The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 22, 1921, Page 10

~ ROBBERS ON WAY HERE! ~ Seattle Police Seek Trio Who Held Up Cashier in Idaho > Three masked bandits who Wednesday beld up the cashier of the bank of Culdesac, Idaho, and took $800 in silver, were sought by Seattle poike Thurs day, following the receipt of a telegram from Sheriff G. W. Welker, of Lewiston, Idaho. ‘The robbers made their escape fm an automobile. They are be Heved to have abandoned the @ar and headed toward Seattle by train. The loot consisted al- most entirely of quarters and dimes. FIVE HELD UP, 1 ARRESTED “Suspect Caught After Night of Outlawry 4 holdups were reported to po- ‘Wednemiay night and Thursday, bl one bandit suspect was arrested. the robbery of A. Yokoto, Bighth ave, 8, who was held up Maynard ave. and Weller st. y night, Patrolman RN. pursued and captured C. T. 42, a ahingleweaver, at Sixth and King st. Bush said to told the police he had only 49 but when searched officers $38, which, they say, he had from the Jap. An alleged ac Hee Is sought by the police, D. Conroy, a street car con- . living at 2450 Westlake ave. ~ Was going to work Thursday, he held up at Westlake ave. and #t, by a lone bandit, who robbed of $4.75. Carleon, $07 W. 62d st. was held @t Seventh ave. N. W. and W. at. Wednewlay evening, by two its, who robed him of $44 and a watch. They escaped police. ing a stolen automboile, two onde up the operator of the Ol station, at Holgate st. Railroad Wednesday night. ‘one bandit mat in the antome and “covered” the station tender ith a revoiver, his companion looted cash register of $50. The bandits ‘then drove rapidly awa: ‘William Redmond, 1017 Terrace st, to police that he had been of $40 by thugs at 12th av st, Redmond was found between twe building tn a dazed ‘by passers-by. RR SS Evening Post story ofa mountain mother and a boy who wanted to be BANK (DISTINGUISHED CITIZEN PASSES | | editors, who is dead. * + Dean of EDITORS NOTE: The sketch of | the lite toream, | which sketch is a tone of = wife's { ia what’ her eos | had accomptiched. Only care, hew- ever, dees the peremal touch ob- rude in the wife's story of the dead editor's life work, Then she | says: “His home life was idem, . ee | BY REBECCA _ WA Widew of Col, Henry Watterson Henry Wattersen was born in Washington, D. C., February 14, 1840. | His father. Harvey M. Watterson, had entered congress two years be fore as the youngest member of the} house, succeeding James K. Potk, tenth president of the United States, Aa & representative from Tennessee, Daring the next 20 years the father was an active figure in public life, and consequently the son spent much of his time in the national capital, living upon terms of intimacy with the party leaders of that Interesting period, and by actual contact with the operations of the government, and familiar intercourse with tts of-/ fictals, laying the foundation for the elaborate knowledge of affairs whieh | later on showed itself in his career, ACCIDENT STOPPED MUSICAL STUDIES Owing to a defect of vison, his education had to be largely intrusted | |to private tutors, He passed four | years, however, at the academy of | the diocese of Pennsylvania in Phila | delphia. He early developed strong | taste and talent for music, which he} continued with aaniduity until an ac- cident which lost him action of his| left hand out short his musical | studies. | ‘The war of seceasion of 1861 found }young Watterson pursuing a suc-| | cessful course of journaliem and let-| ters in the national capital. He wided with his section, altho, with his |father, he had strongly opposed the |disunion movement. He returned to |his home in Tennessee and entered | | the confederate service, to which, in| | various caPacities, broken by a news. | paper interlude of 10 months, he de. | voted the ensuing four years. He waa an aide to the cavalry gen- jeral, Forrest, and afterward served | jon the staff of Bishop-Gen. Polk. In| jthe famous Johnston-Sherman cam- | | paign he acted as chief of scouts of | the army j ‘The journalistic episode referred to (October, 1862-Beptember, 1863) waa} the establishment at Chattgnooga of semi-military daily newspaper called The Rebel. ‘This achteved pop- ularity. It was a brisk, newsy sheet, bristling with fresh and novel feat. | ures, some of which stereotyped | themselves on modern journalism and tho an Irrepressible warrior, as its name implied, it was not a servile plodder of beaten tracks, but an