The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 19, 1922, Page 1

The N ews paper With a I 5 ,000 Circulation Lead Over Its Nearest Seattle Com petitor On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise The seattle Star bx § Tonight and Saturday, fair; moderate southwest q winds i Temperature Last 4 Hours Maximum, 52. Minimum, 44. ‘Today noon, 51. Entered ae Second Class Matter May 9, 1999, at the Postot Seattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March %, 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $5 to $9 NO. 72. <> . FRIDAY, MAY 19, 1922, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE MURDERER |KILL THE POLL TAX AND YEGGS Sign the initiative measures to repeal the poll tax law! Petitions may be found at the General Delivery From County Jail Just in Time VOLUME 24. + = Pike Place market and the county-city build- ing now, and later will be available at other ™ downtown points. - Of course, for your signature to count, you = must be a registered voter; if you have failed to register to date, do that first, then sign the 'a] me initiative. ‘ . ' - There are other bills also in circulation that ‘74 ge deserve a place on the ballot, and a thoro pub- to Block It; Scent Murder ~ a @ lic discussion. Among them are the Palmer- 73 tng measure es remncing and ae ion- BY HAL .L ARMSTRONG = in: e seats in the legislature in accordance i wah thas stata Sabetiation, the Mall tacroasing Another alleged murderous plot hatched ™ compensation for persons injured in industry, by James Redmond and Willard Holtz, no- ™ the home rule bill, the measure providing for torious highwaymen and bank robbers, and = nonpartisan elections, and the bill providing James E. Mahoney, convicted wife slayer, to jury trial in. injunction hearings. If they are open the cells of the King county jail and presented, sign them, too. You may or may not f th I and other desperate crim- wish to vote in favor of them all later, but at - B least you will be serving the public a good turn inals, has been nipped by Sheriff Matt Star- : a & by helping bring them up for the voters’ con- wich, it was learned Friday. 'a ge sideration. On a tip given Allen Stark, jail superintendent, — | Thursday, that a break was planned for Friday morn- ing, Starwich went to the jail Thursday oe and, with the aid of deputies, searched Redmond his solitary cell. In a belt worn under Redmond’s trousers the sheriff found a $10 bill, and in the cell a key that the prisoner had aoe fashioned from the handle of his tooth brus! This key, it was found, unlocked with ease the heavy Yale padlock on the door of Redmond’s cell. Outside the cell, under a sink in the washroom, a few steps from the cell door, was an 18-inch length of heavy lead pipe. Clue May Mean Capture of Seattle Star Bandits i But, first and foremost, hunt out and sign the anti-poll tax measure. I(T, BY ALL MEANS, SHOULD PASS. } (#ome Brew } 10 MAKE DRIVE 7 (Hess Be] ON INITIATIVES Hello, All Ships and Stations; Hello, All Ships and Stations This is BVD broadcasting sta tien sending. Today's pregram State Federation of Labor Homer Gin Brew, entitled “May Plans Big Effort In a tin refuse bucket inside the cell was a note written by — ee ee Holtz to Redmond, in which the writer intimated he believed 7 In order that « complete their plot had been discovered, and which, Starwich said, con- pom phe givo. or ard igs embed tained a clue that may lead to capture of the two bandits who A seologist at the) pian for a whirlwind campaign 3 ington. shoulda’ | during the final month, ail held up two Seattle Star employes three weeks ago and es ag “goth eo thou. | Copies ef the three initiative pe. caped with $4,400, part of The Star payroll. : ye 1 Washington’ State Federation of Other notes and letters found by the sheriff disclosed fur- 4 sand years is but a day to & geOl>| Washington State Federation Bist | Labor will be called in May 25, ‘ . , ther details of the plot, and brought to light a romance in yet it was announced Friday by which Redmond figures as the hero of a girl admirer in President William M. Short. She these tat tage tls nnn James Redmond (left) alleged to have planned a dramatic escape from the county jail in complicity with Willard Oakland. perp Be ‘provides, fer vepeai| Holtz (center). The yelaway, it ig said, was to include James E. Mahoney (right), convicted wife murderer. | The tooth-brush key was the result of painstaking and in- tax; No. ding Below is the unique equipment with which the escape was to be accomplished. Standing against the piece of lead | Senious work on the part of Redmond. The padlock of his et! pipe, which, it is said, was to be used as a uw eapon, are the lock to be opened (left), the butt end of a silver spoon (center) | cell hung in such a way that by reaching thru the bars he orkmen's accident! which was sharpened to be used to whittle out the handle of a tooth brush (right) into a key that would fit the lock.