The Seattle Star Newspaper, June 23, 1923, Page 1

-RUM RUNNER IS SLAIN | AMAZING CHARGES IN MERCER ISLAND KILLING! na € Eptered as Se Matter May 3, 189% at ¢ patottice at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress Maich 2, Last 21 Hours Mini 63. Maximum, 64 Today noon, . by Mal The Seattle Star |: \ are HARDING IS. (dtuz7 treads INVADED BY DRY AGENTS Seals on Baltic’s Wet Stores Are 3roken; Booze Supply Taken Howdy, folks! Hooray for wine, women and canary birds! The 104 jd queen of the Vashon island strawberry festival al ways eats strawberries to keep that} CHEERED “4 aie ce uy at gute, sbactely ‘President Vis its| to enter the Ziegfeld chorus Harvest Fields Before Address on Agriculture | ._— HERE'S HOW! Strawberries are only an ex cuse for grown-up men to eat cream : | Other guy rtichokes. If ay dent Thy ea them, BY L. C. MARTIN | NEW YORK, June 23—The seals they, can em in their button-| WITH PRESIDENT HARDING. | of the British government habe HINSON, Kan. June } ' men ewe The American farmer, most of th Baltie's “OSG Oak ape pe for eroom we ken today gn eel samedi at ame kere to as ‘ ha ie by “8 : sident Hardin ct ted va administration pip ala bout the ult prob ts an some thrifty sident and Mrs, Harding ful per got mall boys to retrieve balls and sell them back ests on the salad hazard *. SECOND COURSE reached Hutchinson greatly | refreshed by a night's rest after their! strenuous Kansas City day, Tho the] and made John Baltic on Captain . listed as surplus | fie a formal demand als boar sun was hot, there was a strong toberts ordered One rule for eating butter balls. | breeze, and the air lacked tho op Captain Roberts ordered his Gents with mustaches must use | pres: . r ri bh chief steward A. T. Hattrick to show | 2 niblicl nr dit ermresn Ai at a oecered | the agents to the. liquor. i \ | earlier. *, aoe c Ca pf ity us: hy sivas will be in attendance to | M S 4 4 le rep galaings. 6 pols in, te sunburn was 1 removing the 6,000 bottles of beer, ‘ ‘ sa wre tune tobe Staaten oes wing and liquors to the dock, where nine ; vor Beye 5: a i gp hg ene he a Decale dy Canfield and his men awaited it with cocktail fork. The backspin sot is|terday. Mrs. Harding wore # light ¥ rgbym © trois’ THe Beuer “ n approaching the | 84! dress.and.a biue hat, and Gili" tel ead to ihe arniy hemeat carried « smell fan, which she ¥ crowd. sing ding sald: ved a pending disposition of the to the Washington. Addr consid- school children, Mr No pea Is He topped i} Oe fternoon. eee “It is not enough in this country : . i R sight iquor were “in. thé THIRD COURSE have citizenship. We must have} Frank W. Hull assumed a large responsibil Friday nae atch taken” tr hold No man is old until he quits ained cit and that’s we| night, when he accepted leadership of the $1,000,000 bond oa Prohibition Director Ca flipping the string beans off his in school for you, waiver drive for the Community hotel. Hull has a knack of feta New York and several of — eters (tom tenael Pare, Column 5 putting things over and Seattle folks hope he will win in, Ms * ‘igi ths oa Saasad this big assignment. 7 , “ . Rule third: When eating with a ¢ , in m trucks preparatory to knife keep the head down. Follow | Saturday — morning's Jat 705 White building and moval to & governs ware iru on your stroke. Always tee up brought in returns and 1 fzation of the 400 examen w put House pending final action in the your own peas—don't jeave it to the fusals, The total was $60,000, (over the first bond drive will be ef. | " caddy. including 11 subseriptio of [fected Tueeday noon with each man 1,004 les of wine, beer oars | LS HIMS $1,000 and over, Two w assigned to the’ customers t4| "nd Ky had been removed, T When beginning dinner always ask d refused to wal 1 he sold bonds: W. Little, surve { the Port of the hostess whether you are playing i abs tgugo. . security, To date owners of $1.629,700 in iasued onder that not winter or summer rules. If it’s win- i they saw the mutter in a dif- | bonds have signified their readiness of the liquer still on ter rules, you're permitted to teo up| Former. President of Local) ferent light, and agreed to the to accept second mortgage bonds on hould t 4 yunul yur pea on any part of the course. | H H i plan outlined by the directors. the larger total contemplated in the a ul of Dr, F eas Gest Firm Dies