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First in News—First in Circulation (by 11,727 copies a day)—Call Main 0600 to Order The Star at Your Home--50 Cents a Month—Why Pay More? nnn nnn TRIKERS ROUTED IN BATTLE! 1200 ARE SLAIN, 600 WOUNDED, 2,000 C: CAPTURED! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No a en ea EER | Entered as Second Class Matter May 3, 18! at the Postoffice at Seattle, Wash, under the Act of bans * March 3, 1879. Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 VOLUME 24. NO. 14. << SEATTLE, WASH, MONDAY, MARCH 13, 1922. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE Brain Operation Reforms TROOPS : RETAKE } Much Feared ‘Gorilla Man’ TOWNS! parole i Is Model) Jancia Farah a ¥ years new that Prisoner; May BENJAMIN BUCKER’S OWN STORY OF: |°e° °°" — Win Pardon How It Feels to Be Bad How It Feels to Become Good |||tisnt’ tour piace’ 'aaybe ne was At 15 he was working in Memphis, | participant, maybe a bystander. meant MO 1. agesh a bret I cannot say HEN I saw the record accusing Anyway, when he regained con-| G — H ids ; "i ” — exactly—it m been’ 25 ‘ % sciousness in a hospital, attendants : Benjamin Bucker, onge a “gorilla years a 7 ust have a me of murder, T cried. Never until told him he had been shot several overnment 0) es maan,”. whose lust to arash cut the ZO. my operation did I know I'd committed times. They said they had removed | Han a lives of those he hated with his pow- an Ben goa poe ecw of my a crime. Jall the bullets. . pper in 5% erful, hairy hands, made hardened identity. I wandered all over the coun- ; But they'd forgotten one—the one x 4 4 (E @ prison guards quake with fear, today try. My brain at times was racked After the operation I felt that some lodged in Bucker’s brain | Bloody South Af- 4 @ ts @ mode! prisoner! with pai T had icant “ heavy weight had been lifted from my In a daze Bucker wandered far and 4 Bucker’s plea for a pardon now ts pain. | errible fevers. brain. I lay on my cot and watched wide thruout the country, The em ° Battl Before the board of pardons. He| At night things seemed to snap in- the prise: is ' bedded bullet had dropped a curtain rica ie may soon leave the penitentiary here side my brain. A thin curtain would prison guards passing. ‘between the lobew of his brain | bis where he's serving a life term for | i cert 7 vei Sometimes a gray mist would rise aad US aid tates bin gions tn heneet | drop and I could think only of evil and by The age ye of the weight on my wine ue sedi a ena tee oe nt ee eeciety as a teacher. j crime. rain seemed to permit me to think. nothing bet evil strike in tho Feameveal geld sale This change was wrought almost When these evil spells seized I saw Before it seemed that my thoughts And he would kill—erush with his struck to obtain higher wages and 3 maton’ the magic of the sur- grayish white before my eyes. Some- ran up against some barrier and Oe ee ie aan bees “eeeene ee ee i Prison doctors learned that a large ||| times I felt I wanted to be good. Then stopped. Ashbey Thomas, a fellow workman, Ss ae ee ‘ caliber rifle bullet was lodged in the the curtain was green. Now when I think of evil, the at Watseka, Ill, in 1905. government. 2 left lobe of Bucker's brain, unknown | Today green rests me. But when I thought simply won't pass thru my ‘The: state couldn't hang hist Sur] servetiece’ bet to un ancemys to a to Bucker, It had been thero 25_ see white, I am seized with f ; . it because It couldn't prove a motive, page pe) years. | - * . ¥ ear. brain. So Rucker wag gent to the peniten. | Transvaal. " decided to remove the tary for life j The pellet. They prepared the operating ‘Then came the operation. And! pong pore Nagler iy And when the ether fumes died{ The incorrigible prisoner of old—jsurgical reformation, he begged for "OW-—perhaps a pardon, | stables guarding mines near Johan- e A cursing, kicking, evfleyed “goril.