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

NN Rr ae WEATHER Tonight fair and Sunday, generally moderate south- westerly winds. Temperature Last M Hours Maximum, 64. Minimum, 56, Today noon, 56. under the Act of Congress March §, 1879, Per Year, by Mail, $6 to 00 our Seattle Policemen in + Spcciding Automobile co Street Car TWo WILL DIE! On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise =| The seattle Star at the Postoftics at Seattin Wash, — Two CENTS IN SEATTLE Start In! ; Mayor Brown, Chief Severyns, Inspector O’Brien: You have done a lot of talking this week about cleaning up the police department. Well, start in! The record of recent days shows the need. > Begin righting matters at the TOP. Your official city car, chief, was stolen from you while you were using it, during the evening, for family pleasure purposes. The Star isn’t disposed to be picayunish, but remember— one of the mayor’s most-often-repeated campaign promises was that none of his offi- cial family should ever, if he were elected, use city cars for private errands. If you, chief, start off by violating ‘this pledge, what can you expect of your subor- dinates? 7 2°. @ * > J o And, chief, your department let a tawdry, honky-tonk, gambling-and-girl carnival squat, without a vestige of legality, in the nae of the business section, Cink ion sev- important. streets, and professed. it di prinor e thing about it until public clamor arose. Perhaps it didn’t know, but some of its individual traffic men, who la- bored with the resulting congestion on Fourth ave., ought to have had some idea. And aren’t there patrolmen on Union, Fifth and Sixth? Today comes a grand climax, when an auto load of officers, including one of your own special investigators, careens at crimi- nal speed thru the downtown streets and crashes into a street car. These men, it ap- pears, are the chief victims of their own act, but only chance saved innocent citizens from death and injury. ws You are right, Messrs. Brown, Severyns and O’Brien, about the need for a police de- partment upheaval. Go ahead and make it. THE STAR. BIG PARADE TO | DAVEY IS INNOCENT OF ALL WRONG, SAYS E aARGs FOR IB MANY, CAR’S SPEED IS HIS VIEW | Victims of Wreck 'Henderson, Street! to Be Severely} Car Chief, Says! Dealt With if| They Recover | Just Averted “It's God's mercy and nothing “My preliminary investigation | shows tha he me were | Clee that a dozen street car pas flagrantly violating the speed | dead or dying law, and T will deal with them | * declared D. W. severely—if they live, It's « Henderson, superintendent of terrible thing—all of it—but it the municipal street railway, appears to have been their own Satarday afier be had completed fault.” & preliminary investigation of the collision between Policeman Saterday by Chief of Police Fred Mills’ automobile and a Broadway street car. between an automobile contain “It just happened that the | This was the comment made 1 j | Ing four policemen and t Ninth ave, and he think they were drunk they treet ‘ine st continued, “I don't} All the doe: | couldn't amet! any | | / | W. B. Severyns on the collixion | tors say POLICE CAR SPEED DRAWS WOMAN'S IRE “Ite queer,” sald a woman, peering from the protection of an umbrella, “It's queer that police- men are silowed to go fo fast. Any ordinary person would be went to jail for doing that.” liquor on them, and I know that Davey and Kernan aren't drinking | men. But they were a at an excessive rate of speed according to| all accounts “I think that It was Just thelr childish desire for diversion that | caused the accident. Davey, | Mills and Jensen had been cooped up in headquarters all night and = | they wanted some fun. } Cernan and found Patrolman Davey me for weeks street car was eastbound, In- and #0 they dec stead of west,” Henderson con- | Kernan tinued, “At that hour of the “I asked Kernan this morning, be morning no one was going up- fore he was p town, so it was empty. Bilt if thetic, w it had been going downtown it {Stutz instead would have been full of working told me: "M ing to their stores and = one cane tell rat ra would have had just been given off to visit his wife hiliren on Bainbridge “Davey three day and he was waiting around for a boat, so he joined the party, too. know—except that I don't think the men were driking. Davey never drinks and neither does