The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 25, 1922, Page 12

THE SEATTLE STAR ~ Cavairymen Keep Crowd in|’ ‘Check as Prisoner Meets His Death Calmly ‘i BY WEBB ME , VERSAILLES, Franc, Feb. 35 “Bluebeard” Henri Landru, most re | markabdle criminal of modern times, Was executed today on the guillotine for the murders of 10 women and a} a large crowd, kept in check by| Brown, L. B. Bird, 1211%| Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of; R. H. Sheppard, cage No. 7,| Matthew A Is Still Fresh We Take Off Our ‘PLOT GAUSED By CHARITY MANIA Washington Blackmailer Al- leged to Have Confessed Hat to— | bew 1 of ork care, pte” HINGTON, Ve that the rich # pelied to help the pe VGeorge ¥ the elty eau 4 the yack ma them with death unless they hande@ Inspector Grant eald Long had com Charges may not be push gainet him, BONUS DELAY _ IRKS HOU Alexie B. Luce, because at the height of his popularity 104 s " < y “ya 1s leading man in a good| , NGTON, Fet Unk cavalrymen, turned out before| PR | i Mrs. George G, Green,| . . = Ba of teaaues he a6 age Fae WASHINGTON olen ight to witness the execution, | Wain st., because at 86 he still’ Brook yn, N. Y., because, al-| chairman of the entertain-\city treasurer's office, oe N 6 in He ms bio. difficult stock company here, he left tO | presiaent Harding blocks - ° s ) ” vi rhe~ . » ha Pr “C0 is , t f "1 g~ uso W nd means ¢ tee took pce in a street In (8) pos the “pep” to celebrate his tho he spent his youth work ment committee of the wom-|\cause he has won ihe ren a es mP “ MG se bull the farth-\or the ars v, rob gboiyer art elie: be vote for! prea Prane “2 cd ot to the last moment | birthday by cooking his own ing in the caverns of a British an’s auxiliary of Seattle Post| tion of being one of nf a ry, S cioeeh howetinl ta the world ion, and commanded a ma-| likely next wey ee bill euinue the had expected a reprieve, met death dinner. The Rev. Mr. Bird is mine, he managed inci-' No. 18, American Legion, be- very. few money-collecting | est no he Point Barrow chine gun company in @ MAN | jerinite means for raixing the neces “ Stoleally. Only at the last moment.!q veteran of the civil war and dentally to prepare himself to cause of the untiring work public officials who Pn a rere 2. Ue fgeoediyy-alietel | had paigoes praise from his \ sary tun bi ata ol o id . A | * 4 ne " sen| Alaska. ow , r joupite President Harding’ ¢ ~ when he was led out Ly Sayed er an active member of John F.\ the point of being capable of | that she has done on benalf of practice of being polite even) ‘ heh TT ecsiadine men, as well as his superiors Det perexient Mardis cs ome : mney ote Seema a in the] Miller Post No, 31, G. A. R.jentering college and 18 NOW| the entertainment to be given to the point of thanking per: |Eskimo help. rg cig | * which is going SOME. And |"! wattle! ioadiwete, nocee Ga halt ight, did the notorious slayer + Mev, pick Mea Green ana |Ucclaimed as one of the great at the Press Club auditorium| sons who come to pay their had to be gg re did it because, furthermore, he’s\- semen were today talking of fiml | fotos of Rev, Bird. Mra Green am e fr } he di § et . 4 ¢ ; » “ falter momentarily sieceed he Ly daa Garter, Star statr est living preachers. He will Monday to raise a fund for re-| bills. from Sea tle. : ut he a j back in Seattle, this time a8ling ahead and even pa the bul He refused religious consolation, | photographers speak at the First Methodist) lief work among world war\ 7 (24, ee Presbyterian Beard | teqding man with the new over his veto. : ; Which was offered him in his bm i rn seas church in Seattle Monday eve-| peter . 0 | of Home Missions is now able sine company at the Wood-|, Harding has strongly Inaeatoa tha early this morning, and declined | oof Pteasntiic bnoy BLAST ROC to give the Eskimos much- 1 The he would veto # bonne Bill which ‘and a cigaret. ning. - ——__— | 9 ward eater. |not provide the means of raising the =“ am innocent, I have nothing to | | — —| } VAST REGION needed medical aid, . ———-————| money necessary to 7 hope someone will care for} HERE’S MORE ABOUT || Photo by Curti« | ee asians ue dat dren,” were the last words of | ’ 0 CHICAGO, Feb. 26.—Explosion of | — - - . f sg accused of many crimes, in HERE’S MORE ABOUT ) tons of dynamite in a rock quarry cC M BRAZER ome rew 1 cluding white slavery, abduction and} at Argo, lt, last night was felt for le ° ‘the slaying of 10 bar —" pape a radius of 100 miles. ‘Thousands of ONERATED and the burnine of their bodies. 