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VOLUME 23

Dog on Trial for Murder!

i Hutu, int .\trtiiale charged with the murder of 11 rata, is shown conferring in th hts

lawyer, James F. FSrennan, before going to rourt in San Francisco to fight for his life and

freedom. The death penalty has been asked by one of the cat owners who brought the

charges. I ■

Jiome firew

Ilowdy, folk*! How are >« |

chilblains? #

* * *

Look* like we are going to hi,

a "white" Chrlatnuj thl* year. To

Dad It took* !ik* a "»!»•* Chftn*-

BMW.

• • •

Thl* I* Keep, the Home Klrea Bum

log week.

I• • *

TAi* marks the grave ot t'-rra Mai**.

WTto Mid he had no uf for chams;

An iry nnd—a fearfui tk*l.

And earth of one wore chump tea'

rid •

• • •

What ha* become of the old fash

lon-1 young man who went to the

country dance and "atayed for the

fight afterward*"?

• • •

OK A MKXICAN Jl MI'INt. BKANT

Mayor Caldwrll i« to be the

recipient ttjl behalf of the city of

a I'eratian m<-dal l« a I'eru

vian medal anything like a

Brazilian nut 7

• * •

"The Beggar - * Opera" I* coming

to the Metropolitan Christmas week

Even our mu*ical comedle* are mlr

roring the unemployment situation,

e • •

Lll' Oee Oee. th' Office Vamp, d*

ckled laat week not to give her

sweetie a book for Christmas because

*he heard somewhere that he got a

book for Chrlatma* laat year.

Now that the S-eent far# oMtinstvra baa

t»»«i killed. the people will '«>n*l«»sr the

Mrirkifin J-cent Initiative petition and the

proposition to ref#r to the i»"«pl* th*

qoe.tion of pari"* for ••»* railway oat of

taxation. Where'a th* *uy that thought

»• could keep the street care oot of

politic*?

• t •

Wl*h they would hurry up with

that new Htar serial, "The Bnow*ho*

Trail." It sound* like seasonal read

Ing.

• • •

Firnt it rained, then it *»rtr.

Then it frit and thrn it blrir,

Then the tun cam* out again.

And if rained and friz and *nevo

again. —Blackie.

• * •

Burbank Is the only honest grafter

iwe ever heard about

•• • /

K— M

' West Heattie man h<is Invented

I a tide motor to run on water

i power. We've been running

! that way for a long, long time. !

X M

• • #

Ml' (<«• life, Ih (ittire Vamp,

net |<fifw ltal»«* litiffi hh»fi

I►;»!>♦* wan a %hop.,irl at Il»f Hon

March*;.

• • •

"Wanhlfiffton leadff all th« oth'T

in trout hr* * "

f>p, they're no «I;irn i>ollt#j they

won't * ven g:obbla bait.

• • •

Woman writ*-* to Th#- Ht ir. raving

rfnrn to l'af<* 10. f oluinn I)

Do you realize —

That every time each

American spends $"0 we

ha\» jointly created a

market for our own goods

••qual to our total foreign

trade?

Head "Amateur Econ

omist's" article on the

editorial page today.

WEATHER

TunitfM 'iHd TAnrottiy. rain;

rmtfrly m tftil.v.

IYm|»ralur« IMt llmm

Maximum lit Miiilitiiim, 10,

nm% n. 10

Airedale Faces Jury and Death Cage

Today in San Francisco for

v Killing 14 Cats

StSE*fRST OF KIND ON RECORD

H\\ tKI.MIMO. Iler. tl.—

IKwmkr, MTntint AlrvAil . fared

the • upreme moment of Ilia life

today. He went to I rial—i» Jury

trial—un a <harge of ratslaugh

ler. re>iillln{ from the death of

Sunbeam and 13 other rata '

An aiibl will bo the defense. Dor-

ml» Isaue.l another lone nUHmrnl

today denying dogmatically and cat*

gorlcally all ot th* chars** again**

him. Dormle aeemrl In egceilent

spirits be fore court opened. He arose

••arty, tnrtiMd on the lawn of hla

home and ate three sausage* for

breakfast.

