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The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

day telling Of the brutal treatment
OF veteran at Stciiaeoom hospital
as told by the young mans mother.
SAYS PRESIDENT
Is AROUSED
With this he enclosed q letter TO
the president stating that this was
dot tho first instance of such bru.
tally on the part OF attendants at
the institution directed against dis.
abied American veterans.
Veterans are now obliged he
wrote tho president ito submit to
cruelty practiced by these bully at.
tendants. and don't dare breathe a
word TO the outside for fear OF pun
ishmcnt.-
Brigadler General Charles r. Saw.
yer. the presidents personal physi-
clan and member of the national
capitalization committee: DR.. WI.
liam Charles White. also member
OF tho commission: Secretary OF the
Treasury Mellon: Col Charles II
Forbes. OF the bureau OF war risk
insurance. and others have been In
formed Of conditions at Steiiacoom.
DIR. Grantvedt said.
Tho prvssidrue rvplied - my
letter saying he h drcply inter.
cstr<i In the welfare Of Disabled
eoldirrx and sailors md WIS
bringing the matter ccutained In
my letter 20 the aftcntinn Of
the SECRETARY Of tic trvamwy,-
said the doctor.
IAN that II needed Il for Score.
tory Mellon 20 put his signature TO
an order permitting the federal
building ut Port Townsend to be
transformed into a hospital
The class Of exscrvice men now
In SteIlacoom should never be con.
fined IN an insane hospital Long
treatment OF the kind they get there
would drive them insane What
they need Il quiet, rcstful surround
ings and proper feeding.
They should be In charge Of
competent sympathetic men. prrf.
erably men who are themselves
disabled veterans.
The abusive treatment our com
rades are receiving has compelled
US to organize for their relief. We're
not going 10 stand for any moro do
lay. or withdrawing.
AFTER gorno OF thess whitevash-
ing Investigations accompanied .
committee to the insane hospital for
the purpose Of making q real proba
They wouldn't admit IN wouldn't let
US IN.
we want n definitely understood
we're not playing poiitacA nor look
ing for son jobs for . lot Of 20
litical plum pickerA We just want
to get our boys out Of that place
into the surroundings they deserve.
and that's what we're going to do
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16
Alleged Gold Watch
Swindlers Arrested

Edward Nelson. SO. and Leo
Brooks. 40. arrested at Maynard
ave. and Weller st Thursday. have
been identified by victims as the
men who have been swindling Sc
attic men for the past week with a
scheme that outdoes the old shell
game.-
According 10 the victims. one OF
the pair would come rushing up to
a man with a long tale OF n sick
wife who had TO go TO the hospital.
offering him a gold" watch and a
ring for security on ;25 loan.
Four victims have reported to the
police.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

The "unscrambling'' OF the rail.
roads IN In sight
This is the mcssage that Howard
Elliott. chairman OF the board OF d.
rectors OF the Northern Pacific rail.
way. brought to Seattle Friday even.
Ing, when he was the guest OF honor
OF the traffic bureau OF the Chamber
OF Commerce at n suppcr>at the New
Washington
Elliott declared President Harding
In directing every effort toward the
solution OF the country's transporta.
ton problems.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

what II . vacation without cam.
eraf
Everybody ifkes to get out the old
kodak book and look back into the
good old vocation days. wherv are
you gplng 10 spend your holidays
this yearl There are 10 many beau
tifui places In tho stai. OF washing.
ton--and what delightful back.
grounds they furnish for vacation
snaps"
T1sa Star Il offering SIS In
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16
Celebrated Singer
Continues at Park

Crowds nj Aiki Beach park during
the week have Indicated such appre-
citation OF the entertainment furnish
ed by w. II Holland. celebrated bari
tone and pianist. that he VIII con-
tinue his performances there. accord
ing to y. II Campbell. park conces-
sionnire. who engaged him The en-
ter,ainer win be present daily from
/. noon 20 8 .. m Hc win lie as
sisted Sundays and on other days
by the johnson Jazz orchestra
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

oh, Kids! Hurry for
Swimming Glasses !!

