The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 25, 1922, Page 1

SLAYS THREE AND ENDS LIFE! | Maniac Attacks Famil VOLUME 24. NO. 260. PARADA DDD ALDARA Ax ¢ The Star’s Phone Main 0-600 Get the Habit The paper with a 15,000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Mntered as Second Class Matter May 3, 1899, at the Postoffics at Beattie, Wash. SE ATTLE, Ww. ASH. « MONDAY, DEC EMBER 2 25, 1922, under the Act of Congress March 3, | The Seattle Star 1879, Per Year, by Mall, $6 to $9 y in West Seattle H ome! Two CENTS IN SEATTLE. folks! What did santa = tees bring you for tmas? eee Now we know why Santa Claus ’ wears such long whiskers. It's be cause he gets so many Christmas neckties eee “Twas the night after Christmas, And ali thru the house, Not a creature wee stirring Eacept Father, who was worrying his head off over haw pay the Christmas Ddills. eee he would We shudder to think of what will Become of all the little boys who pointed their fingers at Santa Claus @nd yelled “Beaver' eee WEATHER FORECAST will be a wet New Year's. customers having i et we will now predict that it One Seattle man gave his wife @ washing machine for Christmas, but his wife came right back with & coal shovel. eee Having Iive@ next to a saxophone player for the past year, we gave Nttle Homer Brew, Jr. a drum for ‘Christmas. whom she has wronged. when outside his window. eee Todays candidate for the Poison Ivy club fe the gink who gets mad they sing Christmas baat c4 Rosy, the office goat that chews up so many fine MSS, sends her Dest greetings to the contributors DAY BY DAY, IN EVERY WAY, HE “I hereby chal lenge the Rev. Chauncey Hawk- ins to a two-round bout, the proceeds fo go to the As toria fire suffer ered with shoe Brown. eee If Dr. Hawkins refuses into the ring. . GRERRER Por hearty grub I do not pine, I ask for viand’ airy, slight Then eat, perhaps, a Uttle bite, GETS BETTER AND BETTER Mayor Brown's invitation, the ministerial association might send Doc Matthews When I go out, at times, to dine, With somewhat jaded appetite, For more than that I do not care. But «when my stomach’s working right, rare! are not what they 2 am where there is life there Is hops. : see MILLINERY NOTE Year's Day. Bring me @ steak—and make tt B. B. Be that as it may, Christmas spirits used to be—but Mother will let the Christmas tree stay trimmed until New Father expects to stay trimmed for a considerably longer time—K. E. G. eee F Yep, and in many « home the Christmas tree is iuminated—and so > is Father, ; cee Big sister doesn’t get half the kick out of the string of pearls her i Sweetic gave her as the baby does out of his Christmas lollypop. eee TIGHTWAD AT THE MARKET Christmas week ts here once more, LU purchase something for the poor. a The Lord he loves a cheerful giver, ah Hut steak comes high, I'l gwe ’em liver Contrib. eee Why do one’s maiden aunts always ‘ send one red potka-dotted neoktion? “Merry Chrtstman to all, and to all a geet. nigh sy C ROYDON, Eng., Dec, 2,- the funeral, Fenne ditring their absence Send- ing 4 car to take the servants of the late Harry Kaye to the comotery for* thieves ransacked the | MME, BERNHARDTIROCK CRUSHES' IS NEAR DEATH:MOUNTAIN TOWN Famous Actress Sinks After Second Fainting Spell PARIS, Dec. 26—Fighting death | with the strength of her courage alone, Sareh Bernhardt, famous actress, was gradually sinking this morning in @ relapse which came early Christmas eve. Only a miracle can save the fam- ous stage favorite, her doctors de- clared Christmas morning. Her; Physical strength was declared by | them to be ebbing fast and it !s doubted {f she will survive the day. While it was admitted that there might be a slight chance for the ivine Sarah,", she will never again face the footlighta, Prof. Obissier, head of her staff of physicians, de clared. Bernhardt’s little mansion in the Boulevard Pertere was dark and atlent today as an indication of the fast approaching end. Servants moved noiselessly thru halls that formerly glowed brilliantly at Christ- may time. Hourly bulletins on Madame Bern hardt’s condition are being issued by her physicians to the griefstricken Parisians. . Man Dies After * : Drinking Poison L. H. Posner, of Turnwater, died at | the city hospital early Monday, a» the reauit of taking a draught of pol- | son, in the belief that it was medi- cine. Posner was found in front of 6509 "Wilson ave. Sunday afternoon, and was taken to the hoxpital, where | it was found that he was suffering from