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The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor The Seattle Star Batered as Hevond Clase Matter May 8, 1499, at the Postoffice at Besttin Wash, under the Act Congress Maroh 6, 1870. Per Year, by Mail $5 to 60 SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, 1922. WEATHER ond Priday, fair ; crate southweaterly winds. Temperature Last 34 Hours Maximum, 66, Minimum, 52, Today noon, 64, > x il ll mod- VOLUME 24. ) x ¢ HOME! iil Two CENTS IN SEATTLE ne tet t NO, 179. saeteritenemrssimnais srr seen ee ne NIAC TS CAPTURED | Who Is M r. Gassman, Mayor’ s Appointee? GRUDGE CAUSED MURDER Here's His Own Explauation of Himself ‘DOUGLAS FOR BY a “LYINGDORN’ Report “to Elmer) Effort to Dismiss DoverCharges| BankCase Draws Special Interest! Wrath of Judge Clique Controls Griffiths By C. C. Lyon Pe Attorney Malcolm Douglas over WASHINGTON, Sept. 21—An | ine jatter's motion for dismissal of official report filed with Elmer Dover, of Tacoma, then assist ant secretary of the treasury, makes allegations of a startling nature relative to conditions in folks! That we may fhought entirely lacking ty to the distinguished ws in our midst, we hereby Wallace Irwin, George and Heywood Broun to | to this colyum. | eee / Prisoner Confesses He Killed Youth Because Father “Owed Me $10 for Some Work I Did Long Time Ago” EPHRATA, Wash., Sept. 21.—The alleged maniac who murdered August Bojorni, 19, and attacked other members of the family in a raid on the Bojorni ranch, near Wilson Creek, Tuesday evening, has been captured and lodged in the Lincoln county jail at Davenport. Threats of mob violence in Grant county was given as the reason. The man, who gave his name as Paul Starin, 40, is said to have confessed to the killing, declaring that he made the attack because the elder Bojorni owed him ten dollars. Starin, according to officers, said he “did some work for Hanson Towne tx barred Taking direct tssue with Prosecut- Knows we're not particu we've got to draw the line e the felony indictment against J. F. Frederick O'Brien, au-| my white Shadows of the South Woeen't have to fight off any here like he did in Poly !navian American bank of Seattle, | Presiding Superior Judge Austin EB. | Griffiths dectared Thursday that such jan action would be permissible only the internal revenue bureau, of | 1, furtherance of the interests of Jus which the income tax unit is a | tice part, | The report charges the existence | | of a “combine” inside the bureau “to | eee | promote personal advancement, and | who said, “It takes al) | conspiracy between heads of divis- | men to make a world,” fOr | iony sections and attorneys and tax the women | experts, who were former employes | There Superior Judge M. L. | eee | MUSICAL NOTE | | “And I am unable to see,” he | added, “where justice would be furthered by granting the motion to dixmixs in the present in- stance. The motion Is denied. Judge Griffiths then assigned the case to department No. 3 for trial. Clifford, . momen, was invented first bpd years weren't ig | of the bureau, now practicing before Medica! association, | 1.6 huyureau.” nil olga | n heads of divisions and sec for pure whis! eee ne core) mes | tions to powerful attorneys or cit | resentatives of specint interests are looking for favors from bureau in income tax matters. Reporting on one. employe, Certa rep that ‘¥ IDA SAYS: in shielding certain taxpayers who made fraudulent returns, restiiting in saya. “You can\a heavy lows to the government,” for an. hour with-| In another piace the report tired.” Without who's a? eee 1G THE CHOIR? expecially the workmen on) ker's road, for their Sigenens | to we over the lose THOMAS SINK AND WIFE | . t “Were fod ‘An investigation developed that school girls 21 yearn old were pans- te a echnical sens Nescs and com-| recta” fe Gtehs Vested fond mother who worrles| Under the heading, “Destruction hour for fear her #ra¥n¥| of Records,” the investigators cite « son will make the football) number of cases, involving laree the university and 9¢t\ amounts of taxes, in which papers my hte. and documents vitally important to the government were extracted from | "the files, destroyed, or other papers | | | substituted. } | “The income tax division, with | | | divided authority among nearly 70 Theads, ta top-heavy, inefficient and "| beyond control of regular and well- defined business and banking admin istration,” hd ‘Saget cid TERRIFIC AIR SPEED RECORD VERSAILLES, Sept. 21.