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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-08
Wounded Man Charges Blackmail- Girls Say He AS
saulted Them in Effort to Get Letters He Wrote
to Graham Girl.

apartment and attacked them.
They allege that the shots were
fred in self defense. Miss Graham
today displayed marks on her
throat which she said had been
made by Stokes fingers when he
attempted to choke her.
Stokes asserts that he was lur-
ed into the apartment and that the
girls endeavored to blackmail him
and secure $4,000.
This is the second attempt" ="
he said today. "a week ago Miss
Graham came to my office in the
Ansonia and demanded $500. I
refused it. Then she threatened
to kill herself and produced a
bottle. I told her to go as far as
she liked. She walked toward the
corner of the office, and l sprang
after her, took the bottle away
from her and smelled it. 1t con-
tanned cologne. Then I had her
elected from the office.
At a preliminary hearing this
morning both Miss Graham and
Miss Conrad were charged with
assault in the first degree and held
without bail. Stokes, now pro-
prietor of the Ansonia hotel here,
was formerly we'll known on the
Pacific coast. Miss Graham also
formerly lived on the coast.
Stokes Welded Quietly.
Lillian Graham came to New
York with Stokes from San Fran
cisco. They lived together at the
Ansonia hotel. Eight months
ago, accompanied by Mrs. Single
ton, the girl left for Europe, os-
tensibly en- route to Belgium to
study music Friends here say
that she told them that when her
musical education was completed
she would return and marry
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LONDON, June S.-Pity these
royal children who are to be sac
rificed on the altar of internation-
al politics.
Edward Albert, prince of Wales
and heir to the British throne, is
a nice kid of 1.-THE awkward
age for boys.
The Prinzessin Victoria Louise
is the daughter of the emporer of
Germany-17 as to years, but in
bearing a charming young woman
who has a mind and will of her
own.
In everything but rank, this boy
and this girl are miles apart. They
met the other day for the first
time. Yet they know now that
they must marry, and the girl
must bear children i'm order that
the jealousies between two royal
houses may be laid.
A king and an emperor have
willed it so.
They met - this awkward boy
and this alert, vivacious girl =
without embarrassment, for their
royal parents had not taken them
into their confidence.
They were thrown together on
every possible occasion, left alone
as often and as long as royal eti-
quette permits.
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Stokes.
Four months after she had left
New York Stokes and Miss Elwood
were quietly married in Hoboken,
N. j. Miss Graham hurried back
to New York. For some time
she has been living with the Con-
rad girl at the Veruna apartments.
Letters Cause of Affair.
It was over letters written to
Miss Graham while she was In
Europe that the quarrel arose
which eliminated in last nights
shooting. Although the stories of
the principals vary in many par
ticulars, all agree that Stokes had
written letters to the Graham girl
which he was extremely anxious to
recover. The visit to the apart
ments concerned these letters.
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JAP
ATTACKS
NEADS
Oriental Swings Black.
jack on City Comp.
troller.

City Controller Johnny Meads
says there Is more to this talk
about the scrappy Japanese than
some people think.
He has been In the habit of get
ting his clothes cleaned at the
Lucky" shop on st. Helens ave-
nue. Yesterday he sent his suit
up again. When he went for 1t he
found Lucky gone and Jap in the
place. The price had always been
so cents before, but the Jap asked
$1.75.
Johnny demurred and threw
down 81 and picked up the clothes
and started out. The Jap was be-
tween Johnny and the door and he
whipped out black Jack and got
busy. Meads hung to the clothes
and warded off three blows and
one finally caught him on the
wrist.
The controller finally pushed
the Jap away and escaped. A big
crowd meantime had assembled
and was eager for further hostili-
ties, but Meads hustled away and
got into his clothes and went to a
dance.
Eddie Swanto is the Japanese
who made the assault. He was
arrested on a warrant by Deputy
Geary this forenoon.
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She Notices It