in Portland The encouragizg feature of the | place of the first mortgage they hold |of the public health service, One thing, tho, don't buy any of — drive now ix that both lar 1 jon the amaller proponition, Frank) Dr. Sprague, it is understood, is these practice peas. They've got too} PORTLAND, Ore., June Wil small investors e viewing the Waterhouse, president of the hotel to determ whether the entire much bounce. {bur M. Campbell, 41, patient a proposition from a community company, announced, stock of liquor ta to be classed as Abad local sanitartum, was found dead| standpoint and seem determined | Thero hax been little difficulty in| "Medicinal" and therefore legal | When cating soup, please remem-|in bis room today, hanging from a| {to put the move over. ‘ obtaining consent.from the bondholki-; Before the customs officials were ber, the rulea of water polo are iniwater pipe on the end of a bath se ry ora, but the difficulty has been in led to the liquer room, Capt. Rob- force. ohe *60td. nk W. Holl will be fa charge of impressing on them the need for ¢rs handed thom a formal (protest 2 ee | Nothing ts known of the man’s) headquarters for the drive to obtain | arly action, Waterhouse said, The | from the ship owners, copy of Our hostess considered putting ina | family, altho sanitarium employes! waivers on $1,000,000 worth of Com-| drive next week ig to obtain the an. | the protest will be dispatched to the spring-board for the soup course. h admitted having at- munity Hotel bonds whose owners | sWers of all bondholders on the ques- | British government. cies tempted suicide by jumping -into| have not yet communicated with the | ton in order that the consent of 75) The protest s od that the liquor She'd have done it, but she heard ckceand hotel officials in response to the re-| per cent may be obtained quickly and | was designed for use of the passen: | of a guest who once hurt himself) 41, ¢ormerly tived in Seattle quest for waivers on first mortgage |the contract for the larger building | gers outside the threemile limit on when he hit f1 voyuge ¢ 1 the Bond holders who refuse to accep sig bone Plans for z see the drive were outlined npbell is said to Tiave attempted Beet 1 gute Se eae tacaat ide attempted | Friday evening at a meeting of team | second mortgage bonds will ct from a wharf into Elliott bay, He | captams of the original drive and of- | their original bonds and no attempt soe nacued by ten of the harbor | ficers of the hotel corporation in the| will be made to coerce them Into con- hele ald | patrol and later resuscitated, Ho was | Rainier club, Offices for the walver | sent, the officers of the company discourse on food, and so to writing it! formerly president of the Whiton | °ampalgn will be opened immediate agreed ‘ j ee tl co pe ne Hardware Co., in this clty. Girautls Atove ext Vi ti R l He Waiters rare stopped 7 wonton ope’ | ictims meved orrors WINNIPEG, Many June 23— Hieemen, armed with sawed-off shotgun: Manitoba i Nig b discard | who did cast ws into jail when we did Di t t S lt prohibition after seven years o! otest mgainst ‘their high-handed action, + i 30 canara ne’ Beech ee of Disaster at Smelter “coc the best jails ever I slept in, but Ror | Returns from yesterday's election did protest against some of the Insecta show t that a plan for govern therein. And so to home, another “i P 4 : panes i ous. the Y gone, thank heaven, : One Man Dead, nother “May Not Recover, | ment. sule of tiquer thruow provinee, including Winnlp: Of course, there Js some ae let Now ‘Up ‘to Ten for From Explosion in Tacoma adopted by a majority. estimated at @ lot of diners who continually dub} 000, their spoon shots—their vests act as Past Two Months BY STEVE ARNETY in the air ay the men clambered| Returns from the province as a signboards for each menu. One man is dead, another may about the reverberatory, little know-| whole we Wet, $1,628; dry, 49 pg nies Making a total of 10 safes, stolen never recover his eyesight and three jing that in the twinkling an | 958 . Sa ory —-#}in the lust few months, burglars) more we hideous burns|eye they would be hurled from| Government sule of lig ex | And there's the girl whe is #0 | | forced an entrance to the Pigsly Wig-|in Tacoma hospitals Saturday as| thei positions by one of the most) pected to start as soon the legis. |} doggoié proper that she won't tore N». 