The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 15, 1922, Page 8

DEAD IN SOUTHERN TORNADOES 100 Injured and Huge Prop- perty Loss Incurred by Storms in Four States At least 25 persons were killed, mearly 100 injured, and huge property damage was done Dy tornadoes that swept parts of Oklahoma, Arkansas, Mississippl HERE MORE ABOUT “Tes.” HAMER D “{ was up there two or three times, I did not live there.” “Were you ever there all night?’ “1 don't remember Fultoa picture. “Look at this photo,” he sald, ‘and then say you never stayed at the Gordon over night.” The witness bowed her head again, apparently in tears, Fulton kept on his questioning “De you know Sergt. Zimmer mant* producd another prison “Were your parents” “My mother wes.” ARRESTED BY SERGT. ZIMMERMAN “When you were at the Gerdon, and Louisiana during the past hours, acecrding to reports to aay. ‘Twelve dead And more than 50 to were reported from Sulphur _ NEW ORLEANS, March 15.—) dead, one white boy and three| was the toll taken by the which swept a section of! Baton Rouge parish yester- SMASH REVOLT Smut’s Government Wins in South Africa JOHANNESBURG, March 15.— nt troops have captured the last rebel stronghold, ‘was. officially announced today an intensive bombardment of | ast and @ quarter, the insurrec capitulated, and troops en ‘the town, taking hundreds of ot Fordsburg marks the a oo tke rebellion, brought about the three months’ gold miners’ ‘There still remains scattered ant didn't Sergt. Zimmerman take you into custody for illicit practices? “Yeu.” had gone to California because of your father’s ilines: and you were in an impoverished condition’” Tho girl was told not to answer, Fulton asked the witness to recall Here’s Sto Here ts Mae Butchart’s complete story of her associations with Treas ury Agent Augustus B. Hamer, she told it, under direct and cross examination, from the witness stand Question by J. F. Falknor, ansist- U, 8. attorney: “Your name io Witnem: “Mae Butchart.” “How old are yout “Bighteen.” “How long have you lived In Seat. ~ “About two years.” “De you live with your parents? “Yes, sir.” “Where?” “In the Westminster apartments.” “With your father agd mother and sister?” “Yea, str.” “When did you first know or hear | from Mr. Hamer? ber.” “Can you fix the date exactly?” PHONED TO HER AT APARTMENT “No, str.” “Did he phone to you at the West. | minster apartmentsT™ “He phoned me I waan't home and he talked to my mother. He called up several times At inet he left his number and sald for me to call him up. When I did he told me |he was a federal officer and for me to come up to his office, as he wanted to get some information.” “Did you go?” “I told him I would and made an Friday evennis.” “What Friday evening™ “I don't remember exactly. About to be rounded up, but the goverument ia now in com contro! of the disaffected areas vietnity of Johannesburg. _ A majority of the women and ehil- aren Were removed from Fordabure rebels commandeered ali avail- men to help entrench themscives offer resistance. _ Four thousand this number included many who ere coerced by insurrectionista prisoners were the bombardment began, altho | in the roundup at Prakpan. | the middle of December.” “Rut you didn’t got “No, sir.” vid he phone again?” “Yes. sir. Fhe phoned again and asked why I didn’t keep my appoint ment. I made some exeuse and sid 1'd come that evening.” “Now, when was thatt WENT TO HIS OFFICE IN THE EV N “Just before Christmas.” “Did you keep that appointment?” “Yes, sir. I went to Mr. Hamer’s| office about 9 o'clock.” eanexs WOULD NSEAT GILLE March 18—~A Movement to throw Representative Gilet, Massachusetts, out of bis place Qe speaker of the house if he refuses 96 sanction 4 gag rule for the bonus ‘Dill, is under way among the house Fepublicans today. been As framed in secret, the plan ts to %, expecially bonus friends, ilies, ween Gillett comes back from his holiday with President Harding to Florida, to demand that the epeak @r acquiesce in the plan for a mac! fule under which the bonus bill de. Bate would be limited’ and the meas. ure rushed thru without amend. ments. Without this gag, the measure Would be subject to amendment. Should Gillett retuse, ax now te Indi. ented, the republicans would then un- @ertake to cai! him from the « Y —just say uesjay to your druggist Stops Pain Instantly The simplest way to end a corn’is Brue-jay. A touch stops the pain in- stantly. Then the corn loosens and comes out. Made in two forms—a colorless, clear liquid (one drop does it!) and in extra thin plasters. Use whichever form you prefer, plasters or the liquid —the action is the same, Safe, gentle. Made ina world-famed laboratory. Sold by ‘all druggists. po: Wirfie Bower fp Diack, Chie Satcoen, ey fanned Buch an ejection hag never before made. | @ail a conference of prominent re} “Where is his officeT™™ “Right here in this bufléing, on the third floor, room 304.” “Did you and Hamer have en: conversation?” “Yee: he asked me for some tn formation about a man named Duke.” “Then what?” “Well, I didn't know Duke." “What eine yas sald?” “Mr. Hamer asked me ff 1 used narcotics, and I sald “Yes.’ And he wanted to know if I would exchange my company for narcotics, and I sald ‘Yes.’ He sent me to the Bybee hotel, across the street. He had given me the money, and I went ahead of him and asked for @ room.” “Did you register?” “No; they said they didn’t have a room. I said, ‘I must have a room, because I am golng to receive com- |pany’ ‘Then I got room.” “And Hamer?” “He came in a few minutes.” “What happened in the room?* “He gave me some morphine.” “How much?" “About six cuben And he gave | me some yenshee.” “Did you use any? “Yea.” “Was there any conversation about in | “Mr. Hamer asked me if I had an outfit, J said, ‘No.’ He = he had one that he would for me. I told him, ‘Never mind.” I took ® shot then.” “What with?" “A pin and an eye dropper.” “Was Hamer there then?” “Yeu, sir.” What else aid you dot | HEARD FROM HIM |AGAIN WEDNESDAY Well, we stayed a little while and) I left.” “Went home?” “Yea, wir.” “When was the next heard from Hamer?” “I called him up at noon on Wednesday. He said, “Don't come to my office now as I have visitors, Meet me in the lobby,’ He met me downstairs in front of the parcel post window and gave me two bindles of morphine and said to sec him next Fri- day.” “Did you see him?” “Yes, sir.” “What happened?” “We arranged that I would get a room in advance. I went to the Spring Lodge.” “Where is that? “On Spring st. I got a room and registered, but not in my own name.” “Did you see Hamer again that rening?" “Mr. Hamer came at 7 o'clock. 1 met him downstairs and showed him to the room.” time you “And you told him your parents | ry Told by Mae Butchart “about the middle of last ‘eine appointment to meet him there on/ STARTS ON PAGE 1 OPE TRIAL her vistt to Hamer's offios, the night of Jandary 13, By his line of ques tioning he tried to bring out that the girl Knew she wag being watched | when she welt to the offices, and that | Hamer had mere 1 her for some information, A given her RO hareotion. In this Fulton failed. Mra. Nellie Hutehart, mother of Maw, testified that Hamer phoned | their home for the first time and asked for Babe, her daughter, Decem |ber 22 | “I told him she waan't there,” sald Mra. Butehart. “1 told him not to call her again, and that if be want ed to wee her he could come to the house.” ‘The last witness for the gow ernment was Mrs. Dora Hope well, housekeeper af the Spring Lodge hotel, She testified that Mae Butehart came there and got & room January 6 and that Hamer came later and stayed about an hour in the room, ‘The government rested its case at 1130, Fulton then argued a mot that the case be disminned and Hamer freed because of Inmufficient evidence and the Indefiniteness of the charges, ‘The motion was denied. | | Sprir i “What @id he do* “Tie gave me some morphine and |s as | yenshoe.” | “Then what? | “We stayed a ttle while and I went home.” “When did you see him next? =| “On January 6 at the Spring Lodge,” “Tell the jury about re fot a room and he came up aed me.” | “Tow long were you In the room | together?* “About an hour.” “What happened ¢artng that | time? “He gave me morphine and a shee, ‘That wae the last time at the Spring Lodge.” “Did you regteter that timet™ "Yeu" “What name? “Yvonne Marquere.” MADE ARRANGEMENTS | BY TELEPHONE | “Mow, coming to January 13, what | | happened that night?” | 3 | “I came to his office, We had }made that \arrangement by phone| [that afternoon.” “What time did you come upT™ “About 7 o'clock.” “Dit you know you were betne| watched by agents of the department | of Justice? sir.* |. what aid you dot “1 went Into Mr. Hamers of- flee, Hoe was there, and we de- cided to go to the Spring Lodge together. He gave me $1. As I He sald: ‘You take it" 1 did.” “What was itt } “A package of merphine and a | package of yenshee.” “Where did you put It” “I put one package In each stock ing.” | IDENTIFIES PACKAGES OF DOPE IN COURT “Are theae the packages? (fan4- ing witness two small folded papers) “Yon, sir.” “Now fo on and tell what you | aia.” “Well, he was to follow me tn five minutes, I went out Mr. |Read and Mr. Terry stepped up to [ree in the ball and enid they wanted to ree me. They took me over to their office.” | “And you made « statement to them there?” “Yea, vir.” “How long had you been using Rarcotics up to that night of Janu- ary 187” | “About eight er nine months.” “Where have you been since that night? | “EL wae taken to the detention station and have been there ever since.” “re you now using narcotics? “No, air.” “Have you been taking the cure™ “Yes, sir.” “With a doctor and a nurse tn at tendance?