The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 1, 1922, Page 1

Tonight and Saturday, fair; gentic winds, mostly southerly ‘Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 40, Minimum, 30, Teday noon, 36, ONLY D The paper with a ] The Entered as Second Clase Matter Ma “Howdy, folks! How's your in ‘Migration todas? are thankful that turkeys go than canary birds. eee that we've survived Thanks we're bracing ourselves for Works Head Is OLYMPIA, Dee. t Seattle, Spokane and Tacoma have | tights for lower phone and gas rates. There's no reason why hearings shouldn't be held on the cases at Suggested Plan to! Oust the Public’ Real Bombshell | “The cities of | been delayed long enough in thelr | once, And, unless you publicly an: | nounce within the next 24 hours that you will hold the hearings before December 15, you can hand me your public it goes wald today. “It 23 {s pecullarly appropria' ing the world’s sprint record back Pie mushy ae we bea i from California. I'll bet he'd use an airplane if he could get one.” More conservative politicians, how- Lever, are inclined to discount the | possibility of Coyle following his friends’ advice. “Hart rises “The public is looking for a gov a rule the Hart machine—and Coyle would cer- tainly show where he stood he fired Kuykendall. “It would be worth it, no her reason, just to see Hart beat- PRED 18 ‘RY FAT. iN BO VERY LEAN ; OU BEE, BETWEEN THEM mugt have exacted a prom to keep his hands off public works before he Into they ut definitely. divorced from | caused the { ' ! | j =)| | | > ASKS $20,000 FOR HER LI | | jen, thousand dollars Many girls would ta a Pay A nage leading 'y wit Leo Ditrichatein, ia swing for $20,000 because, she says, she had one wished on her. Her suit is against Eugene Vig-. neron, Chicago dentist, whose | work on her teeth, she claims, | change in her talk. SHOT POLICEMAN HAS LIFE CHANCE Bandits’ Victim Has Easy. Night in Hospital After a thoroly restful night Pa let him act as governor |troiman John H. Stevens, who was |nhot by two motor bandits Thurs “YET IN DANGER riz: Richard Holbrook, 26, University lof Washington student who was shot | by Patrolman J. H. Kariberg Tues | day morning when the former was | playing @ prank in the University district, in still in critical condit &t the Seattle General hospital, a: cording to Dr. Don Palmer, Friday morning. Holbrook’s lung is punctured and j the bullet is still In the wound, the | physician stated, explaining that the youth must not be allowed to talk, as a@ fatal hemorrhage might possibly | result. Dr. Palmer raid Holbrook | had a chance at recovery, but danger of infection was not yet pasned. forget his and relatives until after the list of birth notices, St. Louis paper published the “Our ads bring results.” . 7 of House—If you love work say, why don’t you find some? . ‘Alas, madam, love ia blind! : eee LPL GEE GEE, TH OFFICE VAMP, SEZ: ‘SHIP SINKS; | 7MEN DEAD CALUMET, Mich., | lost their lives today when the Cana- dian steamship Maplehurst went to pieces a mile west of Portage Lake canal, during a storm. Nine, other members of the crew were saved. mo very long ago a fellow @ car could always make a fraternity. Now it has to ye @ good car. . . . “Beattie physician was held up in five minutes lest night. fobbers should have given him ‘TACOMA CARS | | | day morning, was reported Friday t the Providence hospital to have even chance for life. vens was given y to quiet bis Physicians believe this @aved hin life. Thruout the night his wife, Mra Maud Stevens, a nurse at the hos pital, remained at her husband's bedaide. No trace of the narcotics delirium. probably men who shot Stevens has been found, according |, to Captain of Detectives Charles Tennant. Stevens was shot thru the right lung when he attempted to draw his pitsol on the two ban dits who had stopped their automo bile in front of St y machine at ith ave, and EB. Pike at 620 a. m. Thursday. The bandits had stolen a large lac limousine from the Rainte Taxi compa: half an hour earl ‘They esca after shooting at several other o cers in the downtown district Stevens was being supplied with oxygen at the hospital Friday to Dec. 1.