I DISAPPOINTED LOVE, SHOOTS DOWN DOROTHY DANHAUSER€¦ · murder there today of Mrs. Dorothy...
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OUR FEATURES Did you ever stop to think that the Times print* more oxcluilve news stories and pictures than any other newspaper in Tacoma? Fact. Subscribe for the Times and you'll miss nothing. We give you the world's news in brief. 30c A I I MONTH I For Tacoma and vicinity: Bain tonight and Wednesday. TheTacoma Times THE ONLY INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER IN TACOMA I HOME I I EDITIONJ VOL. XI. NO. 56 TACOMA, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1914. GET THE PINK The Times rink cornea out at 4:SO erery afternoon. The Confessions of a Itounder" are UM»k the town by storm. Kvery- faujjy. reading them. Join the band wagoa and be a Pink reader. You'll have some fun and enjoy It all. DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE, TACOMA MAN SHOOTS DOWN DOROTHY DANHAUSER NOBODY WAH killed in Mexico this morning. • • • HAVING THIS happily started the day. • • » i.i: I is nisei ss a serious mat- ter. • • • A MAN .11 sr rang up and wanted to talk with Ananias Lemon. • • • IIX s\n> HIS name was George H. Stonefeller. • • • (I THINK nil: scoundrel lied.) • • • AH ANANIAS wasn't in, I had to talk with this nut. • • « 111 GOT AN awful grudge against Lloyd Klncald. • • • KKIIGEANT LINDBAY, Cap Read, Sunn Nelson and Monsieur I >> ment. • • • ALL Till-: COPS are objects of Mi scorn. • • • UK WANTED me to announce that he was going to run for CommlHsloner of Public In safety. • • • AND IF KLKCTKD he would take the rubber out of cops' necks. • • • AND PUT IT on street car wheels so they could run noiselessly. • • • THAT WAS HIS platform. HONKHT, SOME feller did tele- phone that In. AND I'M PRINTING IT. • • • m:< .M sk it takes up space. AM) I I 111. like loafing. • • • I'M GONNA have Ananias Lemon get busy again. AND sK.llcrii lACOMA for Cath- erine Winters. HR'LL EITHER find her or go to Jail. • • • * I IMIVT CARE which he does my- self. • • • HE STARTED OUT this morning. lir HAD ANOTHER insect with him. THAT EMINENT photographer— Theophllus Harkaway Ethel- wynne Nutt. • • • I ONLY HOPE Doc Calhoun. OR E. M. BROWN, or Wilmot D. Read. • r » DON'T BKK THEM. • * • ANANIAS WILL tell yon whether the title girl is in Tacoma to- morrow or not. PINCHESIM FOR SMOKING 7AOS CITY, Feb. 24—Although the supreme court says Zion City cannot punish men who smoke, •Ix more were arrested and Lead- er Voliva says the smokers will be driven from the city if they have to turn 500 women loose on them. RANKING U U Made Convenient. For all at this bank, because there Is no unnecessary red tape allowed to enter, into the transaction of business with our patrons. Our theory Is that time is valuable to all concerned. We're conveniently locat- ed, offer every up-to-date facility for promptness In banking—and wish to do business with you. Puget Bound State Bank 1115 Pacific Avenue. DECLARES HE KNOWS LADY OF MYSTERY Is the "woman of mystery" at the city jail Mrs. Margaret Grcy- son of Minn>-,i|...|i,, a widow, who became partially Insane some time ago when a Minneapolis street car rim her down? Carl M. Carlson, night jailer at the county Jail, declared last night that the woman in the city jail and the Mrs. Greyson of Minneapolis were the same. He recognized the plctnre published in the Times last night, and visit- ed the city jail late this afternoon to make sure of his identification. The woman whom Carlson thinks the prisoner to be lost her hus- band and two babies in Califor- nia. The street car accident, coupled with the tremendous loss of all that was dear to her, caus- ed her to become mentally un- balanced at times. She is a Scan- dinavian, Carlson declares, and is at times as blight and rational as anyone. If Carlson makes certain his identification, the Tacoma police will wire the Minneapolis authori- ties in an endeavor to locate rela- tives of the woman. Jailer Cail- son was unable to explain what brought the woman to Tacoma. It ig not believed that she has any relatives in the Northwest. PORTLAND, Feb. 24. — Judge Bean on the federal bench says the national marine law overrides all state laws on port commis- sions. UNIQUE HOBBY COLLECTING SOFA PILLOWS CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—Gather- ing of sofa pillows as a hobby is something unusual. Mrs. Grace