The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 24, 1921, Page 7

ss serene TURDAY, D) “BUNE, SAYS JAP CHIEF ashi Declares Parley) Has Removed All Danger BY CLARENCE DUBC | OKYO, Dec. 24 Danger of armed | on the Pa has been re} by the Washington conference |} Amitation of armaments, Pre Pakahashi of Japan told the reas today im an exclusive gee no reason for doubt that the of armaments conference Temoved effectually all possible of armed conflict on the Pi * the premier said. welcome (he unreserved man oft dealing which has character the negotiations as wéll as the of sacrifice which has been by all the powers, and in Japan has not lagged. am exceedingly hopeful that the ington conference has opened ‘a of frank and friendly inter. 1 dealings during which all work together for the betterment all the world fs] gee no outstanding dbjection at time to future conferences. it the common affairs of the can be discussed frankly. quadruple agreement of navies relieve Japan of of disturbance upon the Pa. Jch is Most welcome, altho fe undoubtedly is some regret felt the ending of the AngloJapan. alliance which has maintained in the Far Bast without direct 4 threat at anyone. ution of the Shantung ques im will be reached before long, I Japan is sincerely anxious le this problem tn a spirit of \ J s dealing and ardently hopes a harmonize popular feeling in 4 and China, remove all misun- ings and effect a true Chino concert Japan has stated, many times, nation has no territorial ambi- tm Manchuria or Siberia, and juinely xious to withdraw Siberia her troops, but cannot until conditiena are more and proper security for the and property of her nationals ABUTISH OFFER | ALTERNATIVE Mreaten to Build Up Huge Anti-Sub Fleet BY CARL D. GROAT WASHINGTON, Dec. 24.—Secre- of State Hughes today proposed he disarmament committee that United States and Great Britain their submarine fleet to a total 000 tons, leaving Japan, France Italy with their existing bh. ASHINGTON, Dec. 14. —If Prevents an agreement on tonnage, Great Britain reserve the right to build up tremendous anti-submarine “fleet ts notice stood out today as the disarmament committee gath hoping to end before Christ tts “debate on the submarine The French, with their suggestion $2000 tons of U-boats as the k # um effective for any nation, bd apparently biding their time y making known their auzil.| 4 craft desires. They had indl- f that their requests for ton \ in light cruisers would be con it largely upon what the con- did with the 90,000-ton sub quest. Should France lose in this it eventually will, it would line. ask Proportionately larger tonnage in| rs, it was Indicated } HERE’S MORE ABOUT || | HOME BREW | | STARTS ON PAGE ONE |} a é Big Family."—Star heudline. Gosh, how they must fight! see | IT'S A GREAT GAME | Bobby Rowe, Seattle hockey play-| |, thated up behind “Moose” John. . Victoria stick artist, and knock-| him unconscious, He was sent to bench for 19 minutes, If it had Roff'the ice, he would have been ent to the pen for 10 years. o- “Marriage Conts Him Five Years| Uberty,” says a headline. A lot] ttle husbands would say that lempooms was lucky if that Ml the liberty he lost. . | | | We see by the papers that they are marrying the Prince of Wales see | Sign in 2 Ballard shoe store: | “Say It With Slippers.” | Any small boy will tell you What that means. | t Waterway Co, Is Sued for Stock & The Kast Waterway C : erway Co. ia sued for 2 2 ctions brought 4 turday in superior court t%, George B, Green and . Green, meek to recover money eh they claim they paid for unde stock in the defendant corpor Man to Be Tried as Habitual Criminal 1 of ¥. H. Harm: é ammer, 4 Fw Maley, on habitual i wae 2: 0% habitual criminal charges, An fet in wuperior court # jaturday Mor January 19, | later. narcotics to an addict F night, Tom Buriivan, 34, waa he | ; : Tiles harp and expecter |jail Saturday on an open charge Users. Eee Bek Wmemmncied | MRER 24, 1921. AR PERIL DOLLY JOHNSON MAY Lest We For FACE DEATH CHARGE Charges of murder, based on vd, banged knowing that Kate nection with the death of rer sapaal rere dB ory Pianeairet| Kate M. Mahoney, may be filed [ (0 Mra. Jonnun ahuring treat against Mrs, Dolores M. dohw | win hor bears be altenltted son, of James K Ma: [that the pra oharaing honey, the man wh awaitiy Mra, Johnson with murder has been the death penalty for killing his | under consideration | a | oe wife. After denying the motion of hia possibility was indionted late! Thamas J. Casey, Mre. Johnson's Friday by Deputy Prosecuting At:| counsel, for a new. trial, Superior