The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 25, 1923, Page 1

tia The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in hington “= The Seattle Star ‘|. od an fe ane Matior Ma t. al abe Postoffies at Seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March #, 1479, Per Year, by Malt SEATTLE, WASH., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1923 * TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Howdy, folks! A post-mortem Never docs the victim any good. Now th eath sr ing chilly, Lit 2 G n ave Worry about t n. 6 the fi re @ition, bu t s t buckwhea ‘ ing on th riddle = . : aye % * & i ae RED FORCES © afeeker Dying? Well, Just Listen Young Divorcee Shot in Auto BRIN 4 AVERY AUSTIN IS QUIZZED | Woe of Arthor 6. COMmunists Mizdt| ie " Ut’ sToo Horrible for Words’ the famous scenic artist who first used cornflakes to repre ES coe n etininigeestine’| Lowards Capitalls ’ : Held at the city jail in connection with the shooting of Mrs. a eee Poli R sh! " pil : : Mary Horngrin, who committed suicide Wednesday night in his See eho peaticta tat] AS FOLIC -tVUSn! Pais oe : re automobile, Avery Austin, owner of a cigar stand at 81 Madison Ee eetetiate. for todand seax) to Halt: Attack : i Sxe@ er ee Oe st., was released from jail at noon Thursday after Coroner W. H. nt cee ae! fe : a : Corson. had satisfied himself that the shooting was purely suicidal. a. ceca Maar iste are marching on Berlin, says ae ; D Ran: Austin appeared at police headquarters Wednesday night with trielty ia pretty strong féod, but ica) the Central News, es er Be |the dying woman in his auto. She was taken to the city hospital, e stronger than limberger cheese. arg! so - P P verging from many districts, It Pi : : ‘ . aig |where she died at 2:50 a. m. Thursday. Austin told his story of is said, y 2 The next | be to have food] "One hody of them assembted in| Sei? Ses: ee. ee , how the shooting occurred and was then held a prisoner in the city HEINZ and ¢ 2 mae = oF |: aaah ae Pepiaabece, ters ay he Bt ; |jail while the police and coroner investigated the tragedy. They : police formed a cordon to. pre- cout hake march sa the’ capil, es Lea ame aan Sd were not entirely satisfied at first, they said, that the woman had en ere 7 th Oe, ee : . en \shot herself and this fact led to Austin’s arrest. J PARIS, Oct, 25.—German commun. Briefly, the circumstances of the| ¢ Ape of th’ lists and nationalists at noon today case, as outlined by Austin, were survival of th’ thickest. opened fire on the prefecture of po- that she had been insanely jealous ST | ice nt Welabaden, in which French 3 3 wr: } lof him and resented his visits to his oldiers were quartered, according to a eae \rormer wito and G-year-old daughter. Geo Gee says she is not worrled|a dispatch to the Temps, 3 ey” . a Bhe’ tet the former Mrs. Austin in about our IntePnational Relations —| The attack was immediately re i ¢ ¥ * a 3 | Woodland Park Wednesday alter- it’s the relations with, tive Jsidy, who | pulsed. ; ; $ s : f Ta : 3 noon, quarteled”Wwith her violently, . come to visit that worry her. This is the first instance of the ; te , Gad. sapped Woe face. Mra,. Hora: s b ih, ei Germans having attacked troops of ; i i \ grin was riding In Austin’s auto 2 Z f a * Household Hint: Summer has) the army of occupation since the} | Viet... 4 ; i : at that time and later met him| § . passed. Use your electric fan for| present reyolt in rmany started | downtown. Austin got off a street s ant : i leas and got in the auto with her. Mra, Mary Horngrin, 23. I've told Martha all. If sho BERLIN, Oct. 35.