Morris claims to be the cham- pion gatherer of the country. She has hundreds of sola pillows. Some of them are unique. One Is made of uniforms of men who fought In the Mexican, Civil and Spanish wars. WIDOW OF WALLACE WANTS $500 A MONTH Should the widow of Thomas B. Wallace, banker and wealthy Tacoma business man, be allowed to drain the estate dry by a $500 per month allowance fixed upon her" by her husband before his i death, or should she be enjoined FIRST WOMAN PAYS ALIMONY TO HUSBAND LIMA, 0., Feb. 24. —Wealthy I Mrs. George Delmer, former wife of an oil operator and contractor here, la the first woman In the world to pay alimony. i Her husband alleged that she was too Intimate with a teleg- • rapher whom ahe had employed > at a bußlnesa agent. Aftor he ' made the assertion she sued him I for divorce. Delmer filed a coun- < ter-ault for alimony. The court ' gave him the divorce and the all- I mony, In the sum of $3,000, also. < The divorced wife is to pay it i by next January. She has been i given custody of their two chil- < dren. t from taking the money, in order that her two small children shall have the benefits of it? This odd problem confronts Judge Clifford of the superior court today in an action brought by the widow through Attorney Shackleford. The widow has re- married and removed from Ta- coma. Mrs. Wallace brought suit for divorce against her husband ajid was granted a decree on Novem- ber 7, 1910, after her husband had signed up a contract giving her $500 per month alimony. A year after the divorce Wallace died. Wallace's estate was worth $175,000 at the time of his death, and is now worth about $125,- --000. Of this he owns 148 shares la the Fidelity Trust company, a half Interest in the Bonnevllle hotel, and a half interest In the Aetna hotel. The executors, represented by Attorney Grosscup, declare that the contract should be declared void, as Mrs. Wallace Is remar- ried, and as it would be neces- sary to dispose of real estate at sacrificing prices in order to raise cash for the monthly pay- ments. Judge Clifford will an- nounce his decision late this aft- ernoon. SULZER MAKES FIGHT TO WIN BACK HIS JOB ALBANY, N. V., Feb. 24.—Fol- lowing a written demand on the state controller for his salary aa governor, from 'which position he was ousted by impeachment last year, William Sulzer began man- damus proceedings before the su- preme court to compel the pay- ment and to regain his seat a» governor. The Issue is to be made a test and will be carried to th« U. S. ftupreme court at once to test whether the impeachment was le- gal or not. The grounds for the suit are all purely technical, In- volving the question whether the impeachment court was legally organised, declaring that six members were not eligible to kit and declaring the offense* .charg- ed were committed before he took Us scat as governor. CONFESSES THE KILLING OF TACOMAN \ti. i a grilling third degr<»e •\u25a0Miniiiiiiiiiiii la Seattle, Roy Smith, alias Carl Dunn, a negro lad of 10, broke down and con- ivss.-il today to Detective William Kacklcr of the Tacoma police force and Detective Tennant of Scuttle that he had murdered Ar- thur H. Worden, janitor of the liryan school, June 28 last year. The confession clears up a mys- tery that was one of the in|>si huffling Hi. local police have ever had to deal with, and is the. reetiilt of unremitting work on the part of Detective Fackler. At the time of the murder Smith was arrested and held on suspicion, under the name of Rus- sell, but after being in custody a week was released for lack of evidence. Recently, however, Harry Carson, a drug fiend con- fined in the county Jail, volun- tarily admitted that Smith bad given him the watch of the mur- dered man In exchange for three dollars, and that he had bad an- other man pawn it. The watch was recovered by Detective Fackler aome time ago, and he had been working busily to get some clue to the murder-* it's identity through it. The man who is said to have pawned the wßtch for Carsoa has never been found. Smith was arrested in Seattle a couple of weeks ago by John Warnick, special agent for the Milwaukee railroad, charged with stripping brass from an en- gine. When Carson stated that he had received Word#;n's watch from Smith, the latter was put through the third degree. The negro told the officers to- day that he had attempted to hold up Worden, and that a scuf- fle