The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 20, 1921, Page 1

AHONEY YAWNS AT TRIAL! SEEMS Bi STATE OUTLINES TH LATE EDITION VOLUME 23. Greetings for no reason whateves, eee For the benefit of the folks who Stayed indoors yesterday, we dedi cate a touching little whatchamay caltit— “Hearts and Mowers.” Tt rains! Drips! Sunshine! Drizzle! Not a drop— ; BECOVER—Reward! Sign on a Third ave. shop win- dow— “Umbrellas recovered.” “To the guy who owns the sign— Dear Guy—‘“M'wife lost two green Bilk ones and my black one is mis- Bing. If you found ‘em, got ‘em| Tet’s have ‘em. Beware ; ANDY. | oe. JIM AIN'T GOIN" Mary had a little lamb, It’s fleece was like snow; | Mary and the lamb had no coin, | And T ain't got no dough! see "NOTHER CAKE EATER St. Peter was snooaing at the gate When some bird on the outside ‘Fapped. The rap was that of an i | Agam ‘nother rap and that of a} Duck private. St. Peter asked the/ “who,” and received the re Trapper. | “Pass below—you jounge Iizard,”| led St. Peter. Am, Lagion Weekly. ee ADVICE FROM SANDY— Never wear a radiolight wrist Watch when yer in a park in the evenin’ with yer str. WHAT'S A LITTLE DAM BETWEEN FRIENDS? Our cotemporary, The Seattle Star, says that a Seattle woman is building a dam across Carbon creek to recover her diamond ring. We wouldn't give » dam for » diamond ring. cee News dispatch yesterday says/ tried to hold up Evelyn Nesbit. | We win a dollar on that. We bet a Thaw would come into the papers as / goon as Arbuckle and Gardner quit Beating up the front page, eee ONE MUST KNOW Dear Home Brew: Please help us settle an argument, Bertic bets Roscoe spells his name it's “Pattie.” FAT TIG YOU. Deer F° TIG YOU: Authorities Pct Some say, “¥" as in “wine” Others say, “ie” as in “rye.” i. B. Will the girl who thought Rex + Reach was a summer resort please @rop sround and shake hands with the graduate gum chewer who arked ‘us what part of Scotland Sandy Hook, the famous Scotch poet, came ? from” ii While on the literature, wel an- er Constant Header’s question: wrote Gray's Elegy? Dear Con stant, it was written by James B. Blegy, former business agent of the Bed Posters’ union, A. E. F., now a sparring partner for Mary Gardner, the famous tennis player. eee Home Brew’s “honest advertising prize” is awarded to the Fourth ave. garage man whose sign says, “Cars) left here for repair at owner's risk.” . A HOME OFFER Do you know that every day you are being of- fered homes? | Every day you put off reading the Real Estate Bar gains offered in the classified columns you are neglecting an opportunity. Home own- ing 1s the safest investment imaginable. Panics and un- settled business conditions disturb stocks, bonds, and nearly every other security, || but leave home values undis- turbed. Read the Real Estate ads in || this paper today. They are an up-tothe-minute directory || of the best bargains in resi- ! dential property in Seattle. READ THE WANT ADS IN THE STAR. jlanded today at Cardige “City of St. from Brussels. Eg MAHONEY THE STAR HE'S OF TO |“Napoleon Never Me,” He Says “Insane” Jim Mahoney “went insane” esterday afternoon and gave out another interview. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Ratered is Recond Clase Matter May &, 1499, at the Postoftice at Seattle, Wash __SEATTLE, WASH, ‘TUE TELLS MEXICO Had Anything on) in Cell During ' Interview in his cell again at 3 o'clock under the Act of Congress March 3, 1179 2 OSDAY, 20. SEPTEMBE R He said, “Napoleon never had anything on me, but I’ve got it all over Napoleon now. He pointed to a steel rivet small compartment. See that bug there?” head joining the bars of his “Well, Napoleon is worse off than that bug.” He puffed a Camel. Wit Woodcutters Wanted. Work for 500 to 1,000. Tract Is Near Seattle. May Need Still More. ‘There will be an opening for from 500 to 1,500 unemployed men” the first of next week as wood cutters, the Milllonair club announced to The Star. ‘They will be paid $1.50 = cord, with all tools and equipment furnished. A public-spirited citizen, whe wishes to remain incognito for the present, has 160 acres of good timber land within hauling For additional information ap- ply to the Millionair club, 98 W. Main st. Retall fuct deaters of the city Will meet with Millionair club officials at the club's head quarters Friday at 8 p. m. to discuss ways of getting this wood to the city. It will be soid for $3.25 per cord on the ground, cut in four-foot length and piled in ricks. It is considered probable that the mayor’s unemployment com- mission, which holds its first mecting Wednesday at the mayor's office at 2 p.m. will plan to work with the club and the fuel dealers to bring the wood to town. Capt. J. 8. Gibson, president of the Waterfront Employers’ as- sociation, will leave Wednesday for Washington, D. C., to attend a national conference on unem- ployment called by President Harding and to be conducted by Secretary Hoover. He will be ac- companied by F. P. Folsie, the association's secretary. Capt. Gibson will take with him the written suggestions of a large namber of Seattle business leaders. These were solicited by Capt. Gibson at a luncheon given Monday. noon. in. the, Rainier club, Mayor Caldwell and others who have given the problem of unemployment some study, were his guests. American May Be Balloon Winner LONDON, Sept. 20.