The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 22, 1921, Page 14

— 4,000 DEAD, INJURED IN EXPLOSION! Germany Factory Blowup Tragedy Increasing as Ruins Are Searched agree BERLIN, Sept. 22.—Casualties in the explosion disaster at Op- pau will amount to more than 4,000 killed and injured, it was estimated today as rescue parties penetrated the fogs of poison gas which hung over the scene of the More than 2,500 injured are be treated at hospitals, French troops are guarding the area. ‘One report said pany of Stack Grocps otationed at the factory was wiped out by the ex- Plosion yesterday, Only ‘a great gaping chasm marks the scene of tho initial explosion. ‘The synthetic nitrate plant of the Badische Analine works, near Lud- wigshafen, was dstroyed, together with the little town of Oppau, by a series of terrific explosions yesterday morning. Investigation as to the cause of y morning, while a change was under way. It was fol Hie rritic, which actually lifted factory building from the hurled chimneys, machinery undreds of feet into the tely buried and destroyed trains bringing workmen factory, and was felt for a @istance of 50 miles around. All | Workers in and abouf the plant, about 800 in number, were killed. Further explosions followed. _HERE’S MORE ABOUT BRUTALITIES STARTS ON PAGE ONE it had been found in front man’ guards have one in i rt i ef rtf! pee ; F itself ig a little within the main prison. It's where punishments are in- » Managing editor Walla Walla Bulletin, with 1 rison. He unjustified killings. of many men e ‘sick today to a Se- some on- that cold. that outfit that Warden the trouble.” Warden is afraid running Capt. pro- . Questions TOKYO, Sept. 21.— (Delayed. Japan will not introduce the ques- tion of racial equality in the confer- _ @nee on limitation of armament, ac- _ @ording to the Kokumin, Japanese newspaper. ‘The paper said that the Japanese government had reached such a de- cision because the United States had intimated it would approve the Mor. Tis-Shidehara immigration agreement, _ GENEVA, Sept. 22.—At 11 o'clock today three new nations, Esthonia, AAthuania and Latvia, were admit- ted to membership in the league of ‘This brings the membership of the league to 51. K Aen, “Tighe Wight” SCREAM Wilkes j eed Matinee Saturday if Instant later by another, | WORRIED Lowell Sherman, actor of Los Angeles and intimate friend of Roscoe Arbuckle, who was present at the orgy in which Virginia® Rappe is lalleged to have received her |death injuries. His room ad- |Joined that of Arbuckle’s in |the St. Francis hotel suite where the “booze party,” as witnesses have testified, took -| place. HERE’S MORE ABOUT ARBUCKLE STARTS ON PAGE ONE keeper and secretary, who was ques- tioned today by R. B, Camarillo, as sistant United States district atior. ney. Camarillo said the woman told him Arbuckle’s cellar contained wines, whisky, champagne and gin, Ar. buckle allowed ng one to visit the cel- lar, she said, always keeping the key to the door on his person. Miss Fitz- gerald’s depesition will be sent to San Francisco, Camarillo said. | No attempt will be made to raid the Arbuckle home at present, the at: torney said. eee Sherman Says Rappe BY PAUL R. MALLON NEW YORK, Sept. 22.—Miss Vir ginia Rappe was drinking and “hi- larious” during the party which pre- ceded hér alleged fatal injuries in Ar- buckle’s apartments in a San Fran- claco hotel, Lowell Sherman, movie “villain,” told District Attorney Swann here today. Sherman, one of Arbuckle’s com- panions at the party, was taken be fore Swann at the request of San of J. G. Kelly, pub-| rrancisco authorities, who want him he will continue] a5 @ witness in Arbuckle'’s trial for @rives out the! murder of the movie beauty. state prison| Sherman gave Swann a Getatied | Ing and the body of a woman ex- account of the Arbuckle party. “The refresnments consisted of a very fine quality of Scotch whisky and an equally fine quality of gin, which were partaken of very freely by every one present.” Sherman man said. 4 Guests of the party began arriving about noon, and by 1 o'clock there were about a im present, Sher. man said. He told Swann he made frequent trips between Arbuckle’s room and his own to answer jong-distance calls in relation to business, * After one of these trips he was In- troduced to Miss Rappe. “I noticed the young lady was rather hilarious, evidently from the effects of the liquor,” Sherman con- tinued. “The next I heard of Miss Rappe was when I came from my room, and Mr. Arbuckle said to me, “The young lady is M1.’ His exact words were, ‘That Rappe girl ts sick." She was then in Arbuckle’s room, “I went into Mr. Arbuckle’s bed- room and looked in the door, and saw this young lady In one of the twin beds, tearing off her clothing, clutch ing at ber stomach, and evidently in pain, groaning, “I looked at the young lady on the bed and realized that she had had something to drink, and said, ‘T guess that little girl has a bun on and has indigestion.’” Later Sherman said: “The wom- en in the party took off what of Miss Rappe's clothes were left on her and put her in a bathtub directly in my line of vision thru Mr. Arbuckle's which was negotiated several months | door.” ago. SAID PARTY GOT ON HIS NERVES “When Miss Rappe did not revive, the house physician was summoned and Arbuckle rented another room for the girl around the corner from Arbuckle’s,” Sherman said. Arbuckle himself carried Miss Rappe half-way from his own room to Miss Rappe's, and the assistant hotel manager carried her the rest of the way, Later Sherman said he talked with Arbuckle, “Well, listen heret This party is getting to be a little bit rough,” he said Arbuckle to him, “ ‘and we had better see what we can do, You tell them that the reporters are coming up to see me, and they better get out!” Sherman said that was the last he saw of Miss Rappe, and the next day he and Arbuckle returned to Los An- geles. He sald he had never asked Ar- buckle what took place when he and ; Miss Rappe were alone in Arbuckle's j room, and that Arbuckle never had told him. * Sherman, wearing a new mustache and with a purple handkerchief stick. ing from his coat pocket, declared the party “got on hig nerves.” He declared that he had not meant to elude detectives yesterday, but had asked his wife to meet him outside New York city, so that he could es- cape Rewspaper men, He murmured an apology to the district attorney for having given ‘him any trouble, remarking that it was a nice day, and that he was ready to talk, Girl Was Drinking! THE SEATTLE STAR HERE'S STARTS more’ MAHONEY TRIAL 2 | PAGE 1], ABOUT door, It read: tents of the stomach had been exam “Have missed you twice, Hope/ ined by chemists, and that it con | | bout will be where T left it.’ tained 20 of more grains of mor-| BUYS 30 FERT OF phine, “The sfate will go back and take up the movements of the defendant | after April 16 in chronological or der.” Douglas sald that on April 10 Ma honey went to Everett and took a Great Northern train for St. Paul “Kate was not with him, becaune | © AND LIME The boat that the defendant had rented had been seen tied to a corner jot the houseboat on Friday night. “Saturday morning, the defendant went to Buckman's Hardware store and bought 30 feet of rope and five pounds ef lime “On Friday night there had been a] she was dead,” said Dougtas meeting at the New Raker House on| “Ho went to St. Paul and regia First ave, Mahoney and Kate were | tered at a hotel as James 1, Maho there, talking to his sister; Mra.|ney and wife, He wrote letters to | Dolores Johnston, and his mother,| relatives of Mrs, Mahoney, and Mra, Nora Mahoney, and Kate exhib-| forged her name, Te cashed some thetraveler’s checks and spoke) of the travelers’ checks, it “He returned to Seattle April 2 16, about| Miled a forged document with t jcounty aMitor, giving the defendant powerofattorney over Kate's prop: erty “Then he went to a garage and got Kate's sedan and began to use it, He | collected rents from her property She saw Kate and the defendant pre | and made several efforts to convert paring dinner. Kate'y property into cash. He told “Mathews went in to take his bath | people she was in Havana, Cuba. and saw them. “May 22 he was arrested, He was) | tre, —Kleet, another neighbor, | cleaning a car in front of his apart |}ooked out her back window and saw|ment. He had practically*all of |Mahoney and his wife standing on| Kate's jewelry in hig pockets.” |the porch, He had his hand on her| The fifth witness, Judge J. W. | shoulders In an affectionate manner, | Hoar, testified that he married Kate} heir plans for going | “On Saturday night, Apr 7:20 of $, Neighbors living at the end lof the hall at 409 Denny way, went into the bathroom, They had to go thru the Mahoney’s kitehen “Mra. Fred Mathews went in and | prepared the tub for her husband. “About 9 p.m, Mra Kleet lookedjand James Mahoney February 10. in Mahoney's window and saw a “Bhe appeared to be about 62 or) light. 