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

Seeks Lega H r N bold defiance of the « ery Mnder orders of May Ofdered its secretary Qswer no more qu @@ by the cou tee, Chairm 1 We Roun: Grout s fuse to ans the re pinion clpt by 2 from commit aes) the Corporation cc on th See's authority to act, “The mayor is striving to block our investigation,” Ralph Nichols Man of the efficiency commit “The mayor invited us to Bate the civil service commission and Dthe police department. When we Pcalled his bluff he began to squirm land he bas squirmed harder every Nichols charged that the records @f the commission show at least 25 D% cause from the police department @ and reinstated on order of the com- n. _ Ong man, Sergt. Glen S. Norton, ) § Was restored to his old rank against } the direct opinion of the corporation MISSIONARIES. RELEASED But Brother of One Is Held for Stamp Thefts | Stolen stamps valued at $84 Tues- ly night caused arrest of two mis- lonaries of the Mormon church and ® bookkeeper. The two church- Men, Herber McArthur, 23, and Or- n Caldwell, 22, were released Wed- day noon, after an investigation d proved them innocent. John Wesley McArthur, 19, a okkeeper, admitted theft of the mps from the Standard “Oil Co.'s where, he said, he had been Ng, according to police. Several Rainier valley merchants d the police Tuesday that a man was offering stamps for at cut rates. John McArthur “Boys were taken at 4902% where all three The McArthurs are Pay Fine of $1,000 ) Unable to furnish clearance pa-| k from Vancouver, B. C., the hter Morning Star {s liable to a [fine of $1,000 here, under United P States laws. The fine had not been d at the office of the collector of oms Wednesday morning, and it stated that proceedings to en- payment of the fine might be ited. shortly. _HERE’S MORE ABOUT MRS. HOLT _ STARTS ON PAGE 1 ot give the impression of a man- wr. She was simply an attract- “Attle housewife, summoned by call of duty to law and tha com-} Munity, as she says, who answered: summons; completed her labors | is now ready to sink back into oblivion of all good little house- ) And that she has no remorse for ‘the necessary deceit she is alleged to have practiced on Conner to gain 6 purported confession is shown her manner. ) “It's thrilling, ff detective.” ENOUGH THRILLS (0 LAST LIFETIME “Vd rather powder my nose than m a skillet, anyway, but now had enough thrills to last a she smiled, “being surfelted with amateur uthing, Mrs. Conner says, and ly willing to return to the apartment atop the Ashford store and spend the rest her life sweeping floors and thing dishes. Mrs. Holt and her husband, who Fives the Ashford-Tacoma stage, ‘e drawn into the mystery thru] mdship for the Conners, Con- appealed to her for aid in ring him of suspicion of the “murder, when his wife disappeared iy 19. SEADY TO GO BACK 0 THE HILLS | She reported to Prosecuting Attor- fey Selden. Selden convinced her ‘that her duty to the state lay in ald. ing it to trap Conner, she said. That and her desire to gain revenge for fer girlhood friend led her to plot alibts with Conner and finally ain his confidence and the location Where he 1s alleged to have buried} the body. “ft wort of got me, for awhile, What with the strain and so many ‘purious folks, but now T'm glad. It's! “not a profession that I'd recommend “to other housewives, but Penrl is avenged by it. “and when the funeral is over Stop Neighbor's Hedge From Cutting l Action to Off View 1 L. Ken thur H. H 1 to Blaine that his nelghbor t ‘ i against.” the opinion sets forth, “An ege of the hedge to grow upwards wid be a ¥ aK Lith amendment to the constitution of United st he « \ yh r its police powers for th 1 sione will not support such restric Brown Defies Probers # offic n was demoted by Chief of W. H. Searing in December 1 for being sxicated while on dut In July, 1922, made an a tion to the commission to be rein stated at his former rank This was approved by C W, B. and by Mayor On the cor at the com y to of sergeant Severyns October 20 fon Norton to the p In February, . the commis sion ignored Kennedy's opinion and put Norton back to work 4s sergeant He has been carried on the pay rolls as a sergeant ever since Nichols said, tho the opinion states that it would be illegal for the city comptroller to pay Norton a ser 's commission. “Mayor Brown's obstruction will Mmen who have been discharged for | something and will meet again Fri-| Jail penalty and $100 fine for fall- ure of witnesses to attend hearings by the efficiency committee, after being served with subpoenaes.” BRAZIL BATTLE IS UNDER WAY Attack on Rebels BUENOS AIRES, July 23.