Four Policemen Sued With Close Guilty Verdict Lose
A garbled report shows four policemen facing a close vote verdict on a suffrage related case. The fragment hints at avoidance of testimony and legal proceedings, with unclear names and dates.
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Newspaper
Anaconda Standard
Location
Anaconda, Montana, United States of America
Date
May 07, 1913
Page
7
A garbled report shows four policemen facing a close vote verdict on a suffrage related case. The fragment hints at avoidance of testimony and legal proceedings, with unclear names and dates.
British politics and a court case unfold as Prime Minister Asquith faces a volley of questions on women suffrage and cabinet unity. The House of Commons sees heated debate about the bill while courts convict four local inspectors of conspiracy to obstruct justice in New York.
Special Dispatch to the Standard reports Senator Myers offered a pure fabrics and pure cloth bill as an amendment to the Underwood tariff bill. It was referred to the subcommittee chaired by Senator Thomas of Colorado. Myers said the amendment would help wool growers by boosting wool demand and offset duty losses. Thomas expressed hearty support and indicated willingness to report the amendment favorably.
Winnipeg May 6 reports Lt Grean, on way to London, says exhaustion rather than starvation caused the deaths of Captain Scott and party after the South Pole trek. Bodies found in tent amid storms, fuel gone, food gone. A cairn and cross of ski poles mark their final resting place.
In Syracuse on May 6 a laborers strike led to riots injuring 9 policemen and 16 others. Police fired into the air then returned fire as rioters attacked workers near the cathedral. 23 were arrested, with several seriously hurt including a police officer and Giuseppe Vasta who was shot in the abdomen.
Fragmented report recounts a series of sensational items including suffrage tensions, riots, boxing, mining notes, and local trials. The focus mentions a Butte area verdict against former police inspectors amid a chaotic stream of docketed notices and athletic results.
May 6 London reports militant suffragettes amid Commons debates sparked major fire at Catherine's Church in Hateham eastern London. Vicar Rev Howard Truscott says explosives suspected as fire rages. earlier a bomb attempt outside Grand Hotel near Piccadilly involved a woman leaving a can with fuse amid crowds of tourists. Policeman extinguished the device and pursued the assailant.
Police kept a wide dragnet after two highwaymen shot United States District Court clerk Farry Drumm and accountant Edmund Thomas in Butte. Drumm was critically wounded with a bullet perforating the abdomen and spine, Thomas was hit in the groin and arm but survived. Both men said the holdup was the motive and deny a murder conspiracy. a large search yielded many vagrants and the city awaited further word on the case.
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