ensued, during which the gun wae discharged and the Janitor killed. He said that he had bought his gun from Carson, who appears to have been more or le«a in cahoots with the negro. INTERURBAN M RAMS WAGON WITH POLES Although the forward vestibule of a Seatle-boun<i limited train of the Tacoma-Seattle InterurJian was completely crushed in this morning by a collision with a wagon load of poles, the motor- man miraculously escaped in- Jury by being thrust through tee glass doors to the Interior of tho car. His clothing was torn and cut slightly, but he was not even scratched by glass. ' The accident occurred at Jo- vita station. A rancher, with a truck load of telephone poles, was crossing the interurhan tracks and apparently stopped di- rectly in front of the speeding train. Poles were hurled in every direction, but the driver of the wagon also escaped injury. 'The accident occurred at N o'clock *nd the smashed interurban car'-^was towed to Tacoma later. iiestle, say british LONDON, Eng., Feb. 84.— That the British government is undertaking an investigation of the Benton incident independent of the American inquiry was stat- ed in the house of commons today by Foreign Minister Grey. The Washington administration], he added, has been aaked to obtain assurance from Villa that It wouldn't be Interfered with.' CONSPIRED TO KIDNAP CHILD ROMORANTTN, Trance, Feb. 24.—Miss Charlotte Herman was given a preliminary hearing charged with assisting Ferdinand Piuney Barte to* kidnap fete sob. . TACOMA BRIDE OF A WEEK IS SLAIN IN SAN FRANCISCO Friends in Tacoma were horrified this afternoon by dispatches from San Francisco telling of the murder there today of Mrs. Dorothy Danhauser Johnson of Tacoma, nee Miss Dorothy Danhauser, a bride of exactly seven days, by Abraham Pepper, a lace salesman of Tacoma. Pepper had been known in Tacoma as Miss Danhauser's fiance for five years. Pepper 16ft Tacoma on Feb. 1 for San Francisco, where he was given an excellent position with the firm of D. Samuels, lace salesmen. Pepper made a telephonic appointment to see Mrs. Johnson, saying it was important. She consented to see him in the hallway of the Sutter hotel. Pepper flattened himself against the wall beside the door of the room occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, and as Mrs. Johnson emerged he pressed a revolver against the back of her head and fired. He fired again as she lay on the floor and then sent a bullet in- to his own temple. The husband rushed from the room and found his wife dead and Pepper's skull fractured by the bullet. In broken sobs the prostrated husband told the story of Pepper's rejection by his wife. Pepper met the Johnsons at the Ferry building when they arrived in San Francisco five days ago, congratulated them, and professed pleasure at their marriage. Learning that Mrs. Johnson had inherited an estate of $25,000 from Herman Klaber, he made this the excuse for seeking an interview. Miss Danhauser was the niece of the late Herman Klaber, who went down with the ill-fated Titanic. She had allowed Pepper to pay attentions to her for several years, but although the young lace sales- man was said to have been deeply infatulated, the girl is reported by friends to have failed to respond to his affection. Recently she met Sidney Lee Johnson, a salesman for the Sherman Clay company's store in Tacoma, and they were secretly engaged. The engagement was not announced until two weeks ago, and the wedding took place last Tuesday morning at the home of the bridegroom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. Wynn Johnson, 1904 No. Cedar street, Dr. Koch of Seattle, officiating. The couple were intending to return after a month's honeymoon in California. Pepper has been head of the lace department of a local department store for several years and lived at the Sands hotel. Miss Danhauser was one of the most popular vo- calists of Tacoma, and sang before the Ladies' Musi- cal club at almost all of its concerts. She had resid- ed with the Klabers at their home on North I street, having lived in Tacoma since childhood. She went through the public schools of Tacoma and graduated several years ago from the Stadium High school. Latest reports today said that Pepper was still liv- inng, despite the terrible wound in his head, but that there were practically no hopes for his recovery. Popper and Miss Danhauser had been engaged to be married