VOLUME XIV. VALDEZ, ALASKA, MONDAY, AUGUST IS, ISIT NUMBER 17»
SUMER OF GIRL
CONFESSES CRIME
REVEALS MINUTE DETAILS
KILLING RUTH CRUGER
Italian Murderer of New York Girl
Telia How Customer Came Into
Shop to Have Skates Hliarpenert,
and Made Brave Eight for Life.
BOLOGNA, Aug. 13.—The text of
the statements made by Cocchi dur
ing the various interrogation of the
prisoner by Judge Zucconi was re
ceived by Cocchl’s counsel. Attorney
Venturing today. There were
these interrogation* betweawHlSe
15 and July 20, and recrinl of
them cover nine tjrpi4*fltten pages.
On the first day, the record shows,
Cocchi denied the crime, claiming
that the reason he left New York was
because of his wife's jealousy and the
quarrels to which that led, although
he admitted that he had sharpened a
pair of skates for Ruth Cruger. On
the second day Cocchi began by de
claring that the girl came to his shop
in company with two Italians who
were not known to him and who or
dered him to leave, he doing so and
they remaining in the room. Under
cross-questioning by Judge Zucconi,
however, Cocchi began to weep, and,
holding his head in his hands, de
clared :
“It is true, I killed her. For a
week I had been constantly quarrel
ing with my wife. This day. the 13th,
when I ate my midday meal at home,
I drank five glasses of wine to make
me forget my family troubles. In a
nervous condition I went to my shop
about 1:20 o'clock, when there imme
diately entered the girl who before
noon had left her skates for sharpen
ing. She was very beautiful and I lost
my head. “When we went to the rear
of the shop to get her skates without
seeing me, I barred the street door
with a block of wood so that no one
would be ableto enter it from the out
side. Then I started to embrace the
girl, but she was very strong and
threw me backwards. I tried again
and succeeded despite her resistance.
“I picked her up and dropped her
into the repair room below thru a
square door, feet first, holding her by
the head and shoulders. All the while
she was screaming ‘Police! Police!’
She fell about twelve feet below,
striking a motorcycle side car on her
side, but was not hurt.
“ I jumped after her, she being
again on her feet, fighting and re
sisting with all her power. I remem
ber that before dropping her below,
I said to her, ‘Please say nothing, as
I have two boys,’ but she continued
shrieking for the police, although I
do not believe any one heard her.
“When I joined her in the lower
room my head was gone. I tried
again to embrace and kiss her, but
again did not succeed, she was so
strong. I remember she was of dark
complexion and stout of body also
* that her hat fell off when I first at
tempted to embrace her.
“Finally, exasperated by her re
sistance, I grabbed in my left hand a
stick of heavy wood a yard long and
struck her twice or three times
across the back of the neck, holding
her with my right hand. She groan
ed and sank down, her head bathed
in blood.
"Horribly-frightened and sorry, I
would have killed myself had I had
a revolver. Expecting to be discovered
at any moment I took the warm body
and dragged it into a box in the left
hand corner of the room.”
STEAM ER NORTH WESTERN
ARRIVES IN PORT
The steamship Northwestern arriv
ed in port Saturday night with a
large consignment of freight and th
following passengers: H. Van Wyck.
T. Mann, Mrs. H. B. Neilson, A1 W.
Pflamm, P. E. Nettleton, H. Newman,
A. H. Miller, and Mrs. J, L. Reed
and babies. Her passengers for the
west were Jack Elstrom for Sew
ard, E. S. Hewitt for Seward and An
. chorage, J. L. Dixon and W. E. Pat
ton for Latouche.
A. V. Pflamm, the well-known min
ing operator, arrived In Valdez Sat
urday on the steamer Northwestern.
KAISER WILHELM AND HIS FAMILY
The German emperor with the kalserin on hla right and the crown prince on hla left, hla five other eons, his three
daugbters-ln-law aud two grandchildren, sons of the crown prince. This group of the Hobenzollern family was tak
en a short time liefore the war
LUMBER STRIKE
MLJMNUES
STATE COUNCIL OK DEFENSE
SAVS EFFORTS HAVE FAILED
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West Coast Lumbermen's Association
Wires Secretary of War Will be
Able to Supply All Spruce Needed
for Airplanes.
SEATTLE, Aug. 13.—After four
days effort on the part of the State
Council of Defense to bring about a
settlement of the differences between
the striking workingmen and the
lumber mill operators, the members
of the Council this afternoon an
nounced that their efforts had re
sulted in failure, and that they had
been unable to get the parties to ef
fect a settlement. Members of the
West Coast Lumbermen’s Associa
tion also announced today and have
wired the Secretary of War to the ef
fect that despite the strike of the
men the Association would be able
to furnish tli6 government with all
the spruce lumber needed for the
manufacture of aeroplanes, but said
also that it might be compelled to
call upon the government for protec
tion in operating the mills with non
union labor.
