The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 3, 1923, Page 3

| ] aan . where TWO sets of stains came MONDAY, DECLMBUK &, 1028 SUICIDE. HERE STARTS PROBE Check Correspondence of State Examiner State Auditor W. Clausen Monday morning announced his de termination to investigate certain correspondence believed to have Passed between W. 8. Shanks, a state examiner, and B. 1, Tituy, formerly of Bilenaturg, Who killed himself at his Seattle resktence, 5302 Stone way, Satur. » When arrested on a charge of forgery Shanks was reported out of town in Olympim and tho bureau pf municipal corporations disclaimed knowledge of his whereabouts, so sording to reports Sunday, vr purpose of the correspond. ence, already uncovered, was ap parently” to fix dates, agreeable to both, when Shanks might examine the Ellensburg accounts, arrested by Detective Blaine on charges of padding the payrolls while elty clerk of \. burg. Ho excused himself to bid farewell to his family, stepped Into another room and sent a bullet thru his brain. HERE'S MORE ABOUT MURDER STARTS ON PAGE 1 Savage gum in John Nelson's desk? And that I told you then that Ij didn’t think either gne of these guns had fired the bullet that ‘killed’ Reporter Brown? “I knew from the markings on the ‘murder bullet” found in the wall that it had come from a Sav. age and not a Colt gun, And it was logical to assume that a ‘mur derer’ who was clever enough to use the Colt gun as a blind would be cleyer enough to take his own ‘murder’ weapon away with him, “So this morning, following the Instructions of The Star to go the limit in gathering evidence, 1 got the home addresses of the alx edi: torial employes, Who carried keys to the building and, going to their houses, 1 searched their rooms. Iv 1 dresser drawer fa the room of one —Jack Halll found a Savage 52 pistol. F “While making the rounds, I also} asked to be shown the clothes of the six men, and on tho sults of two I found Stains that look as tho they may have been made by blood. I brought these elothes back, ind my Jaberatory assistants are sesting the stains. (The Star HAD asked one of its men to put a few stains of human blood on his cout as a cine, But from is a mystery even to The Star.) “The important part about this .”" May continued, “was the fact that one of the two stained ‘suits belonged to Jack Hall” “But what about the gun, Mr, May?" we asked him. “I'm coming to that,” he re- plied. “I got evidence this morning evidence that has held in court in a dozen similar eases—that the bullet that ‘killed’ Brown was fired from same gum that I found in Halls room, CAN TELL FROM SHELL WHAT GUN FIRED Ir “You see, it is possible, with the aid of a microscope, to tell either from a bullet or from the ejected shell not only what kind of a gun {t was fired from But also to se lect the one particular gun used from any number of weapons of the same make and caliber. “How? Well, take the shell for i When a bullet ts fired a cartridge, a tremendous Pressure is exerted against the walls of the shell, The walls of the} shell, in turn, are preased against the walls of the chamber of the weapon by ploding gas, and, acting as they would when pressed against a steel they become marked with all nperfections that exist in the r of the gum. “It is impossible for manufactur- ers to make two guna exactly alike, when the tool marks of the cham- die, the ch the force of the ex-| } | Cushman to Aberdeen, comple { i Public Ownership Winner * * * * * * * * * Ross Assists in Aberdeen / J. D. Ross, superintendent of the Seattle light depart- ment, who helped Aberdeen public ownershép advocates win in Saturday's election. —Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photorraphers Upholding the theory of municipal power development thru testimc of the Skagit system and the’ resu obtained in Seattle, Tacoma, E' burg and other citles on th outside Washington, J. D.