|away a calm. contented prisoner | the man guards feared to cromm—be | a pardon Bucker wants to be a teacher. He whee’ it wae seen thet the trouble i threatened to deveiop into » serious revolt, government troops were rushed to the relief of the police, ee . canily handled prison-| Of Bucker’s past life he remembers say, he's well enough educated to be hospital cot. ler Then, o on the strength of his| tittle come one. M3 HOME BREW ||GIRL HURT; RICH Pcs samo) 2WOMEN, MAN | YOUTH AS HELD °tr'siece ttn} DYING IN AUTOS fa man” was subdued by the area om to consciousness on his white | came a doc! of ether. JOHANNESBURG, Union of South Africa, March 13.—“We have the sit- uation well in hahd,"*@ telegram from Gen. Jan U. Smuts, premier of — the Union of Soutn Africa, to the government, announced today. Smuts Following a suggestion In “A : is here. fall oo pe tn ed they a his usual meaningless serib- Lassie Sees "eaes road — | —Phote by Price and Carter, Stér Staff Photographers. | 11 the Rand mine war, which gg hereto Foca Path occ tat ‘bls mening, |“ From Auto; Is Left printed in The Star, March 1, Rev Couple Pinned Under Car Henry Clay Agnew famed up Friday and. Saturday. | ha ~ ; Cart ‘caxte, pastor of the Pros- leaks 2) oligo negenly eying sedi Mapaeadrd a Lying in Road Sick. Conprennas rere. After Wreck pene wg nth cae”. tone » MME cnyecraner. They'll undoubtedly have How do I know suowers preached a sermon Sunday morn H Cl A Y L 4 casualties ot 200 killed ‘and ee ere Bobby. “I haven't learned to read| KALAMAZOO, Mich, March 13 ing on “One God and Father of Two women and » man were enry ay gnew, OUNZ LAWYEeY, | yourded had been repo ig ak it yet. a John Duval Dodge, scion of the mil ps bdo = pres All, and Thru near death Monday and several . vo Pkg sedi E } All and in You All.” more were suffer Re KEN BY TROO! i far, however, | TERE CIRCUMSTANCE IN THE |"!0°#!re automobile family of Detroit “Mann” had sala that theology serious injuries, ats tae Keeps putation for Front "Aner savage fighting, troops 4 | CASE was in jail here today, charged with | would profit if al] ministers would two auto wrecks, one Sunday P S which had brought into action, “I hope I can escape jury duty, |4f!¥ing an automobile while intox! use the text asa basis for a ser. night, the other early Monday. age pace prisons =| —s and Bea as I have important business to |cated and violation of the state|| mon on the good points in the || Motorists on the Renton highway | a which had been held by the rebels look after. But who's the stum liquor laws. creeds to whieh they are most op. discovered a wrecked automobile} “You can't keep him off the front, their “celebrated suit against the | since Friday aftérnoon. The en girt?” ‘The Arteak Oe Dodge andRex Wark posed, that had crashed against a telephone | page.” city, to restrain it from using the|counter at Benoni was a particular- “Plaintiff in the next case. A | iocai boy, followed what Prosecutor ant Bp acho ws pw — ews ven miles south of Seattle! That was the comment made Mon-|general tax fund to defray street |ly bloody one, the miners murder- dog bit her on the ankle.” = . i ety Aastra e nerdy gos ow na midnight, and rescued | day by Seattle attorneys on the arrest (car expenses. ‘They were all ready |ing their prisoners and setting fire “[ guess I'll serve.” jSephen §=Watthe characterized & the eas Co itr fan good, | Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Gibson, aged 42/of their coleague, “Henry Clay/to go to trial when they learned /to buildings before being driven a6 “wild party” Saturday night, cli ho each contributed some virtue and 40, respectively, from beneath | Agnew, on a charge of conspiring to| that a precisely similar suit was/out at the point of the bayonet. to upset local financial conditions. maxed by a young normal atudent|| O% 1% OW to the practice of |/the car. ‘They were rushed to Co-|release his client, D. N. Schoonover, |up for ‘trial in another section of| Recapture of these two towns re Burns Por, chiet collector of the in- THE BETROTUED | Christianity. He saw loyaity in || lumbus sanitarium, both of them un-|former policeman, from the Pierce |the superior court lieves a situation which had threat- come tax. ‘ of 10 are smoking in Port-|sirl diving from a speeding automo: | Roman Catholics, dignity in Epis. || conscious. Their condition Monday |county jail in Tacoma | ‘That would never do—as, if the|ened to end in the fall of central 3 Mia hine! land. The