—Seven assist the action of his punctured men, including Capt. Nelson Bernard, | lung Two Negroes Held in Murder Inquiry OAKLAND, Cal, Dee. 1-—James tole and Frank Seale, negroes, were by the police today in con tion with the murder Ik y of J. F. McCarthy, re member 10 nt i | IN COLLISION |!" “iis” | TACOMA, Dec, 1.--Seven persons were severely injured here early to- day when two street cars collided in | a heavy for. HUMAN NATURE man can live a useful life, be eredit to his home and die without getting edth the notice in the as James Mahoney. ¢ oje ‘was it said that 4 conserva. tm one who believes in the forced on the world by radi! } football game yesterday was! the controversy between Mayor | and the council—both sides! @ lot of motions but nothing | | | | D Deo, The; of John Wanamaker, 84- n nt. who has been his home with a severe | He was found by men shot to death in the rear of a| soft drink parlor | No reason for the shooting bad | been established WHO WANTS THIS ONE? Perhaps a small piece of ground not far from town is something that some one has been looking for. Here is just the place for someone er poles DO YOU WANT TO LIVE CLOSE IN And still have a large piece o| classified section is showing thie Turn to the and see who property. 5,000 dai MANY SLAIN | IN BATTLE IN. C0-ClTy Bloody Rioting Is) Reported From} Southern Capital | Over Famine MEXICO “Ory, bs ng "Loe a. mi —Not since the “tragic ten days” of 1913 has Mexico City presented such «bloody aspect as dawn revealed this morning, after a night of san guinary rioting The rising sun gleamed upon a shambles on the historic Zocalo, be fore the portals of the amoke-«erimed, | flame-scorched municioal palace. of the dead ranged as There of telling accurately at Extimates low as 12 and as high as 20. was no way of the dead} by friends and many of the scores of wounded will die in 191%, during the tragic days, the fahting was between groupe men striving fe ‘ Last night’. battle wan > ona horde of workmen, with a @w wom- chauffeurs and others, goad-| ed to frency because the city! water supply Rad failed, and the| soldiers who stood betwreen the mob | and the munidiph) palate, But the | reeuite Were the same-—bozzing bul lets, groans, walle, fame and thie hour, ax many had been borne away their The fire epread rapidiy thru the entire interior Of the building, «purt-| ing from windows as the machine | guns continued their grim chatter kunners” were driven out from the shelter of the palace by the blaze, bat they had the crowd on the run and kept it go ing. Dense masses of humanity were packed in the entrances of the streeta leading from the square, while behind them on the bloody pavement some forms lay | sti, and others crawled pain- fully on all fours seeking a hid- ing place. Soldiers and police followed the re treating rioters, Waping over the bodies of groaning wounded. They were under orders to disperse the crowd and prevent it from re assembling. Large sections of the mob were so thoroly frightened they | thought only of flight, Isolated | groups, however, set out to pillage the city. | Yelling and singing, they paraded the principal streets, shooting thru windows and hurling rocks. These men had had their baptiam of fire and were out for vengeance. Detach ments of soldiers went thru the} streets at double quick, seeking to} head them off. It was now past mid. | , ning pal progress of | i by sound . yells and (Turn to Page 17, Column 1) REPORTS MADE | ON 5-CENT FARE Russell Sees Loss, While Henderson Opposes Pass ace lit the sky the mobs The communication relative to the | proposed reduction of fares on the | municipal railway, one from Railway Superintendent D, W. Henderson to Councilman FB. L. Blaine, the other from Public Utilities Superintendent | Russell to Councilman ©. B Fitzgerald, made public Friday morn ing, are expected to have bearing on future action by the council | In a comparison of the proposed fie-cent cash fare with 6%-vent tran tokens, and a continuance of | the pr t fare supplemented with a/ weekly pass, Henderson advised that | th nt fare he adopted over the | m | ntendent Russell, in an estl- | the effect all of the new! ve past year would | the fi of the munici system, figur the five-cent | cash fare with 64-cent transfer tok- | ene would uit in a net monthly | loss of $1 ; Addition of the monthly payment of $70,250 to the bond redemption fund would bring the total monthly lone to $199,476.98, | Russell wrote The present