THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAK, PORTLAJTD, 'JANUARY 2S, 1Q17.
GILL IS
PROMINENT FIGURES IN SEATTLE GRAFT INDICTMENTS.
Edwards' 40th Annual Furniture Sale Will Close
Saturday, Feb. 3 Choose This Week and Save Big
WE BELIEVE in "short engagements" and long-time furniture payments at our store. Both
are big factors in making happy homes where otherwise there'd be single unblessedness and
a hall bedroom. We- believe in the services to mankind of the arts and sciences, but we find
- it a lot of fun just helping make happy homes for people. We like the practical service we can
render our friends in extending the advantages of credit and selling furniture at prices that put a
premium on camping in a boarding-house or a stuffy apartment. Saturday night this 6ale will end.
We want everyone interested in furniture to enjoy the prices now prevailing because, with the pres
ent rising market, it may be a long time before such an opportunity is presented again. Payments
on articles purchased this week will not be due
FOR TAKING
BRIBE
Seattle Mayor Is Accused of
Part in Conspiracy to Ship
4 in Liquor Cargoes.
POLICE CHIEF INVOLVED
2
INDICTED
$4000 Said to Have Been Paid for
Police Protection to Importers.
Ex-Policeman Faces Charge .
of Witness Intimidation.
Contlmied From First Page.
indictment, and tfiat he would be a
candidate for re-election in 1918. If
convicted of a felony the Mayor would
be removed automatically.
All of the defendants, 13 in num
ber, are charged Jointly with con
epiracy in one indictment, with the
exception of Mullen, who is accused
Singly.
Police Protection Charged.
Mayor GUI, Chief Becklngham and
Hodge, together with the four city de
tectives, who are former members of
the waterfront division of the police
dry squad, are charged with plotting
with the Billingsleys to t ship huge
quantities of whisky into Seattle under
organized official and police protection.
Mayor Gill is accused by the Govern
ment with bavins accepted a bribe of
$4000 last Summer from Logan Bll
lingsley at the time the alleged con
spiracy began.
Chief Accused of Bribes.
Several' Instances where Chief Beck
Ingham took substantial bribes from
the Billingsleys and in which it is
charged. 4ie aided tnem to steal liquor
consigned to other persons, are alleged
by the . Federal authorities in the
charges against the police officials.
Hodge also Is charged with taking
praft money from the whisky ring,
and, together with the Mayor and the
police, with providing the syndicate
with protection for its illicit opera
tone. The Billlngsley brothers and Plelow,
as well as Frazler, are at liberty un
der bond.
SHOO Given Chief, Say Witnesses.
The grand Jury heard testimony that
Chief Becklngham took $600 in return
fop an allacred atteirmt bv him to aid
the Billingsleys' to acquire 60 cases of
whisky stored in the Star Carriage
"Works, South Seattle. Becklngham, the
witness said, did not deliver the liquor,
tout kept the money.
Becklngham was also accused of ac
cepting a bribe of $500 In Fred Bil
llngsley's rooms in an apartment-house
for effecting the arrest of E. J. Margett,
the ex-policeman, release of two of Bil
lingsleys drivers and surrender by the
police of a Blllingsley motor truck.
Testimony was given that the first
money Fred Blllingsley gave to Beck
lngham was a $100 Mil, "a token of
goott will and esteem."
The Government alleges that the
$4000 bribe was paid to Mayor Gill by
Logan Blllingsley in the Mayor's office
and that on the same day Gill entered
into a compromise with Blllingsley,
Blllingsley getting the documentary
evidence obtained in a raid and drop
ping his suit over the wrecking of his
drug store.
Gill Said to Have Got 4000.
According to testimony of Logan Bll
lingsley, when he and Gill met In the
Mayor's office Gill signified to Bll
lingsley that he (GUI) knew of police
graft. V
"The trouble is you ought to pay
your fare to the right conductor," Gill
Is alleged to have declared.
Billlngsley alleges he Immediately
seized the opportunity to suggest that
he pay the Mayor graft money in
monthly installments for protection,
and that the Mayor replied he didn't
care to do business on that basis.
"I want mine in a lump sum," Gill
Is alleged to have replied.
