The Seattle Star Newspaper, February 9, 1925, Page 1

Fear Prisoner in Cave Is Victim of Foul Play! ————— a a " - " — ae | The Newspaper With the Biggest Circulation in W: ashington. | x1 | WEATHER “" The Seattle Star fv! TL NO. 298 ome ‘Can an Crooks Make Good? Ae saci Identify | nes MILITARY Brew, Here Is O That Did) ° whecks ‘pon Seat oe Writer F sg f Hy SK ORDERED ‘I’M NOT HUNGRY ‘YET,’ | | MAN AND WIFE SAYS MAN WHO HASN'T | jo FOOD FOR 26 mie) | BEING HELD BY I ee ees "| Bolice Say Prisoner Identi- pe ATTLE, WASH., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1925. TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE © sald feedy, folks! Hoonell eng wasn’t bere? Signals, However, Indicate Victim Is Still Alive in Un- derground Tomb ie. THE MOUTH OF AND CAVE, Ky., Feb. fe Giver touring seasc ete upon us. Lil Gee Geo sxy de 8 going to loc te je ates adve 4 agian + ti Ee plan apna ee Bh fied in Brewster Robbery le net gupoest ame of the } sh t ft 9.—While rescue crews con- thylme An i" t TWO OTHERS SOUGHT tinued their frantic work to Ne met, And. gre drive a shaft to release Floyd t P | Seattle Holdup Experts May ent pelripeaen, ee 40 F : ngs. H ‘ 1 | Be Run Down in Chase days in Sand cave, J. Lewi o ey) ¢ Williams, county prosecutor, launched an inquiry to de- SOLLOWING a hot trail, the pre i rC WEARING SIDE-BURNS k termine how and why Collins came to his present plight. Rumors that the imprison- nent is a hoax, perpetuated as a publicity stunt, will be Sdatt declares he has found ‘Sembving tink in Africa. We doodt it. If the missing link hoe leend, it will be in a jazz gests, playing a saxophone. police Monday were search ing the entire elty for two men, pects in the 85,863 holdup of two Brewster Cigar Store Co. employes, who were robbed at Fourth awe, and University #4, ie -\0 probed. gi ¢ ns ss on Nieces of Former Chief of a and his’ 22 rear At ae ee ane Suv § was. predicted. MM e are hold in the ofty jail-in nor J, ‘ields ordered Be Dee Brown claims credit te Police Ask Removal onnection with the holdup Brigadier General H. H, Den- iat the next electior Your witnesses have ilehtified * |hardt to establish a military ee a Shelton 6. and her sister the bandits who t itn acs A 0. nieces of “Uncle B ity court of inquiry to get to the Reape Wiltam H. Surber, Seattle's firat Floyd, who identi. bottom of the facts in the wear nothiny get don't freese’ eee Thee big super-hete roe a the most expensive. After fs wife has torn three hairnet# st evening on the earphone= of Gyval set, almost any other ist emis cheap by comparison chiet of police, who died July 1, 1993, | 0d Manes fay, 1 Gy qa have filed a petition in protate court, K. Cunsingham and Thomas for the removal of Ben W, Pettit, as. | J. Croman, 620 N. Gath t.. have Jer of the Dexter Horton | Wdentified Manes, They of ¢a- out M " men, and rees that Pettit ig) he wa quests to Surber’s| Crogan was itnenx to the case. Those men, who claim to have seen Collins trapped ‘in the cave will be called first as witnesses. | The rescue pit has been |sunk 30 of the 60 feet to Col- lins’ prison. A new crevice was reported to have been dis- es aren't nist were Natior dary leg {tate of the de The petition withholdin ed positively of the bondits were in the hope that they sill! ur Floyd irs peeks dant concern ec ogee 4 |? no ee jcovered which may hasten the | tg the majority and minority ploye of the Bre tore if | trapped man’s release. it the legistature, but very fit died he left aj the Henry bu : > happened Radio tests -are said te L (te abot Me sorority : estate of approximately $75,000. |to show that Collins is still alive. lpm the women members are iim dict pe aia atin aby, 3 mlihe pep Perey sf The signals were received Mntil the close of the s« and $1,000 each to be pald at the rate | ber edi Gay hed Om from a light bulb placed on miley can get ip the Inst ¢ $25 a month e bekl gunman gang, the victim's chest.. Authori- lee the days ; and ware in the estate re-| month eee inate i | his heart was still beating. mal + $19,000 in bequests had! n the meantime detectives, were oe ame to pay. This is a picture of “Dan Williams,” who siz months ago : jake . night in hie apartment and’ hid-wifd, soho were heldl ite cave. iene cviaance rin be fre nd University st. Mrs. Manes! 