—Ralph Up sen, American, piloting the balloon “Aero Club of America” in the Gor- |don-Fennett international cup race, Wales believed Upson’s flight was the longest of any of the 14 contestants, and it was possible he would be hamed winner of the trophy ‘Two coritestants, Bernard Von Hlotfman, of St. Lous, piloting the Louis,” and a, Swiss balloonist, have not been heard from here, The cup is awarded to the balloon landing at the gres Hoffman Reports Irish Sea Landing ST. LOL Mo., Sept. 20.—"Land- ed Irish sea, 15 miles east Dublin, Seyshan harbor.” zernard Von Hoffman, pilot of the ity of St, Louis” balloon, one of the American entries in the Gordon Bennett international race, asx missing fn London dispatches, sent that cablegram to his parents here today. The cable was, the second received in two days. ‘Yesterday Von Hoff. man measaged be landed in North. west England, but did not state the exact place, test distance | reported | hout arising from his bunk, ; where he reposed full length jin his shirt sleeves, he said: | “It's too cold here, I anda couple of friends are going to | Mexico tomorrow.” “You like hot climates?” be | was asked. | For the first time he glanced | swiftly over his shoulder at the | | interviewer, then resumed; “Mexico's a free country, You can/| }buy a drink im Mexico. Gample. | Play the races. Want to go along?” ‘The offer was dec | “Are you ready to go to court in| the morning?” The question seemed | to puzzle him. A ae he asked. “No, I'm going! to Mexico. I went to court today.” “When did they move you into) this cellT” The eal! is one next the | outside corridor, where he can be! taken !f and out without disturbing other prisoners. He waa put there yesterday for the first time, “Oh,” he said, “I've been tn this room for six yeers pnd six months today.” “How's the food here? “Fine. Chicken every day and| watermelon. Just as good as Napo leon bad.” He uttered a bit of philosophy: “We're all gamblers. But the greatest gambler of all is the) farmer. He gambles on tho weather | }and the price of wheat.” | He rolled over and would say no) ; more. Up to the time of the inter. | j view, for several days, jail guards) said, he had been sane. eee iwirs. Mahoney Married Him to Help Him What prompted Mrs. Ka - Ma honey, » woman of 72, to marry dim » an exconvict fresh from the penitentiary, half her age, is today for the first time explained. This peculiar marriage has been as much a mystery to many as the mystery of her murder itself. In spite of a disappomnting former marriage, recently’ concluded by 4i- vores, Mra. Mahoney on last Feb- ruary 10 became, at the age when most women are grandmothers, a bride again Mahoney had nothing but a prison record. She had wealth. He was young; the “affair” could not last. She was wise in the ways of the world and must have known that. A theory was advanced shortly after Mahoney was arrested for her murder, that she had taken bim as @ protector because she feared ven-| geance from certain people in the East where she intended visiting. ‘This theory is scoffed at by Mrs. Mahoney’s friends and relatives, who say it was the fabrication of the ac- cused man or someone interested in his defense with the idea, perhaps, of casting suspicion upon someone, else, An entirely different theory is that jot her relatives and friends. Their | nation of the marriage is mere-| exterior, had a kindly heart. Jim Mahoney, coming out of the | penitentiary, was an under dog. | She desired to help him. That was why she married him. What changed her attitude towards him shortiy be fore her disappearance can be only guessed. But the reason she married him, it ig now averred, wag that she might have someone to lavish her wealth as well as her love upon. She in- tended to send him to a private tutor and later to a university to give him an education and fit him for a use ful lite And her reward was— Death! Harding to Send Treaty to Senate WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.