And 1t was the girl, with a
womail's s intuition, who first MOTTO
ed the maneuvers. AS for the
boy, phe was itching to get away
to his boy playmateS, to his pony,
his gun and his cricket. But in
time even he guessed, and grew
tongue-tied, and into his eyes there
came a frightened, harrassed look.
There is evidence that one
morning the princess appeared at
breakfast with red-rimmed, re-
beluous eyes and a stubborn chin ;
that the empress seemed torn be-
tween love and duty; and that the
kaiser was in a nasty temper.
Even royalty have their family
tiffs. But the game must go on.
The pawns in the game are not
considered. The boy will never
keep company" with a girl of
his own choosing. The girl will
never have a 'beau".
They may rebel, threaten, coax,
plead, but in the end they will be
married amid great poInp; and
though they come to love or hate
each other they will give no sign.
They Will grow old together, and
If there are children they will in
future years use them as pawns,
as they were used, i'm the heart
less, useless game of thrones.
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NEW YORK, June 8.-Lllian
Graham, 22, actress, and Ethel
Conrad, IS, artists model, who
shot and three times wounded w.
q. D. Stokes, millionaire hotel
proprietor and sporting man, in
their rooms in the fashionable
Veruna apartments, are held with
out bail today Stokes, 65, with
three bullets in his legs, lies in
Roosevelt hospital, while his
young bride and his son by a
former marriage, e. d. Stokes, are
In constant attendance on him.
Three Japanese, who were arrang-
ing for a dinner in apartments ad-
Joining those of the Graham girl
and who took a hand in the affray,
severely beating Stokes, believing
he had attacked the girls, are be
ing held as witnesses.
Different Stories.
The whole affair is a tangle OF
contradictory assertions.
According to Miss Graham and
Miss Conrad, Stokes entered their
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-08
Blom Not Guilty
Neither Is Blaauw

Though the jury this morning
acquitted Carl Blom of malicious
ly libeling Dirk Blaauw when he
accused the Norwegian consul of
the murder of his brother, Capt.
Thorwald Blom, there'll be no
action taken against Blaauw.
The prosecutors office laughed
at the idea this morning.
Though Blom didn't libel
Blaauw by accusing him Of 1t, still
there is no evidence that Blaauw
had anything to do with the crime,
Is the situation today.
The verdict was made possible
by the judges charge that If the
jury thought that Blom was sure
in his own mind of the guilt of
Blaauw when he made the charge
they were to acquit him.
The jury evidently thought that
Blom was convinced that he was
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EMPLOYERS PLAN
FIGHT ON UNIONS
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(By United Press Leased Wire.l
CLEVELAND, o., June 8.-A
fight to make Cleveland an open
shop city was launched here at a
meeting Of the Cleveland Employ
ers' association when General
Harrison Grey Otis outlined the
methods that had been employed
In Los Angeles. President Kirby
and Attorney Drew of the Nation
al Erectors' association spoke In
favor of the movement. Eight of
the largest employing concerns in
the city are allied in the employ
ers association.
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GIRL FIGHTING HER WAY TO DECENCY
GETS BRUTAL SET BACK FROM POLICE

of having enough to eat and
drink"
But anyway this girl got a
chance to straighten up. A big
hearted rancher from Duwamish,
and his good wife. happened to
hear about the girl and offered
her a home. She jumped at the
chance.
"We'l1 forget the past and start
out new" they told her.
For months she has been living
there. helping in the housework,
more q companion for the ranch
er's wife than as a servant Last
Saturday they sent her to Tacoma
to make some purchases for the
ranch. She was late getting them
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LONE BANDIT HOLDS
UP TWO SALOONS

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SACRAMENTO, June S.--Dep-
-nty sheriffs are today searching
for a lone masked bandit who
held UP two saloons on the Stock
ton road near here, securing about
S100.
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police knocked her
back down again.
Whats the use," she said.
whats the use OF trying to be
good. The whole world is against
you."
Safe in q good home with the
people who still believed in her,
the girl is barcing herself for a
final attempt.
The girl-for she Is only a girl
yet-started right. She came to
Tacoma to find work--and met
the wrong man. After that there
was the starvation period which
day by day forced her to that
terrible philosophy:
Being good is only q matter
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TELLS OF
MURDER
Helped Lover Bury Body in Onion Patch After
Murder of Which She Was the Cause
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(By United Press Leased Wire
NORFOLK, Va, June S.--Con-
Tossing that she had helped bury
the body of Harry Davis in an
onion bed in the yard of her home
at Mason Creek, Mrs. Minnie Muir
dock cleared up the mystery sur
rounding the finding of his body
and accused her lover, Charles
Merkle. of having killed him.
In her confession to the police
today Mrs. Murdoch said that Mer-
kle climbed through window of
her home and. finding her sleep
ing in Davis arms, crushed his
head with an axe. She declared
that she and Merkle were panic
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-08