torney T. H. Patterson, when, in| Judge Otis W. Brinker xenteneed aeking that Mrs Johnson be sem! the defendant to from five to tenoed on her conviction of forgery | years in the state prison, HI n the first degree, declared that| refused to lower her bail of she ae guilty knowledge of the and Mra, Joh: m Was led by murder which . prot von | m ; bone h her brother com her cell in th county jail Oasey | hotice of appeal MES. JOUNSON TO BROOME MOTHER Casey pleaded the physical condi tion of his client in asking the court's leniency. “There is no question but that Mrs. Johnson knew that Kate Mahoney was to be mur. dered, and had guilty knowledge of the crime itself,” Patterson declared, nab ire Johnson t# to become a mother,” he said, “I just h NAMB ¢ | thin a short time ago.” piragindues ‘Mra. Mahoney was murdered on! Mra. Johnson took her sentenc the very day that the pawer of|calmly, When asked if she had any: attorney which Mrs, Johnson has/ thing to say, she declared been convicted of formin “lL know | am not eulity.” wet Am sora. thereafter Mrs.) Tears came a few minutes later e » sen! r young foster) however, and she a“ p daughter down to have the Aad from ike teen by hame| she was escorted from the room by | was list-! two deputy sherifts, CHICAGO HIT BY NIGHT OF CRIME Two Kidnapings Come as Climax of Evening under which the telephone YULE BURGLARS WORK OVERTIME —— Score of Robberies Reported | to Police CHICAGO, Deo. 24.-—A night of Neart Dt y . ae eee cee, early @ score of burglaries were reported to police Saturday as the result of the operations of burglars | who worked the full 24 hours before Christmas, gathering presents, tur keys and articles of household ware A sack of Christmas mail was seized by a thief from a postoffice | wagon at 19th ave. W. and Thomas revolver duel at Chicago's busiest corner, State and Madison sta, and & $25,000 holdup, was climaxed early today by two. bold kiknapings of wealthy motorists, Arthur C. Buth, a wealthy inventor and manufacturer of flat trons, of Des Moines, la, who was visiting relatives here, was kidnaped. slugged and robbed, and left chained to his . Automobile on a bleak, biizaard-swept | “*. Friday night Prairie on the outskirts of the city,| Auto thieves drove up to the Pa He was taken to the German Dea, “itl Outfitting Co, at Third ave con hospital, where his condition 1s|2%¢ University st, emashed a win dow on the roof to gain entrance, critical. John A. MoRae, a Detroit manu.|*4 Mole a dozen overcoats, suits, facturer, his wife, Edith, and Jonn|"%¢ women's garments, — besiden G. Allen, Mekt representative in| Tifting the desks and cash drawers Chicago, were the victims of the sec-| A Pumber ond kidnapping, were taken. MoRae and his wife left the hotet| & J. Carlson, where they had been staying about | Ported his home entered and his 1 p> mM, and met Allen a few minutes overcoat, suit and watch len While driving on the South| Th? thieves used a side window Side they were held up by five ban. A fur coat valued at $175 and %S! dita. Mrs. McRae was forced into|!" nickels were stolen from Mra, Le the bandit car. A robber demanded | ‘ongiey. Ballard hotel her rings. She had hidden them on| Mrs, M. J. Sexton, 916 Niet st. har germ. had entered a movie after shopping “I left them in the aafe at the| Her bag, containing & i®pound tu hotel,” she told the robber key, & veal steak and some milk, of Christmas packages 9 EB. Tind st. re The bandit told her she waa a liar,| W894 stolen and forced her to take off her shoes.| TWO turkeys were taken from aj The bandit searched her, and mub-| COOP owned by C. I, Cook, 1937 jected her to insults, but she gamely | refused to give up the gems. They 117 E. Séth st. en sult and a pair of blue trousers to burglars Burgiars smashed the door at 1510 W. Stat st. and took Paulo Medich’s raincoat, a pair of shoes and $50 cash Mrs. ©. L. Jensen, 9001 17th ave. 8. W., surprived a burglar at work took about $400 of her money, and| finally dumped her from the automo bile near her hotel. In the meantime the bandits had! taken charge of her husband's car, and robbed him and Alien of all their) money and valuables, Early today they allowed them to leave their au-| tomobile near the hotel [in her home Friday night He ‘An alleged shoplifter shot and|selzed a bath towel and fied wounded Robert Fitzgerald, a detec | H. E. Henry, 1749 18th ave. N. F., lost a gold lavaiiiere, $4.50 and a wrist wateh, well as his notary | public seal, to burglars. | MRS, A. R. JUDD DIES SUDDENLY Seattle Philanthropist, Wife of Attorney, Passes tive for the Carson, Pirie & Scott company, one of Chicago's largest stores, The detective acSosted the| man as he was leaving the store. Th alleged thief shot while hundreds of | shoppers were milling around the | door of the store, He was caught! after a chase. “A wagon delivering Christmas pur. chases from Blumque’s shop, one of Chicago's most exclusive stores, was held up and $25,000 worth of furs 2 DIE IN YULE CRIME WAVE NEW YORK, Dee. 24.