"Wednesday Of ncxt wcck win
be the last day upon which So
attic Riddles can register for the
city's free swimming classes, In.
struetor Ernie Wells announced
Saturday.
THE work Il advancing too
rapidly 90 hold back amy later
than Wednesday for tardy stu
dents" Wells said
Next week tho classes viii
learn the breast stroke. aItbo
they will continue TO practice
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

1hio , IL as9smdlne stsry q
whae happensd ln Ward No. 3. -
IT, Wsahington state hospital
- a,e insane. 1t 6trilaeoom, Last
April.
IL was rotated b. an eyewit
ness, Robert O'Shca, then . pa-
TENT IN No. .. and was told 70
Harry Johnston, . Tacoma law
yer. . man essply Interested in
bee.Aring conditions u the hos-
piGal.
O'shea was sent to the hospital In
April. and spent eight days in No. ..
He was then transferred to Ward
No. and allowed the liberty of the
hospital grounds.
NOT INSANE, HE SAYS,
WHEN COMMITTED
He was not insane, he says. when
committed. fact which was recog.
nized soon after his arrival. Other
wise, he reasons. he would not have
been given the freedom OF the
grounds and permitted to come and
go at win
At his trial in a Pierce county
court. he demanded that his case be
heard by a jury. This was refused
He has learned since that he was en-
titled TO jury trial as a matter Of
right.
He asked permission Of the court
to have a friend sent for who would
testify In his behalf This. too. was
denied.
These facts, az told by O'gfea and
sworn to by him. as was the nara
tive that follows. were set down by
Attorney Johnston and Transcribed
Into an affidavit which bears his no
eArial seal and signature.
This Is what O'Shea says upon
eth he saw In No. O.:
SAID NAILS IN
SLIPPERS HURT FEET
A patient named Nelson, during
the rest hour. took off his slippers
and went to the closet. where he got
his shoes. claiming that the nails In
his slippers hurt his feet
Mrs. Mass, who In one of the Mt.
tendants In that ward, along with
her husband. called her husband
attention to this. and Mass went over
to Nelson. who was standing by the
window In the day hall looking out,
and said:
Take off those shoesr'
He said this to Nelson two or
three timer so quickly that Mel
son did not have time to respond
before Mass grabbed him by the
hack Of the neck, and, choking
him, forced him 10 the floor.
He held Nelson 10 the floor,
choking him, until he finally re-
leased his hold and said TO him:
.Now, will you take off those
shoes?"
Nelson sputtered out, YES"
and at the same time, putting
his hand 70 his bleeding mouth.
tO0Is out two teeth which had
been knocked out Of his jaw dur
Ing the scuffIe.
Up to the time Of the attack upon
him. Nelson had been quiet and In
Gk6nuntvey causins no trouble, except
i
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

produce wen IN a Newspaper cut
Pictures taken last summer VII
DO ao-~ptod.
For the bcst vacation snapshot
printed In The Star a cash prixe oi
SIS yin 30 given.
For the two merit best. cash prizes
Of IS each win be awarded
LIT 'er 80. folks. You know the
old billboard sign: Kodak as you
CO.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

the national capital was call
ed to the matter thru CORE
spondcnce by DIR. II. +. Grant
vedt, member of the hospitali-
xation committee and chair
man of the legislative COM
mittec of Seattle Chapter No,
2, Disabled American Veter-
ans Of the World War, with
offices in the Joshua Green
building here.
The Seattle chapter. thru DR.
Crantvedt and other COMMITTEES
members, has taken up with Presi.
dent Harding the prospect OF hav-
Ing war sufferers taken from the
insane hospital and placed In the
now vacant federal building In Port
Townsend which they hope TO equip
a. . hospital.
Himself q disabled veteran. not
yet a month oct Of q hospital. DIR.
.GrAntvedt has taken keen interest
IN tue HNA8AN u I<t ava Atfa <tta-
rades ut Steiisccom.
He today mailed letters TO other
stats chapters Of the organization.
an excerpt from which follows:
wed ike you fellows to punt
with US and put over this PROPOSE
ton for the federal building at Port
Townsend for these poor fellows
who are deserving OF better treat.
ment than they are getting
We are heart and soul IN this
thing and won't rest tin we get
action from Washington. We've
waited long enough for the Legion
70 get busy and get something done
In the matter.
SICK or DIII.Y-DAll.Y
AND wHITEwAsH
Were sick Of the whitewashing
affAirv when investigations and In
specttons are made Get this-we
are not playing politics. to get some
thing for this place or that. or any
TAT tobs FOE somebody.
What ~ want Il that the fellows
n ~ steiIacoom get . square deal
and we're going to see that they do.
We don't believe In = grand. big,
new hospital that win be ready
three or four years from now. II
politics VIII let II and costing .
million or two, for this or that
plaza and In the meantime our
buddies die Off or. worse yet get
Killed Off.
we want & nov. the bes1 place
poesibla where v1y little changes
need b mada. that ne can get those
boys into In . month or two. with
= new. clean bunch Of men to run
Il Who have . heart
Dr.. Crantvedt sent 10 President
Harding on July . clipping from
The Stars editions Of the previous
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

