The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 28, 1921, Page 10

PAGE 10 DIAMONDS GONE The exclusive Diamond’s stock of women’s apparel at 219 Pine Street was bought by us at a few cents on the dollar. We have just a few days to vacate the store. Every garment must be sold. Beautiful Wool and Silk Dresses At $5.00, $10.00 = $15.00 High-grade Tailored Suits At $10.00 and $15.00 Stylish Coats in All Shades and Materials at $5, $10, $15 and $20 Furs at $5.00, $10.00 and $15.00 Wool Jersey Dresses Jersey Jackets and Skirts in Various Styles at $2.75 A chance for a few hundred Seattle women to get seasonable goods at ridiculous prices. SALE ON NOW DICKSTEIN & KLATZKER, Inc. NTER GARDE Mar 219 Pine Street W! * eewes JACK DEMPSEY The World Champion N by ONLY MOTION PICTURES OF THE DEMPSEY-CARPENTIER World’s Championship BURCH SAYS HE HAS AN ALIBI! |Man Accused of Kennedy | Murder Outlines Case | BY FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW LOS ANGEL Oct, 28 Arthur C. Burch, tne enigmatic fig ure mM the Kennedy murder broke his allence today for the first time since the tragedy, and told the United Press the story he will relate from the witness stand next, Tu day, when he goes on trial for his life SAYS HE N SAW KENNE “1 never saw John Bolton Ken nedy in my life,” Burch asserted. | “Iam tn jail and under indictment |for his murder because I threw part of a torn telegraph blank in a waste . Cal, cane, n paper basket in my room at the | Russell hotet “They charge that this telegram was from Madalynne Obenchain, tell ting me to come to Los Angeles from | Iilinois, That t# absurd, It was a | message from my business partner 1 will prove it.” | “Why hotel, directly across the street from | Kennedy's offices, for your stay tn {I Angeles?” Burch was asked. “Limited finances, I guess," he said, “What trick of fate led me there, I do not know, But I figured it as the cheapest hotel clove to the Ddusiness district.” “Did you know It overlooked Ken nedy’s suite of offices?” he was asked. “You,” he said, “At least 1 found it out after I had moved into the hotel.” Rureh, bespectacied, bald-headed, cheerful, does not appear worried by the fact that on Tuesday he will face a jury, charged with shooting young Kennedy to death because both loved Madalynne Obenchain. DECLARES HE MAS AN ALIBI “I have an alibi,” he said. “T can put two and two together and figure out the case the prosecution will ar ray against me. There's the advant age. They've done a lot of talking 1 haven't done any. They haven't any idea what my side of the case it “It all happened because I hap pened to be in Low Angeles; because T happened to be @ friend of Mada lynne Obenchain, and because I hap. across offices. from Kennedy's brokerage Just a grim trick of fate! cent as I am of any knowledge of this crime. “T believe she does not know who the two men were out at Beverly sien on the night that Kennedy was shot. I believe she saw two men, but their identity is as mysterious ax that of the two who attacked and thrashed Kennedy several yoars ago. “No one ever knew who gave him that thrashing. No one was pros. couted. Robbery was not the motive for nothing was taken from Kennedy “Madalynne Obenchain is a good, pure, sweet girl. She stands head and shoulders above any man or woman I ever met for intelligence She is capable of meeting any situa did you select the Russel! | pened to register at the Russel! hotel, ! “I believe Madalynne is as inno-| THE NEW EVIDENCE ARBUCKLE AID Witnesses Tell of Girl’s Previous Illness CHICAGO, Oct. 28, — Virginia Rappe, movie actress, for whose mur der (‘Fatty’) Arbuckle 1s held, suffered from a chronic disease Roscoe jnine years ago, a 4 and two | nurses swore in the district attor ney’s office here today. rious injury, such as ed her death, in event of exctte- nt, o mwore. Thi y Was taken by Frank Peska, assistant state's attorney. Formal depositions will be taken to- day, when Arbuckle’s attorneys ar | rive from San Fr ‘Those who gave testimony were: Mra. Josephine Roth, Chicago nurse Miss Virginia Warren, Chi- car nurse; Dr, Maurice Rosenbure. They all attended Miss Rappe, they said, during an iUlness here in 1912 and 1913 Mrs at the premature birth of a child in 1912, The child lived five years, she said. Mra. Roth at first refused to tes ufy “I don't know wheather to blacken the life of a dead woman or offer evi dence to save Arbuckle,” she said. She was finally persuaded to give evidence. Dr Rosenberg corroborated the testimony of Mra. Roth, as also did Miss Warren, Mra Roth said threata made against her In case ehe testified for Arbuckle made her decide to testify noise. NON-SORORITY GIRLS