Jack Elstrom left for Seward on
the steamer Northwestern.
FRENCH WAR MINISTER.
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Paul Painlava Raaponalbla
For Pat ain’t Promotion.
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The entire recent change In the
French command may be traced to the
minister of war, Paul Palnleve. It la
said that he Is mainly responsible for
the elevation of General Petain to
commander In chief and the restore*
ttoa of General Foch. ill: Palnleve, tt
le held, was the guiding force which
saved both Paris and Verdun.
CENSORSHIP REMOVED
FROM PACIFIC WHIPS
SEATTLE, Aug. 13.—Arrivals, de
partures and movements of transpa
cific vessels, hitherto withheld from
publication at the instance of the
committee on public information,
can, subject to cancellation at the re
quest of the navy department, be
published in the future, according to
an announcement received in Seattle
today.
For some months past the move
ments of Seattle's foreign-borne
commerce, as far as the individual
carying units were concerned, have
not been heralded by the newspap
ers, by agreement with the authori
ties at Washington. The absence of
enemy raiders in the Pacific waters,
together with the request that the
nan on Oriental shipping be raised,
brought about the alleviation of the
order. All vessels bound from this
coast to the United Kingdom, or wat
ers in the war zone, are. however,
still excluded from, publicity.
TWENTY THREE
KIllEDIN RAID
AIRPLANES AGAIN HIT
C OAST OK ENGLAND
Bombs Which Were Dropped from
Raiding German Airplanes Reap
Usual Harvest of Women and Chil
dren.
LONDON, Aug. 13.—Another raid
was made on the English coast by
German airplanes yesterday, and
twenty-three pernons fell victims to
the bombs dropped from the enemy
aircraft. In Essex, near the mouth of
the Thames over a score of persons,
including nine women and six chil
dren were killed by the deadly mis
siles, and fifty persons were injur
ed, an official statement said tonight
Osborne Made Prison Expert
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 13.—
Thomas Mott Osborne, former Sing
Sing warden, who recently undertook
an investigation of navy prisons at
the request of Secretary Daniels, has
been retained as an attache of the de
partment to advise officials in charge,
his status'has not yet been definitely
determined, but he may have gener
al supervision over prison reorganiza
tion.
EMPEROR OK AUSTRIA
EXPOSED TO SHELLS
AMSTERDAM, Aug. 13.—Emper
or Charles of Austria had a narrow
escape last week while visiting the
battlefront in Galicia, says the Wien
er Allgemeine Zeltung. While the em
peror was taking luncheon at a castle
near the battle line, Russian artillery
shelled the dwelling. The emperor
first refused to take cover and went
on the balcony, but finally was lnduo
ed to leave.
PIPE WORKERS
GO ON STRIKE
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REFUSE TO WORK WITH
NOX-UNIOX LUMBER
Employes of the Pacific Coast Pi|H*
Co., strike Because Unfair Lumber
used—Sympathetic Strikes in Ore*
gon and Washington.
SEATTLE. Aug. 13.—The employ
es of the Pacific Coast Pipe Co.,
manufacturers of wooden stave pip
ing, walked out this afternoon, re
fusing to work with lumber turned
out by mills employing non-union lab
or. This is the first of the sympathet
ic strikes which have been called in
the allied industries of the lumber
men in Washington and Oregon, and
a number of others are expected to
follow,
INIS PEACE
SENATOR LACOLLETTE ASKS
ALLIES TO SPEAK OUT
Wisconsin Pacifist Begins Fight to
Force World-Wide Peace Discus
sion—Asks Allies to Make Terms
Known.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 13.—
Senator. LaFollette today began a
fight in the Senateto force a world
wide discussion for peace. He intro
1 duced a resolution in the Senate call
ing for the Allied nations to make
public their peace terms “based on a
disavowal of any advantages in the
way of indemnities or territorial ac
quisitions.” The senator stated that
the people had a right to know upon
what terms peace could be establish
ed, and that this resolution was for
| the purpose of starting a world-wide
movement to this end.
Fred Anderson is in town from El
lamar.
SKIPPER IS FINED
ON LIQUOR CHARGE
PORT TOWNSEND, Aug. 13.—
Cupt A. A. Langkeid, of the steam
schooner Shasta, was fined $60 and
costs today in the justice’s court as
the result of the sheriff finding twen
ty-two quarts of liquor on the Shasta
when she arrived at Port Ludlow.
In imposing the fine, the justice
stated that, while be was satisfied
Capt. Langkeid had no Interest In the
contraband, and also that he was pot
aware it was aboard his vessel, yet
under the law the master of a ves
sel 4s responsible for the sets of bis
men In such violations of the law.
