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18 HAZEL ERW1H TO TELL LIFE STORY foung Woman Accused of Murder Will Offer No De fense, but Appeal for Mercy. TRIAL WILL START TODAY Girl's Attorney Says That After First False Step She Gradually Sank Lower and Was Easy Prey for Tanner. A free, frank and open confession of her share In the crime coupled with ' the story of her lire in simple language and an ardent plea to the Jury for mercy will be the only defense offered for Hazel Erwin, who will be placed on trial in Circut Court this morning, the accusation being that she and Wil lard Tanner beat Kay W. Wallace to death with an iron bolt In an Alder ctreet lodging-house a couple of months ago. "We will show that the poor girl has been the victim of circumstances," said W. A. Burke, who will defend her, with the assistance of John A. Jeff rey." If any Juror can listen to her story, beginning with the time when she was betrayed, in her 14th year, and continuing with the recital of her ex periences in being guided further and further into the mire as a woman of the underworld, without pity being en gendered in his heart, I have missed my reckoning." Mr. Burke said that he would be sat isfied with a conviction for man slaughter, but does not believe that the girl should be punished more se verely. To convict her of first de gree murder would be a moral, if not a legal injustice, he declares. With out equivocation he admits that his only hope is that the Jurors will see fit to temper Justice with mercy. Former Story Abandoned. At the urgent demands of her attor neys. "Mr. Burke said, the girl has abandoned her previous story to the police, in which she endeavored 1 to shoulder all the blame as the instiga tor of the crime and sought to make it appear that Tanner had acted on the impulse of the moment In attack ing Wallace with the' bolt, and will tell what Mr. Burke believes to be the correct story of the killing. "She persisted until this morning In . sticking to her original story," At torney. Burke said." but I finally man aged to impress upon her the futility of doing so. I recalled to her, among other things, that Tanner Is seeking to prove an alibi and place the blame for the whole crime. Including the ac tual killing, upon her. Then she told what I have no doubt is the trutu about the affair. "She said that she told Tanner that Wallace had some money and that he responded, 'Why in hell don't you get itr She answered that she had tried the night before without success, but would try again. That night she lured Wallace to her room. He was on the point of going, leaving no money be hind, when she told him to wait a moment. She slipped into the adjoin ing room of their suite and told Tan ner that she hadn't managed to get the money and he then walked behind her into the other room, in which Wallace was waiting. Wallace was standing with his back to Tanner and the first blow with the bolt fell upon him from behind without warning. Girl Pray of Bad Man. "We will show that the girl, after being ruined several years ago, was an easy victim for those interested in placing the feet of young women on the downward path. In San Francis co she fell In with Immoral women and their dissolute male consort and soon became a typical Barbary Coast woman. Then this man Tanner, a deserter from the Army, got hold of her and they came to Portland, where she was Immediately made a white slave. So great was her infatuation for him that she was like putty in his hands and he was sufficiently do graded to take advantage of this to force her lower and lower Into the slime of Immorality." Judge Morrow has not assigned the case, but will decide this morning which Judge is to preside over the trial. Deputy District Attorney Fitz gerald will prosecute. The state will show, Mr. Fitzgerald declares, that Tanner and the Erwin woman had been companions in several crimes previous to the murder. The effect of this evidence may be lessened, how ever, should the girl, as her attorney promises, tell the detailed story of her relations with Tanner. The Erwin woman will be the prin cipal witness against Tanner, whose iruii I a " .......... tember 10. The District Attorney's office is anxious to have her convicted as it is believed that this would give her story greater weight before the Tanner Jury than would be the case were she given Immunity in return for turning state's evidence. . PERSONAL MENTION. Dr. W. A. Cox. of Albany, ia at the Imperial. L. E. Belflls, of Estacada, is at the Cornelius. G. T. Fox. a Victoria merchant. Is at the Portland. F. F. Smith, a lumberman of Bend, is at the Bowers. L. E. Black, of Kelso. Is registered at the Cornelius. George Gove, of Tacoma, is registered at the Carlton. C E. Fowler, a Seattle contractor. Is at the Imperial. C. W. Eakin. of Prineville, Is regis tered at the Cornelius. John Gerrick. a contractor of Seattle, ia at the Oregon. W. E. King, a Hood River orchardlst, is at the Oregon. .'