmasked bandits robbed the | Sells Floto circus treasurer, Friday night at Vancouver, Wash., of be- | tween $28,000 and $30,000 in cash land drafts. 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