The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 23, 1924, Page 4

PAGE 4 HARRY K. THAW JUDGED SANE Release From Asylum Favored by Jurors Is BY FRANK GETTY } PHILADELPHIA ‘ More the doors of the @pen for Harry K. Thay | Affer a period of seven years [earceration in a Philadelphia my j Rouse, Thaw has been adjudged sa hed & jury of his peers a Boon will be free. | ‘The jury i trial of his pet Kirkbride’s asy ly seven hours inte {they returned with #the millionair Natice of moti mew trial was tmined rive Parties opposing freedom for Thaw nd this technicality will slightly lay complete freedom for Harry Marry, in a rambling statement [which he picked out himself upon a typewriter while await }aict, announced he Make some prov wife, “I dont want « nis @rty money.” Evelyn snapped. When she heard about this. “I Intervened for my boy, who is er titled to inherit his father’s estate. But Mrs. Thaw has her son now and 1 suppose doesn’t care.” ‘THAW STAGES SHOW ALL HIS OWN } Earlier in the day, at the close of i the morning session, Thaw staged an }impromptu appearance on his own Yolition before the press table. His attorney, Judge Patterson, was con- | ferring with Judge Monaghan. Thaw Seemed greatly excited. } f After grasping one or two news Papermen by the hand, Thaw stam Mered out that he had been agitated [for tear Judgo Patterson would in }treduce some. testimony of certain fallenists. Thaw’s meaning was not QUite clear, but he exclaimed: | “I was afraid they would throw a the jury. It's the common law, } the law of the state of Pennsylvania. | #1 was afraid the judge would put out the jury. 1 would rather make a PXominute speech myself than have pe eerecn do that. Of course, I was/ ‘ “J wasn't afraid of what Gray (William A. Gray, attorney for Eve- Tyn Nesbit, who was addressing the Jury when court adjourned for lunch), Was saying. I wasn’t laughing at | that.” All the while he was. speaking, Thaw stood directly in front of the Rewspapermen. His eyes were in-| Mlamed, and he was perspiring pro. fusely. It was extremely difficult, because of his agitation, to follow his ‘Mneaning. | “And my mother wants to talk to/ you,” Thaw then exclaimed. “She Wants to tell you about the family. | Here, mother, mother—" but when he turned to get Mrs. Thaw, his, Counsel intervened and got him away. HERE’S MORE ABOUT PAUL STARTS ON PAGE 1 for the fill extended under and be- yond the present wooden bridge, “Everybody connected vith the ‘affair knew long ago that when the ‘1M waa started, the dirt wax going } to pile up under the bridge, and! that it undoubtedly would have to! be closed. As a matter of fact, the | Drige has been unsafe fcr some| time, and {t would have been neces ary to close {t soon, normally, be- Cause the timbers have rotted Blum pointed out that the county | has never obtained permission from Property owners near the fill to use the dirt it is hauling to make the | 1. J. G. Vasser already has gone to court for a retraining orter and has put the steam shovel off his! Yand, and other property owners the same action, he sald. RELATIONS IN BOARD'S OFFICE STRAINED Commissjoner Paul said he has| permission from property owners | fo get sufficient dirt for the emi, | ané that the contractors went onto ‘Vasser’s land by mistake, ay he was one who liad not agreed to give the fo the county for hauling {t { | Relations in the county commis. office Wednesday appeared strained. Commissioners and Paul, whose chairs are by side in the commission of. sat in thelr chairs alternately, When one man arrived, the other some excuse for leaving. "AUL EXPLAINS CONTRACT Paul ridiculed the charge made by Gaines Tuesday that Paul had attempted to get the Des Moines fill contract for himself, to do the dob with county machinery and to ket the profits, ‘Any contract has to be bid upon rand let in an open meeting of the beard,” Paul said. “It has to be approved by the prosecutor. Do ‘you imagine the other board mem- ber, whose vote it would be neces. to have, and the prosecutor i m, consulting engineer, to make a survey. He reported could be done for 30 cents. T asked Lafe Hamilton to have Des Moines contractor, told him he could do it for shout 25 or 26 cents. “Tater, Mr. Sweet declined to bid, 0 fF, Vecause he said the fill wasn't’ popular with the other ymmissionirs or the county en- » and he was afraid they ould try to hamper him in. the ork, if he got it, and make {t xo that nsive it might ‘break’ Meantime the 2,000 travelers who use the “high line” road to Tacoma ly were being forced to make the ugh detour at Des Moines while orkmen were rushing a temporary sideroad that will be easier to sub- tute for the bridge that crumpled 4 the sliding earth from the Would ImpeachJudge Thru Booze Charges ASHINGTON, April 23.