The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 28, 1922, Page 7

Then Stops | . ByE. P. Chalcraft the composure Mr. Ruth Plumiey, he te take ber to the ‘Thirty minutes after retiring degree to Superior Judge Walter not ask the death penalty. “Watch her—she's goi! “whispered a court attache, Hale iife,” Mrs. Plumle: Der bead, but no tears came. f attendance at the trial. un ted. stl stands against Of the trial yesterday. ter if they are expecting It, the sen. A charge of murder tn the frst Woed, was arrested April 3, at the time as Mre. Piumiey, but USBA Not to Blame) for Whole Thing,” “She Tells Judge ORCHARD, April 28.--Matn. = exhibited her trial for the murder of Busdand, Hugh Crandall Plum comely Charleston matron, awaited today the coming of guards who peniten. | ‘at Walla Walla, there to spend remainder of her natural life. for daliberation Thursday afternoon, the z returned to its box, and Fore fun Henry Hatfield handed the ver dict of guilty of murder in the first French. Following the recommendation of ting Attorney Ray Green- wood, the fury, in a special finding, wat down and bowed lust what Mrs. Plumley meant by ying that she “was not to blame for the whole thing,” furnished ma- terial for speculation among those It was commonly believed to refer to Lyle Wood, a neighbor with whom Mrs. | JUDGE HALL “Plumiey was said to have been PROMISES ACTION Bn4 Gpecial Assistant Prosecutor |now tn California, ! ts sald Louis Echwellenbach at the opening \ It was shown that on the evening ef March 29, Hugh | to her husband. band ———_—- APOLLO, Pa, Bon-union workers Piumley died strychnine two days before, and kept it hidden tn a pocket of an old coat belonging | “Why did you keep the strych- | pine In the coat pocket?” asked Prosecutor Greenwood, aceorfing to B confession of Mra. Plumley’s | Which was introduced tn evidence. “Because I did not want any ant _ Mala to eat ft and die,” she replied. She was saving it for hee hus | HOUSE BLASTED; > 3WORKERS DIE April 28—Three were killed and Another injured when a bunk house Dear the Patterson mine of the Kisk! Valley Coal company was dynamited arly today Seven men were steeping fn the Single room of the frame structure | When a bomb was hurled thru the Window, according to the state police. ® The dead Stanley Milke, 20, leaves widow and Pour child Andrew Borsak, 25, aves widow and three children; FT Frank Ridgski, 60, leaves widow and Sven children. enployn Would Fire City’s thgs of the Ku Kiux Klan aut Bidwell}, defending the Klan. “The Kia un-American manner, and ty,” anid Benvey. erson mine fe located in Westmoreland county, across the Kiskiminetas river from Apollo, and ut 15 men. SACRAMENTO, April 28, —City Manager Clyde Seavey anked the city founcil of Sacramento last night for Permission to dismiss any city em- Ploye proved to be attending meet- Tite board voted him the necessary yr with one member, C. H. 8. ro far an evidence can be obtained. operates in an unlawful 1 to the welfare of the com-| garage, at #:20 a. m., on the morning 4 “DIDN'T MEAN TO DO IT,” SAYS BOY AFTER SHOOTING PLAYMATE OAKLAND, April 28.—-"I didn't moan to do It," bitterly sobbed Bello Dortl, aged 14, in the Ala meda county detention home to day, telling how he Im alleged to have killed Harold Silva, aged 16 The boys were having an argu Ment over the merits of their gun HERE’S MORE ABOUT | OUT FOR DAN STARTS ON PAGE ONE OE ——————————— | that Would be utter’ fecthardh | ness to sleet Dr, Brown, and a | most dangerous expertinent, antly. “Don't that look all right? he asked. Just then the gun discharged, killing Silva almost instantly, oo HERE’S MORE ABOUT LECATE STARTS ON PAGE ONE | UTTERLY UNFOUNDED | “There have been many such ut |terly unfounded statements made,” sid Mee W. HL manager f Mra. Landes. are being cireulat don't know how. j|Rebody but Mra Landes. | taken no aides tn any other contro versy. It ts not tru, with Dr, Brown, or that she has in A4 Seattle's next mayor.’ One of the most vicious false Statements against Landon, that he was seen in the company of Tom Murphine drunk on the night of the primary election, is denied positively by a great num ber of people who were with him all the even! tit he went home that night, including sew gate be exhumed and ao belated Inquest held by the coroner, “I will be glad. to hold the tm quest,” announced Coroner Willis H. Corson, “and will do everything in my power to ald in the investiga. tion of Legnte’s death.” Geath cer tiffeate as “homicide or suicide, un; eral newspapermen, who know determined,” and failed to hold an that he was absolutely sober, tho inquest, naturally elated over his victory, He said, however, that Legate was legally held to be a murter vic tim until proven a suicide, Because a clique headed by Chief The equally ugly that “Landon ts a renegade Cath jen oM trick of unscrupulous polit! meeting of the police pension board, Aprti 3, Mra Legate has decided to|the American Legion; William T. ‘The matter waa continued anti! FORGET LANDON next Monday for further investiga | tion, at Mayor Caldwell's suggre tion. Caldwell te chairmnan of the police penston beard. That refused to see her when she went to offer her aid tn the murder investigation is a further charge made by Mra. Legate, who said Captain of Detectives Chartes Tennant did not question her ae to what she knew, or recelve bee with any enthusiagm, “I cannot bellers,” sald Laube, “that the people are going to be stampeded for Dr. Brown, and forget that Dan Landon, a9 their champion tn the legisla ture, has a record for honesty and right that ly unimpeachabla “Dan in the legislature 1 watched for many years. ways was with progreastve element, and I am con He a) beet record of any member of priationa. “He fought big appropriation and high taxation in the senate im the years when that sort of fight waa anything but popular. Today everybody ie for tax re duction and it Is = compara tively easy thing to aecomplish when public opinion ts with you. “L have been approached by Miss Forbus, in regard to a grand jury investigation,” said Judge Calvin 8, Hall Friday. “And Mrs, Legate has & perfect right to demand consid eration at their hands If i is brought before the grand jury May 5 I will see that the case te probed wrong had been submitted to him appar-| short of uncanny. ently warranted the Investigation. In « statement made before her over and tn seen It happen time and again. “For the university, Dan wae al. waye the champion. Dan sold h Dirthright for that university. Utter, campaign “They quite freely, we “Mra. Landes ts working to elect) tivities in five states were confis. She has) cated by authorities an ts being | clrowlated, that aho is ‘hand-in-hand’ | gieig today, | troduced him at any of her meetings | to propaganda clic” te branded as another lie and first national vice commander of have the conservatively nervative fn saying that he bas the the legislature for keeping down appro- “Dan's insight Into the right or of legisiation was nothing T have seen other legisiators study @ bill for daye and then be tn doubt as to whether it ‘was good bad. Landon could look It 18 minutes tell you! whether ft was fust or unjust, cast bis vote and, years afterward, his Position would be justified. I have He THE SEATTLE STAR KLAN LINKED "WITH ATTAGK Prosecutor Says Evidence Is Now Complete BY FRANK H. BARTHOLOMEW 108 ANG cS, Cal, April 28 Cheer up! The first hundred beers are the hardest! . Woman proprietor of a Yesler way apartment house seeks a court order to restrain the copper on the beat from hiding in her front hall. Does she want to drive the poor fellow out into the cold, black night? é ee | cam iT 4 emphatically | + wir gun te no good,” Siva beer tery py geo larer gyre 4 We have definitely linked the Ku] «ptaraing to Play Golf With was said to have told his younger || satement Apparently originating in| &'™¥ Klan with the masked mob out: | Soribes."~—Headline, We newspaper playmate after three pulls on the |! pe peown's headquarters, that Mrs, | Tee at Inglewood and with the retgn| people are nothing if not demo-| | be ae brought ep ogee g. [| bandos, eatistied of her own election | of terror holding away thruout the oratio, Bik | - rebly Ae eet nt eh |) as city counctiwoman, in helj punty oll fields for months. QUITE SHEIK a y 5 : jpush Dr. Brown's candidacy fo are now fully prepared to go The caheo | Hie jameed 4 new ridge tnto || ward. before the grand jury, convinced that Sheik of Ai | the gun and held ft out triumph || spa TEMENTS ARE a = qeeve Gubsasntentinn,” How much I am like he He's aslor | ‘Thin waa the assertion of Dintriet os Sim a pent Thomas Lee Woolwine as -| Attorney She waits and looks at me |he and hin aides today completed ‘The stars T start to see cking the data seized tn a recent Oh, how Fd lke to be rald on Ku Klux Klan headquarters A Sheik