The Seattle Star Newspaper, January 11, 1923, Page 7

YHURSDAY, JANUARY 11, DEATH THREATS Girl Is Hedged by Mystery $1,500,000 Movie Contract Is Offered to Little Jackie Coogan FOR WITNESSES Cyaya°s Character Puz2 son ang ot er New Sensation in Herrin a ny, who*has an Murder Trial to . DONALDSON | poug and Mary, it is reported, wil BY ROBERT A LOB A And th ture with | What you ont to be when aracter Puzzle GELES oan, 8, world’s which roflom or @ second Doug ther ‘s what 1 want to ber") fireman cape? er! u he BY EDWARD ©. DERK . te ne MARION, Th, Jan, 11.—Four w Nesxes for the state in the Horrin Massacre trial were threatened with grows up, eh will | aft. wokle’s m hin mot contract steady | ot wveral I'd like to te limb walle and 0 a year for death today The threats were made tn anony Mous letters Two of thé missiv contained a strand of roy Rated as a hangman The letters were receive " Poole, Herrin real estate dealer: KR. ( Greer, former mayor of Herrin, and George Harrison and George Nelson. farmers. Poole, who testified he saw Leva Mann and y Mall, two of the fendants, In the “death march” thru the streets of Herrih on Feceived the first letter. It was left on the front porch of his Beside it was a heavy rope four feet jong and an tnch in circumference ‘The rope was tied in a slip knot I heard your testimony tn the courthouse,” the letter said. “Unless you go back there and te you led, look out for your life. “The other letters were simila C. W. Middiekauf?, ney general, of all of them was fo ¥ nesses f they did the jury and say they lied. would be killed or their blown up.” The letter and rope recefved by Poole were turned over to the United Press by Mra, Poole. The letter was seribbled in pencil and badly misspelled. There was no signature, A large drawing of a M and crossbones was inscribed e bottom of the page. “We have been alarmed ever since finding these on our front porch, Mrs. Poole said. “My husband ts in. sulted on the streets and his bus! ness has dropped off to practically nothing. “I never leave the house without being the object of insulting re marks by neighbors.” Greer owns a grpcery store tn Herrin and declared since testifying his business had suffered from « general boycott. Harrison, who testified to secing one of the defendants fleeing’ from the woods where four bodies were later found, received two lett Nelson, the fourth man to ive @ letter, bad testified to seeing Otis Clark, defendant, leading CK. McDowell, mine superintendent, jong the road where the body was * found. Following admiswon by state attorneys that death threats had been made, it was reported Will- jamson county farmers had organ. ized a secret society to combat vio- lence they feared from miners as result of the testimony given at the trim “The lives of 10 miners for every farmer injured because of his testi- mony at the Herrin trial” was al- leged to be the slogan of the organi- zation by special state investigators, The defense resumed its calling of alibt witnesses today and declared the case would be finished by Fri- day night. ILUNDER STORE AS MAN SLEEPS stify assistant att said. he substance rn the wit ‘ore they homes ATLANTA.—D. A. Brooks had a | *0mething—elusive, Indefinable, but) nim, until, by the time he left the| much poor opinion of Atlanta police, for burglars robbed hia store last Friday and no arrest was made. Brooks made his bed in the store and slept there’ Last night burglars cleaned it out. Brooks discovered the loss when he awoke today. AIL THREAT FOR TROUBLE MAKERS CHICAGO.—The mother-in-law ts | to be removed as a cause of domestic unhappiness by Judge Joseph Schul- man, who iseued a warning today that he would jail any mother-in-law found to be the cause of family tribulations. BROWN'S _ DENTAL OFFICES 106 Columbia St. ford Real Prof thee through ’s_ Modern ness College, 1612 Second Ave, Main 3016. HonvnoiaronorG Biuhili | Pimento Cheese jonenenonenes: Bordens CHOCOLATE ~ MALTED MILK LL OF THE nourishment and food value of malted milk—but a delicious choc- olate flavor, too. Here is an impression of Clara Skarin, as sketched in court « for The Star by Rose Silver, young Seattle artist. It is an entirely impressionistic picture, but it portrays, better than any photograph, the quality of “exetic mysticism” which is deséribed in the accompanying article. BY BOG BERMANN Is Clara Skarin just an ordi. nary, everyday young woman who, thro a chain of peculiar and unfortunate msiances, has become enmeshed i re volting series of crimes? Or is her checkered career due te # strange abnormality of char acter—a “fey” quality, which has marked her from birth as one apart from the rest of human- ty? Wednesday, Here was ® man whom she acenses of having been implicated with her in the rob bery of the and = who. crossed” presenee branded a she ’ her, relating her to the penitentiary—or the gallows. Yet her face, a pucker tm her lutely expres ain, With ifcreasing