5 at Broadway and Roy |the result of an explosion in the|tragic explosions that has ever laturescan be summoned to confirm eee eee ne Pew rly Saturday morning and car-| yeyerheratory furnace room of the}occurred at the smelter the referendum | | ried off a 600-pound safe, containing |pycoma smelter Thursday after The men. were taken: unaware Officers of the Moderation league, Ps ™ | $200. noon, which partially wrecked the|and any escape from the flames ba . of the Se eainea sale 1 + I. Ft Stewart, manager of the|structure and turned the place into|that shot in all directions was im.| PIM, che Fee a aie ane She was satisfied, tho, when the! 0. discovered the robbery when le|what witnesses declared Friday’ to| possible, ‘Tho: explosion way of| Were mal-administered and that the hostess brought in dehorners for the . | : Bi vec! lawa themselves were unjust Theo | opened the store at 7:45 a, m. Satur-|be a veritable inferno. — sufficient force, declared witnesse bd RCERE aRean. cieht eo ea jday. The safe had been wheeled) Charles O. Harry, 64, foreman) Friday, to lift the hea masonry 1 saree eet deye hak HORN. Wren! BaIA ross the sidewalk and loaded into|in charge and an employe of the|roof bodily from the walls.and drop | "" sighs allt opehaldine or the ‘This girl waa old-fashioned, In the|an auto and carried off. |plant for the past years, died |{t jnto the molten motal and cooling | I) We Teissell, nkew til of | tt demi-tasse course she refused a cigar! gmail boys, playing on the Lake|at St, Joseph's hospital. Frid copper. bold ok ee ap alan preva ang tuck to cigarets.. | wi shington bivd, discovered the William Liden, a workman, is} Reverberatory furnaces are built Hepes with the aspirations of the |safe, battered and broken, noon |plind and physicians doubt that hej of specica! brick and the wall Moderation “Leukue GNA purer .wd| But, then, she was af ld if she} gaturday. They reported It to the wit ever seo aguin. He 1s alsojeight inchey thick. The roof is of lal family and community life than eae cigars she might get hay | police. suffering ne «© burns. atehed masonry supported only | ven epuld have existed under pro: The Piggly Wiggly company was | pyr Q robbed two weeks ago in a similar | gyp; wD TO RE furnace manner, The previous robbery wis) car) Jotingon, William Jensen and|a capa committed on another branch storé|. y ‘“wholan, all furnace bt. molten.” GOR nt Beacon and 14th ave. 8. eriously burned but ore is smelted In the His Story Is on Page 13 Today RNAC mber of the plant has hundred ton Concentrated furnace ond wary usually in 90 days. posts is ale} extent, em molten The cha Tacoma several | from the sides. at th y of TUK HEIGHT OF AFFLU A hog in Bastern Washington was recently sold for $1,500. A chicken on Vashon island brought $890. How would you like te have a plate of ham and eggs from those critters? Of course the real height of affiu- ence is a porterhouse steak from Man o War hibition." he results ports so far disappointing, confidence value ‘of the bition,” declared W of the prohibition “Where it has 18] enfor it has Wy able value to the in Manitoba it has erento eemdl: | tions at least 50 per cent better than they were before 1914." tod by res xtremely but in no way affect in the validity ond prineiple of prohi R. Wood, head force been adequately n of Unquestion community, and indies received EB men, ave were according the Details of the vealed Friday recovered from The men | cover, the re: | destroys The ways the present to ne working lly when the ab furnace the dusk that al- drained off, ways pervades the room, Gas The furnace wak declared to be the converter and blast fur-|unsafe for further use Thursday sulphureous and choking floa-| (Turn to Last Page, Column 1) in avout the | pec ore | being from ASS, ae S, Seizes British. Liquor WILL SOMEBODY ASK ) SOMEBODY ASK A FAIRY PRINCE TO LOOK FOR MRS. HOPE? V ILL t How iry prince find Mrs. Ww fairies find h that entered her in the following letter The Star “Dear Mra. Hope. jew like th Orleans, w Th received by Introducing I toe m of fais little girl from Ni picture was in Tuesday evening husband is in a dark mi Friends 4 “My pris on and since ov ur rriage tos li-to-do-parents’ dead. bet At ry there. when the fairies bring Je baby #bn, it will win the My future seems 0 1am giac