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TTTE MORXIXG OREGONIAK. TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1909. .- 2 ASKS JUSTICE 1 SUTTON'S SLAYERS i Mother's Letters Bristle With Condemnation and Ur gent Prayers. SAYS BOY BEATEN TO DEATH Asks If "VTlld Beasts" Cannot Be Punished Simply Because They Belong to Navy "Jimmle's" Spirit Told of Death. Md.. Aug. - The read tnr of four sensational letters of Mrs. Sutton, mother of lieutenant Jamea N. Sutton, the martao officer whose death la being InvetPtifrawd by the naval board, was the feature of the hearing- today. Ko sooner had Mrs. Button taken the stand than Major Leonard, judge advo cate, demanded that her letters, which were read In the closed session Saturday, he read in public today. f Other Mothers to Coruslder. We are accused of holding a star chamber sricn." doclared the judge ad vocate, "and besides there are sundry other mothers who are entitled to know their sons are accused of crime." A hot wrangle followed. Mr. Davis, counsel fo Mrs. Sutton, argued against the. necessity of making; the letters known, as they had no actual bearing on the evidence. The public reading at this time would be merely catering to a prurient curiosity, he contended. The four letters were written to H. M. Swartz. a clerk in the marine corps pay master ' office In Washington, by Mrs. Sutton. They showed bitter feeling on her part against a number of officers of the marine corps and bristled with con demnations of Sutton's brother officers and the finding of the first inquest rela tive to Sutton's death. Under cross-examination Mrs. Sutton bore herself well. .Says Officers Hated "Jimmie." Referring to the automobile ride that preceded Sutton's death. Mrs. Sutton de clared In one of the letters that, if "Jim mie" had been himself, he never would have asked Lieutenants Adams, I'tley and Osterman to ride with him. Adams v and Utley hated him. she declared. Men tion Is also made of Lieutenants Potts, Sumner and Shearer. "On October 1." she wrote. "Jimmie borrowed J210 from the bank. On October 8 he gave Shearer a check for J130, and I wrote Shearer and asked him what it was for. He said he had Just cashed it for Jimmie. I did not believe him and wrote and told him what I thought of such men, who would let a man in a helpless con dition be taken out and beaten to death." On subsequent occasions when she had written Shearer, his replies were curt, she says. Is Murderer Immune In Xavy? On May 4 Mrs. Sutton promised to send Swartz a copy of the first Inquest testi mony and a copy of whatever she had later obtained. She recited her difficulties In obtaining anything definite about "Jlmmle's" death. "Do you mean to say that, if we prove what we know, these men cannot be pun ished simply because they belong to the Xavy?" she wrote. "Those men know why thev are so secret about the affair, but we are not sleeping and I think the Vnlted States will be compelled to sit up and take nntlce what kind of men run the Navy and shield a pack of low brutes." "Adams. Utley and Osterman's faces will he ermngh to convict them. Tou will see that Jimmie is the smallest in this class and yet it took three big men to do him to death. Shearer looks like an ex convict." Cm cross-examination Mr. Blrney in sisted that Mrs. Sutton explain why she made these derogatory comments. She returned that she could express an opin ion about people's faces without Intending to mean that every one criticized was im plicated in her son's death. She further insisted that the opinions expressed in her letters to Swartz had been arrived at through reading' the testimony and that she still held to her original belief. Had Premonition of Death. continued the mother in this letter to Swartz. "was the greatest that could exist between two persons. If Jimmie met with an accident. I felt at once. Well, the nislit those beasts were laying their plans for Jimmie. an awful fear came ov.t me and my two daughters; we could not talk and each kept away from the other for f-ar of betraying our feelings. Next day Mr. Sutton came In asked if I could stand some awful news. He told me that Jimmie was reported to have killed himself." "Oh. God. Mr. Swartz," the writer ex claims, "If Jlmmlc had not