The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 7, 1923, Page 1

y Extra STORRS Judge court ant valu- wa a * Can was WEATHER Showers tonight; fair Sunday. Moderate south to west winds. Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 65. Minimum, 56. Today noon, 69. EL WIFE OF THE WARDE Entered as Beoond Cine Matter May #, 1899, a1 the Pestottion at Reattio, Wash. under the Act of Congress Maich 4, 1879. The Seattle Sta Extra WITH | | tra OPES a Der Tear, by Mail, a9 SE. , WASH,, § ATURDAY, JULY 7, 16 20 23, - TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE 7 WILDER THAN THE PLOT OF A FILM PLAY Howdy, folks! The rain of the past week ought to be splendid lor the watermelons. wr t ca i Li'l Gee ¢ alls her slecping bag | ‘Consider the Amazing Human Drama, the Political Intrigue, the Tug of In- tense Emotions and Base Desires! pany checkered cab; n Seattle has 1 eight That News Story Discloses 4 > ) operate camou: | fre i eee eae. One of the mnost astonishing news stories of the year “breaks” in today’s Star. * # *% Consider the people it involves: _ THE GOVERNOR—Who suppresses the course of Justice in an effort to cover up an administration | scandal. THE “ LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR—Who, for| some motive not yet disclosed, makes the original blunder, the pardoning of — THE CRIMINAL—Who ought not be pardoned, | New Wik York ts Weak, STORY away from TPVAY'S BEDTIME © your cold feet ick.” been Dempsey Prisoner Steals Warden’s Wife STORY LONG ~ SUPPRESSED BY GOV. HA ‘Notorious Prisoner Pardoned on Peti | tion of Both Pace and Wife, After He © Had Served as Trusty, Driving Their Official. Automobile a That Douglas Storrs, former King county dep sheriff, who. was pardoned from the Walla fa |penitentiary on November 14 of last year by Li Gov. William J. Coyle, while serving a term on jcharge of seduction, has eloped with Mrs. John Pace |wife of the warden, was the startling informatio: which came from Walla Walla Saturday. State officials at Olympia refused either to affirm or deny the report, but declared that all information ii the case must come from Pace himself, as he is th party most concerned in the matter. Mrs, Pace, x pve ; i * * af A ye rding to the report. tion. Coyle took up the matter a& r © $259,000 and Gibbons for and who immediately repays society by committin According to the ‘report ton. Covie toole sp the iat from Walla Walla, Mrs. Pace = { ree the worst of double-crossing crimes. i red late in April,| pievious,to that time Coyle aay | NEE tr : 3 ; ‘ | disappeared Jate in April,| made a visit to Walla Walla, where ] { political campaign wit be THE WOMAN—Wife of the penitentiary warden, | leaving word with her hus-| he talked with Storrs, and is said) ¥ peace ame pessimist a figure in one of the strangest “triangles” yet re- band that she had left him te have bad a conference with prison recetv- COrded in all this neurotic post-war period. | for. Storrs. was a climax of a | sPProached him directly on the ia er HER HUSBAND—Who joins in bringing about romance of several months which |'*\.50 & Damon for Storrs andol the criminal’s pardon, and who then is the victim,| started when Storrs was mado a|,,"ypen Covle fasued Storrs! ps a © A BULL MARKET first, of a Judas srading asa friend and s jtrusty at the penitentiary by War-/ 0? & ae ACL irst, of a Judas masquerading as a friend and sup- den Pace and allowed to drive the| 1 ‘ eel Cor- plicant, and, second, of a governmental chief who re-| er eee pa tadte la fuses to permit Justice take her course. Jquainted with Mrs. Pace. Mrs, Pace |#_ Unconditional pardon, K a Eaprctoate cl PER g took a deep interest in the driver and| Storrs, It is said, was one of tha: re is a sup Consider the human emotion: goon started to talk about a pardon} (rusted prisoners at Walla, Wall E ‘ ‘ | Soon after he was sent to pris ef labor availabie AD P ‘ ; ; for him Bee sul asa |Pace placed him in a’ position Judge Elbert ti. ers ee 's BESION thi bial pert erasing tie JINTERCEDES IN | crust “aad Ay/unid tochayercre a an e r. vit me PP Dm ‘sty low to Keep t Quiet eh Lei, TST KG el It is declared that Mrs. Pace usea|!!@d upon the honesty and trustwor How to Keep aiet in | hine: fe ma % WORE Nowe wattle ‘up oc Which led the woman to disgraceful flight. [her influence both with her husband, | (ines of the man. “After some imal Wl make you listen to Senator Lodge| AMBITION, FEAR The motives that made the| the warden, snd, the) pardon, board |) A cent a q ta tthe fo : : sae yl and later with Lieut. Gov, W. J. i i ee ‘* governor suppress the affair, so that his political | Coyle, Finally’ the pardon - board MAN and eve him the most covet es, 90 there! > ‘ . oinmendel ck Storrs, | Job of the penitentiary, that o: iy SMANGUISH, DESPAIR. The unutterable grief and [escrieseded, 5 Perio fr Sac in tit waters s—— See —The unutterable grief an oe rsa cages yrds st 5 |PACE BADLY UPSET LI'L GEE GEE, TH’ OFFICE | . ft b 8 Here's Storrs, whose career has caused widespread sorrow and a political scandal that Petia : vo : rt : " ae to BY TRAGEDY VAMP, SEZ | chagrin which have brought the deserted, double- aa tha ett | Salfornta.. Hart however; took ma. Se; | Piaget tnt (neta circles, let is nor x nS 8 P. oar STR ap B to thyme with “et,” | |erossed husband near to a mental collapse. 