The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 17, 1923, Page 1

3 TRAIN ROBBERS SHOT, CAPTURED! nen WEATHER Tonight and Maximum Alt Sunday, erate northerly winds. Temperature Last 34 Hours Today noon, 46. fair; mod- Minimum, 36, as Second Class Matter May -/ FOUR SLAIN IN EVERETT HOME! 2, 1999, at the Postottics VOL, 25. NO. 18. Ye Howdy, folks! ‘The top 0! the_ mornin’ to yet . St. Patrick is famous for having Griven the snakes out of Ireland. Volstead did the same for the United States. | Irishmen wear shamrocks in their) lapels, but vaudeville actors wear ‘em their fingers. . ‘The emblem of the Irish nation is] the harp; our emblem, if we had ‘One, would be the saxophone. ee A scooP! A scoor! Again Home Brew scores! only column owned and oper- ated by a Seattle “man prints today the first, authen-| tie photograph ever taken of an Irish Bull. Copyrighted in all for- eign countries, including Ballard. oe The) Henry Ford would make just about as good a president as he does he bandits opened fire, ed the an automobile. Take that any Way|tords, became an act and received | {h* bandits opened fire, thwarted th you like. eee Tho Bock beer season drawcth near, We'll see the goat sign never; For can’t you understand, my dear, Them days is gone forever? eee Ancient Americanologists have Just discovered a marble palace, frescoed with the sublimest works of arts. The great tomb fs belfeved to be the last resting piace of Pharaoh One-Arm-Lunch, the king of Beet- Stews. King One-Arm-Lunth was a great provider for his people. He merely punched your exit credentials and a plate of hash was forthcoming. eee EXTRA! EXTRA! By _ permission of Lord Carnivori- cious we hereby submit a true snapshot of the original King Tut- ankhamen, second Pharaoh of the Egyptians. This is the first photo- graph printed in Seattle, a. Of course, all this happened be- fore the Light Wines and Beer Re- bellion. oe The love of 2 gal I never have won, I never have made maiden sigh, ‘There's no one to care where I go, ‘Now ain't 1 the lucky guy? ae 6 Step on it, Rummy. No'th Caroline license. I wanta ‘% CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB Walter who insists on bath- | ing his thumbs in your sn | | before serving it to you. af 2. King Tut may be old; but the waiter's thurab-prints on the soup- dish are older. In the excavation of old skulls, it 1m yet to be proved that a man could get his lips around a restaurant cup. ar POEMS OF PASSION Love in a cottage 1s good enough, Love in a mansion sa sicell, Love in a flat is a Uttle bit rough, Love in an office ia h——. hue Some of these cops ure so dumb they would arrest a baseball player for stealing second. ie A California woman found guilty of bootlegging was sentenced to spend 600 days at home. This seems to un ta be clearly against the constitution of the United States, which — provides Sgainst cruél and tnusual punish- ment. eee “London man strolls inru seats of the Britieh metropolly clad in ar Ipor.'—Newspaper, ‘This In one way to foll the speed: In th’ spring a young girl's | fancy lightly turns to hats and | ttoves, u You can't blame the legisuture for not abolishing capital punishment “0 long as there are persons who wa way 1 um got: ) FIRST YEAR NE ‘Resume of Trish) | Situation Is! | Filled With Tragedy 1928, by United Pres) + DUBLIN, March 17.—Sixty-seven | rebels executed, Thirteen thousand imprisoned, Jwhom 5,000 have been released. +} Two thousand insurgents con [ducting guerilla warfare at present, Thirty thousand national troops | under arms, hunting from hamlet to hamlet the remnants of the once ete ret rebel army The above 1s the official account | of the situation this St, Patrick's jday, furnisned the United Preas by the Free State ernment as the first year of its rule close A Year ago today Eamé ‘alera issued a proclamation laring civil war would fc {tion of the free state. jlater the Irish Free State bill passed 4| jits third reading in the house of| (Copyright. of | nn De royal assent. Peace with Ulster followed within three days, Michael Collins and Sir James Craig signing an armistice Agreement. Its troubles with the north at an end, the free state struggled into being, haramed by insurgents, who followed Eamonn De Valera in open rebellion. At that time there were two outatand. ing