Airedale fancier* nave come to

Dormw'i reacue.

As a character wltneaa today they

brought forth Howdy, brother of

Laddie, ITesident Harding'* dog.

Kowdy waa the personal bodyguard

of "Mary Ann." I'wului cat, for

month*, they claimed, and when

"Mary Ann" died from entirely natu

ral cauaea, he faated eight day* in

grief. ♦

KIRMTf\HK

Or THE SOKT

The trial will be before a Jury In

Police Judge I ..lie T. lack*' court. It

has attracted wide Intereat and la

said to be th>- first time In Juri«pru

dence that an Airedale haa been tried

for It* life.

Jarne* T Brennan. Oormle'a attor

ney, said he planned to demand that

iKirtnfc bo tried by a Jury of Aire

dale*.

"The law provide* that Jury trial*

be before a Jury of the defendant'*

equal a.'* he saJd.

"I admit that a Jury of equal* I*

nrnwary." countered j»ro*ecutor

Oreutt, ' but J know many an Aire

dale whom I would rank above, and

not below many men.

"Dormie la a renegade, and ahould

be trIM by a Jury t>f the same kind."

A crowd which practically filled

the courtroom waa on hand, expect-

Ing to wltneaa the opening of the

trial. r>ormk» remained in retire

ment. not entering the courtriHjm.

"II" r- venta the attention* of the

morbidly curlou* throng*," hi* attor

ney said. "We Will *l'«r« him and

hi* mother all humiliation po**l

ble."

"Hunbeam" waa a P**mian-Angora,

owned by Mm. W, I>. Inanllff. society

womnn and f-at fancier, who wwot*' to

th" complaint.

Three of "HunbeamV offeprinir

*re «ald 10 have m» t violent deaths

at (he hands of l>ormle, prior to the

playing of the mother. The 10 other*

wpf aweorted cat*.

The death peftalty for Dormle al

reedy hoe been 4em*nded unofficial

lv hut will be repeated by Anwlatant

District Attorn#*)' John Orcutt. who

will perwiertite.

si.Klol SIA I'PKTAHK

I OH TKI \l-

AlU>rn»y .lam*-* K. Brennan Ita*

hern r<taln<d ait d<#en« <• oountfl.

With the pOKxllifr- exception <'f a

c:. > In i/>n'lon. 'thla In Hi" fin"*

tint" a 'l"tf liH"- haled I' l tiiai

with /ill th> eirdrlllahmenta of r*K

iilar court proclure, and, undouhl

.•dly, lh«' firm a jury trlul ha-i

been demand*! j

II rr.rn<'n ab(»)t thru thr peculiar

con/tti uctiuu of u- Han Krujiclaco

The Seattle Star

£al«r«4 M H«(ob4 CISM >U(Ur lUj I. lift, al tb» ru#tofflc« at Wi»h, under th« Act of Angr*** March I, IS7I. P«r T«tr. by ksall. SI to St I

MV tiKNK COHN

On the Issue of Americanism There Can Be No Compromise

onlliuinrt. a hi< h make* dog and

mvt»r ituira the guilt •hen a dog

Ir dtilnrnl dangerous or vicious.

The ntMifr, under thl* law, may

•Map* with a fine, hut not so the

■'."t IP found guilty the dog may

"be turned over to the poumlmaater

to be killed" Ufa imprisonment

twhind a aiucxl* la the only alter

n&tiv*.

In thl* Instance. Raton McMillan,

wealthy automobile dewier and own

er of Dormle. waa charged with a

misdemeanor In owning aurh a do*

He contenda that, having procure!

a license which allow* the dog free

iiom. he cannot be held ranponaihl*

for the dog's antl <at Inatlnct*. He

*ver* further that he did not direct

th* dog to pursue tat*. ami hence

paaae* the mutter directly up to

Dormle.