4 SNA uae et ee pO See wits Wetag nt con oe ee J , eae | PACE DENIES |traying him has had a serious a . cape sy: | fect upon the warden’s health. *| In the meantime, Ruth Garrison, pitiful young Storrs, Greatest | over ‘BOARD CHOOSES Storrs and the warden's wife ane whieh / woman who poisoned Mrs. Storrs, so that she might x x - , | WIFE IS GON [telleved: tp. Be ty Callie aaa woman his} |e : Lae oe " Dut as far as is kno ’ feat ina strect cara block betore| enjoy to the full the love which the husband had in All Crime History! LOCAL LAWYER [tempts are icing” modo’ to. Mell j he reaches n jurged upon her, daily occupies the prison cell in the ie | —— Panes: RE lBraniity trans Talia Walla | : tee ie | “un; iat? | Pace’s friends say that they Hf all the June brides ir jinsanity ward at Walla Walla. oe ____|Here’s How He Started on Mad Career That , to Hantile Shipping |2S RePort “Dirty Lie” and |,.ce"that ne t too tealy broken Mi ther biscuits together a | Left Wak f Soy eames to Handle Shipping Threatens Suit jover the affair to take any action’ commissioners could | w=) ake Of sorrow Board Cases in. State | jat the present time, alino they sayeu coma high-line road —— _ | eer use: jthat Storrs could probably be held a see SLIPS H E BY JOHN W. NELSON [returns, bringing — what? — peace, ~ | Warden Pace to The Star flatly Itiable under fener statute: 7 President Harding is « i Douglas M. Storrs, a plain ap-|death or prison? The future hold Clarence L. Reames, of Seattie,| denied the report as a “d bsnl eee Alaska to see the d s. But pearing man with a penchant for| the answer has been appointed special counsel |!ie” over the long-distance — tele- : eantece 1 R oiibe AND IS KILLED AT MONTESANO women's hearts, stands forth today| "When Ruth Garrison ist met for the cuted sues mmcime cea hone Saturday “morning, and de|Coyle Says Pardon — a o $ up Sec tho xreate love i8| Storrs she was employed by. the : arcVolared that any paper publishing it isa ave , — state's seta an ee gee in bation iptonnatton : Taee iz in the state of Washington, accord-| would suffer \ W as Urged by Pace 9 ¢ 8 ‘ . : 5 3 t tors ing announcement authorized| He declared that -he sent Mrs,| Lieutenant Governor Coyle, whol |Aged Man Meets Death as Sheriff Says Man Confesses veion the court house, Storrs was all nnouncemen ; : [ ; \ y fe The annu « ition of | hee - One woma dead thru b deputy sheriff with quarters across | by am saturday. He took the| Pace to California in February, and| pardoned Storrs, declared he hat postal emplo pe | He Falls to Ground to Killing Wife love. for tla, mas, cmanidered SRY CHE bulking; crs beer tanta: Manel eaior cere tino Friday before the /@d been In constant *mmunication | acted on the recommendation of fhe! . mer | Janother 1 mad girl who served| moments in which to chat lorie of the district th with her ever since. Asked wheth rden, parole board and the jud men of Janother lovema 4 ‘ : clerk of the district court here. ler: te: faa . i 90, Wwho' es A fali of 10 feet from the roof of, MONTESANO, July 7—Driven tojher fruit vlad sprinkled with} Wire HEARD oF Thea mies CoHivig WeERCMLE Ge Gee in California also, who sentenced him after he @OLE CONDENSED strychnine. This “woman w race | PHI INTIMACY | ) Pace said: Become convinced personally ti! Oh, hell, - is home to thie gepund. Oven aa) [yovet, 18, Want Of thes) Valentine | eh nate sstadaway nigh soneel| Storrs at that tame was living with |t0mey for the state of Oregon and| “I have absolute information that | Storrs was dot. guilty. I'm well to John W. Hanson, of 6718 17th | Osina, who is accused of having shot} - auate and first wife of the. for: ie rae ihe" Pepsi Tr ecaed arate special assistant attorney general in| he is not. He ts not in Californt “T pardoned Storrs’on the: recat mh teat ive.N. hOeatatday Morning and Killed his wife nere yesterday,| mor King county deputy sheriff a ie ncaa ~at| the prosecution of espionage cases| He declined to say where Storrs |mendation of Warden Pace and al | ‘ a le arrested by deputy sheriffs ata! A+ walla Walla in the ward for] W20Mm he married In Apri at ~~ |wwas, but insisted that he was not in} because I believed