TITE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX, TORTLAXD, . OCTOBER 2, 1921
Mile GUILTY,
DEATH IS PENALTY
Wife Slayer Grips Chair as
Verdict Is Read.
FOUR WOMEN ON JURY
Each Answers Poll by Firmly De
claring That Death Is Pre
scribed Punishment.
(Continued From F1r,t Tag.)
he was thinking of the lime at woik
.n the trunk in Lake Union," declared
Patterson.
charged with killing his elderly bride
on April It last for her money and
-throwing- a trunk containing her body
in Lake Union here, was given to the
Jury in superior court here at 6:30
o'clock tonight. Four women and
eight men compose the jury.
As the bands on the clock above the
Jury box moved toward the hour
when. Prosecuting Attorney Douglas
was to close the last argument of an
11 days' trial, there was little that
could b revealed to the cursory
glance to set this day out as differing
from any other of the trial. Yet In
the courtroom a subtle atmosphere of
restrained emotion, of nervous In
tensity was plain.
All morning faces in the courtroom
were grave. There was a titter when
Defense Counsel Sen wellenbach re
ferred slightly of Detective Majewskl
as a companion for one of the state's1
star witnesses, Gus C. Johnston. But
it was the Involuntary laugh of such
as will sometimes come from a high
strung person witnessing the action
of a consummate tragedian on the
stage. The titter swept like a sum
mer breeze through the courtroom,
then was gone.
Interest detached Itself from the
witness chair, now empty, to counsel
pleading their cases. Auditors stole
glances at the family group at the
defense table Mahoney, Mrs. Dolores
Johnson, his sister; Mrs. Nora Ma
honey, the mother, and Margaret, the
accused man's 12-year-old niece.
There seemed to be little life or
color In this group. The mother and
sister of Mahoney were dressed In
the black in which they first ap
peared in the courtroom on Septem
ber 20. Airs. Johnson was pale, Mar
garet's face wore a pinched look and
she appeared dazed and troubled.
When Attorney Sch wellenbach
picked up the rope which was tied
around the trunk found In Lake
Union, in which the state alleges was
the body of Kate Mahoney, the de
fendant watched his counsel Intently.
Sch wellenbach held up to the Jury
the noose to which It was alleged a
smaller anchor rope was attached.
Mahoney's eyes were rivted on the
exhibit and he continued to regard
It, even after Sch wellenbach let It
fall to the floor.
This was the greatest sign of In
terest he gave in the morning pro
ceedings, lie played with a tooth
pick as a man with nothing to Jo
will finger a plpestem or pencil. Ha
chewed gum.
"Shall -the punishment for this
crime be death?" cried Patterson in
his summation Mahoney's Jaws
clamped down regularly on the gum
he was chewing "I say that It
should." The defendant stopped chew
ing. Hut he began again soon after.
For the second time in the trial Mrs.
Johnson broke down and cried. Mr.
Schwellenbach was Impressing the
Jury with the seriousness of their
task.
"When you go Into the Jury room
you take with you a human life," he
said, "and If you render a verdict of
guilty, within 30 days Jim Mahoney
will be hanged by the neck until he
is dtad."
The sister of the defendant cried
silently, her face in her handkerchief.
Mrs. Mahoney retained an air of
stolidity, her head slightly raised in
the attitude of one who either does
not easily give rein to her emotions
or doggedly restrains them.
Mrs. Johnson, referred to by Mr.
Patterson as "the brains of the fam
ily," sat beside her brother. Hitherto
Margaret has been close to his side.
If the state made sensational Impli
cations In Its summation yesterday,
the defense made even more startling
charges today.-
"Cuptaln Charley Tennant framed
the alleged confession Mahoney made
in the detective department on AugUBl
. after the discovery of the trunk."
Mr. Schwellenbach shouted. "He put
words in his mouth that would seem
like a confenslon."
Earlier, defense counsel said: "It
Is very Improbable that the trunk
could have been in the location where
the detective department thought it
was and not have been found during
the 28 days when divers were search
ing for it. During the 'Wayfarer'
performances, the search was sus
pended. It was said detectives could
not be spared for the search then.
Tbey began dragging again on August
3. Within five days they found a
trunk. There was something peculiar
abut conditions on the lake."
Counsel declared a guilty man
would not have placed in a trunk
with the body, clothing worn by the
victim when she was alive, and which
could easily have been identified. He
continued: "On the other hand if
there was someone who wanted to
convict James K. Mahoney in this
case, that is exactly what they would
have done.