| Could touch it with his fingers. By the use of matches the require a jury trial in in-| The key did fit, but the entire plot was frustrated by Sheriff Matt Starwich Thursday afternoon before the alleged | Prisoner had softened the brush handle and molded it into a ni proceedings, instead of a| scheme was carried out. Photos by Price & Carter, Star atatt photographers shape that would fit the lock. Then, by inserting it and candidates here insurance com ng before the court alone. |- oni sine — : twisting it slightly, the tumblers inside the lock left their im- panies are issuing a new policy tho we have been somewhat m , | pression on the softened brush handle. With a knife, fashioned covering pillow eases and sheets | handicapped by a ack of fied ‘SPOKANE FARES. Ble BUILDING ‘SHOOTS WIFE 'HUNDREDS OUT | from a spoon and ground sharp against the bars of his cell, cee that g | | he was abie to cut notches in the brush handle to fit the cate wherever petitions are se Ra eh Sue set! G GENTS JUNE 1 BOOMIN CITY AND HIMSELF) IN MILL STRIKE vec.cvkety mero" % THE KOO KOO KLAN Since the K. K. K tiated 268 ount of his trip to France.” Not/ signed up. But to know just wh war book. | We stand a check will be made. j then definite steps can be taken to] SPOKANE, May 19.— Spokane| ' Building in Seattlo has im | Captain Robert Cornell, of EVERETT, May 19.—Several |Redmond Tells Sheriff her whey bd laouioe. — | stteetcar fares will Aix to 6 cents| proved 94 per cent over last |° the tughoat Iscum, died Friday hundred laborers in ret “You can’t keep me in this jail, sheriff,” Remond asia, am _— i | June hich is 30 da pt morning from the effects of lumber mills are out on strike ce Sea Te ngage” perry ’ a weit, petitions mast he filed he Be “a h , ra 9 | This summer will see a baild. bullet he fired into his head | today as the result of their em- | when he was put back in his cell and a new padlock snapped 4 Th a Wa we atee ee ae ka by the new franehis®:| ing revival unequaled since the | Thursday night at Third ave. ployers’ refusal to grant de- | shut. “I’ve got out of two better jails than this.” : least @ month for the final | O*ficisle of both car lines an-| war days | 1 mands for a wage increase, “If you get out you'll be full of lead,” Starwich countered. F “Stanwood Men Claim Egslaying| campaign. $n order to get the |?°UNced that FE, V. Keukendall of Building permits bw Cornell, 22, his The men are asking for an “Well,” said the highwayman, grinning, “I'd be just as Reece Headline measures before the people we | the st soard of public works has| ing the first four 1 his first bullet, is) inerease of $1 a day, claiming {well off dead as serving my sentence of 10 to 20 years in the Br e're to hear * permed (Tarn to Page 7, Column 2) lap ved the ‘chaise | 1922 are more tha ; 7 hospital, hovering be-| besa _ * ad ’ paid | pen igh cost of living. Bae Re a Saturday Shop ing Tickets will be sold.on cars at the} tec nated ta vii bari ate pp ee re a id with a| Port a Biaxe 8 ar gee Mal | That the plot was discovered is due, the sheriff said, to a Pe p new fare rate | Between $16,000,000 and $18. | n friend, Mra, M. K. Howe, ae toe yer ay ve refused /the fact that a note being passed from Redmond to Mahoney s DEEP STUFF & Bags Transfers will be given between | 000,000 worth of new buildings y hotel, when Cornell sud-| {® consider the demands, | say- £11 into the hands of Jail Superintendent Stark. ; F Has Seattle any gentlemen cars of the same company will be erected this year, y atepped up to them, told his} (Me te state of the Industry is This note, prding to the sheriff, read: q asks a writer in The Star. We 1 moat economically || ii vereal transfers will not go} That 1922 will see a distinct re-lwife he wanted to her a mo-| nef stable enough ph om ee i'm e Aig sh ceo the sheriff, rea don't know ubout the gentlemen, lo attest Until July L. when tha | vival of