in Arabeet here, where documents and member. eee ahip rosters pertaining to Kian ao DIRTY STUFF Want ad in yesterday's Star sald: “Woman Wants Cleaning” Probably getting ready for Clean-Up week. . | District Attorney Dorsey of Kern county prepared to retura to Bakers. tw with him Kian ents which are to be presented grand jury now tp session tn the ol! ity, The coroner's fury found members of the Ku Klux Kian responsible for oe Writer of Nick Carter stories com. mits suicide in New York Bang, beng! and another author bites the dust! | doer torney’s office here, however, now declares that it will attempt to prove the Klan an organization—not only its Individua) members—te re sponsible for the Inglewood affair and for a tong series of raids and) sabotage in the Kern river district Btrenuous efforts were being made -|to have a grand jury session called tmmediately, despite the refusal of | Superior Judge Frederick Houser, 3 ety all eee Letter writer to The Star say Marcon! wasn't the first Inventor of the wireless, No, indeed! The first Inventor of the wireless was a wom- an who gavé her husband a neaty look when he trumped her ace, eee of Police W. H. Searing had balked | cal “undercurrent men” to defeat pelle scene ai> Sete seme Sa A lot of people don't care who gets her efforts to obtain a police pen-|thetr opponent. to be mayor #o long as Babe Ruth | sion of $53 a month, @t the last} Such men as John J, Suilltvan, gets back into the lineup eee JAZZ GIRL IN CHOIR take the matter to the grand jury,|Laube, who, as secretary of the |4 tin dishpan and an auto Rorn, she said, state wenate for seven sessions, A squeaky fiddie and @ rat eating) Searing ts sald to have Ge (watched Senator Landon tn his corn, | elared that Legate wae “Just ® [many battles for justicn and right! MOOPESTON, Ul, April 28—Ger |4 dady's rattle and a puppy's whine, | Plain suicide” and that the Itle jin the legislature; Hugh C. Todd,| trade Hanna, young choir girl, whore|4 cowbell jangle and @ vesined) widow was not entitied to a pen | and « host of other men and upright| body was found In the parsonage twine-— sion. He was supported in this (woren went out to work for Lan-| basement of the United Presbyterian That's jaca, contention by nearty every po | don's slection unsolicited today, church here, was smothered to death, Ueerman on the PEOPLE CAN'T or chloroformed, officials believed to |4 sarophone, an exploding bomb, A locomotive whtetie and @ big brass day. vinced, and her body hidden in the|4 gloomy, wet basement of the unco cupled home, mination of vital organs by riclana at Danville had failed to|4 calllope and a tehirligtg, close any traces of potson. Analy. | 4" alarm clock tattoo end @ aqueal- continued, however. There were ing plo, no bruixes on her body. Four prominent young men tn | Hoopeston were questioned by au thorities today. Their names had been coupled with that of Mise Han ha since discovery of the body started | gomstp buzzing. The finding of the body by carpen- ters who repaired the pastor's home for the coming of a new miniater fol- lowed her disappearance by exactly four weeks. howl That's jaza pb A monkey in @ China closet falling downastatr Tha Jars. Somebody mugmests « Physical Cul- ture week. misery by having @ Wood Alcohol week. CONAN DOYLE eTtry ant Mra Walter Brown and Grove, widow of John Noonan, @ied and wut rf permanent residence on Ronnie B Farm—Cald mm 2) Progress, eee "What hae become of the gtr! you were making love to in the hammock last summer?” “We fell out.” . Mr. UNARMED MAN SLAIN BY DRYS | SAN ANTONIO, Texas, April 28— 7 =o One man was killed by probibition| Who ead Christopher Columbus officers who continued war 0 MOOM-|waan't @ wise prophet? The first shiners in Texas toaay. thing he eald when he came within Frat Payton, 23, farmer, died frem |sight of America waa, “I see dry wounds he received when Gry agente |iand.