The Seattle Star Newspaper, November 30, 1923, Page 1

o—w» Se eeepc nanan Pair tonight and Saturday; mod- erate fo. fresh northwesterly winds, ‘Temperature Last 4 Hours Maximum, 46, Mininw Today noon, 43. VOL. 25. NO. 289. Howdy, folks! days till Christm: Only 25. more key look 1k Does your ean Ar. Menian refugee toda. The Pilgrim Futhers started the custom ‘of eating turkey on Thanks. giving. Thank heaven they didn’t decide on crow! The unluckiest m the bimbo who lost h’ Thanksgiving morniz false ANNUAL MB: (Every dish prepared and t ur own culinary expert) Friday Saturday... sted by Cold turkey Creamed turkey Turkey patties Turkey hash . Turkey soup Turkey bones day you'll let out a to dinner. 1 be some , when the latter e No Banana: been ap) get, but we predict that if he is ever tried the jury will free him and give him a vote of thanks. ry TODAY s DEFINITION _ Zebra: AX sportmodel jackass. ——3 All during bis eqrly days in school he wanted to rise to the lofty heights +—to get up in the world—to do some- thing that would place him far above his fellow men: So he got a job ax steeplejack. oe He went to call On & Jones, “and now he's broke She rolled the bones. ‘Since the F efty council has banned o ue on a bullding, down there have been trip thelr gears. of course, In Se alg are afraid even to} as decided a made-te Newspaper. naki we got in le-to-measure. measure 5 Well, rmy in go. Hitherto “H'ain't got r of No. 11 CANDIDATE: FOR TE IVY CLUB The Bink who says, cided not to have » tu Sear. POISON “We de- y this A roast of lamb is just as good, and the children don't make themselves sick eating too much of it.” I Who bought a nev m na; But she got the way Of z And sinte then 1 yh One good thing you can bout them ack porters to the t of 1-time toast m good H t Butt ‘ ; c ® Ye DIARY 0 does ours. | ‘Martha Mansfield, it dealer, shot Gus| ] n in Seattle was | teeth | | ehended | ribly members of the company ) until Second Claas Matte SE ATTLE, | | | Famed Film Star, | Dies of Injuries; | Match Is Cause SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Noy. 30—Martha Mansfield, screen actress, died here today as the result of burns received while on location filming of work during the “The Warrens of Virginia” in which she was being starred. A lighted match ignited her clothing while she was resting in an automobile waiting te be called for the next scene. The flames were extinguished by | but not the screen’ beauty was hor burned about the chest and She was fuslied to a hos. arms. pital where a corps of physicians | vatnly worked in an ‘effort to save ir iife. The.dead film star was 22 years! old, The body will be shipped to New | York for burial. {number of motion picture prod: tions, be stumbled fron in train Thursday switchman, en to the Seattle General hospital Miss Mansfield’s first ble screen success was in "Dr, Jekyll and Mr. | Hyde,” posite John Barrymore. in which she played op: Subsequently, she appeared in a doing most of her work in Eastern ‘studios. Sustaining minor injuries when over a pile of serop alight from a moving Frank Whitfield, a of 319 Clay st., was tak | Thurad ay t jin a | commit suicide, ot the Cornish on the reported ‘Thursday YSTERY MURDER IN STAR OFFICE: EPORTER IS “KILLED” BY BULLET Scientific Detec- | tive Asked by Star | to Take Charge} of Man Hunt One of the most mysterious murders in recent Seattle his- tory occurred early Friday when the “body” of Seaburn Brown, a reporter for The Star, was found, half-sprawl- ed across his desk in Star office, with a bullet hole near the heart. On the floor opposite his desk, apparently where it had been dropped by flight, was a 32 automatic revob vor, Five shellx wére in the mas: azind. One empty shell was found on the floor in a corner of the room. Apparently Brown had not given up his life without a battle for) “body” his torn coat and disarranged