spoken to me. 1 would have died. Then. Jimmie came up to me and said: 'Mother, dear, don't you believe It: I never killed myself. Adams killed me; t!iey beat me to death and then Adams shot me to hide the crime.' Spurred On by Son's Spirit. "He told me how they laid the trap for him. how he walked into it. how Utley grabbed him to pull him out of the automobile: how they held him and Osterman beat him; about his forehead I.einK broken, his teeth knocked out. and the lump under his jaw. and how when he was lying on the ground some one kicked him In the side and smashed his watch. He begged me not to die, but to live and clear his, name. Well, after three weeks I proved some things he told me were true, and after repeat edly demanding the evidence, after four months I got It. and within the last month I have proved everything he told me. "Nothing could separate Jimmie from me. not even death, and Adams, Utley. Potts and Osterman will never know a momen's rest on earth. Why should they? "I cannot understand why every one cannot see that they are trying to hide the real crime and protect those men. If we cannot get Justice through the courts, every newspaper In the United States shall have these facts as we have them, and then see what the opinion of the world will be." The fourth letter was dated May 16. In it Mrs. Sutton told of having re ceived a letter from young Ownes. the chauffeur, and said that she would In close a copy of that letter to Swart. Her Theory of Murder Plot. "You can see from that." she said, 'that Adams sat on the front seat. I suppose he thought by stopping the car it would start a fight and when he found It would not. he started at Jimmy, anyway. I nrrniy believe it was Jimmie who called sentry' when he saw Owens leaving and realized what those wild beasts were up to. and I suppose the blow in the fore head was what silenced him. In speak ing of the trouble In hazing at the acad emy he used to say. 'You are perfectly sate out on the grounds, for. If any one Jumna rou all you have to do la call a sentry,' and that Is why I believe It was Jimmie who called when he saw what they were up to." Three more witnesses were summoned today for the Inquiry. One is a resident of this city, Charles H. Russell. Another is Corporal Todd, of the Marine Corps, corporal of the (ruard on the night of Sutton's death. The third Is a Washing ton man whose name is not divulged. Asks Swartz to Befriend Her. In the first letter made public Mrs. Sutton wrote: "I want to speak to you in confidence, but don't feel that I can do so until I hear from you. and If you were not Jim mie's friend, I will admire you the more for you to sav so than not to and make believe that you were. These brutes that killed him are alive and seemingly doing well, while my boy Is dead five months todar. Tell me I can trust you." In the second letter, written April 9, evidently in answer to Swartz, Mrs. Sut ton says that "after Jimmie was killed. Captain Marlx and Lieutenant Utley took his keys and went through his trunk. Can you tell me If they had a right to touch anvthing? To make it more horrible. Utiey was with Adams and Osterman when Jimmie was killed. I believe he engineered that right." Shot Fired to Hide Crime. Mrs. Button then described the meeting of the officers at Carvel all the night of the tragedy, emphasizing; the fact that while her son was talking to a Miss Stew art and Dr. Coleman, of the academy, Osterman and Adanas withdrew and had a talk. "Now, at 1 o'clock Sunday morning," the letter continues, "Jlnrmie was beaten to death. That shot was fired to hide the crime. His forehead was crushed, nose broken, lips cut open, teeth knocked out and an incision made In the head, half an inch long. "Just think what my poor boy's suffer ings must have been as he was beaten to death by those wild beasts. Good God, Mr. Swartx, the work of wild men, and this on their own sworn testimony, and still they are walking the street today while my poor boy lies in the grave stamped as a suicide." HAD TO GIVE TP ALL LETTERS Swartz Denies He Was Forced, but Admits Act Unavoidable. WASHINGTON. Aug. 9. Harry N. Swartz. clerk in the "marine paymas ter's office, whose name was brought out in the Sutton hearing today as the Washington