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Newspaper
Centralia Weekly Chronicle
Location
Centralia, Washington, United States of America
Date
Jan 03, 1912
Page
2
The Chronicle reports the municipal election yielded the three highest vote getters, predicting a strong City government. It notes a peaceful post election mood and optimism that trade and industrial activity will rebound as production and consumption balance.
A violent bank robbery in Centralia ends in murder as a well educated citizen is killed during a robbery attempt. The attacker is caught at the scene, and the piece argues for swift, severe justice to deter future such acts. It stresses that hunger or need do not excuse murder and calls for exemplary punishment to uphold societal safety.
Reports nationwide indicate factories and mills resuming operations after months of illness. The steel market shows a solid upturn as business conditions steadily recover. Centralia mills, among others, begin to show improved activity and output after a prolonged downturn.
Janes Watson, detained by local police on suspicion of insanity, was tried by a sanity commission in Chehalis before Justice W. A. Westover and sentenced to Steilacoom. He repeatedly proclaims himself ruler of the planet Mars, George Watson asserts his belief in the claim.
On Saturday morning a man matching a released Lewis County inmate’s description attempted to cash a forged check at Little Falls State Bank under the name B.S. Wrazer. He fled the town before authorities could arrest him.
Marion, a youthful member of an organized theft ring, pleaded guilty to burglary. A witness Susie and Walk sentenced him to the state reformatory by Judge Rice, and he was taken to begin serving his sentence Saturday morning.
A bank robbery and murder suspect identified as Adelbert B Clark, a millwright once with the Hastern mill in Centralia, was shown in photos to three witnesses and later confirmed by Chehalis officers. Clark, last seen at the Randley hotel, faced a delayed jail entry as identification proceeded. Witnesses Carl Miller and Maels Christensen are held as witnesses in Chehalis jail.
Adel bert B. Clark a millwright, has a sister Mrs Willan C Lindsell living here who is well known. The younger Clark also a millwright and in British Columbia at present helped to build lawn mills on the harbor with his father Adelbert.
The article notes young Clark, once famed for pool skills and model habits, left Aberdeen after gambling led to trouble. His mother Ji in Mici refuses to accompany the family when they moved from Michigan about two years ago. Clark’s father is not wealthy, contrary to prior bandit interview insinuations.
In Los Angeles Janis Betarey entered the courtroom for the defendants Tinet, Johannsen, Munsey and Clancey. Attorney Job Harriman urged labor support, saying the men would get it and the case would be fought to a finish. Clancey is ill in San Francisco awaiting arraignment under bond. Ortie McManigal may seek immunity. Separate trials will be requested for Tvistmoe Johannsen Munsey and Clancey. The court granted ten days to decide pleas with January 12 set for arraignments.
Imperial troops in Lan Chow desert Lie Manchu forces and join rebels. Tomorrow General Wang leads a northward march toward Pekin with other revolationlass forces from the south also converging. The fall of Peking appears inevitable as thousands switch sides.
Tien Tsin January 2 Imperial troops have deserted the Manchu cause and joined the revolutionists who promised regular pay. The imperial government has not provided wages. It is reported the dowager empress is favoring Russia from Pekin.
United Press Leased Wire reports Yuan Shikai aims to gain a top position in the proposed new government after the fall of the Manchu regime. He plans to preserve Manchu influence by negotiating with Wao Ting Fang while continuing to resist revolutionaries. Funds reportedly diverted from private uses for the cause.
United Press reports a massive strike by twenty thousand girl employees at steam laundries in New York. An estimated eighty to ninety percent of city laundries are closed as workers demand a ten hour day and a fifteen percent wage increase.
Report from Taft backers claims the administration aims to force Roosevelt into the open for the presidential nomination. A White House aide is headed to New York to urge Roosevelt to withdraw if he intends to seek the nomination.
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