fare, assuming that | $57,000 In set aside monthly for re- } depreciation, brings a monthly | 16 of $58,148.99, or, providing | that the bond redemption payment of $72.250 1s met, shows a fictitious loss of $12,101.01, Russell sald. | Thene estimates, Russell explains, | based on the assumption that no ye Increase would result. from fare reductions Tn his opinion the actual trafic In- crease wnder a five-cent fare would amount to approximately 13 per cent. Geo. F. onased in nc re Wash FRIDAY, DE }16th of Congress March 3, circulation lead over its nearest competitor 1819, Per Your, by Mall, 65 to 99 MBER 1, 1922. hugs Nab Him, Twice Doctor lTuy>-Tiome Loser in’ Fen. Minutes T Dr. J. R. La Marche —Phote by Price & Carter, Within 10 minutes after being! robbed by one bandit who menaced him with a pistol Thursday night, Dr. J. R, LaMarche, 620 15th ave. N., was robbed a second time by an ether thug, who took « small sum tbe fret bandit bad overtonkéd” ‘The second man also used a pistol. The first holdup man stopped Dr. LaMarche at 16th ave. and BE. Pike | st. at 12 p.m. taking $60, overlook: ing two dollars. Dr. La-| Marche walked a few blocks down | atlver the street, when upon coming to; ave. and John st, another bandit stepped in front of him with | fands up!’ Dr. LaMarche anand, “You're too late,” the told him, “one of your pals beat you nounc |to it” ‘The bandit. however, insist. a8 much as he could bear. He couldn’t trust himself to speak. ed upon searching the victim and) taking the remaining two dollars. NEWMOVEIN | CITY QUARREL Mayor Asks Public Works to Control Streets | Following his announced pol- icy of ignoring the councll’s elec- tion of Col. George M. Rice to the streets and sewers superintend. ency, Mayor Brown Friday asked the board of public works to take control of that department and appoint a member to act as su- perintendent “pending confirma tion by the elty i | person regularly ar pointed to fill such request was made by letter ded as a counter attack np of the auditing com. Wednesda ‘oved © of e being | The It w to t mitt th th y the mayor. also urged that the | yl the gar. | » streets | 4 motor: | that 8 board bage mo hag favored for some time, mbers who cast the five votes that elected Col, Rice were reti- | cent Monday as to when he will take | Council p jcontrel of his department "1 think he is legally entitled to do | so at once, if he sees fit,” was Coun. | climan Philip Tindall’s comment | © Mrs, Henry Landes refused to com- | mit herself, | DOUGLAS SAYS HE WON'T ACT! action will be taken against Johnson on the strength of her “confession” that she killed | Mrs. Kate Mahoney, Prosecuting Attorney Malcolm Douglas an nounced this (Friday) morning, He | » the followin tement We hav al proof that many of the nts in. Dolly! Johnson's purported confession were | false, There is not «the slightest doubt that James B, | Mahoney had premeditated his wife's murder and was personally present when it was | committed, The credible evidence in our hands at prestnt is not sufficient | to charge Dolly Johnson with any | crime except that of forgery, on which she has already been convict: ed and sentenced to serve a term of five to 20 years in the state peni- tentiary.” WIFE SL “1S EXECUTED ~~ ‘TWO CENTS IN SEA’ E AYER: Mystery Surrounds Reported “Confession” of Murder in Face of Sister’s Statement; Doomed Man Calm as + He Walks Out of Cell to Pay Penalty WALLA WALLA, Dec. 1.—James E. Mahoney has paid the pe alty for the murder of his wife. He was hanged in the state pi jon here at 7:02 this morning. Twelve minutes later his body cut down and the murderer was pronounced dead by Drs. J. |Ingram and O. J. Lindquist. A few minutes more and preparations were begun for the sh ment of his body to Snohomish, where it is to be buried beside of his father. Mahoney walked to his doom with the same stoic calm that t characterized his actions thruout the long months of his sens: al case. He never faltered on the way to the scaffold and he | did not speak. He had talked long and earnestly a few moments before with Father Stephen Buckley, the prison chaplain. But what he said in that conver- sation was not for public consumption—it was be- tween Mahoney and his God—the God to whom he paid no heed until the very eve of his execution. The hanging took place 