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HUGE MAN SHOT
TO DEATH 111 CAR
Simon J. Yoder Is Victim
of Murderer. .
SKULL CRUSHED BY BLOW
Fare Who Hired Chauffeur
Sought as Suspect.
AUTO STOLEN AND FOUND
"Well-Know n Resident of Woodburn
Has Money in Pockets "When
Found Dead in Ditch.
WOOPBURN', Or.. March 6. (Spe
cial.) Simon J. Toder, 34, proprietor
cf Toder's garage in this city, was
found dead with a. bullet wound in his
o 7 nvinrlt this morning in a
ditch on the outskirts of Gervais, near
here. His skull seemed also to have
tieen crushed by a blow from a blunt
5nstrumcnt. His automobile, in which
Jie had started to take a stranger to
Salem at II o'clock last nignt, was
missing, although $90.35 in cash and
about J50 worth of checks had been
left in his pockets.
The authorities have telegraphed
s description of ,Mr. Toder's passenger
Jiroadcast, and ' have also begun a
ecarch for Henry Cravens, who was
convicted of stealing automobile tires
from Mr. Yoder more than a year ago,
end was sentenced to a year In the
penitentiary. Cravens is said to have
been paroled, and to have made
threats against Mr. Toder.
Cravens was seen here yesterday
and is mlssinsr today. He was not,
however, the man who hired the auto
mobile. The authorities received word to
right that Mr. Toder's automobile had
teen recovered at Vancouver, Wash.,
where It was found parked on the
street It was Identified by the
license number and by Mr. Toder's
fishing license, which was found in
side. Stranger Blvra Machine.
The machine was hiredjby a etran
jrer, who said he wasa chauffeur
from Portland en routs-to Salem with
a party, and that .his own machine
had broken down. He wanted a local
driver to take the party the rest of
the way, and did not seem to be hunt
ing for any particular driver.
The stranger first appeared In
T. C. Foorman's pool hall and asked
where he could rent a car. Mr. Foor
man tried to get George Beach, a lo
cal driver. Mr. Beach was busy, and
declined to go.
Then the stranger got in touch with
Lyman Shorey, an employe at Yoder's
fihnrfir was at home, but
azreed to get a car and take the
rarty to Salem. Meantime Mr. Yoder
-h,rA nf the. call for a' machine. He
notified Shorey to stay at home, in
asmuch as he wanted to drive the
machine to Salem himself.
Fare Called "Sport."
The stranger told Mr. Toder to fill
op his gasoline tank, because the
fares were a party of "sports" from
Portland, and might want to return
home after the trip to Salem. Mr.
Yoder invited Ted Johnson, a South
ern Pacific engineer, and a close
friend of his,, to go along on the trip,
hut the stranger said the car would
he crowded without him, and refused
to allow him to ride.
Mr. Yoder was last seen alive when
he drove from his garage about 11
o'clock. Half an hour afterwards his
automobile was seen standing close to
the spot where the body was found.
Dr. T. K. Sanderson, dentist, and
E. C. Gunn, both of Woodburn, passed
along the Pacific highway in another
machine at 11:30 P. M., and saw the
car about 30 feet from the highway,
on the branch road leading to Gervais.
All the lights were burning. They
saw no one either in or near the
automobile. They drove on without
suspecting anything.
Churchgoers Find Body.
The body was found early this
morning by Fred Schingler, George
Andres and Frank Nosah, farmers
who live near Gervais. on the way
to church in that city. They notified!
the authorities.
Mr. Toder evidently had been shot
from behind while he was driving.
The bullet entered through the lobe
of his right ear and lodged In the
ekull Just over the left eye. The
pellet was of .38 caliber, and of the
soft nose type.
The body lay on the back in the
ditch, with the feet in a pool of water.
The authorities believe, from the con
dition of the ground, that an at
tempt had been made to drag the
body up the bank with the object of
concealing it in Sam Brown's berry
patch, which is Just Inside the fence.
A farmer naftied Wing, who lives
Tiear the scene of the shooting, heard
what he took to be either a shot or
the blowout of an automobile tire
about 11:25 P. M. He spoke of it to
his wife, but the couple decided thai
the blowout theory was mojt prob
able, and made no investigation. This
was Just five miriutes before Dr.