After a few more words the bribe
Js alleged to have been passed, Logan
handing over $1000 in a huge roll, con
sisting of $100 bills, which he alleges
the Mayor promptly grabbed and put
in his pocket.
According to testimony before the
rrand Jury ex-Sheriff Hodge received
$1500 from the Billingsleys for pro
tection. One thousand dollars was giv
en to Hodge's collector, the Government
alleges, as a contribution to Hodge's
campaign for the Governorship, and
Hodge used it in payment on an auto
mobile. The other $500 was handed to
Hodye by Logan Blllingsley at the
County Jail, according? to the testi
mony. Alaskan Liquor Intercepted.
The principal indictment charpes that
on March 1, last. Logan Billlngsley and
Fred Blllingsley had billed and con
signed to Peter Carleton. of Juneau;
Tim Vogel. of Haines, Alaska; John
Amber, of Alaska, and James Brennan.
of Petersburg. Alaska, quantities ot
liquor under fictitious names, and to
the pharmacies being conducted in Se
attle by the Billingsleys, known as the
Arket. Market, Raymer and Quail
. pharmacies; that the liquors so con-
signed were purchased from Jesse
' Moore Hunt, of San Francisco, and
. dipped to Seattle by said concern, and
' that with the knowledge of the defend
. Ant were delivered to persons other
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Ton Mayor Hiram C. GUI. Inflicted o n Charge of Accepting Bribe. Below
(Left) Ex-Sheriff Robert T. Hodge. Indicted, and (Right) Clarence L. I
Rma. United states Diatrtc Attorney for Oregon. Vho Is Actlns as
Bpecim riviecoior.
DO YOU SUFFER
FROM BACKACHE?
When your kidneys are weak and
torpid they do not properly perform
their functions: your back aches and
you do not feel like doing much of
anything. Tou are likely to be de
spondent and to borrow trouble. Just
as if you hadn't enough already. Don't
be a victim any longer.
The old reliable medicine. Hood's
Sarsaparilla. gives strength and tone
to the kidneys and builds up the whole
erstem.
Hood's Sarsapartlla is a peculiar
combination of roots, barks and herbs.
No other medicine acts like it. because
no other meatcine has the same formula
or ingredients. Accept no substitute.
but Insist on having Hood's, and get it
toaay. Bold by all druggists.
Superfluous Hair.
Any woman can rmov ungtlrhtly
hair without dlacomfort or injury to
the most daHcat tikln by simply apply
ing to the sft-fted. part a paste made
l.y addlns; a little water to Lemos&nt.
a perfumed powder. Upon its removal
In to or three minutes the skin will be
found smooth and hairless. A single
application usually suffices for the
most obstinate growths. Demosant Is
perfumed and will not Irrltat or dis
figure. roes not stimulate the growth
or mw hair. Fully guaranteed. For
50 cents one can obtain a generous sup.
ply by mall In plain wrapper from the
Ksbencott Laboratories. Portland. Or.,
or any dng or department store can
supply It. Trial sum for 35 cents, which
la not perfumed. , . .
WMeeeeveAseeewsw,
than to whom consigned without writ-.
ten orders. I
Copies of a number of bills of lading
of these shipments were set out in the
indictment.
Billlngsleyo Plead Guilty.
Indicted December 22 for conspir
acy to violate the Federal liquor laws,
the Billingsleys early this month en
tered pleas of guilty in the United
States District Court and became star
witnesses for the Government in its
quest of the alleged higher ups In the
ring.
Bench warrants for the arrest of the
defendants were issued today by Judge
Jeremiah Neterer, of the Federal
Court, immediately following the re
turn of the indictments, and were
placed in the hands of Deputy Marshals
for service.
910,000 Fine Possible.
The offense charged against Gill,
Beckingham and Hodge, as well as the
others named in the conspiracy indict
ment, upon conviction, is punishable by
imprisonment for two years in the pen
itentiary or a fine of $10,000, or both,
on each of the two counts.
Mayor Gill, who had looked for the
indictment. Issued a statement early In
January, In which he defied his enemies
and declared he would prove his inno
cence of any charge made against him.
Mayor Gill's attack on the office of
Clay Allen, of Seattle. United States
District Attorney, led to the appoint
ment ot Clarence L. Realties, of Port
land, United States District Attorney,
as special prosecutor after Attorney
General Gregory had said that the cases
did -not require such a prosecutor.