— Flying at the terrific rate of 213.75 miles an hour, Saidi Lecointe, French aviator, th’ tw free. eee France's famous style boss. ‘Will give no more interviews | country because the news | Quoted him as saying the} women did not have the} dress. they do and mebbe they) f="e don't know. But you only | Mis walk a block to see they # eat ability in undressing. eee miter I drag my B. V. D.'s out the torrid breeze, weather promptly shifts, ord here today Lecointe immediately announced tions, it i# charged, owe their post. | bent the world's airplane speed ree- | he will try to better his record this | } of Tacoma, dismimed the indictment jon motion of Lane's own attorneys. | Judge Griffiths and Douglas first clashed Wednesday afternoon, when the prosecutor, shortly before court (DOUGLAS SEEKS TO - MAKE HIGH COURT SLAP AT GRIFFITHS Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm day afternoon in an effort to se- the state supreme court a writ of mandamus to com- pel Presiding Superior Judge Grif. fiths to assign to some other court a hearing in a habeas cor. pus proceedings in which Douglas filed an affidavit of prejudice aguinet the judge. The petition is that of J. W. Pidaionka, who claims he in un- lawfully held in the county jail. Judge Griffithe strehuousiy de nied Dough’ charge that he is prejudiced and continued the case until Friday. “The state can always get o fair bearing before me,” Judge Griffiths said, “In denying the prosecutor's motions T am only |] doing my duty an I see it.” Douglas said he would prepare affidavits of prejudice in each of the cases on the divorce calendar |] scheduled to be heard by Judge |] Grittiths Thursday afternoon, pec presented a written mo- tion for dismiaual of the charges on teh ground that the state had no jevidence upon which to convict | Lane. “In order to convict Lane,” Doug |las said, “it would be necessary for the state to prove beyond a reason- able doubt that the tranmuction iden tical with that involved in the case against J. B. Chilberg, former presi dent of the Seandinavian American Lane, former cashier of the : | Carl S. Gassman At Walla Walla Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers . By Seaburn Brown Nearly a decade wn the serv- jee of the city of Seattle—with- out office, without pay and without recegnition. That ts the record of Carl 8. Gassman, Mayor Brown's choice for head Bojorni a long time ago” and wanted his money. He said he went to the ranch prepar- ed to “beat up” Bojorni. “When I saw the boy, I de- cided to shoot him,” said the prisoner. ‘“When the others came up I shot them, too.” Starin denied that he was the man being sought in Southwest Washing- ton for the attack committed on the O'Hara family, at Schneider's Prat- re. ‘The man was captured early today by the crew of a Great Northern freight train near Irby, Wash, and Aurned over to the authorities, ‘The train crew noticed the man wandering about in the brush anden- ticed him aboard the train. They etg- naled the train ahead and persuaded the man to enter the caboose and turned him over to the deputies in Harrington. The man was then tak- en to Dayenport and kept in the Lineon county jail. ‘The capture oc- curred about 2 o'clock this morning. Tho Sdentifieation of the maniac has not been made positive, Mrs. Honjorni, who witnessed the shoot- ing and was herself a target for his bullets, and her 14-year-old son, Al- fred, are coming here to identify him. The deputies, however, feel certain they have the right man, because he has a crippled, clubbed right foot and the man who attacked the Bonjorni family was similarly deformed. When arrested he had no gun. The attack on the family is sald to have been un- provoked and without warning. According to neighbors, Joe Bon- jorni, the uncle, and his nephew, August, had just returned from Wilson Creek, seven miles south, and were doing their chores, The maniac approached the father as he was feeding the pigs and ac- costed him with, “What do you think you are doing here?” ONE MINER'S BODY MISSING 47th Victim at Argonaut Cannot Be Found JACKSON, Cal., Sept, 21.— Forty-six mine victims of the Argonaut tragedy have been identified. — But the 47th cannet be found. The missing body is that of William Feseel. Miners at Jackson are saying to day that Fessel died, separated from the crew, seeking a passage thru which fresh air could be given to the imprisoned miners, Once hailed the hero of the catas- trophe because he was believed to be the writer of the note found on the jdulkhead that the dying men had built, Fessel's name ts now blazoned with glory in Jackson. Alone, it ts | believed, he went seeking the lower jsates of the Muldoon shaft. He hoped ta open them to ventilate the mine. In his absence the gas became so strong that his men were forced to build the bulkhead, blocking Fessel from rejoining them, it is thought. It is believed by some that the note found on the bulkhead was written by an imprisoned miner and that Fessel’s name was men- tioned to indicate that he was no longer with the party. Another theory, to the effect that Fessel may have attempted a tone climb to the 4,200-foot level, is be ing investigated. When the bulkhead at the 4,350- foot level, behind which the 46 bodies were found, was broken down, Four Punishments Used in Penitentiary. Fear Rules Many Lives. Prisoners Sometimes 20 Days in Dungeon. “Solitary” Drives Men Insane. The uncle straightened up and the |a raise is reported to have been dis- Maniac shot him three times, twice |covered near the back of the drift. thru the face and once thru the arm, | The raise went up 60 feet, almost to At the sound of the shooting, Au. |the 4,200-foot level, and then