Sanderson and Mr. Gunn went by and
caw the automobile standing empty.
Murder Time Believed Fixed.
The authorities believ that this in
formation fixes the time of the mur
cr definitely. It Is thought possible
Concluded- oa i'uge 5, Column 1.)
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS.
VOTE DRESS REFORM
WALrfjA WALIiA MISSES ARE
AGAIXST VAXITIES.
Four Violations of Strict Code
' Adopted by Heavy Slajority
AV11I Earn Suspension.
WALLA WALLA, Wash., March 6.
(Special.) With the extreme penalty
suspension from school, girls of the
Walla Walla high school will put into
effect dress-reform 'rules Monday.
The girls, by a vote of 344 to 77,
adopted resolutions forbidding the fol
lowing: Silk, velvet and georgette crepe, ex
cept simple silk waists or blouses and
velvet Jackets.
Thin materials with too scant cami
soles or underwaists.
French-heeled shoes.
Silk hose, rolled-down stockings
and fancy garters worn below the
knees.
Extremely short or extremely tight
skirts.
Expensive or extravagant clothing
in general.
Extreme styles of hairdress.
Excessive use of cosmetics.
Enforcement of the rules Is in the
hands of a girls' council composed of
the presidents of the five girl's so
cieties and a representative from each
of the four classes. The council will
provide penalties for the first three
violations reported. After the third
violation the parents of the girl must
appear before the council to explain
why she should not conform to the
prescribed regulations.
For the fourth offense the penalty
will be suspension from school.
HARDING AT CLUB EARLY
Breakfast Is Taken in Suburbs
With Several Friends.
WASHINGTON, March 6. Presi
dent Harding motored today to Grass
lands, a club house In the suburbs
and had breakfast with several
friends. He left the White House
shortly after 8 o'clock, accompanied
only by secret service men, and re
turned in an hour and a half. No
chief executive since Cleveland has
dined at the capital's clubs except on
rare occasions. He was the guest of
Senator Frclinghuysen of New York.
Mr. Harding passed the remainder
of the day, his first Sunday in the
White House, with his family.
In the afternoon he passed some
tims in the seclusion of the west
White House grounds, walking about
with his new airedale dog, Caswell
Laddie Boy.
The president's first task tomorrow
will be the preparation of nomina
tions to be sent to the senate when
it convenes, including appointment of
several assistant secretaries.
ILLNESS HALTS WEDDING
Fiance Gets Ptomaine Poisoning
Starting to Meet Woman.
SEATTLE, Wash.. March 6. (Spe
cial.) Emil E. Eck of Hobart, Wash.,
today was In the city hospital instead
of being on his honeymoon, and his'
bride-to-bo, Miss Hattie 'Swanson of
Columbia, Neb., arrived here today
from Portland. Eck was to have mar
ried Miss Swanson in Portland last
night. His bride-to-be made the trip
from her home to Portland alone, with
th; understanding that her fiance was
to meet her at the station. Between
trains here, Eck stepped Into a cafe
and dined. The result: Two hours
before train time he was In the hos
pital, with ptomaine poisoning.
The bride-to-be was notified, and
came here to nurse Eck back to
health.
THIEVES GET ALCOHOL
16 Barrels, Valued at $60,000, Are
Stolen From Warehouse.
SAN FRANCISCO, March 6. Sixteen
barrels of alcohol, valued at approx
imately $60,000 at prevailing prices,
were stolen from the Tacoma Brew
ing company's warehouse here this
morning.
The Tacoma Brewing company's
plant has been operated by the gov
ernment since prohibition laws went
nto effect, for the purpose of ex
tracting alcohol from spiritous bev
erages. No trace of the robbers was
found. i
TURKS, FRENCH TO SIGN
Pact to Be Arranged Today; Hos
tilities Already Stopped.
PARIS, March (. (By Associated
Press.) Peace terms between France
and the Turkish nationalists are to be
signed here tomorrow. Hostilities al
ready have been ordered stopped. .
Evacuation of Cilicia by the French
is made possible by Turkish accept
ance of the London proposal for the
protection of minorities and by the
action of the nationalist assembly in
consenting to grant a high degree of
self-government to the natives.