—Bra ailian federal troops have begun their long-expected major attack on the rebel forces in © Paulo city, ac cording to messages here today. Strong infantry units, supported by tanks and airplanes, advanced on the rebel entrenchments on three sides of the coffee capital yesterday after- noon, following an artillery bombard- ment of 48 hours. Sao Patio city has been damaged, the messages said. A num. ber of American refugees left Santon by northbound ships yesterday. More than 20,000 men were in tion and the continuous roar of a tillery was heard in Santos, more than 20 miles away, radio messages sald. Meantime, other dispatches said disaffections had broken out among federal reinforcements sent from Rilo Grande do Sul to aid in the final attack on Sao Paulo. A num- ber of officers were arrested. The food shortage in Sao Paulo city bas reached the stage of a near famine, other advices said, and the rebels are handicapped by lack of a well organized commissary, Battleship Bombed by Brazil Aviators MONTEVIDEO, July 23—Captain Gulandris of the Greek steamer Andrios, arrived here last night, re- ports that rebel aviators from Sao Paulo attacked the Brazilian dread. naught Minas Geraes, anchored in Santos harbor, dropping several hombs. It could not be learned whether or not any of the bombs struck the big battleship, which, with its sis ter vessel, the Sao Paulo, is the pride of the Brazilian’ navy. HERE’S MORE ABOUT PHONE STARTS ON PAGE 1 company in the present Kennedy charges. Crosby is not the owner or holder of any telephone exchange system or equipment and is without power to furnish the city with phone service. The protection granted the city un- fer the franchise which includes regulatiohy governing the construc- tion of telephone lines, furnishing of fire and police alarm systems and other matters, as well as prescribing the rate to be charged for phone service, are inherent in the phone Property itself, Kennedy alleges, * Judge Smith, in fesuing the writ of mandate, commanded the telephone company to desist from threateping to raise rates and to desist m threatening to discontinue the phone service of its patrons who refuse to pay the riew tariff, pending issuance of @ peremptory writ holding up the phone rate increase or its denial, CLAIM FRANCHISE STILL IN EFFECT “The litigation has narrowed down to # sult to compel the telephone company to live up to its contrac. tural obligations,” Kennedy sald. “This contract is between the city of Seattle and the company and will be decided in the supertor courts of King county. ‘The action has no bearing upon the fight be- tween the state department of pub- le works and cities of Seattle, ‘Ta. coma and Spokane against the phone company, which is pending in federal court, While the court aetion Wednes- day affects only the city of Seattle both Tacoma and Spokane have similar actions based on stronger claims, Kennedy mld, In both of these citles the franchises under litigation, Ym ready to go back in the hills to tpantord and stay there—until the which the phone company 1s oper: ating are in full effect and strength. Federal Troops Begin Major | badly | HERE'S MC LEOPOLD-L STARTS ¢ IRE ABOUT OEB TRIAL appeared interested This less Bngtish letter, « in flaw CROWE SAYS BOYS LONGED TO KILL we said the let ' ' fed uy the Victim t after f k 1 they to } k They ‘ direct to ft dress Thi Cro ‘ cold -blo 1 They lor kill « not who tl the attorney said was only } chance that fell up t which Leopold w in eth . binds,” They ! tape ar 1 pot « t which tt to 1 burs ing away t vietiin ‘Only because Le home thru an alley instead of wing the sidew was t saved from the that Robert Franks,” C a | Leopold and Loeb, a E Crowe, drove thelr automobile to Harvard priv 01, stoppls few hundred feet from the | ground in order to avoid suspicion. They watched a score of boys playing ball and argued between themselves as to which one they should kidnap and murder, They not block this inevstigation,” Nich decided upon young Levinson, rom ag | but when they missed him they "The committee is accomplishing | Gidea’ that’ the Franke bey would be their victim. ‘They took day. There tx a city ordinan PB ¢ Rabert’ Dessed in 1911 providine: 30 dupe | nation of the fact the " father was a millionaire, Crowe sald, and therefore would be willing to pay the ransom. “Seeing Robert Franks swinging gaily along a sunlit street, defendants drove alongyide and invited the NMttle youngs get in for a ride,” Crowe “While one of the boys ¢ | other leaned over from the rear » }and struck that innocent child over | the head with a tape-bound chisel The boy was pulled into the back seat and covered with blankets “Then Leopold and Loch drove thru the south side df the elty and prepared to do away with their vio tim. 4 | “They prepared the hydrochloric }acid and Leopold tossed the burning jacld on his face. The ether was not needed, for the boy—Just an hour earller a happy schoolboy—was dead Crowe described how Leopold and Loeb carried the boy's body to a cul | Vert near the city mits, stripped it, hid it carefully near the road and |then drove b @to the Leopold home, where they burned the boy's clothes. KOPOLD'S FATHER WEEPS IN COURT The prosecutor told | of Leopold “|throwing the chisel from the auto- |mobile, where it was found later. He related incidents when the two boys took their victim's shoes and belt and buried them in the ground in the country. He told of how the boys destroyed the typewriter on which the ransom letter was written, throwing it into a lagoon in Jackson park. Leopold watthed Crowe closely. details of carefully planned, rated the details, Nathan Leopold, |Sr., sat nearby, head bowed, teary trickling down his face. Beside him was Foreman Leopold, older brother of the slayer. Frank Loeb, uncle of Dickie, and Allen, his older |brother, sat side by side near the | Leopoids. Crowe told how the finding of Leopold's spectacles led to the ar. jrest of the defendants and how he extracted the confessions. “Loeb demanded he was being held," Crowe said. “I told him that we wero holding him because we were tightening the crime he had so As Crowe nar | He seemed greatly Interested in the} to know why| IN PAGE 1 | “1 told him that we knew if Nathan Leopold was found to be the murderer ut Loeb was also connected with it My God! Is that right? Loeb shouted,” according to Crowe ‘Give me a drink of water and VU tell you the whole stor aid » 1 Y lq told ‘ “ fon't pr f ‘ nd fu "1 ¢ go bef af ) i the jury 4 t think & € i « rs le 1 k you that chance Crowe CROWE DEMANDS DEATH PENALTY Leopold, dumbfound » then giving hi f Crow : wn and told b 2 p for t th penalt that murde awe mut sturdy sade ment, a@ brief but the asking clemency for the defend honor, tt would be without if these boys, after plead guilty, were sentenced to hang Darrow sa Te ng back and forth, clut jing his suspender, Darrow cha enged Crowe in his declaration that murder of Prank atrociowi He argued the boy was killed with ¢ n, and, al fense doen y their guilt, it does object © “ruthless appeal to the t atir. | WEDNEI DAY, JULY Announcement! 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Easy to ap; mark declaring this was ime for arg sa, but for a sim |ple statement of what the defense would submit in testimony Darrow, 67 years old, raised himself to his toes, Jooked at | Crowe with a sneer, and an | wwered: | “Your honor, this | state's attorney must hi: that somewhere in a b young Judge Caverly ruled that Darrow must confine hig remarks to a sim ple statement and reprimanded Crowe for opening the w argument FATHER OF SLAIN } Ither of the giain youth, stooped and |bent by the sorrow that has come Jupon him, was the state's second witness, Sitting calmly on the witness jstand, his hand held to his | Franks answered questions in a low voice, looking always directly at the state’s attorney and never once glancing toward young Leopold and Loeb. The two murderers, somewhat re Neve: when Crowe finished the ntate’s opening statement, relaxed Jand whispered together an tho ques. tioning of their victim's father con. jtinued. They showed littlo interest in the proceedings, Franks testified simply to the fact that he was the father of Robert Franka, identified a pleture ag that of his son und Identified various stato exhibits, including the ran. m letter and the clothing worn by Robert on May 21, the day on which |the murder was committed. When Franks’ testimony had lbeen mpleted, Judge Caverly ro- eesved court for lunch. | we sight of the body, other county of- ficers said. SHOV HOW BODY OF WIFE WAS FOUND Conner was silent and morose at the start of the early morning auto- mobile trip from Vancouver to Ta coma, Tuesday morning. But when the auto had approached to within a few miles of the aban- doned well where his wife's body was recovered early Sunday morning, the prisoner became very talkative, his companions on tho ride reported. Conner kept up a continual stream of conversation as the automobile, without a word of explanation from its driver, turned off the paved high way, bumped over a dim rocky road, thru spectre-like trees and drew up at the mouth of the well. “Hore ls where we fgund your wife's body,’ he was told. Conner alighted and became sid. denly filent again. He was taken to the well and was shown how county officials had dug thru four feet of caved-in dirt to find the body, Then he was taken a few feet away, where a stake marked the place where an exploded cartridge shell was found. A few feet farther away he was directed to a point where investigators say they found a large quantity of blood-soaked earth and mows. “I didn’t do it,” he sald. “L don't think it was my wife's body found here, 1 used to live near here, but I didn't even know there wus such a well.” At the mortuary Conner did not say whether or not the body was that of his wife. Yormer Judge M. J of his attorneys, announced that he and Attorney A. O. Burmeister might drop the case, Gordon's announcement clovely fol ‘owed discovery of a .38-caliber Ger mun Luger pistol ia the Conner HERE'S MORE ABCUT CONNER DEATH CASE STARTS ON PAGE 1 Gordon, one} home. It was said to belong to the prisoner, The gun’s cartridges, Sheriff Tom from the spot where Mrs, Conner fgll, mortally wounded, with a bullet hru her head. Mrs. Conner disappeared May 19. WILL TRY CASE IN U. 8. COURT The case was transferred to ted- eral court Jurisdiction late Tuesday, when surveys by Deputy County En- gineer W. B. Berry and examination | of maps showed that the abandoned well in which Mrs. Conner's body was found on the old Olman farm, Sunday, is half a mile inside the Camp Lewis military reservation. United States District Attorney Wallace Mount, who will conduct the case henceforth, conferred late Tues- day with Plerce County Prosecutor J, W. Selden, who has worked on the case up to its present stage. Conner probably will be arraigned before United States Commission T. W. Hammond Wednesday after- noon, while funeral services for his wife are being held at the Buckley. King mortuary CONNER UN AFTER ORDE cAL Attorney Gordon refused to say why he and his law partner, Bur meister, contemplated withdrawing from the case, He told newspaper. men that they would no longer re fuse permission to interview or photograph the prisoner, who 1s held in the “federal tank" at the county Jail Conner persistently refuses to be photographed, tho he was “mugged by newspaper cameramen in Van- couver, Wash, where he was held until early Tuesday morning. He was taken to Vancouver following his arrest Thursday, when county BOY WITNESS Grescham gave merely per ne tory testimony, telling of his trip | to the morgue in identifying the body of Robert. Jacob Franka, f Desmond says, correspond exactly | with the exploded shell found 10 feet | American Tar Company Lake Union, Foot of Wallingford Ave. DISTRIBUTORS OF officers sald they feared a lynching. Tho alleged wife murderer was remorseful and uneasy all Tuesday, after he had viewed his wife's re- lonely forest trail a mile from a paved Roy and Tenino road, and }about a mile from where Conner |tived as a boy, When interviewed, Conner main- jtained his innocence and declared | that the purported confession of burying his wife's body {# a “frame- |up." The confession was obtained by Mrx. Ione Holt, of Ashford, a girlhood chum of Mrs. Conner, | ‘I'm nervous because T haven't had any rest today,” Conner repeated time and again from behind the bars, DISCOVERY ST LINK discovery of The murder gun is. viewed by tho state 4s particularly important as it was the so-called the only major bit of evidence needed to tle up Conner conclusively with the crime, “It is a great disappointment to all of us,” declared Selden, “that we cannot prosecute the case, After the sleepless nights