15-Year-Old Slayer Sleeps STARTS ON PAGE ONE dollars of damage was done in Argo} | (Staris on Page 1) © WANTED TO : STARTS PAGE ONE and surrounding Chicago suburbs) ¢orey Mf. Braser, Seattle world ; ‘ say 3 3 . to see high prices come back this SPumase tie CADIS the | After Shooting Man at got stale ren injured. Al won. or on stands exonerated Bat’ | Yar ‘they Law have to make «] % * At the first streaks s } = | er appeared personally to lend th Only one person wan Injured urday of grand larceny charges in r | . oe Dt i io ie ery long trip, Tom. ess of he Peo bed maken BY CHARLES R. LYNCH —_| liam D, Taylor out of revenge Jntrength of his backing to theae|*orkman, who was two miles from | volving al tages whide act. | YO? /0"8 tim Tem, and Landru, who had asi WACO, Tex, Feb. 25.—Fitteen:| The search, which started follow:/women in what he termed ‘reorgani.|th scene of the blast, wutfered | ing ae secrets he Metropolitan | eee he might be shaved (his 100g | ood Marcle Matthews, girl slay-|ing information from Sheriff Coffin. | zation,’ and the remult was that we|a broken arm club BER in Wick Deard was cut off some ti jer of the man she accused of wreck-|of Detroit, is being taken up by 44: |regularty elected officere were beat —— After 49 minutes’ delibefation, sais erest: tina wad ec the ladles, ing her life, waited today for action | thorities everywhere, The ern en by Unrepresentative women, in-| OLYMPIA.—Superior Judge John| jury in porior Judge Austin. E. ave nis -entive j : by the grand jury now in session | have been traced as far as Baker ‘cluding paid school workers M. Wilson of Thurston county has |G t returned a verdict of Dingle digg aero ‘The slayer — pre ege ae mt here, which her attorneys and/ field, Cal | “It wan these women who raised aan: the order of the depart guilty late Friday night | roaes King Ieee | tee ence nad bean erected in the | friemis believed would result in her! TWO WOMEN, jthe ‘smoke’ imme, The real PT. A.l ment of publi works whieh de Charges were fi an audit} man hes wanted | be treet running past the | ¢xoneration. jON® IDENTIFIED [has not been asked ite pleasure in|creased the freight rates on loge ap-jof the club's books show it waa pegial ges mye = j no. 7.4 | Thru waiving preliminary hearing! ne women, whose names are pow matter at all; therefore, n 106 proximately 17 per cent testified, a shortage of $1,809.27 { sweiiia | | ect fap-Mionday on a charge of mur-! known to the police, have been iden-|MAS Gny right to use our name to - a “The knife, with its heavy weight, - , i “ der filed yesterday, fol sg the vay companions of the dope back thir absurd proposition : ution was tifled as companion t pe 3 na rater coe cones Sn tr see-| shooting to death of J. 8. Crosstin. | Wadier by men who are in close| The “noemoking campaign” was ihe sony of¢ hoarding house steaks te log Soama | former preacher and real estate man,| touch with characters of the wnder-|Virtually knocked in the head by an tough, PAL 4 o'clock this morning. shiver-|!" the district court room, lawyers) word opinion submitted to the board Fr Hh pos path ye piente a hard ; ¢e dl " . ” y t ” he life of a an ts full of strings, ior the girl felt sfident that she ats iin Saath ho | day by A ney W. H. Penn in Ing in the darkness, workmen work- yee? Sac ieane te Goud okie ellen] ce ee ee ee ee ae bs ee % But slick is the road of a can of ' fing by old-fashioned candle lanterns, | Woul’ ae prompted the drug ring leader to kill we ine beside the| Miss Georgia Murdock, head of the | Tayior in retaliation for a severe Under nection 4509 Rem. and Bal - the guillotine : x code, you " It will soon be time to say “March Nearly 100 jour-|Evangella home here, said this morn | heating ad sasal Wien: be Je, you have power ‘to employ and | t car tracks, Nearly 100 jour. | vanes Jeg ms rok 2 A tor waaal a 7 comes in like a lamb and goes out Melista, French and foreign, were ad-/!"