The Seattle Star Newspaper, October 24, 1924, Page 1

a " WEATHER FORECAST | mats, | Talking about cross-word puzzles, the street car probe? sound you hear | | "| | TESTIMONY STRERT.CAR PROBE 9 much for the GRAPHIC SECTION XN XXXXEXXI AARKAAUE 4ernrAnee A XN XXXXXXKX doe Bungstarter, Home Brew's own the witness chair street-car probe Copies of this beautiful print, without lettering, will be sent to sub- scribers on receipt of a bologna sau- sage to cover postage. as the latter sat Reformers aren't the only ed in uplift work. Ashes to ashes, and dust to dust, Drink lots of cre Gee Gee says she drank two | cans of Karo corn syrup and her | SAY feet aren't a bit better, It is very difficult fo pick out al good overcoat this winter. And wants to wave tt; And wants to save it. How can I keep my husband from eating with a knife?— Dear Homer: ‘Try replacine, his knife with a file. IT'S A SAD STORY, MATE Drop a tear for Elijah Fuzzies; Gone clear goofy cross-word puzzles. Diner—Is your corn tender? and the pred woman feels cen that are too small n she would in shoes that Lord Marshall, Milord Kitehle, and myself to Draxman’s coffee-house to discourse: and later to playing at bil-| liards, where did win three games, but | ho money wagered, so ho better off. And | He—When ts a joke not a joke? her brother is de lot of time to Ma J around with some young flupper, = me Sobbing W “of Trapping Conner! Defense Attorneys Bring Out Fact She Was Paid for Get-| ting Confession the murder charged with kill were making every today, In cross-examination, to puncture the story of Mra I Holt, on the stand most of the day Thursday Mrs. Holt is the star witness of the state. A friend of both ¢ and his wife, nner became suspicious! when Mrs. Conner disappeared, | Posing as a friehd of Conner stiti,| she formed a liason with the eo | | cutor’s office and led Conner, trial. The body of Mra Conner was} | found fn /an abandoned well near Spanaway, on the grounds of Camp Lewis. Ror this reason the hus band is being tried before Federal] Judge Cus! an. { MRS. HOLT TELLS STORY AMID TEARS Befor a crowd at pac courtroom, Mra. Holt, we ally, told of how she of Conner after casi ed the ‘confide: his peared 1} uld be of said. “I met him ater, and he drove out into the coun. | try, where wo parked on the road side and discussed the situation “He told me the story of the drive with his Wife on May 19, and of how 4 with her for wanting to an extended visit to her. parent after \they had made up follo oOrce proceedings } ‘onner said that some folks had been accusing him of murdering his wrote him asking y help,”* st a murder jand be able to deny it SHE AGREED |TO WRITE LETTER “He cothmented on the similarity of his wife’s handwriting and mine. that gave me an Idea. T told F im that uf would help to alla on, I d write a letter pur wife and mailed from Califo rh He urged me tio do it, and sald he would | 1 me specimens of Pearl's (the | fo's) hantiwriting. me from “As soon ax I returned to town 1| tunes of the A Goulds are shown to have with Conndr. He told me to go ahead with my pipn.” Mrs. Holf then described the next | meeting sh4 had with Conner on June ] 29. He askpd her, she said, to go to |the prosectitor and tell him that she | lhad seen Mrs. Conner, on the day | after her |disappearance, in a car | | parked alorgxide the mountain road, with a big| man, who wore gogeles, |changing @ tire. He suggested des jerthing Mrp. Conner as wearing a |new khaki putit. | ei the steriff of my conversation i “I suggested that instead of telling | to “PU say 1c. the story I] make it in the shape of | an affidavit,” Mrs. Holt testified. “I | showedfrin} also at the time, the let ter I fad [written for Mra, Conner | and mailed] it to California, to be re- | mailed ther pal ANTED (TELL NEW STORY “On July| 12, we met again by ap- nd he drove me out Into He told me then that he | pointment |the country. wanted mo] to tell the offictals tha his wife hdd been located in a con vent—that {I had seen two nuns in | turn t 19, Column 4) | i | ( TERMS. A dandy -foom bungalow, within Tking distance of down tone to achool; has If m with tile fireplac Itchen with dining {rooma and bath; ¢ ement, furnace, tub: sd floors and garage, Tonight’s| Want Ads will tell you easy w The Newinaibae With the Bice nat Circulation in “Washington « The Seattle Star . Under the Act of Cox Vostottice at Beaits oman Tell _ Woman’s Identification in Bon Marche Robbery C LANDS DETECTIVE IN st di, Ho ’ Bre os March 4, 257%, Per Your, by Mal 65.00 BANDIT y FIGHTS WOMAN 1924 Apartment in Day- STERIOUS woman, Fridz Avined “Thug. ‘Reidel A ta Bon ing weeks of investigation by the prosecuting at- EDITION| TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. Accuse Watson of Helping in $25,000 Holdup BY JOHN W. NELSON caused the arrest of Detective Ross Watson on a charge of com- Marche robbery of August 8. ’ who figure in the murder trial of Richard Conner, now on at Seldon, who hired Mrs. Ione Holt to gain the cording to tle testimony, into the confidence of Conner and who brought about his arrest. Center is Conner himself; while | wer ntong Eastlake ave. for several! Pd V jtrap that td to hin arrest