The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 20, 1922, Page 7

Claims Insanity Plot to De- port Him to Switzerland and Break Romance NEW YORK, March 20.—Fed- eral courts hw halted depor- tation of August Probst, a Swiss, formerly a butler at the Rolling Rock club at Ligonier, Pa. and his story of how he with a Washington heiress, Prominent in social and official cireles, will be heard here today. A_ writ of habeas corpus signed by Federal Judge Mack caused re Moval of Probst from Ellis Island. His attorneys blocked his deporta tion at the eleventh hour. Probst, who alleges he was driven from the Rolling Rock club at the Point of a pistol by officials of the club after his romance with the Wealthy young heiress had con tinued for several months, wag te- Clared insane February 28. His at torneys allege he is perfectly sane and of high intelligence, having held Fesponsible parsitions. ‘The heiress is said to have re fused all appeals to give up her Dutler suitor, Probst charges he was forced into a stable at the club, locked up and later driven Mm an automobile and kept prix oner in. a flat for three days. He Says he was constantly threatened with death if he communicated with any one at the Rolling Rock club. Plans to send him to Europe failed, the butler said, after the Swiss consul had refused to vise is passports. Then he was re Teased, he sald, and sent to Trenton, N. J. There, he said, his rooms ‘were entered by an “inspector” with ® telegraphic warrant signed by the assistant secretary of labor at Washington. The Butler declaret that two Physicians then declared him insane and his deportation arranged. Probst said he was engaged to the heirew. He described how the course of true love changed their relations| from that of employe and guest to affection and love. A Pittsburg society girl, chum of the one in question, arranged clandestine meetings, according to Probst. CLAIM VICTORY IN PACT FIGHT Senators Expect to Ratify Pacific Treaty BY LAWRENCE MARTIN ‘WASHINGTON, President Harding was given aswur- ence today of the ratification of the four-power Pacific treaty. Senate leaders, having carefully checked up their strength over the ‘week-end, told the president they ‘would have an actual two-thirds of the senate—4 votes—and probably more. Ratification of the ~ pact means all the others that grew eut of the arms conference will go thru also, senate leaders told Harding. The treaty situation in the sen- ate was discussed with President Harding today by Senators Lodge, MeCormick, Curtis and John T.|to Maggie Carmichael. Adams, chairman of the republican | Rational committee. Adams said he believed the treaties would be one of the princi- Pal issues in thé coming campaign. | Word has gone to foreign capi-| tals also that the senate will ratify on Friday. a, 0.8 | UOTED IS ltap’ first at one window and then at ? lahother. Mrs. McKay rushed to the | door and looked out, but saw noth- GEDDES’ CLAIM BERKELEY, Cal., March 20.—Sir Auckland Geddes, British ambassa- dor, today reiterated a denial that he had told an audience in Los An- geles that the four-power Pacific treaty had averted a war on the Pa- cific. Yesterday he dispatched a telegram to the British embassy mying: “The | ambassador categorically denies that | any such statement was made by him either in a public utterance or & private conversation.” Amba&sador Geddes wan admitted. ly surprised when he read quotations from the speech of Senator Robinson of Arkansas in the senate Saturday, quoting supposed excerpts from Geddes’ Los Angeles speech. Today Geddes was the guest of President David Barrows of the Uni- versity of California. PARIS, March 20.—The repara tions commission, which is to fix| Germany's payments for 1922, meets here today. The sum of 2,000,000,000 gold marks, which was agreed upon last May as the German reparations payment for this year, was reduced, it is understood, and an arrangement {ARCH 20, 1922. BUTLER IS. ENGAGED TO RICH GIRL WOMAN TRIES ANOTHER CLUE TO LEAP IN BAY IN TAYLOR CASE Mentally Deranged, Caught |Eastern Dope Smuggler Re- | on Dock | lates Version After wandering af night thra | NEW YORK, March 20.