cravat! morning. May, called in on the job by The Star, will try by modern methods of criminal) bad! struggled \investigation to run down and convict the unfengwn fented that he with fig assaflant, Brown, who works an “carly trick” at The Star, arrives at t office earlier than any of the rest (Tarn to Page 11, Column 3) % HIS is not a real murder, of course, It is a theoretical crime, constructed by The Star to permit Luke 8. May, criminol. to show Star readers how sclence convicts Jernday Ls. me crim! Brother Says Doctor Killed By Accident! Music Denied by Mrs. Cornish ere is no must written, cer- not that of Bach or Bee-| oven, which would create a desire highly emotional person to | declared Miss Nellie | Cornish, he: School of Music, remarking fe of Dr. A. F. Mattice, follow. ing the hearing of argo, y his host, F. B. Whit at a Thanks- ng party after. noon. “Don't condemn the work of masters because 2 such ooses that particular moment for killing him. Miss Cornish that her of the pay of the of- ms con. ed her that Albert viomamr anne Suicide Effect of|Blames Mattice’s| Death on Trick With Gun Albert F, ho shot @ par himself at held in tho an ac Mattice did not intend to end his life at all was brother,” “My said Dr. Mattice “had a child! habit of playing with an old .44 n of his ty! wirling around ! ger, and alth I told him ma times to. quit he that ¢ 1 particular, but that’ she had;ry. He we e and he t to cause violent or] pr, Whiting agree Dr. M 1 as) murder, and added that t tine , Ue ac I t raon to | at ' (Turn Column 6) =| ~~ (Turn to Page 11, Column 6) FIND GIRL, SEEK “DADDY”!) | Police Looking for Seattle Army Officer! | The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington May 2, 1891 The| the alayer in his] | nd that | | | | | || | } | | | | At the Dostoffice at Seattle, Was 1 by Mall, $9.00 WASH., FRIDAY, NOV EMBER 30, 1922, TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Teacher in | Vancouver, Is Delirious! |Home Town Mayor Wires Chief Sev- | eryns, Telling of Army Men Who En- ~ tertained Girl f — | | | | | -| | | | | | ThisIs for You ‘Daddy’ if You’re in Seattle ADDY,” are you in Seattle? Up in the General hospital at Vancouver Miss Nell Austin, the Seattle school teacher for whom the entire Northwest has been searching, is lying in a delirium today, calling for you. _ “Daddy, daddy, don’t let ‘them get me!” she is say- ing. The family of Miss Austin points out that her father died when she was a child, and that he never had been known to her as “Daddy.” They say they know of no man in the teacher’s life. But police want the aid of the “Daddy” that Miss Austin is calling for, in piecing together. the fragment- ary story of the girl’s strange disap, nee, If he exists—and they believe he aéess chet y say he can furnish them invaluable aid. So “Daddy,” if you really exist—if you are in Seattle —won’t you telephone today to Police Chief Severyns? His telephone number is MA in-7810. rt | This shows Luke S. May, criminologist, as he arrived at, The Star office to look at the of Seaburn Brown, reporter, who, theoretically, was|“murdered” in the office this of Howa THE INSIDE STORY %ouera Scientific Sleuth Catches and Convicts Slayer BY JOHN W. NELSON An unknown army officer, believed to be the person ad- dressed as “daddy” by delirious Miss Nell Austin, 22-year- old Seattle school teacher and choir singer, who was found Thursday afternoon at Vancouver, after a week’s search, LUX2 5 MAY, analyticn crim.) man" engage in m real struggle ) Every clue you find, we will | WAS being sought Friday by Chief of Police W. B. Severyns. Jin figures often in the | similar to such a one as might print. And then day after day | Search for the army officer was started following receipt Hew stories of noted crim- | have ended in a fatal shooting. | we'll publish every move you jof a telegram from Mayor R. L. Jones of Hugo, Okla., inal ease