The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 11, 1922, Page 7

~~ BPBE Bee? bd 1} fensted that he went “gunning” for jon a charge of incorrigtbility IN CRIME PROBE and Father Jailed in Killing Inquiry NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J, 1L—Two more were in jail as the indirect result of into the murder of the hg Kdward W. Hall and Mrs. ; Mills, leader of the chole 4 of church ef St, John the q Rvangelist. They ere Pearl Rahmer and her father, Nicholas Rahmer, neriess. ts the confeared sweet. of Ray Schneider, on whose! the charge of flvet degree mur. gor wae lodged against his pal, Clit. fond Hayes. Bahmer, the father, has 4 q: © 14, when the millionaire er and the wife of hiv church were slain. | Authorities are frank to admit that arrest of the father and daugh- ter Will give them a good chance to quiz the pair to determine whether they Dave told all they know of the} | young Schneider on the night of be Peart was brought before a judge and, ‘after & hearing, the case was post. pened until next week. Pearl, whom Schneider claims was the target for the bullets that killed the rector and choir leader, admitted that she had been intimate with Sebneider. Bahmer, saloonkeeper, admitted he had “been on a bat" for two days previous to Sept. 14, when he start- @@ out after Schneider. Bail was set for $10,000 which, authorities believe, will be impos- sidte for him to raise Feeling here runs high against the @etention of Hayes in jail on the story told by Schneider. A crowd surged about Detec- tive Frank Kirby, one of the men who quirted Schneider, and men- aced him for several minutes, Kirby was taken to the police sta- tion by officers who rescued him. A “justice fund” has started tn New Brunswick for the defense of “ ES CITY AS SILK CENTER ‘New York Man, Back From Orient, Gives Opinion the suenenn of local men Racking who long have advocated the plan, | P. Gerli, of New York, declared on vice president. ' Judge Samuel Alschuler, lawyer, of Chicago. Clark Howell, editor of the Atian- ta, Ga., Constitution. George Otis Smith, director of the United States geological survey. Dr, Edward T. Devine, of New York city, professor of sociology. | Charles P. Neill, commissioner of | labor under President Roosevelt, of Ulinots. VANCOUVER, Wash—Marie Gib- son, 16, said to have been recently | paroled from State Training school | at Grand Mound, arrested here on| charge of passing bad check at Che- lis. ————EEEEas oe Try it Heinz Spaghetti tastes good. It is good for you. It is convenient—ready | cooked, ready to heat and serve. It is eco- nomical. Your grocer has a fresh supply of it. Ready cooked in to- mato sauce with cheese, - HEINZ Spaghetti Ready cooked, ready to serve 44) Sk coe Two MOREHELD |“Coc’”’ King’s Romance Meets Abrupt Ending ATLANTA, Ga, Oct, 11.—The ro [omg Ana G. Candie ed Coca > ng, came to an abr Nama. abrupt ending Mrs, Onesima De Bouchelle, New Orleans beauty, made public a state- ment asserting that Candler had broken his engagement to her on ac. count of certain reports brought to him refideting on her character. Bhe also said that Candler had re. fused and was still refusing to fur. nish her with the names of the party ‘or parties accusing her. Legal action “to vindicate my hon. & few days against Candler by Mra, De Bouchetle. “TI do not want a @ penny of the Candier millions,” Mra, De Bou: chetle sald. “Any legal action I may take will not be with a view of col leoting monetary reparation for the dam: the Candlers have tried to do me, but simply to vindicate my honor.” In « statement she clatmed Cand- ler had ended the engagement be- joauee of slanderous stories regarding er told him by certain of his friends and relatives, She is holding her plans for legal action in abeyance pending the ar rival of her attorney, Harry Gamble. from New Orleans. He is expected here today. Mra. De Bouchelle asserted that the difficulties in which her ro mance had become involved were duc entirely to a “conspiracy by members jot the Candler family, inspired by «| fear of losing some of the Candler fortune which they expect to in- herit.” “I did not want his money,” she said, with her dark eyes flashing. “I have all the money I need or want I was drawn to him out of sympathy for his loneliness and out of admira- tion for what I thought to be his gentleness, his generosity and his rugged virtue, “I thought him almost a superman in strength and goodness. He re- called the years when his children wore growing up in his home, how his daughter used to run to the door and throw her arms around her daddy's neck, Mrs. De Boucholle arrived in At- lanta Monday night from Marietta, Ga, Before leaving Marietta, accord ing to her statement, she called Candler on the telephone and asked him to see