The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 24, 1921, Page 1

yd TIGHTEN NET ON MAHONEY > DEATH TRUNK IS On The Seattle Star & Entered as Second Class Mat ~ VOLUME 28 <= War Hero’s Clears Tacoma Youth of Helping Kidnap Himself Home Brew Hello, folks! Have you a son | high school playing football? ‘Then you don't know what | : tee el in ird ave, window: “How Expect Your Wife to Be an} When She Has to Work Like co if ee AUTUMN IDYL hea there a man with soul so dead, never to himself hath said: I'd gob a colb in ™9) IN THE Do you Del! 1 know every bar in the neighborhood. o- 2 ‘A youth who lived over in Corning Baid: “Girls always start me scorn- : ing, At night they fake up A wonderful make-vp; But, gosh, they look tough in the morning!” —BIDE DUDLEY. A New York woman knocked a/ man down, blacked both his eyes and split his lips for trying to flirt with her. She must have been a striking beauty. } NEW VERSIONS OF OLD VERBS | “Fatty” grit and his money will soon be parted ‘ : General Humidity has retired in} Beattle. eee DO YOU REMEMBER The days when A. A. Denny his cows on the big lot where the Arcade building now stands? o- Anyway, it’s a lively ball Babe Ruth hits it. o- {Phe Chicago packers have put the shop into effect. The cattle| aren't the only things that'll be/ skinned. | ore ® A | when | WILD AN WE HAVE KNOW? a The city council bull. The kitty out at Halbert | ms Harmstrong’s poker parties. {| oLatal ss Gu Do an author's profits depend bal the price of bis books?—Curious, | No. They depend on the volume.— Homer Brew. i | © | Now that all girls dress lke that, the vamp bas to do some real acting ‘to put over the idea of wickedness, | 4 we |of Tacoma capitalist, }Percy Brush, |rest of Van Am eee the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise ter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress Mareh 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mail, $ SEATTLE, WASH,, § SATU RDAY, SE PTEMBE R 24, 192 ™ OUNG FATTYS — MOTHER HEARING | SUICIDE GOES ON Suffering F rom State's Witness Delusions, Shoots: Surprises; Short, Herself; Husband Session Expected Finds Body in Today’s Probe Firing a ballet into her head, BY M.D. TRACY Rath Vielet, 26, 4042 hth ave i SAN FRANCISOO, Sept. 4 Res S. W. committed suicide at | coe (Patty) Arbuckle came into court 6:10 a m. Saturday. The body | .nortty before 11 a. m. today for the was found fully dressed lying | \ecumption of his preliminary hear on a 22caliber rifle in the kiteh- fing on a charge of murdering Vin! en of the home by ber husband, | einia Rappe, Los Angeles moving Fred Violet. The bullet had [Pi tur, peacty lodged in her temple. Arbuckié had waited In the judge's Violet told Deputy Goroner Frank | chamber while a list of petty ve | Confession McDonald his wife was slightly de | court cases was run thru. mented and imagined persons were! papry JOINED following Ler about BY HIS WIFE She_n6 B s0n, 6 years of age A case of vagrancy was called as| In an attempted suicide by turn: |... No 6 and disposed of ing hs me’ Wate fh tie Cave Number seven, Roscoe Arbuckle, apts, 1415 Olive st, Friday after | murder,” shouted @ court attendant noon, Mrs, Nina Trumbo was res | J sadeniy ma) ZS ~ | The famous comedian walked into | lthe court room and took his seat, | where ‘he was soon joined by Mra. | Arbuckle, known on the stage as 'Minta Durfexn Mra. Arbuckle wag dreamed entirely in brown, Yesterday ! sho had worn sombre black. Al Semnacher was called as the first witness. ‘The court room, as yesterday, was filled entirely with women, chiefly | representatives of various women's jeluba. ‘They inctuded two members aot the colored women's clubs, | The attorneys informally agreed }the hearing would adjourn until Monday an soon as the questioning Wipe 17 MAY concERE: : aha, te ederim. ne * piryane of rigititg’e far ae pennibie « i] Arthur Rust, seiah. 