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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06
A New Way to Justice

M ENTAIL examinations OF persons on
4V1 trial are advocated by many re-
formers as the next progressive step in
criminology.
Additional arguments for the cstab-
lishment OF psychopathic laboratories in
courthouses come from a study ot lo+
delinquent girls. which was conducted by
the New York probation and protective
association. Only IS OF these girls had
reached the mental development OF
adolescence.
Mental deficiency is reported as tho
cause OF waywardncss
Inefficient girls who could not keep
their jobs were recently examined BY an
employment bureau in an Eastern city.
OF the $50 cases studied. ~ per cent were
found so retarded in mental development
as TO be considered deficient
The psychopathic laboratory has proved
OF such value in the Chicago courts tina,
judges would not hear OF returning to the
old ways
One great advantage OF the examina-
ton OF youthful offenders is that il makes
possible the Identification of insanity be-
fore il has progressed so far as TO cause
the victims 10 commit murder or other
serious crimes" says Harry Olson. chief
justice OF the municipal court "Exten-
sion OF the laboratory idea in connection
with the courts all over the country will
IN time enable society to recognize prac-
tically all those who arc suffering from
mental disease, and finally to extirpa,e
IT,"
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06
CONTINUED from our last lssus)

Continued from our last lssus)
WI HftE Jensen had been dress.
w ing. Mon Toy had built a
cracking fire OF huge logs
In the fireplace. Jensen dropped
Into a chair.
As he sat back musing beside
the cheerful blaze. II struck him
with renewed force how unlike the
quarters OF desperate counter.
feitins gang was this Camp Argyle
with lie many comforts. And what
possible incentive could q man Of
Lord Cannonqnest's great wealth
and prominence have for mixing In
such n shady affair."
Tho whole thing was as mex.
nltesble ne ever. yet II seemed GER
tain he was on the right track. lie
arose 10 HIS feet 10 leave the cabin
and shook back his broad shoulders
as he closed the door. Develop.
ments OF some sort were likely TO
occur.
Tho moon was dropping toward
tho horizon yet tho myriad stars
made the scene almost as bright
as az MONDAY. over at the bunk.
house tho miners were holding
some sort OF n celebration. The
bungalow was glowing with lights
IN all the windows. lilo strobe up
the steps OF this huge homo OF
stephen Msiiabee. and pressed an
announcing button beside the door
In answer 10 Jensen's ring. the
door was opened By Kerry Malta.
bee herself
Welcome TO Argyle House. she
cried cordially. And DO hurry In.
father has been 30 anxious to SEQ
YOU"
My dear fellow. DO come IN"
greeted penetrating voice from
a tail. ssunt man OF some so odd
years came forward with out.
stretched hand
My daughter. Kerry. has told me
you mr.. Alan kerriaon from the
States. no we may waive tho use.
iess Formally OF introductions.~
Jensen ciasped the offered hand.
murmur~d some words OF polite
greeting, and found himself gazing
Into pair OF penetrating gray eycs
Are YOU related TO the Montana
k.rriHons. the gold mine people--
asked stephen Maliah~e. a. they
passed toward tho dlninE room.
Jensen felt II would be- difficult, 4
to dccrls. those penetrating eyes. /
and his answer was truthful. at
least a. far ~ II went.
I do not think We arc connected
with tho Montana Kerrisons at all.
h. answered They. l believe. ar.
Of Scotch descent. my people arc
Yantee."
They sat three q, the table. The
dining room was finished in fum.d
oak with beamci ceiling. high 4
wootpanclrd walls. and dark green
velvet hangings a, doors and win.
dows.
stephen Mailabee VAS anxious to
hear the details OF springynie'a
death. and Jensen gave them ~
closely 10 the truth IA he nigh,
without revealing anything OF his
own mission into tho North. From
made by both Maiisbce
and his daughter he early learned
hat SprinGvaie was the same young
man he had known NJ Harvard. and
this put him more At ease IN tho
conversation.
Finally tho talk ve~rcf again to
bid J. J. krrrison and his gold
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06
MUST PAY DAMAGES

John Slocum. who mistook r. NJ.
Hancock for burglar at the home
of a neighbor At 4. soth 1T. and
18th ave. N. F., and shot and slight.
ly wounded him. must pay $3.50, 40
Jury decided.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06
CHAPTER VI.