extend- gust ran out of the litle blacksmith (Turn to Page 7, Column 2) |shop, a few fect away, and saw the [stranger standing with smoking re- bank of Seattle, was a borrowing that Chilberg borrowed the sum in ques tion, and that Lane knowingly per mitted him to borrow it, The state is not now in possession of evidence to prove these things.” Grand jury indictments returned of the department of streets and sewers, as Gassman gave it Thursday morning. In 1914 Gassman and Brown be. gan a study of the conditions sur- rounding the handling of the city’s) then nearly freee. evening. GLIDER PILOT | HURT IN FALL’ ne Seon rae NEWS FRANKFORT.ON MAIN, Sept. 21 —Edmund W. Allen, well known| American motories® airplane glider was seriously injured here today when he erashed to earth during a flight. The plane was completely | demolished. ST. MICHAEL, Alaska stroys power house and Fire de has ordered. Sure, Louie, |t#0n company. Threatens postoffice about you being governor. ane other bulidings but f# put out, Wernone company asks Per cent increase in rates. fo say; had one drink.” pipe i picad : Hall ght 0 dadaal “Good morning, to Bea ‘one hoodlum the failure-of the Scandinavian Ai the blink.” candidate for prosecuting attorney the following letter to Douglas Thursday rasp, 7 laundry | week of mirth” is |Operated by Alaska Yukon Naviga-| jagainet Chilberg and Lane charged thet they participated in an illegal \tranmaction, by which Chilberg bor. rowed $747.13 from the bank of which he wag president, without hav ing received the written consent of | the board of directors | Chilbers was acquitted of this |eharge by @ jury in superior court this week dudge Griffiths stated that he would prefer that the case go to 7, Column 2) Pleads With Dougias Prosecutor! Pleading with Prosecifor Malcolm Douglas to do his duty an a prose. eutor and demanding that he try the men indicted in con tion with merican bank, Lady Willie Forbus, on the democatic ticket, addressed ptember 21, 1922. Malcolm Douglas, Prosecuting Attorney, Seattle, Wash. Dear Sir: I “see by the papers” that your office lost the case of the The following article on present conditions in the state | penitentiary at Walla Walla was written for The Star by C. FE, Payne, who has just completed serving there 10 |months and 25 days. Payne was convicted under the criminal syndicalism act and sentenced to a one-year term. The charge in his case arose out of a sawmill strike at Newport. A house belong- ing to him was used by strikers during his absence from the community, and the mill officials alleged that he thereby jaided and abetted crimina] acts supposed to have been com- mitted by the strikers. Payne pleaded not guilty. He says that during his stay in prison he was accorded treatment as good as that given any prisoner. He says his condemnation of various phases of prison management is based solely on broad human grounds and not on a grudge against any official. His article appears to me to be worthy of the careful reading of every citizen interested in a saner, more humane and constructive treatment of law violators.— Editor. By C. E. Payne It is very doubtful if the citl- zens of Washington have even the faintest suspicion of the supreme villainy bemg constant- pear that the inmates of the pent tentiary ere gaints held in. thrall dom by sinners, All are very much human, with the good and bad qui ities, the strength and weakness, other humans, My association with of | state against J. EK. Chilberg (formerly of the now defunct Scandinavian American bank). The statement imputed that “vour office” would likely ask for the dismissal of similar charges against Mr, Chilberg, In the name and on behalf of the thousands of vietims of the Scandinavian Amertean bank looters, I register a most emphatic protest against your actions. You lost the case, but did you try it? Your office merely went thru a farcical program and staged another “whitewashing be The law is plain, covering the charg inst Mr. Ohilberg, on the count on which the Numerous decisions of the supreme court of decisions were not even brought into the case or referred to by your office. ‘The whole case from beginning to end shows either neglect in prepa- ration and misapplication of both the law and the facts or an apparent premeditated plan to weaken the case, Why does your office lack so in courage and ability in pushing indictments against indicted county commissioners and former bankers? I repeat that case was not tried. maining indictinegts, that the defendant, J. BE. CW be placed on trial and the cases be prosecuted with at least “som ro ibility. Very truly yours, LADY W! FOR! a I therefore ask as to the re ly practiced in their name in the state penitentiary at Walla Walla. It is inconceivable that they, as taxpayers and people of or- dinary instincts of humanity, would allow the continuance of that villainy if they knew of it. With the hope that some action lin the name of common decency jmay be taken to remédy the vile [conditions there, I wish to state the |facts concerning some of them, That I do not state others just as