for five years, according to Mrs. A. 0. Sanda, proprietor of the Sandu hotfl, where Pepper had resided until recently. When the girl broke the engagement to marry Johnson, according to Mrs. Sands, Pepper became despondent and determiued to move from Tacoma so that he would not be near her. "He told her that he was afraid he would do something awful If he were near her," said Mrs. Sands today. "When the young couple reached San Francisco, I Imagine that the sight of their happlneßß caused Mr. Pepper to go insane. He must have been insane to have committed such an act." Pepper has no relatives in Tacoma. His parents reside In Omaha and he has a brother on a large dairy ranch near Denver. Ha was well known among the young people of Tacoma, and said to be extremely well liked. LOOMIS ANSWERS POLICE ACCUSERS WMIi the rn.tllei-s announcing that, they already have enough iininc- to foi-i (> I'liiiiiiilssiinicr Mills to stand l>efore the people in an election, Chief of Police l.ooinK today Issued a defi to the whole force of objectors to the police administration and cnlls everybody who says he has established a restricted ilisii-irt a "liar." Sliurtly after assuming office, I..huh is called in the reporters anil told them that the dissolute characters In the city had all been lintllit'll tin j must go to live on I) street between I lit and 17h, and laid down ceriiin restrictions ax to their operation there. The chief m>M *<>)> ttii*. did not mean that ho had established n restricted dis- trict. He says in an ofien letter in which he makes a veiled threat to prosecute the recallers for perjury the following: THE CHIKF'B LETTKH. "Any pprfton who says that a vl<v or restricted district has been •st*l>llNlied or that any attempt Whatever has been made to es- tolili li one In the city of Tacoma during ">>" term of office, rtdier by me or any one else; or that pioKi Km lon in any form or to any extent whatever, nan been encour- aged, or tolerated, by me or any on<- <-|m. with my knowledge or eonxMit; or Hint gambling in any form, either public or private, for money or otherwise, has been per- mitted or purponely overlooked by me or any one else with my knowledge of consent; or that the aale of intoxicating liquors of any kind has I*" 1" permitted or tol- \u25a0rated illegally in any place, or under any circumstances in the city of Tacoma by me or any one elM> by my consent, tells tliat which 1m absolutely and unquali- fiedly fals* and untrue; and any ' person who swrara to any state- ment of fwcta to that effect hi nuj |iaiii< Him- Awenr* to a lie and is guilty 'if perjury. "I stand ready and am de- termined to substantiate the truthfulness of this statement to all the people of this city who are willing to see the truth, eith- er on the rostrum or in the courts "I say without tear of success- ful contradiction, that the city of Tacoma has the best behaved, the best disciplined, and the most conscientious working police de- partment of any city in the coun- try, not barring any of its size, and It is a shame upon the good people of the community that they should be made the scape goats for a number of discharged police officers who were unable to make good, and disgruntled city employes who are willing to do or say anything to accomplish tlii-tr purposes. "Very truly, "A. P. LOOMIS, "Chief of Pplice, Tacoma." THE MURDERED BRIDE LAWYERS FIGHT FOR CHINAMAN Attorneys for Ah Bow, the Chinaman who is fighting depor- tation, made a vigorous plea yes- terday afternoon before Judge Cushman in federal court, asking that their client be allowed to remain in the United States be- cause he came here as a boy. Tho case Is still pending. TODAY'S CLKARINUB. o f- Clearlngs MUlftn on Balances ticket. Transactions .... "SLAVE" TELLS OF SYNDICATE BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. ~U. — Einlle Duclon, held for deportn- tlon as a white slaver, made a confession showing a complete white slave syndicate Involving several well known people here. BYDNET, N. 8. W.. r«b. J4.--. Apprehension Is felt here for the Mtft ty.fl/ the collier Lineal, whlck \n& rt& rfc. l*.^k?iltISSa mere*. Phon« Main tk* •• !»">•«»• «<Mv* u« your mypmM*t'kM& *t»V- --•lot« it>npt4 •nvafoM «a« w« will »«a jrluht almmm Jraa JuttA
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I EDITIONJVOL. XI. NO. 56 TACOMA, WASHINGTON, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1914.