Dormle. an Airedale of prixe win

ning blood, I* thus a*-cu*ed In a

section of the warrant: "That *aid

dog did bite and kill a I'eraian cat

not then and there treepfiaaing upon

th* paraon or property of aald Mc-

Millan."

S Kit <ll HO ItilOOD

HI (IIIIN

Hence Dormte rome* directly

under the ahadow of th* g&a death

chamber at the city pound.

In the background of th* trial

I* a heated neighborhood ruction,

growing out of the slaying*. For

sum* time I>ormle had lived a

more or lesa uneventful life In the

yard of the handaorne residence of

hi* owner. In an exclufftv* hum'

duttrlct He waa the pet of aeorx*

of neighborly* al youngster*, aho

now are coming lo hi* rescue and

threaten to pack the courtroom u*

a protest Their pennies have been

donated to hi* defen** fund and he

ha* been sent tidbit* and fine

bones during hi* Incarceration.

Ifia «l«*Hth hub firvt

at a mcMlng of n neighborhood or-

Kantxation. McMillan hratfvliy r*.

fitted, Then the court actlcin was

Inatituted and McMillan hlrrd coun-

Th«* dwiuind for a Jury trial

came an a complete fturpriac to the

prosecution, which had roida Ift

witn«****a on hand and had anti< i

pat«*d no Hfich M?riou« pro< •mhJliiica.

LORENZ SORRY

TO MISS CITY

that hln work in Now York

will prevent him from viNitinsc Brat

tle wan fXpr«'**ed In a latter rarelvnl

by Mayor Caldwell Wednesday from

Dr. Adotph Lorens, famous ortho

pe«lic nurgeon.

•'Your kind letter I* a source r»f

gratification to rne," the Vienna

MfW-ntiHt declared, "aw well iw an en

couragement to redouble rny effort*

In behalf of nu/ferlng humanity."

M»yor Caldwell )otne<l The Hl«r in

InvltliiK pr. Lorcnj! to Heattle.

Taxpayers Elated

Over Fare Decision

Office* of eity councitmcn were

flooded Wednesday with tetter* from

bunlneHg men, real estate dealer* and

taxpayer*, congratulating thern on

having defeated ttiQ Scent fare ordi

nance.

SEATTLE, WASH., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1921.

HARDING, HUGHES DISAGREE!

DISPUTE

JAPAN'S

STATUS

President Says

Protection of

Nippon Is Not

Treaty Clause

lit RAYMOND CI.MTi:R

W UIIIMiTON, itrr. S|.—

Fre«bJ«-nt Harding will be ur(rd

I>> rvfitifcl trail to ap

prove a riwinllim la the four

power I'artflr making II

clear lltat llw I iiilx) suin h

not bound by Uw pact to »i

guard (hi- territorial Intetrlly of

Japan.

Thm-r »m Intimation* today

In adm I nUt ration ■ln lr» In Ilia

aenale lltat Harding micht him

wll »u*c<*»t thai fvrraJlnn

when he »übmHa (he In-aly, and

Uiua lr«n mil lite dlfllrtilty

rnuwd by hi» difference of opin

ion wllli llie Ait|rrk«ii delegation

on Ihla point,

Kjtilft. atlnn of the tonr power

| treaty bmun* Mrtoaily endnnffared

•oday with official dl»< fowura of tha

j fact tbat Praaident Itprdln* la al

odda with H«rretary Hughe* and olh

ler armament delegate* ovrr tha

I meaning of the pa< t.

tlurhea and other conference dele

gate. have ajrrre.i that th» treaty In

clude* Japan proper in the territory

whlrh the four alffnatortea iim to

aafeiruard.