—Impeachment charges \ against Federal District Judge W. E. Baker, of th orthern district of West V nia, were filed with the speaker af the house of representatives today b United States District Attorney T. A, Brown of the J trict The charges were formally referred to the house judiciary committee by 8 peaker Gillett Brown charged Judge Baker with drunkenness, con fiscation and consumption of seized liquors, illegal im prisonment of citizens, irregularities in certifying his expense accounts and oth meanors. her high crimes and misde BOBBED HAIR! Two trains running at at e " ~ : ea 2 D: e f a tate on ‘ : The plan ‘ ; Seattle Men Like It, First Day of] o= and many © pase eof the mat th crowded with panrengers to hold the waters of lake LOCK around and gather all to tak to a show Dispatches told ¢ harrow Already the city closer, girls! News is about 1 ¢ bobbe because I'M A] pong tt vietime w natructing t to be divulged that will start arbe Nuff @d. BP. J burned death in th ma i huge efforts t a stampede to the pa Robbed | prott eaner, | care 4 lors and se all the scissor eater and more attractty an the Relief at th ° It also in . arinders simply wild with de : ened p of follage they! sey all the tr i ow of the cit con light. wed to wear bels of for the dar and, ¢ Seattio men favor bobbed aves me t t < Tt hk wes on the. fam buildings and at air about 10 to 3 hes aed to ap ao | st rds mountain railway | '#* the mayor sald Tuesday The Star brushed « up. > e jus coy CBee’ usands of American | CITY ENGINEER er head and start {foe go | nem from Milan | OKEHS PLAN s.—Hi. FT. ¢ eg City Engineer J » Hila u AND, ON THE WELI ’ t n a b i the 5 t 1 men think of bodbed hair? KNOWN OTHER HAND wht fire whee 5 of gas used t it will be impossible Wednesday morning 31 bob | phe four men who } wainst lio illuminate the exploded and y weal the gravel morals ballots were recetved from 31 /nopbing gave these reasons pceer ett ‘ender’ the a huge body of water men—uniess somebody cheated, | “1¢ « short halr ieranieaice’ cen’ taaedadl causing the Edge The ballots are supposed to be [you swallow If a According to messages here, the for men only ya had Italian minister in Copenhagen.| May Hrown and J. D. Ross, Only four of the ballots reg etore it Sign: re. » passen-|'eht department superintendent, tn- istered the sender as against [Perey W." te he te but early | *Pected the proposed project Tues bobbed hair; £7 were in favor “I like the good, lreports gave no information as to| 4: Ross declared that the city’s of it, with the long whether or not he was injure jPremat plant at Cedar fails can be With most of the ballots a 25 |marry a be ou Other messages say tho passenger | Utilized by the tunnel program with word reason was given Here are some of them SAYS HE SAVES ON SHAVING SOAP “I like bobbed hair because my wife has discovered that shaving soap ts an {deal sham- Poo. With bobbed hair she uses less of it "A. J. T." “Bobbed hair for me! it doesn't take my girl two hours to floss her's up now when I . “IT don't like bobbed hair bec women are becoming too mac anyway the much. Timer “A woman with only hair her hair only half a woman. She destroys er wning glory for use ine too men "Ol | | MH. ¢ here you are. And hore's that ballot again, in your opinion jand let's give the girls ‘ ‘down on the subject * (Mark coupon by striking out either “do” or “do not,” give reason, clip and mail Seattle Star, Seattle.) I, a male person, do do not hair. My reason is as follow (State reason in 25 word: at once to Bobbed Hair Editor, like women to wear bobbed HERE'S MORE ABOUT WATERSHED STARTS ON PAGE 1 fire protection for more years, Russell estimates. The logged-off tand is with rotting logs and stumps, CITY WATER TAKES BROWNISH TINGE Small leaf-throwing trees cover the land, and insects and small a mals flourish there. “he drainage from this section pours into Cedar lake, and, as the logs rot, drainage assumes a dark brown color and an unpleasant taste, This land must be reforested at once. th WILL FUMIGATE PASSENGERS * ® Can Enter Arizona From Cal- covered | ifornia After Disinfection | PHOENIX, Ariz, April 2 Zona state health aut speeded erection of fumigation planta at three points where railroads from ~Ari this Callfornia enter thin state. Beginning Monday, all train pas sengers who purchase tickets for fad.