The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 23, 1921, Page 1

"THE NEWSPAPER NEWSPAPER THAT GOES INTO 10,000 MORE HOMES EVERY WEEK DAY THAN ANY OTHER SEATTLE DAiLY—THE STAR YSTERY WOMAN In Mahone y Case----Defense Tangles Witnesses | Weather Tonight a fair; moderate south- erly Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 63. Today ALLEGED) CRISIS COMES POLICE CRACKER’ IN MAHONEY TRIAL | START nd Saturday, winds, Minimum, 51, noon, 56. On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The Seattle Star Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 IS SHOT F ing @ point They haven't ordered _ the cops to clear the passageway to _ the courtroom so that Mrs. Mahoney "ean stalk in at the last moment and my. “Here's your carfare, James; ue : ; 3 d i When howls all night—there’s © “when goveres, sous howl, there this from nue! Safe Blown, Sus- pect Is Captured After Wild Pur- of the White Cow Butter store, 109 Pike st. entered the shop Friday '*| being questioned by Captain of De- tectives Chas. Tennant, who is com- paring his fingerprints with those found on the safe of the White Cow Butter store. Police are searching i his companions. ; ASYLUM PROBE BEGINS MONDAY TH EW SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1921. It was evident when court recessed at noon today that a crisis had been reached. Mahoney was laughin His la ers were smili The faces of the state’s attorneys were grave. Both sides seemed to think they had the advantage. Lee Johnston, defense counsel, remark “The. state’s case is going nicely—to pieces.” Prosecutor Douglas said: “I refuse to be quoted.” SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 23.—jencournged py her presence yes- Evidence that Roscoe Arbuckle,/terday. They frequently whispered movie cothedian, assaulted Virginia! together, The courtroom yester Rappe in an inhuman manner,|day was jammed with women who| causing injuries which resulted in| heard physicians testify that there| WIFE CHEERS FATTY AS SECOND DAY OF MURDER HEARING OPENS that, but they refused to be inter. viewed. They would not express either sat- isfaction or disappointment at the progress of yesterday's preliminary Monday, at 10:30 a. m., at the city counci] chambers, it was an- nounced today. | The special committee appointed preliminary hearing on @ murder) charge today, District Attorney Brady announced. SEMNACHER MAY |her death, will be produced at hic! were many bruises on the body of Miss Rappe. DEFENSE, STATE, BOTH SILENT “I'll be in court with Roscoe to- | hearing. The state seemed to be keeping its witnesses as silent as the/ defense, There was no announce-| ment from the district attorney's of- | | fice that they were not to talk, but| ¢| to find one of the halfdozen major ly =. ‘ riptions, sizes, creeds and col- their vocal chords in ones m, and started in to make jt. threw brickbat, which was with great 9 inthe block there artous with Watching from behind a eign board, the} heard voices. Two gents appeared ithe darkness and started collecting the | dishes and other missiles from fending the destruction of the dogs. Shen cop oprang forth, but the. Junk men fled, casting the loot to the four) Which goes to prove—when a ‘at night, there's a reason! eee ‘The moon has her quarters and| but there are whole dollars in moonshine. P. Some Seattle girls we know should | devote less energy to making per | mafient waves and more to making permanent wives, Portland girl yesterday equalled | the world’s record in taking dicta. tion. Thgy ought to try some hus. bands. eee A man’s castle {s his home still. a ee by Gov. Hart to probe brutality and inefficiency charges will meet here fot the first time. They will effect al permanent organization and deter- | mine steps to be taken in the inquiry | into the state institutions. Seiey Iman Robert B. Hea- ‘ » D, Colvin, Mra. John H. Powell, Bishop E. J. O'Dea, Rev, ‘W. A. Major, all of Seattle; Mrs. John P. Weyerhaeuser and Harry McCormack, of Tacoma; George FE. Gage, Bellingham, and Mrs. A. E. | Larson, Yakima. No testimony will be taken until a) later date, to be announced in the | newspapers. Found Guilty of Murdering Kaber CLEVELAND, Sept. 23.—Salvator | Cala today was found guilty of the murder of Dan F. Kaber, wealthy | Lakewood publisher. The jury recom. mended merey. la confessed to the police that neld Kaber’s hands while another hired assassin stabbed him 24 times. Mrw, Kaber is serving a life sentence in the Marysville reformatory for planning the murder. Cala will probably be sentenced to life imprisonment. day, certainly,” was the word sen’ ife of Roscoe Al Semnacher, Miss Rappe's man. | Ut by Minta Durfee, w’ ager and formerly Arbuckle’s close | Arbuckle, film comedian, charged | \friend. is expected to make this ac-| With the murder of beautiful Virginia cusation on the witness stand. | Rappe, <ee Lik das, ot He will testify, Brady said, that artnes oll ae un ae abt Oc Arbuckle attacked the girl In such eT stay wi mn a manner as to cause the Injuries But Mra. Arbuckle would not say} na ee eee al word regarding the case, nor would later, Arbuckle’s attorneys permit her or | Bestod Pears Pacis prow ceesnrd ? Arbuckle to be interviewed. Not only | against Arbuckle, and Miss Zey | 7 We Pyvron, show girl, also were sum- |Prohibition Squad |moned as witnesses today. Now “Mopping-Up” Miss Pyvron was to be iniatlonad | concerning the details of the gin) CHICAGO, Sept. 23.