The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 2, 1925, Page 1

w least Mo Minaiey hoon, Today ree qT 4 ( as tendy, folks! Aw shucks, iy call it a day, and go down pee | LOVE SAID TO ca a ikl y time per ROO! Police Hunt Man Whom eS Woman Spurned Mitel thes posicerds «© reawent MURDER WAS PLANNED pay Victim Expected to Go Back et, ae y.| to Husband on Easter la tie arrival of spr . N unrequited love, so intense that it carried the man be featete bave su: tin divid-| Yond the bounds of reason and lag the atom. Give us| sanity, is believed by the police to Rekdars wor be the motive whieh Saturday eee night prompted the murder of Mrs. Lillian Helen Morley, beauty parlor attendant, in a taxieab on Harvard ave. N of some | 1 * ' OFFICE same Tos coald talk, you wouldn't cc eae to bear any rattles. <<... . . ii While the Ta mether who objects to her | ™urderer may committed aul: Wey fighting, shouldn't send (“ld an int wh for. the fie acheol in a Lord Fauntleroy | "8". spreadin he entire Pa. cific coast, w i . ied are M ee emewhere cast of Succ, | NOrt. a Low Angeles carpenter, who WE worst is like th’ dest, |'* believed to have dined with the ffhere Gin't no broadcast sta-|UOfortuniate woman ip the Butler }eate Saturday. nikht, and to and |and who owed her July from the Southland, w ell without a curse re the fatal romance had its incep police my BELIEVED CASE OF UNKEQUITED LOVE It was a case of unrequi Capt. Tennant believes, A Was ‘so selfish, so intense victim, about to be permane ed by the return of*the wo her husband and tw | Victoria, preferred to leas at his feet. Then, as mysterious as the ro. mance, Manheart disap as completely as if the ¢ ad experiencing a diphtheria They ought to arrest the fr parking more than an| ove Place, a ie iecsar motor's missin’, swallowed him. Slender threads were being gathered Monday, threads of evidence that Tennant hopes may be twisted into a strong chain that will \iend “the: slayer to justice of the feeliy lice t hi dead bod ie the % S| round the city. Tennant wired Los Angeles police Monday in an attempt to learn more of Manheart from Mrs. Morley’s s , at whose home she is said to rt AUTO IN WHICH ESCAPED to Seattle have be He register WME using here today. | Pes Soar little radio set, even Bowl most of the time. Us of little Homer Brew, was a baby. ee. HIC SECTION | TRACE LAYVE Since coming Manheart’s actic ed in mystery. (Turn to Page 7, Mrs. Morley’s Body to Be Shipped North Funeral services for Mrs. Lillian Helen Morley will protably be held fn Vancouv according to Bon ney Watson's funeral establishment, where the body of the woman slain last July, in shroud- d at the min 5) frying to convince spring has come, on that a bird on the Worth @ ton in the fur- in a taxicab, Saturday night, has ee © sis taken. a he { Instructions to prepa: ie body BR Forbes, former head of | for shipment to Victoria, were re- " eau, is the first | ceived by attendants Monday. to be convicted in the have | dd my car can oct @ rest. entéred the taxicab, in which she eee jmet de What bas become of the old-fash-} It was Manheart who had ar-/ ciee who used to be able to| Tanged to dine with Mra Morley SEATTLE, WASH., MON At the left is Mrs. Lillian Helen Morley, slain Saturday night in a fxicab on Harvard ave. N. She is with Elmer Manheart, Los Angeles carpenter, sought by the police for questioning. He is said to be the last person seen with her. Police say they have found he had sought to marry Mrs. Morley and had been refused. SEATTLE BOOTLEGGER EGGERS PLOT BRAINS Man Named “Earl” Sought as Key to. Hijacking Fugitives AN FRANCISCO, Feb. A man day as the to conspiracy named “Earl,” said by police to) which resulted in the freeing of Milo be « bootlegger with headquar-| Eggers, alleged hijacker, and the ters in Seattle. was being sought to-|death of Ariel, his brother, killed by a bullet intended for the deputy United States marshal guarding the Two Sailors Burned | in Ship Launch Fire} AN FRANCISCO, Feb. 2.