— horities today | THE SEATT IS. WRECKED European Disaster AMERICANS ARE CAUGHT Crash in Darkness mong the Ame The majorit lst of the Berlin train included 45 {Germans and two Englishmen POTHIER DENIES | GRIME CHARGE ‘Held at Tacoma in Another Cronkhite Death Probe TACOMA Declaring emphatically that he innocent of any crime, Roland Pothier, 28, sits ounty jail, where he was Tuesday after by fed ds to awalt trial on @ Cs % out of the of ,Maj. Alexander 0. ¢ at Camp Lewis, October r, who has been taken Into court several times in the last five years As @ result of the hhooting, © has spent all his money jin defending Himself and that his wife and child are without funds tn declares Central Falls, R. 1. He gave himself up to the au thorities in Providence when the United States supreme court two weeks ago reversed @ decision of | the lower court in his fight against Jextradition. He was working as a railroad brakeman then, ! | 9 Capt. Robert Rosenbluth, of Ne rk, wan indicted with Pothiec hey were the only members of | Rosenbluth’s company near Maj. Cronkhite at the time of his death, | wh | practice | Both were under surveillance un- til a military Inquiry found that |death was eccidental. | Rosenbluth, who Is at liberty un- |der $20,000 bonds, is expected here Health Commissioner McLoughlin |Atizona cities, will be required to|#00n. age on the water supply. Tuesday the rendered an opinidm that the dis. | Southern where digging fs being done contem.|tfict should be cleared and refor. Cross the Interstate bridges: ested immediately. 7 lor court, as Prosecu: | “Several ways are open to the A proclamation insued by Governoe | 00 Jo wore. « wan? ebeberated jelty to protect Its water source," |Hunt yesterday denying the resolu. , : . Russell said. “One is an immediate Program of reforestation. This will require the establishment of fire pa- trois. “A second method {s to cease log. ging operations by canceling the city’s contract with the logging firm. A third method {s for the city to purchase all of the timber in the watershed and slowly refor- est the logged-off’ land. By scien- tifte and careful logging operatior taking only the fully matured growth of trees, and by reforesting as the logging progressed, the city ultimately would recover its invest- ment. . Russell expects legal difficulties fn canceling the logging contract. the forestry school makes its re. port. Mayor Brown believes the con- tract can be voided» as a menace to the water supply. It was en- tered on the theory that unless the timber was taken off, it would be @ continual fire hazard. Experi. ence has proved, the mayor said, that the greatest danger comes from the logging operations, as no fires have started in the virgin for- ests of the watershed. Felle Wife With Ax; Slits Throat MONROE, Mich., April 23.—Mrs. James Peggler, 65, 1s dying follow: ing an attack upon her by he husband with an ax early this morning. Feggier, 60, is also tn a critical condition at a hospital suf: fering from a self-inflicted gash across his throat Boys Disappear After Scolding Reprimanded for turning in a false fire alarm, three school boys, Jamow Lemon, 12, of 901 Yakima av George L'Abbe, 14, 3116 Irving st., ond Robert Walters, 13, 2004 Nor- man st, disappeared Tuesday and were being hunted by the police here and in Tacoma, Everett, Kent and Sumner, Wednesday. The three lads were angered by the scolding they received.and ran away from the St. Mary's parish students, He expects to recommend a course | of action to the city council when r phew | | will study the effect of this drain. |U2dergo disinfection at Yuma, King. | man or Wickenberg, Pacific and where Santa the ¥e The provision was contained in tion of 200 leading busin livestock men that entry of Callfor. nians into this state by rail be limited to cases of utmost neces | nity. | ‘Tho executive belleves that by establishing fumigation plants al! |danger of the foot and mouth epi demic striking Arizona will be elim, inated. The ban against auto travel will and ; continue absolute, | | Thru passengers on railroad |trains traversing Arizona must not |dismount at any point in the state, the governor ordered. eee ment Heads Hoof-Mouth Fight SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.