The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 23, 1924, Page 3

{ { @eEvyot Ignores Carter; ntiqu ¢ barriers ¢ by Ca a CONFESS! PUBLIC T0 SEE) TUT'S TOMB To Grant New License RE-ENTER SARCOPHAGUS Lady Carnarvon Will Get Excavation Permits o Carnar originally held the Egyptian gove government proposes to reissue a license to Lady Carnarvon, with ad ditional clauses designed to avold the aitfioult of the past, but wi ne Howard Carter, who has b charg ations for vons, es, SUD Me ound the tomb exypte nder the keys that the heavy lid of refused to sur Tt was foun the sarcopha of the dead pharaoh, pended in midair, as lett when C of his An inv tomb has was t had been t work bec in co! of the orig Carnarvon expe WIDMER ALIVE? Kirkland Merchants Give Clue to Missing Man Edward W fi Foster, may be wandering in cinity of Bothell mer, of am in a state nesia, it was belleved Saturday by relatives and friends who were still searching for the man peared a last Thur while walking from his farm to tle. who disap. week ago lay A man, answering Widmer’s de scription, was seen Friday morn! s by several people, and asked Kirk land merchants the road to Bothell His trail way lost at the latter place. H. A. Bakenhaus, 1908 Fourth ave,,| killed Mrs. his brother-in-law. and Miss Minnie} because they had made )D KILLER AND PRINCIPALS IN AX ATTACK Altho Carl Ryberg, confessed ax murderer, says that he| “1 never did an act in my life that {me Laura Mummey and almost killed her husband | was crim! | trouble between himself and their Seattle musician, Sheridan| granddaughter, Marguerite, the woman herself denied Sat- BAT TAR a / Mrs. Laura Mummey (above), who was shot and killed by Carl Ryberg last Wednesday, dnd whose body was cremate in the fire which the assuilant set to the house. Belaw is Joshua Carl Ryberg, who Friday confessed to the murder of Mrs. Mummey, who was beaten Laura Mummey at Seattle Heights Wednesday, and to the over the head with an ax by ax attack on her husband and the firing of the Mummey | Ryberg. home, declared Saturday he feels justified in his crime. Cale = ~)|MICTIM EXCITED Mummey Delirious When He Sees Granddaughter HERE'S MORE ABOUT MURDER CONFESSION STARTS ON PAGE 1 came out. He had gun his hand, I hit him the He swung around and pointed the gun at my body, the a1 anf! I am too old now," |! with | ho said. “Thia|is tho first time ajax member of my family ever spent a TN at-grand. daughter of Joshua and Mrs, Mar Laura Ryberg, gr day tn jail.” So it's you, Is it? he sald. ummey, Seattle Heights ax apartments, his sister, took up the| urday that her grandparents had made any trouble. She} pyverg, in his\confession, said that | But I was too quick for him. I/tims, the Innocent cause of the t search Bree era “ee igre blamed Ryberg himself. Here are Mrs. Marguerite | the revengetul attack upon the Mum-| grabbed the gun with my left hand|edy, visited Mummey at the Virgir reported that mer, whose tour| > Dele *G- cya was pronipted by his resent-jend hit him agaia. He went down Friday, in comp: young GangMiats: Are. under So pumas ie ROE ARRON Win eels RODS RE DH one want at their “ipeddiing in my mar-|T didn't hit him hard. T digo ther yh Widmer’s care, dropped from sight} Peter Paulson, present husband, at their Martha Lake) Mire. ire nett the two old folks|want fo. I had better senso than y became excited over their + starting from his farm that| home Saturday. | responsible for his wife divorcing him |that. But kept trying to get ame delirious for a time, ing to visit his sister on a busi-| Photo by Price & Carter, Star Atatt Photographers | year ago, and particulalry blamed|up and I hit him, kind of ensy to ‘ee: inaribd Ahhat' no a mission. His wife has been dead | dnrSyer pie | Mra, Mummey, Ie and his wife lived | hree or four times 0 per 4 to see him ° some time. | | with the Mumrpeys before the di “Then I heard Mrs. Mummey| The tots mother, now Mrs. Mar He is 40 years old and was last | | vorce. say, ‘Daddy, what's the mat. |@Tet Paulson, when told of Ryberg’s en by neighbors wearing a blue sult | | Hix wife, now|Mre, Peter Paulson,| ter? and I turned and she was |*'Test, said she was gind. “He brown hat, He wears glasses. > eae before she had Jearned of Rybers’s| standing in the doorway. wed me enough trouble,” she said Friends Congratulate Him on Quick Capture HERE’S MORE ABOUT JUSTICE STARTS ON PAGE 1 Sheriff James McCulloch, of Ever. lett, was congratulations Saturday from his many friends for | his solution of the Seattle Heights jax and fire mystery. recetving above