—Two lora from the battleship Oklaho prisoner “Earl,” whose last name the police hav | suppl not obtained, 4 d funds for to ha carrying out the ma were severely burned and one | rescue and to have alded members of of the ship's launches was partly | the band in covering up thelr destroyed by fire on San Francisco | trail bay today. Jack Barlow, who, with Theodore A backfire from the motor ignit-| Eggers, is believed to have carried ed oil in the blige and the flames|out the actual work of rescue, and spread to the deck. Coxswain | whose gun is said to have shot down ung and First-Class Seaman Ives | Ariel, has escaped from San Fran mes until comrades on the battleship came to their with fire hose and destruction of the launch. will live. ught the cisco, but other members of the band w- {are believed to be hiding somewher prevented |in the city. So far every clue to Both men [Sas whereabouts has led up a blind alley 99 an Bappen of the, great mysteries of why musicians in movie Trapped i Gheays wear side- eee Of bread was increased As we understand for the raise is that Kheed the dough ae” 6 uaa Frantic Rescuers Are} “ame Unable to Help Pleading Victim the not Kind Words Bere soo Peam Con f | Floyd Collins, 35, Vag EPefinition: An exper? ts ly dying today, while rescuers were but apparently futile f doesn't know any lyhaking frantic Me 4, but etn better attempts to save him Collins’ feet are crushed under a ie * seven-ton boulder. He ts unable to BE We Gee ty her suectic| move, but iw conscious and In beg- SDearic, when 1 print ging his friends to saw his feet SEW tips, 1 wish you'd tt, He wan imprisoned by an earth| MAE H's not to be pud- slide while he wax exploring in hopes rf : of finding @ new route to Mammoth HS town fs. one cave a blow torch and chisel, ie fat nots to|men have been. chipping for more Elle wite iy iy than 70 hours at the flint rock hs which Holds Collins # prisoner, The WAY Li) Gee Gee sno | crevice is so narrow that only one 4s of Paderewski. | man can work at @ time and he hands | must sit upon Collins. é VE CITY, Ky., Feb, 2.—Trapped for more than 90 hours in a ‘4 cave tomb, 300 feet underground, | was believed slow-| in Deep Cave, Rock on Feet, Man Dying A new peril started Z, morning | seven miles distant. Collins set out to n shell rock began falling in a} explore the passageway early Friday. | | wh steady stream and threatening to| YOUTH LOCATES |euffocate the weakening man. The IMPRISONED J | one tan able to reach him can|_ “If I don't come out, you'll know | barely keep the gravel away from)!'M buried, there, he told his friends as he entered the pit 0 Twenty-four, hours passed and iar Collins did not return. Tt was | thought at first he might have ull me out even if you tear Off) reached the mammoth caves, but | my feet,” pleaded Collins, nod message came. | It would be impossible to draw him| At last Jewell Esters, 17, waa mw. | | out without doing this, it wax feared, | ered into the pit. A few friends of His right foot is wedged between two/ Collins and his aged father, Lee! siialier (timovable’ stones by the | Collins, waited around the mouth, | boulder. |The rope was paid out in silence Onily a few men are able to re seh | Then dt slackened and Esters called | no defi.| Up that he had reached the bottom | than to/ of te pit. Then there was asitence, | It was cold, and they shivered in e rain that was falling, It was too wet to*build a fire, An hour! passed. Another was half gone when a shout at the pit’s bottom’ startled them. They hauled Esters up. “Coiling is under a boulder down Esters said, i | Collins and they can devise nite way to give ald, other p gravel from smothering him. To reach Collins, it is necessary to be red 60 feet thru a narrow shaft. Frog its bottom a slender man c an) crawl on his hands and knees the! feet to the explorer’s head | In hopes of finding a new entrance |to Mammoth caves which are only | there DAY, FEBRL Lives of Three Love Victims?) IRistlY OCCURS. Too Late, Now! AS RESULT OF LONG DELAY John A, Peterson, Wife and Aunt Are Killed AUTO PLUNGES Need of Prompt Action Chine VGha 12TH AUTO VICTIM OF 1925 SUCCUMBS TO INJURIES wOBAAY, MPWwo hours " Leary ave. and Monday Mra. Mary I ’ weigan h auto vietin was struck & A. R ave. He said bh woman, due to another I] ot ted his vision. TLE etty counciimen argue | er $15, IN BAY Flimsy Guard Rails Stress 00, cotaider apecireae” ¢ Taxicab Slayer Ended Red Tape Costs | Life, Police Believe! =AN UNREQUITED “PROMPT ACTION” EDITORIAL CITY UTILITIES DEPARTMENT: STREETS DEP. iardalan is of the board of y by the Loard arings will be y tons iction und repiace pment y nd wchedule public ops Hef ge! es be $ promised, heavily louded truck: lost the ves on ficket y Hatiroad ave. Sunday afternoon. en gS Jay expreased Me an { gation. There have been se Other Investigations since the ter was first agitated about a yea Skidding on slippery planking and guided off the city's share of th by @ railroad en by John BR son, Seattle ¢ (Ramps) Pe plunged thru foot 1 ban, a flimey railing at the a wt carrying Petarsdn, hin w er aunty Mra Piara F th in 12 feet of tide water Their bodies were recovered after fire and policemen had raised tho vehicle and extricated them. HERE'S THE OLD FAMILIAR ALIBL ® “= pairs treatle ing would not The accident side of the oceupled by franchine But a of the niso have en if the city’s projected re been done on the work,” declared Acting Build Supt. Forsyth Monday, “it have the ‘ occurred on the in street, on that portion the railways under ss Joint users." few minutes examination scene shows that it could happened on the bay side of the street, where the water is deeper, had the Pi coupe skidded in that direction instead of shoreward. The fatal railing, 30 feet of which was torn loose by the careening breast high and com uprights and top pieces, e. ‘The braces wooden nave erson car, is about posed of 4oby 4 fr hes squa are 2 by 4s and there ts a horizon tal strip composed of boards 1 by Inches. whole railing is ox tremely “shaky.” | There is no bulwark at the bottom of the railing. On the outside of the street, that (Turn to Page 7, Column 5) Patient Kills Self | in Leap From Bed Diving off the foot of his cot to ke the tile floor head first, Nels rts, 60, an inmate of the county hospital, committed suicide Sunday He died of a fractured skull. was suffering from mental illusions. He admitte to the hespital 9, after being ta Belmont ave. Everts ary 611 | tee TODAY’S WANT ADS Will help you get that little home you have been looking for. Does this-one suit y $875—BARGAIN One acre with good two-room house; small orchard conalst- Ing of Italian and silver plums. ng and Lambert. cherries, Barly Crawford peaches, Belle fleur, King and Winter Ba- nana apples, one dozen logan- berry plants, strawberries, ete. ereek runs through pla on splendid road; in good neighborhood and’ only miles from Beatle. Price $876, on terms. ‘ow turn to the Want Ad page {in eee who is offering this one. ee) ken there| action 18 taken promptly » happen The reporte have to + find out what it wa nm won't This editorial is reprinted from The Star of 9, 1924 FLIMSY RAI [ RAILROAD AVE. ittte AVIOS_ROVTE | _ aeceee [ PLANKED R.R. PROPERTY SAE tpt OVER HERE THRU FI SY RAH. | Diagram shows where, into Sound from Railroad ave. eer: EDITORIAL WICE—once on November 14 and again on Decem- ber 9—The Star warned city officials that Rail- road ave. was a death trap, and urged prompt action in repairing it. This action was not taken. Officials talked, and suggested public hearings, and DID NOTHI Now, The Star’s warning that if the street department did not act the coroner would have to, has come true. Three persons went to their death over the edge of the Railroad ave. bridge Sunday. THE ACCIDENT COULD VENTED! A slippery day. A skidding auto wheel, caught in a hole in the rotten planking. A sliding over-worn plank- ing. A crash thru a rickety wooden railing. And a coroner's inquest. | City officials point out that the car went over the | edge on railroad property TRUE! But, kad the railroad siding on which they skidded on the city’s right-of-way pointed in the oppo- site direction—and many of them do—the car might just as easily have crashed thru the flimsy rail along- side the public street. The rail at this point is so fragile that pedestrians who flocked to the scene of the accident Monday had to he warned away from it. The time for technicalities, public hearings and other red tape has passed. What Seattle wants on Railroad ave, is ACTION! | If a holocaust threatened Seattle, would you wait for a public hearing, Mr. City Official. before you called out the fire department? Why, then, do it now? HAVE BEEN PRE- Physician Recovers $344, 834 Estate From Auto Injuries Left by Mrs. Harding! MARION, 0., Feb, 2.