An Adventure In the Night
Under the circumstances II wal
not possible for Jensen TO return
TO his cabin
The lights IN Argyle House were
stiii going. but the miners had cut
the telephone wires connecting
with the power house.
After futile efforts to signal the
men locked in the power house in
some way. stephen Maliabee sen;
the family 90 bed.
Being ,horoly tired from the iong
days travel after his period OF III.
meas. Jensen undressed at once.
tipped off the lights. and got into
bed. He found II difficult. how.
ever, TO compose his mind for
sleep. For one thing the steady
tramp. tramp OF tho miners doing
sentry.go around the piazza was a
constantly disturbing sound.
So restless did Jensen finally be-
come that he arose and dressed
again In the dark. thinking he might
be more comfortable moving about
than tossing and turning on his bed
in tho heated room.
He stepped 10 tho window and
looked out. One OF the miners was
just striding past the window, his
heavy feet dumping down upon the
veranda with n hollow, ringing
sound. Listening. Jensen followed
the mans movements.
He took some 20 PAGES to the
south. met q comrade there. turned
back. passed Jensen's east room. met
comrade from the north side. and
then reversed his march again. 10.
ing toward the south.
Just after the miner had again
passed his window. Jensen raised
the sash softly TO its full height.
stepped out, closed II rs softly be-
hind him. and scuttled across and
dropped over the outer edge OF the
veranda, lying close under the over
hang OF the floor.
Jensen slowly sduirmed along
beneath the shadow cast by the
OF the veranda floor un.
IN he gained the north side OF the
bungalow. He could see the power
house some distance off to the
Not far from the power
house. off little TO the east. was
"A long clubhouse.
Suddenly. as he lay there looking
toward the lights OF the power
house and waiting for the man do
ing sentry-go on that side TO turn
his back. he saw three men leave
the clubhouse and come running
toward the bungalow. This was a
Jensen had not counted
on. and he crouched low. ready TO
spring and make a fight for II the
instant they came within striking
distance. when suddenly he felt
something give way behind him.
and he was precipitated backward.
lie had been leaning against a
ong. barred basement window.
fastened with hinges at the top.
and this window had swung In
ward. He tried 10 catch at the
sides OF the window frame as he
ELL. but they slipped away from
ais fingers and he hurtled back.
ward. turning a complete somer.
sault and coming down upon all
ours on cement floor.
For an instant Jensen was too
lazed to think. thcn he stood up,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06

BILLINGS. Mont. April g.
Threatening the boy Waterman with
death II he made an 'outcry, two
masked men blew open the safe In
the general store at HuntIey, Mont.
~ miles east OF here. and secured
between $500 and $500 in currency
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06

PARIS. April 6.-Rome dispatches
today said Marconi had perfected a
new apparatus for controlling aero.
planes and dirigibles. II will be
used Immediately by the Italian
army.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06
THINGS THEY MISSED

THINGS THEY MISSED
rsai Hevese s~ves be~rd .seu, .pr.-
psrestse.s.'
Sosh sevev were rubber sves.hsss.
~" brummsi never rad the nov
Jonah s~ver cav . u-b..s.
Use walton never fished In Humphrey.
City and county officials plan TO
get together on a prison farm. the
papers say. There are some lei.
lows mean enough to say that TIA
Just where they belong.
The Chamber Of commeres
will assist In the celebration Of
William shskespeare's death,
He must have been a single
tassr or something.
The weight men In the state are
gong to meet In Seattle for three
DAYS, beginning Thursday. Some
men OF weight who will not be
among EN- are Dugdale. n. H.
kuiies. Billie Bloch and Lieut.
Hans Damn.
CLEANUP WEEK
woman wants cleaning four days a
week diffsren, places. Address etc
Adv. In the butte tMontJ Miner.
A veterinary is not allowed 10
prescribe any booze. no matter how
hoarse a fellow may get. The
courts have so decided. But it's a
poor veterinary who can't skin
cat more than one way.
1t cost the county s22,733.o9 for
those blooded cows and farm i'm.
PIGMENTS. Probably marked down
from s22.733.10.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06
A Novel a Week

A standard. htah-~isss. bcsh-
stse sevet. eewpiets this weeh IL
thts psper.
mest will eeme 20 y~a every asy.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06