1 at Second ave. and] hour o¢ two later | Chief Charles MN noe sinendment has | CAM into The Star office, just out of prison and looking} amendment has | : é and Mieated. in Washington, s0| fOr a chance to work. He got it and is on hit way up. Hit) upon charity Bit Homer Brew, Jr, can't| eyes in the picture were masked to avoid any embarrass-, pet bird by the police Monday during] sented to a grand jury, it is sald County Attorney Williams is the official inquiry ‘into the) working on tour theories: Bie eestitation when his! ment to him. Photo by Price & Carter, Star Staff Photographers | PI¢ ary foformation that te holdup Friday of two Brews- 5 Bi ; ae Collins was him to bring up a L bearsde athe en instenA of one we s y 3 inveigled into voluntary impris- cea} from the basement.) [DITOR'S NOTE: Six months ago “Dan Williams” came into The Star women ¢ i Neatad ctl noted camecthes a ter cigar store employes On) onment in order to create a . offiee, with thé pallor of a prison cell upon him been kept al Aaaneinion iat tii 4 1 downtown stre Ay 8, pdblicity sensation to bring cap- AUCK SAYS: | In his cell he had read a story in The Star, “Can a Crook Go Straight?” amount of money wi nhl aaagiont oF Gi COMeILOMN -sebeelsn, Manes) ital and tourists to his newly Dan had been convicted three times. He was a crook. His life was spent| from these sour Sin” ale world conte aaa tad is held in connection with the| discovered cave. ng to defeat and to avoid the law. His friends were all known states to the t of Manes and his identi: robbery and his wife for in- 2. That Collins was murdered habits were the furtive habits of the underworld. fication ax one of the bandits, The vestigation. after he had been placed in the te. | eave. 3. That Collins, while he may have ‘been in the cave for some | N N days, is no longer there and has disappeared by a rear exit to some other hiding place in the | : hills honeyeombed with caverns |Woman’ Arrested and 15) like that in which he has been i for ten days | Quarts of Liquor Taken | 4. That one of the chiefs in | | the preliminary rescue work, be- | nal (Turn to Page 3. Column 5) Almost all of his psychology was the psychology of the prison inmate other two men are believed to be in and the “easy life" psychology of the-crook: at darge hiding. They have fled the etty | Prosecutors, judges, police, The Star's story said, believe “once a crook, ; ¥ ' Brautigun and Floyd were ing always a crook.” The Star said it didn’t belleve it. Dan said he didn't the money car when they were held believe it. ; up by two men in a small touring “Tt come back in six months,” he said. car in front of the Henry building. Monday a rugged young man, with sun and wind-tanned cheeks and a Manes Wan the mas! who weld & pistol nd that was horny with callousness, walked into The Star's office. Six 7 months had passed. Dan, the conviet, the crook, came in to report on the question: “Can a Crook Go Straight?” Here's bis awn stery dog tear As agains are a means of bringing a | NOME, Feb, 9.