\F perintendent of the Seattle light de n u partment, is credited in Ab day with being one of the important | coma and nsburg wo have dem- factors in the election at Aberdeen | onstrated its efficacy. They may de- Saturday in which that city voted,| velop thelr own systema and if they 1,092 to 922, to carry out the pro-| n aid they can obtain it hore posed development of the Wynooche Ingham, I believe, will be the hydroelectric and water project | next city to fall in line. There is a there. Ross addressed a throng of| mighty fight going on over there.” cities and was not made on the basis { nelling power from tho Skagit he to Aberdeen, he aus trying to sell Skagit to ho sald. “We polities, thru mu p and in Seattle, Ta the eve of the election, which ended | one of the hottest fights in his tory of Aberdeen local elec Experts estimate that eos | Wy. the nooche will develop 24,000 horsepow- | ¢r and Ross declared in his attic | office Monday that eventually Seattl and ¢ linked ding Tacoma and Aberdeen cities in this section will be into one super system by oxte the present link 30 miles from I | Water Wreaks Havoc After Dike Breaks MO, I 1 dead Is the lat flood from Gleno lake, when a great dike collapsed Saturday. 400-mile chain. | Both the opposing and approving forces exerted every effort to present arguments to Aberdeen voters. Ross’ Dec. 3.—Six be are observed under a power- f address featured proofs he submitted ept ov down valleys microscope, 8@ YOu CaN #€9/ trom Seattle, Los Angeles and other that no two guns, even of the|-—————— i d devastated ages and same make, would mark a shell] na | (esolated 60 of the exac ike. Bullets, too, nre|Savage pistol? And the ono on the} country for a d miles to affected in the same way, and|left? That's a bullet from Br Lake Iseo, checked the spread. ir that I fired Into a teating| ing waters. bear the bar they came. extractor and the kinds of marks on the sh o when I picked up the ejected ’ f the floor of the ‘murder ro I saw at a glance that it had been fired from a Savage and t fromi tt Colt that laid nearby. ell smelied of pow marks of the rifling in| Colt of the weapons from|Diock we have jin ejector | © is makes of gun make dif- r Notice the igs on this, bullet—how the naed by the rifling of t to left, antl always true of a Colt EVIDENCE AGAINST HALL NOT ENOUGH TO CONVIC “The mere fact that the gun’ was found in Jack Hall's room| mark great fear among the sur. ot er dams breaking. ts of Dezzo, only pwn to have escaped the setnz| Daugherty Urge: Pardon for Craig wouldn't convict hirh in court, altho! wWaAsHINGTON, Dec Attorne {t would be an importan |General Daugherty has recommend led that Pre Coolidge pard been used only a short|the evidence, of course “Before I am thru, ho ‘ s the ‘murder bullet’| hope to be able to pin this cr pry New ¥ on t t ot 1 knew it! d by circum eviden high author to m the ‘murder unt be. in such a way man} A formal pardon for Craig has ‘ in the lead nose,|will be unable to extricate himself.! neon prepared Daughe fo the m showed. me severai| Dozens of men have been convicted} president Cé » to wign or disap. nds of cloth fibre th prove. It will bo sent to the White the my a8 Wea: ble to give you some word ab | » bullet was fired and that 1 on n I artived.| that a lead bullet in ted out, by firing, hoth the I found in the des) found test of “gun that were dit ‘ the bullet fired thru r a f 13 ht H Ab: fling fk the t on the pullet . find thone 08 every bullet trom « the clothes of two of your repe stains that I Veronica it dust! Helps McGrath found on t “And, by the s waste b ik ™ Fe tion of a letter, written in Co, is @ Busy merchant in fi on fr pleted a € I 1 Veronica ft M: tendant 1 E f t mea f 2 t od, I used f laxatives, c t ‘words, * ‘ r one of ¥ best, gave f. f ed r sm t nt Ww ‘ t ditt ned! Abin poh I I have f t t Ave oma CO . Gar . tin And es I 1 “ I T See Tuesday's Star for more i gs developments in Luke May's man hunt for the man who | Veronica Water | committed The Star murder) o-Advertisement. } | waiting. } | Warden A. V. The flood} « 13 PRISONERS MAKE ESCAPE! Posses From Kansas Peni- tentiary Hunt Fugitives LANSING, Kan,, clean getaway has 13 prisoners who escaped from the Kansas state prison here Sunday, officials admitted today, Posses and bloodhounds have | followed to the end every possir blo trail and trace of the fugi- tives from the prison without | result, A dense woods elght miles from Leavenworth whero a group of the convicts surrounded, was scoured, but tho prisoners were not found. | The 12 prisoners escaped by bur. |rowing thru an abandoned tunnel, Thruout the night 100 guards di. |rected the operations of citizens’ | posses, which tracked the fugitives along the river bottoms toward rai) road tracks, ‘The escape