Jury is already selected in Scott insanity case
In Chicago on August 3 the jury to assess Russell T. Scott's mental condition was chosen. Opening statements by defense and prosecution proceeded as alienists prepare to present reports. the judge ruled guilt remains irrelevant to the sanity proceeding. Scott, a former promoter, faces a stay of execution tied to claims he has become insane since his December conviction for the 1924 murder.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Russell T. Scott
Scott
Joseph B. David
Thomas Scott
Joseph Maurer
William Scott Stewart
David
Supreme Court
Bulgaria and Greece at boiling point after murder
The Athens dispatch reports rising tension between Bulgaria and Greece following the assassination of wealthy Greek landowner Jacques Nicolaides at Stamimaka Bulgaria. Sofia refuses to punish the murderer, alleged to belong to a gang that targets Greeks in Bulgaria.
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Associated Press
London
The
Daily Express
Athens
Bulgaria
Greece
Jacques Nicolaides
Stamimaka
Sofia
Many Blue Ribbon Babies Noted at Child's Clinic
Nearly 209 children were examined at the children's health conference held at the greenhouse in Columbia Gardens Miners' Field day. A corps of trained nurses from Murray's St James' and the Deaconess hospitals assisted by Mrs. Henrietta Crockett state field nurse and a staff of Butte doctors headed by Dr H H James of the Murray hospital.
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Greenhouse
Columbia Gardens
Murray's
St. James
Bloodhounds Lose Trail of Denver Murderer After Slaying Three
Denver reports bloodhounds failed to follow the slayer a mile from the crime scene after tracking a tweed cloth scent. The pursuit stalled near a field, academy graveyard, and a corn field before the suspect left by conveyance on Sheridan Boulevard.
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Associated Press
Denver
Loretto Heights Academy
Sheridan Boulevard
Wife Cries From Love After Husband's Death In Chicago
Charles William Clark a 59 year old baritone concert singer and Bush Conservatory professor died suddenly at a photoplay theater in Chicago. His wife died shortly after at home from the shock of his death.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Charles William Clark
Bush Conservatory of Music
Sinister notes found with woman’s body in Illinois farm well
Miss Anna Stollman 40 was found in a cistern on her sister’s farm near Mattoon. Notes of warning and insinuation were found, but the coroner says she did not drown and died before the body was placed in the well. Vital organs removed will be analyzed in Chicago or Urbana. An inquest is planned later in the week.
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Associated Press
Mattoon
Ill
Anna Stollman
Thomas Seaman
Charles Fletcher
Chicago
Urbana
Schilling
Coles County
Prohibition Chief Ouon to Lose Authority in Restructure
Prohibition Commissioner Haynes will be stripped of all enforcement authority on September 1. Duties will move to 22 prohibition administrators under a force reorganization next month. He will not serve in an advisory capacity to Assistant Secretary Andrews of the treasury. An order transferring authority was issued by Internal Revenue Commissioner Blair.
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Associated
Washington
Haynes
Andrews
The
Treasury
Internal Revenue
Blair
Mutineers from Spanish liner chained on deck in sun
A group of Spanish foreign region mutineers aboard the royal mail liner Antonio Lopes were chained hand and foot on the deck under a scorching sun after an attempted escape. A citizen's lawyer reported the scene to police as officials sought clemency near the Brooklyn terminal. The mutineers, recruited in Ma vana for the Moroccan war, were later confined below deck amid protests from docksiders.
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New York
Antonio Lopes
Bast River
Havana
Esapelund Mucker Champ At Butte Miners Field Day
The annual Miners Field Day at Columbia Gardens drew a mammoth crowd with 1,300 gallons of lemonade and 20 000 cups. John Esapelund won mucking in 1 minute 49.9 seconds, beating Joe Barich and Abe Bronson in a lively program of sports music and dancing.
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Butte Mines
Columbia Gardens
Harry Goodsell
Butte
Leonard
Great Falls
John Esapelund
Bell Mine
Joe Barich
Abe Bronson
Mucker
Eapelun Ls
Bell-Diamond Mine
Forest fires threaten Wallace and Pine Creek area
Two fires in the Coeur d Alene district have burned about 3000 acres. Embers from Pine Creek base 10 miles southwest of Wallace reached Wallace and the surrounding suburbs. Fire fronts stretch one mile at Pine Creek while crews push lines near Adair and St Joe districts to protect ranches and timber.
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Associated Press
Wallace
Idaho
Coeur d'Alene
Pine Creek
Pulaski
St. Joe
Scopes Case Jurist Plans Federal Challenge
John Randolph Neal says he will file a taxpay ers petition in the U S district court in Chattanooga to enjoin enforcement of Tennessee's anti evolution law. He will then confer in New York with Malone and Hays as the case seeks U S Supreme Court review while the Scopes appeal proceeds.
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Associated
Chattanooga, Tenn
John Randolph Neal
John T. Scopes
Tennessee
Chattanooga Times
United States District Court
J. Neal
New York
Dudley Field Malone
Arthur Garfield Hays
Neal
United States Supreme Court
Scopes
State Supreme
Pinning under water truck survivor saved by driver
A Chinese man named Lee Wah, trapped under an overturned truck in about 18 inches of water near Kirk Park, was rescued by motorist W. Boardman and others after the vehicle toppled into a creek while returning to Butte with vegetables. He was taken to St. James Hospital with a dislocated shoulder and possible fractures.
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Lee Wah
Walt
W. 4. Boardman
East Broadway
St. James’ Hospital
Physicians Way
Waht
Butte
Basin
Kirk Park
Savings deposits surge in Montana two month period
Montana state banks and trust companies report June 30 deposits at 66,553,211.82, up 324,804.32 from April. Loans rose to 38,077,736.77, investments grew by 891,979.55, and time plus savings deposits exceeded 26,669,593.90, with reserves at 15,097,764.38 and total resources 77,804,877.92.
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Associated Press
Helena
Montana
State Banking Department
Jay G. Larson
Larson
Federal Reserve Bank
Woman of Montana Pleads for Brother in Pardon Effort
Mrs. Emily Bateman of Pompey’s Pillar Montana met Governor Mo Mullen and state pardon board to seek commuting Walter R. Simmons death sentence for the 1922 murder of Frank Pahl in Spencer Nebraska. Bateman, with Lincoln and Omaha clubwomen, argues innocence based on circumstantial evidence.
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Princoln
Neb
Eneily Bateman
Pompey’s Pillar
Mong
Mo. Mullen
State Pardon Board
Walter R. Simmons
Montana
Simmons
Frank Pahl
Spencer
Lincoln
Omaha
First Aid Men Save Girl at State Resort
Gertrude Bennett of Butte was pulled from Gregson Springs after a cold-water immersion during the Miners field day events. First-aid team members L. F. Sager and E. K. Wodeback from Concentrator No. 1 of Anaconda reduction works administered artificial respiration for about 45 minutes, reviving her. she was later warmed and taken to a hospital.
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Leonard
Columbia
Gardens
Great Falls
J. R. Hobbing
Montana
Springfield
Iil
C. M. Carroll
Phil Trythill
Karl Lyford
Maurice E. Barry
Con O'Connell
Fred C. Stribling
J. H. White
M. C. Kelly
Homer Hagen
State Resort
Gregson
Gertrude Bennett
Butte
Anaconda
Gregson Springs
L. F. Sager
EK. M. Wodeback
Anaconda Reduction Works
Grerson
Bennett
Podotnik
Sager
Podebnik
Lima Milevennett
Luger
Podobnik Tsa
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Child's Clinic
Prohibition
Ouon
Espelund Mucker Champ
John Espelund
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