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MIGHT 11 EDITION JURY STILL ARGUING FOUR ARE MURDERED I'AITH IKE Man, Wife and Two Children Victims of Fiend Near Port land. ° . I lit I allr/rm* »lr» I* Milk «im Offin.) PORTLAND. Or, June Mur dered with an an*. Wm. Hill, hi* wife and two small children were made th* victims of »ome fund at their home near Ardenwald. a small station sis miles from Portland, aomeatime during the night. The bodies were found this fore- Boon by Mr* C. B Matlho*f*. a neighbor. and she Informed the po lice The bloody ate was found n«<ir a b-.1 where one of ihecrhll drrns bodies wis found The ht'ad iir o.u h vuMin till horribly beaten Hill's skull bad b«-«>n split wide open No cause for the deed Is known It I* bell«>v»-d. however, that the nrirdvrer. or murderer*, had some other motive thnn rob bery. as nothing ha* lw»n taken as far as could be ascertained. Hill was employed by the Sell wood Gas Co. He worked yester day. and last nlnht the family were •seen about Thev retired at the usual hour srcordlne to n»lKt*bors FUTUREGRAPHS Wage War on Closed Shop PORTLAND Or.. June 9, —Adopt- In g the motto "open shop," busi ness men representing open shop advo<»tie* from every city of Im portance on the Pacific coast from H*n Diego to Vancouver, B. C.. met at Tacoma WtdDMd*)" and organ ized the "Federation of Employers Associations of the Pacific Coast," with tbe avowed object of waging a tfar against the closed ahop, ac DYER JURY DISAGREES The jury in the case against Rev. Theodore L. Dyer, who was sued for 910,000 for alienation of affec tions by Sherman W. Dodge, on ac TWELVE BOYS ARE ARRESTED Twelve boys, calling themselves ( the "Capital Hill Development Club," were arrested this afternoon near the Brodway high school. They were tearing around the neighbor hood In automobiiee and disturbing people. Six of them are over 18 jrears of age. Made Orphans by Father's Rage! o The Four Pattleon Children Made Orphan* by Their Father's Rag*. PattUon ebut his wife, then" blmevlf, In their b >me u< ai Kmtou >«•■»• trrdajr. JIM CORBETT IN 1931. ; cording to a rep«,yjt made public here today. W R It• > vP. president and man ' ager of the Taeoma, Washington, Smelter, waa elected president; I), i P. N. Little, of the Founders ami' i Employers Association and Jfvr ehanta and ( tlon of 1/oa Angeles, vice president; ' and llrnce Gibson, president of the ! chamber of commerce of Everett, -tVVaah, treaaurer. count of Mrs. Dodge, disagreed late this afternoon. It is probable that a new trial will be aaked for. DyeP claimed that he Amply gave Mrs. Dodge spiritual advice. I TO FIGHT IN LOWER CALIFORNIA EL PASO, Tex . June it Sixteen 'hundred troops under General Es cuedero will !»«■ dispatched fcom Juarez over the Southern Pacific to Tlejuana to wipe out the California Magonistaa. Francisco Madero today telegraphed Gen. ' Vlljoen to draft MS troops In 11 Juarez. The five suspects four men and a woman thought to be members of n holdup gang, are still held In jutl. No further developments have taken place since yesterday morn ing In the defection of the numer ous hold ups night before* Inst. The Seafttle Star VOL. 13. NO. 92. BOY TELLS OF MURDER Little Roland PattUon Givet Graphic Account of Double Tragedy to The Star The story of how a little boy watched tho murder of hie mother by hla own fathor, and of how he than triad to pravant the auiclde of hla father waa told in direct. child lah manner by S-year old Roland Pattlaon today to a »tar reporter. Tha double tragedy occurred near Renton, and the reporter law tha boy there. The let rIMr rrin.c h;ij>i "r>ril when Pattlaon rmni' h.>m" with half a bottle of wMaky and a re volver According to liPir Hoiaod « atory. hla father wanted hla mother to drink unmr of the whisky and when she refnaed he atari«d to quarrel with her Then, the boj declared. he wanted her to ahoot him, and when abe refuaed they quarreled attain "And after that," aald Roland, "papa put the revolver up to hla head and aald: 'Here goes.' but mamma grabbed the revolver and, in pulling it away, ahe cut her finger on the trigger and dropped the gur on the floor. Papa wanted to aee where ahe hurt heraelf, but ahe wouldn't ehow him, ao he picked the re volver iy> and followed her into the bedroom. Then I heard 1 NIGHT BULLETINS j o J ANOTHER HOT WAVE. CHICAOO, June fe—Another h«t wave struck tha middle weat today. In Chicago at 2 o'clock thia afternoon the thermometer etood at 96 and waa mounting higher. A cool lake breeze, however, eerved to relieve the altuatlon here. Reperte from other citlea ehow,record breaking tempera turea. In Bt. Louie street-level thermometera thia afternoon regietered 104 degreea. In Mifcvaukee the temperature atood at 94 and eeveral prostrations were reported. a MISTAKEN IDENTITY CAUSES TRAGEDY uENTRY. W. Va , June •.