46 Grder er ae | ‘as cere a ‘ever. eines, do. make” voluntarily end. ey: of Al Semnacher, Miss Rappe's for: | Oa ‘own free wall and secord the following nee: mer manager, was completed, ae COMMENTED ON xen - GIRL'S DEATH Semnacher testified that on the night of September 9, which was the day Arbuckle first learned he was accused of responsibility for Mis |Rappe'n death, he met Arbuckle, | |Lowell Sherman and two or three lothers in the office of Sid Grauman lin Low Angeles about 11 p. m. and discussed with them there Miss |Rappe’s death, He mid that Ar buckle had been apprised of the nc- cusations against him by a reporter, jwho asked for a statement. | “What comment was made on Miss Rappe's death?” he was asked. “We all said it was very unforte- nate and we could not understand it.” he answered. Semnacher did not hear Arbuckle comment on her death, he said, and nothing was said about Arbuckle having been in Room 1219 of the St Francia hotel with Miss Rappe alone on Labor day. Semnacher did not know whether Arbuckle gave the reporter a state. ment, but he did say he heard Ar- buckle telephone to the chief of po ce in San Francisco and offer to| come here. He presumed from the fact that Arbuckle left immediately | for San Francisco that the police} told him to come, Previous to the conference Sem-| nacher had ended a showing of one of Arbuckle’s films at Grauman’s | theatres, but he could not recali the! name of the pieture, He had seen | and talked with Mildred Harris at} the theatre. She was dancing in a} prologue to the film } He did not identify Miss Harris, | whose name ia the same as the for- mer wife of Charlie Chaplin Semnacher was asked if, while he | was in Arbuckle’s apartment at the | Labor day party in San Francisco, he | had seen Miss Rappe stand in a door-| way with hair down, shake her head | and say } arthur Rust wae in no manner e party to Bde own kidnapping either before or after | getting Anto the. automodile with me on the day ofthe kidnapping, He had no acquaintance with we defore that time, Hie testimony at the trial was true ani correct and in strict accordance: wath the facts in every respect, Witness my hand at Tacoma, Washington, this 2let day of "HOGA Lc: Arthur Rust (above), son who is now cleared of stigma caused by false story told on witness stand by Hugh C. Van Agn- burgh (lower right), and photographic reproduction of \affidavit in which Van Am- | burgh, much decorated ex- service man, confesses telling false story of kidnaping. ore cued unconscious from the gas | filled room by a neighbor. She wax taken gfo city hospital, where It is believed she will live. Her condi-| “Look, Roscoe! tion Saturday was still serious, The | this?” reason for her act is not known. | Semnacher denied he had seen any ones | Incident of the kind. Some details of the testimony were | Special to The Star, TACOMA, Sept. 24.—Arthur Rust, 20-year-old of W. R. Rust, Tacoma capitalist, was exonerated today of being implica kidnaping here on February 1 in an : } § Kibaaoing ere on Ruucvery 1 iv 2ei Mire. Moore, Miss | .apristanies, Anower to one avertica| Amburgh } Gross Released was whispered to the court reporter, | Van Amburgh had been found not} written on a bit of paper and passed guilty by a jury in superiot court| VANCOUVER, Wash, Sept. 24 to the attorneys and the judge. Mrs, Roy Moore and Miss Christine | when tried on a kidnaping charge be Gross, both of Seattle, were released ‘Colorado Wa fore Judge W. D. Askren. here today, following a motion by | Ss juspend Judgment ' WAS ONE OF MOST CORATED SOLDIERS <4 COLORADO SPRINGS, CWI, Sept. | |24.—The women of Colorado have The affidavit sworn to before City | Prosecuting Attorney Hall, Attorney J. Charles Dennis and| Bail of $5,000 was waived. his assistant, on Wed-| Mrs. Mooré ts the wife commadte benees Mines “Sale? nesday was made public Saturday. | soore, alleged Arbuckle by suspending the show. ee Aenare teneperces tO bay ing of Arbuckle films. A resolution to that effect, presented at the state convention of the Colorado | left the city. The Rust k | federation of Women's Clubs was | ica’s most decorated private soldiers, | turn October 18, when Moore and Or voted down, The convention decid his triafmand acquittal were #ensa-| outt are to be tried for their alleged | ed to let the law take its course be j tional In the extreme. holdup of a circus comp: ’ ore acting