63. That's how I remember the in “Later Mr. and Mra. Matthews saw a trunk roped and standing at the head of the stairs near the Mahoney apartment. The door was ajar. They heard hammer. Ing. “There was a ‘phone call to " Judge Hoar said, rriage license was admitted te’s exhibit “A.” J. M. McClear, teller at the Dex terHorton bank, was called to the stand. He testified that Mrs. Ma honey had procured $440 worth of the Seattle Transfer company ‘travelers’ checks txeued by him on that night, ordering a truck to [the American Express Co. on April come to 409 Denny way. 15. He said that he gave Mra. Ma- “Alvin Jorgenson, an express. [honey a book of checks containing man, went to that address and (20 $20 checks and six $10 checks. found a man and a trunk at the Gus C, Johnston, Great Northern head of the stairs, He carried [conductor from Wilmar, Minn., was the trunk down and put it on [the next witnens. the truck. The man carried a He said he here in April sultease, ‘ “I was in Tacoma with a switch “They proceeded to the houneboat|man,” Johnston testified. “I anked | at 1417 E. Northlake, En route they |him where Mother Mahoney was. I had a conversation. knew her in the old days. “The man spoke of having rented! “He sald she was in Seat the place. He said he wanted the|came over and looked her u trunk put in a boat. He said he and| “I saw her April 15 at the New his partner were going to do some | Baker house, between 7 and 8 o'clock fishing. in the evening PUT IT IN SAME BOAT “Mrs. Nora Mahoney was there. DEFENDANT RENTED Mrx. Dolores Johnson, a little gir! “Jorgenson carried the trunk and|™yself and Kate and Jim. We were put it In the boat. That boat ts the |! Nora's rogm. same that the defendant rented from| Johnston testified that Mrs. Maho- Howard, ney said she and Jim were going “The state will prove that the | East on thelr honeymoon, and that} other man on the truck was the | Jim had a job in St. Paul. defendant, James Mahoney. Ann C, Norwood, 740 22nd ave. N “After that Saturday all was quiet|said she saw Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney | jin the Mahoney apartment, Sunday. |in the office of her brother, Dr. °.| Monday, Tuesday, and none of the | & Wood, in the Green building, in| neighbors hag ever seen Mrs. Kate/ April, and Mra Mahoney told her| Mahoney since. they were going on thelr honeymoon. “On or about Menday, August ‘xine Eva Engxtrom, Bist ave. | | charged with forgery, he told police 8, pollee were dragging and @iv- 1S. who works in Dr. Wood's office, ing in the lake when = small |corroborated Mrs. Norwood and tug, the “Audrey,” passed, whose identified two pieces of Jewelry worn chief by Mrs, Mahoney on that occasion. The jewelry he identified was two brooches, both diamond-encrusted, which were admitted as state's ex hibits “B and Cc.” ‘The trunk, from which the bedy of the murdered aged woman was takbn after it had been recovered from lake Union, may be brought into the courtroom as an exhibit in the case. Mra. Mahoney’s body is sti In the morgue, in ice, and will probably be “The trunk ts in the 4. ‘The | Ded there until the case against her | husband ts finally disposed of, tho sate will Prove that it contained tne jury will not be required to look rags, blankets and other articles of ge te . apparel belonging to Mrs. Kate Ma- upon the ghastly thing. honey . ‘The state, it in understood, has not ~ recovered the hammer with which Capt. of Detectives Tennant con- tends Mahoney put his wife to death after stuffing her alive into the trunk. | Mrs. Mahoney’s two wigs, sald toj the size of an emg,” said Dougias, “A | have been found by Mahoney's sister, | quantity of lime was on the face. 