—Five thousand | hag te thé olty' ‘while year-old divorcee, addressed wants: to tell she shall have unemployed began a march today | ; . dane aroNied itl; him. io told|$ & Ietter to her mother, that privilege. I am going : from the suburbs of Berlin to reichs- | Sythe : lhacttialt: Wo" woa'tten ana: that ne’ which wag found inher pocket out to see Al now and then ence how the birth rat sat . ‘t | tag to demand the renewal of the un- | ¥ ana tak ast ciaiess on hins.. shede shortly after she had shot I am coming back to finish there is always a seating shortage | ae eee doles, stopped on ac-| F } piled, “t was waiting to hear you|} herself in Avery J. Austin’s with Avery. God knows, he ee “ee count of money shortage. | leny that,” and pulled out ber pistol automobile Wednesday night. ‘will pay. Tell Dave not to | Police reserves were ru ed to in- |Shooting herself thru the head be-|; THe letter was blood-stained. feel too bad as he. was all Lg ore before they could reach | fore Awmtin® could ‘stop her. ‘The It ~ ah fog reste pieete: Ne Boor ‘a hands are apt | *8¢ capital. | shooting took place opposite the! { ear Mother: As the last . wasn’ 2 - Rigean! motheria bands are Apt “rhe men were in rebellious mood | Stee teey Chlgk wisieo you will hear from me is now, fF my pride for'#hem I : 2 aapalad itis ete Eppes A letter, which was found in. the Teen never tell you in words pect eee 1 don’t feel just right, | pxzvir’ o Aghan f ag ieaaa at a ¢ead woman's pocket, spoke of a ow much I love you. You 3 * . it Sok cut seepine Wien, int: Of Tener, wine is thelr sole ; woman's hatred and jealousy and| know what kind of a nervous 1 have been ashamed to be If you moan and sigh, mimetic tapi. ae : for this reason, police say, they wreck I have been in past “round with you since I met If} your throat is dry, | ‘ | were suspicious of Austin's story, | months. Tonight I am set- . Avery J. Austin, 79 Madison If, you’ can't smoke or drink, MAD Y KILLED |thinking that perhaps she had| tling everything, I am ex- St ne who poses a3 Frank If, your grub tastes like ink, acts {planned to kill him, and that the Plaining all just as it is. Cullin. God only make him pees eee, neers Bast. IN FIGHTING 3 bullet which entered her head: pos Maybe it isn't worth it, and Pay as_1 have, If you got cold feet, ‘ sibly was fired during a struggle|{ = maybe it is, ASKS TO BE Tf your heart's in a sciwl— PARIS, Oct. 25.— Forty per- —¥ \for possession of the weapos CREMATED ; “I love my children dearly, as Why don’t you marry the girl? | sons were killed, including the Austin was questioned by Coro- to: Wektiysto\o habit Gotinans ‘You can send my furnl —IA1 Gee Gee. chief of police, in fierce fighting s ner Corserf and said that he did not) } with a le on my lips, 1 ture back and do-as you like "abd tes at Crefeld between Germans loy- jeven know she had the pistol with have paid dearly for the ‘Sbout my-dress. I vant to Bootlegger under arrest indignant-| J to the Berlin government and jher until he heard the report and wrong I have done in leaving be. eremated. I know it's ly denies that he has eyer been a po-| separatists, a dispatch from that saw her fall them, but Avery, made it im. 8rd to do as I am doing liceman. How in the world did he| city sald today. Another cause for Mrs, Horngrin's possible to go back. He was Dut I will’ be better off even learn the business?—The Argus. ‘The separatists were in com- quarrel with Austin, according to the| — ——. People who will {0 hell. As Harriett says, eed se plete control of Crefeld today, the ‘ | coroner, was that Austin went to see | Mantel will habe ® tek the ‘It's too good for me’ ‘ty, Lit Geo Gee was driving her fliv-| dispatch said. \his own daughter often, while she | fiddler. “2 iy mother dear, and don't take ver yesterday when she ran into a see “TIP OVER As OUR it too hard. It's che best could not see her own children, of 1} LIVES HAVE DONE” way as T would only go in- beating egos. The softeer, smoother, whiter ughter’s hands are the rougher pedestrian, but she crowled out of} BERLIN, Oct. 25.