Press. bile onto a country road. The girl Hans, devotional warmth in || was declared to be critical. They 1 no opinions to express cases happened to come out different. Johannesburg to the miners, Sey» Shea nobel -etigrod darian (apomaee So See) |was seriously injured and lay in the || Methodists, firmness in Presbyte Mra, Gibson is suffering from con-!on the merits of the case—it's up to lly, they would have to start all over} Gen, Smuts arrived here yes en ee me | ie ae eee See nee) Ware ® COME a ters i bates bel riana and purity in Baptists, Ho || cuasion of the brain, a probable skull |the court to decide who put the hack-|egain. Bo they weat ap to im| terday a rip to ts | and the national debt. a ikea te Ce cee MS || praised Christian Sclentiats for || fracture and cuts about the head and {saws and automaltic pistol in Schoon- |" they went up to in-| terday and went ee eon ode? st Staten Wick |picked up by a farmer. making religion @ practical thing, || body, while her husband has injuries | over's cell—but the ica ag treabled arenas st exes | were unanimous) ‘They found an obscure young at-| ties of the Rand. He had a d that may in declaring that Agnew was batting! torney, employed by a loan broker-| marrow escape, his car being al. Dr. O. Herzig is at-|true to form by stepping into the ae. ‘House, who had just “hap-| fired upon and struck by bul- Dodge and Earl picked up the girt|] and Unitarians for emphasizing |} to his spine and hi on the streets of Grand Rapids Sat-|| the human aide of Christ prove Pvt’. S. court has handed down a that a jewsharp is not a musi cal instrument. Now if they will urday night,” Wattles tending them, ‘The Gibsons live in |limelight again of only make a like ruling for ukuleles lemme think this other giris were also in the party = |the Bluff apartments, 9204. ¥.| Tenn tle geema to be some| Pee” to Ket a client who wanted| lets, ‘The premier was unhurt. we'll be satisfied. 1| “He induced the student to enter MURDER AUT Pike st mutual affinity between Agnew ana|* Suit distinct from the 14 tax-| Rebel atrocities at Boksberg were ripe o me ss his high-powered machine by telling @) Mrs. C. C, Hoffman, 933 30th [the front page of the dally news eee pene peggy eset fe ue boa = —— - | ™ « on my stockings |her that he would take her hom ave.. was confined to her home | paper ey made their nebiconiiitae - | ESL ORE ORR, TH OFFICE | | se cal they were cim-pal Inathed he took her out tr NOW SOUGHT with internal Injuries Monday |° Aitho only a few yoars out of | tions to Agnew—yea, he was |® Crowded hall where a miners’ a Sn or | tnd. “how folks mare!” it you|country and speeded up hin automo! arene wy. or,.| Which may result fatally, follow. | law school, and with apparently | the attorney—and he proved [meeting was being held. | The use |, Would you call a flapper ® || piase. ‘no [bile_to more than 60 miles an hour. | CAMDEN: Ba ~ °F, | ing a collision Sunday night be. no extraordinary means of ad- | quite reasonable. Oh, yes, he is airplanes by authorities has imp dumb-beliet ages ter ‘hie, snenre ot my skirts, t06 The girls were offered liquor and | eae om +A, iam tween her husband's auto and vancing himself, Agnew has would drop his. suit, or rather | flamed native opinion. oo ow ee |, mo they are!” otherwise terrorized. The normal) 4° 6+ yonn 'T, Brunen, his friend,| Smother machine that failed to managed to keep In the public merge it with theirs—provided, In the recapture of the Brixton i ae: ee tne | ‘ey are—but my temper,|school student jumped from the ma.|#er of John 7. Hrunen, bie friend.) g¢qq, Gye aimest since the firs day of course, that he was added |Tidee portion of the Rand, airplanes, ee ee ae Oe Tee | ee tomanie of tay ‘ante Woon 1 coving |™ ‘so Sinzak Raanbinaees ox taanite, ae Hoffman's machine was loaded| that he hurfg out his shingle, to the taxpayers’ array of legal |®‘tillery and infantry were used. job, the city councilmen will again ithe jJeered at my pumps in the The injured girl lay on the frozen | 0°” a ablishe : or : pay fie. with his family to such an extent! Virtually no one in Seattle had) luminaries, The miners were swept from post- have something to do. They