—Report of After suffering for 14 weeks fi uisers of the estate of the late Injuries received when he "he “| Mrs. Florence Kling Harding, widow struck by an auto, Dr, B.C. Brier.|o¢ president Warren G, Harding, 429 Malden ave. returned to the | was filed here today, placing the es. | workaday world Monday. Friends of | tate's value at $344,834, the physician held a feception for a | him in his offices in the Bitel build Charged With being In possession Ing. lof a stolen auto, Paul Okker, 19, | Dr. Brier was run down by an| was arrested and held in the city [auto at McGraw st. and Dexter ave.| jail early Monday morning. He on October 14. His leg was broken) was captured by Officer B. Barr, at and other severe injuries were sus-| Kestlake ave. and Denny way, about tained. 4a. m i December | EDITION) TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE. PHYSICIAN y WIRES T0 ‘SEATTLE! —/ 23 Cases, 30 Suspects and Only Enough Antitoxin on Way for 30; Dogs Delayed Beattle ( Commerc Mo: from stri , Nome Cables from the N Chamber of Comm Dr. Curtis Welch, a phy gue which # taken fi eanwhile dog teams are their way thru storm and ice reach the atric more deat! the air McCready for an anti-toxin carrie™ ane which Kelley and flew across the continent. The navy, Underwood wired, is considering a plan to rush a de stroyer to the edge of the ice pack 400 miles from Nome. The destroy er, according to the plan, would a hydroplane to the edge of k and then proceed over carry the » pa ar and frozen seas to Nome with and how Peterson's auto, plunged " the 4ifesaving antitoxin, This plan, it is said, is extremely hazardous, because of the uncer tainty of obtaining a landing field {at Nome or near by. It was belleved for a time, that Shenandoah might make the , but the navy was balked in s because there is no anchorage ome. Dr. Welch said there are 23 cases of diphtheria and 23 _ suspected n if the dogs arrive with there will be sufficient oxin to care for only 30, Storm Lashes Men Carrying Nome Aid Nowe Alaska, Feb. 2.—Fighting thru howling blizzard lashing the trails near Norton Sound. Leon- ard Seppala and Gunnar Kasson were reported urging @heir dog teams bringing antitoxin, tf diph- theria-ravaged Nome, in the wieinity of Unalakleet today The sesum is not expected in | Nome until tomorrow at the earliest d_terrific weather conditions may its delivery many hours longer. Deaths in the epidemic so far re- in at five, Twenty-five others are ill, and their lives may depend upon the arrival of the serum. Twenty-five others are c d as “suspects” land 30 more are known to have |been exposed toAhe disease, | The last report by radio placed the dogs between Unalakleet and Old Woman, the next relay station, and indicated they had been all but stopped by? the blizzard. The winds was blowing 20 miles jan hour at Nome with a tempera- ture of 16 below zero. While defi- nite weather reports from the vicin- ity of Unalakleet were lacking, it was pointed out that Norton Sound, over which the trail leads, undoubt edly is windswept and the drivers may be forced to take the inland route around the sound, adding ap- proximately 100 miles to the dis. tanee. Owing to poor communications along the last 200 miles of the trail, it was impossible to predict accu- | rately when the sled might arrive. ‘APPROVE NAME | | | | | OF STONE Senate Committee Indorses Him for Supreme Judiciary Wastuxaros. “Fel —Attorney General Stone won over his senate critics today, when the judi- clary committee again approved his nomination to the supreme court bench. While a grand jury a few blocks away met to hear evidence on the government's case againt Senator Burton K. Wheeler, Montana, mem: bers of the senate committee, some of whom criticised Stone's activities against Wheeler and threatened to hold up his nomintation, ordered it favorably reported to the senate. The nomination must be finally Approved by a majority of the whole |senate before Stone can take his | Seat on the supreme bench, The committee action was t by a viva voce vote, and no nega tives were re d. Democrats re. fused to vote either for or against the report. ken %