The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 19, 1921, Page 7

* . MEXICO OR DEAD, BELIEF | tance In. Search for Fugitive on Isle Called Off by Officers Star Staff Special. MNEIL ISLAND, Sept. 19 Gardner—dead on the island to Mexico, This was the belief of U. S. peniten: | Wary officials here today, which @Aused them to abandon their search “Of the island for the famous mail train bandit who escaped the prison @uring & ball game last Labor day _, BE YEARS i BONES FOUND If dead, it may be years before the bones of Gardner are found in the nse, entangled underbrush. If fled to Mexico, it is barely posst Die, officials admit, that the convict May “turn straight,” remain in hid- ing and in the end “amount to some “thing.” If alive, and elsewhere, they assert, Ht will not be long until Gardner is Fecognized and returned to serve his full term of 25 years for robbery of the U. S. matis. ALMOST EMPOSSI ALL SHOTS TO MISS ‘To those who have looked over the ground and have seen the long run, over practically level ground, made by Gardner from the point where he froke thru the prison fence to the place where he stumbled. fell, and @isappeared “Into the brush, a dis tance of several hundred yards, there is but one eXplanation—that he was mortally wounded and Is dead One man shooting at him with a 30-20 rifle should have hit the mark ‘ohce out of three times, It is con- tended, even if the rifieman were a very poor marksman. But with five Men, trained to shoot, firing con- _stantly, and two others, at a slight pater distance, firing when th Met a chance over the top of the prison buildings, there seems little Uk€lihood that Gardner escaped thelr ‘bullets, The one great mistake that was made in the man hunt, ac- cording to many, was this—no Dloodhounds were put on Gard ner’s trail, nor was there an ef- fort made to get them. Warden Thomas Maloney said dogs were no’ good. Sooner or later, if Gareiner fs alive, he is expected to make for his cache of stolen money, the loot from his Many train holdups. i MIGHT NOT BE { ARRESTED AT ONCE _ Railroad detectives, anxioug to lo- ate. this cache and recoter (Re Money, might, it is said, not arrest | him st once if they found him, but allow bin his freedom under surveil. | hope that he might lead | Roy or fed f FOR to freasure plant. ‘There is yet some possibility, very remote, according to Worden Malo- . that Gardner is still alive and the island, being sheltered by So little credence ix) in this theory that no being made to prove or dis- 3 if it pe | MISS RAPPE N An unconventional pose of Miss Virginia Rappe, film actress and model, who died following hotel booze party tn San Francisco. HERE’S MORE ABOUT ARBUCKLE STARTS ON PAGE ONE thoroly cleared and that he again will take his place in the hearts of the American people.” Mrs. Arbuckle arrived here shortly before 3 a m. today. She had been Met at Sacramento by attorneys for Arbuckle, who refused to permit her to add anything further to her ap. peal for fairness | SCHOOL FEES KNOCKED OUT Held Illegal by Superior Court Judge | School children will not be re | quired to pay fees for the priv lege of attending the public schools. ‘This waa the decision made Satur ‘day by Judge Everett Smith in the ease of W W. Ballantyne eainet the school beard, whom Ballantyne charged with placing an illegal and unconstitutional fee oertain testudies offered in the high | nehools BER OF SCHOOL ROVES tow J Santmyer, of the school goard, the o's Gecision ia the right decision case will be said | Jue, “1 d@ not think the taken to the supreme court }Santmyer. “I | vote for wuch Ballentyne brought action against the board one week" ago, wher two children, attending t poh were refused asses in woodwork and home economics protest of their father ag the fee demanded. Balle jhis suit in behalf of land their parents, as wel ‘own intere When W. D. Lane, attorney: for] Rallantyne, brought before the court} | the fact that in 1897 free text books and supplies had been voted for by | the peop Judge Smith stated that should a change be now pecesmry, Jit shorld be submitted to the public | vote The verdict of Smith will Prohibit (he schoo! d by a tem Porary injunetion from collecting a $40,000 fee which they had seeming ly calculated to raire COURSES UNDER FIRE MAY BE DRO a Ageording to w board may result cision three may p ane As it in the cane i it wlarly for trial int it may drop the « jthe fees are demanded |high school @urr to the supreme court |regarding the injunction | j urday. Yet, W. J. Santmyer, himsett [ a member of the school board, states that be will all in bie power to see that no attempt