The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-01-25


while the funeral cortege containing
recently murdered policemen moved
slowly and impressively by.
with barred heads the crowd on
both sides OF the avenue stood mo
tionless and sad as the three flower
laden hearses passed. and as the car
riages followed carrying the weep
ing relatives and friends OF the three
slain men.
PROCESSION Is MORE
THAN a MILE LONG
The procession was more than =
mile in length. With measured
tread. TO the soft. slow music of the
police band. the marchers. the pail
bearers. the brother officers. the nc,
quaintances. the many friends and
sympathizers OF the dead, afoot and
IN conveyances. filled the avenue the
whole length OF the line OF march.
Far up the hin above the process
sion lowered the great gray edific0
, where the murderer. John Schmitt. is
held for trial. From the window OF
his cell he might have seen the last
march Of his victims IL he had cared
Long before the appointed hour for
the funeral procession to start. 80.
crowds began to gather on the
streets where the hearses were to
| pass and in the plaza under police
| headquarters, where the head Of the
column formed
NO SMILES OR JTcsrS
IN GREAT THROSG
There was neither smile nor Jest
| when acquajntances met, not in all
| the vast throng. but sober recogni-
| ton. sober faces and sober comment
The hearses OF the two dead pa
trolmen, w. T. Angle and Neil ~. Nc
MILAN, drew up at 1915 beside the
curb near Fourth ave. and Yesler
way. A platoon OF firemen flanked
them on one side. and on the other
platoon Of police.
A detachment OF overseas veterans
from Roosevelt post Veterans OF
Foreign Wars. arrived. wearing
| trench helmets and carrying rifles.
| and swung in behind the hearse OF
the latest one to die. Mcmillan.
CROWD GROWS
AS 1T WAITS
While they waited silently for the
| arrival OF the body of Detective Jim
/ my o'Brien from Hillman City,
where funeral services were held
earlier. the throng grew until il
filled streets and plaza.
UP in the windows OF the city ian.
over police headquarters, with
strained faces. women prisoners
looked down and shouted questions
to policemen in the street below.
When they learned what the occa.
sion was they quietly withdrew.
At 1f:30 the hearse with the casket
OF O'Brien rolled into view. Accom-.
panying II in a black limousine were
his mourning family. his widow and
| four children, and another auto
bringing his pallbearers from the ser.
vices.
Immediately the signal was given
that the procession start. Motor.
cycle policemen sped ahead and clear.
ed the way to the corner of Second
ave. and Yesler way, A squad q
horse policemen followed.
POLICE DRUMS ROLL
MOURNFUlLY; TEARS COME
The police bands drums rollsA
long aud dolefully as it's members
swung in behind the horsemen and
tears came TO the eyes of hundreds
as the band began the funeral
march.
Two vacant limousines for the pail
bearers OF O'Brien preceded his
hearse. This last was surrounded by
a group of men high in official and
police circles-Mayor Caldwell. Po-
lice Chief Soaring. Captain of Detec-
tives Tenant uniformed police cap
tains and brother detectives
Close beside the hearse, with down.
cast eyes and grim face. walked De-
tective Il. G.. Montgomery. who was
with O'Brien when the bandits bui.
let got him and who had worked at
the side of the dead man for many
years.
| Few cared TO peer into the three
big black limousines that followed
the first casket. These contained
the living victims OF the murderer's
gun-the widows of O'Brien and
Angle, and their fatherless children.
A boys chubby face was pressed
against the window OF one OF the
cabs. He looked out wistfully. as IL
wondering what II was all about.
McMillan's brother from Quebec was
his only relative present.
LONG LINES OF POLICE
AND FIREMEN NEXT
Long lines OF police and firemen
came next, the firing squad, the
Angle hearse. the Mcmillan hearse,
and their pallbearers and police Of
ficers, city officials. Sheriff Star.
wich and his deputies, then the
long. slow-moving line of curtained
autos carrying the wives and fam.
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