man with whom Mrs. Sutton corresponded concerning the manner in which her son came to his death, declared todav that he was not forced, through his connection with the Navy Depart ment, to give up the letter, but would make no explanation of why he did so. He stated: "All I can aay Is, I was unfortunate. I got Into a position where I could not act otherwise from the way I did. I am absolutely not going to talk about this thing any more." MANGLED UNDER TRAMCAR Charles Levi Sleets Shocking Acci dent at Clatskanle. CLAT3KANIE. Or., Aug. . SpecIal.) Charles Levi, aged 25 yearsi brakeman on the tramway logging road at the Brough ton & Wiggins sawmill near this place, was the victim of a. shocking accident to day which will result In his being a cripple for life. He was riding on a board underneath a loaded truck, as the cans were pulled backward up the grade for a second start, when the truck Jumped the track, running over him and crushing him terribly. His right leg was broken twice and the left once. Young Levi is a popular young man about town and pitcher for the second baseball team. He was taken to St. Vincent's Hospital tonight for treatment. CORRUPTION IS ALLEGED Continued Prom First Pane.) tia street, Fremont, was first produced as a purchaser of this Ballard property from Mollie Wilson." explained Morrow. "She was only a figurehead. Dr. J. Eugene Jordon being the real gun and furnishing the money to make tne ngnt. "There was an agreement signed by which a certain division of the property was to be made later In event the court held the Wilson claim valid. Mollie Wil son arranged to hold title to an undi vided 15 acres. An arrangement was en tered Into between these claimants and Jay C. Allen, and any associate counsel he might employ, giving them title to 846-1000 of any part of this property they might save in court, but Mr. Allen knew nothing of the later attempts to 'fix' the court, so far as I know. "It was in November, after an adverse decision in the Ramsey case by Judge Albertson that Jordon said he would have to "fix things up." He said Palmer would be the proper man to see to 'work' Judge Root "I told Jordon: 'I have my doubts about that; isn't it pretty dangerous T "Jordon. however, wanted me to 'see' Palmer, and I told him I could not do It; that It was 'not proper." "Afterwards, I was In Jordon's office and met Mrs. Brown, and Jordon told me 'we have got them coming." I asked him what he meant, and he told me 'Mrs. Brown has Just got back from Palmer's office and they have got another confer ence on." " Continuing his story. Morrow said: "Judge Bell went to Olympla from Se attle twice to see Crow in this matter. Once I saw him paid money for the trip. He was to try and fix things up with Crow. - "Jordon told Bell he wanted him to go to Olympla and see Crow to learn If there was no way In which a rehearing could be obtained in this case, promising If Bell were successful In 'fixing' this case that he would agree to a division. Conversation Is Overheard. "On this same trip Bell was to see Crow about the Ballard case and see If it was possible to "fix" that also." "How do you know all this?" asked the chairman of the committee. "I was in Jordon's back parlor," re plied Morrow, "and Jordon and Bell stood In the next room with only a thin curtain between. I saw the money pass and heard the conversation plainly." . Returning to the Wilson case. Morrow told of having been shown a typewritten decision by Jordon which the latter claimed would be rendered by the Su preme Court, "This typewritten copy purported to be a decision' which Jordon explained would be later rendered by the Supreme Court." said Morrow. "'Jordon told me he had written this advance decision himself and that it would be rendered by the Supreme Court," Denials Are Made. "There is nothirg to the statement of Morrow." says E. B. Palmer. Mr. Palmer was a spectator at today's pro ceedings of the investigation committee, "Just another line of persecution." says Judge Hoot, VI will say what I have to say before the committee tomorrow," says Dr. J. lugene Jordan. Dr. Jordan has been summoned to ap pear and tejl what he knows about Mor row and to defend himself against the statements made today. Today Is positively the