is made to reverse the decision of Judge Everett Smith. Judge Smith, in his opinion, aid “In 1897 the state leisleture pashed a law providing that districts of the first class could by a majority vote decide to furnish the puplis of the district with text books and sup Plies, The Seattle district, by a ma jorify vote, dec to furnish ther. ‘Supplies’ Inferentially means all the materials used in teaching a course, | whether it be the paper and penell used In an English clans, or the pen jcil, paper and other materials used }in a class in woodworking, sewing or other subject “It jg not the intention of the law to provide that materials may be applied In one course and denied In | janother. It is common justice that fa child whose special berit is toward lgorme vocational occupation rather |than the cultural arts should not be certainly would never action,” neoin high ttanee to sewing se of the Judge H a of Pennock of th thing: jon to stand fn rem an answer al to come urses for which | from the appeal sion sued Sat on the dec supreme court; | ® joplate, stuffed HERE’S MORE ABOUT MAHONEY STARTS ON PAGE ONE | mystery of several automobile thefts) r petty offens will conduct Mahoney. His first wit be Justicn of the P Hoar, who married the } st February method of last that the of the prose ack is changed he said. 10, unlew mom From the married lite of atep by point on, will Tate's withers alleged murder and open by the be Itself with and th of the trunk ‘The jury, it asked to view he state was drugged recovery understood, will be apartment where Mra. Mahoney a powerful trunk and a hammer the morgue the ends with into the death with t a inte to {) see the boly WITNESSES CALLED BY STATE The state has” subpoennec e Whether all thes ed to the stand or hot Patterson said, ¢ am they arise during the trial How many w expecta to call is a mystery ‘They haven't subpoenaed their themes yet,” said Patterson, “So we know of only two or three.” Patterson said it would take the state three days to get in wll ite. testimony, after the jury been sworn. He said he ex fected little trouble getting a jury, Johnston's contention otherwike notwithstanding beaten and will ak wit will be depends tances as ” r wes the defenne Roscoe Arbuckle and His Dog Luke traced, EVELYN NESBIT ESCAPES THUGS |Kidnaping 4s Frustrated by Police | NEW YORK, Sept What may attempt to kidnap forther wite of 19 have an Evelyn Newbit Thaw Harry K. Thaw, was frustrated early today by the polcte. | The former Mtn, Thaw, who is now known 4a Miss Nesbit, Was in tments on the third floor of 1 ling where she conducts 4 tea roém, about 240 a m.,.whén she heard men talking in the*hall outsider! police. She opened men attempted to according to th the door and th her. loudly that the three men fled, Patrolman Michael McMahon heard the cries and ran up to the building just as the th en jumped into a tax! that was ot ing at the curb | with its motor running, and drove j rapidly away, Ho remained on guard | Some time later, the three men, evidently thinking the coast clear, re turned. McMahon accosted them and they attacked him McMahon blew his | other patrolmen arrived. eine | After a fight the three men were arrested. They gave the names of |Joneph Daly, John Wardmer and James Dunn. Miss Nesbit appeared tn police UK! | court ready to testify against the | three men, bat the case was post poned until Wednesday. 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All of the best, prepared in ’ Covered Butter Dish Special, Tuesday, $7.50. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Arbuckle and his wife had been es. penalized with a fee, while the pupil tranged for some time, On hearing ‘#k/ng the cultural subjects pays no of his trouble, however, she immedi. | charse. jately left for San Francisco from| FEE SYSTEM IS New York. SYSTEM FOR REVENUE our own kitchen and served promptly and appetiz- - ingly. —THE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Pacific officials, who at the conclusion that Gard- if he got off the island, back to his business of holding OVER 10 DAYS Word has reached /the prosecu |tor's office that defense testunony | | will require about five days ‘o pre-| Al, MAY LAST | | | r a DAMAGE CASE, “ The fee sym S28 trains, are watching their lines * in Escape Attempt * LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 18—! Following a deadly and spectacular | att to escape prison, Tom) | Slaughter, Oklahoma bandit, is held | _ im solitary confinement today. Bliss Adkisson, serving time for! , was killed and two trusty | Guards were shot thru the body by Slaughter when he tried to escape from the prison farm. He used a stmucgied rifle. As the convict fled, another pri» oner opened fire on him | Slaughter surrendered. eee WALLA,WALLA, Sept. 19.