The Seattle Star Newspaper, December 15, 1923, Page 1

© , ite == The SeattleStar | seid aimee Siideceneregrecrearett coc meerpeniew emesis cecengparmmnnenct Rory i Ra temaeeeea mmm Re at ttt aa ae eS Tl ARE (INDICTED nn rns The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in Washington OR ‘Matered os Hecond Class Matter May 2, 181 it the Postotfics at Beattie, Wash. under the Act of Congress March Por Year, by Mall, $4.00 ‘SEATTLE, WASH., SATURDAY, DECE MBE R 1, 1928. * Two CENTS IN SEATTLE, —— —— cinerea CS SS a RST SEE ES en en |Why 1 Planned Coolidge Frees 31 Men AOS Grand Jury | ‘Let Us Bid!) Seattle Widow Ends Probe’ of Gambling ‘Sixty- five Indictments Are for Card Games; Two on Jointist Charge and — Three for Perjury [Home Brew | PARDON WAR peace on earth and good-will to| HIS is no time for petty complaints cet ira ti ge pa an about the way the Community hotel ee ces ‘ | project is managed. Folks who sisted. evasion wi a wan have grudges to air and special favors ate mis caine Gee ee ee From| ee ee hing aba oe According to the society eotum.| Three Cities Are| The Star’s attention has beerf called rs orm | Given Freedom| to what City Light department officials se Jah is hac ae believe is an effort to favor a private | 0600, | r "AC} Res aia’ vice “chuitda Gea by President | power company on the hotel lighting | Returning 71 true bills, the King county grand jury made its report to Judge Calvin S. Hall at 1 o’clock Saturday aft- Pa sik bared dcaueaine' te | Rae ad ernoon. Sixty-five of the indictments were for conducting should be worth $33.52, according to} contract. é gambling games and two on jointist charges and three for Gianiictys Vein, ceding vst pee | Frank Hull, secretary to A. S. Kerry, |perjury. The perjury indictments were returned against ese : “| gays the Puget Sound Power & Light Co. |witnesses called before the grand jury. Today’s Leap Year suggestion for A nal. The King county grand jury room. They were not called, as the Saturday was preparing a large) [JUr¥Y has completed taking of tes Lobe 4 timony. number of indictments, believed THe investigation, by the jieaale to charge violation of the state | gambling in Seattle cardrooms, has gambling laws, and expected to | Occupied the past four weeks of the girls: Leo Druxman. A real bar gain; handsome and wealthy; can 4) keep you in the Fatimas to which you are accustomed. eee HOLD 'IM, DAVE, HE'S A-REARIN’ ; | has purchased $50,000 worth of hotel sasd the! bonds. He adds that it has been the red tothe war policy of the hotel corporation to give oth and Avesta! contracts to holders of bonds. pe : . turn them over to Presiding Fs 4 Up ie, tS wit Be Nubian children in the pper Sentences commuted Include th: one | ja ja 7 i Pi ‘alvii i. 8 et Fen ee Nile valley love Use pine ietiea| Lf this is true-the City Light-depart= Judge Calvin 8. Mall shortly | gambling halls, were called. She castor oll so much that they not only drink it, but bathe -£ in it." — David Whitcomb at a after noon. The indictments, ac- jiff Matt Starwich, Saturday, an: g to report, will name ® [nounced that he “had made com wumber of cardroom pro- Plete preparations to handle the in the city and dealers |indictments. All of his available cago, Kansas} ment, OWied by the citizens of Seattle, "of wentences| has every right in the world to claim the at the White House! job—or at least a right to bid on it. AP ( ployes of these places. : deputies were kept within call to di i b; he release of the pris Puret § ray & Ti Joy tire morning | serve the warrants. : inner given by CLA Te release of the prisoners wos The Puget Sound Power & Light Co.’s ents, which| Preparations for the report of Superintendents, «sion mate} SUbseription of $50,000 looks pretty small wn by Pros:| the jury were made Friday by: eae ecuting Malcolm Dougias.! Captain Colvin and Judge E. Es. Deputy E D. Colvin and) Smith. Judge Smith left Satur- members of the prosecutor's staff./ day for a two weeks’ vacation {it eneral Daughterty and) heside the subscription of $2,600,000 mbers of the commission) which the owners of the City Light have One thing has been worrying Li'l |t Gee. Gee for months and months—| 34 | During eonsideration of the indict-| Qalif b ee re bs fornia, but before his depart: ae atime pes ae mage ments