The Seattle star. [volume], September 19, 1913, Image 1

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HUSBAND SHOOTS WIFE AND 2 MEN AS THEY
SIT AT BREAKFAST AFTER ALL-NIGHT JOYRIDE
My Do People Read Ihe Slar?
IT HAS all the news. condenr?d and easy to
read, it has the best pictures; It has the |
full leased wire report of the United
Press teleuraphu service. AND YOU AL
WAYS FIND IT ON YOUR SIDE Of t VERY
BIG TAXPAYERS' PROBLEM! More than
40,000 Stars are sold and read every day.
Sir Joseph Beecham Pays a Visit to The Seattle Star Office
Bv Fred L. Boalt.
The thing th s office need* more than anything else
it a book on etiquette, which would tell us how to behave
in the presence of our social superiors.
Str Joseph called on us yesterday, and our conduct,
though we meant well, was a little to the rough.
It's a!l very well to say we are nature's gentlemen,
and as good as anybody. We are, of course. Still, custom
snd precedent have laid down certain rule* which ought
not to be entirely ignored, even in a democratic country.
The 'act that Sir Joseph was quick to notice our error and
quicker to put us at our ease. mer*4y proves that h« Is a tactful and
kind-hearted gentleman, and that we are roughnecke.
Since Sir Joeeph's call, we've been making inquiries, and we
fled we didn't do anything quite right. The thinge we did aren't
done— they aren't, really.
In the flret place when Sir Joeeph entered The Star building,
accompanied by another gentleman, and paused inquiringly near the
want-ad counter, a clerk shoved a blank at him and glibly quoted
ntes—Situations wanted —male; business opportunities; lost and
found, and so on.
Sir Joseph smiled, nodded negatively, and eaid he wished to
wo the business manager.
WITNESS TELLS HOW RICH
HEN LISTED GIRLS' NAMES
IN THE "DOOMDSAY BOOK"
Cleo Barker, One of the Accusers of
Millionaire Bixby, Faints on Wit
ness Stand During Trial.
LOS ANGELES, Sapt. 19—"The
tfaomsdiy book." containing njmea,
addrtM<i and telephone numbiri of
young girl a available 'or ■ pasamg
heart inltrliinmint of wealthy
■ma. »h expected today to furmah
much material for conaldaratton by
the jury that >a trying Qeo H
■iiby. Long Beach millionaire
backer, on a charge of debauching
minor girla.
Th« exlatenre of thta book *«i
T»T»a!»d on the wltneaa atand late
yesterday by rieo otic of
BUbt i accusers.
It waa admitted aa evidence onlv
after a lon* wrangle anionic oppoa
lag lawyers
"I was enters In the book a*
Toots.'" said Mlaa Barker ' The
book *a» kept at the Jonquil. where
it cotiW be consulted when Rlrls
were wanted We all railed It the
•doomsday book ' "
"Hiat the book alao might be the
"doomsday" book for many men
well known In !»a An*el<-« and
wmmndlnr town*, waa Intimated
by the wltneas. when ahe aald It
OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE
"THE LITTLE MISERY " STORY OF THE NORTH WOODS, A GIRL AND DEATH—IN TOMORROW'S STAR
VOLUME IS.
NO. 175.
contaln«Hl the namea of men who
were entertained occaalonally at
the Jomiull.
It waa here that tha defense In
dicated It will contend that the
Jonquil atria laid plana to «-xtort
mrvfrei ft tnn fttea* httd that
Hlxby waa the victim of a black
mall plot that concerned alao a well
known architect and a lud*«
Fainte on Wttnaaa Stand
The atraln of the day on th«-
stand prosed too much for Mia*
Barker, and ahe fanted In tho wit
reaa room after court had ad !
joumed
Mia* Marker was expected how
ever. to complete her teatlmony
today
Marie another of,
ftlxby'a acctiaera. will follow her to
tho atand.
The arralleat amount of acaty
ien>> maklnK a mixture with air ex-
I , .\\r > - l» •11 fmr.d t ■ » irl'i'K
«xp»rlmenta to be almut 2,5 per
cent. The exploalvene«» rontlnu *
until the proportion of ecetylen«
exceed* a maximum of <4 per cent.
FAIR TONIGHT AND SATURDAY. COOLER SATURDAY; MODERATE EASTERLY WINDS.