FIRE LOSS IS $400,000
Auto Supply Company's Plant and
Warehouse Are Destroyed.
rOCATELLO, Idaho, March 6.
Damage estimated at $300,000 was
done here early today when fire de
stroyed the plant of the Northwestern
Auto Supply company. Oil and rub
ber accessories made the fire diffi
cult to fl.ht.
A furniture warehouse adjoining
the automobile plant also was con
sumed by the flames, damage to the
latter place being estimated at100.-000.
COSTA RICA ARMY
ROUTS
Attack Near Gulfo Dulce
Turned to Defeat.
GOTO RIVER GARRISON SLAIN
Canal Zone Troops Annihilate
50 of Enemy.
DEATH BATTALION FORMS
Many South Americans Reported
to Be Volunteering Tor Serv
ice, Says San Salvador.
SAN SALVADOR, March 6. Costa
Rlcan troops, when attacked by Pan-
aman forces near Gulfo Dulce, routed
the Panamans, who numbered more
than 1000, said a Costa Hican dis
patch today. In the Coto river re
gion, the dispatch said, 800 Fanaman
soldiers annihilated a garrison of 50
Costa P.icans.
Many South Americans and others
began volunteering for service in "a
battalion of death," being 'formed in
Costa P.ica, according to the dis
patch. REPLIES TO 2TOTES WAITED
So Further Orders for Use of Xaval
Forces Made Public.
WASHINGTON. D. C. March .
Anticipated replies to notes dis
patched yesterday calling on Panama
and Costa Rica to cease fighting and
adjust their difficulties by agree
Pient, occupied the attention of gov
ernment officials, who await the re
ception of President Harding's first
reeve in international affairs.
State department officials declared
no replies may be expected before to
morrow or Tuesday. It was gener
ally accepted that the notes virtually
demanded that the, two countries
agree to an armistice.
No further orders for use of naval
forces to enforce compliance with the
American demands were mde public.
Tlie vessels yesterday received orders
tj speed to regions off tha Atlantic
coast of Panama, prepared to inter
vene if necessary to protect Ameri
can life and property. ' A large area
in the zone of hostilities is dotted
with banana plantations of the United
Fruit company, an American concern.
Diplomatic representatives of both
countries gave out statements dis
ci ssing the situation.
Octavlo Bceche. Costa Rlcan mln-
(Concluded on Page 3. Column 3.)
WE IMAGINE WARREN SETS THE ALARM CLOCK
JAPAN MAY 'UNBEND
ON YAP CABLE STAND
MANDATORY RIGHTS WILL,
HOWEVER, BE HELD TO.
Concessions to United - States, as
Intimated, Would Be to Yield"
Possessipn of Guanj End.
TOKIO. March 4. Japan will not
yield on her mandatorlal rights on
the island of Yap, an official of the
foreign office told the Associated
Press today. She may, however, make
some concessions concerning dispo
sition of the Yap cable station, he
added.
The declaration of Viscount Ishil
this official continued, was made
upon his own initiative, but repre
sents, on the whole, the attitude
which Japan finally will take with
regard to the Tap question.
Disposition of the cables, he as
serted, is a matter for settlement by
the international conference on com
munlcattons, but Japan may make
concessions concerning the' Guam
line to the extent of handing over to
America the Guam end. Japan, how
ever, would continue to hold the Tap
end by virtue of her sovereignty
over the island.
Prima facie title to the cable was
contained by Japan during the war,
he maintained, when Japan cut the
Tap Guam cable.
Asked concerning Japan's attitude
toward the conference between the
United States, Great Britain and
Japan on disarmament, the official
replied Japan was not in a position to
speak definitely until such an invi
tation had been received.
Japan's frame of mind might be
surmised, however, he added, from
utterances of Foreign Minister
Uchida. agreeing in principle to Join
ing an international discussion of
armament limitation.
Newspapers continue today to com
ment on the refusal of the United
States to accept Japan as mandatory
for Tap.
Torodzu assails the United States
for seeking to "repudiate decisions of
he league of nations, as it is not a
member.
The Kokumln Shimbun says:
"If Japan offers an inch, America
will try to take a yard."
