The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 29, 1922, Page 7

learned, #ome weeks before | so much as saying whon - Deputies Will |: 0. Rush Prisoner | 27 2.2.0" "| Here for Trial thelr apartment “We often heard them quar reling late at night,” sald M Mackay. “Onee [heard rs. Covington rushing from room pagan to room, sereaming. 1 heard Arrest Is Expected t0| her shrick out: “(Not T won't do it! 1 will Solve 15-Year-Old Trunk Murder kiN you both first.” | From that, Mrs, Mackay said, | she assumed thére was a third per | son in the Covington apartment After evading capture for 15 ‘Tenants, awakened — by the! Years, Charles Burtivon, alias | eoreams, complained, and Mre.! Henry Ward, is held in far | Mackay went to the Covingtons away Callao, Monday, for the jdoor. It was locked. She knocked. | murder of Mrs. Agnes Coving- ton, girbbride of Frank Coving- ton, in Seattle in 1907. Altho @ warrant was |Covington answered her summons. | As he poked his head thru the) partially opened door, Mra, Mackay | noted that he was attired in trous jers and undershirt “My wife's drunk,” he x “But she won't make any noise now.” Nor did she—ever, And, so far as The Star was able to learn, no! person living in the Keswick had seen Covington or the mysterious! issued also for Covington, who was be lieved to be with Burtison, the cables brought word only of the | latter's arrest. Callao is in Peru. As fast as trains and coastal =—steAM third person after that beats can carry HAD HEARD | them, Seattle of SCREAMS OFTEN Geers with nec essary papers The Star interviewed the inmates. will hasten to They had heard Mra. Covington's| screams many times, they said, before | the South Amer lean ecountey to that night, when she was being beat Rurtison |©% The Star learned it was a matter gen openly discussed by other women tn ae yg hen the Keswick that Covington and founda guilty, some other man were attempting) speedy punish to Induce the girbbride to enter the ment. night life and go into one of the nderioin Thus, one of Porous houses in the *,| Covington, it was said, “had « the Northwest's es Burlison srofound |S'tt” In one of these houses, at) nowt, Profound’ jlenst before he was married, and since the wedding had urged hie | ehild-wife to encourage the advances lof the “other man” who was jthe apartment at the time her! ery was heard, “I wilt kill you both.” This ery had been uttered, Mysteries seems, after 15 years, to be nearing its final chapter. | Fifteen years ago this fal a man} Ramed Steffen Anderson and a com Panion, strolling on the beach at South Alki on a fine Sunday after Reon, observed on the incoming tide} @ drifting trunk. Anderson got the thing He wished its ropes and opened it. |)". 4 He took out several small rocks |". ®™ that were on top, then some bed Clothing. and articles of women's} apparel. Then-— Reaching far down into the cen ter of the trunk, underneath a wa- ter-noaked quilt, his fingers became | to the ashore. | Det of tenants’ and Mrs. Mackay’ recollection, op a night between the| the fifth of September. | The Star's representative left the apartment, am going around to the [side of the window, noticed several Hong. fresh scratches that extended | | straight down from sili to ground. Another extra edition of The Star) sent the police hurrying to the! es & mass of long, human! Keswick, where they verified the| ’ } days AL Austin was |*2%., Meanwhile, more had been} county coroner, William Hickman Moore was mayor, Charles Wappen é " mtein chief of police, Captain of De |HAULED TRUNK | fective Charles E. Tennant was a| The Star reporter found an exprews.| #ergeant and Sheriff Matt Starwich|™an, Bert McDonough, who had a XPRESSMAN @ deputy in an obscure mining | stand at Fifth ave. and Pine st., and camp. |who remembered kuuling a trunk Coroner Austin came at Ander.