—Millions of follification that preceded the al-|goliars in taxes will be aaseaned |leged assault on Miss Rappe. Mrs. | against 6wners of contraband liquor, Delmont will cover the same after which prosecution will follow, | ground it was learned here today. Internal Chief Counsel Frank Dominguez! revenue taxes on liquor have never | jand other defense attorneys today) been repealed. were planning to secure Arbuckle’s| ‘The flying squadron of 20! federal | release thru medical testimony.| agents that “mopped up" New York, They set up the theory that Miss Indianapolis and Chicago, was sent | Rappe merely collapsed from alco-|out from Washington to assesy holle excesses while in Arbuckle’s | taxes and get evidence for prosecu- | jroom and that the intestinal rup-|tion, the United Press was reliably | ture which caused her death de-| informed. veloped later. The squadron ts scheduled to mcp | Mrs. Roscoe Arbuckle, who came} up San Francisco next, it was said. |here from New York to join her $$$ | husband when he was accused, said) TACOMA.—Milo F. Harrison, 18, she would be at his side in the| died here Thursday as a result of court today, He seemed greatly’ fatal fall off his bicycle. GO ON STAND The city council will fall short in its duty to Seattle if it does not at once work out thorogoing transportation relief for the Cowen park district. The projected streetcar extension into that part of the city ought to be rushed to completion. In the meantime, it is not too much for the residents to ask that jitnev Peer service be resumed, | seriousness wit witnesses was a job for a Sherlock Holmes, They always had “just/ jaett.* Profiting by the experience of yes-| terday, when 1,500 women crowded the Han of Justice and the streets | | adjacent, clamoring for a chance to | get Into the courtroom, which seats | a scant 100, curious spectators came out early today. Shortly before 9 a, m. the first of the day's crowd began sauntering in- | to the Hall of Justice, altho today’s session of the preliminary hearing will not begin until 2 p. m. The early comers carried their lunches, IT’S SHOW FOR “WOMEN ONLY” ‘The rule, “ladies first,” will contin- | ue to be enforced in seating specta- | tors today, which means in effect it | will be a show for “women only,” as there will not be a chance of a ors ting in, “{ was deeply impressed with the! | being conducted,” declared Mrs. Har- old Seager, member of the committee | of 18 club women attending the trial] as representatives of 6an Francisco | women's clubs, The committee mem- bers have front-row seats reserved for them. “Mothers should be warned not to permit their daughters to attend these hearings,” she pleaded, RA which the case is | bail. SEARCH Man of Mystery, Held in Jail, May; ¢Shed Some Light; on Case BY S. B. GROFF A “mystery woman" began to figure in the Mahoney case Fri- &; iy. Police, it became known Frt day, have instituted » country: wide search for a woman with whom James FE. Mahoney is said to have been particularty friend- ly here, prior to the alleged morder of his wife, murder and also the alleged forgery | of the power of attorney on which Mahoney was first arrested. DOES ATKINSON KNOW WHERE SHE 18? ‘The “mystery woman* angle shed mystery Friday as when he was ar-) rested Tuesday morning at Broad-) way and Madison et. by three de| tectives, who have since held him| on an open charge, despite the fact! that {t is considered illegal to hold| & man on an open charge for over 24 hours. Atkinson is not allowed to see)“ anyone but his captors and the EDITION “TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE isoner Chews Gum Rapidly as He Gains Ground BY HAL ARMSTRONG James E. Mahoney chewed gum more vigorously today as his lawyer, Lee Johnston, tangled state’s witnesses. Alvin V. Jorgenson of Oak Park, the truck driver who is alleged by the state to have driven the murder truck contain- ing the body of Mrs. Kate Mahoney, murdered bride, the Mahoney apartment at 409 Denny way to the rowboat Lake Union, was called to the stand as the state’s star ness. On cross examination Attorney Johnston forced the wit- ness to admit that out of a number of trunks handled sa the night of April 16 the only one that he was able to pletely describe was the all murder trunk. Jorgenson could not recall the size, weight, color or co tion of any of the other trunks that he carried on his ti Piet kn described in detail | 2 @ Sidelights on Trial the alleged murder trunk. ‘Witnesses Friday morning testi- fied as