—Co- jordination of forces fighting hoof. jand-mouth disease among aiifornia live stock was under way today, fot lowing announcement that Dr, A |U. Houch, representing Secretary of Agriculture Wallace, had been placed in complete charge of the sit- uation. State inspectors work under him. Until now the work has been di- |vided between state and federal offi- |clals. | Yormulation of uniform regula- |Hons for all counties wilt ba under. taken, |Govern hereafter will |Epidemic Situation Reported Unchanged LOS ANGELES, Cal. April 23. With discovery of 570 hogs on the Long Beach municipal hog ranch in- fected with foot and mouth disease, |and with the epidemié still going on [in two sections of this county, the | situation wan reported unchanged by state department of agriculture head: quarters today, . ar) ore aero What's in the Air Wednesday, April 23, |} KpzE- to 1:40 p. m, KFIC—8:50 to 4:30 p.m; $:90 p.m. KFHR—4:30 to j] to 7:30 p. Pothier ta waiting to see wheMher jthe federal court has jurisdiction, | Should Judge E. FE. Cushman find jhe has not authority in the matter, there probably will be no prosecu- {both In a published report. On his arrival here Tuesday, | Pothier conferred for a short jwith his attorney, Maurice Lang jhorne. Tho American Legion post {has offered him the same service] | extended to all veterans who are in | trouble. COW 300 IN POSSE Two Men Wounded as Fu- gitive Resists Capture TAHOKA, Tex. April 23.—Two |membern of a sheriff's posse were |shot and wounded by Will Ward, |peglegged cow hand, when they | sought to capture him in the woods between Tahoka and Brownfield to- day. Ward, who is wanted on charges of murdering Dr. 8. H. Windham, wealthy ranchman of Brownfield, was barricaded in a largo concrete vat in a cow pasture and success fully resisted efforts of a posse of 300 men to get him. Driven to cover by the posse, which pursued him since the shoot- jing of Windham ast Monday, Ward, equipped with a large sup- |ply of ammunition, two revolvers and a rifle, has made a dugout of the cattle vat and defied his pur suers to take him, Two members of the posse, ac- cording to word reaching the sher- iff's office here, were shot down when they tried to enter the nar. row entrance to the vat, JOHNSON LOSING TRENTON, N. J., April 28,—Late returns indicate Senator Hiram Johnson has been overwhelmingly defeated in the New Jersey pri marles, Returns from all but 500 of 2,500 districts show that the Coolidge del- eaten at Jatge have carried the state by a vote of about 9 to 1, Democrats of the state stand be- hind Governor Georgo 8. Silzer j@!most unanimously, Biarritz and Milan Expresses ero the men were having target | time | BOY DEFIES LE STAR TOURIST TRAIN WOULD ABANDON BASIN DAM 30 Killed and 60 Injured in| Mayor Considers Tunnel to Provide for Plant PLANS POWER SOURCE Erickson Project and More Sealing Held Disastrous te lowent th out additional © for the con. at 1 thru Green mountain, *8,500 feet in length, to tap the waters of the lake from the bottom. A necessary rt of the uction would be the erecti on the site of a half mile the presen pre the mi dam, from canyon nry dam. “On the advice of my engl neers I have determined to abandon the sealing venture,” the mayor said. “While Coun- climan Oliver T. Erickson spent $2,000,000 of the city's monry on the program, it has never delivered a cent of profit to the city. I am convinced it is impossible to peal the basin. So are my engineers, “The tunnel project was ortginal ly offered as the was rejected In favor of the dam. The dam does not hold water. now ba high it, leaks appear on the water dissipates fteelf thru the hill side, Further sealing vite another disaster the city’s the moat feasible, but It and dry and as soon as water gathers in front of Opponite side of the gravel moraine and the LEGACY Edgewick flood and also endangers WEDNESDAY, APRIL 23 ARISTOCRATIC WATCHES For the “Lords of Creation” TAKE ONE ALONG FOR A SINGLE DOLLAR BILL Illinois — missed. year. No interest. tion you need! plete satisfaction! ELGINS $19.50 to $120 WALTHAMS $19.50 to $150 ILLINOIS $39.50 to $69.50 water reservoir, Cedar lake, which might break thru the gravel and