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HUMORESQUJ Sympathy for the Bandit Has Al- Dead STARTS of PAGE ONE in First Degree THE SEATTLE STAR TO SHE DIED AFTER PARTY RECENT PHOTO OF ARBUCKLE WIFE STANDS BY FATTY 10,000 PERSONS PREPARE FLEE FROM GAS HUNT Choking Fumes Harm 200 QUIT in New York NEW YORK, K«pt 17-?TW® dred persona were "gassed" in New FOR BANDIT York ?«.rly today when fumes spread over an wea of 29 blocks on the upper Kant aide, d/iv' Warden Maloney Concludes Ing thousands from their hom+a. When the choking fumea rolled Gardner Is Either Dead over the neighborhood, crowds of or Left Island men, women and children, rnainy of Has (hem In night clothe* or half dressed, rwarmed into the rtreeta, ? By Armstrong choking and gasping. '* . Hal Many fill urrorincloaa. At Sept. It? M'Neil ISLAND. time police said there were mlw Concluding Ihtl roy Gardner Is than CO people sprawled In tIM left either dead or h» lh» streets overcome. Police eaUgMMfl of the island, henry crowl, last fully 10,000 were forued to flee frotfl Northern Pacific detectives, tbelr homes. I today. quit the manhunt The gas ware resulted from (\u25a0 I'ntau norne unmistakable blowing out of a cylinder head alsns of Gardner are foond an Ice machine at the within the next daj or two. bocker Ice company. Knicker-?? Warden Thomas Maloney said (hit morning Ihe entire search on the bland would bo aban- Third m. doned. Tw*!hty-two gnuuds are still p.v trolinr the waters. The force In land on the Island has been re- iMn^^janlSn^l/M/mlkeum duced to 10. One ut fhr- fir+nl+nt Maloney Raid he had Investigated rholodrnmai Etrr Ma4« that Gardner is numerous reports V Last being sheltered by fanmrs. \ D«f| Nona of th«m reports was vert- \ Hi*»AT Bed. Mo.tuAr Search for the fugitive's body on the theory that he has been mortally wounded In his escnpe frnn the prison last Labor day has been positively riven up. Another picture of Virginia Rappe, famous model and Mnlooey said he hail receive! Minta Durfee, of new York, wife of Itoscoe (FattyJ Boy Ganlner "ton's actress, u-hom Roscoe Arbuckle is accused of having r It many letters signed Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle, film star, charged with murder Arbuckle, states that she will help him fight the charge of r tf from various parts of the coumry killed. murder placed agai*mt him in San Francisco, following the One letter was from Oalcilco. Com in connection with the death of Virginia Rappe, actress, foU parison of the handwriting with l wing a booze party in Arbuckle's suite at a San Francisco death of Virginia Rappe, movie actress. Arbuckle and his that of Gardner at the prison hotel. wife separated some time ago. proved, the warden said, that none of the letters was written by th«- Life Appealed to ?neaped bandit himself. Civil WAR THREATENS HERE'S MORE ABOUT Charley Murray, ON ISLAND Beautiful Virginia, Pal Civil war on the Island threatened today as the latest phase of the mar. laa ARBUCKLE « Murder JIKW I'HIWT bant. of HUMORESQUJ Sympathy for the bandit has al- Dead STARTS OF PAGE ONE In First Degree. Fatty, Says He's Film Actress ?"Tfc*lr DlityPtafakM ready resulted In serious altercations r«Mf«7 glimpse a trip north." IKrprodurrd between island farmers and guards. of flare-skirted Why Charge Brought. Residents of the locality are not Jl'BTJacket snug fitting to the wait, Mr*. Joseph Hardeback. SOI North of Virginia Rappe, actress, a guest pair riding \u25a0 1(1 th» t*ny. In Case. Just a t place, re- Arbuckle Overgrown that tailored of breeches Wilton who stood tho it Kid loew's trying to conceal their hope draiwoUired silk encasing shapely lation of a fouler mother to the brady declared the St.ooo win be TACOMA. Sept. Is to dresser and \u25a0\u25a0\u25a0 Gardner will get safely away. If he Why waa "Fatty" Arbuckle 17?"liquor treme a beautiful girl. i'g»?high riding boot* Jfail girl. also aajra that Arbuckle Insufficient to obtain the proxvut blame for It all. la good has not already done so, and have black vlclkld charged with first degree murder? Hoeooe a Hhe sore her hair straight back a email Joekey's cap with a *«« an unknown In the evidence he He said ho fellow and would have h#r openly many times criticised guards; lons quantity In* Why waa the manslaughter charge never done over ears, and wore moat ex- government" the visor to protect eye*. young would uppnU for rnor» money when drinking the poison- for "robbing the at . the artroae' life. dropped? it If he wasn't treme clothes." Hollywood "tike nam* the supervisors meet Monday. ll<ju«r they bringing PALACEi IS-hour shift. How mentioned hi* ous arc In "Roacoa didn't have all rate of f4 per many residents of never < <r. why waa he not charged with the ad- It will be Impoxslble for the j Several guards have abandoned the have seen the familiar figure of a exr»p| in connection with hi* pic- criminal assault, or rape? these days." vantages." raid Mrs. Murray, who that Gardner emerging tures. an<l no one who knew prosecution to complete Ita case! Ho doe# Comedian Charles Mur- Is THEATRE bant, either satisfied beautiful bninet irlrl?Just her The anawer Ilea In Information In In Tacoma with her hu.