"1 don't know wno put the body
out there. 1 am not asking you to
believe that Charley Tennant put It
there. 1 cannot conceive of any man,
no matter whnt his state, doing a
thing like that."
The defense bitterly attacked Gus
C Johnston, who testified that the
Incidents connected with the visit of
Kate Mahoney to the New Baker hotel
occurred on Friday, April 15, rather
than on Saturday, as alibi witnesses
had sworn. Schwellenbach charged
that Johnston came voluntarily from
Minnesota to testify for the state "to
protect himself."
"Johnston said to himself. "I'll tes
tify for the prosecution so I can't be
connected up with this case." Sch
wellenbach charged, and ended by
branding Johnston as a Judas betray
Inc his friends by perjury.
The defense this afternoon and
morning built up its defense on the
alibi advanced by defense witnesses:
declared Alvln Jorgenson, the express
man who hauled the trunk, was not a
perjurer, but testified as he did
through the power of suggestion, and
declared the body In the morgue was
not proved to be the body of Kate
Mahoney.
Mahoney seemed Indifferent ' when
defense counsel described him as a
"pleasant-voiced man," and again as
"a man who buys beeksteajts as he
does popcorn."
He seemed equally Indifferent at
the picture drawn by Mr. Patterson.
Patterson said Mahoney had referred
to himself as humming a parody,
"The Battle of the Boiling Waters."
on the way to St. -Paul. This song,
aid Patterson, was a sort of grimly
veiled Joke.
. "When he sang of boiling waters
MOVING DAY IS TRAGEDY
69,7 9 7 Families Homeless Jn City
of New York.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1. All packed up
and no place to go this was the
plight today of hundreds of New York
families who thought to participate
with some 100,000 of their fellows In
the annual(game of swapping apartments.
Many gave up their old homes and
got as far as the front door of apart
ments they expected to occupy before
they found the prior occupants re
fused to eat out.
A checking of the number of fami
lies against the number of available
apartments showed there were Just
6a,797 families for whom there weren't
any homes at all.
SOCIAL DEMOCRATS
BEGIN TO WERKENi
POET UNEQUAL TO TASK
D'Annunxio Declines to "Write
Hymn for Unknown Soldier Dead.
ROME, Oct. 1. Gabriel D'Annun
sio has declined to write a hymn for.
the ceremonies which are to be car
ried out In connection with the hon
ors paid to Italy's unknown soldier.
To Salvatore Barzllai, who Is head
ing the arrangements for the cere
monies, the soldier-poet has sent the
following note of declination:
"Again. I thank you. My thoughts
of the unknown soldier silence me.
Therefore, I would like all tongues
silent, except that which said. x,aia
rua, come forth."
TRIBE ATTACKS BRITISH
Infantry and Police in Sudan neat
Off Native Fanatics.
KHARTUM, Eastern Sudan, Sept.
23. A party of Messalat tribesmen
under the fanatical leader Abdullah
El Soghayer attacked Myalla, Monday,
but was repulsed with heavy loss by
the Infantry and police. The abdul
lah was reported to have been killed.
The British lost five killed. Includ
ing a member of the Sudan civil
service, McNeill, and Captain Chown.
The rising Is said to be purely
local, without political significance.
GERMAN SHIP IS GREETED
First Passenger Vessel to Come to
America Since 1914 "Welcomed.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1. Evidence of
restoration of friendly relations with
Germany was given today when the
steamer Correction, bearing a wel
coming committee named by Mayor
Hylan, went down the bay to greet
the steamship Bayern, the first Ger
man passenger ship to arrive at an
American port since 1914.
The Bayern carried 664 passengers
from Hamburg.
ARMS COST IS STAGGERING
(Continued From First Pa.)
received from Samuel Gompers, presi
dent of the American Federation of
Labor, a suggestion for simultaneous
demonstrations on November 11, de
manding a reduction of world arma
ments. But that is a way which in
Itself is of little Importance. This
is a time for thinking before letting
off any rhetorical fireworks. Labor
must face the implications of Its own
policy.
There Is no denying that one cause
for inflated armaments in the Pa
cific s the exclusion of Japanese
from the United States and Australia.
Will labor maintain its bar against
the Japanese? If so, will It favor
some other outlet for the Japanese?
