The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 12, 1923, Page 1

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AS THEY DO IT IN CONGRESS eratched his head. That wasn't a lady,” That CHAPTER I CHAPTER It CHAPTER IL winds, mostly Last $4 Hours Minimum, 37. » Two Men Report| Girl Dies When Auto Slips Off) Ferry in Oregon Sensational charges by John Dombeck, of Aberdeen, Mrs, Dombeck Byers was kid. illegally later became the death victim Jose | | Mrs, | that her daughter, | phine j naped, married and of what was reported an acci dental drowning, being Weanesday by Harbor and Oregon state author: were probed Grays ities. The traged: after d mhotbte! DROWNS, MOTHER SAYS, AFTER BEING id not know |" ghter’s death until abe prea dispatches. from Harrisburg stated ens there were inclined to the reported death of the r Both Byers and red to have told the traged. i TH OFFICE BURGLAR Loors: Gets $6,000 in Diamonds and $850 in Cash Capt. Hobson and ae The enone With the Biggest Circulation in Washington The Seattle Star | Batered as Gecond Class Matter May 9, 1899, at the Postoftice at Meattle, Wash, under the Act of Congress March 3, 1879, ay isi. SEATTLE, WASH, | Has New Plan for Justice i <6 - 7 7 / ce aia of hs rag = Wants “Mental J ury’ to i Examine All Criminals SEATTLE HOME Woman Justice, on Bench’Nine Years, MYSTERY cL Starts Move for Psychiatric Board Friend Are Found | ited a regu penal system should be atre ARREST GRAND JURY WITNESS "| Ordered Held by Foreman; ha Vagrancy Is Charge | | | KIDNAPED PPP PAPA APPA PPAR PPAR, Per Year, by Mall, $8.60 WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1923. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. ‘Stop Seattle Gus: Play! I t’sUptoYouMr. Congressman BOARD FIGHTS TAXIS Safety Corhmittee| of Council Moves to Bar Cabs from Central Stands uy Jone W Nelo © report was drawn up by ad committee consisting~of Frank a, “Keadl of the thatto division the * department; E. A | mitche’ I and Yesler the irian Ses ond and ‘Third av TO COME BACK Austin’s Sister Says Returning to South Nell ble to clear up the mys-| CLEVELAND IS | G. 0. P. CHOICE, [Who'll Lend HE STAR today addresses an open y letter to these Washington senators and congressmen: SENATOR WESLEY L. JONES SENATOR C. C, DILL HON. ALBERT JOHNSON HON. BEN HILL HON. JOHN F. MILLER HON. LINDLEY H. HADLEY HON. JOHN W. SUMMERS Miss Winifred Gemmel, University of Washington girl student, died from a bullet wound December 10. Her family said it was an accident. Police said it was suicide. Whatever it was, IT COULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED IF SHE HADN’T HAD A GUN! At a Thanksgiving party, Dr. Albert F. Mattice, prominent Seattle physician, was killed by a gun iv his own hand. His family scouted the police suicide theory and called it an accident. Whatever it was, IT COULDN’T HAVE HAPPENED IF HE HADN’T HAD A GUN! In Seattle alone nearly 100 persons have been shot since the first of the year, according to Police Inspector Harry O’Brien. IF THE GUNS HADN’T BEEN THERE, IT WOULDN’T HAVE ‘HAP- PENED! It is up to you gentlemen, The Star thinks, to stop the promiscuous sale of revolvers to Seattle folks and to other Washingtonians. You can lessen our suicides! You can lessen our accidental shoot- ings! You can lessen our murders! Let us tell you how: Few of these suicide and murder guns are purchased in Seattle. A city law, rigidly enforced, provides that a citizen must obtain a police permit before a dealer will sell him a revolver. To get this permit, he must explain to the satis- faction of the police pawnshop squad his need for such a weapon. “Never since the permit system went into effect have we found a single re- volver purchased under it on any holdup man or gunman who was brought in,” says Detective Lieutenant William G. Witzke, in charge of the pawnshop de- tail. But— There is no law to prevent any citizen of Seattle, reputable or otherwise, from ordering a revolver from some Eastern dealer and having it shipped to him by mail. There is no law preventing any man, reputable or otherwise, living outside of Seattle, from having a revolver shipped to him thru the mails by Seattle dealers. A city permit law to curb the purchase of weapons will be a farce in Seattle and in every other city as long as Uncle Sam’s mails are open for the shipment of firearms. That is plugged. That’s your job, gentlemen! Seattle—and Washington—want fed- eral legislation that will prevent sui- cides, gunmen and murderers from get- ting their weapons of death by mail or express. where the hole must be And we look to you gentlemen to give it to us! BLAST WRECKS HOUSE! Inmates: ‘Flee As Moonshine _ Still Blows Up and Causes Fire By S. B. Groff A giant moonshine still in a» oneand-one-half-story houseboat at 612 W. Blewett st. on the Lake Washington canal, near Fremont, exploded a half-hour after midnight Wednesday morn- ing with a» terrific roar that shook the district, wrecking the building and causing its total | loss in a fire which immediately | enveloped it. The police are probing an uncon= | tir med report that a man was seen {fleeing from tife building shortly att ler the explosion. He appeared to be |weverely burned, according to the | reports. Fire hal Robert L. Laing dew fire alarm wah sent own person, but that men arrived the flameg |had gained such headway that the « | building was doomed. e still exploded. at | flash of \ en the 12:28. The the explosion. was visible 5 Flames shot lows Iniaiudle and in a few moments the 3 blazing. hal Laing made a pere igation after the build- been destroyed, but failed ne occupant or owner of seboat. The only part of the e which was not burned was the float upon which it rested and a rts of the walls. “The, huge stil! was found in the , together with numerous bare nd broken bottles which appar- y had contained the product of distillers MISS SHANNON PASSES AWAY Miss Frances Shannon, for more |than 20 years a resident of. Seattie, {died Wednesday morning at the home of her sister, Mrs. Anna Ellie }cott, 722 15th eye, Miss Shannon }had been ill for several mionthsy ath was due to a paralytia ‘Oke, 3esides Mrs. Ellicott, Miss Shane n Is survived by three brothers, Shannon and Dr. James 6 Conception church. will follow at Calyary cems |Motion to Dismiss Phone Case Slated “Motion “for dismissal of the writ view filed by the city. protests of the state departs ks in the recent ) will be argued “orporation sel T. J. Ly nnedy and. as Saturday in the Thurston county superior rt at Olympia. akeandtganell oppose the motion s brought by he Pacific Telephone ph Co. 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