The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 26, 1922, Page 1

Tonight and moderate te Wednesday, rain; fresh southerly gales Temperature Last M Hours Maximum, 50. Minimum, Today noon, 49. “a The paper with a 15, 000 daily circulation lead over its nearest competitor Bntered as Second Class Matter . Warn under the Act of Congress March 3, The Seattle Star 17), P r, by Mall, $6 to 99 ~ JURY TAMPERING IS CHARGED! AFFIDAVITS ARE FILED IN HARTFORD CASE! WAS TUESDAY, , DE f "EMBE R 2, 1922. Howdy, folks! Only 364 more days to do your Christmas shop- ping. i Department store clerks are busy teday exchanging non-inflammable cigar lighters and hand-pafnt chocolate creama. . ee Father would Itke to exchange all the neckties he received for Christ. | mas for two shovelfuls of coal oe. We wish we were a department) « tore Santa Claus. Nothing to do un-/ ; ti! next Christma: . WARNING Do your New Year's resoluting early! eee In the olf days they used to “ance, on the tables on New Year's eve } vealed today. ‘ farmer. I've snd-died buck-ing bronchos, A thousand steers I've tamed, Tve killed 10 many indians ably will be accused. eee Kris Kringie has a Teutonic name, but we don't believe that is the rea- gon s0 many toys are marked “Made in Germany.” * . aye —s { | LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE | | ; VAMP, SEZ: a erack } swimmer | ithe “invisible wrongfully accused with the killings. Many learned th’ craw! stroke when baby. Yep, and it’s the rankest boxer who can truthfully say that he knows all the ropes. in this section, his cell. eee made in the arrest of 1 do not trot with those who hold That Christmas gifte should be Of nature sternly practical— It matters not to me, If in my festive sock I found, When came the Yuletide dawn MER ROUGE, La. man forced to play “water boy” for & band of hooded men while they carried on their work of flogging and kill the people afflicted and. destroy murdering Watt Dasiels and Thomas |the germs and every bit of evidence | Pelagalli said, “when I heard « shot. | Richards last August will be the “out them state's chief witness. officials re- | | Would Fight Crime Wave as E pidemic of Disease in the | iio | «=r. L. Vernon Briggs ‘ono tag day | $1.75 or 62.50 = = FORCED TO AID taee ze TERRORIST MOB Arrests Expected Louisiana Probe Evidence of Berry Whetstone, a | to kill the disease, not the patient. forced to sceompany masked mob, led to the arrest of his kinsman, T. F. Burnett, in connec tion with the murders, and furnished | information on which 20 others prob- | Whetstone. carrying water from a near-by farm for the thirsty mob, Burnett, confined tn jail at Bastrop following Whetstone’s account of the terrorists’ activities and the finding of the bodies of Daniels and Richards in Lake La Fourche, announced his defense would be based on an alibi In statements to correspondents he denied he was a member of the Ku Kiux Klan, and declared he believed empire” in connection | has Scores of friends, many of them| parishioners and prominent persons visit Burnett daily in The community has taken | the view that some mistake has been Burnett FORCE MAYOR TO LEAVE CITY Dec. 26 PLAN TRPLE FUNERAL FOR’ SLAIN \establish “Habit Clin- ics” Is Urged by | | Criminologis BY EDWARD THIERRY | BOSTON, 26.——"Fight the crime wave exactly as we fight dis tee Coroner ease epidemics.” j Ver Free burial services for the three victims of Fanil Neuriter, 40, whe shot and killed them Christmas morning in their home in West Seattle, were being ar ranged Tuesday thru the Booth director of the Mental Jof Man That Kills, | Mansachusetts Society for | Hygiene, and member of the Amert ean Institute of Criminal Law and | Criminology. hese recom | mendati tons: makes Aboliah capital punishment | Undertaking Co. The Butter | Sentence criminals guilty of capt worth establishment also offered ; free funeral services for the | M M d murdered children, The pee mon. will obably be ty ore 1 ur ers Seeraiag, leaed by cremation. }] NEWARK, N. J. Deo 36 The three bodies were removed More than three times a# M@RY ]/ from the morgue Tuesday morning |] murders occurred tn America’s |] 28 largest cities last year than 20 at the request of B. C. Engel, father ¢ the slain children. Coroner W. H. Corson exprensed his dissatisfaction Tuesday with the theory that Neuriter was prompted ago. The rate per 100,000 population was 9.3, highest in |] history, a» compared to 8.5 the an increase in murder, he Memphis still leads, with a mur der rate of 66.4. When questioned by Johnson, En- gel refused to state definitely what [the cause of the trouble had been. tal crime to Iife imprisonment-—and| Further investigation of this