# that Marcie spent a restful) oran director in an effort t must to diumiet teachers.” The : mitted inside the police cordon. A! Night there, Mise Murdock #tated ine operations of the ring supplying Only Provialons of law which I have like a Hon ets % crowd gathered outside, be-|the gir! had complained before retir| done to an actress friend boon able t salifying the above ' to de allowed within the|!ng that ahe had not been able to) Megnwhile, another group of au- | language are to the effect that no greene. ye eh , 2 , = tous te fi ser shal afte arion Taylo i j . Paes. A short time before the execu: | *itep for many nights previous to thorities kept up a futile search for | Person shal! herapted a certificate ‘amb Abele’ Sbok We: Hon the crowd had to be separated Shooting. She was apparently much |ine gun which Fields claims t teach In the public schools whoee : R - He ta lallow a street car to pans. The/|Felieved today, after her peaceful) yuried near the Taylor home. Police | moral character or habits are known find him a . ei widow. May Yqrowd which surrounded the police | Msht, and in the best of spirits. have greatly discredited this part of | by the board to be tad, or who ts af wo set my that be seems to be a | | } igerdon was unable to see the execu-|_ Cronslin, who had once been coD-| reidn’ story. ficted with an infectious or heridit , guy } é | viewed of criminal aasaylt and gen-| a — Authorities here today were awalt-;2ry diseas® or who is under 18 years ing further details of the car in/of age which Fields claims to have driven | the Chinaman named the gun man and a white man and woman to the scene of the murder. While Fields says he obtained the car from ‘a gurage near the Taylor hore, loom authorities have asked Detroit offt-|ers at will cals to ascertain the license number | | In reply to questions from the! He is survived by a wife and four | and other details | board, Pennock declared that it might the prison | teneed to nine years but received a |new trial thru a reversal by higher |courts, was for 13 years a pastor of | small community churches in Texas He was 55 years of age and at the Htime of the alleged asmault, said to} | Daring his last few minutes In the) ye occurred two years ago, Cross ‘prison. Landro tere up poten oe Un, it is claimed, was a grandfather _ uments which he handed to w- . Yer. The lawyer was only ‘able to | 074 active religious worker herv. ay: | THIS NEW BILL ALL NEXT WEEK TWICE DAILY, 290-495 MAIN 0222 Nights, 150 to $1.00 Matiness, 150 to 500 ‘The body was taken to morgue, where it will be claimed by “You, of course, must not employ a person or teacher who does not pomens & proper certificate to teach the grades to which such person may selened. Btubje the above * you may employ teach qualifies The Musical Comedy Star HAL NORTON “ty | ohildren | A letter hax been sent by loon! | refuse to employ teachers without ‘ oeernee! | Crosstin at that time was owner! authoritien to the teller of the bank | giyy tint ee ee j Landru replied; “Thanks, I've al - 7 giving any reason. | jot the house wh : {in Chicago where Fields ciaima to ‘The beard can, if it Hey “The Little Big Star ‘ways had that. Ikea hare. | Matthews, father of Marcie, lived have withdrawn, thru a friend, a ep! the sald, gl ae fo st 2 ‘The condemned man walked bare Crosalin met Marcie at her hom |arate bank account under the name| headed Ban i a eal ta | a 2 ef Song’ footed from the prison doors to the | Vion ne was collecting rents and th? | of gam Chopin, for use by his daugh- ene school, t black. “The Mutual Man | guillotine. ble feature of Landrn’s|silesed assault took place in het lier in case of his arrest. teachers in another. | j A Comedy Skit With tn ‘ean that none of the bodies of | nome on one of these visits by (he) awarp ANSWER | ‘The opinion was filed without com Music —With— the women he was supposed to have landlord. OF BANK TELLER [ment by the directors —With— murdered ered. He peat Police believe tnat the tetler’s| — Sas defended by writiant vers! Capper Elected to snerrs wil) definitly “estabiah IMA WILLIAMS | CLARENCE SENNA RUPTURED? Fields | } | TRY THIS FREE and given every opportunity to prove this innocence. Hig final conviction | Was based upon almost overwheim- | ing circumstantial evidence. } Landru’s cynical attitude and hin Joking during his trial were mid to have militated against him. and the fury found him gulity. After severa: whether or not Fields waa in Chicago | Head of Farm Bloc | ‘ day of the murder Sig ‘ claims @ friend of his made the de WASHINGTON, Feb. Senator | poxits of this accour Capper Kansas, late yesterday was Meanwhile, L. D. Seat, teller of the elected chairman of the senate f4F™ | Hetiman Day and Night bank here. bloc, succeeding Senator Kenyon. | iy awaiting « further description of Iowa, who retired to accept a federal | ieids, whom be will try to identify And Bunice Sauvain and Ida Kashner BOSTOCK’S RIDING SCHOOL At the Piano ur Attempts to secure fresh trials and, circuit judgeship. i tec. [# the “well dressed man” who a and I will send With LILLIAN ST. LEON in Teprieves. hope was only last night Kenyon, following Capper’s # companied a foreigner, presumably i Bs w “ - ” 4 that th ite . ank , “How Circus Riders Are Made abandoned by his counsel. | tion, urged that th to the bank to change k I will send you Over 59.000 typewritten pages con. program of agricultural eae’ tion. for rupture, When (t ar fained the dossier of the famous | Capper aawured him the bloc would | a sis lice that Fields’ picture tnct you aan thie ae thes <etminal. wach - ak a jooked famili but that in photo CARL REITER, manazer of tho] JACKSON, Mise.