GET THE PINKThe Times rink cornea out at 4:SO erery
afternoon. The Confessions of a Itounder"are UM»k the town by storm. Kvery-faujjy. reading them. Join the band wagoaand be a Pink reader. You'll have somefun and enjoy It all.
DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE, TACOMA MAN
SHOOTS DOWN DOROTHY DANHAUSER
NOBODY WAH killed in Mexicothis morning.
• • •HAVING THIS happily started
the day.• • »
i.i: I is nisei ss a serious mat-ter.
• • •AMAN .11 sr rang up and wanted
to talk with Ananias Lemon.• • •
IIX s\n> HIS name was GeorgeH. Stonefeller.
• • •(I THINK nil: scoundrel lied.)
• • •AH ANANIAS wasn't in, I had to
talk with this nut.• • «
111 GOT AN awful grudge againstLloyd Klncald.• • •KKIIGEANT LINDBAY, Cap Read,Sunn Nelson and Monsieur I >>ment.
• • •ALLTill-: COPS are objects of Miscorn.
• • •UK WANTED me to announce
that he was going to run forCommlHsloner of Public Insafety.
• • •AND IF KLKCTKD he would take
the rubber out of cops' necks.• • •AND PUT IT on street car wheels
so they could run noiselessly.• • •THAT WAS HIS platform.
HONKHT, SOME feller did tele-phone that In.
AND I'M PRINTING IT.• • •m:< .M sk it takes up space.
AM) I I 111. like loafing.
• • •I'M GONNA have Ananias Lemonget busy again.
ANDsK.llcrii lACOMA for Cath-erine Winters.
HR'LL EITHER find her or go toJail. • • • *
I IMIVTCARE which he does my-self. • • •
HE STARTED OUT this morning.
lir HAD ANOTHER insect withhim.
THAT EMINENT photographer—Theophllus Harkaway Ethel-wynne Nutt.
• • •I ONLY HOPE Doc Calhoun.
OR E. M. BROWN, or Wilmot D.Read.
• r »DON'T BKK THEM.
• * •ANANIAS WILL tell yon whetherthe title girl is in Tacoma to-morrow or not.
PINCHESIMFOR SMOKING
7AOS CITY, Feb. 24—Althoughthe supreme court says Zion Citycannot punish men who smoke,•Ix more were arrested and Lead-er Voliva says the smokers willbe driven from the city if theyhave to turn 500 women loose onthem.
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DECLARES HEKNOWS LADYOF MYSTERY
Is the "woman of mystery" atthe city jail Mrs. Margaret Grcy-son of Minn>-,i|...|i,, a widow, whobecame partially Insane some timeago when a Minneapolis streetcar rim her down?
Carl M. Carlson, night jailer atthe county Jail, declared lastnight that the woman in the cityjail and the Mrs. Greyson ofMinneapolis were the same. Herecognized the plctnre publishedin the Times last night, and visit-ed the city jail late this afternoonto make sure of his identification.The woman whom Carlson thinksthe prisoner to be lost her hus-band and two babies in Califor-nia. The street car accident,coupled with the tremendous lossof all that was dear to her, caus-ed her to become mentally un-balanced at times. She is a Scan-dinavian, Carlson declares, and isat times as blight and rational asanyone.
If Carlson makes certain hisidentification, the Tacoma policewill wire the Minneapolis authori-ties in an endeavor to locate rela-tives of the woman. Jailer Cail-son was unable to explain whatbrought the woman to Tacoma.It ig not believed that she hasany relatives in the Northwest.
PORTLAND, Feb. 24. — JudgeBean on the federal bench saysthe national marine law overridesall state laws on port commis-sions.