an- let _acience study their cases gle of the case was being made Establish “habit clintes tn every | Tuesday, city for subnormal and abnormal | Fred Pelagalll, 2236 W. Othello et, children between two and seven to/ next-door neighbor of the Fngela, prevent possibile future criminality. | totd police Tueslay hew ne had aided Dr. Briggs says punishment can-| the family in their plans for Chrint- not stop crime because ft dorsn’t re | mas, move the cause. He cites the “habit; The Engel family had spent the| in! clinic” of Boston, established even | evening with the Pelagailis Sunday | months ago under Dr. Thom, as the | night, and Engel had remarked that only agency directed toward prevent. jt would be a pretty sitm Christmas | |ing crime by striking at the cause! for them, Pelagalli gave Engel $26, ry lot it |saying he would divide with him. "When we fight typhold, tubereu| After a happy evening together, liowis, yellow fev and similar dis. | the families returned and decorated their Christmas trees 1 had just got wp at 9 o'clock,” Jeane epidemics,” he mays, “we don't Instead we study the A moment Inter there were several | cases, isolate them, examine the | more shots, and Mr. and Mrs, Engel germs microscopically, and find aj rushed to my place. They were fol- serum that will cure. Science strives |lowed by Helen and Ernest, who | Jumped thru a window. As soon as | they bad explained that Neuriter was {in the house, } got my pistol and | rushed over to their place Danger of Flood | heard a final shot and all was quiet. | Practically Over | when 1 went in I called Lilly, tor I Fiood dangers in. Western Wash.| CUI not believe that anyone would ington were about over Tuesday, Spat “She was tying on the floor with > o Bt according to advices to The Star.| oot tets thre her head” the 1 al-most feel ashamed. |after being terrorized, wat on a log The Skagit river at Mount Vernon | "YY . b Whoopee! and made mental notes of the mem-|began to mubside early Monday. It| 4, Uriter's body is being held in vabiagiad lbere as maske were lifted for a drink! could have been seven or eight fect Goan Gay a ag word is received Suggestion to Christmas card| from the bucket higher without endangering the! 14: Case st gi ations ag aoe manufacturers: Why not print a card After relating hia experiences to country round about Yorks . Bi » 1, New with & snappy, and original picture | department of justice agents and) While the Snohomish and Stilla-| "The tragedy which whocked Seatth of Santa Claus about to climb into/state authorities, Whetstone was! cuamish rivers reached high points and the Northwest Christ — the chimney of a snow-covered cot-| spirited away to protect him from) during Sunday night and caused ing pr te sats _ ceo re! | tage? Possible vengeance numerous persons to seek high| y after the Enge ground for their cattle and personal (Turn to Page ?. Cotumn 5) belongings, the freshets caused only |momentary alarm. Practically the! same situation prevailed PJ Plone White River valley and south, altho the water aoe “Sass and other points in southwest Wash. ington was sald to be extremely! high for this season of the year The west road near Kent was un der a few inches of water Tuesday, but the water was gradually reced jing and the road is passable, the| county engineer's office reported been | Seattle National Men Are Before Grand Jury 4. H. Newberger, vice president of the Seattle National bank, nd A. §. Stusser, manager of Rev. Hawkins to Cc contract department, were falled before the county grand ombat Charges | Fag aor Rev. Chauneey Hawkins will ap | Newberger wan immediately put on pear before the Republican club|the grill, while Stusser paced ner Thursday to answer charges made by | vously up and down in the corridor Mayor Brown before that body last | outside the Jury room Bome gift for which I had no wse—| MER ROUGE, La, Dec. 26.—Dr.| week While no one is permited to divulge I merely paseed it ont B. McKoin, former mayor, was| Before entering the grand jury|the errands on which witnesses are eee sought by authorities today to give | room pochong quizzed in regard to al-|called before the grand jury, it was evidence regarding terrorists who|leged vice conditions in Seattle,|taken for granted by oourtho The neight of irony is giving father |‘) 004 him to leave Mer Rouge, and| Brown declared that he was thru|taches thae théts psdenrisiiir Hue # pocketbook fer Christmas. jclimaxed thetr activities with the| fighting Hawkins a# “he is a dead | of Judge Hewen's decision in a evil CSP. iy | murder of two prominent eltizens. | letter and an annoyinggdetat) of the | action brought result o| co NEW YEAR'S KESOLUTION § | i; McKoin left