Hardin* fitly with thin

view, h<v<tir>ff thtt only Inland pommw

won* of th« pow*>rn «r* Hut

he announce officially that he I*

wlllln* to li»l ih» lluffhfo construc

tion trtanr! for official purpose*.

Furthermore. ha announced he will

not permit hi* difference with

Hughe* over th* meaning of the

treaty emlw»rrr»** the conference or

ratification tn the «*nat*.

At the White House (t W*a Indlcat

Prwlilpnl llnrtllni'i present

tlon In not to attempt to forre tha

pact thru the senate. becauae nf hi*

disagreement with the American del

egate* A* to It* meaning. but to Imm

that to Swrfhrf llugha* arid Sena

tor Underwood.

Meanwhile. .Senator I torn h la da

mandlng that the irmly )«* r»wrl|.

lan. an an to leave no doubt p a to Ita

manning.

"There 1« no proper reaaon," ha

a»ld. "whylhe language of the treaty

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MORE RIDING

ON TROLLEYS

Indicating a great Increase In In

dustrial activity in the Houlh Knd.

O. W. Ilenderaon. *uperlntendent of

transportation. announced Wiilnra

day lhat 6.670 more pwiplp d.iily rode

on the alreet <.tr* In November than

In September of thta year.

'The In'Teiiae of pKaaenger traffic

la especially noticeable In the Indue

trial dl*trlcl." Ilrnderaon Mid, "allho

the lnrrca.se point* to a quick return

to prc>*|>erlly everywhere In I he city."

More than 8.300.431 pay pnawnscra

rode fin the mri in Novmbir, bring*

In* In a mfnuf of $814,248.

SHOOTS THREE

WOMEN, SELF

I'll If ..A I >KIJ*H!A« Dec. 21.—Cor.

neliua ('off ahot to dttth Mra. Min

nie Warrington and Mra. Italia

Drake, wounded another woman and

then killed lilmaelf in u rooming

houae hero today.

Mra. Ajrnea Horrell, the woman

wounded, may die. *

C. Attle

You Know Him?

I» your < urcl <• * s

wlirrr he ilropa burnt mitUlirn

mill ii-fn-*. from lilk pipe?

('. Allln is. Anil Mr*. AlUfl

diwmi't 11.

Ilur* your liii«linml wear an

fiprnu t i.-il iiroil ml hi* link

wlu-ll In- H'ipi'K tin? illshrs?

('. A lllr doi'H. Mra. Altln

Itinkm lilni. •

Tixltiy, fur I hi" first tlini", on

PIIKI' II of Till" .Sl»r, you II find

r. AITI.K AMI WIM;

llnviin; mi argument In llii'lr

ItiUlll'll.

Finish the Job!

THE four-power Pacific agreement marks a

decided step toward world peace; the limita

tion of armaments, scrapping of battleships

and stopping the mad building of war ma

chines makes war less probable, less attractive.

BUT—

War between the United States and Japan will

be a constant threat until the Japanese aggression

on the Pacific Coast is halted. This is the real war

MENACE. And year by year, as the brown hordes

increase—and increase they do THIS MENACE

GROWS AND GROWS.

Tl HE Pacific Coast states know this DANGER.

They see it face to face. They meet it day

after day. In country or in city the ominous

threat is lurking. IT IS THE BIGGEST

POTENTIAL WAR BREEDER.

While approving heartily the epoch-making ac

complishments of the Washington conference, The

Star feels that these accomplishments will prove

only half-way measures unless this problem on

the Pacific Coast is SETTLED—SETTLED SENSI

BLY, EFFECTIVELY, PERMANENTLY - SET

TLED IN SPECIFIC TERMS. Until this is done

war remains an imminent probability, and event

ual certainty.

Let the Washington conference finish its job!