GERMANS CAPTURE i
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EIGHTEEN CANNON AND
SIXTY-ONE MACHINE GINS
General Mackensen'x Forces Win De
cisive Hattie in Central HuniJniu
Yesterday—Russians Repulse Ger
man Attacks Until Evening.
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BERLIN, Aug. 13.—General Mack
ensen's forces, fighting in Central Ru
mania yesterday took six thousand
seven hundred Russian prisoners and
captured 18 cannon and 65 machine
guns.
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Russian Repulse Attacks
PETROGRAD, Aug. 13.—An of-i
ficial statement by the war office to-1
day says the Russian and Rumanian
forces repulsed the German attacks
along the Fokshanl and Marsechets:
railroad, and captured 1300 Germans j
but were forced to retire later in thei
evening.
SYMPATHIZERS WILL NOT
ALLOW THEM TO RUN CARS
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Under Supervision of Police, Citizens
and Strikers Force Strikebreakers
to Iioave City—Accomplished in
Orderly Fashion.
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KANSAS CITY, Aug. 13.—Yester
day a large crowd of strikers and
their sympathizers gathered up four
hundred strikebreakers, brought in to
run the cars of the Kansas City
streetcar company, and taking them
to the railway station placed them
aboard cars and ordered them to
move on.
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The aiiair was under the supervi
sion of the police and was conducted
in a most orderly manner, with no
bloodshed. •
•Frisco Carmen Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 13.—
Many carmeu of the United Railways
Company went on strike in this city
today.
The launch Pathfinder. Capt. By
ron Smith, returned from down-sound
points this morning. Fred Coleclougb
was a round-trip passenger on her.
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Photo Wuuoa.
Attacked by the youngest lad ever
sentenced In Cptomdo for highway rob
bery, Judge Lindsey was also pounced
upon by the prisoner’s mother after be
had Imposed penalty. Both mother
and eon'jVflsped the judge around the
neck. Blight wounds were Inflicted by
ttrboyTlIfiiitf'di MHM WtnWbS
the pair. The boy had held up aaoth
or lad and taken money from him.
OBJECTORS Ml
EE IMPRISONED
AMj fighting conscription
SENT TO CANTONMENTS
Administration Officials Say That
Conscientious Objectors Will lie
Taken to Army Cam|>s and Put to
Work.
WASHINGTON, D. C., Aug. 13.—
Members of all religious sects op
posed to war, conscientious objectors
and all others fighting conscription
will he sent to national army canton
ments. regardless of their creeds, ft
was announced at the office of Pro
vost General Crowder today.
Once they arrive at the camps they
will be put to work at tasks other
than drilling and preparing for fight
ing, it was announced today. Presi
dent Wilson will determine the exact
status of the objectors.
STANDARD OIL
VESSEL SUNK
CAPTAIN AND FOLK
MFMKFKS OF CRKW CAPTURED
German Submarine Sinks Steamer
C.imppa, n Standard Oil Tanker,
Yesterday, and Captain and 4 of
Crew Taken Prisoners.
WASHINGTON. D. ('.. Aug. 13.—
It was announced today by the Navy
Department that the American steam
er Camppa. a Standard Oil tanker,
had been torpedoed ami sunk by a
German submarine. The captain and
four members of the crew are report
ed to have been captured by the Ger
mans.
The list of American steamers
gives no vessel by this name, and It
is believed to have been the Caloria,
a Standard Oil steamer.
FISHERMEN DIE
STORM ON MASSACHUSETTS
COAST TAKES TOLL
Cape Cod Fishermen Drown When
Gale Sweeps in From the Sea
Wrecking Boats and Doing Untold
Damage.
BOSTON, Aug. 13.—Nineteen Por
tugese fishermen were drowned yes
terday by a fierce gale which swept
in from the sea, wrecking their dories
and doing considerable damage to
shipping along the coast.
The dories were fishing off Cape
Cod when they were struck by the
gale.
HURLEY APPROVES CONTRACTS
DRAWN BY GOETHALS
WASHINGTON, P. C.. Aug. 13.—
Chairman Hurley of the Shipping
Board approved the contracts origin
ally drawn l»y Major General Goeth
als, who recently resigned, calling for
the construction of Ss wooden and
sixty steel vessels.
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LIBERTY RONDS ARE
REFUSED AS RAIL
NEW YORK, Aug. 13.—Proffer of
$25,000 in liberty bonds was refused
today as bail for Emma Goldman, the
anarchist, convicted of conspiracy to
obstruct the selective draft law, who
Is being returned here for a hearing
on an appeal granted by United
States Supreme Court Justice Brand
els. Miss Goldman’s attorney was
told In the United States district at
torney's office the bail must be either
cash or raal estate. Be aaid he would
procure ball of this character.