And then we sent the “murder- | make in running down each of % aaa MEA? AceK EAT ChVAtL ass |: gi? WRACinotiha es ways. and... |. Shooe sition }where Miss Austin resides, stating that the-girl had writ- prison to be hanged for the fa- | telephoned to Mr. May, asking | “Because we belleve, Mr. May, |ten Mayor Jones letters telling of being entertained by a astro arent | eure sehr. 1/7 aoe eens Clee | that the folks in Seattle wilt be |him, The telegram stated: Ore, recently. He has | ‘ow, Mr. M etoile ain | mightily interested in following “I understand that Miss Austin] Marine Drive, she has fitfully cried s fective arrived, the real inside workings of the the coast of/out for her “dadd: daddy, she moans, me daddy—don’t let them has been found on explained what his case “exactly as you would if this were a real | crime. H ® man who has red under most mys- system that mo tectives are down their prey.” May | into the kd n sclentific de in running officer. Can daddy, letters | “Come n | set mi Two house physicians are main- Canada by an army this be verified? I have |from her stating that she had bee entertained by a party claiming] , folks know May rt of super-detec many know how ered enthusiastically a of the manbunt been A Jaebirban bn eran y rbd and 40 ch for the mys- /to be an army officer in Seattle, | {init ; nt th ortous cirvumatances. Wo want. | terioux murder “Mr, X'' is. on- |He claims to be the owner of a|S¥mptoms that may herald returns inals are run downtin th you to make your own Inveatiga- “You'll find the first story— vate Mayor R. L. Jones,| SE Consemmenses. an sin sntl- ines of modern crime investi, tion on the scene, dig up such the’ story ‘oti@bak aad fearke a8 pages hate ate hee % ber her griefstricken sisters, Misses What an atialftical criminologist clues as you can and then run the edowa Botha opine hie vai Be on | Leila and Georgia Austin, are wait. 7 is and does? | clues until you, have Sodas And fay abtor ang tt Tee te vee ing to hear the story of her wander- Ae dag ty sion veal? |. cameabed Vis ran | ~ And day after day | BE OF DELIRTUM ingy, barred by, order. of, the doctors It had one ters | ted the murder ar | ar Sprint hee And while Seattle police | from their sister's side until she is in ’ orial sufficient ¢ | alls of the progress this /taken wp the search for this man, | condition'to receive them. on murder him | t Sherlock Holmes makes tics Austin lies in delirium, her) Her elder. si Miss Tella, be. ‘ re but to “And ‘The Star will stay right | ed Hehe snd ®- | body pain-racked’ and Ww on| tleves that the pleadings for en the re with you during all that time. | ght ja cot in the Vancouver General] her “daddy” are directed to an une the unknown ‘Mr, X.’ ; bullet-torn | - | hospital. Ever since she was found, | known sweetheart in Seattle, accord. | _ It'll be as good a& a real mur. | 3¢ hours ago, lying unconscious on| ing to advices to The Star Friday. 1 der story. And you'll be on the | the porch of a deserted house on (Turn to Page 11, Column 4) oe | in of every clue—every shred see | McCray, Indiana, Accused of SLAYER IS TO « ei bene peace moment rest of the no kn |Laroeny and Embezzlement | o | mrderet | giDIAMAROLIR nd ior? “al “Unfortunate for Her-That Case Got diana, was Indicted oy the Marion| Winifred Gibbons Faces Publicity,” § Arrest Man Wanted county grana jury toaay on Starsenl| Judge on Saturday | U icity ays Severyns on Narcotic Charge “a e heaiaide ie dain his pat winWimaeD iia Be "por the .gitt's sake, 4b ta: \iiAGe (uielia Sein aA aaa by Rev. J. case ever got Crowth Mite ed jtunate that he into] r, rector of the University | will be brought before Judg cy folating the| The indictment, returned after an fe newspapers,” Chief of Police Sev-| Methodist Episcopal chure c nt ‘ ead | in ° Gilliam ray to hear the punteh. | tHe newspapers," Chief of Police Sev-| Methodist Episcopal church, in