--A new the streets of the clty, masquer. | Clue in the William Db. Taylor murder | ading in masculine attire, Miss et tee hands of the seed | Lacy Bdgett, 37, attempted to Anthony Geasel, arrested as a nar leap into Eillott bay from the | cotic smuggler, supplied it when he American Can company dock |‘ police Taylor was slain by . Agents of a “dop ring with whose ad Menday She was frue | operations he had interfered trated by ©, J. Hodges, dock: Gessel asserted that he supplied master. morphine at $150 an ounce to al A fow minutes later she wag found | movie actress, one of Taylor hiding in a rubbish container on the dock, and she was arrested by Po-|When she returned to C lieeman T. Belland, who took her to | said, he ceased using drug, and tt the city hospita: for mental investi.|was generally believed Taylor had gation, persuaded her to stop. He wan killea Miss Edgett, whe arrived from|y the ring for interfering with ita Denver Sunday afternoon to visit | OPerations, Gensel said her uncle, R. W. Slee, at 221 Second! Altho this theory has been brought ave. N., was seized with a mental dis. | forward before, Geasel ia suspected order late Sunday night. She heard |f knowing more than he has di- her uncle telephone the police and | VUlsed, SCENE SED st [AMERICAN SHIP IS LOST AT SEA dressed, but when found she had changed her clothes, and w: Crew Is Rescued and Vessel Abandoned as wearing a suit of ragged over. SAN FRANCISCO, March 20.—The OBENCHAIN JURY FAILS TO AGREE ss: Treen tas friends, when she was in the Kast. site Pons Rica, to San Francisco, has been Madalynne Must Face Sec- |arandonea at sea, according to a| radiogram to the United States! ond Trial LOS ANGELES, March %0,— Madalynne Obenchain will appear in superior court at 10 a. m. to- morrow, where Superior Judge} Reeve will set the date for her sec ond trial for alleged complicity in the slaying of John Belton Ken-/ nedy. The jury in her first trial was discharged last night when it failed | to reach a verdict after 66 hour’ hydrographic office here today, The message was from the steaen- er Katrina Luckenbach, and report ed that the crew had been taken by Ithe Luckenbach into Manzanillo, Mexico, The Fairhaven when last seen was | waterlogged and drifting at the merey of the sea off the Mexican coast No details as to the cause of the) disaster were given. It is believed, | however, that the Fairhaven encoun. tered a storm which caused her to deliberation. The vote was nin@/ieak until she reached a sinking con- for conviction and three for ac | dition. quittal, a formal report to Judge Capt. A. L. Loutr, of San Fran- Reeve by Foreman H. W. Brockett! cisco, commanded the Fairhaven. indicated. Among those aboard was Robert) The deadlock developed on the} Loughlin, ship's carpenter, of Ala-| first ballot taken, Crockett said| meda, who three months ago was in a shipwreck off the Mexican coast and landed at a Mexican port. He} and thruout the long hours of de- bate, argument and discussion that} followed there was not a varying #hipped from there on the Fair vote. haven, only to be faced with the sume Two women and one man stead-|¢xrerience once more. | fastly held Madalynne innocent of — planning the murder of the im petuous young Kennedy. $100,000 GEMS. TAKEN BY THUGS, Pawnshop Looted by Trio of Auto Bandits NEW YORK, March 26--Three bandits rmided the pawnshop of! Marcus Mierman today and escap- ed with $100,000 in jeweiry. Shortly {after the shop was epened for business three men got out of| an automobile and entered. A/ chauffeur stayed at the wheel. Mierman and his clerks, Joahua Fishman and H. Cohen, were or dered to throw up their hands, Valuables were scooped out ot! the safe and from the showcases! into a white bag, after which the/ robbers escaped. PEL LANNE RS HERE’S MORE ABOUT GHOSTS STARTS ON PAGE ONE reported, were able with their finger tips, to raise a heavy table on which were seated several men. Both the MacDonald and the Mc- Kay families were frequently die turbed by the uncanny “spirit rap | pings.” A relative of the McKays, who was| in Pictou at the time and who ts now | living in Seattle, gives the following version of one visit of the “spook” HERE’S MORE ABOUT |; CONTRACT | || STARTS ON PAGE ONE |} “Everybody in the county was aware that Maggie was ‘posseased of an evil spirit,’ said this relative. “One night in the fall of the year Mr. McKay was absent and Mrs. McKay and her two children, William and | Josie, were at home with Maggie. Mrs. McKay was reading the Bible. Suddenly a sertes of knockings be- gan. The family heard a ‘tap-tap- ‘The cost to the state of the allegra favoritiem, Moran maintained, is ap- proximately $8,000, “The manner in which the bids were called for, the specifications drawn and the awards made,” he told Hart, “was such that it ts common talk and scandal among the informed machinery manufacturers and dealers of the state.” His concluding shot \«: “As a citizen and taxpayer, I call on you for an investigation of this award and » reversal of the decision of the department.” | MEXICO SEEKS ing, and resumed her reading. “She was interrupted at once by a new noise. The gallop of horses’ feet was heard. It seem- ed as if several horses were run- ning around the outside of the house. “Mrs. McKay sent Maggie and the children out one door and she went out the other, circling the house They saw nothing. “Then, as Mrs. McKay open ed the door to re-enter the house a perfect storm broke loose. Tables and chairs flew out the [INVESTIGATOR] MYSTERY VEILS | |been found in an old trunk hidden ATTLE STAR MURDER OF JAP) Police Discard the Theory of | Mistake by Tongman City detectives were Inclined to be Japanese, found Heve that K. Suzuki, shot to death In an alley on Wash-| ington #t., between Fourth and rittn | aves, early Sunday, had been mur-| dered by his own countrymen, and! had discarded the theory that Suzuki had been slain by Chinese tongmen. Detectives point out that the Japa nese have fraternities similar to the Chinese tongs, and occasionally kill each other, altho in a mueh more subtle way than the Chinese, and the nhootings never occur where any one may see them. On the other hand, police may, Suzuki may have been killed as a result of a private feud. The detectives are searching for a Japandse who ran from the alley way into @ restaurant near by and shout ed: g'fome one has just killed a man ‘ When the police arrived this Jap Ralph A. Horr, national) ,.4 fled. An automatic pistol, which senior vice commander, Dis- had heen fired twice, wax found be abled American Veterans of |*ide the body, and a short distance the World War, who headed ®*®¥ were two ompty cartridges. A The gun had been insued from the probe of Tucson conditions. | navy yard, at Bremerton, HERE’S MORE ABOUT DEAN MILLER STARTS ON PAGE ONE HERE’S MORE ABOUT VETS STARTS ON PAGE ONE | A ANBAR GS AAEM by freight car or on the brakebeams —but they come, and what are you going to do about it? POLITICAL PLAY SEEN Political manipulation is also seen in the background. An effort is! tomary regalia of that order, seen to use a sort of soldiers’ home| They took Dean Miller to the comp. at Prescott for the permanent Art-/trolier’s office, unheeding his pro- zona quarters—-but Prescott in “too test#P and he did what they practi him, Their identity has not be- come known, but they were neither ruffians nor members of the Ku Klux Klan, or if they were, they did not wear the cus- high” for scores of canes where jcally compelled him to do—filed as heart troubles are involved, says | candidate for mayor. Dr, James. ‘The ceremony over, Dean Miller Mrs. Mary Blair, secretary of the issued a statement to the preas, as Red Cross here, personally haa cared | follows: for an many an 40 cases a day. “Urged by a large number of per- Men have collapsed in the atreet *onal friends and citizens of Seattle. while waiting for a chance in the |'day, on my return to town after hospital. Red tape in the Veterans’ 2" Absence and, without having had bureau has held men weeks and t¢ opportunity to consider the mat monthe—periods when they were in *f Properly from all angles, I have dire need of attention—defore they fled my candidacy for mayor, upon could enter Pastime park. peecompuome dingo ae beg — ave ur) my ing thoroly under “1 don’t know what might have stand, that I reserve the right to ee pase = gc Sao = withdraw within five days from to- bel ge jday it it advinuble to do #0.” help,” saya Smith. “We have dual "With Yoon ‘gate remmsiniey in down In