The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 30, 1924, Page 1

= Gwe @ Ff sks Bigger Tacoma Bank Suspect | { The Newspaper With the Bigge m Circulation in Washington | The Seattle Star 0M" iil atter May 2 stotticn wt Beattie, Wash, under th Congress Mar >. Per Your, by Mall, $2.60 SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, MAY 380, 1924. or TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE, i aris Serna PN tii ee | a } Star Pictures of New Angle in Anacortes Bank Robbery | | t a [ ni 4 i apd Wa ag Howdy, folks! This is Memorial day, Honor the he dead—but ae t . don’t forget the living! Savas ape 3 Hi yelling, “Lift up ther hall dumm: H t ts y Frida: i X r Brew y Ms H wat we are @ milton. ave prohib Ite ot The i oft will ; exe f CANDIDATE FOR THE POISON IVY CLUB MANICURE! /o ‘The dizy Lis who takes her pet | * Peanut hound to be manicured. Dear Homer: Do you say “a herd ry of camels” or ‘'a flock of camels?” Neither. A pack of Camels ts cor- The upper picture shows the Bertillon record of “Russell j Feet . Evang,” who, while serving a sentence at Monroe reforma- eee A . tory for grand larceny, escaped in 1912. The lower pic- aoe peaks vag gone from FOr This shows two of the witnesses in the Anacortes bank robbery case on whom the state was depending for identification of the robbers, and who| ture shows the Bertillon record of Russell R. Evans, one of mthetic gin is not good sens re E E . Evans, \ ¥ We ees me | failed, and the “surprise witness” who may prove to be the state's ace. (Left) Miss Audrey Brenton and (right) Miss Agnes Erholm, bank employes.| the four men arrested as suspects in connection with the Another candidate for the Pot jand d (center) John W fer) John Wright, ti the Fidalgo 1 islande r, who had i argument with the bandits during their flight. —Phote by Judd, Anacortes! Anacortes bank robbery. It was made at the jail here ; Ivy club is the boss who growls like this week. —Photo by Judd, Anacortes ‘ be u stay away ; ~ - . i fice for wo days on ac ! “ee ot double pneumonia 4 | UL GEE GEE, TH OFFICE ew 1 Ness — | VAMP, | There are just two kinds et | | spats—those around the house | : | sx those around the feet, | And both of them give me a | pain. | | ra 2 | cee | Speaking to the 1924 graduating class of the Keele: institute, Old ny ’ 4 Silas Grump, the sage of Pumpkin ° | 4 Hollow, tod them there was oaly one’ Stay Reporters Turn Over Information) sure way to cure the Mquor habit, . ' 4 and that was to drink moonshine. | Offi 5 it F. Aid S sere to Iclals; Farmer $s Sus- See ime Old Mother Hubbard, she went to , see . S iT R @) the cupboard pects’ Identification ‘Anacortes Suspect/ To Re-arrest One To get her poor husband @ érink;| " 3 : But the cupboard was bare, the dry| | Fled M ce in f S pec squad had been there, IM" NT VERNON, May 30.—New | em untill onr o us ts in And emptied it all in the sink. evidence to help complete the of P and} Ex I An Bank GE. B. circumstantial chain’ that Skagit |stuck a revolver. In front of me, | 1912, pert Is acortes eee officials are building up ¢ | q tae two greatest household ex-|about the four Tacoma busiuess men | Saye He Could | Positive Robbery Inquiry penses today, says Li'l Gee Gee, are held as suspects in am - | dry goods for women and wet goods | Anacort nk robbery v. Identify 2 Men | | | for men jered by Star reporters Get that wagon out of the road] Positive identification of the MT. VERNON, i, Wash, May a Sag 8 : [fated ever. So: ohticia quick! before. shoot’ he ordared photograph of Russell Evans | 30.—Prosecutor Warren Gilbert, GRAPHIC SECTION This’ tends to the) y looked atthe ear again.:The-man who escaped from Monroe re- of Skagit county, will file a ate’s weak | he | iy sas. Ma? Sawai. Out) a A formatory in 1912 as Russell R. motion Saturday to have the This photograph patter oe Rng Fl and, deawite the: cae. curtain eaide) Evans, Tabonts iy year aig Sa bail of Russell Evans, one of the z M: Wade |e, : 4 eit the bank | Had it pointed at me. 1 got a good suspect in the Anacortes bank | four Tacoma suspects in the of Manages, Wate |counting on the’ ability of the bane | 100k at his face.as. he sighted down robbery, was made Friday by A. | Anacortes. bank robbery, _in- Killefer shows him | tficlals and employes to ide $ aU al vie kad Tigot acaseal ©. Rosenfeldt, identification ex- creased to $10,000. The bail the robbers, but when the su | pert of Sheriff Matt Starwich’s now is $5,000, weating the ‘new |w Sona’ at the man who jumped $5,000. oe ee ae oe wit. °X didn't gee the other. cocu-| force. Decision to request a higher bond Ta6he o mnlferin, (400 ie etre erica chat pants of the car.” “Tt's the same man,” said Rosen-|and to rearrest Evans, announced Wade always starts | could not pick ot the men who ran,| Wright was shown a picture of feldt, giving the picture a hasty sur-|Thursday by Deputy Prosecutor th alfiring their revolvers, into the ba t uspects, He picked out’ two vey. Walter Hodge, followed a confers the season with 9 ee itt Conn. didn't even cali |imen whom he sald he thought he | Rosenfeldt then compared the Mon-|ence here with Superintendent full-grown mas-lthem from Anacortes to look the recognized roe photo, taken in April, 1912, with|James Cameron of the Monroe re- : | prisoners over “I think I could ‘dentity them his Bertillon photo taken a few days | formatory. tache, but as his | CuK, bank president, was| Positively if I saw the men in per go when Evans, and his three Ta-| a~TORNEY SAYS HE favorite signal to |; y bank representative at the m,” he said | coma business-men friends, were | yy PERFECT ALIBI his men is pulling|“lineup”’ He told officials that D.