Kernan. “Mills ts a reckless driver | “What happened then I don't ] RT AT 1 30 } everybody knows that, He's been P warned and warned time and STA 1 OLICE CAPT. MASON again, But he never paid any it,” maid Capt attention. It seems funny that = J Mason. “Davey in the Davey, who was sitting beside SCORE DRIVER Thousands of Ex-Soldiers || = tive and wteady man Mills, should have permitted him _AS RECKLESS ‘ j] on rt to go so fast—but nobody could Will March Here ) and little girl and boy |! stop him.” = ove lke « |} are camping on Vashon Immediately after he learned of © cat i Thousands of fighting men whol|| island. ‘They know nothing of the || 1 Harry O’Brien, the beet pee participated in be c ent new ° tor t rs omething war Oh, were Davey had been given three || he would imme ‘ould happen to him Saturday after da furlough, to go over camp e ndum to 5 here and it’s no eur y parade ng wit and was walting Jeting them to call the atten Jensen and Davey coast tor take him there f thelr men to ‘the fact that 1 nvitation Y : emen will not be; the n the depart 1 have to obey] r sige “OBrien anid,” “And DOC "TORS SAY! ke advantage of thin this fact on all| 1” spite of : [Star trom w c awful bad And ne bye atom cr 4 ap iy nd dec nat cemen | —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Ph tographers| a \ rags ortonsy Itors eel aers ones) spec | to say that any of | “Why did your mother have imn was BR: AW bea By E. P. Chalcraft | these charges brought against | t Third |* SALOO! L| ™ stated cc ‘iain Declared insane by her mother, " Defense Attorney Peter TACOMA, Wast Aus. 18 ence of liquor a Anna 8. Walker, prominent asked Miss Walker on the were held ty jail te Fireplace — Eggo — wh “ ol and club woman, Miss stand. ing stand at Vir n tal in a soft . rev). een Roberta Waiker, pretty 24-year “fecause 1 refused to break where guests of |4 her t,inwhieh || French Doors a tated ai 3 ld music teacher, stepped out of my engagement,” she answered. ¥. Hart, |Ca 8, was seriously if not | naj tnters IT don't ’ Superior Judge Otis W. Brink Her dark eyes snapping, the Admiral B. | fata od ||Corner Lot ; ‘a ‘Matting atatt = @'s court room Saturday vindi irl told of her mother’s actions Gai ond Carlee . . y, of visiting ata fated in the eyes of all who heard | fren she learned that her daugh hn te? || Nice View say they he the testimony of herself and oth 1 ter had become engaged to Les | gaged in a fight All these are features of a cone vee e I couldn't ors - — 4 ey ha¢ _ ter Ingram Largent, young 4, [wit ified man, While|| hi t ig being advertised in || ee ALO, F don’t think you will need any| pastern Washington rancher. PITTSBURG—James H. Beale, |), nsing blows, Carison || Tho. Star WANT ADS COL- || , Dr. M. 8. ‘Thompson, tnte As More witnense: Brinker told) Jargent is « brother-in-law of J. | personal dviser of Secretary |, © bach |] UMNS TODAY Ne arent. Mites Aili wast. 3. E. Petersor A ker’s attor M. La Follette, of Pullman, | A. W. Melion, dies here T" si Bota Te i drunk BM uth | Wash. who ix a nephew of U. 8. ~ Jin the soft drink lor at the time| 6-ROOM RUNGALOW ip y _Jn order to the court rec-| Senator Robert La Follette. of the fight, but declared they had} 82,8 I OLICE HAVE Righoata a charge in| Unable to force her daughter POLICE CAR CHASED |no part in the affray a ¥ t Ig as Mrs. - “ oe . | 7 7 to break her engagement, | 4 dining MANY VIEWS Sa etre Water cn many || BY MOTORCYCLE MAN|ic:1 1, Fined $5 [Specs Peet oe, Sick J Tk erence Saree Suen fo 04. |) ie cemaland for Petroimen F irl Is Fined $500 basement: Jau ys: house || Down at central headquarters er, at her own reque: 5 || It remained for Patroima 1 ie , e a ign bagi weet i | finger, a club woman friend. She FB gy at Ae bs for om, a Smoke|| ? [varied opinions on the wre r 3 ey “e red a court order re- oer") “pat | ps: hob 7 expressed, Groups of police Mrs. Amanda 1.. Gordon, state Hu: | wise Walker into the el j 8 CITY, Aug. 19.