on the resolution, On February 1, while walking to any ng 4 ‘s aver om pany last | fore acting 0} lution worm at t Bank of California, | $36.900, PPLALY ,QeOnDe: with WEATHER hia father fa the argent. stockholder, | young Rust was kidnaped by Van Amburgh, Tonight and Sunday, rain; fresh to strong southerly gale. Forced into an automobile at the Temperature Las: 24 Hours point of a gun, Rust held a prisoner while the kidnaper drove to Maximum, 65, Minimum, 45. Today noon, 55, How do you tine | son in his own of Roy and alleged consort of Bert Orcutt, Moore's companion, cireus robber, Miss Gross is the ing case, the ar-| yurgh, one of Amer-| ‘The two women are required to re PRINCE RUPERT, B. C.—A storm ~|seven miles from Ketchikan forced |, O. Prest, aviator, who left Friday morning for Wrangell, Alaska, en route to Nome and Siberian in a| biplane, to return was a ETAMPERS, France.—While taking jpart in elimination races for the Deutsch de la Meurthe cup Friday, | Capt. Bernard de Romanet, noted French aviator, was killed when his the tideflats. FORCED HIM TO WRITE DEMANDING RANSOM \German Treaty Is | | In the building used as a a (Turn to Page 12, Col. 5) plane fell 650 feet to the ground. 7th to #9 TWO CENTS IN SEATTL zt He Wants to Serve Term for Gardner Percy H. Leaverton Would you be willing to take ‘dner’s place in prison years the con his wife so that viet could with and child? Perey H. Leaverton te ing to a Star today made the prbporg! He going to President Harding Pardon Gardner and I'l! to McNell Inland and serve sentence,” said Leaverton WILLING TO MAKE THE SACRIFICE, HE SAYS Gardner escaped from MeNeft Island federal penitentiary on the afternoon of Labor dey dur- ing & convict ball game, in & hail of bullets which killed one Prisoner and seriously wounded another. He is still at large. ‘I'm willing to make the eac- ri for Gardner, his wife and his child,” says Leaverton. “They are three in the world. Tam all alone. If it could be arranged I would be glad to give him my job and the home for-which I am paying.” Leaverton ts a railroad switch. man. He's 42 and lives alone at 2522 South L st., Tacoma, KNOWS PE a WILL RIDICULE HIM His parents were murdered when he wa» a boy in Kansas and he's been alone since. At ene time, he eays he served in Oklahoma as a deputy United States marshal. “I know that people will laugh and say that I am a ‘nut,’ but I guess Christ was criticized in his day, too, “I have never done much in this world. I'd like to do some- thing really big. “Il wrote to Dolly down in Napa, Cal., her of my plan to take her hus: band’s place. I never met either of them but I know they would be happy if they could be together, And then there is little Jean, their daughter, GARDNER WOULD MAKE GOOD IF GIVEN CHANCE “Emmet Dalton, of the fam- ous Dalton gang, made good. So did Al Jennings. Gardner would do the same if only giv- en a chance “If a pardon can be arranged and Gardner returns the stolen money and bonds—I would think that I had accomplished something in this little old world by going to the island and taking Roy's place in the pen “I'm willing to spend the rest of my days making little rocks out of big ones if I can only bring happiness to Roy, Dolly and Jea live Talk man he write it to 5° his Gardner and told Now Before Senate WASHINGTON, Sept 4 senate today took up the peace treaty On motion of Senator Lodge, the treaty, with the reservations adopted | by the senate foreign relations com | mittee, was read, and Lodge | opened the d |Dr. Marie Equi Is Again in Portland) PORTLAND, Sept, 24.--Character fzing San Quentin prison as the “house of unutterable sadness, Marie Equi, released from the Cali. fornia prison August 9, after serving nearly a year on an espionage charge, was in Portland today, She arrived from San Francisco last night, STORM: WARNING A southwest ‘storm warning was ordered displayed at 7:30 am. A} ‘¢ storm, moving rapidly southeast: from the North Pacific ocean, will cause strong southeast shifting to southwest gales this afternoon, tonight and probably Sunday, according to the weather bureau, The | then Dr. | - SHOWN TO JURY; PRISONER GRINS LINKS IN THE STATE’S CHAIN FORGED BY WITNESSES That Mrs. Kate Mahoney was last seen the night of April 16. 