can} road for nearly an hour before a/ Proved by n eee oe ete | that bin wife was sitting on the lap|ever heard about Agnew until a] And so it was that Agnew waged | tons they bad captured from the er gs farmer, passing, picked her up and |'Vi) Werte tre on th Hey ne Of G. J. Hoffman, a brother, in the| year or so ago. And then, literally |almost his first court battle as|POlice, but only after a desperate eh ai! took her to the Borges hospital) io eae they aunpect the slay. | front seat. When the two cars col-| overnight, everybody was talking|the ally of such court celebrities | battle. As @ beauty, | am not a star, where it was stated te that ne ete rand after shooting Branes |lided she was hurled thru the air, about him as Stephen Chadwick and Thorgrim- | BOMBS FROM AIR There are others more handsome bv) would recover. with a shot gun, as he was -aitting | Anding between the two machines| ‘The “14 taxpayers” were pushing | sen and Turner. DRIVE N OUT far; [Another drag on my Milo—#hall I bend| Dod and Hart were taken into) i. his kitchen “on the pavement. The other per. | ————— — — . —eeenerninnhemneees va iF They clung tenaciou: unti) an his Puritan yoke? My face, 1 don't mind it, stat “ke Gee le GY bo oallawtet & gee murderer was not a profes | 00s in the car suffered only minor | artillery barrage blasted their shal- For | am behind it— <chemnas fa & conoue were held at the county Jail without | i004) gunman, police said. He was | inJuries ‘urn to Page 7, Col The people in front get the jar. Gimme another ga 1 be durned | charges being preferred until today. | >, ae pay Bran ih ome hi abits " O an a ey 4 Sige = = 7 ¢ Th bow the knee Dodge refused to talk regarding 3 r WILLIAM RITCHIF, 40, ial AK eee |1¢ my cutie won't stand for my smoke and knew where he would be liable . Spt, Ba yore shoreman, died at his home, 804 Con She: Kisses are intoxicating. | sticks, by golly! he can't have nie, | the case fo be sitting certain hour in the fon vag hme g | gn Sake | Held with Dodge and Bart were! (2 be sitting necticut st., Sunday, Ritchie ts sur ove Judge—“And why haven't you a| Mise Ethel Clemens and Miss Sue) * vived by an uncle, William Howle. evel ome ac — p custody early Sunday morning and| 4 h on you automobile? Stegenth, of G d Rapids. His horse went dead and his mute} Tait pieane, Mister Joodga, 1|~ ‘The injured girl, it was learned CAPTI JRED IN sie eo ame he lost is co gga _— mangy~ay , to loo! ound and went lame; he lost his cows im 4) ont needa da horn, It says on da| was Mixs Emiline Kwackerneck, also By Hal Armstrong ier Sk pean pane newton Jimmy Grogan walked out of [pve 4) the penitentiary, |back there again. I tell you, I'm ifi The sweet breath of spring |ing straight.” s:|Unverified Rumor Comes was in the air, Never had air d my lesson, I'll never go| — and barn away. An earthquake came when they were gone and swallowed oe the ground the house was on; the tax Be aigeat Captured after a furious hand-to poker game ac velone ene - 4 front, ‘Dodge Brothers.’ ” of Grand Rapid. She was in her WILD BATTLE eo gemmer's day and blew his hous second year at the normal school pring Id by the Misses Clem. hand fight on the street, G. R. Bees Minh pobberash sameree collector then came round and ans ot ih as foligws: ler, 24, an alleged burglar, was be Ss | See ao Geek > fithed his Sarak cee OE ohc iucs eel from Amsterdam A F ‘ : Spits charged, him for the » in the ling hela in cit il Monday, ac y e being with it, again and agal |golng straight,” he said, with em ki cette mory in Grand Rapids, when we | cused of robbing the home of Mr in deep, soubsatisfying gulps. It | phe But once a crook, alway AMSTERDAM, March 13.