Wreck of State of California claims many lives at Gambier Bay
Survivors tell Marine Inspectors of the State of California disaster as 30 plus passengers reach Seattle aboard the Northwestern. Seven passengers remain hospitalized and 10 coffins arrive. Captain Cann investigates, lists of dead and missing include Lilla Ward and others from Seattle, Vancouver and Phoenix with crews and wireless operators involved.
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Juneau
Alaska
State of California
Seattle
Northwestern
Whitney and
Kell
Cann
Gann
Lilla Ward
Edward Ward
Pacific Coast
Canada Decides to Deport Thaw
A Maine sheriff recounts tracking Harry K Thaw from Portland to New Hampshire and into Canada. Thaw and two friends fled toward Quebec before being arrested in Colebrook. He offered a driver $9 to cross toward the Grand Trunk line while a Canadian police handover followed.
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Canada
Thaw
Maine Central
Hereford
Grand Trunk Railway
Quebec
Coaticook
Grand Trunk
Thaw fights extradition after Canadian arrest
Harry K. Thaw, captured at St Hermenigilde de Garford near the international line, prepared in his county jail cell to contest deportation as an undesirable alien and extradition on a bribery warrant. Duchess County prosecutors seek his return to the United States, while Thaw maintains he was merely passing through Canada en route to Detroit. Two confederates were arrested and later released.
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St. Hermengilde de Garford
Sherbrooke
Quebec
Harry K. Thaw
State Hospital
Matteawan
N. Y
New Hampshire
United States
Thaw
New York State
Duchess County
Canada
Detroit
Jack Johnson
Conger
New York
Coaticook
W. L. Shurtleff
Dupuis
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Ariz
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Cassidy
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