The Seattle Star is having lot
of fun with beauty contests -
The local beauties (and there are
an amazing lot of them) are SIM
ply asked to send in their pictures,
and every once In while eligible
judges award prizes.
In the contest now. running, a
mother and daughter are entered.
They are Mrs. Clara Rancke and
Miss Grace Rancke. Here are the
pictures, just to show you what
the judges will be UP against Ii
in the finals they have to decide
between these two. The upper
picture Is of Mrs. Bancke.
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stricken and hid the body under
the bed until morning. Then,
she said, they dragged 1t out and
buried 1t in the onion patch.
Merkle and Mrs. Murdoch are
held for murder.
Davis, who is also known as
Harding, was friend Of mine for
years." Mrs. Murdoch told the po-
lice. "Three months ago we quar-
relied and he left, Charlie Merkle
and l went together after that.
We could not agree and ordered
him away. Then Davis returned.
Recently Merkle told me II ] did
not drive Davis away he would
kill both of US.
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all.
The police came sweeping down
Pacific avenue. One of them rec
ognized the girl. The orders were
to bring them all in.
The policeman seized this girl.
put her In the patrol wagon and
hustled her off to jail.
The rancher came in In the
morning indignant. He put up
$50 bail and the girl was released
after spending all night behind
the bars. weeping bitterly.
She will not contest the case.
The Duwamish family is willing
to sacrifice the ball money. They
think $50 is none too much TO pay
for girls soul.
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ARE OTHER ROUTES

The city can change the route
for its pole line to the Nisqually
power plant, not increase the
length of the line at all and save
the fine scenery along the noun
tain road, according to j. B. Haw-
thorn, who with Donald McFadon
was at the city hall today to meet
the commission.
The committee has been trying
to devise some way to get the
city switched off the mountain
road and Hawthorn thinks they
have found route that will be
practicable. 1t will be submitted
to the council tomorrow.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-08

"When a woman once goes
wrong, once takes the fatal step,
there is no turning back"
People often say this. In so
many cases it is true.
But one case has come up right
here In Tacoma where the girl
who had fallen was trying to
climb back to decency. who had
found a helping hand, who was
winning her fight-and then
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-08
IS
DROWNED

Robert Ermin Garretson, the
1S-months-old son of HI. II. GAR
retson. principal of Rogers school,
toddled away from the house of
his grandparents near Detroit on
North Bay yesterday, got into the
water and was drowned.
Since the death of his mother
a year ago the little fellow has
been staying with his grandpar-
ents. They generally kept close
watch to see he did not get to The
water but he slipped away yester-
day. The body was discovered
later floating on the water.
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THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN
REVIEWED BY PRESIDENT
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(By United Press Leased Wire.)
NEW YORK, June S.-Be-
tween $4,000 and $4,000 children,
1t is estimated, we're reviewed to-
day by President Taft as they
marched in the annual parade of
the Brooklyn Sunday school union.
Every president of the United
States since Grant has reviewed
such a parade, but the one which
passed before President Taft today
broke all records.
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Wappenstein Jury
Gets Case Today

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SEATTLE, June 8.-Arguments
in the Wappenstein trial began
after IL o'clock this morn
ing. 1t was agreed that each side
was to have two and one half
hours to present the case. The
jury will probably retire for its
deliberations this evening
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Wappentsein showed marked
lapse of memory in fixing dates
that are materially connected with
the bribery charge against him.
He had accounted for the heavy
deposits in his bank during his in
cumbency In office to a repayment
of $1,000 debt to him by his
brother-in-law, Ed Benn of Aber-
deem.
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MILLIONAIRE SHOT BY ACTRE'
Stokes Bride
Is "a, He's 65