—Presi- |dent Harding will send the German treaty to the senate tomorrow, it was said at the White House today. The treaty will be accompanied by & brief hola Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 TWO CE at Opening; Oubr’ Two Jurors, One a Woman, Picked B 'y Hal Armstrong James E. Mahoney went on trial for his life, Tuesd jmorning, and stifled a yawn as Prosecutor Malcolm Dougl \told the jurors the defendant was charged with brut |murdering his aged, wealthy The case dragged. Outside a crowd eager to be spectato bride, Mrs. Kate M. Maho the courtroom police gu rs. | Up to 11 a m. only two jurors, one a woman, had {passed for cause. was guilty. | Mahoney’s face was pasty. he entered the courtroomt | his mother, Mrs, | spoke. | At Mahoney’s |bach and Lee Johnston. dressed in mourning, and his pal and elegantly attirefi. | sistants, Tom Patterson and R. Johnston opened the proc Two others had been examined and |missed because they had formed an opinion that M left sat his two lawyers, L. B. Schwell At his right were his moti vire h He grinned once. When and seated himself beside — Nora Mahoney, neither of them sister, Mrs. Dolores John At the other table was Prosecutor Donglas and two a L. Bartling. : eedings with objections {the trial could not be held because this court had no | diction. | |Ronald to read as proof that} |Mahoney could not be fairly | | tried in this county. He wy j tended that the federal and state constitutions, as well as the state law, had heen vio-| ‘lated by the court when Ma-| !honey was compelled to testi-| fy against himself at a hear- ing before an insanity com- mission which had judged him sane. CHANGE OF VENUE TO _, BE DETERMINED LATER Judge Ronald denied’ all of John- ston's motions and demands and said, “If he can't get a fair trial in | this county, I will take the trial out of the county. 1 will be able to de) termine whether he can get a fair/ trial here while the jurors are being examined, ‘The jury was then called in. Mahoney showed keen interest in the examination of the jurors for a man who had but a few hours before been “insane.” He listened intently to every question and togvery word of the court. The defendant is dressed in a new blue serge sult, with the tip.of a white handkerchief protruding from his breast pocket. He has lost no |flesh during his stay in jail, and James E. Mahoney (right) handcuffed to Sheriff Matt Starwich (left) as they left the| weighs his usual 200 pounds. } county jail this morning to go to the courthouse, where Mahoney went on trial for murder of his aged bride. Note the sober, worried look on Mahoney’: 's face.—Photo by Price & Car-| ter, Star staff photographers. NEW DISPUTE IS ON OVER CHILD Matrimonial Difficulties of Scotts to Fore Again bringing to the foreground! the matrimonial difficulties of Hilda Scott and Arthur P. Scott, who were divorced in Seattle one year ago, an order to show cause why she should/ not return their 4-year-old child to the woman in whose charge the child was placed six months ago by Judge A. W. Frater, was seryed on Mrs. Scott Monday, ra. Scott's divorce proceedings one year ago were not contested by her husband, and the wife was given custody of the child. ‘The case, how- ever, Waa brought into court again six months ago, after Scott had vis- ited the home of his wife and child and brought evidence to the court that Mra, Scott was not the proper person to care for the child. At this time Judge A. W. Frater placed the child in the custody of Mrs. John M. Marks, with orders that neither the mother nor father were to see the child more than one day a week. According to Mrs. Mark, on Sep- tember 17 the mother of the child came to the home of the former and took the child away with her, despite all protest. Scott requests now. that the child be placed in his care when taken from the es rec Two Boys, 17, Held Here for Burglary Two 17-year-old’ boys, Harry Hoffee and Fred Frobese, are held on open charges Tuesday, accused of burglarizing the home of D, Stalker, 1117 Ninth ave. W., on September 14, where a registered letter was stolen, WEATHER Tonight and Wednesday, rain; fresh to southeast to southwest gale. Temperatures Last 24 Hours His mother showed no change of expression during the morning ses- sion of court. His sister smiled once or twice at some odd answer from History of the Case “Horse Sense” Solved Trunk Murder Long Search Ends in Found at Exact Spot Tennant Deserves Great Credit * By Hal Armstrong Criminologists are agreed that the murder of Mrs. Mahoney was one of the most elaborately planned crimes) of the decade. The plans extended across some member of the jury. HAS FORMED OPINION | MAHONEY IS GUILTY | J. A. Swain, a civil engineer, of | Renton, the first talesman, was dis- | missed because he said that he had | formed an opinion that Mahoney was | guilty which could not’ be changed |wittout considerable evidence to the “4 | contrary. Victory | "She Ail nentgn Sale heit Predicted son, 714 N. 72nd st., a jewelry sales- | man, was excused from the jury box. Mrs. Rose E. Hellman, 2230 33rd jave. N. ar the wife of a oe, * * * { Kate} Prosecutor Douglas announced the continent, frpm here to/tnat the state has 96 witnesses who Havana, Cuba, and presumably were weeks in being formed. | will_testity against James Mahoney. Oné~of these is Mahoney's sister, * Johnston demanded a change of venue and off uffidavits and newspaper clippings which he asked Judge HowJuryStodd at