named to go by the prt mary. Or any other six of the 13 long-timers, which tnelude J. Ryberg Didn't Confess He |confession, wax told he was in jail.) oy took Mummey’s gun, swung Bt ee ee r - | She said Jaround and shot her. Bho fell Wanted to Kill Ex-Wife “That's good.) I am giad of It. | over." App — That's where he|belongs. Lord knows) Ryberg was asked where he hit Carl Ryberg, confesned ax-fiend, | he has caused mis enough trouble Mrs. Mummey. always had the kindest thought of | That Ryberg) had long contem-| «why, right in the body. I held Neighbors Welcome Suspect When He Is Freed en Arthur Weaver, $1-year his former wife, now Mrs. Pete) plated the attack upon the Mummey | Paulson, even after he had killed | home was revealed in his confession. lthe girl's grandmother, assaulted | “I took the battle of gasoline with her grandfather and burned their | me from Seattle|" he said the gun right at her,” he said, and motioned with his hands, showing how it happened. “Mummey was still lying on PAGE 3 DODGE BROTHERS DEALERS SELL GOOD Ther USED CARS « may be dealers who have more Used Cars for sale, but there aren’t any who have better. Good Values for Today— 4ge Br 6 Type jedan 1922; Dise Wheels Accessories, etc 1,100 miles Dodge Brothers Commerc! 1920 Screen Body WLEaton SUMMIT AT PINE HERE'S MORE ABOUT OIL PROBE zs STARTS ON PAGE 1 aimed if it can be drawn out, it criminal intent id to know the ry and be 1 it if his wn interests are protected, already iy under a committee subpoena. He wants to protect himself, but the committee has met his advances to this end with no promises. Under this new trend of the case, |the plan for the next week calls for |a “getting back to basic facts.” | Walsh had a clearly defined pro: gram of procedure, which got out of nd when extraneous matters be- 1 to be thrown into the hearings order to confuse its operations. reached a climax when Frank ip was called in to explain rumors he had heard regard © sale of President Harding's the Marton Star. was at this juncture that decided 1t would be a good © suspend hearings so he could vamp the program. That is wha s been doing during his ab this week. ntime, he fe in Th about Mei a singular fact points out that it Is that the committee of which he is factor, 1s “going it alone.” ‘No ald being contributed by any of the which might expected to be functioning in co-operation with the committee—the department of justice, the navy de- partment and the secret service, All these are leaving the whole probe to ators. S WITNESS HERE NEXT WEEK Here Ss the schedule for next week as desired by Senator Walsh: 1—Call ward McLean, Wash- ington newspaper publisher, who was intimate friend of and other leaders agencies an Harding in the e sé slender clues, |home, Prosecuting Attorney C. T. He stopped to visit at the home of) the back porch and Mrs. Mum. administration, to learn what he Behrens, George A. Bundy Rahrig Athi 4 ar nyatgeaseor | Rescoe, o¢ Severete, said teraas A. W. Earles, atjout a half mile from} mey was in the kitchen. She w-herder, returned to the home| knows or is‘willing to tell about the A. Lou Cohen, P. J. Lotgren, | Pheri Merviuletly but persistentiy,| “Ryberg told mo he wrote Mra. |the Mummey home, Tuesday eye-| fell in the kitchen, not the |°f Ms brother-in-law and sister,| inception of the scheme to lease the Thomas A. Lee, Asbury E. | for Ryberk, quietly pit reat 7" | Paulson a fetter the day of the at: |;ning preceding the tragedy. Ho lett) back porch, 1 went in past her |Mt. and Mrs. Cornelius Grimes, at|naval oll reserves and who was in Preen cae A. 2 Hoareeety a “ors “f thes! a Gaysin jail, broke |t#ck, wishing her well and hoping |the Earles at 1} o'clock. All night) to the safe. I had seen Mum- attle Heights, late Fri from|on the play And, in ke manner, if you |. ret confessed after a kindly |Ahe would be happy for the sake of |long, after he had missed the last) mey trying to stuff some pa- |tho Everett jail, he found a hot| call Bascom Slemp, secre- vote for W. T. Campbell for the | down sand confhastl ttt, MeCullocn | thelr child,” Roscoe said. “He|interurban, denons of revenge! pers in it. Some blue papers |*upper waiting for him and a big|tary to President Coolidge, for ques- two-year term, you can not vote | questioning oy ener ea ee | plamcd his domestic troubles on the| struggled with the better nature of! were sticking partly out. slab of his favor ple. Weayer|tioning about conversations he is for A. E. Flagg or for R. N. |Friday afternoon. McCulloch was acentigl walk Leezer, George