—A Christ- mas crime wave struck New York during the night. Two men were killed and wounded in gun battles Funeral services for Mrs. Anna R. Judd, 49, who died suddenly at her home, 914 W. Crockett at. Friday | at 1 p. m. ag a result of heart failure, will be held at Bonney-Watson's at 1 a. m. Tuesday. Mra Judd was! the wife of Edward Judd, Seattle at two | between police, bandits and their victims torney, and had been # resident of Nelso Levy was killed in the Bronx |the city 16 years, coming here in after baving held up a United Cigar |1906 from W | store Mra. Judd was well known as a Leon Sottili, a saloonkeeper of the | promoter of humane treatment for Bronx, was shot and killed by holdup |dumb animals, and as owner of the| men. | Melita kennels, Her thorobred Mal Philip S_ Honeywood, nephew of|tene Melita dogs, cared for by her-| the earl of Devon, was held up, black-| self, were known the world over.| jacked and left bound and gagged. She waa instrumental in causing the Four thousand dollars in jewels| watering troughs for horses to be was obtained by robbers who held up|piaced on Seattle's str She was a restaurant in the Bowery distriet.|known as one of Seattle's philan " - thropista Alleged Hop Dealer Is Caught in Toils) For the alleged sale of @ package | SLEDDING FOR ST. NICK FINE tha Santa Claus will good sledding on his trip over § tle housetopa and the city will enjoy @ traditional white Christmas, Sun-| |day | Weatherwright G. N, Salisbury is Hloath to venture a Yuletide prognos tication, but “allows that present | atmospheric conditions will prevail Jon the holiday. Saturday the small boys were slid ing gleefully along icy sidewalks breathing gobs of crisp, frosty air land making ready for @ merry—and | snowy —Christmas Matt Adds Shotguns | to His Big Arsenal Three new army trench guns were ¥ occurs, livan was arrested at Fifth ave. and | t Pine at. DRY SQUAD TRIES TO REMOVE HOPES OF LIQUID CHEER Displaying feverish activity in yt to mop up all the liquid cheer in the city, the * dry squad Friday night and Saturday put 12 men and women ind the cold gray bars of the prison, Four will spend Christmas in jail. Following are the arrests; D. Ferguson, Leroy hotel, held in jail. Five gallons moonshine ide K, Yamamoto, 105% Occidental added to his arsenal turday b: ave., alleged “ jodieal prisoner,” || Matt Starwich to ald in the capture} hot water bottle of grapo. of bandits and other “bad men” who Sam Crogan and Mike Dolan, || have the temerity to operate in King | 105% Occidental ave. pint of || county. | grapo. | ‘The weapons are short-barreted, | John Schmidt, Georgetown || 12-gauge, pump action shotguns, The | Hardware company, complete still. || five shelly which the magazine con-| $500 bail tains may be fired in a fraction over | B, J, Jones, 215 First one second, The guns will be placed selling drinks. Ball of $75 on the sheriff's “prowler” cars in the | Joe Meagher, 1204% Terry ave. || night searches for highwaymen. | Six quarts of gin | Mrs. Alice Gibson, 815 Pike at., FORMER SOLDIER DEAD 4 serving drinks. Bail of $200 Waiter John Carlen, member | J, Judd, 211 Becond ave. 8 of Seattle post, American Legio selling drinks. Jail died Saturday morning his home, ! Jerry Lubitich and Paul Locata, 47th ave, 8, W, He was born 618 Jack#on s#t., moonshine, Held. ||in Chiengo but has lived in Seattle Mrs, Alice Seribner, 201% Sec: || 21 yeas. Funeral ements are dy parlors of the West Seattle Fun directors, is t the! |not yet made. ‘al! ond ave. &., two quarts of grapo. $100. jout about the murder; that she went |... THE SEATTLE STAR 1 Mrs. Ida B. Hackett, presi-| Glenn MeLeod, “yet of ri i ri dent of the local branch of vid pe Big =| oid eve, te War Mothers’ league, leause he and his staff of cause, with several other sel/-\ barbers trimmed the heads of sacrificing women of her or-|90 boys at Mother Ryther's ganization, she spent several| home as a Christmas gift, and afternoons recently tirelessly | because he gave them be} | Christmas party besides, and a | chance on any occasion to be of service. he- preparing Christmas pack-|tecquse he never loses ages to bring