, Omitted Press Leased Wire.)
, DENVER, June s. - Mrs.
D Helen Elwood Stokes, whose
D husband was shot while Wis
D iting Miss Graham and Miss
D Conrad in New York apart
D ment house, formerly lived
D In Denver. Miss Elwood
D went to New York in Septem-
, ber last to study art and Z
D music. Letters received by
D her mother in Denver told of
, her meeting with Stokes but I
, gave no inkling of any en- I
D gagement, and the first inti-
D nation either her sister or I
, mother had of such an oc- I
D currence was when the mar I
D riage was announced.
Stokes is 65 years old and
D his bride "a.
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MILES IN 80
M1NUTEs-WOWf

, (United Press Leased Wire.) =
, PARIS, June g.. Seventy =
, two and a half miles in thir- 9
ty minutes was the speed q
, record achieved by Aviator =
, vedrine yesterday. according =
, to reports received here to- =
day. He flew from Dijon to g
\ Observation-Disclosures In Z
the Paris Rome race A ter 9
rife wind seized his machine =
and hurled It forward 4
D 3 = = . Q . . = = . = q =
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telling the truth, but that ne was
mistaken in his charges.


After a stormy discussion last
ing well into the night, the jury
In the Carl Blom libel case were
unable to agree this morning.
The case was given into their
hands yesterday afternoon.
Later in the evening this dis
cussion became so loud as to be
heard around the corridors of the
court house. Attorpl VS. believe
there is little hope II an agree
ment.
Lawyers pleas for both tsate
and defense yesterday were GRIM
nations and recriminations. The
defense accused the state Of taxi
ing up the fight of the Goldfish
trust. Blom, the defendant, was
roughly handled by the states at
torneys.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-08
Killed In Mine

Isaac Hill was killed in the Car
bonado coal mine late. yesterday
when a mass of rock caved In
upon him. He leaves a wife and
five children who. live in Carbon
ado.
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DEATH TOLL HEAVY
(By United Press Leased wire.)

MEXICO CITY, june sPartal Communication with the
today hundreds
killed in zapoan by yesterdays earthquake received here
villages
earthquake
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TRAVEL NOTE.

(By. United Press Leased Wire. }
WASHINGTON, d. c., June 8.
President Taft left for New
York. this morning at 8 o'clock.
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WS%atlor,,

Fair tonight and Friday.
Warmer Friday. Light west, SHIFT
ing to northerly winds.
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He Tilted Her For Another Girl;
She Shoots Him Down In Room
GIRL WROTE POETRY.

In searching the apartment
of the young woman, after {
the assault, the police found {
the following poem, written q
by Miss Graham:
You've slipped all the honey Z
there was in the flower {
And it's petals are yellow {
and dry; {
You've had all the sweetness
in one short hour
And now leave the rose to {
die.
o, butterfly, when you flew Z
away
And I thought that life was {
over,
A voice in my heart seemed {
to say
Cheer up, find another {
lover. {
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wAsHINGToN.-There is m,

gold In the treasury vaults now
than ever before in the history
of the nation. On June 1, $1,s15.-
600, 900 in coin and bullion were
In Uncle Sans strong box.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-08
GENTRALIA-While his

CENTRALIA-While his par
ishioners thought Rev. George A..
Symington, Episcopal minister,
was away on church business, he
was really on trial in Seattle for a
serious offense. He was given a
ten years sentence. Symington
was middle-aged and married.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-08

CHICAGO - Trunk lines are
planning to abolish their present
system of granting low fares to
clergymen travelling between Chi
cago and New York.
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VANDERGRIFT, p,
0 ooOooooaooeo0eoo - .

vANDERGRIFT, Pa. - Leon
Won Wilhelm is awaiting work
of forgiveness from his parents in
Prussia, who cut him off from an
inheritance of $4,000 when he
came to America to marry a form
er peasant sweetheart. The girl
had married another man before
he arrived.
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} SOUTH BEND, Ind. - [
William Burton Sudlow is
safe on his honeymoon to- {
day, although he became SO
nervous over his approaching.
marriage that he tainted in
his bathtub and was almost
D drowned,
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-08

HERES THE TRUE STORY OF
ONE TACOMA GIRL WHO
WAS TRYING TO DO RIGHT,
BUT WAS THROWN INTO
JAIL AND DISGRACED BIZ P0-
LICE BLUNDERS.
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Picked Up From the Days News
NEW YORK.-Margaret Inger
(By United Press Leased Wire.)