her, On her arrival here she engaged a ite of rooma at a local hotel and Candler and his son, Ana G., Jr, called on her and they were In conference with her for Peart, 15, Jor" probably will be started within |nearty two hours, she said. Following this conference, Mra, De Rouchelle gave out a statement set ting forth her position and the fact that the Candlors refused to divulge the name or names of the parties accusing her. Mra, De Bouchelle sald that Cand. ler seemed very much broken up over the turn that affairs had taken, ‘The announcement of the engagement of the couple some months ago came as a urprise, both in Atlanta and In New Orleans. The announcement of the calling off of the engagement was a diatinet shock, Candler was a founder of the Coca Cola company. He was the guiding spirit of the Central Rank & Trust orporation, which recently me a with the Citizens’ & Southern bank ing interests. He ts reputed to be Jone of the South's most wealthy |men. He is @ former mayor of At jianta, Mra, De Bouchelle ts one of the South's most beautiful women. “But now, he told me, she seemed to have grown away from him. He appealed to me as a great, lonely jman, hearthungry for sympathetic companionship. “Now, I have found that he ts not strong, but has been swayed like @ man of putty by hin relatives, who are envious of me and jealous of the fortune they hope to Inherit. My regret Is not at losing him, but low ing my fusions about him." HERE’S MORE ABOUT GAMBLING STARTS ON PAGE ONE age may contain a prize or may entitle the purchaser to some article or thing of value not directly con- templated and known to the pur- chaser.” “On behalf of Uberty-toving and law-respecting citizens of this city, I demand that this violation of city ordinance be no longer ‘winked at’ by the executive department of the city of Seattle. All such lotteries should be closed and closed at once.” “I have made no mention in this letter of the automobiles lar violation Is par tloularly viclous. In the first place. {t teaches children to gambie—and even the lowest dives never permit tea children to take part in the there fs the Gemoralization of the police department. I asked a z policeman if this sort of thing is per- | mitted, and be replied with a wink and a leer: “'I'm not supposed to see any: thing. These people are all right.’ “Can you wonder, after hearing 6 statement of that sort, that the men down on the ‘Skidway’ are in favor | of direte action? “What does it profit a city to wreck a little Chinese gambling joint, which cannot influence more than two dozen people a night, when it permits the open operation of a gam- bling school on euch mammoth lines? | “The Lutheran ministers tell me that it is such thingy as this that make it hard for them to convince their people that gambling is filegal —-they think it's just some arbitrary prejudice on the part of the church. “If it ig legal,’ they ask their minis ters, ‘how can this sort of thing be permitted?” “But it is Megal, no matter where the lottery ts conducted or who runs it. It would be just as Illegal to gambie in a church as it is at the Shrine circus. “It should be distinctly under- stood that there are many Shriners in the elty who are by no means in sympathy with the methods adopted at the circus. “I happen to know that there has been « good deal of divaffec- tion among the members and that many of them, when they saw the gambling side of it, threw away their tickets and re- fused to try to sell them. “I took this matter up with Mr. Caldwell on Wednesday, September 37. He refused to listen to my argu ments, taking the stand that the tem- ple needed the money. That's the same argument that Germany used when it went thru Belgium; that the holdup man uses when he sticks up a victim at the point of a gun; that the yeggman uses when he cracks a safe.” In reply to Chatterton, Caldwell made the following statement attr his talk with Mayor Brown: _,/ “The same circus was held Inet year, for the same purpose and using the same methods. “At that time neither Myr. Chatter- ton nor anyone else copnplained to me a8 mayor about any/of the meth- ods used. / “However, when thie matter came up this year we gave it careful con- sideration. We wrote around to the other cities in thy Northwest and found they were fi doing the same thing this year. “So we de that everything was all right ana entered into a con- tract for the cleus. m we were all tied ir contract and couldn't ir, Chatterton stepped to wreck it, 't see any fairness In if they don’t want a repet!