our own pockets and IM! which to make up his mind, Dean the public pockets, The Red Cromt/ witler sald Monday: fund has all but been exhausted— “1 won't withdraw today. Un lor there have been 1,000 men] ¢) 1 make up my mind to stay around here who couldn't get In.” in the race, if I do, I shall have PASSING ne comment to make upon mu- BUCK nicipal problems, I have a great Who's to blame? many purely pervonal and pro- “The Veterans’ burean blames the fensional matters to attend to senator and the senators pass it) during the next few hours.” along-—but we do know that the) Dean Miller’s last-minute filing, local Vet bureau has its handeland the manner of it, has thrown pretty well tied with red tape,” other candidates into a mild frenay. Smith charges. Not one of them denies that, if he Officials of the local Veterans’|remains in the race, he will be a bureau admit the emergency. C. R.| mighty opponent, and all are agreed Forbes, chief of the bureau, “seems |that they would much prefer to see to have been misinformed,” says | him withdraw. one who cannot be quoted, With eight candidates tn the race Citizens of Tucson, backed by the | for mayor and 21 contestants for the Chamber of Commerce, did much/|three council seats, the battle for toward building such places as now | ®°minations at the primary election are. provided, to be held May 2, was, on Monday, in full «wing. While delays and red tape kept hundreds waiting about the city, a| ,, These po napa aad for nomina, “field day” was declared, Hundreds 4 went out and threw together the}, 7, Sees ee ee temporary structures, m For 192 men there are but three) ;,7noma* J. Cunningham, | general » ain end. thare ass three Insurance, 6620 Woodlawn ave. how: more Dan Landon, . Fremon: for the other men in the wards. The se ze te aad ' ave. frail cottages do not withstand the| Ira Dp. Landy, canneryman, 905 summer heat and bring only dis | Jefferson st. comfort. Walter M. Meler, corporation coun- The only solution ts a permanent jeel, 7024 17th ave. N. EF. and property built horpital. Charlies H. Miller, lawyer, 7417 Otherwine hundreds will die from | Gatewood road. governmental neglect. Stephen I. Miller, educator, 6217 fist ave, N. BE H. 8. Turner, real estate dealer, 1625 B. Madison st, The following are seeking the nomination for three council vacan- chow: Alexander J. Allen, shipwright, 4545 Renton ave, A. G. Barbour, traveling salesman, 1223 18th ave. N. BE. L, Blaine, manufacturer, 416 W. Highland drive. T. Harry Bolton, Smith st. Clifford HL. Clark, commission mer. chant, 2212 Second ave, W. Clare 8. Colegrove, restaurateur, | 6263 Gist ave. S. W. B. B, Cox, banking, 207 N. 47th st. Clev.| A+ T. Drake, city councilman, Elks’ . | club, Charles H. Gallant, electrical engi- neer, 6703 Gazelle st. Henry D. Hall, fuel dealer, 6656 40th ave. 8. W. $175,000 THEFT Liberty Bonds Found in At- tic of Home salesman, 407 WASHINGTON, March 20. — lib- erty bonds valued at about $175,000, recently stolen from a branch of the United States treasury here, have away in the attic of Charles A enger’s home, the United States cret service announced today W. H. Moran, chief of the service, said that Clevenger, a 26-year-old | and leaped over the chimney. }-.TO BE REDUCED doors. Windows were opened by unseen hands. A bucket of water flew thru the air and splashed over the children. “Mrs, McKay called to a netghbor, Other neighbors the McKay house. the reat of followed and observed “A broom danced out of the hous* Dishes flew from the cupboard. The lids jumped from the stove, and these and the dishes dashed themselves | } | the ‘storm.’ not injure her. “There was an apple tree out- side the house. The apples, seem- ingly thrown by some one, fell from the tree and actually went thru the roof and were picked up and eaten by neichbors after the ‘storm’ had subsided, made for payment of more than one- half this amount In kind instead of | cash. Approximately 720,000,000 gold marks cash will be asked | The condition upon which reduc. | tiom of cash payments required will be granted the Germans will be, ac-| cording to authoritative sources, that | the German government. stop it tnoney printing presses and reduce its inflated currency. Anti-Rent Hog Law Upheld by Decision | “These things recurred at intervals until Mr. McKay took Maggie back to the asylum. As he drove off with her in the bug a great boulder | that Mr. McK nd hie horse had been unable to dislodge rolled out of | the yard into the rond and followed them for some distance,” Millionaire Dodge Finishes Jail Term) DETROIT, March 20.