UNIQUE HOBBYCOLLECTING
SOFA PILLOWS
CHICAGO, Feb. 24.—Gather-ing of sofa pillows as a hobby issomething unusual. Mrs. GraceMorris claims to be the cham-pion gatherer of the country. Shehas hundreds of sola pillows.Some of them are unique. One Ismade of uniforms of men whofought In the Mexican, Civil andSpanish wars.
WIDOW OF WALLACEWANTS $500 A MONTH
Should the widow of ThomasB. Wallace, banker and wealthyTacoma business man, be allowedto drain the estate dry by a $500per month allowance fixed uponher" by her husband before his ideath, or should she be enjoined
FIRST WOMANPAYS ALIMONY
TO HUSBAND
LIMA, 0., Feb. 24. —Wealthy IMrs. George Delmer, former wifeof an oil operator and contractorhere, la the first woman In theworld to pay alimony. i
Her husband alleged that shewas too Intimate with a teleg- •rapher whom ahe had employed >at a bußlnesa agent. Aftor he 'made the assertion she sued him Ifor divorce. Delmer filed a coun- <ter-ault for alimony. The court 'gave him the divorce and the all- Imony, In the sum of $3,000, also. <
The divorced wife is to pay it iby next January. She has been igiven custody of their two chil- <dren. t
from taking the money, in orderthat her two small children shallhave the benefits of it?
This odd problem confrontsJudge Clifford of the superiorcourt today in an action broughtby the widow through AttorneyShackleford. The widow has re-married and removed from Ta-coma.
Mrs. Wallace brought suit fordivorce against her husband ajidwas granted a decree on Novem-ber 7, 1910, after her husbandhad signed up a contract givingher $500 per month alimony. Ayear after the divorce Wallacedied.
Wallace's estate was worth$175,000 at the time of his death,and is now worth about $125,---000. Of this he owns 148 sharesla the Fidelity Trust company, ahalf Interest in the Bonnevlllehotel, and a half interest In theAetna hotel.
The executors, represented byAttorney Grosscup, declare thatthe contract should be declaredvoid, as Mrs. Wallace Is remar-ried, and as it would be neces-sary to dispose of real estate atsacrificing prices in order toraise cash for the monthly pay-ments. Judge Clifford will an-nounce his decision late this aft-ernoon.
SULZER MAKESFIGHT TO WINBACK HIS JOB
ALBANY,N. V., Feb. 24.—Fol-lowing a written demand on thestate controller for his salary aagovernor, from 'which position hewas ousted by impeachment lastyear, William Sulzer began man-damus proceedings before the su-preme court to compel the pay-ment and to regain his seat a»governor.
The Issue is to be made a testand will be carried to th« U. S.ftupreme court at once to testwhether the impeachment was le-gal or not. The grounds for thesuit are all purely technical, In-volving the question whether theimpeachment court was legallyorganised, declaring that sixmembers were not eligible to kitand declaring the offense* .charg-ed were committed before he tookUs scat as governor.
CONFESSESTHE KILLING
OF TACOMAN\ti. i a grilling third degr<»e
•\u25a0Miniiiiiiiiiiii la Seattle, RoySmith, alias Carl Dunn, a negrolad of 10, broke down and con-ivss.-il today to Detective WilliamKacklcr of the Tacoma policeforce and Detective Tennant ofScuttle that he had murdered Ar-thur H. Worden, janitor of theliryan school, June 28 last year.The confession clears up a mys-tery that was one of the in|>si
huffling Hi. local police have everhad to deal with, and is the. reetiiltof unremitting work on the partof Detective Fackler.
At the time of the murderSmith was arrested and held onsuspicion, under the name of Rus-sell, but after being in custodya week was released for lack ofevidence. Recently, however,Harry Carson, a drug fiend con-fined in the county Jail, volun-tarily admitted that Smith badgiven him the watch of the mur-dered man In exchange for threedollars, and that he had bad an-other man pawn it.
The watch was recovered byDetective Fackler aome time ago,and he had been working busilyto get some clue to the murder-*it's identity through it. The manwho is said to have pawned thewßtch for Carsoa has never beenfound.