Women Recall GUI.
Mayor Gill has had a stormy career
in the past seven years. In March.
1910. after he had been in city politics
l- years, most or tnat time Council.
man. Gill was elected Mayor of Se
attle.
Almost immediately his administra
tion was assailed for alleged toleration
of vice, and In the Spring of 1911 Gill
was removed from office by the recall,
with women voting for the first time
Subsequently. Charles W. Wappenstein.
Gill's chief of Police, was sentenced to
the state penitentiary for accepting a
bribe.
Gill ran for Mayor in 1912. asking
vindication, and was defeated, but in
1914 he was elected Mayor by an enor
mous majority, running as a good gov
ernment candidate and being supported
by many persons who were prominent
in the movement that recalled hint.
Gill was re-elected Mayor in March,
1916.
Bars Often Raided.
When the prohibition law was adopted
Gill promised that it would be rigidly
enforced, and raids upon bars at which
liquor was sold in violation of law re
sulted in demolition of fittings valued
at nearly $100,000 and seisura .-nd
demolition of vast supplies of liquor.
Gill has been a champion of the pro
hibition law. writing and sneaking in
its favor and receiving much commen
dation from prohibition leaders. Only
last week the state officers of the Wom
en's Christian Temperance Union sent
Gill a letter expressing their confidence
in him.
Becklngham was appointed Chief of
Police from private life, and is a close
personal friend of Gill.
Moose Candidate Involves.
Robert T. Hodge, three times Sheriff
of King County, was Progressive can
didate for Governor in 1912. and spoke
from the same platform with Theodore
Roosevelt, who praised his ability as a
campaign orator. Hodge sought the
Republican nomination for Governor
last Fall, but was defeated in the pri
maries. Logan and Fred Billlngsley came to
Seattle early last year and opened a
drugstore. They are said to be well
known In West Virginia and Oklahoma.
Their drugstore wag demolished by the
police, and stores of liquor owned by
them were seized and destroyed. A
street fight outside a Blllingsley ware
house in Seattle last Summer resulted
In two policemen and a Billlngsley
watchman belnr shot dead.
Mayor Gill said:
"It is not any more than I expected,
but I shall be vindicated beyond any
question of a doubt. It is an outrage
that such an action can be put over on
the statements of such cattle as the
Federal authorities seem to have seen
fit to utilize.
"There is not a single allegation in
this indictment which could not have
been controverted had the District At
torney seen fit to verify It by the sum
moning of witnesses other than dis
credited bootleggers and murderers.
"The letter I wrote to Mr. Caldwell
figures strongly in the indictment, yet
the occasion for this letter could easily
have been ascertained had they chosen
to question Councilmen Willl.'m Hick
man Moore. Reginald H. Thomson or
Cecil B. Fitzgerald, with whom I con
ferred before submitting the letter to
the Corporation Counsel.
Vindication la Expected.
"In addition, you may say for me
that I am not in the least frightened,
and shall not resign. Furthermore, I
shall be a candidate for re-election in
1918. and you may bank on that right
now, and Seattle will again vindicate
me."
Charles L. Becklngham, Chief of
Police, said:
"It is an absolute injustice both to
myself and the Mayor. We have fought
hard to rid this city of the Billingsleys!
and their like, and we have accom
plished a great deal. I stand ready to
submit every act of mine since 1 be
came Chief of Police to the public and
am ashamed of nothing in my career as
head of this body.
"That I ever had any connection or
understanding with the Billlngsley
Bros, or any one else dealing In illegal
liquor Is absolutely untrue In every
particular. Never has one cent of bribe
money been received by me, and the
word of men like the Billlngsreys and
their associates will never stand be
fore a court of law."
Hodge Bays It la Absard.
Hodge said: .'
"The Indictment is an absurdity. My
conscience is clear. I shall be vindi
cated." The indicted detectives express sur
prise, but declined to discuss the case.
On September 17. or virtually one
month after the Billingsleys alleged
they 'got to the higher ups." a letter
was written by Mayor Gill to Hugh M.
Caldwell. Corporation Counsel, and this
letter, which is incorporated into the
indictment, in part is as follows:
Office of The Mayor. Seattle. Sept. 2T. 1B1.