follows: time after 8 back, I put the trunk on the back end of Be cane He ous the ae We drove up ilvered @ trunk thete and drove around jailer. He is not allowed to talk, | to; and does not know why he is held. police circles, Friday, and is being held until he tells. Police have, since Atkinson's ar- rest, maintained an attitude of spinxlike silence, refusing to con- firm or deny rumors that have! arisen in connection with his ar- rest. SAYS ATKINSON KNOWS MAN OF SAME NAME Neither Prosecutor Douglas nor Deputy Prosecutor Patterson would | comment on the new woman angle of the Atkinson mystery, Friday. » However, Defense Counsel Lee Johnston, representing James E. Mahoney, on trial for slayti his aged bride, said that a man engaged in the real estate, fire insurance and loan business in a downtown business block, has something to do with the Atkinson case. This man's last name is the same as that of the woman for whom police are search- ing. His wife's name, however, does not correspond) with that of the woman sought, The city directory does not give the name of me of the woman, |Oh! See Champagne in Dry Squad Room Anybody who thinks champagne is @ thing of the past, look in the dry squad store room, At present eight pints of the precious fluid repose side |by side with a quart and a half of | grapo. Raiding a hotel at 1103 Third ave., Thursday night, dry squad officers arrested Lucille Martin, 26, the pro-| prietor, and seized the French booze. Miss Martin was released on $500 T’N TAKE IS IN BAD! DE! R.—The popular indoor sport, “put and take,” is in bad with the district attorney's office. Here- after players of the game will “put” a fine and maybe “take” a jail sen- tence if caught, hd in the trunk that I had left rived at 1415, I stopped large, white shed. He sald he was going to put the trunk in a dost end row it over to the frent porch. 1 took the trunk down and put it in the boat; carried it 60 of 70 feet and placed the trunk on the back seat of the boat. “Fhe place was dark. The man told me where to drive, I saw the same boat day before yesterday at Howar "| Wer, taflors. Om Monday, Ouse. man Mal ‘and “The man had offered to he! bro peo Rg J The pictures, Jacobs said, were os News, at the Liberty al IL Me had a very pleasant voice, Bie wee @ large 1 was und an old man. and was kind of bent | He stuck determinedly to his story | | of the alleged Mahoney trunk, how: | & g00d look at him, I saw he w not very stou' ki there Is of tt. is almost entirely bald.) He had on @ brown hat. “Is the defendant the man?” asked Prosecutor Douglas. "I think he is the same man,” the witness answered. “Are you sure?” asked Douglas. “The witness has answered," in- terposed Attorney Johnston. “I think he is the same man,* repeated Jorgenson. “I saw the trunk day before yesterday in the morgue. To the best of my knowl-~ edge, it is the same trunk. that I put in the rowboat, about 11 o'clock the night of April 16. WITNESS SEEMS TO BE CONFUSED Jorgenson was cross-examined at length by Attorney Johnston. He was unable to recall the de scription of any other trunks he hauled that night of April 16, Once during the cross-examina- ticn, the witness dropped his cap and quite evidently was confused. over. Johnston forced him to admit he_ had refreshed his’ memory, since hauling the alleged murder trunk, from records in the office of the} transfer company. , “How often have you taken a| round-top trunk at night to a dark | place?” asked Prosecutor Douglas. | ‘The witness replied, “Once in four | years.” Morris Serf Tam a salesman for McDonald & Col- and ordered two suits, Jim Tracy I live at the Page hotel in Everett. have known Mahoney 20 years, ame < pence and Everett. rn April he came to visit me, it §:30 tn the afternoon. 1 it. tout “being masts ate rent down te my brother's piace, Tracy. Mahoney knew ‘ent up to the howpitat to see my wife and Mahoney stayed there. About T saw him Great Northern station. were talking. fore train time We talked a few minutes then Jim went Into the station. He came and srelhent een rain with his grip. whether it was an ‘Satvound pk. it was on the track he east! trata coreve tm on io explatnea that was taking the train in Everett rather than in Seattle to avoid some policemam (Turn u Tt was a Png minutes ae AUTOS ARE WANTED TO HELP SHUT-INS GET ENTERTAINMENT. Shutins (persons confined by illness) are to be treated to a pro gram of entertainment at the Masonite club at 2:30 p. m. Sum day. Automobile owners who wish to volunteer their services in carrying guests to and from the entertainment should call the Odd Fellows’ hall, East 0072. Shut ins who wish to go should call the same number. The people in that section of town made a convincing showing Thursday before the utilities committee. Nevertheless, the committee rejected their plea by a three- to-two vote. The council ought now to turn down the committee’s report, and give this part of Seattle decent transportation AT ONCE, ase Saas "] a