The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-02-08
LOCAL MAN
HELD FOR
RANSOM
DICE GAME HAS A SEN
SATIONAL END
ING.
Sam Pinschower Roughly
Treated by Erstwhile
Sports.

Imprisoned for "a hours. head
and throat cut and bruised. forced
20 sign a check for s3.0oo. hts iew.
els. valued At $4,000. taken from
him. sam piuschowcr. ex-tenderloin
king. and proprietor ~ a saloon at
tit Sixth Av South. last Saturday
night was rescued from a room at
the Country Inn at Georgetown juss
after he had passed over his
check % +. A dutchins. proprietor
OF the Inn, This Is the story that
develops from q raid on Hulchings
place by deputy sheFlfts Saturday
night.
From Friday evening until sat.
uriay evening az o'clock Pin.
sehower refused 20 sign the check.
when. suffering from bruises in
fiscted upon him by Hntchins. Il Il
alleged. pshschover finally agreed
60 align the check providing be was
allowed to 80.
Dice Game Framed Up.
pinsch0wer was accompanied
from Seattle by r. Tupper. one Of
the partners OF the Ford saloon. 59s
Sixth Nv South Upper. accord.
INK 30 the story todd the officers.
prevailed upon pinschower TO so
Oul 10 Georgetown To the Country
Inn. Arriving there Hutchlns.
Tnnper and pinschewcr began shak
Ing dice Tor sans ranging from $50
- 500 a throw
UNA -. - II a. m.. -.
Friday evening. Pinschower was IN
debt 10 the amount ~ $1,000 He
was asked for the money BY Hutch.
tns. and when he replied that be did
NOT have that much. Hufrhins. II is
said forced pinschower % give up
hts jewels Plnschower allowed the
men to take his Jewels from him.
hat refused IS sinn the check FOR
g. 900. claiming that he did not owe
that much money but that he wouid
pay Il II he did. when be came 20
Seattle.
Wanted Security.
This would not do. Hutchlns and
Tupper refused 20 trust pinschower.
and he was taken TO room and
locked up. being told he could rss.
main there until he signed the
check asked for
from the time ne was locked up
In the room Piuschower had moth
Ing % est until Late Saturday morn.
ing. when BE- was given a ham sand
wlch. Piusrhovcr eat the sandwich
hunKrilv and asked for more. he
was refused aud t1id that he had
better sign that check.
On Saturday afternoon Pinschow-
Or. growing huuxrisr and hunErier
each moment and wondering hos
long he would hare 70 remain
prisoner. finally agreed 70 sign the
check A blank certificate was FUR
nishcd him and he wrote q check /
on the Puget Sound National bank
Hmchsmn and upper. evidently
pretty familiar with Pinschowers
affairs. would not take the check /
on the Puget sound National Pin /
srhoweF only had 3 snail amount
In that hank and they knew u. This /
check was refused and again PIN
schowcr vas lmprisaned
FINALLY believing there was moth. /
Ing 20 do but sign a check on his i
regular hank. Pinschower notified |
Hntchlna aud Topper that he waa
willing 10 agree 70 their demands.
Rescued BY Deputy shsrlffs.
Chance afforded q means Of res.
cue for Pinschower A. he waA be-
Ing taken back 10 his room after
refusing 70 align the check upon hia I
regular hank. musician. whom Pin. /
schower knew. PASSED by.
Telephone my attorneys that /
I'm held q prisoner. he whispered. /
A. he passed the musician. The lat
Ger immediately called up Attorney !
W. l.. Cummings. who. in tHrn /
notified The prosecuting attorneys |
office.
Deputy sheriffs Peyton and Mills
were detailed 20 investigate tke /
matter. In an automobile the dep /
uty sherfffs hurried so Georgetown +
and swooped down on the Country /
fnn. Peyton found upper IN Pin /
echowera room Both Huichina and I
Tupper admitted they had been !
throwing dice with Pinschower.
thai they had taken the check and /
Jewels from the latter as security /
lfatehlns and Topper had depos 1
tied pinsehower's jewels In the SAFE /
and upou demand of Peyton they |
were returned 70 Pinschower The !
check VAS also returned by Hutch. /
ms. who first. however. tore Il up. !
To-day the check was placed with /
Prosecuting Attorney Nanaerveer.
Pinschower refused 70 prosecute /
either Hufchins or Topper, claim
ms that h. did not waut the matter
spread abroad because he had been !
Hsfung In much the same manner 7
only q short time ego
At the prosecuting attorneys ~. /
flee IL was stated this morning that [
the matter II being further inyestl I
gated
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