that he was . ieee opened at t oday |: Hateon been repasting @ leak | veighbor's homo late iast, night the criminally insane, Mist Ruth| P4comm, shortly after her graduation | during the war. |California, or whether he had reports | guilty of the crime of which entitled he Woma nd slipped on the on, in which he admitted | Garrison, who with Borglas-like m Broadway de scsi five S| Ho will conduct the kovernment’s | concerning his whereabouts. was convicted,” Coyle said Satunda: Brad up iuntnaaeYae 15 hie Fis op dee apy nde ot his wife to death after | cunning poisoned Storrs fimst wife | [ents storie! sea eb Biba shiping board cases, which include | Storrs wax pardoned and left the| morning. — Prdineralava. bur inging to the earth pan take | a family quarrel } ito have been |i4 spending her, life, in penitence, | rerwee rraduate of Queen Anno high ;SUIts for millions of dollars alleged {Prison in November. Pace claimed} Asked if rumors that he ° n wee ° Colne ei ely one A ch ‘6 heritf Elmer Gibson yes-|aiscing perhaps of the murvelou: a Rraduy Ani BP Tha eo aWinig: br avawmeitenténr one thats wito haa never met Storrs | withdrawn his candidacy, ae an unconsciot conaitio rere Ne) terday by sina " 4 ‘age! . ¥ and is not acquainted with him now, | next election because of eo alles \ Oe i Wie 920 a. m, from a fractured lover who hurled her frail body!” story then left the sheriff's office, [Of hia-first cases will be the defense | ett tie, soppavtied poet coe aba ot trom the qulet pathway of a court! ang in December ik ene tact | of an notion brought by the Skinner | Storrs acted ay chauffeur to the | outcome of ‘his: action, the eu , dali be el in the real estate | Skull ‘ . +} and comber, 1918, ork | 3 as : varden while at the penitentiary. t governor si “That ‘ a ta gh vad the te eh Aen house telephone girl to the pinacte ahaa +) : dy Shipbuilding Co, for $9,000,. | Warde jant a is nn enc na, eet 7 te emewene) Eight Arrested! by lana nm, cea nuna| Qf ynonnce, Ati Oat Hoel dt ete te gts | ee deel tint Gor faa Tar tae : “ of a Jer co then te haven | © oe : shila |board, alleged by the corporation to| told him that he story of the | asked, Why hasn't some enc fie Federal Dry Agents ye pei sharia ba 1 Seaereae eh pores n rep RG diis.-n! ship: conttacta ne gov. | onement came out, there would be, “1 did not know that Stores x Beences =man ¢ ita me to y | tight persons were arrested tate | 2m | roi, wc yea klap wont to Oka: /emnment denies the claims and has|@ new warden at the penitentiary.| one and if T aid car would hat pies and sell it as “Beattie Face Hen 1 t 210% Second av 9 AWAITS FATE jan auto mechanic | $4,000,000 alleged to hav oY en overs| Pico sald. |to be a candidate for governor call Or Ha OTHER WOMAN reports Saturday And now, another woman, whose} Early in March Ruth went to Oka | paid to the shipbuilders, | Pace said fhit he had not been in |tientenant governor at the om 19,4 CHICAGO, July 7 Mrs. Anna| charges were to be filed nat life was crossed by the tempestu-| nogan, where she registe “) Reames will continue to conduct |communteation with the Rovernor | election.” i f th 2-how c t td 3 hotel as St 8 wife, Aftey | Se a he 1zhour da He when ceOk| Androwin was shot to death on tho|them, ‘Those arrested were: W. In| ous path of the fatal lover—Storra ee ' nt fhe Beni * | his private law practice in his offices |regurding Storrs, and could not ex+| Storrs Toft Seattle and went to)” plies slike fe Sate. shoves pa | street here today by Mra. Anna Ber-|Shribner and Mrs, Shvibner, propri-|is enjoying that briet respite ot AIRS sToRns mR 0 Beattio, Jon the 1th floor of the L. C, Smith | plain why state offictals: had de-| Lox Angeles shortly after Jonna’ h ie. Ge Abe finer Aue | natowiez, 98, who, according to po-|etora of the place, two waltrewsex, | ideal happiness that his compan. | INVITED HOT LUNGH | building, where he t# associated with | clined to deny the report, |1, Lieut. Gov. Coyle said. Coyle eal Bee in aril shortage of men dur-| ites, declared that her victimuatien.| Lottie Lynn and Vera Harper and |ionhip. brought to\ two former vie. A Ath jHerman 8. Frye, His retention by | Pace insisted that Storrs hid not} he hax not acon, StF Kince | meats, 2 ¥ hs ‘ated her husband's affections, Boti|four taxi drivers who 1 deliver: | ti until the pendulum of fate hen -tregedy, stalked poe the prin] the government as special counsel is} been paroled at the Instigation of jealled on’ htm here fa’ Seattle, Turn to Page 7, Column 3; Wortigr are" ainetnne ed sta biiahicite swings to its farthermost point and Turn to age 7, Column 4 ¢ 5 ) 4 are mothers of four chisdreu,|ies to the establishment, B ( ge 7, ) [in the nature of w retaining fev, [after Storrs was pardoned,