. G. Goodman, a merchant of Eugene, Is t the Carlton. W. C. Begnold, a Kelso lumberman. Is at the Perkins. H. C. Ferrin, a Forest Grove attorney. Is at the Perkins. Owen Beatty. a sheepman of Moro, is at the Perkins. Judge R. J. Ronald, of Seattle, Is reg istered at the Oregon. . W. H. Abel, an attorney of Monte sano. Is at the Bowers. H. Masters, a Goldendake hardware dealer, is at the Oregon. J. H. Albert, a Salem banker, is reg istered at the Imperial. W. H. Wilson, an attorney of The Dalles, is at the Perkins. James A. Yorin. a Stella merchant, is registered at the Perkins. A. C. Gearing, a Seattle lumberman, is registered at the Oregon. F. Harrison, an attorney of Seattle, Is registered at the Bowers. J. H. Breedlove. a tourist of Council Bluff, la., is at the Carlton. Henry J. Lyman, of Kapoho, Hawaii, is registered at the Portland. Homer G. Day, a real estate operator of White Salmon, Is registered at the Imperial. L Monheimer. a merchant of Seattle, is registered at the Portland. S. P. Bradshaw, a wholesale milliner of New York, is at the Bowers. T. W. Robinson, a merchant of Houl ton. Is registered at the Perkins. D. H. Rowan, a well-known Tacoma railroad man. Is at the Portland. A. R. Graham, an attorney of Spo kane, Is registered at the Multnomah. G. W. Tape, a Los Angeles hotel pro .riptnr is registered at the Portland. J. B. McCrane, proprietor of the Hotel Bollinger or r.ewisiun, ia v periaL. ' F. E. Steere and family, tourists from Honolulu, are stopping at the Mult nomah. ' Miss Frieda Muellhaupt has gone to Salem to attend the state fair and visit with friends. Dr. R. H. Ellis, treasurer of the Port land Hotel Company, has returned from an Eastern trip. Edward H. Townsend. of New York. PORTLAND DENTIST PASSES AWAY AFTER ILLNESS OF FOUR WEEKS, Dr. Hollls C. Johnson. After a severe Illness of four weeks. Dr. -Hollis C. Johnson, a dentist, died at his home Sep- tember 1. Although he had lived In Portland only three years and a half he had made many friends. He leaves a wife, who was Miss Bert ha Dow: one daughter. Mrs. Marvin C. White, and three sons Hollis E., Rldg way and Robert; also his father, A. G. Johnson, and a sister. Mrs. J. B. McCully, both of Nez Perce, Idaho. The funeral will be held today at 2 P. M. from Flnley's undertaking parlors, and inter ment will be at Lone Fir Ceme tery. Is at the Portland, returning from a trip to Hood River. E. C. Chester, A. G. Lewis and H. S. Lewis, business men of Lewlston. are stopping at the Multnomah. Thomas V. Porter, of Jacksonville, Fla-, and owner of several banks in that state, is at the Multnomah. Paul R. Isenberg. of Honolulu, is at the Multnomah, and, will go from there daily in his machine to the state fair. Louis Block, manager of the Crown- Columbia Paper Company, is registered at the Multnomah from San Francisco. Dr. Robert H. Ellis has returned to the city after a two months' trip In Boston. New York and other Eastern cities. Eugene V. Debs, his brother, Theo dore Debs, and his publicity manager, Ellis B. Harris, registered at the Port land yesterday. Safety above all things Is the rule at the Hartman-Thompson Bank. Your account Is cordially invited. Fourth and Stark Sts. . Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Marx, of 775 Kearney street, will leave today for an extended trip to Europe. They expect to be absent about a year. President Foster, of Reed College, will return to Portlarfd tonight after an absence of two weeks at the beach. His family also will return home. SOCIAL CENTER IS COLCMBLA PARK CITIZEN'S TO HOLD LECTURE COURSE. Playground Development and .Social Hygiene to Subjects Discussed by Able Authorities.' i Citizens of the neighborhood about the Columbia Park playgrounds have begun the organization of a "social center" system in that vicinity, and their enterprise is one of the first of its kind to be taken up In a large scale In Portland. A lecture course under the auspices of the temporary associa tion, which is to effect permanent or ganization soon, will be prepared for the coming Winter, and will be known as the "People's Lecture Course," af filiated with the Columbia Park play grounds. Playground development and social hygiene will be the subjects of the lectures, and the committee in charge of the course, B. S. Hughson, C. A. Dodson and F. I. Randall, will endeavor to secure the best authorities available in Portland. The lectures are to be free. Temporary organization of the social center was effected only a short time ago at a meeting of representative men of Portsmouth and University Park dis tricts. H. S. Hudson was elected tem porary chairman and Rev. A.