I leading Peter Saints dog by rope.
A raw.boned hulk OF man
stepped forward from the crowd
and spoke
'Das dog here" he said. pointing
10 the struggling Babe. ban kill
our baat man. Dan Larsen. AT Little
Babos All tank we ban hang her
op % pole for murder; but das here
Pete Saint, he say We skali hang
him instead"
Two gigantic fellows stepped for.
ward from the center Of the throng,
conducting Peter Saint between
them.
stephen Mailabcc gave vent 10 n
believing roar as he dashed among
them, striking out right and left.
Before they had a chance 10 gather
their dull wits into either indiyid.
ual or concerted action. he was
back inside. dragging Babe by her
rope and leading Peter Saint by
ono arm.
Thcn he turned again upon the
growing pack OF miners and with
world OF Hcorn In his voice cried;
Get back 10 your bunkhous~.
every manJack Of you. or I'll put
you on half rationH for n month
II you ever had one sensible idea
in your brains. II would oyerbat
ance your bodies 10 badly that you
couldn't walk"
Tho swedes moved no farther
than off tho verandn. where they
stood talking among themselves in
Swedish. Finally the shock headed
spokesman stepped forward again
and said:
"Ay tank We rkail have Pete
Saint or his dog" he insisted stub
bornly.
Stephen Mailabee was almost be
side himself with rage.
you can have neither the man
nor his dog" he shouted. III you
don't get back TO your clubhouse
within two minutes. I'll have you
strung up by the thumbs"
Vas. biz boss. Ay tank you
mean keep das word: but who skail
do dss stringing oop,"
"Who7~ harkcd Stephen Malta.
bee. trying vrd TO control himself
and 10 be patient with this dull.
witied man. The mine boss. Don't
you know he has guns enough in
tho power hous. 10 NOW you all
down like wheat. " you don't toe
the mark"
Vas" droned the swcde. We
skaii remember all das: but We got
cookie. mine bosx. engineer. and
locked up In cement
power house. They say we skail
not hang Pete Saint. 80 we take all
das guns over 10 clubhouse and |
lock up mine boss and das other |
men"
WHAT shriiied Stephen Malta
bee. In a roaring crescendo. This |
Ia mu,iny. I'll have you all hung
for H."
Maybe SO. stubbornly returned /
The swcde. But Ne ban shoot up /
place . little. first"
Several OF his comrades stepped
forward. drawing guns from be-
meath their mackinaws an they
zane.
stephen Maiiabee appeared 10 be
~ little cowcd by the miners dis
play OF arms a. he had been by
heir importunats demands. A. he
stepped forward. the men with
runs took aim. Even then Il 10
probable he would have kept on
,ad not the sounder sense OF his
laughter prevailed.
with a cry Of Father. are you
'raxy'- she grasped his arm and
Cd him back. protesting. inside the
louss.
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co., ROOSEVELT returns and promptly
announces HE diseovsry OF . new kind Of bird.
stride fites BY night. eats nuts and 10 much
IKE an owl. We ouess u belongs 70 the species
politicus.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06
|. MOST ANYTHING .

However. vote for him for country
treasurer because he's a republi-
crat. Down with nsnpartisanship,
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06

1t cost the county $22,7ss.o9 for
those blooded cows and farm i'm.
PIGMENTS. Probably marked down
from $22.733.t0.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-04-06
ev. TRUE SAYS:

"Lste Hamilton
ooye . COW 10 not
: cow under $3.50
-ond the county
pays for his BULL
, 1916-02-10
PROLOGUE.

Here is one of the most dro.
matte novels of modern times
and a distinctly American prod
net. Based on one of the great
theatrical productions of present
fame, it unleashes a flood of hu-
man emotions which will sweep
the reader irresistibly with it.
All the elements of a gripping
romance are here, and the ordeal
of the principal characters is one
that will hold the reader Intensely
Interested from beginning to end.
Love and death, trial for life, a
melodramatic confession wrung
from the tortured soul of a wife
and mother, combine to make
this story a masterpiece which
will live long in American fic-
fion.
, 1916-02-10
L.W.P.HEPBURN
DIESAT CLARINDA
SOLDIER AND FORMER MEMBER
OF CONGRESS, sUccuMRs TO
HEART WEAKNESS
FRAMED HEPBURN LAW
EFFICIENT SOLDIER IN CIVIL
WAR AND LAWYER OF HIGH
REPUTATION.
Western Newspaper Union News Service.