B. Worley, Craw- | sided in his investigation and solu. Murmmeys. and toward “He never revealed the man “The outer door of the safe was|Was arrested on the statement of supposed to have had with McLean the prime moving} President | febaker Touring riginal finish accessories FA st-0318 DAUGHERTY WILL SUBMIT RECORD | Attorney General Appeals to Public Opinion BY A. L. BRADFORD (United Press Staff Correspondent) WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Attor- General Daugherty today was |preparing a detailed record of his administration of the department of justice as his answer to charges on which his removal from the cabinet 1s sought. Daugherty will present this record to the senate committee which next week will begin investigating him. He will use it also in a series of public speeches in which he will ap- peal to public opinion not to convict him without @ hearing on the charges made by Senator Wheeler, Montana, and other. critics. He has called into consultation his closest associates in his department {and with them 1s planning a fight which not only is to consist of a re- | ply to his critics, but will become a |counter attack on some of the most |active of his foes, Having made it plain that he will | not resign voluntarily, Daugherty let It be known today that he does not expect Prcaident Coolidge to ask him to quit until he has been given an opportunity to face his accusers be- fore the senate committee. Daugherty has won to his support John T. Adams, chairman of the re publican national committee, who, in a statement, asserted that “only @ few political blackguards and sean |dalmongers were behind the effort to oust Daugherty. o Aside from Senator Wheeler, of | Montana, democrat, the leading fig- |ures in the effort to get Daugherty |to resign are Senator Lodge, Massa: | chusetts, republican leader in the ; Senate; Senator Pepper, Pennsyl” vania, one of the recognized admit: | istration spokesmen in the senate. Adams, in his statement, pointed out that several former democratio ~ cabinet officials have been involved [in the oft scandal | on Daughtery was unjust, and added; i. He said the fight ~ ford E. White or Glenn Cork ery. In making these elimi: m it will not be wise to let a little Matter like a man’s wearing a red tle or trousers that bag o the knees decide you. There are some big things to be done in this city the next few years, and it will require big, honest men to do the work. And {t might also be well to mention that selecting a man for mayor or the city council is not done on the same bas one buys a parrot. In the case of the parrot, a good talker is the chief requirement There is the matter of our $15,000,000 street car system. After all of the muddling and monkey-work, if we are to put ft on a sound basis, and eventu. ally get a S-cent fare, it will take men on the job who can do more than talk. And if the Skagit power Is to be brought into the city at a cost that will make it an asset instead of a liability, we shall need a mayor ang a council with experience and braina, and also honest men. And if we want a clean, well- regulated city, in which to live, it will be necessary to put the right kind of men on the job. Ladies and gentlemen, this in your city and this is your op- portunity inemcnneeeeegiahoamerioente Star Want Ad Growth 1s DUE to success for the advertiser. RE- SULTS. ar Want Ad cost is such a trifte tion of the crime by Chief Criminal | Deputy F. 8. Plymale. Both men | were highly complimented for their | | work in solving the baffling mystery MUMMEY BETTER } peat tay Easily After Operation Friday — Afternoon Joshua Mummey, victim of a fiend. ish attack by Carl Ryberg, was still |fighting a battle for his life at Vir- | girtia Mason hospital, Saturday, with leven chances of winning out, accord: ling to Dr. J. Tate Mason | Mummey was not told of the con fession of Ryberg and still is labor. | ing under the delusion that the crime |was committed by Arthur Weaver, jor at least he so maintains. Dr. Mason said that the skull will | be lifted from Mummey’s head somo: time Saturday and he will be made | ready for a trepanning operation, An X-ray picture of the Injured man's skull, taken Friday, showed the skull | fractured in two places. IN JAIL BEFORE |Ryberg’s Wife Had Him Ar- rested for Non-Support | Carl Rybers, confessed sl | Mrs. Martha Murhm jon complaint of his wif | Pete Paulson, last Ms now ch, Mrs. on a charge of non-support and desertion, | He was taken to the Everett juil Mayoralty Ballot In The Seattle Star’s Straw Vote ; VOTE for......