- C Sax ton secretary. H. S. Hudson, J. B. Yeon and D. B. Hart were appointed as a committee on permanent organi zation. ' A mass meeting to effect a perma nent organization will be called within a short time. Those engaged in the playground work in Columbia Park district played an important part in starting the move ment and assisting in the preliminary organization. They were J. B. C. Oakes and Miss Ruth Hardie. L. H. Wier, prominent in the playground interests of the city, and a man of National rep utation in playground work, was also active In the organization. LOW RATE T0 STATE FAIR Via Oregon Electric for Shrlners, Woodmen and Everybody. $1.50 rouni trip from Portland to Salem every day this week. Return limit September 9. All tickets good on all trains. Oregon Electric Ry. Electric LlneReaches Xewberg. NEWBERG, Or.. Sept. 2. (Special.) The first engine and train of cars ever seen on the principal street of this city arrived today with supplies for the Oregon Electric Company which is building the line through here. Ls. A NEW ELEGTRIG. LINE TO HAVE SLEEPERS Portland-to-Eugene Hill Ex tension to Operate Night Accommodations. SERVICE DUE OCTOBER 16 Resident of Terminus City Would Have James J. Hill Himself Drive Golden Spike at Novel Cele- .. brat Ion That Is Planned. In the hope of. having "The Empire Ruilder" himself in attendance, the people of Eugene have arranged an MAhorate Droarramme to mark the for mal entrance of the Oregon Electric Into that city. October IB or IB. Track-laying, ballasting and over head construction south of Albany nov have nroceeded so far that unofficial announcement was made yesterday that regular traffic between Portland and Eugene can begin on October 16. Through car service will be maugur ated on that date. Klectric Sleepers Ordered. An Innovation In Western electric railway service- will be the operation of sleeping cars between Portland and Eugene. Two cars of regular Pullman pattern have been ordered. They will be oDerated in either direction every night.. It will require about six hours to make the run between Portland ana Eugene, but the cars will be placed at a convenient point In each city so that passengers can board them early in the evening, go to bed and wake up the following morning at the end of their Journey. It Is claimed for the electric sleep lne cars that they are virtually noise less and that there Is less vibration than on an ordinary steam road pull man. ' These cars will be the first of the tvD in oueration on the Pacific Coast- the first, in fact, west of the Missouri River. In only two or three places In the country are sleeping cars op erated on electric lines. One such run Is out of Indianapolis ar.d the other Is out of St. Louis. Numerous eastern cities- have eletrlc roads radiating out of them far enough to make such serv ice practicable, but evidently it has not been considered necessary. Of ficials of the Oregon Electric believe that the Eugene-Portland service will be economically successful from me start. Just what the nature of the celebra tion at Eugene will be has not been definitely determined. While It will consist, in part, of street aemonstra tion. sDeaking and a formal reception the citizens of Eugene want to do something novel and unique. Invita tlons probably will be sent to the Portland Commercial ciud ana 10 prominent citizens of Portland, city and state officials. An earnest effort will be made to have James J. Hill present. If this plan is successfu), a "spike driving" ceremony will be one of the principal functions of the day. Unless unforeseen complications de velop actual service will begin on Oc tober 16, which will make October 15 the probable date fpr the Eugene cele bration. Track-laying now has been complet ed to the outskirts of the city of Eugene. To this point the