out spoken and independent force, fore casting, in many things, the Courier. Journal, a kind of lineal descendant which was a few years later to fol low it. THE REBEL NOT A CAMP FOLLOWER The story that The Rebel became a camp follower upon the fall of |Chattanooga is an error, Mr. Wat |terson returned to the military serv. fee with that event, and after a few} months of existence in a Georgia! village, the publication of The Rebel was discontinued. At the close of the war Mr. Wat. terson was engaged for a time in| | EWING N Journaliwm at Nashville, the capital of Tennessee, but in the winter of |1867-8, having accepted an offer of jthe Loutsvitie Journal company, by | | which he became owner of one-third | lof the capital stock, he took up his! residence in the Kentucky metrop- | olis, | Having negotiated a eonrotidation between the Louieville Journal and the Loutsville Courier, involving the purchase of the Louisville Democrat, the result of this master stroke, the Courier-Journal, made its November 8, 1868. . It was the first | of the great newspaper combinations, | and was, from the beginning, pre | eminently prosperous During all these years it has had no rival, either in influence or cir. | culation, in the Southern ats Mr. | Watterson had succeeded Geo. 1D Prenticn ag editor of the Louisville Journal, but Mr. Prentice was re jtained upon the CourierJournal, and | whilst he lived the younger journal ist preferred to remain in the back Col. Henry Watterson, dean and last surviver of old-school , Jo as Wife Viewed Him * lism * urna * tice In 1870, Mr, Watterson war forced to the front. Like Henry Clay, he was not a native of the state, and encountered savage oppo sition before be finally was accepted. ALWAYS FAR IN ADVANCE OF PARTY Ow all the great questions which divided the democratic party the last 20 years, the resulta have vindicated Mr. Watterson’s ragacity, tho be was often—and indeed generully=far in advance of bis party. icaltem, He stood for honest money and the national credit, when bis party almost was a unit for paper currency From the outset he led the cause of free trade, finally forcing upon his party the shibboleth, “A tariff for revenue only.” He either wrote or exercised a de form of the democratic party from 1872 to 1892. In the national conven. tion of 1892 he reversed the report in committee by an almost unanb mous vote, securing in opponition to the report of the committee a vote Of 2 to 1 in the convention. Mr, Watterson had resolutely de clined office. wishes of Mr. Tilden, with whom he was clonely allied, in congress during 1876-7, refusing a reelection. for the state of Kentucky at larce im all the national conventions of his party from 1872, presiding over that which nominated Mr. Tilden tn 1 and acting as chairman of the plat form committee in those of 1530 and $88, In Gertining to stand for the sen- ate in 1883, he mud: “I shall stay where Tam. Office is not for me. Beginning in slavery to end with poverty, it is odious to my sense of freedom.” ORATOR AS WELL AS WRITER Mr. Watterson spoke as effectively as he wrote. He ranked among the first of American orators, bis fame in this regard having reached its oul mination in the address delivered by him on the oceasion of the dedica tion of the Columbian exposition. In recent years he had been in great demand for the lecture plat- form, and among others his lectures on “Money and Morais” and “Abra ham Lincoln” had been delivered in every large city and educational cen ter in the United States. He wan made an IL. D. of the University of the South, edited a volume of Southern Wumor entitled “The Odds tiee of Southern Life,” and “The Spanish-American War,” a history of the international struggle, which was written concurrently with the |events and achieved an enormous cireulation. He was married fn 1865 to Rebec: daughter of Andrew Ewing of ‘enneases, and had five children, three sons and two daughters. Mr. Watterson's home life waa al- ways ideal, Loving the freedom and “elbow room” of the country, he dis. covered his ideal place in a planta tion of about 100 acres near Jeffer sontown, 12 milen south of Louis ville, He purchased the property, beautified it to suit hin own ideas, and moved out from Louisville, Here, @t “Mansfield,” he had done most of his writing. Several years ago, some time after the foregoing been acd Cot, Foch Sends Message to American People HAVRE, Dec, 22.