Smith was arrested in Seattlea couple of weeks ago by JohnWarnick, special agent for theMilwaukee railroad, chargedwith stripping brass from an en-gine. When Carson stated thathe had received Word#;n's watchfrom Smith, the latter was putthrough the third degree.
The negro told the officers to-day that he had attempted tohold up Worden, and that a scuf-fle ensued, during which the gunwae discharged and the Janitorkilled. He said that he hadbought his gun from Carson, whoappears to have been more or le«ain cahoots with the negro.
INTERURBANM
RAMS WAGONWITH POLES
Although the forward vestibuleof a Seatle-boun<i limited trainof the Tacoma-Seattle InterurJianwas completely crushed in thismorning by a collision with awagon load of poles, the motor-man miraculously escaped in-Jury by being thrust through teeglass doors to the Interior of thocar. His clothing was torn andcut slightly, but he was not evenscratched by glass.
' The accident occurred at Jo-vita station. A rancher, with atruck load of telephone poles,was crossing the interurhantracks and apparently stopped di-rectly in front of the speedingtrain. Poles were hurled in everydirection, but the driver of thewagon also escaped injury. 'Theaccident occurred at N o'clock *ndthe smashed interurban car'-^wastowed to Tacoma later.
iiestle,say british
LONDON, Eng., Feb. 84.—That the British government isundertaking an investigation ofthe Benton incident independentof the American inquiry was stat-ed in the house of commons todayby Foreign Minister Grey. TheWashington administration], headded, has been aaked to obtainassurance from Villa that Itwouldn't be Interfered with.'
CONSPIRED TOKIDNAP CHILD
ROMORANTTN, Trance, Feb.24.—Miss Charlotte Herman wasgiven a preliminary hearingcharged with assisting FerdinandPiuney Barte to* kidnap fete sob. .
TACOMA BRIDE OF A WEEKIS SLAIN IN SAN FRANCISCO
Friends in Tacoma were horrified this afternoon by dispatches from San Francisco telling of themurder there today of Mrs. Dorothy Danhauser Johnson of Tacoma, nee Miss Dorothy Danhauser, abride of exactly seven days, by Abraham Pepper, a lace salesman of Tacoma. Pepper had been knownin Tacoma as Miss Danhauser's fiance for five years.
Pepper 16ft Tacoma on Feb. 1 for San Francisco, where he was given an excellent position with thefirm of D. Samuels, lace salesmen.
Pepper made a telephonic appointment to see Mrs. Johnson, saying itwas important. She consentedto see him in the hallway of the Sutter hotel. Pepper flattened himself against the wall beside the doorof the room occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, and as Mrs. Johnson emerged he pressed a revolveragainst the back of her head and fired. He fired again as she lay on the floor and then sent a bullet in-to his own temple. The husband rushed from the room and found his wife dead and Pepper's skullfractured by the bullet.
In broken sobs the prostrated husband told the story of Pepper's rejection by his wife. Pepper metthe Johnsons at the Ferry building when they arrived in San Francisco five days ago, congratulatedthem, and professed pleasure at their marriage. Learning that Mrs. Johnson had inherited an estate of$25,000 from Herman Klaber, he made this the excuse for seeking an interview.
Miss Danhauser was the niece of the late Herman Klaber, who went down with the ill-fated Titanic.She had allowed Pepper to pay attentions to her for several years, but although the young lace sales-man was said to have been deeply infatulated, the girl is reported by friends to have failed to respond tohis affection.
Recently she met Sidney Lee Johnson, a salesmanfor the Sherman Clay company's store in Tacoma,and they were secretly engaged. The engagementwas not announced until two weeks ago, and thewedding took place last Tuesday morning at the homeof the bridegroom's parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. WynnJohnson, 1904 No. Cedar street, Dr. Koch of Seattle,officiating.
The couple were intending to return after amonth's honeymoon in California. Pepper has beenhead of the lace department of a local departmentstore for several years and lived at the Sands hotel.