figures, not counting De Valera, on efther side—Michael Collins and Arthur Griffiths, mainstays of the free state; Erskine Childers, brains of the rebels, and Rory O'Connor, fiery military leader. All are dead. Griffiths died of a sudden illness and within a month Michael Collins was assassinated. Since that O'Connor and Childers have been captured and executed ‘The Free State government today jis confident it has the situation better in hand than at any time since Its establishment. The rebellion is being steadily stamped out. Only Eamonn De Valera, Will of the Wi ‘prent- dent of the Irish republic," remains at large. With his eventual cap- ture or flight from Prerident Liam Corgrove {x conf dent an era of peace and prosper- ity will be born out of Erin's trou. dies. /Extra Police Guard Irish in New York NEW YORK, March 17.—Five hundred extra police guarded marchers in the St. Patrick's parade here today. While exponents of the Free State were marching up Fifth avenue, the American Association for the Recog- nition of the Irish Republic spent the day in “mourning for the 67 patriots who have been executed by the English free state,” according to fa letter sent to Mayor HYlan, by Michael A. Kelly, director of the or- sanlzation. day RUN DOWN BY TRUCK, KILLED Accident Saturday Morning Fatal to Henry Bidlake Henry Bidlake, 64, of 808 F. 424 «t., an agent for the Aetna Life Insur- ance Co, wag struck and fatally injured at Fourth ave. and Pike st,, Saturday morning, by a motor truck driven by Thorwalt Thompson, 69, of 2006 Ingerwoll pl, Bidlake died at the etly hospital at 11:15 a, m, Thompron was held by the police following the accl til a thoro investigation is made by the coroner, Thompson declared that he was driving south on Fourth ave, and as he approached Pike st, hix clutch stuck. He naw two pedestrians, and instead of blowing his horn shouted at them, One of the men escaped injury, but Bidlake was hit, strik- ing the pavement with the back of his head, fracturing his skull, He died before regulning consciousness, ‘The accident was witnessed by a large crowd of pedestrians and mo. torists, ‘Thompson was arrested by Patrolman V. Allemeesch. Bidiake was married WASHINGTON, | wheat stocks in coun lelevatora on March 1 Are estimated to be 91,416,000 bushels as pared with 75,070,000 a year ago, the department of agriculture an March 17. mills and the country, | the | ~| “Phin iun't a mere figure of apeech, com: | 8 EATTLE, W ASH., t Beattie, Wash, under the Act of Congress March #, 1 The Seattle Star Per Tear, by Mail, 11.69 SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1923. * TWO CENTS a IN SEATTLE, BOLD THEFT RAID FAILS! ‘Station Agent Hide: Rubbish and Th A desperate attempt to “rob Prairie, where an $18,000 pay: |trated Saturday morning and Tho three men, Paul Riple, 37, St. | jcorge hotel, Seattle; Floyd Jorgen: | #0n, also of the St. George hotel, | and Jerry Pennings, 20, of 47th ave. 8. W., were seriously wounded in the gun battle during the attempted holdup and flight. They are held in county jail | of mind of F. F. ent at South Prairie who took the $18,000 from the and hid {t in @ pile of rubbish when | safe | holdup. Prompt action of Deputy Sheriff Tom Smith, of Enumclaw, in organ. izing a posse and patch of woods two miles north of Enumclaw, effected the capture of the third member of the trio, who had dashed for the’ woods, following the surrender and abandonment of the bandit car, ‘The attempted holdup was carefully planned, and carried out with desperation and a reck- leas disregard for life. In true Wild West style, the three men appeared at the South Prairie station while the pay train was on the siding, ready to depart with the pay roll for the mine, where the workers were to be | paid. Opening fire from rifles and revolvers as they appeared, | the bandits made a rush for the depot, where the money wag in the safe, Station Agent Goin heard shooting and hid the money. bandits fied after searching building and the express car, By phone, posses were organized at Buckley, near South Prairie, and an the bandit car careened thru tho} town, the powe, in four other cars, | started in pursult, The nearest pursuing car kep! a continual fire upon the fleeing bandits. The bandits took a route that would have taken them thru Enum: clay