™ “Yes, sir.” “And you are now cured? “Yen, sir.” “How long have you been cured?” oo three weeks ago last Sat urday.” "Do you know Alice Kelly? “You, sir.” “Did you and she live together at | some time? “Yeo, sir.” “When did Alles Kelly leave Se. jattie?* (QUICK RELIEF FROM ~- CONSTIPATION Get Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablets That tn the joyful ery of thournnds ince Dr. Edwards produced Olive blets, the titute for calomel Dr. Edwarde, a practicing physican | |for 17 years, and calomel’s old-time enemy, discovered the formula for | Olive Tablets while treating patients |for chronic constipation and torpid } livers, Dr cont Edwards’ Olive Tableta do not in calomel, but @ healing, sooth ing vegetable laxative. griping is tho “keynote” of these little sugar-coated, olive-colored lets. ‘They cause the bowels ana to net normally, They never force them to unnatural action. If you have a rk brown mouth” | bad breath—a duil, tired feeling—| sick headache—torpid lver—conati- | pation, you'll find quick, sure and pleasant results from one or two of | Dr. Edwards’ Olive Tablet, at bea | Une | | | | | | Thousands take them every night | | Just to keep right. Try them, 160 \and se-—Advertivement, WENT REG Fulton (handing gfri a prison |photo}: “Ever see this man? IDENTIFIES: PRISON PHOTO “Do you keow a man named A |MeSparen’” (Giands her another jwent there?” | ment Girl’s Testimony Is Unshaken!| (Objected to by Defense Counsel} Walter Fulton, Objection sus tained.) m NAMIE FROM JO BILLIE “Did Hamer ever tell you how he fot your phone mer?” “He sald be and Joe Itille bad been discussing giria, and Millie told him.” “Who in Joo Millie? “A naman,” “Where is he now? Fulton: “Oh, we'll admit that Joe mit in in the penitentiary—where » belongs.” (Croms examination by Fulton) Fulton How long did you my you ad been an addict when you met Mr Hamer Witnesm “About eight or nine nthe, 1 wae taking the cure when I met Mr, Hamer ‘Taking the cure? Who from?" “Myself. 1 had been taking it for & week or #0.” “What did you é0 to cure your reir?’ ro Jor Bt “I took yenshee in off anéd— “Do you know Joe Billie?’ “Yon, sir.” “Tow long had you known him be- | fore meeting Mr, Hamer? “1 think about three monthe.” | wood can deliver. TREATY VOTE | TO BE CLOSE Pact May Pass by Narrow Margin | — | BY LAWRENCE MARTIN | WASHINGTON, March 16.--The margin by which the four-power Pa iflo treaty will be ratified appeared lay to depend only on the number of democratic votes Senator Under. | If he can provide six votes, the! treaty will be ratified by a dancer ously close margin. Underwood himeelf considers eight | democratic votes certain and from 10 2 probable. king yesterday's vote on the Robinson amendment as the yard stick by whieh to measure the senate lineup, it was apparent today 1. That four yotes—Torah, Joh fon, France and La Follette—are all) the republican irreconeiiables can muster against the treaty. | “Where did you first meet him? “At his place, At Seventh and You bed a room there, didn’t “You went there frequently.” “Yon.” “With men? “I did not” “You were practicing that sort of Uing, making a business of it before ‘ou met Mr, Hamer.” "I was nety* “What names did you go under | here? ‘Oh, several.” “What are they?” “Yvonne Marquere—and Babe. “Do you know Jean Wildm: ex-convict T Yon” “De you knew Garnet MoGee, an | ex-con viet? (Line of questioning objected to by | Palknor) | Judge “The courts have held | when » woman se far disregards the teachings of Christianity a» te become the public ptoperty of mon, these matters may go to the jury as testing the credibility of the witness.” ‘The witness bowed her head, closed | her eyes and bit her Upa at the| Judge's comment. prison phote) man?" “You. Garnet Metco.” “And you lived with him tn an un lawful state, didn't yout” (Objected to by Falkner. Objection sustained) Judge: “This witness tant on trial, Her chastity tan't in question It would be improper to permit euch | teatimony: “Fulton: “You regtetered as Mar quere at the Spring Lodge?” "Yea, wir.” “How jong ha& you been using that name?” “Well, sinee T was addicted to nar coticn.” “Where aid you get the name? “It was just a made up ° “Just made up? you tuned USeD NAME EIGHT OR NINE MONTHS nine montha, maybe.” Had you used it “Do you know that/ 19 month Well, I might have™ “Or 15 months?” “1 might.” “Or two years?” “No.” (Fulton picks up reginter of Spring Lodge hotel and opens to page mark ed November, 1920, Shows it to girl.) Fulton; “Did