was carried out while tho 1,000 prisoners in the institution enjoyed their Sunday liberty. Tho delivery was not discovered until more than an hour after the men were outside the prison walls. When tho convicts sat down for supper, 1% vacant places were no- ticed. An investigation showed that the missing prisoners had cut a hole in the wall of the power house, burrowed thru five feet of dirt to tho entrance of an abandoned tun- }nel, 14 by 16 inches Thru this narrow hole, half filled with mud and slime, the men worked their way to liberty. | A general alarm was sounded. Powerful searchlights from the prison trucks were turned the underbrush along the river, Bloodhounds bayed as they followed the fresh trail. Discarded prison garb was found lat the ond of the tunnel where it lempties Into a mmall creek, indicat- ling tho men found civilian clothes Authorition maid the men | had apparently been given outside ald, Tracks showed tho convicts had | divided into two groups, ono at- tempting to make its way toward | Kansas City and the other toward | Leavenworth. 4 —A y made by was belloved Anderson belleves tho escape was planned and direct- ed by Frank C. Castro, a one-eyed half-breed “Indian serving his se ond term for robbery. Castro was ja prisoner 30 years ago, when a new tunnel was built and the old Jone abandoned All prison officials 4 forgotten the existence of the 4 tunnel and nono of the prison charts or maps showed it. How ever, Castro knew exactly where it started and by burrowing thru the power house concrete walls, he created an avenuo of escape. Most of the men who ereaped were serving terms of from 10 to years for robb eee EUGENE, Ore., Dec, 3.—Six pris. oners éacaped from the Lane coun- ty jail a o'clock this morning by digging a hole thru thé brick wall of the antique structure. Fourteen other prisoners remained behind and called out of the window at a paxser by about. 7 o'clock this morning to have him tell the sheriff part of his guests were cone. DENIES FAKE TICKET SALE “I don't know anything about it than you do.” Edwarl Welthorn, 29, salesman, who was arrested Saturday after noon at the stadium, made the above statement Monday in reply to ques. tions about his alleged connection with the sale of counterfelt tickets to university footba Weilthorn, accord! Bannick and Patrolman ©. rick, was identified by “Torehy rence, of the University of Washing ton, as one of the men who had sold upwards of $260 worth of bogus pasteboards for the Washington | Washington State football ne al} | week ago Saturd Weilthorn nantly denied any connection with the case, declaring | | that if any bad tickets w knew nothing of it. Welt ‘© sold he orn has been held in the city jail since his| si ure HER MORE ABOUT CONGRESS iE STARTS ON P. tempore of tho senate, called that] to, order | hat 2 ern bel u rted} I | A upon| ad ins . ate or w at th deat ¢ ators. Knute. Nelson, Minn i icholson, Colorado, and Dil ngham, Vermont In his prayer € lain, asked God upon. Mr widow of All eye Johnson, Minr h desk at the extreme 1 1 publican sid I t J Q n sa Sena Dak a and they ¢ w te nate ot the presidency, walked around am La F 1 *, who hold: i al be r of in t wa When f an unced La ¥ absent 198. Re , , he Job ent i look ; or t t Ad colum: pnd y h ind ono auickly. ‘ upon} In fact, I know less about the case! 3.|to Burton 8. Tucker was to start to. see se Herp yon tomer nent Rg Morpher er ye os rem Rene et er panei Ly HERE’S MORE ABOUT NELL AUSTIN STAR looks around her ward in the how pital with calm ey« n phe drops back Into the ntupor which has held her iy taking nourishment regularly and regaining her strength ay time yp Dr, H, , Powell, attending phy: niclan, was optimistic that she would | noon recover completely | At the request of Chief of Police her W. DB. Soveryns of Seattle, Inxpec:| tor Jowett in making persistent ef forts to hear Miss cell's — ator which Severyns believes, will. com pletely close the caso so far as th Seattle are concerned. Jew-| ett In keeping clowo touch with hos pital authorities and when Miss Nell has become strong enough to talk, hopes te assert his authority long enough to get her story Jowett and the Vancouver are working the theory was followed thruout y the Beat- tle police, namely that Miss Nell left home because of family trouble and worr BELIEVE police pollee, on