«balwl. UID picture without additional funda, baa given Warden Thomas Maloney from extreme youth, dressed as could her receiving the at- Ilrady I Attorney ray, who la playing at Pnntage*' "He la Just a big kid. who drank i \u25a0aid the hands of District Matt nir J the slip or not caring whether he I* above, beaded for a hike In the tentions of this man,** aaid Mra Ilrady, Information yet public, theatre thla week, aurn up the eaee too much bad liquor," both the "The defense has an unlimited not caught or not. hill*. Hardebeck. who profeaeed herself e e e of lU«coe Arbuckle, facing charge* Murray* repeated. money ? petit." BIG NEW SHOW } The most serious altercation of the "I*n't she a N-rutyT" many a per completely mystified by Arbuckls's amount of to be for the murder of Virginia Rappe, "Roacos and hi# wife could not A. Ooklcn declared. "With- Arbuckle will far* trial under a "Civil war" thus far occurred yester- eon would exclaim aa Virginia Rappe reported remark to Mlaa liappe, Deputy at Kan KranclKO. live together. They simply were TOMORROW out sufficient funda the prosecution special section of the criminal code day when a farmer and a guard en ?with her raven treases pulled Iswrk 'l've bean waiting five years to get "There la no uaa condemning the not temperamentally constituted to will be defeated before It begins." It la section ll*. Under thla aertlon TO WEDNESDAY (aged in a fist fight. boylahly frotn bar forehead?would you.' whole profession Juit because noma enjoy each other. Mlnta Is a Ilrady did not give any details of murder to be first degree need not fine The tanner, arriving from Ander- look up from under tha peaked cap "Mr. Arbucklc never name to Che of the movie people are mixed up woman. Roscoe seems very young." his rowboat the probe be expects to begin but It be perpetrated as the result of malice. son island, was drawing Even among pratty girls of house to *e« her." aaaerted the In thla affair," continued Murray. "I am standing up said tha was It will center about A may commit first degree for him." up tha beach near the peniten- girl's faster mother. am believed man "I 'dressed' with for year*. VAUDEVILLE, plcttire Virginia's "1 certain Roscoe Murray. "Of courae, he's the motion colony. Hollywood, the hums of the Call- j murder while engaged In or attempt ruined tiary when Guardsman Ed Michael striking exquisiteneas stood out ba never made any advances. and If Ite I* Just an overgrown kid. He professionally. It la a shatae, but fornla movie star* where rumen of Ing to engage In the perpetration of Presenting I ?on challenged him. above gveniga. he hod any designs on her »he worka hard for aU weeks, and then this affair win serve to clear the the * l>ave b-*-n as arson, rape, The farmer didnt halt, as request didn't know It." "wild parties" brought to another felony?such by going on a wild movies a fast "MY DEAR. TM mayhem, relaxes party. of crowd that la ran after him. Virginia pelk*. robbery, burglary or port* , *4. and Mlchaelson Such was nappe's char Ite on hi* car are wrong, HAPPY DATS I J found there. Directors wont have REDUCING," SHE'D SAT The body of Miss Rappe waa be- see School Day KroUca \u25a0sM"! htm roughly by tha collar. acter that any low or common act know It only coat tIC.OOO, not them any more. Ten one £ Maytia ahe'd meet a friend. ing taken to Los Angelea today. ur» him or hun- HIM ON was Impossible to according to Says lit: Degress of murder Ct.OOO. Ilia him mm JAW. "Off for a hike. Virginia?" would her. der a repnwenlaUvs of an See. home coat ttt.ooo, dred people shouldn't be allowed to HIMDOWN Mrs. with whom she escort of AU murder which la p«petisted by not 1100.000, KNOCKS be a form of salutation. Hardebork. undertaking establlahment. The fih prejudice people against all throe a coward, hiding there In had lived sine* the death of her meana of poison, or lying In wait, "Virginia was awfully yotmg, and who McGREEVY ft "My dear.
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