last day for dis count on West side ras bills. Head "Gas Tips."' " Timely Tuesday Economies at . Silk Hose 95c Child' sHose,6Pr $1.38 Onr large assortment of Silk Hosiery is still very complete ; white, black and colors; best quality durable silk; regular $1.50 a QCn pair, at only Jul1 Children's short Sum mer Socks; white or tan, with plaid OCp tippers, per pair. . L Ju Six pairs at. . . .Sj1.3& oriman 10 Its0 m Kmg Oxfords Reduced to Bay 'em Now SHOE DEPARTMENT, SIXTH-STREET ENTRANCE WOMEN'S OXFORDS, in broken sizes, including many pairs of odds and ends; all good values; canvas, in various colors, including pink, green, blue, brown, gray and London smoke; button, lace, blucher and pumps ; regular val- fM ftfl 41 nn- crural at the verv low price of. per only v I lull uca u p i-v ' , 1 ' - - Patent Leathers, also plain kid in tan or brown ; quite a complete run of sizes, with but very few lasts short in certain styles ; regular values to $o ; special at this very low price. Odd sizes in popular priced (M QQ V vw models, worth to $5; special. .$1.00 Colored Oxfords, assortment, all sizes and widths ; regular values to Qq q $6.00; special at, pair, only. . . gJiT'J Plain Oxfords, black leather, tens, pat ent leather and brown ; regu lar values to $5.00; special ...$2.98 Collars, Belts, Jabots Last Week of the Mar velous Sale Linen Goods Nothing makes the dining-table appear more attractive than fresh, spotless linen. Do not fail to take advantage of this opportunity to replenish your supply. TABLE CLOTHS in fine double damask, with hemstitched borders, beautiful patterns, slightly soiled specially priced: $4 50 values. $3.25 $8.50 Values. $5.75 $6.00 values. $4.50 $9-00 values. $7.2o ENGLISH NAINSOOK, in 10-yard pieces; regularly sold at $3.50 a piece; M 7C special for this week at, only Olil U NAPKINS to match table linens, large size, good assortment, all patterns. Regular $6.00 dozen, sale price ,Z5 Regular $4.50 dozen, sale price ...... $3.75 REMNANTS of Table Damask, y2 to 3 yards, greatly reduced. Embroidered and Tailored Stocks, Collars and Belts; very latest crea tions for Summer wear in Lace Ja bots : values to $1.50; spe cial, each Linen Handker chiefs, hemstitch ed and scalloped with embroidered designs; values to 50c; special at, only 43c 15c I ..'WFft'V'Trtr;? Parasol Prices Sharply Cut We have a neat line of Parasols in all shades and colors, nrVr o-nri nafttr rinmhnn frames, covered with hand-em- broidered china silk. Detachable handles, very attractive Values to $7.50; Q if 0 0 Values to $3.50; special, this sale . . UTiO 0 special, this sale . Values to $5.50; . 00 Q0 Values to $2.50; m sT sT-B special, this sale. special, this sale. 82.28 S1.98 Big Cuts on Fine Haviland China 45c Window Screns 3 Oc Adjustable hardwood Window Screens, wood frames, size 30x37 inches; regularly worth 45c each; special for today's qnn selling at this low price, each JUU 30x42 inches, regularly worth 60c; Art- special for today, only, each HUb Feather Dusters, 10-inch size, regu- 1 larly worth 25c ; special, only, at. ... I J 0 Willow Clothes Baskets, oval shapes, good sizes; regularly 75c each; special CQp for today's selling, at, each JJU Dinner Sets of 60 pieces, fine Hav iland China, pink spray decora tions with stippled gold handles and knobs; sell regularly at $25.50; specially priced COrt OC for today at, only OZUiZu 100-piece sets, regular- QOQ Cfl ly $35.75 ; special today. OZOiuU Haviland China Dinner Sets, pink and blue spray decorations, stip pled gold borders, Ransen shapes, 60 pieces; reg; $39.50 CJQi Ffl values ; special today at. 0 J I lOU 100 pieces, $58.75 values. $46.90 Green and gold decorations, in j plain shapes, 60 pieces; regular selling price, $36; spe- POT 7C cially priced today at. . . 0 Ji I J 100 pieces, $53.25 val ues, selling today at . . , .Dinner Sets, in green border deco rations with small red flowers and double gold lines and solid gold handles and knobs ; 60 pieces ; reg ularly worth $44.50; special for today at.., 112-piece set, regularly $71.75; special today at, 100-piece set, $65 val ues; special at, only Extra bargains in odd Dinner Sets, also an entire table of Haviland China Pitchers, in beautiful deco rations; regularly, worth from $1.40 to $5.50, at. . .HALF PRICE, S3 5,10 $29.67 $47.40 $43.35 BathingSuits Greatly Reduced Just the weather for a trip to the beach, where a pretty and attractive Bathing Suit is a necessity. We are offering an immense assortment at greatly reduoed prices Regular $2.75 values, special at $1.89 Regular values to $4.00, special at. .