FFNNA ~ fANts
CIarinda, Iowa.-Col. William P.
Hepburn, former member of Congress,
from this district, died here after a
long illness. Death resulted from
kidney and heart trouble. Besides the
widow, a son and daughter survive
him.
col. Hepburn, although twenty years
In Congress, became best known
throughout the country during the
Roosevelt administration. 1t was he
who framed what later was called the
Hepburn law prohibiting rebates and
determination by railroads.
As chairman of the House commit
tee on interstate and foreign com
MERGE in the first session Of the fiji
ty.ninth Congress, he was the author
of three acts out of five which the then
President S evelt afterward de-
Clared would cause that Congress
to be memorable in history because
OF its constructive legislation.
Mr.. Hepburn represented the Eighth
Iowa district. He also was an eff
cient soldier in the Civil War and n
lawyer of high reputation. He was a
product of the early pioneer days in
Iowa and got what little schooling he
had in three winters at an academy
near Iowa City.
He was born in Columbiane county,
Ohio, Nov. 4, 1888, removing to low.
City. where his mother and stepfather
took up their residence on a farm
when he was eight years of age. At
ter a brief experience in the schools
the community afforded he got en-
ployment in a printing office, where
he worked for four years. Later he
read law at Iowa City and Chicago
being admitted to the Illinois be
1884. He returned to Iowa in 1855,
married Miss Melvina A. Morseman
Of Iowa City, and settled al Marshall
town.
, 1916-02-10
INDIANS THREATEN MASSACRE
Hopi Braves In Arizona Out to Avense
Slain Red.

Phoenix. Ariz.-Five thousand resi-
dents in the northeastern portion OF
Arizona are alarmed over the reports
that the Hopi tribe of Navajo Indians
We're threatening to go on the war
path according to reports received
mere Monday night. Approximately
Eo,Nnp Indians are living on the Nava
10 reservation, but it was not known
what proportion of them were in
vowed in threatening uprlsings.
The Hopi Indians became angered,
II Was said, when one of their number
was shot and killed several days age
oy police officers. The Indian opened
IRE on the officers when they at
tempted to arrest him and was killed
oy one of the officers a moment later
according to information received by
'hoinas Flynn, United States district
attorney. The shooting occurred neal
Lee b ferry, a crossing on the Grand
cahon of Arizona, about fifty miles
.soulh of the Arizona-Utah boundary
Pine.
, 1916-02-10

Connects with U. P. trains No.
3, West, sos p. IN, aud No. 8,
East, 1852 p. IN.
Geo. c. Austin, Supt.
, 1916-02-10
p !.
A Human Life at Stake.

T1dE big, gloomy trial room of
the criminal branch Of the
IS7SSTSi supreme court, part l, was
80 crowded to the very doors
wluA n throng of expectant people,
lawyers and law clerks, newspaper
reporters and artists, business men
attracted by the momentousness of
the occasion, court attendants, de
tectives in plain clothes. And here
and there doomed the plumes of femi-
nine headwear worn by women drawn
through morbid curiosity to the arena
of the penal law, where a man must
face his accusers OH the dread charge
of murder in the first degree"
For months the newspapers had dis
played the details of the crime. Extra
editions galore had carried screaming
headlines concerning the new develop
ments in the case Of the people of the
state of New York versus Robert Stricll-
land. Indeed, the cause celebre a
been commented on so widely that the
attorneys for the defendant had moved
for a change of venue, arguing that
Strickland could not get a fair trial in
New York county because any man
picked for the jury would have heard
or read something detrimental to the
accused. 1t was well known to David
, 1916-02-10
TO QUIT AS CABINET WAR CHIEF
Kitchener to Lead Decisive Drive or
Germans Next Month.

Kitchener to Lead Decisive Drive or
Germans Next Month.
London, Feb. earl Kitchener Is
about to quit the office of secretary
of state for war and take personal
command Of the British army, which
is to make the drive against the Ger
man lines in France next month, &C
cOrding to rumors circulating freely
in London. The Daily Sketch makes
the direct statement that Kitchener
will leave the war office and adds
that changes of great importance are
contemplated.
The Sketch says Sir William Rob
%ertson, now chief of staff, probably
will take owe active direction of the
wal without interference except from
the cabinet as a whole, and that a
civilian of real ability for %organiza.
ton will become secretary for war.
In event that Earl Kitchener leaves
the war office, the Sketch adds, he
will undertake work of an important
character elsewhere.
, 1916-02-10