Noon Toda Jurors tentatively accepted B the court up to 12 o'clock on the Mahoney trial were: employed on the new telephone ing, was the first juror pas cause. Her answers to questions by sel for state and the defense ¥ that she had no scruples ag: flicting the death penalty in ing cases, and that she would dred Keene, 1408 E. 65th 8t.; te Gregory, Kinnear Apts.; Charles , os to bica?y 4, ale © and find a chicken missing and- Freel toate animal, that is g evidence of what?” Yet, in an office little more than 12 feet square, Captain Charles E. Tennant, police detective of modern type, undid} the plans in a few hours and knew where the body of Mrs. Mrs. Dolly Johnson, “That the animal got the chicken,” said a jurywoman. When 11 prospective jurors had/ The bailiff rapped for order in Minimum 62 Mahoney was. On May 22 two nieces of the mys- teriously missing woman first broke the news to Tennant that she was gone and that their suspicions were aroused. HOW TENNANT RECONSTRUCTED THE CRIME In less than three days he was dragging Lake Union for Mrs. Ma- honey's trunk, in which he said was her body. He pointed out, within a few rods, the exact spot where the trunk bobbed to the surface nearly two and a half months later. Mahoney, the husband, charged with the murder, simulated insanity or hag actually lost his reason since his arrest, “It wasn’t anything but hard plug- ging that solved that crime,” said Tennant. “Hard (Plugsing and com- mon horse sense.” How he formulated and worked out the theory of the Mahoney mur- der, he explained: “She, a bride, was missing. It didn’t take long to send for her bridegroom, James Mahoney, We knew him pretty well. ex-convict. He had several thousand dollars’ worth of her jewelry in his pockets when he was brought here, That convinced me he had murdered her. “Kate Mahoney was not giving anybody jewels, She wouldn't even give her husband car fare; she made ‘him walk. So, when we learned he had a paper giving him power of at- torney over her property, tho it was signed with her name, we weren't He was an| in| surprised to learn it was a forgery. But this only deepened the suspicion that she was dead and that he had killed her. There was plenty of that sort of evidence “Where was the body? That was the thing essential for the state to find, and produce, and I set about to find it. “Mahoney said his wife was East; she'd gone to Cuba, “She'd stopped with him in St. Paul and other places. They'd visited his folks, Then ghe'd gone on, and he'd come back. MISSING TRUNK, ROPE, 1K CLUES “A few telegrama that I shot East discovered that she hadn't been with \him there, so her body wasn't there. |Her trunk was gone, we found the expressman who had hauled it, and jabout the same time discovered a bill charged to Mrs, Mahoney for a 30-foot rope and five pounds of lime. “Mahoney had bought the rope and lime, and charged them to his wife's account, “Rope for the trunk. Lime to de- |compose the body, Lime won't work that way without water. The trunk was in the water. Then the express- man was found; we located him by asking the transfer companies if they had been called to haul a trunk from jthe Mahoney apartment the night she disappeared. “The expressman took us to the place on the Lake Union shore where he had helped a man haul a trunk (Turn to Page 4, Column 2 m: been examined the score showed four women and one man opposed to cap- ital punishment and three women and four men not oppased to capital punishment. Judge Ronald explained circum- | stantial evidence: “If you see a man jdead on the street with a buljet in his head you assume he was killed by that bullet. That is cireum- stantial evidence. He might have died first and then some person fired the shot, but that isn’t likely.” Another example of circum. stantial evidence was given by the judge. He said: “If you hear a noise in your chicken house jcourt. | — | Prosecutor Douglas informed the jurors that the trial of the 6 may require 10 days or two and asked all of them to cen |that fact when they were qi as jury members, | ‘Two leading questions were \of jury members: “Are you so opposed to ¢ punishment that under no |stances could you vote :to hang | pisene you are sure was guilty murder?" “Could, you find a 4d guilty cn circumstantial e' alone?” ANOTHER Contractor Is He Arrested and held incommuni- cado in the city jail carly Tucs- day, L. D, Atkinson, 29, contrac tor, is the object of a mysterious, secret probe by police. He is be- Heved by some to be an im portant witness in the Mahoney case, Atkinson was arrested at 2;20 a. m. in a house at Broadway and Madison st, by Detectives Chad Ballard, G. W. Humphries and J. S. Majewski and taken to city jall, He has MYSTERY ld Incommunicad Detective R. R. Herbert # Atkinson is “you won't learn from us why he | is in jail” p Lieutenant of Detectives ¥ 7 Justus said Atkinson connected with the case, as Chad Ballard working on the case start.