2 That a trunk was taken from the Mahoney apart- ment, 409 Denny way, by Expressman Elvin Jor- genson, and put in a rowboat on Lake Union. } That the man whom Jorgenson met at the apart- ment and who directed him to the lake and rode with him on his truck and took charge of the trunk after it was put in the boat was a big man with a pleasant voice. “I think the defendant is the man,” said Jorgenson. That the same trunk was recovered from the lake by police. 5 That it contained the body of Mrs. Kate Mahoney. That Mrs. Mahoney’s stomach contained more than 20 grains of morphine. 7 That the body in the trunk was wrapped in Mrs. Mahoney’s clothing, including a jacket she was wearing when last seen. A set of lower false teeth, positively identified as | Mrs. Mahoney’s and fitted into the dead woman's | jaw. Mahoney positively identified as the man who reg- istered at a St. Paul hotel on April 23 for “J. E. Mahoney and wife, Seattle,” and as the man who dic- tated two letters to the hotei stenographer. * * + * * % * By Hal Armstrong James Mahoney picked his teeth and Judge J. T. Ronald nervously paced his bench today as the state drew its net tighter about the /man on trial for his life for the alleged mur- \der of his wife, Mrs. Kate Mahoney. The murder trunk, old and stained, was brought jinto the court room at noon,. While Detective M. J. |McNamee identified it, re-roped it as it had been jroped when it came out of Lake Union on August 8, then unroped it and opened it for inspection of the | jury, Mahoney sat and grinned. His sister, Mrs. Dolores Johnston, smiled widely. His mother, Mrs. Nora Mahoney, sat like a sphinx. |His little neice, Margaret, crossed her handkerchief over her nose and clutched her uncle’s arm. “Is this the trunk you pulled out of Lake Union in which the body of Kate Mahoney was?” asked Prosecutor Douglas. “It is,” said McNamee. The trunk was marked state’s exhibit L2. It was hurried out of the court room. The jury was sent to the juryroom and the windows were flung wide open. Court adjourned until 9:30 a. m. Meuhiy. Mrs. Myra Helm, pretty blonde shannitene ion | 'from St. Paul, identified positively the defendant as |the man whom she had seen in the St..Francis Hotel, | |where she was employed in that city, on April 28. | A photostatt copy of a page from the St. Francis |hotel register of that date was introduced in evidence | and handed to Mrs. Helm. The witness was attired in a neat brown suit, ies | |with black fur, and long, gray gloves. She had on a small, black hat. Dainty brown slippers adorned her feet. She wore a corsage bouquet of violets. | As the crowd leaned forward to catch her testimony, Ma- | honey slumped down in his chair and tried to appear listless. It was apparent, however, that he was taking a keen interest | in everything the witness said. | “Were you at the St. Francis hotel April 23?” asked Pros- | “nt was tie beskieeper ead (Pa was e . stenographer there,” —Mrs.|ing the samme toon. He is, Greased | Helm replied. “My office was | now the same as he was in St, Paul on the balcony.” except that he didn’t take his hat off Douglas then handed Mrs. Helm when he was dictating. I didn't know the photo of the hotel register page. | h¢ was bald until yesterday.” |She identified it as a correct copy.| Mrs. Helm said she saw two en- Douglas took it and facéd the jury. |¥elopes in the hotel office addressed | “1 will read next to the last line,” | he said, and read “J. E, Mahoney and wife, Seattle, Wash,, 10 a, m., room 332.