Every lady who comes TO the city
for the nth annual convention of
the Washington State Elks' associa-
ton next Thursday. Friday and Sat.
uriay will wear n corsage bouquet.
the Gift OF tho local Brother Bills.
according TO plans formulated Sat
uriay.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

cash for tse bat VACATION snap
slsos tiAs summew.
Here arc the requirements
They must be outing pictures. with
lots OF action. they must depict an
interesting story-any sort OF vans.
ton fun For Instance. flying. boat
in.. swimming. mountain climbing.
motoring.
Pictures must be clear. emphatic.
ally black and white. 40 thcy will re
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16
Assert Medical Men
Can't Feed Animals

Medical men should be denied the
privilege OF passing on the quality
Of animal foods. both meat and dairy.
for human consumption. according
to the resolution passed by the
Washington. Oregon and British Co.
iumbin Veterinary associations Fri.
day evening. when they brought
their two-day convention here TO a
close. NEEDLES. they said. are not
trained to pass on the animal foods
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16
Says Asylum Patient
Was Brutally Clicked

that ons day he asked the attendant
and the doctor To telephone his wife,
which request was refused
COMPLAINT FAILS TO
CAUSE ATTENDANTS REMOVAL
Nelson complained to Dr. Stewart
OF this assault and showed him the
teeth. The doctor had him transfer.
red TO Ward No. II. but Mass con-
unued TO hold down his job and ID
stiii one OF the attendants.
Mass had Nelson put in a strnight-
Jacket after losing his teeth. and he
was kept 30 strapped until the NEXT
day. Nelson made no struggle after
being assaulted.
Il consider" says o'shca, "that the
attack was a brutal one, wholly I'M
justified by any circumstance. and
that Mass Is unit to be In charge Of
patients.
Il VIVA DISCHARGED rum the In
sltutton on the 8th day Of July.
found tho food served the Pc
tionts not III for a dog.
we were served oatmeal for
breakfast. frequently lumpy and
doughty and unfit 20 eat We were
never given whole milk. nothing but
SKINNED milk, and. sometimes. no
milk with our meals. a cupful at the
most Occasionally we had syrup
with our morning neal
For dinner we had stew. We
were lucky II we found any meat In
the stew.
For supper we were gfven corn
meal. and with II. sometimes. beans.
and sometimes rice. The rice, beans,
meal and stew were all poorly
cooked. unpalatablc. and there was
no seasoning, 80 that the food tasted
alike from day 10 day.
sAMENESS OF FOOD
PALS On PATIENTS
This was the regular fare every
day, except Friday. when we had
fish. sometimes salt and sometimes
fresh. The food, being the same all
the time. palled on ones stomach.
I'm the evenings we we're given.
sotnetnes, dried fruit, dried figs, APP
pies or peaches, but these were
stewed without sugar. In the morn.
inss and evenings we were given one
dessert spoonful Of sugar, which had
to do for our coffee and our mush.
Yesterday l saw butter on the IN.
bic for the first time. altho they may
have had butter on the Fourth of
July. when was away on parole.
We were given a sauccrfui OF
strawberries four times during the
strawberry season.
"Whas ] complain Of 1. tho
sameness Of the food, the care
lessness with which Il n cooked.
the failure TO provide milk and
the lack Of seasoning.
after the meals. presumably
for show purposes, the tables
were all dressed up with white
tabioclotbs, napkins, water
glasses, sugar bowls and flowers.
These were removed before
mealA.~
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16
PRESIDENT TOLD
Of BRUTALITIES
May Convert Port Townsend Federal
Building Into Hospital

President Harding has been appraised in full Of the brutal
treatment of patients at the Western Washington Hospital
Insane Seacoom and has taken steps towards the
removal of 7s disabled and sheshocked world veterans
now confined there, it was learned today.
The attention of president and other high officials
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

CASTLE ROCK.--Rudolph Finkas
saves life. but has arm broken In
accident at Inman-Poulsnn lumber
camp.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

WALI.A WAIL.A. 49, Meteor be-
lieved 10 have started fire that
destroys barn on w. J. Marum
farm
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