bad und just as true is because of the difficulty of substantiating statements about them. space does not permit a description of the routine the penitentiary, so I shall refer to | only the more salient facts 1 have no desire to make it cop detailed | them gave me many of them have the impression that committed the acts for which they were convicted. Also, 1 was clusion ¢ forced to the con- » a8 a class, the in- mates have but little conception of the fundamental responstbil- ity of the individual to society as a whole. Nearly all are strict individualists, their and neither k looking only for own personal advantage nowing, or caring anything about the welfare of humanity in general, SAYS GUARDS ARE ‘Lack of (OF SIMILAR MOLD On the other hand, the guards and the same class. riflemen and can life of jofficials of the penitentiary are of They are expert look on human (Turn to Page 7, Column 6) | three years~ streets and garbage, which has con- tinued intensively since, and has culminated in the present struggle between the mayor and city coun- cil over Gassman’s appointment to be head of the former department. “I am in a peculiar and em- barrassing position,” said. “Always I of the public's eye. of study I have given the prob- Jems I am now given some con- trol over, have fitted me for the work perhaps better than any other man in Seattle, I can say without boasting; but, as the public does not know this, many naturally suppose I am picked for some political reason. “I-did not want this office. When the mayor proposed that I take it, I refused. He recalled the mutual effort we had devoted fo the work involved and asked me hot to desert | him, Then, and then only, I con- sented, “Byron Thomas, assistant super- intendent of the department of streets and sewers, who has been in the department for some 20 years, | has been handcuffed for the past unable to do work that! he realized was imperatively re-| quired,” Gassman said, If he is permitted to remain in the department and given char man promises to eliminate w petty grafting. “T know of specific instances,” he} said, “where city officials have had | private work done by city depart- ment employes. If I remain here, this will stop, “Last May approximately 70 Ia borers were laid off by this depart ment, But the overhead expense re- mained the same. Not one official, | nor one boss, was cut from the pay: roll “Lam in favor of employing ral labor, cutting down the salaries of department heads, and eliminatin, (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) a | peared, volver pointed at his uncle, ‘The ma- niac turned his attention to the bie “Don't kill me,” pleaded the of farming implements, But the maniac followed him a aoe him twice thru the head, killi him instantly Meanwhile, the two Bonjorni girls, Margaret and Elda, 13 and 15, rushed into the house with their mother and brother, Al- fred, 14. The man followed them and fired one shot thru the window of the door, the bul- let whizzing by Mrs. Bonjorni head. The maniac then’ attempted to enter the house and seize the two girls, but the mother grabbed a heavy club and dashed at him, The man then took to his heels, Neighbors were called at once and Sheriff Deycous was notified here, Posses were organized. Lincoln county also took up the hunt, Every train crew was notified, and all trains were watched. Soon more than 300 men were hunting for the fiend. The man’s tracks, as he left the Bonjorni farm, were followed to the railroad track, where they disap- He made peculiar prints with his right foot and appeared to {Turn to Page 7, Column 4) If you haven't yet started reading “Alias the Lone Wolf”— turn to Page 13 today and begin. PHONE RAISE HIT BY MAYOR Says Request Camoutlage; Company Defends Self “Cheap politics—an open-and- shut scheme to forstall the pub- le demand for a reduction of high rates by ‘beating them to it’ by asking for an increase.” This is Mayor Brown's comment on the 31 per cent Increase in tele phone rates asked by the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co. of Spokane in tariffs filed with the state department of public works Thurs day morning, The consensus of public opinion on the question at the city hall par- alleled that of the mayor, “Already the wealth of the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co, exceeds several times over its capitalization, fatten- ed off the public, The idea of a rate increase at this time is ridiculo A decrease would be more in order,” Mayor Brown sald, “Ef don't think they expect to get their increase—they are trying to stave off the demand for a decrease.” ‘The mayor said he would take con. crete action on the proposed increase with the department of public util ities a8 soon as George Russell, head othe department, returns from @ short trip, In reply to criticisms to their re- quest for an increase of $1 per cent in telephone rates, in tariffs filed with the state department of public works, the Pacific Telephone and Telegraph company Thursday (Turn to Page 7, Column 3) th $ ca

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