cheer to per- sons otherwise neglected. HERE’S MORE ABOUT MURDER | STARTS ON PAGE ONE i4 ir e Ferdinand Hochbrunn's murder was planned, it seems quite obvious, meet the man posing there and If) a, another ghastly trunk mystery. California as Hoehbrunn. | That t assassin’s scheme was yenterday, Clara knew nothing Of | patterned after the recent Mahoney Hoehbrunn’s death until sh went ltrunk murder seems quite am likely inte the room where her trunk had) James BE. Mahoney, at an cartier been left and stumbled upon (h® | date, and in an apartment only two beady a month that #he TeeO# blocks dixtant from the Hochbrunn nized her own extreme peril if #h* | house, beat bis bride to death with a were caught, and fled, driven insane, | hammer. perhaps. by her ghastly discovery. (°/ jiochbrunn wan slain by a bullet wet as far away as possible frOM | fired into his head from behind. the scene of horror HOW MAHONEY @) That, as all her friends and! COMMITTED DEED relatives here asnort, she never found | ytsnoney put the body of his vie into a trunk, stuffed about it to Portland to meet Hochbrunn. from | various articles of clothing, a bit of whom she supposed she had beens orpet, « blanket and some draperies, receiving letters; that she met. iM | 104 sank the trunk in Lake Union. stead, “Hochbrunn,” the impostor,|“")) Milk te voy the murderer or hin aecomplice, aPd/ i. trunk of hie ward, Clara Skarin that her e®ntinued seclusion means wea Beltiay ‘aaaaeaee |The trunk oS ee ene eater. that he] A btanket had been taken from 2, haw ae bed the body. Many facta and = circumetances and lay across ad ¥ Rut Hochbrunn’s murderer got no farther with the trunk mystery \acheme, What happened to drive him from the room at that stage of the proceedings is unknown, can only be Kueened at OWNERSHIP WAS CAUSE? Tt may bave been that ft war his discovery that the trunk was Clara's. Had the trunk been Hochbrunn’s, point strongly to the probability that the lant theory ix the correct solu tion of Clara's mysterious disappear ance The young woman enjoyed gener ally the reputation of being “a good art” She wae no regarded by friends relatives and acquain and | even by the crusty and exacting old Prussian, Hoehbrunn. She attended Trinity Parish church regularly, according to her cousin, Mra. Anna Clark, who frequently | wont to services with her She came here last July from Michigan in broken health, yet she appeared fairly well and in good spirits when she was last seen—not the extremely nervous girl who had guilty knowledge of a murder or the horrified one who had lately discovered such a erie. She went in and out of the Hoch brunn house, after the time the deed had been committed, with seeming unconcern, one time asking Mre Clark, who chanced to be with her on that occasion, to accompany her upstairs. She got on a train bound for Sen Bernardino, felling her aunt, Mrx. W C. Dateaman, who went to the depot with her, that he Intended to meet Hoechbrunn Portiand by prear rangement. he went as for an Portland, and there her trail enda It terminates abruptly. No one has been found who saw her leave the Oregon city. There have been no letters or telegrams to relatives from her since. All thene facts and circumstances tend to support the theory that she went away expecting to meet her aged grand-yncle, Hochbrunn, who was dead, but t instead, she met “Hoebbrunn,” the masquerader, and that ‘she walked unwittingly Into a erly baited trap of death This theary, too, answers the ques tion that is now being asked is innocent, and alive, she come back and explain | | in Clara doenn't it all?” In any event, whether dead or alive, she muat be found before the mystery of who killed Ferdinand Hochbrunn can be solved. after she arrived in letters from “Hoch- were received by Von Tobel, the attorney, directing him to collect the hbrunn rents and send them to the cor- rexpondent, whe added the post seript | “Clara sends her regards.” | earch for the will of Hochbrunn | said to hav been written several years ago, aving part of the old German's $100,000 estate here to his brann” brother, Henry, In San Francisco, and part to a sister in Prussia has failed thus far to discover the| document Search Fruitless, San Francisco Says RANCISCO, Dee. 24--""We hausted all sources of inves here.” waa the announce detective headquarters today commenting on the search for per. sons believed to have knowledge of the murder of Ferdinand Hgehbrunn | attie. p Bi Police said nowhere.” that “every trail lod Jury Finds Bank Robber Is Guilty L. TACOMA, Dec. 24.1 ‘Turner third of the trio of held up the Roy state bank here, No. vember 13, was found guilty by a jury Inst evening Clay kins and J. Wheeler, self. confessed members of the gang, tes tified against Turner, an overseas vi Sentence of W nd| Perking was held up until Turner's! cane wan disposed of eran. TACOMA.