NEW YORK.-Margaret Inger-
soil, 10, former waitress in a
Marinette (Ga.) restaurant, is in
New York today to claim an In
heritance of half a million dol
lars. Jos. H. Choate, her guard
ian, found her after two years
search.
LOWELL, Mass.-Fifteen An
CORA kittens, kept in the kitchen
by his wife, got the Angora goat
of Edward r. Taylor, old sea dog.
He is suing for divorce.
ROCKFORD, Hl.-Dr. Clinton
Helm, so, is candidate for a Car
negie medal. He leaped into the
Rock river and swan ashore with
his three-year-old granddaughter.
CHICAGO.--A defense fund,
subscribed to by persons kept
awake at night by cat concerts, has
been raised to defend Daniel
Miller, charged with malicious
michief in killing a neighbor's cat.
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PORTLAND-Fearing blindness
more than death, John Hanson, s.
an ironworker, committed suicide
by taking carbolic acid.
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CHICAGO - Recognizing that
some swim without getting too
close to the water, a Chicago de-
partment store is offering bathing
suits to women, the colors of
which 1t is admitted will run If
the garments get wet. They are
called "beaching suits"
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WASHINGTON-Postal savings
banks will be opened at Colfax
and Prosser, Wash.
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BANK CLEARINGs
Clearings ....... ..$olZ,OoS.o oO
balances 80. -. 26,312.70
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NEW YORK-Miss Annie s.
Peck Is today en- route to South
America to attempt an ascent OF
the Aconcagua peak of the Andes,
12,SS8 feet high.
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LoUIS----Afte;

ST. LOUIS--After wearing
mans clothes for Ia years, Mrs
Seib went to the work.
house for Sc days rather thar
change.
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SPRINGFIELD, nI.-GOvernor
Deneen has been petitioned by
union labor to include the initia-
tive and referendum in his call for
a special session of the legisla-
ture.
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'.Rockefeller Is on his knees" says . stand
pat organ of that Standard OIL decision. What's
John his knees for--trying to find that su-
preme Judge that's missing from his collec- 1
ton?
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1911-06-08

When you're dreaming your brain is worl
ing harder than at any other time. This is tn
reason that some people know most when the
are asleep.
The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-03-21
KILLING ST|RS UP SHAWNEE

Special to the Daily Leader
Shawnee, Okla, Mar 20-As the
result Of The killing on South Union
street here at 8 o'clock Sunday at.
ternoon Hank Meeks, gambler and
bootlegger by Deputy Sheriff Dock
Tillman, sentiment is running high
and the authorities are watching
closely for any attempt ak violence
against the deputy sheriff
Meeks has been arrested here sew
eral times ON bootlegging charges
He is said to be worth between $l5,.
900 and $4,000. Sundaa yfternoon,
according 10 the reports Of the kill.
ing Deputy Sheriff TiIlman searched
Weeks, expecting to find whisky on
his person. Failing in that, ii is said,
he told Meeks he would arrest him
anyhow / IS said that MeelSs resent
ed this aud resisted the attempt Of
the deputy sheriff to arrest him. Il
il said that Tillman told Meeks lie
would get warrant and then arrest
him. in reply to which Meeks used
prolane language and told Tillman
TO go get his warrant
II is sad that upon Meek's reply
the deputy turned. drew his revolver
anl Hred three times every shot TAX
ing erect MeelSs droDped dead The
fatal bullet struck him in the lefl
side, ploughing IT'S way through his
back. and imhedded itself IN his