Commenting on a reported project
by the United States to increase the
Guam . fortifications, Nichi Nichi
thinks this will be a serious blow to
Japanese defense and "cannot but im
press Japanese nature as a challenge
by a country which is foremost in
attacking the Japanese as being mili
taristic." '
LEAP IN HOT TANK KILLS
Inmate of Asylum Commits Suicide
'in Boiling Water.
BEATRICE, Neb., March S. Peter
Truelson, 47, an inmate of the state
institution for feeble-minded, com
mitted suicide today by Jumping into
a cistern used as an exhaust for pipes
from the boiler house. It was nearly
full ofvboiling water.
He was dead before help could reach
him.
INAUGURAL TALK PUT
- ON SPOOL OF WIRE
HARDIXG'S WORDS ARE KEPT
BY TJXIQUE DEVICE.
Ten Miles of Steel Will Reproduce
'Address and Films Record
Event Whenever Desired.
WASHINGTON, March 6. (Special.)
Ten miles of thin steel wire, wound
on a spool, will carry President
Harding's inaugural speech to pos
terity, it was learned today. " In the
office of Representative Fordney, in
the northeast corner of the house
wing of the capitol and 250 feet away
from the platform on whieh tlie presi
dent stood, were the machines, com
binations of telegraph, telephone and
dictaphone, that recorded the. sounds
of the event
Using three machines, two com
plete records of his speech, the ap
plause and music were obtained by
F. H. Ernest of Washington and H. P.
O'Reilly of Springfield, Mass. Each of
these" contain five miles of wire,- it
was said, and one will be presented" to
the national museum and the other to
Mrs. Harding.
By running these wires through -the
reproducing machine 50 or 100 years
from now, Harding's full speech will
be heard by those now not even born
and, in conjunction with the motion
pictures of the event, a complete and
authentic story of the event will be
had.
The dictaphones, plugged into the
telegraphones, picked up the speech
that had been increased in volume by
loud-speaking telephones installed on
the stands. These sounds coming into
the transmitters activated a set of
electro-magnets that came into very
light contact with the steel wire, a
hundredth of an Inch thick, that was
run quickly between them from one
spool to another. These miles of
wire were magnetized in such a way
that when the machine was reversed
the sounds that went Into It were
reproduced accurately and distinctly.
The telegraphone, which accom
plished the recording, was invented
by Valdemar Poulson, a Dane, some
years ago. Although it reproduces
sound as docs the phonograph, it cW
not employ needles or wax discs, but
obtains the record by magnetizing the
steel wire. The dictaphone that re
ceived the sounds is called the "acous-
ticon," and is similar to that common
ly used in detective and other work.
GAMBLERS ARE HELD UP
Two Masked Robbers Take About
$500 From Victims.
SALT LAKE CITT, Utah, March 6
Two masked men held up six men in
a downtown gambling club last night
'Hands up! Everybody,'.' command
ed one of the robbers.
Then covering the gamblers with
his pistol he drew a bottle from his
pocket and held it as if to throw it at
the wall.
"This Is nitro-glyerine," he shouted,
"and if any of you birds attempt to
queer this deal I'll blow up the Joint.1
The men were forced to face the
wall and the other robber searched
them. The pair got $500. ,
EARLY NOWADAYS.
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GAB NET
ARE JUST NATURAL
Straightforward and Sim-
pie Typical of AH.
MRS. COOLIDGE IS EXAMPLE
Laundries Too Expensive, Is
Comment on Housework.
SON OCCUPIES MRS. HAYS
Life Companions of Xew Members
of Congress Also Hope Ardently
to Be Credit to Them.
BT ZONA GALE.
WASHINGTON. D. C, March 6.
(Special.) Already the .women of the
new administration seem to "belong."
After meeting them one knows why.
They are that which the west knows
as "natural."
"Is she natural?" You hear the
west asking about a visitor from the
east. By this they mean to ask
whether she speaks without accent,
acts without affectation. As soon as
an eastern visitor opens har lips in
the west she is classified: She Is na
tural or she Is affected. These words
are no less than a definition.
The women of the new adminlstra"
tlon are "natural."
Mra. .Coolldice Is Example
For example, Mrs. Coolidge: She
is as straightforward and simple as
nature herself or as Mrs. Harding.
The Coolidge suite at the New Wil
lard, which is to be the family's home,
looks now like the rooms of an opera
star or like a hot house, with Ameri
can beauties as tall as a woman and
potted tulips doing their utmost. .In
their midst is one of the Coolidge
boys, learning to use the typewriter.