—Police Judge BH. J Hackett held up afid robbed of waten and 15 centa, wily nant han i 'Hochbrunn’s Slayer d Mahoney Crime beside a trunk—! wehris CRGOS get All Too Soon, We Take Off Our Hat 102 Mrs. R. M. Base, because for the last two weeks she has been working in the interest of a Christmas dinner for 100 | kiddies and their mothers |who might not otherwise celebrate the day. |eause on Christmas day she | will hold that dinner and bring a little Christmas chegr to 100 youngsters, Charles R. Case, super- intendent of streets and sew- | ers, not only for the tremen- dous and efficient work he! performed in minimizing the |damage of the recent floods, And be. but also because he is earnest-| |ly working to protect Seattle,| as far as possible, against o ‘Yvecurrence of the catastrophe. TACOMA THUGS HOLD CARNIVAL 'Robbery of Police Judge Is | It would have been an easy matter, possibly, for the slayer to have gone . }to Portland, and there, posing as Climax of Night | Hoohbrunn, sent for the trunk with | _—— | the body in it and to have dispowed of | TACOMA, Dec. 24.—Thuge and) lit there without arousing suspicion.) holdup men held carnival here last | | Me then could have gone to Call-| night, numbering among their vic | | fornia and had the Hochbrunn rental! time Police Judge Hackett, who was money went him for an indefinite P| neig up and robbed of his watch and | & small sum of money almost in| Bet etal. woh tet f FO of his own home. The judge | r ver and joined th Clare, tll in Battle nde frequent Foire ia a fruitiees earch for the| visitor at the Hochbrunn house, must | sickup pair. sooner or later have discovered the!” Sonn Marsano, proprietor of a gro- thing that her trunk contained, and|cery store, engaged in a fierce battle | would surely have forbidden its be-| with two bandits, who finally clubbed | ing sent to Portland on “Hoch-| nim into unconsciousness and fled pager hyper ah ed . with the contents of the cash draw.) id the murderer, in # extrem: ier, Pedestrians stood on the snide. ity, knowing that Clara would find! wai in front of the store and wit. = opr ~~ for oe ee ieee Beened the struggle, not daring to 4 Dut oF ay, interfere that he could return here and re A street car conductor was robbed move the body before others had dis |of the day's receipta while on his covered it, thus committing angther | car. Thie was the second street car lerime to cover up the first? | robbery during the week. | ‘This is another of the many ques-| ~ tee A | tons the strange case has raised in! [the minds of investigators since | | LONDON, Dec. 14.—An orchestra! has been installed in an Oxford street | Pierre Chedotal and Chris Chirsto-| barber shop, James Edwards, the! |pher went into the death room Wed- proprietor, permite nothing but! | nesday to repair damage caused by a| quiet, soothing music to be played, | burst wa | myntery er pipe and uncovered the) All Wagnerian compositions barred. are R. W. Jennings, proprietor of the Madison Barber shop, 614 Madison at., because he gave his time and skill several evenings preceding Christmas to “dolling up” 10 Seattle youngsters a night, that they might look their best in meet- ing Santa Claus. Photos of Mra, Hackett, Mes Rasa, McLeod and Jennings by Price & Carter, tar staff photographers 1921 Record of Pedestrians Hit by Automobiles 77 at Fourth ave. and Madison st. Friday by an auto driven by @ X, Hockaday, 625 Columbia st., waa immediately taken to the city how pital, where he refused to give phyal- clans his name. The boy departed for bis home after refusing to be examined or to have his face washed. 774 Mise E. E. Lund, 1118 Sum mit ave., suffered_a fractured left wrist and bruises on the leg and arms when struck Thureday at War ren ave, and Harrison st. by an auto driven by R. C. Culver, 24 W. Crock- ett st. Mrs. Osborn to Be *! Tried Again Soon Mrs. Ivy Oxbern will’be tried in #n- perior court January ‘24 for the see- ond time on manslapgbter charges growing out of the death, October 3, of Helen Marie Wilecm, an infant left in her care by its mother. In the first trial of Mrs. Osborn the jury disagreed on November 22. SPOKANE. that city po’ hypodermic needle and narcotics fled by prosecuting -attorn o our friends every where Right - Merry lmas AND SOSKD Happy New Year Frvdorick