—Jack/ McDonald, who escaped from the! state prison here Friday night, was back in his cell today due to the! Work of bloothounds. They trailed McDonald to Eureka where he was and! Dr. Arthur Beardalee, physician who attended Virginia Rappe thru- ou thé night following Arbuckle’ Labor day party, was expected to furnish new evidence In the case against Arbuckle when he reached San Francisco today. Beardsice was located with a hunt fmg party In the Sierras, He had Just learned of the fatal outcome of Miss Rappe's iliness and the charge aeninst Arbuckle, and sent word that he would reach San Francisco today It was admitted that Beardsiee is in a position either to ald the prose- cution or the defense. The defense, it wag understood, expected he might attribute Miss Rappe's death to causes other than the alleged asaault by Arbuckle. The state thought he might reveal alleged statements of Mias Rappe, made to him during the night following the party which would strengthen its case. Yesterday District Attorney Brady visited the hotel ,where the “party” took Place and with aides taking the roles of Arbuckle and jhis quests, reenacted what the state | “One thing is clear. tem !s & fystem for revenue and not} & system devised to cover exactly the expense incurred in furnishing | the materials used in any certain) subject. The charge made is, in oth jer words, an arbitrary one. We are) | told that the «choo! district ts $40,000 short, and that the proposed system with provide the $40,000, but such facts do not justify the course fol- | lowed, | “As f have said, the law was enact: | ed by @ vote of the people. If the people aro dissatinfied because of hih taxes, their remedy lies in re; pealing the law. Proceeding on the | course followed by the boards tf it is] permitted to raine $49,000 thin year. next year/t may find it necessary to raise $80,000, and so on, until the fr mes a systern free in name'only.” school systern bec< DAIL CABINET t. Allowing two days to get a this would stretch the trial out over 10 days’ time, wrusuitty lorg for even a murier triai. With the expectation that ‘large crowds will attend, Sheriff’ Matt Starwich was preparing t@tay to see that the courtroom is carefully fuarded, not so much to prevent violence as to avoid the posnibitity of spectatérs being tiample! ih the lerush, Auburn Men Up on Moonshine. Charges Information against two residents of Auburn were filed in superior court Monday, charging them with the manufacture of intoxicating liq uor for the purpose of sale, John Re rt was m hie Auburn farm, gallons of mash Joe Loger waa char easing, on the same date, ae of 1 of hay eptember one stilt, ed with two 50. accus on mash. Mother Asks $15,000 for Loss of Son | The Jury to try the case of Mrs Josephine Anderson against C. P. OF inger and Alger Fowler for $15,000 darnages was choren Monday in Judge Otis Brinker's court. | Mra. Peterson, mother of Ernest W. Peterson, deceased, who was killed in an auto-motorcycle collision September 4, 1970, claims her son death was due to an unlawful rate of speed of the automobile driven by Olinger and careless driving, The car, according te Mrs. Peterson, was ghe property of Alger Fowler. According to the complaint, Ernest Peterson was 26 fears Bid, in the em ploy of the United States mail serv: fee, and was the sole support of his) mother Collector Robbed of $7,800 in Cash BOOZE PROBE Helped Steal Government, Liquor, Is Charge the seventh arrest in connection with the huge liquor! |wtent from the government vault lat Wall at. and Elliott ave. recently, lin. which approximately $40,000 worth of bonded liquor was hauled y in trucks, Patrolman C. A arker was taken in custody Satur. | day night, and released on $500 bail furnished by his lawyers, Beeler and ; Sullivan | Parker covered the beat on the night of the robbery, where the lthett ocourred. He ts charged wit | nd transporting liquor. Marking DENVER, Sept, 19.—-Two armed | “possessing a 3 Federal Prohibition Director Re President H ng Back From Vacati¢ BALLOONS OFF ON BIG RACE cscs, teeta | work piled up during his nine) | absence from the White House ¢ vacatioh. Soldier Swung Into Air on; Rope First of his tasks is the vd the conferees to remedy the BRUSSELS, Sept. 19.