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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1912
Page
5
A missing aviator and his passenger triggered a search by authorities in Upstate area. Officials canvass air routes and contact neighboring towns seeking details on the aircraft and possible landing sites near Kearny and Lawrence.
Aviator Horace Kearny and Los Angeles journalist Chester Lawrence vanished after a flight toward San Francisco. A prolonged sea and coast search failed to find them as a hydro-aeroplane wreckage and fuel problems left the craft adrift near Point Firmin. Glenn H. Martin reported assuming they were at the bottom of the Pacific after the failed attempt to reach safety near Malibu as night fell.
In Riverside California Patrolman Bert Barrett shot Deputy Chief John Baird during a feud over the police chief post. Barrett killed Baird, then tried suicide in jail with a broken drinking glass fragment but was prevented. Baird had been slated to become chief tomorrow.
The station at Pando near Leadville, Colorado, was robbed by a bandit identified as Burns who killed William Maxfield with a revolver butt after lining up four hostages including station agent C N Kinney. Kinney later escaped the attack, the bandit captured an hour later near Red Cliff and was jailed. The manhunt followed as investigators questioned witnesses and tied the suspect to the refrigerator car incident.
Montana copper man Heinze testified before Justice Tompkins at a special term in Nyack New York in a suit for absolute divorce brought by his wife Goldie Heinze formerly a actress. He refused to identify a photographed woman and would not name the person in the image. The couple married in August 1910 at Brooklyn and have a son in the custody of Heinze’s brother. The hearing was adjourned to Newburgh for continuation tomorrow.
Former United States ambassador to the Court of St James died in London after a long career in diplomacy and journalism. Reid served as envoy to the United Kingdom amid a period of close Anglo American relations and was noted for his reporting and public service.
United States ambassador to Great Britain Mr Reid died at Dorchester House in London shortly after noon from pulmonary oedema. His wife Mrs Leorme Reid and daughter were at the bedside. He had been unconscious since morning with delirium from drugs and bronchial trouble. The king and Queen Mother Alexandra sent condolences. The body to be sent home for burial likely at Sleepy Hollow with state memorials planned in Washington and London. Mrs Reid hopes to sail Saturday if possible. The illness traced to complications after a trip from New York last February.
Washington December 15 The Pujo committee resumes its inquiry into concentration of money and credits held by New York financiers. Hearings will probe New York control of national bank deposits and the influence of a few men on banking. Campaign expenditure investigators also resume with William F Hearst, Senator Foraker and others slated to testify. Archbold letters and Standard Oil activity are focal points.
A 2 year old boy confessed to robbing a safe, recounting how he and another bandit carried out the heist on an express train. He described being beaten and restrained by a messenger, then disclosed where the money was buried and details of the gold shipment to the Fs Homa bank at Taft around the 10th of the month. Authorities, including county, city, and railroad officials, launched a manhunt that was called off after the youth’s statements led to further inquiries.
In Venice California a balloon split from its cable during a gale and sank four miles at sea. Pilot Sidney Neal Hampton and man John Wagoner were rescued by the Music and Mischief, saving Hampton and Wagoner with the 9 year old Charles Jordan unharmed. The trio were hospitalized for observation.
Port Arthur Texas December 15 Fears that thirty six persons are lost in a gulf storm as Standard Oil barge No 87 under master G Sand sinks after a heavy night storm The bark and nine crew members are drowned while the Impoco and barge Hainut in the same path are also feared lost with thirty six aboard
New Orleans on December 15 reported aviator Tony Jannus arriving by hydro airmboat from Omaha via the Missouri and Mississippi. He carried a passenger and claimed to set records for distance and duration in heavier than air craft, with formal city entry planned the next day.
Local notice reports Helen Could is engaged to be married on the tenth of a Wednesday, with the couple awaiting formal announcements from Amors Dacgieter of Jay Goi.
Mrs Helen Miller Gould of New York announces the engagement of her sister to Finlay J Shepard a prominent railroad man of St Louis Missouri The Gould fortune and railroad connections are noted along with her past philanthropy and public service including aid to soldiers and women’s causes
In December in Mi weneseee Mist Gould met Finley J. rd after he joined the operating department of the Missouri Pacific Mountain lines in June. He accompanied Mist Gould and her party.
London reports a fatal aviation accident as a monoplane crashed near Wembley golf course. Lieut. We Parke of the royal navy and Mr Handswick, manager of an aircraft company, were killed when their plane, flown from Hendon towards Wembley, encountered chop and wind then spun and fell from about 150 feet.
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