++---- My name i8....cscceseees My address is....++++e0+- «+.+-for mayor Fe deeeeeenreeeees These are the three men who have filed for the mayoralty race. Make your E. J. Brown Alfred H. Lundin selection from among them: Oliver T. Erickson (Mail to Straw Vote Editor of The Star and Watch the Paper for Daily Totals.) yer of| was arrested | any resent open, but the {nner one was locked.” “Did you get any money?" Ry. Tk was asked. », there wasn’t any there. I try to open the inner door. ment towards the girl or baby, even after she caused his arrest for non-|I support, His letter to her after the| | murder shows his feclings towards her and the baby were of the kind. was about 6 o'clock when I walked up to the Mummey home,” Ryberg \said “{ walked ardund the house and thought it didn't i I scattered somo more of the gaso- pony | idn't 2 - est jlocated the ax.) I didn't know $f) 11.6 around on the bed and under | _ Roscoe sald that the confession of janyone was inpide the house, oF /i4 couch, Then I walked out th Joshua Mummey, ax attack victim, at he had commitrea the crime. | The family reunion was a happy one, Mrs. Grimes embracing her brother, while tears of Joy ran down her kindly old face. | Neighbors came in to congratulate he old man, “This is not the time to yield to the threats of those who are conduct: ing this campaign of political terror and certain government officials. | 3.—Call Harry F, Sinclair for ques- tloning about various phases of his lease of Teapot Dome naval reserve | ism, or the demands of those who ~ in the hope that indirect evidence|are frightened by such methods. now before the committee may be ob-| These charges against Mr, Daugh: tained in form permitting its use in|erty are nothing but cheap gossip, criminal prosecutions. part of which has already been dis | Ryberg did not contain any state-/who was there. | I went to the wis front door and threw the ax over| “We all knew you didn't do it|. 2° pga yon Soe inte credited: Br pans Alive — land ecatba tHe window, threw It| out story was ovér. “What didjwere prepared to go up and give| stand and tell his story. It is} i, a Miners a you then?” }you an alibi.” 4 “ pepe fe - |from Seattle lin. It lit om the bed, spilling aa “E started to walk to Seattle. Near| “Uncle Arthur,” as the olf man Lones Siem — sere Bawa a ased afte Dro a. Foy. sthtlon: about £ rush, 1. Doheny—the two leasers e oSeE! : a a ett eres [arcund. 3 iadisdtd pabea 12 y station, about 7:20, I guess, Aus-|is known, ts liked by all the nelgh-| naval henge tre eee ct a jony ps | ’ in Earles came along in his car and |pors around lo Height ' ‘al reserves— 3 totaling $40, and was required to| Jurhped out. | ‘That's revenge; gave mo m ride to town, I went t0 | o hen en sete Heights, No|testity further and that. the only Says Daugherty Should Be S |report monthly to Prosecutor C. ‘T.| now see what you have got, |tne home of Mrs. H. M. Peterson, |°n Deleved the story accusing him) none of tearing the lid off lies in} Qusted for Public Good 4 Roscoe of Snohomish count | Martha,’ old) man Mummey $349 w, g¢ of the crime, | ot ing the inside story f: the i‘ ‘t sald Wriday that Rybers | shld, Wat made se Mind of (eee vce rice ye eee | Weaver was completaly exonerated lorcrcs giteanc: amehienen oh ; toscoo said Friday that Ryberg| said. a | business. Then I went back to tho|, aise ¥ exonerated) source already mentioned. ‘ S, pet: | had reported regularly to him since| know that Mts, Mummey was | hotel and wrote a letter to. my bs : ee Hoe coe Cart Ryberb,|” siemp was in Palm Beach, Mis, WASHINGTON, 50). that time, The arrest apparently| to blame. mother, Mra, Laura Ryberg, Boh | Mactan teas ane ullouch of Snohom-| snout the same tims as Fall and|Peachment proceedings against At- made & deep impression on the| “I ran around to the back porch field, Minn., and one to Margaret, 1|'%" County had previously announced | yyor ean, torney General Daugherty, in con+ man, as he said “they made a con- |and picked up |the axe. I heard| told them I had done something some | 2° ete freeing the aged sus-)" 1+ was at that time that McLean/nection with the oil lease investiga: vict out of me” in explaining the |thera moving inhide, I stood right| people might thing was wrong, but Pe’ . “loa ve ; ae | » but jsaid he had “loaned™ $100,000 to ‘ S cause of his fiendish attack. ‘behind the dodr, waiting, Mum-!T didn’t think so, tion, were suggested by Senator [ DIAGRAM STORY OF MURDER-ARSON CASE FRYBERG THREW | GASOLINE FROM HERE = GOT AX HERE BATH ROOM | 00 AUMMEY GoT BED