And If other outlets are favored.
where shall they be?
While labor should face those
questions and adopt a distinctive at
titude in the Washington councils,
the preliminary discussions must in
fact be extended If labor is to play
a useful part.
Another difficult quest'on to come
before the Washington conference
has to do with the rivalries regard
ing the markets In China. The tenta
tive agenda issued in Washington
adumbrates territorial integrity and
the open door. But surely that Is not
enough. While China Is open prey
to the international financiers, she
will continue by her very helplessness
a menace to the peace of the world.
Moreover those nearest to her will
have the best chance of entry. The
Washington conference should agree
to the general applications of prin
ciples which would strengthen China
and enable her to hold her own.
The Inclusion in the agenda of the
Item bringing under review the con
trol of new agencies in warfare is
particularly welcomed here. The ex
clusive possession and control of
some future new secret wrested from
nature must enable an unscrupulous
power to dominate the world despite
general reductions In guns and war
ships. But the Immediate consideration Is
to lessen the cost of armaments. In
this respect the Washington con
ference Is expected to do for all
democratic peoples by persuasion
what has been done to the central
powers by compulsion. Germany is
saving annually hundreds of millions
of dollars by compulsory demobiliza
tion under the Versailles treaty.
SAN FRANCISCO WILL AID
(Continued From Firwt Paga.)
done on the Pacific than all of us
can do, and an exposition In Oregon
will benefit the whole coast by di
recting world-wide attention to our
own commercial and industrial de
velopment and particularly to the de
velopment of very recent years in
transportation, which places the whole
resources of the middle west and east
ern seaboard at the disposal of
Pacific commerce.
"Such an exposition will attract
vast numbers of tourists to the Pa
cific coast to enjoy its scenic wonders
and every part of the west will ben
efit. "I feel very sure that the people
of Oregon, always alert and enter
prising, will make a notable success
of the 1925 exposition. I know the
leadership of such men as my good
friend Mayor Baker can produce re
sults. 1 wish the Oregon project the
support of a united community such
as we had In San Francisco and Cal
ifornia In 1915.
"Oregon's 1925 exposition plans are
worthy of the backing of everyone
whose vision is broad enough to fore
see the future that Is assuredly ours."
Proposed Coalition With Peo
ple's Party Significant.
NEED OF CHANGE SEEN
Harden Declares Occurrences Only
Culmination of Long Evolution.
Wages Big Question.
, BY MAXIMILIAN HARDEN,
Germany's Foremost Publicist.
(Copyright. 1021. by Tba Oregoniun.)
BERLIN, Oct. 1. (Special Cable.)
It is hardly possible for foreigners
to understand the significance of the
meeting of the social democrats in
the old Slav city of Goerlltz. People
well may wonder how a, party which
three years ago tore old Germany to
pieces, overthrew a score of dynasties
and announced an inexorable fight
against all reaction, should declare
now its readiness not to accept gov
ernmental power in co-operation with
the people's party, which, despite its
name, represents high finance and
monarchists aspirations.
The situation reminds one of the
disappointments of 1914. when these
samev "internationalists," instead of
hindering the world war with a gen
eral strike as they so often had
threatened, patriotically voted credits
to carry on the great slaughter.
Temporal and Eternal Compared.
The French propensity to see all
occurrences In the German republic
of today as nothing more than
"Boche camouflage" must seem Justi
fied over the present political situa
tion, but the careful observer will
see in Goerlitz only the culmination
of a long evolution.
To understand the situation easily
one must compare temporal condi
tions with the eternal. The early
Christians, for Instance, were a small
sect who believed that the end of the
world was approaching and that they
must purify themselves for a future
life in God's kingdom. Paul widened
this belief into a world religion.
compatible with emperors and re
publics and states. Unlike the early
Christianity, the social revolution of
modern times has not been limited to
moderate times. The socialist mani
festo or Bible. In German, and the
Slav communist manifesto differen
tiate as the Bible does between the
struggling poor to whom heaven Is
open and the presumptuous rich, to
whom it is closed. They proclaim the
proletariat above the bourgeoisie, as
we call those who profit by the labor
of others. They promise a kingdom
of blessed Justice on this earth in
which the masses shall rise to great
height, but this apparently can be
Insured only by the temporary In
evitable dictatorship of the proletariat.
Bismarck's Act Recalled.
For half v a century this prophecy
has been a horrible Tphantom before
the eyes of the German government.