building in Seattle was pre-| ment, pulled. a rev from nis| | red ey declare, | “I’m ready. What are you waiting for, for C sake? | pet {acre are lots of gente here into os . te ibate i" Pak a Friday by James KE. Wlack-| pocket and fired « bullet into her} } ed in increased | |'ve got my screw made. At least, the stores are always ington Power Co.'a street rall-| well, superintendent of «building. | neg } 3 The term “screw,” Starwich said, is hug trying to sell their pants. inion and the ane City | Blackwell declared that there ta’ melviah H Gee ras Wt ring fev one of id ae ; aid, is a convict’s word, mean- ; gta fl 1 sling of optimism sweeping thru y . vie m pte the ors said tod. “agita.| ing key, or the man who carries the keys. aa stent Maney ded ted teeatl Co. will’ be combined jindes x on itdten here that wilt mean | {@ muarle of the gun against |tions of this sort are common at| “With that key,” the sheriff added, “Redmond could have 1 as the Spokane United Rail. his temple and fired another | this time of the ane } of Beat plan to Fy him the Skag ‘ at increase in new construction.| IM | got out of his ceil any night and got his piece of lead pipe, Miiwer tile ¥ ‘Building programs which hit of the mills Is the | Then he could lie in wait until the jailer came by, hit him Cornell's body wns removed cedar mill, where the | 5h hase supwenee. ether in O0eth shingle mill was closed down, ‘They | Ver the head, take his keys and gun and liberate everybody, 1 up since the w 7 taken up : ow Pe. sald. “Thr The ¢ had separated, ‘ac-lexpect to r work Monday, the | in the jail. e. ita name to haan a net cordin t police, Mrs, Cornell |manager “Pm satisfied from my. tall saying something and trying to a = S Many was living at the Valdemar botel.| At the Clark-Nickerson Mill com-| With Redmond while I was be smart. Well, Jim, if the cat ‘ 8 beginning to take of the W. W. P. under Her bushand was regisvered at the/ pany, part of the night shift walked| searching him that he intended, is out of the bag, you can just ys Cynthia Grey « to mee if the re-|y Right hotel. lout but scording to the manager,| before leaving, to go upstairs bet I am not the cause of it, as uldn't the per be duction in fare brings gbout a sut-| Construction of homes is on the Corr was 29, and is reported) this ha d no effect upon the res where we're keeping Eddie Pat- I'm not trusting anyone, only a joke? ficient inerease in travel to bring | increase, Blackwell pointed out to have been decorated for valor/of the force. ton, his pal, who turned state's those involved and you know . AM Wa: about the sane or higher revenue Indicative iiding prog: at the battles of the Marne, St! ne two mills of the Weyerhaueser| evidence, and settle with him for who they are. Little Johnnie is “54 and r& Wolff, 5 ¥. EB. Connors, general manager of | peas, & of building | Mibiel and the Argon He Was | company have t hotbeds of agita-| good” in the can in Portland but E will "still be on ial Tailoring ¢ the 8. C. Kt, said he expects his) permits for the past three years | formerly in the marine corps. He | tion and many men have struck | ‘The note found in the tin pail in| ty to connect with Karl. I think ey Surplus Army Store, company t ow a greater lows Un: | « that for the first four | had relatives at Port Orchard | ed 900 men are affected by the |Redmond’s cell, in Holtz's handwrit-| he was in on that little play here “- der 6-cent » than under 8 but] 4 ear 1920 there | Mrs rnell’s wound at first | hand. ing, and signed “Bill,” read: a couple of weeks ago and has F. 8. Coyne, state agriculturist, Look them over carefully while || be regards it as an investment in $4,776,065 in permits ix appeared not to he serio | 25 men have quit at the “Yes, you may be right about left. He is dynamite, tho, I #ayn now is the time to use earwig || making up your Saturday shop- || 004will for the new Spokane United in a like period in 19%, city hospital nurses said ) “e er Lumber company, ac-| that because Otto the serew guess we will have to take a Balt. We've been using the stuff for|| ping list railways, for which with lower op-| $3,625,800, and in 1922, $5,841, she had litle chance of re- | cording to the management. The} made a bum crack the other chance on someone and it might j Turn to Page 7, Column 4) Jerating costs, be sees a good future.| 680, covery. men say 125 quit, ‘ * night, but that guy is always (Turn to Page 7 Column 2) 4