|from the Keswick to a k one} Son's behest and emptied the trunk afternoon carly in September. The! of its ghastiy contents. {trunk had been let down from a/ IT WAS Bopy. [window by a rope “to sive the OF TINY WOMAN itrouble of carrying it down,” and “It was the body of a tiny (‘Wo men. one of whom answered woman, very yoang and almost [the ‘eseription of Covington, hat node, It [ridden with the expreseman to the| dock and put the trunk aboard ® gag in the mouth, and about (‘he Florence K, a sound boat that! the neck, dewwn tight and |™" to Eagle Harbor knotted, was what had been an | ‘Then came a series of revels undergarment, twisted hard and | tions. ; used for a strangling-cord. | Miss Ada Kotkins, an acqtaint Seattle read the first complete |ance of Mra, Covington, came from Story of the finding of the trunk, |% rooming house at 910 Washington the identification of the body *t. With a statement to make and of later developments that; “Agnes told me,” said Miss Kot SWiftly followed, in an extra edition|kins, “that her husband had « of The Star, and for many days|chum named Charlie Burtison, his The Star led the police in the un-| Closest friend. She said neither covering of clues and the search for|man knew tt the assassins, but entire credit for, in love with Burtivon the final capture of one of the sus | This was the first mention of pects in Peru goes fo Sheriff Star-| the name of another man, pos ‘wich possibly, it was thought, the very Agnes True McCombs was tiny “other man” who was in the and sweet, and not quite 17, | Covington apartment on the when she married, against ber | night the girlbride seresmed, relatives’ violent protests, Frank | “t will Kilt you both first.” Covington, a liquor salesman, a Suspicion deepened when A. RB. hale fellow and “red hot !gimpson appeared. He had been a sport.” So the story went. passenger on the steamer Florence K SLAIN SIX MONTHS on @ day early in September, going to AFTER WEDDING Bagie Harbor. He knew Chas. Buri! Her weddir ok place in Mareh,|#on. Burlixon wag on the Florense but she was secretly 1907. Om September 22, six f hs|K with another man, and they has later, the trunk was found witn her/all three had a drink togethe body in | The man with Burlison answere] Immediately ¢ Star search for Covington employed by the oegan a Covington’s deser! He had been| The next wholesale depart: Star caused ment of J. J. Kelly's family liquor! tice headquarters. Chief Wapper store, then located on First ave. be-istein, clever thief catcher tho h tween Union and University sts. But | was, fumed because Th. Kelly said he hadn't seen Covington | heating the police for many days nant hurried to E on extra edition of The another flurry at 1 Star wa Sergeant Ter ie Harbor, 80 It was learned that, weeks before. | aiq 4 Star man ‘lo . TRUNK ‘DEL VERED Fifth ave. but had been asked to move on complaint of other tenants| And The Star man found A. F. that the Covingtons were “aiways| Parker, owner of Parker's wharf fighting’ and made too much|at Eagie Harbor, who recalled that noise on the evening of September 6 or & ‘The Star traced the bridal coupie|® trunk such as the one that had to the old Keswick apartments t floated ashore at South Alki had and there been taken off the Florence K and delivered to two men, One of these men Ninth ave. and Stewart st the mystery began to unravel Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Macka waa Burlisor, the proprietor of the Keswick, and{it was said, who was well know his wife, told The Star the Coving.|in Eagle Harbor, having been em tona had been notified to move also| ployed there previously for some from there on account of their fre-jtime, The ther was undoubted! quent They left,| Covington, But, altho several oth MON ULA UTA (cust Hardware @ : SIXTH AVENUE and PIKE STREET Hours, 8 A. M. to 5:30 P. M We mnt Deliver CLOSED ALL DAY MEMORIAL DAY | ODDS ano ENDS SALE © Continues All W ek! Thousands of Items in Every Department AT COST AND LESS a AVTAUUUGAUAUUOESAUUUUEAOEAOAOGUAOUAEU ATAU nm UQERENENUEOUEUOUEUEUEOEAUELEERAGUUEUAUUAEUAENL ~ SU | atetn, jarrested when the ers had seen the men, beth Burli on and Covington, ax well an t trunk, had vanished