The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-05-30

whethcr or not the body OF Mrs.
Kate Mahoney Is ever found. James
T.. Aiahoncy. cI-convict bridegroom
OF the missing wealthy. aged and &c
centric woman. viii be charged with
murder.
we owe II 70 the publie,- said
Capt OF Detectives Charles f. Ten.
nant today. ''to lay our case before
a jury II It can be done.
IF a jury hears our evidence. I
have no doubt OF the outcome. But
whether the Judge win allow us to
present our case unless We find the
body Is another matter.
KNOW BODY WAS
PUT INTO TRUNK
That's why we're hunting for the
body now. We know Mrs. Mahoney
was murdered We know her body
was put In the trunk we're hunting
for. We know the trunk was put in
TO rowboat by James +. Mahoney
and rowed out into Lake Cnian.
NO: I'm not betting the trunk Is
In Lake Union. I'm betting It's In
the water.
There are several bodies Of water
connecting with Lake Union. But II
Id been the fellow rowing that boat.
1 wouldn't have gone far before l
dropped the trunk overheard. That's
why we're searching the bake bottom
at the point where we ara
That diver will find that trunk
He's going TO keep on working TIL
he does find IL We've got to find
It, or be able TO show IL was de-
stroyed. before wc can be certain
that the evidence we've already
gathered win get past the judge and
so TO the jury.
That's the rule Of corpus deficit
produce the body or show proof that
II has been destroyed Our theory
Is that IL has not been destroyed.
but Is In that trunk"
MRS. j. J. BARNES
FOUND IN LOS ANGELES
The Stars Los Angeles bureau to-
day located Mrs. J. J. Barnes, per
sonal friend OF Frank Morris, In.
former against Mahoney. Mrs.
Barnes was said to have disappeared
the same day, or about the same day,
as Mrs. Mahoney.
Interviewed at the home of rela-
tives. 327 East Ocean ave. Long
Beach. Cal, Mrs. Barnes declared
she did not know Mrs. Mahoney. but
admitted being a close friend OF
Morris.
Poor business conditions in Seattle
and family connections in Los An
geles were the reasons for her lcav-
ing Seattle on February IS. Mrs.
Barnes said. She claims Los An
geles Is her home. and that she has
been In or near that city ever since
she left Seattle.
''If she says she left Seattle Feb
ruary 2s." Capt. Tcnnant comment.
ed. she's telling an untruth."
According to Mrs. Barnes ac-
uuaintances here, she did not leave
Seattle until April 16. tho night on
which Mrs. Mahoney was last seen.
NEVER SEEN AT
HOTEL IN ST PAUL
A dispatch from St Paul TO The
Star today said Mrs. Mahoney was
never seen at the st. Francis hotel.
that city. and that St Paul police be.
lieve she was disposed Of before Ma
honey came here.
The cash express orders drawn In
Mrs. Mahoney's name at the Nation
al Exchange bank. in st. Paul. April
%. have been found by the st. Paul
police. tho dispatch said.
It was reported that the police
here have discovered that Mahoney.
Just before his wife's disappearance.
had purchased six pounds OF quick
lime. a substance which, mixed with
water, will completely destroy a hu,
man body in short time.
Tennant said today he knew moth
ing OF any such discovery.
Asked II he had located the con-
veyance in which the mystery trunk
was hauled to the lake shore and the
expressman who handled II. he re-
piled that he had not intimated the
trunk was handled by an express.
man. In regard to the conveyance,
he asked, "Do you mean are the po-
lice holding that as evidence?' Then
he shook his head.
Reports published that n woman
living across the alley from Mrs. Ma
honey's apartment, 400 Denny way.
had heard groans and means on Sat
urday night. April 10. were investi-
gated by The Star today and could