what appeared to be bichloride of mercury poisoning. Posner said) that he had bought cough medicine and thrown it away after taking It. Coroner W. H. Corson was investi. gating Monday. Seattle’s Real Estate and | Automotive | Dealers { { Have a Message for You | Page 15 Boulder NICE, Dec. %--On Christmas eve, when inhabitants of the little village of Duranus, néar the Cote) @Azur were telling thetr children of | the coming of Saint Claude, terrible rumbling and crashing coming nearer and nearer down the moun- tainside was heard, “It's Saint Claude,” the children | erted. | Many rushed out from a littie) school house where services were being held. A huge ten-ton rock came ing down the hillside, crushing everything in its path Like a Juggernaut It plowed thru the tiny town, rolling at a hundred) miles an hour. One or two Mimsy) plung-| cottages went down like ten pins in its path. By what the villagers declare a miracie, no one waa injured. The great rock finally stopped in the dining room of a more substan- tial dwelling while the sole occu pant of the house slept, unaware of his narrow escope ERIN BATTLES ON CHRISTMAS DUBLIN, Dec. 26.—Christmas dawn brought little peace to Brin. Free State troops at Porto Bello barracks were ordered out at day- | break for a house-to-house search for the assailants of Inspector Daly, of | the commercial investigation depart- ment, shot down In a Dublin street early yesterday ‘Two insurgent gun men sitpped up | behind the inspector and fired three | shots into his back, wounding him ne- riously. In the prevalent excitement, | the De Valerites escaped. At several Christmas gatherings, | statements by President Cosgrave, of | the Irish Free State, and Timothy Healy, governor general, were read. WEIR MYSTERY IS UNSOLVED PORTLAND, Dec, ~Christmas | day found the so-called Weir mys. tery” apparently as far from being| solved an it was the day Helen| Leary told officers she saw Cash Weir, an aged river man, kill a girl on his house boat the night of Sep- tember 23 and then watched Cash and his son, Earl, take the body “down the river” in a launch rs, with Mrs, Leary and r witnesses, are held tn tion with the case, Continus grilling has not brought the | | ous breakdown and confession of false hood or guilt from one of the three police had expected. | | ganized by Mra. R. City Enjoys Christmas Gladsome Day By Wanda von Kettler blew, and only a few people braved In the quiet that followed the | th storm. storm, Christmas morning “The Nativity,” nevertheless, dawned in Seattle. Verily, in the quiet that followed two storms— that of the elements and that of the usual pre Christmas rush. Sunday, Christmas eve, was a high- winded and wet day. ‘The storm, blowing from the south, played hav- oc with all things within its reach, Was presented by the North End Community Players in the corrt dor of the county-city building. | The Rev. Cleveland Kicihauer spoke previous to the presenta- tion of the pantomime, and the group that had gathered sang. Sunday many little people were en- trom ‘street signs to telephone poles. |tertained by various organizations. | Lights flashed off and on uncertain. |A turkey luncheon and Christmas ly, due to the wind, in many homes |'tree parfy was éld by the Lions’ thruout the evening. Numerous|olub at the Masonic club rooms for streets were in total darkness. 40 children. Christmas morning, however,| Youngsters at the Seattle Day found the storm calmed, tho the | Nursery, 60 in number, were visited by @ real live Santa Claus, who ga gifts and candy to every kiddie present. More big celebrations for children were planned for Monday, Christmas |day. One of the largest, tho not held in Seattle, will be near-by. The men lof the U. 8. 8, New York will enter- tain the children of Bremerton and Port Orchard with a Christmas din- ner and tree. Surely this is the glad day of the (Turn to Page 10, Column 2) FOUR TAKEN IN LIQUOR RAIDS Holiday Booze Is Snared by streets in the early hours remainded in darkness, The light poles and wires had not all been adjusted. Darkness outside—yes. Bat, oh! not within. Six- thirty a. m. ts late Christmas morning — especially in homes where kiddies for two months past have been thinking and dreaming about the one night of the year. At 6:30 o'clock Christmas morning Hittle lights flickered from the windows of many Seattle homes. Great green trees, laden with dazzling things, held those little lights. And once in # while a tousie- headed kiddie in wee pajamas would be seen scampering about some pretty room in which the blinds had not been drawn, or merely gazing, big-eyed, at the wonders before him. Stormy as ft may have been in | the few days that preceded Christ i mas, the spirits of those who sought Dry Raiders to bring cheer to others were not dampened. Saturday afternoon the} Sunday raids on suspected moon- | shine resorts resulted in the arrest! 