—Fourteen | ployment situation. balloons, contesting for the Gordon| Secretary of Commerce c Bennett trophy, were aloft today, who accompanied Harding on blown westward from the starting Mayflower, has practically point at Solbosch yesterday after-|/out the delegation. Harding, noon by strong east winds. ever, will look over the list to A dramatic incident marked th2| that all elements are represe start of the Belgian entrants, As the before announcing their names, | balloon left the ground, a soldier be-| came entangled in one of the ropes | severe handicap to “La Belgica, and was swept aloft before he could of the balloons favored for the p extricate himself, He clung, sway- which is awarded to the balloon. ing in the wind as the balloon shot |ing at the farthest point from upwards, until the pilot, De Muyster, |sels regardless of time. nd his assistants were able to draw| The three American entries ' si him into the basket. |Ralph Upson Bernard Von Hoth His weight was certain to prov@a and W. T. Van Ormand. Ps recaptured. He is serving a term of ane to 15 years. bandits held up Lowry, | ector for @ chain ex, here | C. today, and with $7,800 in| that nators Probing Lyle .announced Monday night will claim was the story of the other arrests woyld probably | fatal afternoon and particularly the 4 | 0 IS IN SESSION s. DUBEIN, Sept 19. escaped _ JAILED AGAIN DR. DURAND IS 2 Throws Rocks and Breaks, - Wife’s Windews - EVERETT, Sept. Durand, recently acquitted on an in- sanity charge Sunday night on a charge of visiting | his former home, in spite of a court | injunction forbidding his appearance | ss at the place, and breaking the win-| dows with rocks. | Durand was ordered Saturday not | to return to the home occupied by wife, who intendy filing suit for weparate maintenance from her hus- | band. | In spite of the injunction, he gas| gaid to have appeared at 7 o'clock, when, seizing the garden hose, he turned a stream of water on the house for a few moments, then threw rocks at the windows. 19.—Dr. W. 8./ here, was arrested! Undertaker Held _ as Narcotic Agent A, Richardson, 39, negro undertak- | er, was arrested Sunday afternoon Dy narcotic squad men, who raided | ) his establishment at 1215 Marion st.! and seized two packages of drugs| da pair of seales from a coffin, | they said. | Mrs. ¥F. M. Crawford, 26, who was in the place, alleged to have been buying drugs, was arrested and tak Fen to jail with Richardson, In the year ended June 30, 1920, Great Britain bullt 594 #hips, United Btates 430 and Japan 105, alleged assault by Arbuckle upon Miss Rappe Brady announced that he had asked Log Angeles authorities to watch two leading witnesses, who are now in the Southern city, and he wired to Salt Lake City asking authorities there to watch trains for | Lowell Sherman, actor and guest at the Arbuckle party, who wes re ported to have left Los Angeles tor New York Federal continue agents said pressing their they would investiga Ition under the prohibition laws to draw his claim to recognition of Ire day Virginia Rappe Is Laid to Rest LoS ANGELES, Sept. 19.—Vir ginia Rappe, alleged to have been killed by Roscoe Arbuckle, was laid to rest here today. “Tne best dressed girl in pictures” was buried in a simple gown of white, the gift of Mildren Harris Chaplin. “It is the last gift I can make to one I loved,” the film etar said in offering the gown before the funeral Thousands of motion picture celeb. rities crowded around the chapel of a Hollywood fun parlor where the rites were conducted ’ It is estimated more than 8,000 persons viewed Misa Rappe’s body as it lay in state over Sunday, The chapel was banked with floral tributes to the dead girl, with the offerings of Henty Lehrman, her fiance, and Larry Semon, old time friend, among the most prominent A loving cup, inscribed to Vir ginia'’s memory by Norman Taurog and Larry Semon, wae also among the tributes. The beautiful young actfess was buried in Hollywood cemetery in the Henry Lehrman plot the cholee between from their insistence upon tion as & sovereign state or abandon ting the conference upon which the hope of peace in Ireland rests, Sinn Fein’s cabinet met with President De era today Ireland, hoping for peace and ta voring a conference despite the tech.) nical difficulties, anxiously awaited | jthe decision | Lieyad George's ‘ceived yesterday plicttiy insisted I latest re-| in which he ex » Valera must with note land as a sovereign stat r forfeit |the right to a confetence ded little | to the advancement of the Irish «it uation except to further clarify the | insues It was recognized there that the dail cabinet must go to conference | on Lloyd George's terms or risk civil} war The press urges acceptance of the premior’s invitation \Field House to Put on Vaudeville Show) The Hiawatha Field House, Cali-| fornia ave. and West