—Nome has chostn alfplanes as | ‘itera! sur. Bon Marche Holdup | of diphtheria antito: pies Trial Is Postponed Coolidge and Governor SP beth stressing the need He rnment BY “DAN WILLIAM" I told The Stur, Vd come | Pl FEx-Monree Reformatory, ex-San sack in six months and. report Sherift's’ deputies ‘for the taken. We know jtime in a year raided the Motor | ¢ o ri r A * A summary of public op! t z e-holters are Quentin State Prise ex Folsom oKrens 1 he 1 I'm : use of the illness of Joe O. | ” Of throwing aw at Ag State Prison going to keep on that same |@athered by the United Pre Neal, one o€ tho five defendants in _* |Inn, ‘a poadhotise: two- miles | north Old Salts Attend cs ¥ a tool 7, eaent showed an alm unan- | ¢p I o of Auburn, Saturday night, » 1 Ff . have used it onk vad r h on Marche holdup case waa ight, have used it only sy Eni a uae ek lias WANGENAL aot atthe peicpetiobi rig Seer uk: F arena aettoes ak Capt. Cairney Rites we dakibts of yond the socalled pale of re to Nome from Fairbanks would Judge Mitchel! Gilllam Ie woman proprictor, a Mrs. e mae.’ bas ses win pay hem nl necessary r ‘ N 3} F: age to the memory of Capt, + Fests tes the White reiv« coming. into. ‘The pectability, and the others— an unn | Fisk fr. and Mrs. Neal, Mr. and Mra Wilson. She was’ released on Nigtn':Cattites bee false ihe yas Meeting, |: 1 his Never did a man Near better Dog sleds, ¢Nome peo Ed Fasick and J. M. Dooley” are bond. ‘ ; 56, - pioneer Seattle is announc ani ing his in | Skipper, at his funeral Tuesday, is ik. [offer a certain and far | riff Matt starwich, who |chtrxed with compitety inthe bol Chief Plans to Reinstate |, SI cccaee eto the ght? n I did, when I chard re MARS to put up acre: ‘ aise Se | office. It made | 0U8 method of transportation up of two Bon Marche employes at raiding “patty, ¢onductéed a sim im. {70m the parlors piss ae daly MEN thom swimming:into Tam that. men 9 me realize whe Nb wid Ao. | tx hero are ¢ Secotid. ave est last sum-|Both Reynolds and Baerman Teh AA Meee ache | aR AE. WH Ghee ; Seven months kgo T x 2 be able to my head up and Roy Darling, a mer, The om ah and Mrs thin ‘ iiwatd. Gntiel is Reet the a rie. é in the Washingtor by g men. And I'm going to | *xpected to get away. from Fair 00,af-| Patroimen. George T° Reynolds of | Managing ‘the shment, to the Cutroey did: tance abe 2 iwi formatory at 4 my ‘pledge 1° made st unks today on their proposed flight ip In view of scores! the pélice dry iM arid Robert F,| Slate prion’ fortwo years: as. joint tirday. “He Fan a “pldness ite, full of tricks, eo ye: ton Pal crng Nontlgwah months ago making one stop, at Ruby, dnd a destrians, Fasick is a former) Raerman of the traffic squad, * Me J. Witkon will be charged] shipping man of Puget sound and ts nt vie 76 in the California state prison I am thru with any and all {riving here: Tuesday 6 polleeman WUE Gidpaanted Teal possession of “intoxicants! survived by his widow, twos 4 at Folsom. For five yearn .t Canes i 20, survived by his widow, two. son la awful cran . ie Pa stirapee 4 ‘ci ry crooked Fits ke their indletment by the federal grand | With Mt ‘to sell and a step-daughter Win, ‘Mamma apanht’ | Scmsiate date petaon ab han | Seed ae tow. f:¢ . . NI jury in the Olmsted liqdor conspir-| i Fs poser i J Now you boys who wear num 1e ainst 1 e acy, will ‘probably be reinstated at} shoe are ; Q : ber ag 1 once did—listen. The ’ the end of 30 days, February 18, it} iths ra d Deere 1: “at of my life I was just a number can go straight. There's a chan . | panlee GW. B. Beverehie ind a 1 not aman, At Monroe I read for every one of you, if you go Sl ess Me f ir I ‘The chief denied the current rumor R fri "Yeas +4 by John W. Nelson Hout a asy money.” And, fellows, it's . stated Monday Meclares tamous painter,| crook who came into the office worth while, the sore hands, the Bath Tnknbotal J.T. Mason and co hones ainter's brain.” And) asking him for a chance to | tame back, the bunkhouses and |Saveryns Won't Discuss Transfer of mit mit seein etre made | Rescued ee New York; Partition Kept Them Me poy bores|’ make good, but who failed to all. It's worth it, every bit of it attempts to gain from the federal! From Water i in Plain Sight Sis» I