-—Victim of a cam of mistaken Identity, 'tfohn Wilkes la dead, hla companion and fiance* Mlaa Ixulaa Hcrry la In a critical condition from ahock. and John Adklna la in jail here today, charged with murder Adklna shot Wllklna last niKlit when he mlatook Mlaa lierry for his wife ALMOST SEVEREDb HEAD FREBNO, Cat., June H Blood dripping on tbe henda of occupanta on the flrat floor of a Japanese lodKlnß house today catiaed an Inveatl Kutlon. which revealed the fact that T. Ode, a Japanese laborer. had almost severed hla head from lila body with a knife used In pruning grape vlnea. O TAKE TROOPS PROM SAN DIEGO WASHINGTON. June 'i Prealdent Tnft this afternoon mtlior lated Secretary of War Htlmaon and Oen. Leonard Wood to proceed at once with the withdrawal of troop* from Galveaton and Wan IHego. IROQUOIS CAPTAIN NOT GUILTY „ VICTORIA, H. C., June 'J Out only five minutes, a Jury acquitted Captahj A. A. Hems, master of the steamer Iroquois, which capsUed April 10 ik-hi' Sydney. H. (' , with n lows oT J1 lives, of the charge of manslaughter. The charge waa filed herauae It wan alleged that the ve»ael waa not loaded properly. O WOMAN OFFICIAL ACCUSED HOIHE, Ida.. June 9. —A reward of $.100 lias been offered by Hov ernor Hawley today for information lending to the nrreat of Mlaa (Iracc Loughran, aii|>erlnlendent of schools of llannock county, win*, la nc cuaed of forging achool warranta liy which II l« alleged alio ofitalncd between three and five* thousand dollars. She la the first woman of flclal of Idaho to he areuaed of malfeaaance in office since equal auf frage waa granted. he introduced warfield. WHITE I'LAINH, N. Y . .lun«' 9. Thomas 11. Davltt, well known In circus and theatrical circles, In ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN SEATTLE SEATTLE, WASH., FRIDAY, JI/NE 9. 1911. LIMITED WRECKED; SIX KILLED California Limited in Collision With Tie Train in New Mcxico. i llt t mUw4 rr»— I »••»'! ""• w*e« '• »•«»* Of fir#. > ALBUQUERQUE. N. M , June • — Th* Santa Fe passenger train No. 3. known as th* California limited, w*s in collision with a tl* train near Oomlngo. 30 mile* north of her*, at !0;45 thi* morning Sis peraon* re ported dead and a large number ii»- jur*d. Among th* known dead ar* A. w Or**n. engineer, and th* rtr*man of th* limited. A mistake in order* i» said to have been responsible for the wrack. Relief tram of nin* car*, carrying *urgeon* and ho*p>t*l *up pit**, ha* l*tl fer th* sc*n* of th* wrack. F▼TT▼ t -v » ' ► WEATHER FORECAST. t Fur B«»ttl» a»il viclnlly: t Hhowcr* tonl*ht and Haturday. i modoratco south i" aoutbeast t wluds two ahota and ron In. Mimml wm tying on the floor, and popo ■toopvd ovir hir »nd ahook hw and Mid: 'Mamma, ar« you daadr Whan aha wouldn't an awar ha aat down on tha bad and pullod the trlOQor. but I grabbed Mm, ao ha lat It down •gain, than lookod down and aaw mamma on the floor, and Mid ha would whip mo if I didn't gal out of thara and laava him alona. But I d'dnt go, and ao ha atood up. and I triad to grab hla arm. Whon I jumpad to roach high enough I hald on Ma watch chain with tha ojher hand. It broke, and than it waa too late bacauaa ha had pullad the trigger and al moat fell on me. Then I picked up the revolver and laid It on the table, but when Ed, a man who boarded at the houM. came home he told me to put It back where It waa. "It happened about 3 o'clock In the afternoon, and l*.