you write that fname?” Witness: “No, sir.” “Who wrote it? (Objected to by Falkner) Girl; “Jean Wildman.” “Were you there with him? “No, alr “Ien't it a fact that you were there with him at that hotel, and that you regist as ‘Mr. and Mra Mar | quere, of Portland? And the police came and found you with him that night?” (Objected to by Falknor, Objection sustained.) ‘ you know Mra. C. C Boyn | ton (Objected to by Palknor. ained.) Objection “White ydu were tiving tn & room at Joe Billie's didn’t you have | & conversation with a Mra. Boynton, | & maid who worked there, and you told ber you had a ‘yam on’ and asked her to go to Mr. Hamer and tell him that she wanted pme nar eotics for her sick brothe Witness; “No. I did not! know any Mra. C. C, Boynton.” ou knew a woman working for} Billie, didn't you?” vo didn't know he had @ on I don’t J I wornan working there, rh nin Joe Billie's place was fre quented by addicts and public women, white and colored, was it not?” “I never saw any colored people there, and didn’t know whether! women of that sort came there or | not.” FIRST WE IN NOV “You remember the first time you | “Yea, sir.” “Who waa there with you?” “Joo Billie,” 1 you give the date exactly. It was around Thankesgtvir | When you first saw Mr. Hamer, | what was that date?’ “It was about the middie of De-| comber.” | “You aligned a statement for the officers when they took you to the Douglas building “You, sir “Who wrote that statement?” “A Mr. Garland,’ | “And you signed it? “You.” Fulton to court: “I demand that the government produce that state We have a right to use it in “examining this witness.’ | “lL demand that it be | cros Fulton roduced,”* | be © | Washington |TOLD TIM SITE WAS | TAKING CURE | “You told Mr, Hamer you used narcotion?* | Ye 3. That the final vote, based on) Present conditions, will be about 62 for the treaty and 28 against it, al | lowing for probable absenters and “pairs.” This would ratify the treaty \* & Margin of two voter, ] ‘Man Struck by Auto on Downtown St. | K. G. Erickson, 37, wea confined in Bwedieh hospital Wednesday with | wevero injuries to the head and body, Erickson was knocked down by an automobile at Third ave. and Pine st. shortly before midnight Tuesday. Harry Churebill, driver of the auto, tovk Erickson to the| hompital Railroad Strike Is | Now Being Talked! CLEVELAND, March 15.—PFore./ caste Of a bitter wage fight between railroads and employes, which may Femult in general rail atrike, were | prevalent in union circles here today. | This followed sudden cancellation | by brotherhoods of regional wage | conferences with carriers, beliered to of the final peaceful methods of settling imminent wage controver ninm, "Tt tant required.” “It has been nent Fulton to witnaes: “What was mld the ret time you went to Mr. Flamer's office™ | Witnew: “Fle introdoeed htemeet” | “Tle introtuced himaelf? You mean you introduced yourself to him.” vo, T maid, ‘Mr. Famer sent for | me.’ Then he said, ‘Good qvening. an Mr. Harmer!” | “What did you my? “I said, “What do you want to mee me for?” (Here Fulton endeavored to tanate | the witness am to dates, but failed.) | | | Me then asked: “Did Mr. Hamer tell you he wanted some informa tion?” Witness: “Yea, str. “About whom? “About a man named Duke.” HAMER SORRY JOR WAS ARRESTED “You told him you knew Dnker “1 told him I didn’t know Duke.” “Didn't he my Joe Bille had told him you were willing to furnish tn formation about narcotic dealers?” Te did not? “Did he ask you about anyboty | that wae dealing In drugs “We talked about Joe mitie's | cane.” “What aif you aay about ttf | “1 enid 1 Waa sorry.” » | “Joe Billie had been arrested | “Yon.” “And you were sorry? “T eald I wae sorry.” nd what did Mr. Flamer my? “He maid he wns sorry, too, but couldn't do anything about It” t ele a4 you ray™ | “I told him I waa taking the Cure! by myself." “What did he «ay? “Tle said he'd try to help me.” “And you want this Jury to believe he nent you over to a hotel and gave | you & lot of drugs?’ | “Yon, wirt | “How long had you known htm be. | fore you went over to that hotel with him? “About an hour.” “And you tell thie fury that you hadn't been practicing that sort of thing." had not.” “Hadn't you ever been out with other men before?* Faiknor: ‘Your honor, there ts a great difference-——" Judge: “She may answer that} question Witneem “You, T had been out with other men before.” | PORT ANGELES. — Snow at Yorks ts reported four feet deep and still falling THIRD CONCERT "1921 to 1922 Season of SEATTLE |f'T CIVIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA FRIDAY EVEN MARCH 24 <nabas Metro gl | THE 4 program | music stores. or chestra members. 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