The Seattle Star
SEATTLE. WASH., FRIDAY. SEPTEMBER IV, 1 13.
The busineee manager glanced at Sir Joeeph's card, recognlied
In the name thereon the name of .<n old arid profitable advertiser,
and ahouted jovially:
"Beecham's Pills! Why, MISTER Beecham, I'm glad to meet
you!"
The gentleman with Sir Joaeph, who turned out to be Mr. E
Clover, Sir Joieph'a head tales manager, turned pale at thla social
crime.
After a brief exchange of amenities. Sir Joseph said he'd like
to meet the editor. The bualnees manager said he knew the editor
'd be tickled foolish to meet MISTER Beecham
So. escorted by the business manager. Sir Joseph and Mr.
Glover climbed the stairs to the editorial department, where they
were halted by Art. the office boy.
Sir Joseph explained he was looking for the editor.
Art wild: "Not In Managing editor Is. though."
The managing editor was reading copy. He was very busy.
He always Is.
"YeS, yest" he snapped, without looking up
"This," said the business manager, "is MISTER Beecham, of
Beecitem's Pills."
"Clad to meet yah," eald the managing editor, perfunctorily I
then glanced at the card Sir Joseph had laid on the deek "Oh, yes."
he added brightly, "Sir Joseph Beecham, of Beecham's Pills. Very,
very glad to make your acquaintance, MISTER Beecham."
'SEATTLE ENGINEER
IS THE BIG FIGURE
IN SHUSHANNA CAMP
F.etcher T. Hamaha*
• • •
HAMSHAW WAS
AN EARLY BIRD
BY E. O. SAWYER
City Editor The Seattle Star.
CORDOVA. Alaska. Hept (Bj
uti'fttiifr to Hpat'li*!—The njost In
tereatlng mid the mom myaterlona
figure In the Bhushanna camp la
Fletcher T. Hamahaw, mining en
glneer of Seattle. He la at present
the owner of 38 claims. He chos''
them before the rush ninic. and h«'a
right where the gold ought to bp.
Hamshan. with a group of men.
wan prcapec ting for copper on
North fork lalatid. <>n th- Whits
itv«>r. when word cam* of the Hhn
jshanna strike It *»« only a few
| miles away Mo transferred hia
! . amp, had all of hi* men stake
i In I ma. do the necessary work and
record them, and then transfer
ihem to him The men were In hi*
employ, and were there to obey
r.rdem.
There la aorne doubt a* to wheth
er Mamahaw will be permitted to
bold all of these 38 claim* It Isn't
inille clear that he Is legally en
titled to them.
And then, again, there are those
who believe that Hamahaw la a ser
fint. a* well an hi* men. He I* be
i> veil to be In the employ of the
'Jilggenhelm*. and thai the clalma
will eventually be turned over to
i bin employer*.
However, he'* an Interesting fig
i i.re In the new gold field*, the moat
interesting, and tho most mys
terious
FARM FOR EACH
SKW OHI.KANH. Sept. Ifl.—Wll
lln in Iti'llly. owner of 11 If«r k«■ planta
ilmi nt Monro*. n*nr here, notified
all Iht? former AlaveA of hln father
mil their dwendant* Mint he I*
iiilnK i'i (nt tlf plantation up Into
farniß. Imlld eiirh of thrill n hon»<\
Ktoclc ih« farmti. and let them run
I ihenmelvPH. utiiler ronalderatlon
I that I hey link credit of no one.
THE ONLY PAPER IN SEATTLE THAT DARES TO PRINT THE NEWS.
KISSES HER
AS SHE LIES
IN HIS ARMS
Police Search for Husband;
Expect to Find Him Dead
by Own Hand
WOMAN CANNOT LIVE
When First Taken to Hospital.
She Refuses to Tell
Who Shot Her
SAN FRANCISCO. Sept >«
I _»My hbeband shot m# down
' before I knew of his presence.
Then he leaned over and kissed
me. and asked if I wai badly
hurt. Than he ahot the two
men."