35 minutes ahead of schedule, jas it had been announced for 7:37, at which hour the sun rose. - It was almost dark when a warder appeared at pena cell. ere = a = glow in fa (one —but. it. notse cheerful glow—rather flicker of ang embers. = ” “Wake up, Jim!” called the warden. But it was urineces- sary. Mahoney was already awake, in conversation with the Beect who had stayed with him thru the long hours of his it night on earth. Mahoney smiled—a sour, twisted smile, but a smile none the less. He turned to the priest—who had administered the last sacrament to him a few minutes before. “Guess it’s time, father,” the slayer said in a clear tone, and stuck out his hand. The , pion returned the clasp without speaking. A pro- opponent of capital punishment, the strain had been _ There was a long, silent moment. Then Mahoney wrenched his hand loose, and, apparently without emotion, announced to the warden: “All ready now :” Fa were the last words that Mahoney was ever to utter. The solemn procession began immediately afterward. Father Buckley, head bowed and stumbling now and then, came in the lead. Then Mahoney, head erect, eyes straight to the front, face expressionless, like a soldier on parade. Then the guard, business-like and unconcerned. * The footsteps of the death march seemed to reverberate thru the prison yard. The march didn't last long. Suddenly the little company |halted. They had reached the séaffold. Head still erect, face as stoical as ever, Mahoney began his last climb. Then a few routine preparations—the business of blind- folding the condemned man, tying his arms, affixing the Tae eS And then a muffled, somber click. The trap had been sprung. Mahoney spent a quiet night before the hanging. After dinner—a regular Thanksgiving dinner—he slept until-about 9 p. m., when Father Buckley joined him in the cell. He had a light supper at 10. His last request was for a bag of candy and a Seattle newspaper, both of which were immediately provided. Thru the night he talked at intervals with Father Buck- ley. At other times he lay on his bunk, eating candy and reading, occasionally dozing off into a slight sleep. * * * * *% * * * * Lawyer Refuses to Admit Mahoney MadeConfession Did Jim Mahoney actually confess Mahoney, for the benefit of the to the murder of his wife? Or did, dead man's mother, L. B. Schwellendach, Johnston's associate In the defense of Mahoney, went a little farther, however, “I will say,” he announced after repeated questioning, “that the published reports were not exactly accurate, But I wouldn’t care to go any farther than that at present,” Later, he intumatea, he and John: |ston may decide to give out a for- | mal statement to “clear the whole case up.” Train Hits Auto; One Dead, 3 Hurt POMONA, Cal., Dec. 1—A crash by a@ Pacific electric brought instant death to Laura Laurence, | While her sister, Mrs. Roy Croxen, ts at the point of death and two others of an auto party which was struck broadside by the train near here yes terday afternoon are suffering from he go to the gallows without break- ing the silence that he maintained from the moment of his arrest? Thomas Pace, warden of the state penitentiary at Walla Walla, says Mahoney confessed, He didn't see the confession himself, he admits, But he declares that Lee Johnston, Mahoney's attorney, told him that the condemned man had ‘made a full confession, substantially b- orating the entire story as built up by the prosecuting attorney's office in his trial in King county Johnston, on tne other hand, refuses to either deny or affirm the report that Mahoney con- fesxed. “Mahoney's dead now,” he said Friday. ‘That's all there is to it, I want to forget the whole cas He would make no comment on published reports that he had of- fered to sell the confession to a local newspaper for $2,000, and that, this being rejected, he had an-! injuries, The others injured are Nell nounced he would publish the state-, Laurence, 19, bruised, and ment, along with other writings of’ Roy Croxen, H bis pati tt ¥ ginning to creep across Marguret told the story of version at her home, 345 C Friday morning. >» “Yes,” she said, “1 ‘ to see the priest. He adn v1 to at first, But I wrote him what a terrible thin be if he didn't. And so he that he would. —&nd so was gran’ma. That last word we got from morning when