Hugh M. Caldwell, Corporation Counsel.
My Dear ylr:
Mr. Vanderveer tiu turned over to me
releases of all claims for damages by reason
of the destruction of the Day and "Night
Irug 5tore and the Stewart Street Phar
macy, together with a general release from
all claims to which the Billingsleys have
any claim. He has also given release to
tha Chief of Pollca and myself of all claim
by reason of alleged unlawful arrest ou
murder charges against Kred and Logan
Blllingsley. He also states that he hat
glvsn you a stipulation of dismissal of th
case of Hazlett vs. the City, the Chief and
myself by reason of the destruction of the
Ktewart Street Drug Store, which Huxlett
claims. (Signed H. C. GILL, Mayor.
This agreement took place early in
September, so it is alleged, and from
that time until several weeks after the
arrest of Margett. the Billingsleys
claim to have received shipments valued
at up to $10,000 weekly.
Rival Rings Fall Out.
The arrest of Margett, which is al
leged to have been brought about by
a tip sent Chief of Police Becklngham
I by Fred Billlngsley, brought about s
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Dining Table, with
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$24.00 48-inch ton. eight-
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Closing-Out Sale Odd Pairs
Lace Curtains
Odd pairs of Iace Curtains being closed
out now at the following prices:
$1.50 Ecru at 98d
$3.50 Ecru at. $2.49
$2.75 Scrim at.... SS1.7.N
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Linoleum Remnants
Special
If you can use the following Linoleum
remnants you will find them, upon in
vestigation, to be worth double the
price now asked:
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Two and one-sixth yards Inlaid.
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Four yards Irtlald, worth $5.40.. $2. SO
Seven and two-thirds yards In
laid, worth $11.50 $6.85
Two yards Print, worth $1.60... t8(?
Three and three-fourths yards
Print, worth $3.00 $1.70
Out-of-Town Folks
Your Credit Is Good
If you live out of town you can
use your credit at Edwards' and
enjoy the same service as the city
patron. Any article advertised
above promptly shipped upon re
ceipt of order. It you are dis
satisfied, return the goods at our
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rupture between rival importers of il
licit liquor. I
When Margett was discharged from
the police department, he went to work
for the Billingsleys and was affiliated
with them for several weeks. Accord-!
ing to Logan Blllingsley. he later de
cided .to branch out for himself, and
went to San Francisco, where he
formed an alliance with the Jesse
Moore-Hunt Company. through E.
D. Baker, the lame combination with
whom the Billingsleys had transacted
business, and entered Into competition.
Certain shipments designed for the
Billingsleys were intercepted fre
quently about October 1. and the
brothers concluded that Margett had
brought this about through his friend
ship for certain police officers.
Mayor Kasnes Cooncllmfn.
They planned reprisals, so Logan as
serts, and one night while the elder
of the Billingsleys was out of the city,
Fred .called up Chief Becklngham,
which resulted in Margett's arrest on
October 10. On his person at the time
were the documents which rormed tne
foundation for the Federal investiga
tion. To save himself, so the .Billingsleys
assert. Margett. after being arrested
by the Federal authorities, proposed to
"show up" the opposition forces. The
result of this has already been cited,
and then the Billlngsley brothers had
ihfir inninsr. so they assert. '
This is the letter Mayor Gill refers
to in refuting the charges against him
He declares that his intention in writ
ing this letter some time before he
actually has indicated it would have
been ascertained by th Federal grand
Jury had they desired to question re
liable witnesses, and cites councilmen
William Hickman Moore. Reginald H
Thomson and Cecil B. Fitzgerald as
men with whom he conferred relative
to the releases requested by the BI1
Ungsleya.
This deal, however, -seemed to im
press the grand Jury as implicating
the Mayor and he chief, for It forms
prominent part in the indictment.
Hodge Mentioned In Telegram.
Another document, which is embraced
in the indictment, is a telegram sent
to the Jesse Moore-Hunt Company and
signed Joe Bush (anpther alias used
by Logan Billlngsley). which reads, in
part, as follows:
Old boss aaka us to keep low. Grand
Jury In session, and troublemakers are act
ive. We have decided to make expenses
anyhow. Ship In barrel West Fotnt and one
barrel bulk every other day. duik wnisay.