<l didn't come home < tit 6 o'clock. liut I look M> r tie and Cllford and Pram-pa down the road. And we aat In tb« (mat and waited for him. "We don't know where to no now. because we ain't sot any home. I wiHtidn t £«rr ao much for myself, •cause I could alay with Kd. tint be couldn't take c«re of my two llttlo ■later* and little brother." i dead at his home tieie today. Davis introduced David Warfleld to the public when Warfleld made his | debut in "The Nutmeg Patch." WOMAN CONDEMNED TO DIE WHEN CHILD IS BORN ANOELINO NAPOLITANO IN HER PRISON CELL BY HONOR D. FANNING BAI'I.T BTK. MAHIK. tlht . June V.--Angellno Napolitano. a mother of four children kt !l, la under the death aentence here for the murder of b»-r husband, Pletro Napolitano. The murder waa committed la»t Kaaterßuncfay morning. April It. 8h» waa o qulckljr arrested. convicted and sentenced to be hanged. The death penalty would have been executed Immediately, but the majesty of the law recognized the majesty of motherhood. Only one lif. Il l l>. en taken. Jin«|ic d-n-miled only one life In return Mr* Napolttano's eiecutlon la aet for August •—• mouth afti* the expected blnh <t another baby iif luly. At her trial the woman made a startling plea for mercy. Hhe had murdered, ahe confessed to the court. But ahe murdered because ahe wouldn't become a white alare. She killed her husband rtther than aell her honor. The court condemned the aelf confes*ed murdoreaa. hut her plea aroused wide sympathy. Women capeclally became Intereated. They didn't condone the crime, though they realized how great waa Ita provocation Quite aside from her guilt or her l(jno< •n< e. they f. It that womnnl.i i«l ami motherhood would tie outraged If this woman, wfo la enleilng the shadow of death that a child may live, ahall pax* through the valley only to atand upon the gallows. 1 It lan t eaay to Interview a prlaoner sentenced to death under Canadian law. Rut. prlaon rulea notwithstanding. the doora of the old gtwy ptlaon far back In the park on Queen at , awung open, and for half an hour I aat with Angellno Napolltano In her cell, t heard her voluntary recital of the eventa that led up to the Kaater crime. The facta are repeated here, practically as ahe told ahein. In her own hesitant and broken speech, I married Pletro 12 years ago," *he said, "In Italy I was J6 lie was older. We came to this country to New York—lo years ago. | Tkreo year ago *c come to t'anada. We were at Theiaiilon. Ont ! ! where we had a farm with Pletro'a brother. Two years ago we come to the 'Soo .' W>> ll»e here with cither Italians In Utile Italy. "( Mil la t ()< tot.ei w?. g.. , happv Then trouble started. Pletro was away thre<« In October H«>for- V left me he my: Now I leave you. here la $10. YoU can make more.' Pletro would make me a bad woman. I never hoar from Titm while he he Is away. I think he leavia for all the time. One morning he come home again. Again he tell me them bad things. I say I will not on account, of the children All >hat da* he fctajcl. and I Hive him Ms meal*. After two or three daya lie < sii]o bsck I* live In our house "Three days before Raster Sun day he say 'You must get $30 for Kaater If you don't I make you remember.' I thought that meant hflfd kill me. Me say he put my eyes out and stab me. 'I'll bother ydu ao much you'll go to the river, unless you do what I tell you,' he say. "Sunday morning he came horn" from work; he had worked all night In the steel mills 4 *nd he say tho same thing again I say no. on account of the children. 'He say he kill me. Hut he say: l won't kill you now, I first put you out. then I kill you because you me mul the children ' "I whs afraid. I felt hoi, lie went upstairs to bed. That was noon The children were out at play. I was mad. Blood was hot. No place for me to go. No friends. I could not stand It. P was crazy. I to to the kitchen Tor tho ax I go upstairs. 1 think if he is awake he kill me. I did not care. 1 was sick of life, lie was asleep ] struck him. I kill him. It had to be," l.arge, strong, of youthful vllullty, she speaks now scarcely above a whisper. Her voice la faint and hoarse, as If she were truly ''sick of llfo." Tho freshness of youth still touches her aun-browued cheeks, and her full red lips—lips that nev er smile now. She very timidly held out her hand Its ley coldness, Its death like heavlneaa more than unything ONE CENT. SSwJ'ttSUrc ahe had said, or anything i*e had done, made me understand the fear that rested upon her, the ter ror In which even the radiant June sunshine must seem