Lander st., an-| nounees a vaudeville show for Sat urday night for the benefit of the basketball teams, to buy suits and| other needed equipment ‘There are eight good acts on the bhi | | Gifted Speaker at S. A. Hall Tuesday} Re Carl A. Thell, who has lately | returned from Sweden and Norway, will speak at the Salvation @my | temple, 1414 Sixth THenday | night. He camefrom a poor family night. He has gone up the ladder unt permitte to speak in the Church of Sweden, ave., State ‘ with! West V | miners rginia War W. Va,, Sept, 19 and Shortridge WILLIAMSON Senators Kenyon ay questioned West Virginia con ry and county authorities neerning the troubles which led to recent civil war between union and and their brought out the Quest familie nin iners already h of the ¢ coal dperators 5 mined, and to pay either of weight surement, and the inaiaten that miners find thelr fam. trade at company-owned stores were the principal grievances put forward by the miners, Miners Held union side refusi is or Two in Murder Case} WwW. Va pt. 19 Frank K y nd Fred Mooney, president and secretary of District 17, United Mine Workers of America, indicted here for murder, arrived at Williamson early today. They were in custody of Col. Jackson Arnold of state police and {Poth WILLIAMSON, superintendent constable were one and Jaunty Following a Harold Houston, miners’ attorney, and county authorities, Keeney and Mooney were taken to jafl pending hearing on bail, The minimum bond for murder in West Virginia is $10, 600. Boy of 17 Held on Charge of Burglary An information charging Gordon Phillips, who elaims to be only 17, with burglary in the second degree filed in superior court Monday. conference between wa ame from # poor family,| Phillips ix accused of entering the) by M of Mrs. W. F. Banes, 603 834 n September 14, and stealing jewelry and 4 saxaphone, home 1 amiling | cash. “The robbers stopped Lowry tn a dark stairway as he wag going to his office. The money had been col- lected from the stores Paris Crowds Wait | to’ See “Charlotte” PARIS, Sept. 19.—Crowds gathered on the Champs Elysee today awaiting to catch a glimpse of Charlie Chaplin Charlotte,” as be is known here, visited the “Dead Rat” and the |Cow," Mont. Martre cabarets lept today, disappointing those who tood in front of his hotel this morn ing. | nti |Huge Booze Store Gurgles Into Sewer One thousind bottles of moonshine | whisky and beer were dumped into the sink on the third floor of the courthouse by seven deputies from the sheriff's office Monday, betgeen § and 9:30 a, m The halis Were crowded with people, wie eyed and here inhalin the liquor, aly used as evid in moon- to the sink Missing Aged Man ‘ Found at Bothell A coast-wide search for | Sutherland, 85, who. disapp inet week from his home at 4805 First ave. N. Ws d Sunday morning when the aged man was }found, weak and dazed, by the |roudside in Bothell Sutherland had suffered lapses of mory since being injured in Ta- He was found L, Fleteher, 181 W. Crockett who took him the Bothell Sutherland was taken to his there, | jm jeoma during July te to | note! home from “wild | and} and bootleg cases, splashed in-| altho no new developments Lyle refused to | » the evidence against Parker, | tho it is rumored the policeman had several cases in an automobile, which he had taken as his share, | after permitting the robbery of the | vault, by the six men who were | arrested seyeral days ago in posses: | sion of a booze cache at Cow lake. Parker will be bound over to await action by the grand Jury in common with the other six men.| The action will probably take place | Tuesday. Parker's arrest followed conference between Lyle, Chief Police Searing, Fred Kelly of the departmeng_ of justice and Frank Reagan, assistant U at torney. Chief Searing said Monday that Parker had known since last Tues day that he would be formally ar rested and charged with complicity in the robbery, Parker's guilt was determined some time ago, Searing said, and action was delayed in order not to hinder the work of the prohibition director. follow, are expected today Ss. { |Wayfarer Society to Meet Tonight Committees for the coming year will be announced when the chorus and cast of “The Wayfarer”: meets tonight in the auditorium of the | Firat Methodist church at 8 o'clock Plans for the observance of Music week, which begins November 6. will be announced by 1), H. Painter of the Community Service Girl Swept Away | by Rushing Tide | DUBLIN, Sept. 19.—Whlile reading on the B k Rocks of Ballybunion, Miss Florence Nolan was away by the sudden rising tide. 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