- the cireus in the future, ean be taken to raise mon- other ways. But, with only that. tion at unreasonable to demand we close up now. pubjiicity—-of which we've already had) more than our share.” e resolutions adopted by the Luth . Methodist, Baptist and ‘PRESSES SUIT AGAINST COPS Page Refuses to Accept Peace Offer Claiming that his car was unlaw fully selzed and held by the Seattlo pollce department as evidence on 14 minor traffic ordinance violations, ‘Thomas D. Page, attorney, Wednes- Gay refused an offer for the return of his auto, and sald he would con } tinue his sult to recover $1,200, the value of the car, plus $10 per day damages for every day the car has been held, | Page was fined $28 on the 14 alips by Acting Judge Jacob Kalina Tues day. He appealed the case. No rul ing has yet been made In King coun. ty regarding the selzure of autos in such cases, and Page's cane ix expect- ed to net a precedent. The hearing judge of the superior court next week, it in thought. Lively interest hag been aroused by the seizure, aa it has been perniat- ently rumored that the police Intend making such seizures against all of fenders, providing they are upheld by the higher courts. Pago denies that authority | for such acts, which amount virtually to confiscation, exists. In hie suit, | Page names Chief of Police W. B. Severyns and Traffic Lieut. C. G. Carr, who will be forced to pay his demands from their own pockets if he secures a verdict. “There are a dozen or more autos that stand in the downtown restrict ed parking distance all day long.” | said Page. “None of them in molest, ed. Tam prepared to prove that dis jertmination by the police in favor of certain drivers exists, and that other men are being arrested for much smaller offenses than thone commit ted by this certain class, who appar. ently have won official favor.” ‘TWO SAVED AS TUGBOAT SINKS Men on Shore Hear Cries and Rush to Rescue Rescued from drowning when the tagboat F. L. Dowell sank in Lake Washington at 6 a, m. Wednesday, Capt. George Wahl and his engineer, William Hol- stan, were recovering late this morning. The little vessel began sinking , after hitting a snag. gt it river, while towin; ‘cow of gravel from Mercep: nd. Captain Wahl ant his engineer made desperate,eTforts to reach land before the heudt sank, and would have done #0 “had not a patch worked loose om the ship's bottom. The tum filled fapidly and the two men were foredd to leap into the icy waters. They would have drowned ex- cept for the proximity of the seow, which they boarded and shouted lustily for help. Their calls were heard by Karl Bige low, owner of the Leschi boat- house, and by Pete Forrest and 4, K, Polson, of the Caseado Canoe club, who put out in a launch and rescued them. The F. L. Dowell ts owned by Louis Birch, a contractor tn gravel Janother boat off Mercer island, | knocking « hole in her h The | hole waa patched up, but had been |leaking recently, culminating in the wreck. |Find Other Parts of Butchered Body NEW YORK, Oct, 11—o the severed human head and mangled torso, parts of the corpus delicti In New York's brutal “butcher mur der,” were added today the left arm and left leg of the still unidentified victim, wregational ministers call on the chief of police and mayor to put & stop to “the violation and evasion of the law” and on “thoughtful and nelf-reapecting members of the Ma sonic fraternity, and especially of stigma of being participants to law violation.” wi be helt before the presiding | A few weeks ago she collided with | the Shrine, to free themuclves of the | gain THE HERE’S MORE ABOUT BOOTLEGGER || STARTS ON PAGE ONE accredited graduate tn medicine trom |} | a big Eastern university; I have) | Practiced medicine both tn the army |] and in ¢lvil life, and my family, If) ia as respectable as not famous, you ‘That, I suppose, will prove qutte a) shock to some of my readers. ‘There | seems to be @ pretty general wort of | impression that the bootlegging pro- | foasion is recruited solely from the! ks of the so-called eriminal or| nicriminal classes, Thin ts abso-| lutely untrue. There are some erimt | nals in tt, of course-—just am there! are tn the shoe business or, even, the | ministry, But, in the main, the boot |leggers are decent, God-fearing men, | | who have just as much respect as }you have for ev law under the| sun—except the Volstead act | Possibly my own caso ts typteal, I served thru the late war as a captain in the medical corps, having been out of the school leaa than «| year when hostilities commenced. Hack in 1919 1 wag discharged and faced the prospect of eating into | my «mall capital while walting for patients to come to me. I tried tt. 1| rented an office in a downtown | building, hung out my shingle—and | waited. That's about all I did do-—| wait Nobody knew me from Adam; the ethics of the profession forbade my advertising—and, ax far as 1/ could see, outside of a lucky ‘and | improbable chance, I didn’t have a ghost of a show of ever building up & practice After