FUNERAL. SERVICES for Mary
J. Soash. 4io3 Andovcr st.. to be
held $50 a. m. Sunday at Bonney.
Watson's.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

Mrs. Charles A. Briggs, OF
Tacoma, pho piH take the
role of Miss Columbia" in
"The Woyfarer" Els night,
Saturday. July 20. Mrs.
Briggs is the wife of Charles
A. Briggs, manager Of the
Tacoma branch of Foster C
KIciser Co.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16

| the dead mas float and the
dog1paddleL
There arc no classes on Sun
day.
FRANK y. BERRY, veteran Of
civil war. died Friday at North
Arson. Maine. He was former
Seattle resident
ODD FELLOWS BAND 10 give
concert Mt Woodland park. 1l:3o
a. m. Sunday.
The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-07-16
DIR. FRANK PIETRPONT

GittNES, former president Uni
varsity OF Washington. appointed
commissioned Of education. New
York. ana president New York uni
ysrsity.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-13
Mandanlus
 Ready For
 FiireBoard
Cullinan Prepares for Action Following Demotions
 By Dave

Thomas M. Cullinan, attorney fol Elmer V. Fitzgerald, who was demot. ed as lieutenant in the Fire Depart ment, presented an alternative writ Of mandamuS to States Attorney Homer S. Cummings Tor his signature today.
 The states attorney affixed his sig nature During the day Judge Keeler will be asked to fix a day for the return of the writ.
 The action is entitled the State of Connecticut, eX rel Elmer V, Fitz- gerald against Samuel Dave, Mich ael Noonan, John H. F'innegan and John H. Cassidy, fire commissioners of the city of Bridgeport and Clifford 5. Wilson, ex-officio president of the board
 The defendants are ordered to re- store Lieut. Fitzgerald to his old grade or to show cause why they do not.
 The complaint alleges that Fitz- gerald was a duly appointed lieuten- ant in the Fire Department and that the defendants removed him from that position without cause and with out a hearing.
 It is further claimed that accord ing to the charter of the city, neither a fireman or policeman can be re- duced or discharged unless on charges and after a hearing and then only with the concurrent vote of three members of the board besides the vote of the mayor.
 It is further alleged that Fitzgerald was denoted by the vote of c1lly two commissioners, Dave and Noonar, and that the demotion was illegal with Mayor Wilson dissolving the tie.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-13
LOSES TEETH IN
 FIGHT

fingered because his wife insisted in snatchfng the covers from his bed, Theodore Lewis, co1ored, of 379 Cole man street started a lot of trouble for himself last night when he slapped the woman in the face.
 Mrs Lewis retired to the kitchen. an dbegan to make things warm for friend husband, who had followed her out Of the bedroom. Tearing a couple or ire bricks from the stove, she pro- pelled them in his direction and then let fly with the coffee pot, the tea pot and a flatiron.
 Lewis succeeded in lodging most of the barrage, but could not escape from a shower of hot water which poured from the tea and coffee pots lie countered with a right to the mouth which knocked out three of the woman's teeth, and then wound up the battle by banging her head against a door.
 n the City court today Mrs Lewis displayed one of the teeth which had been Jarred loose. Lewis was sen fenced to five days in jail
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-13