—A gh et Dodge and Kart i 0 | , always @ eee | Mobile, who offered to take us | 220 Mrs. Ole Nelsor 9 23rd ave RE t ‘ , made him tingle, joyously. Turn to Page 7, Column 5) monet greed thru Holland tne ile, who offe > " io ae f s Ol aj rongly jay that © former kaiser, - CHAPTER I ss W,. late Sunday night th yeing strong!) | He looked about ;, : las kucen cau taiael ane ¢ ei OPI | home. ce taken from the elty |. The Nelions were returning home featured by Seattle A year he tind twelt tnside ihare 2 DE THS ported pragma @rink. eds re Blamed for Ex- | at a high rato of speed, We | Steer endoving & theater party, when A It had been a year of drear, drab, A ARE prec e a Dee. ae CHAPTER HU Now you don't see anything. A : A Jeesler suddenly darted from the stores this week and, of Jull monotony—endle: Jeadening | i begged Dodge, who was driving, | ¢ A : Ear a f oe ete gai setesay ) FA gen nd - ~- plosion in Bulgaria | Berend Doce, who was driving: | ront door, they said. Ax Beesler |! course, you will find full ||routine. Tt had dragged until a| UNDER PROBE jumpe past him, Nelson gave minute seemed to be an hour, an| , March to s the automobile slo Riley ard ave. N. W : . . gation by the coroner Monday ants, wipe them with denatured alco-|ernment agencies today started in-| down, near Kalamazoo, to pass | ley, 7 . af ing event in the ads jcrushing him nil Hintermeister, 71, was found MILLIONAIRE’S CHILD d caught him ly, but was he ia The Star. down hol every few weeks." —Newspaper w he was out—outt going to make igatin explosion whien part-| another machine, Miss Kwack ; don the floor of his kitchen at CHICAGO, March 18.—Victoria d the American h struggled desperate But how are w ly wree jon at| erneck opened the door and The warden yas lookin 8 Sixth ave. N. W., with hi | Mfficers O. N, Young and C Sixth ave. } 8 arm lens: , who walked > them hold still while we give them! gofia, garia, proceeding on the| jumped out until Officers O. N, Young and ay aa him, Ast early’ morning’ robin ‘Wan |outelretoled toward otitew notion oe Klen: 14 hi a ie an alcohol rub? ‘abcee; teak St way. * ot Tt Hatch arrived and took him in cus. This is just another te AS pes arose spgcees i s streets. half-frozen and foodless 8 neory may be one o' ° 1¢ girls said Dodge drove on, de is Is e tugging at something in the prison | home-made beer. J.H. ‘Terhune, 6221|| for three days, pinched herself recent series of “red” outbursts | spits their cries and appeals to go instance of the service }/!#wn. He turned and walked brisk-/¥ifth ave, N, W,, discovered the body || when she awoke today in an Ms, Dorothy, against United States diplomatic | back after the injured girl ‘ ly away—softly whistling. |when he made a call. Hintermeister || ivory-finished boudoir. dea eople are buildings. We called for him to ‘P! stop; ‘| Trial Ss h duled i n you will get by being a He hit for the city, and for home. |died from heart trouble, the coroner's | ‘The girl, who told welfare work- net consarily far the state and justice de-|she has been killed,” the girly said, che I constant and regular || mopped Someane on the ave- report states, He hag no known rela: |} erg her family threatened to “beat ubject to partments have only mea tails | "but did not heed us,” | | ' nue behind him had spoken his |tives or some more if she ct just bees from American Minister Wilson Dodge was disinherited by hi Cock Fighting Case reader of the advertising |) name | Wittlam Ritehie, 40, longshoreman, pare dad chimes million: find themselves Ww m reporte t ile the | father Arrested at Kent, February 26, for columns of The Star. If “Grogan? Jaiea in his home at 804 Connecticut |] aire. ee } in hot water. legation was vact ature night| After entering suit a settlement|cock fighting, Pat Fown, William ‘ | “Yes?” jst Sunday night, shortly after his|| ‘The name of the benefactor has } io a a bomb exploded causing some di was finally effected by attorneys for | Jones and Henry Frasee, were sched. you are not one alreads | “Out again, en? junele, William Howie, had discovered |] peen withheld, but in the future i Bobby came bh from ge, but no personal injuries. the family under which the son was|uled to be tried Monday afternoon START NOW. | “Yes, I'm out, And you won't be!him lying on the floor, groaning.|| the girl will bear the name of one ' day at kindergarte with © am] Bulgarian police are working on the|understood to have received $1,-| before Justice of the Peace C, C.| |bothered by ¢ n, the burglar, any |/Howle had not seen his nephew for} ] of the best families in America, Rouncement that he could write.’ case, but have furnished no clews. | 000,000, Dalton, jmore. I'm going straight. I'm going |20 years,