Mr, and Mrs, Mackay went to the morgue and — identified among the artic! of bed elotiy ing that had been taken, water soaked, from the trunk, a quilt and « blanket im whieh the body of the girbbride tad been wrapped. Quilt and blanket, they said, were the same that had been missing from the Cov- ington apartment since the Covingtons left, EVIDENCE CHAIN WAS COMPLETE This, completed the chain of ev! ldence “which for 16 years has been white | Cov held at police headquarters the search for Buriison so ington has gone on. After Sergeant Tennant return from Eagle Harbor, Chiet Wapp with great gravity, that the two hunted men been identified as pawengers then aboard the steamer Santa Clara, which was bound for Kataila, Alaska, and that it was only a tter of few days when they would be) caught . They had satled, he said, on Sep) tember 19, three days before the and would be Santa Clara trunk was found, docked at Katalia Months later, The Star found out |that Covington and bis chum had! |not sailed on the Santa Clara, but/ stepped the ;{ had taken « sailing vowel out of minutes, 44 2-5 seconds, lowering the |Ragle Harbor for South America This vessel's port of destination was searched in vain. The men [had disappeared. Mayor Moore was instrumental in having a large reward offered for their capture That was nll--until some weeks Sheriff Starwich recovered th: trail in Peru. He learned that 1 | the fugitives had been working to-| points. wether, side by side, for years tn ® Peruvian mine, leaving their hic ing place only on periodical trips levery paydey, when they went to Callao and visited always the Ameri can Bar for refreshments and enter talnment Starwich turned his information over to Captain of Detectives Ten nant A formal complaint was filed here | weeks ago charging the men with murder, Prosecutor Malcolm Douglas in. duced Gov. Louis F. Hart to take up the matter of their arrest and ex tradition with Secretary of States Charles KE. Hughes. Hughes wired back” that he had instructed the American minister to Peru to pro | ceed forthwith “We have as witnesses,” said Doug las, “the Jandiord and landlady of the Keswick. the expreseman who hauled the trunk, two members of the crew of the Florence K, the 4 uty coroner who took the body from the trunk and others who knew the | minor details of the life of the de fendants and the deceased prior to the murder.” Good-bye, Boys, I’m Thra, Hugh Tells ’Em All Mayor Hugh M with politics for life When he steps out of the mayor's Caldwell is “thru office next week it will be his leat appearance in the arena of vote getting He says ao himself. “I am going back to the general Practicn of the law,” he declared Monday. “I do not expect ever again to become a candidate for a political The mayor will be passociated as local counsellor with the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. with of. fices tn the White bullding, He will aloo engage In general practice Thugs Escape After Theft and Assault Desple a thoro search of the clty police have been unable to locate two thuge—deseribed ax wearing army niforms—who brutally attacked and 1 John H. Jones, 60, 2006% lave. late Sunday night s, while pussing an alley on ake ave. near x elzed by the pair and struck y with a blackjack, He was robbed of $25. AUTO POLO TOMORROW 2 Games 2:30 and 7:00 P, M LIBERTY PARK Mth and Jefferson Admission 50 Children 2 CUTICURA HEALS SKIN TROUBLE Hands Scaly and Itched Badly. Pain Maddening, “My fingers and bande became scaly and itched so badly that I slept in gloves to prevent scrateh- ing. There were red spots almost the size of a dime, andthe skin was fiery red. The skin around my nails was cracked, and my finger-tips were 80 swollen I could hardly do my and work. The pain was maddening. “TL tried Cutioura Soap and Oint- ment. After the first application I rested much better, andafter I had used about half a cake of Soap and half a box of Ointment my hands were healed.” (Signed) Miss Grace Jone! 208 E. 16th 8t., Los Angeles, Calif, Make