insistence, | testimony. Onl ine she first came tnto the! put they apoke volumes: eye—and the great prepon-| partly large at times, t vidence indicates that/to assume gigantic propor 4 theory is the right one./ they fixed themselves upon her en That she i not @ truly normal hu-lemy, They were not eyes—they were man being. great seething wells of cold, blue ‘This does not necessarily tmply | flame. that there Is any question as to her! nis giare—no other term will de fae name ua the jedee amity, aN@ tacribe It—seamed to have an almost line on eal agua | hypnotic influence upon Von Tobel. cna, ve who | ie became more and more/ uneasy jare trying It, or the Jurors who wilt | | [as the minutes pawsed and she con- jbass upon her fate. But there t# 8/ tinued to keep her eyes fixed upon lever present—which *tamps her as/| . s san wus ih aed ter 7 eat Tani, | "and, he was actually trembling ences than the average person | And yet this woman | This quatity ts hard to describe.| Cited & Power that few so-called It is not a material quality Tt | SUPErMaturalints could muster was |might, possibly, be called a certain | ust & smiling young girl a couple lexotic myaticiam—exotiec, surely, be | °f minutes later jomuse it is not a thing of this world,| “tm saving a dance for you at and mystic for the simple reason | the, policemen's ball,” she cried mer jthat {t is 80 absolutely tncomprehen- rily to a reporter as sh ‘athe courthouse, not more tha She displayed this quality— j|after Von Tobel had be call it what you will a | stand marked exten's while Edward von Sane? ‘Tobel_was on the wijness stand But normal? +e % * State Declares Skarin Letter Clever Forgery \Claim Alleged Hochbrunn Letter Was Writ- | ten After His Death On November 28, 1921, wix week» lafter Ferdinand Hochbrunn had been shot to death, Edward Von Tobel received a letter from Port- |land, 4n the handwriting of Clara Skarin and purporting to have been dictated by the dead man, who was |supposed to be with her on a bust- ness trip at the time. If, as the state alleges, this letter was entire ly the child of Clara Skarin'’s mind, It is very queer to me the young woman has all the! one ned about what I talent and imagination required to do nia k no one become the author of a best seller. | con ar to help a fellow. Because even the oldest friends of| “It is hard for me to writ Hochbrunn deciare that {t “sounds|and also it costs money to hire a more like him than his own letters | stenographer every time ever did.” It displays all the| had a very bad time with grochety mannerisms of an ecoen | Clara tellx me she 4 landlord—there isn't @ false!to you about tt who exer Yeu, incredibly se Unbetie * note In it, in full. “My they assert. Here it is, dear Mr. Von Tobel “It seems that because I take @ notion to go somewhere the same as other people do it should create & great hurrah, I do not see why it should be necessary for me to cali a meeting of neighbors and friends and tell them my businéas. that every is 9b co letters has ‘ 1¢ METROPOLITAN tavs STARTING TUESDAY, JANUARY 16 Days ~~ Bargain Wednesday Matinee 50c and $1.00 Res. Saturday: 50c, $1.00, $1.50 vita ¥ Beats Now Selling BY ARRANGEMENT WITH COIISTOCK AND GEST NAT GOLOSTEIN Prese: nhs @ HARRY FOX THE GREAT NEW YORK VANDERBILT THEATRE aca (SUCCESS _ wh on execeptione/cash anda ITTERING, GORGEOUS GAL ASY OF GIRLS boo: mary Lyries by Joseph MCarthy Pivsia by Nat "etiton ond Harry Carrel! ALL THE TOW WILL WHKSTLE (TS MUS( SOME OF THE POPULAR SONG “nd mamma were In nee with Doug Fair anks and Mary Pickford, wh ported to be th ful bidder for Jackie's Master Coogan's « wently as @ movie star, » biggest film bidding for hig All of them were contracts with a wid to be offer salary runving over the Hepor however, that "Doug and Mary a him their thro million mark on own file the » has ever made n Jackie, Less he signed his entate, i well at He oll well-—Jack: nning 3,000 ber il a day, netting ther draw only for Jackle, ant in burned raw ike that ft te Im . to hardly eat and ntly my whole system ha to wuffer. “1 have been Mrs, Markham, & sister of the man who went down the Yukon with Her son has n a good deal of money tn California ol! and I think I can talk them into investing in Seattle proper He for me stopping with a who lx king colt I h day Markham met every tmin for over a week We had « lovely giving but couldn't any. It 1c now care of the taxes ly the last of ‘the m I rather pay the 4 Unqueney than come up now when I am feeling 90 badly, 1 have enough money to last for a while If I have to I am going to mort gage one plece if I can't sell some thing. “We are Waving toniorrow San © Bernardino and will either at the Planet or hotel “Five for well worth more | tnetwt “Men every mo tinner Th hantly tor stay Stewart dollars reduction ft. too those flats, They are than $40. If they make ft $37.56 What the do peoplé expect now, anyway? You will have to have a couple