$2.59 Regular values to $7.50, at, only. . .4J53.89 Regular values to $10.00; special at. .$7.59 Regular values to $15.00, special. .$10.95 $1.50 Hammocks at 95c After the swim, you should swing a ham mock in some shady spot. We can supply yon with plain open-weave Hammocks, with pillow, concealed spreader and wide QCn valance; regular value $1.50; special.. Uuli Refrigerators 25 Off Every Refrigerator in our entire stock goes at this radical reduction. Savings decidedly worth while on all wo. own, not even reserving the famous Automatics; over 20 sizes and styles to select from, and they're all reduced. ..... .ONE-FOURTH Galvanized Iron Wash Tubs, good size and weight; regularly 85c each; extra Pflp . . . uuu special for today, only, each. The regular $1.00 grade, priced for today at this very low price, each. a t i I TYPOS Ifl SESSION Oldest Skilled Labor Union Opens Convention. HAS MANY ACTIVITIES Welcomed to St. Joseph for 57th Convention, It May Adopt Plan of Insurance Now Has Over 47,000 Members. ST. JOSEPH. Slo.. Aug. The 65th convention of the International Typo graphical Union convened here today, with President J. M. Lynch and all the International officers present. An address of welcome was deliv ered by Mayor A. P. Clayton, which was responded to by President Lynch, of the International Typographical Union, after Which the convention be gan consideration of a large volume of business, ultimately adjourning until t..h.i mnmlrgr to hear the report of the credentials committee on contested seats. About 1400 are in attendance. The reports of President Lynch and Secretary-Treasurer Hays ' show great progress made by the union during the last year. Oldest Labor Union. The International Typographical Union is 67 years old, and with the present gathering has held 66 conven tions during its lifetime. In 1896 and 1898 biennial conventions were held. The International Typographical Union claims to be the oldest national or In ternational organization of skilled la bor in the world. Its sessions here this week nre attended by 100 delegates and 800 visitors.. Matters of Importance that are to come before the convention are propo sitions for the establishment of an in surance feature, and certain changes proposed in the pension policy that was made effective by the union one year ago. The relations between the union and the American Newspaper Publishers" Association will also be up for consideration. The union pays a burial benefit of Great Sums Kipended. During the fiscal year there were 50 deaths, and the benefits paid amounted to 3S,175. For advertising irs union label the Tioirl tut S7617.48. The expenditures of the Internation al Typographical Union during its fis cal year were $161,544.45. From the year 1891 to 1909 the union received 6,188.045.75. and expended $5,950,898.90, this sum including the expense of conducting the Union Print ers' Home. The union has a membership of 47,- The union also conducts a technical school at Chicago for the benefit of its mAmKAa nA nnnrentlces who desire to perfect themselves in their trade. The sessions of the convention will continue throughout the week. GIRL MURDERED; BURIED Attacked While Placing Flowers on Father's Grave, ROCHESTER, N. 'T.. Aug. 9. Leaving her home early on Saturday to place flowers on the grave of her father, Anna Schumacher, 17 years old, who resided with her mother In this city, was at tacked by one or more men. criminally assaulted and murdered. Her body was dragged outside the cem etery to a depression in a lonely spot and covered with earth and leaves. There It was discovered today by Constables of the Town of Greece, who found marks of a struggle in the Schumacher family plot In the burying-ground. A spade with which the murderer or murderers covered the body of their victim was found nearby. PORTLAND CREDITORS LOSE G. W. Asliby, of Aberdeen, Leaves Small Assets. ABERDEEN, Wash., Aug. 9, (Spe .i.i rr.,ntnt of