and) to the right is Mrs. Holt, w ho he Income They’re Released for Public Study Wealthy Men Pay in Heavy Amounts Rockefeller Gives Fortune to Son Oil Magnate and Ford Top the List Doug Fairbanks shacen Contributor EW YORK, Oct. 24. Here are the “ Above is Prosecutor James W. had for years been‘a a friend ‘of both husband and wife. MAYOR'S MONEY SOURGE TO BE PROBED Hint Big Bank Roll Came From Police Department BROWN VERY EVASIVE Taxes r and distribution of some of America’s creates blue ‘blood fortunes is bringing Nichols Charges Citizens’ Committee Smoke Screen o the fore a new cl y, publication of income tax returns for 1923 rev HAT part did officials members of the ve in getting togeth er the $27,000 bankroll flashed by Mayor Brown for the benefit of Bob Whiting during the mayor's investigation of the carline deal? Were they |, “five to one?” noll's effictency com lice departmen ty | banker, $678,664; James Stillman, ia found to have ha son the bulk of his ht j wife, but that no man could commit | tine, as told by these two income tax | so1 ding to the returns |which “contains — f | British « | violent cve | tutions in this country and for the subversion of his majesty’s Eddie Cantor, comedian, $6,500, John 'D. Rockefeller, Jr., $7,- David Belasco, noted produc D. Rockefeller, 6r., $124, One of his leading stars, Len. Young Rockefeller and the family and motor works of Henry Ford are first published s in the country admit that tt ferred to his son, the once great for president, ve paid an in * tax of $84,000; Charles Ev secretary of state, lice officials were solicited to con- ute to the fund was shown to h that no one income any of them commanding fortunes once da of these old houses, Henry Ford paid a personal in come tax of $2,167,946.10 and the Ford factories would indicate ans Hughes, $3,600; Morris Hillquit, leader, $2,600; . Pressed further he said the police department furnished any of the mone; ; Nicholas Murray its members » is Jack Dempsey, and his manager, 04, according to the returns. rect reply to the question. Jack Kearns, Thomas Meigha paid # tax of Barthelmess, Liltan Gish, . Goethals, who built + paid $45,000, s connection it is Interesting to another section of the} in which he said | ‘fo be abje to repay | “Yes, We'll Get Out the the Annual Line of Bull . Morgan is found to pay an inc ome tax of $98,643. mayor's testimony | who furnished him the |to start with ‘ in New York when it was suddenly the Panama ¢: revealed that the tax payments had been released to public | confusion 1ER TO | treasury Brown's now \neme 47h ursday 1 a phrase in. the publication of were hurled in tax law which made Income tax information illegal except as designated by | Since there w lens the usual 2 incil_ committe s nothing in the law , pald $346,646.25 ‘age 19, Column 5) of the income tax payments uthorities held publ THE LAW SAYS: XB is the text of the provis jon in the revenue bill which opened up secrets e divided on the point, York Times, World, printing the figures, jald-Tribune did not the nationally ures in different castes of life, esting elevations of success are to be drawn from the tax figures. hairman of the rs of the United “MOVIE INCOMES News and others -|Stars in Photoplay World Pay Heavy Taxes “That the commissioner (of in revenue) shall az e in each year be prepared and nr to public inspection, e may determine, ollector and in such Douglas Fairbanks was found one of Southern Califor-| nia’s greatest sources of r soralng. to income tax fi in such man. hoard of direct States Steel Corporation, another steel nate, paid $29,000. revenue daar nt here foday frbanks last year ining the name 4 me tax return in Morgan firm, paid $4 Doheny, oll magnat yer in this section, where this home is located and how easily it can be bought amount of tax paid by s (Lurn to Page 19, Column 4) time; He Escapes torne; After Struggle charging him with robbery. The formal information will state BANDIT, armed with a re-|Present at, aided and abetted A a daring attempt) Marche,” Prosecutor Malcolm A. ¥ The € y ment at 2 entification of Friday © office of aped cap Charles Tennant struge) ith je b in ec - in Ww Her name was carefully Detective Tennant cutor Down guarded and Pros pain and rage, th : blow Patterson with a would be paid eral tee released he hold on jumped to a for a copy ROOKED a ped off the porch to the| WAS IDENTIFIED ground below Watson was brought to Tenna: ‘8 Several neighbors chased the rob-| office I'riday morning by Detectives | echter and Jim Bryne. He} | blocka rem rim lice detectives and motorcycle! lus, Patterson, Ross and Tennant on searched the entire University|until the mystery witness, the wo-| ia c ot Hin di success. The man was about & feet|!er identification of him, he was | 11 inches tall and wore a grey belt-|taken to the police booking office nd a grey hat Britain Demands Soviet n,n resi Rou Cease Propaganda Policy fications, andités by no means closed yet,” Tennant said, “There are still persons at large who are being sought,’ Deputy Prosecutor Ross said. The Bon Marche robbery was staged early on the morning of Au-| gust 8, just before the store opened | for the day. The robbers escaped | with $23,000 in cash and check rmer City Patrolman Joe ©. and his wife, Ed Fasick and| his wife and Lockwood were ed some time after the robbery Attorn James McCabe obtained Jevidence from a cient which led to |the arrest of Neal and Fasick. Lat er McCabe advanced evidence which |resulted in the arrest at Portland of Lockwood, janitor at the store | lat the time of the robbery. Lock |wood, after being grilled, made a * Oil Promoter to sieges eet Face Fraud Trial} ; ; either Dov nor Tennant TOLEDO, Oct. 24.