of keys made. I did repair work and had the | front. door open. I remember latch ling the door once and thought I had the key in my pocket it) was lost. Clara says a Kitchen window ts open. Climb thru and open it from the in & locksmith fit a couple of keys ‘They only cost 26 cents apiece you better devil | nome Guens “There ts no fuel there and Clara says whe didn’t clean up the fiat We have what clothes T need with her things. I will get me some ready-made pants rather than pay Michael $25, The fellow ix looney “You can tell Mr. Wright I don’t want no kids downstairs, Here ts lenough. The rent l $27.50. Have plumber finish It up, so you can |rent ft out. Thong other people Jare nice and quiet. Det them have ft. 1 don’t want a whole yard full lof kids raising the devi around. “Collect the rent money and you |better hold it unti! you hear from lime again You can tell the people who want to hire private detectives to thelr money and junti! such a time as when I am laying sick and they know it and don't even come around to help a {man To hell with them N It j= only curiosity to know a man's nave worry buriness “Clara in writing |me tonight. We lin the morning. | xeon. this for are going to leave Will write again letter Friends of those accused in connection with night riding at Mer Rouge, La., are report- ed to be seeking the aid Clarence Darrow, faqgnous at- torney, to represent the a¢- cused in court, ‘ are | FREDERICK & NELSON FIFTH AVENUE—P NE STREET—SIXTH AVENUE A Philippine Lingerie Event Beginning Friday Morning Sequin Tunics Reduced ° $9.75 HANDSOME new evening frock at lit- tle cost may be evolved from one of these Se- quined and Beaded Tunics with the addition of a simple under-slip. In line and Yellow, Laven ’ Belge, Flesh r, American Beauty, Gray Old-biue, Allee - blue, Brown, Jade, Navy, Sky blue, Black and Rust Reduced to $9.75. Trimmings Reduced Beaded and Spangled Trim mings In Black, White and cob together with bra and me tf price nes sharply Caracul-patterned | Bandings with silken on net in Black, Brown, Navy, Gray and Belge, at reduced prices varying according to width— 10¢ to $3.75 yard —First Floor loop: of) Fine French Papeteries Underpriced HE clever originali- ties of French Pa- per-making are avail- able at extremely low prices in this clearance of odds and ends and soiled-box Stationery. Crane’s and Hurd’s Papers 50¢ to $2.00 Firat ¥ January TOWEL Specials INEN-MIXED HUCK .~. TOWELS, a_ ser- viceable mixture of linen-and-cotton, with hemmed ends, size 18x34 inches, special 25¢ each. LINEN-AND-COTTON HUCK with order in effects hem. is x 18x35 Be euch UCK with more linen in the mixture, ALL-LINEN HUCK TOWELS of heavy quality, with a order and hem nds, made in Ire 18x88 inches BATH TOWELS, woven in double twisted thread and finished with corded ora, sine 21x40 inches 50¢ each; finer quality, and | larger, size 28x45 inches, spe- cat 65¢ cach; heavier weave, size 23x44 Inches, peclal T&¢ bor each First I 3,000 GARMENTS Gowns and Chemises —on T Sale at Specially Low Prices: $1.95 $2.95 $3.9 value fine hand-made and hand-embroidered Lin; from the Philippines will weleome this news of speci prices in connection with garments notable for lav ness and fineness of embroidery. At ° $1.95 At $2.95 PHILIPPINE - EMBROIDERED CHEM fashioned of fine materials in straight-toy shaped-shoulder styles, finished all around with — hand-sealloping and lavishly embroidered in front with floral designs, many with colada work as well. Special, $1.95. PHILIPPINE-EMBROIDERED GOWNS, fifteen beautiful styles to choose from, all of fine ma- terial, crisp and fresh; entirely hand-made and beautifully hand-embroidered in floral patterns. Special, $1.95. PHILIPPINE ENVELOPE CHEMISES, in | built-up-shoulder and straight styles, hand-em- broidered in intricate designs and often employ- ing colada work in connection with the embroid- ery. Special, $2.95. a PHILIPPINE GOWNS, entirely hand-made of © fine cloths and elaborately hand-embroidered in dainty floral patterns relieved with colada in- sets. Special, $2.95. Philippine Gowns, Special $3.95 Many dainty designs in Gowns at this price, fea- turing exqu ery on fine materials. 240 New Glove-silk Vests At $1.95 Each unusually-low Pink Gléve-silk Vests of excellent quality, in bodice style, An these with ribbon Featured Friday, at $1.95 each. tely-fine handiwork in lavish embroid- Special, $3.95. —Second Floor 115 Glove-Silk Envelope Chemises REDUCED To $3.95 Each Arranged for Friday, this under- priced offering of fine: Glove-silk Envelope Chemises—handsome lace- trimmed and embroidered effects for the most part—a few slightly soiled from display. To sell at an extremely low price—$3.95. 120 New Glove-silk Bloomers At $2.95 Each Bloomers to match the Vests described at left, in Pink Glove Silk, well-reinforeed and fin- ished with heading at knee—ex- ceptionally low-priced at $2.95. price on shoulder _ straps. First Floor