Mer Rouge after | day's work.” troveray. between. the. monk nal At any moment now we may |). had been fired on from ambush! “I’m going to helpilean up our| Frank Waterhouse expect Mayor Brown to issue an | 44 received a number of threatening |town and I intend to Pt it up tothe) The bank wan charged with offielal proclamation heartily ap- hebterss Repubitean club to help,” Kev. Haw. | wrongfully withholding collateral to proving his administration, Investigation of the murders of | Kins said Tuesday the value of $30,000, which had been Watt Daniels and Thomas Richards, | —— given to secure a loan of $18,500, due Every day. In every way, Bootleg gets | Fourche, | following an attack by a hooded mob | lier, Robert H. Rodolf, gave A. 8. Duageres ond Gangere: |last August, continued today. A Better | Stusser, manager of the contract de f Attorney General Coco declared ad partment, and Vice-President Perry : Sage “ ‘pgm for bo Polson | aitional arrests would be made before |B. Truax checks for the principal vy club Is the gin hows YOU! January 6, when open hearings will | land interest: of the note and | the beautiful silver flask WS recetved |. conducted into the murders of PROSPECT | thene checks’ were, ashe but thet for Christmas—empty “*e-8 Daniele and “Fatty Arbuckle Is Reinstated.”- Yeadline With whom? ‘These cold winter mornings are ex- cellent for late sleeping, So are ‘out of bed. whose bodies were found in Lake La| after they had disappeared, | Richards. | Sarah . Bernhardt Is Much Better | gathered at her home upon erroneous reports she was dying, by recovering | spring, summer and autumn morn-|from a severe relapse and getting | in August, 1921 Waterhouse claimed that his cash j the collateral was not returned. | “ 9 | Attorneys for Waterhouse dvmand: | } From “STAR |ed that the bank officials be prose. jeuted for grand larceny but no ao- tion was taken as Prosecutor Doug. |1a# stated it would be useless, no “WANT ADS” WAITING, SIMPLY WAITING PARIS, Dec. 26.—Sarah Bern-! | penalty being fixed by law, The A West Virginia man, aged |hardt, greatly improved today, was | ‘matter was then submitted to the 83, has just ridden in his first | able to arise. The famous actress, | | attorney general's office, which ruled street car. We suppose he was | who has been critically ill for a week, ‘ that a saving clause in the law woul waiting at Second and Pike fora brought rejoicing to hundreds of Call Main 0600 \aaee a ishes tx Dah ths bed Capitol HIN troll | friends and prominent political, social | $5,000 if a penalty was not fixed by & ex and theatrical personages, who had | and Be Convinced |\\ww i Civil suit, charging fraud, was finally trickery and \ me Reikel saa Believes| Love Trouble | ‘That is the anewer of Dr. L. non Briggs, famous criminologist, to BS | the problem of increasing murder| NOt Only Reason} and other crime in America s Dein ener trteemase| 10F Crime |] Orevious year solely by an insane love for Helen These figures are announced by Pn i ahoot down Anna, 17; Dr. Frederick L. Hoffman, 00m: |! tony tépand L petade sulting statistician of the Pruden : : te Depely ad tial Life Insurance Co. see Marty Baneeun: wae’ had onal t Seventeen of the 28 cities show trouble with Engel that has not been Then 1} PUT ON CARPET |Alimony for rT TW OC ENTS “IN SEATTLE. Men Is Plan of Woman’s Party Of ficial | Declares Divorced Husband Is Entitled to Money Aid; Others / | Mrs. Alta Estes Munger, who believes in alimony for men. Below: Mrs. Charles Tiffany (right) and Eugene A. Johnson. BY JOSEPHINE VAN DE GRIFT | NEW YORK, Dec. 26.—Alimony for men! “Why not?” asks Alta Estee Mun-) |wer, national organizer and executive | tee of the National Woman's party.| “There war never anything. senti- merital about alimony. It was — signed merely to keep a divorced per. json from becoming a charge of the} state. ‘in the middie ages ft was always the woman who was in danger of be-| coming the charge, But nowadays a woman is seif«upporting. And if she | | divorces a husband who ix « para-} | lytte, for instance, it behooves her to! pay him alimony. | Physical dinability is the only ex: cuse for any person—man or woman | -accepting alimony. | “Any woman who is healthy, able bodies and unincumbered with the cate of young children should be} ashamed to compel a man to carry | her about like a sack of meal.” ‘TWO GEN ERALS ARE DEGRADED ATHENS, Dec. 26.