which ar was picked | Inve tion last nearly tw NEGbi thee ORE’ fon thet eihe teil s said Friday, following the iden-| the rector blamed the police depart- oprat Abs on Wednes-| months, mentioned elght separate He eee ere Croce weak | tification of the delirious girl in the| ment for conditions that “make it day and | ‘0 Seattle by ' carly on the morning of Oc. | Vancouver hospital os Miss Nell Aus;| unsafe for a young girl to walk our herif on. Thursday to) ya ti web a harks 2 ® Of OC) in Seattle school teacher, who has] streets at night.” walt rt 1. He Is be eld set Se f " PA as bre pee: ce Sunday night LE .0UP 5 OF d n the cour cial tra was ‘That fs, she will hear her sentence |? ™ roentl sin h via tno | OU! ARS UP ONE OF i ed unions Attorney. John F. Dore. per.|_, There was strong, motive for. the | MOST DIFFICULT MYSTERIES after need he wai 7 4 's dis ance," he said, and) 4 pag ; suades Judge Gilliam to grant a new Le # erp pe ae se heute dictation discovery of Miss Austin In fe SEES AN PE TES eT TR 10 estigation, which trial. ‘Attorney Dore and Prosecutor | her anxiety to pul as mien ee Canada clears up one of the most , ’ yetwoen herself and Seattle was fran- tr Today’s Want Ads | 11 « ainst McC uglas will argue motions prior to| Deween herself and Seattle was fran-) dievicuit mysteries of the year, The Off art ad t of th of the girl | ue. sveryns declared that he had per-|&!*! disappeared last Sunday night. { er Natlor am Th Winnifred was found guilty of| i tentiy worked upon the thedry| Tues: and Wednesday the po- : C G00D GEBORTUNITY. Wor |i i $22.000| Manslaughter by a jury In superior! fit ise Austin had voluntarily | lice were swamped by a great mass THE HOME BUYER, | Here : . yurt two weeks ago, at which time | [cf nome {of clues that came from everywhere fi that Ay het worth of McCray paper 1 was) the jury recommended the minimum |?) : jin the state one be to ! rf 0. creditor entence be Impored upon her. She| “The finding of the hat on the} ednesd : Ub I 0 ie ps : her “Aieeat? Oatet yt {that It was an old hat and had been | the story of R Barnett that he b 1 ; iam HE Pa a-| 8 pedir brash excep! arded by her sisters,” Severyns| had been stopped by @ girl walker i . bivee abe bpcead tro bene de her trial | iid. “Then the Incident merely con jon the Bothell higtr and had f - ; f conducting the — investi n. | Was in progres faked te teevicn rene hn given her a lift as far as Silver i F : ms eo HE Cra ourt refuses to grant ar * ny tent Lake, Tho girl was dressed in hik- \ ae tas lo J Collins apr 1 Charles W.| trial, Winnifred will be brought be: | DISSATISFIED WITH Ing clothes, Barnett said “4 ASH if ™ United ‘or e ¢ jam and sentenced. CONDITIONS, HE SAYS | +, é £ Only $38 mont neluding all || m to: c t a | Ur the defense necks a reverssi| “T was told that Miss Austin had}, sevey™s cpoecnes oemx Ana wun E Went tot, 11 44 ag ona ‘ { fied ‘with her condition | ("8 fo run down the clue, and thé Phy - ny: 4 é waynes ate ‘stipre beer h gro Ns ld mot ike | Bul traced the girl to Blaine, ‘Then ne drivewas " zie 1 begin. serving jure fF ons et Uke | the: trait to New Westminster 1 } 1 as declare that she for teaching. With | Bee The chief pralsed the v#ork of t f aud . ; 1 ee WA NS canes ane ted ret. W. B. Care and Patrolman : ; oe sintiag Baap el t tral the girl to Van- j . a § ant to eva ponst- | with foul pla \ nd identifying her in: the | t find |! ct. Attorney Dore| Soveryns deplored the fa hospital there. He said’ that the i Xu V oe ae ig that it h Seattle ministers ide o|men had, by their work, earned the 1 v rea >» make Its | new trial is not granted, he wil y| print with criticisms of the ; 4 t " t with criticisms of : eward, posted. for the stella senaNe Zuciliiisipsinialinailiheehimiitammcceht | % the case to the higher tribunal, [police department, referring particu: ery iat A ua a he i csdecinmenatisaiciil dda . , Ly pF sai