ck Diamond, Franklin, Is-| #aquah to Cedar Falls, where they |would have taken the afternoon| | Milwaukeo yrossenger train, had | their plans succeeded the The the Two miles northwest of Enum- claw the bandit ear drew up at The Rainier Garden club and the Seattle Rose society presented the Columbia City branch Ubrary with 100 rose bushes Friday, as part of the program to make Seattle the flower city of America. The gift was lube Mb by J. L. Jennings, librarian, |and way presented by Mra, HA. rdner, chairman of the Rainler rden club. s $18,000 Payroll in} warts Attempt of Armed Men at Robbery; Bandits Are Captured After Wild Chase by Posse the express station at South roll was deposited, was frus- the three bandits were cap- tured near Enumclaw after a wild chase in which scores of shots were fired by the pursuers and pursued. the roadside, Two of the ban- dits, both wounded, surrendered, while the third made a dash for the woods. The patch of wood about a mile square, was quick ly surrounded oy possemen and half an hour later, while Sher- iff Matt Starwieh an hounds were nearing the place, & posseman spled the third ban- dit, a» he attempted to leave cover, and shot him in the shoul der, Tho car used by the bandits was stolen from Conrad Johnson, 1612 Summit ave., Seattle, Friday night. surrounding a|~—— ARMED BANDITS. HOLD UP CAMP Rob Loggers and Millmen at Snoqualmie Falls Two masked and ‘giana held up 12 men in the bunk house of the Snoqualmie Falls lumber mil! Friday night, obtaining $8 cash and| |two gold watches, Deputy Sheriffs Tom Morgan and Frank Anderson answered the call Friday night and spent the night working on the cane, Earlier the bandits held up the logging camp near the mill and ob- tained about $150 and a watch. Deputies Morgan and Anderson learned that the two escaped toward Everett In an automobile after com= ploting the holdups. During the holdup at the mill, one of the bandits accidentally discharged | his gun while removing « watch from & victim. The bullet passed within &@ few inches of the man’s head. Both bandits appeared extremely nervous, Second Oil Stock Man Arrested Here Charged with using the malin to defraud, In a telegraphic warrant received from Portland, John O'Con- nor, of Seattle, was arrested Satur morning by United States Depu ty Marshal Joe Knizek O'Conner is said to have been as. sociated with L. C. Bigelow, presi- dent of the Sixty-Six Oll Syndicate, who was arrested late Friday after- noon. O'Connor was released on deposit of $2,500 before United States Com- missioner A. C. Bowman and will return to Portland to answer to the charges. In the belief that charitably dis. posed Seattle citizens are being mulcted out of hundreds of dollars a day by an organized band of impow- tors, Rev. H, I. Chatterton, executive secretary of the Federation of Churches, has instituted a sweeping investigation of the begging system in Seattle, “Many really worthy unfortunates are being cheated out of assintance that they really deserve because of these Impostors," Chatterton declared Saturday. ‘That is the only reason why the federation iv interested in the problem, The ordinary confi dence game In outside our y.rovinee, but here Isa case where there i ac. tual suffering because of the over: credulity of the public. “phere are, of coruse, many unfor: tunates who are entitled to public support, But these, as a rule, are unwilling to parade thelr troubles be- fore the world, and so they suffer in silence, while cold impontory reap the benefits that are rightfully theirs, because, you see, the n who be lieves Jn ‘direct charity’ naturally doesn't contribute as much to the in. atitutions that eare for the needy poor, So It's really @ case of preying nounced today, upon the poor,’ Seattle ‘‘Beggar Trust’’ Is Under Investigation Federation of Churches Goes After Impostors Preying on Public Chatterton, operation who Is working in co- with the Social Welfare league and the welfare department of the city, han already unearthed ata- tistics which demonstrate that th average professional beggar in Seat- te is actually in much better clroum stances than many of the charitable, but over-trusting, people who give them money, ‘These beggars, he has found, scorn to accept aswintance from the Insti. tutions to which they might apply, because