ROOM ‘°, GUN AND CAME JO KITCHEN MRS. MUMAMEY SHOT HERE ©06000000000% © 9 MUMMBY HERE 9, O05 ', ~ =, gots ATTACKED BACK PoRCH KITCHEN AX THROWN HERE Diagram shows movement of Carl Ryberg, confessed ax fiend, when he murdered Mrs. his bloody ax in the front yard. | Martha Mummey, fired the Mummey home and struck down Joshua Mummey at Seattle) Heights last Wednesday morning. Ryberg left the house by the front door, and dropped see | Fall a ment had never been cashed. i local Washington banks are to be | Tell Why Mummey Thought Weaver Was Assailant The tenacity Mummey, 73-year-old Seattle Heights ax and fire attack, retains his story that Arthur Weaver, 81-year-old cowherder, was the assailant, is only explainable by this theory, according to relatives of Mummey “That when Mummey first re. gained consciousness after the attack, the first person he saw was Weaver, who then was aiding in caring for the badly injured man on the grass in front of the home.” | Weaver, one of the first ta arrive jat the fire, found Mummey with his legs in the duck pond, and aided in jcaring for him, Mummey regained consciousness momentarily, then lost |consciousness for a time, and again |rogained his brain functions. ,When lhe awakened the ond time, the memory of seeing Weaver remained | with him. Mrs. Elmer Mummey, daughter-in- law of Mummey, said he ame it jritated when the name of arl Ry- berg, confessed slayer of Mummey, was mentioned, and therefore the old man was not pressed on the subject, | “There is no reason why he should |knowingly protect Ryberg,” Mrs. | Mummey said. with which Joshua victim of the Star Want Ad Growth is DUE to uccess for the advertiser. RE- LTS, | | Star Want Ad Cost is less. nd later retracted his state. | to the effect that the checks |50"h on the floor of the seats Officials of | today. Borah sa'd that “the only way asked if they have any definite |thls investigation can go forward information regarding the transec-|!8 by impeachment. oe | tion. “For my part I am willing to aid in laying the foundation for such proceedings.” Borah asserted that present con- | Dau gherty Okeh as |ed above else a man at the head — | Coolidge Delegate |" in the government demand. | WASHINGTON, Feb. 23.—Presi- of the department of justice who dent Coolidge teday approved Attor-|*haa the full confidence and Fe ney General Harry M. Daugherty as spect of the people.” om one of the Coolidge delegates to the | republican national convention, the | in full slate of which will be submitted |to the Ohio electorate in the April | primaries. The public indorsement of Daugh- jerty, regarded at the White House as “perfunctory,” caused a political stir, as it constitutes Mr. Coolidge’s first open expression of his attitude toward Daugherty, whose removal from cabinet leading repubtican senators are seeking on the grounds that he has lost public confidence, Mr. Coolidge personally signed a ‘consent slip” bearing Daugherty’s | |name as a delegate. In the same manner he approved the entire slate of Ohio delegates submitted to him by George B. Harri&, of Cleveland. This step is required under | |law of a candidate in the primariesBorah—held great significance for there in April at which the dele-| politicians here. | gates will be formally chosen. It vas pointed out that if Mr While the president's approval of | Coolidge had declined to approye |Daugherty as a delegate has of | Daugherty that would have been ac _ | itself nothing to do with his atti-|cepted at once as an indication he |tude toward Daugherty as attorney /was no longer standing by the at. géneral of the United States, such|torney general. Conversely, the fact a political indorsement in the face/that he did accept Daugherty as jof the attacks upon Daugherty by!one of his delegates was reganied \three of the most influential repub- as an equally clear indication that ‘ilcan senators—Lodge, Pepper and he is standing by him, “If the attorney general remains: jaccept full responsibility and he |must answer to the people for that jresponsibil:ty," said Borah. mee “The people have come to doubt |the efficiency, competency and cleanness of the government at — | Washington." No , official should |hesitate to sacrifice himself to re |store the people's confidence in — that government. ““I admire Mr. Daugherty’s cours jage and his stand that he tlould — not be condemned without a hear. }ing. jthat men must make sacrificéd | personal mon good and in the common ine teres: - office President Coolidge must But he must bear in mind) sacrifices—for the ne Ohio ae cee