coming f 1 were great bar big wouldn't go hu “Perla our lit « and mn about the cuore” J Fy “> MORE PERISH IN SIZZLING HEAT; ‘Temperatures in East and Mid-West Going Up CHICAGO, June lowing prostrations rownings comprised the last 24 hours of the heat wave here: Temperatures continued in the '90'e Two deaths an four i KANSAS © it in the} est | innocent BAILEY GUILTY "Accused ‘Rancher Says Ex-Deputy Slew Smith and Shifted Blame By John W. Nelson | One of the most auto suggestion o: in the crimt amazing cases of | partial hypnotism he West | al annals of was rr urday when A. J.j Boos, Mercer island rancher, com pleted a statement in which he cused A. M. Bailey, also of Mercer island, of the brutal murder on May 12 of J sm: J Baile is a former deput Boos has been in the punty nee the afternoon of the murder, awaiting trial for the crime bwing Boos’ statement, a lcharge of firet degree murder was | filed against Bailey by Prosecuting C. Dalton’s court, | authorities CHARGE POSSE SEEKS TRIO Seattle Man Shot — Down at Stan- wood When He Resists Holdups Shot twice thru the body by one of a trio of “knock-over” men Saturday moruing at Ut salady, near Stanwood, dames DePalmer, an alleged booze-run- ner, who is believed to be @ resident of Seattle, died xt Stanwood at a. mm, James Craft, who was with De time of the shoot ing, is held by Island county authorities, whi sheriffs of Northeastern \Washington are searching for the men responsible for the shooting. According to the story told the by Craft, he and De-~ Palmer at the Boos in a sworn confession alleges | Palmer had just unloaded a cargo = Ieee y Malcolm Douglas in Justice | that Attorney Horace H. Guth con. feed with Bajley to place the re-leq at Utsalady from Canada, De- + sponsibility of the erime on Boos. | PREACHER OVER! ARD | WIFE CONVERS 10N Tho incident whith led to the confession of Boos implicating Bail- occurred Friday when Rev. Mark Matthews, pastor of the First F byterian chureh, overheard Mrs. | Boos protest that her husband was and was being victimized temperatures of the by his alleged friend, Bailey. in sections of the Sou Matthews obtained a statement Weather bureau officials raw little! ¢rom the woman and took her to ¢lief in sight before Monday. The| the prosecutlr torney, where a0 " ed 90 here in the curly s immediately made The tem an climbing with the ris un today and n Ohio red for ar r sizzier, Yester lay. was tho hottest June day here DETROIT. Only tempo: rary relief from the extreme heat re- sulted from the two hours’ rain here late yesterday. A temperature of 82} jegrees was registered at 8 o'clock | this morning, with prospects for rec: ord heat in the afternoon, 8T. PAUL, June 23.—Heavy rain early today brought an end to the heat Wave that has claimed five lives in the Twin Cities in the last week Severe wind accompanied the down- pour west of here. | Small’ buildings were damaged and telephone wires jbroken down in the vicinity of Ex. | celsior. |Find Woman’s Body Floating in Lake PORTLAND, June 23.—Idenified late yesterday as Drs. D, O. Chase, of this city, the body of the found floating in Laurelhurst lake was being prepared for woman Park buriat | today dD. Tv. as that of his admitted, but for Ch identified the body mother, Suicide w: Chase could give no woman taking her the reason life How It Was Done Any Old Pole Got 4-Pound Trout Expensive Tackle BY JOHN W. } Fishing! I remember a score of years a bamboo pole 16 feet long and fished from the bridges in the went up the valley A grasshoppe And those pole struck and—splash salling thru the air, tow fish! Man! On one he described A litte oy and snelis and baits . And my waders must be my split bamboo rod and gave it It's a bit more complicnted now, an elaborate camp, Cut pine oing Fishing! line tied on the end of the polo, 1 mile or two. , Spitted on the hook, I dropped the hopper into a gently swirling pool, mountain trout is a right healthy fish, I'm going fishing again tonight, Then to the sporting goods store to get fly hooks and 1 canned baits, fresh baits, replaced, boughs and ereet a tent. investigation Deputy Prosecutor Ewing D. Colvin visited Boos in his cell in the coun- ty Jai! and obtained a complete statement. ' According to Boos’ story, he was working in the garden on, the after- noon of May 12 when he heard a shot. He rushed into che house