they can “make” too much plying thelr trade, Many Seattle degmars, investigators’ reports show, net from $19 to $20 a day, and in some casos even more, ‘The boggars seem to have an or. fanization that iv ax emooth-fune- tioning ax many big business con. cerns, Just like Victor Hugo's fa: mous beggar of Notre Dame, the bogrars of Seattle have their own personal “stands,” and it is gener: Ally understood that no “poaching Is permitted, Many of the beggars tive together and have a regular, even tho informal, nuclety of their own. Chatterton le making his investiga tion with a view to placing the re. sults before the congregations of the churches belonging to the federation, bandits! BOOST BREAD PRICES HERE NEXT MONDAY Advancing Costs} of Production i prices are to be advanced in day B Beattie {fective jtail prices of bread manufactured by the Washington Bakerles, Inc., which |supplies half or more of the total jconsumption in Seattle, will be as | follows One-p One 16 uund loaves, and nts, 4 price was One-pound loaves, 9 Two-pound loaves, 1 ‘The ad |hy the agent, nd tand 10 cents. one-half pound loaves, cents, akin) many'e Pp make le price with cor vanced the wholesale price | retail. prices quoted in the foregoing Jare those the company’s publicity Jagent said had been suggested by | the concern to govern in the retail trade, It does not attempt, the company’s spokesman auld, to dic- tate retail price but tho “sug: Bested” ‘cunnot be cut under to any great extent by the retailers, if the latter expect to reulize a margin. Advancing costs of production are Jeiven ax the reason for the boost | Flour, it’ was said by the publictty jagent, has advanced 15 per cent; |wugar, since February 1, has aky focketed from $6.90 to $9.60, an in crease of $2.70 per 100 pounds, Lard ta up 20 per cent and milk has been advanced from 10 to 30 per \Police Puzzled mn Murder of Model NE YORK, March 17.—Forty- eight hours after I pthy Kine, j beautiful artists’ model, was mur dered in her luxurious apartment the police knew that she was slain by chloroform—and nothing more. One man is under arrest in con- nection with the case on a techni. cal charge of possessing firearms. He is Albert FE. Guimares, a close friend of the murdered girl. His lawyers have obtained a habeas corpus writ which will be argued today, The theory that the girl was mur dered for her jewels ts only one of many upon which police are work- ing. Tombs Earlier Than Egypt’s Discovered STOCKHOLM, March 17.—Re- mains of a very ancient civilization, much older than the Egyptians, have been found on the Kola peninsula, in Lapland, between the Arctic ocean and the White sea, This announcement was made to- day in @ dispatch from Petrograd, which said a Russian expedition, led Professor Bartsenko, had just’ re- turned with news of the discovery. Pyramid-shaped tombs were found and there were traces of dwellings and temples erected long before the days of Tutankhamen, Bishop Burke Dies in St. Joseph, Mo, ST, JOSEPH, Mo., March 3ishop’ Maurice ¥, Burke, the St. Joseph diocese of the Cath. ole church, died here early today. Bishop Burke was the oldest bishop. in the United {Sates in point of service, He was 78 old, Death was due to A LIGHT ROADSTER Perhaps you have been want ing 4 car for a long timo and think it f# imponsiite by you haven't enough mone terms that are offered on auto. mobiles in Star Want Ad Col- umns will tell you a different story, DODGH ROADS |] driven @ month Tots of extras; ONLY, Juat Hike news cord tires: ab= Kolutely ax good in every way an nh new oar, Total price, $675, Can arrange terms, This ie advertised today in the WANT AD COLUMNS, seo who is offering this bargain, Given as Reason} by Publicity Man that time, the new re- | sene Is Used BY BOB BERMANN taring him in the face. The dead are: Mrs. Cleopatra Karas, Bakery, 2803 Hewitt ave. Alexander Kara: -year-old daughter, Gust Karas, brother of Mrs. George Karjos, Mrs. Karas’ The fire spread so rapidly that Mrs, Karas’ two children, who were wicoping in the next room, were suf-| focated to death by the smoke be- fore neighbors or firemen could res-| cue them. Karjos was occupying a room in the bakery building, directly adjacent to the home, at the time of the fire, He was appar- ently awakened by the blaze, but was so excited that