—Another after was inflicted upon Admiral Goudas land General Stratigos, who have | been sentenced to life imprisonment While this scene was taking place | Athens was rife with reports of a jcounter revolution brewing in the |capital, and many revolutionaries now in control of affairs were report- #4 making preparations to depart. Merakle Is New Seattle Fielder Seattle has signed a new infielder, William Merakie, a Philadelphia | jnandiotter, one of the best prospects | in the Quake City, according fo Jim | Boldt, who received a long distance | phone measage of the deal from Manager Wolverton today, Both | Philadelphia clube were dickering | for Merakie’s services math of Greece's defeat in Asia} |Minor and subsequent revolution | [here was enacted Christmas day} when formal military degradation | | Europe May Get American Gold WASHINGTON, Dec. 26. The United States, with the greatest gold heard of any nation in the werld, | soon may begin its exportation in large quantities, {t was stated at the White House today | Gold exportations, foreign trade jand the new tariff law formed the | principal topic of discussion at to- day's cabinet meeting, ‘Meal Tickets A: Are Given Unemployed Meal tickets for Tuesday were given to 400 unemployed men at the Millionair club, 98 Main st. after they had been given a chicken dinner Monday. | A musical program under the di Andrews and a talk | rection of J. F. on the meaning of Christmas by Rev. filed and Judge| Ambrose Batley, pastor of the First Hewen of Pacific county decided the | Baptist church, were given after the! conscience, the man declared, and he; national Sinn sii dinner, expressed @ desire the ‘FEAR 3 SHIPS Are Not so Sure But Mrs. Charies Tiffany, chair- man of the Borough of Manhattan | League of Women Voters, is not so hard on the women, “It Is not possible,” number of years to plunge immedi ately supporting “Frequently she has given the best | years of her life to her home. recompense. “1 would interpret that recompense tn terms of alimony.” Eugene A. Johnson, warden, who for nine years has presided over the destinies of the famous Ludlow | Street Jail Alimony club, where those who would rather stay in jail than pay alimony serve their sen- |tences, says: “I've known women to go out and scrub floors rather than take a cent of alimony. Those women have my ' respect.” LOST IN STORM Terrific Hurricanes Sweep Atlantic QUEENSTO! Ireland, Dec. 26.—Three vessels are believed to have gone down in hurricanes sweeping the Atlantic, according to the captain of the New Co- jumbia, driven in here by the storms today. The Celtic and the Carmania, whose decks and lifeboats were smashed, put in here, reporting most terrific gales of 20 years. The New Columbia's captain sald he had received distress signals from three vessels just before the storm reached its height, and that after ward he was unable to raise them by radio, and that he believes all three were lost, ee Crew of Eight Is Lost on Lake Erie VELAND, Ohio, Dec. 26.— Search for the missing tug Cornell, which left here Thursday for Buffalo with a crew of eight men, was continued today by a fleet of tugs and an airplane. The tug is be- lieved to have gone down in Lake Erle with all on board Admits Robbery of Oklahoma Bank RICHMOND, Cal, Dec, 26.—De. claring that he and two other men, one of whom was his brother, held up the Bank of Hulbert, Tani y, Oklahoma, on January escaping with $2,800, a young man giving the name of William TT, Price walked into the police station here today and surrendered, The crime has been preying on his she says, “for) secretary of New York city commit-)4 woman who has been married a into business and become self- For | those years she ts entitled to some JURY SHAYED (Flashes} BY BAILIFF CHARGE FILED Attorney Springs a Sensation as an| FIRE DAMAGE $40,000 Aftermathto the Hartford Trial By Bob cent trial of Hartford jury. AS a result of rest of the jury return ment, fidavit, in which tween Raycraft mise” verdict called into court. be made. until January 8 trict attorney's feet. throat cut after ing Police believe O'Day lifeless body up to slip away, 1. {Sinn Fein Urge DUBLIN, Dee. Intimating that the Ku Kiux Klan had interfered with the ad- ministration of justice in the re John F. Dore filed affidavits in the federal court Tuesday charg- ing Ben Williams, a bailiff of the court, with tampering with the The affidavits were sworn to by members of the jury. } “It's necessary that ford be convicted,” Charles Raycraft, a member of the Jury, according to the affidavits, “be- cause Mayor Brown and John Dore, who are her attorneys, are members of the Knights of Columbus. found guilty it will be a slap at the |X. of c.” | mitted suicide when the fatl Dore used the affidavits as th€/tusea to heed the son's | basis for a motion for a new trial for jcease making Illicit liquor. | Beaten, who is now awaiting sen- {see Peterson bought a still 4 Other charges, almost as sen- sational as those that