that over money K WAS |ON WAY TO FRIEND'S “It {9 pomsiblo that sho was ac costed by somo man on Jericho bench,” Inspector Jewett sald. “We believe that sho arrived in Van couver Wednesday afternoon, spent ,an hour or two in the elty and ‘then took a street car to reach the |home of Mra. Ingram, a friend of the family. Mra Ingram Ives in Mthe Marine drive neighborhood and this would account for tho girl be- Sng there, | “Mins Nell propably left the street car at the wrong corner, and {t 1s then considered possible that she met some man who may have s#pok en to her and frightened her, Sho} ran blindly to the Ladd home, and fell unconscious on their porch.” | ‘This would account for the foot- stops paralloling the girl's on the lannd of the beach, the torn pleces of a photograph and five Vancon- ver street car tickets found near her glove and purse, Jewett sald it was equally probable that the footprints. were made Wy a man who saw her acting queerly and| who sought to ald her. The effect, in elther case, he believes, that tho |girl would be badly frightened, would be the same, | An intimation that the girl will be hurried away just as #oon as her ndition warrants waa given day by Miss Lelia Austin, daughter, according to reports from Vancouver Mins ella, who has persistently maintained that force and coercion from an outside source was responsible for the girl's. pecu |Ifar actions, raid she may take Mia» |Nell to her home, in Hugo, Okla. | “Nell has asked for mother, said. “I do not to bring mother out here unless it fs! neceasary. Of course, she will come t But tf Nell re |covers we will seek somo place for j® long reat, probably to our home |in Hugo, where mother could take care of he ley, elder want ell needs her, will be {n no conditi is probable ell will bo taken to Seattle lescenca before being sent ng journey to Hugo. Sergt. A. Champion, of caged lua that ma. icho Beach happening Mor He ix seeking « taxicab driver | 0 ix reported to have abandoned | jhia mired cab near Point Grey. The cab had a girl for a passenger, who did not return with the drive: car men reported to the po! Champ! considers it Miss Austin was the passen; that ehe left the cab after it became | |mired and proceeded on foot in effort to find tho residence of Mra. A succumbed from n to rote | Vancouver, down anoth jthe | dn | explain ex |Probe Marriage of | Boy to Woman of 50 | d SEY CITY, N. C. nvestigntion into the ‘5 tage of Mrs. Busan O. Sim) worth more than $1,000,000. | pl "ROM the snares of | manageable and dropped into the sea | has been arrested for passing a num-| if a necking to remain so,|near here yesterday, The other men |ber of worthless ct on Tacoma | climbing out of a boat. Marcussen J join the church and share | were saved tarchan ta: Bei vO name is| and another youth, Albert Marlow, liberty with others, it Ae ~ withheld by juventle authorities, | = unting 4 ated by Racctmnae oo ie | Mil kee M spent the money he obtained on| ‘Te Bunting in the marshes about Casthe cel” alae ee .| Milwaukee Men to candy and other presents for the | three miles from Hoquiam. ‘ ade girls 10 erested oe + church, speaking yesterday morning | Return to, Shops |e ern ose eee | aa on the theme, "Why People Join} TACOMA, Dec. 3—Return of 1,300 to accept it and did so| it having been ‘in’ the service onl sum he Church,” 5 ____ | workmen Monday to their occupa shown the Sweet bill,|@ Short time. He decided later not tions, after y @ month’s layoff, | by he was convinced that|to keep the money and concluded A DS STOMACH was heralded Sun by an-| the y should be his.» He said|by returning it to the veterang nou ment of a Wright, master | } feel he was entitled to] bureau. mechanic of the Tacoma shor i 2 ph sonata? = a hutdown was of indef YEARS Linton, what the doct tats Dr. Wo, Chinese Doctor Licensed Herb Spectalint M. Hee We Chinese Medicine Co. 208 James St., cor, tnd Ave., Seattio Matablished 1903. Phone MA in-2195 ant District Attorney McMa- aor meee — — aT SE - hon expected to examine witnesses | | : during the day to find out what be-| Four Are Drowned |Sheik Ambition Is | Youth Is Killed ee : ster ‘of South in Airplane Crash| Downfall of Youth} on Hunting Trip with obtatning a license to marry the| CHERBOURG, Dec. &—Four] TACOMA, Dec. &—Tho ambition! 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