and hard days we have spent in clearing up mys- tery. “There is some satisfaction, how: ever, in knowing that we have turned over to the federal people go to trial with it tomorrow, if & case so complete that they can necessa Md Tho federal grand jury does not meet until September 15. District "Attorney Mount said Tuesday night that he will probably follow Sel. den's plan of asking for a special venire of jurymen to dispose of the case this summer, WILL ASK FOR DEATH PENALTY He will ask for the death penalty, A complaint against Conner was to be filed in federal court thiy morn: ing The federal statute provides a death penalty for murder after fy that he would have had if ted him, court cony Tho difference. is that execution wouhl take place at MeNeil Island Instead of Walla Walla Crowds of curious Tacomans and mains and the well, which is on a} criminal assault on a military res. ervation, so that Conner, if con. victed, will stand practleally tho | same chance of paying the supreme | 1 ROUTS BURGLAR Girl’s Scream Frightens Him Away From Home An 11L-year-od girl, Dorothy Good- enough, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Goodenough, 1415 N. 5ist st., routed a burglar single-handed Tues- day night when she discovered him climbing thru her second floor bed- toom window. The child, on her way to bed, opened the door and saw the thug crawling thru, She screamed and the man hastily jumped out to a ladder and made his escape, taking with him a watch and $16 cash. ‘The prowler had previously visited the home of Mrs. M. Garesick, 312 N. A7th st. where ho took $1750 from a purse, Accused Hijackate Demur to Charges Oscar Redden, Joseph Burt, Harry Landaker and Chester A. Rothermell appeared before Superior Judge Ev- erett Smith Tuesday and entered a demurrer to tho state’s charge that they murdered Louis Barei in June in a rum hijacking fight near Coal. ville. 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It pays to be sure | that the roofing you buy bears the Barrett label. | Seattle, Wash. ROOFINGS HERE’S MORE ABOUT STATE PARK FUND STARTS ON PAGE 1 The Rainier club voted to go 100 per cent for the park Tuesday night after Dr. Valley Commercial F. E, Wood and Charlie Frisbee of the Y. M. B. C. addressed them. The club's salt water park commit- tee was instructed to see that every one in Rainier Valley “did his bit.” West Seattle post of the Ameri. can Legion sent a check for $5 with a letter from R. E, Knight, saying: “Woe have been following the cam- palgn for a salt water park and we want to say ‘Go to it We would like to suggest ‘Washington Veterans’ Memorial Park’ as a name. (We appreciate your interest, men, “Here’s State Park Committee, 416 University St. Gentlemen: my contribution of Peer eee ee eeeeeeeseaces Automobile Club of Washington, | but as we told folks when tie cam- paign started, we're going to let the public select a name for them- selves when they put the park across.) Vie Gauntlet of the Blue Mouse theater dropped a dollar on the desk this morning. “Great idea,” said Vie. “Wish T could do more.” And Blakp Mills, Jr. of 938 22nd ave. also fent a dollar along in the mail. Is YOUR | contribution in? It ought) to be started today. For it's to be YOUR park, you know. Fill out the coupon below. DO IT NOW. |See Page 16 for the list of recdnt contributors. My Bit!” I think the idea of a summer estate for the common folks is fine. I want to help you put it over. Inclosed is oe Reece (Amount) Name tee eee eteeencerene Address tees BULLETS ZIP! The persuasive Colt's in the hunds of Patrolman N. P. Anderson curly We neaday morning induced J. Collins, 40, powers of a long shoremun, to submit to capture after SIX bullets had zipped past his flee Ing form at 34th aye. S. and Han. ford st, Anderson had gone off duty at 4 the murder scene, 4 My and was putting his auto in his garage! at his homo, 9214 s4th ave. §., when he noticed a man standing ot) the porch of a neighbor, Grant Laizuro, $409 Hanford st. The poligeman approached arfd de- | manded the fellow's business. The |intruder bd, and was followed by |a barrage of bullets, Whereupon the | fugitive considered capture was bet+ | ter than bding shot, and stopped. | Collins hha several cans of paint, | three door locks, a buneh of keys, & | flashlight and o set of hinges, police say. Te wis held in Jall on an open charge.