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Newspaper
Seattle Star
Location
Seattle, Washington, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1912
Page
2
A Christmas vignette contrasts a $60 talking doll with a 10 cent doll. A mother and father imagine a grand train setup for their child while a hard up neighbor crafts a handmade cart. The piece ends noting rich and poor children share simple joys on Christmas Day.
In Los Angeles on December 13 a coroner's jury formally held 14 year old Martin Rickert on a murder charge for shooting his father Daniel H. Rickert. The case places Mrs. Daniel H. Rickert at a life and death moral crossroads between duty to the dead husband and the state’s laws.
In a police chamber the 14 year old Martin Rickert confessed he shot his father intentionally while his mother Mrs. Rickert, tearful, pleaded for leniency, insisting the act was to frighten the abusive husband. The youth will stay at a detention home until arraignment on formal charges.
London report details the National Telephone Company v. postmaster general over transferring British telephone service to the post office. Plaintiffs claim 104 million 623 thousand 500 dollars while the defense cites about 50 million. Documentary files in the courtroom weigh two and a half tons. Also noted are the Women’s Commercial Club of Seattle banquet with Mayor Cotterill praising women’s groups.
Homer Baker an ex convict used his wife and baby daughter as a shield for an hour during a police stand off in Portland before surrendering to authorities. He remains jailed awaiting burglary trial. Baker claimed fellow ex convict Franks pressured him back into crime after release from Salem.
Redding California December 13 charges of murder against Daniel Thompson and Marcum A Griffith in the killing of Wm C Landis were dismissed after Wm E Clements confessed and was acquitted, absolving the two men of complicity in the affair.
United Press reports Taft California December 15 bandits who robbed a Wells Fargo safe on a Santa Fe train near Taft Monday night have fled into the desert. Authorities offer a $1000 reward as railroad detectives track the suspects who left the train at Pentland.
The city finance committee urged passage of a bill to buy collection and disposal gear under the municipal system starting February 1. It requests $60,000 from the garbage fund for ten vehicles including two 6 1/2 ton cows, two transfer bunkers, two waterfront bunkers, three motor trucks, sixty wagons, tools and a storage building.
In Portland Oregon a young telephone operator, Lena Donaldson, was found half dead in a candlelit cottage after two male admirers allegedly entered, bound, gagged, and kicked her to unconsciousness. She sustains two broken ribs and possible internal injuries while awaiting her sister's return from work.
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