° |NOT NECESSARY FOR WIFE TO BE PRESENT “At the St. Francis hotel can a man register for himself and wif without the woman being present?” \asked the prosecutor, Mrs, Helm re- | plied: “They can, and frequently do.” | “Did you see this defendant be-| f v asked Douglas, “I saw the defendant on the morn jing of April 23, 1921, in my office on |the balcony of the St. Francis, was working at my machine. He asked me ‘Will you do some work \for me? and I answered ‘Certainly. “I took two letters for him, When the work was completed he spoke of |conditions in Seattle, and remarked | that he had come Hast with his wife. He said he would have to return to Seuttle on business and that his wife was going on to New York,” “How did you happen to speak of Seattle?” asked Douglas, | “I had been in Seattle before,” the witness answered, | “When did you next see the de- fendant?” “I next saw him yesterday in the * I knew him when I saw | . RE | POSITIV EL Y IDENTIFIED The two letters, dictated by Ma- | honey, were introduced by Douglas in | One was addressed to Wil- Lambuth, Seattle attorney, | Perkins evidence. liam D. and the other to William D, & Co., Seattle bankers, | Gus Johnson of Wilmar, Minn., | positively identified Mahoney ag the same man he had talked with in Wil-| |mar on April, 23, 24 and 25. He in-| troduced a letter Mahoney had writ. | ten him, after the latter had jreturned to Seattle, Johnson said |Mahoney had offered to take him to |the Dempsey-Carpentier fight Dentists this morning positively | identified Mrs, Mahoney's false seeth, jana Mahoney seemed amused as | Prosecytor Douglas handed the teeth | |to the jury for inspection, A brass | jband was playing outside the court- jroom. Dr. Frank. Wood and Dr.| James Clark, dentists, testified. Cross examination failed to shake their direct testimony, i Dr. James Clark { “Kate Mahoney had a peculiar mouth. T did not actually do the dental work | myself, but Dr. Wood, then in my of- fice, performed Mra, Mahoney's et (Turn to Page 12, Col, 2) jand | He says if he catches any deputies | put” i car home—for the rest of the sea ary 9, | valued at $310.43. Sidelights on Trial Sheriff Matt Starwich has ‘put® the blink on the game of “put and take” at the courthouse by “taking” all the funny little tops he can find “putting” them in his pocket. playing “put and take” they “eam on their coats and “take” the son. The life of s man and the reputation of two other men— these hang in the balance. Ma honey may go to the he may go free. It he the leading defense lawyer the Northwest. eee Captain of Detectives Charles the first He was carrying a cane. not enter the mained in to be called as a witness. gathered the evidence against honey. If the state proves its Tennant will take a deserved among the leading detectives the world. a time Friday afterncon, He did 5 Leading at ST. LOUIS COUNTRY CLAYTON, Mo., Sept. 24. Guilford, Boston, finished the ing round six up over Robert Gardner, of Chicago, in the fi of the amateur golf champi tournament here today. With 18 holes to go, Guilford has an @ most unbeatable lead and is Probable successor to Chal Chick Evans as premier golf amateur. U. S. Sub Tender Is. Damaged in LOS ANGELES, Sept. 24.— United States submarine Camden was not sunk in last collision at San Pedro, it waa cially announced here today by | naval officials at the start of an in- vestigation into the accident. The Camden was severely damaged in the smash, but did not sink. The craft which collided with her @ | Tennant showed up at the trial for 7 courtroom, but re- | the corridor, expecting’ — was a launch from the U, 8. 8. New York, it was announced. | Steamer on Fire; Passengers Sa’ PANAMA, Sept. 24.—The st Goethals, of the Panama line, Au Prince, Haiti, the master of steamer reported here today. fire is sweeping the vessel and jis little hope of saving her, he Fifty-six passengers have been ashore, The captain asked that other ship be sent to complete } journey from New York to |Lien Is Asked on Building of Record A foreclosure is afire in the harbor of Port — lien on the build — ing of the Seattle Union Record © was filed in superior court Satur. day by W. F. Jahn & Co, building | supply corporation. Jahn & Co. allege that on Februc 1921, the Union Record core poration ordered delivered materials The goods were delivered by the building supply company and the charges never paid, is the claim. Jahn & Co, ask in the complaint | that ‘the premises be sold by the | sheriff. : Chemists say alcohol can be as a tracted from seaweed, ATTENTION “R-Word” Puzzle — Gamesters “R-Word” Puzzle winners will be announced Monday, Sept. 26. Watch for it, }