Thaw Trial Focuses On Insanity Defense Gains
In New York on January 15, Harry K. Thaw’s lawyers pressed an insanity defense in the Stanford White killing. Testimony from Koehler and Grosette spoke to Thaw’s eccentricity and irrational conduct, with Dr. Deemar and other physicians testifying on Thaw family mental health. District Attorney Jerome invoked physician patient privilege to block some mental health testimony, requiring Thaw’s waiver for nurse testimony.
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New York
Harry K. Thaw
Stanford White
Charles H. Koehler
Winona
Thaw
Jerome
Mystery shooting shocks federal building in Chicago
In a Chicago federal building an attempted shooting disrupts a Walsh trial as Mrs. Metcalf fires at Hamill after a confrontation near Judge Anderson's courtroom. Private detective Van Winkle wrestles the weapon and is injured. Metcalf collapses after being disarmed. Fire at Mier Parne’s factory causes extensive damage, insurance partly covering losses. In Duluth, fireman Arthur Rose dies after a fall from a moving engine en route to a blaze.
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Metcalf
Archibald L. van Winkle
E. C. Ritscher
Walsh
Hamill
van Winkle
Mier Parne
Passenger launch Island Flyer missing after leaving Bellingham
The gasoline passenger steamer Island Flyer with twelve aboard departed Bellingham for Anacortes and has not been heard from. Three vessels search the route, with fears the launch foundered with all on board. Captain Fred King led the craft. Alleged machinery derangement cited as it left port. The Island Flyer is a large Puget Sound passenger launch.
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Bellingham
Wash
Island Flyer
Anacortes
Sound
Fred King
Puget
Chicago
Costly Basement Fire Rips Hudson Wisconsin
Fire originating in a Hudson Wisconsin basement caused extensive damage before firefighters contained the blaze on a January 15 incident. Local authorities reported heavy smoke and fire spread, with property loss likely substantial as crews battled the stubborn flames.
Nevada special session opens with ranger bill focus
Carson Nev Jan 15 in a special session Governor Sparks observed noon with the orga nization and a message read. The sole action was a resolution sending all potential state ranger, constabulary or military bills to a joint committee. The assembly took no measures while the senate appears set to lead on mine owner and union relations. Sparks is thought to push a Texas style ranger law.
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Carson
Nev
Nevada
Sparks Meats
Sparks
Senate
Texas
Control of State Troops
National Guard association of the United States calls for federal legislation to make state militias an integral part of the regular army and to have them supported and controlled by the federal government. General Charles Dick of Ohio, president of the association, was absent due to illness.
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Boston
National Guard Association of the
United States
Charles Dick
Ohio
Calamity at Rhodles Opera House Leaves 167 Dead
In Bovertown Pa January 15 the Rhodles Opera House fire killed 167 with many bodies badly burned and unidentifiable. Fire officials say the total likely did not exceed 179 as rescue work finished. The disaster followed a calcium light tank explosion amid a 425 person crowd.
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Bovertown
Rhodles Opera House
Strasser
Reading
Rhoades Opera House
National Bank
H. W. Fisher
Carlisle
Taft Heads Ohio Society Banquet in Philadelphia
Secretary Taft of the war department spoke at the Ohio Society of Philadelphia banquet. He praised Ohio as a typical American state and discussed U S relations with China and Japan. He argued the American fleet’s Pacific presence carried no warlike significance despite Western fears.
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Philadelphia
Taft
War Department
Ohio Society of Philadelphia
Ohio
China
Japan
Pacific
Philippines
Husband Under Arrest in Pittsburgh Suburb Slaying
George B. Hartsell twenty two is jailed in Wilmerding charged with the murder of his child wife on December twenty ninth. The mother of the dead girl says he confessed after she doubted the suicide claim. He says no confession was made to his mother in law.
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Pittsburg
George B. Hartsell
Wilmerding
William Casey
Hartsell
Murder in Chisholm and Colon Suicide Note
In Chisholm Minnesota Elias Matson aged forty was murdered in his sleep by a double bladed axe while his wife heard nothing until morning. Jealousy is suspected and Mrs Matson along with six men are held for coroner’s jury examination. In Colon a Mrs Kitchener widow of a Khartoum cousin of Viscount Kitchener killed herself in a steamer stateroom by leaping from a porthole amid insomnia concerns.
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Chisholm
Minn
Elias Matson
Kitchener
Colon
Mrs. Kitchener
Viscount Kitchener
Khartoum
Magdalena
Arthur Buck Kitchener
Case Dismissed in SD Murder Case
South Dakota case ends as Mrs. Julia Ann OGrady is not to be tried for murder. State’s attorney Alpha Orr moved to dismiss after a thorough probe yielded no usable evidence, Judge Jones ordered dismissal. A second item reports a fatal pistol duel in Rosemark Tennessee where Washington Smith was killed and M W Yarbrough fled.
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Sioux Falls
Julia Ann O’grady
John O’grady
O’grady
Alpha F. Orr
Minnehala County
Jones
O'Grady
Rosemark
Tenn
Washington Smith
M. W. Yarbrough
Smith
Memphis
Yarbrough
Manston man killed by live wire in Chicago
J H Harrington of Manston Wisconsin employed as assistant foreman for a construction firm was fatally shocked by a live wire while measuring a cable suspended over Whipple Street in Chicago on January 15. The accident occurred as workers handled the cable and Harrington was struck by the electric shock. weitere details unavailable.
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Chicago
J. H. Harrington
Manston
Wis
Theeeecacn Company
Whipple Street
White Wins Gorman's Senate Seat in Special Session
Annapolis Md Jan 15 Senator William Pinckney White was elected United States senator to fill the unexpired portion of the late Senator Gorman's term by both houses in a special session.
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Annapolis
William Pinckney White
Gorman
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