260 boy and girl carol singers, L. or: Lindgren of | Of four men and the confiscation | of a considerable amount of liquid, the West Seattle Parent-Teachers’ “ | association, rode about the city ean Cohen and eft 0d Sp ase xtreets according to plans, despite Third Ave. were arrested by eral prohibition agents Sunday aft. | ernoon, when moonshine and serv- ing glasses were seized at the soft drink parlor at that address. Harold Holsted, 50, was arrested when moonshine and serving glasses were found at his soft drink parlor jat 111 First ave. 8, the rain, Their huge trucks stopped before hospitals, homes for the aged, the jails and the private residences of Seattle's shut-in people. Saturday night a special program for “shut-in was held at the Cos- mopolitan Players’ theater. More than 150 men and women, physically | Leo Hayden, 85, was taken in! Aisabled, elderly and blind, were! custody while making a delivery at taken in automobiles to the theater |the Sather hotel, 606% Pike st.,| by Christmas-spirited — Individuals) according to federal agents. ‘The| There a program, also under the/ayents, it happened, were raiding supervision of Mrs. Lindgren, of the| the hotel, where they found one- Went Seattle Parent-Teachers’ a880-|halt gallon of moonshine, when) ciation, featured little children in| tayden came in to make the al-| Christmas playlets and pantomimes. | jeged delivery of liquor. To some extent the rain interfered| ive quarts of bonded liquor and with the big community sing planned | geyeral bottles of wine and beer for Saturday evening in the County-| were taken from the Woodcock City building park, Twenty thou-| pharmacy, 604 Pike st,, late Sunday sand people had been expected to! night, Serving glasses were found gather in the park Christmas eve.| here, it is alleged, No arrests have But the rain came and the wind!as yet been made. x i 1 on Rampage Residents of Kent, Auburn, Home Acres and Eby Istand may be forced to abandon their homes {f the flood situation there be- comes greatly pronounced during the day. Swelled by the melted snow, the Snohomish river rose rapidly Sunday, @ rise of one foot and nine inches betng noted in four hours alone. The} water is reaching nearly to the top| of the dikes which protect the threat- ened district. Should the water rise but @ foot more, bus and interurban traffic will be impeded, and may be stopped. The Stillaguamish also is bankfull. Skagit county, north of Snohomish, is being threatened by the rise of the Skagit river, and the district between Stanwood and Mount Vernon may be in danger of floods. Scores of families poured into Ev- erett Sunday, bringing their personal belongings, A number of cattle also were driven in, Others prepared to take their chances with their homes. The White river and other nearby streams have risen dangerously, the| Renton Junction gauge reporting a| level of 10 feet 4 inches early Monday | morning, If the river rises to 12/ feet the valley in which Kent and Auburn Hie will be flooded, it is said. Several million feet of logs im- periled the Kelso bridge, in Cowlitz county, Monday, when a log boom owned by the Silver Lake Lumber & Railway Co. jammed against the falsework of the bridge now being erected down stream from the old bridge. A million feet of lumber has gone into the Columbia, and créws are seeking to loosen the jam, It is} admitted that the bridge will prob-| ably be torn out if the jam is not| loosened. The tearing Chinook wind which | swept Seattle Sunday took its toll of | telephone and light poles, store win- dows and street signs, aerial postmen and trees, Eddie Hubbard brought in his plane shortly before noon Sunday with a load of Christmas mai! from Victoria, B. C., after battling a 60. | mile wind, He was forced to stop | at Port Gamble for extra gasoline Thousands of dollars’ worth of Jewels were imperiled whe broken awning bar was w before the window of the Fried lander Jewelry store on Second ave. by the high wind. The plate glass window of the Hen- ningsen Co, on Western ave. was blown In pavement, and frightened pedes. by the wind