Mrs. Coolidge in dark blue it is an
administration the tastes of which
run to dark blue, to Judge by the
clothes of the wives came along the
flowers and observed that -her chief
occupation was her boys and Mr.
Coolidge.
"But I have had little domestic
life," Bhe said. "We have usually
lived at hotels. I know little of do
mestic problems."
I asked her about one sentence in
President Harding's inaugural ad
dress to which it seemed to me that
women would object, either for them
selves or for other women.
President's Words Weighed.
"We. want," said the president, "an
America of homes, illumined with
hope and' happiness where mothers,
freed from the necessity of Ions
hours of toil beyond their own doors,
may preside" and so on. Without
regard to that Impossible wavlnr
back to their homes of the throng of
marrlod women, increasing yearly,
engaged in gainful occupations or of
its desirability, there is here another
point.
"Freed from the necessity of long
hours of toil 'beyond' their own
doors." What of the long hours of
toil within those doors?
"I thought of that too," said Mrs.
Coolidge quickly. "But what are we t(.
do? The problem Is different for
every woman."
Laundries Too Expensive.
I said something of that sentence
of the address being very close to the
practices of the "founding fathers"
and a long way from the new day
when housework shall no longer be
confused with marriage and with
motherhood for all save those who
can afford to separate them. And I
spoke also of municipal laundries and
kitchens, and of eight-hour home as
sistants.
Hard on the clothes and too ex
pensive yet," said Mrs. Coolidge.
Women who comment on this pos
sible new order of home-making us
ually do it in one of two ways. In
credulously or thoughtfully. Mrs.
Coolidge's comment was distinctly
thoughtful, even wistful. She will
recognize a new order, though she
would not be one to Inaugurate it.
Just as she was Interested In suffrage
without taking an active part in the
campaign.
The wife of the vice-president is
cnarming, inenaiy, open-minded
woman. The east will like her be
cause she Is charming. The west will
like her because she is "natural."
Mra. Hays Girllah, Simple.
So is Mrs. Hays though she was
for three years at a Nw York board
ing school not especially ambitious
in that direction. Girlish, simple, di
rect, genuine, there could be no one
less like the old-world idea of a
statesman's wife, no one more like
the young wives and mothers of the
country at large. She is frankly go
ing to enjoy Washington, where she
ha3 been but once before and then
for only a week. But again, her chief
occupation is her five-year-old boy.
Reasonably fond of society, liking
to meet people, wishing to be in
formed in public matters, interested
n Red cross or uirj scouts, averse
to publicitiy, concerned with school
matters," disliking to make speeches
the tastes and pursuits of the women
of tha cabinet 'are along the same
lines. Some of them were suffragists
and some were not; all havo done
more or less charity work and that
remedial work which even tho con
structionists ad-mit must be done
And In all these women and In the
wives of the new members of con-
(Concluded on fas. A Column 2.)
BOY, 14, DISAPPEARS;
MYSTERY VEILS FATE
ACTO HITS AXD DRIVES OFF
WITH LAD SAME DAY.
Sheriff Believes Ray Stager or Van.
oouver May Have Been young
ster Struck by Car.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. March 6.
Mystery surrounds the fata of 14-year-old
Ray Stager, son of Mr. and
Mrs. A. L. Stager, who disappeared
last Friday afternoon shortly after
he rode on his bicycle out of the
front yard of his home on Harney
street, between Eleventh and Twelfth.
That same afternoon, shortly after
the Stager lad left home, an automo
bile was reported to have hit a boy
riding a bicycle on Kaufman avenue.
The unidentified driver stopped and
picked up the injured lad. possibly
the Stager boy, pot the bicycle In the
yard of a house nearby and drove off
btfore anyone could make inquiries
or ascertain the number of the ma
chine. The automobilist later , that after
noon returned to the scene of the
accident and took the boy's bicycle,
loaded It into the car and again drove
away.
No report of this accident was made
to the police nor, so far as the sheriff
cbuld learn, did any lad receive medi
cal attention at the hospital here or
from any Vancouver physician.