be lost to the city for ever.” ————_____. HERE'S MORE ABOUT STARTS ON PAGE 1 | | bulidings for Seattle and te ex | clude “shyster or fly-by-night” | builders who, he says, build flocks of poorly constructed homes and palm them off on un suspecting Beattleiter -. QEATTLE builders insist the inspection of the city build. ing department—if properly made—should provide the protec. | tion Mr. Hesketh so earnestly seeks, Harry James, a member of the state architects’ Heensing exam- admitted to The Star that the bill is largely designed to provide work for architectural and engineering students, who, under the present system, are unable to find work after they are graduated. ‘They are now forced to compete with speculators and promoters, he in- sists, and he thinks home-bulld- ers can well afford to put with the architects’ fee to help along the architects’ profession, HERE’S MORE ABOUT STATEMENT STARTS ON PAGE 1 | office. Politics ts its first con- |. sideration; the public comes second, It's widespread. When you step on the toes of one man in the ring, you find yourselt fighting the whole ring. Butt run this gang out of the court house if it's humanely possible to do it. I don't care whose toes I tread upon. ROBBED IN CAR Then “Bob” Threw Him Out in Woodland Park After belng robbed of $30 by ono of two men with whom he was rd. ing in an auto, C.'T. Borgsteom, 1429 Jackson st, ‘vas thrown from the car in Woodland park, Wednesday |morning, according to his story to the police, Bergstrom accuses a man known os “Bob” of the crime. He declares that he and “Bob” wero ridi ig with G. C. McCaw, tn MeCa Auto, When they got to Woodland park Bergstrom declares that “Bob turned on him, robbed him of his money and then threw him from the car, McCaw was then, forced to drive “Bob” back to town, says Borg. strom, who frees the former of any blame for the robbery, ‘First Wife Holland Estate Suit Efforts of Lily B. Holland, 4! vorced wife of Albert Edward Hol. land, to obtain a large slice of the | half-miliion-dollar estate of the de. leased Sedro-Woolley banker andé lumberman, met with serious revers. |als in superior court Wednesday | when her suit for an accounting was overruled by Judge Everett EB. Smith. | Mra. Lily Holland CLAIMS COP GOES Loses Point in was divorced | Dd quarrelsome. in Slugging Case Patrolman A. Swanson was exon- erated Wednesday of blame for the slugging of Parker A. Kearney, $54 Highland drive, and Dave Jones, 38, of Clear Lake, also known as Dave Taylor, by Chief of Police W. B. Severyns. The two men were in- | jured by Swanson when they resist- j@d arrest early Tuesday morning at | Westlake ave. and Thomas st. In his report of the affair Swan- | son stated that both men were drunk i to “go home and go to bed,” but from Holland several years ago and! has lived In California since, When | they refuse¢ and invited him to ar | Holland died, leaving his entire es- tate to Mrs. Charlotte M. Holland, | Test them. Swanson started to lead j them to a patrol box and Jono: his former housekeeper, the first | Struck the officer in the face. | Mrs. Holland brought court action to/| | obtain a share of it. She filed suit for an accounting, Swanson retaliated with a blow |from his nightwtick, and’ Kearney ,| Jumped into the fray, Swanson hit Elgins — Howards — Walthams short, the World’s Finest Watches are to be found here. In white gold, in green gold, in Guinea gold—filled and solid eases—and all are offered at the Na- tionally Advertised CASH Price all are sold on little monthly or weekly payments so small as to be scarcely Special Terms This Week You may have your choice of any watch in the store on payment of a single dol- lar cash—the balance you may pay in a This advertisement is all the introduc- Come in tomorrow and get a watch. Bring it back—and get a new one for one that fails to give com- BURNETT BROS. 909 SECOND AVENUE REE HAGEN TROUBLED Chief Exonerates Swanson | Held | | 1924 Hamiltons — - Hampdens — in —yet—- No extras—no tax. HAMILTONS $40 to $60 HOWARDS — $60 to $100 HAMPDENS $39.50 to $75 Illegally at Liberty Thru Technicality Ed Hagen, former Seattle police man recently convicted of acy to violate the prohibition law was illegally at Iberty W. @s a result of a mix-up in pi ings for his appeal. He has been released on an appeal bond, but has not filed @ writ of error, which is necessary to entitle him to