-~ Marshal Foch dispatched a meesage to the people of America thru the United Press on his arrival here. The message said “I bring back an impression of a sympathetic welcome that I can never forget. I am most touched “I consider America a country of vast economic possibilities, infinite resources and immense realizations Furthermore, Americans are in thelr movernents by disinter and noble sentiments: am glad to express to them un. alterable affection.” GHIMM IE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS URBANA, Ill~-Students of the University of Illinois are going to shimmie home for their Christmas vacations, Two baggage cars have ground But with the death of Mr. Pren been rigged up for dancing during the trio, He stood for) [national fellowship, as against rad-| yo > cistve influence in shaping the plat | of the platform committer, adopted | In reaponse to the} THE SEATTL a a a a mt HERE'S STARTS aie MURDER OF phen 4 j iE | ABOUT : t Mine Skarin ehortly after went to|been bere within the last few days, “About a month later Mrn, Chedo- | wanted to have company come in the Detroit, where, police say, Wintorn| “Captain Matheson today set a,ta! and T both noticed that the win-| evenings, but conwidered the house | had preceded her Miuad of detectives at work on the) upstairs in Mr | Lant July neighbors frequently ow | case, believing that the porsible mur-| kitchen was open, I went over and) “Hochbrunn had some repair & young woman entering and leaving |derera of Hochbrunn might be still | aid, ‘I see the old man is back |}mmade, but stil? the girl was not the house of Hochbrunn and made in San Francisco.” “After @ little bit we saw Miss | pleased. Vinally she and her mother inquiries of the aged man The last person known to have! Marin. She said she had opened the | moved away, Clara got going with | Ho explained that Mise Skarin, the Hochbrunn ative here is Mra.) window and that Mr. Hoebbrunn|another young woman's husband. |daughter of hia former housekeeper, |had suffered a sunstroke in Chicago, | was in poor health and had come, at his request, to live with him as a daughter, to recuperate and attend to hourehold dutien Between that time and the “dinup pearance” of Hochbrunn about Oo tober 19, Mins Skarin wag often ob- served, neighbors aay, meeting a man near the house and accompanying him in the direction of town, This ean bel. land signed “Robert Winborn.” When Mins Skarin was laat seen | Vrank BR. Gladwin, wife of a motor cycle policeman, Fifth ave “L met Mr. Hlochbrunn coming out | of his house,” kbe said, “on Wedner | |day, October 19. I waid, ‘You're hot | looking very well girl's cooking doesn't you here she is sald to have informed | Giadwi i neighbors she waa going to Califor nia, expecting to meet Hoohbrunn in| neaday night, the night of the day I Portland, This, Hoehbrunn is now known wo have! | been dead. Dispatches from fan Francisco to- man being sought in that elty in con | nectionwith woman fs however, was after| last saw Mr. \n hbrunn moving about oe that night, when a [day did not dincione the name of the! had called on the old man and she had heard the two men talking in| She told me the old man was visit-|brunn’s, His body lay stretched full| operator laughed, and he answered that he was doing some shingling on one of the houses he renta. 1 never saw man never came to the house, it in| him aguin.” ‘Two days later, Mra. Gladwin said, In the house yesterday the police | Mra Jeanne Chedota! called on her. found among Mins Skarin's effects! Mra Chedotal telegrams, some addressed to Clara) pierre, a French ohef, have lived in B. Skarin, others to Clara Winborn, the lower apartment of the Hoch: | Drunn house for several years. “Mra, Chedotal told mo,” said Mra, dow Hochbrunn’s | wasn't good enough Waa oul in P 4. That was the The wife came to their home, intend last wo maw of Misw Skarin.”” ing to shoot Clara, fired and killed Mrs. Chedotal confirmed Mrs. |Mre. Skarin, then turned the gun on Gladwin'«-wtory and added other | herself. Then Clara dixappeared.” formation that she considered might| water from a burst pipe flooded be of value to the polfos, the upstairs of the Hochbrunn dwell The Thursday: after Mr, Woch-| ihe yerterday and was trickling thru brunn disappeared,” she sald, “®) ine cetling into the apartment below. woman who rents one of his house®) Chedotal calied Chris Christopher, Rear here came over to see him. a plumber at 622 Denny way, and “Bho said she wanted some repalre! together they entered the upstairs made on the root. rooma, Pg Sk