~ engaged three men tn a gun battle eee the raid at Inglewood’ on Sunday, If Dr. KJ. Brown which cost the life of Deputy Sheriff fe elected mayor aod | Marinor B. Mosher, The district at- Jimmy Duncen te ' ripping seam end @ hownd dawg's | A Arathen Chines saying hts pravers, 1 ND POISONER GETS LIFE! [Home Brew |! PREDERICK & NELSON ‘The gtrt, soon to become a mother, drum, | was killed at some spot distant from |4 vowling tomeat end @ frightened the parsonage, authorities were con-| fowl, | qi Let's put an end to thief) | during @ raid on a place near here, re it had been reported bootleg: were to have delivered 663 gal- put over Inw after Inw for ite up| Dullding. And thone fights were not LIL GEE GEF, TH’ OFFICE VAMP, popular those days. “Above all, he waa an honest man, s quick thinker with won derfal Insight Into legislation and the foe of exerssive appropria tions and big taxation, after investigation. He is| that #ome people have no need to Dan Landon is one of the candi dates.” “Fie ‘9 not the mont handsome man @ay of the murder and/in the world, but he has got a lot covered up In that head of his—a lot never had. We periment fn the matter of mayors when a man iike | cheek and the center of the forehead, he was instantly branded a suicide by lone of liquor. Scores of shots were exchanged. No Mquor was found and Payton was won't buy you an automobile | | make him get you » tea-wagon. | ? Seager —_——@ eee If Dr. Brown ten't elected mayor he might trying to run for dog- catcher, Lil Gee Gee suggeata, ee of Mpring: f basement aking thre SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, April |28.—Three were wounded, two sert- ously, in fighting between striking coal miners and mine guards at Soo field, a mining camp, late yester. day, according to reporta reaching | here. The fighting started when atrik | Battles are now being born in Seat- | le hospttats with long arma so that they can reach thelr mother’s akirta. tains of sergeants, so that ean |Setet. Pielow and Patrolman Tom) oy commenced to hurl stones at oo see myself coming or golng.’” " guards, Many shots followed. Capt. B. 1. Hedges arrived shortly |" pumors that Sheriff Keller was after the body was found and con. curred in the suicide theory, The of. | flcers then notified Mra. Lega that effect TWO WEEKS Pielow and Legate were mapended for two weeks after Inspector Hans Damm had watched May Curtis, negress, solicit 74 men in house near 12th ave. and Main st., across the street from where Logate was shot to death, May Curtis was found guilty in police court of run- ning « disorderly house, MM health, Investigation revealed that three and porsibly four shots had been fired in the garage that night. Only two had beon fired from Legate’s gun, All the to Rivlow enid Lagnts had lcomplained of severe headaches and HERE’S MORE ABOUT DOCTOR BROWN STARTS ON PAGE ONE 4 liver 250 votes. I told him there was not enough money in the world to buy the liberty of an un- | }unabdie to control the situation and | |would appeal to the governor for troops could not be confirmed Drive to Continue for, Memorial Fund) In Seattle and other communities of the state that have fallen short on their quotas for the Centralia Ar “Mr. Legate also said that he bullets were recovered and all |mistice day massacre memorial, the! ¢lean man or woman in quaran- had been bitterly accused by his had apparently been fired by the | 4rive will be continued until the com tine from me or from Health brother officer of ‘talking too same type of pistol. plete amounts are raised, according | Commissioner MeBride.” much’ after the suspension,” The report of Deputy Coroner Ken. |t9, the decision of business men end) After this split with Hanson, Mrs. Legate went on. neth P. Corson follows: American Legion members who are) prown hurried to the legislature, “1 know that they were collect- “The shot, then, tnnat have bean |*Ponsoring the campaign then th penalda; dnd ™Ettéainted to Ing money from those women.” Legate told her that “they were) oe reaching flirting with the penitentiory, and| car or by someone in the car “He often told me,” sald Mrs. blo Legate, “that if I knew all that |* 7o" me of the things that happened | oon ceivable there. He seemed mi oatot-the-w: ace.” betu; oi] erday by the state supreme pi I said ‘Not putoftheway place” befure they) His Saturday epeaking engage-| court, because state witnesses had relieved when I said ‘No. theught of looking jn the garage | ACCUSED jments follow | been permitted to testify concerning |} | SEARING ACCUSEL where Legate had often gone tor a] Woodward theater, mass meeting, | conversations with members of the BY TWO WOMEN smoke a4 | oranes Bearing is accused by the two| One of the most stenificant clues| Fire station, Harvard ava and} oe _ women, Mrs. Legate and Attorney | found to the murder was a tiny blood| Union #t., 2 p.m SERVICES will be held Sunday at Forbus, of being influenced by other | smear on the rear of the auto, appar-| White Center, 7:20 p. m. Christ Episcopal church, Brooklyn | officers in the desperate attempt to| ently made by a little finger of a Neptune theater, 45th and Brook-|ave, and B. 47th at., by Rev. Paul jeast the stigma of suicide on/ man. lyn, 9 p. m. |. Jones at §, 9:30 (church school) Legate’s name. : —oncemeetnemepeiemmeentiemere Workmen's hall, 120 2ist ave. 8.,/and 11 a. m. and 70 p,m. Com. When Legate was found dead,| TOKYO, April 28.