—Heavy fighting | Vaitaresta Ge Mae and In bee the awkward predicament by €X-| has been going on in Aix-la-Chapelle = babies are in the East, and in her|? sane, You have taught what plaining that it was a case of mis-/petween Rhineland separatists and Ezra Meeker, aged Seattle pioneer, reported dying, who declares he’s a long way from | tarewell letter to her mother, she | “It can’t be all one-sided or js right too long and strongly it will tip over as our lives — to live a lie as 1 have done. taken identity. - x citizens loyal to the German reich| the end of the trail. They're having a hard time to keep him in bed. joni that Austin made it impossible | | 4 . 0 hem in Seattle, have di . Please, ther, y v (Turn to Page 9; Column 2 —Photos by Priée & Carter, Btar Batt Pho snera | for her to keep t 4 hay lone. ase, mother, You haye been a wonderful inne FOR THE POISON ie ‘i sos ks phi ge i tsa Austin denied that he was engaged/{ as a favor, have my credit mother, just wonderful’ to me. IVY CLUB to the woman, according to the coro- | $ bill published, also have Allen Pr me oayeh aut aac tate ta 4 I wish my babies could say Gink who says, “Ha! Ha! The He’ Ss Up Doing His p jner, and said that they had merely/? gamit that he gave me $10 that and they can by. my first time I heard that I almost | | |been friends In the past. She had! } at one time to pay on It..1 — doing. the thing Iam. about fell out of my cradle laughin; | | threatened suicide several times over came out to the mill and got — to do. Good-bye, mother, and o- ‘ y5| Daily Dozen,’ His {hiss een eecunllg: Bue clever eae | boi Gh, Goorin settee taal ‘When a wool-eating moth attacks | _ DIVISION URGED E ft HR STIL rupcted that, ehe would really enaiben very is being respected tin 4s at the bottom of it all. some overcoats it's darn flattery. | Grandson Says ees obiake when he is being put r" away. Love and. kisses, Mary.” 1 abot Hs = says an historian Stanford Man Would Separ- | “Will Go Straight,” He Says, by LELAND waNNem — {Police Find No Clews on ‘BROTHER SAYS wonder eorank. mioc! ate Bright From Dull Ones Before Starting Term YING Who—Ezra Meeker, Brutal Killing nearly 93 years old? No, . ’ ERE office, - we - doing his “daily dozen” and ‘AUSTIN WON they tell whether or not the office | BY ABURN BROWN John E. ylor, University of] walking about the bedroom un- Capt, of “Detectives Charles Ten: | towel should be sent to the laundry | is by throwing it against the wall. | The erying need of tne school | Washington Raffles," declared) (i) physically, forced by his | nant admitted Thursday that the po. = If {t breaks, it i still clean; but if it system of the state is a realign. | Thursday, shortly before leaving for grandson, Dr. ©. L. Templeton, Nee had made but slight headway in | A ti “Hy, art B k aH sticks, it ought to be sent out to be| Ment of the grade system, | Monroe to begin a 2 to 16-year term| {hop back In. bed. | | Austin ea reaker In} | Investigatt the rder of ab) eaacucss | whereby children will be group- | for fraternity house robberies, that] 10 MOS of ily eri 7 it oi niger : Opinion of Asa Lee sf gee fs ed according to thelr mental | he has ended his criminal career| 14k) Mark | Twain's illustrious | D°: snet aati ch ase as’ found are, ay : . M4 (Turn to Page 5, Column 5) | rather than chronological ages, | turn to Page 5, Column 5) |2t#Ne® Hara Mesker's “dying con-| Tuesday afternoon in the Princess | aia It’s Too Ho 0 t rible for|Suicide Certain Austin De-. | eRe was the declaration of Prof. | dition” ax--reported «recently, was neaite ris M. ‘Terman, of ‘Stanford 7 | 'xrosaly exaggerated,” according to| neuter: 1408 Third ave. Laren Mins. iy omaees ho) 2 Words) He Says sired to Be Free. Ténnant clagsified ‘the crime ag) fet. herself to death Wednesday dteackibe “i |Dr. Templeton, who told. 