Cuticura Soap, Ointmentand Taleum your every-day toilet prepa- ions and watch your skin improve, po Feel Adds. “Onsienr Tateries, shape, Souplhe "Ointment announced j the Heaven: &: to-6 tHe SEATTLE STAR Dodgers Win Track | Title Meet |Two Coast Conference Records Fall; Spearow Fails to Show His Class BY HAROLD MARQUIS WO Pacific conference Const | ~ records were lowered in the an nual Pacific and Northwest conference meet held at the stadium | Saturday, Washington won the meet with @ score of 66 3-3 points, O, A | C, was second with 49 1.3 pointa. | Dodge, the agmies’ star half miler doubled the track in. 54 4.5 seconds, ; beating the former record of 67 1-5 | wet by Sims of O. A. C. last your. } Gill, Iduho’s distance phenom, | two-mile grind ™ 9% Coast recerd of Hobart of O. A. C. by seven seconds, The little runner stepping | telght long laps of the race was one lof the prettiest events of the meet ‘The University of Oregon finished third in the meet with « score of 31 points, University of Montana fourth with 12 points, Washington State College fifth with nine points, Uni vernity of Idaho sixth with six Victor Hurley, Washington's short distance wonder, was the individual star of the mevt, taking firsts in the 100, the 220 and the 220-yard hurdles, Washington won five firsts and tied for two more in the meet | ‘The mile relay brought the crowds to their feet. Douglas, Metien and | Free gave Pratt, the last Washington lrunner, @ 10-foot lead and the event | looked like a walkaway, but Holliger, | 0. A. Cn last man, cut down the lead and passed Pratt, who finished third. | The result of the relay came as a surprise, an Pratt had won the 440 earlies in the day in 50 seconds fiat. | Eagan, Montana, finished second and | Miller, O. A. C., third in this event. | Ralph Spearow, touted an being the greatest athlete in the meet, failed to deliver, taking third place in the pole vault, in which be was figured as & record-breaker, and second and| first in the high jump and broad | | Jump, respectively. | | The 100yard dash furnished all | the thrill that was promised. Hurley and Larson, Who won from Hurley in j the dunl meet with the University of | Oregon last week, were both set back lat the start for breaking. Hurley started with « punch and pamed | | Snook, of O. A. Cy eanily, and Lar. son finished with a third place. ‘The mile event was a duel between | Swan of the O. A. C. and Walkley of | Oregon. Walkley sprinted at the! start and got a lead of 2% yards Swan, running a beautiful stride, cut down the lead and passed him five yards from the tape All in all, the meet was a success, and the crowd that turned out for the meet waa given all the excite. ment it expected | SUMMARY O-yard dash. cw theet . AC. Lareor Davie (W. BC), fourtn. Te 5 © vault-—Mason (W.), Caltison cw.), | Oedorne (0. A.C), thea for ft 2.1, second, Weteht—12 feet Shot put—Strachan (0.), first; Fryan W.), second: MeGowan (Mont), third Davis (W. 6 C), fourth, Distance—42 feat # tnohes . Mile run—-wan (O, A. C.), fret; Watk o7 (O.), encand: Rowlee (W. BC) third: Zener (W.), fourth. Time—4.20 2 20-yard Gash —Murley (W), Anook (0. A. C), second; Overtantter third; Lareon (0.), fourth, Time Durdles — Frankiand (0. A.) 4 third; Kuhnhausen i O16 rankiand (W.), Draper ©), Und for firet: Rpearow (0. Mason (W.), thied Hetgnt MeGowan (Mont.), first O44 OS (New Pacific coast ( hurdies—Hu w fire C.), encond; Draper OW), fourth. alton (O. A.C), firm } Erickson (W, 8. C.) purth, Distance: Aso-yard reiny— Dodger (0. A. ©.) firat; Peltier (0.), second; Michel! (W C.), third; Beal (We), fo Time 1:67 1-6, (New Pacific Coast Conference ora.) | | ylttity—-O. A. C., firet; Oregon, second | Washington, third. Time—a eo lead w with bin J Joe Judge, Washington first baseman tled the score in the eiahth with « homor | with two on base, singled In the 10th. nd ecored the run on Brower's triple that beat the Yanks, 4 to 4. | ‘The Giants made it five In a row by taking an easy game from the Phils, | Btol Dotroit cored