The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-10-01

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the body In the trunk was not tbs
body OF little. boyish-shaped Kat'
.Mahoney."
WHISPERS HEARD:
MAHONEN STRETCHES
The crowd In the court room
stirred. Whispers we're heard from
every corner OF the room. Mahoney
stretched his arms and legs ant
yawned.
THE body In the trunk was oniy
slightly decomposed." said Schwcl
lcnbach. and they were able to gel
only their own experts TO say Il had
been In the water several weeks.
"It Is remarkable that Alvin Jor
censor. the expressman. recalls the
trip he made In hauling the trunk
from the Mahoney apartment that
night OF April rs. or all the other
trunks he hauled and all the other
places he went. he remembers moth,
ing. but he recalls that trip dis
tinctiy.-
when did he recall ~, Not until
after he had been talked to by Capt.
Tenant and the detective depart.
ment.
What kind OF a mind has this
man Jorgenson7 II Is the mind OF a
man who. thru the power of sug-
gestion. can be made TO say any.
thing"
THE trunk that Jorgenson hauled
from the Mahoney apartment that
day was trunk filled with liq8xr
that some man had been makips ~ y
one OF Mrs. Mahoney's apaxsyx sc :,
REVIEWS TESTIMONY
REGARDING NIGHTr
Let us turn now M
who testified that.s',;sso -. =, ,a'
New Baker hopf 'ns p"Iv ~ ,n'
night rather ON ,ns IS sa,ur,,a,
Dolly JohnsMrs. Nora Mahoney
ala xa. ~, ION and other wifncsse
.swho ne night OF the party.
d,s \. fs this Gus Johnson WIN,
cpninl register at the Frye hotel a
alto * from Vancouver when. in re
4. ~. he was from Portland7 wh.
:, Sc now registered under the nam
Brown Why Is he practically Il
f,ne custody Of detectives7
II tell you. ladies' and gentleme,
OF the jury. that johnson know
more about the disappearance o
Mrs. Mahoney than he Is willing q
admit.
His actions. TO say the least. hav
been peculiar. He came hero all tn
way from Minnesota 10 protect him
self. He was afraid that he nigh
be dragged into these mnrde
charges That IL why he was viii
ing TO betray his old friend Jim Ma
honey and the woman that for Il
years he had fondly called Mothe
Mahoney.
"A pcrjurcr II bad enough. but
man who would perjure himself d
convict friend OF murder Ia blacke
than Judas Iscariot.
TESTIMONY ON DATE
IS RIDICULOUS
"Johnson's attempt 20 show tina
the New Baker party was not he'll
on the night OF the alleged murde
IL as ridiculous as the statement tina
Mahoney deliberately planned TO hid
his dead wife's body In the depths o
Lake Union.
when srahoney. on wedne-da,
afternoon. went out to Lake Unio
TO make arrangements TO hire a row
boat. he did not try TO conceal hi
Identity OF his real name. Whe
he called up the Seattle Transfe
company to get them to haul
trunk out TO the university he CAV
his own name. James r. Mahoney.
"Tf Jim Mahoney had CAREFUL
and In cold blood planned this mul
der. as the prosecutor contends. q
you think he would have given hi
own name--do you think made a
these arrangements with no attemp
whatsoever at concealment.
DO you think that this wouI
have been the procedure OF a cold
blooded. calculating murderer sue
as the state has tried to max
Mahoney appear,
4 Let US turn now to the power O
attorney which the prosecution say
Mahoney or someone closely COZ
nected with him. forged 80 tina
Mahoney could obtain control owe
his aged brides property.
II don't know who signed tina
power OF attorney. IF we knew W
might know who really Was at tn
bottom Of the plot to murder Kat
Mahoney"
Now we come,- said Schwellei
bach" TO the last phase OF III
testimony Of the prosecution--whs
they say Is the confession Of Jill
Mahoney.
you will remember that Jim wa
arrested on the 22nd Of May. O
the Gath of May. they started dra,
ging the lake. Jim Mahoney wa
In the city jail. He was kept
solitary confinement for sever
days. He was then taken TO I'll
county Jail. Day by day he wa
brought down to Captain Tenant
office and told that II they fcun
body, he'd be taken TO Wal
{ walla and hanged.
/ THEY FOUND BODY
WHERE TENANT SAID
: "Then on August 18th. they four
r body--just where Charles Tennai
said they would.
; "They brought Jim down al
kept him there and talked TO hi
/ 4 fer hours. And what did the
$ pick out Of all that testimon,
J These few sentences that in u
| whole course Of that conversation
he said