'T) tar ! practically ei Doctor Held ersity, in his address before DOCTOR, LAWYER aR har wi toda; Thy Bea ot the most brutal” that hne| Right Was practically. engaged to} members of the Washington Dantes conct : ; ; Avery Austin, cigar store pro-| “It’s too horribie for words. I—] “Mrs. Mary Horngrin, my sister, Pieeallanee Aen beiktlon as rouble keeping the Oregon trail jeyer comé.to hhix attention, and de-| prietor, in whose automobile the! can't talk about it—there's nothing T] never had any trouble with! Avery for Treason Meany em ee the Proralty MAYOR BROWN NOW lint hie bed nd Northwestern pioneer pare vb ‘is bg found no addl.| tragedy, s a) ON the rae, | want to say, She's—" Austin, to whom she was engaged, ETER BLOOD, bachelor of |} campus Thursday morning jonal clue to the # | ment of for y Asa| y % until she told us a few weeks ago P medicine, {y administering || 1" support of his contention, Prof. HAS A NEWSPAPER } 1 sna so rera Meeker, with the| An.autopay, which was held on the| Lee, the woman's brother, ‘Thurs-| Avery Austin, debonalr man about | ict he was tiring of her pis pati first ald to Lord Gildey, woundea || Terman cited results of arm; in DWIN J. Brown, Hditor. famous flowing silvery hair and the! body of the infant by Dr, W. J.| day town, who’ still preacnted a well-| oq to ‘get rid of hen,” déclared hives rebel leader, when the ro yal || telligence tests and of similar in- Don't be ‘surprised if you || “days of '49" tales of personal ex-| Jones Wednexday night, showed that Lee declared that he was not wel { pomed appearance in spite of a} Willlam ‘Tierney, sister of the forces break into .the house and || telligence examinations given grade || *e¢ that In’ print before long. || periences, Thursday morning was|the child had | siruck a heavy | acquainted with Austin, but under-| night in the city Jail, was deeply af-| young woman who. Is believed’ to place the two under arrest, ‘The ||students in various parts of the || Mayor Brown admitted Thursday |) walking about his bedroom and tak-| blow on the head and had then been | stood she was engaged to him. | o4 amurstay by the suicide of his [have shot, herself Wednesday night, captain of the troops would have |\ country. he had acquired an interes! In the |1ing his . dally. “physical + exercises, | deliberdtely, strangled :with a plece| “Austin was probably engaged to) O° me while automobile riding with Austin, hung Gildoy immediately, but "It is an accepted fact," he sata,|| Wenatchee Sun, a newspaper || stretching Min arma nnd expanding | ot giuze tled tightly around its| halt a de Women as far ax 1/sweetheart, Mrs. Mary Horngrin, |" nie family. was doncamna tall aa Blood, calmly and deliberately, || “that children who are bright in| three times a week In |) his chest Uke a healthy young col-| throat, | know," Lee said. “Austin, I think, bette Wieoning in the seat be-| 11.4 developments of the tragic night dives him 40 try such an ace.||thelr. earlier years, remain in. that F clty cana | {08 athlete, He's sire ‘the trait's t ina cleat cise of murder,” saa / Was one of the heart-smashing| s! acta, waa saited at the timo ne | Tide and would say little. They The captain's blustering bravely || ¢l@ssification thruout their dev | hol He: necurition k; the || end hagn't been renclied yet. | Capt. Tennant, “premedita robs ace aria hed naw Hrotight the dying young woman to refused interviewers permission to vanishes under the cool eyes of || ment. ‘The same rule applics Sun but T haven't anything to do 1) sahe report that Mf, Meeker was | ably for months and! probably = Lee sald that he had kiown. there tre golty hoapltal “entin’ Whiraaay | #ee the St-yenr-o10; dead: diene the doctor, and he places them ||children of average quicknens and |} With Its polley,” sald the mayor. 