Thla waa the statement alleged
'in have bwn made here shortly be
fore noon tiwlay by Mr* Kate ("mil
•on. wife of A H Coiitoon. pro
yrleUir of the Coulaon Hatchery * i
IV4 company. who waa ahot and i
probably fatally Injured here early '
thla morning. while entlng a Innch-'
win at the Alia* Karate wlih VV"ta
Acker. n ehauffenr. and (Seorge
Kovark. nigh' clerk of the garage
Shot Dead In Their Tracka
Kovark and *cV.»r. Mr* Conlann
'«tated, were ahot dead In their
tracks by her httabsnd
Mra Coulaon'a statement la al-i
leged lo have tieen made to Rugene
Hee*. a clerk In her hnahand'a em
ploy.
She la *o •erlou»ly wonnded that ;
Rees waa the only p*raon allowed
to ae« her
Kfforta throughout the forenoon
lo locate Coulson were futile
The i>ollco do not e»i>ect lo find
hint alive Thev think he com
mit t f 'I
suicide after shooting Mra
Coulson and the two men
Refilled to Give Name
Al flr*t Mra Coulaon refused lo
dive the name of the slaver, al-!
though ahe admitted ahe knew who ;
did the ahootlng
She then lapsed Inlo uncon*cloua
neaa and for a time It *#» feared
«he would die without revealing her
secret
Mra Mary O Stafford, wife of an j
automobile aaleman. admitted to I
day that ahe had made the round*
(.f the bench report* In company j
with Kovack. Acker and Mra. Coul
eon.
"After vtsltlnr resort* along the
Oreat Highway." ahe aald, "we
•tarted home, nliout 1:40 o'clock
thla morning.
"When wo reached the Clnre
monl apartment*. I »n* all In. and
1 decide I to *|ielul the night there
Mra. Coulaon. Acker and I went up
lo a room Mr* Coulaon and I dls
robed, but alter a whllo Mra Co 111 j
; von aald she waa too nervous to j
• leep. and. leaving me alone, ahe
returned to the automobile with!
Acker
Y. W. C. A. EXEMPTED
Holding ttint Hip recent loKlalatlvn
art appllea to tho aaaeaamenta made
thin vi-nr, .Indue Hmlth yeatorday
li< lit th»> property of th>- YW. A.
i xempt from taxation The new Inw
went Into effe.t in June The u«-
apimnient. for ll.'UiO, win made hint
March, bpt would not bo payable
until next February.
Why Don't You
Exchange It?
WHAT?
An v tli IUK you don't noetl.
WHEN?
Any time you don't want It.
WHY?
To H''i aotnethln* you need
for HoniethlnK you don't.
HOW?
Ilv a small ad In our "Kx
rhaime" roliynti
COST?
Cash ada, 1 rent a word
That'* all I know about it."
Now what do you know about that?
Aren't we awful?
We have, ae we have stated, been making Inquiries, and we
have learned that under no circumstances ehould a "sir" be ad
dressed as "mister."
It seeme sort of flip and familiar to address a gentleman whom
you have Juet met by hie first name. Neverthelees, the rule le that
when addressing the head of the firm that makes Beecham's Pills,
you must call him Sir Joseph.
Thle Is Sir Joseph's second visit to our city, ho having been a
guest hero during the A Y. P. exposition.
Sir Joseph said: "You have a wonderful city. I should like to
epend the rest of my days here Such climate! Such scenery!"
All distinguished visitors say such things when they come to
Seattle.
• • • • •
Sir Joaeph, In spite of the handle to his name, lo a reg'ler feller.
Honestly, he doe*"'! look the part of the English aristocrat as much
as Mr. Glover. Nor Is his accent so pronounced.
He talks in big figures. The world consumes 1,230,000 Beech
am's pills daily the year round. The Australians are the greatest
pill-eaters on earth. Sir Joseph spends $5,000,000 in advertising a
year.
Hl* hobble* are municipal government and muilc. Hi* son,
A TRUE DETECTIVE
STORY UN REAL LIFE
THE MURDERER
HANS SCHMIDT. THK MIRDERKR
U. S. INSPECTOR AIDS
ARRESTED DEALER;
FINED $500 ANYHOW
In aplte of the fact that George
0. Cundy, United States meat In
spector for Seattle, testified In be
half of the defenee. a jury of three
women and two men yeaterday af
ternoon found J. R. Grant A Co.,
meat packers, guilty of telling 80
cane of ancient and putrid potted
turkey, "unfit for human food."
Jnstli e Itrown sustained the find
Ings of the Jni.v by Imposing the
maximum fine of tCiQO.