n- W. Ashbv. until a few days ago proprietor of a ladles' rurnismng store nere, i about 25 cents on each dollar of their claims. - A close Inventory of the stock left in the store by Ashby when he left suddenly after making an assign ment to Fay Gear, vice-president of the Aberdeen Investment Company, foots up a total of $1134, while the total liabilities are $4123. Ashby came here from Idaho about six months ago, and was thought to be doing a good business. Several Port land firms are creditors In sums rang ing from $300 to $1500. LAST GAP NEARLY CLOSED Milwaukee Will Soon Have Through Line to Coast. CHICAGO. Aug. 9. It was announced that the last gap in the Pacific Coast extension of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway would be closed Aug. 15, when local passenger train service will be established between Butte, Mont., and Maiden, Wash., on the Chi cago, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Rail way. Through passenger service is now In effect with standard equipment between St. Paul and Minneapolis and Butte and with the completion of this gap the new line will reach the Coast without a break. WELLMAN MAY SOON FLY Has Repaired Balloon-Shed at Spits bergen and Is Making Gas. TROMSOE. Norway. Aug. 9. Advices received here from Spitsbergen, where the Walter Wellman Polar expedition is being prepared for an attempt to reach the North Pole, say the repairs to the bal loon shed which was badly damaged by a storm last June, have been completed and a gas apparatus has been installed. Today Is positively the last day for dis count on West Side gas bills. Read "Gas Tips." FIRE IS HIS SIGNAL But It Causes Boy's Arrest After His Rescue. BECAUSE IT BURNS FOREST Dcperate After Two Days In Moun tains Without Food, Hess Is Saved by Forest Rangers Signal Drives Away Chums. T-ns AVfiET.RS. Cal.. Aug. 9. (Spe cial.) Rendered desperate through hunger when lost in tne mountains above Pasadena for two days, Lyle Vernon Hess, aged 17, started a fire as jiatp..N The forest rang ers went to fight the blaze, rescued him, brought him here toaay ana lurn him over to United States Marshal Leo v,..nffBnrtti nn a charge of having maliciously started the conflagration. Hess defends his action on tne gruura that he would have starved otherwise. He asserts he was without food for 48 hours. Hese went on a hunting trip with three other boys from here. He got separated from his companions in A Certain Way To arrive at correct conclusions is by "personal experience." The public has proven for over a decade that Grape-Nuts is a pure, fully cooked, pre-digest-ed food which benefits body, brain and nerves thousands have vol untarily so testified after "per sonal experience." For healtfT's sake the joy of feeling well suppose you try a "personal experiment " say, Grape-Nuts every morning for 10 days. ' ' There 's a Reason. ' ' POSTUM CEREAL CO., LTD., Battle Creek, Mich. Devll'n funvm. because he was rat tled." and lost his way. To attract the attention of his friends he lit the Are. For twe days the conflagration raged and burned over 160 acres. The blaze only served to drive his chums farther away and bring in- the forest rangers, who arrested Hess. STREETCAR HITS BUGGY Boy Jumps to Ground and Is Injured by Fall. SALEM, Or., Aug. S. (Special.) George Weller, 10-year-old son of C. S. Weller, a prominent merchant here, while jumping from a buggy which was struck by an Oregon electric car on High street this afternoon, received serious In juries about the head. The injuries are dangerous, but it Is believed not fatal. George Stenstrom, 20 yean old, was driving. He was uninjured. The horse became frightened and ran in front of the car. Tacoms Shipping JTotes. TACOMA, Aug. . The British steamer Leelanaw arrived In port this morning from Alaska with 600 tons of marble and 1200 tons of gypsum. The Blue Funnel liners Titan and Teucer left port this morning for Seattle, the former to discharge cargo from the Orient and the latter to load 600.000 feet of lumber for Manllla. The Anchor Line steamer Buckman is due tonight from San Francisco via Seattle. The, steamer Delhi arrived today from Alaska with 1457 tons of concentrates for the Tacoma smelter. 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