The sheriff has begun a search for
tho automobile driver In the hope
that he may be ablo to throw some
light on the Stager boy's disappear
ance. Descriptions of tho boy have been
sent td Portland and nearby cities,
but the sheriff fears that tho lad may
have been the victim of the automo
bilist or of some other accident.
The Stager boy left home without
his coat and with only a "jazz" cap.
The boy's father is a bridtfeworker
employed near Seattle.
SOUTHEAST RAILROAD IDLE
Trains Halted by Strike Because of
Reduclion in Wages.
ATLANTA, Ga., March 6. With
approximately 1500 employes on strike
and with every train idle. B. L. Bugs,
receiver of the Atlanta, Birmingham
& Atlantic railroad, announced to
night arrangements were being made
to employ new men and resume
schedules.
Mr. Bugg declared that "at no time
have the employes suggested nego
tiating a more acceptable basis of re
duction than that proposed."
MACON, Ga., March 6. Railroad
crafts In tho southeast, according to
information tonight, have started tak
ing a vote on striking in sympathy
with the employes of the Atlanta,
Birmingham & Atlantic railroad.
WHISKY BOATJS SEIZED
Canadian Seine Craft Beached, Bui
Occupants Make lvscapc.
SEATTLE; Wash., M f rch 6
Beached by its crew after pursuit by
a harbor patrol boat, the Canadian
seln boat Night Dwl was seized early
this morning by police who declared
they found 110 cases of whisky
aboard the vessel.
The seizure was said by police to
havo been one of the largest ever
m:.dc in Puget sound waters. The
alleged whisky runners escaped in
the darkness.
INDEX OF TODAY'S NEWS
The Weather.
YESTERDAY'S Maximum temperature,
40 degrees; minimum, 40 dejereea.
TODAY'S Showers; westerly winds.
Foreign.
Brieadler-seneral slain in Irish ambush.
Page 2.
Japan may unbend on Yap cable stand.
Page 1.
Capture of Kronstadt by Russlnn revolu-
tlonists eonnrmea in iopennagen ad
vices. Page 2.
Costa Rlcan army routs Panamans near
Gulfo Dulce. Page 1.
Europe counts on American leadership In
world reconstruction. Pago 4.
Germany expected to make better offer
on reparations at comorenca louay.
Page 5.
National.
Mexico offers Pacific coast best trade field,
savs Taroman, back from tour of re
public. Page 3.
Wives of cabinet members are Just
straightforward, simple women. Page 1.
Harding's Inaugural address recorded on
spool of wire. Page 1.
Lid to be clamped tighter on distribution
of intoxicants. Page 4.
Domestic,
Ethel Barrymore, famous actress, about to
separate from her husband. Page 8.
Second sub-chaser Joins vessel at Miami
which halted cable-laying with a shot
Saturday. Page. 5.
Liquor smuggler Is New Tork's latest and
most spectacular spender. Page J3.
Parlfie Northwest.
Walla Walla high school girls vote penalty
of suspension ir viumiiuu. di areas re
form code. Page 1.
Garage man shot to death In car. Page 1.
Ochoco demonstration farm will solve prob
lems for settlors. Page 14.
Control of appla scald discovered. Page 14.
Idaho legislature ends session with last
minute untangling of appropriation leg
islation. Page 14.
Vancouver boy. 14. disappears; mystery
veils fate. Page 1.
Pports.
Seattle players show snappiness In work
out. Page a.
Ball team accused of naughty pranks.
Page .
Legion will vote on boxing; tonight.
Page 8.
Commercial and Marine.
Twenty-two steamers slated to come via
canaL i-agu .
Portland and Vicinity.
Liquor flood over old world 'warned.
Page 7.
Portland vegetable oil mills matures plans
for early construction of plant. Page 13.
Portland nurse, head of Chinese hospital,
tells of dire need in famine districts.
Page 16.
Nation-wide poll favors retention of In-
come tax in country's revenue system.
Pae 15. .
UnreMt in Chinatown may mean more long
fighting. Page 4.
Bruno, s' a cook, alleged to have con-
fossed to slaying Pawluk in smuggling
loot row. Page 1.
SMUGGLER
ADMITS
HE KILLEDJS PAL
Bruno Says Woman Was
With Pawluk, Too.
COMPANION FLEES SCENE
Name Not Given in Confession
to District Attorney.