four runs in the first tuning, and was never hended, beating | the Cleveland Indians, Tto 6 Gerber, Brown shortstop, hit tour | singles In five times up, and felded sen herore by Caveney and f irimes in the wixt two runs and @ B-to-7 the Reds, “4 Metary 0 \preat young third sacker, is \COASTERS | ference of stockholders pure conjecture. \r to « | inte frame spelt disaster for the jing off ties grounds Sunday, Alleged Slayer of Girl-Bride in Seattle Is Held in Peru) CHICAGO, May De tectnsind 00 of a cash deal involving several White Sox players and $100,000 cash may be completed today with the San Francisco club of the Pacific Coast league for Billy Kamm, the Seals’ in preparation for a resumption of ear trom the star third baseman. This was the announcement of Harry J. Grabiner, secretary of the White Sox. When asked if the club was considering paying the sum of $100,000 besides giving several players for the San Francisco star, Grabiner said: Last place in the league race does not fit the club. We have made every effort to the buy players in the major leagues and have failed. ”*’ The Kamm deal is merely a forerunner of a thoro canvass of the minor leagues for players.” “Money is no object. BY SKABUKN ars we the series tied at one game | each, the Seattle and Vancouver |auto . jthe Canadians, 9 to 7 George Lott, Vancouver substituibaa a set the crowd wild in the final period 9 when he leaped aboard the Ca : sidelines and wi when | the ephere for a “homer.” Ki resting today the struggle on Memorial day, two games, starting at 230 and 7|had been substituting for « vane ae Pp. m., will ring down the curtain for 1 and was on the Northerne’ the present ers’ cor at the time, and an unex — | Vancouver won the opening game | pected clash of th tmated | Saturday afternoon at Liberty park, steeds” spilled him. Lott 8 to 6. The visitors took an early \from the sidelines, leaped aboard the — . |lead and we: headed. True to |car and did his stuff. ite reputation as a sport of thrills. Bch of tomorrow's games will gume developed several in the at \.(berty park. The final tilts of banged-up cars and slightly |be bitterly contested, as the wh injured players of the series has « trip to Coming back in the first overtime jto mix with the Rose City |period of the second game, at the ahead, and to prevent a tle Wee Willie Is | Now Basking in Big Spotlight | Willie Francisco's being sought by the Chicago White Box, which team ia reported to be willing to pay $100,000 and players for hia services. Kamm, San TO MEET PORTLAND, May 29.—The most immediate answer to the Landis ru! Ing last night on the Kenworthy case was 4 telegram to all member of the Pacific Coast league to meet in Port land in @ special meeting Friday te consider the case. Jack Cook, secretary of the Sal Lake club, hax already assured Klep per that he will stand by him in + call for « meeting. What the Port land club will do until Friday's meet ing depends upon the result of a cor this after noon Until that conference is held and a statement issued, what the next move in the battle will be ir ‘The consensus of opinion here toems to be that Landis has exceeded his authority and jurisdiction in slap ping Klepper and Brewster, and moves to break Gown the entire de cision will be started from that premise ‘PREP BALL TEAMS PLAY THIS P. M. PENING the fin high schoo! b all race, Queer Anne was playing Franklin at Co. lumbia playfield today, is of the aity Lincoln and West Seattle were mixing at His watha playfield, and Ballard and Broadway were meeting at Lincoln playfield Queen Anne was booked for tough tussle with the Franklin squ whose winning streak, after a pc st has been the sensation of the prep loop. Leonard Patraceili, the crack Quaker boxman, is the mati | prop of the Quaker squad. Broadway was figured as an easy vietor ov Baliard, and the dope favored Lincoln to take West Seattle mp, altho the Indians have dangerous squad, likely to and are | spring an upset at any time SUN DODGERS TAKE FINAL BALL MELEE TTXAKING