a black cloud It seemed a pity not to be able to tell her then that women In Sault Ste Marle-her neighbors In '■•'IHe Italy;" the club women In Toronto, the women of the W. O. T I In many American cltk s were that very hour working to save her from the gallows, and that after all. unless she gives her life for her unborn child, that child may be the means of her salvation lint prison rules«would not permit. SLASHES THROAT IH HIS SLEEP liOR A.Vurci.KS, June 9- While a victim of nightmare anil sound asleep, Anthony Menge, 25, arose from Ills bed and slashed his throat from ear to ear, with a raxor. Meage explained that dur ing the course of ito dream he became enraged at himself. lie was awakened by the warm blood trickling down hip body. Ilia con dition Ih serious FAREWELL RECEPTION. A farewell reception was ten dered Mrs K Christensen and her daughter, Marie, at Sslon Norwegian I.utliei an church at Italian! O this afternoon, prior to their departure for the East. Mrs. Ohrlstcnsen has made her home In Italian! for years, and Is the wife of Rev. Umit Chrlatensen, who came to the coast 34 years ago. and was the first Norwegian Lutheran minister In the .North west. Jugde Main Goes Home BULLETIN Judge Main hat gone home, leaving word that he will net return to hit court until the Jury notifies him that a verdict haa been reachM. In . the meantime he will atick right in hia houae. At 3 o'clock thla afternoon the Wappy Juit etlll deliberating. At noon the Juror* ate a c good luncheon, retted for a few minute*. antf then plunged Into di*cu**ion of the big ca*e again. The aound of their cart be heard outaide the Jury room*, where group* of •men are eagerly waiting for newt of a verdict. The juror* are finding plenty of thing* to argue about, and bet* are being offered that ro decision w>ll b« reached for hour*. At 10 43 this morning th<» W*ppnstetn Jury bad the case in It* I.ami* k'r!)*■■• ui»r John F MurpTiy concluded ii brilliant closing a.'iri ineni at in 42, anil no time was wasted In getting t£e )«ry to lu room adjoining Judge Main'* court room. JURORS COULD BE HEARD Hardly a minute '1»|.«"d l»«-f• .r«> a heated argument could be heard emanating from the Jury room. ALL DOORS LOCKED • Judge Main Instructed Bailiff* Morris and llensnian. In charge of 'be Jury, to lock all doors, and urepl for those who bave been directly connected with the n», the court«room. as well a* the Judge'* cham ber*, will be closed white the Jury Is deliberating. The court even ordered the door which leada to the garret above the Jury * room locked. • TAKE ALL EXHIBITS Tin bailiffs gathered up all the exhibits In the ra-e. which Include ; liofh Wappenifteln's and Tupper'* bank ac< ounts, a chart of the pollra headquarters, showing the location of th,e various room*, Gid Tupper'a card found In \\ appeusteiti's desk, and took them to the Jury a minute after they retired JURY GOES TO LUNCH At noon Judge Main Instructed the bailiff* to take the Jury to lunch. At 1 30 (bis afternoon (he Jury again met (o take up the cotisM. etadon of Wappensleln* gull! its to receiving bilbes from Gid Tuppat and f*lar< nee Gerald. SECOND INOICTMENT U appensteln was on (rial on the second indictment returned against hlin on March IT. 1911, charging him with accepting »1,000 from GI4 Tupper and Clarence Gerald on Augu*t 5. 1910, as a bribe for permit* I ting (hem to run (he Midway and Pari* bouses. SEVEN OTHER INDICTMENTS U'appensleln Is under seven other indii (menu, (wo of which ara scheduled (o come up (his mon(h The first of these charges Wappy I with extorting $300 from the Pacific Coax company for protecting ita piers, and Is on (he calendar fur June 16. NVappenatein's attorney. Will 11 Morris, has asked for a continuance. 0 . 12,500 BRIBE CHARGED The- second <»m set for this mpnth Is on the indictment chtrgfng 'he ex c hief with obtaining a $2,500 bribe from Tupper and Gerald for j protection of the Northern gambling club. This caae is to come up June 3C. Wapper.steln betrayed no emotion when the Jury retired to deter mine his fat.