rails were put down by track-laying machines. Within the city the work is being done by hand as it Is necessary to dig trenches to contain the ties so that the .track will find the level of the Stations Are High-Class. Meanwhile ballasting and overhead construction between Albany and Eu gene Is progressing rapidly. High class station buildings are being erect ed in keeping with the general policy of the Oregon Electric Two big bridges have to be built on the main line before It can be called complete. One of these is at the crossing of the Santiam River and the other is at the crossing of the Willamette at Harrisburg. To ac commodate'traffic temporarily, a wood en bridge was built over the Santiam. The new structure, two-thirds of which Is ready, is being built of steel and concrete. While Eugene Is the ostensible ter minus of the Oregon Electric there Is little doubt that the line eventually will he built Bouth of that city. A rich territory awaits the coming of the rails, and traffic men aeciare inai u will be only a short while before the Hill interests push south as far as Medford to connect there with the Pa cific & Eastern, which now operates 33 miles eastward to Butte Falls. Eventually, too, a connection will . be brought from the Oregon Trunk at Bend to make the Hill loop complete. EX-FIREMAN IS SOUGHT Man Mho Attacked Three Former Comrades to Be Bonded. Having already beaten three mem-' bers of Truck Three, the fire company at 511 Glisan street, for their part in his dismissal from the department, Charles Abbott, an ex-flreman. is to be kept from injuring the fourth by be ing put under peace bonds. The four men, all members of Truck Three, were witnesses against him In his trial for failure to obey orders, and all except a gray-haired man have been attacked at different times since the dismissal and beaten. To save the fourth, a war rant was sworn out by one of the in jured men. charging assault and bat tery, and is now in the hands of the police for service. -t Abbott, after returning to the house after a fire on Thanksgiving Day last year, was ordered by Lieutenant Beery of the company to aid in the removal of several ladders which were broken in a collision on Washington street. The testimony introduced at the trial showed that Abbott disobeyed orders. Charles Haberland, captain of the com pany; R. E. Beery, lieutenant; B. R. Siebels and Z. S. Elliott, members of the truck company, all testified at the trial against Abbott. He was dis missed from the department. The next night says Beery, he was caught outside the firehouse and beat en severely. Beery weighs 140 pounds. Abbott about 170. Report also was made of this to the heads of the de partment, and this, with the disobe dience, caused his removal. Haber land was beaten shortly afterward and then Abbott Is supposed to have left Portland and gone East. Siebels Is said to have been hit by a club In the hands of Abbott before he went East. A few days ago he returned, and Haberland was the recipient of a beat ing Thursday night. The police are looking for Abbott. ' Kelra School Needs $26,670. CEN'TRALIA. Wash.. Sept. 2. (Spe cial.) The estimated expenses of the Kelso School Board for the ensuing year are J2S.670. The estimated re ceipts are 115.420. leaving 9250 to be raised by taxation. - j , THE Meier & Frank Store's Fair and "Winter Catalogue is now ready for mailing. And so the same degree of timely helpfulness as here for our city patrons may be enjoyed by the patrons of our effi cient mail order service. A card will bring this beautiful 147-page book to your home a catalogue of new Fall and Winter apparel for men. women and chil dren, together with household needs. Send for our catalogue today. IS E. M. Simonton's Game Is Checked by School Director. $100 LOAN JUMPS TO $176 Aged Man's Furniture Taken, Worth S20, He Is Allowed $57 Credit. Adolphus Lane, Indicted, Is Found to Be Still Active. Members of the School Board have intervened to prevent the collection of a usurious claim,- made against a Jani tor in one of the city schools, by E. M. Simonton, who acts for the Ames In vestment Company. Deputy District Attorney Collier has been placed in possession of the facts and Is making an investigation. The borrower, an elderly man, ob tained $100, May 5, 1909, and gave his note for 1121.75, payable in three in stallments. He had paid 4 when he was taken ill and could obtain no more oney to ward off the pressure of the debt. He had given a chattel