Wild language and two attempts
unon the life of the emperor deter
mined Bismarck to make a special
law against "social democracy agita
tion which is dangerous to the com
munity."
This Prussian creative genius, Dorn
the year Napoleon was dethroned.
understood instantly whatever he saw
even once, but he saw nothing of the
masses, knew nothing of their life or
their aspirations, regarding them
merely as cogs In a machine, lie
imagined that by compulsion and
such palliatives as sick and old age
Insurance he could arrange tne move
ment toward eauality. Once In the
reichstag he offered, however, to give
the social democrats a province in
which they must try their communist
experiment.
If BismarcKnow couiu see ine
party which so long fought him he
irould be astonished, wo longer is n
dangerous to the community." What
the strictest laws could not accom
plish has been achieved by a brief
glimpse of power.
Need of Change Seen. S
If the world does not come to an
end, then the religion which counted
nnnn that termination must be
changed to satisfy the needs of the
dwellers of the earth who must and
will be fruitful and multiply. Three
fw-lal democrats have been chancel
lors and two dozen have been cabi
net ministers, all Keeping meir miea
for life under the German custom. A
former saddler and innkeeper is pres
ident of the republic ana since an
tt offices are now open to mem.
thousands of social democrats are in
terested in preserving the status quo.
After all is said and done tneycan-
not be so bad as the agitators'
speeches would Indicate.
Until the war the social democrats
called themselves the enemies of
bourgeois society, but now they make
a treaty with it. They have aban
doned their old international belief
that men of the same class in foreign
lands stood nearer the ground and
could sympathize better than fellow
countrymen of different classes.
Work Question Biggest.
Does all of this mean that the Ger
man worker has turned nationalist?
No. It simply means social democ
racy no longer Is proletarian but is a
party of small officials and Impover
ished tradesmen. It is really a na
tional democracy and is hardly so
cialistic. ' The leaders sometimes like
to indulge in the old radical phrase
ology, but Inwardly they desire set
tled conditions, under which they
may become presidents and cabinet
ministers and aldermen. The labor
ing masses consequently have turned
to the independents, though many
have become outright communists.
But by far the greater number, bit
terly disappointed, have withdrawn
all party allegiance and are inter
ested only In business questions,
wages, hours of labor and prices.
It is uncertain whether a coalition
of the social democrats with the capi
talistic and basically monarchistic
peopleS in the party will succeed and
surmount the troublesome taxation
question. But the very fact that this
party of Marx, of Bebel and of Lleb-
knecht, once "dangerous to the com
munity," now seeks such a coalition,
shows how far it has progressed.
STUDENT ROLLS INCREASE
Monmouth Public Schools Show
Substantial Gains.
MONMOUTH. Or., Oct. 1. (Special.)
Enrollment in the Monmouth public
schools for the first wee4t totals 201
pupils. The enrollment in the train
ing school has been less than usual.
However, a substantial Increase is ex
pected next week, as many children
are engaged In prune picking or are
attending the Btate fair.
The Monmouth high school, with an
enroIlmenUof 81. shows a substantial
Increase over the first week of last
year.
Many families come to Monmouth
in order that the children may attend
the Oregon Normal school and public
school, and the demand for houses is
greater than the supply.
QUAKES WRECK BUILDINGS
(Continued From Plnrt Fags.)
siderable alarm, but no damage has
been reported.
SAN JUAN DEL SUR, Nicaragua.
Sept. SO. Two earthquakes were felt
here at 4:65 o'clock eastern standard
time, this morning. No damage has
been reported.
Drug Squad Reports.
Patrolmen Burdlck and Shaffer
who operate against the drug traffic,
reported 96 arrests with 83 convic
tions for the month of September in
their report to Captain Inskeep. Fines
amounted to $1841.60 and prisoners
face total of 543 days in Jail.
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371 GREEKS BARRED OUT
Authorized Quota of Hellenes Un
der Law Is Filled.
NEW YORK, Oct. 1. The author
ized quota of Greeks admissible to
this country In one year has been
filled and 371 Immigrants from Greece
today were refused admission by Ellis
island authorities. They were pas
sengers on the steamship Megall
Hellas.
Under the law a country la per
mitted to land but 3 per cent of Its
former or present citizens in the
United States. Immigration offiolals
fcaid the full quota of Greeks had
been filled up to and including 1922.
The immigrants will be sent back by
the same ship.
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