25 Jul 1909
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Newspaper
Albuquerque Morning Journal
Location
Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1909
Page
1
The court delays action on the water company dispute as Judge Parker closes the hearing. The City’s counsel indicates they do not wish to press for a receiver at this time. A light rain is noted as a factor in the ongoing situation.
Judge Frank W. Parker held the Albuquerque Water Supply suit in abeyance after hearing that the company is actively pursuing plans to raise the water supply. The city may revisit the case within a reasonable time, while the water company is given time to complete its stated improvements. The judge suggested a possible fine at future proceedings.
Young Memphis shoe clerk Byrd, who said he killed Joseph Black in a quarrel, will be taken to Memphis for trial on murder charges. He also faces a bigamy accusation from the Covington Max family, insisting he has never married Kleie Rims. Byrd asserts self defense and professes innocence about the bigamy claim.
The city attorney argues mandamus is inadequate and a writ of mandamus would delay no relief. He supports the complaint with affidavits of neglect by the Water Company and the court allows them to be read. The case rests unless the city calls it up again, after witnesses on compressed air and other methods test the water supply.
New York July St Gertrude Hoffman the Salome dancer was arraigned in police court and paroled until next Tuesday as prosecutors weigh whether her local theatre performance is indecent and offensive to public decency. Commissioner Baker leads a crackdown on questionable dances and theater. The case hinges on whether tights meet decency standards and if the display was improper.
New Orleans reports that Sioux chief Atle Dison arrived from Blue Fields and will relocate 160 Indian families to an unsettled tract in Nicaragua. He seeks a land concession from President Zelaya and aims to expand the colony with additional North American families.
New York July 2. John T Carrison filed for bankruptcy as partner of Mastman and Company. He lists firm liabilities at 920,009 with 1,132 assets and his own liabilities at 25,300 with 18,700 assets. The case follows the deaths of Edith Woodill and Robert K Massman on Maryland's eastern shore last month.
Arrest records reveal Alifetine, banished from Germany by family for criminal conduct, taken into custody in Santa Fe on charges of swindle and attempted fraud. Details allege multiple victims in Chicago and elsewhere, including piano company, widows, and a servant girl, with mentions of jail terms and deportation after prior incidents.
Max Grethers, alias Max Gardner, was arrested in Espanola New Mexico on charges of conspiring to swindle the Baldwin Piano Company of Denver. Authorities say he received 14 pianos, sold many, and produced little accounting. Denver managers were en route to Albuquerque to assist. Gardner recently opened a music store and is believed to have disposed of several instruments.
From Malaga the steamer Menorguin arrives with eighty wounded as Melilla hospitals overflow. Reports say Moorish tribes near General Marinas’ camp number about 16,000, while Spanish losses are heavy in the hand to hand encounter with bayonets.
Authorities outline Gardner alias Gertheis as a convicted swindler with a Germany home base banished by a wealthy family. He allegedly preyed on ministers servants and young people, with multiple cases of abusing children. He fled to America from Freiburg and continued crime from coast to coast, including a six month jail term in San Bernardino. Prosecution under Santa Fe and Albuquerque authorities is planned with letters from victims supporting charges.
Wealthy Freiburg family names Gertheis Gardner as a delinquent youth who ran a string of cons from Europe to Chicago. Adolph Burkhart recalls Gardner’s scheme on a voyage, thefts in Milwaukee and Chicago, fake auto ownership, and debts to multiple victims including Rev. John D. Mayn and others in Chicago Milwaukee and Artington.
Louis Bleriot, the French aviator, makes a cross channel trip from Calais to Dover in twenty three minutes. The report notes possible tariff friction and a leather schedule before an agreement is reached, with plans to return to Congress for modification.
Louis Bleriot crosses the English Channel from France to Dover in twenty three minutes amid rising winds. He lands near Dover Castle after sighting the white cliffs, aided by support staff and greeted at the Lord Warden hotel. He wins the London Daily Mail prize of 5000 dollars and survives a hazardous journey with minor injuries.
A Norwegian Navy officer and polar expedition veteran died by lightning while conducting meteorological observations during a storm. He reportedly held a copper wire attached to a kite hundreds of yards high as the storm struck. Topeka officials filed two suits at the city club testing locker restrictions amid prohibition law debates.
Two persons were killed and two others seriously injured in a collision between an automobile and a passenger train on the Chicago Indianapolis Louisville railroad near Munster Indiana, five miles south of Haymond, today.
Washington dispatch reports a midnight tariff conference among Aldrich Hale Burrows and Penrose. They weigh free hides against leather duties with Taft urging reductions, while conservative senators push for offsetting cuts and potential joint resolutions. Adjournment is set for 10 tonight with Sunday sessions planned.
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