mortgage on his furniture, which, he says, was worth $200, and it was foreclosed. The unfortunate man was given to understand at that time that his lia bility had ceased, the foreclosure can celling the debt. He was rudely awak ened recently when served with at tachment papers In a suit for.H5. ie found that the sale of the furniture had obtained a credit of 157 against the loan. . Total Climb Quickly. Thus, he borrowed $100. undertak ing an obligation of $121.75, paid $4 and $57, and still owes $115. making a total of sums paid and payable by him of $176 on his original borrowing of $100. Garnishment-, was taken against tne borrower's salary in the hands of the School Board, and at that the facts came into possession of the directors. Director Beach Interviewed Simonton and procured a "concession" whereby the Janitor Is to settle for $75 at the rate of $5 a month. This, it carnea out. will make his aggregate payment $136. just about what the legitimate debt would amount to for the three years, at compound interest. The complainant asserts that when summons was served upon him In the suit for $115, be carried the papers to Simonton to protest, and that they were 1 . . - ...... USURER CAUGHT Begins A FULL page in Sunday's papers told of the breadth and beauty of this initial display of advance Fall modes. The Big Store is alight with the newness of Fall and Winter merchandise. The early season demands of our thousands of friends and patrons are met in this preliminary showing. , '' , And The Meier & Frank Store bids you welcome welcome to the Store -that's been yours for satisfied service for over half a century. Come today . and enjoy the beautiful showing of Fall and Winter merchandise an exhi bition full of helpfulness for all I taken away from him-. with some eva sive assurance. The next thing he knew default judgment had been en tered against him. Adolphus Lane Still Busy. That Adolphus Lane, under indict ment for maintaining a nuisance in the form of a loan-shark establishment, is still . carrying on his business. Is evidenced by a case which was taken to the District Attorney yesterday. The complainant says that he borrowed $50, June 30, undertaking to pay $10 inter est the first month and $5 a month for two 'succeeding months, making $20 Interest for the quarter-year. He paid no "brokerage" at the time of taking the loan, but was charged $3 for mak ing out the papers. He has paid the $10 payment and Collier advised him to pay the remaining portions, as ap plying on the principal. 3-CAR TRAINS OPPOSED Salmon-Street Residents Say Vibra tion Menaces District.- Residents and property owners on Salmon street will oppose the granting of a franchise to the Oregon Electric Railway Company to operate three-car trains along Salmon street from the North. Bank station to the Jefferson street station, because of the vibration and noise which will be made by such trains. A delegation will go before the Council when the proposed three car franchise comes up and will urge the committee to refuse the franchise. It is said the operation of two-car trains, which is allowed at present, causes a vibration along Salmon street which upon several occasions has shaken pictures from the walls and done other damage. The Oregon Elec tric Company has asked for the right to operate the longer ' trains ' for the benefit of passengers. At present two cars are operated at a--trip and when three-car trains are found necessary the third car has to be operated be tween the depots- separate from the regular train. This occasions a delay, which has been objected to by residents south of the city who use the electric line. . ' . The proposed franchise was sent up for advertising a week ago. Up to the present no protest has been made against It. -, Oregon Oddfellow to Be Honored. OREGON CITT. Or.,- Sept.