menaltdioronek one the| Christopher repaired the broken woman went away, enving the to de-|PIP®. It was in @ room formerly liver the mennuge for her, occupied by Mint Skarin, next “A few minutes later 1 saw Miss |/ochbrunn's bedroom. Skerin peeping out the door of an The two men then went into other upsuire room, She was jooking|fooms, finding each flooded with down the hall. T told her what the| Water, Arriving at the last room, woman had come for, and she aaid,| known as the front room facing living at 2614% Maybe that new | agree with | and husband, her . “that she was very nervour —ahe had been nervous since Wed-|"Yes, Mr. Hochbrunn is here and Fifth ave, they found the door | will attend to it right away.’ The| locked. It was necemary to open it, Hoehbruna next day she waid he had got a wire) and Chedotal went for a bunch of “She said she hadn't heard Mr,!and gone to Portland to wee about a | keys. : upstairs deal j Turning the lock, they opened the tranger, “Clara stayed around about a week. | door Chedotal observed a pair of lithe seemed to have charge of things. | slippered feet. They re Hoch the murder, but the| loud voices, Mra, Chedotai said it|ing an old French Canadian in Port, | lenet face down, on the floor beside understood fo be Mira! waa very unusual for Mr, Hochbrunn | land named Jeannette. a trw with the head in a corner. |Skarin, The following dispatch from/to have etrangern about, especially) “We next saw her at the house on! A pocket In the dead man's trou» the United Prom bureau at San Fran-| late at night. cinco came to The Star “On Saturday,” sald Mrs. Gladwin, |#pent most of the day here, @pptairs. | cents, Shelers was lit and contained but two In a trunk, however, war the last Sunday in November, “‘Important information,’ the na-| “I phoned to Edward Von ‘Tobel, Mr.|She enid she was living part of the found $2,000 in gold certificates con |ture of which he would not reveal, Hochbrunn's lawyer, jin in the hands ef Captain of De | hadn't seen or heard anything of Mr.|part with her cousin on 20th ave” tectives Duncan Matheson today in| Hochbrunn lately. | | nection wtih the murder, but the) ition of San Francisco angles of the Beattie. up during the night by the poll A woman whom the police also wan' ed to question wax known to =| HERE’S MORE ABOUT WATTERSON STARTS ON PAGE ONE | He would have been 82 year old | next He was paper fi February 16. | pioneer In the news.) id of the south middie! west and by the bitter invective style of his editorials ewayed the) entire United States, It was be who fimt crested the phrase “To hell with the Hapebures and! |the Hohenzollerns,” ax the United States bovered on the brink of | \For the last few years he han! taken no active work in jdtrnal-| | tare. Hoe retired when the Courter | \Journal ownership passed from his! |hands to Robert Worth Bingham, Ma present owner, After his retirement from active elitorial writing he composed the | memos of bis life in two brik jliant Volumes, called “Looking | Backward.” © In thin nertes he told the entire! story of bin life, He wae extreme | ly proud of the fact that he was |born In Washington, “the center| of diplomacy.” Hig father was a congresnman | ifrom Tennessee and he earty be came identified In national life. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS | | WAS HIS FRIEND | Jobn Quiney Adams used to walk |along the streets of Washington with |his arm on Watterson’s shoulder | while the boy read to him. He sat jon the knee of Andrew Jackson. He |was an amateur page in congress and was at John Quincy Adamo’ aide when he fell. Watterson beran his newspaper | career as a reporter on the Washing: | ton’ States. Then came the civil| |war. The fiery old warrior of the pen—then « youth In bis ‘teens—en listed and served as an aide de camp to Generals Forrest and Polk. After the war he began “a travel ing newspaper.” Ho edited the Chat- | tanooga Rebel, a paper printed in a| | wagon. Later he went to Louieville, | where he stayed for half a century 7 make newspaper history. In 1868 he merged the Jonrnal, the | Democrat of W. H. Haldeman, and the Courter into “The Courier Jour. nal.” Then he took up the editorial j banner to strike for a solidified North and South, With brilliant words that struck at the heart of every ject jhe mentioned, he drew the applause of the nation and his editorials were reprinted in journala thruout the country. KNOWN TO WORLD {AS “MARSE HENRY” Hl ‘Then the world came to know} him as “old