would be Il gross miscarriage of jus
tice. That Is all for the present, gen
tlemen."
Arbuckle resumed his seat at the
counsel table.
During these proceedings the defend
ant. Strickland, showing by his pallor
the effect of his incarceration in the
Tombs prison. eros the way. await
ing trial, had sat watching every move
of the legal luminaries on both sides
AT times his hands clinched ~nervously
and he made pronounced efforts to
swallow; again the muscles about his
eyes contracted tensely. He was suf-
fering acutely.
Yes, he was suffering a only can a
man Of education and refinement. one
time head of a happy. prosperous home.
who suddenly awakes as from a hide
GUS nightmare to find himself in the
grewsome predicament now confront
ing,
Suddenly, to the amazement of all
present, as Arbuckle concluded. the &C.
, 1916-02-10

vas a member of a family controlling
panies in the country. He was a bank
err of big operations and was generally
reputed to be one of the most daring
and at the same time successful
plungers on the Stock Exchange. His
wife's diamonds had been frequently
described in the society columns of the
daily prints on the occasion Of her
appearances in the gilded. dazzling
splurge of the Four Hundred in the
Horseshoe" at the Metropolitan Opera
House.
And so there were reasons why the
multitude should be engrossed in the
proceedings destined to determine
whether or not Robert Strickland, ac-
tive business man, should be sent to
the electric chair in hat bare, oblong
death chamber on the bleak Hudson
hillside always yawning for more vic
tins. 1t was no ordinary sordid or
drunken crime participated in by deni-
zens of the vast metropolitan under
world this time. No. indeed. Here
was a choice morsel, q dainty tidbit, in
the way of a criminal prosecution, a
case where I'VE of the best known
families of the greatest American city
were involved. 1t vas admitted on all
sides thai no indictment since that &C
cusing United States Senator Jeffrey of
poisoning his wife was handed down
by the grand jury had caused such stir
The selection Of the jury proved, as
it usually does In II case where capital
punishment is involved. u slowly drawn
out affair. Some members of the spe-
cial panel which had been drawn OPP
posed the death penalty and favored
life Imprisonment for murder. They
forgot that even the Book of Holy
Writ had laid down the law in this
tragic circumstance, IAN eye for an
eve and a tooth for a TOOTH"
Or perhaps they merely made the as
sertion as to their belief On the sub
ject In order to be excused from serv-
ing.
Other talesmen had business engage
ments out of town or felt that their
health would not stand the confinement
for days in the stuffy. humid couri
room, but these and similar excuses
were brusquely swept aside by the
court. The worthy citizens felt better.
however. when they were reminded
that at the finish Of each days session
they would be escorted under guard
in an auto to Il fashionable hotel up
town and there dlned on the choicest
vinnds of the season at the county's ex.
pense. One man appealed to the sym
pathy Of the court when he asked to be
excused because his mother had died
The judge was on the point OF letting
him go when. as though the result Of g
sudden inspiration, he asked the tales
man:
when did your mother der
The reply finally came with much
stammering and trembling:
, 1916-02-10

cused sprang to his feet. Before his
counsel could restrain him the prisoner
cried Historically. with outstretched
arms:
Your honor, | won't have 1t. l won't
have my little girl dragged into this
case. I've pleaded guilty. I'm willing
to suffer the consequences"
Judge Dinsmore replied calmly:
"Your case is in the hands of your
counsel. Be silent and be seated"
Il don't want counsel. | have no
defense Why don't you sentence me?
Why-why"- he shrieked. He sat
down, sobbinG bitterly. as the judge
banged his gavel.
, 1916-02-10

The prominence of both families con.
cerned, that of the dead man. Gerald
Trask, and that of the defendant. Rob-
ert Strickland, in addition to the SEN
sational circumstances surrounding the
fatal act were responsible for the at
tention paid to the trial by the always
inquisitive public. Strickland. son of a
man long identified with the United
States diplomatic service in important
relations, had won a creditable posi-
ton on his W merits in the upper cir
cles of the life of the city, and Trask
, 1916-02-10

Arbuckle, chief Of the counsel for
Strickland, that the friends of the dead
man had engaged a press agent VINO
had demonstrated noticeable ability in
procuring the printing of stories re-
iecting on Robert Strickland, now on
trial for his life.
False and libelOus though these art
cles were in the mind of Arbuckle
and plainly inspired by malicious me-
tives, he felt assured the time had not
arrived when Strickland could bring
the punitive action he deemed proper.
He was under Indictment for the great
est of crimes except treason, and that
In the eyes of, the law Is premeditated
murder, and not until cleared of that
accusation, II 1t were possible to bring
about such an end, would he have n
opportunity &c press in court what he
considered to be his legal grievances.