relate to When Raycraft returned, accord- ing to the affidavit, he called O. F. Davenport, George 8. Rice and Gor- | don into the Invatory and related to [them the conversation which has al- | Teady been quoted. affidavit says, the sentiment of the | Mrs. Hartford and it was decided to & compromise verdict—of guilty on oné count and not guilty on another, without any regard to jwhich counts were so decided. Gordon also asserts in the affidavit that the Jury never took a ballot on |the separate counts in the indict- and that the jury agreed not to consider the evidence in reaching the final verdict, Devenport, one of the jurors men- tioned in Gordon's affidavit, swore to a similar statement, corroborating the charges in every way. Ben B. Griswold made a third af- tion of the alleged conversation be admitting that it was a A fourth affidavit ts signed by W. F. Worsham, who says that Rice, an- other Juror mentioned by both Dav- enport and Gordon, had told that the jury-tampering in the case was “10 times worse Rice, according to the affidavit, said that he did not want to make a written statement but wanted to be Dore asked Jutige Neterer to call Rice before the court to testify and also urged that a thoro investigation | y Judge Neterer put the motion over counter affidavits. IS SLAIN ON PARK BENCH CHICAGO, Dec, faced today with one of the weird. est murders in the history of Chi- cago—-the slaying of Joseph O'Day on @ park bench while hundreds of persons were passing within a few O'Day's body was found with the to an unidentified stranger. throat and then held the one-sided conversation until a lull in the traffic gave him a chance Relatives of O'Day could assign no motive for the murder. GETS POISONED CANDY ~ PORTLAND, Dec. 26.—Polies in ponsension today of a box of said to contain poison, alleged have been sent by Wayne D, son to his wife as a Christmas ent, and Parkinson himself was. jall awaiting examination as to scanty after an attempt to suicide. PORTLAND, Dec. 26—Owners 4 the Lillian apartments here $40,000 lone early today when due to defective wiring, swept building and drove lodgers to * There were no injuries, |several persons were reported 4 | have had harrow escapes. ° |RECALL AIR SEARCH SAN DIEGO, Dec. 26—All planes taking part in the Col. Francis C. Marshall and Charles Webber, army aviators ing since December 7, have been i |calied with the exception of | Lieut. John P. Richter, former rot mate of Lieutenant Webber, is 1 only flier in the field today Wellin ens tag | Srietstricken, he is making Feconnaissances from, Nogales. SHOOTS FATHER, GALESBURG, IU., Dee. bert Peterson shot and wounded his father and then Bermann 4 Nellie Hartford, If she's installed it in the house to Christmas liquor. the | lent protests led to the HUNT BERGDOLL | Acting upon the theory that ver Cleveland Bergdoll may be: attle at present, the police 1 searching Tuesday for the draft evader. L. 8. ager of the Puss 'n Boots this conference, the was swung against soft drinks. He showed them tograph and remarked uj startling resemblance of one men to the picture. They got up, leaving their drinks Paying for them, and rushed £ the cafe, according to H z man looked like Bergdoll. rather fleshy, answering the tion of the draft evader to @ detail. he makes no men- eee GRAND JURY MEI Work of the county grand rapidly drawing to a close. It meet Tuesday to work on report to Superior Judge Griffiths. A few more wit be summoned, according to Ullberg, foreman, but it is that the jury’s investigations consume many more on. OFFICER To RECOVER Patrolman B. W. Morris, ally shot Sunday by a brother A. Collier, was reported to an unchanged condition Providence hospital, He is to recover. and Williams, but “compro- him than’ charged. to permit the dis- office to secure o ok THREE MEN ARE TRINIDAD, Colo., Dec. men were dead here today, series of gunfights Christmas 4 William Jamison was shot and by August Malezia, at the roadhouse, after Jamison ran according to Malezia. Cy Aragon was killed and Jerry was jailed, charged with the following a quarre| here Dometrio Aragon wag slain y Martines, after a quarrel it Martinez’s wife. eee TAFT IS IMPROVING WASHINGTON, Dec, 26-—C€ Justice Taft continues to isfactory recovery from hig operation, and may be able to the hospital next wee oe $20,000 GEMS § CHICAGO, Dec, 26.—Gems at $20,000 were stolen from the of Henry Schaaf, piano dealer, | |burglars had chloroformed | members of the famil: 26.—Police were es he was seen talk. the stranger cut and carried on a Clubs Irish Peace 26.—A meeting of SAN JOAQUIN, Cal, Dee, — Sinn Fein clubs here today passed a resolution urging convocation of a range peace with ‘ai