The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 11, 1923, Page 1

UROR STABS SELF! J udge Leaves Bench to Give Aid! The Newspaper With the Bigg est Circulation in Washington i The Seattle Star Hatered as Second Class Matter May 2, 1809, at the Postofticn at seattle, Wash. under the Act of Congress March 3, 1 Per Year, by Mall, £3.60 SEATTLE, WASH,, TUESDAY, \Y, DECEMBER 11, 1923. —— CENTS IN S SEATTLE. _ MAN IS FOUND YING! Jurors File Into Court; One Stays| | Miss Winifred Gemmel, university student, victim of a Beh: fatal shooting at her home Monday night. The family be- ind With Cut} | lieves the tragedy the result of an accident. The police think | In His Throat | it may be suicide. Fk | Nine women and one man were | ered in a jury room of a King ‘They te tat tnete Jory be University Girl Dies From Gunshot Wound Family Claim It Was Accident; Police Call It Suicide Firing a shot thru her head Monday night, fred G 22, Stand Up, Fred Ernst Roy Kinnear Flunked Sharpen Your Wits on. These Questions, Folks H ERE are the examination questions grammar chool boys and girls had to answer when Fred Ernst and Roy Kinnear went to school. ,Sit down tonight, folks, and see what _kind of a grade you could make if you had to pass it today: ARITHMETIC If 16 men can dig a trench 200 yards long, three feet wide and: four feet deep in 20 days, how many men can dig one 250 yards long, four feet wide and three feet deep in 15 days? Find true and bank discount on $600 for 90 days. HISTORY Name the Inter-Colonial wars and give cause of each and treaty closing each. Name presidents in order of succession. GEOGRAPHY Much geography what we now call sailor geography, such as name gulfs and bays of Europe. Bound each New England state. Name counties in Illinois. PHYSIOLOGY Name the bones in the human body. Trace the complete circulation of the blood, begin- ning with the left ventricle of the heart. SPELLING Thirty or 40 years ago there was no practical list of words as we have now. Pupils learned to spell words that they never saw only in the spelling books, as obe- lisk, porphyry, daguerreotype, etc. Howdy, folks! Mayor Brown is sued on note he gave to pur- chase an interest in the We- natchee Sun, Now who will say Doe was Sun-burnt? We don’t know why Doc wanted to buy a newspaper. Perhaps he Was sore because none of the Seattle papers would print his name, see Since Doc became one of the pro- prietors of the Wenatchee Sun, the| paper has discontinued the publica- tion of a pink edition. They're all Brown editions now. eee Photo by Tyee Studia *& es ie ee Ohio, known as “the mother of presidents,” has no presidential can-| f Gidates this year, Obviously, she in| practicing birth control. eee | A ged bal ‘elle ora | TOTALLY UNNECESSARY | n aged bailiff, Mellen Gilmore, | | went Into the jury room to search for him. A minute later, his bent frame quivering with ¢inotion, he emerged. He went to the desk of | the court clerk, Lester A. Rosenthal Rosenthal disappeared into the $u ante-room. There, wash bowl, and ly his own biood, he Fred Ernst, one of a num- ber of Seattle business men who went to school to Charles Fagan, oldest Seattle ischool teacher in point of service. ADVICE Sign on a side door to the county jail: “Keep Out,” | ee “What did’ that jury do to that woman who shot her husband?" “Oh, they found her guilty of dis charging firearms within the city . ears and Winifred had no love af- fair or other motive for committing heaped over a Photo by Cur in a pool of | Is tts Studio ing suicide, Mmits."" . Thia is the season of the year when the modern small boy looks scornfully at his father, while the Old Man tries to tell him about Santa Claus. % Christmas presents will soon | be due, and Little Homer Brew, Ir., is trying to choose between | a silver whisky flask and a Kid- | Kar. Charles Fagan, principal of Cascade. school, has taught) . . hundreds of Seattle Oklahoma is a funny state. They} many of whom are leaders have prohibited the wearing of] the -husiness and professi . paar a ‘Tseen a gus elton | life of the city today. He is e- | one of the oldest in point of Leap Year