—Industrial de-|9:30 p. m. munion will be celebrated at 7:30 a. sprawled on the rear seat ang floor of an auto in the Main Street the Asano shipyard, one of the larg. est in Japan. ‘were thrown out of employment of March 17/ show thru the right fired by one stonding on the floor to the car, around the ‘There Legate left Patrolman Walsh at 1 place, every alley and |pres#ion today caused the closing of Hundreds of workmen have @ law paesed to kill the city In. ternment measure. Hanson followed Brown to Olym- |Campaign Launched had better watch out,” according tO| were two buttet holes in the floor.” to Get Crew Funds } pi and denounced him on the floor | the widow, and that some officers) Tennant declared that Legate aat| A campaign to raise $7,500 to send | of the senate as the -eciptent of the had planted moonshine in a building |i, the car alone, as shown by the (the University of Washington crew | money collected in San Francisco to and then had beaten up and arrest: | gist on the opponite aide of the sent. |to Poughkeepsie has been launched, |defeat the government's purpose in ed the proprietor. Legate was fear-| one mullet that plerced his cheek en.|with Brous Beck, stroke oar of the | cleaning Seatth, ful that the “truth would come out | toreq at an unnatural angle, as tho|1910 varsity crew, as chairman Brown, the records show, ad- some time” about It he had twisted in an effort to avoid |Campaign headquarters are in 2111 mitted that he received fees from interned men in Seattle, but as- Smith building. - serted he did not get any fees went on down there I would £9 | im to go to the washroom of the ’ ’ from the women, down and clean out the police | rooman. hotel, next. door. to the es 8 rae en 8| “Or course noi,” replied Han- station, and that it was as muc garage. He never reached there. eaki non, “The men pay it for the 5 his life was worth to repeat Pielow Inst saw Legute at 11 eh | arpa schedule | women,” some of those things towne. | |p, m. his report states. Plelow re| win spear nominee for mayor, bbe le said he was being made | tired at 2 a, m. and asked Walsh ing meetings Friday night. An wi| Gets Ni Trial the goat for others in the sys | wiere Legate had gone. ho Rotor pode lay night. ets New Trial on pension case. Walsh said he did not know, but ewood clubho' icali “Pielow came to my house the Jenat he (Walsh) had rung in for Le: es ee et te Syndicalism Charge Gay before the funeral and nal gate at 3 a. m Thalands hall, Columbia City. ty conwlatad Tr iceematah: conate me if my husband had ever told The officers then searched “every , . well, convicted In Snohomish county Hansler building, 8324 Rainier avo. and Rose at | trial y Monday evening Landon will ad-| Gress a meeting in Little’s hall, Unt verwity district, The University quar. tet will sing, m. Monday. A confirmation class is meeting at the church at 4:15 and 780 p. m, Fridays and at $45 a. m, Sundays. | of syndicalism, was granted a new) | | | | | | | { | | | | PAGE 7 FIFTH AVENUE—PINE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE DOWASTAIRS STORE The Downstairs Store for Economies in Women’s and Misses’ Spring Apparel HE DOWNSTAIRS STORE Apparel Section abounds with the new modes of Spring in Suits, Coats, Capes, Skirts, Sweaters and Blouses— —all of worth-while quality and consistently low-priced. WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ TWEED SUITS, $7.25, $10,00, $16.50 and $21.75. MISSES’ CAPE-DRESSES AND SUITS, $10.00, $12.50 and $15.00. WOMEN'S AND MISSES’ SILK DRESSES, $9.85, $15.00, $17.50 and $21.75. hrc S AND MISSES’ JERSEY JUMPER DRESSES, 7“ arena IN EXTRA SIZES (up to 51 bust), WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ JERSEY COATS, $3.95, $4.75 and $5.76, WOMEN'S “AND MISSES’ STREET COATS, $15.00 to $25.00. WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ CAPES, WOMEN’S AND MISSES’ TUB $5.75 to $17.50. WAISTS, $1.95 and $2.25. 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