tour of Fourth ave, when It left its | moorings. Christmas Kasoretioen! (Turn to Page 10, Column 1) 4 ” VALLEY TOWNS (STOLEN GOODS Peace Following Storm) FLOOD MENACED) FURNISH HOUSE Houses Shattered by Huge|All Seattle Smiles Within Within and Without on|piy apparatus, a covered loot. Walter Dench and Ww. He sald that he had committed so many robberies that he had no idea where al] the loot came from, and the | police will face a colossal task when | they attempt to restore all the stolen property to its owners, | Vatoli’s operations covered a peri- od of about a year, according to his | He said that he used a} roadster to convey hig loot to his | cache, but police are skeptical about | this, as it is almost impossible to be- lieve that some of the articles could | have been transported in anything | | short of a five-ton truck. The loot is so vast that no attempt | has been made as yet to catalog It, | | but it is certain that its value will | run high into the thousands. } confession, second floor of 40 commission houses. ers Around | Seattle Are | Burglar Confesses Looting titre gf Bringing to light one of the most amazing series of burg- laries in the criminal annals of the elty, Leo Vatoli, 25, confessed Monday that he had completely furnished a house with the loot that he had stolen from Seattle homes. The loot, comprising thousands of dollars’ worth of husehold fur- nishings of every description, was recovered by the police shortly afterward from a house which Vatoli had rented at 8722 Fauntleroy pl. A buffet, ception. Vatoll confes: to the robberies to Lieut. W. Witzke and Detectives CHICAGO, Dec. 26. building of the Chi announced today, ‘Approaches Ho | homicidal mania. | FIEND SLAYS Without Warnin and Shoots; Fo Make Escape Transforming a happy Christmas party into a FE. Newrider invaded the of his old friend, D. C. Engel, 2250 W. Othello st. morning and shot three of Kel’s children to death. He then turned his weapon upon and blew out his brains. The dead are: Anna Engel, 17 years old. % Lilly Engel, 3 years old, Hans Engel, 14 years old, — The elder Engel, his wife, and a daughter escaped. —~ No reason was ascribed | for Newrider’s act. The only 3 tion was that he had his mind, developing a Bi Members of the Engel fi several costly Oriental rugs, two cabinet Victrolas, a setteo, | a lounge, half a dozen chairs, includ- ing a couple of big several clocks, all sorts of electrical patent wringer—this comprises only « portion of the re- There was so much of {t that a complete stereroom at po- lice headquraters was used for its re- Morris chairs, S. McGraw. Fire which | Street lamp globes crashed to the | partially consumed the livestock ex- | chang: trians dodged broken glass whirled | stock yards caused $100,000 damage, | The street sign before | officials police headquarters departed for a! firemen were seriously injured, The | fire started in a cloak room on the and destroyed offices ago Two) just arisen and were around their Christmas by the girl's father and mol two brothers and a sister, " |mediately broke for | that it’ was impossible to doe | with the maniac, Newrider pursued them 4 ish determination. Beside the C | mas tree he saw little Lilly, sitting in a baby. rock! and cooing over a new Santa Claus had just brou Lilly had been so with the doll baby that paid no attention to The maniac murderous hunt. Little H the only other member of the remaining alive in the house. fied, he had crawled under and was lying on the floor ti hide when Newrider entered ti room and killed him, Newrider evidently made a of the house after this and, to find any more victims, suicide. Officers who investi wholesale tragedy found 1 1 holes in the house, Ni three revolvers with him, Motoreycle Patrolmen J. J. and J. B, Clark, Detectives Fuller, J. B. Smith and J. Fy and Sergt. W. I, Smith and cycle Patrolman BE. 8. Elliott, & the West Seattle station, im ed the tragedy. Coroner W. B. € son and his chief deputy, | Koepfli, took charge of the HARDINGS SPEND QUIET CHRISTMAS IN WHITE HOU! WASHINGTON, Dee, 25. dent Harding and Mrs, H celebrated Christmas very q On orders from Brigadier eral Sawyer, the president's vate physician, Mrs, Harding. frained from all activity for that she would have a recut of the serious ilIness that resulted in her death ducing summer. Christmas dinner wag uled for early in the afte A little company of friends will dine with tJ ings, If Mrs, Harding's permits, she will join her vt dinner, General Sawyer