Atlanta May Commence The Probation System For Juveniles
An 1904 city council proposal introduces a probation system for juveniles under 16. The ordinance establishes recorder court sessions, a separate juvenile docket, and police and probation officer roles with discretion to release, detain, or supervise offenders. The measure seeks to reduce customary punishment by creating a detention ward and dedicated probation procedures.
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James L. Key
Key
Finance Committee
Inmaggs
City of
Atlanta
Recorder’s Court
Herain
Juvenila
Jewish Butchers Win a Point in Bessarabia Riot Case
In Elshinert Bessarabia on December 22 the trial of riot participants over last April’s Jewish massacre ended with the court quashing indictments against the accused. The decision cites collusion prior to the disturbances.
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Elshinert
Bessarabia
Outlaws from Birmingham Traced Toward North Georgia Mountains
Two alleged murderers Tom Armour and Harrison Armour, long at large after wounding Larry R. Patterson, flee from Banks and Hall counties toward Georgia mountains. A Banks County posse with bloodhounds pursues, offering 250 dollars reward. Descriptions and rewards listed by Sheriff Burgin. Local citizens and relatives noted. Patterson recovering.
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Tom Armour
Harrison Armour
Birmingham
Ala
Larry R. Patterson
Poase
Bud Terrell
William Poole
Banks County
Scott Jackson
Commerce
Ben Landers
Gainesville
Georgia
Banks
Hall Counties
Armour Boys
Hall
Banka
Patterson
Sis
Andrew W. Burgin
Jefferson County
Alabama
Thomas - Armour
Reuben T L. Little
Morris
Thomas KK
Bradford
Lehigh
Blount County
Chattanooga
Tenn
Hall County
Winchester
Paris
Brooklyn Juror Verdict Sends Burness To Death
New York December 22 A Brooklyn jury under Judge Crane finds Frank H Burness guilty of murder in the first degree for his fourth killing the shooting of Captain George B Townsend after a dispute over $830 Burness admits planning the crime and to laughingly wishing the jurors a merry Christmas before stating his belief there is only one way out the chair pending sentencing Monday in New York’s sensational murder trial
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New York
Frank H Burness
Crane
Brooklyn
Burness
George B. Townsend
Charles W. Buckley
Multiple Deaths and Local Notices in Short Items
Short items report several deaths and funerals at residences on Windsor, Martin, and West Pine streets with interments in Waynetville Decatur and Oakland. Other items note a funeral for John Quincy Adams, a Hebrew charity ball postponement, a deputy sheriff death aftermath, and council salary discussions plus sewerage tank vote and railroad workers’ prayer meeting.
Not poisoned but died from imagined poisoning
Chicago reports the coroner declares Virginia Jackson died not from poison but from fear after believing she had been poisoned. An autopsy found the heart burned due to the emotional shock, following a neighbor’s gift of a brownish liquid from a bottle. The police say the old woman died from fear after tasting the contents.
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Chicago
phyal+ elan
Springer
Virginia Jackson
Gillespie
Bull Pen Waits for the Idlers
Major H A Naylor announced in December that with many idle men in the district an imminent order will force those without employment or visible means of support to work or leave the district or face an indefinite term in the bull pen. British Consul Pearce told James A Baker that protection was sought after a claim of unlawful imprisonment in Cripple Creek under martial law, with foreigners and citizens obliged to follow military orders.
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Western Federation of Miners
BK Brith
Cripple Creek
Army officer on missing list in Canton Ohio tomb guard scene
Washington reports officers search for Bac and Lieutenant Floyd C Miller of the first infantry who disappeared on the fourth while guarding the tomb of ex president McKinley in West Lawn Cemetery near Canton Ohio. Miller, Ohio native, served in navy 1898, then joined 13th infantry and was commissioned as second lieutenant in the Ore t infantry. If not heard within three months, he will be recorded as a deserter.
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Washington
Bac
Floyd C. Miller
First Infantry
McKintey
West Lawn
Canton
Ohio
Miller
Navy
Cizteenth Infantry
Oret Infantry
Turkey Goes Down in Dust at Alexandretta Syria
Alexandretta Syria December 22. An American citizen Attarin whose arrest by Turkish authorities caused United States Consul Davis to depart Alexandretta has been berated. The governor called on Consul Davis to apologize for indignities suffered. Admiral Cotton departed tonight on the US cruiser San Francisco for Beirut.
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Alexandretta
Syria
Attarin
Great Companies Merge In Tin and Sheet Plate Move
Pittsburg December 22 The Post will print from New York official details of the merger of the American Sheet Steel Company and the American Tin Plate Company. The new consolidated firm will be named American Tin and Sheet Plate Company of New Jersey. Directors include George G McMurry chairman William T Graham president W A Leeds vice president Eugene W Pargny second vice president and G B Wheath secretary and treasurer. Merger completion is to occur before February 1. Original capitalizations were 50 dollars.
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American Sheet Steel
American Tin
Pittsburg
the Post
New York
American Sheet Steel Company
American Tin Pinte Company
New Consolidated Company
American ‘Tin and Sheet Plate Company
New Jersey
George G. McMurtry
William T. Graham
W. A. ‘Leeds
Eugene W. Pargny
and &. B. Wheath
Tuerger
Territory Office Looted in Fort Worth Post Office Report
A fragment from a Fort Worth area report notes a territory office looting incident near a post office. Details are unclear due to damaged text but mention of December and local postal facilities suggest a crime scene alert tied to the early hours.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Ind.r
Kribs
Ireland Asked to Be Joyful Over Friar Lands Deal
St Paul Minn December 22 Archbishop Ireland received a cablegram from Me Gulch apostolic delegate to the Philippine islands announcing a land purchase deal between the United States government and the church for the friars lands in the islands. The exchange is hailed as ending political religious controversy and ushering in civil and religious peace under President Taft.
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St Paul
Minn
Arcishop Ireland
Cablegram Im Me
Philippines
Ror Welt
Taft
Rome
Wright
Atlanta Youth Shipped Aboard British Ship At Savannah
Special Roscoe C Jester of Atlanta figure in a prior Shanghaiing case. The youth was shipped aboard the British ship Rotterdam from Savannah on December 22. He later died in police barracks after arrest at his BUOY request amid a charge of concealed weapons.
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Atlanta
Savannah
Roscoe C Jester
Rotterdam
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