- 2. (Spe cial.) Falls Encampment. Independent Order of Oddfellows, will present the collar of a past grand master, past grand patriarch - and past grand rep resentative to Judge Thomas F. Ryan, of Salem, Wednesday evening." Oscar P. Miller. Deputy City 'Treasurer of Portland, and a .member of Falls En campment, will be presented with the collar of a past grand patriarch and grand representative at the same time. Refreshments will be served and a fine programme rendered. There will be a large attendance from this city and Portland. --- aiimrrm i Tuesday VETO IS ATTACKED East Side Business Men's Club to Push Charter Revocation. : OTHER ROADS ARE WANTED Attitude Is Taken That Right to tTsc - of Streets Should Be City's to Give Without Dictation of Hallway Companies. Believing that Mayor Rushlight took a narrow view of the railway problem In Portland when, he vetoed the action of the City Council recently- In rec ommending submission of a measure to the people at the coming special elec tion revoking the franchise of the Southern Pacific on East First' street, the East Side Business Men's Club will start at once to circulate petitions to have the revocation measure placed on the ballot under the initiative. L. M. Lepper, secretary of the club, said yesterday that the club mem bers are not satisfied with the action of the Mayor and for that reason they will take the fight into their own hands bringing the East Side fran chise before the people at the city election In June, if it is not possible td get the proposed measure on . the ballot at the special election to be held November 2. "In taking this action," said Mr. Lepper yesterday, "we are not starting a fight on Mayor Rushlight or any member .of the City Council, nor am we attempting to work for the welfare of any railroad company. We simply believe that the question involved on the East Side is one which the people should settle. No Favorites Wanted. "Our idea Is to open the East Side to all railroad companies. We realize that negotiations have practically been completed whereby the Southern Pa cific will grant the Hill lines the use of the East First street and other tracks. That is all right but It is not what we want. We are planning fpr the future. We believe that In the future Portland will be entered by the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad from Lander. Wyo., by the Western Pacific from Lakeview. by the Milwaukee from North Yakima and by the Cana dian Pacific from the north. "The Hill-Harriman controversy over East Side trackage is an indication of what we might have often in the fu TIP ITimrrnrinn OriOltr jj of Jonas Janesi. of Buua- pest will play daily this week in our beautiful Seventh Floor Tea Room luncheon hours, 12 to 2 P. M. And today ' for the special en Jovment of the patrons of our Afternoon Tea Service the orche tra plavs from S to R P. M. Make It a point to enjoy afternoon tea amidst the delightful surroundings of our elegant 7th Floor Ke ta.irant. Meet your friend in the spacious lobby, which is for your convenience. ture if conditions are allowed to re main as they are. Under the agree ment the Harrlman lines are opening East First street, not under a cojnmon user franchise or privilege, but merely under the terms of a switching ar rangement between the two companies. This will not open the street to other railroads coming here and as a result when Portland gets more lines the East Side will be locked to them the same as it has been to the Hill lines. C hange In System Desired. "We want to revoke the East First street franchise and allow the Harrl man line to occupy that street and all the others under permits granted by the city. These permits can be granted to other companies to use the tracks there. We believe the present fran chise can be revoked because the pro visions of the grant have been violated. The company was granted the use ol 20 feet of the street. The tracks now cover 22 feet. The street is practically closed to everything but trains. The city owns the street and should have the privilege of controllng it. "We do not want to be placed in the light of starting a fight against the Mayor or the City Council because we believe they acted In good faith, but we think they acted unwisely and In a manner which Is not in conformity with the wishes of a majority of the people." ' ' ' Vnle Experiences Frost. 'VALE, Or..- Sept. 2. f Special.) There was a slight frost in the vicinity of Vale Friday night, when the mer cury went down to 30. It Is feared the alfalfa seed has been Klightly dam aged. Rain I" threatening since. The youthful, lovely complex- Inn Vi n t naftira rrova Vffll Ten 1 hft enhanced bv lust a touch of 9 CARMEN Complexion Powder Try It and ase Carmen will not rub off tmtn yon remove It. nor lose lu delicate frms-r&ace. Refined people use CARMEtf excloslvely-for It DOESNT "SHOW POWDER." Harmless and pare, CABMEN benefits the skin Instead of injuring it it's duSer ant from other powders. POTTS TINTS: Whtu,Ptnk, Ftssk and Crwm at ywr Drtwoi or OtjXLTtmrt StarvTosUt &x 500. 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