Cunilv's appearance ok a witness
for .1 H Grant caused the biggest
surprise of the trial, lie wan
called as an expert witness to over
come the expert testimony offered
by State Chemist Johnson.
Comment on Hla Attitude
Ills readiness to testify for the
defense was commented upon by
the state officials In view of the
recent refusal of the federal de
partment of animal Industry at Se
utile to furnish th° state Inspectors
with a certain bulletin, without first
writing to Washington, l> ('.
Cundy testified In general that
evidence of decay In canned food Is
shown when the cans swell. This
swelling, he snld. Is due to the In
crease of bacteria, which may pro
duce ptomaine poisoning.
PENNANTS ' "o.'VT
Any four coupons clipped from The Star, consecutively num
bered, when presented at The Star office with 15 cents, will entitle
you to" a Pennant. Wisconsin Pennants now «ut. A few Idaho
Pennants still left. Pennants will be sent by mall If S cents addi
tional for *ach Pennant Is enclosed. Bring or mall to The Sealtl©
S»sr, 1307 Seventh Avenue, near Union Street.
one cent. I
The effect of Ciltidy's testimony
waa that alnce the cans complain
ed of showed no auch swelling, .1 H
(■rant K- Co. could not have been
aware that they were selling unfit
food.
Decide It's Tin Pol*onlng
The stale chemist. however, tes
tified tlint In riu'i of tin poisoning,
the cans would not show nnv swell
ing Therefore, the conned Roods
gold by Grant ii Co., ns shown bv
it careful chemical test, contained
tin poisoning. even though pto
maine pot son IUK may have been
absent. The cans were Introduced
as exhibits, and they showed mark
ed evidence of corrosion.
Grant A Co. Is the third whole
sale m st company successfully
prosecuted on the complaint of
Deputy State Food Inspector W. It
Adams.
The ense was handled for the
state by Deputies Crawford K.
White and l.onls Sllvaln, mid for
the defense by Reynolds, llallinger
and Huston.
A *!•«» ■tmlrnt profit* by hi* own **■
p»rl«nri>. but tho wl»#r aturient profit* hy
th** <>f <>th»r» Th«» wl««r atu
,]pnt enrnlli nt 11 > nit FowolU Hnilnfii
gthnol. 4th and l'ln»» Aitv«itU<tin«nl
HOME
EDITION.
Thomas Beecham, Is the conductor of the famous Covent Garden
orchestra, of London. Years ago Sir Joseph scolded Thomas for pre
ferring music to pills. Music, he told Thomas, was all right for a
diversion, but all wrong as a life work.
But Thomas stuck to music, became world-famous, and now Sir
Joseph Is glad.
Sir Joseph hss had three terms as mayor of St Helens, near
Liverpool. A mayor in England has many social duties to perform,
and he doesn't gst a salary. Whenever the king or somebody else
very Important comes to town, the mayor decks himself in gold
chalne and a flowing robe and hands the visitor the municipal key.
Sir Joseph Is probably the most adroit advertleer in the world.
While he prefers newspapers to every other medium of publicity,
the story was told In our boyhood of a time when he resorted to
prayer books.
A church, so the story goes, needed prayer books. Learning
that prayer books could be procured without cost, if the church did
not object to advertising matter appearing In it, the vestrymen
sent for a supply. The books came. The hymn was announced.
The choir sang:
"Hark! The herald angels sing:
'Beecham's Pills are just the thing.
'Peace on earth and mercy mild—
•Two for man and one for child.'"
STAR'S CORRESPONDENT
IN NEW YORK GETS STORY
FROM UPS OF INSPECTOR
Tells How Discovery of Pillow Slip
Led to Breaking in Door of
Pseudo Priest's Apartment.
By Norman Rose.
(The Star'* New York Correspondent.)
NEW YORK. Sept. 19.—A ahort. stock man with a round face,
leaned against a desk in the detectives' room in the great New
York police headquarters. He | . B
seemed tired, but In hie keen, well
set eyee there was a look of won i . » c 0
derfui satisfaction. C.* r> ' c '
Not at all the man you'd pick for \ -y* *
a Lecocq, or a Sherlock Hoimes— \ i c d* 1
this Joseph A. Faurot! Pv \
Nothing hawklike about that L «,\3 e TN \ <i
chubby face! fc vJ .