move from their seats for fear the1 would miss the knocking on the dool or the Jury room which would mear to the deputy on guard that they were ready to come in.
 They Weren't Nervous.
 A crowd that laughed and talked ana Jostled each other in an attempt to convince themselves that they were not nervous. It was just 1O:03 when that hrst knock came. The deputy quickly summoned Sheriff Simeon Tease, who went to the door, opened It it, a trlfie and heard the whispered
 we are ready" from the foreman, The sheriff went for the judge. Ii was 15 minutes before he came in and took his place on the bench.
 The crowd was seething with ex- cltement and subdued whisperings Newspaper men and women sat with pencils poised ready to insert in the already written ''flashes'' the Hateful word. Messenger boys stood on tip toe, arms outstretched, eager to grasp the waiting message and speed to the wires with the news Of the guilt or innocence of Elwood Wade
 A woman sat back of the clerk desk, handkerchief to her eyes crying sottiy. Other women sat with strained faces leaning forward until people in front of them Too bad now if they were to miss any part of the final act. For years they will tell of it with relish.
 Guilty Of murder in the first de- gree"
 Back of the clerks desk the woman gave a Gasping cry and huddled in her seat. The sheriff waved his arm ana the crowd became quiet And then through the crowd there swept Q one convulslve groaning sigh as if all uad taken deep breath at once. After thdt sllence-silence so deep that it was like the quiet of the tomb.
 Wade's Color Fades.
 The prisoner stood stock still until a deputy reached up and pulled him down to his chair. Aside from that ne never finched. For a moment the for a moment
 A messenger boy stopping low to escape the notice of q deputy crawled the door into the corridor ana s, ms ringing footsteps as he raced through the corridor hurried to an eXpectant world of readers the mes sage that once again the law had taken it's toll of those who defv its commandments
 And then came the thing I had wondered about Not for one second had I taken my eyes from the father standing there absolutely alone So intent on the boy were the peopIe of the mob, that they had no eyes for a h"IhST oelHS cruc1Hed. He had sat rigid through all the ploceedings Now his eyes closed. His head SWAY ed from side to side and as I reached nm Simeon Pease was a step ahead of me.
 Reaches His Limits.
 It was the end. Human endurance mas Its limits and it seemed for FL pert Wade that the end Of the world mad come. The big man who seems always to have his eye just where he IS gong to be needed eased the crush ed hsure into his chair. That splen- dld little woman who is always there with her ministering aid, Julia Moran Of the Catholic Charitable Aid society. gave what comfort she could and deputies roughly hustled the gapers from the room.
 In the chair alone sat this man. His wife was not there to give him her comfort for she was al home sit ting dry-eyed, burning. waiting for the dread Tnessa ge.
 Elwood Wade left the room and
 (Continued on Page Six.)
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-13
wADE SNEERS TO END AS
 HE GOES TO STATE PRISON
WADE TRIAL HEROINE
 FAITHFUL TO LAST

In all the slime, tho muck, the viciousness and wanton brutality of the Mott murder, there is one figure that stands out like a statue of purest gold.
 We have reference to Mrs. Mary Wade, the seIf-sacrificins wife who stuck by her husband, confessed slayer of his paramour's husband. until the jury condemned him to ieath by the hang1nan's moose.
 F-"i;ahEy no greater study in com trasts in actual life has ever been afforded than that between Mrs. Wade and her husband, and between Mrs. Wade and the widow for whom Wade jcopardized his life.
 The Mott murder case will he lonr remembered. But it will be princi- paIly remembered because of the he roism of Mrs. Mary Wade. the vvom-
 with the heart of gold.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-13
Hart Makes
 Big Gain In
 Movie Vote
Popular Westerner Features Third Day of Times Pop
 ularity Contest

There was a distinct atmosphere ot enthusiasm in the Poli theatre, yes terday, when the third day of voting began There was a large increase flee of The Times.
 Norma Talmadge increased her lead for first place among the women stars Charles Ray kept his position liam $. Hart made Q big jump into second place.
 One man, with more grimness than humor. cast his vote fo- Mrs. Nott'' and 'Bo Rooney" which showed his preference for the tragedy of real life.
 Eugene O'Brien received many votes, but did not maintain his posi- uon in second place. He fell back to fourth place Dorothy Gish was succeeded in second place by Mary Pickford. whose supporters came to her aid with a large number of votes.
 The recent matrimonial venture of Mary and Doug Fairbanks has not times during the contest the voters nave erased their names from the ballot, in addition to voting for other stars. In a number of cases people who cast their ballots have openly proclaimed the reason why they are voting against the former favoriteS
 The fourth day of the voting began with a Goodly showing of interest. Ihe nracJce or giving a pass to the PoG show. good for two persons will be continued. Every hundredth per son votinS~will get a pass. Those who received passes yesterday were very appreciative- Today. in addition to the passes. a S5 bill will be given to the certain person who votes at a cer- tain point That point will be the thousandth vote or beyond. The per son casting the vote. the number of which has been selected in advance by Manager Mat Saunders of Polls. will be noted on the screen tonight.
 Continued on page
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1921-01-13
She DeserUes H!

Chicago Jan. 13-Mrs. Catber- inc Reilly ODonnell. who three times kept John O'DonneH of Iogansport. Ind, and his we'd ding guests ''waiting at the church" only to reveaI later that the couple were already married and the church weddings lad been planned for camaufIace- wants a divorce today because she says her husband bit her.
 Every time I saw him he bit me-, Mrs. O'DonneII declared 'I never did love him anyway. He was 50 and I'm 20 but my mother thought he was wealthy and in slsted marry him. It turned out he did not even have n,oney.,'
 Judge Lewis has indicated ha will grant the divorce.