nd found Bailey sitting astride of Smith, choking him. He attempted to aid Smith, but Bailey arose and struck him dyer the head with al | revolver, knocking him down. | As Boos arose, Bailey covered him| with the gun and threatened his | life unless Boos assumed respon- sibility for the/ crime and confessed | that he had/ kitled him in self! defense. .D KIND OF STORY TO RECITE Standing over the body of the man | he had just murdered, according to the Boos story, Bailey repeated time and again the story that Boos was} |to tell the authorities, under penalty | | of death. | jing to put the whisky of liquer from a boat that had land- Palmer's car was standing a few yards away and they were pi in it when three men accosted them and With drawn guns ordered them to throw 7 up their hands. REFUSED TO THROW UP HIS HANDS Craft said that he dropped the whisky he was carrying and raised his hands, but DePalmer, not understanding the command or wilfully disregarding it, refused to ~ comply. One of the men, Craft said, then shot DePalmer twice, one bullet go- ing thru the man’s hip and the other thru his abdomen. : Immediately after the shooting, Craft declares, the three men jumped into DePalmer’s automo- bile and drove away. Craft them went for aid but internal hemor ages caused DePalmer’s death be- ~ fore medical attention could be given him, Authorities were called and Craft | was placed under arrest, while Dr, H. A. Carskadden, coroner of jIsland county, was called to take |charge of DePalmer’s body, 3 Craft told Sheriff W. F. Gookins jthat he had come to Utsalady Fri- jday night with DePalmer, not | was. TRIO APPEARS WHEN RUM IS -UNLOADED They had met a boat at the beach land had unloaded the Canadian whisky when the three unidentified — | Briefly, this story was that Smith|™en appeared on the scene. had attacked him (Boos), knocked | No trace of the boat in which the = him down and fired twice him booze had been brought could be with an automatic shotgun} when he | found’ Saturday. Craft said he grappled with Smith, wrested the/ knew nothing of it or its owner gun from him and killed him, }It. disappeared when the “knock Puring the six weeks that have| over” men accosted them, Craft” intervened since | himself to Sheriff Matt Starwich, | Colvin has been working on the the- lory that Bailey also had been con- nected with the crime. { The Boos story, according to Col- vin, clears up many angles of the} | (Turn to Last Page, Column 4) in Our Kid Days Now—Minnows! NELS go I used to go fishing, T had a We nat times, but for good fishing we | The hook was tied to the string. was the bait. particular ds mast-like Shap, the trout | rainbow are at the end of my line, fouf pounds, and four pounds of With my Virst, ther the lcense to get. lors and lines and flyhooks by the and last night T wrapped coat of shellac We'll drive about 75 miles and make Then curly tomorrow We'll walk for several miles, climbing mountains, thru gorges and avornd fallen timber fish, seeking out tho likely try different flies and lures, return with three little minnows four ounces Oht for those bamboo dayst And then we'll fish looking holes, and at All day long wil we and we'll seatter bart and night, tired and hungry, we'll that all together will welgh about Boos surrendered | § | point | was aid. “The men did not represent theme | selves as officers,” Craft is said to” |have told Sheriff Gookins. “They just ordered us to throw up out” a and then sine when De_ r did not do so.” Descriptions of De mobile Palmer's auto: were being sent to every” in the western part of the” ate Saturd: It is believed tha that the men will abandon the can King Albert Thrown by Horse, Is Injured BRUSSELS, June King Ak bert of Belgium sustained a broken wrist and lesser injuries when he thrown from his horse at Laeken. LOOK THESE _ OVER TODAY Here are a couple of coupes: that are being offered at bargain prices in today’s Want Ads. The enclosed car is so conify., Look | them ove double Huss uphel= o, and in ovesy. FORD COUPE, 19 Jers and oth t stery Is the latest shows no Wear. O. Ky way mechanically: OLDSMOBILE COUPE, 1922. Thb is a powerful, fine running: ew Tt has had wonderful care, lots of high grade oxtr is priced at $1080 for quiol salo, The Want Ad columns you where these cars demonstrated, |knowing what his friend's mission either