PROVE BEST PUPILS SHINGTON STATE COL | . Pullman, Oct. 28,—-Women who are not members of any |] Greek-letter society have the | ighest scholastic standing of all |] college groups b their average of 88.17 they were award |] ed @ silver loving cup by Prest dent Holland Thursday Gamma Phi won the cup for the || highest fraternity scholarship and |] also that for highest scholarship of any men's organization, Its 1 | average ts & With an average of £8.09 Kappa Beta took the cup offered for highest scholarship among wom en's Greek letter societies, tion. even this “Her friendship has been an in spiration to me, but it has been a« | purely platonic friendship from the jstart. I do not love Madalynne. | “I'm in love with the girl I mar ried—the mother of my baby son.” Burch did not refer to the fact that his wife has obtained a divorce since his indictment in connection with the “midnight murder” at Beverly glen. ” Saccharin is 500 times sweeter than cane sugar. SEATTLE aliment could easily | Roth stated she was present | STAR BIG MONEY UP TO SAVE FATTY Finances of Moviedom Will! Back Actor’s Defense ‘| BY M. D. TRACY 8AN FRANCISCO, Oct, 24.—The flicht to nave Roscoe (Matty) Arbuckl« from prison today had widened tnt a battle believed by pleture pre ducers to involve the entire motion !pleture industry: | Instead of the supposed half mil Hon dollar fortune of the famed jcomedian standing alone as the fi nancial backing of the defense, the money bags of moviedom were said | to be open to save Arbuckle. | wyers picked not for price, but | for their success tn San Francisco | courts, have been engaged to conduct the defense, A nationwide wearch for evidence, Jadmittedly costing heavily, was un der way today. | Gavin MeNab, recently named chief counsel for Arbuckle, has frank: | | ly stated that a group of men with linvestments in motion pietures have employed him, It was generally be- | jlleved here that McNab's fee went | |high into five figures and perhaps| | mix | Charles Brennan, another of | Arbuckle's lawyers, expected to reach | Chicago today in his search for evi. | dence. | From Chicago, Brennan was ex pected to go to New York and | Washington, where other witnesses | are believed to be located, Among | those he will see while in the East will be Lowell Sherman, Broadwa favorite and picture star, who was a| guest at Arbuckle’s party preceding | Virginia Rappe’s death. The entire story of Mins Rappe's | life is being pieced together by the | efense as a foundation for a theory she died from unavoidable jcauses, for which Arbuckle bad no | responsibility. Movie interests believe that if Ar. buckle is convicted it will place a stigma on the entire industry—re ducing the brilliancy with which the jstars now twinkle and cutting heav fly the profits of the business. Believing that, the men who guar. anteed moviedom's treasury are dy to meet the bill, whatever ft Is, |for saving Arbuckle and, thru him, their own investments, | Trade Undamaged by \the Threatened Strike ‘The threatened railroad strike ad mittedly has had « bad effect upon commerical sentiment, but as far as actual trade ts concerned, it has not affpcted it in any way, says Brad- street's review of last week / “Manufacturing, industry and building have moved at a better pace since the strike proceedings have be gun,” the report declares, “Fiurries of grain, cotton and stock markets have caused a quickening of general buying interest, while furniture and lumbering industries in the North west are very noticeable for greatly increased production and shipping activity. The chief effect of the rail road controversy has been the damp- ening of excensive optimiam.” | | | Community Chest Series—Saves Annoyance NO MORE TAGS! The Community Chest Will End All Tag Days for Forty-siz Charities and IT’S WORTH FIGHTING FOR Citizenship-Building Agencies FRIDAY, OCTOBER 28, 1991. — To Walk Down Second Avenue Without Being Tagged ‘fl -—No More Paper Flowers —No More Charity Pencils —No More Benefit Tickets —No More Immunity Buttons “BUY A TAG” WILL SOON BE DEAD LANGUAGE The Community Fund Plan Assures Year-Round Efficiency Another One of the Ten Reasons Why Seattle Will Raise $750,000 GET READY TO “LEND A HAND” f ANNOY Time; COMMUNITY CHEST HEADQUARTERS: New Arctic Hotel MEMBER AGENCIES OF SEATTLE COMMUNITY FUND 4 American Red Cross Anti-Tuberculosis League Big Sisters Boy Scouts Briscoe Orphan Boys Home Camp Fire Girls Columbia Conference Home for the Aged Crittenton, Florence, Home bled Veterans of the orld War Educational Center House of Good Shepherd King County Humane Society Ladies of the G. A. R. 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