—Gunfight Friday | sTaphs submitted to bim for identi DANIELS & WALKER Moore Orpheum theater, wax elect: at a basketball game at Mize, Mi = Srave wi 0 aeheasroee ior ae In “The Old Timer” ed to the directorship of the Dime results in the death = es ee ; at tho teller’s window for gee associa: | | and Walter Sullivan c ° . = dort ey eereees: & Sean: smsode-|iey ond Mn Warre and|change about the time of the mur-| Seemea "t tion, at the second annual election wounds 3 der, wore a hat by which he could Marshal Albert Lack @f the institution Friday anes at dily hiro lief. At t E A letter received late yesterday at| way-—if it ay } KINZO District Attorney Woolwine’s office | #ble—if “An Interesting Entertainer” from a prominent New York lawyer stated t a young man called on | ht a fe days ago and mid t Gis apehetts wen & Lae Avonian ian The Young American | JOHN JAS. Returned Goods Regulations Adopted to Guard Your Health is the duty of the State Board of Health to use every means within its power to fight the spread of infectious diseases. One great, possible source of contagion is the merchandise returned to retaile HARRY | MILLER & KAHNE | MACK “The Incomparable “The Bing Boys” Mentalist” Featuring the Evolution of the Human Brain | UNDER THE AUSPICES of the} Young rs Scouta wi nd park | (aay | AMUSEMENTS THIS WEEK mat 0272 WASHINGTON tion to the White House stables is Harbel, a thorot Kentucky sorrel gelding formerly owned by Harry Firestone METROPOLITAN TONIGHT | SAN CARLO OPERA Co, Comedy Singing and Dancing Topics of the Day—Acsop's Fables—Concert Orchestra wari "35 WAUDEVILLE?:*"": PAT ROONEY AND 1 follow! eguiations governing re As a result the following regulations govern i turned goods have been put into effect and every retail MARION BENT merchant in the State of Washington is required to ob fi “ » LJ serve them strictly, under penalty RING “iL TROVATORE” Seattle’s Own THE WILKES emis ‘riecte promises its large and faithful following an unusual week of entertain- ment in the presentation of an ALL-ACTOR cast in Henry W. Savage’s | “Shavings” | —a rural drama by Joseph C, Lincoln which, during its long run at the Knickerbocker theater, took blase Broad- way by storm, i REGULATIONS GOVERNING THE SALE OF CHAN DISI y¥ person, firm, cor- have delivered any pparel of goods, firat disinfected of the regulations. REGULATIONS HAVE POWER OF LAW. SHOT ard A companion piece to “Lightning.” \ Staged under the direction of T. Daniel Frawley, 5 Matinees Sunday, Wednesday, Saturday. tinuous All Week “A JAPANE Binon City ¥ & Bri ‘Tolma Pantagescope Showing Buster Keaton 1 to it Now y and Tuesday evenings the performances will be under the auspices of the Inter-Club Council, the proceeds to be devoted to the Millionair Club for the feeding of the city’s unemployed. Pot Pourrt Normal FROM EGGSHAUSTION? “Champion hen dies after laying | exg for 264 consecutive days.”—| Newspaper item, * | Another tong war breaks out in Seattle just as we thought we | were going to save a lot of moncy on fuel. Mi : - o | ississippi Orders | Probe of Frame-Up) | 34 ON, Mise, Feb. 25.—The! lower house of the Mississippi legis | lature yesterday, by a vote of 64 to 53, paseed a resolution authorizing an investigation of charges filed by lfe M. Ruesell that certain Positively — This great actor's greatest triumph. the $100,000 suit filed against him | by Mins Frances Birkhead ON THE SAME PROGRAM Miss Birkhead, formerly employed as stenographer by Russell, charged Russell with seduction MUTT & JEFF NEWS Message on Subsidy to Be Sent Monday WASHINGTON, Feb. 25.— Presi- dent Harding ts rushing work on the ship subsidy message with the hope of delivering it in person at a joint TOPICS AND A SIDE- SPLITTING COMEDY session of congress Monday. He worked on the message until late last night and conferred today with Chairman Lasker of the shipping board on the various points to be| covered FouR OAY Sun = Mon - Tues.— Weon. RUARY 26, 27, 25. 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