is now only 20 days| service in the city, having! oe “se stil a esl been a principal here for the cks on the range. There Wayne Sutton, girls. “the last rte past-35 eet # we saw him, he was still :nbranded. | ee By John W. Nelson And then there's Bernie Brin, the| “And. now Fredd ragtime king. Here's a great chance | please step forwar for a red-headed gal to get free les-| Question for Roy } sons in plano playing. study his history . . but must have been out coa: OUR OWN MATRIMONIAL | the girls AGENCY “Naine All the Inter Jandsgive the cause of j treaty closing each.” Principal James Fagan was ta [to his history class sc 0. or more lyears ago, and Roy inear, c | probably was very reluctant to admit |the truth of his teacher's remarks, [looked abashed. Fred Ernst, witb the promp that since has caused | placed among the le jot the ct of cour stion then, but can a? the past 33 ag taught the three ” Rs of hildren, and what more important, ins charges that fundame tizenship whic y of them as well as prosperou Special for Leap Year. Wealthy, handsome bachelor. Is six feet tall, has black hair and brown eyes. Dandy skater and boxer. For further information address Pete Muldoon, the Arena, one you do it now years succe: erations school as even And, then, ton, the from Ma the hin wre’s Charile Helgh. ison Park, pproach of Leap Grab somebody, t a grateful elec- Heutenant gov: representative who trembles at good « in so m citizens ness men. And today ar, te makes. him ernor. Well, the {s over, stars have quit rammar upe the end a lot of school for the and all the addi since been And on o¢ arithmetic tional cli added to the curric that he This evening to dinner with It bai mann, and afterwards comes in ¥. gan, L. Sallivan and John Murphy, John did saggest we sing an ol and we did start, but » Ber- Tae. Irish singing, lest Sulllr rst open tryl to reach the top of tiie ‘seale, and nalizes his advent into posing a bill that says shall not be appointed federal government w late they leave office!’ It is revolution, by h attack on the Limping “It takes $40,000 4 10 In Los leader ment for na Is n 90 aclts er egg ia The eum| That man Dill must eu. |tion or he would not tl utes, and then bre . WHERE DOES HE COME IN ON ANYWAY? ©, B, Wisehoary’s step is tighter, ile te brighter an ped whistle louder It's» girl | ¢ n the home of Mr. or ers to avoid t 4.4.8, [proposition becomes lé the wolf ¢ hillicothe boys, casion he yistts the rooms and pro: pounds the modern questions to the | modern little boys and little girls and |makes his earnest little talks on | good citizenship. Because Fagan is Interested {n/ “his boys,” he haa prepared a tent | lauch as the boys and girls 30 and 40 years ago were required to an-| swer. How many of you boys and} — girls who attended Mr. Fagan's| classes In the early ‘908 can still |panssone ‘of these tents? red Erni can you answer them? you, R And can} MRS, KEELEY | IS RELEASED Woman Held After Shooting Freed by Prosecutor 11 Prosecuting James en ‘Tuesday eased Mra, T. L ia] of the water company Dec her ground foi Attorne morning . wife of a re Ke here she early Sunday h and she stumbled rn Mrs, Gil when Gille itened ¢ found them and in fre from A eu orted Kee 1 in near i © rey ation = DILL AND THE DUCKS! HAT’S this we see? Senator Dill, our new statesman, Is it revolution? sig- the high body by pro- “members of congress to positions under the ithin two years of the eck! It is a bald, bold Lodge of Lame Ducks and the Perpetual Patriarchs of the Pap- oitanks, and it looks ominous, very. have a pickle disposi- ius early and ruthless- mms, ly attempt to break down one of our choicest and juciest paeeice ntial prerogatives. loes he expect the lame ducks How and pap-suck- at the door if his cruel ww, we'd like to know? GRAMMAR Parse all the words in the following sentence: “That that that John parsed is not the that that Mary parsed.” Define a defective, a redundant and an auxiliary verb and give an example of each. found Williams with a knife wound in the throat. | A moment later the staid dignity | and serenity of Judge Everett B. Smith's court room was