he could not make himself understood when neighbors asked him whether anyone was in the burning build- ing. Later, he collapsed and was taken |to the Providence hospital for treat- |ment. After being interrogated by Prosecuting Attorney C. T, Roscoe, he was removed to the jail. ‘Three distinct theories ax to the motive behind the crime are enter- tained by the local authorities, The first one-which Prosecutor Roscoe Is inclined to think the most tenable—is that the four were put to death by a self-appointed execution: er, who was thus carrying out the stern and ancient tribal custom of early Greece, which demands swift and terrible punishment for anyone who violates the strict moral code set down by their forefathers, According to Prosecutor Roscoe, tho Greek people believe they have a right to exercise summary justice upon any person who dishonors any woman relative, and Roscoe is fol- lowing up gossip which links the name of Mrs. Karas with her dead husband’s brother, “What would you do if you found that a sister of yours had been dis. honored by a man?” Prosecutor Ros- coo asked a member of the local reek colony, this morning. “T would kill the man," was the unhealtating response, It was immediately after this that the dead woman's brother was put under surveillance, An entirely different theory is entertained by Coroner Charles Fickel, He believes that the murders were the result of a vendetta, brought to this coun- try all the way from Greece, Someone, he believes, has sworn to wipe out the whole Karas family, and the four mur- dered people were the innocent victims of a feud that was no more than a legend to them, Stil a third theory is being fol- lowed up by Otto Nicholson, Chet Dailey and Earl Shaver, of the Ever- ett detective department, who are in- clined to ascribe the quadruple kill: ing to @ falling out among bootleg- gers, Strength Is given this theory by the fact that Mrs, Karas’ husband, Peter Karas, was mur: dered last summer, supposedly by severat members of a band of moonshiners, His body, rid- dled with five bullets, was found near the Mukilteo road on July 27 of Inst year; and every effort to fix responsibility for the crime has been futile, The detectives are inclined to be- Move that Mrs, Karas and her brother-indaw had unearthed some evidence which might lead to the arrest of the murdorer, and were put | out of the way in an effort to close | their mouths, } ‘That Mrs, Karaw still had somo }conneotion with the rum ring at the timo of her death was Indicated by the presence of a quantity of moon shine in the burned home, Karas’ dead husband. 19-year-old brother, is in the city jail pending investigation, Mrs. Karas and her brother-in-law were beaten to death with an ax or a hammer as they lay in bed in the shanty which they occupied in the rear of the bakery, The murderer then saturated the bed with J kerosene and set fire to it, in an attempt to cover up his crime. The entire Greek colony in Ever- ett is in a state of excitement as a result of the tragedy. Those among the colony who believe that the mur- ders were merely an unofficial exe- cution of primitive justice are in clined to sympathize with the dead woman's young bother, Others are staunchly defending Mrs, Karas’ character. A third child of Mrs, Karas’ escaped the fate which met her brother and sister by reason of the fact that she was in Seattle at the time, visiting an aunt. This child is the eldest, Amalia, aged 5, Mrs. Karas, who was one of the belles of the local Greek colony, was a strikingly beauti- ful young woman, and had many suitors before she was won by Karas, For this reason, some are inclined to lay the crime at the door of a jealous lover who believed that Gust Karas was usurping his dead brother's place. The fire was discovered at about 230 a. m. At first it was thought that it was Just an ordinary blaze, but subsequent investigation discios- ed the fact that oll-saturated rags had been thrown under the bed where Mrs, Karas’ body was found with her brother-in-law's. Both Mrs. Karas’ and Karas’ heads were found to have been, terribly mutilated, but there were no marks of violence upon either of the dead children, Little Polly was dead in hee crib, in the room adjoining the room where her mother was mur- dered. Her brother, Alexander, who had been