the final game of the series with Washington State, 10 the University of Washington shed an easy first in the Coast ence baseball race Murderous stickwork in the sixth visitors. Skadan, in the box for the Cougars, Jheld the Sun Dodgers for eight hits, but the university toswers managed to hit when bingles meant guns, while the Staters were able to con vert but two runs from their six hits Setzer served up his slants for | Washington and was invincible in the pinches, The svore R. H. E. | Washington State “ 6 6 Washington t é 10 8 38 Batteries: Skadan and Bray; | Setzer and Miles nally, helping Dave Danforth beat THREE WIN AT LAWTON SHOOT! Leading their classes after shoot Donald J. Vickers, Al-| vin Sehwager and Dr. A. B, Kida} & Wrsete nenier| bet wore l won trophies at the Seattle Gun} |PREP TENNIS TILTS TODAY CALIFORNIA The second round of the annual all city prep tennis tourney was slated | to get under way this afternoon. Following are the results of the} first rounds Ochs (La) heat 1(G.), 6-0, 6-6; Olin (7) deat Banford (@ haw (>, 0-6 Voi parsons eaves) #hip at Harvard Stadium Saturday | and Queen Anne swamping We beat Williams (Bal) | Wiley (Ral.) beat Nims (Baway) und (L.) beat Bmith (G.), away) beat Hinith (G.) 4 6-4, @1; Langie (14) bye; | mark in the hammer-throw with 171 | gotlated the 10-yard sprint — | Moully (@. A.), bye. The following matches with thelr time are scheduled for today: [same field, on Sunday afternoon one team or the other must take ORNIA QUAYS AND IS NATIONAL | TIGERS WIN _ TRACK CHAMP) TRACK GOE! UTDISTANCING Princeton, run ROADWAY and Queen Anne we nerup. by 9% points, the Uni winners in the prep track ity of California won the annual | Saturday, Broadway downing A. A. A. trick ani field champion: / by the close margin of 567% to Reaman Neu (F) bye: Swarts 1 (W. By beat Wark Vander Las (Q. A.) beat i samit| trom the flashiest field ever as- | atte, 17 to 26. 4 (W.), sembled for a meet of such propor-| Three all-city records were 2 | tons, in the two dual mi Merchant, California, set a mew) Jimmy Austin, Queen 7. dmith "(W.), (Q A) beat Drei | feet # inches, and led in individual | fiat, brenking the old mark of 1 scoring with 13 points, seconds. Ocha| Leconey, Lafayette, ran the 10%| trenry Wentworth, Lincoln, lewis) yard dash in 97-10 seconds, a new | new high jump mark of six ind. Lane: | intercollegiate mark; and Leroy| Broadway's relay team did the Rrown of Dartmouth broke the high | Yard run in 1:24 25. The men tarred record with a leap of 6 feet | Finly, Swan, Porter and E 45-8 inches. _— Princeton scored 31 points, Stan-| ford 26%, Cornell 21%, fe el a ot Pennsylvania 16, and Wiley and werk = Jerome Storm will direct Ji University |bert in “A California Harvard | George Seigman and Jack ald are tn the cast. ORLANDO EDGAR MILLER, Ph. D, “POVERTY IS A DISEASE” By Granville White @ Are you afflicted with the disease? @_ Do you wish to be cured? @ Dr. Orlando Edgar Miller says that “today poverty is a curable disease, but in a few years, when man is educated, it will be considered a crime.” @ In fact, society penalizes the poor in the present time. @ Tonight the doctor is giving two of his most powerful addresses. At 7:30 his subject is THE LAW OF REMUNERATION, and at 8:30 THE LAW OF ABUNDANCE. @_ An Oakland man of large business connections, after hearing Dr. Miller on these subjects, wrote hi “You are werth a mil- lion dollars to the business interests of Oakland.” @ Dr. Miller will add at least 50% to the efficiency of any man or woman who will sympathetically listen to him tonight. @ He never fails to double the earning capacity of anyone who will carry out his simple instructions. @, HE DOES CURE POVERTY by teaching you the application of simple, scientific laws. @ Again I invite you to be my guest tonight at 7:30 in the Arena. Tonight Only The ARENA N. B.—There is no admission charged for these lectures tonight, nor for*those given every night this week in THE MASONIC TEMPLE, Harvard and Pine. Voluntary offering.