Marve Henry.” | Ho wan a great advocate, of | journalistic enthusiasm. He repeat-| ed often the old phrase that “Jour-| |pallam is the art of knowing where | hell is going to break loose next and having a man there to cover it” | He hated the “glomry" and “showy” things. He used to roil} |down to the Courier-Journal offices in a big motor car wearing a sailor's | “pea jacket” instead of an ex-} pensive fur coat. He wrote a miserable hand ant) most of the printers had a hant! time setting up bis eyticles. There were no typewriters in his day| and when they finally came into} use he ignored them and stuck to| hia pen—much to the disgust of! the printers. Many famous journalists began | their careers under Watterson } Among the most prominent are) Insane Marcosson and Irvin Cobb. | Of late years Watternon, on ac. count of advancing age, has taken | no active part in the work of his| paper as formerly, | Me was once in congress, hav.| ing been elected in 1876 to fill an| unexpired term. Serving from/ August, 1876, to March, 1877, Wat. terson declined to stand for re election, He was temporary chair man of the democratic national con vention in 1876 and was a delegate | in 1880, 1884 and 1888. Watterson, @ lifelong democrat, |broke with Woodrow Wilson, then president, during the fight on the learue of nation: He actively posed ratification of the league cove: | nent and refused to support Wilson. | Hie editorial attacks on the league! were among bis final contributions | to the journalism of his day and] were among his most forceful weit| ings | “Mins Skarin called around later | #karin’s mother, as it was related by from Portland signed “Hochbrunn.” | haven't got much te and told us that the olf man had|Tfochbronn to Mre. EB. R. ‘Tindall, | It was to a |murder of Ferdinand Hochbrunn in) gone to Portland to see an ear and| 2514 Fifth ave, and recalled by her) Life building, leye specialint. “The trail of a man sald to have a telegram from the specialist Wed- pored here ax Hochbrunn was picked jpegfey night = ‘Then ahe came down and went out. LS EEE PE LE LE AE EE LE EE tb LE LE AE LE A EEE A EAA DE , I told him we) time with an aunt in Mallard, and) tained in a money belt. This trunk ‘was in @ side room, ‘The story of the shooting of Mies) About « month « go @ letter came 4 Von Tobel, Mutual this city, and directed jtoday, ts: | Von Tobel to collect the rents from “When Clara was a little girt her | Hochbrunn’s property bere and send mother and she came to live with | the money to him in California Hochbrunn. Mre. Skerin was his! Von Tobel sent rentals amounting Hhe eaid he had got and had Mina Skarin went left right upetairs, KEEP WARM— | housekeeper, Clara grew up and to $375 by check in @ letter to San! $6,000. wan seine Hernardino yegt the check. by terday 04 the police It conta) © letter att un signed and in 1 in time br nardino ma a fan Hochbr ling hotel, 240 O'F ipau arre Franc ‘Tennant Vraneiaco man masquerading # hotel as Hochbrunn imme polic _ lirected San for the Mins Skarin’s cousin wan te called, wan brought to the house by the young woman « few days before Hochbrunn’s death and was the only other person known to have entered besides “the stranger.” We saw Mins Skarin shout twp coke ago,” naid Chedotal. “This was lthe last time, She talked with ony wife and sald she was going to Cal fornia, That was on « Sunday, Ghe | paid sho Wag expecting to meet Hooke brunn in Portland. Yer, she money—about $150 in gold. She Wad |Hochbrunn had given her this to pay to |off some men he had working for | him K Police say the letter sent to Vou \‘Tobel from Portland, wigned “Hoek |brunn,” was typewritten, except fap [the signature, which they a clever forgery They were having transertbed day stenographic notes in Mi | Bkarin’s diary. The young w |was a stenographer before jto Benttle, it ly sald. She was em I ployed here for a time as telepha in the Seattle aig 1216 Third ave. Von Tobel was questioned length today by Tennant, who nounced after the interview thag, would be unwise at thin time to clone the evidence in hand. 4 “I can’t tell,” he said, “how . lare implicated in this thing, We’ trying to pick up the threads. on yet.” Houne, ¥ A cigaret stub dropped into a of underwear Wednesday caused fire in the store of Harry Ri | 1401 First ave, that damaged the stock to the extent of approximately g fin eS )VERYTHING for warmth is at the Big Department Store for Men and Boys. 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