the bond. Hagen was convicted with Ed- He ndvieed them | Yard W. Pielow and Charles Giy- ens, and was sentenced to serve two years in the McNeil Island pen- itentiary. When sentence was pro- nounced Hagen decided to “take his medicine and get it over with.” Following this decision, he spent the night in jail, Meanwhile, Pielow and Brown < y }gave jalleging that large axsets, totaling | h!m and Kearney fell, hitting his/S@ve notice of their appeal thru in| bead on the curb. Both Kearney and | thelr | ceals her in| : $400,008, “were conoemied: froen: hy Jones told a similar story, admitting |Hagen changed his mind, with the | the divorce settlement. fight to protect her legacy, an ob former action was also repudiated in the lower courts, cases are pending. Bivned by Heated Bar; Man May Die Struck by a white-hot steel bar jat the Pacific Steel Co.'s foundry in Youngstown Tuesday, John Jones, |to the St. Luke's hospital, suffering |from a shattered leg. His condition j1s said to be serious. Jonos was handling the bars as they came sizzling from the blast furnace. One slipped from the roller and plunged into his leg near the knee, burning av clothes and flesh and severing an artery. A Brown and White am. bulance took him to the hospital. Jewelry Workman Held for Thefts | ‘Alloged to have stolen gold, platinum and other jeweler’s ma- terials from the Jensen Bros., manufacturing jewelers’ shop, 1419 | Third ave., where he was employed, |. 8. Hutchinson, 26, was arrested Tuesday by Detectives R. R. Her. bert and Walter Dench at the jew- olry store, When searched, Hutchinson had four bars of gold and one of plat. inum, Herbert said. The alleged thofts extended over a period of three months, according to the po- lice, Hutchinson {s held in jail, Missionary Will Sing in Chinese Chinese songs will be sung Thurs: day afternoon by Miss Therese Peterson, missionary fo China for 16 years. Sho will appear at the missionary meeting of the Immanuel Lutheran Ladieu’ aid, Pontius ave. and Thomas scure relative having brought an ac- tion for a share of the estate on the | Dital suffering from slight concussion grounds of duress and fraud. This | of the brain, Appeals in both 44, of 8814 Second ave., was taken | right | ‘ed arrest, it Is claimed. Kearney was taken to the city hos: Vebetaie Pay Own Bonus, Is Charge WASHINGTON, April 25.—War veterans will have to pay thelr own bonus in taxes, Senator Oscar Un- derwood, of Alabama, damocratic presidential candidate, declared in the senate today, in an attack on the Insurance policy bonus bill. As the cost of the measure will be levied on industries and farming, and all gainful occupations the en- tlre scheme will work against the jfoldierg it is intended to he'p, Un- | derood declared, |Ship Line Merger Rumors Are Denied VANCOUVER, B. C., April 23.— G. M. Bosworth, chairman for the Canadian Steamships, Ltd, head- quarters Montreal, today definitely denied that there is any truth in the story that the C. P. R. was about to merge or absorb tho Toyo Kisen Kaisha, “As far as I am aware, there !s no truth whatever in the report,” he telegraphed to Vancouver. Balloonists Ready for Starter’s Gun SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Apri! 23,— Seven balloons will take off here at §:30 o'clock this afternoon in the national elimination balloon race, Ideal weather conditions were pre. yailing today. A stiff southerly wind was blowing, and pilots of the big bags sald they expected to eclipse the American long«listance record established by Alvin R. Haw. ley. Simply secure 10 new subsorip- tions to The Seattle Star and any boy or girl will be presented with The decision marks the second vie-| they had been drinking and had re-| Understanding tory for Mrs. Charlotte Holland in a SO RICH a famous “Dan Patch” Coaster + Wagon, attorney, The next day that his appeal would be joined with that of the Jones was released on bail, but | others. On this assumption, Hagen's ap- peal bond was approved by the United States attorney's office, and |signed by Federal Judge Jeremiah Neterer. All parties thought the law had been complied with, until it was discovered Tuesday after- noon that Hagen’s appeal had not yet been perfected with that of the other two. Hagen fs expected to have his, writ of error duly filed Wednesday. If this ts not done he will have to be re-arrested. AF lavor one cup demands another