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UPPER MAIN FLOOR—THE BON MARCHE Fine Heavy — Blankets heavy | weight—white with pink and blue 4 * Marche, Friday seems to have been ctive items, with their low prices, make with band top and {do their duty by the state and the} oome acquainted with, a Mrs, Atkin | | defendant at 6:14 p.m, Wednesday.|son and her #on, D, L. Atkinson, |He Saved Somebody || HERE’S MORE ABOUT eee while on the train going to St. Paul) From Buying Water New Mystery Man | Minn. } » thirsty man in Seattle ts! ‘ ACCOMPANIED | ing Prohibition I toy © in Mahoney Case) wns. manoxny to cunat ltyle ana his lucky s ursday BY 8, B, GROFF “The Atkinsona were from Lon-| Lyle siw 20 cases of “wet coods” on || STARTS ON PAGE ONE Is the state planning to break | don, returning via Cuba, from Hono-|a fish dock Wednestay and beat the | tho alibi of James K. Mahoney | july. Mra. Mahoney decided, vpon| prospective purchaser to it, Upon with the testimony of D. a At | their invitation, to accompany them igation, the 20 cases were cn hig rule the jitneys off the kinson, who Is held incominuni- | on the trip to Havana, Cuba.” to be pure water, with the ex- | “reel™ cado in the city jail Thursday, or That saiordind to Johnston, in| ception of about a dozen “decoy” bot.| That if the Cowen park Sine has his arrest some deeper sI§ | ine alibi which the state will neek| tes of whinky 1 Wale Ghote ot” tedh city: oma nificance? gy hac id ae ow fe ag watered stock had been In-| other sections of the city would de » brea hn n s te ony | d ike concessions the Leo Johnaton, attorney for Ma- | Wisether Atkinson, who is In jail, 1| tended for wale, apparently, to some|™and | s honey, says “Yen” to the first ino a i A, Ot onent wabebneh council, was the assertion of Coum the Atkinson with w y pu a question, ange rae Mahe 2 hostatiie | climan Philip Tindall Whether thi ts true te @ maiter| Orly tm Provecutor Dox ; <rbp atreg, ons, Spehees ae of conjecture, Meanwhile, Atkinnon | Only t nu {Ole Hanson, Former ete eis ghee? ee | Thursday morning began hin third| z | £ as the jitneys are permitted to aay ee ketbase atamhtenens He wan |~ Douglas knows why Atkinson ts/ Mayor, to Testify)", he said. “If we grant the arrested « 0 a. m, Tuenday, by De-| held, but prefers Yo let him remain Hanson, former mayor, | n park permits we might a tectives Chad Ballard, G. W. Hum-| fer the pr nt, @ mystery, an un as a witnens at ke off the id It phreys and J. 8. Majewski, at Broad-| "Own quantity, The shroud of Rheinstrom, in| we do that, the railway will go into way and Madison «t, Since that time| ™Y*tery is deepened by the detec: | ¢ y. Kheinstrom | bankru } he hae been held on an open charge. | tves F urges of hi 1g promoted al- | Insinuations made that ihe While refusing to discuss Atkin “Atkinson in connected with they leged land frauds in connection with| council members would hear son's cane, detectives admit he ix held | case, yes. But you'll learn nothing| the male of extensive realty holdings| from the people at election time in connection with the Mahoney | until he ts taken out,” naid a detec-|in the Puget Sound navy yard ain. | were hotly resented by Council case, but iMsist upon shrouding him | tive, Wednesday morning trict, eeveral years ago. Ole Han-| man Carroll, who shouted, in mystery If Atkinson is a witness, why is|s0n was the original owner of the| “You can’t coerce arty member “The state Is panning on several | he held in ja Does his connection | tract of this council, We've got to” sensational features in Mahoney's| with the case go deeper? | LS protect the railway trial,”* said Lee Johnaton,-but there! Booked as a contractor, living in| statement given out by a detective,| any cost.” will be none. We know what they | Rainier valley, Atkinson is supposed| who like the others, professes to| Chairman Erickson ald that are planting and will circumvent|to be the man who several weeks| know “nothing” about him, had consistently advocated ine: them, Atkinson is being held to|ago gave up his office suite in the) The theory that Atkinson may belof transportation facilities ° rath