| Deputy Prosecutor Hodge believes held in the King county jail follow-|” “Attorney Burmeister, representing cut hair, he is|- Ni 16 of the nuspects, | Wr aratth totaachar abet babe hom ing thelr arrest in Tacoma, the accused men, refused in Tacoma ‘i G * ooked like” the man who had| wit He was not called in to] S IN PHOTOS Friday to comment on the alleged virtually smooth. |: 6 wien Ahiris tt ller’s cage | look over the four suspects before| lidentification of Evans as a former shaven by the end bing then hit him over the head with | they were rel Firat ge placed the pictures side| inmate of Monroe reformatory. He of the season. the butt of hia gun, but that he “I told my . who passed on by side and placed a card over their} declared, however, that he will prove herp at a the way to town shortly after, to eyes and foreheads. The mouths|« perfect alibi for all four men, Ev ' Photo by Incot ele | call the sheriff's office and tell him| and chinsappear ed identical. Then ans, he said, “is all cut up" over the . that a gang of bootleggers were out} he took a magnifying glass andjaffair, declaring himself innocent of gs |\Wright Tells a this way," Wright said, “I thought! studied the Monroe photo. Two|any connection with it. Some of thes Roa ‘wa | the men might be running lquor. small moles, one beside the other} Cameron brought with him from to small and expensive that you via |Clash or yt: ais hy! (Turn to Page 9, Column 2) and one larger than the other, were| Monroe a photograph of the Russell can't raise enough dough in them or| ,7h* sd farmer, iving on| discernible on the right cheek bone | Evans who escaped from Monroe in for them 3 ri 4 6 MEL CS a Re OR ARTO Tar we ir, of Russell Evans. The moles loom-|1912 while serving a sentence for come to be known on Fie fete Me tO ee mendia voule|| COOL LE .CAR } cd up in (dentically the same spot|grand larceny. So closely did the Whatever troubles Adam had, rs i ” 4 “ | on the photo of the Tacoma busi-|photo and the Bertillon record | iis side road leadi ; oe Ba agente mate This Kise wat tetine | FOR SUMMER a Fe ee ee Bhe never asked him late at night! Ra coda acrbiiowed ‘bil g Fingerprint records of the %6-\Kvans held as one of the suspects To lock the cellar door the yan ut) they abandoned|| !f You are looking for a Used || year-old youth who was sentenced|that Gilbert made the evidence th ors, their c nd r Gov the hill to the|| Cat Here is a good opportunity: || to’ serve six months to seven and]foundation for his motion. y are ee Meat her bothers Sam spot where thefggp\ut wan concealed | one-half years at Monroe from }v-| preTURE FOUND ho used to « yr wtuff under |” wright bond whew | erett in April, 1912, were not avail-| 47 REFORMATORY thes ercoats, But it doesi’t bother 1 was unl kr rocks on the | LIGHT SIX § | able, but the li of marks and] J, &, Wileox of Everett, former ase ho wear balloon trous:| pouq trom my 1 when an auto-|] Purchared Decemb scars proved identical. ‘The Ist on| sistant superintendent at “Monroe, \ |mobile came traveling at a port. ft data | the Monroe picture shows “both) was looking at the newspaper ple . [fast rate of wre fast ie ears deformed, end of left index|tures of the four suspects in the Sign on the Back of words | fir the rough on of the little jeatinat finger deformed; several cut scars] newspapers when he was struck by j Ba 9 7 5 traveled road.| pes des base of same; cut scar two inches] the tac . Which, He sald, I ain't goin’ to run nO | ee nrwo or | er autos had Aka | long across luft wrist; right fore-| looked ‘ more, no more; I ain’t | | passed by no fide 7 e and on each and ar tuned: |} Above, the Citizens’. bank at Anacortes, where robbers on April 14 escaped with $18,-|arm crooked from broken wrist;| ‘T believe I can find the duplicaté! le p iad sham ny team of dark 4, and n ch saues ‘lee: KS ver ne! Ol 2 an’ ace." Mu goin’ to run no more, | pacar vt aids, ten gah: a P f , “11000. Left, President W. T. Odlin, of the bank, wounded by the bandits, and right, his tis AUSRRTAY NICO tolKR Ney AND - Ean na baw ty? ue CE EES —% | the nurros 6 brush. #0 ; r ! ( idly. checking back thru the files until | ; A. 5.8, | decided tages and iy, who wore - json, Reno Odlin, covered by the bandits’ guns. Inset, above, John Schwartz, and below,| Rosentelit's own record of scars,|came to the record of the ese: ‘ loudly Honkiploring f Murn “to the Want Ad columns |! f'yank Morley, Anacortes men, who repaired the speedboat of the four suspects in Ana-| fellows Russell Hvabs, he brought to. The average depth of the ocean way, vou IL had the |} to find who i offering this one. || ; | “Gut sear, two inches long, aboye}the picture, which Superintendent below seu level i 12,600 feet Jt w whovelft louded. | cortes three days before the bank was robbed, Photo by Judd, Anaco (Turn to Page 9, Column 3) (Turn to Page 9, Column a