Miss Danhauser was one of the most popular vo-calists of Tacoma, and sang before the Ladies' Musi-cal club at almost all of its concerts. She had resid-ed with the Klabers at their home on North I street,having lived in Tacoma since childhood. She wentthrough the public schools of Tacoma and graduatedseveral years ago from the Stadium High school.
Latest reports today said that Pepper was still liv-inng, despite the terrible wound in his head, but thatthere were practically no hopes for his recovery.
Popper and Miss Danhauser had been engaged to be marriedfor five years, according to Mrs. A. 0. Sanda, proprietor of the Sandu
hotfl, where Pepper had resided until recently. When the girl brokethe engagement to marry Johnson, according to Mrs. Sands, Pepperbecame despondent and determiued to move from Tacoma so that he
would not be near her."He told her that he was afraid he would do something awful
If he were near her," said Mrs. Sands today."When the young couple reached San Francisco, I Imagine that
the sight of their happlneßß caused Mr. Pepper to go insane. Hemust have been insane to have committed such an act."
Pepper has no relatives in Tacoma. His parents reside InOmaha and he has a brother on a large dairy ranch near Denver.Ha was well known among the young people of Tacoma, and saidto be extremely well liked.
LOOMIS ANSWERSPOLICE ACCUSERSWMIi the rn.tllei-s announcing that, they already have enough
iininc- to foi-i (> I'liiiiiiilssiinicr Mills to stand l>efore the people in anelection, Chief of Police l.ooinK today Issued a defi to the whole forceof objectors to the police administration and cnlls everybody whosays he has established a restricted ilisii-irt a "liar."
Sliurtly after assuming office, I..huh is called in the reportersanil told them that the dissolute characters In the city had all beenlintllit'lltin j must go to live on I) street between I lit and 17h, andlaid down ceriiin restrictions ax to their operation there. The chiefm>M *<>)> ttii*. did not mean that ho had established n restricted dis-trict. He says in an ofien letter in which he makes a veiled threatto prosecute the recallers for perjury the following:
THE CHIKF'B LETTKH."Any pprfton who says that a
vl<v orrestricted district has been
•st*l>llNlied or that any attemptWhatever has been made to es-tolili li one In the city of Tacomaduring
">>"term of office, rtdier
by me or any one else; or thatpioKi Km lon in any form or to anyextent whatever, nan been encour-aged, or tolerated, by me or anyon<- <-|m. with my knowledge oreonxMit; or Hint gambling in anyform, either public or private, formoney or otherwise, has been per-mitted or purponely overlookedby me or any one else with myknowledge of consent; or that theaale of intoxicating liquors of anykind has I*"1" permitted or tol-\u25a0rated illegally in any place, orunder any circumstances in thecity of Tacoma by me or any oneelM> by my consent, tells tliatwhich 1m absolutely and unquali-fiedly fals* and untrue; and any
'person who swrara to any state-ment of fwcta to that effect hi
nuj |iaiii< Him- Awenr* to a lie andis guilty 'if perjury.
"I stand ready and am de-termined to substantiate thetruthfulness of this statement toall the people of this city whoare willing to see the truth, eith-er on the rostrum or in the courts
"I say without tear of success-ful contradiction, that the cityof Tacoma has the best behaved,the best disciplined, and the mostconscientious working police de-partment of any city in the coun-try, not barring any of its size,and It is a shame upon the goodpeople of the community thatthey should be made the scapegoats for a number of dischargedpolice officers who were unableto make good, and disgruntledcity employes who are willing todo or say anything to accomplishtlii-tr purposes.
"Very truly,"A. P. LOOMIS,
"Chief of Pplice, Tacoma."
THE MURDERED BRIDE
LAWYERS FIGHTFOR CHINAMAN
Attorneys for Ah Bow, theChinaman who is fighting depor-tation, made a vigorous plea yes-terday afternoon before JudgeCushman in federal court, askingthat their client be allowed toremain in the United States be-cause he came here as a boy.Tho case Is still pending.
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"SLAVE" TELLSOF SYNDICATE
BAN FRANCISCO, Feb. ~U. —Einlle Duclon, held for deportn-tlon as a white slaver, made aconfession showing a completewhite slave syndicate Involvingseveral well known people here.
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