SUN VAT SEN'S

WIFE KIDNAPED

Chinese Outlaws Arc Hunted

by Troops

BHANOHAI. Dec. !t—Oovern

merit troops today were reported on

the trail of luindlU who captured

Mudatne Bun Yat Hen. wife of the

president of South China.

lilapatchen receive*! here xtatcd

the lundltn were making their wny

toward Kwel IJn. ciipital of the

province of Kwangal, 335 mllea

northweat of Canton.

OIL PROVES

TOO STRONG

NKW YORK, I>ee. 21. Revenue

men *aw aome Renta on an oil tanker

"pretty well oiled up." They anlffed

the air and followed their noaea to

27.500 • gallona of 190-proof alcohol

hidden In 38 oil druma.

Out in the Forest—Blind!

"His hnn<l groped for a match. In his eagerness it

broke off in his fingers as he tried to strike it. But

soon he found another.

"Ho heard it crack in the silence, but evidently it was

a dud! The darkness before his eyes remained un

broken.

"Filled with a sick fear, ho removed his glove and

passed his hand over the upheld match. There was no

longer a possibility for doubt. The tiny flame smarted

his flesh.

"'Blind!' he cried. 'Out here in the snow and the

forest—blind!'"

What did he do?

You may find out by reading "The Snowshoe Trail,"

soon to be published serially in The Star. The above

is just one of many exciting passages in the story.

GIRL TRAPS

BANDIT GANG

Leads Posse of Men in Pur

suit of Outlaws

FLORA, 111. Dec. ll—Mlaa Mil

dred Kelly, rifle In hand, kept vigil

during the cold night to prevent

< »cape of bandit* aurrounded In

wood* Keven mllea from here.

Miai Kelly, employe of the atute

bank of luka, which was robbed

of tisnoo ycftvrday, led the posse.

IlliKKlhounda will be Kent thru the

forest today aftrr the bandit*.

California Is Now

Pacific Flagship

SAN PKDRO, IH e. 21—The Call

fornia, the new anperdreadnouKht. In

today the flngahip of the Pacific

fleet, following the transferring of

the flair of Admiral R W. Eberle,

commandor In-chief, from the New

Mexico Tuesday.

HOME

EDITION

; SAYS SOLDIER

WAS MURDERED

Witness Recounts Death of

Private

nv FIIASKK HOWARDS

WASHINGTON, I**.. Sl.—Alleged

brutality In the army and the killing

of a soldier In this country were

d«*< rii>ed toiluy in the senate commit

tee hearing on charged of Senator

Watson. Georgia, that American sol

diers were lw.n>:ed in France.

Killing of a soldier by a corporal

at Omip Wheeler, <la, **because the

private refused to work." was

described by Marion ,1. Wallia, war

veteran, of Athens. Co.

The private, n man named Halley,

| of Tampa, Hi, Wallis declared, was

i shot by Corporal Clifford of the 106 th

military police, 31st division, In May

or June, litis.

"Halloy was too sick to work." anld

Wallis, ••Mo went out and worked in

the morning-. At noon he was tied

l>y his wrists. When he told them

| he was too sick to work, that after

noon a sergeant boat him with his

club and broke his wrist. Then the

corporal shot him.

"Did you see it?" oskeil Senator

Overman.

"Yen," replied Wallis. "1 was

standing right there."

Wallis Mid Clifford was tried by

court martini and acquitted.

"Then," he uildod, "they made him

a sergeant und gave him a 30 day

furlough."

The hanging of 12 American box

diers In France was described yester

day by tieorge N. Taylor, of Philadel

phia, testifying before the senatu

committee, Taylor said be did not

know whether the men had been

tried by court martial.

He told the committee he could call

2H of his comrades to substantiate

his testimony.

Before Taylor took the stand Sen

ator Watson asked that Col. W. A.

Bethel, aWing judge advocate gen

eral, and other staff officers be tfx-

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TWO CENTS IN SEATTLE

SUSPECT

REVEALS

DETAILS!