Nothing In that stout figure to ■ ofl ct \
suggest stealth! A " ■*) \
But no old sleuth of lurid-lidded \
fiction ever followed a trail more \
relentlessly or more swiftly to its ««•****
conclusion than this same Inepector |
Faurot, when he unearthed the man w** j
who betrayed and butchered Anna
Aumuller. 'THE CLUE!
Nothlnq but a pillow case, with a letter "A" embroidered on It,
to lead to the discovery of one of the cruelest and craftiest murder
ers known in all the history of murder, and yet—
"It was simple." said Inspector Faurot. "The pillow case was
plenty! There was just one place where we had to take a chance.
We took it, and right there the whole knot unraveled.
"What were the stops?
"Well, there wern't so many as von might think. First, we had
that pillowslip, on which was the name of the manufacturers.
"To whom In New York had the manufacturers sold slips of this
pattern lately?
"They told us, when we nsked. that their books showed the sale
of 12 of these slips to George Sachs, n second hand furniture dealer la
Harlem.
"Step NUMBER (INK had been taken and step No. 2 led to Sachs!
"Of course, we might have had to go back on our tracks If Sachs"
sales hail led up 'blind alleys ' The first one did. He had sold one
of the pillowcases to the captain of a canal boat. Considering that
the pieces of the girl's body had been fished out of the river, that
clew looked good.
"Which Just goes to show that you never can tell. The canal boat
man soon convinced us that we were wasting our time on him. A
much leas likely looking clew was the sale of oue of the slips and a
lot nf other furniture to a man named Hans Schmidt, who had the
stuff delivered at a little third floor rear flat in Harlem.
"Step No. :t was to go to that apartment. Detective O'Nell and I
went there and learned that on Aug. 25 a man had rented the flat,
paying $5 oil deposit, and on Aug. 26 had taken possession, with a
woman
"Sept. 2, we learned, the remaining $14 of a month's rent was paid
by the man. From that day neither the man nor the woman was seen
to go In or come out!
"For four days we watched that apartment. I couldn't wait any
longer.
"THEN IT WAS THAT I DECIDED TO TAKE THAT CHANCE!
"I hadn't any right to do what I did. with no more to go on than
I had. but the thought of what might lie behind that locked door in
those silent rooms was too compelling for me to resist, and I took step
No. 4
"With a broken hammer I forced the door O'Nell and 1 stepped
softly in The stillness Itself seemed ghastly, nnd we knew in our
hearls we had found the place we were looking for.
"The bed in the bedroom was bare of mattress and pillows. In the
closets were hanging suits of men's clothes and a lot of woman's attire.
Two trunks were filled with a woman's clothes.
"The place had been washed and cleaned, but we found four bars
nf soap still bloody, stained nigs and ;i blood stained scrubbing brush.
"HERE WAS THE PLACE WHERE A WOMAN HAD BEEN
KILLED AND CUT UP!
"We must find who she was, and who had murdered her. We cams
upon a letter addressed to Anna Aumuller, care of St. Honlface church.
We thought at once of the 'A' on the pillowcase We found in the
trunks underwear which matched the chemise in which one piece of
the body was found. We found part of the copy of the New York paper
in which another part of the body had been wrapped.
"In the bathroom we found the saw, the butcher knife and wir*
like that with which the Inindlcs had been tied Hut what counted
MOST OF ALL was the LETTER ADDRESSED TO ANNA AUMULLER
CARF. OF ST. BONIFACE CHURCH.
So, von see how simple It was, according to Inspector Faurot.
Simple., indeed' but if Faurot hadn't broken down that door in
the silent Harlem flat u still might house Its . rim mystery, and Hani
Schmidt might have taken himself hence with a steamboat ticket —
or with that keen t&tor blade they found in his pocket.
tverybod/ Goei to Ihe Movies
SO, IF you're a "movie" fan, you ought to
read The Star's moving picture column,
. which appears dtily on page 3. It tells
you what's on at the Seattle picture houaea
and what's corViing, with a specially ir.terest
) ing "movie" feature rearly every day.
I
HOW MURDERER SCHMIDT
WAS CAUGHT WITH ONLY A
PILLOW CABE FOR A CLEW.
• • •
INSPECTOR FAUROT, THE SUC
CESSFUL SLtUTH, TELLS
THE STORY HIMSELF.