- IK roe With bis attorney*, and when (hey left shorily •ftei Wappy »a* arraigned on four other Indictments, he went with ! (hem. He pulled out a cigar from Rls vest pockety and apparently seemed us calm aa at any time during the trial. The fact that tha Jury deliberated for over an hour already indicate* (ha( on (he first t.Hllot tin y could nat agree Tfce Jury Is Inst ucted to take a ballot , Immediately upon retiring. OTHER INDICTMENTS Following the retiring of the }"iT today, Will H. Morrlii asked that 4><- arraigned today on four other Indictment* against him The court granted the request. and Wappensteln waived the formality of having the Indictments read to him. He wa* given until a week from tomorrow In which to enter hla pleas. Other Charges. Wappensteln acknowledged ar raignment of the following fridict . menti whijh charge him with: Conspiracy with Alden J. Blethen, C. B. Blethen, Ludovlc Dallagio vanna, Charles Berryman, Mike Powers, and the Times Printing Co. NUMMARY OF SPECIAL PROSECUTOR RUMMENS' ARGUMENT Case simmers down to one question: "Did Wappensteln get the money ?" Tupper told a straight, dear, believable story, corroborated by clrcumHlanllal evMence of other witnesses. Wappensteln could not look the Jury straight In the eye. Wappensteln could not remember within three years the date of iiTs marriage. It docs not sound reasonable that Mrs. Wappensteln got a safely deposit box In 1910 to keep wedding presents received 19 years before. Wappensteln could not remember within three years the data when his father-in-law presented him with the $5,000 he claims swelled his bank account In 1!»10. ° Tupper lied to council probers because Wappensteln and Col. Blethen told him to do so. l>efendant's witnesses were Albert the Whale, a race track tout, and John Dore, who boasted his Ideas on the necessity of a restricted district. It Is not reasonable that Wappensteln would loan Benn $5,000 In 1900, or prior to that, at 6 per cent, when he could get 8 percent in Seattle. » The Italian-American club Is composed of "gamblers, saloon keep* crs. Wappensteln anil Col. Blethen," What business was It of Wappensteln If they were running "bar gain counters" In the resorts In the restricted district? . Why did Benn carry *1.200 In gold all morning before depositing It If It was Intended as Wappenstein's ball mAney? Why did he go with Mrs. Wappensteln and then with Wappy to the safety deposit vaults first? Waptyftistoln first showed Oerald a vision of little "god of i-old" when he said. There will be a chance fo» all of us to make nirnev." It to clear the name of Seattle of stigmn that it is a place where graflcrti cannot be convicted. ARGUMENT OF WILL H. MORRIS SUMMARIZED Tupper had been Impeached s< vi'ial ways * There Is nobodj's word for the staff's cjse except Old Tupper's. C.ernld could not testify to knowledge of the bribe charged, although he Is named In the Indictment as one of the men who gave 111. IlllllC. o # \\"s the defendant responsible for the establishment of the re stricted district In view of former Mayor GUl's testimony that #10 ordered It reopened temporarily? Is It not peculiar that with all the bawdy houses, I"> or ltfln num ber. which operated In that district, only Tupper could be brought in to testify that he gave Wappensteln money? Why sluffild Tupper and (Jerald, the latter one of Mayor Gill's closest friends. übnili9o a $1(» graft for each woman, when no one else paid anything to the chief? Tupper's motive for telling the story he did was to escape crim inal prosecution himself. K. 11. Benn. former mayor of Aberdeen, former member of the legislature, told a straightforward story explaining Wappensteln's bank accounts. Tupper Is "the boss drake In a polluted pond inhabited by a lot of questionable characters." There can he 110 question but that the defense has shown 1 rea sonable doubt as to Wappensteln's guilt. EXTRA against the public morals in cenfed* erating to protect gamblers and op erators of bawdy houses. Maintaining a public nuisance, be* ing jointly charged with Alden J. Blethen, Ludovic Oallagiovanna and Charles Berryman in connection with the operation of the notorious Arcade dance hall «n the restricted district. Receiving a $2,000 bribe on July 16, 1910, from Gid Tupper and Claf . ence Gerald for protection for the : Northern Gambling club. Receiving am $870 bribe Septem* ber IS, 1910, from Tupper and Gee aid aa protection for the Midway and Paria houses. •