1 qying never voriginitted here where| mother, IC.Is n very hard cave to| Was trouble between his sister and) the wily Bee hued - investign. | Mother, Mrs, Mary A. Leo, at the both under arrest and starts for || to dullgrds as well, 7A bright, energetic young man. 1! he was: iil with, Infiventa,” aanort,| Work upon, as we hnve found no in-| Austin, but he had not tha slight-g morning mane ‘S""\ home at 285 22nd ave, Ny and Mra MGW with them “Under the prevent grade system, || R- H. Maus: tw the publisher. He }) oq (he doctargrandson of tie oft formation ws yet which will aid i ta oblate NP dnb A ERD LBV eet SOR drs Tierney explained as*much as they De Aa oun came to me some time ago an¢ rs , Jin abarehing for the thurderer,". {Mis slater would Kill: horse y p toatned é Blood is held for treason be here children are separated ac@ord. man, “He is still « gfek man, but | in searching er a long interview with Austin} “desired to make public now,” as 7 terested me his ventute, 1 Ty ntoa' io be " | ig Interview with Austin cause he had ministered to the ||ing to thelr ages in years, many |] iniereated me in tis venture | 1 T/he'x on the, road” to. recovery; 1] Two detectives have been constant a inhurday, HOPAI nie Y SAA, thn We Wane Due tt, ¥ rebel. Rrades have 10-year-old atudenta|| Dour the securitien a f fein {] but him back in bed this morning |ly at work on the case, but have} Horse Trainer Is would order the release of the pris. |. "“Mary was not insane,” continued Thrilling adventures follow in vith developments rang from 7 ibiehe Ps rigs ha ow [ {and ll Keep dim: there for a few | filed H lon 5 ey. gShe has never to tho life of Poter Blood that are ||to 12 and even 16 years," published three times a weak now || dayas-it 1can—(f-1 can | who was edn entering th theater | Held for Murder | my knowledge threatened to take 4s but on July 1, next year, wa Ww HC WABAeRAL DAMeaP ARO Wie ast , b he case was so serious—the two | MY ; unfolded by the pen of Rafael || WANDICAP TO tava It into w aaron |. Mevhor, Who will He 92 in Decem: | with a mar a yO Bal) AION, 0. Oct, 25, Marion | peing alone in the automobile—that | her own life and she was apparent- Sabatini in BOTH CLASSES y Tho .nnydr' Mata ho’ hobed ihe | her, Kuftdred’ A Hoeightened fover | In that part of the thoater Where | Webb, horge trainer, was charged | the police decided to hold Austin | !¥ mentally collected when we last CAPTAIN BLOOD" | “This system is obviously imper paper would We of déaiitanes In [pakain early, Wednesday. night, the: body Waste pire 4 jwith first a » murder today, fol:| ponding an. investigation,” Koepfii | 8a her, Wednesday.” Start 'this story today on Pago "the professor declared. “ThO) | cemoiting the Columbia bain |{ doctor veparted, Itt by Thuraday | — 5 RR Tere TE . lowing the death of I, W, Gerhardy, | xaid. “Hoy , there is nothing on| Told that Austin was being held 13 of The Star. It ix net too iter childrea are held back, and |) ivitect, in which he ja vitdlly In. |; morting Was showing ‘no untoward | with ‘even an Inquiring "] prominent race judge of Detroit, | which we can hold him any longer, | fr Mvestigation in connection with 4 late. A synopsis of the first hose with wouk intellects are often || toregted, He has heavy property || effects “and ~~ haw never» oven: ap-| Dri» Templeton declared, Who was shot down’ last Saturday | ite will be freed." the shooting, Mrs, ‘Tierney said she chapters precedes the story, | forced ahead of ttwir mental ca-'| interouty in and near Wenntch proiched unconstiousness, * |ploneer spirit isn't degenerating ln the crowded lobby of the Poptage| Austin paced nervously up and] Would not publicly condemn Austin — (Turn to Page 8, Column 6) ahh “He's still able to hold his own! bit! hotel, (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) (Turn to Page 9, Column 20. zs a