shattered. Pale and rhaken, Judge Smith went to view the body. ‘The nine women crowded around, Deputy Corpora. thon Counsel Hugh Fullerton and At noel, at the University of Washing- ton, fatally injured herself in an. upstairs room of her home, 1928 Queen Anne ave. Mi Gemmet died at 6:12 a, m. Tues- day, despite the efforts of Dr. W. €. Lippincott to save her life. i¢ the shooting was not am | accident.” Mrs. Crocker was called to the Gemmel home shortly after the family and. young Crocker. found {the girl lying with a bullet hols |thru her head “Monday night. The |family refused to comment on the {affair Monday. Mrs. Crocker said Famous Detective Chief Dies Suddenly in South A. Pinkerton Passes; Career’ Spent in Training Other Men |Wm. LOS ANC Dec William A. Pi head o! Pinkerton Detective agency of N York, died at the Biltmore hotel here days after he ved was taken arri Pinkerton last night Hotel uddenly {1 ck, but his death Idenly this mor often boasted of never had been {il a For the past motored 1 an Pinker that hi in his life. he had the day six weeks lown the the comp nd was appare health. Yester of a sligh ce ‘ound. the lobby of a late last night before his death this me in a id he ned but nephew He ¢ nbc Pinkerton had planned to spend he for the giving past up a had done inc tive charge ad been SENATE FIGHT IN DEADLOCK Progressives Hold Upper Hand in Contest Dec. 11 sives tightened their ¢ WASHINGTON, progres grip on the senate toda When the fig selection chairman of the committeo on inte tate commerce was resumed not unged from the Inst bal 1 tabulation of the fir The today—the the fight, wa Cummin A total Att republ moved the chamber go into execut ession to consider nominations. WEATHER — probaby Wednesda Temperature Last 24 Hours Maximum, 52. Minimum, Today 2. 40 noon, torneys Preston, Thorgrimson ana| Altho Detectives D. J. McLennan/that they believed the shooting an | Turner, counsel in the sult, lookea}®4 C. J. Waechter say the girl is / accident. ‘ jon in awe, a suicide, her family maintains that| Crocker, «she said, told her that Of the entire group @ nine wom.| the Shooting was an accident. No/ Winifred was not despondent dur Jen maintained their poise and dig.| motive for suicide has been estab-|ing the family dinner, tho sho has lished, except for the fact that she |been over-weary from studying at |has been in fll health for several | the university and has not attended |weeks and had not attended her| School for several days. “She com- classes at the university for 10|Plained of being tired Monday ays. |night,” Mrs. Crocker reported, and | Miss Gemmel had been playing | Went up to her room to study. Her cards with her sister and a yoyng|room is in the front part of the man friend, A. D. Crocker, 346 16th / house, The rest of the family and a N., in ike living room up un-|Mr. Crocker began a game of til 9 o'clock Monday night. | bridge, which was interrupted five The girl excused herself and went | Minutes later by the report of the upstairs, where she stayed for 10 | 0ld revolver. minutes. Crocker and Miss Gem-| “They rushed upstairs. Winifred r continued playing ds|was lying in her father’s room, hard asanak: dying. An old revolver, which has ‘s parents, Mr. and Mrs.|been in the family for years, lay mmel, followed by Crocker, | Hearby. irs to the room, to find n her room her books werd red lying on the floor, clutch-|!¥ing open with @ pencil and paper ing a revolver, She had fired ashot|Showing that she had started to thru her head. Dr. Lippincott was|Study before .she went into her jcalled and treated the girl at the| father’s room and got the ree home, refusing to allow. her to be} Volver.” moved to a hospital. The girl lived | for eight and a half hours. Coroner W. H. Corson and the pollo investigated the case. to nd declared Mrs. I. | Crocker § 16th ave, N. Sa Must Go to Idaho to Stand Trial on Mail Charge ams was rushed to the city| by jospital physicians a moments later, still conscious, nable to sheak. At noon he} hovered between life and death. He j8 a grocer and operates a store nt 3 leaf Place hosp. few bu ing to his wife's story Williams