—John Duval Dodge, millionaire speedster, was re leased from the workhouse todd WASHINGTON, March 20-—The | after serving five days for speeding. | ntirent profiteering and housing| jie jeft immediately for ama we of New York were upheld by | z00, where, tomorrow, he will answer the supreme court today |té liquor and traffic law violation The court affirmed a decision of | charges the New York courts in a case - brought against the Edgar A. Levy; YAKIMA.—Death takes Mrs, Pansy Leasing company by Jerome Siegel, |M. Douglas, wife of Charles H. Doug: @ teprat a Mr. Cameron, who rushed over to/ against Maggie Carmichasl, but did|hy the United States, Huerta, is | jelerk in the branch office, and U. O | Wamsley, former clerk, arrested yes |terday at Charlottesville, Va, have |confeaned to the robbery, one of the largert from the federal treasury in recent years, RECOGNITION HERMOSILIO, Sonora, Mexico, March 20-—Minister of Finance Adolfo De La Huerta, who arrived here today on official business from Mexico City, intimated that he might proceed to Washington in a few days bearing a personal com- | munication from President Obregon Jury Chosen for Arbuckle Trial to President Harding. . SAN FRANCISCO, March 20. The communication, it ts under. | Taking of testimony in Roscoe (Fatty) stood, will be in relation to recog: | the Obregon government | Afbuckle’s third trial on charges of having caused the death of Virginia 18 | Rappe, was expected to begin this from | afternoon. Twelve regular and one leaving on bis) aiternate juror had been selected when court convened today. One ad ditional alternate juror was neces- sary. nition of awaiting final instructions Mexico City before diplomatic mission, IRISH TROOPS | BUILD FORTS | Witness Paroled DUBLIN, March 20.—Free state in Arbuckle Case troops and’ Ulster constabulary are ¥. D, Hayden, educator, 1906 FE. 66th at. M. G, Johanson, club manager, 6016 Sixth ave. Fred W, Kelly, civil engineer, 716 Boren ave, Mrs, Henry Landes, housewife, 4511 18th ave. N. BE. Mra. Kathryn Miracle, realty deal. er, 4340 1ith ave. N. BE. Hf. Alvin Moore, engineer, 2410 Third ave. William Hickman Moore, city councliman, 222 W. Roy at. H. MoSorley, hotel manager, 1509 12th ave, &, George W. Parker, Seventh ave, Hugh T, Parker, health tnspector, 1431 Newport way, William ©. Zimmer, ateelworker, 4008 7th ave, & For comptroller: Marry W. Car. roll, Incumbent, 308 29th ave., is the only candidate, Ed L. Terry, ctty treasurer, Union at., are the only can- didates for city hall positions with. out epporsition, olerk, 2125 reported to be concentrating and for.| SAN DINGO, March 20.—-J. J. Nor gaard, witness in the Roscoe Ar tifying strategic points along the “ . | buckle case, who claims he was “rail Ulster border between Monaghan Mi roaded” to jail here to prevent his and Tyrone counties. pia psed AA eee ak The frontier is assuming the char. Pessoa id: 2B ss, SA sages ois a will leave tonight for San Francisco, acteristics of a battle front, with | jr tor tea datisemiclon iiaee sporadic exchanges of rifle fire be|‘?,~hpear for the prosecl fon et tween opposing factions. | Fe eee | Ulater constabulary have blown up| (ate action when its members e 9a P rned that District Attorney Mat. ! several bridges over the Blackwater red | thew Brady, of San Francisco, has . “gE PeE MOEA ERY & urged the parole of Norgaard, | MEPHORD, Ore.—Fleavily armed, i AUBURN POST, No, 73, Ameri and guarded by two armed guards, J. . Hale is prepared to resist an.| 0%? Legion, has planned a series of other kidnaping. Friday a band of | Wkly radio dances, to be held each masked men took him into the woods | #tiday night. and threatened him with death un ere reonienindinneneds | less he dropped a civil suit. HOQUIAM Low, narrow forehead is a mark of beauty in Mexican women, $100,000. 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