aac ho | ADO IAL es _ Captains; Suggested by Star soni ors mor wine te Pinon ivy cis) nny money” go'hx Il TODAY'S Se Whistles Touts “Good I came to Mr ‘There seems Forever,” When he n told him of my determ He adv NEW YORK, Feb. 9—Sealed for|they picked out the refrigerator refrigerator car, | ctr for their “blind baggage” excur- sion, because they saw one end of | it was piled high with demijohns of met with no succe WANT ADS hsakeini, volte oA u find that home you || ply n letter to him ejforce and ferret out any leak there might be below the rank of cap. py tain better than the men who have | five days; In a to be only one thing that T can do, that is to put them back to work."| two Monta youths suffered the sed me to see certain » the ¢ 1 | a. Can hel ortures of 1 = were t 4- i business men. and employers oe Lee or tha thle the onal Hig i been on the same job for 10 years F tortures of Tantalus and were tak-| mineral water. YE DiAKy Jay my cards on be baie vive: Walt? this paper sabeaed “Thore will be ho answer,” wan Faked 1925 Licenses jen from their chilly “prison more! When their sandwiches were con Fevraery » yk his advice an got y The letter pointed out that to the chief's brief notice Monday ’ | dead than alive, Plenty of drinking | sumed, they found that a_ stout Lay tong in bed, read-| 1 chance. It w only a PHINNEY RUDG simplify the search for the leak that! So The Star went to 14 prominent Cause Men s Arrest water was within half a foot of | partition separated them from that A nee! “pick and shovel” Job, but it Six- Room obviously exist somewhere in the/ business men in Seattle and put the! Nineteen-twentyfour to Heense | them all the time, but they were! section of the car in which the dem « honest work My hands On a paved street we | police department by which crooks eetion up to them. plates, repainted. to bles th unable to reach, it and were nearly | (Johns were stored. te listening iprarwaede, with re tender, my back nonertoo Lee ee tttors, French deove, |{are tipped off, a shakeup might be wo wouldn't disouss ft. An even | of the vintage# landed two men | unconscious from. thirst -wheo Thay ‘could Hear the dealer whee two of Detly ter Reattia tr But 1 made good. And fireplace, basément, furna advisable, bringing in precinct sta-/ dozen declared It an excellent. idea.| in jail Sunday were searched | cued, ling, but could tiot ‘reach’ ft. [or much better job, now laundry tfays, garage. N tion captains to replace present cen-| “We can't afford to mix publicly |and found to possess Joaded revolv-| Everett’ Rethm, of Billings, and! tiy 1 nights, while, th Don't think I didn’t have A Sohn fae Sg a to }tral gfation captains who liave|into police matters, because we can-| ers aod shotgun. shell | Jack Reed, of Butte, working their! freight rumbled eastward. or stoode plenty of chances to do a “flop.” < been on the job for 10 years or not afford to make enemies,” was They, gave thelr names as L. J. | way since Christmas, found|on sidings, the youths pounded in There re many of them. But turn to the Want Ad page || more the Almost unanimous viewpoint.! Munn, ‘29, © tailor, and Fred Ash themaaty 4 without @ cent in Wau-| vain to attract attention te. their teen 1 wanted to pre to myself nd see who is offering this little || New men, with Ww ideas and new |“But we believe that if the chile f} worth, 19, 4 laborer They are bo-| keshaw, Wis, last week, They de- | plight. It was not until New York da}, content 9°. that 1 ex-con straight bungalow || Vighanee, . The ir pointed out, will try out’ this plan, ne will find’ ing held for investigation by the po: ided to come. to New York | was reached their feeble greans pity the “John Laws.” Pe M yimight instil! new vigor into thelit an excellent one to get results” lice. With @ list meal of sandwiches, | were heard by trainmens Soe ee