Identity b HeU

Secret as Polio*

Seek Others for

Wall Street Blast

BY JOHN (iKAt'DENZ

(Copyrtstit. Iftt, hT ih« I'lIM Pna|

WARSAW. Poland. Dec. tU—

Wolf l.uufciiMil, held hero faQ

ronnrrtion wit h the Wall afc

b«mb munlm, hu imh4 ate

» romplicm. for whom AIwUH ,

arc now mmrrhing, Dr. SlmUm '

Oull.owsld. chief i iiiinlassij of

the I'iiiUh political police,

«l today.

I>r. Uuhtwokl gave the MM •

I'rnui a complete rwtrt «f U»

(lenMd'o ailitillm, both befam

aiid after the d> namiting, Ulm J

from the archive* of it* aaant

police.

This threw the first light of pah

llclty on T Inlrnfrlil'a "Inalils lilsllllj)*'

I'OIJCK KKKKINO

MOKE ( Li ra

While police were mMa-qoeatJMflßgf

I.lnrienfrld. endeavorlngto etldt fms

ther inf.irmAtion from him. Dr. Oak

j kowaki told the "nlted Preaa tha M

, lowing had already been axcertalnati

1. Undenfeld undoubtedly waa to*

volved In the bombing. bteuM ha

knfw minutely In advance bow tha

preparations were made, how UM

Uimb wax manufactured »nit how it

was to be Bet off.

2 Hp did not actually partlcipato

In the bombing, but he knows wha

did. The names of six aooanpUoN

were not dlvul«red by Dr. OuUtowrtA

for fear they would take tha alani

ard escape.

The Polish authorities are taztoV

to deport I.indenfeld to the Unllai

States at the earliest possibia smb

ment.

Llndenfeld. Dr. OulkowaiKl said»

waa born In Warsaw In 188». He la

married, hia wife being in New York,

and haa two children.

WOKKED AS SPY

AMONG KADHAI.S

He lutnlciputed In'a revolutionary

movement In Poland 111 190«. White

a member of the German section of

the socialist party and employed aa

a store cli rk. that party decided Xm

punish him for strikebreaking.

Thereupon Lindenfeld sought p*>

lice protection. The police employed

him as a spy gmonj the radicals. It

was his duty to try and incite tka

radical* to attempt noma unlawful

M.eil and then inform on than*

Kventually Lindenfeld went to Amor

ica. He chanK<*d hla name to Undi

and worked as a tailor'* cutter.

I.ater he was employed aa a detective

by the Hums agency.

lie also started a political new»>

paper called the Tribuna, devoted to

ialkor questions and to war upon capi

talists. He became a member of th*

New York Tress club, on Spruce it,

and also of the international labor

party. He claims to have ndvano*

knowledire of the plot to set off a

bomb in Wall Street, knew the namea

of those Involved and where and how

the Infernal machine was manufac

tured.

After It k»« set off at Broad and

Walt sts. In September, 1920, killing

37 persons, Lindenfeld went to Wll

llnni J. Rurns. ho says. and offered

to go to work for him again, fop th«

purpose of locating the dynamiters.

He declares he received $3,000 from

llurns and shortly thereafter disap

peared-

IS IHSCOYKREO

BY mCTKCTIVB

He returned to Poland, where ha

pot Into close connection with the

communists and attended meetings in

Brussels, Zurich. Berlin and Moscow.

About this time Burns sent Do.

tectlve Sylvester Cosgrove to Ruropo

to locate him. Lindenfeld discovered

he was being shadowed and lmtnedt*

atelv left his hotel without pay lac

his bill.

"We have not yet been able to

prove that he actuully participated

in the Wall Street bombing," said the

commissary, "altho be has confessed

that he hud complete knowledge of

all details beforehand. We cannot

give the names of the six persona

he Implicated because the warning

would be untimely.

"He amends his statement daily

and frankly admits that he has been

lying."

The examination of Llndenfeld is

being continued. His questioning so

|fir Is referred to by the police M a

preliminary investigation.