—Joseph Cr aid reveat whether Detective rt Worth ofl promo tson is the man implicated by indicted last June by a federal wood. grand jury for using the mails to ed overc set at 1 incommunicado | pt. Tennant in the case LONDON, Oct. 24.--Great Britain y sent a note to Russia demand the soviet government im: order the communist in- al to cease subversive prop. aimed to tu The note enclosed a copy of a letter received by the British com munist party signed by sident of the executive commit tee of tLe communist internationale, uctions to jects to work for the row of existing insti armed end.” forces as m means to th defraud, was brought here from| CONSTANTINOPLE, Oct. 24.— Denver today for trial. Six Armenian bandits were arrested] Postoffice inspectors declare | here today, charged with participa- Crites made $500,000 in wild cat ofl/ tion In a reported plot to assassin- deals before he was stopped by the} ate Mustapha Kemal, Turkish na- government. tional leader. 2 Chief Severyns Was a Kid Once on Halloween This Year, but S it Say, Remember . . .?” BY S.B.GROFF and carry off property?" ITH Halloween only 1 week “—put those wheels on top of away the reporter decided to get fence posts, half a mile apart. the official lowdown on what the| Worked all night at it, Huh? public could get away*with and still Yes, we'll arrest the kids, but the stay out of jail. So he edged into parents will be held responsible. Police Chief William B v We'll arrest the mother of the | office and stood at attention, offending child. If it has no “Halloween?” repeated — the mother, we'll arrest the father, chief. “Oh, heck, It's about If it's an orphan, we'll hold the tine T got out the annual line guardian, and if it's a ward of of bull to the force. You know the juvenile court we'll go get. —no undue rowdyism, no prop- Judge King Dykeman, Say, did erty destruction, no defacing of I tell you about the time T car. windows or buildings with soap ried a cord of wood a quarter of ‘or crayons, all that sort of a mile and stacked it up around thing—" a farmer's well so he couldn't “How about confetti tossing, gate get any water—" ling, and noisemaking, chie “Well, what can the kids do to “Well, that reminds me of the} ar time my brother BIN and I haq/celebrate Halloween, chief? b two other kids ked a wagon up| ‘‘When the farmer came out he to a grain elevator, filled it full of|had to carry that cord of wood back wheat and hauled it out into ajto get to his well. What? Oh, the st | meadow— what? Confetti? There kids can wear false faces, false must be no confett! thrown, no noise, | beards, carry Jack o° lanterns, dress no nothing. Now, as I said, we/Up like spooks and walk around the dragged that wagon two miles, took | Streets. All the cops will be told to the wheels off of it and—" watch for property destruction and fow about the police? Will they | Window soaping, Say, did [ ever tell ar the kids who make too much | You about—"" noise, soap windows, uve ticktacks] But the reporter had gone office, Detective Watson was jailed on a complaint “that Ross Watson was Jouglas announced. Ross Watson, former city 1 closeted there with Doug-| detective, arrested Friday as— accomplice the Bon | ots without|man, was brought in. Following| Marche robbery 4 tormally placed under arrest | en charge pail was $10,000 | |Banquét at Masonic Club for Seattle Ball Team Tonight's the Dig night for the Se attle Indians! Under the auspices of the Chamber the Redskins, | pions of Coast league baseball, are to be the honor guests at a big public at the Masonic club rooms |in the Arcade building. There will be stunts galore, and it chance for Seattle rooters to meet the Indians off the ~ | ball field, and to become better a® ~ |quainted with Seattle's diamond ath of Commerce, Music, of the pepper variety, will . the 40-piece Elks? ; band and the chamber’s chorus of ;50 singers will furnish it. |Charley Lockard and will be among the speakers, } dent Norton, of § “Red” Killefer . Paul's club, here for the junior world’s series, which jstarts Saturday, will explain how his | team ts going to take a licking. T, , will complete the list of The public i# Invited, a dollar pay- ing for the dinner, and the knife and drill will start climax of the evening will “Red” Killefer, manager of the Indians, will be adopted by the tribe of Iroquois Indians. ARCH CRIMINAL OF TWO CONTINENTS MASTER the gentleman thieves who congregated in bright-light- He was their foe — and at the same time made so- ciety pay another debt it owed to him! Don't fail to read— John Ainsley Master Thief BY ARTHUR SOMERS ROCHE The next fiction release in Coming soon! The Star. Vatch for it!