In Mr. of O w T . 1 o v d Transfer Company.
care Alaska. Wire Sheriff HoJie to release
his goods and let them, so to Alaska.
. . . . . . i - rii-ciT
The old boss referred to In this tele-
gram is alleged by the Billingsleys.
according- to what little of their con
fession is obtainable, to refer to Mayor
Gill. At any rate, they point out that
from the time the agreement was
reached between the Mayor and At
torney Vanderveer they received more
whisky into this city than ever Deiore.
GOVERNMENT'S CASE IS READY
Mr. Ilea in es Says Witnesses Can Be
Called to Trial Quickly.
Clarence Reames, of Portland. United
States District Attorney, who is special
prosecutor in the graft charges at Seat
tle, returned to Portland yesterday
after having presented the cases to the
Federal grand Jury. He says the Gov
ernment will be ready to go to trial at
any time with two weeks' notice. He
expects requests for an early trial
owing to -the prominence- of the de
fendants. "We have our information all to
gether and our witnesses can be
reached on short notice," said Mr.
Reames last night. "As to our case I
am not in position to say anything
more at this time than that the facts
were presented to the grand Jury and
the indictments returned. I was: ap
pointed special prosecutor in the cases
because of assertions made through the
Seattle newspapers by Mayor Gill that
the United States District Attorney's
office at Seattle was antagonistic to
him."
Mr. Reames expects to return to Se
attle early this week.
That concessions have been made to
the Billingsleys in the way of immun
ity from Imprisonment and assurances
that they would get off with a fine,
while promises have been made to Mar
gett and Baker of Immunity in return
for their testimony are suspected in Se
attle. Mr. Reames. when asked as to
the truth of this report, said:
"No immunity has been offered that
I know anything about."
911,363 PAYS GIXLi'S NOTES
Mayor Gets Fees From Estate as He
Appears In Liquor Csc.
SEATTLE, Wash.. Jan. 27. (Special.)
At the same hour that Mayor GUI was
appearing in Federal Court today to
deposit ball on the indictment returned
against him by the Federal grand Jury.
Judge King Dykman.tln Superior Court,
was entering an order awarding him
$11,363.43 for his services aa executor
of the estate of J. J. Ferguson. H. B.
Hovt and H. 8. Frye. of the law firm
of Olll. Hovt Frve. got $12.000 for
TVkoleMle Retail
Estasillakesi lo.
Oriental Rugs
Buy Now and Save
25
NeTer Again Will Yon Have Such
an Opportunity
Cartozian Bros.
Importers of Oriental Rujra.
Washington at Tenth, Pittock BIk.
their services as attorneys in the pro
bate of tbe will.
Simultaneously with the filing of
these papers an assignment of Mayor
nrllie1 on Pup. 3 rnMimn 4 1
IF KIDNEYS A3T
BAD TAKE SALTS
Says Backache Is Sign You Ilave
Been Eating Too Much
Meat
When you wake up with backache
and dull misery in the kidney region It
generally means you have been eating
too much meat, says a well-known au
thority. Meat forms uric acid which
overworks the kidneys In their effort
to filter it from the blood and they
become sort of paralysed and loggy.
When your kidneys get sluggish and
clog you must relieve them, like you
relieve your bowels; removing all the
body's urinous waste, else you have
backache, sick headache, dixsy spells;
your stomach sours, tongue is coated,
and when the weather is bad you have
rbeumatio twinges. The urine Is cloudy,
full of-sediment, channels often get
sore, water scalds, and you are obliged
to seek relief two or three times during
tbe night.
Either consult a good, reliable physi
cian at once or get from your pharma
cist about four ounces of Jad Salts;
take a tablespoonf ul in a glass of wa
ter before breakfast for a few days and
your kidneys will then act flue. This
famous salts Is made from the acid of
grapes and lemon Juice, combined with
lithia. and has been used for genera
tions to clean and stimulate sluggish
kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the
urine so It no longer irritates, thus
ending bladder weakness.
Jad Suits is a life-saver for regular
meat eaters. It Is Inexpensive, cannot
Injure and makes a delightful, effer
vescent litUla-w,ler arujk. Adv.