KILLING DATE FORGOTTEN
Suspect, Captured at Sealllo, De
clares Fight Occurred ar
Where Body Was Found,
John B. Kawacinskl, alias John
Bruno, admitted last night that he
had killed his pal. Harry I. O. Pawluk,
In a confession to District Attorney
Evans after Bruno's arrival In the
city. Bruno maintained that tin
killing was done in self-defense after
Pawluk had attacked him.
Kawaclnsk was said to have ad
mitted that 'after ho had struck
Pawluk twice on tho head with his
cane, struck him twice with his re
volver and then shot him twice, that
It resulted in Pawluk's death.
Kawaclnskt was brought to Port
land from Seattle at 10:15 last night
by Deputy Sheriffs Chrtstof ferson and
Beckman. They wero met at th
train by the district attorney who
Immediately took the prisoner to his
office In an errort to establish tho
date of the crime and uncover de
tailed information.
Woman Involved In Case.
In referring to the "accident." Ka
wacinskl was said to have told au
thorities that li am: Pawluk, ac
companied by a woman of Pawluk's
acquaintance, were walking to a
road house. When they reached tho
point on tho Barnes road at which
tho murder was committed, the pris
oner said that Pawluk reproached
him, before tho woman, fpr hounding
him for J.1"0 which ho owed .him.
Kawacinskl told of how ho struck
Pawluk with his -ane. Ho 6ali that
Pawluk drew his revolver, snapped
the trigger but It failed to go off
When ho struck Pawluk again with
the cane, he said, ho dropped the gun.
Kuwacinski picked It up, and said
that ho struck Pawluk twice with
It, then shot him where ho lay.
The prisoner was unable to give
the name of the woman w ho was with
thein. Ho told the district attorney
that she ran away at the beginning
of the fight, lie said that he had
not seen her since and that he did
not know her name, as she was Paw
luk's girl.
.HniURgUnc Deal Involved.
Tho trouble was the outcome, ap
parently, of a smuggling deal in
which JiH'O worth of silks was in
volved. The prisoner said that ho had
advanced $100 toward their purchase,
but that the matter was handled by
Pawluk. Arriving in Portland, th
customs officials discovered evidence
of the silks, which were hidden In
Pawluk's bunk on board the steamer
Montague, They demanded the duty,
which amounted to 1250. Falling to
get that sum, the silks would bo a
l total loss.
Acting upon Instructions from raw
luk, KawacinsK! said that he wont to
the Western Union and sent a tele
gram to a Dr. George C. Donys, Sun
Francisco, asking him to forward tlx
1 250. An answer was received in the
negative.
Kawacinskl w-is then thought to
have reproached Pawluk for causing
him tho loss of his J100 investment
In the smuggling deal.
Murder Date !Vot Itrcollcd.
Kawacinskl could not givo the
definifJ dat.o of the murder, or acci
dent, as he called It. Ho maintained
that the killing was done after Feb
ruary 16, although even by the aid
of telegrams, ho was unablo to namu
the date. If tho deductions of tlie
district attorney and deputy sheriffs
prove correct, the body of the slain
man lay where It fell for six days
After the death of Tawluk, Kawa
cinskl said that ne continued to send
telegrams to Dr. Donys at San Fran
cisco, In the hope of getting the U'50
and retrieving the Bilks. He identi
fied copies of the telegrams w hich ho
had sent to San Francisco, declaring
that the first one had been sent whilo
Pawluk wus alive, out tnai tne re
mainder had been sent following tho
death.
The prisoner swauowra ma
puckered his lips as he talked, en
deavoring to recall the exact sequence
of events which ended in the death of
Pawluk.'but he was compelled to say,
quite frequently, that he did not re
member. Although he was said to
have confessed to the killing, ho
quailed at the thought of murder, re
ferring to the killing at all times as
the accident,"
Pair Jnlled aa Smugglera,
The first night ashore for Pawluk
and Kawacinskl was on February 13.
Trouble for the pair started almost
immediately with their arrest on Hie
charge of smuggling. Allhough the
two men had been quarreling, accord
ing to their shipmates, ail the way
across the Facifio ocean while at
their culfnary duties on the steamer
Montague, they still hung together
as friends, prohnbly on sccount of
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