—|1 9300 ‘cash monthly pay-|/and patrolmen congregated in the Mane officer - of John Wallace, a spe | “ans oe alli Mary Helm, ments. corridor to defend.or condemn the Ps — _ — | rinted. deputy sheriff, ah 1 a sentence ‘Joy-riders.” They all joined in ex | d the girl in Spokane, eras and jot ain y ere |] Turn to the Classified Section ||pressing sympathy for Patrolman | HOME BREW where ae was vilting friends, Sire the eno on gon of the a charge bs Nid. eae talents aiite. al |Davey, who at the moment was re Vin and brought her to bis home pct vo das auiiatrest cat ws a clgar find this home |portea to be in a sinking condition y ot today’s paper. (furn to Page 7, Column 5) t night, with no hopes of life, Big Tragedy Was| MAKING MILE A _ MINUT ‘Stutz Touring Car E Belonging toa Mem- | ber of Party Tears Thru Trolley; Operator linjured | By Robert Bas Bastien Bermann | Four Seattle policemen went on a “raiding party”: | Saturday morning. A | Asa result, all of them are in Providence hosp me two at the point of death; a street car operator és | suffering from painful injuries, and a street car an automobile have been converted into junk. | The “party” reached its culmination at 7:15 | when the automobile in which the four officers were riding crashed at express-train speed into a one-man Broadway car at Ninth ave. and Pine st. | The automobile—a privately owned maching-—iill |erally tore thru the light street car with a crash that — | was heard for blocks, and the next moment the street _ jand wood—and blood. | The casualties are: " Patrol Driver E. H. Davey, 39, 2517 Queen Anne bi fractured skull and cuts, believed dying. Motorcycle Patrolman Fred Mills, 43, 1115 Ninth ave. broken ribs, fractured skull, possible internal injuries |severe shock to nervous system, believed dying. Motorcycle Patrolman G. C. Jensen, 25, 1522 Norman st: |broken jaw and severe cuts. ; Robert Kernan, 32, Rainier valley, special investigator for Chief of Police W. B. Severyns, severe cuts and bruises. (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) Broken Glass and Blood Give Evidence of Wreck By Sam B. Groff Broken glass, splinters of steel, gleaming wetly in the so ft falling rain—and great ugly splotches of human blood ” away slowly in turgid streams down the car At one side and close to the curb, a huge auto, crushed and mangled and looking for all the world ‘like a great wounded animal, crouched on the pavement, surrounded by the usual crowd of curiosity- seekers, of the collision that had taken nike e between the wae auto and a street car at Ninth ave. and Pine st. early Saturday. Where the impact had taken place, a scattered heap of debris soaked with blood marked where Patrolman Fred Mills, owner of the ca H. Davey, G. C. Jensen and Investigator Bob Kernan had been hurled like meteors against the street car’s side and had fallen between the wrecks, 'Thoro Probe of Wreck Is Promised by Mayor Kernan, special investigator for Chiet lice auto accident would be made | Severyns, had captured more stills Was stated Saturday by Mayor | guste aie eink fo egy force Brown, “Efforts have been made,” the Brown was informed of the ac- | mayor declared, “to get Bobby out cident by a Star reporter, He im- | on parties. He was doing such effi+ mediately started for the police cient work for the city, that certain station to confer with Chief Sev- | That a thoro probe of (he po- forces were endeavoring to get some eryns. | thing “on” him | Until T have had a complete in-| “I am, of course, unable to form | | vestigation made, I do not like tojany judgment on the present acel- say anything about the accident,” he| dent, until T have investigated the said, “None of the injured police-| whole tragedy.” }mon are yet able to talk. We ought} Brown said he had been informed that the way to police offi ea war ers were on thelr nt. ink Ito of Davey that Patrol Driver B. H. Davey was believed to be dying. | Mr. and Mrs, Davey have their Seattle residence at 2517 Queen hear their version of the accident.” Mayor Brown declared that Bobby They Didn’t Th BY WANDA VON KETTLER Patrol Driver EB. H, Davey, jin the Saturday morning police joy | to victim | a {ride tragedy, had planned to Jain! Anne ave, and have been tealdente {his family Saturday night on/in the Queen Anne district for sev {Vashon island, Mrs. Davey, with|eral years. Neighbors in the dis their two children, 3 and 10 years/teiet expressed surprise Saturday old, have been camping on the} when hearing the report that Davey island for the past two weeks. The} had k “Joy-riding.” He is said jwife was not in town when the re-| by these neighbors to be # highly port was eent from the city }y ospital| respected citizen in the community, | was covered with broken glass, fragments of metal : oe