The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1909-05-19
DID KVALSHAUC SEEK
ARREST OF NEWCOMB?
New Sensation In MUIR
der Case-r1an Wanted
Warrant For Wife'S
Alleged Paramour.

Was the act Of Charles II.
Newcomb, I'm shooting down
Martin Kvalshaug while Mrs.
Kvalshaug, his sclf-confcsscd
affinity, stood calmy by, part
ly the result of fear OF pros
ecution at the husbands
hands for alleged Illicit
friendship between himself
and the woman?
This question arose today
through the discovery OF an incl
dent which occurred In the JUS
tice court of Frank III. Graham
one day last week.
A man, whose name the judge
did not learn but whose general
description Is identical with that
Of Kvalshaug, appeared before him
with the statement that he sought
an officer who had the power to
issue warrants for arrest, and
whom he might be able to And
on short notice, at any time OF
night. He was given the judges
telephone number and his address
at downtown hotel, where Judge
Graham makes his home.
He then inquired what penalty
could be imposed upon q man who
should be convicted on statutory
grounds and the judge says he ap-
peared much disappointed upon
learning that for a single offense
little more than .disorderly con-
duct could be charged against an
|offender.
He then Informed the official
that he was q married man andkI
that he expected to have another
man arrested within a very few
days. Judge Graham. not relish
ing a case of that kind volunteers
ed little encouragement 70 the
Troubled huaband.
1 The stranger disappeared and
has not been seen at the court
house since. The magistrate did
not know Kvalshaug; by sight. but
his description of the unltnown
man who came to him for advice
tallies exactly with that of Kval-
shaug. The judge was alone Ia
the office when the man APPROACH
led him.. The incident occurred
only day or two before the MUIR
der.
That there was open hostility
between Newcomb and the man
who finally became his victim, II
well known, and that Mrs. Kva1>
shaug was the direct cause OF this
enmity is declared to be reason
ably certain. Whether Kvalshnue
comb arrested, only the guilty pair
now behind the prison bars can
tell.
Again Face Court
| Newcomb. and Mrs. Kvalshaug
were both granted an extension
this morning of two days in which
to enter their plea to the charge.
of murder in the first degree. Both
are expected to plead Friday MORN
ing.
i Attorney Johnson, the womansn:
counsel, has filed his demurrer to
1.-THE information and 1t will likely
be argued late this afternoon or
tomorrow. .Newcomh's extension
was granted on the. statement OF
Attorney George, his counsel, that
|he had been out of the city and
had been given insufficient time to-
lstudy the facts in the case. Mrs.
Kvalshaug's attorney merely stat
ed as grounds for his demurrer
that 1.-The information has not
STATED sufficient facts to constitute
the crime charged"
Oher dilatory tactics by the
pairs legal counsellors are antic-
lipated, but Deputy Prosecutor A.
10. Burmeister strenuously opposes
Jail efforts to delay the hearing.
il Woman Stfll Composed
As on the previous occasion the
Imam and woman were led into
lcourt separately, Newcomb's caeo
being handled first. Very little
Ichange was denoted in the bearine
lof either In public. The man =
NERVES still appeared to be On =
tension, though perhaps not ~
thigh strung as on his former G1o<
lpearance. Mrs. Kvalshaug di1>
lplayed the same calm, nnconeoxno<t
Idemeanor that was SO marko4 o11
lher first visit to the court fo011