several months of this I be: | gan to get discouraged. Outside of | j& couple of charity cases that had) drifted into my dffice, I hadn't had a single patient since I'd left the army—and my expenses kept right | on. H BOOTLEGGER PROPOSES A PARTNERSHIP One day I felt so down In the! mouth that I decided I'd have a little party.” So I inquired around, got the telephone number of a reliable bootlegger and him up and| asked him to bring up 4 quart of Scotch. | When the bootleeger arrived I) asked him if he wouldn't Join me in | a drink and he accepted-—which, by | the way is a very rare thing: as a rule they don’t drink on the job, | Weil, one drink stretched into an- | other and, finally, I got pretty con: | fidential—as almost anyone ts likely to do. I told him how I had failed | absolutely in my effort to build up a | practice and how, day by day, my/ capital was shrinking. | | | Ho seemed unumually interested land suddenty became thoughtful. “Hew much money've you got, | Doct” hevfinally asked me. | Well, I was in the mood that kept | me from renenting the question, and | L.told him “About $5,000." | “Hm,” he sald, apparently consid. | | } jering my answer with great care. “Hm | bustness?* “Well,” I told him, “I don't know that I've ever given the matter much | |thought. Of course, I'm not tn sym: | pathy with prohibition —- 1 wouldn't jhave sent for you if I were. Of lcourse, you have to take a lot of ritk—I don't belleve I'd care to take) lit myself—but that's your lookout | Why do you ask?" “I was just thinking.” he replied. | "You see, your case ts #o much Uke | Imine, I'm « dentist—or was, But T/ found I couldn't make It pay—and jno, to keep from starving, I went) into this business. { TWENTY A DAY | SOUNDS INTERESTING } “1 waan't as lucky as you are. I'd |) spent my little stake and I had to | jstart on a shoestring. I'm doing Ipretty well now-—but I'm hampered lby lack of capital. And I was just thinking we might hit It off pretty | | good if we could get together, With |your money and my calling lMet— | }) land the fact that we could have ‘pro- | foustonal’ offices together as a sort) lot ‘blind’—well, we ought to be able | to clean up. What d'you think?” | I didn’t know what to think, As T| say, I'd never given any serious con- | nideration to the bootlegging bust-| ness, and this sudden offer sort of | took me off my feet. But I was no | discouraged with my prospects that What d'you think of my I couldn't help: giving the matter} serious consideration. | “guppose you tell me just what | proposition you could make?” I final- ly asked him, “We'd be equal partners,” he re- | plied, after a moment's thought. | “You'd contribute your five grand | and Ia contfibute about one thou} and, my calling list and my knowl- | er was out delivering and meeting the trade, And we could build up our trade, and, aa business got bet |ter, maybe hire a couple of good boys |}] jto help us with the deliveries, “As a matter of fact, there n't nearly as much danger as you may | think. ‘The fact that we're both bona fide professional men would help a| whole lot—and the only police pro tection we'd need wouldn't cost us more than fifty a month “And we'd clean up—well, at least twenty a day apiece, from the start, over and above all ex- penses.”” That twenty a day sounded | pretty good to me—but 1 didn't like the idea of going beyond the |]| pale. However, neither did I like | the idea of starving to death 1 while waiting for patients | “1 suppose,” I sald, “that there'd be no difficulty about getting out after I'd made a little stake?” “Not a bit in the world,” he re. jf/ sponded, “We'd get along together | fT} all right, and we wouldn't have the lslightest bit of trouble arriving at some equitable understanding if ever | ¢ you wanted to quit. Matter of ft { I'm figuring on getting out myself. jas soon as I have a little money saved up. # There's no use delaying over a de- cision, You're just as likely to go wrong if you think a year ag you are if you decide right off the bat, and 80 | “T's a go." 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Tomorrow 1 will begin my real story, when I will explain the gen- ‘That's what stamped us as real} eral structure of the bootlegging in- bootleggers, you see—no office ad- dustry and its various ramifications, First Lutheran chureh, 65th and 20th aves, opened with a business meeting at 9:30, Speakers from Portland and local Lutherans were to address the gathering, which is attended by del- egates from all parts of the Puget Bound district one wooden steam vessels, sold by United States shipping board to Western Marine & Salvage Co., soon to be scrapped. NEW YORK.— Chauncey Olcott, noted singer of Irish melodies, said to have almost recovered from ag. tack of ptomaine poisoning, 63