sleeping in a cot next to her crib, was evidently awakened by the flames and made a pitiful futile attempt to escape, His body was found un- derneath his cot, where he had crawled in an effort to escape from the suffocating smoke, Mrs. Karas and her brother were born and educated in this country, Her husband and brother-in-law, however, were both natives of Greece, No date has been set, as yet, for the coroner's inquest, Husband Acquitted of Murdering Wife SAN FRANCISCO, March 17. — Henry Wiikens was home with his motherless children today—tree from charges of having murdered his wife. After the Jury had been out more than 24 hours a verdict acquitting Wilkens was returned late yester- day. Wilkens was alleged to have con: aspired with Arthur and Walter Cas- tor to stage a “holdup,” in which Mra, Wilkens was shot to death, On his first trial the Jury disagreed, $200,000 Damage Caused by Flames PORTLAND, Ore, March 17.—-A spectacular fire which invaded the downtown section here last night to gut the Alder hotel and several small retail stores, caused damage esti: mated thin mopning at $200,000, More than 100 guests were forced to flee from the hotel with most of their personal possessions a total lows. Soveral firemen wore slightly injured bettling the blage, HOUSE S BURNED Boy Is Held as Material Witness in Amazing Crime tery; Mother, Two Children and Brother-in-Law / | Victims of Quadruple Death and Arson Plot; EVERETT, March 17.—One of the most amazing mysteries in criminal annils of the state was opened up here today with perpetration of a quadruple murder and arson plot. As the result of a weirdly tangled chain of circumstances, fo |persons are dead, a home is in ruins and a young boy is being hi “a nhowneed lag a material witness, with the possibility of murder charg 28, proprietress of the Home| REPORT 15 D her 4-year-old son, and Polly Karas, her IN WIND STOR Death Toll in in Cyclone Is | Is G Fass SAVAGE, Miss, 3 March 11, teen persons were reported ded scores are homeless, folio clone which tore across Mississippi Thursday night. A dozen persons were seriou Jared, and probably a ‘score in tion were battered, when the | ripped up trees and tossed about. Some houses, with their. cupants in night attire, were d ed in Cold Water river by the st Communications in the storm had not been reestablished today, The gale struck four ne towns, causing heavy property uae. ' Savage residents, their wrecked twice in seven weeks, t set abcut restoring the village. Cross organizations from sur ing cities rushed food, clothin other supplies to the homeless | who have taken up temporary q ters in box cars and other spo! A. B. Thompson, railroad § agent, was the only person in village last night whose home wa habitable. “He lived over the station, half of which was away. Lenin’s Doctors Call in Spe COPENHAGEN, March 1% clalist, has been summoned to Mos< cow by telegraph to examine an possibly attend Premier} Lenin. The summons came Drs. Foerster and Mikivski. cee MOSCOW, March 17 Nikola! Lenin's condition 1s impre according to an announcement today Pby the official Rosta News a His paralysis appears to be ing off, It is possible for move his hand and his more clear, For the first ig able to move the foot which wi affected. His general con favorable. Pulse and temp are normal, Girl Is Killed in School Exy BRAWLEY, Cal. Mare! vestigation was under way the explosion in the Brawley U1 high school late yesterday, which one girl student her life, slightly. jured a score of others and Wi the building, Hallie Smith, 18, daughter Imperial valley rancher, was Ki when she was thrown against by the force of the explosion, suft ing concussion of the brain. The plosion was caused by a gasoline plant, used to furnish gas for ranges of the domestic science partment. 1s 27 Spoons Remo From Man’s Stomael PARSONS, Kan, Mareh 1 James Malgrene, patient at the sts epileptic hospital here, was bell near death today, because 27 te spoong were removed from his sto ach, Malgrene, a former Methodist min ister in Kansag City, Kan., was in ex cellent phystoal health until hawpt attendants discovered him top off a meal with a silver spoon ordered an operation, Dr. B.S. MeGiunis, whe peeforn the operation, found 27 teaspoons bundle of wooden sticks and a fomn dn the man's stomach, . si