had ar vice h He to the been fearful of nder a wrong uiso had been deeply y financial difficul. ving un and had been brooding over » whipped to ‘Ch ; we of his business affairs, | whi nats ARING SUIT Aya ST THE CITY Williams, with 11 other jurors of December panél, took his seat} iny. The case is a civil suit for 600 damages brought by John] bin 54 against | e city for 4 8 to his ey ty by an earth slide. he case was first mtatrunted when Jose wal po! decision worried He Willian eph Watkins of sister resident His nephew, with him w Allan Pinkerton, n he di (Turn to Page 9, Cotumn i} FOUR CONVICTS : ESCAPE PRISON! isi ii One Shot Down and Second | pear “betas Judge Jeremiah Neterer | father’s bedroom at the home, 1928 | When this was learned Anne aye, Monday night (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) known the Gemmels for Mr. Douglas Answers Us— ROSE JR DOUGLAS gave Star a. ste ae : TOR DOUGLA are _The i ar a statement} ittorney, He posted bond of $2,000 uesday answering our editorial of Monday. In this!to appear at Couer d'Alene. Idaho, editorial We pointed out, that the grand jury investigating | on June 2, 1923 is. Vice conditions in the city had been in session four weeks,| The. charge arose from an Idaho and that no vice report had been made, and asked why pcos eats bres inna age ‘ great ete Mats 0 was charged with stealin We asked Douglas to ite Il the public What he expected to|money trom the mails, Johiatens show. The prosecutor’s statement said: | according to the indictment returned “Tt would be manifestly improper for me to discuss what] @sainst him, accepted $2,000 from the «the grand jury is working on and I do not intend to allow|P™oner from. funds he knew had art un-! anvone to stampede me into doing so. heen thes 1. he ee tigate | enyone to stampede g The hearing of Tuesday, at which John Stit As for the $1,500 allowed for investigation purposes, | Col. . G. Davis, U. 8. attorney from h alppar-| that amount is a mere drop in the bucket compared to what] Coeur d'Alene, represented the govs ut him./eould and should properly be spent securing evidence of |®™™ent, ended a legal dual in which © calle “*'law violations in this community at the present time. [iy alapcanl 8, ageld a netcen’ i: 1 guard, ana} Especially is this true when we consider that the forces|idaho, ‘Tho last indictment was n 1jof vice are reaping a harvest running into hundreds of | evaded when a local court ruling held thousands and are willing to spend vast sums in order to|t»at the indictment was faulty and protect it granted a writ of habeas corpus, Ane ag ate f other indictment was tmmediatel Before we get thru we expect to demonstrate that this| arawn up and presented. if 500 is the best spent money King county has expended| on law enforcement in a long time. | “Two years ago they criticised me for spending $2 | dragging Lake Union for Jim Mahoney’s trunk. But we| aisha fin found the trunk and the erities quit talking. My policy is to find the trunk first, then do the talking in * court.” 1 Gemmel yarns over the juror of the family and mother of A. D.| 1| Crocker, the young man friend of eral court of| th Genevieve. He was to Judge | present the University of | excused to ap-| Wash n girl shot herself in her tion of Queen The fight of Lee Johnston, Seattlé we ha to evade extradition to Idaho to answer a federal charge of accepting money known to be stolen from the mails, ended at a hearing before U. 8. AL G Bowman Tuesday, with defeat for the attorney, ING, Kan, ts made De 4% dramatic prison ad group to ; Commissioner Jom from the peniten i attempting fifth e his geta uleg the pr before midnignt Charte with a long rec r the ewart n there wa $1 | The ward “ot "tie: oktty Egy $2,000 tins was derived trom the phenome GIRLS! “MA-MA” DOLLS FREE! PAGE —And We Answer Mr. Douglas STAR isn’t trying to stampede you, Mr. Douglas, in Violating the time-honored secrecy of the grand jury room. Surely you cannot suspect us of any such intention n| What we ARE trying to do is to stampede you into get- ting ACTION as a result of the grand jury’s deliberations, | ema or SEE 17