Saturday morning the jurors) ure from the courthouse Friday Lb excused from the Jury ‘room Deputy| noon Judge C. C. Dalton rules’ that only * eo ee ; y Toom Deputy | noon, he ealled in Captain Coli regularly licensed barbers can bob a/G psstesaa girl's ha! This makes an embar- rassing situation, as a barber is apt | W to forget himself and say, “Can 1/4) re you today, Miss?” and directed that the report, when it was ready, be made to we eb enaed late Friday, occu Judge Calvin S. Hall, who has- pled benches outside the grand Jury) succeeded Judge Si as pre- —————| siding judge in the King county | superior court. santa: of its vice teak it was ine | dicated Saturday. All of its time, to date, aside from that voted to a probe of petty jury tampering, which occupied the first week of xg {its deliberations, has been given to Armed Police Squad Takes | the gambling investigations, Prose- |cutor Douglas, Saturday, said that Three Men Prisoner —_| he expected the jury to spend sev« es, who comm the men ‘(City Blecks “Pbwer oe Line to New Hotel! es of the prisoners r with the places ¢ Coe ‘'Has No Chance to e to Bid, Is Reason} Given for Action 1 the ye : Mrs. Gertrude Smith eral weeks more before its labors 1 I do not knov “ ree are completed. Other subjects are: I t has be * & * * & ct, A Halted by. the snviguns of ©. | vice, tquor law’ violations: andaee : By police squad heavlly.nrmed |i.gea graft. ‘The Jury also 7 ill a woman to suicide? prowler car, three men driving | US)" BP investaation ber: King ol Bt > I A few days ago The Star received a request from | pgs machine were arrested |. sabeubes commu 4 m Mr. ¥ " friends of ertrude Smith, ttle widow, to aid | es de srt i Se ak weak | jury’ will probably sit well TRAVELOGUE t th electri and) 'n pavinittel in a search for her. The friends feared she had killed hela hin ths city by Police | 1° *Dovelas sah, its. work i$ London. ast an t orself, Capt, BE. L. He for investi- | Dear Homer: They're singing I ld Two days later Mrs. Smith reappeared. She HAD gation in connection with the ey a new song over here in dear ol’ London. The chorus ends, “Yes, We ‘Ave No Bahnanhas To-die!” And 1 saw the Prince of Wales |! Thursday and he didn’t fail off his horse once. He was riding in 2 Women Are Held a limousine. Soulfully, WANDA VON KETTLER. for Killing Child ) " . ; : cent’safe robberies in the city. contemplated suicide. For two days and two nights, she Ls ania ‘YOUNG COVELL. > One of th W. E. Meyers, said, she had tried to make up her mind whether to live vad dbz greets pi dad 26, has a police record, | miatteriok lating : tha’ ‘power. cbt or die. And—death lost. ing to Hedges is belie | t 1p to the leasees, or the The Star asked her to tell what had driven her into that he is the owner of an auto: | WILT Olympic Hotel comy rate g : din ths Ss abiiee matic pistol which was found in } KERRY CERTAIN NO this mental attitude. Believing that her story would | ia te CONTRACT LET YET serve as a warning to other unsophisticated widows bes : ; ie Ret i of the hotet has} likely to fall into the same trap, Mrs. Smith agreed. goer 30 Life Term Recommended tting of} And here is her story as she told it. for Lad of 16 i BY MRS. GERTRL DE SMITH eae COQUILLE, Ore., Dec Alton ad with was found jegree murder and commended for a life sentence in prison by a jury here te after 45 minutes 1 The boy was c ith killing Mrs. Fred C gi of his uncle, Arthur Covell, crippled PAID $1,400 F , | $350 PLACE; LOSES ous wreck | The real estate men fin ked were found’ 16 but in a side they found a pistol which still warm. Tt was of a Span Contention that the boy was sube had been inflt »y the crippled mystic whose availed the been paying $3 m va eg "4 s it was to ial t to pay 91.400 Yar’ the: : keep the boy fr th sentence, Tries Suicide After BOARD TO HEAR get d th . t Inte bons r > ism, &s- Hull t ha ; (Turn to 3) ‘arguing wit ne ff r 1 (Turn to Page 3, Column 5) HERE IS A mpeg see: (Poor Geography Costs Man Iwo Months in Jail = Sy Sa c om I How big a B Dur ked Du M I CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON { | rock Y IVY CLUB ; 7 + aie endltlel to «abit h alt Juc ti Bimbo who tells your wife to t Saturd ree f a a Bata 1 F 1 I Y give you a box of cigars for , 1 a i , Christmas, . H ! miltion oir ar manded